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Western States and Tribal Nation Delegation Appears Before Federal Energy Regulatory Hearing to Support Approval of Jordan Cove Natural Gas Project
businesswire, June 26, 2019, 10:24 pm
A delegation of 16 members from the Western States and Tribal Nations and Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA), a national advocate for energy consumers, today gave comments at a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) hearing in Medford in support of the Jordan Cove Natural Gas Project.
The hearing is part of FERC's process to take comments from the public on its Draft Environmental Impact Statement on the project, which includes a proposed 229-mile connector pipeline from near Malin, Oregon, to a planned natural gas liquefaction plant in Coos Bay, Oregon.
The goal is to export the cleaner-burning natural gas produced in basins spanning Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and the Ute Tribal Nation, including the Piceance, Uintah and Green River basins, to Asian markets that now use dirtier fuel sources to meet their energy needs.
Members of the delegation from government bodies in all three states gave comments demonstrating the economic and environmental benefits of Jordan Cove to not only their communities, but the United States and the world.
Bart Haslem, County Commissioner, Uintah County, Utah, said:
"We can argue about global warming and climate change, but the facts are pollution is real. There is no arguing that. It knows no boundaries and doesn't stop at state, county or country lines. It becomes a world problem. We have natural gas that is stranded and not used so it is being flared or vented to no benefit. We could be shipping this gas to other countries to replace other dirtier sources of energy and receive the benefits to our economies and environment."
Rose Pugliese, County Commissioner for Mesa County, Colorado, said:
"The Jordan Cove project is a great economic driver for our northwest Colorado communities and will help stabilize our economies from fluctuations in the oil and gas market for over 20 years. It also helps us to then continue to diversify our economies and make our counties fiscally stronger."
Bryan Hassler, Executive Director of the Wyoming Pipeline Authority, said:
"Minerals are a tremendous resource in the State of Wyoming and continue to help create jobs. This project helps Wyoming move its resources to the markets that can generate the greatest benefit for the most people, through tax revenues and the export of cleaner-burning natural gas to countries that need it to lower their carbon emissions."
Eric Carlson, Executive Director of the Western Slope West Slope Colorado Oil and Gas Association, said:
"This is a critical opportunity of the future of natural gas in the Piceance Basin, because it capitalizes on existing infrastructure that is underutilized."
Jim Gleason of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters, Western District, said:
"Approval of this project would not only create jobs as carpenters and millwrights for people transitioning out of the coal industry, but training opportunities for tribal youth and other residents of rural Colorado and Utah. This would create hundreds of jobs in the state of Oregon, including 211 permanent jobs, not to mention ongoing maintenance and service on the pipeline and the plant. This is a winning project for the West."
The Ute Tribal Business Committee, which did not attend the event, said in a statement:
"The Ute Indian Tribe supports Jordan Cove in its application before the FERC. The Tribe encourages support and collaboration to make the Jordan Cove LNG project a reality, because it will promote responsible environmental stewardship by producing cleaner-burning natural gas to be sold to countries across Asia that now use much dirtier fuels. At home, the project will advance tribal self-determination and boost economic development not only for our tribe, but for every community involved in the project."
The full list of attendees who gave comments:
Doug Hammond, Mayor, Vernal City, Utah
Cheryl Meier, Executive Director, Uintah Transportation Special Service District (UT)
Bryan Hassler, Executive Director, Wyoming Pipeline Authority
Tom Jankovsky, County Commissioner, Garfield County (CO)
John Justman, County Commissioner, Mesa County, (CO)
Rose Pugliese, County Commissioner, Mesa County, (CO)
Bart Haslem, County Commissioner, Uintah County (UT)
Jeff Rector, County Commissioner, Rio Blanco County (CO)
Greg Todd, Commissioner, Duchesne County (UT)
Makala Barton, Economic Development Coordinator, Rio Blanco County (CO)
Jordan Clark, Utah Governor's Office of Energy Development
Jim Gleason, Carpenters Union (CO)
Sylvia Wilkins, Economic Development Director, Uintah County (UT)
Eric Carlson, Executive Director, West Slope Colorado Oil and Gas Association (CO)
Andrew Browning, Western States and Tribal Nations
Bryson Hull, VP of Communications and Media, Consumer Energy Alliance
About Consumer Energy Alliance
Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) brings together families, farmers, small businesses, distributors, producers and manufacturers to support America's energy future. With more than 500,000 members nationwide, our mission is to help ensure stable prices and energy security for households across the country. We believe energy development is something that touches everyone in our nation, and thus it is necessary for all of us to actively engage in the conversation about how we develop our diverse energy resources and energy's importance to the economy. Learn more at ConsumerEnergyAlliance.org.
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You've tried everything to get your hair to be a vibrant, yet faded, antique rose color, but it still doesn't look as good as the pictures. The answer is simple. Most of these crazy hair colors were photoshopped.
The problem with these photoshopped images is that it sets unrealistic standards for us hairstylists to meet. Clients find pictures on the internet of these absolutely gorgeous hair colors and bring them to us. Although we can probably get pretty close, sometimes it's impossible to make your hair look exactly like the picture. This leads to unhappy customers, which leads to unhappy stylists.
In most cases, it is hard to tell that the hair has been photoshopped because it looks so good. Unfortunately, anyone can photoshop their own image, and there are countless tutorials on the internet that teach you how to change your hair color.
To be completely honest with you, I was fooled by these colors too. Recently, a friend (and fellow hairstylist) posted an article on Facebook about this hair color conspiracy. She explained how people should not buy into the photoshopped hair color trends, and that these colors aren't achievable. Only then did I realize how often these beautiful colors were faked. After doing a little research, I was shocked to see how many of these images were not the real deal.
I would say that it's okay to use some of these photoshopped images as inspiration, but just know that your hair may not look exactly like the picture. Believe me when I say that a hairstylist's job is already hard enough, without having to match unrealistic expectations of perfect hair color. Like I previously stated, we do love to see pictures of inspiration, just know that it may not be feasible to achieve.
I want to leave you with some more before/after pics of photoshopped hair color to further demonstrate this conspiracy.
Those light pinks would not show up on the hair.
Are you really trying to say these colors are impossible to achieve? If so, I believe you need some more time working with them, so you can see all the beautiful possibilities. ?


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Agonopterix amissella is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by August Busck in 1908. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Florida.

The wingspan is about 17 mm. The forewings are ochreous brown, sparsely sprinkled with black scales, especially on the costal apical area. The extreme base is somewhat lighter than the rest of the wing, and this light shade is faintly continued along the base of the costal edge. The basal area is sharply limited by a short black streak from the dorsal edge. There are two round deep black dots in the middle of the disc and there is an ill-defined blackish-brown blotch just before the end of the cell. The hindwings are light ochreous fuscous.

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This Paper briefly documents the hydrodynamic aspects for conserving energy as it relates to fuel consumption and fouling of Naval ships. The initial efforts by the David W. Taylor Naval Ship Research and Development Center to inspect and identify fouling on three destroyers are described. The feasibility of using diver controlled single rotary brush techniques is demonstrated. The SCAMP cleaning by a commercial contractor to remove advanced fouling from five Navy ships is also reported. The use of the single rotary brush together with the SCAMP to remove all degrees of fouling severity from a ship hull with no damage to an AF/AC paint system is suggested. The future development of a composite cleaning system that would effectively treat all underwater surface of a ship's hull is outlined.
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Q: Архитектура хранения связанных данных в БД На сайте предполагается возможность размещать объявления. Все объявления делятся на различные категории (грубо говоря как на Avito).
Для создания заполняется форма с полями "название", "описание" (характерно для всех объявлений) и выбор категорий. После выбора определенной категории подгружается дополнительная форма с данными (например для машин - цвет, пробег и т.д., для недвижимости - этаж, тип дома, кол-во квартир и т.д.).
Предположительно в БД будет общая таблица для всех объявлений Adverts:
id | name | description | category | type

в которой хранятся название, описание объявления и id категории, соответствующее категории в таблице, выбранной пользователем и поле type для разделения на более подробные таблицы с данными по объявлениям. Т.е. для каждой формы объявления есть своя таблица, например:
Adverts
23 | Продам машину | "описание" | 4 | auto

AdvertAuto
id | color| mileage | model
1  | red  | 280000  | honda

Возникает вопрос, как правильно пристыковать данные? Понятно, что в случае одного объявления достаточно просто приджоинить нужную таблицу, но что делать, когда выборка осуществляется по всем объявлениям?
Появляется необходимость джоинить сразу много таблиц в зависимости от значения поля type.
Собственно вопросы:
1) Насколько такая архитектура верная и есть ли более лучшие решения?
2) Если такая архитектура является верной, то как осуществлять выборку нескольких значений? Я видел запросы с использованием CASE - WHEN - THEN или же с JOIN UNION, но насколько эти запросы пригодны для жизни на боевом сервере?

A: Есть несколько способов.

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*Entity–attribute–value model.
EAV позволяет в любой момент добавлять любые необходимые атрибуты без изменения схемы БД. Но работать с такой моделью довольно сложно.

*Создавать для каждого свойства отдельный столбец. При этом всё хранится в одной таблице.
Это подход часто используется для хранения разнотипных данных. Он вполне жизнеспособен, если данных будет не очень много (сотни тысяч строк - это немного).
В этом случае в тех колонках, которые не относятся к описываемой сущности в данной строке, будут храниться значения null. На первый взгляд это может показаться неэффективно, но многие СУБД поддерживают так называемые разреженные (sparse) столбцы, в итоге всё становится эффективно.
Я не спец по mysql, но поиск показывает, что в этой СУБД есть поддержка таких столбцов.

*Использование json или xml для хранения дополнительных данных.
Думаю, тут пояснять особо ничего не нужно. MySql поддерживает оба способа: json, xml.

В метках у вас две СУБД: mysql и postgres, из чего можно сделать вывод, что выбор БД ещё не сделан. Тогда почему бы не рассмотреть другие варианты, а именно: NoSQL?

A: 1) Верная чуть менее, чем полностью, иначе у вас не возникло бы проблем с джойнами.
2.2) Это будет работать, но поддерживать, и уж тем более развивать, будет сложно.
Можно организовать так:
categories
id | name

properties
id | category_id | name

adverts
id | name | description | category_id

property_values
property_id | advert_id | value

A: Ваше решение приемлемо и, думаю, позволит добиться хорошей производительности. Единственная особенность, что придётся использовать динамический SQL, чтобы создавать запросы с одним JOINом. Порядок запросов такой:

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*select type from adverts where id = :id

*результат запроса сохраняем в переменной, скажем $additional_table

*собираем динамический sql-запрос "select a. *, b. * from adverts a join $additional_table b on a.id = b.advert_id where a.id = :id"

Последний выведет заголовки объявления и дополнительную информацию одной строкой. Время на разбор и выполнение так же должны быть минимальным по очевидным причинам. Со временем все варианты динамического запроса (варианты значений $additional_table) окажутся в кеше и ничего разбирать вообще не придётся, только выполнять.
При выборке всех объявлений не вижу смысла выводить подробные данные. Будет 40+ столбцов справа от основных данных, большинство из которых пустые. Если всё же хочется, то нужно выбрать все типы запрашиваемых объявлений, и присоединить соответствуюшие таблицы методом LEFT JOIN, т.е. повторить шаги 1-3, но в массовом порядке.
P.S. При использовании EAV карточку товара можно получить не как набор столбцов, а как набор строк, что, на мой взгляд, удобнее при формировании HTML.
P.P.S. Если поле type будет идентично названию таблицы (что подразумевается выше), то формировать вторую форму при создании объявления можно, опрашивая словарь данных.

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At about half of the purse size and with a WGC next week, it's no surprise that a lot of players have decided to sit this one out. There are still a few big names in this one like Dustin Johnson, Jason Day, Jon Rahm, Sergio Garcia, and Patrick Reed but I would watch for WD's throughout the week. There have already been a few changes made to the field of 144 including: Out– Daniel Berger, Tommy Fleetwood, Alex Noren, Cameron Smith, Abraham Ancer, Martin Laird, and Bronson Burgoon. In– Tyrrell Hatton, Kramer Hickok, Hank Leboida, Seth Reeves, Joey Garber, Kyle Jones, and Jose de Jesus Rodriguez.
Dustin Johnson ($11,500 DK – $12,600 FD) – DJ has had 11 straight rounds of -2 or better and is coming off of a nice showing at THE PLAYERS Championship where he finished T5. I see this being somewhat like the Honda Classic where Sergio, Rickie, and Brooks were all in the top 10 on a tough course with a weak field. Three of these highest priced eight guys are almost guaranteed to finish in the top 10… the trick will be figuring out who. Dustin is my best guess.
Jim Furyk ($9,200 DK – $10,000 FD) – Furyk has now gone 10 straight events without shooting a round of +2 or worse. That is exactly the style of play that will be successful at the Valspar Championship when -7 can possibly bring home the win. Jim is coming off of two top 10's and last year in this tournament he was in the top 10 as well so he is a good pick, but probably highly owned.
Lucas Glover ($9,000 DK – $10,500 FD) – Glover missed the cut last week but he lost just over 2 strokes putting and his driving accuracy was under 60% for the first time in eight tournaments. Before that he was coming off of three straight top 10's so I expect him to bounce back on a course that he has a lot of experience on.
Paul Casey ($9,700 DK – $10,900 FD) – quick moment of silence for everyone who had Casey in their lineups last week. He's in a weird spot this week as the defending champ but he probably resides in the dog house for many DFS players for his last performance. Like Glover, Casey lost over two strokes putting last week so I imagine that will change and if people are sour on Paul then he could be a great pick here.
Keegan Bradley ($9,400 DK – $10,100 FD) – Keegan Bradley has shown the ability to go low with four out of his last eight rounds at -4 or better in the last two weeks. Putting is always going to be a problem with him but the ball striking is too good for you to completely over look Keegan, especially in a weaker field where avoiding bogeys will be crucial.
Bubba Watson ($8,900 DK – $9,900 FD) – Bubba's big drawback this year has been his driving accuracy and his putting but he's still managed to card four top 30's in five events since the Waste Management. He's one of the best par 5 scorers on tour and is 2nd in driving distance right now so he can afford to layup and improve his accuracy, and if he can knock down putts he will be a good flier here at $8,900.
Jason Kokrak ($8,600 DK – $9,700 FD) – Kokrak continues to roll and even though he only finished 48th last week he shot -4 on Friday to make the cut and finished with a closing round -2. His game fits Copperhead and he even has success here in years past with two top 10's and a 14th place finish in the last five years.
Russell Knox ($8,100 DK – $9,000 FD) – what I like about Knox is his ability to avoid disastrous rounds. He has gone 8 straight tournaments, a total of 32 rounds, without shooting worse than +2 in a single round. In that time he has been bouncing between 10th and 51st place finishes with 0 missed cuts so I'm guessing in a field like this he will be right in the low side of that range.
Sungjae Im ($7,700 DK – $9,600 FD) – Sungjae has only had one bad round out of his 10 in Florida this year but unfortunately his E last week wasn't enough to make the cut. In this field he is 7th in SG: tee-to-green so I like his chances to rebound and find another top 10 like he did at Bay Hill two weeks ago.
Ryan Moore ($8,700 DK – $8,900 FD) – Ryan Moore has started to right the ship with three straight finishes of 33rd or better including a -9, 21st place finish last week. Before his missed cut in the Valspar Championship last year he had an 18th, 3rd, and 5th place finish at Copperhead since 2015 so this should be a course that he feels comfortable on.
Russell Henley ($7,800 DK – $8,700 FD) – I'm trying to anticipate a good stretch with Henley on this one: he has two recent top 20's, Russell was 9th his last time here in 2017, and last year around this time he finished 8th in Houston and 15th at the Masters. He did miss the cut last week at +1 but I think he might be on the verge of some good finishes so I want to beat the rush hour traffic on this one.
Sung Kang ($7,200 DK – $7,900 FD) – in 13 starts this season Sung Kang has had 6 top 30 finishes and 2 of those have been top 10's including two weeks ago at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. His best stats are par 3 scoring, par 5 scoring, and bogey avoidance so he should continue to roll at Copperhead and add to his five straight made cuts.
Trey Mullinax ($7,100 DK – $8,600 FD) – Mullinax did miss the cut last week after starting -3 in the first round and then +3 in the second. Before that narrowly missed cut he made 7 straight and had 3 consecutive tourneys in the top 25. He's been good tee-to-green, scoring on par 5, and avoiding bogeys so I really like his scoring potential at $7,100.
Roger Sloan ($7,000 DK – $8,000 FD) – Sloan doesn't really blow you away with any of his statistics but he is coming off of three straight top 30's which include the Honda Classic and Arnold Palmer Invitational. He's really starting to score better, especially on par 3's and par 5's, so I think he could be a pretty decent sleeper pick this week.
Rory Sabbatini ($6,900 DK – $8,600 FD) – Sabbatini is coming off of a 5th place finish at the Valspar and two recent 36th place finishes, both in Florida. He's had some ups and downs but out of his last 8 rounds at the Honda and THE PLAYERS he has 4 rounds of -3 or better. With his form, course history, and ability to score recently I imagine he is a decently owned player even for his low price tag.
Roberto Castro ($7,100 DK – $8,600 FD) – Castro has three straight made cuts and two straight events placing 25th or better. He's 8th overall in SG: approaching-the-green this season, good with getting to the GIR, and his scoring numbers are all pretty solid so I wouldn't be surprised to see him flirting with the top of the leaderboard throughout this week.
Wyndham Clark ($6,900 DK – $8,600 FD) – Clark had the ole unintentional, intentional WD last week with the incorrect scorecard signage DQ. He shot an opening round 80 (which he signed as a 79) last week so I'm sure that will have his stock down but before that he had two straight top 10 finishes. He's 4th in driving distance and his putter has been very good this year so if his iron play doesn't kill his chances at Copperhead he should have a good week.
Carlos Ortiz ($6,800 DK – $8,000 FD) – Carlos is 3 out of his last 4 cuts and the cut that he did miss was at the Honda where he was only a stroke back from the line. Two of his last three events were a 29th and 9th place finish and he does have two made cuts out of two tries at the Valspar in 2015 & 2016 so he knows how to get into the weekend here.
Nick Taylor ($7,300 DK – $8,000 FD) – Taylor hasn't had a terrific last year or so but he's turned in four consecutive events at 33rd or better and his last three rounds on a tough course at TPC Sawgrass were -3, -3, and -5 so maybe Nick is feeling confident and can keep that momentum going forward.
Max Homa ($6,300 DK – $7,800 FD) – Max Homa's last four events have all been finishes between 10th and 37th so I'm confused why his price tag is so low. It almost looks like they are weighing course history more heavily into their prices this week but he hasn't played here in over three years so I'll take the experience at Copperhead over the negative results from so far back.
Jonas Blixt ($6,200 DK – $7,800 FD) – Blixt is a lot like Homa for me this week, he's made four out of his last five cuts with all finishes between 15th and 38th. His last two times at this course he finished 22nd and 23rd so for a guy at $6,200 he seems to have a relatively high floor.


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M. Gail Boltz
Clinical Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Practices at Stanford Medicine Children's Health
Anesthesia, Pediatric
Internship: George Washington University Office of the Registrar (1984) DC
Residency: George Washington University Anesthesiology Residency (1986) DC
Medical Education: University of Missouri Kansas City School of Medicine Registrar (1983) MO
Board Certification: American Board of Anesthesiology, Anesthesia (1988)
Fellowship: Denver Children's Hospital (1987) CO
mgboltz@stanford.edu
University - Academic staff Department:&nbspAnesthesia - Anesthesia Group B Position: Clinical Professor
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Mending a broken heart: The Anatomy, Physiology and Psychology of congenital heart disease
ANES 74Q (Win)
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Case report: airway and concurrent hemodynamic management in a neonate with oculo-auriculo-vertebral (Goldenhar) syndrome, severe cervical scoliosis, interrupted aortic arch, multiple ventricular septal defects, and an unstable cervical spine PEDIATRIC ANESTHESIA Char, D. S., Gipp, M., Boltz, M. G., Williams, G. D. 2012; 22 (9): 932-934
We report the challenging case of a 1-week-old, term, 2.4 kg neonate with Goldenhar syndrome (including microcephaly, left microtia, left facial palsy, dextro-scoliosis of the cervical spine, and cervico-thoracic levoscoliosis), multiple ventricular septal defects, a type B interrupted aortic arch, a large patent ductus arteriosis, and radiographic and clinical signs concerning for an unstable cervical spine. Our anesthesia team was consulted for perioperative management of this patient during her surgical repair. This case report describes the use of the Air-Q size 1 laryngeal airway (LA) to assist fiberoptic intubation in an ASA 4 neonate with cardiac disease, an anticipated difficult airway with the addition of an unstable cervical spine, as well as the anesthetic techniques used to maintain hemodynamic stability while the airway was secured.
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Regional anesthesia and postoperative pain management ANESTHESIA FOR CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE Boltz, M., Hammer, G. B., Andropoulos, D. B., Andropoulos, D. B., Stayer, S. A., Russell, Mossad, E. B. 2010: 356–70
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A randomized, controlled trial of aprotinin in neonates undergoing open-heart surgery PEDIATRIC ANESTHESIA Williams, G. D., Ramamoorthy, C., Pentcheva, K., Boltz, M. G., Kamra, K., Reddy, V. M. 2008; 18 (9): 812-819
Neonates undergoing open-heart surgery are especially at risk for massive bleeding and pronounced inflammation. The efficacy of aprotinin, a serine protease inhibitor, at ameliorating these adverse effects of cardiopulmonary bypass has not been clearly demonstrated in neonates.Term neonates were enrolled and randomly assigned in a blinded fashion to receive saline (group P, placebo) or high-dose aprotinin (group A). Intraoperative management was standardized: surgeon, anesthesia, cardiopulmonary bypass and hemostasis therapy. Patients were admitted postoperatively to a pediatric cardiac intensive care unit. Primary outcome measure of efficacy was duration of the postoperative mechanical ventilation. Secondary outcome measures were total volume and units of blood products transfused intraoperatively and for 24 h after surgery, duration of chest tube in situ, and intensive care and hospital stays after surgery.Twenty-six neonates were enrolled; 13 received aprotinin and 13 received placebo. The study was halted prematurely because of US Food and Drug Administration's concerns about aprotinin's safety. Baseline patient, surgery and cardiopulmonary bypass characteristics were similar between groups. No outcome variables differed between groups (P > 0.05). Duration of postoperative ventilation was 115 +/- 139 h (group A); 126 +/- 82 h (group P); P = 0.29, and total blood product exposure was 8.2 +/- 2.6 U (group A); 8.8 +/- 1.4 U (group P); P = 0.1. Postoperative blood creatinine values did not differ between groups. In-hospital mortality rate was 4%.Aprotinin was not shown to be efficacious in neonates undergoing open-heart surgery. It is unclear whether adult aprotinin safety data are relevant to neonates undergoing open-heart surgery.
Ketamine does not increase pulmonary vascular resistance in children with pulmonary hypertension undergoing sevoflurane anesthesia and spontaneous ventilation ANESTHESIA AND ANALGESIA Williams, G. D., Philip, B. M., Chu, L. F., Boltz, M. G., Kamra, K., Terwey, H., Hammer, G. B., Perry, S. B., Feinstein, J. A., Ramamoorthy, C. 2007; 105 (6): 1578-1584
The use of ketamine in children with increased pulmonary vascular resistance is controversial. In this prospective, open label study, we evaluated the hemodynamic responses to ketamine in children with pulmonary hypertension (mean pulmonary artery pressure >25 mm Hg).Children aged 3 mo to 18 yr with pulmonary hypertension, who were scheduled for cardiac catheterization with general anesthesia, were studied. Patients were anesthetized with sevoflurane (1 minimum alveolar anesthetic concentration [MAC]) in air while breathing spontaneously via a facemask. After baseline catheterization measurements, sevoflurane was reduced (0.5 MAC) and ketamine (2 mg/kg IV over 5 min) was administered, followed by a ketamine infusion (10 microg x kg(-1) x min(-1)). Catheterization measurements were repeated at 5, 10, and 15 min after completion of ketamine load. Data at various time points were compared (ANOVA, P < 0.05).Fifteen patients (age 147, 108 mo; median, interquartile range) were studied. Diagnoses included idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (5), congenital heart disease (9), and diaphragmatic hernia (1). At baseline, median (interquartile range) baseline pulmonary vascular resistance index was 11.3 (8.2) Wood units; 33% of patients had suprasystemic mean pulmonary artery pressures. Heart rate (99, 94 bpm; P = 0.016) and Pao2 (95, 104 mm Hg; P = 007) changed after ketamine administration (baseline, 15 min after ketamine; P value). There were no significant differences in mean systemic arterial blood pressure, mean pulmonary artery pressure, systemic or pulmonary vascular resistance index, cardiac index, arterial pH, or Paco2.In the presence of sevoflurane, ketamine did not increase pulmonary vascular resistance in spontaneously breathing children with severe pulmonary hypertension.
View details for DOI 10.1213/01.ane.0000287656.29064.89
Modified and conventional ultrafiltration during pediatric cardiac surgery: Clinical outcomes compared JOURNAL OF THORACIC AND CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY Williams, G. D., Ramamoorthy, C., Chu, L., Hammer, G. B., Kamra, K., Boltz, M. G., Pentcheva, K., McCarthy, J. P., Reddy, V. M. 2006; 132 (6): 1291-1298
This prospective study compared clinical outcomes after heart surgery between three groups of infants with congenital heart disease. One group received dilutional conventional ultrafiltration (group D), another received modified ultrafiltration (group M), and a third group received both dilutional conventional and modified ultrafiltration (group B). We hypothesized that group B patients would have the best clinical outcome.Children younger than 1 year undergoing heart surgery for biventricular repair by the same surgeon were randomly allocated to one of the three study groups. Patient management was standardized, and intensive care staff were blinded to group allocation. Primary outcome measure was duration of postoperative mechanical ventilation. Other outcome measures recorded included total blood products transfused, duration of chest tube in situ, chest tube output, and stays in intensive care and in the hospital.Sixty infants completed study protocol. Mean age and weight were as follows: group D (n = 19), 61 days, 4.3 kg; group M (n = 20), 64 days, 4.5 kg; and group B (n = 21), 86 days, 4.4 kg. Preoperative and intraoperative characteristics were similar between groups. Ultrafiltrate volumes obtained were 196 +/- 93 mL/kg in group D, 105 +/- 33 mL/kg in group M, and 261 +/- 113 mL/kg in group B. There were no significant differences between groups for any outcome variable. Technical difficulties prevented completion of modified ultrafiltration in 2 of 41 infants.There was no clinical advantage in combining conventional and modified ultrafiltration. Because clinical outcomes were similar across groups, relative risks of the ultrafiltration strategies may influence choice.
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2006.05.059
Anesthetic management of infants with palliated hypoplastic left heart syndrome undergoing laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication ANESTHESIA AND ANALGESIA Mariano, E. R., Boltz, M. G., Albanese, C. T., Abrajano, C. T., Ramamoorthy, C. 2005; 100 (6): 1631-1633
The safety of laparoscopic surgery in infants with single ventricle physiology has been a subject of controversy despite potential benefits over open surgery. We present the anesthetic management of five infants with palliated hypoplastic left heart syndrome that underwent laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication. After anesthetic induction and tracheal intubation, an intraarterial catheter was placed for hemodynamic monitoring. Insufflation pressure was limited to 12 mm Hg and was well tolerated by all patients. There were no intraoperative or postoperative complications. In patients with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication can be safely performed with careful patient selection and close intraoperative monitoring.
View details for DOI 10.1213/01.ANE.0000149899.03904.3F
Postoperative analgesia after spinal blockade in infants and children undergoing cardiac surgery ANESTHESIA AND ANALGESIA Hammer, G. B., Ramamoorthy, C., Cao, H., Williams, G. D., Boltz, M. G., Kamra, K., Drover, D. R. 2005; 100 (5): 1283-1288
The aim of this prospective, randomized, controlled clinical trial was to define the opioid analgesic requirement after a remifentanil (REMI)-based anesthetic with spinal anesthetic blockade (SAB+REMI) or without (REMI) spinal blockade for open-heart surgery in children. We enrolled 45 patients who were candidates for tracheal extubation in the operating room after cardiac surgery. Exclusion criteria included age <3 mo and >6 yr, pulmonary hypertension, congestive heart failure, contraindication to SAB, and failure to obtain informed consent. All patients had an inhaled induction with sevoflurane and maintenance of anesthesia with REMI and isoflurane (0.3% end-tidal). In addition, patients assigned to the SAB+REMI group received SAB with tetracaine (0.5-2.0 mg/kg) and morphine (7 mug/kg). After tracheal extubation in the operating room, patients received fentanyl 0.3 mug/kg IV every 10 min by patient-controlled analgesia for pain score = 4. Pain scores and fentanyl doses were recorded every hour for 24 h or until the patient was ready for discharge from the intensive care unit. Patients in the SAB+REMI group had significantly lower pain scores (P = 0.046 for the first 8 h; P =0.05 for 24 h) and received less IV fentanyl (P = 0.003 for the first 8 h; P = 0.004 for 24 h) than those in the REMI group. There were no intergroup differences in adverse effects, including hypotension, bradycardia, highest PaCO(2), lowest pH, episodes of oxygen desaturation, pruritus, and vomiting.
Haemodynamic changes during high spinal anaesthesia in children having open heart surgery PAEDIATRIC ANAESTHESIA Finkel, J. C., Boltz, M. G., Conran, A. M. 2003; 13 (1): 48-52
This prospective series examined the haemodynamic effects of high spinal anaesthesia in combination with light general anaesthesia in infants and children undergoing open heart surgery who were candidates for immediate or early postoperative extubation.After midazolam premedication and sevoflurane inhalation induction, 30 patients, aged 7 months to 13 years, who were undergoing open heart surgery, received spinal anaesthetics with 0.5% tetracaine D10 mixed with morphine. The spinal blocks were placed at the L2,3 or L3,4 interspace with cephalad spread being promoted by positioning the patient in 30 degrees of Trendelenburg for a minimum of 10 min. Maintenance of anaesthesia was with isoflurane 0.2-0.5% in 70% nitrous oxide to maintain heart rate and blood pressure within 20% of postinduction baseline values. Haemodynamic values were recorded at predetermined timed intervals and intraoperative events up to and including aortic cannulation. For analysis of the data, patients were divided into four age groups (< 1 years, 1-3 years, 4-6 years and > 7 years).Haemodynamic stability was demonstrated in all four age groups. Statistically significant slowing of the heart rate did occur in the groups older than 1 year at 25 min, although clinically significant bradycardia requiring treatment never occurred. Hypotension did occur during specific surgical manipulations but recovered spontaneously. Atropine, fluid boluses and vasopressors were never used. At the conclusion of surgery, all patients met extubation criteria and could move all four extremities.High spinal anaesthesia with hyperbaric tetracaine and morphine in combination with light general anaesthesia is well tolerated haemodynamically by the paediatric population studied.
The effect of baricity of intrathecal morphine in children receiving tetracaine spinal anaesthesia for cardiac surgery: a preliminary report PAEDIATRIC ANAESTHESIA Finkel, J. C., Boltz, M. G., Conran, A. M. 2002; 12 (4): 327-331
This prospective, randomized study examined the effect of baricity of intrathecal preservative-free morphine on the duration of postoperative analgesia and incidence of side-effects in infants and children receiving high spinal anaesthesia with hyperbaric tetracaine in combination with a light general anaesthetic.Fourteen infants and children, aged 7-91 months, undergoing repair of either uncomplicated atrial or ventricular septal defects, were randomized to receive either 10 microg x kg(-1) of intrathecal morphine in combination with 0.5% tetracaine D10 (hyperbaric morphine group) or intrathecal morphine mixed with saline and injected sequentially after the administration of 0.5% tetracaine D10 (hypobaric morphine group). After spinal injection, patients were positioned in 30 degrees of Trendelenburg for a minimum of 10 min. Postoperatively, patients were monitored for a minimum of 12 h. Pain scores and the incidence and severity of side-effects were recorded every 1 h.All patients were extubated at the conclusion of surgery without any incidence of respiratory depression. There was a decreased incidence of vomiting in the hypobaric morphine group and no significant difference in the duration of analgesia.When intrathecal morphine is administered in conjunction with a hyperbaric tetracaine spinal to paediatric cardiac patients in the head down position, sequential administration of the hypobaric solution may mitigate side-effects.
Anesthesia for outpatient repair of patent ductus arteriosus JOURNAL OF CARDIOTHORACIC AND VASCULAR ANESTHESIA Uezono, S., Hammer, G. B., Wellis, V., Boltz, M. G., Pike, N. A., Black, M. D. 2001; 15 (6): 750-752
View details for DOI 10.1053/jcan.2001.28322
Combined regional and light general anesthesia: are the risks increased or minimized? Current opinion in anaesthesiology Boltz, M. G., Krane, E. J. 1999; 12 (3): 321-323
Regional anesthesia during general anesthesia has become increasingly popular in recent years. Most pediatric anesthesiologists are proponents of this practice, and believe that surgical morbidity is reduced, but controversy remains regarding safety. Neuraxial anesthesia during general anesthesia is especially controversial. Unfortunately, outcome studies are lacking but the literature reflects an absence of reported serious morbidity or mortality.
Outcomes after single injection caudal epidural versus continuous infusion epidural via caudal approach for postoperative analgesia in infants and children undergoing patent ductus arteriosus ligation PAEDIATRIC ANAESTHESIA Lin, Y. C., Sentivany-Collins, S. K., Peterson, K. L., Boltz, M. G., Krane, E. J. 1999; 9 (2): 139-143
Adequate postoperative analgesia enhances deep breathing and minimizes respiratory complications after thoracotomy. This study compares postoperative outcomes after single injection caudal epidural vs continuous infusion epidural via caudal approach for postoperative analgesia in infants and children undergoing thoracotomy for patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) ligation. A retrospective chart review was performed for 27 children who had undergone PDA ligation. The children were divided into three groups. We compared patient demographics, surgical duration, anaesthesia duration, length of ICU stay, incidence of emesis requiring treatment, time required to establish regular oral intake, requirement for supplemental intravenous opioids during the first postoperative day, and length of hospital stay. For paediatric patients undergoing PDA ligation, postoperative analgesia with continuous infusion epidural via caudal approach produced shorter ICU stay, less occurrence of postoperative emesis, earlier oral intake, elimination of intravenous opioid supplementation, and shorter hospital stay compared with single injection caudal epidural techniques.
Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease may present with severe airway obstruction ANESTHESIOLOGY Hammer, G. B., Cao, S., Boltz, M. G., Messner, A. 1998; 89 (1): 263-265

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EVEN once Christmas is over, the Fraser Coast won't have seen the last of the festive fun.
The Seafront Oval Family Carnival kicks off on Tuesday and the activities are set to last for three weeks.
Event organiser Rebecca Cronk said the annual event attracted hundred of people a day.
"We have the water park open from 10am-3pm and then the night carnival starts from 6.30pm," she said.
"We're in our fourth year and it's incredibly popular with the locals."
Dodgem cars, a jumping castle, games, sideshow food including dagwood dogs and a thrill ride called the Disco Round Up are just some of the activities guests can enjoy.
To celebrate the new year, there will be fireworks to welcome in 2018.
As for ticketing, Ms Cronk said there were great deals to ensure everyone got value for money.
"We have a central ticketing system for when guests arrive," she said.
"You can get a sheet of coupons for $25 and how it works is a ride might be six coupons so that's what you use."
So come along and enjoy three weeks of fun to welcome in a brand new year.


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Q: Authorize.net Accept Hosted Form Runs unusual with Iframe I am using Authorize.net to post my token and get the payment form in an iframe.
The problem is that a form post to '_self' loads the form correctly while loading the payment form to an i-frame gives me a weird looking form.
This is giving me the a weird looking form page:
<iframe id="load_pay" name="load_pay" width="750" height="900" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>
<form method="post" target="load_pay" action="https://test.authorize.net/payment/payment">

This is giving me a normal post:
<form method="post" target="_self" action="https://test.authorize.net/payment/payment">

Here are the screenshots for both of them:
ErrorImage with Iframe:

Normal Image without Iframe:

Could it be internet explorer settings issue?
What's going wrong?

A: One solution that worked for me was to turn off compatibility view in IE.


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Q: Is the gravitational field an illusion, a by-product of geometry? The principle of general covariance from the Equivalence Principle (EEP) tells us that there is no way in principle  to locally distinguish between an inertial acceleration and the effects of a gravitational field.  When general covariance is expressed in tensorial form we find that if the equation holds true in an inertial frame that it must hold true in a non-inertial frame of reference.
My question is, if the above is true, is a gravitation field just an illusion?  Why do we have to consider a gravitational field at all.  Why not think of gravity as the effect of the bending of space and time, with gravitation revealed as an illusion, a by-product of geometry.  I feel it is the presence of matter that warps space around it, giving us the illusion that there is a gravitation force pulling on neighboring objects.

A: What you've just described is Einstein's Theory of General Relativity. It proposes treating gravity not as a field (as Newton had done), but instead as a geometric property of space and time. The idea is that objects with mass bend space and time, drawing in objects around them. The theory has held up incredibly well for over 100 years.
The issue is that the theory of general relativity is not compatible with quantum field theory, which is used to describe all the other fundamental interactions of our universe.
These two theories have proven difficult to reconcile. Quantum mechanics is relevant in extremely small scale systems (think atoms). Since gravity is extremely weak and mass is quite spread out, gravity is only really significant on a very large scale (think stars, galaxies). Accordingly, we've built QFT on the assumption that gravity does not play a role in atomic interactions.
A very interesting area of further study is black holes. The centre of a black hole is so dense (maybe infinitely), that as an object approaches, gravity is far stronger than quantum forces, and the object is torn into its components. This can not be described by GR, and must be described using QFT.
Unfortunately, we can't measure forces inside a black hole as by definition information can not exit a black hole. Also, any attempt to incorporate gravity into the standard model has failed as we are unable to quantise gravity.


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Australia (The Kinks song)
Australia (Whore of the world)
Australia Day is the official National Day of Australia. Celebrated annually on 26 January, it marks the anniversary of the 1788 arrival of the First Fleet of British Ships at Port Jackson, New South Wales, and the raising of the Flag of Great Britain at Sydney Cove by Governor Arthur Phillip. In present-day Australia, celebrations reflect the diverse society and landscape of the nation, and are marked by community and family events, reflections on Australian history, official community awards, and citizenship ceremonies welcoming new immigrants into the Australian community.
The meaning and significance of Australia Day has evolved over time. Unofficially, or historically, the date has also been variously named "Anniversary Day", "Foundation Day", and "ANA Day". 26 January 1788 marked the proclamation of British sovereignty over the eastern seaboard of Australia (then known as New Holland). Although it was not known as Australia Day until over a century later, records of celebrations on 26 January date back to 1808, with the first official celebration of the formation of New South Wales held in 1818. On New Year's Day 1901, the British colonies of Australia formed a Federation, marking the birth of modern Australia. A national day of unity and celebration was looked for. It was not until 1935 that all Australian states and territories had adopted use of the term "Australia Day" to mark the date, and not until 1994 that the date was consistently marked by a public holiday on that day by all states and territories.
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Coordinates: 27°S 133°E / 27°S 133°E / -27; 133
Australia (/ɒˈstreɪliə/, /ə-/, colloquially /-jə/), officially known as the Commonwealth of Australia, is an Oceanian country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area. Neighbouring countries include Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and East Timor to the north; the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu to the north-east; and New Zealand to the south-east.
For about 50,000 years before the first British settlement in the late 18th century, Australia was inhabited by indigenous Australians, who spoke languages grouped into roughly 250 language groups. After the European discovery of the continent by Dutch explorers in 1606, Australia's eastern half was claimed by Great Britain in 1770 and initially settled through penal transportation to the colony of New South Wales from 26 January 1788. The population grew steadily in subsequent decades; the continent was explored and an additional five self-governing crown colonies were established. On 1 January 1901, the six colonies federated, forming the Commonwealth of Australia. Since federation, Australia has maintained a stable liberal democratic political system that functions as a federal parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy comprising six states and several territories. The population of 24 million is highly urbanised and heavily concentrated in the eastern states and on the coast.
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"Australia" is a song by the British rock band The Kinks, appearing on their 1969 album, Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire). It was written by the band's main songwriter, Ray Davies.
Lyrics and Music
In the song, the character Derek (who is featured in the story line of Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)) attempts to convince his father, Arthur, of the great opportunities available in Australia, where there's "no drug addiction" and you can "surf like they do in the U.S.A." Derek's advertisement is compared to John Smith, who campaigned for America in a similar manner, by author Thomas Kitts.
The song also features a jam sequence lasting for approximately half the song, which is atypical for The Kinks. In the Australian single edit, this section is removed by editing an earlier section of the song into another section during a drum beat, which is then followed by a fade-out.
"Australia" was only released in most countries on the Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) album, where it was the closing track on side one. However, in Australia, a dramatically cut down version of the song was released as a single, with another Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) track, "She's Bought a Hat Like Princess Marina", on the B-side. However, the single was commercially unsuccessful.
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Australia (Whore of the world) is a climate change protest song written by singer-songwriter John Gordon and released in late 2010. The song laments Australia's mining culture - especially coal mining in Australia and coal exports - likening the country to a 'mining whore'.
It has featured in a wide variety of Australian press and online media, including mining forums, and continues to garner attention due to its controversial and provocative message. Music press have hailed the song as one of the great contemporary Australian protest songs. The Melbourne Age went as far as to say that Midnight Oil's 'Blue Sky Mine' has nothing on 'Australia (Whore of the World)'. The Song has been banned by ABC Local Radio Southern Queensland (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) as being too provocative for a conservative audience. ABC Southern Queensland encompasses the Toowoomba and Darling Downs region which is the region where Gordon hails from originally and where he has performed the song at a number of anti-mining rallies. The song has however received airplay in other parts of Australia from the ABC, and has been showcased on the national flagship ABC Environment website. As of May 2011, Gordon is contesting the Toowoomba ruling with the case currently before the independent ABC Consumer and Audience review board.
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I am flattered by your fascination with me
Like any hotblooded human
I have simply wanted an object to crave
But you
You're not allowed
You're uninvited
An unfortunate slight
Must be strangely exciting
To watch the stoic squirm
Must be somewhat heartening
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I must seem greatly intriguing
You speak of my love like
You have experienced love like before
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Is not allowed
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What starts out as a lavish train ride through Europe quickly unfolds into one of the most stylish, suspenseful and thrilling mysteries ever told. From the novel by best-selling author Agatha Christie, "Murder on the Orient Express" tells the tale of thirteen strangers stranded on a train, where everyone's a suspect. One man must race against time to solve the puzzle before the murderer strikes again. Kenneth Branagh directs and leads an all-star cast including Penélope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Judi Dench, Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Daisy Ridley and Josh Gad.
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Q: Access violation reading location 0x00000088 C++ I cannot for the life of me figure out this error Access violation reading location 0x00000088, I am programming a script that controls the leds on my keyboard, and this error pops up after only about 5 keystrokes.
Full error is
Exception thrown at 0x10013871 (msvcp140d.dll) in TacoKeyBoard2.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x00000088.

main.cpp
#include "KEYBOARD.h"

// Define Functions
void CALLBACK KeyCallBack(int iRow, int iCol, bool press);
int main_logic();

// Define Variables (Globals)
KEY_MASTER master;
vector<KEY_LIGHT> lights;
mutex mylock;

int main()
{
    // INIT VALUES
    srand(time(0));
    bool RUN = true;

    // Initialize Control Device
    SetControlDevice(DEV_MKeys_S);
    EnableLedControl(true);

    // Set The Callback
    SetKeyCallBack(KeyCallBack);
    EnableKeyInterrupt(true);

    // RESET THE MASTER OF THE KEYBOARD
    master = KEY_MASTER(KEY_COLOR(255, 0, 0));

    // INITIALIZE THREAD FOR LOGIC
    thread logic(main_logic);

    while (RUN)
    {
        //KEY_COLOR c = master.GetColor();
        //cout << (int)c.r << ":" << (int)c.g << ":" << (int)c.b << endl;
        SetAllLedColor(master.getColors());
        Sleep(1); // Make it sleep for however long
    }
    logic.join();

    return 0;
}

int main_logic()
{
    // INIT VALUES
    double RUN = true;

    while (RUN)
    {
        int i = 0;
        while (i < lights.size() && lights.size() > 0)
        {
            mylock.lock();
            bool remove = lights[i].update(0.1);
            if (remove)
            {
                lights.erase(lights.begin() + i);
            }
            else
            {
                i++;
            }
            mylock.unlock();
        }
        //cout << "Thread 2" << endl;
        Sleep(50); // Make it sleep for however long
    }
    return 0;
}

void CALLBACK KeyCallBack(int iRow, int iCol, bool bPressed)
{

    if (bPressed)
    {
        mylock.lock();
        KEY_LIGHT a = KEY_LIGHT(iCol, iRow, master.GetColor());
        lights.push_back(a);
        mylock.unlock();
    }
}

Notice the keystrokes are received by a callback function provided by the sdk.
keyboard.h
#ifndef KEYBOARD_H
#define KEYBOARD_H

#include "Functions.h"
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <time.h>
#include <mutex>
#include <thread>
#include "SDKDLL.h"

using namespace std;

const KEY_COLOR _colors[30] = {
    KEY_COLOR(255,0,0),
    KEY_COLOR(255,51,0),
    KEY_COLOR(255,102,0),
    KEY_COLOR(255,153,0),
    KEY_COLOR(255,204,0),
    KEY_COLOR(255,255,0),
    KEY_COLOR(204,255,0),
    KEY_COLOR(153,255,0),
    KEY_COLOR(102,255,0),
    KEY_COLOR(51,255,0),
    KEY_COLOR(0,255,0),
    KEY_COLOR(0,255,51),
    KEY_COLOR(0,255,102),
    KEY_COLOR(0,255,153),
    KEY_COLOR(0,255,204),
    KEY_COLOR(0,255,255),
    KEY_COLOR(0,204,255),
    KEY_COLOR(0,153,255),
    KEY_COLOR(0,102,255),
    KEY_COLOR(0,51,255),
    KEY_COLOR(0,0,255),
    KEY_COLOR(51,0,255),
    KEY_COLOR(102,0,255),
    KEY_COLOR(153,0,255),
    KEY_COLOR(204,0,255),
    KEY_COLOR(255,0,255),
    KEY_COLOR(255,0,204),
    KEY_COLOR(255,0,153),
    KEY_COLOR(255,0,102),
    KEY_COLOR(255,0,51),
};

class KEY_LIGHT {
private:
    int x, y;
    double step;
    KEY_COLOR col;
public:
    bool update(double n);
    KEY_LIGHT(int _x, int _y, KEY_COLOR _c);
};

class KEY_MASTER {
private:
    COLOR_MATRIX colors; // Store the key colors
    int _c;
    //vector<KEY_LIGHT> lights; // Store the key press light objects
public:
    COLOR_MATRIX getColors() { return colors; } // Get the colors
    void SetKeyColor(int x, int y, KEY_COLOR c);
    KEY_MASTER(KEY_COLOR c); // Init inside main
    KEY_MASTER(); // Init as a global
    KEY_COLOR GetColor();
};

extern KEY_MASTER master;

#endif

keyboard.cpp
    #include "KEYBOARD.h"
#include "Functions.h"

// FUNCTIONS

KEY_MASTER::KEY_MASTER(KEY_COLOR c)
{
    SetFullLedColor(c.r, c.g, c.b);
    colors.KeyColor[MAX_LED_ROW][MAX_LED_COLUMN] = { KEY_COLOR(c.r,c.g,c.b) };
    _c = 0;
}

KEY_MASTER::KEY_MASTER()
{
    cout << "MASTER HAS BEEN MADE\n";
}

void KEY_MASTER::SetKeyColor(int _x, int _y, KEY_COLOR _col)
{
    colors.KeyColor[_y][_x] = _col;
}

KEY_COLOR KEY_MASTER::GetColor()
{
    KEY_COLOR col = _colors[_c];
    _c++;
    if (_c >= 30)
        _c = 0;
    return col;
}

bool KEY_LIGHT::update(double n)
{
    step += n;
    KEY_COLOR temp = col;
    if (step < 2.4)
    {
        double a = Clamp<double>(step, 0, 1), b = Clamp<double>(step - 0.7, 0, 1), c = Clamp<double>(step - 1.4, 0, 1);
        //if (a != 1)
        //{
            temp.r = temp.r*a;
            temp.g = temp.g*a;
            temp.b = temp.b*a;
            master.SetKeyColor(x, y, temp);
            master.SetKeyColor(x+1, y, temp);
            master.SetKeyColor(x-1, y, temp);
            master.SetKeyColor(x, y+1, temp);
            master.SetKeyColor(x, y-1, temp);
        //}
        //if (b > 0 && b != 1)
        //{
            temp.r = temp.r*b;
            temp.g = temp.g*b;
            temp.b = temp.b*b;
            master.SetKeyColor(x-1, y-1, temp);
            master.SetKeyColor(x-1, y+1, temp);
            master.SetKeyColor(x+1, y-1, temp);
            master.SetKeyColor(x+1, y+1, temp);
        //}
        //if ( c > 0)
        //{
            temp.r = temp.r*c;
            temp.g = temp.g*c;
            temp.b = temp.b*c;
            master.SetKeyColor(x-2, y, temp);
            master.SetKeyColor(x-2, y+1, temp);
            master.SetKeyColor(x-2, y-1, temp);

            master.SetKeyColor(x+2, y, temp);
            master.SetKeyColor(x+2, y+1, temp);
            master.SetKeyColor(x+2, y-1, temp);

            master.SetKeyColor(x, y-2, temp);
            master.SetKeyColor(x+1, y-2, temp);
            master.SetKeyColor(x-1, y-2, temp);

            master.SetKeyColor(x, y+2, temp);
            master.SetKeyColor(x+1, y+2, temp);
            master.SetKeyColor(x-1, y+2, temp);
        //}
            return false;
    }
    return true;
}

KEY_LIGHT::KEY_LIGHT(int _x, int _y, KEY_COLOR _c)
{
    step = 0;
    x = _x;
    y = _y;
    col = _c;
}

any help would be greatly appreciated, I've tried debugging this, but could not get the error to stop without removing the callback, I have also looked up the error and found nothing for the error Access violation reading location 0x00000088
I am building this on windows with visual studio and building for x86


In 1878, a neurologist noted that French-Canadian lumberjacks tended to startle violently.
Each year on Valentine's Day, someone secretly posts paper hearts in Montpelier, Vt.
David Sinclair, Sir Gregor MacGregor and the Land That Never Was, 2003.
Matthew Brown, "Inca, Sailor, Soldier, King: Gregor MacGregor and the Early Nineteenth-Century Caribbean," Bulletin of Latin American Research 24:1 (January 2005), 44-70.
T. Frederick Davis, "MacGregor's Invasion of Florida, 1817," Florida Historical Society Quarterly 7:1 (July 1928), 2-71.
Emily Beaulieu, Gary W. Cox, and Sebastian Saiegh, "Sovereign Debt and Regime Type: Reconsidering the Democratic Advantage," International Organization 66:4 (Fall 2012), 709-738.
R.A. Humphreys, "Presidential Address: Anglo-American Rivalries in Central America," Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 18 (1968), 174-208.
Courtenay de Kalb, "Nicaragua: Studies on the Mosquito Shore in 1892," Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York 25:1 (1893), 236-288.
A.R. Hope Moncrieff, "Gregor MacGregor," Macmillan's Magazine 92:551 (September 1905), 339-350.
"The King of Con-Men," Economist 405:8816 (Dec. 22, 2012), 109-112.
"Sir Gregor MacGregor," Quebec Gazette, Oct. 18, 1827.
Guardian, "From the Archive, 25 October 1823: Settlers Duped Into Believing in 'Land Flowing With Milk and Honey,'" Oct. 25, 2013.
Maria Konnikova, "The Con Man Who Pulled Off History's Most Audacious Scam," BBC Future, Jan. 28, 2016.
"Thomas Strangeways", Sketch of the Mosquito Shore, 1822.
A Bank of Poyais dollar, printed by the official printer of the Bank of Scotland. MacGregor traded these worthless notes for the settlers' gold as they departed for his nonexistent republic.
Robert McCrum, "The 100 Best Novels: No 42 – The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan (1915)," Guardian, July 7, 2014.
This week's lateral thinking puzzle was inspired by an item in Dan Lewis' Now I Know newsletter. Here's a corroborating link (warning — both links spoil the puzzle).


One simply cannot have too many books about booze. I'll even read those books about supermarket wine with titles like Easyquaff and Fruity! that were all the rage a few years ago. In particular I like ones from secondhand bookshops by old buffers whose entry for California simply say 'apparently some enterprising colonial types have planted vines. The wines are not undrinkable.' See my post on Faugeres. Sadly today new wine books are in short supply. Faber & Faber dropped their list years ago and Mitchell-Beazley's range is not what it once was. The last great wine book they published except Hugh Johnson's Atlas was Andrew Jefford's The New France. Here are some books that I cannot do without plus a few newer ones that have caught my fancy. It goes without saying that all them are better sampled with a small glass of tawny port.
The Wild Bunch: Great Wine from Small Producers by Patrick Matthews. This one is out of print but thanks to the internet you can easily get hold of it. I reread it once a year and always notice something new. It was published in the mid 90s and examines the hidden wine revolution of small dedicated growers making their own wine outside the classic regions. In his quest for idiosyncratic wines, Matthews preempts the whole natural wine movement by a decade. If you want to know why wine is so exciting, read this book. The author's curiosity makes him great company; as a reader you feel that you are learning with him rather than being lectured. The prices makes me a little melancholy: Ch. Musar at £9, Tahbilk Marsanne at £5.79. I wish an enterprising publisher would commission Matthews to write an updated version.
The Oxford Companion Wine by Jancis Robinson and her team of wine elves. If you are even slightly serious about wine you need a copy of this book.
The Quest for Wine and Love or How I saved the world from Parkerisation by Alice Feiring. Ignore the awful title, cover and the attempts by the publisher to turn this into an Eat, Pray, Love of wine, there is a brilliant book here fighting to get out. Feiring is furious about the increasing homogenisation of wine. If you wonder why premium wines are often undrinkable and Rioja isn't what it used to be, then you should read this book. I am looking forward to what she does next.
Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book. The best of the wine guides.
101 Whiskies to try before you die by The Dabbler's very own Ian Buxton. This looks like a Megaquaff book for Scotch but it's actually an opinionated, engaging and witty guide to the diverse whisky world.
World Atlas of Whisky by Dave Broom. If the Buxton book is the 12 year old malt that whets your appetite then this is the 18 year old aged in oloroso casks and packaged in a wooden box that marks the start of a serious whisky habit.
The Hungover Cookbook by Milton Crawford . Inspired by P. G Wodehouse and Kingsley Amis this is an amusing guide to what to eat the next day after a night on the Bristol Cream.
Publishers and authors, please let me know if there are any that you think I have missed. I would love to be proved wrong about the lack of quality wine books out there.
Henry Jeffreys also blogs bibulously at World of Booze, and The Lady.
Henry Jeffreys was born in Harrow, Middlesex. He worked in the wine trade for two years and then moved into publishing with stints at Hodder & Stoughton, Bloomsbury and Granta. Under the name Henry Castiglione, he reviewed books for the Telegraph andthefirstpost.co.uk. Under the name Blake Pudding he was a founder member of the London Review of Breakfasts website as well as a contributor to the Breakfast Bible (Bloomsbury, 2013). Since 2010 he has been writing mainly about drink under his own name. He is wine columnist for the Lady magazine, contributes to the Guardian and was shortlisted for the Fortnum & Mason drink writer of the year 2013 for his work in the Spectator. He is writing a history of Britain told through alcoholic drinks called Empire of Booze. He blogs at Henry's World of Booze.
Had a friend who, over one winter, read And Quiet Flows the Don, The Don Flows Home to the Sea and Virgin Soil Upturned, in the snug of the Britannia Inn at Elterwater, at the same time becoming the Langdale Valley's fives and threes champion. Would that count as books on booze?


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UC Santa Cruz is a lively hub of culture and recreation, benefiting from its spectacular setting between the redwood forests and miles of scenic beaches.
Located on California's Central Coast, 75 miles south of San Francisco and 30 miles southwest of San Jose, Santa Cruz is a medium-sized (population 56,000) town with its own vibrant personality. Since UC Santa Cruz was established here in 1965 on the site of the former Cowell Ranch, the university and the town have influenced each other to create its current diverse population of artisans, scientists and scholars, outdoor enthusiasts, students, and computer industry professionals.
Enjoying a moderate climate with 300 sunny days a year and low humidity, Santa Cruz is also a popular vacation destination. Travelers come from all over the world to enjoy the county's 29 miles of beaches, ringed by mountains covered with redwood trees; picturesque seaside vistas; and the laid-back ambience of the town that has been nicknamed "Surf City."
On a clear day, the eastern side of campus offers stunning views of the city of Santa Cruz and Monterey Bay.
Santa Cruz has a prominent cycling community, and many parts of the UCSC campus are connected via an extensive network of bikeways and walking paths. There is an extensive Bike Program operated by UCSC with bike rentals, shuttles, maintenance and parking. As well, the Santa Cruz city Metro bus system is free to registered students with an active student identification card.
UC Santa Cruz offers a full range of recreation and athletics programs, including NCAA Division III collegiate teams, athletics clubs, intramural leagues, and a recreation program that has been called one of the best in the world by Outside magazine.
Recreation and sports facilities maintained by OPERS include an Olympic-sized pool, grass-covered playing fields, a jogging track, fitness center with sweeping views of Monterey Bay, tennis, racquetball, and basketball courts, and boating facilities.
Recreational sports include backpacking, badminton, dancing, table tennis, volleyball, and various martial arts.
Performance and Visual Arts
UC Santa Cruz sponsors numerous public theater, dance, and musical performances throughout the academic year in venues both on and off campus.
There are two primary art galleries on campus: the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery at Porter College, and the Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery at Cowell College. Open during the academic year, both schedule exhibitions of work by contemporary artists and important collections of historic interest.
Visit the Arts Division calendar for current and future shows and exhibits.
The UCSC Arboretum has gardens with plants from Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, as well as California natives, cactus and succulents, and a world conifer collection.
The Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems maintains a 25 -acre working farm located on the slopes of west side of campus. Fruit trees, vegetables, flowers, herbs, berries, and other crops are used to study organic methods of sustainable agriculture. Similar work is done at the four-acre Alan Chadwick Garden just below Merrill College. Produce is sold at the main campus entrance late spring through early fall on Tuesdays and Fridays. Both facilities are open year-round 8 a.m.–5 p.m. and welcome visitors.
The Seymour Marine Discovery Center at Joseph M. Long Marine Laboratory is major research facility for UC Santa Cruz's Institute of Marine Sciences, and is located three miles from campus at 100 Shaffer Road at the west end of Delaware Avenue in Santa Cruz. Visitors can learn about marine life in Monterey Bay and the Pacific through aquaria, exhibits, and touch tanks. On view is the skeleton of an 87-foot blue whale, the largest blue whale skeleton on display in the world.
Students and faculty at UC Santa Cruz are able to utilize the UC Natural Reserves system - "classrooms without walls." Several nearby Reserves offer different ecosystems and a diverse array of flora and fauna, providing excellent field study sites for researchers, experiential class visits, and open spaces to inspire and excite academics of every stripe.
The goal of the Graduate Student Commons (GSC) is to bring all graduate students together in a sense of community. Located adjacent to the Bay Tree Bookstore, the GSC offers graduate students a place to stop between classes where they may check email, hold office hours, attend or hold a meeting, or join a homework study group. Several community events are held throughout the year, and you can follow the GSC calendar of events online.


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Flight 370, a mysterious 'one-off,' spurs calls to modernize tracking technology
By Joel Achenbach, Scott Higham and Ashley Halsey III
The bizarre tale of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 comes at a time when flying is safer than ever. Nervous fliers squeeze the armrests for dear life, but most passengers have no problem nodding off as their jetliner cruises seven miles above the Earth. They have internalized the statistical truth that the most dangerous part of an airplane trip is the drive to the airport.
Yet disasters still happen, including this one. Officially declared a plane crash at sea with no survivors, the event remains so deeply mysterious that it seems premature to refer to the people aboard as deceased.
Viewed in the broad context of aviation safety, this weird case actually fits snugly within a recent pattern: Airline disasters now tend to be unprecedented in nature — what investigators call "one-offs."
In the old days, planes typically went down because of engine failures, wind shear, collisions or some other familiar problem. But turbine engines almost never fail these days. Improved radar helps pilots dodge the lethal downdrafts of thunderstorms.
Collision-avoidance technology commands the pilots of converging planes to make diversionary maneuvers.
Even if Flight 370 is the ultimate one-off, aviation safety advocates say there are lessons to be learned from this tragedy, starting with the need for tamperproof equipment that would stream data in real time to satellites and reveal a plane's position.
"This could well be the kind of 'black swan' event that requires everybody to carry a location device," said Chris McLaughlin, senior vice president of Inmarsat, the satellite company that helped calculate the likely flight corridor of the missing plane.
"As a ticket-payer, wouldn't you like to know that the authorities know where your plane is at all times?" he said. "This is not expensive. We're talking maybe a dollar an hour or less to get that information off the plane."
Mary Schiavo, former inspector general of the U.S. Department of Transportation, which includes the Federal Aviation Administration, would go even further. She'd like to see the full "black box" data — a massive amount of information about the plane's performance — streamed to ground locations during flight.
"There's lots of reasons to have streaming data — not the least of which is to foil criminals — and to solve the mystery of what happened to your plane. It would have helped in 9/11. It would have been immensely helpful here," Schiavo said.
Star Navigation Systems Group, a Toronto company, has designed black-box technology that streams data in real time. It costs about $50,000 per plane, plus $10 more to transmit the data for each flying hour, chief executive Viraf S. Kapadia said. Only one customer has bought the system, he lamented.
"It's all about the money for the airlines, even though it's not a lot of money," he said.
"We're using 1970s technologies instead of the data streaming that's been available for nearly a decade now," said Paul Hudson, president of FlyersRights.org. "The fact that airplanes can basically disappear over water is not only troubling to passengers, but it also gives a heads-up to those who would do a terrorist act or a murder-suicide. They would be virtually undetected. These planes can fly to almost any place on Earth nonstop."
Sean Cassidy, an Alaska Airlines pilot serving as national safety coordinator for the Air Line Pilots Association, International, said his organization is wary of such a sweeping change in industry practice.
"How is the data being used? How is it being protected? And how is it really driving up the safety case?" he said. Referring to Flight 370, he said, "If this is such an incredibly, exceedingly rare event, I think it's a little bit premature to begin discussing the way we transmit some of this data until we understand if that really would have made much of a difference in how this flight ended up."
Katie Connell, a spokeswoman for Airlines for America, the trade organization for the leading U.S. airlines, said in an e-mail that it is "premature for us to speculate and/or discuss potential changes to safety and security procedures."
Safety advocates contend that real-time data-streaming technology will become more critical in coming years simply because there is more air traffic and longer routes are being flown over increasingly remote areas, including the North Pole and great expanses of open water.
The industry roughly doubles in size every 15 years. People like to fly.
The civil aviation industry has been working with authorities for years on what is known as NextGen technology. Among other things, the new technology would allow airplanes to be tracked more effectively by satellite. The FAA's work on NextGen has been sluggish, however. Few airlines are willing to invest billions of dollars until the FAA delivers the final regulations that will govern the system.
Flight 370 was a modern aircraft with modern technology. The Boeing 777 had multiple robust mechanisms for communicating with or sending data to the rest of the world during flight. The transponder sent a radar signal and another system transmitted data via satellite to ground stations. But these systems were either turned off intentionally or somehow became disabled. No one in the cockpit radioed a distress signal or activated a hijacking code. No one used the jetphones in business class.
Authorities have released no evidence of wrongdoing or malicious intent by anyone on the flight crew. But in general, as technology improves, the remaining hazards in aviation are often found in the cockpit. Among the issues that safety advocates worry about are fatigue and inadequate training.
"What's causing accidents these days is humans figuring out ways to crash perfectly airworthy airplanes. That's the area that we really need to be focusing in on," said John DeLisi, director of the Office of Aviation Safety at the National Transportation Safety Board.
He cited three recent examples of pilot error: Colgan Air Flight 3407, which crashed on its approach to Buffalo in 2009, killing all 49 people aboard; Comair Flight 5191, in 2006, in which 49 of 50 people died when the pilot used the wrong runway, one meant for small planes, and crashed; and Asiana Airlines Flight 214, which came in too slow in San Francisco in July and hit a seawall, resulting in three deaths.
DeLisi declined to address Flight 370. There is no evidence of pilot error, pilot suicide, hijacking or any kind of terrorist event, nor is there evidence of a mechanical malfunction, fire or decompression. There is, in essence, no evidence of anything other than that the aircraft did not go to China as planned but rather flew in a zigzag fashion into the southern Indian Ocean.
The Flight 370 disaster has some similarities to the tragedy that befell Air France Flight 447, which on June 1, 2009, with 228 people aboard, vanished in the Atlantic Ocean during a thunderstorm off the coast of Brazil. It took investigators five days to find the wreckage and two more years to locate the plane's black box.
Learning from disaster
After the Air France disaster, the International Civil Aviation Organization, a U.N.-sponsored organization based in Montreal, began to study technologies designed to locate airliners when they go missing. Several task
forces examined in-flight streaming technologies and other ways to improve the chances of finding the black boxes, boost their battery power and increase the strength of the beacons they send out.
Recommendations of those task forces have yet to be implemented. This is a complicated process at "technical, political, legal, economic and operational levels," ICAO spokesman Anthony Philbin said in an e-mail.
But Philbin put in a plug for the industry as a whole, calling it "arguably the most significant cooperative achievement in the history of human endeavour and perhaps our greatest shared example of what countries and peoples can ultimately achieve when they work together toward consensus-driven objectives."
Any discussion of safety has to acknowledge the progress made in recent decades. Major plane crashes have become exceedingly rare. Disasters are instructional, and airlines and regulators make adjustments. For example, after the TWA Flight 800 disaster off Long Island in 1996, in which the plane exploded when a spark ignited fumes in an empty fuel tank, airlines began filling those empty tanks with nitrogen to prevent any such sparking.
Robert Benzon said the improvement in safety was one of the reasons he retired after 27 years as a lead investigator for the NTSB.
"I got kind of bored because I had no accidents to go out on," Benzon said. "When I first started in the big-aircraft investigation business, each investigator in charge had two, sometimes three, concurrent investigations they were working on. Nowadays, if you're really lucky as an investigator in charge, you're doing one major accident. And even that is pretty damned rare now."
Cassidy, of the Air Line Pilots Association, said passengers trust pilots for good reasons.
"By the time you get to the captain's seat, especially with a major airline, you have been checked, you've been trained, you've been through countless training situations, you've been evaluated by many, many instructors. By the time you get to that point, you should have a high degree of credibility and respect," Cassidy said.
But DeLisi, the NTSB official, noted that some new pilots with small companies are paid shockingly low salaries.
"We love airline travel, and yet the economic model is one where new pilots starting out in their careers typically working for regional carriers are making, pick a number, $25,000 or $30,000, working long hours," DeLisi said. "The number one thing for safety right now is to have a well-trained, well-rested, non-distracted crew."
DeLisi said technological innovations will never obviate the need for a human in the cockpit. He cited the 2009 case of Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, who famously landed a US Airways jetliner safely in the Hudson River after the plane struck a flock of geese and suffered engine failure.
"He did an amazing job of taking an extremely rare failure mode — impacting birds when you're flying over the Bronx — and landing a disabled jet that is no longer producing thrust," DeLisi said. "That defines why we still have humans in the cockpit. Because there's no way you could have ever programmed the autopilot or had an unmanned vehicle make those decisions he made that day to safe those lives."
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#1 by yhsiew on Sunday, 30 March 2014 - 12:02 am
There is no excuse for not adopting technology that protects/saves lives.
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Q: Updating String of API In my program, I am working on a weather app where I have a zipcode immediately grabbed by the user's IP from another API. From this immediate zipcode, OpenWeatherMap API displays the said zipcode's weather. But I added a button where I wanted to incorporate a feature you're able to change the zipcode and view the weather from different areas.
I got to the point where on my view I see the input named {{zip}} on HTML changing whenever I add new input, but it doesn't seem to be updating the API.
How can I update the zipcode portion of this API call? Thank you!
app.js
var classApp = angular.module('weatherApp', []);

classApp.controller('weatherCtrl', function($scope, $http) {
  var vm = $scope;
  $scope.count = 0;

  $http.get("http://ip-api.com/json").success(function(data) {
    vm.zip = data.zip;
    vm.lat = data.lat;
    vm.lon = data.lon;

    $scope.getForecastByLocation = function(myName) {

      vm.zip = myName;
      console.log("this");

      var apiKey = "";
      var url = "http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?zip=" + vm.zip + ",us" + "&appid=" + apiKey;

    };//getForecastByLocation

    var apiKey = "";
    var openWeatherURL = "http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?zip=" + vm.zip + ",us" + "&appid=" + apiKey;

    $scope.getForecastByLocation();

    // Set $scope.location and execute search on API
    vm.setLocation = function(loc) {
      $scope.location = loc;
      $scope.getForecastByLocation();
    };

    $http.get(openWeatherURL).success(function(data) {
      vm.description = data.weather[0].description;
      vm.speed = (2.237 * data.wind.speed).toFixed(1) + " mph";
      vm.name = data.name;
      vm.humidity = data.main.humidity + " %";
      vm.temp = data.main.temp;
      vm.fTemp = (vm.temp * (9 / 5) - 459.67).toFixed(1) + " °F";
      vm.cTemp = (vm.temp - 273).toFixed(1) + " °C";
      vm.icon = "https://openweathermap.org/img/w/" + data.weather[0].icon + ".png";

    // $scope.getForecastByLocation = function() {
    // console.log("hellooooooooo");
    // // alert("This is an example of ng-click");
    // localStorage.setItem('zipcode', $scope.serverip);
    // console.log(localStorage.serverip);

    // };

      //Getting the weather icon
      if (data.weather[0].id >= 200 && data.weather[0].id < 300) {
        $scope.weatherClass = "wi wi-thunderstorm";
      }

      if (data.weather[0].id >= 300 && data.weather[0].id < 400) {
        $scope.weatherClass = "wi wi-sprinkle";
      }

      if (data.weather[0].id >= 500 && data.weather[0].id < 600) {
        if (data.weather[0].id == 500 || data.weather[0].id >= 520) {
          $scope.weatherClass = "wi wi-rain";
        }
        $scope.weatherClass = "wi wi-showers";
      }

      if (data.weather[0].id >= 600 && data.weather[0].id < 700) {
        $scope.weatherClass = "wi wi-snow";
      }

      if (data.weather[0].id >= 700 && data.weather[0].id < 800) {
        $scope.weatherClass = "wi wi-fog";
      }

      if (data.weather[0].id == 800) {
        $scope.weatherClass = "wi wi-day-sunny";
      }

      if (data.weather[0].id == 801) {
        $scope.weatherClass = "wi wi-day-sunny-overcast";
      }

      if (data.weather[0].id == 802) {
        $scope.weatherClass = "wi wi-day-cloudy";
      }

      if (data.weather[0].id == 803 || data.weather[0].id == 804) {
        $scope.weatherClass = "wi wi-cloudy";
      }

      if (data.weather[0].id == 900) {
        $scope.weatherClass = "wi wi-tornado";
      }

      if (data.weather[0].id == 901 || data.weather[0].id == 960 || data.weather[0].id == 961) {
        $scope.weatherClass = "wi wi-thunderstorm";
      }

      if (data.weather[0].id == 902 || data.weather[0].id == 962) {
        $scope.weatherClass = "wi wi-hurricane";
      }

      if (data.weather[0].id == 903) {
        $scope.weatherClass = "wi wi-snowflake-cold";
      }

      if (data.weather[0].id == 904) {
        $scope.weatherClass = "wi wi-hot";
      }

      if (data.weather[0].id == 905) {
        $scope.weatherClass = "wi wi-strong-wind";
      }

      if (data.weather[0].id == 906) {
        $scope.weatherClass = "wi wi-hail";
      }

      if (data.weather[0].id == 951) {
        $scope.weatherClass = "wi wi-day-sunny";
      }

      if (data.weather[0].id >= 952 && data.weather[0].id <= 956) {
        $scope.weatherClass = "wi wi-windy";
      }

      if (data.weather[0].id >= 957 && data.weather[0].id <= 959) {
        $scope.weatherClass = "wi wi-strong-wind";
      }

      // Calculate current hour using offset from UTC.

      var a = new Date(data.dt * 1000);
      var months = ['Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun', 'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec'];
      var year = a.getFullYear();
      var month = months[a.getMonth()];
      var date = a.getDate();

      // Hours part from the timestamp
      var hours = a.getHours();
      // Minutes part from the timestamp
      var minutes = "0" + a.getMinutes();
      // Seconds part from the timestamp
      var seconds = "0" + a.getSeconds();

      vm.formattedDate = date + ' ' + month + ' ' + year;
      vm.formattedTime = hours + ':' + minutes.substr(-2) + ':' + seconds.substr(-2);

      vm.sunrise = new Date(data.sys.sunrise * 1000 + (scope.offsetHours * 3600000) + (scope.offsetMinutes * 60000));
      vm.sunset = new Date(data.sys.sunset * 1000 + (scope.offsetHours * 3600000) + (scope.offsetMinutes * 60000));
      vm.currentHour = datetime.getUTCHours();
      vm.sunriseHour = sunrise.getUTCHours();
      vm.sunsetHour = sunset.getUTCHours();

    }); //closing OpenWeatherMap

  }); //closing IP-API

}); //closing Controller

index.html
 <!doctype html>

            <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
            <meta charset="utf-8">
            <title>OpenWeather App</title>
             <link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Montserrat:300,400,700' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
            <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/weather-icons.min.css">
            <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/bootstrap/css/bootstrap.css"/>
            <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/app.css"/>

{{formattedDate | uppercase}}

{{formattedTime | uppercase}}

              <input ng-model="myName"  type="text" placeholder="enter zipcode">

              <button  ng-disabled="myName==null || myName==''" ng-click="getForecastByLocation(myName)" style="margin-top: 10px">Search!</button>

{{name | uppercase}}

{{fTemp | uppercase}}

{{description | uppercase}}

{{location}}

            {{speed}}
            {{humidity}}

{{zip}}

EDIT: Added the whole controller code

A: I solved it on my own with the help of some others!
I basically had to rearrange my app.js code. I basically made another GET request with the updated zipcode. Thank you all for who took the time to leave some comments/suggestions!


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