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IBM announced plans to launch its own crypto currency on the Stellar blockchain platform

Global computing titan IBM has announced plans to launch its own cryptocurrency on the Stellar blockchain, raising the stakes on high-tech adoption of virtual currency.

Carbon Credit Cryptocurrency

IBM has partnered with Veridium Labs, an environmental fin-tech startup, to develop a new cryptocurrency that will tokenize carbon credits. The credits will be used by businesses to offset environmental degradation caused by their operations.

Veridium has been exploring new ways to implement carbon offset credits in an open market but has struggled to do so given the value constraints of the underlying credits. In other words, no generally agreed upon formula exists for determining individual value, which makes the buying and selling of credits difficult to implement.

Now, Veridium believes it has found the solution through crypto tokens and the blockhain. The new token will be developed using Stellar’s digital ledger. Veridium will be developing the value formula while IBM manages the technical specifications for buying, selling and managing the tokens.

Veridium CEO Todd Lemons issued the following statement:

“For years, we’ve been trying to mitigate environmental impacts at every point in the value chain, however previous solutions still presented significant complexities and costs. Our digital environmental assets are designed to help companies and institutional investors purchase and use carbon credits to mitigate their environmental impacts today, and even hedge their potential carbon liabilities risks in the future.”

Importantly, the new project has already moved beyond the concept phase, which means the credits will be available across the Stellar network.

“By using a public, permissioned blockchain network, we can help Veridium create a new sustainable marketplace that is good for business and good for the world,” said Bridget van Kralingen, senior vice president of IBM’s industry platforms and blockchain division.

Stellar Network

IBM and Stellar have been working together to develop a global payment network powered by blockchain technology. The technology giant announced last year it was using the Stellar blockchain to launch a network of 12 currency corridors that encompasses Australia, New Zealand smaller island nations in the South Pacific.

Through Stellar, IBM and a network of banks are using cryptocurrency the blockchain to move money across borders in near real-time. The service is available both to merchants and consumers that seek to accelerate the payment process.

The significance of the news, which IBM announced on Monday, is that merchants and consumers will be able to send money to another country in near real-time, accelerating a payments process that typically takes days. The network is said to process up to 60% of all cross-border payments in the South Pacific’s retail foreign exchange corridors.

Stellar is the world’s eighth largest cryptocurrency by market cap with a total value of roughly $6.7 billion. The protocol has generated significant attention due to its powerful team, growing business appeal and status as an emerging ICO platform.

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language, keyboard, etc lists should load their items before dispalying

Bug #40593 reported by Trent Lloyd on 2006-04-21
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
ubiquity (Ubuntu)

Bug Description

At the moment all the listboxes for the keyboard type, language, etc, appear before the items in them are loaded.

This is quite unsightly, the whole page should hide until it finishes loading, preferebly with some kind of spinner.

Changed in espresso:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
Alexandre Otto Strube (surak) wrote :

Just to let you know, this is specially visible with lower-memory systems.

Evan (ev) wrote :

Trent and Alexandre,
Given recent changes to the way pages are constructed in the installer, I believe this to be fixed. Can you please try the most recent daily Live CD ( and let me know if the issue persists or not?

Alexandre Otto Strube (surak) wrote :

Today's live doesn't boot here :( I will try again tomorrow.

Evan (ev) wrote :

Any luck? The 7.10 CD should boot without issue.

Colin Watson (cjwatson) on 2008-02-29
Changed in ubiquity:
importance: Medium → Wishlist
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Bug 177609 - build requires gdbm-devel
build requires gdbm-devel
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: avahi (Show other bugs)
All Linux
medium Severity medium
: ---
: ---
Assigned To: Martin Stransky
Depends On: 177986
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Reported: 2006-01-12 05:09 EST by Bart Vanbrabant
Modified: 2007-11-30 17:11 EST (History)
0 users

See Also:
Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
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Clone Of:
Last Closed: 2006-12-07 17:30:31 EST
Type: ---
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Description Bart Vanbrabant 2006-01-12 05:09:19 EST
The specfile should require gdbm-devel to build it. It tried to rebuild it but I
got a configure error. After installing gdbm-devel it worked.

I guess the package needs to require gdbm then, but I'm not sure.
Comment 1 Jason Vas Dias 2006-01-12 16:31:23 EST
Yes, avahi-browse requires gdbm (unless the --without-gdbm configure option is
used) .
Fixed in avahi-0.6.3-2 - avahi BuildRequires: gdbm and avahi-tools Requires: gdbm.
Comment 2 Jason Vas Dias 2006-01-18 15:20:19 EST
Now fixed with avahi*-0.6.4-1 in rawhide-20060118
Comment 3 Bart Vanbrabant 2006-06-06 14:13:45 EDT
I confirm this is ok, this bug can be closed!

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Bug 178473 - automatic partitioning fails
automatic partitioning fails
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda (Show other bugs)
All Linux
medium Severity medium
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Assigned To: Anaconda Maintenance Team
Mike McLean
Depends On:
  Show dependency treegraph
Reported: 2006-01-20 15:59 EST by Need Real Name
Modified: 2007-11-30 17:11 EST (History)
0 users

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Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Story Points: ---
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Last Closed: 2006-01-23 15:52:42 EST
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Description Need Real Name 2006-01-20 15:59:46 EST
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051215 Epiphany/1.9.4

Description of problem:
In rescue mode, I moved /home to /home.KEEP, deleted the rest, then rebooted to the installer.

The automatic partitioner fells over when I tried to use my existing disk. It said that automatic partitioning was not possible, it may be because I was low on disk space (not true).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

How reproducible:
Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:

Additional info:

Manual partitioning worked.
Comment 1 Chris Lumens 2006-01-23 15:24:19 EST
Please attach the output of /etc/fstab and /proc/partitions from the installed
system.  Was /home on a separate partition?  Is this an upgrade or a fresh
installation that you were just trying to save your /home on?  Which options did
you choose on the Disk Partitioning Setup screen?
Comment 2 Need Real Name 2006-01-23 15:37:02 EST
LABEL=/1                /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
LABEL=SWAP-hdc4         swap                    swap    defaults        0 0

major minor  #blocks  name

  22     0  100000000 hdc
  22     1  100000000 hdc1
  22     2  100000000 hdc2 <-- install partition
  22     3  100000000 hdc3
  22     4  100000000 hdc4

One big partition. On it was /home.KEEP, and nothing else.
Fresh install.

I chose the option to install into existing free space.
Comment 3 Chris Lumens 2006-01-23 15:52:42 EST
Oh, I see what's going on here.  There seems to be some confusion over the
wording of the "install into existing free space" option.  What this means is to
not delete any existing partitions and instead use unpartitioned free space on
the disk to install into.  If you don't have any unpartitioned space, anaconda
is seeing that there's nowhere to install and therefore failing.

For this sort of installation, you really just want to use the manual
partitioning.  You may also want to put /home on its own partition in the future
to make upgrades easier.
Comment 4 Need Real Name 2006-01-23 16:21:40 EST
(In reply to comment #3)
> Oh, I see what's going on here.  There seems to be some confusion over the
> wording of the "install into existing free space" option.

I think it would be good to rename the option "install into unpartitioned space".

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Bug 90023 - irqbalance missing man page
irqbalance missing man page
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel-utils (Show other bugs)
All Linux
medium Severity medium
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Assigned To: Dave Jones
Brian Brock
: FutureFeature
Depends On:
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Reported: 2003-05-01 06:53 EDT by Need Real Name
Modified: 2015-01-04 17:02 EST (History)
1 user (show)

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Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Enhancement
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Last Closed: 2005-01-10 20:24:53 EST
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manpage (645 bytes, text/plain)
2003-05-01 07:22 EDT, Arjan van de Ven
no flags Details

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Tracker ID Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2005:228 normal SHIPPED_LIVE kernel-utils bug fix update 2005-05-19 00:00:00 EDT

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Description Need Real Name 2003-05-01 06:53:17 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.7 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20030131

Description of problem:
'chkconfig --list irqbalance' shows that irqbalance runs at run levels 3, 4, 5.
'man irqbalance' reports "No manual entry for irqbalance".
I am unable to determine what irqbalance does or whether it can be switched off.

Request for a manual page for irqbalance.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

How reproducible:

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install kernel-utils-2.4-8.29
2.man irqbalance - fails

Actual Results:  "No manual entry for irqbalance" is reported.

Expected Results:  A manual page should have been displayed.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Arjan van de Ven 2003-05-01 07:22:41 EDT
Created attachment 91435 [details]

how's this for a manpage ? ;)
Comment 2 Need Real Name 2003-05-04 08:10:29 EDT
It's all I need. The man page lets me know what irqbalance does and that its not
needed on my single processor system.
Comment 3 Dave Jones 2004-10-30 00:31:30 EDT
fixed for the next builds.
Comment 6 Dennis Gregorovic 2005-05-19 13:28:12 EDT
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

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Living Our Vision

AGU members collaborate to schedule an upcoming fall meeting.

We want the public to understand that Earth and space science contributes to solving the pressing problems facing humanity today, and that as an organization, AGU is helping to lead the way. The renovation project presents an opportunity to embody our mission, vision, and goals, providing both direct and indirect benefits to our members by advancing the adoption of sustainable solutions rooted in science and by positioning them as leaders in an area of ever-increasing importance.

From ocean sciences and geology to seismology and planetary sciences, when our headquarters building was designed in the early 90s every effort was made to have the structure be representative of the broad array of sciences comprising AGU’s membership. When it became clear that the building required renovation, we decided to take that original goal to the next level. In this project we challenged ourselves to live out AGU’s mission of “science for the benefit of humanity,” to showcase our members’ work and the spirit and values of scientific discovery, to advance the adoption of sustainable solutions rooted in science, and to help us inform the public about the positive impact our science can have on society.

Benefiting Our Members and Our Science

  • Destination Attraction for Earth and Space Science – Highlighting members’ work, scientific discoveries, and the building’s energy savings through a new interactive public exhibit space, the renovated building will become a destination attraction for stakeholders, policymakers, influencers, the media, and students. It will emphasize AGU and its members as leading voices in Earth and space sciences, working to ensure a sustainable future for us all.
  • State-of-the-Art Meeting and Conference Space – By providing accessible, state-of-the-art meeting and conference space, as well as informal gathering/work space for members to use while they are in the neighborhood, the renovated building will create a place where members and colleagues feel welcome to share and collaborate with each other. The new headquarters building should be every members’ home-away-from-home while they are visiting the nation’s capital.
  • Increased Productivity and Collaboration Across Programs – By creating an efficient and effective work space that includes state-of-the-art technologies and a healthy environment that cultivates better productivity and collaboration across programs, the renovated building will help AGU staff to better engage with our members and provide improved service and programming.
  • Enhanced Visibility for Earth and Space Science – By calling attention to the Earth and space sciences and educating the public about their importance, the project will help to elevate the profile of our science with a variety of audiences, and in turn, benefit our members and the broader community alike. News about this cutting-edge project has already started to shine a spotlight on AGU and it projects and programs.


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nuclear sub

The steel grey mass of HMS Destiny wallowed in the steel grey loch under the steel grey sky.  It was the first time I had set eyes on a nuclear submarine.  It was E-N-O-R-M-O-U-S, and that was only the bit above water.

I had toured old-fashioned subs at Portsmouth and they looked very unpleasant to live in, a long corridor full of clutter with hutch-like cabins to either side.  They had to surface every day or two to recharge their batteries.  This was worlds away from HMS Destiny.  She was no boat but a undersea warship with a crew of 100 which could stay submerged for three months. I was used to being the only woman in a crowd of men.  What else can a woman engineer expect?  But being shut up with a hundred or more for three months under the ocean was something new.

How did this happen?  I had never wanted to be part of the Nuclear Deterrent.  I remembered my interview with the Careers Mistress in my last year at school..

‘Eve, have you thought what you might study at University?’

‘I want to read Nuclear Engineering.’

‘The physics master mentioned Cambridge to take Physics.’

‘I’m not good enough.  Anyway, too many people do Physics and there aren’t enough jobs in pure science.  I want a job at the end.’

‘I’m afraid I don’t know of where they teach Nuclear Engineering.’

‘There’s a course at Manchester and another in London.  I want to go on the London course, they have their own reactor.’

‘You’ve got it all sorted out then.  How many students they take?’

‘They took ten in London last year.’

‘Some people don’t like nuclear energy’, she said awkwardly (meaning she didn’t).  ‘What if they close down the nuclear programme in Britain?’

‘Then they’ll need even more engineers to decommission the existing plants.  Look, I don’t want to make bombs, I want to build power stations.’

It wasn’t difficult to get on the London course.  I was the only woman. Some of the men took nuclear engineering because they couldn’t get on other engineering courses, but they were a good lot.  We rented a big house in East London where all the neighbours were Bangladeshis.  We were busted by the Met once but they didn’t find anything.

It wasn’t so easy to get a job.  There are about five employers in the UK for nuclear engineers.  My mates got jobs but I was still unemployed, even though I was the only one with a First.  In the end I went for a job that two of the others had turned down, to the Admiralty to be interviewed for the Nuclear Deterrent.

The interview was in a palace in Greenwich.  The interviewing board was in uniform with an abundance of gold braid.  It was soon clear that the job was mine if I wanted it.  They liked it that my undergraduate project had been computer based.

‘Truth is, Young Lady’, said the man with the most gold rings, ‘although I can’t go into details, but we’re having some problems with the onboard computers on our nuclear subs and we need a bright young nuclear engineer like yourself  to sort things out.’

I had an awful thought that perhaps that the nuclear deterrent was just a bluff, that really they didn’t know how to work the thing.

It wasn’t much different to being on a cruise in an ocean liner, although I had never been on one.  The main problem was to avoid going crazy with boredom.  The first week was fascinating but after that the high points of the day were watching videos in the cinema and going on runs through the maze of gangways. There was never rough weather, for we were well below the waves.

As a civilian I had officer status, so there was no unwelcome attention from the ratings, who all called me ‘ma’m’, as if I was royalty. The officers didn’t notice I was a woman, or so I thought.

I sorted out their computer glitches in a few days.  They weren’t to do with the  missile system, but I suppose I helped put the Deterrent into working order.  The whole thing was pointless, but it gave me a salary. The Missile Crisis of the 60’s was well behind us.  The Cold War had become a ritual and Armageddon had lost credibility.

downloadNuclear inside

Then it HAPPENED!  All the alarm lights started flashing red, klaxons screamed and everybody began rushing around and shouting orders.  I found a senior officer and asked what was going on.

‘The balloon’s gone up, that’s what.  Red Alert!’

‘What happened?’

‘How should I bloody well know?  Now please get out of the way, I’ve a job to do.’

The ship began lining up for a missile launch, just as we had practised each week.  I pushed through the crowds to the Control Room.  The Captain was not at the periscope, it wasn’t that sort of war.  Our missiles were aimed at sixteen different cities each thousands of miles away.

‘What’s happening, Captain? ‘

‘Nothing that concerns you.  We’re on Full Alert and following pre-set orders.’

‘You mean we’re at war? Has there been a nuclear strike?

‘Afraid so.  Poor old Blighty has had it.  All we can do is retaliate.

‘What the Hell for?  The Deterrent hasn’t worked, what’s the point?. It’s some silly cock up and we can only make it worse.’

‘Madam, please leave the Control Room.  You have no authority to be here.’

I just lost it and they dragged me out screaming.  I believe I drew blood on several officers of the Watch.

They took me to my cabin and held me down until a medical orderly arrived to give me a shot.

When I came round the emergency lighting was bathing the place in a dim pink glow.  I tottered to the door.  It was unlocked and I peeped into the corridor.  There was nobody there and the ship was strangely quiet, just the slow throb of the engines.  I had a wild notion that I was alone in the ship, but how could that be?

As I approached the Control Room I saw people moving around, but the frantic haste had vanished.  The guard at the door simply nodded me through. The Captain was still there (or perhaps he was back) and a lot of other people, but the purposeful frenzy had given way to bewildered listlessness.

‘Ah, there you are’, said the Captain. ‘We were about to fetch you. Sorry I was so brusque with you, but we have to be firm with any signs of mental breakdown. Are you feeling better?’

‘Not very.  Is the war over?’

‘We need you, Eve.  How long do you think we can we stay submerged?’

‘Do you mean how long will the reactor keep going?  Probably longer than the sub.’

‘Can we keep the air fresh?’

‘There is a finite number of times we can scrub and refresh it, but it will last a  few months.  Water is a problem, but we have a system for recycling urine.  Food is the only thing we can’t recycle. But why can’t we surface? Are we badly damaged.’

‘We’re perhaps the only people in the world who aren’t.  There have been no radio signals from the outside world for over two days’ (had I been unconscious that long?) ‘on any frequency.  It looks like they’re all done for.  By now the Earth is covered in a radio-active cloud.  We’ve decided to sit it out as long as we can and then come up and see what’s happened.  We’d like you to advise how long should we wait.  You know more about this than we do.’

‘It’s not a contingency we discussed at college’, I answered.  Nor it seemed had it been discussed at the Admiralty.  ‘Different forms of radio-activity decay at different rates.  The most toxic decay fastest. By six months the atmosphere should be safe although the sub-soil will be radio-active in many places, so we will have to monitor what we eat and drink.  Areas of intense radio-activity, in the impact zones, would be contaminated for decades.’

‘Right, we’ll sit it out for six months unless we get further orders and then come up for a look round.’

We sat on the sea bed and moved into hibernation mode.  Food and drink were cut back and we tried to reduce physical activity accordingly.  The daily run round the ship became two half hours of gentle shuffling, like convicts in a prison yard. We constantly recycled our urine and the videos in the ship’s library.

Despite the general gloom there were few signs of grief.  We had all been massively bereaved, too much to comprehend.  I had to keep telling myself that they were all gone, Mummy and Daddy and brother George and everybody in Wokingham, all my mates at college and all our Bangladeshi neighbours – everybody!

One cannot grieve for the whole world.  It was as if we had left them for other planet.

The captain held a morning meeting for his officers.  The MO decided he was a psychiatrist and announced that he was concerned for our mental health.

‘I fear mass suicides’, he declared. ‘Some younger personnel are very fragile emotionally.’

‘I assure you I am not going to commit suicide’, I replied, ‘whatever most of mankind has done.’

‘I’m sure Lieutenant Nicholls did not have you in mind, Miss Brittain’, said the captain hurriedly.  ‘He was thinking of some of our ratings, who are on their first tour. I’m more worried about discipline.  I’m sure you’ve heard of crews on sinking ships who murdered their officers and looted the liquor store to drink themselves in to oblivion.’  (Perhaps he watched the wrong sort of videos).

‘You never said you had a liquor store’, I said, ‘I could have used it.  It seems to me’, I continued, ‘that we should keep everyone occupied. Tell them it’s up to them to rebuild civilisation.  Get every man to write a memoir about life before the Bomb, so that the memory isn’t lost.  Get everybody writing; it’ll occupy their minds and conserve physical energy.’

So we became an underwater writing course and very prolific we were.  We held workshops, organised competitions, printed anthologies, dramatised our memoirs, filmed them and built up an archive of the world we had lost.

One morning I came into the officers’ meeting to find them already waiting for me.  The captain gave an embarrassed cough.

‘Miss Brittain, we had brief meeting before you arrived.  There were points we needed to agree on first before speaking to you, about repopulating the Earth.’

‘You mean you met without me because it was about me?’

‘Eve, you may be the last woman left alive – your parents gave you a vey appropriate name.’

‘Stop flannelling, Captain, and say what this is about.’

‘Eve, it’s important, vital, that you have a child – children – several children’.

‘How do you know I’m the only girl in the world?  What about the other nuclear subs, the Russians and the Americans. We don’t know about them, because they’re keeping radio silence, like we were ordered to do.’

‘The Russkis are hostile and we doubt the Yanks were wise enough to have women aboard.’

‘You weren’t so very wise.  Two men turned down this job before I took it.’

‘Their loss is our gain.’

‘What about survivors on the surface?  Surely somebody, somewhere, survived?

‘If they did, they will have fertility and genetic mutation problems and are likely to die soon of radiation sickness.’

‘So what do you propose?’

‘We agreed that as captain of this ship it was my duty – and I assure you Eve, also my pleasure – to father your first child.’

‘And we also agreed’, put in First Officer Ranjit Singh, ‘that in the interests of genetic diversity each of your children should have a different father.’

‘Meaning you all take turns in being my husband?’

‘More or less.’

I looked around the dozen eager faces. ‘I’m very flattered’, I told them. ‘I never expected a proposal of marriage from the entire wardroom of one of Her Majesty’s ships.  You’re a fine body of men.’ (I could have added that they were a wooden- headed lot who had recently wiped out a significant part of the human race in obedience to orders from people who were already dead, but I didn’t) . ‘I shall give this serious thought’, I said, ‘but what about the Petty Officers and Ratings?’

‘Most of them are still young.  There is time for them to form unions with any daughters you may have, when they come of age.’

‘I take your point about my duty to the human race, although naturally it would have been so much easier had I been a man and you a female crew.  But before you have any further meetings to plan my life please remember that I am a civilian.  I am not subject to naval discipline, under the sea, on the sea or ashore. I do not feel obliged to take my consorts in order of rank and I do not wish to preclude liaisons with personnel from the lower deck.  Finally I think we should defer starting our repopulation programme until after we have seen what is left of our planet.’

And that is how I became the Queen – or perhaps it’s the Queen Bee – of New Eden.  That is the name we gave to the colony we set up on the coast of Chile. After six months sitting on the ocean floor without news from the outside world we decided to leave station and set out to re-establish Life on Earth.  We chose the Southern Hemisphere because the main Nuclear Exchange would have taken place in the North and we were still shy about Russian hunter-killer submarines.

I persuaded the Captain that we needed to find a site where it hadn’t rained for several months after the Exchange, so that the toxic elements in the radio-active cloud had not washed into the soil.  The Atacama desert seemed to fit the bill and it was convenient for the coast.

Of course it isn’t the ideal location for Eden, but we will soon be moving into central Chile, where we have been monitoring a possible site in the Valley of Paradise.  We haven’t met any human survivors yet, the Cloud seems to have been as lethal here as in the North.  Not that we have dared to go into any cities for fear that any survivors might be hostile, although we are taking classes in Spanish in case we make contact.

Since we’ve been here I have had three beautiful daughters, so it seems the human race may have a future.  I remember Mummy saying that unless I did girlie things nobody would want to marry me and I wouldn’t have any children.  Well, I became an engineer on a submarine and now I’m the most desirable woman in the world.  I will certainly teach my daughters nuclear physics.

Not that it will make it easier to find husbands; there will be plenty of those for a long while.  It is just that next time round I don’t think we should leave nuclear energy to the men.

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Diagrams mentoring at Hac Phi

Hac Phi is coming up in less than a month, August 3-5 here in Philadelphia: three days of hanging out with awesome people, eating good food, and hacking on Haskell projects. Judging by past instances, I promise you it will … Continue reading

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diagrams slides

Today at Hac φ I gave a short talk about the past and future of the diagrams library. For anyone who is interested, I’ve put the slides up here. For the actual talk the slides had no text on them, … Continue reading

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Hac φ 2010!

Hac φ 2010 is starting tomorrow, and I’m super excited. I am finally buckling down to do some serious work on the newly redesigned version of diagrams, and it is going to be sweet. I know I’ve been saying that … Continue reading

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Hac φ roundup

By all accounts, Hac φ was a great success! 25 people attended (from as far away as Chicago, Toronto, and Utrecht) and we had a great time hanging out, eating good food, listening to some interesting talks, and, oh yes, … Continue reading

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More from Hac φ

Yet more pictures from Hac φ! This afternoon we were treated to talks by Dimitry Golubovsky (typed JavaScript generation), Edward Kmett (monoids library and monoidal parsing), Gershom Bazerman (DSL and quasiquoting for JavaScript generation), and Anton van Straaten (Gitit as … Continue reading

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Hac φ day 2

A few pictures from Day 2 of Hac φ:

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Hac φ!

If you live anywhere near Philadelphia (or even if you don’t) and you’re interested in spending a weekend hacking on some Haskell code with a bunch of other awesome hackers, you should come to Hac φ! Check out the official … Continue reading

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MINI: Good cars for beginners?

Asked by Feb 28, 2018 at 01:58 AM about the MINI Cooper

Question type: General

Is the MINI cooper a good car for a teenager who
just started driving?

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Not a reliable car. Better to get a Toyota.

In what ways is it unreliable? What about safety?

It depends entirely on whether your teen is going to understand the importance of maintenance. And by that I don't mean "kick the tires" and all is well. MINI is NOT the British brand your parents heard about. It is totally owned and marketed through BMW. There is going to be plenty of German blood running through the car and I strongly urge you to consider buying it NEW. If you have to buy it used, get a GOOD mechanic to look at it before you even think about reaching for the checkbook. The engines are a bit fickle but if the son/daughter needs to learn how to fix cars, it's a good start! And they'll have to learn metric. Nothing will be measured in inches or feet. This car is about sticking to schedules and being responsible. Just ask my uber-lazy brother who would NOT listen to me, period. I listened to the MINI mechanics and followed the schedule in the owner's manual to the letter. If they told me to flush the brakes at 20,000 miles, I did it. If they told me to service the transmission at 50,000 miles I did it but I did ask why. The 2009 MINI I owned was actually quite reliable and I suspect it's because of the fickle German engineering under the hood. My lazy brother wouldn't listen to me when he yelled at my dad to make me hand over the car. I was forced to give it up but I warned him to follow the maintenance schedule. He stone cold REFUSED. First thing he did was mess up the oil pan. He kept saying MINI's mechanics didn't know jack about cars! Wow, I could already see where this was going. In the end, after 7 trouble free years (not even an engine part replaced!) he somehow destroyed the engine and blew the gaskets in only 9 MONTHS. The entire car had to be scrapped because he couldn't afford the $2,500 repair bill caused by his own arrogance and laziness. So in the end, IF your kid listens to the mechanics and does what's necessary, it'll be reliable. But once you skimp on maintenance, the problems come. As for F_O_R recommending Toyota. LOL!!!! That brand recalled another several hundred thousand Prius cars for BRAKE problems last week! In one year, they recalled more cars than any Japanese or European brand. Toyota truly is a shadow of its former self. I wouldn't touch the brand with a 500 ft pole.

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The Mini has all kinds of issues and is towards the bottom of the reliability charts. They are a safe car that is fun to drive, but I would NOT recommend one as a first car. Do some "Googleing" on Mini problems.

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Don't get a Mini. Voted most unreliable brand for years until they got bumped up by Smart. Now that Smart is out of business, expect Mini to head right back down.

100% disagree with Alex. He had a good experience with his Mini, but most won't.

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Canadian claiming border agency mistakenly detained him for 8 months sues for $10M

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Canadian claiming border agency mistakenly detained him for 8 months sues for $10M

A naturalized Canadian citizen who spent eight months in Ontario detention centres awaiting immigration officials to verify his identity is suing the Canada Border Services Agency for $10 million.

Olajide Ogunye, 47, was born in Nigeria and moved to Canada with his family in the 1990s. A few years after that, in 1996, he became a Canadian citizen. But his citizenship and Ontario health cards did not convince CBSA officers of his identity when they approached him outside his Toronto home on June 1, 2016, as he was headed to work at the hair salon he owned.

"I was confused, really confused," Ogunye says. The officers told him they were doing a sweep of the area, he says.

After the officers searched his home and told him they did not believe he was truly Olajide Ogunye, they brought him to CBSA's base at Pearson airport, the Greater Toronto Enforcement Centre.

According to Ogunye's statement of claim, the officers ran his fingerprints, which they said matched the identity of a man named Oluwafemi Kayode Johnson, a failed refugee claimant who had been deported from Canada to Nigeria in the 1990s.

Ogunye says he was told the CBSA believed he was actually Johnson, who had returned to Canada illegally and assumed Ogunye's identity. Those fingerprints, according to court documents, were never produced by the CBSA to Ogunye.

"It was very frustrating. Somebody telling you you're not your name," says Ogunye. "I showed them all my IDs. I showed them my citizenship. How are you going to put a Canadian citizen in jail?"

Ogunye says he was locked up for a total of eight months, from June 2016 through February 2017, spending a month at Maplehurst Correctional Complex in Milton, Ont., and the rest of his time at Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay, Ont., a medium/maximum security prison. Because of almost daily lockdowns, Ogunye claims, he was unable to contact family members.

"One time, for the whole month, I was crying non-stop. I was crying continuously," he recalls, and was put on suicide watch as his mental state suffered. "The nurse had to give me depression pills to make me calm down."

Ogunye says his physical health declined as well, and he was taking pills each day for high blood pressure, depression and a prostate condition.

On Feb. 4, 2017, he was released. CBSA issued a report on his release, detailing efforts to interview members of Ogunye's family. The first interview was conducted 6½ months after his initial arrest.

Ogunye says he wants to sue for $10 million because of how long the investigation into his identity took.

"They put me through a lot. They destroyed my life. I lost my job," said Ogunye. "They destroyed my family. I don't have a good relationship with my kids anymore. I don't think that's going to come back."

The same report from CBSA mentions Ogunye has been convicted of various charges, including fraud, impersonation and possession of a credit card obtained by crime, and the officers found an "issue of his credibility." The report says there is "no doubt this person detained is Johnson" but also states in the same paragraph, "the person in custody may be Olajide Obabukunola Ogunye."

Ogunye's lawyer says it ultimately comes down to the fact his client's charter rights have been violated.

"The individual who is being targeted is a Canadian citizen," says immigration lawyer Adam Hummel. "An individual ... who shows his identity card is not automatically given the benefit of the doubt but is questioned and accused of being someone else and detained while an investigation is taking place.

"The truth is, if this is the way they're going to conduct themselves, it could happen to anyone," he says.

Hummel says the CBSA had a "duty of care" to Ogunye but breached this duty, and his "unlawful detention was the result of hasty decision-making and a negligent investigation."

CBC Toronto asked the CBSA why it wasn't able to verify Ogunye's identity if he had been previously charged and, on a number of occasions, convicted of various crimes under the name "Olajide Ogunye" and why the investigation took eight months. It told CBC Toronto it is aware of a lawsuit but that any further comment would be "inappropriate."


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CANADA FX DEBT-C$ slumps to 4-1/2-yr low, hit by Yellen comments

* Canadian dollar at C$1.1245 or 88.93 U.S. cents
    * Bond prices lower across the maturity curve

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    By Leah Schnurr
    TORONTO, March 19 (Reuters) - The Canadian dollar fell to a
more than 4-1/2-year low against the greenback on Wednesday, hit
by the double-whammy of a more dovish-than-expected central bank
at home and concerns the U.S. Federal Reserve could raise rates
sooner than had been anticipated.
    After several weeks of consolidating in a relatively narrow
trading range, analysts said the sharp move could mark a
resumption of the bearish attitude toward the loonie that
hammered the currency at the beginning of the year.
    The Canadian dollar started the day weaker but selling
picked up in the afternoon, sending it through the key C$1.12
level after the Fed released a statement revamping its guidance
on when it could eventually raise interest rates.
    The sell-off accelerated further after Chair Janet Yellen
said the Fed will probably end its stimulative bond-buying
program this coming fall and could start raising rates around
six months later.
    "I was very surprised to hear her say she thought the
considerable period probably meant something like six months,
but we'll just have to see. Most people would have read the
statement on that and thought that's like a year," said Greg
Anderson, global head of foreign exchange strategy at BMO
Capital Markets in New York.
    "So where she's saying the end of taper in October, six
months from there, that means March 2015. Obviously she's
throwing stuff out there and saying it's tenuous, but that's
still 6 months sooner than I think most people had on their
radar screens."
    The Canadian dollar touched a session low of
C$1.1273 shortly after Yellen's comments, its weakest level
since July 2009. It ended the session at C$1.1245 to the
greenback, or 88.93 U.S. cents, weaker than Tuesday's close of
    Uncertainty about U.S. interest rates comes on the heels of
comments from Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz that
reinforced the view that rates in Canada will stay low for some
    The drop in the loonie likely signals a resumption of the
trade seen in January that took the currency sharply lower, said
Shaun Osborne, chief currency strategist at TD Securities in
    Osborne has a target for the loonie to fall to C$1.1760, or
85 U.S. cents, by end of June.
    Monetary policy has been a major driver of the Canadian
dollar in recent months after the Bank of Canada shifted gears
last year by dropping any mention of interest rate hikes on the
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dollar, but they backed off on their position and didn't really
have it on in size going into the last several days," said
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next couple days as people say, 'I missed it, but that is my
favorite trade, and I've got to get back in.'"
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currency until the C$1.15 level, said Anderson. While he doesn't
expect the loonie to fall that far over the next few days, "it
wouldn't shock me to get to C$1.1350."
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the resignation of Jim Flaherty as finance minister. Former
Energy Minister Joe Oliver was named Canada's new finance
minister on Wednesday and is seen as likely to stay the course
on fiscal policy.
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maturity curve, with the two-year down 10-1/2
Canadian cents to yield 1.063 percent and the benchmark 10-year
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Caspian Gull Larus cachinnans

Photographed by Theo Bakker on July 17th 1999 at the VAM rubbish dump in the north-eastern part of the Netherlands.

Note its large size compared to the Lesser Black-Backed Gull Larus graellsii to the right, its small pale head, sloping forehead with its firm parallel bill and its elongated appearance and upright stance. The outermost greater coverts are virtually unmarked and the undertail coverts are spotted, not barred (both unlike e.g. YL Gull). The tertials are dark brown with a rather broad, pale edge.

Not all juvenile Caspian Gulls show a paler head like this one, but the ones I have seen so far did show the unmarked dusty-brown mantle, running up into the neck, which to me, along with its jizz, seems one of the key elements to pick out a juvenile PG.

This picture shows the rather pale underwing, which can be almost white on some birds. Note the almost unmarked brown belly with the large darker spot near its legs, the white undertail coverts with just a few dark spots (not barred as in Herring and Yellow-legged Gull) and the pale edge on the median and greater coverts, thus creating a double wingbar-effect.

Here the almost white uppertail-coverts, with the broad black tailband can be seen, along with the obvious thayeri-like (or 'Venetian blind') wingpanel, reaching from P1 to P8 and the pale edge to the greater coverts.

Note that juvenile Caspian Gulls apparently can show a white trailing edge to their tailfeathers, which (apparently) wears off later.

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California Big Trees - Tree Detail

Araucaria cunninghamii

National Champion

This tree, in City of San Dimas, was nominated by Deborah Day in 2007. It measures 71 feet high, with a trunk circumference of 132 inches and a crown spread of 37 feet for a total of 212 points.

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Resurrecting the Delta for Desirable Fishes

by Peter Moyle, Carson Jeffres, John Durand

Cache Slough sunrise. Photo by Matt Young

The Delta is described in many ways.  When extolling the Delta as a tourist destination, it is described as a place of bucolic beauty; islands of productive farmland are threaded by meandering channels of sparkling water, a place to boat, fish, view wildlife, and grow cherries and pears.

But when its future is discussed, especially in relation to big water projects, this heavenly place is often portrayed as being on its way to an aquatic Hellscape.

The Sacramento Bee recently (April 8, 2008) published a reasonable editorial advocating a holistic approach to solving Delta problems.  But the editors chose language to describe the Delta such as:  it is “dying as the planet warms” and it is on the verge of “ecosystem collapse.” This language tracks that of groups that want to “save the Delta,” especially from proposed changes to its human-dominated plumbing system.

At the risk being labeled heretics, we say the Delta is not dying, and its ecosystem is not on the verge of collapse, but that it is changing.

The last time California faced real collapse of aquatic ecosystems was before the passage of the state and federal clean water acts in the 1970s, which eliminated or greatly reduced the dumping of huge volumes of toxic material into the estuary.  The present Delta, as measured by total fish populations, species diversity, navigability, migratory waterfowl abundance, and other measures, even water quality, is a ‘healthy’ ecosystem in many ways.

The most likely future Delta, even after widespread levee failure, will not feature a collapsed ecosystem (whatever that may be) or even a particularly unhealthy Delta ecosystem.  No matter what happens, there will still be fish and fisheries in the Delta, as well as boating, abundant wildlife, complex food webs and prosperous farms. But the future ecosystem may not have many of the species we find desirable today, especially endangered species such as delta smelt and winter-run Chinook salmon. Current land use patterns are also likely to change, away from urbanization and low-value agriculture.

If present trends continue, native fishes in the Delta will be replaced largely by alien species such as wakasagi smelt, Mississippi silversides, and largemouth bass. Deeply  subsided islands will be transformed via levee collapses to large open areas of tidal brackish water. These habitats will favor salt-tolerant species such as striped bass, starry flounder, crangon shrimp, splittail and various species of Japanese gobies.  In short, at least in the water, the fishes tell us that, no matter what happens, there will be thriving novel ecosystems that will support many of the same functions as today. The present ecosystem is already quite different from earlier manifestations of the ecosystem, especially the original historic ecosystem. Native species disappear while non-native species increase.

But we don’t have to accept whatever Delta ecosystem comes our way. To some extent, we can choose the species making up the future Delta ecosystem as well as many of its physical features, if we make some tough management decisions and accept that ecosystem changes will continue, some beyond our control.  Today’s somewhat foggy general vision of the Delta’s future seems to be that it will remain in its present configuration forever, with levees and channels maintained despite continual land subsidence, bigger storms, higher tides, and changing habitats and economies.  This Delta is assumed to continue as a freshwater system, thanks to large pulses of water from dams.  Despite these pulses, native fishes will gradually disappear, although fall-run Chinook salmon runs may continue due to hatcheries and trucking operations.  Delta smelt and longfin smelt will likely be extinct; they will no longer drive water decisions unless maintained by artificial propagation, like salmon. Fisheries for largemouth bass and other warm-water fishes will expand, dominating the system even more than today.

This vision does not have to prevail in all of the Delta.  We recently wrote a report that provides an alternative vision (Moyle et al. 2018, Making the Delta a Better Place for Native Fishes (   The vision we present is a modified version of some earlier thoughts (Moyle et al. 2013, and other references listed below).  The key to this vision is that management for native species and related values focuses on the North Delta Arc, a string of habitats connected by the Sacramento River.  The  Arc starts in the Yolo Bypass, continues through the Cache Slough region, then down the river past Rio Vista and into Suisun Marsh.  It also includes the Cosumnes-Mokelumne river corridor, to the Sacramento River.

Under this vision, the central and south Delta are treated as habitat that is, in fact, inhospitable for native fishes.  Indeed, native fishes may need to be excluded from these parts of the Delta, especially in summer.  The main issue for the central and south Delta is creation of a corridor for safe passage of adult and juvenile salmon and steelhead between San Francisco Bay and the San Joaquin, Tuolumne, Merced, and Stanislaus rivers.  This division of the Delta into two ecosystems is tacitly recognized already by most restoration projects (e.g., EcoRestore) as being located in the Arc.  This area provides the best opportunities because of habitat diversity and the fact that the Sacramento River connects these diverse habitats. The river also serves as the major migration corridor for fishes.

Our paper recommends 17 actions, listed below. Collectively, these actions could significantly improve habitat for native fishes, either directly or indirectly through stressor reduction and through development of new approaches via research. They at least will slow the ecosystem shift now occurring in favor of native species, floodplains, and wetlands.

  1. Four Easy Fixes (Fremont Weir, McCormick –Williams Tract, Delta smelt beaches, Putah Creek restoration).
  2. Expand Monitoring for Estuarine Health
  3. Provide a Water Right for the Environment
  4. Develop a Functional Flow Regime for the Delta
  5. Expedite Permitting and Implementation of Habitat Restoration Projects

  1. Expand EcoRestore and Learn from First 30,000 Acres
  2. Expand Restoration Projects in the North Delta Habitat Arc
  3. Establish Suisun Marsh as a Horizontal Levee
  4. Eliminate Predation Problems at Clifton Court Forebay
  5. Improve Delta Passage for Juvenile Salmon from the San Joaquin River and Tributaries.

  1. Reversing Subsidence in the Delta
  2. Accommodating Climate Change
  3. Reducing Impacts of Invasive species
  4. Reducing Impacts of Pesticides, Micro-contaminants, and Other Toxic Materials

  1. Experimenting with Island Flooding
  2. Evaluating Restoration Projects
  3. Developing a Stable Source of Innovative Research Funding.

As the report states: “The alternative to taking these and other actions is to continue on our present path, which is leading to the extinction of native fishes and the loss of significant fisheries for Chinook salmon, steelhead, striped bass and other fishes. It is important to remember that the Delta will always support a complex ecosystem. But whether that ecosystem is one that is desirable and consistent with our needs is up to us.”

The vision expressed by our report accepts that changes to the Delta ecosystem are inevitable but that, optimistically, we can collectively direct some of the change towards a more desirable state than will exist without high levels of additional activity. This vision can encompass actions favored by those who want to “save” the Delta, as well as those who envision a managed ecosystem that includes most of the remaining native fish fauna, as well as many other desirable elements, native and non-native.  It is not a vision that supports the rhetoric of a dying Delta or the Delta as a collapsed ecosystem, a rhetoric which does not lead to plausible actions to improve reality.

Peter B. Moyle is a UC Davis Professor Emeritus of fish biology and an associate director of the Center for Watershed Sciences. John Durand is a researcher specializing in estuarine ecology and restoration at the Center for Watershed Sciences.  Carson Jeffres is a researcher specializing in fish ecology at the Center for Watershed Sciences.

Further reading

Durand, J., P. Moyle, and A. Manfree. 2017. Reconciling conservation and human use in the Delta. UCD California Water Blog, February 12, 2017.

Hanak, E., J. Lund, J. Durand, W. Fleenor, B. Gray, J. Medellín-Azuara, J. Mount, P. Moyle, C. Phillips, and B. Thompson. 2013. Stress Relief: Prescriptions for a Healthier Delta Ecosystem. San Francisco: Public Policy Institute of California. Available at

Hobbs, J.A, P.B. Moyle, N. Fangue and R. E. Connon. 2017. Is extinction inevitable for Delta Smelt and Longfin Smelt? An opinion and recommendations for recovery.  San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science 15 (2):  San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science 15(2). jmie_sfews_35759. Retrieved from:

Lund, J., E. Hanak, W. Fleenor, W. Bennett, R. Howitt, J. Mount, and P. B. Moyle.  2010. Comparing futures for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Berkeley University of California Press. 230 pp.

Moyle. P.B. W. Bennett, J. Durand, W. Fleenor, J. Lund, J. Mount, E. Hanak, and B. Gray. 2012. Reconciling wild things with tamed species- a future for native fish species in the Delta. California Water Blog. Center for Watershed Sciences, June 15, 2012.

Moyle, P. B., W. Bennett, J. Durand, W. Fleenor, B. Gray, E. Hanak, J. Lund, J. Mount. 2012. Where the wild things aren’t: making the Delta a better place for native species. San Francisco: Public Policy Institute of California. 53 pages.

Moyle, P. B., W. A. Bennett, W. E. Fleenor, and Jay R. Lund. 2010. Habitat variability and complexity in the upper San Francisco Estuary. San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science  8(3): 1-24.

 Moyle, P., J. Durand, A. Manfree. 2016. The North Delta habitat arc: an ecosystem strategy for saving fish. UCD Center for Watershed Sciences California WaterBlog. November 6. 2016.

Moyle, P.B., J. A. Hobbs, and J. R. Durand. 2018.  Delta smelt and the politics of water in California.  Fisheries 43:42-51.

Moyle, P.B., A. D.  Manfree, and P. L. Fiedler. 2014. Suisun Marsh: Ecological History and Possible Futures.  Berkeley: University of California Press.

Moyle, P.B., C. Jeffres, and J. Durand. 2018, Making the Delta a Better Place for Native Fishes (

Opperman, J.J, P.B. Moyle, E.W. Larsen, J.L. Florsheim, and A.D. Manfree. 2017 Floodplains: Processes, Ecosystems, and Services in Temperate Regions. Berkeley: University of California Press.

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10 Responses to Resurrecting the Delta for Desirable Fishes

  1. J Rizzi says:

    1 1/2 mile replacement of levee with 1.5 mile fish screen keeps all life in Delta and out of Clifton Court Forebay (deals with #9 &10 in article) but it also allows water exporters to export water without KILLING any fish.

    Benicia bridge 1/12 open, 1/12 shipping lock and 10/12 tidally controlled lovers to reduce salt water intrusion, there by making the Delta more of a fresh water Delta without adding more fresh water flows. Win Win for all. (NEVER considered in past, but similar option have been) for more details.

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  3. Richard S. says:

    You always have the possibilities of entrainment and impingement when using screens.

    • Joseph Rizzi says:

      Wrong. . Entrainment & impingement is due to water speed over screen. 1,500,000 square feet of upscreen will create slow enough water speed over screens that are 1/3 smaller than recommended. Alternative is use ultra filters like ZeeWeed.

  4. Jan says:

    You started the article with: “When extolling the Delta as a tourist destination, it is described as a place of bucolic beauty; islands of productive farmland are threaded by meandering channels of sparkling water, a place to boat, fish, view wildlife, and grow cherries and pears.” Do you understand what that means and what is at risk with the Delta Tunnel project (Cal WaterFix)? Because the project is planned to go through the heart of that place of bucolic beauty, it will unnecessarily take away the ability for visitors and residents to go to and enjoy that favorite place.

    The latest testimonies to the Water Board Hearings on April 20 and 23 from Delta boating experts clearly point out that this project, due to the massive amounts of barge traffic (at least 9400 barge trips), massive amounts of pile driving (over 23,000 piles with over 10,000,000 strikes from giant pile driving rigs), massive amounts of traffic on two lane Delta roadways (both from endless columns of construction trucks coupled with bridge openings on commuter highways like Hwy 4 which currently never open), massive influxes of construction workers, massive amounts of tunnel muck dumped on Delta islands (30,000,000 cubic yards), will cause a commensurate massive negative impact on Delta recreation.

    So it is nice that you stated that, but Peter Moyle is an advocate for the Delta Tunnels. It’s quite disappointing.

  5. Jan says:

    Everyone knows that the #1 problem in the Delta affecting fish is the reduction of fresh water flows due to over-exporting. Moving the pumps, while it will reduce the reverse flows down Middle River south and reduce entrapment now caused by the old fish screen technology, it doesn’t solve the real problem. In fact, real scientists agree (Bay Institute in the Delta Flow Requirements reports, Independent Science Board, NOAA Scientists, independent Delta scientists, etc.) that the main issue for fish in the Delta is lack of fresh water flows. But state scientists are all told that the amount to be exported is mandated and their efforts need to be to find other ways to save fish without reducing flows. The Legislature in 2009 mandated reducing exports to meet the Delta Flow requirements. Your 17 “improvements” are nice – but the main improvement needed is reduced exports. So what problem will that cause? Central Valley farmers need to reduce the never-ending expansion of almond orchard acreage to balance the need with available water.

    The problem is that this article ignores the elephant in the room – over-exporting. Step back and look at the big picture and seek different alternatives than taking more and more water out of the Delta. Include a real analysis of data flow requirements.

    • J Rizzi says:

      I am not for tunnels. But I see limiting the salt water inflow at Benicia bridge will make the Delta a large fresh water Delta. 3 steps 1/12 under the bridge (north side) kept open for fish, small water craft, nature, 1/12 add shipping lock to protect bridges and ships as well as stop salt intrusion, 10/12 put in tidally controlled louvers (like a dryer vent) that opens and lets fresh water out but closes with the incoming tide to keep most of the salt water out. As for Clifton Court Forebay, it should only be filled at night and closed during the day.

      • Jan says:

        I thought that option (or one similar) was studied and determined not to be feasible due to the depth of the channel, restrictions on all of the barges and tankers that come up and down (they didn’t want to make them go through a lock for fear of Stockton losing too much business), and species that need a mix of fresh and salt water habitat like the Delta smelt. But I’m no expert on that so if it is feasible, I wonder why it isn’t looked at. Perhaps with global warming and salt water already as far inland as Franks Tract there isn’t enough fresh water? I wonder how high the wall would need to be.

      • J Rizzi says:

        The study was for a DAM with a lock. I am opposed to a DAM because of environmental issues. That is why I start with keeping 1/12 of the channel open. Currently, per tug boat people, Benicia Bridge is a hazard today with the currents, bridge supports and curve under bridges, so a shipping lock would be helpful and add needed safety. Added time, if any, would be minimal for shipping traffic. Like you, water people, think that this has already been studied, so it is discounted out of hand. FYI … the wall height should be 5 to 10 feet over high tide level. Shipping channel is dredged to 50 deep. With one section open and only having louvers there will be salt water intrusion but it should not reach the Antioch bridge. If you want a more detailed description I can send you a flyer (

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Jonathan McLatchie Endorses View that “True Islam” Belongs to ISIS

In continuing his diatribe against Muslims, Jonathan McLatchie has shared a very spiteful video about Muslims. Before sharing this video, I asked Jonathan about his position on the statements in the video he shared:

You endorse the view that if Muslims follow Islam, they naturally act like ISIS?

Jonathan’s xenophobic response was as follows:

if you follow the example of Muhammad, then yes.

He then proceeded to no longer respond to questioning about his behaviour and hateful view of Muslims.

Previously, using publicly verified information by the US Government and international news agencies, we crunched the numbers and found that ISIS represented exactly 0.001% of all Muslims worldwide. How then, can Jonathan hold to his racist, xenophobic and hateful view of Muslims, when 99.999% of Muslims disagree with and are not part of the ISIS terrorist group? In Jonathan’s hateful eyes, 0.001% “Muslims” are the same as 100% of Muslims.

and God knows best.

  • Every act that ISIS commits, almost without exception defies the precepts of Islam. ISIS has made it their agenda number one to kill as many Muslims as they possibly can. Here in Afghanistan, a group representing ISIS walked into a mosque, took the imam hostage and later cut his throat. Make sense of that ladies and gentlemen.Calling ISIS Islamic simply because they parade around like cowards under the title and an artificial “Islamic’ banner with the Kalima written over it, is no different than calling the KKK Islamic if they chose to wave flags with Arabic written all over it, and shouted “Allahu Akbar.” Who ISIS truly represents, well, whoever they benefit, they represent. They sure as hell do not benefit Islam or Muslims. They are an anathema to Islam. Having said that, I’d love Jonathan–who has only one debate under his belt, in which he performed rather pitiful, and he’s already acting like a petulant, obnoxious, bigoted buffoon–to answer for the million Iraqis his president murdered because he received his geopolitical advise from the “christian god.” Many soldiers, as we all now know, had biblical verses written on their weapons. Johnny boy only has to google “Christian wars” to wake up and smell the blood, the genocide, and the horror his christ loving brethren has waged on the world for generations and generations. The world truly is blind now, the one eyed man can take his throne.

  • Jarir bin ‘Abdullah (May Allah be pleased with him) reported:

    The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) asked me on the occasion of the Farewell Pilgrimage to tell the people to keep silent, then he (ﷺ) said, “Do not revert to disbelief after me, chopping the heads of one another.” – Al-Bukhari and Muslim

    And God, Exalted be He, Knows Best!

  • isis is doing the deed of jesus krist

    satan divides his armies

    jesus divides families

    “I did not come to bring peace.” That means what it says: he is not preaching peace. Hence in the parallel passage in Luke (12:49-53) he says: “I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! … Thus, the passage pertains to something he wishes to happen, not anything that saddens him or that he wants to stop

    “Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division. From now on there will be five in one family divided against each other, three against two and two > against three. They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-

    “(diamerizo), which means divide, distribute, create disunity, and in
    context, where the word is explicitly contrasted with peace (eirene),
    and the word epi + accusative (“against”) follows, the meaning is
    obviously intrafamily war. ”

    they say that christians LEARN more from jesus’ teachings than jesus’ ACTIONS

    jesus’ mission was 3 years, and in this 3 years amount of time, not only did the Rabbis and Pharisees try and stone him, they tried to have him executed. Why would they do this if all he was doing was saying “turn the other cheek”?

    his actions are about verbal insult and cursing.

    THE man requires a good “reply”

    BEFORE he can cure an ill little dog

    “For such a reply…”

    so according to the earliest version it had nothing to do with the woman’s faith

    the man scavenges for food

    Mark 2:23ff
    One sabbath he was going through the grainfields;
    and as they made their way his disciples began to pluck heads of grain.

    Mark 10:28ff
    Peter began to say to him, “Lo, we have left everything and followed you.”

    Matthew 8:20
    And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and
    birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his

    Matthew 21:18-19
    In the morning, as he was returning to the city, he was hungry.
    And seeing a fig tree by the wayside he went to it,
    and found nothing on it but leaves only. And he said to it, “May no fruit
    ever come from you again!” And the fig tree withered at once.

    because jesus has told his disciples to ABANDON their families
    now the disciples have become scavengers too

    [31] And his mother and his brothers came; and standing outside they sent to him and called him.
    [32] And a crowd was sitting about him; and they said to him, “Your mother and your brothers are outside, asking for you.”
    [33] And he replied, “Who are my mother and my brothers?”
    [34] And looking around on those who sat about him, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers!
    [35] Whoever does the will of God is my brother, and sister, and mother.”

    you think this guy gives a damn about the welfare of dependent family?

    “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel” (Mark 10:29).

    i told you christian learn more from this guys teachings than his actions

    families can starve to death

  • Hard to believe: No one was following Islam correctly for centuries before the existence of Isis. “…And beware of going to extremes in religious matters, for those who came before you were destroyed because of going to extremes in religious matters.” Sunan an-Nasa’i 3057 Vol. 3, Book 24, Hadith 3059

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I was a man, once.

This poem is dedicated to all my fellow travelers who have helped me reach this point.* Hopefully I can help someone the way you have helped me.

I Was A Man, Once

I was a man, once
I spoke as a man, walked as a man,[1] thought as a man[2]
Most see me as a man
I am a man no longer

What is a narrative?[3]
A myth
A story to explain the unexplainable
No more valid than Adam & Eve[4]
Why do they matter again?

What’s in a name?[5]
Nothing when imposed
Everything when chosen
Reflecting worlds of truth

Am I trans enough?[6]
Why should I care what you think?
I don’t need your validation.
I know who I am now.

References / Allusions

  1. Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons  Walk like a Man
  2. I Corinthians 13:11
  3. Natalie Reed “I Always Knew”
  4. Genesis 2-5
  5. William Shakespeare  Romeo and Juliet Act II scene 2
  6. Erica, Ascendant i’m a “fake trans girl” and i hope you are too

*Thank yous

There are too many to name, and I’ll probably leave a few out, but these are some of the people that helped get me to this point where I accept who I am.  I’m using twitter handles or blog titles where I can find them. In no particular order:

  • Natalie Reed @nataliereed84
  • Erica, ascendant
  • Lydia Neon @LifeinNeon
  • Rumplestiltsqueer @PrincexAchilles
  • Zinnia Jones @ZJemptv
  • Quirk @nonviolentrage
  • Drew Jacobs @Rogue_Priest
  • Sarah Christine @TheODSTGirl

There are many, many, others; as well as others who have helped me in different ways. If I didn’t mention you here, it doesn’t mean I’m not grateful.

four stanzas, ’cause words matter

The name that they call me
Batters my senses
Tears me in tatters
To keep me in line

The name that’s assigned me
Keeps me imprisoned
Locked in reflections
Of hearts and of minds

When will they see me
The name that I’ve taken
When will they call me
The name that is mine

When will they see me
The person I am now
When will they see
What I’ve left behind

My name

I’ve figured out my full name. I won’t share it here for privacy reasons. I share some pretty intense stuff here, and I plan to eventually legally change my name, so I don’t want business contacts seeing this. I will say this. Not having a chosen middle name was bothering me, more than I like to admit. I’m glad I settled on it. So my name will be Emily {chosen middle name} {Given last name}. I have no intention to change my last name. I like my last name. It fits with my chosen name. I am proud of my family. I want to retain a connection to my parents in my name. And, my family crest, including my last name is tattooed on my body. I love that tattoo. I love my family crest. Y’all can call me either Emily or Em for short. I’m trying to decide on a pen name. Again, I’m going to continue to use Emily as my first name for all my writing, I just need a last name. I’m open to suggestions in the comments.


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PHOTO ARTIST Dawit L. PetrosPanel discussion AGGV Saturday Jan 24th 1:00pm, 2015

IslandBlue Visiting Artist Lecture Series

hosted by the Department of Visual Arts, Camosun College, Lansdowne Campus, 3100 Foul Bay Rd, Victoria, BC. Follow us at @ARTisaperson #ARTisaperson

  • Amy Gogarty – Ceramics and Performance
    Fri. Oct. 5   Y216   2:30pm
  • Jackie Kelly MDES. CGD – Graphic Designer
    Tue.  Oct. 16   F100  2:30pm
  • NFB “Get Animated” latest releases screening
    Wed. Nov. 7   F100   7:00pm
  • Julie “FEEBS” Bergman – 3D Animator  (alumni)
    Fri. Nov. 16   Y216  2:30pmFor the Winter 2013 we have Mike Doerkson – sculpture (alumni), Leah Selk – Art Administrator (alumni), Dana Claxton – video, Rick Leung – painting (alumni), and some possible tba’s.

Film Nite

Dec 10th 2012, location TBA. A showcase of films from the Film course.

Art is a Person

  • Bus Project – in collaboration with BC Transit and Lamar Transit Advertising, we are going to showcase 15 students and alumni in 15 buses from November till end of March.

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  • Art is a Person tees. More info coming. Check back again.

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