(date: 2023-11-13 09:25:15)
date: 2023-11-15, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Bekar, Ismail; Pezzatti, G. Boris; Conedera, Marco; Vacik, Harald;
Pausas, Juli G.; Dupire, Sylvain; Bugmann, Harald
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/636378
Fragmentation
from group interactions: A higher-order adaptive voter model
date: 2023-11-15, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Papanikolaou, Nikos; Lambiotte, Renaud; Vaccario, Giacomo
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/637219
Variations
in water saturation states and their impact on eruption size and
frequency at the Aso supervolcano, Japan
date: 2023-11-15, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Keller, Franziska; Popa, Răzvan-Gabriel; Julien, Allaz; Bovay,
Thomas; Bouvier, Anne-Sophie; Geshi, Nobuo; Miyakawa, Ayumu; Bachmann,
Olivier
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/637218
Printer
and bleach used by group to turn $1 bills into fake $100 bills, feds
say
date: 2023-11-13, from: Fresno Bee Stories
A third defendant from North Carolina has pleaded guilty in the case,
prosecutors say.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281792128.html
@Dave Winer’s
Scripting News (date: 2023-11-13, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting
News)
Mastodon is like CP/M. Bluesky is like the Apple II. Threads is like
the IBM PC (though not nearly as open). And Twitter is.. hmmm.
http://scripting.com/2023/11/13.html#a171031
@Dave Winer’s
Scripting News (date: 2023-11-13, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting
News)
Bluesky has a hidden feature no one knows about yet. 😄
http://scripting.com/2023/11/13.html#a171018
Hawaii
escapes: Exploring Oahu’s North Shore and windward East Side
date: 2023-11-13, from: San Jose Mercury News
From ziplines to waterfalls, plate lunches and luaus, here’s an
action-packed itinerary for your next tropical getaway.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/13/oahu-escapes-exploring-the-north-shore-and-east-side-in-hawaii/
Wanderlust’s
10 top islands in the world include some jawdropping spots
date: 2023-11-13, from: San Jose Mercury News
From Cuba to the Philippines, these islands are some of the most
beautiful you’ll see anywhere.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/13/wanderlusts-10-top-islands-in-the-world-include-jawdroppingly-gorgeous-spots/
Bryan
Adams brings So Happy It Hurts Tour to SAP Center in San Jose
date: 2023-11-13, from: San Jose Mercury News
Here’s how to get tickets to see Bryan Adams on the So Happy It Huts
Tour at SAP Center in San Jose.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/13/bryan-adams-brings-so-happy-it-hurts-tour-to-sap-center-in-san-jose/
Stray
dog was covered in scars. Now she’s ‘overjoyed’ about new home, Florida
shelter says
date: 2023-11-13, from: Fresno Bee Stories
She has loving owners after getting a “rough start” to life.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281790668.html
Wet
week expected in Bay Area, but ‘typical winter system’ more likely than
atmospheric river
date: 2023-11-13, from: San Jose Mercury News
Rain totals pushing two-total inches for the week are expected in
parts of the Bay Area according to the National Weather Service.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/13/a-wet-week-is-expected-in-the-bay-area-as-typical-winter-system-approaches/
Travel
Troubleshooter: British Airways owes me a credit for a canceled flight
from 2020
date: 2023-11-13, from: San Jose Mercury News
What happened to Louis Hyman’s ticket on British Airways? The airline
canceled his flight and promised him a ticket credit or a refund. Now it
seems to have forgotten about him.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/13/travel-troubleshooter-british-airways-owes-me-a-credit-for-a-canceled-flight-from-2020/
The
Irreverent Punks Trying to Flip the Energy System on Its Head
date: 2023-11-13, from: Heatmap News
The hottest ticket in Brooklyn last week wasn’t for an indie rock show
or a buzzy new restaurant. It was for the most niche, nerdiest clean
energy conference of the year — the sold-out DERVOS 2023.
The conference name — a satirical play on Davos, a stuffy, World
Economic Forum event attended by governmental and business elites —
tells you much of what you need to know about this irreverent subculture
of the climate movement. A teaser video for DERVOS described it as a
“rad clean energy summit … where youths get DER-pilled and the hot takes
haven’t been approved by PR.”
To translate, DERVOS is for people who are stoked about a category of
technologies known as “distributed energy resources,” or DERs. They
encompass pretty much any device that can generate or store energy, or
use energy flexibly, at the scale of a single building, like rooftop
solar panels, batteries, and smart thermostats. This kind of tech has
historically been written off as less important than big projects like
wind farms — “nice-to-haves” but incapable of cutting emissions at
climate-relevant scales. But once you get DER-pilled, another vision for
the future emerges.
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day:
Imagine a solar panel on every roof, a battery in every basement, and a
smart thermostat in every home. Now imagine these devices being
aggregated and synchronized across neighborhoods, cities, or entire
regions. If 5,000 batteries discharge at the same time, you’ve got the
equivalent of a new power plant. If 5,000 smart thermostats turn the
temperature up by a few degrees on a hot summer day, you can prevent a
natural gas “peaker” plant from firing up. In that sense, DERs offer a
potentially faster option for growing the electric grid than large-scale
projects, and could provide significant savings — around $10 billion in
avoided infrastructure costs by 2030, according to a
recent
Department of Energy report.
But that’s not all. To the DER-pilled, this future will also be a
“better world, a higher performing world,” as James McGinniss, one of
the organizers of DERVOS, put it. It’s a world where your heating and
cooling and EV charging are orchestrated seamlessly to utilize the
cleanest power at the lowest cost; where solar panels and batteries
aren’t called upon to keep your lights on when the power goes out,
because they are preventing system-wide blackouts from occurring in the
first place.
“How many industries can you work on that are going to completely change
the way one of our foundational systems works and flip it entirely on
its head?” Nathaniel Teichman, a DER-pilled former financial analyst,
told me at the conference. “I don’t think there’s anywhere else with
such importance or at such an inflection point.”
To kick things off at DERVOS, McGinniss painted a picture of an industry
on the verge of an explosion. “It feels like if DERs were the internet,
it’s 1995,” he told the roughly 250-person crowd. “We’re very, very
early in this. And I think there’s massive, massive growth coming to
this space.”
The event was held at Newlab, a startup incubator located in a renovated
shipbuilding warehouse in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Unlike other energy
summits, it’s not put on by a trade association or a professional
organization. It’s organized by a loose collective called the DER
Taskforce, a bunch of enthusiasts who met on Twitter.
The story is a roadmap for movement-building in the modern age. It
started in March 2019, when McGinniss posted a tweet asking if anyone in
New York wanted to start a monthly happy hour to talk shop about
distributed energy. “Like 30 people responded. And I had like 100
Twitter followers,” he told me.
The tweet led to a group message called “DG Beers” (for distributed
generation) and eventually to a series of real life hangs. They got
drinks. They went to see
The
Current War, a movie about the 19th century battle over which
electrical current system would prevail. They had people give powerpoint
presentations. When COVID-19 hit, they moved the monthly meetup to Zoom
and started a
podcast.
The group blew up. “Suddenly we had people from like, South Africa and
like, rural Alaska joining us,” said Duncan Campbell, another one of the
original members.
Regulars at the meetups told me it was unlike other networking spaces.
“What stands out the most is the atmosphere of strong opinions, weakly
held,” said Kyle Baranka. “I think there’s a lot of people who are
intellectuals, who like getting into the big picture and the
small details. But they never take themselves too seriously.”
That’s also a fitting description of DERVOS, which covered broad, heady
topics like the concept of “energy abundance” with a combination of deep
expertise and lighthearted, often crude informality. “We need to double
or triple the grid. That is crazy,” said Pier LaFarge, the CEO of a
company called Sparkfund, during the first panel, which contemplated the
potential for centralized grid planning. “That is like the technical
challenge of the space race and the economic scale of the highway
system. That is non-trivial, societal shit.”
During the next session, Andy Frank, founder of the home retrofit
company Sealed, was talking about how DERs can help avoid the need to
build transmission lines and power plants. “We need a — and this is a
very technical term — a fuck-ton of DERs to try to avoid an
even more fuck-ton of costs.”
“Is it a metric fuckton?” McGinniss, who was moderating the panel, shot
back. The audience burst out laughing.
The conference skewed very white and male. Nicole Green, another
founding member, speculated that it might be because that’s still the
demographic at a lot of university engineering programs. Integrating
DERs into the grid and into power markets is technologically
complicated, and the community is largely made up of engineers.
When I asked other attendees to describe the vibe, one said it was “tech
bro-ey, but better — not as toxic.” Another said “young and exciting.”
“It feels a little bit like the energy industry underground, in a way,”
Baranka told me.
“There’s a rebellious, counter-establishment ethos within the DER
community,” said Teichman, “both by the nature of what it is and the
people it attracts.”
Part of that comes from the fact that these technologies challenge the
monopoly utility model — the way that electricity has been generated and
distributed and commoditized for decades through big, corporate power
plants. The DER community also likes to push back on the narrative that
tackling climate change requires sacrifice. “That’s also where the
irreverence bleeds in,” said McGinniss. “It’s just like, this is an
awesome, exciting future. That’s what we want people to feel.”
To illustrate the point, McGinniss and his friends organized a DERVOS
afterparty with the first-ever “vehicle to rave” demonstration. Working
with another group of DER-enthusiasts called the SOLARPUNKS, who
specialize in sustainable event production, they used a Ford F-150
Lightning to power the sound system at an old fire station-turned-event
space in lower Manhattan.
But this better, higher performing world is still mostly out of reach.
“We’re mired in a lot of decades-old thinking at this point about DERs
and how they can be a part of all of this,” Campbell told the audience
at the start of the conference.
The obstacles preventing DERs from realizing their full potential was a
major theme of the day. Frank talked about how DERs aren’t properly
valued in energy markets. Leah Stokes, a political scientist from the
University of California, lamented that utilities haven’t taken DERs
seriously or integrated them into their resource planning. Jesse
Jenkins, an energy systems engineer from Princeton University, and
Heatmap contributor, suggested we regulate utilities differently so that
they have more incentive to utilize DERs. Jen Downing, a senior advisor
at the Department of Energy, said regulators need data showing that DERs
are reliable.
Part of the problem is that there’s no DER industry association, no one
advocating for funding or policy changes to support these solutions at
the state or national level. During last year’s conference, Jigar Shah,
a Department of Energy official and a sort of Godfather figure in the
DER scene, pushed the community to be more ambitious. “You guys are left
out of the narrative, and it’s just fun, it’s sort of like, ’oh that’s
so cool, I’m glad that they’re doing that,’” he said, calling in to
deliver the keynote speech from the car during his family vacation.
The DER Task Force took up Shah’s call to arms and decided to use its
revenue from events and the podcast to hire Allison Bates Wannop, an
energy lawyer, to work on policy full time. At this year’s DERVOS,
Wannop announced the group’s initial plans, which include turning New
York State into a DER “nirvana,” and a campaign to “occupy NARUC,” the
association for utility regulators that holds triannual conferences,
which are heavily attended by the natural gas industry.
Colleen Metelitsa, one of the founders of the Task Force, told me the
current landscape for DERs was like the internet before the iPhone came
out. There was a lot you could do with the existing technology, but the
iPhone “proliferated so many things we do on the internet that we didn’t
even think about.”
What else, besides raves powered by pick-up trucks, does the future
hold?
Read more about batteries and solar:
Why
Batteries Might — Might! — Solve America’s Power-Line Shortage
https://heatmap.news/politics/dervos-2023
Downtown
San Jose housing project may sprout near Google village site
date: 2023-11-13, from: San Jose Mercury News
Dozens of apartments could sprout on a downtown San Jose restaurant
site near Google’s proposed transit village.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/13/san-jose-home-house-build-real-estate-economy-downtown-covid-google/
NASA’s
Launch Services Program Selects New Launch Director
date: 2023-11-13, from: NASA breaking news
NASA has named Denton Gibson launch director for the Launch Services
Program at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Gibson fills a
position made available with the recent retirement of former senior
Launch Director Omar Baez. Denton will join senior Launch Director Tim
Dunn in leading launch activities for NASA’s science and robotic
missions. This […]
https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/kennedy/nasas-launch-services-program-selects-new-launch-director/
26-year-old
man fatally shot in face while hunting in Iowa, wildlife officials
say
date: 2023-11-13, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Despite life-saving efforts, the hunter died “shortly after leaving
the scene,” officials say.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281793348.html
Ubuntu for Arm64 laptops
(plus RISC kit)
date: 2023-11-13, updated: 2023-11-13, from: The Register (UK I.T.
News)
Did you know there’s an Asahi flavored Ubuntu? And Debian, too
Ubuntu Summit 2023 A subthread of the Ubuntu Summit
was Ubuntu on Arm and RISC-V kit: a fast-growing area of interest for
many people.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/13/ubuntu_for_arm64_laptops/
Proxmox on the
Raspberry Pi 4 – First Looks
date: 2023-11-13, from: How to Raspberry
Now that we’ve got Proxmox running on the Raspberry Pi 4, let’s take
a little look around. Once you’re logged in, let’s explore the
“Datacenter” in the upper left. This is a listing of all the Pis in the
cluster. We haven’t clustered yet, so there is just this one. Click on
Summary in the […]
https://www.howtoraspberry.com/2023/11/proxmox-on-the-raspberry-pi-4-first-looks/
Love
triangle turns deadly when man shoots woman’s husband, Missouri police
say
date: 2023-11-13, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The accused shooter told police he had “blacked out” during the
incident near a St. Louis park.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281789723.html
@Dave Winer’s
Scripting News (date: 2023-11-13, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting
News)
I
just got a link to a
story
on The Information about my longtime friend
Guy
Kawasaki. We had a couple of great adventures together, early in our
careers, and I’ll never forget the moment when he gave me the idea that
blasted my company out of poverty to success. I would have loved to read
the article, but to do so I’d have to sign on, and I’m sure they would
sell my address, and I wouldn’t be surprised if I had to subscribe. So
as much as it pained me, I hit the back button and wrote this post to
say I would have been happy to
spend
$1 to read the article, and authenticate myself with a service I
control (ie no selling my identity thank you). We’ve been around this
block so many times. The writing world of the web is full of
disappointment like this. I’ve written this post 100,000 times by
now.
http://scripting.com/2023/11/13.html#a160521
NASA
Astronaut to Speak with Florida Students from Space Station
date: 2023-11-13, from: NASA breaking news
Students from the Creative Learning Academy in Pensacola, Florida,
will have an opportunity this week to hear from a NASA astronaut aboard
the International Space Station. The space-to-Earth call will air live
at 9:30 a.m. EST Wednesday, Nov. 15. Watch the NASA+ streaming service
at no cost on demand. The briefing also will air live […]
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-astronaut-to-speak-with-florida-students-from-space-station/
Jill On
Money: Will 6% real estate commissions become extinct?
date: 2023-11-13, from: San Jose Mercury News
Industry is littered with stories of those who attempted to offer
different and more affordable pricing options, but could not find a way
to succeed
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/13/jill-on-money-will-6-real-estate-commissions-become-extinct/
Monday
Morning Lights: Early look at NCS, CCS Open Division championship
games
date: 2023-11-13, from: San Jose Mercury News
Can San Ramon Valley clear De La Salle hurdle? How will Wilcox
approach Serra matchup? Plus, the cool story behind Los Gatos RB Boxer
Kopcsak-Yeung’s name and more.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/13/monday-morning-lights-early-look-at-ncs-ccs-open-division-championship-games/
Pornhub
‘Deeply Regrets’ Hosting Girls Do Porn Content
date: 2023-11-13, from: 404 Media Group
Pornhub’s parent company has reached an agreement with the US
Attorney’s office after an FBI investigation.
https://www.404media.co/pornhub-deeply-regrets-hosting-girls-do-porn-content/
Make
this fall the coziest one yet with these Black Friday deals
date: 2023-11-13, from: Fresno Bee Stories
From Our Partners
https://www.fresnobee.com/shopping/article281514478.html
Sacramento
native one of five soldiers killed in Army helicopter crash in
Mediterranean Sea
date: 2023-11-13, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Shane Barnes, a Jesuit graduate and Army aviator, was killed during
an aerial refueling training exercise, the Pentagon said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article281791228.html
Dog
found alive alongside body of hiker missing two months
date: 2023-11-13, from: San Jose Mercury News
Rich Moore was reported missing on Aug. 19 after heading out with his
Jack Russell terrier, Finney, to hike up Blackhead Peak.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/13/dog-found-alive-alongside-body-of-hiker-missing-two-months/
YMTC
accuses Micron of ‘freeriding’ on its 3D NAND patents
date: 2023-11-13, updated: 2023-11-13, from: The Register (UK I.T.
News)
Comes after US memory maker labeled security threat by China
Micron is having more China-related problems after YMTC launched legal
proceedings over allegations that the US memory maker is infringing on
patents relating to 3D NAND technology.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/13/ymtc_micron_lawsuit/
Lottery
player thought email about an unexpected huge win was a scam. But it was
real
date: 2023-11-13, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“I still can’t believe this is real,” the Michigan man said. “It is a
crazy feeling to win such a large lottery prize!”
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281790163.html
Spider
season: Here are a few things you may not know about them
date: 2023-11-13, from: San Jose Mercury News
There are five spiders with dangerous venom in California.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/13/spider-season-here-are-a-few-things-you-may-not-know-about-them/
Tentative
contracts aren’t necessarily done deals
date: 2023-11-13, from: Marketplace Morning Report
Both Hollywood actors represented by SAG-AFTRA and United Auto Workers
union members have reached tentative agreements with employers in recent
weeks, which still need to be voted on and ratified. But these votes are
more than just a rubber stamp. We dig in. Also: U.S. President Joe Biden
and Chinese President Xi Jinping are slated to meet this week. What’s at
stake?
https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-morning-report/tentative-contracts-arent-necessarily-done-deals
Saturn’s
Rings Will Temporarily Disappear From View in 2025
date: 2023-11-13, from: Smithsonian Magazine
From Earth’s perspective, we’ll be looking at the gas giant’s rings
edge-on, making them nearly impossible to see
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/saturns-rings-will-disappear-from-view-in-2025-but-its-only-temporary-180983244/
California
high school student suspended for saying ‘Free Palestine’
date: 2023-11-13, from: San Jose Mercury News
The high school was the site of vandalism last month when swastikas
were drawn on lockers.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/13/corona-del-mar-student-suspended-for-saying-free-palestine/
These
are the best air purifiers on sale ahead of Black Friday
date: 2023-11-13, from: Fresno Bee Stories
From Our Partners
https://www.fresnobee.com/shopping/article281741433.html
9-year-old
boy, dad waiting to cross street struck by vehicle, Arizona police
say
date: 2023-11-13, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The child later died of his injuries, police say.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281790533.html
Who’s
guiding San Joaquin Valley economic development, and how? Join the
conversation
date: 2023-11-13, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Affordable housing and well-paying jobs are crucial.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article281767128.html
Man
runs over 86-year-old father multiple times in bar parking lot, Florida
cops say
date: 2023-11-13, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“Impairment” is believed to be a factor, officials said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281787463.html
Collaboration
or competition? How Valley counties work on on jobs, housing, other
issues
date: 2023-11-13, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The region already has partnerships on goals such as passenger rail
and a medical school at UC Merced.
https://www.fresnobee.com/jobs/article281513253.html
US Officials
Set Modest Goals for Biden-Xi Meeting
date: 2023-11-13, from: VOA News USA
U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet
Wednesday on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
summit. U.S. officials don’t expect any breakthroughs that would improve
U.S.-China ties, as VOA’s Bill Gallo reports from Seoul.
https://www.voanews.com/a/us-officials-set-modest-goals-for-biden-xi-meeting/7352801.html
Secret
Service Agents Protecting Biden’s Granddaughter Open Fire When 3 People
Try to Break Into SUV
date: 2023-11-13, from: VOA News USA
Secret Service agents protecting President Joe Biden’s granddaughter
opened fire after three people tried to break into an unmarked Secret
Service vehicle in the nation’s capital, a law enforcement official told
The Associated Press.
The agents, assigned to protect Naomi Biden, were out with her in the
Georgetown neighborhood late Sunday night when they saw the three people
breaking a window of the parked and unoccupied SUV, the official said.
The official could not discuss details of the investigation publicly and
spoke to the AP on Monday on the condition of anonymity.
One of the agents opened fire, but no one was struck by the gunfire,
the Secret Service said in a statement. The three people were seen
fleeing in a red car, and the Secret Service said it put out a regional
bulletin to Metropolitan Police to be on the lookout for it.
Washington has seen a significant rise in the number of carjackings
and car thefts this year. Police have reported more than 750 carjackings
this year and more than 6,000 reports of stolen vehicles in the
district. U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas was carjacked near the
Capitol last month by three armed assailants, who stole his car but
didn’t physically harm him.
Violent crime in Washington has also been on the rise this year, up
more than 40% compared with last year. In February, U.S. Rep. Angie
Craig of Minnesota was assaulted in her apartment building, suffering
bruises while escaping serious injury.
https://www.voanews.com/a/secret-service-agents-protecting-biden-s-granddaughter-open-fire-when-3-people-try-to-break-into-suv-/7352754.html
Deer
hits motorcyclist, throwing him to highway before vehicle hits him,
coroner says
date: 2023-11-13, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The motorcycle rider was flown to a hospital and died days later,
South Carolina officials said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281786808.html
Pregnant
creature — with ‘sandpaper’-like skin — discovered as new species in
Angola
date: 2023-11-13, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Some of the golden-eyed animals were seen mating, researchers
said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/world/article281706143.html
Inside
Denmark’s hell week as critical infrastructure orgs faced
cyberattacks
date: 2023-11-13, updated: 2023-11-13, from: The Register (UK I.T.
News)
Zyxel zero days and nation-state actors (maybe) had a hand in the
sector’s worst cybersecurity event on record
Danish critical infrastructure faced the biggest online attack in the
country’s history in May, according to SektorCERT, Denmark’s specialist
organization for the cybersecurity of critical kit.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/13/inside_denmarks_hell_week_as/
White
House Hopes Biden-Xi Meeting Leads to More Talks with China
date: 2023-11-13, from: VOA News USA
When U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet
Wednesday in California, U.S. officials do not expect any major
breakthroughs that could dramatically improve the relationship.
Instead, White House officials say one of their main summit goals is
simply to ensure that both sides continue talking, to reduce the chances
that U.S.-China tensions spiral into conflict.
“We’re not talking about a long list of outcomes or deliverables,” a
senior Biden administration official conceded during a telephone
briefing to preview the Biden-Xi meeting.
“The goals here really are about managing the competition, preventing
the downside risk of conflict, and ensuring channels of communication
are open,” the official added.
The meeting, which will occur on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific
Economic Cooperation Summit, will be the first in-person interaction
between the two men in about a year. It will be Xi’s first U.S. visit in
six years.
During that time, relations have sunk to perhaps their lowest point
since the United States and China established diplomatic ties in
1979.
The two sides not only disagree over issues including Taiwan, trade,
human rights, and global governance – U.S. and Chinese military planes
and ships now regularly have close and dangerous encounters in the East
and South China Sea
The Pentagon has repeatedly warned that such encounters could turn
deadly. But until recently, U.S. officials have had fewer and fewer
venues to raise such complaints, as Beijing closed many of the
communications channels to protest U.S. actions.
Beijing’s change in tone
In the months leading up to the Biden-Xi meeting, China’s opposition
to dialogue began to soften.
U.S. and Chinese officials now have held preliminary talks on a wide
range of issues, including arms control, macroeconomics, and climate
change.
In some instances, Xi surprised visiting U.S. delegations with a
personal reception that many observers saw as notably warm.
“I have said many times, including to several presidents, we have
1,000 reasons to improve China-U.S. relations, but not one reason to
ruin them,” Xi told a visiting group of U.S. senators in Beijing.
Analysts say Xi’s change in tone can be attributed to domestic
factors, such as slower than expected post-Covid economic growth and
China’s struggle to attract foreign investment amid U.S. trade
restrictions.
By engaging with Washington, Xi may be trying to demonstrate to his
domestic audience and international partners that he remains in control
of China’s most important bilateral relationship, says Amanda Hsiao, a
senior China analyst at the Crisis Group.
Beijing was also likely caught off guard “by just how hostile of an
external environment that it’s facing now,” said Hsiao. She cites the
international backlash to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which resulted
in a “narrative of democracies versus authoritarian countries.”
“That created…a rallying effect for Washington and its allies and
partners to form a bit of an anti-China coalition,” Hsiao added, citing
expanded U.S. alliances with South Korea, Japan, and the
Philippines.
Small steps
Though few expect the Biden-Xi meeting to transform the relationship,
officials and analysts point to several areas of progress that could
soon be announced.
Last week, U.S. climate envoy John Kerry said the United States and
China – the world’s two biggest greenhouse gas emitters – have reached
“understandings and agreements” that could lead to a more successful
United Nations climate change conference later this month in Dubai.
Details, Kerry said, would be released soon.
Biden may push Xi to take steps to reduce the flow of chemicals used
to make fentanyl, a dangerous narcotic that is responsible for tens of
thousands of drug overdoses in the United States each year.
The fentanyl issue represents a possible area where the two sides
“can work immediately to enhance mutual trust and cooperation,” said
Zichen Wang, a research fellow at the Beijing-based Center for China and
Globalization research organization.
“According to press reports, China has a positive attitude towards
the fentanyl issue and there is room to establish a regular
communication and control mechanism with the U.S. on the matter,” Wang
added.
China ended all talks over the fentanyl issue last year, after former
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan in a show of support for the
self-ruled island claimed by Beijing.
At the time, China also halted military dialogue with the United
States – a matter of particular concern for Biden officials.
According to a White House official, Biden will press Xi
“assertively” on Wednesday to restore more military-to-military
communications.
However, Nathaniel Sher, a senior research analyst at Carnegie China,
warns that one meeting is unlikely to create a durable floor under the
U.S.-China relationship, especially ahead of elections in the United
States and Taiwan.
“One meeting, however, can prevent relations from deteriorating
further,” he said.
https://www.voanews.com/a/white-house-hopes-biden-xi-meeting-leads-to-more-talks-with-china-/7352753.html
DoorDash
driver known for ‘kind and gentle heart’ dies in shooting, Illinois cops
say
date: 2023-11-13, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Tramon Thomas, who loved ones called a “gentle giant,” recently had
his first child.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281786608.html
date: 2023-11-13, from: 404 Media Group
404 Media has found at least one instance of a bounty for a private
person who has no significant public online presence.
https://www.404media.co/giant-ai-platform-introduces-bounties-for-nonconsensual-images-of-real-people/
‘Hello
Sir/Ma’am’: Person Linked to Scam Asks FBI for His Seized Cryptocurrency
Back
date: 2023-11-13, from: 404 Media Group
The FBI froze cryptocurrency stored in a Binance account the agency
believes is linked to a scam targeting an elderly victim. The apparent
owner would like it back.
https://www.404media.co/hello-sir-maam-person-linked-to-scam-asks-fbi-for-his-seized-cryptocurrency-back/
Organizations
want more time to submit Guam info for change on salaried threshold
date: 2023-11-13, from: Guam Daily Post
While the comment deadline has passed for the U.S. Department of
Labor’s proposed change for salaried workers, local human resource and
business organizations are hoping more time will be granted to provide
Guam-centric information to guide the change. At the…
https://www.postguam.com/news/local/organizations-want-more-time-to-submit-guam-info-for-change-on-salaried-threshold/article_6319b866-7f7c-11ee-9c6e-eb2dd10dd765.html
Korean
helicopter carrier Dokdo arrives at US Naval Base Guam
date: 2023-11-13, from: Guam Daily Post
The Republic of Korea Navy Fleet held a ceremony welcoming cadets to
their annual training on Guam while providing a tour of the ROKS Dokdo
(LPH-6111) for the Korean Consulate of Guam and the press Sunday at
Victor Wharf on…
https://www.postguam.com/news/local/korean-helicopter-carrier-dokdo-arrives-at-us-naval-base-guam/article_f3c75726-81b4-11ee-ae0a-2b8b6c46ace6.html
date: 2023-11-13, from: Guam Daily Post
Another former employee of the Office of the Attorney General has
taken her case up to the Civil Service Commission. This time, a former
legal clerk is hoping the commission will void her termination over
various procedural defects that “denied…
https://www.postguam.com/news/local/another-former-ag-employee-files-an-appeal-with-the-csc/article_ca91e3f6-81ca-11ee-b639-0f6517e7fa9c.html
Local
doctor asks Congress to make cancer a national priority
date: 2023-11-13, from: Guam Daily Post
Cancer is one of the top three causes of death on Guam each year, but
a local doctor who traveled to the nation’s capitol is hopeful that
pleas to Congress to make cancer a top priority will help change
that.
https://www.postguam.com/news/local-doctor-asks-congress-to-make-cancer-a-national-priority/article_c84d2ba6-81c4-11ee-9dcf-6f0403f60603.html
Recycling up 8% on the island
date: 2023-11-13, from: Guam Daily Post
Recycling on Guam is up despite taking a little dip during the
pandemic, according to the Guam Environmental Protection Agency
https://www.postguam.com/news/recycling-up-8-on-the-island/article_e9a1d26a-81d4-11ee-bf67-bf41817567af.html
Barbara
Lee trails badly in California Senate race. Why she’s ruling out a
return to the House
date: 2023-11-13, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The Oakland congresswoman says she has no plans to file for
re-election before the Dec. 8 deadline.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article281706323.html
California’s
Senate primary has a big generation gap. Here’s what the polls say
date: 2023-11-13, from: Fresno Bee Stories
It has a lot to do with social media.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article281688388.html
(#eklzdvq)
Oh so that’s what the geo-info is use for - sunrise and sunset.
It reminds be about that is very useful for online meetings across t
…
date: 2023-11-13, updated: 2023-11-13, from: Darch (sørenpeter)
neotxt blog
Oh so that’s what the geo-info is use for - sunrise and sunset.
It
reminds be about
https://poleclock.com/
that is very useful for online meetings across timezone - like when we
were having our yarn social calls back in the days
https://neotxt.dk/twt/dkxckvq
Google
Photos’ AI Magic Editor won’t change pictures of IDs, receipts, faces,
or bodies
date: 2023-11-13, updated: 2023-11-13, from: The Register (UK I.T.
News)
Plus: Amazon is reportedly training a two-trillion-parameter LLM, and
more
AI in brief Google’s AI-powered Magic Editor will not
work if you try to alter images of ID cards, receipts, human faces, or
body parts.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/13/google_photos_ai_magic_editor/
A
Cal State Report Says Hate Crimes Are Low, But Trustees And Experts
Issue Warning
date: 2023-11-13, updated: 2023-11-13, from: The LAist
Researchers say more information is needed about what constitutes
“hate” on university campuses as legislators push administrators to
act.
https://laist.com/news/education/cal-state-csu-report-hate-crimes-trustees
5
Years After Devastating Woolsey Fire, Here’s What’s Changed
date: 2023-11-13, updated: 2023-11-13, from: The LAist
Improvements in emergency messaging and quicker reactions from
helicopters may help.
https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/5-years-after-devastating-woolsey-fire-heres-whats-changed
El
Niño May Be Juicing SoCal’s First Atmospheric River Of The Rainy
Season
date: 2023-11-13, updated: 2023-11-13, from: The LAist
Warmer waters can mean more rain and snow.
https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/el-nino-may-be-juicing-socals-first-atmospheric-river-of-the-rainy-season
Controlled
Burns Can Provide Years Of Protection Against Wildfires, New Study
Shows
date: 2023-11-13, updated: 2023-11-13, from: The LAist
New research finds that “beneficial” fires can cut the risk of high
intensity blazes by 64 percent.
https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/controlled-burns-can-provide-years-of-protection-against-wildfires-new-study-shows
5
Years After The Camp Fire, A Survivor Reflects On Paradise’s
Recovery
date: 2023-11-13, updated: 2023-11-13, from: The LAist
After losing their home, Charles Brooks and his family chose to
rebuild, and helped hundreds of others do the same.
https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/5-years-after-the-camp-fire-a-survivor-reflects-on-paradises-recovery
Hadrian’s
Wall Damaged by Sycamore Gap Tree Felling, Inspection Confirms
date: 2023-11-13, from: Smithsonian Magazine
Cut down by a chainsaw, the beloved tree fell atop the 1,900-year-old
Roman wall in September
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/hadrians-wall-damaged-by-sycamore-gap-tree-felling-180983243/
Kings
vs. Cavaliers gameday live: De’Aaron Fox’s injury status; Cleveland
scouting report
date: 2023-11-13, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Here’s the latest on De’Aaron Fox’s injury as the Sacramento Kings
prepare to play the Cleveland Cavaliers at Golden 1 Center.
https://www.fresnobee.com/sports/article281781728.html
Tech
giant Amazon now has a health care service operating in California.
Here’s what to know
date: 2023-11-13, from: Fresno Bee Stories
If you live in one of these California cities, you can access the
service in-person.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article281655903.html
People’s CDC COVID-19 Weather
date: 2023-11-13, from: Peoples CDC blog
This is the @PeoplesCDC weekly update for November
13, 2023! This Weather Report from the People’s CDC sheds light on the
ongoing COVID situation in the US.
https://peoplescdc.org/2023/11/13/peoples-cdc-covid-19-weather-2/
Museum
burglary interrupted when workers show up and find armed man, Florida
cops say
date: 2023-11-13, from: Fresno Bee Stories
He “took full advantage of his after hours tour,” officials say.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281785133.html
On the brink of
a government shutdown … yet again
date: 2023-11-13, from: Marketplace Morning Report
There’s no deal in sight yet to avert a government shutdown by the end
of this week. We take a closer look at the status of plans that leaders
in Congress are mulling and how this is affecting the U.S. credit rating
and outlook. Then, we head to Los Angeles to hear from a striking hotel
worker contending with the affordable housing crisis.
https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-morning-report/on-the-brink-of-a-government-shutdown-yet-again
Amazon’s
retail outfit tops list of orders from EU member states under new DSA
law
date: 2023-11-13, updated: 2023-11-13, from: The Register (UK I.T.
News)
Box shifter says it caught millions of miscreants with its own systems
though
Amazon Stores received the highest number of legal orders under the
European Union’s Digital Services Act out of all 19 of the tech giants
who’ve been singled out for special attention under the newly introduced
laws.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/13/amazons_retail_outfit_tops_list/
Body
in Gulf of Mexico identified as US Air Force pilot instructor, Florida
cops say
date: 2023-11-13, from: Fresno Bee Stories
He was a husband and father of two, it’s reported.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281784403.html
BMW
looking into misconduct claims against Moroccan supplier
date: 2023-11-13, from: Marketplace Morning Report
From the BBC World Service: German carmaker BMW says it is seeking
clarity over allegations of labor and environmental violations made
against a cobalt mine operator in Morocco, which supplies metals for
electric car batteries. Plus, why haven’t Chinese tourists returned to
Thailand in the numbers seen pre-pandemic?
https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-morning-report/bmw-looking-into-misconduct-claims-against-moroccan-supplier
Ten Ways AI Will Change
Democracy
date: 2023-11-13, updated: 2023-11-08, from: Bruce Schneier blog
Artificial intelligence will change so many aspects of society, largely
in ways that we cannot conceive of yet. Democracy, and the systems of
governance that surround it, will be no exception. In this short essay,
I want to move beyond the “AI-generated disinformation” trope and
speculate on some of the ways AI will change how democracy functions—in
both large and small ways.
When I survey how artificial intelligence might upend different aspects
of modern society, democracy included, I look at four different
dimensions of change: speed, scale, scope, and sophistication. Look for
places where changes in degree result in changes of kind. Those are
where the societal upheavals will happen…
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/11/ten-ways-ai-will-change-democracy.html
This
NC destination ranks as the trendiest spot to travel for Thanksgiving.
Here’s why
date: 2023-11-13, from: Fresno Bee Stories
It wasn’t the only place in the state to make its mark on a holiday
travel list.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281696633.html
How to
Install Proxmox 8 on a Raspberry Pi Cluster
date: 2023-11-13, from: How to Raspberry
Proxmox? Proxmox is awesome! Proxmox is the perfect hosting platform
for all your VMs! Proxmox lets you easily build and break down full
virtual machines and containers. They sell it better themselves. From
the proxmox.com website: Proxmox Virtual Environment is a complete
open-source platform for enterprise virtualization. With the built-in
web interface you can easily […]
https://www.howtoraspberry.com/2023/11/how-to-install-proxmox-8-on-a-raspberry-pi-cluster/
Fujitsu
says it can optimize CPU and GPU use to minimize execution time
date: 2023-11-13, updated: 2023-11-13, from: The Register (UK I.T.
News)
Demos its Adaptive GPU Allocator as global shortage of geepies grinds on
SC23 Fujitsu will demonstrate tech aimed at optimizing
the use of GPUs and the switching of batch jobs in a HPC cluster at this
week’s SC23 high performance computing (HPC) conference in Colorado.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/13/fujitsu_adaptive_gpu/
Build a
file server with Raspberry Pi 5 | #MagPiMonday
date: 2023-11-13, from: Raspberry Pi News (.com)
This #MagPiMonday, learn how to make a better NAS with the new features
of Raspberry Pi 5.
The post
Build
a file server with Raspberry Pi 5 | #MagPiMonday appeared first on
Raspberry Pi.
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/build-a-file-server-with-raspberry-pi-5-magpimonday/
RIP:
Frank Borman, NASA commander of first Moon mission
date: 2023-11-13, updated: 2023-11-13, from: The Register (UK I.T.
News)
Former Air Force officer - also involved in first crewed rendezvous in
space - dies aged 95
Obit Frank Borman, the NASA astronaut in charge of the
first crewed expedition to the Moon, has died at the age of 95.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/13/rip_frank_borman/
In
Meeting With Xi, Biden Will Seek Restoration of Military
Communication
date: 2023-11-13, from: VOA News USA
Reestablishing communication between militaries of the two
superpowers will be high on President Joe Biden’s agenda Wednesday
during a highly anticipated meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Xi
Jinping, in the San Francisco Bay area, a senior administration official
says.
The leaders will be meeting on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific
Economic Cooperation summit that the U.S. is hosting.
The Biden-Xi summit will be the first face-to-face meeting between
the two presidents since they met last year in Bali, Indonesia.
It’s a positive sign for the rocky U.S.-China relationship and
follows a wave of increased engagement between American and Chinese
officials. The administration already has sent several high-ranking
officials to Beijing this year, including Secretary of State Antony J.
Blinken, Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen and Commerce Secretary Gina
Raimondo.
Biden is “determined to take the necessary steps” to reestablish
military communication channels with Beijing, said the senior
administration official, who spoke to reporters Thursday evening on the
condition of anonymity. The administration believes the step will inject
more stability into the relationship and lower the risk of a military
miscalculation.
China suspended military communication last year to protest
then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s August visit to Taiwan. Included in
the suspension were the Defense Policy Coordination Talks, intended to
maintain effective communication channels and reduce risks, and the
Maritime Military Communications Agreement, which enables ship and
aircraft operators to communicate regularly.
Blinken was unable to reestablish communication channels during his
visit to Beijing in June. “The Chinese have been reluctant. And so, the
president is going to press assertively next week,” the senior
administration official said.
Joint Chiefs Chairman General Charles Q. Brown Jr. told reporters
Friday that he had sent a letter to his Chinese counterpart, General Liu
Zhenli, underscoring the U.S. request. Brown said he was “hopeful.”
“It’s reasonable to expect that there’s going to be some movement
toward the resumption of some level of important dialogue,” Michael D.
Swaine, a senior research fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible
Statecraft, a Washington think tank. “But exactly to what extent and how
enduring it’s going to be, I think remains to be seen,” he told VOA.
Restarting the talks does not imply there will be any substantive
breakthroughs, warned Zack Cooper, a senior fellow focusing on U.S.
strategy in Asia at the American Enterprise Institute, a policy research
group in Washington.
“Beijing continues to believe that crisis management mechanisms
generally favor the United States, by allowing Washington to operate
near China’s coast with less risk of escalation,” he told VOA. “So,
although I expect some of these dialogues to restart, I would not assume
that they will be particularly productive.”
Election interference
The Biden-Xi meeting comes just months before Taiwan’s presidential
election in January, and Washington wants Beijing not to meddle in the
campaign. China considers the self-governing island its wayward
province.
“Any actions or interference in the election would raise extremely
strong concerns from our side,” said a second senior administration
official in the same briefing.
Such calls are likely to go unheeded. “I doubt that Beijing will have
any comments regarding a purported U.S. request not to interfere in
Taiwan elections,” Bonnie Glaser told VOA. Glaser is the managing
director of the Indo-Pacific Program at the German Marshall Fund of the
United States, a public policy research group.
Beijing’s preferred candidate is former New Taipei City Mayor Hou
Yu-ih, candidate of the Kuomintang opposition party. Hou has been
campaigning on the message “Vote for the Kuomintang, and there will be
no war on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.”
But polls show that Vice President William Lai, who represents the
incumbent Democratic Progressive Party and favors a tougher approach to
Beijing, is in the lead. Experts predict a Lai win would lead to a much
more confrontational China.
In video remarks to a forum in Hong Kong on Thursday, China’s
ambassador to the United States, Xie Feng, said China wanted
reassurances that “the U.S. does not seek to change China’s system, does
not seek a new Cold War, does not support Taiwan independence and has no
intention to seek decoupling from China.”
Understanding between the U.S. and China on Taiwan is key, said Yun
Sun, director of the China Program at the Stimson Center, a Washington
think tank.
“The biggest issue is the stabilization of bilateral relations,” she
told VOA. “Given the upcoming Taiwan elections, it is particularly
important for them to have some consensus to prepare for the upcoming
turmoil.”
Washington does not take a position on Taiwan’s sovereignty but
opposes unilateral changes to the status quo from either side —
something that Biden will reaffirm to Xi. The president will “ensure
that we’re clear we are not supportive of Taiwan independence,” the
second official said.
Regional conflicts
The conversation is expected to cover a broad range of irritants in
the bilateral relationship, as well as global problems such as climate
change, artificial intelligence and the scourge of fentanyl.
The leaders will also share views on regional conflicts, including
North Korea’s weapons program, the war in Ukraine and the conflict in
Gaza, the officials said.
The president will convey to Xi that it is essential for Iran not to
widen the war in Gaza and spread violence in the Middle East. “If Iran
undertakes provocative actions anywhere,” the senior administration
official said, “the United States is prepared to respond and respond
promptly.”
Beijing has growing clout in the region after it brokered a deal to
normalize relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran in March. So far,
China has carefully navigated the conflict between Israel and Hamas,
stopping short of explicitly taking sides, while calling for a
cease-fire and a two-state solution.
VOA’s Paris Huang contributed to this report.
https://www.voanews.com/a/in-meeting-with-xi-biden-will-seek-restoration-of-military-communication-/7350397.html
Introducing the
tech that keeps the lights on
date: 2023-11-13, updated: 2023-11-13, from: The Register (UK I.T.
News)
Genuinely new ideas are rare in IT – this superhero is ready to make a
real difference
Opinion Cybersecurity has many supremely annoying
aspects. It soaks up talent, time, and money like the English men’s
football squad, and like that benighted institution, the results never
seem to change.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/13/data_diodes_comment/
Wildfire is
destroying irreplaceable rainforest on Oahu
date: 2023-11-13, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>HONOLULU — A wildfire burning in a remote rainforest is underscoring a new reality for the normally lush island state just a few months after a devastating blaze on a neighboring island leveled an entire town and killed at least 99 people.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/13/hawaii-news/wildfire-is-destroying-irreplaceable-rainforest-on-oahu/
Honoka‘a Renaissance
Faire draws thousands
date: 2023-11-13, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Thousands of people of all ages dressed up in their best medieval and fantasy costumes and gathered in Honoka‘a on Saturday.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/13/hawaii-news/honokaa-renaissance-faire-draws-thousands/
Naalehu woman killed
in South Kona crash
date: 2023-11-13, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>A 33-year-old Naalehu woman died in a single-vehicle accident early Sunday morning on Mamalahoa Highway (Highway 11), south of the 84-mile marker in South Kona near Manuka State Park, according to reports.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/13/hawaii-news/naalehu-woman-killed-in-south-kona-crash/
More
than 800 enroll in program aimed at physician retention
date: 2023-11-13, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Hundreds of doctors statewide have applied for a state program to defray their student loans as part of a plan to alleviate Hawaii’s doctor shortage.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/13/hawaii-news/more-than-800-enroll-in-program-aimed-at-physician-retention/
Trump’s
plans if he returns to the White House include deportation raids,
tariffs and mass firings
date: 2023-11-13, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>NEW YORK — A mass deportation operation. A new Muslim ban. Tariffs on all imported goods and “freedom cities” built on federal land.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/13/nation-world-news/trumps-plans-if-he-returns-to-the-white-house-include-deportation-raids-tariffs-and-mass-firings/
Joe
Biden wants to complete his goals on civil rights, taxes, and social
services if he’s reelected
date: 2023-11-13, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has a simple reelection pitch to voters — let him “finish the job.”</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/13/nation-world-news/joe-biden-wants-to-complete-his-goals-on-civil-rights-taxes-and-social-services-if-hes-reelected/
LeBron
sits with injury while Davis, Hachimura propel Lakers to 116-110 win
over Trail Blazers
date: 2023-11-13, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>LOS ANGELES — Anthony Davis had 30 points and 13 rebounds, Rui Hachimura scored eight of his 19 points in the final 3:43 and the Los Angeles Lakers overcame LeBron James’ injury absence to beat the Portland Trail Blazers 116-110 on Sunday night.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/13/sports/lebron-sits-with-injury-while-davis-hachimura-propel-lakers-to-116-110-win-over-trail-blazers/
Mid-Pacific
outlasts University for its first state volleyball title
date: 2023-11-13, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Finally, Mid-Pacific has a volleyball state championship.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/13/sports/mid-pacific-outlasts-university-for-its-first-state-volleyball-title/
NFL
roundup: Jacobs rushes for 116 yards as Raiders improve to 2-0 under
Pierce, beat Jets 16-12
date: 2023-11-13, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>LAS VEGAS (AP) — On a night when Josh Jacobs finally ended his 100-yard dry spell, he couldn’t quite forget the fumble that gave the New York Jets life late in the game.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/13/sports/nfl-roundup-jacobs-rushes-for-116-yards-as-raiders-improve-to-2-0-under-pierce-beat-jets-16-12/
Texas
A&M fires coach Jimbo Fisher, a move that will cost the school
$75M
date: 2023-11-13, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Landing Jimbo Fisher, a coach with a national title on his resume, seemed like just what Texas A&M needed to finally become a championship contender.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/13/sports/texas-am-fires-coach-jimbo-fisher-a-move-that-will-cost-the-school-75m/
Brayden
Schager accounts for 3 TDs, Hawaii hands Air Force first MWC loss,
27-13
date: 2023-11-13, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>HONOLULU (AP) — Brayden Schager threw two touchdown passes to Pofele Ashlock and ran for another TD to help Hawaii beat Air Force 27-13 Saturday night and hand the Falcons their first Mountain West Conference loss of the season.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/13/sports/brayden-schager-accounts-for-3-tds-hawaii-hands-air-force-first-mwc-loss-27-13/
France’s
poorest island is parched because of drought and underinvestment
date: 2023-11-13, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>MAMOUDZOU, Mayotte — Drop by disappearing drop, water is an ever more precious resource on Mayotte, the poorest place in the European Union. Taps flow just one day out of three in this French territory off Africa’s eastern coast, because of a drawn-out drought compounded by years of underinvestment and water mismanagement.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/13/nation-world-news/frances-poorest-island-is-parched-because-of-drought-and-underinvestment/
Heavy
fighting rages near main Gaza hospital and people trapped inside say
they cannot flee
date: 2023-11-13, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — Health officials and people trapped inside Gaza’s largest hospital rejected Israel’s claims that it was helping babies and others evacuate Sunday, saying fighting continued just outside the facility where incubators lay idle with no electricity and critical supplies were running out.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/13/nation-world-news/heavy-fighting-rages-near-main-gaza-hospital-and-people-trapped-inside-say-they-cannot-flee/
Millions
of Indians set a world record celebrating Diwali as worries about air
pollution rise
date: 2023-11-13, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>LUCKNOW, India — Millions of Indians celebrated Diwali on Sunday with a Guinness World Record number of bright earthen oil lamps as concerns about air pollution soared in the South Asian country.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/13/nation-world-news/millions-of-indians-set-a-world-record-celebrating-diwali-as-worries-about-air-pollution-rise/
Protesters
demonstrate against world leaders, Israel-Hamas war as APEC comes to San
Francisco
date: 2023-11-13, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>SAN FRANCISCO — Activists protesting corporate profits, environmental abuses, poor working conditions and the Israel-Hamas war marched in downtown San Francisco on Sunday, united in their opposition to a global trade summit that will draw President Joe Biden and leaders from nearly two dozen countries.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/13/nation-world-news/protesters-demonstrate-against-world-leaders-israel-hamas-war-as-apec-comes-to-san-francisco/
Obituaries for November 13
date: 2023-11-13, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Maria Araya, 71, of Waikoloa died Oct. 24 at Kona Community Hospital. Born in Valparaiso, Chile, she was a janitor. No services. Survived by sisters, Maria Ester Araya Leon of Chile and Maria del Pilar (Solomon Garcia-Ortega) Araya-Leon of Waikoloa; brother, Fernando (Ingrid Burchad) Araya-Leon of Chile. Arrangements by Dodo Mortuary.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/13/obituaries/obituaries-for-november-13-10/
Fake
‘emergency’ spending in Washington winds up costing us all
date: 2023-11-13, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>It’s bad enough that Congress and the White House are making no serious effort to cut spending these days – something we all wind up paying for, whether we realize it or not. But to keep adding to the deficit? That’s worse.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/13/opinion/fake-emergency-spending-in-washington-winds-up-costing-us-all/
Biden
to Hear Muslim World Views on Gaza in Meeting with Indonesia’s
Widodo
date: 2023-11-13, from: VOA News USA
U.S. President Joe Biden is set to hear the views of the Muslim world
on the war in Gaza during a meeting with Indonesian President Joko
Widodo at the White House Monday afternoon.
Widodo is in Washington to elevate diplomatic ties to “comprehensive
strategic partnership,” the highest in the country’s diplomatic
ranking.
The leaders are far apart on their views of the conflict, with
Biden’s unwavering support of Israel and Widodo demanding an immediate
cease-fire in Gaza and supporting a United Nations commission that has
been collecting evidence of war crimes allegedly committed by both sides
since the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas.
Widodo will be meeting Biden fresh off an emergency summit of the
Organization of Islamic Cooperation, or OIC, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
this past weekend.
The summit brought together 57 mostly Muslim-majority states
including the Arab League. Its communique rejected Israel’s
justification of its actions in Gaza as self-defense and demanded an
immediate end to the war. It called for a halt to the sale of arms to
Israel and increased access for humanitarian aid.
Making a statement to press virtually from Washington Sunday evening,
Widodo said that he will deliver the summit’s resolutions to Biden.
“Israel must take responsibility for the atrocities it has committed,”
he said.
President Biden will “listen carefully to what President Widodo heard
and what his perspectives are with respect to discussions he’s just
undertaken in Saudi Arabia and with other Arab and Middle East leaders,”
a senior administration official told VOA during a briefing Sunday.
While there is a massive gap between the two on immediate calls for a
cease-fire, which the United States believes at this point will only
benefit Hamas, Washington is seeking a point of convergence with Jakarta
further down the line. Indonesia is not a regional actor like Egypt,
Jordan or Qatar with key roles in the administration’s immediate goals,
such as securing the release of hostages and establishing humanitarian
corridors into Gaza.
As the largest Muslim majority country, Jakarta’s voice carries clout
in the administration’s medium- and long-term plans of resolving the
conflict and working toward a pathway to peace. About 229 million
Muslims live in Indonesia, making up 87% of the population. That’s 13%
of the world’s Muslim population.
“Just peace, the two-state solution, substantial resources that will
be necessary to rebuild and give hope to shattered lives. I think those
are areas that we look forward to working closely with Indonesia on
giving its leading role,” the official said.
Like many Muslim countries, Indonesia has long provided aid to
Palestinians, including a hospital in northern Gaza. Hospital
administrators told VOA that the surrounding vicinity has been hit by
Israeli airstrikes and they are on the brink of collapse due to a lack
of supplies and fuel.
Widodo’s official visit, which was arranged to smooth ruffled
feathers after Biden skipped the ASEAN summit hosted by Indonesia in
September and went to Hanoi instead, will be a delicate balancing act
for Widodo.
Observers say he must speak forcefully enough to represent passions
at the OIC and avoid political damage at home, where massive anti-Israel
and anti-U.S. demonstrations have rocked major cities. Additionally,
they say he must be careful not to jeopardize progress on a long list of
common interests, including a deal on critical minerals and China’s
rising ambitions in the Indo-Pacific.
Critical minerals work plan
Indonesia is seeking a limited free trade agreement with the United
States, similar to the one the U.S. signed with Japan in March, to
include its nickel exports under the 2022 U.S. Inflation Reduction Act,
or IRA. The IRA, Biden’s key climate change and clean energy
legislation, offers tax incentives to boost domestic electric vehicle,
or EV, manufacturing.
The bill includes provisions for consumer tax credits to purchase EVs
produced with critical minerals sourced domestically or from a country
that has a free trade agreement with the U.S.
Boasting the world’s largest nickel reserves – a key mineral in EV
production – and aiming to be a global EV hub, Indonesia is keen on such
a deal. The Biden administration, meanwhile, wants to secure a supply
chain for its ambitious goal of ensuring that two-thirds of new
passenger cars and a quarter of new heavy trucks sold in the United
States are all electric by 2032.
The administration is seeking a process with Jakarta toward a
“consequential partnership,” said the official. Washington, however, has
voiced concern over Indonesia’s reliance on Chinese investment in its
mining industry as well as labor and environmental issues in its mining
practices.
The pair will announce a “work plan” to explore a partnership on
critical minerals, said a second administration official, to “make sure
that both of our systems are prepared to move forward together.” The
official underscored that any agreed pathway forward must be in
accordance with the “highest of labor and environmental standards.”
The plan has received pushback from some in the U.S. mining industry,
which has received funding as part of the Biden administration’s efforts
to boost domestic production of nickel, lithium and other metals needed
for EVs.
“At the end of the day, neither the president nor Congress can
support a scheme that facilitates U.S. taxpayer funds going to Chinese
companies mining and refining Indonesian critical minerals through a
trade agreement that does not include environmental and labor
protections,” Julie C. Lucas, executive director of the industry group
MiningMinnesota, told VOA in a statement.
China.
Biden and Widodo will elevate diplomatic ties to a “comprehensive
strategic partnership,” a status that Jakarta already shares with
Beijing. Under Widodo, Indonesia has embraced China’s massive
infrastructure project known as the Belt and Road Initiative, attracting
a record amount of Chinese investment. It’s second only to Pakistan in
terms of value of BRI projects — $20.3 billion and 71 operating
projects.
Observers say Chinese President Xi Jinping is eyeing the vast
archipelago as a key prize in expanding Beijing’s influence in the
Indo-Pacific. Just last month, he announced an expansion of cooperation
with Indonesia on emerging industries such as the digital economy,
photovoltaics and EVs. Photovoltaics involve converting light into
electricity.
While Jakarta relies heavily on Chinese investments, observers say it
is wary of Beijing’s increasingly assertive claims to disputed waters in
the South China Sea. Like many countries in the region, it has been
boosting military ties with Washington.
After his Washington stop, Widodo heads to San Francisco for the Asia
Pacific Economic Cooperation summit hosted by the U.S. Biden is set to
meet with Xi on the sidelines of the APEC summit and is keen to use
discussions with Widodo to inform him on regional views on Beijing.
Those include “critical issues like the South China Sea, what they’re
seeing and with respect to China’s diplomacy and engagement,” the first
senior official said.
The pair will also be discussing the crisis in Myanmar. Since a
February 2021 military coup, the junta in Myanmar has carried out a
brutal nationwide crackdown on millions of people opposed to its rule,
ignoring demands by Indonesia and other members of the Association of
Southeast Asian Nations for constructive dialogue and an immediate
cessation of violence.
Eva Mazrieva, Naras Prameswari and Rio Tuasikal contributed to this
report.
https://www.voanews.com/a/biden-to-hear-muslim-world-views-on-gaza-in-meeting-with-indonesia-s-widodo-/7352485.html
Kubernetes’
Tim Hockin on a decade of dominance and the future of AI in open
source
date: 2023-11-13, updated: 2023-11-13, from: The Register (UK I.T.
News)
Going back to a time before autocomplete
Interview Tim Hockin has been working on Kubernetes
since before it was announced. As the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
(CNCF) takes a sudden lurch into the world of artificial intelligence,
Hockin spoke to The Register about trends, licensing, and his
love of Vi.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/13/kubernetes_tim_hockin_on_ai/
Have they no sense of
decency?
date: 2023-11-13, from: Robert Reich on Substack
Trump and his lackeys are trying to smear Judge Engoron’s law
clerk
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/have-they-no-sense-of-decency
48-nation
bloc to crack down on using crypto assets to avoid tax
date: 2023-11-13, updated: 2023-11-13, from: The Register (UK I.T.
News)
Blockheaded cheats given four years to find new schemes
Cryptocurrency has proven a disappointing alternative to fiat currency,
a poor alternative to conventional securities, and a lousy store of
value. But it has helped plenty of people to launder money and avoid
taxes.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/13/carf_2027_adoption_set/
Today in SCV History
(Nov. 13)
date: 2023-11-13, from: SCV New (TV Station)
1966 – Pico No. 4 oil well listed as a National Historic Landmark.
[story
https://scvnews.com/today-in-scv-history-nov-13/
Is it too late to
turn back from the Big Ten?
date: 2023-11-13, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The USC football team has lost four of its last five games as it
prepares to enter the Big Ten.
The post
Is
it too late to turn back from the Big Ten? appeared first on
Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/13/is-it-too-late-to-turn-back-from-the-big-ten/
date: 2023-11-13, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
USC has dropped four of its last five games, removing them from
contention.
The post
Autzen
deemed too much for USC football appeared first on
Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/13/autzen-deemed-too-much-for-usc-football/
Men’s
water polo lets lead slip away, falls to UCLA in overtime
date: 2023-11-13, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
USC came out the gates hot on senior day, but the Bruins roared back to
take the win.
The post
Men’s
water polo lets lead slip away, falls to UCLA in overtime appeared
first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/13/mens-water-polo-lets-lead-slip-away-falls-to-ucla-in-overtime/
Between
Friends finishes tour at the Fonda Theatre
date: 2023-11-13, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The pair rounded off their “I Love My Girl, She’s My Boy” tour with a
powerful crowd.
The post
Between
Friends finishes tour at the Fonda Theatre appeared first on
Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/13/between-friends-finishes-tour-at-the-fonda-theatre/
Oakland’s finest talks
musical journey
date: 2023-11-13, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Thornton freshman Jordyn Diew is bringing bangers from the Bay to Los
Angeles.
The post
Oakland’s
finest talks musical journey appeared first on
Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/13/oaklands-finest-talks-musical-journey/
‘Loki’ comes
mischievously close to greatness
date: 2023-11-13, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The second season of Marvel’s series disappoints and delights in equal
measure.
The post
‘Loki’
comes mischievously close to greatness appeared first on
Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/13/loki-comes-mischievously-close-to-greatness/
Reassignment isn’t
all it’s cracked up to be
date: 2023-11-13, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The process can often leave students in the same bad situation they
started with.
The post
Reassignment
isn’t all it’s cracked up to be appeared first on
Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/13/reassignment-isnt-all-its-cracked-up-to-be/
Looking around
reminds us we are not alone
date: 2023-11-13, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
People watching allows us to see beyond our personal issues and gain
perspective.
The post
Looking
around reminds us we are not alone appeared first on
Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/13/looking-around-reminds-us-we-are-not-alone/
Record diversity in freshman
class
date: 2023-11-13, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Enrollment data shows the highest percent of first-generation students
at USC.
The post
Record
diversity in freshman class appeared first on
Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/13/record-diversity-in-freshman-class/
GSG
works to stock menstrual products in bathrooms, increase
accessibility
date: 2023-11-13, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
GSG’s advocacy team works to provide its students with more space on
campus.
The post
GSG
works to stock menstrual products in bathrooms, increase
accessibility appeared first on
Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/13/gsg-works-to-stock-menstrual-products-in-bathrooms-increase-accessibility/
How to add an index to your
PDF
date: 2023-11-13, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
How to add an index to your PDF
I mean, it’s great if you want to write a bunch of Perl scripts. But
really… do you? Or indeed: Would you rather like to learn Perl or LaTeX?
🥶 ❓ 🤷♂️ ❓ 🥵
I like my Markdown → HTML + CSS → PDF pipeline. For new PDFs of mine, I
try to use this setup rather than relying on LaTeX. It’s true, LaTeX
documents probably look better in the end. But I don’t write enough
LaTeX at the end of the day. Everything is always tricky to find.
Packages are hard to pick. I always end up on some StackExchange site
and nothing is ever simple.
Now, the Markdown → HTML + CSS → PDF pipeline isn’t simple, either. But
it uses HTML and CSS and I use those two more often. I can look at the
using the browser. When I have questions, I end up on the Mozilla
Developer Network (MDN) and it’s not too bad. It’s the kind of bad that
I’m used to.
I’m not sure I’m doing a great job selling this. Remember how many years
I tried to be objective about it all and concluded that using Libre
Office would be the most efficient tool. But I guess I got burned back
in the last millenium when Word 5.1 was new and liked to crash, and Open
Office was not great either, and Abi Word was too limited. I learned to
love Emacs and LaTeX and I don’t want to go back to those graphical user
interfaces.
Somehow they make it hard to use styles correctly and consistenly.
So here’s a short summary of how the Markdown → HTML + CSS → PDF
pipeline works.
There are a number of things you need:
-
a bunch of Markdown files, which you write using your favourite editor
-
a program to turn Markdown into HTML; by chance I started using Python
with the Markdown module
-
a CSS file to format it
-
a program to turn HTML and CSS into PDF; the one I use is called
weasyprint
Weasyprint is also written in Python, which shouldn’t matter too much –
except that I have Debian installed and the weasyprint it comes with
doesn’t know how to hyphenate my text, which is bad news when you’re
writing a German text with long words. And what German text doesn’t have
long words? We love smashing words together!
This leads me to an immediate problem that LaTeX solves but that
weasyprint does not: In German, you can’t have ligatures connecting
parts of a word that are themselves smashed-together words. For example,
the word Auffahrt (up-drive, also known as Ascension Day) consists of
the prefix “auf” and the word “fahrt” so you can’t use the ff ligature.
There’s a LaTeX package for that,
selnolig.
A while ago I wrote a Perl script that takes this file and does the
right thing for HTML: it inserts ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER characters in all
those places. This Perl script is called
keine-ligaturen,
no ligatures.
So I need that.
Now, Python’s Markdown module doesn’t generate a stand-alone HTML file.
I need to provide my own prefix and suffix.
prefix is where I define the language to use for
hyphenation and the CSS file to use for the formatting.
<!doctype html>
<html lang=de>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8"/>
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="Horte.css"/>
</head>
<body>
suffix is the file where I close the html and
body tags I opened in the prefix file.
</body>
</html>
I tie all of this together in my Makefile. Here’s how it
might work.
SHELL=/bin/bash
KAPITEL=$(sort $(wildcard [0-9A-F]-*.md))
all: Horte.pdf
%.pdf: %.html %.css
weasyprint $< $@
%.html: %.html.tmp prefix suffix append-index
cat prefix $< suffix | perl append-index > $@
%.html.tmp: %.md
python3 -m markdown \n
--extension=markdown.extensions.attr_list \
--extension=markdown.extensions.tables \
--extension markdown.extensions.smarty \
$< \
| keine-ligaturen > $@
Horte.md: Titelblatt.md Lizenz.md $(KAPITEL)
date '+<p class="timestamp">%F</p>' > timestamp
cat Titelblatt.md timestamp $(KAPITEL) Lizenz.md > $@
clean:
rm -f Horte.md Horte.html Horte.html.tmp \
Horte.pdf
So this is what happens:
-
all the Markdown files are concatenated into
Horte.md (and
a timestamp is added after the titlepage)
-
the Markdown file is turned into a temporary HTML file called
Horte.html.tmp using the Python Markdown module and the
German ligature breaks are added by the keine-ligaturen
Perl script
-
the temporary HTML file is concatenated with the
prefix and
sufix files to form the real HTML file, called
Horte.html and here yet another Perl script is used:
append-index (more about that below)
-
finally, the HTML file is turned into PDF using
weasyprint
resulting in Horte.pdf
Now we’re finally getting to the script I wanted to talk about this
entire time. What’s the role of append-index? It parses the
HTML file and determines which terms should be in the index using XPath.
And then it adds an index at the end.
There are two parts to the script. In the first part, the terms to index
are collected.
-
the HMTL is parsed and an XPath expression is used to search for strings
to index (in this case: H3 headings and bold text in blockquotes if they
have the
ref class)
-
if the term has no
id, an id is computed based
on the term to index; a number is appended if the id
computed turns out to be a duplicate
-
every term is associated with a list of ids (in case a term appears
multiple times)
In the second part, the HTML for the Index page is assembled. Every term
is printed, followed by a link for every id recorded above.
The text of the link is a ZERO WIDTH SPACE so that it doesn’t look weird
in the PDF. The actual page number to use is still unknown at this point
because only the PDF generator knows about the pages! See below for
more.
use Modern::Perl '2018';
use XML::LibXML;
undef $/;
my $doc = XML::LibXML->load_html(string => <STDIN>);
my @nodes = $doc->findnodes('//h3 | //blockquote/p/strong[@class="ref"]'),
my %terms;
my %n;
for my $node (@nodes) {
my $content = $node->getAttribute('ref') || $node->textContent;
next unless length($content) > 1;
my $id = $node->getAttribute('id');
if (not $id) {
$id = lc($content);
$id =~ tr/A-Za-z//cd;
$n{$id}++;
$id .= $n{$id} if $n{$id} > 1;
$node->setAttribute('id', $id);
}
$terms{$content} //= [];
push(@{$terms{$content}}, $id);
$node->setAttribute('class', 'indexed');
}
my @body = $doc->findnodes('//body');
$body[0]->appendTextNode("\n");
my $div = XML::LibXML::Element->new('div');
$div->setAttribute('id', 'index');
$body[0]->appendChild($div);
$div->appendTextNode("\n");
my $h2 = XML::LibXML::Element->new('h2');
$h2->appendTextNode('Index');
$div->appendChild($h2);
$div->appendTextNode("\n");
for my $term (sort keys %terms) {
my $p = XML::LibXML::Element->new('p');
$div->appendChild($p);
$p->appendTextNode($term);
for my $id (@{$terms{$term}}) {
my $an = XML::LibXML::Element->new('a');
$an->setAttribute('class', 'ref');
$an->setAttribute('href', '#' . $id);
$an->appendTextNode(""); # zero-width space to prevent minimizing
$p->appendChild($an);
}
$div->appendTextNode("\n");
}
print $doc;
Here is some example Markdown illustrating the functionality:
Elfen verwenden gerne grosse [Raubkatzen](#katze) zum Schutz ihrer Lager.
> **Pumas**{: .ref ref="Puma"} (1W6-3) TW 3 RK 14 1W6 RW +1 BW 24 ML 7
> EP 300
### Raubkatzen {: #katze}
> **Puma**{: .ref} TW 3 RK 14 1W6 RW +1 BW 24 ML 7 EP 300
The XPath expression find the following terms:
-
“Pumas” because of
class="ref" and determines that the term
to use is “Puma” (singular) because of ref="Puma"
-
“Raubkatzen” because it’s a H3 heading
-
“Puma” because of
class="ref" and this time the term is the
text content
HTML generated for the Index:
<div id="index">
<h2>Index</h2>
…
<p>Puma<a class="ref" href="#puma"></a><a class="ref" href="#puma2"></a></p>
<p>Raubkatzen<a class="ref" href="#katze"></a></p>
…
</div>
The magic for page numbers is in the CSS, namely in the last rule where
it says that the content of index links is a space and
target-counter(attr(href), page).
/* index */
#index {
columns: 3;
column-gap: 2ex;
font-size: 11pt;
line-height: 13pt;
text-align: left;
}
#index h2 {
column-span: all;
}
#index p {
margin: 0;
padding-left: 1em;
text-indent: -1em;
}
#index a {
color: inherit;
text-decoration: none;
}
#index a::after {
content: ' ' target-counter(attr(href), page);
}
See for yourself:
#Markdown
#Perl
#Programming
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2023-11-10-index-markdown
Bright
spark techie knew the drill and used it to install a power line, but
couldn’t outsmart an odd electrician
date: 2023-11-13, updated: 2023-11-13, from: The Register (UK I.T.
News)
Shocking problem turned out to be a frame-up
Who, Me? Welcome once again, dear reader, to the
comforting embrace of Who, Me? in which Reg readers share their
tales of times technology plans did not quite work out as hoped or – as
in this case – the solution turned into the problem.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/13/who_me/
The
world has enough minerals for low-carbon electricity
date: 2023-11-13, from: Hannah Richie at Substack
Total reserves are not the issue – mine construction and geopolitical
risks are likely to be larger barriers to progress.
https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/minerals-for-electricity
South
Carolina Sen. Tim Scott Abruptly Ends 2024 Presidential Bid
date: 2023-11-13, from: VOA News USA
Republican presidential candidate Tim Scott abruptly announced late
Sunday that he was dropping out of the 2024 race, a development that
surprised his donors and stunned his campaign staff just two months
before the start of voting in Iowa’s leadoff Republican Party
caucuses.
The South Carolina senator, who entered the race in May with high
hopes, made the surprise announcement on Fox News Channel’s “Sunday
Night in America” with Trey Gowdy, one of his closest friends. The news
was so unanticipated that one campaign worker told The Associated Press
that campaign staff found out Scott was dropping out by watching the
show.
“I love America more today than I did on May 22,” Scott said Sunday.
“But when I go back to Iowa, it will not be as a presidential candidate.
I am suspending my campaign. I think the voters who are the most
remarkable people on the planet have been really clear that they’re
telling me, ‘Not now, Tim.’”
Scott’s impending departure comes as he and the rest of the
Republican field have struggled in a race that has been dominated by
former President Donald Trump.
Despite four criminal indictments and a slew of other legal
challenges, Trump continues to poll far ahead of his rivals, leading
many in the party to conclude the race is effectively over, barring some
stunning change of fortune.
Scott, in particular, has had trouble gaining traction in the polls,
despite millions spent on his behalf by high-profile donors. In his
efforts to run a positive campaign, he was often overshadowed by other
candidates — particularly on the debate stage, where he seemed to
disappear as others sparred. It was unclear whether Scott would qualify
for the upcoming fourth debate, which will require higher polling
numbers and more donors.
Scott is the second major candidate to leave the race since the end
of October. Former Vice President Mike Pence suspended his campaign two
weeks ago, announcing at a Republican Jewish Coalition gathering in Las
Vegas, “This is not my time.” Pence, however, was polling behind Scott
and was in a far more precarious financial position.
Scott said he wouldn’t immediately be endorsing any of his remaining
Republican rivals.
“The voters are really smart,” Scott said. “The best way for me to be
helpful is to not weigh in on who they should endorse.”
He also appeared to rule out serving as vice president, saying the
No. 2 slot “has never been on my to-do list for this campaign, and it’s
certainly not there now.”
Scott’s departure leaves Nikki Haley, Trump’s first United Nations
ambassador and the former South Carolina governor, as the sole South
Carolinian in the race.
As governor, Haley appointed Scott — then newly elected to his second
U.S. House term — to the Senate in 2012, and the fact that both were in
the 2024 race had created an uncomfortable situation for many of the
donors and voters who had supported them both through the years.
It also sparked some unpleasant on-stage moments during the first
three Republican debates, with the longtime allies — who for a time had
also shared political consultants — trading tense jabs. After the
surprise announcement, some of Scott’s donors said they would be
switching to back Haley in the primary.
In a post on X on Sunday night, Haley called Scott “a good man of
faith and an inspiration to so many,” adding that the Republican primary
“was made better by his participation in it.”
Scott’s team was so surprised by his exit that just 13 minutes before
he announced his departure, his campaign sent out an email soliciting
supporters for donations to further Scott’s “strong leadership and
optimistic, positive vision to lead our country forward.” Saying that
“EVERYTHING is on the line” to win the White House, the email went on
offering readers “ONE LAST CHANCE to donate this weekend and help Tim
reach his campaign goal.”
Campaign staffers expressed their extreme irritation to the AP in
light of the candidate recently shifting staff and money from New
Hampshire to Iowa in an effort to boost his standing in the leadoff
caucus.
A senior staffer characterized the experience as incredibly
frustrating, saying that staff had been working around the clock to
accommodate the move, only to completely reverse it. As with the
campaign worker who said Scott’s staff found out about his departure by
watching the senator on TV, the worker was not authorized to discuss the
internal deliberations publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Many donors were surprised and saddened by Scott’s announcement,
though they praised him for stepping aside to give Republicans a chance
to coalesce behind a Trump alternative.
Eric Levine, a New York-based donor who was raising money for Scott,
said he was caught totally off guard.
“He stepped aside with dignity. He is a true patriot. I could not
have been prouder to have supported him,” said Levine, a vocal Trump
critic. He said he would now be supporting Haley.
“She is our last best hope to defeat Donald Trump and then take back
the White House,” Levine said.
Chad Walldorf, a South Carolina businessman and longtime Scott
supporter and donor, thought Scott’s decision was in the best interest
of the Republican Party.
“I’ve always thought the field needs to winnow quickly so we can get
behind a good alternative to Trump, so I greatly respect Tim for
unselfishly stepping aside rather than waiting until too late,” said
Walldorf, who added he’s now backing Haley.
Mikee Johnson, a South Carolina businessman and Scott donor who
served as his national finance co-chairman, told the AP that he knew
before Scott’s TV appearance that he would be suspending his
campaign.
“He is honorable, knows his supporters were prepared to support him
for the duration, and was not going to ask that of his friends and
supporters,” said Johnson. “He is energized and ready for the next
phase. … I told him I did not have a single regret.”
Many of Scott’s former 2024 rivals issued statements Sunday night
wishing him well.
On social media, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis commended him as a “strong
conservative with bold ideas about how to get our country back on
track,” adding, “I respect his courage to run this campaign and thank
him for his service to America and the U.S. Senate.”
Pence called Scott “a man of faith and integrity who brought his
optimistic vision and inspiring personal story to people all across this
country.”
Trump’s campaign did not immediately respond to news of Scott’s exit.
But Trump has been careful not to criticize the senator, leading some in
his orbit to consider Scott a potential vice presidential pick.
The former president and his team had welcomed a large field of
rivals, believing they would splinter the anti-Trump vote and prevent a
clear challenger from emerging.
Scott’s next move is not clear. He has said that his 2022 Senate
reelection would be his last and has at times been mentioned as a
possible candidate for South Carolina governor, which is next up in
2026. Gov. Henry McMaster, a Trump backer, is term-limited, and the
Republican primary is expected to be heated.
https://www.voanews.com/a/south-carolina-sen-tim-scott-abruptly-ends-2024-presidential-bid/7352427.html
Royal
Mail cyber security still a mess, say infosec researchers
date: 2023-11-13, updated: 2023-11-13, from: The Register (UK I.T.
News)
ALSO: most Mainers are MOVEit victims, NY radiology firm fined for not
updating kit, and some critical vulnerabilities
Infosec in brief After spending almost a year cleaning
up after various security snafus, the UK’s Royal Mail has left an open
redirect flaw on one of its sites, according to infosec types. We’re
told this vulnerability potentially exposes customers to malware
infections and phishing attacks.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/13/royal_mail_cybersecurity_still_a/
Motorcyclist
injured in a collision with a vehicle in Fresno. He was unconscious
date: 2023-11-13, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Police said the collision happened at 5:45 p.m. Sunday at Kings
Canyon Road and Fowler Avenue.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article281781808.html
After
Massive Fire Closes Los Angeles Interstate, Motorists Urged to Take
Public Transport
date: 2023-11-13, from: VOA News USA
Los Angeles motorists should expect traffic snarls indefinitely as
crews assess how much damage was caused by a raging fire that closed a
major elevated interstate near downtown, officials said Sunday.
Hazardous materials teams were clearing burned material from
underneath Interstate 10 to make way for engineers to make sure the
columns and deck of the highway can support the 300,000 vehicles that
typically travel that route daily, Gov. Gavin Newsom said at a news
conference.
“Remember, this is an investigation as to the cause of how this
occurred, as well as a hazmat and structural engineering question,”
Newsom said. “Can you open a few lanes? Can you retrofit the columns? Is
the bridge deck intact to allow for a few lanes to remain open
again?”
Newsom said answering those questions would be a “24-7 operation,”
but officials couldn’t yet offer a timeline for when the highway might
reopen.
Commuters were urged to work from home or take public transportation
into downtown Los Angeles. The I-10 closure between Alameda Street and
Santa Fe Avenue will have ripple effects on surface streets and other
key freeways including State Route 60 and Interstate 5, the California
Highway Patrol said.
The cause of the fire was under investigation. Flames reported around
12:20 a.m. Saturday raged through two storage lots in an industrial area
underneath the highway, burning piles of wooden pallets, parked cars and
support poles for high-tension power lines, Fire Chief Kristin M.
Crowley said. No injuries were reported.
More than 160 firefighters from 26 companies responded to the blaze,
which spread across 8 acres (3 hectares) — the equivalent of about six
football fields — and burned for more than three hours. The highway’s
columns are charred and chipped, while guardrails along the deck are
twisted and blackened.
Newsom declared a state of emergency Saturday afternoon and directed
the state Department of Transportation to request assistance from the
federal government.
The governor said Sunday that the state has been in litigation with
the owner of the business leasing the storage property where the fire
started. The lease is expired, Newsom said, and the business had been in
arrears while subleasing the space. “This is a site we were aware of,
this is a lessee we were aware of,” he said.
California Secretary of Transportation Toks Omishakin said storage
yards under highways are common statewide and across the country. He
said the practice would be reevaluated following the fire.
At least 16 homeless people living underneath the highway were
evacuated and brought to shelters, Mayor Karen Bass said. Officials said
there was no immediate indication that the blaze began at the
encampment.
Bass said the fire’s long-term impact was reminiscent of damage from
the Northridge earthquake that flattened freeways in 1994.
“Unfortunately, there is no reason to think that this is going to be
over in a couple of days,” she said.
Los Angeles motorists should expect traffic snarls indefinitely as
crews assess how much damage was caused by a raging fire that closed a
major elevated interstate near downtown, officials said Sunday.
Hazardous materials teams were clearing burned material from
underneath Interstate 10 to make way for engineers to make sure the
columns and deck of the highway can support the 300,000 vehicles that
typically travel that route daily, Gov. Gavin Newsom said at a news
conference.
“Remember, this is an investigation as to the cause of how this
occurred, as well as a hazmat and structural engineering question,”
Newsom said. “Can you open a few lanes? Can you retrofit the columns? Is
the bridge deck intact to allow for a few lanes to remain open
again?”
Newsom said answering those questions would be a “24-7 operation,”
but officials couldn’t yet offer a timeline for when the highway might
reopen.
Commuters were urged to work from home or take public transportation
into downtown Los Angeles. The I-10 closure between Alameda Street and
Santa Fe Avenue will have ripple effects on surface streets and other
key freeways including State Route 60 and Interstate 5, the California
Highway Patrol said.
The cause of the fire was under investigation. Flames reported around
12:20 a.m. Saturday raged through two storage lots in an industrial area
underneath the highway, burning piles of wooden pallets, parked cars and
support poles for high-tension power lines, Fire Chief Kristin M.
Crowley said. No injuries were reported.
More than 160 firefighters from 26 companies responded to the blaze,
which spread across 8 acres (3 hectares) — the equivalent of about six
football fields — and burned for more than three hours. The highway’s
columns are charred and chipped, while guardrails along the deck are
twisted and blackened.
Newsom declared a state of emergency Saturday afternoon and directed
the state Department of Transportation to request assistance from the
federal government.
The governor said Sunday that the state has been in litigation with
the owner of the business leasing the storage property where the fire
started. The lease is expired, Newsom said, and the business had been in
arrears while subleasing the space. “This is a site we were aware of,
this is a lessee we were aware of,” he said.
California Secretary of Transportation Toks Omishakin said storage
yards under highways are common statewide and across the country. He
said the practice would be reevaluated following the fire.
At least 16 homeless people living underneath the highway were
evacuated and brought to shelters, Mayor Karen Bass said. Officials said
there was no immediate indication that the blaze began at the
encampment.
Bass said the fire’s long-term impact was reminiscent of damage from
the Northridge earthquake that flattened freeways in 1994.
“Unfortunately, there is no reason to think that this is going to be
over in a couple of days,” she said.
https://www.voanews.com/a/after-massive-fire-closes-los-angeles-interstate-motorists-urged-to-take-public-transport/7352418.html
ZooLights
Light Up the Night at Santa Barbara Zoo
date: 2023-11-13, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
‘A wow on steroids,’ this year’s exhibit is 95 percent new to Santa
Barbara.
The post
ZooLights
Light Up the Night at Santa Barbara Zoo appeared first on
The Santa Barbara
Independent.
https://www.independent.com/2023/11/12/zoolights-light-up-the-night-at-santa-barbara-zoo/
Foxconn
launches its first satellites on a SpaceX rideshare, to advance
Microsoft space plan
date: 2023-11-13, updated: 2023-11-13, from: The Register (UK I.T.
News)
Musky launch outfit teases possible Friday fling for its colossal
Starship
Taiwan’s contract manufacturer to the stars, Foxconn, has flown its
first pair of satellites.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/13/foxconn_satellite_network_first_launch/
China’s
annual e-tail frenzy broke records – trust us, say government, Alibaba
and JD.com
date: 2023-11-13, updated: 2023-11-13, from: The Register (UK I.T.
News)
5.26 billion packages shipped, 639 million on Saturday alone. But
nobody’s puffing up the cash pile
Alibaba and JD.com have forged a new holiday tradition by discussing
anything but the revenue generated by the nation’s annual 11.11
“Singles’ day” e-tail frenzy.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/13/singles_day_2023_records/
Another
Wildfire Burns in Hawaii, This One is Destroying a Rainforest
date: 2023-11-13, from: VOA News USA
A wildfire burning in a remote Hawaii rainforest is underscoring a
new reality for the normally lush island state just a few months after a
devastating blaze on a neighboring island leveled an entire town and
killed at least 99 people.
No one was injured and no homes burned in the latest fire, which
scorched mountain ridges on Oahu, but the flames wiped out irreplaceable
native forestland that’s home to nearly two dozen fragile species. And
overall, the ingredients are the same as they were in Maui’s historic
town of Lahaina: severe drought fueled by climate change is creating
fire in Hawaii where it has almost never been before.
“It was really beautiful native forest,” said JC Watson, the manager
of the Koolau Mountains Watershed Partnership, which helps take care of
the land. He recalled it had uluhe fern, which often dominate Hawaii
rainforests, and koa trees whose wood has traditionally been used to
make canoes, surfboards and ukuleles.
“It’s not a full-on clean burn, but it is pretty moonscape-looking
out there,” Watson said.
The fact that this fire was on Oahu’s wetter, windward side is a “red
flag to all of us that there is change afoot,” said Sam ’Ohu Gon III,
senior scientist and cultural adviser at The Nature Conservancy in
Hawaii.
The fire mostly burned inside the Oahu Forest National Wildlife
Refuge, which is home to 22 species listed as endangered or threatened
by the U.S. government. They include iiwi and elepaio birds, a tree
snail called pupu kani oe and the Hawaiian hoary bat, also known as
opeapea. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which manages the refuge,
does not know yet what plants or wildlife may have been damaged or
harmed by the fire, spokesperson Kristen Oleyte-Velasco said.
The fire incinerated 6.5 square kilometers (2.5 square miles) since
first being spotted on Oct. 30 and was 90% contained as of Friday.
Officials were investigating the cause of the blaze roughly 32
kilometers (20 miles) north of Honolulu.
The flames left gaping, dark bald spots amid a blanket of thick green
where the fire did not burn. The skeletons of blackened trees poked from
the charred landscape.
The burn area may seem relatively small compared to wildfires on the
U.S. continent, which can raze hundreds of square miles. But Hawaii’s
intact native ecosystems aren’t large to begin with, especially on
smaller islands like Oahu, so even limited fires have far-reaching
consequences.
One major concern is what plants will grow in place of the native
forest.
Hawaii’s native plants evolved without encountering regular fires,
and fire is not part of their natural life cycle. Faster-growing
non-native plants with more seeds tend to sprout in place of native
species afterward.
Watson said an Oahu forest near the latest fire had uluhe ferns, koa
trees and ohia trees before a blaze burned less than a square mile of it
2015. Now the land features invasive grasses that are more fire-prone,
and some slow-growing koa.
A much larger 2016 fire in the Waianae mountains on the other side of
Oahu took out one of the last remaining populations of a rare tree
gardenia, said Gon.
There are cultural losses when native forest burns. Gon recalled an
old Central Oahu story about a warrior who was thrown off a cliff while
battling an enemy chief. His fall was stopped by an ohia tree, another
plant common in the incinerated area.
Feathers from Hawaii’s forest birds were once used to make cloaks and
helmets worn by chiefs.
Watson’s organization is coordinating with the Fish and Wildlife
Service to conduct initial surveys of the damage. They’ll devise a
restoration plan that will include invasive species control and planting
native species. But there are limits to what can be done.
“It’ll never be able to be returned to its previous state within our
lifetimes,” Watson said. “It’s forever changed, unfortunately.”
The Mililani Mauka fire — named after the area near where the fire
began — burned in the Koolau mountains. These mountains are on Oahu’s
wetter, windward side because they trap moisture and rain that move
across the island from the northeast.
But repeated and more prolonged episodes of drought are making even
the Koolaus dry. Gon expects more frequent Koolau fires in the
future.
“There has been a huge uptick in the last 10 years, largely in
Waianae range, which is the western and drier portion of the island,”
Gon said. “But now we’re seeing fires in the wet section of the island
that normally doesn’t see any fires at all.”
Hawaii fires are almost always started by humans, so Gon said more
needs to be done to raise awareness about prevention. Native forests
could be further protected with buffer zones by planting less flammable
vegetation in former sugarcane and pineapple plantation lands often
found at lower elevations, he said.
Many of these now-fallow fields sprout dry, invasive grasses. Such
grasses fueled the blaze that raced across Lahaina in August,
highlighting their dangers. The cause of that fire is still being
investigated, but it may have been sparked by downed power lines that
ignited dry grass. Winds related to a powerful hurricane passing to the
south helped spread the blaze, which destroyed more than 2,000 buildings
and homes for some 8,000 people.
The fire is likely to affect Oahu’s fresh water supply, though this
is challenging to measure. Oahu’s 1 million residents and visitors get
their drinking water from aquifers, but it usually takes decades for
rain to seep through the ground to recharge them. Native forests are the
best at absorbing rain, so the disappearance of high-quality forest is
certain to have some effect, Watson said.
State officials are seeking additional funding from the Legislature
next year for updated firefighting equipment, firebreaks, new water
sources for fire suppression, replanting native trees and plants, and
seed storage.
Firefighters and rain last week finally tamped down the Oahu blaze,
but Gon urged action now “to make sure that it doesn’t turn into yearly
fires nibbling away at the source of our water supply.”
https://www.voanews.com/a/another-wildfire-burns-in-hawaii-this-one-is-destroying-a-rainforest/7352378.html
Newhall
off-ramp shut down for three hours due to overturned trailer
date: 2023-11-13, from: The Signal
An overturned trailer shut down the Newhall Avenue off-ramp of the
southbound State Route 14 for approximately three hours on Sunday. “We
issued a Sigalert due to a collision that occurred on the off-ramp,”
said officer Stephan Brant, a spokesman for the California Highway
Patrol. “For three hours it’ll be closed.” According to the CHP […]
The post
Newhall
off-ramp shut down for three hours due to overturned trailer
appeared first on Santa
Clarita Valley Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2023/11/newhall-off-ramp-shut-down-for-three-hours-due-to-overturned-trailer/
@Miguel de
Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2023-11-13, from: Miguel de Icaza
Mastondon feed)
The problem with Bloomberg leaks on Apple products it is that they are
undistinguishable from fanfic.
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/111400511950306952
Monday 13 November, 2023
date: 2023-11-13, from: John Naughton’s online diary
Bike Park Seen on a riverside walk on Saturday. Quote of the Day
“Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as
distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.”
Ambrose Bierce (from his Devil’s …
Continue
reading →
https://memex.naughtons.org/monday-13-november-2023/38807/
Mushrooms
Can Help Cut Wildfire Risks, Scientists Find
date: 2023-11-13, from: VOA News USA
In the Western United States, foresters are working to minimize
threats from wildfires by thinning nearly 20 million hectares of
forests. From the Rocky Mountain state of Colorado, Shelley Schlender
reports on how scientists are using mushrooms to reduce wildfire risks
organically.
https://www.voanews.com/a/mushrooms-can-help-cut-wildfire-risks-scientists-find/7352350.html
Australia
declares ‘nationally significant cyber incident’ after port attack
date: 2023-11-13, updated: 2023-11-13, from: The Register (UK I.T.
News)
PLUS: Citrix quits China; Cambodia deports Japanese scammers; Chinese
tech CEO disappears; and more
Asia in brief Australia’s National Cyber Security
Coordinator has described an attack on logistics company DP World as a
“nationally significant cyber incident.”…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/13/asia_tech_news_roundup/
date: 2023-11-13, from: OS News
However, there was a secret weapon hidden in ANS AIX most of us at
the time never knew about. Built-in to the operating system was a fully
Unix-native AppleTalk stack and support for receiving and sending Apple
Events, surfaced in the form of Apple’s disk administration tools and
AppleShare. But Apple had a much more expansive vision for this feature:
full server-client “symbiotic” applications that could do their
number-crunching on the ANS and present the results on a desktop Mac.
Using the Program-to-Program Communication Toolbox (“PPCToolbox”), and
because AIX’s throughput far exceeded anything the classic Mac OS ever
could ever handle, an ANS could augment a whole bunch of Macs at once
that didn’t have to stop to do the work themselves. Well, today we’re
going to write one of those “symbiotic” applications doing something
this little Mystic Color Classic could never efficiently do itself —
accessing and processing a JSON API over TLS 1.3 — and demonstrate not
only how such an client application looked on the Mac side, but also how
the server component worked on the AIX side. If you’re lucky enough to
have an ANS running AIX too, you can even compile and run it yourself.
But before we do that, it might be a little instructive to talk about
how the Apple Network Server came to run AIX in the first place. I had
no idea the ANS could do this. That’s an incredibly cool feature, and
clearly fits in the whole “the network is the computer” idea that
dominated the late ’90s.
https://www.osnews.com/story/137832/the-apple-network-servers-all-too-secret-weapon-ppc-toolbox/
Episode 120 - Simply COSMAC
date: 2023-11-13, from: Advent of Computing
Have you ever
opined for a simpler time? Have you ever wanted a computer that you can
understand all the way down to the silicon? Then RCA’s COSMAC might be
the architecture for you! COSMAC was a simplified computer architecture
designed in the early 70s. It’s tiny, cheap, and built to be easy to
understand. But is the chip actually useful?
https://adventofcomputing.libsyn.com/episode-120-simply-cosmac
How
a kernel developer made my styluses work again on newer kernels
date: 2023-11-13, from: OS News
Remember when we linked to David Revoy’s story about how his drawing
pen’s buttons stopped working properly due to a Linux kernel update?
Well, it turns out that Linux kernel developers took this one up, and a
fix is already being tested. This solution is still W.I.P. and I still
have some homework to send more data about my tablets after this blog
post, but in overall I’m already using a newer kernel (Linux workstation
6.5.10-200.fc38.x86_64) and I don’t have the problem with the eraser
mode on the top button of my XPPen Artist 24 Pro and XPPen Artist 16 Pro
Gen2 styluses. The buttons are also now perfectly customisable via
xsetwacom CLI tool. Yay! That’s why I wanted to share this blog-post as
soon as possible. Be sure to read the whole article for an in-depth
explanation of what’s being done to fix this.
https://www.osnews.com/story/137830/how-a-kernel-developer-made-my-styluses-work-again-on-newer-kernels/
Taylor
Swift’s dad — an Eagles fan — wears Chiefs lanyard in Argentina. KC fans
love it
date: 2023-11-13, from: Fresno Bee Stories
So who will Scott Swift root for when the Chiefs and Eagles play a
Super Bowl rematch next week?
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281763228.html
2U and USC to ‘wind down’
partnership
date: 2023-11-12, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The online education company will part with USC on three degree
programs.
The post
2U
and USC to ‘wind down’ partnership appeared first on
Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/12/2u-and-usc-to-wind-down-partnership/
US
Strikes Iran-Linked Sites in Eastern Syria, Pentagon Chief Says
date: 2023-11-12, from: VOA News USA
The United States carried out strikes against two Iran-linked sites
in Syria on Sunday in response to attacks on American personnel, Defense
Secretary Lloyd Austin said.
It is the third time in less than three weeks that the U.S. military
has targeted locations in Syria it said were tied to Iran, which
supports various armed groups that Washington blames for a spike in
attacks on its forces in the Middle East.
“U.S. military forces conducted precision strikes today on facilities
in eastern Syria used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)
and Iran-affiliated groups in response to continued attacks against U.S.
personnel in Iraq and Syria,” Austin said in a statement.
“The strikes were conducted against a training facility and a safe
house near the cities of Albu Kamal and Mayadeen, respectively,” he
said.
The United States targeted a Tehran-linked weapons storage site in
Syria on Wednesday, and also hit two facilities in the country on
October 26 that it said were used by Iran and affiliated organizations.
Washington says the series of strikes is in response to repeated
attacks on American forces in Iraq and Syria – more than 45 since
October 17 – that have wounded dozens of U.S. personnel.
The surge in attacks on U.S. troops in recent weeks is linked to the
war between Israel and Hamas, which began when the Palestinian militant
group carried out a shock cross-border attack from Gaza on October 7
that Israeli officials say killed about 1,200 people.
Israel’s military responded with a relentless air, land and naval
assault on Gaza that the territory’s health ministry said has killed
more than 11,100 people – deaths that have sparked widespread anger in
the Middle East, and criticism against Washington from Iran-backed
groups.
There are roughly 2,500 American troops in Iraq and some 900 in Syria
as part of efforts to prevent a resurgence of the Islamic State
group.
The militant group once held significant territory in both countries
but were pushed back by local ground forces supported by international
air strikes in a bloody, multiyear conflict.
https://www.voanews.com/a/us-strikes-iran-linked-sites-in-eastern-syria-pentagon-chief-says/7352007.html
Protesters
Decry World Leaders, Israel-Hamas War at APEC in San Francisco
date: 2023-11-12, from: VOA News USA
Activists protesting corporate profits, environmental abuses, poor
working conditions and the Israel-Hamas war marched Sunday in downtown
San Francisco, united in their opposition to a global trade summit that
will draw President Joe Biden and leaders from nearly two dozen
countries.
Protests are expected throughout this week’s Asia-Pacific Economic
Cooperation leaders’ conference, which could draw more than 20,000
attendees, including hundreds of international journalists. The No to
APEC coalition, made up of more than 100 grassroots groups, says trade
deals struck at summits such as APEC exploit workers and their
families.
It’s unlikely world leaders will even glimpse the protests given the
strict security zones accessible only to attendees at the Moscone Center
conference hall and other summit sites. But Suzanne Ali, an organizer
for the Palestinian Youth Movement, says the U.S. government needs to be
held to account for supplying weapons to Israel in its war against
Hamas.
“Even if they cannot see us, as we’re mobilizing and marching
together, they will know that we’re out there,” she said.
San Francisco has a long tradition of loud and vigorous protests, as
do trade talks. In 1999, tens of thousands of protesters took to the
streets of Seattle during a World Trade Organization conference.
Protesters succeeded in delaying the start of the conference and
captured global attention as overwhelmed police fired tear gas and
plastic bullets and arrested hundreds of people.
Chile withdrew as APEC host in 2019 due to mass protests. Last year,
when Thailand hosted the summit in Bangkok, pro-democracy protesters
challenged the legitimacy of the Thai prime minister. Police fired at
the crowd with rubber bullets that injured several protesters and a
Reuters journalist.
Chief Bill Scott of the San Francisco Police Department said he
expects several protests a day, although it’s uncertain how many will
materialize. He warned against criminal behavior.
“People are welcome to exercise their constitutional rights in San
Francisco, but we will not tolerate people committing acts of violence,
or property destruction or any other crime,” Scott said. “We will make
arrests when necessary.”
APEC, a regional economic forum, was established in 1989 and has 21
member countries, including the world’s two largest economic superpowers
— China and the U.S — as well as Mexico, Brazil and the Philippines. An
accompanying CEO summit is scheduled for this week, which critics also
plan to protest Wednesday.
Headlining the summit is a highly anticipated meeting between Biden
and Chinese President Xi Jinping, who rarely — if at all — encounters
protesters on home soil.
China has heavy security ahead of any events within its borders to
ensure no protests occur. It also steps up border checks at city limits
and at transit points such as railway stations and airports. Human
rights activists based in China will often receive visits or phone calls
from police ahead of important events as reminders to not
demonstrate.
Rory McVeigh, sociology professor and director of the Center for the
Study of Social Movements at the University of Notre Dame, said
politicians use protests to gauge public opinion and that media
attention helps.
“Probably a lot of protests just don’t make much difference, but
occasionally they do, and occasionally they can make a huge difference,”
he said.
The United Vietnamese American Community of Northern California plans
to protest Xi and Vietnam President Vo Van Thuong. The International
Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines will be rallying for the
rights of Indigenous Filipinos and protesting the presence of President
Bongbong Marcos, the son of dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
Protesters are disappointed that San Francisco, with its rich history
of standing up for the working class, would host CEOs of companies and
leaders of countries that they say do great harm.
“It’s silly, from the mayor to the governor to the president, they
want to say this is a great idea to have all these people who have been
profiting off the intersecting crises of our time,” said Nik Evasco, a
climate activist. “It’s just sickening.”
https://www.voanews.com/a/protesters-decry-world-leaders-israel-hamas-war-at-apec-in-san-francisco/7351996.html
Proposal: an HTML element
for spoilers
date: 2023-11-12, from: Tilde.news
Comments
https://seirdy.one/posts/2023/11/12/spoiler-element/
Man
making threats against pastor is shot and killed outside church, Texas
cops say
date: 2023-11-12, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“It’s tragic that these types of things can occur anywhere, any
time,” Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281770483.html
Kings
All-Star De’Aaron Fox nearing return from injury. Will he play against
Cavaliers?
date: 2023-11-12, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Kings point guard De’Aaron Fox returned to practice Sunday and could
be on the verge of returning to the lineup. Here’s what we know.
https://www.fresnobee.com/sports/article281766868.html
‘The
Marvels’ Melts Down at Box Office, Marking New Low for MCU
date: 2023-11-12, from: VOA News USA
Since 2008’s “Iron Man,” the Marvel machine has been one of the most
unstoppable forces in box-office history. Now, though, that aura of
invincibility is showing signs of wear and tear. The superhero factory
hit a new low with the weekend launch of “The Marvels,” which opened
with just $47 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
The 33rd installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, a sequel to
the 2019 Brie Larson-led “Captain Marvel,” managed less than a third of
the $153.4 million its predecessor launched with before ultimately
taking in $1.13 billion worldwide.
Sequels, especially in Marvel Land, aren’t supposed to fall off a
cliff. Yet “The Marvels” debuted with more than $100 million less than
“Captain Marvel” opened with — something no sequel before has ever done.
David A. Gross, who runs the movie consulting firm Franchise Research
Entertainment, called it “an unprecedented Marvel box-office
collapse.”
The previous low for a Walt Disney Co.-owned Marvel movie was
“Ant-Man,” which bowed with $57.2 million in 2015. Otherwise, you have
to go outside the Disney MCU to find such a slow start for a Marvel
movie — releases like Universal’s “The Incredible Hulk” with $55.4
million in 2008, Sony’s “Morbius” with $39 million in 2022 or 20th
Century Fox’s “Fantastic Four” reboot with $25.6 million in 2015.
But “The Marvels” was a $200 million-plus sequel to a billion-dollar
blockbuster. It was also an exceptional Marvel release in numerous ways.
The film, directed by Nia DaCosta, was the first MCU release directed by
a Black woman. It was also the rare Marvel movie led by three women —
Larson, Teyonah Parris and Iman Vellani.
Reviews weren’t strong (62% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes) and neither was
audience reaction. “The Marvels” is only the third MCU release to
receive a “B” CinemaScore from moviegoers, following “Eternals” and
“Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantamania.”
“The Marvels,” which added $63.3 million in overseas ticket sales,
may go down as a turning point in the MCU. Over the years, the franchise
has collected $33 billion globally — a point Disney noted in reporting
its grosses Sunday.
But with movie screens and streaming platforms increasingly crowded
with superhero films and series, some analysts have detected a new
fatigue setting in for audiences. Disney chief executive Bob Iger
himself has spoken about possible oversaturation for Marvel.
“Over the last three and a half years, the growth of the genre has
stopped,” Gross wrote in a newsletter Sunday.
Either way, something is shifting for superheroes. The box-office
crown this year appears assured to go to “Barbie,” the year’s biggest
smash with more than $1.4 billion worldwide for Warner Bros.
Marvel has still produced recent hits. “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.
3” launched this summer with $118 million before ultimately raking in
$845.6 million worldwide. Sony’s “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”
earned $690.5 million globally and, after rave reviews, is widely
expected to be an Oscar contender.
The actors strike also didn’t do “The Marvels” any favors. The cast
of the film weren’t permitted to promote the film until the strike was
called off late Wednesday evening when SAG-AFTRA and the studios reached
agreement. Larson and company quickly jumped onto social media and made
surprise appearances in theaters. And Larson guested on “The Tonight
Show” on Friday.
The normally orderly pattern of MCU releases has also been disrupted
by the strikes. After numerous strike-related delays, the only Marvel
movie currently on the studio’s 2024 calendar is “Deadpool 3,” opening
July 26.
Separately, after two weeks atop the box office, Universal Pictures’
“Five Nights at Freddy’s” slid to second place with $9 million in its
third weekend of release. The Blumhouse-produced videogame adaptation
has accumulated $127.2 million domestically.
Taylor Swift’s “The Eras Tour” concert film came in third with $5.9
million from 2,484 venues in its fifth weekend of release. The film,
produced by Swift and distributed by AMC Theatres, has made $172.5
million domestically and $240.9 million worldwide.
Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla” held strongly in its second weekend of
wide release. The A24 film, starring Cailee Spaeny as Priscilla Presley
and Jacob Elordi as Elvis, remained in fourth place with $4.8 million,
dipping only 5% from the week prior.
Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon,” an Apple Studios
production being theatrically distributed by Paramount Pictures, took in
$4.7 million on its fourth weekend, to bring its domestic haul to about
$60 million. While quite low for a $200 million movie, “Killers of the
Flower Moon” is primarily an awards-season statement by Apple of its
growing moviemaking ambitions.
In its first weekend of expanded release, Alexander Payne’s acclaimed
“The Holdovers,” starring Paul Giamatti as a curmudgeonly
boarding-school instructor, launched with $3.2 million from 778
locations. The Focus Features release, an expected Oscar contender, will
hope for strong legs as it plays through the fall.
“Journey to Bethlehem,” a release from Sony’s Christian subsidiary
Affirm Films, debuted with $2.4 million in about 2,000 locations.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian
theaters, according to Comscore. Final domestic figures will be released
Monday.
“The Marvels,” $47 million.
“Five Nights at Freddys,” $9 million.
“Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour,” $5.9 million.
“Priscilla,” $4.8 million.
“Killers of the Flower Moon,” $4.7 million.
“The Holdovers,” $3.2 million.
“Journey to Bethlehem,” $2.4 million.
“Tiger 3,” $2.3 million.
“Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie,” $1.8 million.
“Radical,” $1.8 million.
https://www.voanews.com/a/the-marvels-melts-down-at-box-office-marking-new-low-for-mcu/7351960.html
Ukraine
Delegation in US for Talks, Top Zelenskyy Aide Says
date: 2023-11-12, from: VOA News USA
Top Ukraine presidential aide Andriy Yermak said Sunday he had
arrived in the United States with a delegation headed by the economy
minister for talks on cooperation and support to his war-torn country.
“Meetings in the White House, Congress, with think tanks and with
representatives of civil society organizations are planned,” Yermak
said.
The delegation led by Yulia Svyrydenko will discuss “the president’s
formula for peace, strengthening Ukraine’s defense, comprehensively
deepening our cooperation and many other important topics,” he added.
Ukrainian officials, including President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, are
regularly meeting with Western leaders to try to stave off conflict
fatigue.
The war is now in its 21st month and Ukraine is struggling to gain
ground in its counteroffensive.
https://www.voanews.com/a/ukraine-delegation-in-us-for-talks-top-zelenskyy-aide-says/7351955.html
Women’s
soccer eases into NCAA Tournament second round
date: 2023-11-12, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Despite the 1-0 scoreline, the Trojans dominated GCU from start to
finish.
The post
Women’s
soccer eases into NCAA Tournament second round appeared first on
Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/12/womens-soccer-eases-into-ncaa-tournament-second-round/
If
Reelected, Biden Wants to Complete His Goals on Civil Rights, Taxes,
Social Services
date: 2023-11-12, from: VOA News USA
President Joe Biden has a simple reelection pitch to voters — let him
“finish the job.”
So what does that mean? What’s left for him to get done?
Unlike Donald Trump, the front-runner for the 2024 Republican
presidential nomination who has been releasing videos and statements
detailing his agenda, Biden hasn’t formally released his plans as part
of his campaign.
But his ambitions are no secret, and his goals for child care,
community college and prescription drugs have been laid out in detail
during the Democrat’s first term. He also has unfulfilled promises on
civil rights, such as protecting access to the ballot box, preventing
police misconduct and restoring the nationwide right to abortion.
Banning firearms known as assault rifles remains a priority as well.
The result is a second-term agenda that could look a lot like Biden’s
first-term agenda, with some of the same political challenges. Almost
none of this can get done without cooperation from Congress, and many of
these goals already have been blocked or pared down because of
opposition on Capitol Hill.
Biden has achieved bipartisan victories on infrastructure projects
and public funding for the domestic computer chip industry. But
Democrats would need to win wide majorities in both the House and the
Senate to clear a path for the rest of his plans.
“We’re going to finish as much of the job as we can in the next
year,” said Bruce Reed, Biden’s deputy chief of staff. “And finish the
rest after that.”
Taxes
Biden’s plans are expensive and he doesn’t want to increase the
deficit, so that means he’s looking to raise taxes on the wealthy.
He already has succeeded in implementing a 15% minimum tax on
companies with annual income exceeding $1 billion.
Biden has proposed raising the top tax rate to 39.6%, the corporate
tax rate to 28% and the stock buyback tax to 4%.
He wants a minimum tax of 25% on the wealthiest Americans, a levy
that would be applied not only to income but unrealized capital gains.
The idea, which Biden called the “billionaire minimum income tax,” could
prove difficult to put in place, not to mention extremely hard to push
through Congress, given Republican opposition to higher taxes.
Social services and health care
Biden’s original signature plan was known as Build Back Better, a
cornucopia of proposals that would have dramatically changed the role of
the federal government in Americans’ lives.
It was pared down because of resistance from Sen. Joe Manchin, a West
Virginia Democrat who is a key vote in the narrowly divided Senate and
announced this past week that he will not seek reelection. The result
was the Inflation Reduction Act, which included financial incentives for
clean energy and limits on prescription drug costs, but not many other
programs.
Biden will want to bring back the ideas that were left on the cutting
room floor. That includes making two years of community college tuition
free, offering universal preschool and limiting the cost of child care
to 7% of income for most families.
He also wants to resuscitate the expanded child tax credit. The
American Rescue Plan, the pandemic-era relief legislation, boosted the
credit to $3,000 for children over six and $3,600 for children younger
than age 6. The expansion lapsed after a year, returning the credit to
$2,000 per child, when his original package stalled.
More work is left on prescription drugs. The monthly cost of insulin
was capped at $35 for Medicare recipients. Biden wants the same limit
for all patients.
Gun violence
The White House recently announced a new office dedicated to
preventing gun violence. Biden also signed legislation that’s intended
to help officials keep guns out of the hands of domestic abusers and
other dangerous people.
But Biden’s biggest goal, a ban on so-called assault weapons, remains
out of reach because of Republican opposition. Such a ban was in place
from 1994 to 2004, but it wasn’t extended after it expired. Although the
proposal hasn’t been spelled out in detail, it would likely affect
popular high-powered weapons such as the AR-15, which can shoot dozens
of bullets at a fast pace.
Another item on the wish list is universal background checks, which
increase scrutiny of sales conducted through gun shows or other
unlicensed avenues.
Civil rights
Biden took office at a time of national upheaval over the role of
racism in policing and the future of democracy. George Floyd, a Black
man in Minneapolis, was murdered by a white police officer, and Trump
tried to overturn Biden’s election victory, leading to the riot on
Jan. 6, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol.
Biden promised to address both of these issues through landmark
legislation, but he came up short of his goals.
On policing, bipartisan negotiations on Capitol Hill failed to reach
a deal, particularly when it came to making it easier to sue over
allegations of misconduct. So Biden instead crafted an executive order
with input from activists and police. The final version changes rules
for federal law enforcement, but it does little to alter how local
departments do their jobs.
He similarly issued an executive order on voting rights that aims to
expand registration efforts. But Democratic legislation intended to
solidify access to the ballot box failed to advance when some members of
the party refused to sidestep Senate filibuster rules to pass it.
Biden’s presidency was upended by the Supreme Court’s decision to
overturn Roe v. Wade, which guaranteed nationwide access to abortion.
It’s proved to be a potential campaign issue for Democrats, but they
have had less success in Congress. Biden said that if his party picks up
more seats, he will push for legislation codifying the right to
abortion.
Immigration
On Biden’s first day in office, he sent Congress his proposal for
overhauling the country’s immigration system. The idea went nowhere.
But the president would want to take another swing at the issue in a
second term. It will prove an especially urgent topic as migrants
continue crossing the U.S.-Mexico border and the country looks for the
next generation of workers to achieve its economic goals.
Biden wants to allow people who are in the United States illegally to
apply for legal status and eventually citizenship. He also wants a
smoother and expanded visa process, particularly for foreign graduates
of American universities. These steps would be paired with additional
resources for border enforcement.
Ukraine and Israel
Biden is facing two wars on two continents, and the fallout from each
conflict will shape a second term even if the fighting ends before
that.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been going on for almost two
years, and Israel and Hamas began their latest clash about a month ago.
Biden wants to send military support to Ukraine and Israel, something
that he describes as “vital” to U.S. national security interests.
“History has taught us when terrorists don’t pay a price for their
terror, when dictators don’t pay a price for their aggression, they
cause more chaos and death and more destruction,” he said in a recent
Oval Office address.
His plans will require challenging congressional negotiations. Some
Republicans are resisting more assistance for Ukraine after Congress has
already approved $113 billion in security, economic and humanitarian
resistance.
Both conflicts will likely require years of U.S. involvement. For
example, Biden is looking for a new opportunity to push for a two-state
solution in the Middle East, creating an independent Palestinian country
alongside Israel.
Climate
Fighting global warming is one of the areas where Biden has had the
most success. The Inflation Reduction Act includes nearly $375 billion
for climate change, much of it going toward financial incentives for
electric cars, clean energy and other initiatives. Biden is also pushing
stricter regulations on vehicles and power plants.
But the U.S. is not yet on track to meet Biden’s ambitious target for
reducing greenhouse gas emissions, according to independent analysts.
And there’s a lot of work ahead to ensure new programs reach their
potential.
One hurdle is red tape for energy projects. The White House argues
that it’s too hard to build infrastructure such as transmission lines,
but legislation to address the issue would likely require compromises
with Republicans, who see an opportunity to grease the skids for
additional fossil fuel development.
https://www.voanews.com/a/if-reelected-biden-wants-to-complete-his-goals-on-civil-rights-taxes-social-services/7351938.html
Women’s
basketball stifles FGCU, improves to 2-0
date: 2023-11-12, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The 1984 champions were honored at the Trojans’ home opener.
The post
Women’s
basketball stifles FGCU, improves to 2-0 appeared first on
Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/12/womens-basketball-stifles-fgcu-improves-to-2-0/
Life in Links 53
date: 2023-11-12, from: John’s World Wide Wall Display
I am a fan of micro:bits too, these look like great lessons, nicely
packaged. CC BY-NC too. I’ve mostly been avoiding Twitter/X recently,
but I still get emails. This looks like it might be fun in class. I
don’t really do much with spotify either, but looking for a poetry
podcast I found this one […]
https://johnjohnston.info/blog/life-in-links-53/
Man
holding drink cup full of meth ‘confidently’ lets warden search truck,
officials say
date: 2023-11-12, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The man made sure to get his burrito and 44-ounce drink from the
truck before it was searched, Texas officials said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281765588.html
Take Part in the
City’s First Pet Adoption Week
date: 2023-11-12, from: City of Santa Clarita
Take Part in the City’s First Pet Adoption Week By City Manager Ken
Striplin With over 100 miles of trails, thousands of acres of open space
and 37 parks located throughout the City, Santa Clarita is not just
perfect for families, but also for our four-legged family members. As a
pet-friendly City, our community cares […]
The post
Take
Part in the City’s First Pet Adoption Week appeared first on
City of Santa Clarita.
https://santaclarita.gov/blog/2023/11/12/take-part-in-the-citys-first-pet-adoption-week/
Woman
hiding in home from armed intruder pleads with 911 for help, Ohio cops
say
date: 2023-11-12, from: Fresno Bee Stories
During one of the calls, the woman said one word: “Help.”
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281765108.html
5
US Military Personnel Killed in Mediterranean Air Refueling Training
Crash
date: 2023-11-12, from: VOA News USA
Five U.S. service personnel were killed Friday when their aircraft
crashed into the Mediterranean Sea during a routine air refueling
training mission, the U.S. Defense Department said Sunday.
The U.S. European Command gave no further details of the incident or
where it occurred but said the crash did not involve hostile fire. It
said the names of those killed would not be released until 24 hours
after their relatives had been notified.
The U.S. military has deployed two aircraft carriers, their
supporting ships and dozens of aircraft to the eastern Mediterranean
since Hamas militants’ surprise October 7 attack on Israel, to act as a
deterrent to a spread of the conflict.
Nearby U.S. military aircraft and ships began an immediate search for
the wreckage, while authorities said they were opening an investigation
into the cause of the crash.
In a statement, U.S. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden
paid tribute to the five who were killed, saying the “daily bravery and
selflessness” of the country’s service members “is an enduring testament
to what is best in our nation. Jill and I are praying for the families
and friends who have lost a precious loved one — a piece of their
soul.”
https://www.voanews.com/a/us-military-personnel-killed-in-mediterranean-air-refueling-training-crash/7351895.html
Florida,
California, other states, check your cantaloupes. There’s a salmonella
recall
date: 2023-11-12, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The recall of the melons from Mexico also went to distributors in
Texas and seven other states, but could’ve gone to retail stores beyond
those states.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/recalls/article281764363.html
Everything
Winnie the Pooh can teach you about college
date: 2023-11-12, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
How an eccentric crew of talking zoo animals can prepare you to leave
home.
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Everything
Winnie the Pooh can teach you about college appeared first on
Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/12/everything-winnie-the-pooh-can-teach-you-about-college/
Groups
trade gunfire off Blackstone, Fresno police say. Cars hit and man
hospitalized
date: 2023-11-12, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Police said the shooting occurred just after midnight Sunday.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/crime/article281763238.html
@Dave Winer’s
Scripting News (date: 2023-11-12, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting
News)
If
Threads is
serious about being open, what’s preventing them from adding a simple
posting API and
outbound
RSS. Very lightweight well-established technology. We could start
building around it now.
http://scripting.com/2023/11/12.html#a183520
date: 2023-11-12, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The hiker, suffering from severe hypothermia, was found sitting in a
fetal position, rescuers say.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281764668.html
@Miguel de
Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2023-11-12, from: Miguel de Icaza
Mastondon feed)
No VT100 or VAX 11/780 will be left behind.
La Terminal on VisionOS (there is a higher resolution version on
Twitter):
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/111398962783946711
@Miguel de
Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2023-11-12, from: Miguel de Icaza
Mastondon feed)
Previously on LOST:
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/111302428298515374
Progress on Godot on iPad.
Making Godot launch a game on the iPad was a lot more work than I
anticipated as you can't run separate processes on iOS. But I got it
working:
397 files changed, 7644 insertions(+), 3184 deletions(-)
Shown ARM binary on the Mac, since my physical iPad is downstairs:
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/111398952199848083
WWII
Veterans Eye 80th Anniversary of D-Day as Europe Salutes War Dead
date: 2023-11-12, from: VOA News USA
English soldier Ken Hay was trapped behind German lines and captured
while on night patrol in 1944, days after joining the Allied invasion of
Normandy, a turning point in World War Two.
The ambush near the bitterly contested “Hill 112” came during weeks
of fighting after the largest seaborne assault in history, which began
the liberation of France from Nazi German occupation.
“Thirty of us went out, 16 including my brother got back, five of us
got captured and nine got killed,” Hay said.
As many nations around the world commemorate last century’s wars and
other conflicts during a weekend of remembrance, preparations are
already under way to mark next year’s 80th anniversary of the D-Day
landings and the Battle of Normandy.
Born in the English county of Essex, Hay took part in the early
reinforcements of Juno Beach, which had been stormed under Canadian
command on D-Day, June 6. He is now an active ambassador for the nearby
British Normandy Memorial, overlooking Gold Beach in the U.K.
sector.
Until two years ago, Britain was alone among allies on the Western
front in not having a dedicated Normandy memorial.
An elegant rectangular colonnade now sits on former farmland chosen
by veterans themselves at Ver-sur-Mer.
In total, 22,440 servicemen and two servicewomen of more than 30
nationalities who died under British command between June 6 and Aug. 31,
1944, are commemorated on 160 stone columns, as well as a ceremonial
wall for those who perished on D-Day itself.
The 30-million-pound ($37 million) memorial was financed by fines
levied on banks by the British government, as well as private
donations.
Hay, 98, is helping raise funds for an educational pavilion in time
for next year’s 80th anniversary, likely to be attended by Britain’s
King Charles III and French President Emmanuel Macron.
With the average age of a dwindling number of veterans also 98, it
will be the last major chance to gather some of those who helped their
fallen comrades push back the Western front.
Unusually, the memorial is laid out by date of death.
“The fact that names are presented chronologically means you get an
understanding of how the battle unfolded: the days that are particularly
fierce,” said operations manager Sacha Marsac.
“When a whole unit is lost on the same day, their names are all next
to each other.”
Too young
Neatly carved rows of names, ranks and ages can only hint at the
personal stories. Four 16-year-olds presumably exaggerated their age to
serve before the age of 18. The majority barely knew their 20s. The
oldest: merchant seaman Thomas Hardwyre Milligan, 64.
Soldiers promoted unusually young, like a major of only 28, hint at
heavy losses as their superiors were killed.
One name is honored with a special insignia. Corporal Sidney Bates
posthumously received Britain’s Victoria Cross for “supreme gallantry”
after repeatedly charging a critical German position with a light
machine gun before dying of his wounds. He was 23.
A separate monument honors French civilians.
Veterans like Hay refuse to call themselves heroes, deferring to
those who fell in battle. Yet many suffered hardship, injury and
separation.
“I joined at the age of 17 in 1943, but they wouldn’t call me [to
serve] until I was 17-and-a-half; they said I was too young to die,” Hay
said in a recent interview.
For six days after capture, he and fellow prisoners were hauled in a
cattle wagon to Stalag VIII-D prison camp, now in the Czech Republic.
Later he was sent to work in a Polish coal mine.
Then, in early 1945, began a three-month march westward as German
captors moved their prisoners ahead of the advancing Soviet army.
In a forest near Regensburg, Germany, guns approached from the West
and the German commanding officer accepted the war was over.
“That was April 20. From Jan. 23, we had done 1,000 miles,” Hay said.
“I’ve got a good pair of feet.”
https://www.voanews.com/a/ww2-veterans-eye-80th-anniversary-of-d-day-europe-salutes-war-dead-/7351843.html
San
Marcos Defeats Dos Pueblos 9-6 to Claim CIF-SS Division 2
Championship
date: 2023-11-12, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
The Royals won their first CIF Championship since 1994.
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San
Marcos Defeats Dos Pueblos 9-6 to Claim CIF-SS Division 2
Championship appeared first on
The Santa Barbara
Independent.
https://www.independent.com/2023/11/12/san-marcos-defeats-dos-pueblos-9-6-to-claim-cif-ss-division-2-championship/
New
Outlook sends passwords, mails and other data to Microsoft
date: 2023-11-12, from: OS News
“Microsoft steals access data” – When the well-known German IT portal
“Heise Online” uses such drastic words in its headline, then something
is up. If Microsoft has its way, all Windows users will have to switch
to the latest version of Microsoft Outlook. But: Not only can the IMAP
and SMTP access data of your e-mail account be transferred to Microsoft,
but all e-mails in the INBOX can also be copied to the Microsoft
servers, even if you have your mailbox with a completely different
provider such as mailbox.org. They’re going to use it for AI, I’m
assuming. In any event, don’t use the new Outlook – it’s a web app
anyway and there’s better clients for Windows. I think. I’m not sure
people are still developing e-mail clients for Windows.
https://www.osnews.com/story/137828/new-outlook-sends-passwords-mails-and-other-data-to-microsoft/
Boise
State makes coaching change, firing Andy Avalos with two games
remaining
date: 2023-11-12, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Avalos took over at his alma mater in 2021.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281763883.html
KDE Plasma 6.0 goes
Wayland by default
date: 2023-11-12, from: OS News
Yep you read that right, we’ve decided to throw the lever and go
Wayland by default! The three remaining showstoppers are in the process
of being fixed and we expect them to be done soon–certainly before the
final release of Plasma 6. So we wanted to make the change early to
gather as much feedback as possible. Excellent news. Of course,
distributions will still be able to opt for the unmaintained, deprecated
X.org if they want to, but most distributions will opt for Wayland, as
all the major ones have been doing for a while now.
https://www.osnews.com/story/137826/kde-plasma-6-0-goes-wayland-by-default/
Actor
Alfred Molina’s Latest Role On Stage Is A Model On How To Fight With
Civility
date: 2023-11-12, updated: 2023-11-12, from: The LAist
Molina takes on the role of Henry Drummond in Inherit the Wind, now
on stage at the Pasadena Playhouse.
https://laist.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/actor-alfred-molinas-latest-role-at-the-pasadena-playis-a-model-on-how-to-fight-with-civility
Biden
to Push China to Resume Military Ties With US, Official Says
date: 2023-11-12, from: VOA News USA
U.S. President Joe Biden wants to re-establish military-to-military
ties with China, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan
said on Sunday, days before the president and the Chinese leader are set
to meet.
Biden will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in person for the first
time in a year on Wednesday during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
summit in San Francisco. It will be only the second in-person meeting
between the two leaders since Biden took office in January 2021.
“The president is determined to see the re-establishment of
military-to-military ties because he believes it’s in the U.S. national
security interest,” Sullivan said in an interview with CBS’ “Face the
Nation.” “We need those lines of communication so that there aren’t
mistakes or miscalculations or miscommunication.”
Sullivan said restored military ties could take place at every level
from senior leadership to the tactical operational level, as well “on
the water and in the air in the Indo-Pacific.”
Sullivan said on CNN’s “State of the Union” that Biden would seek to
“advance the ball” on military ties during his meeting with Xi, but
declined to provide further details.
“The Chinese have basically severed those communication links.
President Biden would like to re-establish that,” Sullivan said. “This
is a top agenda item.”
The Biden-Xi meeting is expected to cover global issues from the
Israel-Hamas war to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, North Korea’s ties
with Russia, Taiwan, the Indo-Pacific, human rights, fentanyl
production, artificial intelligence, as well as “fair” trade and
economic relations, a senior U.S. official said.
Relations between the two countries grew frosty after Biden ordered
the shooting down in February of a suspected Chinese spy balloon that
flew over the United States. But top Biden administration officials have
since visited Beijing and met with their counterparts to rebuild
communications and trust.
https://www.voanews.com/a/biden-will-push-china-to-resume-military-ties-with-us-official-says-/7351795.html
FreeDOS Edlin 2.23
date: 2023-11-12, from: FreeDOS News
The FreeDOS Edlin project is the standard line editor in FreeDOS,
replacing the classic edlin program from original DOS. Gregory Pietsch
has released Edlin 2.23, which fixes a compile time warning when
compiling with OpenWatcom C. You can download the source from
Edlin
on SourceForge. We’ve also mirrored this version (plus a compiled
16-bit DOS executable, as EDLIN16.EXE) on the FreeDOS Files Archive at
Ibiblio under
/files/dos/edlin
https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/news/2023/11/freedos-edlin-223/
New libm-0.6 and libmpi-0.2
date: 2023-11-12, from: FreeDOS News
Gregory Pietsch has released libm-0.6 and libmpi-0.2. libmpi is a
Multiple Precision Integer library, and libm is a C math library. Both
are public domain. You can find both on the FreeDOS Files Archive at
Ibiblio, under
/files/devel/libs/libm
and
/files/devel/libs/libmpi.
https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/news/2023/11/new-libm-06-and-libmpi-02/
Trump 2.0
date: 2023-11-12, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
If Trump were to be reelected, it would be worse, much worse, than
the first time.
https://steady.substack.com/p/trump-20
Southwest 2024 date
confirmed
date: 2023-11-12, from: RiscOS Story
And a round-up of other show dates, whether known or likely! The time
is almost here to say goodbye to 2023 and welcome in a whole new year,
which we should probably call ‘2024’ – and if we’re looking at a new
year, we may as well start thinking about the RISC OS shows that we’ll
be attending, the first of which is usually the Southwest Show.
Organised by R-Comp‘s Andrew Rawnsley and Orpheus Internet‘s Richard
Brown – both also of RISC OS Developments – the show usually takes
place…
https://www.riscository.com/2023/southwest-2024-date-confirmed/
Repairing
and upgrading old RISC OS computers with ROUGOL – 27th November
date: 2023-11-12, from: RiscOS Story
The RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) usually holds its meetings
on the third Monday of each month, but it has been pushed back a week
for November – so if you have 20th November marked in your diaries,
scrub it out and add 27th November. With the meeting that far off, it
might seem unusual to see an announcement this early, but there’s a good
reason for that. The topic for the meeting will be repairing and
upgrading Archimedes and RISC OS machines. The group will be
looking…
https://www.riscository.com/2023/repairing-old-kit-rougol-27th-november/
@Dave Winer’s
Scripting News (date: 2023-11-12, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting
News)
Some
news. I’ve been working with
Automattic for most of this year
on a new version of FeedLand that
runs in their cloud. The advantage is it will scale like the most
popular websites, as WordPress
does. There have been lots of internal changes in the software, but at
the same time, it still runs on a $10 a month
Digital Ocean server, and on
desktops as well. The next FeedLand works at all these levels, for a
person, a workgroup and the world. Obviously, lots more to say about all
this. 😄
http://scripting.com/2023/11/12.html#a142810
David Hegg | Remember
the Ethics of Context
date: 2023-11-12, from: The Signal
By David Hegg Anyone who has ever written a research paper, especially
those who have gained a post-high school degree, has been instructed in
the relationship between meaning and context. The simple truth is the
beginning place of meaning in any written document is authorial
intention. This goes for spoken communication as well, especially
orations […]
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David
Hegg | Remember the Ethics of Context appeared first on
Santa Clarita Valley
Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2023/11/david-hegg-remember-the-ethics-of-context/
Larry Moore | Don’t Fall for
the Spin
date: 2023-11-12, from: The Signal
I would like to add to Suzette Valladeres’ brilliant column (Nov. 4)
about gas prices and taxes. It is people like Secretary of Energy
Jennifer Granholm and our own insane Gov. Gavin Newsom who want us to
believe we are experiencing a precipitous drop in gas prices. They will
say, “Look, they’ve dropped to $4.95 […]
The post
Larry
Moore | Don’t Fall for the Spin appeared first on
Santa Clarita Valley
Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2023/11/larry-moore-dont-fall-for-the-spin/
Bill Lyons | What’s Behind
the Scores?
date: 2023-11-12, from: The Signal
As a teacher and college instructor, I read with interest the letter
from Sean O’Brien (Nov. 7) pointing out the local junior and high
schools score better on the state standard tests than average California
districts. Actually, according to nationsreportcard.gov, it seems he has
been cherrypicking. It appears that California ranks 38th among all
states. […]
The post
Bill
Lyons | What’s Behind the Scores? appeared first on
Santa Clarita Valley
Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2023/11/bill-lyons-whats-behind-the-scores/
Travel
Site Puts San Gabriel Mountains On Its Annual Do Not Visit List
date: 2023-11-12, updated: 2023-11-13, from: The LAist
Los Angeles’s famous mountain range is suffering from things like
over-tourism, trash production, and water quality, says Fodor’s “No
List.”
https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/travel-site-puts-san-gabriel-mountains-on-its-annual-no-list
Veterans’
service and sacrifice honored at Hagåtña ceremony
date: 2023-11-12, from: Guam Daily Post
On Saturday, hundreds gathered outside the Guam Museum in Hagåtña to
honor those who have put their lives on the line for the freedoms
Americans enjoy every day.
https://www.postguam.com/news/local/veterans-service-and-sacrifice-honored-at-hag-t-a-ceremony/article_79b6f59e-8048-11ee-8ff3-ab07c2b41ecf.html
UOG
event to discuss 3D printing as solution to affordable housing
date: 2023-11-12, from: Guam Daily Post
Could 3D concrete printing be the answer to making housing affordable
on Guam? That is a question stakeholders will seek to answer during the
Additive Construction Round Table event to be held Friday at the
University of Guam.
https://www.postguam.com/news/local/uog-event-to-discuss-3d-printing-as-solution-to-affordable-housing/article_628040b8-811c-11ee-90bd-d3c8cdfe2bb5.html
Guam
rates well as destination, but improvements still needed
date: 2023-11-12, from: Guam Daily Post
Guam fares pretty well as a vacation destination, but there are still
a few areas that tourists want to see improved, according to an airport
intercept survey.
https://www.postguam.com/news/local/guam-rates-well-as-destination-but-improvements-still-needed/article_ee5ef328-8107-11ee-9c3c-77b12c1a5177.html
Couple
busted in traffic stop with 65 grams of meth charged in court
date: 2023-11-12, from: Guam Daily Post
A magistrate’s complaint filed in the case of a traffic stop drug
bust earlier this week provided more details into what was discovered
and how the two people arrested allegedly were behaving.
https://www.postguam.com/news/local/couple-busted-in-traffic-stop-with-65-grams-of-meth-charged-in-court/article_faf44d0e-80f8-11ee-9bc0-6771d6f77742.html
Suspect
charged with stalking, family violence, violating order
date: 2023-11-12, from: Guam Daily Post
A man with a history of being physically abusive is behind bars after
he allegedly became violent toward a woman known to him on Friday.
https://www.postguam.com/news/local/suspect-charged-with-stalking-family-violence-violating-order/article_3c3884be-80ff-11ee-91c9-1711adef0ba1.html
date: 2023-11-12, from: Guam Daily Post
A local Simon Sanchez High School teacher has secured a grant after
demonstrating how his teaching methods support diversity, equity and
inclusion in the classroom.
https://www.postguam.com/news/local/teacher-wins-grant-to-promote-diversity-equity-and-inclusion/article_c5ebf57c-804d-11ee-8911-dbb5a009c561.html
@Dave Winer’s
Scripting News (date: 2023-11-12, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting
News)
The great thing about the private Facebook group is I have invited
friends from all stages of my life. People I knew in from high school,
New Orleans, Madison, Palo Alto, Cambridge and Berkeley, NYC and
Woodstock. Even people I knew as a child. People I only or mostly know
virtually. Imho, people who won’t use Facebook miss out. Its greatest
feature are the people who use it. It’s the kind of village we yearn
for, at a DNA level. People you will never stop loving. I don’t think
I’ve ever mentioned this group on the blog, but maybe I should do that
more, because it’s a uniquely civilized, friendly and soul-nourishing
online place, at least for me.
http://scripting.com/2023/11/12.html#a134833
Happy Diwali
date: 2023-11-12, from: Om Malik blog
Happy Diwali everyone. Diwali is the Festival of Lights. It
symbolizes the spiritual ‘victory of light over darkness, good over
evil, and knowledge over ignorance.’ We could all use some light in
these dark times.
https://om.co/2023/11/12/happy-diwali-6/
@Dave Winer’s
Scripting News (date: 2023-11-12, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting
News)
But first I need to be able to interact ChatGPT-style with the
archive I’ve already created. Yesterday I saw
Guy Kawasaki’s chatbot,
trained with transcripts of his podcast, and I have total LLM-envy. Guy
says
it was created for him by a company named
Sentiyen.
http://scripting.com/2023/11/12.html#a133843
@Dave Winer’s
Scripting News (date: 2023-11-12, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting
News)
Someday an author is going to construct a universe in a LLM and let
users interact with it. That sounds boring, but here’s the interesting
idea that led to it. Yesterday I asked
ChatGPT to
draw me a image of an ancient band performing in the desert with
cacti as the audience. Then this morning I had the idea of moving the
concert into the pond behind my house, except this time
the
audience are frogs. I have a private Facebook group where I tell the
story of the pond, including the animals who come to visit. Some of them
I invent, they don’t actually exist. And they have relationships with
each other, at least in my mind. A natural thing to make part of this
private group would be the LLM of all the animals, and their stories and
relationships. And other people’s models could incorporate mine. This
was an idea I had for SimCity, and the
web
of outlines, neither of which happened. Maybe it’ll happen in
LLM-land.
http://scripting.com/2023/11/12.html#a133514
Want
Your Relationship To Last? Viral ‘Bird Test’ Offers Insight
date: 2023-11-12, updated: 2023-11-13, from: The LAist
A new trend on TikTok called the “Bird Test” uses research from the
field of clinical psychology to help gauge the long-term success of
romantic relationships. Here’s how it works.
https://laist.com/news/trend-on-tiktok-presents-a-new-way-of-approaching-mindful-romantic-gestures
Chinatown,
the next downtown destination. Fresno pouring millions into historic
neighborhood
date: 2023-11-12, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer envisions an international culinary district
with tourism, tunnels and housing.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article281321593.html
Sunday caption contest:
breakdown
date: 2023-11-12, from: Robert Reich on Substack
And last week’s winner!
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-caption-contest-breakdown
High
school water polo: Buchanan, Memorial and Sierra win Central Section
titles
date: 2023-11-12, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The games were played at Fresno State on Saturday.
https://www.fresnobee.com/sports/high-school/article281753553.html
Tell me lies, tell me
sweet little lies
date: 2023-11-12, from: Status-Q blog
“We are experiencing an unusually large volume of calls at the
moment. We apologise for the delay. Please stay on the line and your
call will be answered in turn.” My friend Andy Stanford-Clark was
complaining about this on Twitter, “No, there are an unexpectedly low
number of people answering the phones at the moment. Don’t
Continue
Reading
https://statusq.org/archives/2023/11/12/11794/
US,
Japan, South Korea to Share North Korea Missile Data
date: 2023-11-12, from: VOA News USA
Defense chiefs from South Korea, Japan and the United States have
agreed to start in December as planned a real-time data-sharing
operation on North Korean missiles, South Korea’s defense ministry said
Sunday.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met his South Korean counterpart
Shin Won-sik in Seoul Sunday with Japanese defense minister Minoru
Kihara joining the meeting online.
The ministers discussed strengthening their three-way cooperation in
the face of “severe security environments,” Kihara told reporters. It
was the first time the three ministers held such a gathering, he
said.
“We confirmed that we are steadily making adjustments, bringing the
process to the final stage,” Kihara added.
U.S. President Joe Biden agreed with South Korean President Yoon Suk
Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at an Aug. 18 summit
that, by the end of this year, the three countries would share North
Korea missile warning data in real time.
The ministers also condemned growing military cooperation between
North Korea and Russia as a violation of U.N. resolutions, the South
Korean defense ministry said in a statement, and also stressed the
importance of peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait.
Separately, General Charles Q. Brown, chairman of the U.S. Joint
Chiefs of Staff, held talks with his South Korean counterpart in Seoul
Sunday, the South Korean military said.
In his first visit to South Korea since he took office in October,
the top U.S. general discussed the “continuous provocations” of North
Korea, including missile launches, and reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to
the defense of South Korea, the South Korean joint chiefs of staff said
in a statement.
https://www.voanews.com/a/us-japan-south-korea-to-share-north-korea-missile-data-/7351571.html
Staying Dry and Stealthy
date: 2023-11-12, from: Status-Q blog
I’ve always been a little bit of a Gore-Tex skeptic. While I have
owned, and do currently own, several garments and shoes incorporating
the fabric, I’ve always felt a little bit let-down by it. “If this is
both waterproof and breathable”, I would ask myself as I ascended the
hill in a slight drizzle, “then
Continue
Reading
https://statusq.org/archives/2023/11/12/11784/
Veterans Day:
‘Valor, devotion and selflessness’
date: 2023-11-12, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Several dozen people — almost all U.S. military veterans and their families — gathered Saturday at East Hawaii Veterans Cemetery No. 1 in Hilo to celebrate Veterans Day.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/12/hawaii-news/veterans-day-valor-devotion-and-selflessness/
Drought
conditions intensify on Big Island; water haulers are backlogged with
orders
date: 2023-11-12, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Severe drought now covers more than half the state and more than 85% of the Big Island and Maui.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/12/hawaii-news/drought-conditions-intensify-on-big-island-water-haulers-are-backlogged-with-orders/
Officials
determine Kaumana Caves safe to reopen
date: 2023-11-12, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>A popular lava tube in Hilo is safe to reopen after a rockfall, according to county officials and geologists.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/12/hawaii-news/officials-determine-kaumana-caves-safe-to-reopen/
date: 2023-11-12, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>HONOLULU — The Kamehameha Schools - Hawai‘i football team fell from the Hawaii High School Athletic Association (HHSAA) Division II football state championship quarterfinals, suffering a 19-14 loss in a defensive battle to home standing Roosevelt High.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/12/sports/ksh-football-falls-to-roosevelt-high-19-14/
Fatal dog
attack case sent to prosecutor’s office
date: 2023-11-12, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Police have wrapped up their investigation into a fatal dog attack on Aug. 1 in Ocean View and forwarded the case to the Hawaii County prosecutor’s office for potential charges.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/12/hawaii-news/fatal-dog-attack-case-sent-to-prosecutors-office/
Swimmer rescued near
Kumukahi Lighthouse
date: 2023-11-12, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Police, fire and Coast Guard units responded early Friday evening to rescue a swimmer in distress in waters off the Puna coastline near the Kumukahi Lighthouse.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/12/hawaii-news/swimmer-rescued-near-kumukahi-lighthouse/
Hoke
sets new digs record as Vulcans close out ART U on senior night
date: 2023-11-12, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>On the final play of the night, senior libero Tani Hoke became UH-Hilo Women’s Volleyball’s new all-time career digs leader as the Vulcans flipped the script on a six-point deficit to climb back and seal a 3-1 victory (23-25, 25-16, 25-17, 25-23) over Academy of Art Thursday evening in Pacific West Conference play at the Vulcan Gymnasium.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/12/sports/hoke-sets-new-digs-record-as-vulcans-close-out-art-u-on-senior-night/
KSH
places third, HPA fifth at HHSAA Volleyball Championships
date: 2023-11-12, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Five Big Island Interscholastic Federation (BIIF) schools represented the island in the Hawaii High School Athletic Association (HHSAA) Division I and II Girls Volleyball Championship tournaments this week on Oahu — Kamehameha Schools Hawai‘i, Hawaii Prep, Konawaena, Waiakea and Ka‘u. The BIIF additionally sent five schools to states last season.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/12/sports/ksh-places-third-hpa-fifth-at-hhsaa-volleyball-championships/
Donovan
Mitchell, Cavs take down Stephen Curry and Warriors 118-110
date: 2023-11-12, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>SAN FRANCSICO — The Cleveland Cavaliers stayed poised when things turned testy, and that showed J.B. Bickerstaff plenty about his team at this early stage.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/12/sports/donovan-mitchell-cavs-take-down-stephen-curry-and-warriors-118-110/
No. 2
Michigan stays unbeaten as coach Harbaugh serves ban in 24-15 win over
No. 9 Penn State
date: 2023-11-12, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — With Jim Harbaugh banned by the Big Ten Conference, J.J. McCarthy, Blake Corum and No. 2 Michigan played unfazed by a scandal that has hounded the program for weeks — and their toughest opponent yet — grinding past No. 9 Penn State 24-15 Saturday.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/12/sports/no-2-michigan-stays-unbeaten-as-coach-harbaugh-serves-ban-in-24-15-win-over-no-9-penn-state/
Nonprofits
making progress in tackling homelessness among veterans, but challenges
remain
date: 2023-11-12, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>ATLANTA — Along a busy Atlanta residential road, a 68-year-old Vietnam War-era Army veteran has found what he calls a “match made in heaven.”</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/12/nation-world-news/nonprofits-making-progress-in-tackling-homelessness-among-veterans-but-challenges-remain/
Dozens
of Chinese ships chase Philippine vessels as US renews warning it will
defend its treaty ally
date: 2023-11-12, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>ABOARD THE BRP CABRA — As a U.S. Navy surveillance plane flew in circles, keeping a close watch, dozens of Chinese coast guard and accompanying ships chased and encircled Philippine vessels in the latest confrontation in one of the most dangerous flashpoints in the South China Sea.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/12/nation-world-news/dozens-of-chinese-ships-chase-philippine-vessels-as-us-renews-warning-it-will-defend-its-treaty-ally/
More
than 800 Sudanese reportedly killed in attack on Darfur town, UN
says
date: 2023-11-12, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>CAIRO — Fighters from a paramilitary force and their allied Arab militias rampaged through a town in Sudan’s war-ravaged region of Darfur, reportedly killing more than 800 people in a multiday attack, doctors and the U.N. said.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/12/nation-world-news/more-than-800-sudanese-reportedly-killed-in-attack-on-darfur-town-un-says/
Obituaries for November 12
date: 2023-11-12, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Rosita Mamuad Balicoco, 92, of Keaau died Oct. 10 at home. Born in Dingras, Philippines, she was a nursery worker for Asian and Puna Flowers and member of Iglesia Ni Cristo Church of Christ in Keaau. Visitation 4-6 p.m. Friday, Nov. 24, at Dodo Mortuary Chapel. Service at 6 p.m. All-night vigil to follow at the family home in Keaau. Graveside service 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 25, at Homelani Memorial Park, Ilima Section. Survived by sons, Pedro (Rubilinda) Balicoco, Juanito Balicoco, Nestor (Imelda) Balicoco and Castor Balicoco of Pahoa; daughters, Estefania (Pariseo) Ganut and Corazon (Eddie) Hubag of Philippines, Cathy (Leonard) Balicoco of Hawaiian Paradise Park and Andrea B. (Liberato) Magcalas of Pahoa; brother, Monico Mamuad; 22 grandchildren, 34 great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren; nieces and nephews. Arrangements by Dodo Mortuary.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/12/obituaries/obituaries-for-november-12-8/
Netanyahu
rejects growing calls for a cease-fire as Israel battles Hamas outside
main Gaza hospital
date: 2023-11-12, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushed back Saturday against growing international calls for a cease-fire, saying Israel’s battle to crush Gaza’s ruling Hamas militants will continue with “full force.”</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/12/nation-world-news/netanyahu-rejects-growing-calls-for-a-cease-fire-as-israel-battles-hamas-outside-main-gaza-hospital/
Obesity
drug Wegovy cut risk of serious heart problems by 20%, study finds
date: 2023-11-12, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The popular weight-loss drug Wegovy reduced the risk of serious heart problems by 20% in a large, international study that experts say could change the way doctors treat certain heart patients.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/12/nation-world-news/obesity-drug-wegovy-cut-risk-of-serious-heart-problems-by-20-study-finds/
Pope
Francis removes a leading US conservative critic as bishop of Tyler,
Texas
date: 2023-11-12, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>ROME — Pope Francis on Saturday ordered the removal of the bishop of Tyler, Texas, a conservative prelate active on social media who has been a fierce critic of the pontiff and has come to symbolize the polarization within the U.S. Catholic hierarchy.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/12/nation-world-news/pope-francis-removes-a-leading-us-conservative-critic-as-bishop-of-tyler-texas/
date: 2023-11-12, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Donald Trump is pushing for his federal election interference trial in Washington to be televised, joining media outlets that say the American public should be able to watch the historic case unfold.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/12/nation-world-news/trump-joins-media-outlets-in-pushing-for-his-federal-election-interference-case-to-be-televised/
Volcano Watch:
What’s shaking beneath Mauna Loa?
date: 2023-11-12, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>It’s hard to believe that nearly one year has passed since Mauna Loa erupted. Mauna Loa has been mostly quiet since the end of the 2022 eruption, but a small increase in seismic activity in late October 2023 reminds us that the volcano remains active.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/12/community/volcano-watch-whats-shaking-beneath-mauna-loa/
‘Book
people are my people’: Why your next vacation should be a book
retreat
date: 2023-11-12, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>We could be on our way to camp — 24 of us are crowded in a charter bus headed north of Los Angeles, our luggage packed in tight underneath the vehicle, the bus swinging widely around scenic turns. We wind our way along the ocean, on Pacific Coast Highway, passing fruit stands, seafood markets and at least one sunflower farm.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/12/features/book-people-are-my-people-why-your-next-vacation-should-be-a-book-retreat/
Close
Calls Between Planes Show That Aviation Is Under Stress, US Official
Says
date: 2023-11-12, from: VOA News USA
The nation’s top accident investigator said Thursday that a surge in
close calls between planes at U.S. airports this year is a “clear
warning sign” that the aviation system is under stress.
“While these events are incredibly rare, our safety system is showing
clear signs of strain that we cannot ignore,” Jennifer Homendy, chair of
the National Transportation Safety Board, told a Senate panel on
Thursday.
Homendy warned that air traffic and staffing shortages have surged
since the pandemic. She said there has been a “lack of meaningful”
training — and more reliance on computer-based instruction — by the
Federal Aviation Administration and airlines, and too many irregular
work schedules among pilots and air traffic controllers.
“Where you end up with that is distraction, fatigue,” she told the
aviation subcommittee. “You are missing things, you are forgetting
things.”
The NTSB is investigating six close calls, or what aviation insiders
call “runway incursions.” The FAA identified 23 of the most serious
types of close calls in the last fiscal year, which ended Oct. 1, up
from 16 the year before and 11 a decade ago. Independent estimates
suggest those figures grossly understate such incidents.
Thursday’s hearing included only a momentary discussion of pilot
mental health, which is on travelers’ minds because of the arrest of an
off-duty pilot accused of trying to disable a plane in midflight and a
co-pilot who allegedly threatened to shoot the captain. Critics have
pointed out that federal screening relies on pilots to disclose whether
they are taking medication or being treated for mental illness including
depression.
The FAA said separately that it will appoint a committee of medical
experts and aviation and union leaders to make recommendations “on
breaking down the barriers that prevent pilots from reporting mental
health issues to the agency.”
The Senate hearing produced no new ideas for increasing safety but
brought a new warning about the potential for travel disruptions over
the upcoming holidays because the FAA doesn’t have enough air traffic
controllers.
“We are not healthier than we were last year, controller-wise,” said
Rich Santa, president of the National Air Traffic Controllers
Association. “I think FAA’s own numbers indicate we have potentially six
more air traffic controllers than we had last year.”
The union president said many controllers are forced to work 10-hour
days or six-day weeks.
The Transportation Department’s inspector general criticized the FAA
in a report this summer, saying the agency has made only “limited
efforts” to fix a shortage at staffing at critical air traffic control
centers.
Among the close calls in recent months, the scariest occurred in
February in Austin, Texas. During poor visibility in the early morning
hours, a FedEx cargo plane preparing to land flew over the top of a
Southwest Airlines jet that was taking off. The NTSB has estimated that
they came within about 30 meters of colliding.
An air traffic controller had cleared both planes to use the same
runway. In other recent incidents, pilots appeared to be at fault by
failing to follow orders from controllers.
https://www.voanews.com/a/close-calls-between-planes-show-that-aviation-is-under-stress-us-official-says-/7349414.html
Today in SCV History
(Nov. 12)
date: 2023-11-12, from: SCV New (TV Station)
1908 – Saugus School District formed from sections of Newhall and
Castaic school districts. [story
https://scvnews.com/today-in-scv-history-nov-12/
World’s
Population Has Passed 8 Billion, US Census Says
date: 2023-11-12, from: VOA News USA
The human species has topped 8 billion, with longer lifespans
offsetting fewer births, but world population growth continues a
long-term trend of slowing down, the U.S. Census Bureau said
Thursday.
The bureau estimates the global population exceeded the threshold
Sept. 26, a precise date the agency said to take with a grain of
salt.
The United Nations estimated the number was passed 10 months earlier,
having declared Nov. 22, 2022, the “Day of 8 Billion,” the Census Bureau
pointed out in a statement.
The discrepancy is due to countries counting people differently — or
not at all. Many lack systems to record births and deaths. Some of the
most populous countries, such as India and Nigeria, haven’t conducted
censuses in over a decade, according to the bureau.
While world population growth remains brisk, growing from 6 billion
to 8 billion since the turn of the millennium, the rate has slowed since
doubling between 1960 and 2000.
People living to older ages account for much of the recent increase.
The global median age, now 32, has been rising in a trend expected to
continue toward 39 in 2060.
Countries such as Canada have been aging with declining older-age
mortality, while countries such as Nigeria have seen dramatic declines
in deaths of children under 5.
Fertility rates, or the rate of births per woman of childbearing age,
are meanwhile declining, falling below replacement level in much of the
world and contributing to a more than 50-year trend, on average, of
slimmer increases in population growth.
The minimum number of such births necessary to replace both the
father and mother for neutral world population is 2.1, demographers say.
Almost three-quarters of people now live in countries with fertility
rates around or below that level.
Countries with fertility rates around replacement level include
India, Tunisia and Argentina.
About 15% of people live in places with fertility rates below
replacement level. Countries with low fertility rates include Brazil,
Mexico, the U.S. and Sweden, while those with very low fertility rates
include China, South Korea and Spain.
Israel, Ethiopia and Papua New Guinea rank among countries with
higher-than-replacement fertility rates of up to 5. Such countries have
almost one-quarter of the world’s population.
Only about 4% of the world’s population lives in countries with
fertility rates above 5. All are in Africa.
Global fertility rates are projected to decline at least through
2060, with no country projected to have a rate higher than 4 by then,
according to the bureau.
https://www.voanews.com/a/world-s-population-has-passed-8-billion-us-census-says-/7349411.html
PHP File Download Hit
Counter
date: 2023-11-12, from: Dave Jarvis’ Blog
Describes technical hurdles while building a file download hit
counter in PHP.
https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2023/11/12/php-download-hit-counter
date: 2023-11-12, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The Trojans fell to yet another ranked opponent in Eugene Sunday night.
The post
Football
falls behind early, can’t stop dominant Oregon offense appeared
first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/11/football-falls-behind-early-cant-stop-dominant-oregon-offense/
Fresno
State stumbles at San José State, needs outside help to reach MW
championship
date: 2023-11-12, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Fresno State quarterback Mikey Keene went down with an injury in the
first half and didn’t return.
https://www.fresnobee.com/sports/college/mountain-west/fresno-state/bulldogs-football/article281750598.html
CSUN
basketball head coach picks up first win at Northridge in nail-biting
fashion
date: 2023-11-12, from: The Sundail (CSUN student paper)
It didn’t take long for CSUN head coach Andy Newman to celebrate his
first win at Northridge. After a loss against Stanford University, the
Matadors (1-1) came back on the road against University of Idaho (0-2)
to win 76-73. In what may be an indicator of what is to come from the
Newman era at…
https://sundial.csun.edu/176901/sports/csun-head-coach-picks-up-first-win-at-northridge-in-nail-biting-fashion/
USC men’s
basketball wins convincing home-opener
date: 2023-11-12, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The Trojans led the entire game thanks to a balanced scoring effort.
The post
USC
men’s basketball wins convincing home-opener appeared first on
Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/11/usc-mens-basketball-wins-convincing-home-opener/
CSUN
Día de los Muertos celebration honors passed loved ones
date: 2023-11-12, from: The Sundail (CSUN student paper)
It’s a warm, sunny Thursday and tables are lined with pan dulce, or
sweet bread. The sound of mariachi fills the air and pictures of loved
ones are placed on a bright altar, decorated with orange streamers and
papel picado. Students and Northridge locals gathered in Plaza del Sol
on Nov. 2 to honor lost…
https://sundial.csun.edu/176894/arts-entertainment/csun-dia-de-los-muertos-celebration-honors-passed-loved-ones/
Ancient band in Arizona
desert
date: 2023-11-12, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
I asked for an ancient rock band performing on stage in the middle of
the Arizona desert, and the audience members are all cacti, and they’re
partying and grooving on the tunes.
Ancient band in Arizona desert with cacti audience.
http://scripting.com/2023/11/11/013609.html?title=ancientBandInArizonaDesert
“Alien
Hominid Invasion” and “Alien Hominid HD” Review – Beaming light onto the
“run and gun” genre
date: 2023-11-12, from: The Sundail (CSUN student paper)
Review copies provided by The Behemoth. “Alien Hominid Invasion” and
“Alien Hominid HD” are frantic, over-the-top “run and gun” action games
that keep players on the edge of their seats. From its gradual
difficulty that eases players into the mayhem to the tight controls and
colorful art style, “Alien Hominid” keeps fans of the series…
https://sundial.csun.edu/176887/arts-entertainment/alien-hominid-invasion-and-alien-hominid-hd-review-beaming-light-onto-the-run-and-gun-genre/
To
those who fought for the red, white and blue, SCV pays homage at 17th
annual Veterans Day Ceremony
date: 2023-11-12, from: The Signal
On the 11th day of the 11th month at the 11th hour of the day, the Santa
Clarita Valley community came together to honor the veteran community.
“Veterans Day stands as a poignant reminder of the unwavering support
and reverence we hold for those who have valiantly served our nation,”
said Mayor Jason Gibbs. “Our […]
The post
<strong>To
those who fought for the red, white and blue, SCV pays homage at 17th
annual Veterans Day Ceremony </strong> appeared first on
Santa Clarita Valley
Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2023/11/to-those-who-fought-for-the-red-white-and-blue-scv-pays-homage-at-17th-annual-veterans-day-ceremony/
Expert:
Crucial Steps to Take After a Car Accident
date: 2023-11-12, from: The Signal
By Lara Horwood Whether you have been involved in or witnessed a bump
on the road or a catastrophic collision, car accidents can be very
traumatic. With adrenaline pumping, it can be hard to remember what
steps to take before you leave the scene and begin to recover from the
situation. This is why legal […]
The post
<strong>Expert:
Crucial Steps to Take After a Car Accident </strong> appeared
first on Santa Clarita
Valley Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2023/11/expert-crucial-steps-to-take-after-a-car-accident/
Review
| Kristin Chenoweth Razzle Dazzles Santa Barbara with Vocal — and
Comedic — Chops
date: 2023-11-12, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Broadway legend gives a master class in “the show must go on” at the
Granada.
The post
Review
| Kristin Chenoweth Razzle Dazzles Santa Barbara with Vocal — and
Comedic — Chops appeared first on
The Santa Barbara
Independent.
https://www.independent.com/2023/11/11/review-kristin-chenoweth-razzle-dazzles-santa-barbara-with-vocal-and-comedic-chops/
Full Circle Weekly News 339
date: 2023-11-12, from: Full Circle Magazine
Credits
https://fullcirclemagazine.org/podcasts/podcast-339/
