News gathered 2024-07-07
(date: 2024-07-07 15:21:03)
Progress of 3-acre San Martin brush fire stopped
date: 2024-07-07, from: San Jose Mercury News
Cal fire officials initially reported the blaze on social media early Sunday afternoon.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/07/07/progress-of-3-acre-san-martin-brush-fire-stopped/
SF Giants’ Logan Webb, Heliot Ramos earn first All-Star selections
date: 2024-07-07, from: San Jose Mercury News
Logan Webb and Heliot Ramos were both named to the 2024 National League All-Star team — and both might have an opportunity to start, too
Peter Easthope commented on issue #141 at Felix Oliver Friedrich / Oberon A2
date: 2024-07-07, updated: 2024-07-07, from: Oberon A2 at CAS
@fnec.ece · 6 days ago
Hi, I have corrected the problem for oberon subsystem in the MyUnix.KbdMouse.Mod file. Could you test after HotKeys disabled?
I'm trying Günther's 10272 on Debian 12, 64 bit.
Disabled setting in Configuration.XML.
<!– Setting name="Hotkey
support" value="Hotkeys.Open"/–>
After compiling your MyUnix.KbdMouse.Mod, disabling HotKeys and rebooting, the Oberon subsysem allows placement of the star marker. The <delete> key has no visible effect. These lines appear in the console which started the system.
Autostart: executing WMNavigate.Open -vs -n 1 0 0 Navigation:TaskList
{P cpuid= 0, pid= 56 ETH Oberon / LinuxA2 (64-bit, Rev. 10272)}
Modules.Module in Oberon-Configuration.@ConstSections: error: incompatible
Modules.Module in Oberon-Configuration.@ConstSections: error: incompatible
Modules.Module in Oberon-Configuration.@ConstSections: error: incompatible
Modules.Module in Oberon-Configuration.@ConstSections: error: incompatible
Modules.Module in Oberon-Mail.@ConstSections: error: incompatible
Modules.Module in Oberon-Mail.@ConstSections: error: incompatible
Modules.Module in Oberon-NetSystem.@ConstSections: error: incompatible
Modules.Module in Oberon-NetSystem.@ConstSections: error: incompatible
could not get module while importing Oberon-NetSystem
Oberon-NetSystem.@Module in Oberon-TelnetGadgets.@ConstSections: error: unresolved
Modules.Module in Oberon-NetSystem.@ConstSections: error: incompatible
could not get module while importing Oberon-NetSystem
Oberon-NetSystem.@Module in Oberon-TelnetGadgets.@ConstSections: error: unresolved
{P cpuid= 0, pid= 61 Oberon started}64 bit A2 attempted to use executables compiled for 32 bit A2?
Sorry, could not insert xml statements.
No problem. Caught your meaning. The less than character can be expressed by <nowiki><</nowiki> or by <.
Thanks for the help, … P.
https://gitlab.inf.ethz.ch/felixf/oberon/-/issues/141#note_193237
Athletics rookie closer Mason Miller selected as Oakland’s last All-Star
date: 2024-07-07, from: San Jose Mercury News
Rookie closer Mason Miller was announced Sunday as the Athletics’ lone All-Star – and presumably their last as an Oakland-based ballclub.
US envoy expresses regret over alleged military sex crimes in Okinawa
date: 2024-07-07, from: VOA News USA
Tokyo — U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel expressed regret Saturday for the handling of two cases of sexual assaults allegedly committed by American military personnel on Okinawa, which have again stoked resentment of the heavy U.S. troop presence on the strategic island in Japan’s far southwest.
The issue broke out late last month, triggering an uproar over reports that two American service members had been charged with sexual assaults months earlier.
Both cases were first reported in local media in late June. In one arrest made in March, a member of the U.S. Air Force was charged with the kidnapping and sexual assault of a teenager, and while in May a U.S. Marine was arrested on charges of attempted rape resulting in injury. Further details about the alleged victims were not released.
Okinawa police said they did not announce the cases out of privacy considerations related to the victims. The Foreign Ministry, per police decision, also did not notify Okinawa prefectural officials.
The cases are a reminder to many Okinawans of the 1995 rape of a 12-year-old girl by three U.S. service members, which sparked massive protests of the U.S. presence. It led to a 1996 agreement between Tokyo and Washington to close a key U.S. air base, although the plan has been repeatedly delayed due to protests at the site designated for its replacement on another part of the island.
Emanuel said he deeply regretted what happened to the individuals, their families and their community, but fell short of apologizing. “Obviously, you got to let the criminal justice process play out. But that doesn’t mean you don’t express on a human level your sense of regret.”
“We have to do better,” he said, adding that the U.S. military’s high standards and protocols for education and training of its troops was “just not working.”
Emanuel said the U.S. may be able to propose measures to improve training and transparency with the public at U.S.-Japan foreign and defense ministers’ security talks expected later this month in Tokyo.
On Friday, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said the Japanese authorities would do their utmost to provide more prompt disclosures of alleged crime related to U.S. military personnel on Okinawa while protecting victims’ privacy.
The cases could be a setback for the defense relationship at a time when Okinawa is seen increasingly important in the face of rising tensions with China.
Some 50,000 U.S. troops are deployed in Japan under a bilateral security pact, about half of them on Okinawa, where residents have long complained about heavy U.S. troop presence and related accidents, crime and noise.
Emanuel commented on the issue while visiting Fukushima, on Japan’s northeast coast.
Earlier Saturday, the ambassador visited the nearby town of Minamisoma to join junior surfers and sample locally-caught flounder for lunch, aiming to highlight the safety of the area’s seawater and seafood amid ongoing discharges of treated and diluted radioactive water from the tsunami-ruined Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
China has banned Japanese seafood over the discharges, a move Emanuel criticized as unjustified.
Scammers swipe billions from Americans every year, many getting away with it
date: 2024-07-07, from: VOA News USA
Small brush fire breaks out in Newhall
date: 2024-07-07, from: The Signal
A brush fire broke out near the intersection of Valle Del Oro and Trumpet Drive in Newhall on Sunday afternoon, according to the L.A. County Fire Department. “[We] dispatched at […]
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https://signalscv.com/2024/07/small-brush-fire-breaks-out-in-newhall/
Biden campaigns through Pennsylvania as his team quietly braces for more Democratic defections
date: 2024-07-07, from: San Jose Mercury News
Some Democrats are mounting efforts to stand by the president and return the focus to Donald Trump and the danger they say he poses to the country and democracy.
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-07-07, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
The Self-Satisfied and Often Wrong Media Frenzy.
https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/07/07/the-self-satisfied-and-often-wrong-media-frenzy/
Trinity announces new baseball coach
date: 2024-07-07, from: The Signal
Trinity Classical Academy has announced Justin Stark as the new head coach for the Knights baseball program. Stark takes over a thriving program from former coach Trevor Brown as the […]
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https://signalscv.com/2024/07/trinity-announces-new-baseball-coach/
Biden’s reelection bid faces consequential week
date: 2024-07-07, from: VOA News USA
This coming week could be consequential for U.S. President Joe Biden’s reelection bid as voices continue to grow for him to leave the race amid concern over his age and capacity to lead. So far however, he still has the support of many of his peers, even as they acknowledge Democratic voters’ worries. VOA’s Veronica Balderas Iglesias reports.
https://www.voanews.com/a/biden-reelection-bid-faces-consequential-week/7688508.html
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-07-07, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
I do regret my naïveté saying for years “one state or two state solutions”.
The two state solution is merely gold-plating the turd of extermination.
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/112747071664046569
Biden hits campaign trail as Democrats fret about his candidacy
date: 2024-07-07, from: VOA News USA
https://www.voanews.com/a/7688505.html
SF Giants drop series to Guardians as Hjelle allows crucial home run
date: 2024-07-07, from: San Jose Mercury News
The Giants had an opportunity to win a third straight series, but Sean Hjelle allowed a crucial three-run homer that decided the game.
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-07-07, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
I would like to marry the Philadelphia Inquirer.
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/editorials/trump-verbal-miscues-presidential-debate-20240706.html
Should Celebrini and Smith be the Sharks’ top two centers this season?
date: 2024-07-07, from: San Jose Mercury News
Macklin Celebrini and Will Smith figure to provide a significant boost to the San Jose Sharks this season.
Polls: French leftists win most seats in legislative elections, beating back far-right surge
date: 2024-07-07, from: San Jose Mercury News
The projections put President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist alliance in second, no longer in control of parliament, and the bruised far right in third.
Warriors make historic six-team trade official as Klay Thompson joins Mavericks
date: 2024-07-07, from: San Jose Mercury News
Kyle Anderson and Buddy Hield are heading to the Warriors as part of the first six-team trade in NBA history.
Two dead in Bay Area freeway crashes on I-280, I-580
date: 2024-07-07, from: San Jose Mercury News
Both motorists died at the scene, the California Highway Patrol said.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/07/07/two-dead-in-bay-area-freeway-crashes-on-i-280-i-580/
‘Despicable Me 4’ debuts, raking in $122.6 million since opening Wednesday
date: 2024-07-07, from: VOA News USA
New York — After a historically bad first half of the year, the box office is suddenly booming.
“Despicable Me 4,” the Illumination Animation sequel, led the way over the holiday weekend with $75 million in ticket sales Friday through Sunday and $122.6 million since opening Wednesday, according to studio estimates Sunday.
The Independence Day holiday weekend haul for the Universal Pictures’ release further extends the considerable box-office reign of the Minions, arguably the most bankable force in movies today. And it also kept a summer streak going for Hollywood.
Though overall ticket sales were down more than 40% from levels prior to the COVID 19 pandemic, heading into the summer moviegoing season, theaters have lately seen a succession of hits. After Sony’s “Bad Boys: Ride or Die” outperformed expectations, Pixar’s “Inside Out 2” rapidly cleared $1 billion in ticket sales worldwide, making it the first release since “Barbie” to reach that mark. Last weekend, the Paramount prequel “A Quiet Place: Day One” also came in above expectations.
With “Deadpool & Wolverine” tracking for a $160 million launch later this month, Hollywood’s summer is looking up.
“If you look at the mood of the industry about eight weeks ago, very different than today,” says Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for Comscore. “The song says what a difference a day makes. What a difference a month has made.”
It helps to have the Minions at your disposal. Since first debuting in the 2010 original “Despicable Me,” each entry of the franchise — including two sequels and two “Minions” spinoffs — has seemingly guaranteed to gross around $1 billion. The four previous movies all made between $939 million (2022’s “Minions: Rise of Gru”) and $1.26 billion (2015’s “Minions”) globally.
That run has helped give Illumination founder and chief executive Chris Meledandri one of the most enviable track records in Hollywood. “Despicable Me 4,” directed by Chris Renaud and Patrick Delage, returns the voice cast led by Steve Carell and Kristen Wiig and doubles down on more Minion mayhem. Reviews (54% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes) weren’t particularly good for the latest installment, which includes a witness protection plot and a group of Minions transformed into a superhero squadron. But in their 12-year run, little has slowed down the Minions.
“This is one of the most beloved franchises, quite frankly, in the history of film, and certainly animation,” said Jim Orr, distribution chief for Universal. “Chris Meledandri and Illumination have their finger on the pulse of what families and audiences around the world want to see.”
Family movies are powering the box office. “Despicable Me 4” performed strongly despite the still considerable drawing power of “Inside Out 2.” In its fourth weekend of release, the Pixar sequel added another $30 million domestically and $78.3 million overseas.
“Inside Out 2,” with $1.22 billion in ticket sales thus far, is easily the year’s biggest hit and fast climbing up the all-time ranks for animated releases. It currently ranks as the No. 5 animated release worldwide.
Instead of cannibalizing the opening weekend for “Despicable Me 4,” “Inside Out 2” may have helped get families back in the habit of heading to theaters.
“What happened, I think, is the release calendar finally settled into a nice rhythm,” said Dergarabedian, referencing the jumbled movie schedule from last year’s strikes. “It’s all about momentum.”
The continued strong sales for “Inside Out 2” were enough to put the film in second place for the domestic weekend. Last week’s top new film, “A Quiet Place: Day One,” slid to third with $21 million in its second weekend, with another $21.1 million from overseas theaters. That was a steep decrease of 60%, though the Paramount prequel has amassed $178.2 million worldwide in two weeks.
The run of hits has caused some studios to boost their forecasts for the summer movie season. Heading into the most lucrative season at theaters, analysts were predicting a $3 billion summer, down from the more typical $4 billion mark. Now, closer to $3.4 billion appears likely.
The weekend’s other top new release was Ti West’s “MaXXXine,” the third in a string of slasher films from A24 starring Mia Goth. In 2,450 locations, “MaXXXine” collected $6.7 million in ticket sales, a franchise best. The film, which follows “X” and “Pearl” (both released in 2022), stars Goth as a 1980s Hollywood starlet being hunted by a killer known as the Night Stalker.
Angel Studios, which last year released the unexpected summer hit “Sound of Freedom,” struggled to find the same success with its latest Christian film, “Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot.” It debuted with $3.2 million.
Kevin Costner’s big-budget gamble, “Horizon: An American Saga,” didn’t do much to turn around its fortunes in its second weekend. The first chapter in what Costner hopes will be a four-part franchise – including a chapter two Warner Bros. will release in August – earned $5.5 million in its second weekend. The film, which cost more than $100 million to make, has grossed $22.2 million in two weeks.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
“Despicable Me 4,” $75 million.
“Inside Out 2,” $30 million.
“A Quiet Place Day One,” $21 million.
“MaXXXine,” $6.7 million.
“Bad Boys: Ride or Die,” $6.5 million.
“Horizon: An American Saga, Chapter 1,” $5.5 million.
“Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot,” $3.2 million.
“Kaiki 2898,” $1.8 million.
“The Bikeriders,” $1.3 million.
“Kinds of Kindness,” $860,000.
‘Nothing Will be Protected’ — How California Environmentalists Killed a ‘Green’ Energy Bill
date: 2024-07-07, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Supporters said it would have helped free the state from fossil fuels and make the grid more reliable, but opponents feared it would damage state parks.
The post ‘Nothing Will be Protected’ — How California Environmentalists Killed a ‘Green’ Energy Bill appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-07-07, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
"Second American Revolution will be bloodless, if the left allows it to be."
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4753439-heritage-leader-second-american-revolution/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-07-07, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Is Kamala Harris Underrated?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/05/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-kamala-harris.html
Is it time to cool off? Bay Area temperatures still above normal this week but working their way down
date: 2024-07-07, from: San Jose Mercury News
Saturday’s temperature of 111 in Livermore broke the city’s mark of 110 set on July 6, 1905.
One Simple Question
date: 2024-07-07, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
“How often do you go to State Street since the road was closed?”
The post One Simple Question appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
https://www.independent.com/2024/07/07/one-simple-question/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-07-07, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Manton Reece: ActivityPub paper cuts.
https://www.manton.org/2024/07/07/activitypub-paper-cuts.html
Hot take: social platforms should disallow special character growth hacking
date: 2024-07-07, from: Chris Heilmann
Over the last few years something magical has happened without much fanfare: social media platforms and operating systems automatically translate text content for us. Having spent a lot of time traveling around conferences, I amassed a lot of people I follow who do not speak or write like me. And whilst it was fun following […]
Evacuations Ordered on Figueroa Mountain Road in Lake Fire
date: 2024-07-07, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Three cabins were damaged or destroyed below Figueroa Campground; Figueroa Mountain Fire Station still standing.
The post Evacuations Ordered on Figueroa Mountain Road in Lake Fire appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
https://www.independent.com/2024/07/07/evacuations-ordered-on-figueroa-mountain-road-in-lake-fire/
7 ways to reduce energy bills during summer heat
date: 2024-07-07, from: The Signal
With temperatures forecasted to run at least 2 degrees higher than historical averages across more than half the country, according to projections from AccuWeather, heat waves may lead to soaring […]
The post 7 ways to reduce energy bills during summer heat appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2024/07/7-ways-to-reduce-energy-bills-during-summer-heat/
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-07-07, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
I should add that once you have this volume of photos, Apple Photos really shines - for searching events, people, locations, themes, memories; and also to search text of screenshots and memes.
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/112746275704496953
Regain flexibility after age 50
date: 2024-07-07, from: The Signal
Flexibility and fitness go hand in hand. Ensuring the body is flexible can help individuals avoid injury during exercise. Yogapedia indicates flexibility refers to the ability of a joint to […]
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https://signalscv.com/2024/07/regain-flexibility-after-age-50/
Staying safe during summer vacations: 5 tips for traveling with health conditions
date: 2024-07-07, from: The Signal
From staycations and road trips to Caribbean getaways and coastal cruises, summertime offers the chance to escape and unwind with a much needed (and deserved) vacation. However, for people living […]
The post Staying safe during summer vacations: 5 tips for traveling with health conditions appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
Beat the outside heat by playing indoors
date: 2024-07-07, from: The Signal
While much of the country is sweltering in record breaking heat, for the Santa Clarita Valley, we call it “a regular summer day.” As the calendar counts down to “real […]
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https://signalscv.com/2024/07/beat-the-outside-heat-by-playing-indoors/
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-07-07, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
Two things I just learned:
- the iCloud storage is in addition to your AppleOne subscription, so
I don’t need to buy the 6 TB tier yet, I only have to buy the additional
2TB to extent the 2TB I have from AppleOne.
- you can share the storage with your family (our family is 5, not sure if Apple Storage is Utah-friendly)
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/112746147803568530
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-07-07, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
I wonder how your photo library compares to mine?
I always loved photos, but taking pictures and videos of the kids took this to another level.
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/112746110456638924
Changing Lives
date: 2024-07-07, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Thank you for the touching and encouraging cover story by Isabelle Walker with amazing photographs by David Sand.
The post Changing Lives appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
https://www.independent.com/2024/07/07/changing-lives/
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-07-07, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
Cutting it close:
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/112746082195834579
Beryl bears down on Texas, where it’s expected to hit Monday and regain hurricane strength
date: 2024-07-07, from: VOA News USA
MATAGORDA BAY, TEXAS — The outer bands of Beryl brought rain and intensifying winds to Texas on Sunday as coastal residents boarded up windows, left beach towns under evacuation orders and braced for the tropical storm that forecasters expected to strengthen back into a hurricane before landfall.
Much of Texas’ shoreline was under a hurricane warning and landfall was expected early Monday. Officials in several coastal counties urged tourists along the beach for the Fourth of July holiday to leave.
The earliest storm to develop into a Category 5 hurricane in the Atlantic, Beryl caused at least 11 deaths as it passed through the Caribbean on its way to Texas. The storm ripped off doors, windows and roofs with devastating winds and storm surge fueled by the Atlantic’s record warmth.
“We’re seeing the outer bands of Beryl approach the Texas coast now and the weather should be going downhill especially this afternoon and evening,” Eric Blake, a senior hurricane specialist with the National Hurricane Center, said Sunday morning. “People should definitely be in their safe space by nightfall and we’re expecting the hurricane to make landfall somewhere in the middle Texas coast overnight.”
Beryl would be the 10th hurricane to hit Texas in July since 1851 and the fourth in the last 25 years, according to Colorado State University hurricane researcher Phil Klotzbach.
Three times in its one week of life, Beryl has gained 56 kilometers per hour in wind speed in 24 hours or less, the official weather service definition of rapid intensification.
Beryl’s explosive growth into an unprecedented early whopper of a storm shows the literal hot water of the Atlantic and Caribbean, and what the Atlantic hurricane belt can expect for the rest of the storm season, experts said.
Texas officials warned people along the entire coastline to prepare for possible flooding, heavy rain and wind. The hurricane warning extended from Baffin Bay, south of Corpus Christi, to Sargent, south of Houston.
Beryl lurked as another potential heavy rain event for Houston, where storms in recent months have knocked out power across the nation’s fourth-largest city and flooded neighborhoods. A flash flood watch was in effect for a wide swath of the Texas coast, where forecasters expected Beryl to dump as much as 25 centimeters of rain in some areas.
Potential storm surges between 1.2 and 1.8 meters above ground level were forecast around Matagorda. The warnings extended to the same coastal areas where Hurricane Harvey came ashore in 2017 as a Category 4 hurricane, which was far more powerful than Beryl’s expected intensity by the time the storm reaches landfall.
In Port Lavaca, Jimmy May was boarding up his business Jimmy Hayes Electric on Sunday to protect the glass, “in case we get a little bit too much wind, too much trash blowing,” he said. He said he wasn’t concerned about the forecasted high winds or possible storm surge in town but people in lower-lying areas “need to get out of there.”
Those looking to catch a flight out of the area could find that option more difficult as Beryl closes in on the Texas coast. While the majority of flights from Houston’s two major commercial airports were leaving on time as of midday Sunday, more than 65 flights had been delayed and another four canceled, according to FlightAware data.
In Corpus Christi, officials asked visitors to cut their trips short and return home early if possible. Residents were advised to secure homes by boarding up windows if necessary and using sandbags to guard against possible flooding.
Traffic was nonstop for the past three days at an Ace Hardware store in the city as customers bought tarps, rope, duct tape, sandbags and generators, employee Elizabeth Landry said Saturday.
“They’re just worried about the wind, the rain,” she said. “They’re wanting to prepare just in case.”
Ben Koutsoumbaris, general manager of Island Market on Corpus Christi’s Padre Island, said there has been “definitely a lot of buzz about the incoming storm,” with customers stocking up on food and drinks, particularly meat and beer.
The White House said Sunday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency had sent emergency responders, search-and-rescue teams, bottled water, and other resources along the coast.
Some coastal cities called for voluntary evacuations in low-lying areas that are prone to flooding, banned beach camping and urged tourists traveling on the Fourth of July holiday weekend to move recreational vehicles from coastal parks. In Refugio County, north of Corpus Christi, officials issued a mandatory evacuation order for its 6,700 residents.
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who is acting governor while Gov. Greg Abbott is traveling in Taiwan, issued a preemptive disaster declaration for 121 counties.
Beryl this past week battered Mexico as a Category 2 hurricane, toppling trees but causing no injuries or deaths before weakening to a tropical storm as it moved across the Yucatan Peninsula.
Before hitting Mexico, Beryl wrought destruction in Jamaica, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Barbados. Three people were reported dead in Grenada, three in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, three in Venezuela and two in Jamaica.
A friendly guide to containerization for AI work
date: 2024-07-07, updated: 2024-07-07, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Save the headaches, ship your dependencies
Hands on One of the biggest headaches associated with AI workloads is wrangling all of the drivers, runtimes, libraries, and other dependencies they need to run.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/07/07/containerize_ai_apps/
fnec ece commented on issue #141 at Felix Oliver Friedrich / Oberon A2
date: 2024-07-07, updated: 2024-07-07, from: Oberon A2 at CAS
Sorry, could not insert xml statements.
https://gitlab.inf.ethz.ch/felixf/oberon/-/issues/141#note_193236
fnec ece commented on issue #141 at Felix Oliver Friedrich / Oberon A2
date: 2024-07-07, updated: 2024-07-07, from: Oberon A2 at CAS
What happens if you don't load HotKeys module at Autostart section of Configuration.XML;
To comment, change this:
To:
https://gitlab.inf.ethz.ch/felixf/oberon/-/issues/141#note_193235
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-07-07, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
The US supreme court just basically legalized bribery.
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-07-07, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Heather Cox Richardson On This Moment In American History. #mustwatch
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnw6JmXOzpk
Can’t get enough of California? Try hopping into this Huell Howser livestream
date: 2024-07-07, updated: 2024-07-07, from: The LAist
PBS SoCal is trying out a new experiment by streaming Howser’s Visiting on YouTube, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
An Alaska tourist spot will vote whether to ban cruise ships on Saturdays to give locals a break
date: 2024-07-07, from: VOA News USA
JUNEAU, Alaska — Each year, a crush of tourists arrives in Alaska’s capital city on cruise ships to see wonders like the fast-diminishing Mendenhall Glacier. Now, long-simmering tensions over Juneau’s tourism boom are coming to a head over a new voter initiative aimed at giving residents a respite from the influx.
A measure that would ban cruise ships with 250 or more passengers from docking in Juneau on Saturdays qualified for the Oct. 1 municipal ballot, setting the stage for a debate about how much tourism is too much in a city that is experiencing first-hand the impacts of climate change. The measure would also ban ships on July 4, a day when locals flock to a downtown parade.
The “ship-free Saturdays” initiative that qualified last week will go to voters unless the local Assembly enacts a similar measure by Aug. 15, which is seen as unlikely.
Juneau, accessible only by water or air, is home to the Mendenhall Glacier, a major draw for the cruise passengers who arrive on multi-story ships towering over parts of the modest downtown skyline. Many residents of this city of about 32,000 have concerns about increased traffic, congested trails and the frequent buzz of sight-seeing helicopters transporting visitors to the Mendenhall and other glaciers.
Deborah Craig, who has lived in Juneau for decades, supports ship-free Saturdays. Craig, who lives across the channel from where the ships dock, often hears their early-morning fog horns and broadcast announcements made to passengers that are audible across the water.
The current “overwhelming” number of visitors diminishes what residents love so much about Juneau, she said.
“It’s about preserving the lifestyle that keeps us in Juneau, which is about clean air, clean water, pristine environment and easy access to trails, easy access to water sports and nature,” she said of the initiative.
“There’s this perception that some people are not welcoming of tourists, and that’s not the case at all,” Craig said. “It’s about volume. It’s about too much — too many in a short period of time overwhelming a small community.”
The current cruise season runs from early April to late October.
Opponents of the initiative say limiting dockings will hurt local businesses that rely heavily on tourism and could invite lawsuits. A voter-approved limit on cruise passenger numbers in Bar Harbor, Maine, another community with a significant tourism economy, was challenged in federal court.
Laura McDonnell, a business leader who owns Caribou Crossings, a gift shop in Juneau’s downtown tourist core, said she makes 98% of her annual revenue during the summer season.
Tourism is about all the “local businesses that rely on cruise passengers and our place in the community,” said McDonnell, who is involved in Protect Juneau’s Future, which opposes the initiative.
Some schools recently closed due to factors including declining enrollment, while the regional economy faces challenges, she said.
“I think that as a community, we really need to look at what’s at stake for our economy,” she said. “We are not in a position to be shrinking our economy.”
The cruise industry accounted for $375 million in direct spending in Juneau in 2023, most of that attributable to spending by passengers, according to a report prepared for the city by McKinley Research Group LLC.
After a two-year pandemic lull, cruise passenger numbers rose sharply in Juneau, hitting a record of more than 1.6 million in 2023. Under this year’s schedule, Sept. 21 will be the first day since early May with no large ships in town.
The tourism debate is polarizing, and the city has been trying to find a middle ground, said Alexandra Pierce, Juneau’s visitor industry director. But she noted there also needs to be a regional solution.
If the Juneau initiative passes, it will impact other, smaller communities in southeast Alaska because the ships, generally on trips originating in Seattle or Vancouver, Canada, will have to go somewhere if they can’t dock in Juneau on Saturdays, she said.
Some residents in Sitka, south of Juneau, are in the early stages of trying to limit cruise visitation to that small, island community, which is near a volcano.
Juneau and major cruise lines, including Carnival Corp., Disney Cruise Line, Norwegian Cruise Line and Royal Caribbean Group, agreed to a limit of five large ships a day, which took effect this year. They more recently signed a pact, set to take effect in 2026, seeking a daily limit of 16,000 cruise passengers Sundays through Fridays and 12,000 on Saturdays.
Pierce said the overall goal is to keep total cruise passenger visitation around 1.6 million, and to even out daily numbers of visitors that can spike to about 18,000 on the busiest days and feel “a bit suffocating.” Juneau traditionally has been the most popular cruise port in the state.
A number of projects around Juneau are expected to help make existing cruise numbers feel less impactful. Those include plans for a gondola at the city-owned ski area and increased visitor capacity at the Mendenhall Glacier recreation area, she said.
Renée Limoge Reeve, vice president of government and community relations for the trade group Cruise Lines International Association Alaska, said the agreements signed with the city were the first of their kind in Alaska.
The best strategy is “ongoing, direct dialogue with local communities” and working together in a way that also provides a predictable source of income for local businesses, she said.
Protect Juneau’s Future, led by local business leaders, said the success of the ballot measure would mean a loss of sales tax revenue and millions of dollars in direct spending by cruise passengers. The group was confident voters would reject the measure, its steering committee said in a statement.
Karla Hart, a sponsor of the initiative and frequent critic of the cruise industry, said the threat of litigation has kept communities from taking steps to limit cruise numbers in the past. She was heartened by legal wins this year in the ongoing fight over the measure passed in Bar Harbor, a popular destination near Maine’s Acadia National Park.
She believes the Juneau initiative will pass.
https://www.voanews.com/a/7688193.html
Torrid heat bakes millions in large swaths of US, setting records and fanning wildfires
date: 2024-07-07, from: VOA News USA
Las Vegas — Roughly 130 million people were under threat over the weekend and into next week from a long-running heat wave that broke or tied records with dangerously high temperatures and is expected to shatter more from East Coast to West Coast, forecasters said.
Ukiah, north of San Francisco, hit 117 degrees Fahrenheit (47 degrees Celsius) on Saturday, breaking the city’s record for the date and tying its all-time high. Livermore, east of San Francisco, hit 111 F (43.8 C), breaking the daily maximum temperature record of 109 F (42.7 C) set more than a century ago in 1905.
Las Vegas tied the record of 115 F (46 C), last reached in 2007, and Phoenix topped out at 114 F (45.5 C), just shy of the record of 116 F (46.7 C) dating to 1942.
The National Weather Service said it was extending the excessive heat warning for much of the Southwest through Friday.
“A dangerous and historic heatwave is just getting started across the area, with temperatures expected to peak during the Sunday-Wednesday timeframe,” the National Weather Service in Las Vegas said in an updated forecast.
In Las Vegas, where the mercury hit 100 F (37.7 C) by 10:30 a.m., Marko Boscovich said the best way to beat the heat is in a seat at a slot machine with a cold beer inside an air-conditioned casino.
“But you know, after it hits triple digits it’s about all the same to me,” said Boscovich, who was visiting from Sparks, Nevada to see a Dead & Company concert Saturday night at the Sphere. “Maybe they’ll play one of my favorites — ‘Cold Rain and Snow.’”
In more humid parts of the country, temperatures could spike above 100 F (about 38 C) in parts of the Pacific Northwest, the mid-Atlantic and the Northeast, said Jacob Asherman, a weather service meteorologist.
Heat records shattered across the Southwest
Meteorologists predicted that temperatures would be near daily records in the region through most, if not all, of the coming week, with lower desert highs reaching 115 to 120 degrees F (46.1 to 48.8 C).
Rare heat advisories were extended even into higher elevations including around Lake Tahoe, on the border of California and Nevada, with the National Weather Service in Reno, Nevada, warning of “major heat risk impacts, even in the mountains.”
“How hot are we talking? Well, high temperatures across (western Nevada and northeastern California) won’t get below 100 degrees (37.8 C) until next weekend,” the service posted online. “And unfortunately, there won’t be much relief overnight either.”
Indeed, Reno hit a high of 104 F (40 C) on Saturday, smashing the old record of 101 F (38.3 C).
More extreme highs are in the near forecast, including 129 F (53.8 C) for Sunday at Furnace Creek, California, in Death Valley National Park, and then around 130 F (54.4 C) through Wednesday.
The hottest temperature ever officially recorded on Earth was 134 F (56.67 C) in July 1913 in Death Valley, eastern California, though some experts dispute that measurement and say the real record was 130 F (54.4 C), recorded there in July 2021.
The worst is yet to come across the West and mid-Atlantic
Triple-digit temperatures are likely in the West, between 15 and 30 F (8 and 16 C) higher than average into next week, the National Weather Service said.
The Eastern U.S. also was bracing for more hot temperatures. Baltimore and others parts of Maryland were under an excessive heat warning as heat index values could climb to 110 F (43 C), forecasters said.
“Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors,” read a National Weather Service advisory for the Baltimore area. “Young children and pets should never be left unattended in vehicles under any circumstances.”
Deaths are starting to mount
In Arizona’s Maricopa County, which encompasses Phoenix, there have been at least 13 confirmed heat-related deaths this year, along with more than 160 other deaths suspected of being related to heat that are still under investigation, according to a recent report.
That does not include the death of a 10-year-old boy last week in Phoenix who suffered a “heat-related medical event” while hiking with family at South Mountain Park and Preserve, according to police.
California wildfires fanned by low humidity, high temperatures
Firefighters dispatched aircraft and helicopters to drop water or retardant on a series of wildfires in California.
In Santa Barbara County, northwest of Los Angeles, the Lake Fire has scorched more than 19 square miles (49 square kilometers) of grass, brush and timber. Firefighters said the blaze was displaying “extreme fire behavior” and had the “potential for large growth” with high temperatures and low humidity.
Festival revelers meet the heat with cold water and shade
At the Waterfront Blues Festival in Portland, Oregon, music fans coped by drinking cold water, seeking shade or freshening up under water misters. Organizers of the weekend revelries also advertised free access to air conditioning in a nearby hotel.
Angelica Quiroz, 31, kept her scarf and hat wet and applied sunscreen.
“Definitely a difference between the shade and the sun,” Quiroz said Friday. “But when you’re in the sun, it feels like you’re cooking.”
David Hegg | Dependent Independence
date: 2024-07-07, from: The Signal
By David Hegg Once again, Independence Day has brought summer into reality. In my growing-up years near Canada, July 4 always seemed to be the first day it was hot […]
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https://signalscv.com/2024/07/david-hegg-dependent-independence/
Bill Lyons | But Cusack Was Great in ‘Sixteen Candles’
date: 2024-07-07, from: The Signal
The Signal did it again! While honoring obscure actors like John Cusack and Mary Stuart Masterson, your column (“Today in History”) omitted mention of my favorite African immigrant: Elon Musk, […]
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Rob Kerchner | Overlooking the Evils of Marxism
date: 2024-07-07, from: The Signal
For their crimes Nazis are routinely — and appropriately — denounced by everyone, including leftists, who eagerly ignore the even worse crimes of Marxists. But it’s not just leftists who […]
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Pavi Premadasan | Mall Needs a Shot in the Arm
date: 2024-07-07, from: The Signal
I’m writing to talk about the number of shops closing in the Valencia Town Center mall. As someone who’s grown up in Santa Clarita, it’s really sad to see so […]
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NATO to discuss Russia-North Korea military cooperation
date: 2024-07-07, from: VOA News USA
Washington — The NATO summit scheduled for this week will include a discussion among the allies about strengthening security ties with South Korea and Japan against deepening military cooperation between Russia and North Korea, experts said.
The leaders of 32 NATO members will convene in Washington July 9 to 11 to discuss ways to provide continued military support to Ukraine to help it defend itself against Russia, which invaded more than two years ago.
Australia, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea — sometimes referred to as the Indo-Pacific 4 or IP4 — are invited to the NATO summit. The United States, Japan and South Korea plan to meet on the sidelines of the summit.
Among the items that analysts expect NATO to discuss with Japan and South Korea is the growing military cooperation between Russia and North Korea.
“The Russian-North Korean agreement is a problem for both NATO countries and for the countries in the Northeast Asia,” said Bruce Bennett, a senior defense analyst at the RAND Corporation.
“I expect that it will be discussed at this meeting. It may become a critical aspect of the meeting, if, by that time, intelligence is saying that North Korea is sending many military personnel to support Russia in Ukraine,” Bennett said.
After Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un signed a mutual defense pact in Pyongyang last month, some speculated that North Korea could dispatch army engineers to Russian-occupied Donetsk to rebuild the war-torn region.
Pentagon press secretary Major General Patrick Ryder said at a press conference on June 25 that the U.S. is keeping an eye on a possible dispatch of troops but warned North Korea about sending military forces, saying they would be “cannon fodder in an illegal war against Ukraine.”
North Korea on June 27 renewed its support for Russia’s war against Ukraine, saying, “We will always be on the side of the Russian army” in “the war of justice.”
Both Washington and Seoul have estimated that Pyongyang sent about 10,000 containers of munitions to Russia. Moscow and Pyongyang denied arms exchanges between the two.
But in the defense pact that Putin and Kim signed last month, they agreed to set up ways to bolster their defense capabilities and openly announced possible military and technical cooperation.
“NATO members will discuss the implications of closer Russia-North Korea relations and how best to respond, including in terms of risks and opportunities,” said Matthew Brummer, a professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo.
“Risks primarily include material outcomes, such as how North Korea involvement will come to bear on warfighting in Ukraine. But there are also opportunities to be exploited, including how to use increased North Korea involvement to drive a wedge between China and Russia,” he said.
“The reemerging axis between China, Russia and North Korea has most certainly precipitated the security link between Europe and Asia. As a result, I expect increased NATO involvement in East Asia, especially with Japan, which is the world’s greatest latent military power,” Brummer said.
Beijing said that it is keeping “a close eye” on the NATO summit and that it hopes the summit does not “target any third party.”
Liu Pengyu, a spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy in Washington, told VOA on Tuesday that “the Asia-Pacific lies beyond the geographical scope of the North Atlantic” and that “NATO’s attempt to make eastward inroads into the Asia-Pacific will inevitably undermine regional peace and stability.”
“The countries and people in this region are on high alert against this and firmly oppose any words or actions designed to bring military blocs into this region and stoke division and confrontation,” he said.
The U.S. State Department did not respond to an inquiry by VOA’s Korean Service seeking a response to Beijing’s comments.
Luis Simon, director of the Elcano Royal Institute in Brussels, Belgium, said he would not rule out NATO countries conducting joint military exercises with its East Asian partners “in the Korean Peninsula context rather than in a China context” because it offers “diplomatically an easier entry point.”
At the same time, he said, “It will be more with NATO allies rather than the NATO as a whole because NATO as a whole is very clear about being laser focused” on defending Ukraine.
The Japan Air Self-Defense Force announced on June 25 that it will hold a series of joint drills in July with Germany, Spain and France — all NATO members.
David Maxwell, vice president of the Center for Asia Pacific Strategy, also said that bilateral arrangements between South Korea and individual NATO countries could be possible as “a number of NATO countries are member states of the United Nations Command.”
The U.N. Command is a multinational military body created during the Korean War of 1950-53 to defend against North Korean aggression.
Some analysts said there are limits to NATO’s involvement in the Indo-Pacific.
“Most of the countries in NATO are focused on the Atlantic area, and those who have projection capabilities” that can go beyond that “have rather small ones,” said Barry Posen, Ford international professor of political science at MIT.
William Ruger, a nonresident senior fellow at Defense Priorities, said U.S. “capabilities, material and policy bandwidth” are not sufficient to deal with the security of both Europe and Asia.
https://www.voanews.com/a/nato-to-discuss-russia-north-korea-military-cooperation/7685616.html
Today in SCV History (July 7)
date: 2024-07-07, from: SCV New (TV Station)
1949 – Incorporation of Castaic Saddle Club; holds rodeos near future Castaic Lake (lower lagoon) [story
https://scvnews.com/today-in-scv-history-july-7/
Sizzling sidewalks, unshaded playgrounds pose risk of burns
date: 2024-07-07, from: VOA News USA
PHOENIX, Arizona — Ron Falk lost his right leg, had extensive skin grafting on the left one and is still recovering a year after collapsing on the searing asphalt outside a Phoenix convenience store where he stopped for a cold soda during a heat wave.
Now using a wheelchair, the 62-year-old lost his job and his home. He’s recovering at a medical respite center for patients with no other place to go; there he gets physical therapy and treatment for a bacterial infection in what remains of his right leg, which is too swollen to use the prosthesis he’d hoped would help him walk again.
“If you don’t get somewhere to cool down, the heat will affect you,” said Falk, who lost consciousness due to heat stroke. “Then you won’t know what’s happening, like in my case.”
Sizzling sidewalks and unshaded playgrounds pose risks for surface burns as air temperatures reach new summertime highs in Southwest U.S. cities such as Phoenix, which just recorded its hottest June on record. The average daytime high was 43 degrees Celsius (109.5 degrees Fahrenheit), without a single 24-hour high below 37.7 Celsius (100 Fahrenheit).
Young children, older adults and homeless people are especially at risk for contact burns, which can occur in seconds when skin touches a surface of 82 C (180 F).
Since the beginning of June, 50 people have been hospitalized with such burns, and four have died at Valleywise Health Medical Center in Phoenix, which operates the Southwest’s largest burn center, serving patients from six states, according to its director, Dr. Kevin Foster. About 80% were injured in metro Phoenix.
Last year, the center admitted 136 patients for surface burns from June through August, up from 85 during the same period in 2022, Foster said. Fourteen died. One out of five were homeless.
“Last year’s record heat wave brought an alarming number of patients with life-threatening burns,” Foster said of a 31-day period with temperatures at or above 43 C (110 F) during Phoenix’s hottest summer.
In Las Vegas, which regularly sees summertime highs in the triple digits, 22 people were hospitalized in June alone at the University Medical Center’s Lions Burn Care Center, said spokesperson Scott Kerbs. That’s nearly half as many as the 46 hospitalized during all three summer months last year.
As in Phoenix, the desert sun punishes Las Vegas for hours every day, frying outdoor surfaces such as asphalt, concrete and metal doors on cars and playground equipment such as swings and monkey bars.
Contact with pavement
Surface burn victims often include children injured walking barefoot on concrete or touching hot surfaces, adults who collapsed on a sidewalk while intoxicated, and older people who fell on the pavement due to heat stroke or another medical emergency.
Some don’t survive.
Thermal injuries were among the main or contributing causes of last year’s 645 heat-related deaths in Maricopa County, which encompasses Phoenix.
One victim was an 82-year-old woman with dementia and heart disease admitted to a suburban Phoenix hospital after being found on the scorching pavement on an August day that hit 41.1 C (106 F).
With a body temperature of 40.5 C (105 F), the woman was rushed to the hospital with second-degree burns on her back and right side, covering 8% of her body. She died three days later.
Many surface burn patients also suffered potentially fatal heat stroke.
Valleywise hospital’s emergency department recently adopted a new protocol for all heat stroke victims: submerging patients in a bag of slushy ice to quickly bring down body temperature.
Recovery for those with skin burns was often lengthy, with patients undergoing multiple skin grafts and other surgeries, followed by months of recovery in skilled nursing or rehabilitation facilities.
Bob Woolley, 71, suffered second- and third-degree burns to his hands, arms, leg and torso after he stumbled onto the broiling backyard rock garden at his Phoenix home while wearing only swim trunks and a tank top.
“The ordeal was extremely painful; it was almost unbearable,” said Woolley, who was hospitalized at the Valleywise burn center for several months. He said he considers himself “95% recovered” after extensive skin grafts and physical therapy and has resumed some former activities such as swimming and motorcycle riding.
Children among the burned
Some burn victims in Phoenix and Las Vegas were children.
“In many cases, this involves toddlers walking or crawling onto hot surfaces,” Kerbs said of those hospitalized at the Las Vegas center.
Foster said about 20% of the hospitalized and outpatient skin-burn victims seen at the Phoenix center are children.
Small children aren’t fully aware of the harm a sizzling metal door handle or a scorching sidewalk can cause.
“Because they’re playing, they don’t pay attention,” said urban climatologist Ariane Middel, an assistant professor at Arizona State University who directs the SHaDE Lab, a research team that studies the effects of urban heat.
“They may not even notice that it’s hot.”
In measuring surface temperatures of playground equipment, the team found that in 37.7-degree C (100 F) weather without shade, a slide can heat up to 71.1 C (160 F), but a covering can bring that down to 43.8 C (111 F). A rubber ground cover can hit as high as 86.6 C (188 F), a handrail can heat up to 48.8 C (120 F) and concrete can reach 55.5 C (132 F).
Many metro Phoenix parks have covered picnic tables and plastic fabric stretched over play equipment, keeping metal or plastic surfaces up to 30 degrees Fahrenheit cooler. But plenty do not, Middel said.
She said cooler wood chips are better underfoot than rubber mats, which were designed to protect kids from head injuries but soak up heat in the broiling sun. Like rubber, artificial turf gets hotter than asphalt.
“We need to think about alternative surface types, because most surfaces we use for our infrastructure are heat sponges,” Middel said.
Pets in danger, too
Hot concrete and asphalt also pose burn risks for pets.
Veterinarians recommend dogs wear booties to protect their paws during outdoor walks in summer or keeping them on cooler grassy areas. Owners are also advised to make sure their pets drink plenty of water and don’t get overheated. Phoenix bans dogs from the city’s popular hiking trails on days the National Weather Service issues an excessive heat warning.
Recovering at Phoenix’s Circle the City, a respite care facility he was sent to after being released from Valleywise’s burn unit, Falk said he never imagined the Phoenix heat could cause him to collapse on the broiling asphalt in his shorts and T-shirt.
Because he wasn’t carrying identification or a phone, no one knew where he was for months. He has a long road ahead but still hopes to regain part of his old life, working for a concessionaire for entertainment events.
“I kind of went into a downward spiral,” Falk said. “I finally woke up and said, ’Hey, wait, I lost a leg.’ But that doesn’t mean you’re useless.”
https://www.voanews.com/a/sizzling-sidewalks-unshaded-playgrounds-pose-risk-of-burns/7683749.html
Pongamia trees offer renewable energy, plant-based protein
date: 2024-07-07, from: VOA News USA
https://www.voanews.com/a/pongamia-trees-offer-renewable-energy-plant-based-protein/7688123.html
North Dakota tribe goes back to its roots with a massive greenhouse operation
date: 2024-07-07, from: VOA News USA
BISMARCK, North Dakota — A Native American tribe in North Dakota will soon grow lettuce in a giant greenhouse complex that when fully completed will be among the country’s largest, enabling the tribe to grow much of its own food decades after a federal dam flooded the land where they had cultivated corn, beans and other crops for millennia.
Work is ongoing on the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation’s 1.3-hectare greenhouse that will make up most of the Native Green Grow operation’s initial phase. However, enough of the structure will be completed this summer to start growing leafy greens and other crops such as tomatoes and strawberries.
“We’re the first farmers of this land,” Tribal Chairman Mark Fox said. “We once were part of an Aboriginal trade center for thousands and thousands of years because we grew crops — corn, beans, squash, watermelons — all these things at massive levels, so all the tribes depended on us greatly as part of the Aboriginal trade system.”
The tribe will spend roughly $76 million on the initial phase, which also will include a warehouse and other facilities near the tiny town of Parshall. It plans to add to the growing space in the coming years, eventually totaling about 5.9 hectares, which officials say would make it one of the world’s largest facilities of its type.
The tribe’s fertile land along the Missouri River was inundated in the mid-1950s when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built the Garrison Dam, which created Lake Sakakawea.
Getting fresh produce has long been a challenge in the area of western North Dakota where the tribe is based, on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. The rolling, rugged landscape — split by Lake Sakakawea — is a long drive from the state’s biggest cities, Bismarck and Fargo.
That isolation makes the greenhouses all the more important, as they will enable the tribe to provide food to the roughly 8,300 people on the Fort Berthold reservation and to reservations elsewhere. The tribe also hopes to stock food banks that serve isolated and impoverished areas in the region, and plans to export its produce.
Initially, the MHA Nation expects to grow nearly 907,000 kilograms of food a year and for that to eventually increase to 5.4 million to 6.4 million kilograms annually. Fox said the operation’s first phase will create 30 to 35 jobs.
The effort coincides with a national move to increase food sovereignty among tribes.
Supply chain disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic led tribes nationwide to use federal coronavirus aid to invest in food systems, including underground greenhouses in South Dakota to feed the local community, said Heather Dawn Thompson, director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Office of Tribal Relations. In Oklahoma, multiple tribes are running or building their own meat processing plant, she said.
The USDA promotes its Indigenous Food Sovereignty Initiative, which “really challenges us to think about food and the way we do business at USDA from an Indigenous, tribal lens,” Thompson said. Examples include Indigenous seed hubs, foraging videos and guides, cooking videos and a meat processing program for Indigenous animals.
“We have always been a very independent, sovereign people that have been able to hunt, gather, grow and feed ourselves, and forces have intervened over the last century that have disrupted those independent food resources, and it made it very challenging. But the desire and goal has always been there,” said Thompson, whose tribal affiliation is Cheyenne River Sioux.
The MHA Nation’s greenhouse plans are possible in large part because of access to potable water and natural gas resources.
The natural gas released in North Dakota’s Bakken oil field has long been seen by critics as a waste and environmental concern, but Fox said the tribal nation intends to capture and compress that gas to heat and power the greenhouse and process into fertilizer.
Flaring, in which natural gas is burned off from pipes that emerge from the ground, has been a longtime issue in the No. 3 oil-producing state.
North Dakota Pipeline Authority Director Justin Kringstad said that key to capturing the gas is building needed infrastructure, as the MHA Nation intends to do.
“With those operators that are trying to get to that level of zero, it’s certainly going to take more infrastructure, more buildout of pipes, processing plants, all of the above to stay on top of this issue,” he said.
The Fort Berthold Reservation had nearly 3,000 active wells in April, when oil production totaled 203,000 barrels a day on the reservation. Oil production has helped the MHA Nation build schools, roads, housing and medical facilities, Fox said.
Rooker, Schuemann hit 3-run homers in Athletics’ 19-8 rout of Orioles
date: 2024-07-07, from: San Jose Mercury News
The A’s homered in each of the first four innings for the first time since 2003.
‘Ready to come out?’ Scientists emerge after year ‘on Mars’
date: 2024-07-07, from: VOA News USA
washington — The NASA astronaut knocks loudly three times on what appears to be a nondescript door and calls cheerfully: “You ready to come out?”
The reply is inaudible, but beneath his mask he appears to be grinning as he yanks the door open, and four scientists who have spent a year away from all other human contact, simulating a mission to Mars, spill out to cheers and applause.
Anca Selariu, Ross Brockwell, Nathan Jones and team leader Kelly Haston have spent the past 378 days sealed inside the “Martian” habitat in Houston, Texas, part of NASA’s research into what it will take to put humans on the Red Planet.
They have been growing vegetables, conducting “Marswalks,” and operating under what NASA terms “additional stressors,” such as communication delays with “Earth,” including their families; isolation and confinement.
It’s the kind of experience that would make anyone who lived through pandemic lockdowns shudder, but all four were beaming as they reemerged Saturday, their hair slightly more unruly and their emotion apparent.
“Hello. It’s actually so wonderful just to be able to say hello to you,” Haston, a biologist, said with a laugh.
“I really hope I don’t cry standing up here in front of all of you,” Jones, an emergency room doctor, said as he took to the microphone, and nearly doing just that several moments later as he spotted his wife in the crowd.
The habitat, dubbed Mars Dune Alpha, is a 3D-printed, 160-square-meter facility, complete with bedrooms, a gym, common areas, and a vertical farm for growing food.
An outdoor area, separated by an airlock, is filled with red sand and is where the team donned suits to conduct their “Marswalks,” though it is still covered rather than being open air.
“They have spent more than a year in this habitat conducting crucial science, most of it nutrition-based and how that impacts their performance … as we prepare to send people on to the Red Planet,” Steve Koerner told the crowd. Koerner is the deputy director at NASA’s Johnson Space Center.
“I’m very appreciative,” he added.
This mission is the first of a series of three planned by NASA, grouped under the title CHAPEA — Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog.
A yearlong mission simulating life on Mars took place in 2015-2016 in a habitat in Hawaii, and although NASA participated in it, it was not at the helm.
Under its Artemis program, America plans to send humans back to the Moon to learn how to live there long-term to help prepare a trip to Mars, sometime towards the end of the 2030s.
https://www.voanews.com/a/ready-to-come-out-scientists-emerge-after-year-on-mars-/7688101.html
Lake Fire More Than Doubles in Size in Santa Barbara Backcountry
date: 2024-07-07, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
[Update] Evacuation orders made on portions of Figueroa Mountain Road.
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Sharks ticket, jersey sales surge after Celebrini signing, team exec says
date: 2024-07-07, from: San Jose Mercury News
Ticket sales for San Jose Sharks’ Oct. 31 game against Chicago Blackhawks are surging – as is demand for No. 71 Macklin Celebrini jerseys – team president says
Rescuers save hikers who became trapped on Daly City cliff
date: 2024-07-07, from: San Jose Mercury News
The hikers became stuck near Westline Drive, a walking path near Mussel Rock Park that overlooks the Pacific Ocean.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/07/06/rescuers-save-hikers-who-became-trapped-on-daly-city-cliff/
Guards, Bolden and Bronny: Takeaways from Day 1 of the California Classic
date: 2024-07-07, from: San Jose Mercury News
The Warriors routed Miami in Anthony Vereen’s first game as head coach.
A Reformed Environmental Policy Paradigm
date: 2024-07-07, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
There is perhaps nothing more counterproductive in public policy than when good people promote policies that have the opposite effect of what they intend.
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https://www.independent.com/2024/07/06/a-reformed-environmental-policy-paradigm/
Leaving Elicit
date: 2024-07-07, from: Maggie Appleton blog
https://maggieappleton.com/leaving-elicit
Full Circle Weekly News 373
date: 2024-07-07, from: Full Circle Magazine
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Google announced the winners of the Open Source Peer Bonus 2024 award:
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GNOME now supports Wayland-only builds and improves tablet support:
Credits
- Host: @bardictriad, @zaivala
- Bumper: Canonical
- Theme Music: From The Dust - Stardust
- https://soundcloud.com/ftdmusic
- CC BY 4.0
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New network of car-tracking cameras helps arrest alleged road rage shooter
date: 2024-07-06, from: San Jose Mercury News
The California Highway Patrol (CHP) is hailing the July 1 arrest of a San Pablo man who allegedly shot into another car during a road rage incident as its first to be aided by a new network of hundreds of cameras around Oakland and the East Bay.
Vote Wisely
date: 2024-07-06, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Never has this country in all my years been in a position where one presidential candidate is simply too old and the other presidential candidate is simply too dangerous.
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https://www.independent.com/2024/07/06/vote-wisely-2/
Kyle Harrison struggles in first game back from injury as SF Giants fall to Cleveland Guardians
date: 2024-07-06, from: San Jose Mercury News
Harrison allows four hits, four earned runs and homer in first game since June 10
@Tomosino’s Mastodon feed (date: 2024-07-06, from: Tomosino’s Mastodon feed)
I live in the prettiest place
https://tilde.zone/@tomasino/112741857024256711
Map: Lake Fire explodes in Santa Barbara County mountains
date: 2024-07-06, from: San Jose Mercury News
Its western edge was within a mile of the former Michael Jackson Neverland Ranch, as well as several prominent wineries.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/07/06/map-lake-fire-explodes-in-santa-barbara-county-mountains/
San Jose Sharks sign Macklin Celebrini to entry-level contract
date: 2024-07-06, from: San Jose Mercury News
San Jose Sharks sign center Macklin Celebrini, the first-overall selection in the 2024 NHL Draft, to entry-level contract
Android 15 could include a desktop mode — but what for?
date: 2024-07-06, from: OS News
If there was ever a “will they, won’t they?” love story in mobile computing, it’s definitely Google’s on and off again relationship with Android’s desktop mode. There have been countless hints, efforts, and code pertaining to the mythical desktop mode for Android, but so far, Google has never flipped the switch and made it available. It’s 2024, Android 15 development is in full swing, and it seems Google and Android’s desktop mode are dating again. This past spring, Google added DisplayPort support to the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro in a Feature Drop update, allowing for easy wired connections to external monitors. Then, tinkering in Android 14 QPR3 Beta 2.1, Mishaal Rahman was able to get a new desktop interface up and running, complete with Android apps running in resizeable floating windows. It’s not confirmed that Android 15 will ship with a built-in desktop mode, but the bones are there. It does make me wonder, though: why? What would a desktop interface add to Android? ↫ Taylor Kerns at Android Police I’m actually fairly convinced Android could, indeed, serve as an excellent desktop operating system, but without any official backing by Google, it’s always been a massive hack to use Android with a mouse and keyboard. It’s not so much the hardware support – it’s all there – but rather the software support, and the clunky way common Android UI tasks feel when performing them with a mouse. I’ve installed Android desktop ‘distributions’ countless times, and the third-party hacks they use, like clunky taskbars and custom menus and so on, make for a horrid user experience. Samsung DEX seems to be the only somewhat successful attempt at adding a desktop mode to Android, but it can’t be installed on any regular PC or laptop, and requires cumbersome cabling or expensive docks, making it more of a curiosity than a true desktop mode in the sense most of us are thinking of. This feature needs to come from Google itself, and it needs to be something third parties can use in their ROMs and x86 builds so we can truly use Android on a desktop. I don’t believe that’s going to happen, though. It’s clear Google is more interested in pushing Chrome OS for desktop and laptop use, and it seems more likely that any desktop mode that gets added to Android is going to be similar in nature to DEX – something you can only use by hooking up your phone to a display and configuring wireless input devices. Cool, but not exactly something that will turn Android into a desktop contender.
https://www.osnews.com/story/140167/android-15-could-include-a-desktop-mode-but-what-for/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-07-06, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
The goal of FeedLand is to make news a social thing, following the pattern of social media apps, but using open formats and protocols.
https://docs.feedland.com/gettingstarted.md
Brush fire in Canyon Country knocked down at 3.6 acres
date: 2024-07-06, from: The Signal
A brush fire broke out on Vasquez Canyon Road and Burton Way in Canyon Country on Saturday afternoon while the Los Angeles County Fire Department battled the Olga Fire in […]
The post Brush fire in Canyon Country knocked down at 3.6 acres appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2024/07/brush-fire-breaks-out-in-canyon-country-2/
Breaking: comment editing is back
date: 2024-07-06, from: OS News
I’ve just confirmed with, well, myself, that comment editing on OSNews finally works again. We’re finally free. Our trying times are behind us, and we can begin to rebuild. Stay safe out there, and be kind to each other.
https://www.osnews.com/story/140164/breaking-comment-editing-is-back/
July 16: Registration Starts for After School Community Center Programs
date: 2024-07-06, from: SCV New (TV Station)
Registration for the city of Santa Clarita Newhall and Canyon Country Community Centers After School Programs will begin on Tuesday, July 16 at 10 a.m
https://scvnews.com/july-16-afterschool-registration-starts-for-community-center-programs/
Olga Fire: Structures damaged in Newhall
date: 2024-07-06, from: The Signal
By Katherine Quezada & Habeba Mostafa A brush fire that broke out in Newhall, called the “Olga Fire,” was declared a second-alarm blaze that damaged structures Saturday afternoon, according to Los […]
The post Olga Fire: Structures damaged in Newhall appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2024/07/olga-fire-structures-threatened-in-newhall/
July 10: COC Board to Hold Business Meeting
date: 2024-07-06, from: SCV New (TV Station)
The Santa Clarita Community College District Board of Trustees will hold a business meeting Wednesday, July 10, beginning at 4 p.m. The board will first meet in closed session at 4 p.m.
https://scvnews.com/july-10-coc-board-to-hold-business-meeting/
Controversial Measure Overturning Oil Well Restrictions Won’t Be on California Ballot
date: 2024-07-06, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
The oil industry’s decision will mean that state rules protecting homes and schools near oil and gas wells will go into effect. The companies instead will fight them in court.
The post Controversial Measure Overturning Oil Well Restrictions Won’t Be on California Ballot appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
Pittsburg: Victim dies from several gunshot wounds on Fourth of July
date: 2024-07-06, from: San Jose Mercury News
Police found the victim wounded on a largely residential block of Pittsburg with a small grocery market.
July 11: Arts Commission to Review 2025 Work Plan
date: 2024-07-06, from: SCV New (TV Station)
The Santa Clarita Arts Commission will hold its regular meeting Thursday, July 11, at 6 p.m., in City Hall’s Council Chambers
https://scvnews.com/july-11-arts-commission-to-review-2025-work-plan/
Conservative Budget Practices Paying Off
date: 2024-07-06, from: City of Santa Clarita
By City Manager Ken Striplin I am pleased to say that during our last City Council meeting in June, our City Council adopted yet another on-time, balanced budget for the 2024/25 Fiscal Year. The approval of an on-time and balanced budget has been the standard in Santa Clarita, every year since the City was formed […]
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https://santaclarita.gov/blog/2024/07/06/conservative-budget-practices-paying-off/
Mind The Pregap
date: 2024-07-06, from: Tedium feed
Pondering the compatibility issues and complications of a clever element of the audio CD hidden track boom: The before-album pregap.
https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/16735828/compact-disc-pregap-history
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-07-06, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
AG Sulzberger (born August 5, 1980) is an American journalist serving as the chairman of The New York Times Company and publisher of its flagship newspaper, The New York Times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._G._Sulzberger
Independence Abrogated
date: 2024-07-06, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
It is time to remove the Fourth of July Holiday from the American calendar.
The post Independence Abrogated appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
https://www.independent.com/2024/07/06/independent-abrogated/
Bay Area braces for 76-year high temperatures, fire danger in scorching heat wave
date: 2024-07-06, from: San Jose Mercury News
The forecast calls for the heat to let up starting Sunday, though not by much. “If it goes from 115 to 110 … can you really tell?” one meteorologist asked.
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-07-06, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Maybe subscribe to the Guardian? Hmm.
https://mastodon.social/@bartvdpoel@mastodon.green/112740313024794955
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-07-06, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
I am now convinced that Godot on iPad deserves the Final Cut Pro controls.
My work so far this morning pixel-matching the number selector for percentages:
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/112740688529403695
Sols 4236-4238: One More Time… for Contact Science at Mammoth Lakes
date: 2024-07-06, from: NASA breaking news
Earth planning date: Friday, July 5, 2024 Curiosity will drive away from the Mammoth Lakes drill location on the second sol of this three-sol weekend plan, but before she does, the team will take the opportunity for one last chance at contact science in this interesting region of the Gediz Vallis deposit. The team have […]
https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/sols-4236-4238-one-more-time-for-contact-science-at-mammoth-lakes/
Porting Bad Apple to the Homebrew CPU
date: 2024-07-06, from: Tilde.news
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g1h5coj6iA
Algorithmic wage discrimination: Not just for gig workers
date: 2024-07-06, updated: 2024-07-06, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
What’s in the box! No seriously, what’s in there that sets our wages
Interview Algorithmic wage discrimination, as described in an academic paper last year by UC Irvine law professor Veena Dubal, involves “the use of granular data to produce unpredictable, variable, and personalized hourly pay.”…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/07/06/algorithmic_wage_discrimination/
Just Due It: Persistent Notifications for Tasks
date: 2024-07-06, from: TidBITS blog
In his continuing search for apps that don’t let you forget something because you missed a single notification, Adam Engst looks at Due, which provides persistent notifications for reminders on all your Apple devices.
https://tidbits.com/2024/07/06/just-due-it-persistent-notifications-for-tasks/
For immigrants, Biden offers some protections; Trump, mass deportations
date: 2024-07-06, from: VOA News USA
U.S. presidential candidates Joe Biden and Donald Trump differ sharply on immigration. Both sparred over immigration at their first presidential debate. VOA’s immigration correspondent Aline Barros has the story.
Right on the Money
date: 2024-07-06, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
I’ve been an Airbnb host with success for the past decade, religiously sending in my TOT tax of 14 percent of earnings each month.
The post Right on the Money appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
https://www.independent.com/2024/07/06/right-on-the-money/
Our View | Well-Deserved Congratulations to Van Hook
date: 2024-07-06, from: The Signal
By The Signal Editorial Board It’s a timely moment to extend congratulations to Dr. Dianne Van Hook, the chancellor of College of the Canyons. Last week, Van Hook celebrated her […]
The post Our View | Well-Deserved Congratulations to Van Hook appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2024/07/our-view-well-deserved-congratulations-to-van-hook/
Ron Perry | The Guts to Speak Up
date: 2024-07-06, from: The Signal
Re: Cindy Josten, “Too Much Made of Pride,” letters, July 2. Finally, someone with the guts to speak up! Thank you Cindy Josten, for a wonderfully worded, non-hateful, yet much-needed […]
The post Ron Perry | The Guts to Speak Up appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2024/07/ron-perry-the-guts-to-speak-up/
Thomas Oatway | Is This Lawfare, Too?
date: 2024-07-06, from: The Signal
Are we supposed to believe that the delays of other Donald Trump trials by the Supreme Court and a judge appointed by Trump are not examples of “lawfare”? Thomas Oatway […]
The post Thomas Oatway | Is This Lawfare, Too? appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2024/07/thomas-oatway-is-this-lawfare-too/
Rick Barker | Elected Officials
date: 2024-07-06, from: The Signal
Elected officials freely chose to put themselves in the public eye and if they are worthy of the position they hold they are also intelligent enough to be very aware […]
The post Rick Barker | Elected Officials appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2024/07/rick-barker-elected-officials/
Jim de Bree | Debate Proves Concerns
date: 2024-07-06, from: The Signal
Over the past several months, when asked who I thought would win the election, my response was typically, “I don’t know, but here are my odds. Trump has a 45% […]
The post Jim de Bree | Debate Proves Concerns appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2024/07/jim-de-bree-debate-proves-concerns/
A moment with my 35th bday
date: 2024-07-06, from: Manu - I write blog
<p>I’m turning 35 today. For the first time in 35 years a birthday managed to sneak up on me without me realizing it. There will be a time to share and elaborate on all the mental struggles and the inner difficulties. But that day is not today. Today I’m just trying my best to enjoy my time up here, in this lovely quiet place, surrounded by mountains and trees.</p>
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Evacuation Warnings in Effect as Lake Fire Burns Thousands of Acres
date: 2024-07-06, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
A wildfire that broke out Friday afternoon near Zaca Lake north of Los Olivos has burned more than 4,600 acres as of Saturday morning.
The post Evacuation Warnings in Effect as Lake Fire Burns Thousands of Acres appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
How to set up your tech writer up for success
date: 2024-07-06, from: Blog by Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti
Congratulations! You hired your first technical writer. At some point you must have realized that you needed one, lest your product becomes a user nightmare. Or perhaps you thought that hiring a writer would free your developers from writing documentation and feel more “agile”. Whatever your motivation, you had the courage to hire a documentarian, and for that we applaud you. Now, how can you make sure your tech writer will thrive?
https://passo.uno/how-to-tech-writer-success/
Dan Walters | After 248 Years, Is This Our Best?
date: 2024-07-06, from: The Signal
Business mogul Mark Cuban conducted an interesting experiment during last week’s debate between President Joe Biden and his predecessor, Donald Trump. He fed a transcript of the debate into ChatGPT, […]
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https://signalscv.com/2024/07/dan-walters-after-248-years-is-this-our-best/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-07-06, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
I searched the NYT website for how to cancel my subscription, I've had enough of this bullshit. Time for us to part ways. Unfortunately the search did not get me any closer to cancelling.
https://www.nytimes.com/search?query=cancel+subscription
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-07-06, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
I think I sense a theme in Final Cut Pro UI elements: it goes out of its way to avoid using the system keyboard for data entry.
And come to think of it, the TextField with a keyboard is really a bad UI for entering numbers.
Lots of wasted space when all you need are the top row, “.” and backspace.
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/112739681730243300
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-07-06, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
I asked ChatGPT how to cancel my New York Times subscription.
https://chatgpt.com/share/1a3d5efd-54e0-47ac-b1c9-311edb64494f
How California’s ‘once in a century’ broadband investment plan could go wrong
date: 2024-07-06, from: The Markup blog
A nearly $2 billion initiative to remedy the digital divide is designed to fail, advocates say
Texas coast braces for Beryl, expected to regain hurricane strength
date: 2024-07-06, from: VOA News USA
houston, texas — Texas officials Saturday urged coastal residents to brace for a potential hit by Beryl as the storm is expected to regain hurricane strength in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
“We’re expecting the storm to make landfall somewhere on the Texas coast sometime Monday, if the current forecast is correct,” said Jack Beven, a senior hurricane specialist at the National Hurricane Center in Miami. “Should that happen, it’ll most likely be a Category 1 hurricane.”
The earliest storm to develop into a Category 5 hurricane in the Atlantic, Beryl caused at least 11 deaths as it passed through the Caribbean islands earlier in the week. It then battered Mexico as a Category 2 hurricane, toppling trees but causing no injuries or deaths before weakening to a tropical storm as it moved across the Yucatan Peninsula.
Texas officials warned the state’s entire coastline to brace for possible flooding, heavy rain and wind as they wait for a more defined path of the storm. The hurricane center has issued hurricane and storm surge warnings from Baffin Bay south of Corpus Christi to San Luis Pass, less than 80 miles (130 kilometers) south of Houston.
Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, the acting governor while Governor Greg Abbott is traveling in Taiwan, issued a preemptive disaster declaration for 121 counties.
“Beryl is a determined storm, and incoming winds and potential flooding will pose a serious threat to Texans who are in Beryl’s path at landfall and as it makes its way across the state for the following 24 hours,” Patrick said in a statement Saturday.
Some Texas coastal cities called for voluntary evacuations in low-lying areas prone to flooding, banned beach camping, and urged tourists traveling on the July 4 holiday weekend to move recreational vehicles from coastal parks.
Mitch Thames, a spokesperson for Matagorda County, said Saturday that officials issued a voluntary evacuation request for the coastal areas of the county about 160 kilometers (about 99 miles) southwest of Houston to inform the large number of visitors in the area for the holiday weekend.
“I certainly don’t want to ruin the holiday weekend for our visitors. But at the same time, our Number 1 goal is the health and safety of all our visitors and of course our residents,” Thames said.
Residents secure homes with boards, sandbags
In Corpus Christi, officials asked visitors to cut their trips short and return home early if possible. Officials asked residents to secure their homes by boarding up windows if necessary and using sandbags to guard against possible flooding.
“We’re taking the storm very serious and we’re asking the community to take the storm very serious as well,” Corpus Christi Fire Chief Brandon Wade said Friday.
Traffic has been nonstop for the past three days at Ace Hardware in Corpus Christi as customers buy up tarps, rope, duct tape, sandbags and generators, employee Elizabeth Landry said Saturday.
“They’re just worried about the wind, the rain,” she said. “They’re wanting to prepare just in case.”
Ben Koutsoumbaris, general manager of Island Market on Corpus Christi’s Padre Island, said there’s “definitely a lot of buzz about the incoming storm,” with customers stocking up on food and drinks — particularly meat and beer.
“I heard there’s been some talk about people having like hurricane parties,” he said by telephone Saturday.
County mandates evacuation
In Refugio County, north of Corpus Christi along Texas’ Gulf Coast, officials issued a mandatory evacuation order for its 6,700 residents Saturday.
Refugio County Judge Jhiela “Gigi” Poynter, the county’s top elected official, said that based on the growing confidence of Beryl’s track and the uncertainty regarding the storm’s intensity and holiday weekend traffic that is already backing up roads, she made the decision to call for the mandatory evacuation.
“I would rather be cautious and let Tropical Storm Beryl come crawling in with a little bit of rain and a little bit of wind to an empty Refugio County than the alternative if it were to strengthen more than the predictions, which we know has happened with several storms in the past,” Poynter said in a video posted on Facebook.
On Saturday, Beryl was about 615 kilometers (about 382 miles) southeast of Corpus Christi and had top sustained winds of 95 kilometers (50 miles) per hour, according to the National Hurricane Center. It was moving west-northwest at 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) per hour.
Before hitting Mexico and moving into the Gulf, Beryl had already spread destruction in Jamaica, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Barbados this week. Three people have been reported dead in Grenada, three in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, three in Venezuela and two in Jamaica, officials said.
Epic accuses Apple of foul play over iOS access, wants EU to show DMA red card
date: 2024-07-06, updated: 2024-07-06, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
After button brouhaha, CEO rages Cupertino ‘must be stopped’
Apple has twice unfairly blocked Epic Games from opening its iOS app portal in the EU, the Fortnite maker claims, and thus is in violation of the continent’s Digital Markets Act (DMA).…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/07/06/epic_games_apple_dma/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-07-06, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
NY Times, how about obsessing on the dictatorship on our horizon?
https://dangillmor.com/2024/07/06/ny-times-how-about-obsessing-on-the-dictatorship-on-our-horizon/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-07-06, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Heather Cox Richardson: “Although Trump has frequently slurred his words or trailed off while speaking and repeatedly fell asleep at his own criminal trial, none of the pieces mentioned Trump’s mental fitness.”
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-5-2024-friday
The Time Ranger | Happy Post-4th, o’ Dear & Mighty Saddlepals
date: 2024-07-06, from: The Signal
It’s Fourth of July weekend and I was looking back at something I had written 20 years ago about spending Independence Day with my father: “I frequently have this conversation […]
The post The Time Ranger | Happy Post-4th, o’ Dear & Mighty Saddlepals appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2024/07/the-time-ranger-happy-post-4th-o-dear-mighty-saddlepals/
Robert Lamoureux | Recommendations on sprinkler system upgrade
date: 2024-07-06, from: The Signal
Question: Robert, we have recently moved into an older home, which has a yard that hasn’t been well cared for, for what seems like most of its life. The sprinkler […]
The post Robert Lamoureux | Recommendations on sprinkler system upgrade appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2024/07/robert-lamoureux-recommendations-on-sprinkler-system-upgrade/
Today in SCV History (July 6)
date: 2024-07-06, from: SCV New (TV Station)
1850 – Henry Mayo Newhall arrives in California [story
https://scvnews.com/today-in-scv-history-july-6/
Which states could have abortion on the ballot in 2024?
date: 2024-07-06, from: VOA News USA
https://www.voanews.com/a/which-states-could-have-abortion-on-the-ballot-in-2024-/7684712.html
Aug. 19: SCAA Features Artist Demo by Derek Harrison
date: 2024-07-06, from: SCV New (TV Station)
The monthly meeting of the Santa Clarita Artists Association on Monday, Aug. 19 will feature an artist demonstration by Derek Harrison. He will be conducting a portrait painting using a live model
https://scvnews.com/aug-19-scaa-features-artist-demo-by-derek-harrison/
Storm Beryl spares Mexico’s Yucatan beaches, takes aim at Texas
date: 2024-07-06, from: VOA News USA
CANCUN/TULUM, Mexico — Tropical Storm Beryl was blowing out to the Gulf of Mexico on Friday afternoon and appeared likely to reach Texas by late Sunday, after its strong winds and heavy rain largely spared Mexico’s top beach destinations.
The core of the storm, downgraded from a hurricane, crossed the Yucatan Peninsula by Friday afternoon, with its maximum wind speeds slowing to around 105 kph after striking near the coastal beach resort of Tulum in the morning.
The storm, which at one point intensified to a massive Category 5 hurricane, left a deadly trail of destruction across the Caribbean earlier this week. However, there were no casualties in Mexico, the head of the country’s civil protection agency, Laura Velazquez, said in a press conference on Friday afternoon.
While Beryl’s passage over Mexico’s Quintana Roo and Yucatan states resulted in slower winds, the U.S. National Hurricane Center still forecast dangerous storm surges in the surrounding area.
For those who hunkered down as Beryl churned overhead, a sense of relief prevailed.
“Holy cow! It was an experience!” said Mexican tourist Juan Ochoa, who was staying in Tulum.
“Really only some plants flew up in the air,” he said. “Thank God we’re all OK.”
Tourist infrastructure was without major damage in Quintana Roo, the state government said in a statement.
Still, many in the area lost electricity, including 40% of Tulum, said Guillermo Nevarez, an official with Mexico’s national electricity company CFE, speaking to local broadcaster Milenio.
Civil protection chief Velazquez said she expected service to be restored in full by Sunday.
Among Mexico’s top tourist getaways, the Yucatan Peninsula is known for its white sand beaches, lush landscapes and Mayan ruins.
Stranded tourists camped out in Cancun’s international airport on Friday, unsure of when they would make it home.
Nora Vento said her flight home to Chile was postponed multiple times, and that her airline’s counter was unstaffed.
“So, I don’t know when I will get to Chile,” she said.
Beryl, currently located over the port of Progreso in Mexico’s Yucatan state, was expected to pick up intensity as it enters the Gulf of Mexico and forecast to regain hurricane status and approach the western Gulf coast on Sunday.
A hurricane watch was in effect for the Texas coast from the mouth of the Rio Grande northward to Sargent, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC).
Mexico’s meteorological service issued a hurricane watch for the northeastern coast of Mexico from Barra el Mezquital to the mouth of the Rio Grande.
“There is an increasing risk of damaging hurricane-force winds and life-threatening storm surge in portions of northeastern Mexico and the lower and middle Texas Coast late Sunday and Monday where hurricane and storm surge watches have been issued,” the NHC said.
It warned that flash and urban flooding were possible across portions of the Texas Gulf Coast and eastern Texas from Sunday through the middle of next week.
Rainfall of 13 to 25 centimeters, with localized amounts of 38 centimeters, is projected across portions of the Texas Gulf Coast and eastern Texas beginning late on Sunday through the middle of next week.
Mexico’s national water commission, CONAGUA, flagged a risk of flooding around the tourist hubs, as well as in neighboring Campeche state.
Quintana Roo schools were closed, as were local beaches, and officials lifted a temporary ban on alcohol sales.
Beryl was the first hurricane of the 2024 Atlantic season, and this week became the earliest Category 5 hurricane on record, with scientists pointing to its rapid strengthening as almost certainly fueled by human-caused climate change.
Before reaching Mexico, Beryl wreaked havoc across several Caribbean islands. It swept through Jamaica, Grenada, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, in addition to unleashing heavy rainfall on northern Venezuela. It has claimed at least 11 lives, tearing apart buildings while felling power lines and trees.
Destruction in the islands of Grenada was especially pronounced.
Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell pointed to major damage to homes in Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique during a video briefing Thursday night. Parts of the latter two islands suffered “almost complete devastation,” he said.
“Many of our citizens have lost everything.”
Mexico’s major oil platforms, primarily located in the southern rim of the Gulf of Mexico, are not expected to be affected or shut down.
Beryl is also expected to have little impact on U.S. offshore oil and gas production, energy companies said on Friday while evacuating personnel from some facilities out of caution.
Research by the ClimaMeter consortium determined that climate change significantly intensified Beryl. According to the study, the storm’s severity, along with its associated rainfall and wind speed, saw an increase of 10%-30% as a direct result of climate change.
Aug. 10: Santa Clarita Document Shredding, Textile Drop-off Event
date: 2024-07-06, from: SCV New (TV Station)
Burrtec Waste is hosting a free document shredding and textile drop-off event for city of Santa Clarita residents only on Saturday, Aug. 10 from 9 a.m. through noon at the Via Princessa Metrolink Station, 19201 Via Princessa, Santa Clarita, CA 91321.
https://scvnews.com/aug-10-santa-clarita-document-shredding-textile-drop-off-event/
Santa Clarita to Begin Annual Road Rehab
date: 2024-07-06, from: SCV New (TV Station)
The city of Santa Clarita will soon begin construction work on the annual 2024 -2025 Road Rehab Program, which uses slurry seal and overlay road treatments to improve city roadways
https://scvnews.com/santa-clarita-to-begin-annual-road-rehab-program/
Peter Easthope commented on issue #141 at Felix Oliver Friedrich / Oberon A2
date: 2024-07-06, updated: 2024-07-06, from: Oberon A2 at CAS
Apology for fumbling with HTML, … P.L.
https://gitlab.inf.ethz.ch/felixf/oberon/-/issues/141#note_193221
Peter Easthope commented on issue #141 at Felix Oliver Friedrich / Oberon A2
date: 2024-07-06, updated: 2024-07-06, from: Oberon A2 at CAS
Correction: <delete> continues to not work in the subsystem.
https://gitlab.inf.ethz.ch/felixf/oberon/-/issues/141#note_193220
Peter Easthope commented on issue #141 at Felix Oliver Friedrich / Oberon A2
date: 2024-07-06, updated: 2024-07-06, from: Oberon A2 at CAS
Correction: continues to not work in the subsystem.
Thanks, … P.L.
https://gitlab.inf.ethz.ch/felixf/oberon/-/issues/141#note_193219
Peter Easthope commented on issue #141 at Felix Oliver Friedrich / Oberon A2
date: 2024-07-06, updated: 2024-07-06, from: Oberon A2 at CAS
Yes, changing "SystemTools" to "System" in HotKeys.XML allows HotKeys to unload without an error.
@fnec.ece · 4 days ago
Hi, I have corrected the problem for oberon subsystem in the MyUnix.KbdMouse.Mod file. Could you test after HotKeys disabled?
That allows the star marker to be set with F1. continues to not work in the subsystem.
Not consistently but occasionally F12 produces the following trap.
Thanks, … Peter E.
LinuxA2 (64-bit, Rev. 10272) 2024/07/05 17:24
Trap 5.1240091992 (programmed HALT)
SP = 00007F2045CB4430 FP = 00007F2045CB4470 PC = 00007F2049B32FF5
RAX = 0000000000000000 RBX = 0000000000000000 RCX = 00007F204A295A80 RDX = 00007F2049EA4F40 RSI = 00007F2049EA5808 RDI = 00007F2045CB43BB R8 = 0000000000000000 R9 = 0000000000000000 R10 = 0000000000000000 R11 = 0000000000200246 R12 = FFFFFFFFFFFFFF80 R13 = 0000000000000000 R14 = 00007F20459FE000 R15 = 00007F2045C75000
Process: 62 run 0 000007F2049EA4D50:HotKeys?.ExecuteCommandFor.Anonymous@10812 Machine.Log:199 pc=00000000080623B3 fp=FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF crc=FD8E76BD {}
StackTraceBack: HotKeys.ExecuteCommandFor.Anonymous@10812.@Body:101 pc=00007F2049B32FF5 fp=00007F2045CB4470 crc=67CF40BC @Self= [@16] 00007F2049EA4D50 (HotKeys?.ExecuteCommandFor.Anonymous@10812) Objects.BodyStarter:714 pc=0000000008085BB4 fp=00007F2045CB44B8 crc=ECA30775 p= [@-16] 00007F2049EA4F40 (Objects.Process) res= [@-20] 0 sp= [@-32] 0000000000000000
https://gitlab.inf.ethz.ch/felixf/oberon/-/issues/141#note_193218
Biden interview does seemingly little to quiet concerns
date: 2024-07-06, from: VOA News USA
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-07-06, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
BET Awards 2024: Taraji P. Henson says 'Project 2025 plan is not a game.'
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/bet-awards-2024-taraji-p-194059896.html
Vatican excommunicates its former ambassador to US
date: 2024-07-06, from: VOA News USA
https://www.voanews.com/a/vatican-excommunicates-its-former-ambassador-to-us/7687333.html
Republicans focus on Harris as talk of replacing Biden intensifies
date: 2024-07-06, from: VOA News USA
NEW YORK — For years it’s been a Republican scare tactic.
A vote to reelect President Joe Biden, the GOP often charges, is really a vote for Vice President Kamala Harris. It’s an attack line sometimes tinged with racist and misogynist undertones and often macabre imagery.
But after Biden’s dismal performance at last week’s presidential debate, which has sparked Democratic calls for him to step aside, what was once dismissed as a far-right conspiracy — Harris replacing Biden — could now have a chance of coming to pass. And Republicans, including Donald Trump, are ramping up their attacks.
Trump and his allies have been rolling out new attack lines against Harris, insulting her abilities, painting her as Biden’s chief enabler and accusing her of being part of a coverup of his health. It’s an effort, campaign officials insist, is not a reflection of their concerns about a potential change at the top of the ticket, given Biden’s insistence he is not leaving the race.
But in a post marking Independence Day on his Truth Social site Thursday, Trump singled out Harris, calling her his “potentially new Democrat Challenger” and giving her a new derisive nickname: “Laffin’ Kamala Harris.”
“She did poorly in the Democrat Nominating process, starting out at Number Two, and ending up defeated and dropping out, even before getting to Iowa, but that doesn’t mean she’s not a”highly talented” politician! Just ask her Mentor, the Great Willie Brown of San Francisco,” he wrote. (Harris dated Brown in the mid-1990s.)
The post came after Trump campaign senior advisers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles released a statement earlier this week that offered a different, but similar, moniker, calling her Biden’s “Cackling Copilot Kamala Harris.”
Trump also posted an expletive-laced video, which was first been reported by The Daily Beast, in which he was captured on the golf course calling Biden an “old broken-down pile of crap” and declaring that he’d driven the president from the race. (Trump, in interviews, has repeatedly said he did not expect Biden to be pushed aside.)
“He’s quitting the race,” Trump said. “And that means we have Kamala. I think she’s going to be better. She’s so bad. She’s so pathetic,” he said.
Allies have also joined the attacks, painting Harris as a chief defender of Biden’s faculties and accusing her of lying to the American public.
Biden, the White House and his campaign insist he has no plans to drop out of the race. He told reporters Friday he was “completely ruling that out.”
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre pushed back against the tenor of attacks against Harris, particularly Trump’s decision to invoke a decades-old relationship.
“I think it’s gross, I think it’s disturbing,” Jean-Pierre told reporters Friday aboard Air Force One. “She should be respected in the role that she has as vice president. She should be respected like any other vice president before her who was in that room. It is appalling that, I’m going to be careful here, that a former president is saying that about a current vice president. And we should call that out — it is not OK.”
It remains unclear how Harris would fare against Trump, compared to Biden. Replacing a candidate this late in a presidential cycle — much less an incumbent president who has already sailed through the Democratic Party’s primaries — would be unprecedented in modern history, and the mechanics are complicated and potentially messy.
Polling shows that Harris’ favorability ratings are similar to Biden’s and Trump’s. A June AP-NORC poll found about 4 in 10 Americans have a favorable opinion of her. But the share of those who have an unfavorable opinion is slightly lower than for Trump and Biden, and about 1 in 10 have no opinion of her yet.
Harris, at 59, would be a marked generational contrast to Trump, who is 78 and has also shown signs of aging. As the first woman, the first Black person and the first person of South Asian descent to serve as vice president, she would also chart a potentially barrier-breaking candidacy that could draw the support of women, minority voters and younger people — groups with whom Trump has been working to make significant inroads.
Harris has also been the Biden administration’s leading voice on abortion rights, an animating issue for Democrats since the overturning of Roe v. Wade that could again motivate turnout this fall.
Trump’s campaign, however, said it was confident in Trump’s chances regardless of his opponent and dismissed the idea that Harris might pose a greater challenge to Trump, seeing her as a more polarizing figure than the president.
Heat wave scorches much of US; record-setting temperatures predicted
date: 2024-07-06, from: VOA News USA
portland, oregon — A slow-moving and potentially record-setting heat wave is spreading across the Western United States, the National Weather Service said, sending many residents in search of a cool haven from the dangerously high temperatures.
The Southeast and Mid-Atlantic regions of the U.S. are also sweltering, with oppressive heat and humidity expected to last through Saturday.
Widespread temperature records are expected to be tied or even broken during the heat wave, with much of the West Coast likely to see temperatures that are between 15- and 30-degrees Fahrenheit (8 and 16 degrees Celsius) higher than average, the National Weather Service said.
“The duration of this heat is also concerning, as scorching above average temperatures are forecast to linger into next week,” the weather service said.
In the Portland, Oregon, suburb of Gresham, Sherri Thompson, 52, was waiting in her car with her 14-year-old Chihuahua Kiwani for a cooling center to open late Friday morning. Thompson has lived in her car for three years and can only run its air conditioning for about 20 minutes at a time as it causes the engine to overheat.
Thompson said the high temperatures prompted health concerns, as she has been hospitalized for heat stroke in the past.
“I have anxiety and panic attacks and I get worried,” she said. “I don’t want to have another heat stroke, and everything just triggers my anxiety a lot.”
Pavement, sidewalks magnify heat
Inside the air-conditioned center, Multnomah County spokesperson Julia Comnes oversaw county staff and people working with a local homeless services provider as they lined up thin mattresses in rows on the floor and set up cots for people with disabilities. She said the space had capacity for up to 80 people.
“We had a pretty cool June, so our bodies aren’t totally acclimated yet to the heat,” she said. “For people living outside or more vulnerable people, the cooling space like this is really important for them to just cool off for a few hours.”
The blistering weather in the Portland region is expected to last at least through Monday, National Weather Service meteorologist Clinton Rockey said. If the triple-digit Fahrenheit temperatures (well over 37 degrees Celsius) stretch into Tuesday, then the region will match a record last seen in July 1941, with five consecutive days of more than 100-degree weather, Rockey said.
The duration is a problem: Many homes in the area lack air conditioning, and round-the-clock hot weather means people’s bodies can’t cool down at night. The issue is compounded in many city settings, where concrete and pavement can store the heat, essentially acting as an oven.
“That’s what drives people batty,” Rockey said. “It’s going to be obnoxious. And unfortunately for some people, if you’re not having good shelter, it could be a very challenging, life-threatening situation.”
Heat leads to 13 deaths
In Arizona’s Maricopa County, which encompasses the city of Phoenix, there have been at least 13 confirmed heat-related deaths this year, while the causes of more than 160 other suspected heat deaths were still under investigation, according to the county’s most recent report on such deaths through June 29.
That doesn’t include the death of a 10-year-old boy earlier this week in Phoenix, who suffered a “heat-related medical event” while hiking with his family at South Mountain Park and Preserve, according to the Phoenix Police Department.
Among extremes, the forecast for Furnace Creek in Death Valley National Park calls for daytime highs of 129 degrees Fahrenheit (53.8 degrees Celsius) Sunday, and then around 130 F (54.44 C) through Wednesday. The official world record for hottest temperature recorded on Earth was 134 degrees F (56.67 C) in Death Valley in July 1913, but some experts dispute that measurement and say the real record was 130 F recorded there in July 2021.
At Bullhead City, Arizona, the temperature already had reached 111 F (44.4 C) by 11 a.m. Friday. The city opened a pair of cooling centers for seniors and others, but locals seemed to be taking it in stride.
“While this is a heat wave and we urge everyone to be cautious, we typically don’t see large attendance at our cooling centers unless there are power outages,” Bullhead City spokesperson Mackenzie Covert said Friday.
Figure skaters took to the ice at the Reno Ice Rink in Nevada starting at 6 a.m. Friday, general manager Kevin Sunde said. By the time the rink closes at 10:30 p.m. Friday, Sunde expected nearly 300 people would have visited, with more parents hanging around to watch kids’ hockey practice than usual.
“They may not be getting on the ice themselves, but enjoying the cool,” Sunde said. “We’re the only sheet of ice within about an hour’s drive.”
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-07-06, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Donald Trump attempting to claim to ‘know nothing’ about Project 2025. 😵💫
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/05/donald-trump-project-2025
Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers
date: 2024-07-06, from: Maggie Appleton blog