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The Angry Summer: Report Blames Climate Change For Australia's Extreme Weather
The Australian government's Climate Commission — an independent panel of experts set up by the government but not subject to its direction or oversight — issued a new report on Monday labeling Australia's latest summer season the "Angry Summer" in honor of the rash of brush fires, heat waves, torrential rains and flooding that pounded the country.
"Australia has always been… a land of extremes," the report said, but global warming of 0.8 degrees Celsius over the last 100 years and the resulting climate change is now driving the extreme weather to new heights. "All extreme weather events are now occurring in a climate system that is warmer and moister than it was 50 years ago," the report warned. "The basic features of the climate system have now shifted and are continuing to shift."
At least 123 weather records were broken during the 90-day time frame examined by the report, including the hottest summer since record-keeping began in 1910, the hottest day for Australia as a whole ever recorded, and the hottest seven consecutive days ever recorded. The commission ran through the severity and influencing factors of each form of extreme weather Australia has seen:
- Record-Breaking Heat: Australia has only seen 21 days in 102 years in which the average maximum temperature for the whole country exceeded 39 degrees Celsius, and eight of them hit this summer. On top of that, the record-breaking heat occurred in the absence of an El Niño — the 12 to 18-month periods of warm, dry conditions that cyclically roll through — which usually has accompanied Australia's previous hottest summers. Even the small shift in Australia's average temperature of 0.9 degrees Celsius that's occurred since 1910 can have profound effects on the severity and frequency of hot weather, as it alters the distribution of extreme weather's likelihood.
- Brush fires: As many as 40 brush fires tore through Tasmania this summer, destroying around 25,000 hectares of land, 200 properties, and 21 businesses. Other rashes of fires hit New South Wales and Victoria. Climate change can leave soil and plant life drier while extending the life of the fire season. In fact, the Forest Fire Danger Index, the numerical gauge used to assess the threat of brush fires, had to be extended on the high end in 2009 due to the increase in extreme weather.
- Heavy rain and flooding: Unusually heavy rains triggered severe flooding in areas of New South Wales and Queensland this summer, breaking many daily rainfall records throughout the area. The most impressive was the one-day rainfall averaged over the Burnett catchment, which beat out the previous record by almost 70 percent. By raising ocean and air temperatures, climate change increases evaporation and moisture content in the air, resulting in heavier individual rainfalls even as overall precipitation goes down in many areas.
Other extreme weather events Australia dealt with this past summer include tornadoes that touched in Bundaberg and other Queensland townships, as well as two tropical cyclones that hit the north and northwestern coasts of the country.
Tim Flannery, the leader of the commission, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that the best way to think about Australia's extreme weather is to realize the "base line" of the climate has shifted. He then cited an analogy we've brought up here at Climate Progress numerous times: "If an athlete takes steroids, for example, their base line shifts. They'll do fewer slow times and many more record-breaking fast times."
"The same thing is happening with our climate system," Flannery said. "As it warms up, we're getting fewer cold days and cold events and many more record hot events."
Here's an illustration of that shift from the commission's report. Notice the right-ward shift in the "center of gravity" of the distribution of events, and resulting increase in extreme and record-breaking weather:
The good news is that Australia is moving to do what it can about climate change. The latest numbers from Bloomberg New Energy Finance show that the price of wind power is already undercutting that of fossil fuels, and it won't be long before solar is as well.
"The decisions we make this decade will largely determine the severity of climate change and its influence on extreme events for our grandchildren," the commission's report concluded. "In Australia and around the world we need to urgently invest in clean energy sources and take other measures to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. This is the critical decade to get on with the job."
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We are doing somethings and the results so far have exceeded my expectations but they are a long way from everything we could do, ME
I am unsure what Americans mean by 'brush' fire but we distinguish between grass and bush fires which have very different characteristics. We always have a mixture of both with bush fires being the most deadly, ME
Merrelyn, With all due respect, your 'expectations' are not the issue. The issue is the temperature that we don't want to exceed on the road to Nirvana, the reduction in emissions required to keep within the temperature constraint, and what we have accomplished in emission reductions relative to what is required to keep us from going over the cliff. Even to stay within the meaningless 2 C, we have accomplished essentially nothing, and to stay within a more meaningful (but still dangerous) target like 1 C, we have accomplished nothing squared. My 'expectations' were zero, and they were satisfied.
A good wrap of the CC report. Although we don't have 'brush' fires in Australia
I do take extreme issue with the idea that 'Australia is moving to do what it can about climate change.'
Sorry, simply not true. We have a Labor federal government – somewhat equivalent to your Democrat party – that talks big and then does the opposite.
It is not the work of a government 'moving to do what it can about climate change' to double coal exports. And we already export more coal than any other nation on Earth.
A government that cared about climate change would not be fracking for Coal Seam Gas wherever fossil fuel companies choose with no safeguards whatever in place.
They would not be permitting the restarting of shale oil mining next to the Great Barrier Reef.
They certainly wouldn't be subsidising new coal ports, coal railways and CSG pipelines. All of which will more than triple large ship movements across the Reef.
The only thing that has stopped the denilalists in the Labor ranks from being as bumptious about science denial as the "climate change is crap" Liberals (= GOP) – is their reliance on the Green party and independents to hold power.
I wouldn't get too excited about this one. In about six months time, the current political party in power will be dispatched so brutally in the upcoming federal election that they will struggle to get their hands back on the control wheel within a decade. The fossil fueled patsies that will take their place will fascilitate every wish of their pay masters. That is all manner of big business including insanely wealthy fossil fuel interests. We're basically on the verge of becoming the Canada of the Pacific!
Our "Alan Harper"'s name is Tony Abbott. He's an ex catholic clergyman who is on the record saying that he thinks climate change is a load of crap and that he will do anything to get into power except selling his arse! He's the most unpopular opposition leader in the countries history but maintains the position and the impending top job that comes with it because he is a bully that can hardly control his testosterone charged ego and a willing puppet.
Yep. Hard to believe – or stomach. We are about to elect a climate crisis denier as Prime Minister. (Thanks to Media, Big Coal/Gas and Labour's own bumblingness) Also if you go to the GetUp! site from whence came the pretty darn good 123 Recprds poster, you will find the most outrageous and depressing infestation by Comment Trolls. Greed, fear and ignorance are driving society. Right off the cliff.
Subsidiary climate mechanisms might also cause more brush fires.
Trees can last for decades or for centuries and the don't move. Insects can reproduce between once and several times a season for quick genetic adaptation to a new climate, and can get blown long distances into new areas. The result is that trees get eaten by the climatically adaptive bugs, and then more trees turn into dry firewood.
It's not just the heat, it's the ability of trees to hang in through ever longer droughts, it's the occasional late and early freezes killing leaves, it's the lack of early and late freezes giving the bugs a head start, it's the birds showing up at the wrong time and missing their favorite insect explosion, it's the fungus from excessive moisture eating at the tree, and it's the vines taking more advantage of trees felled by higher extreme winds. The native trees turn into firewood for megafires when all of these factors work more or less together.
I wouldn't be surprised if pretty much all of the trees in all of the forests of the world weren't under some sort of environmental stress these days. Some forests we're sure are suffering because they're either dead white sticks or occasionally they're burning out of control.
Our thoughts are with you folks down there, to use a certain Texas governor's saying as a base, its looking to get really ugly.
Is there any way out of it, or is it pretty much a done deal?
No fat ladies have been heard singing recently, six months to go, ME
Your views are now well known to me, to the repetitious point of mind numbing. And as you don't appreciate my cheeky comments which are cheap as chips, I'll say nothing more cos my dad told me never to waste good food, ME
We here in the U.S. are doing what Australia
is doing and has been doing for to long, shipping coal out of country by the mega tonns to be burned around the world. So any steps we manage to put in place to cut emissions at home mean nothing in the big picture of getting them under control in time to make a diffrence to anyone.
Merrelyn will chastise me most sternly for this, but…I reckon that you are quite correct. Now that the Liberals are convinced that they are going to win, big, thanks to the relentless hate campaign by the Rightwing MSM against 'Labor' (unprecedented since the News Corpse campaign against Whitlam, forty years ago), the blatant and audacious sabotage of the hard, hard, Right regimes in NSW, Victoria and Queensland, and the incompetence and moral gutlessness of the Gillard fiasco, they are acting cocky. They've already made plain that the renewable energy target of 20% by 2020 is gone, they will axe the carbon tax if possible, and the party remains mostly comprised of denialists, of varying degrees of ideological viciousness and suicidal stupidity and ignorance. We will endure a few years of Federal policies mimicking those of the hard Right states, ie maximised coal and gas extraction, destruction of environmental law, a return to large-scale land clearance, sabotage of international climate negotiations, sabotage of renewable energy etc. There may even be surprises, from an excess of ideological zeal, like flogging off National Parks, perhaps to shooters' organisations, to be used as private hunting-grounds, or stacking the Climate Commission with coal-mining executives and journalists from 'The Australian'. Either or, it will be a short return to florid moral insanity, then the weight of economic and ecological collapse will coming crashing down, Nemesis after the delights of ideological hubris.
Don't forget the tropospheric ozone!
I'm in 'good' not 'terrible mother' mode today Mulga but I've seen a lot of unlosable and unwinnable elections lost and won. I like 'cocky' and also atcook27's 'testosterone charged ego' which are becoming more obvious by the week. There has been more than one politician brought down by their inability to contain themself. Give me a yell when you hear that fat lady sing, ME
I am not sure as well. But I guess the same as "flash" floods by flooding now only converted to fast developing fires brushing over the landscapes.
However, the only good news is from an "official" side the report recognizes the acceleration of disasters and the climate change to be man made.
The Aussie could need something like that:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/germany-weathers-darkest-winter-in-43-years-a-885608.html from the other side of the ball.
Anyway, everywhere it is getting bleaker, either the one way or the other and the general population of countries will be the ones which suffer!
At one stage Romney looked a real threat but went into self destruct mode and criticized half his electorate on video. Let's hope Abbot's mouth lets him down.
Justin Gillis, one of the rare value items at NYT, wrote well on forests in November
Similar to what the Federal government does in employment. Since the Reagan years, they have been replacing in-house staff with contractors, in what they euphemistically call 'down-sizing'. They proudly trot out numbers showing how the work-force is decreasing, while paying exorbitant fees to the on-site replacement contractors. We ship manufacturing and fossil fuels overseas, so others will get 'dinged' for the emissions, and the Amen Corner here proclaims our accomplishments in emissions reductions.
One cannot repeat the truth often enough.
Nor can you gain converts by preaching to the choir.
Dennis, Unlike Secular et al, I'm not looking for converts. I'm trying to find a way out of this morass, and getting reasoned responses to some of my ideas is the approach I'm taking. All the feedback will be useful in a climate change paper that I hope to start fairly soon. So far, all I see are theoretical paths out, not practical ones.
Merrelyn said nothing irrational, dishonest, or incorrect, yet you still found cause to criticize. Ideological purists can be a hindrance to solutions, also. Many or most regular readers of this blog such as myself are in general agreement with your assessment of the situation.
There is a difference between insufficient and nothing; there is a difference between optimism and denialism.
Generally we Yanks distinguish between forest fires and brush fires, which are burning grass and bush mixes.
Thank you, ME
Thank Gawd for that! I was sure that it was the 'Naughty Chair' for me! My point of departure from your bracing optimism is that I can only see Gillard as 'the lesser evil'. Certainly (and I had a fleeting acquaintance with Abbott at Uni, and knew some of his victims quite well)I see Abbott as something very nasty in and out of the wood-shed, and my thumbs go a-pricking every time I see him. Like Howard he is toning down his behaviour to con a few percent of the bigger fools, but I know, with ghastly certainty, just how he will rule. The best bet at the moment (given the hysterical depths of the hate campaign against Gillard)is that he gets a great majority and the Senate, whereupon he will, I am sure, run amuk, and sow the seeds of a monumental crash when people see that there has only ever been and only ever could be, one Tony 'Climate Change is Crap' Abbott. Then if Labor has found a personality with intellect, character and courage (sorry, Kevin)we might start getting somewhere. Malcolm Fraser, perhaps?
Interesting choice – have you forgotten we dubbed him the Great Mal-adaption? If we're in the business of co-opting people, I'll go for Bob Brown. I have nothing against whales but there are 22m Aussies who MAY need saving. I have never met the red headed one but my sister had a long chat with her when she was Min for Education and Employment etc, and was impressed, and believe me, my sister is no push-over. The main problem we have is rep dem itself, plus TV, which turns just about everybody into caricatures. I have no particular optimism about Sept but when I gamble, I like to calculate the odds and it's too early to really do that, ME


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Digging on problem with keybindings not working in PhpStorm IDE, I tried several Java applications and realized that keybindings with letter keys are not working in Swing/AWT applications on my linux machine at all.
Problem is that in PhpStorm (which is a Java Swing application), keyboard shortcuts containing letter keys like Ctrl+X are not working, resulting in 'Unknown keyCode: 0x0' error in settings dialog, though shortcuts not containing letter keys like Ctrl+Space are working ok.
Problem does not affect Eclipse and Eclipse-based Aptana IDE.
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Sound Field Simulation Using Extrapolated Loudspeaker Impulse Responses
In the area of sound field synthesis, reproduced sound fields are commonly visualized using simulations. In such simulations, the loudspeakers are often modeled as simplified acoustic sources that are analytically tractable, such as point sources. This simplification limits the accuracy of the simulation, particularly at high frequencies. Considering that sound field synthesis methods also suffer from artifacts at high frequencies, it is desirable to simulate the reproduced sound fields more accurately. The aim of this paper is to simulate the sound fields using the impulse responses of a real loudspeaker. The spatio-temporal impulse responses were sampled at discrete positions, and were used to obtain the impulse responses for other positions. This extrapolation method was based on the Kirchhoff-Helmholtz integral equation. The proposed method can be used to visualize the detailed structure of the reproduced sound fields. As evidence of this, some exemplary simulation results are presented herein.
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"May you live in interesting times..."
-Reported to be a Chinese curse
Farming sure can be challenging. I guess that is what keeps it so interesting…but a little less interesting might be good sometimes. Last year Klamath Basin alfalfa growers had to deal with an outbreak of the blue alfalfa aphid (BAA) and the associated cost of insecticide sprays as well as the yield loss. Fortunately, aphids have not been a problem this year. This may be due to the relatively wet year we have had (especially this spring) providing more favorable conditions for fungi that can keep aphids in check.
Big Year for Intermountain Alfalfa...
- Author: Daniel H Putnam
- Author: Mark Lundy
All are welcome to attend the 2016 Small Grain/Alfalfa Field Day to be held May 11, 2016 at UC Davis. We will visit field trials, listen to researchers discuss their research, and enjoy a barbeque lunch.
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8:15-4:15 Includes Lunch
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- Author: Daniel Sumner
Hay export quantities are on the rise again in 2015-16, driven by stronger foreign demand, weaker domestic demand that has generated relatively low US prices for hay, and in spite of a strong US dollar. Exports in January-February of 2016 were up 25-35% from the same months last year (Figure 1), and overall 2015 exports increased about 6% compared with 2014 (Table 1). However, 2015 totals were still lower than the peak of 4.5 million tons of hay exported in 2013 (Figure 2).
Figure 1. Export of all hay (alfalfa and grasses) from western ports increased 25-35% in the first two months of 2016 compared with the same period in 2015.
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This package has the polyfills for Shadow DOM, Custom Elements, and HTML Imports.
These features exist in dart:html, for example Element.createShadowRoot and Document.register. However those APIs are not supported on all browsers yet unless you load the polyfills, as indicated below.
Include the polyfills in your HTML
<head> to enable Shadow DOM:
<script src="packages/web_components/webcomponents.min.js"></script>
<script src="packages/web_components/dart_support.js"></script>
You can also use an unminified version for development:
<script src="packages/web_components/webcomponents.js"></script>
<script src="packages/web_components/dart_support.js"></script>
Because the Shadow DOM polyfill does extensive DOM patching, webcomponents.js should be included before other script tags. Be sure to include dart_support.js too, it is required for the Shadow DOM polyfill to work with dart2js.
Custom Elements let authors define their own elements. Authors associate JavaScript or Dart code with custom tag names, and then use those custom tag names as they would any standard tag.
For example, after registering a special kind of button called
use the super button just like this:
Custom elements are still elements. We can create, use, manipulate, and compose
them just as easily as any standard
<div> or
<span> today.
See the Polymer Custom Elements page for more information.
Shadow DOM is designed to provide encapsulation by hiding DOM subtrees under shadow roots. It provides a method of establishing and maintaining functional boundaries between DOM trees and how these trees interact with each other within a document, thus enabling better functional encapsulation within the DOM.
See the Polymer Shadow DOM page for more information.
webcomponents.* files in this package are developed
here. Follow the instructions
there for how to build a new release and then copy the files into this package.
Update to JS version 0.7.21.
Update to JS version 0.7.20.
^0.27.0 and update to the test package.
The transformer will now give an informative error on package names with hyphens.
<0.27.0 and fix up some tests.
Fix hang on reload with the
web_components transformer in pub serve,
Update to js version 0.7.3.
Some release notes (here)[http://webcomponents.org/articles/polyfills-0-6-0/].
Also added all the individual polyfills as well as the
webcomponents-lite.js version, which does not include shadow dom.
Fix erroneous messages about invalid package paths in html imports 72.
Add support for the new
link[rel="x-dart-test"] tags from the
package to the transformer.
DomProxyMixin from
custom_element_apigen to this package and
renamed it
CustomElementProxyMixin. This can be mixed into any class that
is using the
@CustomElementProxy annotation and provides easy access to
the underlying javascript element via the
jsElement getter. For instance
the following is a simple example of a dart class that wraps a custom
javascript element
foo-element with a method
doFoo and a property
class FooElement extends HtmlElement with CustomElementProxyMixin {
FooElement.created() : super.created();
void doFoo(int arg1) => jsElement.callMethod('doFoo', [arg1]);
int get foo => jsElement['foo'];
void set foo(int newFoo) {
jsElement['foo'] = newFoo;
html5lib package dependency to
Added a runtime warning about bad packages paths in html imports to
initWebComponents function which performs html import aware
initialization of an application. This is done by crawling all imported
documents for dart script tags and initializing them. Any applications using
this package should switch to this method instead of calling
run from the
initialize package directly.
You may also now just export
package:web_components/init.dart to
initialize your app, and then stick your startup code inside a method marked
@initMethod, for instance:
library my_app;
export 'package:web_components/init.dart';
void startup() {
// custom app code here.
bindingStartDelimiters option to the
ImportInlinerTransformer. Any
urls which contain any of the supplied delimiters before the first
/ will
be left alone since they can't be reasoned about. If you want these urls to
be treated as relative to the current path you should add a
./ in front.
ScriptCompactorTransformer now names its bootstrap file based on the
entry point html file, instead of the original dart file. This is ensure it
is the original package.
Fix normalization of relative paths inside of deep relative imports, https://github.com/dart-lang/polymer-dart/issues/30.
Update analyzer and code_transformers versions and use new mock sdk from code_transformers.
Append html imports in front of the dart script tag, if one exists in
ImportCrawler with support for pre-parsed initial documents. This
allows it to work better with other transformers in the same step (you can
pass in a modified document).
@CustomElement test in internet explorer.
initialize lower bound to get bug fixes.
path.url in transformers.
CustomElement annotation. This can be added to any class to register
it with a tag in the main document.
Added a
web_components.dart file which exports all the annotations
provided by this package. Note that in later breaking releases
html_import_annotation.dart and
custom_element_proxy.dart will likely
move into the
src folder, so switching to the
web_components.dart import
is recommended.
generateWebComponentsBootstrap method to the main
transformer file which accepts a
Transform and a
Resolver. You can use
this function from any transformer and share the resolver you already have.
Fixed up the bootstrap call in
ScriptCompactor to not use
=> syntax
since it has a declared return type of
void. This could previously cause
a checked mode error if the original program returned something from
Added the
HtmlImport annotation. This can be added to any library
declaration and it will inject an html import to the specified path into the
head of the current document, which allows dart files to declare their html
dependencies. Paths can be relative to the current dart file or they can be
package: form.
Note: Html imports included this way cannot contain dart script tags. The mirror based implementation injects the imports dynamically and dart script tags are not allowed to be injected in that way.
Note: Relative urls cannot be used in inlined script tags. Either move
the script code to a Dart file, use a
package: url, or use a normal HTML
import. See https://github.com/dart-lang/web-components/issues/6.
Added a
web_components transformer. This should be used in place of the
initialize transformer if that already exists in your application (it will
call that transformer). This will inline html imports (including @HtmlImport
annotations) into the head of your document at compile time, it can be used
like this:
- web_components:
- web/index.html
If no
entry_points option is supplied then any html file under
web or
test will be treated as an entry point.
Added the
CustomElementProxy annotation. This can be added to any class
which proxies a javascript custom element and is the equivalent of calling
registerDartType. In order to use this you will need to be using the
initialize package, and call its
run method from your main function. It
is also recommended that you include the transformer from that package to
remove the use of mirrors at runtime, see
initialize for more information.
0.5.1 js version.
Breaking Change To remain consistent with the js repository all the
platform.js has been replaced with
webcomponents.js. Also, the default
file is now unminified, and the minified version is called
.map and
.concat.js files during release mode.
Updated to platform version 0.4.2, internally a deprecated API was removed, hence the bump in the version number.
split dart_support.js in two. dart_support.js only contains what is necessary in order to use platform.js, interop_support.js/interop_support.html can be imported separately when providing Dart APIs for js custom elements.
Re-apply changes from 0.7.1+1 and also cherry pick efdbbc to fix the customElementsTakeRecords function.
Breaking Change The customElementsTakeRecords function now has an
an optional argument
node. There is no longer a single global observer,
but one for each ShadowRoot and one for the main document. The observer that
is actually used defaults to the main document, but if
node is supplied
then it will walk up the document tree and use the first observer that it
Many features were moved into the polymer package, this package is now purely focused on polyfills.
Change Platform.deliverDeclarations to Platform.consumeDeclarations(callback).
Cherry pick https://github.com/Polymer/ShadowDOM/pull/500 to fix http://dartbug.com/20141. Fixes getDefaultComputedStyle in firefox.
Upgrades to platform master as of 8/25/2014 (see lib/build.log for details). This is more recent than the 0.3.5 release as there were multiple breakages that required updating past that.
There is a bug in this version where selecting non-rendered elements doesn't work, but it shouldn't affect most people. See https://github.com/Polymer/ShadowDOM/issues/495.
Backward compatible change to prepare for upcoming change of the user agent in Dartium.
registerDartType and updates to platform 0.3.3-29065bc
(re-applies the changes in 0.3.5).
Reverts back to what we had in 0.3.4. (The platform.js updates in 0.3.5 had breaking changes so we are republishing it in 0.4.0)
registerDartType to register a Dart API for a custom-element written
in Javascript.
Add this to your package's pubspec.yaml file:
dependencies: web_components:
You can install packages from the command line:
$ pub get
Alternatively, your editor might support pub. Check the docs for your editor to learn more.
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|Go to the documentation of web_components 0.12.3
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|Mar 17, 2016
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I am working on a Powershell script that will allow a user to define a large text file, have the script run, then save a portion of that large file to individual files with a unique file name which the script will grab and save to a defined directory. This is what I have so far.
$inputfile = Read-Host "Please type the FULL directory and file extenstion of the file you are wanting to split"
#contents of input file
$filecontent = Get-Content $inputfile
#Find the line numbers of each line containing specified text
$Lines = (Select-String -InputObject $filecontent -Pattern "Defined Pattern"| Select-Object LineNumber)
[int[]]$LineNumbers = @()
#remove the extra text from the beginning and end of each array element in the Lines array
foreach ($line in $Lines)
[string]$value = $line
$value = ($value.trim("@{LineNumber="))
$value = ($value.Substring(0,$value.length-1))
$LineNumbers += $value
#loop through array and write lines to new files
for ($i=0;$i -lt $LineNumbers.Count + 1;$i++)
$startLine = $LineNumbers[$i]
$endLine = (($LineNumbers[$i + 1])-1)
#Create the file to write into using the first word in the second line as the filename
$AnimalIDLine = ($fileContent | Select-Object -Index ($startLine + 1))
$AnimalID = ($AnimalIDLine -split '\s+')[0]
New-Item -type file -Force ("C:\folder\folder" + $AnimalID + ".txt")
#create a new .Net streamwriter object
$stream = [System.IO.StreamWriter] ("C:\folder\folder" + $AnimalID + ".txt")
#loop through start and end lines and write to file
for ($h=$startLine; $h -le $endline; $h++)
#read the line
$readLine = ($fileContent | Select-Object -Index $startLine)
#write the line to the file
The problem that I am having is when I run the script, it will only create 2 files, one that is blank with the incorrect filename(0.txt), and another that is blank with the correct filename(7HO12423.txt).
The message i am getting from Powershell when running the script is as follows(it stops running after it creates the two blank files).
-a--- 6/19/2014 8:45 AM 0 7HO12423.txt
MemberType : Method
OverloadDefinitions : {void Close()}
TypeNameOfValue : System.Management.Automation.PSMethod
Value : void Close()
Name : Close
IsInstance : True
-a--- 6/19/2014 8:45 AM 0 .txt
MemberType : Method
OverloadDefinitions : {void Close()}
TypeNameOfValue : System.Management.Automation.PSMethod
Value : void Close()
Name : Close
IsInstance : True
In addition to fixing this issue and getting the script to run correctly, I would ideally also like for a user to define where the file gets saved instead of having it hard-coded into the script.
I am still fairly new at using Powershell, so any help would be appreciated. Please let me know if there is any additional information you require.


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|Documentary television programs
Ethnographic television programs
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|Material Type:
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|All Authors / Contributors:
John Alwen; Paul McGann; Paul Pritchard; Eleanor Emanuel; Jessica Winteringham; Diverse Bristol, Ltd.; Goldhawk Productions.; British Broadcasting Company.; Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm); Films Media Group.
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|In English and Hamar with subtitles in English. Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
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Documentary television program originally broadcast in 2009.
|Editor, Nico Bee; composer, Paul Pritchard; researchers, Eleanor Emanuel, Jessica Winteringham; translators, Ruth Getachew ... [et al.].
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Day Two: Getting Hungry (3:04) --
Hamar Rituals (1:10) --
Tribal Cooking (1:54) --
Reflecting (2:18) --
We Like it When You're Smiling (2:58) --
Interdependence of Hamar (3:44) --
Coming of Age Ceremony (2:21) --
Preparing for the Cattle Jump (3:07) --
Hamar Medicine (3:26) --
Polio & Inti (3:51) --
Extended Family Arrives (2:58) --
Hamar Makeover (3:22) --
Whipping Ceremony (2:52) --
Jumping the Cattle (4:54) --
Preparing to Depart the Village (2:55) --
Saying Goodbye (3:15) --
Credits: Tribal Wives: Ethiopia (0:22)
|Series Title:
|Tribal wives : female roles, western norms, and tribal life.
|Other Titles:
|Western taboos versus tribal traditions
|produced and directed by John Alwen ; a Diverse Bristol production in association with Goldhawk Media for BBC.
"In England, Anna de Vere won't leave the house without putting on nail polish. In Ethiopia's drought-stricken Omo Valley, where she has come to live with the struggling Hamar tribe, her only cosmetic is the red ocher rubbed into her hair--a tradition among Hamar women and an emblem of the cultural shifts the 52-year-old Anna must contend with. This program records her month-long adventure and its impact on her way of living and thinking."--Container.
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It's clear he likes using teleprompters and they're here to stay.
President Bush used them only occasionally.
Former spokesman Ari Fleischer tells CBS News that Mr. Bush "preferred using large index cards plus I think he was just more comfortable with the cards."
Mark Knoller is a CBS News White House correspondent. You can read more of his posts in Hotsheet here.


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"Orlikins goes to Andorra la Vella" Andorra la Vella by orlikins
Andorra la Vella Travel Guide: 115 reviews and 316 photos
Andorra la Vella incorporates another town called Escaldes-Endgornay, which can be a bit confusing. Basically Escaldes' main st - Ave Carlmany stretches downhill and you see a sign "Benvinguts a Andorra-la-Vella" down by Pans Sandwich bar. Ave Carlmany is then called Ave Meritxell.
I ended up staying in Andorra-la-Vella for a week after my friend Yvonne broke her leg in a skiing accident in Arinsal and she needed one of us to stay back for company & help organise flights home & the travel insurance company. Normally I would have gone for budget accomodation, but seeing as I wasnt paying for it, I went to one of the top hotels in town :) Most of the time I was in the hospital anyway but i did get to go out & about in A-la-V while I was there.
This picture is of Caldea thermal spas.
Escaldes originally belonged to A la V up the 1970s. The Endgordany part of town was predominantly rural but Escaldes, lower down the valley slopes thrived off the local natural spas and resulting service industries, making it more economically dominant than Endgordany. It was in 1726 when Les Escaldes merged with Endgordany.
However Escaldes-Endgordany ?seceded? from Andorra la Vella town in 1978, becoming a parish & town it its own right. It?s now the 2nd largest parish in terms of population in Andorra
So in order to create a separate identity for itself, Escaldes worked on lots of architectural projects and hotels and developed the Caldea spas.
Endgordany is higher up on the slopes of the surrounding Pyrenees, while Escaldes is around by the Merixtell hospital and spa & Av. Carlemany
Lots of Hotels are signposted in yellow around the town/s.
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A friend of mine who was once in Andorra said to me that actualy the Andorran policemen are probably the most poliglote ones in the World... And the sexiest ones too, he said to me... ;)
Some good and very accurate tips. Sorry to hear about your friend skiing accident. I hope she still likes skiing.
I love my food, I can't imagine waiting till 8pm. Yuk.
Your'e a good sport! Lesley
Nice page! I visited Andorra La Vella last year and i agree with you the traffic was a bit crazy !
Great page, i'll have to be careful of the traffic when I'm out there. Thanks! :) Jim
a full guide. Nice hotel ehhhh, have you tryed the restaurant at Casa Canut???
Dear Orla ! I also wanted to go to Andorra when i was in Barcelona but due to shortage of time i couldn't make it. But now from your page i know what i missed ! Thanks for interesting details.
Looks like an interesting little town in an interesting little country. Nice page.
Excellent, honest tips!
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When Scientific Predictions Are So Good They're Bad
By WILLIAM K. STEVENS
Published: September 29, 1998
NOAH had it easy. He got his prediction straight from the horse's mouth and was left in no doubt about what to do.
But when the Red River of the North was rising to record levels in the spring of 1997, the citizens and officials of Grand Forks, N.D., were not so privileged. They had to rely on scientists' predictions about how high the water would rise. And in this case, Federal experts say, the flood forecast may have been issued and used in a way that made things worse.
The problem, the experts said, was that more precision was assigned to the forecast than was warranted. Officials and citizens tended to take as gospel an oft-repeated National Weather Service prediction that the river would crest at a record 49 feet. Actually, there was a wider range of probabilities; the river ultimately crested at 54 feet, forcing 50,000 people to abandon their homes fast. The 49-foot forecast had lulled the town into a false sense of security, said Dr. Roger A. Pielke Jr. of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., a consultant on a subsequent inquiry by the weather service.
In fixating on the single number of 49 feet, the people involved in the Grand Forks disaster made a common error in the use of predictions and forecasts, experts who have studied the case say. It was, they say, a case of what Alfred North Whitehead, the mathematician and philosopher, once termed ''misplaced concreteness.'' And whether the problem is climate change, earthquakes, droughts or floods, they say the tendency to overlook uncertainties, margins of error and ranges of probability can lead to damaging misjudgments.
The problem was the topic of a workshop this month at Estes Park, Colo. In part, participants said, the problem arises because decision makers sometimes want to avoid making hard choices in uncertain situations. They would rather place responsibility on the predictors.
Scientifically based predictions, typically using computerized mathematical models, have become pervasive in modern society. But only recently has much attention been paid to the proper use -- and misuse -- of predictions. The Estes Park workshop, of which Dr. Pielke was an organizer, was an attempt to come to grips with the question. The workshop was sponsored by the Geological Society of America and the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
People have predicted and prophesied for millenniums, of course, through means ranging from the visions of shamans and the warnings of biblical prophets to the examination of animal entrails. With the arrival of modern science, people teased out fundamental laws of physical and chemical behavior and used them to make better and better predictions.
But once science moves beyond the relatively deterministic processes of physics and chemistry, prediction gets more complicated and chancier. The earth's atmosphere, for instance, often frustrates efforts to predict the weather and long-term climatic changes because scientists have not nailed down all of its physical workings and because a substantial measure of chaotic unpredictability is inherent in the climate system. The result is a considerable range of uncertainty, much more so than is popularly associated with science. So while computer modeling has often made reasonable predictions possible, they are always uncertain; results are by definition a model of reality, not reality itself.
The accuracy of predictions varies widely. Some, like earthquake forecasts, have proved so disappointing that experts have turned instead to forecasting longer-term earthquake potential in a general sense and issuing last-second warnings to distant communities once a quake has begun.
In some cases, the success of a prediction is near impossible to judge. For instance, it will take thousands of years to know whether the environmental effects of buried radioactive waste will be as predicted.
On the other hand, daily weather forecasts are checked almost instantly and are used to improve the next day's forecast. But weather forecasting is also a success, the assembled experts agreed, because people know its shortcomings and take them into consideration. Weather forecasts ''are wrong a lot of the time, but people expect that and they use them accordingly,'' said Robert Ravenscroft, a Nebraska rancher who attended the workshop as a ''user'' of predictions.
A prediction is to be distrusted, workshop participants said, when it is made by the group that will use it as a basis for policy making -- especially when the prediction is made after the policy decision has been taken. In one example offered at the workshop, modeling studies purported to show no harmful environmental effects from a gold mine that a company had decided to dig.
Another type of prediction miscue emerged last March in connection with asteroids, the workshop participants were told by Dr. Clark R. Chapman, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder. An astronomer erroneously calculated that there was a chance of one-tenth of 1 percent that a mile-wide asteroid would strike Earth in 30 years. The prediction created an international stir but was withdrawn a day later after further evidence turned up.


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As a game that balances so many forms of gameplay successfully, Carmen certainly earns my respect. For younger gamers (especially those with only an Xbox) this is a must buy.
Play MagazineWith a sparse Saturday-morning-cartoon look, the game can become a drag for the adult eye, but just like the best of those cartoons, a certain charm bubbles below the surface. [Jan 2004, p.65]
Worth your hard earned cash? Well, if youre a major fan of the television show and PC games, then no. If youre a gamer looking for sweet platforming action, then no.
Official Xbox MagazineMaybe little kids would like it. But do kids really want a game where you sneak up on dull robots because you're not allowed to kill anything? [Feb 2004, p.82]
Xbox Nation MagazineIt's not that Carmen is a failure - it just aims low in the first place. [Mar 2004, p.95]
A mediocre game across the board, offering nothing new or even remotely entertaining and instead putting you through the paces of Generic Platformer 101.
Cheat Code CentralFrom the gameplay to the graphics, this game screams budget title. It not only looks generic but it acts generic. The developers really missed the mark with this one.
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MarkH.May 7, 2005PS2 Graphics, poor camera that gets stuck on things, or prevents you from seeing what you need to see when you're in a corridor- wobbly PS2 Graphics, poor camera that gets stuck on things, or prevents you from seeing what you need to see when you're in a corridor- wobbly character control (makes jumping a real chore in this platformer)- and poor pacing. There's not much of a story- the characters are bland- there's not much going for this boring laborious game.… Full Review »


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Does anyone know any sites/books/articles covering best practices or theory around design patterns in high performance applications? It seems a lot of the patterns use indirection/abstraction/encapsulation in a way that may affect performance in computationally intensive code. Head First Design Patterns and even GoF mention possibility of performance hits with many of the patterns but without more concrete advice on how to deal with it.
We started with Q&A. Technical documentation is next, and we need your help.
Whether you're a beginner or an experienced developer, you can contribute.
I'm surprised we aren't asking what performance problems you are having!
In my experience, performance problems are usually tied to specific conditions and situations. Design patterns, on the other hand, are solutions to more general and abstract problems. It would seem a bit awkward to approach both in the same text: what of possibly many "non-patterned" solutions should the author compare the performance of a design pattern against? When the performance problem is general, there certainly already are patterns to solve them: the Flyweight is a good example.
The penalties imposed by the use of a design pattern are of a finite, very small set: introduction of virtual calls, added latency due to delegation, extra memory consumption due to the proliferation of objects and so on. If, after profiling, you notice that these are the cause of your woes, there are known ways to minimize them.
Knowing the patterns might be useful to solve performance issues, too. First, someone already mentioned that patterns break down a problem in smaller bits: this might ease pinpointing the source of the issue and isolating ugly but performant code. They also create a framework of reasoning and expectations for developers. If you must introduce a deviation for performance reasons, it will be obvious: "Except here, where we forego X and do Y to improve performance, this is a Chain of Responsibility." They are rules to be broken when needed.
(Alas, there is one very good pattern for getting good performance: measure, pinpoint, fix.)
Design patterns exist to help you come to grips with how to design software or improve its flexibility. How you implement the pattern determines what kind of performance penalty (or benefit) you will see from its use.
Some patterns do exist because that overall way of structuring things generally does lead to faster programs. But unlike algorithms there is no good way to really formally analyze a pattern to decide on how slow or fast it is.
My advice would be to use a pattern if it helps you figure out how to design a particular piece of code, or if you need to refactor to make code more flexible or clear. If you then have performance issues, use standard profiling techniques to find them.
If you're refactoring when you encounter performance issues, maybe the cost isn't worth the refactor, or maybe there's a way to mitigate it. If you're designing new code, maybe there's a way to mutate things to fix the performance issue if it truly lies in the necessary indirection for the pattern to work.
The most concrete advice is: profile it in your application and see how much of an impact it really makes.
Any other advice is going to be considerably more general and may not necessarily apply well to how you have implemented a given pattern in your application with your compiler on your platform.
Design patterns are mostly ways of breaking your program into smaller pieces, which are easier to reuse, compose, design, and test. Several design patterns will result in code that performs worse than a simpler design, but they have a significant advantage when you consider the 80/20 rule.
The 80/20 rule says that 80 percent of your program's execution time will be spent executing 20 percent of it's code. When your program is nice and modular, it's easy to throw it in a profiler and see exactly which component could be tuned/optimized, or where it makes sense to go with a less flexible design in order to improve performance. Having the design that far separated initially though makes it easier to find performance hot spots.
One term that may help you get better hits is 'pattern language'. It's a collection of patterns that go together for some purpose. If you have a more specific goal that high performance someone may have plotted out a path through patterns for your domain, for example: pattern language for parallel software. Here's another nice collection of parallel programming patterns from UIUC, a hotbed of patterns work.
The ACE/TAO guys have a lot of papers about high performance network patterns using C++
Design pattern is really focusing on how you structure the code and define the class abstraction and interaction. Performance of your computational performance will really be mostly effected by the way you write the actual code implementation (body of the method).
For C++ I definitely suggest reading Scott Meyers book on Effective C++ and More Effective C++ series of books which in itself really reveals many idioms on writing high performance code.
You can read Herb Sutter's entries under "Effective Concurrency" for things involving multi-threading and concurrency patterns and how they affect performance.
GoF design patterns are about using proven patterns to solve common problems with elegant, maintainable code. They don't target performance.
If you want patterns for performance, you may need to look at system architecture patterns, algorithms, data structures, etc.
What does your app do?
If your application is in C++, and is written sensibly, the chances are your code will run blindingly fast on modern hardware, until it has to wait for I/O. The exception would be something like real time image analysis that is very processor intensive.
If performance is an issue, do you really mean I/O performance? (disk, DB, network etc.)
There are 'patterns' that allow your application to perform even while frequently waiting for I/O (asynchronous callbacks etc.)
If you are dealing with an uneven load, whereby the peak load may be much higher than average load, a commonly employed architecture pattern is to de-couple system components with message queues.
Remember the old saying "You can have it good, fast and cheap, pick two"


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