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What's alumina? It is the stuff that aluminum is made of, and making it is a problem.

There is an alumina crisis right now. Making it is dirty and polluting, and it's back in the USA.




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Resist disastrous planned obsolescence by making old iPhones sexy again

Fight Apple’s annual seduction dance by buying a perfectly restored iPhone from a company rallying against thoughtless consumerism and e-waste.




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1 Million Hectares of Colombia Underwater - Climate Change Making La Niña More Intense

Record breaking extreme weather isn't just plaguing the Midwest: Colombia has had 5-6 times more rainfall than usual for the past ten months--which has killed 425 people so far, covered 1 million hectares with water, and left 3 million people as what




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Making a Republican case for climate action

Three Republicans and former administrators of the Environmental Protection Agency penned an important op-ed in The New York Times arguing for a Republican case for climate action.




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Bar soap is making a glorious comeback

Sales of bar soap had been sadly slipping, but now shoppers are wising up to its many benefits.




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'Toxic Beauty' film explores how cosmetics are making us sick

The products we use to enhance beauty have an ugly track record.




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Chocolate industry is making real effort to clean up its act

Companies and governments in West Africa and Europe are finally saying no to cocoa grown on deforested land.




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U.S. Department of the Treasury, U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development, and the Ad Council Launch New Public Service Ads to Reach Struggling Homeowners - Get mortgage help. This is why. MakingHomeAffordable.gov :60

Get mortgage help. This is why. MakingHomeAffordable.gov :60





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New Program Informs Teachers' Ethical Decision Making - ProEthica™ Training Program

New program offers educators techniques and strategies for improving awareness of professional risks and vulnerabilities, and for the application of professional ethics in daily decision making.





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Proof Of Impact: The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Is Making Progress Toward A World Without Blood Cancers - Christine Attia, supporter.

Christine Attia lost her fiancé just two years ago after he lost a courageous six-month battle with acute myeloid leukemia. She reminds everyone, while breakthrough therapies are saving lives, work still needs to be done to find cures.




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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Tesla, Facebook, Dunkin' Brands, Boeing, Moderna & more

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading.




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Designers are now making fashion face masks and people can even buy a Billie Eilish one

A raft of fashion labels are now making non-medical masks to sell to consumers, including band t-shirt maker Bravado, which has made Rolling Stones, Queen and Ariana Grande versions.




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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Lyft, Peloton, PayPal, Grubhub, T-Mobile & more

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading.




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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Tesla, Uber, MGM Resorts & more

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading on Friday.




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Can stocks and bonds both be right? Making sense of rising equities and ultra-low Treasury yields

Both markets are responding, each in its own way, to the same accommodative Fed.




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Here's a full recap of Warren Buffett's newsmaking comments at Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting

Buffett made a lot of news at Berkshire's first virtual annual meeting on Saturday, including revealing that he sold all his airline stocks.




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Moves in Tesla options are making the stock's wild swings look tame

Millions of Tesla's options contracts have already changed hands this week, and savvy traders are making out like bandits.




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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Alphabet, Boeing, Gilead, AMC Entertainment & more

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading.




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Stocks making the biggest moves after hours: Facebook, Qualcomm, Transocean and more

Check out the companies making headlines after the bell.




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Stocks making the biggest moves in the premarket: Twitter, Comcast, McDonald's, Tapestry & more

The stocks making the biggest moves in premarket trading include Twitter, Comcast, McDonald's Tapestry, and more.




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Stocks making the biggest moves after hours: Amazon, Apple, Western Digital and more

Check out the companies making headlines after the bell.




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Stocks making the biggest moves in the premarket: Exxon, Chevron, Clorox, Honeywell & more

The stocks making the biggest moves in premarket trading include Exxon, Chevron, Clorox, Honeywell, and more.




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Stocks making the biggest moves in the premarket: Berkshire Hathaway, Gilead, Disney, Intel & more

The stocks making the biggest moves in premarket trading include Berkshire Hathaway, Gilead, Disney, Intel, and more.




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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Disney, American Airlines, Tyson Foods and more

These are the stocks posting the largest moves in midday trading.




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Stocks making the biggest moves after hours: Chegg, Hertz, L Brands and more

Check out the companies making headlines after the bell.




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Stocks making the biggest moves in the premarket: Pfizer, DuPont, Wayfair, Shake Shack & more

The stocks making the biggest moves in premarket trading include Pfizer, DuPont, Wayfair, Shake Shack, and more.




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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Starbucks, Chevron, Norwegian Cruise Line, Alphabet & more

Starbucks jumps as the coffee chain rolls out a reopening plan in the U.S. while Chevron leads energy stocks higher amid a surge in crude.




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Stocks making the biggest moves after hours: Pinterest, Mattel, Virgin Galactic and more

Check out the companies making headlines after the bell.




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Stocks making the biggest moves in the premarket: GM, CVS, Shopify, Papa John's, Wendy's & more

The stocks making the biggest moves in premarket trading include GM, CVS, Shopify, Papa John's, Wendy's, and more.




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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Beyond Meat, Wendy's, General Motors & more

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading.




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Stocks making the biggest moves after hours: Spirit Airlines, Etsy, Paypal and more

Check out the companies making headlines after the bell.




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Stocks making the biggest moves in the premarket: Raytheon, ViacomCBS, Moderna, JetBlue & more

The stocks making the biggest moves in premarket trading include Raytheon, ViacomCBS, Moderna, JetBlue, and more.




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Stocks making the biggest moves after hours: TripAdvisor, Motorola, Roku and more

Check out the companies making headlines after the bell.




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Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Macy's, Uber, TripAdvisor, Disney & more

These are the stocks posting the largest moves before the bell on Friday.





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Jacob Collier: The man dubbed 'jazz's new messiah' on making music in lockdown

Four Grammy awards, tens of millions of views, Quincy Jones as a manager, Herbie Hancock as a fan and Chris Martin as a collaborator: 25-year-old Jacob Collier has been compared to Mozart and Prince and called jazz's new messiah. The north London prodigy speaks to Eve Jackson from confinement about his four-volume, 50-song album "Djesse", being managed by the man who produced the best-selling album of all time, and what he's learned in lockdown.







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Fifteen Cats From Tech Support Who Are Busy Making An Update To Your PC (Memes)

"Don't worry, I'm from tech support...Just lemme get a closer look."

Well...it seems like these cats are more interested in all those mouses and cookies hiding in your computer.  




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Automated Pancake Making For Devotees Of Fluffy Pancakes

We have a weakness for automated pancake machines here at Hackaday, but in terms of complete pancake machines rather than CNC batter printers we’re surprised to see more from the rest of the world than we do from the USA. Perhaps this has something to do with differences in opinion …read more




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An intro to making Postgres high availability on Kubernetes

#351 — April 15, 2020

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Postgres Weekly

A Detailed Look at pg_show_plans — A few issues ago we linked to a basic introduction to pg_show_plans – this goes a little further. pg_show_plans lets you look at the execution plans of slow queries in real time as they’re being executed which can help you when troubleshooting.

Kaarel Moppel

Intersecting GPS Tracks to Identify Infected Individuals — I’m not a huge fan of COVID-19 related content, but this is a pretty interesting technique with numerous use cases. Essentially it uses PostGIS to identify overlapping paths.

Florian Nadler

Online Training: Learn PostgreSQL from Home — The remote PostgreSQL Database Administration training course is available at a discounted rate & will be conducted in two different timezones. The course covers day-to-day DBA operations, monitoring, server configurations, and more.

2ndQuadrant PostgreSQL Training sponsor

PostgreSQL's 'Related Projects' — Thanks to Andreas Scherbaum for pointing out a new page on the Postgres site dedicated to projects related to Postgres like the code that runs the Postgres web site, mailing list, build farm, package management system, etc.

PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Authentication Configuration in Postgres (and CockroachDB) — In Postgres, client authentication can be controlled via a ‘HBA’ (host-based authentication) file. It’s not something we see covered very often, so you might find this interesting, particularly as it compares things against CockroachDB.

Raphael ‘kena’ Poss

▶  Easy And Correct High Availability Postgres with Kubernetes — A 50 minute talk from PostgresOpen 2019 that goes all the way ‘from containers up’ until actually doing stuff with Postgres.

Steven Pousty

How To Set Up an Express API Backend Project With Postgres — A pretty extensive walkthrough of creating an HTTP API using Express with Node.js and Postgres on the backend, then deploying it all on Heroku.

Chidi Orji

A Beginners Guide to Basic Indexing in Postgres

James Bannister

eBook: The Most Important Events to Monitor in Your Postgres Logs — In this eBook, we are looking at the Top 6 Postgres log events for monitoring query performance and preventing downtime.

pganalyze sponsor

Documenting the Citus Extension to Postgres: An Interview with Joe Nelson — Joe, a.k.a. begriffs, talks about why he works on documentation, why the multi-tenant and real-time analytics tutorials matter, the INSERT..SELECT with repartitioning feature, and what development platform Citus uses for docs.

Citus Data (Microsoft)

Procedural vs Query Approaches for Finding Packages — Explorations of a query that can be used to display which packages are available for a given FreeBSD port. Get your head around the data model and the ideas here apply to all sorts of situations.

Dan Langille

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All in-person events we had listed are cancelled or postponed due to the COVID outbreak, so we're now linking to webinars, livestreams, and similar online events.

If you have any, just hit reply and if it's Postgres related (and either free or not too expensive) we'll include it in a future issue. Just one this week:

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Saw this tweet and thought it was a pretty neat reminder of the sorts of things we can do with Postgres. Justin kindly let us include it:

Click through to the original tweet if you want to see the code better. Neat use for a generated column!




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Workloads, acceleration, and making Postgres better

#353 — April 29, 2020

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Postgres Weekly

7 Things That Could Be Improved in Postgres — As 1990s dance pop group D:Ream sang in 1994, Things Can Only Get Better.. including Postgres ???? Luckily these are all ‘nice to have’s but I dare say we’ll see some of them (such as automatic tuning and auto-vacuuming improvements) appear over time.

Kaarel Moppel

How The Citus Distributed Query Executor Adapts to a Postgres Workload — Citus is the popular extension for horizontally scaling Postgres and its query executor has seen some huge updates lately.

Citus Data (Microsoft)

eBook: The Most Important Events to Monitor in Your Postgres Logs — In this pganalyze eBook, we are looking at the Top 6 Postgres log events for monitoring query performance and preventing downtime.

pganalyze sponsor

Swarm64 DA 4.0: A Database Acceleration Extension for Postgres — Swarm64 started life as a FPGA-driven way to accelerate Postgres performance, but can now work without FPGAs too. This is not a free product but if you want to give it a run, there’s a trial or it can be spun up from the AWS Marketplace.

Yana Krasteva

Postgres Performance Goalposts — An interesting heuristic from Bruce here on what to do if you expect your connections, queries, or write queries to be above/below certain levels.

Bruce Momjian

A Tale of Password Authentication Methods in Postgres“Let’s say you want to implement a password authentication method in a client/server protocol..” Here’s the story of how Postgres came up with its approaches.

Peter Eisentraut

How to Set application_name When Using psql — As Craig says: “Setting your application name in Postgres is SO USEFUL. It will help a lot for debugging when you’ve got multiple different apps/services connecting to the same database.”

Denish Patel

How to Upgrade Postgres from v11 to v12 on Ubuntu 20.04 — Now that Ubuntu 20.04 is out, this might be on your mind!

Paolo Melchiorre

Working with Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL: What Happened to the Stats? — Apparently there’s a bug with numerous versions of Aurora PostgreSQL that causes certain stats to be lost on restart.

Michael Vitale

Postgres Vision 2020 - Free Online Conference (June 23-24) — Learn how today’s IT leaders are using Postgres. Join from anywhere in the world and listen from 30+ Postgres experts.

EnterpriseDB sponsor

A Deep Dive into PostGIS Nearest Neighbor Search — Take a deep dive into the Postgres and PostGIS internals to find out how K-nearest neighbor accelerates local search.

Martin Davis

My Favorite Postgres Extensions: Part One — A basic high level look at pg_partman and postgres_fdw.

Nawaz Ahmed

Kanel: Generate TypeScript Types from Postgres

Kristian Dupont

Postgres.app: The Easiest Way to Get Started with Postgres on the Mac — I’ve used this for years, it’s super popular, but if there’s just a handful of developers out there who’d benefit from it and don’t know about it, this reminder will be worth it :-) It continues to get very frequent updates.

Jakob Egger, Chris Pastl, and Mattt Thompson

???? Upcoming Events

All in-person events we had listed are cancelled or postponed due to the COVID outbreak, so we're now linking to webinars, livestreams, and similar online events.

If you have any, just hit reply and if it's Postgres related (and either free or not too expensive) we'll include it in a future issue. Just one this week:

  • ???? Postgres Vision 2020 on June 23-24. A full attempt at an online Postgres conference across multiple days with multiple tracks.

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History in the making for semi-final pair

Argentina and Portugal both have their sights on making their first ever FIFA Futsal World Cup final when they go head to head in Cali. FIFA.com previews the crucial Colombia 2016 semi-final.




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History-making Bah dreaming big with Gambia




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Vidya Balan is making new discoveries while on lockdown

The unstoppable Vidya Balan who always has surprised her audience is making new discovery during this lockdown. We have earlier seen Vidya making some interesting revelations of how she has been spending her quarantine cleaning her house and other household chores. She made a surprising revelation that she is not fond of cooking and hence doesn't know how to cook well but since the past few days, she has been trying to cook and discovered that it is quite fun.

We recently saw Vidya Balan making Modak which is also her favourite dish, and we can say that she is undoubtedly enjoying the cooking process in her home during this lockdown. Cooking is a hectic job and Vidya many times candidly told that she doesn't know how to cook and cooking never interested her, but during this lockdown, we have seen many celebrities cooking and posting pictures on Instagram and other social media platforms. We have seen quite a few numbers of actors who have been posting their cooking videos and pictures on social media for some time now and now we have our diva Vidya Balan who is a very fun way shows us how she is loving the concept of cooking and went on making modaks.

Vidya gleefully said in an interview with Bombay Times, "I always saw cooking as a symbol of domestication, but in the lockdown it was a new discovery." Vidya who has always been known for playing a women-centric role and being headstrong was of the opinion that cooking is a very domesticated role and she would never fit perfectly in it but this lockdown enabled her to find out a new trait in her and is she is enjoying it with her whole heart.

We hope to see Vidya posting more of cooking videos now and like each role we hope she will ace in cooking too. Vidya is going to rock her audience with her much-awaited Shakuntala Devi that is expected to hit screens post the lockdown and also will be seen in much-celebrated film Sherni where for the first time she will be seen playing the role of a forest officer.

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The art of making paper at home

Learn the art of making paper from scratch at this workshop by Bengaluru-based artist Ravikumar Kashi, who expresses himself via mediums like paintings, sculptures and photography. Kashi learnt the art of making paper from the Glasgow School of Art, UK, before he moved on to learning Hanji, a traditional Korean papermaking form.

Participants will learn the history of hand-made papermaking and the difference between pr­imary, secondary, te­r­tiary and second-ha­nd paper. "They will be taken through techniques of how to make recycled paper from di­s­carded paper, how to shape it into different forms and make sculptures. They will also learn pulp painting, where coloured pulp is used to create art," Kashi shares.

ON March 30, 10 am
AT Piramal Museum of Art, Piramal Tower, Peninsula Corporate Park, Lower Parel
CALL 30466981
Email artfoundation@piramal.com
LOG ON TO insider.in
Cost Rs 2,500

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'He's always making fun of me...'

Dear Diana,
My guy has this peculiar habit of poking fun at me. Whatever I do, he has a problem. He does not like the way I dress, the way I eat and the way I talk. Recently, I enrolled in a gym and he finds it amusing. He has been asking me daily how many inches I have lost. He has been sarcastic and instead of goading me to lose weight and motivate me, he is going on a different tangent. I try hard to please him, but he always takes offence. We have been together for eight years. He says he is afraid to commit, so even though we are in our early 30s, a wedding is not on the horizon for now. I usually do not react to whatever he says, so after a while he has to keep quiet. When we are with friends, he behaves loving and caring, but when we are alone, he shows his true colours. I am fed up of him and his recent behaviour has been obnoxious. He even lands up at the gym to watch me work out and questions the instructor whether I am serious about it. What should I do?
— Sandy


Illustration/Uday Mohite

Dear Sandy,
Why are you still sticking around with a guy who leaves no opportunity to demean you? Why have you been taking all his nonsense all these years? You seem to have developed low self-esteem because of this man. He needs to accept you, the way you are – just the way you have accepted him. He does not ridicule you in front of his pals because they will chide him. He knows that you are submissive and meek, so he can get away by telling you anything. It is time you stopped being the doormat. More importantly, you need to sit down and take a decision. Do you want to be with a man who ridicules you or respects you? The choice is yours. If you want to stick around, stop complaining. But if you want a man who respects you, walk out on him.