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Two years ago, construction crews worked deep into the night around the perimeter of Echo Park Lake, putting up segment after segment of chain-link fence as protesters faced off against police officers not far away.At the time, that fence was described as a temporary barrier, one that would allow the city to clear out a massive homeless encampment, then start the work of cleaning, repairing and restoring the park.Now, Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez is preparing to take that fence down, just as the city reaches the…

When most people go fishing, they always anticipate a big catch.For Sam Boucha, the fish she caught was more than she was anticipating and beyond – with it weighing more than 22 kilograms, or 50 lbs.Last Friday, Boucha and her boyfriend, Brad Molloy, decided to go ice fishing for some trout, as she had the day off and her child was in daycare.Boucha said their sled wasn't running great that day, so they decided to stop at a different spot than they normally would and had caught a few fish.She noticed a rod she had set up…

With news that Manhattan prosecutors may be ready to indict Donald Trump for his role in a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels, it’s easy to wonder whether the former president would even be in this mess if he had stayed away from a celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe in July 2006. By a number of accounts, including from Daniels, Trump “went wild” over four days at the annual American Century Celebrity Golf Championship, according to a detailed account of that weekend by GQ. Though newly married to Melania…

What happens and what you can/can’t do when merging evolutive DataFramesPhoto by McDobbie Hu on UnsplashIn the last post, we covered the transaction log and how to keep Delta Tables fast and clean. This time we will be covering automatic schema evolution in Delta tables.Schema evolution is a critical aspect of managing data over time. It is very common for data sources to evolve and adapt to new business requirements, which might mean adding or removing fields from an existing data schema. As a data consumer, it is…

Lake Oroville, a key component of California’s water supply, looks noticeably fuller after a series of January storms.The atmospheric rivers dumped trillions of gallons of moisture on the state, spurring widespread flooding and destruction but also providing a healthy boost to snowpack and drought-sapped reservoirs. Lake Oroville, the largest reservoir on the State Water Project, was at 68% of its capacity on Friday — up from 28% just two months prior, according to state data. The State Water Project is a system of…

A sonar image of the Ironton sitting upright, with all three masts intact, on the bottom of Lake Huron. Image: Ocean Exploration Trust/NOAAResearchers with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, the state of Michigan, and Ocean Exploration Trust have found a long-lost sailing ship called Ironton resting upright at the bottom of Lake Huron.As the 191-foot-long (58-meter) Ironton sailed across the inky black water of Lake Huron in the early hours of a September 1894 morning, it collided with a freight…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain It's not even March yet, but the mountains that feed the Colorado River already have seen more snow this winter than they normally would through an entire snow season. And with some snow in the forecast, there's still more time for that snowpack to grow. "For the West in general, this year has…

(a) Geographical location of Lake Dalzong; (b) Photo showing the activity of aromatic plant-burning around Lake Dalzong (taken on June 7th, 2020). Credit: Science China Press Xiahe County, located in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in the northeastern part of the Tibetan Plateau, is known as "Little Tibet." For a long time, all aspects of human survival, social development and cultural accumulation in the region have been…

Sampling location and freeze-up experimental setup. (a) Lake ice cover occurrence (in %, defined as the frequency at which ice cover was detected in January to March using Landsat images) in the North Temperate Zone during 2015–2020 (data obtained from Wang et al. (2021)) (a), and enlarged map of Northern Europe showing the location of sampling sites in Sweden (b), red stars indicate the area where the nine Swedish lakes were sampled (a, b). (c)…

If you were hoping to pick up an Intel computer with 3-nanometer technology this year, you’re likely out of luck. In a new report from DigiTimes (via Windows Central), Intel has reportedly delayed its order of 3-nanometer chips from the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company that are anticipated to be featured in its upcoming 15th-generation Arrow Lake processors. According to the report, the company has held off its order of chips until the fourth quarter of 2024. This could mean we won’t see any computers…