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Comparative motorcycles Yamaha MT-09 vs. Triumph Street Triple 675 vs. BMW F800R vs. Yamaha FZ8: comparative 2014!
Real phenomenon, the Yamaha MT-09 impressed us during our first test press. But that is really worth its 3-cylinder Triumph Street Triple 675, BMW F800R and Yamaha FZ8 compete in actual conditions of use? Here's the first shock 2014 on the bikesdoctor.com with measures!
The new Yamaha MT-09 is a gamble at high risk for the moment: with its unique 3-cylinder in line, this roadster aims to attract a wide audience by cultivating a strong personality, mechanical, aesthetic and ergonomic. Suffice to say that it should dare to do so, because even if Yamaha is not in his first attempt (VMax, TMax, R1…), the 'Maximum Torque' 09 will find against it the gratin to a highly aggressive category and in place.
Starting of course with the Triumph Street Triple 675 that has reinvented the popular 3-cylinder is a reference in terms of accreditation and performance among roadsters sports midsize, but not demerit not facing higher displacements, all at a target price. It is the competitor n ° 1 of the Yamaha MT-09, but not only. As in engines 'original', vertical twin-cylinder BMW F800R also arises as an alternative to the sacred Yamaha MT-09.
BMW F800R is also a reference in road behavior and in versatility. Finally, in its own family, Yamaha MT-09 is going to find on its way Yamaha FZ8, at the same program of which 4 – online cylinders aim, on the road and on the carpets of concessions seen as they are shown at the same price!
In short, new concept, three competitors of size – and others that we could include in this first match – and category of best-selling bike in World, here arises as a very successful challenge for this ambitious Yamaha MT-09. As usual, the bikesdoctor.com brought together this entire beautiful world for an impartial game: impressions 'on' and 'off', various measures and a few hundred kilometers later, here's all you need to know about the 3-cylinder before deciding to buy it… or not. Vs. Yamaha MT-09 inside!
Its output in 2009 original (eh Yes, already!), the BMW F800R is always in 2013 with an elongated line and unique color. Here in 'racing stripes' version, it has a beautiful quality of manufacture, although Toro hardware is sometimes too apparent. However, the integration of options (handlebars, on-board computer) is impeccable, as always at BMW. Morality, this roadster is serious, mature.
In the saddle, the BMW F800R differs among others from the Yamaha MT-09 by a relatively elongated position (much like on the Triumph Street Triple); the foot high enough to preserve the ground clearance and a handlebar at the drooping ends as the Yamaha FZ8. Not as narrow as the Triumph or the Yamaha MT-09, the BMW F800R household still the most beautiful living space on board, whether for large or small who will appreciate an arcade in the crotch as well worked at BMW.
The parallel twin cylinder delivers one sound sports and less metallic than others: here again, the bourgeois BMW stands. Upon taking hands, flexible twin and very decent turning radius make the BMW F800R as good urban bike that Yamaha FZ8. In addition, for troubleshooting in duo, the BMW remains the most appropriate: it only has passenger series handles and his saddle is the most comfortable of the lot, on a par with that of the Yamaha FZ8.
On the road, the longer wheelbase of the band (1,520 mm) or the presence of the single direction of the comparative damper attend probably the subtle mix of handling at low speed, agility in the sinuous and straight as cornering stability. BMW F800R has efficient and comfortable geometry: it is easy and safe.
BMW is probably the most relaxing to take with overall ease and its slightly reclined position that offers the least resistance to the wind. This is an advantage over highway that almost makes you forget the twin vibration. In addition, it is sufficient to address the same potholes riding the BMW and the Triumph for example to understand the Bavarian absorbs shocks better.
In sports driving, cycle is so much at the level of the other, but it is its engine, which then step. With 84 horsepower measured at the wheel, the BMW F800R makes 20 others. What invariably feels the acceleration? In occasions, despite 8.1 mkg of torque at the rear wheel – only 0.4 mkg less than Yamaha MT-09 – the BMW F800R cannot only bowing.
In addition, the shape of the saddle does not help to move and the left heel sometimes stumbles on the elbow of the exhaust. Disturbing only in sports driving, it is. The ABS also triggers too early in constant use, especially at the rear, when the added engine braking during deceleration.
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Morality, the BMW can fight on the sports section and to have a beautiful fully equipped BMW F800R, one must of course resort to options packs. BMW may find the solution by grafting the 900 cc engine of the Nuda, which will soon disappear. By 2015, who knows…?
Although having abandoned its chrome round optics and cans under the saddle in 2013, the Triumph Street Triple retains no less a very neat appearance. The finish is difficult to criticize a motorcycle sold less than 8 €000 without ABS. Certainly, the Yamaha MT-09 is at the same price despite its 172 additional cm3 and superior amenities – like radial calipers-, but overall, the Triumph Street Triple is a must.
Its three-cylinder has a remarkable chest at all, worthy of a flexible four-cylinder, a melodious air box and a superbly calibrated injection which does not smoothly. Opposite, Yamaha MT-09 may take seed, same for the selection that stays more enjoyable on the Triumph (but still a bit firm daily). Side coziness and charm so, the street triple Britton still has its word to say against the three faces a three-cylinder Nippon.
It is above all the raw side the match turned in favor of the Yamaha MT-09, including times when the Yamaha manages to dominate our Triumph Street Triple 675 press, incidentally, yet strong pedaling performance … In B (soft) mode, Yamaha struggled to outrun the Triumph, that's how the 675 is powerful, despite his handicap displacement. However, once the coating is appropriate and the road becomes tortuous, the coziness and the sporting potential of the Triumph are flying.
Lightweight and equipped with an ergonomic design quite similar to that of the BMW (light support on the handlebar, foot rests, senior, appreciable narrowness); the Triumph Street Triple 675 presents the train before the more accurate of the comparative. Triumph cleverly calculated resistance to twisting of its chassis as the work of the train. Result: the Triumph Street Triple 675 reassures input curve, fits beautifully on the corner and spring brilliantly through the progressiveness of its engine.
On a trace of hill climbing we love so much, the Triumph Street Triple 675 has given wings to everyone. Almost 90% of the time, this bike is a joy to ride. Nearly 90% of the time, this bike is a joy to ride. The remaining 10% due to small vibrations in the leg, the characteristic whistling its three legs that annoys some of his (still) too much firmness suspension.
Yamaha FZ8 will continue his career with the Yamaha MT-09, although Yamaha Motor France will return more than Fazer8 Yamaha FZ8 2014 to allow air to three cylinders roadster. And for 2013, the little sister of the FZ1 received a technical update (exhaust, adjustable suspension and above). In fact, it is finally maturing.
Certainly, side line, Yamaha FZ8 takes a slap. It was already classical at its exit; it becomes there only more master keys in 2014, even if she remains a nice motorbike, equipped well, with his frame aluminum and her matte painting. All our united motorbikes, Yamaha FZ8 are probably the most 'basic ' and in any case the easiest to be surrounded. If they try the recent motorbikes, they find his marks immediately in the handlebar of Yamaha FZ8.
Obvious commands, very flexible and docile – unlike the Yamaha MT-09 mechanics that can offload its front wheel on a simple misunderstanding driver / handle gas…-, good turning radius: Yamaha FZ8 caters to as many as long as it has enough muscle to move its 215.2 kg all full facts. The selection of the box still nice little (since sound in the portion of the first, generating smooth and overall firm), but the Yamaha FZ8 is a good daily companion.
On the road, the Yamaha FZ8 is before the serenity of its conduct. Well put on its axle assemblies, it offers an excellent road holding while its new suspensions him bring more precision on good or bad coating. It absorbs much better the shocks that the Triumph Street Triple by example and his train before seems welded to the floor so that the new Yamaha MT-09 shows much more lightly to the front.
Almost as soon its four-cylinder hollow mid-range penalizes approval as the times. Pins on the horizon? To keep up with the three-cylinder, you have to scream Yamaha FZ8 beyond 7000 r / min. As soon as the rate increases, the higher weight calls to order.
The Yamaha FZ8 seeks more muscle to tighten the rope point, it takes longer to swallow the pif-paf, but at least its consistent general behavior reassures. In addition, the hollow at mid-range is followed by a fairly explosive extension which is expressed in full through the air box. Sporting four-cylinder fans will enjoy.
Technically, the Yamaha FZ8 is quite close to all sports roadsters of the past decade, the Kawasaki Z 1000 first generation Yamaha FZ1. In addition, the mechanical basis of 1000 cm3 does not have the advantage on the scale.
In fact, in terms of power / weight ratio, it is exceeded by the new wave including his cousin Yamaha MT-09 which shows more 'punchy' and fun to drive. Yamaha FZ8 placed the costs of the newcomer. Enough to save the career of this bike finally accomplished? The year 2014 will tell.
Yamaha MT-09: first attempt, master stroke!
Just ask the Yamaha MT-09 alongside others to understand that it is the new 2014 … left to his controversy with sliced design. There are those who love, and others. At least Yamaha finally returns to a distinctive style. On the manufacturing and finishing, good rubs worst a nice frame/swing arm assembly in die cast aluminum, a jumble look around the dashboard.
Yamaha MT-09 continues to stand on the side of ergonomics, with finesse to the remarkable crotch, which allows to put both feet flat at 1.70 m. bust is more relieved than our other motorbikes by reason of a right handlebar and broad way big trail. On the other hand, the legs are folded hair and the more remote than on the other foot. But overall, the ergonomics of Yamaha's MT-09 soft facilitates taking hands, everyone will find his account.
(Bad) unsurprisingly, with only 3 kilos more than the Triumph (189.6 kg all measured full facts), the Yamaha MT-09 is formidable in town: lightness, low center of gravity, fairly short turning radius, and position elevated dominant… how effective! But side approval this time, it's another story.
On the Yamaha MT-09, the 'net's gas' is hard to find, and many even though spurts Yamaha Motor France had taken care to slacken the chain (too tense at the press presentation). To do worse, the selection is quite dry and the very beginning of the brake lever travel too abrupt. Refine, less for the driver comfortably also installed for the passenger perched on a beautiful Board bread.
Five kilometers is sufficient to take the strength of the Japanese three-cylinder Face! While the Yamaha MT-09 takes advantage of its 172 cm3 more than the Triumph, which is not anything. However, this engine is a real success.
Flexible, he knows how to resume very low like the others, but without the sweet side of the English. Bright, Yamaha MT-09 goes to plan faster than all the others and clearly pulling the arms starting at 4000 rpm where it already has 8 mkg torque! Finally, because even – more or less – powerful flanged, this block offers a more than sufficient extension before having to cut.
Result: the Yamaha MT-09 dominates all others in times and Acceleration, only the Triumph reaching sometimes remains in contact. Overall keener that English, Japanese is also quieter, but delivers its power and torque more brutally. Therefore, use mapping in mode B to find the fluffy at the modulations of the accelerator.
The Yamaha MT-09 surprising also in part-cycle. At the very beginning, heightened agility, and its soft suspension (fork especially, that debate on 137 mm 110 mm on the Triumph) impose the reserve. In sports use – whereby the engine calls constantly MT-09 suffers from a transfer of very marked masses, and the relative lack of feeling of the nose wheel.
The lightness is not everything, and we had to learn to put the Yamaha MT-09 to take the quintessence. It is possible that the ergonomics, which does not allow loading the front axle as on the Triumph or the BMW, is also responsible for this slightly fickle behavior. If the Triumph Street Triple is shim of itself on the angle, the Yamaha MT-09 request for support purposes and do not cling to the handlebars.
Suddenly, sports steering, Yamaha MT-09 requires the 'technical knowledge', some grafted to him maybe a steering damper. But in return, in rolled up driving fast, this bike became great thanks to his diabolical agility and addictive reminders of its engine that grows everywhere, all the time… Moreover, ransom his reporting weight/torque and driving on the back, the Yamaha MT-09 position dethrones the Triumph Street Triple for rear wheel!
Not content to speak of it with his quirky physical, the new Yamaha MT-09 Announces perhaps a turning motorcycle production. And if the future of the roadsters it was that, a motorcycle ' platform' doomed to evolve through declensions?
However, if Yamaha MT-09 is not better than a BMW F800R daily or a Triumph Street Triple on a sports path, it is singled out clearly to the conduct of all account categories. Already very promising in the State, she has not finished speaking of it, certainly.
Yamaha FZ8 will continue its career at the sides of the MT-09 Yamaha MT-09 Vs Triumph Street Triple Vs Kawasaki Z800 Yamaha MT-09: 3-cylinders for all, finally! Test Yamaha MT-09 2014: Brilliant stroke!


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Controversial School Expansion Discussed
More than 200 attend public meeting
A second consultation meeting to discuss controversial plans to expand a Wimbledon primary school by extending it into a neighbouring park was attended by more than 200 people.
Merton council proposes to expand Dundonald Primary School to a two-form entry school from September 2012 so it can admit up to 60 pupils a year in two classes.
The proposed expansion follows a significant increase in demand for school places in Merton, with more children entering school age, fuelled by a birth rate that has risen by over 30% in the last six years.
The council is putting three expansion proposals up for consultation, all of which wrap-around the school's two-storey annex which is next to Dundonald Park.
The meeting involved a statement from the Protect Dundonald Rec group, in which their spokesman said they were a non-political group concerned about the loss of green space, including a pavillion, in a heavily-populated area.
They suggested there were other sites where new schools could be opened or 'satellite' sites build, as well as questioned the need for places from local children.
Councillor Peter Walker, the cabinet member for education, made the point that that people living in Herbert Road couldn't currently get a place for their children in Dundonald School.
He said that "no change" was the easier option, but felt that the plans "positively improved the park" and that the pavillion was "ugly and out of date".
Tom Proctor, the council's manager of contracts and school organisation, said more than half of the schools in the borough will need to expand because of the lack of primary school places. He also pointed out that this was the first stage of the consultation process. The decision would be taken by the council's September cabinet meeting, with further consultation to follow.
During the question-and-answer session, several local people with young children spoke in favour of the plans. A number of people raised the issue of plans for the future, and applause broke out with a suggestion that something new needed to be put in place of the covenant to protect the Recreation Ground for the future.
The council's new deadline for responses to its consultation is Monday July 11 - an extension on the original date of June 28.
A petition objecting to the proposals now has more than 1,300 signatures on the council's website. And a petition on the Protect Dundonald Rec's website has more than 1,700 signatures.
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Google invests in agritech firm Cropin
Cropin, a company that has introduced the cloud industry in agriculture, has secured Rs 113 crores in funding from new investors Google and JSR Corporation, as well as existing investors ABC Impact and Chiratae Ventures. The funds are said to aid in expanding Cropin Cloud, the company's recently launched intelligent agriculture cloud platform, to cater to the growing demand for digitisation and predictive intelligence in the global agriculture sector.
With the support of this funding round, Cropin said that it will be able to further invest in its go-to-market efforts and expand the platform's capabilities, including developing next-generation predictive intelligence solutions through Cropin AI Labs. "The goal of Cropin AI Labs is to bring predictive intelligence to every acre of the world's cultivable land. In addition, Cropin plans to expand its business presence in new regions and industries, focusing on creating solutions that promote sustainable agriculture practices and address global food security challenges on a large scale," read a statement from the company.
Commenting on the investment, Krishna Kumar, Co-Founder & CEO, Cropin said, "By making farms and harvests traceable, predictable, and sustainable, Cropin aims to transform how food is grown. The involvement of new strategic investors like Google and JSR Corporation, and our existing investors' support demonstrates confidence in our mission and impact. We are excited to partner with global technology innovators like Google, which further validates our capabilities and solidifies our position as a leader in the digitalisation of global agriculture".
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100 displaced on remote island by Papua New Guinea quake
Published Friday, May 17, 2019
More than 100 people living on a remote tropical island were displaced by this week's massive earthquake in Papua New Guinea, according to responders who, days later, have finally reached affected communities.
Disaster authorities said an elderly disabled woman was injured when one of several homes collapsed in the outlying Duke of York islands in the north of the country amid Tuesday's quake.
Areas close to the epicentre have reported surprisingly little damage from the magnitude 7.5 tremblor, but even as power has returned to urban areas, the government has struggled to reach remote island communities.
Provincial Disaster Coordinator Wilson Matava told AFP that his office was now planning to "provide tarpaulins for temporary shelter, food and water and also mosquito nets" for residents of the Duke of York Islands.
The low lying isles sit on two tectonic plates and are at risk of being inundated by rising sea levels.
The terrifying quake late Tuesday sent residents running from their homes for safety and sparked fears of a tsunami.
It occurred around 11pm (1300 GMT), some 44 kilometres (27 miles) northeast of Kokopo on New Britain island, the US Geological Survey said.
Papua New Guinea's poor communications infrastructure, lack of roads and difficult terrain mean that sometimes it can be days before the full impact of a natural disaster is known.
The United Nations estimated that around 120,000 people live within 50 kilometres of the epicentre.
According to Matava further assessments are still needed in the coming days.


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Memorial Service held for former Governor Spellman and wife
The couple was married for 63 years and died within days of each.
Author: Alex Rozier
Published: 1:36 PM PST February 12, 2018
Updated: 2:21 PM PST February 12, 2018
People from across Washington gathered at St. James Cathedral on Monday to remember the lives of former Governor John Spellman and his wife, Lois. The couple was married for 63 years and died within days of each other.
Governor Spellman was elected King County's first executive in 1969 and is Washington state's most recent Republican governor.
"They took enormous pride and dedication to family life, that came first. Of course, they were religious and believed deeply in God and had faith in the future being better for everyone," former State Commerce Director Richard Schrock said. "They wanted to share future prosperity with everyone."
"He was a true statesman; he was a visionary leader," Steve Excell, who served as Governor Spellman's chief of staff, said.
Spellman was a Navy veteran and also served on the King County Commission before becoming executive.
As King County executive, Spellman helped secure the construction of the Kingdome, paving the way for the Seahawks and the Mariners.
Condolences from area leaders poured out for Spellman's family after his death was made public.
Secretary of State Kim Wyman released a statement saying she is "saddened" to hear of Spellman's death.
"John was a true statesman and a deeply spiritual man who promoted racial equality and environmentalism, and persevered at every turn to build the Kingdome," Wyman said.
Senate Majority Leader Sharon Nelson said in a statement Spellman "cared deeply for our state."
"He led our state during a difficult financial time in the early 1980s and left his mark by working to strengthen local governments," Nelson said. "He also recognized early on that the state had an important role to play in protecting the environment and the open spaces in our unique corner of the world."
Former Governor Christine Gregoire said Spellman served as a mentor to her, especially when she was leading Washington state through a recession in 2008.
"I asked John for his insights and he generously offered them," Gregoire said in a statement. "We may have been from different parties, but we shared a common love for the great state of Washington, its environment and its people."
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan said Spellman's death marks the end of an era.
"John was a public servant who loved our community," Durkan said in a statement. "He could disagree with folks, but brought civility to our politics, and valued and embraced bipartisanship – something all too rare today."
At the time of Governor Spellman's passing his family released the following statement:
"Today we bid a sad goodbye to our dear father John Spellman. The community he so loved is a better place from his efforts and sacrifices. His quick wit, an occasional smoke ring from his pipe and humming a few bars will be among lasting images of our dad.
With a reel and rod in hand, the waters of the Northwest brought him great joy. Protecting the beauty of our area made him stand against a proposed oil pipeline through the waters he loved and to protect King County's open space and farmlands.
Our mother Lois was his true partner. With her Labor Relations focus from Seattle University, she was quick lend to her opinions. She was the catalyst. The day before he died, our parents were reunited for one last prayer.
From his days at Seattle Prep and Seattle University and Georgetown Law School, the Jesuits style of discernment played an essential role in John's life. He was always able to pause and look at the other side of an issue. He was able to weigh the options. He was fair and just. He was able to work towards common goals and to humbly change his mind.
Our dad was ever present in our family. Even with meetings and travel he found time to be very present in the lives of his six children and grandchildren. Gathering around the table for Sunday dinners was a time to talk and celebrate our family while energizing for the coming week.
Music was a big part of his life. Jazz rolled through our house. Until the end, he was quick to hum a song or find a lyric that was appropriate to the moment. A hobby of his was to make mix tapes based around a specific session musician. It was this same type of attention to the details that he brought to his public service."
His accomplishments include:
- Promoting open housing and affirmative action.
- Diversifying the judicial system.
- Shoring up the social safety net during hard economic times.
- Protecting farmlands and Puget Sound.
- Teaming to build the Kingdome and bring professional sports to Seattle.


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Deputies investigating suspicious death in parking lot of Walton Way business
by: Mike Miller
Posted: Aug 28, 2017 / 02:35 AM EDT
Updated: Aug 28, 2017 / 02:35 AM EDT
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF) – On Sunday, Aug. 27 the Richmond County Sheriff's Office responded to a suspicious death in the parking lot of Colton Ballet School on Walton Way.
According to a witness, a man's body was found in the driver's seat of a car in the school's parking lot.
According to the Richmond County Coroner, Mark Bowen, the man was 25-year-old, Justin Poole, of the 2000 Block of Greene Street was found in a vehicle on the 2900 Block on Walton Way.
The call came into the Coroner at 7:09 p.m. and Poole was pronounced dead at 7:45 p.m.
AUGUSTA. Ga. (WJBF) — The Richmond County Sheriff's Office is on the scene of a suspicious death in the parking lot of a ballet school.
It happened in the Summerville neighborhood at the Colton Ballet School on Walton Way.
A witness tells NewsChannel 6 a man's body was found in the driver's seat of a car in the school's parking lot.
The car appears to have hit a tree, but it's unclear if this was an accident.
The coroner says details are limited at this time.
Count on WJBF NewsChannel 6 to keep you updated on this developing story.
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Do you serve Chablis as an aperitif? Don't stop, but do consider these unusual and delicious pairing possibilities beyond sips, chips, shellfish and cheese. When you imagine the ingredients for the Chablis-inspired recipes these sommeliers actually cook, you will surely be inspired to come up with your own. Bon appétit!
Chablis is an appellation in the Bourgogne wine region, halfway between Paris and Beaune. It is Chardonnay at the northern limit of French still wine production. The soil is a rare geological composition called Jurassic Kimmeridgian limestone. It is on the southeastern ridge of the Paris Basin where you still can pick up oyster fossils.
TIP: Chablis's cool-climate combination of higher acid and lower alcohol levels brightens the taste of food. When you hear Chablis described with a "mineral edge" it is a tactile tongue tension; buttery it is not.
PETIT CHABLIS (2,490 acres) is the lightest wine, grown on Portlandian soil.
CHABLIS (8,787 acres) is the largest area and best quality/ value wine in the region. Most have no oak; some have subtle oak toast.
CHABLIS PREMIER CRU (1,944 acres) is the next level up in taste and price. Vineyards are on the better soils and slopes; more oak and aging ability (5-10 year).
CHABLIS GRAND CRU (252 acres) is the top level on the best limestone slopes on the right bank of the Serein River with the smallest production; most expensive and worth it. It can age for 10 and more years.
Roger Voss's guide to understanding Chablis and reviews on www.winemag.com.


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Dota Reborn Exits The Womb, Is Now Dota 2 Main Client
Philippa Warr
10th September 2015 / 2:14PM
So, Dota Reborn is out and has replaced Old Dota 2 [official site] as the game client, like how when you have a second child you love it more and it's better than the first one so you just pretend the other one doesn't exist and stop supporting it and call the second child by the first one's name.
Reborn is the version of Dota which uses the Source 2 engine, but rather than just switching to the new engine and keeping the front end the same there's been a massive overhaul of the UI as well as the addition of custom game modes.
According to Valve a little while back:
"Moving away from the Source 1 engine soon will allow us to better focus our efforts entirely on Source 2 in preparation for various upcoming tournaments. There are still a few features that will need some work when the update is released, but we plan to finish them quickly. Expect the weeks that follow to focus on ironing out issues, refining the dashboard and iterating based on your feedback. Afterwards, we'll begin shifting our attention toward the in-game UI, where we plan to redesign the HUD and work on a variety of other in-game features."
There's a whole bunch more detail on the Source 2 side of things here although Alice gave a pretty neat summary when it was first announced:
"You'll fine reduced input latency, better performance, a unified lighting system, better use of multicore CPUs, an improved audio that they say noticeably improves voice quality and latency among other benefits, new physics and cloth simulation, native OpenGL support that'll make Mac and Linux versions faster (Reborn's Mac and Linux clients are due "in the coming weeks"), and streaming loading that lets animation, voice chat, and so on continue while loading. It also brings a new version of Source Filmmaker, with new features like editing replays."
The custom game modes is what I'm going to be keeping an eye on, though. That's the bit where Valve has basically provided in-game support for mods. You'll find old favourites like Pudge Wars but I've just taken a quick peek and there's a ship-focused mode (I have no idea why it wasn't called Boat-a), there's the 10v10 mode showcased at The International 2015, a version of chess, and something called "Don't Click The Crab".
I like the way the inventory is now organised. I didn't know I had Gin Hammond's signature in there. But sometimes I find the new menu system unintuitive – for example, when I'm looking for my armory, for some reason it doesn't instantly click that I need to check under the "heroes" tab. I think my brain automatically assumes that will just be a list of heroes and so I stare blankly at the other options for a second or two. I also miss there being a separate store, rather than there being purchase options embedded into your inventory.
Oh, and I think I have a bug which has rendered all of the heroes bodyless when I look at cosmetics to buy for them.
I've tinkered with Reborn a bunch when it was in beta but last night I had things to do. Important Destiny things involving the new crucible maps and picking a shader I liked and experimenting with the blast radius of a newly acquired rocket launcher (the less said about the latter the better). I have, however, seen a fair few gripes from Twitter friends about things being wonky and there's a megathread on the Dota 2 subreddit which collates all the bugs and complaints about the new client (coaches seeing through fog of war, low priority games not being counted, options being glitchy, no team tab/team functionality, missing compendia and so on). Basically bear in mind it might have some bugs or crashes for you to contend with.
If you need me I'll be trying to figure out why Death Prophet doesn't seem to have a body anymore. Or whether I'm still a member of a guild. Or looking at my profile page and wondering if perhaps it's time to stop playing support:
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Q: add method to Eloquent relation I've defined a relation like this
class Contact extends Model
{
    public function phones()
    {
        return $this->hasMany(Phones::class, "contact_id");
    }
}

Then, in ContactsController, I can access a contact's phones
$contact->phones()

which returns Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Relations\HasMany. Now, I would like to do something with that relation (or any relation like that), let's say I want to perform some validation. I would like to do something like this:
$contact->phones()->doSomething();

And in doSomething() have access to the parent (contact) and the relation (phones). I tried adding a trait to the model, but I'm getting an error

Call to undefined method
Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Relations\HasMany::doSomething()

So, is it possible to achieve what I want? I know I can create a method and pass $contact->phones() as an argument and work with that, but I'm curious if my approach is doable

A: As HasMany relationship class has Macroable trait, You can extend it to add custom method.
Add in AppServiceProvider boot method:
HasMany::macro('yourCustomMethod', function($yourParameters) {
    // Laravel binds $this to context of macro, not the class where you defined it.
    return $this;
});

You will be able to do this:
$contact->phones()->yourCustomMethod();


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Cryptocurrency and Blockchain – Solution to the Problems of Today's World?
In his books Sapiens and Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari dedicated a passage to the potentially functioning social systems from the recent past. Before World War II, three such systems were on the horizon – liberal capitalism, leftist Bolshevism and right-wing Nazism. After World War II, mankind rejected right-wing Nazism, followed by Bolshevism in 1968, and, as proposed by Harari, more and more people are rejecting liberal capitalism and do not take it as a possibility in today's globalized world.
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The necessary upgrade of liberal democracy
Distrust in the existing social system is a problem that has been vocally communicated in the recent years not only by the historians and analysts, but also in the online discussion forums, and even in the Facebook posts of our friends.
The causes for the unclear vision of the future orchestrated by liberal capitalism are many. In the US, according to Timothy Snyder and his work The Road to Unfreedom, the scissors of income inequality between the middle class and the upper ten thousand are opened by globalization. The rich are becoming richer at the expense of the middle and low class. For this very reason, the Trump's electoral slogan Let's Make America Great Again was so successful. His supporters still remember the America of the 1940's and 1970's when the gap between the richest and the rest was smaller.
Moreover, life in a society in which a typical member of the middle class – a graduate teacher – cannot afford a housing in some areas (e.g. San Francisco) is simply frustrating. Snyder also mentions the addiction of a huge portion of the US population to antidepressants as a problem that is out of control and contributes to negative sentiment.
In our context, on the other hand, one can feel a certain nostalgia resulting from the loss of certainties that were just about the only positive and powerful aspect of the regime in former Czechoslovakia until 1989. Artificial – but full and mandatory employment, equitable distribution of wealth in society, and the declared interest of the ruling regime in the working class. These were the characteristics many people miss these days. Combined with the uncertainty stemming from the capitalist nature of the economy and the degree of responsibility that freedom brings, many people feel cheated by the system. And this environment is ideal for extremes such as a fascist party in Parliament.
The Russian threat
The confusion of people in liberal democracies is abused by Russia, which is a chapter unto itself in modern history. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Putin came to power as an ex-KGB operative and turned Russia into a kleptocracy in the hands of a select few oligarchs. He quickly realized that the social arrangement he built has no chance to compete with the growing standards of living in Western democracies. He portrayed the Western society as an enemy and began to systematically and deliberately corrode the weaknesses of liberal democracy. The hybrid warfare, which he unleashed, significantly contributed to Trump's victory in the US presidential elections and to the departure of Britain from the European Union.
When people ponder about how to avoid this predicament, they cannot resist thinking about one of the basic human traits that has been with us ever since the first caveman bludgeoned his fellow caveman because of a roasted thigh.
A fight for resources
Be it the simple pecuniary crimes, corruption – ranging from trivial bribery in health care to Putin's corrupt dictatorial regime, or the crimes associated with drugs, they always revolve around someone acquiring the resources in an illegitimate way at the expense of others. An easily verifiable consensus on whether a particular financial transaction is legitimate or not would eradicate 90% of people's problems. This level of transparency and justification of the individual steps, for example in financing the presidential campaigns, has been proven effective thanks to transparent accounts. The question is whether such financial transparency can be implicitly encoded into the very core of human society.
Open database of financial flows and assets in society
What would happen if there existed a relatively freely accessible database containing all the financial flows and ownership statuses in society? Cash money would cease to exist. Anyone could check anyone else to see how he/she came to his/her property. Not a pleasant thought at first sight. Why should my neighbor peruse my income and snoop on me? However, it is necessary to understand the impact of such an eventuality in the long run and in the broader global society. Not all cash flows have to be visible to everybody, but every member of society – depending on his/her public status – would oversee a certain amount of other people. The very act of control would also be recorded in the system. The very knowledge that every financial transaction in society is recorded together with the consideration or counter-performance would be a huge memento: it would eradicate most monkey business because everything would be recorded in the database and it is only a matter of time until someone stumbles upon such transactions.
For example, how would Fico (Slovak prime minister) "raise the money with his own head" when the transfer would be recorded in the system for him to even work with the money in the first place? How would Putin finance his oligarchs if his assets and financial flows were inspected by journalists? How would anyone steal anything if the property were clearly and unequivocally listed in one's registry of assets? And it could only enter someone else's registry of assets through a registered transaction against the consideration? How would the drug dealers operate if all receipts of value were recorded and traceable? How could, for example, someone make stories about people being paid by Soros if all the suspected financial flows were transparent?
The consequences of such a system would be unimaginable. Everyone would know about everything. Transparency would cause a revolution in every aspect of economic life of the people. The people would suddenly know the purchasing and selling prices of corporations, which would result in price reductions. This would hugely promote competition. If an economic sector exhibits above-average profitability, which has not been exploited yet, it is immediately invaded by competition. Any economic discrimination would be a thing of the past. The society would be finally established on a stable foundation, which would definitively eliminate substantial shocks in the future – based on the truth itself.
Hasn't mankind finally matured enough in the 21st century to rid itself of the shackles in the struggle for material goods? Has the time come to finally establish one global currency – accepted by all and all around the world? Is this the right time for the society to implement an ultimately transparent source of truth anyone can use at any time?
The problems associated with fake news, corruption, dictatorships, tax evasion, gray economy. Everything would be critically impacted because all would ultimately depend on analyzing the database, and it would be clear who plays for whom and what the true nature of things is. The detection of terrorism would be a breeze: it would be enough to look at the network of flows leading to the detection of terrorists, and the entire network would be immediately exposed. Such activity would become impossible.
The existence of a database of financial flows would turn macroeconomics as a pseudoscience into serious science, relying on every single penny that rolls in the economy. Filing a tax return would be a matter of two clicks in an application.
Implementation – blockchain in action
The implementation of this system is far from impossible thanks to the advent of the blockchain technology and its verification in Bitcoin. The blockchain technology is a decentralized database that exists independently in several places and the entries in it are irreversible – because the entries at Time B mathematically depend on those at Time A. In principle, blockchain was designed to be indestructible, incontrollable and unchangeable. This property perfectly fits the whole concept.
It is obvious that in order to fully materialize the benefits of the whole system, it would have to encompass the vast majority of economic life. To begin with, it would be enough to develop the system technologically together with the relevant cryptocurrency. It would be enough to convince a number of politically committed people to enter the system – and to declare: I am a clean and completely transparent person whose cash flows are controlled by many, and I'm helping to improve the society by participating in the system. The politicians who would make their lives transparent like this would have a bulletproof argument about the impeccability of their past and future behavior. If someone wanted to beat the system, the information would be forever stored in its records and it would disqualify the person from any future political activities.
The system – snowballing more and more people and financial flows in society – would slowly become a global phenomenon. The higher the number of economic flows in the system, the broader its effects: it would be all to clear that it meets the expectations.
The cost of basic functionality would be in the hundreds of thousands of euros, and the initial investment would return very quickly after the implementation of the cryptocurrency. The system would be initially paid by the participating people, and the collected funds would be used to finance the interchangeability of the cryptocurrency to fiat currencies, which would build the initial confidence in the currency.
It is time for mankind to break away from the preoccupation with the illegitimate battle for assets – breaking away from the conspiracy theories that are either proved through the financial flows or forever forgotten in history. Breaking away from the corrupt people who put entire countries in danger and threaten the global stability. A step that prevents petty corruption in our everyday lives and the corruption of dictators with the same mechanisms.
It is time to change the rules in society. It can be done in an evolutionary way by successive steps and gradual introduction of transparency into the economic life of each one of us. The necessary tools are at hand. All it takes is to kick it off.
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Q: Efficient Montecarlo simulation over a grid in R I am running a Montecarlo simulation of a multinomial logit. Therefore I have a function that generates the data and estimates the model. Additionally, I want to generate different datasets over a grid of values. In particular, changing both the number of individuals (n.indiv) and the number of answers by each individual (n.choices).
So far, I have managed to solve it, but at some point, I incurred into a nested for-loop structure over a grid search of the possible values for the number of individuals (n.indiv_list) and the number of answers by each individual(n.choices_list). Finally, I am quite worried about the efficiency of the usage of my last bit of code with the double for-loop structure running on the combinations of the possible values. Probably there is a vectorized way to do it that I am missing (or maybe not?).
Finally, and this is mostly a matter of style, I managed to arrive a multiples objects that contain the models from the combinations of the grid search with informative names, but also would be great if I could collapse all of them in a list but with the current structure, I am not sure how to do it. Thank you in advance!
1) Function that generates data and estimates the model.
library(dplyr)
library(VGAM)
library(mlogit)

#function that generates the data and estimates the model.
mlogit_sim_data <- function(...){

  # generating number of (n.alter) X (n.choices)
  df <- data.frame(id= rep(seq(1,n.choices ),n.alter ))

  # id per individual
  df <- df %>%
    group_by(id) %>%
    mutate(altern = sequence(n()))%>%
    arrange(id)

  #Repeated scheme for each individual + id_ind
  df <- cbind(df[rep(1:nrow(df), n.indiv), ], id_ind = rep(1:n.indiv, each = nrow(df)))

  ## creating attributes
  df<- df %>%
    mutate(
      x1=rlnorm(n.indiv*n.alter),
      x2=rlnorm(n.indiv*n.alter),
    )%>%
    group_by(altern) %>%
    mutate(
      id_choice = sequence(n()))%>%
    group_by(id_ind) %>%
    mutate(
      z1 = rpois(1,lambda = 25),
      z2 = rlnorm(1,meanlog = 5, sdlog  = 0.5),
      z3 = ifelse(runif(1, min = 0 , max = 1) > 0.5 , 1 , 0)
    )

  # Observed utility
  df$V1 <- with(df,  b1  * x1 +   b2 * x2 )

  #### Generate Response Variable ####
  fn_choice_generator <- function(V){
    U <- V + rgumbel(length(V), 0, 1)
    1L * (U == max(U))
  }

  # Using fn_choice_generator to generate 'choice' columns
  df <-  df %>%
    group_by(id_choice) %>%
    mutate(across(starts_with("V"),
                  fn_choice_generator, .names = "choice_{.col}")) %>% # generating choice(s)
    select(-starts_with("V")) %>% ##drop V variables.
    select(-c(id,id_ind))

  tryCatch(
    {
      model_result <- mlogit(choice_V1 ~ 0 +  x1 + x2 |1  ,
                                                  data = df,
                                                  idx = c("id_choice", "altern"))
      return(model_result)
    },
    error = function(e){
      return(NA)
    }
  )

}

2) Grid search over possible combinations of the data
#List with the values that varies in the simulation
  #number of individuals
  n.indiv_list <- c(1, 15, 100, 500 )
  #number of choice situations
  n.choices_list <- c(1, 2, 4, 8, 10)

# Values that remains constant across simulations
  #set number of alternatives
  n.alter   <- 3

## Real parameters
b1 <- 1
b2 <- 2

#Number of reps
nreps <- 10
#Set seed
set.seed(777)

#iteration over different values in the simulation
for(i in n.indiv_list) {
  for(j in n.choices_list) {
    n.indiv <- i
    n.choices <- j
    assign(paste0("m_ind_", i, "_choices_", j), lapply(X   = 1:nreps, FUN = mlogit_sim_data))
  }
}

A: You can vectorize using the map2 function of the purrr package:
library(tidyverse)

n.indiv_list <- c(1, 15, 100, 500 )
#number of choice situations
n.choices_list <- c(1, 2, 4, 8, 10)
l1 <- length(n.indiv_list)
l2 <- length(n.choices_list)
v1 <- rep(n.indiv_list, each = l2)
v2 <- rep(n.choices_list, l1)  #v1, v2 generate all pairs
> v1
 [1]   1   1   1   1   1  15  15  15  15  15 100 100 100 100 100 500 500 500 500 500
> v2
 [1]  1  2  4  8 10  1  2  4  8 10  1  2  4  8 10  1  2  4  8 10

result <- map2(v1, v2, function(v1, v2) assign(paste0("m_ind_", v1, "_choices_", v2), lapply(X   = 1:nreps, FUN = mlogit_sim_data)))

result will be a list of your function outputs.


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Congratulations to the Winner of Our Fall 2020 Scholarship
Published on Sep 22, 2020 at 7:26 pm in Firm News.
All of the lawyers and staff members at Bey & Associates, LLC are dedicated to helping our local and nationwide communities build strong foundations that can enable us to take part in a brighter future. We decided to start a scholarship in 2017 that would give us the ability to help college students forge that strong foundation. The scholarship's last submission period, Fall 2020, recently came to a close. We were truly humbled by the amount of applications we received as well as the exceptional high quality of every essay. All of the essays were outstanding. Choosing just one winner was difficult!
We're pleased to announce we've chosen a winner.
Congratulations to Abram Saroufim of Missouri!
Abram will be attending Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis to receive his Masters in Social Work.
This submission period's essay topic was as follows:
What does leadership mean to you and what are your personal goals regarding being a leader within your community?
Here's his winning essay:
Welcome to Yarpah Town Public School. An underfunded, undersupplied, public school standing in a small village in the war-ravaged country of Liberia. A country set back decades by civil war, Liberia finds its educational system barely hobbling as it tries to recover and move forward. Like the overwhelming majority of schools in Liberia, Yarpah Town Public School finds itself plagued by absent teachers, lack of classroom resources, students running around waiting for teachers to come, and corrupt teachers that pocket school funds. There are a fair amount of well-intentioned teachers who, despite their best efforts, are too exhausted and overwhelmed by the problems they faced daily to teach to the best of their ability.
This was what I walked into as the first ever Peace Corps Volunteer at Yarpah Town Public School. This is not a story of how I changed Yarpah Town Public School for the better, but the story of what I learned when I met him. You see, I was not the only new addition to the staff at the school: Amos Krouakpee Whoryonwon came as the school's new principal. A man of absolute integrity, Amos was never swayed by corruption and fought tooth and nail to restore order to the school. He assigned tasks to the staff and student leaders, created a budget for the school, appointed administration members to manage and report the budget to him, and held all teachers and students accountable for their actions. With that tremendous integrity came an indomitable will to defend what he believed to be right. He was an immovable fortress, unwilling to be swayed by tides of corrupting influences.
In two years, Amos, due to sheer force of will and determination, singlehandedly brought Yarpah Town Public School to one of the most functional schools in the country. Now this might be the time to say that Amos was the best leader Yarpah Town Public School could have asked for in the two years I served there. Yet, I have no intent to say that. The truth is, he did not have the opportunity to be a "leader" in the conventional sense. The things he did—planning, budgeting, organizing, staffing, controlling activities, and solving problems—were all things managers, not leaders, do. He did not align people, nor did he motivate or inspire them. It was not because he did not want to, but rather because he could not. Effecting change takes a long time, especially when it comes to producing the change of hearts and mindsets that leaders are known for. Amos did not know how much time he had to mobilize that change in a sustainable manner. What he needed to do was restore order to a school that descended into chaos and disarray—a school that was a product of a country still trying to restore itself from that very chaos that destroyed it for decades prior.
Amos realized he had to play the role of a manager instead of a leader because the people he led had lost control of their situation. What I found through working with him was that he had a vision and a desire to empower those he led to produce that change the school so desperately needed. But in order to do so, he had to restore hope to those who had lost it. He had to make difficult decisions and take on much of the burden in order to prove to everybody that change could be made. It took him two years, but he was able to show them a bright future for the school. As I was preparing to complete my service and return to the US, he told me that there was so much more to be done. Now that order had begun to return to the school, the next step was to make sure others cared enough about maintaining it—students and teachers alike. Otherwise, everything he'd worked for would be for naught. His focus had shifted from being the manager the school needed to becoming the leader that it now leaded. He had a vision, he had inspired followers to have hope in his vision, and he was ready to do the leading he had wanted to do from the start. I left Liberia confident that Yarpah Town Public School was in good hands.
My time with Amos challenged my understanding of what made a true leader. I knew all the things commonly associated with being a leader: inspiring those around you, always considering them in your vision, and setting a new direction for people to follow. Yet, Amos managed to do this with an execution far different than what I could have anticipated: by playing the role of manager. He showed me firsthand that leaders are products of the contexts in which they find themselves. When hope is gone, leaders may sometimes have to act on their own until they can restore the hope in their followers. It is at this point that I can say that although he acted as a manager, Amos was a great leader.
As a Coptic Egyptian Christian who wants to work in mental health, I hope to follow Amos's example while challenging the stigma that exists against mental health in my community. He taught me that to effect change in the face of enduring problems, sometimes I would have to do things on my own. While I would be nothing without those I hope to lead, I cannot spend time waiting for them to gain hope or understanding. The stigma against mental health has existed in my community for generations. So I hope to know when to distinguish between needing to be a managerial leader and a more hands-off one. I hope to be able to assess those steps that might be necessary for me to take. My goal is to be more decisive, to know when I will need to organize and delegate instead of simply inspiring those around me.
As my experience in Liberia taught me, it can be a luxury to think about change. People can be battling so much that revising broken systems might be the last thing on their minds. People in the Coptic community think about their families suffering religious persecution or where there next meal is coming from. They don't think about things like building emotional intelligence or taking care of their minds. That's why I hope to be more active in bringing such issues up in my community. And whether I am leading by management or leading by mobilization, I want to remember that true leadership always involves something much grander than the leader. As Amos used to always tell me, "I don't do these things for my own benefit. I do them for the benefit of the entire community." Thus, to properly lead, I want to get out of my own head and do everything I can for the good of those I lead.
For more information on the next scholarship period which will be for Fall 2021, please see our law firm's scholarship page for updates within the next week. Congratulations again, Abram! May all your dreams come true.
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6 Inspiring Underrated Books You Should Be Reading Now
by Britneypaige580 University of West Georgia Apr 7, 2019
Unspash: by Vikalp Gupta
Among the hype around fan-favorite authors and books, it can be easy to get overwhelmed and only focus on the currently popular titles sold on the shelves of your local Target or Barnes and Noble. Here are six underrated books that you should take note of that definitely deserve more hype!
Here, I have chosen six books from a vast array of genres: memoir, graphic novel, young adult fiction, and historical fiction, so there is an option out there for you to enjoy out of this list! Even though these books might not be at the top of every Goodreads list, the outstanding reviews speak for themselves.
1. "Night" by Elie Wiesel
Season Huang on Instagram: ""Listen to me, kid. Don't forget that you are in a concentration camp. In this place, it is every man for himself, and you cannot think of…"
"Night" is the poignant, true story of Elie Wiesel himself and his experiences surviving in Nazi-enforced concentration camps during the Holocaust. He experiences the height of the systematic genocide and lives in an inhumane environment in which the sight and smell of death are frequent. Young 15-year-old Wiesel experiences the loss of everything he loves: home, friends, and family; he loses not only his loved ones but also his innocence, his hope, and even his faith in God As powerful and moving as "The Diary of Anne Frank," "Night" reminds us that this horror must never be allowed to happen again.
2. "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe
sreepurna | bookstagram on Instagram: "QOTD: What is a book set in your hometown/city? Things Fall Apart reminded me of post colonial literature which reminded me of my own city…"
Published in 1958. "Things Fall Apart" follows precolonial life in southeastern Nigeria and the devastating effects colonization of Europeans in the late 19th century. Filled with plot twists and engaging plot, it is critically-acclaimed for good reason.
"A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world." —Barack Obama
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read
3. "Persepolis" by Marjane Satrapi
britneyreads ♡ on Instagram: "Hello, everyone!📖🥀 Today has been a very productive day, and I'm so happy I've gotten to finish some schoolwork early! I just started…"
This one is one of my all-time favorite books, and I recently read it for my college English class. It is an autobiographical graphic novel about Marjane Satrapi herself, nicknamed Marji. Marji is forced to grow up in a country in which a strict regime asserts control over nearly everything, from dress code to public communication. She mainly experiences unequal treatment of Iranian women by fundamentalist authority. At a young age, she is ultimately determined to fight for her rights as a woman at the expense of her own safety. During the Islamic Revolution, surrounded by degrading new laws, rules, and bombings, Marji not only struggles against the patriarchal regime but also with oppression and her identity as a woman.
4. "Ashes In The Snow" by Ruta Sepetys
Liza on Instagram: "I've just finished #betweenshadesofgray by #rutasepetys and it kept me at the edge of my seat. It tells the story of Lina a 16-year-old…"
Formerly titled "Between Shades of Gray," "Ashes In The Snow" follows 15-year-old Lina and her family as they are forced out of their homes by Soviet guards and deported to Siberia to work in the grueling conditions of Stalin's labor camps in 1941.
5. "Salt To The Sea" by Ruta Sepetys
Michelle - From Germany on Instagram: "Salt to the Sea is one of those books I felt a connection to history. Because my grandmother went almost the exact same way and wanted to…"
What can I say? Ruta Sepetys is one of my favorite authors ever, and I think so many of her books deserve more attention. They're so beautifully written. "Salt To The Sea," tells the story of four individuals in WWII making the long journey towards safety and salvation. It is based on a real-life maritime disaster: the ship onto which they flee is the Wilhelm Gustloff, which was sunk by a Soviet submarine in January 1945. Of the estimated 10,500 people on board, more than 9,000 died.
Here's a brief synopsis, according to rutasepetys.com:
"In 1945, World War II is drawing to a close in East Prussia and thousands of refugees are on a desperate trek toward freedom, almost all of them with something to hide. Among them are Joana, Emilia, and Florian, whose paths converge en route to the ship that promises salvation, the Wilhelm Gustloff. Forced by circumstance to unite, the three find their strength, courage, and trust in each other tested with each step closer toward safety. Just when it seems freedom is within their grasp, tragedy strikes. Not country, nor culture, nor status matter as all ten thousand people aboard must fight for the same thing: survival."
6. "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
Mark John Bautista Trinidad on Instagram: "One day, Melinda Sordino just stopped talking and none really knows the reason behind it. Not even her best friends. But one thing is for…"
Published in 1999, "Speak is a young adult novel by Laurie Halse Anderson that tells the story of high school freshman Melinda Sordino. After accidentally ending of summer party due to an unnamed incident, Melinda is ostracized by her peers because she will not say why she called the police. It is revealed that she was raped by senior Andy Evans and she dialed 911 after the incident, but she hung up, not knowing what to say, and runs home. Unable to verbalize what happened, Melinda nearly stops speaking altogether, expressing her voice through the art she produces for Mr. Freeman's class. This expression slowly helps Melinda acknowledge what happened, confront her problems, and freely express her bravery and individuality.


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Police investigating life-threatening injury crash involving bicycle rider in NW Industrial District – UPDATED
Posted by Jonathan Maus (Publisher/Editor) on May 15th, 2018 at 9:44 am
View looking east on NW Nicolai between 27th and 29th.
A man has suffered what Portland Police are referring to as, "serious life-threatening injuries" after he was involved in a collision with a truck in an industrial area of Northwest Portland.
According to a PPB statement, the collision happened this morning just after 8:00 on NW Nicolai between 27th and 29th. Here's more from the PPB:
"Based on preliminary information, investigators believe the bicyclist exited a parking lot, traveled into the eastbound travel lane of Northwest Nicolas Street and crashed into a passing truck."
The PPB's Major Crash Team is conducting an investigation and, for reasons unknown at this time, criminalists with the Forensic Evidence Division are also helping with the investigation.
This section of NW Nicolai is on the southern border of the industrial district and is major freight corridor as the only east-west connection between Highway 30 and NW Front/Naito. West of this location Nicolai turns into St. Helens Road. As you can see in the image, there is no shoulder and no bike lane here. The driveway mentioned in the police statement would have emptied out directly into the vehicle lane. 30 mph is the posted speed limit.
Back in 2009 we reported on an opportunity to stripe bike lanes and possibly convert old, paved-over rail lines on Nicolai into protected bikeways. That plan never went anywhere and this key access road continues to lack basic access for bicycle users.
Anyone with information about this crash should contact the Portland Police Bureau Traffic Division at 503-823-2103.
UPDATE, 5/17: The police now say the bicycle rider, a 50-year-old, has died of injuries sustained in this crash. His name has not been released pending notification of kin. He is the first person to die while bicycling on a Portland street in 2018 and the 16th transportation fatality overall.
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collisions, daniel feldt, northwest portland, nw industrial district, nw nicolai
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Middle of the Road Guy
Wishing the best for the cyclist but how could one not see a truck coming?
hard to make any assumptions at all given that so few details have been released.
Toadslick
There's a reason that the phrase "vulnerable road users" includes the word "vulnerable." Everybody makes mistakes. Everybody. But it's almost only for people that walk or bike that a single careless error, or a moment of inattention, results in a life-altering injury or death.
A city truly committed to Vision Zero would have city-wide speed limits that reflect the understanding that people will inevitably make mistakes, and that those mistakes should not be a death sentence.
Hello, Kitty
This is also true for cars on freeways, and, probably more so, on two-lane divided highways. In the urban context, VRUs are most at danger.
If I am vulnerable, I try to pay more attention to my surroundings as to reduce my own personal risk. Yes, people "make mistakes", but I think it is damn near impossible to engineer out poor choices.
Well, by taking a step as simple as lowering the speed limit/travel speed, you provide people more opportunity to react to bad decisions, and reduce their severity when they lead to bad results.
So I think engineering can help considerably.
At what point do we not allow natural selection to do its thing…?
Hopefully never.
Dan A
How is being hit by a huge steel cage 'natural'?
JeffS
Sure. If the roads were not first and foremost a transportation system, we could have 3mph speed limits.
That was helpful, thanks!
Luckily we can increase safety dramatically without dropping our speeds to 3 mph. 20 or 25 works well in most urban contexts.
why can't we have a 3 mph transportation system? many people already do… are you afraid it'd take twice as long to get places? 10x as long? that we'd be 100x as safe? I don't see these as being negatives…
Three is far too fast. Safety first!
Given the number of driveways, and the general level of comings and goings, does anyone know why the speed limit here is 30MPH?
freight district.
ODOT controls speed limits.
B. Carfree
Which is more likely: a person on a bike overlooks a large truck and rides right into it or a person driving a truck overlooks a person on a bike?
I know if the only person one asks is the driver of the truck he's going to insist that the bike came from out of nowhere and slammed into his rig, but I have my doubts.
The person turning into traffic should yield to oncoming traffic, which has the right of way.
Cpt. Obvus
Of course — but that means you've already concluded that the driver's version is both complete and accurate, and that the rider wouldn't have anything of consequence to add or dispute. Pre + judge = prejudice. Remind us how it is that you are "middle of the road," please.
Nah, that's a truism regardless and was a general statement. However, you assuming I have a bias shows that you have a bias because I did not immediately take the side of the cyclist.
So you're saying you sought only to neutrally add a "truism" and "general statement" with no view toward building bias against the rider, who so far is the one reported to have been turning onto the road but cannot speak for himself? What value, then, does adding such a statement create?
you missed the point… you're still assuming the rider turned out of the driveway into oncoming traffic… nothing in the reports to indicate that happened other than hearsay…
How do you know that was based solely on "hearsay"?
I ride through there regularly. On weekends it's a ghost town (very sparse auto traffic) so it's a great place to ride, but on busy weekdays – trucks and vans are hauling ass through there…I avoid it.
That bit of road always creeped me out way worse than any freeway shoulder. I've ridden the sidewalk there before. Hoping the best for that bike rider…
Shoupian
Even the sidewalks are sub-standard. The light poles definitely make the sidewalks non-ADA accessible. I hope the injured cyclist and their family sue the City of Portland. It seems like that's the only way to get public agencies to take the safety of vulnerable road users seriously.
CaptainKarma
Try Gresham sometime.
Chris H
There's this:
http://www.oregonlive.com/commuting/index.ssf/2016/11/disability_advocates_odot_sett.html
This freaky looking sidewalk is only 4 years old, and is supposedly 5 feet wide:
https://goo.gl/maps/ei9sM2E7gYG2
As is the bike lane. Supposedly.
most of the sidewalks I see are 100 years old, long predating our ADA laws… yes, they need to update these, but they've spent the last 100 years making them more narrow so it's going to take a long time to get them widened again, and the roadway narrowed…
Mike Sanders
Not only does ODOT control the speed limit on that road (it's US-30, of course), they control the infrastructure there. Reclaiming a nearby rail line for a ped/bike path in that area would make sense., but it's not likely to happen for awhile. Trump's attitude about roads like this is that truck routes are Homeland Security corridors thru which freight traffic must be kept moving. Therefore, ped/bike traffic must be discouraged thru areas like this.
Joe Adamski
except, despite widespread belief, this is NOT part of US 30. US 30 comes off the Fremont Bridge (I405/US30) and follows Yeon to Kittridge where it continues as St Helens Hwy.
Nicolai does connect with Yeon at NW23rd, but this crash was at 27th and Nicolai, not even close to Yeon.
bikeninja
This always makes me very sad. Part of the problem is that developers and the city seem to like the idea of bit by bit converting industrial areas in to hip locations for brew pubs, craft galleries and restaurants when the infrastructure was designed to accommodate trains, forklifts and large square footage warehouses with few employees per square foot. Industrial zones have always been noisy, smelly and somewhat dangerous places that in the old days ( especially before waze) were mostly untraveled by the ordinary public. The danger is in trying to have it both ways. If you want to make it legal to put non-industrial stuff in an industrial area then the infrastructure needs to be upgraded to make it safe for all types of travel by the public. There is also no reason that travel speeds for trucks and cars in an industrial district can not be very low at any time.
That street has had heavy commuter traffic for years. At other times it's about three vehicles per light cycle, with a fair number of trucks. The speed limit is often observed in the breach.
Did the truck have sideguards?
Jason H
Sadly, almost certainly not. Most truck traffic over there is smaller box trucks, not tractor-trailers that have them slightly more often. They do exist though, as this article about UW in Seattle adding them to all trucks in their fleet https://goo.gl/BGogBY
I thought too that even if I give PPB a pass for that biased statement and the cyclist actually did mistake it was clear and hit the side between the front and rear axle as the truck passed the driveway, a side guard would make a huge difference in keeping them out from under the rear wheels. There's not a lot of clear information on what actually happened but I agree that for vulnerable transportation users, it's far too easy to pay a severe price for a moments inattention.
Meghan H
The driveway shown on the right belongs to Kaiser Permanente (an IT office, mainly). I considered riding my bike to a meeting there once until I looked at Google Street View. Chose to drive instead, and was glad I had. Car traffic there is fast, and not expecting anyone on bike or on foot. That Kaiser driveway is steeper than it looks in that photo, so I could imagine a sad scenario where brakes fail or the person on a bike didn't grab them quite right and couldn't stop.
But, as we say, mostly speculation. Hope the person is okay after medical treatment…
Lester Burnham
That's why good bike maintenance is critical. And don't cheap out on tires and brakes.
Based on past practices, such as the May 2015 collision in which Mark Angeles was killed, the PPB and DA will "pull out all the stops" to "prove" that the bicyclist was at fault.
encephalopath
Exactly this.
All the careful analysis and hair splitting in the investigation went toward finding fault with the actions of the bike rider and had nothing at all to say about the responsibilities of the truck driver.
Funny how that works.
To be fair, it's a pretty short statement that was quoted. There is a lot of omitted information about both the cyclist and the truck driver. All we really know is that there was a crash involving a cyclist and a truck driver (is that clearer?), which occurred slightly after the cyclist entered the roadway.
Other than replacing "crashed into" with "collided with", it sounds ok to me if it follows what the investigation so far has showed. If it turns out that it was something completely different, then I might agree with you.
A lot depends on the source of the PPB's "belief" that the collision occurred just after the cyclist entered the roadway. Was that from an independent witness or from someone in the truck that ran him over? If the latter, it should state it so that reasonable people are aware of the bias built in. (It may be truthful, but the driver of the truck is not an unbiased observer.) If it's from an independent source, that should also be noted. As it stands, the statement is poisoned by this omission and is wide open to being interpreted as just more of PPB's historical windshield entitlement complex bias.
I don't know about the rest of you, but my elementary school teachers taught me to always consider the source of my information and whether or not that source may have an agenda. My niece currently teaches elementary school and she makes a point of teaching this to her students as well. Should we send PPB back to elementary school, or can they raise their game on their own?
If the crash occurred immediately adjacent to the driveway from which the cyclist exited, that would suggest the police account is accurate. If it happened 100 yards away, perhaps not. While I don't believe the police will investigate this situation with the thoroughness of, say, a murder scene (traffic crashes are probably fairly routine work for them, and no, this was not murder), I also don't think they are totally stupid.
I also suspect it is rare for people to remove and hide equipment from a bike in this situation, so I would be surprised if the police are scouring the surrounding area for parts that may be have been secreted away and discarded.
Again, it was a two line statement, and it is hard to know what was or was not considered when making the statement.
If you are really concerned, get a copy of the report when it's issued, and go check out the scene for yourself. See if the facts in the report line up with the explanation of what happened. Then report back.
Pointing out specific flaws and inconsistencies in the report, and reporting those to the police and DA (and media) will have a much greater potential impact than assuming the worst and theorizing about what might be a problem based solely on a brief preliminary statement, and grumbling about it here.
"All we really know is that there was a crash involving a cyclist and a truck driver (is that clearer?), which occurred slightly after the cyclist entered the roadway."
what? we don't know that at all… what we know is that a truck and bicycle collided and the operator of the bicycle is dead…
How do we even know that?
"Portland bicyclist dies after crashing into garbage truck"
And: https://eastpdxnews.com/general-news-features/cyclist-killed-after-slamming-into-suv/
PPB statements like these reinforce my decision to ride with video recording (front and rear). I know not everyone has the ready cash for a setup like that, but if you do then it's justifiable as an insurance policy against prejudgment in cases like this. I bought mine after witnessing a crash several years ago then getting calls from the driver's (or his insurance company's) attorneys trying to trap me into rewriting my memory. I got a GoPro at the time, and now ride with a Fly12/Fly6 combo. I still think of that rider from time to time; I didn't get her name, but I never want to see another leg look like that, ever, and I sincerely hope that modern medicine was enough to repair it.
When only the driver can speak, only the driver's story is told. Video evidence goes a long way.
So sorry to hear of yet another person getting hurt on the roads. I hope his injuries heal quickly and thoroughly.
Kyle Banerjee
I think cameras help keep everyone honest. Despite owning a Session 5 which would be good for this purpose on loop mode, I don't run it unless I'm doing something fun like riding in the snow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAHC48ZFAsI because I don't feel like dealing with it, incidents are rare, and a single camera often wouldn't have caught the action anyway.
Note that if people have location services enabled on their phones, that info also tells a story including behavioral patterns and other things a camera wouldn't be able to pick up.
"if it's missing, it's 100% suspect"
I wouldn't count on this mattering at all. We frequently read about bikes inspected post-crash that are found to have no lights on them. Hypothetically, if the driver were to remove the lights and chuck them into the woods, it's not like the police are going to suspect anything fishy happened.
The sort of impact that can destroy a large steel object has very unpredictable effects on cyclists and their bikes. Your saddlebag, ID in your sock, etc can wind up separated from you in places where emergency personnel won't see it. Likewise, it takes nothing to knock off lights.
I don't doubt that some drivers tamper with crash scenes but suspect it is uncommon as it requires presence of mind, malintent, an opportunity to do so with no witnesses, and sufficient skill to do so without an investigation later figuring it out.
This thread has got me thinking of riding with a camera again. But I also sometimes think about driving with one. I believe it would be a good thing if everyone ran telemetry.
Aside from making it easier to tell what happened, it encourages people to do what they should in first place. I used to use my gopro for post mortem analysis of ski and kayaking accidents. One pattern I noticed is that what seems to be the cause of the crash in the moment rarely is. Rather, it's usually a mistake a few seconds earlier that led to a situation that's difficult or impossible to escape. I have personally witnessed a surprising number of bike crashes and have noticed that same pattern holds.
I ride with a camera, I drive with a camera, I bus with a camera, and sometimes I walk with a camera… there is no shortage of bad drivers no matter what your mode of transport…
Do the police take family statements into consideration when determining fault in a crash? If your wife says "John always rides with a front light" and the police find no front light on your bike after a crash, do you think they will believe that something nefarious happened to your light (even if it did)?
https://bikeportland.org/2017/08/21/bicycle-rider-dies-after-collision-with-garbage-truck-driver-in-central-eastside-239577#comment-6822450
Okay, you, specifically, will be covered.
The rest of us could have our lights removed post-crash and the police are not going to investigate their mysterious absence from our bikes. I don't believe for one second that my wife would be able to tell the DA that I always ride with lights and that it would matter to the 'investigation'.
Joe Fortino
narrow street 🙁 wishing the best for the rider.
Rich A
I was one of the people who showed up 30 sec after this incident. A bike lane wouldn't have helped. He had exited a steep parking lot in to traffic. It looked as if he was riding a fixie and didn't have breaks. I pray he pulls through.
hooray, a witness!
you say you showed up 30 seconds after, but you know what happened 30 seconds before you got there…
please explain to us what you saw in your own words…
The factual statements include a cyclist entered the roadway from a parking lot; they entered the eastbound travel lane; they collided with a truck that was "passing" (which I take to mean traveling on the road, not executing a passing maneuver). I believe all of these facts would have been readily evident in the preliminary investigation.
Would you prefer a truck-focused statement? "Investigators believe the truck driver was traveling in the eastbound lane of Nicolas Street when he was struck by a bicycle entering the lane from a parking lot"?
Nesting fail.
the phrases "crashed into" or "struck by" both insinuate some level of agency or fault on one party. I would prefer nothing that could be construed as assigning blame of any kind be included in these initial statements. It's completely irresponsible and — especially because local media copy/pastes these statements as fact – the PPB should refrain from doing it.
I use "was involved in a collision". That does the trick doesn't it? And it assigns ZERO blame to either party.
Also please keep in mind that the PPB makes these statements just minutes/hours after the collisions and they very often do not have any witnesses or perspectives from anyone outside of a car/truck. That means everything that is said and thought by the statement maker is biased by their primary use of a motor vehicle.
I totally agree about the assignment of agency, as I noted above. The rest is a statement of fact, as the police understand it. Perhaps their understanding is wrong, but that is a different issue than stating what they know from their preliminary investigation.
I think many of us wish police investigations were conducted with a more scientific mindset: forming and testing hypotheses against the available data, reconsidering when new data becomes available, etc. But even scientists grow attached to their theories and are caught off guard when some assumption they were certain about proves wrong.
Given where the crash occurred, it may be simple to confirm if the cyclist was indeed coming from an adjacent driveway as reported.
Police reports are not the place for officers to publish their hypotheses. Likewise, good scientists don't publish their hypotheses in the results section of their papers, or if they do feel compelled to provide speculation or interpretation, they include language that makes it clear that their proposition is a hypothesis.
This report makes it sound as if the bike rider crashed into the truck causing the collision, which leads us to presume that they know something that they are not stating that proves this is the case. Anyone who has followed events like this, knows that the initial report is often misleading.
I certainly hope the police know more about what happened than fit into a two line statement.
Factual based on what? Because the truck driver said it? Or from an unbiased witness or camera footage?
how are these "factual statements"? police have not stated anything that sounds like a fact… facts can be proved… the police have proven nothing yet…
Factual as opposed to opinion. The police presented the facts as they understand them. It does not mean that new evidence cannot change that understanding.
9watts
"the bicyclist exited a parking lot, traveled into the eastbound travel lane of Northwest Nicolas Street and crashed into a passing truck."
Cyclist crashed into truck vs truck crashed into cyclist? There is much more than factual observation wrapped up in their choice of phrase.
Yes, yes. I've acknowledged (twice, and agree with) criticisms of the assignment of agency in this statement, though I believe it follows what the police think happened.
Do you similarly criticize other statements such as "it appears he shot his wife" that the police routinely make early in their investigations?
Is that a reasonable parallel?
Comparisons are or could be useful, but I think we need to look closely at the similarities and differences.
It is if you believe the police should not make preliminary statements that might indicate fault or blame. I won't quibble about the example; choose another if you like.
You completely missed the point.
I think you mean, "Woman hit by bullet. Police say the gun operator is cooperating with the investigation, and there is no alcohol or drug usage suspected. Investigators say the lighting conditions were dim and the woman was wearing dark clothing at the time of the accident. Police noted the woman was not wearing a bullet proof vest."
Actually, you completely missed the point. I completely missed the target comment.
Right hooks are often initially reported as the bicyclist mysteriously hitting the side of the motor vehicle for no apparent reason. The giveaway here is that the truck driver said he was passing. Passing is what happens just prior to a right hook.
Passing also occurs when someone drives past. I didn't read this statement as the police being at a loss as to what could possibly account for this incongruous list of facts.
most ppl that ride fixed understand how things go, so we can blame the rider unless we hear the full story. * lotta aggressive driving habits these days and it needs to stop *
Whenever I see a statement like the one released by PPB, I think to myself, "Yes, but what was the cyclist's perspective?" And if the cyclist can't speak for himself or herself, I tend to discount the statement. But unfortunately, it's par for the course: "A bicycle crashed into a motor vehicle, and the cyclist is dead or horribly injured." Who speaks for the cyclist? Often it's no one.
true Fred I woke up on the side of street after being run off the road at night by a car.
Any news on how the cyclist is doing?
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