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Adam Raymond Named Chief Financial Officer in Riverside
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The City of Riverside has named Adam Raymond as its Chief Financial Officer/Treasurer, tasking him with the responsibility of developing and managing a $2 billion biennial budget and leading a staff of 60.
Raymond, who previously served as the Acting CFO/Treasurer and, before that, as Assistant CFO/Treasurer, is a seasoned municipal government professional. His previous duties have included auditing cities/counties, working in the City Manager's Office of multiple cities in Southern California, and providing leadership in the Innovation and Technology and Finance departments at the City of Riverside.
Since joining the City of Riverside's Finance Department in 2016, Raymond played an integral role in the adoption of the City's first two-year budget in the context of a five-year plan.
"Adam Raymond has been a rising star in our organization for many years now and has provided exceptional customer service. I am pleased to see him be named to such an important post," Mayor Rusty Bailey said. "I look forward to seeing Adam bring an even higher level of professionalism and accomplishment to our Finance Department."
Raymond was instrumental in developing a five-year spending plan for Measure Z, in close collaboration with the City's 18-member Budget Engagement Commission. Most recently, Adam assisted with the development of a Business Tax action plan, in partnership with the Greater Riverside Chambers of Commerce, to make it easier for businesses to comply with the City's regulations. He is leading innovative efforts to streamline the City's purchasing system and bring administration of the claim process in house.
"Adam has the right combination of skills, abilities, talents and aspirations," Assistant City Manager Marianna Marysheva said. "His focus on superior customer service, innovation and building partnerships internally and externally positions him extremely well as a financial leader for our great city."
Adam has been with the City of Riverside for more than six years. Prior to joining the City's Finance Department, Adam served as the Deputy Chief Innovation Officer for the City's Innovation and Technology Department, where he led the development of departmental and citywide policies and an effort to focus on customer service. He has also served the City of Riverside in roles in Internal Audit and the City Manager's Office.
Adam earned a Bachelor's degree in Accounting from the University of La Verne and a Master's degree in Public Administration from California Baptist University.
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Crowd-sourcing an apology to Bangladesh
Pakistan Today | Dec 9, 2015 By Imaduddin Ahmed In 44 years, the state of Pakistan has failed to make an official apology for the war crimes committed by its armed forces against the people of Bangladesh in 1971. With the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' recent denial of atrocities, it is unlikely one is…
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The Lost Pakistani | GQ India The world is going to be a better place because Mitt Romney has not been elected the United States' 45th president, despite President Barack Obama's shortcomings. Obama's first term left plenty to be desired. The rule-of-law presidential candidate of 2008 failed to shut down Guantanamo Bay, ordered the extra-judicial…
Bhutto ist tot – es lebe die Demokratie!
Der Westen muss die pakistanische Mittelschicht unterstützen 01.02.2008 | von Imaduddin Ahmed Internationale Politik 2, Februar 2008, S. 111 – 113 Die Medien haben viel Aufhebens darum gemacht, dass Benazir Bhuttos Tod das Ende von Demokratie und Hoffnung in Pakistan ankündigt. Natürlich ist der Tod einer populären Politikerin und Mutter dreier Kinder kein Grund zum…
Bhutto's true colors – unashamed hypocrisy
Global Edition of The New York Times | Jan 1, 2008 The Boston Globe | Jan 2, 2008 By Imaduddin Ahmed Analysts are lamenting the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, calling it the death of hope for democracy in Pakistan. Benazir certainly had popular support throughout the country. Her martyred father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who…
When kites turn lethal
The New York Times Also published in The Boston Globe By Imaduddin Ahmed | February 21, 2007 LAHORE, Pakistan SKIES FILLED with kites, rooftop parties, bright yellow clothes, laughing children, family get-togethers, good food, and good times have been associated for several hundred years with a spring festival in Lahore, one of South Asia's culture…
Pakistan's charade debate
Global Edition of The New York Times | September 7, 2006 The Boston Globe | September 3, 2006 By Imaduddin Ahmed LAHORE, Pakistan THE BATTLE for basic women's rights — including the right to have a rapist prosecuted — is back on the agenda in Pakistan. Since 1979, laws known as the Hudood ordinances have placed a…

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I am pleased to announce that maintenance has been actioned for the Kilnwick Road footpath encroachment in Pocklington Provincial.
I am yet to hear regards the Kilnwick Road footpath encroachment in Wolds Weighton.
Vote for one Independent get work actioned. Vote for three Tories and hope for the best!
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T. g. tamaulipensis (Nelson, 1897) – E Mexico (E Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, N Veracruz), scarce in extreme S USA (S Texas).
T. g. microrhynchus Lowery & Newman, 1949 – EC Mexico (SC San Luis Potosí).
T. g. lanyoni Dickerman, 1981 – Caribbean drainage of S Mexico, N Guatemala and S Belize.
T. g. yucatanensis A. R. Phillips, 1991 – N Yucatán Peninsula (SE Mexico and N Belize).
T. g. linnaei A. R. Phillips, 1966 – S Mexico (Pacific Oaxaca and lowland S Chiapas) E to Guatemala border.
T. g. grayi Bonaparte, 1838 – S Mexico (Pacific slope of S Chiapas) E to W Guatemala.
T. g. megas W. deW. Miller & Griscom, 1925 – Pacific slope of W Guatemala S to Honduras and Nicaragua.
T. g. casius (Bonaparte, 1855) – Costa Rica S to NW Colombia (S to central W slope of Andes#R).
T. g. incomptus (Bangs, 1898) – coastal N Colombia (Barranquilla E to Santa Marta Peninsula).
Collar, N. (2019). Clay-colored Thrush (Turdus grayi). In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. (retrieved from https://www.hbw.com/node/58301 on 18 April 2019).


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ESA Science & Technology - Call for media: Last chance to view ESA's Mercury Explorer BepiColombo
Call for media: Last chance to view ESA's Mercury Explorer BepiColombo
Media representatives are invited to a briefing on BepiColombo, ESA and JAXA's joint mission to Mercury, and to view the spacecraft before it leaves for Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, for launch next year.
BepiColombo acoustic test. Credit: ESA–C.Carreau, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
Mercury is the least explored planet of the inner Solar System. BepiColombo is set to follow up on many of the intriguing results of NASA's Messenger mission, probing deeper into Mercury's mysteries than ever before.
It will examine the peculiarities of its internal structure and magnetic field generation, and how it interacts with the Sun and solar wind. It will investigate surface features and chemistry, such as the ice in permanently shadowed craters at the poles. The mission's science will help revolutionise our understanding of the formation of our Solar System, and in the evolution of planets close to their parent stars.
To achieve these goals, ESA and JAXA will deliver two spacecraft into complementary orbits around the planet. The spacecraft will make the seven-year journey to Mercury together, carried by a transfer module.
The complete spacecraft stack is currently undergoing final testing in its launch configuration, and will be available for viewing on 6 July as part of a dedicated briefing organised by ESA, JAXA, Airbus and Thales Alenia at the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, The Netherlands.
The spacecraft will leave Europe in March next year ahead of its scheduled October 2018 launch from Kourou.
The media briefing will provide an overview of the project and will highlight the scientific gain that will ultimately come from this mission.
There will be ample opportunities for interviews with space experts and for taking photos and videos of the spacecraft in the cleanroom.
Programme outline
Alvaro Giménez, Director of Science, ESA: Welcome; BepiColombo's role for ESA in exploring in our Solar System
Hitoshi Kuninaka, Vice Director General, ISAS: BepiColombo's role for JAXA and ISAS
Mathilde Royer, Head of Earth observation, Navigation and Science, Airbus DS: BepiColombo built by an European consortium
Ulrich Reininghaus, ESA BepiColombo Project Manager: Challenges of the mission and the development and project status quo
Markus Schelkle, BepiColombo Project Manager, Airbus DS: Technologies for power generation
Mauro Patroncini, BepiColombo Project Manager, Thales Alenia Space: Thermal protection to survive at Mercury
Hajime Hayakawa, JAXA BepiColombo Project Manager; Masaki Fujimoto, JAXA BepiColombo Project Scientist: JAXA's Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter and its science
Johannes Benkhoff, ESA BepiColombo Project Scientist: ESA's Mercury Planetary Orbiter and its science
Question and answer session and opportunity for individual interviews
Photo and video opportunity in the ESTEC clean room to see the BepiColombo spacecraft
For accreditation, media can register at:
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Please register by 29 June.
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Sociocultural and Religious Factors Complicate India's COVID-19 Response
The Pulse | Society | South Asia
Ensuring awareness and dispelling pseudoscientific practices is a necessity for India to confront the coronavirus.
By Mufsin P. P. and Muhsin P. P. for The Diplomat
This article is free
The Diplomat has removed paywall restrictions on our coverage of the COVID–19 crisis.
Indian police block a street to allow only people with essential need to travel during a lockdown as a precautionary measure against COVID-19 in Hyderabad, India, Tuesday, March 24, 2020.
Credit: AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.
Despite showing tremendous improvements in the public healthcare system over the years – by eradicating several life-threatening diseases like polio, yaws, and tetanus – India still falls far short of ensuring effective public healthcare for all the citizens in the country. The country is bracing itself for difficult times in the face of the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) which continues to wreak havoc in different parts of the globe. As of the morning of March 25, India has registered 539 positive cases. The number of infections and casualties appear extremely low in India – as compared to the gigantic size of its population. However, experts warn India that an avalanche of cases is likely in the coming days. As the pandemic proves far beyond any normal crisis India has experienced in the past, it can, in the absence of timely and effective intervention, potentially overwhelm the country's public health infrastructure.
While there is no doubt that India's health infrastructure is inadequate and needs considerable improvements, the real success of dealing with a crisis of this magnitude and scale depends to a large extent upon dealing with certain other sociocultural factors that go beyond the physical infrastructure of health centers, dispensaries, hospitals, and so on. Beyond the over-stretched public healthcare apparatus, social practices, public attitudes and behavior are factors that have a strong bearing on the spread of the virus and therefore require considerable attention in framing policy measures to tackle the crisis.
Complicating Sociocultural and Religious Factors
Unlike many countries that the virus has affected, the case of India presents unique concerns owing to its geographical vastness and the complexity of its cultural and religious diversity, beliefs, and practices coexisting with poor social indicators, such as lower life expectancy, higher fertility, and high child mortality. Wide illiteracy, poverty, poor sanitary conditions, open defecation and manual scavenging further add to its woes. These health and social indicators underscore the gravity of the situation that can worsen conditions in the face of a massive community outbreak. All of this demonstrates the glaring reality of a vulnerable population that can potentially worsen the situation.
While globally there is health misinformation circulating rapidly across various social media platforms, India has its own culturally rooted and domestically-driven misinformation and misconceptions that are adding fuel to the fire. Unfortunately, some of this misinformation is being spread by public figures and government agencies, advanced in part by cultural and religious underpinnings that increase the traction of such misinformation.
Misguidance in the form of suggesting cow urine as a protection against the virus; religiously-oriented obligations that discourage social distancing; and mass disregard and refusal to adhere to rules restricting and in some cases prohibiting altogether cultural gatherings suggest that such behavior escapes the particularity of any one religious, cultural and geographic identity.
Home remedies and dubious advisories that are rapidly spreading through WhatsApp and other social media platforms also weaken the resolve for preventive behavior. Moreover, the Indian government's Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH), released an advisory on January 29 which carried shockingly serious medical misinformation at a time when COVID-19 cases were rapidly spreading in different parts of the world. The advisory made claims regarding the ability of traditional Indian medicinal practices like homeopathy, ayurveda, and unani in fighting the spread of the virus. No serious scientific evidence exists to corroborate such claims.
India's strong cultural and religious tradition of communal celebrations as well as close interactions with extended family members and neighbors constitute major social and behavioral factors that pose serious challenges. This week saw a call by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to deliver thanks to the health workers by clapping hands from home without breaking the practice of curfew and social distancing ended in celebration in the streets in many parts of the country. The Ram Navami celebration in Ayodhya, which attracts tens of thousands of devotees stands canceled but is still likely to be celebrated in different parts of the country. Muslim congregational prayers, Sunday church services, and similar mass gatherings among different religious communities can further expose the country to the lethal virus and trigger community spread.
All of this points to the significance of ensuring dissemination of the right form of awareness and dispelling pseudoscientific practices. At the same time, global grassroots policy experiences suggest that in contexts such as in India, health-related information alone helps little. It is imperative to bring behavioral changes to reap maximum benefits from public health interventions. To what extent such changes can be brought about in a short period is debatable, yet it holds critical sense as the outbreak is expected to linger.
Social and behavior change communication (SBCC) may be employed as a potential strategy to increase awareness of the effectiveness and the necessity of preventive measures – such as home quarantine and social distancing – under the broad framework of health communication. SBCC employs mass media, community-level activities, interpersonal communication, ICTs, and new media to carry out its objectives. Such evidence-based communication programs can help enhance knowledge, shift attitudes, and change public behaviors. Preventive behaviors such as home quarantine and social distancing must be combined with efforts at dispelling rumors and misinformation as well as efforts to allay fears and concerns.
Needless to say, fighting the COVID-19 crisis essentially requires a holistic approach that sufficiently integrates the infrastructural, social, behavioral, psychological aspects to prepare us for any emergency response. As things transpire, this is going to be a long battle with an emerging, and potentially reemerging, pathogen. It needs to be fought with good science and proper health care. In the long run, India must increase its public health spending to build a robust health care system and deal effectively with overriding religious considerations, social beliefs, and cultural practices to enhance the scientific temper of the people.
Mufsin P. P. is a Ph.D. candidate in public policy and management at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta, India. He holds a Master's degree in sociology from the University of Hyderabad, and MPhil in planning and development from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India.
Muhsin P. P. is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of Hyderabad, India.
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It may be tempting to keep the air conditioning at full blast during a heat wave, but your energy consumption will be enormous, and that's bad for your wallet, and bad for the planet. There are ways to lower your air conditioning utility bill without needing an ac service man to adjust the settings – just follow these simple guidelines.
It stands to reason that if you don't set your air conditioner at too low a temperature (after all, you don't want your house to be an icebox!) then by default, your home energy bill will lower significantly. A good temperature, and one you should use as the normal temperature of your home, is about 83 degrees. That"s a completely livable temperature.
Want to know the facts and figures? For every degree that you increase the temperature in your house, you will see a five percent drop in your energy bill. That is a significant amount of money when you add up all the savings over the summer months. Going on a vacation? Turn the A/C off, or increase the temperature higher.
Move the temperature to a higher setting right before you leave and this helps save money while you're absent. Once you get back home you can set it to a more pleasant heat range and your house will cool off quickly.
Lets also assume that you will be preventing a lot of the sunlight from heating your home up, just by installing curtains or shades on your windows. A little known fact about home efficiency and heat/cool air loss is that over 20% of your air conditioning expenses may be caused by the sunshine that enters in through house windows which do not have shades and/or curtains.The more sunlight you can stop from entering your house the less your home's air conditioner will have to operate to keep your house at a mild and livable temperature.
Also, make sure your equipment works efficiently! It sounds like a no-brainer, but very few homeowners have their air conditioning units serviced regularly by a technician. Contacting a Vancouver ac repair specialist and getting them to test out your system is the best way to be sure your A/C is working efficiently. Have your unit serviced after and before every warm season.
Once you follow these guidelines and take heed of these air conditioning tip, you should understand how the proper home air-con temperatures can save you lots of bucks. Conserve the maximum amount of cash as you possibly can monthly on your own air conditioning expenses by being exceedingly careful how and when you use your A/C unit to cool your home during the hottest months.
Looking to Install Rain Gutters Yourself?
Unless you are a handyman, if you are looking for quality seamless gutters, it is actually more reasonable to have professional gutter installers Vancouver take care of it than to try to do it yourself. For reasons I will discuss momentarily, it is not cost effective for a company that manufactures seamless gutters to drive to your location, measure and cut the gutters and simply leave them (drop-offs) for the do it yourselfer.
Most of the time, if a gutter company is even willing to do a drop-off it is based on your measurements and your net cost per foot will actually be higher for the gutter material than had the price included the cost of installation. Professionals gutter installers measure to tolerances of as little as an eighth of an inch for a quality fit. What if your measurement is wrong?
There is too much overhead built into the process to make seamless gutter drop-offs profitable for most gutter companies. The cost of keeping a truck on the road, the inventory, the maintenance of the gutter manufacturing equipment, and the manpower involved make it impractical to drop-off anything but lengths of gutter that are far larger than the average homeowner will require.
Sectional gutters are easier to install but their disadvantages make the trade off a bad one. Unless you are scraping for the cash, and these days that can happen, seamless gutters are a far better investment in your property and they do not lend themselves well for the do-it-yourselfer.
Furthermore all you need is one stiff wind or awkward moment and you can damage seamless gutters in the installation process precisely because their greatest advantage once installed, being seamless, is also their disadvantage for the novice installer – extra long length.
If that kind of thing happens while the gutter company installs your seamless gutters (a rare event because of their experience) they will manufacture another gutter on the spot at no additional cost to you. All this does not even begin to address the possibility of hurting yourself.
Finally, for the difference in cost, if you are inexperienced, you really are better off staying off the ladders or messing with your roof. Yes, it is all a matter of your tolerance level, but after over ten years in the business I have heard the horror stories.
The fact is that the process is simple enough if you know what you are doing, but it will take you far longer to install your own gutters than the same procedure performed by a seasoned gutter professional. This should hardly be news to anybody because it is true of everything.
Through the years any gutter system professional has regularly encountered surprises during the installation process in the most unlikely places. Everything from rot, to roof lines that are not straight, to the need for creative solutions to properly secure a gutter in an awkward space crop up regularly when we go from house to house. The do-it-yourselfer who is looking to save a few dollars may end up saving a little money but can often end up with an unwelcome headache.
Because of the reasons I have outlined earlier, quite frankly unless somebody just likes to do the work because it is a hobby and is willing to settle for what is widely regarded as an inferior result from sectional gutters, it is not worth the bother to do it yourself. The overall quality trade off is lousy, the time saving is nonexistent, and the financial savings are not meaningful both from the out of pocket perspective and may even be negative when considered from the outlook of return on investment at resale.
There are few circumstances where a band-aid solution is the right choice once the roof has reached its limit. Roof replacement trumps repairs much of the time for many reasons. Re-sale value, cosmetic appearance and of course peace of mind are all good reasons to consider replacing the roof.
There is a time in each home's life when roof replacement is unavoidable. Depending on the level of roof maintenance you have practiced and local conditions, the roof requires occasional repairs as well as eventual replacement.
The traditional life of a roof is about 15 – 20 years depending on circumstances. If you opted for a higher quality roof installation last time the roof was done then it might have lasted 30 – 50 years. That aside, once you discover missing shingles and visible signs of trouble it's probably best to replace the roof rather than going for the cheaper roof repair alternative. This is a call best left to a professional whom you can trust.
So let's say you've called a Vancouver roofing contractor and he comes over to do an estimate. He says it's important to replace the roof, and that roof repair isn't a good choice because the leaks you thought were minimal, turn out to be a serious problem and could result in structural damage. To understand the lingo better, visit our page on roof repair tips to better understand exactly what a contractor is saying when discussing your roof.
When you call, ask about algae resistant shingles. They are a great upgrade that keeps your roof looking nicer many years longer than usual and will even extend the lifespan. For quality work and a great residential roofing company, call us today.
If you have found visible signs of a dip in your roof this usually indicates trouble. There could be rot developing in the framework or moisture could be causing different areas to swell and buckle. In either case it is a good thing you caught it before it gets away from you. The roof should be a uniformly straight surface. If there are areas where water can build up, problems will only get worse!
Shingles curl up as they age and nails will start working their way out. This happens as the UV coating gets washed away by rain and snow. There will also be a loss of granules because they tend to fall out at about the same rate as the UV coating loss occurs. If these signs are visible then it is time to replace your shingles.
You may be able to extend the life of a leaky roof with some repair work, but if you notice that the leaks seem to be getting out of hand, it is likely that you will need to replace your roof altogether. Keep in mind that some roof leaks are easier to spot than others. While a puddle in the floor is obvious, you also need to be on the lookout for discolorations on your ceiling. Any brown spots are indicative of moisture, which could be coming from a leaking roof.
Another cause of problems can stem from a lack of proper drainage due to lack of regular gutter cleaning. If rain is not running off the house properly it can cause problems to the foundation as well. Compounded problems of this nature are not welcome in any home. If you are concerned about anything mentioned here call us to talk about it.
… so that's when you'll want to call a local roofing company and ask them to find that leak for you. Once the inspection is done you have a better idea the kind of shape your roof is in. An experienced roofing contractor can determine if a simple roof leak repair is enough or you need to replace the roof entirely. When inspecting your own roof for problems, some things will be clearly obvious like algae, crumbling shingles, but it is the hidden problems that will haunt you. All roofs have a limited lifespan, and when yours has expired it is time to bring in a professional.
Yes, replacing the roof can be expensive but wooden roof trusses rot when exposed to the elements, so doing nothing WILL become EXTREMELY expensive. If your roof is starting to sag, then roof replacement may be your only option. We do not advise waiting that long to address a problem with your roof.


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Creating Ecuador's first community network
In this report we describe the process of creating a community network in our rural community of about 50 people. In order to support the creation of more community networks in Ecuador, we also look at the legal and regulatory context and the relationship between technological possibility and community, political and economic will.
In early 2017 we started a community network and now there is growing interest from various communities across the country, especially farming and indigenous communities, and those that participate in second- and third-level organisations (i.e. unions of communities and confederations of unions).
At the time of writing this report in mid-2018, we are upgrading our internet connection, expanding our physical infrastructure and beginning a more organised learning process. At the national level, the communications law is undergoing reform, and the first whispers of a community network coalition are emerging, inspired by other experiences in Latin America. People are looking to us for support about how to create networks here, since we appear to be the first such network in Ecuador.[1] This report serves as a snapshot of this moment from our perspective, which is only one of many perspectives.
Policy, economic and political background
Rapid changes in public policy, law and regulations during the past 10 years have left an uncertain field of action. The laws can be interpreted as favourable to community networks, even though community networks are absent from the regulations. [2] At the same time, the economic situation makes the creation of community networks viable though not trivial.
In Ecuador there are laws in favour of community communications but no policies specifically addressing community networks. We have also not found detailed analyses of the country's internet or spectrum regulation from the perspective of community networks, although a very useful spectrum analysis from 2011 still seems relevant even though laws have changed. [3] A government presentation from 2008 recommended four regulatory alternatives to strengthen community networks, but they were not implemented as far as we know.[4]
As mentioned in GISWatch 2017,[5] the development of the internet in Ecuador has favoured the private sector, especially multinational corporations, with some focus on the public sector, and very little functional influence from civil society, or the "community" sector as it is sometimes called in Ecuadorian law. A 2016 report indicates that spectrum regulation and network neutrality are at risk of political influence. [6]
In 2016, the last year for which data is published, the state reported that of individuals asked if they had used the internet in the past 12 months, the national average was 55.6%: the urban average was 63.8% and the rural average 38%. [7]
Motivation, luck, knowledge and friends enable Ecuador's first community network
Our network exists because we want it to exist; we build it, we maintain it, and we use it – and sometimes we break it, we argue about it, we insult it when it goes slower than we like or cuts off entirely, and we get frustrated about it... but mostly it works and we are thankful. Our network also works because a friend shares his internet connection with us and allows us to tie our antenna to his balcony – many thanks!
On 16 April 2016, an earthquake off the coast of Ecuador caused significant damage and loss of life. [8] As part of the response to the earthquake, a part-time community member living in the United States gathered donations from friends and colleagues and came here with a friend to help rebuild. When the reconstruction activity in our community ended, we decided to invest our attention and the remaining money in creating a community network for internet connectivity. We decided that this fitted within the scope of building community resilience to handle future disasters.
We had already started investigating the possibility of a community network. We had looked at the topography of our community and the rest of our canton; the nearby telecommunications infrastructure; the history of rural internet in the country; companies selling networking equipment; local organisations that could give social structure to the network and use the connectivity; and national organisations involved in community communications.
We asked for advice from AlterMundi,[9] contacts in Ecuador, and others. We also contacted a small internet service provider (ISP) mentioned in a 2008 article about community connectivity projects in Ecuador [10] and they visited our community. The response from everyone was more or less, "Start simple, with a single connection in your community."
Before we found a line of sight to a place with internet, an invitation arrived from AlterMundi to participate in a seven-day hands-on community network workshop with people from farming community organisations in Colombia. We spent some of the earthquake relief money and some personal money to make the trip with one community member and two young adults from a nearby farmers' union. The workshop helped us understand many things, such as how other communities organised their networks and how to configure Ubiquiti [11] Wi‑Fi devices to create long-distance links. [12]
After the training, two members of AlterMundi came with us to our community, and provided the spark necessary to get our network going.
They advised us: Climb up to high places at dusk to identify potential links, and then just try the most obvious link in the fastest, least expensive way possible – fastest in terms of just buying an antenna instead of making antennas yourselves, and least expensive in terms of using a friend's internet connection instead of contracting your own. In order to take a first step, let go of the idea of building a network for five communities all at once. Maybe that will happen, but it's not the first step. Start with a single link, and that small, practical step will teach you things that enable you to grow the network later.
This turned out to work. One evening we climbed up to the top of a house being built on a hilltop and ta‑da! The lights of a town twinkled in the distance! We spent the remaining earthquake money on the equipment to create the first part of our network and a few days later we had Wi‑Fi internet in our community!
A few months later we applied for a grant to expand our network to other communities, and we learned a lot in the process of applying. We did not get the grant, but we gained knowledge.
Connection and infrastructure
Our connection to the internet for the first 17 months was a DSL line with a connection of 5 Mbps and an 8:1 contention ratio from the national public ISP, Corporación Nacional de Telecomunicaciones EP (National Telecommunications Corporation – CNT), shared with a friend in a small town. It cost about USD 33 per month. Now, after 17 months of asking them various times, the ISP activated a fibre optic connection at our friend's house that is supposed to be 10 Mbps download and 5 Mbps upload with a 2:1 contention ratio for USD 79 per month; but in the first three weeks it has not performed better than the DSL.
Our network connects that internet connection to our community via a 22 km (line of sight) wireless link, and the network within the community is currently made up of Wi‑Fi routers connected via outdoor UTP cable. We use cable instead of Wi-Fi because dense forest and hills block the line of sight between the houses. [13]
Some future connections will be wireless where there is line of sight. For those links, we want to use inexpensive antennas connected to TP-Link WDR3500 routers (or other routers compatible with LibreMesh [14] with disconnectable antennas), but if that proves too difficult or the price is close to the price of Ubiquiti devices, we will use Ubiquiti devices. We hope to acquire at least one LibreRouter [15] and backup power supplies, and to use alternative energy sources (solar, wind, micro-hydro, biogas).
The current infrastructure set-up is as follows:
We use two colours of electrical tape – red and green – for colour-coordinated markings that indicate what cable plugs into what port, so that we do not confuse what cables connect to the power-over-ethernet boxes.
Failure and reorganisation
In December the ISP's DSL modem/router failed and we did not have internet for nearly a month, until the ISP fixed the problem. In April the connection between the antennas disappeared and no one could fix it from our community. After a month without internet we went to our friend's house and saw that a palm tree had grown in front of the antenna and blocked the signal.
The loss of internet gave us a chance to renew our way of organising the network. We started to have meetings at least once a month and soon we started contributing money and signed a contract for a fibre optic connection.
We had various challenges that we do not have space to discuss here:
Debates about whether to connect the community centre or more homes first
Misunderstandings about money and motivations
Frustration about lack of participation
Lack of clarity about what routers and antennas to buy, or how to make our own antennas
Concerns about negative effects on human and ecosystem relationships.
Gender, age and network uses
Part of the motivation to build the network grew specifically out of the vulnerability highlighted in the April 2016 earthquake, and also from the understanding that communication enables people to interact with many processes that affect the stability of their lives.
Having internet in our community makes it much easier to coordinate tourism, an educational programme in the community, or volunteers, and internet also attracts more visitors. This benefits the members of the community tourism association, most of whom are women. When people visit the community, women earn money by cooking for them and cleaning the community centre where they stay or have meetings. Men are occasionally hired as tour guides to take people on hikes in the forest. Many community members also appreciate the cultural experience of meeting people from other places.
Men tend to use the internet to communicate about work, some women use the network for academic study, and everyone uses the network for social communication with family and friends and entertainment. Women have participated in almost all the community network activities, such as meetings, installing the gateway node and antennas, and extending the network to more houses.
We have given specific attention to including women, people from all the families in our community and people of all ages in the conversations that guide our network and in the considerations of the impact of the network. The conversations happen in community meetings and in people's homes. The core group that has implemented the network so far makes an effort to include people in the construction of the network, to explain how it works to everyone interested, and awaken interest and a sense of capability in everyone in the community. We think that with encouragement, everyone is capable of understanding how the network functions and participating in the network as they choose.
The list below gives an indication of the gender breakdown in participation in various network activities:
First months of preparation and coordination – one male, in conversation with many people.
Installation of primary link – two females, three males (of these, one female and one male from AlterMundi providing support).
First meeting – participants not recorded.
Second meeting – four females, five males (after the meeting one male taught one female how to put RJ45 connectors on a UTP cable).
Third meeting – seven females, nine males.
Fourth meeting – six females, six males.
Reposition of source antenna – two females, four males.
Communicating with ISP to contract fibre optic connection – one male (contract signed by one female).
Visit to town with internet connection for fibre optic link activation – one female, two males.
All installation and maintenance activities have involved people between the ages of 19 and 35. At meetings the age range has been about 10 to 65. The network offers teenagers and young adults in our community a chance to take responsibility for a community system, to learn and to demonstrate to their parents and themselves that they are capable of managing the community network. The adults already manage the water cooperative, the community bank, and the community tourism association.
State policies and laws
We have not dealt with national internet policy directly, other than interacting with its effects: the lack of internet access in our community.
Our community and the surrounding area have very little state presence, so we have not found it necessary to approach the state (public ISP, regulatory agencies, legislators, elected officials) and we have not yet read all the laws and regulations – we just maintain our network and move along with our lives.
However, for our network to survive in the long term and to support the creation of new community networks throughout Ecuador, we consider it wise to understand the law and to influence it and interpret it in ways that defend and support our community networks. As far as we know, the legal system, the regulations and the people tasked with enforcing them have not interacted with community networks, since we are the first such network here.
Due to 10 years of tight state control in many areas of society (2007 to 2017), we have so far chosen to remain unnoticed, rather than risk state attempts to co-opt, regulate, or shut down our network. Recently an ally in contact with state telecom institutions told us that the current national government is favourable towards the idea of community networks and community spectrum use. We have also had some contact with a rural mayor who wants to support a community network in his canton even though we explained that the legal aspects are unknown.
We serve as an early experience of the potential of community networks in Ecuador, and we plan to use our experience adapting this model to our context as a basis for conversation with other communities, organisations, ISPs and the state about how to support this new way of co-creating internet infrastructure. We hope that the state and ISPs of all sizes adapt to this reality, rather than trying to stop or control the formation of community networks.
We draw the following conclusions from our experience of setting up a community network in Ecuador:
The conditions in Ecuador are ripe for community networks, but a spark and organising initiative such as a national coalition has been lacking until now.
In our community, communicating clearly and organising ourselves is very important. Even if no one is charging us money for our internet connection, we still benefit from organising ourselves, and it makes sense to collect money for future expenses.
Achieving and maintaining connectivity requires attention, time, money, understanding, confidence and perseverance. Otherwise people give up and say "I don't know how" or "We don't have time and money to go wait for the technicians to install the connection."
Communication with external actors is a key part of organisation.
In many communities we (humans) get things working just enough, and then shift our focus to the next urgent issue. In our case we created a precarious connection and did not focus on stabilising it until it broke down for a month, and when we started to help set up other networks in other parts of the country and wanted our network to serve as an example of a well-run community network.
Extending the physical infrastructure starts with deciding who pays for equipment, who performs maintenance and management, what the technical design is and what hardware will be used. In order to create clear understanding among network members, it helps to make these decisions before heading out into the field.
Interact with other communities that have experience in or the desire for community communications and self-managed infrastructure. Connect community networks (the organised people, the infrastructure, and the concepts) with the global and local movements towards well-being and freedom based on peer-to-peer cooperation. Participating in movements helps us to learn, build community relationships, and improve our ability to influence state and commercial processes.
Support communities to create their own processes of appropriating information and communication technologies, recognising that our current concept of "community network" is shaped by our cultural perspective and our history of appropriating technology, and can look different in different communities and change over time.
Action steps for our network:
Improve skills in meeting facilitation and conflict transformation.
Learn how to use the internet for useful and creative things.
Decide on ways for neighbours and visitors to participate in our network.
Improve and extend the physical infrastructure.
Participate in the global community network movement.
Action steps to advance community networks in Ecuador:
Advocate for:
Community network access to infrastructure and resources including towers, power sources, TV white space frequencies and the idle bandwidth of public institutions.
Exempting community networks from licensing or registration requirements that require payment or advanced technical studies.
Grow and strengthen the emerging network of people and organisations working to advance community networks in Ecuador via training, financing, advocacy and movement building.
Participate in the Internet Society (ISOC) Community Networks Special Interest Group. [16]
Conduct a market scan to clarify what networking hardware is available in Ecuador.
Acquire LibreRouters in order to build community networks with a lower cost and more efficient technical design. The LibreRouter includes three radios in a single device that is projected to cost USD 150.
Get the LibreRouter through the state approval process (so-called homologation or type certification) so that we can use it in state-funded or state-regulated networks.
Consider ways to access the state's Universal Access Fund to train communities and buy network hardware.
Implement the ITU-certified Diploma in Community Networks.[17]
Promote the Inter-American Telecommunication Commission (CITEL) Draft Resolution on "Connecting the Next Billion, Boosting New Communication Patterns for Unserved Areas".[18] This promotes community networks and could serve as another instrument in advocating for state support of community networks.
[1] Based on the description of community networks in the Declaration on Community Connectivity in Belli, L. (Ed.). (2017). Community networks: the Internet by the people, for the people. Official outcome of the UN IGF Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity. Rio de Janeiro: Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro da Fundação Getulio Vargas. https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/index.php?q=filedepot_download/4391/1132
[2] Interview with Valeria Betancourt, manager of the APC Communications and Information Policy Programme.
[3] Navas Alvear, M. (2011). Espectro abierto para el desarrollo – Estudio de caso: Ecuador. Johannesburg: APC. https://www.apc.org/sites/default/files/Espectro_Ecuador_0.pdf The case study notes (translation ours): "Another possibility would be to start processes of direct action based on the application of constitutional rights, and only later have these recognised by the courts. For example, start to use the spectrum without applying for a licence, [...] using the spectrum for broadband projects and then requesting protective measures from judges for these initiatives. It is important, in any case, to develop technically strong propositions, search for allies in the political push for legal reform, and fight so that the reform is debated widely and transparently. The possibilities of achieving democratic reforms are high. However, at the same time, it is possible that the debate will remain in the circles of influence of private companies, especially the big operators, and trapped in technical discourse, in which case there is also the possibility that constitutional rights will end up neutralised in the legal reforms."
[4] Fiallos, J. C. (2008). Redes Comunitarias. Slide show by an employee of CONATEL (former state telecommunication regulatory agency, replaced by ARCOTEL) who later became Sub-Secretary of Development of the Information Society and Online Government. It is a useful analysis of the legal and regulatory situation at that time and offers sound planning advice. It does not demonstrate an understanding of the characteristics of community networks as described by the Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity. Slide 25 is of interest – it seems that none of these suggestions for regulatory alternatives to strengthen community networks was implemented. The slides were presented as part of a training programme by IMAGINAR and IICD called Technical Update Seminars. https://www.imaginar.org/iicd/index_archivos/TUS12/7_Redes_FODETEL.pdf
[5] Calderón, M. J. (2017). Building a national and regional internet governance agenda in Ecuador. In A. Finlay (Ed.), Global Information Society Watch 2017: National and Regional Internet Governance Forum Initiatives (NRIs). Johannesburg: APC. https://giswatch.org/en/country-report/internet-governance/ecuador
[6] Solines Moreno, J. C. (2016). Telecomunicaciones e internet en el Ecuador del Siglo XXI: Apuntes técnicos, historia reciente y la ruta hacia el control de usuarios y contenidos. In D. Salazar & D. Viteri (Eds.), Regulación de Internet y derechos digitales en Ecuador. Quito: Editorial USFQ. http://libros.usfq.edu.ec/index.php/usfq/catalog/book/1 . According to the report (translation ours): "[W]ithin the process of the empowerment of society, with a growth in the flows of information and a notable influence of social networks, the Ecuadorian state demonstrates a regulatory strategy, a model of institutional design, with certain public policies oriented towards the control of users and content. Even technical aspects such as the assignment and administration of spectrum and principles such as network neutrality are at risk of political influence, which can adversely affect fundamental rights and the development of the information society in Ecuador."
[7] Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas y Censos. (2017). Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicaciones (TIC'S) 2016. www.ecuadorencifras.gob.ec/documentos/web-inec/Estadisticas_Sociales/TIC/2016/170125.Presentacion_Tics_2016.pdf
[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Ecuador_earthquake
[9] https://www.altermundi.net
[10] Carrión, H. (2008). Conectividad rural para el desarrollo: Experiencias en Ecuador. https://www.imaginar.org/docs/conectividad_rural_IICD.pdf
[11] https://ubnt.com
[12] We learned to configure devices in order to create links that are the same regardless of the frequency. Ubiquiti sells some models in 900 MHz, 2.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz, all with the same configuration interface.
[13] The Ubiquiti antenna/radios are attached to one-metre-long bamboo poles that are tied to balconies. The routers are in houses.
[14] https://libremesh.org
[15] https://librerouter.org
[16] https://cnsig.info
[17] https://techiocomunitario.net/diplomado
[18] https://www.itu.int/net4/proposals/WTDC17/Detail/Index?idProposal=48505
This report was originally published as part of a larger compilation: "Global Information Society Watch 2018: Community Networks"
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Acupuncture was discovered and used for therapeutic purposes in China approximately 5,000 years ago. It was used shortly afterwards to treat horses. The American Association of Equine Practitioners recognizes acupuncture as a complementary treatment to traditional veterinary medicine for the relief of pain and as a means to prevent illness. Acupuncture involves the stimulation of acupoints, that have been mapped out for horses and other animals, usually with the insertion of fine needles to provide therapeutic effects. Acupuncture points (acupoints) are areas of high electrical conductivity. Because the nervous system has connections throughout the body, stimulation in one area can affect tissues and organs in another area of the body. When stimulated, they cause a chemical release of endorphins that act on the nervous system, as well local inflammation, which triggers the immune system and blood flow to the area. Endorphins cause physiological changes that control pain and stimulate organs and are also associated with immune system functioning and increased circulation, resulting in better oxygenation to tissues. Acupuncture can be used to treat a variety of conditions, especially musculoskeletal, chronic pain, and nervous system conditions, as well as for preventative purposes.
Acupuncture is not a replacement for traditional veterinary medicine by is a complementary treatment that should be administered on the advice of a veterinarian only and performed by a TCVM (traditional Chinese veterinary medicine) trained, licenced veterinarian.
Acupuncture does not require any anesthesia or sedation and most horses tolerate it well. Several different forms of acupuncture for horses are available.
Dry needling is the most commonly recognized form of acupuncture. A fine metal needle is inserted into an acupoint and rests there for 20-30 minutes. The therapist may manipulate or twirl the needle periodically. Different lengths and diameter needles are used and applied to different depths for various parts of the body to produce the desired effect.
Electroacupuncture is a form of acupuncture in which an electrical stimulator is connected to the inserted needles and delivers electrical impulses during the therapy. This therapy is more often used by veterinarians for nerve disorders.
Moxibustion acupuncture is conducted by applying heat to the accupoint either through heated needles or by applying a heat source to the area. This is not as well tolerated by horses and may be used more sparingly in veterinary medicine.
Laser stimulation uses laser light to stimulate acupuncture points. Eye protection may be required.
Aquapuncture or point injection involves the injection of liquid, usually vitamin preparations (vitamin B) or saline to provide prolonged stimulation of the site.
There has been much controversy over the years as to the effectiveness of acupuncture, however in recent years most veterinary practitioners recognize there is some benefit for pain management and musculoskeletal disorders. Studies have shown that acupuncture therapy reduces the amount of phenylbutazone that horses require to address chronic pain.
Acupuncture, when used in conjunction with western veterinary medicine, may be helpful for addressing a variety of other medical conditions in your horse and improving their recovery time.
Acupuncture therapy does not generally require any recovery time and may aid in the recovery from other diseases and conditions. Your horse may experience some soreness and stiffness post-treatment but this is minimal and temporary. Multiple treatments may be necessary to address your horse's medical condition and chronic conditions may require ongoing therapy.
The cost of acupuncture therapy ranges depending on the cost of living in your area and whether you are able to transport your horse for treatment or whether mileage charges are incurred.
Acupuncture treatment in horses ranges from $100 to $200 per session. The first session, which includes an evaluation, is usually more expensive and subsequent therapy sessions are usually at a reduced rate.
Serious medical conditions should always primarily be addressed with traditional veterinary medicine.
There is some concern that acupuncture can cause miscarriage in mares although this has not been well documented. Acupuncture in pregnant mares should be performed with caution.
Acupuncture should be performed by a qualified therapist under the direction of a veterinarian.
Acupuncture can be a preventive tool against illness and disorder in your horse. Acupuncture is believed to be effective at preventing certain disorders and has been recognized as a useful tool to provide early diagnosis of illness. Horses often react during acupuncture therapy and reveal signs of early disease or disorder that can then be treated with veterinary medicine and acupuncture, resulting in better prognosis if early detection occurred.
As acupuncture is commonly used to treat musculoskeletal disorders, ensuring your horse has a safe environment and that they do not overexert or injure themselves during activity is an important means of preventing injury. These precautions will reduce the likelihood of musculoskeletal disorder requiring acupuncture treatment.


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For those sticking around during the Christmas weekend in Los Angeles will definitely have to make time to get down to Sound Nightclub for an amazing night with Pete Tong, MK, and Lee Foss. The event is for two charities - Bullies and Buddies, a rescue organization, and Spare Some Change, which concentrates on helping impoverished youth in America, and all proceeds will be going to these two organizations.
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Q: Deliveryman's position (latitude + longitude) handling on PHP server side from Android app The context
As a school project, I'm building a PHP and Android app for a fake company. Let's call the company "Express Food", which can talk pretty much by itself.
The "daily meals" are kept by deliverymen who wait in streets for a delivery, we say that these deliverymen are inactive. When a customer orders the meal, the nearest inactive deliveryman is requested to deliver the meal to the customer in less than 20 minutes, which is the guaranteed maximum delivery delay to the customer.
I need to build a Web app from which customers can order and administrators can administrate the site. I'm thinking to build an Android app for the deliverymen to handle deliveries.
The problematic specifications
1) The server should be able to retrieve the current deliveryman's position anytime it needs it (latitude + longitude). For example to populate the currentPosition property of the deliveryman object.
In this context, is it possible to make the PHP server retrieve the deliveryman's current position from his Android mobile? I mean it doesn't even sound natural since the server is requesting something from the client?? But how to do that the good way then?
2) When a customer orders a meal, the order's status is on 'pendingHandling', waiting for the nearest inactive deliveryman to handle it.
Could the server send a delivery handling request to the nearest inactive deliveryman or rather the mobile app should request pendingHandling orders on a defined frequence?
3) Once the deliveryman accepts to handle the delivery, his real time position has to be shown to the customer's delivery tracking web page.
What would you suggest here? How could I display the real time position of the deliveryman on the web page?
4) The workday route of the deliveryman (as active AND inactive) has to be recorded.
Is there another way to do that than to store on a high frequence deliveryman's actual positions to define from them his workday route?
The reason of my questions
Forgive me for the multiple questions. I hope also they are not too broad. I can't post these 4 questions separately since the way we resolve one depends on the way we approach the other. The questions should be approached contextually as a whole problem.
I'd need to know the global strategy to adopt defined by which direction to take, which technologies, protocols, APIs to use in this context. I don't have yet the necessary insight to approach this problem by myself only.
Thanks by advance.

A: It would be a whole lot easier to program the Android to periodically call the PHP server.
That call could be "I am at (lat, lon) and can accept an order".
The server would look at the location and either return an order to be processed or a message that means 'nothing available now'.
The Android would only make the call if the delivery person is inactive / ready for work.
You'll need to balance how often the phone calls the server; wait too long and you'll miss your delivery windows.  Call too often and you'll run out the battery on the phone.
For your specific questions:

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*Yes, having the server poll the client is problematic for a lot of reasons.  It doesn't scale well, it's slow, and you'll run into a lot of security restrictions that really aren't worth the effort to solve.  It would be far better to have your client poll the server.

*See above.  Have the inactive delivery person poll for work, and have your server send the order as a reply to that poll/request.

*When the delivery person accepts an order, have the phone make a 2nd call to the server with "I am at (lat, lon) and will start work on this order".

*With the scheme described above, your server can store all of the locations every time the phone makes a poll request.  You could also have the phone make another call to the server every few minutes while processing an order.  However, there is such a thing as "too much detail".  You really don't need to know where your delivery person is more than once a minute or so, and you only need their location to within a couple hundred feet.

A: 1. Retriving deliveryman's location
You are right. Servers pulling clients is a bit unatural. But not impossible. Here some alternatives.

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*Websockets1
The server checks periodocally the latest locations report and collects those deliveryman that didn't report for a while (let's say 5 min). Then it pushes a event by websocket asking for clients to reprot their current location.
Clients handle the event and send the location back to the server. The report can be sent by HTTP if you prefer it. At this point, we can combine REST and WS.
The server acknowledges the receipt, updates the reports and restart the timeout for the next check.
Usually, this approach would take to implement a message broker too.
The solution is ,more or less, a watchdog.
We could force clients to report their location restarting the latest reports or  forcing the event.

*Silent push notifications
Android supports silent push notifications. These notifications don't pop up on the screen.
Same as WS. The server sends a push notification and clients reacts according  to the notification.
Anyways, I agreed with @Dan, keep it simple. Make clients send their location periodocally. Ultimatelly, this is an exercice for learning.
2. Ready for work
The only who knows the deliveryman  status (anytime) is the deliveryman himself. Put buttons in the client application for reporting the status. For example

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*Successful delivery!

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*Ready for more work

*Delivering next order

*Could not be delivered!

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*Ready for more work

*Delivering next order

If he/she press Ready for more work, the server can respond with a list of pending orders, allowing him/her to pick the closer to his/her position.
3. Again the current position
If we implement #2, we can send  the location alongside with the status. This will generate a milestone. I was right here when I finished the job and started the next one.
4. Routes
If we implement #1 and #2, the server is  already collecting a good bunch of locations.
For more accuracy, the client could track the position frequently, store it in the local storage (let's say a file per route) but send only 1/X to the server, for saving resources like battery and data plan.
At the end of the working day, the deliveryman send the routes pressing a button or the client send them automatically when it's near (or inside) the shop. This last is what we call geofencing.
On the other hand, we know that Google already tracks our location and timings. So we could rely on Google for this feature. Maybe Google won't allow users to extract this information for legal reasons as privacy and security, but worth nothing taking a look at the documentation.
Conclusions
Think first how would be Express Food in the real life. Or how would you like it to be. Think then in the interaction between the shop and the deliverymans. The workflows. These workflows are the protocols of the business. Resolving these protocols will lead you to some of the answers you are looking for. You will realise then that there are several ways to build this. The answers to each question should be addressed to meet your vision of the business. If they don't meet your expectations, skip to the next answer. And so on.
For example, at the time of reading your question I envisioned a real time application and it made me think in events and websockets.

1: As alternative to HTTP


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To save the selected blogs, you simply click the Save button.
Your blog must have Public access as login with password is not supported. You can temporarily grant Public access to your blog, save it with LSSaver and then reset the access.
You cannot select blog comments, all comments of a post are saved together if the post is saved.
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have you tried "everything" to reverse a chronic disease, such as autoimmunity, diabetes, or arthritis, and still feel crappy most of the time?
If any of this resonates with you, I want to talk to you about building a Self-Healing Mindset & Miracles approach to your health and lifestyle.
I want you to know there's a reason it is so difficult to succeed in your earnest attempts to get healthy, feel better, and initiate self-healing.
It's not your fault! The majority of reasons people fail to get or stay healthy is due to many factors—most of them due to corporate greed (think Big Pharma, Big Food, toxic chemicals in the environment, and a flawed, outmoded healthcare system) . . . and others come from childhood trauma and faulty belief systems that were handed down to you as a small child.
Today, I want to talk to you about the #1 reason many people fail to create healthy habits that stick for the long haul and lead to self-healing. I also want to tell you this . . .
You can create vibrant health and indestructible happiness.
Let me share with you how to get started.
Although diet and exercise are crucial to the prevention and reversal of any kind of chronic disease, alone they are not enough and don't work for the long haul.
They may even have thoughts like, "I don't deserve to be healthy, or happy, or even to live." Sadly, there are even millions of people who live with a secret, silent or unconscious death wish much of the time.
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People with a growth mindset see themselves as able to learn new things and adopt new behaviors. They also have confidence that they have the resilience to face the challenges that come with learning.
Unless one becomes aware of their negative thoughts, and then takes steps to turn those negative, limiting beliefs around, it is very difficult to create health or turn disease around.
Start noticing when you are falling into fixed mindset mode, become aware of your unconscious beliefs and thoughts that prevent you from succeeding, and switch your thought(s) to a more growth mindset mode.
I hope your week is beautiful and filled with more growth thoughts, love and things that bring you joy.
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