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Controversial Borders
If I were psycho-analyzed it would be interesting to see why I always had a fascination with controversial international borders.
At the age of 16 in the Summer of 1961, within days of the Berlin Wall being built (or quite possibly while it was still being built/made more escape-proof) I was on holiday in Margate, but instead of helping my younger brother build sandcastles I was happily building a very rough representation of the Berlin Wall snaking its way across the city.
Borders such as this are so dramatic, and when they separate two totally opposed political systems and states, then even more so. Five years later, my first trip abroad was by train to the Soviet Union with a group of others, and one of the most exciting things was crossing the 'Iron Curtain' not once but three times on the way there. We crossed it between the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic, arriving at the GDR town of Marienborn where I proudly handed over my passport to GDR officials to be stamped, then again as we passed thru the enclave of West Berlin 100 miles inside the GDR, and across the Wall itself as we entered the GDR capital. The borders with Poland and the Soviet Union were also exciting to cross, but not in the same league.
Two years later I returned to the GDR, and one of my most memorable moments was being taken with a group of trade unionists, peace activists, and others on a tour of the 'heroic border installations' near the Brandenburg Gate by an officer of the National People's Army of the GDR. There we were taken on to a viewing platform on the Western side of the Brandenburg Gate, just East of the Wall, to peer over it at West Berliners and other Westerners looking back at us. This moment focuses my fascination with such borders – at that moment I was so proud to be stating so dramatically my political beliefs by standing on the Eastern side of the visible dividing line between the capitalist West and the Communist East.
But it was not just borders between opposing political systems which fascinated me, and still do. Another dramatic border, the Green Line, runs right thru my father's country of Cyprus. He was Greek-Cypriot, but on several visits to that country I have proudly crossed or entered the Turkish side, not least in that still divided city of Nicosia and once again was proud to identify myself with the Turkish Federative State of Cyprus and later the renamed Turkish Republic of North Cyprus.
In both Berlin and Nicosia, I attracted the fury of West Berliners, West Germans and Greek-Cypriots by my open display of support for the border and the state which lay the other side of it. In West Berlin fists were shaken at me and curses uttered as I wore the GDR state emblem on my lapel. In the Greek part of Nicosia by the Wall dividing the city, I signed in their book that it was the fault of the Greeks that the island was divided, and made no secret of my support for the TRNC as a separate state.
When on a holiday in Yugoslavia in the 1980s I also went on a one-day trip, with my partner, south to the border with Albania, another ostracized country in Europe. But this border was disappointingly very undramatic. We were several miles from the border up a high mountain, and no visible sign could be seen except where the spires of mosques could no longer be seen – Enver Hoxha having demolished them all in the world's first atheist state. Otherwise, the pastoral countryside laid before us looked disconcertingly like observing Surrey or any of the Home Counties from a high vantage point just outside London. I think I expected to see 500 ft statues of Enver Hoxha and even Joseph Stalin staring at me from across the border.
This was my other fascination, huge monolithic monuments, such as the Worker and Collective Farm Girl monument in Moscow holding aloft a giant hammer and sickle. Or the TRNC flag etched defiantly in the Kyrenia mountains overlooking Nicosia taunting Greek-Cypriots.
I have always been a rebel, very rarely siding with the majority. Not only seeking out minority causes and siding with minorities or identifying myself with minorities, but then becoming a rebel or siding with a minority faction within that minority. This was as true inside the Communist Party and the Young Communist League as anywhere else, where I refused to follow the leadership line. At a YCL congress in Scarboro, for instance, I and other Stalinist comrades defiantly gave a standing ovation to the Soviet fraternal delegates who were only being given polite seated applause or even booed by the majority because of the recent invasion of Czechoslovakia, which I and my comrades in the hard-line faction of course supported.
A psycho-analyst would presumably seek to find out why I have this need to identify myself with unpopular political positions or with minorities generally, and even minorities within a minority. Why am I always seeking to rebel?
I don't know, but perhaps it is a good thing not to follow the common herd. It begs the question what I'd have done if born behind the Iron Curtain. Would I slavishly have followed the Party line, or ended up in prison or a mental institution for constantly defying it?
Perhaps the clue is to be found in my departing speech from an FDGB (GDR equivalent of the TUC) hotel in Kuhlungsborn near Rostock in the then GDR in 1968. I stood up and told my hosts that I fully supported the Soviet-led invasion of (or 'fraternal assistance to' as I called it then) Czechoslovakia, and that I thought the GDR itself might be the next candidate because of bourgeois practices such as tipping waiters and dressing for dinner which I had observed during my visit. I got a frosty reception from State officials dressed in their finery, who evidently didn't appreciate my telling them the Soviets should march in with tanks and sort them out. Being a foreigner, I got away with it, and was just called 'a silly ass' by Peter, our interpreter, who was himself a GDR citizen studying at Humboldt University in East Berlin, and quite critical of the regime in his own quiet discreet way.
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Lucy Turns Pages: Children's Poem: Monster Under the Bed?
Children's Poem: Monster Under the Bed?
Who is it that is lurking there?
Has under my bed become your lair?
Did you come to give me a scare?
Or act as my new teddy bear?
Are you now under the stairs?
Who else would create those creaks?
Or are you not good?
Do you come from far or near?


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Frankly, I've been disappointed in Xively since it changed from the old Cosm. Remember, before that it was Pachube. Once upon a time it was a group of ambitious programmers that were working on a dream, now it's something else; I'm not sure what. However, I haven't given up on them. They still haven't completed things like their graphing API that everyone wants to use, but they have expanded their default graphs so I can select the period I want to see. So, maybe there's still some interest among their developers. However, I did ask them to come up with a way to port the legacy feeds to their new development system, and they put me in contact with a developer that was supposed to work on it. This was over a month ago and I haven't heard from him again in weeks. The single most annoying thing was their removal of the forum they had. Now, if you have a question you're supposed to go to StackOverflow, and those folks can be rude and condescending. Sure, I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, but there are people on there that are just plain jerks. I absolutely hate asking questions there.
Anyway, I started playing with Python and their site. Since I might as well try their new interface and various capabilities at the same time, I followed their example and used their library. The first thing I ran into is that their python library is considered preview so I had to use the '--pre' option to load the darn thing. Next, they want me to use a virtual environment to develop, since I don't want to learn anything unnecessary at this point, I just ignored that part. Using the example shown at http://gnublade.github.io/xively-python/tutorials/raspberrypi.html, I put together a module and tried it. It worked.
However, do not under any circumstances name your source module the same as the library you're trying out. I named my source module 'xively.py' and it took me a couple of hours to figure out what the heck the problem was. When I changed it to 'testxively.py', I could take out the hundred or so debug statements that I had scattered all over the place and get on with trying it out.
Right now, I'm trying to combine gathering some data from my XBee network and incorporate it with the Xively example to create a module that can update Xively with real data. In my pursuit, I had to learn about logging with Python; seems the scheduler module uses system logging if it encounters an error. The Xively example only updates one data item, so that means I have to learn how to update a whole series of them (ain't no example for that).
So, maybe you understand why I labeled this entry as 'Part 1', I'm not sure how many parts there will be, but this is getting really confusing.
Hi. Thank you very much for sharing.
I have a DHT22 Temp/Hum sensor working with Xively.
If I'm in my home network everything shows in real time (graphics and Values).
If I'm outside my home network the graphics are in real time but I need to refresh the page to get the updated values.
Yes, I've had that happen. I overcame it by using jquery() to update the attributes of the thing I'm displaying. It's a strange and complicated procedure just to change a value on the screen, but I got used to it. Is your page visible on the internet? I can take a quick look if you point me at it.
I may not come up with anything, but it won't hurt anything to look.
Ignore the load_avg, it's just for tests.
It worked fine for me. What I saw though was that the text showed a different value from the last value received. The last value received might be 3, but the text was 7. Eventually the text would change and something else would appear there. I think the chart or the text is out of sync, possibly because of averaging or rounding or something.
I went and took a look at mine and it was doing the same thing. Watch it a bit and you'll see what I mean. I don't have a clue what the difference is between inside your house and outside though.
Inside my Pi network the values were updating from 10 in 10 seconds.
But when I tried outside (ex: from my mobile) I had to refresh the page because the graphics were updating but the numbers not.
That was happening because when I was at home I was logged at xively.com and when I was out I was not logged!!!
Do I have to be logged in to see the values updating in real time?
Is this happening because I didn't execute the DEPLOY step?
OK, I'm a bit lost. Is there some code or something that I can see that will help me understand what you're doing?
It's marked private and I can't see it.
Sorry, forgot that. It's ok now.
I looked at the code long and hard and can't find a thing wrong with it. To me, it looks like you're doing everything right.
So, I went to my feed and watched it for a while. Then I logged out and hunted it down as a public feed on their site and I saw exactly what you saw. The graph updates on a regular basis, and the text up in the right hand corner never changes. It went to over 4 minutes without an update showing, while the graph worked just fine. I could put my cursor on the graph and read the latest data.
So, it looks to me like the entire problem is on xively. You have to be logged into the site to see the latest data. Even then, there may be problems, like I noted before, the text and the graph don't agree even then.
That's just another complaint I have about them. Too bad they aren't pachube any more.
If you get disgusted with them, take a look at GroveStreams. I have the code I use to update them on this blog, and so far, they're working pretty good for me. I may be moving my stuff over to them soon.
Thank you!! I'm so happy right now.
Yes, I will take a look at your suggestion, GroveStreams.
I will also try ThingSpeak. They have a lot of good feedback.
Thank you very much for your time and effort solving my problem.
ThingSpeak is a nice operation. I have my code for them on this blog also. The only problem I notice with them is that they go offline sometimes for varying lengths of time. It shows up as a 'bad gateway' error in my logs. They work plenty good enough for almost everything folks like us do.
My thinking is that I want to have a company that is building up because they are paying a LOT of attention to how things work.


Magnetic compass was invented in China between the 2nd century BC and 1st century AD, in the times when the Han dynasty ruled. It was used at first as a tool for geomancy - in feng shui, and only later as an instrument for navigation and orientation. The first compasses were made of lodestone, a naturally magnetized ore of iron. Magnetic compass is a pretty simple instrument that has a magnetic needle or a magnetized bar can turn freely upon a pivot and align itself with Earth's magnetic field and indicate the direction of the magnetic north of a planet's magnetosphere. From that, cardinal points of north, south, east and west are very easy to determine.
Before the magnetic compass was invented people new about magnetic properties of magnetite and lodestone but they were regarded as curiosities of nature. Plinius the Elder (23-70 AD) wrote that shepherd Magnes reported that the nails of his shoes and the iron point of his staff clung to the rocks on Mount Ida which were made of magnetite. Thales of Milet thought that magnetite had a soul that attracted stones like iron. Wang Xu, Chinese writer from 4th century, mentions that "lodestone attracts iron". Between 70 and 80 AD, Chinese use "south pointing spoon" which "when thrown upon the ground, it comes to rest pointing at the south". Chung Hua Ku Chin Chu text written by Ma Kao, mentions magnetized needle as a "mysterious needle" between 923 and 926. Needle from this text is shaped like a tadpole and it is thought that this marks transition between compasses made in the shape of "lodestone spoons" into "iron needles".
Compass is used for the first time as a navigational device during the Song Dynasty and is mentioned for the first time in this role in the book dated to 1040-44. It was in the shape of a fish, it floated in the bowl of water and it pointed south. At the sea, compass is used, again in China, in 1117. Lesser used compass for this was a dry compass.
Magnetic compass appeared in Europe somewhere between 1187 and 1202 according the texts texts De utensilibus and De naturis rerum. Floating compass was used for astronomical purposes while dry compass was used for seafaring. With advancements in dead reckoning methods it improved seafaring of that time. Before compass sea travel was done between October and April and compass prolonged the sailing season across the whole year.
The Muslim world imported compass in 13th century. There, it was also used for navigation and for astronomy like in Europe but it was also used as a "Qibla (Kabba) indicator" to find the direction to Mecca. the Syrian astronomer and timekeeper Ibn al-Shatir, improved compass by combining it with a universal sundial, to be used as an improved Qibla indicator and for finding the times of salat prayers.
Today magnetic compass is still used for orientation and navigation but it has more modern look than its predecessors and it is made from modern materials.


Understanding and quantifying the effects of overloads/overstrains on the cyclic damage accumulation at a microscale discontinuity is essential for the development of a multistage fatigue model under variable amplitude loading. Micromechanical simulations are conducted on a 7075-T651 Al alloy to quantify the cyclic microplasticity in the matrix adjacent to intact or cracked, life-limiting intermetallic particles. An initial overstrain followed by constant amplitude cyclic straining is simulated considering minimum to maximum strain ratios of 0 and −1. The nonlocal equivalent plastic strain at the cracked intermetallic particles reveals overload effects manifested in two forms: (1) the cyclic plastic shear strain range is greater in the cycles following an initial tensile overstrain than without the overstrain and (2) the initial overstrain causes the nonlocal cumulative equivalent plastic strain to double in subsequent tensile-going half cycles and triple in subsequent compressive-going half cycles, as compared with cases without an initial tensile overstrain. The cyclic plastic zone at the microdiscontinuity corresponds to that of the maximum strain during the initial overstrain and the nonlocal cyclic plastic shear strain range in the matrix near the intact or cracked inclusion is substantially increased for the same remote strain amplitude relative to the case without initial overstrain. These results differ completely from the effects of initial tensile overload on the response at a macroscopic notch root or at the tip of a long fatigue crack in which the driving forces for crack formation or growth, respectively, are reduced. The micromechanical simulation results support the incorporation of enhanced cyclic microplasticity and driving force to form fatigue cracks at cracked inclusions following an initial tensile overstrain in a fatigue incubation model.
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Newman, J. C., Wu, X. R., Wenneri, S. L., and Li, C. G., 1994, "Small-Crack Effects in High-Strength Aluminum Alloys," NASA Technical Report, Hampton, VA.
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Shen, H., and Lissenden, C. J., 2002, "3D Finite Element Analysis of Particle-Reinforced Aluminum," Mater. Sci. Eng., A338 , pp. 271–281.
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Nonlocal micronotch-root maximum plastic shear strain at the interface of a fractured Fe-rich particle under remote uniaxial strain amplitudes ranging from 0.25% to 0.7% for Rε=−1.
Xue Y, Wright AM, McDowell DL, Horstemeyer MF, Solanki K, Hammi Y. Micromechanics Study of Fatigue Damage Incubation Following an Initial Overstrain. ASME. J. Eng. Mater. Technol. 2010;132(2):021010-021010-8. doi:10.1115/1.4000227.


House to Vote on Full Repeal July 11th!
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This spacious converted first floor apartment is set within a Victorian Villa, being approached from its own front with steps up to the accommodation.
The property is situated in the sought after area of The Warberries which is renowned for its surrounding Victorian Villas. It is in close proximity to Wellswood village with a range of shops including: Co-op supermarket, a local pub and delicatessen.
Torquay's Harbourside, Yacht Marina and Town Centre are also within easy reach. Respected primary and secondary schools are also within close distance.
The property has the benefit of gas central heating and double glazing. The property is in need of some modernisation and gives a great opportunity for the new owners to put their own stamp on to the property.
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I will go into more detail on this subject later but want to get a post in here to get it started.
On my first geared device, I ground an old HSS router bit to approximate shape and cut teeth with a router mounted in my metal lathe and a home made index. They worked OK but didn't look the way I wanted. The index was not very good so I then bought a dividing head from Grizzy for, I think, less than $300 and mounted it on my lathe so that I could get good accurate indexing. That improved the effort but it was still far from perfect.
Some time passed and I obtained a copy of a book, "Gears fpr Small Mechanisms" by Davis and, having also learned to use a CAD program figured out how to draw good cycloidal teeth. This took me some considerable amount of time because it requires thought and concentration, hard commodities to acquire when one is out of practice. I then bought a CAM package to go with the CAD, (Bob CadCam) and was able to produce G code for my machining center and make perfect wheels and pinions. Now this was a long, expensive proceedure and there are numerous other ways to get good results but I am convinced that if you are wealthy enough and crazy enough, this is the best of all possible ways to produce gearing.
The standard, time honored method of gear cutting requires precision ground cutters, and a good lathe with indexing. This will produce excellent gears but the problem is that there are no cutters available that are large enough for wooden wheels and pinions. They are available for brass clocks but wood requires teeth which are at least slightly larger than the largest brass gear cutters made. An enterprising philanthropist could probably have a series of proper cutters made at considerable espense, which he could then sell at reasonable cost to the rest of us. So if there is such an exemplary individual out there, this is your chance to serve humanity.
I had the pleasure of a visit to JR's shop - it's a lot like getting sent to Santa's workshop - lots of really neat inventions and gizmo's for a mechanically intuitive mind to feast on.
JR demonstrated how he had cut his gears (Wheels and Pinions) on his CNC machining center (a Haas used for his business). I had just completed piecing together a small home CNC milling machine (Sherline with Servo drives) - and this was just the ticket to exercise my mind and mill.
Armed with the Grasshopper article (also from JR), inspiration and information from JR - I dove in. I have completed making my gears, and am now in the process or re-making my grasshopper mechanism. I hope to have my clock running in the near future (time and work permitting).
I will say - it the CNC milling machine really makes gear variation a possibility. If you had an indexing set-up and cycloidal tooth flycutters - you could do a very good job at making these gears. The only problem is - if you ever want a different module (pitch) - you need a new flycutter. That's where the flexibility of the CNC milling machin excels.
I haven't a shop, nor the money to get some of these tools, So I put my brain to work. What I came up with is to CAD up templates and have them cut with a laser cutter. Then rout them out. I am hopefully going to the laser cutters for the first time next week. With any luck I will let you know how it went within 3 weeks.
I have had some wheels laser cut. It did a very accurate job and cut them right out. The only problem was that the cut surface was black from the heat, slightly tapered and a little rough.
I was going to cut them out of a plastic material. I know about the roughness. i am hoping that when used as a templat with 1/8 inch guided bit that it will take out most of that. If not than i may haft to sand. Still in the experiment stage. It may not work either.
OK, I will try to explain the idea. I have seen these table saw blades that hold a piece of steel or solid carbide on the end. They are changeable and you can make molding with your table saw. Cut a dozen gears at once.
Next. I watched somebody custom grind a blade for a profile hand plane with a dremil and a jig. Very accurate and fast with the right set up. He basicly buffed the final shape to sharpness.
The Idea. Buy this special blade for the saw and make your own cutters and use a jig to index and position the gear. Cut teeth one at a time on your table saw.
Yes that would probably work. I have a single cutter head like that and I have ground custom blades for molding in just that way. You would have to make a sled to hold a mandrel with a stack of wheels on it and have a good accurate index arrangement. It would be a failry dangerous setup though and I think there may be easier ways. We all have to work with the tools we have, though, so sometimes the best way is just not available.
If I do this, I will have help from my instructor at school. Beleive me, Safty will be the highest priority. In fact some things that were ok to do in a production cabinet shop are not here. Thats ok with me. I am learning the best way to keep my figures.
I have seen this type of set-up before - in a Fine Woodworking book. But the regular table saw blade was used to produce Escape style gears (i.e. non-cycloidal and non-involute tooth profile). The figure showed only making one gear at a time - but making multiple copies on a mandrel with an indexing plate is entirely possible (as JR described).
It is difficult for me to understand why one would want to mass produce a wheel or pinion for a wooden gear clock. As has been pointed out each change in center distance alters the tooth profile, thus one wheel/pinion does not fit all. My understanding of the wooden gear clock history leads me to believe that these timepieces were made one at a time mostly for the makers use. I also find great pleasure in the working of the woods and making one wheel/pinion at a time for a given configuration. That is my 1/2 cents worth.
At one time - wood works (all or nearly all gears (Wheels, Pinions), arbors, etc.) - were mass produced. During the years following winning our independance from Great Britain - who embargoed us from steel, brass, etc. - a boon market for wood works clocks existed. Literally 10's of thousands of clocks were made with with "wood works".
This also meant that the average man could afford a timepiece for their house (as it was not as expensive as a hand crafted brass/steel clock) - as the clocks were mass produced - with many interchangeable parts from maker to maker. Many of these timepieces still exist today - and are still in working order keeping time.
Today - I think the ability to make multiples has a lot of use, as it can enable a craftsman to make a few copies of his work for sale. I can definitely see where my small CNC milling machine will be a great help in producing gears and what not for clocks or kinetic sculpture or "gizmo's".
I don't know that I understand your comment on changing center distance alter's tooth profile. Tooth profile - whether it is involute or cycloidal - is determined by basic gear geometry (Predominantly Pitch/Module and number of teeth in Wheel/number of teeth in pinion). The tooth profile is derived from the manner of tooth form used (e.g. "Cycloidal" or "involute"). This, then, will determine the actual tooth geometry construction. From this geometry - the pitch circle is computed, and the theoretical center-to-center distance of the Wheel/Pinion or Gear/Gear train.
How I made these things.
Years ago I read the Westphale article in the Woodworking Magazine and knew that making woodworks was for me. The only problem was all the machinery that Westphale used was a little to costly. After much thought and research I settle on a scrollsaw. Drawing up the patterns on a CAD and sawing them out with a scrollsaw under a magnifying glass is a highly accurate process. I've also made wheels using a router. Just does not provide the satisfaction of sawing them out. The early clocksters in New England used hand tools and primitive lathes. This was their winter job since farming had to wait till springtime. Examining those early woodworks revealed that the teeth were sawn by hand and none alike!
Around 1810 Eli Terry had a contract with the Porters to manufacture 4,000 woodworks. Enters the sawmill that was water powered. I owned number 3706 and what an improvement over the hand made ones. Now we have all the latest equipment and can make a much improved timepiece. However, there is much more to making woodworks than designing perfect teeth and pinions. Those early clocks ran on or about three pounds of weight for thiry hours. Eight day clocks ran on or about 7.5 pounds. Those early clocksters were amazing. My favorite is Jesse Emory. His clocks were beautifully engineered. The time train that I made using his design ran on 15 ounces. He used a three pound weight to overcome those little problems of dust, dirt, and bugs getting in between the wheels and pinions.
Glad to see this forum up and running. Nothing like exchanging ideas on this great hobby.
The profile change I was referring to is the change determined via the module. Using the "module" system (which almost all clocks do) the width and space between the teeth change (profile).
The templet idea is under way. I hope to share with you what i have learned soon(2 weeks max i hope). Just an update. I am still on it.


A St. Charles Bend pharmacy worker put the wrong medication in an IV bag, leading to the fatal error that killed a Sisters woman last week, hospital officials said Monday in an update on the ongoing investigation.
"It is a human error," Robert Gomes, CEO at St. Charles Bend and Redmond, told reporters at a news conference.
Macpherson's physician ordered an anti-seizure medicine, officials said, and the order was received correctly at the pharmacy.
But for as-yet unknown reasons, a worker at the pharmacy then put a paralyzing agent in the IV bag, instead of the prescribed anti-anxiety medicine. Yet the label on the bag indicated it contained the anti-anxiety medication.
"Because the label on the bag was that for the drug that had been ordered, the staff (at the ER) had no way of knowing the drug that was actually in the bag was not the one that was ordered," said Dr. Michel Boileau, chief clinical officer at St. Charles Bend.
After Loretta Macpherson, 65, of Sisters received the medication, a fire alarm went off. A staff member closed the sliding doors of Macpherson's room to protect her from fire hazards.
St. Charles Bend and Redmond Chief Nursing Officer Karen Reed said it took officials 20 minutes to notice the medication error.
This was a tragic case where a physician ordered an anti-seizure medicine for his patient, the order was received correctly at the pharmacy, but instead of the prescribed medication, a paralyzing agent was inadvertently placed in the patient's IV bag. While the content of the IV bag was wrong, because the labeling of the medication was correct, no one had any way of knowing that the drug was not the one that had been ordered. It was an error that cost a woman her life.
Without the proper safe-guards in place, pharmacy errors like this one happen in hospitals all over the country every day. Mistakes such as putting the wrong drug or wrong dose into the patient's prescription bottle, giving one patient a different patient's medication, or failing to prevent multiple drugs being prescribed that are contraindicated are just some of the errors that can result in tragedies like this one.
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CitiApp
Mobile app helping citizens with supply management and official information from the government in times of crisis
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We all have witnessed how many people went crazy in the supermarkets and stores with the virus outbreak. This led to the lack of supply, impacting people that were not able to be there at the right time. In addition, the social distancing policies created long queues - which also puts people at risk - without any guarantee that the desired products might be available.
Our App will provide an interface between citizens, the government and key city suppliers (such as supermarkets, hospitals, ...) to help rationing goods, managing supplies and minimizing risks of contamination with unnecessary gathering and waiting time.
We started by identifying who would be users and "clients", outlining their needs and our value proposition.
We translated needs into features necessary for the App to work, and eventually into an App screen map
We used the Justinmind prototyping tool to make a clickable prototype, accessible here https://bit.ly/39Ol1pj
Identifying the exact actors and defining a true value proposition required more time than expected. With the help of our Mentor, we reoriented the production plan to have something robust.
Accomplishments that we are proud of
Building a prototype in three days, when none of us had done it before
Conceptualizing a complete product from user's need to the release strategy
It is possible to build a project from scratch together with someone you just met over skype
It is key to identify where the biggest proposition is, and who you should join forces with for your product to have a chance to see the world
Prototyping with justmind
What's next for CitiApp
We want to build the App and make the booking functions available to any supermarket owner. To do so we want to:
Find one or more partners in the food distribution in Switzerland that would deploy the idea
Raise funds (maybe from these same partners) to pay the team and infrastructure to build the App (estimated to round CHF 40'000 for the V1)
Deploy the app in Switzerland in the stores of our partners, while making the app available to every store or supplier in the world
Once we will have enough users, we will see to partner up with the swiss confederation to deploy the solution for other institutions
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Alban LV
Rachel Wong Min
Avinav Banwait
Rachel Wong Min posted an update — Apr 05, 2020 05:39 AM EDT
Here is a link to our 1st prototype: https://www.justinmind.com/usernote/tests/46053389/46056774/46056776/index.html
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated :)
Alban LV started this project — Apr 03, 2020 09:20 AM EDT

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Despite running into frustrations when shopping online during the 2012 holiday season, more than half of U.S. and U.K consumers surveyed in a recent study reveal that they plan to do most of their holiday shopping online this year.
The Rackspace survey found that 55 percent of respondents experienced online frustrations last holiday season, with 44 percent of this group abandoning their purchase at some point and 34 percent trying a different website. The study shows that the top frustrations were cited as complicated check out procedures (29 percent) and slow-loading websites (25 percent).
Despite those frustrations, 86 percent of the survey respondents intend to purchase at least some element of their Christmas online, with 69 percent purchasing gifts, 13 percent purchasing holiday music and games and 14 percent purchasing travel tickets to visit family or friends. According to the data, 52 percent of the respondents plan on making their purchases in the evenings, which means that retailers must have their sites prepared to handle in influx of traffic.
That said, the study also sheds light on mobile's impact on the holidays, with 18 percent of respondents claiming they will shop online using a tablet, which is a significant increase from last year's 10 percent. Moreover, smartphone usage for online purchases also grew from 10 percent to 16 percent this year.
Further data suggests that the Internet has been intertwined into holiday traditions and is no longer just used as a way to shop. For example, 65 percent of respondents intend to go online on Christmas Day, with 31 percent planning to send greetings to friends and family and 21 percent going online to post pictures of their celebrations using cloud-powered social media channels. In addition, 19 percent will go online to play games, 17 percent will surf the Web and 12 percent will watch on demand TV.
According to Rackspace, online businesses (especially Internet retailers) should get prepared for the holidays by checking and testing their site's capacity in order to avoid slow sites during peak times. Plus, businesses should put support in place so that their site stays up and running throughout the entire season regardless of traffic numbers. The company also suggests that businesses consider increasing Web capacity with the public cloud in order to deliver better reliability. After the season is over, however, businesses should not overlook analyzing the performance of their site. By doing this, performance issues can be recognized and fixed immediately.


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Q: LINQ Confusion with Sum and comparison I am trying to determine what invoices still have a balance.  I am going thru the invoices via Entity Framework and attempting to calculate which ones have a subtotal greater than the amount of payments applied.
I have written the following 5 test cases
var test1 = _invoiceRepository.Where(x => x.Subtotal > 0);
var test2 = _invoiceRepository.Where(x => x.Payments.Sum(y => y.Amount) > 0);
var test3 = _invoiceRepository.Where(x => x.Payments.Sum(y => y.Amount) < 60);
var test4 = _invoiceRepository.Where(x => x.Payments.Sum(y => y.Amount) < x.Subtotal);
var test6 = _invoiceRepository.Where(x => x.Payments.Sum(y => y.Amount) == x.Subtotal);
var test7 = _invoiceRepository.Where(x => x.Payments.Sum(y => y.Amount) != x.Subtotal);

The results return this number of invoices
 test1: 392
 test2: 216
 test3: 126
 test4: 0
 test6: 215
 test7: 177

Test 1 says that I have invoices with a subtotal greater than 0.
Tests 2 & 3 say that I have payments applied to the invoices, and that I can sum them correctly.
Tests 4 is where I get confused.  I can't get any records returned that compare a sum to a decimal in the table.    I've tried variations with parenthesis around everything, but to no avail.
Test 6 & 7 were suggested and those work, but what if the payments were less than the sum?  Or greater (which happened)?
How do I modify my LINQ to return the invoices that have a balance?
Thanks in advance!

A: Note that test4 and test5 are the same expression.
But in case this is a paste error, aren't the sum of payments equal to the subtotal? You are no taking into account cases where there is an equality.
var test6 = _invoiceRepository.Where(x => x.Payments.Sum(y => y.Amount) == x.Subtotal);

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Q: Pseudo-random algorithm I would like to create a pseudo-random algorithm on a sequence.
The sequence would look like:
A B C D E F A B C D E F A B C D E F A B C D E F...

The algorithm shall aim to create a shorter random sequence of these letters, the rules being:

*

*never 2 identical letters following each other (e.g. A A B C D). This one is quite easy, troubles come after.

*dyads can be repeated only twice (e.g. A B A B A C B D is ok but A B C D A B A B is not);

*tryads should never be repeated (e.g. A B C D A B C not ok).

I am not really good at algorithms, and I have tried to make this one work for a long time but did not manage, so I hope you can help me!

A: You can use a backtracking algorithm, keeping track of the previous two characters an the counts of pairs and triplets of characters seen so far. Then just recursively generate all the valid sequences. To make this more random, you can sample/shuffle the order in which characters are tried in each recursive call.
If you implement this as a generator (e.g. in Python), you can use it to generate all, or just the next such combination. Otherwise, just return the first solution that you find.
Example in Python:
import collections, random
def backtrack(available, n, counts, last=None, lastlast=None):
    if n == 0:
        yield []
    else:
        for c in random.sample(list(available), len(available)):
            # check constraints
            if available[c] == 0: continue
            if c == last: continue
            if last is not None and counts[c+last] > 1: continue
            if lastlast is not None and counts[c+last+lastlast] > 0: continue
            # update counts
            available[c] -= 1
            if last: counts[c+last] += 1
            if lastlast: counts[c+last+lastlast] += 1
            # recursive call to get remainder
            for rest in backtrack(available, n-1, counts, c, last):
                yield [c] + rest
            # reset counts
            available[c] += 1
            if last: counts[c+last] -= 1
            if lastlast: counts[c+last+lastlast] -= 1

Example:
lst = "A B C D E F A B C D E F A B C D E F A B C D E F".split()
print(next(backtrack(collections.Counter(lst), 6, collections.Counter())))
print(next(backtrack(collections.Counter(lst), 6, collections.Counter())))
print(next(backtrack(collections.Counter(lst), 6, collections.Counter())))
res = list(backtrack(collections.Counter(lst), 6, collections.Counter()))
print(len(res))

Output:
['A', 'C', 'B', 'A', 'E', 'A']
['A', 'F', 'A', 'E', 'D', 'A']
['E', 'D', 'E', 'F', 'E', 'B']
18360

However, depending on your list and the number of elements to take from it, it might also work to just generate random samples from the list and checking the constraints until you find one that works.


Re: 5K Posts- So what?
I can hardly wait for the day I hit 5,000 posts.
What a joyous day that will be.
Why not call him? We are, after all, living a new age.
should I just pick a name out in the phone book???
the problem is, I dont know any guys ...........much less anyone to date.
Sorry, I thought you were referring to someone specific.
Why not try that speed dating thing? A co-worker of mine did it, and she said it was ok. Although none of her dates that night turned into a long-term relationship.
I was thinking of doing those.............we'll see. I was also thinking of joining e-harmony again.........not looking forward to a long cold lonely winter (again).
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Losing a partner is devastating whatever the circumstances, but the death of a traveller had an additional impact on his wife and their four children as it left the family with no access to money. The Traveller Education service was already involved with the family and contacted Surrey Community Action for support. After a numerous joint visits we were able to contact the relevant organisations, re- instate their benefits and get the required health care for the mother.
The result of this partnership working prevented the children from being taken into care which would have added considerable pressure to both the family and social services. The three youngest children are now stable in school and the eldest son entered a mainstream comprehensive school in September 2013. Surrey Community Action and the Traveller Education service still remain in close contact with each other, and the family, which results in any furthers issues being resolved quickly and positively.


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Push-Ups And Sit-Ups Will Add Years To Your Life
Trending News: The World's Worst Body Weight Exercises Are, Of Course, Essential
Toby McCasker
Because you thought you could just get away with agonising cardio.
A giant study has revealed, irritatingly, that the humble push-up and humbler sit-up could add years to your life.
Although Charlie Hunnam swore by the sword of furious body weight training to get in shape for King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, denial is an easy commodity to come by when deciding whether to push up or even, in this day and age of Netflix, simply sit up. There's a good reason the military keeps it simple with these two fundamentals, but for many they can somehow seem a lot more laborious than hitting a circuit on the machines. Push-ups too can also be hard on thin, aristocratic wrists and sit-ups have the tendency to murder an already maimed lower back.
So it's great news, then, that a new study from the University of Sydney has finally confirmed what Hunnam literally and figuratively worked out: Strength training is just as integral for your health as cardio, and push-ups and sit-ups are the best bet. The observational study is the largest of its kind, and looked at the "mortality outcomes of different types of exercise" in a pooled population of over 80,306 respondents to the NHS Central Mortality Register's England and Scottish Health Survey.
"The study shows exercise that promotes muscular strength may be just as important for health as aerobic activities like jogging or cycling," stated lead author and Associate Professor at the School of Public Health, Emmanuel Stamatakis. "And assuming our findings reflect cause and effect relationships, it may be even more vital when it comes to reducing risk of death from cancer."
Ultimately, Stamatakis and his team found that strength-based exercises reduced the risk of non-specific premature death by 23%, and, most interestingly, reduced the risk of cancer-specific death by 31%. Those parts are great, but where do the dreaded push-up and the dreader-er sit-up factor into all this?
"When people think of strength training they instantly think of doing weights in a gym, but that doesn't have to be the case," noted Stamatakis. "Many people are intimidated by gyms, the costs or the culture they promote, so it's great to know that anyone can do classic exercises like triceps dips, sit-ups, push-ups or lunges in their own home or local park and potentially reap the same health benefits."
By what mechanism does exercise stave off cancer?
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Alright but what if you're paraplegic.
For grown-ass adult people, the World Health Organisation's Physical Activity Guidelines recommend no less than 150 minutes of aerobic activity per week with "two days" of additional muscle strengthening activities on top. That's not a lot the manage for the average person, and adhering to just this regimen has now been shown to shoo death away from claiming your soul.
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The usual cases are uncomplicated cellulitis.
Click on the link for supporting documentation which go into more details.
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Taparty
Ana Lozar
Outset has always been very supportive. I feel I can always contact them for friendly and reliable advice
Ana's story
With a lifelong love of cooking inspired by happy childhood memories of helping out in the family kitchen, Madrid born Ana Lozar has launched her own Spanish food business.
Ana admitted that she has a real passion for cooking borne out of spending time creating with her late mum in the kitchen.
"She has been my inspiration and the real reason why I decided to set up Taparty," shared Ana.
A move from her native Spain to Lanzarote in 2003 saw Ana meet her partner Tom, originally from Cornwall, and another source of inspiration for Ana. After 9 years living in the Canary Islands and now with a family to support, Ana and her husband decided to relocate to Cornwall in April 2017.
"My husband has always encouraged me to turn my passion for cooking into a business venture," said Ana. "Once I was living in Cornwall, it felt like I was in the right place and that it was the right time to make this dream come true."
With a huge helping of enthusiasm and carefully honed culinary skills, Ana recognised that she also needed professional advice and guidance to start her business.
Searching online for business start-up support in Cornwall, Ana came across the tailored and targeted advice and guidance from Outset Cornwall.
Praising the help she has received from the team, Ana shared, "Outset has always been very supportive. I feel I can always contact them for friendly and reliable advice."
Ana is keen for her business to reflect the Spanish tapas culture, which is very much a way of life in her native Spain. Taparty offers a wide selection of tapas, all distinctive of different parts of Spain, bringing to your table the most popular tapas and also those less well known but equally tasty and delicious.
Passionate about sharing her delicious homemade dishes throughout Cornwall, Ana offers a private chef service, bringing a bespoke menu to enjoy in the comfort of clients' own homes. She holds Spanish cookery classes to inspire others to create their own authentic dishes. Ana has also been bringing her brand of street food to the markets and festivals of Cornwall as well as offering paella parties to self-catering holiday cottages and wood-fired grill parties with sangria on the beach for surf clubs and hen parties.
Looking to the future Ana's vision is for Taparty to become a profitable business and to be well known for bringing to Cornwall a loyal reflection of Spanish culture. She would also love to start and Academy for Spanish Cookery in Cornwall.


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Home Who's Who Duke Moore Judo and Jujitsu
Duke Moore Judo and Jujitsu
Duke Moore was born in San Francisco on April 19, 1915 and passed away on February 25, 2003. Even as a child Duke loved were boxing and wrestling. He began boxing in 1932 during high school, traveling from gym to gym to train. He was also training in wrestling at the same time.
In 1941 Duke became a Judo and Ju jitsu student of Ray Law's and his wrestling skills were of great value to him in judo competitions.
In 1943, having learned the requirements for a Black Belt degree from Ray Law including Yawara, Shime, Oku, and Shinin, Duke Moore traveled to New York to study Judo randori under George Yoshida. While Duke was there, he studied Aiki-Ju Jitsu under the renowned Henri Nikai. After winning his judo Black Belt in competition, Duke returned to San Francisco and opened up his first martial arts school (dojo) located on Divisidero St. It was the largest school of it's kind in the United States and many Black Belt Judo and Ju Jitsu practitioners visited the school.
These men and women helped further Duke's knowledge of both Judo and Ju Jitsu. Nationally famed Mitz Kimura introduced himself to Duke in 1946. He had recently been discharged from the LA detention camps where most of the people of Japanese ancestry were constrained for the duration of World War II. Kimura was immediately hired by Duke as his associate; but more important, as Duke's teacher. Over one third of Duke's Aiki Ju Jitsu course is comprise of Kodokan jujitsu taught to Duke by Prof. Kimura. Great teachers from all over the world were visiting Duke's school, which had now moved up to upper Market St. where it became the fountain head of Black Belts graduated by Duke during during the next 20 years.
In 1947-1948, Duke Moore and Ray Law founded the American Judo and Ju Jitsu Federation. Co-founders were Bud Estes, Johnny Cahill Sr. And Dick Rickets. In 1950 Duke Moore resigned because a motion was passed to restrict membership to Black Belt graduates of Henry Okosaka system. Duke founded a system opened to all advocates of the martial arts and produced many judo champions like Vince Larat, Tony Trouche, Dick Blattes, Bill Godfrey, Del and Dino Esposti, Ivo Rejo and Don Buck.
In 1957 the legendary Mas Oyama was hired By Duke Moore and Don Buck, one of his Black Belts, to teach the Oyama's Kyokushin system of Karate.
In 1962, Duke invited Professor Nishiyama up from Los Angeles to teach he, and 20 of his Black Belt's, the Shotokan system of karate. Duke, together with Richard "Biggie" Kim, Walter Todd, and Del De Esposti, formed the Northern California Karate Federation which later sponsored Nishiyama Shotokan tournament held at S.F. Kesar Pavilion.
In 1965 Duke and Biggie Kim trained 20 of Duke's Black Belts, eventually awarding them their Black Belt degrees in Shorin-gi-ryu karate. Biggie Kim also trained Duke Moore privately, helping him earn his 7th dan in Aiki-Ju Jitsu, 4th dan in Judo, and 4th in karate in 1966.
In 1973 Duke moved to Mountain View California and began teaching mixed Judo, Ju Jitsu and Karate at Stanford University. Two of his outstanding students graduated to become high ranking professors of the martial arts, Tim Delgman and James Moses. In 1981 Duke left Stanford to form the American Teachers Association Of The Martial Arts (ATAMA) which grew into an international organization.
American Teachers Association of the Martial Arts
The American Teachers Association of the Martial Arts was founded in 1981 in San Francisco, California. Paradoxically, it became a viable organization only because of an "afterthought." The original plan was to expand Zen Budokai, a credentialing organization founded by me in 1960. Its purpose was to promote members of the top ten blackbelters to the ranks of Masters and Professors.
Because it became apparent to me that many of the masters of the various systems were either retiring or going into semi-retirement by not even wearing their gi while in their own dojos, I felt that it was time for the Budokai instructors to begin assuming the responsibilities commensurate with the ranks of Master and Professor. I called for a meeting of all interested black belters then teaching in the San Francisco Bay Area to discuss and solidify these views.
The meeting was held at the Sutro Cliff House Restaurant in San Francisco. It was attended by not only active members of the Zen Budokai, but also by instructors of independent schools scattered throughout the bay area. They liked what they heard and I liked what I saw – a conglomeration of martial arts systems: Kenpo, Kempo, Tai Kwon Do, Shotokan, Zen Budokai, Aiki Budokai, and self-defense schools who taught a mixture of karate, Kung Fu, and Juijitsu.
Budokai diplomas were awarded to all teachers attending the meeting, including Rick Alemany, 8th Degree, Jerry Streeter, 8th Degree, John Pereira, 7th Degree, Leroy Rodrigues, 7th Degree, Jerry Kunzman, 7th Degree, Harold Gets, 7th Degree, James A Moses Jr, 5th Degree, Harry Sherman, 5th Degree, Art Buckley, 5th Degree, Don Jordan, 5th Degree, Bill Grossman, 5th Degree, Sonny Allen, 5th Degree, and Marge Alemany, 5th Degree.
After awarding the diplomas, I then proposed that all the charter members now form an entirely new organization with an entirely new concept – the concept of teachers of every system of the martial arts working together to disseminate all elements of the martial arts through the media of local and national seminars. It was to be a democratic teachers organization whereby the arts and techniques of each school would be mutually shared.
Two weeks later, the name of this organization became ATAMA – American Teachers Association of the Martial Arts. It was born on the 19th day of December, 1981, nurtured through the early '80's, and reached maturity as of 1992, when the Sacramento chapter was founded. Bernie Weiss founded the Southern Counties chapter and was elected its first president. From this state-wide size ATAMA rapidly grew to national prominence with the establishment of the Mid-America and High Plains chapters in 1994. The Mid-America chapter being founded by James Copeland and Mike Smith of Missouri, Howard High of Kansas, and Elmar Schmeisser of Kentucky, whereas the High Plains chapter was established by Don Phillip, Chuck Smith (both of Colorado) and Mel Griggs of Nebraska.
At the time of this writing, (1995), the North Atlantic chapter has recently been formed with Harold Glackin as President, Jose Guzman as Vice-President, and Russell St Hillaire as the Secretary. Chapter organization activities are currently in progress in Puerto Rico (Bill Solano), El Salvador (Milton Navarro), and Australia (Barry Bradshaw and David Vaughn). In fact, ATAMA's growth towards international proportions is clearly indicated by the first ATAMA formation seminar to be held overseas in Sydney, Australia in July of 1995. To reflect this the National Board has adopted the ITAMA name and logo for our non-U. S. members.
Raymond Duke Moore, Judan
The above history of ATAMA was written by Professor Raymond "Duke" Moore, and can be found on page VI of the 1995 edition of Who's Who in ATAMA. It is copied above in its entirety.
About Duke Moore From JUJUTSU Our History
by Russell St. Hilaire
Second Edition, 1993
Duke Moore began his many years of Martial Arts study in 1941 with Raymond Law at Law's American Judo & Jujutsu School in Oakland, California.
He also studied Kodenkan Jujutsu under Merlin "Bud" Estes at the Chico, CA dojo where Estes Sensei founded the American Judo And Jujutsu Federation. Moore Sensei received his Jujutsu Blackbelt in 1944 from Law Sensei. Also in 1944, Moore Sensei received his Blackbelt in Kodokan Judo from Sensei Gerogre Yoshida in New York City, NY. In 1957 he received his Blackbelt in Kyokushin Karate from Master Masutatsu Oyama (10th dan Kyokushin Karate). In 1965 Moore Sensei received the rank of 7th Dan (Shichidan, Prof.) in Aiki-Jujutsu from Master Richard Kim, representative of the Dai Nippon Butokukai of Kyoto, Japan. Master Kim also awarded Moore Sensei 4th Dan (Yodan) in both Kodokan Judo and Karate. In 1975 Duke Moore was awarded the rank of 9th Dan (Kudan, Kyoshi) in Aiki-Jujutsu by the Zen Budo Society. Sensei Moore also studied other aspects of the Martial Arts with Mits Kimura (6th Dan Judo) [Kimura was actually 7th Dan — DFG], Walter Todd (4th Dan Karate), Takahashi Sensei (5th Dan Karate, 4th Dan Aikido), and Yosh Ajari (4th Dan Karate). Raymond Moore opened his first dojo in San Francisco, CA in 1944. The school was called the Zen Budokai and eventually established six branches throughout the San Francisco area. In 1955 he was hired by the state of California to set up self-defense training programs for all guards, officers and civilian employees of the eight California prisons. He personally developed and trained the teaching staff. During his 46 years as a teacher of Zen meditation and the martial arts he has graduated over 300 Blackbelt instructors in Jujutsu and Karate. He has taught Jujutsu to dozens of police departments, colleges, Marine, Army and Navy reserve units. Moore Sensei founded the Holistic Meditation Society in 1979 and wrote two books on Zen meditation, The Fighting Spirit of Zen and Holistic Meditation.
On 25 October 1980, The Zen Budo Society awarded Raymond V. "Duke" Moore the rank of 10th dan. He was given a certificate which reads as follows:
Whereas he has mastered, taught and demonstrated in his life and work the philosophical truths and spiritual forces of Aiki and Budo; and in recognition of his being a Master Sensei and practitioner of over forty-five years experience in the martial art of Aiki Jujutsu, the Zen Budokai hereby awards to its founder Duke Moore the title, rank and honor of hanshi-judan (10th degree).
Moore Sensei was the chief instructor of the Stanford University Self-Defense Club with a staff of 12 Blackbelt assistants. He was counselor assistant to the chief instructor, Sensei John Pereira, the founder of the San Francisco Karate-Do School of Martial Arts.
Chief instructors under Moore Sensei were Sensei John Pereira, Sensei Leroy Rodriguez, Sensei James Moses, Sensei Jerome Kunzman, and several others.
Hanshi Raymond V. "Duke" Moore passed away at 4:40 pm PST on February 25, 2003 in Sacramento, California. He was a practitioner of JuJitsu for more than 60 years. He was the founder and leader of the ZenBudo-Ryu system of Self Defense and the founder of the Martial Arts Organization ATAMA. He is sorely missed!
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Kids, Age 12, Can Now Get Vaccinated. Will NYC Public Schools Help Get Shots Into Arms?
CHALKBEAT
Now that children as young as age 12 are eligible for Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine, the next step is getting their families to sign them up for it.
While Shake Shack is trying to lure New Yorkers with a free side of French fries, and the Mets and Yankees are offering free ballgame tickets, one group in the Bronx is giving shots at a Bronx charter school and is paying vaccine recipients $50 per dose. A Brooklyn private school, meanwhile, brought the vaccine to their high school campus last month.
The city's education department has not yet disclosed what role it will play in vaccinating students. Still, Health Commissioner Dr. Dave Chokshi this week suggested the nation's largest school system will be involved in administering the vaccine.
"We're also actively working with community pediatricians and the Department of Education, who will be critical to both administering the vaccine as well as communicating with parents and guardians about its safety," Chokshi told reporters during the mayor's press conference on Wednesday.
Education department officials declined to comment further. Both Chokshi and Mayor Bill de Blasio have encouraged families to sign their children up for appointments, though people can also walk into some city-run sites.
Vaccinating children is a big piece of the school reopening puzzle, as New York City parents and school leaders await key details about what classrooms will look like in the fall. It's especially important as de Blasio has insisted on opening schools five days a week to all students, as he has waffled on whether a remote option will also be available.
The vaccination rate could quell some safety fears among the more than 60% of students now learning virtually full time.
At the same time, some parents, even those who have been vaccinated themselves, are hesitant about their children getting jabbed because of concerns over allergies and their development. Clinical trials have found the vaccine to be 100% effective and safe among children.
There is precedent for inoculating students on campus. In 1947, in the fight against smallpox, New York City vaccinated roughly 889,000 students in schools within just one month. There are also some efforts underway to bring the coronavirus vaccine to campuses.
On Monday, Bronx Rising, a nonprofit that has hosted more than a dozen vaccine pop-ups throughout the borough, will host its first at a school.
The organization — which is partnering with Morris Heights Health Center — will offer the Pfizer vaccine to students, teachers, and staff at the Mott Haven Academy Charter School, as well as others in the surrounding community.
In another first, they will offer $50 in prepaid VISA gift cards for each dose to anyone who gets vaccinated at the school pop-up event, said Jason Autar, chief operating officer for Bronx Rising. The parent coordinator at the school, which serves elementary and middle school students, is devising a list of people in the community who are interested in getting shots and has also informed a neighboring public school of the event, he said.
"We're really trying to target younger folks because we're seeing there is hesitation for whatever reason, so we want to meet kids where they're at," Autar said. "We think partnering with community institutions such as schools is the next way to inoculate as many people as possible."
The school is located in the 10454 ZIP code, part of the nation's poorest congressional district. There, just 45% of all adults — who have been eligible since April 6 —have received at least one dose, compared to 49% across the Bronx and 57% citywide, according to the most recent city data available. Autar said one reason the organization approached this particular charter school was its focus on providing extra services to students in foster care.
"For us, with access points opening up, it's important for us to try to find more vulnerable folks," Autar said.
The organization, which has averaged about 150 people at their pop-ups, is open to partnering with more schools that show interest, Autar added.
On the other side of the economic spectrum, officials at Brooklyn's Poly Prep Country Day School, a private school where tuition is nearly $54,000 a year, brought a vaccine clinic last month to the school's upper campus in Dyker Heights to administer the first dose to those ages 16 and up. (Until the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the emergency use of the Pfizer vaccine for children 12 and up on May 10, only older teens were eligible to get the jab.)
The school vaccinated more than 30 teens, representing about 10% of its eligible students at the time, Poly officials said.
"Offering the vaccine right here at Poly helps overcome the barriers that some of our kids face, such as a parent needing to take a day off from work to visit a clinic," said Sarah Zuercher, a nurse practitioner and Poly's director of health and well-being. "We hope to be a part of a growing school-based vaccine effort that will make schools safer and can also play an important role in the New York CIty's ground game effort to get every eligible person vaccinated."
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There were two basic types of instrument stands that I had used. One is an upright stand with arms on both sides (such as the K&M Baritone Stand or the Nomad Collapsible Tuba/Euphonium Stand), which is probably the best choice for a display stand. It has a small footprint and holds the horn securely, but it is somewhat more "fussy" when you insert and remove the horn. Its weight is about 5 pounds. The Hercules stand is more of a horn rest, and is probably a better choice for the practice room. It cradles the instrument fairly securely, but would not be as secure on a display floor, where it might get bumped and jostled. But it is great for setting the horn in several times during a practice session or for storage at home. Its weight is about 10 pounds. My remaining comments here will be about the Hercules.
This thing is sturdy! In the photo the yellow joint at the legs looks like plastic, but it is metal, just like the rest of the structural pieces. Both "arms" are adjustable, and the spread of the legs is also adjustable. I have the legs set fairly wide for stability. If you were to use it in a shared space, you would have to find the best combination of wideness (for stability) and narrowness (for less "tripping" potential). The rubber padding seems to be of high quality and has a nice friction factor.
The design allows you to put the horn in with the mouthpiece pointing more down or more up. For between-session storage of my horn, I like to leave it with the mouthpiece downward. We have some Japanese beetles and spiders in our basement that might land in the mouthpiece otherwise! For the same reason, when I'm done for the day I put a cloth over the bell opening.
My current experiment is to leave the horn in this stand instead of my gig bag. The theory is the horn can get a little air for natural drying, so perhaps I won't grow so many cultures in the bottom of the valves! There is no air circulation inside a standard case. So far, the valve oil does not seem to evaporate any sooner this way, which is handy.
As mentioned above, putting the horn down on the stand and picking it up again are both totally easy and smooth, so it is very compatible with a practice routine that may have a few small breaks or interruptions (mine almost always do).
If the stand were intended only for euphonium, they might have wanted to tighten the curves' radius on the resting cradles. They are larger than needed for euphonium. However, their stickiness is ample to keep the horn from moving unexpectedly. The stand is made to work for a tuba as well. I haven't tried my EEb Sovereign in the stand yet, but I have no doubt the stand is amply strong for this heavy horn.
Kudos to Hercules for a well-thought-out design and for good execution in production!
Below are links to the stands mentioned.
I find if you raise the arm where the bell rests to its full height, the bell will sit comfortably there and make the euphonium rest in a more stable position without needing to have the lower cradles be any tighter.
Good point! I just assumed the smaller setting would be best, but I'll play around with the arms a bit. Thanks!


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Q: How does Nginx communicate with upstreames? Nginx uses epoll to communicate clients and it's very efficient, but how Nginx communicate with upstreams, I google and get a answer from quora http://www.quora.com/How-can-nginx-handle-concurrent-requests-with-a-single-worker-process, but the answer doesn't answer the question, I check the source code of Nginx,it has a implementation of thread pool ,the file: http://trac.nginx.org/nginx/browser/nginx/src/core/ngx_thread_pool.c I don't good at C, so I don't know how nignx use the thread pool.
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We must plan the driverless city to avoid being hostage to the technology revolution
By John Stone, Carey Curtis, Crystal Legacy & Jan Scheurer
Trials of autonomous cars and buses have begun on the streets of Australian cities. Communications companies are moving to deploy the lasers, cameras and centimetre-perfect GPS that will enable a vehicle to navigate the streets of your town or city without a driver.
Most research and commentary is telling us how the new machines will work, but not how they might shape our cities. The talk is of the benefits of new shared transport economies, but these new technologies will shape our built environment in ways that are not yet fully understood. There's every chance that, if mismanaged, driverless technologies will entrench the ills of car dependency.
As with Uber and the taxi industry, public sector planners and regulators will be forced to respond to the anger of those displaced by the new products the IT and automobile industries will bring to the market. But can we afford to wait?
Three competing interests
Three distinct groups are giving form to the idea of driverless vehicles. Each has its own corporate proponents and target markets, and its own, often competing, demands on citizens, regulators and planners. Each will make its own demands on our streets and public spaces.
First, the traditional car makers are adding "driverless" features to their existing products. They have no compelling interest in changing the current individual ownership model. Their target consumer is someone who values private vehicle ownership and enjoys driving.
These carmakers' challenge is to win over drivers sceptical about "their" car doing things they can't control, whether that is behaving differently in traffic or performing unescorted journeys. But, if successful, these new cars will make driving easier and so encourage more travel and ever-expanding suburbs.
Second, cashed-up IT disruptors like Google and Uber see new types of vehicles and new patterns of ownership as the basis for new transport economies. They want lightweight, utilitarian "robo-taxis" owned by a corporation and rented by the trip. Travellers will use phone apps or their next-generation successors to do this. This, in the jargon, is "mobility as a service".
These companies' ambition is to carve out a large niche in competition with private cars, taxis, conventional public transport and even non-motorised transport. Fleets of shared vehicles in constant circulation can reduce the number of individually owned cars and, in particular, the need for parking.
In some circumstances, this may support more compact urban forms. But while sustainability or social objectives might be part of the pitch, the profit motive remains dominant.
Third, public transport operators can see opportunities and challenges in driverless technologies. Already, Vancouver reaps the benefits of lower operating costs for its driverless elevated-rail system.
In Vancouver, the train pulls into a station with no driver on board.
Savvy operators understand that new vehicle technology is only valuable if it is integrated with traditional public transport services and with cycling and walking. This means central coordination. Vitally, it also requires control of the information platforms needed to provide multimodal mobility.
Such levels of planning and regulation conflict with Google's "disruptive" free-market ambitions. European operators, who are in a more powerful position in economic and social life than their Australian counterparts, are already mobilising for this contest.
Whatever the technology, transport needs space
Many claims for the benefits of driverless technologies rely on the complete transformation of the existing vehicle fleet. But the transition will not be smooth or uniform. Autonomous vehicles will face a significant period of mixed operation with traditional vehicles.
Freeways are likely to be the first roads on which the new vehicles will be able to operate. Promoters of these vehicles might join forces with the conventional car lobby to demand extra lanes. This would dash the hopes of many that driverless cars will lead to reduced space for mass movement of cars.
After the freeways, the next objective will be to bring driverless cars, trucks and buses onto city streets. This will require complex systems of sensors and cameras.
The ambition is to allow all users to share road space much more safely than they do today. But, if a driverless vehicle will never hit a jaywalker, what will stop every pedestrian and cyclist from simply using the street as they please? Some analysts are predicting that the new vehicles will be slower than conventional driving, partly because the current balance of fear will be upset.
Already active travellers are struggling to assert their right to the streets of Australian cities. Just imagine how much worse it would be if a dominant autonomous-vehicle fleet operator demanded widespread fencing of roadways to keep bikes and pedestrians out of the way.
The presence of driverless cars cannot alter the fact that space for urban transport is severely constrained. For travel within and between compact urban centres, we will need more and better high-capacity mass transit as well as first-class conditions for walking and cycling.
The integration of conventional public transport networks with shared autonomous vehicles, large and small, offers many opportunities for a much improved service. But that will happen only if this objective is the major focus of investment, innovation, planning and regulation.
Researchers and policymakers need to move rapidly to gain a holistic and systematic understanding of the multiplicity of driverless-vehicle scenarios and the potential harm that some might contain. The technologies are not an unalloyed good, and governments will need to do more than just be "open for business".
John Stone is Senior Lecturer in Transport Planning at the University of Melbourne; Carey Curtis is Professor of City Planning and Transport at Curtin University; Crystal Legacy is Australian Research Council (DECRA) Fellow and Vice Chancellor's Research Fellow at the Centre for Urban Research, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University; and Jan Scheurer is Senior Research Fellow at Curtin University. This article was originally published on The Conversation.
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