The Minnesota Wild gave up a lot to acquire Victor Rask earlier this season, but have only received ten games out of the 26-year old center after he suffered an injury and was forced out of the lineup. That's about to change, as Rask has been activated from injured reserve today and is expected to make his return to the lineup tonight.
Rask was supposed to come into Minnesota and help them strengthen the middle of the ice, but had just two points through those ten games before going on injured reserve. In fact, he'd been demoted to the fourth line and played just over seven minutes in each of the games before his injury, a stark difference to the impact that Nino Niederreiter has made for the Carolina Hurricanes. Niederreiter, who was traded straight up for Rask, has 21 points in 22 games with the Hurricanes including 11 goals.
A return to form for Rask would be a huge addition for the Wild, who are currently in the midst of a last-second playoff race. The team has changed several of their key players this season but now sit in the final wild card spot in the Western Conference, just a point ahead of the hard charging Arizona Coyotes. If Rask could once again become the 48-point center he was in 2015-16 the Wild may have a good shot at doing some damage in the post season, but he'll have to prove he's healthy enough to contribute at all first.
The NHL is busy tonight with nine games on the schedule, including a Central Division battle between the Nashville Predators and Dallas Stars. With the St. Louis Blues on a ten game winning streak, the Stars are just trying to keep pace in the playoff race while the Predators try to hold onto second spot. As teams prepare for that action we'll be right here keeping track of all the minor moves.
The Winnipeg Jets have recalled Tucker Poolman as Dustin Byfuglien deals with another injury. Byfuglien will miss the next few games, meaning Poolman is up to serve as the team's seventh defenseman. The 25-year old has played 30 games for the Manitoba Moose this year, but is still waiting to make his season debut in the NHL.
Ashton Sautner has been recalled by the Vancouver Canucks as they deal with several injuries to their defense corps. Sautner, 24, played in five games for the Canucks last year but has spent this entire season in the minor leagues.
With Victor Rask moved to injured reserve, the Minnesota Wild have recalled Cal O'Reilly from the AHL. O'Reilly has 38 points in 43 games with the Iowa Wild this season and has long been an exceptional minor league player. The 32-year old has yet to make his season debut for Minnesota. UPDATE: O'Reilly has been sent back to the minor leagues already.
Dale Weise is on his way back to the minor leagues, this time to make room on the roster for Paul Byron. The Montreal Canadiens have activated Byron from injured reserve, a huge boost to their team as they search for a playoff berth in the Eastern Conference.
Blake Coleman has been activated from injured reserve by the New Jersey Devils, meaning the end of the run for Nick Lappin. The Devils sent Lappin back to the AHL today after just three games in the NHL.
Jan Rutta has been recalled by the Tampa Bay Lightning as Victor Hedman deals with a minor injury. Mathieu Joseph has been returned to the AHL to make room on the roster for another defenseman. Hedman is not expected to be out long.
It's been more than two months since Victor Rask was forced to get surgery on his hand after an incident suffered while slicing food in his kitchen, but the Carolina Hurricanes are finally going to get him back. After welcoming him back to practice recently, the team has activated Rask off of season-opening injured reserve making him eligible to play tonight against the Toronto Maple Leafs if possible. Clark Bishop has been sent back to the AHL's Charlotte Checkers to make room on the roster.
Rask, 25, is an important piece for the Hurricanes even if he hasn't turned into the offensive powerhouse that some believed he could be after his first few seasons. Selected 42nd overall in 2011, Rask came out flying as a rookie in 2014-15 and recorded his first 20-goal season in 2015-16. Unfortunately that was also his only 20-goal season so far, as his point totals have dipped the last two years and are in danger of doing so for a third given the quarter of season he's already missed.
Still, with Elias Lindholm gone to Calgary the Hurricanes will welcome back Rask with open arms to give them some more depth up front. A natural center, he should be able to help a group that hasn't been able to find much consistency in the middle. Sebastian Aho has moved back to the position with great success this season after playing wing his first two years in the NHL, but Jordan Staal and Lucas Wallmark, the other two most common options in the middle, have both struggled offensively. Rask's two-way ability should allow Carolina to do some different things with their forward group, and give them a much more balanced attack.
Rask, 25, is a very important player for the Hurricanes this season after they traded away Elias Lindholm and Jeff Skinner while failing to bring in any additional center help. Selected in the second round seven years ago, Rask reached a career high in 2015-16 with 21 goals and 48 points but has taken steps backwards ever since. While the Hurricanes have other young players like Andrei Svechnikov and Martin Necas ready to make an impact up front, this is already a big hit to their offensive group.
There's no clear timetable for Rask, but with camp starting and the regular season just a few weeks away there is cause for concern in Carolina. The new coaching and management group will have more than just this injury to deal with this season, but it's an unfortunate way to start things off. The team has struggled to compete for the playoffs for several years, and with an unproven tandem in net and now more uncertainty up front we'll have to wait and see just what head coach Rod Brind'Amour can pull off early in the year.
In a follow-up story about New York Islanders and John Tavares upcoming free agency, The Athletic's Arthur Staple (subscription required) writes that the Islanders' Lou Lamoriello left the draft to fly to Los Angeles to be nearby while Tavares meets with the teams that he and his representatives have invited to speak with him. Lamoriello will meet with Tavares last in hopes of keeping the superstar in the fold.
As reported earlier, it is believed that he will meet with the Toronto Maple Leafs, San Jose Sharks, and Dallas Stars and possibly the Tampa Bay Lightning, Vegas Golden Knights and the Montreal Canadiens, although that isn't too clear so far. However, Staples writes that an earlier rumor today that the Islanders made an eight-year, $88MM deal may not be accurate. He believes in the end, whether offered by the Islanders or another team, that Tavares will be making $12MM per year, which Lamoriello has said that ownership has said that money is no object.
Sportsnet's Chris Johnston reported that the Carolina Hurricanes intend to keep defenseman Dougie Hamilton, who the team acquired in the five-player trade earlier today. The scribe said the team had no intention of flipping the blueliner for more assets. Hamilton should provide the team with a No. 1 defenseman to go with their core of young blueliners. The six-year veteran is only just 25 years old and put up 17 goals and 44 points last season.
Pierre LeBrun of The Athletic (subscription required) writes that the Carolina Hurricanes were supposedly close on sending winger Victor Rask to the Montreal Canadiens, but the asking price of two second-round picks in this draft (including the No. 35 pick) was too much for the Canadiens. The 25-year-old winger still has four years at $4MM AAV and seems to have regressed somewhat since a 21 goal season back in 2015-16.
The New York Rangers had three first-round picks in this latest draft with much speculation wondering if general manager Jeff Gorton would use those picks as assets to either acquire a pro-ready player or even to move up in the draft. Instead, the Rangers used all three picks (albeit, they traded up late in the first-round). NHL.com's Dan Rosen reports that Gorton said he was never close to making a deal this weekend. Gorton said he was ready to change his draft strategy if he got a trade offer he liked, but never got one. "I would say there was probably less conversations than I anticipated," Gorton said.
While it's not a big surprise, the play of San Jose rental Evander Kane has opened some eyes in the NHL. In 15 games with the Sharks, the 26-year-old has put up nine goals and five assists, showing he has the skills to be the star winger that many teams thought he could be despite some mid-season struggles with the Buffalo Sabres.
Kurz also mentions in his mailbag feature that it is extremely likely the team will buyout defenseman Paul Martin, who has one more year next season at $4.85MM. The 37-year-old blueliner has slowed down and has only managed to appear in 10 games for the Sharks this year and spent 18 games with the San Jose Barracuda of the AHL, the first time he's ever played in the AHL. A buyout would save the Sharks $2.83MM in cap space for next season, which they might want if they intend to sign a big-named free agent.
Helene St. James of the Detroit Free Press writes that 2017 first-round pick Michael Rasmussen has been playing some of the best hockey of his career in the WHL playoffs. One big difference is that the center has occasionally moved to the wing during recent games due to his excellent chemistry with Carolina Hurricane's prospect Morgan Geekie. His success at the wing could be a good sign if the 19-year-old prospect hopes to make the Red Wings squad out of training camp. Rasmussen, who has had 31 goals and 59 points (along with five goals and 12 points in four playoff games) for the Tri-City Americans, could be a key rebuilding chip for a struggling Detroit squad.
Chip Alexander of the Raleigh News-Observer tweets that Carolina Hurricanes forward Victor Rask, who was declared out for the season almost two weeks ago, had successful surgery on his shoulder and is expected to be ready for training camp next season assuming his rehab goes well. The 25-year-old had 14 goals and 31 points this season.
The Athletic's Alexander Appleyard (subscription required) breaks down the amazing success that Philadelphia Flyers prospect goaltender Carter Hart has had this year. Besides the amazing, eye-popping numbers of a 1.60 GAA and a .947 save percentage with the Everett Silvertips of the WHL, the 19-year-old has had a such a dominating season that no other goalie's numbers are even close to Hart. Appleyard continues to break down 106 seasons between the WHL, OHL and the QMJHL combined and can't find a year in which a prospect had this great of a season in comparison to his peers. Hart is expected to get more seasoning next year in the AHL before he takes over in Philadelphia.


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One of Google's mottos is "don't be evil", meaning they shouldn't do anything that takes advantage of the user's quest for information. They shouldn't abuse their position, cheat with results, that sort of thing.
However, today Google has succumbed to evil and turned to dark side, sort of. Well, they've gone black at least.
Why have Google done this? It's for something called Earth Hour, and it's for today only as you can read on Google's website here.
They're hoping to raise awareness of how we can conserve energy. Personally I'm off to turn the heating up as it's a bit cold in here, it's also stuffy so I might open a window too. Where's my jumper?


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Q: Get substring of field using EF and SQL Server I want to get the first line from a text field in a SQL Server table via EF.  I have this LINQ query to return up to the first CRLF or all text if there is no CRLF, but it doesn't seem to generate the most efficient TSQL.
from f in context.MyTable
select f.TextField.Substring(0, f.TextField.IndexOf(Environment.NewLine) > 0 ?
                                f.TextField.IndexOf(Environment.NewLine) :
                                f.TextField.Length)

Is there a more efficient way?

A: If you think the generated SQL is not efficient, you can also use the Database. Sql Query method. Using this you can use your raw query. Unless you want to use LINQ, it should be a decent way as well.
context.Table.SqlQuery("SELECT --- FROM dbo.Table").ToList();

Although, if you could share the generated sql, then it would be more helpful.

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Our client are looking for an Electrician to work mobile across various MOD bases within the Middlesex and Central London area. Whilst on site you will be carrying out a range of work including removal of items, installations, will include all aspects of electrical wiring, fault finding, testing and maintenance on these sites. This will involve planned and reactive maintenance on commercial buildings.
As a qualified electrician, you'll be able to understand and interpret work instructions, drawings and schematic diagrams. You must have a good knowledge of testing and inspection with previous experience of carrying out periodic installation reports along with fault finding.
The ideal candidate will have previous experience within the industry and you will hold City and Guilds 2391 (or equivalent) and be fully conversant with the current IEE Wiring Regulations and have BS 7671 to 17th Edition.
If this role is of interest please email your CV, qualifications and rate/salary expectations to Rob Dartnell rdartnell@strideresourcing.com Tel: 02392 322383.


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Clippers in cross country action at Williamsburg
Submitted by admin on Thu, 09/11/2014 - 7:05pm
WILLIAMSBURG– Clear Creek Amana's cross country squads opened the 2014 season at the Williamsburg Raider Invitational Tuesday, Sept. 2.
The varsity boys brought home a fifth-place overall finish led by Eric Douglass, who finished eighth in 18:36. The varsity girls were seventh overall and led by Chloe Keith and her 21st-place finish in 19:04.
The Clippers travel to Atkins Saturday, Sept. 13, for the Benton Invitational (9 a.m. start) and to North English on Tuesday, Sept. 16, for the English Valley Invitational (4:30 p.m. start). CCA's home meet is set for Monday, Sept. 29, at the University of Iowa's Ashton Cross Country Course with a 4:30 p.m. start.
Results provided by Andrew Kauder, of Kauder Racing
8, Austin Smith, 20:33. 9, Kage Hinricks, 20:45. 19, Ben Szot, 21:55. 25, Cooper Secrest-Seelman, 22:59. 31, Kaleb Graham, 24:38.
1, Mount Pleasant. 2, Vinton-Shellsburg. 3, Williamsburg. 4, Clear Creek Amana. 5, Benton Community.
8, Eric Douglass, 18:36. 19, Jacob Tener, 19:01. 20, Ben Alcorn, 10:16. 27, Dylan Wolfe, 19:34. 29, Luke Wingert, 19:40. 31, Riley Johanson, 19:45. 40, Ben Oxley, 19:59.
1, Mount Pleasant. 2, Mid-Prairie. 3, Williamsburg. 4, Vinton-Shellsburg. 5, Clear Creek Amana. 6, Benton Community. 7, BGM. 8, Sigourney. 9, Springville-Central City.
JV Girls
19, Sydney McMenomy-Adams, 22:03. 39, Laura Sador, 23:52. 53, Kasi Smith, 28:04. 57, Claire Riggan, 28:51.
1, Williamsburg. 2, Mount Pleasant. 3, Benton Community. 4, Vinton-Shellsburg. 5, Sigourney.
Incomplete teams– Belle Plaine, Clear Creek Amana, Mid-Prairie.
21, Chloe Keith, 19:04. 38, Kelli Murray, 21:12. 39, Lori Drake, 21:13. 41, Hannah Smigel, 21:25. 44, Kyla Williams, 22:56.
1, Williamsburg. 2, Vinton-Shellsburg. 3, Mid-Prairie. 4, Benton Community. 5, Mount Pleasant. 6, Springville-Central City. 7, Clear Creek Amana.

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Past students of the Pleasant Hills Public School are set to celebrate their school's rich history on 14 October, as they mark the 125 year anniversary of the school.
The 100 year time capsule is set to be opened and current students will be performing.
The day will start at 11.30am with the welcome of past and present staff and students and speeches by special guests including local politicians Daryl Maguire, Michael McCormack, Adrian Piccoli, Anne Nolan and Lockhart Shire Mayor.
There will be games and entertainment like egg and spoon, three-legged races and a jumping castle.
A barbeque lunch and afternoon tea will also be available.
The celebrations will be held at the School grounds.
For those looking to celebrate into the night, Danny Phegan and his band Longreach will perform at the Pleasant Hills Community Hotel. All welcome.
Invitations have been sent to past students and staff. If you attended or worked at the school and haven't received one contact the school 0269296416 or email pleasanthip@det.nsw.edu.au.
For more information contact Suzanne Forck on 0428293047.


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Q: in winsock, how would i stop a accept function from blocking from another thread? so here's my situation. I'm working with winsock, learning some things about networking and protocol devlopment, and i've reached an impasse. I'm right now doing a server that blocks at an accept call, but has another thread in the background waiting for user input and handling user input. this user input is used for commands like send,ping, and say, etc. but now i would like a command called exit that will shut down winsock, release all open connections, and then end the program. problem is, this accept thread is still blocking.
so here's the questions. 1) is there anyway to stop a winsock function from blocking while it's called, and 2) is something like this in non-blocking mode:
while(m_continue)
{
      Sleep(1);
      tempsock = accept(m_listenSock, NULL, NULL);
      if(tempsock != INVALID_SOCKET)
      {
            if(WSAGetLastError() == WSAEWOULDBLOCK)
                  continue;
            else
                  return 1;
      }
      break;
{

superfluous or just too inneficient to use?

A: From the user command thread, when you handle the "exit" command, close the m_listenSock socket. The blocking accept() call will immediately drop out with INVALID_SOCKET.
Be sure not to close the m_listenSock handle twice.


One hundred years ago today, our nation became the first in the world to designate a government agency whose sole responsibility was to protect its precious outdoor spaces. These lands weren't being set aside for future development, or industry. These spectacular mountains, lakes, deserts, and vistas were being preserved "For the benefit and enjoyment of the people," a statement found in the Yellowstone National Park Act of 1872, creating Yellowstone, as well as welcoming guests entering Yellowstone National Park, our nation's first national park, since 1903.
When the National Park Service was founded, the agency was tasked with managing a somewhat random network of special places, including 14 national parks, 21 national monuments, and the Hot Springs and Casa Grande Ruin reservations. Today, that system has grown to 412 national park units ranging from national parks, monuments, and seashores, to battlefields, historical parks, and memorials.
From Yellowstone's first 300 visitors in 1872, our national parks now host more than 300 million visitors in parks that stretch from Maine to California, Florida to Alaska, and the Virgin Islands to American Samoa.
As the nation celebrates the centennial of the agency that protects our beloved parks as well as the story of our country, it can also reflect on the story of the agency itself. Giving birth to conservation legends like John Muir, Stephen Mather, Horace Albright, and George B. Dorr, as well as inspiring presidents including Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt. The national parks helped to bring the United States out of the Great Depression by creating jobs for unemployed Americans in the Conservation Corps to help improve park infrastructure, as well as giving battle weary troops places of solace after World War II.
As the world around us has changed, and advances in technology allow us to work harder and stay connected; the national parks, thanks to the National Park Service, allow us to break free and disconnect, so that we can truly reconnect with nature.
Chimani is pleased to honor the National Park Service and our nationa parks with free individual mobile app travel guides for all 59 national parks, available in the Apple Appstore and Google Play Store.
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Verve Stamps has a November Challenge just about to close. I found it the other day and I really liked the colors so I thought I would join in, why not, I will have a nice card made and an opportunity to win a 30.00 prize!!
I like this image and thought I could pull it together with the color cue.
every layer has a dark color lining and I rub every edge of paper against a black inkpad. that little extra step gives everything a more vibrant look.
I hope you stop by to Verve stamps and enter!
What a striking card Ginny - love the way you have coloured the image, and then defined the layers.
Great card, Ginny and a great entry for the challenge, really love the way you did your layout.
Wow, this image came out really beautiful, Ginny! So happy you're back into making cards again!!
Such gorgeous coloring. A beautiful card! Thanks for playing along with our Diva Inspirations challenge!
Beautiful!! Your coloring is amazing!!
Beautiful coloring. What is the image/little man at the side of the flowers? Hugs.
Stash busting and a tip and a freebie!
WOYWW# 387 a couple of tips and a freebie!


Bloodborne's launch for the PS4 has mostly been a positive one. The game has been receiving some mighty high scores from critics and fans, but there's one minor problem holding the game back: loading times.
The development team is currently exploring another patch for Bloodborne, seeking ways to improve load time duration, in addition to other performance optimisations and miscellaneous bug fixes. [...] We will provide more information as soon as possible.
If the biggest problem to come out of Bloodborne's launch is a few lengthy load times, that's actually pretty good. And once From Software patches the problem, gamers will be even more complimentary.
The day one patch slightly improved the load times. Before the game launch when I was watching on Twitch, I counted up to between 40 secs to 1 minute, but now it takes 20 to 30 secs. Not really a big deal. I don't feel detracted from the game, and I've died a lot.
Reducing load times even more will be cooler. Relax trolls, the game isn't broken.
Based on the Metacritic scores, the game is far from broken. As we reported earlier, the general consensus is that Bloodborne is one of the PS4's best games (along with Resogun).
The third-person, hack-and-slash action-RPG is similar to Demon's Souls and Dark Souls, insofar as the game is designed to be uncompromisingly difficult and involves being killed over and over again.
From Software has always prided itself on the difficulty of its games, offering players plenty of weapons – or in the case of Bloodborne, upgrades and Blood Gems – to even the odds. But it still takes a lot of skill, patience and determination to overcome the odds.
The game itself is about a hunter traveling to a mysterious town who soon finds himself battling against the forces of darkness using brutal, gruesome methods. Sony and From Software had a video covering the game's weapon customization setup, as well as a few details on how the Blood currency worked in the game.
While some aspects of the game seemed a little too one-track for my tastes (such as the limitations on the weapon selection and the somewhat repetitive combat mechanics), it still appears to be one of the games that really helps the PS4 shine.
You can pick up a digital or physical copy of Bloodborne right now on the PS4. Hopefully, the loading time patch will arrive soon.


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Nicholas de Balscote (died 1320) was an English-born official and judge in fourteenth-century Ireland. He attained high judicial office, but his career was damaged by a quarrel with King Edward II.

Career

He was born at Balscote in Oxfordshire, and probably belonged to the same family as Alexander de Balscot, who was to hold high office in Ireland as a cleric and judge two generations later.

He is first heard of as an official of the Exchequer of Ireland in 1303, and was subsequently appointed Archdeacon of Glendalough. In 1313 he was one of the attorneys appointed by John Wogan, the outgoing Justiciar of Ireland, to manage his legal affairs, presumably while Wogan was absent in England. Nicholas spent a considerable sum on the upkeep of the King's watermills in Dublin between 1311 and 1314.  He became Chancellor of the Exchequer of Ireland in 1310, and Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer in 1313. In 1317 he was spoken of as a possible Lord Chancellor of Ireland but was not appointed to that office. He became custodian of the Archdiocese of Dublin in the same year.

Downfall

In 1318 he claimed the right to be appointed to the office of Chancellor of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin; although the details of the matter are obscure, his claim for some reason gave great offence to the King. He was removed from office as Chief Baron in 1319 and died the following year. He was replaced as Chief Baron by Richard le Brun, who years earlier had been in his employment as attorney for his English affairs, and had recently been appointed a Baron of the Exchequer.

Family
He left his property in Dublin to John de Balscote and his brother Ralph. Presumably, they were his nephews or cousins: he had appointed them as his attorneys the previous year. The property was taken into the Crown's hands, but after John and Ralph petitioned the Crown for redress, the Lord  Chancellor of Ireland was ordered to grant them a lease of it. John was a clerk in the Royal service: he became Chief Chamberlain of the Exchequer of Ireland in 1331, and was still in office in 1344, when he had been joined in the Royal service by yet another Balscote relative, John de Balscote junior. The elder John held the living of Callan, County Kilkenny, and was still alive in 1356. Ralph was also a clerk, but little is known about him. It is probably the younger John who was Deputy Treasurer of Ireland in 1354.

Alexander de Balscot, also called Alexander Petit (died 1400) was probably another relative of Nicholas. As Lord Chancellor of Ireland and Bishop of Meath, he effectively dominated Irish politics in the last three decades of the fourteenth century.

References

14th-century Irish judges
Chancellors of the Exchequer of Ireland
People from Oxfordshire by occupation
1320 deaths
Year of birth unknown
Chief Barons of the Irish Exchequer
Archdeacons of Glendalough

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Cockroaches, rodents, squirrels, insects, bugs and other unwelcome visitors who invite themselves into your home are all pests. Because many of these pests are so small, it is easy to forget that they are living in the world all around us. The truth of the matter is that even the animals we consider to be pests are all part of this natural world we call home and have every right to it. Their existence can cause unwanted stress and worry for the homeowner. As such, there is always the need to ensure that their invasion of your sanctuary is curbed to stop them from being a nuisance. Below you will find some tips which will help to keep your property a pest free zone.
Prevention is the best way to stop invasions. Pests, just like all living things, get hungry too and will always be out there looking for something to eat. Some of the time, all they are looking for is a dry and warm place they could make a home. If you can make it more difficult for them to find what they need, they will not come inside as often. Cleanliness will help to deter animals in search of food. Wash your dishes daily, and keep all your food in the refrigerator. When you make a meal, pack it away in an air tight container almost immediately after enjoying it. Take out your trash often as well, so you do not have food scraps sitting around. This way, you will be able to greatly reduce the rate and chances of pests invading your home.
Making a clean home a priority will also deter another common pest; bugs. keep your floors clean and wipe away all spills as soon as they happen. Put used dishes in the dishwasher so that they are not left sitting out. Insects also love a moist environment. Be careful to address any leaks and plumbing problems as soon as possible, in order to keep water loving bugs away.


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June was a bad month, but Gov. Gary Herbert says Utah still plans to reopen schools
(Nate Carlisle | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah Gov. Gary Herbert stands in front of a modified Boeing 747 called the Dreamlifter at Salt Lake City International Airport on July 1, 2020. The airplane, operated by Atlas Air, delivered 500,000 cloth masks to be distributed to schools to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
By Nate Carlisle
, Courtney Tanner
and Sean P. Means
| July 1, 2020, 5:50 p.m.
| Updated: July 2, 2020, 1:02 a.m.
Utah Gov. Gary Herbert said Wednesday the state has "done a pretty good job" addressing the pandemic and is poised to reopen schools next month even as he acknowledged the recent spikes in infection rates.
"We certainly plan on" resuming in-person classes opening on time, Herbert said, addressing reporters and a small, physically distanced crowd Wednesday at the UPS facility at Salt Lake City International Airport, where he welcomed more than 500,000 masks that arrived aboard an extra-tall Boeing 747 to be distributed to educators and their students.
Herbert talked about efforts to guard public health and keep Utah's economy going. He cited two numbers: a coronavirus mortality rate of less than 1% (said to be the lowest in the nation) and an unemployment rate of 8.5% (far lower than most states).
"It's not been an easy thing to do," he said. "It's a balancing act. It's a threading of the needle, but we've done a pretty good job."
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Sydnee Dickson stood beside three students Wednesday to thank the businesses and public agencies that purchased and delivered the masks. Dickson said school districts and charter schools must submit plans by Aug. 1 explaining how they will reopen and guard child health.
"We want these students to be able to go back to school in the fall," Dickson said. "That's key."
But some medical experts are openly questioning whether that can or should happen, especially given the recent rise in COVID-19 cases.
At a discussion Tuesday hosted by Utah's Silicon Slopes technology sector, Dr. Ellen Arch with Intermountain Healthcare warned that restarting school this fall with the rates across the state shooting up would be dangerous.
"Honestly," she said, "I don't see how we would be able to."
Arch fears a return to in-person classes would also make the virus spread much further and faster. And, she expects, the state might need to shut down entirely if campuses reopen.
"Children being at school together in groups, without being able to physically distance or wearing masks," she said, "is going to cause that infection to rise."
Dr. Andrew Pavia, who oversees the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the University of Utah's hospitals, agreed. He told Clint Betts, the executive director of Silicon Slopes, in the online conversation: "If we can't get the numbers down, we can't reopen schools."
Wednesday's report did little to change that grim outlook. The state recorded another 499 confirmed cases of COVID-19, the Utah Department of Health announced, with one more Utahn dying from the disease.
A Salt Lake County man, between ages 65 and 84 and in a hospital, was the fatality, UDOH reported. His death lifted the state's coronavirus toll to 173 people.
Another 32 people were hospitalized with COVID-19, according to the state report. There were 194 people hospitalized in Utah as of Tuesday (hospitalization figures are a day behind case counts), and there have been 1,476 Utahns hospitalized with COVID-19 since the first cases struck in March.
The state's hospitals are warning they may soon run out of bed space.
Wednesday's new cases boosted the state's total number of cases to 22,716. Of those, 12,707 are considered "recovered" — meaning, by the state's definition, it's been three weeks since they were diagnosed and they're alive.
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The state has averaged 561.7 cases per day in the past week. That's well above the 200-cases-per-day average the state's epidemiologist, Dr. Angela Dunn, said in an internal memo last month would be necessary by July 1 for the state to avoid a "complete shutdown" of its economy.
"We're concerned about some of the rising infection rates you see here in the last couple of weeks," Herbert said, "and [residents need to] turn the tide on that infection rate and bend the curve again as we did in the beginning."
Although Utah has been grappling with the coronavirus for 3½ months, he said, "it seems like 3½ years. This has been a hard, challenging time for our state, for our country."
The governor again encouraged Utahns to wear a mask to reduce the spread. He has allowed Salt Lake and Summit counties to require them. He said he would review a request from Grand County to require masks there as well and make a decision within the next few days. Under state law, municipalities can not pass mask ordinances without approval from the governor's office.
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A Trip Down the F1 Memory Lane: 5 Most Popular Races in Last 10 Years
F1 draws in hundreds of millions of viewers from all over the world and is one of the rare few motorsports that keeps constantly growing as time goes by. Over the years, we've witnessed some amazing races and nailbiting finishes that kept us at the edge of our seats, wanting for more. Today, we take a trip down memory lane and take a look at the 5 most popular races in the last 10 years.
History of Formula 1
As avid fans of all motorsports, and F1 in particular, we like to dedicate a lot of attention to the development and history of Formula 1. The competition as we know it today was established back in 1950, although it draws its origins back to the 1920s and the days of Grand Prix Motor Racing.
Over the years it became the most popular motorsport in the world, relying on technology and innovation to push it forward, always looking to introduce new trends. This mindset has led to the global popularisation of F1 as not only a sport but as a very lucrative business. Shops, sportsbooks, and branded deals made F1 a recognisable product all over the world.
Today, there are even online sportsbooks that offer F1 betting with tens of unique betting options, which keeps fans of the sport even more excited week in and week out. Players can enjoy a thrilling race from the comfort of their home while betting using their credit cards, prepaid cards or even payment methods like PayPal. There are even PayPal bonus codes to deposit funds players can use and get rewards for betting on their favourite team or driver.
The 5 Most Popular Races in the Last 10 Years
With a history as rich as the F1 circuit has, there have been many iconic races that made the sport what it is today. Just over the last decade, F1 has seen some truly amazing moments. Here are the 5 most popular ones in our opinion:
2012 Singapore Grand Prix
The 2012 F1 season was one of the best ever and provided some memorable moments. The Singapore race was also the deciding moment for the German superstar Sebastian Vettel. Although he had two Championships under his belt coming into the 2012 season, people doubted that he could extend his run. They were nearly right with their predictions, but Fernando Alonso couldn't keep up with the Red Bull driver. This race was the turning point that gave Vettel the important momentum to catch up on Fernando Alonso and win a third consecutive F1 Drivers Championship.
2012 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
The 2012 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix was the 18th race out of 20 in the 2012 season. Sebastian Vettel was on a four-race win streak and was 10 points in front of the second-placed Fernando Alonso. But, Vettel was also starting this race in the pit lane because of the fuel issues he had in the final qualifying round. In order to keep his F1 championship aspirations alive, he needed to fight his way up all the way to a podium finish.
What Sebastian Vettel managed to achieve earned him a spot as one of the best drivers of his generation. Starting from the pit lane, Vettel fought his way up all to third place, coming up right behind Alonso and Kimi Raikkonen. By securing a place on the podium, Vettel stayed on top of the leaderboard and came one race closer to winning his third consecutive title.
2017 Canadian World Prix
The Canadian World Prix has always been regarded as one of the most popular F1 races. The 2017 Canadian World Prix was especially interesting as it included several records and key moments that will surely be talked about for years to come. It was the most attended F1 race of the year, with over 360.000 fans over the entire weekend.
The 2017 edition of Circuit Gilles Villeneuve also saw a dominant performance from the future champion, Lewis Hamilton, as he managed to grab a Grand Slam by taking the pole position, victory and fastest lap time.
The Monaco Grand Prix is certainly one of the biggest and most glamorous races each year. With that being said, it rarely provides a rememberable F1 classic, simply due to the nature of the track, which is ridden with twist and turns.
The 2013 Grand Prix was very different from everything we were used to seeing in Monaco.
There were multiple crashes, massive position changes, and even though Sebastian Vettel set the fastest lap for the race, he didn't come out on top in the end. The victory went to Nico Rosberg who took the win very emotionally, as it happened exactly 30 years after his father Keke Rosberg triumphed on the same track.
2016 Mexican Grand Prix
Organisers of the Mexican F1 GP have constantly faced problems due to the fact that their race is not only geographically very close to the US one but also takes part only a week after the US Grand Prix in Texas.
2016 was a major milestone for the Mexican Grand Prix, as it marked the second year of its return after more than 20 years of absence. With an event attendance of close to 340.000 people, the 2016 edition of the Mexican Grand Prix was a major success and cemented the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez as an important stop in the F1 championship.


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Q: Is it possible to script the configuration of Azure App Service Authentication? Azure App Service includes a turnkey authentication solution, under the Authentication/Authorization settings blade. This allowed me to configure Active Directory authentication for my App Service web api. I have a provisioning script for setting up my environment and I would like to automate the configuration of App Service Authentication, either through an ARM template or through Powershell commands.
I've tried using resource.azure.com to view the setup of my site but I couldn't see AD-related config. I've tried searching for ARM templates that do this, without success. I also couldn't see an Azure Resource Manager commandlet that could do this.
Does anyone know how to automate the configuration of App Service Authentication, specifically for AD authentication?

A: Here is a way to do it using straight Powershell commands.
First, you can view the current auth settings using:
$rgName = "ResourceGroupName"
$resourceType = "Microsoft.Web/sites/config"
$resourceName = "service-name/authsettings"

$resource = Invoke-AzureRmResourceAction -ResourceGroupName $rgName `
-ResourceType $resourceType -ResourceName $resourcename -Action list `
-ApiVersion 2015-08-01 -Force

$resource.Properties

Then, you can take the values of those properties and use them to set the PropertyObject (properties shown below relate to AAD authentication, using a service principal):
$PropertiesObject = @{
    "enabled" = "True";
    "unauthenticatedClientAction" = "0";
    "defaultProvider" = "0";
    "tokenStoreEnabled" = "True";
    "clientId" = "<your client ID here>";
    "issuer" = "https://sts.windows.net/<your AAD ID here>/";
    "allowedAudiences" = "{https://<service name>.azurewebsites.net}";
    "isAadAutoProvisioned" = "True";
    "aadClientId" = "<your client ID here>";
    "openIdIssuer" = "https://sts.windows.net/<your AAD ID here>/";
}

New-AzureRmResource -PropertyObject $PropertiesObject `
-ResourceGroupName $rgName -ResourceType $resourceType `
-ResourceName $resourcename -ApiVersion 2015-08-01 -Force

I found it easier to enable the authentication in the portal, view the properties, then use those values to set the PropertyObject.

A: Edit 2020/06: I found getting a basic example of this working to be unreasonably arcane. Here is a detailed way to get a WebApp to use Azure AD for authentication

Ref:  az ad app create / az ad app permission / az webapp auth update
Step 1: Define some basic variables
RSGROUP="MyResourceGroup"
webappname="MyWebSite"

WebAppFDQN=$(az webapp show --name "$webappname" -g "$RSGROUP" --query "defaultHostName" --out tsv);
prodURL="https://myapp.customdomainblah.com";
AADsuffix="/.auth/login/aad/callback" # AD Online is hardcoded to redirect to this path!!
urls="https://${WebAppFDQN}${AADsuffix} ${prodURL}${AADsuffix}";

AADappName="$webappname"

Step 2 - Create Azure Active Directory (AAD) App Registration
az ad app create \
  --display-name "$AADappName" \
  --homepage="https://${WebAppFDQN}" \
  --reply-urls $urls \
  --oauth2-allow-implicit-flow true

Step 3 - Add AD App Permissions
Microsoft Graph API w/ Read permission appears to be required.
AADappId=$(az ad app list --display-name "$AADappName" --query [].appId -o tsv);
MSGraphAPI="00000003-0000-0000-c000-000000000000" #UID of Microsoft Graph
Permission="e1fe6dd8-ba31-4d61-89e7-88639da4683d=Scope" # ID: Read permission, Type: Scope

az ad app permission add \
 --id "$AADappId" \
 --api "$MSGraphAPI" --api-permissions "$Permission"

# Appears to be safe to ignore resulting warning:
#  "Invoking "az ad app permission grant --id $AADappId --api $MSGraphAPI" is needed to make the change effective"

Step 4 - Web: Enable Authentication
Appears idempotent (safe to execute during every deploy)
az webapp auth update \
  -g "$RSGROUP" -n "$webappname" --enabled true \
  --action LoginWithAzureActiveDirectory \
  --aad-client-id "$AADappId"

Previous answer:
This is now merged into Azure CLI and is available under az webapp auth.
{EDIT: Snipped documentation that was mostly useless - can be seen here: az webapp auth}

A: I can answer this myself: this can indeed be scripted through an ARM template. (I'd originally tried using resources.azure.com but it had not shown all of the config info for my site; logging out and back in again made it behave.) The solution is to use a nested resource within the Microsoft.Web/sites resource for your web app of type config and name web to specify the settings, e.g.:
{
   "type": "Microsoft.Web/sites",
   ...
   "resources": [
    {
      "apiVersion": "2015-04-01",
      "name": "web",
      "type": "config",
      "dependsOn": [
        "[resourceId('Microsoft.Web/sites', parameters('someName'))]"
      ],
      "properties": {
        "siteAuthEnabled": true,
        "siteAuthSettings": {
          "enabled": null,
          "httpApiPrefixPath": null,
          "unauthenticatedClientAction": null,
          "tokenStoreEnabled": null,
          "allowedExternalRedirectUrls": null,
          "defaultProvider": null,
          "clientId": "REMOVED",
          "clientSecret": null,
          "issuer": "https://sts.windows.net/REMOVED/",
          "allowedAudiences": null,
          "additionalLoginParams": null,
          "isAadAutoProvisioned": false,
          "aadClientId": "REMOVED",
          "openIdIssuer": "https://sts.windows.net/REMOVED/",
          "googleClientId": null,
          "googleClientSecret": null,
          "googleOAuthScopes": null,
          "facebookAppId": null,
          "facebookAppSecret": null,
          "facebookOAuthScopes": null,
          "twitterConsumerKey": null,
          "twitterConsumerSecret": null,
          "microsoftAccountClientId": null,
          "microsoftAccountClientSecret": null,
          "microsoftAccountOAuthScopes": null
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}


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The company reported net loss of $57.7 million, or $0.43 per share in the second quarter, compared with net income of $60.6 million, or $0.35 per share in the prior year period.
Excluding items, earnings of $0.50 per share missed the average estimate of analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters at $0.62 per share.
Net sales for the quarter increased 3.4% year-over-year to $981 million. The consensus estimate was for $1.02 billion.
Looking forward to the full year, the company sees adjusted EPS in the range of $2.50 to $2.70. Analysts expect earnings of $2.59 per share for the period.
"We now expect adjusted EPS towards the lower end of our guidance range as productivity improvements and Project Momentum cost savings are only expected to partially offset higher input costs, which we now see continuing into early next year. For the first time in a number of years, price increases will also play a role in mitigating inflationary headwinds," President and CEO, Murray S. Kessler said.
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Replacement:SEN-10724. The new revision replaces the HMC5843 with the HMC5883L. This page is for reference only.
The 9DOF Sensor stick is a very small sensor board with 9 degrees of freedom. It includes the ADXL345 accelerometer, the HMC5843 magnetometer, and the ITG-3200 gyro. The 'stick' has a simple I2C interface and a mounting hole for attaching it to your project. Also, the board is a mere 0.036" thick (0.093" overall), allowing it to be easily mounted in just about any application.
Dear Sparkfun, is it possible to foreseen a date when this item would be available?
Yes, an update on when this is available again would be great.
+1 Have one of these in my shopping cart right now and need to order parts in the next two weeks or so, wondering if it's going to be available before then? Any hints?
Come on guys, what's up with this IMU?
I've now had 2 of these units. The first one had a unresponsive ITG-3200, so I contacted Sparkfun and was told to send the unit in for testing, then they would send me a replacement. However, since they were out of stock I had to wait a while.
Yesterday, I got the replacement unit and immediately hooked it up to my test rig. This time, both the ADXL345 and the HMC5843 was unresponsive. Although, the ITG-3200 worked fine.
Is there something in the making of these units that fry the chips or something?
I'm having what seems like the same problem. I can communicate with the ITG-3200 fine, but get nothing from the other two devices.
Is there any news on when the board will be available? Could someone at least give a rough estimate of when the new version will be ready (are we looking at days, weeks, or months?).
It is very important to me to have an estimation of the availability of this item, is it 1 month, 2 month or 1 week?
Hey any updates on when this product will be back in stock?
Noise on this version SEN-10321. In case any of you have the same noise problem, Ill try to save you some time. I have encountered about 30 counts of noise on the accelerometer. Spent a lot of time trying to "fix" my i2c I/F software which is fine. Turns out there is a nasty ripple on the 3.3v at the i2c clock freq (400khz in my case). Added a 10uf electrolitic cap at the regulator output (parallel the existing), and it knocked the noise way down to just 2 or 3 LSB.
I have found the same occurs with both the accelerometer and magnetometer.
If I use a paper clip, the devices work fine and when the paper clip is removed, they stop working.
Unfortunately Luyten you are right, i had your problem and i did that same test a week ago, sorry if i didn't post that here it might have saved you some time, however i posted it in the forums, anyway your only solution is to get replacements (that's what i did) cause it's hard to fix( don't try it), so i suggest you contact techsupport as soon as you can, before they runout of parts, and they'll take care of that.
could you please shear with us what fixes are to be included in the new version?
The only change will be to use the HMC5883 instead of the HMC5843.
HMC5883 is a bit faster, it works at 75Hz while HMC5843 was 50Hz max, the magnetic range is wider, it measures up to 8 guass, HMC5843 was 4 guass, however you won't be needing that much, but it's selectable anyway, the default selected range is fine which is about 1 guass for both, they have the same i2c address, same registers, same setup, so the good thing you don't have to change anything in your program.
That's not entirely true. Y and Z register axis are swapped in the HMC5883L compared to the HMC5843.
Also note that the HMC5883L is considerably cheaper than the HMC5843 something which should helps lower the final price of the board.
However, the HMC5883L is really a sucker to solder as it has very small pins and it's very light, absolutely the most difficult chip to solder I ever dealt with. The chip seems to be also quite sensible to high temperatures and when overheated some segisters may stop to work. Detailed 1 day after production tests are suggested to every board assembled.
Well, i haven't tried it yet, i just took a quick look at the datasheet, and what a dumb thing to do swapping those registers, but it's good to know anyway, it would have took me some time to figure it out, cause the datasheets seems identical at first glance.
I don't know 100%, but the HMC5883 is a drop in replacement. You can check the datasheet, or google it and find out. I'm not exactly sure, but the HMC5843 is out of production.
I got a few of the sensors stick, tried two so far, for both the accelerometer and Gyro (ADXL & ITG) are working okay, but I get no response from the magnetometer (HMC) it refuses to initialize!
The last comment from WAAV doesn't seem to have been addressed, can someone look into this and advice what is wrong with these sensor sticks???
I have the same problem with you? I can't read anything from the magnetometer (HMC).
Please give us some advice!
Me too, i can't get the magnetometer to respond, the gyro/acc are working just fine, and i know it's not a code issue cause i have the standalone breakout of the same magnetometer (HMC5843) and it's working fine, but of the magneometer of the stick seems dead to me, i can't even initialize it, am getting no ACK signal from it.
So Sparkfun people, are you sure that the magnetometer of the last lot is working properly or what cause i got a handful of sticks and i can't get the magnetometer to work in any of the sticks, so plz let us know what's the problem as soon as possible.
Please contact techsupport@sparkfun.com. We'll take care of you, we just need to know there's an issue, and walk you through it if there isn't.
I also have the same problem. Applying (hard) pressure to the board to bend it a little inwards helps and shows that nothing is wrong with the software or my circuit. But that is no solution. There must be a kind of soldering error or something like that.
whats the word on this?
when are the new batch coming in, and when will this be back in stock?
They are not untested. All of our internal assemblies are tested before they go out. You might have another issue completely. You guys should contact techsupport@sparkfun.com. I know with the 9dof razor, there are issues where the magentometer doesn't initialize properly under certain conditions. the hardware is fine, but you might need to initialize it differently from the your micro-controller.
any news about these conditions?
if the hardware is fine then what are WE doing wrong?
There are no conditions, and the hardware is not fine, they (techsupport) found out that there "IS" something wrong but they don't know what it is yet, i'll let you know when they know.
What kind of conditions, when am telling u that i have the same sensor working under the same conditions with the same microcontroller with the same program in the standalone breakout, and it doesn't in the stick, and it's not that hard to get it to work, i had 7 of those HMC5843 breakouts, and all works just fine, so sorry am not buying the "conditions" excuse/argument.
I would very much like to here what Sparkfun has to say for it self.
Any chance you can offer a slightly different version of this sensor board with a altimeter on it? Would GPS expansion be a possibility also?
Looks like this is in stock now. Did the HMC5843 get replaced with the HMC5883? If so, please update the description, schematic, Eagle files, (photos ?) and the datasheets.
Nope, it's the same as it was, everything is correct. We haven't yet transitioned to the new IC. we still have plenty of the old ones, it's not quite EOL'd yet.
Did this board every get redesigned, replaced, updated, etc? It's been out of stock for a great period of time... if it's being replaced... I'd really like to see an 9dof with baro as it's replacement (ITG-3200, BMA-180, HMC-5883L, and BMP-085).
Sure would like to pick one up if available?
I second that, would be really nice to see this board with the addition of a barometric pressure sensor.
I've written code for an Arduino that constantly polls the data from the three sensors and pumps it out the serial port. Anyone know a good place to upload it to so others can use it?
i'm searching for some code to get data from the stick! i use arduino uno for now but want to try it with the pro mini and if it is possible connect with XBee Explorer Regulated with Zigbee!!!
can you send me some code? so i try it out..
As a head's up, I've copied a bunch of code from different poeple from different places. I didn't think I'd be sharing it when I did this so my bibliography is lacking.
I have seen a lot of information about each module separately but i couldn't find any info about the sensor stick as a whole.
Can someone tell me how to extract data from the device?
is there a written code i can use?
Do I need a specific micro controller to work with the sensor stick?
Any microcontroller will do, many people here use Arduino ones and I myself have gotten this stick working with an Arduino UNO.
Is there someone who could share some code, on how to use the 9DOF sensor. I'm working on the PIC32 platform. Curently i'm trying to read data from the accelerometer using I2C but all i'm getting is a constant value of 255. Anyone who had this before ?
I using 9dof stick with Arduino MiniPro, Jennic5148 and LPC1343 (32 bin ARM coretx 3 micro).
If you want I can provide my libraries as they are, up to you to adapt to your PIC32.
Any word on when this will be available again? I have (had) one... would love to get another.
I know this won't help you much.
I'm trying to get this part to talk to a 3.3 V 8 MHz Arduino Pro Mini and I have similar problems that have been mentioned on this. Looking with a scope, the Arduino seems not to pull the I2C lines low ever. However if I disconnect everything and turn that pin into an output, it wiggles it high and low just fine. I did what NoWorries suggested with internal pullups and it only causes the program to freeze elsewhere (never gets past the initial I2C writes to configure devices). I also tried other's published codes for the 3 sensors with no luck. I switched Arduino Pro Minis and that doesn't fix it either, and I checked pin-to-pin continuity for the SDA and SCL lines on all parts involved. Any suggestion? While it doesn't fix the problem, I find it odd that changing the internal pullups line in TWI.c changes where the program fails. Is there a problem with Wire library on the 3.3 V minis?
I'm using imu 9dof stick of sparkfun with an arduino pro mini 328.
This is a 3.3V device so there is no incompatibility with I2C bus logic levels.
But it is very important to use a couple of pull-up resistors on SCL and SDA lines. By the way, just to be sure, SCL and SDA are A5 and A4 respectively (see http://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardProMini).
If you want I can share with you my arduino code?
i want to use the 9dof sensor stick of sparkfun with an arduino pro mini 328, too. But i do not really know how should i put it together, do i need any resistors because both are 3.3V? Can you give me any tips how i can connect the board with sensor stick or a schematic. For the beginning i connected Arduino Uno with the stick to grab any data. (Connection from Arduino to Stick: 3.3V and AREF to VCC, GND to GND, SDA to A4 and SCL to A5) Is that correct?
The pull-up resistors are already on the 9dof sensor stick, so you do not need anything else.
Pullup resistors are always required on I2C bus, a logic level adapter is required if you are not working with 3.3V.
And this is not a matter of power supply of the stick, but a matter with I2C logic levels.
If we are talking about using ArduinoMini Pro, just connect VCC with VCC, GND with GND, SDA to A4 and SCL to A5.
To note that the address of ITG on 9dof stick is 0x68 and not 0x69 as in the breakout boud for ITG3200.
Is it possible to at least give an estimate of the time it will be available?!
When will this item be available again??
Has anyone gotten this to work with 3.3V VCC? I'm interfacing it directly to an ATMega328 running at 3.3V, using Arduino firmware and the Wire library, and I can't talk to the accelerometer.
I've tried everything -- all possible I2C addresses, writing 0, 16, and 8 to register 0x2d, slowing down the bus, adding delays, etc. All I ever get from the device is zeros (in fact, Wire.available() returns 0, so it's not even responding).
At this point, I think either it won't work with 3.3 Volts, or it's dead. Since the other two sensors on the stick work, and the ADXL345 should be good down to 2.0V, well below what the regulator would drop 3.3 to, I'm tending towards the latter.
I'm working with 3.6v as input voltage and a 3.3 voltage regulator on the board without problems.
I also replaced the 3.3 voltage regulator with a 2.8 voltage regulator (it looks to me adxl345 is working better with lower tension) and all three sensors were still working good.
Does anyone know the pitch of the connecting holes, i.e. how far apart each one is from one another?
It's standard breadboard spacing, 100 mils (1/10 inch).
I have a problem with my 9DOF Sensor Sick.
The accelerometer and the gyro works fin, but the magnetometer return always the same values.
Can anybody tells me what i doing wrong?
I have purchased sku: SEN-10321; 9 Degrees of Freedom - Sensor Stick. What do I need to purchase to read the data and download it to my computer? I have an Open Log attached to it but it is not reading the info after the flight. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I've just received mine some days ago, was the first time i play with I²C devices.
I'm using an Arduino board with a protoshield, makes a very straightforward prototyping platform with a large community so there are a lot of examples on the net for reading I²C devices and printing the output to serial (in fact serial over USB) console text.
I've adapted it a bit to read also the gyro and compass values.
Now those are raw values but i'm in the process of writing a small unit to init at optimal settings and output values as SI units.
For the Open Log i just cheched it's page and i can only backup Nate's reply to your comment, neither hard nor trivial.
I have a hard time reading sensible data from the Magnetometer. I cant seem to make it work.
Gyro and accelerometer data is read fine.
I initialize it all right, but the data I get out is always pointing in the same general direction. Its mooving a bit, but not as I expect.
Where should the vector point? Straight north?
Is it very sensitive to being mounted in a breadboard? I have a few jumper cables within 5 cm raneg of the sensor?
I have tried estimating a bias, by reading max and min of sampled values. I remember having a phone that needed to be rotated to use the compass, and assume this is the same sort of sensor.
I see the same behavior from two different units.
I hope someone can suggest what I am doing wrong.
Magnetometer and Accelerometer MUST be calibrated first (i don't know about Gyro) Calibration is calculating BIAS and GAIN, that is a Matrix and a Vector of parameters, to "sphericize" and translate the ellipsoid of the RAW value you get from the board.
What grade of caps does this use? X5R/X7R+?
Can someone help by posting I2C code examples for these chips, or at least one of them to work with Arduino. I can't seem to get it right. On the Serial monitor it reads out random data but I don't think I"m coding it properly.
Check out the various comments on how to adapt my code and sensor fusion to the Sparkfun Stick.
Interesting, this is very helpful. I'm actually getting readable values now, except, I'm not too sure on the units or some values seem to be the same everytime, its possible I think I might have burned out some of the sensors by using a 5V ATMEGA328 when these chips are 3.3v.
The Logic Level Converter is required to make this work with 5V ATMEGA328 chips!
Just put double slashes "//" in front of these lines and the pullups will be deactivated.
Only two of these lines are important for any one particular atmel part, but it is safe to comment all four out for simplicity sake.
Looking at the schematic there are no signs of 5volt level conversion. Ths stick uses two 4.7k pullups to 3.3v.
Level conversion is easy anyway.
Search for AN97055 pdf or see link below.
I have a question about the I2C interface. Does it support a 5 volt supply? Sorry if this is a newb question.
The I2C interface can be used with a 5 Volt MCU. The 3.3 Volt pullup resistors are within most MCU's logic high threshold. When the sensor pulls the line low, it also will be within the MCU's logic low threshold. When the MCU pulls the line low, the sensor will also see this as a low.
To be sure, read the datasheets on the MCU that you intend to use.
Note: The 5V Arduino works fine when directly connected to the sensor board. You do need to be certain that the internal weak pullups are disabled however. If you do not, you risk exposing the sensors to voltages that they are not specified to allow.
Has the orientation of the magnetometer been changed to be coincidental with the accel & gyro? Is there a plan to fix this in the future?
No, the orientations of the sensors are the same, the only change is that the artwork of the PCB is changed to eliminate the need for a wire on the sensor board.
However, it is trivial to re-assign the axes of the sensors in software.
could you please tell us which voltage regulator is on the pcb?
The voltage regulator is the SM MIC5205 Series 3.3 V 150 mA.
Is the led on the sensor stick on?
Have you verified that all connections are proper and have the expected voltages on them?
The accelerometer's is at 0x0, the gyro is at 0x0, the compass has ID's at 0x0A, 0x0B, 0x0C.
For instance, if you are incorrectly addressing the sensors, they will never output any data, as they think you are trying to talk to another I2C device.
How can I find out the I2C address of my sensor stick?
But, to save you a bit of work, here are the three 7-bit I2C addresses of the sensorstick: Compass = 0x1E, Accel = 0x53, Gyro = 0x68.
Any chance of upgrading to the IMU-3000 instead of the ITG-3200? 2000 degrees/second is more than most hobby applications would want and therefore I think most people would prefer the higher resolution of the programmable-range device (e.g. 500 degrees/second with 4x more resolution and also 3x less noise). The MPU-6000 with fast SPI comms would also be very useful!
The resolution of ITG3200 (acc to the datasheet) is 14.375 LSB/(°/s). It´s mean that it´s can sense 0.07 °/s (1/14.375)!!
Don´t forget that the ITG3200 has a word lenght of 16 bits!!
In practice, 0.07°/s is quite impossible to be sense because of noise. But noise is a common issue for every device.
I have noticed that Honeywell has indicated that the HMC5843 is an end of life part. They recommend using the HMC5883L in new designs. The new part is smaller and has better resolution. Any plans for an updated version of the sensor stick using the new IC? If you do, I would recommend bringing out the interrupt line of the compass sensor to allow for better update rates than polling via I2C.
Can you tell me what the voltage tolerance is on the VCC input of the voltage regulator of the SEN-10321 razor sensor board?
What about add a barometer and possibly gps connection pins?
We are looking into the MPU-6000, as there have been several requests for it.
Rumor has it, no chips until June or so.
Could you please explain the $10 increase compared with the former SEN-10183 with a blue strap? Thank you.
SEN-10183 was marked down because of the PCB error that required the blue wire correction.
If you take a look at the comments of SEN-10183 you'll see RobertC answer the question "Is the flawed version of the board marked down in price?" with "Yes. It will normally be $99.95.".
Could we please get a back view of the board?
We are waiting on the first build for these. You can backorder them until we get the first build, which should be in a day or two.


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Compensation Cafe 7: Psychologically Fragile Workers and Vocational Rehabilitation
Janet Patterson | November 29, 2021
Compensation Café: Psychologically Fragile Workers and Vocational Rehabilitation
The following blog is contributed by Sarah O'Leary, a lawyer with a long history of advocacy for injured workers. * Sarah has always had a particular concern for those with psychological injuries. Her blog today focuses on some current experiences and issues facing psychologically fragile workers when they reach plateau.
When a firefighter can't go back on the trucks, or a paramedic or police officer can't go back onto the streets, the best hope is that the employer will be able to offer a good accommodation, that will provide them with continuing employment (and benefits) without being exposed to the trauma that threatens to aggravate their compensable psychological condition.
This is always the first and best remedy for a disabled First Responder, or any psychologically disabled worker. But sometimes a worker is simply too severely ill to go back to work at all.
In these cases, the workers will stay on wage loss benefit with treatment until at some point the board declares that they are "plateaued"; that is, that they are unlikely to experience any significant change in their condition in the following 12 months.
Once that happens, they will be sent to vocational rehabilitation, and this is where significant problems may arise.
We represent a number of First Responders who are too disabled by PTSD to function in daily life. They can't socialize with others, drive a car or even leave the house. Clearly, if these disabled workers truly will not get better, even with treatment, they need to be granted a 100% loss of earnings pension as they are not fit for any form of employment. The WCB calls this "competitively unemployable".
Here's where the problem arises: WCB policy states that there are 5 steps to the vocational rehabilitation process. The vocational rehabilitation consultant (VRC) is expected to follow these steps in trying to get an injured worker back to work. In brief, they run the spectrum from returning a worker to their pre-injury job, to finding another job with the skills they have, to getting retrained to do something else for a living.
Inevitably, when the VRC first contacts the worker, he/she will say, "It's my job to get you back to work and you need to co-operate with me or else I can't pay you."
The VRC will ask the worker to draft a résumé and think about jobs they can do.
Anyone who has experience with those who suffer from significant psychological impairment knows that threatening to cut them off if they don't put themselves in stressful situations that may tip them over the edge is the last thing they need.
Every time one of my psychologically damaged clients gets plateaued and referred to vocational rehabilitation, I can just see this coming, like a train wreck in slow motion.
We try to warn people about what the initial discussion with the VRC will sound like, and we try to reassure them that the goal is to get the vocational rehabilitation consultant to acknowledge that this worker simply cannot return to work and recommend that they be found "competitively unemployable." Once that happens, the worker should get a 100% loss of earnings pension.
What the VRC never tells the worker is that there is a way to minimize the stress of this situation; rather than spending months making a psychologically fragile worker write résumés and try to do job searches, the VRC has an alternative: to make a finding that the worker is unable to return to work early on, and pay him or her continuity of income benefits.
Chapter C11-89.10 of the Rehabilitation Services and Claims Manual provides for vocational rehabilitation benefits in the following circumstances:
The Board may pay a rehabilitation allowance to assist workers who are not actively engaged in the rehabilitation process but who are awaiting assessment of their permanent disability benefits. These payments will be considered for workers
whose disability has stabilized,
who are unemployed, or employed at a reduced income level due to their compensable disability,
who are not entitled to wage-loss benefits,
who are not receiving any other wage-loss equivalency benefits from the Board, and
who are likely to receive permanent partial disability benefits under section 196 of the Act
Consideration will be given to the payment of a rehabilitation allowance between the end of wage-loss benefits or other wage replacement payments, and the commencement of the permanent partial disability benefits.
Prior to implementing an income continuity payment, the Board must have considered and offered to the worker all rehabilitation measures which are reasonable and might be of assistance to the worker.
In short, where a worker is unable to return to work, and it's pretty obvious that they will be getting a loss of earnings pension, the VRC can decide to just pay them a continuity of income allowance until the pension decision is made.
Obviously, this is never going to be automatic in any case of psychological disability where the worker is not permanently institutionalized. The VRC must make a determination about just how disabled the worker is from being able to work, but once that assessment has been done, the continuity of income benefits should be put in place.
Here's a typical case where a continuity of income allowance would be appropriate:
John (not an actual person) has been a firefighter for 20 years. He has been exposed to multiple traumas over the years, and in June 2019 he attended a call where he tried to revive a dying teenage cyclist, who didn't make it. This was just one trauma too many.
John became extremely sick with PTSD. He began to drink heavily and to use whatever drugs he could get his hands on in an effort to dull his pain. He doesn't sleep, doesn't want to leave his bedroom, much less the house, and has cut off all contact with his friends and co-workers. On a number of occasions he ended up at the emergency department of the local hospital because of acute suicidal ideation.
It's been over a year; he's attended several PTSD programs and has been receiving regular therapy with a psychologist, but his condition has not improved. The WCB has a team meeting where the board psychologist says it's unlikely that John will experience much improvement in the short-term, and he's declared plateaued.
We KNOW what's coming next:
The VRC calls John up and says she wants to have a lengthy telephone interview with him. In the course of that conversation, she tells him that she can ONLY pay him if he co- operates in trying to get back to work. If the employer doesn't have an accommodated job John can handle, the VRC will want to discuss other jobs he can do or training he could get, to go into another profession. She'll want him to do a list of job search contacts every day or provide a proposal for courses he can take to get into another line of work.
John reacts very badly to this call. He goes into a black cloud of despair; says he's feeling suicidal and his wife brings him down to the local emergency department.
There should be some way to by-pass this very triggering and, frankly, dangerous phase of the claim.
In these cases, we have obtained letters from the worker's treating mental health professional indicating that the worker is suffering from acute mental illness and is not fit for vocational rehabilitation or work.
This is an actual sample of a letter from a psychiatrist advising against putting her patient through the entire vocational rehabilitation process:
XXX's clinical status has remained rather grave. He has florid symptoms of PTSD despite a combination of evidence-based psychotropic medications and regular non-medication therapeutic interventions. His PTSD is severe and treatment resistant. His functioning in all realms is limited by his symptoms.
At this point, his prognosis is guarded. He is not fit for vocational rehabilitation of any kind. I suggest that he be determined "competitively unemployable."
While one would think that this kind of letter from a psychiatrist should automatically raise a red flag, it doesn't always do so. The WCB often have to be dragged, kicking and screaming, to the point of making the decision that the worker is competitively unemployable. It is often only after months of forcing the worker to go through the vocational rehabilitation process despite the worker's fragility and adverse reaction, that the VRC finally recommends that they are competitively unemployable and thus eligible for continuity of income benefits. Sometimes they won't admit that a worker is competitively unemployable no matter how often the mental health professionals say so. In that case, the worker is "deemed" capable of employment, even though he or she is not working, and they are not eligible for a loss of earnings pension.
Hopefully the intervention of an advocate with support from a mental health professional will do the trick, and the injured worker will be spared further torment. For you advocates, at the very least, if the board refuses to pay the benefits, demand a decision letter so that you can appeal.
This is a really problematic area for people with psychological injuries. While we appreciate that the VRC will have to have a discussion with the worker and do some investigation before arriving at the conclusion that the worker is competitively unemployable, once there has been clear evidence of the worker's acute and fragile state placed before the VRC, that should be enough.
When you have an injured worker who has been plateaued and clearly is not well enough to return to work or to participate in vocational rehabilitation, ask for C11-89.10, income continuity benefits. These benefits are not used nearly enough. The VRC will never tell you about them, so you have to ask for them, and do your best to secure them for your members and protect them from the risks to their health posed by further demands by the WCB.
As a lawyer, Sarah has represented injured workers and mentored worker advocates for many years. Before she and Rolf Harrison began Harrison O'Leary, she was (in sequence) a Workers' Advisor, an Appeal Commissioner, a WCB staff rep at Health Sciences Association and a lawyer at the law firm of Rush, Crane Guenther. For many years, she was an instructor at the CLC Winter School and taught additional WCB workshops. She now offers WCB courses through VDLC and is currently a Director of WELLS.


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