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Glossary - Definition of terms and technologies
Electro-mobility and Electric vehicles
Electro-mobility (e-mobility)
Electro-mobility (e-mobility) – a general term for the development of electric-powered vehicles designed to shift transport systems away from the use of fossil fuels and pollutions emissions. The term is mostly focused on road transport systems.
EV considered in EUFAL are battery electric vehicle (BEV), plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) and range-extender electric vehicles (REEV).
HEV (hybrid electric vehicle)
HEV (hybrid electric vehicle) – a car equipped with 2 types of engine: internal combustion (IC) and electric. On-board battery is charged by the internal combustion engine or by recuperation and cannot be charged externally from the charging station. Very small battery capacity allows for range up to several km on electric propulsion. The electric motor is used mostly to assist the drive during moving off, providing less exhaust gasses emission. Driving (power transmission) available in hybrid, electric or internal combustion mode.
PHEV (plug in hybrid electric vehicle)
PHEV (plug in hybrid electric vehicle) – a car equipped with 2 types of engine: internal combustion (IC) and electric. On-board battery is charged from external charging station or by the internal combustion engine and by recuperation. Small battery capacity allows for range up to several dozens km on electric propulsion. The electric motor allows independent ride in full speed range. Driving (power transmission) available in hybrid, electric or internal combustion mode.
EREV (extended range electric vehicle)
EREV (extended range electric vehicle) – a car equipped with 2 types of engine: main electric and small internal combustion (IC). On-board battery is charged from external charging station or by recuperation and alternativelly by the IC engine. Large battery capacity allows for range up to few hundreds km on electric propulsion. The electric motor allows independent ride in full speed range. Driving (power transmission) available only in electric mode.
EV or BEV (electric vehicle, battery electric vehicle)
EV or BEV (electric vehicle, battery electric vehicle) – a car equipped only with electric engine. On-board battery is charged from external charging station or by recuperation. Large battery capacity allows for range up to few hundreds km on electric propulsion. The electric motor allows independent ride in full speed range. Zero exhaust gasses emission.
CEB (Cargo electric bikes)
CEB (Cargo electric bikes) – is a bicycle structurally designed for carrying cargo with an integrated electric motor which assists propulsion while pedaling. Depending on local laws power of electric motor is limited. Battery capacity allows to assist rider pedaling up to 100km, it's removable for charging.
City/Urban logistics
It is possible to identify several terms related to the problems of the goods movement inner the city/urban area, like: "city logistics", "urban goods movement", "urban freight transport", "urban distribution", "urban logistics", "city distribution". Mostly all these terms can be analysed in the same context and the major definitions of them are focused on similar topics, aims and concepts.
City logistics
City logistics – the process for totally optimising the logistics and transport activities by private companies with support of advanced information systems in urban areas considering the traffic environment, the traffic congestion, the traffic safety and the energy savings within the framework of a market economy. (Taniguchi, E., R. G. Thompson, T. Yamada, and R. Van Duin (2001). City logistics: network modelling and intelligent transport systems. Pergamon, Oxford.)
Urban logistic
Urban logistics – the movement of goods, equipment and waste into, out, from, within or through an urban area. (European Commission (2013) "A call to action on urban logistics", SWD(2013) 524 final, available at: https://ec.europa.eu/transport/sites/transport/files/themes/urban/doc/ump/swd%282013%29524-communication.pdf)
Urban freight transport (UFT)
the movement of freight vehicles whose primary purpose is to carry goods into, out of and within urban areas. (1)
the delivery of consumer goods (not only by retail, but also by other sectors such as manufacturing) in city and suburban areas, including the reverse flow of used goods in terms of clean waste. (2)
(1) MDS Transmodal Limited (2012) Study on Urban Freight Transport FINAL REPORT for European Commission (DG MOVE), available at: http://ec.europa.eu/transport/themes/urban/studies/doc/2012-04-urban-freight-transport.pdf
(2) OECD (2003):Delivering the goods - 21st century challenges to urban goods transport. OECD working group on urban freight logistics, Paris.
Type of vehicle (UFT)
Type of vehicle: UFT can be considered to be a freight trip, not on the basis of its actual purpose, but on the basis of the type of vehicle. As an example, the Italian Codice della Strada (Highway Code) classifies four-wheeled (or more than four-wheeled) motor vehicles into freight vehicles (category N) and passenger vehicles (category M).
Purpose of trip (UFT)
Purpose of trip: It is also possible to use a criterion that classifies freight trips as those whose main purpose is to move goods. According to this criterion, on the one hand, shopping trips made by individuals in passenger vehicles in urban areas would have to be considered to be freight trips; on the other hand, trips whose main purpose is to provide services other than transport (e.g. rescue vehicles, breakdown vehicles, etc.) would not be considered as freight trips, even though they are made using freight vehicles.
City logistics measures
Soft measures
Soft measures – aimed mainly at organizational and promotional activities and those related to the collection of information.
Hard measures
Hard measures – usually include activities of infrastructural nature, based primarily on the implementation of new technologies, technical systems and projects of high implementation complexity (such as urban consolidation centres, transhipment hubs, etc.).
Push measure
Push measure – one that is imposed on operators with a view to influencing delivery or operational practices. These can be divided into financial instruments (e.g. higher parking charges and road tolls) and technical and regulatory constraints (e.g. access restrictions). "Push" measures are closely related to more efficient and equitable transport pricing which seeks to require transport users (including freight operators) to bear a greater proportion of the real costs of their journeys, including costs of pollution, accidents and infrastructure.
Pull measure
Pull measure – designed to encourage more sustainable and energy-efficient freight traffic by offering various additional services (e.g., improved mapping), facilities (e.g., preferential access to loading bays for "clean" vehicles) or incentives (e.g., access to priority lanes) to operators or shippers. In many cases, the measures are combined with information and publicity campaigns designed to further reinforce the good practice measures.
Push-and-Pull measures
Push-and-Pull measures – involve a combination of the two, aimed at providing incentives for good practice whilst simultaneously using fiscal or technical tools to deter practices we wish to discourage
Area of the activity
Measures related to material infrastructure
linear, if they refer to links of the urban/metropolitan transport network (e.g. use of an urban transportation sub-network only for freight vehicles);
surface (and/or nodal), if they refer to areas that can be reserved for freight operations (e.g. areas for loading and unloading operations, logistic nodes to optimise freight distribution in metropolitan/urban areas like Urban Distribution Centres).
Measures related to equipment
on loading units, if they refer to the introduction of new standards for loading units to optimize handling and transport by new low-emission vehicles;
on transport units, if they refer to characteristics of transport units (e.g. reduction in truck emissions and use of electric vehicles, methane vehicles, metropolitan railways and trams).
Measures related to governance
Measures related to governance of the traffic network; in this class we can find traffic regulations (e.g. access times, heavy vehicle networks, road-pricing, maximum parking times, maximum occupied surface and specific permission).
City logistics stakeholders
Shippers – this is a group that includes both senders and recipients of goods, usually retailers (small shops independent of large chains), wholesalers and manufacturers; these are customers, who use the services of carriers, who both send goods to other companies or private customers as well as receive from these items and are interested in maximizing the level of services offered to them, including cost, time of loading and transportation, reliable of transportation, as well as receiving information.
Freight carriers – this group includes external professional transport operators, logistics service providers, courier services, private providers (e.g. retailers who independently organize deliveries to their stores using their own transport), urban managers of supply centres and dispatchers; usually representatives of this group are interested in minimizing costs associated with the collection and delivery of goods to customers, which allows them to maximize their profits; it is expected that their services will be of high quality and at a relatively low total cost, which is particularly important in cases where the expected delivery is dependent on the specific time windows.
Residents – this group should include both city residents as well as its other users (for example, commuters and visitors to the city, but not living in it), people who come to the city to do shopping, and any other road traffic participants such as store owners, developers, associations and organizations of citizens and consumers; this group is not favourable to big commercial vehicles entering the city, even when these vehicles provide them with necessary products, due to the fact that it prefers the minimum level of congestion, low noise and pollution, and it expects the reduction in the number of accidents.
City administrators
City administrators – this group can be divided into administrators of urban system for goods distribution (regional authorities, municipalities, municipal managers of supply centres), other administrators, providing inputs to the system (planners, policy makers, infrastructure managers) and supporting institutions (such as chambers of commerce, associations of cities, etc.); this group of stakeholders is focused primarily on the development of the city and increase of employment opportunities, and is also interested in limiting congestion, the impact of transport on the environment and increase of road safety in the city; its members should be neutral and play a key role in resolving conflicts between other interest groups involved in the execution of supply in urban areas.
Manufacturers of commercial vehicles
Manufacturers of commercial vehicles – it is an important element, because it includes mainly companies that provide transport system with components necessary for its operation: commercial vehicles (hardware) and software that supports or even determines their use. In light of the emerging new concepts and technologies for distribution of goods in the cities (packstations, freight trams, and in the future underground freight transport, etc.) it is worth to expand this group with manufacturers of non-conventional technologies.
The platform tools and measures categories
Descriptions of the implementation actions (good practice)
Descriptions of the implementation actions (good practice) – the measures which are the way of running a business or providing a service that is recognized as correct or most effective. They are not only a practices that are good, but also that have been proven to work well and produce good results, and are therefore recommended as models. Successful experience, which has been tested and validated, in the broad sense, which has been repeated and deserves to be shared so that a greater number of people can adopt it.
Result of the other projects focused on electro-mobility
Result of the other projects focused on electro-mobility – it includes the reports, deliverables, analysis of the projects on national and international level (mostly ERA-NET Electromobility+, Horizon2020 projects).
External and independent reports and analysis
External and independent reports and analysis – the achievements and deliverables of external entities, like associations, research institutes, agencies etc., which are focused on analysis of the EV as well as infrastructure for EV. It will includes also the analysis (including comparative analysis) of the technical parameters of EV (especially vans).
Software (including on-line applications)
Software (including on-line applications) – the software tools, which could support the EV development in city logistics.
Scientific papers and presentations
Scientific papers and presentations – the achievements of the researchers introduced at scientific conferences and/or published in conference proceedings as well as in scientific journals.


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In 1960, in a rural part of West Germany, an American military base is set up in a small village of 250 inhabitants. Now, 6000 soldiers are living in the region, and although no one really likes them, everybody is doing business with them. Some turn old barns in "typically American bars" where GIs can spend their pay for drinks; numerous prostitutes are visiting the region regularly to allow the Americans to forget about their homesickness for several costly minutes; others benefit from the construction of a military air base.
Robert Neidhardt belongs to the last group. He is a disillusioned man who only wants to make some quick money. Robert supplies the gravel for the runway construction. But the black market turns out to be most profitable: Robert sells the gravel underhand to German contractors, thus earning twice with every delivery. But one night, Robert is pursued by the police who want to stop black market activities. On his flight, Robert runs over two pedestrians. Although the accident is not his fault, Robert does not go to the police, and his unscrupulousness takes him to extreme measures.


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Chip Delivery Time Surpasses 20 Weeks in No Sign Shortage Easing
The shortages are getting worse, not better, according to research by Susquehanna Financial Group.
Bloomberg | Aug 10, 2021
Ian King (Bloomberg) -- The amount of time it's taking for chip-starved companies to get orders filled has stretched to more than 20 weeks, indicating the shortages that have held back automakers and computer manufacturers are getting worse.
Chip lead times, the gap between ordering a semiconductor and taking delivery, increased by more than eight days to 20.2 weeks in July from the previous month, according to research by Susquehanna Financial Group. That gap was already the longest wait time since the firm began tracking the data in 2017.
Related: 'It's Little Things' – How the Chip Shortage Is Affecting the Data Center Industry
Shortages of microcontrollers, logic chips that control functions in cars, industrial equipment and home electronics jumped in July, according to the report. Lead times for that type of chip are now 26.5 weeks, compared with a typical range of six to nine weeks. In better news for industries that rely on semiconductors, the lead times were reduced for power management chips, semiconductors that regulate the flow of electricity in everything from smartphones to solar power generation.
Shortages of semiconductors have been felt the most in the automotive industry, which is forecast to lose more than $100 billion in sales of vehicles it can't make. Other areas have been pinched, too, with many electronics makers, including the biggest companies such as Apple Inc., unable to meet all the demand for their products.
Related: Vertiv CEO Says Data Center Supply Chain Crunch Is Driving Up Costs
Investors watch lead times looking for clues as to when users of semiconductors are over-ordering and building inventory, usually the herald of a slump in demand. Chip industry executives have cautioned against making that assumption this time, arguing their customers are more willing to make long term supply commitments than in the past.

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Sometimes we have to take off before our lease agreement ends. Whether it's for vacation, or a new job in a different city, or a college student that wants to return home for the summer, renters sometimes find themselves in a tough spot of having to go several months of paying rent for an apartment that they will not even be living in. So, what do you do? You sublet.
A sublet / sublease is a legally binding contract that allows you to rent out your place to another while it is still under your name. However, inviting someone to live in your apartment without you is a task that shouldn't be done lightly. In fact, it's best to think of this as a business transaction and stay as professional as possible since at the end of the day, it's you that is ultimately accountable. To protect yourself, it is important to establish a written contract with both parties' signatures detailing the terms and conditions of the sublease. Continue reading to find a sample sublease agreement template.
Check with your landlord - First, you must make sure that your master lease (your lease with your landlord) allows subletting and inform your landlord by letter that you intend to sublet your apartment at least 30 days prior to your intended move-out date. Include information such as how long you will be gone for, and if you have roommates, their written consent. If your lease forbids subletting, submit a written request to your landlord detailing why you need to sublet your apartment and ask under what conditions subletting may be possible.
Complete a sublease application - You and your subletter will need to fill out a sublease addendum and sublease application and give it to your landlord.
Negotiate - Do not forget to negotiate the cost of utilities with your subletters if you do not live in a utilities included apartment.
Take pictures - You are going to want to document the condition of your apartment to the best of your abilities. Make sure to take plenty of pictures before the sublease begins and after it ends. Also, have your subletter complete a check-in inspection form.
Moving out - Store your valuable and sentimental possessions elsewhere such as in a rentable storage shed.
Rental Price - Unfortunately, it can be difficult to rent your apartment out for its full rental price, so you may have to ask for a price that is 70-80% of your normal rent. However, if you live in a highly-desirable area, chances are you can get away with it.
Ideally, you want to sublet to a friend or someone that you already trust. If this is not possible find someone as close as possible to your network of friends. If you have roommates, offer to let them choose a subletter since they will be living with the person. You can also use your landlord's marketing network.
Clean up your apartment and room before you present it to prospective subletters so that they have a standard to stick to as they live in your apartment.
Make sure to ask your prospective subletters for personal references (if you do not know them very well) and what their rental history is like.
It's important to ask for a damage deposit from your subletter as well as their credit score and monthly income. You want to be able to rely on your subletter and these steps will secure their reliability.
There are plenty of resources online where you can find a sublease agreement template. A downloadable word template (.doc file) can be found on UC Berkeley's Division of Student Affairs page. You may choose to use the template as is or modify your agreement based on your specific needs, but remember to include the following important details in any sublease contract.
Names of the sublessor and subtenant (if the subtenant is under the age of 18, their legal guardian must include their name and signature).
Address of the premises being subleased. Include the unit number if applicable.
Limits on Occupancy that state exactly who can and will be living within your apartment.
Who rent is to be paid to: the sublessor or the landlord?
Any Additional Rules of the premises including quiet hours, overnight guests, smoking, alcohol etc.
While you are away, it's not a bad idea to stay in contact with your subletter and your landlord to see how things are going and if either have encountered any problems.


Faith is a great leveller. Every year, shrugging aside divisions of religion, caste, class and gender, thousands of people from all over Maharashtra undertake a 20 day-long journey on foot to Lord Vithoba's temple in Maharashtra's famed pilgrim town, Pandharpur. These pilgrims, called 'warkaris', accompany a procession of palanquins (palkhi) of nearly 50 saints from Maharashtra - the Bhakti movement saints, Dnyaneshwar and Tukaram, being two of the most prominent.
The procession starts from Dehu, near Pune, in the Hindu calendar month of Jyeshth (roughly, June) and lasts a total of 22 days. On the eleventh day of Ashaad (usually some time in July), the procession reaches its destination in Pandharpur.
It is estimated that the ritual began in the late 1600s. Although there are not many written records of the tradition, historians credit Narayan Maharaj, Sant (saint) Tukaram's youngest son, with pioneering the tradition in 1685. After the death of Tukaram - who visited Pandharpur every year with a group of 1,400 warkaris - his brother Kanhoba and son continued the annual pilgrimage (wari). They carried the saint's 'padukas' (wooden slippers) on a palkhi to symbolise the saint's presence. Folklore goes that Narayan Maharaj proceeded with Tukaram's palkhi from Dehu to Alandi, where he placed Sant Dnyaneshwar's padukas in the same palanquin and proceeded to Pandharpur.
That marked the beginning of these palkhis, which now number about 50, representing various saints, including Eknath, Namdev and Chokha Mela - all prominent saints in Maharashtra. Once the Tukaram and Dnyaneshwar palkhis set off, the other palanquins also begin their journey.
An important feature of these saints' writings is their non-elitist character. Written in colloquial Marathi, their works are accessible to all sections of society. The Bhakti movement in Maharashtra, of which these saints were a part, is known for its progressive character. The saints themselves, in fact, belonged to different castes - the Brahmin Dnyaneshwar; the grocer Tukaram; the gardener Sawata; and the potter Gora Kumbhar are examples.
The journey, though, is not just a means to obtain a glimpse of Lord Vithal at Pandharpur; it carries significance as a spiritual discipline. Over the centuries, most saints - Dnyaneshwar and Tukaram included - have followed the tradition of wari.
True to the pilgrimage's spirit of communal harmony, the Tukaram palkhi first stops at the mausoleum of a Sufi mystic, Baba Angadshah, in Dehu. Interestingly, two Hindu families have been tending the dargah faithfully for three generations.
The procession itself is steeped in symbolism. The family that plays the traditional drum to lead the procession at Dehu is Muslim. In the early 1900s, impressed by the devotion of the temple caretaker, Abdul Mulani, the then manager, Babasaheb Inamdar, had asked Mulani to play the drum on all important occasions. The seeds of a tradition had been sowed. In an interview, Mulani's grandson Syed Ibrahim Mulani said that his father's last words were, "Whatever you do, son, do not stop playing the drum at the temple." Syed Mulani has kept the tradition alive and has ensured it won't die with him. His youngest son Riaz now plays the drum.
Inclusion, in fact, is the very spirit of this pilgrimage. In Pune, for instance, where the palanquins halt for two days, people from all communities unite in their hospitality towards the warkaris. Sherna Minawala, 36, and her Parsi neighbours have been providing food and snacks to warkaris for over a decade now. "There is so much devotion and camaraderie. Everyone cares about each other and, more importantly, respect each other," says Minawala, who works in a private company and takes a day off when the palkhi arrives in Pune.
In one of the city's byzantine lanes in Nana Peth, Saleem Mian, a professional masseur, sets aside two days every year, when he massages the weary warkaris' feet for free. "I am overwhelmed by the devotion of warkaris and this is my humble offering to the pilgrimage," says the sexagenarian. A few lanes away, Abu Mohammed is ready for the journey. He has been going to Pandharpur for five years now. What drew him to the procession was its spirit. "Everyone is welcome and everyone is equal. There is no distinction of caste, class or religion. It is a celebration of oneness," says this devout Muslim.
Smita Abhyankar takes leave from her travel agency job for a fortnight every year to participate in the pilgrimage. She says there have always been Muslim pilgrims in her group of warkaris. She speaks of Jaitundi, a Muslim woman whose scholarship of Dnyaneshwar's works and recitation of his bhajans is well-known among the warkaris. Jaitundi has been a warkari for the past five years. Although the pilgrims are organised into neighbourhood groups, they freely welcome non-members into their procession.
Women participate in large numbers; many coming alone. For over a fortnight, they free themselves from domestic chores and societal roles. Kalavati Mhaske, a pilgrim, says, "Our relatives or neighbours take care of our children. They know we are not going for 'mauj masti' (fun)." Incidentally, fables abound of how husbands who did not let their wives go with the procession were "taught a lesson by Lord Vithal".
The warkaris' long and disciplined procession is a remarkable sight. They hold aloft saffron flags, sing devotional songs and dance to the tune of traditional instruments like the 'lezim' and 'taal'. Come rain or shine, 50 palkhis of saints - accompanied by over three lakh people - assemble at Vakhari near Pandharpur every year, before proceeding towards the temple town.
The devotion and harmony that characterises the pilgrimage has drawn many atheists as well. Noted Marathi writer P L Deshpande, himself a non-believer, says, "Touching the tired feet of a warkari is more devotional than touching the feet of Lord Vithoba." This procession of palkhis to Pandharpur is more than just a pilgrimage; it represents a tradition that unites diverse people.
It is wrong to describe Tukaram maharaj as grocer. For a saint, though caste is meaningless, he belonged to KUNBI (Maratha).


Unlike Friday night, where it kept snowing all night, on Saturday the precipitation was finished by 8pm. I measured a total of 10-11 inches in Carson City.
I hope the folks in Fernley are all ok. my heart goes out to them.
Great snow pics! Still long to be there.


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James R. Claeys passed away peacefully on Dec. 31, 2021 in his home in Bonita Springs, Florida. He was 78. Jim is remembered for his faith, deep love and friendship for all in his life, generosity of his time and love for adventure.
Born in Davenport, on March 26, 1943, Jim was raised on a dairy farm in Long Grove, and was the oldest of his siblings, Judy Hovey and Joseph Claeys. His parents were Robert and Bernice (Madden) Claeys. He attended a one-room schoolhouse before attending St. Joseph Elementary and High School in DeWitt, and St. Ambrose University in Davenport. Jim married his loving wife Dolores (Konrad) Claeys on Oct. 24, 1964. They operated a farm in Welton. He and his family then moved to Washington Township, New Jersey in 1973 when he joined the beer distributorship founded by his father-in-law, eventually becoming vice president. Jim and Dolores moved to Bonita Springs, Florida in 2006. They also continued to spend summers in Avalon, New Jersey.
Jim lived an active life full of adventure and travel. He camped, hiked and canoed as a Boy Scout volunteer with his three sons, all of whom are Eagle Scouts. He was an avid cyclist, riding across Iowa several times as part of the "Register Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa" (RAGBRAI) and enjoyed golf. Jim loved skiing and particularly looked forward to the annual Gentlemen's Ski Club trips to Vail, Colorado. His passion for cars led him to racing his Porsche and becoming a driving instructor. He belonged to the Schattenbaum Region of the Porsche Club of America in New Jersey and Everglades and Paradise Gruppe in Florida, and also managed parts for rare cars at the Revs Institute in Naples, Florida. Jim loved adventure, including climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa and shadowing the Tour de France.
Jim generously gave his time to help friends and others. He could be counted on to use his "Grandpa McGyver" skills to help fix any neighbor's household problems. Besides Boy Scouts, Jim's volunteering included lecturing at Holy Family parish in New Jersey. As a member of the Avalon Yacht Club, he enjoyed giving boat rides to campers from the Helen L. Diller Vacation Home for Blind Children. Jim also helped with the renovation of the Palmira Renaissance Center Club.
Jim is preceded by his son, Mark Claeys and brother-in-law, Donald Hovey. He is survived by his wife, Dolores, his sons Stephen (wife, Tara) and John (wife, Wendy) and grandchildren, Brian and Erin, as well as stepgrandchildren and stepgreat-grandchildren.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022 at 11:00 a.m at St. Agnes Catholic Church in Naples, Florida. A burial service in New Jersey will be held at a future date. In lieu of flowers, please send a donation in his name to St. Matthew's House in Naples, Florida or St. Agnes Catholic Church.
Arrangements are being handled by Shikany's Bonita Funeral Home, family-owned since 1978.
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From Bolivia we arrived in Chile through San Pedro De Atacama where we had planned to stay the night, but within the hour of our arrival, we were on the next overnight bus to La Serena. La Serena has one of the worlds best observatories due to the high altitude and lack of light pollution so we immediately booked our trip. Luck would have it that it began to rain. This was the first (and only) rain of our trip AND the first time it rained in that part of Chile in 3 years. Needless to say, the trickle of raindrops shut down the roads and the electronics and we had to stay 3 extra days! The town was cute enough, and naturally, we ran into another parade (for a holiday based on a guy who swung from his Chilean ship to his death and in turn loosing the war…but inspiring many men to join the fight for their country) but we would have preferred to get to the next places sooner. Our final night we got to see with our very own eyes (and the help of a super telescope) the craters of moon and the rings of saturn! And that was amazing.
Next we went to the once prosperous and now very bohemian but hip and colorful Valpariso. Rachelle fell a bit ill and spent one whole day in bed. Luckily we sprung for a private room and the hostel owner leant us his personal laptop. We spent the time uploading 3 countries worth of photos and watching netflix. The next day we spent taking a walking tour and getting a bit of the insides and history of the really cool town. We also got to see Pablo Nerudas house! But quickly had to leave in order to get to Santiago.
We met with one of our besties Rach in Santiago! It was so great to see a smiling familiar face from home and together, explore a new city! Santiago is very "modern" and had most comforts of the US. We were in a great area that was walking distance to restaurants, bars, boutiques, and San Cristóbal Hill that we hiked to the enormous statue of pregnant Virgin Mary!
We also went on a walking tour which consisted of a few hours and took us through some of the important but not so touristy spots of town, where we saw the food and fish markets and learned about the bloodshed military coup of 1973 (your welcome Chile).
We checked out all of the cute neighborhoods, saw great exhibits in the museums, tried the local drink and cuisine, saw great live music and Meg's highlight was getting custom veggie burgers on the street for $0.50 whilst we watched a gaggle of students performing orchestral music outside of the subway!
Rach got to experience being hungry during "siesta" which means that no restaurant is open for a good 3 hours. Honestly, not one. We were starving and desperate and eventually lucked out and found some good cheap empanadas. Later we crashed an art opening with free food and wine. Ya win some, ya lose some… but it all seems to even out.
All was fun, exciting, and going swimingly…until we tried to leave.
Our boarder crossing into Argentina was relatively easy, but we all had to pay the $165USD reciprocity fee… for U.S. citizens only.


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Janice Fitzgerald and John Haggie are our newsmakers of the year
Two doctors — one a quick-witted politician, the other a family doctor who found herself in the spotlight while adjusting to a new job — became the face of the pandemic in Newfoundland and Labrador this year, writes Garrett Barry.
Two doctors literally became the face of the pandemic in Newfoundland and Labrador
Garrett Barry · CBC News · Posted: Dec 28, 2020 7:00 AM NT | Last Updated: December 28, 2020
At a March 17 briefing at Confederation Building, Health Minister John Haggie and Dr. Janice Fitzgerald, the chief medical officer of health, demonstrated a principle of physical distancing. (CBC)
The pandemic brought new rituals to all of us.
For the lucky, these could be relatively mundane: sewing, baking, and yes, even candlestick-making. For the unlucky, they were much more draining and serious: video calls to loved ones in hospitals or long-term care homes, and quarantines in basements or cabins when returning from the oilsands north of Fort McMurray, Alta.
It would be unfair to say the costs of lockdown measures have been equally shared. But many people in Newfoundland and Labrador did find rituals in common, especially in the first few months of the pandemic.
In the afternoons, usually around 2 p.m. NT, they'd turn to their computers and smartphones to hear the latest information from two doctors who became the faces of the pandemic in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Those provincial government briefings became a true shared experience, when most other things that we could do together were cancelled.
And there they were, two familiar faces on the screen: Health Minister John Haggie and Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Janice Fitzgerald.
Fitzgerald appears at a COVID-19 information briefing in December. (Government of Newfoundland and Labrador)
They told Newfoundlanders and Labradorians about COVID-19. They reported the daily numbers. They answered questions about the spread of the virus, its impacts, and restrictions designed to slow its march.
A province's daily anxieties — how many? where? — were answered, at least in part, in these sessions.
When we feared for our future, and when we hoped for our future, we turned to Haggie and Fitzgerald for advice.
Fitzgerald moved into public role during crisis
Hundreds of hours of screen time, beaming to homes across the province and the country, made stars out of the two doctors — even if at least one of them was noticeably reticent about being in the public eye.
Fitzgerald, by her own admission, preferred the anonymity of 2019, when she was the interim chief medical officer of health and quietly worked on public health regulations that very few people knew.
Hired in an interim role the preceding August, she held her first COVID-19 briefing on March 4. By May, Haggie quipped that she had eased any doubts about whether she could handle the role permanently. "Whatever job evaluation may have been necessary has just been passed with flying colours," Haggie said.
Indeed, Fitzgerald became a household name as the briefings flew by, and was so well known by the fall that she and Haggie inspired Halloween costumes.
Dr. Janice Fitzgerald weighs in on vaccine preparations, a 2nd wave and post-Christmas COVID-19 cases
She has indicated that she learned a few things about herself during the year.
"I think everybody in the public health sector has learned a lot about themselves, and their resiliency," Fitzgerald said during a briefing earlier this month.
Navigating a global pandemic is not a job that either Haggie or Fitzgerald signed up for. But as a politician and and a public official, they will ultimately hold responsibility for our pandemic shortcomings. After all, they played critical roles on whether businesses could open, how they could operate, where the newly approved vaccine goes first. They, notably, have defended a travel ban on incoming visitors that has so far survived a court challenge.
WATCH | Dr. Janice Fitzgerald delivers the first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine in St. John's earlier this month:
First COVID-19 vaccine given in N.L.
Public health nurse Ellen Foley-Vic receives the first inoculation in N.L. of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19, at Memorial University's medical school in St. John's. 0:44
Sacrifices deemed necessary for greater good
But if Newfoundland and Labrador pulls through the pandemic with continued success, they will deserve their share of praise.
As the face of the provincial pandemic response, they have been able to convince Newfoundlanders and Labradorians to fundamentally change their way of life. Hundreds of thousands of people in this province have made sacrifices that were unthinkable merely months before. It was a collective action bigger than anything else in our shared history.
"We have tried to encourage kindness and respect," Fitzgerald said. "I think the public has responded to that, so I'm very grateful for the public for doing that."
Fitzgerald conducted her first briefing on COVID-19 in early March. Haggie joined her soon after. The two have delivered scores of updates over the last nine months. (Government of Newfoundland and Labrador)
People went without seeing their brothers and sisters, their neighbours and coworkers, their grandparents and their grandchildren.
Through it all, they tuned in, in huge numbers, to hear if those sacrifices were paying off. It was Haggie and Fitzgerald's job to tell the public that they needed to keep up their discipline — to "hold fast," as Fitzgerald often said as she concluded her opening remarks.
In March and April families across the province organized and participated in teddy bear hunts to entertain their neighbours and their children during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Submitted by Seanne Justin Heath)
It's quite a thing for a government news conference to become appointment viewing. But even now, almost nine months later, the thrice-weekly updates reach tens of thousands of people, via the government of Newfoundland and Labrador's video feed.
'Our biggest tool … is education'
At peak, the briefings came every day, including weekends. Eventually, they were scaled back, as the province moved through relaxed stages of public health requirements.
But there's something about the briefings that keeps the public — and public health — coming back.
"Our biggest tool in dealing with COVID is education," Haggie said in December. "In contrast with some other jurisdictions who've gone down to weekly or just media releases on paper, we have not seen some of the communications issues."
These briefings became distinctly ours: not many other governments gave advice on how to mummer this year. And even in announcing and justifying the travel ban to a domestic audience, Haggie tapped into the language of "come from aways" and a shared understanding of what makes people in N.L. who they are.
Premier Andrew Furey, accompanied by Fitzgerald and Haggie, holds a vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on Dec. 16, the day that Fitzgerald delivered the first doses to health-care workers. (Patrick Butler/Radio-Canada)
It's no wonder, then, that among the seriousness of the updates there were moments of levity.
Haggie made a conscious effort to cut through the noise of endless government updates with pithy one-liners, and that paid off: by April, those memorable warnings about the perils of licking shopping carts and online dating apps made their way into internet memes, songs and even cross-stitching.
A wordsmith and a doctor: How John Haggie has come to fascinate N.L.
But whether those sentences will become the lasting memories of this year as a whole is yet to be seen. The ingredients required for a negative turn are present: COVID-19 cases are rising across Canada, and a recent poll by Angus Reid suggests that, more than in any other province, Newfoundlanders and Labradorians plan to visit with family and friends this holiday season.
Perhaps the health minister has his messaging work cut out for him again.
Haggie apologizes for fundraiser 'fuss,' but stops short of saying event shouldn't have happened
They became the human face of the biggest collective action in generations. And they became, more than anyone else, responsible for its handling.
John Haggie and Dr. Janice Fitzgerald are the 2020 newsmakers of the year.
Read more from CBC Newfoundland and Labrador
Garrett Barry
Garrett Barry is a CBC reporter based in Gander.
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Q: Refresh outputscreen and take inputs at the same time in java Hi I'm about to write a programm which starts multiple minecraft servers:
If you type 'start servername', it starts this server.
If you type 'watch servername', the program shows the output of this server and you should be able to send commands (to this server) at the same time until you type sth. like 'exit'. The problem is that I don't know how to refresh the outputscreen and take the inputs from the keyboard at the same time.
Here is my code from the server class:
class Server{
private String name;
private StartCommand command;
private boolean on = false;
private Process p = null;

public Server(StartCommand c, String name){
    this.command = c;
    this.name = name;
}

public void start(){
    try {
        p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(command.getCommand());
        System.out.println("Server: " + name + " is on now!");
        on = true;
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
        on = false;
    }
}

public void watch(){
    try{
        Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
        BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream()));
        String line = null;
        while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {
            System.out.println(line);
        }
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
        on = false;
    }
}
}

I hope you can help me.
Greetings,
Fabian

A: Server console should be displayed in separate terminal and client console where user can type  in the command.
Similar to any server like mysql has a log where server output's are displayed. mysql client command where user type in their sql commands.
Or else redirect watch output to a file and then type the next command.

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Akka Cluster demo using Constructr-Consul.

## Usage

#### Prerequisites ####

Make sure you have already installed both [Docker Engine and Docker Compose](https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/).

#### Steps ####

- Seed node in Docker: `sbt constructr-coordination-demo/docker:publishLocal`
- Remove docker containers (if exist): `docker rm -f consul1 consul2 akka_node1 akka_node2 akka_node3`
- Run the application: `docker-compose -f constructr-coordination-demo/docker-compose.yml up`

We should see something like this:
```
Starting consul1
Starting consul2
Starting akka_node3
Starting akka_node1
Starting akka_node2
...
consul1       | ==> Starting Consul agent...
consul2       | ==> Starting Consul agent...
...
consul1       |     2016/06/01 15:44:14 [INFO] consul: member 'consul2' joined, marking health alive
consul2       |     2016/06/01 15:44:16 [INFO] agent: Synced node info
...
akka_node3    | 15:44:17 INFO  Constructr [akka.tcp://ConstructR-Consul@172.18.0.4:2552/system/constructr] - Creating constructr-machine, because no seed-nodes defined
akka_node3    | 15:44:17 DEBUG ConstructrMachine [akka.tcp://ConstructR-Consul@172.18.0.4:2552/system/constructr/constructr-machine] - Transitioning to GettingNodes
akka_node2    | 15:44:17 INFO  Constructr [akka.tcp://ConstructR-Consul@172.18.0.5:2552/system/constructr] - Creating constructr-machine, because no seed-nodes defined
akka_node1    | 15:44:17 INFO  Constructr [akka.tcp://ConstructR-Consul@172.18.0.6:2552/system/constructr] - Creating constructr-machine, because no seed-nodes defined
akka_node2    | 15:44:17 DEBUG ConstructrMachine [akka.tcp://ConstructR-Consul@172.18.0.5:2552/system/constructr/constructr-machine] - Transitioning to GettingNodes
akka_node1    | 15:44:17 DEBUG ConstructrMachine [akka.tcp://ConstructR-Consul@172.18.0.6:2552/system/constructr/constructr-machine] - Transitioning to GettingNodes
```
- Consul UI: `http://localhost:8500/ui/`

You can use Consul UI for checking services, nodes, reading/writing key/value data, view/invalidate sessions.

#### HTTP API ####

- Consul:
    - Check nodes: `curl "http://localhost:8500/v1/kv/constructr/ConstructR-Consul/nodes/?recurse&pretty"`

      List node key/value pairs

    - Active sessions: `curl http://localhost:8500/v1/session/list?pretty`

      List active sessions attached to consul nodes

    - Delete session: `curl -XPUT http://localhost:8500/v1/session/destroy/{session-id}`

      If you delete a session, Constructr-Consul will create a new one.

- Akka:
    - Get the member nodes: `curl 127.0.0.1:8000/member-nodes`.

    We can check the akka members in the cluster here (if everything is working properly, we should see this):
     ```
    akka.tcp://ConstructR-Consul@172.18.0.4:2552
    akka.tcp://ConstructR-Consul@172.18.0.5:2552
    akka.tcp://ConstructR-Consul@172.18.0.6:2552
    ```

## Configuration

```
constructr {
  // We need to configure the agent name under which sessions will be saved
  // This property will be typically set by a cluster scheduler service as could be Nomad or Kubernetes.
  consul.agent-name = "consul2"
  consul.access-token = "token"
}
```

In a production environment, you should launch both the consul agent and the akka system together on the same machine
configuring the `consul.agent-name` property according to the host name or ip address, so that if the machine crashes
then the consul session can be properly invalidated.


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So cute! I got an 18in chain. I would probably get a longer one if I order again.
This was a gift for my little sister, she loved it! I got this in the mail quickly, just in time for Christmas.


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The 7690 date is probably the old C.E. date, before we adopted the After Tranquillity calendar. Quite often Alan Kazlev edited the C.E. date by subtracting 2000 years, which is probably accurate enough in some frames of reference.
05-03-2021, 11:11 PM (This post was last modified: 05-03-2021, 11:19 PM by selden.)
The term "gravity wave" (a fluid dynamics term) is misused in several locations where "gravitational wave" (a space-time term) is appropriate.
Some examples are in
https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/480e98a86c130 (Metric Ghosts)
https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/484744f9d849b (Valhalla Cluster)
https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/5b6b9e6e8dbe0 (Solar System in 10600 AT)
https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/529f53ba6d7a8 (Toposophic Mindmaps)
https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-topic/492d6aa0a549a (First Toposophic…)
https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-topic/492d6fafbef2a (Second Toposophic…)
https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4a31153929c9e (Sensors…)
I should have realised that, having corrected other people in the past.
In the "Articles" section of https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-topic/45b571ffbbf6b (Power generation) the topic "Core Breach" has two sub-topics, titled Software and Hardware. Immediately afterward there is the separate topic "Core Breach (Hardware)" which contains exactly the same text as the preceding Hardware sub-topic.
Suggestion: create the topic "Core Breach (Software)" and delete the combined topic titled just "Core Breach".
The article, https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/46411e9d02b29 (Conversion drive) has a paragraph which refers to femtoscale engineering, which I understand to have been eliminated from OA canon.
Suggestion: remove the phrases which include the term "femtoscale engineering" or similar. The remaining description seems to stand on its own.
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(05-05-2021, 09:43 PM)selden Wrote: The article, https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/46411e9d02b29 (Conversion drive) has a paragraph which refers to femtoscale engineering, which I understand to have been eliminated from OA canon.
5th paragraph of
'lossless conversion'
The construction of nuclear-scale meshes is complex, even for third toposophic minds, and is an example of femtoscale engineering. Ideally, the mesh (or mesh panels) are formed from single macromagmolecular structures; a sparse 2-dimensional crystal with gaps no wider than ~0.85 femtometres (the approximate diameter of a proton). Much denser meshes (such as pure mag-graphene) and much sparser meshes are easier to fabricate, but the former can be several orders of magnitude heavier than the ideal mesh and the latter do not guarantee total conversion. The lightest meshes and most efficient designs are hallmarks of S4 femto engineering.
Technically 'femtotech' - meaning a tech equivalent to nanotech but operating on the femtometer scale, was removed from the setting. This was prior to the addition of magmatter, which does technically allow complex structures (and hence in principle engineering of some kind) at that scale. But it is not self-repping 'femtobots' such as OA used to have.
I think I've come across a discrepancy in the descriptions of void bubbles/void motes which are being used for ship propulsion.
The article about the Halo Drive at https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/493ea0a001290 comments on the blue glow surrounding Halo Ships, somehow related to Cherenkov radiation.
In contrast, other articles, including the description of the High Road in the article at https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/58b55a11cbb93, explicitly say that the void motes can only be detected by the distortion of starlight when it is passing through high concentrations of them, not mentioning any glow.
I think it might be appropriate to remove the mention of blue light and Cherenkov radiation from the Halo Drive article. So far, I haven't seen it mentioned elsewhere. (Also, it isn't obvious to me where any Cherenkov radiation would be coming from. It's usually created by charged particles traveling faster than the speed of light in the medium, as from high energy charged particles traversing the water surrounding some types of nuclear reactors, or from high energy cosmic rays when they encounter an atmosphere.)
I'd think Unruh radiation would be more likely to be visible near a Void bubble. At high speeds, in the frame of reference of the ship, the universe would appear to emit light, which would be bent around the void bubble and re-emitted in all directions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unruh_effect
My reading of the article seems to suggest that the existence of Unruh radiation is controversial.
Might synchrotron radiation be present? Although that's caused by accelerated charged particles. I dunno how or if it results from accelerated magnetic fields. (Going in a circle to stay near a ship would be acceleration.)