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The latest on the partial building collapse near Miami
By Melissa Mahtani, Adrienne Vogt, Melissa Macaya, Mike Hayes and Veronica Rocha, CNN
Updated 11:21 a.m. ET, June 30, 2021
At least 12 people are dead and 149 people are unaccounted for after a residential building partially collapsed in Surfside, Florida, Thursday.
Search and rescue teams continue to race to locate individuals. Emergency officials are also asking people to call 305-614-1819 if they have relatives who are unaccounted for.
The cause of the collapse is still unknown, but a letter sent months before the deadly collapse warned damage to the building was accelerating after a 2018 report raised concerns about structural damage.
Our live coverage has ended, but you can read more about the collapse here.
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Catch up: What to know about the preliminary investigation of the condo collapse so far
After Champlain Towers South partially collapsed in Surfside, Florida, last Thursday, questions continue to be asked about the building's structural integrity.
While the official cause of the collapse remains unknown, local and federal officials have begun efforts to try to determine why the building partially collapsed, and also prevent similar events from happening in neighboring buildings.
Here's everything you need to know about the investigation so far:
Warnings before the collapse: An April 2021 letter from the condo's board president to residents said some damage observed in a 2018 engineer's report, including in the garage, "has gotten significantly worse." The 2018 report from an engineering firm documented severe structural damage to the concrete slab below the pool deck and "cracking and spalling" located in the parking garage. Spalling is a term used to describe areas of concrete that have cracked or crumbled.
The federal team: A group of federal officials from the National Institute of Standards and Technology is launching a preliminary investigation of the collapsed building's materials, history and applicable building codes at the time the condo was built, the ground surrounding the building and numerous other factors, according to an agency official. The six-person team includes scientists, structural engineers and a geotechnical engineer.
The timeline: Allyn Kilsheimer, the structural engineer hired by the town of Surfside to look into the reasons for the collapse, said his investigation could last a few months or longer, although an exact time frame is unknown. Kilsheimer said he has started examining the building and will use a meticulous, computer-assisted process of elimination to attempt to identify the cause or causes. "Unless it's a plane or a bomb that you know triggered this whole thing, sometimes you can't get it down to one cause," he explained. "You don't know what you're going to end up with until you finish the whole study."
Potential leads: Although it still remains unknown why the building partially collapsed, engineers who have reviewed the case say the investigation should focus on potential failures near the building's base. According to Sinisa Kolar, a Miami-based engineering executive, forensic engineers will need to examine the ground-floor columns. In addition, Kolar expects investigators will test samples of concrete and cross-reference that with structural drawings. Meanwhile, Joel Figueroa-Vallines, president of SEP Engineers, said he thinks it's too early to reach conclusions, but also said he would focus an investigation on the foundation and the "podium level" of the pool deck.
A possibly deadly combination: In addition to structural problems and "40 years of exposure to salt, water and salt air," the collapse may have been influenced by vibrations from construction work, heavy equipment on the roof and water damage from the building's pool, according to Mehrdad Sasani, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University.
What's next: Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said she will be meeting with experts in subject areas like engineering, geology, construction and legal fields to prevent this tragedy from happening again. "They will advise me on issues related to building construction, chain of custody and requirements for reporting, condominium regulation and more, so that my staff and I can develop a set of recommendations for changes that need to be made at all steps in the building process to ensure a tragedy like this will never, ever happen again," she said.
Read more about the rescue efforts and investigation here.
CNN's Curt Devine, Hollie Silverman, Alyssa Kraus, Deanna Hackney and Jamiel Lynch contributed reporting to this post.
Miami-Dade County mayor says she will support a grand jury investigation
From CNN's Gregory Lemos and Amanda Watts
Mayor Daniella Levine Cava. Source: WPLG
The mayor of Miami-Dade County said Tuesday said she would support the Miami-Dade state attorney's office opening a grand jury investigation into the catastrophic collapse at Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida.
Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said, "the grand jury has not yet been impaneled," but she has been speaking to Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle.
CNN reached out to Fernandez Rundle's office, who said a statement is forthcoming.
"We were talking about whenever it is moving forward, that we will be fully on board," Levine Cava said.
"I am very supportive of the grand jury investigation," Levine Cava said. "I have pledged my full cooperation, as she moves forward."
Levine Cava noted that she is very familiar with the grand jury process.
12:41 p.m. ET, June 29, 2021
Street closures stay in place around site of collapsed building
From CNN's Elise Hammond
Miami-Dade Police are warning people of traffic closures around the site of the collapse condo building in Surfside.
The department tweeted that Collins Avenue from 81st to 91st street is closed, in addition to Harding Avenue from 81st to 96th street.
Officials said the routes will still be open to residents, hotel staff and guests, and employees and customers of businesses.
At a news conference on Tuesday, the police department said officers are reevaluating the traffic closures on a daily basis.
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More than 800 responders assisting with Surfside search and rescue effort, official says
From CNN's Tina Burnside
More than 800 responders from 60 agencies are on the ground assisting with the search and rescue efforts in Surfside, Florida, according to Miami-Dade Deputy Incident Commander Charles Cyrille.
During a news briefing on Tuesday, Cyrille said the unified search and rescue efforts consist of multiple departments to include police, water and sewer and county attorneys.
This is in addition to the assistance being offered by federal state, local, international and not for profit organizations, Cyrille said.
More than 440 state workers are also on the ground assisting with the search efforts, officials said.
"Nobody is giving up hope here," Surfside mayor says
Surfside, Florida, Mayor Charles Burkett. Source: WPLG
As search and rescue operations entered their sixth day, Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett said "nobody is giving up hope."
"Nobody is giving up hope here. Nobody is stopping. The work goes on. Full force," he told reporters at a news conference Tuesday.
"We're dedicated to get everyone out of that pile of rubble, and reunite them with their families," he added.
"We have all the resources, what I've been saying since the beginning. We don't have a resource problem. We have a luck problem. As you know, we just got dumped on by some rain, but thankfully it looks like that's clearing. But the work will go on. We'll continue to work at 100%," the mayor continued.
Biden looking to federal investigation of condo collapse as he determines next steps
From CNN's Kevin Liptak
President Biden will look to recommendations from a federal safety panel as he steers the federal government's probe into what caused the collapse of a condo building near Miami.
Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, press secretary Jen Psaki said Biden would use the board's findings to determine how infrastructure like residential towers can be better fortified against catastrophic failure.
"They have announced they sent a team of six scientists and engineers to collect firsthand information on the towers, on the Champlain Towers South collapse, that will be used to determine if an investigation or study will be conducted," Psaki said in response to a question from CNN's Allie Malloy. "So obviously that would be something the President would support and certainly we would look to that if that's a decision made to learn how we can help protect infrastructure across the country."
Psaki said the federal government's role now – in addition to providing resources – would be helping steer the investigation into what happened.
"We are providing every resource we can from the federal government, not just to help with the search and rescue operations but to be a part of any effort to determine if an investigation should happen moving forward," she said. "That's something the President supports and that's the way we can be constructive from the federal government."
Miami-Dade fire chief: Rescue teams have removed 3 million pounds of concrete from the collapse site
Miami Dade Fire Chief Alan Cominsky. Source: WPLG
Miami-Dade Fire Chief Alan Cominsky said that rescue teams have removed 3 million pounds of concrete so far from the collapse site.
"We're moving debris piece by piece and searching through. We moved over approximately 3 million pounds of concrete at this time. That's over 850 cubic feet," Cominsky said at a press conference Tuesday.
He noted that when they first arrived on the site after the collapse, Miami-Dade Fire and Rescue was able to remove 37 individuals. "We continue searching," he said.
Miami-Dade County mayor says experts will advise her on building issues to prevent future tragedies
Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said officials are taking "swift action" to address any issues with other buildings in the area that have not completed a 40-year recertification process.
Last night, a building officer notified a property in the county that four balconies must be immediately closed due to safety concerns, she said.
Levine Cava also said that she will be meeting with experts in subject areas like engineering, geology, construction and legal fields.
"They will advise me on issues related to building construction, chain of custody and requirements for reporting, condominium regulation and more, so that my staff and I can develop a set of recommendations for changes that need to be made at all steps in the building process to ensure a tragedy like this will never, ever happen again," she said.
Rescue efforts will continue to operate like victims are "missing until they are found," governor says
From CNN's Gregory Lemos
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Source: WPLG
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis told reporters search and rescue teams at the Champlain Towers South collapse will continue to operate like victims are "missing until they are found."
"The way I look at it, as an old Navy guy is, you know, when somebody is missing in action in the military, you're missing until you're found, and we don't stop the search," DeSantis said during a news conference Tuesday. "Those first responders are breaking their back trying to find anyone they can."
DeSantis remarked at the grueling and heroic search and recovery efforts.
"Those guys are out there, breaking their back on that pile, when they're digging tunnels and putting themselves in harm's way to try to find a void, to try to find an area where they could potentially rescue people, they have that mission and they're doing it and they're not shirking from it," DeSantis said.
The governor said the search continues with such commitment because people's loved ones were inside those condominiums.
"I just thank them for all their efforts and I thank them for leaving no stone unturned," DeSantis said.
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Two Rockets Fired From Sinai at Southern Israel Near Gaza Border, Israeli Army Confirms
Residents reported hearing explosions shortly after sirens sound ■ IDF investigating link between rocket fire and fighting between Egyptian soldiers and ISIS militants
Gili Cohen
Almog Ben Zikri
Oct. 15, 2017 Updated: Apr. 24, 2018
Two rockets were fired from Egypt's Sinai Peninsula toward communities in southern Israel near the Gaza border on Sunday, the Israel Defense Forces said. Residents of Eshkol Regional Council reported hearing explosions shortly after sirens sounded. The IDF added that there are no known casualties and that the area is currently being searched.
Six Egyptian soldiers were killed and around 20 members of the security forces were injured earlier on Sunday when over 100 militants attacked army outposts in northern Sinai, the Egyptian military said. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks. The IDF is investigating whether there is a connection between the rocket fire and the fighting.
This is the first rocket fired from Sinai toward Israel since May 23, during U.S. President Donald Trump's visit. There were no casualties or damages in that incident.
The incidents occured one week after a rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip at southern Israel. The army, after working to identify where the rocket fell, later reported that it apparently exploded in Gazan airspace.
All of the rocket fire and shelling from Gaza this year were not orchestrated by Hamas but rather by small organizations that identify with the Salafist-Jihadist movement in the enclave. Sunday's rocket attack follows the arrests of members of these organizations, which were conducted over the past few days.
A Salafist organization also undertook the last rocket attack targeting Israel, which took place in August. Hamas then started pursuing the perpetraters of the shooting in an attempt to arrest them.
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The year 2020 saw not only the birth of a new infectious disease, but also the formation of the Southern Medical Assocation's Physicians-in-Training Leadership Working Group (SMA PIT). The SMA Board of Directors recently voted for SMA PIT to become an official committee of the Southern Medical Association. Check out the group's year-end summary below.
PIT's co-chairs, Ms. Natalie Weiss and Dr. Dantwan Smith, recruited subgroup leadership to oversee four active subgroups: Ms. Rebecca Fabian for Mentorship and Networking, Mr. Ryan Halas for Research and Professionalism, Ms. Julie Yi for Personal Development and Wellness, and Ms. Christine McEvoy for Communications. The leadership team hails from three different medical schools and one residency program and has been hard at work developing new programs and initiatives that support and complement medical education. These activities have been supported by SMA staff's Ms. Mandy Stone and Mr. Dylan Stephenson.
PIT's adoption of SMA's committee rules will come with some changes to our leadership team. Dr. Smith will be transitioning from co-Chair to the role of Senior Adviser, while Ms. Weiss will be the Chair of PIT for the committee's inaugural term. All leaders will now be considered committee members.
PIT has published multiple podcasts with topics ranging from "Day in the Life" of an internal medicine resident, orthopaedic surgery residents, and fourth year medical student during the pandemic to how medical associations like SMA can complement medical training. The group also talked with students in the Rio Grande Valley about providing access to healthcare for underserved populations. PIT will be starting the new year with a mini-series sharing various perspectives on the role of social media in medical education.
This fall, SMA PIT leadership started contributing monthly perspective pieces to the SMA Pulse, the organization's newsletter. The Research and Professionalism Chair, Ryan Halas, wrote an article on how and why he has been inspired to be an active ally for BIPOC patients and peers. Julie Yi, the Personal Development and Wellness Chair, wrote an article about using social media in medicine.
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PIT established an active presence on Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn, as those were found to be the platforms used most actively by physicians-in-training. The group has utilized these platforms to advertise podcasts and perspective articles, as well as to conduct social media campaigns to debunk covid-19 myths and reflect on what brings physicians-in-training joy in the medical field. PIT Leadership also communicates with members via email and SMAConnect. The group has some exciting plans for social media collaborations that will reach more physicians-in-training throughout the region in 2021!
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Samsonova kašna (z let 1721–1727) je barokní kašna stojící na náměstí Přemysla Otakara II. v Českých Budějovicích. Je jednou z největších svého druhu v zemi a představuje významnou památku a symbol města.

Popis
Základem fontány je kamenná nádrž s charakteristickým barokním půdorysem (při značném zjednodušení se blíží osmiúhelníku) o velkolepém průměru 17 metrů. V jejím středu vystupuje z vodní hladiny hranolový sokl se čtyřmi chrliči na bočních stranách, na němž stojí čtyři postavy atlantů podpírajících rozměrnou kruhovou mísu ze které v jejím středu, na samém vrcholu celé kašny, vyrůstá podstavec s plastikou představující biblického Samsona krotícího lva. Samson přitom hledí na sever ku Praze.

Na obrubě základní nádrže jsou umístěny ještě čtyři ozdobné kamenné vázy. Okolo celé kašny je pak po obvodu rozmístěno 24 kamenných sloupků, spojených masivním řetězem.

Historie
S rostoucím počtem obyvatel Budějovic v 16. a 17. století se rovněž úměrně zvyšovala spotřeba vody sloužící domácnostem i hospodářským a řemeslným účelům. S tím souvisely také rostoucí komplikace se zásobováním města vodou. Roku 1716 proto městská rada rozhodla vybudovat ve městě kašnu, z níž by byla voda rozváděna do některých ulic. Pro kašnu bylo vybráno místo uprostřed náměstí (původně zde stával pranýř), aby zde kromě praktického využití vhodně sloužila také k ozdobě.

Návrh technického řešení nové kašny zpracoval jezuita František Baugut z Jindřichova Hradce. Kamenickými pracemi byl pověřen budějovický mistr Zachariáš Horn, sochařskou výzdobou pak Josef Dietrich (působící od roku 1710 v Budějovicích), který je autorem i dalších sochařských děl ve městě. Vlastní práce na kašně probíhaly v letech 1721–1727.

Horní mušli k zachycování vody vytesal mistr Horn přímo v kamenolomu poblíž Besednice u Trhových Svinů, odkud byla roku 1722 i přes komplikace, způsobené jejími velkými rozměry, dopravena do města. Hornovou prací jsou i čtyři ozdobné vázy a kamenné sloupky okolo kašny.
Josef Dietrich vytesal plastiku Samsona krotícího lva, čtyři atlanty podpírající mušli a čtyři chrliče vody.

Voda byla do kašny čerpána z Vltavy, na jejímž pravém břehu byla za tímto účelem vybudována Vodárenská věž, dokončená roku 1724. Potrubí odtud přivádělo vodu do města pod hladinou Vltavy, což byl v tehdejší době značný technický úspěch.

Svému praktickému poslání sloužila kašna velmi dlouho, a to i v zimních obdobích, kdy byla přikrývána, aby voda nezamrzala ani při velmi nízkých teplotách.

V roce 1990 prošla kašna rekonstrukcí, během níž byly původní sochy nahrazeny kopiemi od Ivana Tláška. Originální sochařská díla z kašny jsou nyní na českobudějovické radnici, Samson v přízemí a čtveřice chrličů na nádvoří.

Kašna je vyhlášena jako kulturní památka České republiky.

Technické údaje
Vnitřní průměr osmiúhelníkové kašny má cca 15m, objem je 237 m³, z toho využitelných 200 m³.

Kontroverze
Již samotný námět je poněkud kontroverzní, kdy údajně Samson reprezentuje Habsburky kteří krotí českého lva.

Poloha uprostřed náměstí dělá z kašny jeden ze symbolů města, a proto je čas od času využita i jiným způsobem, což není vždy kladně přijímáno veřejností:

Na jaře 2015 bojoval českobudějovický hokejový klub o postup do extraligy. Během baráže byla socha Samsona oblečena do hokejového dresu.

V září 2016 byla kašna zakryta v rámci výstavy Vnímání kruhovou stěnou a byla přístupná pouze po lávce z pořádajícího Domu umění.

Odkazy

Reference

Literatura
 Jan Schinko, Milan Binder:Českobudějovické náměstí, aneb Samsonova kašna, Bludný kámen a 48 domů

Související články
 Černá věž
 Katedrála svatého Mikuláše
 Kostel Obětování Panny Marie
 "Vnímání"

Externí odkazy

Kašny v Jihočeském kraji
Barokní kašny v Česku
Barokní stavby v Českých Budějovicích
Sochy v Českých Budějovicích
Městská památková zóna České Budějovice
Kulturní památky v Českých Budějovicích
Kultura v Českých Budějovicích
Vodstvo Českých Budějovic
Náměstí Přemysla Otakara II.
Josef Dietrich

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text:
Las elecciones estatales del Estado de México de 1993 se llevaron a cabo en dos jornadas la primera el domingo 4 de julio de 1993, y en ellas se renovaron los siguientes cargos de elección popular en el Estado de México:

 Gobernador del Estado de México. Titular del Poder Ejecutivo del estado, electo para un periodo de seis años no reelegibles en ningún caso. El candidato electo fue Emilio Chuayffet Chemor.
 Diputados al Congreso. Electos por una mayoría de cada uno de los Distritos Electorales.

Y la segunda el domingo 14 de noviembre en que se eligió:

 122 Ayuntamientos Formados por un Presidente Municipal y regidores, electo para el período inmediato de tres años no reelegibles de manera consecutiva.

Resultados electorales

Gobernador

Ayuntamientos de la Zona Metropolitana del Valle de México

Ayuntamiento de Toluca
 Alejandro Ozuna Rivero

Ayuntamiento de Tlalnepantla
 Arturo Ugalde Meneses

Ayuntamiento de Ecatepec
 José Alfredo Torres Martínez

Ayuntamiento de Nezahualcóyotl
 Carlos Viñas Paredes

Ayuntamiento de Lerma
 Alfonso Ortega García

Ayuntamiento de Naucalpan
 Enrique Jacob Rocha

Ayuntamiento de Cuautitlán
 Marco Antonio López Hernández

Ayuntamiento de Cuautitlán Izcalli
 Fernando García Cuevas

Ayuntamiento de Huixquilucan
 Abel Huitrón Rosete

Ayuntamiento de Tultitlán
 Víctor Cañas Sánchez

Ayuntamiento de Atizapán
 Miguel Martínez Bobadilla

Ayuntamiento de Tultepec
 Fernando Cervantes Urbán

Ayuntamiento de Atizapán de Zaragoza
 Luis Felipe Puente Espinoza

Ayuntamiento de Ixtapaluca
 Juan Antonio Soberanes Lara

Ayuntamiento de Coacalco
 Felipe Ruiz Flores

Ayuntamiento de San Simón de Guerrero
 Leopoldo Mora Domínguez

Ayuntamiento de Valle de Bravo
 Arnulfo Mendieta Sánchez

Ayuntamiento de Metepec
 Miguel Ángel Terrón Mendoza

Ayuntamiento de Chalco
 Felipe Medina Santos

Ayuntamiento de San Martín de las Pirámides
 Ponciano Álvarez Sánchez

Ayuntamiento de Teoloyucan
 Pedro Zanteno Santaella

Ayuntamiento de Teotihuacán
 José María González Aztegui

Ayuntamiento de Acambay
 Humberto Polo Martínez

Ayuntamiento de Texcoco
 Héctor A. Terrazas González

Ayuntamiento de Chicoloapan
 Matías Ramírez Pérez

Ayuntamiento de Chimalhuacán
 Enrique Suárez Pacheco

Ayuntamiento de Apaxco
 Gustavo Frías y Villapalacio

Ayuntamiento de Isidro Fabela
 Antonio Dávila de Rosas

Ayuntamiento de Atlacomulco
 René Gabriel Montiel Peña

Ayuntamiento de Villa del Carbón
 Andrés González Martínez

Ayuntamiento de Almoloya de Juárez
 Ismael Estrada Colín

Ayuntamiento de Ayapango
 José Luis Ramos Maltos

Véase también
 Elecciones estatales de México
 Estado de México

Referencias

México
1993


The last Ruby Tuesday in Naples closed Saturday after operating for more than 20 years in Marketplace at Pelican Bay in North Naples.
The last Ruby Tuesday in Naples closed Saturday in Marketplace at Pelican Bay in North Naples.
The restaurant, part of an American casual dining chain, operated for more than 20 years in an outparcel building at the Publix-anchored retail center on the southwest corner of U.S. 41 and Vanderbilt Beach Road.
Ruby Tuesday also had another longtime Naples location in Coastland Center mall until that restaurant closed about 10 years ago.
The general manager of the Estero restaurant said employees of the Naples location were offered employment at the Lee County locations. In addition to Estero, the chain also still operates regional locations in Fort Myers and Cape Coral.
Shortly after Ruby Tuesday opened in the mid-1990s at 8777 U.S. 41 N., its managing partner was quoted as saying the North Naples location was the busiest one in the country. That was when bartender Scott "Hollywood" Callari, inspired by Tom Cruise in the 1988 movie "Cocktail," entertained guests by juggling liquor bottles.
Ruby Tuesday purchased the more than 1-acre lot in the Pelican Bay plaza in June 1995, property records show. A company spokesman could not be reached for comment regarding future plans for the property or the vacated 5,400-square-foot restaurant.
The North Naples location closed for three months in late 2011 for extensive remodeling, which included a new roof. Popular for its salad bar, the national company started promoting a new Garden Bar feature a year ago.
As of Dec. 1, Maryville, Tenn.-based Ruby Tuesday owned and operated the majority of its nearly 600 restaurants in 41 states and 14 foreign countries. A fund managed by NRD Capital, an Atlanta-based private equity firm that specializes in franchised and multi-location business investments, acquired Ruby Tuesday in a transaction finalized Dec. 21, according to Ruby Tuesday Inc.
This private acquisition of the public company follows declining annual sales and the closing of more than 100 locations in 2016. The number of restaurants in the chain has dropped more than 35 percent since its peak of 945 locations in 2009.
Holders of gift cards may redeem them for purchases made at any Ruby Tuesday branded restaurant location in the continental United States, according to the chain's website, rubytuesday.com. Gift cards do not expire, but bonus cards must be used before April 11, the company reports.
Ruby Tuesday is the second chain to close a longtime restaurant in North Naples in less than three weeks. Florida-based Stonewood Grill & Tavern closed Jan. 31 after operating here for 17 years.


I'll say this for North Platte; it's easy even for a deep-down introvert like me to make new acquaintances. All you have to do is stand there watching a steam engine back down a siding, or sit in a coffee shop, and the next thing you know you are talking to a friendly stranger. They have mastered the art of storytelling without slipping into dangerous territory -- most notably politics. My first experience was with a fellow who was also watching the early-morning departure of Engine 844 (yes, I made it, and it was fantastic!). In the half an hour so we stood together in the chilly dawn, I learned about how engine-building had changed in 35 years and what it was like for a boy from a Nevada dairy farm to decide to study mechanical engineering. I told him about my journey east as a child, and how university teaching has changed with technology.
After the train chugged off to the west, I headed to the Espresso Shop for my ritual latte and email session. My new friend Alan the haberdasher stopped by to ask how my research was going, and to give me a lead on someone who could tell me about the women's clothing business in North Platte. Then a fellow came by and introduced himself as Mel; he is a regular customer and noticed that I was becoming one, so thought he should say hi. He told me a couple of jokes (clean) and recommended a movie (Always, with John Goodman) and told his story of traveling to 39 states before arriving in North Platte 11 years ago. Just the right size, he said, and a couple of hours away from his daughter, which is also just about right. He said I just make sure to come to open mic night on Friday the 11th, and I am thinking of doing some storytelling myself.
This cold is still wearing me down, and I took another satisfying nap before heading to the grocery store for provisions. Then I tested my voice and decided I could manage a phone conversation, and called up Sharon Johnson Kleckner, my classmate. We are meeting this Wednesday in the library to look at photos and talk clothing and stuff. Even more exciting, she is friends with our second grade teacher, now retired and in declining health. She was a pretty young Miss Taylor in 1956, probably in her very first year of teaching, and she moved away and got married at the end of the year, breaking all of our young hearts. Sharon tells me that one boy was so crushed that he convinced his mother to drive him to Hastings for the wedding. But the former Miss Taylor, now in her 80s, is back in North Platte and I hope I can see her soon!
Today was Reformation Sunday at the First Evangelical Lutheran Church; it has been 499 years since Martin Luther posted his "Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences," also known as "The 95 Theses," on the door of the Wittenburg Castle church. This is celebrated in Lutheran Churches worldwide; this year it was celebrated in Lund Cathedral in Sweden with a special visit by Pope Francis, beginning a year of observation of the events 500 years ago that resulted in the Protestant Reformation. Instead of the usual 8:15 and 10:30 services, this Sunday featured a single service followed by a potluck -- I thought I would do both, but was so whipped by the end of the service, I just headed back to bed.
The chatter you hear is because they reprised it at the end of the service while people were leaving the sanctuary and greeting the minister. They've adopted a version of the passing of the peace, but instead of the responsive "peace be with you" "and also with you", it was a lengthy round of "good mornings with people leaving their seats and walking all over the sanctuary. For the first time, this introvert was feeling overwhelmed!
One part of the sermon really impressed me. The pastor noted that the theological differences between Lutherans and Roman Catholics have not been resolved, and never will be, but that there is growing desire for reconciliation from a contentious and sometimes violent past. The goal is not agreement, but mutual respect.
A steam engine was making its way back to Cheyenne and stopping in North Platte overnight. The news article about it has given the ETA as about 4:30, but it arrived early. So I didn't get to see it in motion, but I did join the swarm of North Platters that converged on Front Street to look and listen and take pictures. It was the biggest crowd I had seen anywhere this week!
Tomorrow, if my voice is working, I will give Sharon a call, and start to plan my library talk for this Thursday.
Despite a lingering cold, today felt like a breakthrough day. I headed to the Espresso Shop for my morning coffee and work session (email and some work on an unrelated project). Within a few minutes, I caught snippets of a political conversation at a neighboring table -- "Bernie...pipeline...Hillary...Jill Stein..." -- that suggested that I had found some of the local liberals. Once voice in particular dominated the conversation, in an accent that was clearly Not From These Parts. When I hit a good stopping point, I introduced myself and joined the group for what turned into a long, interesting conversation. The alpha male was Bob from Brooklyn (he used to come to Nebraska in the summer to visit his grandparents, and now he lives here). My admission of being a church-going agnostic created quite a stir, and I was also clearly surrounded by Bernie supporters with varying levels of support for Hillary Clinton, from "no way" to "no problem". We made a date to meet at the Democratic Party gathering next Thursday night at the local wings and bowling place, and I have found my election night buddies.
When the group broke up, I went back to my laptop, only to sit up and look around when I heard someone mention the Holocaust Memorial Museum. It turned out there was a group of teachers from a nearby town planning a trip to Washington, D.C. for a conference, so I introduced myself and offered to help. We had a great time talking about the Metro, the Zoo, the Smithsonian Museums and where to eat downtown. By the time they left , I had an invitation to visit a local farm this week, and maybe even ride a combine.
On my way back to the motel, I lingered long enough to watch kids and parents in costume collecting candy from the local merchants as part of a downtown trick or trick event. The best news of the day is that I got a Facebook message from my classmate Sharon; I am going to give her a call as soon as this cold improves and I get my voice back!
Tomorrow: Church, and a visit with a steam engine!
North Platte, Day 3. Reaching out.
At the library, I talked to one of the staff members, who taught at the high school in the 60s and 70s and remembered the dress code battles of the time. Then I spent some time looking at the 1967 yearbook from North Platte High School, looking for former classmates. I found ten (!!!!) names that I recognized, four of whom still lived in town in 1999, when the last alumni directory was published. (Thank heaven for alumni directories, indexing female students by their former names and their married names!). Two of the women I found were also in my Bluebird troop.
Also also found a photo of North Platte from 1875 with a label showing the location of several landmarks, including the Unitarian Church, which no longer exists. The closest UU congregation today is in Kearney, about 100 miles east of North Platte. Oh, well.
I headed back to the Espresso Shop for lunch and some unrelated computer work, and overheard two patrons talking about meditation and theology. Deciding it was time to step outside my introvert bubble, I struck up a conversation and made two new acquaintances. Sherry is originally from Omaha, has lived in NP for about 30 years, and is a liberal, questioning Roman Catholic. Alan is the 3rd generation owner of the local clothing store, and promises to be a great resource on the shopping habits of local women!
i was up before dawn -- not hard, since North Platte teeters on the western edge of Central Time Zone and sunrise is about 8 a.m. this time of year. Despite a forecast of near record-breaking 80-degree heat later in the day, it was 41 degrees at 6:30. Welcome to the high plains. I had an article to revise for publication and a stack of email to answer, so I declared Day 2 my official people-watching day and headed to the local coffee shop, reputed to be where locals gather downtown. And was it ever!
The Espresso Shop had everything you can get at your local Starbucks, all delivered with an extra helping of Nebraska Nice. I ordered the biggest skim latte they had and settled down with my laptop, sneaking glances at the other customers. (I eavesdropped a little too, there was a discussion about the price of hay that eluded me completely.) the clientele was an interesting satorial mix -- work jeans and trucker hats, novelty t-shirts, some business casual. In my boot cut jeans, solid blue t-shirt and black cardigan, accessorized with a batik scarf, I actually felt a little overdressed. I was the only woman I saw all day wearing a decorative scarf. Who would have thought that I would be the snappiest dresser on Jeffers Street?
Once I finished my work, I set out to walk around the old downtown, once so familiar and now so changed. The Pawnee Hotel, still the tallest building in town, sits empty and waiting for its next act. The Paramount Theater across the street is a hippie clothing store. The Fox Theater, where my brother and I watched Don Winslow of the Navy serials and cartoon marathons, is now home to the local amateur theater company. I may get a ticket to their next production just to get a look at the inside.
Turning west, I saw a familiar bell tower a few blocks away -- my old spiritual home, the 1st Evangelical Lutheran Church. In the building, I was struck with so many odd memories. The round posts in the parish hall were still there -- of course! They have to hold up the building; but they also were good for twirling around when cover dish suppers got too boring. I went upstairs to the sanctuary and it was all the same, except the carpet, which couldn't possibly be the original. How many Sundays did I sit looking at these very same stained glass windows?
The hymns were still posted on the board, so I looked them up. The second two were after my time and unfamiliar, but the first was "Love Divine, All Loves Excelling" set to the tune Hyfrydol. The melody is a favorite of mine, even more so now that Peter Mayer has written the beautiful words of "Blue Boat Home" for this sweet old tune.
This Sunday is Reformation Sunday, a very big deal in the denomination that traces its history to a firebrand monk nailing his 95 theses to the door of the church. I am planning to go, probably attending the 8:30 a.m. "traditional" service, and staying for coffee and donuts afterwards (of course!) On the way out, I also bought a ticket for the Harvest Dinner next week. Hope they don't hold it against me that I drifted away from the Trinity and became a Unitarian Universalist. I'd like to believe that a modern Luther would also have a quibble or two with church doctrine, and would add a few more theses to his very long list.
In my rearview mirror, the cloudlike skyline of the front range of the Rockies, slowly receding from view.
Through my windshield I can see an exercise in one point perspective.
Passing a prairie dog town with a lone sentinel, and harvest fields brown in the early morning sun.
Cresting a long hill, I gasp at the sight.
The prairie, in all of its glory, a breathtaking sea of golden tan in the morning sun.
I moseyed along my way, stopping to visit the church in Brush, Colorado, where my grandfather served as pastor eighty or so years ago. The current pastor and church secretary were warm and welcoming, and shared some of the parish's history with me.
Finally, I made it to North Platte. The road into town was unrecognizable; lots of chain restaurants, a WalMart, a shopping mall. But soon I was driving through the old part of town, and over the viaduct that carries the Main Street across the railroad tracks. Within minutes, I was driving into Cody Park, past the swimming pool and the kiddie rides (closed for the season) and reaching the banks of the North Platte River. The familiar sights and smells, the grasshoppers leaping away from my footsteps, all brought tears to my eyes. A fellow about my age stopped to talk -- the first of many conversations I have had in my few hours here. And therein hangs a tale.
I think of myself as an introvert, someone who is usually reluctant to chat with strangers. But the genial neighborliness I have encountered here has triggered a memory of learning to look away from strangers instead of smiling at them, to nod instead of saying hi. I remember walking down the street in Westwood, New Jersey shortly after we moved there, and saying hello to a woman only to have her look at me with a startled expresssion that clicked quickly to annoyance and then to a mask, averted away from me.
I am falling back into a long-forgotten old habit, and it is so much fun!
The flight from Washington, D.C. To Denver was as pleasant as air travel in 2016 can be for a 5' 9" human. The skies over most of Nebraska were clear enough that I could follow the Platte River westward from Omaha, but not quite to North Platte. Rather than do the whole trip in one day, I opted to pick up my rental car, stay overnight at an airport hotel, and drive the 3 1/2 hours this morning.
Last night I had dinner with a former student, Wayne Watts (aka DK). Wayne was one of my star pupils in a service learning course I team taught about a decade ago. It was, by far the riskiest, more challenging, scariest course I ever taught--and the most rewarding. The title was Popular Culture and Literacy in America, and I will confess right now that I put "popular culture" in the title -- to recruit unsuspecting students into a service learning course where they would tutor students at a large, minority-majority high school. If I had given it a more straightforward title, I would have been preaching to the choir. We let them know the first day of class what we would be doing, so they had the chance to find another course if they wanted.
When I say "team taught", I am not kidding. The course was planned, steered and assessed by myself, a PhD student, and a team of undergraduate teaching assistants who met at my house every week for debriefing and planning. Wayne took the class as a student once, and then served as a teaching assistant for several more semesters.
Since graduation, he has pursued two passions: his musical career and mentoring. For him, they are deeply connected; he takes them both equally seriously and uses one to enhance the other. Right now, in addition to his performing gigs, he is running an after school tutoring and mentoring program very much like the one in our course, but much bigger, with multiple locations, and a cadre of mentors who are not students, but older adults who need training and support to connect with their young students. He is also developing a program of online mentoring podcasts and interviews that is simply brilliant. See more about this impressive young man on his website: http://www.dkakawaynewatts.com/about-dk.
This has nothing to do with my Nebraska trip, at first glance. But I found myself wondering, as we spoke and laughed last night, what life would have been like for me without the many direct experiences I have had with people of other races. More to come, as I think of it.
I'm off! And as I rode the Washington, DC Metro to Reagan National Airport, I couldn't avoid noticing the people around me, and their amazing diversity. This is my world on a daily basis, and has been since we moved here in 1976. (If anything, it has become more varied in forty years.) There were men and women of all races in business suits and track suits. There were women in hijabs, and men with waist length dreadlocks. Piercings galore. It being a chilly fall morning, there were no visible tattoos, but I know there was at least one -- mine.
My Unitarian Universalist flaming chalice, a gift to myself on my 60th birthday.
My workplace, a large state university, is similar. My church is less diverse, but certainly looks more like the DC Metro than my girlhood Lutheran church.
North Platte, according to the 2010 census, is about 10 times bigger than my little town of University Park: 25,000 people, compared with just 2,500. But North Platte is surrounded by farms and ranches, and University Park is eight miles from the White House, and surrounded by dense suburban sprawl that reaches for miles in every direction.
Both places are predominantly white, but the similarity ends there.
University Park is "78.5% White, 9.3% African American, 0.1% Native American, 4.7% Asian, 3.0% from other races, and 4.4% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 11.3% of the population. North Platte is 93.1% White, 1.0% African American, 0.7% Native American, 0.7% Asian, 2.8% from other races, and 1.7% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 8.8% of the population." Outside of University Park, our county is "majority minority" ("64.5% black or African American, 19.2% white, 4.1% Asian, 0.5% American Indian, 0.1% Pacific islander, 8.5% from other races, and 3.2% from two or more races. Those of Hispanic or Latino origin made up 14.9% of the population.") Lincoln County, of which North Platte is the seat, has about the same demographic mix as the city, and a total population of about 34,000. Let that sink in. There are about 10,000 people in the county who live outside North Platte. Prince George's County, home to University Park, has over 800,000 people, including my 2,500 neighbors.
So that's a rough snapshot of where I am coming from, and where I am going.
Add to this my three degrees in clothing and a career teaching and writing about fashion, which makes me well-aware of the role of dress in forming first impressions. So I am thinking, rethinking and -- probably -- overthinking. Are the red Mary Janes with the cutouts too hippie? Do 67-year old women in North Platte wear jeans as much as I do? Do I pack my black skinny jeans?
I will post my packing list once I get this worked out.
Ixnay on the innyskay eansjay. I don't wear them that often.
Traded the winter jacket for the just-as-warm but more packable layers of silk undershirt, thrift store cashmeres, and fleece vest.
No yoga clothes. Who am I kidding?
Other than it, it's my conference wardrobe, plus a pair of corduroy trousers.
And yes, yes, YES to the re Mary Janes with the cutouts.
A friend who is originally from Omaha convinced me to take the yoga pants.


The Internet of Things has revolutionized our personal lives, providing us with new levels of convenience, productivity and connectivity. However, the business world has been slower to adapt wireless devices and digital technologies. Here, Ravi Thummarukudy of Mobiveil — a technology leader in the data center, networking and IoT markets — discusses why companies have been slow to embrace the Industrial Internet of Things, along with the opportunities that await them once they do. He also describes some strategies for beginning to realize the benefits of emerging IoT technologies today.
We've relied on engineering simulation for years to test the performance of our chip and board designs before licensing them to customers.
DIMENSIONS: Can you tell us what Mobiveil does and how the company plays a central role in the Internet of Things (IoT)?
RAVI THUMMARUKUDY: Mobiveil specializes in developing silicon intellectual properties (SIP), platforms and solutions used in data centers, communication networks and many other Internet of Things applications. In essence, we are a fabless semiconductor company but we don't produce chips. We license our chip design and implementation technology to customers as an intellectual property. Our customers are leading semiconductor businesses working on complex chip and board designs, but they don't want to start from the ground up. We provide them with the building blocks they need to deliver speed, capacity, power and other performance features to their customers — who include the leading electronics companies producing technologies for the Internet of Things. Because we serve this market, we have a unique perspective on the future of the IoT.
DIMENSIONS: What special engineering challenges has the explosive growth of the IoT created?
RT: One of our key focuses at Mobiveil over the past several years has been designing and delivering the right communications and connectivity functions. It's no longer enough to see each board or chip as an independently functioning unit. In the IoT, everything is connected. The products of company A must effectively communicate with the products of companies B, C and D. In response, we've created many standard interfaces that ensure this integration. These interfaces are the "secret sauce" that our customers value, because they We've relied on engineering simulation for years to test the performance of our chip and board designs before licensing them to customers. know that communication and connectivity are being built in from the earliest design stages. We've relied on engineering simulation for years to test the performance of our chip and board designs before licensing them to customers. Our licensed knowledge helps to ensure that the Internet of Things is robustly engineered to maximize the performance and reliability of connections among all the different "things" that exist in today's heterogeneous technology environment.
DIMENSIONS: Given your unique perspective, what is the most exciting development you foresee for the IoT over the next several years?
RT: Much of the excitement and buzz about the Internet of Things today centers on the way it will impact our personal lives. We'll have connected homes and smart appliances that anticipate our needs for comfort and convenience. Drones will deliver our packages. We'll be wearing more and more electronics. This captures our imagination, and with good reason.
But I believe the bigger growth area will be leveraging the IoT in business applications — often referred to as the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Just as smartphones and tablets have revolutionized our personal lives, technology has the power and potential to change our manufacturing facilities, our warehouses, our offices and our transportation networks. Unfortunately, the business world has been slower to discover and adopt these emerging technologies, even though the payoff could be enormous. I think we will see this trend reverse itself over the next few years, and we will see companies accelerating their adoption of IoT technologies. Eventually, strategically applying the IoT in an industrial setting will be recognized as delivering a competitive advantage. As market leaders adopt the Industrial Internet of Things, other companies will have to follow suit.
DIMENSIONS: Can you give us some examples of how the IIoT might benefit the typical company?
RT: Certainly there is a huge opportunity for plant automation. Manufacturers can gather data about customer demand, transportation capacity, materials availability and other real-time business conditions to run their production facilities much smarter and more cost-efficiently. Artificial intelligence can begin to drive many of the decisions about what to make, when and in what quantity — decisions that are largely made by humans today.
Remote equipment monitoring is another area in which the IoT can make a major contribution. Aircraft engines, undersea equipment and implantable medical devices are just a few examples of equipment that might be hard to monitor and control today. By installing sensors on these types of equipment, gathering data and analyzing it in real time, companies can predict and prevent many cases of mechanical failure — as well as schedule maintenance in a more cost-effective way, based on real-world conditions and not educated guesses. Future product development can obviously be significantly improved if we have a clearer understanding of how products are actually performing in the real world.
DIMENSIONS: Why has the business world been slower to embrace the Internet of Things than the consumer market?
RT: There are a number of reasons. Probably the most important is that companies have a lot more at stake. If a consumer buys a personal fitness monitor and it doesn't work as expected, that's a relatively minor problem. But if executives are trusting technology to manage their production facilities and meet customer commitments, the cost of failure is obviously much higher. Customers could be lost, and profit margins could disappear. For many enterprises, 24/7 operation is critical to their success, so it can be very risky to adopt any new technology model. While the IIoT offers a significant payback, sometimes it's easier for executives to just stick to "business as usual" and realize reliable results.
I discussed earlier how Mobiveil helps to ensure connectivity and communication. Openness and collaboration with business partners is highly valued in today's world. But anytime a company connects to a partner — or the cloud — there is an inherent security risk. No one wants to allow external parties to have the power to intercept data and gain control over a production facility, a plane in flight or an electric utility. That's a very real concern that must be addressed before most businesses will be willing to create real-time, device-based connections with third parties.
The IIoT is also going to create new power demands as increased volumes of information are collected and stored. The multitude of sensors and devices deployed around the world will need to be supplied with power in a reliable, cost-efficient manner. In addition, companies will need to create or access data centers where they can process and analyze their new insights about customers, plants, equipment and other factors that affect their success. Not only will these data centers consume large amounts of power, but they will be accompanied by practical problems such as cooling needs and physical security requirements.
These are not minor concerns. When you consider all these new requirements and risks, it's really not surprising that businesses have been slow to invest in the Industrial Internet of Things.
ANSYS recently teamed up with Tata Consulting Services as part of the GE Predix early adopter program to demonstrate how engineering simulation can be intimately integrated into the industrial internet ecosystem. One example demonstrated anomaly detection in a gas pipeline.
DIMENSIONS: What can businesses do to mitigate these factors and speed up their adoption of emerging technology?
RT: In the short term, the clear answer is to partner with established experts who have already figured out these issues. It is simply too costly and time-consuming today to build an independent IIoT capability — and the required knowledge and technology resources are readily available.
For example, there are many service providers around the world offering affordable cloud storage that can be accessed by anyone. This cost-efficient option enables any company to begin collecting new data via the IIoT and applying it to pressing challenges. One caveat is that most businesses store entirely too much information; executives need to separate the truly useful data from the unimportant, then only store the most essential insights that will actually be helpful. This will help minimize their outsourcing costs.
A number of trends are making cloud storage more affordable every day, putting it within easy reach of any enterprise. Many service providers have addressed the power and thermal issues associated with large data centers by constructing facilities in cooler climates such as Eastern Europe, and designing buildings with low cooling costs as a primary goal. This allows cloud providers to reduce their service fees. In addition, the transition from magnetic storage systems to emerging flash storage technology — which is a magnitude faster in terms of data retrieval time — is bringing down the time and costs involved in data processing. Large, data-intensive companies like Amazon and Google have already made this transition, and we can expect others to follow suit.
While data security is a huge challenge, there are certainly experts who can help address this issue as companies collect data from devices and sensors, as well as interact with trading partners and cloud providers. This is a well-founded concern that must be thoughtfully considered, but ultimately it should not be a deterrent to capitalizing on the IIoT.
Until internal capabilities for data analysis — which is one of today's fastest-growing career fields — are built, companies can access third-party expertise in this area too. Mining data and identifying key insights are specialized skills, but many firms today offer this expertise. With today's software-centric data-center architecture, many third-party analytics applications could be run on the collected data to provide for the best management insight and decision making.
Collecting the right amount of data, ensuring the right level of security, and applying the right amount of data processing at the right location are all key challenging questions that need to be answered for each enterprise. Eventually, I believe the cloud will become smarter and actually incorporate analytics along with compute and physical storage. That's when we'll really see an explosion of the Industrial Internet of Things.
Ravi Thummarukudy has over 28 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. Before joining Mobiveil as CEO, he was a co-founder of GDA Technologies, a privately held design firm offering end-to-end solutions for semiconductor product development. Prior to this, Thummarukudy held global business and technology management positions at Cadence Design Systems, Tata Consultancy Services and the Indian Space Research Organization. He has contributed articles to Chip Design Magazine, Electronic Design, ISD Magazine and SiliconIndia. He holds a B.S.E.E. from Mar Athanasius College of Engineering and an M.Tech. from IIT Madras, India.


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Q: View not animating with Autolayout I've been searching around SO and have found some related posts, but none that have (yet) solved my problem.
I have a view setup in my storyboard, with a constraint hooked up through an IBOulet.  Upon a certain action, the view should move up (or down to it's initial position).  For the life of me, I cannot get it to work properly.  Prior to autolayout, I ran this bit of code:
- (void)animateStarBackground:(NSString *)animationID
                 finished:(NSNumber *)finished
                  context:(void *)context
                   myView:(UIView *)myView
                     xPos:(float)xPos
                     yPos:(float)yPos {

    [UIView beginAnimations:nil context:nil];
    [UIView setAnimationDuration:0.2];
    [UIView setAnimationDelay:0.5];
    [UIView setAnimationCurve:UIViewAnimationCurveEaseInOut];
    [UIView setAnimationDelegate:self];

    myView.center = CGPointMake(xPos, yPos);

[UIView commitAnimations];

}
It used to work great, but anyway... we all know that this doesn't work in Autolayout anymore.  So I changed it to the following:
-(void)animateButton:(UIView *)myView {

    [UIView animateWithDuration:8.0f animations:^{
        _viewConstA.constant = 45.0;
        [myView layoutIfNeeded];
    }];

}
When the action occurs, instead of starting in it's initial position as set in the Storyboard,  it starts off as a 1x1 pixel view in the top left hand corner and animates downward into it's final resting place (instead of moving up 15 pixels as I had intended it to).
Now, if I take out the [myView layoutIfNeeded]; portion, the action positions the view in exactly the right place... BUT it doesn't animate there.  It's just instantly there as the view appears.
The first screen grab is the initial location.
2nd grab is what's supposed to be the views final resting place.
3rd is the view animating from the wrong spot and direction.
Thoughts / comments?  What the heck am I doing wrong?  I thought this would be so easy...  I've got to be missing something obvious.

A: When I call the following block-based animation from viewDidLoad, it animates the frame from CGRectZero to the final location. But if I call this from viewDidAppear, it works just as expected.
- (void)animateMovementByConstraint
{
    [UIView animateWithDuration:0.5
                     animations:^{
                         self.topLayoutConstraint.constant = 100;
                         [self.view layoutIfNeeded];
                     }];
}

(In this example, topLayoutConstraint is an IBOutlet that I defined in Interface Builder for the top vertical constraint on the control that I wanted to animate.)
With auto layout, since I've started initiating my animations in viewDidAppear, I haven't had any problems.


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Sonya Murray, centre, made it her mission to track down her long-lost sisters Nakuset, left, and Rose Mary, right. (Submitted by Nakuset)
Women among thousands of First Nations children removed from their families under federal program
CBC News Posted: Jul 04, 2016 / Last Updated: Jul 05, 2016
Sonya Murray and her sister Nakuset hadn't heard from their youngest sister Rose Mary since she was around five years old.
The two older sisters were taken from their family home in Thompson, Man., one night as part of a federal government program that's now known as the Sixties Scoop.
Decades after being forced apart along with thousands of other First Nations children and placed in adoptive homes across Canada, the two sisters were reunited with Rose Mary Monday on CBC Montreal's Daybreak.
Between the 1960s and 1985, the government estimates more than 11,000 Aboriginal children were removed from their families – often without the parents' consent – and adopted out under the program.
Nakuset said Rose Mary was 'the missing piece' and her sisters now have to make up for lost time. (Radio-Canada)
Others contend that as many as 50,000 children were adopted out under the program.
"One night, there was a knock on the door. Nakuset and I were alone in the house. I kind of opened door… and apparently some police came in and took us away," Sonya said.
Nakuset and Sonya were kept in the same foster home for a brief period before they were separated.
'She's gone… that's all I ever heard'
Sonya, who was around five years old at the time, was the eldest of the three girls.
"One morning I woke up and I looked in the bed over from me and it was all made up, and [Nakuset] was gone," she said.
"I asked, 'Where's my sister?' and they just said, 'She's gone.' That's all I ever heard."
Nakuset was adopted by a family in Montreal, where she still lives, and Sonya was later returned to live with her mother and stepfather. She now lives near Kenora, Ont.
The emotions of that time are still raw for Nakuset, especially when she considers the loss Sonya felt and the effort she made to find her little sisters.
"Sonya made it her mission to try to find both of us, and she's really the one that keeps us all together."
That effort paid off last week, when she received a message from Rose Mary on Facebook last week.
Nakuset says she grew up yearning for her native roots. 'I so desperately wanted to belong. ' (Submitted by Nakuset)
The youngest sister had moved to Vienna, Austria, with her European father when she was around three years old.
"There were no goodbyes," Sonya said. "She was just gone one day."
The sisters' four brothers were also taken from their mother and placed in homes.
'She was the last missing piece of the puzzle'
The message from Rose Mary, who now lives in Horn, Austria, came as a welcome shock to Sonya.
"I couldn't believe it. I wasn't sure. My head was asking if this is real," Sonya told CBC.
Since then, the three say they've been going "crazy" together, and they finally feel complete.
"In Austria, I used to feel lost and I never knew why," Rose Mary said. "Now, my heart feels wide open and I've found new happiness."
Rose Mary was "the missing piece," Nakuset added, a feeling that was echoed by Sonya.
"You have a sense of emptiness, there's always a feeling that you're not full, you're not complete," she said.
"In meeting with my two sisters — now it's 'us', not just me and you, like it was with Nakuset. It's not just me and you against the world, it's us against the world. We're complete. She was the last missing piece of the puzzle."
Nakuset said she can't imagine the loneliness her youngest sister felt so far away.
"I think about how hard that must have been for her to be the only Cree in a country, you know, where there's no one else who looks like her," she said.
Nakuset said they're now keen to get to Europe and teach their little little sister all about Cree culture and language. Rose Mary is already planning a visit to Canada next summer.
"We're trying to do everything we can to make up for lost time," Nakuset said.
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Q: AOP snippet: is this Aspectj? I encountered the following snippet about AOP. Can someone tell me what programming language is that?
  public aspect MyAspect
    {
      // Define a pointcut matched by all methods in the application whose name begins with
      // Get and accepting no arguments. (There are many other ways to define criteria.)
      public pointcut allGetMethods ():
             call (* Get*() );

      // Define an advice to run before any join points that matches the specified pointcut.
      before(): allGetMethods()
      {
        // Do your cross-cutting concern stuff here
        // for example, log about the method being executed
        .
        .
        .
      }
    }

is it AspectJ?
or there is no such laguage?

A: Yes, this is AspectJ.


LEDs are slowly but surely transforming the lighting industry. Reduced power consumption, smaller size and programmability are helping to drive growth, particularly in fields where different lighting patterns are desirable.
Printed boards come into play when designers want to focus light beams in specific directions. For example, automakers want headlights to shine on roadways, but also shine to the sides during turns or focus downward in fog.
Osram, North America's largest lighting supplier, is putting a lot of effort into LEDs as it transitions from a Siemens operation to an independent company. Joe Jablonski, applications engineering manager at Osram Opto Semiconductors, recently detailed some of the challenges facing automotive engineers working with headlights, which require a lot of light output, meaning they generate a lot of heat.
Metal core boards have the best heat transfer traits, but they can't be formed to suit demands of automotive stylists. However, smaller metal core boards can be packaged together using flexible printed boards to let stylists position LEDs to shine in the right areas. There are other alternatives, like using fixed connectors, to name one.
Whatever the alternative, these solutions underscore the importance of substrates in many of the designs that use high power LEDs. Designers in outdoor lighting, cars and other markets are looking for substrates that give them freedom to design efficient solutions that excite end customers.
It might not be easy to produce modules that let stylists create novel structures that provide differentiation while dissipating lots of heat. But when substrates play a key role in a new field, it's really pretty cool.
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The BioPods project was developed for the Bundanon Trust annual Siteworks 2014 festival but is also the debut project of When Art meets Science a three year ARC (Australian Research Council) project conducted between the artist and cultural and environmental researchers at Macquarie University; with The Bundanon Trust and the Australia Council for the Arts as partners. Read a synopsis of the ARC project below.
The BioPod ashore waiting to be towed to position in the middle of the Homestead Lake at the Bundanon Trust.
BioPods is a proof of concept prototype for a series of site-specific, micro-architectural sculptures which are designed to facilitate active listening in the natural environment and thus create an aggregated narrative of aural experience. The concept is to provide a capsule for an overnight acoustic vigil for a single person. Positioned in a sonically significant site on the Bundanon property the BioPod provides a unique situation that combines sculptural, architectural and acoustic experiences.
Ah I love rowing – a forgotten art really!
Participants are invited to record their sonic surroundings and a personal digital narrative as a contribution to an ongoing digital archive – a type of ship's log. Imagine a meditation cell, an escape pod, a re-entry capsule, an Ark in which an overnight acoustic reverie can be recorded by the pod's user-friendly, on-board digital audio system.
The BioPod moored in position.
Preparing the audio recording system.
One field recording mike and one studio voice mike.
Our species makes a lot of noise ~ we have created a world in which silence is a rare commodity. The BioPod invites you to spend an overnight acoustic vigil where you can maintain your silence and listen to the voices of other species.
DrSonique makes some finishing touches!
Some tips to ensure your stay is pleasant and safe.
The BioPod experience is from Dusk to Dawn and it is expected that you will spend most of your time inside the tent structure, listening, recording and relaxing. Please keep the insect screens closed for your convenience (insect repellent wipes are provided). Please also remove your shoes to ensure the interior is kept as clean as possible.
Cecelia Cmielewski testing the audio rig.
1. When moving about on the BioPod platform please take extreme caution as there are numerous trip hazards and the deck is coated in a waterproof membrane which can be slippery when wet.
2. Whilst the lake is only about one metre deep there is a life-jacket onboard and we suggest that you wear this when moving about on the platform or rowing to and fro the structure.
3. There is a head mounted lamp on-board (you charge this by winding the small crank) please use this when moving outside the tent structure.
Listen to an audio mix of environmental sound recorded on-site.
1. Sleeping; the BioPod is equipped with a camp bed and sleeping bag. Please use the cotton sheet liner provided.
2. Nourishment; there are basic provisions, drinking water and a thermos of hot water to ensure you won't starve to death.
3. The call of nature; there is a bucket on-board for that midnight pee, for anything more serious please row yourself ashore and use the toilet block.
1. You will be given a short induction to the audio recording equipment upon arrival. The gear has been kept to the minimum and is easy to operate, being based upon an iPad system. There are two microphones, a shotgun (housed in the 'blimp') and a voice mike mounted on the desk. The blimp does not need to be placed outside as the tent fly-screen door is acoustically transparent all you need to do is place the stand in an appropriate position.
2. Power is 12 volt DC and is supplied from the battery case below the desk.
You will be 'de-briefed' in the morning and asked for some fee-back.
The SiteWorks evening events commence.
An Abstract of the project.
When Science Meets Art: an Environmental Portrait of the Shoalhaven River Valley.
This project emerged in response to a need from industry partner the Bundanon Trust to increase public knowledge of both the natural and cultural heritage of its site in the Shoalhaven River Valley, NSW. The Trust sought an innovative project that would increase the understanding of both the region's natural environment of 1100 hectares of bushland overlooking the Shoalhaven River, and its cultural history, including indigenous history and the modernist art milieu associated with Arthur Boyd.
Waiting at the jetty for the first overnight visitor.
A research team was assembled to include expertise in environmental science, media theory, sound art and technology, cultural history and interactive art. The project involves the creation of an interactive audio-visual portrait of the region, incorporating both a representation of the natural environment and its cultural history.
This art-based research project uses art as a medium to examine environmental values and cultural history, changing locals' and visitors' perception of the area and its environment. The project has received the support of industry partner The Australia Council, which, through its Synapse initiative, aims to foster collaboration between artists and scientists in the creation of contemporary art works.
Watch this space as the project develops!


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Q: Kubernetes environment variable not being correctly used in command I'm trying to bootstrap a etcd cluster within my kubernetes cluster, here is the relevant section of the pod definition
  - name: etcd
    image: quay.io/coreos/etcd:v2.2.0
    ports:
    - containerPort: 2379
    - containerPort: 2380
    - containerPort: 4001
    env:
    - name: POD_IP
      valueFrom:
        fieldRef:
          fieldPath: status.podIP
    args:
    - "-name"
    - "etcd0"
    - "-advertise-client-urls"
    - http://${POD_IP}:2379,http://${POD_IP}:4001
    - "-initial-advertise-peer-urls"
    - "http://${POD_IP}:2380"
    - "-listen-peer-urls"
    - "http://0.0.0.0:2380"
    - "-initial-cluster"
    - 'etcd0=http://${POD_IP}:2380'
    - "-initial-cluster-state"
    - "new"

However when I apply the POD_IP environment variable seems to get mangled, evidenced by the log:
 advertise URLs of "etcd0" do not match in --initial-advertise-peer-urls [http://$%7BPOD_IP%7D:2380] and --initial-cluster [http://$%7BPOD_IP%7D:2380]

Has anyone seen anything similar to this?

A: The arguments are not interpreted by a shell, so curly braces don't get you the behavior you want. If you want to use an envvar value in an arg, variable references like $(VAR_NAME) are expanded using the container's environment.

A: Init containers use cases:
https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/pods/init-containers/

Place values into a configuration file and run a template tool to
  dynamically generate a configuration file for the main app Container.
  For example, place the POD_IP value in a configuration and generate
  the main app configuration file using Jinja


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Q: Current arrow before bipole I would like to have the current arrow before my bipole, not after as the default.
I have the following circuit:

i_{r} is right after the resistor. However, I would like right after the node, i.e., before the resistor. How can I accomplish that?
I used the following code:
\begin{circuitikz} \draw
(0,0) to[american current source, label=\mbox{$I_{f}$}] (0,4) -- (6,4)
(2,4) to[opening switch, label=\mbox{$t=0$}] (2,0)
(4,4) to[R, l_=R, i^=\mbox{$i_{r}$}] (4,0)
(6,4) to[C] (6,0)
(6,0) -- (0,0)
;
\end{circuitikz}

A: To place the current label before the bipole component, the current direction specifier (> or <) must appear before the label location specifier (^ or _). Since you haven't specified the current direction here, the default direction (with the direction the component is drawn) and ordering (current after component, in the direction of drawing) is assumed.
See my answer at Electrical diagram for a complete description of current labeling specifications.
Note that using \mbox around the label text is only necessary when the label contains an equals sign.
In this case, use i>^=$i_{r}$ to place the current as desired (> to draw the current in the same direction that the bipole is drawn, ^ to place the label "above" the bipole [where "above" assumes the component is drawn from left to right], and in that order so that the current label is placed before the bipole component symbol.
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{circuitikz}

\begin{document}
\begin{circuitikz} \draw
(0,0) to[american current source, label=$I_{f}$] (0,4) -- (6,4)
(2,4) to[opening switch, label=\mbox{$t=0$}] (2,0)
(4,4) to[R, l_=R, i>^=$i_{r}$] (4,0)
(6,4) to[C] (6,0)
(6,0) -- (0,0)
;
\end{circuitikz}
\end{document}


What Happens in Vegas with "The Mentalist"
No one had forewarned me about this…and while I don't have too many skeletons in my closet, I still found myself getting a little nervous as I sat in the V Theater watching The Mentalist, Gerry McCambridge, reveal the secrets of randomly selected audience members while apparently reading their minds.
As he stood on the stage blindfolded, with large coins duct taped to his eyes, he would call out the first and last initials of someone's name. An audience member would then stand and reply "Yes Gerry, those are my initials," as they prepared for him to share private information about their lives, details it would be impossible for him to know. Gerry became famous for this ability when his hit primetime special "The Mentalist" which aired on NBC.
Sure there are several explanations for the mindreading, the most obvious being plants in the audience, but even if you're not convinced by his ability to declare the past, you cannot deny his ability to precisely predict the future. In the live Vegas show for those who are still convinced that all of the alleged audience members are really just in on the act, Gerry dispels your belief by ensuring that everyone in audience has a chance to participate. The show culminated with each audience member (including the nonbelievers!) tossing numbered balls into baskets in a random human lottery – the results of which were of course accurately predicted.
Being your average cynic I was prepared to find all of the smoke and mirrors with my well trained eye for detail and analytical mind. I love a good magic show, but always leave feeling frustrated when I can't determine the secret behind the magic. Which is why I was thrilled when Gerry shared the secrets to his success during the first few tricks of his act.
In Gerry's words "A mentalist is someone who can figure out what you're thinking and also can influence your thoughts." He explained in detail how he used verbal and nonverbal cues to both predict and influence the response of audience members, but even after his detailed explanation I remained mind-boggled by his apparent ability to both declare the past and predict the future. Gerry will tell you that his Mentalist abilities were honed over a lifetime, thanks in part to the magic kit he received for Christmas at the age of 8, and the skills he learned from his father, an NYC detective and an expert at interrogation. Others might argue that part of his "magic" began when he was born…on Halloween.
To get in on the magic stop by to see The Mentalist Live on your next visit to Sin City. Even if you do have some sins in your past, not to worry Gerry won't reveal them. The show is rated PG-16. Showtime is at 7:30pm Thursday to Tuesday (Dark Wednesday) at the V Theater in the Comedy Club located in the Miracle Mile Shops inside Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino right on the Las Vegas Strip.
For a bonus visit Houdini's Magic Shop located just across from the theater and take a little magic home with you.
totally amazing show…. I had such a fun time the first night that I decided to take the whole family that's second night being a single mom at 5 growm kids…. it was well worth the cost of the tickets… highly entertaining… all audiences members were included which I thought was great….
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