World Alive Butterfly Kit | Nature's Incredible!
The World Alive Butterfly Kit is a traditional butterfly kit in many ways, but with one difference – the caterpillars supplied are for Large White butterflies. All the kits I've seen normally supply Painted Lady butterflies, so it was refreshing to see something different and exciting to see how these turned out.
[NOTE 2016: Unfortunately, you can no longer find this nature kit in Amazon or anywhere else. Looking at the World Alive website, even their product list no longer shows the butterfly kit, and caterpillars can no longer be ordered. That's a real shame as I felt that this kit offered something different from everyone else].
I'll leave my basic review on this page though for completeness and just in case the Butterfly Kit gets resurrected at a later date (hopefully!). In the meantime though you can get either the Insect Lore Butterfly Kit (US and UK) or the more recent My Living World Butterfly World (UK only).
The World Alive Butterfly Kit comes supplied with mesh habitat, instructions, magnifier, tweezers and pipette and is suitable for children aged 4 years and upwards.
Unusually, the kit provides caterpillars for the Large White butterfly. I say 'unusual', because all the butterfly kits I've experienced provide caterpillars for the Painted Lady butterfly. So that's nice to see. Obviously the Large White is resident to the UK and across Europe.
I don't believe this kit is sold in the USA. At least not under that name. I've seen a Fascinations Butterfly Kit which is a World Alive product, but that seems to have the Painted Lady caterpillar. Looks like stock is nearly non-existent on Amazon.com at the time of writing, so it's possible the USA product has been wound down too.
The habitat is slightly different to many others on the market. It does have a couple of mesh sides for the caterpillars to climb, with all other sides being clear plastic to see inside more easily. There's the usual zip access on the top.
The difference is the fact it unfolds to be a cube, unlike most others which tend to be taller and cylinder shaped. It doesn't make any difference to the outcome, it's just an observation.
When you order and receive the caterpillars, you'll receive a small pot which has, what looks like, shredded cabbage inside as food, as well as 5 to 7 caterpillars. Mine arrived all safely, even after 7 days in the post. The pot comes with a sellotaped lid and it's best to leave that on so that none escape until you are ready to transfer to the main habitat.
Make sure there are no holes or tears in your habitat. At this stage the caterpillars are very small and may escape if you give them the means! I bought a fresh cabbage and placed a leaf on the bottom of the habitat before transferring them from the pot. That way they had a good reason to stay put!
Actually, they are quite ferocious eaters and it's amazing to watch them devour the large cabbage leaf. You will be able to see the day-by-day growth which is quite phenomenal at this stage. Change the leaf as often as you can. Once the leaf starts to go yellow it's of less value to the caterpillars, so keep them well fed with fresh material.
It won't be long before you see them climbing the mesh side of the habitat. Once they do that you'll know they are ready to turn into a chrysalis. It may be a day or two before all the caterpillars have climbed the mesh. Try not to disturb them at this stage. You'll see the rounded, uniform-shaped caterpillar start to turn into something that's a bit more angular in places and bigger at one end than the other. The transformation is well under way!
Another couple of days and one morning you'll probably be presented with a butterfly or two. If you're very lucky, you might actually catch it emerging from its chrysalis. I've yet to do that, so let me know if you do. What time did it emerge?
After a day or so, and once all the butterflies have emerged, it's time to release them into the garden. If you have flowers nearby, try releasing them near the flowers. I've even encouraged butterflies onto my hand inside the habitat and carried them to a flower myself! It's very rewarding to see them start feeding immediately!
Don't pick them up by the wings though, you may damage the very fragile scales. Just gently push them onto your hand or finger. You'll usually find they are docile enough at this stage to comply. Do this in the garden though, not indoors. If they decide to fly, you'll want them free, not trapped inside, probably against a window.
Hope you enjoy the experience as much as I did. Let me know how you got on.
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25/10/2020 Bus service changes - Inner West
Sydney / New South Wales Transport Discussion
Qantas94Heavy
Re: 25/10/2020 Bus service changes - Inner West
Post by Qantas94Heavy » Fri Oct 23, 2020 2:07 pm
Speaking of 'on demand', I've just received the following email from BRIDJ:
From 25 October, BRIDJ's On Demand service zone will expand to include:
the eastern end of Gipps Street,
Bayview Road and,
the Northern end of Burwood Road.
CityRail
Post by CityRail » Fri Oct 23, 2020 11:16 pm
HHH wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 11:52 am This weekend some Scania buses at Kingsgrove are moving to Leichhardt which will be very squashy unless some buses at Leichhardt are moved elsewhere.
As M10 cease to exist, the artics at L can move to K until route 100 is launched and transfer over to STA Region 8?
swtt
Post by swtt » Sat Oct 24, 2020 12:37 pm
CityRail wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 11:16 pm
Most of the M10's service frequency has been redistributed to other routes for growth, e.g.
440 (3x additional service, Leichhardt - Railway Square in the off peak)
438x (2x additional services, Abbotsford - Martin Place in the off peak)
461x (2x additional services, Burwood - Domain in the off peak)
I suspect the total number of buses on the road has in fact increased in the off peak.
stupid_girl
Post by stupid_girl » Sat Oct 24, 2020 5:10 pm
swtt wrote: ↑Sat Oct 24, 2020 12:37 pm
M10: -4 per hour
440: +0 per hour
No increase in the off-peak. The Covid-19 short workings have existed for quite some time.
438x: +2 per hour
The current combined frequency of 436,438,439 is 8 buses per hour. The future combined frequency of 437,438X is 10 buses per hour.
The frequency is boosted from 3 buses per hour to 4 buses per hour.
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Post by 1whoknows » Sat Oct 24, 2020 9:49 pm
Volvo artics are moving to region 3 depots
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Special_K
Post by Special_K » Sat Oct 24, 2020 10:22 pm
Today's running of the last through Route 466 between Cabarita and Ashfield (4.25pm from Cabarita Wharf and 5.15pm from Ashfield Station) ended 111 years of direct public transport between Ashfield and the Cabarita Pleasure Grounds. The Cabarita Line opened in 1907 as a steam tram service branching off the Mortlake line.Direct services from Ashfield commenced in 1909, being converted from steam to electric trams in 1912.
The Cabarita and Mortlake electric trams ceased in 1948 and have been operated by buses ever since with the 466 diverted via Strathfield for about a decade before reverting back to Liverpool Road and the more recent detour via Bayview Park.
History changing before our eyes. Mortlake losing a city service with the cancellation of the 439 and Cabarita gaining a City (Peak) and Drummoyne link with the extended 502.
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Post by pgt » Sun Oct 25, 2020 11:45 am
Although not mentioned, they slipped in a couple of additional early evening 320 services on weekdays from Gore Hill, terminating at Zetland.
Timing wise they seem to be more about running a service rather than dead running back to the depot (there's possibly demand further down the line anyway), as they seem to correspond to the last couple of services that head out of the city to Gore Hill.
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Post by CityRail » Mon Oct 26, 2020 8:33 pm
I drove on Parra Road today during peak as well as being in the city at lunch time, I observed that 438X and 461X has pretty low patronage, yet they appear to be more frequent than 440.
I also observed there are some double up of 438X and 461X, possibly due to Covid or traffic.
I wonder how the Victoria Road front go today as M50 cease to exist and replaced by 502, 503, 504 and 504X?
Also, was there any outrage from Eastern Suburbs today as there are less buses in Coogee and Maroubra?
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Post by Qantas94Heavy » Thu Oct 29, 2020 5:22 pm
Some poking around on social media reveals some complaints about 438X. Despite having fewer stops, it's timetabled to take 2 minutes longer than the old 438 during peak, and 14 minutes longer than the old L38. There were also claims that their bus was more crowded than before, though this is likely anecdotal.
A couple more complaints were about route 503 being stuck in traffic on the approach to Bathurst St. Apparently some trips were delayed up to 10 minutes as a result.
Also real time data shows 438X/461X outbound buses being quite delayed between Museum and Haymarket LR. I suspect there is an issue with the right turn into Rawson Pl, but haven't had time to go there to observe what's happening.
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Post by boronia » Thu Oct 29, 2020 6:03 pm
I was waiting for a tram at Haymarket about 17:30 today, and there were 2x 438Xs in the stop, with another one waiting to turn in.
Perhaps the timetable variations are a more realistic indication of the actual times taken?
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Post by Cazza » Thu Oct 29, 2020 6:58 pm
Why do so many buses still travel into the CBD proper beyond Railway Square/Belmore Park? It just astounds me why they feel the need to have bus services run into the congested CBD core, when changing to a train or light rail is quicker (in most cases) and so much more efficient for bus operators (especially now that TS run the Inner West services).
The new 438X TT says it takes 14 mins (off-peak) from Railway Square to Martin Place (12 mins on the outbound).
Compare this to a 10 min tram ride from Haymarket to Wynyard (plus a transfer time of 2 mins from bus to tram stop and an average of 2.5 min wait). In total, a 14.5 min (round up to 15min) consistent journey from Central to the heart of the CBD.
For a train journey, call it a 6 min transfer from bus stop to Central Station platforms, average 3 min wait for the next City bound train and 6 mins to Wynyard and 5 to either St James or Martin Place.
That's a consistent 14 min (to Martin Place/St James) or 15 min (to Wynyard) trip (even less if you time the train connection right which is more often than not the case).
For peak hour, this bus journey jumps out to 17 mins inbound AM Peak and 16 mins outbound PM Peak (which we all know are pretty optimistic times on most days).
Either way, 17 mins in, 17 mins out. That's an extra 34 mins travel time per bus, per route (not even taking into account layover times between services which should be upwards of 10 mins). That's around 45 mins of travel time just to try and keep a one seat journey for commuters. Any global city should know that you should not be catering to people with one seat journeys if it is inefficient and pretty detrimental to the rest of the network (like these CBD services). You'd like a door-to-door one seat journey? That's what a car is for.
Interchanging is a part of any successful city and transport network (like pretty much any European city). I know sometimes it's comparing apples to oranges but it's what Sydney should be striving for.
And before people point out to me, yes I know layover space in and around Central is sparse and wouldn't be able to currently cope with the number of Inner-West terminating services. And yes, the key points to a successful network where interchanging between services is common place involves reliability (buses can cross that one out), frequency (buses once again) and a standardised fare network that doesn't have different prices for different modes of transport (and if I'm reading it correctly, a penalty for changing modes???). Like come on, what kind of joke is that?
But that's nothing Sydney can't work towards. Biting the bullet and committing to the changes that may cause a bit of initial fuss, but once the NIMBYs get shut down with the facts that a greater number of people will benefit than miss out and they too will in fact be better off, they won't have a case to argue for.
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Post by tonyp » Thu Oct 29, 2020 8:06 pm
I don't know what's happened to the inner west interchange at Rawson Place. All buses were supposed to turn around there (no layover, just in and out on about a 15-20 second dwell). I think there is space for two artics or three rigids. That was the original concept. Has it since gone pear-shaped like the SE interchanges?
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Post by stupid_girl » Fri Oct 30, 2020 5:01 pm
Cazza wrote: ↑Thu Oct 29, 2020 6:58 pm Why do so many buses still travel into the CBD proper beyond Railway Square/Belmore Park? It just astounds me why they feel the need to have bus services run into the congested CBD core, when changing to a train or light rail is quicker (in most cases) and so much more efficient for bus operators (especially now that TS run the Inner West services).
Changing to a train or light rail is much more expensive in peak hours!!!
Linto63
Post by Linto63 » Fri Oct 30, 2020 5:29 pm
Cazza wrote: ↑ Why do so many buses still travel into the CBD proper beyond Railway Square/Belmore Park? It just astounds me why they feel the need to have bus services run into the congested CBD core, when changing to a train or light rail is quicker (in most cases)
It's hardly a proper interchange with a fair walk from Railway Square to both the light and heavy rail platforms, and likewise can be a fair way from people's ultimate destination and the nearest tram stop / station. The number of buses proceeding through to the cbd is far fewer than it used to be.
tonyp wrote: ↑ I don't know what's happened to the inner west interchange at Rawson Place. All buses were supposed to turn around there (no layover, just in and out on about a 15-20 second dwell). I think there is space for two artics or three rigids. That was the original concept. Has it since gone pear-shaped like the SE interchanges?
If that was the original concept, then it was conceived by someone with no sense of reality. Buses coming up Broadway often bunch into conga lines far longer than the 3 buses that can be accommodated at Rawson Place. Result would be tailbacks around the corner into Pitt Street. Turning around without a layover would only be possible on services with a turn up and go frequency, of which the Broadway corridor has none. As to 15-20 seconds to unload and load, completely unrealistic; even a moderately loaded bus in a perfect scenario with no fumbling for opal cards etc will take far longer than that, much less one that is heavily loaded.
Post by boronia » Fri Oct 30, 2020 6:19 pm
The buses coming off Broadway should be able to stop in Pitt St, before (or maybe just past) Rawson Place, so it is only a short walk to the interchange. Connections from Railway Sq to Central would be enhanced if there was an entrance off the western end of the tunnel. It is ridiculous that you have to walk all the way to the end to get through the barriers, then perhaps walk half way back to the platforms.
The main bottleneck for the buses seems to be the lights getting out into George St I watched tonight and only two of four buses got out on the green, then there was a 90 second wait for the next green.
Post by tonyp » Fri Oct 30, 2020 10:35 pm
As I've said previously, I think in reality most commuters don't even think about the extra cost of changing modes as they tap their way through a journey and no doubt governments trade on that. It happens in every area of commerce with the change from cash to smartcard. The card detaches one from reality. The pain comes later when you look at your bank statement. With cash you see the reality in front of you.
I haven't given much attention to timing bus dwells here, but my survey of such things in central Europe is that a typical peak bus will exchange passengers (boarding and alighting) in about 15-20 seconds, rarely worse than 30 seconds, similar to a tram. If it's taking longer than that here, somebody should be looking at issues of design and productivity. The passenger is not the major cause of such issues.
Post by grog » Fri Oct 30, 2020 11:07 pm
Not sure what the earlier plans were for how the interchange would work, but the EIS had inbound buses dropping on Pitt Street before Rawson, and outbound services commencing from the interchange in Rawson Pl. I don't think left turn are allowed from Pitt to Rawson (it's a sharp turn) so presumably, at least from the time of the EIS, services were always supposed to turn around and layover somewhere else and then come back.
Post by tonyp » Sat Oct 31, 2020 7:56 am
Buses shouldn't be laying over in the city. It should be straight in and out with layover at the outer termini.
Post by grog » Sat Oct 31, 2020 8:08 am
I don't disagree, with appropriate headway management (i.e. low frequency services shouldn't go to the CBD at all)
I'm just calling out what was in the EIS, which never seemed to contemplate services operating in that way, especially given the way the project seems to have been designed to not allow buses to turn left from Pitt to Rawson.
Post by Glen » Sat Oct 31, 2020 11:26 am
tonyp wrote: ↑Sat Oct 31, 2020 7:56 am Buses shouldn't be laying over in the city. It should be straight in and out with layover at the outer termini.
Agree in principle but in practice that depends on the reliability (on inward trips) and the frequency.
On an unreliable route with lower frequency services (however you define that) loops in the city can result in less reliability for passengers on outward trips.
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Post by Geo101 » Sat Oct 31, 2020 11:35 am
boronia wrote: ↑Fri Oct 30, 2020 6:19 pm The buses coming off Broadway should be able to stop in Pitt St, before (or maybe just past) Rawson Place, so it is only a short walk to the interchange.
There are many services which both terminate and pass-through the Pitt St opp Barlow St, Haymarket bus stop.
I have started doing this myself during off-peak travel, instead of catching the bus to my local station then a train to the city, I now get the bus to the Pitt street stop, then walk to the tram stop, then on down George St.
I never used to do this before because, as pointed out above, to get to one of the city circle platforms from railway square is a cut lunch and a waterbag trek.
Trip planner estimates an 8-minute walk, which would be about right if not power walking.
tonyp wrote: ↑Fri Oct 30, 2020 10:35 pm As I've said previously, I think in reality most commuters don't even think about the extra cost of changing modes as they tap their way through a journey and no doubt governments trade on that. It happens in every area of commerce with the change from cash to smartcard. The card detaches one from reality. The pain comes later when you look at your bank statement. With cash you see the reality in front of you.
Occasional travellers may not think about the extra cost. However, regular commuters will very likely do so.
iamthouth
Post by iamthouth » Sat Oct 31, 2020 8:18 pm
I would think it would be the other way around, a regular (daily) traveller will reach the weekly cap, and will know the time benefits, an occasional traveller will not, and is thus more price sensitive.
iamthouth wrote: ↑Sat Oct 31, 2020 8:18 pm I would think it would be the other way around, a regular (daily) traveller will reach the weekly cap, and will know the time benefits, an occasional traveller will not, and is thus more price sensitive.
Most bus commuters will not reach the weekly cap if they do not interchange to another mode. Therefore, it makes perfect sense for them to stay on the bus.
pylelo
Post by pylelo » Sun Jan 10, 2021 1:08 am
Any shared observations on the patronage as a result of these network changes? Would be particularly interested to know how the 437 is performing.
A few anecdotal observations from me:
The introduction of the 438X and 461X have placed a greater proportion of pax on the 413, 440, 480 and 483
With the frequency reduction on the 431, observed spikes in pax through outbound from Railway Sq
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Keep Ingham COVID Restrictions to Maintain Safety Precautions
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In a perfect world, wouldn't it be great if everyone wore a mask, remained at least 6 feet apart, and washed their hands often?. That would be nice but not everybody gets that.
That's why Ingham County's top health official says her authority to maintain safety precautions against the spread of COVID-19 is very clear, but apparently that power is already being scrutinized.
According to the Lansing State Journal, "Ingham County Health Officer Linda Vail said her power to issue the orders falls under the state's public health code and is unaffected by the Michigan Supreme Court's ruling that invalidated Governor Gretchen Whitmer's executive orders."
Vail said it's a completely different law. The public health code gives state and local health officials broad powers to protect health, especially during the large scale coronavirus pandemic. (LSJ)
I personally don't have any issues with any mandates that focus on the health and well being of not only our immediate families, but anyone and everyone involved. We should wear masks and limit indoor gatherings and outdoor gatherings to stop the spread of COVID-19.
Linda Vail on Sunday issued four local orders mandating people continue to wear masks, limit indoor and outdoor gatherings, keeping indoor restaurant and bar seating limited to 50% capacity and requiring employee health screenings. The orders only affect Ingham county. (LSJ)
People should take precautions against the spread of the virus and want the pandemic to end. But know one has a crystal ball that can look into the future and tell us when this madness will stop. This is the here and now and we should all adapt to it, to the best of our ability and follow all protocols until we see things change for the better.
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Mirage of industrialisation without electricity in Nigeria
Jide Ojo
By Jide Ojo
I have said time and again that science, technology and innovations make a nation to be a force to be reckoned with in the comity of nations. It is not the huge population of China and India which is in excess of a billion each that makes these countries powerhouse and developed countries; it is because of their scientific and technological breakthroughs as well as innovations. In the era of slave trade, slaves were raided in Africa to work on plantations of their masters in Europe and America. With industrial revolutions when machines were designed and mass produced to do the work of human beings, there was no need to further raid slaves to work on agricultural plantations, thus, it became unfashionable to continue slave trade and subsequently, it was banned.
Industrial revolutions, as bye products of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics better known as STEM education, led to automation of most of the things being done manually hitherto. Robots, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, aeronautics, and breakthrough in information, communication technology have made the world a better place to live and enjoy. Central to industrial revolution is electricity, otherwise called power.
Nigeria has been mouthing industrial revolution for a long time without much success. Not even the establishment of Federal Ministry of Science and Technology, universities of technology, polytechnics and monotechnics, technical colleges as well as mushrooming of research institutes has made us to be a force to reckon with in science and technology. Since we are Lilliput in S&T we remain infantile in industrialisation. Today, Nigeria is a net consumer of industrial products of other countries, spending billions of dollars and other foreign currencies to import products from innovations from abroad.
One of the key drivers of manufacturing, nay industrialisation, is electricity. Where is Nigeria in terms of power generation, transmission and distribution? With all the humongous investment in the power sector, the privatisation of the old National Electricity Power Authority, transformation of NEPA to the Power Holding Company of Nigeria and the subsequent privatisation into generating companies, Transmission Company of Nigeria and distribution companies, the search for stable power has remained elusive under successive government, including the outgoing one.
Billions of dollars worth of investment has earned the country mere 5,000 megawatts of electricity distribution with frequent collapse of the national grid. Not a few Nigerians believe that the opacity in the entire privatisation and commercialisation of the power sector, and the massive corruption in the area are largely responsible for the parlous state of electricity supply in the country. Other ancillary factors include the lack of technical know-how and financial incapacitation of the companies that won the privatisation bids and license.
The promise of energy mix comprising thermal, hydro, wind, and solar power has remained a mirage. Many Nigerians are not connected to the national grid and have to source power from the myriads of power generating sets which come in different shapes and sizes. The most popular one being the I-better –past-my-neighbour (smallest size). Many of them are noisy and cause environmental pollution while the most expensive are the sound-proof ones. Some have to be pulled to start while others are kick started with mere press of a button. Solar energy is also gaining market acceptance. It's a combo of solar panel, inverters and batteries to generate electricity. Unfortunately, many of these power solutions in the market are fake.
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The main challenge with operating private power generating sets is the cost of fueling and general maintenance. Some of these sets are powered with diesel while others use Premium Motor Spirit popularly called petrol. Diesel is fully deregulated and as such a litre goes for between N800 and N900. Thus, running a diesel powered generating set for business and even domestic use is very expensive and exponentially increases the cost of doing business. This has made many entrepreneurs to run their businesses at a loss. On the other hand, PMS, which is heavily subsidised, is scarce. This has made many people to source it from the black market at more than double of the official price. Overreliance on this alternative source of energy is as a result of the acute shortage of clean energy from the power distribution companies.
In spite of mouthwatering promises of the DISCOS to serve customers with free pre-paid meters and pocket friendly tariffs, Nigerians are still being ripped off with estimated billings and the failure to deliver pre-paid meters even after paying for it. Not only that, customers are still largely responsible for buying cables and procuring or repairing transformers when they are faulty. In all of these, despite sustained blackout, there's still sustained tariff hike endorsed by the National Electricity Regulatory Commission. It's very hard to believe that NERC does not believe much in consumer protection.
The gist of my argument is that Nigeria can only daydream about industrial revolution if there is no stable and cheap electricity supply to the teeming Nigerian consumers. Science, Technology and Innovation are all largely powered by electricity. Most industrial machines run on power. Imagine that Aba as an industrial hub of the South-East, nay Nigeria, does not have stable public electricity supply and has to rely heavily on private electricity generation. The Ilupeju and Ikeja industrial estates of Lagos, the Agbara and Sagamu Industrial parks of Ogun State, the Idu Industiral Estate of Abuja are all not enjoying any stable public electricity supply but have to build their own power plant. Many highbrow hotels, financial institutions, manufacturing companies and agro-allied industries lacked public electricity supply and have to provide their own alternate power source which astronomically hikes the cost of production and makes locally produced items more expensive than even some imported goods such as textiles and agricultural produce.
I'm yet to hear what our presidential candidates in next month's election, especially the frontline ones, intend to do to salvage the sector and make the country self-sufficient in energy production and power generation. Without resolving this conundrum, not only will our industrial revolution bid remain a mirage, our employment and poverty reduction schemes will remain unachievable. The best way to incentivise the micro, small and medium enterprises, which are the pillars of economic growth and development, is when there is stable and cheap power to profitably run businesses.
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They delivered new gravel to the site and spread a generous layer of gravel covering the entire generator fenced in area. Some excess gravel was spread very neatly in the driveway giving the front of the Central Office a great face lift. I would give 5 stars to the people at Legacy Power, in particular the technician for his work on the alarms.


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There are a further nine government owned studs in Germany. Schwaiganger is one of four State Studs that own large groups of mares and breed, rear, train and sell their own horses. Schwaiganger is located in South Germany and is governed by the State's Ministry of Agriculture.
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In February while making some Tannat wine from our meagre harvest the screw thread on the baby press was stripped because of the significant pressure that was placed on it during winding.
After some research the only solution seemed to be a low torque Acme screw thread. Acme threads were easily available in 12 foot lengths. Getting a 300 mm piece of this with a nut seemed to be a real challenge until it was discovered that the scissor jacks used on most small cars use an Acme thread.
Finally, at the Dump Shop last week one was available. It was broken down to its component parts with the nut being welded to the top of the press and the thread had the handle attached. After welding, everything received a fresh coat of paint. The real test will be when we next use the device. This may not be until February next year.
Further progress on the newly built NZ Compost Bins. With both of us working steadily all the timber was coated with used sump oil in a location close to where it will be finally assembled.
Jean went across the river to work this morning and now that we have the dual cab work vehicle back with us she was able to take all the dogs with her as farm assistants. Nikki, the male had a serious neck problem a year ago and we only allow him to travel with a full body harness inside the vehicle. He loves being in the car and will sit there for hours without complaining.
The girls love being on the back and sticking their heads out from the sides to take in the smells as they travel back and forth.
Nikki isn't big on farm work and prefers to stay in the car and guard the farmhouse while the girls ride in the RTV while the cattle are moved and the paddocks harrowed.


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New Perspectives in American Jewish History: A Documentary Tribute to Jonathan D. Sarna by Mark A. Raider, Gary Phillip Zola (Editors)
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Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life
Widely regarded as today's foremost American Jewish historian, Jonathan D. Sarna had a huge impact on the academy. Sarna's influence is perhaps nowhere more apparent than among his former doctoral students—a veritable "Sarna diaspora" of over three dozen active scholars around the world. Both a tribute to Sarna and an important collection in its own right, New Perspectives in American Jewish History was compiled by Sarna's former students and presents previously unpublished, neglected, or rarely seen historical documents and images that illuminate the breadth, diversity, and dynamism of the American Jewish experience. Beginning with the earliest known Jewish divorce in circum-Atlantic history (1774) and concluding with a Black Lives Matter Haggadah supplement (2019), the collection travels across time and space to shed light on intriguing and generative moments that span the varieties of Jewish experience in the American setting from the colonial era to the present. The materials underscore the interrelationship of myriad themes including ritual observance, Jewish-Christian relations, civil rights, Zionism and Israel, and immigration. While not intended as a comprehensive treatment of American Jewish history, the collection offers a chronological road map of American Jewry's evolving self-understanding and encounter with America over the course of four centuries. A brief prefatory note sets up the analytic context of each document and helps to unpack and explore its significance. The capacious and multifaceted quality of the American Jewish experience is further amplified here by a sampling of artistic texts such as photographs, advertisements, cartoons, and more.
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Jews and American Public Life: Essays on American Jewish History and Politicsby David G. Dalin
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Brampton GC Welcomes Back the Ontario Senior Men's Better-Ball Championship Sept 30
Note this was moved from September 23rd to September 30th
due to heavy rain and conditions
Uxbridge, ON – The last stop on this week's busy coverage of championship play is the Ontario Senior Men's Better-Ball Championship at Brampton Golf Club.
Celebrating their centennial anniversary in 2021, the timeless parkland creation is excited to welcome competitors to the classic course. Hosting for the sixth time in the past seven years, Head Golf Professional Patrick Yashar, expressed that "the club is very pleased to continue to host and support this championship. The golf course is in great shape. The greens will be smooth, and the rough is fairly thick." The meandering fairways into a river valley below, will be a "fair but difficult test of golf that will challenge all competitors".
With the return of the championship after no tournament was held in 2020, the defending champions from 2019, Bruno Ardito and Gary Parker (Brampton GC), return to defend their title on home soil. Also in the mix could be 2017 champions, Frank Morris (Cutten Fields) & Tim Lee (Public Player). The winning duo will need consistent play and strong teamwork to walk away with the coveted hardware.
The players will take to the course starting at 8am on Thursday morning. A full list of previous champions of the event can be found on our website here. More information on the Ontario Senior Men's Better-Ball Championship can be found on our Golf Genius page here
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The Ontario Senior Men's Better-Ball Championship was first contested in 1982. It is open to players aged 55 and older as of the date of the tournament. The championship trophy was originally donated by the Oakdale Golf & Country Club, who annually hosted many Men's Better-Ball Championships. Notable champions include Ontario Golf Hall of Famers Nick Westlock and Stu Hamilton.
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One of my favorite house blogs is This D*mn House. Nicole the proprietress, has no fear, tools and an 'I can do it' spirit. The perfect woman. Really.
One Project Closer is another house blog on my list, holds a yearly contest to spotlight DIY projects, and support Habitat for Humanity.
Connecting the dots puts Nicole and One Project Closer on the same page with her Before & After: Brick Porch and Walkway project.
Congrats to Nicole and thanks to Fred and the folks at OPC.
Once the painting is done, it is time to fill the rooms back up.
This bedroom has a pirates of the carribean theme. The rail surrounding the bed is made from off the shelf rail parts. The ceiling decoration is wallpaper border. The curtains were standard until carl took the scissors to it.
The frames for the posters are painted on. Blue Painters Tape lets you do this. The wainscoating is painted on. The chair rail is standard molding painted the same color as the picture 'frames'.
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This bedroom is a more floral design.
There is also a dedicated area for TV and Gaming.
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I like the dowel deal for establishing a horizontal on the floor.
My buddy Mike, who taught me just about all I know about recycling cars and parts, having worked in his wrecking yard for 4 years, has a new project going. He is building a waterslide for a friend.
The frame work is made entirely of recycled metal fencing.
It will enclose the swimming pool pumps and filters, which are one of those things that go with having a pool.
The slide itself is a recycled PVC drain line.
The plans include covering the exterior with wire and concrete, and installing misters inside the slide.


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\section{Introduction}\label{sec:introduction}

In the last decade, Kinetic Inductance Detectors
(KIDs){\cite{day}} underwent a rapid development, allowing their successful
application to millimeter {\cite{monfardini}} and UV astronomy
{\cite{mazin}}. Different projects are currently on-going with the aim to
apply this technology to other fields, ranging from the search
of extrasolar planets \cite{mazin2} to X-ray spectroscopy
{\cite{quaranta,faverzani}}.

The CALDER project {\cite{vignati}} is developing large area phonon-mediated
KIDs with the aim of detecting small amounts of ultraviolet-visible (UV-VIS) light. Such detectors will play a
crucial role for the next-generation bolometric experiments searching for
neutrinoless double-$\beta$ decay. CUORE {\cite{cuore}}, the current leading bolometric experiment, is an array of 988 TeO$_{2}$ crystals read by NTD sensors.
Its sensitivity to double-$\beta$ decay is mainly limited by the background induced by the $\alpha$ radioactivity of the material surrounding the detector at cryogenic temperature, mainly copper. The possibility to distinguish different particles would allow to overcome this limit. Particle identification could be accomplished by measuring the Cherenkov light ($\approx$ 100 eV) emitted in a TeO$_{2}$ crystal by electrons, that are the signal candidates, but not by $\alpha$ particles {\cite{tabarelli,casali2,casali3}}.
CUPID\cite{Wang:2015raa,invhie}, the planned	 upgrade of CUORE, will therefore require light detectors
able to monitor the whole face of a crystal ($\approx$ 25 cm\tmrsup{$2$}) with
a baseline energy resolution good enough to clearly detect this tiny amount of
light (< 20 eV RMS).

One of the limits of KIDs is that they can reach a maximum sensitive area of a few mm$^2$\cite{zmu}. To increase the sensible area to several cm$^{2}$ we opted for a phonon-mediated approach\cite{swenson}: photons are absorbed by the silicon substrate on which the KID is deposited and produce athermal or ballistic phonons able to reach the KID, where they break Cooper pairs and generate a signal.
The use of KIDs as phonon-mediated detectors was proposed for the detection of Dark matter \cite{golwala}, cosmic rays {\cite{swenson}} and X-rays {\cite{cruciani,moore}}.
The application of such detectors to detect visible light was initially studied by the CALDER project, using an array of 4 KIDs
{\cite{cardani}}, made of aluminium and lithographed on a $2 \times 2$cm$^{2}$, 300 $\mu$m thick silicon substrate. Recently it was demonstrated a baseline resolution of 82 eV using a single KID made of aluminium and combining both phase and amplitude readout, that had respectively a baseline resolution of 105 eV and 115 eV\cite{cardani2}. In the following we describe a resolution improvement down to 26 eV, obtained using a trilayer KID made of titanium (Ti) and aluminium (Al).

\section{Detector description}\label{sec:Detector}

KIDs base their working principle on the kinetic inductance of Cooper pairs,  which can be modified by an energy release able to break them into quasi-particles (QPs). If the superconductor is inserted in a resonant RLC circuit with high quality factor ($Q>10^{3}$), the density variation of QPs modifies the transfer function $S_{21}$ of the resonator both in phase and in amplitude.
The phase readout is usually preferred since the phase response is larger (up to a factor 10) and is given by {\cite{mazinphd}}:
\begin{equation}
\label{eq1}
  \frac{d \phi}{dE} = \eta \frac{\alpha S_{\phi} (\omega, T) Q}{N_0 V
  \Delta_0^2}
\end{equation}
where $\eta$ is the energy to QPs conversion
efficiency, $\alpha$ is the fraction of kinetic inductance with respect to total inductance, $\Delta_0$
is the superconducting gap, $N_0$ is the single spin density of states
and $V$ the detector volume. $S_{\phi} (\omega, T)$ is a dimensionless factor given by the Mattis-Bardeen theory, describing the phase responsivity as a function of
frequency and effective temperature \cite{mattis}. Finally $Q$ is the quality factor of the resonator. The detector described in \cite{cardani2}, made of a 60 nm thick Al film, featured $\eta=7.4 \%$, $\alpha=2.5\%$, $Q=1.5 \times 10^5$, $\Delta_{0}=179\ \mu$eV, $V=2.4 \times 10^{5}\ \mu$m$^{3}$, $S_{\phi}=2.85$, while for aluminium $N_0=1.72 \times 10^{10}$ eV$^{-1}\mu$m$^{-3}$.

One way to improve the responsivity is to increase the fraction of kinetic inductance $\alpha$ and to reduce the
superconducting gap $\Delta_0$, without affecting significantly the other parameters in Eq.
\ref{eq1}. This can be achieved by exploiting the
superconducting proximity effect between aluminium and a
lower gap superconductor, such as titanium. Titanium also features a higher kinetic inductance due to its higher penetration depth \cite{kittel} leading to a significant increase of $\alpha /
\Delta^2_0$. However titanium was never demonstrated to work as
a high quality factor resonator, possibly because of its high sensitivity to
contaminants {\cite{impu}}, yielding dissipative conducting states.
This leads us naturally to protect titanium with aluminium, which is known to have an almost
lossless self-protecting oxide layer.  Moreover, to efficiently collect phonons from the substrate into the
superconductor it is important to have an acoustic impedance matching between
the substrate and the KID. In that respect, aluminium provides a better coupling to silicon than
titanium \cite{match}. The geometry, we present, is thus an Al-Ti-Al trilayer with the following thicknesses: Al 14 nm / Ti 33 nm / Al 30 nm.

The fabrication of the chip was made according to the following steps. The intrinsic 380 $\mu$m thick Si <100> wafer is dipped
for 1 min in dilute 5\% HF solution and then rinsed in deionized water water for 1 min. The
wafer is then moved to an electron beam evaporator
dedicated to superconducting materials, where the layers are subsequently
evaporated at rates of 0.5 nm/s in a residual vacuum of $\text{$4 \times 10^{-8}$ mb}$. This is important especially for titanium
to avoid trapping impurities in the layer {\cite{impu}}.
The film is patterned using standard UV lithography followed by a
two-step wet etching. In a first step, the aluminium is removed
using a commercial etchant (H$_3$PO$_4$/HNO$_3$/CH$_3$COOH). Then, in the second step, the titanium
and the bottom aluminium layers are etched in diluted HF
(0.05\%) at a rate of about 0.2 nm/s.

The sensor implements a LEKID design {\cite{doyle}} identical to the Al detector
in {\cite{cardani2}}. Its active area consists of an inductive
meander made of 30 connected strips of
62.5{\hspace{0.17em}}$\mu$m$\times$2{\hspace{0.17em}}mm. The meander is closed
with a capacitor made of 2 interdigitated fingers of
1.2{\hspace{0.17em}}mm$\times$50{\hspace{0.17em}}$\mu$m. The silicon substrate
is diced into a 2x2 cm\tmrsup{$2$} detector with the KID in the center as shown in Figure \ref{sample}.
\begin{figure}[t]
  \begin{center}
	\includegraphics[width=.58\textwidth]{sample.jpg}

	\end{center}
	\caption{\label{sample}The detector, made by a KID on a 2x2 cm\tmrsup{$2$} silicon substrate, is assembled in a copper structure through 4 PTFE supports. The circle show the position and size of the spot of the optical system used to illuminate the substrate.}

\end{figure}
The chip is assembled in a copper structure and held by 4 PTFE supports with total
contact area of about 3{\hspace{0.17em}}mm\tmrsup{$2$}. The copper holder is thermally anchored to the mixing chamber of a \tmrsup{$3$}He/\tmrsup{$4$}He dilution refrigerator with base
temperature lower than 10{\hspace{0.17em}}mK.

\section{Electrical and thermal characterization of the detector}\label{sec:analysis0}

The electrical characterization of the KID is based on the study of the
complex transmission ($\tmcolor{red}{S_{21}}$) of the resonator around the
resonant frequency (Figure~\ref{fig:resonances}). The frequency dependence of the
transmission of a resonator is ideally well
described by a single-pole approximation. It is however
necessary to take into account also impedance mismatches, power distortion and
electronics non-linearity to perform a rigorous estimation {\cite{casali}}. This measurement allows
\tmcolor{red}{one} to extract the coupling quality factor $Q_c$, the internal
quality factor $Q_i$ \tmcolor{red}{and the total quality factor $Q = (Q^{-
1}_c + Q_i^{- 1})^{- 1}$}.

The resonant frequency is found to be close to 2.4 GHz. $Q_c$ is $1.48 \times 10^5$ in very good agreement with the value predicted by the SONNET electromagnetic simulation of about $1.5 \times 10^5$. $Q_i$ is estimated as $6 \times 10^5$, lower
than our typical samples made of aluminium \cite{cardani2},
but high enough to allow the detector to operate well.

The critical temperature and the resistance of the trilayer
film have been measured in a 4-terminal geometry. The superconducting transition was
measured at (805 $\pm$ 10) mK with a normal state resistance per
square $R_{sq} = 0.58 \ \Omega$/sq above the transition. We estimate theoretically the $T_C$ of the trilayer following \cite{Catalano15}, assuming perfect
interface transparency to phonons across the layers and a superconductor total thickness
comparable or lower to its coherence length. Solving the Usadel equations \cite{usadel} within these
assumptions yields an analytical dependence of $T_C$ on the thickness of
the layers, similar to that found in the Cooper model \cite{cooper}.
To apply straightforwardly this bilayer model to the Al/Ti/Al trilayer, we treat it as a bilayer Al-Ti taking the average thicknesses of the Al
layers \cite{lesueur}. The expected critical temperature from this model is $T_{C} = 720\ \text{mK}$, assuming values of $T_{C}$ for the single layers that take into account the increase of critical temperature in thin films, as described in \cite{strongin}. The discrepancy between the expected $T_C$ and the measured value may come from the limitations of the model: we do not know the precise values of the electron-phonon coupling in all the layers, the actual transparency of
the interfaces and also the actual $T_{C}$ for each layer. A more complete model was recently proposed in \cite{zhao} and its experimental validation will be the subject of a separate work.

\begin{figure}[t]
  \begin{center}
	\includegraphics[width=.70\textwidth]{PaperAlTiAl_Resonance.pdf}
\end{center}
\caption{\label{fig:resonances} Complex transmission
  coefficient ($S_{21}$) around resonance compared to fit (blue line). Left: $|S_{21}|$ vs frequency. Right: Same data in the complex IQ plane. The arrow indicates indicates the direction of increasing frequency.}
\end{figure}

Using the SONNET electromagnetic simulations
software we estimate the amount of kinetic inductance $L_k$ needed to shift the resonant frequency from the value simulated for a perfect conductor ($L_k=0$) to the measured value. The simulation is calibrated against a detector with identical geometry but in aluminium.  $L_k$  of the calibration device was calculated independently using direct measurements of $T_C$,$R_sq$, film thickness and an estimation of $\alpha$ from resonant frequency shift with temperature.
 We obtain a value of 1.4 pH/sq, which is significantly higher than the value of 1.0 pH/sq obtained using the BCS form described in \cite{zmu}, which depends on $T_C$ and $R_{sq}$. This is a first hint that our case of inhomogenous superconductor cannot be well described by the BCS theory.
The obtained value of kinetic inductance translates into a kinetic inductance fraction $\alpha$=17\%, much larger than that obtained in aluminium
($\alpha$=2.5\%) using the same design {\cite{cardani2}}.

\begin{figure}[t]
  \begin{center}
	\includegraphics[width=.75\textwidth]{Alpha_PaperAlTiAl_Test3.pdf}
  \end{center}
	\caption{\label{fig:alpha} Measured relative variations of
  the resonant frequency $(f - f_0) / f_0$ as a function of temperature (black
  squares), compared to the Mattis-Bardeen theory (dashed
  lines)}

\end{figure}

We have also measured the relative variations of the
resonant frequency $(f - f_0) / f_0$ as a function of the temperature (Figure
\ref{fig:alpha}). These data are compared with a model developed
by Gao {\tmem{et al.}}{\cite{Gao}} using the Mattis-Bardeen theory. The model is calculated for our best estimation of the parameters ($T_C = 805$ mK and $\alpha =
17\%$). Again the BCS form cannot describe properly the case of our
inhomogeneous superconductor and we can indeed see the data departing from
the BCS model at intermediate temperatures. The interpretation of these measurements needs a dedicated model, whose development is beyond the scope of this paper.

\section{Detector performance}

Our experimental setup allows to back-illuminate the detector using two different sources: a non-collimated X-ray $^{55}$Fe
source and an optical fiber coupled to a fast room-temperature LED.
The $^{55}$Fe source illuminates in an almost uniform way the whole substrate with a rate of 1 Hz.
The LED emits photons at 400{\hspace{0.17em}}nm in the typical range of Cherenkov light. Depending on the LED
pulse duration and/or amplitude, a variable number of photons can be sent onto the substrate. The whole optical system is intially calibrated with an accuracy of 10 \% using a PMT at room temperature and then cross-calibrated with the $^{55}$Fe source. The position and size of the optical system spot on the substrate is shown in Figure \ref{sample}.

The resonator is excited and probed with a monochromatic tone at the resonant frequency $f_0
$. The output signal is fed into a CITLF3 SiGe cryogenic low noise amplifier, downconverted at room temperature using a superheterodyne electronics and then digitized
with an acquisition card at a sampling frequency of 500{\hspace{0.17em}} kSPS.
Time traces of up to 12{\hspace{0.17em}}ms of the real (I) and imaginary (Q) parts of $S_{21}$ are acquired following a software trigger. Finally I and Q variations are converted into changes of phase
and amplitude relative to the center of the resonance loop. A detailed description of the experimental setup of our laboratory at INFN
Rome, including the room-temperature electronics and the acquisition software, can be found in references \cite{vignati,bourrion}.

As already mentioned, the phase response is typically larger than the amplitude one. However the phase noise exhibits often an excess noise, which sometimes makes it advantageous to consider both phase and amplitude responses in the analysis of the detector sensitivity. When amplitude and phase noises are dominated by the noise of the low noise amplifier, they decrease with microwave power as $S_{\varphi}
\propto P_{\text{in}}^{- 1 / 2}$; however at large powers the
non-linearities of the kinetic inductance \cite{swensonjap} and heating effects \cite{pippo} become relevant and can suppress the signal. The
recombination time {$\tau_{QP}$, which determines the signal integration time \cite{cruciani2}, is also reduced by heating effects, lowering the signal-to-noise ratio. For these reasons, it is important to
determine experimentally the bias power leading to the optimal signal-to-noise ratio.

\begin{figure}[t]
  \begin{center}
	\includegraphics[width=.65\textwidth]{c1.pdf}
\end{center}
  \caption{\label{fig:Psweep1} Results of the power scan, obtained by sending light pulses of 15.5 keV on the detector. Left: Phase (red) and amplitude (blue) signal
height in mrad as function of the bias power. Right: Signal-to-Noise ratio as function of bias power. The optimal working point is chosen at -70 dBm. }
\end{figure}
For this purpose, we perform a microwave power scan from
about $-95${\hspace{0.17em}}dBm to $-65${\hspace{0.17em}}dBm at the
input of the sample, while the monitoring signal and noise levels,
as well as the pulse shape, in both the phase and amplitude readouts. A reference signal is produced by sending light pulses of 15.5 keV. The signals are processed using a matched filter, a software algorithm that allows to improve the signal-to-noise ratio by suppressing the signal frequencies that are mostly affected by noise \cite{gatti}. The height of the filtered pulses is reported in Figure \ref{fig:Psweep1} left. The phase
response is quite flat with increasing power around 19 mrad/keV, a sizeable improvement with respect to the 6
mrad/keV obtained with the Al detector in \cite{cardani2}. A similar increase is observed for the amplitude response, around 2.5 mrad/keV with respect to the 0.6 mrad/keV obtained with the Al detector.

In Figure \ref{fig:Psweep1} right we show the signal-to-noise ratio, obtained by dividing the amplitude of the pulses by the RMS of their baseline (after the matched filter). We determine an optimal working power of $- 70 \text{dBm}$, about 10dB lower than what obtained with
aluminium. The efficiency $\eta$ at the optimal working power is estimated as in \cite{cardani2} and amounts to $\eta=(7.5 \pm 1) \%$ consistent with what found in \cite{cardani2}.
\begin{figure}[t]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=.65\textwidth]{ScanP.pdf}
\end{center}
\caption{\label{fig:tau} Response of the resonator to light pulses of 15.5 keV for increasing microwave powers. The time traces are obtained by averaging many waveform to reduce the random noise and their amplitude is normalized to 1 to highlight the shape variation.
\end{figure}

The trailing edge of the pulse is well described by a single exponential law with a decay time that varies between 800 $\mu$s and 100 $\mu$s with increasing microwave power (Figure \ref{fig:tau}). As shown in \cite{cruciani2}, this decay constant can be interpreted as $\tau_{QP}$. The noise power spectrum at optimal power is reported in Figure~\ref{fig:noise} for
both the phase  and amplitude readouts. The flat noise observed in the amplitude readout
and in the high frequency region of the phase readout, is consistent with the
noise temperature of the cold amplifier ($T_N \sim 6 \hspace{0.17em} K$). This noise
is exceeded by a low-frequency phase noise, whose spectral index is found to be $0.49 \pm 0.05$, consistent with the presence of a two-level system noise in the detector, observed often in KIDs \cite{gao_TLS}. In order to compare the obtained TLS noise with other works, we convert the noise in fractional frequency noise as in \cite{zmu} and get $S_{TLS}$(f=1 KHz)=$1 \times 10^{-21}$Hz$^{-1}$, that is among the best values reported in \cite{zmu}. Both power spectra show also peaks due to  the readout electronics. These peaks are strongly suppressed by the matched filter and the measured energy resolution is always found consistent with the predictions from the noise power spectrum and the matched filter.

\begin{figure}[t]
  \begin{center}
	\includegraphics[width=.72\textwidth]{PaperAlTiAl_NoiseAlvsAlTiAl_3.pdf}
  \end{center}
	\caption{\label{fig:noise}Average noise power spectrum in phase (dotted line) and amplitude (solid line) readouts. More details in the text.}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[b]
  \begin{center}
	\includegraphics[width=.48\textwidth]{figurePoissonCalGaussians.pdf} \quad \includegraphics[width=.48\textwidth]{figurePoissonCal.pdf}
	\end{center}
	\caption{\label{selfcalib}Left: Histograms of pulse heights in the phase readout for light signals of different energies. Right: Standard deviation $\sigma$ versus mean $m$ of the Gaussian distributions shown in the left panel. The plot includes one more point at 65 mrad not shown in the left panel to not compress the scale for the other distributions. The curve is well described by the Poisson statistics of photons. See the text for more details.}
\end{figure}

To obtain a solid estimation of the detector performance we implement a calibration based on the Poisson statistics of the photons absorbed into the substrate. The detector is biased at the optimal microwave power of -70 dBm and is illuminated with optical pulses of energies in the range 0 - 3 keV. For each energy the distribution of the pulse heights in the phase readout is found to be well described by a Gaussian with mean $m$ and standard deviation $\sigma$ (Figure \ref{selfcalib} left).
The $\sigma$ vs $m$ data are then fitted (Figure \ref{selfcalib} right) assuming that two uncorrelated components contribute to the detector resolution: the baseline resolution ($\sigma_0$) and the Poissonian term from the photon counting that we model as $\sqrt{m \times r}$\footnote{The number of photons absorbed in the detector is $N_{ph}=m / r$. According to the Poisson statistics one has $\sigma_{ph}=\sqrt{N_{ph}} \times r =\sqrt{m/r}\times r=\sqrt{m \times r}$.}, where $r$ is the responsivity per photon which is estimated from the fit: $\sigma = \sqrt{\sigma_0^{2} + m\times r}$. By dividing $r$ by the energy of a single 400 nm photon we
obtain a responsivity of ($17.54 \pm 0.58$ mrad/keV) in good
agreement with the calibration against $^{55}$Fe presented previously in this Section. Using this energy calibration we find a phase readout baseline resolution $\sigma_{\phi} = (25.64 \pm 0.85)$ eV. Applying the same procedure to the amplitude readout, we obtain $\sigma_A = (77.3 \pm 2.5)$ eV.

\section{Conclusions and discussions}

In this paper we presented the results obtained using an Al/Ti/Al trilayer film
to develop a phonon-mediated KID for the detection of UV-VIS light on large surfaces.
The sample features $T_C = 805$mK, $Q_i \simeq$600 k
and a low-power recombination time $\tau_{QP}=800\mu$s. The main features of the detector are compared in Table 1 with the Al detector, presented in \cite{cardani2}. The lower critical temperature increases significantly the fraction of kinetic inductance $\alpha$ and thus the responsivity of the detector (factor 3 in the phase readout). The integrated phase noise after the matched filter improves of about 25 \%. This improvement can be ascribed likely  to the change in the fabrication process: the new trilayer detector was made by etching while the previous detectors were made by lift-off. The overall result is the improvement of the RMS baseline resolution for phase readout from 105 eV down to 26 eV. The amplitude responsivity also improves (factor 4). Since the amplitude noise is dominated by the LNA noise, the lower bias power implies however a worsening of the integrated noise by a factor 3. Therefore the amplitude baseline resolution improves only from 115 to 77 eV.
The obtained energy baseline resolution approaches the target resolution of the CALDER project of 20 eV. The last phase of the project -
currently in progress- consists in the development of light detectors of 5x5 cm\tmrsup{$2$}.

\begin{table}[t]
	\centering
		\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|}
		\hline
			& \textbf{Al KID} & \textbf{Al/Ti/Al KID}\\ \hline
			$T_c$ [mK] & 1.18 & 0.805 \\
			$Q_i$ [k] & > 2000 & 600 \\
			$\alpha$ & 0.025 & 0.17 \\
			Phase resp. [mrad/keV] & 5.8 & 17.6 \\
			Amplitude resp. [mrad/keV] & 0.6 & 2.5 \\
			Integ. phase noise [mrad] & 0.61 & 0.46 \\
			Integ. amplitude noise [mrad] & 0.069 & 0.190 \\
			$\sigma_\phi$ [eV] &105 & 26 \\
			$\sigma_A$ [eV]& 115 & 77 \\
			$\sigma_{T}$ [eV] & 82 & 26  \\
			\hline
		\end{tabular}
			\caption{\label{table}Main features of the detector presented in this paper compared with the Al detector described in \cite{cardani2}. $\sigma_{T}$ is the resolution obtained for the combination of phase and amplitude readout, using a 2D matched filter \cite{cardani2}. }

\end{table}

\section*{Acknowledgements}

This work was supported by the European Research Council (FP7/2007-2013) under
contract CALDER no. 335359 and by the MIUR under the
FIRB contract no. RBFR1269SL. The authors thank the personnel of INFN Sezione
di Roma for the technical support, in particular M. Iannone, F. Pellegrino, L.
Recchia and D. Ruggeri. HLS, MC, JG and AM acknowledge support from the ANR
grant ELODIS2 no. ANR-16-CE30-0019-02. The authors thank also the anonymous reviewers for useful suggestions and comments.
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The best party The Heartbeat of Haverhill attended this summer (and there were a ton of great events) was the last in the series of music and dance nights on the boardwalk of the Merrimack River. It was Country Night at Harbor Place hosted by the Greater Haverhill Chamber of Commerce and the Greater Haverhill Foundation and was coordinated by Jenny Arndt on their behalf.
It is not cliched to say there was something for everyone. What made Country Night so special included perfect summer evening weather with a full orange moon that no one can claim to have influenced and the number of activities surrounding the event. New England Music Award Nominee, the Stephanie Jasmine Band (with Erin Murphy-Dunn- Guitar/backing vocals, Robert Murphy- Bass/vocals, John Coviello- Drums, Bill 'Buck' Buckley- Lead guitar) provided a powerhouse performance with a mix of country and rock.
Between sets there was a line dance instructor who got everyone going. There was food and drink for a $10 donation to Career Resources Corp.
They decorated their hearts out simply but effectively, with the amazing result that they converted an outdoor urban downtown setting into a hoe down with a photo place set up with props and a faux barn door, a chance to try milking a pretend cow, hay bales, horseshoes, ring toss and corn hole.
And to end the night a stunning laser show by BTE Entertainment projected on fog between the high rise buildings. Just WOW!
All the guests came ready to party in cowboy hats, boots, jeans, some long, some mighty short braids and bandanas. THOH shouldn't be surprised that so much of Haverhill is country. Just beyond its urban landscape, Haverhill has some of the biggest farms in the Essex County and we have our very own Grange (Bradford Grange #238). Coincidentally THOH wrote an article about the Grange for the September issue of Haverhill Life newspaper, and shared a tour of Silsby Farm/Chris' Farm Stand, a 200 year old farm on Salem Street, with MDAR Commissioner John Lebeaux, State Reps Diana DiZoglio and Andy Vargas.
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IPA member Chris Williams FIPA appointed CEO of St.LukesHealth
Chris Williams FIPA, IPA Member since 1982, former Divisional Councillor and Tasmanian Member of the Year in 2002, has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of St.LukesHealth, combining the roles of Managing Director, General Manager and Company Secretary.
Last Updated: 07 March 2019 Published: 07 December 2013
Mr Williams' appointment at the not-for-profit health insurer comes in the wake of long-time Managing Director Colleen McGann announcing she will be retiring at the end of 2013 after more than 50 years with the organisation.
St.LukesHealth Chairman Chris Dockray said Mr Williams, who has worked closely with Ms McGann for over a decade in his role as General Manager, was the clear choice for the Board and would guide St.LukesHealth into the future.
"Chris has over 35 years' experience in the private health insurance industry and we have no doubt he will continue where Ms McGann left off, ensuring St.LukesHealth continues to service the needs of the Tasmanian community," Mr Dockray said.
"Our industry faces some significant challenges in the future and we are confident Mr Williams will continue to address these with the interests of our members at the forefront of his decisions."
Mr Williams said he had big shoes to fill in replacing Ms McGann and was keen to put his own stamp on St.LukesHealth.
"The private health insurance sector as a whole is facing some tough challenges ahead, especially in relation to product offerings, competition and changes to rebates," Mr Williams said.
"However, I am confident that St.LukesHealth has a great future and will continue to deliver the highest possible standard to its members, which is after all what the organisation prides itself on."
Mr Williams is a past President of the Rotary Club of Central Launceston, past Director of the Multiple Sclerosis Society and currently serves as a Director of Cityprom as well as on numerous committees in the private health insurance industry.
St.Lukes has been a proud sponsor of the IPA Tasmanian Congress since 2003 and will continue to do so in 2014.
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My Printing Company Will Not Accept Word Files, But It Is All I Have!
1- Buy new software,2- Learn new software, 3- Import your files, if they can be imported and do the layout from scratch. Not a pretty picture here. However there are some tricks you can learn with ease that can allow you to use your Word files and print with reasonable success.
First of all there is one form of printing that can accept word files and that is digital printing. While this is a generic word as most printing presses today are so called "digital presses" and they are not 100% digital. I am referring to the Docutech for black only print and the iGen or Canon equivalent for color. They use toner and not ink and do not use plates. The quality is relatively equal to the ink presses you may use providing you did not have your files in Word.
The problems faced while using Word for any form of printing is the lack of accuracy. Files can shift using the same version just moving them from one computer to the next. Things become worse when two computers do not share the same version of Word. Microsoft word has larger issues than this with respect to what you see on screen vs. what you get when you print it out with a commercial printing company. The reason for this is that the equipment at a printing press is far more sophisticated than your desk top printer and thus far more accurate. Any errors or issues will be magnified at the printing press level while they may not be noticed at your desktop.
Here are some of the issues you will potentially face using Word to present as a file for commercial printing and some work around ideas.
1- Your printer will accept a PDF while not accepting a Word file.
2- PDF is essentially an image format so it locks in your work as Word is NOT stable.
3- Adobe Acrobat by its default settings will convert an RGB color scheme from Word to CMYK required for printing.
Now your book or business printer will accept a PDF, but that by no means represents a perfect trouble free file to the printer and you still could be facing some issues with respect to accuracy of the file. By the way, there are numerous free PDF creators and I have tried some, but those I have tried are slightly glitch and you would better be served purchasing even an older, not too old, version of Adobe Acrobat as that is only way you and your printer will have some commonality while working with your file.
When creating the PDF a text box appears in Adobe Acrobat that allows you to choose what type of PDF to create. The two most important things to know are to save your file for "printing press" in the dialogue box and to uncheck the box near bottom that states "rely on system fonts, do not use document fonts". This is crucial as if you ask for help at press to fix something it is possible to do so without going back to the Word file. Otherwise, your printer will not be able to help you and you will waste what may be precious time getting your print materials or book to market as you will then need to go back to Word and create a new PDF file.
Microsoft Word does not support CMYK color. This stands for Cyan Magenta, Yellow, Black which is the system ALL printing presses use to print full color with. Word uses the same color system as your desktop monitor or camera and that is RGB which is Red, Green, Blue. You are by no means stuck here as when converting in Acrobat it will change the file to CMYK, but not with color accuracy. Frankly if you are working in Word I somehow think that relative accuracy will be fine, but if not your next step is to move all into Microsoft Publisher, where with a bit of searching at the bottom of the color tabs you can find under custom colors a choice to switch to CMYK. This may help a bit, but you also would need to have started with a CMYK image that you are importing as well. If not, once again you will probably get relative accuracy as to the color of your images.
Other than color, here is one of the biggest problems with using Word and why printers frankly hate it and will not want to work with your files. If you are just creating straight copy, then all you need worry about, other than font choice and size, are margins and page size (see below). However, should you want to attempt some creative flair in order to make your work seem more interesting as well as having images to depict your story line, product or service, then here is the tricky part.
Most professional graphics programs utilize some form of image box to place images into for accurate positioning on the page. You may also want to have a quote or special text set on the page in a unique fashion rather than all looking like a typed letter. For this you would use a text box in Word. Herein is the problem: While programs like Adobe InDesign or Quark Express have text and image box features that are accurate and provide for a clean insertion to the page, Word does not. The image and text boxes tend to be much larger then you would hope them to be for that which you are inserting. The Word boxes tend to have a lot of extra space around them so that they take up more space on the page which may cramp a nice layout style and can actually cover up text that is not within the box as it overlays it. The problem is you may not see this until you either make a PDF and it still may not show or when you go to print.
The trick to using text or image boxes with Word is to "allow for the elephant in the room". By this I mean to allow additional space around these boxes for that which you cannot see or foretell at the time you are creating them. Stay as far from them as you possibly can in order to be safe as by the time you receive your printer's proofs the error will be visible AND you just paid for another round of proofs after you make your corrections.
1- What is the final trimmed and finished size of the product you want?
2- What is the finished size your printer can best print in? You may need to minor adjust your finished size once you check with the printer as you may be thinking 5.5 x 8.5" for your book or brochure, but they may only be able to print it at 5 3/8 x 8 3/8" which is a standard size for a web press. You are always best served setting up your files for the final job rather than having the press adjust things in the RIP, where your files are processed for imposition and printing.
Now, as a commercial printer, am I happy accepting files that were created in Word, no. However, if you must and when you must hopefully these points will help you to produce your printed piece that is as close to your original intent as possible.


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There are plenty of brands that release limited-edition, logoed-out items and charge premium prices for them: upwards of $90 for a T-shirt, and almost $200 for a hoodie. It's just that most of these brands are clustered in your city's cool downtown area and not next to the Auntie Anne's at your local mall. This is the bread and butter of every successful streetwear brand in the world—and it's also the model Gap is adopting for the release of its Archive Reissue–Logo Remix collection that launched online over the weekend.
The collection includes a handful of patchwork T-shirts and hoodies, plus a selection of one-of-a-kind items made by stitching together different pieces from the Gap archive. Gap notes on its site that all the items in the collection are either "one-of-a-kind" or at the very least "limited edition." Think of the Gap as tapping into the same fervor streetwear brands use during their weekly drops: buy this item now, or else it might be gone forever. We might not see Supreme-sized lines wrapping around the mall anytime soon, but this seems to be a recognition that what Supreme and brands like it are doing is something that can be scaled in a way that it pays dividends for a brand like the Gap. And it's not that the Gap hasn't experimented with smaller hyped-up releases in the past—the Best New Menswear Designer collections that Gap does with this very magazine are a prime example. But while those collections take designers and premium brands and make them mall-friendly, this is a mall-friendly brand making its own merchandise premium.
Streetwear is enjoying the sort of mainstream success it's never had before. Investments firms are throwing money at brands like Supreme, A Cold Wall, and Huf—and now everyone wants a piece. Louis Vuitton collaborated with Supreme, and more brands are experimenting with the type of "drops" that are only loosely tied to seasons and keep inventory low and demand high.
That's just how fashion works in 2018: everything is streetwear now, down to the types of style that are included in this particular Gap release. Jordan Brand reissues or retros its sneakers from the '90s. Why shouldn't Gap do the same?
Even the model and song used in the collection's delightful marketing campaign—one of many Gap's released over the decades—feels pointed. Gap has always used cool people in its campaigns (Future, LL Cool J, even freakin' Daft Punk) but hip-hop producer Metro Boomin's appearance—dancing around in pieces from the Gap collection to a song he remixed—feels charged. The producer typically wears brands like Supreme, Givenchy, and Anti Social Social Club and has a built-in following of people who like streetwear. Now, Gap is the cool kid on the block—just ask Metro.
Last year, when Business of Fashion wrote about how brands could benefit from drop system, Stussy's head of marketing Ryan Willms noted that the technique keeps excitement high among customers. And while Gap will always need to keep its reliable money-makers like jeans and tees around in high quantities, this collection gives the brand a chance to release its own kind of grails.
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Q: How to auto refresh html table fields rendered with a for loop in flask? Snippet from the function in Flask.
I'm generating a list of all positions and then sending them over. Then using jinja and the for loop I'm populating the table.
@app.route("/")
def table_list():
   position_list=["a","b","c","d"]
   return render_template("index.html",
              position=position_list)

This is on the homepage and needs to be automatically refreshed every couple of seconds so the position values will get updated.
The HTML table:

        {% for pos1, pos2, pos3, pos4 in position %}

                {{ pos1 }}
                {{ pos2 }}
                {{ pos3 }}
                {{ pos4 }}
       {% endfor %}

How do I use JS to refresh only the values in the table, and automatically every couple of seconds?

A: You will have to change multiple things to make this work.

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*Separate endpoint into html endpoint and web-service endpoint.

    @app.route("/table_list")
    def table_list():
        return render_template("index.html")

    @app.route("/get_list")
    def get_list():
        position_list = ["a", "b", "c", "d"]
        return make_response({"output": position_list})

*Change the html for table

*Change the html template to keep calling get_list and refresh the html

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