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We are well into Autumn, and Winter lurks just around the corner, making this a good time to let you know what our plan of action is on those Winter Weather Days. If Whatcom County is experiencing school closures and delays, you can check our website or Facebook for instructions and updates regarding class schedule changes or cancellations. We will also report to the local radio stations (KGMI & Praise 106.5) as soon as a delay/closure decision is made.
Since ZLO is located within the Meridian School District boundaries, we generally follow their example. If they are closed, we are closed. If they are delayed an hour or two, we'll be delayed an hour or two. Visit our website, and click on "weather" to view the 1-hour & 2-hour delay schedules.
Please use your best judgement about coming in on these days. We would rather have you alive and safe and talk to your student about homework on the phone.
Learning still proceeds during missed days! Teachers will be contacting students about assignments during missed days, likely by email.
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We have tried a number of things, but have decided that we will NOT try to schedule make-up days until we have lost the 3rd day in a semester. Make-up days for Fall semester are usually made up on Tuesday and/or Thursday during our semester break. Make-up days for spring semester are made up on Tuesday and/or Thursday during spring break.


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The Most Famous Champagne Song
Posted on September 2, 2011 by
When I was a kid, our family vacations almost always involved car trips to Las Vegas.
Mom and Dad would gamble all day, while my brother and I would bowl and play miniature golf at the now gone but not forgotten Showboat Hotel.
The famous Las Vegas Strip wasn't nearly as long or as congested as it is now, so as we arrived in town from California, we'd drive up the Strip and look at the lights. Almost every casino had a big, colorful, flashing neon sign back then, along with a marquee showing the names of the stars performing in the showrooms and lounges.
Frank Sinatra…Dean Martin…Sammy Davis Jr.
But the biggest star of them all, as far as my not-yet-fully-developed brain could determine, had to be Don Ho.
Don who?
Don Ho, the easy-going singer from Hawaii who made even Perry Como seem exciting. (Man, am I dating myself!) Ho was a huge star in his native Hawaii, and also made appearances on the mainland at such venues as the Cocoanut Grove in Los Angeles, the Palmer House in Chicago, and The Sands in Las Vegas.
But he was no Sinatra or Martin or Davis. So why did I think Ho was such a big deal?
Because, as we'd pass the marquee of The Sands, his name appeared in huge letters. And I mean huge. Much bigger than the names on any of the other signs lining the Strip.
I could never figure out why Dad had a bunch of Sinatra, Martin and Davis records around the house, but none by Ho. So, one day I asked him.
"Don Ho had just one hit song," Dad explained, which may or may not have been true at the time. "Frank…Dean…Sammy…almost every song they record becomes a hit." I knew that wasn't true, but I definitely heard their names more often on the radio.
I can remember the day I finally figured out why Don Ho's name was so much bigger on those marquees. It was several years later, when I was visiting Las Vegas as an adult. I was driving on the Strip, and I noticed the marquee at Caesars Palace featured lettering as large as I'd seen years earlier for Ho. That lettering spelled out the name "Cher."
Don Ho's name had been so big on the marquee of The Sands simply because it was short. Duh!
Without question, Ho's biggest hit was a tune called "Tiny Bubbles." Even if you never saw Ho perform it in Las Vegas or elsewhere, you probably saw him sing it on television at one time or another. He was a regular guest on all the talk and variety shows back in the day.
And even if you never saw him on one of those TV shows, you've still probably heard "Tiny Bubbles." It has been featured, in full or in part, in the movies "The Fabulous Baker Boys," "Meet the Parents," "King Ralph" and others.
It's really not much of a song, in my ever-so-humble opinion. But it's probably the most famous song dealing with Champagne, even if my personal preference for such a tune would be the Atlanta Rhythm Section's "Champagne Jam."
So, with a nod to music history and vivid childhood memories, the No. 8 song on the Vinesse list of the Top 10 Wine Songs of All-Time is "Tiny Bubbles," written by Leon Pober and made famous by Don Ho.
Tiny bubbles
In the wine
Make me feel fine
We'll be back on Monday with more wine news and views, and our countdown will continue on Tuesday with another song that references Champagne. Care to guess what it is? The comment box below awaits.
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/don-ho-p13205/biography
http://www.lyrics007.com/Ho%20Don%20Lyrics/Tiny%20Bubbles%20Lyrics.html
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Sydney's Back, Baby! (Probably Partied Too Hard)
Sydney has, once again, welcomed in the new year in style with colourful fireworks over Sydney Harbour with 2 waterfalls off the Sydney Harbour Bridge for the first time since NYE2017 – Wonder & the use of 4 city buildings for the first time since NYE2012 – Embrace while a crowd crush occurred at an entrance to The Rocks vantage point in the hour leading up to Midnight.
The Midnight Fireworks returned to its full complement of 6 barges for the 1st time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, accompanied by the world premiere of new music from Stace Cadet (featuring KLP), one track of which – Light Me Up – will be on sale in a "similar" version from January 11th. You can purchase or pre-save/add (the latter for Spotify and Apple Music) here.
Shortly before Midnight, in The Rocks at the western end of Jack Munday Place, a crowd crush occurred. It occurred at an entrance of The Rocks vantage point, where people tried to enter the free but obstructed fireworks viewing spot, which has a capacity of 18,000 (Notably, this is a decrease of 22,000 on NYE2019!). It resulted in the arrival of the New South Wales Public Order & Riot Squad.
New South Wales Police & Ambulance reported no serious injuries from the incident:
While there were a few exceptions, most people were well-behaved and enjoyed their celebrations safely and responsibly.
Several vantage points around the city were at capacity by late-afternoon, as over 200,000 revellers travelled into the city and foreshore areas ahead of the 9pm and midnight fireworks displays.
Just before midnight, large crowds surged towards a vantage point for a better view of the fireworks, resulting in police resources being deployed to the area for crowd management.
There were no injuries as a result and no arrests were made.
New South Wales Police Statement
Once again, Sydney welcomed the New Year with a spectacular fireworks display, and the vast majority of revellers enjoyed their night safely.
More than one million people gathered around Sydney harbour for the fireworks last night – the highest crowd numbers in several years due to the pandemic – so it was a very busy night for us, yet somewhat relieving to see an overall drop in call-outs.
New Year's Eve 2022 Operation Commander, Assistant Commissioner Anthony Cooke
City Of Sydney, Lord Mayor Clover Moore said crowd control management had declared the city "full" at 7pm, about 4 hours earlier than in pre-COVID pandemic editions. The Sydney Opera House also reached capacity by late -morning and other parts of the city in the mid to late afternoon, which is normal. Overall, this resulted in thousands waiting outside vantage point gates or heading home. She said while some City of Sydney vantage points were ticketed, they were all free:
There were huge crowds in the city. It was really back to pre-Covid popularity.
We have measures in place for crowd control. There was a minor event at The Rocks and immediately that was sorted and there were no injuries.
We haven't got the final (attendance) figures yet, but we probably had more people around the harbour than we have ever had before.
I would like to see all of the sites around the Harbour free.
I don't believe other councils or government agencies should be making money out of the event.
To break the Sydney NYE attendance record, it would have to be over 2 million, which was the attendance record set for NYE2013 – Shine.
We work with multiple government agencies on crowd management plans well ahead of time, so incidents are dealt with quickly and people can enjoy their night.
As always, we'll incorporate any learnings from this event as we plan next year's celebration with our NSW government partners.
City Of Sydney spokesperson
It was really scary, very dangerous and I thought I was going to be badly injured. People were trampling me, as I was on the ground with about a dozen other people and some were running over the top of me. I lost my footing when I was pushed to the ground and landed on top of two others.
The anonymous person also told The Daily Mail Australia that the situation was particularly frightening given what happened 2 months earlier during Halloween celebrations in Seoul, South Korea, where 196 people where killed in a crowd crush.
Vivid Sydney, organised by the NSW Government, suffered a bigger but less dangerous crowd crush during Vivid Sydney 2016 which was barely reported in the media. The cause of that was simply poor planning and a bit of bad luck with the weather.
The Daily Mail Australia understands the City Of Sydney will now rethink holding ticketed and non-ticketed events in adjacent areas on New Year's Eve. This is despite the crowd crush occurring in a location that was not ticketed on either side of the gate shown in the video.
There were some specific incidents, and we call on the Government to make sure those incidents are reviewed, and any specific safety lessons are learnt.
Deputy Opposition Leader in the New South Wales Legislative Council, John Graham
Regional Transport & Roads Minister, Sam Farraway said the "vibe was good" in Sydney as over a million people watched the Midnight Fireworks in person:
We had some significant crowd numbers. We had some significant people using public transport across the city and I think by all accounts, and from the Police accounts, everyone behaved themselves
Sydney…brought in new years with an absolute bang
New South Wales Minister for Regional Transport & Roads, Sam Farraway
New South Wales Police on foot and horseback were also called in to turn back crowds of up to 100 people trying to access the Sydney Harbour Bridge at the Grosvenor Street off-ramp, who Nine News said believed "was a legitimate spot to watch the fireworks" just before Midnight.
There were some people who did try to enter the Harbour Bridge last night and that was dealt with very quickly.
Sydney NYE2022 Executive Producer, Stephen Gilby
Other members of the public complained about overcrowding at Circular Quay while exiting ferries. One Twitter post said crowds have made it difficult to exit a ferry.
With Circular Quay being one of the most popular vantage points, some ferry passengers waited briefly to exit their services so they could move safely and freely around the promenade
Transport For NSW Spokesperson
Back to the Midnight Fireworks, apart from the traditional golden waterfall, a rainbow waterfall featured at the 7 minute mark during the Midnight Fireworks to acknowledge the display's theme of diversity and the upcoming edition of WorldPride, a biannual international LGBTIQA+ festival that Sydney will host in February & March this year. A rainbow waterfall last appeared in the NYE2017 – Wonder Midnight Fireworks to acknowledge the legalisation of same-sex marriage in Australia, which occurred just weeks prior to that display.
An hour before Midnight, Sydney's hosting of WorldPride in 2023 was celebrated with rainbows covering the Sydney Harbour Bridge as Courtney Act performed Over The Rainbow, famous from Judy Garland's performance of the sentimental ballad in the film The Wizard Of Oz, and Zanadu, as a tribute to Olivia-Newton John who passed away in 2022.
It kicked started a 30-minute segment celebrating WorldPride 2023 at the 'Happy New Year' concert, held on the Northern Broadwalk of the Sydney Opera House, with performances also from Electric Fields & Casey Donovan. The concert, which went a total 2 hours and 45 minutes also featured musical tributes to Judith Durham of The Seekers, Archie Roach, Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac as well as more to the iconic Olivia-Newton John. Headlined by Tones & I, the 'Happy New Year' concert featured performances from Ball Park Music, Vika & Linda, Dami Im, Morgan Evans, Tasman Keith and more from the 'NYE Queen', Casey Donovan.
As the 'Happy New Year' concert was held, the Sydney Harbour Lights boat parade travelled around the Harbour. The lights on the boats were also synchronised to the Midnight Fireworks, the WorldPride 2023 Moment and Calling Country.
Calling Country, held at 9pm, was separated into 2 distinct parts this year – fireworks and a live performance unlike last year's Welcome To Country where the 2 parts were joined seamlessly together. But like last year's Welcome To Country, designed by the 2022 Archibald Prize winner, Blak Douglas, Calling Country was a brilliant showcase of Indigenous culture.
Calling Country was creative consulted this year by The Re-Right Collective, who in turn, collaborated with over 100 other Indigenous artists, nearly all but a few were Indigenous school children. The few that weren't school children provided the music and one contributed to the Sydney Harbour Bridge pylon projections for the segment.
Calling Country was preceded by a 3-minute Welcome To Country, done via Sydney Harbour Bridge pylon projections at 8:56pm for those harbourside and via a video for those watching from around the world through the ABC broadcast at 8:30pm, though with only 1 Gadigal Elder (Yvonne Weldon), compared with 2 projected onto the pylons harbourside. Before that, at 7:30pm, to open the event, a traditional Indigenous smoking ceremony was held from the vessel, Tribal Warrior, around Sydney Harbour.
ABC, KIIS 106.5 FM & 2RPH, once again, did quality broadcasts. We hope everyone around the world enjoyed them too. We thank the broadcasters for allowing the world to experience Sydney NYE without being there and we thank the City Of Sydney, the Foti family & The Re-Right Collective and the wider Gadigal nation for a spectacular Sydney NYE! Sydney's back, baby!
After the event, City Of Sydney employees in garbage trucks, sweepers & compactors worked until sunrise to ensure the City looked clean and accessible.
What a spectacular night we've just had. After the challenges of the past few years, it was wonderful to welcome international and interstate visitors back to Sydney and mark the beginning of what we hope will be a safe, peaceful and fabulous 2023.
It was great to see restaurants and venues buzzing with locals and visitors from near and far and Sydney has once again cemented its reputation as the New Year's capital of the world, so we hope those watching from across the globe start planning a visit here.
The fireworks, projections, music and live performances were a fabulous tribute to our remarkable city, showcasing the best of what our city has to offer as a stunning and safe, inclusive and buzzing destination. From our event organisers to the clean-up crews, thank you to everyone who made this event a terrific success.
After the challenges of the last few years, last night's unforgettable show not only rung in a New Year it signalled to the world that Sydney is well and truly back!
We have sent a message of diversity and inclusion to celebrate the New Year and I hope it's a sentiment that echoes around the world as we kick off 2023.
I'm proud we started the year off by centring First Nations stories and a spectacular welcome to those heading down under for WorldPride.
This jaw-dropping start to the new year is only possible because of the many thousands of hours of hard work by our City of Sydney team, NSW Government partners, the Foti fireworks family and the many creatives and professionals who help deliver the event. I offer them our sincere thanks. We said this year's fireworks would be our best yet, and I believe it was!
We hope last night's celebration provided some relief and an opportunity to look with hope to the new year. I'd like to wish everyone a happy, healthy, safe and peaceful 2023!
As the COVID-19 pandemic has finally eased (just!) for a return to a normal NYE, we turn to NYE2023 and whether the 9pm fireworks will now return to its former 'family' theme. The Indigenous-themed 9pm 8-minute fireworks have been a great addition – one the event needed after the growing Acknowledgement Of/Welcome To Countries since NYE2008 – Creation. Maybe the City Of Sydney should consider starting the visual broadcast off at 8:30pm with a 4-minute Indigenous-themed fireworks display of 2 barges, one east and one west of the Bridge? The event cannot return the Family Fireworks and lose the 8-minute Indigenous-themed fireworks – not after the last 2 spectacular editions of the 9pm fireworks, which have been the best 9pm fireworks done since 1998. We will have to wait & see on that.
Also, coming up in January, the all-important Sydney NYE fireworks contract is up for renewal. After 25 years, will the Foti family bring another 3 spectacular editions or will a new company bring a fresh perspective on the event particularly from the Howard fireworks family, who have been watching from the sidelines since the 2000 Olympics?
Lastly, on a sober note, tonight may have been the last time we see the Sydney Opera House used for fireworks on NYE as the 'decade of renewal' ends with the Sydney Opera House's 50th anniversary in October this year. It may return in NYE2023 for a 50th anniversary tribute but after that is a total guess particularly after the reintroduction of the city buildings in the Midnight Fireworks tonight, which were removed from the event when the Sydney Opera House was readded on NYE2013 – Shine.
We hope you have enjoyed our coverage of Sydney New Year's Eve 2022 since late November. Stay tuned to our site as the next flagship Sydney Spectacular is just around the corner! And don't forget in July & August this year, Australia co-hosts the FIFA Women's World Cup! We also hope to see you again in late November for coverage of Sydney New Year's Eve 2023.
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From 2017 the Annual Reporting Date is 30 November, which date replaces all reference to 31 December in all NHSA Policy documents relating to dedicated status.
Note that for 2017, dedicated activities participated in between 1 January 2017 and 30 November 2017 are taken into account.
Dedicated members enter their activities on the Activities Page of their Personal Natshoot Profile Page. This process replaces the pre-2014 annual reports which were completed on paper and posted or Emailed to the office.
It is thus no longer necessary to submit an additional paper based "Annual Report" as everything that needs to be done for maintenance of dedicated status is now done on the Activities Page of your Natshoot Profile Page (see HERE how to enter your Personal Natshoot Profile Page).
On the Activities page of your Personal Natshoot Profile Page, the system will immediately show when a dedicated member complies with the requirements for maintaining dedicated status for a specific reporting year, by colouring all blocks on the top of the table, GREEN, with the statement that the member is compliant till 30 November of the year following the reporting year.
The system will also show what the dedicated member must still do to become compliant for a specific reporting year (just read what is written in the top columns of the table on the Activities page of your Personal Natshoot Profile Page).
This NHSA Policy compiled on 1 March 2016 and revised on 26 July 2016 on 25 November 2016, on 7 December 2016, and on 3 January 2017 & 25 July 2017.


The Presentation Summit promises to bring together over 200 of the most ambitious and dedicated users of presentation software and technology.
We have space for up to 18 exhibitors to showcase their products and technology at The Expo, all day on Tuesday, Oct 8.
Take advantage of over a dozen opportunities to showcase your expertise before the entire group of conference patrons.
This tier includes everything offered in the Exhibitor package, plus a 10-minute opportunity to speak before the entire assemblage. These opportunities begin Sunday evening and go through Tuesday night, including lunchtime presentations, hosted receptions, our famous trivia contest, and after-hours receptions, both on- and off-site. Use the Inquire button below to find out which opportunities remain.
Sponsors receive two full conference admissions and can purchase additional ones at 50% of the conference price.
This tier includes everything offered in the Exhibitor package, plus a 10-minute opportunity to speak before the entire assemblage at one of three coveted venues: immediately before general sessions on Monday and Tuesday, and before Wednesday morning's keynote address. These three slots are before the entire assemblage and include full A/V support, making possible a short demo or multimedia presentation.
Use the Inquire button below to find out which opportunities remain.
Any of our partners can increase their exposure by adding one or more of the following. Most of these are in-kind opportunities, whereby you pay for the cost of the goods but we do not add an extra fee.
Branding on the Conference T-Shirt: All patrons receive a 100% cotton conference shirt as part of their registration. Your company could be the presenting sponsor for the shirt and have its logo prominently displayed on the back of the shirt. Our long-lasting shirts are worn for years—we have regular patrons who are still wearing the all-black and rich purple shirts from earlier years.
Tote Bag: In addition to shirts, we distribute sturdy and attractive canvas totes to every patron, and your company's name and logo could be imprinted on every one of them. These are much better than the cheap bags given out at trade shows, and as a result, our patrons tend to take our bags with them to other shows.
Lanyard for Badges: Your company's name can adorn the high-quality cotton lanyard. Lanyards will be distributed to each conference attendee at registration and worn throughout the event (it's one of our few requirements—patrons must wear their badges!). This is a great opportunity for name recognition with each patron.
Hydration Station: Attending a conference is a thirst-inducing business and we don't mess around with having drinking water handy. Every patron will receive a water bottle and refill stations will be positioned throughout the ballrooms. Your branding can be on all of it.
Charging Station: Draining smartphone batteries are the bane of existence for conference attendees. Be their hero by branding a charging tower.
Vendor Showcases: In addition to the Tuesday Expo, up to two of our partners can set up displays on Monday right in the heart of Conference Central (the ballroom which houses Registration, the Help Center, the lounge, and the theater for keynote addresses). You would be able to greet patrons and demo your products or services throughout the day.
Sunday Evening Focus Group: Our third-party partners are regularly engaged in new technologies and products and they recognize the value of seeking the feedback from a group of impassioned presentation professionals. If you would like to convene a focus group with a select number of patrons and staff people, we can help you with that. The time that we reserve for focus groups is Sunday evening, and we would help you secure meeting space at the hotel or a nearby restaurant and create the invite list.
Advertisements: Our printed conference guidebook and our mobile app both have opportunities for you to tell your story.
Donate to our Prize Pool: If you are unable to attend the conference, you can still have a presence by making a donation to our Prize Pool, which overflows to the tune of about $15,000 in product to be awarded.
What Else?? These are just a few of the opportunities to add value to your conference experience, and we're sure that creative professionals could think of others. If you have an idea for a service you would like to offer to our group that you think is in keeping with the conference theme and tone, we would love to hear about it.
You will not find a more targeted and attractive demographic for presentation goods and services anywhere on the planet.


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Despite all the paper snowflakes hanging in classroom windows, and shopping centers and malls looking much the same year after year, scientists say that the likelihood of two large natural snow crystals being identical is zero.
Below, find out what the researchers in the Library of Congress' Science Reference Services had to say about just how unique snowflakes are.
Photo by Anterovium/Envato
A trillion trillion options means no two snowflakes are alike
The probability that two single ice crystals or flakes (a snow crystal or multiple snow crystals stuck together) will be exactly alike in molecular structure and in appearance, is infinitesimal.
Proving otherwise would not be easy, as each winter, about 1 septillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 — or a trillion trillion) snow crystals drop from the sky.
To go through all of the snow crystals produced every winter would be impossible, so we rely on cloud physicists, crystallographers, and meteorologists to study snow crystals and explain why there are no two snow crystals alike.
It starts with the water
First, we need to understand that not all water molecules are exactly alike. Generally speaking, water molecules have two hydrogen molecules with one 16O atom. However, not all water molecules will have this arrangement. Some water molecules will have an atom of deuterium in place of one of the hydrogen atoms, and some water molecules will have an atom of 18O.
Since the molecular makeup of snow crystals varies greatly from one to another, it follows that each snow crystal will be slightly different.
Furthermore, the unique and complex features of snow crystals are very much affected by unstable atmospheric conditions. Snow crystals are sensitive to temperature, and will change in shape and design as they fall from the cloud and are exposed to fluctuating temperatures. (See the video below for an illustrated explanation of this concept.) Therefore, to have two snow crystals or flakes with the same history of development is virtually impossible.
Photo by koldunova/Freepik
Back in 2007, new stories flourished that the old adage "No two snowflakes are alike," might not be true.
What these stories were highlighting is that smaller crystals with simple shapes (e.g. hexagonal prisms) may look similar in appearance. The stories also reported that it is possible for snow crystals that have a small number (e.g. 10) of water molecules to be alike (a typical snow crystal contains 1018 water molecules).
As you can tell, depending upon how you define "alike" or "snow crystal," you might find two snow crystals that are alike. However, scientific consensus still believes that it is very unlikely for two larger complex snow crystals to be identical in molecular structure and appearance.
Super-close up views of snowflakes
Most samples of snow crystals are observed at relatively moderate magnifications (30X-500X), however, the capabilities of the electron microscope allow observation of fine structures at over 100,000X.
The black and white photographs shown in this article are from the Electron and Confocal Microscopy Laboratory, part of the US Department of Agriculture, and demonstrate a magnification series using a low-temperature scanning electron microscope (LT-SEM). Samples are frozen to temperatures below -170 degrees Centigrade, where they can be placed in a vacuum and observed for many hours with no structural changes.
About these images
These photographs show the extraordinary symmetry of snow crystals that's apparent even at high magnification.
Image 1 upper: Single stellar snow crystal with sectorlike extensions, where one arm has been broken off during descent through the atmosphere. Magnified 100X.
Image 1 lower: Higher magnification view of two lower arms on the same snow crystal, on which a high degree of symmetry is noticeable. Magnified 300X.
Image 2 upper: Further magnified view of the left arm of the previous photo, in which parallel groove and pit structure shows a high degree of hexagonal structure and symmetry. Magnified 900X.
Image 2 lower: Smooth structure of groove and pit interiors as contrasted by asperities covered surfaces of etched crystal faces are visible at 1,800X.
The chemistry of snowflakes (video)
This video tracks the formation of snowflakes from their origins in bits of dust in clouds that become droplets of water falling to earth.
When the droplets cool, six crystal faces form because water molecules bond in hexagonal networks when they freeze. It explains that ice crystals grow fastest at the corners between the faces, fostering development of the six branches that exist in most snowflakes.
As snowflakes continue to develop, the branches can spread, grow long and pointy, or branch off into new arms. As each snowflake rises and falls through warmer and cooler air, it thus develops its own distinctive shape.
Video provided by the American Chemical Society
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Day 110 - Lost in Translation
The Wife and I
I'm sitting in a waiting room, waiting for a business meeting. After a few minutes, the lady who I'm meeting appears at the door with a beaming smile.
"Hi. I'm sorry, but I won't be giving you any pussy today. I'm a bit sick". she says.
I'm now worried that I've misread the agenda. I mean I'm all for being friendly, but that's the kind of greeting that you rarely get, even in Essex. I'm also not sure that my wife would approve. She's funny like that.
The meeting runs its course, and true to her word, I am given no pussy. Not even a little bit!
An hour or so later and I'm on the phone to my wife, recounting the tale of the friendly greeting.
"She mean't 'puszi'! It's Hungarian for kiss!" she explains.
"So it's not a Hungarian custom?" I ask.
"This isn't Ancient Rome!"
"And you're absolutely positive it isn't to do with the fact that I'm having a really good hair day today?"
"She meant 'kiss'!"
I'm relieved as I have a few other business meetings scheduled for the next few days, one with a fairly elderly gentleman who smells of tinned spam.
"That's a very funny misunderstanding" I say. "It's definitely going in my blog."
"Don't put it in your blog!" my wife says. "If she reads it she will be mortified."
Later that evening my wife has a look on her face that suggests that something is wrong.
"What's wrong?" I ask.
"Nothing." she replies.
Shit. This mean's something is definitely wrong.
I prod and poke her until she eventually caves.
"You know your blog?" she says.
"I'm aware of said blog" I reply.
"How come you only ever refer to me as 'wife'?" my wife says. "Everyone else has a name. Mila has a name. You have a name. I'm just 'wife'."
"I don't know." I say. "I think I just called you wife in the first one and then continued to run with it. Would you like me to name and shame you?"
"I want a name." my wife says adamantly.
It's later that evening and Mila is having one of those nights. We can't stop her crying for love nor money. My wife's well appears to be running dry and not even the trusty old dancing to AC/DC trick appears to be working.
We try the dummy, but she keeps spitting it out. As a side note, why don't they make dummies with elastic face bands? If they're good enough for party hats. By the way, you can have that one for free. I'll keep an eye out for you next year on Dragon's Den.
After several hours of nursing, comforting and "shushing", my wife eventually gets Mila off to sleep. I sneak in to the bedroom where they're both lying. A lullaby is playing. It's a lullaby that we've heard thousands of times over the last few months, and it's starting to make me want to eat my own feet, just to take my mind of it.
"Shall I change the music?" I ask with pleading eyes.
"As long as it's gentle and quiet." my wife replies, barely audible.
I scroll through my iTunes. I find The Carnival of the Animals, a magical piece of classical music that you'd recognise from countless films. I turn the volume down to near silent and press play.
But my iPhone has other ideas. It quite fancies listening to The Beastie Boys at full volume. My iPhone is a despicable dick.
"LISTEN ALL OF Y'ALL IT'S SABOTAGE!"
Mila is awake.
Zsuzsa is livid.
There will be no puszi for me tonight.
Zsuzsa aka The Wife
Photos courtesy of @zsolt.barabas.
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Curious if anyone was out at GLVB this past weekend for start of GLPL play? AES shows some 15 teams did very well, even against some 18s. Also looks like they are playing best of 5. Is/was that the norm for GLPL?
I was! Rick Butler cloned himself 12x and was on every single court watching all the girls and daring you all to report him. If you don't believe me you can ask anyone. It really happened.
J/K. Was on a college visit in AZ this weekend with my former VBer.
However there is a whole thread floating around here where no one answered the question. Not sure why a parent who spent time in their first post reportedly calling all sorts of gyms about Rick Butler couldn't make the call to all the gyms playing in GLPL to find out how this weekend went.
I mean if you're THAT curious.
I have been following this thread for several weeks and felt strongly enough that i requested membership in order to comment myself and share my limited experience.
Re: WCPL - my daughter has played club for 4 yrs (not for SPRI) and i just learned the Butlers history after tryouts for 2017-18 season. I immediately asked our club director about it and the response i was given was, "We have avoided playing 11-14s in GLPL as the WCPL has very strong competition at that age and we feel it was best to not play in GLPL if possible. Unfortunately, the best teams in 15-18s play in the GLPL. We would love to leave that league if we, but struggle with what is most fair to our girls. If they do not play the best teams are we being fair to the girls? We have always played our teams at the highest level of competition available. If a portion of the best clubs moved from GLPL, so would we in a heart beat." I responded simply by saying that is a difficult situation, but i am not comfortable giving money that will eventually get into the pockets of the Butlers or their organization.
It seemed to me it was a matter of enough people being willing to do the right thing at the same time.
Fast forward to summer 2018 - I reached out to 6 high level clubs (Sky High, Michio, Epic, Club 1, Lions, Uno) in the area and was explicitly told by each club director that their teams were playing in WCPL, or other regional leagues, but none were returning to GLPL effective immediately.
For whatever the reason, club directors had collectively decided the right thing was to move away from GLPL.
3rd week of October, 2018 - I reached out to SPRI directly and received a call back from their director of girls 15-16s who said, "the only teams that have signed up with WCPL are teams that are requesting to be host sites". This is blatantly false as many of these teams have no facilities to host at. I then asked about the strength of the GLPL for the coming season, given how few clubs were registered and how many other clubs are already registered with WCPL. He replied, "GLPL will only play 8 league dates this year, which is really not much." to which i responded, "last season was 8 dates as well though. There was no response to that statement. Finally, I directly asked him, "are there any other reasons you can think of for why so many teams apparently have left GLPL?" His response was, "it is all about the hosting fees. they just want the money for their clubs, not that I can blame them."
My points are: I believe clubs have left per families request, say 'no more' to the Butlers. Why does SPRI continue to spin things? In speaking with 7 club directors, 6 appeared to be very transparent and upfront about the upcoming season. 1 did not.
Thanks for patience with my ramblings.
^^ you seem to have all the pertinent club information and a lot of time to waste. SPRI's number probably hasn't changed and I'm sure the others are all listed online. Why don't you get back to us when you are done?
What did you mean by SPRI number, their phone number? That is about the only number that hasn't changed.
Mags - again with the "However there is a whole thread floating around here where no one answered the question."? what question are you even referring to?
RE my first post. At no point did I ask ANYONE about rick butler. My calls to other clubs was to verify WCPL was going to have a stronger level of competition at 15s & up, and that my club director had been transparent with me when I asked about league play for 2019 season.
I honestly wanted to know from parents/players/coaches how the opening weekend went. I will be just as curious what opinions are of the WCPL as it season starts this coming weekend.
Great new screen name! PS: he/she/it has been reported (Again!).
A "Grand Venue" that accumulates legend and memories for a community is a valuable thing. That's what's lost. As to a lawsuit attached to the club, I have no idea about that, but if it's lien against the facility , or an obstacle to a sale-- ya, throw that on the tragedy pile. Tragedies beg a hero but a martyr will do. Otherwise, it's just a plain ol' catastrophe. Sorry but I'm just extra angry there is a wonderful community of conscientious, exuberant young athletes whose lives shouldn't be affected by this shtuff.
The "Grand Venue" as you call it is home base to a banned coach, who continues to coach in that home base. (at least he is listed as co-director of the SPVB coaches clinic - greatlakescenter.com/wp-content/uploads/coaches-clinic-2019.pdf). Does anyone else see his refusal to adhere to governing bodies of the sport he "loves" as bogus? If nothing else, it shows an arrogance as though he believes he is above it all.
RE: the lawsuit - www.chicagolawbulletin.com/archives/2018/02/27/rick-butler-volleyball-class-action-2-27-18/mullen-v-butler - You make a point that I feel is important in that you seem unaware of the depths of RB history (apologies if I am wrong in that assessment). It has often been commented in this, and other threads, that 'everyone' knew/knows about his past and SPRI, and that 'all' volleyball parents should have been aware for a long time. I have no problem saying I had no clue until October of 2017. Our club didn't play GLPL till 15s, so it wasn't on my radar. Thankfully, in this, her 15 season, we will not be attending a single SPVB event. And from what I can tell from AES, not many clubs in the country will be attending any SPVB events either.
A Good (tho' secret) sign, why!
May 2, 2018 MINUTE entry before the Honorable Matthew F. Kennelly: Rule 16(b) status hearing held on 5/2/2018. Rule 26(a)(1) disclosures are to be made by 5/21/2018. Motion to withdraw as attorney 30 is taken under advisement. Affidavits describing Mr. Angelini's conflict and the clients' waiver are to be filed by 5/9/2018.
So either he is an investor in the business or a rare instance where an attorney shows personal morality?
Perhaps Both: or some other, smarmy, attorney-esque raison. Potential GOOD news, though!
It may not be a huge deal. The current attorney, Danielle D'ambrose, was at ANGELINI & ORI LLC, the firm of the original attorneys, in June and appears to have moved to her own practice D'AMBROSE P.C. by October. Not certain why, but there's some continuity.
redacted version that was prepared for filing.
the draft folder. Therefore, counsel for Defendants filed the draft exhibit rather than the final copy.
seal and allow Defendants to refile their Response with the redacted, full version of Exhibit A.
So, you know, that could have gone better. Whatever, I'm no attorney and I haven't even stayed at a Holiday Inn lately, but don't get too wrapped up in the trivial procedural stuff: this motion was granted and things continue to move. But it'll be a while, they're still wrasslin' to see if this can even be a class action case.
It seems like they were trying to say everyone already knew Rick was a predator so the case should be thrown out. When that didn't happen, his attorney bailed. It appears that his current attorney is a volleyball player. Can anyone confirm if she played at SPRI?
Google it and come back and share what you know.
How do you come to the conclusion of your first statement by generic legal jargon?
There's a DAmbrose listed on the SPRI 18 Elite team. Does that mean that a family member of one of the potential "class victims" is the attorney for the Butler's?
There are only 4 2019 girls on the top 18's team. Is that normal for SPVB? Why don't they field 17's teams. Is that a JVA thing?


Studying psychology helps not only to understand the psyche of others, but also your own self. I remember being very curious in the First year to interpret my results of the psychological test that we take in our experimental class. It helped me ascertain certain characteristics that I possess and confirm the rest. When I sat to take up the test this year, little did I know there would be a significant difference in the results. Have I changed in less than year? Yes I have.
It came as a surprise to me initially, but then with every day, I realized my views/opinions had changed over the year. I didn't have to complete the test and wait for the result, I knew even while attempting to answer those questions. I was quite aware of my answers – how I picked a different option from the last year. The tests aren't the same, the questions are different but they intrinsically determine your trait. I was aware of the transformational journey I am enduring but to capture it in form of empirical results was quite revealing! The change within triggered off when I attended Level-1 Clinical Hypnosis course early this year and from then have been experiencing new realms.
In one of the lectures, my professor shared an interesting observation. He said when people meet after a long while and exchange pleasantries, we take pride when the other person remarks, "You haven't changed a bit, you are just the same even after 10 long years." He told us, if one doesn't change it only implies he hasn't grown and is still immature. It's definitely a point to ponder, I was able to relate with his observation, and most of us do feel good about staying the way we are. Why don't we like to grow? We tend to equate not changing to not having acquired any bad traits. Negative co-relation of events is the way human mind works; we have programmed ourselves to be so. Having not changed also means we have failed to progress! The question of whether the change has done you good/bad is a different implication to mull over. The willingness to change holds the key to transformation.
I'm not sure if the example used is fitting here. when you meet someone after a long time and they say - you've not changed a bit, I guess that comes from the pleasantries that they've exchanged and not in a tone which assess the person. I feel that "not changed a bit" is fair enough. However, the point of "not changed a bit" in a general connotation and the points that you've written does make me think ! Probably - you're right.


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Hematopoiesis is the process of creating a wide variety of blood and bone marrow cells, namely erythrocytes, platelets, granulocytes, lymphocytes, and monocytes. This process begins with multipotent hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) which have the capability of dividing into either a multipotent progenitor cell or to self-renew. Progenitor cells are then able to divide into increasing specialized cells, a process which repeats and eventually leads to mature white blood cells, red blood cells, or platelets.
This series of divisions in hematopoiesis creates a chart with several branch points beginning with the multipotent progenitor cells dividing into either a common myeloid progenitor or a common lymphoid progenitor. Common myeloid progenitors eventually go on to create megakaryocytes, erythrocytes, basophils, neutrophils, eosinophils, and monocytes. Common lymphoid progenitors will produce Natural Killer cells as well as B and T lymphocytes.
Multi-potent progenitors and any cells the progenitors create lack the capacity to self-renew and must instead always divide into a further specialized cell. Which type of cell the HSCs and progenitor cells divide into is largely decided by the specific signaling factors such as erythropoietin, Interleukin (IL) -2, IL-3, IL-6, IL-7, a variety of colony stimulating factors, and the, niche that the HSC develops in.
Novel cell lineage tracking technologies have led to recent revisions in the model of hematopoiesis. Classically, the model is as described above: HSCs divide into multipotent progenitor cells that can further divide into common myeloid progenitors or common lymphoid progenitors. Revised models demonstrate fewer branch points and instead show a steady differentiation of heterogenous HSC to the final cell lines. This leads to a to a more varied pool of HSC that are partially differentiated as opposed to groups of identical precursors. Traditionally these HSC are differentiated by cell surface markers which vary between HSC, progenitor cells, and mature cells. Cell surface markers between these partially differentiated HSC do not necessarily change despite a change in gene signaling, which gave rise to the classical branching model.
The primary locations of hematopoiesis change throughout life. At the beginning of the fetal period, it begins in the yolk sac and aorta-gonad-mesonephros, eventually transitioning into liver, spleen, and finally the bone marrow and lymph nodes. It is maintained in these final locations for the duration of adult life except in pathological cases where it can return to its former sites.
Hematopoiesis in bone marrow takes place in islands of hematopoietic tissue surrounded by vascular sinuses and is interspersed with trabecular bone. Hematopoietic tissue contains a spectrum of blood cells, adipocytes, endothelial cells, and adventitial cells. As cells develop and mature, they enter the circulation through venous sinuses. The specific cells which are predominant in each microscopic area of the bone marrow are largely dependent on the niche of signaling cells at that site, which can include mature HSC, osteoblasts, macrophages, stromal cells, endothelial cells, and adipocytes among others. The location of hematopoiesis for certain cells can be tied to their function. For example, megakaryocytes, which are very large and bulky, are formed right next to the marrow sinuses into which they shed platelets.
T-cell acute leukemia-1 (TAL-1) which is necessary to keep multipotent stem cells multipotent and quiescent and is an essential regulator of hematopoiesis. TAL-1 complexes with a variety of other transcription factors (E47/E2A, LMO2, GATA1–3, Ldb1/2, Ldb1, ETO, Runx1, ERG, FLI1) to determine differentiation into myeloid or lymphoid cells.
Bcl11a has been demonstrated to play an important role in the regulation of hematopoiesis both in the decision to proliferate and the specific cells to be made. Lack of Bcl11a expression was found to produce a signature of myeloid cells while reducing the signature genes associated with lymphoid development. It was also found that lack of expression was associated with cells in the S and G2/M phase, suggesting increased growth.
c-MYB: Primarily expressed in immature HSC, this helps to regulate fetal hemoglobin and consequently is a disease modifier of hemoglobinopathies and sickle cell. Dysregulation can lead to a variety of leukemias and lymphomas as well as solid tumors.
GATA-1: A zinc finger transcription factor that promotes the proliferation and differentiation of erythropoiesis both in the embryonic stage and the later definitive stages of production. Congenital disruption of this factor produces ineffective erythropoiesis.GATA-1, GATA-2, and GATA-3 are important in hematopoiesis.
Other transcription factors such as Erg, Fli1, Tal1, Lyl1, Lmo2, Runx1 and Gata2 have been shown to work together as a complex to give rise to pre-HSC. Runx1, TEL/ETV6, SCL/TAL, and LMO2 mutations account for the majority of known leukemia-associated translocations.
Bone marrow aspiration or biopsies, as well as complete blood counts with differential, are used to look for issues with hematopoiesis. Typically these biopsies are taken from the iliac crest but may also be taken from the sternum, vertebrae, or tibia under certain conditions.
Light microscopy of bone marrow aspirates is generally done using H and E staining.
Erythropoiesis under light microscopy demonstrates the spectrum of red cell differentiation from proerythroblasts to reticulocytes. The full process of differentiation can take up to 5 days. Proerythroblasts will become erythroblasts/basophilic normoblasts, which then become late normoblasts. As the cell matures, it becomes progressively smaller and with an increasingly condensed nucleus. After the late normoblast stage, the nucleus is expelled, and the cell is called a reticulocyte. In times of anemia, this process may quicken leading to various debris visual on microscopy residing in the RBC. Examples include Heinz bodies, Pappenheimer bodies, and Howell-Jolly bodies.
Granulocyte production progresses from myeloblast to promyelocyte where it then branches into 1 of 3 precursors: basophilic myelocyte, neutrophilic myelocyte, and eosinophilic myelocyte. The precursors go on to form mature basophils, neutrophils, and eosinophils respectively. Owing to the overall predominance of neutrophils compared to these other cell lines neutrophilic precursors are seen much more commonly on light microscopy.
Megakaryocyte precursors are difficult to distinguish microscopically from myeloblasts. Further along in differentiation, they gain their distinctive cytoplasmic granulation and numerous nuclear lobes.
Early stages of lymphopoiesis do occur in the bone marrow but then shift largely to the peripheral lymphoid tissues. Plasma cells can be present in bone marrow but can be difficult to differentiate from other blast cells with light microscopy.
Electron microscopy shares many of the same limitations in identifying the specific hematopoietic cells with light microscopy. This technique is particularly useful in finding the locations of hematopoiesis in relation to the vascular sinuses and reticular fibers in the bone marrow.
Extramedullary hematopoiesis is the term for any time hematopoiesis occurs outside of the bone marrow. This is normal in fetal development but may occur abnormally later in life in conditions which damage the bone marrow or promote hematopoiesis elsewhere. Examples include myelofibrosis of the bone marrow or high erythropoietin states such as hypoxia. In severe cases like those seen in untreated thalassemia, extramedullary hematopoiesis can lead to dangerous hepatomegaly and splenomegaly.
Polycythemia vera: A JAK2 mutation leads to erythroid precursors that over-respond to erythropoietin leading to increased RBC production. Clinically this can manifest as thromboses, pruritis, and skin discoloration.
Primary myelofibrosis: A point mutation in the JAK2 tyrosine kinase is thought to lead to HSC and progenitor cells to be more sensitive to growth factors. This eventually causes scarring and fibrosis of the bone marrow and extramedullary hematopoiesis.
Essential thrombocythemia: JAK2 mutation leads to platelet overproduction. The clinical picture can involve bleeding, thromboses, migraines, and erythromelalgia.
Hematopoietic stem cell transplant remains a key tool in the combat for a variety of conditions that are caused by or lead to improper hematopoiesis. Examples include leukemias, inherited blood disorders such as sickle cell disease or alpha/ beta thalassemia major, and potentially as a method of graft-versus-tumor treatment for other cancers.


How could Apple make a cheap iPhone mini?
An analyst suggests that Apple needs a cheaper iPhone to break into China. But how much cheaper could Apple make an iPhone mini? Let's take a look at a few options open to Apple.
Rumors that Apple is working on a cheaper version of the iPhone — dubbed the iPhone mini — got a bit of a boost last week when Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty commented how a lower-priced iPhone made sense.
At the core of Huberty's argument is the fact that Apple wants to expand into China, and Chinese consumers want access to the latest version of the iPhone at a lower price, rather than discounted older generation hardware. Huberty believes that an iPhone mini would help Apple gain a stronger foothold in China.
While an iPhone mini would have lower gross margins, and certainly cannibalize iPhone sales to a certain, albeit unknown, degree, it would boost the company's revenues and profits.
But how much cheaper could Apple make an iPhone mini? Let's take a look at a few options open to Apple.
The iPhone commands a huge profit margin, estimated to be anywhere between 35 and 50 percent. I find it unlikely that Apple sell the iPhone cheaper in China than anywhere else in the world.
While Huberty said that Chinese consumers want the latest version of the iPhone at a lower price, rather than discounted older generation hardware, repackaged older tech might fit the bill. After all, Apple doesn't focus that much on hardware spec, so old-tech packaged in a new shell could pass for new tech.
Another possibility would be to for Apple to come up with a cheaper iPhone 5. An IHS teardown of the handset from September 2012 suggested that a 16GB iPhone 5 with a price tag of $649 cost Apple $207 to make.
That was a few months ago, so chances are the iPhone 5 now costs Apple less to make, thanks to falling component prices.
It's also possible that Apple could shave a few bucks off certain components. Processor, the display and touchscreen assembly, and wireless chipsets could all see few bucks shaved off the price.
The iPod touch retails for $299 for the 32GB model. This could be an ideal platform from which Apple could build a cheaper iPhone.
So, Apple has options open to it. But no matter what route the company takes in China, if it decides to come out with a cheaper iPhone then it will need to carefully address the issue of cannibalization. A cheaper iPhone will need to be inferior in some way to the full-priced iPhone. Either that, or Apple could limit availability of the iPhone mini to certain territories.
An iPhone mini would certainly be disruptive, but Apple would need to be careful not to disrupt its already profitable business in order to expand, and potentially pull in more money.


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Building a custom infotainment system
project, automotive | Dec 17, 2018
What makes great car chases in movies and video games? The soundtrack.
This won't be a very technical post (unless I mess it up), but more of an overview of the latest stupid thing I've been working on.
I've liked cars and racing driving sensibly since before I even got my license. After my talk at 34c3, I've been fooling around automotive related computer science and security as much as I could. Here, I will describe the longest project I have worked on since starting computer science (merely 5 years ago), which is a "drive controlled" infotainment system. What's that ? Simply put, I always listen to music when I drive, and I unconsciously find myself matching my driving to the song currently playing. What I've wanted for the longest time was the opposite, an infotainment system that would match my driving.
Step one, lay the plan down
For this project, I wanted something easy to move from one car to another, as responsive as possible, with a nice display. I usually hate doing graphic stuff, but for this I might as well do something that integrates nicely with the car. The initial idea I had was a system implementing those characteristics:
Pretty but minimalist interface with information about the current music, the minimum amount of buttons, and a media player taking roughly 90% of the screen playing videos
Connected to the car, to poll data about my driving (mostly OBD-II)
Powered through the cigarette lighter (still present in most cars, easiest way for a PoC)
Have some girl co-pilot voice, or something that would react to the driving (like K.I.T.T, but… cuter.)
Choosing the hardware and frameworks for this project was a real pain, and the first 4 weeks were mainly testing different ones until something seemed to work. I won't dive into all of this, so let's fast-forward to the first working version.
This was a very rough PoC. For the hardware, I used an Asus TinkerBoard running the official (mostly working) Debian TinkerOS. Discussing on the Asus forum helped me plug the PiCAN2 shield for CAN communications through OBD-II. The car I did most of my initial testing on was a 2013 Volkswagen Polo that supported CAN and OBD-II, allowing me to query information about the car (and thus my driving). The screen was a classic 7" Raspberry Pi touchscreen through HDMI/USB. For the software, I used python for all the core tasks (music through VLC bindings, python-can for CAN over OBD-II) and wxWidgets for the interface. To this day, this is still what I use since it works. The wxWidget interface and the python core communicate with each other through ZeroMQ. It's not as pretty as could have been something with JUCE or even Kivy, but these were too laggy on the Tinkerboard, or didn't support some features I wanted. The sound was transfered to the car's speakers through the auxilliary mini-jack input.
Step two, match the music and the driving
The first version was my initial vision of the project: the interface would play videos (the original audio tracks of the videos were removed) and musics depending on my sole speed. There were calm, relaxed songs and videos for idle and low-speed driving (under around 40 km/h), and more aggressive ones for higher speeds. While this was easy to implement (I just needed to look at the speed from OBD-II and change the media accordingly), this very quickly became unpleasant when test driving. At each stop light, the music would cut to something calm, then re-change when accelerating, which meant I was never able to listen to one song completely when driving in city streets. Another thing I expected would happen, but not to this extent, was the inconvenience generated by the video clips. In Japan, most cars have a screen in the center panel that allows drivers to watch baseball (for example) when waiting at the stop lights. But when the car starts running over a certain speed (~5/10km/h), the screen goes dark while the sound remains. Mine didn't turn dark, and while this was very nice for passengers to pass time, it didn't help the driver's concentration. Here is an early clip of the interface:
Step three, make it fancy
I added the first voice effect for the "not AI but looks like an AI" co-pilot, as well as some "moods" that are different video+song playlists depending on what I wanted to listen (Girls Und Panzer OST, calm musics, driving musics, anime musics, retrowave, etc). I didn't add any way to match a song and a video, so videos were quite generic for each songs of one specific mood. Below is an extract of my first test drives (note the rough setup) and testing. It was still quite buggy and full of experimental features, but at least it was taking form.
Step four, discard everything
At this point (meaning, after fixing all the bugs I had by driving in circles on the highway interchanges), I had pretty much reached the initial goal I had fixed but was unhappy with the result. This was not very fun to drive with, and only allowed me to change playlists with videos I couldn't (shouldn't) even look at. Overall, I had the same result I would have by plugging my phone to the aux input, but way more complicated in every sense.
In fact, the music changing depending on the speed was not really what I needed. What I really needed for this project to become interesting, was what I then called the Now I'm pissed™ mode. Picture yourself driving behind a way-too-slow car on a montain road, when the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity of passing it finally occurs, or having to escape the bad guys you just spotted in your rear-mirror (you never know, ok ?). You go from third to second gear, and floor it. This very moment is when you need that music boost: the Now I'm pissed™ mode. This was very interesting to develop as I needed way more information about the car (accelerator pressure, RPM, speed, etc), as there were a lot of moments where this triggered when it shouldn't have, but in the end it worked and completely replaced the previous modes. I also dropped the video interface to display analytics about the car instead. The Now I'm pissed™ mode - LVL2 is a small upgrade where the IVI only relies on the accelerator pedal to trigger the music. It's way more aggressive but also way easier to trigger for track and racing.
Another detail worth noting is that I moved to Japan at this point and bought my own car. It's an old Subaru Impreza that didn't support CAN, and I thus needed to add a module to support its old Subaru Select Monitor v1 (SSM1) protocol. The project being mostly car independant, it was just a matter of overloading the base functions with SSM1-specific ones. All of this was however a pain to create as there was few to none information available, so most of it was done via reverse engineering. Also, as it didn't support CAN, I had to replace the PiCAN2 shield with something else (Teensy 3.2, in the end). I won't dive into that now, as this was part of my research work at WhiteMotion this year, and will probably be the subject of a future post/talk/whatever (UPDATE: here it is).
SSM1 works over a 1953 bauds serial link, so querying the data was waaaaay slower than CAN, which is why I couldn't get data as accurate. But it's still enough.
Step five, integrate it
I had my own car, that I often drove on tracks like the Fuji Speedway, so I was willing to integrate the system to the central console as much as possible. The car was built in 1997, so the previous infotainment system was pretty obsolete.
Fast-forward replacing the whole sound sytem of the car (I replaced the big old aftermarket stereo with a Pioneer GM-D14000II amplifier connected to the car's speakers). I fixed some bugs, added features and removed annoying ones, and was able to get something ok-tier that fits my need. While not being perfect, it still works even on long trips (more than 5 hours) without overheating (summer in Tokyo is harsh), and is a great tool when going to the track. I added an option where the IVI will trigger an alarm if some values go wild like, temperature too high, RPM too low (happens sometimes on this car), and such. The gear displayed is not always accurate when shifting as the exact gear was not available from the ECU (UPDATE 2019: found it in RAM directly later). I thus used the fact that the RPM and speed's relation is linear and each gear has a different ratio constant. So I just had to look at the transmission's spec, find said constants and check to which of them the current rpm/speed ratio is the closest.
Demonstration 1, out of the car with data replay
Demonstration 2, SSM1 half-setup with audio and fixed dummy data
Demonstration 3, driving tests (simple autoradio and race display)
Demonstration 4, Now I'm Pissed™ mode trigger
For the little story, you can see I added a GIF of Mugi that blinks. While I'm very fond of it, this GIF actually serves a real purpose, which is almost the same as the CCC's Maneki-neko: it allows me at a glance to verify that the interface didn't freeze, even if the displayed data doesn't change (when testing, the engine is not always running, so the data barely evolves for example).
The end result's features are the following:
Realtime data acquisition and recording, so it can be replayed with a dummy-car plugin for testing purposes or driving analytics
Full music controls (volume, play/pause, next)
Different moods available (while there are slight differences between each of them, these are mainly just playlists now)
Now I'm Pissed Mode™ works pretty well, and triggers only when I want it to (which is super nice)
Adding support to a new car is easy (as long as the hardware is supported by the TinkerBoard, but at least I have CAN and SSM1 already)
Different display modes, with bigger fonts and selected data, easier to see through GoPro footages
As surprising as it seems, this stupid project ended up useful when talking with other drivers about how to drive on the track, as they could actually see how and at which speed I was driving, how and when I shift, even when not being with me in the car.
I'm still looking for ways to add more functionnalities to this, but I lack ideas. Maybe add some position tracking to recreate tracks/roads that could become a cheap racing GPS (manually add which speeds to brake to when reaching each corner for example, like a rally copilot). (UPDATE: I did the GPS part for recreating tracks/roads in the end, but I haven't found the time to actually write about it yet. Here is an example however).
I skipped an awful lot of details in this, as I don't feel this has any technical interest, but I still wanted to showcase this project a bit. I'd like to create a second version on "real", more robust hardware with more capabilities, powered as an accessory, but as for now, my car at least made its entrance into the 21th century. I hope you liked the overall project, feel free to tell me your remarks and ideas on Twitter, and thanks for reading!
(2018/12/29): Quick update. I received some comments stating that this would not help people driving any better, and just help them get angry. While this could be true, this project is only here to present the fact that you could have an infotainment system that evolves regarding the way you drive, in any way possible, not only the music (fuel economy, warning messages, seat position when cruising on the highway, cameras and sensors regarding whether you are in the streets or the mountains, etc). I'm not promoting speeding here, just showing up a programming project that could become the basis of software with real usages.
Wowowow hey, where is the code ?
I won't release the code yet for multiple reasons, the first one being "omg I can't let people see this monstruosity the magic". I'm still working on it and it really is very unstable (I still work with copies of the SD card image, that I need to reflash a lot), so as long as I don't deem it finished, I will keep cleaning and enhancing it. :)


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JAKE JACOBS / ILLUMINATION PROJECT
Police task force wants to continue work
Projects to enhance police-community relations can cost up to $75,000, consultant says.
By Emily Mieure
Emily Mieure
In its third meeting, a task force examining local law enforcement's relationship with the community and social services heard from a consultant who has led similar initiatives across the country.
Jake Jacobs, president of The Illumination Project, gave an hourlong presentation Monday morning that highlighted work he's done in Charleston, South Carolina and Louisville, Kentucky.
"Our organization has worked in several communities around the country on this issue and opportunity of further strengthening police/citizen relationships," Jacobs told the committee in a Zoom meeting.
Jacobs was invited to talk to the committee by facilitator Allison Bergh, of Leadership at Play.
During his presentation he talked about helping plan an effort in Jackson and what that might look like. He also took questions from committee members about funding and differences between projects in bigger cities and how they might translate here.
"It looks different in different places," Jacobs said. "What is most important is that you have strong project management support."
Jacobs said The Illumination Project encourages diversity in committees, so projects can help create positive change. Some projects offer stipends or compensation for members who otherwise wouldn't be able to participate, to get rid of barriers.
"If the process doesn't have integrity you can't trust the result," Jacobs said. "What we found is if we do a good job building a team … a real team that listens to each other, one that works together, one where I feel like I am on even footing with everyone else in the room, whether it's the police chief, or a professor and someone who works at McDonald's … it doesn't matter. We are all on the same team that sustainability tends to take care of itself."
The idea for the committee came up over the summer after the Teton County Board of County Commissioners heard public comment from residents who advocated taking money from law enforcement budgets and allocating it to human services — advocacy efforts often labeled as defunding the police.
The decision came after a sustained campaign organized by activist group Act Now JH that formed in the aftermath of George Floyd's killing by police in Minneapolis. The group attended county meetings in force throughout the end of June, lobbying commissioners to defund law enforcement's patrol budgets and divert those funds to social services.
After receiving several applications from members of the public and conducting interviews, county commissioners voted to commit $14,000 to the project and appointed five people to the committee.
The committee has since added one or two members and after hearing from Jacobs the group agreed they should add more Hispanic participants. There was also discussion of creating a more formal project with a steering committee and doing community surveys.
A full-blown project in a smaller community can cost anywhere from $25,000 to $75,000, Jacobs said.
The goals of such a project are to enhance police-community relationships; bring together all parts of the community to promote calm, measured exploration of public sentiment; to celebrate what is working well in police-community relations; to explore how to change and preserve public safety and civil liberties; to increase capacity to have meaningful and civil dialogue about difficult issues; and to develop specific and implementable plans.
The committee's recommendations will be formed into a request for proposal for another stage of assessment.
Contact Emily Mieure at 732-7066 or courts@jhnewsandguide.com.
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Emily Mieure covers criminal justice and emergency news. She also leads the News&Guide's investigative efforts. She has reported for WDRB TV in Louisville, Ky., WFIE TV in Evansville, Ind., and WEIU TV in Charleston, Ill.
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Last week I attended, once again, the NYCSATE 2016 Conference.
NYSCATE is one of my favorite conferences because it has a wide range of relevant presentations and Keynote Speakers, as well as, many attendees are my colleagues and good friends. This year I had the honor of doing 2 Coffee EDU sessions, which are open ended "Unconference" Style conversations that were developed by one of my all time favorite inspirations, Alice Keeler. I truly enjoyed this informal get together with good coffee! The attendees were certainly die hard Edtech advocates for getting up at 7AM to share. Some generalizations of educators is, a) They love coffee! and b) they love sharing and receiving!
Our shared resources are located HERE please add something to them if you were an attendee, or if you are an educator who enjoy learning from others!
On my ride home from the conference, I thought about the big ideas or takeaways from the conference and two major themes came to mind from two Keynotes.
On a lighter note, Adam's Futuristic comment instantly made me think of one of my favorite gags from the show, "The Office". This skit was entitled, Future Dwight.
Lastly, I have been following the great work of Matt Miller from "Ditch That Textbook" site and he is in the process of getting teachers' feedback on the what the 21st Century Classroom should look like. His post on this, can be found: HERE. Matt really has some insightful ideas, I would recommend following his email newsletter.
As usual, I have walked away from NYSCATE, tired and inspired!