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Paying off debt and building wealth simultaneously is easy, said no one ever.
We all have some form of debt, whether it's consumer debt like credit cards or secured debt like a mortgage. Your outlook or perception of your debt is almost as important as the dollar amount you owe. You should see all your debt as temporary, and the full payment of each account, from your department store credit card to your mortgage, as a financial goal.
How do you pay off debt and build savings at the same time? It's possible, we promise. Here are a few ways to make it happen.
Make a list with two columns. One column is your "good" debt, or debt that will eventually end up as an asset. This includes mortgages, student loans, and business loans. The second column is your "bad" debt. This is debt that is caused by overspending, or an asset that loses value over time (like a car). Good or bad, debt has to be paid back in full. Making these lists will help you visually assess your good debt to bad debt ratio.
Set goals. More specifically, set Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Timely (SMART) goals. The key is to figure out what you can do, what you should do, and how you can get it done. Examples of great, SMART goals are: a. Save a $1,000 emergency fund in four months. b. Choose two debts to pay off in two months, or four debts to pay off in four months. c. Open a savings account with a specific goal in mind, like the down payment on a house.
Now that you have a savings plan, you need a spending plan. Jot down the approximate amount of your monthly bills: cell phone, car payment, rent or mortgage, individual utilities, minimum payments on credit cards, estimated cost of food, etc. Add all that up and subtract it from your total monthly paychecks. That leftover spending money needs to be prioritized. What bills can be eliminated or reduced? How can you save on spending to add to savings?
It can be hard to imagine having an emergency fund when you are trying to throw every penny toward debt reduction. Remember that most people end up with debt because they don't have enough funds to cover an immediate need. Start small, with a $200 goal. Then aim for $500, then $1,000. Your emergency fund should eventually cover about three months' living expenses – enough to cover a period of unemployment or illness.
Keep track of your progress! There is something very satisfying about meeting financial goals big and small. Watch your emergency fund balance go up while you watch your debt total go down and pat yourself on the back!


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Good Things about Animals and People, by Teri's favorite brown dog.
While Teri's busy in the editing cave, working on her Big Chance Dog Rescue series (about cowboy military veterans who train rescue dogs to perform service, therapy, and support; and manage to find loooove along the way), I'd like to tell you about a real-life group that trains dogs to help veterans and first responders with PTSD.
I think it's so awesome that we dogs can provide relief to those people who've put their lives on the line to keep us safe and free, so read on to learn about GOT YOUR SIX SUPPORT DOGS!
 Got Your Six Support Dogs is located near St. Louis, but I heard about them when Teri came home from a writer's conference in Las Vegas a couple of years ago.
She'd gotten the chance to get to know a dog-in-training named Goose, who was learning the ropes. Goose was awesome. She could turn lights off and on, could retrieve a cell phone, and recognized when someone was anxious, which Teri got to see firsthand when she got the news that her father had passed away. Goose was right there for Teri, offering kisses and putting her head on Teri's lap when she sensed Teri was feeling bad about not being home for her family.
Check out the Website and click around to learn more about this awesome group!
It takes a lot of time, effort, and talent to train a dog to help someone who's suffered trauma, and a lot of money (I should know. I'm not even that fancy, and I've heard how much it costs to keep me healthy!).
Needless to say, GYSSD can always use help, so click here to donate!
I just checked the website of Got Your Six Support Dogs and I was amazed that there is another non-government organization that is after the welfare of the animals, for dogs in particular. It's true that dogs give a lot of happiness to people, especially for the animal lovers who found a special connection with them. When I was a kid, I also have a dog named Brandy. He was smart and very active. That's why when we lose him, that's where I got the real meaning of heartbreak.


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UConn Men's Basketball
Adama Sanogo named Big East Player of the Week
The sophomore big man had a monster week at the Battle 4 Atlantis.
By Dan Madigan@dmad1433 Nov 29, 2021, 2:51pm EST
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UConn forward Adama Sanogo was named the Big East's Player of the Week after helping the Huskies to a 2-1 record in the Battle 4 Atlantis tournament in the Bahamas. The sophomore is making a name for himself on a national scale.
Sanogo opened the tournament with a bang, dropping 30 points in UConn's double-overtime win over Auburn while adding in six rebounds and two blocks. The very next day, he posted an 18-point, 10-rebound double-double in the loss to Michigan State before finishing the week with six points, seven boards, and three assists to help power the Huskies past VCU.
UConn men's basketball ranked No. 17 in AP Top 25
He finished the tournament averaging 18 points, 7.7 rebounds, and 2.7 blocks per game in the Bahamas and shot nearly 91% from the free-throw line to earn All-Tournament honors.
While Sanogo has overmatched inferior competition from the start of the season, his performance at the Battle 4 Atlantis has firmly cemented him as one of the top players in the Big East despite making neither of two preseason all-conference teams. Sanogo is averaging 16.7 points and 6.9 rebounds per game this season and has scored 20 or more points in three of UConn's seven games so far this season.

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Q: Alembic/Migrate does not recognize a materialized view I have created a postgres materialized view following Jeff Windman's methodology from here:
How to make SQLAlchemy custom DDL be emitted after object inserted?
and here:
http://www.jeffwidman.com/blog/847/
The view factory and the model were adapted to the current project, but all functions and classes are virtual copies of the source model. The model was imported into a view and referenced in a template. Regrettably, it is completely ignored by Migrate(Alembic) and does not migrate/upgrade.
user.py

class User(UserMixin, db.Model):
    __tablename__ = 'users'
    id = db.Column(UUID(as_uuid=True), primary_key=True, default=uuid.uuid4)
    username = db.Column(db.String(100), unique=True, nullable=False)
    password_hash = db.Column(db.String(255), nullable=False)
    individual_id = db.Column(UUID(as_uuid=True), db.ForeignKey('individuals.id', ondelete="CASCADE",
         onupdate="CASCADE"), nullable=False)
    role_id = db.Column(db.SmallInteger, db.ForeignKey('user_roles.id', ondelete='RESTRICT',
         onupdate='CASCADE'), unique=False, index=True, nullable=False)
    mv_user_individual = db.relationship('User_individual_MV', backref='users', uselist=False,
         primaryjoin='User.id==User_individual_MV.id', foreign_keys='User_individual_MV.id')

individual.py
class Individual(db.Model):
    __tablename__ = 'individuals'
    id = db.Column(UUID(as_uuid=True), primary_key=True, default=uuid.uuid4)
    first_name = db.Column(db.String(100), unique=False, index=False, nullable=False)
    last_name = db.Column(db.String(100), unique=False, index=False, nullable=False)
    users = db.relationship('User',
        lazy='subquery',
        backref=db.backref('individuals', lazy='select'))

mat_view_factory.py
from sqlalchemy.ext import compiler
from sqlalchemy.schema import DDLElement, PrimaryKeyConstraint
from app import db

class CreateMaterializedView(DDLElement):
    def __init__(self, name, selectable):
        self.name = name
        self.selectable = selectable

@compiler.compiles(CreateMaterializedView)
def compile(element, compiler, **kw):
    # Could use "CREATE OR REPLACE MATERIALIZED VIEW..."
    # but I'd rather have noisy errors
    return 'CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW %s AS %s' % (
        element.name,
        compiler.sql_compiler.process(element.selectable, literal_binds=True),
        )

def create_mat_view(name, selectable, metadata=db.metadata):
    _mt = db.MetaData()  # temp metadata just for initial Table object creation
    t = db.Table(name, _mt)  # the actual mat view class is bound to db.metadata
    for c in selectable.c:
        t.append_column(db.Column(c.name, c.type, primary_key=c.primary_key))

    if not (any([c.primary_key for c in selectable.c])):
        t.append_constraint(PrimaryKeyConstraint(*[c.name for c in selectable.c]))

    db.event.listen(
        metadata, 'after_create',
        CreateMaterializedView(name, selectable)
        )

    @db.event.listens_for(metadata, 'after_create')
    def create_indexes(target, connection, **kw):
        for idx in t.indexes:
            idx.create(connection)

    db.event.listen(
        metadata, 'before_drop',
        db.DDL('DROP MATERIALIZED VIEW IF EXISTS ' + name)
        )
    return t

def refresh_mat_view(name, concurrently):
    # since session.execute() bypasses autoflush, must manually flush in order
    # to include newly-created/modified objects in the refresh
    db.session.flush()
    _con = 'CONCURRENTLY ' if concurrently else ''
    db.session.execute('REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW ' + _con + name)

def refresh_all_mat_views(concurrently=True):
    '''Refreshes all materialized views. Currently, views are refreshed in
    non-deterministic order, so view definitions can't depend on each other.'''
    mat_views = db.inspect(db.engine).get_view_names(include='materialized')
    for v in mat_views:
        refresh_mat_view(v, concurrently)

class MaterializedView(db.Model):
    __abstract__ = True

    @classmethod
    def refresh(cls, concurrently=True):
        '''Refreshes the current materialized view'''
        refresh_mat_view(cls.__table__.fullname, concurrently)

User_individual_MV.py:
from app import db
from app.mat_view_factory import MaterializedView, create_mat_view
from app.models import User, Individual

class User_individual_MV(MaterializedView):
    __table__ = create_mat_view('user_individual_mv',
                    db.select(
                        [User.id.label('id'),
                        User.username.label('username'),
                        User.role_id.label('role_id'),
                        Individual.id.label('individual_id'),
                        Individual.first_name.label('first_name'),
                        Individual.last_name.label('last_name')
                        ]
                    ).select_from(db.join(User, Individual, isouter=False))
                    ).group_by(Individual.last_name)
    )
db.Index('uq_user_individual_mv', User_individual_MV.id, unique=True)

Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

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Hortense Sings the Blues
April 18, 2017 February 17, 2022 haugustyn
Okay, so maybe this blog title is clickbait, but it's only done to bring attention to the challenges that women in early Jamaican music, like Hortense Ellis, experienced in the 1960s and beyond. This is a topic I have addressed in my book, Songbirds: Pioneering Women in Jamaican Music, and Hortense Ellis was an artist who was perhaps most vocal about being treated unwell. Over the years we have heard plenty about artists not feeling that they were paid their due, but Hortense Ellis was frequently not paid at all! And she had nine children and so her work, her labors and talent, were of even more importance. Her recordings put food on her table, so she had to fight for what was hers.
One of my good friends recently shared this Star Newspaper article with me. He knew I had long championed the career of Hortense Ellis and was further frustrated this past February when attending the Trenchtown Music Festival after hearing Alton Ellis's son, Christopher Ellis, give a roll call of the musicians who came from Trenchtown, yet he omitted his own aunt!
I have previously written about Hortense Ellis HERE so you can have a read.
But here is the text transcribed from that Star Newspaper article from September 2, 1966:
Singing in the bath tub usually leads to nothing but shouts of protest from the neighbours or starts the dog howling in the backyard. But for Hortense Ellis, it has led to a very successful singing career. Now known as Jamaica's first lady of song, Hortense has gone just about as far as a girl can in local entertainment circles and now she wants to go abroad.
Brother Alton Ellis, himself a popular vocalist, was the one who first got Hortense into the show business world ,by introducing her to the ten popular Vere Johns Opportunity Hour Shows."
I pause here to note that though she may have been introduced to the talent show by her brother, animosity was created in the family when she beat him! That's right, in the grand championships, Hortense took first place and Alton took second! And her oldest daughter told me that this rivalry continued throughout her life. Alton never seemed to get over it, according to her daughter. That story is in Songbirds: Pioneering Women in Jamaica Music.
Back to the article:
"And it was through these shows that bandleader Byron Lee heard her sing and signed her up for some stage shows that really got her career going. The stage show fans really took to Hortense and when she recorded 'I'll Come Softly' it was at the top of the hit parade for a month.
Since then, Hortense has been on nearly every local stage show and has been among the supporting artistes at shows starring the most famous names in show business–names like Ben E. King, Doris Troy, Patty [sic] LaBelle and the Blue Bells, Mamie Harvey, Solomon Burke and Dionne Warwick.
Patty [sic] LaBelle had for a long time been a favourite of Hortense and when Patti heard her sing, she gave her considerable encouragement. But Solomon Burke was even more enthusiastic about Hortense's talent. He said that she only needed a little more experience to be a big hit. He advised her to go to the United States and 'try to make the big time.'
'But I'm weak to help myself,' she confesses sadly. 'I need a manager to help me.' Hortense loves show business. But hates the way the artistes are often treated by some of the promoters.
'I have a special love for my fans,' she told me. 'And I love the excitement of stage shows. I usually have to have six songs ready when I go on because they always want an encore. So although I want to leave Jamaica now to get some experience I would never leave here forever.'
I asked her if she thought she could make a living here without having to go abroad.
Don't want to pay
You can make a living here, but we are not treated fairly by some of the promoters. They don't want to pay us. We see a full house at a show and then they tell us that they didn't make enough at the gate to meet expenses. They say that most of the people crashed the gate and got in free. Maybe the Government could do something for us instead of letting us suffer under local promoters.'
I reminded her of the Tops in Local show, which was put on by the artistes and backed by a loan from the Ministry of Development and Welfare.
'Yes,' said the young vocalist, 'but we had to pay back the money and there wasn't anything left. They should have helped us with more shows.'
Promptness at rehearsals was something promoters were always claiming the artistes ignored, and I asked Hortense about this.
'When you are not paid for a job and not given a proper contract and no one seems interested in you, you don't have any impetus to turn up.'
And this is why Hortense is now looking for someone to help her as a manager or promoter.
Speaking for herself and her fellow artistes she said: 'If we know there is someone interested in us, we will be prompt and turn up for every rehearsal and do anything he wants, as long as we get a fair deal. What they are giving us now is not even taxi fare. We are being trampled.'
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5 thoughts on "Hortense Sings the Blues"
Abu'safi Al-Jamaki. says:
That was not the worse of it for the women. In a lot of cases women were pressed for sex by promoters and some band leaders. Women like Phyllis Dillion, Dawn Penn, Doreen Shafer were hard pressed to not only get their money but to also not have to lay on their backs to be able to work.
Heather Augustyn says:
Very very true. I address this in my book too–in fact, Cynthia Webber, one of the Webber sisters, talks explicitly about her child born this way with Bunny Striker Lee.
One of the worst promoters for not paying was Tony Cobb, this thief would pay the hottest artist and then dissappear with the rest of the money. In fact Cobb seldom stuck around until the end of a show he promoted. As soon as the gate closed and he had collected all the money he disappeared.
Fascinating. Didn't know that. Thanks for including this, because I did wonder who specifically Hortense was talking about, because I know for a FACT that Byron Lee did NOT do this. He always took care of the musicians because, aside from being a person who helped to improve professionalism in the industry, he was a musician himself! So he knew how it worked from both sides. Thanks for adding in this info, I appreciate it.
Dokta Jones says:
Not much has changed. Musicians are still lucky to get gas money! 😀


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Dogs and the law
On the same day the Roanoke paper ran this profile of Jill Deegan, a Botetourt County assistant Commonwealth's attorney who specializes in sophisticated handling of animal abuse cases, the story got out that the United States is looking to get about $1 million from Michael Vick for the cost of taking care of his old dogs.
Watch what you ask for
Here is the Virginia Supreme Court order from the case of the temporary injunction against the sale of the paintings, from this post of the Art Law Blog.
So, there you have it. I complain about not seeing the order, but no it was online after all. And, the order says - nothing in particular about the basis for the Court's decision.
You'd think that if the College is nearly broke, it is the side more likely to be irreparably harmed by a delay of six months.
Reason No. 1001 why all orders and opinions should be published, on the Web, and in the public eye
The Lynchburg paper reports here, inscrutably, that the Virginia Supreme Court has reduced the bond necessary for a temporary injunction against the sale of those paintings in the Randolph College/Maier Museum case.
What? You can't tell from the news story whether this is an outrage or not. You can't tell from the website, because the Supreme Court won't publish orders like this, for reasons that make just about as much sense as their continued use of the courier font for their opinions - that is, no reason at all, that's just the way it has been done, just another random relic of history that's long since lost its purpose. Heck, even the State Department scrapped the courier font in 2004, as described here.
Now, font preferences are one thing, but the relative inaccessibility of the Court's orders is an issue of open government, and the current way of doing things is wrong, in my opinion, as I have said here many times.
Rosenstein nominated to Fourth Circuit
Also on November 15, President Bush nominated Rod J. Rosenstein from Maryland to succeed the late Judge Murnaghan on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
As previously noted, Maryland's senators are not on board with this nomination.
Here is an editorial from the Baltimore Sun, and here are stories from the Washington Post, the Baltimore Sun, and the Baltimore Examiner.
With the nomination of Mr. Rosenstein, there are now four nominations to the Fourth Circuit waiting Senate action, the others being Judge Robert Conrad of North Carolina, Steve Mathews of South Carolina, and Duncan Getchell of Richmond. There is one more vacancy to which no one has been nominated, to replace former Judge Luttig.
Two E.D. Va. judgeship nominations
According to this press release, President Bush has nominated Mark S. Davis to succeed Judge Ellis and David J. Novak to succeed Judge Payne.
Davis is a circuit court judge in Portsmouth, Novak is an assistant U.S. attorney.
Here are reports from the Daily Press, the Virginian-Pilot, and the Richmond Times-Dispatch, and here's a snippet from the AP.
Evidently, Senators Webb and Warner are both on board for these choices.
Judge Davis previously worked with the law firms of Carr and Porter in Portsmouth and McGuire Woods in Norfolk, or so suggests Westlaw. Mr. Novak was recognized last year along with others from the Moussaoui trial team, with the Attorney General's Award for Excellence in Furthering the Interests of U.S. National Security.
Reason No. 1001 why all orders and opinions should...


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Louisiana Office Products (LAOP) is a 30 year-old family owned office supply and furniture company. The company's outdated look and feel positioned LAOP as the "chair store," despite selling a full range of office supplies, equipment and furniture. With the need to compete against big box competitors, LAOP needed a way to harness its unique brand differentiation, change its outdated image and attitude, and infuse its brand community with enthusiasm.
The closely held business was struggling to remain relevant in a market filled with strong national competitors such as Office Depot, Staples, WalMart and Sam's. LAOP's logo reflected a stagnant, unchanging image, and customers failed to appreciate the store's value-added services and their more-than-just-office-furniture philosophy. If LAOP was to survive for the next generation of owners, it needed to make changes to keep the brand relevant and the company competitive.
Design the Planet partnered with LAOP to identify and define their unique brand differentiation and value proposition. This information was the basis for updating the company's identity into something fresh and energetic. The redesigned action-oriented, forward-moving logo represents a company heading into a bright future. It includes a modern chair design and icons of office supplies referring to the company's diverse offerings. Design the Planet also recommended changing the uniforms worn by delivery drivers and the sales team. This change improved the team's perceived professionalism by addressing cleanliness and style issues. Along with these modernizations and changes to the branding, team members were trained on brand service paradigm and expectations. The company's fleet of trucks was repositioned as a fleet of roving billboards to promote the brand with truck-side advertisements. These and other on-going changes have revitalized LAOP's brand in a positive way.
Through Design the Planet's rebranding efforts, LAOP has moved into position as the brand-dominant local office supply and furniture store. The push to become a re-energized, competitive business gave the company's internal brand community a much-needed boost, increasing employee morale and enthusiasm. LAOP's new branding and attitude based upon its cultural promise was a breath of new life, and a successful strategy resulting in a significant growth in sales.
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Motor circuit breakers are used for protecting a motor and its supply cable against over-heating by overload. Depending on the overload level, they disconnect the motor from power supply immediately in the case of a short-circuit or they disconnect the motor if an overload has occurred for some time.
Conventional motor circuit breakers are commercially available for various applications with different trigger characteristics (L, G/U, R and K), as shown in the diagram below. As variable frequency drives in most cases are used for supplying motors which are classified as operating equipment with very high starting currents, only the K-characteristic was realized in this function.
Unlike the operation of a conventional motor circuit breaker which disconnects the equipment to be protected immediately if the trigger threshold is reached, this function provides the possibility of issuing a warning instead of disconnecting the equipment immediately.
In multiple motor operation, it is assumed that each data set is assigned to a corresponding motor. For this, one motor and one motor circuit breaker are assigned to each data set. In this operation mode, the rated values of the active data set are monitored. The current output current of the VFD is only taken into account in the motor circuit breaker activated by the data set. In the motor circuit breakers of the other data sets, zero current is expected, with the result that the thermal decay functions are taken into account. In combination with the data set changeover, the function of the motor circuit breakers is similar to that of motors connected alternately to the mains with their own circuit breakers.
In single motor operation, only one motor circuit breaker, which monitors the output current of the VFD, is active. In the case of a data set changeover, only the switch-off limits derived from the rated machine parameters are changed over. Accumulated thermal values are used after the changeover as well. In the case of the data set changeover, ensure that the machine data are stated identically for all data sets. In combination with the data set changeover, the function of the motor circuit breaker is similar to that of motors connected alternately to the mains with one common circuit breaker.


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TV + RADIO
Kidman captures complexity, beauty of Princess Grace
Julie Hinds
Detroit Free Press Pop Culture Critic
"Grace of Monaco," which opened the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, is having its American debut at 9 p.m. Monday on Lifetime. But don't let the fact that it's arriving on basic cable discourage you from watching this biopic of Kelly's life as a princess dealing with some very non-fairy-tale issues.
The movie stars Nicole Kidman as the Philadelphia native who conquered Hollywood only to give up her career after marrying the dashing Prince Rainier.
Smart casting indeed. Kidman's natural reserve nicely matches Kelly's blond perfection image, and she conveys Kelly's frustration with a life that is not quite miserable, but no happily ever after either.
As her husband, Tim Roth disappears into the part of a man who's proud of his trophy wife, yet baffled by her independent streak.
The political dispute that pops up as a plot twist may not seem crucial to modern viewers, but give "Grace of Monaco" credit for being much more than a gossipy wallow.
With Kidman as its complex heart — her final scene is a stunner — it's worth the time of anyone who remembers the inherent gracefulness of the title character.


We cannot believe we are here! An adventure that took us half a year is finally coming to an end. Now, the World Cup Tournament is on our front door and the community is wondering how will the bracket look like. Wonder no more, we are today unveiling the anticipated bracket so you can take a glimpse into a much awaited event.
The World Cup Tournament will officially begin on March 5th and we will talk about it more on March 4th during the Asian Qualifier Live Stream. We can assure you that the bracket holds solid teams that will keep you on the edge of your seat. We also want to thank the amazing companies that have supported us into making this event such as Gamma Labs, Critical Force, and Fliffr.
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Behind-the-scenes on STAR TREK: FIRST FRONTIER! (a MUST-SEE interview with MATT GREEN and SCOTT LYTTLE)
The era of the "big" professional-looking Star Trek fan films is NOT yet over, folks! In fact, fans are still awaiting four major productions that predate the guidelines of nearly three years ago: Axanar (of course), Pacific 201, the series finale of Starship Farragut (with a cameo by the late-great Stan Lee), and Star Trek: First Frontier. And one of those four fan films is about to cross over from post-production to release…and it's just weeks away!
I'm sure you've already guessed from the title of this blog that it's STAR TREK: FIRST FRONTIER, a professional-quality fan production that was first conceived back in 2013 by writer/show-runner KENNY SMITH. The story features the first captain of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701, Robert April, and his crew on their maiden voyage. The actors are trained professionals, the uniforms and sets constructed to look pre-Pike era (TOS, not Discovery), and the production crew were mostly industry folks with experience. I know the guidelines preclude most of the above now, but all of the production footage was "in the can" nearly a year BEFORE the guidelines were ever announced.
After an aborted 2015 Kickstarter that only raised $30K of a $130K goal, Kenny decided to fund the production himself, filming scenes using a mix of practical sets and green screen shots later that year. Originally planned for a September 2016 release to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Star Trek, and even though all the live action scenes were filmed, post-production would end up taking three times longer than anticipated!
But they had a very good excuse! The production decided NOT to use traditional CGI animation and instead built a physical 11-foot model of April's Enterprise (estimated materials and labor cost $30,000) and filmed the VFX the old fashioned way…in a studio in front of a giant green screen!
But they didn't stop there…
After shooting that gorgeous starship model in early 2017, they next went on to construct an equally-amazing 1/24th scale hangar deck and shuttlecraft for a number of VFX scenes that take place in that area of the ship. Photos of their incredible miniature shuttle bay have only just begun to circulate, and fans' jaws are dropping left and right!
Fortunately, the two gentlemen in charge of the construction of these incredible models took pictures and videos along the way…hundreds in fact! And I've got most of them to show you in this exclusive Fan Film Factoraudio interview with a special video montage "bonus."
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you MATT GREEN and SCOTT LYTTLE, the men behind Captain Robert April's Enterprise and hangar bay…
Author Jonathan LanePosted on February 28, 2019 March 1, 2019 Categories Fan Film Features, News, Video/Audio InterviewsTags Kenny Smith, Matt Green, Scott Lyttle, Star Trek: First Frontier5 Comments on Behind-the-scenes on STAR TREK: FIRST FRONTIER! (a MUST-SEE interview with MATT GREEN and SCOTT LYTTLE)


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With some busy times ahead I certainly hope I can keep up my writing schedule. I'll obviously do my best but I apologize in advance should I drop to two posts Monday through Friday. Hopefully It won't come to it.
Good news, I'll be hosting the Money Hacks Carnival #25 here at The Personal Financier this Wednesday. I've gone through many good posts and I think you'll find this edition very informative and interesting.
The Price Is the Same; It's the Size That Shrinks @ NY Times – This article discusses the painful subject of shrinking packages while pricing remains the same. The best solution is to add another price – a per weight unit price, for example.
25 Ways to Save More Each Month @ Yahoo! Finance – A good list of 25 tips and reminders on how to save more.
Guru Insights @ Forbes.com – A wealth of knowledge and analysis in Forbes' Guru Insights section.
How to Tell if You Have a Bad 401k Plan @ Generation X Finance – A good post on a very important subject.
Canadian RRSP Vs. U.S. 401(k) Retirement Account Comparison @ Quest for Four Pillars – A good comparison between the two plans.
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Fun Family Vacations (That Don't Cost an Arm and a Leg!) @ Daddy Financials – A good in depth post on saving on vacations.
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From a young age, I've wanted to design video games. I would take sheet after sheet of paper and fill them with drawings of levels, enemies, descriptions of power ups, and more. I didn't know how to actually code the games. In addition, I'd often be building on established franchises. I didn't think Nintendo would want me coding an unauthorized Mario game.
Except, now they've given me the ability to do just that. Enter Super Mario Maker.
Super Mario Maker lets you design your own Mario levels. The levels can be over-ground, underground, fortress, etc. They can be in the style of many different Mario games from the original 8 bit Super Mario Bros. to New Super Mario Bros. U.
Placing level elements or changing level designs is simple using the WiiU gamepad's point and click interface. Want to place a pipe? Just drag it into the right spot. Want to move a Koopa? Just click and drag it around. Want to make a platform wider? Just click on the end and pull it. In addition, some elements respond to shaking. Shake a green Koopa (which walks in a straight line) and it turns red (and turns around when it reaches a ledge). Shake a moving platform and it becomes a dropping platform. Shake Bowser and he becomes Bowser Junior. Enemies can be modified with super mushrooms (which makes the enemy bigger) and wings (which makes the enemy fly). Finally, sound effects can be placed to be triggered at certain events.
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Oh cool! First, you brought back some forgotten memories of me creating levels of platform video games on notebook paper when I was in junior high (loved it). And second, now I want a copy of this game!
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Looking Back 108 Years…
Today would have been Carl Sagan's 82th birthday. It is an auspicious year, because after a 108 year drought, the Chicago Cubs have won a World Series title. The Cubs win reminded me of Sagan because his son, Nick, had told a story once of introducing his dad to computer baseball based on statistics, whereby you could pit famous teams in history against one another. Sagan apparently said to Nick, "Never show me this again; I like it too much."
Today, Carl Sagan would have been 82 years old.
It is an instantly recognizable feeling to those of us who do science — a nearly uncontrollable urge to ask, "What if…" and then construct an experiment to answer that question. When faced with the prospect of being able to pit two great teams from baseball history against each other, the little science muse in the back of your mind begins to ask, who would win? What if I changed up the pitchers? Does the batting order matter? What if they played at home instead of away?
This incessant wondering is the genesis of all the knowledge that our species has accumulated and labeled "science." And so, to commemorate Sagan's birthday, and the Cubs win this season, I'd like to look back at what we knew of the world the last time the Cubs won the World Series, 108 years ago, a time well within the possible span of a human life. The year is 1908…
The title page of Einstein's PhD Thesis.
In 1908, a young physicist named Albert Einstein, 3 years out from his college degree and after a multi-year stint working as a clerk in the Swiss Patent Office, got his first job as a professor, at the University of Bern. This era was a time in the history of physics where scientists were trying to understand the fundamental structure of matter. Einstein's PhD thesis was titled, "A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions." Despite the fact that he could not find a job as a faculty member in the years after he graduated, Einstein worked dutifully at the Patent Office, and did physics "in his spare time." During 1905, he wrote a handful of transformative papers that would change physics forever. Like his PhD work, some of those were about the invisible structure of matter on the tiniest scales. One explained an interaction between light and matter known as the "photoelectric effect," which would be the work for which he would win the Nobel Prize in 1921. Physicists had for sometime known that some materials, when you shone a light on them, generated electric current. Einstein was the first person to be able to explain the effect by treating light as if it were little baseballs (Go, Cubs! Go!) that were colliding with electrons and knocking them off of the material. Today we use that technology for devices like infrared remote controls to turn your TV on and off! By the time Einstein became a professor, he was thinking about new and different things that had caught his attention, sorting out some new ideas about gravity that would, after an additional seven years of work become known as General Relativity.
(Top) Marie Curie in her laboratory. (Bottom) Curie's business card from the Sorbonne. [Image: Musee Curie]
Other physicists were hard at work exploring other aspects of the properties of matter. In 1908, already having earned her first Nobel Prize (in 1903), Marie Curie became the first female professor ever at the Sorbonne in Paris. Her 1903 Nobel Prize in physics was for her work in the characterization of radioactive materials. She and her collaborators were not only trying to understand the nature of radiation and the properties of radioactive materials, but were discovering many of them for the first time. Today, we look at a periodic table of the elements and there are no gaps, but in 1908 there were. Curie and her colleagues discovered radium and polonium. They also discovered that some previously known elements, like thorium, were radioactive and we hadn't known it. Before this pioneering work, the world knew nothing of radioactivity. At this time, the dangers of radiation were unknown. Curie for years exposed herself to radiation from samples in her laboratory; today, many of her notebooks are still too radioactive to be handled safely without protective equipment. In 1934, Curie died of aplastic anemia, a blood disease brought on by radiation exposure whereby your body cannot make mature blood cells.
We think a great deal of Curie's exposure to radiation came not just from carrying radioactive samples around in her pockets (something that today we know is a bad idea), but also exposure from a new technology that she was a proponent of: medical x-rays. During World War I she developed, built, and fielded mobile x-ray units to be used by medical professionals in field hospitals. These units became known as petites Curies ("Little Curies").
Orville Wright (R) and Lt. Thomas Selfridge (L) in the Wright Flyer, just before take off at Fort Myer. [Image: Wright Brothers Aeroplane Co]
There were other technological advances being introduced to the world in 1908. That year, the world was still becoming acquainted with the notion of flying machines. The Wright Brothers had successfully demonstrated a powered flying machine at Kitty Hawk in 1903, but in May of 1908, for the first time ever, a passenger was carried aloft when Charlie Furnas flew with Wilbur Wright over the Kill Devil Hills in North Carolina. Just as with Curie, the Wrights were in unexplored territory, learning about the art and science of flying for the first time. Dangers and unexpected events abounded — the Wright Flyer experienced a crash late in 1908 after a propellor broke during a demonstration for the military at Fort Myer. Orville Wright was seriously injured, but his passenger, Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge, sustained a serious skull injury and died 3 hours after the crash: the first person to perish in the crash of a self-powered aircraft.
(L) The 60-inch Telescope at Mount Wilson. (R) A young Harlow Shapley. [Images: Mt. Wilson Observatory]
On the opposite coast of the United States, also in 1908, the largest telescope in the world was completed on Mount Wilson, outside of Los Angeles: the 60-inch Reflector, built by George Ellery Hale. The 60-inch was built in an era when astronomers had discovered that building bigger and bigger telescopes enabled them to see deeper into the Cosmos in an effort to understand the size and shape of the Universe and our place within it. One of the biggest discoveries made with the 60-inch was still ten years away — astronomer Harlow Shapley would use the great machine to measure the distances to globular clusters near the Milky Way and discover that the Sun did not lie at the center of the galaxy(see Shapley's paper here); today we know the Sun orbits the Milky Way some 25,000 light yeas away from the center.
The nature of the Milky Way was still, at that time, a matter of intense debate among astronomers. Some thought the Milky Way was the entire Universe. Others argued that some of the fuzzy nebulae that could be seen with telescopes were in fact "island universes" — distant galaxies not unlike the Milky Way itself. The problem was there was no good way to measure distances. But 1908 saw a breakthrough that would give astronomers the ability to measure vast distances across the Cosmos when astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt published her observation that there was a pattern in how some stars changed their brightness. These were the first Cepheid variables, and by 1912 Leavitt had shown how to measure the distance to them by simply observing how bright they appeared in a telescope. A decade and a half later, in 1924, Edwin Hubble would use Leavitt's discovery to measure the distance to the Andromeda Nebula (M31), clearly demonstrating that the Universe was far larger than astronomers had ever imagined and that the Milky Way was not, in fact, the only galaxy in the Cosmos. By the end of the 1920's, Hubble and Milton Humason would use Leavitt's discovery to demonstrate the expansion of the Universe, the first hint of what is today known as Big Bang Cosmology.
(L) Leavitt at her desk in the Harvard College Observatory. (R) The Magellanic Clouds, which Leavitt's initial work was based on, framed between telescopes at the Parnal Observatory in Chile. [Images: Wikimedia Commons]
Today, it is 108 years later. When I reflect on these items of historical note, I am struck by two things. First, it is almost stupefying how quickly our understanding of the workings of the world has evolved. It really wasn't that long ago — barely more than the common span of a human life — that we didn't know how to fly and we didn't know that the Cosmos was ginormous beyond imagining. The pace of discovery continues to this day, dizzying and almost impossible to keep up with. The second thing that is amazing to me is how quickly we disperse and integrate new discoveries into the collective memory of our society. Flying is no longer a novelty; it is almost as common and going out and getting in a car. Large reflecting telescopes capable of making scientific measurements are in the hands of ordinary citizens like you and me, gathering starlight every night in backyards around the world. Most people know that the Milky Way is not the only galaxy in the Cosmos, and that radioactive materials should not be carried around in your pocket.
It is a testament to our ability to collect and disperse knowledge to all the far flung corners of our planet and civilization. In a world faced by daunting challenges, in a society in a tumultuous struggle to rise above its own darker tendencies, it is a great encouragement to me that the fruits of our knowledge and intellect are so readily shared and accessible. When the challenges facing the world seem to me too daunting to overcome, I often retreat to listen to Carl's sonorous and poetic view of our history and destiny (perhaps most remarkably captured in his musings on the Pale Blue Dot). He was well aware of the problems we faced, but always seems to me to promote a never ending optimism that we have the power to save ourselves– through the gentle and courageous application of intellect tempered with compassion. It seems today to be a good message.
Happy Birthday, Carl.
And Go Cubs, Go.
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Stories from a Race Called Humans
On a forgotten autumn day long ago, I sat amidst hundreds of strangers in the far-away ballroom of a convention center in Oregon. I was younger than I am now, younger than most of those who were sitting around me. Yet somehow, I had been chosen. I had been waiting. I had rolled that singular moment of time around in my head, over and over again. Out of all the hundreds of hands in the air, mine was chosen, and I stood to ask a question.
My palms were sweaty, my heart raced. I took the microphone, and thankfully didn't drop it. In those days, I had yet to ever speak in front of more than a small group of my friends in class, but here I was, and damnit I was going to ask my question! Five hundred pairs of eyes stared right at me, and from the stage, the cool gaze of our guest, encouraging and expectant. I'm sure I squeaked; I must have squeaked. But out came my question: "What is the responsibility of science fiction to bring plausible visions of the future to us?"
The person I had directed my inquiry to was William Shatner, who had been regaling the crowd of Trekkers with tales of life in the Big Chair, and answering questions about how to properly act out a Star Trek Fight Scene, whether he really thought Kirk should have let the Gorn survive, and whether Spock ever just burst out laughing on set. And then I stood up to ask my question.
"What is the responsibility of science fiction to bring plausible visions of the future to us?"
For all the ribbing that Shatner takes for being Shatner, I think he responded in a way that might surprise many people. He smiled, he didn't laugh. He looked me straight in the eye and told me this: "Science fiction is like all art — it is a medium for telling stories about our humanity. Visions of the future are just stories about us." It was a brilliant and thoughtful answer, and I've always remembered it.
Now, many years later, I practice science. I still watch a lot of Star Trek, and I absorb a lot of science fiction, and every time I reach the end of a novel or movie, I know Bill was right — the best stories are the ones that use the future as a backdrop to tell human stories.
Larry Yando as the titular character in the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre's 2014 production of King Lear.
That's a very interesting thought when I drape it across the tapestry of art, literature, and theatre. All forms of art are explorations of what it means to be human, attempts to understand on a very deep level who we are. Just this past weekend, sitting in the darkened theatre of the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, I was bludgeoned by that simple fact once again watching King Lear. Though the story is set long ago, and though the language is not all together our own, we sat there enraptured. The tale is full of intrigue and betrayal, but at the core is the King. Watching the play reflected the dark pools of shadowed eyes, you could see an audience tearfully and painfully aware that the tragedy unfolding from the King's descent into madness was an all too relevant tale for those of us who have suffered the loss of elderly friends and relatives to the ravages of age. Our humanity was laid out, naked and bare on the stage, in a tale written more than 400 years ago. The core message is as relevant and pertinent today as it was when the Bard penned it those long centuries ago.
The exploration of the nature of the human spirit has long been the purview of all forms of art, especially performance. The whole point in acting out stories is to tell stories about people. Even when the characters aren't people, they still talk and act like people, anthropomorphized by their actions, their thoughts, and their words in the tapestry of story on the stage or screen. And so I suppose it should not have surprised me that Shatner did not think of tales from the far future any differently — the stories are still stories about us. They still are stories about our triumphs, our tragedies, our frailties, and our fallacies.
But that younger version of myself carried a particular conceit — I wasn't clear about it then, but I still harbor it today: I fundamentally believe that art and science have exactly the same purpose — to discover the stories of who we are, and what our place in the Cosmos is. The truth of this is hidden in every science book and every textbook you have ever picked up and thumbed through. How? Very seldom is science explained without the context, the wrapper, of the human story around it.
Newton witnessed the falling of an apple when visiting his mother's farm, inspiring him to think about gravity. It is almost certainly apocryphal that it hit him on the head! But art gives the story a certain reality!
When we are first taught about the Universal Law of Gravitation, very seldom are you simply told the equation that relates mass and distance to gravitational force. Instead, we cast our minds back to a late summer day in the 17th Century. On a warm evening after dinner, Isaac Newton was sitting in his mother's garden, on her farm in Lincolnshire and was witness to an ordinary event: an apple falling to the ground. A simple, ordinary event, part of a tree's ever-repeating cycle of reproduction. But witnessing the event sparked a thought in Newton's mind that ultimately blossomed into the first modern Law of Nature. The tale inspires a deep sense of awe in us. How many everyday events have we witnessed, but never taken the time to heed? How many secrets of Nature have passed us by, because we never connected the dots the Cosmos so patiently lays out before us?
Marie Curie in her laboratory.
When we first learn about the discovery of radioactivity, very seldom are we only told the mass of polonium and the half-life of uranium. Instead, we relive the discovery of radioactive decay alongside Marie Curie, who unaware of the dangers of radiation, handled samples with her bare hands and carried test tubes full of the stuff around in her pockets. We know that she developed the first mobile x-ray units, used in World War I, a brilliant realization of mobile medical technology at the dawn of our modern age. But we also know that Curie perished from aplastic anemia, brought on by radiation exposure. Today, her notebooks and her belongings are still radioactive and unsafe to be around for long periods of time. Curie's death is a tragic tale of how the road to discovery is fraught with unknown dangers. While we mourn her loss we celebrate also the wonder that our species has such brilliant minds as Marie Skłodowska-Curie, the only person ever to win TWO Nobel Prizes in different sciences (Chemistry and Physics)
Alexander Fleming in his lab.
When we learn about antibiotics, seldom do we begin in the lab with petri dishes full of agar. Instead, we are taught the value of serendipity through the tale of Alexander Fleming. In late September of 1928 he returned to the laboratory to find that he had accidentally left a bacterial culture plate uncovered and it had developed a mold growth. You can imagine a visceral emotional reaction — anger! Another days-long experiment ruined! By sheer carelessness! It happens to all of us every day when we burn a carefully prepared dinner, or break a favorite coffee mug, or accidentally drop a smartphone down an elevator shaft. But through the haze of aggravation, Fleming noticed something subtle and peculiar — there were no bacterial growths in the small halo around the mold. The mold, known as Penicillium rubens, could stop a bacteria in its tracks. That single moment of clarity launched the development of antibiotics, so crucial in modern medical care. What world would we inhabit today, if Fleming had thrown that petri dish away in disgust, without a second glance? Surely a tragedy of world-girdling proportions.
All of these stories illustrate a subtle but singular truth about our species: we are different from all the other lifeforms on our planet. Not in sciencey ways — we have the same biochemical machinery as sunflowers, opossums and earthworms — but in less tangible abstract ways. What separates us from all the other plants and animals is the way we respond to the neurological signals from our brains. Our brains are wired to do two interesting things: they imagine and they create. The truth is we don't fully understand how our brains do these things, or why there is an apparent biological imperative to do either. But the result of those combined traits is an insatiable curiosity to know and understand ourselves and the world around us, and an uncontrollable urge to express what we discover.
Sometimes those expressions burst out of us in moments of creation that lead to lightbulbs, intermittent windshield wipers, kidney dialysis machines, and iPads. Sometimes those same expressions burst out of us in moments of creation that lead to Jean van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait, or Auguste Rodin's The Kiss, or Steve Martin's "Picasso at the Lapine Agile," or Ridley Scott's desolate future in "Blade Runner."
(Top L) Jean van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait; (Top R) Rodin's The Kiss; (Bottom) The urban dystopia of the future in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner.
Art is like science. Imagination expressed through long hours of practice, many instances of trial and error, and moments of elation that punctuate the long drudgery of trying to create something new. Science is like art. Trying to understand the world by constantly bringing some new creative approach to the lab bench in an attempt to do something no one else has ever done before.
Both science and art are acts of creation with one express goal: to tell our stories. Both require deep reservoirs of creativity. Both require vast amounts of imagination. Both require great risks to be taken. But in the end, the scientist/artist creates something new that changes who we are and how we fit into the world. And wrapped all around them are all-together human tales of the struggles encountered along the road to discovery.
It is not entirely the way we are taught to think about scientists and artists. Isaac Asimov famously noted this in his 1983 book Roving Mind: "How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. An artist is emotional, they think, and uses only his intuition; he sees all at once and has no need of reason. A scientist is cold, they think, and uses only his reason; he argues carefully step by step, and needs no imagination. That is all wrong. The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers. The true scientist is quite imaginative as well as rational, and sometimes leaps to solutions where reason can follow only slowly; if he does not, his science suffers." An interesting thought to ruminate on the next time you are preparing DNA samples or soldering stained glass mosaics.
I have to go now. The crew of the Enterprise have some moments of humanity to show me. See you in an hour.
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Eyes from the Street: The Neighbourhood Fabric that Matters
The mantra "eyes on the street" focuses on the physical and functional traits of urban fabric but fails to explain the high crime rate of my Jacobsian neighbourhood. Time to reconsider, look for explanations, and exchange mantras for research.
April 9, 2018, 5am PDT | Fanis Grammenos | @fanis_grammenos
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I live in an ideal Jacobsian neighbourhood: Centertown, Ottawa. It posts the second highest density among city districts, the widest mix of land uses, and an unmatched range of incomes and ethnic backgrounds. It is laid out on a grid and includes buildings that span the entire gamut of types, functions, forms, and history; no other ward in this city is as diverse. Yet, something essential is missing from the anticipated outcomes of an urban fabric such as this—security. Here we seek to find out why.
This district has at least three east-west and four north-south "main street" arteries, where small businesses thrive, professional services are offered, and numerous people live above shops, just as in Jane Jacobs' actual Manhattan neighborhoods. Invariably, these streets buzz with activity all day. Routine destinations are within a ten- to 20-minute walk. Everything that the "eyes on the street" neighbourhood model recommends is present. As theory has it, improved security should be a natural, expected outcome.
Crime rate in 20 city wards, including the one where I live.
Yet I live in the most dangerous neighbourhood of my city—not by mere percentage points but a manyfold difference. And, surprisingly, this abnormal difference belies the fact that my city registers the second lowest crime rate among the top eight major Census Metropolitan Areas. How can that be explained, knowing that no other district in this city comes even close to its level of "eyes on the street" potential? By contrast, and belittling theory, the most typical suburban city neighbourhood occupies the lowest rank of the scale. Perhaps research has answers to this baffling incongruity.
In a Jane Jacobs biography titled Eyes on the Street, the question of whether evidence supports the proposition that "eyes on the street" reduce crime is professionally disputed.
I quote: "May be not, a University of Pennsylvania Law Review suggested; pedestrian-dense, mixed-use development in Los Angeles neighbourhoods did record lower crime than those exclusively commercial; but purely residential areas had crime rates lower than either. A meta-study of research drawn from the broad discipline of environmental criminology came away similarly skeptical."
A single study can be disputed as a basis for drawing credible conclusions, but the results of a meta-study are usually reliable. Whatever research could unveil would be interesting academically. My mission is closer to home. I live in an Alchemist's jar with a mix of ingredients presumed to produce safety gold but instead it delivers lead. Transmutation attempts failed because the nature of elements was misunderstood. Could this be the case of the factors that nurture crime in a neighbourhood? It's time to look in different directions for clues.
Districts and Streets in History
New York's West Village and my district share certain physical characteristics that purportedly increase safety: density, diversity of built form, and proximity to daily destinations. These were also defining characteristics of most cities in history but, in notable cases, with strikingly different streetscapes than contemporary ones.
For example, a thriving commercial port city, Pompeii, representative of a Roman period (~50 AD), had 11 000 people in its small, walled-in area—over triple Centertown's density. But its streets could hardly differ more from those I tread on daily: narrow, leafless, drab, malodorous, and ominous, particularly after dusk. No windows faced the street, just the infrequent opaque door—an ideal setting for illicit activity.
Roman (Pompeii, left) and Arab (Fez, right) city streets shun contact between house and street and crate a dreary, ominous streetscape. (Image: Fanis Grammenos)
Similar streetscapes prevailed in Fez (still intact), the largest city in the world around 1100 AD (~200k pop) and also a major commercial and cultural centre. Its streets were laid out in a perplexing maze and were just as narrow and opaque as Pompeii's. Small windows were put, by code, above pedestrian eye level to prevent prying into houses. Such streets and layouts were common in ancient and medieval cities. Not only were they opaque and crooked, they were also empty. Most streets functioned simply as necessary conduits, not places for socializing.
Lacking any casual, informal surveillance, districts such as these must have been most antisocial, dreary, even deadly places. This was decidedly not the case, history tells us—In fact, it was quite the opposite. People in these cities were close-knit, bonded by religion, tradition, familial relations, and customs.
It would seem that neither research, nor history, nor the Centertown case statistics support the "eyes on the street" proposition.
Eyes from the Street
While the Roman and Arab court-centered buildings without windows blocked eyes from the street, contemporary houses achieve the same effect with a variety of means appropriate for them—distance, walls, fences, hedges, and elaborate curtains. Most vulnerable to intrusion are detached houses and, among them, those at street corners. The rationale for these commonplace measures is explained in Jacobs' book: "Privacy is precious in cities. It is indispensable. Perhaps it is precious and indispensable everywhere, but in most places you cannot get it[...]"
A common corner house hedge treatment that avoids all contact with pedestrians or cars ensuring maximum privacy and minimum distraction by shunning eyes from the street. (Image: Fanis Grammenos)
Other Directions for Clues
Streets and the buildings that frame them, including their functions, are but the stage on which uncivil, offensive acts are performed; it is human actors that carry them out. These actors form the intricate social fabric of a neighbourhood—each actor with their individual, but always invisible, characteristics. The same built form could house populations with starkly different characteristics over time, as districts evolve, and produce distinct safety outcomes. Perhaps it is the social fabric that could unravel the mystery of Centertown. It has been repeatedly shown that poverty and its related conditions are associated with errant behaviour in its many guises.
Detailed stats show that Centertown occupies the low end of the median income scale and the high end of the crime scale. Next to it, a neighbourhood also in a central location with similar physical characteristics, exhibits even lower income level and similar crime rates suggesting a consistent trend, evidenced in the graph. (Fig 4)
Figure 4. As the median neighbourhood income increases crime rate drops.
Median income values could result from relatively uniform or widely ranging incomes, potentially hiding part of the social fabric's texture. Another measure of neighbourhood income—the percentage of people living in low-income—might spotlight the difference of incomes within a neighbourhood.
Figure 5. As the percentage of people* living in low income increases in a neighbourhood, so does the crime rate (*families or persons not in economic families).
Combining the evidence from these two strong correlations leads to the realization that the social fabric of a neighbourhood is a much better predictor of its relative crime level than its physical fabric. It does not eliminate the physical factors; it simply reduces their degree of importance for this outcome.
Other social fabric descriptors, such as education, employment, Gini coefficient, cohesion, and more could add explanatory power to social fabric as a determinant of the frequency of antisocial acts. Equipped with such power, we might be able to say, "show me the social characteristics of your neighbourhood and I will tell you the odds of being victimized." I was victimized twice in this Jacobsian neighbourhood and now I understand why.
Fanis Grammenos is the director Urban Pattern Associates in Ottawa, Ontario and the author of Remaking the City Grid: A Model for Urban and Suburban Development. Reach him by email with questions or comments.
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Fundamentals of Quantum Information
Home Courses Fundamentals of Quantum Information
Quantum information is the foundation of the second quantum revolution. With classical computers and the classical internet, we are always manipulating classical information, made of bits. On the other hand, quantum computing and quantum communication consist in the processing of quantum information, made of qubits.
Take away the hardware, and all quantum computers work the same way, through the clever manipulation of quantum information and entanglement. This course provides a deeper understanding of some of the topics covered in our Quantum 101 program, namely, the representation and manipulation of quantum information at the level of abstract quantum circuits. Specifically, single and multi-qubit gates and circuits are introduced, and basic algorithms and protocols such as quantum state teleportation, superdense coding, and entanglement swapping are discussed. The course also presents quantum gate sets, their universality, and compilations between different gate expressions. These concepts are then made concrete with the Quantum Inspire simulator (a cloud-based quantum computing platform, created and maintained by QuTech at TU Delft), and the physics and operations with spin qubits will be detailed. The course concludes with an examination of quantum supremacy and near-term quantum devices, also known as "noisy-intermediate scale" (NISQ) quantum computing.
This course is authored by experts from the QuTech research center at Delft University of Technology. In the center, scientists and engineers work together to drive research and development in quantum technology. QuTech Academy's aim is to inspire, share and disseminate knowledge about the latest developments in quantum technology.
Utilize quantum circuits to represent, manipulate, and measure single/multi-qubit quantum states
Create entanglement and use it to teleport quantum information
Compile quantum circuits to universal gate sets
Use electron spins to store quantum information in Quantum Inspire, QuTech quantum computing cloud-based platform
Understand quantum supremacy and NISQ devices
Module 0: Welcome to Fundamentals of Quantum Information
Module 1: Working with Single Qubits
Module 2: Working with Multiple Qubits
Module 3: Quantum Compiling and Quantum Dots
Module 4: Current State of Quantum Computing
Fundamentals of Quantum Information by TU Delft OpenCourseWare is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at https://online-learning.tudelft.nl/courses/fundamentals-of-quantum-information/ /
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Study load (hrs): 32
Program(s): Master
Publication: 2016-03-07
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Parsippany, NJ – November 4, 2009 – Ever catch a flight to the wrong country? Have a hotel give you a squeegee to clean your bathroom after every shower? See an airline have pizza and fried chicken delivered to a plane because they ran out of food? If you have a story, Endless Vacations Rentals (EVR) wants to hear them via the Laugh Out Loud Vacation Contest.
Building off the success of its first contest, Endless Vacation Rentals (EVR) is turning its focus to funny vacation stories and giving away more than $40,000 USD in prizes.
Running now through Feb. 2, 2010, tell that travel story that made you laugh, cry or cringe – the only requirement is that it must be funny (and not lewd). The winner will receive a one-week vacation rental stay, valued at up to $5,000 USD, through EVRentals.com, plus $5,000 USD in cash. Second and third place winners will also receive a one-week vacation and cash in the amount of $2,500 USD and $1,000 USD, respectively. Just by voting for the best story consumers will be entered to win one of six, one-week vacations and cash prizes valued at up to $5,000 USD.
Voting and tickling concludes on April 2, 2010. Winners will be announced the week of April 19, 2010. To enter a funny vacation story and view full contest rules.
Endless Vacation Rentals, one of the Wyndham Worldwide family of brands (NYSE: WYN), provides access to one of the largest collection of global vacation rentals in the industry, allowing travelers to browse from more than 200,000 accommodations. At www.EVRentals.com it's as easy and convenient to search for, view availability, and book vacation rentals as booking typical hotel accommodations online.


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Enhancement of Awareness on the Applications and Benefits of RE/EE. This project will be implemented over a 60 months period and is expected to achieve GHG emission reductions through the displacement of diesel electricity generation. Direct GHG emission reduction over the lifetime of the project is estimated to be 25,267 Tco2E. The estimated post emission.


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Here Are 3 Reasons Why UCLA Can Win The National Championship
By Brian Rauf March 24, 2017
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The UCLA Bruins are one of a handful of true championship contenders left in the NCAA Tournament. A late push gave them a win over Cincinnati to put them in the Sweet 16, and they have a huge matchup against Kentucky on deck. However, UCLA has their sights set on bigger and better things - successful seasons in LA are only measured by national championships.
We're going through all of those contenders and explaining why they have a good chance to be cutting down the nets in April. Here are three reasons why UCLA may be that team:
3) Best offense in the entire country
UCLA not only has the best offense in the entire country, but they also have the best offense in college basketball in recent memory. Led by Lonzo Ball (more on him later), Bryce Alford and T.J. Leaf, UCLA's up-tempo system ranks first in points per game (90.2) and first in efficiency. They have also have six players that average at least 10.8 points per game.
The Bruins aren't nearly as impressive when they have to play a slower tempo, half-court game, but there aren't any of those teams left in their region. Both Kentucky and North Carolina (their projected opponent should they make the Elite 8) play up-tempo styles, and no one does that better than UCLA.
2) Improving defense
As good as the Bruins are on offense, they were just as bad on defense earlier in the year. They predicated their success on simply being able to outscore their opponents, but they realized in the middle of the season that was not going to work. So, head coach Steve Alford put in a 3-2 zone to hide their man-to-man deficiencies. It hasn't turned UCLA into anything resembling a defensive team, but it has stopped the bleeding.
1) Lonzo Ball. Lonzo Ball. Did we mention Lonzo Ball?
The biggest reason why UCLA can win a championship? They have the best player - and best clutch player - in the country in Lonzo Ball. After trailing Cincinnati at halftime in the second round, Ball put up 11 points and nine assists in the second half alone to lead the Bruins to a double-digit win. He has tremendous feel and is always in control of the game, even when he's not scoring. Ball simply makes the right plays at the right time - which is why he may be the No. 1 overall pick in this summer's NBA Draft.
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In early June, math teachers from several East Alabama school districts gathered at the AMSTI-AU site in Opelika for a Professional Mathematics Learning Communities project. Dr. Marilyn Strutchens, McFraley Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching in Auburn's College of Education, and Elizabeth Hickman, the AMSTI-AU director, were co-directors of the project and served as presenters during the summer academy. Other presenters included Dr. W. Gary Martin, Leischuck Endowed Professor, and Megan Burton, Assistant Professor (both from the Department of Curriculum and Teaching); Pamela Norris, Assistant Director of AMSTI-AU, and Lisa Ross, Project Manager (TEAM-Math). Presenters from Auburn's College of Science and Mathematics included Professor Ulrich Albrecht, Steven Stuckwisch, Assistant Professor Emeritus, Narendra Govil, Alumni Professor, and Huajun Huang, Associate Professor.
Transforming East Alabama Mathematics (TEAM-Math) is a National Science Foundation-funded Math and Science Partnership between Auburn University, Tuskegee University, and 14 school districts in East Alabama. TEAM-Math provides professional development for K–12 mathematics teachers. The Alabama Math, Science, and Technology Initiative, commonly referred to as AMSTI, is the Alabama Department of Education's initiative to improve math and science education across the state. AMSTI is considered by many to be the largest, most comprehensive and most successful math and science initiative in the nation. TEAM-Math and AMSTI joined forces to develop and present the project.
The project's aim was to establish professional learning communities and provide collaborative and sustained professional development for teachers in targeted K-12 schools. The immediate focus of the professional development was the Alabama College and Career Ready Standards (ACCRS), especially the Standards of Mathematical Practice.
The project had multiple goals, including: 1) to establish a triad leadership team of mathematics educators, mathematicians, and AMSTI specialists to provide professional development for facilitating Professional Learning Communities (PLCs), monitoring school and across-district PLC development, and helping the school systems move toward sustaining the PLCs; 2) to provide professional development for administrators to help them become knowledgeable of issues related to mathematics instruction and versed in the dimensions related to successful PLCs; 3) to provide grade level leaders with professional development related to the ACCRS-M, facilitating PLCs, and student data analysis; 4) to provide teachers with professional development related to the ACCRS-M, participating in PLCs, and pedagogical analysis; and 5) to improve student outcomes through the work of the PLCs.
Strutchens described these school partners as "super engaged and highly motivated." In addition to exploring teaching methodologies and formative assessments, the teachers engaged in open discussions of the various ways students learn and how best to reach students. Teachers talked about using cooperative groups, allowing students to engage in productive struggle, and helping students develop both critical reasoning skills and mathematical fluency.


International Longshoreman 80th Anniversary Ignites a Celebration of the Past, Present and the Future.
Saturday, December 10, 7 p.m. Hyatt Downtown Jacksonville, 225 E. Coastline Dr.
The challenges of the next decade supersede those of any similar span of time in the history of ILA Local 1408. For 80 years ILA Local 1408 has been on the cutting edge creating jobs, providing better educational opportunities and improved benefits. Since 1995, ILA's annual college scholarship program has awarded over $260,000.00 to deserving young students in the greater Jacksonville area. Ultimately, ILA desires to continue growth within and for the Jacksonville economy. By the year 2005, the local maritime industry received nearly $3 billion to input into Jacksonville's economy. The growth of Local 1408 as well as that of Jacksonville depends upon a thriving Port. Research supports ILA's contention and components that the Jacksonville Port has become the Port-of-Call of the Southeastern Region. The ILA union handles general longshore work, specifically all areas of loading and unloading cargo on and off ships, including the operation of all equipment.
Maintenance – ILA supplies all mechanics in maintenance operation, including refrigeration mechanics, welders, tractor-trailer mechanics, etc.
Fact: 98% of longshore earnings are put into the local Jacksonville economy.
Warehouse – ILA supplies labor for warehousing, including receiving and shipping out cargo.
Deep-Sea – Jacksonville is the number one port in the United States for automobile import, in terms of volume. ILA supplies the skilled labor which professionally unload automobile ships that call at the Port of Jacksonville. That total last year exceeded well over 550,000 cars. ILA is the third leading port in the South handling containerized cargo. ILA comprehensive longshore work force makes the Jacksonville Port a complete entity offering full service across the spectrum. ILA has won the "Safety Award" for having the best damage prevention record for the last three-(3) consecutive years, and six of the past ten years. End users return over and over again to any port facility offering a dependable labor force of efficient, productive and safety conscious workers. ILA Labor Force generates almost 1,000,000 man-hours per year. The more work ILA receives, the more money is made, the more goods and services ILA can purchase from the Jacksonville business community. Throughout the years ILA Labor Income was over 40 million dollars. Presently Jacksonville is the third leading port in the Southeast United States, and is aggressively working to become number one! The continuation and expansion of Jacksonville's economic growth and quality of life, and making it available to all Jaxsonvillians is ILA's main objective.


Come view photographs of gardeners, taken in 2017. Local photographer, Sara Sawatzki worked with the Garden Program to capture gardeners in the greenhouse and in their gardens. Join us for tea and cookies, while we celebrate the coming of Spring and the many faces in the garden.
10 of the photographs have been hung and will be housed in Lutheran Family Services.
Please register here so we have a good idea of how many people will join us.