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Recycling concrete with lightning
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In an effort to re-use the million of tons of building rubble produced each year, a way to recycle concrete with lightning was found.
The lightning bolts of a short duration are more likely to pass through a solid. The idea is to produce lightning bolts and direct them to the concrete. As the lightning follows the path of least resistance, it separates the material into its fundamental components.
A concrete recycling plant using the lightning method could be a reality in as little as two years.
Short-Run CD-Rom Production
Produce Shop
Bin that separates recyclables by sound
Eraseable Solid Ink in a Pencil
Transport produced electricity

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The 4 is without a doubt masculine, reflecting strength and stability. His chief characteristics are dependability, productivity, punctuality and obedience. He is trustworthy, patient, conventional and a traditionalist. He is a bit boring and not much of a social person, preferring to toil in quiet obscurity. He works steadily and can be very persistent. He finds great satisfaction in his accomplishments and favors results over financial reward or public recognition. He is humble, dresses conservatively and blends in with his surroundings.
He is average in looks, physically healthy and strong, neat and clean ... but unremarkable. He does not like to draw attention to himself, but will fight you tooth and nail if you try to muscle in on his territory. He believes in effort and control, and is certainly goal-oriented, but his goals are simple and down to earth. He is not a visionary, but notices every detail. He is capable, has an excellent memory and doesn't cut corners. He is the perfect employee, but doesn't tend to do well in social environments.
If you look at the shape of the number 4, you will see that the hard angles are a proper symbolic representation of this rather straight-edged workaholic, who is neither creative nor artistic, but is good at working with his hands. Many craftsmen and skilled laborers have the 4 prominently in their charts. He is a good provider, but demands discipline and loyalty, and in some cases takes discipline too far. He can't handle chaos and is prone to panic attacks if it appears he might not have things fully under control.
The 4's imagination is not well developed, and his views are usually narrow-minded and conventional. The 4 tends to be religious without questioning established doctrine, preferring to parrot the beliefs of his peers, feeling safe and secure in the predictable, unchanging nature of a tight discipline. More than any other number except perhaps the 7, 4s are found in the charts of monks, priests and other religious leaders. Many also become excellent managers and organizers, and it is not at all uncommon to find a 4 in the upper echelons of business and government. The 4 will work hard and can be driven to reach the top of his profession, but in striving to reach the top he usually finds that his greatest obstacle is himself: his lack of social skills, his inability to relate to the mundane issues of his co-workers and his lack of intuition.
The 4 doesn't like to make waves, but values his moral convictions and will not back down when convinced that he is doing "the right thing." However, he can also be intolerant and, when faced with people from other cultures, countries or races, his insecurity can turn him into a cruel bigot. Many 4s choose a career in the military, where their obedient, disciplined nature is right at home. They especially thrive when they are assigned duties that include administrative and organizational work.
As with any number, there are some contradicting traits within the 4. For instance, while he is not particularly social or fun-loving, the 4 sometimes reveals an entertainingly dry sense of humor. Further, although he is a strict and disciplined parent, the 4 is also extremely devoted and will walk through fire to get his kids what they need.
My description of the 4 is, not surprisingly, almost the exact opposite of my description of the 3. This is to be expected, as every number is, in important ways, a counterpoint to the one that directly precedes it. The 2 is the polar opposite of the 1, the 3 displays traits that are directly opposed to those of the 2, and so forth. And of course the differences between the 5 and the 4 are like night and day!


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Mayor Pete Buttigieg « Criminal Justice
Pete for America
Nina Smith
Pete Buttigieg Details Bold Agenda to Secure Justice and Reform Our Criminal Legal System
peteforamerica.com/policies/securing-justice
COLUMBIA, SC -- Today, Mayor Pete Buttigieg detailed his bold plan to reform our nation's criminal justice system. Pete's plan takes a comprehensive approach to reorienting the criminal justice system to unravel elements of systemic racism and promote security and fairness for all communities.
Elements of the plan reduce levels of incarceration and reform prisons, end barriers to accountability for perpetrators, elevate participants in the system who will protect civil rights, reform policing, and promote better juvenile justice.
"We must recognize that our criminal system is unfair and racist in many ways. This must change," said Buttigieg. "It is past time to transform the criminal legal system to one that truly promotes justice, and benefits all of us. Justice must include a real second chance. Incarceration should not be about detention, but about redemption."
Our criminal justice system currently applies immense and often unchecked pressure on the most vulnerable — particularly Black, Latinx, and low-income people. Systemic law enforcement issues have cost the lives of Atatiana Jefferson, Botham Jean, and countless others. Pete's plan will restore trust between law enforcement and the communities they serve, as well as ensure justice for all by reducing barriers to accountability for survivors of crime and people who are wrongfully accused alike.
Pete will rebalance our justice system with a plan to:
Reduce incarceration nationwide by 50% by eliminating incarceration for drug possession, ending mandatory minimums, expanding the use of clemency, and exploring sentence caps.
Restore Pell Grant access to people who are incarcerated and massively increase Title I funding from the federal government for states that commit to supporting K-12 education of justice-system-involved people.
Limit supervised release to two years and reduce the kinds of violations that can lead to re-incarceration, and incentivize states to similarly limit probation and parole.
End the profit motive in the criminal justice system by abolishing federal private prisons and contractors, and helping states eliminate the for-profit bail industry.
Ensure parity for public defenders' offices by matching resources for federal defenders as for federal prosecutors and supporting immigration specialists within public defender offices.
Diversify the judiciary by nominating judges with experience in civil rights and criminal defense, and by nominating women and people of color in proportion to their representation in the United States.
Reduce youth incarceration by investing $100 million federal dollars in competitive grant programs for states and localities to close youth prisons. Pete will also push for states to establish a minimum age for criminal liability at 14, and to remove children from adult courts, jails, and prisons.
Promote restorative justice with programs that engage survivors and promote alternatives to incarceration where appropriate.
Incentivize states to process their evidence backlogs by withholding federal grants for states with unjustified backlogs and providing more funding to states attempting to address the issue.
Promote the health of women, trans and gender-nonconforming people, and incarcerated people diagnosed with or living with HIV, diabetes, and other chronic conditions by ensuring proper medical and hygiene products and safe detention facilities.
Support police departments that have actively employed community policing and diversification and create a National Review Board to assess incidents of misconduct and violence.
Create a National Police Academy that standardizes police training based on best practices as well as a pipeline for new law enforcement through the 'A Call for National Service' plan.
Hold police accountable by ending immunity doctrines.
Train first responders to better deal with mental health crises.
We need a leader with the courage to take bold action at the federal level, and to drive similar criminal legal system reforms at the state and local level. Read Pete's full plan HERE.
https://peteforamerica.com/policies/securing-justice/
Securing Justice: Reforming Our Criminal Legal System [PDF]
SECURING JUSTICE
Reforming Our Criminal Legal System
The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world and a criminal justice system not focused enough on fairness and justice. In recent years, we have started to change course—between 2007 and 2017, 34 states decreased crime while simultaneously reducing their prison population.1 But change has not gone nearly far enough or fast enough. We need a leader with the courage to take bold action at the federal level and to drive similar reforms at the state and local level.
"It is past time to transform the criminal legal system to one that truly promotes justice, and benefits all of us."
Rebalancing our criminal system and refocusing resources on areas like public health, economic opportunity, and alternatives to incarceration will dramatically reduce mass incarceration and racial disparities in the system. At the same time, it will keep communities safer and save money.
It is past time to transform the criminal legal system to one that truly promotes justice, and benefits all of us. As President Pete will:
Reduce Incarceration
Pete will reduce the number of people incarcerated in the United States at both the federal and state level by 50%. Experts agree that far too many people are locked up unnecessarily. 2 As a result, the United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world.3 To remedy this, Pete will:
DOUBLE FUNDING FOR FEDERAL GRANTS FOR STATES THAT COMMIT TO MEANINGFUL REFORM.
Pete will also prioritize funding for programs aimed at pretrial reforms, decarceration, and expansion of alternative to incarceration (ATI) programs.
ON THE FEDERAL LEVEL, ELIMINATE INCARCERATION FOR DRUG POSSESSION, REDUCE SENTENCES FOR OTHER DRUG OFFENSES AND APPLY THESE REDUCTIONS RETROACTIVELY, AND LEGALIZE MARIJUANA AND EXPUNGE PAST CONVICTIONS.
ELIMINATE MANDATORY MINIMUMS AND DIRECT THE U.S. SENTENCING COMMISSION TO EXPLORE SENTENCING CAPS.
COMMUTE THE SENTENCES OF MORE PEOPLE BY ESTABLISHING AN INDEPENDENT CLEMENCY COMMISSION THAT SITS OUTSIDE THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.
FIGHT THE PROFIT MOTIVE IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM.
Pete will abolish private federal prisons and reduce the use of private contractors, eliminate the for-profit bail industry, and work with states to cap the amount of revenue cities and counties receive from fines and fees.
Elevate People Committed to Reform
Just as important as having the right policies is having the right criminal justice leaders in place, dedicated to the goal of reducing incarceration rates and unnecessary turmoil within our criminal legal system, while increasing public safety. Pete will:
ENSURE PARITY FOR PUBLIC DEFENDERS' OFFICES.
Pete will push for legislation to provide equal resources for federal defenders as for federal prosecutors. Pete will also explore programs to incentivize states to establish and expand pay parity.
CREATE A FEDERAL MATCHING FUND TO ESTABLISH AND SUPPORT IMMIGRATION SPECIALISTS WITHIN PUBLIC DEFENDER OFFICES.
DIVERSIFY THE JUDICIARY.
Pete will bring balance to the bench by nominating judges with experience in civil rights and criminal defense throughout the judiciary, and pledges to appoint women and people of color in proportion to their overall representation in our country.
APPOINT PEOPLE DEEPLY COMMITTED TO REFORMING OUR CRIMINAL LEGAL SYSTEM.
Pete will appoint an Attorney General, Deputy Attorney General, and U.S. Sentencing Commissioners who are committed to the fundamental transformation of the criminal justice system.
Promote Justice for Youth
Not only do we lead the world in our incarceration rate as a whole, we also lead the world in youth incarceration. Over 40,000 children are incarcerated throughout the United States on any given day. 4 While the overall numbers are slowly declining, the racial gap is getting worse.5 Further, we continue to treat children as adults and subject them to harsh punishments. As President, Pete will:
REDUCE YOUTH INCARCERATION.
Pete will support state efforts to abolish youth prisons and replace them with community-based programs by investing in a new $100 million federal competitive grant program for states and localities to close youth prisons and repurpose them to serve the needs of children.
THE DOUGLASS PLAN
Black Americans are disproportionately impacted by our broken public systems. Read Pete's plan to combat community-specific challenges. READ THE PLAN
SUPPORT STATE EFFORTS TO RAISE THE AGE AT WHICH A CHILD MAY BE PROSECUTED AS AN ADULT AND ESTABLISH MINIMUM AGES OF CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY AND REMOVE YOUTHS FROM ADULT COURTS, JAILS, AND PRISONS.
END THE SCHOOL-TO-PRISON PIPELINE FOR YOUTH.
Our existing system disproportionately impacts students of color and students with disabilities.6 Pete will encourage states to pass legislation that eliminates suspensions for discretionary infractions, such as "disrespect" or dress code infractions, where bias is most likely to seep in.
END THE AUTOMATIC TRANSFER OF IMMIGRANT CHILDREN IN HHS CUSTODY TO ICE DETENTION ON THEIR EIGHTEENTH BIRTHDAYS.7
Pete will promote partnerships with non-profit organizations that have resources to sponsor these teenagers and provide them with housing and legal services. 8
End Inhumane Punishment & Incarceration Conditions
A Buttigieg administration will protect the basic humanity of all people, including those who are incarcerated. As President, Pete will:
SUPPORT A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY.
Reduce the over-reliance on solitary confinement and abolish its prolonged use, bringing the United States in line with international human rights standards, which define the use of solitary confinement in excess of 15 days as per se torture.9
ENSURE THAT ALL CORRECTIONAL AND DETENTION FACILITIES PROVIDE MEDICALLY NECESSARY TREATMENT AND APPROPRIATE DETENTION CONDITIONS FOR TRANS AND GENDER NON-CONFORMING PEOPLE, WOMEN, AND PEOPLE WITH HIV AND OTHER CHRONIC CONDITIONS.
REMOVE THE MEDICAID EXCEPTION AND EXPAND PELL GRANT ACCESS FOR INCARCERATED PEOPLE.
Ensure that the cost of fundamental services and programs is not the financial responsibility of people who are incarcerated or their family members. This will include adequate nutrition, phone calls to family members, doctor visits, money transfers, access to public defenders, probation, parole, and incarceration itself. Too often these costs are borne by Black women and contribute to the financial burdens of Black families. 10
PROMOTE FAIR WAGES AND JOB TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES FOR INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS.
Bolster Reintegration
Failing to give people who are incarcerated the tools to succeed after prison does not just hurt them–it hurts entire communities. To help returning citizens reintegrate fully, Pete will:
SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE THE USE OF SUPERVISED RELEASE ON THE FEDERAL LEVEL BY LIMITING IT TO TWO YEARS, CUTTING BURDENSOME REQUIREMENTS AND TECHNICAL CONSTRAINTS, AND MAKING IT HARDER TO BE SENT BACK TO PRISON FOR SMALL VIOLATIONS OF THE TERMS OF RELEASE.11
ENSURE THAT PEOPLE WITH CONVICTIONS HAVE THE FREEDOM TO ACCESS EDUCATION, JOBS, HOUSING, AND HEALTHCARE.
Pete will do this by banning the box, increasing the availability of tax credits and bond insurance for employers who hire people with criminal convictions, lifting barriers to public benefits, and encouraging states to offer record expungement.
Reform Policing
Pete's administration will prioritize reforms to bring better policies, training, and accountability to police.
PROMOTE LEGISLATION THAT RAISES THE LEGAL STANDARD UNDER WHICH OFFICERS ARE JUSTIFIED TO USE LETHAL FORCE AND OFFER INCENTIVES FOR STATES AND LOCALITIES TO ADOPT MORE RESTRICTIVE POLICIES.
SUPPORT DEPARTMENTS THAT ACTIVELY STRENGTHEN COMMUNITY RELATIONSHIPS AND IMPLEMENT COMMUNITY POLICING, AND ENCOURAGE OTHER DEPARTMENTS TO FOLLOW THEIR LEAD.
INVEST IN COMMUNITY-BASED HEALTH CARE, ESPECIALLY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES, AND OTHER FRONT-END SOCIAL SUPPORTS.
These investments will minimize the need for police officers to serve as de facto social workers and allow them to resume their primary role as guardians of public safety.
PROMOTE EFFECTIVE, INFORMED INDEPENDENT CIVILIAN OVERSIGHT OF STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES.
CREATE A NATIONAL REVIEW BOARD.
Pete will create a board to focus on creating change in operational systems rather than assigning blame and will provide technical assistance to amend questionable practices,12 create a comprehensive federal database to document use of force and track officers who are fired from their duties, and work to abolish qualified and absolute immunity so that police officers and other officials can be held accountable for wrong doing.
REINVIGORATE THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE (DOJ) CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION.
Pete will also direct it to investigate law enforcement agencies that have a pattern or practice of violating civil rights and the Constitution.
Training & Recruiting
DEVELOP A NATIONAL POLICE ACADEMY.
Similar to the other U.S. Service Academies, this academy would provide a four-year college degree for individuals interested in public service as a police officer. The curriculum would include standardized police training based on best practices and general education credits culminating in a bachelor's degree. Upon successful completion, cadets will return to their local communities, complete jurisdiction-specific training, and then agree to a four-year commitment.
CREATE A PIPELINE FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT EMPLOYMENT.
Through his New Call for Service plan, a Buttigieg administration will build a diverse pipeline of individuals for the next generation of law enforcement.
INVEST IN RIGOROUS TRAINING ON IMPLICIT BIAS, CRISIS INTERVENTION, DE-ESCALATION, AND APPROPRIATE ENGAGEMENT WITH MARGINALIZED GROUPS AND TRAIN FIRST RESPONDERS TO IDENTIFY AND DEAL WITH MENTAL HEALTH CRISES.
Ensure Justice for All
While the criminal legal system primarily consists of state and local actors, there are many ways in which the federal government influences practices in our communities. A Buttigieg administration will take full advantage of these opportunities to promote justice. Pete will reduce barriers to accountability by making it easier for everyone to work with law enforcement and bring justice to wrongfully accused.
INCENTIVIZE STATES TO PROCESS THEIR EVIDENCE BACKLOGS.
A Buttigieg administration will withhold federal grants for states with unjustified backlogs and provide more funding to states attempting to address the issue by expanding successful grant programs.
PROMOTE RESTORATIVE JUSTICE.
Pete will promote restorative justice programs that engage survivors of crimes in the process and promote alternatives to incarceration where appropriate. Studies show that involving survivors in the justice system makes them more likely to feel that justice has been served. It also helps people who commit crimes to take accountability for their actions and decreases recidivism.
ELIMINATE BARRIERS TO IMMIGRANTS' COOPERATION WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT.
Scripture says, "Blessed is he… who secures justice for the oppressed." With bold action, we can finally bring our criminal justice system in line with our deepest values. If you're with us, text JUSTICE to 25859.
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Cameron Kimble, Ames Grawert. "Between 2007 and 2017, 34 States Reduced Crime and Incarceration in Tandem." Brennan Center for Justice. August 6, 2019. Back to content
Austin, James, Ph. D., Lauren-Brooke Eisen, J.D., James Cullen, B.A., and Jonathan Frank, J.D."How Many Americans Are Unnecessarily Incarcerated?" Brennan Center For Justice. 2016. Back to content
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Olivares, Jose. "Fewer Youths Incarcerated, But Gap Between Blacks And Whites Worsens." NPR. September 27, 2017. Back to content
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Burnett, John. "Migrant Youth Go From A Children's Shelter To Adult Detention On Their 18th Birthday." NPR, February 22, 2019. Back to content
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Critical Incident Review Board (CIRB). City of Tucson. August 15, 2019; Goff, Phillip Atiba, Elizabeth Hinton, Tracey L. Meares, Caroline Nobo Sarnoff, and Tom R. Tyler.; Re-Imagining Public Safety: Prevent Harm and Lead with the Truth. Center for Policy Equity. Back to content


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This project is originally written by Simon Werner Simon, won Second Prize in The SeeedStudio BeagleBone Green IoT Contest in hackster.io.
This boat is going to compete in the World Robotic Sailing Championships in Portugal. Read here for more information.
This article describes how to get the BeagleBone Green working as a remotely controlled device that can send back status updates (position and attitude) to the controller.
See the video below for the awesome demo. It shows the device connected to a sailboat, but you could connect it to anything.
I will describe how to get each component working individually, including the complete code to see in the video demo. All the code is open sourced so you can contribute back to it.
Note: it works for the BeagleBone Black too. Heck, a lot of these instructions will also work on the Raspberry Pi too, but your mileage may vary and I can't support you for that.
Below is an example of the orientation (attitude) of the final device. It uses the Madgwick algorithm to smooth out the noise. Although I have written a library for this, I have not included it in the tutorial.
Orientation of the device (uses Accelerometer, Gyroscrope and Compass).
Below are the steps I will take you through.
Prerequisites - what you need to know before undertaking the tutorial.
Compass - how to get the compass working.
Gyroscope - how to get the gyroscope working.
Accelerometer - how to get the accelerometer working and it's limitations.
GPS Receiver - this is a serial device, how to get this going.
GPRS Modem - how to get this going using pppd to connect us to the Internet.
Servos - how to control the servos.
Power Source - attaching a power source to make it truly remote.
Remote Control - in the last step we will communicate with it.
This section describes what you need to know before you begin building. I have built my device onto of some perspex, you can do the same or use another method (e.g. 3d printer). I don't go into the detail of the perspex sheet.
The BeagleBone Green or BeagleBone Black: Essentially they are the same, with some minor differences. For this project I recommend the Green since the Green has Grove connectors which much things much tidier. Read up about the BeagleBone. The forums are a great place for support.
Linux: The BeagleBone series run Debian GNU/Linux. You will need basic command line fu, but I will try to avoid it whenever possible. Here is a basic tutorial. Note: from Cloud9 you can open the Linux terminal (command line) by pressing the [ALT]+[T] keys together.
Linux Editor: Cloud9 is great for coding, but it does not allow you to edit system files (probably a good thing). So you should become familiar with a text editor, I suggest nano, it does not have a steep learning curve. Although I typically use mcedit or vim.
Drill for drilling the screw holes in the perspex (not described). I use small Torx screws which were scavenged from hold computer hardware.
Tape / glue - for fixing the GPS antenna.
Saw and file cutting and finishing the perspex.
4GB micro SD card for loading the new version of Debian.
Activated SIM card for the GPRS Modem. SIM card size is standard sized.
Power source for wireless operation - I use a USB power bank.
The BeagleBone Green currently comes with Debian 7.8 by default. However, these instructions require Debian 8.1 or above, I tested them on Debian 8.3. The reason is that Debian 8.3 has Linux kernel 4.1.x, which has more stable cape manager for the BeagleBone. Octalbonescript will also only work with this version, or above.
Download the latest Debian image from https://beagleboard.org/latest-images. Install this on the 4GB micro SD card (instructions are here). All you need to do is insert the SD card into the BeagleBone Green and it will boot with Debian 8.3. All changes you make will be saved to the SD card.
Once you have booted the BeagleBone, you should update the software and operating system. Use Cloud9 IDE on your BeagleBone (http://192.168.7.2:3000 if you have your USB connected), ssh or PuTTY (in Windows) to access the BeagleBone.
After upgrading you should also reboot. You can press the RESET button the BeagleBone Green.
then save the file and reboot. What this does is load the capes we require for this project.
Some things to keep in mind for the layout.
The accelerometer, compass and gyroscope all have an X-Y-Z graphic printed on the circuit board, see picture. You should align these together such that the board for each is in the same direction.
The accelerometer and gyroscope integrated circuits should be physically close to each other, this ensures when we put all the data together we take the information from one point.
It's best to plan a bit first, I suggest for each component, decide which pin it is going to occupy. I put this into a spreadsheet. Below is my plan along with the BeagleBone pins.
Plan your pin usage. This diagram shows the pin I have used for this project.
The Grove 3-Axis Digital Accelerometer(±1.5g) has 3 orthogonal accelerometers. An accelerometer can measure gravity as well as acceleration/movement in a direction. Accelerometers are generally very noisy devices, I have seen this accelerometer fluctuate ±5 degrees when lying still. They also have a low resolution, meaning that smallest angle of resolution is 2.7 degrees from vertical. However, this is a know issue with accelerometers in general and when you pair them with a compass and gyroscope as well has use noise filtering you can reduce this issue.
This accelerometer measure a g-force up-to 1.5g, which is good for general use and swaying, but not good if you want accurate tap or knock detection. For that you need a larger range accelerometer, like this one.
First connect your accelerometer to your BeagleBone Green, see photo below. The BeagleBone i2c Grove connector is connected to the i2c-2 bus.
Accelerometer connected to the on-board i2c Grove connector.
Communication is over the i2c bus, the Grove connectors make it seamless to connect to the BeagleBone Green. This accelerometer contains a Freescale Semiconductor MMA7660FC chip.
This will take a minute to download and install the accelerometer-mma7660fc library. It will create the node_modules folder (if not already there) and place the new library into that folder.
In Cloud9 click run (see green play icon) or use [ALT]+[F5]. This will run the code, it may take a few seconds to start. You should see a similar output as the following.
The Grove 3-Axis Digital Compass has 3 orthogonal magnetometers and can detect the Earth's magnetic field. Communication with this device is over the i2c bus. This compass contains a Honeywell HMC5883L chip.
Let's continue to build on top of the accelerometer and add the Grove Cape for BeagleBone Series and compass. You do not need the Grove Cape, but you can simply use the Grove i2c hub, it's a simpler and more elegant solution.
Push in the Grove Cape, this can take some force - but don't apply too much. Connect the compass to i2c-1 port of the Grove Cape. See photo below.
The compass (second from left) connected to the Grove Cape (i2c-1) connector.
This will take a minute to download and install the compass-hmc5883l library.
Run your code, you should see a similar output as the following. The values should change as you rotate the compass around the z-axis.
Next up we add the Grove 3-Axis Digital Gyroscope, it has 3 orthogonal gyroscopes. A gyroscope (gyro) measures rotational acceleration. So when the device is at rest, all gyros will report values around zero. This SparkFun gyro contains a InvenSense ITG-3200 chip. Again, like the accelerometer gyros are generally noisy, so you will see the values fluctuate.
Connect the gyro to i2c-2 port of the Grove Cape. See photo below.
The gyro (front left) connected to the remaining i2c (i2c-2) Grove Cape connector.
The output should look like something below. You also notice the"temp"value which is the temperature in degrees, however it is currently returning incorrect values due to a bug in the code - which has since been fixed.
Next up: Grove GPS. A simple GPS receiver with an aerial. I have found this device to be reliable (compared to another brand I tried) and reasonably quick at picking up GPS signals.
Connect the GPS to UART1 (J2) on the Grove Cape, see the photo below. To secure the aerial I just used tape (unlike in photo). You should see a the green PWR light come on. On BeagleBone Linux UART1 relates to the device driver /dev/ttyO1.
The GPS (front, second from left) is connected to UART1 on the Grove Cape.
Unlike the previous devices, this one does not use i2c, it uses the serial bus (UART). Since most GPS devices communicate over serial and speak NMEA (a GPS protocol), most GPS devices can use the same driver. However, I found the packages on npm did not suit my requirements so I created my own, it's called super-duper-serial-gps-system.
debugger listening onport15454enabled serial: /dev/ttyO1NoGPSsignal.NoGPSsignal.NoGPSsignal.NoGPSsignal.NoGPSsignal.
Next we connect the GPRS Modem, this allows you to use your local GSM (2G) cellular network to connect to the Internet, once you are wirelessly connected to the Internet anything is possible! You could also connect to the Internet using a USB WiFi dongle, but these use more power than and will drain your battery if you are going to be truly wireless.
GPRS Step 1: Connect the hardware.
GPRS Step 2: Configure the GPRS module for faster Internet.
GPRS Step 3: Configure the Internet connection using pppd.
GPRS Step 4: Connect to the Internet.
So I am using the GSM2 Click with a GSM antenna (MIKROE-275) on top of the MikroBus Cape. This device has the Quectel M95 FA GSM/GPRS module. Before you purchase it, make sure your cellular network provider supports the listed 2G frequencies. This device uses the serial port for communications, we will use UART2.
The GSM2 Click comes with the pins unsoldered, you need solder these on - see section 2 of the GSM2 Click user manual for instructions. Insert the activated SIM card (standard size) into the SIM card slot and lock the slot. Attach the GSM aerial. Insert the GPRS modem onto slot 1 of the MikroBus Cape. And finally push the MikroBus Cape firmly on top of the Grove Cape. When powered on, you should see the yellow STAT light on and the red NET light flash.
The Quectel M95 module has a lot of features. One of the features is that the M95 module should automatically detect the communication speed (baud rate - you can think of it as bits per second or bps) of the serial line. However, I found this is not the case - at least not for me. So we need manually set this and save it to the firmware. By default it behaves well at 9600 baud, but if you want faster Internet speeds then you will need to increase this value. The maximum speed is 115200 BAUD. If 9600 baud is good enough for you, then you can skip this section.
We need to install minicom to manually communicate over the serial line, configure the M95 and save the settings such that they are not lost on boot.
Now in the console type AT and hit the enter key. You should get an OK as the response, see image below. Congratulations! You are talking to the M95 GPRS modem.
The minicom console with AT and OK.
All modems have a series of AT commands, these AT commands tell the modem what to do, they typically give you a response. The M95 AT commands are well documented on the Quectel M95 product page, under downloads see the"Quectel_M95_AT_Commands_Manual_V3.2.pdf"document, a login is required but registration is free.
and the response is probably not shown or garbled. This because the speed of the UART2 communication has changed and minicom is still expecting 9600 baud.
To exit minicom: type [CTRL]+[A], [Z], [X].
and check all is working again by typing in AT, you should get OK as a response.
There are numerous other AT commands, these allow you to interact with the modem and determine things like the cellular signal strength, send/receive SMS, handle voice calls, etc. I won't discuss these here.
To make our device really awesome, it needs to connect to the Internet remotely. We have the hardware and configured the modem, but now we need the software to drive the modem and make an Internet connection. We will use the Point-To-Point Protocol (ppp) to make a connection to Internet, we will install pppd, configure it and run it. pppd is highly configurable and will handle cellular network authentication, re-connection in case of a lost connection, etc.
TIMEOUT60ABORTBUSYABORTVOICEABORT"ERROR"ABORT"NO CARRIER"ABORT"NO DIALTONE"ABORT"NO DIAL TONE"""ATZOKAT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","internet","0.0.0.0",0,0OK ATDT\TCONNECT""
IMPORTANT: the line with AT+CGDCONT contains the APN (access point name)(or"WAP connection string") which is specific for your cellular network provider. You may need to change the"internet"string.
Note: The above file is my actual provider file. Your provider may require different values, read the comments for an explanation.
Note: The /var/log/messages file is a log for all system activity, so you may see additional logs not related to pppd or chat.
Off: The module is not running.
Flash every 800ms: Not connected with network.
Flash every 2000ms: Connecting to the network.
Flash every 600ms: Connected to network.
In this section I will describe how to connect one servo and get it running. Getting more servos running is just as simple, you just need spare PWM GPIOs.
Servos use Pulse Width Module (PWM) to determine the angle at which it should be set to. Again we use octalbonescript to set the servo angles. I use a Futaba S3003 analogue servo. It can use 3.3V or 5V as the driving voltage, this can be driven by an external battery. The control line (white) is connected a BeagleBone PWM GPIO. I use P9_16 for one servo and P8_19 for the other (later in the documentation).
Below is a video showing the connected servo in action.
Video showing the servo in operation.
The final part to make your device truly wireless is a power source. The BeagleBone Green has 5V battery terminal pins (TP5-TP8) and there are a few places which document how to use these (Element14, RaspBX). There is also a battery cape.
But, I used the simplest option and that was to use a USB power bank (portable USB charger). This allows you to directly power the BeagleBone through the micro USB port.
This works for this project. However, if you are using different components or your servos are using a lot of power you may want to look at the alternate options. This would be using a 5V power source attached to the battery pins (TP5-TP8) and/or powering your servos from a different source.
In the steps above we have built all the necessary hardware and connected to the Internet. In this step we will set-up a solution to remotely control the servos and allow the device to send us status updates. This is the last step necessary to have a fully functional device. First I will explain the technology required to do this, then I will explain how to implement it.
Controller: This is a smart phone or tablet, when you tilt the Controller it will send commands to the the Controlled Device via the Proxy.
Controlled Device: This is our device we built, it connects to the Proxy and waits for commands from the Controller, while also sending status updates to the Controller.
Proxy: This forwards commands from the Controller to the Controlled Device, and vice-versa for status updates. The Proxy also creates a web-server that serves content, the Controller is just a simple web-page served by the Proxy.
An overview of the remote control solution.
Why can't we communicate directly between Controller and Controlled Device?We could if we were on the same internal network. But once you are remotely controlling devices over a GSM/Cellular network it is generally not possible to directly communicate with a device. For instance, you can't directly access your phone's IP address over the internet, there are a few reasons, one is security.
I have created an open source project, web-remote-control, that addresses this issue. It uses a lean communication protocol (based on UDP) to control the BeagleBone remotely.
First we will set up the Proxy server. If either the Controller or the Controlled Device is connecting over the cellular network then you need to setup a publicly accessible Proxy server (i.e. in the cloud), otherwise you can setup the server on your own PC, or even on the BeagleBone itself. For cloud servers I use AWS, but I recommend Heroku since it's learning curve is less steep. Both come with free tiers so you should not have to pay for this. Note: you need to make sure UDP port 33330 and TCP ports 8888, 33330 and 33331 are open.
Your proxy and web-server is up!
Where you need to enter the domain name or IP address of your server. This link on your tablet or mobile phone is your controller.
Now you will be able to go to the controller and control your device.
Reboot and your device should connect to the Proxy.
Great, if you've made it this far you have all the knowledge to put this together into one lean mean superhero. As in the demonstration video I have applied Remote Controlled BeagleBone device to a sail boat. But the other applications are endless.
I will be progressing the sailboat further. Follow the action on anemoi.nz. The idea is to create a fully autonomous sailboat, let me know if you are interested in contributing to the project which will be open source.
Let me know in the comments about your thoughts. If you have any questions I will be glad to answer them.


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Little Round Top, historically, was the most decisive and hardest-fought engagement of the battle. Your mission as the Union is to hold off the attacking Confederates as long as possible in the Devil's Den and in the Peach Orchard, while your reinforcements get situated on Little Round Top. Eventually, you are probably going to lose Devil's Den, so the question is how to make the Confederates pay the highest price for the ground traded. Here at Firaxis we like to shift Ward's brigade to the south, onto Big Round Top. This way, they can slow the Confederate progress on the trail that goes up the hill. Ward's infantry also takes less damage when protected by the woods and rocks. Move the artillery back to supporting positions on the hillocks, and make sure they don't get overrun after Ward's men are pushed back. After these guys are engaged, they should always be on "Fall Back", to avoid getting trampled by the large, experienced regiments of Law and Robertson. Once Vincent's brigade appears, immediately move him onto Little Round Top where he can dig in as Ward trades ground for time. Keep Ward's withdrawal orderly, as you'll want those guys later on in the scenario to plug gaps.
When playing as the Confederates, the trick is obviously to keep on plowing through the Union lines in the race for Little Round Top. If the Yankees try to hold Devil's Den, outflank them and set up a screening force while the rest of your army slips on by. It can be a slow and difficult process to advance up the Big Round Top, through all the woods and rocks, but it does give you covering fire from Union artillery and the advantage of stealth. If he moves onto the Round Top, exploit the gap created in his lines at the Devil's Den and push through on the other side. Once you get to Little Round Top, work your way around the flanks and hammer away. Keep a couple of regiments in reserve to deal with the small Union reinforcements (Cross and Kelly) that activate later on; also, if you can delay DeTrobriand with a few skirmishers, you'll have an easier time with Vincent.


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package com.gdm.aws;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.List;

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;

import com.amazonaws.regions.Region;
import com.amazonaws.regions.Regions;
import com.amazonaws.services.ec2.AmazonEC2;
import com.amazonaws.services.ec2.AmazonEC2Client;
import com.amazonaws.services.ec2.model.DescribeInstancesRequest;
import com.amazonaws.services.ec2.model.DescribeInstancesResult;
import com.amazonaws.services.ec2.model.IamInstanceProfileSpecification;
import com.amazonaws.services.ec2.model.Instance;
import com.amazonaws.services.ec2.model.Reservation;
import com.amazonaws.services.ec2.model.RunInstancesRequest;
import com.amazonaws.services.ec2.model.RunInstancesResult;
import com.amazonaws.services.identitymanagement.AmazonIdentityManagementClient;
import com.amazonaws.services.identitymanagement.model.AddRoleToInstanceProfileRequest;
import com.amazonaws.services.identitymanagement.model.AddRoleToInstanceProfileResult;
import com.amazonaws.services.identitymanagement.model.CreateInstanceProfileRequest;
import com.amazonaws.services.identitymanagement.model.CreateInstanceProfileResult;
import com.amazonaws.services.identitymanagement.model.GetInstanceProfileRequest;
import com.amazonaws.services.identitymanagement.model.InstanceProfile;
import com.amazonaws.services.identitymanagement.model.ListInstanceProfilesRequest;
import com.amazonaws.services.identitymanagement.model.ListInstanceProfilesResult;
import com.amazonaws.util.EC2MetadataUtils.IAMSecurityCredential;

public class EC2Sample {

	AmazonEC2 ec2;
	Region usWest2;

	public static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(EC2Demo.class);

	public static void main(String[] argas) throws IOException
	{

		EC2Sample s =  new EC2Sample();
		s.demo();

	}

	private void demo() {
		init();

		//createInstanceProfile();
		getAllInstanceProfiles();

		//createEC2instance();
		//getInstanceDetails();
	}

	private void getAllInstanceProfiles() {

		AmazonIdentityManagementClient iam = new AmazonIdentityManagementClient();
		ListInstanceProfilesResult listProfilesResult = iam.listInstanceProfiles();
		List<InstanceProfile> instanceProfiles = listProfilesResult.getInstanceProfiles();
		for(InstanceProfile instancep : instanceProfiles) {

			System.out.println("Instance Profile " + instancep.getInstanceProfileName());
			System.out.println("Instance ProfileId " + instancep.getInstanceProfileId());
			System.out.println("Instance Profile ARN " + instancep.getArn());

		}

	}

	private void createInstanceProfile() {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub

		AmazonIdentityManagementClient iam = new AmazonIdentityManagementClient();

		CreateInstanceProfileRequest createIPRequest = new CreateInstanceProfileRequest();
		createIPRequest.withInstanceProfileName("IPVersaDirectorRole");
		CreateInstanceProfileResult createIPResult = iam.createInstanceProfile(createIPRequest);
		createIPResult.getInstanceProfile().getInstanceProfileName();

		AddRoleToInstanceProfileRequest addRequest = new AddRoleToInstanceProfileRequest();
		addRequest.withRoleName("VersaDirectorRole");
		addRequest.withInstanceProfileName("IPVersaDirectorRole");
		AddRoleToInstanceProfileResult addResult = iam.addRoleToInstanceProfile(addRequest);

		GetInstanceProfileRequest instanceProfileRequest = new GetInstanceProfileRequest();
		instanceProfileRequest.setInstanceProfileName("IPVersaDirectorRole");
		InstanceProfile ip = iam.getInstanceProfile(instanceProfileRequest).getInstanceProfile();

		System.out.println("IP => " + ip.getInstanceProfileName());
		System.out.println("Role = " + ip.getRoles().get(0));

		ListInstanceProfilesResult listProfilesResult = iam.listInstanceProfiles();
		List<InstanceProfile> instanceProfiles = listProfilesResult.getInstanceProfiles();
		for(InstanceProfile instancep : instanceProfiles) {

			System.out.println("Instance Profile " + instancep.getInstanceProfileName());
			System.out.println("Instance ProfileId " + instancep.getInstanceProfileId());
			System.out.println("Instance Profile ARN " + instancep.getArn());

		}

	}

	private void createEC2instance() {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub

		IamInstanceProfileSpecification iamipspec = new IamInstanceProfileSpecification();
		iamipspec.setName("IPVersaDirectorRole");

		// CREATE EC2 INSTANCE
		RunInstancesRequest runInstancesRequest = new RunInstancesRequest()
		.withInstanceType("t2.micro")
		.withImageId("ami-a9d276c9")
		.withMinCount(1)
		.withMaxCount(1)
		.withKeyName("gdmuraliawsversadev")
		.withIamInstanceProfile(iamipspec);

		RunInstancesResult runInstances = ec2.runInstances(runInstancesRequest);
		logger.info("EC2Sample :->  " + runInstances.toString() );

		List<Instance> instances = runInstances.getReservation().getInstances();

		for ( Instance instance : instances) {

			logger.info("Instance ID: " + instance.getInstanceId());
			logger.info("Image ID: " + instance.getImageId());
			logger.info("Instance State: " + instance.getState().getName());
			logger.info("SubnetID: " + instance.getSubnetId());
			logger.info("Private Address: " + instance.getPrivateIpAddress());

		}

	}

	private void init() {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub
		ec2 = new AmazonEC2Client();
		usWest2 = Region.getRegion(Regions.US_WEST_2);
		ec2.setRegion(usWest2);
	}

	private void getInstanceDetails() {

		DescribeInstancesRequest describeInstRequest = new DescribeInstancesRequest();
		Collection<String> instanceids = new ArrayList<String>();
		instanceids.add("i-0a2fae9e7f3e6a9ae");   // comment this line if you want to get all instances
		// You can add filter to above if needed
		describeInstRequest.withInstanceIds(instanceids);

		DescribeInstancesResult describeinstancesresult = ec2.describeInstances(describeInstRequest);
		List<Reservation>  reservatons = describeinstancesresult.getReservations();

		for (Reservation reservation : reservatons) {

			List<Instance> instances = reservation.getInstances();

			for ( Instance instance : instances) {

				logger.info("Tags : " + instance.getTags());
				logger.info("Instance ID: " + instance.getInstanceId());
				logger.info("Image ID: " + instance.getImageId());
				logger.info("Instance State: " + instance.getState().getName());
				logger.info("SubnetID: " + instance.getSubnetId());
				logger.info("Private Address: " + instance.getPrivateIpAddress());
				//logger.info("Private Address: " + instance.getA);

			}
		}

	}

}

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48 Hours Mystery: A Time to Kill
A mother vanishes from her Upstate N.Y. home the day after 9/11; Was it the perfect time for a crime?
This story originally aired Nov. 10, 2007.
Tioga County in upstate New York is the kind of place where people go to escape the problems of the big cities.
So when 35-year-old Michele Harris disappeared, it mystified State Police Captain Mark Lester.
"A murder in Tioga County, it's a pretty rare occurrence… For an actual person to go missing and not be able to find 'em is extremely rare," he said. "And normally, you would expect at some point along this way we're gonna find her … And we still haven't been able to find her remains."
In the early morning hours of Sept. 12, 2001, Michele's van was found at the end of her driveway.
"There was a gut feeling I think right from the get-go that something was wrong," Lester told "48 Hours Mystery" correspondent Erin Moriarty.
Lester said getting a search under way wouldn't be easy. "It's the day after 9/11. We had just sent 500 or 600 troopers to New York City the night before. Most of our canines had been sent to New York City. Most of our aircraft was working with New York City. So, trying to gear this thing up quickly wasn't happening as easy as it normally would."
Adding to the pressure was that Michele was the wife of Cal Harris, a prominent businessman from a wealthy and influential Tioga County family. The patriarch, Dwight Harris, bought a string of car dealerships for his three sons to help him run.
Michele, fresh out of college, was working as a secretary at one of the dealerships when she caught the eye of Dwight's youngest son, Cal.
"Michele was just like a magnet. She was beautiful. She was full of life. And she smiled all the time. And she was a happy person. And she was young - I think that that was something that thoroughly attracted Cal," recalled Barbara Thayer, Cal and Michele's nanny and housekeeper.
Cal was a catch - an outstanding athlete in high school, an All-American lacrosse player in college, and by the age of 27, a successful businessman.
Michele, the older of two children from a working class family, had never met anyone like Cal.
Thayer likened it to a "Cinderella story." "Michele came from a small town, not a wealthy family or anything like that. And then here's this man that kinda sweeps ya off your feet. And you know, you travel and you go to Europe and you go to Hawaii and you do fun things. Life could be pretty rosy, you know?"
It was a fairytale romance, and no one was happier than Michele when she married Cal and became pregnant.
By the time she was 33, Michele had four children under the age of 6.
Cal provided well for his family; the couple lived on a 252-acre estate, complete with a private lake.
Cindy and Tom Turner spent most weekends with the couple.
"You could tell they loved each other very much," Tom Turner said. "I mean, they always wanted to be around each other. Always."
If there were any marital problems, Michele kept them hidden from friends and family, including sister-in-law Shannon Taylor.
"It wasn't anything I ever saw. I really didn't know," she said. "I thought that her life was absolutely perfect. You never saw her when she wasn't smiling or laughing."
That is, until Michele's fourth child was born. That's when Taylor would learn life at the Harris house was no longer quite so perfect.
Michele began talking about Cal's temper and his controlling behavior.
"Everything just had to be absolutely perfect," Taylor explained.
Asked what would happen if things weren't perfect, Taylor told Moriarty, "He'd scream. He'd yell."
"He wanted her thin. He wanted her to look good," Cindy Turner said. "And she would lose weight for him."
But Michele told friends nothing she did seemed to please Cal.
"Cal had told her that she was born in Tioga Center, raised in Tioga Center, and she'd die in Tioga Center. Like, 'You're small town. You're beneath me. You're never going to be up to my level,'" Thayer said.
Then Michele discovered Cal was having an affair.
Cal and Michele tried to save the marriage, but in January 2001, after 10 years, Michele filed for divorce.
According to Shannon and Michele's brother, Greg Taylor, Cal did not want the divorce. Greg said it was a bitter split as Michele fought with Cal over money - demanding a full accounting of his businesses.
"There's no way that he was gonna let Michele take his family money. There was no way that was gonna happen," Thayer explained.
The situation was made even worse because the couple was forced by the courts to continue sharing the house.
But on Sept. 9, 2001, while horseback riding, Thayer remembered Michele seemed happier. "We were coming back down towards the barn and she said, 'I'm so happy. I can't believe it.' She says, 'I am finally getting my life back. I can't believe how I feel.'"
Michele hadn't told her husband yet, but she had decided to accept Cal's financial offer and finalize the divorce.
Then, three days later, just hours before she was supposed to meet her lawyer, Michele Harris disappeared.


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The Pub Curmudgeon - Hard cases make bad law
Thread: The Pub Curmudgeon - Hard cases make bad law
My attention was recently drawn to this particularly harrowing account of the experience of alcoholics in thrall to high-strength ciders and super lagers. Not content with the usual proposal of rationing these products by price, the author decides to go one step further.
There is a more radical solution than trying to increase the price of high strength ciders and lagers and that is to stop producing them altogether. Far from it being a pipedream divorced from financially driven realities, this has happened. One of the most well-known, indeed notorious white ciders was White Lightning, often referred to by those who had experienced its special hallucinatory qualities as 'white frightening'. Over a decade ago we hosted a visit to one of hostels for senior executives of Heineken which produced White Lightning. Not long after the visit the company reduced the strength of White Lightning and then a few months later stopped producing it altogether. It was a brave move, made without fanfare, for which I remain supremely grateful.
There is a precedent, therefore, that other companies can follow and in doing so lives can be saved. How can it possibly be justifiable to continue producing cheap, high strength ciders and lagers for a market dominated almost exclusively by those with the most severe alcohol dependency problems when it is predicted by health experts that almost 63,000 people in England will die over the next five years from liver problems linked to heavy drinking?
What he's talking about is not so much banning them outright, but shaming companies into ceasing to produce them. No doubt Heineken, owners of Bulmers, felt that White Lightning was a product that only made up a tiny proportion of their overall sales, and did their public image no good. However, it doesn't look as though Aston Manor, producers of the similar Frosty Jack's, have similar scruples, and I haven't noticed Carlsberg Special and Tennent's Super, both made by multinational brewers, disappearing off the shelves.
If you do actually want to ban something by law, you have to have a watertight definition, which wouldn't be anywhere near as easy as people might think. Of course it would be straightforward simply to ban the sale of any beers or ciders above a set alcohol level, which some councils have attempted to do at a local level, but it would seem disproportionate to deprive the general public of the pleasures of Duvel and Old Tom. One solution, of course, would be one I have suggested before, but I suspect the Parliamentary draughtsmen would struggle with that:
Maybe we need to abandon all attempts to be logical and just ask a panel including Pete Brown and Jancis Robinson to make subjective judgments as to what is for the discerning drinker and what for the antisocial pisshead.
In fact, the dividing line between "bad" and "good" is far less straightforward than might be imagined. At the upper end of the premium bottled ale and cider sectors there are several products which, with multibuy offers, can be obtained for around 40p a unit, and whose alcoholic strength must be at least a partial factor in motivating people to buy them in preference to weaker brands. And, even in the "craft" segment, nobody can tell me that the kick given by a 10.5% barrel-aged Imperial stout isn't part of the reason for choosing it. Indeed, there have been cases where people have over time happily described their craft beer consumption on social media but in effect admitted to being not far off functioning alcoholics.
While clearly high-strength lagers and ciders do have a particular appeal to problem drinkers, they also have a strong following amongst more normal consumers of alcohol who just happen to prefer a trade-off between strength and volume a bit higher up the scale. It is less the case now but, in the past, bottled Carlsberg Special was often viewed as a premium product in the same bracket as Holsten Pils. I remember one couple who used to come into a pub I frequent, where the husband drank pints of bitter and his wife half-pint bottles of Carlsberg.
Their appeal is often not simply low price, but the fact that they provide a relatively easy means of consuming a lot of alcohol. In fact, particularly in the case of super lagers, they're often not particularly cheap anyway. At the widely-suggested 50p per unit minimum price, a 4x440ml pack of Carlsberg Special at 8% ABV would cost £7.04, which is pretty much what it sells for in my local Tesco. The real bangs-per-buck bargains are to be found lower down the scale in multipacks of Carling and Fosters, which sometimes sell for as little as 50p per can, or 28.4p per unit. But drinking a lot of Carling is much more like hard work.
This indicates that minimum pricing would be a pretty ineffective tool to address consumption of these products, and to have much impact would have to be set at a level that would cause serious pain to the generality of alcohol purchasers. Plus, of course, the higher it was set, the more the problem would be with bootlegging and illegal distilling. As the political philosopher John Stuart Mill said,
Every increase of cost is a prohibition, to those whose means do not come up to the augmented price...
...To tax stimulants for the sole purpose of making them more difficult to be obtained is a measure differing only in degree from their entire prohibition, and would be justifiable only if that were justifiable.
There were alcoholics before these products had ever been invented, and even if they could be made to magically disappear, alcoholics would simply find something else to drink. Of course alcoholism is a serious issue that shouldn't be swept under the carpet. But surely it should be addressed by targeted measures rather than adopting a broad-brush, whole-population approach that brings large numbers of people into the net who aren't in any sense problem drinkers.
The Pub Curmudgeon - Make your minds up!
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Hepatozoon es un género de protistas causantes de la hepatozoonosis canina, una enfermedad parasitaria sistémica que afecta a perros. H. canis, una de las especies implicadas, es transmitida por la ingestión de garrapatas portadoras de la especie Rhipicephalus sanguineus que ocasionan una reacción de inmunodepresión que favorece la aparición de enfermedades secundarias. Otra especie del género es H. muris, que afecta a las ratas de laboratorio.

Las lesiones se originan después de la reproducción intestinal del parásito y su difusión vía linfática o hemática al bazo, ganglios linfáticos, médula ósea, pulmones, hígado o músculos, donde continúa su desarrollo.

Según estudios experimentales se necesitan de tres meses para la aparición de formas merónticas en sangre periférica, de donde es ingerido por la garrapata cerrándose el ciclo. No existe un tratamiento eficaz para eliminar al parásito. Se han utilizado al dipropionato de imidocarb y la doxiciclina, un antibiótico del grupo de las tetraciclinas, sin conseguir eliminarlo, por lo que la única manera de evitar la enfermedad es la prevención del contacto entre garrapatas y el perro. El tratamiento con toltrazuril se está investigando en pacientes con hepatozoonosis canina, junto con la aplicación de dipropionato de imidocarb. No existe todavía un fármaco específico para este tipo de patología.

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This might well be the most stylish film I've ever seen.
I loved the ships, the archers and the uniforms.
I'm a sucker for battle scenes in slow-mo.
I wanna see Xerxes leading this year's Pride parade on that golden float.
I was so transfixed by the visuals that I didn't care about the video game-esque flimsy plot, the anti-Persian propaganda, or the fact that some might mistake the story to be historically accurate: I loved 300 for its beauty.
And that's precisely why I love the film so much myself: it's visually stunning. Glad to know I wasn't the only one who thought so.
i am right there with you. it is a visually arresting, beautiful film. i've never seen anything like it. for all its flaws, it certainly achieves its unique vision in spades.
the battle scenes were incredible, with long (duration-wise) shots of complex choreography. how much was actually executed and how much was digitally assembled, doesn't matter to me-- just the flow of the motions of one into the other as the enemies were being cut down was a visceral joy to watch.


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Q: Images not showing in Magento Website I am new to coding and I am having issues with my sister's website. I have uploaded a 'add to bag' and 'wishlist' button to the products page http://v4vintage.com/magento/index.php/vintage-jewellery/bracelets-bangles/1970s-abstract-green-quartz-bracelet.html and it is not showing in Firefox and corrupted in other browsers. Why is wrong with my coding?

A: The problem lies in your image and not in your 'coding' (CSS or HTML). The image is corrupted already when you export it: http://v4vintage.com/magento/skin/frontend/vintage/default/images/wishlist.gif.
You should export it as PNG if you want to use it as a background in your button and it should work fine.

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The newcomer pay-tv, Aora TV, just claims exclusive deal with ESPN StarSport to become Official TV Station for English Premier League 2008/2009 season for Indonesia region.
If you are subscribing to Astro TV, then your option is to throw away your satellite dish and subscription, and have to switch to Aora TV station to watch world most competitive football matches: English Premier League or Sepakbola Liga Inggris as we call.
Subscription fee is Rp. 785.000 for 5 month subscription. It is expensive comparing to First Media or Indovision if you check their channel list. Aora TV has only 7 International Channels as per my writing!
Hey, see these cutes figures in Google Doodle image today. They are Beijing 2008 Olympic Mascott.


A new image database, Art Photo Index, was launched earlier this year created by Rixon Reed, Founder and Director of photo-eye Galleries and Bookstore. Art Photo Index (API) promises to make it easier to search and browse work by fine art and documentary photographers from around the world. Based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, photo-eye's Gallery and Bookstore are filled with exquisite limited edition books, portfolios and exhibitions of contemporary photography. I stopped by to talk with Reed about API during one of Santa Fe's heavy snowstorms.


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Manchester Primary School wins award!
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Congratulations to St Mary's Church of England Primary School in Moss Side, Manchester who have won the TES Award for 'School of the Year' for Community and Enterprise. This is a national award and they have been recognised as the best school in this nation for this category.
Judges said the school 'has shown a real and genuine engagement with the community, with a particularly excellent focus on mothers and daughters, all underpinned by commitment, intelligence and a sound theoretical base'.
Various projects have been initiated by the school including a weekly group for women focused on parenting skills and educational achievement and volunteer roles that can help parents into education and employment. Parents and pupils also joined forces in a community arts project to form a collection of books, folders on display at the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester.
Head teacher Jenny McGarry said: "We try very hard to make sure that parents are as valued as the pupils because we recognise that working together will achieve the best outcomes for children."
Councillor Afzal Khan, Executive Member for Children's Services at Manchester City Council said: "It shows how blending home, community and school life achieves great results for children and helps parents into work."
The school received their award on Friday July 5 at a ceremony in London at the TES Schools Awards, presented at Park Plaza in front of an audience of over 700 people. The awards aim to showcase the best of the best in UK education. We feel particularly proud as St Marys was one of the first schools we worked in back in the early 2000's delivering our healthy eating drama workshops, so it's great to see the school being recognised for doing such fantastic work in our local community!
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Pubdate: Sun, 24 Dec 2006
Source: Sunday Times - Ireland (UK)
Copyright: 2006 Times Newspapers Ltd.
Contact:  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/3930
Author: John Mooney
'UNDERSTAFFED' GARDAI LOSING THE BATTLE AGAINST  DRUGS
THE number of gardai assigned to combat drug dealing and smuggling is
fewer than 340, according to a confidential security memo seen by The
Sunday Times.  It indicates that almost every drugs unit in Ireland is
underresourced, contradicting claims by Michael McDowell, the justice
minister, that gardai have more resources than ever.
The Garda National Drugs Unit -- an elite squad -- has fewer than 50
staff, including administration, split between four shifts. Other
national units, including Special Branch and the National Bureau of
Criminal Investigation, have in excess of 100 officers each.
Senior gardai have confirmed that there is no drugs unit in Co Mayo,
although they say they are considering setting one up. In Limerick,
where drug dealing has led to a surge in gang violence, there are just
nine gardai assigned to the divisional drugs squad.
In the Carlow/Kildare division,fewer than seven gardai are attached to
the drugs squad, although heroin has become a problem in the region.
In Clare, there are just four.
Other areas where gardai appeared to be underdeployed include west
Cork, also with four officers. The region is used as a base by some of
the biggest drug traffickers in Europe, and west Cork has long been
regarded as a gateway.
In Donegal, there are nine gardai attached to a drugs unit while the
divisional area with the lowest number of officers is Roscommon/Galway
East with two.
While gardai will not publicly criticise force management, privately
they say the resources allocated to combat drug dealing are "farcical".
"They are not paying enough attention to the drugs problem," one garda
said. "Heroin use is spreading so fast and it's not even being
recognised as a problem. It is now available in every county and
management is not taking much notice of it."
A Limerick garda said: "There is a colossal drugs problem in the city
and it is fuelling gun violence and gang feuds. The drugs unit here
has just nine officers between day and night shifts. They are not even
impacting on the problem, which is now so ingrained in some
communities we will never get it out."
Resources available to drug units across Dublin city have also
dwindled, partly due to restructuring and personnel being redeployed.
Some of the Garda National Drugs Unit's resources have been diverted
to other units. There are now fewer than 140 gardai permanently tasked
with combating drug traffickers in the Dublin region, which has a
population of more than 1m.
"Many of these officers are routinely diverted to assist other units,"
said a senior garda source in the city. "Officers with specialist
knowledge of the drugs scene are routinely used to investigate other
crimes.
"No one can honestly say the drug units are staffed adequately --
they're not."
In the late 1980s, heroin use was restricted to a small number of
inner-city areas in Dublin. Now it is a problem in Donegal, Meath,
Westmeath, Limerick, Cork and Galway. The cocaine market in Ireland is
worth an estimated =80210m and has increased almost tenfold in just four
years. Last year 300kg (660lb) of the drug were seized by customs
officers and members of the NDU. The haul was worth =8021m, or =8070,000
per kilogram, and is estimated to be just one-tenth of the amount
coming into the country.
The 2001 National Drugs Strategy (NDS), which says drug dealers must
be continually targeted, recommends four approaches: supply reduction,
prevention, treatment and research. The gardai, as well as the Customs
and Excise service, were given the first task, to halt supply.
"The garda are not living up to their commitments under the NDS," an
officer said. "They are responsible for supply reduction, yet there
has been no increase in resources to units."
McDowell has said that Noel Conroy, the garda commissioner, has access
to sufficient resources. The Department of Justice said the deployment
of gardai was a matter for Conroy, but their belief was that all units
within the force were adequately staffed.
It is understood that McDowell offered more resources to Conroy at a
meeting in Government Buildings last Monday but the offer was again
declined.
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Medical Historical Library, Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library
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Oral History of American Music
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Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library X
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Ezra Pound Papers
Call Number: YCAL MSS 43
Overview: The Ezra Pound Papers document the literary career and political interests of Ezra Pound. Major correspondents include Richard Aldington, George Antheil, William Bird, T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, James Laughlin, Wyndham Lewis, Marianne Moore, Odon Por, and Henry Swabey. The collection contains manuscripts of many of Pound's works, including the Cantos, Guide to Kulchur, and scripts of Pound's wartime radio broadcasts.
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Thornton Wilder papers
Call Number: YCAL MSS 108
Overview: The collection consists chiefly of correspondence with family, friends, and literary colleagues; and writings, accompanied by related material. There are smaller amounts of personal papers, printed material, photographs, memorabilia, and audio recordings. The material documents Wilder's life and work, in particular his career as a successful novelist and playwright.Series I, Correspondence, consists of four subseries: Family Correspondence; General Correspondence; First Name Only and...
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Corona: Using magnetic tweezers to track down new antiviral drugs against Covid-19
How can SARS-CoV-2 be stopped? David Dulin and his team at the Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin in Erlangen have investigated how the virus multiplies its genome and how to impair this process at the molecular level using different active substances.
Illustration: MPZPM / Susanne Viezens
Pathogens like SARS-CoV-2 use the human cell as a factory by taking control over it and repurposing its resources to fabricate new viruses. During this process, the virus must synthesize many copies of its genome by assembling the letters of the genetic alphabet A, C, G and U - the natural nucleotides - in a specific order to form a long strand of RNA, the viral blueprint.
Because this synthesis is key to the reproduction of the virus, researchers are developing drugs to impair this process. These small molecules resemble the natural nucleotides, and are therefore called nucleotide analogues. Upon incorporation, such an agent induces either a transient or a full arrest of the RNA polymerase, the nanoscopic machine in charge of the viral genome synthesis. A well-known member of this family of drugs is remdesivir, which has been approved by the regulatory authorities of several countries for the treatment of Covid-19.
In order to rationally design nucleotide analogues, their mode of selection and incorporation in the growing RNA must be understood. To this end, a team of biophysicists led by David Dulin from VU Amsterdam, the Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin and the Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg developed a new method – based upon high-throughput magnetic tweezers – to follow single SARS-CoV-2 RNA polymerase with great precision to reveal its nucleotide addition cycle. They show that this RNA polymerase utilizes three different pathways to incorporate natural nucleotides and modulates the polymerase fidelity and viral evolution. "We now understand how the coronavirus polymerase selects and incorporates nucleotides to multiply the SARS-CoV-2 genome", says David Dulin. They recently published these results in Cell Reports.
What defines a potent nucleotide analogue is how well it is incorporated by the RNA polymerase in competition against natural nucleotides. Therefore, what is the role of the three different pathways during nucleotide analog selection and incorporation? Their research has revealed that the nature of the chemical modification in the nucleotide analog defines the pathway by which it is incorporated the growing RNA. Because these pathways have different likelihood, this defines the nucleotide analog incorporation efficiency, and therefore the antiviral efficacy. "Developing new molecules binding to the RNA polymerase to increase the proportion of a given pathway is a potential route to improve nucleotide analogue therapeutic efficacy", says one of the co-authorsm, Martin Depken of the TU Delft.
These results obtained by the group of David Dulin are now published in a second article in the journal eLife. "It will take some time, possibly years, for these observations to yield a therapeutic to treat Covid-19", explains one of the co-authors Craig Cameron, a virologist at UNC Chapel Hill, and continues: "So far, we have only repurposed antiviral drugs against other viruses. We simply have no understanding of what makes a given nucleotide analogue a good substrate for the coronavirus polymerase. We now need to rationally design the next generation of nucleotide analogues". The work of David Dulin is a step towards this goal.
Original publications:
"The nucleotide addition cycle of the SARS-CoV-2 polymerase", Cell Reports, doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109650
"Inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 polymerase by nucleotide analogs from a single-molecule perspective", eLife, doi.org/10.7554/eLife.70968
David.Dulin@uk-erlangen.de


Cut the tempeh into cubes, the chilies into strips and the shallots finely. Heat in a pan the water and add the shallots, chilies, the jahe and the salam and cook for 3 minutes. Add the tempeh, salt and palm sugar and cook until tender.