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By Michael Gerson
Michael Gerson
Opinions columnist, 2007-2022
Watching the excellent documentary "Ebola in America: Epidemic of Fear" is to relive the confusion and controversies of the summer of 2014: the initial public health mistakes, the divided and unclear responsibilities, the hysterical coverage on cable TV. But it is the political role played by Republicans and conservatives that stands out, and not in a good way.
At every stage, elements of the right made a reasonable, science-based response to Ebola more difficult. Against the advice of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie quarantined a nurse returning from West Africa who had tested negative for the disease. Some conservative media outlets spread false information about the disease to exaggerate an impression of public health incompetence.
But it was Donald Trump who led the opposition. He tweeted: "The U.S. must immediately stop all flights from EBOLA infected countries or the plague will start and spread inside our 'borders.' Act fast!" And: "Ebola is much easier to transmit than the CDC and government representatives are admitting."
Health officials were not lying. Travel to and from West Africa was essential for medical personnel and aid workers to defeat the disease at its point of origin. Trump's ban would have made Ebola materially more likely to spread beyond control.
President Obama recognized the work and leadership of U.S. health-care workers in their response to the Ebola threat at the White House on Wednesday. (Ashleigh Joplin/AP)
What kind of politics is ascendant in the United States? A distrust of institutions that borders on conspiratorial. Here is Trump again: "Healthy young child goes to doctor, gets pumped with massive shot of many vaccines, doesn't feel good and changes — AUTISM." And: "I am being proven right about massive vaccinations — the doctors lied." And: "So many people who have children with autism have thanked me — amazing response. They know far better than fudged up reports!"
Lying doctors. Fudged reports. It would all be disturbing — if it were not conspiratorial nonsense. No connection has ever been demonstrated between vaccinations and autism. And this particular nonsense is potentially deadly. Trump is undermining a consensus for vaccination that builds up "herd immunity" and saves the lives of children.
Who else is plotting against us — I mean, other than public health officials and your local pediatrician? Well, the Mexican government, because "they send the bad ones over because they don't want to pay for them." And how does Trump know the "cunning" Mexicans are purposely exporting criminals? Because some unspecified "Border Patrol people" told him.
Even more disturbingly, there are the "thousands and thousands" of Muslims in New Jersey who Trump claims celebrated the Twin Towers collapsing. For proof of this, he linked to an article at the Infowars website, run by Alex Jones, who has famously argued that the U.S. government was behind the 9/11 attacks. Trump has pledged that, if he is elected, "you will find out who really knocked down the World Trade Center."
And then there are the black criminals who are responsible, according to a Trump retweet, for 81 percent of homicides against whites. Except that this turned out to be a racist myth from a white supremacist source.
And then there is the death of justice Antonin Scalia. "They say they found a pillow on his face," responded Trump, "which is a pretty unusual place to find a pillow."
Republican presidential candidates Ben Carson, Donald Trump and Rand Paul responded to a question about vaccines and autism at the GOP debate. (CNN)
Does Trump really believe that liberals may have ordered a hit on a Supreme Court justice? Who knows? We do know he finds such ideas useful. Trump emerged in conservative circles by questioning Barack Obama's citizenship, and thus the legality of his presidency. This required the existence of a conspiracy to hide the circumstances of Obama's birth. "They cannot believe what they're finding," he said of "people that have been studying it." Having actually discovered nothing, Trump doubled down on a deception.
As a leader, Trump has succeeded by appealing to stereotypes and ugly hatreds that most American leaders have struggled to repress and contain. His political universe consists of deceptive experts, of scheming, of criminal Mexicans, of lying politicians and bureaucrats and of disloyal Muslims. Asked to repudiate David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan, Trump hesitated, later claiming a "bad earpiece." Asked to repudiate the vicious anti-Semitism of some of his followers, Trump responded, "I don't have a message to the fans." Wouldn't want to offend "the fans."
This is not flirting with the fringes; it is French-kissing them. Every Republican official endorsing Trump should know: This is the company he keeps. This is the company you now keep.
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San Francisco and Oakland: San Francisco County, California and Alameda County, California: United States
Metal Deck Truss Stiffening Wire Cable Suspension, Fixed	and Approach Spans: Metal Cantilever Rivet-Connected Modified Warren Through Truss, Fixed
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1936 By Builder/Contractor: American Bridge Company of New York, New York	and Engineer/Design: Charles Henry Purcell, Charles E. Andrew, and Glen Woodruff
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2310 Feet (704.09 Meters)
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22655 Feet (6905.24 Meters)
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Introduction To The San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge
Excerpts From Historic American Engineering Record
The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is one of the most impressive engineering structures in the United States. The bridge has been recognized by the American Society of Civil Engineers as a nationally significant structure from the standpoint of engineering as well as its importance in the transportation history of California and the nation. The Bay Bridge was the longest bridge in the world at the time it was built. It is also among the world's most complex bridges in that it incorporates a variety of different bridge types connected to form a single structure carrying two levels of traffic between San Francisco and Oakland, California. People may disagree as to whether the Bay Bridge is more important for its engineering, its role in transportation history or for its importance in the politics of the area. The structure is highly significant in all of these different ways.
Completed one year before the Golden Gate Bridge, The San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge, locally known as simply the Bay Bridge, is actually a complex system of unique and independent structures, with the largest features including suspension spans crossing the portion of the bay west of Yerba Buena Island, a tunnel on Yerba Buena Island, and cantilever truss spans east of Yerba Buena Island.
The Historic American Engineering Record found that the Bay Bridge transcended the world of bridges, instead describing it not only as one of the most important bridges in the country, but indeed one of the most impressive and significant structures of any kind in the entire country. No other bridge has been documented so extensively and completely by the HAER program, with the documentation containing over 400 photos, 20 drawings, and 273 data pages composing a written narrative that is essentially a full-size book on the history and design of the bridge. Those interested in a detailed history of this bridge are encouraged to view their documentation.
Unlike many large bridges built in the first half of the 20th Century, the lead design of this bridge was not undertaken by any of the well-known consulting engineers of the period, although some of these engineers did provide consultation and oversight. Instead, the bridge was essentially designed "in-house" by the State of California. The Chief Engineer for this bridge was Charles Henry Purcell. Charles E. Andrew acted as an assistant to Purcell. Andrew and Purcell relied heavily on Glenn Woodruff who acted as design engineer and was the only one of the three with substantial prior experience in large span bridge design. It is likely that a lot of the actual design work was done by Woodruff. As aforementioned, the bridge was essentially designed "in-house" however a Board of Consulting Engineers was appointed to provide oversight and input into the design process. One of the greatest bridge engineers of the 20th Century, Ralph Modjeski, was the chairman of the Board of Consulting Engineers. Leon Moisseiff another well-known bridge engineer, was also on the board. Numerous contractors were involved with various aspects of the construction of this bridge. Although other aspects of construction were equally or even more important, such as substructure construction, perhaps the most visible work, erection of the superstructure was erected by the American Bridge Company of New York, New York, which was also perhaps the most well-known and prolific of all involved contractors.
The exact configuration of this massive bridge has changed over the years due to various projects, particularly on the approaches to the bridge. Thus, exact bridge lengths and span numbers vary depending on the source consulted.
The bridge is an extremely wide bridge capable of carrying large volumes of traffic, and indeed it carries an enormous amount, with an Average Daily Traffic of 270,000. One of the uncommon features of the bridge that allows it to carry this amount of traffic is that it is a double-deck bridge. The upper level carries westbound traffic, while the the lower level carries eastbound traffic. Originally, the lower deck was divided and also was able to carry railroad traffic.
The bridge was too awesome of a bridge to lower itself to a mere ribbon cutting ceremony when it was opened to traffic. Instead, a golden chain was cut with an oxy-acetylene cutting torch to open the bridge at the San Francisco end of the bridge. A similar ceremony also took place at the Oakland end of the bridge.
An All American Bridge From 1936-2013. Half A Monument To China From 2014 Onward
California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), decided that the best way to deal with one of the most important historic bridges in the country was to demolish approximately half of the entire bridge (specifically the eastern bay spans) and replace them with mundane slabs of concrete held in place by a cable-stayed-like structure. This decision was made despite apparent alternatives that included rehabilitation and retrofit against seismic-related damage. The planned demolition of of half of the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge represents one of the greatest single losses of a historic resource in the modern history of the United States.
The original bridge was an all-American bridge... a structure built with American steel by the American Bridge Company. The replacement eastern bay spans in contrast are the pride of China. The United States apparently did not even have the ability to fabricate all the parts of the bridge. Many of the materials for this replacement bridge were outsourced to China. The replacement bridge will be a monument to the efforts and capability of China's work force and industry. It will also be a monument to how far the United States has sunk, a country no longer able to build a bridge over water that was bridged by American workers decades ago.
If the Western Spans and the Eastern Spans are considered two different bridges, their historic significance is nearly equal, each being an extremely significant bridge in its own right. However, together as a single bridge, they combine to form an even more significant bridge system. With the demolition of the eastern spans, the overall historic significance will be drastically reduced. The new bridge for the Eastern Spans will have no heritage value whatsoever, extremely limited (if any) aesthetic value, and it will bear no resemblance to the form and function of the historic spans. The Historic Significance Rating below reflects the significance of the bridge prior to the Eastern Spans demolition.
Details About The Western Spans (Suspension Spans)
Western Spans (Suspension Spans) Technical Facts
Rehabilitation Date Main Span Length Tower Length (From Water Level) Structure Length Main Spans
2003 2,310 Feet (704.1 Meters) 526 Feet (160 Meters) 9,620 Feet (2,932.2 Meters) 6
The Western Spans of the Bay Bridge are primarily composed of the six massive suspension spans of the Bay Bridge, stiffened by a riveted Warren truss system. Towers for the six suspension spans are composed of riveted steel, with an overall design that includes a massive lattice pattern of bracing between the tower posts.
From a historic and technological standpoint, the suspension spans are extremely unusual and technologically noteworthy because of their span configuration. Suspension bridges were generally designed for situations were the longest possible span over a massive feature was desired. As such, most suspension bridges have two towers that allow for a single massive central span between those two towers, just like the Golden Gate Bridge. However, the Western Spans contain four towers forming two central suspension spans and four arm suspension spans. In a sense, the bridge is like two traditionally composed suspension bridges lined up one right after the other. This configuration makes the Western Spans unique and distinctive, giving the bridge a strong sense of identity. The repeating, graceful curves of the suspension cables also give the bridge a high level of aesthetic value.
The Western Spans are the closest to busy San Francisco and they have traditionally been the most well-known and beloved by the general public due to the graceful appearance of the cables in the suspension bridge system as well as the impressive towers that hold those cables. The fact that they are closer to the metropolitan core city of San Francisco may have also added to their fame, since they are viewed by many tourists in the downtown area.
The Western Spans have been recently retrofitted and rehabilitated in conjunction with the project to demolish and replace the other half of the bridge. The retrofitting of the Western Spans of this bridge included the replacement of most of the v-lacing/lattice on the built-up beams composing the stiffening truss with perforated plate steel (the type commonly seen on 1950s and 1960s truss bridges). The HistoricBridges.org team has limited experience with the peculiarities of seismic retrofitting, but the question deserves to be asked if there might not have been another way to strengthen the stiffening truss beams without stripping the bridge of lattice and v-lacing, which are features that make the trusses more intricate and beautiful. In particular, it bears mentioning that the Golden Gate Bridge was retrofitted and rehabilitated without removing the extensive lattice and v-lacing present on its stiffening trusses.
Details About The Eastern Spans (Cantilever Truss Spans)
Eastern Spans (Cantilever Truss Spans) Technical Facts
Demolition Date (Expected) Central Cantilever Span Length Cantilever Anchor Arm Span Length Eastern Spans Total Structure Length Main Spans
2013 1,400 Feet (426.7 Meters) 580 Feet (176.7 Meters) 10,176 Feet (3101.6 Meters) 3
The Eastern Spans consist primarily of truss spans. The main feature is the enormous cantilever through truss structure which is an extremely important historic structure, and one of the most important examples of its type in the country. When it was built, it was the longest spanning and heaviest cantilever bridge in the United States. It remains among the longest spans ever built. Its overall composition is traditional in form, with two pointed towers, two anchor arm spans and a central span containing a suspended span. However there are some unique and distinctive details which the HAER documentation discusses.
There are also a series of through and deck truss spans on the Eastern Spans. The deck truss spans are Warren truss spans with riveted connections, while the through truss spans are modified (Baltimore style) Warren truss spans with riveted connections. The through truss spans are in fact individually historically significant on account of their length: each through truss span is 504 feet long, each containing 12 panels of 42 feet each. 504 feet is extremely long for a simple spanning, trapezoidal truss. Most through truss spans of this length, such as the 519 foot Brownsville Bridge (one of the largest truss spans in Pennsylvania) have a polygonal top chord, and as such are not trapezoidal trusses.
In the infamous 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake, a single deck section failed on the Eastern Spans when some bolts sheared, causing the deck segment to crash down onto the lower deck, which in turn failed as well. While it was a tragic event that had fatalities, and it did point to a need to retrofit the bridge, the description of the event is often incorrectly described. Uninformed media and other individuals often wrongly describe this event as a partial bridge collapse. It was actually a deck collapse (and only a single deck span), the actual bridge superstructure remained intact, unlike the horrific collapse of the Cypress Street Viaduct in that same earthquake, in which both substructure and superstructure failure occurred.
The preference of the general public for the visual appearance of the suspension structure of the Western Spans is reflective of a general public who has failed to truly take a look at the Eastern Spans and appreciate the beauty contained within their design. The Eastern Spans may not have graceful curves or looming towers of a suspension bridge, yet they offer a different type of aesthetic which is an intricate geometric art which is formed from the complex arrangement of the trusses in the bridge, complimented by the lattice and v-lacing present on the built-up beams of the bridge.
Eastern Spans (Cantilever Truss Bridge) Demolition Plans
The San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge does not apparently enjoy the protection and perpetual existence that the nearby Golden Gate Bridge seems to enjoy. Caltrans is currently building a replacement bridge for the Eastern Spans on a slightly new alignment. Following the completion of this new bridge, the entirety of the historic Eastern Spans will be demolished, resulting in the complete destruction of one half of a bridge that is one of the largest and most important bridges in the United States.
Cantilever truss bridges are one of the most threatened historic bridge types in the country. Since they are usually used on long crossings that are expensive to bridge, and as such only a limited number of long-span bridges being built, cantilever bridges tend to be regionally important crossings that carry much traffic, resulting in functional obsolescence and structural deficiencies. This fact has lead to widespread demolition of a population of bridges that was never very large to begin with. This enhanced by the United States' transportation funding system that tends to reward agencies who propose costly replacement projects rather then rehabilitation projects that often are actually less expensive when properly designed.
Could the Eastern Spans have been retrofitted and rehabilitated? It certainly seems so. Other old historic bridges both large and small from the 4th Street Bridge to the Golden Gate Bridge have been rehabilitated and retrofitted in the seismically active San Francisco Bay area. In particular, the nearby Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, which is also a cantilever truss span similar to the Eastern Spans of the Bay Bridge was successfully retrofitted. Also, although the Eastern Spans superstructure type is different, it is worth noting that the Western Spans were rehabilitated and retrofitted, again raising concerns that rehabilitation of the Eastern Spans might also have been feasible. Taylor Devices provided massive Seismic Dampers for the western spans. On the Taylor Devices website, it states that "You can now protect almost any new or existing structure against earthquakes, simply and inexpensively. Taylor Devices' Fluid Viscous Dampers provide complete protection for buildings, bridges, towers, elevated freeways; virtually any structure that is subject to earthquake damage. You can also protect sensitive equipment inside your building, like computers and generators. Taylor Dampers literally soak up the energy of earthquake induced motion, preventing structural damage. Compact, yet powerful, Taylor Fluid Viscous Dampers increase structural damping levels to as much as 50% of critical, the results being truly dramatic stress and deflection reduction." Perhaps similar dampers could have been installed on the eastern spans to make them safe against earthquakes.
Earthquakes do present a unique challenge with historic bridge preservation, as do bridges like the Bay Bridge which are busy and are critically essential components of a regional infrastructure. However if the engineers of the 21st Century, equipped with centuries of knowledge, as well as computers and other technology, have even a fraction of the creativity and ingenuity of the inventors and engineers of the 19th Century, then HistoricBridges.org is confident that a preservation solution for the Eastern Spans that was safe and fiscally reasonable could have and should have been developed. The solution might not have been a cookie cutter design, it probably would have required designing and trying some new approaches. Instead, a preservation solution would have continued the spirit of bold thinking that resulted in historic bridges like the Golden Gate Bridge and Bay Bridge in the first place. Even relocating and preserving a single through truss span appears to have been beyond the scope of consideration. By demolishing half of one of the largest, most complex, and historically significant manmade structures in the United States, built by Americans with American steel, with a bridge built from Chinese materials that cost more than any other bridge in California history and was fraught with construction and materials challenges, the loss and replacement of this bridge is a failure before the American people.
This demolition of the Eastern Spans will occur despite the fact that with the exception of a few deck truss spans which have already been demolished, the historic spans are not in the way of their replacement. However, possibilities for preserving either part or all the historic Eastern Spans next to the replacement bridge were not given serious consideration any more than possibilities for simply rehabilitating and retrofitting the historic spans for continued vehicular use. Even with a decision to build a new spans on a different alignment, some or all of the historic bridge could have been preserved as part of an adaptive reuse. In January 2010, a group came out with a very different and unique adaptive reuse of the historic Eastern Spans. This plan, as well as other plans for the reuse of bridge parts (such as displays in a park) either fell through or have been greatly reduced in scope. One group has formed however and seeks to salvage parts from the bridge to construction an eco-friendly housing and multi-use structure. Please view their website at baybridgehouse.org. HistoricBridges.org also wishes to thank David Grieshaber and Mike Koozmin of the BayBridgeHouse effort for sharing their high quality photos of the bridge taken as part of their development. Their photos, taken after the bridge was closed to traffic offer views from on the bridge and well as views from the walkway of the replacement bridge.
Eastern Spans (Cantilever Truss Bridge) Comments On Replacement Bridge
The replacement bridge type is as a self-anchored suspension bridge. Because of the self-anchored design, Caltrans thinks the bridge is something revolutionary and state of the art. However, a self-anchored suspension bridge presents nothing new or remarkable to the engineering world. After all, Pittsburgh has three self-anchored suspension bridges, which dating to the 1920s, are historic bridges and far more beautiful in appearance and more significant to the engineering world.
The new bridge has been touted by Caltrans as a "signature" span that has a high level of aesthetic value. While it may be true that the arrangement of the cables has a somewhat appealing expression of a modern architectural form, the overall aesthetics of the design is ruined by the use of massive amounts of plain concrete to form a relatively mundane deck. This extensive use of concrete (which is typical of most modern bridges) makes much of the bridge look like little more than a ugly concrete freeway viaduct. In addition, the modern appearance of the bridge will not fit with the historical appearance and design of the surrounding bridge structures, including the Golden Gate Bridge, the Western Spans, and even the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. As such, the bridge will look inappropriate and out of place. Finally, although the structure type of the new bridge is a suspension bridge, the single tower configuration coupled with a main cable that slopes down at a sharp angle to a massive concrete deck, in truth makes the bridge look like little more than a modern cable-stayed bridge. Cable-stayed bridges are rapidly becoming the most common structure type in the country for long-span bridges, as the wide variety of large span historic bridge types in the country are being demolished and replaced with these modern bridges. As such, the new Eastern Spans bridge will have a general appearance that will be vastly similar to the countless mundane cable-stayed bridges that are covering the face of this country.
It is worth noting that for a variety of reasons, the new bridge has been controversial, particularly during the period in which alternatives and design types were being considered. There was even an entire website created by concerned individuals. Issues includes rising costs of building the bridge, as well as concerns about the seismic safety of the bridge. The new bridge design has since been certified to be seismically safe, yet at the same time it is questionable how much more protection the bridge actually offers versus a well-planned rehabilitation and retrofit of the historic spans, especially when considering other retrofitted historic bridges such as the Golden Gate Bridge.
About This Bridge's Public Photograph Compilation (PPC)
In addition to photos taken by HistoricBridges.org, the photo galleries for this bridge include two Public Photograph Compilations (PPCs), which are composed from select photos from public repositories like Flickr, and organized and combined into the familiar HistoricBridges.org photo gallery format. The photos are legally offered by HistoricBridges.org under the terms of a Creative Commons license. As required under the license, HistoricBridges.org hereby states that none of the photographers endorse HistoricBridges.org and its ideas, nor are they affiliated with HistoricBridges.org in any way. Learn more about HistoricBridges.org's Public Photograph Compilations here.
Photo Galleries and Videos: San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge
West Spans Photo-Documentation
Original / Full Size Photos A collection of overview and detail photos. This gallery offers photos in the highest available resolution and file size in a touch-friendly popup viewer. Alternatively, Browse Without Using Viewer
East Spans Photo-Documentation
Post-Closure East Spans Overview Photos
Original / Full Size Photos Taken by David Grieshaber and Mike Koozmin after the bridge was closed to traffic, a collection of overview photos that show the bridge as a whole and general areas of the bridge. Photos taken from on the bridge and from the replacement bridge walkway. This gallery offers photos in the highest available resolution and file size in a touch-friendly popup viewer. Alternatively, Browse Without Using Viewer
Post-Closure East Spans Detail Photos
Original / Full Size Photos Taken by David Grieshaber and Mike Koozmin after the bridge was closed to traffic, a collection of detail photos that document the parts, construction, and condition of the bridge. Photos taken from on the bridge and from the replacement bridge walkway. This gallery offers photos in the highest available resolution and file size in a touch-friendly popup viewer. Alternatively, Browse Without Using Viewer
Upper Deck Drive: Sunny Day
Original / Full Size Photos A collection of photos taken with a wide angle GoPro camera showing the experiance of driving over the bridge. This gallery offers photos in the highest available resolution and file size in a touch-friendly popup viewer. Alternatively, Browse Without Using Viewer
Upper Deck Drive: Cloudy Day
Lower Deck Drive
Mobile Optimized Photos A collection of overview and detail photos. This gallery features data-friendly, fast-loading photos in a touch-friendly popup viewer. Alternatively, Browse Without Using Viewer
Mobile Optimized Photos Taken by David Grieshaber and Mike Koozmin after the bridge was closed to traffic, a collection of overview photos that show the bridge as a whole and general areas of the bridge. Photos taken from on the bridge and from the replacement bridge walkway. This gallery features data-friendly, fast-loading photos in a touch-friendly popup viewer. Alternatively, Browse Without Using Viewer
Mobile Optimized Photos Taken by David Grieshaber and Mike Koozmin after the bridge was closed to traffic, a collection of detail photos that document the parts, construction, and condition of the bridge. Photos taken from on the bridge and from the replacement bridge walkway. This gallery features data-friendly, fast-loading photos in a touch-friendly popup viewer. Alternatively, Browse Without Using Viewer
Mobile Optimized Photos A collection of photos taken with a wide angle GoPro camera showing the experiance of driving over the bridge. This gallery features data-friendly, fast-loading photos in a touch-friendly popup viewer. Alternatively, Browse Without Using Viewer
CarCam: Westbound Crossing
Full Motion Video Westbound traffic travels on the upper deck. Note: The downloadable high quality version of this video (available on the video page) is well worth the download since it offers excellent 1080 HD detail and is vastly more impressive than the compressed streaming video. Streaming video of the bridge. Also includes a higher quality downloadable video for greater clarity or offline viewing.
CarCam: Eastbound Crossing
Full Motion Video Eastbound traffic travels on the lower deck. Note: The downloadable high quality version of this video (available on the video page) is well worth the download since it offers excellent 1080 HD detail and is vastly more impressive than the compressed streaming video. Streaming video of the bridge. Also includes a higher quality downloadable video for greater clarity or offline viewing.
Light Show, Near Elevation
Full Motion Video At night, the western spans are lit up with a light show on the cables. Streaming video of the bridge. Also includes a higher quality downloadable video for greater clarity or offline viewing.
Light Show, Far Elevation
Light Show, View Beside Bridge
Original / Full Size Photos A collection of historical construction photos. This gallery offers photos in the highest available resolution and file size in a touch-friendly popup viewer. Alternatively, Browse Without Using Viewer
Mobile Optimized Photos A collection of historical construction photos. This gallery features data-friendly, fast-loading photos in a touch-friendly popup viewer. Alternatively, Browse Without Using Viewer
West Spans: Public Photograph Compilation (PPC)
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Il tempiale è un attrezzo usato nella tessitura per impedire il restringimento del tessuto durante la lavorazione.

Struttura
È una struttura dotata di dentini metallici alle estremità, realizzata in legno o metallo. Il tempiale tradizionale è costituito da una bacchetta che scorre in modo telescopico tra altre due, mantenute tutte parallele da fascette e dotate di fermi di bloccaggio per adeguare la lunghezza complessiva delle bacchette alla larghezza del tessuto. Nei telai meccanizzati il tempiale è un tubo di metallo fissato al telaio con due bracci muniti di testine dentate.

Funzionamento
Il tessuto durante la lavorazione tende a ritirarsi nel senso della trama, per l'assestamento del filo di trama, che quando viene inserito dalla navetta è rettilineo e quando viene battuto dal pettine va ad assestarsi tra i fili dell'ordito assumendo una forma serpeggiante, cosa che determina il suo accorciamento con il conseguente avvicinamento delle due cimosse della pezza. Il tempiale viene regolato con la larghezza nominale del tessuto e i suoi dentini vengono conficcati nelle cimosse, in questo modo le cimosse non possono avvicinarsi, il filo di trama viene forzato a assestarsi su quelli di ordito facendo una strada più lunga di quella che avrebbe fatto senza la presenza del tempiale. I forellini che si possono osservare sulla cimossa di molti tessuti sono stati lasciati dal tempiale.

Voci correlate
Glossario di tessitura

Tessitura

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Gender roles where we least expect them
Colette Holcomb | August 25, 2021
yli is My Story
"So, which is the mom and which is the dad?" my friend's dad inquires, peering eagerly at my brother and me like we were a rare specimen under a microscope rather than two elementary schoolers poking at meatloaf.
My brother and I look at each other and then back at the expecting eyes across the dinner table. I knew that, as his big sister, it was my responsibility to undertake this question even if I had no idea how to address it.
"Uh I don't know, they're both my dads," I answer, but I could tell my response was unsatisfactory.
At the core of his question, I understood he was trying to understand our family in the context of his own family and the familial roles he'd grown up with. Even in major cities, no matter where we lived we had always been the only family with same-sex parents, so I had always understood that we did not match the structure of my peer's heterosexual families. Yet, I had always viewed our families as being in completely separate categories from one another. I had never tried to define my family by the traditional structure the way he wanted me to and didn't feel that I could.
To me, it felt akin to asking me which chopstick is the spoon and which is the fork. At eight years old, I had no idea how to articulate the difference between our families the way I understood it. At the fear of being impolite, I analyzed the other families that I knew and what their moms and dads were like, attempting to understand how we fit into his terms. All I could conclude was that most of my friends' moms worked from home and were stay-at-home parents like Papa, while their dads usually worked in an office and traveled frequently like Dad.
"I guess my Papa is the mom?" I reluctantly add. My brother nods silently next to me, affirming this conclusion.
While this was the first time I got this question, it was certainly not the last. As I grew up, the natural contrast my family's structure provided against the typical gender and family roles pushed me to continue to question the nature, origin, and validity of these roles. In this exploration, I began to understand how, even in my "untraditional" family, gender roles were still at play, albeit in much subtler ways. Even though we are only 16 months apart, I have always had more responsibility at home, including the expectations that I undertake the role of a third parent to my brother and clean up after everyone.
Aside from how gender roles impacted my home life, it slowly became apparent how they bled into the classroom. Throughout my schooling, I became hyper-aware of my gender and how it contributed to how people perceived me. I often felt underestimated when it came to technological or mathematic projects and was frequently met with surprise from my male peers and teachers when I was able to accomplish them successfully.
In discussions, it was common – even considered the norm – that girls were interrupted or their points overlooked. It was during one of such discussions in my humanities class that I spoke up several times only to be continuously interrupted by different boys. In math class later that day, I shared my idea for our group problem set in my all-male group only to be shut down and then have one of the boys in my group regurgitate my exact words and be praised for his suggestion. The casualness of this blatant and continued disrespect over the course of the day drew this issue to my attention beyond the usual annoyance I felt in class. I wasn't angry at the boys who interrupted me, I was angry at myself: how could I call myself a feminist when I couldn't even speak up for myself in class?
Later that night when we were discussing police reform, my dad continuously interrupted me, too. It was then that I understood how my complacent nature had come to be. I had been conditioned to accept this treatment, to believe that my voice came second to every male voice in the room. Every time men at home talked over me or invalidated my arguments because of my gender, it mirrored each time a boy at school did. But I quickly realized that this conditioning wasn't only impacting me, it was also impacting the way my brother views women and his role in society.
As much as I tacitly recite feminist theory to him or push him to watch female-led movies with me, nothing will impact the way he views and treats women more than how he sees the men around him treat women – especially the men he respects. It was then that I decided to start addressing this issue within my own family first, and through that decision, I was able to begin taking a stand for myself in the classroom, too.
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Frances A. Guynes, age 70, passed away peacefully at home with her family on Wednesday, January 30, 2019.
She was a graduate of Brandywine High School and continued her education at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas.
Frances loved her family dearly and enjoyed vacations to the Caribbean, Disney and many other places with her family. During her retirement, she enjoyed fishing and crabbing at the Holly Lake Campground beach. When she had time, Frances loved to take road trips to the Outer Banks and NASCAR races. Of course, she was an avid Eagles fan.
Frances was involved in keeping in touch with Brandywine High School friends through reunions or luncheons. She always looked forward to the cousins' luncheon each month.
She is survived by her fiancé and best friend of 19 years, Tom Weiss, daughter Mary, son-in-law Brian and grandsons Matthew and Tyler. Frances was predeceased by her parents, Francis and Sabina Walls.
The family would like to send a special thanks to Compassionate Care Hospice for all their help and for their love and care.
Funeral services will be held at 11:00 am on Wednesday February 6, 2019 at CHANDLER FUNERAL HOME, 2506 Concord Pike, Wilmington where friends may call beginning at 10:00 am. Burial will follow in Silverbrook Cemetery.
I thank God for the gift of bringing Frani and I together in friendship and love since our high school days. I'll miss your kind spirit and our long talks. Rest in Peace my dear Frani Girl until we meet again and share many more great times, and laughs. I love you!
To our dear Franni girl. My your journey continue to be one of the way you lived, full of love, friendship and that lovely smile of yours. You brought so much joy to so many of us. RIP dear friend. Love and miss you.
Sweet Franni Girl: I will be forever grateful reconnecting with you at our BHS mini and cherish our many conversations! Thank you for your friendship. You will be missed!
Frani and I were best friends in elementary school and spent weekends either at my house or hers. We lost touch in jr high and got back together in high school. We lost touch again after graduation and thank her for making me attend the Brandywine reunions. Each time we got back together was like time stood still as her personality was so warm and accepting. My memories include our trip to Canada with my parents and smoking our 1st Pall Mall unfiltered and almost choking to death. Rest in peace my old friend.
Frani was a classic example of the adage "to have a friend, you must be a friend." Frani embraced everyone with sincere love, and she was greatly loved back. The greater the love, the greater the grief. How we will miss her!


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The information shared on Thursday night was enlightening and helpful to all who attended. Those who were present for the Sensitivity Training and the 'How to be a National Championship UIC' are able to be a UIC or Assistant UIC at our 2019 and 2020 National Championships. When walking around and visiting the breakout sessions, it was apparent the instructors had put together some outstanding information and were presenting it in an informative manner. The interaction between the groups and the instructors was exactly what we were trying to accomplish.
We ended Saturday's presentation with discussion on mechanics that we need to work on and various other items that can help our individual umpires. The final presentation was strictly on communication and the need to get better in every category. Our State and Metro UICs, Regional UICs, Deputy Directors and the Director must find better and more informative ways to communicate.
We ended with the banquet that was a little different this year due to room constraints. However the awards given to those who were surprised as well as those who were not went well. 2021 is already in the works and we hope it will be as successful.
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We have had a successful start to our 2019 National Umpires Schools. Schools already completed; USA Softball of Dallas Fort Worth, held in Allen Texas, USA Softball of Alabama held in Montgomery, Ala., and USA Softball of Northern California held in San Bruno, Calif. The new agenda generated by the National Umpire School Committee is still paying dividends, as we are able to adapt the schools on the run to fit the location and facilities, not to mention the students. The National Schools still to be held are USA Softball of Kansas City February 22– 24, in Kansas City, Mo., USA Softball of Rhode Island March 1– 3 in Smithfield, R.I. USA Softball of Wyoming held in Douglas, Wyo., and USA Softball Michigan held in Holland, Mich., both on April 12 – 14, and USA Softball of North Dakota in Bismarck, N.D. April 26 – 28. The year ends with the Fast Pitch Camp hosted by USA Softball of Ohio in Cincinnati June 19 – 22. You can find more information on the web under National Umpire Schools and Camps. Take a look and if they fit into your schedule I am sure you will benefit from the experience.
As a reminder, the 2018 Umpire Manual is no longer in printed version. The 2019 Umpire Manual is complete and posted on the web and can be found at https://www.teamusa.org/USA-Softball/Umpires/Umpire-Manual. This year the Umpire Manual has hit another home run. They have added extra pictures and links so you can see firsthand via animated DVD snippets. We are very proud of this new enhanced umpire manual but want to know what you think. Look it over and let us know what your thoughts are. Remember it is a tool for all of our umpires and we strive to make it better for all umpires. I would be remiss if I did not thank the Committee, our layout group Old Hat and Dave Chandler for his daunting work on the diagrams. We also thank Codi, Katie and Savannah from the National Office for all the help on the links. These links and pictures have taken the umpire manual to a new level.
We have already started work on the 2020 rule book. We want to do a total review of the rule book again and make sure everything is correct and accurate. I am sure your Regional Umpire-in-Chief and your Local Association Umpire-in-Chief will be reaching out and asking if you see anything that needs to be made better or corrected. We want to make sure items that help our umpires remain in the book and eliminate or replace those that do not. There is a page count restriction so we need to be prudent on how we accomplish this goal. Please give us your input to help enhance this section of our Rule Book.


Shahid Buttar, Executive Director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, returns to talk about the latest assaults on our rights by Congress and the Obama administration. We open with a recap of the recent Senate vote to extend the FISA revisions from 2008 for another 5 years, with no amendments. We talk about the central role of California Senator Feinstein in creating a phony "Bill of Rights cliff" and demagoguing her colleagues Wyden, Merkley, and Paul for proposing modest amendments. We note that the other senator from California, Barbara Boxer, did not vote on the amendments or the bill, even though she had been a vocal opponent in 2008.
We talk about the important report on December 13 in the Wall Street Journal about the debate in the Obama White House over the rules for collecting and retaining data on Americans, even those who are never charged--it was increased tenfold, to 5 years. Two women from Homeland Security and another woman from Justice resisted the changes; they lost, and all have since left their jobs. The National Countertterrorism Center (NCTC) now has sweeping powers to collect and hold data on us--like John Poindexter's Total Information Awareness program under Bush that was killed when Democrats raised a fuss. Now it's OK, because Democrats are running it.
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Introducing Keighley College's new principal
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25 April, 2022 2:27 pm
The current year has been an exciting one so far for Keighley College – from featuring in BBC News and Channel 5 broadcasts to hosting globally-recognised TEDx events and teaming up with locally-loved rugby team, Keighley Cougars.
At the centre of this hive of college activity has been the interim and now official Principal, Kevin O'hare.
As Kevin starts to settle into his new position, we sat down with him to understand a little more about his background, motivations and ambitions for the college.
How did your interest in education develop?
"Whilst undertaking my Fine Art degree, I found myself enjoying conversations with other undergraduates about their work. One peer even mentioned that I would end up teaching, but I didn't envision it then.
"My first part-time job was as a contextual studies tutor at Hull College in 1992, which allowed me to see real potential in the way in which art seems to touch on so many wider areas, such as psychology, sociology, philosophy, history and politics. It offered a rounded social education for young people and through it, a better understanding of their contemporary world – which really excited me."
What do you enjoy most about working in education?
"Those moments when students find their spark and can see their true potential. I've worked with so many learners who have a self-limiting narrative but then unlock something which opens a much wider view of their possibilities.
"That shift often happens during the 16 to 19 age period, as students are exposed to the broader complexities of society. To be able to facilitate that changing mindset is a fantastic privilege."
Who inspires you and why?
"I recently had a conversation with a student during a particularly pressured moment on campus. They said that calm seas never make a strong sailor, which really transformed my perception of that moment."
What do you think makes a good college principal?
"There are many good principals who have very different approaches to the role and have been equally successful. Some prefer to lead on the basis of facts and data, others focus on building relationships, and others use charisma and assertiveness to achieve their goals. I think a good college principal will have elements in each area. Above all, a duty to the students and their life chances needs to be at the heart of their strategy."
What does a day in the life of a college principal look like?
"It's always so varied. I can be representing the college in important local government meetings, discussing curriculum plans with teachers, speaking to students about common room facilities, identifying a building to renovate, giving radio interviews, visiting local schools to deliver assemblies, speaking to the board of governors on a paper I have written and encouraging local employers to take on apprentices – it's never boring!"
How do you hope to make a difference at Keighley College?
"That's simple really – I want the college to become known for its student success and I want those students to have loved their time here."
What do you think makes Keighley College stand out amongst other local colleges?
"The college has such a wide variety of provision – from a pupil referral offer through to study programmes at all levels: T Levels, apprenticeships, Access courses, A levels and degree programmes.
"It's known historically for its engineering, building trades, health, childcare and beauty therapies. I think the college is most connected to its community."
What have you been most proud of during your working life?
"To date, it's been my part in the growth of creative arts education in Leeds over the last 30 years. In the next 30 years, I want to be proud of helping to make Keighley College a truly inspiring institution."
Do you have any hobbies outside of work?
"I still love making art and visiting galleries. I also coach a junior football team and follow Guiseley football club's rollercoaster journey through the lower leagues. The mix of art and sport is a nice balance of calmness and adrenalin."
What advice would you give to someone considering a role in education?
"Education needs kind and selfless people who can see the transformative power of learning for others and themselves. I've always loved the James Madison quote: 'Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.'"
Read more about Kevin's appointment here.


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State Senator Paul Giannis is a candidate for Mayor of Kindle County. His identical twin brother Cass is newly released from prison, 25 years after pleading guilty to the murder of his girlfriend, Dita Kronon. When Evon Miller, an ex-FBI agent who is the head of security for the Kronon family business, and private investigator Tim Brodie begin a re-investigation of Dita's death, a complex web of murder, sex, and betrayal-as only Scott Turow could weave-dramatically unfolds…
"A compulsively readable tale of love, guilt and revenge that may take its cues from the story of Pollux and Castor and other Greek myths but resonates even more strongly with the near-epic Kindle County narrative Turow has created over some three decades. Even when "Identical's" many twists challenge the reader to figure out who's on first, it is Turow's deftly drawn characters - coping with advancing age, old grief and lost love - that linger in the mind."
"Suspense with twists and turns from a master of the form."
"Complexity is the hallmark of Turow's brainy legal thrillers."
"Turow has obvious fun with his mythological conceit...the process of discovery takes nice and sometimes unexpected twists. Amid the super modernity of DNA tests, the austerity of case law and the tangles of contemporary politics, Turow never loses sight of the ancient underpinnings of his story...Classic (in more senses than one) Turow."
"A wrenching story of violence, betrayal, and human credibility."
"It's classic Turow: love, lies, and lawyers."
"A tantalizingly tangled web of betrayal, deception and familial love...this twisty who's-who whodunit packs plenty of drama."
"Scott Turow's new novel is the dedicated fiction-reader's version of El Dorado: a driving, unputdownable courtroom drama/murder mystery that is also a literary treasure, written in language that sparkles with clarity and resonates with honest character insight. I came away feeling amazed and fulfilled, as we only do when we read novelists at the height of their powers. Put this one on your don't-miss list." (Praise for Innocent)


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This video was captured during a family outings. An unexplained phenomenon (UFO) was captured while they were traveling back home. The UFO was flying above the clouds with bright lights.
This video was captured by surveillance camera located within one of the apartment. The lady was attacked by ghost and it was reported that she was killed. That's why they found this horrible scene when replaying back the video.
This video was captured by the Paranormal Team at graveyard. They have placed the camera there for several days and a spirit was captured.
A group of police officers were trying to remove 2 horses from the highway. Press was there video-shooting the event. Suddenly a car in high speed rammed into one of the horse and skidded to the side. While video-shooting the car crashing, a spirit was captured following the car. People believed that this accident was caused by the spirit (ghost).
This video clip was extracted from the surveillance camera recording. An angel flew down and away immediately. Many people saw it and ran over to the area to check out the area.
This video was intended to take an aircraft landing but accidentally captured an UFO flying through the cloud. It was extremely fast where you only see the cloud being moved by the speed of the UFO.


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Remembering Seven's Epping era
Number 96 stars reunited for birthday
1990: July 28-August 3
'There's no point in denying it any longer.'
TV Week Gold Logie winner Craig McLachlan has announced his engagement to former Neighbours colleague Rachel Friend. "We are very, very happy. It's obvious we are in love. There's no point in denying it any longer," he told TV Week. The marriage will be the first for Friend but the second for McLachlan, whose marriage to first wife Karen Williams ended amicably over a year ago. The newly-engaged couple (pictured) first met as cast members on Neighbours and when McLachlan left the show to join rival series Home And Away, Friend soon followed him to Sydney.
Steve sued over newsreader role
Jennifer Keyte might be enjoying success as the newsreader on Seven's Tonight Live With Steve Vizard, but it seems she was not their first choice for the part. Virginia Haussegger, a reporter and producer for the Melbourne edition of The 7.30 Report, was approached several months before the show was to launch and performed the newsreading role in the show's pilot episodes. Haussegger quit The 7.30 Report but was informed just prior to Tonight Live's debut in January that she would not be required for the show. Consequently, Haussegger sued the Seven Network and Steve Vizard's production company and has since settled out of court with the network for an undisclosed sum, while returning to The 7.30 Report. "Seven, Vizard and I have had our differences but fortunately it's all over. This has been a lesson in the politics of commercial television," she told TV Week.
Ta-ta to tartar!
After fifteen years of "tuff teef" and dunking chalk into glasses of blue water, the character of "Mrs Marsh" is to be phased out of Colgate-Palmolives' ad campaign for toothpaste. But while the role of Mrs Marsh has been very good for actress Barbara Farrell (pictured), it was also limiting her ability to find work. "It was inhibiting, because the face was so firmly identified with the product," she told TV Week. And while the Mrs Marsh character was initially formed as a carbon copy of a US concept, as the campaign continued she was allowed to develop her own persona and had softened a little after research showed that mothers thought she was a little too authoritarian. But one person who was not always thrilled with the fame of Mrs Marsh's was Farrell's husband. "He objects to being called Mr Marsh. He's not pleased with that at all!"
Cameron Daddo has joined the cast of ABC's GP as doctor who makes a fatal error in prescribing drugs to a patient without knowledge of the side-effects, and the results are tragic. The 25-year-old, who recently completed work on the Seven Network telemovie Bony, is also about to start work on the mini-series Golden Fiddles for the Nine Network.
Also starring in Golden Fiddles is Wheel Of Fortune hostess Adriana Xenides (pictured) in her first major role away from the popular game show. The $5.1 million mini-series, a Canadian-Australian co-production being made by the South Australian Film Corporation, also stars Rachel Friend, David Reyne and John Bach.
The Seven Network this week debuts its two-part mini-series, Flair, tracing the lives of two sisters involved in the ruthless world of high fashion. The $4.5 million mini-series stars Andrew Clarke, Gary Day, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Rowena Wallace, Elaine Smith, David Reyne, Imogen Annesley and US actress Heather Thomas. Also starring in the series is Irish-born actor James Healey who grew up in Australia before working in London and the US, where he starred as Joan Collins' lover in Dynasty. Healey is now back in the US, starring in the daytime soap Santa Barbara.
John Laws says…
"Is it really possibly that a combination such I am going to describe can actually win enough ratings to maintain a slot in prime time? Here's that combination: A veteran actor who sleepwalks through his leading role, scripts so lacking in credibility you could drive an express train through the holes, and a cast of support actors so wooden you could hammer a nail into them and not draw blood. This is Nine's (American) Matlock series."
Program Highlights (July 28-August 3):
Sunday: ABC presents The Party's Over, a 90-minute documentary in the Hindsight series presented by Geraldine Doogue (pictured), looking at the story of the Communist Party of Australia, an organisation that had as many as 100,000 members over its 70-year lifespan before it was quietly wound up after the fall of Eastern Europe. Sunday night movies are Invasion USA (HSV7), Nuts (GTV9) and Emerald City (ATV10).
Monday: Neighbours stars Kristian Schmid and Amelia Frid (pictured) battle the blue slime in a celebrity edition of children's game show Double Dare (ATV10).
Tuesday: Cameron Daddo joins the cast of GP (ABC) in tonight's episode, Playing It By The Book.
Wednesday/Thursday: HSV7 screens the two-part mini-series, Flair, where Tessa Clarke (Heather Thomas) returns to Australia intent on establishing her own design empire. However her plans are crushed when a former employer wins a court claim on her designs and she flees to the Gold Coast where she falls for a handsome nightclub owner who drags her into a seedy world.
Friday: With Graham Kennedy's Funniest Home Videos clocking up ratings for GTV9, HSV7 tonight digs out an episode of Graham Kennedy's World Of Comedy. ATV10 screens the 1985 Australian movie Cool Change, starring Jon Blake, Lisa Armytage and David Bradshaw.
Source: TV Week (Victoria edition), incorporating TV Times and TV Guide.
28 July 1990. Southdown Press.
13 August 2010 1990: August 18-24
22 April 2017 TV Week Logie Awards: 25 years ago
7 August 2010 1990: August 11-17
27 April 2010 1990: April 7-13
1990, Bony, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Double Dare, Flair, Golden Fiddles, GP, Graham Kennedy, Home And Away, Neighbours, The 7.30 Report, Tonight Live, Wheel Of Fortune
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2010/07/1990-july-28-august-3.html
Andrew on 31 July 2010 at 10:33 PM
Geraldine Doogue's Hindsight lives on now as a Radio National programme. Cameron Daddo in GP, it don't recall that. The Daddo's are all so old now.
TelevisionAU on 1 August 2010 at 12:15 AM
I didn't recall him in GP either but I don't think it was a long-running role.
I have to agree with you about the Daddos. I came to a realisation the other day, when did Andrew Daddo become a grandpa?? Now he's on TV in a grey cardigan, with grey hair, clutching his mug of warm milk (which I hope isn't grey) and settling in for a big night of TV. When did he turn 60??
Anonymous on 29 September 2010 at 3:26 PM
Anyone know where to find a copy of that "Double Dare" ep after all these years?


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package org.onosproject.lisp.msg.protocols;

import io.netty.buffer.ByteBuf;
import com.google.common.base.Objects;
import org.onlab.packet.IpAddress;
import org.onosproject.lisp.msg.exceptions.LispParseError;
import org.onosproject.lisp.msg.exceptions.LispReaderException;
import org.onosproject.lisp.msg.exceptions.LispWriterException;
import org.onosproject.lisp.msg.types.LispAfiAddress;
import org.onosproject.lisp.msg.types.LispAfiAddress.AfiAddressReader;
import org.onosproject.lisp.msg.types.LispAfiAddress.AfiAddressWriter;
import org.onosproject.lisp.msg.types.LispIpv4Address;
import org.onosproject.lisp.msg.types.LispIpv6Address;

import static com.google.common.base.MoreObjects.toStringHelper;
import static com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkNotNull;

/**
 * LISP EID record section which is part of LISP map request message.
 */
public final class LispEidRecord {

    private final byte maskLength;
    private final LispAfiAddress prefix;

    // Cache the hash code for the string, default to 0
    private final int hash;

    /**
     * Initializes LispEidRecord with mask length and EID prefix.
     *
     * @param maskLength mask length
     * @param prefix EID prefix
     */
    public LispEidRecord(byte maskLength, LispAfiAddress prefix) {
        this.maskLength = maskLength;

        checkNotNull(prefix, "Must specify an address prefix");

        // re-calculate the IP address based on the maskLength
        switch (prefix.getAfi()) {
            case IP4:
                this.prefix = new LispIpv4Address(IpAddress.makeMaskedAddress(
                        IpAddress.valueOf(prefix.toString()), maskLength));
                break;
            case IP6:
                this.prefix = new LispIpv6Address(IpAddress.makeMaskedAddress(
                        IpAddress.valueOf(prefix.toString()), maskLength));
                break;
            default:
                this.prefix = prefix;
        }

        this.hash = 31 * 17 + Objects.hashCode(maskLength, prefix);
    }

    /**
     * Obtains mask length of the EID Record.
     *
     * @return mask length of the EID Record
     */
    public byte getMaskLength() {
        return maskLength;
    }

    /**
     * Obtains EID prefix.
     *
     * @return EID prefix
     */
    public LispAfiAddress getPrefix() {
        return prefix;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return toStringHelper(this)
                .add("maskLength", maskLength)
                .add("prefix", prefix).toString();
    }

    @Override
    public boolean equals(Object o) {
        if (this == o) {
            return true;
        }
        if (o == null || getClass() != o.getClass()) {
            return false;
        }

        LispEidRecord that = (LispEidRecord) o;
        return Objects.equal(maskLength, that.maskLength) &&
                Objects.equal(prefix, that.prefix);
    }

    @Override
    public int hashCode() {
        return hash;
    }

    /**
     * A LISP message reader for EidRecord portion.
     */
    public static final class EidRecordReader implements LispMessageReader<LispEidRecord> {

        private static final int RESERVED_SKIP_LENGTH = 1;

        @Override
        public LispEidRecord readFrom(ByteBuf byteBuf) throws LispParseError, LispReaderException {

            // let's skip the reserved field
            byteBuf.skipBytes(RESERVED_SKIP_LENGTH);

            // mask length -> 8 bits
            short maskLength = byteBuf.readUnsignedByte();

            LispAfiAddress prefix = new AfiAddressReader().readFrom(byteBuf);

            return new LispEidRecord((byte) maskLength, prefix);
        }
    }

    /**
     * A LISP message writer for EidRecord portion.
     */
    public static final class EidRecordWriter implements LispMessageWriter<LispEidRecord> {

        private static final int UNUSED_ZERO = 0;

        @Override
        public void writeTo(ByteBuf byteBuf, LispEidRecord message) throws LispWriterException {

            // fill zero into reserved field
            byteBuf.writeByte((short) UNUSED_ZERO);

            // mask length
            byteBuf.writeByte(message.getMaskLength());

            // EID prefix AFI with EID prefix
            AfiAddressWriter afiAddressWriter = new AfiAddressWriter();
            afiAddressWriter.writeTo(byteBuf, message.getPrefix());
        }
    }
}


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Heritage stories
On the canal
Delph Discovery - What's the Story?
Many attempts to clear Worsley Delph from silt and vegetation have been made in the last hundred years. The latest one, part of Delph2019 restoration works, has produced some interesting results.
Clearing rock and soil from the eastern side has revealed a tunnel, previously unknown, with a paved quay at its mouth and a complete winch sitting on an extension of the quay nearer to Worsley Road bridge.
The tunnel, large enough to take a horse and cart, was probably built to transport coal from the underground mines, via the tunnel, directly into the boiler house cellars of the Corn Mill, which was situated across School Brow. The mill was converted to steam from water power, certainly before 1807, when a sketch of it was made. The purpose of the winch is not yet clear.
The eastern abutment of the Worsley Road bridge contains two "rooms" (see the drawing below), the northernmost of which has a bricked-up doorway in the wall facing the Delph. This doorway, approximately three metre high, would be high enough for horses and it possibly provided access to a tunnel leading to the Delph quayside or to the surface near the smithy.
Much research remains to be done!
With thanks to historians John Aldred and Judith Atkinson. You can download a copy of John and Judith's detailed thoughts on the development of the Worsley Delph complex and their initial conclusions regarding the latest discoveries, at the link below.
If you have any thoughts you'd like to add into the mix please do get in touch via bridgewatercanal@salford.gov.uk
Development of the Worsley Delph Complex.pdf


The Lagos State Government has voted N36 billion to check the incessant ocean surge being experienced along the state's coastlines.
The fund is to be deployed for the construction of 18 groynes (sea breakers) at intervals of 400 metres along the entire length of the 7.5 kilometres between Goshen Estate and Alpha Beach.
The state Commissioner for Waterfront Infrastructure Development, Adebowale Akinsanya, said construction of each groyne costs N2 billion, noting that the project was awarded in November 2012 and split in three phases for funding reasons.
He added that the phase 1 of the project, being the construction of three groynes, commenced in January 2013 while the second phase, which is the construction of 12 groynes was awarded in June 2013 with work starting in January 2014.
"As at the beginning of this administration, four-kilometre stretch of the shoreline was protected and in the last 12 months, six kilometres have been successfully protected while work is still ongoing. Total percentage of work done so far on phase 2 is 80 per cent. Also the phase 3, which is the construction of three groynes of the project has been awarded and work has commenced on it," he said.
Akinsanya also disclosed that the state government had approved the development of three islands in the state, namely Diamond, Orange and Gracefield Phoenix.
He said the Diamond Island development, which would rival Banana Island, involves the reclamation of Ilubirin foreshore by SPA Dredging Company Limited, noting that the reclamation works for phase 1, comprising 48 hectares, had been completed with that of phase 2 about to commence.
On Orange Island, Akinsanya said the project targets the development of a fully serviced community in the state lagoon with about 450 metres off the Lekki Phase I headland for the reclamation of a 150-hectare mixed Island.


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