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An Open-Source Core and a House That Unfolds Among Innovations at Solar Decathlon
Student teams showcase energy-efficient home designs at the 2013 Solar Decathlon
By Tekla S. Perry
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Tekla Perry: Hi, this is Tekla Perry for IEEE Spectrum's "Techwise Conversations."
College students, as we all know, have lots of energy—energy enough to stay up all night and still get to class during the day. If you could harness that energy, you could power a small city. Well, we haven't quite figured out how to do that, but what if you took some of that energy and put it toward building solar-powered, energy-efficient, attractive, and cost-effective houses? Some innovative things just might happen.
That's the intent of the Solar Decathlon, a program run by the U.S. Department of Energy that challenges teams of college students to create solar houses. They have two years to design and build their entries—and then they have to take them apart, truck them to the competition site, and reassemble them for judging.
The teams of the 2012–2013 Solar Decathlon competed for sunlight and the judges' attention last month in California's Orange County Great Park in Irvine. Solar Decathlon director Richard King was there. He holds a physics degree from the American University and has been with the U.S. Department of Energy since 1986. He created the Solar Decathlon in 1999 and has run it ever since.
Hi, Richard. Welcome to the podcast.
Richard King: Hello. I'm delighted to be here.
Tekla Perry: So let's jump to the finish line: Who won?
Richard King: Team Austria. It was the Vienna University of Technology, which came all the way over from Europe. They designed and built an exquisite house that was really designed for kind of a vacation home for a single couple. It was exquisitely built; the craftsmanship was wonderful. They focused on a lot of wood products inside the house to be kind of carbon neutral. It just stole the judges away. It also performed quite well, so it eked out a narrow, narrow win over the other teams.
Tekla Perry: So let's go back to when this whole competition got started. How did that come about?
Richard King: The Solar Decathlon got started in the year 2002, was our first competition. But you've got to back up to 1999, when we had the idea. We had developed at the U.S. Department of Energy very robust and reliable solar panels and solar photovoltaic products, but they weren't being sold in the marketplace that well. And so I just really felt that we needed to get out of the R&D mode and get more into the education and the outreach side of things to really make the market grow.
But I'm a physicist. I needed help from the architects. I really felt that if we could design houses that were really cool, really awesome, looked really nice, as well as being reliable, then people would be more accepting of them and the market might grow.
So I went to the university community, challenged the schools of architecture and engineering to take a clean sheet of paper: "You guys, start from scratch, design a home, and let's see who can design the best one, make a competition out of it." So it ended up being just such a win-win, because now we're educating young professionals who–our schools, our universities, are the innovators, and the great ideas, and they in turn can help educate the professional community that, "Hey, there's a new building product in town: Solar systems can be used to help you build a house," and to get them integrated in it.
And lastly, it made a spectator sport out of it, so to speak. Let's not just design these on paper. Build a house, a full-scale house, bring it to a central spot, and open it up to the public. Let the homeowners go in. Let people go inside and see these houses, see how they work, and break down those barriers, that, yes, it does look good. Yes, it can supply all the energy we need from sunlight without sacrificing lifestyles. These are modern homes with everything you would want in them. It's just been a win-win ever since. People come out in droves to see them, and students get educated, and everybody gets educated.
Tekla Perry: How many houses did you have this year?
Richard King: We had 19 show up, although we started with 20 homes. In the first competition, we had 14 pioneering schools who came to the National Mall and set up. Ever since, we've moved it up to 20 teams—always been 20, don't want more, don't necessarily need less. So 20 schools signed up, and we had one school drop out a month before the thing. So those students got educated, that house is still built on campus, but they ran out of money at the end to bring it all the way to California.
Tekla Perry: And these came from all over the world?
Richard King: Yes, we opened up internationally. We had two Canadian teams, and we had two European teams.
Tekla Perry: You gave awards in a number of categories, not just the overall winner, and one of those was engineering, which I saw went to Team Ontario. Can you tell me about that design?
Richard King: The decathlon gets its name from 10 contests, and how do you evaluate a house? How do you measure a house for performance? We sent juries through—architects for architecture, engineers for engineering, there's market appeal, and also communications.
When the engineers go through, they look for design excellence. Is the whole house integrated well? Are the systems picked out to work reliably together? Things of those natures. So, yeah, this house was just very well designed. Everything fit. It was Team Ontario, correct? Yeah, the judges felt they took an extra measure of professionalism in that house. It was one of my favorites. I loved that house.
Tekla Perry: So as you walked through the various entries, and I'm not just talking about the winning ones, I'd love to hear about some innovative elements that really struck you, that was, "Wow, I can't believe they thought of that," or "It was a really striking invention that they had there."
Richard King: There were a lot of them. So the one that stands out, certainly from the popular side of things, was the SCI-Arc/Caltech—so that's the Southern California [Institute] of Architecture, SCI-Arc, teaming with Caltech. And they put their house on rails. They had it open up and create this big interior space, and it was movable. They could—they had controls in the house to do this.
One of the design challenges of the Solar Decathlon, because they are relatively small houses—they are between 600 square feet and 1000 square feet, so they have kitchens and living rooms and bathrooms and a bedroom, quite livable space, but yet one of the objectives is to create a larger feel to the house, because it is a relatively small house. So SCI-Arc/Caltech decided, "Let's take a square box, cut it down the middle, and open it up." They had a telescoping solar system on the roof that would just slide in and out and stay up over as a kind of a canopy, and they had kind of a garden set up underneath the house, so as it opened up, you could just walk around and stand like you would on a porch, only it was on the interior of the house. So everybody lined up to watch the house move, open and close, and then they'd go inside. That was just intriguing. I will leave it to see how it works in the future, how practical it was.
So let's get down to some good innovation. You know, we saw solar shingles on the Stevens house for the first time. I've been waiting for a house to do that, so it was good to see that. We had University of North Carolina in Charlotte; they used geopolymer concrete, so that was a way to reduce the amount of carbon in concrete. University of Kentucky had a safe room, which I really thought was pretty neat. So their house was kind of designed—you know, they're from the interior of the United States; we've had some pretty drastic tornadoes out there, and so disaster relief is high on the minds of a lot of those people. And their house had a safe room, which they made their bathroom, with reinforced walls and doors, a bulletproof window in it, and it's a place where you can go, on a house that doesn't have a basement or shelter down below, go into this room and shut the door and be quite safe, so that was kind of intriguing.
Stanford University designed their house with a core center to hold the HVAC system, all the plumbing, the hot water tank, all their controls, which is like a premanufactured core, that then a house could be designed around. And so their concept, being from Silicon Valley, is that you could order this core and go and design a house around it depending on where you are, how large your family is, how many rooms you need, how many stories you need, but yet this core is a standard item, and it would be modular, and it would help reduce the cost and make modular home building easier, cheaper, and have yet flexibility. They also had some really smart controls within their house that let people, when they turned on and off, whether it was lights or appliances, they kind of immediately knew how much energy they were about to use, or going to turn on or turn off, things like that.
Tekla Perry: When I looked at the photos from the competition, I was struck by how gorgeous so many of the houses were. I guess in the past I would think of energy-efficient homes as maybe not quite having so many windows, when you think of the straw bale house and yurts back a ways ago. So, were there a lot of new materials, new technologies, that have come out in the past few years that have made this possible, that have allowed the designs to be more flexible?
Richard King: In the very first competition, you hadn't even heard of triple-paned window. Now with that technology that gets the R-value up higher, you can put more glazing in your house and still keep it relatively energy-efficient. So, I saw a lot more windows—more than in the past, I think. And again, it's part of the way the houses are small, and they want to really open up the outdoors to it. And, of course, passive design really lends itself to making a lot of windows in your house, especially on the south side, so we did see a lot of that.
What we also saw was teams using their solar system as shading devices to help—"All right, let's put more windows here, but we don't want that glaring sun to come in in the summertime on the south side." So there were probably four or five of the homes that actually made a separate rack for their solar system, so it actually extended over the back of the house and provided shade—on their back porch, but also for the south-facing windows. So that was kind of a trend. I was impressed too with more open houses and also the quality of the houses.
Tekla Perry: So are you already gearing up for the next competition?
Richard King: Yes, we are. As we speak, the FOA, a funding opportunity announcement, is out on the street to request proposals from teams, because we want to give them two years for the next competition, which will be in 2015.
Tekla Perry: Okay, well, thank you.
Richard King: Hey, you're welcome.
Tekla Perry: We've been speaking with Richard King from the U.S. Department of Energy about the Solar Decathlon, a biennial competition that wrapped up its latest round last month. For IEEE Spectrum's "Techwise Conversations," I'm Tekla Perry.
This interview was recorded 6 November 2013.
Audio engineer: Francesco Ferorelli
Segment producer: Tekla S. Perry
Photo: Jason Flakes/U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon
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Gregory H. Hodges, Partner
Mr. Hodges joined Dudley, Dudley and Topper in 1982, prior to its reorganization into Dudley Newman Feuerzeig, LLP. Mr. Hodges became a Partner in 1987 and served as the Head of the Litigation Department from 1995 to 2018. Mr. Hodges concentrates his practice on commercial litigation, bankruptcy, admiralty and maritime law. Representative published cases include:
Grand Union Supermarkets of the V.I., Inc. v. Lockhart Realty, Inc., 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 17048 (3d Cir. August 15, 2012) – successfully argued appeal that resulted in the reversal of a District Court judgment for more than $6 million.
First American Development Group/Carib, LLC v. WestLB AG, 2012 V.I. Supreme LEXIS 39 (April 30, 2012) – successfully litigated at trial court level and argued on appeal that trial court properly certified summary judgment in favor of lender pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 54 despite unresolved crossclaims.
Addie v. Kjaer, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 72137 (D.V.I. August 14, 2009), rev'd in part, 737 F.3d 854 (3d Cir. 2013) – obtained $1.5 million judgment after jury verdict for breach of contact. After the trial court granted a post-trial motion reducing the award to $0, the Court of Appeals reversed in part and reinstated the jury verdict.
Bluebeard's Castle, Inc. v. Hodge, 51 V.I. 672 (D.V.I. App. Div. 2009) – successfully argued on appeal for the District Court Appellate Division to vacate the Superior Court judgment holding Bluebeard's Castle, Inc.'s entrance road to be public and awarding fees. The Superior Court, on remand, held that the Plaintiffs had not established that the road was public or that a prescriptive easement had been established. 56 V.I. 59 (Super. Ct. April 16, 2012) (appeal pending).
AGF Marine Aviation & Transport v. Cassin, 544 F.3d 255 (3d Cir. 2008) – successfully litigated and defended on appeal the District Court's summary judgment in favor of the insurer of a vessel declaring its policy of insurance void as a result of the assured's breach of the duty of uberrimae fidei.
Morcher v. Nash, 26 F. Supp. 2d 758, 39 V.I. 408 (D.V.I. 1998) – successfully litigated title to vessel on behalf of girlfriend of decedent against claims of widow.
Prior to his relocation to the Virgin Islands, Mr. Hodges was employed at Ambrose, Wilson & Grimm in Knoxville, Tennessee. Mr. Hodges was admitted to the bar in Tennessee (1980) and the U.S. Virgin Islands (1984) and is a member of the Virgin Islands (Member, Board of Governors, 1992-1996, Committee on Ethics and Grievances, 1992-2000), Tennessee and American Bar Associations. Mr. Hodges has an AV Preeminent® peer review rating from Martindale-Hubbell.®
University of Tennessee, Juris Doctor, 1980
Northwestern University, Bachelor of Arts (Philosophy), 1977
Ghodges@dtflaw.com

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To make this generic we can replace the management groups with a wildcard as shown below.
Next we can restrict the query above to only show systems which haven't reported data in the last hour.
This shows the computers in each of the management groups represented which have not reported into OMS in the past hour.
When creating the alert, you need to provide at least a name for the alert, the query it is using, the schedule, a time window and the threshold to activate the alert. The highlighted example below shows whether the alert would actually fire (it would not as the value is 0 when this test was done). To successfully verify that the alert rule would fire it needs to match the criteria.
The dashboard shown below uses the query defined above to provide an easy to see visualization on your OMS dashboard. An environment with no agents having issues is shown below.
Followed by an example where a single agent is not reporting data for an hour.
Please note, this test will only alert if the computer has stopped responding within the last hour. If the server is already offline when the alert is created an alert will not be generated at that point in time.
Summary: The approach in this blog post shows how to create a quick query which will alert you when any agents in the OMS subscription go offline. When it is in place it will provide a single notification every time that there is a change on what systems are no longer reporting to OMS. This mirrors closely to what Operations Manager does in terms of a heartbeat by sending you a single notification that a list of agents if no longer reporting.
In the next blog post we will look into a method to use a query for a specific agent which is not reporting in OMS.
Good post, but for mission critical servers/managed services, this process tends to fall apart when you need to know immediately (or very close to immediately) that a server is down (not after 1 hour of inactivity). The issue that we are seeing now is that we are getting a ton of false positives when needing near real-time alerting due to log data not being sent to OMS but in fact the server is up.
What we are doing as a stopgap is writing a Powershell service that logs a "heartbeat" event in the event log every 2 minutes and then collecting the Application log data in OMS. By doing this, we can get to the granularity of just a few minutes of knowing if a server is down.
Hey Ron, thanks for the feedback and I hear what you are saying related to more of a realtime heartbeat type approach. That's the approach which I started with and will be posting about on Thursday this week (and then Friday with the gotcha's for each of the different solutions). I am curious what query you are using to heartbeat check every system – my current query is for a single system because in my case my need was focused on a single critical system.
Thanks for the post! I've actually tried this and other approaches to implement offline server alerts, but none are working, at least in my workspace. Other alerts are working fine, except these ones. I think this may have something to do with time filters… I've opened a support case with Microsoft regarding this issue. By the way, have your alerts fired recently?
Hey Helder, I will go back and re-check mine to see if they are still working!
As of this morning, I can verify that my health alerting approach which uses the last time that data has reported to OMS is working correctly.


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Clutter is Low-Vibe: How Do You Deal With It?
A common form of negative energy in our homes is clutter. If you are among the many challenged by clutter, or perhaps have a partner that is, I do sympathize with your situation. Many people ask me what they can do to overcome this challenge that is contributing to negative energy, chaos, and imbalance in their home.
If you consider that our homes are a mirror of our inner spaces, then perhaps we are in this situation because we need to address some level of chaos within ourselves (whether physical, mental, or emotional chaos) or we may simply need to move past this issue in our life that is challenging us to grow.
There is no magic bullet to address clutter. If you are waiting for the big epiphany, I don't have it. What I can offer you is an "inner" solution. This also works when dealing with a partner's or your own anger or depressive tendencies. There is an issue of internal clutter, mental clutter that will create a cloud of low-level energy and consciousness around the home and drag you down. It's real, and we do feel it!
Understanding the behavior behind the clutter can help a great deal. Clutter is often a result of a feeling of lack and scarcity. You or your partner may be missing something on an emotional level. It often flows from childhood and perhaps a parental relationship. One thing is for certain: clutter is blocking energy.
One professional organizer says the clutter is "a way that unhappiness expresses itself." Perhaps, if you or your partner is open to it, you can journal your feelings around the clutter. What unhappiness might it be expressing? What situation or relationship in the past does it represent? Is that a healthy connection? If the clutter is blocking something from entering my life, what does it represent? How will I feel when that block is no longer there and great opportunities present themselves? Am I open to that now?
Sentimental clutter—This represents attachment to things in the past. It may also represent the fear of guilt for getting rid of those objects.
Project clutter—This represents the inability to finish projects and may be a lack of the Metal Element (which facilitates completion).
"Just in case" clutter—This represents the need to keep things "just in case." It's about fearing that you will not have what you need when you need it.
Paper clutter—We keep magazines and article clippings in piles until we can finally read them. (When will that be?) It is a variation on the theme of not having something when you need it. But with the Internet, great information is easily accessible without the buildup of paper.
Identifying your True Nature Element might help you understand what is going on behind this behavior. We might realize that our family is not intentionally trying to make us crazy (if they are, then we might need to rethink this relationship!). The Earth Element has a great affinity to sentimental items (perhaps a thirty-year-old son's baby clothes, a chair that was Aunt Molly's, or dusty old doodads from Grandpa's basement) when out of balance. She often keeps these items out of guilt (how can I get rid of Aunt Molly's chair?) and out of attachment to the loved one.
Messiness can have different motivators. For Wood, it's that he has too many more important things to do. For Fire, it's impulsively jumping from one thing to another once enthusiasm wanes—which happens quickly! Water? Well, Water flows and needs a container, hence things can start spilling out all over the place. Notice that I don't mention Metal? That's because balanced Metal despises clutter and messiness.
The only person we can control is ourselves. We know this; however, we don't always act in concert with that understanding when the clutter is being generated by a loved one. We think that trying to coerce them, yelling louder, or giving an ultimatum will change their behavior. But it doesn't. And we continue to try this tactic even though it doesn't work (didn't Einstein say something about that?). We may finally give up and not say anything more out of frustration, but silence says volumes if our facial expressions, body language, and energy fields are still emanating our disapproval.
So what do we do? It is the hardest and the simplest thing of all: change our energy about the mess and clutter. It weighs our energy down and does not let the light grow. I am not suggesting that we ignore it. That is not going to work. I'm suggesting that we acknowledge it, but do not lay that heavy anger and frustration onto it. Raise your consciousness higher and those lower vibrations are less able to reach you. Let it go.
We can do some breathing and visualization techniques. We can go out into nature as often as possible. We can clear out our own clutter. Sometimes we still have clutter to manage, even if it's not visible. Perhaps it's a closet or our drawers. Perhaps the clutter is in our minds. We might be involved in so many things that we are scattered in our thoughts.
When our energy around this challenge shifts, our loved one will feel it, if only subconsciously. Over time and with a concerted effort on our part, the energy in our home will shift, and their energy will have to shift along with it. It is always that way with energy. Everything is interconnected. This may create new openings and opportunities. Sometimes the other partner spontaneously clears up. But it all comes back to us.
The trick is that we must be diligent in shifting our own energy. This is absolutely the key. We cannot just try this for a week and get discouraged because the other person hasn't changed. In just a week, we haven't changed either. Modifying our own patterns of behavior and thought requires ongoing work. How long? Think "forever." But it is worth every bit of what we have to gain!
Maureen K. Calamia is a feng shui consultant and teacher. An inspiring thought-leader in feng shui, energy and consciousness, she has written for CREATIONS MAGAZINE, Huffington Post, MindBodyGreen, Thrive Global, elephant journal, and OMTimes Magazine.


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While we're on this food kick, what are your seven most common breakfasts?
One slice of toast with ICBINBL*, jelly and a glass of milk.
Heres a good and easy one.
Get your old slow cooker out.
Put a cup of steel cut oats, or whole oats if you can find them, not the steamed and rolled flat ones.
Add four cups of water, or milk, and if you use water, a half cup to a cup of half and half.
Two cups of dried fruit that you like, I use cranberries and apricots most of the time, dice the larger fruit to berry size if you use them.
A few pinches of salt.
Turn on to Low when you're ready to go to sleep...8-9 hours later when you wake up you'll have perfect smooth creamy hot oatmeal.
(sigh), more often than not, cofee.
That's why every Sunday after church we stop at a nearby shopping center and get a starbucks and a brueger's bagels "eggo bagel" and sit outside by the fountain, watching the little tyke play. I know, I know, "LBYM!". But the 10 bucks is worth the family time.
**1. Nothing - who gets up before lunch?
Burrtio made with southwestern eggbeaters, cheese, black beans and salsa wrapped in a tortia.
Sunday is breakfast at parents for all the family that's like a buffet so it could end up being anything from just scrambled eggs to omlets.
Homemade pancakes loaded with blueberries.
Homemade pancakes loaded with pecans.
Cheese/mushroom omelet w/ whole grain toast.
Oatmeal w/brown sugar and raisins.
Two slices whole grain toast w/jelly or peanut butter.
We'll have cereal once or twice a week.* I eat oatmeal straight out of the box with a little cold water and some lo-fat cottage cheese on it (a good balance of carbs and protein that I started eating when I began working out) and she'll have Shredded Wheat or oats (but with milk and some sugar).* Oatmeal works fine as a cold cereal.
Most days it is some sort of eggs (one per person).* An omlette with some cheese, maybe a little ham in it or some fruit and nuts (especially with Stilton), scrambled eggs and toast, fried egg on a waffle, add a little sausage or bacon now and then.* Scrambled eggs with some green chiles and onions rolled up in a flour tortilla is tasty. French toast isn't uncommon either, with a little vanilla added into the eggs.
Occasionally I'll fix a pan of cornbread with a pan of sausage or bacon.
Oh yes, let's not forget the double cap with breakfast.* She gets all the foam.
During the week its pretty much Kashi cereal.
Weekends are usually waffles and thick sliced bacon. Our $5 yard-sale waffle iron died recently and we replaced it with the Waring professional Belgian waffle maker. Worth every penny - makes awesome waffles! The King Arthur Flour cookbook has a great part-whole wheat homemade waffle and pancake mix recipe that I use... just add egg and water when you're ready. The husband usually doctors it up with different things though - last week it was pumpkin waffles. Yum!
Wow. Everyone's breakfasts sound wonderful. I usually eat Shredded Wheat w/ lowfat milk or 2 slices of whole wheat toast w/ peanut butter. Weekends are usually something home cooked (better) like eggs, bacon, or pancakes. I found a recipe for pumpkin pancakes that were really great. This weekend I am making OAP's breakfast burritos. Yum.
Weekends are usually waffles and thick sliced bacon.* Our $5 yard-sale waffle iron died recently and we replaced it with the Waring* professional Belgian waffle maker.* Worth every penny - makes awesome waffles!* The King Arthur Flour cookbook has a great part-whole wheat homemade waffle and pancake mix recipe that I use... just add egg and water when you're ready.* The husband usually doctors it up with different things though - last week it was pumpkin waffles.* Yum!
My breakfast is very simple. I have either a cold or hot cereal.
The cooked cereal is rolled oats, nonfat milk, spice it up with Louisana hot sauce and grated romano cheese. I may add farina and or wheatena. I sometimes include cut up zuchini or other veggies for added flavor. I'll have it with a cup of yogurt. I on occasion even mix in the yogurt. It's really good tasting stuff. I like easy.


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Tourism Will Likely Suffer As Thai Protests Against Government Turn Violent
Damir Sagolj, Reuters
- Dec 01, 2013 1:16 am
A "red shirt" Thai government supporter was shot and killed early on Sunday, raising the death toll to two from political violence in Bangkok as protesters intensified a week-long bid to topple Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.
Police called in military back-up to protect government buildings after fatal street clashes erupted between supporters and opponents of Yingluck and her billionaire brother, ousted former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, near a sports stadium where about 70,000 government supporters had gathered.
The fighting is the latest in an intractable conflict that broadly pits Thailand's establishment of royalists, wealthy elites and the urban middle class against the poor supporters of Thaksin, who originate mostly from provinces north of Bangkok, the country's lowest-income regions.
By morning, streets near the stadium were littered with broken glass and rocks, a Reuters witness said. A red-shirt leader, Jatuporn Promphan, said four red shirts had been killed, but Reuters only confirmed one, 43-year-old red shirt guard Viroj Kemnak.
Forty-five people were wounded in the fighting, according to the government's Erawan emergency center.
Thousands of red shirts have begun to return by bus to their homes in northern Thailand, but their departure is unlikely to defuse Thailand's worst political crisis since April-May 2010, a period of unrest that ended with a military crackdown. In all, 91 people were killed, mostly Thaksin supporters.
BANGKOK BRACES FOR VIOLENCE
Yingluck, who won a 2011 election by a landslide to become Thailand's first female prime minister, has called on the protesters to clear the streets and enter into talks to avoid confrontation, saying Thailand's economy was at risk after demonstrators occupied the Finance Ministry on Monday.
Protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban has told demonstrators laws must be broken to achieve their goals and has urged them to surround the headquarters of the national and city police, ministries and the prime minister's office at Government House. Shopping malls shut as Bangkok braced for violence on Sunday.
Seventeen battalions of 150 soldiers each, along with 180 military police, all unarmed, were called in to boost security on Sunday ahead of a deadline the same day set by demonstrators for the ousting of the government.
Fighting intensified on Saturday after anti-government protesters attacked a bus they believed was full of government supporters. They also smashed the windshield of a taxi carrying people wearing red shirts, a pro-government symbol, and beat two people, one unconscious, police and witnesses said.
As darkness fell, gunfire erupted outside the sports stadium in Bangkok's Ramkamhaeng area, where the 70,000 backers of Yingluck and Thaksin had gathered for a rally in a show of support after a week of anti-government protests.
Around 8 p.m., a gunman fired into Ramkamhaeng University, where hundreds of anti-government protesters had retreated after trying to block people from entering the stadium, witnesses said. One person was killed. It was not known who fired the shots.
Fighting raged in the area through the night.
At around 2 a.m., Kittisak Srisunthorn, 36, said he was shot in the arm while sitting with a group of red shirt guards.
"I heard homemade bombs, gunshots. People started to throw rocks and glass bottles. There were around one hundred people gathered. I didn't see any police," Kittisak told Reuters.
A crowd of about 2,000 people had massed outside state-owned telecoms companies on Saturday and Suthep has urged his followers to move on the ministries of labour, foreign affairs, education and the interior.
It is unclear whether he has the numbers to besiege multiple government offices.
Thaksin, a former telecommunications tycoon, was removed in a 2006 military coup and convicted two years later of graft, charges he calls politically motivated. He remains closely entwined with the government from his self-imposed exile, sometimes meeting with Yingluck's cabinet by webcam.
National Security Chief Paradorn Pattanathabutr told Reuters that Government House and the police headquarters would not be seized.
(Additional reporting by Martin Petty, Panarat Thepgumpanat and Amy Sawitta Lefevre; Writing by Jason Szep; Editing by Alan Raybould)
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Singapore's JedTrade announces the first blockchain project, approved by Enterprise Singapore. Enterprise Singapore is the Singapore government agency championing enterprise development.
JEDTrade, a Singapore blockchain startup, has today announced the launch of Jupiter Chain, a smart, consentable data exchange platform that enables the use of data analytics without compromising on privacy. Jupiter Chain demonstrates how blockchain technology can be put to good use in the healthcare services ecosystem, where data privacy and security is of heightened importance
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Jupiter Chain allows users to keep their personal data private by encrypting their data and requiring consent before other parties can access the necessary information to conduct big data analytics projects. The team envisions a future where users can get customized healthcare plans from their aggregated medical data, while the data remains secure and private to them. Assessors only gain permission to analyze the relevant data when individuals give consent, and are unable to access the raw data.
Healthcare business owners will also no longer have to be custodians to user data, avoiding hiccups in securing sensitive data. At its full potential in the healthcare ecosystem, this eliminates the risks of data sharing and increases the benefits to consumers and researchers.
"With Jupiter Chain, JEDTrade hopes to fundamentally change the way we handle data. From day-to-day interactions to large-scale processes, enterprise blockchain technology will change the way we live, with new industries hungry for solutions. We are ready, and look forward to delivering them." said Dr. Ernie Teo, CTO of JEDTrade.
Just last month, JEDTrade also announced Jupiter Chain's partnership with Genecare, a leading genetics testing company based in ASEAN that allows clients to better understand their health risks based on whole genome sequencing. Service providers can only access assessment results and will not see specific genetic data, ensuring the privacy of users while allowing them access to tailored healthcare and services.
"Data privacy is an ever-growing priority for governments and businesses across the world. Security is the DNA of our blockchain design, allowing it to be usefully applied across all industries, including those outside of health tech. We would also like to thank Enterprise Singapore for supporting our innovation efforts of developing Jupiter Chain." commented Teo.
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Q: How can I store a pair of numbers in C++? I'm trying to learn C++ and right now I'm writing a program that needs to output a list of pairs of integers.
What is the best way to handle this?  I don't have the boost library available on our linux computers at school, so I don't believe I can use boost::tuple.
Any suggestions?

A: While std::pair is the best approach to use, I'm surprised nobody mentioned pre-stl solution:
struct Pair {
    int first;
    int second;
};

It is worrying that people think that they need boost for such a trivial problem.

A: Have a look at std::pair<object, object>
EDIT:
It's standard C++ and part of what is known as the STL (Standard Template Library). It's a collection of nice data structures that are generic (i.e. may be used to store any C++ object type). This particular structure is used to store a "tuple" or a pair of numbers together. It's basically an object with members "first" and "second" that refer to the first and second objects (of any type!) that you store in them.
So just declare an array of pair<int, int>, or better yet, use another STL type called the "vector" to make a dynamically-sized list of pair<int, int>: vector<pair<int, int> > myList.
Hey what do you know! A dynamically-sized list of pairs already exists and it's called a map! Using it is as simple as #include <map> and declaring a map<int, int> myMap!!!
EDIT:
Yes, as pointed out, a map well "maps" one object to another, so you cannot have repeated lefthand-side values. If that's fine then a map is what you're looking for, otherwise stick to the vector of pair.... or take a look at multimaps.
std::map, std::multimap

A: Use std::pair?
#include <utility>
#include <iostream>

int main() {
    std::pair <int, int> p = std::make_pair( 1, 2 );
    std::cout << p.first << " " << p.second << std::endl;
}

You can make a vector of pairs:
typedef std::pair <int, int> IntPair;

...

std::vector <IntPair> pairs;
pairs.push_back( std::make_pair( 1, 2 ) );
pairs.push_back( std::make_pair( 3, 4 ) );

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Graden sighed and set aside his glass, still a third full.
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From tree kangaroos to sea turtles and cassowaries to crocodiles, the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area harbours some of Australia's most intriguing, rare and rarely-seen species.
Encountering these fascinating far northern inhabitants is a highly rated thrill for many visitors to tropical Queensland so, if you are headed north any time soon, here's our pick of places to spot them. Plus we've got all the great base camp spots and some curious facts you probably don't know about northern Australia's most captivating creatures.
If you crossed a bear with a kangaroo, the result might look something like the heavily muscled, canopy-dwelling Lumholtz's tree-kangaroo. As few as 2000 are estimated to exist in Queensland's far northern forests, and you won't find them anywhere else in the world.
Zoologist Carl Lumholtz and his Aboriginal guides described the species back in 1882 on the Cardwell Range, 185km south of Cairns. Since then, Mount Hypipamee National Park (NP) near Ravenshoe on the Atherton Tablelands has become the place to spot them.
This high-altitude rainforest also supports a huge variety of gliders and possums, and visitors flock here to hike to Dinner Falls and stand on the rim of a dramatic, water-filled volcanic crater with its sheer granite walls that plunge 140m deep. During the day you'd have to be extremely lucky to spot the normally-nocturnal Lumholtz's tree-kangaroo (dendrolagus lumholtzi), but it's not out of the question.
On an early morning walk through the park five years ago, not one but two Lumholtz's tree-kangaroos bounded across our path, stunning us as they climbed swiftly up a nearby tree, their long tails swinging free. From the safety of the canopy, they turned to meet our stares and delighted us by staying within sight as we snapped off photos.
Known to Indigenous Australians as Mabi, the Lumholtz's tree-kangaroo spends most of its time in the rainforest canopy but is extremely agile on the ground too. For the best chance of spotting one, hit the walking trails through Mount Hypipamee NP early in the morning before the day-trippers arrive.
While you can't overnight in the national park, the free camp at nearby Archer Creek Rest Area is a spacious, shady spot that accommodates big rigs and pets, close to Big Millstream, Australia's widest single-drop waterfall.
Getting there: Mount Hypipamee NP is located 24km south of Atherton along the Kennedy Highway.
Camping: 18km from Ravenshoe, Archer Creek Rest Area provides toilets and picnic tables.
Classified as endangered, Australia's largest flightless bird is an evolutionary survivor with a recently-discovered sensory quirk shared with dinosaurs and elephants. The distinctive casque that crowns the cassowary's bright blue head is believed to help it to detect sounds from very distant cassowaries, a technique known as infrasound.
The casque also protects these solitary creatures in conflicts with other cassowaries – or humans should the bird feel cornered or threatened. Males protecting their young (yes, the blokes raise the kids) or defending their territory can become particularly aggressive and since they weigh around 65kg and reach speeds of up to 50km/h, should be treated with extreme caution if you encounter one while walking in the rainforest.
There are only around 4000 southern cassowaries (Casuarius casuarius johnsoni) left in the wild, and Mission Beach has a high concentration of them, despite being the place where cassowaries are most at risk from habitat loss, dog attacks and vehicle strikes.
Behind Mission Beach's 14km-long strip of squeaky white sand, Djiru NP protects a rare pocket of Licuala fan palm forest whose fruit is a favourite cassowary snack. Two of the best trails in the park are the Musgravea hiking and biking trail (6km one-way) and the easy Fan Palm Walk (1.3km/20 minutes) that loops beneath the two metre-wide fan palms that appear as bright green umbrellas towering 15 metres above the forest floor.
Getting there: Turn-off the Bruce Highway just north of Tully and drive 26km to Mission Beach.
Camping: Council-run caravan parks at Mission Beach (powered and tent sites) and Bingil Bay (unpowered sites only) provide hot showers, toilets and laundry (no generators).
Fees: $20/$25 unpowered/powered. Dogs on leads are permitted.
In Australia's far north, these superior, prehistoric hunters dominate the food chain. With excellent eyesight, a keen sense of smell and the ability to detect and hunt down prey in the murkiest of waterways, estuarine crocodiles are fascinating, fearful creatures.
What you might not know is that Crocodylus porosus can reach speeds of around 10km/h in short bursts and can stay underwater and out of sight for an hour or more by slowing their heart rate to 2-3 beats per minute. Another evolutionary survivor, the estuarine crocodile can live for 70 to 100 years, and when they die, their bones can be read like the growth rings of a tree.
The biggest myth about the world's largest reptile lies with their name. Estuarine or saltwater crocodiles are not restricted to saltwater habitats, but can and do thrive in billabongs, creeks, rivers and freshwater waterholes hundreds of kilometres inland, at times surviving in fresh water just a few feet deep.
Hunted to the brink of extinction from the 1940s to 1960s, crocodile numbers (and the number of attacks on humans) are on the rise. Statistics show that men are more likely than women to be attacked, and young males (aged 16-35 years) are most at risk.
To stay safe, the rules are simple: never swim in crocodile habitat, camp well away from the water's edge and when boating, keep your arms and legs on board. Be aware that estuarine crocodiles are more active at night and more aggressive during their September to March breeding season.
One of the best ways to safely encounter salties in FNQ is on a Daintree River boat cruise, preferably at low tide when the crocs can be seen sunning themselves on the muddy banks. If you are looking to overnight close by, check out the beachfront powered sites at Wonga Beach Caravan Park.
Getting there: Daintree River is located 116km north of Cairns.
Camping: Campsites at Wonga Beach Caravan Park.
Fees: $37/$32 (powered/unpowered), no pets.
A relic of the age of the dinosaurs, sea turtles are one of the most easily observed marine animals, and Far North Queensland's Great Barrier Reef islands and remote beaches protect some of their best habitat. Six of the world's seven sea turtle species visit Australian shores: green, hawksbill, loggerhead, olive ridley, Australian flatback and the leatherback.
Unfortunately, all are classified either endangered or vulnerable in Australia. Their biggest threat comes from discarded plastic bags that when afloat, mimic the jellyfish that many turtles feed on and when consumed, change the turtle's buoyancy, keeping it afloat, hungry and vulnerable to boat strikes and predator attacks.
A little known fact about the green sea turtle (named for the greenish colour of their fat), is that they often sunbake on the surface to boost their intake of vitamin D, which is lacking from their mainly vegetarian diet.
The Australian flatback turtle is our only endemic sea turtle, while the olive ridley is the smallest and the hawksbill turtle the most beautiful. Enormous, jellyfish-eating leatherback turtles (800kg and two metres long) can dive to depths of more than 1100 metres, while large-headed loggerheads don't begin mating until they are between 30 and 50 years old!
One of the most accessible places in the far north to encounter sea turtles is off coral-fringed Fitzroy Island, home to the Cairns Turtle Rehabilitation Centre that provides daily educational tours for visitors (www.saveourseaturtles.com.au).
Getting there: Fitzroy Island is located 45 minutes by fast ferry from Cairns.
Camping: Fitzroy Island Resort (www.fitzroyisland.com) manages a beachfront campground with toilets, gas barbecues, drinking water and a picnic shelter.
Fees: $35/night (max 4 people).
Of all the far north's mega bats, the spectacled flying fox is one of the most common and troublesome, mainly because it doesn't mind living in close proximity to us, our city parks and even in our backyards. If it could be described as beautiful, cute or cuddly it might be more beloved, yet the spectacled flying fox (Pteropus conspicillatus) plays a vital role in dispersing rainforest seeds and pollen as it feeds.
Distinguished by the pale fur that rings their eyes like a pair of spectacles, these communal flying foxes roost in large numbers by day and feed in the cool of night when forest flowers open, using their excellent eyesight rather than sonar or echo-location to move around.
A wingspan of up to 1.6m enables them to reach speeds of 40km/h, and they can travel up to 50km each night to feed. Their social structure is very complex and they use more than 20 different calls to communicate with each other. Contrary to popular belief (and the pungent odour of their canopy camps), spectacled flying foxes are very clean animals that constantly groom themselves.
A fixture around the Cairns CBD, they are commonly spotted in the paperbark trees around the city library on Abbott Street. While overnighting in Cairns, the Palm Cove Holiday Park on the beachfront at Palm Cove is a scenic choice.
Getting there: Follow the Captain Cook Highway 27km north of Cairns CBD to Palm Cove and turn left onto Williams Esplanade.
A stunning resident of FNQ's tropical rainforests, this beautiful tropical butterfly is Australia's largest with wings that span over 16cm and display a dramatic canvas of yellow, emerald green and black. While the female is larger, the male Cairns birdwing butterfly (Ornithoptera priamus) is brighter, its wings streaked with vibrant green alongside a sunny yellow and red body.
Equally attractive and endemic to the far north, the brilliant Ulysses butterfly (Papilio ulysses) is one of the brightest in the rainforest, with electric blue wings edged in black. If you live in the region, planting the lovely euodia tree will lure the Ulysses who love the small pink flowers.
The far north's Wet Tropics World Heritage Area harbours more than 60 per cent of Australia's butterfly species in forests that stretch from Townsville to Cooktown. One of best – and wettest – places to go butterfly spotting is Babinda Boulders, a magnificent rainforested waterhole nestled beneath Mt Bartle Frere, Queensland's highest mountain (1622m). There's a picnic area, free campground and a walking track that leads to Devils Pool Lookout (940m return).
Getting there: Turn-off the Bruce Highway at Babinda, 60km south of Cairns, and continue for 5km to the Boulders.
Camping: Unpowered campsites come with toilets, coldwater showers, fireplaces, picnic tables and rubbish bins (72 hour limit).


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Historic Brunswick building to house new steakhouse
The restaurant, in a 19th-century building, will have two dining rooms, a bar and a grand ballroom for hosting events.
By Meredith GoadStaff Writer
Becky Marcos, one of the owners of The Odd Duck, a new steakhouse in Brunswick, checks over renovations. Photo by Dirk Yeaton
A historic Brunswick building built as a hotel in the mid-1800s will become an upscale steakhouse and venue for community events this spring.
Chef Dirk Yeaton said he and his business partners hope to open The Odd Duck, as it is tentatively called, at 11 Pleasant St. in mid-May. The investors in the project are John Stadler, father of well-known restaurateur Cara Stadler, whose Asian restaurant Tao Yuan is located right down the street, and Becky Marcos and Wayne Bartlett, owners of the Lighthouse Variety & Deli.
The restaurant will have two connected dining rooms on the first floor, Yeaton said, one for serving brunch six days a week and one for dinner. The second floor, which the owners are calling "the mezzanine," will have a grand piano for live music and a separate bar called "The Conference Room" – actually in an old conference room – that will seat 20 to 25.
The third floor – which has "big, beautiful hardwood floors," Yeaton said – will be designated "the Grand Ballroom." It will have table seating for about 120 people and, with a new stage, will "host great bands," he said. The new owners envision that floor as a community space that could be used for everything from private dinners and business meetings to dance classes.
Twice Told Tales, the used bookstore run by the Friends of Curtis Memorial Library, will remain in the basement of the building but after renovations will have its own separate entrance, Yeaton said.
Yeaton most recently worked for Marcos and Bartlett at the Lighthouse Deli. Previously, he worked at The Sinful Kitchen and Salty Sally's in Portland, the Pig + Poet in Camden, and as a "grill sergeant" at Kendall Jackson vineyards and winery in California, pairing food and wine. Portlanders may remember him as the chef/owner of the Blue House Cafe on Brighton Avenue, which closed in 2008.
At the Odd Duck, Yeaton said, "I've got a much bigger kitchen, so I'll have all the storage and refrigeration I'll need to do some upscale home cooking with a twist."
The restaurant will have a chef's table for private parties, guest chefs, demonstrations and wine tastings, Yeaton said.
While the partners in the restaurant collectively felt that Brunswick needed a steakhouse, Yeaton said the Odd Duck will be "a steakhouse that isn't just steak." He plans on serving dishes such as local lamb, lobster and farm-fresh vegetables when they are available. "I'll even have vegan dishes," he said. "We'll have plenty of options for those who aren't carnivores."
Yeaton plans to buy meats and produce from local farmers; additionally, Marcos and Bartlett plan to develop a farm for the restaurant on 26 acres they own in Brunswick, with farmers living on site. The farm will include some commercial lavender fields.
Yeaton acknowledged that it will be tough to find enough sources of local beef to satisfy the needs of a steakhouse. He said he's been talking with Massachusetts-based Kinnealey Meats, which has contracted with several Maine meat producers, about sourcing as much local meat as possible through them. Yeaton said he envisions a wide range of prices on the menu, from a couple of affordable steaks under $20 to a tomahawk steak for $70 or more for the rare guest who wants one.
Much of the restaurant's interior will be crafted by Maine makers, including a family table in one of the dining rooms made of Maine heritage wood. Bench seating in the breakfast dining room will be made by local woodmakers, and come with cushions made by local sailmakers.
"Rather than go through national vendors," Yeaton said, "we want to do local as much as possible."
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Reflections of an Iranian dissident in exile.
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Goodbye to the Syrian intellectual who sought to liberate his homeland
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Il caleidoscopio o calidoscopio (dal greco καλός kalós "bello", εἶδος eîdos "figura, forma, immagine" e σκοπέω scopéo "osservo") è uno strumento ottico che si serve di specchi e frammenti di vetro o plastica colorati per creare una molteplicità di strutture simmetriche.

Il più rudimentale caleidoscopio conosciuto è formato da un semplice tubo di cartone rivestito internamente di almeno due specchi (montati solitamente fra loro in modo da formare angoli di 60°); nella parte anteriore, separati dal corpo centrale da un vetro rotondo trasparente, sono inseriti dei frammenti colorati di varie forme e colori. Un vetro smerigliato chiude il tubo all'estremità.

Appoggiando l'occhio ad un'estremità (come guardando in un cannocchiale) e ruotando l'intero strumento, o la parte terminale mobile (nei modelli più complessi), è possibile vedere delle figure geometriche simmetriche colorate, generatesi dall'unione dell'immagine diretta dei frammenti e di quelle create dalle riflessioni negli specchi; continuando a ruotare il caleidoscopio stesso, le figure mutano e cambiano colore e forma, senza mai ripetersi.

Funzionamento
Nel caso di caleidoscopi formati da due specchi, la forma dell'immagine risultante all'occhio dell'osservatore ricorda un fiore a sei petali; di questi sei settori uno è generato dall'immagine diretta dei frammenti di vetro mentre gli altri cinque sono le immagini riflesse. Se gli specchi sono tre, le immagini sono molte di più; il loro numero dipende dal numero di riflessioni multiple che si hanno lungo gli specchi. Ciò dipende non solo dalla lunghezza del tubo ma anche dalla qualità delle superfici; se gli specchi non sono di ottima fattura, saranno visibili solamente le riflessioni principali.

Varianti
Oltre al caleidoscopio classico, sopra menzionato, vi sono altri accorgimenti e varianti ideati per rendere le immagini ancora più insolite:

 I frammenti di vetro possono venire immersi in olio, variando il modo in cui le forme mutano e si muovono;
Si può sostituire al vetro frontale smerigliato una lente, trasformando lo strumento in una sorta di cannocchiale. L'immagine proveniente dall'esterno va a sostituire i pezzi di vetro, ed è quindi essa che va a riflettersi e origina le forme; può essere inoltre presente una lente sferica più piccola per deformare l'immagine così ottenuta: in questo caso lo strumento prende il nome di taumascopio.
 Gli specchi possono non essere paralleli ma rastremati a un'estremità;
 Possono essere inseriti dei filtri polarizzatori, in modo da variare luminosità e colori ottenuti.
 Al posto dei frammenti di vetro si possono utilizzare dei LED controllati elettronicamente, per garantire una maggiore gamma di colori ottenibili.

Caleidoscopio come figura retorica

Il "caleidoscopio", in ambito narrativo, è anche una delle figure retoriche accostate all'entrelacement, tipo di narrazione in cui è presente un continuo intreccio di storie, proprio riferito alla molteplicità di figure (immagini) che si possono scorgere in esso.

Bibliografia
Walker Jearl (1986), Scienza in casa, Le Scienze n.210, febbraio 1986, pp. 42–50

Voci correlate
 Taumascopio

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Precinema
Specchi

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