Dancers Audition The New Archangel Dancers' annual auditions for women between the ages of 21 and 47 are being held 6:30-9 p.m. on Oct. 21 and 28 at 208 Smith Street.
Those who enjoy a good workout, contributing to their community, and making new friends, may consider joining. For more information contact Linda at 747-8316.
Community Education and Professional Development at UAS Sitka Campus is offering a marine hydraulics course online. The six-hour online course is designed for users of marine hydraulics specifically for commercial fishing vessels.
Students will learn the basic theory of common hydraulic systems, identify hydraulic components, learn the nomenclature associated with hydraulics, and basic troubleshooting techniques. The cost is $95.
Dates are Oct. 1-4 and Nov. 5-8. Courses are self-paced.
Call 747-7786 for more details or register online at https://aceweb.uas.alaska.edu/wconnect/ace/home.htm.
On Saturday, tens of thousands of volunteers will visit their favorite parks, beaches, wildlife preserves, or forests and chip in to help improve them while taking part in National Public Lands Day.
At Sitka National Historical Park, park cleanup is 1:30-3 p.m., beginning at the visitor center, followed by a photo contest at 3 p.m. and Park Prescriptions drawing at 3:30.
NPLD, the largest, single-day volunteer event for public lands in the country, brings together volunteers from coast to coast to improve and restore the lands and facilities that Americans use for recreation, education, exercise and just plain enjoyment.
Sitkans are invited to join the Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, volunteers and staff at Sitka National Historical Park as they celebrate the 20th annual event. It will be held in conjunction with the Ocean Conservancy and Turning the Tides as a way to contribute to the International Coastal Cleanup Day.
Volunteers are being asked to meet at the visitor center at 1:30 p.m. for some light refreshments. Margo O'Connell of the Sitka Sound Science Center will give a short introduction about the importance of cleaning up beaches followed by a joint effort to clean up trash in the park. Prizes will be given to all volunteers and a Golden Ticket Mystery Word Treasure Hunt is set for young participants. Trash bags, safety vests, and protective gloves will be provided.
The photo contest awards ceremony will be 3 p.m.-3:30 p.m. All are invited to join Ranger Jasa Woods in the visitor center for the announcement of the winners of the park's annual photo contest. The photos will be on display in the visitor center lobby through the end of October.
The Park Prescriptions prize drawing will be 3:30 p.m. The Sitka Community Hospital Foundation will sponsor a second drawing for a $100 cash prize for qualified Park Prescriptions participants. The last prize winner used the money to purchase new walking shoes. Information about how to sign up for this healthy initiative also will be available.
To learn more about the nationwide celebration, visit http://www.publiclandsday.org.
Learn more at www.nps.gov/sitk or visit the Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/#!/SitkaNationalHistoricalPark.
The Alaska High School Graduation Qualifying Exam Re-takes will be held at Sitka High School Oct. 1 (reading), Oct. 2 (writing) and Oct. 3 (math).
Students are being encouraged to leave cell phones at home. Testing starts at 8:50 a.m. on test days. Students will be notified if they are scheduled to test. Call Sitka High School with questions, 747-3263.
At Sunday's Unitarian Fellowship a program of poetry will continue the exploration of language and faith. Fellowship starts at 10:30 a.m. with the program at 10:45. Children's religious education runs concurrently.
Participants are invited to take their favorite poems that have affected their spirits. If possible, poems should be on 8-inch-by-11-inch paper, to be decorated and then included in a Fellowship Book of Poetry.
Soup and bread will follow at noon. The Unitarian Hall is located at 408 Marine, with parking behind, off Spruce Street.
Hames Center is offering another spin class to learn the fundamentals and keys to spinning in this four-week session. Initial bike set up, proper core movements, and heart rate training will be the focus. Class is held Wednesdays at 5:30 p.m. and Saturdays at 8 a.m. Oct. 9-Nov. 2.
Classes will begin with 30-minute rides and progress to 50 minutes. Open to all fitness levels. Check out www.hamescenter.com for more information or call the front desk at 747-5080.
Sitka's Island Institute is one of four Alaska organizations selected to help launch the new Rasmuson Artist Residency Program this fall. Nonfiction writer Marjorie Gellhorn Sa'adah, in Sitka through mid-November, is among four RARP Fellows invited to come to Alaska from the Lower-48 for eight-week residencies this fall. In Spring 2014 four Alaskan artists will participate in similar visits at partnering residency centers down south. The program is fully funded by the Rasmuson Foundation.
Sitkans are invited to meet Sa'adah at a public talk and reading at Kettleson Library on 7 p.m. Oct. 1. Conversation and refreshments will follow.
After two decades of developing and leading innovative programs in community health, Sa'adah has turned to creative writing as a way to pursue her interests and contribute to the life of her community. She both writes and teaches nonfiction, and is particularly interested in introducing teenagers to the power and practice of creative writing. She has launched writing programs in probation camps, high schools and nonprofits in rural and urban communities, and will be working with Pacific High School students each week she's in Sitka.
In much of her work, Sa'adah has chosen to highlight stories about people whose lives, work and communities have not yet been well documented in writing. A perfect example is her current work in progress, At Home in the Going, a memoir and intimate portrait of skilled workers behind the scenes at some of California's Thoroughbred racetracks. Sa'adah's Sitka residency will allow her time to complete work on the book and draft a proposal to seek publication.
Sa'adah is a graduate of Hamilton College, and received her master's degree in ethics from the Episcopal Divinity School. She teaches creative nonfiction at the Sewanee Young Writers' Conference. Her writing has been awarded fellowships from Sundance, PEN USA, the Durfee Foundation, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Hedgebrook, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the MacDowell Colony. Her essays appear in anthologies, journals, and the Op-Ed and Book Review pages of the Los Angeles Times. She currently lives in New Hampshire, and can be found every summer haying the steep slopes of her family's farm in the Catskill Mountains of New York.
For more information about Sa'adah's residency, contact the Island Institute at 747-3794. To learn more about the Rasmuson Artist Residency Program, contact Program Officer Jayson Smart at the Rasmuson Foundation at 877-366-2700.
Ultimate Frisbee pickup will be held at the upper Moller Field on the turf 6:30-8 p.m. Thursdays and noon-2 p.m. Sundays. All are invited to play.
For more information contact Taylor at 738-1798 or visit Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/SitkaULTIMATE/.
The Sitka Tribe of Alaska Council will meet noon Oct. 2 for an action-only meeting, at Sheet'ka Kwaan Naa Kahidi..
Tabitha Lou Leeseberg was born 1:25 p.m. Sept. 17 at Sitka Community Hospital.
At birth, the infant weighed 9 pounds, 1 ounce, and was 19.5 inches long.
Parents are Mariah Lyn Leeseberg and Christopher A. Leeseberg of Sitka. The mother is employed at the Alaska Department of Fish and Game and the father with the U.S. Forest Service.


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April 5 coronavirus news
By Joshua Berlinger, Jenni Marsh, Rob Picheta, Peter Wilkinson, Fernando Alfonso III and Amir Vera, CNN
Updated 9:30 p.m. ET, April 5, 2020
The figures: The novel coronavirus has infected more than 1.2 million people and killed more than 68,000 worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University.
The US: There are more than 331,000 recorded cases and more than 9,400 deaths, with 1,344 of those reported on Saturday — the nation's largest single-day death toll.
Spain's death toll: On Sunday, 674 people died in Spain from coronavirus, bringing the total to 12,418 deaths. That is a rise of 5.7% but in percentage terms, it's the lowest daily rise since early March.
1:01 p.m. ET, April 5, 2020
Louisiana governor says state could run out of ventilators by end of the week
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards speaks inside the Louisiana Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness in Baton Rouge on April 3. Gerald Herbert/AP
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards on Sunday said his state could run out of ventilators by the end of the week if the number of confirmed coronavirus cases continues to surge in his state.
"Every day we get new information that informs our modeling. We now think it's probably around the 9th of April before we exceed our ventilator capacity based on the current number on hand and that we're a couple of days behind that on ICU bed capacity being exceeded," he told CNN this morning. "As we achieve success in slowing the rate of spread, we also push out that date. And critically important is the number of people who will present to the hospital and not be able to get a (ventilator) or a bed, it's a smaller number."
By the numbers: Louisiana has emerged as one of several coronavirus hot spots across the United States with a surge in the number of confirmed coronavirus cases and deaths.
The state has more than 12,000 cases and more than 400 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University's tally of cases.
Early Sunday, the nationwide death toll had gone up to at least 8,503 people, with at least 312,245 infected, according to the data compiled by Johns Hopkins.
New York surgeon writes letter about rationing care for patients who don't have the coronavirus
From CNN's Elizabeth Cohen, John Bonifield and Minali Nigam
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In a haunting letter to his friends and colleagues, a Columbia University surgeon describes how coronavirus has forced doctors to ration care for very sick patients who don't have the virus, but still need medical procedures.
"We have had to make decisions that I personally have never had to contemplate before," wrote Dr. Emile Bacha, director of the pediatric and congenital cardiac surgery at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. "We have had to ration care and make decisions about who is considered an urgent or emergent case."
Bacha explains that nurses have been deployed to care for coronavirus patients, and that safety gear is scarce.
"The lack of Personal Protective Equipment is galling. Who would have thought that a simple plain surgical mask, something we use and discard multiple times a day during normal times, would become a rationed product in one of the richest cities in the world?" he wrote.
He said his pediatric heart surgery program was down to one operating team, "barely."
US Northern Command deploys 1,000 medical personnel to New York City
From CNN's Jamie Crawford
US Northern Command, which oversees US military operations in North America, said it was "deploying a combined total of 1,000 Air Force and Navy medical providers to the New York City area in next 3 days," according to a press release sent Sunday.
"Approximately 300 of these uniformed medical providers will work from the Javits Center and the rest will deploy to other area locations to expand local medical capabilities in the war against Covid-19," the release said.
During an interview with CNN, Defense Secretary Mark Esper spoke of the effort.
"The mayor and I talked as recently as Thursday. I spoke to the governor on Friday. What we plan on doing now is deploying over 1,100 additional doctors, nurses, and other medical personnel to New York. The bulk of them will go to the Javits Center and then as of late yesterday, we agreed to deploy a few hundred of them to 11 New York City hospitals that are also seeing a deficiency when it comes to medical staff," Esper said on CNN Sunday morning.
New Jersey has secured 500 additional ventilators, the governor says
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy tours the new Field Medical Station at the Meadowlands Exposition Center on April 2. Michael Mancuso/NJ Advance Media via AP
The state of New Jersey has secured about 500 additional ventilators after having "multiple" conversations with the White House, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy tweeted Sunday.
The tweet goes on to say, ventilators are the state's top need right now.
"I won't stop fighting to get us the equipment we need to save every life we can," Murphy said.
Read Murphy's tweet:
West Virginia limits gatherings to no more than 5 people in multiple counties
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice in 2019. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice is expanding an executive order he issued Friday limiting gatherings to no more than five people to include three more counties.
Monongalia, Harrison and Kanawha counties are now included in an order which originally included Berkeley, Jefferson and Morgan counties, Justice said in a press release.
These are the restrictions, according to the governor:
Limiting groups to a maximum of five people.
Directing all businesses to require employees to work from home to the maximum extent possible.
Directing the local health departments to establish the maximum occupancy of and proper social distance within essential businesses and taking action to enforce these health regulations.
Directing the West Virginia National Guard to provide logistical support and services to assist county agencies.
Directing the West Virginia State Police to assist with enforcement of local county orders.
12:48 p.m. ET, April 5, 2020
Various coronavirus treatments are being tested in New York, governor says
A coronavirus vaccine and other treatments to fight the virus are being tested, according to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.
He said doctors in New York are working with the Food and Drug Administration. Some of the treatments that are being tested are the use of plasma, antibody treatment and the use of hydroxychloroquine.
Cuomo also said they are testing a rapid testing programs which could play a part in protecting vulnerable populations and getting people back to work.
"We liberate people who go back to work because we know that they're not in a vulnerable category and they're negative," he said. "That is going to be the answer, I believe."
11:33 a.m. ET, April 5, 2020
Fauci on coronavirus in US: "We are struggling to get it under control"
From CNN's Nicky Robertson
Dr. Anthony Fauci speaks in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on April 1. Alex Brandon/AP
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease specialist, says the US does not have the coronavirus under control, "to say we have it under control, Margaret, would be a false statement. We are struggling to get it under control."
Fauci warned Americans in an interview on CBS with Margaret Brennan, that "it is going to be a bad week" ahead as there is an escalation in cases, but that "within a week or a little bit more" we should see the curve begin to flatten.
He again underscored the importance of social distancing measures, and said that mitigation is working.
Fauci said that it was crucial for the coronavirus to get "globally under control," or it could become seasonal. He also said that efforts for a vaccine and the beginning of clinical trials will hopefully mean the US is more prepared if there is a resurgence of the virus.
This morning Fauci said in the next week or two the US will have a much greater capacity to perform the types of testing needed before society can return to normal, though they are not "100% there yet."
Some context: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention changed its guidelines, recommending that Americans wear some sort of face protection when out in public.
When if Fauci wears a mask, he said that if he goes into a situation where he cannot control whether or not he is 6ft away from people, that he would and does wear a mask. He said the mask is an "adjunct to help protect you and protect others."
New York hospitals are "being asked to do the impossible," governor says
From CNN's Elise Hammond
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the health care system is facing operational challenges due to hospitals being over capacity.
"They are being asked to do the impossible," Cuomo said.
He said hospitals are being asked to manage the same amount of staff and resources.
"That is putting a tremendous amount of stress on the health care system," Cuomo said. "You're asking a system to do more than it has ever done before, more than it was designed to do with less."
He said the way to get through it is to use a surge and flex the system to balance the patient load between private and public hospitals in the area.
Pentagon workers told to bring face coverings to work Monday
From CNN's Barbara Starr
Some Pentagon workers began receiving emails from their office administrators over the weekend to come to work Monday with at least one face covering, according to an official who received one of the messages.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper said during an interview Sunday that such a directive for Defense Department staff and troops would likely be coming very soon following recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday.
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Always check a module in cleaner than when you checked it out." No matter who the original author was, what if we always made some effort, no matter how small, to improve the module. What would be the result? I think if we all followed that simple rule, we'd see the end of the relentless deterioration of our software systems. Instead, our systems would gradually get better and better as they evolved. We'd also see teams caring for the system as a whole, rather than just individuals caring for their own small little part.
I'm wary of any development practices that cause friction for opportunistic refactoring ... My sense is that most teams don't do enough refactoring, so it's important to pay attention to anything that is discouraging people from doing it. To help flush this out be aware of any time you feel discouraged from doing a small refactoring, one that you're sure will only take a minute or two. Any such barrier is a smell that should prompt a conversation. So make a note of the discouragement and bring it up with the team. At the very least it should be discussed during your next retrospective.
Where I work, there is one development practice that causes heavy friction - Code Review (CR). Whenever I change anything that's not in the scope of my "assignment" I'm being rebuked by my reviewers that I'm making the change harder to review. This is especially true when refactoring is involved, since it makes "line by line" diff comparison difficult. This approach is the standard here, which means opportunistic refactoring is seldom done, and only "planned" refactoring (which is usually too little, too late) takes place, if at all.
As you add the functionality, you realize that some code you're adding contains some duplication with some existing code, so you need to refactor the existing code to clean things up... You may get something working, but realize that it would be better if the interaction with existing classes was changed. Take that opportunity to do that before you consider yourself done.
(2) Nobody is going to look favorably at you releasing "refactoring" CRs you were not supposed to do. A CR has a certain overhead and your manager doesn't want you to "waste your time" on refactoring. When it's bundled with the change you're supposed to do, this issue is minimized.
The issue is exacerbated by Resharper, as each new file I add to the change (and I can't know in advance exactly which files would end up changed) is usually littered with errors and suggestions - most of which are spot on and totally deserve fixing.
The end result is that I see horrible code, and I just leave it there. Ironically, I feel that fixing such code not only will not improve my standings, but actually lower them and paint me as the "unfocused" guy who wastes time fixing things nobody cares about instead of doing his job. I feel bad about it because I truly despise bad code and can't stand watching it, let alone call it from my methods!
Any thoughts on how I can remedy this situation ?
OK, so there are now more things here than are suitable for a comment.
Your intuition about what you ought to do (refactoring as you go) is correct.
Your difficulty implementing this - given that you have to work around a poor code review system - comes down to your difficulty manipulating your source code and VCS. Multiple people have said that you can and should split your changes (yes, even within files) into multiple commits, but you seem to have difficulty believing this.
You really can do this. That really is what we're suggesting. You really should learn to get the most out of your editing, source manipulation and version control tools. If you invest the time in learning how to use them well, it makes life much easier.
I'd make essentially the same recommendation as GlenH7 that you create two commits - one with only refactorings and (demonstrably or obviously) no functional changes, and one with the functional changes in question.
It may be useful though, if you're finding lots of errors, to pick a single category of error to fix within a single CR. Then you have one commit with a comment like "dedupe code", "fix type-X errors", or whatever. Because this makes a single type of change, presumably in multiple places, it should be trivial to review. It does mean you can't fix every error you find, but may make it less painful to smuggle through.
You mentioned you're using TFS - which I believe is compatible with git since TFS2013. It may be worth experimenting with using a local git clone of the repo to work in. If this is disabled or doesn't work for you, you can still import the source into a local git repo, work in there, and use it to export your final commits.
make all your changes, test, etc.
Now you have two commits, with your changes partitioned appropriately.
Note there are probably tools to make this patch management easier - I just don't use them since git does it for me.
I'm going to assume that Change Requests are big and formal at your company. If not, just make the changes (where possible) into many small commits (like you're supposed to).
Any thoughts on how I can remedy this situation?
Continue doing what you're doing?
I mean, all of your thoughts and deductions are entirely correct. You should fix things you see. People don't do planned refactoring enough. And that benefit to the whole group is more important than inconveniencing a few.
What may help is to be less combative. Code reviews shouldn't be combative "Why did you do that?", they should be collaborative "Hey guys, while I was here I fixed up all this stuff!". Working (with your lead/manager if possible) to change that culture is tough, but pretty vital to create a high functioning development team.
You can also work (with your lead/manager if possible) to advance the importance of these ideas with your colleagues. Make it into you asking "why don't you guys care about quality?" instead of them asking "why are you always doing these useless things?".
Why don't you do both, but with separate commits?
Your peers have a point. A code review should evaluate the code that was changed by someone else. You shouldn't touch the code that you are reviewing for someone else as that biases your role as a reviewer.
But if you see a number of glaring issues, there are two options you can follow.
If the code review was otherwise fine, the allow the portion you reviewed to be committed and then refactor the code under a second check-in.
If the code review had issues that needed correction, request the developer to refactor based upon the Resharper recommendations.
First, I think you have (at least) two problems with your culture, not just one. One problem is the approach to refactoring, but the code reviews seem like a distinct problem. I'll try to separate my thoughts.
I was in a group that HATED code reviews. The group was formed by merging two groups from separate parts of the company. I came from the group that had been doing code reviews for several years, with generally good results. Most of us believed code reviews were a good use of our time. We merged into a larger group, and as near as we could tell, that "other" group had never even heard of code reviews. Now we were all working on "their" code base.
Things were not well when we merged. New features were 6-12 months late, year after year. The bug backlog was huge, growing, and life-draining. Code ownership was Strong, especially among the most senior "gurus". "Feature branches" sometimes lasted years and spanned a few releases; sometimes NOBODY but a single developer saw the code before it hit the main branch. Actually "feature branch" is misleading, since it suggests the code was somewhere in the repository. More often it was only on the developer's individual system.
Management agreed that we needed to "do something" before quality became unacceptably low. :-) Their answer was Code Reviews. Code Reviews became an official "Thou Shalt" item, to precede every check-in. The tool we used was Review Board.
The tool you use tends to focus code reviews in certain ways. This can be a problem. Review Board gives you nice, colorful line-by-line diffs and lets you attach comments to a line. This makes most developers ignore all the lines that didn't change. That's fine for small, isolated changes. It's not so good for big changes, large hunks of new code, or code that has 500 instances of a renamed function mixed with 10 lines of new functionality.
Even though we were in an old, sick code base that had mostly never been reviewed before, it became "impolite" for a reviewer to comment on anything that was NOT a change line, even to point out an obvious bug. "Don't bother me, this is an important check-in and I don't have time to fix bugs."
Shop for an "easy" reviewer. Some folks will look at a 10-file review with 2000 changed lines for 3 minutes and click "Ship It!". Everyone quickly learns who those people are. If you really don't want your code reviewed in the first place, send it to an "easy" reviewer. You check-in will not be slowed down. You can return the favor by becoming an "easy" reviewer for his code.
If you hate code reviews, just ignore the emails you get from Review Board. Ignore the follow-ups from your team members. For weeks. Until you have 3 dozen open reviews in your queue and your name comes up in group meetings a few times. Then become an "easy" reviewer and clear all your reviews before lunchtime.
Avoid sending your code to a "hard" reviewer. (The sort of developer who would ask or answer a question like this one.) Everyone quickly learns who the "hard" reviewers are, just as they learn the easy ones. If code reviews are a Waste Of Time (™), then reading detailed feedback about the code you OWN is both Waste Of Time (™) and an insult.
When code reviews are painful, people put them off and keep writing more code. You get fewer code reviews, but each one is BIG. You need more, smaller code reviews, which means the team needs to figure out how to make them as painless as possible.
I thought I was going to write a few paragraphs about Code Reviews, but it turns out I was mostly writing about culture. I guess it boils down to this: code reviews can be good for a project, but a team gets only the benefits they deserve to get.
Did my group despise refactoring even more than it hated code reviews? Of course! For all the obvious reasons that have already been mentioned. You're wasting my time with an icky code review, and you're not even adding a feature or fixing a bug!
But the code was still in desperate need of refactoring. How to proceed?
Never mix a refactoring change with a functional change. A number of people have mentioned this point. If code reviews are a friction point, don't increase the friction. It's more work, but you should plan on a separate review and a separate check-in.
Start small. Very small. Even smaller than that. Use very small refactorings to gradually teach people that refactoring and code reviews aren't pure evil. If you can sneak in one tiny refactoring per week without too much pain, in a couple of months you might be able to get away with two per week. And they can be a little bigger. Better than nothing.
We had essentially NO unit tests. So refactoring is forbidden, right? Not necessarily. For some changes, the compiler is your unit test. Focus on refactorings that you can test. Avoid changes if they can't be tested. Maybe spend the time writing unit tests instead.
Some developers are scared of refactoring because they are scared of ALL code changes. It took me a long time to recognize this type. The write a chunk of code, fiddle with it until it "works", and then NEVER want to change it. They don't necessarily understand WHY it works. Change is risky. They don't trust themselves to make ANY change, and they certainly won't trust you. Refactoring is supposed to be about small, safe changes that don't alter behavior. There are developers for whom the very idea of a "change that doesn't alter behavior" is inconceivable. I don't know what to suggest in these cases. I think you have to try to work in areas that they don't care about. I was surprised when I learned that this type can have long, stable careers as software developers.
I personally hate the idea of of post commit code reviews. Code review should happen, as you make the code changes. What I am of course talking about here is pair programming. When you pair, you get the review for free and you get a better code review. Now, I am expressing my opinion here, I know others share this, there are probably studies that prove this.
If you can get your code reviewers to pair with you, the combative element of code review should evaporate. When you start making a change that isn't understood, the question can be raised at the point of change, discussed and alternatives explored which may lead to better refactorings. You will get a higher quality code review as the pair will be able to understand the wider scope of the change, and not focus so much on line by line changes which is what you get with side by side code compare.
Of course this isn't a direct answer to the problem of refactorings being outside the scope of the change being worked on but I would expect that your peers would better understand the reasoning behind the changes if they where there when you made the change.
As an aside, assuming you are doing TDD or some form of red green refactor, one way to ensure that you get engagement from your peer is to use the ping pong pairing technique. Simply explained as the driver is rotated for each step of the RGR cycle, i.e. pair 1 writes a failing test, pair 2 fixes it, pair 1 refactors, pair 2 write a failing test.... and so on.
Probably this problem reflect a much bigger problem with the organization culture. People seems more interested in do "his work" right than in make the product better, probably this company has a "blame" culture instead of a colaborative culture and the people seems more interested in cover itself than in have a whole product/company vision.
In my opinion, you are completly right, the people who review your code are completely wrong if they have complains because you "touch" things outside "your assignment", try to convince those people but never be against your principles, for me this is the most important quality of a true professional.
And if do the right thing give you bad numbers in some stupid corporation way to evaluate your work, what the problem?, who want to "win" this evaluation game in a insane company?, try to change it!, and if imposible or you are tired, find another place, but never, never be against your principles, is the best you have.
Sometimes, refactoring is a bad thing. Not for the reasons that your code reviewers are giving, though; it sounds like they don't really care about the quality of the code, and you do care, which is awesome. But there are two reasons that should stop you from refactoring: 1. You can't test the changes you made with automated tests (unit tests or whatever) or 2. You're making changes to some code that you don't understand very well; i.e., you don't have the domain specific knowledge to know what changes you should make.
1. Don't refactor when you can't test the changes you made with automated tests.
The person doing your code review needs to be able to be sure that the changes you made did not break anything that used to work. This is the biggest reason to leave working code alone. Yes, it would definitely be better to refactor that 1000 line long function (that really is an abomination!) into a bunch of functions, but if you can't automate your tests then it can be really hard to convince others that you did everything right. I have definitely made this mistake before.
Before refactoring, make sure there are unit tests. If there are not unit tests, write some! Then refactor away, and your code reviewers will have no (legitimate) excuse for being upset.
Don't refactor pieces of code that require Domain-specific knowledge you don't have.
The place I work has a lot of chemical engineering-heavy code. The code base uses the idioms common to chemical engineers. Never make changes that are idiomatic to a field. It might seem like a great idea to rename a variable called x to molarConcentration, but guess what? In all the chemistry texts, molar concentration is represented with an x. Renaming it makes it harder to know what is actually going on in the code for people in that field.
Instead of renaming idiomatic variables, just put comments explaining what they are. If they are not idiomatic, please rename them. Don't leave the i, j, k, x, y, etc. floating around when better names will work.
We have the following concepts which we always abbreviate when talking about them: "Area of Concern" becomes "AOC", "Vapor cloud explosion" becomes VCE, stuff like that. In our code base, somebody refactored all the instances called aoc to AreaOfConcern, VCE to vaporCloudExplosion, nPlanes to confiningPlanesCount... which made the code actually much harder to read for people that had the domain specific knowledge. I've been guilty of doing stuff like this too.
This might not actually apply in your situation at all, but there are my thoughts on the issue.
This question now has two distinct issues - ease of reviewing changes in code reviews, and time spent on refactoring.
Where I work, there is one development practice that causes heavy friction - Code Review (CR). Whenever I change anything that's not in the scope of my "assignment" I'm being rebuked by my reviewers that I'm making the change harder to review.
As other answers have said - can you separate the refactoring checkins from the code change checkins (not necessarily as separate reviews)? Depending on the tool you're using to do code review you should be able to view the diffs between specific revisions only (Atlassian's Crucible definitely does this).
If the refactoring is straightforward and makes the code easier to comprehend (which is all you should be doing if it is just refactoring) then the code review shouldn't take long to complete and should be minimal overhead which is won back in spades when someone has to come and look at the code again in the future. If your bosses aren't able to grok this then you might need to gently nudge them towards some resources which discuss why the Boy Scout Rule leads to a more productive relationship with your code. If you can convince them that the "waste [of] your time" now will save two, five or ten times as much later on when you/someone else comes back to do more work on that code then your problem should go away.
Have you tried bringing these issues to the attention of your colleagues and discussing why they are worth fixing? And can any of them be fixed automatically (assuming you have sufficient test coverage to confirm you haven't broken stuff with the automated refactoring)? Sometimes it isn't "worth your time" to perform a refactoring if it is really nit-picky stuff. Does your entire team use ReSharper? If they do, do you have a shared policy on what warnings/rules are being enforced? If they don't, again perhaps you should be demonstrating where the tool is helping you to identify areas of the code which are possible sources of future pain.
I can remember 25 years or so ago "cleaning up" code that I happened to be working on for other purposes, mostly by reformatting comment blocks and tabbing/column alignments to make the code neat and therefore easier to understand (no actual functional changes). I happen to like code that's neat and well-ordered. Well, the senior developers were furious. It turns out they used some sort of file compare (diff) to see what had changed, compared to their personal copies of the file, and now it was giving all sorts of false positives. I should mention that our code library was on a mainframe and had no version control -- you basically overwrote whatever was there, and that was it.
The moral of the story? I dunno. I guess it's that sometimes you can't please anyone except yourself. I wasn't wasting time (in my eyes) -- the cleaned up code was easier to read and understand. It's just that the primitive change control tools used by others put some extra one-shot work on them. The tools were too primitive to ignore space/tabbing and reflowed comments.
If you can split the requested change and the unrequested refactor into (a lot of) separate commits, as noted by @Useless, @Telastyn and others, then that is the best you can do. You will still be working on a single CR, without the administrative overhead of creating a "refactoring" one. Just keep your commits small and focused.
Instead of giving you some advices in how to do it, I prefer to point you to a much bigger explanation (in fact, a book) from a specialist. This way, you will be able to learn a lot more. Read Working Effectively with Legacy Code (by Michael Feathers). This book can teach you how to do the refactoring, interleaved with the functional changes.
I too am a great believer in The Boyscout Rule and Opportunistic Refactoring. The problem is often in getting management buy in. Refactoring comes with both risk and cost. What management often overlooks is that so too does technical debt.
It's human nature. We're used to dealing with real problems, not trying to prevent them. We're reactive, not proactive.
Software is intangible and so it's hard to understand that, like a car, it needs servicing. No reasonable person would buy a car and never service it. We accept that such negligence would decrease its longevity and, in the long run, be more costly.
Despite the fact that many managers understand this, they are held accountable for changes to production code. There are politics that make it easier to leave well enough alone. Often the person needing convincing is actually above your manager and he simply doesn't want to fight to get your "great ideas" into production.
To be honest, your manager is not always convinced that your remedy is, in fact, as great as you think it is. (Snake oil?) There's salesmanship. It's your job to help him see the benefit.
Management doesn't share your priorities. Put on your management hat and see with management eyes. You'll more likely find the right angle. Be persistent. You'll effect more change by not allowing the first negative response to deter you.
If you can split the requested change and the unrequested refactor into two separate change requests, as noted by @GlenH7, then that is the best you can do. You are then not "the guy who wastes time" but "the guy who works twice as hard".
If you often find yourself in the situation that you cannot split them, because the requested work now needs the unrequested refactor to compile, I would suggest that you insist on having tools to check automatically for coding standards, using the arguments outlined here (the Resharper warnings on their own may be a good candidate, I am not familiar with it). Those arguments are all valid, but there is one extra that you can use to your advantage: having those tests now make it your duty to pass the tests on each commit.
If your company does not want to "waste time on refactoring" (a poor sign on their part), then they should provide to you a "warning suppression" file (each tool has its own mechanism) so that you are not annoyed anymore with such warnings. I say this in order to provide you with options for different scenarios, even worst case. It is also better to have clearly stated agreements between you and your company, also on the expected code quality, rather than implicit assumptions on each side.
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The Sin and Doom, Vol. II – szósty album amerykańskiego zespołu deathcore'owego Impending Doom, wydany 22 czerwca 2018 roku za pośrednictwem wytwórni Entertainment One Music. Za produkcję był odpowiedzialny Christopher Eck, który sprawował również piecze nad debiutanckim albumem grupy zwanym "Nailed. Dead. Risen.". Nakręcono teledyski do piosenek "Everything's Fake" oraz "Paved with Bones", które zostały wydane kolejno 14 maja i 28 czerwca 2018 roku.

Tytuł albumu nawiązuje do pierwszego dema wydanego przez Impending Doom – The Sin and Doom of Godless Men, stąd też dopisek "Vol. II", co może sugerować jego kontynuację, jednakże beż członu "of Godless Men".

Lista utworów
 "The Wretched and Godless" – 03:06
 "Burn" – 02:38
 "War Music" – 05:19
 "Evil" – 02:22
 "Paved with Bones" – 03:22
 "The Serpents Tongue" – 02:57
 "Unbroken" – 04:05
 "Devils Den" – 04:02
 "Everything's Fake" – 03:45
 "Run for Your Life (She Calls)" – 04:11

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 Manny Contreras – gitara
 Eric Correa – gitara
 David Sittig – gitara basowa
 Brandon "B-Town" Trahan – perkusja
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 Christopher Eck – produkcja
 Colin Marks – okładka

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Unfortunately, Swanmore church is closing their doors on the 31st December, meaning there will be no more ringing at Swanmore in 2019 at all.
Our last practice is Friday 21st, 6.30-7.30pm. We will be ringing on Christmas Day and we will be ringing on Sunday the 30th for the last time.
Ringing times for Christmas Day is to be confirmed. Sunday 30th December is 2 till 3.30pm.
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Media goes bonkers for Xbox 360
Written by Geoff Richards
Tags: #360 #gamespot #hard-drive #mtv #pgr3 #specifications #triple-core #xbox360 #xbox-360
Companies: #ati #eurogamer #microsoft
The inescapable news today, Friday 13th May, is that Microsoft have officially unveiled their Xbox successor, now officially dubbed Xbox 360. But, of course, you knew that already didn't you, since the Redmond PR machine has been in overdrive: radio, television, online... it seems that everyone is talking about it - I'm sure even the guys at Sony have some choice thoughts on it.
Will it be any good you ask? Certainly the specifications are indeed impressive: triple-core CPU running at 3.2Ghz, 512Mb RAM, faster-than-X850 graphics by ATI, 20Gb hard drive, wireless controllers, HD output - just about everything next-gen you can think of is there.
There are many, many articles on various websites, so rather than bore you with stuff you may have already read, I decided it makes more sense to just pick & choose the highlights and let you read for yourself.
Kyle Bennett has 5 pages of specifications and typical no-nonsense analysis: he's the first guy I've seen who has busted the "watercooled" hype by pointing out that it's actually just a heatpipe heatsink similar to a Thermalright XP-90 or a smaller version of the Gigabyte G-Power heatsink Rob reviewed last week.
"I walked away from our demonstrations at the Microsoft offices truly impressed with the Xbox 360 feature set. Also I got the feeling that I was not being given a dog and pony show but rather just shown what the true abilities of the Xbox 360 are going to be." said Bennett.
Eurogamer have a good summary of things and promise further instalments analysing the software side of things soon. You can also read Tom's quite amusing "live feed" as he stoically posted updates from 8pm through to 4am as the news hit the net.
Gamespot haven't spared the detail, with a list of some 23 titles known to be destined for Xbox 360, either officially, like my personal favourite Project Gotham Racing 3, or unofficially by spotting the telltale signs, such as the Quake 4 trailer spotted at the taping of MTV's Xbox 360 premiere show.
Indeed, Microsoft set something of a precedent by revealing Xbox 360 for the first time to gamers worldwide on television, through a 30-minute special broadcast on MTV in the US, Europe, Asia and Australia. As expected, for those who don't have access to MTV, a recording found its way onto the Net within hours of the broadcast Stateside, making the later broadcasts in other timezones somewhat redundant for fans who knew where to look.
Unfortunately, the show was high on glitz & glamour and somewhat light on juicy details: two live performances from the band The Killers might suit the MTV audience, but us gamers were left with all too brief glimpses of various titles such as Project Gotham Racing 3, NBA 2K6, and Perfect Dark Zero.
There is now an Official Xbox 360 website, located rather obviously at www.xbox360.com but there is nothing to look at but a handful of photos.
The last word goes to TeamXbox, which has one of the best write-ups I've seen:
The outlook is...can the holiday season get here any faster? The Xbox 360 is certainly a powerful piece of hardware, but it is the overall functionality and the expansion of the Xbox Live features that has us most impressed. Microsoft will be the first to fire a salvo in the next-generation console war, but only time will tell who will come out on top. While the PS3 is rumoured to be more advanced technically, we certainly can't imagine that Sony will have all the bases covered in regards to personalization and the online experience. In the end it will all come down to the games and with franchises like Halo and Perfect Dark, support from developers like Epic Games, BioWare Corp., Mistwalker, Q Entertainment, and nearly every big time publisher, we like the Xbox 360's chances.
I certainly agree: while there are fanboys in each camp, it will ultimately be down to the quality of the games that will swing the majority one way or the other. I seem to be in the minority in not giving a toss if it's backwards compatible or not: I have completed all my Xbox games, and with PGR3 et al to play, why would I ever want to play any first-generation games?
We expect to hear Sony's retaliation in the form of Playstation 3 sometime during next week's E3 show in LA.
I can tell you're just itching to share your thoughts on Xbox360: here's a dedicated thread - go for it!


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Welcome to Chicago!
Perform in Chicago!
Welcome to Chicago! Located on the shore of Lake Michigan, Chicago is a city full of history, beauty, and culture. From the Cubs to Chicago blues, America's third largest city offers something for everyone. Chicago's skyline is among the world's tallest and most dense and is dotted with architectural gems lining the city's unusually wide streets. It is at once a truly gritty, working-class city with a varied and diverse population and an international center of cutting edge visual, performing, and gastronomic arts. In the new millennium, Chicago continues to be an economic powerhouse and major world financial center. Whether performing at one of the city's celebrated museums or alongside a local choir, your ensemble will find Chicago the perfect destination to share your music. The centralized location of the city, unmatched performance venues, and world-class attractions continue to make Chicago one of the most popular destinations in the country.
Enjoy a concert tour of Chicago and let yourself be immersed in all that the Windy City has to offer as you share your music with local people.
DAY 1 | Welcome to Chicago!
Welcome to Chicago! Begin your day with a locally-guided tour of Chicago including the Magnificent Mile, Millennium Park's Cloud Gate, known familiarly as the "bean" and the John Hancock Center. Next, visit historic Navy Pier on Lake Michigan, famous for its 150-foot Ferris wheel. Check in to your hotel and take time to relax and refresh. Tonight, a welcome dinner is served as your tour manager previews the days ahead.
DAY 2 | Navy Pier on Lake Michigan
Start the day with a morning visit to Chicago's Museum Campus, a 57-acre park which surrounds three of the city's most notable museums, all dedicated to the natural sciences. Your visit will include admission to either the Adler Planetarium, the Shedd Aquarium, or the Field Museum of Natural History. Here your ensemble will perform a morning concert for your many fellow visitors.
Later, visit the 35-acre Lincoln Park Zoo, one North America's oldest, and home to over 200 species.
Tonight, travel up to the 103rd floor of the Willis Tower (formerly the Sears Tower), and take in views of the city from the Skydeck. While here,
you may choose to step out onto the Ledge—glass boxes that extended out from the Skydeck, giving you a view straight down 1,353 feet! Tickets to Chicago's beloved Lyric Theatre, Symphony Orchestra or the Chicago Theatre can be arranged.
DAY 3 | Chicago's Museum Campus
This morning, your group may want to explore famed Wrigleyville, the lively residential neighborhood that surrounds the home field of Chicago's beloved Cubs. A guided tour of Wrigley Field can be arranged. Alternatively, cruise the Chicago River on an Architecture River Tour, taking in the city's famed architecture, from major landmarks to hidden treasures.
Later, join a local ensemble for a friendship concert followed by time to mingle and exchange with your hosts.
This evening, a farewell dinner of tasty Chicago specialties is served to your ensemble.
Following breakfast at the hotel, check out and load your motor coach.
Transfer to a local church where your choir has been invited to sing as part of this morning's Worship Service. Following the service, take some time to visit with the congregation.
Depart Chicago and begin your journey home.
Additional days, destinations, and activities can be added to customize this tour for your group.
FRIENDSHIP CONCERTS IN CHICAGO
One of the highlights of traveling as a choir is meeting locals - and, even better, meeting local musicians! Our friendship concerts, a featured experience on our concert tours, are at the heart of our mission to foster cultural connections through music. We benefit from a vast international network in the choral world built over our thirty years' experience of helping choirs share their music both in the United States and abroad. Friendship concerts set the stage for exchange between your choir and local musicians. Your choir will share a venue and a concert program with a host choir from the region. Each choir might give a half-hour public recital in a local church or theater for a community audience. Your singers will have the chance to hear their host choir's repertoire (often showcasing local musical styles) and to share your own repertoire in turn. Fellowship time usually follows the friendship concert, giving both choirs the chance to mingle and enjoy the camaraderie of creating cross-cultural connections through a shared love of music.
Commissioned by the French government in 1673, Louis Joliet and Father Jacques Marquette became the first explorers of Chicago. Around 1780, Chicago's first permanent settler, Jean Baptiste Point DuSable, and his family came to the area. The town of Chicago expanded its boundaries and became a city in March of 1837. The development of the railroad and the Illinois/Michigan Canal in 1848 proved necessary for Chicago's growth. Both helped the city become prominent in the cattle, hog, lumber, and wheat industries and the city's population tripled in the six years following the opening of the canal. As the city continued to grow, there were setbacks along the way, one of the largest being the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, which became a turning point in the history of the city. The citizens of Chicago resurrected the city and even built momentum for more development after the fire. By 1900, Chicago had built the longest cable car and streetcar lines in the world and managed to reverse the flow of the Chicago River. Also during this time, the city became second only to New York in manufacturing activities, and first in the meat packing and rail industries. The remainder of the 20th century brought more architectural advances to Chicago. The Sears Tower (now known as the Willis Tower) was completed in 1973, making Chicago home to the then-tallest building in the world.
THE NAVY PIER
The Navy Pier was built in 1916 as part of the Plan of Chicago developed by city planner David Burnham, which reshaped the city. It was built to serve as a mixed-purpose piece of public infrastructure, with its primary purpose as a cargo facility for lake freighters. However, the Pier was also designed to provide docking space for passenger excursion steamers and to provide cool places for public gatherings and entertainment. For a period in the 1940s, the pier was closed to the public and fully converted to a Navy training center. After WWII, the Navy Pier went to the University of Illinois which used the facility for a two-year undergraduate program primarily serving returning veterans. In 1976, Navy Pier was opened as a public gathering space. Today, the Pier features a large front lawn showcasing massive public art sculptures and an interactive animated fountain as well as over 50 acres of parks, gardens, shops, restaurants and other entertainment.
THE WILLIS TOWER
The Willis Tower (formerly named and still often referred to as the Sears Tower) was the tallest building in the world at the time of its completion in 1973. Standing at 108 stories tall, this well-known skyscraper was originally built by Sears, Roebuck & Co. as an office building to house their many employees who were previously employed in various offices around Chicago. The building is comprised of nine rectangular tubes of different heights that are set into a grid shape. The shortest of these ends at the 50th floor of the building, while the longest continues up to the 108th floor, giving the stepped design its unique and recognizable architectural design. The Skydeck, the observation deck, located on the 103rd floor, offers those brave enough to venture out on it a fantastic view across Lake Michigan and the Illinois plains. Recently, several glass balconies were added to the Skydeck, which extend approximately four feet over Wacker Drive and allow visitors to look through the floor to the street 1,353 feet below.


Loved this recipe; doubled it and had left overs which toast nicely in the toaster to reheat. I used blueberries in mine since they are still fresh local berries to be found.
Hi Lorraine, Great idea to add blueberries too. Thanks.
In the Ingredient s you list Quick Oats. In the instructions you say Rolled Oats. Which is it?
Hi Paul, Quick oats are just thinner rolled oats. You could also use old fashioned rolled oats in the recipe. The main thing is to not use instant oats since they're gluey. Your question made me realize that the wording may confuse others too so I'll update the recipe to make it clear. Enjoy.


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Velodrone
The Airbus A320 this last week became the best-selling jet-airliner ever, though it nearly didn't happen at all. Though the first jet airliner was developed in the UK in the 1950s, manufacturers in the USA dominated the market in the 1960s by taking advantage of the fragmentation of the market in Europe. Only when the British, French, Germans, Dutch and Spanish combined their efforts in the A300 (the first wide-body twin) did it literally take off.
From the outset then, the Airbus story has been one of moving parts around to tally with the expertise located elsewhere. In a very modest way we've replicated that today: the top-end of the flying phone-box being transported on the roof-rack of a Suzuki Jimny 200 miles south to one of the team-members south of Bristol. Here ~ all being well ~ the avionics controlling the motors are to be wired up so that they can be bench-tested with the propellers in place.
We're also offered the expertise of drone-builders Vulcan (http://vulcanuav.com) for fine-tuning the rig for the purposes of control and stability.
So things are finally looking up... literally.
Octobus
Proud of this as it encapsulates the best of my thinking over recent months. It's ready to be transferred to another team-member who will attempt to get it flying independently with a smaller of batteries.
Whilst that's happening I shall continue construction of a 'phone-booth' of 50cm square and 150 tall, large enough to include a seated passenger whose lower legs will nonetheless dangle outside.
Beneath the seat a larger set of batteries will transfer the current up the four columns to the motors that you see above, via an avionics bay contained within a 'dome' that surmounts the centre-section.
The net result will look much like the classic K8 telephone-kiosk (as seen at http://www.the-telephone-box.co.uk/kiosks/k8/) but equipped with eight propellers and able to 'teleport' people who might otherwise have telephoned instead.
Space-Frame
Phone-booth's taking shape at last. I have ordered too few connectors for each of the corners but can crack on with fitting the base meantimes.
The airframe is constructed from a pair of five-metre lengths of inch-by-inch-by-sixteenth alloy divided into four 1375mm stanchions, eight 450mm cross-bars and two 450mm seat-supports that serve at the same time to brace the sides.
I recycle old alloy plate for the base because (a) I don't like waste and (b) it saves me a trip to the stockholder.
Prototypes are meant to be rough and ready in my book. Just seen the Ford v. Ferrari movie for inspiration, with Carroll Shelby given just ninety days to put the GT40 together.
The '40' referred to the maximum height allowable in inches, which is unusual with France having long organised European motor-racing and them normally working in metric.
There has always been a form of tug-of-war between France and Great Britain when it comes to laying down the regulations for these things, however.
Vital Parts
They used to say in the USA, and perhaps they still do, that an idea's worth a dollar, a product's worth ten and a factory's worth a hundred.
One reason for this is that prototype construction proceeds in fits and starts, not least due the availability or otherwise of its 'nuts and bolts'.
I want to strap the two drones that together form the 'motor-head' of the prototype as non-invasively as possible. Every hole in an airframe ~ and not least the portholes, as proved by the De Havilland Comet ~ is a potential focus for failure.
Accordingly I consider those rubber bonnet-straps you see on rally-cars, but settle instead for sprung fasteners of the sort you see above (which is stressed to 90 kilos, incidentally).
Britain's richest native industrialist, James Dyson, has lamented the dearth of factories left in the UK producing these sort of nuts and bolts. Basically they've all gone west, and when in Shanghai I used to buy them by the sackful, they being 'cheap as chips'.
Good to see therefore that these are marked up 'Redditch UK' and therefore sourced from the Midlands, that great heartland of manufacture in this country.
It's not just me, either. Production of the Boeing Dreamliner has been held up at times due to a shortage of rivets...
What I should have done yesterday, I suppose, I've done today. Often however unintended breaks prove beneficial, providing space for new ideas to surface unawares and it is during one such that I finalise my 'best shot' as regards what should be fixed to the top of the flying phone-booth.
And this is it, pitched on the floor in order to check the clearance between motors, propellers and wiring. This stands at an inch and a quarter between opposing blades, which is more than sufficient by my reckoning.
I once shared an airfield with the UK agent for Enstrom helicopters, whose heart-stopping aerobatics in same I also witnessed. He said that to see how far they could ~ literally ~ push the main-rotor in flight without it striking the tail-rotor, they would strap a balsa strip to the tail to see how much it would chop off... it being altogether less critical to flight performance.
Question now is do we try to get this motor-head flying independently before such time as fitting it with the passenger compartment and full-size battery-packs? At least one of the GoFly 'webinistas' advised against flight-testing modules independently, if only to avoid the potential waste of time.
Jymn-astics
Said it before but a great deal of the time and effort involved in pursuing projects is the sheer legwork involved.
We're on the final build of the prototype octocopter, which restores the notion of a flying phone-booth (albeit on a smaller scale to support a seated rather than a standing passenger) and to that end there are two more quadcopter frames to build beside the chassis.
For any number of reasons to I've reverted to a 50-cm square footprint, and am out of foam for the core for each of the drones, so that a trip to the DIY store for a sheet of insulation is required.
I've recently found that altogether preferable to straps is using tape to affix various loads to the roof-rack of the Jimny, although it does require limiting the speed to below 30 m.p.h. on the motorway.
This being the North of England I am treated with indulgence by my fellow motorists, whereas I'd probably have been lynched on the London orbital.
Much development hinges on driving around either purchasing parts or moving them from A to B.
Going forward I've decided to split the prototype development into three in a form of work-share in which Phil will configure the lower quadcopter, Martin the upper whilst I build the intervening chassis.
This entailed a 400-mile round-trip to Somerset yesterday to drop off one of said quads...
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LAWRENCE -- State Rep. and 3rd Congressional District candidate Juana Matias released a detailed plan earlier this month to reduce gun violence while reforming the criminal-justice system.
Matias' plan highlights the disproportionate impact that minority communities feel both from gun violence and administration of criminal justice, arguing that substantial federal changes are needed to protect and support all people equally.
"A conversation about gun violence and criminal justice reform must center on the communities who are affected the most, and in Massachusetts and across the nation that means listening to and advocating for our communities of color impacted by gun violence, women who have survived domestic violence, and young people of all backgrounds demanding safe schools and safe neighborhoods," Matias wrote in a press release alongside the plan.
The gun-violence sections of her plan promote what she calls "common-sense" policies, including universal background checks, reinstating the federal ban on assault weapons and setting the buying age to 21. Matias further proposes stronger limits to prevent individuals with a history of violence and abuse from purchasing weapons, particularly by closing the "boyfriend loophole" in which married domestic abusers are blocked but unmarried ones are not.
The state representative also made numerous suggestions on how to update the justice system, focusing on ways in which the current system profits from jailing individuals and how people of color are affected at the highest rates.
Matias suggested abolishing federal mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent offenses, arguing that they create discriminatory effects for people of color. She said for-profit prisons should be banned and that states should use special prosecutors to investigate police shootings as a means of addressing potential bias while remaining fair to officers.
Federal investment was another major theme, with Matias calling for additional funding in schools to support mental health supports, information-sharing across agencies, diversion strategies and reconciliation-focused approaches to juvenile detention.
She referenced legislation she supported at the Statehouse as a framework, including the Safe Communities Act currently being considered, which would set clear procedures on local law enforcement interactions with ICE and how long undocumented immigrants could be held on detainers.
The full text of Matias' plan is available on her campaign website.


The Knights finally had their full defense back last week for the first time since Week 3.
LAFAYETTE — Central Catholic mixed and matched.
No. 2 guys on the depth chart became starters and the Knights made it work.
But there's something about the continuity of those top 11 guys, a main reason that's the group CC's coaching staff rolled with from the start.
As injuries started to accrue, the chemistry seemed off at times when plugging someone else in or moving players elsewhere.
Last Friday was the first time the Knights had their original starting defense together since Sept. 7.
The result? A 50-0 victory over North White, CC's second shutout of the season. The other came in Week 3 against Northwestern, with the No. 1 defense in full force. A week after that, a 34-0 loss to West Lafayette, was the last time this unit was together.
"We had people step in and they did a good job while people were out, but obviously there's more of a chemistry between our defense when we're all out there together, the people that have been out there since the start of the year," senior linebacker Adam Dienhart said. "I think it showed versus North White. They might not be as good of an opponent as someone else we might meet coming up soon, but I think it was helpful this past week and it will continue to help as we try to move on."
Reece Buche missed games against Tipton, Rensselaer and Twin Lakes. Leading tackler Grant Kennedy missed games against Benton Central and Western and Dienhart was injured for the Benton Central game.
Last week, they were the top three on the team in tackles, combining for 26, and Buche had a defensive touchdown on a blocked punt.
"We are a different defense when we have our best 11," Central Catholic coach Brian Nay said. "That is not a shot at our second team or our second guys on the depth chart because we had guys step up and play really well for us, but they are the first 11 for a reason."
Nay said it was a revolving door in the meantime trying to find the right fit.
Last week, against an inferior Vikings team, that revolving door came to a halt.
Which brings us to Friday, when a bigger test awaits.
Tri-County features two of the area's top rushers in running back Sam Getz (1,852 yards, 18 TD) and quarterback Kale Lawson (1,592 yards, 28 TD).
To prepare, the Knights used the most athletic weapon they had available: Danny Anthrop.
The former Central Catholic and Purdue standout assumed the role of scout team quarterback in practice early in the week. That, along with last week's game as a full defensive unit, is beneficial moving forward the Knights hope.
"It felt great to be back. I felt like we finally played as one again. We played very, very well," said Kennedy, who is averaging 13.3 tackles per game. "I think it helped build up our confidence leading into the following week against Tri-County.
"With everybody back now, we're getting back in the rhythm after five weeks."
For the second year in a row, Central Catholic (4-6) and Tri-County (7-3) meet in the sectional. The Knights won last year's meeting 35-28 in the first meeting between the two schools since 2010. CC is 11-0 all-time against the Cavaliers.
Coach Nay's take: "I think it is going to challenge our toughness and our willingness to be physical. It's tough to gauge with the schedule we have because I feel like there's times where we were being physical and we were just out-physicaled. … We know for a fact that Tri-County is going to come out and play physical football, so we're going to find out if we're as physical as we think we are or if we're frauds. There's not a lot of masking in what they do. They are going to try to feed it to you when they are on offense and they are going to fly to the football and are extremely aggressive up front defensively."


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Vintage car auctioned off to benefit local volunteer fire company
by: Katie Rhee
A historic luxury car was put on the auction block in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with the proceeds benefiting a local volunteer fire company.
CARLISLE, Pa. (WDVM) — A historic luxury car was put on the auction block in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with the proceeds benefiting a local volunteer fire company.
The Williamsport Volunteer Fire Company usually takes donations of old cars and uses them for training purposes. Fire chief Donnie Bingaman explained the donated vehicles are usually used to simulate cars involved in accidents. The cars are often flipped and damaged for extrication training.
When a 1964 Cadillac Eldorado was donated to the fire company, it came with a special request. The donor asked the station to use the car for anything but training. Chief Bingaman explained some of his firefighters are very interested in cars and looked into the value of the classic car.
Like many others, the fire company has not been able to hold its usual fundraising events due to the ongoing pandemic. Chief Bingaman and his fire company saw this classic car as a way to raise money for the station.
"Fundraising is a huge part of our budget and for us to not be able to do our typical fundraisers and we had to resort to other things, new things that we haven't done before," Chief Bingaman stated. "We still have to operate daily so these funds to be well used."
The funds raised from the car auction will be used to pay for some upcoming purchases of new equipment as well as the day-to-day function of the station.
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One of the most beautiful jewels in Vermont's natural crown is Lake Champlain. One of the most daunting challenges facing our state is cleaning it up. For a number of reasons, including soil erosion, development, and agricultural run-off, Lake Champlain has high levels of phosphorus. Lake Champlain is not our only worry, however. Where the Connecticut River empties into the Long Island Sound there is a huge dead zone due, in part, to high levels of nitrogen. Of course there are other states that help to cause that problem, but we and New Hampshire surround the headwaters.
To give a little history, in 2002, Vermont adopted a Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) clean-up plan, which set targets for the impaired watersheds. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) website, the "TMDL is a calculation of maximum amount of a pollutant that a waterbody can receive and still meet water quality standards." The plan was supposed to be renewed every five years, but in 2007, the Conservation Law Foundation went to court to force the EPA to overturn the TMDL plan because it felt the state was not implementing it properly. It took a couple of years to officially overturn the plan, which the FDA did in 2010.
Under federal law, after overturning a TMDL plan the EPA has 30 days to put in place their own plan, which they have not done. However, since 2010, the state has been working with the EPA to implement such a plan. The latest step is the FDA response and comments on the draft State of Vermont Proposal for a Clean Lake Champlain. On Wednesday, Feb. 12 at 10 AM in Room 11 at the State House, the House Fish, Wildlife, and Water Resources and House Agriculture and Forest Products Committees will hold a hearing regarding the FDA's response. We are very fortunate to have Rep. David Deen of Westminster working on these issues for us – his knowledge and dedication are greatly appreciated.
H.586, an act relating to improving the quality of State waters, is intended to take a proactive step as we continue to work to clean up the lake. The House Agriculture and Forest Products Committee travelled to Bridport and St. Albans to hold public hearings and take testimony from Vermonters with their "boots on the ground." The comments we received were extremely helpful and, as I write this, a new version of the bill is being drafted.
Some people are very discouraged because we have been focused on this problem and have spent many millions of dollars over the last several years with no apparent improvement in Lake Champlain. In my opinion, there is no quick fix – it took decades to pollute the lake, it will take decades times two, three, or more to clean, but it's not impossible and we need to continue our work to stop the on-going phosphorus loading.
This brings to mind a man I considered a friend, Pete Seeger, who, after I wrote him a letter asking, came to Brattleboro to do a benefit concert. His children and grandchildren came for a family reunion staying in our log cabin for several days. During that time, there was an occasion when Pete sat in my kitchen on my grandmother's stool keeping me company as I did dishes. I expressed frustration with how slowly change happened (at the time I was working for single payer health care) and asked him how he dealt with it. He told me that he visualized a see saw with a box of rocks on one end and on the other end a basket of sand. The end with the rocks was firmly planted on the ground but the basket of sand, which was leaking, had people doing good works, one by one, adding spoonsful of sand. In his vision, slowly, the basket of sand gained weight and overcame the box of rocks.
Pete, along with others, financed the building of the Clearwater (www.clearwater.org), the Hudson River Sloop that currently does educational work on the Hudson River. Pete told me that he figured that if there was a beautiful boat sailing on the river people would start to pay attention and want to do something about the severe pollution. He was right and now there are lower reaches of the river that are swimmable again. What I learned from Pete? Proactive patience!
The Senate Agriculture Committee passed H.112, a bill that would require the labeling of food produced with genetic engineering, on a 4-1 vote. The night before, the Senate Agriculture and Judiciary Committees jointly held a public hearing in the House Chamber attended by several hundred people, all asking for food produced with genetic engineering to be labeled as such. People expressed health, environmental, and economic concerns as they took their minute or two to testify. It now goes on to the Senate Judiciary Committee for review, probably after Town Meeting Day. The House passed the bill last year by a strong, 99-42 vote margin and we hope the Senate will be able to do the same.


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Manyin: Education ecosystem in rural schools still far behind
Education ecosystem, especially in rural areas, is still far behind in Sarawak due to lack of serious commitment from the federal government but all issues facing rural schools must be solved simultaneously and hollistically because every component is important to provide a decent learning and teaching environment for the children's development.
Minister of Education, Science and Technological Research Dato Sri Michael Manyin said in this modern era, Sarawak still has many schools that do not have basic amenities such as electricity and treated water supplies as well as road accessibility, let alone Internet connectivity.
"This is our main challenge for the next five years. Hopefully, we can overcome them. We cannot wait too long," he told a press conference after delivering his winding-up speech yesterday.
Assistant Minister of Education and Technological Research Dr Annuar Rapaee and the ministry's permanent secretary Datu Sudarsono Osman were also present.
"Education has been under the federal government all these years. Not all education ministers have visited these schools. Those who did, would probably 'shed tears' after seeing the condition of the schools but after they returned, they forgot about it," he said.
Hence, the setting up Sarawak Education Ministry was essential because political will was critical in pursuing and finding solutions to the education challenges faced in Sarawak.
"There are differences between the Education Ministry and a department as the director and deputy cannot meet the ministry's secretary general directly, let alone meet the minister. Although I don't have the power, I, as the Education Minister can meet the (federal) minister, which I have done but the director cannot do that," he said.
Looking at how poor rural schools are performing based on the academic results, Manyin said the Education Department has been tasked to examine the possible cause following the establishment of the ministry, which then led to dilapidated schools being listed as a major concern.
"So we presented the details including photos to the (then) deputy prime minister and minister of education. The then DPM then asked how much was required and I told him the figure could be up to RM4 billion. He stopped to ponder if they had the money or not.
"After presenting this to the National Economic Council, we were given RM1 billion but that was not enough as the special fund was actually meant to address the 415 critically dilapidated schools."
There are 1,020 out of 1,454 schools in Sarawak in dilapidated condition, of which, 415 are categorised as critically dilapidated while 205 of the 415 dilapidated schools have been approved for rebuilding or upgrading under the 11th Malaysia Plan (11MP).
The remaining 210 critically dilapidated schools were to be rebuilt with the special funding of RM1 billion over a period of two years that was approved during the 2018 Budget…RM500 million for 2018 and RM500 million for 2019.
Manyin also said the ministry was embarking on a new initiative to get direct participation of parents through parent-teacher associations (PTAs) in all schools to help improve academic results of the children instead of just criticising.
He told the august House earlier that there are 428 schools in Sarawak still without treated water supply, and were still depending on various water sources such as rainwater harvest, gravity feed, tube well and water from rivers.
"The quality of water supply is questionable and unreliable. The Sarawak Education Department has submitted a proposal in 2016 to the Education Ministry for 62 schools that are located within 1km of the main water pipe to be connected, involving cost of about RM9.2 million.
"Already approved by the MoF on June 1, 2018 was RM2.3 million, and the Sarawak Education Department is still waiting for a warrant."
On road accessibility to schools, Manyin said 721 schools do not have proper road access; 200 of which are accessible only by rivers or sea, and the rest (521 schools) do not enjoy all-weather road access.
"That's nearly half of the schools. This does not only affect students' attendance in schools, especially during unfavourable weather condition, but also affect teachers who have to commute daily to schools.
"The commitment and morale of teachers serving in these schools are affected because the envirnment in such schools are not up to expectation," he added.
He said these are among reasons why teachers in those schools were frequently requesting for a transfer.
"All these disruptions have impact on students' overall performance. Furthermore, staff and students commuting to schools using rivers are constantly exposed to dangers.
"Our proposal to merge low enrolment schools into several clusters with all-weather road access and all the necessary facilities, including boarding, would help alleviate this situation," he added.
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When the Japanese are training the children to start young to keep their schools clean including toilets, we are teaching them to be lazy, by using black canvas shoes.
Comment by Hattan — July 21, 2018 @ 2:49 PM | Reply
Very simple. Can former BN Sarawak and now GPS ministers explain why all ministers and their YBs are multi millionaires despite the lack of Federal commitment towards Sarawak as often claimed? These thieves had enriched themselves despite Sarawak being among the poorst state. To make use of innocent and ignorant Sarawakians as their political shields they now use MA63 to create a fictitious Malayan master and Sarawak. Petros was recently incorporated yet he main stakeholders are three big conglomerates directly and indirectly connected to Taib Mahmud. For the past 35 years Taib Mahmud has made himself and family members the richest in Malaysia despite what MACC had claimed that Taib Mahmud was never involved in the decision makings despite him being the CM and Minister of Resource Planning for Sarawak. Even after he was TYT his family members and family owned conglomerates continued to be awarded Government mega projects without tenders and given plantation lands , quarries, mining and timber licences. Taib Mahmud has always been and is still in control political equations and all the state rsources. MACC and the new AG must surmon Taib Mahmud and the entire cabinet during his time and now to explain why certain timber and mining licences, state land and planations were given to Taib Mahmud's family. Taib Mahmud need not sign a single piece of document as CM for 22 years to enrich himself through his family vast assets
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A protein in blood plasma that carries iron derived from food intake to the liver, spleen, and bone marrow.
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