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Phillipp took first position on Sunday second on Monday and third position today in a continued forceful showing. "It was difficult out there today. There was a current vortex in the course that you had to be careful of," said Phillipp. The 77 Dragons raced in 4-6 metres per second north-northwesterly wind and bright sunshine.
Principal Race Office Christian Lerche said Tuesday's start had been perfect: "They were like pearls in a row and the start went off like clockwork," he said. An area of current and variable winds had made sailing quite difficult, he said.
"It was complicated - we had breezes from both sides of the course - but it was a much better start today than yesterday," said UK's Martin Payne.
Germany, Denmark and Finland continue to dominate the top of the table, with four Danes, three Germans and Finland's Henrik Dahlman in the first nine.
"It started off as something of a disaster for us," said Magnus Berg of the Finnish boat. "We went right - and we shouldn't have. We decided then to go left and it worked. We are very happy with our fourth place," said Berg.
"We had a very bad day - we were going fast but in the wrong direction - but we didn't notice the currents," said Sweden's Leif Carlsson.
After three-and-a-half hours of racing, the first 10 positions in Tuesday's race were as follows: 1. DEN298 (Lars Jensen); 2. DEN 257 (Mogens Nielsen); 3. GER956 (Malte Phillipp); 4. FIN50 (Henrik Dahlman); 5. GER939 (Thomas Müller); 6. DEN336 (HRH Crown Prince Frederik); 7. DEN66 (Frank Berg); 8. AUS167 (Ian MacDiarmid); 9. GER950 (Harm Müller-Spreer); 10. GBR656 (Martin Payne); 11. IRL157 (John Lavery)
Overall Results After Three Races
1. GER956 Malte Phillipp 8,7 points
2. DEN66 Frank Berg 32,7 points
3. DEN298 Lars Jensen 36 points
4. GER950 Harm Müller-Spreer 46 points
5. DEN324 Jesper Bendix 55 points
6. GER933 Thomas Müller 57 points
7. IRL157 John Lavery 61 points
8. GER947 Werner Fritz 61,7 points
9. NED247 Fred Imhoff 66 points
10. GER928 Erich Hirt 69 points
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"INTERNET UNIVERSALITY:" HUMAN RIGHTS AND PRINCIPLES FOR THE INTERNETWritten by MICHAEL A. PETERS
ABSTRACT. This paper details proposals by UNESCO to manufacture and draft a concept of "Internet Universality" that adopts a human-rights framework as a basis for articulating a set of principles and rights for the Internet. The paper discusses various drafts of this concept before examining the Charter of Human Rights and Principles for the Internet put forward by The Internet Rights & Principles Dynamic Coalition based at the UN Internet Governance Forum, and the working law Marco Civil da Internet introduced by Brazil. pp. 15–28
Keywords: Internet; universality; human rights; openness; access; multi-stakeholder; global governance

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This was my first glam bag that was sent to our new address in Lincoln. I updated my mailing info in mid-July through my Ipsy account and was happy to see the bright pink envelope arrive in my mailbox on Tuesday. Totally seamless transition.
Ok, initial thoughts on the August Glam Bag: LOVE the products, hate the bag. Honestly, it's the cheapest bag out of the four I've received. I'm not heartbroken over it but just want to be honest about its quality.
Here is the loot:
1. J. Cat Beauty Flying Solo Eye Shadow in the shade, Half Naked. I was initially nervous about this color for my skin tone. It looks very orange (even more so in person than the photo suggests). I was pleasantly surprised that the orange did not transfer when it was applied. It's a very neutral shimmer with perhaps just a slight peachy tint. I've worn this the past two days and love it. A great everyday neutral.
2. Jersey Shore Sun Mongongo Lip Conditioner. This smells like summer! I was in need of a new lip balm to keep in my work bag (I love the EOS balms but hate their awkward shape for slim bags or purses). The Mongongo Lip Conditioner is super moisturizing and long-lasting. Very happy with it!
3. Dr. Brandt Pores No More Pore Refiner Primer. SUPER excited to try this. I currently use BareMinerals' primer and really like it. I have heard amazing things about Dr. Brandt - it seems to have a cult following. I've never tried the brand because, full disclosure, it's out of my price range for beauty/skin products (at least generally speaking). While I can't wait to try the primer, I'm crossing my fingers I don't fall too in love with it -- that would just get my hopes up for something I know I shouldn't be buying (boo to budgets!).
4. Urban Decay Perversion Mascara. Full confession: I have never tried Urban Decay before. I feel like it's too trendy for my super-average self. Very excited to try this mascara -- plan on doing so tomorrow. Will keep you posted!
5. Klorane Dry Shampoo with Oat Milk. I heart heart heart dry shampoo. I used the cheap Suave kind for a while (in the silver bottle w/ a yellow lid). Right now I have Dove kind, which smells great but am totally open to trying out new brands. The size I received retails at $8.99 (Ipsy is great about providing great sample sizes and at least one full-size product every month!).
I use the POP Beauty bronzer every.single.day and absolutely love it. It's a great color for my skin tone, easy to apply and hasn't caused any type of breakouts. Score!
For those of you who are new around here, I signed up for Ipsy with my own money. It's $10/month with no contract (you can cancel whenever!). There are affiliate links in this post, which means I'll receive Ipsy points if you sign up via my links. Heads-up!


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Surviving the Holidays as a Vegan
Out of the 23 Holiday Seasons I've experienced in my time on this Earth, 20 were just regular, omni holidays. I then spent 1 of them as a vegetarian and 2 of them as a vegan. As I prepare for my third holiday season without any animal products I begin to feel the anxiety that has become standard for this time of year. If you don't eat a "normal" diet, you may understand what I mean. As we get nearer and nearer to family Christmas, I begin to think more and more of how I will handle those days amongst family. I am by no means an expert, but let me share with you what I've learned so far and what I plan to implement this year to survive the holidays as a vegan!Read More


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Friday, 12 December 2014
Nerd Travels : China Photobook 4
Early Winter
Blurry. Sorry for the quality!
Up upon ze head
Every single time we had the chance to walk to a place for dinner, I slowed down. Took the time to look around me and breathed deeply....Emptied out my mind and laughed for no reason :) Maybe the reason I laughed was the blank brain and slowed down mental situation = = '
At times when you think life is tough, slow down and take smaller steps. Because it is. The world is so big, go at your own pace. You don't have to chase others because eventually you will be where you want :)
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Video: The Arbaeen Walk in South Gate, Los Angeles
SHAFAQNA – On Friday November 10, a walking event was held on the occasion of the Arbaeen pilgrimage of Aba Abdillah al-Hussein (AS) in the South Gate city of Los Angeles, USA with the presence of a group of Shiite mourners. Along with this event, which was prepared and organized by the Masjid Al-Zahra (a.s), a banner with the name of Imam Hussein (a.s.) on it was flown by an airplane over the sky of Los Angeles.
A few days before the event, the International News Network, in a report broadcasting the pictures of the walk last year, announced the event and called on everyone to attend. Mrs. Maria Davila, Mayor of the South Gate, also attended the event and talked with the organizers.
The banner of Imam Hussein (a.s.) which was prepared especially for the event and was flown over the sky of South Gate, Los Angeles, at the same time as the Arbaeen walk.
A video of the Arbaeen Walk event in South Gate, Los Angeles:
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When you're just starting out, and you decide that you want to create a website you're faced with a number of tough decisions. Aside from a domain name, where to host it, and what information it should have, you also have to think about the backbone of the site – the platform the entire site is built on. There are a huge number that you can choose between, but for simplicity Weebly and WordPress are the two best in the market. With each comes their own set of pros and cons, so make sure you choose correctly before you start heading down the wrong path. If you're new to all this take this course and learn what it takes to make the right choices for your website.
Unfortunately, there are many confusing articles online on this topic, because it's highly debated in the online communities. There are camps on both sides of the fence, each shouting as loud as they can that their platform is the best. We're going to cover the benefits of each platform in simple terms, so that you can make up your own mind about which is best suited for what you're actually looking for.
Weebly is one of the easiest website builders available. They have a very visual and intuitive interface, where all you need to do is drag and drop your content to specific parts of your website. You can run through this course and learn how easy it really is.
Their set of tools for building a website makes it quick and relatively painless to get your first site up and running. The beauty is that you can place each of the different elements wherever you want them, so the dream image of the perfect website you have in your head can come to life – very fast. There are a number of different elements you can include, with easy to add in pictures, paragraphs, contact forms, videos and everything you need for building a basic website.
The visual nature of Weebly is what makes it great, as you literally just move all of the page elements around on your website and start to type. Whatever you do in the editor is reflected exactly the same on your website. For users that never want to think about code, or spend time guessing how their posts will look after being published this is a great platform for you. Just like WordPress there are a huge range of themes to choose from, so you can build on existing designs and not have to start everything from scratch.
Another great benefit is that it's free if you can live with a small advertisement in the footer of your site. If you are OK with this, your website can be up and running for virtually nothing, and if you do decide to get rid of it they offer packages starting at under $50 a year.
The cloud hosting provided by Weebly is fast and secure, but can be a disadvantage. For beginners who don't want to deal with hosting it's great, but for advanced users it means you have very little control over your website. If your website grows and expands beyond the capabilities of the Weebly platform, you will need to manually migrate all of your websites content to a new platform, which can take a huge amount of time. There is a new addition that lets you set up your Weebly site for e-Commerce, and can be a great option for small businesses who want an online store but it also brings an increased monthly cost to use.
Weebly is a good option for beginners because the barrier to entry is low, and without any background in web development you can have your website live very fast.
WordPress came to popularity as "the" platform for anyone and everyone to have their own blog on any particular interest. As it has grown, it has developed from this single purpose to have a very large community of supporters, and is frequently used on websites that are not actually blogs. Many e-Commerce and business websites make use of the features of WordPress, and they make use of the huge range of themes and plug-ins that can adapt your site to do almost anything you like.
Despite not being the easiest platform for creating a website, it is the easiest open source content management system available. This allows you to add in a huge range of functionality to your website, custom features and all through a platform that requires just a little bit of learning. Check out this course and learn how to build a website in WordPress in a single weekend.
You'll have no trouble finding WordPress experts to help you out if you get stuck on a particular part of your website – for a fee of course! The downside is that WordPress takes some time to get used to, and it can be much more difficult to use than the Weebly platform for a beginner. This is directly represented in the large support community for WordPress, as many people that start to use it struggle at first with the technical challenges, and may require hiring specialists to build or maintain their websites.
The advantage is you can do many more complex functions with WordPress, and it is a much more powerful platform than Weebly. It also allows you to install the platform on any hosting provider (for free) which means you can have it running on as many websites as you like, and all of the software updates are free. This gives you flexibility if your small blog blossoms from 100 visitors a day to 75,000, all you need to do is upgrade your hosting plan. It also has a fantastic structure for SEO, and is easy to use a couple of plug-ins to have your site optimized for the search engines and rising in their rankings. You can learn more about doing an SEO audit of your website in this recent post.
The blog remains at the core of the design of WordPress, and as such there is no stronger platform for running a blog. WordPress allows you to set up complex sites with multiple contributors, future dated posts alongside spam control and build-in comment moderation makes it a dream for many bloggers.
The main difference in comparing the two is that using Weebly as you build your site you can see the end results, right in front of you as you drag and drop it into place. It's more intuitive than WordPress where many structural and page layout options are required to be done in the background. WordPress is a content management system and requires people using it to take the time to figure out what they're actually doing before they can make progress. Weebly on the other hand gives you a very visual interface for building a website.
WordPress has a fantastic foundation for creating e-Commerce sites, regardless of the size of the online presence you want. Using the WooCommerce theme you can easily build any type of store you need, at a lower cost of hosting, with a more functional e-Commerce site than you could build with Weebly.
But what makes WordPress bad? One of the main problems is that what you see is often not what you get. Without an understanding of HTML, you can have headaches in getting your posts to look right – because what you see in the editor is not always what ends up on your site. This can be a pain as you constantly edit your sites, preview, and then edit again until it looks right.
It also requires constant maintenance, because many of the great plug-ins available are constantly getting updates. You run a risk every time you update these that there is bad code that makes your page behave funny to visitors. WordPress itself also has regular updates, and this can also be a problem for any plug-ins that you have running. You also need to backup your website yourself, and know how to restore it if there has been a problem. Unfortunately things can get very technical, very quickly, and often solutions require deleting bad plug-ins via FTP, modifying PHP code or changing CSS theme elements.
So When Should You Choose Weebly?
- It lets you build a website very easily, and you can have it up and running fast
- You don't have the time to learn all the ins and outs of WordPress
- You don't want to spend money hiring specialists you may need for a WordPress site
- You want a simple and elegant website that you have built yourself
- Your Weebly account includes managed hosting
- A business owner with limited funds and time who wants a simple web presence will find that you can achieve the required end result with the intuitive nature of the Weebly platform.
So When Should You Choose WordPress
- You want to build an intricate website with a large range of functionality
- There are plug-ins and tools that help you to structure your website allowing search engines to better understand your site
- It's a better content management system for running a blog and can often rank better in SEO results than a Weebly site (all things equal) because this was what it was originally created for
- You can use plug-ins like Page Builder if you really want to be able to "drag and drop" the structure and design of your websites pages.
- There is a plug-in for almost every functionality you can imagine
Ultimately, there isn't a right or wrong decision when it comes to deciding on the platform you want to use to build your website. You can follow the steps in this course if you've decided to go with WordPress and learn how easy it really is.
The key is to run through what makes each platform unique, and make a decision based on what is most suitable for you, and your needs in a site. Understand your own needs and pay attention to the core reason why you're building a website, because ultimately the best website is one that you can maintain.
There's nothing to gain from having a website that you can't manage!


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IronPort Systems, a provider antispam, antivirus, and corporate e-mail policy enforcement announces the latest version of it's IronPort C-Series Email Security Appliance for the Enterprise. The appliance now includes Email Security Manager, a dashboard providing insight and control for all e-mail security tools including IronPort's preventive Reputation Filtering and Virus Outbreak Filters, as well as antispam, antivirus, content scanning, policy management, and message encryption. Email Security Manager allows network administrators to set different incoming mail flow policies for individual senders, giving administrators the unique ability to rate limit message delivery based on the reputation of each sender. Another core feature in this release is Virus Outbreak Filters, which provide a first layer of defense against new virus outbreaks.


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There has been a lot of M&A activity happening in the CRO sector this year, specifically, unions between CROs and clinical tech shops. In an effort to provide clinical trial services and solutions from soup to nuts, CROs that previously did not have an eClinical solution are turning to technology firms to fill in the gaps.
[See CRO Icon scoops up eClinical firm Firecrest and CRO & clinical tech M&A round-up]
But trying to migrate from paper-based clinical research processes to technology-based tools such as electronic data capture and clinical trial management layered on top of existing (and often inefficient) methods presents some challenges. Integrating assets, disparate IT and operating systems, and dealing with legacy data and infrastructure is not only time-consuming, but also a drain on resources. The independent systems and software make cross-talk among functions difficult and integration among functions expensive.
The end result is widespread duplication of effort and frequent miscommunication. And any sort of slowdown or silos in current processes could see customers deciding to go elsewhere.
Clinipace Worldwide had a glimpse into the future and built its business with these challenges in mind, proactively meeting them head-on with our technology-amplified service model.
Our digital CRO (dCRO) model is characterized by a unified technology framework that enables integration, collaboration, and transparency across all stakeholders: integration and collaboration among functions and roles across the spectrum of clinical trials activities (e.g., Site Selection/Management, Patient Recruitment, Project Management, Monitoring, Data Management, Biostatistics) and project and stakeholder-wide transparency of both clinical research processes and clinical trial metadata.
In our proactive efforts, integration and transparency foster an unprecedented level of information sharing, enable efficient information analysis for better decision-making, risk management, and cost predictability.
With the traditional Contract Research Organization (CRO) model, eClinical technology is an add-on that typically adds to trial complexity and cost, as there is an increase in "friction" points. Clinipace, via its dCRO model, has flipped establish manual-based processes on their head. People are added to technology-amplified processes that aim to integrate systems, while reducing the coefficient of friction so trials run with less complexity and cost. With judiciously employed technology, fewer people and resources are needed to do a job. In the dCRO, technology carries some of the work burden that would typically be carried by people, so the people component is smaller and less expensive.
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Fleetwood manager Steven Pressley is hoping the Sky cameras will be present for Fleetwood Town's cup showdown next month.
The 1-1 draw at Barnsley in the Johnstone's Paint Trophy Northern Area Final on Saturday set up a mouth-watering second leg at Highbury on February 2.
With home advantage, Pressley believes Town have what it takes to make it to a showpiece Wembley final against Millwall or FA Cup giantkillers Oxford.
Town boss Pressley said: "I'd imagine our game is one they'd consider for Sky. It's set up for a wonderful second leg.
"It will be a brilliant occasion, with such a prize at the end of it.
"I really hope we can attract a sell-out crowd.
"It's a game which gives both sides a big opportunity to go to Wembley.
"It's a wonderful occasion and we're really excited about it."
Town didn't hold back in the opening encounter of the two-legged tie, taking the game to Barnsley and taking the lead when Ash Hunter's cross was turned into his own net by Tykes keeper Adam Davies
Manchester United loanee Ashley Fletcher levelled things up but Fleetwood will be favourites with the home leg to come.
Pressley made it clear there was never any thought of going to Oakwell for a draw, insisting such a strategy might have done more harm than good.
He said: "The chairman asked me how I was going to go about things, but the way we train and the way I want us to play is very positive.
"Sometimes if you change from that I don't think it sends out the right signal to the players.
"At this moment in time, our players think we can go to places like Barnsley and win, and I don't want to change that mentality.
"The performance shows that they do have the belief.
"The worst case scenario is that you want to be in the tie. But I reminded the players before the game and at half-time that we weren't there just to be in it.
"We wanted to win. We wanted to put a real stamp down.
"In the end I was satisfied to be going back with a draw.
"We're playing exceptionally well at Highbury and we've got a really good record here."
There was special praise reserved for the 300-plus Fleetwood fans who made the trip to South Yorkshire.
"It was a great turnout from our supporters," said Pressley.
"I asked them to follow us in their numbers. They did that and they got behind the team."
If Sky Sports were to pick the Highbury rematch for live coverage, it could be moved back 24 hours to Wednesday February 3.
A decision is likely to be made by the broadcaster after Oxford and Millwall play the first leg of the Southern Area Final on Thursday.


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As I mentioned in my Advent plans post last week, I have been working through the Adventivity House book from Quarto Kids and earlier this week we made some Christmas pudding cakes.
I'll admit we haven't completed everything from the book. This is partly because we are just quite busy some days and finding the time to sit and do an activity like these hasn't always been easy, other days the children haven't been in the mood or others just haven't quite worked as I expected.
One we did really like that I just had to share are these fab Christmas pudding cakes. they are super effective and I thought they'd be a great example of what the Adventivity House book has to offer.
These Christmas pudding cakes are super simple. It's a basic cake recipe with a couple of teaspoons of cocoa added to give the cakes their brown colour.
Once they're cooled mix up some icing sugar and drizzle over the cakes – this is the bit my two could really help with. We then decorated our cakes with red icing and coloured marzipan.
This is a really simple and effective advent activity to do with children, and I think these Christmas pudding cakes will be something we make again before the festive period is over.
My two had great fun helping to weigh out the ingredients and of course watching the mixer and, finally, licking the spoons!
I look forward to seeing what else adventivity house has in store for us over the next two weeks or so.


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It's now summer vacation in our house and when I run for hours on end keeping these kids busy. This last weekend we were going like crazy. Saturday morning we had a 9am teeball game for the beginning of the day and were outside for 12 hours straight. We had a soccer game which Monkey got her first goal! We also had two baseball games for Buddy; his regular game and his all star game. Along with his all star game, which his team won!, he got to do the home run derby and fastest pitcher contests. The home run derby was a bust, but he won the fastest pitcher contest for his age group! While that day I was too tired to even think of unwinding, most days I need to unwind and recharge when I get home.
I love to get the kids in bed and relax on my comfy couch with Netflix. Right now I'm watching a lot of House. I used to catch episodes here and there on TV but am really enjoying being able to watch it from the beginning to the end straight through. We also watch is Orange is the New Black and I've watched Vampire Diaries a few times through on Netflix! I also like Pretty Little Liars but am pretty far behind on that series. My husband likes to unwind and watch things like Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead.
My husband and I have a bad habit of throwing on the TV and sitting down with Oreos and Milk. It's definitely time to break THAT habit, but I definitely do need my unwind time at the end of the day with Netflix. What do you like to unwind with after a long summer vacation day?


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Rachel and I have been talking and making plans for months, and I was so glad to finally meet her, Daniel, and their sweet son when we all got together for their engagement session. Roy at St. Vrain Winery in Berthoud was kind enough to let us wander his property and, with thanks to Jessica from A Vintage Affair and this gorgeous light I thought only existed in Southern California, this session went off flawlessly. To make it even sweeter, Roy treated us to a wine tasting in his barn after the session! Sounds like the perfect evening to me :)
Right about now, their son said, "Mom, I think the dragonflies are all getting sick of watching you kissing!"
Check out this lovely vintage vineyard picnic, styled by A Vintage Affair:
Rachel, you are stunning!
Rachel & Daniel - you guys are great! Thank you! I can't wait for next summer's wedding :)


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Sunday 8:00am:This early service follows one of the traditional orders of Holy Communion from 'a Prayer Book for Australia' .
Sunday 9:30am: Is another traditional service, without books – the service outline and responses is projected onto a screen for all to follow; this service also includes a sung Eucharist and Sunday School for the kids. (During school holidays the Sunday School is in recess.)
First Sunday in the Month: Instead of our regular 8 and 9.30am services, we have a combined service at 9am – preceeded by breakfast at 8am. Please join us.
Open Church is (baby, toddler, family and everyone friendly) on the First Sunday of each Month, From 4 – 6pm.
We will be gathering, crafting, praying, singing, listening, learning talking, eating together. We hope you will be with us. It's an all age, interactive service so there will be something for everyone.
Wednesday 10.30am: mainly music for pre school aged children.
Thursday 11:00am: a Holy Communion service preceded by morning tea at 10.30am.
The 8:00am Sunday Congregation
Is formed by a group of people, who come together at 8am on Sunday at St. Dunstan's to participate in the service of Holy Communion.
This Eucharist follows a traditional prayerbook service that on most Sundays is from the second order of Holy Communion found in 'A Prayer Book for Australia'.
We join together to hear the word of God from the bible, to learn from the weekly sermon and to discuss what is preached, to pray for the world, our country, our community, our church, those in need and the bereaved.
This is a wonderful time in our weekly cycle of life, to gather together and take time out of our busy lives in worship, quietly and reflectively, and to be empowered for the week ahead.
As we are also active members of the St Dunstan's family, we participate in the regular parish events with the whole parish. As well there is a monthly breakfast, between the services on the second Sunday of each month.
Come and join us.
The 9:30am Sunday Congregation
The 9.30am Worship Service is all encompassing in its appeal to all ages in the local community.
This is also a Holy Communion Service including music and Sunday School. Our aim is to reach out to the community through our worship, teaching, children's ministries, broad ranging music, warmth and charity. Following the Service we provide morning tea, after which our Singing Group 'Viva Voce' conducts its weekly practice.
Upcoming events at the 9:30am Worship Service are detailed under the Upcoming Events / Weekly Notices sections of this website.
Open Church Congregation; First Sunday Monthly, 4 – 6pm.
This is a monthly gathering, for all aged participation where crafting, praying, singing, listening, learning, talking, and eating all take place. It is an interactive time together culmination in a service and a meal when there is something for everyone.
Thursday 11am Congregation
This is our midweek service of Holy Communion.
This service welcomes a number of residents from a nearby aged care facility, who participate on a fortnightly basis. It is also attended by a number of regular parishioners plus some who find that they can't make it to the Sunday Services. This is another one of our major outreach activities, and a time of great fellowship. We meet together at 10.30am for morning tea before the service.
If you are available on Thursday mornings come along and join with us.


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Beta-Cell failure is the sine qua non condition for the development and progression of type 2 diabetes. The mechanisms by which Beta-cells fail in type 2 diabetes is not fully clarified. Genome-wide association studies have uncovered several gene variants that are associated with increased risk for diabetes, the majority of the identified genes regulating Beta-cell function, and probably also cell survival. Thus, the capacity of the Beta-cell to respond to the prolonged increased insulin demand created by overnutrition, insulin resistance, and the chronic hyperglycemia of diabetes is very probably under genetic control. Disparity between the demand on the Beta-cell, determined by the chronic nutritional load and the body's insulin sensitivity, and the capacity of the Beta-cell to increase insulin secretion leads to progressive hyperglycemia. Once hyperglycemia
develops, the Beta-cell is exposed to increased metabolic flux that activates multiple pathways of cellular stress, which in turn further impair Beta-cell function and survival. In type 2 diabetes, hyperglycemia is associated with deregulation of lipid metabolism and elevation of free fatty acids (FFAs), which accentuate the Beta-cell dysfunction, a process called glucolipotoxicity.
Several mechanisms are involved in the induction of metabolic stress by nutrients, including inflammation, oxidative stress, and ER stress. Intricate interactions exist between the various stress pathways, which culminate in impairment of Beta-cell function and survival. In man Beta-cell turnover is slow; however, over the years small but persistent Beta-cell loss may end in decreased Beta-cell mass, an observation verified in most studies of post mortem pancreata from type 2 diabetic patients. Thus hyperglycemia, while itself
the result of Beta-cell dysfunction, is also an important accelerator of Beta-cell malfunction and hence diabetes progression. Indeed a major problem in diabetes treatment is the progressively advancing nature of the disease, which necessitates stepwise increases in the dose and number of therapeutic agents needed to control blood glucose. Over the past decade, important advances have been made in our understanding of the general mechanisms that induce and fight against cellular stress. These conceptual and technical acquisitions have begun to be applied to the Beta-cell and its derangement in type 2 diabetes.
In particular, the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) with its stress is emerging as a main player in the delicate balance between well-being and demise of the overworking Beta-cell. This is not astonishing, since the ER is the site of the correct folding and quality control of export proteins, and since insulin represents almost 50% of the protein production in the Beta-cell, it is clear that the ER is under severe strain in situations where insulin production must be augmented over prolonged time periods.
The XIth Servier-IGIS Symposium dealt with this rapidly developing topic of Beta-cell stress, and the present Digest, masterfully prepared by Dr Stéphanie Migrenne, presents a summary of the topics debated at the meeting. I hope that also physicians not well-versed in the biology of ER or oxidative stress will benefit from this Digest; indeed, cellular stress mechanisms are emerging as the mechanisms responsible for most of the chronic diseases that pose the greatest threat to public health in our century. Future treatments will increasingly target the biological processes discussed in this volume—hence the interest also to the clinician. Those readers with greater interest in the field should read the full proceedings of the XIth Servier-IGIS Symposium, to appear as a supplement to the November issue of Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism.
Enjoy the read!
Erol Cerasi
"The Stressed Beta-Cell"
I- ER and the canonical unfolded protein response (UPR)
II- When UPR leads to cell death
III- Cellular stress in type 2 diabetes
IV- The mitochondria and cellular stress
V- Therapeutic targeting of ER dysfunction
VI- Conclusions


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Meet Tyrone. Education is essential to becoming self-sufficient, and Covenant House is committed to providing the support necessary for homeless and at-risk youth, like Tyrone, to get the education they want. When Tyrone was a high school freshman, his mother lost her job. Unable to pay the bills, they lived for 8 months without electricity, hot water, or air conditioning before being evicted. Even without a consistent place to live after that eviction, Tyrone maintained good grades at school. Knowing his unstable home situation, a social worker at Tyrone's high school connected him to Covenant House. Tyrone excelled in our program, gaining his own apartment through our Rights of Passage independent living program. With our help, he also graduated from high school and was accepted to Alabama State University where he is now enrolled. Tyrone is on his way to a successful adulthood because of the educational support provided at CHGA, and we are so proud of him.
Meet Raven. Motivation to move forward is one of the key services that Covenant House Georgia provides to our youth. For Raven, whose life fell apart in seventh grade when her closest friend, her grandmother, passed away, it is the most crucial service we can provide. For years after her grandmother's death, Raven struggled with depression, drug addiction, and her decision to have an abortion at the age of 16. Before finding Covenant House, she lived with a physically and verbally abusive boyfriend. When she came here, she was met with unconditional love and the comfort that her future can be so much brighter than her past. She successfully applied for our Rights of Passage independent living program and is motivated to apply for colleges as well as employment opportunities. We take our mission seriously to provide the love and life skills that youth like Raven need to be happy, independent adults.
Meet Antonio. For youth like Antonio who have never met their parents, the care and attention that Covenant House staff provides is welcomed. Antonio grew up with his grandmother after being placed in Division of Family and Children Services as a baby. As a high school freshman, he made some bad decisions and was forced to leave his grandmother's home. He'd worked at the Boys and Girls Club before, but he needed to further his education in order to continue there. That's when he heard about Covenant House Georgia. His CHGA case worker helped him create a plan for his future. He was accepted into the Literacy Action program, is working toward his GED here at Covenant House, and is employed. Having his own room in our Rights of Passage independent living program is inspiring him to save money for his own apartment. With the help of his case manager and other CHGA staff, Antonio has gained the skills and motivation he needs to become self-sufficient, prompting him to say "I finally feel like my life is going in the right direction."


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A Day with Gary Hamel
The day after the lights went down on the World Business Forum, the lights went up on an all day seminar with Gary Hamel across the street at the Time Life Building. It was great to be able to get down to the next level of detail below the talk that Gary gave at the World Business Forum.
My day with Gary Hamel began with a discussion of the accelerating pace of change and how:
"While we are in here bullsh**ting about strategy, something is happening out there."
Corporate Evolution
Gary spoke about how the biggest thing that may limit organizational success most going forward is our organization's ability to evolve their management models. But an even biggr handicap to future success may be the fact that our management models were not built to manage innovation but precision, stability, discipline, and reliability. So how do we create organizations that are great at efficiency but also incredibly adaptible?
Capable of transcending the inherent tradeoffs?
- Coordination without centralization
- Scale without inflexibility
- Leadership without formal heirarchy
Our organizations need to move from building competitive advantage to building evolutionary advantage over time, because no matter how good your strategy is, strategies die.
For the first time in the history of the world, each new generation is born into a new world with new technologies, new preferences, and new ways of communicating.
- Difficult for organizations to stay relevant
- Coke was late to sports drinks, late to new age drinks, late to water products
- Microsoft has been late to several markets as well
Gary spoke about the evolution of companies and how they start as attackers, then they grow, and if successful they become defenders. Usually when companies start playing defense, they're in trouble. There is no alarm bell to let you know you've crossed over. By this point the organization has become highly optimized for exploitation and doesn't spend enough time on exploration. And if the company enters a decline, remember, usually the first rats off the ship are the best swimmers. And, when a company has a crisis and loses its momentum, it takes about a decade to recover it - if you can recover it at all.
"Innovation is born out of a gap between ambition and resources."
Innovation Preparation
Organizations get into trouble when they don't change their offering as fast as the needs of their customers have changed. This is true for churches just as much as it is for companies. Often it is too painful to make management change so companies don't (i.e. GM's 20 years of benchmarking Toyota or Nokia's resistance to moving from candy bar phones). But, the longer you delay change, the more painful and expensive the change will be. Some key points:
- You have to seek out the dissidents and test and explore their hypotheses - Are you really open to change?
- Strategies die because they get imitated, they reach a natural limit, or cutomers destroy them
- Once you recognize potential problems you have to create options for strategic renewal (see Michael Raynor's great book "The Strategy Paradox" for more on this topic
When it comes to innovation, companies aren't comfortable with the venture capital model of it taking 1,000 ideas to identify 100 experiments that might yield 10 workable projects and only one big winner. But this is often what the pursuit of innovation requires. For example, Google runs 50,000 search experiments a year and about 500 of the ideas get implemented.
"Getting pregnant is considered a big success despite the millions of wasted sperm - so what's your corporate sperm count?"
Once you know which innovation ideas you are going to pursue, the biggest challenge is to realign talent and provide capital. Most organizations are so lean that there are no slack resources and among managers, to lose resources is to lose status. Another big limiting factor to innovation is that inside organizations ideas can only be sold up the chain of command - intrapreneurs only get one shot to sell their idea, unlike the outside world where an entrepreneur might get turned down 8-9 times before getting funded. For innovation to really work in organizations we need to create a network of internal angel investors to provide intrapreneurs more than one funding source.
"You have to combine scale with the spirit of small" - Audience member
Preparing to Change
Ultimately inflexible mental models are more of a problem than inflexible assets. People have the opportunity to choose either positive change or negative change, and often resist change out of fear. So, to make change happen, we should seek to create an opportunity for positive change so people will be excited about the possibilities and make the changes in spite of their fears.
Speed is important, but it is not everything. Keep in mind that if the first mover does it right, you're screwed as a fast follower. Better to be a smart mover. Move as fast as your knowledge allows and faster than competitors. Microsoft went from fast follower (aggressive) to slow follower (weak).
"People who have a stake in the old, will rarely embrace the new."
Seeking Innovation
Three questions to determine whether something is an innovation:
- Does it have the power to change customer expectations?
- Does it have the power to change industry economics?
- Does it have the power to change the basis for competition?
Keep in mind that innovation is not always risky and it is not always fast. It took JVC 20 years to build a VCR that they could sell for $500 instead of $50,000. It took 20 years for the world to accept Australians' theory that bacteria could cause ulcers. Five years passed between the opening of Pret a Manger's first store and the opening of its second store (it was a new concept, lots of learning needed). Nespresso started getting patents back in 1970 (it was a 40 year overnight success). We must distinguish between how innovative an idea is and how risky an idea is.
"While imagination is not evenly distributed, it is widely distributed."
So, how can you increase the chances for innovation?
- Challenge unexamined orthodoxies (Umpqua Bank, Pret a Manger, SAAS)
- Challenge business model components
- Exploit unnoticed trends (Nokia phones, Disaggregation of TV - Hulu, Blinx, Youtube)
- Leverage unseen capabilities (Amazon's WebStore and other cloud apps)
- Serving unarticulated needs (What does customer experience or life feel like?)
Innovation is just another skill. Companies train thousands of people in Six Sigma, why aren't we training people to be business innovators? We have prizes, solicit ideas from people, and don't train them?
When it comes to innovation, organizations have to be more open. Your job is to build a magnet that pulls in the best ideas, the companies that win will figure out how to build the biggest magnet and perservere (building innovation strategies, processes, incentives, management, etc.).
- View everyone as a potential partner
- What external capabilities can you leverage
- Example: Ice cream bar partnering with Colgate to have a toothbrush-shaped stick inside with the Colgate brand on it
"If people will laugh abut the current reality, there is an opportunity for innovation."
Keep in mind with your innovation ideas that it is never clear whether it is a marathon or a sprint. Keep in mind the question - Will increased investment make it happen faster? If you miss the window, increased investment won't let you catch up.
Jeff Bezos is committed to the Amazon Kindle and with each failure, the team asks themselves if they still believe, and if they do, then they have the energy to keep going.
Gary Hamel made it very clear several times during the day that he doesn't feel like he has the answers, but he wants to stimulate people to start thinking about how they could try and realize some management innovation in their organizations and to start experimenting.
"More and more of the work of managing will move to the periphery and we will have fewer and fewer managers."
Leading the Way
A leader doesn't tell people what to do. A leader helps people understand what needs to be done and brings the people and resources together to make it happen. To truly unleash human capabilities, we must focus on injecting a sense of:
- Freedom - Loosening the reins of control
- Community - Increasing the sense of belonging
- Purpose - Investing work with meaning
"We need to try and put Dilbert out of business."
So how does one go about trying to become a management innovator?
- First - Be Bold
- Raise trust and reduce fear?
- Second - Challenge Dogma
- What crazy assumptions do we see as sane?
- Challenge the orthodoxy of executives being the only ones to think strategically
- Challenge the orthodoxy of a crisis being needed to provoke change
- Concentrting strategy at the top helps to cause this
- Challenge habits, artifacts, and conceits
- We've separated people from customers, colleagues, the broader overall view, and leadership
- We've turned employees into children
- Heirarchical organiztions move slower
- It takes time to aggregate, sanitize, and communicate up
- We need to give people the information they need to make the necessary tradeoffs
"If life developed on earth according to six sigma principles, we would all still be slime, but damn good slime"
In pursuing innovation, we need to pursue it under the theories of biology and variety, while also employing the power of markets to allocate resources more efficiently than heirarchies. At the same time, we should consider having co-sponsors on idea submissions as a way of weeding out the stupid-stupid ideas. We need to be more democratic, even though democracies may not always be the most efficient systems. They do however allow for change to start from the bottom up. Thriving democracies tend to have a large number of activists. Why don't companies teach people to be activists (or entrepreneurs for that matter)?
Diversity and connectivity help to create innovation. So why do most companies have beige walls and create teams of people with similar backgrounds and ways of thinking? Why do organizations engineer out diversity? We need to learn from the positive deviants in organizations and create organizations that have:
- Variety (look to biology or life)
- Flexibility (look to markets)
- Activism (look to democracies)
- Significance (look to faith)
- Connectedness (look to cities)
Amongst other things we need to also find a way for people to choose what to work on, in order to avoid the frequent mismatch between passions and responsibilities. And from a workers perspective, as the labor market becomes more open, what happens when your vocation is competing against someone's avocation?
As you can see the day ended with more questions than answers, but often it is having the right questions in your head that allows to ultimately find the solutions that are appropriate for your situation. So, are you ready to try and create the positive change you would like to see in your organization? Are you ready to advocate for better innovation conditions in your organization? Are you ready to conduct management experiments in your organization to find the management innovations that will work for your organization and create evolutionary advantage?
Well, are you?
Braden Kelley is the editor of Blogging Innovation and founder of Business Strategy Innovation, a consultancy focusing on innovation and marketing strategy. Braden is also @innovate on Twitter.
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Recently released data show that oil, gas and mining job creation in 2015 across counties in the US varied from a high of 660 in Oklahoma County in Oklahoma City, OK to a loss of 1,140 jobs in Harris County in Houston, TX.
Out of 261 counties with oil & gas economies, 2 of the Top 10 are in Texas: Ector County and Montgomery County. Two are in North Dakota: Williams County and Dunn County. Kern County (Bakersfield, CA) and Eddy County (Carlsbad, NM) also created a large number of oil & gas jobs.
Top 5 Counties: Most Oil and Gas Jobs Created (2014-2015)
1. Oklahoma County, OK
2. Kern County, CA
3. Ector County, TX
4. Williams County, ND
5. Eddy County, NM
The three counties losing the most oil & gas jobs are in Texas: Harris County (-1,413 jobs), Tarrant County (-449) and Dallas County (-259). Denver County (Denver, CO) and Lafourche Parish (Houma, LA) followed.
Job creation in the Oil & Gas sector has been steadily increasing in the US. In the last 5 years, the sector grew 22% and created 34,000 new jobs. The sector currently employs 193,000 people in the US.
Click here to read more about metrics and underlying data used in this report: Counties with the Best and Worst Oil and Gas Economies of 2015


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A cluster of about a half dozen small villages along the upper vales of the White River, the Harkenwold consists of independent settlements that have come together under the banner of Baron Stockmer, an elderly man who was known for his strong sword arm in his youth. The Barony of Harkenwold is a tiny realm whose total population is not much greater than Fallcrest's. The people of Harkenwold are farmers, woodcutters, and woodworkers; little trade comes up or down the old King's Road.


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Scientists have found a new way to grow hair, one that they say may lead to better treatments for baldness.
So far, the technique has been tested only in mice, but it has managed to grow hairs on human skin grafted onto the animals. If the research pans out, the scientists say, it could produce a treatment for hair loss that would be more effective and useful to more people than current remedies like drugs or hair transplants.
Present methods are not much help to women, but a treatment based on the new technique could be, the researchers reported Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Currently, transplants move hair follicles from the back of the head to the front, relocating hair but not increasing the amount. The procedure can take eight hours, and leave a large scar on the back of the head. The new technique would remove a smaller patch of cells involved in hair formation from the scalp, culture them in the laboratory to increase their numbers, and then inject them back into the person's head to fill in bald or thinning spots. Instead of just shifting hair from one spot to another, the new approach would actually add hair.
The senior author of the study is Angela Christiano, a hair geneticist and dermatology professor at Columbia University Medical Center in New York, who has become known for her creative approach to research. Dr. Christiano's interest in the science of hair was inspired in part by her own experience early in her career with a type of hair loss called alopecia areata. She has a luxuriant amount of hair in the front of her head, but periodically develops bald spots in the back. The condition runs in her family.
In the mid-1990s, she sent photographs of her bald spots to researchers in Pakistan, hoping her plight would persuade them to collaborate with her on a study of a rare genetic disorder there that left people with no hair at all on their heads or bodies. Her strategy worked, and the joint effort identified the gene. In subsequent studies, Dr. Christiano and other colleagues identified multiple genes that play an important role in alopecia areata.
In the current study, Dr. Christiano worked with researchers from Durham University in Britain. They focused on dermal papillae, groups of cells at the base of hair follicles that give rise to the follicles. Researchers have known for more than 40 years that papilla cells from rodents could be transplanted and would lead to new hair growth. The cells from the papillae have the ability to reprogram the surrounding skin cells to form hair follicles.
But human papilla cells, grown in culture, mysteriously lose the ability to make hair follicles form. A breakthrough came when the researchers realized they might be growing the cells the wrong way.
One of Dr. Christiano's partners from Durham University, Dr. Colin Jahoda, noticed that the rodent papilla cells formed clumps in culture, but the human cells did not. Maybe the clumps were important, he reasoned. So, instead of trying to grow the cells the usual way, in a flat, one-cell layer on a petri dish, he turned to an older method called the "hanging drop culture."
That method involves putting about 3,000 papilla cells — the number in a typical papilla — into a drop of culture medium on the lid of a dish, and then flipping the lid over so that the drops are hanging upside down.
"The droplets aren't so heavy that they drip off," Dr. Christiano said. "The force of gravity just takes the 3,000 cells and draws them into an aggregate at the bottom of the drop."
The technique made all the difference. The cells seem to need to touch one another in three dimensions rather than two to send and receive the signals they need to induce hair formation.
The researchers took papilla cells from seven men who were undergoing hair transplants, cultured them in hanging drops and then injected them into human skin grafted onto mice. Not just any human skin: to put their ideas to a rigorous test, the researchers made the grafts from a type of skin that is normally 100 percent hairless — foreskins from circumcised infants. A technique that can grow hair on a foreskin has a pretty good chance of growing it on a person's head, they reasoned.
Indeed, new hair follicles grew in five of the seven grafts, and tests proved that they were human follicles and not mouse ones.
The success, though encouraging, is just a first step, Dr. Christiano cautioned. "At the moment we're only getting quite a small hair," she said.
One avenue for further research will be to look at why, in the papilla cells that produced the hair follicles, molecular profiling found that only 22 percent of the genes that normally function in these cells were turned on.
"We were a little surprised by how few," Dr. Christiano said. "We thought more would be needed." Perhaps, she said, if more genes could be turned on in the transplanted cells, more hairs, or better quality ones, might result.
Several companies are already experimenting with papilla cells in people, Dr. Christiano said, but they use the cells to try to restore or rejuvenate existing papillae and follicles — not to make new ones. (She has no commercial interests or ties with any of the companies, she said.)
"Inducing a completely new hair is a different challenge," she said, adding that studies to try doing just that in people are not far off.


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Karen Women Organization: Pioneering women village heads targeted for systematic abuse by junta's troops across Eastern Burma (click to view PDF)
Walking Amongst Sharp Knives reveals previously unreported abuses taking place against ethnic Karen women in Burma.
The practice of the Burmese Army to execute village heads has led to traditional Karen culture being turned upside-down, with women now being appointed village chiefs as they are seen as less likely to be killed. However, this change has put women in the frontline of human rights abuses. These abuses constitute crimes against humanity and war crimes.
The abuses experienced or witnessed by the women chiefs include:
• Crucifixions
• People burnt alive
• Rape, including gang rape
• Many forms of torture, including beatings and water torture
• People buried up to their heads in earth and beaten to death
• Arbitrary executions
• Beheadings
• Slave labour
The women chiefs have been deliberately targeted for gender-based violence, including gang-rape. Pregnant and nursing women chiefs have been subjected to forced labour and grueling interrogation. Yet despite these abuses the report also reveals the bravery and personal sacrifice of women in challenging injustice and defending their people.
"How can any woman feel safe under the Burma Army when even women village heads are openly targeted for abuse?" said Blooming Night Zan KWO Joint Secretary 1 of KWO.
The Karen Women Organization is calling on the members of the United Nations Security Council to support the establishment of a United Nations Commission of Inquiry into war crimes and crimes against humanity being
committed by the Burmese military dictatorship.
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VoCore as smart sensor
Published on January 18, 2015
VoCore as smart sensor
Some days ago I received my VoCore, this device is amazing it's a full embedded Linux device with OpenWrt, WiFi and Ethernet on board and many I/O (i2c, GPIO, SPI, UART, ..). Its main strengths are size and WiFi on board. About size look at the following picture.
For a maker a device like this is awesome, combine connectivity and power in a so small size can open infinite possibilities but the first that comes to mind is smart sensors.
Smart sensor is a generic term, my own interpretation is about a device can acquire some physical data, elaborate it and communicate over the internet. What I'd like to present in this post is a simple use of VoCore as smart sensor.
Configuring OpenWrt
Before starting we need to configure OS, I chose to use Python for implementing the smart sensor logic.
VoCore is shipped with a release of OpenWrt doesn't carry Python, so here the step to install it, I skip basic VoCore setup because can be found on VoCore site. Next steps assumes You are able to connect via ssh to VoCore and it has a internet connection enabled.
OpenWrt uses a package manager called opkg, like many others it uses a list of repositories urls where look for packages. These urls are defined in /etc/opkg.conf and in default configuration isn't present the repository for python.
So first step is to add a new repository url, add the following line to the end of
src/gz cheese_packages http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/ramips/packages/packages
After this we need to update opkg cache with following command
root@OpenWrt:~# opkg update
And finally we are able to install python
root@OpenWrt:~# opkg install python
Ok, less is done 🙂
Making the sensor
Now it's time to work on hardware, what I'd like to make is a simple intrusion detection system that sends a push notification when someone get in the room. To send push notification I'll use Pushetta, a service I made specifically to solve this task.
A PIR sensor is used to detect movements, this kind of sensor use infrared radiation to detect temperature changes in a specific range.
PIR sensors are cheap and really simple to interface with a microcontroller, there are only three pins. Two are VCC and GND and the last one is the OUTPUT.
In the following video I show how it works, I'm using a portable oscilloscope connected to the PIR sensor. As You can see when something move in sensor's range output level goes high (+5V) and return low after a while.
What we want to do is read PIR output and send a push notification when it changes to high.
Sending notifications with Pushetta
To send notification we'll use a web service I made called Pushetta, this is made of a web site and two Apps (one for iOS and one for Android).
First we need to register on Pushetta web site, it's free and it's a mandatory step to be able to send notifications.
After signup process we need the API key, this is the key used to call Pushetta service and send notification, it'll be used in code we'll write after.
Last step is to create a channel. Channel is something like a topic used to send notifications. User want to receive notifications have to subscribe channel interested in, using Pushetta Apps. More informations about how Pushetta works can be found on www.pushetta.com.
Now we are ready for the last step: connect PIR sensor to VoCore and write a few lines of Python code to handle all the logic.
In the picture there is the schematic used for our experiment. Connecting PIR sensor is really simple, I used GPIO0 as input in the VoCore module. Whit this circuit GPIO0 is put to low when PIR signal is up and vice versa. Must be taken into account that PIR sensor require +5V as power source, on VoCore can be used USB+ pin.
Before writing full Python program is better to test that everything is working as expected with a simple shell script, first step is login on VoCore via ssh and change directory to GPIO0 sys filesystem as follow.
root@OpenWrt:~# cd /sys/class/gpio/
root@OpenWrt:/sys/class/gpio# ls
export gpio13 gpio18 gpio21 gpio24 gpio7 gpiochip0
gpio0 gpio14 gpio19 gpio22 gpio25 gpio8 gpiochip22
gpio12 gpio17 gpio20 gpio23 gpio26 gpio9 unexport
If we see an output like the one above we are in the right place and next step is to change dir to gpio0.
root@OpenWrt:/sys/class/gpio# cd gpio0/
root@OpenWrt:/sys/devices/10000000.palmbus/10000600.gpio/gpio/gpio0# ls
active_low device direction edge subsystem uevent value
Two files are important for us, direction is the first one. We need to put the string "in" inside to this to set GPIO0 in input mode (we need to read from it). The other one is value, value is 0 when GPIO0 is low and 1 when high.
Coming to the script we can use the one below, it simply read value every second.
while [ 1 ]
cat value
sleep 1
Executing it console shows something like:
0 mean PIR is sensing motion, else nothing is moving around it, all works fine!
Becoming a smart sensor
Now the code, I found an already made wrapper for interacting with GPIO made by Stefan Wendler and to not reinvent the wheel I use this, is called DigitalIO and I put it on github with all the code of this article.
This wrapper makes really simple to read GPIO status, with the following five line of code we can print on console the GPIO status read every half second (something like we made with shell script).
pin = DigitalIO.get_input(GPIO0)
while True:
read = pin.state()
print "GPIO0 state = " + str(read)
Last piece of code we need is the one used to send the notifications, we make a function to solve this task later used in final code.
def sendNotification(token, channel, message):
data = {
"body" : message,
"message_type" : "text/plain"
req = urllib2.Request('http://api.pushetta.com/api/pushes/{0}/'.format(channel))
req.add_header('Content-Type', 'application/json')
req.add_header('Authorization', 'Token {0}'.format(token))
response = urllib2.urlopen(req, json.dumps(data))
With all piece in our hands it's time to assemble all together and make real our smart sensor.
pin = DigitalIO.get_input(GPIO0)
while True:
read = pin.state()
if read == 0:
print "Something move"
# NOTE: API_KEY and MYCHANNEL name must be updated with values
# created in pushetta web site in the previous steps
sendNotification("API_KEY", "MYCHANNEL", "ALARM!!! Something move")
print "No motion"
Isn't a "production ready" software but a good starting point to make the real one. A small problem with this code is it send a push notification for every motion it detects. This can generate many notifications and Pushetta protects for this problem blocking requests if these are too frequent. This can be simply addressed recording last notification sent and send another one only some time has passed, I leave this as an exercise for the reader.
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Green Pasture Product's Introduction
Fermented Cod Liver Oil is an excellent source of essential fat-soluble vitamins and other nutrients, some of which can be hard to come by in the modern diet. The nutritional value of Fermented Cod Liver Oil is confirmed by historical studies, current research, and large numbers of consumers.
This past year, we were pleased to introduce our redesigned product labels. In the process, we reevaluated the language on the labels to ensure that all product information continues to be accurate and appropriate.
Our labels state that "Fermented Cod Liver Oil contains naturally occurring vitamins A and D" and notes that "the amounts of these nutrients will vary." Although the absence of a firm number of IUs in the Supplement Facts may disappoint some consumers, our statement reflects the reality that the fat-soluble vitamin content of fish oils is naturally variable when no synthetic vitamins are added. Scientists recognize that a number of factors shape the vitamin and nutrient profile, including geography, season, and fish species.
We consulted with Dr. Subramaniam Sathivel, professor of Food Engineering at Louisiana State University and formerly a Seafood Processing and Engineering professor at the University of Alaska, on the subject of the vitamin D content of fish oils and cod liver oils. Dr. Sathivel's comments show that, far from being a simple topic, scientists are still trying to figure out how various forms of vitamin D make their way from plankton to fish, and also explain why scientists typically report fat-soluble vitamin values as ranges rather than averages.
Fundamentally, what is interesting to note is that Dr. Sathivel's research mirrors our own experience and reaffirms the accuracy of the claims on our label.
Below is a summary of Dr. Sathivel's research and conclusions on the subject.
Fat-Soluble Vitamins, Especially Vitamin D Variation in Marine Fish
Vitamin D is a fat-soluble nutrient and plays major roles in bone formation (Holick, 2007). It is significant in brain, heart, muscles, immune system, and skin function. Researchers have also reported that vitamin D may be beneficial in reducing the risk of diseases such as cancer (Garland et al., 2009), including skin cancer (Armstrong and Kricker, 2001).
Humans obtain vitamin D through sunlight, diet, and vitamin D supplements. There are two forms of vitamin D that are biologically available to humans: (1) D2 (ergocalciferol) and (2) vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol). Plants produce vitamin D2 in only limited amounts. Therefore, humans acquire only limited vitamin D2 from fruits and vegetables. The primary source of vitamin D2 is dietary supplements.
Vitamin D3 is known as the sunshine vitamin. It is synthesized in humans when skin is exposed to Ultraviolet-B light (UVB) at wavelengths in the range of 290 to 315 nm (MacLaughlin and Anderson, 1982). Vitamin D3 plays a major role in bone health in children and adults. It has also been reported that vitamin D3 reduces the risk of cancer and cardiovascular diseases (Wagner and Greer, 2008). The main function of vitamin D3 is to regulate blood calcium and phosphorus levels. It assists the absorption of calcium and phosphorus from food in the intestines and the reabsorption of calcium in the kidneys. This process allows regulation of blood calcium and phosphorus levels and normal mineralization of bone (Norman, 1990; Norman, 2006).
The lack of sun exposure may lead to vitamin D3 deficiency in both children and adults. Vitamin D recommended dietary dosage for adults is 5–20 g/day (200–800 IU), which may prevent osteomalacia in adults who are not exposed to adequate sunlight. Vitamin D3 can be obtained from diet or supplements (Lu et al., 2007). Vitamin D3 occurs naturally in high amounts in fatty fish such as salmon, herring, and mackerel, and in fish oils. Food manufacturers have also developed vitamin-fortified foods such as milk, yogurt, cheese, margarine, and calcium-fortified orange juice.
Fish oils are extracted from whole fish and fish byproducts including heads, liver, and viscera of fish. Fatty fish and fish liver are good sources of vitamin D, a fat-soluble vitamin (Mattila et al., 1995; Sunita Rao and Raghuramulu, 1995; Jacobs and Wood, 2004; Lu et al., 2007). Therefore, there may be the expectation that fish oil contains a consistently high amount of vitamin D. However, the amount of stored vitamin D in fat molecules in fish tissues may vary with a number of factors, including species, age, and size of fish. Vitamin D content in fish oil may vary with the source within the fish—flesh, liver, or viscera. Geographic location and season may also play roles in the variation of vitamin D content in fish oils.
Lu et al. (2007) have reported that vitamins contained in fish oil vary with fish species. For example, wild-caught salmon fish flesh (fatty fish) contains 988±524 IU vitamin D3/100g, while white fish flesh (lean fish) such as cod contains 104±24 IU vitamin D3/100g.
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Bailey (1952) has reported that fish liver oil contains higher amounts of vitamin D than fish flesh regardless of the fish species. For example, sockeye salmon liver oil has higher vitamin D (200- 600 IU vitamin D/g) content than its flesh (60 IU vitamin D/g). Cod oil is extracted from cod liver, which contains between 85-500 IU vitamin D/g of oil (Bailey, 1952). Stancher and Zonta (1983) have reported that cod liver oil contains 150 IU vitamin D3/g of oil. Vitamin D2 is produced by plants; marine fish tissue may contain both vitamins D2 and D3. Both are delivered to marine fish when they consume phytoplankton and zooplankton, which contain them (Sunita Rao and Raghuramulu, 1995). This may be a reason why wild-caught marine fish have higher vitamin D2 content than farm-raised fish (Trang et al., 1998). Kenny et al. (2004) have reported that there is no clear evidence phytoplankton and zooplankton are vitamin D sources for marine fish because, in their research, they did not find measurable vitamin D in phytoplankton and zooplankton. They have found that phytoplankton and zooplankton contain pro-vitamin D3, 7-dehydrocholesterol (7-DHC), which is converted to pre-vitamin D when it is consumed (Holick, 2003). Pre-vitamin D is metabolized to produce the biologically active form vitamin D3 (Holick, 2003). Kenny et al. (2004) have indicated that stored vitamin D in fish may not come directly from their diet. In addition, the research group mentioned that there may be different species within phytoplankton and zooplankton and their ability to produce pro-vitamin D or vitamin D may vary. Geographic differences may also influence the pro-vitamin D or vitamin D production in phytoplankton and zooplankton due to UVB light penetration in the water (Kenny et al., 2004).
The previously mentioned factors may be reasons, in general, scientists have reported fat-soluble vitamin values as ranges instead of average values because the standard deviation for an average value of a fat-soluble vitamin is expected to be large. If the standard deviation of a value is large, then the value of individual samples would be expected to vary greatly, and a range of values may be more appropriate than an average value. For example, in 2004, the Kenny research group reported average vitamin D3 content (ng/g) of pink salmon fillet and liver of 89.75 + 31.21 and 1303.25 + 265.58, respectively. The standard deviations in their study for vitamin D content in the fillet and liver are large. This may be a reason the authors have also provided the range of vitamin D content (ng/g) in fillets and liver, which are 61-134 and 1046-1643 (ng/g), respectively.
Fat-soluble vitamins K, D, A, and E may be contained in fish oils. The vitamin content may vary with species, their ages, sizes, and parts of the fish. Geography and seasons may also influence their contents, especially vitamin D in fish oils. In my opinion, unless fish oil has been fortified with vitamin D, we should report the vitamin D content of fish oil as a range instead of an average value. If not, we should provide the standard deviation from the average value. It would be expected that a typical range of values would be more meaningful to a consumer without a background in statistics than an average value with standard deviation.
About the Author
Dr. Sathivel is the Professor of Food Engineer at the School Nutrition and Food Sciences and the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center (LSUAC). Before joined LSUAC, Dr. Sathivel worked five years as an Assistant Professor of Seafood Processing and Engineering at the Fishery Industry Technology Center (FITC), University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska. He is responsible for the food process engineering laboratory at the LSUAC, where his projects include design and development of an adsorption technology to purify fish oils and fish protein, value added products, edible films and edible coatings. Dr. Sathivel has published 60 refereed articles, two popular articles, five book chapters, and six proceedings. Dr. Sathivel has an equally respectable record of published abstracts and professional presentations, many of which were invited talks at international scientific meetings and conferences.
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Holick, M. F. 2007. Vitamin D Deficiency. N Engl J Med. 357: 266–281.
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MacLaughlin, J. A., Anderson, R. R., Holick, M.F. 1982. Spectral character of sunlight modulates photosynthesis of previtamin D3 and its photoisomers in human skin. Science. 216: 1001–1003.
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UGI Volunteers Support Christmas in July Initiative
11 Aug 2017
UGI employees in the greater Wilkes-Barre area were "all in" during the recent Christmas in July Drive for Feeding and Reading organized by the United Way of Wyoming Valley. Company employees have participated in this venture over the past two decades, and the initiative always generates excitement and significant participation.
Employees collected 737 pounds of food during the drive. The collected items filled two UGI vehicles, which were used to transport the items to the Commission on Economic Opportunity's Weinberg Food Bank, Pittston. The donated food will feed more than 600 people in need.
In addition, nearly $200 in cash donations will support the Dolly Parton Imagination Library, which provides free books to children from birth through age five who reside in the Wyoming Valley. The library will be able to purchase approximately 80 books with the donation.
UGI Utilities has headquarters in Reading, Pennsylvania and serves more than 690,000 customers in 45 Pennsylvania counties and one county in Maryland. Customers interested in additional information visit the UGI website at www.ugi.com; on Facebook in at www.facebook.com/ugiutilities; Twitter at www.twitter.com/ugi_utilities.
UGI employees Donna (Dodi) Layaou and Ann Blaskiewicz fill a UGI vehicle with donations for the Christmas in July Drive for Feeding and Reading