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Thursday, September 30, 2010
Communicating beyond the walls of academia
When I think about all of the wasted time we spend trying to format our papers for specific journals, then waiting 3-6 months to hear back from the journal, and then repeating the process until the paper is accepted, it makes me wonder how much more we could accomplish if we removed these hurdles. This process enriches not scientists, but societies and others and serves as a method for "conflicted" direct-to-physician advertising. It's not like we find articles by reading the paper journals anymore. Perhaps we could adopt a process where we publish a working paper online and then journals could compete for the rights to publish the data in their journal. Wouldn't it be cool to turn a journal down?
Any other ideas for re-working the scientific communication system, both within the scientific community and creating incentives for outreach? We have to try harder to advance science against the pervasive pseudoscience that is forever expanding on the internet and within public policy. For example, if we could spend time communicating the benefits of vaccines instead of spending 15 months getting our vaccine paper accepted, we could serve the public more effectively and the public might actually see the value of science
Smith's Aetiology post: "Moving science communication into the public sphere"
Smith's recent talk on scientific communication, the internet and the anti-vaccine movement
Dobb's Guardian Post: Publishing your science paper is only half the job
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Someone once commented that the peer review publication process is a bit like democracy - terrible and messy but it is better than all the current alternatives!ReplyDelete
It is an amazing idea that you take your best work and send it to your bitterest rivals and competitors who then tear it to pieces and send it back to you asking you to make impossible changes before anyone else gets to see it!
In many academic fields journals aren't given as much power. A friend of mine in law told me that he will send a manuscript to maybe 20 journals. When they are accepted by a lower impact journal he can parlay it up to a more recognized journal. It is a game still, but it doesn't seem any more biased than what we do in medicine and is a faster way to get information in print.ReplyDelete


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Charles Edward Brown
Position: QB
Height: 6-2 Weight: 200 lbs.
Born: October 26, 1928 in San Luis Obispo, CA
Died: August 2, 2007 in Kennewick, WA
High School: San Luis Obispo
College: San Francisco (school history)
Drafted by the Chicago Bears in the 6th round (68th overall) of the 1952 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 37 (2560th overall since 1950)
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Hamas' ministry of the interior in Gaza issued on 10 July an official
announcement to the residents of the Gaza Strip, telling them not to pay
attention to IDF announcements about vacating their homes. The
announcement calls "on our dear residents to reject these messages, not
to vacate their homes and to conduct themselves calmly. Should the need
arise, call the following toll free numbers" (Source: Facebook page of
the ministry of the interior in the Gaza Strip, July 10, 2014):
A similar announcement was issued by the Hamas authorities in Gaza on 16 July.
Hamas spokesman Mushir al-Masri called on 16 July to the residents of
Gaza not to leave their houses and ignore the IDF's warnings.
3. UNRWA, the UN's Palestinian refugee agency, officially admitted that on 16 July it had found some 20 missiles hidden in one of its schools in Gaza.
4. In an article in the Canadian "The Globe and Mail" published on 16 July, the newspaper's correspondent in Gaza Patrick Martin gives an eye-witness report about missiles being fired next to a school:
"Heading toward the exit, we were overwhelmed by the jet-like sound of
two rockets being launched from somewhere near the school. Hamas, or
some or militant group, clearly is hoping the Israelis won't strike at
the launchers, which are kept underground until the moment of firing,
because they're close to the school and so many refugees."
A cartoon produced by Hamas calls on Palestinian civilians to form
human shields against Israeli attacks. The cartoon depicts how a large
group of civilians standing on the roofs of houses creates a
metaphorical shield against incoming bombs, and praises the "steadfast
people." Cartoons are an important medium for influencing public opinion
in Palestinian society.
6. A Hamas propaganda video raving about the intended use of the Palestinian youngsters to throw hand grenades.


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Creating a Sourceforge Release for a Contribution
Need a Release Tech
First off, you - supposing you are the primary maintainer of the contrib - need to become a "Release Tech" (in SF lingo). qooxdoo's project lead or one of the project admins have to edit your project member profile on SF to that end. If you surf to the qooxdoo-contrib's SF project page and you don't see the Project Admin menu in the menu bar (next to Summary, Mailing Lists, …, Downloads), you know you are missing authorization. Get in touch with us.
The rest of this document is a condensed and customized version of the usual release creating process for SF [1] [2].
Create a Version Directory for the Release
In your contrib, create a versioned subdirectory alongside trunk that represents the software you are about to release. It's best to use the
svn copy command for that, not only a simple copy on your local check-out and then a re-checkin.
svn copy ensures that all the SVN history is kept in the copy as well. Suppose you want to release your trunk software as version 0.1:
svn copy trunk 0.1 svn commit -m"version 0.1 of my contrib" 0.1
Create a Zip File containing the Release Version
Next, export the contents of the 0.1 directory to some work space where you can create the zip file, and where the but-last path component is the name of your contribution:
svn export 0.1 /tmp/MyContrib/0.1
(Make sure that the directory of the version number - like 0.1 in our example - does not already exist). This gives you a nice, clean dump of the 0.1 directory with all .svn subdirectories and other non-versioned files stripped.
Now put it into an archive:
cd /tmp zip -r MyContrib-0.1.zip MyContrib
This ensures that the archive contains the name of your contribution as top-level directory, and the version directory directly underneath. You might want to check the integrity and correctness of the created archive:
sh> zip -T MyContrib-0.1.zip test of MyContrib-0.1.zip OK sh> unzip -l MyContrib-0.1.zip Archive: MyContrib-0.1.zip Length Date Time Name -------- ---- ---- ---- 0 05-28-09 11:55 MyContrib/ 0 05-28-09 11:58 MyContrib/0.1/ 876 05-28-09 10:25 MyContrib/0.1/Manifest.json 1015 05-28-09 11:22 MyContrib/0.1/config.json 96 07-29-08 11:22 MyContrib/0.1/README 0 05-28-09 11:58 MyContrib/0.1/source/ 42 04-27-09 13:39 MyContrib/0.1/source/blank.html 479 05-26-09 14:07 MyContrib/0.1/source/index.html 0 05-28-09 11:58 MyContrib/0.1/source/class/mycontrib/ 0 05-28-09 11:58 MyContrib/0.1/source/class/mycontrib/theme/ 899 02-12-09 18:27 MyContrib/0.1/source/class/mycontrib/theme/Appearance.js 866 02-12-09 17:01 MyContrib/0.1/source/class/mycontrib/theme/MyContrib.js 89984 05-27-09 17:43 MyContrib/0.1/source/class/mycontrib/MyContrib.js ... 81 05-16-08 14:20 MyContrib/0.1/source/resource/mycontrib/image/undo.gif 1422 05-26-09 14:00 MyContrib/0.1/generate.py 39389 05-16-08 14:20 MyContrib/0.1/LICENSE -------- ------- 264318 30 files
(The executable name and options of the zip command might differ from your individual installation; check the manual for your local specifics).
Upload the Archive to your Sourceforge Staging Directory
There are several ways to upload files to SF, see their online documentation. Here is one of them using the cadaver command-line WebDAV tool. Assuming your SF user id is jsmith it works like this:
sh> cadaver https://frs.sourceforge.net/j/js/jsmith/uploads (prompts for password, then an interactive prompt appears) cadaver> put MyContrib-0.1.zip cadaver> exit sh>
Mind that you have to upload plain files directly into this uploads directory; creating subdirectories is not allowed.
Now you can leave the shell, since from now on everything is done in the browser.
Create a Sourceforge Release
Open a browser and point it to the qooxdoo-contrib project page:
open http://sourceforge.net/projects/qooxdoo-contrib/
From the menu bar choose Project Admin → Downloads.
The individual contributions are organized as SF Packages. You should see a package of the same name as your contribution (If not, get in touch with us).
Choose Add Release. You are now taken through a some dialogue-style web pages, a release creation wizzard of some sorts.
The first prompts for the release name. Enter the version number:
Check that the package name reflects your contribution, and hit
[ Create this release ]
You have now created the release, albeit empty apart from the name, and are now taken to a somewhat larger web page, to fill in on all the details. The page has four sections named Step 1, …, Step 4.
Step 1
- Release Date: The first field suggests the current date as the release date, which is usually fine.
- Release Name:
- Status:
- Of Package:
Next, you can either upload release notes and change log, or enter them literally in the text fields. It would be good to at least enter a few words as release notes, stating some major points or highlights of this release. Usually you would just add the contents of
README.txt from your version-specific contribution (maybe along with the top-level
README.txt of your contrib).
Important: Hit the
[ Submit/Refresh ]
button right at the bottom of this first section. This will update Step 1. You can always come back later to any of the steps and modify their settings individually.
Step 2
Your uploaded file should appear in the list. Check its check box and hit
[ Add Files and/or Refresh View ]
The "Refresh View" thing is interesting if you had to re-upload your file (or forgot to upload it in the first place). Also mind that your upload directory will be automatically cleared after some time, so don't worry about the files going away eventually.
Step 3
For your upload file, you have to fill out some properties, namely
- Processor : choose
- File Type: choose
Hit the button immediately beneath the File Type select box.
[ Update/Refresh ]
Step 4
If someone is monitoring your package you can check so they get notified of the release.
[ Notify ]
That's it, you're all set. Your release will now be online (maybe with a bit of latency) and can be downloaded from the qooxdoo-contrib download page.
Edit a Sourceforge Release
As you might have gathered from the previous section you can come back later and edit the Sourceforge release if you find this is necessary. Among other things you can
- edit the release notes and change log
- update the download file
Some notes:
- The process is similar to the one described above, except that you pick the existing release and choose
Edit Releaserather than
Add Release.
- When you want to replace the download file, you have to upload the new version to SF as described above. If the new file has the same name as a file already existing in the release, you have to first remove the old file from the release. Only then will you be able to see/add the new file from your upload directory.


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Sonic Generations Review (3DS)
I've always had mixed feelings about the Sonic franchise. While I have fond memories of some of the earlier games, I often return to those titles and find they aren't as good as I remember (I'm looking at you, Sonic Adventure). Sonic Generations attempts to capitalise on some of that nostalgia by bringing together Sonics both new and old, but despite flying high on consoles, the portable version of the game is not quite the runaway success it could have been.
In Generations, an evil being has interfered with the flow of time and space, leaving the Sonic heroes in a state of limbo. Uniting with their former selves, Sonic and Tales set out to defeat the monster and restore order to their homeland. While this narrative tool isn't the worst I've come across, the bare-bones, textbox-heavy presentation of events leaves a lot to be desired. Granted, the 3DS system may restrict what developer Sonic Team can do visually, but the tiresome back and forth between characters really didn't pull me in. It would have been nice to have been treated to the occasional cut-scene just to get a better idea of what was happening.
Once in-game, you'll have the opportunity to play as both 1990's Sonic and his modern-day equivalent. Each area is broken down into two "Acts" and a special stage, which involves chasing after a Chaos emerald. The player can't choose which Sonic they'll play as; instead, each hedgehog is tied to a specific Act (with retro Sonic always taking Act 1). This felt a little jarring as old Sonic didn't possess some of the abilities that his new and improved self did, or rather, I'd have to progress further before he acquired those moves. Understandably, Sonic Team wanted to differentiate between the two heroes, but as the majority of stages in the game are 2D in design, it was sometimes easy to forget which Sonic I was controlling.
Most areas tended to rely on a fast/slow-fast/slow formula which became frustrating at times. There are some great adrenaline-fuelled moments that create a real sense of speed, but I was annoyed that I'd frequently run into obstacles, bringing me sliding to a stop.
Specific "dangerous" platforming sections (where a fall will kill you) also kill the game's pace and are flagged by orange warning signs depicting Sonic plummeting to his doom. While I've nothing against an added bit of challenge now and again, a considerable bulk of these sections were simply not fun and I'd sigh to myself each time one cropped up.
You'd think that the graphical limitations of the 3DS hardware would shoehorn Sonic Team into doing something interesting with the 3D effect. Sadly, this isn't the case and the 3D serves as nothing more than a tool for expanding the image depth. Nothing really pops out or dazzles the eyes. I also noticed a drop in frame rate when the 3D was turned on and for that reason alone I mostly chose to have it switched off. That's not to say a 3DS title needs to utilise the 3D tech in order to make its mark, but the lacklustre use of the effect here reinforced my feeling that this package is largely half-baked.
Those who want to squeeze some more playtime out of the single-player campaign will be relieved to know that the 3DS version includes the Missions mode similar to the console offering. Whether you're tasked with collecting a specific amount of rings within a time limit or attempting to beat a stage without taking damage, this play option provides a much needed level of challenge. Unlockable music, artwork and character models expand the game's longevity, a definite plus for Sonic die-hards. Personally, I'm not going to sit around listening to the theme from the Green Hill zone, but I appreciate that hardcore fans of the series might want to.
The game does make use of the system's wifi features too, incorporating online leaderboards and a Versus mode designed for competitive face-offs. Although I did encounter some pretty dismal lag in the online multiplayer, the leaderboard functionality will definitely appease those with a passion for time trials. As the game only consists of seven real zones - with boss battles fleshing out the rest of the experience - this mode gives players a reason to come back.
All in all, Sonic Generations for 3DS is a pretty disappointing package. While it includes all the loop-de-looping and rail-grinding spectacle the series is known for, the limitations of the 3DS hardware mean that this port is streamlined to the point where the cracks begin to show. I'd much rather Sonic Team focussed on whole new Sonic adventure than an experience that is constantly tripping over its own feet.
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Society seems to be obsessed with self transformation while television networks introduce new fashion makeover shows weekly. With explosive television ratings, it's apparent that viewers are tuning in weekly to see the latest geek turn chic. While these shows provide an embarrassing experience for the unlikely contestant, they give home viewers something comprehensive. The likelihood of having a T.V makeover that caters to your specific wardrobe, hair, and make-up most likely are impossible. Allowing friends, significant others, or relatives to determine what is acceptable fashion will never work out to your advantage, unless they are a fashion expert.
When it comes to your image, how would you describe you style, personality, and lifestyle? Sometimes, people naturally fall into a category. Are you happy with the way you dress? Your clothing and image is what speaks volume when no words are being said. What message are you sending to your peers, children, husband, wife, and friends? If you do not focus on your appearance, then who else will. Own your image and take control of what your image says about you.
Everyone is unique and special. You can be beautiful regardless of shape, age or size. There are many ways to focus on your assets and downplay problem areas in order to maximize your body's full potential. Part of the process is to understand your body structure. This can be further explained by an image expert, image consultant, or fashion consultant. Wearing the appropriate styles, garments, textiles, and colors have an enormous effect on your overall image and shape. When seeking the advice of a fashion consultant, be prepared to have your world turned upside down because it can be a life changing event.
If you have had the same hairstyle since college perhaps this means you are ready for change. If you find that you have a closet full of clothing and nothing to wear then you may be in need of a wardrobe analysis. If you have had the same clothing style for the past ten years because you are uncertain of what else looks good on you then perhaps you should contemplate hiring an personal shopper. It is not uncommon for corporations, small businesses, or executives to seek the help of an fashion consultant. Business and office attire should also be stylish but stay within the respected realm of your professional environment. Be careful that if you decide to hire a fashion consultant or image consultant that they are experienced, educated, and work with a full range of clients. Most fashion consultants will give you a free consultation. Push yourself to make the call and I think you will be pleasantly surprised.
Updating your look with a beauty and fashion makeover is a great form of rejuvenation. When your image is dated or out of style, you send a message to those around you. When you dress stylish and look "put together" you are simply saying that you care about the way you look. You appear current, updated, and informed instead of being stuck in a time capsule. Whether you are going for a job interview, promotion, dinner date, or dropping the kids off at school, you should dress appropriate. Work attire does not always have to be stuffy and boring. Sometimes clothing has to be comfortable and agile to accommodate children. Either way, dressing appropriate for the task at hand can be accomplished while wearing stylish and flattering pieces.
Companies like My Image Expert provide a variety of services including: wardrobe analysis, color analysis, personal shopper, beauty makeover, fashion makeover, men makeovers, fashion advice, and style tips. They provide image services from head to toe and charge an hourly fee. You can mix and match services to accommodate your needs. They provide a free consultation to help you determine the areas you may need help with. With fashion consultants in most U.S cities, My Image Expert is devoting to providing affordable and reliable services.


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Week 8: How not to be a financial disaster in 12 weeks
- From: news.com.au
- April 03, 2014
JENNI Ryall is on a journey from financial hell to financial freedom in 12 weeks. She shares her honest account of turning her ridiculous situation around.
I threw out my television one year ago. I also disconnected my internet. My mattress was made circa 1981. My couch came as a mega bonus with my apartment. My washing machine was free from my old flatmate, and I forgot to buy a dryer. My fridge doesn't have a light, freezes everything and is second hand. My outdoor table broke in half and I didn't replace it. Oh, and my doona is still the size of a single bed.
I have spat out numerous reasons for the lack of large ticket items in my apartment. "I like my display home!" "I want to be disconnected." "It makes me read books." "My bed is comfortable and can you believe, it flips into the wall?!" "I can breeze-dry my sheets by hanging them on my bathroom and shower door — it's good for the environment."
The reality? I'm scared of spending money in bulk when it is a need and not a want. Oh yeah, that makes perfect sense.
It seems my internal perception between need and want, and the percentage of money skewed to each is so out of whack, I don't even know how my brain processes it.
A nice dinner at my favourite restaurant and I don't blink at the ridiculous cost. A silk shirt here, a pretty something-something there, pay pass here, pay pass there. Then ask me to buy washing detergent, and I almost faint. $12 a box …? That's OUTRAGEOUS! When did underwear get so expensive? A couch would destroy me.
I could snap up a cheap TV for a couple of hundred bucks … but FRESH FLOWERS. I could get a new mattress that would last for years for less than one thousand dollars … but WINE CLUB.
So this week, I didn't buy anything I wanted so that maybe I can stop kidding myself, afford the television I have gone 12 months without and enjoy an episode of The Block after a long, stressful day. In decent underwear. Like a regular person. With regular things.
So I didn't buy the wine, I didn't buy the MAC makeup I pretended I needed but I really just wanted, I didn't buy any clothes or take off on a "cheap" weekend away, I didn't get my hair cut at the hipster salon, I didn't allow myself any wants.
The result? More than $700 and my full licence in my back pocket.
My final confession: I have been renewing my provisional licence for 10 years because I couldn't bring myself to pay the $200 in bulk to get my full one. If you make sense of that one, please also let me know.
Bank account: Undisclosed — spent $312 since last week
S avings account: $1203.44 — hasn't budged
Credit card: $3000.00 — balance transfer success. No more spending on credit EVER AGAIN, direct debit set up to put $500 a month on the new NAB card with -$3000 balance.
Feeling: On track
Breaking up is hard to do, but often necessary. Those unpredictable, exciting types may seem fun for a while but it always end with an empty purse and a broken heart. Unless you have been patient, waited for the hottest deal in town, asked them to shout you dinner and then gently tied them down.
But you didn't do that, did you? So it is time to look at your accounts and loans and make sure you are onto a good thing before it ends in furniture being taken off you piece by piece.
Switching bank accounts is never going to be an enjoyable process, it is hard to scrap something that has been in your life since you were a teenager. Screw loyalty, if they aren't giving you the best deal it is time to pack up your life and head to a different provider.
Of course, you have to ask the hard question: Is the amount of physical effort worth the amount you'll save? For example, if your current transaction account charges you $6 per month for an account fee, this adds up to $72 for the whole year. Is a few phone calls to your billers worth $72?
How to compare bank accounts
Use a website such as savingsaccountfinder.com.au to compare different savings account. Pay special attention to the monthly account fee and transaction fees. For my savings account, I've got a high-interest, no fee saver which in comparison to other accounts on the market is competitive and suits my attempts at saving.
My transaction account is called a zero transaction account. The beauty of this account is it lets me withdraw cash at any of the major banks without that annoying $2 fee. A lazy person's dream. It also doesn't hit me with any annual fees if I pay my salary into the account.
The great part? It is linked with my saver account, so although it doesn't pay interest over $5000, if I ever get a windfall, I'd be transferring it straight across into my higher interest account.
Look deeper into the account details to make sure it suits the way you spend and save. Would you like a text alert to help you avoid late fees? Or perhaps a mobile app is more your kind of thing. Pay pass is a feature I can't live without which is attached to my debit card feature. It also allows me to cut up that credit card for good.
Accounts owned.
Personal loan
It may be time to refinance your loan. It is much like the credit card balance transfer we did a few weeks ago. You replace the loan you took out initially with a new loan. Why would you want to do this?
— For a lower interest rate to help you save money on repayments
— Extending your loan term so you save money on repayments
— You want better features such as redraw on the ability to make extra repayments
Will it be worth your while? It depends on the fees, such as switching fees and early repayment fees on your existing loan. Make sure you read the fine print and decide whether it really is worth the switch.
The things to look at specifically: Interest rate, account keeping fees, loan term, flexibility and secured v unsecured. For more information on breaking it down for you — join the 12 Week Financial Fitness Challenge.
My realisation: After sorting my credit card previously to a more competitive card, I felt confident to do this week's challenge. All my accounts are competitive in the market and not worth a switch to save a few bucks a year. If I keep on the path of buying what I need over what I want for the next four weeks, those savings will be on their way to earning a sweet little profit in my high-interest savings account. Here's hoping I can quit being a total disaster once and for all.
Follow Jenni's 12-week financial challenge on news.com.au every Tuesday.
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Joanne Posted at 4:05 PM April 02, 2014
And here we go again with another piece of frugal life. Ebenizer Scrooge, we come. Yes, certain things can be cut back. I don't need make-up, have a very good cheap hair dresser, yet we run two fridges, don't have an aircon, which we don't like anyway. We love good quality food, which makes you eat less because you're fuller quicker (reminds me of one of her first stories clearly showing she's no idea about anything, especially quality and value for money), and can afford wine. We've decent furniture, no credit cards and don't owe money. That woman will end not in financial freedom but hell, because she doesn't know how to live properly without robbing a bank. She actually mixes up frugal with being money conscious, two very different things, because the first one means you have no lifestyle, the second one means you simply don't buy what you can't afford, but still live well enough.
Kevin of Double Bay Posted at 4:01 PM April 02, 2014
I cannot believe people still use credit cards. I only use American Express Platinum and have an add on card for both my wife and my son Winston who is privately educated. We have never paid a cent in interest and simply have the full amount paid each month via our private banker. Anyone who actually uses a credit card and then fails to pay the full amount owing immediately the statement arrives deserves to be penalised by high interest charges.
PoP of SA Posted at 3:08 PM April 02, 2014
Spend up and die happy ... or die in misery .


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Rolling Marbles
This activity has a logic and reasoning focus.
find strategies for investigating games
write a solution for a game
This is another game that requires logic to solve it. Hence in this way it is linked to the Lake Crossing I, Lake Crossing II and Space Crossing problems. However, it is not directly related to any of the non-Mathematical Processes strands.
This particular problem can be attacked by a logical approach. Clearly equipment is a useful strategy to use but another one that is valuable is 'use a smaller case'. So if your students have trouble getting started they might try three marbles of each colour first. This might give them a clue as to how to approach the eight ball situation.
In recent years games have been given a lot of attention by mathematicians. In fact there have been a wide variety of games analysed and solved. For instance, it is well known that the first player in noughts and crosses cannot lose if she plays optimally. On the other hand, the second player, playing optimally can always at least force a draw. Other games are more difficult. Although computers can play a very good game of chess, it is still not known what is the best strategy for either the first or second players.
But analysing games goes back to at least the 17th Century. The famous French mathematician Blaise Pascal (of Pascal's Triangle fame) spent a great deal of time studying card games. As a result he laid the foundation for probability and statistics.
A great deal of theoretical work has now been established. So much so that there is now a branch of mathematics called Games Theory. Generally speaking, very little of this has so far found its way into the school curriculum, though.
The Problem
Anna has a new toy. It consists of four red marbles next to four blue marbles in a U-shaped track. Anna is allowed to pick up any two consecutive marbles and place them, in the same order, at the left or at the right end of the track. Then gravity brings them all together again.
Can Anna put the marbles in order red, blue, red blue, etc., using the move described above? If so, what is the smallest number of moves that it requires?
Suppose the balls in the track alternate in colour, starting with red on the left. Can Anna find a sequence of moves that will put them back into their original positions, i.e., four red marbles followed by four blue marbles? If so, what is the smallest number of moves that she can make to do this?
Teaching sequence
- State the problem. The first part of this problem is reasonably straightforward so it may be done quickly by some of the class. You might like to solve Anna's first problem as a discussion by the whole class. On the other hand, if you have a bright group of students you could just give it to them and let them go straight into their groups to solve it.
- If the students are not already in their groups, let them go into them now.
- Help groups that need it. For the quicker groups, encourage them to try the Extension.
- Let a few groups report back to the whole class.
- Leave time for students to write up their solutions (or let them do this as homework).
By taking the two adjacent red and blue marbles and moving them to the right it only takes two moves to have the marbles alternating in colour. As it is not possible to do it in one move then this is the smallest number of moves.
We now give one possible algorithm for making the change. There are others. Starting from the right, always take the left most mixed pair of marbles in which the left most in the pair is the same colour as the right most of the eight marbles. After three moves, then move the paired blues to the right. Specifically: the capital letters indicate the marbles to be moved - always to the right hand side.
rBRbrbrb-->RBrbrbbr-->rBRbbrrb --> rBBrrbbr-->rrrBBrbb-->rrrrbbbb
Now, this straightens things out in 6 moves.


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Meet the Pastor and Family
Rev. Kevin Morris is a Florida native, born in Leesburg. He was baptized at the First Presbyterian Church in Leesburg. He and his parents moved to Sarasota when he was six. He is the oldest of three. His two younger sister's families and parents still call Sarasota home.
Kevin earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree from Western Carolina University in 1986. After a few years in the secular world, he felt the call from God to ministry. He graduated from Columbia Theological Seminary in 1992, earning a Master of Divinity degree. During the time in seminary, Kevin met Kim. They married in the summer of 1992. They moved to Kentucky where Kevin served two churches during his first call. Kim, who practiced law in Georgia, continued to practice in Kentucky.
Shannon, their first child, was born in 1994. Joshua, their second and last, arrived in 1996. With the desire to be closer to family and feeling the nudge from the Lord, the four moved to Dade City in 1999. Kim passed her third bar exam and is a partner at the Mander Law Group. Shannon is attending FSU, and Josh is attending the University of Kentucky.
Locally, Rev. Morris is a member and past president of the Dade City Rotary Club noon club, and Northeast Pasco Ministerial Association. He participates in the Tampa Bay Presbytery in various capacities.


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The Perry Como on Kraft Music Hall (1959)
From January 17, 1959, The Kraft Music Hall with guests Rosemary Clooney, Nat King Cole, Rin Tin Tin. Gail Davis appeared in her role as Annie Oakley.
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Update 2/13/14: Per Jyllands Park Zoo -
The European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA) have announced that Jyllands Park Zoo is not to recieve a female giraffe any time soon as part of the programme.
As a result of this we will of course keep both our giraffes, as we have stated all along.
Another giraffe, ironically named "Marius," like the giraffe who was killed at Denmark's Copenhagen Zoo less than a week ago, is in danger of losing his life at a different zoo in Denmark, reported Thursday's CBS News.
The latest "Marius," in jeopardy resides at Jyllands Park Zoo, which is also in Denmark.
On Sunday, the first "Marius," an 18-month-old giraffe, was killed in public because he was considered "surplus," and his genes were said to be "inferior."
The Jyllands Park Zoo "Marius" is seven-years-old and he will be killed if the zoo acquires a female giraffe - unfortunately for Marius, the likelihood of a new girl in the zoo is "likely."
Zoo keeper Janni Lojtved Poulsen explained why Marius might be destroyed:
We can't have two males and one female. Then there will be fights,"
If the breeding program coordinator decides that he should be put down, then that's what we'll do,"
According to the zoo keeper, killing animals who are considered to be surplus, is a common practice and they are not swayed in any manner by the protests and uproar created when the juvenile giraffe was killed last Sunday.
Poulsen said:
It doesn't affect us in any way,
We are completely behind Copenhagen and would have done the same.
Zoo officials at Jyllands Park Zoo are unsure if they would make their Marius undergo a public dissection.
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London Fletcher Diary: Entry #7 [6:25 PM]
BuffaloBills.com reports: Away games are a little different from home games. I have to pack two uniforms and make sure that I have all my necessary toiletries along with my Walkman for the plane ride and pre-game in the locker room. Being on the road, we have to adjust to sharing a room and sleeping in a different bed.
Bills bolster defensive line with Ahanotu [4:47 PM]
AP reports: '"When London said he was leaving the Rams, I said, 'I'm going where ever you go, London,"' said Ahanotu, impressed by how Fletcher quarterbacked the Rams defense. "I didn't think it would happen. But here I am. ... I was watching. It was in the back of my brain of why I might come to Buffalo."'
Wingin' It in Buffalo [4:46 PM]
ESPN reports: 'I have looked forward to visiting Buffalo ever since I met Scooter almost two decades ago, and he immediately began raving about his hometown. He has long driven me nuts by naming every athlete who ever played or lived in the city, and when I finally reached the Queen City this weekend and met his family, I found out where he gets it from. They're even more like Scooter than Scooter is.'
Ahanotu agrees to one-year deal with Bills [1:25 PM]
AP reports: '"He is super excited," said Ahanotu's agent, Scott Langley. "The Bills are a storied franchise and he wants to help them."'
Bills Sign Chidi Ahanotu [12:21 PM]
BuffaloBills.com reports: St. John Fisher College - The Bills today announced that the team has signed defensive end Chidi Ahanotu (pronounced CHEE-dee uh-HAHN-uh-too).
Ahanotu Inks With the Bills [11:29 AM]
Empire reports: Defensive end Chidi Ahanotu has signed with the team and is expected to be available for the Monday afternoon practice session. The agreement is a one-year deal.
Pat Williams: Working In The Trenches [10:59 AM]
BuffaloBills.com reports: He is a 6-foot-3, 310-pound Cinderella�a Cinderella story that is. Sixth year pro Pat Williams has elevated himself from an undrafted rookie free agent in 1997 to a key member of the 2002 Bills team defense. Working his way through the trenches known as the defensive line he is making his presence known.
Two Minute Drill� With Larry Centers [10:58 AM]
BuffaloBills.com reports: Fullback Larry Centers on his 2002 teammates.
Undrafted Bills making names for themselves [9:01 AM]
Buffalo News reports: 'Here's how some of the young free agents are doing as the Bills enter the final week of training camp at St. John Fisher College...'
Keeping Price comes in handy [5:18 AM]
D and C reports: 'He's no All-Pro, he's no superstar, but you don't last 10 years in the NFL without having done a few things well along the way, and that's why the Buffalo Bills are thrilled they were able to re-sign Price last Friday.'
Henry making strides on the ground [5:17 AM]
D and C reports: 'Henry is reveling in the fact that Bledsoe is here, and Rob Johnson isn't.'
Buffalo Bills fan of the day [5:16 AM]
D and C reports: '"I was at the opening (preseason) game and Drew Bledsoe really took charge. He got right up after that first sack and took them right down the field. You wouldn't have seen that with Rob (Johnson) last year."'
Price practices after signing with Bills [7:44 PM]
AP reports: '"We're so young there," said Bills team president Tom Donahoe. "Although we like a lot of our guys, Shawn gives us some experience. He did a good job for us last year, when he played hurt. Ahanotu wanted a couple of days to think about our offer, and we'll probably get his decision the early part of next week."'
Balanced Bills get offense running [9:24 AM]
Buffalo News reports: '"Last week we came out on fire with the passing game. This week we really wanted to establish the run and really work the ball with both a passing and running attack. We seemed to accomplish what we set out to do."'
After eight seasons, Ostroski nears the end of the road [9:23 AM]
Buffalo News reports: 'Bills coach Gregg Williams has been tossing around the word "conditioning" lately, but what he really means is Ostroski is overweight.'
Off-season moves, new quarterback stoke fan enthusiasm for Bills [9:22 AM]
Buffalo News reports: 'Since his arrival, season ticket sales have been steady. Sales have been around 36,000 the past two years. Though the Bills have not compiled the updated figures yet, they still hope to reach their goal of 40,000 season tickets, which hasn't been achieved since 1996.'
Abramoski serves up tales from training room [9:22 AM]
Buffalo News reports: 'At the urging and underwriting of Bills owner Ralph Wilson, the original and longtime team trainer wrote a book. The finished product, "Tale of the Tape," by Eddie as told to Milt Northrop, veteran member of The Buffalo News sports staff, is being released this week.'
Best and worst NFL cities [7:02 AM]
Houston Chronicle reports: '1. Buffalo...The lots open on Thursday afternoon, and some people make a weekend of it. It's a sight to behold.'
Bledsoe is focusing on forward progress [5:38 AM]
Boston Globe reports: '''I had to come to the right place,'' Bledsoe continued. ''It had to be a place with a good organization and a team with a chance to win games. I feel we've got that here. It's a good organization from the top down. Good people. I don't want to just say I needed a change, because it couldn't have been change just for the sake of change. I wanted to be someplace where I could help a team win.'''
Australian fan travels 10,000 miles to cheer [5:20 AM]
D and C reports: '"I'm in football heaven," says the 27-year-old Melbourne podiatrist who traveled more than 10,000 miles to Pittsford.'
Bills, Vikings roll on offense [9:27 AM]
Buffalo News reports: 'The starting offenses for the Bills and Vikings marched up and down the field seemingly at will Friday night in Ralph Wilson Stadium.'
Bills' 'D' all talk, not much action [9:27 AM]
Buffalo News reports: 'The Bengals came out throwing in the preseason opener and the Vikings did likewise.'
Culpepper ready to rebound [9:25 AM]
Buffalo News reports: '"The only person I need to prove something to is myself," said Culpepper. "I don't feel like I have anything to prove this year. I know what I'm capable of."'
Defense gets boost with signing of Price [9:24 AM]
Buffalo News reports: 'Terms of the contract weren't released, but it's believed he received a one-year deal worth slightly more than the veteran minimum of $650,000.'
Kelly owes nobody for failed business [9:22 AM]
Buffalo News reports: 'I neither made nor lost a cent on Kelly or the corporation founded with him as its figurehead, but as far as the publicly known facts are concerned, I find no fault with him in that situation. I am disgusted anew with those who claim to think Kelly "ripped off" anyone there. He owes nobody for his business failure.'
Vikings hang on [5:53 AM]
D and C reports: 'During the first 30 minutes, the litany of dismay looked like this: Culpepper completed 12 of 19 passes for 189 yards and a touchdown, he rushed seven times for 34 yards, and not once did the Bills come close to sacking him.'
Bills, Vikings put on a good show [5:52 AM]
D and C reports: 'In two practice tilts so far, Bledsoe has rung up 27 points in seven possessions. That breaks down to 3 TDs, 2 FGs, 1 punt and 1 turnover. He can start unpacking the boxes at the 36-acre farm he purchased in East Aurora, he's got the team made.'
Price brought back to bolster defense [5:52 AM]
D and C reports: '"We talked to him all winter, all spring, and it was just a matter of him being able to pass his physical," general manager Tom Donahoe said.'
Defensive line still a problem for the Bills [5:51 AM]
Olean Times Herald reports: 'For all the enthusiasm generated by the Bills' off-season trade for quarterback Drew Bledsoe - and he played well again on Friday night - this team's hopes for dramatic improvement rest with the performance of its defensive line. And, so far, the returns haven't been good.'
Defence bails on Bills [5:50 AM]
Toronto Sun reports: 'Though they were trailing only 17-13 -- and ultimately lost 24-21 -- the Bills' first-team defence surrendered 293 yards to the Vikings offence by halftime. Given that the Bills meet the Vikings for real in Week 2 of the fast-approaching NFL season, they may want to get up to speed sooner rather than later.'
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Fashion's Night Out Runway Show: New Tickets to Live-Stream Show
The rest of the city might be woozy from a late summer swoon but in fashion circles, each day brings more news of the coming runway season and the second coming of Fashion's Night Out.
This year, Conde Nast is staging a spectacle of a runway show on Sept. 7 at Lincoln Center. Over 150 top models in Vogue-certified ensembles will parade past 1,500 guests. When tickets went on sale on August 19, they sold out within four hours, with some Twitter reports of scalpers already making deals with the stiletto crowd.
Tickets are still sold out, alas. But this morning, American Express will offer its cardmembers a chance to buy seats at Alice Tully Hall to a pre-show panel discussion with Vogue's Hamish Bowles, J.Crew's Jenna Lyons, Alexander Wang and Tory Burch. Following the panel, ticket holders would then watch a live-stream of the show.
Over 1,000 tickets, priced between $75 – $200, go on sale at 10 a.m. today at www.lincolncenter.org. They can only be purchased with an American Express card.


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The brainchild of former Dazed & Confused and Vogue Hommes Japan art director Remi Paringaux, POST is an unprecedented multimedia publication designed exclusively for the iPad. Taking advantage of the varied opportunities for video, images, text and tactility that the platform represents, POST promises an entirely new experience for editorial interaction in the fashion world and beyond. We chatted with Paula Goldstein, one of POST's leading creative forces, about the editorial transition from print to online, the added dimensionality of digital editorial and how POST maintains its independent voice.
JC Report: What makes POST stand apart from other digitized publications and new media?
Paula Goldstein: There are many developers out there who have the technical capabilities to make apps, and many publishers who will translate their print versions into apps. However, POST as an iPad publication is intrinsically different. To paraphrase Shumon from his piece for the first issue: "POST is an only child, born of the iPad with no printed sibling to imitate or be intimidated by."
We all come from print publishing backgrounds with the artistic and editorial sensibilities of a team used to working with printed matter. However we are uniquely creating content to push the capabilities of a new media, which is almost somewhere between TV programming, a book and a computer game without having to account for the other mediums out there. As our editor Xerxes Cook has said, we are creating "candy for the fingers." POST will be a showcase for its wider creative agency, Meri Media, which anticipates the rapid evolution of the medium. With the global reach of the web, combined with the attractive, curated content, uncompromised design and controlled, sequential environment of print, Meri Media can create apps to give brands a unique voice in a world in which users are becoming more and more savvy to their consumption of content.
JCR: How does the generational change that is coinciding with digital media such as the iPad factor in?
PG: Personally, I grew up in a digital world starting school at four-years-old with computers, starting high school with the internet and starting my working life with constant internet access on a smart phone—digital mediums aren't a new world to my generation, they are merely the world. [We] at POST have honed our craft in the world of traditional print, yet we were also seeing the market for printed matter become a more and more impossible option.
This created the question of how we would be able to make an independent publication, created by our generation, in the same way as the pioneers in independent magazine publishing we admired—the likes of Dazed, Purple and Interview—had done. Remi, our creative director, stated that as soon as he heard about the iPad, he knew he had found the answer: a tablet provides a natural paperless interactive platform yet with the same slow contained aesthetic as a print magazine.
JCR: Can you give some specific examples on how this manifests itself?
PG: The interactivity of the iPad is the most exciting part of the platform. The user can touch, play and create content of their own—for example, using your finger to change colors, remove layers or even paint pictures. Also the way in which one page can hold so many facets and features: music features can play the music, interviews can allow videos which give the user the extra dimensions into the subtleties of a spoken conversation, adverts in which, with one tap, you can buy the product itself.
JCR: Do you think this pushing of boundaries will happen to physical spaces such as shops and art galleries?
PG: The way in which the virtual world and the real world interact is becoming more and more important. This is a place in which augmented reality will come into play when any tablet or phone with the technology to connect to the internet and a camera will mean users can take pictures which will automatically guide and inform you. Take a gallery, for example: you take a picture on your phone and it could interact with a QR code to tell you when it was painted, who the artist is, show a catalogue of their other works and allow you to buy books by said artist.
JCR: The cross-disciplinary editorial focus is something that is being mirrored in creativity at large. Do you think it's a way for fashion to appeal to a bigger audience, or the latest marketing tool that the industry is employing?
PG: I think in a way fashion is the easiest access point to a wider range of other cultural disciplines—and the industry recognizes this. In a way, it is a marketing tool because people are now savvier to content. They want new, exciting and informative content. They have access to so much and so easily that a re-written press release no longer works. The cross-disciplinary focus allows for the creation of the varied editorial people really want to read.
JCR: How exactly will this new medium reflect a real departure from the past?
PG: POST is about the unexplored, interstitial space between print and web, and the next frontier of fashion and luxury imagery. Strong editorial will of course remain core. However, the biggest departure will be the element in which the entire magazine links directly to retail—this direct commercial link will be a more fundamental change than the exciting moving image content.
JCR: Do you think the iPad and its successive versions will be as phenomenally successful as the iPod?
PG: Yes. Someone said to me the other day that the problem would be that the older generation wouldn't understand it. My response was: "Did they understand TV when it first happened? No. But does virtually everyone have one now? Yes." The wonderful thing about the touch screen and the way the iPad functions is that it's so easy to use, which, again, was the major coup for TV. I would say, as soon as the price point comes down slightly it will not only just be the new iPod, but tablets will be the new TV.
JCR: As one of the first iPad-only magazines, do you think the publication will have the efficacy and tactile physicality of print?
PG: As previously mentioned, it's contained in its entirety both on and offline like a magazine. The way you touch the screen and interact with your fingers is exciting, but in a different way to paper. The feel of shiny new paper will always have a place, but now also will the flick of a finger on a screen.
JCR: With online shopping numbers growing at increasing rates and previously skeptical luxury brands now harnessing the digital revolution, how do you think the iPad will enhance the changing industry?
PG: It will bridge the gap more easily between the beauty of e-commerce and the ability to purchase on e-commerce. You just have to look at the likes of Net-a-Porter and ASOS—both are massive online fashion e-commerce successes that provide an editorial element and platform to their sites. POST will take this to a new and more seamless level.
JCR: But do you think part of the fantasy of luxury brands is the mega campaigns, the mega pages and the ubiquity of their presence?
PG: Yes and no. Of course luxury brands need to create an amazing space in which they enforce their importance and presence. In a way, iPad magazines allow them to do this in an even more in-depth way than any print. If you look at the adverts in the first issue of POST, they provide almost mircosites, giving brands a broader, stronger voice as they can contain many different kinds of brand information—from films to mini online stores. Also, I think the fantasy has shifted in a attempt to keep up. I'm still a little confused by luxury adverts on Facebook, for example.
JCR: Is there a risk that POST will become a glossy iPad shopping site that brands and advertisers just use as a distribution platform?
PG: The fact you can shop the entire magazine by touch makes it more free, more beautiful. Commerce does not need to be shoved in the user's face, as it's silently there for whenever the user wants to tap and interact with that element. Also the amount of information carried in the adverts for brands allows a greater freedom in the rest of the magazine's content.


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Cyclist-killing lorry driver fined £300
20.09.07 by Buffalo Bill
The Standard today (2007-09-20, page 11) reports this:
Rob Singh, Crime Reporter
A lorry driver who ran over and killed a cyclist who was a writer and jewellery designer was today fined £300 after admitting careless driving.
Emma Foa, 56 died as she cycled from her home in Hampstead Heath to work in Clerkenwell in December. She was killed instantly after being crushed between the cement mixer's rear wheels and roadside railings.
At Westminster Magistrates Court today Michael Thorn, 52 of Headley Down, Surrey was allowed to keep his driver's licence and was ordered to pay £100 costs.
The court had been told that Thorn had been looking for some papers in his cabin when the bike was beside him and also when his vehicle began to turn left and the fatal crash occured.
The family of Ms Foa – the daughter of typewriter magnate Adriano Ollivetti said she was wearing a luminious reflector jacket and a helmet when she was crushed by the two tonne lorry.
District Judge Anthony Evans said: "I accept in cases of this sort it's distressing for all concerned, the family of the disceased and the driver whose inadvertance has resulted in a fatality."
Prosecutor Graham Parkinson told the court the incident happened at 9.10am in Camley Street, Kings Cross.
"Emma was riding her bike and reached the traffic lights. She went along the nearside and waited for the lights to change," he said. "She was alongside for 37 seconds and would have been visible. He moved off and turned left causing her to be pushed to the ground and killed instantly. He had been looking for some paperwork in his truck… He felt a bump, saw a bike and jumped out to find her."
Karen Dempsey, defending, said that Thorn was "shocked and distressed" and that the incident "would live with him for the rest of his life". She added that witnesses had said he was not driving aggressively.
I am not sure what I am most shocked by. I am not shocked that, despite the fact that Mr Thorn's criminal negligence has resulted in the unlawful killing of Ms Foa, the court is allowing him to continue to drive. I am not shocked that, despite being found guilty of road crime, the driver has been fined £300. The sentence is entirely in keeping with the tariff for road killing. The driver who killed London bicycle messenger Sebastian Lukomski received a 6 point endorsement and a £1000 fine. Yet again, the old adage 'if you want to get away with murder, get behind the wheel of a lorry' is proven true. OK, it's not murder, it's manslaughter but someone is dead because someone else was in charge of dangerous machinery, and failed to their job properly.
I am shocked that the judge has chosen the word "inadvertence" to describe the actions of the driver. Making a left turn whilst fumbling for papers in a HGV? That's not inadvertence – that's just f***ing stupid.
I am shocked that the defending barrister said that the driver was not driving aggressively. As if a lack of aggression excuses somehow a negligent act which has led to an avoidable death. The dead woman's only mistake was to be riding her bicycle and assuming that "a luminous reflective jacket" and a helmet would protect her. She stopped at the lights, and she wasn't in the "blind spot". But the driver didn't see her, because he wasn't looking. And she was crushed to death because he was too busy checking his pay-sheet to make sure he had got his overtime to pay attention to what his two-tonne machine might be rolling over.
As we reported elsewhere, 5 London cyclists have been killed so far this year (2007) by lorries. Studies have previously shown that around half of all cyclist fatalities in London resulting from collisions with Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGVs or LGVs) are the result of left-turns by the lorries.
For more on the HGV/cyclist issue, click the contents link at the top of this page.
f***ing disgrace!!
and roadside railings should be written off, they do all harm – no good.
— nick 20 September 2007, 21:17 #
it's a pity he could not have been convicted of dangerous driving…the whole situation is enough to make your blood boil..
— breaking away 20 September 2007, 22:27 #
i wasn't aware that £300 was the going rate for a human life. Disgusting.
— Nik 21 September 2007, 01:52 #
that's disgusting. utterly disgusting.
i worked in a bike shop for a while, and when a new female cyclist came in and asked about safety gear, my best advice was about how to cycle, not what you wear. simply put, ride assertively (or aggressively!) but defensively, and never cycle on the inside of a lorry / bus. i don't care that you should be able to and the driver should be more attentive, the simple fact is that, if it comes down to it, you lose everything and they nothing.
i'm not blaming her in anyway whatsoever, she did everything "right". but the sad fact is that a cyclist in london has to ride as if they are invisible to all and that every car/lorry/bus is going to do a left turn right into you. :/
— lurkette 21 September 2007, 10:25 #
this is a disgrace. I think we need to have a proper look at the groups that are campaigning on this. We need to draw together London's cycling community and say enough is enough.
If you drew all the groups in london together – from couriers to crit mass to commuters to teams you would have one hell of an voting mass. Maybe Livingstone would listen then.
— larryred 21 September 2007, 16:38 #
I read this and was shocked too, there however a while ago was a lovely Radio 4 programme about an off-duty policeman in Wales killed in a time trial. The police investigation was so thorough that several of the firm's owners managers went to jail; suppose it depends who you kill.
I whilst Belfast based work in a national UK road haulage business – profit and margins always come ahead of people…
— Michael 21 September 2007, 20:09 #
cut his fucking bollocks off
— macbastard 24 September 2007, 12:11 #
cut his bollocks off ?makes you as bad as someone who use's his vehicle as a weapon.
i am a hgv driver i have never killed any-one,nor did i start driving hgv's so i could,you want to take the emotion out of the debate,organize a day out in a large/small hgv and see it from the drivers perspective,that aside fumbling for paperwork in traffic,not paying attention or checking your mirrors is know excuse and you should have a fit and proper punishment wether its a cyclist or pedestrian that dies.i have driven artics for 14 years and trust me car/van/bus/m/bikes and cyclists all can cause the deaths of lorry drivers, who by virtue of what they drive cause more carange,its not a conspiracy on the roads to kill cyclists its just law of averages,but i dont condone poor driving and dangerous driving sympathy to every-one killed on uk's roads
— phil rigby 28 September 2007, 19:43 #
erm yes, the law of averages is explainable by drivers – fumbling for paperwork in traffic, not paying attention or checking your mirrors – and the fact that there are HGV's in central London at all…
— _targetbot 29 September 2007, 09:33 #
Err Phil, just such a day out was organised. See here.
And what the f*** are you doing, exactly, apart from blaming the 'law of averages' for straight-forward driver negligence.
Oh, and BTW 'cyclists.. ..can cause the deaths of lorry drivers'??? That's a load of crap. Show me one example of a lorry driver who has died as the result of the actions of a cyclist.
— Bill 30 September 2007, 22:10 #
Dear Phil. Bollocks.
I work as a telematics researcher and have spent a lot of time looking at HGV incidents. The single biggest cause of HGV driver deaths is driving too close. Often behind another HGV while 'drafting' to clip some fuel savings.
HGV driver arrogance is rife. They think that because they pay the most road tax and fuel duty they have more rights to the highway. This assertion is incorrect.
Often less well educated, they often consider they know it all and don't need to constantly learn and re-learn how to drive.
Pressured by JIT deliveries and ferry crossing times, they often push the WTD to the limit. On the A14 I worked out that just 1 in 7 drivers are alert enough to be driving.
I have never found a case where a cyclist, motorcyclist or pedestrian has caused the death of an HGV driver. Conversely, I have seen pictures of the remains of two families who were crushed and then burnt by an HGV failing to stop on an A-road, because the driver just couldn't give a toss about the safety of other people as he arsed about in his cab with 35 tonnes hurtling down the road at 55mph.
By far the most effective safety device would be to fit a spike in the middle of the steering wheel, and the death of a cyclist would be an automatic life-ban. Decent mirrors and sensors would then be fitted pronto. For now, cyclists just aren't worth caring about if you are a truck driver. If you kill one you'll only get a few hundred quid fine. Cheaper than decent mirrors.
In the report on the crushed and burnt families case, the driver was 'really sorry' for what he had done. Wiping out two generations of two families is the direct result of a allowing stupid twats to drive these machines.
In effect you have just demonstrated the problem with HGV drivers – you don't think it's your fault and your education needs a huge hike, spelling included..
— MattP 23 October 2007, 16:53 #
Dear MattP
An interesting clueless idea of what truck drivers as you call them do etc, My respects 1st to the family of the bereaved.
You claim
"Often behind another HGV while 'drafting' to clip some fuel savings." Most truck drivers do not own the vehicle and therefore dont care about that.
"They think that because they pay the most road tax and fuel duty they have more rights to the highway. This assertion is incorrect." You are right your assertion is incorrect,again very few truckers worry about tax fuel duty etc, get your facts right.
"Often less well educated, they often consider they know it all and don't need to constantly learn and re-learn how to drive," Most drivers of LGVs will admit themselves as experienced and always learning, unlike your "average car driver" who brags he is the best.
"On the A14 I worked out that just 1 in 7 drivers are alert enough to be driving. " I take it thats while you of course took note of the 100's possibly 1000's of car and van drivers, flashing there lights to overtake, cutting in and out of lanes with inches to spare without indicating ,while reading papers, shaving, drinking, talking on there phones etc?? Undoubtedly you are one of the morons calling for a ban on LGVs on the A14 in the early hours in the out side lane, then you will moan that you still arent moving quick enough as its the cars that cut in and out that are causing the problem. But now you have had your anti HGV rant (should be LGV) at someone elses loss, perhaps you could look at the picture in hand. This womans family suffered the greatest loss of all, yes because of the driver of an LGV, it could have been a car , a van , or a bus, but it wasn't. This is one of many such incidents that happen on our roads, and the biggest problem is observancy from ALL USERS cars , bikes, trucks, vans, coaches etc, and on your own admission, you have been paying less attention to the road than you should have been and more to truck drivers. Perhaps you should practice a little more of what you preach. So full of high moral standards yet hang yourself by what you write. Hypocrit springs to mind.
— Mark 4 December 2007, 19:29 #
It's nearly a year since my friend Emma Foa was senselessly killed by the driver of a cement mixer lorry in kings Cross. Wake up all you cyclists who have been critical of other cyclists killed in road traffic accidents. But particularly shocking in this case is that if the driver had not broken the law by fumbling around for papers in his cab instead of paying due care and attention to the road, Emma would certainly not have been killed. He broke the law and thanks, in part, to the unacceptable summing up by the Judge, he got away with it. There is nothing "inadvertent" about an action that is unlawful when it has resulted in someone being killed. Emma, you are badly missed and the world is so much poorer without you in it.
— stigy 13 December 2007, 11:52 #
Just to make a point here-if the lorry was a 'two tonne cement mixer' it's not an HGV, it's a 7.5 tonner and most probably driven by someone with no more than a car test under his belt and the attitude to match-hence the accident. Sickening.
— Matt 12 January 2008, 19:56 #
Lots of people have made the point about the 2-tonne thing. I think it's either a typo or a mistake in the original report. I doubt that there is such a thing as 2 tonne mixer.
— Bill 12 January 2008, 20:48 #
Some mixer bodies are fitted to 7.5 tonners-this would equate to a payload of around 2 tonnes.
The Times report it as 2 tonne as well.
Either way, the driver didn't get what he deserved. I drive artics and while there's often an element of simply not knowing on the part of cyclists,blatantly bad driving like this is disgusting and gives those of us who trained and do our jobs properly a bad name. If I drove like that and killed someone I'd exect to go to prison.
— Matt 13 January 2008, 00:23 #
The sickening thing is that an almost identical incident occurred in London about 8 years ago. Guess what? The driver got away with a rap on the knuckles – even though CCTV evidence showed the Lorry overtaking the cyclist beforehand – HE MUST HAVE SEEN HER.
— Michael Carter 28 February 2008, 08:07 #
A work colleague took a truck driver to task once, pointing out that he nearly hit him. The response was that "he missed".
Of course if the truckie had merel'y crushed him to death that would have been merely "inadvertent", so OK then.
I bet though that if he stepped up and slugged him he would have been arrested for assault, paid a hefty fine and possibly gone to jail?
Maybe its about time we stopped calling them "accidents" and started to use other terms, like perhaps "deliberates", might put a different view on things.
— Charles 21 September 2008, 15:19 #
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— ramesh rai 20 December 2008, 05:52 #
Had a driver been so negligent as to cause the loss of life then such a penalty will not do. However, the penalty was; this allows speculation as to the reasons for the seemingly inconsistent sentencing. A prosecutor will seek to test all manner of claims, even if they are knowingly exaggerated: a claimed statement isn't necessarily true; a court must never accept a claim just because they are "told" it. An obvious relevance is the reference to the prosecutor's claim of visibility. Another is the claim of the driver distracting himself with his paperwork. These possibly were true but given the penalty I would be inclined to not accept them until I know what the defence's rebuttal was for those issues. In short, I don't believe we have all the necessary facts; hence I don't believe Mr Bill and co. are in a position to pass judgement on that sentence or the driver.
— smeggy 7 January 2009, 21:27 #
The 'claims' were backed up by cctv evidence, and the driver's own statements in court.
— Bill 8 January 2009, 06:18 #
@ Bill.
"The 'claims' were backed up by cctv evidence, and the driver's own statements in court."
"backed up" doesn't mean it was accepted by the court as being significant contributory factors.
Remember, the sentence was unexpectedly light for death by negligence, therefore it follows that it is possible that there were unreported mitigating circumstances and/or valid defences against the prosecution's claims.
Did the driver accept that the victim was indeed visible? Did the driver accept that he was significantly distracted when "looking" (whatever that meant) for the papers? Could the driver have reasonably expected (perhaps by positioning and indication) that no-one should have been where the victim was?
My overall point being: what was the defence's rebuttal of the claims of fumbling for paper, or the visibility? Could they have successfully shown the evidence to be flawed or insignificant? The court has better access to all the evidence (not just one side of it), we do not have the same privilege; hence we have to accept that we may not be in a position to be able to understand and reconcile such judgements.
— smeggy 8 January 2009, 16:15 #
The driver pleaded guilty, after he had seen the cctv evidence. He, the driver, was reported as saying that he thought he had been sorting out paperwork in his cab immediately before the collision.
I don't think that leaves too much doubt. The reason that the sentence was so light is because that up until last year, there was nothing between 'careless driving' (what this driver was found guilty of) and 'causing death by dangerous driving'. When passing sentence on the first, the magistrate is very limited: points and a fine. To prove the latter, the prosecution must show that the standard of driving is far below the standard that could be reasonably expected. Personally, I would say that failing to look in your mirrors because you were distracted, when turning left in HGV would be a standard far below what could be reasonably expected, but the CPS didn't.
There is now an offence in law called 'causing death by careless driving', which was covered in some depth on this site last year. Of course, it is not possible to say whether this particular driver would have been charged with that offence. As I said elsewhere, I don't wish that the guy be punished – I just don't think he should be driving.
As far whether it would be reasonable to expect a cyclist to be on the left on that junction, well, the council think so: they put a bicycle lane feeding to an ASL after Emma Foa was killed. See here.
— Bill 8 January 2009, 18:14 #
Now, either do a little bit more reading, or naff off back to safespeed.
— Bill 8 January 2009, 18:18 #
There is plenty of room for doubt. "..he thought.." ? Again: did the sorting/looking of the paperwork have a significant impact on the risk of collision? How exactly was he "looking"?
"Personally, I would say … but the CPS didn't."
Do you know why the CPS didn't accept the 'far below' argument (even with the CCTV evidence) – or would you seriously suggest there has to be an endemic and serious conspiracy against cyclists?
I tend towards your opinion that driver shouldn't be driving (at least not for a while, perhaps he should be made to retake a tougher test). Whatever the sentencing regime, the judge could have given enough points for a totting ban (as well as a much bigger fine).
My overall point is that we don't have all the necessary facts to hand to so lambaste the driver or the given sentence. You cannot assume there isn't a good reason why the driver wasn't given a heavier penalty (I would welcome actual proof against). The driver may well have been a dangerous tit, but I'm not willing to pass judgement until I have seen the evidence for that and evidence against; the latter is where so many people fall over, certainly those in this thread anyway (confirmation bias).
Safespeed doesn't make judgements based on selective reporting and emotive speculation. (PS, I'm a London cyclist. I've had my share of being on the receiving end of errant drivers/cyclists/pedestrians).
— smeggy 9 January 2009, 16:39 #
For reasons of clarity about "smeggy's" position, he is the poster on safespeed who wrote that "few businesses are more deserving" when someone sent a letter bomb to a speed camera company. "Smeggy's" views on road safety and cyclists' safety are therefor about as worthwhile as gary Glitter's on child care.
— Steve Bowler 14 July 2009, 11:39 #
I also said "I utterly condemn inflicting injury on personnel".
I also said "That was a relative comment; I did not state that business is absolutely deserving"
Yet on the cycling plus forum, it was written: "condones sending bombs through the post with the intention of causing serious injury".
I also said: "Note: there are trolls who have an irrational hatred of the SS campaign. These trolls are using this thread as 'evidence' that the contributors to this thread condone letter bombing; nothing can be further from the truth. I have demonstrated my reasoning to these trolls, only to be met with twisted words, selective quotes out of context and outright lies, in their puerile attempts to impress other trolls. These people can never be taken seriously."
Do you post in C+ by any chance?
— smeggy 25 June 2011, 13:40 #
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The Titanic is probably the most discussed ship of all times. Last weekend on the 100th anniversary of its sinking I went to see the 1953 classic movie "Titanic" with Clifton Web, Barbara Stanwyck and a very young Robert Wagner at our local "arts" theater, the Wilton Town Hall Theater. The movie was free (donations to local charities recommended), and a huge bucket of fresh-popped popcorn, with real butter, is only 5 dollars.
There are also the movies "A Night to Remember" in 1958, and James Cameron's Oscar-winning movie "Titanic" in 1997 which changed a disaster movie into a love story and the 3D version out this year.
The DEC Alpha version of GNU/Linux was first started as a project in January of 1995, and completed in the fall of 1995. At that time the Alpha was the worlds fastest microprocessor, and of course was a 64-bit processor instead of just 32-bit. Both of these facts interested a small company in California named "Digital Domain".
In 1997 I was in Los Angeles attending a trade show when I met a young man named Daryll Strauss who was a software engineer at Digital Domain. At that time Daryll had been "hacking on Unix systems" for fifteen years, and was deep into visual effects for film.
Daryll invited me to Digital Domain's headquarters in Venice, California where they were just putting on the finishing touches to a new film by James Cameron (who along with two business partners founded Digital Domain in 1993) called "Titanic".
Not being a real "film buff" I had never heard of Digital Domain before, and did not really know who James Cameron was, but I did understand the scope of what they were trying to do in the movie.
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As the artists finished their detailed work, Digital Domain ordered 160 Alpha systems pre-installed with Red Hat 4.1 GNU/Linux, and set up their rendering and compositing farm. First they used the farm to render the water (water is very hard to render realistically), then used the farm to composite the movie, close to four hundred thousand frames over a period of three months with the systems running 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
There were a number of alternatives that Digital Domain could have followed. They could have used Digital Unix (DU) on the Alphas, but they needed support for some devices that DU did not support, and writing the device drivers for DU was difficult. Besides the number of licenses they would have needed would have boosted their costs considerably.
Digital Domain could have used SGI machines, but the DEC Alpha gave them a 2-3 times performance benefit due to the floating point performance, and about twice the performance over an Intel-based solution due to CPU speed and bus bandwidth. Not only was this a performance boost, but under the time constraints it was a price-performance benefit also, as they did not need to buy as many processors to get the work load completed in the time frame they needed it finished.
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Titanic was released on December 19th, 1997 to theaters. I begged Digital Equipment Corporation's marketing department to play up the fact that Alpha and Alpha Linux were used in making the movie, but Digital held back. They were afraid that if the movie flopped at the box office that there would be the comparison of "A really big ship, a really big movie and a really big computer company all sinking.....". Of course James Cameron's Titanic was (and remains today) a huge success and only the first and third parts of the "sinking" are true.
I went to an early showing of Titanic in 1997. While most people were riveted by the love story of Jack and Rose, I was fascinated by the glistening of the sun on the surface of the water and how they managed to put "live" people on the deck of this CGI ship.
In March of 1998 as Titanic lined up for the Oscars, DEC did (finally) make a big "splash" at CeBIT in Hanover, Germany. At the main booth of Digital they had some large posters made of the Titanic, and how Alpha had played a significant part in the production of the movie. However, GNU/Linux was not mentioned in the advertisements....only Alpha.
Now it is the year 2012. We are used to the graphics of Shrek, Toy Story, Lord of the Rings, Avatar and other classic CGI movies. Each generation brings about an evolution of techniques and greater CPU power at lower prices.
But "Titanic" was a step-function. In 1997 it set the bar so much higher than what had gone before, that even today people can appreciate what they did.
Next Sunday I will be going to see the new 3D version of Titanic. While I know the new 3D version was not rendered on Alpha systems, I will look in the credits to see if they mention GNU/Linux, and I will remember a different time.comments powered by Disqus
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