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"There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling kind. The other is an outpouring of everything good in you—of kindness and consideration and respect—not only the social respect of manners but the greater respect which is recognition of another person as unique and valuable. The first kind can make you sick and small and weak but the second can release in you strength, and courage and goodness and even wisdom you didn't know you had." John Steinbeck is wise, and a good father.
Network connected thermal printer. Bookmarked for future reference.
"Encoder counts pulses from quadrature encoded signals, which are commonly available from rotary knobs, motor or shaft sensors and other position sensors." Ooh, new rotary encoder library. Will use that.
Lovely, laugh-out loud post from Holly on games in fiction. Lots of graphs, some of which are funny.
"rePatcher is an Arduino shield that allows you to "repatch" your Max/MSP or Pure Data patches with a 6 x 6 patchbay matrix. It also has 6 general purpose control knobs for modifying parameters in your patch. Since it does all of this over USB, it can be hacked to work with any other program that can accept a serial stream." Oh, very nice.
Nikon D-Series Intervalometer
17 May 2011
So, here's a thing I'm making.
My Nikon D90 can be triggered by the cheap ML-L3 IR remote. It costs about £15. You point it at the camera, push the button, and it takes a picture.
This remote works with everything from the D90 down (so, towards the D3100/D40 end of the line).
What these cameras don't have built in, however, is an intervalometer: a timer that will make the camera take a picture every n seconds or minutes. (The D300 and up (and, I believe, the new D7000) have a built-in intervalometer.)
I thought it might be interesting to build one. The project had a few criteria:
- It couldn't be hard-wired to a computer. It had to be a stand-alone, battery-powered device
- It had to have a half-decent way of controlling it; ideally, not just stabbing at buttons.
- I wanted it to have a 16×2 LCD screen, mainly because I wanted to both design for that constraint, and work out how to control said screen
- Ideally, it wouldn't require taking apart an ML-L3 remote to build.
Here's where we are:
End-to-end: it works. Note that I said "making" earlier, though: it's still not finished, because it's not packaged. And whilst packaging is difficult, I think that's what'll make it feel finished for me: a black box I can easily take into the field.
You turn it on, rotate an encoder to set a time, and click the encoder in to arm it. Hold the encoder to disarm. The time varies from 1 second to 15 minutes – after 90 seconds, it increases in minute chunks. (15 minutes is the maximum time the D90 will stay on before powering down).
Most people ask me why it says "SAFE" and "ARM". Well, it sounds a bit threatening, but I genuinely believed that OFF and ON were inaccurate, in that the device is "on" if the screen's on. So I was just referring to the state of the timer. And something that fitted into four characters would work well with the layout of the screen I'd chosen.
How it works
There's very little componentry here, but each section of the Intervalometer was a neat little thing to learn on its own.
First, the IR trigger itself. Nikon's IR remote is relatively simple: a button, some circuitry, and an IR LED. Pushing the button doesn't just light up the IR LED; it fires a very short "coded" burst of light, so that the only thing it'll trigger will be a Nikon camera.
Fortunately for our needs, there's an Arduino library called NikonIRControl, which emulates that coded burst in software – so a single command will send the appropriate burst to a digital output pin. That's our IR trigger sorted, and all we've had to buy is an IR led. Which feels better – and cheaper – than just soldering two wires to a Nikon remote.
The screen is a 16×2 LCD, with a serial "backpack" pre-attached. That means I can just send serial data to it over a single wire, which again, keeps the number of wires from the Arduino down. I'm using the NewSoftSerial library to talk to it, which makes life easy.
The main controller is a quadrature rotary encoder with a push-switch in it. The switch is easily read, like any momentary push-switch on an Arduino. The encoder is a little trickier, because it's encoded. In the end, I read it off an interrupt, using code from this page – and then smoothed it out a bit by making it only read every other click.
Finally, there's just the case of the timer. Timers are a bit more fiddly than I'd have liked. You can't just use delay
, because that delays all code on the chip. I tried doing various things including counting milliseconds, but in the end, relied on the TimedAction library, which works well enough, and does a similar thing without my broken code.
Once each piece was in place and working, it was just a case of pulling it all together. The code – which is available on Github – is broken down into a series of files, pretty much one for each section of the project. I found this much easier to manage than the tyranny of One Big File.
For piecing the hardware together, I built a simple "shield" out of a piece of Veroboard. I got a lot of laughs when I said I was using veroboard, but it worked very well for me. With some headers soldered in, it was quite easy to line it up with the Arduino – making it easily changed, but also swappable. The usual electronics-debugging issues aside, this went fairly smoothly, and it only took a battery pack to give me a portable – if fragile – working intervalometer.
What's next? Obviously, packaging it up – something sturdy and black, with an obvious power switch and that big knob. I was considering moving it to an Arduino Mini, for size reasons, but am not sure I can face more electronics debugging. Similarly, I'm not sure I'll build a dedicated PCB or anything like that, yet.
But: if I can get this lot into a box, that'll be good. Also: I should take some timelapses with it.
So whilst it's not what I would call "finished", it is an end-to-end demo – and that feels like good enough to share with the world.
(And, of course: if you'd like to use – or build on – my code, you're more than welcome to.)
Matt Brown and Mark Slater, writing about music and things. Looks set to be like a cracking little blog.
Reviews of Phill Niblock's "Touch Three": drones created by stripping out attack/release/breath sounds from acoustic performers, and then gluing them together. What we're listening to right now, too. (It is better than that description makes it sound).
This is, in fact, the most successful rotary encoder code I've found to date.
Excellent summary of what happened on the Yaroze – and a quest to track down all the released Yaroze titles.
Jason Rohrer's recursive shooter, which I must pick up at some point.
Library to send appropriate pulses to an IR LED to trigger Nikon cameras
"TimedAction is a library for the Arduino. It is created to help hide the mechanics of how to implement Protothreading and general millis() timing. It is sutied for those actions that needs to happen approximately every x milliseconds." Aha.
"This library is a collection of routines for configuring the 16 bit hardware timer called Timer1 on the ATmega168/328." (Timers look hard).
"NewSoftSerial is the latest of three Arduino libraries providing "soft" serial port support. It's the direct descendant of ladyada's AFSoftSerial, which introduced interrupt-driven receives – a dramatic improvement over the polling required by the native SoftwareSerial."
Microcontrolled Lego printer, running off some kind of postscript driver, I guess. Properly awesome – and, of course, the most important thing is all the little chaps that keep it working.
Nikon IR intervalometer, hooked up to an Arduino, without even needing another remote. Definitely interested in building one of these.
'"We have a real culture of thrift," [Kotick] said. "The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games." And then, to ensure there was no confusion in his message, he added that he has tried to instill "skepticism, pessimism, and fear" of the economic downturn into the corporate culture at Activision. "We are very good at keeping people focused on the deep depression," he said.' Bobby Kotick. What a guy. What a CEO. What a leader.
"Designed by Oliver Rokison a teacher at St Paul's School. This project connects to the Tower Bridge twitter account and mimics the movements of the real tower bridge." Fun.
"Larva Labs proposes an intelligent home screen that creates a meaningful hierarchy out of a user's information. Designed for an Android-based handset, our home screen is intended to appeal to Blackberry owners and people struggling with information overload." An interesting experiment; I like being able to vary the level of personalisation on the fly, but am not sure the screen is nearly dense enough for people with "information overload" – it only handles a couple of items in each category without drilling down. The Blackberry's appeal in part is due to its hyper-dense list of information.
"Fast-forward ten years, and I'm now using all those accessibility features on a daily basis. At some point during the dot-com bust it turned out that the written word was the payload, and regular people started using alternative (browsing) devices to access text from the web. Arguments about device-independent, semantic markup and graceful degradation suddenly have an additional halo of legitimacy because they affect everyone."
"LEDs pulse back and forth in the mantle to indicate roughly how many friends are on Xbox Live. It goes into red alert if anyone's playing Left 4 Dead." Nicely done; might poke something similar into life for myself, just for kicks.
Tim O'Reilly on what he learned from studying the classics at University. Simply because of competence at the languages, I know more of the Romans than the Greeks, but this is thoughtful stuff. I was often asked at school by peers why I'd study something of "no practical value"; O'Reilly has some smart answers.
"I think that there are really obvious reasons this isn't currently happening. Tech-oriented, web-trained, fast-paced, hard-nosed Silicon Valley culture is not really that similar to game developer culture. Outside of GDC Austin… I haven't seen a lot of opportunities for the two industries to mix. Most crucially, everybody's too damn busy trying to get their jobs done to really spend a lot of time or thought on the issue." That gap in culture is something that still fascinates me.


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hawkeye 5pts The Jetta, Golf, and Beetle are about all they sale that are worth keeping around. I'm sure there are others, the mini van, and SUV come to mind, but the sales are no where close to competition. VW needs to figure out the Union crap before it kills the plant. The SUV looks like a great direction to go, but they need to pull the trigger on what they want to do.
WishIHadaGTR 5pts Yea, this certainly looks like another situation that the guy in charge really doesn't understand the market view of their product. Reading over the other comments pretty much tells the same story that I hear from friends and family that have owned or own a VW. Really like the car, but hate paying to keep it running. You can say JD said this and so and so has this article about how great they are, but that is just not what most people who own them see. Over and over and over again I hear and see that they are just PIA to own. And I really like a lot of their cars. I just cannot justify spending tens of thousands of dollars to buy a car that is going to need all kinds of repairs over the ownership of it. Maybe the people who own them and keep buying them think that their costs are normal? It also seems that in Europe, they are fairly reliable cars, why not here? All I can say is until I personally see that the longevity is on par with some of the other makers, no matter how much I want that Audi or Porsche, I will force myself to walk away.
iwarriorpoet 5pts My first two cars were Jettas. Loved'em---but also felt a little short-changed. Nice engines--but wondered why the Audi versions had the same engine with (fill in the blank) more horsepower? They handled great, but were expensive to maintain. Now that I am a family man with four kids, I need a car with three rows. VW has no options here. The upcoming CUV is supposed to have three rows---but it is coming late into a VERY competitive market. VW need to find ways to strongly differentiate itself from Audi if it wants to regain its identity. VW made its name as an economical but fun choice. Now most of its cars are at the expensive side of their respective markets, and they do not offer the value of their competitors.
trenton1009 5pts I used to own a Volkswagen, I always thought they were great cars. Excellent handling. And I believe they are doing very well in the U.S., I see new Volkswagen cars everywhere. Their new styling is looking more like Audi's styling. I think Osterloh is having a mid-life crisis and needs some attention!
VeeDub4LF 5pts It does not help that VW's are still much more costly to maintain than the generic brands. Would love to see the look on the typical owners face when they find out the 40,000 mile DSG service is going to be over $600 bucks....Also reliability still sucks... yes it has become better... but it still sucks. VW is handling the TDI HPFP failures very poorly, and basically leaving thousands of owners approaching out of warranty status out in the cold with a future $10,000+ bill when the pump blows. The current TSI engines are having an issue with timing chain tensioner failures, that when they go...munch the whole engine. Carbon build up is also an issue with all their direct injection engines as well and performance starts to take a big hit past 40k miles.VW has a very long way to go. I have had enough of the German engineering and am moving on.
TheClassicCarFactory 5pts Could have fooled me that the VW Jetta is not selling well.....they are everywhere!
firstname.lastname@example.com 5pts Sell a midrange Golf/Jetta that is as good in every way (features, power, mpg, etc) as the midrange Honda Civic for a couple grand less. Alternatively sell a midrange Golf/Jetta that is better in every way (features, power, mpg, etc) than the midrange Honda Civic for the same price as the Civic. Repeat Process with Passat: Accord/Fusion; GTI: Civic Si, Tiguan: CRV/Tuscon and Touareg: Pilot/Explorer. Then bring the Polo over and aim for the Fit and that new Crossover and aim for the Murano or Santa Fe. You may in fact want to look at what Subaru does when it comes to style, brand and marketing as I think your strength has always been, like them, quirkiness. Your strength is not trying to be a slightly more affordable alternative to Benz. Americans don't buy cars like that and you are and will forever be viewed in the US as a normal, non-luxury, brand. That's ok really though as you own Audi and Porsche. This is why the Phaeton flopped and the Touareg and Tiguan don't do better. What you did with the US Passat made some sense; lowering the price point but I think you missed the boat on the appliance styling. The Camry sells because of it's rep for quality and value, not because of it's blandness. Look at how the Sonata and Fusion have crept up in the midsize game by being full of excitement and soul. You once had this in cars like the GTIs and GLIs of old and dare I mention the Corrado and Scirocco. Even the run of the mill Jettas and Passats had a bit of it. I believe you called it fahrvergnügen. Bring that back along with a lineup that is truly competitive against Honda, Toyota, Ford, Nissan and Hyundai and you have a winning formula!
SYMAWD 5pts Part of the problem is that they are lacking content in their US vehicles. Right now, VW is trying to sell the whole German Engineering thing, but laser seam welding is only so much of a selling point. If they added things that customers want such as power seats, auto lights, HID lights, soft touch materials, real leather, AWD, etc. Now those things don't have to be standard, but at least make them available on at least the Jetta, their top selling model. Brands like Kia and Honda are stealing sales when they offer the newest tech features and brands like VW don't.Sure the VW drives better, but a lot of consumers are sucked in by the tech goodies and not the engineering.
Scherp_king.Q7 5pts VW was closer to understanding the US Market with it's LAST generation of cars. This new stuff is complete and utter crap. Was it all designed by computer? All Germanic character and identity is lost. It's as if they traded their soul with Honda's. I almost bought the last generation VW GLI, but didn't because it was slightly too small. Plus, the new one was just around the corner. It debuted to my horror a year after the regular chick model and without the bluish windows, LED elements, coke-bottle glass HID headlights, chrome window surround, and absent too was the same fit and finish on the inside. It was so bland and dated looking already. So I bought a Kia Optima SX Turbo instead and couldn't be happier. God rest your soul VW.
trenton1009 5pts @Scherp_king.Q7 I disagree, the new Volkswagen Passat was the best-handling car in its class. The German character is still there and very strong. Volkswagen's are starting to look more like Audi's. You stick with your fake Korean crap, have fun!
adamlink 5pts What's lost in this story is the fact that, up until recently, VW has had the best two years its had since about 1973 in the U.S. The Passat has gone from off the radar (less than 5000 units sold in a year) to number 7 or 8 in midsize sedan sales. And so on. Then this guy opens his mouth and blows all that away, making the story about the U.S. and unions. GREAT PR MOVE, HERR OSTERLOH!
DirkHardPec 5pts VW should have made TDI available on every submodel and package combination. They half-@ssed the only thing that makes them unique and interesting in the US. Oh right, they are 'German Engineered'. What does that even mean/matter? I can get a Euro-Fiesta from Ford now. What exactly are you implying is better about your cars, VW? Its hollow marketing.
adamlink 5pts You can thank the federal government for the TDI not being available on every model VW sells. Vehicles like the Tiguan are classified as trucks, therefore they must use a DEF system, so says our gov't-- even when they're sold in Europe and are cleaner than gas vehicles in emissions. Thanks again, Uncle Sam.
960GLE 5pts @adamlink um then why does the passat use urea? the new BMW 5 series diesel? the MB E series diesel? its not the trucks its the weight of the car that depicts if it needs urea, get smart before you rant.
DirkHardPec 5pts @adamlink I'm not sure how much more it would have cost regulation-wise to sell an AWD Passat TDI, etc? But I think it would have paid off if VW was truly a 'TDI company' in the US, and not just an 'oh, we also sell a unique engine.'
Car Junkie 5pts So labor rates are too high, VW doesn't understand Americans, and sales are too low and the answer to improving the situation is to bring in a union? I don't see the connection to having a union workforce help with the sales and corporate understanding of the market. And, I doubt bringing in the union to rectify high labor rates will be a winning strategy. What I read is that Osterloh has excuses to not provide another model to the US unless he gets his UAW work counsel put in. If he does, he will overlook those problems. Sounds like a sham rather than an employee led attempt at representation.
DRII 5pts @Car Junkielooks like someone doesn't understand that having a 'happy', decently compensated, and therefore low-turnover workforce benefits an automaker, or any employer for that matter! it could also go a long way in improving quality of the vehicles built at VW's TN plant.
TheRed 5pts @DRII @Car Junkie From what I have read, it sounds like the workers don't want the union and VW is trying to promote it.
DRII 5pts stop feeding Americans relative subpar machines and then VW might do better here!we deserve as good as the Europeans! Ford has learned this lesson and is reaping the benefits.actually this shows the potential VW has to become the best-selling automaker in the world, since it does so poorly in the most lucrative auto market in the world.
adamlink 5pts The U.S. is not the most lucrative market in the world, at least not for VW. China and Russia are far more important to their success.
adamlink 5pts BTW, if VWs suck so bad, why do VWs dominate J.D. Power's APEAL survey, year after year?? http://www.businessinsider.com/vw-audi-porsche-top-new-jd-power-survey-2013-7
TheWeatherWarrior 5pts @adamlinkBTW....how much is VW paying you for all the PR. Cause it certainly isn't coming from a point of critical openness.
nknorka 5pts @adamlink Because the initial quality is great, it is the long term quality that is bad.
adamlink 5pts It's just incredible to me that this guy would make this statement, because most of VW's problems in the U.S. stem from German management not listening to American management and basically ignoring this market for two decades. Now they want to complain that it's VW Group of America's fault? Who said no to importing the Amarok? Not VW Group of America. The head office did. The workers are paid too much in Chattanooga? And forcing that plant to go union will lower wages??? Is that what Mr. Osterloh is saying? Unbelievable.
TheWeatherWarrior 5pts @adamlinkIt is always someone else's fault in the German's eyes. Common ideology in the leadership for decades.
colocar 5pts Maybe VW should focus on their reliability and electrical issues first, before introducing a new vehicle. VW's are maintenance nightmares! Perhaps making the experience better at their dealerships would also be a step in the right direction.
adamlink 5pts Again, this is a perception that's years out of date. VW reliability is actually quite good. They moved up several spots in the last J.D. Power survey and their repairs orders are the lowest in the company's history.
Kyle 5pts VW are known for reliability issues. That check engine light goes off and you might as well drive off a cliff. A VW pickup truck???? Yeh that will be the day.
BoredwithanAbox 5pts VW does make a pickup truck, it's called the Amarok. They just don't sell it here.
adamlink 5pts Yes, BoredwithanAbox, you're right. And the Amarok does quite well everywhere it's sold.
TheWeatherWarrior 5pts @BoredwithanAboxBecause it is far from meeting the safety and environmental standards imposed by the US. Saw some in South American. Nice, but considering the junk they let in, I have no problem with it staying there until VW meets our standards.
allworlds 5pts VW wants to build a pick-up truck? It's true VW doesn't have much for commercial buyers, I just was at a Ducati event and they were driving a MB Sprinter van, I asked the guy why and he said VW doesn't make a comparable vehicle. So as long as they are planning a pick up truck maybe a van would also be a good idea.
Whatnow 5pts With the exception of the GTI and CC, the cars are simple and boring, even more so than Toyota. Reliability is horrible, and until they offer a warranty comparable to Hyundai/Kia, they will never ditch that stigma. Constant wiring and intake problems, oil sludge issues, and carbon build up are consistent throughout the lineup, most notably their Turbo models.
adamlink 5pts The company that holds the world's record for most cars built with an oil sludging problem is Toyota, not VW. VW reliability is actually quite good. They moved up several spots in the last J.D. Power survey and their repairs orders are the lowest in the company's history. Your information is simply out of date.
Whatnow 5pts @adamlink Toyota was a bad example. However, I have case docs proving that VW has the largest recall, oil sludge, and wiring issues with their 1.8, 2.0, 3.2 liter, and 3.0 liter engines. I have facts in writing to back it up.
adamlink 5pts So do I: http://articles.latimes.com/2007/feb/09/business/fi-toyota9 3.5 million vehicles. And no one has heard a word about it here.. Aren't the emperor's clothes beautiful?
dhan219 5pts VW cars look boring except maybe the CC. The passat got bigger but it's competition gotten smaller. VW's are not reliable as the competition either. So they are going to have a dark could over it's head for a while.
adamlink 5pts Actually, the Passat grew in order to compete with the Accord, Camry, etc., all of which were larger. They are all now of comparable size. VWs are more reliable than much of the competition.


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Traditional work with watercolors and ink.
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i really like your subtle transitions of colors using complimentary colors. this is a splendid artwork. congratulations and way to go!
Ah, this reminded me of my own time in Potsdam... When I read the description I realized why. ^^ Really loved that place. Very inspirational with all those sculptures. The painting is beautiful.
These colours blending and swirling... I'm just amazing. Because I know, if I had seen the actually reference and was asked to add more colour, I would fall over in incomprehension. You are splendid at what you do.
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v. t. - To assert again or anew; to maintain after an omission to do so.
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Saint Jason the Martyr
Son of Saint Claudius and Saint Hilaria; brother of Saint Maurus. Convert. Martyred in the persecutions of Numerian.
- drowned in 283 at Rome, Italy
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Everyone is Welcome. No one is perfect. Anything is possible. Love is lived out.
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Mommie Dearest: Shaming Women For Public Breastfeeding? There Should Be A Fine For That!
Another country making leaps and bounds over the US when it comes to supporting mothers? Insert my not-at-all-shocked face here. The Brazilian city of São Paulo recently approved a bill that will
fine people $150 for shaming women who breastfeed in public
. That's right. Women in São Paulo who are nursing their babies no longer…
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March 29, 2015
Hillary Clinton Pulls The Grandma Card In Support Of Vaccines
The science is clear: The earth is round, the sky is blue, and
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February 3, 2015
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February 3, 2015
Mommie Dearest: The Facebook Crowd-Sourcing Guide To Sleep-Training, Feeding & Vaccinating Your Baby
My Facebook feed is exploding with new babies. Adorable, squishy, big-eyed baby pictures are popping up all over the place, and most of them belong to first time parents. One of the great things about social media is that I have easy access to an array of newborn cuteness, from friends across the globe. At…
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January 20, 2015
Mommie Dearest: Pope Francis Gives Breastfeeding In Public His Holy Endorsement
Breastfeeding in public just got a major, holy, endorsement. Pope Francis recently told mothers that they
could breastfeed in the Sistine Chapel
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January 13, 2015
UVA Fraternity Has Been Reinstated After Police Found A Lack Of Evidence Supporting Gang Rape Allegations
The UVA fraternity at the center of Rolling Stone's gang rape article was reinstated after police found no substantive evidence that a gang rape occurred. [
] New York City's police investigator general has found that New York police officers are too quick to resort to chokeholds, which were banned in 1993. [
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January 12, 2015
Alyssa Milano Asks Why Her Breastfeeding Selfie Received More Backlash Than Kim Kardashian's Naked Pics
Actress Alyssa Milano, whose breastfeeding selfie apparently received a ton of backlash, wondered why she took more heat than
Kim Kardashian did for her naked
magazine photo shoot
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November 18, 2014
Mommie Dearest: On Breastfeeding In Bars
Sometimes it feels like moms who breastfeed in public can't catch a break. Or, in the case of a Virginia mother, a few sips of beer. A woman identified as "Crystal" was thrown out of Big Woody's Bar and Grill
for drinking a beer while she nursed her baby
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September 11, 2014
Anthropologie Told Nursing Mom To Feed Her Kid In The Toilet
Breastfeeding moms held a "nurse-in" at Anthropologie after a woman shopping in a Los Angeles store was escorted by a manager to the bathroom to continue feeding her kid. Might I remind you that breastfeeding in public is
in California? And that no one should have to hang out in the toilet any longer…
Jessica Wakeman
August 21, 2014
Photographs Olivia Wilde Breastfeeding At A Diner Wearing A Fancy Gown, As You Do
"Being shot with [my son] Otis is so perfect because any portrait of me right now isn't complete without my identity as a mother being a part of that. Breast-feeding is the most natural thing. I don't know, now it feels like Otis should
be on my breast. It felt like we were capturing that multifaceted…
Jessica Wakeman
August 5, 2014
You Can Add Gwen Stefani To The List Of Celebs Who Are Totally Cool With Breastfeeding
In another step towards killing the taboo surrounding the
normal act
that is
, Gwen Stefani shared this sweet photo of herself nursing her baby son Apollo. Casually hanging out next to a Swiss mountain makes motherhood a
more picturesque for her than the average parent, but I'm still loving that she posted thi…
Claire Hannum
July 28, 2014
Awesome Teenage Barista Defends Breastfeeding Mom Against Bully, Is My New Hero
Given all the stories we hear about women getting flack for breastfeeding in public, it's
uplifting to hear about the experience of Julia Wykes, who was defended by a teenage Starbucks barista. Wykes stopped at the coffee shop while running errands with her five-month-old son; when he started to get cranky in line, she sat dow…
Claire Hannum
July 4, 2014
Mommie Dearest: Meet The #FreeTheNipple Activist Who Wants Areolas To Be Free
In 2011,
actress and filmmaker Lina Esco
went with a handful of friends to Occupy Wall Street, curious to see the response to a group of topless women. "Within minutes there were hundreds of people taking pictures, and they didn't know what to do with these boobs," Esco told The Frisky. "After 10 minutes, I…
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June 16, 2014
Breastfeeding Selfies Are All The Rage, Apparently
There's a new photo trend: breastfeeding selfies. That's right. Intimate breastfeeding moments are making their way to social media. Moms are using the selfie trend to document the intimate mother-child bonding moment (or just to challenge the off-limits status of breastfeeding in public).
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June 13, 2014
Mommie Dearest: Mom Breastfeeds At College Graduation, Heads Explode
Sigh. Here we go again. People are currently in an uproar over
a photo of a mother breastfeeding her daughter
taken while at her college graduation. 25-year-old Karlesha Thurman posted the photo to the
Black Women Do Breastfeed
Facebook page, which reposted it for her, and it quickly went viral. Many people were shocked and…
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June 12, 2014
Emily Blunts Talks About Her Enormous Milk-Filled Tits On "Ellen"
There's a lot to love about Emily Blunt, not the least of which is that I don't think she would mind me referring to her breasts as "enormous milk-filled tits" in the title of this post. She's a saucy Brit after all. Emily stopped by "Ellen" and showed off a first pic of her and…
Amelia McDonell-Parry
May 14, 2014
Mommie Dearest: An Interview With Dana Ben-Ari, The Filmmaker Behind "Breastmilk"
: it's one of those heated topics of motherhood where everyone has an opinion and they're not afraid to share it. For me, nursing was just something that was a part of having a baby. I was breastfed, I grew up among women who breastfed, and it was assumed that I would as well whe…
Avital Norman Nathman
May 2, 2014
Another Day, Another Mom Kicked Out Of A Store For Breastfeeding
Wioletta Komar, a 25-year-old mom of two, is demanding an apology from the retailer Sports Direct after she was forced from of their stores for breastfeeding her son. Komar was waiting for her father, who was to trying on a t-shirt, when she began to nurse her baby son, Daniel. "My son started crying, so…
Claire Hannum
April 25, 2014
This Mom Broke A World Record For Breast Milk Donation
Amelia Boomker, a 36-year-old Illinois mom, has donated more breast milk than any other woman in the world. The mom of four boys -- Danny, Liam, Ryan and Connor -- is now a Guinness World Record holder, having pumped 16,321 fluid ounces of milk since 2008. That equates to 41 two-liter bottles of soda or 4,000…
Claire Hannum
March 30, 2014
Feminist Dads Pretend To Breastfeed For An Awesome New Campaign
Photographer and father of two,
Hector Cruz
, believes that dads should know just as much about latching, pumping, mastitis and nipple cream as new mothers do. That's why he founded
Project Breastfeeding
, an organization whose mission is to destigmatize public
, educate men about what a vital role they play, and empower and support women.
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March 7, 2014
New Moms In The UAE Are Now
To Breastfeed For Two Years
New mothers in the United Arab Emirates are now
required by law
to breastfeed their babies for two years, according to a clause in the country's Child Rights law. Mothers who cannot nurse would be provided with a wet nurse by the government. One viewpoint held by the council is that children have the right…
Jessica Wakeman
January 31, 2014
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Someone texted me in all caps last night at three AM "JASON STATHAM DANCING IN A BANANA HAMMOCK NOT A DRILL," and I regret immediately waking up to watch this video because that means that I was just groggy, but not actually stoned, which I definitely should have been to watch this video of Jaso…
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April 17, 2015
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They're calling it the domino effect: one country after another plunging into the unknown as citizens demand more rights and freedom. Eman Al Nafjan says Saudi Arabia could well be next.
February 20, 2011 11:17 by Samuel Potter
I said in a former post that Saudis were captivated and shocked by what happened in Tunis and Egypt but hadn't collectively made up their mind about it. Well it appears that they have. Everywhere I go and everything I read points to a revolution in our own country in the foreseeable future. However we are still on the ledge and haven't jumped yet.
I know that some analysts are worried particularly of Saudi Arabia being taken over by Al Qaeda or a Sunni version of the Iranian Islamic Revolution. Calm down. Besides my gut feeling (which is rarely wrong), the overwhelming majority of people speaking out and calling out for a revolution are people who want democracy and civil rights and not more of our current Arab tradition based adaptation of Sharia. My theory of why that is, is that Al Qaeda has already exhausted its human resources here. The available muttawas, are career muttawas (fatwa sheikhs) and minor muttawas (PVPV) of convenience both paid by the government and do not want the current win-win deal between them and the government to sour. So it's unlikely that they would actively seek change. Actually quite the opposite, they will resist and delay as much as they can. Fortunately the winds of change can't be deterred by a PVPV cruiser.
Last week Prince Talal Bin Abdul Alaziz, the king's half-brother, did a TV interview on BBC Arabia that was widely watched and discussed. In it he warned of an upcoming storm if reforms aren't dealt with right now. He used the word "evils" to describe what would happen if King Abdullah passed away before ordering the required changes. Prince Talal also strongly advocated a constitutional monarchy and democracy as long as it's similar to what they have in Kuwait and Jordon. However he hinted that there were people in the ruling family who do not believe in change.
This whole past week was eventful. The first political party to form during King's Abdullah's reign, the Islamic Umma Party, has been arrested. According to the party's released statement, they were informed that they would not be released until they sign a document promising that they will abandon all political aspirations.
In Qatif, a Shia majority area in Eastern Saudi, there is talk that there was a protest demanding the release of political prisoners last week. Ahmed Al Omran from SaudiJeans tweeted a pamphlet that was being distributed in Qatif, calling for protests on Feb 18th, at 8pm.
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A slight unrest, maybe…but the same thing that happened in Libya, Tunisia, and Egypt, NEVER! There is a lot happening behind the scenes, but most evidently, Saudi's strong political ties with the US gaurantees that the ruling family would remain in power for sometime…well, at least until the US finds another country to exploit oil from.
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After about the most agonizing and at the same time possibly most satisfying wins to open a season in a long time, the Eagles find themselves in an interesting spot. Not since 2004 (yes that was really 8 years ago) has Andy Reid's Birds started 2-0.
While the first two games have been at times excruciatingly difficult to watch, they have proven that this team has it where it counts, they have heart and they refuse to just give up. I give immense credit to the Defense for taking a leadership stance in the second half Sunday. They rose up and allowed only two field goals, giving a sputtering Offense the opportunities it needed to score.
Le'ts not mince words here. Michael Vick must get better. He must make better decisions and if this is to be a Super Bowl year he cannot continue to expose himself to all of the hits he took against the Ravens. It only gets tougher with the loss of Jason Kelce, but that is all the more reason to get rid of the ball quicker. These Eagles will only go as far as Vick and LeSean McCoy can take them, and they both must take care of the football better than they have.
If the Offense can manage to play more mistake-free, its scary to me how good these guys have the potential to be. The bottom line is that they and only they can decide how good they want to be. The members of the 2004 team are watching. They see the potential for these Eagles to finish what they could not, and I see it too. I believe that after two ugly wins, they have shown that inside, the heart of 2004 is beating.
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Ah, the smell of burgers on the grill and the sight of leaves changing colors. The familiar chant of E-A-G-L-E-S EAGLESSSS rising out of the Linc is about to deafen opposing teams again. Yes, people. It is September once more, and football season is finally here.
As we get prepared for another season filled with hopes of a Super Bowl for our Birds, it's easy to look past all of the transformation this team has undergone over the past couple of years. It seems crazy now to think that Brian Westbrook, the mainstay of Eagles teams over the past decade is now RETIRING.
However, one man who has been here since 1999, and hasn't changed (ok maybe his weight has) is Andy Reid, who will be entering his 14th season. In what will be perhaps his most pressure-filled season as Head Coach, Reid has already dealt with the pain of burying his son and the looming comments from owner Jeffrey Lurie that anything less than "substantially better than 8-8" will most likely result in his firing.
The "Dream Team" fiasco from last year, combined with the turbulent offseason the Eagles have endured hasn't seemed to affect analysts, many of whom are predicting a Super Bowl run for these Eagles.
I hate to be a downer, but my opinion was last year and still is this year that the Eagles, while surely talented, are not a Super Bowl caliber team.
Blasphemy, you say?
Or have WE, as fans, overlooked the key deficiencies of this team? Lets explore together, shall we?
First of all, lets look at passing and third down conversions. The Eagles were 9th in passing last season, but the only team in the top ten who completed less than 61% of their passes (59.6%). They converted on third down 41.5% of the time, good enough for 9th in the league in that stat as well. I look for both of these numbers to remain around the same as last year, UNLESS Michael Vick suffers an injury.
The bottom-line with passing numbers? Keep Vick healthy, and the Eagles are unlikely to have as many turnovers as last season, and they won't have to play a rookie backup quarterback who, while impressive in the preseason, probably won't be able to win but maybe two of the four or five starts he might have to make if Vick gets sidelined.
The running game is the biggest area I expect the Eagles to decline in this year. Although I love Shady McCoy's talents as a runner and receiver, the loss of Jason Peters will become very apparent early in the season. They should drop from 6th in the league to somewhere around 10th adding in Vick's running ability. That may seem like an insignificant drop, but I believe that the ability of the receivers to stretch the field is going to be predicated on play action passing, which Andy Reid is quite fond of. Bottom-line? The inconsistency of the running game (and of calling running plays) will show up this year again and be an Achilles heel of the team.
The running, passing, and receiving game all go hand-in-hand with offensive line play, which is the other area I expect a lot of struggle this season. The lack of Jason Peters on the left side not only closes huge running lanes, but forces the Eagles to use young players at other positions, and although I am quite a fan of Jason Kelce's beard, he (to me) is too small to be a center. This group will have great games and horrible games this season.
The ONE area that this team is going to improve a lot on is Defense. Not necessarily an improvement in talent (outside of Demeco Ryans) but in cohesiveness and in maturity. After a year of learning Juan Castillo's system, they will still be undersized and a little slow in the middle, but hopefully won't make as many bonehead miscues as last season, and should finish around the same spot in total defense, or at least in the top ten.
Overall, expectations are very high for this team. Are they merited? Absolutely. This is clearly the most talented roster in the NFL. However, I don't believe they will win a Super Bowl.
Call me a typical negative Eagles fan, or call me crazy.
Whatever the case may be, I see them going 13-3, splitting with the Giants and losing to Pittsburgh and New Orleans. I see them getting to the Super Bowl, but sadly I think the season will end with another Super Bowl loss to Tom Brady and the Patriots.
I THINK that is what will happen. But who am I, and what do I REALLY know? Not a whole lot more than any other passionate fan. I'm hoping that this is the year. Only God knows what will happen. But not knowing is all the fun right? It's a new season, and we are blessed to be fans of the greatest team playing the greatest game in the world.
So sit back, have a beer, and relax. Football is back.
What Does It Take To Be A Champion?
A Champion. One who is clearly superior to all others. One who fights to defend or support a cause greater than one individual. Until as recently as 2008, "champion", was a word hardly uttered when a Philadelphia sports team was mentioned. Yes, two seasons ago, the Phillies broke a long-standing streak of big-game losses which were beginning to seemingly ascend to the heavens. However, a fire still burns in the stomachs of fans in that city. A fire perhaps intensified by the immense success the Eagles franchise has enjoyed over the past decade:
Record? 103-56-1 in the regular season and 10-8 in the postseason. Pro Bowlers? 58. Highlight reel moments? An unbelievable amount . And lastly, Super Bowl victories? ZERO.
Scanning back over the decade we've just closed out, there are some truly amazing things that have taken place, but most of us feel that the few memories we still shake our heads over far outweigh the positive ones. True Eagles fans will tell you that they are proud of the Eagles for accomplishing the things they did, and everyone is gracious to Andy Reid for winning the team back the respect of the league. However, in this city, those achievements quite simply are not, and never ever will be, good enough.
The big picture is that despite having immense success, the Eagles have become, in effect, the poor man's Buffalo Bills of the 1990's. Almost worse than losing 4 Super Bowls is facing the realization that you were good, pretty damn good in fact, but you just weren't quite good enough to have anyone remember you. This is, in my opinion, the end of an era for the Philadelphia Eagles.
Yes, we do still have Andy Reid press conferences to look forward to for at least four more years, but the youthful energy and enthusiasm that carried this team in the early 00's is clearly gone. Replaced, instead, by a stale, burdened look that seems to suffocate the veteran members of the team. It seems as though players such as Donovan McNabb are being squeezed like the last ounce of toothpaste out of the tube. It may be that his time is up here, but that is a different discussion for another day. Overall, the chances the Eagles have let slip through their fingers (literally and figuratively) over the past ten years have increased the never-ending desire of us, the often ridiculed and misunderstood, yet unwavering and passionate, fans, for a championship.
So, naturally, as I was looking back at the New Orleans Saints recent victory over the favored Indianapolis Colts in Super Bowl XLIV, I found myself wondering, what made the Saints different from the Eagles teams that almost won it all? What is the recipe for a Super Bowl Champion?
This, along with many other questions, will begin to be answered next week as the first installment of the series is posted. Look for "Part I: Building A Champion" to be posted soon.
Have a great EAGLES day everyone!
What I Bring To the Table
Birds Fans,
Holden Fulco here, and I'm proud to say that I am a newly minted contributer to EaglesFanCast. This is the first of what I hope will be many more posts to come, so I just wanted to give a few details on what I hope to bring to the blog.
First of all, I am an Eagles fan, through and through. I truly believe that as a "displaced" fan from Louisiana, I have a unique viewpoint on and a great appreciation for the football team we all bleed green for. I aim to bring a southern flair and a little bit different perspective on anything and everything that involves the Philadelphia Eagles, as well as provide some useful historical background for anything that I may ramble about on the website.
My philosophy is that history repeats itself until changes are made, so, with the conclusion of the Super Bowl just over a week ago, my first series of posts will be titled: "The Perfect Recipe: What Does It Take To Be A Champion." This will be an in-depth look at past successes and failures of the Eagles over the decade, as well as the winning formula for that elusive Lombardi Trophy.
That's all I have for now. Thanks again to Chuck, Eric and Todd for this amazing opportunity. You can look for the first installment of "The Perfect Recipe" by this weekend.


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I mentioned a few weeks ago that a technical leader for large global services organization said that all applications will be pulled together by end users in the future – I hope he was just exaggerating by the way. He clearly sees this BYOS world as something he is planning on. His thinking though was still limited to IT.
If we even get close to this kind of environment where users create tools and relationships, then leave the organization (or even move on within the organization) and expect others to support what they built (we've seen before with Excel and Microsoft Access – both extremely useful tools), the IT team could easily end up being forced to support something that was done off the cuff by amateurs and then evolved into a mission critical tool. Can this happen with other parts of the business as well?
It the past I would have said that it was an enterprise governance issue. Now I wonder if it is more of an architecture issue. Can we architect flexibility into the system so that it is easier to develop, monitor and more importantly maintain these kinds of systems? I doubt that anything that smacks of a peer review will be supported by the user community.
As IT organizations look to a future of greater service orientation, they should look for service orientation of the enterprise as a whole on not just IT. IT has cloud and SaaS as examples from its domain but service orientation techniques can be broadened to other parts of the business. In the future we may not be talking about IT devices or bringing LinkedIn information services into the enterprise but other non-core services like manufacturing, distribution, HR… depending on the organization.
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How am I supposed to configure programmatically (and in which method) a UILabel whose height depends on its text? I've been trying to set it up using a combination of Storyboard and code, but to no avail. Everyone recommends sizeToFit
while setting lineBreakMode
and numberOfLines
. However, no matter if I put that code in viewDidLoad:
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I can't get it to work. Either I make the box too small for long text and it doesn't grow, or I make it too big and it doesn't shrink.
Please note that in most of cases Matt's solution works as expected. But if it doesn't work for you, please, read further. To make your label automatically resize height you need to do following:
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In iOS 6, using autolayout, if a UILabel's sides (or width) and top are pinned, it will automatically grow and shrink vertically to fit its contents, with no code at all and no messing with its compression resistance or whatever. It is dead simple. In more complex cases, just set the label's Either way, the right thing happens automatically. |
Although the question states programmatically, having encountered the same problem, and preferring to work in Interface Builder, I thought it might be useful to add to the existing answers with an Interface Builder solution. The first thing is to forget The problem therefore is, how to get a label to fit it's content with Auto Layout? Specifically - because the question mentions it - height. Note that the same principles apply to width. So let's start with an example UILabel that has a height set to 41px high: As you can see in the screen grab above, If we run the app in the simulator, sure enough, we see the same thing: Now, let's select the UILabel in Interface Builder, and take a look at the default settings in the Size inspector: Note the highlighted constraint above. That is the Content Hugging Priority. As Erica Sadun describes it in the excellent iOS Auto Layout Demystified, this is: For us, with the UILabel, the core content is the text. Here we come to the heart of this basic scenario. We have given our text label two constraints. They conflict. One says "the height must be equal to 41 pixels high". The other says "hug the view to it's content so we don't have any extra padding". In our case, hug the view to it's text so we don't have any extra padding. Now, with Auto Layout, with two different instructions that say do different things, the runtime has to choose one or the other. It can't do both. The UILabel can't be both 41 pixels high, and have no padding. The way this is resolved, is by specifying priority. One instruction has to have a higher priority than the other. If both instructions say different things, and have the same priority, an exception will occur. So let's give it a go. My height constraint has a priority of 1000, which is required. Content hugging height is 250, which is weak. What happens if we reduce the height constraint priority to 249? Now we can see the magic start to happen. Let's try in the sim: Awesome! Content hugging achieved. Only because height priority 249 is less than content hugging priority 250. Basically, I'm saying "the height I specify here is less important than what I've specified for the content hugging". So, the content hugging wins. Bottom line, getting the label to fit the text can be as simple as specifying the height - or width - constraint, and correct setting that priority in association with that axis' content hugging priority constraint. Will leave doing the equivalent for width as an exercise for the reader! |
Noticed in IOS7 sizeToFit wasn't working also - perhaps the solution may help you too [#UITEXTVIEW# sizeToFit]; [#UITEXTVIEW# layoutIfNeeded]; |
Another option for ensuring the label's preferredMaxLayoutWidth is kept in sync with the label's width:
In my case I was creating a UIView subclass that contained a UILabel (of unknown length). In iOS7 the code was straightforward: set the constraints, don't worry about content hugging or compression resistance, and everything worked as expected. But in iOS6 the UILabel was always clipped to a single line. None of the answers above worked for me. Content hugging and compression resistance settings were ignored. The only solution that prevented clipping was to include a preferredMaxLayoutWidth on the label. But I did not know what to set the preferred width to, as the size of its parent view was unknown (indeed, it would be defined by the contents). I finally found the solution here. Because I was working on a custom view, I could just add the following method to set the preferred layout width after the constraints had been calculated once, and then recalculate them:
i have solved with xCode6 putting "Preferred Width" to Automatic and pin the label top, leading and trailing |
In my case when using the labels in a UITableViewCell, the label at would resize but the height would overrun the table cell height. This is what worked for me. I did according to Max MacLeod, and then made sure cell height was set to UITableViewAutomaticDimension. You can add this is in your init or awakeFromNib,
In the storyboard, select the cell, open the Size inspector, and make sure row height is set to "Default" by uchecking the 'Custom' checkbox. There is an issue in 8.0 that also requires it to be set in code. |
I ran into this problem as well with a UIView subclass that contains a UILabel as one if its internal elements. Even with autolayout and trying all of the recommended solutions, the label just wouldn't tighten its height to the text. In my case, I only ever want the label to be one line. Anyway, what worked for me was to add a required height constraint for the UILabel and set it manually to the correct height when intrinsicContentSize is called. If you don't have the UILabel contained in another UIView, you could try subclassing UILabel and provide a similar implementation by first setting the height constraint and then returning
Works perfectly now on iOS 7 and iOS 8. |
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First annual international conference for major initiative to develop African science academies
NAIROBI, Kenya -- More than 200 leading scientists and policy-makers, primarily from Africa, will gather in Nairobi on Monday for the first annual international conference of the African Science Academy Development Initiative (ASADI), a groundbreaking effort to strengthen African academies' ability to inform government policy-making and public discourse with independent, evidence-based advice. The initiative -- supported by a $20 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and administered by the U.S. National Academies -- will be carried out over the next decade, focusing on efforts to improve human health in Africa.
The theme of the two-day conference is harnessing the scientific and technological capacity of African science academies to help government leaders across the continent fulfill their commitments to the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals in areas such as maternal and child health, disease prevention, and the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger. Participants also will explore ways to engage broader communities of African scientists, engineers, and medical professionals in policy issues -- and to build mutually beneficial relationships between these groups and government authorities in their countries. Three former U.S. government administrators will be on hand to discuss their experiences with the U.S. National Academies' process of convening expert panels to examine the science base underlying policy issues and make recommendations for action.
The conference will feature a speech by Olusegun Obasanjo, president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and of the African Union, as well as a presentation by Lee Yee-Cheong, coordinator of the U.N. Millennium Project Task Force on Science, Technology, and Innovation, and president of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations. Panel discussions among prominent African scientists, policy-makers, presidential appointees, and other government leaders will also take place.
On the whole, Africa's science and technology enterprise is limited. Moreover, S&T knowledge in academia and industry in many African countries is disconnected from decision-making -- reducing the research community's opportunities to contribute to policy improvements that would benefit the public at large, conference organizers said. Stronger science academies can contribute positively toward measures that will save lives or improve living conditions by settling key questions on topics such as malaria prevention, sustainable development, or agricultural production.
"This conference will form a sound base for promoting international scientific collaboration, especially among science academies from Africa," said professor Isaac O. Nyambok, coordinator, Science and Technology Park, University of Nairobi, and chair of the organizing committee for the conference. "Our goals are to enhance our capacity to positively and consistently contribute to change, and to raise the voice of science in African policy-making. African scientists have much to contribute to the well-being of their nations; their active engagement with policy-makers is essential." The Kenya National Academy of Sciences (KNAS) and the regional African Academy of Sciences (AAS) are co-hosting the conference at the InterContinental Nairobi.
After a comprehensive application process, the science academies of Nigeria, Uganda, and South Africa were chosen as the initial focal points for the initiative, which was established last year. Some of the preliminary activities involve helping these academies hire and train staff members, implement administrative procedures, manage finances, conduct scientific studies, and organize forums and major meetings. After the partner academies gain in-depth experience and advanced management skills, the initiative calls for them to raise matching funds and eventually conduct independent advisory activities.
In addition, seed money for strategic planning will be given to the science academies of Cameroon, Senegal, Ghana, and Kenya, as well as the AAS. The effort also will support a series of annual meetings to encourage collaboration and joint learning among some of sub-Saharan Africa's academies.
"Scientifically sound policy-making is a necessary component of good governance," said former U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher, a conference participant and member of the U.S. National Academies' governing board for ASADI. "This initiative to help develop African science academies so that they can better inform policy is unparalleled. And given the socio-economic, health, and educational challenges facing the continent, the effort is urgently needed. The close partnership between the U.S. and African academies reflects our commitment to science in the public interest."
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Sensors 2014, 14(4), 6104-6123; doi:10.3390/s140406104
A Pseudolite-Based Positioning System for Legacy GNSS Receivers
Received: 2 December 2013 / Revised: 17 March 2014 / Accepted: 18 March 2014 / Published: 27 March 2014
(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
The ephemeris data format of legacy GPS receivers is improper for positioning stationary pseudolites on the ground. Therefore, to utilize pseudolites for navigation, GPS receivers must be modified so that they can handle the modified data formats of the pseudolites. Because of this problem, the practical use of pseudolites has so far been limited. This paper proposes a pseudolite-based positioning system that can be used with unmodified legacy GPS receivers. In the proposed system, pseudolites transmit simulated GPS signals. The signals use standard GPS ephemeris data format and contain ephemeris data of simulated GPS satellites, not those of pseudolites. The use of the standard format enables the GPS receiver to process pseudolite signals without any modification. However, the position output of the GPS receiver is not the correct position in this system, because there are additional signal delays from each pseudolite to the receiver. A post-calculation process was added to obtain the correct receiver position using GPS receiver output. This re-estimation is possible because it is based on known information about the simulated signals, pseudolites, and positioning process of the GPS receiver. Simulations using generated data and live GPS data are conducted for various geometries to verify the proposed system. The test results show that the proposed system provides the desired user position using pseudolite signals without requiring any modifications to the legacy GPS receiver. In this initial study, a pseudolite-only indoor system was assumed. However, it can be expanded to a GPS-pseudolite system outdoors.Keywords:
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After going through tricky ordeals with Daniel Alfredsson and Jason Spezza in the past two summers, the Ottawa Senators would like to avoid similar drama next year.
Forwards Bobby Ryan and Clarke MacArthur are entering the final year of their contracts and can both become unrestricted free agents. As Wayne Scanlan of the Ottawa Citizen shared, assistant GM Pierre Dorion is trying to get ahead of matters and will be speaking with agents for both players next week.
Recently we shared how the Sens are looking to get a new multi-year deal done with defenseman Marc Methot as well, but with Ryan and MacArthur's free agency looming next summer, there's a sense of dread looming if talks can't progress quickly. After all, when a team loses big time offensive producers in back-to-back offseasons that'll happen.
MacArthur and Ryan were fourth and fifth on the team in points last season. With Spezza gone, it'll be up to Kyle Turris to do what he did last season and more to help keep the Sens offense going. With Erik Karlsson putting up monster numbers from the blue line, the forwards have to do their part as well and the production fell off quickly after Ryan.
- spezzdispenser - Jul 27, 2014 at 12:34 AM
give Bobby whatever he wants
- blomfeld - Jul 27, 2014 at 1:59 AM
trust me friends …
if the LA Kings are 'ever' forced to leave, then I'll 'never' come back here to PHT again !
- i1theinternet - Jul 27, 2014 at 11:33 AM
we should be so lucky
- mcphillthy - Jul 27, 2014 at 11:07 AM
Ryan will finally get a chance to play in Philly. Ryan will look great in orange and black. Everyone is leaving Ottawa
- PhillySN - Jul 27, 2014 at 12:23 PM
I honestly don't know where we would put him. Our top two right wings are filled and he's too good/going to demand too much much to be a third liner. Unless he wants to play left of G I doubt he comes to Philly
- flyerspsu - Jul 27, 2014 at 1:35 PM
if Simmonds or Ryan could play left wing it would work but idk if thats the case
- phillyphanatic77 - Jul 27, 2014 at 7:21 PM
If Holmgren was still the GM I could definitely see them getting in on Bobby Ryan again but with Hextall I don't know. If he reaches free agency I could see the Flyers making a run at him (if they clear some cap), however I doubt Hextall deals valuable assets for a guy who can walk after the season. I'd imagine the Sens would want a boatload eventhough Ryan hasn't exactly lived up to expectations. I would be interested to see him next to G but he didn't exactly thrive next to another elite setup man in Spezza.
- President Charles Logan - Jul 27, 2014 at 11:46 AM
over rated
- phillyphanatic77 - Jul 27, 2014 at 7:15 PM
The Sens are in a bad place already but if they lose Ryan and MacArthur next summer (after losing Alfredsson and Spezza back to back years) they will fall completely off the map. And Anderson could walk as well. Without their goalies playing above their heads they're barely average. I can see them getting in the McDavid sweepstakes already; but man if they lose another couple top-6 forwards they're gonna reach a whole new low.
It's pretty amazing after so many people were jumping on their bandwagon a year ago.