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Q: jQuery Metadata selector Hi I have lot of divs like this

Now I want to hide eg. B DIV. Im trying to
$(.class [toggle:A]).hide();

or some other combination, but nothig was working. Could you suggest any solution. Im using "Metadata - jQuery plugin for parsing metadata from elements".
Thanks a lot

A: EDIT
I didn't realize you were using the metadata plugin. You should be able to do something like
$("div.card").forEach(function(element) {
    if (element.metadata().toggle === 'B') {
        element.hide();
    }
});

EDIT 2
The metadata plugin was deprecated in 2011:

"The Metadata plugin will be deprecated, in favor of similar
  functionality provided by jQuery 1.4.3 and above."

Use jQuery's own .data() instead.
ORIGINAL
This seems like you're doing something wrong upstream. Why are you storing data in the class attribute? One option to consider is to use jquery's .data() to store stuff. I strongly suggest you take a look at doing something like that.
However, if you want to blindly plunge forward, I can help. CSS supports attribute selectors. In this case, you can use the [rel$=foo] form to match against the end of the class attribute:
$('div[class$="B\'}"]')

Note the messy escape characters involved.
A better solution is probably to use the [rel*=foo] form to match anywhere in the attribute:
$('div[class*="toggle:\'B\'"]')

I've made an example here:
http://jsfiddle.net/pabo/pxg0v8uq/
You can read a nice easy guide to attribute selectors here: http://css-tricks.com/attribute-selectors/


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Home » News » Entering the Twilight Zone: Adventures in the Security Leader Search
Entering the Twilight Zone: Adventures in the Security Leader Search
Tripwire Guest Authors
If you're in your 40s or 50s, you probably remember a TV series called The Twilight Zone. (Millennials, think Netflix's Black Mirror). Every show was its own stand-alone story that took viewers into an alternate reality where things got weird in a hurry followed by twists and turns culminating in a surprise ending.
These types of winding plots aren't unheard of in the real world. I headhunt in executive-level security positions. Through these experiences, I've grown accustomed to one thing – when it comes to finding and negotiating CISO/CSO positions, the process is unique, and there are a lot of surprise endings. Here are a few tips for navigating the unknown.
1. Flexibility can win a great hire
I'm a firm believer that with any search, the devil is in the details. That starts with a VERY well-written job description which includes the title, reporting structure, thorough job description, a solid sales pitch on the company, and experience level.
A security leader job description is difficult because, besides the CEO, it's the only job that has tentacles into every aspect of the business. Your CISO will probably run point on security operations. Prevention, detection and response, risk management, governance, education, legal and regulatory, business enablement, identity and access management (IAM), and leadership chops are a must. But it gets a little murky after that, and flexibility can be greatly rewarded.
Why? The person you will hire has no formal educational training for this role – because it doesn't exist.
What he or she learned came through hard-earned experience, trial and error and good mentoring. Industry experience can also be tricky. Several industries have security skills that are transferable because the regulatory frameworks are fairly similar.
2. Be open to candidates with massive salary differences and not-so-defined titles
It's not uncommon for me to submit two candidates for the same role with as much as an $80K salary difference! Plus, current titles for candidates can run the gamut. Security is still a young industry, and companies value security very differently. I know security executives in smaller markets that can run circles around their big town, high-paid peers.
Make no mistake, in security, there are diamonds in those unsearched hills and valleys as long as you keep an open mind.
3. Significant dialogue and negotiation are the norm
The standard client response to my point above is, "Awesome! I want to lower my salary projection from $210K to $165K. Go find me one of those!" I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but security people are tribal, and boy do they talk. That highly experienced security person that took a leadership role seven years ago in Columbus on a cut-rate salary because nobody really knew what a security leader was supposed to do?
That person who scratched and clawed for budget, grew in trust with the Board, and built a security program to be proud of on elbow grease and smarts? He/she knows full well how underpaid they are. Plus, security professionals are notoriously careful (it's kind of the gig).
These candidates know their worth, and they are ready to cash in. Also, be prepared for the interview process with security leader candidates to be a highly back-and-forth dialogue. Given the liability at stake for both company and candidate, expect a constructive process where both parties feel comfortable with the role and the compensation package. It can take some time, but it's worth it.
The process of finding your security leader can be a little unruly. Set your expectations on a search that's a bit of an adventure. It will pay off.
About the Author: Chance Hoag owns Talon Placement, a nationwide recruiting firm headquartered in Nashville, TN which is focused exclusively on cybersecurity, risk, privacy, and compliance. You can follow him on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Editor's Note: The opinions expressed in this guest author article are solely those of the contributor, and do not necessarily reflect those of Tripwire, Inc.
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InterviewsNewsWorkoutsDuncan Douglas: Old, Jacked and Still Skiing Strong
Audrey ManganOctober 5, 20113
Duncan Douglas rollerskiing on his treadmill in Honeoye Falls, NY. Photo courtesy of Duncan Douglas.
There is only one thing that I really know about Duncan. Duncan truly enjoys punishing himself through endurance activity more than any other human that I know. Training is his drug of choice and he is a serious addict. – Tim Burke
Utter the name "Duncan Douglas" to anyone who knows anything about skiing, and you are guaranteed to elicit one of three responses: (1) dismissive incredulity, (2) respectful awe, or (3) idolizing hero-worship. If you hadn't heard of the two-time Olympic biathlete before 2007, when he beat Kris Freeman to win the first Climb to the Castle on custom V2s, you certainly did in the ensuing uproar over wheel speed limitations.
For all the US ski community at large presumes to know about Douglas, there seems to be a general consensus there's something about him—like what really motivates an ex-Olympian past his prime to try to prove that you can be fast and old—that can't quite be pinned down. His is a rare enigma in a sport that keeps tabs on everybody's business. This is perhaps why, at the height of its internet glory, Jacked Up Old Man got a few thousand hits a month. How that compares to regular FasterSkier blog traffic is proprietary information, but suffice it to say that for an anesthesiologist from Upstate New York, that's pretty impressive.
Jacked Up Old Man, that legendary persona that captivated young and old ski fans alike, has now all but disappeared from the blogosphere. The Vancouver Olympics, which he was unabashedly shooting for, have come and gone without him. But at the age of 45, Douglas shows no signs of stopping.
When the idea for a story on Douglas came up during a FasterSkier planning meeting, I leapt at the chance to write it. As a native on Honeoye Falls, NY, where Douglas now lives, I'd grown up hearing about his latest athletic insanity from my high school ski coach, his good friend Bernie Gardner. Stories of some ex-Olympian biking up the Whiteface Mountain toll road five times in one morning were somehow supposed to goad us all into training harder for our next league meet.
And so the assignment was mine. What began as a simple workout piece turned into a full-on profile, as it became apparent that a brief account of Douglas on his rollerski treadmill couldn't really do him justice. Nevermind what this guy does to get in shape, the real question is: why?
It is a testament to the infectiousness of Douglas's enthusiasm for training that he convinced me to wake up before dawn for a strength workout when we had already planned a rollerski later that day. I got the impression over the phone that the treadmill demo I'd been hoping for was not going to be possible, but a roller-board session at 5:00 a.m. seemed like a good substitute for hardcore. So, we agreed to meet at 'Area 143,' the small barn in his backyard that houses his workout equipment.
Douglas had already started the circuit when I arrived the next morning: 50 reps on the roller-board, a minute of plyos, and 20 reps with an ab wheel. Repeat.
"You might want to do only twenty of these," he said, stepping down from an original model of the VasaTrainer. Instead of being positioned flat on one's stomach to muscle up the slide, like most trainers I'd seen before, Douglas's version allowed for a pretty close approximation of an upright double pole. It looked painful.
"I've gotten off the roller-board wagon. Normally I like to do a workout like this three or four times a week. After a few months of that, I can go out on rollerskis and double pole like it's nothing," he said in between sets.
With a seemingly limitless tolerance for pain and general exhaustion, "nothing" for Douglas probably qualifies as excruciating for others. Never mind the fact that he races 30 to 40 times a year; he's on call up to three times a week as an anesthesiologist at Rochester General Hospital and could be asked to leave his family at a moment's notice for deployment as a National Guardsman.
Douglas racing this winter. Courtesy photo.
When I asked Tim Burke, a 2006 and 2010 Olympian who lives and trains out of Lake Placid, NY, to describe his fellow biathlete, this is what he wrote: "Duncan once told me that when he was training full time, he would go for a three hour run and if his average heart rate was not high enough when he finished, he would simply drink a coffee and a coke and do the run again. Another time, he was telling me how much he trained when he was my age. So I asked him, 'Did you ever train over 1000 hours in a year?' He simply replied, 'Try 2000.' If anyone else told me these stories, I would simply cry bullshit, but Duncan is crazy enough that you just never really know."
This was the difficult thing about interviewing Douglas: it was hard to know when he was being serious, and when he was simply saying something for pure shock value, and probably laughing to himself while I tried to figure out whether he was joking or not. He's so fit now you have to wonder: maybe he really did train 2000 hours a year when he was on the biathlon team.
According to the man who taught Douglas to ski at St. Lawrence University, he's always attacked life with unwavering intensity. Robert Axtell, who retired from coaching at St. Lawrence in 2008, recalled Douglas's first ski race at Tupper Lake.
"I was still racing quite a bit at the time," said Axtell. "Duncan didn't really know what to do, so I said to him, 'Just follow me, and when you get ready to go, go.' It was a mass start in a big field, and I was going along pretty good. I looked behind me for Duncan—he wasn't there. I looked ahead, and there he was going up the hill. He ended up winning his first race."
Douglas was at St. Lawrence for less than two years, and in that time qualified for NCAAs. Despite his brief time as college racer, he always maintained a strong relationship with his coach. Douglas lived with Axtell for a time, and would ski at night in the lit loop behind Axtell's house.
With a seemingly insatiable appetite for self-inflicted pain and suffering, it would seem that Douglas would have been a difficult athlete to reign in. But Axtell said that the young Douglas was perfectly coachable, willing to learn and listen.
"He does what's best for Duncan," explained Axtell. "I think maybe people will think he won't listen; he's had coaches in the past he kind of balked at…but years ago he was really eager to learn and get ahead."
"There might be times when he over trains," Axtell conceded. "But he's the type of person who can get by on very little rest; he's just a high energy individual."
This was my training partner for three separate workouts on a Monday in August. Our morning strength session was, predictably, excruciating. Within the first ten reps on the VasaTrainer my arms were screaming. I could tell my triceps were going to make me pay for thinking I could keep up.
"Right now I'll do 15 to 20 sets of these, but eventually I'll get up to 30," said Douglas in between exercises. I decided it would be best for me not to bother counting how many sets it took for me to decide to start rolling tape instead.
Extreme muscle soreness didn't set in until the next day, however, so I was still ready to tackle our rollerski scheduled for that afternoon. We met at the site of local club Rochester Nordic Racing's (RNR) afternoon practice. I arrived earlier than Douglas to tag along for a warm-up with the RNR juniors. Upon hearing who would be stopping by later, head coach Jason Hettenbaugh told his athletes, "Keep an eye out: if you're lucky, you might spot a Jacked Up Old Man on the road!"
Most of Douglas's fan base might be over the age of 40, but you wouldn't know it from the reactions this announcement elicited from the 20 or so high school kids around me. Five years after I'd graduated high school, Douglas was still being held up as the epitome of no-excuses dedication for local juniors. No more Olympics to ostensibly train for? No matter. "I'm just happy to get out there now," he said after he arrived and we started an easy skate rollerski past farm fields.
At the December 2009 Mt. Itasca US Olympic Trial selection races in Coleraine, MN, which served as a pre-qualifier for a shot at the last few places on the Vancouver biathlon team, Douglas finished ninth in his best three out of five races. The US Biathlon Association ended up taking the top four guys from that event to IBU Cup races in Altenberg, Germany, where the last few spots on the Vancouver biathlon team were contested. After Mt. Itasca, Douglas took to his blog to talk about coming up short of his goal.
"Yes, I would've been thrilled to race in another Olympics and would not have tried if it wasn't possible. The truth of the matter is that I just love training and racing," he wrote.
Setting such a lofty goal for himself simply let him get away with the sheer volume of training that he would love to dedicate to the pursuit of athletic excellence all the time, Olympics or no. With a wife, four kids, and a demanding job, Douglas recognized that being an athlete was now a more selfish endeavor than when he was younger.
It was partly out of the need for an efficient way to fit in quality training that first prompted Douglas to purchase the piece of training equipment normally reserved for physiological testing labs. With few training partners and no coach but himself, Douglas set out make his comeback with a tool that let him rollerski in the dark before and after work.
"I used to rollerski around here in the dark with my headlamp, but that got to be too dangerous," he explained.
He obtained the used Skatemill three years ago from the Netherlands, where it originated. His particular machine was a demo model in its previous life, and the company sent a technician to Douglas's house to help him set it up. He had to rework the electricity coming to the barn so that it could handle the voltage the treadmill required. With the small shooting range he has set up in his backyard just outside the barn, he can combine rollerski workouts with target practice, simulating a winter race as best as possible.
"It was cheaper than building a rollerski loop," he said.
The treadmill, it turned out, was perfectly operational, so back to The 143 we went after our rollerski, this time with my brother, Steve, in tow. After a quick safety briefing ("hit this red button to turn it off"), Douglas strapped into the harness and slowly brought the treadmill to speed. Skiing with it set to a 10% grade, he settled into an easy V2 near the front of the platform.
Though I'd prepared for the real thing by watching a few YouTube videos of Douglas on the treadmill, I was still struck by its sheer size. It was like being in some sort of NASA virtual-reality lab, only here we were mapping out the limits of an addiction to endurance sport, and the lengths to which a person would go to achieve a goal. There was nothing virtual about it.
When it was my turn to buckle into the harness, I was a little nervous. I started off without poles, to give myself a chance to get used to the feel of the belt moving under the skis. Surprisingly, rollerskiing on the treadmill was more like skiing on snow than on asphalt. It was easier to balance on one ski and let the belt freely move under my feet more. Of course, if I lost my balance for a split second here I'd end up flying off the back. At least asphalt stops moving if you fall.
After adding poles and experimenting with V1 and V2 for a few minutes, I decided I'd had enough for one day. Douglas is just as busy as ever, after all, and it was time to let him have dinner and get back to his family.
Before I'd tagged along for this series of workouts with Douglas, I had my theories as to why he held the attention of the ski world. I assumed it had something to do with his dedication to this sport beyond all reason.
But in spending a few hours with him, I realized there was more to it than that. I was honestly inspired when I drove away from his house that evening. If Douglas, with more than enough distractions in his life to make him surrender his aspirations of being a world class athlete, could find a way to still be competitive with skiers 20 years his junior, then what the hell was my excuse? True, I probably couldn't afford my own rollerski treadmill, but my day spent trying to keep up with a jacked up old man made me realize that it actually wasn't that hard. Painful, maybe, but all it really took was a commitment to a goal and the decision to try and meet it no matter what. A healthy enjoyment of punishing yourself certainly didn't hurt either.
Correction: We originally stated the Robert Axtell retired as the head coach at St. Lawrence University in 2008. While he was the head coach from 1963 to 1973, he was an assistant when he returned to the program from 2001 to 2008. Ethan Townshend has been the St. Lawrence head coach since 2003. We apologize for the mistake.
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Audrey Mangan (@audreymangan) is an Associate Editor at FasterSkier and lives in Colorado. She learned to love skiing at home in Western New York.
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You captured the subject quite well!
I think I might have been the guy Duncan blasted by in his first ski victory at a local race in Tupper Lake.
Duncan has provided not just good fodder for stories, but a great attitude about the fun of training.
bobxcski
Anything that is known or perceived to be known about Duncan is only the tip of the iceberg…the real Jacked-Up lurks beneath that… Duncan, Do you use climbing skins when you ski up Mt Marcy ??? "Only when I double pole up it" !!!
nordic_dave
Audrey, you did a nice job capturing the essence of Duncan, I.e. nobody works harder except for a few Navy Seals he has met. Like them, pain and discomfort is relative and to be embraced until no longer painful.
There are however other aspects of Duncan. He is a man of honor and a gentleman who can be very personable. Behind the tough guy "I'm insane about pain" exterior he can be sensitive and rational.
His wife is a to recognized as a true hero for loving him and letting him pursue his passion. He is a great father so yes there are many sides to Duncan & only the Army psychologists have the whole profile under lock and key.
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Guatemalan people at the market of Chichicastenango.
Palm hats for sale at the market along with hammocks.
Drunk man sleeping on the pavement of Chichicastenango, Guatemala.
Guatemalan woman and a baby in a Papoose.
The papoose baby carrier in Guatemala.
The Chichicastenango Market in Guatemala happens every Thursday and Sunday, and the entire town is turned into one big marketplace. I took these photos in the spring of 2008, as I traveled from Panama to Mexico overland.
Loading up a pickup truck full of people going home from the market in Chichicastenango, Guatemala.
Earrings for sale in Guatemala.
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Gunman asked Visalia Walmart customer to buy him bullets before killing 2
"He seemed happy when he asked me for the bullets," Tommy Inthisane said. "Was he ready to die? I thought he might be ready to commit suicide."
Gunman asked Visalia Walmart customer to buy him bullets before killing 2 "He seemed happy when he asked me for the bullets," Tommy Inthisane said. "Was he ready to die? I thought he might be ready to commit suicide." Check out this story on visaliatimesdelta.com: https://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/story/news/2018/12/18/killer-asked-visalia-walmart-customer-buy-him-bullets-before-rampage/2349846002/
Joshua Yeager, Visalia Times-Delta Published 1:16 p.m. PT Dec. 18, 2018 | Updated 3:11 p.m. PT Dec. 18, 2018
Gustavo Garcia(Photo: Tulare County Sheriff's Office)
Tommy Inthisane was finishing last-minute Christmas shopping with his wife at the bustling Noble Avenue Walmart in Visalia when he says a man approached him with a $100 bill and asked Inthisane to buy him bullets.
Inthisane refused him with a lie, telling the future suspected killer that he didn't have an identification card.
"He seemed happy when he asked me for the bullets," Inthisane said. "Was he ready to die? I thought he might be ready to commit suicide."
Less than 24 hours later, Gustavo Garcia, 36, would take Tulare County law enforcement on a "reign of terror" that left three dead, including Garcia, and at least seven hospitalized.
Detectives say Garcia had "a long criminal history," including multiple assaults with a deadly weapon, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and possession of a controlled substance.
Garcia would be legally forbidden from purchasing ammunition as a result. Under California law, the penalty for the unauthorized resale of ammunition is a $1,000 fine and/or up to six months in county jail.
It is unclear whether Garcia solicited others at the Walmart after Inthisane's refusal. Walmart officials declined to comment, however they are reviewing security camera footage, a security guard said.
Visalia detectives were also unaware of Garcia's activity the night before his rampage began, Lt. Candido Alvarez said. Alvarez did say that Garcia broke into the ammunition safe at Tulare's Walmart and stole 300 9mm bullets earlier this month.
He used a 9mm semi-automatic handgun in each of the alleged crimes.
Inthisane says he recognized Garcia as a transient who frequently squatted outside the Arco AM/PM on Dinuba Boulevard, located near Inthisane's Visalia home.
According to Inthisane, Garcia was joined at the Visalia Walmart with three other men. He says he saw Garcia pass a "baggie full of dope" to one of the men inside Walmart.
Inthisane says that Garcia frequently appeared to be either "strung out or fiending" for methamphetamine and would sometimes strike an "aggressive" stance.
Inthisane says the face of the man who received the drugs doesn't match the identity of a "person of interest" that Exeter police are looking for. That man is connected with Garcia and a Sunday afternoon robbery the duo allegedly committed after shooting an Exeter farmworker in the chest.
Exeter police are asking the public to keep an eye out for this man who they believe is the second suspect in the armed robbery from Exeter on Sunday. (Photo: Tulare County Sheriff's Office)
Inthisane never expected what came after his refusal.
After the robbery and shooting in Exeter, a Lindsay man died at the hands of Garcia, deputies said. Rolando Soto, 38, of Lindsay, died Sunday after being rushed to the hospital.
At 7:30 p.m., at Motel 6 in Tulare, a woman was shot. Hours later, a Visalia man was shot outside his home on Oriole Avenue. Both are expected to survive.
Early Monday morning, Garcia shot a man to death outside of a different AM/PM — on Lovers Lane — just miles away from Road 148 and Avenue 256, where Garcia initiated a shootout with Tulare County sheriff's deputies.
No one was injured in the gun battle.
The carjacked vehicle the suspect was driving the wrong way on Highway 65 is seen here after it collided with multiple vehicles. (Photo: TCSO)
From there, Garcia held three farm workers in an adjacent orchard at gunpoint, carjacking them. He took the stolen truck on a destructive high-speed chase down Highway 65 that culminated in a horrendous collision near Porterville.
Garcia was ejected from the vehicle and died at the scene; the truck's cab separated from its bed and axle. The truck's engine flung "quite a distance" down the road, police said.
Speeds exceeded 100 mph, according to sheriff's Sgt. Gary Marks.
Four others were sent to the hospital, one to Fresno with "serious, critical" injuries.
"I would sometimes give (Garcia) change," Inthisane said. "I never thought he would be capable of doing something like this."
Inthisane could only guess at the man's mental stability.
"(Garcia) must've been going through a lot or on something," he added.
Inthisane lived in Visalia for 10 years before moving to Fresno for a job. He returned to Visalia about a year ago. He says in all his time in the Central Valley that he's "never seen anything like" Garcia's apparently random string of violent crimes.
"This is a man with no regard for human life," Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux said of Garcia at a press conference on Monday.
Detectives are also investigating Garcia's possible ties to shootings in Pixley, Sultana, another shooting in Visalia and an attempted homicide at Motel 6 in Tulare, Boudreaux said.
Lindsay Police Department is also investigating a homicide that they believe Garcia may be connected to.
In Porterville, multiple vehicles are involved in a fatal collision involving a shooting suspect. (Photo: Luis Hernandez)
Surveillance footage of the suspect, Gustavo Garcia, robbing a mini mart in Exeter on Sunday. (Photo: TCSO)
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College Welcomes Two New Moreau Fellows
Author: Karla Cruise
Hip-hop and boxing are not just entertainment for Notre Dame's two new Moreau Academic Diversity Postdoctoral Fellows, Brian Su-Jen Chung and Jesse Costantino; they're fertile ground for academic research.
Chung, in the American studies department, and Costantino, in English, joined the College of Arts and Letters in fall 2011 as part of a University effort to enhance cultural awareness and diversity within the campus community.
The program, supported by the offices of the president, provost, and college deans, was initiated last year with 11 new postdoctoral fellows representing a large cross-section of academic disciplines. During one-to two-year residencies, Moreau Fellows engage in research, teach classes, and mentor students.
"We're operating in an increasingly global and diverse environment, and it's important that we prepare our students for that experience," explains Susan Ohmer, who has worked collaboratively with vice president and associate provost Don Pope–Davis on the University's Diversity Advisory Committee. Concerning the Moreau Fellow applicants, Ohmer says, "We found that we have a very rich candidate pool, especially in departments where the disciplines focus on gender, race, and ethnicity."
Chung, who received his Ph.D. in American culture at the University of Michigan, taught a course this fall titled Hip-hop is Dead! Race, Circulation, and the Global Block, which examines the subculture dance and music phenomenon hip-hop within the context of global politics, economics, and history.
"Like other forms of popular culture, hip-hop, specifically rap music, is a billion-dollar industry, and it's used to sell all kinds of products," says Chung. "It's a mass- mediated expressive culture that shapes our social consciousness of race, gender, class, and sexuality… Students are drawn to the artistry of hip-hop culture and are eager to learn more about its history."
Chung's spring semester class, "Screening Asian Americans," focuses on Asian American histories and experiences as seen through the lens of U.S. mass media.
Costantino's interest in the intersections between class, race, and aesthetics in American culture led him to study boxing, the subject of his dissertation research, which he completed at the University of California, Berkeley. A specialist in 20th-century American literature and visual culture, Costantino this fall taught a course in Notre Dame's Department of English called Violent Modernisms, which highlights social and political change in the works of selected American writers.
"What has been most gratifying about this course," says Costantino, "is how readily the issues in these texts translate into present situations. For example, we recently spent a week discussing the Occupy (Wall Street) protests and the corresponding discourses of violence and ideology in media coverage of the events. Students show tremendous interest in how slippery a concept like violence can be."
Chung and Costantino are the latest to join what has become a community of Moreau Fellows on Notre Dame's campus.
Jessica Graham, a 2010 Moreau Fellow in Notre Dame's Department of History, describes that community as a supportive blend of formal and informal ingredients: "Formally, Maura Ryan and the other associate deans have scheduled a series of lunch workshops to help in our professional development and career advancement. Informally, we support one another in various ways. We call each other for help on the minor questions ("How do I file an expense report?") to the more urgent issues about career and life in general…It's a great group; there exists a true sense that folks are willing to lend an ear, advice, or help in any way they can."
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Hertfordshire Police and Crime Commissioner, David Lloyd's ground breaking ideas on making offenders pay for the costs of services that they use and generate have really got people talking, both locally and nationally.
The range of television and print media has shown interest in David Lloyd's consultation proposals. There has been television coverage on BBC Look East and London Tonight. Radio coverage has included BBC London and Three Counties Radio and LBC. The Commissioner's twitter account has generated considerable comment on the new ideas. The publicity started when nearly all of Hertfordshire's local papers covered the original New Year message where this idea was first mentioned.
Exploration of ways of recovering case preparation and police courts time.
Increasing the recovery of fixed penalty notices and other financial penalties.
The fine details of the proposal, which is part of a raft of ideas to make sure that offenders pay for their behaviour, are being developed. Work is taking place within the Commissioner's office and the Constabulary to further develop these ideas- exploring legal and practical issues. David Lloyd is also calling for the public and other interested parties to suggest further ways that offenders could meet the costs of the services they incur.
The Commissioner will publish further details of his 'offender-pays' proposals in the next couple of months as part of his Police and Crime Plan. This will also include a range of other new ideas such as enabling communities to tackle local speeding concerns with support from the police.


Here I have created a mesostic using the seed word "wandering" with Rae Armantrout's "The Way"* as my oracle. I chose this combination because I would describe my own mind as peregrine, and "wandering" links that with the shifting "I" in Armantrout's poem. I didn't want to add deliberate meaning to the experiment, so this is the unedited result from the mesostomatic.
The resulting grammar is unconventional but not nonsensical. "Pew announces only bad winter" reads like the clipped syntax of news headlines – a bad winter is the only forecast we get from the pew. And "word is scenes gasp," with a comma after "is," acquires a conversational tone; "scenes gasp" could indicate the bad winter – a season of "scenes" where everything holds its breath, waiting for the spring. We could even read "pew" as the research group, suggesting a prediction of a chilly post-election civil/political climate.
More interesting than a particular meaning is that we can find meaning at all in a poem that came about through a pseudorandom, deterministic process where no specific meaning could have been intended. This reminds us what pattern detectors we humans are – we seek patterns and meaning everywhere, so much so that we often see them where they aren't (both for good reason, ask any evolutionist). Finding meaning in chance poems shows that this applies to language as much as anything else, and it also invites us to ask what meaning really is.
Douglas Hofstadter wrote in Gödel, Escher, Bach that "meaning is an automatic by-product of our recognition of any isomorphism." A heady statement, but he was discussing the way that no message comes through as uncoded, pure meaning (e.g., this essay is coded in English); an isomorphism is a relationship between two things, "mapping" one onto the other (like a translation). Meaning happens when you make the connection between them. There are all kinds of things (objects, ideas, experiences) that bear a relationship to each other without anyone intending it. The "code" of chance poems may not be organized and deliberate, but if something in it makes sense to you, then you've recognized a relationship – meaning has happened. In this sense, chance poems have whatever meaning their readers find in them.
But I think it's more than that. That they have whatever meaning readers find is itself a (meta) meaning of the chance poem – the fact that meaning belongs to each person who encounters the poem. In a traditional poem, the poet tries to control what meaning the reader sees, but if the readers don't recognize the intended meaning in it, it's unsuccessful; that meaning isn't there. The fact that language is such that it can so often be non-intentionally arranged into something that seems meaningful and, conversely, that we are such that we can find meaning in such arrangements of words may be another meaning.
Finally, there are the questions themselves: what does this mean? how do I find meaning in this noise? if something non-intentional can have meaning, then what is meaning?
We are all too familiar with these questions in another context: faced with the claim that the universe and life and we came about through non-intentional, deterministic processes, the religious ask, "Then what's the point? What value or meaning can there be in life if everything exists by coincidence?" Atheists seem to have little trouble finding these things. Indeed, many exclaim that it is all the more wonderful that there is such order and complexity in the universe, and that we are here, if no one has been there deliberately making it so. And it is up to us to determine or create meaning in our lives.
Some people will find meaning in chance poems; some will not. Either way, art demands we look at its objects in new ways, and here, the object most in question is meaning itself.
* Read Armantrout's poem here, and find a PoemTalk discussion of it here. We read this in the second week of the course, when we saw a variety of Dickinsonian and Whitmanian poets (she is Dickinsonian).
I feel like I've been going nonstop since January, and last weekend, when I took an extra day off to have a four-day weekend, was the first I've stopped for air since New Year's. It's not just the conflict with the employer and the Coursera classes and the grad school application, either, though I lost plenty of sleep to those, too.
I've been reading, for one thing. So far, I've read a novel and its prequel, Blue and Until Again, by Lou Aronica; Dance for Two, essays by Alan Lightman which I reviewed here; The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, by Edward Tufte, which I cannot recommend highly enough; The Once and Future King; The Hunger Games; Terry Pratchett's Colour of Magic; H. G. Wells's Time Machine; The Omnivore's Dilemma; Quiet, by Susan Cain (please read this!); a novella by Bradley Beaulieu, called Strata; Aristotle's Poetics; and Strunk & White's classic grammar guide, The Elements of Style. I am currently in the middle of the Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry; Charles Darwin's Descent of Man; Beaulieu's second novel of Anuskaya, The Straits of Galahesh; and a math text, Calculus: A Liberal Art.
I also picked up some music that I found on sale or otherwise needed to have: the Amélie soundtrack, Robyn, A Fine Frenzy, Carla Bruni, Jo Dee Messina, Sara Evans, Keith Urban, Sara Bareilles, Norah Jones, KT Tunstall, First Aid Kit, Keane, Lauryn Hill, Andy McKee, Scott Joplin/Joshua Rifkin, JS Bach/Jian Wang (cello suites), Beethoven/András Schiff (piano sonatas). I love all the albums I've gotten, but especially Tunstall's "Tiger Suit," Bareilles's "Kaleidoscope Heart," and AFF's "One Cell in the Sea." The new Norah Jones is really interesting, too, and on one track ("She's 22"), Jones & the tune sound exactly like Jenny Lewis (Rilo Kiley, if you don't know her as a solo act). I would never have seen that coming; Norah's always been so smiley, and Jenny is, well, not that.
So, um, I'm a bit tired. I can haz more 4-day weekend?
This is another entry I found in the binder from last summer; I think these must've been from July, because they're in there with my letter to Congresspeople about the JWST, and I wasn't using the binder otherwise. (Yes, my mind is such that I have to figure out when I wrote an undated journal entry. 😛 ) The "you," once again, is just imaginary. I've always liked writing in the second person.
Ich will viel. I want a lot. Je veux… Je veux beaucoup. Beaucoup de temps, beaucoup des choses, beaucoup. I want to walk on air. I want to breathe physics and dance mathematics. I want to stay up all night watching the stars alone, surrounded by the echoes of everyone who has watched them before. I want to do something new. I want to see something that none of them did. I want to do something that would interest the greatest minds that knew this Earth. Is that so much in the end?
Don't touch me now. I don't know what I want. I don't know who you are. Are you the one who will wake me from my slumber? My thoughts are lost and full of fog. Help me find them. Don't let me lose them again–hold them safe with you. They slip through the walls of my mind too easily when you are near. Perhaps they like you better.
I want my self back now. I seem to have forgotten it a thousand miles from here, if it was not all a dream. I miss the girl with the glimmering eye and the camera in her hand. I miss the girl who could be anything. If you see her, please tell her for me: Become something now, girl, before you become nothing.
I want a lot. I want pretty things, shiny things, strong things, bonodorous things. I want an arm linked with mine, a hand around my shoulder, a mischievous grin. I want knowledge. I want to know what makes the world tick and the knowledge to make it tick in better time. I want answers so that I can find new questions.
And I want someone else who wants those questions, too. "So many are alive who–" So many have forgotten how to say "why?" So many have forgotten the joy of a surprise, of an answer that holds more mysteries than the question it replies. I want someone who will search with me for questions.
I want one who can lose his world to a piece of paper. I want his imagination to be the vessel that carries him to Valinor, to Ivalice and Anuskaya. But I want him to come back nearly whole. I want him to see the difference and similarity both among these worlds. I want him to remember that this one is his home, clutch his wonder tight to his heart and see such beauty here that he needs no magic, elves, or fairies to make him stay. I want this of everyone. Je veux ceci pour tout le monde. Ich will dies.
rather ask me why the sunset's red.


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Issue 118 (July - August 2017)
Protecting Our Privacy – or what is left of it
Veli Keskin
Do we have to give up our privacy for better security? This has long been debated on Capitol Hill [1]. The discussion stems from the mass surveillance methods deployed by a number of government agencies – actions that are performed in the name of national security purposes. Most of us were surprised by the Edward Snowden leaks, when we first heard about the true extent of the US's global surveillance programs. Some even felt like Little Red Riding Hood when she exclaimed, "What big ears they have! What big eyes they have!" The old wolves of the three-letter agencies kept responding that they needed such big ears and eyes, "To better serve you with!" Mass surveillance by the government When several provisions within the PATRIOT ACT were set to expire, the new USA FREEDOM ACT (Uniting and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ending Eavesdropping, Dragnet-collection and Online Monitoring Act) was signed into a law after months of discussion in both houses of Congress (June 2015). The argument used by political leaders was familiar: "This legislation is critical to keep Americans safe from terrorism and protect their civil liberties."
However, many privacy advocacy groups are still not buying that claim. They believe the bill falls short of protecting civil liberties. The Electronic Frontier Foundation [2] stated, "We've been clear that we must end mass surveillance under all surveillance authorities. We're disappointed that this bill does not do more toward that end, but the new USA Freedom Act serves as a welcome first step and should be seen as such." The American Civil Liberties Union [3] opposed an earlier, similar bill (the CISPA), stating that "It still permits companies to share sensitive and personal customer information with the government and allows the military to collect the internet records of everyday Americans ... We urge the members to vote 'no'."
Robin Koerner at WatchingAmerica.com argues that privacy vs. security is a false dichotomy anyway: "Either the math is wrong. Or the morality is wrong. Or both" [4]. He insists that the best strategy is not giving up any liberties – which stems from the frequently quoted Benjamin Franklin rule, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Corporate surveillance is even more invasive But new bills on the Hill are not the only issues threatening our privacy: there is the ongoing tradeoff between privacy and personalized commercial services. Even if we limit the government's power, the corporate world is still collecting all kinds of personal information, supposedly to provide better service. (There is that "better service" argument again!) Moreover, thanks to the social media frenzy, most of us are willingly sharing all our personal information online. A 2013 survey by Visa security [5] shows that more than 58% of consumers have shared details over social media that put them at risk of fraud or identity theft.
When it comes to digital natives those numbers are even higher. A recent PEW Research survey [6] shows that more than 90% of teens share their real names and pictures, 80% share their birthdates, and 20% share their cell numbers and personal videos on the Internet. Considering this culture of sharing, and also the governmental and industrial mass collection of personal data, some argue there is no point in discussing this issue anymore, as privacy as we know it is already dead. It has been more than a decade since the CEO of Sun Microsystems famously said that, "You have zero privacy anyway… Get over it!" [7].
The renowned futurist David Houle argues the same in his short book, [8] where he explains that the definition of privacy changed over time, and we should accept the current reality: "It is hypocritical to complain about the lack of privacy if you post information on social media, use the GPS function of your smart phone, surf the Internet, or increasingly, drive on the toll ways and in the cities of America. Don't complain if you are constantly letting convenience and the cool factor of technology trump concerns about privacy." Is privacy already dead? Science magazine declared "The End of Privacy" in a special January, 2015, issue. The editorial concluded, "Meanwhile, how we think and feel about privacy isn't static. Already, younger people reveal much more about their lives on the Web than older people do, and our preferences about what we want to keep private can change depending on the context, the moment, or how we're nudged. Privacy as we have known it is ending, and we're only beginning to fathom the consequences" [9].
In "Risk of Exposure," another article from the same special issue, Martin Enserink demonstrated with recent real life examples that "When new or dangerous infectious diseases strike, public health often trumps personal privacy." He explained that, "Reigning in bloggers and Twitter users may not be easy, but even professional efforts to track outbreaks pose new threats to privacy. Information about specific patients – although anonymized – is now shared worldwide on public email lists for emerging diseases ..." [10].
In another article, "Hiding in Plain Sight," the author concludes that, "In the end, human movements are often so predictable that they are hard to conceal. Location-hiding techniques are most valuable when you want to hide one-off trips… But when it comes to protecting the location of your home and workplace, you might as well give up on privacy" [11]. Hasan Elahi, an artist at the University of Maryland, seems to be taking this advice to heart. When the US Government mistakenly added his name to its terrorist watch list, he fought back by turning his life inside-out for the entire world to see [12]. He basically made his life an open book. He documented nearly every hour of his life, posted his debit card transactions, and used a GPS device in his pocket to report his real-time physical location. "If Big Brother was watching, Elahi would bore him to death" [13]. It might have worked for Elahi, but embracing such invasive surveillance raises a common sentiment: that there is nothing wrong with such invasiveness, and only the people who act bad or have something to hide care about privacy.
Why privacy still matters
In his TED talk, "Why Privacy Matters," Glen Greenwald pointed out the hypocrisy of the social media moguls on the issue, for while these moguls pronounced that privacy is no longer a "social norm," when it comes to their personal lives, they do their best to ensure to have a zone of privacy [14]. It is difficult to avoid all of these social media sites. For digital natives, having an online presence on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram is an existential issue. But considering the pace and amount of data shared on these social media sites, a malicious person or corporation could easily connect the dots and draw a more complete picture of anyone than one would ever expect.
With the internet or smart TVs capable of listening to our conversations in our living rooms [15], we maybe already be living in an Orwellian world. Therefore, reading excerpts from the classic dystopia of George Orwell "1984," Greenwald concluded his TED Talk by saying: ... a society in which people can be monitored at all times is a society that breeds conformity and obedience and submission, which is why every tyrant, the most overt to the most subtle, craves that system. Conversely, even more importantly, it is a realm of privacy, the ability to go somewhere where we can think and reason and interact and speak without the judgmental eyes of others being cast upon us, in which creativity and exploration and dissent exclusively reside, and that is the reason why, when we allow a society to exist in which we're subject to constant monitoring, we allow the essence of human freedom to be severely crippled. How do we protect our privacy? In the aforementioned special issue of Science, a recent book by the law professor and privacy expert Frank Pasquale was spotlighted [16].
In The Black Box Society, Pasquale argues that the classic remedy that requires informed consent from an individual does not work anymore. It "at best works for the rich, who can afford pricy lawyers and reputation managers to enforce their privacy rights..." The article continued Pasquale's argument: In contrast, Pasquale argues for a fundamental shift in privacy protection, from a focus on notice and consent at the time of data collection to stringent regulation of the actual use of data by corporations and government agencies. His reasoning is sensible, and he is not alone; a growing number of privacy advocates are in favor of data use regulation. If such regulations were to be put in place, it would represent an epic change in how we aim to protect privacy in our society. Susan Landau, professor of cybersecurity policy at WPI, concluded similarly in her Science article – we must control the use of data to protect privacy [17]. "Controlling use is complex, but combining technology, policy, and law is the best way to control incursions from business and government."
[1] Thorp, F. (June 2, 2015), "Barack Obama signs 'USA FREEDOM ACT' to reform NSA Surveillance", retrieved from http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/nsa-snooping/senate-vote-measure-reform-nsa-surveillance-n368341
[2] Jaycox, M., Reitman, R. (2015), retrieved from https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/new-usa-freedom-act-step-right-direction-more-must-be-done
[3] Boorstin, J. (2013) "Privacy vs. Cybersecurity: The Debate Heats Up", retrieved from http://www.cnbc.com/id/100632315
[4] Koerner, R (2014), "Privacy vs. Security: A False Dichotomy"retrieved from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robin-koerner/privacy-vs-security-a-fal_b_4698157.html
[5] http://www.visasecuritysense.com/en_US/fraud-news.jsp#OMG2muchinfo
[6] http://www.pewinternet.org/2013/05/21/what-teens-share-on-social-media-2/
[7] Sprenger, P(1999), "Sun on Privacy: Get over it!" http://archive.wired.com/politics/law/news/1999/01/17538 [8] Houle, David, "Is Privacy Dead? The Future of Privacy in the Digital Age" http://davidhoule.com/books/is-privacy-dead
[9]Special Issue on "The End of Privacy" (January 30, 2015), Science Magazine, http://www.sciencemag.org/site/special/privacy/
[10] Ensreink, M. (2015), "Risk of Exposure", retrieved from http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6221/498
[11] You, J. (2015), "Hiding in Plain Sight", retrieved from http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6221/500
[12] http://www.ted.com/talks/hasan_elahi
[13] Newman, Bruce. 2008. "I'm not a terrorist, says San Jose State professor who puts his life online," The Mercury News.
[14] https://www.singularityweblog.com/glenn-greenwald-on-privacy/
[15] "Your Smart TV is eavesdropping on your private conversations" http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/09/technology/security/samsung-smart-tv-privacy/
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[17] Landau, S. (2015), "Control use of data to protect privacy", retrieved from http://privacyink.org/pdf/Controlling_Use.pdf


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Q: Visualization of a discrete-event simulation on a grid / warehouse layout I need to simulate a warehouse with several autonomous vehicles moving on a given layout with simple priority rules. In my understanding, the problem can easily be tackled with discrete-event simulation (DES) and I would use SimPy for this.
The problem I see is that it seems very hard to me to visualize the actual trajectories and interactions of these vehicles. Of course, I can log all positions of all vehicles in all periods but how can I proceed then to create a visualization?
The dumbest way would be to create a million pictures, but there has to be a better way. Is there any library or tool to visualize movements of objects on a grid by moving symbols before a background?
Another option would be to use an agent-based approach with a software like AnyLogic, but this seems more complicated to me and I would like to apply a DES approach, preferably with open-source software.

A: I'd suggest checking out the tkinter library. We do all of our simpy visualization using this.
Here is a very basic example of the kind of animation that can be achieved, pardon the dramatic footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnZQ0f--Ink
Here is the source code which roughly describes what you see above: https://github.com/harrymunro/Simulations/blob/master/termini_simulation_animation.py
Here is a copy paste of the animation component:
################ SET UP ANIMATION CANVAS #################
class Train:
    def __init__(self, canvas, x1, y1, x2, y2, tag):
        self.x1 = x1
        self.y1 = y1
        self.x2 = x2
        self.y2 = y2
        self.canvas = canvas
        self.train = canvas.create_rectangle(self.x1, self.y1, self.x2, self.y2, fill="red", tags = tag)
        self.train_number = canvas.create_text(((self.x2 - self.x1)/2 + self.x1), ((self.y2 - self.y1)/2 + self.y1), text = tag)
        self.canvas.update()

    def move_train(self, deltax, deltay):
        self.canvas.move(self.train, deltax, deltay)
        self.canvas.move(self.train_number, deltax, deltay)
        self.canvas.update()

    def remove_train(self):
        self.canvas.delete(self.train)
        self.canvas.delete(self.train_number)
        self.canvas.update()

class Clock:
    def __init__(self, canvas, x1, y1, x2, y2, tag):
        self.x1 = x1
        self.y1 = y1
        self.x2 = x2
        self.y2 = y2
        self.canvas = canvas
        self.train = canvas.create_rectangle(self.x1, self.y1, self.x2, self.y2, fill="#fff")
        self.time = canvas.create_text(((self.x2 - self.x1)/2 + self.x1), ((self.y2 - self.y1)/2 + self.y1), text = "Time = "+str(tag)+"s")
        self.canvas.update()

    def tick(self, tag):
        self.canvas.delete(self.time)
        self.time = canvas.create_text(((self.x2 - self.x1)/2 + self.x1), ((self.y2 - self.y1)/2 + self.y1), text = "Time = "+str(tag)+"s")
        self.canvas.update()

if show_animation == True:
    animation = Tk()
    #bitmap = BitmapImage(file="uxbridge.bmp")

    im = PhotoImage(file="uxbridge_resized.gif")

    canvas = Canvas(animation, width = 800, height = 400)
    canvas.create_image(0,0, anchor=NW, image=im)
    animation.title("Uxbridge Termini Simulation")

    canvas.pack()

#### matplotlib plots

if show_animation == True and hide_plots == False:
    f = plt.Figure(figsize=(5,4), dpi=100)

    a1 = f.add_subplot(221) # mean headway
    a2 = f.add_subplot(222) # TPH meter
    a3 = f.add_subplot(223) # headway distribution
    a4 = f.add_subplot(224) # train count

    a1.plot()
    a2.plot()
    a3.plot()
    a4.plot()

    from matplotlib.backends.backend_tkagg import FigureCanvasTkAgg, NavigationToolbar2TkAgg

    dataPlot = FigureCanvasTkAgg(f, master=animation)
    dataPlot.show()
    dataPlot.get_tk_widget().pack(side=TOP, fill=BOTH, expand=1)
    f.tight_layout()

    canvas.pack()

# platforms
if show_animation == True:
    canvas.create_rectangle(50, 100, 200, 150, fill = "yellow")
    canvas.create_rectangle(50, 200, 200, 250, fill = "yellow")

    canvas.create_line(50, 75, 200, 75, fill="green", width=3) # platform 4
    canvas.create_line(50, 175, 200, 175, fill="green", width=3) # platform 2/3
    canvas.create_line(50, 275, 200, 275, fill="green", width=3) # platform 1

    canvas.create_text(125, 110, text = "Platform 4")
    canvas.create_text(125, 140, text = "Platform 3")
    canvas.create_text(125, 210, text = "Platform 2")
    canvas.create_text(125, 240, text = "Platform 1")

# track
    canvas.create_line(200, 75, 650, 75, fill="green", width=3) # platform 4 run out
    canvas.create_line(200, 175, 650, 175, fill="green", width=3) # platform 2/3 run in
    canvas.create_line(300, 175, 400, 75, fill="green", width=3)
    canvas.create_line(450, 75, 600, 175, fill="green", width=3)
    canvas.create_line(450, 175, 600, 75, fill="green", width=3)
    canvas.create_line(200, 275, 300, 275, fill="green", width=3)
    canvas.create_line(300, 275, 400, 175, fill="green", width=3)

############ END OF CANVAS #################

A: If the animation should be 2D you could use the Pygame Library. I animated a little simpy simulation with it and it worked fine. Just note that you need to use threads otherwise your window will freeze after a few seconds. This simple method draws a red circle for every customer arriving and draws it green when the customer gets served.
def draw(env, timelist):
    gameDisplay.fill(white)
    start = time.clock()
    kdnr = 0
    kdaktuell = -1
    kdstart = -10
    while True:
        timer = (time.clock() - startzeit)
        if timer > 15: #simulation for 15 sec
                break

    # incoming customers
    if kdnr < len(timelist):
        if timelist[kdnr] <= timer:
            pygame.draw.circle(gameDisplay,red,(50+30*kdnr,400),10)
            print('Customer '+str(kdnr+1)+ ' arrived in minute: ' + str(timelist[kdnr]))
            kdnr = kdnr + 1

    # served customers
    if (kdstart+3) <= timer:
        kdaktuell = kdaktuell + 1
        kdstart = time
        pygame.draw.circle(gameDisplay,green,(50+30*kdaktuell,400),10)
        print('Customer '+str(kdaktuell+1)+ ' gets served.')

    pygame.display.update()

A: I would just collect all required data and store them somewhere (a file, HDF5, sql, …).  Later (or in parallel), you can visualize that data.  Either by generating a lot of images with, e.g., matplotlib or by doing something more fancy with D3.js.

A: I found that the R library gganimate does what I want. I have not found an equivalent for Python though (maybe because there is neither an equivalent to ggplot2 nor animate in Python...)

A: A little variation to what you intend to use for the simulation library could be to use salabim instead of simpy. It is very similar to simpy but has an animation engine which simplifies greatly the process.

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Fully open schools are unsafe - union action needed so that the facts can no longer be ignored
A fortnight ago, I posted an update about why the continuing denial of Covid transmission in schools must be challenged – and not just in words but through action by school trade unions. As infection rates – and consequently deaths - continue to rise, the need to take action has become ever more urgent.
Schools transmission denial continues
According to Oldham Council that is ...
A tweet from Oldham Council this week has brought the illogical denial of Covid transmission in schools to its logical conclusion. The Council, understandably, wants to warn parents about the risks of transmission between children in households, especially in an area with such high community infection rates. But, in doing so, it falsely claims that schools are somehow "COVID-secure" as if, by magic, the virus refuses to enter the school gates!
Yet this nonsensical tweet simply sums up the dangerous nonsense that continues to come from the Department for Education – that it's "safe" to continue to pack over 30 children and adults into poorly ventilated classrooms. It flies in the face of the growing evidence that airborne transmission will inevitably be taking place in those conditions, of the health risks that this creates for school staff, and how that leads to further transmission back into the school's wider local community.
Outbreaks increasing across all school sectors
Firstly, as the latest slides from independent SAGE helpfully summarized, while the Government is pretending that schools are continuing to operate normally, the reality is that over 400,000 pupils (around 4%) of state school pupils have been having to self-isolate owing to positive cases and outbreaks in their schools. In some areas, as many as a third of secondary school students are at home.
But this isn't just a secondary school issue either. The latest PHE Report shows that there have been well over 1000 confirmed Covid-19 clusters or outbreaks in schools since the start of term, across all sectors. Indeed, in the latest week reported upon, it has been the primary sector that has had the highest number of reported incidents.
It's important to stress those primary school cases because, up to now, the emphasis has been largely placed on the risks of viral transmission from teenagers and young adults, rather than from younger children. However, the latest modelling from the ONS shows that the estimated positivity of primary age children has now risen to levels similar to those estimated for secondary school aged children.
Of course, school staff themselves are also being affected. BBC News have just reported on analysis from the North West Association of the Directors of Children's Services, showing that in mid-October Bury, Knowsley, Liverpool and Manchester all had more than 40% of schools with confirmed cases. Those figures included 710 teachers with a positive test – from about 2000 in total across England.
Sadly, it's those adult staff who are most likely to be vulnerable to serious ill-health from the virus and those infection rates will inevitably start to translate into school staff deaths as well.
In the areas with the highest infection rates, staff and student absence is already causing a chaotic situation. Schools are left without key staff at short notice, staff being expected to provide learning both for those in class and those at home – but without knowing who will be where from week to week. An agreed planned rota system is urgently needed to cut across this chaos and pressure.
Children transmit the virus – further medical evidence
For too long, an assumption has been made that children, particularly primary aged children, do not have a significant role in spreading the virus. But the claim increasingly fails to stand up to scientific analysis.
Of course, many children are asymptomatic, but that does not mean that they don't transmit the virus. However, the fact that they often don't exhibit symptoms has also meant that children have often been excluded from testing systems that are being rationed to those that do. That has helped hide transmission via children in our inadequate tracking and tracing systems.
As the Canadian Medical Association Journal warns, "Children have been 'dramatically underrepresented' in COVID-19 case counts because they are less likely than adults to show symptoms and therefore may escape detection … Especially early in the pandemic, 'there were a lot of biased studies, and people were really uncritical of that.'
As the article mentions, there might be a biological reason why younger children are less affected in that "the virus uses angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptors in the nasal mucosa as a doorway into the cells, and studies have found that young children have a lower density of those receptors". However, it also points out that "nobody knows if their poor adherence to physical distancing and other precautions cancel out any biological advantage"
A recent paper by Dr Zoe Hyde in the Medical Journal of Australia gives an overview of evidence that she concludes shows that "children may be more susceptible than originally thought and play a role in community transmission".
While the paper points out that "Children appear more likely to be asymptomatic and given that the duration of viral shedding may be shorter in asymptomatic cases, it is possible that children may be infectious for a shorter period. However, the viral load of asymptomatic and symptomatic cases does not appear to differ, and infectious virus is readily cultured from both. Importantly, the likelihood of successfully culturing virus is unrelated to age. Children therefore have the potential to play a role in community transmission, particularly given the large number of contacts children have in close contact settings such as childcare centres and schools".
Dr Hyde points to a number of outbreaks internationally where the evidence indicates that transmission among children was a significant factor. However, a more recently documented Israeli investigation into the role of schools in spreading infection provides some of the strongest evidence of all. Israel, like the UK, has seen a sharp rise in infections since schools reopened in September.
The sample size used in the Ministry of Health investigation makes it a far more reliable source than some of the early international investigations into school-based transmission. Of the 678,000 children under the age of 17 tested for COVID-19 tests between January and September 24, over half showed no symptoms. However, 8% of the children returned a positive test. This was the highest rate for any age-group, suggesting the rising positivity in the ONS data here in England is only to be expected:
The investigation was also able to track the course of specific outbreaks and show how schoolchildren were part of the transmission pathways.
Significantly, the study also supported the prognosis that there may be a number of people, including children, who appear to act as 'super-spreaders'. Across Israel, 350 people were identified who had been the source of infection of at least 10 other people. Of these, 17 (5%) were children. Seven children each infected 10 people, three children each infected 12 people, and one child infected 24 people.
Rota learning to allow smaller class sizes is now urgently needed
Northern Ireland and Wales (even if in a very limited way) have, at least, implemented some element of a "circuit breaker" that applies to schools this half-term. However, across the UK, schools will be returning to full classes and, as the facts above have shown, further school outbreaks.
Instead of chaotic absences and rising dangers to public health as a whole, schools should be returning to the reduced class sizes we had before the summer, at the very least in the Tier 2 and Tier 3 areas where infection rates, and so the risk of transmission, are the highest.
With planning and consultation, staff and school communities could arrive at an agreed rota system that takes into account the additional workload pressures of supporting children at home and at school, making sure priority medical and social needs are catered for, as well as the protection of those staff and parents at greatest risk from the virus.
For example, a system where class sizes are halved, with most children in school one week then at home the next, could significantly reduce transmission risks by reducing the number of contacts and allowing physical distancing to be put in place which simply cannot happen in a class of thirty. This is of even greater importance in the winter months where providing adequate ventilation is going to be even more of an issue. At the same time, it would still make sure children weren't permanently without the social interaction and support that a school environment can provide.
As demanded in the motion below, any parent who has to take time off work owing to childcare pressures arising from school closure should also be granted full-pay while they do so. Government should also fund the provision of additional staffing, drawing on the significant pool of supply staff looking for employment, and additional teaching spaces to minimize the time and numbers of children who may need to learn at home.
Action must be urgently taken so that facts can't be ignored
The weight of evidence is now so strong that a Government genuinely interested in protecting public health could not ignore it. But this Government will not act unless forced to do so. Contrast the way it brushed aside Andy Burnham's appeals for more funding for Manchester compared to the way it had to shift over GCSE exam grading when young people started to organise opposition.
It is clear that the Government continues to ignore reality. Lancashire councillors reported that when they spoke up in negotiations about transmission in schools and workplaces being the real problem, they were told by Government officials that these were "off-limits". So Lancashire is now in Tier 3, without adequate financial support for workers affected, but also with school safety continuing to be ignored.
As reported on 'Lancs Live'
For the sake of staff and for the safety of our communities too, unions should call members together and put the case for urgent strike ballots to be started without any further delay, starting with members in the worst-hit Tier 2 and Tier 3 areas.
The National Education Union has already said that it will support individual school groups that request such a ballot. However, staff will feel more confident to take action if they are acting alongside other school groups in a collective battle to call on Local Authorities and the Government to meet our demands. Even the announcement that the NEU were starting those ballots alone would be a lever on Ministers to change course and act on school safety.
Keeping our Schools and Communities Safe
The following motion was agreed by the Lancashire NEU Branch Committee and will be discussed further in the Branch once schools return from the half-term break:
Lancashire NEU Tier 3 Motion - Keeping our Schools and Communities Safe
Our members have worked tirelessly throughout this pandemic and will continue to do so to support pupils. However, with local infection rates continuing to rise, and clear evidence of the part played by schools and colleges in that increase, they cannot continue to operate safely with full classes. Action must now be taken to make sure all education workplaces are only open in conditions that are safe for students, staff and our local communities.
Local escalation to Tier 3, without addressing the issue of school and community safety, must be met with an escalation in the union's response. Therefore, we agree to:
Call an urgent emergency meeting of all NEU members and seeks the following measures:
1) Call on schools and employers to put the following into immediate effect:
· all staff in higher risk groups to work from home;
· to reduce class sizes by moving to an agreed rota system; and
· for all staff to be regularly tested;
2) Call on Government to provide funding for additional resources, spaces and staffing, as well as full pay for parents who must remain at home to provide childcare;
If these measures are not secured, we will ask NEU Action Officers to conduct industrial action ballots as required.
Denial of Covid transmission in schools must be challenged
The second Covid wave is accelerating globally. In the UK, infection rates in many areas are now at such high levels that the "R rate" is well above 1 so that the rate of increase continues to climb yet further.
Urgent action is needed to slash onward transmission but the response from the UK Government is only a confused and unfunded tiered lockdown that closes pubs but leaves schools and most workplaces open. It will leave affected workers in the worst-hit areas unable to pay their bills yet does little to convince anyone that it is actually seriously tackling viral transmission.
Even the Government's SAGE scientists seem unconvinced that Johnson's latest proposals are going to have the required effect. The SAGE minutes from 21st September warned that "the rate of increase in infections is expected to accelerate in the near future as the impact of school, college and university openings, and policy changes with respect to return to workplaces, and entertainment and leisure venues, filter through". Of course, that's exactly what has since taken place.
The main incidence of outbreaks is in schools
The latest figures from Public Health England (PHE) show that the main incidence of outbreaks is in educational settings and workplaces - not pubs! Figures from the previous week's Report also showed that, while college and university outbreaks are also significant, by far the largest numbers of confirmed clusters or outbreaks are in school settings:
Just to emphasise that this isn't just a UK finding, Le Monde has similarly recently reported that the main incidence of outbreaks in France is also in educational settings.
Teenagers and young adults have the highest test positivity
The PHE Reports, alongside a further set of figures from ONS, confirm that the highest test positivity rates are amongst 10-19 and 20-29 year-olds, not older people.
The ONS Report is clear in its conclusion that: "highest rates appear among older teenagers and young adults (school Year 12 to age 24), where rates have grown very rapidly in the most recent weeks. The second highest rates are seen in the secondary school age group (school Year 7 to school Year 11). Increases are also apparent across the other age groups, but to a much lesser extent"
This provides important confirmation that, while the elderly may be at the greatest risk of serious ill-health and death, it is young adults and teenagers that are likely to be the main source of viral transmission within communities.
With limited testing in the UK targeted to those who are symptomatic, this important finding was previously missed because most younger people show only mild or no obvious symptoms. It must no longer be ignored.
No more denial - schools spread the virus
The National Education Union have produced a video where Kevin Courtney summarises these figures. It makes the point that PHE have stressed that viral airborne transmission risks are greatest in "poorly ventilated spaces if individuals are in the room for an extended period of time" - which, as Kevin correctly states, is a perfect description of our classrooms, where thirty or more individuals share one room for lessons.
Yet politicians, both Tory and Labour, alongside too many of their scientific advisers, seem to be in denial about the role of schools in viral transmission.
SAGE, in their latest published September minutes, advised (before the latest data had been released of course) that "it is still not clear to what extent (if any) schools magnify transmission in communities rather than reflect the prevalence within the community". Now, of course, high community rates will cause higher prevalence in schools, as more infected individuals introduce the virus into schools from their communities. But how can there be any scientific basis for suggesting that the virus won't then be further transmitted within packed classrooms and then back out into the community again?
If test positivity suggests some young people may well be carrying the virus, and they are sitting together in classes without social distancing, usually without masks, and generally with only limited ventilation, it's surely inevitable that schools WILL act as "institutional amplifiers" of the virus.
The PHE and ONS data above only adds to other global research that confirms that there is every reason to expect that the virus shows no respect for what kind of environment it finds itself within. Rather than reproduce it in full here, the threads updated by Dr Zoe Hyde on Twitter list medical research papers that have concluded that:
* Adults and children are equally likely to be infected;
* Children transmit the virus at clinically meaningful rates - perhaps equally to adults.
Those findings are backed up by swab testing results that show:
* The amount of viral RNA detected in swabs from symptomatic children was similar to (or higher than) that of adults;
* Asymptomatic and symptomatic cases were also found to have a similar viral load.
For too long, subjective wishes for schools to stay open have outweighed the objective facts about what's needed to prevent the rising "second wave". For some politicians, that's driven by the cold economics of providing childcare for the UK workforce, for others a more genuine wish for children to carry on receiving an education.
But if rising infection rates continue to drive more school outbreaks and consequent self-isolation of staff and children alike, those wishes won't be met!
It's time to accept that schools, especially secondary schools and 16-19 colleges, are significantly contributing to accelerating infection rates, sadly now becoming rising death rates as well.
Time for unions to take action
Unless serious plans are put in place to provide safe learning in schools - not to mention safe working conditions for staff, especially those at higher risk that could be working at home providing distance learning instead - they will continue to drive the disastrous spread of Covid-19.
Existing steps being taken in schools, largely limited to leaking "bubbles" and extra cleaning, are just not sufficient. Alongside a properly functioning system of testing, the serious action required is to ensure schools operate only with smaller class sizes. That's the best way to minimise transmission and increase social distancing within the school environment, just as we had in place in the "first wave" of the virus from March.
But Boris Johnson's confused lockdown announcements, which failed to even mention educational settings, show that the time for just appealing to the Government to 'do the right thing' is long past. They're not listening.
It may be worse than "not listening" - they may be actively ignoring the evidence on schools
The NEU now has to act to defend public health where the Government won't. Mass members' meetings on Zoom should be called in the lockdown areas, where the risks are greatest, and the case put that action ballots now need to be started to force the Government to act. The arguments - as in Kevin Courtney's video above - are clear, now what's needed is for the Union leaderships to give that lead.
Trade unions and local communities need to demand their voices are heard - because they know far better than the Conservative government what steps are really required. School communities should decide how best to operate priority rotas for children who need to attend school and how best to operate distance learning for those who can be supported at home.
Trade unions must use their collective strength to force the Government to take the action it should already have put in place, with extra funding to support online learning, additional staff and teaching spaces, a functioning test-and-trace system, and full pay for those who have to remain at home through workplace closure or to support children learning from home.
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