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Agile practitioners face challenges, but see process improvements
Despite challenges to using Agile development, SearchSoftwareQuality.com's 2008 Agile Trends survey found that 67% of Agile practitioners have seen process improvements. Those improvements include faster time to market and increased productivity.
Colleen Frye
Practitioners of Agile software development methodologies are experiencing improvements in both process and product. But like most things in life, there is a yin and yang. Challenges for Agile developers include communications and documentation and adapting Agile for distributed teams and large-scale enterprise projects.
However, enthusiasts are forging ahead. "First, a team needs to recognize that Agile is good. The opportunity is there," said Scott Ambler, practice leader for Agile development at IBM.
Analysis of the 2008 Agile Trends Survey results
* Teams turn to use cases, user stories to ease requirements gathering challenges
* Agile practitioners face challenges, but see process improvements
* Tools of the Agile trade
* Development groups take many routes to Agile
Results from SearchSoftwareQuality.com's 2008 Agile Trends survey found that 67% of Agile practitioners have seen process improvements. Topping the list of improvements, according to survey respondents, was faster time to market (66%), followed by increased productivity (62%).
Nari Kannan, CEO of Ajira Technologies Inc., a Pleasanton, Calif., developer of service process management solutions, sums it up simply: "We're able to get stuff done."
Getting a deliverable into the hands of customers earlier is helping to make a better product, Kannan said.
"The main thing we've learned is, when you begin, you think certain features are important to customers, but those often are not that important, so the definition of the product itself has evolved, which is the biggest improvement," Kannan said. "There's no way we could've guessed all the [important] features unless we deployed [it]. Requirements gathering is a farce unless you roll something out and start using it."
Mike Turner, president of Northstar Analytics and author of Microsoft Solutions Framework Essentials: Building Success Technology Solutions (Microsoft Press, 2006), agreed, saying that project sponsors are the biggest benefactors of earlier deliverables.
"The sponsor sees something real sooner, because even when you write the spec the sponsor doesn't fully understand what they want until they see it. The Agile benefit is that it gives them something real," he said.
And that "something real" has fewer defects, according to 45% of survey respondents, and costs less to develop, according to 34% of respondents.
"It's simply the physics of testing multiple times a build—we just catch that much more," Kannan said. "If you wait until the end [to test] you waste so much time doing design and development that you don't have much time for testing and you rely on the users to figure it out, which is a really bad way to do it. Every time we do a build we go through a whole bunch of testing, so the probability of catching defects is that much more."
Steve Whatmore, a Java architect at Toronto-based LYNXDev Inc., which provides business solutions to the financial services industry, said his company also experienced faster time to market as well as fewer defects, with the end result being a more robust system.
Every time we do a build we go through a whole bunch of testing, so the probability of catching defects is that much more.
Nari Kannan
CEOAjira Technologies Inc.
"The benefits [have] been not only time to market with our solution—which is substantially faster than what our clients expected with the size of the team that we assigned to the project—but also the robustness of the system as a whole," Whatmore said. "Due to the fact that the base architecture has essentially been tested and re-tested from day one of our development cycle, we have been able to flush out a lot of the defects that would otherwise be found very late in the game with a waterfall approach."
In addition to fewer errors, Danny Allen, director of security research at IBM Rational, said Agile processes can also help improve security. "Applications developed using an Agile process end up being more secure," he said. "You're not only doing functional testing early and often, but you're also doing the automated security testing. You're catching mistakes early."
Challenges using Agile processes
While development organizations are reaping benefits with Agile, practitioners acknowledge there are some challenges to this style of development. Respondents to the SearchSoftwareQuality.com survey cited communication as the top Agile challenge (52%), followed by documentation (48%). Resistance to change and tool integration were also cited as challenges (both by 24% of respondents).
Communication, no matter what methodology developers use, "is just a tough thing, always," said IBM's Ambler. And, he added, "popular methods like Scrum and XP don't explicitly address documentation, which is what Agile modeling is all about. You can't ship without adequate documentation."
Kannan agreed that documentation is a challenge. "The reality is, no matter how much you try, documentation is never up to date." He said Ajira uses "express documentation," which is two to three pages with requirements in bullet points. The design document is about the same length, with screenshots and diagrams. "It's a trade-off between spending three months doing documentation and writing code, only to find out a lot of that is not needed."
In contrast with the survey results, though, Kannan said communication is enhanced with Agile. "It's not a problem because when you're doing this many builds communication increases," particularly with users/customers providing feedback throughout the cycle. "Communication is the best benefit of Agile."
For LYNXDev's Whatmore, managing the modifications with minimal documentation is a challenge.
"The single biggest hurdle that we found is managing the level and number of modifications to the system, both in terms of functionality and UI design," he said. "Since we did not have a document which fully described the system, the number of changes that we had to manage once the client reviewed the application became at times burdensome, and the tool that we managed for defects was not exactly appropriate for managing these types of modifications. Thus we found that we maintained some of the change requests in emails, in spreadsheets, on paper, etc."
He continued, "If I were to go back, I would ensure that we have a single system of control and management of these so that we have a single point to refer to when questions arose. As the ALM [application lifecycle management] space continues to flush out in terms of breadth and depth of their solutions, I fully expect this problem to get covered.
Distributed Agile teams can be difficult
Agile development teams that are distributed also face challenges. Among respondents to the survey, 48% said their Agile teams were distributed.
"Distributed development is tough, period," Ambler said, adding that distributed Agile teams have to "be smart" about communications. "You have to address that issue with better processes and better tools."
Ambler said IBM does distributed Agile development, but acknowledges "it's harder." At IBM, he said, distributed Agile projects have subteams that handle one or more subsystems or components.
"You have significantly less overhead for communications because in effect each team can act as a reasonably co-located team by itself," Ambler said. "A common mistake [of distributed Agile] is organizing around job function. You have lot of communication overhead doing handoffs, and it increases risk."
Northstar Analytics' Turner agrees that "it helps if subteams are co-located." However, he said, a benefit of Agile is the ability to have timely customer feedback, which can be a challenge for distributed teams with time zone differences.
Scaling Agile for the enterprise is another hurdle, Ambler said. "The Agile community has gotten real good at developing high-quality solo projects, but not real good at the enterprise level. This is the next major challenge," he said.
Despite the challenges, Ambler recommends organizations give Agile a try. "When you look at the results people are getting, the vast majority are positive or at least neutral; very few are having negative results. Experimenting with Agile is an incredibly low-risk decision to make. There is a big upside and the downside is small."
Editor in Chief Michelle Davidson contributed to this report.
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Q: How to write policies for multiple custom authorizers in one API Gateway REST API? tl;dr How do I write a policy and/or structure my resource when using multiple custom authorizers in one REST API?
I have a REST API in API Gateway with multiple resources. For some of them any requests should be allowed so long as they have a special header with a secret value (i.e. there is no user auth). For others, the requests both need the special header and an user auth.
The special header works like an API key, but can't be x-api-key since I don't control the header, nor its value.

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*/resource1 – X-HEADER (allow any user)

*/resource2 – X-HEADER (allow any user)

*/resource3 – X-HEADER and Auth (only allow signed-in users)

*/resource4 – X-HEADER and Auth (only allow signed-in users)

To solve this I have two custom authorizers. For PublicAuthorizer I use header X-HEADER as the identity source, for LoggedInAuthorizer I user headers X-HEADER and Auth as the identity source. (The authorizers are of type REQUEST.)
So far so good. The problem is how to write the policies. This is the current response from LoggedInAuthorizer:
{
  "principalId": "[the user id]",
  "policyDocument": {
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [{
      "Resource": "arn:aws:execute-api:[region]:[account id]:[rest api id]/[stage]*",
      "Action": "execute-api:Invoke",
      "Effect": "Allow"
    }]
  }
}

This is the current response from PublicAuthorizer (always using the same principalId):
{
  "principalId": "anonymous user",
  "policyDocument": {
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [{
      "Resource": "arn:aws:execute-api:[region]:[account id]:[rest api id]/[stage]*",
      "Action": "execute-api:Invoke",
      "Effect": "Allow"
    }]
  }
}

This works but I'm concerned about using the same Resource for both policies.
Is there a risk that an attacker can make a request to /resource1 and then to /resource3 and reuse the first policy to call gain access without having user authentication? (I've tried but failed to do it)
I've enabled Authorization Caching so I can't use event.methodArn as Resource. Doing that prevents the user from calling any other resources during the cache period.
Do I have to change the structure of my resources so that the policy use path prefix to cover a subset of the resource? For instance "arn:aws:execute-api:[region]:[account id]:[rest api id]/[stage]/*/public/*" for this structure:

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*/public/resource1 – X-HEADER

*/public/resource2 – X-HEADER

*/private/resource3 – X-HEADER and Auth

*/private/resource4 – X-HEADER and Auth

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It's easy to take your oral health for granted when everything works as it should. But when something starts to go wrong, the cause of that problem doesn't usually occur spontaneously. The majority of oral health problems are the result of months or years of either neglect or the continuous practice of bad oral habits. This is especially true when it comes to dealing with sensitive teeth.
Tooth sensitivity occurs when you experience discomfort in one or more of your teeth whenever you consume hot, cold, sour, or even sweet foods and drinks. The sharp and sudden pain the condition causes can feel as if it starts from deep within the tooth and begins to radiate out to the surrounding areas of your mouth. Tooth sensitivity can make activities you enjoy, like eating a drinking, extremely uncomfortable, and if tooth sensitivity continue to progress, you may start trying to neglect your nutritional needs.
Running under the gum line and into the heart of your teeth- an area referred to as the pulp- are tiny tubules that contain the nerves of each tooth. When gum tissue begins to recede away from the base of your teeth these tubules become exposed, which allows outside stimuli- such as hot or cold drinks- to irritate the nerve in your tooth. This causes your tooth's nerve to flair up, and leads to you feeling pain.
Over brushing. While showing enthusiasm for brushing your teeth is normally a good thing, you can inadvertently damage the health of your teeth's enamel by over brushing. Brushing too strenuously or using a brush with hard, inflexible bristles can wear away tooth enamel, eventually exposing the layer underneath. Over brushing can also irritate your gum tissue, causing your gums to recede away from the base of your teeth.
Gum disease. While over brushing can lead to gum recession, the most common cause of that condition is gum disease. A result of practicing poor oral hygiene, gum disease cause inflammation along the gum line, which not only results in receding gum line, but can lead to decay and tooth loss.
Cracked teeth. Teeth that become broken or cracked can fill with harmful bacteria called plaque. Once inside of the tooth, plaque can cause the pulp to become inflamed, resulting in tooth pain.
Bruxism. Also referred to as teeth grinding, bruxism is an unconscious habit that eventually wears down your tooth enamel. Once worn down, your enamel can easily chip or break, which exposes the delicate pulp underneath.
Teeth whitening products. The majority of teeth whitening products contain some type of peroxide, which helps to remove unsightly stains from your tooth enamel. However, over using or abusing teeth whitening products can damage tooth enamel and cause gum irritation.
Age. Despite what you may assume, individuals between the ages of 25 and 30 are the most likely to experience tooth sensitivity. While not proven, researchers suspect this occurs mainly because people are less likely to visit the dentist when in this age range. The fact that most health insurance plans remove children over the age of 24 probably explains why.
Mouthwash. The best nightly oral hygiene routines include the use of an antibacterial mouthwash to help remove any built up plaque in hard to reach areas. But just as with whitening products, excessive use of mouthwash can damage the health of your teeth and gums. Mouthwash contains high levels of acid, which raises the acidity levels of your mouth when overused. High mouth acidity weakens your tooth enamel, making the substance more susceptible to damage.
Practicing quality oral hygiene. By brushing, flossing, and using a mouthwash daily, you can help to reduce the buildup of plaque, and prevent the onset of decay and gum disease.
Use a softer brush. To find a brush that has firm enough bristles to properly clean your teeth without causing damage to the enamel, look for a toothbrush that carries the American Dental Association's seal of approval.
Switch toothpaste. If you suffer from sensitive teeth, consider switching to a brand that specifically markets itself as helping to prevent tooth sensitivity. While you might need to experiment with several different brands before you find one that works best for you, the use of these type of toothpastes will eventually help.
Visit your dentist. Scheduling regular visit to see a dentist will provide you with the opportunity to receive a professional cleaning, proper hygiene instructions, and fluoride treatments, which can help to strengthen too enamel.


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This very big ISO file need to be installed on Windows to be able to use it. Tis toolkit has been design to customize Windows Embedded 8 deployment by giving three softwares : Image Configuration Manager, Module Designer and Windows Embedded Developer Update.
The installation is simple, next next ok finish, you just need to know you need to have both 32bit and 64bit ISO DVD of Windows Embedded 8 to be able to package and customize installations.
Once the installation is done, the three icon are available on the Metro Desktop.
You can build an image by using Image Configuration Editor. If you chose the advanced path for image development, this process will get you started with building an image. Although it takes more time to build an image by using Image Configuration Editor than by using Image Builder Wizard, this tool is the most flexible and versatile way to define your image requirements, especially when you need the image size to remain small.
This has been very easy to create to WinPE media folder, you can create USB key as well.
Windows Embedded Developer Update is an application that you can use to automatically search for, download, and install the latest updates for Windows Embedded 8 Standard.
And this is it, I made several custom media ready for deployment and Microsoft kept the good way and keep simple the Embedded software customizations. But this haven't evolve dramatically since many years now, maybe admin tools should evolve as much as Windows Operating System are changing.


The Operetta is an automated epi-fluorescence microscope system for end point HCS-assays. The system is equipped with a xenon lamp (360-640nm continuous spectrum) and a LED light source for transmission mode, enabling multiple wavelength fluorescence and brightfield high-resolution imaging. The Microscope can be used with standard 96-well and 384-well microplates , but also provides a function to create user-defined plate formats. Our Operetta is equipped with 10X, 40X and 60X high NA and a 20X long WD objective. The instrument is integrated into a small robotic unit (Plate::HandlerTM-II and three hotels) which enables unattended image acquisition of multiple assay plates. Measurement set-up, image acquisition, data analysis and data base storage are all performed in Harmony High Content Imaging and Analysis Software.


He said that his focus is on creating government-as-a-service, which means a set of apps and firms since both can bring various services that the establishment provides.
Overstock.com founder and CEO, Patrick Byrne, who is also a crypto evangelist, believes that blockchain technology can bring about drastic transformation in government services. He even bets that Venezuela issues could be fixed easily with the help of just six laptops with emerging technology. For his company, the digital coin supporter is having some brave intentions in the field of distributed ledger technology (DLT), which goes beyond the cryptocurrency platform.
One of the initial promoters of digital coin and Distributed Ledger Technology, Byrne thinks that it is the right time to have blockchain technology for drastic transformation. He said that his focus is on creating government-as-a-service, which means a set of apps and firms since both can bring various services that the establishment provides.
As a result, the government will become super efficient with less cost involved besides eliminating bribe from the system. In some of the frontier nations, his vision has reached a culmination point of encouraging emerging technology.
For instance, in Zambia, Medici Ventures has executed DLT in land-governance services with close to 50,000 homes. Medici's parent firm is tZero where Byrne is the chairman. Aside from this, the government has given rights to 300,000 more homes with the hope of extending it to the whole of the country.
Byrne indicated about creating a platform from which one could interact with the establishment digitally, i.e., paperless. Incidentally, he reached a concluding point that DLT could overall the conventional financial services considerably than anyone would have thought it to be.
Overstock.com CEO Contention is that if DLT could be used in frontier nations, then it could be useful for Venezuela also to overhaul its services. The South American country is already facing numerous issues from economic and politic fronts due to corruption and the dysfunctional financial system there.
As far as his company is concerned, it is clear that it is moving towards the DLT basket and intends to divest retail wings in the upcoming months. Significantly, tZero unveiled the security-token trading platform only a few weeks ago. Though he has set his agenda clear about DLT disrupting financial services, he is not ready to bet any price target on big cryptocurrencies like bitcoin.


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However, just before Agnos failed in his reelection bid, the segment of the Central Freeway north of Fell Street was dangerously unstable, and engineers concluded it had to be removed and rebuilt later. Agnos and the Board of Supervisors concurred, and it was demolished, thereby daylighting Hayes Street and attracting more investment. Hayes Street transformed into a hip bohemian shopping and art studio enclave, while the remaining section of the freeway to the south was braced for interim seismic support and kept functioning. By 1992 the volume of traffic using the remaining segment of the Central Freeway dropped from one hundred thousand vehicles per day to eighty thousand.(7)
[[Image:1991-southwest-view-from-Gough-and-Grove-old-central-freeway SFHistorian-twtr.jpg]]
'''View southwest in 1991 from Gough and Grove where the damaged freeway still stood.'''
''Photo: SFHistorian via Twitter''
The post-earthquake traffic was distributed unevenly, and some parts of Hayes Valley were overwhelmed. For example, the newly truncated configuration increased traffic by 70 percent on the Fell and Oak couplet as many cars that once proceeded north to the Franklin and Gough couplet now exited there.(8) There were rumblings of dissent from that section of Hayes Valley. Moreover, everyone in the neighborhood saw the benefit of freeway removal over Hayes Street, and the idea of further removal spread among the local residents. The Board of Supervisors established a citizens' advisory task force to advise the board on what to do about the remaining segments of the freeway, and the San Francisco Planning Department (SFPD) investigated the potential for urban infill on the former freeway parcels north of Hayes Street. Members of the task force called for the remaining freeway to be torn down. Yet by the time the nascent task force made its recommendation, the political pendulum of the city had swung in a more conservative direction, and the recommendation was ignored.
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by Jason Henderson
This intersection of 13th and Duboce (Duboce is going west from Mission at left center of image) was obliterated by the Central Freeway less than a decade after this 1951 photo was taken, and today is under the curving ramp as it heads toward Market Street.
Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library
Linking the Freeway revolts of the 1950s and 1960s to the anti-freeway movement in the 1990s, the removal of the Central Freeway running through Hayes Valley in San Francisco is explored for its effective community organizing. Changes in the lived urban environment of Hayes Valley over the 20th century geographically — specifically historical, political, and social conditions and relations through time — are tracked as well as the ways in which the 1989 earthquake that collapsed several Bay Area freeways opened up political possibilities for reimagining the urban landscape. Other linkages to transportation activism such as Critical Mass are brought in to widen the picture.
Removing the Central Freeway (Part 1)
On October 17, 1989, the magnitude 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake shook down several Bay Area freeways. The Cypress Freeway, a double-deck, 1960s-era freeway in the working-class neighborhood of West Oakland, collapsed, and forty-two people were killed. A section of the upper deck of the Bay Bridge collapsed onto the lower deck, killing one motorist. In San Francisco the Embarcadero Freeway and sections of I-280 in Mission Bay were damaged, and in Hayes Valley the Central Freeway was shut down.
The loss of life and the destruction were devastating, but to many people in San Francisco the disaster had a silver lining. It was an opportunity to consider removing some of the vestigial freeways that slipped past the freeway revolts of the fifties and sixties. Whereas in Oakland the Cypress Freeway was rebuilt, in San Francisco some damaged segments were removed in what I call the second freeway revolt. The earthquake so badly destabilized the Embarcadero Freeway that it had to be razed quickly. The mayor, a progressive who was open to rethinking the waterfront, expedited the decision to replace the freeway with a surface boulevard. Previous political efforts to remove the Embarcadero Freeway had failed, but the earthquake redefined the possibilities.(1)
It took longer—ten years—to determine the fate of the Central Freeway. After the quake, parts of the freeway that were beyond repair were removed, but other segments reopened. An acrimonious debate included ballot initiatives in 1997, 1998, and 1999 and was resolved with only partial removal and replacement with a short surface boulevard. The decade-long debate about removing the Central Freeway represented a cautiously hopeful juncture in the politics of mobility in San Francisco. It signified a political maturing of progressive transportation advocacy and also a subtle rapprochement with neoliberal real estate and development interests, who shared in promoting reurbanization of housing and voiced some of the principles of livability.
The city's conservatives were less optimistic. They opposed removing the freeway and took the matter to the ballot. Their concern was the loss of easy freeway access to the Fell–Oak and Franklin–Gough one-way couplets which linked to the west and north sides of the city. Caltrans also wanted to rebuild the Central Freeway because, like 19th Avenue on the west side, it was a vital, albeit incomplete, regional link connecting the Bay Area freeway network to the Golden Gate Bridge. But the end result, partial removal, was an incremental nudge toward livability in Hayes Valley, where the freeway once ran overhead. This outcome is far from perfect, however, and traffic remains a major problem.
Hayes Valley and the Central Freeway
The removal of the Central Freeway took place in Hayes Valley, in the center of the city just west of City Hall and one of several Victorian-era neighborhoods in the original alignment of the freeway (map 1, below). After the earthquake and firestorm of 1906, which burned down much of San Francisco, Hayes Valley densified because it was largely spared by the fire and had solid housing that could be subdivided. In the 1920s and 1930s Hayes Valley was a choice area for apartment development because of its proximity to downtown. With its streetcars and dense, mixed-use, walkable neighborhoods, the built environment of Hayes Valley mirrored much of what is promoted in livability discourse today.
Because of its central location Hayes Valley was the confluence of major automobile routes through the city. After the earthquake in 1906, Van Ness Avenue (present-day U.S. Highway 101) was reconfigured as a key north–south automobile route that bypassed the west flank of downtown. In the 1930s Van Ness Avenue was extended south of Market Street and penetrated the incongruent grid that now complicates movement through the city. Later, Gough Street, albeit at a different angle, also penetrated the incongruences. Parts of Hayes Valley were transformed into a bypass for cars and a de facto node in the regional highway system. Many new businesses catered to automobiles, including automobile dealerships, service stations, and automobile-oriented retail and commercial establishments. The juxtaposition of dense housing and a thruway for automobiles is a quandary residents and planners have spent decades trying to solve and reflects the paradoxical mobility stalemate described above.
During the Second World War, African Americans moved into the area, and Hayes Valley experienced white flight and declining maintenance of the housing stock. After the war, planning was biased toward incremental conversion of the area into a major automobile thruway. By the mid-1950s, streets like Fell, Oak, Franklin, and Gough were converted into major one-way couplets, while city planners considered the neighborhood blighted, pathologically disorganized, and in need of "social surgery."(4) Freeways could do more good than harm, the logic followed, and so the city and state agreed on building the Central Freeway in Hayes Valley, with the corollary network of widened one-way couplets also radiating outward. The alignment of the Central Freeway paralleled Van Ness Avenue, linking the Golden Gate Bridge to the Bay Bridge and to the Bayshore Freeway to the south. Like the Western Freeway, the Central Freeway was a strategic regional highway link.
In 1959 the Central Freeway was completed from the junction of the Bay Bridge Viaduct and through Hayes Valley north to Turk Street, but the remainder of the route was canceled during the freeway revolts. Hayes Valley was considered marginal and had little voice in the freeway debates, but the neighborhoods to the north, including Pacific Heights and the Marina District, were active in the revolts and objected to the northern extension of the Central Freeway. This meant that freeway traffic was delivered to the surface streets in Hayes Valley. As on 19th Avenue on the west side of the city, this created an intractable traffic mess, making Hayes Valley a less desirable part of the city.
The Central Freeway as it swoops towards its dead-end at Franklin and Gough and Turk Streets, August 2, 1965.
Adding to this, in 1955 traffic engineers established the Hayes–Fell–Oak Z configuration (see map 1 below). Briefly, the Z configuration shifts the Fell and Oak Streets one-way couplet north by one block to Hayes Street, utilizing the perpendicular Franklin and Gough one-way couplets. The Z jog effectively aligned the east–west traffic flow to the South of Market grid, enabling large volumes of traffic to cross Market Street on the 9th and 10th Street one-way couplets, which also fed the 101 Freeway to the south. Additionally, the shifting of the couplet northward to Hayes Street enabled elimination of the five-point intersection at Oak Street, Van Ness Avenue, and Market Streets. The Z configuration solidified Hayes Valley as a conduit for cars.
Cartography: Michael Webster
In 1966, as noted earlier, San Francisco's freeway revolt finally ended with the cancellation of the Panhandle Freeway, which would have extended from the Central Freeway westward along the Fell–Oak axis. Touchdown ramps built directly to Fell and Oak Streets became permanent, feeding the freeway to the cross-town one-way couplet. By the late sixties more than 150,000 vehicles per day were traveling through Hayes Valley.(5) The intense traffic, wide one-way streets, and confusing Z jog led to the further decline of Hayes Valley, and by the 1970s the underside of the Central Freeway was notorious for prostitution and drug dealing.
Despite the neighborhood's historic decline, parts of Hayes Valley underwent limited residential revitalization in the 1970s. Gentrification spilled into parts of Hayes Valley from neighborhoods further to the west, such as the Castro and Duboce Triangle. In the 1980s the opening of Davies Symphony Hall stimulated small business and new restaurants along Hayes Street. This gradual revitalization lay the foundation for organized advocacy for freeway removal after the earthquake in 1989. New merchants were particularly fond of the idea of daylighting Hayes Street, and many residents experienced what it was like to see traffic density plummet, as it did immediately after the earthquake. They did not wish for it to return.
The idea of removing the freeway was complicated by the debate over the Embarcadero Freeway. In 1991 Mayor Art Agnos, a progressive, faced a political backlash from merchant organizations in Chinatown that believed the Embarcadero should have been rebuilt to sustain freeway access to Chinatown.(6) They charged that Agnos acted too hastily and without their input. While many of the merchants lived outside of Chinatown, prior to the earthquake they drove into Chinatown via the ramps from the Embarcadero Freeway, which also fed automobile-oriented tourists into a five-hundred-stall parking garage. The Chinatown backlash slowed early political momentum for removing the Central Freeway. Agnos lost his reelection bid in November 1991, in part owing to political organizing against him from Chinatown. For progressives, the second freeway revolt had political costs.
View southwest in 1991 from Gough and Grove where the damaged freeway still stood.
Photo: SFHistorian via Twitter
Agnos lost the mayor's race in 1991 to the conservative Frank Jordan, a Republican who ran on a law-and-order platform and who was the former police chief of San Francisco.(9) To Jordan, the Central Freeway was an annoyance and a political third rail. His constituency was on the west side of the city, and so he did not want to see it removed, but his lack of political capital (he was considered dysfunctional and bumbling) meant he could not push the rebuilding of the freeway aggressively. Doing nothing became the temporary default position — a mobility stalemate. The hope was that Caltrans would sidestep local political debate and simply rebuild the freeway.
However, state law limited Caltrans's ability to decide the ultimate fate of the Central Freeway. This was significant because Caltrans, viewing the freeway as a strategic regional roadway, would have likely rebuilt the entire damaged freeway regardless of local objections. Instead, state law obliged Caltrans to cooperate with the city and explore various alternatives to fully rebuilding the freeway. This process required both public input and environmental evaluation of air and noise and spelled out that Caltrans could proceed on the Central Freeway project only if the city approved. In the early 1990s it became apparent that the question of what to do about the Central Freeway would become a prolonged political struggle. The delay allowed more time for Hayes Valley residents and merchants to organize and for progressive transportation ideas to inform the debate.
Two themes characterized progressive organizing around freeway removal in the 1990s. First, the demographics of the area changed as a result of gentrification. Hayes Valley was being transformed by a new stratum of well-educated middle-class residents from outside of the neighborhood who were seeking inexpensive urban housing or were willing to invest some sweat in renovating properties. Many of these new residents were renters, not homeowners, and many of the homeowners were not speculators. Later waves of gentrification focused more on speculation and commodification of neighborhoods, reflecting a pronounced neoliberal perspective on mobility rather than a progressive one.(10) Meanwhile, accompanying the first wave were small businesses that lined Hayes Street with arts and crafts, clothing, and other shops. Many of the new residents and business owners self-organized to promote removal.
Second, a newly invigorated, citywide progressive mobility discourse, led in part by a vocal bicycle advocacy movement, was gaining traction and by the mid-to-late 1990s had achieved political parity with other progressive causes. Most pronounced in the city's Victorian belt, this new progressive discourse about livability, urbanism, and mobility strengthened the arguments of Hayes Valley residents who were seeking freeway removal.
Dead end at Haight and Octavia streets, 1961.
The Hayes Valley neighborhood activists who eventually took down the freeway first began to organize around the prostitution and drug dealing taking place underneath the freeway.(11) Where the freeway crossed over Haight, Page, and Waller Streets two small groups coalesced in early 1994 and began to develop a leadership structure with officers, committees, and regular meetings. Significantly, many of these Hayes Valley residents did not secede from their space in response to the public safety concerns. Instead, the activists were eager to develop solutions that were realistic and believed that simply pushing prostitution and crime out of the neighborhood would not suffice. They held safety outreach events for prostitutes, worked with the police in identifying pimps, and lobbied for community policing. The group advocated that prostitutes receive treatment and reform rather than jail.
The Hayes Valley activists would gradually gain a reputation among city bureaucracies as being constructive and proactive rather than reactive law-and-order or not-in-my-backyard (NIMBY) activists. This was important over the next decade as the neighborhood confronted major transportation and development issues. The group interacted positively with the local media and got favorable press coverage on how it approached prostitution. It also worked with a broader, citywide group called the Coalition of San Francisco Business and Neighborhood Communities Impacted by Prostitution to ensure that the problem was approached holistically and not simply moved from one neighborhood to another. The Convention and Visitors' Bureau and downtown hotels supported the coalition because it also focused on the Tenderloin, which was adjacent to the downtown hotel district. The coalition provided some beneficial networking between the neighborhood group and larger political forces and put activists in Hayes Valley on the political map, at least on issues of social service and public safety. By 1996 neighborhood crime had been reduced by 85 percent, although a persistent safety problem underneath the freeway accentuated neighbors' support for removal.(12)
While organizing around public safety, Caltrans put forth a plan for a new replacement freeway viaduct from Mission Street to the remaining Fell and Oak Street ramps. In a nod to Hayes Valley, the Board of Supervisors adopted a resolution urging Caltrans to delay the retrofit process until other alternatives were studied. The board then appointed several Hayes Valley residents to a newly reconstituted Central Freeway Citizens' Advisory Task Force (CFCTF), which became the formal platform for shaping local rethinking of the freeway. Members of the CFCTF asked that an option of complete freeway removal be included among the alternatives Caltrans would study. The CFCTF also suggested that if there was to be a rebuilding, a new freeway touchdown ramp should be located somewhere south of Market Street rather than at the Fell and Oak Street couplet.
The CFCTF met frequently in 1995 and 1996 and held several citywide public meetings. It drafted guidelines for how it would approach the freeway question, including many of the tenets of livability, such as promoting the city's transit-first policy and emphasizing walkability and affordable housing. The CFCTF guidelines also had a clause stating that no single neighborhood should absorb the burden of freeway traffic. These guidelines hinted of progressive values, including a strong sense that government should ensure environmental and social justice as part of the public interest.
Hayes Valley's organizing around freeway removal shared in the broader zeitgeist of rethinking mobility in San Francisco, the Bay Area, and nationally. During the mid-1990s congestion and sprawl became leading political issues in the Bay Area.(13) Congestion and sprawl were also national concerns. From Atlanta to Portland and across the nation new urbanist and smart-growth advocates organized to offer an alternative vision of cities that invoked much of the livability discourse.(14) Even in Southern California, long regarded as a region where the car was idolized, citizens bemoaned smog and protested the last segment of I-710 through Pasadena.(15) Neighborhood activists succeeded in halting a short segment of freeway that would have split cohesive neighborhoods east of downtown Los Angeles.
Distrust of highway engineers and the highway lobby was widespread. The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) aired Taken for a Ride, a documentary which contended that General Motors destroyed a once-extensive and viable transit system in a vast conspiracy.(16) Regardless of the accuracy of the film, it resonated strongly among sustainable transport activists, and prominent figures in the livability movement propelled the idea that something sinister had produced the system of automobility. In Hayes Valley, as activists circulated the video among themselves, distrust of the highway lobby spread and reinforced enthusiasm for tearing down freeways.(17)
In suburban San Mateo County, the so-called Devil's Slide highway and tunnel controversy fed into the Central Freeway debate and suggested to Hayes Valley activists that Caltrans bullied communities into accepting freeways.(18) In this case Caltrans was found to be withholding evidence from opponents of an inland freeway bypass, while diluting evidence of the benefits of a tunnel option along the San Mateo County coastline. Eventually citizen activists put the tunnel option on the ballot and won. The high-profile Devil's Slide controversy reminded many of the long-standing tension between Caltrans engineers and local control of transportation, which in San Francisco went as far back as the first freeway revolts in the 1950s and 1960s.
In San Francisco, Critical Mass bicycle rides challenged not only automobility but also capitalism and compelled many to rethink the role of automobility in cities. Initiated in September 1992, Critical Mass had generally been a relaxed affair until the mid-1990s, when it started to get popular, larger, and more disruptive to automobile traffic.(19) Angry motorists complained to local politicians, and the police began to steer Critical Mass to streets where there would be less of a traffic impact. Bicyclists protested, and a violent upheaval followed in the summer of 1997. The crackdown on Critical Mass got ample media attention, and the bicycle protest movement became conflated with the anti-freeway movement, no doubt because the two groups were not only sympathetic but shared participants. Notably, the controversy over Critical Mass attracted even more cyclists to subsequent rides, with thousands of participants on warm summer evenings in the late 1990s, just as the Central Freeway debate would come to a crescendo.
In this broader context Hayes Valley activists formed the Association to Simplify Traffic and Abate Congestion (ASTAC). ASTAC tapped into the broader politics of mobility of San Francisco's Victorian Belt and used political connections to lobby for complete or near-complete removal of the Central Freeway north and south of Market Street. ASTAC's members had considerable linkages to progressive advocates outside of the neighborhood, including the Sierra Club, San Francisco Tomorrow, the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition (SFBC), the Harvey Milk Club, the American Institute of Architects and Urban Ecology. The group also had connections and support from merchants in Hayes Valley and other nearby neighborhood organizations.
ASTAC activists proposed to fully remove the entire length of the freeway and suggested not replacing it with anything. They showed their removal proposal to various community groups and organizations around the city and got a largely positive response, implying that this option should at least get a fair hearing. Yet the full-removal proposal was dismissed outright by the consultant hired by Caltrans and the city to study the options. City traffic engineers and the city's consultants literally laughed at the Hayes Valley activists. The city therefore never had the information or data to adequately consider a full-removal alternative. A fair hearing on the full-removal alternative did not happen, and this immediately narrowed the politics of possibilities.
While progressive transportation advocates such as ASTAC could not get everything they wanted — full removal with no replacement surface boulevard funneling cars through their neighborhood — they were able to contribute to removing part of the freeway. Their main contribution was to achieve a political redefinition of the possibilities away from the other extreme of fully rebuilding the freeway. But the struggle for freeway removal was far from over. Complicating progressive visions was a conservative movement to fully rebuild the freeway.
1. Removal of the Embarcadero Freeway was considered in 1963, and in the 1980s the city studied demolition. In 1986 a ballot initiative over removal failed to get citywide voter approval. See Carl Nolte and Reginald Smith, "S.F. Votes to Save the Freeway," San Francisco Chronicle, June 4, 1986.
2. American Society of Engineers, "2009 Report Card for America's Infrastructure," www.infrastructurereportcard.org/report-cards (see esp. the sections on bridges, 74–81, and roads, 98–105).
3. Congress for the New Urbanism, 2012 Freeways without Futures (Chicago: Congress for the New Urbanism, 2012).
4. John H. Mollenkopf, The Contested City (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983), 17, referring to all of the Western Addition, of which Hayes Valley is a part.
5. Volumes calculated from "Map of Twenty-Four-Hour Traffic Flows on Principal Streets and Highways, 1966–1968," in SFPD, Transportation: Conditions, Problems, and Issues (San Francisco: SFPD, 1971), 74.
6. Kandace Bender, "Loyalty Up for Grabs in Mayoral Free-for-All," San Francisco Examiner, April 28, 1995; Warren Hinckle, "The Last Freeway Battle," The Independent, April 1, 2003; Zusha Elinson, "In the Bay Area, Trains Are Powered by Myths," New York Times Bay Area Edition, July 2, 2011, www.baycitizen.org/transportation. There is also much political intrigue about the promise of a subway to Chinatown in exchange for the Embarcadero removal(see chapter 7).
7. FHWA and Caltrans, San Francisco Central Freeway Replacement Project: Environmental Assessment (Washington: FHWA, 1997), 17. This did not include traffic on Franklin, Gough, or Van Ness, which remained substantially high.
9. For the narrative of the Agnos defeat, see Richard DeLeon, "Postscript, the 1991 Mayoral Election and Beyond," Left Coast City: Progressive Politics in San Francisco, 1975–1991 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1992).
10. Martin Danyluk and David Ley discuss the ideological differences found in separate waves of gentrification, "Modalities of the New Middle Class: Ideology and Behavior in the Journey to Work from Gentrified Neighborhoods in Canada," Urban Studies 44.11 (2007): 2195–2210.
11. Patricia Walkup, personal interview, December 2005. Walkup led the public safety organizing in Hayes Valley, led campaigns to remove the Central Freeway, and helped found the Hayes Valley Neighborhood Association (HVNA).
12. Elizabeth Crane, "Neighbors Organize—Everyone Benefits," Castro Star, August 1996.
13. Jonathan Marshall, "Traffic Supplants Crime atop Bay Poll, Packed Freeways Are No.1 Concern," San Francisco Chronicle, January 23, 1997.
14. A good overview of the sprawl debate of the 1990s can be found in Reid Ewing, "Is Los Angeles–Style Sprawl Desirable?" Journal of the American Planning Association 63.1 (1997): 107–26, and, in the same issue, a counterpoint argument by Peter Gordon and Harry Richardson, "Are Compact Cities a Desirable Planning Goal?" Journal of the American Planning Association 63.1 (1997). For examinations of the sprawl debate in Atlanta, see Jason Henderson, "The Politics of Mobility and Business Elites in Atlanta, Georgia," Urban Geography 25.3 (2004): 193–216, and for Portland, see Carl Abbott, "The Portland Region: Where City and Suburbs Talk to Each Other—and Often Agree," Housing Policy Debate 8.1 (1997): 11–51.
15. Martin Wachs, "The Political Context of Transportation Policy," in The Geography of Urban Transportation, 2d ed., ed. Susan Hanson (New York: Guilford Press, 1995), 269–86. 16. Jim Klein and Martha Olsen, .com/films/Taken_for_a_Ride.html Taken for a Ride, New Day Films, 1996.
17. Walkup, personal interview.
18. Mitch Reid, "Devil's Slide Dilemma: Save Our Coast or Pave Our Coast," San Francisco Chronicle, February 9, 1996. Patricia Walkup had an extensive file on the Devil's Slide controversy, including ballot language and legal papers from environmentalists who sued Caltrans.
19. The early evolution of Critical Mass is described in a volume edited by Chris Carlsson, Critical Mass: Bicycling's Defiant Celebration (Oakland: AK Press, 2002); see also Aaron Golub and Jason Henderson, "The Greening of Mobility in San Francisco," in Sustainability in American Cities: Creating the Green Metropolis, ed. Matthew Slavin (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2011), 113–32.
Conservative Fight to Save Central Freeway (Part 2) / Dueling Ballots: The Central Freeway's Fate (part 3)
This article is excerpted, with permission, from Henderson's book "Street Fight: The Politics of Mobility in San Francisco"', 2013
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Variants of the gun are produced to meet California and Maryland safety standards, but most guns are not shipped with these extra elements which most shooters feel go mostly unused and offer little in the way of additional safety value.
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ONSLOW COUNTY, NC (WITN) - A man remains in jail after deputies say he strangled his ex-girlfriend's kitten, leaving it outside her home as a threat.
Onslow County deputies arrested Darwin Robinson, Jr. on Saturday.
The 21-year-old is charged with felony animal cruelty, communicating threats and injury to personal property.
Deputies say Robinson killed the grey kitten and placed its body in the woman's driveway before calling her and threatening to do the same thing to her brother. The man broke the victim's cell phone and left it also in the driveway, deputies said.
Robinson went before a judge this morning. He has been ordered to avoid contact with his ex-girlfriend and his bond remains at $3,500.
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Every year around Memorial Day, Eagle Elementary School pauses to pay tribute to its military family members with a special event filled with flags, songs, poems and pride in our country. This year's Memorial Day Assembly was held on Tuesday, May 29.
Students and staff welcomed 44 men and women — parents, grandparents and special friends — and paid tribute to them for the service they have given to our country. The special guests were presented with flowers and cards made by our Eagle students as tokens of appreciation for their loyalty and sacrifice. View photo album on the district's Facebook page.
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Anglo American in talks to buy Britain's biggest mine project
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(Reuters) - Global miner Anglo American Plc (AAL.L) is in advanced talks to buy fertiliser company Sirius Minerals (SXX.L) for about 386 million pounds ($507 million), throwing a potential life-line to Britain's biggest mining project.
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If the indicative offer succeeds, it could save hundreds of jobs in northern England as well as diversify Anglo American's portfolio.
Sirius has so far struggled to get financing for the project and is reviewing the North Yorkshire polyhalite mine after scrapping in September a plan to raise $500 million in a bond sale, delaying the project.
Shares of Sirius surged 34% to Anglo's proposed offer price of 5.5 pence in morning trade, while Anglo slipped more than 1%.
The review includes a search for a major strategic partner and financial investor to raise $600 million in funding needed to develop the project.
Many local people have invested in the plan, which involves tunnelling under the North York Moors National Park to exploit what Sirius has said is the world's largest deposit of polyhalite, a multi-nutrient fertiliser.
Anglo said it had identified the project as a "tier one" asset - a large scale, long-life, high margin deposit.
Its finance director Stephen Pearce said the Sirius project provided a rare chance to buy near the bottom of the market.
"This is almost the ideal time," he said on a media call.
Sirius shares lost more than 80% of their value last year.
The project could also help Anglo move away from more polluting assets, notably coal, as investors demand miners become more climate aware.
"With a compelling entry point, and (Anglo's) financial capability to progress this project, we see this as being in the smart M&A camp," said RBC analyst Tyler Broda.
However, the question remains of whether there is a market for the kind of fertiliser Sirius would produce, and Broda added that more questions would be raised including regarding the viability of the project.
Pearce said the company was shifting its portfolio to commodities needed for developed economies with growing populations and "a cleaner, greener, more sustainable world".
If the offer succeeds, it would mark a return by Anglo to the fertiliser industry in northern England.
Until it sold out to Israel Chemicals (ICL.TA) in 2002, Anglo was joint owner of the Boulby mine, near Sirius' project, which is the world's only producing polyhalite mine.
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Luc Robitaille guest stars in Disney's Phineas and Ferb
By Ryan DadounDec 9, 2012, 11:00 PM EST
You wouldn't think that Phineas and Ferb and the NHL have much of a history together, but back in Oct. 2011, the league started a partnership with the show.
The NHL sold merchandise that featured the show's characters and played clips during games.
"The Phineas and Ferb brand evokes creativity, youthfulness and high energy, not unlike the NHL brand," said the NHL's vice president of consumer products Jim Haskins at the time in an NESN report.
Recently the show took another dip into the hockey world when they invited Hall of Famer Luc Robitaille to guest star in the season premiere For Your Ice Only.
"It was a blast working with Luc. He's a genuinely great guy and very patient with the whole process," said co-creator and executive producer Jeff "Swampy" Marsh, according to Fox Sports West. "We had more than a few laughs at the sessions, and I'd be happy to have him back one day. Personally, it was a real honor to have worked with him."
Robitaille is one of just 18 members of the 600-goal club, the reigning Stanley Cup Champion Los Angeles Kings' president of business operations and, most importantly, had a cameo in D2: The Mighty Ducks.


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Vancouver Goes Green for the Olympics
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The brand new Vancouver Convention Centre is going to be the Media Centre for the 2010 Winter Olympics. I think its legacy will outlast any Olympic effect that the 2010 Games will have.
The roof, around 6 acres in size, is covered in grass and wildflowers, designed to encourage songbirds to nest. There are also four beehives up there. 40% of the building is suspended over the waters of Burrard Inlet and the foundations have been built to mimic a natural shoreline with an artificial reef built offshore, which will act as a marine habitat for starfish, sea lettuce, and sea urchins. The seawater heating and cooling system makes the convention centre one of the most energy efficient buildings in Vancouver.
This is a wonderful new building for the Winter Olympics and beyond. The Facility will recycle nearly half of its annual waste and the kitchen will use local ingredients without additives, won't use disposable utensils and dishes, and will donate leftovers to the local charities that care for the thousands of homeless people who live in Vancouver.
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BDA designed a custom lantern with rotating colored lights that projected the character of Dory onto the ceiling. 30,000 units were developed for eight of Kellogg's most popular cereal boxes and distributed to Walmart, Target, and Safeway stores across the country.
The Finding Dory projection lantern scored extremely high in focus groups and was quickly approved by Disney/Pixar. The promo integrated seamlessly with Kellogg's Family Rewards program and new digital media efforts. Better still, BDA saved Kellogg's significant procurement costs by utilizing existing tools from a previous Kellogg's promotion. Video instructions of how to use the lantern.


WHAT DOES A SOCCER HOOLIGAN SLICING HIS FACE OPEN ON THE DANCEFLOOR IN THE MIDDLE OF A FOAM PARTY IN IBIZA SOUND LIKE? LAST YEAR I MADE A SONG WITH SUPER PRODUCER AC SLATER AND DIVA AMY DOUGLAS UNDER THE NAME "92 ETERNAL" THAT ANSWERS THAT QUESTION AND MORE. THE SONG IS CALLED "THE FEELING" AND IT IS PUMPED UP POP RAP RAVE OF THE HIGHEST ORDER. ALTHOUGH I HAVE BEEN CONCENTRATING ON MAKING A DIFFERENT KIND OF MUSIC LATELY, I STILL HAVE A LOT OF LOVE IN MY HEART FOR DANCE MUSIC, BOTH CLASSY AND TRASHY. NO RULES. YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE SONG, AS WELL AS REMIXES BY RAVE LEGEND LUNA-C, KASTLE AND UDACHI ON BEATPORT HERE.


My 6 months old baby has pink cheeks. I started noticing it late fall and early winter. Even when we haven't been outside his cheeks still look pink. I also noticed that it comes and goes and it's pinker when he is sleeping or just got up from a nap. Sometimes, it looks dry so I apply my aloe lotion on it and it helps moisturize it.
He does not seem bothered about it though, I know that sometimes lighter complexion can make baby's skin looks pinkish. I read that when a baby starts teething they will have pink cheeks too, due to fever. He doesn't have fever and he has been showing signs of teething in the last 3 months. It could be a lot of reasons why he has pink cheeks. A lot of my friends think that his pink cheeks make him look cuter.
I heard of this skin condition on babies called Slap Cheeks Syndrome. Slap cheek is the appearance of a distinctive bright red rash on the cheeks and that's how it got its name. It is caused by a Parvovirus B19 that is airborne. Another reason for pink cheeks is Rosacea, a redness in the face, nose or forehead and usually runs in the family. It could be nothing and that he is just a healthy baby with pink cheeks.
I miss those stage na pink pa ang cheeks ng babies, nagyon namumula na lang pisngi ng mga anak ko pag kinukurot ko hahaha.. Kidding.
oh this syndrome, i've never heard such thing, but thanks for sharing, i always thought that kids who have rosy cheeks are just warm enough.
My nephew gets rosy cheeks like this, has since birth, now that he is almost 5 he doesn't seem to get it as deep or as often. Looks adorable though!
Sarap papakinn ng halik ang chubby cheeks na yan!


I bought a cheap IR day/night camera but it had terrible interference at night so I was getting false alarms all the time. I looked at using an X10 PIR for doing motion detection but it seemed a bit expensive and complicated so I decided to try using an ordinary burglar alarm PIR connected to the parallel port on my server. It works very well with CPU useage much reduced and better still did not cost me a penny because I already had the parts laying around.
You need to connect the relay connections of the PIR to a data pin and an input pin on the parallel port (I used pins 9 and 10), of course you also need to provide power to the PIR (usually 12v). Be careful when doing this because a short could fry either your parallel port or your motherboard, might be an idea to test it with an old pc or use a PCI parallel port card if you are not too sure what you are doing. You then need to check that opt_triggers is enabled in options->system. I then wrote this crude program in python to send a message to zmtrigger to start and stop the alarm events.
You will probably have to install pyparallel and then do rmmod lp and modprobe ppdev to get this program to work.
Set the monitor to nodect in zm and then run this program in the background.
Like I said earlier you can fry your parallel port or motherboard if you make a mistake so although I have had no problems with this you do it at your own risk.
The OP posted six years ago. Just wondered if you noticed that?


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Holy Cross Path, Shau Kei Wan, Hong Kong
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Sunday Masses
8:00am, 9:30am, 11:00am, 6:30pm (Cantonese)
1:00pm (English)
Anticipated Sunday Mass
3:45pm, 6:30pm Saturday (Cantonese)
7:15am Monday to Saturday (Cantonese)
Taikoo Shing Mass Centre
DSC International School
5-7 Tai Fung Ave
8:30am, 10:00am, 11:30am (Cantonese)
Salesian Mass Centre
Salesian School
16 Chai Wan Road
9:00am (Cantonese)
Parish Opening Hours
Mon. to Sat.
Sunday and Public Holidays
(Lunch Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM)
Parish Priest – Rev. Joseph A.L. Liu
Assistant Parish Priest – Rev. Sergio A. Chavira, MG
Assistant Parish Priest – Rev. Joseph D. L. Jia, SVD
Deacon – Rev. Deacon Simon Y. K. Chan
Pastoral Sister – Sr. Armeline Sidoine, MM
Parish Council Chairperson
Mr. Jonas H. C. Ma
Office Hour of Parish Secretary
Monday、Wednesday、Thursday、Friday、Saturday
(Lunch Time 1:00pm – 2:00pm)
Sunday (alternate Sunday)
Day off on Tuesday and Public Holidays
Reception Working Hour
7:30am – 11:30noon
Holy Cross Church (HCC)
Weekday Mass:
Monday to Saturday 7:15am (Cantonese)
Anticipated Sunday Mass:
Saturday 3:45pm, 6:30pm (Cantonese)
Sunday Masses:
8:00am, 9:30am, 11:00am (Cantonese)
6:30pm (Cantonese)
Mass for the Faithful newly departed:
Third Friday of each month 8:00pm (Chinese)
First Friday Mass:
First Friday of each month 8:00pm (Chinese)
Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday 8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Children aged 3 to 12 (Cantonese and English)
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As we reach the end of the year, we would like to remind you to take advantage of any dental insurance benefits that you may have left before they expire.
While treatment is never dictated by insurance, if you have treatment that you have not scheduled, or are experiencing any dental concerns at all - now is a great time to come in before the year is over.
Please give us a call or email to schedule an appointment or to discuss the details of your dental care. We'll be happy to answer any questions about treatment, your insurance benefits, or CareCredit.
We love continuing education. It is good for us and good for you! We are able to learn about the newest techniques and materials to help you keep your teeth for a lifetime.
Dr. Killeen has been invited to participate in the Spear Study Club. This study group concentrates on a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary approach to your treatment. This allows you to be treated by a specialist in each field with Dr. Killeen directing and coordinating your treatment so you receive optimal care and his restorative expertise.
Thank you to all of our patients and friends who have contributed so generously to our latest community project, St. Jude Hospital. We have raised $325.00 this year. Dr. Killeen will match the contribution so the total donation will be $650.00 to this very worthy cause.
Movies are available during your appointment and if you are waiting for a brother, sister, mom or dad to finish their appointment. Just ask to view your favorite title!!
We have also added MP3 players featuring Local Jazz music, current tunes and Country music. Just ask to listen to your favorite genre.
A Fisher House is a "home away from home" for families of patients receiving medical care at major military and VA medical centers. The houses accommodate 16 to 42 family members. They are given to the United States government as gifts. More than 130,000 families have been served since 1990. 7,500 of those families have been the families of combat casualties.
Fisher House needs our support. They ask for very little. They are asking for BEEF JERKY, HARD CANDY and LITTLE DEBBIE CAKES. If you would like to help, please bring your donation to our office. We will be shipping the goodies and notes to the soldiers on July 16. Thank you for your support.
We have just returned from the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry Continuum in Grapevine, Texas. It was an exciting, fast-paced week of dental education. We are returning with the latest research in caries (cavity) prevention. Some of our patients already know the advantage of fluoride varnish as we have been using it at your recare appointments if you are at high risk for decay. We will be sharing other products that can be used to reduce your risk in the very near future.
Our staff will be attending the New Orleans Dental Conference/Louisiana Dental Conference from April 8-10.
Dr. Killeen and Lana will be attending the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry Continuum from April 26-April 30.
We are always excited to spend time together learning the latest in dental science and technology.
We all had a great time celebrating the Saints' win. Thank you to all of our patients who participated in our weekly drawings and wore their favorite fan gear to their appointments.
Our office will be participating in several on-going community projects this year. Our first will be supporting our troops. We will be collecting supplies for the wounded. Once soldiers are wounded, they often do not have pajamas or toiletries while recuperating.
Supporting the patients at St. Jude's Hospital will be a year-long project. We are working hard to fill a very large container with monetary donations. Each day we place our donation and our patients drop in their donations as they can. We hope to raise at least $2000.00 by December 31.
We plan on sending American Flags to our troops with notes from our patients in celebration of July 4. We appreciate our independence!!
Stay posted for upcoming projects!!
Diana, our hygiene appointment coordinator, will be moving to Tennessee. This has been a life-long dream and she is finally able to make it come true. We will miss her!!
Welcome to the New Year! We have a lot in store for the New Year in our office. We will be spending many days in Continuing Education bringing our patients the latest research information about implants, materials to restore teeth as well as new ways to reduce your risk for cavities and periodontal (gum) disease.
We would like to wish all of our patients and friends a wonderful holiday season and a joyous New Year!!
A great big thank you to everyone that voted online during our Staff Pumpkin Decorating Contest. As usual, the competition was stiff as all of the pumpkins were very creative. Diana has been crowned, "Pumpkin Queen", a title she will keep until next Halloween!!
We have posted the artist's name next to the pumpkin under the HALLOWEEN tab.
Our annual contest is quickly approaching. My how time flies!! Remember, last year's winner was a terrific version of Dr. Killeen and Lana. You can see the entries by scrolling down. We have great news for this year. You can vote online if you are unable to come in. However, the online votes only count for 1/2 of a point. So....if you are in the neighborhood, come on in and have some coffee and cast your vote.
Voting begins during the last week of October!
Combine coffee, Coffee-Mate, sugar and cinnamon, stir and pour into 2 large mugs. Top with whipped cream.
We have just returned from the New Orleans Dental Conference. Our staff enjoys attending every year. We were able to receive the latest educational information and see new products, materials and equipment to help our patients.
We're looking forward to a new toothpaste which helps reduce sensitivity as well as remineralizing tooth structure. This is especially helpful because the acids in our diet wear away the enamel structure of the tooth making it easy to decay and appear very dull rather than shiny.
1. Let us know if your health history has changed. Be sure to let us know what medications you are taking at every appointment.
2. Don't put off your appointments.
3. Take your medications as directed and take the full prescription.
4. Let us know your concerns at your recare appointments.
5. Share your family history with us. It reveals a lot about your future.
If we all try to follow these resolutions, your appointments will be even more successful!!
We have just returned from a terrific continuing education course concerning esthetics using a multi-disciplinary approach. We have been using this approach for many years and work very closely with orthodontists, oral surgeons, periodontists and endodontists. This insures our patients of having the very best treatment and enables us to find the best solutions to dental health problems. The class was very informative and very special since the speaker, Dr. Vince Kokich, will be retiring from public speaking after this year. We were honored that we were able to attend and bring the latest information to our patients.
We would like to take this opportunity to wish all of our loyal patients and friends a wonderful New Year. Let's hope that the upcoming year brings good health, good times and good memories!! We appreciate each and every one of you and enjoy taking care of you. We consider you as part of our great, big extended family and enjoy watching our young patients grow, our students do well, our young adults get married and our older patients just keep getting better!!
We look forward to seeing every one over the next few months during your recare visits. Here's to a fine 2009!!!
We are approaching that time of year again...when time flies and there is never enough time to finish everything. That includes remembering to maximize our dental benefits and get any unfinished dental work completed before losing the remaining benefits. Our schedule becomes full very quickly at this time of year. Many patients are already planning their dental work to take advantage of 2008 and 2009 benefits and scheduling for December and January.
Take a look at your treatment plan or ask us to check it for you. We also provide printouts of all of your work for the year. This always helps when filing your taxes. Just give us a call...we are happy to help!
Our annual pumpkin contest was a great success! Lots of our patients stopped by to vote even if they did not have an appointment. Our staff is really competitive and count the votes at the end of every day!
Leslie and Lura placed first with a great rendition of Dr. Killeen and Lana. Diana had the cutest sleeping bear and came in second. Elizabeth loves hamburgers and came in 3rd. Sue's owl was full of feathers and came in 4th. Michelle had a terrific little creature with a fishing pole and came in 5th. A great time was had by all and we celebrated with lunch and the crowning of our annual Halloween queen(s) at Palmetto's.
This is the week you've been waiting for........Halloween........and our great pumpkin decorating contest. Each staff member decorates a real pumpkin and then our patients cast their votes for their favorite.
The competition is really fierce because the winner receives the title of "2008 Pumpkin Queen"!!! This coveted title comes with a crown and scepter, believe it or not!
We invite you to stop by and vote, even if you don't have an appointment, and get a treat. We promise there will be no tricks! This is such a fun week. Don't miss it!
Remember, you can reach us through email at Appointment@SlidellSmiles.com to let us know if you need us while the office is closed. We will use our new email and text messaging system to remind you of upcoming appointments or any other news if the phone systems are out of order. Our email will be checked daily (if possible) during the storm.
We are also introducing our new "Smiledash" website where you can check your account and appointments online. Go to Smiledash.com to sign up. You will love the convenience of this new system.
Our office will be closed until Thursday, September 4 at 8:00 am due to Hurricane Gustav. Should you have a dental emergency, you can reach Dr. Killeen by calling the office and following the latest emergency instructions. We will try to be accessible as long as the telephones are working!! Good luck to all and be safe!!
We have all been enjoying the Olympics as we are sure you have been, too. The American teams have really made us proud!! We have set some "Olympic" records in our office lately. We have been able to help more and more patients replace missing teeth with implants. We have instituted several finance programs that assist you with payment up to 5 years. This makes your treatment affordable and easy to budget. We are able to include the surgeon's fee so there is only one payment. We are proud to help our patients smile again!
We will be attending the "Immediate Placement of Crowns on Implants" class coming up on Friday at LSU School of Dentistry. This class will bring the latest information on crown placement at the time of implant placement. This is great news for patients that are having implants placed in the smile zone. You can have a new smile while the bone is integrating with the implant. Isn't modern dentistry terrific?
Several of our staff members visited the "Our Body, The Universe Within" exhibit at Mobile's Gulf Coast Explorium Science Center. We were particularly interested in the lung exhibit. It was easy to see how smoking can affect your health. The lungs showed deposits of tar and chemicals from cigarette smoke. This can cause lung cancer which is usually fatal. If you are interested in a Smoking Cessation program, let us know.
We hope everyone is enjoying the Smile Reminder program. It is a great help to be able to confirm your appointment by text message or email. If we don't have your current email address or cell phone, be sure to let us know. Smile Reminder is giving away a trip to Jamaica in November. Every patient with a registered device will be entered into the drawing. If we are already reaching you by text message or email, you have been entered. Good luck!!! We hope one of our patients is the lucky winner!
A big welcome to Elizabeth, our new staff member. You will be able to meet Elizabeth in our hygiene department when you have your teeth cleaned. Her beaming smile and cheery personality will make your day as she assists Sue and Leslie.
Dr. Killeen and Lana have just returned from the annual American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry meeting. This exciting meeting was held in New Orleans this year. It gave the city an opportunity to really shine for all of the visitors from across the United States and many foreign countries.
We will be sharing new techniques and technologies with our patients in the upcoming months.
Smile Reminder: Confirming your appointment becomes easier as we text and email reminders. You will be able to confirm by phone, text message or email. We will also send you the latest dental information through our newsletter.
Laser Dentistry: Impressions become easier for the patient, healing is quicker and appointments become shorter using the newest technology in dentistry.
Isolite: Meet "PLUTO", our newest assistant. Actually, "PLUTO" helps to keep your tongue comfortable and suctions at the same time. What a great help for the patient!!!


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At Least 8 Children Were Shot, One Fatally, Over the Weekend in Chicago
CNN | September 6, 2021 4:30 pm
Chicago police are investigating the shooting of a 4-year-old boy in Chicago on Friday night. (Tyler LaRiviere / Chicago Sun-Times / AP)
(CNN) — At least eight children have been shot, one fatally, so far over the Labor Day weekend in Chicago, authorities said
A 4-year-old was getting his hair cut in his own home when bullets came through the house, striking him in the head. He died at the hospital, Deputy Chief Rahman Muhammad with the Chicago Police's Detective Division said Monday at a news conference.
A 14-year-old and an 11-year-old were shot at a neighborhood back-to-school event, Muhammad said.
Additionally, a 13-year-old was shot through his basement window.
A 14-year-old boy walking to a vehicle with his father was shot and, in a separate incident, a 17-year-old boy was shot while in a car traveling home after a party, Muhammad said.
Six of the eight children were shot within a 12-hour period Saturday. A total of 58 people have been shot in the city, five fatally, since 8 p.m Friday, authorities said.
Police Superintendent David Brown said family members need to stop inviting offenders that are being targeted to their homes for family gatherings and they also need to stop covering up for the offenders. Instead, Brown said, they need to cooperate with police in order to protect children.
There are typically three circumstances in which children are shot in the city, Brown said.
"One is someone else is being targeted and innocent bystanders are our children and they get shot. Another circumstance is the targeted person is visiting a relative during a holiday or during a family gathering, and they're being targeted, and family members are being shot as innocent bystanders," Brown said.
"And lastly, there's obviously some circumstances where there's mistaken identity. Our young people are mistakenly identified as someone that they want to target — these offenders want to target — and they mistakenly shoot them," Brown said.
"There are very few, if any, circumstances where our young people are directly being targeted. It's always some other offender, gang member, criminal network, some beef and they're targeting some adult and young people are nearby, and they are shot as innocent bystanders."
The superintendent said he doesn't invite certain family members to family gatherings because there are issues with the family member "living a life of crime."
He also spoke directly to "the offenders who are being targeted."
"You know the life you've lived. You know that you're being targeted or that you've done something to cause this retribution from some rival gang or some rival person. Why are you continuing to be around young people, our children? That's on you," Brown said.
The city, like many others across the country, is seeing an increase in gun violence. Shooting incidents in Chicago were 65% higher in the year to date as of August 31 compared to two years earlier, according to police, and 9% higher than last year.
Nationwide, an average of 200 people have been killed and 472 injured by guns each weekend this summer, not including suicides, according to an analysis for CNN by the Gun Violence Archive. That's nearly 3.4 people shot every hour every weekend.
Chicago Violence
Chicago Police Department
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Style / World of Watches (WOW)
WOW Awards 2018 Presents Chopard for "Stealth Operator" Award
Our inaugural WOW Awards 2018 is a consumer-centric reflection of the industry's most attractive timepieces. We seek to honour the brands who have enriched our watch connoisseur journeys with their novelties this past year
Perhaps it is best to explain; GPHG we are not. What we are is a consumer-focused trade title that seeks to discern, understand, and anticipate the burning questions and desires of anyone who loves watches. To that end, the categories and the novelties that have been nominated or selected as eventual winners are reflective of how a watch consumer might shop or embark on a decision-making process. That said, the selected watches are not curated in a vacuum; a panel of two editorial staff and two collectors were chosen to pick from the novelties of 2018.
Winner of the WOW Awards 2018 – Stealth Operator
This prize awards the novelty that runs contrary to the Wrist Presence King. Here, subtlety rules. It might be an expensive timepiece whose financial cost is not immediately obvious to the casual observer. The Stealth Operator does not even have to be a black, sportive watch, it can be a platinum dress watch, without complication, on a leather strap. It sits, quietly, under the cuff of your shirt, waiting to be discovered and to delight its discoverer.
Chopard L.U.C Heritage Grand Cru
Quiet and exquisite, the Chopard L.U.C Heritage Grand Cru is not the maison's first montre de forme, but with its wine inspiration, it's definitely its most elegantly genteel version. Finding muse in Château Monestier La Tour, CEO Karl-Friedrich Scheufele's wine estate in the region of Bergerac, France, the 2018 version of the timepiece comes embellished with a fully paved diamond bezel on the barrel-shaped case, which is attractively bold yet blends in perfectly upon the wrist. Furthermore, shaped movements are rare, and a tonneau-shaped Calibre L.U.C 97 drives the Heritage Grand Cru.
WOW Awards consist a total of 11 categories. The rest of the winners will we announced over the next 9 days.
← The Ultimate Chopard Lifestyle featuring Château Monestier La Tour
Discovering Jeju Island, the "Island of the Gods" →
WOW Awards 2018 Presents Van Cleef & Arpels for the "Girl Boss" Award
WOW Awards 2018 Presents Bell & Ross for "Wrist Presence King" Award
WOW Awards 2018 Presents Bulgari for "Well Suited" Award
WOW Awards 2018 Presents Roger Dubuis for the "Yes" Watch Award


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OPEC which stands for the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries is predicting that 94% of cars on the road will still be powered by oil in 2040.
OPEC has a colourful history and lets look at some of it predictions in the past
– in the past it predicted Oil Prices in 2015 to average $120USD a barrel
– in 1973-75 they caused havoc on the global economy with the oil crisis
-It's largest suppliers are involved in Proxy Wars across the Middle East
The organization said in its annual World Oil Outlook."Without a technology breakthrough, battery electric vehicles are not expected to gain significant market share in the foreseeable future,"
Wait….A Tesla which can drive for over 480kms on a single charge, accelerate as fast as a Ferrari and require virtually no engine servicing in it's whole lifetime is not a technology breakthrough. At evse.com.au we disagree.
According to it's outlook 1% of global vehicle sales by 2040 will be Electric Cars!
OPEC highlights the lack of refuelling stations is the biggest concern. However they fail to mention wireless charging and especially every Gas station in the world can also have fast charging stations installed. We only need to look at California to understand how infrastructure is being built to accommodate Electric Cars.
Chinas electric future
What about the worlds largest oil market China, OPEC believes they will stay loyal to black crude but data coming from China shows another picture. Sometimes a picture is more powerful
With air quality being at such historically poor levels, the government having a high focus on electrifying the transportation fleet. Large government incentives have added 32,800 "alternate fuel" cars in September, which represents a 210% increase vs 2014. Polluted cities need a cleaner transport system and China's relentles focus on becoming an economic powerhouse means it cannot shut down its factories. The solution is to use cleaner cars in it's congested cities.
The Electric Car Mass Market future
Tesla, Chevy (Holden), BMW, Volkswagen, Nissan, Toyota, Mitsubishi, Porsche are all working on a mass market Electric Car.
Every global car manufacturer is investing billions into Electric car technology.
It appears OPEC does not share the confidence that the world's leading motor companies do.
Lets look at the Tesla Model 3
The Tesla's Model 3.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said earlier this year the Model 3 will be priced at about $35,000 USD ($43,000 AUD), and be smaller than the Model S, and have a range of over 360kms per charge. This car has the potential to make EVs mainstream across Australia and has a range that would make travelling across Sydney and Melbourne effortless. Most city travel in Australia averages just 40kms. Servicing this car requires no oil change and only a once a year maintenance check, and then imagine that recharging a car is up to 4 times cheaper than oil and can be done in the convenience of the home.
We look forward to 2040!
Sam Korkees
evse.com.au