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Comic-Con 2018 Interview: Director Michael Chaves and Co-Star Patricia Velasquez on THE CURSE OF LA LLORONA
While in San Diego covering all the 2018 Comic-Con festivities, Daily Dead had the opportunity to speak with director Michael Chaves and actress Patricia Velasquez, who recently collaborated on the upcoming New Line Cinema project, The Curse of La Llorona. Based on the Mexican folklore that has terrorized generations upon generations of naughty children who have grown up in fear of "The Weeping Woman," La Llorona also co-stars Linda Cardellini, Raymond Cruz, Marisol Ramirez, and Sean Patrick Thomas.
During the interview, Chaves discussed how a previous short film landed him the opportunity to helm The Curse of La Llorona, and Velasquez chatted about some of the powerful themes at play in the project. The duo also dug into the cultural importance of the story of La Llorona, and making sure they got it right for the big screen.
Look for The Curse of La Llorona in theaters everywhere on April 19th, 2019.
Michael, I know you had directed a short film a couple of years ago that was at Shriekfest. How did the stars align for you to come aboard and take this on as your feature film debut?
Michael Chaves: Honestly, it was a lot of luck. I have to say that's the biggest thing. I was directing commercials before that and I did this short film called The Maiden, about this real estate agent who sells a haunted house. When I put it online, literally within a week I got an agent. That Friday, he gave me a script which was called The Children at the time because it was a codename. No one wanted to let it out that they were making a La Llorona movie because so many people were trying to make a La Llorona movie. Or they probably were up until now.
I read it over the weekend and I went in on Monday and met with New Line, and it was amazing. I was hired like a week later, so I think they just saw a lot of similar sensibilities with the short and we also just really got along. We had the same sensibilities. I grew up watching New Line movies. I would draw comics where I would pit Freddy Krueger versus Wolverine, and I would put the New Line logo in front of it. I don't think I have ever told anybody that, so that is an exclusive [laughs].
Patricia, from your perspective, because this is something that is so familiar to so many people and it has become this tradition, is there a weight that comes with being a part of something like this and taking on a role within this cultural mythos?
Patricia Velasquez: Definitely. It's a big responsibility. At the beginning, we all are actors and we want to be a part of movies that are going to be successful, but at some point, you have to draw the line when you know that something is going to hurt your culture or something is going to hurt your values. When I read the script, I fell in love with it. I thought this was really giving an homage to La Llorona in the most respectful way.
Then, when I met with Michael, the way he worked with me in the room, I remember I came out and I literally sat in my car and I called my agent and I said, "I've never worked with a director like that." He really knows what he wants, but he does it in a way that is respectful to your craft. So, you can bend, you can go this way, or that way. I just felt like I could really trust him. So, not only am I honored, I'm extremely proud because this is a movie that is going to last for many, many years. This is a movie that people are going to talk about. It's a legend, it's never truly been done this way and it's just extremely important to our culture.
Michael, I'm guessing from your perspective as a filmmaker there is a different kind of weight that sits on your shoulders when you go into a project like this?
Michael Chaves: Yeah, I think because it's such a cultural touchstone, and beyond just being a cultural tradition, it's also a family tradition. This is something that abuelas would tell their grandkids for hundreds of years. It was always, "You better be good or La Llorona is going to get you." That was a huge weight, and we did a lot of research and there were a lot of discussions. I really feel like we made absolutely the best La Llorona movie that could be made. It's scary as hell.
Patricia Velasquez: Michael was so incredibly careful about every little thing that is related to the legend within the context of this wonderful story. He took such good care of it. I think people will really enjoy it.
Was there a reason in setting this film during the 1970s? I think from what we saw last night, it really gives the film this great, timeless feeling.
Michael Chaves: Yeah, that was the aim. What I loved about setting it in the '70s, was that we wanted it to be pre-Internet. So much of the story is about discovery and learning about this mystery and uncovering the mystery, so that becomes a lot simpler and less interesting if you have the Internet. But I personally think the 1970s are just awesome for so many reasons. It has a great style, it has a great texture, and there is this great horror tradition of movies from that era that we were leaning into as well. There might be a specific reason why we put it in the '70s that you'll probably see as more stuff comes out. I don't want to say too much about that, but there's something hidden in there.
For as much as it seems like this is a story that you want to scare people with, it also seems like it's a story driven by this idea of motherhood and loss and reconciling those things. From your perspective, Patricia, how interesting was it to dive into those themes?
Patricia Velasquez: I feel that there are so many powerful messages about La Llorona. She is as important to us as the Virgin Mary is, but when you really dig in, there is the story of the good and the bad. There is the story of mistakes that we make, how far can we go in repentance? Also, it's this story of motherhood and how far are we willing to go in order to protect our children? There is no other feeling as strong as that.
In the case of the original story, the man cheats on the wife and then goes with a younger woman or in another version of the story, he leaves her, he leaves town. And in her desperation, because he loved the children so much, she drowns the children in the river. When she wakes up, she realizes what she's done and forever wanders, trying to call on her children.
There are so many different metaphors, we could literally be here until tomorrow going through everything. It's so timely, creating a story about this idea of separating children from their parents. There are just so many elements to this story that relate to our society, as well as our Hispanic culture as a whole.


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Republican President Donald Trump is appealing to the "white male" who's "uneducated," didn't go to college and feels "on the fringe," White House correspondent April Ryan said on CNN Monday.
Host Don Lemon got the American Urban Radio Networks reporter going with the following: "April, let's talk about the president's approval rating. It stands at the lowest point overall — just 36 percent say that they approve the way Trump is handling his job as president. How does the White House explain those low poll numbers which have been consistent throughout his presidency?"
After calling the White House "very reactionary and deflective" over poll numbers, Ryan explained how Trump has been "trying to find his way out."
"He's doubling down with his base," she continued. "And when it comes time to talk to his base, to galvanize them, he hits with topics that really resonate with them: the Confederacy, issues of race ... the NFL with taking a knee ... [the] Charlottesville [rioting]."
Then Ryan described what she saw as Trump's "forgotten man" base, describing its members as "the uneducated or those who have not attended college" as well as the "white male who feels ... on the fringe and not touched by any form of government. And this president has reached out to them."
She concluded by saying that despite Trump's low poll numbers, "we've not seen Kryptonite yet for this president to make him go out for the count. He continues to rebound [in] some kind of way."


I'm on a mission to try some different type assisted and auto openers. Post pic's of your examples here.
This one has a sliding button on the side to change it from an auto to a manual opener. In manual mode, the blade is still fired by the spring when it moves past the cam lock position, you just use the thumb stud to open it. The blade is not locked in place in the closed position but is locked open by traditional liner lock engagement.
Here is the inside of that same button. There is a boss that sticks out that blocks the spring assist in manual mode.
Here you can see the spring in the blade closed and open position. The blade has a pressed pin and is what the spring acts on. This part acts as a liner and spring both.
The auto function is activated by moving the lever on top. The lever just pushes on the ricasso to push the blade past the cam lock position of the spring and then fires the blade.


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Joe Bussard presents: The Year of Jubilo – 78 RPM Recordings of Songs from the Civil War
Legendary collector, Joe Bussard is putting records out once again! After running the last 78rpm label in the US (R.I.P. Fonotone Records 1956-1974), Joe had relegated his efforts to promoting old-time music by making cassette tapes for people hungry to hear his rare treasures and producing his radio show Country Classics for stations in Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia. But last year, Joe and his daughter Susannah Anderson had the idea to produce a compilation of Civil War tunes and they rang the office of Dust-to-Digital to gauge interest in distributing such a compilation. It was an easy decision for DTD, mainly because Joe's always been there for us so it was time to partner together once again.
More info, including some of the recordings, can be found here
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This year is shaping up to be a momentous year. We have critical elections coming up for the USA [8 Nov] and Australia [TBA], and an important referendum in the UK [23 June] concerning membership of the European Union. There are, in fact, lots of elections of one kind and another around the world, some of the more important being Iran, South Korea and Japan. Put them all into the electoral cooking pot and we have a recipe which will affect the globe for many years to come.
Hopefully there are more of the latter, but like in any position in life any of the above can do good or bad. So how do we decide who to vote for? How many people really analyse the background of politicians and what they stand for? Politicians are a mirror of our own thoughts and actions. Not all of our thoughts, just some of them. They have the public stage. They get to answer questions from the media. They massage their appeal to the masses in a way which they think will get them votes. Often they are more concerned about gaining favour or power than about maintaining principles, or even what is good for their country.
Who do you vote for in elections?
Maybe you vote for the one who you admire the most as a person. Or the one who reflects your views the most. Indeed, many people vote the same way throughout their lives, or even mirror how their parents voted. They do not vote for the person or the policies, they vote for the party. And they never change. They should. They should really think deeply about what they have seen over the last few years, they should think big picture, they should try and analyse events. It's not easy, in fact it's extremely difficult, because the whole truth is rarely known.
Do you vote for the person, the policies or the party? Sometimes it comes down to the basics – if you believe you are served poorly by the current circumstances you will naturally feel like changing them. But what if that is bad for the country as a whole? After all, we'd all like to pay zero income tax, but where would that get us? Quite often you may end up choosing the person likely to do least damage. In any case, a huge victory for one party can be followed by a complete reversal at the next election. This can obviously lead to discontinuities, policy reversals and changes of tack. Sometimes, but thankfully rarely, chaos ensues. It is something we put up with, as democracy seems the only fair way of government – until we come up with a way of creating a super intelligent, benign dictator who can encompass everything, and has the good of everyone foremost in his thoughts. Sound familiar? People are human, that's the problem.
Perhaps it is a good thing that in many countries the parties are ideologically reasonably close, and eminently sensible in the way they deal with each other.
So here's a thought for next time. Imagine yourself as a newly arrived alien observing the world. You want to introduce yourself and approach the world leader or leaders to start some kind of interaction. Which country or person do you approach? The United Nations? China? USA? Or, like in Milijun, do you approach beings with a similar mind set. It's a huge dilemma.
In a future blog we'll try a bit of role reversal on the above premise.


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Topic: Anybody have ESPN insider?
Does anybody have an ESPN insider to get the article about Mullen low balling Nellie -- which is true. But was just curious to see what the article said. I don't know how to get the link of it, but it's on the rumor page or on the NBA frontpage of espn.
Topic: How many hits per day?
But there's a difference between "hits" and "page views" right?
Truthfully, I like using this site more when the season is going. GSOM is more entertaining in the offseason.
Read the first post, and then read the date it was posted.
What do you mean by outplay? As in have a better stat/effectivness on the court in the GSW-Utah series so comparing how Deron is doing with how Baron was doing?
because I didn't know Game 3 was at the YMCA.
I say if you want to get a real deal down is to resign Pietrus, sign Ellis, and trade for Kevin Garnett. That is a very plausible deal that they would bite on. Monta Ellis, Mickeal Pietrus, Andris Biedrins for Kevin Garnett.


Here is a compilation of responses and inputs received on the topic of 'Smaller Smarter Cities' – a project designed to generate debate and ideas to support the 'Open City Guimaraes' element of the European Capital of Culture.
For this project, a small group of experts in the Internet of Things space have been brought together to discuss the potential for promoting 'smart' connections in a small city, such as Guimarães.
Opportunities and challenges for Guimarães.
Please add comments and check out #smallersmartercities on Twitter.
Smart City systems are being trialled in various major cities around the world. But Guimaraes has the chance to be a smarter smart city, on account of its size and its character. As Mike Chitty puts it: "Smart cities will be smart because their citizens have found new ways to craft, interlink and make sense of their own interests".
But the challenge is to develop a human-led approach to a smart-city in a city in which people don't want things to change. That is, at least, what people in Guimaraes are saying: that they want things to stay the same. This suggests, as Scott Cain points out in his contribution to this dialogue and debate, the development of a 'smart' city (however defined) is "as much a human/behavioural one as it is a finacial and tech one".
The challenge, and the opportunity, then, is to put people – the apparent nay-sayers, the 'luddites', the people who appear resistant to change – at the very heart of the smart city project.
This article draws together a series of perspectives on Smart Cities – cities which can use the growing revolution in digitally-interconnected objects and 'things' – to create a place which works more effectively and sustainably, improving transportation, energy, waste management, crime, safety and all those other things which make living in a city both amazing and frustrating.
It does so by threading together a series of interventions and comments made over the course of a two-week on-line and face-to-face discussion, facilitated by Graham Hitchen.
Background to the project and the full set of contributions can be found below.
What does people-centred mean? And how can an approach to 'smart city' development really engage and be driven by people who don't want things to change?
In many ways, that is for the next stage of this project to address: to take some of the ideas and suggestions outlined here, and to see how they might be applied in a small city such as Guimaraes – working with, and led by, the very people whose project this is.
The complementarity with other strands of the Open Guimaraes project is also key. As Julian Tait puts it, "a culture of openness and discoverability within the cities themselves" is key to the success of the human-centred 'smart city' ideal.
In thinking through and taking forward some of the ideas here, it will also be important for Guimaraes to find partners – city soul-mates, if you like. Other cities will be exploring this territory too – other, smaller, cities, with a commitment to openness and people. These can be collaborators and co-creators.
Ultimately, the opportunity is in a willingness to experiment. Not an openness to 'change' necessarily – but a willingness to try things out. To play. As Adrian McEwen puts it: "The Internet flourished not because it's neatly controlled from a central location, but because it isn't – it is a collection of services and machines following the maxim of small pieces, loosely joined…… We need to be playing around and experimenting with many different ways that technology can be used to make life better, more enjoyable and more interesting".
While I don't think smaller cities or towns should approach the Internet of Things or "smart cities" any differently than big cities, in practice their size will give them an advantage over their larger brethren. Smaller budgets and a lower profile will reduce the temptation to commission massive monolithic systems which promise to join disparate silos into one seamless solution, and their smaller geographic scale will allow any networks or sensors to be deployed at city scale at much lower cost.
Although polished, fully-integrated systems look attractive, we should really be looking to build solutions with beautiful seams. The Internet flourished not because it's neatly controlled from a central location, but because it isn't – it is a collection of services and machines following the maxim of small pieces, loosely joined.
City-wide sensor networks and services should be built to do one thing well, and offer well-defined (and where possible open) APIs to access that functionality. That allows them to achieve their intended functionality, whilst also maximising the opportunity for other services and capabilities to be bolted on at a later date. For example, the inventors of the AIS system to allow ships to identify and avoid each other didn't anticipate communities of enthusiasts building a network to collect the data and provide live maps on the Internet. And the enthusiasts didn't anticipate that data being used to spot when ships enter or leave the river Mersey and provide the locals in Liverpool with a better awareness of activity on the river through Twitter [http://twitter.com/merseyshipping].
The main barrier to wider adoption of Internet of Things systems isn't the technology or the standards for interoperability, it's a lack of ideas and examples of how it can be used. This is another area where smaller cities' size play to their advantage. We need to be playing around and experimenting with many different ways that technology can be used to make life better, more enjoyable and more interesting.
Cities should be helping groups of citizens to come together and build projects which address a specific interest or concern – for example, something like the Air Quality Egg sensor network. That will result in a more engaged and empowered populace, who are then more aware of the possibilities and uses of the data and hardware available, generating a positive-feedback loop for further project ideas. Cities aren't machines to be made endlessly more efficient – they're engines of human interaction and serendipity, and we should be harnessing technology to help do that.
Cities are complex organisms that have evolved over many centuries, sometimes millennia. This evolution is rarely planned and so the people who live, work, engage with and maintain the city are continually negotiating, interacting and trying to understand it.
IoT gives the opportunity to load-balance scarce resource and maintain dynamic equilibrium within city systems. But to think of this as just a way to control and maintain city infrastructure misses out on the true potential of the IoT. The city is its citizens and IoT technologies can enable people not only to utilise the city more easily, such as discovering where the best places to park are for a given price, or enabling the most intelligent ways to commute, but it also offers the opportunity for deeper understanding of the workings of the city and the ability for citizens to interact with, create data and co-produce products and services for the city.
Along with the evolution of the cities has been the evolution of the governance structures that seek to maintain and steer their direction. These structures evolve and adapt more quickly than the physical city, although the pace of change especially in comparison to that of cultural and technological change can often seem glacial. The IoT offers many opportunities to the city but these come with challenges. It requires new ways of working that cross-cut traditional service delivery boundaries. It calls for new business models and the acceptance that services delivered within the city are often interlinked. Devices and the data created/used by them are network optimised and for cities to take advantage of IoT they also have to be networked optimised. This essentially highlights the need for there to be a culture of openness and discoverability within the cities themselves.
As cities grow, the systems within often don't scale. Most large cities are amalgamations of smaller boroughs or communities. In the case of the UK these often have their own democratically elected councils and multiple service delivery mechanisms. The opportunity for smaller cities lies within their size. They are generally more connected and adaptable to their populations and businesses needs and understand and have control/influence over the whole physical footprint of the city.
There has been implementations of pervasive data networks in the Smart Santander FP7 project, LodaNET in Manchester and San Francisco has created a data network for the delivery of its SF Park parking project although not open.
Modernising infrastructure is a key process in supporting economic and social regeneration. It's particularly important for small cities; who need to keep their young people; making the city vibrant and supporting their ageing populations to live longer in their own homes and focus on their wellbeing.
In the past, public and private stakeholders have focused on regenerating physical infrastructure such as housing, hospitals, schools and colleges, business parks and transport infrastructure. "Connectivity" has meant road, rail and air "connections".
Increasingly, cities have begun to realise that their "digital" connections to the wider world are an increasing differentiator and that their 'smart' infrastructure offers new ways to interact, live and learn and generate value. The availability of the most flexible and affordable digital infrastructure combined with skilled people able to take advantage of the business opportunities which result is one of the foundations of this economic development. On these digital foundations, new infrastructures based on the Internet of Things can be constructed and many cities around the world are beginning to experiment.
It may well be that smaller cities have advantages over their larger siblings – that 'lack of scale' in an IoT world may enable more rapid transformation; in cities that are smaller, tighter knit and where social and other networks can spread knowledge more rapidly; change can happen faster.
To take an example: that of small scale modern manufacture. What does artisanship become in a world where you can 3D print just about anything and what does that say about 'making'; about where stuff is made and how it is distributed? Maybe by making things smarter and on the internet, we can make them easily and rapidly locally in response to aggregated local demand. Maybe we can 'crowd-source' local service development using resources more efficiently through the IoT enabled 'nervous system' of our small city; in ways that the lumbering bureaucracies of our larger cities can only dream about.
The mistake on discussing the Internet of Things – is to over-focus on "Things"; the gadgets and the tech. We need a much richer picture of the human and technological networks needed to bring about change. And we need to find new ways that we can use these networks of people and technology to produce transformational digital infrastructure.
What, in your opinion, are the real opportunities for the development of IoT or 'Smart' systems and applications in a city environment?
City API: making cities, in software terms, open enough for diverse parties to write 'apps' for them.
How might the development of city-based IoT systems make the city a better place to live, work, visit, travel in……?
Making us more aware of what is going on around us: that which we don't pay attention to even though it affects us, and that which is currently invisible.
Adding cultural richness through interactive works responding to the built and social environment.
Making the city more efficient with respect to such factors as the environment, time, wastage.
Making the city government more accountable to its citizens, by adding points of democratic engagement/debate e.g. polling and by improving information provision.
Empowering of more disadvantaged groups who don't all have iPhones and PCs at home.
What are the main barriers to the development of some these ideas?
The diversity of stakeholders (& need to agree amongst themselves).
The fixity of some existing infrastructure.
The everyday changes to the environment that tend to break electronic installations.
How might the application of some of these ideas be easier or more difficult in a smaller city?
Easier to find, talk to and negotiate with relevant stakeholders.
Easier to communicate an intervention across much of the city, and get a sense of how 'the city' reacts to it.
Potentially more conservative i.e. opposed to interventions.
Any thoughts on specific interventions which might be considered?
Can you recommend examples of projects or case-studies from which this group might learn?
Fortnight and Magna Mysteria both of which I developed technology for – are examples of theatre companies extending their staging to the city outside the theatre, respectively to encourage citizens to get to know their city in a fresh way, and to stage a narrative across city locations.
The cityware project (which I worked on), was among the first to instrument, electronically, some of the mobile phone-based phenomena that take place without us being aware of them. We uncovered significant cultures of Bluetooth usage that weren't generally known about. The Guardian misunderstood completely and wrote this scare story about it, illustrating one of the pitfalls of working in the urban wild: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jul/21/civilliberties.privacy.
Eric Paulos's Urban Atmospheres project did some pioneering work e.g. Familiar Strangers.
I think there is a real opportunity to develop ownership and to build a connection between communities and resources, whether, for example, it is around energy, food production, waste collection, transport or health. This can only be done by decentralising systems so they can be developed in response to the culture of the place, keeping to a human scale. The systems need to be built so that they provide future access, probably by developing an integration layer and determining who has access to the layer and to the data exchanged.
I think by exploring the journey of things that considers the entire lifetime of things, and not only the adoption and maintenance of the things, but their transformation through repurposing, or termination as they naturally complete their role, we adopt a more holistic and sustainable approach. It's an approach that begins to tackle many of the interoperability issues that exist as a result of sector silos. We should also consider from the outset ways in which to reuse parts, build things and services in a modularised fashion so we can "plug in and pull out" for efficient updates, scalability, adaptability and reusability (According to John Thackara "there is enough 'stuff' in the world to last us the next 100 years").
It would enable diversity and uniqueness at different levels – city, area and street level.
It would allow us to live sustainably.
It could improves the quality of our lives so we can get places, work, and live, well and easily.
The main barriers are centralised systems that do not connect with the community.
A centralised system is more easily deployed in a smaller city, making it harder to consider diversity and community engagement.
Develop technology sandpits that allow creatives, technologists, citizens and communities to come together and develop possible solutions.
Involve people by running events, festivals, markets, cooperatives to draw people together, and engage community development workers to help bridge the communities and the authorities.
Redraw and redefine procurement criteria in local government around the citizen and community experience.
Explore narratives to describe the past, the history and the culture of an area, and the future vision of what an area might be and could become.
Share best practice but do not expect a blueprint.
Consider the regeneration of cities such as Detroit (see blogs on Experience-led innovation Connect web site for projects), Berlin, and now Lisbon. Also consider the regeneration of toxic places, such as the Greenwich peninsular.
Better management of existing resources.
Better planning and design of Future Cities.
Better communications between stakeholders involved in decision-taking.
How might the development of city-based IoT systems make the city a better place to live, work, visit, travel in…?
Better sensing/recording/analysis of how urban systems currently perform.
Better predictive analytics/urban forecasting to anticipate how urban systems will change as a result of urban management decisions.
A legacy of failure: post-war urbanism has largely failed to create the places that people want to live in; the really successful places were mostly there before modern planning existed.
Technophobia in the power class: people over 40 who hold power but are not IT savvy; the majority?
Pro: a smaller urban footprint means a more controllable sample group, easier to pervasively sense and engage with.
Con: smaller places may have greater external reliances e.g. a small town may have complex/dislocated governance structures e.g. Faversham! with town, Local Authority (based elsewhere) and County (based somewhere elsewhere) councils.
Con: less of an economy of scale when implementing digital infrastructure.
Bring together a) transport networks, enacted in space with b) social transaction networks, enacted in space and online with economic transaction networks enacted in space and online.
The Academy of Urbanism's "City X-rays" project, similar to the Space Syntax project.
MIT's Senseable City Lab analysis of urban flows e.g. "LIVE Singapore".
Integration of city systems is THE angle/opportunity; IoT and smart can enable this, in part.
silos in city gov structure.
inability to procure in an effective way, again that is long term and works across the systems/silos.
failure of firms to sell the benefits effectively – pain/medicine question – or at a attractive price.
barriers can be financial, inability to attract innovators, lack of scale.
accelerators can be concentrated governance, focus, will, flexibility, smaller scale pilots can be more affordable.
open up public data, encourage innovators from firms/city/academics to create value from data.
collaborate with other like-minded and sized cities.
review and open up procurement to address silos.
encourage citizens to get involved in shaping services across multiple systems.
develop a long term strategy that brings political factions together.
core cross-cutting priorities to inform short to medium term thinking and investments.
share and co-create with other cities.
speak with Arup, Burro Happold, Atkins and Balfour Beatty who each have some experience.
next step for such smaller cities in the UK: engage with the TSB's Future Cities Catapult and the FC community!
Aqui apresentamos uma compilação de respostas e publicações recebidas, sobre o tópico cidades pequenas mais inteligentes, um projeto elaborado com o objetivo de gerar debates e ideias, que suportem e apoiem "Guimarães, Cidade Aberta", uma das cidades englobadas nas Capitais Europeias da Cultura.
Reuniu-se um pequeno grupo de especialistas no espaço da "Internet das Coisas" ( IoT), com a finalidade de discutir a possibilidade de promover "ligações inteligentes" numa cidade pequena como Guimarães.
As oportunidades e os desafios, que representam o desenvolvimento da IoT localizada.
A importância da IoT, numa abordagem centrada nas pessoas e no desenvolvimento das cidades pequenas.
De que modo a IoT pode ajudar e contribuir para o desenvolvimento das pequenas e médias cidades.
Oportunidades e desafios para Guimarães.
Pedimos que comentem e confiram #smallersmartercities no Twitter.
Mas o desafio é desenvolver uma abordagem centrada nos seres humanos, numa cidade onde as pessoas rejeitam a mudança. Os habitantes de Guimarães afirmam não quererem modificações. Scott Cain, realça, na contribuição que dá a este debate e a este diálogo, que isto sugere, que o desenvolvimento das cidades inteligentes, é " tanto humano/comportamental, como financeiro e tecnológico ".
O desafio, é colocar as pessoas aparentemente resistentes à mudança, no centro do projeto da cidade inteligente.
Este artigo junta várias perspectivas, no âmbito das cidades inteligentes, cidades que podem usufruir da crescente revolução no que respeita a objetos, "coisas", interligadas digitalmente, com o objetivo de criar um local que funcione com eficácia e sustentabilidade, desenvolvendo os transportes, a energia, a gestão de resíduos, o crime, a segurança e todas as outras coisas, que fazem com que uma cidade seja simultaneamente extraordinária e frustrante.
Isto concretiza-se, pela reunião uma série de intervenções e comentários, facilitados por Graham Hitchen, que aconteceram ao longo de duas semanas, pela internet e ao vivo.
As ações realizadas no âmbito do projeto e todas as contribuições para este, podem ser vistas mais abaixo.
"Ausência de escala", num mundo IoT, pode permitir mais rápida transformação. Nas cidades mais pequenas as redes sociais e outras, são mais apertadas, permitindo que a informação se espalhe com maior rapidez. A mudança pode ser mais veloz. (Brian Condon – The Human dimension).
O que significa centrado nas pessoas? E de que modo pode ser conduzido e desenvolvido, o projeto "Cidade Inteligente", por pessoas que rejeitam a mudança?
As cidades não são máquinas construídas, para serem para sempre eficazes. São motores de interação humana e de descobertas felizes. Nós devemos dominar a tecnologia que as vai ajudar a atingir esses objetivos.
O erro, na discussão da IoT, é o destaque que se dá às "coisas"__ aos aparelhos e à tecnologia. Precisamos de uma imagem mais rica da componente humana e das redes tecnológicas necessárias à mudança. Necessitamos de descobrir novas formas de usar estas redes de pessoas e tecnologia, de modo a produzir uma infraestrutura digital de transformação. (Brian Condon).
Sou a favor de iniciativas de base, medindo parcialmente à mão, parcialmente de maneira electrónica, as questões que, quem lá habita e trabalha, tem acerca das partes da cidade que lhe interessa. (Tim Kindberg).
Qualquer modelo adequado à cidade inteligente, deve colocar o foco na inteligência dos cidadãos e encorajar o processo que torna as cidades importantes: os que desenvolvem atividades muito diferentes e por vezes conflituais. (Usman Haque).
Em muitos aspetos, isto é o objetivo da próxima fase do projeto : ver como algumas das ideias e sugestões aqui destacadas, podem ser aplicadas numa cidade pequena como Guimarães, orientadas e desenvolvidas em conjunto com as pessoas que criaram o projeto.
É também chave do projeto, a complementaridade com outros pontos do projeto "Cidade Aberta".
Julian Tate, coloca-o da seguinte forma: " uma cultura de abertura e descoberta no seio das próprias cidades, é a chave para o sucesso da cidade inteligente, centrada nas pessoas".
Penso que quando consideramos a duração de vida das coisas, não o fazemos considerando unicamente o seu uso e conservação, mas também a sua transformação, através da renovação dos seus objetivos, ou o seu fim, uma vez que já cumpriram a sua finalidade, estamos a adotar uma abordagem mais global e sustentável. (Rachel Jones).
Explorar narrativas que descrevem o passado, a História e a cultura de uma região e a visão do que essa tem a possibilidade de vir a ser. (Rachel Jones).
Para concretizar o desenvolvimento de algumas das ideias aqui apresentadas, será importante para Guimarães encontrar parceiros __ cidades alma-gêmea, se assim lhes quisermos chamar. Outras pequenas cidades empenhadas na sua abertura e nas pessoas. Podem tornar-se colaboradoras ou co-criadoras.
Embora eu pense que as cidades pequenas não devam ter uma abordagem diferente da das grandes cidades, no que respeita à Internet das Coisas, na prática o seu tamanho dá-lhes vantagem, em relação às cidades maiores. Equipamentos de menor dimensão e menor perfil, reduz a tentação de pôr em uso sistemas monolíticos maciços, que pretendem juntar silos (contentores criativos) discrepantes, numa solução sem sentido. A sua pequena escala geográfica, permitirá implantar desenvolvimento, a um custo muito mais baixo em todas as redes e sensores e que vai englobar toda a cidade.
Embora os sistemas de integração total sejam atrativos, devíamos estar à procura de soluções bem montadas. A internet desenvolveu-se, não por ser controlada a partir de um ponto central, mas precisamente porque não o é. É um agrupamento de serviços e maquinaria, unidos, mas ao mesmo tempo independentes.
Devem ser construídos por toda a cidade, serviços e redes de sensores, que sejam funcionais e permitam APIs (Application Programming Interface) __ Interface de Programação de Aplicativos __ bem definidos que deem acesso a essa funcionalidade. Isso permite-lhes cumprir a sua função, enquanto se maximiza as oportunidades de outros serviços e outras capacidades, importantes para mais tarde. Por exemplo, os inventores do Sistema AIS (Automatic Identification System) __ Sistema Automático de Identificação __ usado para que os navios se possam identificar e evitar colisão, não previram que entusiastas construíssem uma rede de recolha de dados e proporcionassem mapas, ao vivo, na internet: [http://www.shipais.com/].
Também não previra que os dados fossem usados para detetar a entrada e saída de navios do rio Mersey e usados para fornecer informações às pessoas de Liverpool, que permitissem melhor conhecimento das atividades no rio, através do Twitter : [http://twitter.com/merseyshipping].
A maior barreira à adoção dos sistemas da IoT, não é a tecnologia padronizada para a interoperabilidade, mas a ausência de ideias e de exemplos de como podem ser usados. Aqui residem as vantagens das cidades pequenas. Necessitamos de experimentar o uso da tecnologia, para melhorar a vida, torna-la mais agradável e interessante, muitas maneiras diferentes.
As cidades devem ajudar os cidadãos a agruparem-se e a construírem projetos, orientados para um específico assunto ou interesse. Por exemplo, algo como o trabalho do sensor Air Quality Egg sensor network .
O resultado será uma população mais habilitada e mais comprometida, mais consciente da possibilidade de uso dos dados e dos equipamentos disponíveis, gerando uma retro-experiência, para futuras ideias de projeto.
Cidades, não são máquinas construídas para serem eternamente eficazes. São motores de interação humana e de descobertas felizes. Devemos possuir a tecnologia que as ajude a atingir esses objetivos.
Cidades são organismos complexos que evoluíram através dos séculos e até de milénios. Esta evolução raramente é planeada e portanto, os seus habitantes, tentam continuadamente manter com ela, uma ligação de interação, negociação e entendimento.
A IoT oferece a oportunidade de manter o equilíbrio dinâmico dos recursos , dentro dos sistemas da cidade. No entanto, estamos a esquecer o verdadeiro potencial da IoT, se pensarmos nela unicamente, como uma forma de manter e controlar as infraestruturas da cidade.
A cidade é composta pelos seus habitantes e a tecnologia IoT, permite não só utilizar a cidade de um modo mais fácil, como por exemplo descobrir qual é o parque de estacionamento mais barato, ou proporcionar maneiras mais inteligentes de realizar permutas, mas também oferece oportunidade de melhor entendimento dos trabalhos da cidade, de melhor interação entre os cidadãos e aquela, de criação de dados e co-produção de serviços e produtos para a cidade.
A par com a evolução das cidades, deu-se a evolução das estruturas dos governos que as conduzem. Estas estruturas evoluem e adaptam-se mais rapidamente do que a cidade física, embora o ritmo de mudança seja extremamente lento, em comparação com a evolução cultural e tecnológica. A IoT oferece muitas oportunidades, mas são grandes os desafios. Exige novos modos de trabalhar que rompem as fronteiras tradicionais. Exigem novos modelos de negociação e aceitação, no que toca às interligações dos serviços existentes na cidade. Para que possam usufruir da IoT, os dados criados e usados, têm que ser otimizados em rede.
Isto, coloca o foco na necessidade de cultivar a abertura e capacidade de descoberta das cidades. À medida que as cidades crescem, os sistemas, frequentemente não as acompanham. A maioria das cidades grandes são amálgamas de pequenos bairros ou comunidades. No caso do Reino Unido, estas têm os seus próprios concelhos eleitos democraticamente e mecanismos que servem múltiplos serviços. A oportunidade das cidades pequenas está no seu tamanho. Geralmente existe maior interligação e maior adaptabilidade às necessidades da população e dos negócios. É melhor a compreensão, o controlo e a influência sobre toda a cidade.
Da mesma forma que no passado, as cidades criaram as suas próprias estradas, sistemas de abastecimento de água, eletricidade, gás, mantimentos, agora precisam de criar infraestruturas digitais, ou tornarem-se proactivas na sua implementação.
Com o desenvolvimento de uma infraestrutura de custos baixos (ou inexistentes) para a cidade, criamos um ambiente, onde a IoT diversificada, viva e potencialmente mais acessível, pode surgir. O cidadão pode permitir a "hackers", a criação de aplicativos baseados na IoT e de dispositivos relevantes para as necessidades das suas comunidades e novas ideias serão geradas e testadas.
Houve implementação de redes de dados no projeto Smart Santander FP7, LodaNET em Manchester e San Francisco. Foi criada uma rede de dados para o projeto do parque de estacionamento SFPark, embora ainda não esteja em funcionamento.
Modernizar infraestruturas é um processo chave na regeneração económica e social. É particularmente importante, porque as cidades pequenas precisam de conservar os seus jovens, tornando a cidade um sítio cheio de energia e necessitam de apoiar a população à medida que esta vai envelhecendo, de modo a estarem atentas ao seu bem estar, permitindo que esta, viva durante mais tempo nas suas próprias casas.
No passado, empresários públicos e privados, centraram-se na recuperação de infraestruturas físicas, como casas, hospitais, escolas, faculdades, locais de negócios e infraestruturas de transportes. Conectividade, significava: estradas, caminho de ferro e ligações aéreas.
Cada vez mais, as cidades começam a perceber que as suas ligações digitais com o resto do mundo, são algo que as torna cada vez mais diferentes e que a infraestrutura inteligente, oferece novas maneiras de interagir, viver e aprender a gerar valores.
Um dos fundamentos deste desenvolvimento económico, resulta da combinação da mais flexível e acessível infraestrutura digital, com a utilização de pessoas especializadas, capazes de explorar oportunidades de negócio. Muitas cidades do mundo estão começando a experimentar a construção de infraestruturas baseadas na IoT.
Pode ser verdade que as cidades pequenas, tenham vantagem sobre as outras.
A tal ausência de escala num mundo IoT, pode permitir rápida transformação nas cidades mais pequenas, onde as redes sociais e outras, são mais apertadas, permitindo que a informação se espalhe com maior rapidez, mudança pode ser mais veloz.
Tomemos como exemplo o artesanato produzido em pequena escala. O que lhe vai acontecer num mundo onde podemos imprimir quase tudo, em três dimensões? O que vai significar isto, para a produção, em relação ao local onde é manufaturado e ao modo como é distribuído? Talvez, tornando as coisas "mais inteligentes", com a internet, a produção possa ser realizada com maior facilidade e rapidez, dando melhor resposta à procura.
Podemos reunir as fontes de desenvolvimento dos serviços locais, usando os recursos com maior eficácia através do "sistema nervoso" criado pela IoT da nossa pequena cidade, de formas que para a gigantesca burocracia das grandes cidades, existirão somente em sonho.
O erro na discussão da IoT, é a excessiva focagem nas "coisas"__ os equipamentos e a tecnologia. Necessitamos colocar o foco nas pessoas e nas redes de tecnologia necessárias para operar a mudança.
Quais, na nossa opinião, são as verdadeiras oportunidades para desenvolver sistemas inteligentes de IoT e aplica-los numa cidade?
A cidade como um local de diversão, jogos e arte usando instalações interativas, fazendo com que, em cada caso, estejam imbuídas nas características locais e respondam especificamente às suas questões: informação dada pelo governo local sobre o que está a ser feito no plano físico, social, económico, grupos comunitários, transporte, etc.
Muito do programa da cidade inteligente é idealizado por grandes corporações e órgãos públicos. Está tudo ao contrário. Sou a favor de iniciativas de base, medindo parcialmente à mão, parcialmente de maneira electrónica, as questões que, quem lá habita e trabalha, tem acerca das partes da cidade que lhe interessa.
Cidade API ( Application Programming Interface) __ : Construir cidades com base em software, mas abertas à colaboração na construção de aplicativos.
De que forma pode a cidade desenvolvida por sistemas IoT, tornar-se um melhor local para viver, trabalhar e visitar?
Tornando-nos mais conscientes do que nos rodeia: tudo aquilo a que não estamos atentos , que nos afeta e habitualmente é invisível.
Aumentando a riqueza cultural com trabalhos interativos que contribuam para a construção do ambiente social.
Tornando a cidade mais eficiente no que respeita ao ambiente, tempo e tratamento de resíduos.
Tornando o governo da cidade mais responsável perante os cidadãos, criando locais de debate, interajuda, fornecimento de informações.
Dar mais poder aos grupos menos favorecidos, que não possuam iphones, nem tenham computadores em casa.
Quais são os principais obstáculos ao desenvolvimento de algumas destas ideias?
O grande número de empresários e a necessidade de estarem de acordo entre si.
A rigidez das infraestruturas existentes.
As mudanças constantes no meio ambiente, que fazem as instalações electrónicas deixarem de estar à altura.
Como pode, a aplicação de algumas destas ideias ser mais fácil ou mais difícil, numa cidade pequena?
É fácil encontrar os empresários e dialogar com eles.
É mais fácil transmitir uma intervenção a grande parte da cidade , e perceber de que forma , a cidade reage a ela.
É potencialmente mais conservadora, ou seja, mais reativa a intervenções.
Tem menos verba para gastar.
Há algumas interações específicas a considerar?
Sou a favor do trabalho em comunidade, para a criação de aplicações simultaneamente relevantes, informativas e divertidas, que encoragem o envolvimento e a participação.
Pode recomendar exemplos de projetos que possam ensinar algo a este grupo?
Fortnight e Magna Mysteria Criei tecnologia para ambos. São exemplos de companhias teatrais, que se estendem para além do espaço do teatro, como por exemplo, tentando encorajar os cidadãos a conhecer a sua cidade por outra ótica e atuando em vários locais da cidade.
O produto do projeto para a cidade (City Project), no qual trabalhei, esteve entre os primeiros a usar a electrónica a partir de telemóveis. Apresentámos utilizações para Bluetooth, geralmente desconhecidas. O Guardian interpretou de forma errada e escreveu uma história de terror sobre isto, ilustrando as armadilhas do trabalho na selva urbana : http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jul/21/civilliberties.privacy.
Creio que existe uma oportunidade real de desenvolver e estabelecer ligação entre as comunidades e os seus recursos, relativamente à energia, produção de alimentos, recolha de resíduos, transportes ou saúde. Isto só pode ser feito, descentralizando sistemas, de forma a que possam ser desenvolvidos de acordo com a cultura do lugar e tendo em conta a componente humana. Os sistemas devem ser criados de forma a oferecerem acesso futuro, desenvolvendo uma área de integração e determinando quem a ela e às informações compartilhadas, terá acesso.
Penso que quando consideramos a duração de vida das coisas, não o fazemos considerando unicamente o seu uso e conservação, mas também a sua transformação, através da renovação dos seus objetivos, ou o seu fim, uma vez que já cumpriram a sua finalidade, estamos a adotar uma abordagem mais global e sustentável.
É uma abordagem que começa a resolver muitos dos problemas de interoperabilidade, resultantes dos silos (grande armazenamento) do setor.
Devem também, de início, ter em conta as formas de reutilizar partes, construir coisas e serviços, como se de módulos se tratassem, de maneira a se poder "ligar" e "desligar", permitindo a realização de atualizações eficientes, escalabilidade, adaptabilidade e reutilização. Segundo John Thackara: "Existem coisas no mundo, em número suficiente para os próximos 100 anos".
Permitirá diversidade e exclusividade a vários níveis __ de cidade e de ruas.
Permitirá viver de forma sustentável.
Poderá melhorar a qualidade da vida, permitindo-nos deslocar-nos, trabalhar e viver bem e com mais facilidade.
Os principais obstáculos são os sistemas centralizados, que não estão ligados à comunidade.
Um sistema centralizado é mais facilmente implantado numa cidade mais pequena, e faz com que seja mais difícil considerar a diversidade e a participação da comunidade.
Desenvolvimento de "poços" de tecnologia, que permitam a união de criativos, técnicos, cidadão , comunidades e consequente desenvolvimento de possíveis soluções.
Fazer com que as pessoas se unam, participando em eventos como festivais, mercados, cooperativas e envolver os que trabalharam, no desenvolvimento da cidade, para que ajudem a estabelecer ligação entre a comunidade e as autoridades.
Redesenhar e redefinir critérios de adjudicação, no governo local, tendo em conta os cidadãos e a experiência da comunidade.
Explorar narrativas que descrevam o passado Histórico e cultural de uma região e que permitam a visão do que essa região poderá vir a ser.
Compartilhar as suas melhores experiências, mas não esperar que outras possam ser iguais.
Considerar a regeneração de cidades como Detroit (ver os blogs sobre Experience-led innovation Connect web site for projects), Berlim e agora Lisboa. Considerar também a regeneração de lugares tóxicos, como a península de Greenwich.
Melhor gestão dos recursos existentes.
Melhor planeamento e "design" para as cidades futuras.
Melhor comunicação entre os empresários envolvidos nas decisões.
Melhor análise da forma como os correntes sistemas urbanos funcionam.
Melhor previsão da análise urbana, de forma a se poder antecipar como os sistemas urbanos mudarão, em função das decisões da gestão urbana.
Um legado de fracasso: o urbanismo do pós guerra, não conseguiu criar lugares, onde as pessoas queriam viver. A maioria dos sítios bem sucedidos, já existiam antes da urbanização moderna.
Tecnofobia da classe no poder. Pessoas com mais de quarenta anos, que detêm o poder, mas não são experientes em IT (Information Technology) __ Tecnologia da Informação. Estarão estes em maioria?
A favor: Uma marca humana mais pequena, significa um grupo-amostra mais controlável, mais fácil de compreender e envolver.
Contra: Lugares mais pequenos podem ter mais apoios externos, por exemplo, uma cidade pequena pode ter a estrutura administrativa fora, como Faversham, tendo as autoridades locais e do condado, sediadas noutro lugar.
Contra: com a implementação da infraestrutura digital, a economia de escala torna-se menor.
Promulgar no espaço online ligações entre redes de transporte, redes de transações sociais e redes de transações económicas.
O projeto da Academia de Urbanismo, "City X-rays", similar ao projeto Space Syntax .
A análise do fluxo urbano de MIT's Senseable City Lab, como : "LIVE Singapore".
Integração dos sistemas da cidade no ângulo/oportunidade, por meio da IoT.
Integração através dos múltiplos sistemas da cidade.
Obstáculo: IoT é um fator importante, mas só por si, insuficiente para ajudar as cidades a enfrentar os seus desafios.
Os desafios têm a ver com o comportamento humano, mas também com o lado financeiro e tecnológico.
_ Concentração nas estruturas governamentais.
_ Necessidade de inovação financeira para os investimentos acumulados nos sistemas/silos.
_ Incapacidade de obter de forma adequada, o que é de longa duração, através desses sistemas.
_ Fracasso da parte das empresas, na eficácia da venda a preços atraentes.
_ Os obstáculos podem ser financeiros, incapacidade de atrair inovadores, ausência de escala.
- Administração centralizada, vontade, flexibilidade, objetivos de menor escala _ mais acessíveis _ podem acelerar o processo.
_ Abrir ao público a informação, incentivar os inovadores das firmas, da cidade, e das universidades a criarem novos valores a partir da informação.
_ Tornar-se um banco de ensaio.
_ Colaborar com outras cidades do mesmo tamanho e mesmos interesses.
_ Rever e abrir concursos para a aquisição e tratamento de silos.
_ Incentivar os cidadão à formatação dos serviços, através dos múltiplos sistemas.
_ desenvolver uma estratégia a longo prazo, que una as fações políticas.
_ Encontrar a transversalidade das principais prioridades, para serem usadas a curto e médio prazo, nas resoluções e nos investimentos.
_ Compartilhar e criar em colaboração com outras cidades.
- Dialogar com Arup, Burro Happold, Atkins and Balfour Beatty, que possuem alguma experiência.
_ Ver o que Bristol, Birmingham, Sheffield e Coventry, têm vindo a fazer.
_ Próximo passo para tais cidades mais pequenas no Reino Unido: envolvimento com o Catapult TSB Cidades do Futuro e da comunidade FC.


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abcnews.go.com | January 26, 2014
By Jacob Gaffney
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. has reached a settlement with Fannie Mae that would allow the mortgage finance giant to recover about $537 million for its claim against the estate of the failed Wall Street bank over soured mortgage securities.
The settlement announced Thursday must be approved by a federal bankruptcy judge. It valued Fannie's claim over home loans and mortgage securities it bought from Lehman before the financial crisis at about $2.15 billion. But under Lehman's bankruptcy proceeding Fannie would get about 25 percent of that.
A Fannie official called it a fair outcome.
Fannie and sibling Freddie Mac were rescued by the government in a $187 billion bailout after they were hit by massive losses on high-risk mortgages.
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Let's face it. Chances of bumping into an apparition in London are high. In fact, this, the world's greatest city, (well, I think so), simply swirls with spirits. It has to be said that even though these phantoms lack a physical body they certainly don't lack imagination. So while it's to be expected that they strut their stuff in houses old and new, they also haunt hospitals, pubs, alleyways, Underground stations and even a bed. Spooky theatres? Yes, of course! Ghostly hotels? Absolutely. A haunted bank? That too.
Who was the headless phantom exorcised from the bank vaults?
Why did a theatre prop cause bone chilling fear?
Where have two people have been frightened to death – literally?
Which Royal Park has a tree which harbours a fearsome spirit?
Which museum's poltergeist activity includes lots of floating orbs and disembodied voices which have been captured on tape?
Stories in Paranormal London take the reader on a spooktacular journey that covers Hampstead Heath, an ancient London park first documented in 986 when Ethelred the Unready granted one of his servants 'five hides of land at Hemstede.' When it comes to paranormal activity, this is a busy place. Compact, frenetic, once-sleazy Soho, oozing trendy bars, smart restaurants and encompassing dynamic, bustling, colourful Chinatown also has its otherworldly side – no wonder when you consider part of the area stands over a plague pit. Aristocratic, elegant Mayfair, named after the annual spring festival held until the 1730s, provides us with tales from one of London's spectacularly eerie haunted pubs as well as the ongoing mystery of what is surely the capital's most haunted house. St James, which starts at Piccadilly and includes Green Park, has a couple of seriously scary phantoms that you wouldn't want to meet, while intellectual Bloomsbury, home of the British Library and Senate House offers a rather more unusual type of paranormal activity….
The many theatres in Covent Garden, Piccadilly, Leicester Square, Shaftesbury Avenue and Charing Cross are simply awash with mysterious beings and strange goings-on. Marylebone, owned in the 12th century by a brotherhood of warrior monks called the Knights Templar, has its phantoms too including that of a famous actress, while once-bohemian Fitzrovia which lies to the north east of Oxford Circus is where to find a plethora of hospital ghosts. Familiar names all, that trip off the tongue whether you are a local, a visitor, or someone who knows London only from films and books.
Gilly Pickup's new book Paranormal London is available for purchase now.
This entry was posted in Blog and tagged Hauntings, Ghosts, Unexplained phenomena, Paranormal, Paranormal London, Gilly Pickup, London, Local History on January 4, 2019 by Amberley Publishing.


HEMLOCK, MI – A play teaching young kids the benefits of renewable energy is traveling around elementary schools in mid-Michigan. DTE Energy is sponsoring the performances.
Plus One Meetings is putting on the play that follows two actors who learn about renewable energy sources such as wind and solar.
One of the plays took place at Hemlock K.C. Ling Elementary School in Hemlock on Monday, March 11. Over 300 students gathered in the gymnasium to watch the roughly 45-minute play, where characters named Alex and Kate figure out how to open a box without alerting the villain using renewable energy.
"DTE really wanted to get engaged with the community and help kids really understand the science behind it, so our challenge is how do we make it fun and accessible to kids," said Lisa Bower, president and chief executive officer of the company.
She authored the play which helps break down topics like renewable energy using an example kids might understand. In the play, one of the characters imagines a bowl of cereal and eats from it while another character explains that no matter how much they eat from the bowl it will never run out.
Principal of Ling Elementary Lori Gensch participated in the play for a brief moment. She said the program helps encourage students to follow careers in science, technology, engineering, arts and math, which is also part of their STEAM curriculum at the school.


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Q: How to modify bibstyle? I have a small problem with the humanbio bibliographystyle. How can I say that I do not want to have the journals printed in italics?
Thank you very much
Nevs

A: copy humanbio.bst to a new file (say myhumanbio.bst) in the same directory as your document, then assuming your entry is of @article  the italic comes from emphasise so change
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Lobykin is also known for his public artworks and his restoration of landmark architecture and sculpture. He has completed a number of projects in New York, Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, Colorado, and Japan.
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Q: What is the close form of: $\sum\limits_{k=1}^{\infty}\log\left(\frac{1}{k^2}+1\right)$ Is there a close form for of this series
$$\sum_{k=1}^{\infty}\log\left(\frac{1}{k^2}+1\right) =\log \prod_{k=1}^{\infty}\left(\frac{1}{k^2}+1\right)$$
I know it converges in fact since $ \log(x+1)\le x$ for $x>0$ we have,
$$\sum_{k=1}^{\infty}\log\left(\frac{1}{k^2}+1\right)\le\sum_{k=1}^{\infty}\frac{1}{k^2} =  \frac{\pi^2}{6}$$
converges and its sum is less that $\frac{\pi^2}{6}$

A: $$\log\left(\frac{\sinh \pi}{\pi}\right) $$
by the Weierstrass product for the (hyperbolic) sine function.

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The origins of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine are in the London Docks, where a seamen's hospital opened at the Royal Albert Dock in 1890. This would evolve into the London School of Tropical Medicine, also in the Royal Albert Dock, which opened in 1899.
In 1920 the school moved to Endsleigh Gardens, to the south of the Euston Road, and a couple of years later, a government report recommended the formal establishment of a school for tropical medicine by the University of London. This was confirmed by the grant of a Royal Charter in 1924 for the school as the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
A site was found for the new school in Keppel Street, opposite the Senate House of the University of London and the foundation stone was laid in 1926 with the school being officially opened in 1929.
At first glance, the building looks like any other stone office block, but look closely and the building has some remarkable details.
The overall building is a steel frame with Portland Stone cladding. The main entrance to the building is in Keppel Street.
The door is raised above street level and reached by a a short flight of steps. Above the door is a carving of the school logo, Apollo and Artemis riding a chariot.
If you look above the door to the first floor, each of the windows has a small, ornamental balcony with a small metal frame. On either edge of the frame are gilded representations of the insects and animals that act as carriers of the diseases that the school was set-up to study, treat and eliminate.
As with the best design, these signs are very simple. but highly effective and lovely to look at. The signs look even better on a sunny day when the gold lettering glints in the sunlight.
The foundation stone was laid by Neville Chamberlain on the 7th July 1926.
Neville Chamberlain is probably better known for his attempts when Prime Minister to make peace agreements with Germany prior to the start of the last war, the Munich agreement with Hitler and the "peace in our time" words used after his return. Chamberlain had a long political career before becoming Prime Minister and for a time in the 1920s he was Minister of Health.
"The Minister of Health (Mr Neville Chamberlain) yesterday laid the foundation stone of the new London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine at Malet Street, WC.
The guests were welcomed by Sir Alfred Mond, M.P. (Chairman of the Board of Management) who said it was during his term of office as Minister of Health that the trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation made their magnificent offer, providing a sum of two million dollars for the building and equipment of the new school. The purpose of the institution was of the highest importance to the people of this country and the population of the Empire, and indeed of humanity.
The University Grants Committee was giving £5000 a year towards the cost of immediate development, and the Rockefeller Trustees had assisted with a grant of £4000 a year towards the cost of maintenance until the new school was ready. About a year ago the Rockefeller Foundation substituted for their original undertaking a promise to pay a sum of £460,000, that being the value in sterling at the time of their entering into agreement to provide the original sum. By this action they cancelled the loss due to the rise in the cost of sterling, which would otherwise have meant a diminution in the value of the gift of some £50,000.
Before laying the foundation stone, Mr. Neville Chamberlain said that ceremony marked the commencement of a building which was the result of a combination of the two great English speaking nations, and which, in all human probability, was destined to be famous thereafter as the greatest centre in the world of research and of instruction in one of the most beneficent of all the activities of the human race. The school would have the latest types of apparatus and equipment, and it would contain a notable feature in the shape of a great teaching museum, which would show in a graphic form the subjects which were being taught, and the symptoms of the diseases.
"The Prince and Workmen – Pledges Their Good Health In Beer.
When the Prince of Wales opened the new building of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Gower Street, he pledged good health in beer to two hundred workmen who have been engaged on the building.
The workmen were entertained to lunch by Lord Melchett in a marquee in a courtyard of the school, and the Prince, after the opening ceremony, walked down to the marquee to see them. As he entered they stood and cheered him for several minutes.
Then the foreman said ' We will drink the Prince's health' and the two hundred workmen held up their glasses of beer and shouted 'good luck' and good health'.
The Prince himself then raised a glass of beer high above his shoulder, and shouted 'Here is the very best to you too. Thank you, thank you,' and drank the beer.
Above the upper floor windows, are the names of men (this is the 1920s and the names were chosen by committee, probably also all men), who had been influential in the development of public hygiene and tropical medicine.
Edmund Parkes, a 19th century physician who as a result of the dreadful medical conditions of the Crimean War, developed Army Medical Services and in 1863 published the Manual of Practical Hygiene.
William Leishman, an army physician who died in 1926, not long before the opening of the school. He worked on a typhoid vaccine whilst at the Army Medical School at Netley, alongside Southampton Water.
Timothy Lewis, a 19th century Welsh surgeon who worked in India on several tropical diseases.
Joseph Lister was a 19th century surgeon whose work in the prevention of infections during surgery, the use of sterile techniques, carbolic acid to dress wounds, aimed to reduce the significant post operative dangers from infection in the 19th century.
Louis Pasteur was a 19th century French chemist who worked in the fields of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurisation, the technique which carries Pasteur's name in which food stuffs are treated with mild amounts of heat to kill pathogens.
Further along are the pathologist and surgeon John Simon, and Patrick Manson who was the founder of the field of tropical medicine.
Lemuel Shattuck from Boston in the United States was responsible for the introduction of the registration of births, marriages and deaths. Perhaps not an immediate name to associate with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, however when this type of information is correctly and fully recorded across a population, its use in the development of public health strategies is invaluable.
Edwin Chadwick was a 19th century social reformer. His work reforming the poor Laws and in improvement of public sanitation and public health were initially resisted, however in 1847 he was on a committee of inquiry into sanitary conditions in London and a later outbreak of cholera supported the recommendations he had made whilst serving on the committee.
Above the side entrance in Malet Street are three further names. Johann Frank was a German physician, Max von Pettenkoffer, also German, worked to further public hygiene, clean water and hygienic disposal of sewage. Hermann Biggs was an American who worked in the field of infection control.
I have only covered 12 of the names around the building. There are 23 in total. The website of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine provides detail on 22 of the names, and strangely does not include Louis Pasteur.
Who would have known that a walk around Gower, Keppel and Malet Streets would provide a history lesson in the development of public hygiene and health, and the fight against tropical diseases.
The exterior of the building is much the same as when first built, however there has been development of the building internally and extensions over what were internal courtyards. The importance of the building is such that it is Grade II listed.
The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine continues to perform important work in teaching and research and their building proudly advertises these activities to anyone who looks up.
And I still think the building has one of the best street signs in London.
This entry was posted in London Buildings and tagged London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on September 2, 2018 by admin.
I concur heartily about the street signs. About 40 years ago I used to go past this building on my way to work and often admired the detail I could see from the bus windows. I especially like the font used over the doorway. Such a graceful and unassuming building.
On the days when I'm working in London (usually three days a week) I walk past this building and the SOAS building and I love them. They lift my mood with the intriguing details. Thanks for a thorough overview!
Like Stella-Maria I used to walk past this building on the Mallet Street side (normally). I had noticed some of the details, but not all demonstrated in this fascinating post. Again very grateful for this post, and I'm looking forward to my next walk past (probably on Tuesday) when I can have another good look.
Thank you for a fascinating article. Some of the names are so well-known, but I suspect this building is keeping the other names alive. And I particularly loved the detail of the usual suspects on the balconies!
Really interesting that the School of Trop.H was originally in the Royal Albert docks. It is a lovely building but I never noticed the delicate decoration detail before.
I hope that John Snow, the Soho physician who made the link between the spread of cholera and water contamination, is one of the names on the building. (He does have a pub named after him.) It was such an important discovery.
Incidentally, Edwin Chadwick was also known for his punitive regimes in the workhouse, such as separation of husbands and wives, and mothers and children.


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Sorry if this issue has been covered before, but I'm making some speakers for a friend which have a 50 microfarad capacitor in series in the tweeter circuit; however, the poly capacitor called for in the design costs more than the tweeter! The tweeter circuit is a third order with the 50 microfarad before the tweeter.
Would a NPE do the job instead, please? Is it possible to mix NPEs and poly caps in series?
I know that it's OK to use an NPE in parallel, but I've not seen one used in series.
I'd be interested to see that schematic. Not sure how/why a series cap in an HP filter would be that large for a tweeter (mid in a 3-way, more understandably).
EYE would go w/a quality npe (the ones PE sells are pretty good) for a value that large. You CAN mix & match. SOME think a 25uF npe + a 25 poly would be better (or even a 40 npe + a 10uF pp). The 2 caps would be paralleled (so their values add) of course.
Didn't I see someone somewhere along the way say you could have the sound of a poly by doing just what Sydney did???
I can't post the schematic as it's the designers' intellectual property, the design choice was based on drivers already on hand, I searched for a DIY design which used them. I haven't yet modelled the design in Xsim, I'll give that a try also.
That's nuts, what tweeter goes to 800Hz or thereabouts? In any event if you go with NPE and poly parallel the usual value ratio is 10:1. It's not ideal, as the poly will have a lot lower ESR than the NPE, but it's better than an NPE alone.
So a cheap tweeter crossed around 800 Hz? A electrolytic should be fine Seriously though the electrolytic could add some graininess but that might not be that noticeable depending on the rest of the design.
The crossover point is 3,000Hz: but I've played around in Xsim and reducing the capacitor value doesn't seem to have bad effects on the FR, given a little tweaking of other parts. However, the designer's measured FR with the drivers in the cabinet looks really nice.
Two regular (polarized) electrolytic capacitors can be connected in series (back to back) which then basically becomes, functions the same as a Non Polar Electrolytic. When done this way, you end up with half the capacitance. Two 50uF in series gives you 25uF total capacitance.
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A 50 uF cap in a tweeter circuit as you've described is not "nuts" as Bill said or whatever Chris was trying to say with those funny capitalized words. It's a third order electrical HP filter with a small series cap first, followed by a shunt inductor, then the series 50 uF. I've used that topology on tweeters several times. The first cap and inductor set the corner frequency and Q. The large cap tailors the slope and adds 90 degrees of phase rotation which can make a huge difference in the phase relationship between the drivers but has little effect on the on-axis frequency response. Model it in XSIM or WinPCD. Look at the response, phase tracking, and reverse null with and without that cap in the circuit. I think you will see why the designer uses it.
As for whether you should use a poly cap or a non-polarized electrolytic... your budget kinda determines that. If I'm using very nice tweeters I buy the polys. If I'm using a $15 tweeter I might lean towards the NPE.
A 50 uF cap in a tweeter circuit as you've described is not "nuts" as Bill said or whatever Chris was trying to say with those funny capitalized words. It's a third order electrical HP filter with a small series cap first, followed by a shunt inductor, then the series 50 uF. .
How is it better than a conventional 3rd order high pass? Especially as a typical 3rd order HP at 3kHz with an 8 ohm tweeter wouldn't use more than a 16uF cap in the circuit.
Did you even try modeling it? And not every tweeter is 8 ohms yoda.
Thank you, it models well in Xsim, although reducing the value of that capacitor doesn't seem to change the FR that much. However, I'm very new to speaker building and using Xsim, so there's more to this than meets my eye. And there's much more to Xsim than just FR.
I appreciate it would be easier to comment if I'd posted the crossover schematic, but I couldn't do that out of respect for the designer and his IP.
Thanks (as always) to the advice from PETT members I think I now know how to go about this.
Standard analog filters would not be protected, assuming you are not sharing (or haven't elsewhere) the drivers, box, etc.


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Q: Django annotate specific keys in json fields I'm using Django 1.9 and Postgres 9.5. I have a model (MyModel) with a JSONField (django.contrib.postgres.fields). The JSON value has the same structure in all the objects in the model.
{
"key1": int_val_1,
"key2": int_val_2
}

I want to order my queryset by a value of a specified key in my JSONField. Something like
MyModel.objects.annotate(val=F('jsonfield__key1')).order_by('val')

This does not work - i get the following error
Cannot resolve keyword 'key1' into field. Join on 'jsonfield' not permitted.

Is there anyway i can achieve this?

A: for Django >= 1.11, you can use:
from django.contrib.postgres.fields.jsonb import KeyTextTransform
MyModel.objects.annotate(val=KeyTextTransform('key1', 'jsonfield')).order_by('val')

A: An updated answer for this question:
At current time of writing (Django 3.1), you can now order exactly as you had hoped without needing any helper functions:
MyModel.objects.order_by('jsonfield__key1')

A: JSONExtract is use with mysql
Syntax ('json-field-name', 'json-field-key')
~Q is used for "not equal"

from django_mysql.models.functions import JSONExtract
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World Financial Crisis not Lead to Fall in SOFAZ Income (video)
Business Materials 19 September 2008 10:59 (UTC +04:00)
Azerbaijan, Baku, 19 September/ Trend , corr E. Ismayilov/ "The crisis in world financial markets will not affect income of the State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan (SOFAZ), on the contrary, SOFAZ income is expected to surpass forecast figures," Shahmar Movsumov, executive director of the Fund said.
"The crisis in financial markets has affected large financial organizations which have been operating for 100 to 150 years. Some of them are on the brink of bankruptcy. But SOFAZ is always conservative about management of its assets and we place our finds in the high-rating securities. In a period of crisis, such securities are in high demand and their price goes up. SOFAZ only benefits from it," Movsumov said.
The fall in oil prices showed appropriateness of a conservative approach in working up of the budget. The price of oil is fixed at $70 per barrel in budget estimations while it was $50 last year, he said.
"Te fall in oil prices up to $100 a barrel showed accuracy of this approach. At present, SOFAZ income exceeds AZN 10bln. It is expected to reach AZN 13bln by the end of the year," he said.
However, drop in prices of securities in world markets will affect SOFAZ income.
"According to our estimations and information provided by the Norway Oil Fund, the losses total to 3% to 4% since the beginning of the year," Movsumov said.
The stock market of US has fell by 16% to 17% and that of Europe - 20%. The fall in the securities market of Russia made up 54% since the beginning of the year. It points to serious crisis and many funds and organizations try to handle the crisis, he said.
""Oil fund of Azerbaijan will complete 2008 with success even if the income will be less than that of last year," he said.
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