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Model S vs. ICE: How many moving parts?
Model S vs. ICE: How many moving parts?
How detailed do you want it? Do wheels count? The "engine", which is really a motor is the only real moving part. If the car has the air suspension then there is an air pump in front, there is a coolant pump for the battery pack, a steering rack like any other car.
Show them a picture of the car without the body (the skateboard), and that should answer all their questions.
There are cooling system pumps and fans for the battery & inverter. The HVAC system also has a few moving parts, fans and compressors and such. Twenty does sound like a reasonable number of moving parts for this car.
Here's one source that says a typical ICE car has ten thousand (!!!) moving parts. Wow, that's a lot. Release also touches on the sanctity of dealerships, from the era when the threat was direct sales over the Internet of autos of that time. It's since been deleted by NADA, but it's in the Internet Archive:
For the auto manufacturers to do anything other than rely on their franchised dealers to sell their product would jeopardize a distribution system that has served the public well. In fact, so well that it is now taken for granted. It is a competitive system, disciplined by market pressures. And there's nothing that any dealer can do to restrict these market forces.
Every state government, as well as the courts, recognizes the automobile as a "complex necessity of modern life." When you consider that a car has more than 10,000 moving parts and more computing power than the Apollo moon launch, it is easy to understand why the sale of such a complex machine requires regulation. Buying a car over the Internet is nothing like purchasing a CD or contact lens.
It all depends on what you count. Does each button count as a moving part? How about windows and door handles? There are a lot of moving parts in every car. Each electric window likely has at least 20 moving parts. Do you count each ball bearing in a bearing (each are a moving part). It gets complicated really fast.
Now assuming the motor bearings are sleeve type (I don't know), then the Tesla motor has one moving part. A V8 ICE engine likely has 200+ moving parts, not counting all the attachments such as the water pumps, AC compressor, oil and fuel pumps, etc. Also many of the ICE parts are in a very stressful environment (explosions, high-heat, etc.).
In regards to buttons and switches, no, those don't generally count. Bearings of course would, as would motors in a window, the window itself which moves in the track, etc.
From WikiPedia:
The moving parts of a machine are those parts of it that move. Machines include both moving (or movable) and fixed parts. The moving parts have controlled and constrained motions.[1][2]
Moving parts do not include any moving fluids, such as fuel, coolant or hydraulic fluid.[citation needed] Moving parts also do not include any mechanical locks, switches, nuts and bolts, screw caps for bottles etc. A system with no moving parts is described as "solid state".
For the purposes of discussion of the point which the original poster made, clearly the Tesla Motors cars are far, far simpler than their legacy ancestors. No air intake system, no exhaust system, no fuel pumps and filters, and none of the hundreds of moving parts that are embodied in a modern engine. This is a key reason Tesla and future EVs like it will win in the long run.
There are hundreds of moving parts in an ICE driveline that aren't in the S, however there are still quite a few moving parts in the S. Suspension, gearbox (although simplified), driveshafts, assorted fans, pumps, window motors etc.
The S is still a very complex machine.
More appropriate is to think of the moving parts and consumables that are eliminated. No belts, air filters (other than AC ),spark plugs, coils, balance shafts, harmonic balancers, pistons, rings, camshafts, valves, lifters, valve springs, fuel pumps, injectors, pressure regulators, idle mixture regulators, throttle bodies, catalytic converters, mufflers, gudgeon pins, conrods, big & little end bearings, timing belts or chains, distributors, rotors, ignition leads, fuel filters, alternator, tensioners, clutch or torque converter, multi-speed transmissions - which contain hundreds more moving/wearing components, the list goes on.
To put this in perspective a typical four cylinder engine has two camshafts, a crank, 16 valves, 16 lifters - or buckets/shims, 16 valve springs, 16 valve guides, 12 or more piston rings, 8 main bearings, 8 big end bearings, 8 gudgeon pins, 4 pistons, 4 spark plugs, either 4 coils or a distributor which contains regular service parts (cap, rotor) and it's drive unit from the camshaft, sprockets or belt wheels, camchain or belt plus tensioner(s), 8 or more camshaft bearings, 4 injectors, 2 fuel pumps, 2 pressure regulators, plus more that I haven't thought of.
The S still has the cooling system & pumps etc, albeit simplified as there isn't so much waste heat. This does make the heating system in the S a bit *more* complex as you can't simply scavenge waste heat from the cooling system as in an ICE.
When I drive, everything on the car moves (or so i would hope).
The question becomes: how many parts does a Model S have vs an ICEV.
I can't imagine why door locks and mechanical switches wouldn't count as "moving parts" (other than an unattributed claim by a random anonymous author in Wikipedia). It is certainly true that the MS DRIVETRAIN has many fewer moving parts than that of an ICE vehicle which, all else being equal, is a good thing. This does not, however, mean that the MS is SIMPLER. Much of the complexity has simply been moved from hardware to software. If you include software, the MS is probably a LOT more complex. This is a mixed blessing. Software is a non-recurring engineering expense, and hardware isn't, so there is a definite potential for long-term cost savings. Also, as we all know, new software features can be and are "pushed" after delivery, often for free. OTOH, there is a lot of rope with which to hang oneself in a computer, and the engineering of stable software systems is far less mature than is the engineering of mechanisms. Getting out the "last bug" is notoriously difficult, and new features mean a constant influx of new bugs.
Although it is likely true that the physical simplicity of the MS will play out well in the long run, it is also true that ICE engineering is incredibly mature, a fact that is often overlooked, leading some Tesla owners to make exaggerated claims concerning the short-term cost-savings of EVs vs ICE vehicles. Modern ICE vehicles have dramatically lower maintenance costs than ever before, and they really don't break very often.
I would say that this would be a direct comparison between engine and drive train of ICE to Model S. i believe this is a simple non technical discussion between lay people. Based on that assumption the number does not hve to be exact and a ball park estimate should suffice. Taking into account the rotating motor and fixed coil and forgetting about the plumbing for cooling , Also considering direct drive to the wheels a ball park non technical figure would be less than 12 moving parts maybe as low as 4 or 5 not taking into consideration wheels and bearings. (This is purely a guess having looking at the showroom display, i do remember asking this question to the sales person with an answer in high single digits or low teens) . A more correct answer would be calling tesla and asking them or your local showroom.
Before I get shot down for a simplistic approach. I think most lay people are interested in the difference in the electric motor versus gas motor. Everything else door handles electric windows etc are mute as they are common to both ICE and MS. Hence the low number of parts engine to engine with out the plumbing,
I'd add in the transmission and drive/shaft. In an ICE the transmission has many moving parts, although I've not seen a number. In the Tesla there is one reduction gear. Might as well make the Tesla look even better!
Both have a differential, wheels, etc. so there's no reason to include them.
Well, if you are willing to pick and choose what to include and what to exclude, you can reach any conclusion that you like. If your goal is to make "gee whiz" claims about the MS, then just talk about the motor vs an engine.
If, OTOH, you want to say something meaningful, then either talk about the "drivetrain" or else the whole car. If you pick the former, then the MS will justifiably look good. If you pick the latter, the results won't be all that dramatic, since both have a great many moving parts.
@ avationfw +1
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And I would agree with aviationfw: all cars in Tesla's class have power windows, air conditioning, sophisticated suspension systems, etc. For this reason, I think perhaps the most useful answer to "Tesla vs. ICE: how many moving parts?" is to simplify the answer in three parts: (1)limit the comparison to drivetrains (i.e. about 18 or 20 parts per Tesla and 10,000 parts to ICEs), (2) simply acknowledge certain ICE systems that include additional moving parts but have no relevance in an electric car (e.g., emission control systems, exhaust systems, and certain lubrication systems), and (3) simply note that your comparison excludes mechanisms common to both EVs and ICEs (e.g., power windows, door locks, sunroofs, windshield wipers, power seats, etc.. Just my opinion.
[OMG! when did Tesla add spell check?]
moot. Not mute. Please.
20 for an EV versus 10000 for an ICE? Oh please, come on people.
And now for a realistic estimate for the drivetrain.
How about 20 vs 200 or so? Still, what's the point?
About software: the modern ICE software is very likely more complex than the MS's drivetrain software. It being new doesn't make it more complicated. In fact, the simplicity on all levels is an advantage of the MS.
Perhaps an easier way to explain it is take an ICE car, remove the engine and transmission/drive train and associated items like the gas tank and muffler. Now in place of all that, the only moving part is the electric motor.
I stand corrected.... Thank you.
Mute point and moot point is a commonly misunderstood phrase. Mute means to silence or quiet. Moot means impractical or irrelevant. A moot point means that the issue isn't up for debate and is irrelevant as the outcome has already been determined. There is no phrase of mute point. The correct terminology is moot point. dictionary.reference.com
For even more interesting "moot" details, look at the history or derivation. From AS tribal meetings, deferring a decision to a meeting of the "moot", or gathering of elders. "The term derives from Anglo-Saxon times, when a moot (gmot or emot) was a gathering of prominent men in a locality to discuss matters of local importance."
I read somewhere that one ICE car takes 40,000 gallons of water to produce.
I think "all the parts are moving." Isn't that the whole point of having an automobile, that it move from one place to another with me inside? :-)
The product specialist who "sold" me my car told me Model S has 1,000 fewer moving parts than an ICE.
I was told by a specialist that there's only around a dozen moving parts in the drive train. The other nice thing is that there's no real friction points other than the bearings. In an ICE there's piston rings, cams, etc where you have pieces rubbing together. An induction motor has none of those things.
Hi all,
The sales rep in the new open shop in Mission Viejo mall told me that there are only 16 moving parts in Tesla S, but I didn't ask for any details.
This topic has come into sharper focus with my wife who now understands all the complexity of an ICE after her Tiguan engine was pulled apart with an allegedly sticking inlet valve. Maybe component count could be a more realistic way of comparison?
Regardless, to answer one posters point, it does matter because friction of hundreds of parts is the issue that an ICE cannot effectively reduce and failure of parts is inevitable at 80K miles or $200K miles. The Model S's long term reliability may hinge on its total component count, of which any number of those could fail in its expected lifetime.
How about ware points. Where ever something moving is interfaced by another surface. Ball bearings are very effective and long waring, bushings are less effective, gears depend greatly on design. I think breakdowns are directly proportional to the design of ware points. Ice cars have huge numbers of bushing like ware points. Years of evolution have improved their durability but still a weak point. Add combustion heat to the issue and it is no surprise failure is inevitable.
After subtracting the moving parts that exist in all cars with the same features as Tesla sbeggs indicates the Tesla official number is 17 moving parts. I believe almost all of these ware points are ball bearings, only the reduction gear box has gear interfaces. It won't take much more seasoning of the drive train configuration to make it nearly bullet proof.
Right now I believe most the Tesla failures will be eliminated with design improvements and software seasoning simply because there is so few ware points to improve on. When the coat hangers and hand holds etc. become the most important improvements left we have made it!
Parts do not need to move to wear out. Batteries, for example.
The battery packs will last just fine. 12,000 to 15,000 miles per year, for 18 years comes to 216,000 to 270,000 miles. Try that with an air filter, spark plug, oil filter, water pump, head gasket, or any of a zillion other parts on an ICE that are designed to be replaced on a regular basis.
This is a matter of relative durability. The weakest points of any vehicle, regardless of its power source, remain the wear points between moving parts that vibrate, oscillate, revolve, or rotate as well as those points that prevent the loss of vital fluids used to facilitate cooling of components. There are more of those weak points on an ICE than an EV -- by design -- not just by default.
My experience has been the more complex they become, the more they break. Every moving part has a break point and complexity only adds more to the list. Every one of the "options" people keep asking for, electronic or mechanical, only adds another thing to go wrong.
A simple answer for a simple definition: All parts of Model S move when you push the "go pedal". Nothing is left behind, unlike with ICE cars which leave exhaust and, sometimes oil.
+1 sule Cute!
wear points. Look up "ware", and you will find no adjective uses in modern English.
BrianH, but plenty-o-scifi refs: hard-ware, soft-ware, firm-ware, mal-ware: or just "ware" if you've read Gibson. ;-)
Now look up "adjective".
Didn't you mean adjectival uses? Adjective is a noun. I know it's confusing.
Tootsie Roll Tootsie-Pop...
Ha! Good catch! Eat that, Brian! ;-)
My recommendation would be to rephrase the sentence, though:
Look up "ware", and you will find that it's not used as an adjective in modern English.
@Bighorn, thou speak'st wiser than thou art ware of.
But then I'm archaic.
Yup, should be wear points!
When it comes to the actual power plant, just one(1).
Good observation about the wear point in the power plant. Ware is it? ;p


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I was just thinking about animations for characters and NPCs in MMOs and I realized the more successful ones (or at least the ones that feel right when playing) tend to have idle animations. Some are subtle (such as frosty breath in cold areas or actual chest movement from breathing) while others are somewhat more obvious and come with easy gains (such as head following nearby targets or people). Without some of these (and even with some of these done wrong) the character seems more a like a doll than a character.
When thinking about WoW; I can easily visualize a dwarf running in it's awkward manner over the snow and leaving foot prints behind. The arms move back and forth over top its girth while the legs almost scamper quickly underneath. When they jump, I see their comical jump filled with start and finishing motions that are smooth and fluid.
I an also easily imagine the Night Elf female idle bounce and ears flopping when they run. The twirl when they jump or the mid-air somersault that is sometimes there. I can see the combat stance and strikes easily and without extra effects.
Thinking about other games, there is nothing really positive that stands out.
For EQ2 the models are very doll-like. They do seem plastic and lifeless – lifeless being the bigger turn off. This is further worsened by their use of the head tracking targets to the point you'd almost think they were owls. In some cases this makes them look like marionettes controlled by someone that forgets they have to control the head too. The system of morphing the armor to the models and the similarities in the majority of the models means they all run and jump pretty close to the same. The females look like they're in a rush to get to the washroom while the males look like they walk on their heels and flap their feet down.
In LOTRO the models don't really fit the world. They seem far more removed because the game world is just that good but also because they don't impact the world in small ways – like leaving footprints in the snow (maybe that's something only Elves do as the lore suggests – but I can't recall my dwarf characters leaving footprints either). The run animations are nothing exciting or memorable and the jump animation… it has to be the worst I've seen so far. The combat animations might stand on their own, but it's hard to tell because of the white flashes that accompany an attack or ability (these are really jarring and unnecessary).
Very disappointing but also true to Turbine's other games. I don't think they quite get this.
DDO seemed somewhat lifeless as far as characters go. They only got a part of it and didn't follow through with Tumbling (or Acrobatics) – higher points in that skill made things look a little different. They seemed to stand about and do little else.
Some of the NPC actions are nice. I give them credit in LOTRO for that guy in the first town whot sweeps the dirt but I have to take it away when I head up the road and see the NPCs standing around at a farm gate with no animation. They just stand there doing nothing despite the quest they want to give you.
Vanguard suffered from this (among other things) as well. The models, short of the heads, were much the same and followed the same animations making the animations seem quite bland. At first you might not have noticed as much because most of the class ability animations seemed different (though some of it was reused with some different colored sparkles), but then if you saw more of the same class, you realized the animations were much the same (if not the same) no matter the race.
WoW isn't perfect but they made the decision to make the races attack different giving the races more separation and personality. You get more of a feel for playing them. Don't believe me? Take a look at the Eviscerate finisher for a Rogue; try it on different races and then try it on the same race with different genders. Watch the attack animations of a Blood Elf (female with a two-handed weapon is pretty cool) or a Tauren or a Dwarf. All really different.
Rift also had an element of this. I noticed the facial expressions, eyes blinking and some of the idle attitude the characters had. But a lot of it was too subtle and you were more likely to notice it on the character select screen rather than in game where the character's back is to you. I don't remember as much about the combat animations but I do remember a different feel for the classes (so far as animations went). The casters seemed to have animations that drew on magic, the rogues felt sneaky and the warrior types seemed to stand taller.
These weren't dead characters.


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"Short Range" and "Long Range"
I can't recall ever hearing the terms "short-range" or "long-range" half-bloods anywhere else; are they in canon? Furthermore, I thought the standard for being "pureblood" was having all magical grandparents, in which case Harry and Ginny's children would all be pureblood. Or are they half-bloods because one grandparent (Lily) was a Muggle-born witch? 188.8.131.52 18:49, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
Cresswell brothers
Where should the Cresswell brothers be placed on the list? Although we know their father was a Muggle-born wizard, we don't know whether their mother was a witch or Muggle, and thus we don't really have the evidence needed to list them under the "Pure- or Half-Blood Parent & Muggle-Born Parent" section. ★ Starstuff (Owl me!) 19:53, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
quick question
Is it possible for a witch/wizard to be half-blood with 1 magic grandparent (ex. half-blood grandfather, muggle grandmother, squib father, muggle mother) or 1 magic great-grandparent?
isent harry a half blood his mother was muggle born wansn't she
Half-bloods and Muggles/Muggle-borns?
Would a child of a half-blood and a Muggle/Muggle-born really be treated as a half-blood themselves? The only half bloods with parents' heritages specifically mentioned in the books seem to have a pure blood parent.
Mcgonagall minerva
Can I add Minerva McGonagall as half-blood? Because pottermore website revealed that her father robert mcgonagall was muggle men who worked for ministry in the muggle world, but professor mcgonagall was in the hogwart as a year of 1997-1998 when muggleborns were not allowed to be in the hogwarts at that time. It suggests that professor mcgonagall is halfblood witch like harry, dumbledore, snape, voldemort. I am for sure that her mom was either half or pureblood who married with muggle men like snape's parents or her mother would have been blood traitor IF mrs mcgonagall was pureblood. 126.96.36.199 07:42, August 4, 2011 (UTC)


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DescriptionRobin's Quest is a point-and-click adventure with hidden object screens based on the famous legend of Robin Hood, but changing the traditional gender of the outlaw hero. In this retelling, Robin is a woman fighting the injustice of Prince John and his associates in medieval England. After being arrested and sent to jail along with her husband, she breaks free and starts to assemble the Merry Men to rescue her spouse from the dungeons.
The player assumes the role of the main character, seeing the world from her perspective. Most of the time, the objective is to collect a series of items and use them on the available locations to solve puzzles and complete quests. The objects are stored inside inventory slots at the bottom, from where they can be dragged and dropped on appropriate and logical places. Some key items are only received after completing one of the hidden object challenges, taking place on a separate screen where all the entries from a list at the bottom have to be found and clicked amongst the scattered paraphernalia cluttering the scenery.
As a reminder, pending tasks are listed all the time at the top left corner. Robin needs the help of the Merry Men to complete certain objectives and receive some of the quests from the locals. She has to enlist them by collecting all the pieces of their letters of pardon, whose parts are concealed on several locations. Once they become part of the group, their special abilities are added to her repertoire, besides her skill with the bow and arrow: Friar Tuck gives a persuasion power and access to church grounds, Little John brings the strength to lift heavy objects, Alan-a-Dale is very nimble and so on.
Mini-games and puzzles take place on a window at the center of the screen, where mechanisms and loose pieces have to be manipulated directly to solve them. The hint button is a jar filled with fireflies, that shows the position of one of the required items when activated. Extra hints can be collected as fireflies fluttering around the screen.
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It's not easy being greenscreen.
Movie visual effects artists, frustrated by poor pay, working conditions and recent Oscar snubs, met recently to consider organizing a union and other solutions to the industry's numerous problems.
On March 14, close to 300 people jammed a greenscreen-walled Quonset hut at the Gnomon School of Visual Effects in Hollywood. Among other things, they heard assorted speakers push for unionizing the workers, advocate a trade association for the financially troubled digital effects shops that employ them and take swipes at "Life of Pi," the Academy Award-winning film that has become a rallying object for many disgruntled artists.
The town hall style meeting followed a variety of events that have shaken the VFX field to its core.
Nearly 500 artists staged a protest outside the Academy Awards ceremony in February to call attention to the lack of benefits, job insecurity, massive amounts of (sometimes unpaid) overtime and other hardships they increasingly go through to ply their trade.
At the Oscars, the award-winning "Pi" team from effects house Rhythm & Hues -- which had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and laid off more than 250 workers earlier in the month -- was played offstage with the "Jaws" theme just as a statement was about to be made about the industry's difficulties. Later, "Pi" director Ang Lee neglected to thank the effects folks, without whom his
film's magical tiger and other wonders would not have existed, when accepting his award, and complained later about the high cost of VFX.
That, coupled with another large swath of layoffs at DreamWorks Animation, fired passions. VFX pros replaced their Twitter icons with blank greenscreens to evoke what movies would look like without their contributions, and websites such as VFX Soldier popped up to enable further venting.
"It went viral in a matter of a few minutes," digital compositor Phil Broste said of an open letter he wrote to Lee that was posted on vfxsoldier.wordpress.com. "It was just a letter expressing some of the frustrations that visual effects artists and workers in the industry in general have been feeling for a long time -- work conditions and common misconceptions about the place of visual effects and their importance in filmmaking. How important they are to films of all kinds now, and just the lack of recognition about that, and due to that lack of recognition the mistreatment that gets passed on to the digital effects professionals."
Although digital effects have increasingly become key components to movies and, to a lesser extent, television shows and commercials, in the two decades since James Cameron and Steven Spielberg showed what they could do in "Terminator 2" and "Jurassic Park," the increasingly large pool of VFX workers remains the only major talent group in Hollywood that has not been unionized.
But the problems in the VFX field won't be solved by that. For one thing, the existing animation guild (Local 839 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees), which is trying to organize the VFX artists, would be bargaining with the owners of the effects facilities "" which, if not bankrupt, are mostly operating on thin profit margins as it is.
They earn their money, of course, primarily from the
six major film studios which produce the nine-figure extravaganzas that require thousands of effects shots. Those studios can make hundreds of millions of dollars off of tentpole blockbusters such as "The Avengers" -- but can lose similarly staggering amounts when films like "Jack the Giant Slayer" and last year's "John Carter" tank at the box office.
To hedge their bets, producers generally insist on fixed bids from VFX providers, which can lead to a lot of unpaid extra work when a director decides he doesn't like the look of certain shots. Some say the big corporations with the money also coerce VFX companies into setting up expensive shops in big tax-credit states so the studios' productions can take advantage of the incentives.
Multiple studios and production entities asked to comment for this story declined to do so.
Then there are just cheaper countries in Asia and elsewhere to get the work done, which studios can also play off against L.A.-based facilities and those providers themselves can threaten unionizing Americans that more jobs can go overseas. Doddering R&H's shop in Taiwan, for instance, recently posted 200 job openings.
Most advocates of union and trade organizing acknowledge that that path is fraught with difficulty. But it's better than doing nothing, and now certainly seems to be the time.
"It really is the Digital Spring," Scott Ross, who has run Industrial Light and Magic and Digital Domain, which went bankrupt last year, told the cheering town hall crowd.
"The most important step, and the thing that a trade association needs to focus on, is changing the business model," Ross, who has long been trying to get VFX houses to unite, explained in a later interview. "How are you going to do that if all of the companies are not willing to say 'change the business model'? If there are 15 or 20 companies in the world today that can sink the ship of 'Titanic,' and only three of them say 'We don't want to be paid that way anymore, we'd like a business model change,' if you're a producer, why not go to one of the other 12?"
Or, if you're making a movie for Disney, why not go with the now Mouse-owned ILM; or if it's for Columbia Pictures, their parent company's VFX outfit, Sony Imageworks?
"A trade organization might have a better chance of regulating bidding practices and contract purposes, say the director gets the work that's done tweaked three or four times and after that you have to start paying more for each iteration of the work," noted Marty Shindler, who with his wife runs the Encino-based Shindler Perspective, a business consulting firm with many entertainment and technology clients. "Getting all of them to speak with one common voice will be very difficult. There are things they all need to agree on, but they are competitors."
While the studios may control the purse strings, sound business practices could still be the best bet for beleaguered VFX companies and their unhappy employees.
"I don't want to seem like someone who is claiming that there isn't a problem in our industry because there definitely is when so many companies are struggling," noted Payam Shohadai, co-founder of 11-year-old Luma Pictures, which has provided effects for Marvel and many other films. "But studios pay a lot of money for what they do. Is it enough? I think it depends on your specific business. If the contract that the studio is offering you is not enough money for you to make ends meet, it is not the contract for you. There should never be a situation where a company is not able to pay their employees for past work, let alone give them a nice notice if they need to let them go. There should not be deficit financing."
How ever the studios and VFX facilities work out their business, it looks like now they're both going to have to deal with an activating work force.
"History is definitely repeating itself for us," said Dave Rand, an R&H senior VFX artist and one of the organizers of the Oscar night demonstration. "If you look at where the rest of the talent was in the 1920s and '30s (when actors, directors and writers organized), it looks just like it in 2013 with the visual effects artists.
"The studios would never treat Brad Pitt like this," Rand continued. "They don't perceive us as the same value, but we're exactly that. You look at Richard Parker in 'Life of Pi'; the performance of that tiger has a couple of hundred people behind it, both here and in India. That team should be valued the same way as your most valuable actors are."
"It starts with them," Steve Kaplan, an organizer for the animation guild, said of the VFX workers. "Each and every artist needs to be able to stand up and speak, but it's more than just saying I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore. It's saying I'm mad as hell now and I know I can make a difference."


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New research published in Academic Medicine(journals.lww.com) strengthens concerns expressed by the AAFP and others that the U.S. medical education system does not produce enough primary care physicians to support America's health care needs and that a flawed funding mechanism fuels the problem.
The study, "Toward Graduate Medical Education (GME) Accountability: Measuring the Outcomes of GME Institutions," found a serious shortfall in the percentage of newly minted physicians who have chosen to work in America's rural and underserved areas.
Researchers from the Washington-based Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care and the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services analyzed data from nearly 9,000 physicians who completed residency between 2006 and 2008 to identify their medical specialty choice three to five years after residency completion.
The research also links to a GME Outcomes Mapper tool(www.graham-center.org) created by the Robert Graham Center that allows users to click on a map of all U.S. residency training institutions and see not only how many residents the facility trains but the proportion of those residents who enter primary care specialties or practice in underserved areas.
Story Highlights
- New research shows that America's medical education system is not producing enough primary care physicians to meet the country's needs.
- Some of the nation's biggest and most prestigious medical education programs produce few, if any, primary care physicians.
- The institutions producing the most primary care physicians receive significantly less Medicare graduate medical education funding than those producing the fewest such physicians.
By the Numbers
Specifically, researchers found that 25.2 percent of physicians included in the study practiced primary care medicine, and 4.8 percent practiced in rural and other underserved areas.
Furthermore, of 759 academic health center institutions, the study revealed that
- 158 produced no primary care graduates,
- 198 produced no rural physicians,
- 479 produced no National Health Service Corps participants and
- 283 produced no physicians who practiced in clinics designated as federally qualified health centers or rural health clinics.
Research authors pointed to flaws in the GME funding mechanism that supports the training of the country's physician workforce. For example, they found that GME funding provided more support to subspecialty residency programs than to primary care programs.
Specifically, the authors found that among teaching hospitals, the top 20 primary care producers graduated 1,658 primary care physicians, or 41 percent of their total 4,044 graduates. Those programs received $292 million in total Medicare GME payments.
On the other hand, the bottom 20 primary care producers graduated 684 primary care physicians, or 6.4 percent of their total 10,937 graduates, and received $842 million in Medicare GME funding.
According to a June 12 press release about the study(www.graham-center.org), America's physician workforce is funded, in large part, by taxpayers' investment in GME funding provided through Medicare ($10 billion) and Medicaid ($3 billion). Those billions of dollars are used to compensate teaching health centers for the extra costs associated with training physicians.
In the release, study co-author Andrew Bazemore, M.D., M.P.H., director of the Robert Graham Center, said the study results highlight the challenges of producing the necessary physician workforce. "National calls for more primary care physicians, general surgeons, psychiatrists and providers in rural and urban underserved areas are thwarted by federal funding that continues to support training programs without requiring measurement of, much less accountability for, what they produce," he said.
Analyzing the Data
In an interview with AAFP News Now, corresponding author Candice Chen, M.D., M.P.H., pointed out that the Council on Graduate Medical Education set the U.S. primary care workforce bar at 40 percent of all physicians but that the current physician workforce was only about one-third primary care.
"When you weigh those numbers against what our workforce currently looks like and what we know we need, it is shocking," said Chen.
Ditto for the difference among programs in the number of primary care physicians they produce and the percentage of those physicians who practice in rural and other underserved areas. "It's very concerning that some of our larger programs -- some of our better-known programs -- aren't necessary meeting those needs," said Chen.
The challenge is in the way the current system pays for GME by essentially turning over those funds to hospitals, who in turn, address their own needs, said Chen.
"And that's why we get a workforce that looks like it should be staffing the hospitals of America and not the primary care practices of America," she said.
Chen, a senior research fellow at the National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities, and an assistant research professor at George Washington University, said taxpayers may not understand that their dollars support GME. "They don't realize that the distribution of residency positions between specialties defines the specialty distribution of our physician workforce," said Chen.
"I think it's fair to ask if we're getting what we really need and maximizing the public investment in our medical education system," she added.
Moving Forward
According to Chen, the new research proves that it's possible to gather data on residency program outcomes and that doing so "means that we can start looking at how to build accountability into the system to get it aligned with the country's workforce needs."
As for family medicine residency programs, "Those programs are out there fighting the hard fight and, oftentimes, receiving less Medicare GME money per resident than some of the larger programs," said Chen. Further complicating matters is the fact that family medicine programs "often are the ones that are producing our primary care physicians and training the people who are going into underserved areas," she added.
"My hope is that this research will highlight some of those programs that don't often get a lot of attention and give them the ability to say, 'Hey, look at what we've been doing; we're really producing the physicians that American needs,'" said Chen.
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Moore College of Art & Design alumna Dom Streater '10 joined the ranks of the ascending fashion elite when she was named the winner of Project Runway Season 12.
Streater, from West Philadelphia, bested three other designer finalists to take the title following the debut of her "Retro Redux" collection at New York Fashion Week. Streater spoke to students at Moore's 2013 Leadership Conference for Women in the Arts.
"I've never experienced anything close to this feeling before in my life," Streater said after the win. "It's a huge deal for me. This will change everything."
She takes home bragging rights and a prize estimated to be worth more than half a million dollars.
Streater, who graduated from Moore in 2010 with a BFA in Fashion Design, said she was overwhelmed by the support from the Moore community since returning home from filming. She was a judge at Moore's Jump/Start Fashion Show on October 1, where she was flooded by students who wanted to meet her and get her autograph.
"It's all about Moore girls sticking together," she said. "Because it's an all women's college, that bond sticks even after graduation."
Streater said that all the textile classes she took at Moore gave her an edge over the other designers on the show. She was one of the few designers who embraced print and textile design. This helped her in Episode 11, when she won the HP Intel textile design challenge and ultimately, led to her win.
"The fashion program at Moore was great," she said. "Everything I know how to do is because I went to Moore, in terms of construction and how I think about design. I learned to be very methodical and precise when I'm working. It helped me a lot on the show."
Before making it big on TV, Streater was busy designing her own clothing and accessories line, Halcyon Collection. She's currently working on her fall/winter collection for 2014. In the meantime, thanks to the show, the orders are coming in fast and furiously.
"I've gotten so many requests for designs and dresses," she said. "I literally can't make things fast enough. People want to look like a 'Dom' girl."
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Janet Jackson is going to be bringing her rhythm to 35 nations in the new year as she sets out on her most ambitious world tour to date, reports CNN.
For the new tour, the pop star plans to only perform tunes from her 35-song Number Ones CD and will select smaller venues for the shows to create a more intimate vibe.
On her website, janetjackson.com, she's asking fans to suggest the cities for the tour. The first fan that responds to her from a selected city will receive an autographed Number Ones CD and a copy of her new book, True You, due out in February.
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She also plans to dedicate one of her number one songs to each city and will recognize 20 young people in each metropolis who have made valuable contributions to their local communities.
New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Hong Kong, Singapore and Milan, Italy, are among the cities in the running for a visit from the "Control" star.
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We are sad to announce that Cupcake is no longer in operation.
While we (and many in the community) were deeply committed to the goals of Tent we were unsuccessful in our efforts to fund either Tent or Cupcake. We had to pause work on both projects several years ago when we ran out of personal savings.
Most of our team went on to work on Flynn where we're still spending most of our energy today. It's clear that we won't have the resources to return to Tent or Cupcake soon. It's also expensive to continue to run the site.
This has been a long time coming. We were planning to announce the site shutdown in a few months along with an export tool, but GDPR required us to move up that deadline considerably.
We're still planning to create a data export tool and plan to make it available in the next few months. Details will be available on this page as soon as the tool is available.
We were overwhelmed by the interest in Tent and Cupcake over the years. The community's interest and support kept us going far longer and made us work far harder than we had imagined when we started the project.
We wish that we had been able to keep up with all the feature requests and development goals, but our resources were always limited.
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December 2013 Custom Classic Trucks Products Showcase
5 Products You Should Know About
Dennis Carpenter 1948-1952 Ford F-1/F-7 Floor Pan
New Floors That Fit Better Than New
Finding it a pain to restore your original floor pan due to all of the rust? Dennis Carpenter has a solution for you! The 1948-1952 Ford F-1/F-7 floor pan is corrosion-free and reverse engineered from original Ford components. This not only makes installation nearly painless but means the new floors will fit just like the factory. The floor pans are strong, too, and stamped from 19 gauge steel with 15 gauge steel used on the rear bracing. Each floor pan is coated with protective silver weld through primer for a long lasting finish. If you think your project 1948-1952 Ford F-1/F-7 needs a new floor than this might be the route to take.
Dennis Carpenter
Speedway Motors Universal Brake System Builder Kit
Build Your Own Brake Kit
When driving on the road or on the track, it's important to have a reliable brake system to give you the power to stop on a dime. Speedway Motors offers its Universal Brake System Builder Kit that gives you the option to fully customize what you want out of your braking system. In regards to doing it yourself, Speedway gives you all the right pieces to get the job done. What you get from the kit is 25-foot roll of 3/16-inch mild steel brake lines, dual outlet master cylinder brake lines, six 60-inch long 3/16-inch brake lines, a Wilwood proportioning valve, residual valves (two 2psi and one 10psi), six 3/8-24 IFF to 1/8 inch NPT male straight adapters, two 90-degree 3/8-24 IFF to 1/8-inch NPT male adapters, 3/8-24 IFF to #3 brake fitting, 3/8-24 IFF to 1/8-inch NPT female tee adapter, AN3 male to 1/8-inch NPT male adapter, brake line tabs, five 3/8-24 IFM thread nuts, and 10 3/16-inch insulated line clamps. Whether you're building a hot rod hauler or just restoring your truck, Speedway gives you all the options you need to ensure you get a quality braking system.
Speedway Motors
Flex-a-lite Performance Low-Temp Thermostats
Keeping It Cool
Flex-a-lite announced at SEMA this year that they will be offering a 160- and 180-degree Fahrenheit thermostat for 1955-1995 Chevrolet small-block V-8, 1964-1980 Chrysler A-body, B-body, and E-body V-8, and 1960-1989 Ford V-8 (Windsor, FE, and 460 series) applications. Flex-a-lite's low-temp thermostats bring the engine to operating temperature quickly while keeping them at a comfortable level for all of your performance needs. Flex-a-lite low-temp thermostats also feature a V-notch valve that reduces cycling by metering the amount of coolant that flows and are made out of stainless steel to ensure that a long life. What better way to protect the engine under your hood from overheating than with Flex-a-lite's low-temp thermostat.
LMC Truck Digital LED Dash Cluster for 1967-72 Chevy/GMC Truck or SUV
A Fully Programmable Gauge Cluster
Not a big fan of analog gauges and want to update your interior gauges for a modern look? Look, no further than LMC truck. LMC Truck is now offering a Digital LED Dash Cluster that fits right into the stock bezel of your 1967-1972 Chevrolet or GMC truck. Whether you're running different tire sizes with different gear sets, LMC's Digital LED Dash Cluster allows you to program all of the information into the cluster so that you can get the correct reading on how fast you're going. All of the sending units (minus the fuel level) are included and programmed with 0-255mph speedometer with odometer, trip meter, 0-60 time, mile ET and high speed recall, water Temp displays within a 50 degrees-350 degrees F range, oil Pressure displays 0-99 PSI, tachometer (0-9900 RPM), turn signal, flasher and high beam indicators, and clock. The cluster is compatible with 6 or 8 cylinder engines with breaker-point or electronic ignition systems and the Voltmeter displays 7-25 volt range and requires no sending unit. We think one of the coolest features of this gauge cluster is the ability to clock your fastest speed when you're running down the mile. This fully programmable dash cluster is perfect for anyone looking to run a digital application for their 1967-1972 Chevrolet or GMC truck.
LMC Truck
No Limit Engineering 1963-1972 GM Trucks "Wide Ride" Bolt in Front Suspension System
A Bolt-On Front Suspension Replacement For Your Truck
Thinking about a suspension upgrade for your 1963-1972 GM Trucks? No Limit Engineering has come up with a bolt-in solution. The No Limit Wide Ride front suspension system offers a power rack and pinion steering unit along with their correct steer ZG spindles. The system is paired with tubular upper and lower control arms that offer improved camber/caster refinements and a custom anti-sway bar. The replacement crossmember actually bolts in place of the original and allows for more crossmember clearance. The suspension system also offers new brake calipers paired with drilled and slotted 12-inch diameter rotors of accepting a wide range of bolt circle patterns. If fabricating isn't something you want to complete, the No Limit Engineering Wide Ride bolt-in front suspension may be just for you.
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There's a magnificent permanent art collection displayed throughout Gloucester's City Hall, its public buildings and many outdoor locations. In an effort to promote, encourage and share current local art and artists with the public, Mayor Romeo Theken showcases a wide variety of media on temporary loan throughout the Mayor's office. I took some photos back in February. She requested that buoys painted by our local youth at Art Haven be featured in Kyrouz Auditorium, along with the 'Downtown Quilt', the 13th panel from the Gloucester Neighborhood Quilt Project. These quilts are made by residents creating art with Juni Van Dyke, the Art Program Director Gloucester Council on Aging at Rose Baker Senior Center. (Twelve panels were prominently displayed for the 2014 Inauguration for former Mayor, Honorable Carolyn Kirk.)
Donna Ardizzoni, business owner, GMG contributor https://ardizzoniphotography.wordpress.com/about-2/
Ana Connoli, photograph, Gloucester from Port. Hill
Phil Cusumano, painting, http://www.philcusumanoart.com/
Tina Greel, statue, https://www.facebook.com/tina.greel
Jennifer Johnson, photograph
Ken Knowles, painting, http://www.kenknowlesfineart.com/ken_final/home.html
Marty Luster, photograph, GMG contributor
Bridget Matthews, photograph
Sam Nigro, painted oar, http://www.gloucestertimes.com/news/local_news/talk-of-the-times-gloucester-man-grows-a-squash-for/article_76b0f29b-1e05-527f-b676-889ee7768aa9.html
Shelly Nugent, photograph
Eileen Patten Oliver, painting, http://eileenpattenoliver.com/ and here https://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/2015/03/03/14-works-by-eileen-patten-oliver-at-island-art-and-hobby/
Premier Imprints, tea tray, http://www.premier-imprints.com/
Louise Welch, photograph City Hall
The local art on display had me thinking about the collection at the 'People's House' for our Nation: what's the best art inside the White House? No matter what is your artistic preference, Gloucester and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts could top the charts as the City and state with the best and most art ties featured at the White House. Let's break down a selection of that Massachusetts list currently on display at the White House room-by-room, shall we?
In the Oval Office:
Not one, but two Edward Hopper paintings, lent by the Whitney Museum of American Art, are installed one over the other, Cobb's Barns, South Truro and Burly Cobb's House, South Truro. There are more than 100 Edward Hopper works inspired by Gloucester, MA. The Childe Hassam's painting, Avenue in the Rain, and Norman Rockwell's painting, Statue of Liberty, remain on view.
In the Blue Room:
Fitz Hugh Lane's Boston Harbor gifted by Lew Wasserman
In the East Room:
Gilbert Stuart's Washington, John Singer Sargent's Roosevelt
In the Green Room:
Sargent's Mosquito Net, John Marin's Circus, George Peter Alexander Healy's painting of Adams and Polk and Louisa Adams by Stuart
In the Red room:
Martin Johnson Heade's Sunrise, Bricher's Castle Rock Nahant, more portraits by Stuart and Healy
In the State Dining room:
Healy's portrait of Lincoln
In the Ground floor corridor:
Healy's Millard Fillmore portrait, Thomas Ball Daniel Webster sculpture, a craftsman chair attributed to Samuel MacIntire, and Charles Hopkinson's portrait of Calvin Coolidge
In the private quarters:
William Glackens Pavilion at Gloucester, and two Maurice Prendergast's paintings, Boston Harbor and Revere Beach
More examples in the collection and in storage such as: Augustus Saint-Gaudens bronze bust of Lincoln, John Henry Twachtman's oil painting, Captain Bickford's Float; Henry Hobart Nichols painting, Gloucester Dock; and Worthington Whittredge oil painting, Thatcher's Island off Rockport, MA.
Several artists are represented by more than one piece. How does the White House collection work? It is unusual for the White House to accept art by living artists. There are more than 450 works of art in the permanent collection. New art enters the collection after its vetted and is restricted to works created at least 25 years prior to the date of acquisition. For the public rooms, the Office of the Curator works with the White House advisory committee, the First Lady serves as the Honorary Chair, and the White House Historical Association. The private rooms are the domain of the First Family. Works of art from collectors, museums, and galleries can be requested for temporary loans and are returned at the end of the President's final term. The Obamas have selected contemporary art, including abstract art, from the permanent collection, and borrowed work for their private quarters. Besides the Hopper paintings and John Alston's Martin Luther King sculpture, they've selected art by *Anni Albers, *Josef Albers, Edgar Degas, Jasper Johns, Louise Nevelson, *Robert Rauschenberg, Edward Ruscha, and *Alma Thomas. * indicates works that have been donated to the permanent collection. The Obama Administration upgraded the website so that anyone unable to visit in person can have open access. I encourage visits to the website https://www.whitehouse.gov/about/inside-white-house/art. I love the diverse rooms and all the interconnected doors such as the splendid Green Room installation with the Marin and the Jacob Lawrence activating the threshold.
My gratitude to Chris Pantano, Office of the Mayor, Gloucester, MA, and the Office of the First Lady and the White House Office of the Curator for various courtesies shown to me while I prepared this entry.


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The U.S. Women & PrEP Working Group present a webinar:
PrEP-ception: Sero-Discordant Couples Using PrEP to Reduce HIV Transmission Risk While Achieving Pregnancy
Monday, October 28, 2013: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EST
To RSVP & register for this webinar, please click here!
On October 28, the U.S. Women and PrEP Working Group will hold a webinar on PrEP-ception -- the possibilities and challenges associated with sero-discordant couples using PrEP to help them achieve pregnancy safely. Presentations by clinicians prescribing PrEP and a first-hand account from a woman who used PrEP for this purpose will be followed by discussion and a question and answer period. The webinar is co-sponsored by SisterLove, Inc., AVAC, the HIV Prevention Justice Project, the National Women's Health Network and the Well Project.
Introduction: Overview of PrEP and the Role of the Working Group
Dazon Dixon Diallo, MPH, Founder and President, SisterLove, Inc.
Defining the Need for Safer Conception Options: The Role of "PrEP-ception"
Shannon Weber, MSW, Director, Perinatal HIV Hotline, Bay Area Perinatal AIDS Center
A Framework for the Integration of PrEP
Erika Arron, CRN, Drexel University College of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine
One Mom's Story
Questions and Discussion
Dazon Dixon Diallo, Moderator
When: Monday, October 28, 2013 at 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM PST / 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM MST / 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM CST / 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EST
Unfamiliar with PrEP? Please click here to check out this fact sheet before the webinar and the basics.
The U.S. Women and PrEP Working Group is a coalition of women from leading HIV/AIDS and women's health organizations advocating for a coordinated national agenda that will quickly and accurately answer questions about how the antiretroviral (ARV) drug Truvada can best be made available as an HIV prevention option for women at risk of HIV infection.
This webinar is co-sponsored by SisterLove, Inc., AVAC, the HIV Prevention Justice Alliance, the National Women's Health Network and the Well Project -- all organizations represented on the US Women and PrEP Working Group.


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Melanoma is the most serious type of skin cancer. It starts when the pigment-producing cells in your skin (melanocytes) become abnormal and grow out of control.
Melanoma usually looks like a flat, brown or black mole that has irregular, uneven borders. Most melanomas show up as a new spot or skin growth. But they can form in an existing mole or other mark on the skin. Treatment works best when melanoma is found early.
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I looked up from washing dishes one morning last spring and saw a cluster of women in Islamic dress walking away from the school bus stop outside our window. They wandered off by pairs or threes, hijabs with hijabs, niqabs with niqabs, away into the side streets.
My hands slowed in the water, my baby stirred inside me, and I couldn't look away until the women had passed beyond sight.
So these were our neighbors—not in small-town Afghanistan, but in family housing at a major university in southern Ontario, our new home.
"And who is my neighbor?" a legal scholar asks Jesus in the book of Luke, prompting the parable of the Good Samaritan. My Sunday school reflex is to acknowledge all people as neighbors, fellow humans, and objects of mercy and kindness.
My Americanadian impulse is to cherish the right to religious freedom, to live and let live while trying not to offend anyone. Like the man who confronts Jesus, I've internalized the rules and norms of my culture, but I'm faced with a conundrum. Leaving aside the scholar's rhetorical caginess, I earnestly want to know how best to live side by side with followers of conservative Islam.
How can I be a good neighbor in this context?
The question presented itself one afternoon last spring when I sat on my patio and slid my pants up past my knees to sun my legs. A moment later, the metallic sounds of a recorded Arabic prayer drifted over the common lawn. While I gathered vitamin D, I worried for a while over whether my exposed legs, which I had long considered to be innocuous, might not be.
With the birth of my daughter, the suckling-urgent question of how to be a good mother has joined the question of how to be a good neighbor. It also reordered my identity: first a mammal, then a Christian and participant in general society. In the past, with neighbors of any stripe, my default mode has been polite indifference.
With a small human to raise, that doesn't seem good enough anymore.
Also, the women in full niqab are hard to ignore. Their taxonomy of textiles is nearly illegible to me, but it enables my neighbors to recognize each other, to know who belongs to the same sect, the same region, or the same tongue—even as their personal visual identities are obscured. This unifying shorthand in a neighborhood composed of temporary residents of dozens of nationalities must be a gift to them. It is sometimes disorienting to me.
One day, half dozing, my newborn asleep on my chest, I thought for a moment that I saw a curly-haired Hobbit run by screaming, and in hot pursuit a Ringwraith, swooping and swaying across the grass. As my head cleared they came around, and I recognized through a voluminous robe the awkward gait of a woman as pregnant as I had been a few weeks prior. A bolt of sympathy flashed through my pelvis, and I immediately felt a pang of guilt over the good/evil implications of my Lord of the Rings mistake.
How different are we, really? Our days are filled with the needs of small children, the hand washing of dishes, the rhythms of the university calendar. We are far away from wherever we come from, in pursuit of the affluence and mobility of education. We are all shaped to some degree by the collective conscience of our inherited cultures, and in turn we shape our children. It is their presence in our lives that gives urgency to our ways of knowing and being. I imagine we have much in common.
Yet the niqab, and the myriad things it represents from inside and out, hangs between us. Where my faith is invisible, I admire my Muslim neighbors for the overt statement of theirs. By having nothing to hide, I disappear into the culture at large. By cloaking all but their eyes, these women disappear behind the veil of Islam. Unless they have identifiable children in tow, it is hard to know if I have said hello to the same woman twice.
One day in the parking lot as I packed my daughter into the car, a toddler appeared beside us, adorable and utterly alone. Not knowing if she spoke English or if she could even identify her own house, I attempted to coax her out of the lot. As we crossed the common lawn, her mother emerged from an open door. I called out to explain where the girl had been, and she said nothing, giving only the briefest wave before disappearing again. She might have looked relieved. She might have looked chagrinned. I can only guess at what was going on behind her veil.
At times, a part of me envies the covered women, for the veneer of their belonging together, for the visible excuse they have for being anti-social. I feel a bit left out as the niqab-wearers in the village swirl in and out of each other's homes or fill the benches at the playground. I've had only a handful of brief conversations as we push our babies on the swings. Without a common language or ease in acknowledging our cultural differences, there is no immediate knowing what to do with each other, let alone what to make of each other.
Who might I offend by breastfeeding outdoors? How many women will have to walk away from the playground if my husband arrives with our daughter? What kind of grace or hospitality can we extend to each other in this closely shared space? Is it grace we extend when we pretend not to see each other?
How can I be a good neighbor in this context?
I ask my question again every time we enter the lab of our neighborhood, the street and playground that make up our present world. A year into the asking, I still do not have an answer.
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At the beginning of the 20th century Einstein published three revolutionary ideas that changed forever how we view Nature. At the beginning of the 21st century Einstein\'s thinking is shaping one of the key scientific and technological wonders of contemporary life: atomic clocks, the best timekeepers ever made. Such super-accurate clocks are essential to industry, commerce, and science; they are the heart of the Global Positioning System (GPS), which guides cars, airplanes, and hikers to their destinations. Today, atomic clocks are still being improved, using Einstein\'s ideas to cool the atoms to incredibly low temperatures. Atomic gases reach temperatures less than a billionth of a degree above Absolute Zero, without solidifying. Such atoms enable clocks accurate to better than a second in 60 million years as well as both using and testing some of Einstein\'s strangest predictions. This will be a lively, multimedia presentation, including experimental demonstrations and down-to-earth explanations about some of today\'s most exciting science.


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A colleague recently complained to me that I'm forcing him to write a unittest without a good reason. He had written a small method which he told me that there's almost no way of breaking, it's so trivial that it doesn't need a test.
The code in question was written in Python and looked like this:
from some.module import Settings
class Object(Base): def is_fluff(self): return self.state == Settings.STATE_FLUFF
In his change he added the is_fluff method, which wasn't previously defined (but self.state) was.
I told him that there are a actually possible to break the method in a number of different ways:
- by changing the method name
- by changing the attribute name
- by changing the constant name
- by changing the constants module name
- by changing the type of the attribute
- by changing the type of the constant
- by changing the value of the constant
- by changing the operator
- by changing the function prototype
- by removing the return keyword
- by subclassing the object and overriding the method
This is not a complete list since Python is a very dynamic language. You can change the behavior of objects in various interesting ways. Overriding attribute lookup, the comparision operator, class creation, method invocation etc etc etc
So by writing a very simple test like this:
o = Object() o.state = Settings.STATE_KLARKE assert not o.is_fluff() o.state = Settings.STATE_FLUFF assert o.is_fluff()
The moral of the story is that we're actually testing a lot more than just a simple comparision in a dynamic language like Python where the compilation process is very simple.
This is not an attack on dynamic languages like Python. A language which does extensive type checking at compilation time is likely to catch a few of the possible errors I listed, but not all of them. The most dangerous one is changing the value of the constant, no tool in the world can help you catch that. (assuming our object is going to live longer than the time of our program, eg the values are going to be saved in a database)
You'll need to write a unittest for your program regardless of the language you choosed to implement it in. Python makes it easy to write and maintain code and since unittests should be written anyway it's on the winning side ;-)