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"Waking up in the Douro to a breathtaking view. #DouroWineTour is over. Finally heading back to Lisbon. "
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"One of the best wines of Douro and its creator. A supreme example of what a 37 varieties and 100 year old vineyard can do. Absolutely outstanding! "
Quinta do Crasto Vinha Maria Teresa 2007
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"Most probably the most amazing lunch view I've ever had! At Quinta do Crasto. "
"The striking landscape of the Douro at Quinta Vale D. Maria. "
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"The beautiful 40 year old vineyard at Morgadio da Calçada. "
"Good morning traditional Douro! "
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"Interviewing Francisco "Xito" Olazabal at the great Quinta do Vale Meão. "
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Stacie Fields of January 2014 C Squad was a woman on the run.
Threatened by an abusive boyfriend, condemned by a church culture, battling self-hatred and shame over her past, Stacie moved to New York to make a fresh start and pursue her dream of professional dance career.
Though saved as a child, it was at a retreat with her New York church where Stacie believed for the first time God loved her. "I realized my sin doesn't disqualify me from God's love or from His calling on my life. The more I got to know God, the more free I became.
And God then gave me a heart for setting captives free."
Stacie found the World Race when searching for missions organizations in Southeast Asia. But she was living her dream - a cast member in a popular dance company - and wasn't ready to surrender her dance career.
"I found myself lying in bed at night reading blogs and crying. I prayed and fasted to find if this was God's will for my life. And confirmation was everywhere. I have had a still small voice for years telling me I was created for the nations, that I have a missionary heart. God was asking me to hold all that I loved with open hands."
Since her launch in January, Stacie has lived surrender - her career, future plans, personal space, expectations, comfort and familiarity, even ministry. It all came to a head in Mozambique, where the distance between the bright lights of New York and the bush of Southern Africa is measured in more than just miles. "We had to cook every meal over a fire. The closest grocery store was five hours away. We could only shower when we had the water to do so. There were bugs the size of my head and squatties full of maggots. The spiritual warfare was intense and oppressive.
But we saw healing; we saw deliverance, we saw salvation, and we saw miracles."
Coming from a church culture where she felt like she was "too much" and "not good enough" at the same time, Stacie has found safety in the community of her squad. "We have shared our secrets and fears, celebrated each other, and have been brutally honest with each other. These brothers and sisters have supported me and loved me exactly as the loud, wild, crazy, free-spirited woman I am. Instead of silencing our roar or telling each other to sit down, to be tamed, the WR has given each of us the freedom to be ourselves, to be bold, to be crazy, passionate, wild for Jesus. We are all being put into the furnace together."
In that furnace, Stacie has seen the unmatchable beauty of surrender, of trusting God as her provider, her protector, and her Savior. Of seeing him restore her heart and set her free.
And asking her to dance.
"I have learned, when God asks us to hand something to Him, He has something even better in mind. I have been able to dance in a park full of people in Guatemala, in churches and youth camps in Africa. I even got to teach dance classes to women in Mozambique."
As Stacie enters the final month of her Race, it's just the beginning for one of her new dreams - a dance ministry for women rescued from abuse, prostitution, and trafficking. Her challenge to Racers is to remember why they chose to leave home and familiarity for 11 months. "We are not ambassadors of the USA; we are ambassadors of Christ. The World Race isn't the point… Jesus is. We are not doing what we do to glorify a trip or ourselves. So fall in love with Him. Focus your gaze on Him. It's not just the 11 month journey He has called you for…it is every moment of your life on this earth. Make it a priority to know the Father's heart."
Because his heartbeat is the dance.
Visit Stacie's blog to read more about her journey. Interested in going on the World Race? Click here to find out more.

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EducationSaad Amirhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277229251527832949.post-16292519954480043202009-12-15T05:22:32.740-08:002009-12-15T05:22:32.740-08:00Medical wards, patients and staff: The red haired...Medical wards, patients and staff: The red haired stepchildren of the NHS.Nurse Annehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277229251527832949.post-39627971716990386012009-12-15T05:00:12.846-08:002009-12-15T05:00:12.846-08:00Oh Anon, believe me I do stand up for my staff, un...Oh Anon, believe me I do stand up for my staff, untill I am blue in the face, again and again we tell "management" that just because a patient has not had a laparotomy does not mean that they need less care... Medicine gets the least staff, the least resources, and the most challenging of patients.As Anne knows, my hat is firmly off to her and others like her who continue to give a shit in very difficult circumstances. Mine is not an "argument" - it is my daily challenge - to keep the patients as safe as possible....if the staffing templates were half as good in medicine as they are in surgery I wouldn't have to stretch my already overworked nurses and further, but, until the staff/patient ratios increase, that is what I have to do.Nurse Ratchethttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277229251527832949.post-18445970725798786872009-12-15T01:05:32.710-08:002009-12-15T01:05:32.710-08:00I used to work in an area that was very unsafe if ...I used to work in an area that was very unsafe if there was a call-in. We had no floats, and it was critical care along with very confused and combative dementia patients (they were very ill as well). After a few very scary shifts and leaving work in tears, I wised up. I stopped clocking in and would not take report before I assessed the situation and determined that there were enough staff to safely care for the patients. I think my NM got wind of this and soon after I started this practice, Voila! We had coverage. I informed my co-workers I would rather lose my job than my license. But I was a good nurse who worked hard and took good care of my patients. I think that's what saved my butt. Bless your heart, Anne. I don't know if your management is smart enough to try to retain a good nurse if she stood up to them against unsafe conditions. Nurse Ratchet, I'm sure you're a good soul, but my loyalty is with MMN on this issue. Enlightened members of management (including yourself) should be standing up for your staff and speaking out on their behalf to the people who could change things for the better - not hanging them out to dry with that tired old "Not enough staff is better than no staff" rationalization. After all, the staff nurse IS the one who will have the bull's eye painted on her forehead if a sentinel event occurs and harm gets done. So your argument does not hold water. firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277229251527832949.post-81538423053706018372009-12-14T10:22:01.798-08:002009-12-14T10:22:01.798-08:00Blimey he had better start - I can think of a lot ...Blimey he had better start - I can think of a lot of lovely places to go that are not the NHS in winter that cost £1000's...Nurse Ratchethttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277229251527832949.post-78367689281234576362009-12-14T03:53:07.073-08:002009-12-14T03:53:07.073-08:00Yeah well they cannot just walk out and go home on...Yeah well they cannot just walk out and go home once they have received handover. That is patient abandonment and it is worse than accepting an unsafe assignment technically.

Ward charge nurse (male sister) at my hospital found thousands of pounds worth of travel expenses for himself itemized on his ward budget.

He has travelled no where.Nurse Annehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277229251527832949.post-31601921498611764552009-12-14T03:45:01.390-08:002009-12-14T03:45:01.390-08:00I agree - Pool nurses are the way to go, but round...I agree - Pool nurses are the way to go, but round my way we've just introduced them (AGAIN) and the problem is that if, for some miracle, all the wards are fully staffed, and we place them somewhere that is just busy, but not short, the wards are so uptight about their budgets that they are refusing to pay for them, and so, nurses are refusing, quite rightly, to work on the Pool. We have tried explaining the cost savings when they get a pool nurse vs an agency nurse, and that it will probably still work out cheaper, let alone better for the patient, ...but so much pressure is put on the ward managers about their bloody budgets that the message just does not seem to be getting through. And I know that you are entitled to refuse to do anything that is outside your sphere of competence, but I still have to argue with nurses who think it is OK to threaten to leave a ward and go home, as they are "putting their registration at risk" by staying on a badly staffed ward. I tink the NMC would have a hard time not striking off a nurse who did that, leaving the ward even more dangerous than when they were there.Nurse Ratchethttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277229251527832949.post-18616992177247271712009-12-14T02:23:17.132-08:002009-12-14T02:23:17.132-08:00And the boards of nursing will pull a nurses licen...And the boards of nursing will pull a nurses license if she agrees to float to an unfamiliar area and SOMETHING HAPPENS TO A PATIENT AS A RESULT.

They will. They are upfront about the fact that they will do this.

They don't care if emergency staffing/bed issues at the hospital forced the bed manager to force the nurse to float.
That is beside the point to them.
They will strike her off.

Accepting an unsafe assignment is considered a reason for the NMC to take action against an individual nurse. They do not care what the conditions were like at the hospital. That side of things is not their problemNurse Annehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277229251527832949.post-28598599991608360812009-12-13T23:36:54.585-08:002009-12-13T23:36:54.585-08:00Nurse Ratched, We know you have to do it. But th...Nurse Ratched,

We know you have to do it.

But there are better ways for them to cover sickness and sort wards with no staff than floating nurses.

Floating nurses to unfamiliar areas is not the way for them to do things. It is a pity that they leave you with no choice but to cover wards this way.

Every hospital should invest in a large well trained pool. I have worked in hospitals that have hundreds of people showing up each day and each shift for the "pool".

When they arrive at work they are told where to go i.e "ward 4 is down two staff nurses and you have been orientated to their environment-off you go".

Once they cover all the sickness they use all remaining poool staff to cover things like breaks. Or go to wards where each nurse already has 6 patients but the ward is expecting admissions. The pool RN will take the admissions. They also use pool staff as a one to one i.e sitting with a demented patient on a ward who is wandering.

Once when I worked as a pool nurse they already had every ward covered but I just took over for lunch. The RN would hand over her 5 patients to me and go to lunch. When she came back I would relieve someone else's break and that was my day.

They invested a lot in the pool. And the pool staff were constantly cross trained in all sorts and updated. They are a good investment for hospitals to make and they made what regular staff do. They were not agency. They were all in house staff. They covered maternity leave...all sorts.

Young mothers loved working on the pool because you could pick you shifts. I enjoyed it as well. There was an RN pool and a Care assistant pool. It is a hell of a good investment.

Taking staff off of one short staffed ward to cover a no staffed ward is fucking gay and you guys should not be forced to do it.

Nurses should not be coming into work sick. They need to concentrate etc. When I worked in a department store I would probably show up for work with tonsillitis. It's not like I would be dealing with neutropenic people or working for 12 hours without a drink. But as a nurse? No way.

I do think they should stop paying people for short term sick leave -the odd day off and only pay for long term sick. That would put a stop to the few that take the piss.Nurse Annehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277229251527832949.post-72060659104759043482009-12-13T16:37:48.466-08:002009-12-13T16:37:48.466-08:00"They are covering their asses and putting th..."They are covering their asses and putting the patients at risk and the nurse's license at risk when they do this."
 - oh you so know I am going to argue with that - bollocks Anne. They are trying to get anyone - ANYONE to take care of the patients. We are all trained nurses - surely it is better that SOMEONE (trained)is there trying to get them their drugs, the toilet...to Theatre. I'm not covering my own arse when I move staff - I'm trying to stop a ward full of patients not being looked after.AT ALL. Not being paid is a different matter, that's rubbish and you should be, but please don't give me the crap about puting your license at risk by manning an area that has no staff. It has to be better than no-one there at all.Nurse Ratchethttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277229251527832949.post-39779672593507454722009-12-13T15:19:05.955-08:002009-12-13T15:19:05.955-08:00I got called and asked to work an extra shift abou...I got called and asked to work an extra shift about 5 sundays ago. I agreed to do it, all excited about the fact that I will get an extra shift on sunday pay.

Nope. I am getting compensation time instead. They are giving me a day off when there are only 2 other nurses on the ward.

Never again.Nurse Annehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277229251527832949.post-84814843463947439732009-12-13T11:40:35.025-08:002009-12-13T11:40:35.025-08:00I think you all need to get the union involved at ...I think you all need to get the union involved at this point. It should be ILLEGAL to withhold pay to someone. Comp time would fly in a 9 to 5 Monday through Friday type of environment, but DEFINITELY not in the environment you are trying to work in. They are cheating you out of money. What they are doing is called slavery in a civilized world. Do you have a union? You don't have to strike, but you definitely need to file a grievance en mass. And while you're at it, you need to contact some serious media and go public. Yes, I think it has come to that. Do you have representatives in the government? Get on the phone with them! Write letters! Demand that the pay laws be changed. AND start documenting every time they force you to work without pay. Dates, times, everything, who you talked to, who denied you pay. Get your co-workers to do it, too. There is strength in numbers. You and other staff members will have to stand in solidarity on this. The blog is not enough. Educating the public will not make your situation better, Anne. You and your colleagues must stand together and fight! And to hell with public opinion! The public will not deal justly with you just because they may like you firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277229251527832949.post-92148038132900232692009-12-13T06:52:36.365-08:002009-12-13T06:52:36.365-08:00Sometimes they pay us and sometimes they tell us t...Sometimes they pay us and sometimes they tell us to take it back later as comp time. But you rarely can take comp time because of short staffing. Over the summer they were paying overtime for these kinds of situations after a long period of refusing to do so. But now they are back to refusing to do so.Nurse Annehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277229251527832949.post-54648947183044910562009-12-13T06:52:35.935-08:002009-12-13T06:52:35.935-08:00Sometimes they pay us and sometimes they tell us t...Sometimes they pay us and sometimes they tell us to take it back later as comp time. But you rarely can take comp time because of short staffing. Over the summer they were paying overtime for these kinds of situations after a long period of refusing to do so. But now they are back to refusing to do so.Nurse Annehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277229251527832949.post-53277965533702732162009-12-13T06:06:09.034-08:002009-12-13T06:06:09.034-08:00It cannot be legal to force someone to work for 4 ...It cannot be legal to force someone to work for 4 hours without pay. If it is legal, it can then be used as a means to staff the hospital for free. Is there no authority in England to enforce labor rights? I cannot understand why anyone would endure this email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277229251527832949.post-67700166172568531482009-12-13T06:03:05.013-08:002009-12-13T06:03:05.013-08:00Christ, Anne.Christ, email@example.com


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Enjoy playing with your dog, but do it safely
Sheridan, the dog in the photo, is a classic example of a stick-addicted dog. If he comes across any piece of wood, he seizes it, and drops it at the feet of any nearby human. He then backs off, hunched down low, waiting for the stick to be thrown. When this happens, he chases the stick, and brings it back to be thrown again. He repeats the same sequence, time after time, for as long as his human victim can muster up the energy to keep throwing the stick.
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One particularly traumatic episode is clearly lodged in my memory. I received an emergency call on a Saturday afternoon from a woman whose dog had collapsed in the local public park. I was close by when the phone call came in on my mobile, so I was by her side within minutes, but even then, it was too late. When I arrived, she was kneeling over the inert body of her dog, surrounded by a pool of blood. He had run onto a sharp stick, and the main blood vessel at the back of his throat had been punctured. He had bled to death within seconds.
In the past, I've sometimes advised dog owners to stop throwing sticks completely, but this is difficult to enforce. Stick-obsessed dogs enjoy their pastime so much that it seems unfair to stop them from doing it. My compromise has been to suggest that only carefully chosen pieces of wood should be thrown. Sticks that are more than one inch in diameter, with blunted ends, are much less likely to cause injuries than narrow sticks with sharp ends. The problem is that any wooden stick can cause problems; dogs like Sheridan tend to chew pieces of wood, sometimes creating sharp, protruding points at either end.
A better answer to the stick problem has recently been designed and launched on the dog toy market; I mentioned this last month, as a possible Christmas present for pets. "Safestix" have been specifically created to be thrown for stick-mad dogs to chase and retrieve. They are 70cm long, 2cm diameter lengths of hard durable rubber, with a spherical bobble at each end, designed and produced by a British soldier after his own dog was hurt chasing a stick.
It's bad enough when unpredictable accidents happen; it's far worse when you realise that a crisis could have been avoided. If you have a stick-mad dog like Sheridan, make sure you get him something safe to play with.
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> My goal is to see if the Rovio can be used as a room localization system for other robots.
BTW: Evolution Robotics sells a developer kit for $1800 USD.
(mini review: http://www.acroname.com/robotics/info/evaluation/northstar/northstar.html#c)
The developer kit includes one Detector ($1400). It handles the detection of the IR, locating the detector in a room, and sending the results via RS232 to your computer (or robot).
The developer kit includes two Projector units ($600 for two) which projects the IR signals to the ceiling.
AFAIK in Rovio it has a similar setup (the detector part is in the robot neck, and the projector in the charger base)
The NorthStar system is separate and sends data to the main CPU over a serial port. AFAIK it is not upgradable/hackable, but you can tap into the serial protocol.
Buying a few Rovios and stripping out the detectors may be a lower cost alternative to the $1800 kit (but without any documentation).
> ...will it be possible to read these points in a continuous sampling and thus accurately calculate our location in the room.
Of course, it is easy to do today by simply repeating that URL request and stripping out the numbers (that's what the existing JavaScript does). NOTE: they added one additional value in the 4.09 "BATA" release.
> The Northstar system (from Evolution) has earlier claimed accuracy of as little as 1/4 inch...
(I'll believe that when I see it ;-)
TIP: the x/y/theta numbers can bounce all over the place, especially if you are far from the beacon or have high ceilings. The "ss" signal strength will give you an indication of how reliable the numbers are. Play with Rovio (and beacon) under a table and the accuracy goes up ;->
> How does Rovio follow paths? What's the path-following process? Hmmm...
Also little is known here. I believe the path data is stored in the NorthStar system, but I haven't figured out the details of how it interacts with the motor controllers.
You could figure out more by disassembling the main firmware, including the serial packet interface.
Or wait for the open source version which should at least include the NorthStar interface library (it is statically linked with other GPL code), the way it glues to the webcam/webserver part. The NorthStar system itself is proprietary and patented.
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Hi all,
My goal is to see if the Rovio can be used as a room localization system for other robots. So, I'm using the CGI call:
Which returns something like this....
Cmd = nav
responses = 0|x=1374|y=-370|theta=-1.318|room=0|ss=18444
The X, Y, and theta values show the XY location of rovio and the spin, reletive to the closest beacon signal.
The question is, will it be possible to read these points in a continuous sampling and thus accurately calculate our location in the room. The Northstar system (from Evolution) has earlier claimed accuracy of as little as 1/4 inch, which is pretty amazing. Will be interested what accuracy Rovio provides.
First problem I'm running into... When moving Rovio in a straight fashion, with no spin, I seem to get an accurate XY coordinate mapping to the floor. HOWEVER the XY coords change completely when the robot is spun even a bit. Clearly there is some mathematical mojo happening here, some formula that is needed to convert X-Y-Theta into an "absolute" XY spin number for the beacon. I can't figure it all out.
How does Rovio follow paths? What's the path-following process? Hmmm...
Anybody have an idea?
> My goal is to see if the Rovio can be used as a room localization system for other robots.
I am guessing here, but I would suspect that Rovio uses both dead reckoning, and updates from the Trutrack system to follow a path.
For example, it might know its location accurately now, and knows it must travel 6ft at a 90deg angle in relation to the base to get to the next waypoint. So, it calculate how many turns it must make of each wheel to get there. Perhaps half way there it checks its current position using Trutrack (I have no idea how frequently it checks its position) and realizes it is 3 inches off course. So, it recalculates a new path and how many wheel rotations are needed to get to its goal.
Joe Dunfee
Any physics majors in the bunch? I'd like to know why I can see the infrared beams coming out the TrueTrack beacon as a red glow when I focus my Sony Handycam video recorder on it, but not see the beams reflected on the ceiling. In other words, I understand that my the electronics in my Handycam can see infrared, but why can't the same electronics see the infrared beams projected on to the ceiling?
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> I understand that my the electronics in my Handycam can see infrared, but why can't the same electronics see the infrared beams projected on to the ceiling?
BTW: This is also true for the built in Rovio camera (OV7670)
It can see regular IR signals (eg: from a TV remote) but can't disambiguate the dots projected on the ceiling.
Regarding the ability to see IR with your video recorder; these cameras are not really designed to view infrared, they are primarily visible light cameras. The fact that they can view IR is that their imaging chips happen to also detect IR as well as visible light. This is actually a bad thing for visible light photography because it can cause the image to be "wrong" as compared to what a human would see.
Because of the above, visible light cameras have filters to block the IR light. But, these filters are not perfect, and let some IR light through. As an aside, I know there have been at least one visible light video cameras that had a "nightime" mode where the IR filter is moved out of the light path to allow much better detection of IR light.
The final issue is that when you are focused on a single LED, the amount of IR light the camera recieves to a particular pixel is MUCH greater than when you are looking at the light spread out over a ceiling. Also, the ceiling absorbs some of the IR light and also disperses a lot.
In the end, it could actually be that your camera is detecting the IR light from the ceiling, but that it is so close in brightness to the other light in the room that it doesn't really show enough for you to notice.
Joe Dunfee
Tom B said: Yes, thanks, I know about the Northstar kit. However my understanding was, the Rovio tech is a "newer" version of the technology. Therefore it made more sense to try to use it. No reason to hack the hardware...the CGI script sends the numbers quite conveniently. Actually in a way the Rovio is an amazingly useful piece of hardware anyway. Take off the wheels, camera, etc, and you have a northstar type position detector hooked to a wireless mini-server that can be queried at any time by other robotic systems. That's a very useful gadget. The key question, again, is how the X, Y, and theta interact. If the robot is spun in place, the X and Y numbers change radically. Therefore they are not X and Y numbers for the "room" but are some other coordinate system that, I'm guessing, are somehow related to the orientation of the sensor reletive to multiple spots in the beam.
I was playing with this last night. Theta varies from +Pi to -Pi. When rovio was directly under the center of the beacon 'line' (connecting the two red arrows) and pointed at the base (right angle to the beacon line), theta was ~0.
If you spin the whole Rovio, remember the detector is not at the center of rotation, so it is changing it's XY position. Try rotating it about the sensor position itself. Also, the XY is relative to the brightest beacon, which I suspect means one of the beacon spots is considered 'major'. When you spin it, you're changing the orientation of the detector relative to that spot, so it might make sense that X and Y would change signs? One inch of position change might change the values by several hundred unit... but I've seen the value bounce by up to 1000 units between successive reads. It would be nice to know how many readings Rovio averages, to determine position at any point.
@RobosapienPet, have you considered hooking a 'scope onto the beacon IR LEDs to see what the signal pattern is?
I'm curious, are you directly under the spots when you try spinning? I was seeing large variations on succesive reads like you describe, when Rovio was on the base and the spots were projected about 8 feet out from the base. But when I put Rovio on the floor under the spots, the variation was in a few 100s of units. And yes, I guess we don't know if the reported XY values have undergone any preprocessing; they might be just raw instantaneous values off the detectors. I'd like to try plotting a series of reads from the same position to see if the variance is related to signal strength as RobosapienPet suggested. Also move Rovio to marked positions and try to determine the relationship of normalized room XY to the cgi reported XY values.
Oops, forgot to mention, the Evolution Robotics website says the sampling interval is 100 msec...
Can somebody post readings for Rovio in one point with different value of theta?
May be several sets for different positions. Something like:
Point 1 (near base)
Point 2 (center of room)
Point 3 (...)
Will be better if points are in pattern like this:
1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9
3-4 values of theta and corresponding x,y values for each point will be enought :))
I'll try to do some math excersizes with this data :))
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working on it... I copied a bunch of readings last night into Excel but didn't break into individual cells. Plz stand by...
under one spot, nose to 2nd spot (X Y theta)
-2436 -56 1.387
-2460 -78 1.387
-2429 -36 1.383
-2429 -36 1.383
rotate 180 degrees
-4254 490 -1.567
-4243 445 -1.555
-4261 446 -1.557
-4239 422 -1.554
under other spot
2484 -633 -1.645
2463 -656 -1.653
2440 -635 -1.641
2492 -644 -1.643
rotate 180 degrees
4170 -991 1.507
4099 -1001 1.501
centered between, nose to base
3 -1515 -0.168
6 -1468 -0.165
54 -1487 -0.161
33 -1377 -0.156
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These were done by rotating the entire Rovio, not centered about the sensor unfortunately.
Can you do 90 degrees rotation for some points too?..
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You can try to search for extremums:
1) point with x=0 and y=0 and check behevior of values with rotating and small movements
2) tracks for which x remains 0, and check for theta and y changes
3) tracks for which y remains 0, and check for theta and x changes
4) tracks with constant value of theta (0, pi, pi/2, -pi/2)
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BROWNING, MT -- Nowhere in the West does the rolling sea of the high plains meet the mountains with such dramatic effect as in northwestern Montana. State Highway 2 stretches through the northern Hi-Line for miles of coulees and intermittent creeks, antelope, buffalo and Plains Indian country, crossing the seemingly endless, expansive prairie that gives the Big Sky Country its name, before crashing abruptly into the Rocky Mountain Front. A patchwork of national park and national forests, reservation and rangeland, the sparsely populated Front provides one of the last best refuges in the lower 48 states for grizzly bears, and shelters the nation's largest bighorn sheep herd. A great span of wilderness totaling five million acres that extends from the state's capital in Helena to the Canadian border, the Front hosts every single species of animal that lived here when Meriwether Lewis and William Clark arrived 200 years ago, with the exception of free-ranging bison.
Oil and gas companies have coveted the Rocky Mountain Front -- known to geologists as the Montana Thrust Belt -- for decades. The kind of violent tectonics responsible for this dramatic scenery tends to open channels for mineralization and leave pockets for oil and gas reservoirs. The U.S. Geological Survey estimated in 2002 that the Belt might harbor some 8.6 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, 109 million barrels of oil and 240 million barrels of natural gas liquids (heavier hydrocarbons like propane, butane and ethane). Environmentalists argue these amounts are miniscule compared to our national needs; industry folks counter that every bit helps. But no one really knows what lies underground, because in 2006 Congress banned leasing along the Front.
The ban capped off a 30-year campaign to Save the Front (the rallying cry of the coalition of ranchers, outfitters and environmentalists who oppose drilling there), but probably had less to do with their political power, and nearly everything to do with the Blackfeet Nation.
The Blackfeet reservation sits at the north end of the Front, straddling the foothills abutting Glacier National Park to the west. The Blackfeet are large people -- imposing in stature and big-hearted, a physical and spiritual match to the landscape. One of only six tribes in the United States whose reservation occupies their ancestral homeland, their 19th century reputation as fierce and fearsome warriors survives to this day. The Blackfoot Confederacy includes three groups in Canada, with the Blackfeet (or South Piegan, or Pikuni) the sole tribe settling south of the border. The Confederacy's territory once stretched from the Great Slave Lake of the Northwest Territories to the north end of present-day Yellowstone National Park.
Historians date the Blackfeet's tenure in the Northern Rockies at a mere 300 years (which, as it turns out, is when the first Europeans encountered the Blackfoot Confederacy in Canada). But as one archeologist told me, the combination of linguistics, oral tradition, mythology, and archeology makes possible an 8,500 year time span or more. Tribal Historic Preservation Officer John Murray cites 10,000-year-old archeological sites in the nearby mountains tied to his people. The Nation's website proclaims: "We come from right here."
At the heart of "here" is a smallish piece of land, 130,000 acres southwest of the reservation. Technically, the Badger-Two Medicine is national forest land, and to the naked eye is not distinguishable from the rest of the Lewis and Clark National Forest. But the Badger is the key to what happened here and why.
The Badger-Two Medicine is part of the Backbone of the World. It's full of mountains named for the supernatural beings who live there, "other-than-human persons," as one writer calls them: Morningstar, Poia, the colorful Thunder bird, Wind Maker, and Medicine Grizzly. "It is precisely this mythic understanding of kinship and reciprocity with the land -- all rocks, plants and animals -- which empowers the Badger-Two Medicine as a sacred landscape," writes Jay Vest in his 1988 article, "Traditional Blackfeet Religion and the Sacred Badger-Two Medicine Wildlands."
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In celebration of Citizenship Day on Sept. 17, new Americans describe how their lives changed after they became U.S. citizens.
In May, the citizenship application becomes twice as long, going from 10 to 21 pages. Advocates are encouraging immigrants to apply now.
For the first time, reports estimate the number of LGBT immigrants in the U.S. — a group that's been on the frontline of the immigrant rights movement.
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The John and Inez Watson Scholarship was established in 2010 by the seven children of John and Inez Watson: Wilmer, Neva W. Newlin, Reva W. Dietrich, Dale, Lowell, Gary, and Cheryl W. Davenport. Five of the children graduated from Warren Wilson: Wilmer '51, Neva and Reva '53, Dale '56, and Lowell '63. Cheryl transferred in 1968 after two years at Warren Wilson. Additionally, one granddaughter, Karen W. Marberger, graduated from WWC in 1974 and another granddaughter, Elaine D. Thoms, attended for two years before transferring in 1977.
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Is CE Mark "Good Enough?" LinkedIn Members Weigh InJanuary 27, 2012 – 4:41 pm
Over the years, a growing number of medical device companies in the United States have decided to obtain the CE mark for new products before attempting to approve products through FDA. While FDA is not monolithic, many in the industry view the European system as generally more consistent, transparent, and often easier to deal with than FDA's Office of Device Approvals. And the reason for that thinking is easy to understand: products generally obtain the CE mark much earlier than they do FDA approval.
In late 2010, a somewhat controversial survey titled "FDA Impact on U.S. Medical Technology Innovation" sought to quantify the feeling of medical device professionals in the United States who had experience with product approvals in the United States and Europe. In terms of "overall experience," the survey found that 75% of respondents rated their regulatory experience in the European Union as "excellent" or "very good." Only 16% held FDA in such high esteem.
The report was later criticised by Gregory Curfman, MD, executive editor of the New England Journal of Medicine as well as by Howard Bauchner, MD, editor in chief of JAMA.
But the fact remains that many people active in the industry had the opinion that the European regulatory framework was, in a word, better than the US version. In early 2011, Jeffrey Shuren, MD, director of FDA's CDRH division came to the defense of the US regulatory system, stating that, in the EU, patients are treated as "guinea pigs."
His remark was widely attacked at the time. But, more recently, there has been growing disapproval of the EU system as a result of the PIP breast implant scandal.
Over on the Medical Devices Group, I asked if a CE mark was "good enough," and 67 responses came pouring in within two weeks. I wrote:
As you know, medical devices sold in America require FDA clearance. Is gaining FDA clearance more stringent than obtaining a CE mark?
And a question for regulatory experts in our group: Is it defensible for your sales reps to say to a prospect, "Well, our device has FDA clearance and the competitor only has a CE mark." The clear inference is that FDA clearance is better, so you should buy my product instead.
|Michael Olmsted, an experienced VP of field services for medical device companies, taught me I was comparing apples and oranges. "As a US-based manufacturer, we didn't compare CE and the FDA but whether your equipment was UL (Underwriters Laboratory) certified and then CE approved to be sold into Europe." Ben Vonk added, "CE is not a mark (like the UL mark) but rather a marking. So it is better to talk about CE marking a product."
|Medical Device Regulatory Affairs Expert Michael Santalucia squarely answered my question. He opined, "I wouldn't necessarily state that FDA is better than the EU process – rather it is different based on law and other requirements … As to the question of a marketing use to compare approvals between jurisdictions … it may not be the best practice to state having authorization to market in one or multiple countries is an indicator of quality or performance."
|Leslie Gestautas, an EU notified body, sides with Michael. "Comparing the two systems in an apples-to-apples or which-is-better scenario is a fast road to frustration (this is true outside of MDD and IVD as well – CE doesn't compare directly to UL for other types of manufacturers, for example).
I'm not aware that a marketing claim like the one you came across could get you into "trouble" per se, but as a former entrepreneur myself I think it's a weak marketing stance, and at worst it broadcasts a clear misunderstanding of the two types of clearance (FDA and CE). I'd want a lot more for my marketing dollar than that!
Sounds to me like their regulatory dept. was doing a good job by nixing that approach."
|Uffe Kemnitz promotes high-end ophthalmology products. Uffe wrote, "I have worked with medical devices for many years. My experience is that the FDA at any time will rank higher than the CE marking. Although within the EU must not use the FDA as a standard, many doctors [ask] 'What does FDA say for this device?'
What I think is ludicrous is you can not agree on creating a common labeling and thus a common set of rules for approval of products for both the EU and the U.S.. It is tremendously expensive to pay for studies at one and the other to the Atlantic.
EMEA and FDA on the medical side Santander are often unaware of each other's results so companies to get access to one or the other market are forced to spend much money on documentation to satisfy the bureaucrats in both institutions. It would be worthwhile to work towards a common label."
|Jean Bigoney prepares 510(k) submissions and HCPCS coding requests for a variety of medical devices. She wrote, "FDA clearance is indeed far more cumbersome than getting the CE mark.
I've run into several medical device manufacturers and startups in Europe blindsided by the requirements for a 510(k) but also baffled as to how our system works … they usually do not understand the FDA is reactive and not proactive, and only responds to issues pertaining to specific products. So to use the FDA approval process as a marketing argument in Europe could be difficult – your audience may have no idea what the approval process entails."
Jean continued: "Having said that, there may be an opportunity to use the current breast implant scandal to play up the positive side of FDA regulatory authority. Make no mistake, someone determined to substitute inexpensive non-approved materials for costlier approved ones could get away with it in the US, at least for a limited period of time. However I like to think that sooner or later, they would be on the FDA radar. As a matter of fact, in the case of PIP, the FDA inspected the manufacturing site way back in 2000 in connection with a different type of breast implant and as a result sent PIP this warning letter.
If the FDA knew way back in 2000 that PIP had GMP manufacturing issues, why didn't the EU regulatory system pick up on it?
|Norbert Sparrow, EMDT Editor-in-Chief, added, "I do believe that the European regulatory system will become stricter, partly to respond to public concerns of device safety in the aftermath of the PIP implants scandal as well as other perceived shortcomings of the "new approach" directives … Will the "Europe first" strategy that many medical device manufacturers have embraced be a casualty?"
The LinkedIn conversation is robust, ongoing, and larger than is practical to summarize here. Click over to the discussion and add your voice.
Special thanks to UBM Canon editor-at-large Brian Buntz for his help with this article.
Joe Hage is the owner of the largest Medical Devices Group on LinkedIn. His LinkedIn goal is to create the industry's only spam-free, curated forum for intelligent conversations with medical device thought leaders. As CEO of Medical Marcom, a medical device marketing consultancy, Joe helps companies become more approachable and engaging so they can generate more qualified leads.Joe Hage
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There's this lady named Mildred and she's in the corner of a coffee shop with a name she can't remember because all she can think about is how gassy she is. She's farting a lot and thinks maybe it could be from the Banoffee pie or the pistachio cake she ate earlier, but she's not sure. Out of ideas, she relaxes back into the wall. She lets it support her for a moment, giving her head a rest too, brains and skull and all. Mildred's wearing a dress because this morning she decided she doesn't like being a ghost anymore so when she looked in her closet, she pulled out the girliest and most unconventionally un-Mildred piece of the lot and resolved to undo herself today by doing herself up. She treated herself to those pies and cakes because she thought the dress was bringing her good luck- based on the looks she's getting from the guy on the other corner of the coffee shop it's still happening- but all of a sudden everything is going downhill and she can't stop farting.
They aren't huge farts, though, or silent-but-deadlies (SBDs), but she can feel her dress ripple in the wake of the wind she's creating in her corner and she laughs a little because really, it's quite funny- the speed and rhythm of them. She tells herself she's grateful there's such loud music so no one else can hear but then she sees the guy on the other end of the room wedge himself out of the space he had not too long ago lodged himself into. He's walking over to her and he's smiling but oh shit, Mildred can't stop farting. Maybe it's the soymilk? she wonders, but there's no hard proof, just poof. And in what Mildred counts as the moment she wishes she were a ghost again the song ends and the man is before her, in the path of a tornado he doesn't know is about to hit and in that freckle of a moment that could have been sneezed over, the air that once sat between her legs has now floated up to her nose and she breathes in so much embarrassment she could package it and sell it for a hundred bucks to the bully who needs to use it at some tough school nearby.
She's hoping he doesn't notice, but his nose starts to wiggle to one side and then to the other and she's thinking that's a really great skill, to be able to move your nose like that. Mildred tries to do the same but she can just flare her nostrils. She becomes self-conscious that this flaring is making her nose look wider than it is so she stops and re-routes her breathing through her mouth, letting it hang. He's looking at her and she's thinking, hoping, he hasn't gotten a whiff yet but from his body language she's thinking he has. She prays, instead, he's just nervous because he is about to ask her on a date and by the looks of it, he doesn't have much practice, so she says, Yes, with her eyes to relieve the tension. He's holding his breath, becoming quite white, and reaches his hand out towards her. She's thinking, Wow, he's fast. He's confident; he's a man. But then his hand cuts just shy of her to grab the sugar from her table and to Mildred's dismay he just nods his head, Thanks, and walks away.
The smile, the gaze, the hands: now imagine Wonder Woman, Hillary Clinton, Raggedy Ann and Rosa Parks as The Mona Lisa.
Very excited to be interviewed on Australia's ABC National Public Radio this Friday morning, 3 May, at 10am (aussie time) on Books and Arts Daily with host Michael Cathcart for a discussion with Valerie Patterson on the Mona Lisa in popular culture. You can find details of how to listen off-air here (http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/), or you can also listen online as a live audiostream. I will post the MP3 when it's archived online, too!
My mom's got a paraplegic bird in her pocket. He ate through her cashmere dressing gown and now gets fed tiny treats for his tiny beak. Not too bad for a bird who can't fly.
I'm reading a story I wrote called "The Gymnast" tonight at Stories Bookstore in Echo Park, CA alongside some awesome writers.
Thailand! You were more fun when I was retoxing than detoxing, but I do love to look at you. Even though I got pink eye and a cold, I managed to look at you with love and fondness. Even though I spent a few hours in a Thai hospital with an empty stomach and a body freckled with mosquito bites so that I could get antibiotics for my it's-a-girl-colored eye, I still think you're hot.
For the last 7 days I've been expelling shit so that I can feel light and free. But I don't feel as light or as free as I'd hoped. I feel tired and this psyllium husk is a bitch. I've only lost a few pounds and have tortured myself by spending all my free time devouring restaurant menus, youtube cooking channels, and an array of recipe sites like Epicurious, One for the Table, and Skinnytaste… imagining, waiting, dying for the 8th day when I can eat again. It turns out I'm not the only one who fills her time with temptation. I met a lovely German lady who's spent the last few days drawing recipes and planning what she'll cook when she gets home, and even dreaming as I have been of binge eating. So it's not just me! I guess fantasy and anticipation are what keep us all going.
I must have teased my tastebuds too much on Koh Phangan (a place I thought I could pronounce until I met a group of Thai ladies in the sauna who kept trying to correct me. We went back and forth so many dizzying times that by the end I could barely recognize the words I was saying. 'Paang-annn," they coaxed. "Paang-aang," I tried, but my tired tongue couldn't do it. "No, no, no… Paaaaaaan-aaaaaannggg…" and on it went). In Haad Tien, I ate chicken laab and fresh barbequed seafood like red snapper and prawns with roasted sweet potatoes and salads. I had fresh coconut and mint milkshakes and homemade yogurts and lime spritzers. I met enchanting people, did healing therapies and yoga classes, and climbed to the peak of the locals' treasured "Viewpoint," a spot so high I thought I'd never get down. All at the same time, I admired a breathtaking view while imagining my fateful fall. I wondered who'd come to my funeral, if it would be fun or sad, and that made me miss all my friends and family. But then, I got down (in the dark, mind you), and I danced! I danced until 9am in the morning and until I couldn't dance anymore.
Now I'm in Koh Samui, a place I can pronounce easily (phew), and I've made it through this cleanse WITHOUT cheating. It's not so bad when you arrive on your last day because you're so close to the end you can taste the food that's about to hit your tongue. There were a few times I wanted to just say, Sod it, and run across the road for some "fresh tropical coffee" but I didn't. It's amazing how talking to someone (anybody!) can make you feel better. I went from being shy to trying to chat up everyone in sight, even the Thai ladies working in the restaurant below me who can't understand me but smile anyway. I'll ask for housekeeping just so someone will be there to talk to even if I don't know what she's saying. I'm kidding, they speak great English. And despite my less-than-fantastic experience of detoxing, this place is gorgeous and there's an old lady on the beach in a hut who gave me the best massage of my life. So, good deal, I suppose.
Up next, Chang Mai in the north. Home of what I hear is the real deal. Hey, Chang Mai, I can't wait to have some of your green curry and pad thai!
My wooden creature Jim striking a pose with the owner of AR4T Gallery Torrey Cook in the pages of Laguna Beach Magazine! My work was on display as part of the "Where the Sidewalk Ends" show curated by Chantal deFelice. Congrats, Torrey, on the feature!
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At some point, you realize your parents are getting old. You look at them with concerned, sympathetic eyes. It makes you sad when you see how long it takes them to climb up the stairs. Your phone conversations usually include noticeable gaps of silence during which they fervently search to remember why they called you in the first place; their views of how the world works are becoming increasingly less sound; their rationalizations of logic don't quite add up. After a lifetime of abhorring all things related to group travel, they start to have second opinions about the benefits of cruises. They high five each other when they fall into the 60 plus seniors discount bracket at the movie theater, but their high fives usually miss. You start to receive forwarded emails containing a plethora of sex after 50 jokes they think are hilarious, followed closely by emails wherein the subject lines read a variation of: "[insert your mom's name] wants you to take action to 'Tell Congress Military Working Dogs are Not Equipment!'"
But then it hits you: If they're old, it means you're old, too.
This violent realization hit me, not when I turned 30, but when my mom scheduled a colonoscopy for herself and my dad. They happened to book it on the morning after their 30th wedding anniversary. When I called to find out how they were celebrating, my dad took the opportunity to tell me how, instead of eating steak and drinking wine over a candlelight dinner, they'd be fasting on a horrid concoction of doctor-prescribed laxatives. I think my dad's exact words were, "We'll be on the toilet all night, shitting our brains out." How romantic.
So if they're "seniors," it must mean I'm an adult, right? I look around though, and I don't see any adults. I see young people doing things adults do, but not really. HOA sounds more to me like a disease than an association I'd like to be a part of. My friend's kid comes up to me often and says, "Ask your mom if you can have a sleepover."
I hear it's a good outlook, this kind of perennial, unceasing idea that we are in the process of getting older, of dying, without ever being old. My nana just turned 90 but she has been telling everyone she is 39 for the past 30 years. But if the adults think of themselves as kids until it's time to schedule their first colonoscopy, then who are the adults?
This looks like my mum but I mean that as a compliment.
He's sweet, right?
Illustrations for a story I wrote called "The Gymnast," published in Issue #3 of the awesome literary journal for humor called Kugelmass. Check out excerpts, illustrations and my audio recording (backed by original music by Michael Cera) online here:
Painting for my show last September at PAS Gallery in Fullerton.
Little Wooden Cutout CBGB Groupie Boy