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(NaturalPath) A new study by Mayo Clinic researchers shows that flaxseed may be one way to reduce the bothersome hot flashes of menopause. A small pilot study found that postmenopausal women not on estrogen who used dietary flaxseed daily reported a 50 percent reduction in hot flashes over the course of six weeks.
The study was conducted on 29 postmenopausal women with a median age of 55. To be in the study, the women had to have at least 14 hot flashes a week for at least one month. The sample size was very small and is not conclusive with only 21 women completing the study, but is the first step.
"Flaxseed has some natural phytoestrogens," one researcher explaining how it, like the hormone estrogen, could possibly have an effect on hot flashes.
The women received the flaxseed by sprinkling 40 grams of it, crushed, on yogurt or cereal or mixed it with orange juice or water.
Of those who finished, the researchers said, the frequency of hot flashes declined 50 percent, and the hot flash score – a combined measure of a flash's severity and frequency – was found to have decreased about 58 percent.
For more information, read the full study.
Razi Berry, Founder and Publisher of Naturopathic Doctor News & Review (ndnr.com) and NaturalPath (thenatpath.com), has spent the last decade as a natural medicine advocate and marketing whiz. She has galvanized and supported the naturopathic community, bringing a higher quality of healthcare to millions of North Americans through her publications. A self-proclaimed health-food junkie and mother of two; she loves all things nature, is obsessed with organic gardening, growing fruit trees (not easy in Phoenix), laughing until she snorts, and homeschooling. She is a little bit crunchy and yes, that is her real name.


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You can make the case that this is another movie that really didn't need to be made; that being said, Aaron Paul is engaging as always, the plot was suspenseful, and it was great to see familiar faces back together again.
Plot: After escaping the Brotherhood, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) tries to start his life over again, but his old life keeps getting in the way.
Review: I'll be honest with you – I was okay with how Breaking Bad ended. Yes, it could have been better, I will give anyone that. However, I thought that it pretty much wrapped everything up to a somewhat satisfying conclusion. Jesse fleeing the compound at the end, it never really bugged me what happened after that. Apparently, for Vince Gilligan, there was more to Jesse's story to be told, and you know what? I'm fine with that as well.
So to be clear, even if you're a Breaking Bad fan, you don't necessarily have to see this movie. You can live your life with your imagination of what Jesse did after the fateful night he finally escaped the bloodbath in the compound. However, if you really wanted to know what became of Jesse, then this movie has all the answers for you.
The acting, unsurprisingly, is terrific. Paul's Jesse Pinkman feels like a new character – the torturous, demeaning existence he was living at the end of Breaking Bad has made him a new character, far from the brash young small-time criminal he was at the beginning of the series. Jesse Pinkman has been through Hell, and you can see it every step of the way. If you have been ignoring the internet and don't know who else shows up as well, I won't spoil it for you, but let me just say, it's very satisfying.
As is the suspense in this film. They do throw some character vignettes in, and those could threaten to disrupt the flow of the movie, but luckily, there's usually a point to everything, and they don't take forever. Even when scenes seem disjointed and you think you're taking a ride through Pinkman's broken mind, you realize that everything has a purpose. The scenes in Todd's apartment with the cops and the sequence in the junkyard closer to the end of the film are especially tense and really paced well.
Surprisingly, the cinematography was also beautiful. There are some nice longshots of New Mexico, especially the mountain areas that show how stunning the landscape in the desert can be. This is nicely juxtaposed with the seedy, run-down parts of Albuquerque, which fans of the show will recognize.
In general, it's hard to shake the feeling that this movie is made-for-television – it didn't premiere theatrically, and it was linked to a popular television show. If people want to look at it as such – so be it. There's no harm in that, and really the production values are top-notch, as are the performances. For that reason alone, you should check out this flick, if only to see Aaron Paul killing it again as Jesse Pinkman.

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Gigabit Ethernet to the desktop isn't for every infrastructure, but it's become a popular push both by switching vendors and network administrators. And no wonder: Servers are generally using bonded gigabit links to the network, the cost of Giga-bit Ethernet closet switches is dropping and many corporate desktops are now shipping with Gigabit Ethernet NICs by default.
The problem is that many infrastructures can't push much more than a gigabit or two from the core to the closet switch itself. Thus, 48 Gig ports ride 1Gbps or 2Gbps uplinks back to the core, which can significantly reduce the available throughput within that closet.
To combat this issue, Cisco has revealed a new supervisor engine for its Catalyst 4500 series modular switch, specifically aimed at the 4503, 4506 (which I tested), and 4507R. Sporting two Xenpak 10-Gig ports, the new Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Supervisor Engine II-Plus-10GE is really an edge supervisor, providing rudimentary routing capabilities but extensive QoS support.
It's not really suitable for core switching, given the lack of routing protocol support beyond RIP (Routing Information Protocol), but in the lab it made an impressive showing for duties at the network edge.
A few trillion packets, give or take
In order to put the new Catalyst 4506 with Supervisor Engine II-Plus-10GE though its paces, I teamed the switch up with a Cisco 4948-10GE switch with full core switching and routing functions. The 4948-10GE has 48 Gig ports and two 10-Gig Xenpak uplink ports.
To test the 4506, I relied on a Spirent TestCenter SPT-5000A armed with 16 Gig copper ports and two 10-Gig ports. The SPT-5000A proved absolutely invaluable throughout the testing and allowed me to really stress the 4506 and the new supervisor under a wide variety of simulated conditions.
First, I linked the 4948 and the 4506 via a single 10-Gig connection and ran the Spirent 10-Gig test modules into the remaining 10-Gig ports on either switch. Based on IP with varying packet sizes, the tests were aimed at maxing out the single 10-Gig uplink between the two switches.
Throughout this test, the packet loss was absolutely zero, and wire-rate 15 mpps (million packets per second) was consistently achieved. Next, I kept the single 10-Gig link between the two switches and ran eight copper Gig connections to each switch, balanced among three six-port Gig blades on the 4506, and across several ASICs in the 4948.
Running fully meshed throughput tests with packet sizes ranging from 64 to 1,518 bytes between the two switches, I again witnessed wire-rate performance with packet loss measured in hundredths of a per cent.
With this same test bed, I ran more tests to exercise the address learning and broadcast forwarding functions, and again the 4506 performed flawlessly.
Per VLAN, per port
It was time to give the per-port and per-VLAN QoS a try.
I built a rather large QoS match list comprising more than 500 TCP and UDP (User Datagram Protocol) ports and bound that ACL (access control list) to a QoS configuration on every Gig port on the 4506.
The QoS parameters were to limit the bandwidth of any inbound or outbound TCP connection that matched on the ACL to 20Mbps, dropping packets that exceeded this threshold. Again running the 16 Gig connections to either switch, I ran another meshed test with the Spirent TestCenter SPT-5000A. I still couldn't make the 4506 break a sweat.
I then adapted the test on a per-VLAN basis, assigning several VLANs to each active port to simulate a VoIP or workstation scenario, this time limiting the bandwidth in a similar fashion on one specific VLAN, and reran the tests.
Again, the 4506 performed with aplomb, successfully keeping up with the traffic flow at the highest levels that I could push it. In another test run, I began the meshed streaming test with QoS disabled on the 4506 and then enabled QoS halfway through the test. There was a several-second hesitation in the CLI but no other ramifications of popping the clutch in this fashion, as might be necessary in production. The limiting began immediately and performed as expected.
I performed further testing using EtherChannel to bond the two 10-Gig uplinks between the switches and again running meshed 16-port Gig throughput and forwarding tests. The balancing between the uplinks is fully configurable and dealt well with the load presented.
Using that test bed and 802.1q trunking between the two switches with the 4948-10GE as a switching core, I spanned the test links across eight VLANs and again ran throughput tests.
Again, the resulting packet loss was measured in hundredths of a per cent, or basically indistinguishable from wire-rate 10 Giga-bit Ethernet.
Ready to roll
Try as I might, I couldn't get the Supervisor Engine II-Plus-10GE in the 4506 to stumble, even when presented with oversubscribed workloads and heavy QoS overhead.
So, given a solid fibre plant, pushing 20Gbps each way to closets or other buildings on a campus or within a MAN (metropolitan area network) is easily possible with this switch.
Cisco's Supervisor Engine II-Plus-10GE and the 4506 chassis are meant to perform some heavy lifting, and together they stand as another nail in the coffin for ATM as a meaningful enterprise interconnect.


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Call Ben Hudson at 404-307-2261 or Hudson & Marshall at 478-743-1511.
SALE SITE: The lot will sell from 35 Wesleyan Way in Oxford, GA on Thursday, July 29, 2021at 11:00 A.M.
TERMS OF SALE FOR REAL ESTATE: Successful bidders will pay an earnest money deposit equal to ten percent (10%) of the purchase price with the balance due in 30 days at closing. The Real Estate sells Subject to Seller Approval.
BUYERS PREMIUM: All real estate sold at this auction will be sold with a 10% buyer's premium fee. The bid amount plus the buyer's premium equals the final purchase price. For example: A $10,000.00 bid plus the $1,000.00 buyer's premium fee equals the final purchase price of $11,000.00.
CLOSING COST: The seller shall pay their pro-rata share of the estimated 2021 real estate taxes as a credit to Purchaser at Closing. Purchaser shall be responsible for the 2021 taxes when due. Seller shall also pay the State of Georgia transfer tax and the cost of preparation of the deed which shall be prepared by Seller's attorney. Purchaser shall pay for any title exam fee, title insurance premium or attorney's title opinion, loan closing costs, appraisal fees, recording charges and any and all other costs associated with closing this transaction.
SURVEY: The property will be transferred per existing deed and/or plat.
INSPECTION: The property is available for inspection at anytime.
BUYERS NOTE: Information contained herein was taken from sources deemed reliable and is believed to be correct. Although every precaution has been taken to insure the accuracy of the information herein, Hudson & Marshall, Inc., Seller, Sale Managers and all of their agents will not be responsible for any errors or omissions. It is the Purchasers responsibility to conduct their own due diligence and make their own decisions as to the accuracy of all information. All equipment sells in its "As-Is/Where-Is" condition with no warranties expressed or implied. All equipment and real estate sells free and clear of liens and encumbrances. Auctioneers are acting as agents for the Seller not the Buyer. Announcements made at the auction take precedence over all written matter. Buyers should carefully verify all items and bid accordingly.
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In patients with hyperthyroidism, treatment with radioiodine is not associated with incident cancer in long-term follow-up, according to study results published in Thyroid.
The study included patients from the Clalit healthcare database in Israel who had a new diagnosis of hyperthyroidism between 2002 and 2015 that was newly treated with radioactive iodine or thionamides (propylthiouracil/thiamazole). Patients with previous malignancies were excluded from the study.
To calculate propensity score to receive radioiodine, the researchers used age, sex, smoking history, body mass index, Clalit district, socioeconomic status, history of diabetes and/or hypertension, use of aspirin and statins, and adherence to cancer screening procedures. They determined incidence rates for overall cancer occurrence and for each type of cancer using Poisson distribution. Using cause-specific hazard ratios (HRs) estimated by univariate and propensity score-adjusted multivariable Cox proportional hazard models, they analyzed associations between study variables and time to first cancer event.
Overall, 16,637 patients contributed 123,166 person-years of follow-up. The results indicated that there was not an association between radioiodine treatment and increased risk for cancer (univariate HR, 0.99; 95% CI, 0.83-1.19; P =.91; multivariable HR, 1.01; 95% CI, 0.83-1.21; P =.95). However, after performing a sensitivity analysis, the researchers found that radioiodine exposure was associated with overall cancer risk during the first tertile of follow-up, up to 4.2 years (HR, 2.11; 95% CI, 1.59-2.80; P <.0001). There was no association with increased cancer risk during longer follow-up.
In univariate analysis, radioiodine exposure was associated with an increased risk for non-Hodgkin lymphoma (HR, 2.89; 95% CI, 1.12-7.46; P =.03), but this association was nonsignificant in multivariable analysis (HR, 2.32; 95% CI, 0.88-6.23; P =.09).
The study had several limitations, including the potential for differential bias and detection bias. The researchers also noted that they were unable to include radioiodine activities given a lack of radioiodine dosing data.
Gronich N, Lavi I, Rennert G, Saliba W. Cancer risk following radioactive iodine treatment for hyperthyroidism: a cohort study [published online December 27, 2019]. Thyroid. doi:10.1089/thy.2019.0205


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Peter Collingridge at Tools of Change
Last month, Apt Studio MD Peter Collingridge, delivered the opening Keynote at O'Reilly's Tools of Change for Publishing conference in New York. Peter was speaking in his capacity as co-founder of Enhanced Editions, but also touched on some recent work Apt Studio has created.
After the jump you'll find the video of the talk, along with [...]
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Enhanced Editions' founders to speak at Tools of Change
Both Peter Collingridge and Rhys Cazenove have been invited to speak at O'Reilly's prestigious conference.
Peter will be giving the first keynote address of the conference, on Tuesday at 8:45am EST / 1:45pm GMT, in which he will address some of the crucial issues affecting the publishing industry today, such as the relevance and value of [...]
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Barack Obama now available from Enhanced Editions
Following the successful launch of Nick Cave's The Death of Bunny Munro on our Enhanced Editions platform, we're very pleased to follow it with two new titles, both by Barack Obama and available now in the App Store.
Written long before he started down the road to the Presidency, Dreams From My Father is a refreshing, [...]
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Enhanced Editions for iPhone: The Death of Bunny Munro
As you're no doubt aware, we've been working on an ebook app for iPhones, for a while, under the name Enhanced Editions. We're very pleased to announce that the first fruits of our labour are now available in the app store.
The Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave is the first Enhanced Editions title, and [...]
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Announcing Enhanced Editions
Enhanced Editions is a new startup, co-founded by me (Peter Collingridge, MD of Apt Studio), working with publishers to realise the single-minded mission of bringing eBooks to the iPhone in the way nature intended.
Whilst it's still in somewhat "stealthy" mode, Apt has just launched the website for Enhanced Editions, and there is a mailing list [...]
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Thekkady in Kerala State is India 's largest wildlife sanctuary is a dream destination for any tourist visiting India. The 120 years old 'Surki' dam built across Periyar, Poorna in the Vedic parlance, is a major tourist attraction. This sanctuary is spread over an area of 777 Sq. Kms, surrounded by an artificial lake over an area of 25 Sq.Kms.
The Periyar Wildlife Sanctuary is spread across 777 km² (300 sq. miles), of which 360 km² (139 sq. miles) is a thick evergreen forest. The Wild Life Sanctuary was declared a Tiger Reserve in 1978. The splendid artificial lake formed by the Mullaiperiyar Dam across the Periyar River adds to the charm of the park. The greatest attraction of Periyar are the herds of wild elephants that come down to play in the lake.
The Country's sole Tiger Reserve, Thekkady, with its bountiful treasures of tropical flora and fauna is the ultimate reservoir of many an endangered species and a rich tribal culture. Thekkady is a pleasant heaven on earth for those who love nature in its wild manifestations.


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– This WWE SmackDown Fallout video features Sin Cara commenting on the Ladder Match for the WWE Intercontinental Title at WrestleMania 32. Cara says he's very excited for his first title shot at WrestleMania and he won't be leaving anything on the table. Cara says he will use his high-flying skills to his advantage in the match.
– For what it's worth, Nikki Bella is scheduled to be at Monday's WWE RAW in Brooklyn, according to PWInsider. Monday's show is the final before WrestleMania 32.
– As noted, The Dudley Boyz will be inducting Jacqueline into the WWE Hall of Fame next month. Bubba Ray Dudley revealed on Twitter that Jackie requested he and D-Von for the induction:
Honored that @JackieMooreTx requested myself and @TestifyDVon to induct her. #Respect https://t.co/6BOxoOkpE2
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Issue 35
31 August 2021
Volume: 55 Issue: 35
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic update
- International measures to stop the spread of wild polio virus: update
- ECDC publishes influenza virus characterisation report
- ECDC publishes zoonotic influenza and seasonal influenza annual epidemiological reports
- WHO issues rapid communication on updated guidance on the management of TB in children and adolescents
- WHO report on call for significant reduction in the use of antimicrobial drugs in global food systems
- FSS issues advice to consumers not to eat pork scratching products linked to Salmonella poisoning
- SEPA engages modelling techniques to help Scotland better prepare for flooding
- New group to advise Scottish government on environmental crises
- EEA publishes briefing on the waste challenges of renewable energy technologies
HPS Weekly Report
31 Aug 2021
Volume 55 No. 35
Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic update
International travel continues to be severely restricted due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, with information on such travel available for people living in Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Travelling abroad carries a risk of exporting and importing new cases and variants of COVID-19, therefore travellers are still advised to consider whether their trip abroad is necessary before booking travel. The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) continues to advise against travel to red list countries.
A traffic light system which categorises countries on to a red, amber or green list, based on their COVID-19 risk, is in place for travellers arriving into the UK, although it should be noted that the traffic light system does not indicate which countries are currently allowing UK travellers to enter their country.
Currently, anyone entering Scotland from countries on the international travel green list will not be required to quarantine on arrival, but will have to complete a passenger locator form, take an initial PCR test for COVID-19 before travel, then another within two days of arriving in Scotland. Isolation is only required if the COVID-19 test taken on day two after arriving back in Scotland is positive or NHSScotland Test and Protect makes contact to inform of the need to isolate due to travel with someone who had tested positive for COVID-19. On 30 August 2021, Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland updated their rules for returning to the UK from some red, amber and green list countries.
On return to the UK, travellers should be aware that testing and quarantine rules differ for Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Prior to their journey, travellers must ensure they are able to comply with the rules appropriate to the UK nation they will be arriving in and reside in, if different.
Country specific COVID-19 risk
The fitfortravel (for the general public) and TRAVAX (for health professionals) country pages have been updated to include a COVID-19 country specific risk-rating, with every country being identified as high, moderate or low risk and each rating accompanied by appropriate travel advice. This information will be listed in the 'Alerts' section on each country page of fitfortravel and the 'Emerging Health Risks' section of every TRAVAX country page. This risk-rating is based on a robust public health assessment of the COVID-19 risks for travellers to each country and is regularly reviewed.
Since 24 August 2021, the COVID-19 risk to UK travellers has been increased for the following countries or territories:
- Dominica
- Guadeloupe
- Jamaica
- Laos
- Saint Lucia
Advice for travellers
Prior to booking any international travel, travellers must first check if the country they are travelling to is currently accepting UK travellers.
- Each country or territory on the FCDO foreign travel advice page provides up-to-date information on their entry rules, in response to coronavirus (COVID-19), under the 'Entry Requirements' section.
- Travellers should be aware that some countries or territories may require proof of COVID-19 vaccination status for entry. Guidance for demonstrating COVID-19 vaccination status is available for those living in Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
It is advised that travellers are aware of all travel restrictions, self-isolation rules and precautions they should take, in order to reduce their risk of exposure to coronavirus (COVID-19) before, during and after travel, as detailed on the fitfortravel website.
Source: TRAVAX, 29 July 2021
International measures to stop the spread of wild polio virus: update
On 4 August 2021, the 29th meeting of the Emergency Committee under the International Health Regulations (IHR) (2005) regarding the international spread of wild poliovirus, was convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
The committee agreed that the situation still constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) and recommended the extension of the temporary recommendations.
Under IHR (2005), proof of polio vaccination recorded on an International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis (ICVP), given four weeks to 12 months before departure, may be required on exit from the following countries:
- Afghanistan
- China
- Madagascar
- Pakistan
- Yemen
The global situation with polio virus is ongoing, vaccination recommendations and documentation requirements can be checked on the TRAVAX individual country pages (for health professionals) or the fitfortravel destination pages (for the general public).
Advice for travellers
Travellers should be encouraged to take strict precautions with food, water and personal hygiene. Further information on this can be found on the TRAVAX and fitfortravel poliomyelitis pages.
In order to comply with the latest WHO temporary recommendations, and also to avoid travellers receiving live oral polio vaccine unnecessarily when departing polio-infected countries, authorities in the UK have made the following vaccination recommendations:
- Travellers should consider receiving a booster dose of a polio-containing vaccine if they have not had one in the past 12 months, and will be visiting one of the polio-infected or potentially exporting countries for longer than four weeks. This advice supersedes the current advice in Public Health England's Green Book.
- Travellers should acquire this booster dose within 12 months of the date they plan to leave the polio-infected country.
- Travellers visiting one of these countries for less than four weeks should ensure they are up-to-date with routine polio vaccination, including ten yearly boosters.
- Travellers should carry proof of vaccination. For the countries listed above, proof of vaccination should be documented on the standard ICVP.
International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis
The ICVP is the yellow booklet normally used for yellow fever vaccination. Failure to produce an ICVP when departing a polio-endemic country may result in the traveller being vaccinated on their departure, often using live oral polio vaccine (OPV). This may cause problems for individuals with weakened immune systems, including pregnancy, who should not receive the live oral polio vaccine.
In Scotland, paper ICVPs can be obtained from Public Health Scotland (PHS) by contacting the TRAVAX administration team by email at firstname.lastname@example.com, and providing them with your full name and postal address.
In the rest of UK, paper ICVP's should be obtained from National Travel Health Network and Centre (NaTHNaC).
Source: TRAVAX, 30 August 2021
ECDC publishes influenza virus characterisation report
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) periodically publishes influenza characterisation reports, giving an overview of circulating influenza viruses. These reports provide details on current vaccine strains, summarise the development of viruses since the last report and closely follow the main developments for the ongoing influenza season.
On 23 August 2021, the ECDC published the ninth virus characterisation period report for the 2020 to 2021 influenza season. As of week 28 of 2021, 943 influenza detections across the World Health Organization (WHO) European Region had been reported, of which 51% were type A viruses, with A(H3N2) and A(H1N1)pdm09 being approximately equally represented, and 49% were type B viruses, with 16 having been ascribed to a lineage, 13 being B/Victoria and three B/Yamagata. These figures represent a 99.4% drop in detections compared with the same period in 2020.
Source: ECDC, 23 August 2021
ECDC publishes zoonotic influenza and seasonal influenza annual epidemiological reports
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has published its annual zoonotic influenza epidemiological report for 2020.
No human cases of avian influenza were reported in the EU and EEA for 2020. Sporadic human cases of avian influenza A(H5N1), A(H5N6), A(H5N8) and A(H9N2) infection were reported. In 2020, outbreaks and detections of highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses, mainly A(H5) of clade 126.96.36.199, continued to affect poultry, wild and captured birds worldwide. Influenza virus A(H1N1)v, A(H1N2)v and A(H3N2)v of swine origin caused sporadic human cases in Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, the Netherland, and the USA. Slightly more human cases were identified, possibly due to greater awareness, combined with more targeted testing in those with respiratory symptoms during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
The ECDC also published its annual seasonal influenza epidemiological report for 2020 to 2021. For the EU and EEA, influenza activity remained at, or below, inter-seasonal levels throughout the 2020 to 2021 season, possibly due to the impact of the various public health and social measures implemented to reduce transmission of SARS-CoV-2.
Sources: ECDC, 26 August 2021 and ECDC, 26 August 2021
WHO issues rapid communication on updated guidance on the management of TB in children and adolescents
The World Health Organization (WHO) Global Tuberculosis Programme has issued a rapid communication, updating the guidance on the management of tuberculosis (TB) in children and adolescents, including new recommendations on diagnostic options, treatment regimens, treatment decision algorithms, and optimal models of care for the delivery of services.
The rapid communication aims to inform staff from ministries of health and care providers across public and private sectors, technical partners and other stakeholders about the key findings, considerations and changes related to the diagnosis, treatment and care of TB in children and adolescents, in order to allow for planning at country level, ahead of the release of updated guidelines and an associated operational handbook.
Source: WHO, 26 August 2021
WHO report on call for significant reduction in the use of antimicrobial drugs in global food systems
The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported on a call-to-action from the Global Leaders Group on Antimicrobial Resistance, which urges all countries to significantly reduce the levels of antimicrobial drugs used in global food systems. The group, including heads of state, government ministers, and leaders from the private sector and civil society, was established in November 2020 with the aim of accelerating global political momentum, leadership, and action on antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
A priority call-to-action of the group is for antimicrobial drugs to be used more responsibly in food systems, and a marked reduction in the use of drugs that are of greatest importance in treating diseases in humans, animals and plants.
There are several other key calls-to-action:
- Ending the use of antimicrobial drugs to promote growth in animals that are of critical importance to human medicine.
- Limiting the amount of antimicrobial drugs administered to prevent infection in healthy animals and plants, and ensuring that all use is performed with regulatory oversight.
- Eliminating or significantly reducing over-the-counter sales of antimicrobial drugs that are important for medical or veterinary purposes.
- Reducing the overall need for antimicrobial drugs by improving infection prevention and control, hygiene, biosecurity and vaccination programmes in agriculture and aquaculture.
- Ensuring access to quality and affordable antimicrobials for animal and human health, and promoting innovation of evidence-based and sustainable alternatives to antimicrobials in food systems.
Source: WHO, 24 August 2021
FSS issues advice to consumers not to eat pork scratching products linked to Salmonella poisoning
Food Standards Scotland (FSS) and the Food Standards Agency (FSA) are advising consumers not to eat several pork scratching products purchased since February 2021, which have been linked to Salmonella poisoning. Testing has found a link to 176 reported cases of Salmonella across the UK between September 2020 and 21 August 2021.
Production was voluntarily halted at the factory linked to the outbreak once a possible connection was established in August 2021, and full details of the brands affected are detailed in the recall alert. To reduce the risk of any further illness, consumers should not eat the products listed in the recall alert and should follow the health advice within it.
Source: FSS, 21 August 2021
SEPA engages modelling techniques to help Scotland better prepare for flooding
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) is introducing new flood hazard mapping, in order to provide a clearer indication of surface water flood risk now and in the future, with the aim of enabling people, communities and businesses to better understand the risks, and act to reduce the impact of surface water flooding.
The introduction of the new mapping will support delivery of SEPA's flooding services strategy, due to be published in autumn 2021. The project will involve an initial pilot stage, which will trial high resolution modelling and mapping methodologies, and a range of model assumptions and parameters across four pilot areas in Aberdeen, Glasgow, Peebles and Torridon. When the pilot stage ends in early 2022, an agreed approach will be rolled out across Scotland and the mapping will be produced in a sequence of 11 geographical phases.
Source: SEPA, 23 August 2021
New group to advise Scottish government on environmental crises
A new group of scientists, climate, and nature professionals has been formed, tasked with advising the Scottish Government on environmental issues. The council will be co-chaired by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Professor Sir Ian Boyd, former chief scientific adviser to the UK Government on environment, food and rural affairs.
The group will meet regularly to discuss a range of environmental issues, such as biodiversity, marine resources, waste, and the nature-based aspects of climate change and just transition to net-zero, before presenting their proposed work areas and future plans in a report at COP26.
EEA publishes briefing on the waste challenges of renewable energy technologies
The European Environment Agency (EEA) has published a briefing on the infrastructure developments required if a rapid transition to renewable energy is to be made in Europe. Requirements include introducing measures such as stronger eco-design stipulations, increased emphasis on repair and upgrading, and material-specific recycling targets to address waste and resource challenges. The briefing highlights that circular economy approaches, such as repair and upgrading of equipment and recycling of end-of-life infrastructure, can underpin the sustainability credentials of Europe's renewable energy transition.
The briefing contains several key messages.
- Waste arising from the development and use of renewable energy infrastructure is resource-rich and includes rare earth elements, as well as other valuable materials such as steel, copper and glass.
- The fast pace of technological development means that equipment can be subject to relatively rapid obsolescence and can generate complex waste streams, which presents technical and logistical challenges for managing this infrastructure at the end-of-life stage.
- Recovering materials and reintroducing them into the production cycle faces challenges, including complex logistics, design that does not consider end-of-life or recyclability, and the presence of hazardous substances.
- Policy makers and industry can address waste and resource challenges associated with the shift to renewable energy technologies through circular economy approaches, such as eco-design, material-specific recycling targets and extended producer responsibility schemes.
Source: EEA, 24 August 2021


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Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks! The meme is hosted by Reading Reality.
Weekly Wrap-Up
I took this week off from work to catch up on some housework and my reading. Almost none of it got accomplished because I still haven't been feeling that great, but I did manage to pick up a lot of good books. Now if only I could read them as quickly as I get them… I did manage to get a few books read this week (Cemetery Boys, Flash Fire, & Into the Lightning Gate), but I was hoping to get through more.
Amazon eBook Purchases
I used my credit from the purchases I made last week to get The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin. I loved some of her other books and couldn't pass this one up because it was on sale for the exact amount of my credit. I also ran across a promo for the Cradle series and was able to get all nine books for free. I've never heard of the series before, but it sounds interesting. I just couldn't pass up getting nine books for free.
Library Acquisition
I've had this book on hold at the library for the last couple months. It has been on order the entire time, and they finally got it out to the shelves. I'm excited to read it because everything I've seen about it has been positive.
Barnes & Noble Purchases
I went to B&N knowing I'd be picking up quite a bit. I was excited for Ace of Spades and For the Wolf because of good things I've seen about them from other reviewers. I'm hoping they live up to the hype. I also picked up Camp and The Invisible Life of Addie Larue because they were on sale. What can I say, I'm a sucker for a bargain.
Amazon Book Purchases
I also ended up ordering some books from Amazon because I couldn't find The Darkness Outside Us at my B&N. I stumbled across info about Jay's Gay Agenda and Not Quite Out on Twitter and decided to pick them up as well.
Author Request
I also received an author request for a review of a new book, Blood Animus. Thank you to the author for providing a copy of the book. I'm looking forward to reading it!
Final Thoughts
Overall, I'm satisfied with what I've added to my shelves this week, and I'm looking forward to reading it all. I'm also excited that there are still no new books from NetGalley to report. Maybe my feedback ratio will continue to rebound. I can see 80% on the horizon.
Have you read any of the books I picked up? If so, what did you think? Are any of these on your TBR? Let me know in the comments below!


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Happy Monday and Labor Day weekend!
Here are a few thoughts bouncing around in my head after a week of reading, podcasts, cruising social media and any other continuing ed.
- Smart coaches say less and when they do say something its usually encouragement.
- Athletes need to be prepared for seasons, not tests. — Craig Merrick (@MerrickCraig on Twitter)
- Seems like common sense, but train the core to prevent movement, not create it.
- People are often more comfortable with tradition, than they are the truth. — Brett Bartholomew (@Coach_BrettB on Twitter)


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Things I Learnt When My Wedding Got Delayed Due to COVID 19
Parth and Bansi were all set to tie the knot and begin their happily ever after on April 26 in Rajkot. The couple, completely absorbed in their wedding planning, was barely following the news. Hence the COVID 19 crisis failed to permeate their bubble. "We were so busy shopping, planning and enjoying the wedding buildup that somehow, we completely failed to notice any news about this. Maybe it was ignorance, maybe excitement, but it never entered our blissful universe till early March!" says Parth.
"We were going to Udaipur for our pre-wedding shoot when news of the 1st case in Jaipur came out. We were worried but did not want to cancel this trip we had been planning for so long. So we decided to get it done and be back the very next day. " When things progressively became bleaker from that point on, until the idea of an April wedding became impossible, the couple learnt many things!
Here are some invaluable lessons every couple going through the COVID 19 can use!
Lesson 1: When life hands you lemons, make lemonade
When we heard the news that the COVID 19 lockdown was being enforced, we had a complete mental breakdown. All the preparations were done, and the excitement was palpable. For things to come to such an unexpected pause was heartbreaking for all of us. But after much stress and tears, we realized that some things are beyond our control. If we accept them for what they are, life becomes so much easier. This is a lesson that won't just help us through this difficult time but hopefully will make us stronger people going forward.
Lesson 2: Money saved is money earned
We were planning a big fat Indian wedding and had already spent lakhs on designer outfits, catering etc. However, this lockdown has completely changed the way we think about expenditures. When a health emergency of this magnitude takes over the world, it gives you perspective. All the money we spend on weddings can be of so much more useful when difficult times such as this come. Right now, designer clothes mean nothing. Financial security, everything! So when we plan our wedding again, we'll definitely find ways of making it more intimate and special, but less expensive!
Lesson 3: You have to lose yourself to find yourself
What felt like the biggest loss of all soon turned into a time of self-reflection. All this free time during the COVID 19 lockdown gave me an opportunity to think about what I wanted in life, my career, my marriage… It got Bansi and me also much closer because now we spend hours discussing the life we want to build together. We have so much more clarity than we did before this.
Lesson 4: Sometimes, the best things in life happen accidentally
There's a lot that went wrong, but it also gave us a chance to really reconnect with our families. In the fast-paced world we live in, very rarely do we get so much uninterrupted time with our loved ones. Not just the ones you're living with, but everyone. With all this free time, I spend so much more time video calling, chatting or playing games with my friends. It makes you grow closer.
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Cross-border transmission capacity allocation
Pursuant to Article 109 of the Energy Law ("Official Gazette of RS", No. 145/14 and 95/18 –another law), with the approval of the Energy Agency, the transmission system operator adopts Rules on Cross-Border Transmission Capacity Allocation.
These rules regulate the procedure and manner of allocation of cross-border electricity transmission capacity as well as the type and scale of data and the manner of their publication.
By the adoption of these Rules, available on the websites of the PE "Elektromreža Srbije" and the Energy Agency, a non-discriminatory and transparent framework was established for the allocation of cross-border transmission capacities on the borders of the PE EMS control area where joint allocation of transmission capacities was not agreed with neighbouring operators.
Joint transmission capacity allocation with neighbouring operators
Pursuant to Article 164 of the Energy Law ("Official Gazette of RS", No. 145/14 and 95/18 –another law), procedure and manner of allocation of cross-border capacity may be regulated by the transmission system operator, with the approval of the Energy Agency, by a contract with transmission system operators of other countries, i.e. electricity market operators.
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Welcome back to our series on different sensing modalities! In our first installment, we looked at 3D sensors. In this week's installment, we'll be exploring Light Detection and Ranging...aka LiDAR. Why is LiDAR cool? Well, LiDAR takes pictures of time!
We'll be focusing on the longer-range LiDAR systems that are often specified as part of the sensing package for robots, drones and autonomous vehicles. We won't cover the miniaturized LiDAR sensors used in Apple's latest iOS devices and a number of Android devices to enable features like augmented reality and FaceID. Those are also cool, but irrelevant if you're a roboticist or perception engineer trying to determine what LiDAR sensors to test for your device.
January 2023 update - We have updated this summary to add new vendors, as well as note which vendors have been acquired, merged, shut down, etc. The LiDAR industry is nothing if not ever-changing!
LiDAR has a few inherent advantages that make it a great choice for robot, autonomous vehicle (AV), and drone sensor arrays. To start with, many LiDAR sensors have exceptional ranges extending into the hundreds of meters. For fast-moving autonomous vehicles that require obstacle awareness at long distances, it's a clear choice. LiDAR sensors also often have very wide horizontal fields of view, and in the case of scanning LiDAR units (more on that below), they provide a 360° horizontal field of view. Again, this can be useful for autonomous vehicles that work in low-structured or unstructured environments where obstacles or paths of travel can appear in front of, besides, and behind the AV. LiDAR captures data at an extremely fast rate – on the order of millions of measurements per second, which again reinforces its suitability for high-speed applications like autonomous vehicles. Finally, LiDAR sensors offer increasingly fine resolution across a wide range, which allow them to provide data streams that support classification tasks and real-time obstacle avoidance tasks.
LiDAR is an optical sensing medium. Therefore, like other optical sensors, it can be challenged by environmental conditions like fog that can occlude its laser pulses and reflections, thus making it blind. LiDAR sensors tend to be more costly than other perception sensors, with prices that can reach into the tens of thousands of dollars per unit. Many LiDAR units have mechanical components that can fail and render the sensor useless, either temporarily, or permanently. LiDAR data streams can be massive, which makes transmitting complete data sets from the edge a challenge for devices that rely on cellular communication. Unfortunately, LiDAR data compression is much more complex and computationally costly than compression techniques for other sensor types, which limits the ability to minimize data transfer. Finally, LiDAR can only capture structure, not color, and therefore has limits to the types of data it can capture.
While LiDAR sensors can deliver large swaths of environmental data, they often require supplementation with other sensors to deliver the complete information set required by a mobile robot, drone, or an autonomous vehicle to operate. As noted above, LiDAR units can only capture structure, and not color. For certain object detection and classification tasks, color information is required. Therefore, a CMOS sensor like an RGB or HDR camera may be specified to work in unison with the LiDAR sensor. Similarly, for autonomous vehicle obstacle avoidance, LiDAR alone can't be fully relied on in conditions that can compromise their operation (fog, for instance). In a scenario such as this, using a radar sensor in conjunction ensures safe operation under most scenarios.
Like any other multi-sensor array, using a LiDAR sensor along with other sensors requires that sensor fusion tasks like time synchronization, spatial registration, and individual sensor calibration be performed continuously to guarantee that all data generated is usable. Of course, the Tangram Vision SDK can manage these complex multi-sensor tasks to maximize sensor array uptime and data quality.
The sheer amount of data that LiDAR sensors can generate make them heavy users of compute, as the host must process data streams that are both high frequency and uncompressed. Likewise, if data is to be streamed to a central server, these massive datasets can quickly take up available bandwidth, particularly in scenarios where a device can't connect to a local WiFi network and instead must use cellular or satellite data links. Lastly, LiDAR units use one or more laser emitters, and scanning LiDARs add an electric motor. This adds up to higher power draw than other sensors.
Until recently, most scanning LiDAR units used a 905nm wavelength. If stationary and concentrated on the human eye, this wavelength is capable of causing damage to the retina. Because the LiDAR unit scans so rapidly, these beams of laser light only reach the retina for a minimal amount of time. This minimizes eye safety risk. Furthermore, regulations limit the amount of laser light emission at theses wavelengths to ensure eye safety.
Yet those regulations also limit the effective range of these LiDAR units to around 100m. It is for this reason that 1550nm lasers have now become popular for LiDAR units. Over 1400nm, laser light no longer passes through the eye to the retina. Rather, it is stopped by the cornea and the lens. However, the cornea and lens themselves can be damaged by a sufficiently powerful pulse of 1550nm laser light. While most 1550nm LiDAR units aren't using sufficient power to cause this kind of damage, concerns remain that fiber amplification could create hazardous conditions and potential corneal burns.
LiDAR comes in two basic flavors: scanning (mechanical) and solid state. Each has its strengths and weaknesses, and they can be used independently or together.
Solid state LiDAR typically uses a single laser beam to illuminate the scene in front of it, and a time-of-flight (ToF) sensor array to capture the 3D data that is returned. These solid-state sensors have few to no moving parts, which makes them less expensive and more reliable than a typical scanning LiDAR sensor. However, they also cannot capture 360° data like a scanning LiDAR sensor can. More recent examples of solid state LiDAR sensors incorporate technologies like MEMS or beam steering that can manipulate the laser beam to scan a much wider field of view than a typical ToF sensor. In same cases, these LiDAR sensors can capture up to a 270° horizontal field of view.
Scanning LiDAR uses a single laser beam on a rotating spindle, or multiple laser beams in a 360° array, to capture a 360° 3D image of the environment around the sensor. Much like flash LiDAR units, scanning LiDAR units use ToF cameras to record the time taken for the laser pulses they emit to reflect off objects and return to the sensor. These sensors tend to be significantly more complex than flash LiDAR sensors, and therefore more expensive and prone to mechanical failure. However, they are able to capture greater amounts of data (this can also be seen as a negative, as datasets can become very large). Because they capture 360° of 3D imagery, scanning LiDAR units are excellent for tasks like mapping environments and providing enhanced object detection and obstacle avoidance for navigation.
One of the "OGs" of scanning LiDAR, Velodyne has been a market leader since their origins as a subwoofer company that just happened to be participating in the DARPA self-driving combat vehicle challenge. Since those early days, Velodyne has developed a comprehensive line of both scanning and flash LiDAR sensors. If you live in the Bay Area, you've no doubt seen many self-driving car and truck prototypes with Velodyne's 16- and 32-channel scanning LiDAR units placed at every corner of the vehicle.
Velodyne's Puck line of scanning LiDAR sensors are their most ubiquitous offering. The most popular model, simply called "Puck", was once known as the VLP-16. These sensors offer a 100m 360° range, yet are priced in the low thousands of dollars per unit. This makes them an obvious choice for prototyping and production over a large range of markets, including autonomous vehicles, drones, and service robots. Velodyne also produces the Puck LITE, which is specifically designed for applications like drones where weight is a key consideration.
Velodyne recently adding the Alpha Prime scanning LiDAR sensor to their range. This sensor has been specifically designed for autonomous vehicle applications where sensing is subject to a wide range of environmental conditions that would otherwise flummox non-specialized sensors. It should be noted that the Alpha Prime is effectively a reference design for prototyping.
Velodyne's older scanning LiDAR units, the HDL-32E and HDL-64E still enjoy popularity in industrial settings like heavy equipment and marine. However, for engineers looking for sensors to prototype with, the Puck series are the most likely choice.
Ouster's 360° LiDAR units take a traditional scanning mechanical approach and modify it with a set of proprietary digital emitting and receiving elements. A single column of VCSEL emitters rotate on a spindle, with a matched set of Ouster's proprietary SoC digital receivers that use SPADs to read environmental feedback. This architecture replaces more complex analog systems with a much simpler design, and under certain conditions can deliver greater sensitivity as well. It can be easily modified to add or subtract channels, and it can be tuned with different lenses to widen or narrow field of view, and increase or decrease effective range.
Ouster's OS0, OS1, and OS2 spinning LiDAR units are available in 32-, 64-, and high resolution 128-channel designs. The differences between each model has to do with configuring the vertical field of view and angle to optimize performance for near-, mid- and long-field sensing needs. The OS0 features a wide 90° vertical field of view (VFOV). However, to achieve this, range is limited to 50m. The OS1 cuts VFOV in half to 45°, but in turn more than doubles effective range to 120m. The OS2 narrows VFOV to 22.5°, but range doubles to 240m.
January 2023 update - Ouster and Velodyne have proposed a merger to become a single LiDAR company.
While Velodyne, Ouster, and Waymo have been making headlines with their scanning LiDAR units, Hokuyo has been silently capturing significant swaths of service robot and drone business with their broad lineup of different LiDAR units. As we've spoken to dozens of robotics companies, we've been shocked at the number that have chosen Hokuyo as their preferred LiDAR vendor. While traditionally a vendor into industrial and automation markets, Hokuyo's inroads are in part the result of a comprehensive lineup of over 30 distinct 2D and 3D LiDAR SKUs.
While you may be familiar with Waymo's self-driving vehicles, did you know that Waymo's self-developed LiDAR sensors are now available to purchase separately? Granted, from what we can tell, you need to be a large OEM with budgets in the many millions of dollars to even get a sample, but...it is possible. Unless you're making a self-driving taxi. In that case, you're entirely out of luck.
Waymo's Laser Bear Honeycomb is a compact spinning LiDAR unit with a wide 95° VFOV and an effective range that starts at 0m. Waymo also claims that their design stays cleaner longer than other LiDAR designs, for more robust deployments. Beyond these facts and figures, however, specifications are scarce.
August 2021 update - Waymo no longer sells the Laser Bear Honeycomb to other companies.
Like Hokuyo, SICK has been developing and selling 2D and 3D LiDAR units into industrial and automation markets for quite some time. In the past, SICK's core strength in LiDAR were 2D sensors that were used for near- and mid-field obstacle detection. With the increase in the availability of autonomous mobile robots, SICK has been pulled into the robotics market where it now offers sensors that aid in navigation, obstacle avoidance, and obstacle detection.
The M Series of mechanical spinning LiDAR sensors includes four models, each tuned to different use cases. For roboticists and autonomous vehicle developers, the M8 is the most relevant. Available in three different ranges (from 100m to 200m), the M8 features very high point cloud density, with up to 1.3M points generated per second.
After much success with their scanning LiDAR sensors, Velodyne has expanded their lineup to include a trio of solid state flash LiDAR sensors. Each of these is tuned for a different use case.
The Velarray M1600 is designed primarily for mobile service robots operating at low speeds. The detecting range of 0.1 to 30 meters is well suited for delivery robots, warehouse robots and hospitality robots, but is not suited to autonomous vehicles that need to sense at greater distances. An added benefit of this eye-safe sensor is day/night operation with robust resistance to infrared washout from direct sunlight.
The Velarray H800 uses similar architecture to the M1600, but is tuned for highway speed applications like those used for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous vehicles. The detecting range for this flash LiDAR sensor stretches out to 200m, which is in line with the outer ranges of some of the more powerful scanning LiDAR sensors made by Velodyne.
The newest member of the Velodyne flash LiDAR family is the Velabit. This tiny sensor made a splash at its launch with a promised per unit price of $99. With a range of up to 100m, it is just at the edge of what is acceptable for vehicular applications. However, for robotic and drone applications, it could be a game changer. The Velabit is not yet available for purchase.
The L515 is Intel's first foray into LiDAR for their RealSense line, but judging by the fast proliferation of models in their 3D sensing lineup, it won't be their last. The L515's 9m range won't find it added to any vehicles, but it could certainly be used for slower moving service robots for obstacle avoidance and navigation. As an added benefit, its low power consumption design makes it a potential pick for platforms like drones with power-constrained designs.
Intel's own marketing suggests that the L515 is best suited for relatively static tasks like object measurement and inventory counts. However, we've been speaking to a number of roboticists that are excited at the prospect of using the L515 for robotic navigation tasks.
September 2021 update - Intel has discontinued the L515.
At $4,000 a sensor, the Sense One isn't cheap, but the ruggedized build quality is impressive, and the quality of its data is phenomenal.
Sense Photonics uses a global shutter design for its imaging chip; what this means is that every pixel captures data simultaneously, which is very important for high speed applications. In those applications, a traditional rolling shutter introduces motion blur, which can compromise data quality. The Sense One can capture up to a million points per second, providing point cloud output that is among the finest we've ever seen.
Finally, the Sense One is built for heavy duty use cases. With no moving parts, GigE data transfer and a sealed, ruggedized power connector, it checks many of the boxes sought out by roboticists who have been burned in the past by flaky USB connections and non-industrial grade components.
October 2021 update - Sense Photonics has been acquired by Ouster.
Luminar has taken a full-stack approach to the design of their LiDAR system. From developing their own ASIC to their own machine learning perception software, Luminar is building a fully integrated hardware and software system designed specifically for the needs of highway speed autonomous vehicles.
Luminar's two current sensors — the Iris and the Hydra — claim massive 500m maximum range sensing, while still using eye safe lasers. The Iris is designed for near-term integration into ready to produce autonomous vehicles, while the Hydra is an R&D unit designed for teams creating autonomous prototypes.
Like Velodyne's VeloBit line, Luminar is also focused on bringing the cost of LiDAR sensors down significantly. Luminar's first design win is with Volvo, who intends to equip their passenger vehicles with Luminar LiDAR sensors as soon as 2022.
The 4Sight range from AEye is designed for highway speed vehicle applications. The flagship 4Sight M integrates AEye's AI libraries to extend data capture capabilities from LiDAR datasets while simultaneously reducing sensor energy consumption. Classifier sets includes vehicles, pedestrians, foliage and weather events like rain. The simplified 4Sight A is focused specifically on ADAS applications.
The S Series is Quanergy's entry into flash LiDAR. Like many of the other flash LiDAR sensors listed here, the solid state design minimizes moving parts, and Quanergy claims an impressive 100,000 hour mean time before failure (MTBF) rating, making it an option for industrial applications where sensor uptime is important.
The Aeries range is a high-resolution, long-range LiDAR-on-chip sensor that Aeva claims offers camera levels of resolution and 500 meters of sensing range. When viewing Aeva's marketing videos showing captures by the Aeries series, we can confirm that the resolution is great for LiDAR, but not quite camera-like. It appears to be closer to a 128-beam LiDAR...still good, by any measure. The Aeries is available in two versions - the Aeries I, which is effectively a developer kit, and the Aeries II, which is a soon-to-be-available productionized version for high volume deployments.
As we're primarily focused on LiDAR for autonomy and ADAS applications, the relevant sensors from Cepton are from their Vista-X line. Designed to be compact, low-cost, and simple to integrate, the newest version (the Vista-X120 Plus) claims up to 200 meters of range, with a wide 120° of horizontal field of view. The older Vista-X90 offers similar range, but with a narrower 90° horizontal field of view.
Available for direct purchase for $1599, the Livox HAP is an inexpensive automotive-grade LiDAR sensor with typical specs (150m range, 120° horizontal FOV) but one trick up its sleeve: it uses a non-repetitive scanning pattern. What this means is that the sensor itself uses a rotating mirror to change where it scans, developing a fuller image of the environment and objects.
To quickly compare some of the key specs of many of the LiDAR units we described above, we've created a quick reference chart. Click here to visit it.
LiDAR remains a popular choice for mobile robots, drones, and autonomous vehicles. As it gets adopted into mainstream products like passenger vehicles, the per unit costs should continue to drop, and the variety of available sensors and configurations should continue to grow. And, if you're designing a product that uses LiDAR and other sensors, the Tangram Vision Platform will assist in ensuring your entire sensor array works optimally and continually. Have any suggestions to make this article better? Tweet at us to let us know!
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6. september 2023 | Versjon v1.2.6
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6. august 2023 | Versjon v1.2.6
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13. februar 2023 | Versjon v1.2.6
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25. januar 2023 | Versjon v1.2.6
This is my number one watchface on my Fenix. Would love to use it on my MARQ 2
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31. juli 2022 | Versjon v1.2.6
Excellent watch face! My only drawback is that the battery drains too quickly. The battery doesn't even last a full six days. I tried to optimize the amount of data displayed, but there is no change. Regardless of the mentioned problem, I think that the developer deserves five stars for his work. Fenix 6X Pro
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23. februar 2022 | Versjon v1.2.6
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1. februar 2022 | Versjon v1.2.6
After buying the Watchface, the display is pale, even though I chose black as the background. The other backgrounds don't work no matter what I select.
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Amazon is in advanced talks about putting Amazon's second headquarters, commonly referred to as HQ2, in the Crystal City neighborhood of Arlington County, Virginia, according to the Washington Post.
The larger D.C. area was considered a likely candidate for HQ2 due to its proximity to CEO Jeff Bezos's home and, more importantly, federal lawmakers. Three of Amazon's 20 finalists were located there — Washington, D.C., Montgomery County and Northern Virginia — suggesting that the place had a better chance than others.
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- Arlington County is home to about 230,000 people and has seen a 13 percent population increase in the last decade, according to the Census Bureau. For comparison, that's about the same as Madison, Wisconsin or Scottsdale, Arizona.
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- Its cost for office space is cheaper than the national average. In Northern Virginia, top-of-the-line central office space costs $35.40 per square foot — lower than the national average of $37.35 and Seattle's average of $38.73, according to Q2 2018 estimates by commercial real estate company Cushman & Wakefield.
- At 19.4 percent, its vacancy rate for Class A office space is also higher than the U.S. average of 12.3 percent, meaning that it will be easier than average for Amazon to lease space there. It's much more difficult to find office space in Seattle, whose vacancy rate is under 8 percent.
- It's an 11-minute commute, including a metro ride, from the center of Crystal City to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, the preferred D.C. airport. That's faster than most other HQ2 cities. It takes about 22 minutes by car — without traffic — and nearly 50 minutes by mass transit to reach the Seattle airport from Amazon's original headquarters.
- Crystal City is also an 11-minute drive to Capitol Hill without much traffic.
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There are a miriad of low cost displays for hobbyists in online shops, particularly targeting Arduinos where libraries exist to drive the most common chips.
This article looks at a 4 digit LED module particularly suited to a digital clock display. The driver chip is a TM1637, and it requires Vcc and Gnd, a data IO wire and data clock wire.
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Above, scoping the data wires, it becomes clear that the rise and decay times are quite unsuited to the pulse rate. It may be possible to slow the pulse rate down and get it to work… but let's look for the root cause.
It turns out that there are 0.1µF caps from the DIO and CLK lines to ground, a huge capacitance given the speed at which the chip can work. The board above has had the caps removed, they were on the pads in the yellow box. If you see a listing with these caps, it might be worth skipping unless you are able to remove the caps.
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LOS ANGELES, CA– With her keynote address at the first Public Mass meeting of the 102nd Annual NAACP Convention, NAACP Chairman Roslyn M. Brock set the tone for the coming year and implored the audience to go forward with courage in the fight for justice and equality. In just her second keynote address since her 2010 election, Brock laid out three areas of focus for the NAACP: the economy, health care and education.
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Jeff Fisher may get an opportunity to save his NFL reputation … as an analyst
By Chris Wurtz
Jeff Fisher's NFL coaching tenure ended in turmoil. A year and a half later, he may be getting another opportunity to succeed in the football industry.
According to a report from Sporting News' Mike McCarthy, Fox Sports is in talks with former Titans and Rams head coach Jeff Fisher about him working as an analyst for the program. It remains unclear whether Fisher would be a commentator in the press box or a pregame studio analyst.
Fisher spent the 2017 season away from coaching after being fired by the Rams at the end of the 2016 season. He has previously expressed interest in eventually re-joining the NFL coaching ranks.
Fisher coached in the NFL for 22 seasons, reaching the playoffs just six times. He reached one Super Bowl, ending dramatically in devastating fashion with "The Tackle." Fisher holds one of the more unfortunate coaching records. He's lost the most games among all coaches in NFL history at 165 (tied with Dan Reeves).
After finishing 8-8 or 7-9 (and even 7-8-1, once) 10 times, Fisher earned a reputation of mediocrity as a coach. He has a rare opportunity to rewrite that narrative with a move to a different branch of the industry.
Naysayers were hard on Fisher for the development — or lack thereof — of quarterbacks under his watch. Vince Young, the third pick in the 2006 draft, never fulfilled his star potential. Many blamed Young's failure on Fisher's strained relationship with the quarterback.
More recently, Fisher coached a trio of quarterbacks who struggled mightily with him and then went on to thrive without him. Case Keenum, Jared Goff and Nick Foles have all looked like completely different players after escaping Fisher's cloud of doom.
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However, if Fisher does indeed land a job with Fox, he'll have a chance to follow Jon Gruden's career arc. Gruden went from the sideline, to the press box and back to the sideline.