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A common Wayfarer ticket machine that is standard on most of Ipswich Buses vehicles.
I like the way that ticket machines have progressed in 50 years on public transport from the basic portable machines that conductors used right down to the latest state of the art machines seen in this picture.
When I took this picture, this machine wasn't working properly and had to be replaced with another. The bus driver had to ask people to pay at the enquiry office at Tower Ramparts
I finished the painting finally! The problem: crying baby at night. The trouble: sleepless nights. The documentation: a painting for my son. In the process of doing such a painting, I managed to relax a bit.
The original scribble was "Incredible Crying Machine" on a CIAK sketch book in July 07, followed by even more sleepless nights with toss and turns in tiny little space thus the "Sleepless... Ego... Beauty" sketch. The acceptance part was in Oct 07 while I had some "talks" with my son about his crying through an afternoon chat "McQueen, Thomas, Elmo and My Son".
This idea of a crying machine persisted and I needed to do an acrylic painting about it. So one night near Xmas I pulled out a canvas and started from scratch and spent several days putting in symbols and my feelings in the final painting.
Well if you care to read the details, here's the symbols in the painting:
* Baby fat cheek: looks like a ball, which someday in the future will be gone. The cuteness diminishes as he ages.
* The wind-up spring handle behind his back: the invisible drive which keeps him crying unstoppable
* The winged legs: he runs very fast, most of the time toe walking/running. A condition I need to help him fix before its too late
* Music notes: when he runs, it really feels like he is running with music
* Clouds: unstoppable crying machine, a zleep buster, all the car brands he knows at the at of 2.9 years old. These clouds are sort of what he and my life collides
* Flying bucket: to catch his tears, literally the bucket is me flying over to comfort him for whatever reason he is crying for
* Sweat: he sweats at night and when he exercises, mostly started from the back of his head
* The porch: a door between his dream or half-wake half-sleep state and the real world. In the dream land the territory is the sky where he flies, while on the reality side everything is upside down
* The window: exemplifies how the dream land and reality is different
* 0 - 2.9 years old: I have a feeling that these unstoppable crying will stop after he is 3 years old. That he will be able to walk through the dream land - reality door with ease
* Blue eyes and pant: he likes blue a lot. I asked "do you like blue eyes?" one time, and he said "Yes!"
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This Specialized Stumpjumper was bought by my brother circa 1988 for £700-£800 and he then sold it to me when he wanted a touring bike. I never really liked the garish colours, which I later read were nicknamed "Miami Vice" by other owners. My brother took it to Spain once to do some trails and I rode it all over Cardiff while at university.
Despite its age it's still a fast, lightweight machine and great for chasing sheep along the roads here. ;-) Compared to other bikes in 1988 it had a good specification with Shimano Deore derailleur, shifters and brakes, Cro-Moly frame, other alloy bits, and uniquely today (but not so much at the time), Biopace chainrings which are slightly oval to promote smooth, efficient pedaling. Biopace is supposed to be easier on the knees than truly round chainrings, and I'm sure it's one of the reasons why I find this bike so responsive and a joy to ride still.
It's more a road or track bike these days as the tyres are semi-slick and not suitable for going offroad.
See the notes for bits that have been changed over the years.
Giving thanks to co-host Reid Hoffman with Ned from Harvard. More photos in comments below.
Such a fun weekend at an eclectic brain spa. I’ll share some of the highlights in my crude screen shots. Overall, it felt like we are in the midst of an interdisciplinary Renaissance, from novel measurement and imaging techniques to machine learning and bold new experiments in animal and humans.
We learned how super-absorbent diaper gel polymers can make a brain expand for easier imaging, and how it can be optically read and modified. At least five speakers referenced an explosion of interest in the rapid-acting drug ketamine (for depression and OCD) and a surprising finding that it operates through the opioid receptors.
We learned how vasopressin might treat autism and how girls of depressed mothers have radically different brain development and telomere length.
"While the male and female brain differ in development, the male and femaleness of the brain is regional." — Manpreet Singh
Notes from Day 1: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2018
New Conceptual Frameworks in Mental Health - Amit Etkin
I had lunch with him a well. He gets much more data from the EEG than the fMRI. We are generally poor at describing our mental state. Our friends generally do a better job on identifying if we are depressed.
10:00 am — Tools for Analyzing and Repairing the Brain - Ed Boyden
MIT’s Ed Boyden has the largest brain lab in the world, with 150 people.
Expansion microscopy is the opposite of normal microscopy. Instead of zooming in on the brain, you make the brain bigger with a polymer expansion similar to the gel found in super-absorbent diapers. youtu.be/jLvynWieWk8
Color coded with a virus payload for seeing different cells, a “brainbow”
www.ted.com/talks/ed_boyden_baby_diapers_inspired_this_ne...
Optogenetics, with light-activated ion channels: youtu.be/evisCB6mwt0
Can trigger brain activity at a targeted deep area with a pair of acoustic waves at close frequencies, like 2.00 and 2.01 Hz.
Digital Phenotyping - Tom Insel
He can deduce your mental state from social networks based on how you type and click (patterns in timing) not the content of what you type (less privacy concerns). Signals from the phone predict how the mood will be for the day. He can even see the effects of ketamine, a rapid-acting anti-depressant.
We can move from subjective, episodic, burdensome, clinic-based measurements to objective, continuous, passive in-situ measurements. 7cups is using it for alcoholic treatment.
11:00 am — The Supercharged Brain, Mental Health and Aging - Ruth O’Hara
The normal aging brain shrinks by 15% (Alzheimer’s another 10%). Depression shrinks the hippocampus, and that impairs memory.
Physical exercise and targeted cognitive training can improve your brain.
Very excited to grow neurons in a dish from skin stem cells. Easier to do with young people than the aged.
Envisioning the Brain Mind Clinical Lab of the Future - Leanne Williams
Imaging brain activity in cognitive dysfunction. Many different mental states we call depression, and they respond to treatments differently.
For example, sub-type 1 is characterized by Default Mode Network. If it becomes too connected, too much internal reflection, ruminations, worry, waking up early in morning, and unable to stop thoughts about terrible things might happen.
New Stanford Center for Precision Mental Health & Wellness.
Novel Platforms for Novel Treatments in Neuroscience - Rob Malenka
25% of the world will develop a serious brain malfunction in their lifetime.
If your brain is not functioning, you are not yourself. With addiction and OCD, you have no control over your behavior.
Anhedonia is a common symptom in depression, Parkinson’s and schizophrenia.
With all of the academic hysteria about ketamine, we still don’t know how it works, and it was discovered accidentally.
“An example”: we can make a mouse happy or unhappy.
Fireside Chat with Reid Hoffman - Reid Hoffman and Michael McCullough
In blitzscaling, you prioritize speed over efficiency in an uncertain world.
He also rekindled his AI interest 5-6 years ago.
2:00 pm — Revolutionizing Medical Imaging and Brain-Computer Communication with Consumer Electronics - Mary Lou Jepsen
If you spend 10-100 hours in an fMRI, we can read your thoughts. 2/3 of humanity lacks access to medical imaging. She wants to reduce the cost 200x and fit it into a ski cap.
Tumor has 5x the blood of normal tissue. And Blood is relatively opaque (versus flesh). Bones are white, and near IR passes through. We can image to 2 microns, the diameter of the smallest neuron. Use laser and sound wave that shifts the wavelength ever so slightly.
TED Talk just came out: www.ted.com/talks/mary_lou_jepsen_how_we_can_use_light_to...
3:10 pm — Shining a Light on the Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease - Li-Huei Tsai
40 Hz flickering LED light induces gamma oscillations in the brain. After 1 hr of exposure, she saw a 50% reduction in amyloid plaques in a Alzheimer’s rat model.
The microglia (the brain’s immune cells) undergo dramatic transformation in their morphology and become much more efficient at picking up toxins like beta-amyloid.
To Sleep or Not to Sleep: How the Brain Decides to Wake Us Up - Luis de Lecea
Sleep decreases as we age and with Alzheimers (it’s the main reason AD patients get institutionalized).
How does the brain control sleep? The hypothalamus is only 3% of the volume of the brain but controls sleep, appetite and circadian rhythms.
Parabiosis – would the blood of the young mouse rejuvenate the old? The opposite occurred. Molecules in the old brain were toxic in the younger brain.
Quieting the Obsessive Mind: Ketamine and Other Rapid-Acting Therapeutics - Carolyn Rodriguez
In OCD, a thought continuously invades or intrudes in our mind. 2% lifetime prevalence. Half of cases start by age 19.
Only FDA-approved medication: SSRI’s like Prozac take 2-3 months, and fail half the time.
Ketamine is a glutamate-receptor-blocker which increases GABA in the pre-frontal cortex. But if you take naltrexone, which blocks opioid receptors, then ketamine loses its effect. This was a surprising result; there is some connection to the opioids.
Ketamine rapidly and dramatically lowers OCD, with effects lasting days post-treatment.
ADD: Karen Parker and Antonio Hardy on Autism
Why so few diagnostics and therapies in autism? The biology is poorly understood.
With early detection, you can gain 15 IQ points and lower the cost of care by 7%.
She studies monkeys on the anti-social extreme. Behaviors are similar to autism. Vasopressin helps. Perhaps vasopressin signaling is impaired in autism. When given to human childen, social behavior improves.
Accelerating Discovery to Promote Healthy Brain Outcomes Starting from Birth - Ian Gotlib
Adolescence is a period of suicide risk, and it’s getting worse. The CDC recently came to Palo Alto to look at what’s going on in this suicide cluster.
The biggest risk factor are 1) family history 2) being female
There are 200 million depressed mothers with daughters who have not become depressed yet. She studied those daughters. They have a big change from other similar aged girls. Smaller hippocampus. Shorter telomeres already by age 12. When they check in 10 years later, 60% of those girls became depressed.
By age 9-14, it might be too late already. So, they did infant studies and of the pregnant mothers (measuring continuous cortical level from hair samples during pregnancy). And they gathered a lot of passive data. The infant’s brain volume correlates with number of words heard in utero. And they were disturbed to see the strong correlation with income level.
Prenatal stress lowers hippocampal volume and amygdala connectivity.
Manpreet Singh
Brain is the most genetically determined organ in the body.
While the male and female brain differ in development, the male and femaleness of the brain is regional.
Banner newspaper.
Pokies are OK
Werribee Shire Council supports the introduction of poker machines into Victoria, in the hope that it will be beneficial to the finances of clubs.
Council made the decission in response to a questianaire from the Board of Inquiry into Poker Machines.
The questions asked were related to population, number of hotels, licenced clubs, etc, and if council had passed any resolutions in relation to poker machines.
Councilors were asked to submit personal views as well as a resolution of combined council.
Shire secretary, Mr John Kerr, told council that it could make comments on the terms of reference of inquiry, which were in relation to the likely social and economic affects on the introduction of poker machines.
Cr Ted Dowling felt the issue was most important in its effect on local clubs.
He said that everyone recognised the beneficial affect which poker machines had wrought on clubs in New South Wales, staging functions which were completely out of the reach of Victorian clubs.
As to the affects on individuals, Cr Dowling said he felt that each individual had control of own destiny in relation to the gambling aspect.
He said that clubs would have a greater scope for control than hotels because membership fee and the machines would not be freely available to the public.
Cr Dowling said he anticipated a cry about the affects of poker machines on homes, but he felt it was no greater than from any other form of gambling.
Cr Don Myers said he had nothing against women, but he felt they could get caught up in the continual quest for a jackpot.
He went on to say that he had heard there had been a fall-off in patronage in New South Wales.
"Anyway you can't win", he said "the Government will get 15-20% first," he pointed out.
"We have enough forms of gambling, already" Cr Myers claimed.
Crs Dowling and Menegazzo then moved that Council support the introduction of poker machines into Victoria.
Cr Julian Menegazzo said he lived in New South Wales for a number of years and people knew they could not win, however they put $5 or so in for a bit of fun.
He felt that Tattslotto was a bigger problem than poker machines.
Cr Menegazzo said he had seen people put hundreds of dollars into Tattslotto chasing the million-dollar prize.
Cr Glenn Clark said he opposed poker machines.
"Sure, there is good food and entertainment, and fun for those who have $5 to put into the machines, but I have seen the harm done to families by the machines," he said.
He felt the terms of reference had been framed in such a way as to justify the introduction of poker machines.
Cr Clark felt that the decision was one that councils should have to make. He did not feel qualified to speak on behalf of the 5000 people in South-West Riding, on that subject.
Cr Kevin Skehan said that he was certain that some people would be adversely affected by the introduction of poker machines, initially.
He pointed out that the same debate had raged about the introduction of 10 o'clock closing "when the doom and gloom meschants had forecast that we'd all be drunk every night".
"I support the proposal." he said, "it's essential to the development of the club industry and to tourism."
Cr Skehan said that busloads of Victorians went away for weekends to take in poker machines, which were not the prime reason, but merely the catalyst.
"What annoys me," Cr Skehan said, "is the sheer hypocrisy of it all. Poker machines are no different from people queing up at agencies for Tic Tac Toe or Instant Tatts".
"Many clubs and public places already had coin-in-the-slot machines which paid dividends in goods.
"It's ludicrous that in this countrywe have two sets of laws for areas separated by only 150 yards of water", Cr Skehan said.
Cr Hudson supported the poker machines, but only on a restricted basis - not in hotels. He added that clubs would be able to provide more community facilities thus lightening the load on local councils.
Cr John Gibbons said he felt there were more direct benefits from poker machines than from most other forms of gambling. "There is job creation in the machine manufacture, people have more social contact and clubs themselves employ more staff." he pointed out.
Cr Bruce Comben opposed poker machines saying that one only had to visit a club to see the affects on people. "And the club industry in New South Wales had more money than the government", he added.
Cr Ted Dowling said councillors could not sit up as moralists, but that individually they had a right to express their views. He felt they would be an advantage to Victoria. "football clubs have had to run two bob rafles for too long," he concluded.
Cr Pat Goodwin said she opposed poker machines because of the hardship she had seen caused to families.
The motion was carried 5-4 with Cr Southwick abstaining.
- Banner of 01 June 1983, p1.
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Geheimschreiber
Although the ENIGMA remains the best know German cryptographic machine of World War II, in the early 1940's the German military introduced several new cryptographic teletypewriters known under the name Geheimschreiber - sometimes translated as "private secretary", sometimes as "secret writer".
These machines offered on-line encryption and decryption, that is plain test could be typed directly into the machine, automatically converted to encrypted text, and sent directly to the transmitter. In addtion to security, these "secret writers" provided the Germans with the ability to encrypt large volumes of test at high speed.
Learning that the Germans had named an early version of these machines SWORDFISH, the British and Americans bestowed nicknames associated with fish on the machines and the communications links in which they were used. The two most famous are TUNNY and STURGEON.
Just as they developed the Bombe to assist decryption of ENIGMA , the British developed data processing to attack the fish family of machine ciphers. (I must add: This was a whale of a job!) This led to the construction of the COLOSSUS which British historian F. H. Hinsley is "justly claimed as a pioneer programmable electronic digital computer."
The 40 (SZ40) when first encountered in 1940 was nicknamed TUNNY by the British - after a fish better known to Americans as TUNA.
The Schlüsselzusatz SZ40, manufactured by the German firm Lorenz, was used by the German Army for high-level communications, generally between Army groups. It provided on-line encryption and decryption and was capable of handling large volumes f traffic at high speed. The TUNNY depended on wheels for encryption and decryption but unlike ENIGMA it did nut substitute letters but insted encrypted elements of the electrically generated Baudot code used in normal telegraphic transmissions.
Source: National Cryptologic Museum 13 February 2009 with some hyperlinks added
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My machine does lots of cool stitches, these are purely decorative as the fabric is already stitched to the batting.
13/52 for the group 52 of 2012
This week's theme: Technical, mechanical, or machinery
I was rather lacking in inspiration earlier in the week, partly because I was thinking large scale. The obvious solution only came to me later and here is the old Singer Sewing machine (hand operated) that used to belong to my mother-in-law.
I looked up on the Internet about it recently and it dates from the 1930s and was made in Clydebank in Scotland.
This sewing machine dates to 1918. I know, because I still have the original manual. It belonged to my grandmother, my mother, and now me. Grandma was married in 1920, and she sewed all her own clothes on this machine. My mother and father were married in 1944, and about that time Grandma got one of those new-fangled electric machines and passed this on to my mother. I learned to sew on this machine, and used it to make all of my own clothes until I graduated from high school. My high school graduation gift was a "new-fangled" electric machine. In my family, sewing machines were considered a necessity. Grandmother and mother sewed all of their own clothes. Back in those days you saved a lot of money by making your own clothes. I continued the tradition until my daughters were young and I discovered that I could buy clothes and cheaply as I could make them. Mom got a new electric machine when I got mine, but she continued to use this machine for heavy duty work until shortly before she passed away. I don't use it anymore, but it has a special place in my house and in my heart.
There are more pictures in my photostream. The Free company was a predecessor of the Singer company.
Paragon Machine Works in Richmond, CA specializes in custom bicycle part manufacturing.
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Strobist: bare head right, indirect window light from left
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Roland CNC Machine
it wasn't working right so we openned it up to have a go at fixing it and it turned out to only need some dust cleared out from one of the supports. Now it has been milling for the last 24 hours.
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