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This is NOT about cooking at home or historical influences on cuisines; it's about profit, ownership, and wealth in a white supremacist culture.

White people are nearly 50% more likely than people of color (POC) to own a business in the state of Oregon. Ownership builds wealth in ways that employment does not. The racial wealth and small business lending gaps in the US are pronounced, which allows white folks to open new businesses more easily. These white-owned businesses hamper the ability for POC to run successful businesses of their own (cooking their own cuisines) by either consuming market share with their attempt at authenticity or by modifying foods to market to white palates. Their success further perpetuates the problems stated above. It's a cyclical pattern that will require intentional behavior change to break. If you've come here in anger, please read at least a couple of these articles before continuing to the list on the next tab below.

In the meat of the spreadsheet at the "Restaurants List" tab, we have

"Many people have asked for us to list alternatives owned by people of color (POC), so we have updated the list to include the nearest (in cuisine and distance) POC-owned restaurant to each of the appropriative restaurants. If you look at these two lists and you have visited more of the red than the green, please ask yourself why.

Note that the backgrounds of the people of color who own the listed restaurants do not necessarily match the cuisine they serve. We could have limited the list to only people selling their own cuisine, but we made the decision not to in order to make a point. If this seems like hypocrisy from the standards set for white-owned restaurants, you haven't understood why white appropriation is a problem.

White business owners wield economic and ""cultural capital"" advantages over POC business owners, so they are ""punching down"" by appropriating cuisines from people who are disadvantaged in comparison. A Vietnamese person opening a Japanese restaurant does not have the same impact as a non-Hispanic white person opening a Mexican restaurant. Healthy cultural exchange can and does occur when the playing field is relatively even, but appropriation is a demonstration of power that perpetuates inequities.

I think this double standard speaks for itself despite the rationalizing of the last paragraph. But is it real or a clever hoax?

The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled to give Wikimedia a chance to legally challenge the NSA’s mass surveillance as being unconstitutional. The government has previously argued that the NSA’s Upstream warrantless spying is authorized under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. [...]

The ruling yesterday reversed a lower court’s ruling which found Wikimedia, which publishes the internet behemoth Wikipedia, couldn’t prove the NSA’s “Upstream” surveillance program was secretly monitoring its communications, vacuuming the communications right off the internet backbones – even with leaked Snowden documents showing Wikipedia as an NSA target.

[...] due to the sheer size of Wikimedia, the judges found that the NSA probably had seized at least some of their communications.

—Computerworld (hyperlinks in original)

“Wikimedia has plausibly alleged that its communications travel all of the roads that a communication can take, and that the NSA seizes all of the communications along at least one of those roads,” U.S. Circuit Judge Albert Diaz wrote. “Thus, at least at this stage of the litigation, Wikimedia has standing to sue for a violation of the Fourth Amendment. And, because Wikimedia has self-censored its speech and sometimes forgone electronic communications in response to Upstream surveillance, it also has standing to sue for a violation of the First Amendment.”

—Courthouse News Service

further reading:
Wikipedia article on Upstream
Wikipedia article on Albert Diaz

additional coverage:

• Just Security (opinion)
• New York Times
• Just Security
• EFF press release (EFF is one of the plaintiffs)
• Ars Technica
• The Hill
• Associated Press via The Telegraph (Macon, Georgia, USA)

previous stories:
US Spies Still Won't Tell Congress the Number of Americans Caught in Dragnet
Judge Tosses Wikimedia’s Anti-NSA Lawsuit Because Wikipedia It Isn’t Big Enough
Wikipedia's Lawsuit Against NSA Internet Vacuum has First Day in Court
Deeper Dive into EFF's Motion on Backbone Surveillance

I leggings verranno messi fuorilegge: sono ‘’atti osceni’’ in luogo pubblico translation "Leggings will be outlawed: they are "obscene acts" in a public place"

Machine translation:

"Leggings will be outlawed": the female chief of clothing may soon be subject to a restrictive rule of law. The reason? They are considered obscene and comparable to 'obscene acts in a public place'. If you think that the proposal comes from some country with deep Muslim religious fundamentalism, you are wrong: the bill comes from the US state of Montana.

Republican David Moore, in fact, has proposed legislation, the Billboard House Bill 365, which would like to ban "yoga pants" - so called because used by women to do yoga or gymnastics - as "indecent" clothing not to be worn in place Public because they would put too much emphasis on the side b. If passed, the law may also affect other garments that show the breasts or other parts of the provocative body.

[...] As the time for the interview neared, Gianforte came into the room. We exchanged pleasantries and made small talk about restaurants and Bozeman.

During that conversation, another man — who we now know is Ben Jacobs of The Guardian — walked into the room with a voice recorder, put it up to Gianforte's face and began asking if he had a response to the newly released Congressional Budget Office report on the American Health Care Act. Gianforte told him he would get to him later. Jacobs persisted with his question. Gianforte told him to talk to his press guy, Shane Scanlon.

At that point, Gianforte grabbed Jacobs by the neck with both hands and slammed him into the ground behind him. Faith, Keith and I watched in disbelief as Gianforte then began punching the reporter.

—Fox News (archive link)

26 May 06:12 GMT update:

"When you make a mistake, you have to own up to it. That's the Montana way," Gianforte said. "Last night, I made a mistake, and I took an action that I can't take back, and I'm not proud of what happened. I should not have responded in the way that I did, and for that I am sorry."

"I should not have treated that reporter that way. And, for that, I'm sorry, Mr. Ben Jacobs," Gianforte said [...]

—Business Insider

additional coverage:

• The Guardian (see Youtube link for audio)
• NPR
• USA Today
• CNN
• The Virginian-Pilot

related stories:
FCC Guards Eject Reporter
Reporter Arrested for "Yelling Questions" at HHS Secretary Tom Price

Statement on coverage of Seth Rich murder investigation

Published May 23, 2017 Fox News
On May 16, a story was posted on the Fox News website on the investigation into the 2016 murder of DNC Staffer Seth Rich. The article was not initially subjected to the high degree of editorial scrutiny we require for all our reporting. Upon appropriate review, the article was found not to meet those standards and has since been removed.

We will continue to investigate this story and will provide updates as warranted.

The Guardian in UK reports of a serious incident at the Manchester Arena during a concert by Ariana Grande that occurred sometime around 2017-05-22 21:40 UTC. The Manchester Victoria railway station's services is blocked.

Fatalities have occurred. a huge bang is reported.

NBC News writes that there is 20 dead.

Evacuation chaos
Sound of the "bang" (sounds like a bomb)

British police says to Sky News that there is 19 fatalities and 50 injured. As people have shrapnel injuries, it's likely a bomb of that type.

US Officials says to Sky News that they suspect it's was a suicide bomber.

The explosion occurred in a public area outside the arena.
Ariana Grande is ok.

2017-05-23 06:30 UTC Sky News, reports 22 dead and 59 injured.

I'm sure there are uncertainties in the reporting and that all facts will not be clear for some time.

TD;LR: 2017-05-22 21:40 UTC, Manchester Arena in Britain, Suicide bomber with a nail (shrapnel) bomb explodes it right at the end of the concert in a public area next to the Arena. Results in 19 dead and 50 injured. Ariana Grande is ok.

Every Sunday I do my ironing. I have to wear reasonably "smart" clothes to work four days a week and on Friday we're allowed to dress down. Every Sunday night, depending on how tired I am, I try to iron four shirts and a pair of trousers.

It has always occurred to me that ironing clothes is a waste of time and energy. It serves no purpose other than to adhere to a social convention. If I were putting Lean Six Sigma onto my life, I think it would probably come under the category of "necessary waste" since it is there to comply with the law (an unwritten social law enforced by the Central Scrutinizer) which adds no value to the value stream.

I just found a calculation I did about three years ago to work out the impact to atmospheric carbon dioxide emissions that ironing clothes causes.

I used official UK government statistics on the proportion of electricity generated by fossil fuels and the carbon dioxide gas produced.

I have no idea if these links are still valid.

Carbon Dioxide (Equivalent) Emissions from Electricity Generation (2013)

Historical elctricity data: 1920 to 2013

For my calculations. my electrical iron is rated at 2kW and I estimated the heater to be operational 50% of the time. It takes me about 5 minutes to iron a single item, and I do 5 at a time.

To cut a long story short, I calculated that in the UK, given 2013 electricity generation data, 1 million of me doing my ironing would produce about 244.5 Te of carbon dioxide gas.

Here's my data:

Constants
Seconds per Minute    60
kcal/joule 0.000239005736
1 billion 1000000000
Seconds per Hour 3600
1 million 1000000

Iron Power (W)    2000
Time to Iron (mins)    5
Time Heating (%) 50
Energy per Item (J) 300000
Energy per Item (kcal) 71.7017208

MtCO2e 178.5
Energy Supplied (Gwh) 304155

CO2(kg) 178500000000
Energy Supplied (J) 1.094958E+018
Mass of CO2/unit energy (kg/J)    1.63019951450193E-07

CO2e(kg) per item ironed     0.048905985435058

CO2e(kg) per million items ironed 48905.9854350578
CO2(Te) per million items ironed 48.9059854350578

Items/person/week 5
1 Million People (Te)    244.529927175289

I’ve built a simple inductance meter based on an Arduino Pro Mini. Here’s a picture. The inductance measurement circuit is based on this but I have made some minor modifications to make use of an I²C LCD I managed to get for cheap and provided for an LM7805-based regulator so it could be powered from a 9V battery. The two large maroon things between the LM339 comparator IC and the Arduino (the board with the surface mount chip and the red LED) are a pair of 1 µF PET capacitors in parallel for a total capacitance of 2 µF. This is set in parallel with the test inductor to produce a tank circuit. The Arduino sends a 5 ms pulse into the tank circuit, which sends its response into the LM339 comparator, and the output of the comparator is a damped square wave at the resonant frequency of the tank circuit. The Arduino can measure this resonant frequency by measuring the width of a pulse it receives from the comparator. The theoretical resonant frequency of the tank circuit is 1/2π⋅√LC, and given that the capacitance is known it is possible to solve for the inductance L = 1/4π²f²C. Seems to work well enough, although actual inductors whose inductances are known are in short supply. The test inductor I have used in the picture is a ferrite core inductor I salvaged from a dead CFL bulb. I’ve tried winding and unwinding coils from it and it seems that the inductance changes, so I think it works, sorta.

Next step will be to perform calibration. I need to somehow find actual inductors with an inductance known to a high tolerance, and use them to calibrate the circuit. Those aren’t easy to find in the electronics stores around here. And then I need to fix up the case. I managed to fortuitously find that plastic box which fits the prototype circuit boards I have almost perfectly (it’s actually one of a set of three food storage boxes I got from the equivalent of a dollar or ¥100 store here). Now I need to find a way to make clean holes in the lid for the LCD, the probe terminals, and the power button. I’m not using a box cutter to do that… I’m too clumsy to do that properly and mistakes will result in waste. I’ll probably just glue the standoffs that hold the circuit board up to the bottom of the case, so it will be necessary to unscrew the circuit board from the standoffs to replace the battery, which I will also have to fix to the bottom of the case somehow. Enclosures are harder than they have to be. I’ll go scouting around for 3D printing services when I have the time, so I can make a real honest to goodness case.

In the future I’ll perhaps make a few changes to the circuit so it can measure capacitance as well, but in order to do that I’ll need an inductor with a known inductance, and then it will be the test capacitor in parallel with the inductor forming the tank circuit. It will just be a matter of adding a reed relay controlled by a switch and the Arduino to alternate between L and C measurement.

I've been documenting work (and re-using some code from an under-funded project which came to a grinding halt when my last SD card burned out). As part of the documenting process, I've been dubbing audio on OpenOffice presentations. I've automated this process and the workflow is conceptually simple: .odp -> .pdf -> .png -> (quite a few more steps) -> .mp4 container with H.264 video at 10 frames per second and MP3 audio at a maximum of 128kb/s quality.

Software requirements are as follows: Unix type operating system with bash, make and perl on command path, OpenOffice or LibreOffice on command path, pdftocairo or pdftoppm on command path, ffmpeg or avconv on command path.

The directory structure is relatively simple (compared to previous projects). Populate a leaf directory with the given Makefile and an OpenOffice presentation with any name. (Or a PowerPoint presentation, if you really insist.) If multiple presentations exist in a directory, the one which numerically sorts last is chosen. This allows crude versioning to occur within a directory. Anyhow, with these two files present, type:-

make slides

and the directory will be populated with .png files - one for every slide in the presentation. (This workflow specifically doesn't work with animated images or embedded video. Feel free to add features as required. Likewise, script may fail to batch convert .odp to .pdf if OpenOffice or LibreOffice is running in foreground. Feel free to detect or correct this problem.)

With your preferred image viewer, step through slides and record audio for the presentation. Edit audio and place .wav or .mp3 with any name in the same directory. If multiple audio files exist in a directory, the one which numerically sorts last is chosen. This further allows crude versioning to occur within a directory.

Next comes the tricky part: slide transition times defined in a .csv file. The .csv file should be in the following format:-

01,1:06
02,2:33
03,5:04

where the first column is the slide number and the second column is the absolute time within the audio at which the slide should be *discarded*. (So, the last entry should be the duration of the audio plus maybe a small margin of error.) Times may be specified in seconds; minutes and seconds; hours, minutes and seconds; all with or without fractional values. Times are rounded down to the nearest 0.1 second.

Numbers in the first column should follow the numerical format of pdftocairo and therefore some slides may require one or more leading zeros.

With the audio track and transition times present, type:-

make this

and wait for the presentation to be made at 1024×768 pixels, 512×384 pixels, 256×192 pixels and audio only.

If making multiple presentaions, the second optional Makefile provides additional functionality for directory recursion and consistent titling across multiple presentations. Specifically, branch directories form sections and subsections. Each section (and suchlike) may optionally have one slide (plus audio) which prefixes every video and may optionally have one slide (plus audio) which suffixes every video. These "bookends" may be nested such that a video may be of the form:-

• common title
• section prefix
• subsection prefix
• content
• subsection suffix
• section suffix
• further info

However, this configuration is significantly more fiddly and knocks all of the timings in the .csv files.

I'll be using these scripts to process about 800 slides in 60 presentations. However, I've yet to record the accompanying audio. This will require about two minutes of audio per slide and, for me, before audio editing, that requires at least five minutes per slide with a hot microphone plus additional time to practice. So, I've got at least 4000 minutes of talking and I'll require significantly more time to edit and check my work.

Understandably, this task got me thinking about accelerated learning and it is my belief that 400 hours of finished presentations could form the vast bulk of a rigorous degree education.

Script to make one presentation:-

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Optional script to make multiple presentations:-

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(Usual instructions for uudecode process.)

2017-05-16 15:11 UTC
Canadian transport minister Marc Garneau Introduces New Passenger Bill Of Rights

"We have all heard recent news reports of shoddy treatment of air passengers," Garneau said at a news conference. "Such incidents will not be tolerated in Canada. When Canadians buy an airline ticket, they expect the airline to keep its part of the deal."

2017-05-17 00:21 UTC
And here we go again..
Air Canada Abruptly Cancels Tickets, Costing N.L. Couple $6,000 (Canadian dollars?)

While Air Canada apologized to Earle for the "inconvenience,'' it said the suspension of their tickets was "a necessary fraud prevention technique to protect our passengers, credit card holders and Air Canada.''