--- title: "Sprout House Roof" date: "2020-05-27 00:00:00 -06:00" categories: - whats-blooming layout: "post" blog-banner: "whats-blooming-now-spring.jpg" post-date: "May 27, 2020" post-time: "12:00 PM" blog-image: "2020-05-27-wbn.jpg" published: true ---
This week I'd like to highlight the Sprout House Roof. I am stunned at all the beauty happening. This is an area that is easy to overlook, so I want to give it the full spotlight, as well as a shout out to the Natural Area crew - Neal and Jaime - who manage this area. Bravo!
Isn't this a sight for sore eyes.
This is the native species of the cultivar above. With flowers so nice, it gets featured twice.
This is a Utah native, threatened species, endemic to the Uinta Basin. Its habitat is threatened by oil and gas production and development.
Audible Gasp! The orange and purple are a spectacular color combination. The orange contrast is provided by Globemallow.
Just kidding, just kidding, this is the Sprout House Roof, but doesn't it have Southern Utah vibes?
These unique flowers accomodate their only pollinator, the Yucca Moth. Yucca and Yucca Moths have developed a symbiotic relationship with each other, the plant depends on the moth for pollination, and the moth depends on the yucca plant as a host for its larvae stage. How sweet is that?!
We hope everyone is happy and healthy, and able to enjoy the beauty just outside your doorstep.


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DWP
Page 18
Time to focus on a few structures needed on the DWP. First up is the ornate depot located in Virginia Minnesota. Virginia is about halfway between Duluth and Ft. Francis. Virginia is where the Missabe interchanges with the DWP and is a busy area for iron ore mining. In 1913 the DWP completed it’s own depot in Virginia. Up to this point the DWP used the Duluth, Missabe & Northern depot. The new depot was built of brick and sandstone. The interesting thing is that the depot was built on pilings at the edge of Silver Lake. A single track served the depot and it was built on a trestle as part of the “loop line” that diverted from the DWP mainline which continued to the West Virginia yard, to downtown Virginia. This loop line also interchanged with the Missabe at Rainy Junction. The depot still stands today, but is now used as a bank.
This is the view of the depot as it will be seen on the layout. In effect, the viewer will be standing in Silver Lake, famous for the World’s largest loon decoy, which float out in the lake in the summer months. In this photo the trestle can still be seen although there is no rail on it. The trim of the building is painted white although the few color photos I’ve seen from the 50’s show the trim to be green like other Canadian National structures. The fire escape is also a contemporary addition which was not in evidence during the depots active years. The third storey was known as the “crows nest” and was home to the dispatcher.
The initial test fitting showed that most all of the parts fit together quite nicely. There were a few adjustments and some changes, but overall our first cutting worked out for us.
The first step for us in building this model was to create working scale drawings. We were unable to locate any builder’s drawings or other documentation. We were also not prepared to make a field trip to Virginia to make measurements so photos were used to make the drawings. When scaling from photos it is helpful if a view can be found that is close to straight on. We were lucky enough to find one that had workers building the depot in the book Delivered with Pride by Jon A. Severson. This made scaling fairly easy and I believe were are very close. Our drawings are done in Coreldraw.
The scale drawings were deconstructed and prepared for the laser cutter.  Some of the sheets were pre-
The doors and windows are cut from 1/32” thick birch plywood. They are built up from
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Other parts such as the towers and sandstone trim are cast resin from hand carved patterns.
Here one of the corner towers is being test fit to see where the walls will need to be notched. We ended up notching and beveling the walls for a close fit.
Windows and door were test fit as well. Here is where the laser really pays for itself. Note the arch detail above the window and door openings. The wall is laying on top of the drawing so the photo looks a little odd. The door is unpainted birch plywood. There are etched locations for the eve brackets which appear as faint lines in the photo.
The center section after cementing together. The swell thing about acrylic is that it cements with solvent cement like styrene for strong joints. Small 45 degree triangles are used to help square things up as well as add some strength to the corners. Because resin parts can be tricky to adhere to dissimilar materials and owing to the fact that these are heavy castings with small attachment points; some mechanical fasteners were used to make certain they will not get knocked off the building.
The windows and doors are gang primed and painted prior to glazing and installation. Although the trim is now white, color photos form the 50’s in “Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific in color” by David C. Schauer show the depot having Green trim.
Here is the depot mostly assembled. The center section was painted assembled while the freight sections were painted prior to assembly. The windows are installed with glazing and shades. Some of the sandstone trim is installed. Some putty was required so there will be touch up painting.
Here is a closer look at the center section. The towers turned out looking very nice. There will be a little detail inside to view through the windows. Lighting is also being installed.
Finally, one last look with a mock up of the peaked roof in place. These parts are laser cut from matte board with lines for the shingle engraved. Soon the depot will be finished along with the platform. The trestle is completed and ready to install on the layout. We are very pleased with how quickly we were able to make the parts and assemble them into this great model. Next up is the C&NW depot in downtown Duluth, which the DWP used.


Some thoughts on control theory
A few months ago, I worked through Friedland’s really excellent graduate-level controls book Control System Design. I have been working in the control systems-domain for most of my professional career, but I didn’t have a solid foundation in state-space methods, so I decided to pick up the book and work through each chapter meticulously; including working most exercises to the best of my ability. I went into the exercise with the notion that I would discover that state-space methods were superior to those of the frequency domain. What I actually learned was quite different. I have tried to pair down the big takeaways from this exercise to three main points, each of which are summarized below.
State-space control methods are best applied to observer design
What I found most striking about state space control methods for linear time-invariant systems were that, given controllability and observability criteria, closed-loop system response could be chosen arbitrarily! This means that the poles/eigenvalues of a closed-loop system, with linear feedback, can be placed anywhere. This is truly amazing! But, there is a caveat: such methods are only useful when full-state information is available for feedback. This is a major bummer, because usually only a subspace of the total phase space of an LTI system is measurable. Not to worry, the same state-space methods can be used to design observers to estimate the full state from limited measurements.
A quick summary of objectives for state-space control is as follows:
- For controller design: Find a gain matrix to drive system state towards a desired reference in a desirable way; e.g. with error between reference and actual state decaying exponentially with desired rate. The rate is arbitrary, but should consider things such as disturbance rejection, noise attenuation, and the variation in time of the reference signal
- For observer design: Find a gain matrix to drive observation error to zero in a desirable way; e.g. exponential decay with desired rate. The rate is arbitrary, but should consider things such as measurement noise and model uncertainty.
Observers are themselves LTI systems that seek to find a residual gain, \(K\), to be applied to the difference between the actual and predicted measurements. A predicted measurement is what the observer predicts the measurement to be given the current state estimate. Observers are truly remarkable. Before they were introduced, there was no mathematically precise way to use estimated state information in full-state feedback control. An example of a very popular observer is the Kalman filter, which has spawned many variants and is used in most systems where smooth state estimation is required.
So why exactly do I say that state-space control methods are best applied to observer design? Here are the major points:
- State-space methods are really all there is for linear observer design: Take the Kalman filter for example: using state space methods, and making some simple assumptions about system dynamics and the structure of noise present in the system, a provably-optimal observer can be designed using state space methods. Nothing comparable to this exists for observers in the frequency domain, to my knowledge.
- State-space control is brittle: In order that system response actually match designed response, uncertainty in the system must not be present. This is really an unreasonable ask and, in my opinion, renders state-space methods for controller design dead-on-arrival. Assuming the system evolves perfectly according to the LTI model, there is still the matter of needing full- or nearly full-state feedback to place the poles. In practice, this is done with an observer, and the observer introduces it’s own error dynamics that would be unaccounted for in the original system model. Chapter 8 deals with compensator design for this problem, but it’s pretty complicated and doesn’t deal with measurement noise or model uncertainty of any kind.
I address the second bullet point in the next section.
Frequency domain methods can’t so easily be discarded
This came as quite a blow to me, but upon reflection, it seems to make perfect sense for the following reason:
State space methods decompose the system into two parts: controllability and observability. Each of these are evaluated in separate stages. The frequency domain approach, however, considers both observability and controllability simultaneously when reproducing the transfer function between input and output.
There is no good way to deal with uncertainties in the state-space methodologies. Sure, there are perturbation techniques that can be used to do some sensitivity analysis, but there is no substitute for the rigorous stability assessment techniques of the frequency-domain approach. Via singular value analysis or Bode plots, system feedback can be designed with frequency attenuation in mind. True, frequency domain methods are not as mathematically-pretty as state-space methods, but I don’t believe that one can deny they are more powerful.
State-space methods provide no direct way of addressing disturbance rejection and robustness!
Friedland presents nice historical discussions of both methods in the context of the material he is presenting. He continually refernces a large divide between groups of both practitioners in terms of uses and limitations of their methods. After finishing the book, I don’t really see such a sharp divide. To me, both methods are useful and have domains where they are most readily applied. Neither method should be discarded in the overall considerations of control system design.
Working through textbooks is crucial to becoming a subject matter expert
Many may disagree with me on this point, especially in the wake of massively online open courses delivered by Coursera and Udacity that deliver content in 5-10 minute digested chunks, but I believe that attaining true mastery of a topic requires a higher level of commitment. Online courses can teach practical skills, however textbooks present ways of thinking about focused topics in general. This latter skillset is crucial for building the general-purpose skills required for tackling unsolved problems. I don’t advocate discarding one learning method in favor of another; both are important. I merely want to highlight the point that knowledge of practical skills alone is insufficient to understanding their application in novel contexts.
If you would like to see my solutions to the exercises, check out this repo.


Public API documentation for the Pustike Inject project which implements the JSR-330 (Jakarta Dependency Injection) specification.


To stop a backtest during execution, follow these steps
If you have multiple backtests executing, hover over the member name in the In Use By column to see which project the node is backtesting.


Max Verstappen dissects his season so far and looks ahead to 2020
by Louis ShawIt has been a mixed season for Max Verstappen and Red Bull Racing. They have performed consistently well but have had a few disasters at a number of Grand Prix's. They have shown that they have the pace to win races and need to make just a few slight improvements to really challenge for the title next season.
Verstappen reflects on what has been a mixed season.
“When you look back after the summer break, we were also very competitive in Monza, which you wouldn’t expect,” Verstappen said to RaceFans. “So it was not all that bad.
“But of course, we also had to take engine penalties. So starting from the back the best you really could do was fifth and then, of course, it doesn’t look like an amazing result.”
“Then Suzuka was always going to be a bit of a tricky one because you can nail the set-up for qualifying or not, and then immediately it can be a big difference,” he continued. “And I was not very happy with the set-up we had in qualifying so it didn’t look amazing.
“But still I had a good start, was virtually in [third], but then I got taken out of course. That would have been a nice result as well for us.”
Red Bull know what it takes to succeed and will use these last two races of the season to start their preparation for a bid at the title for 2020.


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Get a list of cards found using a fulltext search string. This string uses the same syntax as Scryfall's site This is pagenated, returning a maximum of 175 cards at a time
get_cards_by_search( q = "*", unique = "cards", order = "name", dir = "auto", include_extras = FALSE, include_variations = FALSE, page = 1, format = "json", pretty = FALSE )
| q | the string query using Scryfall Syntax |
|---|---|
| unique | the rollup mode for removing duplicates. See details |
| order | the method to sort returned cards. See details |
| dir | direction to sort cards |
| include_extras | Should the search include extra cards (tokens, planes, vanguards, etc) |
| include_variations | Should rare card varients be included Defaults to false |
| page | the page to return defaults to 1 |
| format | The format to return the data in. json or CSV |
| pretty | Should the JSON be prettified |
A list
unique
This parameter specifies if Scryfall should remove duplicate results in your query. The options are:
"cards" (default): Removes duplicate gameplay objects (cards that share a name and have the same functionality).
"art" : Returns only one copy of each unique artwork for matching cards.
"prints": Returns all prints for all cards matched (disables rollup).
order
This parameter determines how Scryfall should sort the returned cards.
"name" (default): by card name
"set": by their set and collector number
"released": by release date
"rarity": by card Rarity
"usd": by card lowest known US dollar price
"tix": by lowest known TIX price
"eur": by lowest known Euro price
"cmc": by converted mana cost
"power": by power
"toughness": by toughness
"edhrec": by edhrec ranking
"artist" by front side artist name


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SCHOOL TIES A film review by Mark R. Leeper Copyright 1992 Mark R. Leeper
Capsule review: In 1955 an elite New England prep school recruits a ringer quarterback who happens to be a Jew. When the secret that he is a Jew leaks out, we get a view of the "old boy" system and the bigotry beneath the surface. Rating: low +2 [-4 to +4].
In 1955 St. Matthews is an extremely elite private prep school in New England. Graduate from St. Matthews and you are practically assured that you will make it into an Ivy League college and go on to a distinguished or at least comfortable career. One of the students sums up the philosophy of life at St. Matthews: "We do the things they tell us to and they give us the good life." But there is something that St. Matthews finds most distressing. For three years straight they have lost the big football game to their rival school and the alumni are tired of it. So the school has broken the code. They have let the coach recruit a ringer, a great high school quarterback as well as an excellent scholar even if the boy is, unfortunately, a Jew. But David Greene (played by Brendan Fraser) has been cautioned by his father and his new coach to let his religion remain his little secret.
Where DEAD POETS SOCIETY is about the pressures of posh prep schools and the wondrous joy of learning English literature, SCHOOL TIES is about the pressures and the dark underside of blooming bigotry and the old boy system for preserving class barriers. It is dark in tone, dark in photography, and a much more real film than is DEAD POETS SOCIETY. Greene has been given mixed signals by his father (played by Ed Lauter, cast very counter to type). His father has told him to fit in, but also to maintain his religious traditions. At first, there is little anti-Semitism: a comment here, a joke there. Greene turns out to be a great student and a superb athlete and just the kind of guy that everyone wants to be friends with, including the visiting girls. It is, in fact, a fault of Dick Wolf's or Darryl Ponicsan's script that Greene is just a little too good to be believed. But when tensions do arise through no fault of Greene's and the secret of his religion is revealed, his classmates show their cliquishness and religious bigotry.
Music was provided by Maurice Jarre (and, yes, there is a brief scene of a train). Jarre's score is a bit more somber than his DEAD POETS SOCIETY score. Similarly, the camerawork is also somber and casts a grayish tinge through the film. Photography is by Freddie Francis--perhaps the greatest cinemagraphic stylist alive. His style lets him down only during the football scenes where he uses cliched slow motion and repeated motion. The film is directed by Robert Mandel.
Minor flaws in the script--including the Jewish boy being just a bit too perfect and also an unsatisfying climactic scene--rob what could have been a great film, but still leave a very good film. I rate SCHOOL TIES a low +2 on the -4 to +4 scale.
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DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A homicide investigation was underway after a person was found dead in the parking lot of a Burger King in downtown Los Angeles Friday evening.
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European Parliament members ask Apple to reverse its decision on Crimea
Source: BBC
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- 15 European Parliament members have written to Apple.
- They want it to reverse its decision on Crimea.
- Users in Russia now see Crimea as within its borders.
If Apple hoped that its ongoing Crimean problem would just go away, it's becoming clear that isn't going to happen. In the latest turn of events 15 European Parliament members (MEPs) have written to Apple, asking it to reconsider its options.
Apple recently made a change that means Crimea appears as Russian in the Apple Maps and Weather apps. But that's only the case if you're in Russia. But even that is causing controversy, with Patently Apple (via 9to5Mac) noting that 15 MEPs want Apple to alter course.
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It was reported today on Ukrainian news channel 11.UA that more than a dozen Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) sent letters to the office of the American company Apple demanding to correct incorrect information about Crimea, which was indicated in the Apple Maps and Weather applications as the territory of the Russian Federation. Representative of Ukraine to the EU, ambassador to Belgium and Luxembourg Mykola Tochitsky announced it on Twitter.
Tochisky has also took to Twitter to tell Apple that it needs to value international law above profits.
In the letter sent to Apple, MEPs call for the company to "restore correct mentioning of Crimea" to make it appear as part of Ukraine regardless of where the user is located.
Apple's troubling decision to adhere to Russian geopolitical pressure rather than acknowledge the humanity of those suffering must be challenged. We are heartened by the rapid measures taken by Apple after initial reporting of the matter, but there is still more to be done […] We rely on you to restore correct mentioning of Crimea as part of Ukraine in Apple Maps and Weather apps at the earliest possible time.
This is clearly an issue that isn't going to go away, no matter how much Apple likely wishes that it would.
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THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR A Film Review Copyright Dragan Antulov 1998
One of the most immediate consequences of the social turmoil in 1960s was the global loss of faith towards the institutions of government. For the Americans, feeling of mistrust into their government, born out of traumatic events of Kennedy assassination, finally peaked immediately after Watergate and turned into full-blown paranoia. The unpleasant discovery of government's tendencies to use their all- powerful resources against helpless and innocent citizens for some hidden agenda caused a lot of anxiety. Such anxiety influenced Hollywood too, who launched a whole series of political thrillers about government conspiracies. The trend, with THE PARALLAX VIEW and ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN as the brightest example, was very popular for a while, but then the audience gradually got tired of complicated plots dealing with arcane political intrigues and subtle yet deadly techniques of manipulation and control. However, while the trend lasted, it produced some films that, although hardly masterpieces, look superior to today's attempts to resurrect sub-genre of paranoia. Nice example is THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR, interesting 1975 thriller by director Sydney Pollack.
The movie begins in the New York office that serves as a front for the research division of CIA, specialised in reading and analysing books, comics and similar material. One of those researches is mild-manneredTurner (Robert Redford), who goes out to buy lunch only to see all of his colleagues brutally murdered upon return. In the state of shock and afraid for his life, Turner contacts his superiors, but the rendezvous intended to lead to his debriefing ends with shooting. Barely escaping alive, Turner is now convinced that someone within the CIA wants him dead, probably the same person who ordered the massacre. Forced to go underground, Turner kidnaps Kathy (Fay Dunaway), beautiful lady photographer, in order to hide in her apartment and figure out what is really going on.
The script by talented Lorenzo Semple Jr. (who wrote, among the others, paranoia classic THE PARALAX VIEW), was very good in bringing the atmosphere of anxiety and mistrust to the screen. Unfortunately, director Sidney Pollack, who earned a lot of respect working on entirely different types of movies (melodramas and comedies), took the dark overtones too seriously - the camera in film is simply too dark, and the viewer must pay a lot of attention in order to find out what is really going on. Pollack, on the other hand, used some very subtle but effective techniques to depict violence - something often ignored in today's cinemas. The characters are well-drawn and played by stellar cast. Robert Redford is adequate for the role, although his presence might seem too charismatic for a ordinary CIA analyst caught in a life and death situation. Fay Dunaway was much better in a rather thankless role whose impact was undermined with unnecessary romance. Max von Sydow was very effective as creepy but cultivated professional killer with personal code of honour, same as always reliable Cliff Robertson as Turner's cynical boss. Despite some flaws, and despite the lack of clarity in some segments, the plot seems realistic and plausible. At the finale, however, this movie loses a lot of impact due to the moralistic diatribe that came out of thin air. But, all things considered, THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR might pass as both entertaining and very intelligent thriller.
RATING: 6/10 (++)
Review written on December 16th 1998
-- Dragan Antulov a.k.a. Drax Fido: 2:381/100 E-mail<EMAIL_ADDRESS>dragan.antulov@altbbs.fido,hr
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