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S600-E V200R011C10 Configuration Guide - Network Management and Monitoring

This document provides the configurations of network management and monitoring features supported by the product, including SNMP, RMON, LLDP, NQA, Service Diagnosis, Mirroring, Packet Capture, and sFlow.

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Configuring an HTTP Test Instance

Configuring an HTTP Test Instance

Before configuring an HTTP test instance, configure an HTTP server and ensure reachable routes between the HTTP client and the HTTP server.

Through an NQA HTTP test, you can obtain the response speed in three phases:

  • DNS resolution time: indicates the time taken to resolve the HTTP server domain name into its IP address. During this process, the NQA client sends a DNS request to the DNS server. The DNS server resolves the domain name of the HTTP server to an IP address and returns a DNS response.

  • TCP connection setup time: indicates the time spent in setting up a TCP connection between the NQA client and the HTTP server through three-way handshake.

  • Transaction time: It is a period from the time the client sends the Get or Post packets to an HTTP server to the time the Echo packet sent by the client reaches the HTTP client.

The NQA client also functions as the HTTP client. Perform the following steps on the NQA client.

  1. Run system-view

    The system view is displayed.

  2. Run nqa test-instance admin-name test-name

    An NQA test instance is created, and the NQA view is displayed.

  3. Run test-type http

    The test type is set to HTTP.

  4. Run destination-address ipv4 ipv4-address

    The destination address is configured.

  5. (Optional) Run the following commands as required to configure parameters for the HTTP test.

    • Run description string

      A description is configured for the test instance.

    • Run frequency interval

      The test period is set for the NQA test instance.

    • Run timeout time

      The timeout period of a probe is set for the NQA test instance.

    • Run dns-server ipv4 ip-address

      The DNS server address is configured.

    • Run destination-port port-number

      The destination port number is configured.

    • Run source-address ipv4 ipv4-address

      The source IP address is configured.

    • Run source-port port-number

      The source port number is configured.

    • Run ttl number

      The TTL value in the NQA test packet is set.

    • Run sendpacket passroute

      The NQA test instance is configured to send packets without searching the routing table.

    • Run probe-count number

      The number of probes in a test is set.

    • Run tos value

      Type of Service (TOS) is set for the test packet.

    • Run fail-percent percent

      The failure percentage is set for the NQA test instance.

    • Run vpn-instance vpn-instance-name

      The VPN instance name is configured.

    • Run records history number

      The maximum number of historical records is set for the NQA test instance.

    • Run records result number

      The maximum number of result records is set for the NQA test instance.

    • Run agetime hh:mm:ss

      The aging time is set for the NQA test instance.

  6. Run http-operation get

    The HTTP operation type is set to Get.

  7. Run http-url deststring [ verstring ]

    The URL of the web page that the HTTP test accesses and the HTTP version are configured.

    If no HTTP version is configured, HTTP1.0 is supported by default. You can set the version to HTTP1.1.

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Index > Interface > Menu Process  Previous  |  Next

Access: On the Menu bar, click Process > Generate DTM (enabled once the Raster DSM is generated and the tiles of the Raster DSM are merged).

This process takes as input the merged Raster DSM (Digital Surface Model), computes a classification mask and generates the Raster DTM (Digital Terrain Model).

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  • Eric Fabio

    I am working to create a highly accurate canopy height model for determining plant height for plant breeding application. I am having a hard time deciding which processing option settings would be most conducive to producing the most accurate DTM possible. Computing power and time are not a problem. I have generated DTM and have gotten mixed results. Occasionally the planted areas will influence the model causing an increase in terrain height collocated with planted areas. What would be one way to get a really accurate terrain model? Is it possible to select data in pix4d above a certain height rather then going through the drudgery of selecting each open area of the field and assigning it as ground and disabling all other areas?

  • Kapil (Pix4D)

    Hi Eric,

    It is always challenging when you are calculating the DTM for the area which is covered by the dense vegetation because very few portions of the land are visible to estimate the DTM. However, the best option I would recommend is editing the point cloud. There might be another approach such as mapping the land before vegetation(which is not suitable for this project) and using that DTM model to subtract the DSM model to get the plant height. The only setting recommendation to improve the DTM other than editing the point cloud is enabling the point cloud classification, which you have already used.

    For now, Pix4Dmapper doesn't provide the feature that allows you to edit the point cloud based on the altitude. However, I would recommend you to use GIS software such as QGIS, ArcGIS and so on which might be helpful for you for this procedure.

  • Vijay

    We want to calculate volume of bench of a open pit mine / quarry

    Which has some trees and some vegetation

    How does this affect to volume measurement and also which would be best method to do volume measurement in pix4d cloud

    Does DTM generated by pix4d can help or we will need to post process output data

  • Marco (Pix4D)

    Hi Vijay,

    As mentioned above by Kapil, it might worth to clean your point cloud with the point cloud editor.
    You can also smooth the DTM using surfaces.

    During DTM generation, the disabled points are not definitively removed but rather smoothed which can lead sometimes to certain inconsistencies. Besides as the classification is automatic it might need some manual correction.

    That's why sometimes we would recommend to generate the DTM in the same way you do so for the DSM, but assigning all point from all classes, except "Ground" and "Road Surface",  to the class "Disable". This usually leads to better results.
    If you want to preserve some features, you can keep them by assigning them to the class "Ground". Make sure that all the points from features you want to preserve are assign to the correct class.

    Then, when you are happy with your classification, you can launch step 3:

    Make sure that Raster DTM is unchecked:

    One more thing, if you DTM has some holes you can fill them using the "New Surface" tool:

    Make sure that you have check the box "Use for DSM and Triangle Mesh":

    Hope this will you to improve the quality for your DTM.

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How to Fix Final Cut Pro X When It Freezes

How to Fix Final Cut Pro X When It Freezes

Final Cut Pro X doesn’t really crash that often for me. I expected some of that when it was new, and with 10.0.3 I really don’t have many crashes. When it does crash it just stops working and you can restart where you left off.

Recently I had a crash where FCPX didn’t crash, it froze, and I got the dreaded whirly beach ball of death. Then when I restarted FCPX right where it left off, with the whirly ball. Even restarting the computer did the same thing. Others have occasionally experienced the same thing.

So I have prepared this video so that if it happens to you, you will know how to recover. It can be stressful. You can’t get your project done and you start worrying about losing the project entirely. What you need to do to fix it is move your active project and/or event out of the folders of your current projects and get them off line. You then can restart FCPX successfully. Afterwards you can move your project/event back and you will be back to work.

To make things easier I use and recommend the $4.99 Event Manager X. If you don’t have it you really need to get it. What are you waiting for? Get here from This video tutorial shows you how to use it to recover from a freezing crash with Final Cut Pro X.

One note regarding the video: you can actually use Event Manager to move your events and projects without stopping FCPX. In the video I quit FCPX before restarting with Event Manager. I did that for training purposes. If FCPX freezes then you have to force quit and Event Manager can’t do its magic unless FCPX quits. Once everything is working right you can rely on Event Manager to quit FCPX, move events and projects, and restart FCPX.

BTW I got FCPX to actually crash for the video, so it was a live recording of an actual event. In a future post I’ll let you know just how I got it to crash so you can avoid it yourself.

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  1. Daniel
    November 4, 2012 at 5:47 pm

    Hi Christopher, Hope you’re well. I’ve just come across your Youtube video ( on having crashes with FCPX. If you have a couple of spare minutes could you please help me out with the below; I’ve been having crashes with 10.0.5 for a while so prior to seeing your video I decided to upgrade to 10.0.6 in hope that the crashing problems would disspear. Instead FCPX 10.0.6 now opens up but gives me the below errors: Projects and Events must be updated to work with this version of Final Cut Pro. Updated Projects and Events cannot be opened in earlier versions of Final Cut Pro. To update your Projects and Events, click OK. To leave your Projects and Events untouched, click Ignore. (You will be prompted to update the next time you open the application.) If I hit ok – the spinning wheel of death comes back and I need to force quit the program, If I hit ok FCPX 10.0.6 appears but without none my projects or events. (I have tried to go to movies, FCPX events/ projects to make sure that FCPX has saved the projects as I didn’t back them up via external drive. I’ve found the project but when I go to open up the file/ import the file using FCPX 10.0.6 it give me the below error message: No importable files: None of the selected files or folders can be imported. Change the section and try again. Before this error message comes up the spinning wheel of death shows up again and activity monitor notes FCPX is not responding and I have to force quit. If I purchase event manager X and follow your steps on the youtube upload – do you think I’ll have the same success? Or should I speak with someone at apple? Bit about my computer/laptop: Mac OS X 10.7.5, 2.8 Ghz intel core i7, memory 8gb 1333 Mhz DDR3 late 2011 mac 13inc laptop. Any help would be greatly appreciated. (I’m hoping that I haven’t lost weeks of work) All the best, Daniel

    • Swainhart
      November 4, 2012 at 5:50 pm

      I would move the project/events out of their folders. Using the Event Manager is the best way to do that. Then restart FCPX.

      After that, I would make sure FCPX is working. Stop and restart FCPX. Make sure it is working. Repeat.

      Once all seems OK, then use Event Manager to move events back, one at a time. Stop and restart FCPX. Make sure it is working. Move the next event back. Repeat restart.

      Once all the events are back, move projects back, one at a time, starting with the smallest project. Make sure FCPX is working. Then repeat.

      Once you go through this process you may be ok. But if one project just won’t work, then you’ll know that project is damaged. At that point you may have to rebuild it from scratch.

      One more point: I duplicate each project every 4 hours while I am working to keep a backup so that I don’t lose more than 1/2 a day’s work. So far I have never completely lost any project, but I may be just lucky.

  2. November 11, 2012 at 6:48 pm

    Hi Christopher, I’ve had a major crash that I cannot repair. I watched your video and diligently tried everything you suggested using Event Manager X for the past 9 hours. No luck.

    Here’s what happened: I was putting the finishing touches on a 70-minute video that I have about 100 hours in. I wanted to make the exposure of the main storyline (a Still picture background) a little darker. I let it render overnight. When I woke up, I found that it was only 27% completed. I hit undo and it started rendering right back to 0%. So, to avoid another 8 hours of ‘unrendering’, I dragged a custom black frame from the Generator menu into the timelime into the existing picture clip. I immediately got the beachball. Now every time I open it, I unavoidably the beachball.

    In short the project is hung up on my last command and I cannot open it or revert to a previous version.

    Any more suggestions you may have would be greatly appreciated.

    Thank you,

    Sherif Shaalan

  3. Swainhart
    November 11, 2012 at 7:45 pm

    First, be sure to make lots of backups to other drives before you do anything.

    I would move all projects and events out of the Events and Projects directories using Event Manager X. Then I would open a blank project and new event and do a couple of minor edits to make sure FCPX is working. Then I would run Disk Utilities to check your disk drive for errors. Rebuild as needed. Disk Warrior is the next step and can repair your disk if Disk Utility can’t.

    Next I would try to bring in your project events and see if you can restart FCPX successfully. If not, you know it is an event issue. Events get hosed every once in a while. It could be a multicam clip, combined clip, or something like that. I do not know how to fix such problems but Apple has a Pro support division for FCPX and although it costs money they could help you.

    If the event doesn’t crash FCPX then try introducing a backup of your project. If that works, then try your final project.

    Good luck. We would love to hear how it works out for you.

  4. Sherif Shaalan
    November 11, 2012 at 8:26 pm

    Thanks for the quick response, Chris!

    I’ll try everything you suggested and let you know what if anything fixes the problem. I CAN open FCPX with the all events, it’s just that one particular project that hangs up.

    BTW, would you recommend this product?:

    I did a 30-day trial once last February, but now I have to buy it to try it again.

    • Swainhart
      November 11, 2012 at 8:29 pm

      Good thing the events are OK. Hopefully you can find one project backup that will work for you. You could also try the whole thing on another computer. Don’t know about the software you mentioned. If it works for you perhaps you could let us know.

      I would still back up my files and try the disk utility. Unfortunately you are living an editor’s ultimate nightmare.

  5. Julien
    November 14, 2012 at 6:12 pm

    Hello , so i had my final cut pro freezed and i followed your instruction , and i bought your software aswell because it didnt work , and ……. i lost everything my two file event and project was erased by some new empty files !! i worked a lot on this video it dramatik for me , i dont know what to do please help me

    • Swainhart
      November 23, 2012 at 9:18 pm

      So sorry to hear about you losing your work. Make sure you make multiple duplicate copies on multiple drives, both of events and projects. So far I have not lost anything permanently but I may just be lucky. But backing up a lot is the way to stay lucky.

  6. Ronald Johnson
    March 11, 2013 at 7:53 pm

    how can i fix this problem using finder

    • Swainhart
      March 12, 2013 at 7:48 am

      Best bet is to use Event Manager as indicated above. Very cheap and well worth the $$$.

  7. Jennifer
    April 30, 2013 at 8:04 am

    Hey Chris,
    Thanks for the helpful post and site. I downloaded Event Manager and did exactly what you showed in the video, but when I reopened my project & event in FCP, the round ball is appearing again. What does this mean and what do I need to do next?
    Your help will be very much appreciated!!

    • Swainhart
      April 30, 2013 at 9:07 am

      A lot has happened with FCPX since I made this video, but this still is the recommended method. The problem with your project most probably lies in a plugin effect that is FCPX is trying to render. I had the same problem recently and when I finally got the project reopened I trashed the plugin effect as quick as I could to eliminate it. Some third party plugins are prone to this issue.

      A way to get around this could be:
      1. Use EMX to move project & events offline
      2. Start FCPX make sure it runs normally, test with a new or other project
      3. Make sure you have your test project open and are working on it
      4. Close FCPX while the test project is open
      5. Use EMX to move project ONLY back on line
      6. Start FCPX and go to project manager, duplicate the project only (no render files, etc.)
      7. Open the duplicate project (your media will be missing)
      8. Delete any offending effects that are crashing the project (look for 3rd party, or processor intensive effects)
      9. Reopen your test project, quit FCPX, move your event file back online, restart and give it a try

      Good luck and let me know how you make out.

  8. Jordan Cain
    April 30, 2013 at 1:24 pm

    This did not work at all. Your explanation is not clear in the video. When you say “isolate” what does that mean? Checked, not checked? I need help, I feel like I just wasted 6 dollars. I have plenty of room on my external hard drives, and my main hard drive. On this particular project, every time I do anything I get the spinning ball for about 10 seconds. This means simply moving the slider, changing the zoom….ANYTHING…I have to wait and wait. Start up takes FOREVER and sometimes it freezes completely, or shuts down by itself…..PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • Swainhart
      April 30, 2013 at 1:57 pm

      First let me say that I have no connection with Apple or Event Manager X. Apple tech support is always an option. You need to get your crashing project out of the active timeline. You could look at my written instructions to Jen, it may be more helpful to you. Also, as you work in FCPX you should make backups by duplicating the project (project ONLY, no render files, etc.) so that you can always go back to an earlier version. I back my projects up often enough so that I only would lose a couple hours of work in a worse case scenario.

  9. Mason
    January 10, 2014 at 5:54 pm

    Hey Chris, I know this was posted awhile ago, but hopefully u will respond. I was just wondering what exactly is EMX and is it really necessary/different from finder? Does it save everything offline or do you have to do that on your own? Thanks

    • Swainhart
      January 20, 2014 at 6:19 pm

      You can do everything yourself with the finder that EMX does, but EMX makes it easier. It is now free and is not necessary if you upgrade to FCPX 10.1.

  10. Jacob Quigley
    January 25, 2014 at 6:24 pm

    Hey, I did exactly what the video told me to, and when I opened my project back up with the event it stopped rendering again and beachballed. How it started was FCP X had a minor crash when i was almost done a project. Then, I opened it back up, and before the project I was working on had time to render to 100%(so I could begin editing again), I began to start editing my project again. When i did this it froze again and beach balled and I was forced to force quit FCP X. Now i am here with the project stuck at 11% and Ive been trying to fix it for hours. Please if you have a solution tell me! Thanks!!

  11. January 27, 2015 at 12:24 pm

    I LOVE YOU!!!!
    Thank you so much! This video saved my life!

    • Christopher Swainhart
      January 27, 2015 at 12:35 pm

      Thanks for the love! 🙂 I am surprised this still helps, as FCPX has changed so much since this was written. Still though, I have not yet lost a project due to corruption in all that time.

  12. lena
    February 22, 2015 at 10:38 pm

    Hi Chris,

    I know your post is really old, but the problem with FCPX unfortunately still exists. I’m working with an OS X Yosemite laptop so Event Manager X is not working on my computer. The website for the download you gave advised me to download Final Cut Library Manager so I downloaded that one but now I don’t understand what to do as it looks completely different from the program you use in your video. I’m sorry to annoy with my problem in the year 2015 but I’m completely panicking at the moment and you’re the only one who seems to know how to solve my problem and save my project. Would you please help me out??

    Kind regards, Lena

    • Christopher Swainhart
      February 23, 2015 at 9:35 am

      I haven’t had the new FCP crash, however, the principles may be the same. First, is the whole program crashing, or just your project? My guess is that you may have some plugins causing you problems. Here is a link from Larry Jordan that will allow you to restore from one of your automatic backups.

      If you get the working, I suggest backing up your library, then continue work. You need to retrace your steps, you may have a conflict between plugins.

      Hope this helps.

  13. Tamia
    April 1, 2015 at 12:40 am

    Hi I recently had a fcp crash it’s the most up to date version, but it’s only a trial. I tried to drag in an audio but then it crashed and every time I open it, it still has the spinning circle. I tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it, but it still is frozen. I honestly have no idea what to do, I don’t know if you will see this because this is kind of an old post.

    • Christopher Swainhart
      April 18, 2015 at 9:14 am

      See the comment below yours. Deleting render files should help you.

  14. Peter Marsh
    April 18, 2015 at 12:13 am

    I have had a nightmare with FCP – reinstalled OS X reinstalled FCPX. Someone suggested to delete the render files and I just deleted UNUSED RENDER FILES and it came good just like that! – no more spinning wheel of death, freezing up and crashing – it was even shutting the whole computer down. Hope this works for other people.

    • Christopher Swainhart
      April 18, 2015 at 9:15 am

      This is a great tip… and you can use the new Final Cut Library Manager to delete render files from outside the application. You can also delete USED render files as well, no harm in that. They can easily be regenerated.

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Ashton Vale Primary School win the School of the Year Award in the Bristol Reading Project

Congratulations to our children here at Ashton Vale who have been awarded the accolade of ‘School of the Year‘ for our entry into the Bristol Reading Project. This city wide competition involved entries from each class in the school, who spent the term exploring the set books and producing a wide variety of high quality work based on their text. The Project noted

“the outstanding whole school commitment to teaching and learning using good quality children’s literature.
The judging panel really enjoyed seeing your entry, they were impressed by the immersive and engaging nature of the children’s learning. Well done to you all.”

The judging panel were also very impressed with our Year 6 entry and awarded them ‘Runner Up Prize’ in the 7-11 years category, stating that their entry was “really inspiring“. The school will be collecting our awards at the ceremony later in the month.

Well done to all of the children and staff for their hard work and great achievement!

Ashton Vale Primary’s Sporting Achievements this term

Wow, what a term!

Our Hockey team have participated in the South Bristol Quik Sticks Tournament at Merchants Academy.  After some very hard fought quarter and semi finals they were eventual winners for the second year running.  This has gained us a place in the county finals in April.

Congratulations to our Gymnastics team who worked so hard together to win a team bronze, a fantastic effort. The children enjoyed competing and also loved trying out the brilliant equipment at the City of Bristol Gymnastics Centre.

The Stages Dance group at Ashton Vale also put in an excellent performance at the Colston Hall this term. A snippet of their Zootropolis dance can be seen on our school website.

Well done children. We’re very proud of you.

Ashton Vale Primary attends a behind the scene tour of Ashton Gate Stadium

This term the entire school has attended a behind the scenes tour of the Ashton Gate Stadium!

Each class visited the ground and were allowed to sit in the new changing rooms, have a look pitch side and plenty more besides. The children, parents and staff who attended the visit all thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity. Bristol Sport, who kindly organised the event, then gave each child a goody bag to bring back to school. Many thanks to them for a wonderful experience! Have a look at some of our photos:

Ashton Vale attend Chess Tournament for Schools at London Olympia

Children from Ashton Vale Primary and Compass Point Primary are keen chess players and take part in Chess for Schools. They have weekly strategic tuition to further their logical thinking and reasoning skills.

All the children who took part last year were invited to an amazing day out to London to see the start of The Grand Masters Tournament. The children gained a real insight into how the grand masters of chess think and were even given tips and tuition by them. One player from each school took part in a game on the very stage that the Grand Master Tournament took place.

There was also the opportunity to play against other children from across the country in a mass, 5 round chess tournament. Organisers commented on the outstanding level of behaviour from all children taking part, which they were particularly proud of as this was the largest number of children who have ever taken part.

The day was rounded off with the privilege of viewing the Round 5 match of Grand Masters Tournament (some people even got the Olympic Champion’s autograph!), before heading back to Bristol on the coach.


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Swimart’s tips for a mini makeover will leave your pool ready to dive in come summer.

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Is your pool area looking a little lackluster? With year-round exposure to the sun, water, salt and chlorine, it’s not surprising that tiles, paving, decking and fixtures can become faded, damaged and tired looking.

Fortunately, with a little affordable and easy DIY maintenance this winter, you can repair and refresh your pool area, ready to enjoy next spring.

How to fix gaps between the coping and pool surface

The quickest and easiest way to fill these gaps and recreate a water-tight seal is with a sealant such as Selleys Solar Flex. It accommodates slight movement in the pavers while providing protection from ultraviolet (UV) radiation and other harsh weather elements. And as it can be applied to wet surfaces you don’t have to empty the pool.

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Missing tiles are as ugly and ageing as missing teeth! Replacing tiles that are loose or have come away will instantly improve the look of your pool.

First, lower your pool’s water level to just below the tiles (if the level drops below the filter opening, turn the filter pump off until you refill the pool).

Next, remove loose tiles and scrape away remaining grout on the back of the tiles and the pool surface with a small, flat head screwdriver or chisel to ensure an even base. Any cracks in the pool surface behind the tiles, which may have caused them to lift off, will need to be repaired with cement. If these cracks aren’t filled, the tiles will become loose again in a short time.

There’s a choice of products you can use to bond tiles back onto the pool surface.

One is EZ Patch Pool Tile Repair Thinset Cement, which is used with EZ Patch 4 or EZ Patch 4 Fast Set Pool Tile Group Repair, a waterproof tile grout.

The EZ Patch cement dries quickly, so mix up small amounts, enough for three or four tiles at a time. Perform this task on a cool day or when this section of your pool is in shade will give you more time.

After mixing the cement to a smooth paste, spread a thin coat evenly on the pool surface then press the tile firmly or until some squeezes out the sides. Twenty-four hours later, grout the tiles by spreading the EZ Patch 4 grout between the tiles. When the grout has set, about 15 to 20 minutes later, wash off any excess from the tile surface. The following day, use a brush or scrubbing pad to remove any cloudy film from the tile surface.

Another product that attaches waterline tiles is Selleys Knead It Aqua, which has been formulated to bond tiles to wet surfaces. Start by cleaning the tile surface to remove any grease or dirt then knead the required amount of product like dough until it has a uniform colour. Apply the product to the back of the tile and place the tile on the surface. A hardened bond forms after just 20 to 30 minutes.

How to repair unstable and cracked pavers
Pavers can lift, sink, become unstable and crack when the ground beneath them moves or erodes, often due to pool water seepage, long periods of dry weather or wet weather, and ants which remove the base sand to build their nests. Aside from looking unattractive, lifted and unstable pavers create trip hazards.

Underneath most poolside pavers is a layer of either compacted gravel or reinforced concrete, which is widely recognised as best for stability, topped with a layer of sand. First, remove the unstable or cracked pavers, level the ground beneath with a 2.5cm layer of sand such as BC Sands coarse washed river sand or Bastion River Sand. Before replacing the paver, ensure the surface is level and remember to leave a gap of about 3mm between pavers to accommodate future movement.

How to refill coping paver joints
Coping pavers run around the edge of a pool and are often bullnose in style. Over time, the joins between these pavers become exposed, producing unattractive gaps.

Handyman.net.au recommends filling coping paver gaps with mortar, a mixture of three parts sand and one part cement. Simply work some mortar into the gaps with a sponge while wearing gloves, including the gap underneath that extends over the pool edge, then wash it off with clean water.

How to replace cracked or unstable coping pavers
Handyman.net.au says coping pavers need to be set on top of mortar rather than sand as they are next to the pool and more exposed to pool water and prone to movement.

First, remove any old uneven mortar base then spread a layer of new mortar on the paver bed. Run a notched trowel over the surface then lay the coping pavers so they fall slightly away from the pool (a spirit level can help ensure a uniform angle). Next, grout the joints with mortar. If you’re laying multiple pavers in a row, leave an unfilled expansion joint every two metres and fill it with silicone.

The final step is to fill the gaps with a paver sand such as Brunnings Landscaping Paver Sand or Powerloc Paving Sand, which stabilises pavers with a blend of sand and polymers that create a flexible bond.

Complete your pool mini renovation by creating a garden oasis or illuminating your pool with energy efficient lights.


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South West Montana Junior Golf Tour

About Us

The South West Montana Junior Golf Tour (“SWMJGT”) is a competitive Junior Golf Tour for kids aged 12-17 in Southwest Montana, played on area golf courses against other boys and girls within the same age divisions.

The Tour was formed to fill the void of area junior golf tournaments.  It provides a competitive environment that will help prepare its junior golfers, who have a desire to improve and compete, for the next level of golf.  Members of the Tour are generally junior golfers who wish to someday compete in area, regional and national junior golf tournaments, high school golf teams and eventually, college golf, who have a need to test their games within the competitive environment that a junior golf tour will provide.

The SWMJGT was founded in 2008 and is owned by the Butte Junior Golf Foundation (“BJGF”), founded in 2006, which is an approved 501(c)(3) non-profit, tax-exempt public charity.  The BJGF’s purpose is to provide a vehicle in which to champion Junior Golf in Butte, Silver Bow and Southwest Montana by raising awareness of Golf through conducting fundraisers, golf tournaments, junior golf tours, clinics and camps.  These activities will tout the importance of “Character Education” in which kids learn Respect, Courtesy, Responsibility and other core values.  In the process, kids will learn golf etiquette, golf rules and a knowledge and respect for the game of Golf.


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Thoughts on the Sidewalk Labs Vision for Waterfront Toronto

If you’re an urban planner, city official, or just an aspiring urbanist like me, you’ll no doubt have heard the big news from Toronto – Waterfront Toronto recently chose Sidewalk Labs as their partner to redevelop Quayside, a neighbourhood with enormous potential right to the east of the downtown core.

I’ve followed Sidewalk Labs for some time as they sought a site to build out their vision for the future of cities, and I’m a fan of Canadian cities overall – so this is a particularly exciting development for me. Canadian cities already rank astoundingly high for livability (Toronto recently came in 4th in a global livability report), and this new endeavor is likely going to solidify their place for decades to come.

As an active student of modern urbanism (who should have pursued a minor in planning when I had the chance), I’m always eager to stay abreast of all the current trends and best practices in city planning. I knew that Sidewalk’s response to Waterfront Toronto’s RFP would contain a forward-thinking vision that could push the field of urban innovation in new directions, and it did not disappoint.

I went through the 196-page (!!) public vision document and found quite a few intriguing ideas – some that were new applications of existing technology (e.g. self-driving taxibots) and some that were radically ambitious (e.g. overhauling building codes to be metric outcomes-based). I’ll share some of my feedback for the vision below, including questions I’d raise with Sidewalk regarding the feasibility/scalability of some of their proposals.

Digital Layer

Digital Layer

The “digital layer” refers to Sidewalk’s open platform upon which applications (both first and third party) are built. They are promising APIs to allow access to the following services:

  • Sense – the (anonymized) fine-grained data that comes from a network of IoT devices embedded all over the district
  • Model – the “SimCity” component that allows simulation of new solutions without actually deploying them
  • Map – a real-time record of all physical objects (buildings, taxibots, etc) to enable efficient mobility and resource management
  • Account – user details for each resident and municipal staff, including access permissions and social features

While I applaud Sidewalk for building this as a platform from the ground up (thus enabling anyone to add value and innovate in ways even Sidewalk can’t imagine), there are a lot of inherent risks in this approach. Some of the things Sidewalk will want to consider and design for:

  • Hackers. Creating open APIs naturally means there will be more surface area to attack in the system. Sidewalk will need to make their services robust against spammers as well as those that see this as an opportunity for user data and infrastructure access. (Terrorists shutting down utility services comes to mind.)
  • Excessive data access. The temptation to make everything open will be strong, but expose too much and eventually user privacy is compromised. Sidewalk has a great stance on safeguarding and anonymizing user data already, but more data exposed = more risk in general. (Example that comes to mind: Facebook originally offered developers unfettered access to Friend Lists but had to scale that back after users discovered they were being used for spam.)
  • Stable API definitions. One surefire way to piss off developers is to announce a set of APIs and then change them often as your platform evolves. (Facebook is another example here where many early versions of apps suddenly became unusable as API-breaking changes were implemented.)

That said, I’m sure Sidewalk will consult or hire those with experience building platforms as this is a central piece of their vision for Quayside. I am particularly encouraged that they are willing to engage the University of Toronto for advice as well as to create a pipeline for students’ ideas.

Longer term, I’m also impressed that the team is thinking about transferability – that is, the potential for the platform to be exportable to other cities, thus sparking the birth of a new “urban innovation” industry. I believe their efforts to draw entrepreneurs to Toronto for this purpose will be successful, given that they are prepared to lead the way by ‘seeding’ their platform with compelling applications first. I do wonder how transferable the platform will be in the end, given that it will certainly take a lot of upfront infrastructure work to set up the same physical baseline that Quayside will have.

Buildings and Affordability

It is certainly admirable that Sidewalk aims for a truly ‘inclusive’ community that has housing for all income levels. Housing affordability is certainly the #1 challenge for North American cities today. However, I’m not quite convinced that the implementation of Sidewalk’s plan will result in the broad availability of affordable housing the way they imagine.

Modular construction, tall timber, and the very intriguing “Loft” concept (where every building can be easily and cheaply reconfigured for different purposes) will certainly drive down costs of building new housing, but the high costs of housing are due to so many factors beyond that. Foreign money, government policies that encourage homeownership-as-investment, and the physical land limitations of a singular downtown core are all factors that drive up prices. Of course, I wouldn’t expect Sidewalk to have the ability to address these all on their own, but it would help if they did some studies on how much housing prices in Toronto are driven by these different factors to compare with Sidewalk’s expected impact.

While Sidewalk states that they don’t want Quayside to turn into a tech enclave, I’m not sure they can entirely prevent that – especially if Google Canada is the first anchor tenant. :O Demand for housing in Quayside will be through the roof, given how limited space is (I’m not seeing as much density in the concepts as in the downtown core) and how Quayside positions itself as an extremely desirable place to live. How does Sidewalk prevent the wealthiest from outbidding everyone else for a piece of this? How many people are expected to reside/work/travel in Quayside on average anyway?

One suggestion: Go far beyond the quota of 20% affordable housing – consider Singapore’s model of making ~95% of housing public and lottery-driven. That would be truly unprecedented in North America and give Quayside a real shot at the diversity Sidewalk strives for.

Another suggestion: Convince Toronto to follow the path of Sydney or Tokyo and encourage the development of additional downtown cores. Spreading demand out like this will ease the pressure on Quayside as the exclusive next frontier for the city.

I have some personal bias against ride sharing services, but I’ll put that aside for now and consider Sidewalk’s mobility plan as a reimagining of what those services could look like.

I’m definitely a fan of Sidewalk’s model of “mobility-as-a-service” – providing many options for getting around and better informing the citizen of the costs/tradeoffs of their choices. A goal to have 75% of all trips made by walking, bicycling, or transit is fantastic – and there were some great ideas on weather mitigation to make these choices more appealing.

What I felt was lacking from the vision was a focus on mass transit. Taxibots and shuttles will work for a certain population size, but do they scale well as more people move to Quayside? Or when there’s a large event that everyone wants to go to? I understand that the vision calls for congestion tracking and smart re-routing of self-driving vehicles (a “Ground Traffic Control System”), but there has got to be a physical limit here. At some point, Sidewalk needs to consider higher-capacity transit – i.e. BRT or trains. While Sidewalk does refer to some existing transit lines they would like extended to Quayside, they don’t go into much detail about how they should be laid out across the Eastern Waterfront area. Is the belief really that taxibots will be enough?

Related: Recent research shows increased ride-hailing adoption actually cannibalizes use of public transit, biking, and walking and increases the number of vehicle-miles travelled overall. Sidewalk suggests that their system will do the opposite, cutting vehicle-kilometers travelled. Is this savings rationalized simply with the increased sharing and smarter traffic system?

Also related: I know this came out right around the same time as the Toronto announcement, but has Sidewalk looked into this Blueprint for Autonomous Urbanism by the National Association of City Transportation Officials?

Another smaller quibble: the vision calls for a plethora of bike share stations, but why was there no consideration of the new dock-less alternatives? (see newcomers Ofo or Limebike) The irony in missing this lies in the fact that Google’s headquarters in Mountain View features shared bikes with no docks. 🙂

Here are a few other notes I took as I combed through the vision document.

    • Sidewalk seems to be giving mixed signals regarding how streets should be laid out. Here are a few illustrations: So are they a proponent of a gridded layout or not? Or perhaps the idea is to have all streets dynamically configurable for different use cases, just like the buildings? And what about the classic Jane Jacobs favourite – laneways? (Is it just me or are they indistinguishable from “Promenades” in the vision document?)

    • Regarding reservable public space – I’m reminded of this debacle that happened in San Francisco when a group from Dropbox tried to reserve a soccer field… Not taking sides here, but what can we do to ensure this kind of conflict doesn’t happen in Quayside?

    • There is a hope in the vision for a network of neighbourhoods across the Eastern Waterfront – each one feeling unique, with their own identities. But they are all clearly going to be offspring of Quayside, so I’m not sure why they would result in anything substantially different. How does Sidewalk plan to encourage the kind of organic (versus planned) growth that leads to more unique neighbourhoods?

    • There are a lot of assumptions about human behaviour made in the vision document in general – that people will choose their transit options rationally, that they will curtail their energy use when presented with live data, that they will live in shared spaces in harmony, etc. Some of these are backed by research and some don’t seem to be. What steps are taken to account for potentially irrational behaviour or unpredictable human psychology overall?

    • To bring this vision to life will require an unprecedented amount of coordination between local, provincial, and federal governments. While the folks at Sidewalk Labs certainly have the track record (from New York City), what are the contingency plans if roadblocks are hit? What if Waterfront Toronto isn’t as prepared to push some of Sidewalk’s more ambitious plans?

Despite the barrage of questions and concerns I’ve outlined here, I’m still extremely bullish on this project and hope that the pilot year is a huge success for both Sidewalk Labs and Toronto. The mission to redefine what a city can be is a worthy one. In a world where people are starting to become wary of technology (rightfully so), it’s good to see a company stand for solving real problems and improving the day-to-day lives of real people.

Continue watching this space for more analysis, and of course I’ll continue watching Sidewalk to see what they accomplish for Toronto!

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Kate Manne I think we should be more attentive to the empirical evidence on this. There are some really nice studies showing that when it comes to races even for the Senate, men and women who are similarly described, there’s not necessarily a strong bias against women. But there’s a study in which researchers manipulated the key variable and found that this changed as soon as you described a woman as power-seeking. So in one of the manipulations, they described the woman as “one of the most ambitious politicians in a state” who always “had a strong will to power” and has always been “hungry.” Now these are all keys to success in politics. And when men were described in these terms, they weren’t penalized. But when women were described this way, it became an issue. So perceived power-seeking is a problem for women, and the presidency is probably the most powerful position in the world, so it’s not surprising that this would be problem. Sean Illing I’m curious if you think partisanship alters the logic of this in any way. If, for instance, an extremely hawkish conservative woman was running against Trump, does that play out any differently? Or does gender bias trump party politics? Kate Manne That’s a great question. So this is somewhat speculative, but my hunch is that there is a kind of mediating factor here that’s related to the perceived communality. So if a woman is perceived on the left as a hawk, she’ll be perceived as not communal and that’s going to really cost her. I think that’s especially true for center-left women. People who would otherwise vote for them are probably more suspicious of them than they would be of a male counterpart because they’re perceived as not empathetic and compassionate enough. On the other hand, if you’re a right-wing woman, the way to be perceived as communal is to be more conservative, more emphatic on so-called family values, more inclined to defend the status quo when it comes to American interests abroad. So I think what you might find, and again, this would need empirical verification, is that perceptions of communality require different behavior depending on whether you’re on the left or right. Sean Illing There’s a tension here that I find difficult to navigate. How do we acknowledge the reality that sexism exists and that women face an enormous electoral disadvantage, at least in some circumstances, while at the same time fighting against it effectively? Kate Manne That’s the big question. I struggle with it, too. I think a lot of it has to do with the spirit in which these questions are raised. One reason people are suspicious of Sanders is that telling a female potential presidential candidate about these biases, at that stage, doesn’t seem diplomatic or helpful. But I do think there’s a way of acknowledging these biases that actually increases the chance of combating them successfully by saying, “Look, a woman would be really up against it in certain ways and we’re going to have to be vigilant in fighting for her if we believe she’s the best candidate.” That’s what I’ve tried to say with respect to Elizabeth Warren. I think we have to be very careful about certain stories getting unwarranted traction or of double standards being applied. And maybe even more importantly, we have to be careful not to celebrate her on the wrong grounds. The research about hyper-communal women with power being acceptable worries me because it feeds into gender biases about how women are supposed to be — perfectly empathetic, perfectly compassionate, perfectly safe. So we have to acknowledge that the biases really make this tough for women, but not impossible, and that there may be female candidates who are really worth fighting for, and then we have to go out and do that work. I don’t think it works to just live in denial about the biases. Sean Illing In the end, it feels like there just isn’t a good way to talk about this, especially if you’re a female candidate. If you bring it up, you’re playing “identity politics,” or the victim card. If you ignore it, it never goes away. It’s an inescapable trap. Kate Manne I completely agree with that. There’s no good way for Warren to bring this up that won’t hurt her with a significant number of people who share a very common implicit bias against women drawing moral attention to their own predicament. So I think this is true not only of politicians, but women generally, trying to draw attention to ways in which she faced sexism, and misogyny tends to attract more of it. 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“Desire” by Boleslaw Lesmian

Henri Rousseau, “Snake Charmer”

“I’d like to have a hut in the wild forest density,
Made of firewood and a spatial scarcity,
Hanged high among old branch pinions,
Over jaguar caves and snake canyons.
There, on moss, swung with a mad storm,
I’d like to play with a maid, strange and warm.
Eat her breast, torn apart with my teeth,
And kiss her face, given as a feast.
Hear the storm, around my sinful indulge;
A thunderbolt dying noiselessly at large,
Roaring beasts our bodies-smell-attracted,
Ruptured bodies, elevated, in the spasm contracted.
And there, through an accidental among branches hole,
I’d like to look into the night and stars that glow.
And take for god – any brightness in the sky.
And on the girl’s bosom wait-over the night.
But welcome sun, with a howl, screams and cries.
Live blindfold, not knowing the life.
And laughing boldly at the sky one night,
Not knowing redemption or prayer nor fright,
Like a fruit which devouring jaw awaits,
Fall into death darkness with rumbles and yells!”

translated by Marek Urban, via http://www.poemhunter.com/best-poems/marek-urban/desire-by-boleslaw-lesmian-translated-by-marek-urban

Although Leśmian, born in 1877, is my most cherished Polish poet, I have not included any of his poetry on my blog so far, simply because I do not own his poems in English. His poetry was visionary and richly symbolic, containing folk and grotesque elements, and at the same time sensual, fleshy and very erotic. His poems were full of words that he himself invented, and which later entered the Polish language. When read aloud, his verses have a direct, trance like effect on me, as if I was listening to a chanting of some primordial sounds.

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11 Responses to “Desire” by Boleslaw Lesmian

  1. Marie Taylor says:

    the picture is a good accompaniment to the poem.

  2. I advise that the actual crazy Polish government reads loudly this poem to fall in trance for the next 4 years, this would be very poetical.

  3. Soul Fields says:

    I´m in trance, too. Thank you!

  4. 1weaver says:

    he channels the ‘the green man’. i imagine his path crossing BML and wonder at how they might get on. (ok, i am in a weird mood this morning, i suppose 🙂 )

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The Desert Blooms: Two Videos on Reversing Desertification

The natural desert is full of resilient life, but desertification threatens other areas with devastating death. What can be done?

A short film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, written by Audrey Mouge and supervised by Olivier Blond. Video via GoodPlanetorg on Youtube.

And for the story of Hiware Bazaar, an Indian village which has overcome great challenges:

A film by Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh. Video via blackticketfilms on Youtube.

2 thoughts on “The Desert Blooms: Two Videos on Reversing Desertification

  1. What a great post. The video on desertification was an eye opener, I had no idea, and the story of the Indian Village that won its water back is truly inspiring. Thanks for sharing these. One of my other hats is President of the board of Common Ground Farm. We are, among other things, training a new generation of farmers and involving ourselves in local food security. I will share these videos with the board.

  2. Wow! I am so glad that you can use these. That is some synchronicity right there. I was researching deserts this week and ran across them, before that I had no idea either. Really inspiring stuff. It is so comforting to see that there are solutions out there if we will do the work required to make change happen.

    Thank you!

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