Loic Program

[Eliz Cisneroz]

Theprogram will be delivered through a combination of classroom instruction, hands-on training, and mentorship. Participants will also have the opportunity to complete internships and apprenticeships.

LOIC is confident that this partnership will make a significant difference in the lives of young people in Monrovia. The program will provide them with the skills and training they need to get a good job, build a brighter future for themselves, and contribute to the development of their country.

A total of 150 participants were enrolled in the program, comprising 75 each from the LOIC Monrovia and Buchanan centers respectively. These first cohort received training in a variety of areas, including literacy, numeracy, work readiness, and life skills. They also participated in leadership development and entrepreneurship training.

The program, funded by USAID, and being implemented by Education Development Center (EDC). EDC is a global NGO that advances lasting solutions to improve education, promote health, and expand economic opportunity, with a focus on vulnerable and under-served populations.

After I left, as I was walking towards the mtro, I got a call from Loc on my cell phone asking me to come back to the fournil (the lab). He sounded mysterious, I headed back and he came out into the courtyard to meet me, holding a gigantic bag of croissant-dough bats (Halloween was coming up) that he had forgotten to give me. He had made them himself.

He warned me not to eat them all by myself. So, in the spirit of sharing and because I was headed next to meet a friend who works for the Paris Opra ballet company, I re-gifted most of the bats to dancers and ballerinas. When I later told Loc, he said it was a great idea because ballet dancers were in a perfect position to work these buttery bats off. I did save one for each of us. They were sinful and since I am not a ballerina, I am indeed glad I ate only one. But they were delicious. Merci, Loc !

Beautiful breads! I will use them as inspiration for my next baking day. The little bats are just lovely!

And it is admirable when someone follows his dreams like Loc does. Thank you for this "meet the baker"!

Hello Sally! And thank you for trying again even though the Blogger gremlins ate your first comment. What meanies! I know you would have loved meeting with Loc and maybe one day, who knows, we will be visiting Parisian bakeries together and documenting the experience for our blogs. That would be such fun!

Re: squid ink bread. I had a taste of Gontran Cherrier's squid ink baguette with nigella seeds last month and didn't particularly care for it. But I think it was because of the specific taste of the seeds. Also I don't think it was meant to be eaten by itself but to accompany strong-tasting foods such as smoked meat or fish. It is apparently very good with speck.

Bisous too!

MC

Hi MC,

Thanks for sharing this amazing story. One never knows the role one will play in someone else's life. How a little hospitality has gone a long long ways and is continually being extended to others now that Loic is baking and passing on what was so generously given to him. He sounds like a fine young man that will do splendidly well in the next phase of his professional life. How fortunate are those who love the work that supports them.

Thanks again for such a heart warming story.

Take Care,

Janet

Hi MC,

Ah but had I known you were there at Ferrandi, I would have loved to say hi. Who knows, maybe i did cross your path on the school's premises that day?? I've read your blog for a long time and as I mentioned before, I really enjoy your posts on artisan bakers. Always been thankful (even when I don't leave a comment) on your generosity in sharing and meticulously documenting your visits. The last example being the kneading conference. (actually I did leave a comment but I think it disappeared??). I wanted to say such conferences are great and how lucky participants are. I like this open, DIY-ish approach in the US, which I find lacking in France. If you ever come to know of such bread conferences open to amateurs in France, could you kindly let me know?? Thanks!

What a wonderful world it is when a chance meeting like the one Loic had onboard results in his change of direction! Thank you for this story and I wish him all the best. The breads he's made are beautiful! I always thought bakers had to be people's people, just like flight attendants. I know from experience. Be well, MC. X Julia

A truly delightful adventure . . . thanks so much for sharing ! It's always a tremendous pleasure to float through your prose over a nice piece of buttered toast, and to experience so intimately, through your eyes and your words, your travels and your stories. I've really enjoyed your blog and hope that you continue to dazzle us adoring fans !

It's also so coincidental: just a day ago, I was telling my friend (who hails from Aix-en-Provence) about my desire to move to France in order to pursue a CAP. She sent me a link to the baking program at Ferrandi, of which I've been dreaming ever since. This story certainly buoys my hopes !

What an amazing coincidence indeed! Wow! I am glad. It sounds like an omen, doesn't it?

Thank you so much for your kind words regarding Farine. I am glad you enjoy it.

Best of luck, and in case you switch your life over to France and the baking life, please keep me posted!

During this week the software that runs the LOIC - Low Earth Orbit Ion Cannon, which despite its name is in effect a participatory distributed denial of service system - has gone from being a manual program, to one that is server-controlled, to one that runs on Javascript off a web server (which might be located on the user's machine), says Impervas ADC.

But the participants also seem to be highly concentrated geographically. Nearly one-third of the downloads of the manual file are from the US, and 85% of users are running Windows, roughly in line with the distribution of personal computers among domestic users in the US.

The number of downloads has rocketed in the past couple of days, the data shows. The US leads the pack with more than 9,000 downloads, though the UK comes second with more than 3,000. Germany, the Netherlands, Canada, France, Spain, Poland, Russia and Australia follow with more than 1,000 - while the 11th country engaging in the attacks has been Sweden, where Wikileaks's systems are now housed, recording just 75 downloads.

The LOIC software is used by the Anonymous group to coordinate attacks against targets - which are discussed and loosely coordinated through an IRC (internet relay chat) chatroom called #target, while the software is worked on individually and then linked to via a related channel called #hackers.

Initially, LOIC was a piece of software that had to be used manually: you had to run it on your machine (from which it would attempt to generate a DDOS). But as the week has progressed, other programmers have tweaked it so that it's simpler to use - you let the server control it. That has seen 33,000 downloads at a rate of more than 1,000 per hour since it was developed.

The Javascript version, where you simply choose a site to try to DDOS and press a button on a web page - possibly a web page on your own machine if you have a server running there - is the simplest, but possibly not the best, version. Its effectiveness is questionable: having looked at the code, it doesn't look as though it does anything smart such as randomising IP or disguising itself, which would mean that any competent network manager could block the IP of the server and carry on as normal. (More detailed examination welcome.)

Instead, what's making the difference is a small group of "admins" who are very much more skilled hackers - and who are able to command botnets of tens of thousands of computers. We'll explore that in a later post about what happens inside the forums where Anonymous operates.

I have a problem of integration. We are using two UR10 piloted by a Siemens automate and Dashboard connection.

We call the program then we send the start command.

Our first problem was that we had to send the start command twice. We tried to delay the sending of the start command and it worked quite fine then.

But now, one of the two cobot doesn't want to start at all. We tried several things but the only way to launch the program is by the play button on the screen of the cobot.

The program is getting bigger but is not finished so it can be a real problem...

Did anyone have this problem before?

Does anyone have an idea or a solution to this problem?

I have not seen this exact problem using the dashboard server, we send commands remotely to the robots including the play command. I do know in the latest UR update that came out yesterday they fixed something with sending play over the dashboard server when the robot is safeguard stopped, maybe it also addresses this issue, worth a try. This is software version 3.4.3.77, here are the release notes.

Previously (SW 3.2 and below), sending "load someprogram.urp" would return immediately, and then start loading the program.

Hence the program might not be fully loaded, when sending "play" a few ms later. Especially, if the program is rather big.

Since 3.3, the call only returns (e.g. "Loading program: someprogram.urp") after the program is successfully loaded.

Hence this might also be the issue, and resolves the problem, by upgrading to the latest 3.4.3.

I had the version 3.4.1.59 and we had that problem with the start command. We updated the software to the 3.4.3.77 and it worked well yesterday but today we had some problems again. As the client was here, we didn't have time to check what can be the problem. I'll update when I investigate more.

I realise that I didn't explain well what we're doing.

We call the program via the Dashboard server. The robot answers well ("Loading program: ").

Then we set the input associated to "Start-prog", we see that the input turns On but the program doesn't start.

This problem happens only after loading the program. If we set the "Stop-prog" and then set the "Start-prog", the program restart where it was. What is surprising is that it happens only on one UR10, the other works fine.

Do you have any explanation?

My next idea is to try to send the start with the command "play" via the Dashboard server, but as it's not the only "problem" that we have on this machine, I don't when we can try it...

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