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Ruimere tijden grofvuil wegens avondklok – Gemeente Amsterdam

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/01/24

U kunt uw afval de avond voor de ophaaldag vanaf 18.00 uur buiten zetten. Op de ophaaldag kunt u uw afval voor 7.00 uur buiten zetten.

Source: [Wayback] Ruimere tijden grofvuil wegens avondklok – Gemeente Amsterdam

–jeroen

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Hoe we omgaan met kwetsbaren: UWV en de Wajong. Het UWV weet het ook allemaal niet meer, en bepaalt volgend jaar wat je dit jaar had mogen krijgen

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/01/17

[Archive.is] jim faas 🍀 (@🏠) on Twitter: “LEES DE BRIEF van UWV aan een Wajonger EN HUIVER❗️ ✅de regels zijn aangepast ✅de zoveelste keer 🤭 ✅niemand kon er nog een touw aan vastknopen 👉Pepijn krijgt uitleg 👉hij snapt het weer niet worden gecompliceerde regelingen expres bedacht voor de meest kwetsbaren? /1… “

via:

Thread: [Wayback] Thread by @JimFaas on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App

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Having the Tom Bihn Brain Bag as day-to-day backpack, I wonder about the PeakDesign Travel Backpack

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/01/15

Having the Tom Bihn Brain Bag as day-to-day backpack, I wonder about the PeakDesign Travel Backpack.

The features I like most about the [WayBack] Tom Bihn Brain Bag are:

  • that it has 2 big main compartments,
  • the rail system allowing easy attached removal of one or two laptop caches [WayBack],
  • the freudian slip insert [WayBack],
  • the snake charmer accessory [WayBack],
  • the materials last forever
    (my first lasted 20+ years, so I gave it to mentally retarded brother. To bad he disposed it, not realising how durable it was “it was too big for my work-stuffand too small for my diving flippers, so I threw it away”)

Two more things I like, but are not available any more (new products are being designed for them):

I wonder about the material differences between the two too backpacks.

Here are some links if you want to compare them yourself:

Via: [WayBack] After 2 weeks of researching I finally bought what I believe to be the best carry on backpack in the world: The #PeakDesign Travel Backpack. Seriously i… – Jason Mayes – Google+

On fabrics:

 

–jeroen

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Syncopation in pop/rock music – Open Music Theory

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/12/25

Because this is explained the basics of off-beat rhytms so well: [WayBack] Syncopation in pop/rock music – Open Music Theory:

Of course there are way more complicated things to do with it, so if you are into that, read the links below.

But if you are new, then listen and watch to the first video below the fold.

More advanced:

Oh, and I learned about bouncy metronome, which is a great tool on Windows:

–jeroen

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In Amsterdam zonder Ja-Ja sticker hoef je de @AxenderBV bezorger geen fooi te geven

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/12/21

In 2019 instrueerde [WayBack] Axender B.V. (@AxenderBV) | Twitter haar bezorgers om langs alle deuren te gaan, ook die in Amsterdam geen JA-JA sticker hebben.

Die bezorger hoef je dan dus geen fooi te geven, want je krijgt geen folders.

Axender bezorgt ook incidenteel de City krant: bij ons in Amsterdam 1 keer in 2018.

–jeroen

 

Gerelateerd:

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NOx value measurement is an indicator for much wider forms of pollution (was: Definitiv ein lesenswerter Artikel, trotz der plakativen Schlagzeile)

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/30

Basically:

In other words (and she’ll say that later in an interview): It’s not the NO2 limit we’re talking about here, it’s all the air pollutants we inhale day after day. The discussion about diesel bans and the reduction of NO2 emissions misses the real problem, because if only the NO2 is reduced and not the other pollutants, that does not help much.

Google translated from:

Mit anderen Worten (und das sagt sie auch noch später in Interview): Es ist gar nicht der NO2-Grenzwert, um den es hier geht, es sind die gesamten Luftschadstoffe, die wir Tag für Tag einatmen. Die Diskussion um Dieselfahrverbote und Reduzierung des NO2-Ausstoßes geht am eigentlichen Problem vorbei, denn wenn nur das NO2 reduziert wird und nicht die weiteren Schadstoffe, hilft das nicht viel.

[WayBack] Definitiv ein lesenswerter Artikel, trotz der plakativen Schlagzeile: > Es geht bei dem Grenzwert nicht nur um die Gesundheitswirkung des Reizgases NO2… – Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) – Google+

–jeroen

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Adreswijziging belastingdienst voor bewindvoering natuurlijk persoon (beschermingsbewind)

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/20

De belastingdienst noemt de bewindvoering van een natuurlijk persoon op een natuurlijk persoon beschermingsbewind.

Dat was initieel een beetje verwarrend (omdat je de uitleg van die term nergens op de site van de belastingdienst kunt terugvinden), maar daardoor werd wel duidelijk wat het juiste formulier is om in te sturen:

[Wayback] www.belastingdienst.nl/wps/wcm/connect/bldcontentnl/themaoverstijgend/programmas_en_formulieren/aanmelden_wijzigen_of_beeindigen_beschermingsbewind

Insturen kon per e-mail: reuze handig!

Meer info:

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Me starting to understand the real life meanings of Shim

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/12

The combination of being partially word blind and having learned English initially from my urge to understand computing books during my (Dutch) secondary education in the mid 1980s, I often have a gap between understanding “daily life” or “real life” English words, especially when they also have a meaning in the computing world.

So it took me a while to get the non-computing meaning of shim.

In computing, shim is used as word for tiny shell that separates two layers, which means my original association was with “sphere”.

Had I associated with an adapter or something that puts space between to layers, it would have been much easier to understand the “real life” meaning of a spacer shim.

Similarly, I had trouble understanding washer (which I associated with washing, and is right: it often means washing machine, but can also mean dish washer, which is an odd word for me as it washes much more than dishes). It took me much longer to get there is an additional meaning for a mechanical construction washer, which is a thin disc (so not a tube-like ring) often used as spacers, so in a sense similar to a shim.

In Dutch, I have the same problem with “wasmachine” (English washing machine) and “afwasmachine” (Dish washer).

To add to the confusion, hardware washers in Dutch are called rings.

–jeroen

All of the above links are from Wikipedia.

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Current state: still fighting the metastases of the rectum cancer; chemos are done, major liver surgery in about 3 weeks

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/08/23

A long follow-up of Current state: still fighting with rectum cancer, but chances for better quality of life which does not even include everything, because so much happened.

So this is the current state; browse back via Twitter for more of the history which you can find at [Archive.is] Jeroen Pluimers on Twitter: “Too much to let sink in …” and [Archive.is] Jeroen Pluimers (@jpluimers) | Twitter.

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Colorectal Cancer: Stages | Cancer.Net

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/18

For my link archive:

These explain the below stagings.

  • cT3N1Mx:
    • c: stage determined before treatment
    • T3: tumor invades through the muscularis propria into the pericolorectal tissues
    • N1: regional lymph node metastasis suspicious in 1-3 lymph nodes
    • Mx: could not be evaluated for distant metastasis
  •  cT3bN1Mx:
    • c: stage determined before treatment
    • T3b: 1-5 mm extension beyond muscularis propria
    • N1: regional lymph node metastasis suspicious in 1-3 lymph nodes
    • Mx: could not be evaluated for distant metastasis
  •  cT3N1M0:
    • c: stage determined before treatment
    • T3: tumor invades through the muscularis propria into the pericolorectal tissues
    • N1: regional lymph node metastasis suspicious in 1-3 lymph nodes
    • M0: no distant metastasis
  • cT3bN1M0:
    • c: stage determined before treatment
    • T3b: 1-5 mm extension beyond muscularis propria
    • N1: regional lymph node metastasis suspicious in 1-3 lymph nodes
    • M0: no distant metastasis
  • cT3bN1:
    • c: stage determined before treatment
    • T3b: 1-5 mm extension beyond muscularis propria
    • N1: regional lymph node metastasis suspicious in 1-3 lymph nodes
  • ypT2N1a:
    • yp: stage determined after chemotherapy (y) and histopathologic (p), in this case also after surgeries of both tumor and metastases
    • T2: size of tumor
    • N1a: regional lymph node metastasis present in 1 lymph node
    • No M means no metastasis detectable

–jeroen

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