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The party said it wanted the documentary, which was broadcast last Wednesday, taken offline until 'basic facts' were corrected and the corporation issued an apology.
The strongarm tactics from Jeremy Corbyn's team came as Labour's civil war over anti-Semitism escalated dramatically.
Two whistleblowers who spoke to Panorama have threatened to sue the party for suggesting they were motivated by damaging Mr Corbyn.
Meanwhile, shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry has condemned Tom Watson for raising the conduct of general secretary Jennie Formby while she is undergoing cancer treatment.
In stark contrast to the party's official response, Mr Watson described the documentary as 'chilling'. Backbench MP Rosie Duffield warned today that Labour was probably 'institutionally anti-Semitic'.
A Labour spokesman said the party would 'call for the programme to be removed from BBC iPlayer until basic facts are corrected, full and unedited quotes are used, and an apology is issued'.
'Despite a record of public hostility to Jeremy Corbyn and his politics from presenter John Ware and several of those interviewed, analysis found that in the 59-minute programme, the party's position was on screen for just five minutes and one second, the spokesman said.
'The programme completely failed to interview balancing voices who could provide a fuller and less biased and overtly politically one-sided view on this important issue.'
The BBC has strongly defended the Panorama expose and the presenter.
Labour claimed the allegations in Panorama were made by 'disaffected former officials' opposed to the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn (pictured last week)
Former officials Sam Matthews and Louise Withers Green (pictured) said they had been defamed by Labour in its response to a bombshell Panorama explose
The whistleblowers have now upped the ante by accusing the party of trying to 'destroy reputations'.
Former officials Sam Matthews and Louise Withers Green said they had been defamed by Labour in its response to a bombshell Panorama explose.
The damning programme - shown on Wednesday - included claims that senior figures, including general secretary Jennie Formby, interfered in anti-Semitism investigations.
Deputy leader Tom Watson described the allegations as 'chilling' and demanded action from the party.
But Labour hit back by insisting the allegations came from 'disaffected former officials' opposed to Mr Corbyn's leadership who had 'personal and political axes to grind', casting doubt on their 'credibility' as sources.
Labour MPs condemn treatment of staffers who blow whistle on anti-Semitism Yvette Cooper is among 28 Labour MPs who have signed a letter condemning the party's treatment of anti-Semitism whistleblowers. The Home Affairs committee chair and her colleagues on the Tribune group said they were 'shocked' by the revelations in the Panorama documentary. 'We support former employees in speaking out and commend their bravery in doing so,' the letter said. 'The Labour Party has always and always will support whistle blowers in coming forward when they are concerned about wrongdoing. 'We stand in solidarity with the Jewish community and with Jewish members of the Labour Party in these very difficult circumstances. It is totally unacceptable that Jewish members no longer feel welcome or safe in the Labour Party.' Advertisement
Veteran MP Margaret Hodge today branded the reaction to the documentary 'deplorable', saying the leadership appeared 'doggedly determined' to avoid tackling the issues.
Mark Lewis, the media lawyer acting for the pair, told The Observer: 'These are very serious libels.
'Those representing the Labour party have acted in a way that set out to destroy the reputations of the whistleblowers.
'In their effort to destroy these people, they have left it for the courts to decide who is telling the truth.
'It is ironic that the bosses at the workers' party have decided to go against the workers.'
Mr Matthews and Ms Withers Green - who broke non-disclosure agreements to speak out - were among eight former party employees featured in the programme.
In an interview with the BBC Andrew Marr Show today, Emily Thornberry said the party needed to face up to the fact that it still has a problem with anti-Semitism.
'I think that we shouldn't be going for the messengers, we should be looking at the message. I think that is what is important,' she said.
'Nobody can pretend that there isn't an ongoing problem within the Labour Party about anti-Semitism, about our processes for dealing with it.'
However Ms Thornberry also criticised Mr Watson for raising the conduct of Ms Formby while she was undergoing treatment for cancer.
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Labour backbencher Rosie Duffield has warned that the party is 'institutionally anti-Semitic' and urgent change was needed
In an interview with the BBC Andrew Marr Show today, Emily Thornberry said the party needed to face up to the fact that it still has a problem with anti-Semitism
'She is the general secretary of the Labour Party but we know that she is very ill. I think it is completely inappropriate to personalise this.'
Dame Margaret Hodge said she had been 'devastated' by the personal testimonies from former party staff.
The MP for Barking told Sky News's Sophy Ridge On Sunday: 'I don't know how often, how many people, how many incidents of anti-Semitism we have to have on our televisions screens or in our newspapers for the party leadership to stand up and really listen. There seems to be a dogged determination not to listen.'
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Shadow chancellor John McDonnell tried to play down the crisis, saying Labour was 'getting on top of this',
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He told BBC Radio 4's The World This Weekend: 'It's just so disappointing. I think we are sorting it out actually. I think we've got a new general secretary, we've put in place a system now.
'Someone said the other day (we are dealing with reports) eight times faster than it ever was before.
'We've now got lawyers involved, that really do - making sure that we don't lose any cases legally, so we have proper decision-making processes.
'There's always lessons to be learnt, but I think the way Jennie Formby our general secretary has operated, implemented the measures, is getting on top of this.'
Mr Matthews told The Observer: 'The Labour party is choosing to ignore the central charges of anti-Semitism raised by myself and other whistleblowers on Panorama, and instead, they have engaged in a concerted campaign to damage my name.'
Ms Withers Green told the paper she was 'incredibly disappointed' that the party had not taken action on the issues raised in the programme.
'This should be a stark wake-up call about our collective duty to root out racism. But instead the party has used its full weight to discredit us, with untrue, libellous statements,' she said.
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Labour has continued to contest the Panorama findings, with Mr Corbyn claiming it contained 'many, many inaccuracies'.
In a speech to the Durham Miners' Gala on Saturday, he said: 'The programme adopted a pre-determined position on its own website before it was broadcast.'
As tensions escalate within the party, Unite general secretary Len McCluskey launched a blistering attack on Mr Watson for criticising Ms Formby for her handling of the issue while she was undergoing treatment for cancer.
'I have a simple message for Tom Watson and his pals in the media - a simple message to Tom and his pals: You should f****** well be ashamed of yourselves,' he said to cheers from the crowd at Durham Racecourse.
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Ms Duffield, MP for Canterbury, was asked on the BBC's Politics South East programme today whether she agreed that Labour was 'institutionally anti-Semitic'.
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'The programme adhered to the BBC's editorial guidelines, including contacting the Labour Party in advance of the broadcast for a full right of reply.'
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Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor Op. 23 (Piano Reduction for 2 pianos, 2 copies)
MacDowell, Edward
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MacDowell, Edward
Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor Op. 23 (Piano Reduction for 2 pianos, 2 copies)
Preface to the full score:
Edward MacDowell was perhaps the most prominent American composer and pianist of the latter half of the 19th century. In many respects, MacDowell was viewed as the great hope of American music, a sobriquet he largely eschewed, preferring not to be known as an «American» composer, but as a composer who happened to be American. Displaying great musical abilities at an early age, MacDowell’s formal piano instruction began in his home town of New York City at the age of eight with a succession of Latin American musicians: the Colombian Juan Buitrago, the Venezuelan Teresa Carreño (1853-1917), and the Cuban Pablo Desvernine (1823-1910). In 1876, MacDowell and his mother moved to Paris where he studied at the Conservatoire with Antoine-François Marmontel (1816-1898) on piano and Augustin Savard (1814-1881) on theory. MacDowell moved from Paris to Germany in 1878, first studying piano with Siegmund Lebert (1822-1884) at the Stuttgart Conservatory, then with Carl Heymann and Louis Ehlert (1825-1884) in Wiesbaden before following Heymann to the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt in 1879. At Frankfurt, MacDowell also studied composition with Joachim Raff (1822-1882) and Franz Böhme.
Franz Liszt heard MacDowell in recital on three separate occasions in the years 1879 and 1880 and was extremely impressed with the young American’s piano playing. During the next several years Liszt gave invaluable support to MacDowell’s compositional efforts and arranged to have a number of his works performed at prominent musical festivals. MacDowell was appointed professor of piano at the Darmstadt Conservatory in 1881, a position he resigned after a year to devote himself to composition. MacDowell remained in Germany until 1888, at which time he returned to the United States to begin a highly successful career in Boston as piano soloist and composer. In 1896 MacDowell was appointed as the first professor in the newly formed Department of Music at Columbia University, a position that made him one of the most prominent music educators in the United States. MacDowell had great success at Columbia during his first years, but after a change in university administration, found his efforts undermined by Columbia’s new president, Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-1947), an educationist who wanted to subsume the Department of Music within Columbia’s Teachers College. Already in ill health due to having been run over by a hansom cab in March of 1904, MacDowell resigned his Columbia professorship and spent the remaining four years of his life suffering from paralysis and various forms of mental debilitation. MacDowell’s summer home in Peterborough, New Hampshire was turned into an artists’ colony after his death and has nurtured the talents of many of America’s finest composers of the past century.
There is very little of an innovative nature to MacDowell’s music. A miniaturist by inclination, MacDowell composed infrequently in the symphonic and concerto formats. There is also very little that can be deemed as American in his music. Stylistically, MacDowell was heavily indebted to the German romantics, and one can see the clear influences of his teacher Raff, Liszt, Grieg, and to a lesser extent, Brahms and Wagner. This is not to denigrate MacDowell’s music, because in the second half of the 19th century musical composition in the United States was largely a German affair. Virtually all prominent 19th century American musicians and composers received advanced training in Germany. Additionally, the vast majority of American orchestral musicians and conductors at the time were recent German immigrants or expatriates.
MacDowell’s mastery of the German Romantic style is seen to greatest effect in his Concerto No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra. The work was composed during the years 1884-1886 when MacDowell was living in Wiesbaden, Germany. The first public performance of the work took place in Chicago at the Exhibition Building in July of 1888 with Teresa Carreño, MacDowell’s former teacher and a tireless champion of his works, performing the solo part with Theodore Thomas (1835-1905) conducting the orchestra. MacDowell performed the solo honors himself during the New York premiere, which occurred on 5 March 1889 at Chickering Hall, again with Thomas conducting. Another very notable performance of the work by the composer took place on 14 December 1894 with the New York Philharmonic. Both Carreño and MacDowell performed the work to great acclaim in London on different occasions, the former at the Crystal Palace in 1900 and the latter on 14 December 1903 with the Royal Philharmonic Society.
The first movement, Larghetto calmato, D minor, is a sonata form set in 6/8 meter and displays MacDowell’s penchant for Lombardic rhythms. The major thematic material consists of two four-bar phrases that function in an antecedent/consequential manner. In the exposition these two phrases are roughly divided between the tonic and mediant sections. The relatively brief recapitulation is highlighted by a return to the tonic major.
In the second movement, Presto giocoso, Bb major, MacDowell deftly utilizes the sonata rondo form. He combines new thematic material with a secondary theme that is taken from the first movement, thereby adding cyclic unity to the composition. The cyclical idea is again taken up by the composer in the third and final movement, Largo—Molto allegro, which combines elements of both sonata and sonata rondo forms. After a slow introduction in D minor the movement stays in the parallel major throughout.
MacDowell’s mastery of sonata form as exemplified in this concerto belies the contention that his interest in musical miniatures was the result of a lack of formal competence. Indeed, in the passage below taken from one of his lectures during his years at Columbia University, MacDowell remarks about the limitations of the form: «We put our guest, the poetic thought, that comes to us like a homing bird from out the mystery of the blue sky—we put this confiding stranger straightway into that iron bed, the «sonata form,» or perhaps even the third rondo form, for we have quite an assortment. Should the idea survive and grow too large for the bed, and if we have learned to love it too much to cut off its feet and thus make it fit (as did that old robber of Attica), why we run the risk of having some critic wise in his theoretical knowledge, say, as was and is said of Chopin, «He is weak in sonata form!»
Such remarks lead one to believe that MacDowell may not have been as musically conservative as is generally thought to be the case. Although it is unlikely that he would have explored anything like the type of musical radicalism created by his near contemporary Charles Ives (1874-1954), his premature death at the age of 48 deprived America and the musical world of an important link between Romanticism and Modernism, as well as that between the «Old» World and the «New.»
William Grim, 2005
For performance material please contact the publisher Benjamin Musikverlage, Hamburg. Reprint of a copy from theMusikabteilung der Leipziger Städtischen Bibliotheken, Leipzig.
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neocowboyAwful lot of bitching in these comments. There's a plethora of adaptations to choose from, they churn them out like twice a decade. I'm sure this will be at least in the top 3 nonetheless.
I'm not learned in the ways of music but it's not exactly like the cast are like drunken karaoke night at your local.
As for direction and cinematography, it may not be as good as we have come to know Hooper for but at least you're still getting an experience you can't get from the theatre.
I hate to admit it but Hathaway steals the show. 7 years ago
CSSCHNEIDERI've been a massive Les Mis fan since 1995. I've seen the musical on Broadway 3 times, with three different and amazing casts and once in London with an equally mesmerizing cast. I can recite the song book nearly word for word (and you don't want me to, as my voice is far from acceptable). I've also read the book twice and consider it the finest piece of literature ever written. To please me with a film adaptation is nigh impossible.
Thankfully, Tom Hooper nailed it. His changes are often motivated by adjusting stage principles for the cinema, and then are taken from the source material making this even more accurate to Hugo's text than the show is. Its a hyper intelligent adaptation of both the libretto and novel.
My biggest qualms come from the lensing of the film. While the intensely up close and personal approach to filming the song book is often a huge success (i.e. Anne Hathaway's 'I Dreamed a Dream) other times its disorienting or diminishes the epic quality of group numbers. These problems are minor as the best parts of the film outweigh the faults. Les Mis is a triumph and one of 2012's greatest films. 7 years 5 months ago
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In a recent survey, the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education asked Massachusetts employers whether the state’s education system is adequately preparing young people for employment. Not surprisingly, the executives who responded had some significant concerns. They felt that K-12 education in Massachusetts needed to do a better job with STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) education, vocational training, and school-business partnerships. The connections between these concerns and today’s work world are self-evident.
But another set of concerns was less obvious. Respondents also gave Massachusetts schools low scores for how well they prepare students on what the survey called “applied skills,” including “Ability to write clearly,” “Oral communication and presentation skills,” and “Independent and critical thinking.”
These are among the skills UCLA educator Mike Rose addresses in “Reframing Career and Technical Education,” a recent editorial in Education Week. According to Rose, we ignore the intellectual and cognitive demands of vocational education at our peril. Whether they are studying to be electricians or system administrators, students must learn to experiment, apply their knowledge, solve problems, and communicate effectively.
WriteBoston believes that writing is thinking, and that writing and thinking are critical to all kinds of education, whether students are learning about mitosis or dental assisting.
Many vocational educators are already doing this, like the plumbing instructor Rose observed, who “spent much of his time hovering over his students, peppering them with questions, having them explain what they were doing and why, and probing the logic of what they said.” At WriteBoston, we have found that increasing the amount of writing in a vocational curriculum can significantly enhance these efforts.
At Greater Lawrence Technical School, where a WriteBoston coach has worked for three years, a new school-wide writing program has students writing in every career area. They are describing how to repair a car door, creating business plans for salons, and writing research papers on topics from welding to healthy food in schools. The more they write, the more their writing improves, and with it their overall critical thinking and communication skills, not to mention their understanding of the specialized vocabularies of their career areas.
WriteBoston believes that writing is thinking, and that writing and thinking are critical to all kinds of education, whether students are learning about mitosis or dental assisting. As Boston looks to revitalize Madison Park High School and create career pathways at other high schools, and as Massachusetts revisits the role of community colleges in vocational education, let’s make sure not to overlook the essential role of writing in schools and the workplace.
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Discussion on the innovation and development of the vacuum packaging machine analysis
packaging in our lives are the most common popular, due to differences in industry, packaging requirements are also changing. Life is divided into many kinds of packaging according to the packaging, vacuum packaging, pillow-style packaging, there is also a common food packaging, filled in the amount of nitrogen in the bag. These more popular packaging is vacuum packed in packaging, vacuum packaging is also very wide range of applications. Universal application of vacuum packaging machines in the food market, especially the packaging of meat products. The food industry is undoubtedly a very strong part of the economy of the world, investment is very high, therefore, food packaging industry is a very large market. The industry is the largest buyer of vacuum packaging machines, has nearly 70% share, followed by the electronic products, such as IC, chips, circuit boards, purchase this industry accounted for 20% of the vacuum packaging machine purchases.
face of the food industry for vacuum packing machine's high demand and intensifying market competition, innovation and development is undoubtedly one of the most effective means of competition. To technical innovation of vacuum packaging machine, vacuum packaging machine automatically taking the air inside the bag, meet scheduled to be completed after the vacuum sealing process. Also filled with nitrogen or other gas mixtures, and then complete the sealing process. In the course of work, vacuum in the bag is the key, if you are unable to meet the requirements of commercial vacuum packaging is not qualified. Production process, the safe use of the vacuum packaging machine is also a key for more information about safe use of the vacuum packaging machine, can deepen understanding of the vacuum packaging machine and thus help their innovations.
development of the packaging machinery market in China is sound and vacuum packaging machines is important in the marketing of packaging machinery, so for vacuum packaging machine innovation also promotes the application market. |
Linda Burnett
Age: 57
Occupation:Retired
Number of Cruises: 5
Cruise Line: Celebrity
Ship: Century
Sailing Date: June 27th, 2006
Itinerary: Western Caribbean
Celebrity Cruise Lines
Century Cruise Review
Linda Burnett
By way of introduction, this was my 5th
cruise. : I’ve been on the Costa (20 years ago), Royal Caribbean (11 years ago)
and Holland America (two years ago) cruise lines, and all of my comparisons with
the Century are based on these other cruises. This was my first cruise on a
Celebrity cruise ship.
We sailed on the Celebrity Century on June 27, 2006, from Amsterdam on a 12-day Baltic Cruise, on what I believe is the 2nd cruise after the Century’s renovation.
The ports of call were:
Amsterdam – embarkation;
Copenhagen, Denmark;
Helsinki, Finland;
Stockholm, Sweden;
St. Petersburg, Russia;
Tallinn, Estonia;
Oslo, Norway;
Amsterdam – debarkation.
There were 3 days at sea, and at least 6 hours at each of the cities, except for St. Petersburg, where we docked overnight.
Travel to and from: We flew into Amsterdam from California, a long and arduous journey. This travel was not in connection with Celebrity. It took us about 5 days to recover from the jetlag.
Stateroom: We were in the penthouse category, in an sky suite with butler. It’s a fabulous room, much larger than any of the other cabins I’ve stayed in with other lines. Our cabin had its own veranda (not exactly private, but pretty private). Whenever I remarked about that guy smoking a cigar on his veranda, two cabins down, I’m sure he heard me.
Service to the Stateroom: Superior. There’s no other way to describe it. One joke onboard is that a passenger stepped into his bathroom, and when he stepped back out, his bed was made. That is not terribly far-fetched. The only problem we encountered was that our cabin attendant failed to leave us any washcloths one morning, so we called and they delivered four.
The Butler: Our suite came with a butler. We never really learned what to do with him. He brought us tea and coffee in the morning when we said we wanted it (we stipulated 7:30 am so that we could make excursions leaving after 8 am), and then canapés and tea in the afternoon. When my roommate was seasick and missed a few meals, he scolded us nicely, and suggested that he could’ve helped by bringing some soup or calling the doctor. He also could’ve made spa appointments for us, I guess, but we ended up doing that on our own. As I said, we never really figured out what to do with him, but what service he gave us was superior.
Entertainment onboard: We never went. We didn’t recognize the names and so didn’t go. There is one exception to this: we attended the piano concerts of Arad Avner because we like classical music, and that was stellar.
Activities onboard: The onboard activities were rather like Holland America’s for the most part: fun but low-key things, not a lot for kids that I noticed.
1. There was a nice library filled with travel books and magazines that a lot of people used.
2. Due to the recent renovation, their Celebrity Online room offered computer classes to a limited extent; their classes were primarily about downloading and filing your photos, including beginning and intermediate photo shop, although you could book private lessons. I don’t know about the private lessons, but the photo shop classes were $20 each for 45 minutes.
3. There were two culinary demonstrations onboard the ship, at Rendezvous Square – and I have to say, this was my favorite activity. They actually cooked something in front of you – filet mignon with a nice sauce in the first session, and shrimp in the second session – and gave you a printout with the recipe. In the meantime, they had the master decorator working on fruit as decorations, and the pastry chef working on sugar or some wonderful dessert in the same sessions.
4. There were various organized and unorganized card and board games going on in the card rooms.
5. The usual art auctions were during days at sea.
6. They had a wine auction in Michael’s Lounge, plus wine pairings and tasting's (for a $10 fee) at the little coffee lounge, Cova Café, on Deck 6.
7. Various trivia games almost every day.
8. Bingo – not as many bingo games as I’ve seen in the past on other cruises, but a nice winner-take-all blackout game that went all the way to the end on our cruise.
9. The largest casino I've ever seen! They also had a slot and blackjack tournament. The best bar onboard (the others have only specialty drinks).
Internet: In addition to the computer classroom computers, which usually weren’t for internet use, there were 4 internet computer terminals on Deck 6, and 4 more on Deck 7 next to the classroom. Internet costs were very high, 75 cents a minute if you didn’t get a package (and you had to be instructed on how to get the package, something I missed the first several sessions), or as low as 65 cents a minute with a package. Despite the cost, it was very difficult to find a free terminal. Everybody, it seemed, wanted to send their grandchildren an email, or print out that boarding pass on the last day.
Dining: The formal dining room is in the two-tiered Grand Restaurant. (No decorations here, unlike the gorgeous Holland America dining rooms.) A nice trio plays during dinner, but you can’t hear them past 10 feet. A LOT of noise in this dining room – I found it almost impossible to hear my tablemates. We were seated right next to the captain’s table, on the bottom floor (Deck 5), right next to the aft window – we could see the spectacular sunsets in the 2nd seating. The sun doesn’t set until 10 or 11 pm in the Baltic, so if you want to see the sunset during dinner, get the later seating option. But I found that we missed a lot of entertainment because of the later seating….so make your choice accordingly.
The food is superb. I was looking for food that was more to my liking than on Holland America, and I found it. It’s American simple, meaning, fancy enough but recognizable. I loved each and every 5-course meal, although for many of them I didn’t select every course.
Dining Room Service: Excellent. The iced tea appeared during every meal as I sat down, as I had requested it during the first dinner. We got to know our crew by name (they insist on that!), and they performed extraordinarily. We found the service to be a little less excellent during breakfast and lunch (during one lunch I never received my appetizer), but lack of service was a rarity.
The Spa: I was disappointed in the spa, mainly because of their very heavy, very aggressive sales tactics. I received: manicure, pedicure, massage. My massage wasn’t as good as I thought it should have been: my shoulders and back went back to pain mode not even a day later – not very deep tissue. The manicure and pedicure was very nicely done. But get ready to endure a 10 to 20-minute sales pitch each and every time, sometimes even during the procedure. It got very tiresome so we didn’t go back.
Shore Excursions: Excellent. My roommate has some mobility issues, so we really appreciated the fact that the online version explained how many steps were involved, etc., and took full advantage of their availability by booking all of them online before we flew to Amsterdam. Like the other ships, Celebrity has you meet in certain rooms to get your sticker and directions. This process was normally handled efficiently – and I realize the problems with getting approximately 1500 people off this ship within an hour’s time – but there were some problems, such as certain excursions weren’t called but were being processed, not being able to catch up with the tour leader if you are disabled, etc. We learned to grab the stickers, then go down to Deck 3 to disembark BEFORE the tour leader got there. Then we could spot the bus and board the bus by our number. Otherwise, we were the last ones onboard, and the mobility-challenged have to walk to the back of the bus for any seating.
It would be impossible to list all the excursions we were on, because with 6 ports of call, we had 8 excursions. We rented a private car (through Celebrity, it's listed on the excursion list) in St. Petersburg, one for each morning we were there, and it was well worth it! We had the same tour guide each time (although a different driver), and were able to build the exact itinerary we wanted with her help. This solved most of our mobility and time issues. So, for the first day, we went sightseeing and to a synagogue, and did a little shopping. The next day, because we had done all the sightseeing the first day, we spent most of time in the Hermitage, with our tour guide giving us a very personal tour -- we told her we wanted to see Impressionism and Post-Impressionism paintings, so that was her focus.
The other cities, we just took the normal 3-hour general sightseeing tour for each city, and normally got off the bus at the end and walked around by ourselves. There was usually a shuttle bus downtown -- pay $5 each (charged to your room account) to take the shuttle back to the ship. A great system!
The see, and yet it allowed us to compare all the Scandinavian countries with each other (and they’re all different!), as well as look at their history with each other and Russia/the Soviet Union. St. Petersburg was just fascinating, as you can well imagine, some years after the soviet break-up. And the weather during the summer was just fabulous – mostly 70’s to low 80’s.
Exchange of money: With so many ports, so many currencies, you can imagine the issue here! But it turned out not to be so bad. We were able to use ATMs most of the time to extract kroner, for instance. But we also found that all shops took credit cards (and sometimes dollars and euros, too, but you always got a better deal with the local currency). The ship's suggested shops, available in the shopping guide for each port, really are reliable and won't cheat you (or the ship will never bring their customers there again!).
SUMMARY: An excellent cruise line with stellar service. An incredible itinerary on this 12-day Baltic Cruise. I wouldn’t hesitate to use Celebrity, and the Century, again!
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Silhouette Intimate Moments #1145, April 2002
It's just another routine job, Deputy Sheriff Jake Madigan tells himself. Track the escaping convict down, bring her back, and get on with his life. So what if she's a beauty who looks like anything but a killer--he's been fooled by women before and he isn't going to let that happen again. Abby Nichols has escaped from prison after barely surviving an attack--she's going to stay out and clear her name if it kills her, and nobody, especially not some hunky cop, is going to stop her. Except Jake is something like a force of nature and doesn't give up. But in the Colorado mountains, there are other forces of nature--forces that keep Abby and Jake together for longer than either of them intended, or wanted. Jake starts to believe Abby's story about an organ-stealing doctor and a frame. But will either of them be alive for long enough for that to make a difference? Even if they do, can both really be expected to love again?
Author Linda Castillo (see also other BooksForABuck.com reviews of novels by this author) combines heart-pounding suspense with powerful romance to deliver an exciting novel. Jake is a wonderfully damaged hero while Abby is his perfect match. A sniper in the woods makes the 'snowed into the cabin' plot device work and a truly nasty villain manages to be convincing and dangerous at the same time. A highly enjoyable romantic adventure.
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Market Basket
would arthur t. be back in charge if they behaved as you suggested? and would market basket be the same store?
Anywhere Similar to Rendezvous?
Rialto? Arlen?
in Boston, Asta, ICOB
You have ruled out Craigie's, but that is really the closest match in my opinion.
Would any Boston restaurants get any Michelin stars?
while beef is probably not a healthful food; i have not seen any evidence that gm fed beef is worse than natural beef.
Is anyone going to boycott Market Basket?
this is not about greed; it is about one cousin hating another. does anyone think that artie t. was not doing a hell of a job running the business. but when you are as rich as artie s. it is a matter of fun and not money
Info on Market Basket new locations?
some told me that the changes are about money; obviously, it is about ego. they must know that they are harming a great business worth billions of dollars.
Best Dishes in Chinatown
steamed live shrimp available at other places, too, and it is nice when you get the larger ones.
Pepes Pizza coming to Boston
weekly, but how about living closer; why live in a food dessert?
If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, the Mohammed needs to go to the mountain.
If possible.
sure, but NYC is probably the best city for food in the world. worth the trip IMHO.
Gene's Chinese Flatbread Cafe has opened in Woburn today!
any indication about expanding the menu; good food (and i met chinese who had traveled from connecticut just o eat there) but very limited menu,
what is your theory as to the genesis of the protests if not the esteem from Arthur T? I have talked to some people who are in business with MB; they are capitalists but sympathize with the workers and Arthur T. whom is widely considered to have been an excellent CEO.
Downtown Crossing?
this is not far from chinatown where there are numerous options. i like the fish-in-tank places.
Easy question: Any good *dinner* buffets in Boston area?
generally, buffets do not provide a great food experience; if there is an exception, i am not aware of it.
boycott a store because of change of management rather than bad behavior??
Miracle Fruit in Boston
give oc a break.
Best new ethnic restaurants in Cambridge/Somerville?
though i think that this is ridiculously pc, you can say, i am looking for a restaurant that is not american or Western European or say, Asian or South American. But really, I do not think that the word ethnic is a slur; I do not see why it needs to be banned as every one has a pretty good idea what an ethnic restaurant is plus or minus.
My guess is that O Ya would not be considered ethnic due to price.
July 2014 Openings and Closings
it appears that it is only getting a face lift.
How do restaurants here source? Organic/Healthy in Boston restaurants
several restaurants use new deal to source their seafood; I have seen cooks from various cambridge restaurants place orders.
Best Mussels (for cooking at home)
agree with buying any and all seafood at New Deal. there is a great recipe for mussels by von gerichten; you can probably find it online.
Day in Boston - where to eat Italian? Other suggestions?
sorry, you are right Ribelle is not open for lunch,
i do not think that anyone has mentioned ribelle which has a 30 dollar prix fixe if you get there before 6 30, i think. And, if the weather is nice, you can sit outside.
Seafood dump on the table in Boston
there are several good fish-in-the tank seafood places including peach farm and east ocean seafood in Chinatown. I like to get the double lobsters or the szechuan (sic) fish at Dumpling House if you happen to be in Cambridge. I think that you can get better Chinese food in London though.
There are also lots of places that sell 1.00 oysters on any given night. You might want to settle down and have a couple dozen; i have.
Island Creek Oyster Bar has some good dishes; i am a fan of the pan roasted lobster at Summer Shack, one of my favorite dishes in Boston, period, though Summer Shack does not have lots of support on Chowhound. There are many seafood shacks up North; the fried clams can be great, the closest one to Boston would be Belle Island, which is in Winthrop.
NanaP [Jewish deli in Boston?]
wow, i will have to give Moody's a try. i will ask about hand cutting it for me; I am sure that will cement my reputation for being a pain in the butt.
D'Amelio's Off the Boat or ????
it was the one time that i had it; i am not a regular. it did get best of improper bostonian if you give that rag any credence. and it was recommended by the waiter over the lobster roll.
i concur; i would not recommend that visitors from Southern California try our delis; there is a lot better here.
Native Corn
a big part of the problem with tomatoes is the variety; they are bred for appearance and not for taste.
boston has some ok russian/eastern european stores, but when i get a craving for jewish deli, i go to nyc.
get the lobster pie at Belle and not the roll. quite tasty in my opinion and the price is reasonable for the quality/quantity.
be prepared to wait; Rino's is crazy popular and does not take reservations. For seafood, Neptune and Island Creek Oyster Bar and the fish in the tank restaurants in C-town such as East Ocean Sea Food. The pan roasted lobster at Summer Shack is great but most food there is just mediocre +.
I would take Babbo over any Italian place in Boston that I have tried.
Trattoria Toscana ??
i initially went to Toscana in 2011 and was impressed. But in 2013, there seemed to be a new chef and the food seemed less good. Any news on this spot?
Lunch between Central and Kendall
i would add dumping house, which is as good as Mulan IMHO. It it on the way to harvard square but depending on where you are; it could be closer.
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Assisting in Rapid Sequence Intubation
The most common protocol used for rapid sequence intubation (RSI) includes use of the drug succinylcholine for induction. Succinylcholine is absolutely contraindicated in patients who have a family history of malignant hypertension, burn injuries that are more than 24 hours old, or crush injuries more than 7 days old. These patients are at risk for developing life-threatening hyperkalemia.11 Penetrating eye injuries are considered relative contraindications to RSI because of the increased intraocular pressure resulting from some of the medications; alternatives may need to be considered.2,6
The administration of neuromuscular blocking agents (NMBAs), such as succinylcholine, should only be performed by those who are educated about the indications, side effects, and complications of NMBAs. Some states only allow specific personnel to administer these medications. Anyone without adequate airway training should never administer these medications.
Alternative airways such as a Combitube or cricothyrotomy equipment should always be available.
Administer premedications as prescribed:
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It’s been almost one year since I stopped smoking. In this post, I will share how I kept myself motivated despite the temptations and challenges (ie. Being surrounded with smokers, diverting my cravings to junk foods, and resorting to stress eating) while I was trying to quit the habit.
- Create a plan for every goal you have may it be big or small.
You will not reach a certain goal if you don’t know how to plan or at the very least, set expectations. This, perhaps, is the most beautiful lesson I’ve learned in life. When I learned how to set my priorities, I achieve more things and I find more reasons to stay motivated. Each time I feel like I’m losing steam, I just look back to the life I used to have to remind myself of how far I’ve come.
- Find a reason why you want to pursue a particular goal.
One reason why we lose sense of direction is forgetting why we’re doing certain things. To make your reason seem more concrete, you can write them down and keep on reading them, so that you can get attuned to them again.
- Find other ways to achieve your goal.
"If plan A doesn’t work, don’t worry because the alphabet has 26 other letters." If you’re losing motivation because you feel like you’re not seeing any progress, why not find another way of working towards your goal?
During the times I failed to quit smoking through gradual withdrawal and e-cigarettes, I tried resorting to the cold turkey method. I know it would be hard, especially for someone who smoked for 12 years, but I wanted to challenge myself. I’m the type of person who tends to be more persistent when things get tougher. Finally, I succeeded, and I never had a single puff of cigarette from the time I quit.
- Enjoy what you do.
The lessons I learned when I quit smoking will not stop with me, I will continue to share it with others. Through tips and accounts of my personal journey, I’m striving to encourage others to stop smoking and take better care of their health. Thanks to social media and this blog, I am able to reach a lot of people and encourage them to end their relationship with cigarettes. I feel overjoyed and fulfilled each time someone e-mail or message me through Facebook, saying that they were able to quit smoking. This is how I enjoy what I’m doing.
- Find inspiration.
In this journey, my son is my inspiration. Aside from the harmful effects of cigarette smoke to his health, I also don’t want him to grow up seeing me smoke. I just want to set a good example to him so that he can have a good quality of life.
Follow these so that you can keep that fire within you as you strive to be more responsible with your life. While I cited my journey to quitting smoking in this post as an example, it’s important to note that these tips can also work well in staying motivated with any area of your life such as getting higher grades, improving your career, losing weight, and other goals you may have. |
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Thursday, 25 November 2010
My double exposed images as a film of slides. I looped this and showed it as a projection of about 1.5m wide.
Seeing the images in motion swallowing and regurgitating endlessly and silently has given me a new direction for my work.
Combining movement with silent monochrome I'm trying to present memory as a constant replay of non existent images.
I may progress these images further through slideshows and experiment with afterburn effects on the eyes.
Sunday, 14 November 2010
Familiarity
>>IMAGE.
Sunday, 7 November 2010
Chemistry of memory
I'm very intrigued at the moment at the biology and chemistry of memory. I've been researching in as far a depth as I can understand and now I've come back down to single atoms. Sodium and Potassium atoms to be precise. These are the atoms that flow in and out of the axon of a neuron (an electrically excitable cell) and transmit information received from sensory stimulus.
Creating long term memory is about synthesis and strengthening of proteins and the more times neurons transmit impulses the stronger they get. Ergo these tiny atoms are what creates the memories I hold inside my mind. Tiny elements inside the cells in my body inside the food that I eat, inside the rocks of the earth that I walk on.
I'm not really sure what to do with this information yet but it may well involve some geological research of the rocks of my hometown.
current Project: Memory
I want to make sense of memory. Represent and organise my own memories and their semiotic relevance both within my mind and in context of outside memory "trigger" stimulus.
So far I've been:
So far I've been:
- sketching memories that I recall upon experiencing triggers in my day to day life.
- Using experimental photography and painting to look for methods of representation
- Anaylising the biological mechanics of memory formation and recollection.
- Creating memory triggers in the form of bottled "perfumes"
- Researching the history of memory representation in art
image from my sketchbook analyzing recollection and train of thought
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Dear Nunu and Papa,
I thank Jesus Christ today for keeping you together. Keeping you one. Life can be dyslexic because there is not enough words to describe how difficult it is. Every step we take is a big milestone when it's not just for yourself, but for the family too. Together you handle Life beautifully.
Growing up between you for 18 years has taught me a lot. All these years, I've seen how cruel circumstances can be, I've seen that people no matter how many years you've lived with them, always have the "other side" you've never seen, I've seen how much courage one has to have just go do something you think is right even when the other disagrees. But in between all this I see a bigger picture- the Selfless Love you have for each other.
Dad, I love how you put up with the silly remarks and petty arguments just to irritate mom because you love it when she reacts disgustedly. I love the way you appreciate it when mom cooks the dinner more than anyone else. Maybe it's the ingredient Love that makes it more delicious to you even when it's all same to us. I know you love her, dad, It shows. You can not bear the thought of her leaving you alone, by choice or by fate.
Mom, you are awesome. You respect dad so much! There's so much Women in general can learn from you. You are always so careful in what you say or what you do just because you can not let my dad sleep with a disturbed mind. You always put Dad's opinions before yours. Being such a confident and strong-headed woman, you do not forget to remember all the vows you said before the Lord.
Mom, Dad, you are not the perfect individuals, but the both of you together make up the perfect Couple-match made in heaven. Dad, the serious poker faced husband and Mom being the childish, fun loving wife, I cannot help but smile every time you pull each other's legs and find ways to irritate each other. And the story of how, Dad, proposed mom with his stubbornness, staying awake outside the door late at night till dawn just to get that "Yes" from Mom? EPIC.
My heart's desire is for God to bless the both of you and fill you with happiness. Tell each other every night how much You love each other, you never know what will happen tomorrow. Talk more, Hug more, Kiss each other more, it will only make you closer everyday.
Here's your love-struck daughter signing off,
Hoping to see you guys soon by the grace of God,
Mawipuii... your love child :)
Ziak tha hle mai. Nu & pa ngaihsan nachang hria leh ngaihhlutna chang hria Thalaite hi khawvela mi vannei ber-te an ni.
I Nu & Pa hi an hmeltha dun hle mai. I tluk lo zawk mah-in ka hria :)
May the good Lord continue to Bless your Mom & Dad
hehe, ka tluk lo an ti zel :) Thanks a lot.
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The Intellectual Situation
Please RT? Sounds like a digital circle jerk. Birds were born to make the repetitive, pleasant, meaningless sounds called twittering. Wasn’t the whole thing about us featherless bipeds that we could give connected intelligible sounds a cumulative sense?
The signed-up user is apt to have more mixed feelings..
Look at your Twitter feed at the wrong moment, however,.” In this way, a huge crowd of people—40 percent more users since last year—devalue one another through mutual self-importance. The much-tweeted-about Lena Dunham has said her father finds Twitter “infinitely unrelatable”: “He’s like, ‘Why would I want to tell anybody what I had for a snack, it’s private?!’ And I’m like, ‘Why would you even have a snack if you didn’t tell anybody? Why bother eating?’”
As with many of Dunham’s jokes, this one both satirically indicts and indulgently excuses the narcissistic symptom on display.. That was then. Lots of people on Twitter do think you’ll enjoy the spectacle of their snacks.. It’s a lot less funny when a real person, supposedly the many-sided hero of his own life, decides to say only one sort of thing, and say it all the time.. Thus: “In The Jargon of Authenticity, Adorno went bonkers with rage, and took off after Heidegger and the existentialists with a buzz saw, loudly condemning the sloppy word that these dumb existentialists sloppily use to brag about how they know what is real and what isn’t.” This appeared on a blog (The Awl), so its blogginess shouldn’t be held too much against it. But all contemporary publications tend toward the condition of blogs, and soon, if not yet already, it will seem pretentious, elitist, and old-fashioned to write anything, anywhere, with patience and care.
The accidental progenitor of the blogorrheic style is David Foster Wallace. What distinguishes Wallace’s writing from the prose it begot is a fusion of the scrupulous and the garrulous; all of our colloquialisms, typically diffusing a mist of vagueness over the world, are pressed into the service of exactness... |
Here’s What Experts Think of Stephen Hawking’s Posthumous Predictions About AI, Gene Hacking, and Religion
Hawking shares bold claims in his final work.
Hawking shares bold claims in his final work.
Hawking Claims claimed that powerful people will hack their genes to become smarter, stronger, and longer-lived. Eventually, he writes in his new book, the rest of us will “die out, or become unimportant.”
Many geneticists already see this as inevitable. Some fear that people will use CRISPR to edit their genes before the technology is deemed safe, so they advocate new laws to protect non-augmented humans.
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“We’re probably going to need new international oversight structures, so that we don’t realize these dystopian ‘Brave New World’ examples,” said George Daley, the dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, at the International Summit on Human Genome Editing in 2015.
Killer AI
During his lifetime, Hawking was vocal about his fear of powerful AI. He reiterates his reservations in this book, writing that ignoring the threat of super-powerful AI could be humanity’s “worst mistake ever.” It could destroy us with weapons “we cannot even understand,” he wrote.
There’s some debate on this point. Many technologists, including eccentric billionaire Elon Musk, agree that advanced AI could pose an existential threat to humanity.
But others play it down. “[There’s] no reason right now to be worried about self-conscious AI algorithms that set their own goals and go crazy,” Stanford machine learning lecturer Richard Socher told Fortune. And a poll of AI researchers found that most believe it will take at least 25 years to create an AI superintelligence — so at least we have a little time to prepare.
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No Gods, No Masters
Hawking also came out swinging at religion in the book. “Belief in the afterlife is just wishful thinking,” he writes, adding that there’s “no possibility” of God.
Many scientists certainly agree with Hawking on this claim, though not all. A 2015 survey found that many researchers around the world are religious, but in most countries, scientists are by and large less religious than non-scientists.
READ MORE: Stephen Hawking’s Final Book: ‘There Is No God’ [Esquire]
More on Stephen Hawking: Stephen Hawking’s Most Dire Predictions for the Future
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Words are hard labor. Let’s therefore add some pictures. The moving kind in matters of the therapist’s heart.
Much is written about erotic transference, but this is countertransference. Ladson and Wilton (2007) report:
The intense emotional experience of countertransference in psychotherapy … is not rare. Some studies have reported 95 percent of male therapists and 76 percent of female therapists admit they felt sexual feelings toward their patients.
The above video, from the HBO series In Treatment, offers you a glimpse. Enough to know — if you are open to knowing — how a therapist’serotic countertransference can divert psychotherapy from its intended aim.
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Observe TV’s portrayed counselor (Paul). His discomfort is evident in his speech, his body, his silences. The grip on his role is slipping.
The first and last two minutes of the nine-minute excerpt offer the session and the words. The center segment is given over to silent film.
Do you believe their relationship will turn out well? Do you think office hours will remedy the problems for which Laura booked her first appointment?
The second clip begins with Paul looking for guidance from his analyst Gina. He has lost himself to a mutating agenda. Laura came to him to improve her psychological state. This man was sought as an expert healer, not a man soon to be in love.
The pair now struggle with a different goal. Doc Paul is like a person hanging from the wet window ledge of a twenty-story building. The strength and clarity of the woman who is his client will overpower his ambivalence. The flashing EXIT sign makes no difference.
The most remarkable moment in these two fragments opens at 7:47 of the first one. Paul is told who he is, what his weaknesses are, by his perceptive patient … and that she loves him just as he is. No wonder the ledge is slippery. To be known and accepted — here is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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You might be stirred or troubled by your own transferential emotions if you are in treatment yourself. Perhaps you hope for physicality, but should the professional’s self-control crumble, the collapse renders impotent all his education and ethical resolve; and your safety with it.
A therapist must draw a line never to be crossed.
Lower your eyes to his office floor. The indelible mark was present long before your meeting.
Any other barrier, more movable or less precise and clear to him, risks injury to both of you.STOP signs help only if you recognize where to look, and the brakes still work.
I’d need to know much more, Wildheart, in order to even approach an acceptable answer and personal answer. One might start with a consultation with an expert in this department if the therapy remains rocky. But, almost certainly, it is easier to get the toothpaste out of the tube than to get it back in.
Thank you for providing a flavor of the insight it’s not really possible to ask about… or maybe believe the answer.
I often see the line on the floor and sometimes resent it. I’m not looking for a lover, but for a father.
Outside the room I want my therapist to be full, to be strong, to be able to be there for me next week, next month… next year(?) Inside the room I want to be special, to have more time, more interaction. I want to know more about him, to give to him, to share something deeper.
I can’t quite grasp the strength of character it takes to keep the line. I seem to fall in love to some degree with anyone that shows me their true selves and can accept a piece of me. To walk so close to someone in pain or in happiness or in love and hold the faint distance necessary for the therapeutic frame… it all astounds me. I guess that is why I am on the couch and not in the chair.
Your lack of grasp, Rebecca, is not a failure on your part. Your openness sounds quite brave to me. Keeping the frame bounded is necessity and training and hard work as much as anything else: a discipline one must practice over and over. And then there are supervisors and colleagues and mentors and therapists to help, too. Thanks.
I liked this the first time I read it. But what is strange is that I had all three transference types at various points in therapy, or with different therapists. Other times, there was no transference at all. I do not have transference with my current therapist, but I have had transference issues with other therapists and only one out of four mentors I have had in the recent past and present. The one research mentor I had transference issues with was both the admiring kind (I forgot what it was called), the erotic kind (but never disclosed or shown), and the hostile kind (never physical, of course, for any of the three). It seems to begin with the topic of discussion, then the level of bonding and trust, and then the level of reminders or triggers from the past. A desire for reconciling that which never had closure, and a longing for belonging and acceptance, appear to be my reasons behind these transferences. When I experience countertransference, however, I will react with a different form of transference, I think. When I consider my history of growing up in a disorganized attachment style at home and in the military, I think about the reasons why my transference changes and emerges. Not only am I insecure, but I am also disorganized. No therapist has told me that, but I am guessing about myself here. Am I correct, wrong, or partly correct?
One important feature of transference — too little discussed, I think — is that it is not an either/or experience. If we think in terms of stimulus generalization (the extent to which we respond to someone or something because it is similar to a person or thing we’ve encountered before and to which our responses are already conditioned), our actions can be thought of as more or less the product of past experience. Transference is rather like a mistaken identity, responding to a new person because of some improperly placed template of resemblance we unconsciously impose on that new person. But, it might be worth considering that few of our actions in the world find us like a blank slate, as if we were creatures without a history and producing behavior without any baggage or knowledge or unconscious motives driven by our past. Were we like that, every situation would be fully new, and all history would be forgotten almost as soon as it happened. Thus, whatever amount of insecurity or disorganization you might have, Multinomial, these also might be contemplated as characteristics of which we all have more or less, not necessarily either/or.
Thank you for explaining that, Dr. S. I never really learned much about transference, and the little I did learn is not coming to mind. So I guess. Thank goodness it is not either or. I thought it was supposed to be, but I was wrong. I thought something drastically was wrong with me. And I do not know if I had disorganized attachment. I just assume so much about myself that I go down this rabbit hole of near self-pity. I am also calmly eating breakfast while trying to figure out if my dizziness and feeling weak after not being able to sleep is anxiety or hormones or a precursor to stroke or precuraor to heart attack at the present moment. I am not panicked but I am confused as a 44 year old when to go to the ER and when to just cope with panic. It is hard to tell the difference when you are middle aged and still dealing with all the mental stuff. Lightheadedness was not really panic for me, so this would be a first if that is what I am feeling. I am trying to do normal stuff to see if the dizziness dissipates, like responding here and checking emails. But I think I need to call the VA for approval to see my local ER and have them pay for the visit. Just in case I am out of commission, I thought I would reply. Anyway, I like new knowledge, so thank you for clarifying transference.
Do be safe rather than sorry with respect to your medical concerns. With respect to transference, it is usually offered as an “either/or,” so my take on it isn’t the one I learned in graduate school. You were not wrong in thinking of it in the same way.
Oh. That makes sense why I thought of it that way. I only recall my independent studies outside of college assignments as an undergrad. What I learned was from online, not from class. Makes sense why I would see the conventional aspects of it. And yes, safe than sorry is my motto with physical health. Thank you.
Safe than sorry sort of worked out, as I spent the last 5 hours in the ER with mostly normal readings, except for low blood pressure and occasional heart palpitations. I’ve been referred to a cardiologist and to do a stress test in the future. Oh, the joys of growing older and managing even more. Self-management is the hardest job on earth at times.
I kept thinking about your take on transference, and how profoundly true your statement is on how it isn’t either/or. I always thought I had to see people through a “new” lens, which is sometimes hard to do. There’s something about the people we meet that reminds us of something familiar – whether it be positive or negative or both. Now that would be something worth writing about, Dr. S! What you said deserves elaboration and new insights for professionals, researchers, and patients. There seem to be some professionals who don’t feel comfortable with transference at all. They seem to see it as a problem worth fixing or a hindrance worth avoiding whenever they tell patients things like, “I don’t do transference because of x, y, and z,” whereby x, y, and z would often include their own opinions on why it isn’t beneficial for the client or why they flat out don’t feel comfortable with it. I wonder if your new insights, Dr. S., would help clinicians feel more comfortable working with transference, even if it isn’t what they do as a professional. That would actually be cool to learn in grad school, or even as an undergrad. Regarding negative/hostile transference, the best example I can see with that was another clip on the HBO series, In Treatment, when the therapist (man) saw his old mentor (woman) for help when he was in the process of getting divorced. The male therapist seemed hostile toward his female mentor/therapist at the time. Or, the time when the male therapist found another female therapist sometime after that, and the male therapist appeared to initially show erotic transference for the new female therapist until she revealed her pregnant belly, at which time he seemed to change the transference to negative, but not as hostile as he was with his previous female mentor therapist. What you said, Dr. S., normalizes our experiences, even though treatment is needed to work on those areas.
I had a stress test once. Survivable, not painful. Thought of in a different way, however, I had much preparation: lots of conversations in early life with my mom were certainly a stress test! Glad your ER visit was, as they say, “unremarkable.”
I’m laughing now at your prep with your mom. And regarding the “unremarkable”: I’m realizing that there are positives in the negatives; when all your blood tests and other medical tests result in negatives, they are actually positives for you. 🙂
My therapist was kind and gentle with me and not having this as a child, I wanted to grasp it and hold onto to it as my own. It is that simple really, and all the other reasons I came up with were the result of too much internet research on this topic. I do not know how I gathered the courage to address this with him, God help me, it was one of the more difficult things I have ever done, and it placed me into a very high anxiety state which lasted a while, but as I sit here now many months later, this transference issue is behind me. Talking about it and getting it out there helped me because keeping it bottled-up inside of me added to the obsession with no place to relieve it. I cannot advise everyone to broach this subject with their therapist, because I have read that therapists handle it either badly or very well. I worried for quite sometime if my therapist considered me damaged goods now, but our sessions are pleasant and I do not detect any aversion. For me, it had to be discussed so I could put it behind me. I sensed my therapist would not send me away and I was correct. I am lucky to have a professional and ethical therapist.
Thank you, Nancy. I’m glad you were able to master this problem for yourself. No easy task. And perhaps now you can see that therapists must do their own job of mastering their own history and the quite normal sexual and romantic desires that grow out of the present, as well.
Oh, I do Dr. Stein. I watched this series and I could feel the struggle the therapist endured. She was quite agressive with her forwardness towards him and I did not like her character. I felt she was a manipulator and had some character flaws. It was a riveting series.
Can we just fall in agape love or fileo love without the erotic love? For instance, sapiosexuals fall in love with intelligent people, and others fall in love with best friends. In therapy or therapy-like situations, can erotic transference include somewhat nonsexual desires but rather a desire to be close, bonded, and in awe of the other? It is hard for me to determine because I get easily aroused sexually as a sex abuse and rape survivor, but my thoughts almost always intend on seeing the other as an admirable and potentially intimate person.
I’m certainly not the last word on the subject. Love is so complicated. Even a kiss from one person is more “right” than from another, if I’m recalling something I read long ago. In the sense I’m using it, it has to do with our biology alone, even where technique is a constant. And all the other factors you mentioned play a part, too, not to mention our history. When you get a satisfying answer to your question, write it up and send it to the Nobel committee for consideration!
Thank you, Dr. S. I have no answers. I just remember learning about the three different types of love in a very distal bible study. I don’t go to church anymore, as I’m agnostic, but I thought I’d ask from that perspective. I’m curious but also weird. I think I’m more satisfied right now with what information you presented and with the unknown. Where I think I’m lacking in satisfaction is probably my own excuses and cover-up; my longing, desire, and erotic transference at times are harder to admit, so I may be fishing for alternatives just to inch my way away from the truth.
‘In Treatment ‘ was a wonderful series much admired by therapists and psychoanalysts. It featured a psychoanalyst, Paul, who while dedicated to his patients, wrestled with own personal issues. One of, if not the most, interesting features of the series was the constant boundary struggle between therapist and patient, the sexual being the most overt and easily recognized. Thank you for a most interesting essay and have a healthy and happy new year.
I never thought of it quite that way, Lander7. AI would need to develop to the point of having a rather human/affective capacity to relate to the human a few feet away, of course. Time will tell. Thanks for a unique perspective.
Dr. Turing, the AI therapist… Hmm. That would make for an interesting dynamic. But then again, humans program machines, so to detect attraction and pass a turing test on a socioemotional intelligence level would be challenging in therapeutic settings. If too stoic, the delivery can appear insincere and perhaps neglectful to the client who deserves human connection.
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It was too good—nay, too impossible—to be true.
A number of media outlets today seized on comments made by Rush Limbaugh in which the king of conservative talk radio appeared to praise President Barack Obama for his leadership in the killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan on Sunday. “Rush Limbaugh: ‘Thank God for President Obama,'” read a headline at Politico, which went on to report that “Limbaugh credited the president with the strategy that led to the killing of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.” In a post titled “And Hell Freezes Over,” Andrew Sullivan at the Daily Beast noted Limbaugh’s “going out of his way to celebrate Obama’s singular role” in the bin Laden assassination. And the site Mediaite wrote that “Limbaugh opened his show today with huge praise for his President, his military, and his country. That’s right, folks. America can still get along.”
Well, not quite. At first listen, Limbaugh does in fact sound like he’s praising Obama for being the leader who “single-handedly came up with the technique in order to pull this off.” But then you remember: This is Rush Limbaugh, people. That’s not praise; it’s sarcasm at its very thickest. Here’s the video of Limbaugh’s remarks with an excerpt below it:
’s not lauding Obama’s role here. He’s mocking it. If you’re still not convinced, listen to Limbaugh’s reaction later in the day upon reading the reports citing his praise of the president, per Media Matters:
The guy can’t stop laughing. Even if hell had frozen over, Rush Limbaugh would still find a way to bash Obama for it. |
EDL splinter groups may target public sector strikers, unions warnEDL groups are broadening out their attacks to focus on leftwing organisations
Posted by Marmite on November 21, 2011 · Comments Off on EDL splinter groups may target public sector strikers, unions warnEDL groups are broadening out their attacks to focus on leftwing organisations
An EDL rally in London in August
Britain’s biggest unions are warning of a threat of violence by far-right groups during national strike action this month, amid concern that fascist elements are increasingly intent on targeting striking public sector workers.
Unite, Unison and the TUC said they were taking the prospect of disruption by far-right supporters seriously, and had begun to liaise with police to assess any risk to pickets or those on protest marches.
The development follows signs that splinter groups from the English Defence League are broadening their campaign from targeting Muslims to trade unionists and socialist organisations. Members of the EDL have recently been involved in attacks on anti-racist and anti-cuts protesters, as well as attempting to target the Occupy movement which has camped outside St Paul’s Cathedral.
More than two million workers are expected to walk out on 30 November during a day of protest against public sector pension changes.
Dave Prentis, general secretary of Unison, the country’s main public sector trade union, said: “We take any threat to our members’ health and safety very seriously. As a matter of course, ahead of a major day of action, we work with the police to assess risks, and our many stewards work hard to keep people safe. The far right’s latest attempt to stir up hate and fear is a disgrace.”
Rob Johnston, the Midlands regional secretary for the TUC, said: “There is a concern, a general wariness, that the EDL are very active. There have been attacks on trade unionists. We need to put our heads together and think about how we deal with it.”
Nine days ago an EDL faction attempted to attack the north-west headquarters of Unite, the UK’s biggest trade union. Online messages from the EDL in Merseyside stated they were “patrolling for leftys [sic]”. Those they finally identified turned out to be former council workers protesting after they lost their jobs when a contractor went bust. A march of female asylum seekers has also been recently targeted by EDL supporters in the city.
One EDL splinter group, the Infidels, has stated that it considers any leftwing or anti-cuts activists fair game. A north-east wing of the Infidels was recently blamed for attacking an Occupy Newcastle camp in which one protester was taken to hospital and others injured. A statement from the leader of the Infidels faction, John “Snowy” Shaw, states: “We have decided to put all our efforts into opposing everything you do regardless of the issue at hand, it’s your organisations we oppose.” He adds: “Every event you hold will be a potential target along with your meetings, fund raisers and social events.”
On the same day as the Liverpool attack, police arrested 179 EDL members after intelligence they were planning to attack Occupy protesters camped outside St Paul’s Cathedral. A Facebook page carried comments discussing attacking “lefties” at St Paul’s and included death threats from one supporter.
Dr Matthew Goodwin, extremism expert and political lecturer at the University of Nottingham, said the far right in the UK was becoming increasingly confrontational. “Historically, trade unionists and the far right have been fiercely opposed to one another,” he said. “Trade unionists view the modern far right as a continuation of interwar fascism, and so support anti-fascist campaigns and groups. Meanwhile, far-right extremists tend to view trade unionists as promoting multiculturalism and political correctness. While these disputes are ideological, they have often become incredibly personal.
“Over the past three years, the far right in Britain has become increasingly confrontational and provocative.”
Bill Adams, TUC regional secretary of Yorkshire, said he was aware of a new far-right presence in his region – 300 members of the North East Infidels recently protested in Leeds city centre – and had been advised by police to avoid antagonising the far right. “They have said to watch what I say about the EDL, they have some info that they have my details.” Last year prominent TUC member Alec McFadden was placed under police protection after threats from the Merseyside branch of the EDL who doctored a placard he was carrying criticising coalition cuts to make it read as if it were protesting against homecoming British troops.
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey said the union movement would not be cowed by a group whose only concern was “spreading fear” instead of advancing the rights of working people. “Trade unionists stand against everything the EDL stands for,” he said. “Trade unionists have fought long and hard for a fairer society, one with respect at its core. Ultra-rightwing groups care about nothing other than stoking hatred, which is why they have no place in our communities.”
Other incidents this year that suggest that the EDL and its spin-offs are adopting an increasingly anti-leftwing agenda include attacks at anti-racist meetings in Brighton and Leeds and during a Labour party event held in Barking, east London, in May. |
/*
* Driver for CSR SiRFprimaII onboard UARTs.
*
* Copyright (c) 2011 Cambridge Silicon Radio Limited, a CSR plc group company.
*
* Licensed under GPLv2 or later.
*/
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/ioport.h>
#include <linux/platform_device.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/sysrq.h>
#include <linux/console.h>
#include <linux/tty.h>
#include <linux/tty_flip.h>
#include <linux/serial_core.h>
#include <linux/serial.h>
#include <linux/clk.h>
#include <linux/of.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/io.h>
#include <linux/of_gpio.h>
#include <linux/dmaengine.h>
#include <linux/dma-direction.h>
#include <linux/dma-mapping.h>
#include <asm/irq.h>
#include <asm/mach/irq.h>
#include "sirfsoc_uart.h"
static unsigned int
sirfsoc_uart_pio_tx_chars(struct sirfsoc_uart_port *sirfport, int count);
static unsigned int
sirfsoc_uart_pio_rx_chars(struct uart_port *port, unsigned int max_rx_count);
static struct uart_driver sirfsoc_uart_drv;
static void sirfsoc_uart_tx_dma_complete_callback(void *param);
static const struct sirfsoc_baudrate_to_regv baudrate_to_regv[] = {
{4000000, 2359296},
{3500000, 1310721},
{3000000, 1572865},
{2500000, 1245186},
{2000000, 1572866},
{1500000, 1245188},
{1152000, 1638404},
{1000000, 1572869},
{921600, 1114120},
{576000, 1245196},
{500000, 1245198},
{460800, 1572876},
{230400, 1310750},
{115200, 1310781},
{57600, 1310843},
{38400, 1114328},
{19200, 1114545},
{9600, 1114979},
};
static struct sirfsoc_uart_port *sirf_ports[SIRFSOC_UART_NR];
static inline struct sirfsoc_uart_port *to_sirfport(struct uart_port *port)
{
return container_of(port, struct sirfsoc_uart_port, port);
}
static inline unsigned int sirfsoc_uart_tx_empty(struct uart_port *port)
{
unsigned long reg;
struct sirfsoc_uart_port *sirfport = to_sirfport(port);
struct sirfsoc_register *ureg = &sirfport->uart_reg->uart_reg;
struct sirfsoc_fifo_status *ufifo_st = &sirfport->uart_reg->fifo_status;
reg = rd_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_tx_fifo_status);
return (reg & ufifo_st->ff_empty(port)) ? TIOCSER_TEMT : 0;
}
static unsigned int sirfsoc_uart_get_mctrl(struct uart_port *port)
{
struct sirfsoc_uart_port *sirfport = to_sirfport(port);
struct sirfsoc_register *ureg = &sirfport->uart_reg->uart_reg;
if (!sirfport->hw_flow_ctrl || !sirfport->ms_enabled)
goto cts_asserted;
if (sirfport->uart_reg->uart_type == SIRF_REAL_UART) {
if (!(rd_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_afc_ctrl) &
SIRFUART_AFC_CTS_STATUS))
goto cts_asserted;
else
goto cts_deasserted;
} else {
if (!gpio_get_value(sirfport->cts_gpio))
goto cts_asserted;
else
goto cts_deasserted;
}
cts_deasserted:
return TIOCM_CAR | TIOCM_DSR;
cts_asserted:
return TIOCM_CAR | TIOCM_DSR | TIOCM_CTS;
}
static void sirfsoc_uart_set_mctrl(struct uart_port *port, unsigned int mctrl)
{
struct sirfsoc_uart_port *sirfport = to_sirfport(port);
struct sirfsoc_register *ureg = &sirfport->uart_reg->uart_reg;
unsigned int assert = mctrl & TIOCM_RTS;
unsigned int val = assert ? SIRFUART_AFC_CTRL_RX_THD : 0x0;
unsigned int current_val;
if (mctrl & TIOCM_LOOP) {
if (sirfport->uart_reg->uart_type == SIRF_REAL_UART)
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_line_ctrl,
rd_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_line_ctrl) |
SIRFUART_LOOP_BACK);
else
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_mode1,
rd_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_mode1) |
SIRFSOC_USP_LOOP_BACK_CTRL);
} else {
if (sirfport->uart_reg->uart_type == SIRF_REAL_UART)
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_line_ctrl,
rd_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_line_ctrl) &
~SIRFUART_LOOP_BACK);
else
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_mode1,
rd_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_mode1) &
~SIRFSOC_USP_LOOP_BACK_CTRL);
}
if (!sirfport->hw_flow_ctrl || !sirfport->ms_enabled)
return;
if (sirfport->uart_reg->uart_type == SIRF_REAL_UART) {
current_val = rd_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_afc_ctrl) & ~0xFF;
val |= current_val;
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_afc_ctrl, val);
} else {
if (!val)
gpio_set_value(sirfport->rts_gpio, 1);
else
gpio_set_value(sirfport->rts_gpio, 0);
}
}
static void sirfsoc_uart_stop_tx(struct uart_port *port)
{
struct sirfsoc_uart_port *sirfport = to_sirfport(port);
struct sirfsoc_register *ureg = &sirfport->uart_reg->uart_reg;
struct sirfsoc_int_en *uint_en = &sirfport->uart_reg->uart_int_en;
if (sirfport->tx_dma_chan) {
if (sirfport->tx_dma_state == TX_DMA_RUNNING) {
dmaengine_pause(sirfport->tx_dma_chan);
sirfport->tx_dma_state = TX_DMA_PAUSE;
} else {
if (!sirfport->is_atlas7)
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_int_en_reg,
rd_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_int_en_reg) &
~uint_en->sirfsoc_txfifo_empty_en);
else
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_int_en_clr_reg,
uint_en->sirfsoc_txfifo_empty_en);
}
} else {
if (sirfport->uart_reg->uart_type == SIRF_USP_UART)
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_tx_rx_en, rd_regl(port,
ureg->sirfsoc_tx_rx_en) & ~SIRFUART_TX_EN);
if (!sirfport->is_atlas7)
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_int_en_reg,
rd_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_int_en_reg) &
~uint_en->sirfsoc_txfifo_empty_en);
else
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_int_en_clr_reg,
uint_en->sirfsoc_txfifo_empty_en);
}
}
static void sirfsoc_uart_tx_with_dma(struct sirfsoc_uart_port *sirfport)
{
struct uart_port *port = &sirfport->port;
struct sirfsoc_register *ureg = &sirfport->uart_reg->uart_reg;
struct sirfsoc_int_en *uint_en = &sirfport->uart_reg->uart_int_en;
struct circ_buf *xmit = &port->state->xmit;
unsigned long tran_size;
unsigned long tran_start;
unsigned long pio_tx_size;
tran_size = CIRC_CNT_TO_END(xmit->head, xmit->tail, UART_XMIT_SIZE);
tran_start = (unsigned long)(xmit->buf + xmit->tail);
if (uart_circ_empty(xmit) || uart_tx_stopped(port) ||
!tran_size)
return;
if (sirfport->tx_dma_state == TX_DMA_PAUSE) {
dmaengine_resume(sirfport->tx_dma_chan);
return;
}
if (sirfport->tx_dma_state == TX_DMA_RUNNING)
return;
if (!sirfport->is_atlas7)
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_int_en_reg,
rd_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_int_en_reg)&
~(uint_en->sirfsoc_txfifo_empty_en));
else
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_int_en_clr_reg,
uint_en->sirfsoc_txfifo_empty_en);
/*
* DMA requires buffer address and buffer length are both aligned with
* 4 bytes, so we use PIO for
* 1. if address is not aligned with 4bytes, use PIO for the first 1~3
* bytes, and move to DMA for the left part aligned with 4bytes
* 2. if buffer length is not aligned with 4bytes, use DMA for aligned
* part first, move to PIO for the left 1~3 bytes
*/
if (tran_size < 4 || BYTES_TO_ALIGN(tran_start)) {
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_tx_fifo_op, SIRFUART_FIFO_STOP);
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_tx_dma_io_ctrl,
rd_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_tx_dma_io_ctrl)|
SIRFUART_IO_MODE);
if (BYTES_TO_ALIGN(tran_start)) {
pio_tx_size = sirfsoc_uart_pio_tx_chars(sirfport,
BYTES_TO_ALIGN(tran_start));
tran_size -= pio_tx_size;
}
if (tran_size < 4)
sirfsoc_uart_pio_tx_chars(sirfport, tran_size);
if (!sirfport->is_atlas7)
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_int_en_reg,
rd_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_int_en_reg)|
uint_en->sirfsoc_txfifo_empty_en);
else
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_int_en_reg,
uint_en->sirfsoc_txfifo_empty_en);
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_tx_fifo_op, SIRFUART_FIFO_START);
} else {
/* tx transfer mode switch into dma mode */
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_tx_fifo_op, SIRFUART_FIFO_STOP);
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_tx_dma_io_ctrl,
rd_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_tx_dma_io_ctrl)&
~SIRFUART_IO_MODE);
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_tx_fifo_op, SIRFUART_FIFO_START);
tran_size &= ~(0x3);
sirfport->tx_dma_addr = dma_map_single(port->dev,
xmit->buf + xmit->tail,
tran_size, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
sirfport->tx_dma_desc = dmaengine_prep_slave_single(
sirfport->tx_dma_chan, sirfport->tx_dma_addr,
tran_size, DMA_MEM_TO_DEV, DMA_PREP_INTERRUPT);
if (!sirfport->tx_dma_desc) {
dev_err(port->dev, "DMA prep slave single fail\n");
return;
}
sirfport->tx_dma_desc->callback =
sirfsoc_uart_tx_dma_complete_callback;
sirfport->tx_dma_desc->callback_param = (void *)sirfport;
sirfport->transfer_size = tran_size;
dmaengine_submit(sirfport->tx_dma_desc);
dma_async_issue_pending(sirfport->tx_dma_chan);
sirfport->tx_dma_state = TX_DMA_RUNNING;
}
}
static void sirfsoc_uart_start_tx(struct uart_port *port)
{
struct sirfsoc_uart_port *sirfport = to_sirfport(port);
struct sirfsoc_register *ureg = &sirfport->uart_reg->uart_reg;
struct sirfsoc_int_en *uint_en = &sirfport->uart_reg->uart_int_en;
if (sirfport->tx_dma_chan)
sirfsoc_uart_tx_with_dma(sirfport);
else {
if (sirfport->uart_reg->uart_type == SIRF_USP_UART)
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_tx_rx_en, rd_regl(port,
ureg->sirfsoc_tx_rx_en) | SIRFUART_TX_EN);
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_tx_fifo_op, SIRFUART_FIFO_STOP);
sirfsoc_uart_pio_tx_chars(sirfport, port->fifosize);
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_tx_fifo_op, SIRFUART_FIFO_START);
if (!sirfport->is_atlas7)
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_int_en_reg,
rd_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_int_en_reg)|
uint_en->sirfsoc_txfifo_empty_en);
else
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_int_en_reg,
uint_en->sirfsoc_txfifo_empty_en);
}
}
static void sirfsoc_uart_stop_rx(struct uart_port *port)
{
struct sirfsoc_uart_port *sirfport = to_sirfport(port);
struct sirfsoc_register *ureg = &sirfport->uart_reg->uart_reg;
struct sirfsoc_int_en *uint_en = &sirfport->uart_reg->uart_int_en;
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_rx_fifo_op, 0);
if (sirfport->rx_dma_chan) {
if (!sirfport->is_atlas7)
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_int_en_reg,
rd_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_int_en_reg) &
~(SIRFUART_RX_DMA_INT_EN(uint_en,
sirfport->uart_reg->uart_type) |
uint_en->sirfsoc_rx_done_en));
else
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_int_en_clr_reg,
SIRFUART_RX_DMA_INT_EN(uint_en,
sirfport->uart_reg->uart_type)|
uint_en->sirfsoc_rx_done_en);
dmaengine_terminate_all(sirfport->rx_dma_chan);
} else {
if (!sirfport->is_atlas7)
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_int_en_reg,
rd_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_int_en_reg)&
~(SIRFUART_RX_IO_INT_EN(uint_en,
sirfport->uart_reg->uart_type)));
else
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_int_en_clr_reg,
SIRFUART_RX_IO_INT_EN(uint_en,
sirfport->uart_reg->uart_type));
}
}
static void sirfsoc_uart_disable_ms(struct uart_port *port)
{
struct sirfsoc_uart_port *sirfport = to_sirfport(port);
struct sirfsoc_register *ureg = &sirfport->uart_reg->uart_reg;
struct sirfsoc_int_en *uint_en = &sirfport->uart_reg->uart_int_en;
if (!sirfport->hw_flow_ctrl)
return;
sirfport->ms_enabled = false;
if (sirfport->uart_reg->uart_type == SIRF_REAL_UART) {
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_afc_ctrl,
rd_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_afc_ctrl) & ~0x3FF);
if (!sirfport->is_atlas7)
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_int_en_reg,
rd_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_int_en_reg)&
~uint_en->sirfsoc_cts_en);
else
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_int_en_clr_reg,
uint_en->sirfsoc_cts_en);
} else
disable_irq(gpio_to_irq(sirfport->cts_gpio));
}
static irqreturn_t sirfsoc_uart_usp_cts_handler(int irq, void *dev_id)
{
struct sirfsoc_uart_port *sirfport = (struct sirfsoc_uart_port *)dev_id;
struct uart_port *port = &sirfport->port;
spin_lock(&port->lock);
if (gpio_is_valid(sirfport->cts_gpio) && sirfport->ms_enabled)
uart_handle_cts_change(port,
!gpio_get_value(sirfport->cts_gpio));
spin_unlock(&port->lock);
return IRQ_HANDLED;
}
static void sirfsoc_uart_enable_ms(struct uart_port *port)
{
struct sirfsoc_uart_port *sirfport = to_sirfport(port);
struct sirfsoc_register *ureg = &sirfport->uart_reg->uart_reg;
struct sirfsoc_int_en *uint_en = &sirfport->uart_reg->uart_int_en;
if (!sirfport->hw_flow_ctrl)
return;
sirfport->ms_enabled = true;
if (sirfport->uart_reg->uart_type == SIRF_REAL_UART) {
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_afc_ctrl,
rd_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_afc_ctrl) |
SIRFUART_AFC_TX_EN | SIRFUART_AFC_RX_EN |
SIRFUART_AFC_CTRL_RX_THD);
if (!sirfport->is_atlas7)
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_int_en_reg,
rd_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_int_en_reg)
| uint_en->sirfsoc_cts_en);
else
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_int_en_reg,
uint_en->sirfsoc_cts_en);
} else
enable_irq(gpio_to_irq(sirfport->cts_gpio));
}
static void sirfsoc_uart_break_ctl(struct uart_port *port, int break_state)
{
struct sirfsoc_uart_port *sirfport = to_sirfport(port);
struct sirfsoc_register *ureg = &sirfport->uart_reg->uart_reg;
if (sirfport->uart_reg->uart_type == SIRF_REAL_UART) {
unsigned long ulcon = rd_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_line_ctrl);
if (break_state)
ulcon |= SIRFUART_SET_BREAK;
else
ulcon &= ~SIRFUART_SET_BREAK;
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_line_ctrl, ulcon);
}
}
static unsigned int
sirfsoc_uart_pio_rx_chars(struct uart_port *port, unsigned int max_rx_count)
{
struct sirfsoc_uart_port *sirfport = to_sirfport(port);
struct sirfsoc_register *ureg = &sirfport->uart_reg->uart_reg;
struct sirfsoc_fifo_status *ufifo_st = &sirfport->uart_reg->fifo_status;
unsigned int ch, rx_count = 0;
struct tty_struct *tty;
tty = tty_port_tty_get(&port->state->port);
if (!tty)
return -ENODEV;
while (!(rd_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_rx_fifo_status) &
ufifo_st->ff_empty(port))) {
ch = rd_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_rx_fifo_data) |
SIRFUART_DUMMY_READ;
if (unlikely(uart_handle_sysrq_char(port, ch)))
continue;
uart_insert_char(port, 0, 0, ch, TTY_NORMAL);
rx_count++;
if (rx_count >= max_rx_count)
break;
}
port->icount.rx += rx_count;
return rx_count;
}
static unsigned int
sirfsoc_uart_pio_tx_chars(struct sirfsoc_uart_port *sirfport, int count)
{
struct uart_port *port = &sirfport->port;
struct sirfsoc_register *ureg = &sirfport->uart_reg->uart_reg;
struct sirfsoc_fifo_status *ufifo_st = &sirfport->uart_reg->fifo_status;
struct circ_buf *xmit = &port->state->xmit;
unsigned int num_tx = 0;
while (!uart_circ_empty(xmit) &&
!(rd_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_tx_fifo_status) &
ufifo_st->ff_full(port)) &&
count--) {
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_tx_fifo_data,
xmit->buf[xmit->tail]);
xmit->tail = (xmit->tail + 1) & (UART_XMIT_SIZE - 1);
port->icount.tx++;
num_tx++;
}
if (uart_circ_chars_pending(xmit) < WAKEUP_CHARS)
uart_write_wakeup(port);
return num_tx;
}
static void sirfsoc_uart_tx_dma_complete_callback(void *param)
{
struct sirfsoc_uart_port *sirfport = (struct sirfsoc_uart_port *)param;
struct uart_port *port = &sirfport->port;
struct circ_buf *xmit = &port->state->xmit;
unsigned long flags;
spin_lock_irqsave(&port->lock, flags);
xmit->tail = (xmit->tail + sirfport->transfer_size) &
(UART_XMIT_SIZE - 1);
port->icount.tx += sirfport->transfer_size;
if (uart_circ_chars_pending(xmit) < WAKEUP_CHARS)
uart_write_wakeup(port);
if (sirfport->tx_dma_addr)
dma_unmap_single(port->dev, sirfport->tx_dma_addr,
sirfport->transfer_size, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
sirfport->tx_dma_state = TX_DMA_IDLE;
sirfsoc_uart_tx_with_dma(sirfport);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&port->lock, flags);
}
static irqreturn_t sirfsoc_uart_isr(int irq, void *dev_id)
{
unsigned long intr_status;
unsigned long cts_status;
unsigned long flag = TTY_NORMAL;
struct sirfsoc_uart_port *sirfport = (struct sirfsoc_uart_port *)dev_id;
struct uart_port *port = &sirfport->port;
struct sirfsoc_register *ureg = &sirfport->uart_reg->uart_reg;
struct sirfsoc_fifo_status *ufifo_st = &sirfport->uart_reg->fifo_status;
struct sirfsoc_int_status *uint_st = &sirfport->uart_reg->uart_int_st;
struct sirfsoc_int_en *uint_en = &sirfport->uart_reg->uart_int_en;
struct uart_state *state = port->state;
struct circ_buf *xmit = &port->state->xmit;
spin_lock(&port->lock);
intr_status = rd_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_int_st_reg);
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_int_st_reg, intr_status);
intr_status &= rd_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_int_en_reg);
if (unlikely(intr_status & (SIRFUART_ERR_INT_STAT(uint_st,
sirfport->uart_reg->uart_type)))) {
if (intr_status & uint_st->sirfsoc_rxd_brk) {
port->icount.brk++;
if (uart_handle_break(port))
goto recv_char;
}
if (intr_status & uint_st->sirfsoc_rx_oflow) {
port->icount.overrun++;
flag = TTY_OVERRUN;
}
if (intr_status & uint_st->sirfsoc_frm_err) {
port->icount.frame++;
flag = TTY_FRAME;
}
if (intr_status & uint_st->sirfsoc_parity_err) {
port->icount.parity++;
flag = TTY_PARITY;
}
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_rx_fifo_op, SIRFUART_FIFO_RESET);
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_rx_fifo_op, 0);
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_rx_fifo_op, SIRFUART_FIFO_START);
intr_status &= port->read_status_mask;
uart_insert_char(port, intr_status,
uint_en->sirfsoc_rx_oflow_en, 0, flag);
}
recv_char:
if ((sirfport->uart_reg->uart_type == SIRF_REAL_UART) &&
(intr_status & SIRFUART_CTS_INT_ST(uint_st)) &&
!sirfport->tx_dma_state) {
cts_status = rd_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_afc_ctrl) &
SIRFUART_AFC_CTS_STATUS;
if (cts_status != 0)
cts_status = 0;
else
cts_status = 1;
uart_handle_cts_change(port, cts_status);
wake_up_interruptible(&state->port.delta_msr_wait);
}
if (!sirfport->rx_dma_chan &&
(intr_status & SIRFUART_RX_IO_INT_ST(uint_st))) {
/*
* chip will trigger continuous RX_TIMEOUT interrupt
* in RXFIFO empty and not trigger if RXFIFO recevice
* data in limit time, original method use RX_TIMEOUT
* will trigger lots of useless interrupt in RXFIFO
* empty.RXFIFO received one byte will trigger RX_DONE
* interrupt.use RX_DONE to wait for data received
* into RXFIFO, use RX_THD/RX_FULL for lots data receive
* and use RX_TIMEOUT for the last left data.
*/
if (intr_status & uint_st->sirfsoc_rx_done) {
if (!sirfport->is_atlas7) {
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_int_en_reg,
rd_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_int_en_reg)
& ~(uint_en->sirfsoc_rx_done_en));
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_int_en_reg,
rd_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_int_en_reg)
| (uint_en->sirfsoc_rx_timeout_en));
} else {
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_int_en_clr_reg,
uint_en->sirfsoc_rx_done_en);
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_int_en_reg,
uint_en->sirfsoc_rx_timeout_en);
}
} else {
if (intr_status & uint_st->sirfsoc_rx_timeout) {
if (!sirfport->is_atlas7) {
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_int_en_reg,
rd_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_int_en_reg)
& ~(uint_en->sirfsoc_rx_timeout_en));
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_int_en_reg,
rd_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_int_en_reg)
| (uint_en->sirfsoc_rx_done_en));
} else {
wr_regl(port,
ureg->sirfsoc_int_en_clr_reg,
uint_en->sirfsoc_rx_timeout_en);
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_int_en_reg,
uint_en->sirfsoc_rx_done_en);
}
}
sirfsoc_uart_pio_rx_chars(port, port->fifosize);
}
}
spin_unlock(&port->lock);
tty_flip_buffer_push(&state->port);
spin_lock(&port->lock);
if (intr_status & uint_st->sirfsoc_txfifo_empty) {
if (sirfport->tx_dma_chan)
sirfsoc_uart_tx_with_dma(sirfport);
else {
if (uart_circ_empty(xmit) || uart_tx_stopped(port)) {
spin_unlock(&port->lock);
return IRQ_HANDLED;
} else {
sirfsoc_uart_pio_tx_chars(sirfport,
port->fifosize);
if ((uart_circ_empty(xmit)) &&
(rd_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_tx_fifo_status) &
ufifo_st->ff_empty(port)))
sirfsoc_uart_stop_tx(port);
}
}
}
spin_unlock(&port->lock);
return IRQ_HANDLED;
}
static void sirfsoc_uart_rx_dma_complete_callback(void *param)
{
}
/* submit rx dma task into dmaengine */
static void sirfsoc_uart_start_next_rx_dma(struct uart_port *port)
{
struct sirfsoc_uart_port *sirfport = to_sirfport(port);
struct sirfsoc_register *ureg = &sirfport->uart_reg->uart_reg;
struct sirfsoc_int_en *uint_en = &sirfport->uart_reg->uart_int_en;
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_rx_dma_io_ctrl,
rd_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_rx_dma_io_ctrl) &
~SIRFUART_IO_MODE);
sirfport->rx_dma_items.xmit.tail =
sirfport->rx_dma_items.xmit.head = 0;
sirfport->rx_dma_items.desc =
dmaengine_prep_dma_cyclic(sirfport->rx_dma_chan,
sirfport->rx_dma_items.dma_addr, SIRFSOC_RX_DMA_BUF_SIZE,
SIRFSOC_RX_DMA_BUF_SIZE / 2,
DMA_DEV_TO_MEM, DMA_PREP_INTERRUPT);
if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(sirfport->rx_dma_items.desc)) {
dev_err(port->dev, "DMA slave single fail\n");
return;
}
sirfport->rx_dma_items.desc->callback =
sirfsoc_uart_rx_dma_complete_callback;
sirfport->rx_dma_items.desc->callback_param = sirfport;
sirfport->rx_dma_items.cookie =
dmaengine_submit(sirfport->rx_dma_items.desc);
dma_async_issue_pending(sirfport->rx_dma_chan);
if (!sirfport->is_atlas7)
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_int_en_reg,
rd_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_int_en_reg) |
SIRFUART_RX_DMA_INT_EN(uint_en,
sirfport->uart_reg->uart_type));
else
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_int_en_reg,
SIRFUART_RX_DMA_INT_EN(uint_en,
sirfport->uart_reg->uart_type));
}
static unsigned int
sirfsoc_usp_calc_sample_div(unsigned long set_rate,
unsigned long ioclk_rate, unsigned long *sample_reg)
{
unsigned long min_delta = ~0UL;
unsigned short sample_div;
unsigned long ioclk_div = 0;
unsigned long temp_delta;
for (sample_div = SIRF_USP_MIN_SAMPLE_DIV;
sample_div <= SIRF_MAX_SAMPLE_DIV; sample_div++) {
temp_delta = ioclk_rate -
(ioclk_rate + (set_rate * sample_div) / 2)
/ (set_rate * sample_div) * set_rate * sample_div;
temp_delta = (temp_delta > 0) ? temp_delta : -temp_delta;
if (temp_delta < min_delta) {
ioclk_div = (2 * ioclk_rate /
(set_rate * sample_div) + 1) / 2 - 1;
if (ioclk_div > SIRF_IOCLK_DIV_MAX)
continue;
min_delta = temp_delta;
*sample_reg = sample_div;
if (!temp_delta)
break;
}
}
return ioclk_div;
}
static unsigned int
sirfsoc_uart_calc_sample_div(unsigned long baud_rate,
unsigned long ioclk_rate, unsigned long *set_baud)
{
unsigned long min_delta = ~0UL;
unsigned short sample_div;
unsigned int regv = 0;
unsigned long ioclk_div;
unsigned long baud_tmp;
int temp_delta;
for (sample_div = SIRF_MIN_SAMPLE_DIV;
sample_div <= SIRF_MAX_SAMPLE_DIV; sample_div++) {
ioclk_div = (ioclk_rate / (baud_rate * (sample_div + 1))) - 1;
if (ioclk_div > SIRF_IOCLK_DIV_MAX)
continue;
baud_tmp = ioclk_rate / ((ioclk_div + 1) * (sample_div + 1));
temp_delta = baud_tmp - baud_rate;
temp_delta = (temp_delta > 0) ? temp_delta : -temp_delta;
if (temp_delta < min_delta) {
regv = regv & (~SIRF_IOCLK_DIV_MASK);
regv = regv | ioclk_div;
regv = regv & (~SIRF_SAMPLE_DIV_MASK);
regv = regv | (sample_div << SIRF_SAMPLE_DIV_SHIFT);
min_delta = temp_delta;
*set_baud = baud_tmp;
}
}
return regv;
}
static void sirfsoc_uart_set_termios(struct uart_port *port,
struct ktermios *termios,
struct ktermios *old)
{
struct sirfsoc_uart_port *sirfport = to_sirfport(port);
struct sirfsoc_register *ureg = &sirfport->uart_reg->uart_reg;
struct sirfsoc_int_en *uint_en = &sirfport->uart_reg->uart_int_en;
unsigned long config_reg = 0;
unsigned long baud_rate;
unsigned long set_baud;
unsigned long flags;
unsigned long ic;
unsigned int clk_div_reg = 0;
unsigned long txfifo_op_reg, ioclk_rate;
unsigned long rx_time_out;
int threshold_div;
u32 data_bit_len, stop_bit_len, len_val;
unsigned long sample_div_reg = 0xf;
ioclk_rate = port->uartclk;
switch (termios->c_cflag & CSIZE) {
default:
case CS8:
data_bit_len = 8;
config_reg |= SIRFUART_DATA_BIT_LEN_8;
break;
case CS7:
data_bit_len = 7;
config_reg |= SIRFUART_DATA_BIT_LEN_7;
break;
case CS6:
data_bit_len = 6;
config_reg |= SIRFUART_DATA_BIT_LEN_6;
break;
case CS5:
data_bit_len = 5;
config_reg |= SIRFUART_DATA_BIT_LEN_5;
break;
}
if (termios->c_cflag & CSTOPB) {
config_reg |= SIRFUART_STOP_BIT_LEN_2;
stop_bit_len = 2;
} else
stop_bit_len = 1;
spin_lock_irqsave(&port->lock, flags);
port->read_status_mask = uint_en->sirfsoc_rx_oflow_en;
port->ignore_status_mask = 0;
if (sirfport->uart_reg->uart_type == SIRF_REAL_UART) {
if (termios->c_iflag & INPCK)
port->read_status_mask |= uint_en->sirfsoc_frm_err_en |
uint_en->sirfsoc_parity_err_en;
} else {
if (termios->c_iflag & INPCK)
port->read_status_mask |= uint_en->sirfsoc_frm_err_en;
}
if (termios->c_iflag & (IGNBRK | BRKINT | PARMRK))
port->read_status_mask |= uint_en->sirfsoc_rxd_brk_en;
if (sirfport->uart_reg->uart_type == SIRF_REAL_UART) {
if (termios->c_iflag & IGNPAR)
port->ignore_status_mask |=
uint_en->sirfsoc_frm_err_en |
uint_en->sirfsoc_parity_err_en;
if (termios->c_cflag & PARENB) {
if (termios->c_cflag & CMSPAR) {
if (termios->c_cflag & PARODD)
config_reg |= SIRFUART_STICK_BIT_MARK;
else
config_reg |= SIRFUART_STICK_BIT_SPACE;
} else {
if (termios->c_cflag & PARODD)
config_reg |= SIRFUART_STICK_BIT_ODD;
else
config_reg |= SIRFUART_STICK_BIT_EVEN;
}
}
} else {
if (termios->c_iflag & IGNPAR)
port->ignore_status_mask |=
uint_en->sirfsoc_frm_err_en;
if (termios->c_cflag & PARENB)
dev_warn(port->dev,
"USP-UART not support parity err\n");
}
if (termios->c_iflag & IGNBRK) {
port->ignore_status_mask |=
uint_en->sirfsoc_rxd_brk_en;
if (termios->c_iflag & IGNPAR)
port->ignore_status_mask |=
uint_en->sirfsoc_rx_oflow_en;
}
if ((termios->c_cflag & CREAD) == 0)
port->ignore_status_mask |= SIRFUART_DUMMY_READ;
/* Hardware Flow Control Settings */
if (UART_ENABLE_MS(port, termios->c_cflag)) {
if (!sirfport->ms_enabled)
sirfsoc_uart_enable_ms(port);
} else {
if (sirfport->ms_enabled)
sirfsoc_uart_disable_ms(port);
}
baud_rate = uart_get_baud_rate(port, termios, old, 0, 4000000);
if (ioclk_rate == 150000000) {
for (ic = 0; ic < SIRF_BAUD_RATE_SUPPORT_NR; ic++)
if (baud_rate == baudrate_to_regv[ic].baud_rate)
clk_div_reg = baudrate_to_regv[ic].reg_val;
}
set_baud = baud_rate;
if (sirfport->uart_reg->uart_type == SIRF_REAL_UART) {
if (unlikely(clk_div_reg == 0))
clk_div_reg = sirfsoc_uart_calc_sample_div(baud_rate,
ioclk_rate, &set_baud);
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_divisor, clk_div_reg);
} else {
clk_div_reg = sirfsoc_usp_calc_sample_div(baud_rate,
ioclk_rate, &sample_div_reg);
sample_div_reg--;
set_baud = ((ioclk_rate / (clk_div_reg+1) - 1) /
(sample_div_reg + 1));
/* setting usp mode 2 */
len_val = ((1 << SIRFSOC_USP_MODE2_RXD_DELAY_OFFSET) |
(1 << SIRFSOC_USP_MODE2_TXD_DELAY_OFFSET));
len_val |= ((clk_div_reg & SIRFSOC_USP_MODE2_CLK_DIVISOR_MASK)
<< SIRFSOC_USP_MODE2_CLK_DIVISOR_OFFSET);
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_mode2, len_val);
}
if (tty_termios_baud_rate(termios))
tty_termios_encode_baud_rate(termios, set_baud, set_baud);
/* set receive timeout && data bits len */
rx_time_out = SIRFSOC_UART_RX_TIMEOUT(set_baud, 20000);
rx_time_out = SIRFUART_RECV_TIMEOUT_VALUE(rx_time_out);
txfifo_op_reg = rd_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_tx_fifo_op);
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_tx_fifo_op,
(txfifo_op_reg & ~SIRFUART_FIFO_START));
if (sirfport->uart_reg->uart_type == SIRF_REAL_UART) {
config_reg |= SIRFUART_UART_RECV_TIMEOUT(rx_time_out);
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_line_ctrl, config_reg);
} else {
/*tx frame ctrl*/
len_val = (data_bit_len - 1) << SIRFSOC_USP_TX_DATA_LEN_OFFSET;
len_val |= (data_bit_len + 1 + stop_bit_len - 1) <<
SIRFSOC_USP_TX_FRAME_LEN_OFFSET;
len_val |= ((data_bit_len - 1) <<
SIRFSOC_USP_TX_SHIFTER_LEN_OFFSET);
len_val |= (((clk_div_reg & 0xc00) >> 10) <<
SIRFSOC_USP_TX_CLK_DIVISOR_OFFSET);
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_tx_frame_ctrl, len_val);
/*rx frame ctrl*/
len_val = (data_bit_len - 1) << SIRFSOC_USP_RX_DATA_LEN_OFFSET;
len_val |= (data_bit_len + 1 + stop_bit_len - 1) <<
SIRFSOC_USP_RX_FRAME_LEN_OFFSET;
len_val |= (data_bit_len - 1) <<
SIRFSOC_USP_RX_SHIFTER_LEN_OFFSET;
len_val |= (((clk_div_reg & 0xf000) >> 12) <<
SIRFSOC_USP_RX_CLK_DIVISOR_OFFSET);
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_rx_frame_ctrl, len_val);
/*async param*/
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_async_param_reg,
(SIRFUART_USP_RECV_TIMEOUT(rx_time_out)) |
(sample_div_reg & SIRFSOC_USP_ASYNC_DIV2_MASK) <<
SIRFSOC_USP_ASYNC_DIV2_OFFSET);
}
if (sirfport->tx_dma_chan)
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_tx_dma_io_ctrl, SIRFUART_DMA_MODE);
else
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_tx_dma_io_ctrl, SIRFUART_IO_MODE);
if (sirfport->rx_dma_chan)
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_rx_dma_io_ctrl,
rd_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_rx_dma_io_ctrl) &
~SIRFUART_IO_MODE);
else
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_rx_dma_io_ctrl,
rd_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_rx_dma_io_ctrl) |
SIRFUART_IO_MODE);
sirfport->rx_period_time = 20000000;
/* Reset Rx/Tx FIFO Threshold level for proper baudrate */
if (set_baud < 1000000)
threshold_div = 1;
else
threshold_div = 2;
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_tx_fifo_ctrl,
SIRFUART_FIFO_THD(port) / threshold_div);
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_rx_fifo_ctrl,
SIRFUART_FIFO_THD(port) / threshold_div);
txfifo_op_reg |= SIRFUART_FIFO_START;
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_tx_fifo_op, txfifo_op_reg);
uart_update_timeout(port, termios->c_cflag, set_baud);
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_tx_rx_en, SIRFUART_TX_EN | SIRFUART_RX_EN);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&port->lock, flags);
}
static void sirfsoc_uart_pm(struct uart_port *port, unsigned int state,
unsigned int oldstate)
{
struct sirfsoc_uart_port *sirfport = to_sirfport(port);
if (!state)
clk_prepare_enable(sirfport->clk);
else
clk_disable_unprepare(sirfport->clk);
}
static int sirfsoc_uart_startup(struct uart_port *port)
{
struct sirfsoc_uart_port *sirfport = to_sirfport(port);
struct sirfsoc_register *ureg = &sirfport->uart_reg->uart_reg;
struct sirfsoc_int_en *uint_en = &sirfport->uart_reg->uart_int_en;
unsigned int index = port->line;
int ret;
irq_modify_status(port->irq, IRQ_NOREQUEST, IRQ_NOAUTOEN);
ret = request_irq(port->irq,
sirfsoc_uart_isr,
0,
SIRFUART_PORT_NAME,
sirfport);
if (ret != 0) {
dev_err(port->dev, "UART%d request IRQ line (%d) failed.\n",
index, port->irq);
goto irq_err;
}
/* initial hardware settings */
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_tx_dma_io_ctrl,
rd_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_tx_dma_io_ctrl) |
SIRFUART_IO_MODE);
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_rx_dma_io_ctrl,
rd_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_rx_dma_io_ctrl) |
SIRFUART_IO_MODE);
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_rx_dma_io_ctrl,
rd_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_rx_dma_io_ctrl) &
~SIRFUART_RX_DMA_FLUSH);
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_tx_dma_io_len, 0);
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_rx_dma_io_len, 0);
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_tx_rx_en, SIRFUART_RX_EN | SIRFUART_TX_EN);
if (sirfport->uart_reg->uart_type == SIRF_USP_UART)
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_mode1,
SIRFSOC_USP_ENDIAN_CTRL_LSBF |
SIRFSOC_USP_EN);
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_tx_fifo_op, SIRFUART_FIFO_RESET);
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_rx_fifo_op, SIRFUART_FIFO_RESET);
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_rx_fifo_op, 0);
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_tx_fifo_ctrl, SIRFUART_FIFO_THD(port));
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_rx_fifo_ctrl, SIRFUART_FIFO_THD(port));
if (sirfport->rx_dma_chan)
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_rx_fifo_level_chk,
SIRFUART_RX_FIFO_CHK_SC(port->line, 0x1) |
SIRFUART_RX_FIFO_CHK_LC(port->line, 0x2) |
SIRFUART_RX_FIFO_CHK_HC(port->line, 0x4));
if (sirfport->tx_dma_chan) {
sirfport->tx_dma_state = TX_DMA_IDLE;
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_tx_fifo_level_chk,
SIRFUART_TX_FIFO_CHK_SC(port->line, 0x1b) |
SIRFUART_TX_FIFO_CHK_LC(port->line, 0xe) |
SIRFUART_TX_FIFO_CHK_HC(port->line, 0x4));
}
sirfport->ms_enabled = false;
if (sirfport->uart_reg->uart_type == SIRF_USP_UART &&
sirfport->hw_flow_ctrl) {
irq_modify_status(gpio_to_irq(sirfport->cts_gpio),
IRQ_NOREQUEST, IRQ_NOAUTOEN);
ret = request_irq(gpio_to_irq(sirfport->cts_gpio),
sirfsoc_uart_usp_cts_handler, IRQF_TRIGGER_FALLING |
IRQF_TRIGGER_RISING, "usp_cts_irq", sirfport);
if (ret != 0) {
dev_err(port->dev, "UART-USP:request gpio irq fail\n");
goto init_rx_err;
}
}
if (sirfport->uart_reg->uart_type == SIRF_REAL_UART &&
sirfport->rx_dma_chan)
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_swh_dma_io,
SIRFUART_CLEAR_RX_ADDR_EN);
if (sirfport->uart_reg->uart_type == SIRF_USP_UART &&
sirfport->rx_dma_chan)
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_rx_dma_io_ctrl,
rd_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_rx_dma_io_ctrl) |
SIRFSOC_USP_FRADDR_CLR_EN);
if (sirfport->rx_dma_chan && !sirfport->is_hrt_enabled) {
sirfport->is_hrt_enabled = true;
sirfport->rx_period_time = 20000000;
sirfport->rx_last_pos = -1;
sirfport->pio_fetch_cnt = 0;
sirfport->rx_dma_items.xmit.tail =
sirfport->rx_dma_items.xmit.head = 0;
hrtimer_start(&sirfport->hrt,
ns_to_ktime(sirfport->rx_period_time),
HRTIMER_MODE_REL);
}
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_rx_fifo_op, SIRFUART_FIFO_START);
if (sirfport->rx_dma_chan)
sirfsoc_uart_start_next_rx_dma(port);
else {
if (!sirfport->is_atlas7)
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_int_en_reg,
rd_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_int_en_reg) |
SIRFUART_RX_IO_INT_EN(uint_en,
sirfport->uart_reg->uart_type));
else
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_int_en_reg,
SIRFUART_RX_IO_INT_EN(uint_en,
sirfport->uart_reg->uart_type));
}
enable_irq(port->irq);
return 0;
init_rx_err:
free_irq(port->irq, sirfport);
irq_err:
return ret;
}
static void sirfsoc_uart_shutdown(struct uart_port *port)
{
struct sirfsoc_uart_port *sirfport = to_sirfport(port);
struct sirfsoc_register *ureg = &sirfport->uart_reg->uart_reg;
struct circ_buf *xmit;
xmit = &sirfport->rx_dma_items.xmit;
if (!sirfport->is_atlas7)
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_int_en_reg, 0);
else
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_int_en_clr_reg, ~0UL);
free_irq(port->irq, sirfport);
if (sirfport->ms_enabled)
sirfsoc_uart_disable_ms(port);
if (sirfport->uart_reg->uart_type == SIRF_USP_UART &&
sirfport->hw_flow_ctrl) {
gpio_set_value(sirfport->rts_gpio, 1);
free_irq(gpio_to_irq(sirfport->cts_gpio), sirfport);
}
if (sirfport->tx_dma_chan)
sirfport->tx_dma_state = TX_DMA_IDLE;
if (sirfport->rx_dma_chan && sirfport->is_hrt_enabled) {
while (((rd_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_rx_fifo_status) &
SIRFUART_RX_FIFO_MASK) > sirfport->pio_fetch_cnt) &&
!CIRC_CNT(xmit->head, xmit->tail,
SIRFSOC_RX_DMA_BUF_SIZE))
;
sirfport->is_hrt_enabled = false;
hrtimer_cancel(&sirfport->hrt);
}
}
static const char *sirfsoc_uart_type(struct uart_port *port)
{
return port->type == SIRFSOC_PORT_TYPE ? SIRFUART_PORT_NAME : NULL;
}
static int sirfsoc_uart_request_port(struct uart_port *port)
{
struct sirfsoc_uart_port *sirfport = to_sirfport(port);
struct sirfsoc_uart_param *uart_param = &sirfport->uart_reg->uart_param;
void *ret;
ret = request_mem_region(port->mapbase,
SIRFUART_MAP_SIZE, uart_param->port_name);
return ret ? 0 : -EBUSY;
}
static void sirfsoc_uart_release_port(struct uart_port *port)
{
release_mem_region(port->mapbase, SIRFUART_MAP_SIZE);
}
static void sirfsoc_uart_config_port(struct uart_port *port, int flags)
{
if (flags & UART_CONFIG_TYPE) {
port->type = SIRFSOC_PORT_TYPE;
sirfsoc_uart_request_port(port);
}
}
static const struct uart_ops sirfsoc_uart_ops = {
.tx_empty = sirfsoc_uart_tx_empty,
.get_mctrl = sirfsoc_uart_get_mctrl,
.set_mctrl = sirfsoc_uart_set_mctrl,
.stop_tx = sirfsoc_uart_stop_tx,
.start_tx = sirfsoc_uart_start_tx,
.stop_rx = sirfsoc_uart_stop_rx,
.enable_ms = sirfsoc_uart_enable_ms,
.break_ctl = sirfsoc_uart_break_ctl,
.startup = sirfsoc_uart_startup,
.shutdown = sirfsoc_uart_shutdown,
.set_termios = sirfsoc_uart_set_termios,
.pm = sirfsoc_uart_pm,
.type = sirfsoc_uart_type,
.release_port = sirfsoc_uart_release_port,
.request_port = sirfsoc_uart_request_port,
.config_port = sirfsoc_uart_config_port,
};
#ifdef CONFIG_SERIAL_SIRFSOC_CONSOLE
static int __init
sirfsoc_uart_console_setup(struct console *co, char *options)
{
unsigned int baud = 115200;
unsigned int bits = 8;
unsigned int parity = 'n';
unsigned int flow = 'n';
struct sirfsoc_uart_port *sirfport;
struct sirfsoc_register *ureg;
if (co->index < 0 || co->index >= SIRFSOC_UART_NR)
co->index = 1;
sirfport = sirf_ports[co->index];
if (!sirfport)
return -ENODEV;
ureg = &sirfport->uart_reg->uart_reg;
if (!sirfport->port.mapbase)
return -ENODEV;
/* enable usp in mode1 register */
if (sirfport->uart_reg->uart_type == SIRF_USP_UART)
wr_regl(&sirfport->port, ureg->sirfsoc_mode1, SIRFSOC_USP_EN |
SIRFSOC_USP_ENDIAN_CTRL_LSBF);
if (options)
uart_parse_options(options, &baud, &parity, &bits, &flow);
sirfport->port.cons = co;
/* default console tx/rx transfer using io mode */
sirfport->rx_dma_chan = NULL;
sirfport->tx_dma_chan = NULL;
return uart_set_options(&sirfport->port, co, baud, parity, bits, flow);
}
static void sirfsoc_uart_console_putchar(struct uart_port *port, int ch)
{
struct sirfsoc_uart_port *sirfport = to_sirfport(port);
struct sirfsoc_register *ureg = &sirfport->uart_reg->uart_reg;
struct sirfsoc_fifo_status *ufifo_st = &sirfport->uart_reg->fifo_status;
while (rd_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_tx_fifo_status) &
ufifo_st->ff_full(port))
cpu_relax();
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_tx_fifo_data, ch);
}
static void sirfsoc_uart_console_write(struct console *co, const char *s,
unsigned int count)
{
struct sirfsoc_uart_port *sirfport = sirf_ports[co->index];
uart_console_write(&sirfport->port, s, count,
sirfsoc_uart_console_putchar);
}
static struct console sirfsoc_uart_console = {
.name = SIRFSOC_UART_NAME,
.device = uart_console_device,
.flags = CON_PRINTBUFFER,
.index = -1,
.write = sirfsoc_uart_console_write,
.setup = sirfsoc_uart_console_setup,
.data = &sirfsoc_uart_drv,
};
static int __init sirfsoc_uart_console_init(void)
{
register_console(&sirfsoc_uart_console);
return 0;
}
console_initcall(sirfsoc_uart_console_init);
#endif
static struct uart_driver sirfsoc_uart_drv = {
.owner = THIS_MODULE,
.driver_name = SIRFUART_PORT_NAME,
.nr = SIRFSOC_UART_NR,
.dev_name = SIRFSOC_UART_NAME,
.major = SIRFSOC_UART_MAJOR,
.minor = SIRFSOC_UART_MINOR,
#ifdef CONFIG_SERIAL_SIRFSOC_CONSOLE
.cons = &sirfsoc_uart_console,
#else
.cons = NULL,
#endif
};
static enum hrtimer_restart
sirfsoc_uart_rx_dma_hrtimer_callback(struct hrtimer *hrt)
{
struct sirfsoc_uart_port *sirfport;
struct uart_port *port;
int count, inserted;
struct dma_tx_state tx_state;
struct tty_struct *tty;
struct sirfsoc_register *ureg;
struct circ_buf *xmit;
struct sirfsoc_fifo_status *ufifo_st;
int max_pio_cnt;
sirfport = container_of(hrt, struct sirfsoc_uart_port, hrt);
port = &sirfport->port;
inserted = 0;
tty = port->state->port.tty;
ureg = &sirfport->uart_reg->uart_reg;
xmit = &sirfport->rx_dma_items.xmit;
ufifo_st = &sirfport->uart_reg->fifo_status;
dmaengine_tx_status(sirfport->rx_dma_chan,
sirfport->rx_dma_items.cookie, &tx_state);
if (SIRFSOC_RX_DMA_BUF_SIZE - tx_state.residue !=
sirfport->rx_last_pos) {
xmit->head = SIRFSOC_RX_DMA_BUF_SIZE - tx_state.residue;
sirfport->rx_last_pos = xmit->head;
sirfport->pio_fetch_cnt = 0;
}
count = CIRC_CNT_TO_END(xmit->head, xmit->tail,
SIRFSOC_RX_DMA_BUF_SIZE);
while (count > 0) {
inserted = tty_insert_flip_string(tty->port,
(const unsigned char *)&xmit->buf[xmit->tail], count);
if (!inserted)
goto next_hrt;
port->icount.rx += inserted;
xmit->tail = (xmit->tail + inserted) &
(SIRFSOC_RX_DMA_BUF_SIZE - 1);
count = CIRC_CNT_TO_END(xmit->head, xmit->tail,
SIRFSOC_RX_DMA_BUF_SIZE);
tty_flip_buffer_push(tty->port);
}
/*
* if RX DMA buffer data have all push into tty buffer, and there is
* only little data(less than a dma transfer unit) left in rxfifo,
* fetch it out in pio mode and switch back to dma immediately
*/
if (!inserted && !count &&
((rd_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_rx_fifo_status) &
SIRFUART_RX_FIFO_MASK) > sirfport->pio_fetch_cnt)) {
dmaengine_pause(sirfport->rx_dma_chan);
/* switch to pio mode */
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_rx_dma_io_ctrl,
rd_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_rx_dma_io_ctrl) |
SIRFUART_IO_MODE);
/*
* UART controller SWH_DMA_IO register have CLEAR_RX_ADDR_EN
* When found changing I/O to DMA mode, it clears
* two low bits of read point;
* USP have similar FRADDR_CLR_EN bit in USP_RX_DMA_IO_CTRL.
* Fetch data out from rxfifo into DMA buffer in PIO mode,
* while switch back to DMA mode, the data fetched will override
* by DMA, as hardware have a strange behaviour:
* after switch back to DMA mode, check rxfifo status it will
* be the number PIO fetched, so record the fetched data count
* to avoid the repeated fetch
*/
max_pio_cnt = 3;
while (!(rd_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_rx_fifo_status) &
ufifo_st->ff_empty(port)) && max_pio_cnt--) {
xmit->buf[xmit->head] =
rd_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_rx_fifo_data);
xmit->head = (xmit->head + 1) &
(SIRFSOC_RX_DMA_BUF_SIZE - 1);
sirfport->pio_fetch_cnt++;
}
/* switch back to dma mode */
wr_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_rx_dma_io_ctrl,
rd_regl(port, ureg->sirfsoc_rx_dma_io_ctrl) &
~SIRFUART_IO_MODE);
dmaengine_resume(sirfport->rx_dma_chan);
}
next_hrt:
hrtimer_forward_now(hrt, ns_to_ktime(sirfport->rx_period_time));
return HRTIMER_RESTART;
}
static const struct of_device_id sirfsoc_uart_ids[] = {
{ .compatible = "sirf,prima2-uart", .data = &sirfsoc_uart,},
{ .compatible = "sirf,atlas7-uart", .data = &sirfsoc_uart},
{ .compatible = "sirf,prima2-usp-uart", .data = &sirfsoc_usp},
{ .compatible = "sirf,atlas7-usp-uart", .data = &sirfsoc_usp},
{}
};
MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, sirfsoc_uart_ids);
static int sirfsoc_uart_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
{
struct device_node *np = pdev->dev.of_node;
struct sirfsoc_uart_port *sirfport;
struct uart_port *port;
struct resource *res;
int ret;
struct dma_slave_config slv_cfg = {
.src_maxburst = 1,
};
struct dma_slave_config tx_slv_cfg = {
.dst_maxburst = 2,
};
const struct of_device_id *match;
match = of_match_node(sirfsoc_uart_ids, np);
sirfport = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*sirfport), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!sirfport) {
ret = -ENOMEM;
goto err;
}
sirfport->port.line = of_alias_get_id(np, "serial");
sirf_ports[sirfport->port.line] = sirfport;
sirfport->port.iotype = UPIO_MEM;
sirfport->port.flags = UPF_BOOT_AUTOCONF;
port = &sirfport->port;
port->dev = &pdev->dev;
port->private_data = sirfport;
sirfport->uart_reg = (struct sirfsoc_uart_register *)match->data;
sirfport->hw_flow_ctrl =
of_property_read_bool(np, "uart-has-rtscts") ||
of_property_read_bool(np, "sirf,uart-has-rtscts") /* deprecated */;
if (of_device_is_compatible(np, "sirf,prima2-uart") ||
of_device_is_compatible(np, "sirf,atlas7-uart"))
sirfport->uart_reg->uart_type = SIRF_REAL_UART;
if (of_device_is_compatible(np, "sirf,prima2-usp-uart") ||
of_device_is_compatible(np, "sirf,atlas7-usp-uart")) {
sirfport->uart_reg->uart_type = SIRF_USP_UART;
if (!sirfport->hw_flow_ctrl)
goto usp_no_flow_control;
if (of_find_property(np, "cts-gpios", NULL))
sirfport->cts_gpio =
of_get_named_gpio(np, "cts-gpios", 0);
else
sirfport->cts_gpio = -1;
if (of_find_property(np, "rts-gpios", NULL))
sirfport->rts_gpio =
of_get_named_gpio(np, "rts-gpios", 0);
else
sirfport->rts_gpio = -1;
if ((!gpio_is_valid(sirfport->cts_gpio) ||
!gpio_is_valid(sirfport->rts_gpio))) {
ret = -EINVAL;
dev_err(&pdev->dev,
"Usp flow control must have cts and rts gpio");
goto err;
}
ret = devm_gpio_request(&pdev->dev, sirfport->cts_gpio,
"usp-cts-gpio");
if (ret) {
dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Unable request cts gpio");
goto err;
}
gpio_direction_input(sirfport->cts_gpio);
ret = devm_gpio_request(&pdev->dev, sirfport->rts_gpio,
"usp-rts-gpio");
if (ret) {
dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Unable request rts gpio");
goto err;
}
gpio_direction_output(sirfport->rts_gpio, 1);
}
usp_no_flow_control:
if (of_device_is_compatible(np, "sirf,atlas7-uart") ||
of_device_is_compatible(np, "sirf,atlas7-usp-uart"))
sirfport->is_atlas7 = true;
if (of_property_read_u32(np, "fifosize", &port->fifosize)) {
dev_err(&pdev->dev,
"Unable to find fifosize in uart node.\n");
ret = -EFAULT;
goto err;
}
res = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0);
if (res == NULL) {
dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Insufficient resources.\n");
ret = -EFAULT;
goto err;
}
port->mapbase = res->start;
port->membase = devm_ioremap(&pdev->dev,
res->start, resource_size(res));
if (!port->membase) {
dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Cannot remap resource.\n");
ret = -ENOMEM;
goto err;
}
res = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_IRQ, 0);
if (res == NULL) {
dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Insufficient resources.\n");
ret = -EFAULT;
goto err;
}
port->irq = res->start;
sirfport->clk = devm_clk_get(&pdev->dev, NULL);
if (IS_ERR(sirfport->clk)) {
ret = PTR_ERR(sirfport->clk);
goto err;
}
port->uartclk = clk_get_rate(sirfport->clk);
port->ops = &sirfsoc_uart_ops;
spin_lock_init(&port->lock);
platform_set_drvdata(pdev, sirfport);
ret = uart_add_one_port(&sirfsoc_uart_drv, port);
if (ret != 0) {
dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Cannot add UART port(%d).\n", pdev->id);
goto err;
}
sirfport->rx_dma_chan = dma_request_slave_channel(port->dev, "rx");
sirfport->rx_dma_items.xmit.buf =
dma_alloc_coherent(port->dev, SIRFSOC_RX_DMA_BUF_SIZE,
&sirfport->rx_dma_items.dma_addr, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!sirfport->rx_dma_items.xmit.buf) {
dev_err(port->dev, "Uart alloc bufa failed\n");
ret = -ENOMEM;
goto alloc_coherent_err;
}
sirfport->rx_dma_items.xmit.head =
sirfport->rx_dma_items.xmit.tail = 0;
if (sirfport->rx_dma_chan)
dmaengine_slave_config(sirfport->rx_dma_chan, &slv_cfg);
sirfport->tx_dma_chan = dma_request_slave_channel(port->dev, "tx");
if (sirfport->tx_dma_chan)
dmaengine_slave_config(sirfport->tx_dma_chan, &tx_slv_cfg);
if (sirfport->rx_dma_chan) {
hrtimer_init(&sirfport->hrt, CLOCK_MONOTONIC, HRTIMER_MODE_REL);
sirfport->hrt.function = sirfsoc_uart_rx_dma_hrtimer_callback;
sirfport->is_hrt_enabled = false;
}
return 0;
alloc_coherent_err:
dma_free_coherent(port->dev, SIRFSOC_RX_DMA_BUF_SIZE,
sirfport->rx_dma_items.xmit.buf,
sirfport->rx_dma_items.dma_addr);
dma_release_channel(sirfport->rx_dma_chan);
err:
return ret;
}
static int sirfsoc_uart_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
{
struct sirfsoc_uart_port *sirfport = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
struct uart_port *port = &sirfport->port;
uart_remove_one_port(&sirfsoc_uart_drv, port);
if (sirfport->rx_dma_chan) {
dmaengine_terminate_all(sirfport->rx_dma_chan);
dma_release_channel(sirfport->rx_dma_chan);
dma_free_coherent(port->dev, SIRFSOC_RX_DMA_BUF_SIZE,
sirfport->rx_dma_items.xmit.buf,
sirfport->rx_dma_items.dma_addr);
}
if (sirfport->tx_dma_chan) {
dmaengine_terminate_all(sirfport->tx_dma_chan);
dma_release_channel(sirfport->tx_dma_chan);
}
return 0;
}
#ifdef CONFIG_PM_SLEEP
static int
sirfsoc_uart_suspend(struct device *pdev)
{
struct sirfsoc_uart_port *sirfport = dev_get_drvdata(pdev);
struct uart_port *port = &sirfport->port;
uart_suspend_port(&sirfsoc_uart_drv, port);
return 0;
}
static int sirfsoc_uart_resume(struct device *pdev)
{
struct sirfsoc_uart_port *sirfport = dev_get_drvdata(pdev);
struct uart_port *port = &sirfport->port;
uart_resume_port(&sirfsoc_uart_drv, port);
return 0;
}
#endif
static const struct dev_pm_ops sirfsoc_uart_pm_ops = {
SET_SYSTEM_SLEEP_PM_OPS(sirfsoc_uart_suspend, sirfsoc_uart_resume)
};
static struct platform_driver sirfsoc_uart_driver = {
.probe = sirfsoc_uart_probe,
.remove = sirfsoc_uart_remove,
.driver = {
.name = SIRFUART_PORT_NAME,
.of_match_table = sirfsoc_uart_ids,
.pm = &sirfsoc_uart_pm_ops,
},
};
static int __init sirfsoc_uart_init(void)
{
int ret = 0;
ret = uart_register_driver(&sirfsoc_uart_drv);
if (ret)
goto out;
ret = platform_driver_register(&sirfsoc_uart_driver);
if (ret)
uart_unregister_driver(&sirfsoc_uart_drv);
out:
return ret;
}
module_init(sirfsoc_uart_init);
static void __exit sirfsoc_uart_exit(void)
{
platform_driver_unregister(&sirfsoc_uart_driver);
uart_unregister_driver(&sirfsoc_uart_drv);
}
module_exit(sirfsoc_uart_exit);
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
MODULE_AUTHOR("Bin Shi <Bin.Shi@csr.com>, Rong Wang<Rong.Wang@csr.com>");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("CSR SiRFprimaII Uart Driver");
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Discussion in 'Galaxy S4 Accessories' started by wicked, May 2, 2013.
I got my Case-Mate Barely There case a few days ago. My S4 needs to come now!
Lookin' good Wicked!
Thanks! :big smile:
so are you going with the frost white then? or going for some contrast with the case?
Yeah, I ordered the white frost. :cool-b:
I like black normally, but that white definitely has a subtleness about it vs. the black where the details in the black are more obvious.
My friend got this one
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Nice
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk HD
I got this case comin in next week. I only plan on using it on days where I'm mostly outside otherwise I usually roll without a case. Can't wait for it and it looks really good, plus can't deny that price, and also by a company I've trusted for a long time, Spigen SGP.
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2mo old bump, got the case for $14.99 when they usually go for $24.99.
Good score! :clap:
this is my case on my s4
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Great case! I will be doing a review soon!
I just got two cases I'm excited about - both Specks.
The SmartFlex Card can hold the phone and 3 cards or money
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Nice for when you're going out but don't want carry much but the phone. Surprisingly slim for a quasi-wallet/phone case. It holds the cards (whether one or three) snugly, but they're easy enough to push out using the cutout on the side. The only thing I'd change would be adding something to attach my car fob to. But I guess that would make it less sleek.
For when I don't need to carry cards, but still want the phone protected, I got the CandyShell Grip
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I really LOVE the tactile feel of this case! It's not bulky but the raised rubber strips add a nice no-slip feel to it. The buttons are covered too which I find makes them easier to use. And there's a nice bumper around the bezel area so if you lay your phone face down (or, it falls that way! :shocked there's some protection. I'm usually not a big fan of cases because I like the slim feel of the phone, but this one actually seems like an improvement, not a compromise to me.
I've been loving this uag!
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No one denies that exercise is important for optimal health. Exercise helps regulate the endocrine system, keeps excess weight off, and helps boost mood and metabolism.
All around, exercise is one of the healthiest things you can do.
However, far more often than we might like to admit, we skip exercise for other activities. Traditional exercise takes 30 minutes or more to provide beneficial effects.
But what if there was a way to get the maximum benefits of exercise in a third of the time? What if there was an exercise routine you could complete that would keep you healthy and took just ten minutes a day?
According to research, this may just be possible with high-intensity interval training (HIIT).
The science behind HIIT
According to numerous studies on interval workouts, the exercise routine may be more effective on the body’s health than traditional exercise.
How is this possible? It comes down to simple biology.
HIIT requires that the exerciser raise their heart rate to about 85 to 95 percent of their maximum heart rate. This is difficult to do, but when the heart beats faster, more blood is pumped through the body and more oxygen is used.
Regular exercise can actually improve the muscular structure of the heart, making it pump blood more efficiently.
According to a 2009 study published in Exercise and Sport Science Reviews, HIIT is equal, and may be superior, to traditional exercise. HIIT exercises are able to expand the heart and improve the function of the heart in less time than traditional exercise.
By pushing the heart to its maximum potential, it is forced to adapt faster.
Another study from 2012 published in The Journal of Physiology found that when study participants followed high-intensity interval training, their mitochondrial density increased (the ability of the cells to produce energy).
Mitochondria are responsible for burning fat and carbohydrates during exercise. A higher level of cellular energy allows the body to work more efficiently in completing exercise tasks, which builds skeletal muscles faster.
The basics of high-intensity interval training
During high-intensity interval training, the exerciser must exert as much energy as possible in short bursts. In studies, significant success was seen when the exercisers performed at full potential for four minutes then rested for four minutes.
Repeat this pattern about four times for a complete and effective HIIT workout. You can also try exercising intensely for about 10 minutes at a time without a break.
Remember, you should feel completely exhausted after your HIIT workout. If you don’t, then you aren’t using as much energy as you should be.
A simple HIIT workout you can do at home
For this routine, complete as many reps of each exercise as you can with proper form in 20 seconds. Rest for 10 seconds, then repeat the entire process.
Exercise one: Push-ups
Lie on the floor in plank position and slowly lower your body to the ground without touching the floor. Push back up to complete one rep.
Exercise two: Squat jumps
Stand in a squat position with the hips back and knees forward. Jump up as high as you can and land in the squat position to complete one rep.
Exercise three: Burpees
A burpee consists of four exercises linked together with jumps.
- Start with your feet next to your hands on the ground in a crouched position.
- Jump back into a push-up position.
- Jump up into a squat position.
- Jump up to a standing position with your arms in the air.
- This completes one rep.
Exercise four: Sprinting in place
Run in place at maximum intensity for 20 seconds to complete one round.
Exercise five: Jump lunges
Start in the standard lunge position with one leg extended in front, with the knee bent at a 90-degree angle, and the other leg extended behind. Quickly jump up and switch the positions of your legs to complete one rep.
How often should I complete HIIT workouts?
According to studies, HIIT workouts are most effective when they are infrequent. HIIT workouts, when done properly, are hard on the body and require substantial rest time. Most studies suggest only completing a HIIT workout two to three times a week at maximum, with some fitness experts suggesting that a once-a-week HIIT workout is enough to provide benefit.
Between HIIT workouts, supplement with lower intensity exercise routines.
If you are currently stuck on a weight-loss plateau, or you want to take your exercise routine to the next level, start adding HIIT routines today. |
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Welp, I gave Eureka a solid week in FF Its Gimme back the old relic At least then I could multitask and level up other classes or get tomestones/savage clears in while working on Eurekas just a waste of time with shit gear
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A retired Army "Golden Knight" was injured when his parachute glider crashed into a tree in a field near Cameron about noon Monday.
Justin Schilling, 58, of Vass, was trapped in the aircraft, which hung from branches about 50 feet in the air. He was wearing a harness that kept him in the pilot's seat.
It took rescuers about an hour to remove Schilling from the aircraft. His left leg broken in two places. A helicopter took him to UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill. He was listed in good condition Tuesday morning.
"It took a group effort," said Buddy Thompson, said Cameron Fire Chief Buddy Thompson.
The aircraft amounted to what looked like a cart with a fan on the back and a parachute keeping it aloft. Thompson called it a powered parachute.
Apparently, wind blew the craft into a sweetgum tree that was the only tree in the field.
"There was a wind gust, and he wrapped around the tree," Thompson said.
Tom Loving, who owns the wheat and soybean field where the accident happened, witnessed the crash.
"I was hoping he could turn," he said, "but he never did."
Loving said Shilling is retired a retired U.S. Army paratrooper and a former member of the "Golden Knights," the Army Parachute Team.
Loving said that Shilling's wife told him that her husband had done 8,900 parachute jumps without ever suffering an injury.
Rescuers arrived on the scene about 10 minutes after getting the call. Rescue worked needed a ladder truck from Southern Pines Fire Department to reach Shilling and stabilize the aircraft before extracting him. It took rescuers about 45 minutes to remove him.
"We had to stabilize the apparatus so that it wouldn't fall," Thompson said.
As Rescuers worked, several television news helicopters circled overhead. The accident even made CNN.
In addition to Cameron and Southern Pines firefighters, the Vass Rescue Squad, Moore County Fire Marshall and Moore County Sheriff's Department assisted.
Loving gave firefighters permission to cut limbs from the tree to get the aircraft down.
The field, which is located near the intersection of N.C. 24-27 and Cranes Creek Road, is often used for amateur aeronautics. Loving said people fly remote controlled air planes and para-gliders there, said Loving.
"But I've never seen (something like) that," Loving said.
Loving has watched people on powered parachutes before.
"I thought about doing it," he said. "I don't believe I will now."
Matthew Moriarty can be reached at 693-2479 or by e-mail at moriarty@thepilot.com.
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We’re thrilled to be open again, with access to all our exhibition spaces. War Museum reopened?
The Museum reopened to the public on February 17, 2021, with access to all exhibition spaces.
The Museum is open Wednesday to Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and until 7 p.m. on Thursday.
General admission is free for children ages 7 and under.
What exhibitions can I see?
Access is now open to all of our exhibition spaces.
We look forward to welcoming you back with:
- In-gallery interpretation,
- The special exhibitions Forever Changed – Stories from the Second World War, The Legion National Foundation’s Poster and Literary Contest Winners 2020, Liberation! Canada and the Netherlands, 1944–1945, and
- Perennial favourites such as the Canadian Experience Galleries, the Royal Canadian Legion Hall of Honour and the LeBreton Gallery.
We hope to open Anne Frank – A History for Today, a travelling exhibition from the Anne Frank House, on March 4.
What activities are being offered at the Museum?
Throughout the Museum’s exhibition spaces, our friendly program interpreters are on hand to enhance your visit with stories and information on certain exhibitions. A different theme is covered in each gallery.
Is Memorial Hall open?
No. Memorial Hall can only be entered by a long, narrow corridor. This same corridor is also its exit. In addition, from outside Memorial Hall, it is not possible to tell how many visitors are inside, making it difficult to control the number of people inside at any one time.
Has the Military History Research Centre reopened?
No, the Military History Research Centre is closed until further notice.
Has the Friends used book store reopened?
No, the book store is closed until further notice.
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What are the current admission fees?
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Admission fees are $17 for adults, $15 for seniors, $13 for students, $11 for children (ages 8–12), free for warmuseum.ca.
Do I need to buy tickets in advance?
To ensure a spot, visitors must reserve tickets in advance at warmuseum.ca.
To manage the number of visitors inside the Museum, we have introduced timed online ticketing every 30 minutes, with access limited to 52 people every half-hour.
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Should all tickets be reserved in advance, walk-up visitors will unfortunately have to be turned away.
Do Museum Members require a timed admission ticket?
Everyone visiting the Museum requires a timed ticket, whether or not they are Members.
Members are asked to book their timed admission tickets online via the Members portal at warmuseum.ca.
Can I purchase tickets onsite at the Museum?
If you have not booked in advance online, admission will be available on a first-come, first-served basis at the Box Office, if tickets are still available (they may be sold out in advance).
To ensure a spot, visitors must reserve tickets in advance at warmuseum.ca.
Do I still go to the Box Office to have my timed admission ticket validated when I arrive?
No. Upon arrival, simply go directly to the exhibition entrance to have your ticket scanned.
Is there a time restriction on the length of my visit?
There are no restrictions on the length of your visit.
The average visit takes approximately 2 War Museum, do I also need a timed admission ticket to visit the Canadian Museum of History?
Yes. Timed admission tickets will need to be purchased from each Museum’s webstore in order to visit that Museum (warmuseum.ca and historymuseum.ca).
Does the Museum offer free admission?
Everyone visiting the Museum requires a timed admission ticket, regardless of age, time of visit, or Member/volunteer status, to ensure a safe experience for all.
To ensure a spot, visitors must reserve their timed tickets in advance at warm War Museum also offers free admission to:
- Past and present Canadian military personnel, and to selected Commonwealth military personnel, as well as to two accompanying family members.
- Canoo members (formerly Cultural Access Pass)
Tickets are required for everyone at all times, as we are currently 5 5 this winter.
Are school programs available?
Onsite school programs will not be offered this winter.
Can school groups and tour groups visit the Museum?
Yes, school groups and tour groups can visit the Museum, but will be required to follow the various guidelines and restrictions in place with regard to group size, etc.
Groups also have access to self-guided visits and activities Museum’s Café and dining area are temporarily closed. We do have vending machines featuring snacks and cold beverages.
Where are the vending machines located?
Vending machines featuring snacks and cold beverages are located inside the Café.
Can I bring food to eat at the Museum?
No, the Café and its dining area are temporarily closed.
Is the Gift Shop open?
The Gift Shop is open Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., and on Thursdays from 4 to 7 p.m.
You can also shop online at warmuseum.ca/boutique.
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Have washrooms reopened? Drinking fountains? The Nursing Room?
Washrooms have been reopened.
Drinking fountains have been reactivated throughout the Museum, and visitors are encouraged to fill a water bottle if they have one, rather than drinking directly from the fountain.
Diaper-changing tables and a Nursing Room are available.
Are the self-serve Coat Check and lockers open? Will I be able to borrow a stroller or a wheelchair when I visit, if need be?
The Museum’s self-serve Coat Check has reopened, but lockers remain unavailable for use.
Courtesy strollers and wheelchairs are available at the Museum. Please enquire at the Information desk.
Is parking available at the Museum?
Parking is available Wednesday through Sunday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and until 8 p.m. on Thursdays, at the regular rates ($2.75 per half-hour, to a daily maximum of $13).
The Museum offers a fully automated, fast and easy-to-use parking system.
Are there places where I can lock my bike?
Yes. Bike racks are available at the front of the Museum near the Group Entrance, along the bicycle path at the back of the Museum (next to the Café terrace), and inside the parking garage.
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What happens to my Museum membership?
Canadian Museum of History and Canadian War Museum memberships that were valid on October 11, 2020 (the date the Museum of History closed) have benefited from a three‑month extension.
The Memberships were extended automatically. A new expiry date was sent via email on February 10, 2021. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach us by email at membership@warmuseum.ca, or by phone at 819-776-7100. |
Key stakeholders throughout the Timor-Leste have come together to form the first professional coffee trade organization in the origin’s long history, the Timor-Leste Coffee Association (Assosiasaun Café Timor-Leste, or ACTL).
Supported by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and Australia’s Market Development Facility (MDF), and facilitated in part by members of the Coffee Quality Institute, the initiative is similar to those in recent years in Myanmar and Yemen, designed to organize farmers locally, improve agricultural processes and quality, and promote and bring to market coffees from the origin.
“More than 25 percent of all households in Timor-Leste grow coffee and there is huge potential to improve production and quality” ADB Country Director for Timor-Leste Paolo Spantigati said in an announcement of the effort late last month. “This private sector initiative will support planning and implementation of activities to develop the coffee sector and improve farmers’ lives.”
Coffee remains the former Portugese colony’s primary export, despite the fact that the sector has famously struggled to rebound from the decades of resistance to Indonesian occupation in the 1980s and 1990s. The nation’s coffee industry has received assistance since then from USAID and other international development organizations, although production and exports remain low from a historical perspective. Starbucks has notably been a major buyer of Timorese coffee, although indices and anecdotal reports say poverty and hunger among farmers is all too common there.
Precipitating the ACTL launch, 24 stakeholder members met at a workshop in Dili from September 19 to 23 to develop a vision, strategic plan, structure and governance model for the new association, with Specialty Coffee Association of America co-founder and Coffee Quality Institute consultant Ted Lingle facilitating the process. The weeklong workshop was attended by coffee farming groups, cooperatives, traders, exporters, roasters and retailers, ADB said in the announcement.
The ACTL’s first major event will be a cupping competition and national coffee festival, scheduled for Dec. 1 of this year, including a professional conference program and a consumer exhibition area to market Timorese coffee.
In its announcement, ADB noted that Timor-Leste is well-known in the coffee industry as the origin of Hibrido de Timor, an arabica variety prized for its quality, productivity and resistance to disease.
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Nick Brown is the editor of Daily Coffee News by Roast Magazine.
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Glad to see the great coffee of Timor Leste finally getting decent attention! We have been working directly with the village of Atsabe in Ermera for about six years now and importing it as a wonderful single origin (even single village!). But before everybody rushes off to buy coffee from Timor, you should visit this distant land. Visit the farmers, the processors and exporters and learn what you are getting into. It is so easy to make representations using glossy words without knowing what is being done in the country. There are great farmers, poor quality farmers, responsible and efficient processors and exporters, and the other kind. Have fun!
Wise words, Dean. Thank you! I know that area and imagine that sourcing directly from one village would be extremely challenging and not recommended for the faint of heart. I’m hopeful that through this initiative, the industry cooperatively working together can raise the bar of production quality, as well as quantity, across the country. The group was extremely motivated and excited about change when Ted and I were there a few weeks ago. The better coffees I’ve had from there are absolutely delightful and deserve more international recognition.
Funny that the biggest independent funder and exporter of coffee apart from CCT & olam was not there 🙂 🙂 …. lots of people there who don’t risk a single dollar from their pocket …. so typical of the nonsense in Timor-Leste. As for recognition most importers / roasters just want Timor as replacement of PNG Y grade – or because they get import rebates or because of CIA money which needs to be …….. But i guess ADB / WB / NGO money needs to be spent – the reality of Timor coffee is much more complex and political. Just a few roasters who buy a handful of bags is not gonna change anything for the local farmers. By the way there are no farmers .. coffee grows wild in 95% of cases.
This is a very complex scenario. Some beginning is better than doing nothing and good to see the progress. My family grows coffee in India and I can imagine the amount of care needed to produce quality coffee. Having seen the fate of small coffee growers, I have done some deep thinking and a cooperative society/organization consisting of everyone in the value chain looks like a great idea. @Andrew Hetzel, it’s a great start and congrats on the first step. Still a long way to go 🙂 Hope small farmers and consumers get to reap the value created.
I am just curious, is there anything that is being done to improve the quality of output and increase productivity at the farm level ( converting the wild lands into farmland, research to improve the coffee resistance and productivity). I read an article from 2003 by Fernando Amaral about coffee production in East Timor and these were few action items listed there. Any progress in last 13 years ? |
Why Bill Clinton Is Becoming a Bigger Target for Donald Trump "When they attack me, I'm going to attack them," Donald Trump says.
-- Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump is once again attacking former President Bill Clinton, but his jabs are fueled this time by Hillary Clinton’s public speculation about her husband’s role in her administration if she wins the White House.
During a Kentucky campaign blitz Monday, Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton said her husband would "be in charge of revitalizing the economy.”
“He knows how to do it,” she said, “and especially in places like coal country and inner cities and other parts of our country that have really been left out.”
Less than 24 hours later, Trump took to Twitter, questioning Bill Clinton’s role in the North American Free Trade Agreement, which he signed into law in 1993.
Though Trump may be turning up the volume on his attacks on the former president, the GOP candidate’s criticisms are not entirely new. Even before the first primary votes were cast, Trump was attacking both Clintons.
“[Bill Clinton] was impeached. Not allowed to practice law ... There’s things going on there,” Trump said during an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” in January. “It’s fair game. When they attack me, I’m going to attack them. If they don’t, I would leave it off the table.”
Shortly after those remarks, Trump’s campaign posted a video to the billionaire’s Instagram page titled “Hillary and Her Friends” and showed a picture of Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, the former White House intern with whom he said he had an “inappropriate relationship.”
More recently, after Trump lashed out at GQ magazine for its harsh piece on his wife, Melania Trump, ABC News asked him whether, since he says spouses should be off limits, that includes Bill Clinton.
“It depends if he's involved in the campaign. I think if he’s involved in the campaign, he shouldn’t be. And I — he probably will be involved. I think he gets involved when she plays the women’s card,” Trump said.
Meanwhile, the Clinton campaign has been deploying the former president on the campaign trail and as a fundraiser. Hillary Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill told reporters Monday she hasn’t formally decided on the shape of Bill Clinton’s role at the White House if she is elected president.
“He has a lot of creativity and knowledge to bring to bear, particularly when it comes to the economy, and she has said many times in the past that when it comes to revitalizing certain regions or certain sectors — she specifically mentioned coal and manufacturing — that she would certainly want his advice and counsel,” Merrill said.
The campaign has made it known that Hillary Clinton is not worried about Trump’s attacks. Trump’s name-calling last week was an attempt to change the subject, Merrill said. “Hillary Clinton doesn't care what he says about her,” he added. “She will continue to call him out for his outrageous positions and divisive comments.”
After Trump at an Oregon campaign rally earlier this month called Hillary Clinton a “total enabler” of her husband’s indiscretions, she avoided engaging in direct retaliations. She told reporters that she would fight his rhetoric with positivity.
“I’m going to let him run his campaign however he chooses,” she said. “I’m going to run my campaign, which is about a positive vision for our country, with specific plans that I think will help us solve problems that we’re facing, knocking down those barriers that stand in the way of people. I am going to continue to really reach out to people, to listen to people and to make the case for the kind of president that I would be.”
For his part, Bill Clinton, has largely echoed those sentiments on the campaign trail for his wife. And he repeatedly said that Republicans had historically praised her but have spent the past four years running a smear campaign.
“I actually feel bad for all of these Republicans because their greatest achievement was they kept anything from happening,” he said to a group of supporters in Frankfort, Kentucky, last week.
The former president, however, has engaged in subtle attacks on Trump, most recently mocking the GOP front-runner’s campaign slogan. “Let me tell you something. I was in the heart of coal country, in eastern Kentucky, last night, and there were a bunch of people that were booing when I came there,” he said.
“And I said, ‘Look, you’ve got two choices here. If you believe things should be made as they once were, which is essentially make America great again, right? No, wait, wait — once were. Remember this: It wasn't so great for a lot of people, the way things once were.” |
Our collective struggle to discover the future of news and information is alternatively presented as social revolution, economics puzzle, or pro wrestling death match. Down here on ground level, it feels more like a series of little soap operas: sweet talk, faraway gazes, broken hearts and “unexpected” plot twists — always more (melo)dramatic for those of us taking part than for the viewers at home, who continue to consume the not-quite-satisfying daily dose of content that’s out there without giving it too much thought.
In my little Paris-based telenovela, we left off last time in this space with a bit of suspense: Waiting for Mr. X…
Our well-meaning but lonely 40ish hack with little technical knowledge and scant business experience had miraculously found a younger man who had it all, who might just make for the perfect partner. But alas, after a preliminary, propitious rendezvous in the Latin Quarter, Mr. X was due to take off for a much needed two-week getaway to Morocco with some unidentified French woman.
Well, he came back after all, with a new beard and the woman apparently still in the picture. But Mr. X declared himself rested…and ready! He was excited to jump with both feet into this here digital world news project, except for one caveat. Yet another plot twist…
Meeting Mr. X
An introduction, in any case, is first in order: Our mystery man does have a name, and a past. Jed Micka is a 33-year-old Berkeley computer science/electrical engineering alum, who has spent the past decade prototyping, developing, and project-managing web, mobile, and software applications. His relative lack of news biz experience is, in my eyes, a huge plus. His fresh eyes at the news, like mine at tech, may be the best way of finding out what the customer wants, and how we might just get it to them.
Interestingly, Jed did have a project back in 2000 to develop a micropayment system for news and other content. That, of course, died on the vine. And it says something (uh, something depressing) that 10 years later, he’s back looking at how to integrate (invent!) pay models for our would-be product. But what he brings from all his experience is a focus on selling: both how to get paid for our content and how to pitch the project to investors. One of the first things Jed brought to the project was to tease out who are the would-be company’s “actors,” and how we can move forward in a way that benefits each. We’ve identified five: source media partners, client media buyers, seed investors, our reader/contributor community, and the two of us.
The twist in Jed’s background, which makes this an even more promising match, is his interest in international affairs. But that is also, for now, a stumbling block to storming ahead, full force, four feet and all. He is flat in the middle of writing a thesis for a master’s degree in political science at Paris’ Sciences Po university. That means, on a day-in, day-out basis, it still largely falls to me to keep the momentum going, while juggling my own monster distraction (see below). Still, we did manage to jam through a quick entry for the Paris stop on the Seedcamp tour. Rien. Otherwise, we have kept up a weekly meeting at the same Paris coffee joint (with 40 minutes free Internet). And with the long-awaited prototype now basically ready, we have begun plotting on how to get to potential funders and partners to pitch.
One thing I have pushed him to do on his own time is get up and running on Twitter, which was only in its infancy when he jumped into his master’s program. (He reads books!) More than for the content, I want him to see how the technology works and what it means for our project. I was hesitant to suggest all the news business types I follow — in some sense, the less you know the better — but figured he should get up to speed. So please, web friends, journo colleagues, and Twitter soap opera stars: Try to behave!
My monster distraction
In the middle of one of my Friday meetings with Jed, I got a call from New York. It was Time’s news editor, saying I had to get down to Rome. I have been their guy on the Vatican beat for nine years, and manage to still cover it from Paris, even though my staff position was whacked in the last round of cuts. Now, of course, we have a major, major story on our hands down at St. Peter’s. Back in 2005, I covered what the U.S. networks called the “papal death event,” but this is no less momentous, and somehow trickier…with no real end in sight. So like Jed, I too must juggle the rest of my life with that which we both hope will become a full-time, all-consuming, fully funded enterprise in the future. For the would-be journo entrepreneur, continuing to work for others is a mix of hedging your bets and staying in the scrum. It’s also a battle with schizophrenia.
Can’t get much more schizophrenic along the old/new media borderline than covering the Vatican for Time and bootstrapping a would-be website. My little case could be taken as a metaphor (melodrama, I know) for the wider no-man’s-land state of foreign news coverage in this particular moment. The old media is no longer committed to truly funding foreign coverage, and the new media can’t fund itself. I surf between the two, inevitably not doing true justice to either one. Still, in the best case scenario, holding on to the remains of my old life is a necessary bridge to the future: both in content and in the ongoing struggle to maintain my sanity. I always get a charge any time my beat is on the leading edge of the news cycle. Writing a glossy printed story provides the kind of satisfaction that you can’t get from a retweet. And yet…well, right now, for me at least, certain retweets are indeed worth more than a fancy byline.
Either way, though, I know my own destiny will largely be determined by how well I navigate this new, lava-like terrain where things are dying, transforming, rising from the ashes, and being born from that filament sizzle of a light bulb going on in someone’s brain. I want the old media to survive and thrive for many reasons — not least of all because it is integral to the new media destination I am trying to create. But even before I get there, I must keep my eyes open for ways to capitalize on my knowledge of and relationships with the traditional media to help build something that can only survive off the fat of the online land. And so you can imagine, for example, as much as Time’s cover, it’s the 2 million Twitter followers that are the target.
But beyond my own projects/interests, it seems evident that the established media must find ways to allow innovation to seep in to its walls from the energy and ideas of those trying to create something independently. Too often those with the ideas are moving faster than those with the resources and audience, a dual-velocity dynamic that risks killing off both the new ideas and old institutions.
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THE CONTINENTAL IRON WORKS
THE CONTINENTAL IRON WORKS
THE banks of the East River on both sides are identified with the most important incidents connected with the development of shipbuilding. In the old days of the packet ship many of the stoutest and best were built in the yards that skirted this stream, and though the "clipper" ship originated in Baltimore, New York soon became the foremost center for the building of vessels of this type, and many of the fastest and best, including the great and never-equalled clipper ship "Dreadnaught," first found the water from East River ways.
While the large shipbuilding interest on the East River in the period of its greatest activity before the Civil War was largely centered on the Manhattan waterfront, there were several yards established on the Brooklyn side of the river. This was especially true of the section known as Green- point, both before and after the annexation of that section to Brooklyn in 1855, in which there were several yards in the early forties engaged in the building of wooden ships and of river steamboats which, in that period, were famous as the most improved type of steamers engaged in river traffic anywhere. In the decade before the Civil War the East River yards were kept busy with a demand for the building of vessels, both steam and sail, for owners in every port of the United States, and many a vessel famed for beauty and speed was turned out from the ways in Greenpoint as well as on the Manhattan side.
Of vessels launched from the Brooklyn side the most notable was the "Monitor," the most famous craft of the Civil War period, the building of which wrought a revolution in sea warfare. It was built at the Continental Works in the yard now owned and ope'rated by The Continental Iron Works Company.
The site was occupied for some years by Samuel Sneden, who was engaged in the building of wooden ships. In 1859 a New Orleans customer of this yard, for whom Mr. Sneden had built several wooden steamers, asked him to undertake the building of an iron ship. Mr. Sneden had no experience in the construction of iron ships, which were a new feature of the merchant marine at that time, and his plant lacked facilities for iron- working, but he was anxious to keep his customer and determined to build the iron vessel if possible. He knew a young engineer by the name of Thomas F. Rowland who was a skilful mechanic, familiar with iron work and who had also had some experience in drafting and ship design. He prevailed upon Mr. Rowland to undertake the job, and a rude equipment of a forge, punch and shears was improvised, with which the shaping of the plating and frames was accomplished. Before the job was completed Mr. Rowland was taken into partnership by Mr. Sneden under the name of Samuel Sneden & Company. The iron ship was successfully launched and delivered to its owner soon afterward.
In less than a year after its formation the partnership was dissolved and Thomas F. Rowland acquired the plant and business. He was a native of Connecticut, born in 1831 at New Haven, and after leaving school had been employed by the New York and New Haven Railroad, had practised engineering and mechanics and had done drafting and designing work. When he became proprie-tor of the Continental Works he built the water pipe across High Bridge in New York and did other important iron work. When, in 1861, John Ericsson had designed his "Monitor," a floating battery which was the first completed vessel to carry a revolving turret, an invention which revolutionized the art of naval warfare, and which demonstrated the value of armored vessels and the relative uselessness of the old-style wooden warships. The "Monitor" was built in the yard of the Continental Works at Greenpoint in a little more than three months, and was launched January 30, 1862. Its part in the Civil War is historic, and its name became generic for vessels of similar type built by all the great maritime nations. Other monitors built at these yards for the United States Navy were the "Montauk," "Passaic," "Catskill," "Onondaga," "Cohoes," "Puritan," "Monadnock" and the double-ender "Muscootah," each successive vessel containing some improvement suggested to Mr. Ericsson by the experience of its predecessors.
When the proposition to build the "Monitor" was accepted the only drawing completed by
Ericsson was a mere outline and section to illustrate the stability of the structure; but, with extraordinary energy and executive skill, calculations and working plans were made, and the "Monitor" launched, with steam machinery complete, in one hundred days from the laying of the keel.
After the war the works were engaged in building ferryboats for the Union Ferry Company and several other vessels, but the general decline of shipbuilding after the war led the company to embark in other branches of iron works for which the plant was adapted, and made a specialty of building and installing municipal gas works, which work it did for cities and towns in all the eastern part of the country. Gradually the character of the business drifted away from both the marine and gas-works branches of its activities. In 1887 the business was incorporated as The Continental Iron Works, with Thomas F. Rowland as president and Warren E. Hill, who had for some years associated with Mr. Rowland, as vice-president of the company.
The company took up a line of welded plate steel work, and in this line is included corrugated boiler furnaces for marine boilers, which is still a very important department of the business and one which has been greatly increased and accelerated by the shipbuilding boom which has come upon the country as the result of the world war. The company also does much work in connection with water-tube boilers, and the manufacture of digesters for making wood pulp, and similar digesters for use in Government explosive plants. They also have an important department for the manufacture of welded oil stills and varied productions of a similar kind on special orders. Their business in welded drums is largely upon Government work for use on torpedo-boat destroyer boilers. Many of which now being built are equipped with them.
Thus the company, although for many years its work was more largely connected with work for land installations than for marine business, has always been an important factor in the wonderful work done in this country in the upbuilding of the shipping interest.
When the company was incorporated in 1887
Thomas F. Rowland, Jr., eldest son of Thomas F. Rowland, became secretary and treasurer of the company. He was born in New Haven, Conn., in 1856, but has always been a resident of Brooklyn. He was graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University in 1877, and immediately after graduation became connected with his father in the Continental Iron Works. His father retired from active business some years before his death, and Mr. Warren E. Hill succeeded to the presidency of the company, holding that position until his death in 1908, when Mr. Thomas F. Rowland, Jr., became the president of the company, an office he continues to fill.
His brother, Charles B. Rowland, who was born in Brooklyn in 1863, was graduated from the Columbia University (School of Mines) with the class of 1884, and following the graduation entered the business of his father, and has since been with it in continuous service, now being the vice-president of the company. George A. Tib- bals, who is secretary and treasurer of the company, is also a graduate from the School of Mines of Columbia University, class of 1883; and his brother, Samuel G. Tibbals, who was graduated from Columbia University (School of Mines), is assistant secretary and assistant treasurer of the company. Both of the Messrs. Tibbals entered upon the service of the company soon after their graduation.
The company, therefore, is managed by an official personnel which represents the highest quality of technical education, supplemented by many years of practical experience which they have applied toward the building up for it a large business and a most enviable reputation.
The plant is a most complete one, occupying about two and a half blocks on the banks of the East River, supplied with every requisite for effective operation along the lines of production.
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The company is historically and industrially entitled to a large and prominent place in the history of American shipbuilding, in the development of which it has been a prominent and vital factor and is still an important contributor. |
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Help us host this year's Qmunity Skate and Ice Queens at Downtown Ice San Jose. This event showcases queer culture during the holidays with a queen skate, meet & greet, queer vendors, and "HoliGay" performances. Between performances skate to a generous mixture of seasonal favorites, top 40 hits, and queer anthems by DJ. Then cap off the evening with more holiday cheer by enjoying San José traditions Christmas in the Park and Winter Wonderland.
Qmunity Skate and Ice Queens relies on friendly community volunteers to help with event set-up, reception, guest service, games, and teardown activities. If you’re motivated by doing MORE for your community, there are several ways to help. Bring your skills and positive energy, and we promise to provide a good experience and lots of fun.
Volunteers will receive the following complimentary elements:
- Community service credit
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Founded by community members of California’s Silicon Valley, Project MORE Foundation has become a leading Bay Area nonprofit providing service and support to the LGBTQ Community of Northern California.
Project MORE thrives by developing creative community outreach, education, and advocacy projects. Driven with passion and cause, we nurture growing organizations, aid like-minded charities, and provide consulting services to corporations.
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This IKEA deal may be store specific, but when Lucky, Charm and I headed to our local IKEA (Bloomington, MN) yesterday, we stumbled upon these finger puppets, which were normally $1 each on sale for 10 cents each!!
We also found these 'circus hats' on sale for 49 cents each (down from $3.99 each):
Target online toy clearance is in full swing too! Here are a few fun toys that I found in the Target Clearance Toy section online. (Locally, our retail stores have 30-50% off toys right now but they should be marked down to 70% off in the very near future.)
$11.21 (Regularly $18.69)
$47.48 (Regularly $94.99)
$10.78 (Reg $17.99)
$5 (Regularly $20)
$10 (Regularly $40)
There are lots and lots of deals on JCPenney's site, and you can choose 'site to store' shipping for free shipping!
Happy Shopping!:)
What awesome Ikea deals! I wish mine was closer than 2 hours away!
I am lucky...IKEA is only about 25 minutes away from me:)!!
love the fort idea! i want to send my hubby to the store right now to buy all the wood. lol how much did it cost to make the fort? trying to get an idea on how much im able to spend. Thanks! =)
We got the wood on sale at our local Menards and it came to about $150-$175 for the supplies. Let me know if you have any other questions!! |
DOHA, Qatar — The quarrelsome Syrian opposition was locked in extended bartering here in Doha on Thursday over the creation of a more diverse yet unified umbrella organization that its foreign backers hope will become a credible alternative to the Damascus government.
The basic goal was to create an executive body, including members within Syria and abroad, that could channel aid to nascent local governments in opposition-controlled areas, bolstering their hold over territory wrested from the Syrian government.
If the plan works, supporters say, it will help push back against the chaos in which jihadi organizations thrive and persuade foreign governments — particularly a second Obama administration — to get invested more directly in the opposition’s success.
“We have to find a way out of the cul-de-sac that we are in,” said Ayman Abdel Nour, a former confident of President Bashar Assad’s turned opposition activist. “We need to find a solution so that the Syrian opposition can deal with the international community through one executive body, rather than everyone with his own opinion, his own agenda and his own allies.”
The meeting in Doha represented a shift in tactics after expectations were not met that the Syrian National Council would become a sort of government in exile. The change was pushed by the United States and Qatar, which have called for Assad to step down and pledged material support for the rebels. Without a unified opposition, various foreign supporters — Qataris, Saudis, Turks, French, Americans — have fostered different groups, allowing them to survive but without the critical mass needed to create an effective counterweight to the Syrian government.
If the opposition needed a reminder of the stakes, Assad provided one with a rare interview, telling the satellite channel Russia Today that he was not leaving the country.
“I am not a puppet,” he said in excerpts published on the channel’s website. “I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country. I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.”
Asked about possible armed intervention, Assad said he did not expect the West to invade, “but if they do so, nobody can tell what is next.”
The price of an invasion “if it happened is going to be more than the whole world can afford,” he said in an excerpt.
The station said the full interview would be broadcast Friday.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton pronounced the Syrian National Council a failure late last month. She said the United States and its partners would help the opposition unite “behind a shared, effective strategy that can resist the regime’s violence”. |
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Kragthorpe: Moving on without Wynn is healthy for Utes
In Uteville, the news of the end of quarterback Jordan Wynn's football career will evoke all kinds of emotions, from sadness to frustration to glee.
The proper response: empathy, mixed with relief.
Anyone would have to feel for Wynn, whose injuries kept him from fulfilling the promise he showed as a Utah freshman in a Poinsettia Bowl victory over California. But another shoulder injury seemed inevitable at some point this season, and then what would happen to the Utes? In football, there's ability and then there's availability.
Counting his second-quarter exit Friday in Logan, Wynn started and finished only four of Utah's last 16 games. Even if he could have come back this season, which appears unlikely and moot now that he's decided to give up the game nobody would have known how long he would last.
That explains my suggestion of relief. The Utes will turn to some combination of Jon Hays and Travis Wilson and play on in 2012, without wondering about Wynn's durability.
First, though, there must be some appreciation for Wynn. Stories are told of a popular Ute fans' hangout erupting in cheers Friday when Wynn was knocked out of the game. That's unfair. He went 14-7 as Utah's starter, beat BYU twice (and lost once in overtime), was named the offensive MVP of his only bowl game with 338 yards passing and three touchdowns against Cal and then quarterbacked the Utes into the top 10 during his sophomore season.
Beyond that, he already recovered from a total of three surgeries on his two shoulders and was determined to have a good year.
"He fought so hard and came back so many times," coach Kyle Whittingham said.
Watching him throw the ball in spring practice, it was natural to believe that everything just might come together for Wynn, who said then, "We're going to let 'er rip."
Instead, more disaster.
"My heart goes out to him," tight end Dallin Rogers said. "It is unfortunate, it really is. But there's nothing we can do about it."
My forecast is Hays will start against BYU this week and maintain that role indefinitely, while Wilson will remain a situational player and possibly take over at some point much as Wynn replaced Terrance Cain in 2009.
Wilson was the No. 3 quarterback as of Friday, so I'd be surprised if he's ready to take on BYU, Arizona State and USC as the full-time QB in the next three games.
Suddenly, the first half of this season (with UCLA to follow) appears more challenging than anybody figured, and now the Utes again have lost their starting quarterback. They're where they were last October, when Wynn was sidelined just before halftime of the fourth game. The difference? Then, all they had was Hays. Now, they have an experienced Hays and Wilson.
Last season, the Utes retreated into a shell offensively without Wynn. Because of Hays' improvement, "We don't think we have to reel things in and modify," Whittingham said.
What the Utes need is better blocking. Wynn's ineffectiveness at Utah State partly was attributable to poor protection. The original line faltered, so Sam Brenner has moved to left tackle. Clearly, a lot of us overestimated the Utes' ability to replace tackles Tony Bergstrom and John Cullen, and the loss of veteran line coach Tim Davis (now at Florida) also hurts.
The Utes face a lot of questions this week, starting with coaching. Wynn's health no longer is an issue. In that sense, Monday's news almost is an advancement for the program. In human terms, though, Wynn's knockout blow hits hard.
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replied with that. So I did. As I got older I understood it more and more and also understood how far away we are from a world full of peace. I would always refrain from speaking about it or posting a status about it on Facebook because of the fear of negative comments or the fear that I may say something wrong. However I have realised that what I want to say does matter and negative comments are a part of life. We have to accept peoples opinions whether or not they disagree with our own.
So here goes…
War. Poverty. Death. Hunger. Drought. Attacks.
When you ask a child on one side of the world what they want they may answer with an ice cream.
Then you ask them the next day and they reply with a new toy.
Ask them a week later and they’ll reply with pizza.
Ask them again and again and get a different answer again and again.
When you ask a child on the other side of the world what they want and they may answer food.
Then you ask them the next day and they reply with clean water.
Ask them a week later and they’ll reply with shelter.
Ask them again and again and get a different answer again and again.
Do you see this difference? Some children have an actual childhood whilst some are fighting for survival. Whilst one 6 year old may be playing at the park with their friends, another is going out to work so that their family can have food on their table. There are people in the world living without things we often take for granted. Food, water, clothing, shelter and education are just a few of many. Families live day by day not knowing where their next meal is coming from. Children have to work from ages as young as 5 just so that they can eat that night. Countries are suffering from droughts so severe than people are going hungry for days and yet a lot of it is uncovered by the media.
Somalia.
Ethiopia.
Eritrea.
Sudan.
And many many more have to deal with this every single day until something is done about it. Until we as middle income and high income countries join together to help them out. No family should have to worry about simple meals and clean water. No child should have to starve.
Day by day the world seems to become a smaller place.
It becomes darker and less welcoming. Horrible things happen every moment of every day and it is become such a norm that the children being brought up in the world today know nothing different. The children growing up today have to grow up faster than they should have to, simply because the truth of what the world is going through is projected everywhere we turn. The media cover it, the people on the street talk about it and social media spreads it.
It creates an awareness we cannot avoid. It creates an urgency and importance to show the rest of the world that awful things are happening every day and we need to do something about it. Yet the more and more it is retweeted, shared or liked the more people feel helpless. There is no breaks from the attacks that are happening in pretty much every part of the world and whether you live in those parts of the world or not it is your problem. Just like it is my problem and everyone who lives on planet Earths problem.
The problem is not only are there groups of people putting fear into everyone and killing innocent civilians practically every day, there are also people putting fear into and targeting certain groups and blaming them for what is happening.
We see things happen on the news and we pray that one day it’ll all end. Yet some who pray for it to end then take to social media or to the streets and blame more innocent people. Blame them for something they haven’t done. Blame them for something they’re not a part of. Put fear into these people and still claim that they only want peace and harmony.
The only way to achieve a world without fear and death is to spread peace and love TOGETHER as one unit. To unite with people from different backgrounds, races, cultures and ages with a shared goal of creating a safer society for all. To put our differences aside, to put ourselves in other peoples shoes and understand where they are coming from and to change the world together.
The more attacks that happen, the more we isolate ourselves from society because of fear of the unknown and what may happen next. Ask yourself, is this something you want to feel everyday? Do you want your children to grow up in a world that knows only fear and darkness?
Its important to note that although these attacks instil fear into everyone, they do unite people. They do bring people together and that doesn’t go unnoticed. Imagine if that same unity was present all over the world. If every single person opposed to the tragedies that the world experiences every single day join hands and come together and not let these people take our right to live away.
We have to come together.
We have to spread love.
We have to accept one another and put aside our differences.
We have to speak up about what we believe in.
We can’t assume things or blame without knowing the whole truth.
We can’t hide no matter how much we want to.
We can’t allow these people to take away our right to life and liberty.
We can’t be made to stay silent.
We are powerful when we are together.
We achieve more as a group.
We live on a beautiful planet that is being harmed day in and day out.
We are the world and we will not let anyone take it away from us.
No child should have to die so young.
No child should have to fear the world in which they live in.
No child should have to know poverty, destruction or war.
No child should have to survive rather than just live.
“Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.”
-Ryunosuke Satoro
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Wow! What powerful words. Thank you for writing them. Bold but your words ring true. We are stronger in numbers, and I agree with you.
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Too many people allow these things to tear them apart and drive them further away, we really are stronger in numbers well said! Thank you very much!
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Who's Looking Out for Care Workers in the Gig Economy?/
The Census Bureau estimates that 20 percent of the U.S. population will be over the age of 65 in under 15 years, when all of the baby boomers hit that milestone. Advances in technology yielding longer life, combined with a shift away from the nursing home elder care model toward aging at home make this a critical time for developing home care policy. Among other things, as tech companies enter this space with online solutions that connect home care workers with seniors, the intersection of the gig economy and healthcare will require some guidance.
As we've reported, a number of funders are paying keen attention to labor issues within healthcare. This is one of the fastest growing areas of employment for lower skilled workers, yet these jobs—particularly home care jobs—often pay poorly and offer little opportunity for upward mobility. Raising pay and building stronger career ladders in healthcare jobs are key to expanding economic opportunity overall, particularly for young people of color. Those funders with an eye on this area include Atlantic Philanthropies, Kellogg, and the California Wellness Foundation.
Related:
- A Growing Priority for Funders: Training Young People of Color for Healthcare Jobs
- Why This Giant Foundation Thinks Dental Care Is So Important
Naturally, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is paying attention. We write often about the foundation's efforts to improve the "culture of health" in the United States by investing in human capital and health research. Now, RWJF is stepping into the online healthcare market with a $400,000, one-year grant for the Good Work Code, an initiative launched late last year by the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA).
The Good Work Code's primary objective with this grant is to raise standards for caregivers, which is especially important at a moment when the online, on-demand market for home health workers is exploding. "We're seeking to influence the conversation so that we don’t see the same challenges that workers face in the offline part of the industry move to the online part of the industry without any kind of intervention," Palak Shah, social innovations director at the National Domestic Workers Alliance, told Inside Philanthropy. "We're aiming to provide a guidepost for what could work for all of the parties as these new business models in the tech part of the economy emerge."
According to NDWA Director Ai-jen Poo, home care workers are the fastest growing occupation. But with an average annual salary of $15,000, they're also some of the most undervalued skilled employees in our economy. "We're trying to leverage the power and the initiative of the technology sector to ensure that the jobs that get created in this growing and critical field of healthcare are actually good jobs," Poo told Inside Philanthropy.
This work is part of a bigger push in recent years to raise U.S. labor standards and is backed by a number of major funders, particularly the Ford Foundation. Ford gave the National Domestic Workers Alliance $1.6 million in 2014, and has also backed the push improve the situation of restaurant workers. Meanwhile, Ford has heavily bankrolled the National Law Employment Project, which spotlights lax labor standards and the exploitation of key groups of marginalized workers.
Good Work Code is an interesting addition to the landscape because it operates at the convergence of long-time concerns about low-income workers with newer fears that the Uber-ized gig economy is, as Steven Hill argues in a new book, a "raw deal" that is "screwing American workers."
Related:
- Among Foundations, Who’s Watching Out for Workers?
- Philanthropy vs. Tipping: The Funders Behind a Nice Win for Restaurant Workers
- Behind a New Worker Overtime Rule: Hard-Hitting Policy Wonks and Generous Funders
RWJF's new grant will allow the Good Work Code to investigate the burgeoning online market for care work, which will involve figuring out how to determine if companies are creating good jobs and how to improve wages and conditions. Poo and Shah are seeing an emerging trend of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who want to make positive changes for workers in the tech economy. Twelve companies signed on to the Good Work Code in 2015, committing to the Code's eight values of safety, stability & flexibility, transparency, shared prosperity, a livable wage, inclusion & input, support & connection, and growth & development. They hope to double or triple the number of companies in 2016.
"We're really grateful for this grant opportunity from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation," said Poo. "Foundations like Robert Wood Johnson that have been willing to take risks with us and innovate have been critical in opening up new strategies for social change. That to me feels really important." |
قلب is a programming language exploring the role of human culture in coding. Code is written entirely in Arabic, highlighting cultural biases of computer science and challenging the assumptions we make about programming. It is implemented as a tree-walking language interpreter in JavaScript.
All modern programming tools are based on the ASCII character set, which encodes Latin Characters and was originally based on the English Language. As a result, programming has become tied to a single written culture. It carries with it a cultural bias that favors those who grew up reading and writing in that cultural. قلب explores and challenges that by presenting a language that deviates almost entirely from ASCII.
In addition to the language and its interpreter, the قلب project includes a calligraphy series. Traditional Computer Science algorithms are implemented in قلب, and the resulting Arabic source code is used as the content of calligraphy pieces, in effect treating the algorithms as high poetry. The current completed pieces are Hello World, Fibonacci, and Conway’s Game of Life.
In my interview with Hyperstage, I describe قلب’s history, the cultural areas the project is exploring, and the importance of the calligraphic component. This was the first time I got to talk about the project in Arabic, which was a treat.
The project was featured twice on Animal New York, once as a feature, where it was called it “Novel…Crucial…[And] incredibly exciting”, and once as an artist’s notebook. The video also features footage of the project’s debut at Eyebeam’s Annual Artist Showcase in 2013.
قلب was part of the Assalamualaikum Babycastles show at the Babycastles gallery exploring the lived Muslim experience through videogames. A new work — بونج — was made for the show, an implementation of the game Pong. |
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Fox Sports Southwest "Oklahoma State quarterback Daxx Garman is considering a transfer and has until Monday to make his final decision. "He's got some decisions to make," Cowboys coach Mike Gundy told FOX Sports Southwest on Friday. "He could very well be with us or he could decide, 'Hey, I want an opportunity to go..." March 08
Tulsa World "Wide receiver Ra'Shaad Samples apparently intends to transfer from the Oklahoma State football program. Tuesday, he tweeted this message: "Thankful for everything Oklahoma State has done for me time to start a new chapter." As a highly regarded recruit who was coached by his father, Reginald..." February 26
College Football Talk "As the unique legal battle between Oklahoma State and Texas continues, the Cowboys have notified Texas officials they expect Longhorns head coach Charlie Strong to go on record with a sworn statement regarding who was calling the offensive plays at Texas in 2014. This is hardly one school being..." February 10
The Oklahoman "The Cowboys will continue a recent trend: the super senior. In a pre-signing day bit of news, Indiana cornerback Michael Hunter has announced he will be joining OSU following his graduation in May. GoPokes.com first reported the move. The Cowboys have benefitted from two such transfers the..." February 04
Tulsa World "There have been times when Mike Gundy was hesitant to report anything specific on his quarterback situation. Wednesday was not one of those times. During a one-hour interview in his office at Boone Pickens Stadium, Oklahoma State’s football coach was blunt and concise. When spring practice..." January 15
CBSSports.com "Oklahoma State has dismissed running back Tyreek Hill from the program following charges of domestic abuse. Hill was arrested and charged late Thursday. "Oklahoma State does not tolerate domestic abuse or violence," read a statement from Oklahoma State. "Based on the evidence and the serious..." December 13
College Football Talk "It’s been relatively quiet on the legal front of late, but there’s a situation in Stillwater that bears keeping an eye on. The O’Colly, the Oklahoma State student newspaper, is reporting that several members of the Cowboys football program “were involved in a large altercation at a house party..." November 19
Tulsa World "Sources close to the Oklahoma State football program indicate that junior quarterback Daxx Garman may be physically unable to play against seventh-ranked Baylor on Saturday. Sources say Garman, because of concussion symptoms, has been unable to practice this week. If Garman is not involved in..." November 19
College Football Talk "Ok..." October 26
CBSSports.com "While plenty of college football fans put coaches on trial for the decisions they make on a weekly basis, Texas offensive coordinator Joe Wickline is going to court to prove he's the coach making the decisions. Wickline has filed a lawsuit against his former employer, Oklahoma State, claiming..." October 23
The Oklahoman "Sports Illustrated’s myriad allegations of misconduct within the Oklahoma State football program were “fundamentally unfounded,” according to a joint statement released Tuesday by the NCAA and an outside consultant hired by OSU. The SI series was published in September 2013 and alleged..." October 21
CBSSports.com "Two Oklahoma State football players went to Whataburger early Sunday morning for a bite. But after falling asleep in the drive-thru line, wide receiver Jhajuan Seales and freshman cornerback Juwan Offray were charged with public intoxication. The arrests occurred 10 hours after Oklahoma State's..." October 21
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ESPN.com "J.W. Walsh will start at quarterback for Oklahoma State when the Cowboys open the season against No. 1 Florida State on Saturday, coach Mike Gundy told ESPN Radio. "J.W. has taken the majority of the [first-team] reps and will be the guy that goes out there and starts for us," Gundy told "SVP..." August 28
College Football Talk ..." August 17
Houston Chronicle "J
Fox Sports Southwest "Ok..." July 29
The Oklahoman "An Oklahoma State football player was stabbed, robbed and abducted Monday, Stillwater police said. Police did not identify the victim, but multiple sources close to the program confirmed it is wide receiver Cameron Hunter. The victim was treated for stab wounds to the abdomen and right..." June 19
Tulsa World "Devon Deshon Thomas, a freshman Oklahoma State running back and former Broken Arrow High School standout who now faces charges of burglary, robbery and shooting with intent to kill, was suspended for four games in 2012 after being charged in juvenile court with distribution of child pornography,..." June 17
The Oklahoman "The linebacker depth chart at Oklahoma State just got even thinner. A post on Dominic Ramacher’s Facebook confirmed earlier rumors that he would leave the program. Turns out, he’s leaving football altogether. “I have decided to leave OSU and football,” Ramacher said in the post Friday...." June 15
The Oklahoman "Oklahoma State running back Devon Thomas was charged with three felonies on Thursday according to reports from the Tulsa World . Thomas, an incoming freshman at OSU who was an early enrollee for spring football, was hit with felony complaints of armed robbery, shooting with intent to kill,..." June 06
Tulsa World "Oklahoma State freshman running back Devon Thomas was arrested in his hometown of Broken Arrow on Wednesday on felony complaints of armed robbery and shooting with intent to kill, a police official said Thursday night. Thomas, 18, and three others are accused of robbing a man at gunpoint..." May 30
The Oklahoman "Oklahoma State’s football program will take an APR hit today when the NCAA releases its latest numbers. The fallout: a loss of one practice day per week, according to a source within the athletic program. As first reported by GoPokes.com and confirmed through the university source, OSU’s APR..." May 14
Tulsa World "The Oklahoma State football program lost two probable starters between the Cotton Bowl and the start of spring drills. Coach Mike Gundy began a pre-spring press conference Monday by announcing that Lyndell Johnson is no longer with the team due to personal reasons and by saying two offensive..." March 10
College Football Talk "Well..." February 15
The Oklahoman ..." February 07
The Oklahoman "Former Oklahoma State cornerback Justin Gilbert continues to rack up postseason accolades. Even some of the “fun” variety. Gilbert won the Skechers GoRun Hands Competition at the Quicken Loans All-Star Football Challenge Tuesday in Dallas. Gilbert finished with a time of 22.61 seconds,..." January |
I also am so thrilled that I won the give away that Cathy was having. The fabric is beautiful and I am just so excited. So in the spirit of giving and receiving I will have a give away soon. I will also be working on the tutorial for the bag. I just didn't get much done this weekend due to a nasty stomach bug. Hopefully that's over and we can move on. Yuck!
12 comments:
this quilt top looks amazing. i love those fabrics...sorry you were not feeling well
Hope you're feeling better now! Your quilt looks great! :)
very nice quilt, like the "retro" colors
Congrats on winning Cathy's giveaway. Your quilt top is wonderful. I love the Arcadia line of fabrics. I can't seem to purchase them anywhere. Great job on the quilt top. Can't wait to see it all finished.
Your quilt turned out so nice and I say, make it bigger, not that you asked my opinion!!
It looks great. I love the colors and patterns. How were you thinking of adding too it? More whirlygigs or something more border like?
I love this quilt because it has such a scrappy, old-fashioned look to it. I'm eager to see how you finish it.
So cute - love Arcadia! I've got some Verna charms ordered - must do this quilt!
That turned out so well!!!! I just love it. You could add a white border to frame it and then that will also set the binding off. Thank you so much for doing the quiltalong. We are small but creative group. :-)
Cathy
I also meant to say that I hope you are feeling better. I think that stomach bugs have to be the worst!
Cathy
Love your wirly gig quilt!! It is fabulous! I bought a wirly gig template a few months ago with the intent to make one, but just haven't got there yet. Yours is great inspiration!
lov'n the arcadia fabric! how big did that come out to? you used 2 charm packs? I am ready to start mine this week. |
How wonderful it is that we can go to the grocery store, and for a mininum percent of our wages, be able to purchase so many different types of fruits, vegetables, grains, meats and of course dairy foods!
How wonderful is it that we are so blessed in our country to have choices as to how our food is raised, produced and cared for!
How great is it that we can purchase our foods knowing that 97% of all farms in our country are family owned and operated. Families that also feed their own children what they raise!
How awesome is it that we can purchase food at the grocery store and know that it was inspected, tested and checked for quality before it even reached the shelves!
How amazing is it that our farmers each have a choice as to how they raise and produce food, but they know that those choices need to be made for the generations of farmers yet to come!
How awesome is it that we have the use of technology, which is abling farmers to use their resources of land and water even more wisely when they grow food!
How great is it to know that farmers, such as ourselves and many others, are still willing to work tirelessly to care for livestock in all weather conditions, raising healthy animals with the utmost respect for them!
How generous are our farmers, to often be the leaders in our communities and organizations in feeding the poor and starving of our own country and others!
How GREAT is Agriculture??? You ate today, right??? Help us celebrate an industry which helps feed the world! |
Do you think Stephen King’s Clown is scary?
Would anyone buy a piece of equipment for public works without first getting the advice of someone who really knows equipment? Our guess is, they wouldn’t! So, why would anyone want to hire someone without an expert opinion?
A bad hire can cost 5-10 times one year’s salary (often thousands of dollars more). In most cases that’s lots more than the cost of a piece of equipment.
Now that’s scary.
Most job candidates can put on a pretty good show for an interview, but I advise potential clients: “You should be careful not to hire the best salesperson … unless, of course you are actually hiring a salesperson.”
Put another way, would you propose marriage based on one great date and a very nice letter from your partner’s Mum?
A bad hire can really mess with a municipality, and it can reflect badly on EVERYBODY in the organization … even the politicians … or, should I say, ESPECIALLY the Mayor and Council!
Today is unlike almost any other time in history. There is an extreme shortage of TOP TALENT people available. It’s as a result of the retiring Baby Boomers. They are jumping ship at an unprecedented rate … 1000 a day turn 65 … 30,000 every month and 360,000 every year! And this is going to continue for another 12 years!
Having a plan for hiring and hiring the right recruiter will give you the best chance of success.
No matter how you plan to go about hiring, here are some helpful thoughts:
Before you begin your search, you will want to define the attributes for success that you’ll need in this role. For instance, what are the essential attitudes, skills and abilities you are looking for in the ‘right’ candidate?
To make things easier, we have developed a selection tool. When we do the search, we put all candidates through our proprietary A.S.K Selection ™ Questionnaire. The customized questionnaire examines, in depth, what a candidate has to offer you.
Have you ever thought about ‘FIT’? How will this new hire ’FIT’ with other members of staff?
Not long ago, one of our newer clients complained that, before they came to us, they had gone to a lot of trouble to make certain they were hiring the person they believed was best for the job. They found the best-educated, most highly-skilled, qualified and capable person … only to have the new hire fail miserably! “He was a great guy,” they explained, “he just didn’t fit!”
What selection tools do you have? Ravenhill goes to great lengths to test for ‘FIT’. We begin each search with a customized CCQ ™ Corporate Culture Questionnaire. It’s a brief but impactful questionnaire that guides us in identifying ‘FIT’. The results will help everyone gain a better understanding of the corporate culture of your municipality.
Clients are constantly amazed at the results they achieve with Ravenhill Group’s corporate culture ‘FIT’ and A.S.K Selection ™ CCQ ™ assessment tools.
One of the most peculiar things I see is people who retire from municipal work and then decide that they are going to become consultants. It’s their ‘retirement plan’!
So, they hang out their shingle as a “Recruiter” and attempt to do something for others that they had a lot of difficulty doing for themselves!
Now, don’t get me wrong, I have never been a CAO, and could never do what they do. A good CAO’s skill as a communicator their ability to lead people – those are great skills and I admire them.
Doing it yourself, or even using an outside agency that talks a big story, but can’t really do anything for you, can waste a lot of time! Stop and think about what that wasted time costs you?
Some municipalities invite us to work with them on recruiting “The Ravenhill Way”. We help them to avoid hiring mistakes, and they appreciate having a proven, repeatable system for all new hires… it’s not nearly as scary as the do-it-yourself approach.
Other municipalities won’t have read this far … they’ll admire the picture!
It’s never too late, as they say… so, call Ravenhill today!
1-888-447-5910 ext. 700 |
By Pat Maurer
Correspondent
Three area World War II veterans were part of the first mid-Michigan Honor Flight to Washington recently.
Honor Flight is a charity organization that flies vets to DC to see the memorials of whichever war or wars they served in. They have been taking veterans to the Washington DC War Memorials for more than nine years.
It is estimated that World War II veterans are dying at a rate of 500 a day, and their opportunity to see their memorial is diminishing by the minute.
The “Tour of Honor” is free to the veteran, with airfare, meals, a deluxe tour bus, t-shirt and other items provided at no cost. “It is our way of paying a small tribute to those who gave so much,” Organizers said.
As part of this memorial event, local school students, veterans’ families and friends all contributed thank-you cards, drawings, poems, letters and more were given to the veterans on their return flight as part of a special “Mail Call.”
Last fall an Honor Flight hub was established in Mecosta to serve northern Michigan veterans. There is a hub in Kalamazoo, serving that portion of the state including Grand Rapids and another in the Upper Peninsula in Gladstone, but up until October of 2013, there has never been a hub between the Lansing area and Mackinaw City.
Organizers say it is an experience that many vets call the “best day of their lives.”
Dan Abbott, a retiree and World War II Army Vet that moved to Farwell in 1996, said the trip was “indescribable. That trip was the most exciting experience I’ve ever had in my life, he said. “It was so fantastic I couldn’t describe it,” he said. “When we got off the plane, I was a PFC. Before it was over I felt like a general. When we got back to Grand Rapids, over 300 people greeted us. It was unimaginable.”
He said he was awed by the grandeur of the World War II Memorial. “It was impressive, phenomenal,” he said. “We were treated like kings. We went to everything imaginable in Washington DC. The trip was way beyond anyone’s imagination.”
Dan served during World War II stateside. He said he was drafted three times and declared 4-F the first two because of being blind in one eye and with limited vision in the other. “The third time they inducted me,” he said. “That was at Fort Snelling, Minnesota in 1945. I was the clerk that handled discharges.” His wife Shirley also served as a WAC from 1955 through 1958.
Dan’s guardian was from Washington D.C. and met his plane when it landed just outside the city at Dulles Airport. “I couldn’t have
had a better guide,” he said.
Each of the 70 veterans that went on the trip June 24th was accompanied by a “guardian” who escorted them to the various ceremonies and locations in Washington.
Clare Veterans’ Director Renee Haley, also an Army Veteran, was a guardian on the trip for Prudenville resident Basil D. Ciaramitaro, 93, who served in the Army during the Battle of the Bulge.
In a phone interview after his return, Ciaramitaro said it was a life changing experience for him. His daughter Marilyn Ciaramitaro added, “He hasn’t stopped talking about it for three days.”
“I loved it, I’ll never forget it, it was wonderful,” he said. “I loved how when we went through different towns, Mothers, fathers and children were waiting for us. It made me cry. There were police with the lights flashing that greeted us from the overpasses. It was marvelous.”
He said he served with the Mechanized Calvary, who spearheaded moves, driving armored vehicles into areas to draw enemy fire in Europe. “We were with Patton’s army in Germany for a while and spent 49 days in foxholes by the Alv River. We lost 50,000 men in the Battle of the Bulge, but we finally drove the Germans out.” He said he was 22 when he went in the Army and 26 years-old just after he was discharged. “We were all young men then,” he said.
Haley said, “It was an honor to be a guardian to Basil. I gained not only a ‘brother in arms’, but more important a friend in him and his family members.”
She continued, “Trying to sum up this experience is difficult at best. It was bittersweet because our WWII veterans endured conditions unimaginable by most. They are truly the ‘Best Generation,’ whose stories will soon go unheard. This was a life changing event for each of us that had the privilege to be a part of this momentous event! They [the veterans] were able to experience firsthand that this country has not forgotten them or the sacrifices that they have given to this great nation. The support that we received from Big Rapids to Washington D.C. and back to Grand Rapids was unbelievable. Hundreds of people were at each location to shake the hands and thank our World War II veterans for their service. This is something that I will never forget.”
A guardian from Clare, Mayor Pat Humphrey accompanied his wife Dawn’s 90 year-old Uncle Robert Witkovsky of Bay City.
“The trip was a very emotional time for both vets and their guardians,” said Humphrey, who served in the Marine Corps during the Vietnam War era. “It was a very long day, but fun for the vets who enjoyed swapping stories. It started Monday evening (June 23) with a special dinner at Ferris State University, and went from there by special bus to Grand Rapids very early Tuesday morning.” He continued. “Along the way, every overpass was lined with fire trucks with lights flashing and with firefighters to honor the veterans.”
The veterans and guardians’ flight to Washington left around 8:30 a.m., arriving in Washington DC around 11:30 a.m. where they were greeted by Honor Flight people, families and other veterans at the airport. They were bussed from Dulles Airport into DC and arrived at the World War II Memorial around 11:30 a.m. From there the group went to the Korean War Memorial and the Vietnam War Wall. “What was really neat about the whole trip was the logistics (planning) of getting everyone to all of the locations,” Humphrey said. “Everywhere we went we were greeted by crowds of people and had special police escorts around the city. It was very well orchestrated and very emotional for everyone. Uncle Bob was very, very thrilled to have the chance to visit the WWII memorial because it meant so much to them.”
All of the memorials are located near the Lincoln Memorial. Later, after Arby’s provided a sack lunch on the busses for everyone, in the afternoon the group was taken to Arlington National Cemetery to visit the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier for a moving tribute there when Honor Flight performed a special ceremony.
With the day in the nation’s capital complete, it was back to the airport and the return flight to Grand Rapids, where they arrived later that evening.
The day wasn’t over yet though. The Amway Corporation had cleared a special huge hangar, where the veterans and guardians were invited to see a World War II B17 bomber flown in that afternoon for the event. There was entertainment and a very moving “Mail Call,” which commemorated the most important time for any soldier serving during World War II. Students from 51 counties wrote letters and there were letters and cards from neighbors, friends and family waiting for each veteran.
“It was a very, very moving, emotional and fun day,” said Humphrey. “The patriotism was unbelievable. It was a long day, but the veterans handled it well. It was the experience of a lifetime for all of us.”
Photos provided by P. Humphrey and R. Haley
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Farron: Extra NHS Funding Means Kendal Radiotherapy Must Go Ahead
With the government announcing significant increases in NHS funding, Tim Farron MP has insisted that there can be no excuses for not pressing ahead with plans for radiotherapy provision in Kendal.
As part of its Spending Review, due to be announced on Wednesday, the government has announced that front-line NHS services in England will get a £3.8bn, above-inflation cash injection next year. The funding boost represents a rise of nearly 4% on NHS England's £101bn front-line budget this year. By 2020, the NHS will receive an additional £10 billion a year.
In January, Tim secured an agreement from the Treasury that they will fund the £15 million project to bring a radiotherapy unit to Kendal, subject to the Department of Health supporting the project. The unit will be a satellite unit of the Rosemere Cancer centre of Preston but will be based at Westmorland General Hospital. However, the present bid for the service is currently being held up by NHS England.
Tim has written to the Health Secretary to demand that the present bid be considered and approved without further delay.
The national radiotherapy advisory group recommends that patients should not have to travel for longer than 45 minutes in order to access services, yet almost no South Lakes residents live within 45 minutes of the nearest unit in Preston.
Tim said: "In light of the government's announcement of additional funding for NHS England, there can be no reason for the radiotherapy project not to be given the green light.
"At present, South Lakes residents have to travel intolerable distances to access radiotherapy services. I want to see the decision made to bring these services here to Kendal, so that those in need of treatment have easy access to high-quality services without spending hours travelling each day." |
Wednesday's reflections are written by: Paticha Areepipatkul '18, Alex Garcia '17 Caren Ye '17, Korkid Akepanidtaworn '18, and Pate Sanders '17. Students visited Impact Hub, GREE, Code for America, and Google.
Paticha's Reflection [Impact Hub, GREE, Google]
Paticha is a member of the class of 2018 from Thailand, Bangkok majoring in Psychology and Economics. She is also a founding member of WeStudee, a study partnering application.
We started our Silicon Valley Trip running through blocks of buildings in San Francisco. I call it the “San Francisco Marathon.” The tight schedule made it a rush, so I have a vague memory of what the buildings look like and the environment of the place. But inside the building was a whole different world; Each place had their own niche and sense of strong energy.
Walking into Impact Hub was like walking into a combination between a homey coffee shop and an art studio, and it gave a comfortable ambiance with a creative twist. At GREE, their simple design and organized setting fits with what they do, and everything in their office lined up with everything else. Meanwhile Google’s vibrant decorations at the Google office created an energetic playground look to the place.
On top of the unique atmostpheres every managers and director we met had unique personalities and came from diverse backgrounds. Within five hours I met top tech people who do similar type of work but have completely different backgrounds. This confirms my belief that there is no exact model to success and the only thing in common was the excitement in the work they do. Every time they talked about their jobs, vision, and the mission of their company they lit up. Of all the places we have visited, visiting the Google office excited me the most. Meeting a Googler in-person and asking them about Google products that I’d read and searched about was awesome.
The first day tour gave me the insights of people who work in the tech field and a better understanding of their work processes, their purpose and the goals of what they do, and most importantly a reason for them to care about what they do. I think it is important to care about what you do, but what I really appreciated was how they shared their causes with others, and this really added to the value of the experience from this trip.
Alex's Reflection [Impact Hub]
Our stop at Impact Hub really kicked off our trip in a meaningful and beautiful way. A smiling and cheerful Keely Stevenson greeted us at the entrance of the Impact Hub’s spacious open office, and she walked us through to an open conference room with “Welcome Wesleyan!” largely written on a white board flanking the entrance. Keely sure wasted no time in getting us to think about how to build things that actually mattered for the world. After we all sat down and gave introductions, she immediately posed the big question of “how do we address poverty issues?” Mentioning healthcare, water, and energy as things that many people don’t have access to in an affordable way. Keely’s discussion on the challenges and triumphs of building services and products for poverty stricken people was underscored by her previous work as CEO of Bamboo Finance, one of the first major Impact Investing firms. Impact investing is a field of finance that invests in socially good services and ventures that many traditional investors deem too risky. Despite the higher risks in impact investing, she expressed optimism for further growth in that field. And contrary to popular belief, she elaborated, investing in social change can bring in great returns on investment. In essence, the cliche of “doing well by doing good” really is something that is attainable and can be aspired to.
Keely definitely lives up to this saying. After discussing and answering questions about her career path, she proudly announced her current work—working on her startup the Weal Life, which aims to make health care coordination among family members and close friends less painful and exhausting. We really learned a lot about the different paths of social entrepreneurship and I’m so glad that this was our first stop for the first Kai Wesleyan Takes on Silicon Valley trip.
Caren’s Reflection [GREE, Code for America]
Caren is a member of the class of 2017 from Shanghai, China majoring in Studio Art and Environmental Studies.
I’ve always thought about doing environmental design for my future career so I came to this trip hoping it might be an eye-opening experience for me in terms of new perspectives on my art/architecture track as well as an introduction to a new tech-related field.
The office tours and talks offered valuable insights. The office spaces incorporated individual work desks, promoting personal productivity, in tandem w meeting tables and kitchens, which encouraged collaborative work. I was particularly impressed to find out that many players in the tech field actually came from non-tech backgrounds. At GREE, the Product Manager Alex Rosen, a Wes Alum of ‘08, shared what he’s done since studying CSS at Wes and talked about how his study abroad experience in South Africa as a computer tutor got him interested in technology. He also ran into a guy in a coffee shop in New York City and turned out to work for him in the gaming field, giving valuable experinence before going on to work at GREE. I couldn’t help but think about how our wide range of experiences get us to our current point and you never really know what you’re gonna get. Every choice and decision could give us an opportunity to discover a fresh idea or a path, and so I must be conscious about what I am doing and act boldly. I saw a similarly surprising life path from designers at Code for America who majored in art (printmaking) at college but found their interests lay in public engagement, design, and coding, all intersecting with each other with their work at Code for America. I’m now rethinking how my interests about politics and philosophy could incorporate into making environmental design and how this all could better serve civic engagement and the people using them. I’ve never really thought about working in technology before, but seeing all these artists applying their design skills through technology cast a new light on my career possibilities. Moving forward I can’t wait to learn more about computer science and get more involved in the entrepreneurship community.
Krid’s Reflecion [Impact Hub, GREE]
Krid is a member of the class of 2018 from Bangkok, Thailand planning to major in Economics and Mathematics.
“It’s been a long way from Wesleyan to San Francisco, California, but we made it!”
My first day of Kai Silicon Valley trip has been really amazing and inspiring. We met with many Wesleyan Alumni and entrepreneurs in San Francisco area. As a student interested lie in social entrepreneurship, tech startups, and business ownership, I was impressed by many entrepreneurs we met with including Tim Freundlich. Despite majoring in Film studies at Wesleyan in 1990 Tim went on to co-found Impact Hub which connects social innovators together to share ideas, office spaces and create social change. When we toured around Impact Hub I could feel the tangible energy the shared office space enabled. This co-working space business idea is also emerging and growing very fast in Thailand and I am so glad that I get to see real working environment in Impact Hub with my own eyes.
We went on to meet Alex Rosen at GREE International, a global leader in building top-quality, high engagement free-to-play mobile games. He graduated as a CSS major at Wesleyan, and ended up working in tech. He reflected that career life is like another college life, where you get to continuously learn new types of things. He advised us that we should keep seeking experiences and doing what we are passionate in.
This trip alters the way I look at things around me and the opportunities I have in college and my career. No matter what majors you graduate in, no matter what obstacles you might have, Wesleyan is a great venue and playground of idea experimentation. I am now developing goals to establish my own club at Wesleyan and contribute ideas I’ve seen in California to our Wesleyan community, as well as hopefully engage in social change projects for the Thai society.
Pate's Reflection [Code for America]
Pate is a member of the class of 2017 from Los Angeles, CA majoring in English with a Creative Writing Certificate. He is the founder of Line, an early stage link sharing startup.
Our Silicon Valley Trip has shown me many perspectives on what entrepreneurship can mean. Whisking around San Francisco and seeing so many unique constructive working environments, from Impact Hub’s wide open lounges of couches to GREE’s utilitarian all-white labyrinth of conference rooms. pointed to the many different roles that tech can take on nowadays, building games and providing aid alike. The office we visited that best demonstrated the versatility of tech and left the biggest impact on me was Code for America.
Code for America builds open-source applications for city governments, bringing the spirit and benefits of private entrepreneurship to civic structures and bridging the gap between the two. Code for America’s flagship program is their Fellowship Program. It offers 20 young people who submit the most compelling cases for the problems in government they want to change the resources to make their visions happen. Government structures often seem archaic, non-accessible and far-removed from our daily lives; they take on the role of barriers that keep us from what we want rather than assisting us in our lives. Code for America seeks to reverse this paradigm and reestablish government as both by the people and for the people.
City governments often seem to take a top-down approach to solving problems in cities, implementing systems and allocating money and assigning staff to general areas that will then approach their respective designations however they want. This makes the bottom-up, specific work that Code for America does all the more important, plugging the holes in access and utility that government leaves. Programs like Aunt Bertha help users find food, health, housing and employment based on their postal code, empowering local citizens to solve their own problems rather than rely on a government-designated solution and one-size-fits-all approach. This complements government’s capabilities as a general provider nicely.
One problem that Code for America’s quarterly magazine mentioned references these specific tech-based utilities’ tendency to solve a specific problem in the creator’s mind and their inability to change or scale well to actual user needs. They also require specific concerted upkeep to really offer anything to the public, and so years down the line can fall into disarray without input and disuse if the problems in a city have shifted. These issues point to the inherent differences in the public and private sectors and the friction melding the two can cause. But Code for America is reducing that friction and bringing the government closer to its people. They are building tools that help America function as a structure and as a populace. And I’m inspired. |
artEquity Community,
Much has happened since our last round of funding.
Too many have continued to be brutalized and killed by State-Sanctioned Violence both before and since the deaths of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, Tony McDade, and Rayshard Brooks.
Over 100,000 people have died from the Coronavirus - including a disproportionate amount of Black and Brown people.
Mayors around the country are rethinking their police budgets and the discourse around defunding the police is being amplified.
Minneapolis City Council announced a plan to disband their police department.
New York lawmakers approved a bill granting public access to police disciplinary records.
Los Angeles Mayor has agreed to reduce the police department budget by at least 150 million dollars.
In Louisville, policymakers passed Breonna’s Law banning no-knock warrants.
Most importantly, organizers continue to effectively educate and mobilize their communities in pursuit of justice.
Yes, much has happened, and even more must be done. In this third round of the Artist + Activist Community Fund we call on everyone to focus attention on Black, Indigenous, People of Color who need support, and BIPOC led organizations who are serving BIPOC communities. That is our mandate. All Artist + Activist Community Funds will go to Black. Indigenous. People of Color.
Who is the Round 3 Artist + Activist Community Fund For?
These funds are for BIPOC National Facilitator Training (NFT) alums who are working at the intersection of arts, culture, and justice.
This third round of funding will provide two levels of support to BIPOC NFT alums:
First, for BIPOC NFT alums experiencing immediate acute needs (i.e. someone who does not have access to employment, unemployment insurance/benefits, family support, other emergency fund support), this fund will support gifts of approximately $2,500 USD.
Second, for BIPOC NFT alums who are not experiencing acute needs, but are experiencing financial hardship (i.e. you have a thin safety net that is running out), this fund will support gifts of approximately $300 - $500 USD.
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Anna Maria Ortese’s Evening Descends Upon the Hills is a book that, Atlas-like, seems to bear on its shoulders the weight of the most overwhelming human sorrow – but also the burden of humanity’s ‘small, wretched acts of violence, an abyss of voices and events, tiny terrible gestures’, the unspeakable social stains and realities to which Ortese gives voice and discourse, and that Elena Ferrante said gave her writing its sense of direction.
A protean collection of short stories, reportage pieces and very intimate cameos of Naples’ ‘pure Marxist’ intelligentsia, each section is ineluctably and inextricably linked to the others, fiction being the catalyst for realities one cannot otherwise encompass or confront, enunciate or internalise, while reality provides the ultimate reason to be in a world that seems to forbid and abort all existence.
Whether writing fiction or factual narrative, Ortese gives us a very raw, neo-realist account of Naples, a daring endeavour of sincerity that cost her considerable criticism and even personal trauma as a writer. Her powers as a storyteller are substantial, and she deploys them without constraint, conjuring before our eyes worlds of almost unfathomable bathos, from which some readers may struggle to emerge:
‘amorphous poverty, silent as a spider, unravelling and then reweaving in its fashion those wretched fabrics, entangling the lowest levels of the populace which here reigned supreme. It was extraordinary to think how, instead of declining or stagnating, the population grew, and, increasing, became even more lifeless, causing drastic confusion for the local government’s convictions, while the hearts of the clergy were swollen with a strange pride and even stranger hope. Here Naples was not bathed by the sea.’
Fickle, facile reading of her pages could result in a sense that she is almost inhumanly harsh, senselessly exhaustive in her inventories of misery and cunning, usury and depravity, deformity, debasement. What Ortese seeks instead is to provoke in us a responsiveness to the tragedy close at hand, to the historical drama at our doorstep, that we more comfortably reserve for human lives that are too distant in space or time.
Ortese is a social anthropologist, a cultural historian, a documentarist, but also a kind of confessor, listening to every frequency of human wretchedness and pain, able to withstand, as an emotional filter and recipient, almost every shock of human tragedy. Hers is a disembodied voice, being lent to the service of so many voiceless existences. She is invisible in order to reveal – even if there seems to be no revelation, no vision, anywhere. One can almost see her walking, with her very particular dignity and presence, in the alleys of Naples and through the crowds of discarded humanity; she chronicles, with a luminosity that must have clashed beyond bearing with the surrounding squalor and darkness, giving us at least a sense of hoped-for illumination. She uses words the way others of her generation – Capa, Kalischer, Kertesz – used a camera to capture the moment humanity collapses but also shines in its trauma and fragility.
Ortese’s writing has something intensely obsessive, unavoidable – a compulsion to look closely at what repels and horrifies one most strongly, a sense of inescapable destiny and fatality. Human portraits melt into dire urban landscapes and fade into social termini. She is a writer full of sharp angles, acidic aftertastes and ambiguities, a painter of words whose palette has developed a propensity for hues of morbid sepias contrasted by cerulean azures or emerald greens. She evinces ineluctable clarity and an almost ectoplasmic writerly presence, as if her texts were composed in and transmitted from some distant, immaculate and otherworldly dimension.
And yet every word and image cannot but strike a vital, deep, intimate chord; read her with audacity and trepidation; follow her as though on a pilgrimage; she will transport you to a world where language and narrative can reclaim their crucial urgency and value.
Reviewed by Mika Provata-Carlone
EVENING DESCENDS UPON THE HILLS
Written by Anna Maria Ortese
Translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein and Jenny McPhee
Published by Pushkin Press (2018) TOOMAS NIPERNAADI by August Gailit
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A North County judge ordered a new trial in a case where prosector conduct was questioned not only by the defense but by the judge himself.
On Tuesday, Judge Harry Elias ordered an ex-con facing life in prison for stealing two bikes would get a new trial because of prosecutor's "willful omission" of sharing fingerprint evidence, the North County Times reported.
During the case, Judge Elias criticized the prosecutors’ handling of fingerprint evidence and said the DA's office has a bad reputation among some defense attorneys, and other judges.
Prosecutors, who insist they did absolutely nothing wrong in that case, filed a motion demanding Judge Elias should step down from the case because those comments reveal “a clear mindset of bias and prejudice.”
“We take our duty to do that very seriously and we hold ourselves to the highest ethical standards,” San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis said.
Elias said he had done absolutely nothing wrong, and would stay on the case.
In Tuesday's ruling, Elias said he didn't dismiss the charges because the prosecutors "willful omission" of sharing evidence would not have changed the jury's findings of guilt, the paper reported. He also said he had considered issuing an order of contempt for the deputy district attorney but didn't because a fine wouldn't "solve the damage done to Bowles" according to the nctimes.
Elias is a former prosecutor, with years of experience on the bench. He's handed high-profile cases, like the trial of off-duty policeman Frank White, who was acquitted of negligence in the shooting of a motorist.
One veteran attorney said Judge Elias is an excellent jurist, with a reputation for fairness.
“He doesn't always rule their way, but he calls them the way he sees them, and that's all you can expect from a judge," said attorney Lynn Beheymer. |
Pipeline protestors project ‘#NODAPL’ on SF Federal Building
Updated 8:33 am, Friday, January 27, 2017
Hundreds of people gathered outside a federal building in San Francisco to protest President Donald Trumpâs plan to move forward with two controversial pipeline projects.
Media: KTVU
For a few minutes, the street was almost silent.
It was a respite from the yelling for the several hundred protestors who Thursday night packed themselves outside San Francisco’s Federal Building to protest President Trump’s executive order that on Tuesday paved the way for the contested Dakota Access Pipeline and other domestic energy projects.
The moments of silence, when the self-stylized water protectors walked into Mission Street and sat down, taking up a sizable swath between Seventh and Eighth streets, came after organizers projected “#NODAPL” in large type on the federal building and aboriginal attendees danced and chanted around the crowd.
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Hundreds of protestors briefly filled Mission Street across from the Federal Building Thursday night to decry President Trump’s executive actions on energy production.
Hundreds of protestors briefly filled Mission Street across from the Federal Building Thursday night to decry President Trump’s executive actions on energy production.
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They brought all the standard signs to the event an organizer said was put together by a Native American advocacy organization, Idle No More SF Bay, and other groups: “Protect the water,” “Step past fossil fuels” and the like. And, as usual, some signs were too explicit to print.
But two undergraduate students who made their way across the bay from UC Berkeley said Trump’s directives Tuesday added new urgency to their movement toward alternative energies and away from fossil fuels.
Jacques Jougla, a freshman from Santa Barbara majoring in environmental science, said that developing renewable energy sources was nothing less than “our future,” adding that this was some way to show that, however small.
“Especially now in light of the election, we can’t rely on the national government anymore to take a stand,” Jougla, 18, said. “California needs to do this.”
His friend helping him hold an anti-DAPL banner, Angela White, also a freshman by way of Chicago, added that “this is just one example of a really long history of abuse of native people, and that’s never been acknowledged.” |
Auli’i Cravalho, the voice of Disney’s Moana, stars in the new NBC drama Rise. After a panel on Rise for the Television Critics Association, Cravalho spoke with reporters further about the future of Moana. She is going to record the Hawaiian language voice of Moana in a new translation, and we will soon meet the character again in Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2.
“After this I’ll head back to New York and then head home to Hawaii where I’ll be doing the Hawaiian voice of Moana,” Cravalho said. “So the entire film again but this time in the native language of Hawaiian. I’m incredibly lucky.”
As with any translation, not every English idiom exists in other languages, but the Moana translation will be adapted as closely as possible.
“A lot of it will be kept as true as possible, but as translations change, it’ll certainly be different,” Cravalho said. “It’ll still have the main goal and the main heart of the story.”
Cravalho also reprises her role of Moana in the Wreck-It Ralph sequel, Ralph Breaks The Internet. Her scene, in which all the Disney princesses meet, premiered at D23.
“I loved that,” Cravalho said. “It was so much fun to bring back my character. I believe I saw just a few storyboards, which is usually how it is in animation. You get sort of a sense of what’s going on and then they just let you go and you do it over and over, many different ways, little lilts in your voice and perhaps with a question at the end. That’s really fun but I had no idea just how funny and how well it would resonate with audiences.”
As with most animation, Cravalho recorded alone and finally met her fellow princesses at D23.
“I did not get to meet them in person until later at D23 when we did the actual reveal of Wreck-It Ralph and we had a little short clip,” Cravalho said. “We recorded everything separately but it was wonderful to see these incredible women who kind of shaped my childhood, if I can say that. I’m only 17. My childhood was, what, three years ago.”
As for a proper Moana sequel…
“My lips are sealed,” Cravalho said. “I don’t know.”
Rise premieres on March 13, 2018 on NBC. |
Elizabeth Cook Joins Cast of Conway Twitty Musical
- The folks behind the musical production Conway Twitty: The Man, The Music, The Legend, The Musical announced that Elizabeth Cook (MySpace) has been added to the cast to play the role of Joni Twitty, one of Conway’s daughters. (via press release)
- The New York Times‘ Jon Caramanica calls John Rich‘s “Shuttin Detroit Down” the first great song of the bailout era.
- The Gobblers Knob Awesome Song Alert: “Ellis County” from Buddy & Julie Miller.
- Only eight months elapsed between the release of Justin Townes Earle‘s The Good Life and the recent Midnight at the Movies, and he told CMT’s Chris Parton that his next record is already written, but he doesn’t want people to expect such a prolific output for his entire career.
- Fun fact: Today is the 60th anniversary of the 45 rpm, the first of which was Eddy Arnold’s Texarkana Baby, recorded in Nashville and released by RCA. (via email)
New releases for the week of March 31, 2009 include:
Bryan Clark – Gossip, Inspiration & Slander
Vol. 1: Acoustic – Amazon | iTunes
Vol. 2: Electric – Amazon | iTunes
Bobby Osborne & The Rocky Top X-Press – Bluegrass & Beyond
Amazon | iTunes
Caitlin & Will – Caitlin & Will (EP)
Amazon | iTunes
Dailey & Vincent – Brothers from Different Mothers
Amazon | iTunes
Keith Urban – Defying Gravity
Amazon ($3.99) | iTunes
Rodney Atkins – It’s America
Amazon | iTunes
The Flatlanders – Hills & Valleys
Amazon | iTunes
As always, let me know if I missed any.
- Steve Wariner is putting the finishing touches on a Chet Atkins tribute album that he hopes to release this summer.
- Wade Bowen walked away with awards for best vocal performance on an album and best album at the inaugural LoneStarMusic Awards on Sunday. Among the other winners were Brady Black for best musician, Randy Rogers for best songwriter and Jason Boland for writing the best song, “Comal County Blue.” Watch a video of Randy Rogers and Brady Black perform “Holding On To Letting Go,” a song Rogers wrote with Bruce Robison, from the awards.
- Hickory Wind’s Hal Bogerd describes The Man Of Somebody’s Dreams: A Tribute To The Songs Of Chris Gaffney as equal parts wake and celebration.
- The CMT New Video Evaluation Team weighed in on four new videos: Trace Adkins‘ “Marry For Money,” Kellie Pickler‘s “Best Days of Your Life,” Dean Brody‘s “Brothers” and Williams Riley‘s “I’m Still Me.”
- Jamie Dailey and Darrin Vincent shared stories behind a couple of the songs from their new album, Brothers From Different Mothers, with The Bluegrass Blog.
- Canadian country trio Doc Walker (MySpace) scored a Juno Award for Country Recording of the Year for their album, Beautiful Life.
- SHeDAISY added three new songs to their MySpace from their forthcoming album, A Story to Tell. Look for “Mr. McLennen,” “Never Had You” and “Unsatisfied.” (via That Nashville Sound)
- Between Toby Keith‘s good-ol’-boy flag-wavers and Rascal Flatts‘ power ballads, the Cleveland Scene‘s Michael Gallucci says Nashville has a reputation for turning out crap. He notes that not all country music sucks though, and lists five Nashville artists who don’t suck: Gary Allan, Miranda Lambert, Brad Paisley, Sugarland and Taylor Swift. (via The Boot)
- Don McLeese says the new album from The Flatlanders, Hills and Valleys, is a return to a truly collaborative project, unlike its predecessor, Wheels of Fortune, which was more along the lines of a song swap.
- Listen to a new song from Rascal Flatt‘s new album Unstoppable each day this week on The Boot.
- The Doc Marshalls (MySpace), who are currently based out of New York and blend Bakersfield shuffles and honky-tonk with Louisiana grooves, are preparing for a Texas tour and lead man Nick Beaudoing distinguishes between the Texas and New York country music scenes in the most recent edition of Galleywinter’s “Off the Cuff.”
- The Houston Press‘ John Nova Lomax shared a humorous story about the demise of Townes Van Zandt‘s rooster named Moe. (via Galleywinter tweet)
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March 31, 2009 at 11:56 am
I think Michael Gallucci ran out of inspiration for his list about half-way through and just turned to the Billboard charts to complete the story.
Also new this week is “Lost Channels” from Canadian folkish group Great Lake Swimmers. The whole album is streaming on their Myspace page,.
March 31, 2009 at 11:58 am
“five Nashville artists who don’t suck: Gary Allan, Miranda Lambert, Brad Paisley, Sugarland and Taylor Swift”
Well, four out of five isn’t bad.
March 31, 2009 at 12:36 pm
You wouldn’t know Sugarland doesn’t suck from their last 3 single releases.
Definitely agree about “Shuttin’ Detroit Down”, probably the best thing on the charts right now.
Fairly satisfied with both Urban and Atkins new albums… some duds for sure on both of them, but at least decent musical material, which is about all I expect from the current crop of artists.
March 31, 2009 at 12:37 pm
And is Elizabeth Cook the cleavage host from Nashville Star? Or who was that?
March 31, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Elizabeth Cook has a much more compelling voice than Twitty’s daughter.
March 31, 2009 at 1:45 pm
Drew, you are thinking about CMT hostess Katie Cook. Its great to hear that Elizabeth is getting a steady gig like that which will introduce her to a new audience. Personally I think Elizabeth would make a great “Louise” character on the revival of “Always Patsy Cline”.
Speaking of Justin Townes Earle, he will be performing here in Los Angeles this Thursday night at the Spaceland Club in Silverlake (northwest of Echo Park) along with Jason Isbell. That same night I’ll be heading down to the Anaheim House of Blues to see Kate & Kacey Coppola perform at a KKGO sponsored “ACM Kick-Off Concert”. When its a choice between real talent and pretty girls, well you know…
March 31, 2009 at 2:34 pm
Drew, do yourself a favor and check out Cook’s MySpace. Her best material isn’t in the player, but you should get a good feel for her music.
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Sidenote: I added Caitlin & Will’s EP to the list of releases.
March 31, 2009 at 2:41 pm
“He notes that not all country music sucks though, and lists five Nashville artists who don’t suck: Gary Allan, Miranda Lambert, Brad Paisley, Sugarland and Taylor Swift”
Amazingly, I too agree with him on 4 of these 5 (though Allan just barely makes this list, his material is way way questionable at times).
But once we dismiss Brad Paisley from the list, who is a suitable fifth?
I’m thinking Joey + Rory or Leann Womack (though, like Allan, they both merely reach mediocre status imo. Though sadly that is quite the accomplishment in Nashville these days).
March 31, 2009 at 3:23 pm
Elizabeth and Katie should not be confused
March 31, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Yep yep, I have her album on my computer, just forgot. I liked most of it, except the title track.
March 31, 2009 at 4:51 pm
Elizabeth is rarely confused. Katie, I don’t know.
Drew, she has a bunch of albums. They are pretty remarkable, taken all together.
March 31, 2009 at 5:39 pm
I have to say, I really like the SHeDAISY songs- especially “Unsatisfied”.
April 1, 2009 at 1:33 am
Rick’s Random Tidbits:
Here’s more om Elizabeth Cook joinging the Twitty musical cast:
PS – If anyone has doubts about King Kenny’s position at the top of the Top 40 country heap, check out the top 5 new single station adds this week at reporting stations:
“The MediaBase Most-Added Country Tunes:
1) Kenny Chesney/Out Last Night (69 Adds)
2) Brad Paisley/Then (25 Adds)
3) Keith Urban/Kiss A Girl (18 Adds)
4) Toby Keith/Lost You Anyway (16 Adds)
5) Jack Ingram/Barefoot And Crazy (13 Adds)
(Each week when I see these lists it reminds me why I lost interest in mainstream country radio….)
April 1, 2009 at 3:41 pm
Good to see you haven’t lost interest in trashing it. Every post you can….
April 1, 2009 at 7:10 pm
Only eight months elapsed between the release of Justin Townes Earle’s The Good Life and the recent Midnight at the Movies, and he told CMT’s Chris Parton that his next record is already written, but he doesn’t want people to expect such a prolific output for his entire career.
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Harold S. Conway (harorudokonuei Harorudo Conuei, May 24, 1911 - December 19, 1996) was an American tax advisor and actor who appeared frequently in Japanese films and television between the 1950s and 1970s. He was one of a trio of foreign actors appearing frequently in Toho's Showa era productions, along with Andrew Hughes and Osman Yusuf. Delivering his lines in both English and Japanese, he was perhaps best recognized for his role as Dr. Immelman in The Mysterians, a part which he reprised for the film's 1959 sequel, Battle in Outer Space. Conway acted in his last known role in 1975's I Am a Cat, and passed away sometime during 1996.
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Conway appeared with other English speaking actors in scenes filmed for Godzilla vs. the Thing (1964) that were not included in the original Japanese version, but were shown in other English speaking markets. |
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As a program coordinator practicing how to respond to the following questions can help you perform better in an interview. Additionally, the sample answer to every question can help you make a great impression and demonstrate that you’re fit for the job.
1. Why Are You Interested In This Role?
After going through the job posting for this role, I developed an interest in it since I have the attributes, skills, qualifications, and experience that you are looking for. I have been performing a similar role for three years now. I have the ability to multitask and handle a wide range of project planning and implementation. I have also gained a lot of experience in raising funds, budgeting, and managing communication with staff, stakeholders, and the public. As a program coordinator, I normally ensure that all team members are working appropriately and according to schedule so as to complete the projects on time. Besides, I have strong organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills. I love my current employer but, I am seeking a role with a bigger challenge to help me grow in my career. I believe your company can offer me such an opportunity.
2. What Are The Roles Of A Program Coordinator?
Program Coordinators are responsible for managing, coordinating, and overseeing various programs and projects. Other duties include:
- Monitoring the program’s staff
- Tracking and approving program expenditures
- Preparing financial statements as well as maintaining records of program activities
- Purchasing and approving the purchase supplies required to complete a project
- Managing outreach and marketing initiatives to the community
- Scheduling program work
- Supervising daily operations as well as coordinating program activities
- Setting priorities for program activities
- Preparing a request for grants from outside sponsors
3. What Are The Qualities That A Program Need To Be Successful?
A top-notch Program Coordinator must be able to lead, motivate, and encourage employees to work effectively to ensure program quality. They should have an innovative mindset to enable them to establish unique marketing ideas as well as devise ways to get additional funding. To be able to lead discussions, communicate ideas to team members, and perform public speaking roles, a program coordinator must have excellent communication both verbal and oral. In addition, a program coordinator must have self-motivation, adaptability, leadership, organizational, administrative, and clerical skills.
4. What Major Challenges Did You Face During Your Last Role? How Did You Manage Them?
When I first got promoted to being a program coordinator, I had challenges handling my old coworkers. The situation was awkward at first since the old coworkers regarded me to be more like them and could hesitantly obey my orders. I realized this was a challenge that needed to urgently be dealt with for me to be effective in my new role. I held a meeting with all the team members and we addressed the change in roles. I allowed the employees to ask some questions and I responded to them appropriately. From there, I took it as my initiative to support employees’ efforts and ensure that they have everything they need to accomplish their goals. Today, this is not an issue and the staff acknowledges me as their program coordinator. This situation taught me that time and the right leadership determines a successful transition.
5. Describe Your Daily Routine As A Program Coordinator?
When I report for work, I begin my day by going through my emails and voicemail messages to check if I have received grants from outside sponsors or if there is any information from the upper management. On a typical day, I hold meetings with my team members to examine recurring questions and ideas regarding future programs. I also interact with participants as well as supervise program activities. Besides performing managerial tasks, I review financial statements, order required supplies, and pay bills for the program activities. Moreover, I monitor feedback from the previous program to establish the areas that require improvements.
6. Describe Briefly About Your Experience?
Having been a program coordinator for 6 years now,. As a program coordinator, ensures that all team members work appropriately and according to schedule so as to complete the projects on time. Should you offer me this job, I will use all the skills and experience that I have gained to make a success in this role and exceed your expectation for the role.
7. What Kind Of Strategies And Mindset Are Required For This Role?
To succeed in this role, a program coordinator must have an innovative and creative mindset to devise ways of getting more funding from different sponsors. He needs to employ the strategies of multitasking, organizational, and time management skills to ensure that projects are completed on time.Moreover., he must use his communication skills effectively to be able to lead discussions, communicate ideas to team members, and perform public speaking roles.
8. What Is The Biggest Challenge You Foresee In This Job?
The biggest challenge I can foresee in this role is the absence of structures while overseeing teams of workers. Depending on this work environment, I think some employees may require to be more closely supervised than others to attain a high productivity level. However, I have the skills needed to develop an organizational structure that will help the employees to know what is expected of them. I can show respect to employees to encourage loyalty.
9. How Do You Stay Motivated At Work?
I am a self-motivated individual who is always ready to work in a challenging environment with determination and patience. I am also a result-oriented person. Any time I get positive results after completing a project, it makes me want to do more. Besides, I know how to manage the staff who work under me to ensure that we deliver quality work during and at the end of the project. As a program coordinator,I am able to lead, motivate, and encourage employees to work effectively to ensure program quality. I encourage my staff to multitask and to remain organized to ensure that projects are completed on time.
10. Describe A Time You Failed In This Role And The Lesson You Learned?
During my previous role as a program coordinator, I would call everyone for the meeting. This would cause us to spend a lot of time in the meeting since some members were not understanding the purpose of the meeting. They would raise points that were not part of the agenda. When I realized that this was becoming a great obstacle to the meeting, I began to invite only those with specific roles in our meeting. I would send them the agenda of the meeting before the actual meeting day. This helped in ensuring that meetings remained productive. I still do this up to date.
11. Why Do You Feel You Are Qualified For This Role?
I feel qualified for this role because I have the experience, skills, qualities, education, and expertise that you are looking for from the candidate. Previously, I have worked in a similar position and I am familiar with the challenges involved in managing programs.. Moreover, I am familiar with the specific program that you are hiring for. I have brilliant and unique ideas on how we can improve your program.
12. Share With Us Your Greatest Achievement
My greatest achievement was when I was able to convince our director to implement internal training as well as a promotion program within the organization. This allowed our personnel to advance within our organization. It increased the morale at work and the employee performance improved since everyone’s tasks were clearly delegated. Every employee felt recognized and accountable for his or her role. At the end of the first quarter of the year, we had successfully completed many projects and the ongoing ones were running smoothly.
13. How Would Your Previous Workmates Rate Your Performance
I believe that my previous peers would rate me highly. I have had time to build good relationships with all my coworkers. In my opinion, everyone is important to the success of the organization. I respected all my previous employees with respect without compromising on the project outcome.
14. As A Program Officer, You Will Be Managing Different Categories Of Employees Who Are Required To Be Paid. Highlight The Difference Between Salaries And Wages
The terms salary and wages are interchangeably used in bookkeeping. The wages apply to the nonexempt hourly staff and the salary applies to the exempt staff. Additionally, wages are determined by multiplying the hourly rate paid by the number of hours worked during the accounting period. Salary is determined by dividing the worker’s annual compensation by the accounting period( week, bi-weekly or monthly).
15. Demonstrate The Strategies You Will Apply To Evaluate Employee Performance From A Non-Biased Perspective.
When evaluating employee performance, I will maintain my professionalism as I focus on the outcome of the workers’ actions. When doing this, I will not value any personal relationship between me and the employees. I will also consider the written record of every employee. I believe that a written record provides more information on performance than my personal opinion. I will treat all workers equally to avoid team members from falling apart.
16. Take Me Through How You Plan A Project
After understanding the project requirements, I define the scope, goals, objectives, milestones, tasks, and resources required. Next, I develop a list of deliverables where I break down the project into small tasks that can be assigned to specific people including the deadline for completing each task. I then share the plan with everyone involved including their responsibilities in the project. We then discuss with my team the possible risks and how to mitigate them. After examining the budget, I then begin to execute the project. At this phase, I set the reporting guidelines for the progress of the work.
17. In Your Opinion, Why Do Projects Fail?
I believe projects can fail due to many reasons such as communication gaps, lack of project visibility, lack of resource planning, unclear objectives and goals, unrealistic expectations, lack of funds, and scope creep. Fortunately, each of the listed obstacles can be addressed if realized early enough.
18. As A Program Coordinator, How Do You Track Program Expenditures?
I have a project management tool and an excel sheet where I have recorded my team members including who is spending what and when. I can use both the project management tool and excel sheet online so that I can be able to access it anywhere at any time. On the other hand, my online project management tool is constantly updated and this reflects the actual spending in real-time. In case I notice a spike in spending, I can quickly identify it and address it before things get outboard.
19. Which Tools Have You Used To Monitor Your Team Member Performances In Your Previous Role?
I am familiar with different project management tools such as Trello, Evernote, JIRA, and Microsoft Visio, among others. I use Trello to monitor tasks and to ensure that each is completed within the deadline. Evernote helps me to create a to-do list that is stored on the cloud thus enabling me to access it anywhere anytime. When managing multiple teams, I like to use JIRA. Additionally, Microsoft Visio helps us when making presentations.
20. How Do Program Management Systems Help Eliminate The Challenges Of Workforce Mobility?
The process of managing the workforce adds a layer of complexity for program management as well as the mass communication needed during that process. Today, employees are increasingly performing their roles away simultaneously in different locations or facilities. By using program management systems, the program coordinator can make sure that the right information is communicated to the right people on time. Today, everyone has a mobile phone. Thus, they can download apps that will enable them to receive communication and act on it. They can get notified via push notifications and respond when asked to by their program coordinator.
21. As Program Coordinator, What Is Your Management Style?
As a program coordinator, I believe in building and working with.
22. What Is Your Approach To Conducting Productive Meetings?
I always hold a meeting when necessary and I ensure to include the purpose of that meeting. Before holding the meeting, I send the agenda to the attendees so that they can prepare themselves to offer feedback during the meeting. I select key people who have specific duties to play to attend the meeting. If the key decision-makers are not in a position to attend, I do postpone the meeting to a latter-day.
During the meeting, we set the meeting rules so that we can all remain focused without any interruptions. Before leaving for the meeting, I normally ask whether there is any roadblock or concern. Also, at the end of the meeting, I ask the attendees for their feedback concerning the duration timing, content, and effectiveness of that meeting.
23. What Are The Most Essential Elements Of Developing A Program Annual Budget?
It is important to develop a program annual budget as well as make sure that the projections and predictions you make are correct. You will need to know the organization’s goals regarding revenue, new projects, expansion, and spending. You will also need to be aware of the projected expenses and collect data from the heads of each project to determine a realistic projection for income. It will also be important to evaluate data from the past years to make adjustments that reflect predictable economic changes.
24. Do You Prefer A Single-Person Or Participative Budgeting?
I thrive while working both as an individual and on a team. I believe it’s important to involve the people who will be impacted by a budget while developing it. I make sure to apply my knowledge and experience to develop ways to limit expenditures. However, hearing from people who are closely impacted by the budget helps me to strategize. Additionally, these discussions may help pinpoint problems that might not cost the organization money at that moment but maybe later. I believe that participative budgeting can save money and time.
25. What Do You Do To Stay Informed Of Developments In Your Professional Area?
New developments keep coming up and one has to be on top of the bar to remain relevant in his or her role. This drives me to keep looking for opportunities to upgrade my skills and knowledge so that I can remain relevant in this role. Additionally, I have a proactive approach to tracking new developments whenever they arise as well as identifying potential issues.
Conclusion
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To assist care organizations in gathering drilled down insights Innovacer provides a solution that helps the organizations to operate harmoniously.
Abhinav Shashank, Co-Founder & CEO
To assist care organizations in gathering drilled down insights Innovacer provides a solution that helps the organizations to operate harmoniously.
FREMONT, CA: Innovaccer, a leading San- Francisco based data activation company has launched its latest Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) Solution. The solution provides a safe integration of data from all over the network platform, enabling interoperability between the firm and organizations, improving the complete quality of care services.
With its launch, ACOs become capable to detect and monitor the performances across innumerable quality measures and take initiatives to improve it. Now, ACOs can also leverage Innovaccer’s machine learning algorithms and cutting edge analytics to search and identify the inefficiencies in processing and clear the gaps to perform and promote better care to boost clinical outcomes. With the help of this solution, ACOs will have the ability to detect the blind spots in their particular network and find a solution in the care processes.
Although ACOs are leading the shift from volume-based care to quality-based care, a lot of them fail to meet the quality. When ACOs lack this knowledge and have minimum control over the network, earning shared savings can be quite challenging. Data from sources such as EHRs, payer claims, PMS and HIEs are different parts of web bonded together and placed in harmony to get a clear view. To assist care organizations, in gathering drilled down insights Innovacer provides a solution that helps the organizations to operate harmoniously.
Furthermore, Innovaccer’s resolutions change the ideas of the state of population health. Such measures can be useful for ACO leaders to promote and formulate interventions that enhance population health. Using the Data Activation Platform, Innovacer’s ACO customers have become successful in generating $264 million in shared savings in 2017.
“ACO’s are supposed to spearhead the transition of US healthcare from volume to value-based care. However, we are still far away from realizing this dream,” Abhinav Shashank, CEO at Innovaccer mentioned.
Innovaccer recently launched its Outreach Management solution to streamline and put forward the patient-provider merging in each step of care delivery. Pediatric Care Management solution will bring together all the information that spreads across the venues, clinicians, and stages of life platform. Along with this, the Social Determination of Health Management solution addresses the social determinants of health.
“With our ACO solution, we aim to bring true efficiency to the torchbearers of value-based care and enable them to deliver the right care at the right time through a unified approach,” stated Shashank.
In a world where big data revolutionizes healthcare, Innovaccer acts as a catalyst for change and is paving the way to etch an impression in the sector. Innovaccer is reaching out to four million lives. “The goal is to reach a 100 million by 2020,” concluded Shashank. |
3 + 4*p**2*u**2 - 12721139*p + 1232270536*u**2 wrt p.
-6*p**2 + 8*p*u**2 - 12721139
Find the third derivative of 65347953*j**3 + 3*j**2 - 14*j - 28173 wrt j.
392087718
What is the derivative of -657701553*f**2 + 25854817 wrt f?
-1315403106*f
Find the second derivative of -52*c**2*d**2 + c**2*d*x + 102*c**2*d - 8688*c*x + 5*d**2 + 8*d*x wrt c.
-104*d**2 + 2*d*x + 204*d
What is the second derivative of -1479213*s**3 - 84*s**2 + 731379164*s?
-8875278*s - 168
Find the third derivative of 29869036*v**3 + 153*v**2 + 1814*v + 3.
179214216
Find the third derivative of -1840685*m**5 - 4*m**2 + 1158*m - 42.
-110441100*m**2
Find the third derivative of 405238296*n**5 - 51*n**2 - 6848*n - 92.
24314297760*n**2
Find the first derivative of -964169297*k - 1020698492 wrt k.
-964169297
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3292*q**2 - 3582
Differentiate -10520746*s - 963942 wrt s.
-10520746
Differentiate 13504*p**4 + 380*p**2 - 37362319 wrt p.
54016*p**3 + 760*p
What is the derivative of -n**4 - n**3 - 429*n**2 + 937*n + 7104917?
-4*n**3 - 3*n**2 - 858*n + 937
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28338360*k**3*y**2 - 240*k
Differentiate 12*p**3 - 641590*p - 17786826 wrt p.
36*p**2 - 641590
Differentiate 75477280*w**2 + 6*w - 905793563 with respect to w.
150954560*w + 6
What is the second derivative of -44770174*m**3 - 8478779*m - 3 wrt m?
-268621044*m
Differentiate -9*f**4 - 3*f**2 - 2563*f - 12823701.
-36*f**3 - 6*f - 2563
Find the third derivative of -26942643*f**3 + 15070153*f**2.
-161655858
What is the third derivative of -133967*f**5 + 3*f**4 - 29*f**3 + 244379*f**2 + 10*f + 4?
-8038020*f**2 + 72*f - 174
Find the third derivative of 763618917*k**3 - 5920*k**2 + 3*k - 559 wrt k.
4581713502
Find the second derivative of -58421370*q**3*w**2 - 949*q*w**2 - 17214*q wrt q.
-350528220*q*w**2
Find the third derivative of 49892088*h**5 - 2*h**2 - 2471566 wrt h.
2993525280*h**2
Find the second derivative of -5492393*i**3 - 2532069*i.
-32954358*i
What is the first derivative of -163968256*l - 71635407?
-163968256
Differentiate 2*r**3 + r**2 + 180392800*r + 628683487.
6*r**2 + 2*r + 180392800
Find the second derivative of -308*x**4 - 6425*x**3 - x**2 - 927917593*x.
-3696*x**2 - 38550*x - 2
What is the derivative of 2*t**4 + 5*t**3 + 494364*t + 8986491?
8*t**3 + 15*t**2 + 494364
What is the second derivative of -8*j**3*l + 1392*j**3 - 169*j**2*l - 24*j*l + 9691*j + 70*l + 1 wrt j?
-48*j*l + 8352*j - 338*l
What is the third derivative of -945563205*s**4 - 1639*s**2 + 23900*s?
-22693516920*s
Find the first derivative of -k**2*m + 1823971*k**2 - 3*k*m + 73947*m wrt m.
-k**2 - 3*k + 73947
Find the third derivative of -91921858*d*t**3 + 99*d*t**2 + 2*d*t + 2*d + t**2 + 14587 wrt t.
-551531148*d
Differentiate -135*k**2*r + 32*k**2 - 1381*k*r**4 + 2*k + 33805 with respect to r.
-135*k**2 - 5524*k*r**3
Differentiate 1503*b**3*w - 17507048*b**3 - 855*b**2*w with respect to w.
1503*b**3 - 855*b**2
What is the first derivative of -12185067*x**2 - 8714230?
-24370134*x
What is the second derivative of -357270116*i**3 - 447153238*i wrt i?
-2143620696*i
Find the third derivative of -4*j**3*p - 848376*j**3 - j**2 + j*p + 75*j - 8444*p + 3 wrt j.
-24*p - 5090256
What is the second derivative of i**2*q**3 + 109984*i**2*r + i*q**3*r - 18*i*q**2*r + 117*i*q*r - q**3*r + 4*q**2 + q wrt i?
2*q**3 + 219968*r
What is the derivative of -1092748772*v**2 - 12262379?
-2185497544*v
Find the third derivative of 12020*h**6*y**3 - 24*h**4*y**3 - 2*h**2*y - 301*h**2 + 2*h*y**3 + 86*h*y wrt h.
1442400*h**3*y**3 - 576*h*y**3
What is the second derivative of -r**4 - 23806*r**3 + 563*r**2 + 49296*r + 169 wrt r?
-12*r**2 - 142836*r + 1126
What is the third derivative of 24374889*t**5 + 21216*t**2 + 41*t - 2?
1462493340*t**2
Find the second derivative of 19831613*c**2 - 16552695*c wrt c.
39663226
Find the third derivative of -297179*g*m**4 - 2*g*m**2 + 30*g*m + 5*g - 2*m**4 - 12*m**3 + 2830*m**2 wrt m.
-7132296*g*m - 48*m - 72
Find the second derivative of -545804098*q**2 + 437395904*q.
-1091608196
What is the first derivative of -35401648*t - 78459662?
-35401648
What is the derivative of 474044*x**3 - 31*x - 8696203 wrt x?
1422132*x**2 - 31
What is the third derivative of -m*t**3 + 2*m*t**2 + 1030017*m*t - m - 2457*t**4 - 987*t**3 + t wrt t?
-6*m - 58968*t - 5922
Find the second derivative of -244790651*s**4 + 316360491*s wrt s.
-2937487812*s**2
Find the second derivative of 3*s**5*w**3 + 8407400*s**4 + 4*s*w**3 + 148*s*w**2 + 2*s*w - 2*s + 97*w wrt s.
60*s**3*w**3 + 100888800*s**2
Differentiate -123*b*i - 3892625*b + 3492*i wrt i.
-123*b + 3492
Differentiate 426098280*q + 419572402 with respect to q.
426098280
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-60*y**2 + 4547606
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-72*m*q + 17456*m + 18*q + 4
What is the first derivative of 41917731*q**2 - 19524881 wrt q?
83835462*q
What is the second derivative of t**5 - 1621054*t**4 + 1384055*t + 1?
20*t**3 - 19452648*t**2
Find the third derivative of -54*h**2*n**3 + 5225*h**2*n**2 - 22*h**2*n + 22668*h*n**3 - 2*n**3 - 20*n wrt n.
-324*h**2 + 136008*h - 12
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45*b**2 + 4302*b + 98
Find the third derivative of -o**6 + 204250348*o**4 + 1136616*o**2 - 47*o wrt o.
-120*o**3 + 4902008352*o
What is the third derivative of -53943965*z**6 + 35082419*z**2?
-6473275800*z**3
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2136*g**2 - 18144*h
What is the second derivative of 372647*h**3 + 9*h**2 - 1726090*h?
2235882*h + 18
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1020*i*j**3 - 2231*i*j + 7
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-1273089600*x**2
Find the second derivative of -37*h*o**3 + 2*h*o**2 + 237341*h*o - 141120*o**3 + 2*o**2 + 147*o wrt o.
-222*h*o + 4*h - 846720*o + 4
What is the second derivative of 130414*j**5 - 10*j**2 + 45098*j - 1?
2608280*j**3 - 20
Find the second derivative of 103019*a**4 - 3340*a**2 - 25*a - 5106742 wrt a.
1236228*a**2 - 6680
Find the second derivative of -26*c*p**2*q + c*p**2 + 122*c*p + 4*c*q + 2*p**2*q - 4597*p**2 + 345*p*q wrt p.
-52*c*q + 2*c + 4*q - 9194
Differentiate -41931226*i**2 - 93936399.
-83862452*i
What is the second derivative of g**4 - 67589*g**3 - g**2 - 224692*g + 211 wrt g?
12*g**2 - 405534*g - 2
Find the third derivative of -26372289*a**6 + 64282489*a**2.
-3164674680*a**3
Find the third derivative of -7285062*f**3 - 2*f**2 - 100*f + 3233.
-43710372
What is the second derivative of 36448713*l**2*w**2 + 21886*l*w - 8*l - 2*w**2 wrt l?
72897426*w**2
Find the third derivative of -5212380*d**3*l**3 - 3*d**3*l - 8*d*l + 4*l**6 - 18*l**2 - 344*l wrt l.
-31274280*d**3 + 480*l**3
Differentiate -67879976*r + 346980468 with respect to r.
-67879976
Find the third derivative of -6118668*r**6 - 13660*r**2 + r + 83.
-734240160*r**3
What is the second derivative of 12*j**2*y + 2569213*j**2 + 10*j*y - 5649450 wrt j?
24*y + 5138426
What is the second derivative of -1710*f**5 + 7*f**4 + 2469*f**2 + 241470642*f?
-34200*f**3 + 84*f**2 + 4938
Find the first derivative of 40843430*n**2 + 8366772.
81686860*n
Find the first derivative of -32374630*w - 42856841.
-32374630
What is the first derivative of -2*o**2 + 8366708*o - 27076485?
-4*o + 8366708
Find the third derivative of -4*b**6 - 92416*b**4 + 16*b**3 - 955532*b**2 + 12*b wrt b.
-480*b**3 - 2217984*b + 96
Find the third derivative of 9780372*j**5 - 3294782*j**2 + 2 wrt j.
586822320*j**2
What is the second derivative of 27474695*o**3 - 31951380*o?
164848170*o
What is the second derivative of -179544568*d**2 - 38159392*d?
-359089136
What is the derivative of -2*d**2*k + 330*d**2*u + 81*d - 6383*k*u - 20522*k + u wrt u?
330*d**2 - 6383*k + 1
What is the second derivative of -2683049*a*m**2 + 19*a*m + 387*a - 2*m**2 + 2*m + 1 wrt m?
-5366098*a - 4
What is the third derivative of o**3*p**3 + 92*o**3*p**2 - o**3 - 889*o**2*p**3 |
Joshu (rh22384 at swt.edu) wrote: >I submit that as long as our questions are so dichotomous, we will >suffer under the delusion that we can be in complete control of the >universe. My questions are usually dichotomous, but I suffer under so no such delusion. >I doubt that the "either/or" categorization of homosexuals into >"either" nurture "or" nature will serve any better function than to >continue our delusion that we as humans are "either" heterosexual "or" >homosexual. Do you have any evidence to this hypothesis? Are you denying the existance of a certain subset of humans that are "either" heterosexual "or" homosexual? It is this subset we're interested in (for now). >culture there is such a strong reaction formation to our universal >homoerotic inclinations that, when we THINK about our condition, confined >as it is within a Cartisian dualistic paradigm, our fear drives us to >pigeon-hole sexual phenomena to some distant taboo island, where "either" >"those" people are homosexual "or" not, "either" genetically determined >"or" not, "either" free to choose "or" not, "either" oriented "or" not, >"or" "either" preferenced "or" not. Is this some sort of a Freudian analysis? I don't see where you get the "fear" from. What would you say if such a dualistic question was posted by a bisexual? But really, I don't think any clear cut answer will come out of asking "either" "or" in all cases. But I do think clear-cut answers, that for a subset of a population describe such categorisation, are possible. --Ram me at ram.org || || Waiting for the revolution. Nuclear vision, genocide. Computerise god, it's the new religion. Program the brain, not the heart beat. ---Black Sabbath |
NEW PATENTS: April 1985
METALS AND ALLOYS
Ruthenium Alloy
An amorphous alloy for a magnetic head contains, in specified proportions, Ru, Co, Fe, Si, B, and at least one of Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Ni, Zr, Nb, Mo, Hf, Ta and W.
Permanent Magnet Alloy
research institute of electric & magnetic alloysU.S. Patent 4,465,526
An easily workable alloy for permanent magnets of high coercive force has a crystalline structure with a fine grain dispersion of alpha phase and gamma phase in a matrix. It contains 19.5−41 at.% Pd, 0.1−27.5 at.% Ag, remainder Fe.
Platinum Group Metals in Hydrogen Storage Materials
studiengesellschaft kohle m.b.h.German Offen. 3,247,360
A useful H storage material is made by doping Mg hydride with a transition metal which may be Pt, Pd, Rh or Ir, among others.
ELECTROCHEMISTRY
Semiconductor Electrode
fujitsu ltd.European Appl. 127,281
An electrode has a three layer structure consisting of a contact layer (such as Pt silicide), an intermediate refractory layer and a surface layer (of Pt, Au, etc.).
Mixed Cyanide Functional Electrode
k.k. daini seikoshaU.S. Patent 4,451,348
A functional electrode for use as an electrochromic display electrode or as a catalytic electrode for O2 or Cl2 production consists of a conductor coated with a film of ZM[M′(CN)6] or M4[M′(CN)6]3 where Z is a Group IA metal, M is trivalent Fe, Ru or Os and M′ is the divalent form of the same metal.
Platinum Group Metal-Coated Cathode
occidental chemical corp.U.S. Patent 4,456,518
A low H overvoltage Group IA metal halate cell cathode comprises a conductive substrate, an intermediate protective layer such as an intermetallic compound of Ti with a platinum group metal and an overcoating of a mixture of a major portion of Pt and a minor proportion of Rh, Pd, Ir or Os.
Reduced Platinum Oxide Electrocatalyst
general electric co.U.S. Patent 4,457,223
An apparatus for electrolytic production of halogens has a catalytic electrode which includes partially reduced oxides of at least one of Pt, Ir, Ru, Pd and Os and their alloys (and optionally graphite) heated in the presence of O2 to stabilise the reduced oxides.
Polarity Reversing Electrodes
ionics inc.U.S. Patent 4,461,693
The electrodes of a polarity reversing electrodialysis membrane stack are coated, plated or clad with Pt, Ir or Rh or their oxides.
Electrolytic Electrode
permelec electrode ltd.U.S. Patent 4,471,006
A platinum group metal-base metal oxide catalytic coating, for instance consisting of Ru, Ir and Ti oxides, has greater durability when it is applied to a valve metal body carrying an intermediate coating of Ti and/or Sn oxide plus Ta and/or Nb oxide.
Electrolysis Cathodes
permelec electrode ltd.U.S. Patent 4,473,454
Cathodes of improved corrosion resistance, for use in the electrolysis of acid solutions, consist of a valve metal substrate spray coated with a material containing at least 10% of W or WC which is then impregnated with a mixture of cathode-active material and an acid-resistant fluorinated resin. The cathode-active material is a platinum group metal and/or their alloys, mixtures or oxides.
ELECTRODEPOSITION AND SURFACE COATINGS
Solderable Palladium-Nickel Coatings
e. i. du pont de nemours & co.U.S. Patent 4,463,060
A permanently solderable Pd-Ni electroplated coating formed on an electrically conductive surface has a first alloy layer of 46−82 at.% Pd and 18−54 at.% Ni, covered by a continuous second layer of 96−100at.% Pd and 0−4at.% Ni, up to 20Å thick.
Noble Metal Coated Molybdenum
licentia patent-verwaltungs-g.m.b.h.U.S. Patent 4,464,441
A Mo disc suitable for use as a semiconductor is about 0.5 to several mm thick and is coated, via an intermediate 0.5–10 μ m thick layer of Cr, with a 0.02 μ m thick layer of a noble metal such as Pt, Pd, Rh, Ru, Au or Ag.
Palladium Electroplating
a. t. & t. bell laboratoriesU.S. Patent 4,468,296
In a high-speed Pd electroplating process, at least part of the Pd is added to the bath as an ammine hydroxide complex such as [Pd(NH3)2OH]n(OH)n.
LABORATORY APPARATUS AND TECHNIQUE
Strain Sensor
tokyo electric co. ltd.British Appl. 2,142,776A
A strain sensor has a first conductive layer which constitutes a bridge circuit by coupling a plurality of strain gauge resistors and a new second thinner conductive layer of chemically stable metal such as Pt.
Iridium Crucibles
w. c. heraeus g.m.b.h.British Appl. 2,142,935A
Seamless Ir crucibles are made by cold isostatically compacting Ir powder on a mandrel, sintering the blank in stages at successively higher temperatures (while screening the blank from the heating element using Ir sheet or plate), then isostatically hot compacting the sintered blank.
Gas Detecting Apparatus
new cosmos electric co. ltd.European Appl. 120,605
In a gas detector of improved design a semiconductor is placed in close contact with a metallic heating element which may be a film of Pt or Pt alloy formed in a zigzag pattern on an insulating base.
Sensor for Hydrogen Determination
orbisphere corp.European Appl. 124,818
An electroanalytical sensor has two electrodes separated by an electrolyte and a membrane permeable to H2 but not electrolyte. The anodic H sensing electrode has a surface of polished Pt metal, such as pure Pt polished to mirror brightness.
Titration End Point Detection
mitsubishi kasei k.k.k.European Appl. 125,693
A pair of Pt wire electrodes are used in a constant DC pulse device for detecting titration end points.
Oxygen Partial Pressure in Gases
karl dungs g.m.b.h. & co.European Appl. 126,246
A Pd/Pd oxide probe is used in measuring an O2 partial pressure. The probe may be reversibly oxidised in given conditions of temperature and O2 partial pressure and this causes a change in its electrical resistance.
Gas Sensor
city technology ltd.European Appl. 126,623
H2 and CO may be separately measured, without interference from the other gas, by using porous sensing and counter Pt electrodes.
Hydrocarbon Gas Sensor
siemens a.g.European Appl. 131,731
A thin film sensor for hydrocarbon gas impurity detection and measurement is based on a semiconducting W oxide activated with a platinum group metal, such as Pt itself.
Thick Film Oxygen Sensor
bendix corp.U.S. Patent 4,469,626
Sensors for use in I.C. engine exhaust systems are produced by applying Pt leads to a ceramic substrate and printing over the leads with a mixture of TiO2, glass frit and Pt.
HETEROGENEOUS CATALYSIS
Hydrocarbon Conversion Catalyst
A hydrocarbon conversion catalyst, particularly suitable for the catalytic cracking of heavy oils containing 0.5ppm or more of heavy metal, consists of 3−40% of a crystalline aluminosilicate zeolite, which may be partially ion exchanged with a lanthanide, Pt or Pd and 60−97% of an alumina-magnesia matrix having a magnesia content of 2−50%.
Carboxylic Acid or Anhydride Production
bp chemicals ltd.British Appl. 2,140,004A
A carboxylic acid or anhydride is prepared by reacting, at elevated temperature and superatmospheric pressure, an olefin with CO and a carboxylic acid in the liquid phase and in the presence of a supported Group VIII metal (preferably Rh) catalyst.
Acetic Acid, Acetaldehyde and Ethanol Production
agency of industrial science & technologyBritish Appl. 2,142,012A
Acetic acid, acetaldehyde and ethanol are produced by reacting CO with H2 in the presence of a catalyst combination of Rh, Ir and Li.
Barium Stabilised Lead Tolerant Catalyst
johnson matthey p.l.c.British Appl. 2,142,253A
A process for making Pb tolerant motor vehicle exhaust purification catalysts, consisting of a platinum group metal catalyst supported on Al2O3 is described. The Al2O3 is impregnated with Ba moiety and fired at 400°C or above before subsequent impregnation with the metal catalyst moiety followed by a second firing at 400°C or above.
Air Purification
teledyne industries inc.British Appl. 2,142,325A
A catalyst consisting of a Pd(II) salt and a Cu(II) salt on a support is used to remove H2S and/or HCN, present in low concentrations from air, preferably at −20°C to 85°C.
Hydrocarbon Cracking Catalyst
chevron research co.British Appl. 2,142,551A
A catalyst composition for use in the fluid catalytic cracking of S-containing hydrocarbons includes an improved oxidation promoter for converting SO2 to SO3. It consists of Pd or one of its compounds, together with at least one of Pt, Os, Ir, Re and Rh as metal or compound.
Vapour Phase Ester Hydrogenation
british petroleum co. p.l.c.European Appl. 123,517
Alcohols are obtained when carboxylic esters are hydrogenated in the presence of a Rh, Ru or Ni catalyst supported on C with a Group IA, IIA, lanthanide or actinide promoter. In one example methanol is produced from ethyl acetate using a mixture of 8.9% Ru and 13.3% K on graphitised C.
Hydrogen Oxidation Catalyst
H2 present in moist air is oxidised over a catalyst consisting of an Al2O3/Sn oxide support impregnated with 0.25−2.5% each of Pt and Pd.
Liquid Phase Hydrogenation
johnson matthey p.l.c.U.S. Patent 4,464,482
A supported interstitial catalyst system suitable for trickle feed three phase reactions (such as the hydrogenation of crotonaldehyde or butyraldehyde) preferably has a noble metal catalyst component, such as a Pd or Ru catalyst, supported on a novel three dimensional wire interstitial support.
Three Component Hydrocarbon Reforming Catalyst
standard oil co. (indiana) U.S. Patent 4,469,812
Hydrocarbon reforming is catalysed in the presence of up to 80ppm S by a mixture of three different components, a platinum group metal, a Group VIII base metal and Ga, all separately placed on their own acidic oxide carriers.
Palladium-Loaded Nickel Mica Catalyst
shell oil co.U.S. Patent 4,469,813
A highly active and selective hydroisomerisation catalyst is prepared by heating a Ni synthetic mica montmorillonite with a hydroxy-aluminium chloride and then loading the pillared product with Pd.
Rhodium Synthesis Catalyst
union carbide corp.U.S. Patent 4,471,075
Oxygenated 2C hydrocarbons, such as acetic acid and acetaldehyde, are prepared from syngas in the presence of a Rh catalyst containing Mn and Na. Typically silica gel is used to support up to 25% of active metal with a Na:Rh ratio of 0.01 to 10.
HOMOGENEOUS CATALYSIS
Vehicle Seat
metzeler kautschuk g.m.b.h.British Appl. 2,137,492A
A plastics-covered vehicle seat has a textile covering to the inside of which is applied a layer of a flame-resistant polysiloxane which includes Pt.
Ethylene Glycol and Methanol Production
texaco development corp.British Appl. 2,143,229A
Low molecular weight oxygenated compounds, and particularly ethylene glycol and methanol, are prepared in good yield by contacting a mixture of CO and H2 with a catalyst system comprising a Rh-containing compound, an organic ligand and a sulphonium salt, preferably dissolved in a suitable solvent, at an elevated temperature and pressure.
Catalysed Silicone Rubber Photocuring
minnesota mng. & mfg. co.European Appl. 122,008
The curing of silicone rubber by u.v. radiation instead of heat may also be accelerated by Pt catalysts having a group which may be displaced by irradiation. An aryl Pt diene, such as diphenyl platinum cyclooctadiene, is preferred.
Carboxylic Acid and/or Ester Production
shell international research mij.b.v.European Appl. 124,160
Acids and/or esters are produced by reacting an alcohol with CO in the presence of a homogeneous Pd-containing catalyst, an I and/or Br source and a N compound containing a =N−CX− group (where X is O or S). Thus acetic acid may be produced in the presence of Pd acetate, CH3I and N-methyl pyrrolidone.
Platinum Hydroformylation Catalyst
sun tech inc.European Appl. 125,055
A new catalyst for olefin hydroformylation consists of a zerovalent Pt complex of a phosphine, arsine, etc., mixed with a Group IVB halide. Thus propylene may be hydroformylated by Pt(PPh3)4 and SnCl4.
Rhodium Complex in a Catalyst System
c. d. f. chimie specialitesEuropean Appl. 127,501
A catalyst system for the hydroformylation of olefins to aldehydes consists of H(CO)Rh(PPh3)3, PPh3, Co2(CO)8 and a conjugated diene derivative such as 2-ethyl-hex-2-enal.
Urethane Production Catalyst
bayer a.g.European Appl. 129,759
A new catalyst system for the production of urethanes from nitro compounds and hydroxyl compounds consists of (a) at least one noble metal or metal compound, (b) a combination of at least one Fe or Cu oxide or hydroxide with a chloride and (c) at least one organic base. A typical catalyst contains Pd chloride, Fe oxide, ferrous chloride and aniline.
Carboxylic Ester Production
british petroleum co. p.l.c.European Appl. 132,144
Carboxylic esters may be obtained from CO, a metal alkoxy and hydrocarbon halide in the presence of a Rh, Ir or Co catalyst. In one example ethyl phenylacetate is obtained from benzyl bromide, Al ethoxy and CO in the presence of hexadiene Rh chloride dimer.
Alcohol Production from Olefins and Synthesis Gas
standard oil co. (ohio) U.S. Patent 4,456,694
Olefins, CO and H2 are catalytically reacted to produce alcohols in a single step reaction using a catalyst of formula MaRhOx where M is Fe, Zn, Ir, Ru, Nb, Cr, Mn and/or Pt, a is 0.001–10 and x is >0 but less than the number required for full oxidation of the other elements.
Photocatalysts for Amine Production
pennwalt corp.U.S. Patent 4,459,191
A process for making amines by reacting NH3 or a primary or secondary amine with olefins under the action of u.v. light may be catalysed, for example, by RuCl2(PPh3)3 or RhCl(PPh3)3.
Hydrogen Peroxide Production
halcon sd group inc.U.S. Patent 4,462,978
H2O2 is produced from CO, O2 and H2O at −78 to +150°C in the presence of an organic solvent which is a carbonyl compound or nitrile. The catalyst is a platinum group metal such as Pd chloride, Ru trichloride, Rh chloride hydrate, Pt chloride or graphite supporting Pt, Pd or Ru.
ABS Polymer Hydrogenation
johnson matthey p.l.c.U.S. Patent 4,469,849
ABS polymers are hydrogenated in emulsion by contacting the copolymer with H2 and a catalyst dissolved in a solvent. The catalyst is RhCl(PPh3)3, [(PPh3)2Rh(CoD)]+[BF4]−, RhH(CO)(PPh3)3 or RhH(CO)(PPh3)2. The solvent is immiscible in the liquid forming the emulsion and also acts as a swelling agent for the copolymer increasing accessibility of the catalyst to the double bonds. Once the reaction is completed the two layers, one containing the catalyst and the other the polymer, are easily separated.
Linear Alcohols from Olefins
texaco inc.U.S. Patent 4,469,895
A new catalyst for the production of alcohols from olefins (such as nonanols from octene) consists of a Ru compound and an amine promoter dispersed in a low melting quaternary phosphonium salt.
Dimerisation Catalyst
institut khimii bashkirskogo filiala an sssrRussian Patent 1,097,588
A catalyst for the cyclodimerisation of vinyl acetylene to styrene consists of Pd acetylacetonate, triphenyl phosphine and Al triethyl in the molar ratio 1−3:2−4:1−3.
FUEL CELLS
High Pressure Fuel Cell
prutec ltd.European Appl. 124,275
A high pressure cell is made with electrodes formed as thin films deposited on thin film porous membranes. Typically an electrode is formed by a layer of Pt 200−1000Å thick.
Fuel Cell Electrodes
electrochemische energieconversie n.v.European Appl. 126,511
The porous catalyst layer on an electrode is made from a binder mixture of 3–30 parts mouldable polymeric binder, 50–94 parts C particles and 3–47 parts hard hydrophobic polymer particles. In an example the C particles contain 5% Pt.
Negative Hydrogen Electrode
r.c.a. corp.U.S. Patent 4,460,660
An electrode suitable for use in a Ni-H fuel cell is based on a support structure carrying an alloy consisting of equal quantities of Pd and Ru (to 1 or 2%).
Fuel Cell
w. r. grace & co.U.S. Patent 4,463,065
The solid electrolyte of a fuel cell is made of yttriastabilised zirconia or Ca-stabilised zirconia, an O-dissociating catalyst comprising Pt or a Pt-Rh alloy and a reaction-promoting catalyst also comprising Pt or a Pt-Rh alloy.
CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY
Photographic Material
fuji photo film co. ltd.U.S. Patent 4,452,882
A light-sensitive material which has a good letter image aptitude and which can be handled in a bright room is a specified Ag halide emulsion containing a small proportion of a water-soluble Rh salt.
GLASS TECHNOLOGY
Bushing Tip Preparation
p.p.g. industries inc.U.S. Patent 4,461,191
A method of supplying tips for a glass fibre forming bushing is provided which involves mating the tips to a hole in a bushing plate, applying pressure to the tip sidewalls against the plate to firmly seal them followed by a high temperature treatment to form a homogeneous metal bond. The bushings are typically made of Pt-Rh alloys.
ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING
Radioactive Krypton Fixation
In fixing radioactive Kr by sputtering embedding metal, so as to deposit it on a suitable substrate in the presence of a Kr plasma, the sputtering electrode which forms the embedding metal comprises a radioactive metal, such as Pd, Ru or Rh.
Recording Element
eastman kodak co.European Appl. 120,167
An electrically activatable recording element for forming a non-Ag positive image consists of an electrically conductive support on which is deposited an electrically activatable layer of Pd(NH3)4Cl2 dispersed in a butylacrylate-sodium-2-acrylamido-2-methylpropane sulphonate copolymer.
Connector Using a Shape Memory Alloy
hitachi ltd.European Appl. 123,376
A connector has thin sheets of shape memory alloy located on a substrate surface and placed over holes in the substrate. A pin is inserted in the hole, penetrating the sheets, at a temperature where the sheets are easily deformed. The temperature is changed so that sheets regain their shape and create a good electrical connection. The alloy may be a Pt or Ag alloy, among others.
Screen Printable Resistor Paste
n.v. philips’ gloeilampenfabriekenEuropean Appl. 124,948
A paste for producing printed resistors consists of a mixture of Pb2RhxRu2−xO7−y, where x is up to 0.95 and y is up to 0.5, a glass or other binder, a temporary binder and a solvent. The use of a borosilicate glass, for example, in the resistor enables the T.C.R. to be held at −10 to + 10 × 10−6/°C.
Print Head
ing. c. olivetti & co. s.p.a.European Appl. 129,330
A specified ink jet print head incorporates an Al2O3 base plate on which is deposited a thick film strip of conductive noble metal, preferably Pt.
Diesel Glow Plug
bendix corp.European Appl. 129,676
A glow plug is made from a hollow cylindrical metal shell with a protruding heater member. The member has a non-conductive cylindrical substrate coated with a surface heating film made of platinum group metal or its alloy, such as Pt. The new construction reduces the exposure of the film to high temperatures.
Electrochromic Display Device
citizen watch co. ltd.U.S. Patent 4,451,498
An anodic electrochromic layer is formed on a transparent electrode by ion plating Ir, Rh or Ni on the electrode to form an oxide film.
Semiconductor Devices
texas instruments inc.U.S. Patent 4,455,738
A metal deposited on a prepared Si substrate and converted to the metal silicide (in a method for fabrication of a MESFET device) is preferably Pt.
Semiconductor Strain Gauge
gulton industries inc.U.S. Patent 4,462,018
A semiconductor transducer having integral compensation resistors includes Pt alloy resistors formed on a SiO2 layer and Au conductive lines interconnecting the resistors.
Glass Frits for Ruthenium Dioxide Resistors
corning glass worksU.S. Patent 4,464,421
Thick film RuO2-based resistors (T.C.R.<100 ppm) are made by mixing RuO2 powder with a glass frit containing in mol%, 32−39% PbO, 44−47% B2O3, 14−17% SiO2, and an effective amount up to 5% of WO3 or MoO3. The heat treatment of the frit is intended to crystallise PbWO4 or PbMoO3 in situ.
Sparking Plug
In a sparking plug of more economical design only the tips of the electrodes are made from a noble metal which may be Pt, Pd, Ir or Au.
Thin Film Capacitor Electrode
international business machines corp.U.S. Patent 4,471,405
A capacitor has a dual bottom electrode including a first layer of metal and a second layer of Pt. The metal, such as Hf, Zr or Ta, must form a stable intermetallic phase with Pt during heat treatment.
Cochlear Implant System
Multiple Pt ring electrodes are used in a silastic carrier to be implanted in the cochlea of the ear.
Sensing Device
diamond shamrock chemicals corp.European Appl. 125,807
A transcutaneous blood CO2 and pH sensor has a Pd/Pd oxide junction as an active electrode and a Ag/Ag halide reference electrode applied to a nonconducting substrate and covered with a dielectric and a polymeric membrane.
Magnetic Orthodontic Appliances
PtCo, SmCo and other similar magnetic materials are used in integrated oral magnetic osteogenic and orthodontic appliances.
Diaminocyclohexane Platinum Complexes
research corp.European Appl. 130,482
New complexes for tumour treatment are 1:1 diaminocyclohexane Pt(II) complexes containing two anions of a monocarboxylic acid or sulphonic acid or one anion of a dicarboxylic acid, for example a bisprolinate or bis-isethionate or a monofuran dicarboxylate. |
Arts
It was Harvard University not Makerere
When I was still in secondary school I wanted to join Harvard University. Someone had whispered into my ears that it is one of the most, if not the most, prestigious university in the world. And do you know what happened guys? I ended up in Makerere University. But still proud because I discovered that it was the most prestigious in Uganda. What a consolation! Sometime I forget the knowledge I acquired at Makerere but I can never forget the strikes we had while I was there.
It’s good to be a student. First of all you have the right to be silly and every one will understand because you are still a child. We could strike because we wanted examination date be extended farther. Yes, we were not yet ready for them much as the exams were always ready for us. We could strike because the university had stopped serving us with watermelons as dessert on our meals, as if melons have no seasons. We could also strike because we were bored and we felt that it was our responsibility to keep in the public spotlight.
I still regret why my parents never took me to Harvard; the university of my dreams. It is the only University where you go and come out only to meet a satisfying salary at your first job. Remember Harvard is famous for its academic excellence and producing to notch graduates. Turns out the average starting salary after graduation is over $60,000 per year. Maybe it is worth the over $58,000+ per year it costs to attend! Of course a business minded person sees no profit here.
The good thing about life is that if you fail to study at Harvard you still have a chance to visit it as a tourist. The only difference is that you don’t leave with a degree on something similar to that. I made sure that I do visit this learning centre and I took pictures with John Harvard’s statue that stands in Harvard Yard..
A few days ago Makerere University was closed indefinitely by the president after a bloody strike. The president might have punished no one because both lecturers and students must have popped champagne in celebration. What a wonderful holiday! It’s the parents instead who must have been affected. Sorry mister President.
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I've been testing clonezilla to clone XP boxes, and I've
encountered a bug related to restoring uncompressed
NTFS partitions. I've provided a post-mortem and workaround
below.
Platform:
Fedora Core 6 + DRBL + Clonezilla
Here are some version numbers:
# uname -a
Linux clonezilla 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 #1 SMP Mon Oct 16 14:54:20 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
# rpm -qa | grep clone
clonezilla-1.4.3-23
# rpm -qa | grep drbl
drbl-1.7.6-22
freedos-1.0-11drbl
etherboot-5.4.2-2drbl
partimage-0.6.5_beta3-4drbl
udpcast-20060921-1drbl
lzop-1.02-0.6drbl
drbl-chntpw-0.0.20040818-7
drbl-ntfsprogs-1.13.1-4
The issue is that an NTFS partition backed up without
compression fails to restore. The error message is
Unknown format for sda1.ntfs-img!!! Program terminated!"
For anyone else trying to diagnose a problem, the method
I used to catch that error was:
a) use the server-side setup to request
that the client stop at the command line prompt,
b) boot the client, (it tries to restore, fails, but clears the screen so you can't see the diagnostic)
c) find the appropriate command line
/etc/rc.d/rc1.d/S19ocs-run (in my case: /opt/drbl/sbin/drbl-ocs --language 0 restoredisk herberton-test sda)
d) re-run drbl-ocs
The error message (Unknown format for sda1.ntfs-img!!! Program terminated!")
is generated in this function:
/opt/drbl/sbin/ocs-functions:1712
get_image_cat_zip_cmd()
This function uses /usr/bin/file to determine the compression type
of the image and greps the result to determine which program
(cat, zcat, etc) should be used to cat the file. For example:
elif [ -n "$(file $imgf | grep -i "PartImage file .* not compressed")" ]; then
For a partition dumped with PartImage, /usr/bin/file prints something like:
PartImage file version 0.6.1 volume 0 type fat32 device /dev/sda2, original filename sda2, not compressed
For an NTFS partition image dumped with ntfsclone, /usr/bin/file just prints:
data
In that case, the if/then statement in get_image_cat_zip_cmd falls
through to the final error trap and exits with an error.
I was able to work around this problem by compressing the image
file with gzip, and renaming it to remove the .gz file extension
cd /data/clonezilla/herberton-test (note I use a non-standard path for the images)
gzip sda1.ntfs-img
mv sda1.ntfs-img.gz sda1.ntfs-img
Looks like it works now. Until a fix is issued, I recommend
clonezilla users do not save NTFS partitions without compression.
And finally a bit thanks to the clonezilla authors - it looks like a very useful piece
of software.
Cheers,
Guy |
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Dr. Brister has been in private Ophthalmology practice in Tulsa, Oklahoma since 1977. His specialties include cataract, corneal and refractive surgery.
In addition, he is a member of the Oklahoma Ophthalmological Society and was the past president of the Tulsa Ophthalmological Society. He is currently an Assistant Clinical Professor for the University of Oklahoma in Tulsa and instructs residents with In His Image Family Practice Residency.
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Dennis Rodman Hosts St. Patrick's Day Bash At Tabu Ultra Lounge 3/17
NBA Hall of Famer Dennis Rodman when he channels his inner-Irish and hosts an epic St. Patrick’s Day party at Tabú Ultra Lounge at MGM Grand Hotel & Casino on Saturday, March 17. The former NBA great will celebrate the holiday surrounded by sexy model servers in St. Patty’s Day attire while the venue will be themed with green holiday décor.
Dennis Rodman On The Red Carpet At Club Nikki 8/20/11
Throughout his 15-year career, Rodman played with five NBA teams including the Detroit Pistons and Chicago Bulls. The retired NBA All-Star is considered one of the greatest rebounders ever to play professional basketball and led the NBA in rebounding four consecutive years.
Rodman is the proud owner of five championship rings—three consecutive titles with the Bulls and two back-to-back with the Pistons.
Rodman’s off-court antics throughout his career drew as much attention as his on-court skills with his rainbow-colored hair and multiple tattoos and piercings. Clubgoers can look forward to seeing some of those crazy antics during Tabú’s St. Patrick’s Day bash including a possible new hair color to fit the festive holiday!
Bill Cody is an entertainment, technology and luxury travel reporter in Las Vegas. He reports on celebrities, events, tech, food, Las Vegas and luxury travel.
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Have you seen my bare ass this week? No? Then you’re probably in the global minority. At least that’s how it feels.
It was just over a week ago that the eyes of a total stranger first gazed upon my exposed derriere. I’d been having unexplained coccyx pain so I went to the doctor who wanted to ‘have a quick look’, despite my confident assertions that there was nothing to see back there. Turns out that indeed, there was nothing to see, but a quick poke around at the base of my spine revealed there was in fact plenty to feel.
It was a morbidly embarrassing moment. Apart from boyfriends, my parents (when I was small) and one or two very close friends (when we’ve been rip-roaringly drunk and silly), no-one has seen my naked bum. And then there I was in a sterile, strip-lit room, lying on a weird-smelling table and facing the blindingly white wall with the goods hanging out. The very definition of exposed. And it was awful. My feminine modesty!
Fast-forward a week, the condition escalates to the point of hospital admission, and now I’m basically as comfortable dropping trou in front of total strangers as I am buying fags in that horrendous new packaging brandishing images of dead bodies and amputated legs – it’s not ideal, but here we are.
Your sense of dignity goes straight out of the window when you’re in terrible pain. After 14 hours without eating or drinking (doctor’s orders) I was still waiting for a hospital bed when a nurse wheeled a sandwich trolley past and I exploded into huge guttural sobs, like a child. I ugly-cried for the best part of an hour. Hilarious in hindsight, but at that moment a simple sandwich was, to my mind, the key to the end of all my suffering. I like to think I’d hold it together during torture, but the fact is, if I can be taken down by a sandwich I probably need to revisit my parameters of expectation. The denial of such a basic need resonated furiously in me at a very primordial level.
I was kept in for two nights. It was hot and stuffy and I had to wear decidedly-unattractive surgical stockings, so I slept in my sexy hospital gown and nothing else. But hooked up to various machines with wires poking out of me, plus brain-frying medication and already-limited movement meant getting up to go to the loo was a laborious undertaking. Adding pants or shorts to the mix was just an unthinkable complication, so as quickly as my intentions of keeping my hair neat and my face clean went down the drain, so did my butt modesty. Never in a million years would I parade through a public environment with my ass on show, but again, pain does funny things to you, so very quickly I didn’t give a crap. Apologies to the women on my ward who got a visual demonstration of this epiphany.
Of course, as a woman I’ve been taught to keep my natural bodily actions to myself. We’re not supposed to fart, or poop, or burp – hell, we’re not even allowed to sweat – and let’s not even talk about periods, so up until my hospital admission I’d been rather coy about the whole thing. “My back hurts”, I’d tell people. “I’m taking codeine but you know how that *makes a weird face and gestures downwards* can affect things.” Later, “The doctors have found an internal cyst – bit of an awkward position, chortle chortle!”
Again, this glossy veneer of social acceptability went straight to hell when the pain got too much. “Is this gonna affect my ability to poop?” I asked the surgeon dead in the eye before surgery. “I suffer from bad period pain and am due on soon, how can I manage both issues comfortably?” I was being pumped with fluids: “Excuse me, nurse, could you please tell me when I’ll stop pissing like a racehorse?” And I used the word ‘pus’ a lot. Yeah, it’s gross, I know. I danced around the reality of that for quite a while before the pain drove me to tears and by then I wasn’t fucking about. “WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO ABOUT ALL THE PUS?” I’d slur incoherently in my drug-addled state. Or on the second night, when I woke up and found my wound had burst open and I was lying in a pool of my own gore and the nurse – who also had human eyes – asked me what was wrong when I called for him at 4am: “I AM LEAKING GOO. THERE’S GOO EVERYWHERE. PLEASE GET THIS GOO OFF MY ASS” and then (slowly and with great effort) I flipped over to expose my goo-covered butt, pointing indignantly at it for even greater emphasis. LOOK. PLEASE LITERALLY LOOK AT MY ASS.
And now I’m home, and my hierarchy of needs, according to Maslow, has largely been reinstated. But every day a different nurse comes to the house to look at my ass and change my dressings and so even now any social decorum I’d previously had over such matters is long gone: the nurse isn’t just ‘changing my dressings’ *blush*, she’s unpacking a golf ball-sized wad of gauze from a wound just below the start of my bum cheeks and shoving a new one in and it’s gross and painful as hell, and I’ll have to deal with this every day for the foreseeable future. Tremendous.
Being coy about nudity and bodily ickiness is just another socially-manifested ideal designed to make everyone feel less uncomfortable about things, while simultaneously making a lot of people feel very uncomfortable about things. Perhaps if I’d been less entrenched in the accepted social ways of talking about RUDE BUM THINGS my grim ordeal would have felt a little less hideous, but here we are. At least now both myself and my bum are liberated. |
This has been an intense month for Etsy. The launch of Etsy Studio, the mandatory implementation of Etsy Payments, the shift to the new Shop Manager would have all been hectic as is, but then last week we also saw the board fire CEO Chad Dickerson as well as the CTO and 8% of the staff. Whew! That’s a lot to process as a seller.
I sat down today with Danielle Spurge of The Merriweather Council this morning to discuss it all point by point. Danielle and I are both longtime Etsy seller. She’s also a careful watcher of Etsy’s activities and she works with makers to help them optimize their Etsy shops and grow their creative businesses.
Last year Danielle and I chatted about Pattern, Etsy’s standalone shop builder, when it had just launched. You can watch that 20 minute conversation here.
And now we’re together again, this time on Facebook Live, hashing out what’s happening. I wanted to share the conversation with you here as well. We talk about:
- Etsy Studio
- Etsy Payments
- the new Shop Manager
- the management shakeup
In this conversation we work to address seller concerns and think through what’s most important for sellers to consider. Keep in mind that neither of us is affiliated with Etsy. We are just avid followers and longtime users of the platform. I hope you enjoy the talk!
I follow developments on etsy. I came to dislike what I saw intensely. The current steam of developments and the way etsy users (sellers and buyers) are treated make me feel literally repelled. Sellers seem to be currently being hectored into accepting etsy payments or else their shops will be suspended. The latest on that was that the suspension date had been pushed back to May 30th, but that it was impossible for sellers to negotiate their shops anyway, due to a banner reminder to join up to etsy payments popping up on every click and getting in the way and which people were unable to get rid of. Yet there are many legitimate reasons why people do not want or are unable to accept the terms of this. People are having to wait days for money to reach their accounts which previously would be there on the same day.
I believe etsy is quite happy to lose the small handmade sellers who first made the etsy name. They are often not so lucrative for etsy ,so as long as they are replaced by manufacturing sellers who make more money for etsy its considered acceptable losses for overall financial gain. Many people are upset that etsy are hanging on to their money instead of making it instantly available to them as PayPal do. They are also asking for highly secure personal information to set up, like social security numbers, bank account details and so on which alarms people. Etsy does not have a great record on keeping data secure. I am concerned about having my PayPal processed by etsy too. I know nothing online is fully secure but I trust PayPal more for sure.
There are also issues with the new Shop Manager which has upset a lot of people. Add to that the diabolical search, and the incessant tampering and live testing, it is easy to see how and why so many people are very upset. Etsy deals with much of this by ignoring people’s concerns, or removing posts to silence people. There is no proper customer service on etsy for sellers which causes very real upset and alarm. You can request a phone call for a few chosen issues and wait for etsy to get back to you, which doesn’t always happen otherwise you have to email and wait for a response; often there is none or it is a cut and paste kind of response. Often it is up to other sellers to come forward with help and possible solutions in the forums, which is most unfair for a company the size of etsy.
A very interesting forum thread and article from Bloomberg here
It’s plain to see that etsy is unable to best support its sellers and make the site profitable despite its impressive turnover. I always look for a seller’s stand alone site before I make a purchase. Genuine handmade do not need etsy as they can bring their own fan base to buy everything they are capable of making. Handmade automatically limits how much you can sell as there are only so many making hours in a day, so capacity will be reached by some. I am aware of many successful sellers who have waiting lists because they have created their own fan base on their own sites who purchase everything they are able and willing to make. Digital patterns are an exception to this, as obviously they can be sold to as many people as the market reaches. Other than that, to keep up with large numbers of buyers manufacturing becomes necessary or the making of items needs to involve employing others who may not apply the same standards as the originator – both of which move right away from the original ethos and purpose of etsy.
I find etsy studio superfluous to requirements, and why spend money on a site that replicates things already for sale on etsy? People would rather the money spent on fixing things like search. Also obfuscating the individual sellers is not an approach I buy into. As a buyer I want that personal touch – I want to see that I am buying from an individual, that is what made me shop on etsy.
Lots of issues with etsy therefore and its almost inevitable that it will sell up/out. Craftsy and Creative bug have, and so its just a matter of time. Chatter of it being sold to eBay, Amazon, and Facebook, who knows? Small is sadly ultimately not seen as beautiful and money always wins out over ethics and values. You don’t seem to get both unfortunately. There are still cheerleaders for etsy but I do have problems with recognising why, as the loyalty seems quite one sided.
Finally in the questions to the new CEO, he was asked if there would be a section for handmade on etsy, the same as there is for supplies and vintage, in order to separate it out from manufactured stuff. The response was no. Very telling on many levels, and really rather sad I thought.
I agree that there’s work to be done to improve search on Etsy. I trust Etsy with my financial information and in 11 years of selling on Etsy have never had a financial breech. I think having a bank account connected to my Etsy shop is a totally reasonable expectation as is waiting a few days for my bank to process a deposit. PayPal’s deposits are not completely FDIC insured and all small businesses should have bank accounts. Etsy is a tech company and in order to improve a complex ecommerce marketplace they have to run A/B tests. I’m thankful that they do because it leads to a smooth user experience for customers. Etsy is by no means perfect, but it’s an incredible service to the handmade community.
Abby, will Etsy be doing away with Paypal in 2018? ?
This is not good news for sellers who have moved countries and are ‘stuck’ with maintaining a bank account in the country where they originally opened their Etsy shop. Supposedly, this is due to international banking laws. In the past, I (and others in the Forums) have contacted Etsy about this, but have had no luck.
I don’t mind EtsyPayments/Direct Checkout. I just mind that these monies go to a bank account in a country where I no longer live (and have no family). Interestingly, this has not been a problem with Paypal because one is allowed to create country-specific Paypal accounts (to where one lives), and then update this info on Etsy. Hence, I have always preferred when customers paid with Paypal.
Sadly, the solution that Etsy has given is to open a NEW Etsy shop (with one’s current country’s bank account).
Thanks for letting me vent. I really appreciate your wonderful newsletter!
No, they won’t be doing away with PayPal. It looks to me like they’ll be doing away with standalone PayPal which means Etsy will process the PayPal payments. I’m not sure where the deposit will go, but it may be to your bank account. |
The Crimes On Fox Hollow Farm
- By Erin
- 1 month ago
Herb Baumeister lived on Fox Hollow Farm with his wife and children until the early 1990s.
Baumeister was known to the community as a popular thrift shop owner and family man. He was kind to all of his customers and neighbors. There wasn’t a bad bone in his body.
In 1993, news broke that many young men began to disappear. All of them were part of the gay community.
Somehow, a tip led to Fox Hollow Farm. The police acted on a warrant and investigated the property while Herb Baumeister was on vacation and his wife was home.
What they found was absolutely horrifying.
After a thorough investigation, they ended up finding thousands of human bones all over the property.
There was nothing he could do. So, he fled. He ran away to Canada and killed himself before they could make him pay for the lives that he ruined. He left a suicide note, but only talked of his failing marriage and failed business ventures. He did not confess to the murders.
The police can only confirm 11 men that he killed, but they suspect that there were much more.
Near the end, his wife, Julie, said that he grew erratic and angry. He had horrible mood swings that made her so scared that she filed for divorce.
It’s unclear why or how he decided to lure these men to their deaths. It’s said that the grounds are now haunted, and it’s popular for paranormal nuts to try and investigate there. |
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), author of the Mammogram and MRI Availability Act (H. R. 995), reiterated the importance of early detection for breast cancer. At an Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health hearing on breast cancer legislation, Nadler testified on his legislation, which would require insurance plans already covering diagnostic mammography to extend coverage for annual screening mammography to women age 40 and over, and for annual screenings and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for women at high risk of developing breast cancer.
“When it comes to breast cancer, prevention is the difference between life and death,” said Nadler. “Study after study has found that yearly mammograms, done from age 40 on, help find tumors at their smallest and most treatable stage. H. R. 995 is a common sense, bipartisan bill that would implement the recommended practices of leading breast cancer prevention groups. This legislation would ensure that women age 40 and older, as well as those women at high risk of developing breast cancer, will not continue to fall through the cracks.”
Currently, annual screening mammograms, which are used to detect tumors that cannot be felt manually, are covered under Medicare and Medicaid, but many private insurers cover only diagnostic mammograms, the type of mammography used to confirm the presence of a tumor only after it has been detected.
The American Cancer Society recommends that women who are at high risk of breast cancer – because of a strong family history or genetic predisposition – receive both annual MRIs and mammograms. MRIs are proven to catch more tumors at their earliest, most treatable stages.
The National Cancer Institute estimates that, in 2009 alone, more than 40,000 women in the U.S. will die from breast cancer and more than 192,000 new cases will be discovered. While breast cancer is often treatable, early detection is critical to preventing the rapid spread of this deadly disease and beginning effective treatment.
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Linde to install new hydrogen technology at True Zero stations
Linde delivers highly efficient hydrogen fuelling technology to double retail hydrogen capacity in California.
Last update: November 23, 2018
In a move to prepare California for the next generation of fuel cell electric vehicles, Linde is outfitting True Zero’s newest retail hydrogen fuelling stations with its highly efficient Cryo Pump 3.0/90.
The move will help to more than double the capacity of the California hydrogen network. The customer, True Zero, the retail brand of FirstElement Fuel Inc., currently operates 19 fully retail hydrogen stations throughout the state of California, dedicated to serving light duty fuel cell vehicles.
“California is a pioneer in hydrogen mobility – also thanks to the crucial funding granted by the California Energy Commission,” says Werner Ponikwar, Head of Hydrogen Mobility Solutions at Linde.
Linde’s cutting-edge Cryo Pump 3.0/90 will be the core component in True Zero’s newest fuelling stations.
“The technology provides a significant increase of refueling station capacity, and with that we see a path to retailing hydrogen fuel at cost parity with gasoline,” says Joel Ewanick, CEO of True Zero.
With more than 150 hydrogen refuelling stations engineered worldwide and more than 30 years of research and development in hydrogen mobility technology, the Linde Group is a leading player in hydrogen mobility infrastructure.
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Piña Colada
The Piña Colada is so popular it has its own song and, to me, that makes it cocktail royalty. Laugh if you want, but the six-decade staying power of the Piña Colada is impressive. What's less impressive is how some bartenders make one: using a pre-bottled coconut mix.
If you prefer to make the authentic recipe use Coco Lopez cream of coconut. It's available in grocery stores everywhere, and was part of the original recipe.
Play with the ratio of cream of coconut and pineapple, depending on your palette. This recipe goes a little heavier on the coconut, but the drink is very forgiving to improvisation.
Pro tip: try adding a shot of espresso if you like coffee flavor; the sweetness of the coconut and pineapple play well with the bitter coffee.
Recipe:
- 1 ½ oz Mount Gay Rum
- 2 oz Coco Lopez Cream of Coconut
- 1 oz pineapple juice
- Juice from half a lime (around ¼ to ½ oz)
Instructions:
Combine all ingredients over ice and shake until combined. Or, alternately, add all ingredients to a blender along with 2 cups of ice, and blend until ice is crushed.
Pour into a hurricane glass. Garnish with a lime wheel and wedge of fresh pineapple.
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Third class coach / carriage, photographed in York Railway Museum. It had clearly been given a coat of varnish as those I remember looked really tatty.
Second class coach / carriage, photographed in York Railway Museum.
First class coach / carriage, photographed in York Railway Museum.
Inside a Pullman car, detail of a photograph in York Railway Museum.
When I was a growing up in 1940s and 1950s England, I do just remember seeing trains with coaches marked with First, Second and third class on their sides. This would have been at one of the London terminuses.
Coaches at the time were known as carriages.
Most railways abolished second class in the late 19th century (although the Great Western Railway was as late as 1910). The two remaining classes were then known as first class and third class. We never considered travelling anything other than third class because my parents were always concerned about spending money.
In 1956 third class was re-named to second class and, much later in the 1980s, it became 'standard'.
There is a 1954 third class season ticket on the tickets page.
I never knew anyone who travelled first class, as this would have been regarded as dreadfully wasteful. Yet, some people must have done it or the railway companies would have withdrawn the first class carriages.
I also saw carriages known as Pullman cars which served food and were very elegant, with ornamental table lamps and linen table cloths on the tables. Waiters in white coats took orders for meals which were cooked - not reheated - on the train. However, my knowledge of Pullmans came only from what I was told and from looking in at them from station platforms because they ran in association with first class carriages.
If you can add anything to this page or provide a photo, I would be pleased to hear from you. |
Album Review :
Essentials - Trials
By Scott Swan in Reviews | Comments closed
Artist: Essentials
Title: Trials EP
Label: unsigned
Release Date: 06/14/14
Reviewer: Scott Swan
Tracklisting:
- Counterfeit
- Relentless
- Stand Apart
- Selah
- Vanity
- Wretched
Sometimes a band comes along and produces a sound that just fits your ear perfectly. When that event occurs, its a wonderful reminder of why I love music so much, and why this particular art form moves me so powerfully. So, when I began to really give the hardcore band Essentials an honest listen, that phenomenon once again materialized. Their new EP “Trials” takes true rawness and grit, then bundles it all together with a load of heart and passion. I was hooked almost immediately by the melodic grooves, the way tempos rise and fall, and the shear determination in the vocals. What maybe surprised me the most, was not only is this record filled with blistering riffs and pounding drums, but it also found time to be downright worshipful in certain moments.
Right off the bat, opener “Counterfeit” begins with a slower chunky guitar riff, until halfway into the verse when the cadence explodes into a rocking headbanger. The theme of the tune reminds me of the scripture in Matthew 6:24 were Jesus tells us that you can not serve two masters, you can’t serve both God and money. It seems every instrument has its own place on this album, the mix really allows for the music to breath, not overly done in any way.
“Relentless” gets going quickly with an opening drum pickup, which then transitions into raucous, heavy guitars that drop in like a bomb. Bringing out the idea of how people want to preach tolerance, until you disagree with them. Everybody talks about having an open mind and considering different points of view, but if you bring a legitimate idea that is contrary to their beliefs or values, then you are met with great resistance and even sometimes violence.
The rocking pace continues through the first half of the next track, “Stand Apart.” Encouraging the believer to truly stand out from the darkness this world holds, and be something different. Even with this call for holiness, the writer gives the clear impression that this is not an easy thing, and we need God’s help to accomplish this. I love how toward the end of this tune the tempo drops out and changes completely, then melds into the instrumental “Selah.” I don’t know that I have ever heard guitar distortion sound so worshipful. Well executed and awe-inspiring for sure.
The band picks things back up with a bruising groove, and crying out the song’s namesake phrase found in Ecclesiastes, shouting “Vanity, Oh Vanity! Everything is Vanity!” Driving home the point that, of course, without God, life is utterly absurd. Also, the fact that people who attempt to find meaning in the naturalist viewpoint will just end up living in total emptiness. Great tune.
Finishing things off, “Wretched” uses crunching rhythms and a nice mix of shouting, screaming and even some clean singing. Lyrically, you get the idea that the writer is coming to grips with his own sinful nature, which can’t be trusted. He then calls upon God as his only hope for a clean heart. An honest tune that speaks to that struggle and realizing we would all fall short if not for Christ.
Overall: As stated in the opening paragraph, this record really resonated with me. From the no-frills, organic sound, to the powerful, faith filled themes, this EP is a home run for me. If you are a fan of heavy music, I would encourage you to give this album a listen. Although it may not strike you in the same way it did me, I would still contend there is definently something here. I will be awaiting any news of a full length soon from these guys in the near future. Enjoy.
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I’ll never forget the first time I learned what sexting was. I was sitting in a New Media and Privacy Class at Wayne State University as the professor explained the details – and it was at that instant I decided I wouldn’t let my kids have phones.
That was six years ago, and social media and the duck face weren’t as prevalent as they are today. As a mother of three girls ages 13, 10 and 8, my stance hasn’t changed much, but it has softened.
According to a 2015 Pew Research Center study on teens, social media and technology, nearly 73 percent of teens have access to smartphones and an additional 15 percent to cellphones. To say that I feel pressure and guilt to give into my children’s constant demand to buy them a phone would be an understatement.
However, as parents we are taught to protect our children. We take them to their pediatric appointments and make sure they are immunized. We teach them to look both ways before crossing a street and about stranger danger. We pack them healthy food and teach them healthy habits. Yet we hand over the world – good and bad – into their tiny palms.
This double standard has left me dazed. I’ve seen children in my daughter’s third grade class come to school with an iPhone. I understand that there are positives to smartphones. Parents have easy access to their children at all times, and these tiny gadgets keep kids easily entertained.
Still, the negatives far outweigh the positives. In a recent study conducted by the Hospital for Sick Children in Canada, researchers found that the more time young children spent using handheld devices, the more likely they were to have speech delays. Another study at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that screen time correlates with an increase in obesity and decrease in sleep for adolescents.
I am more concerned with the psychological effect being constantly connected has on young kids. I want to shape my kids’ values and beliefs. I don’t want the internet doing that. I don’t want them constantly exposed to a barrage of unhealthy body image standards, violence, porn and bullying.
Kids 12 and under don’t have the maturity level to navigate the internet safely. I see adults that are addicted to their phones. The constant urge to check for likes, emails and messages is powerful, and social media sites program their features to be addicting. Why would I expect my children to overcome an addiction adults struggle with?
The request to get my oldest a phone started around the fifth grade. I told her I wouldn’t consider it until she entered high school. She asked me if I trusted her, and I told her I did, but I didn’t trust the internet.
When my kids aren’t with me, they are at school, where there is a phone in the office. When they are at an extracurricular, I make sure to know the phone number of the chaperones. If they need to call me, they know it’s OK to ask to use a phone.
The New York Times once referred to Steve Jobs as a low-tech parent, because of the rules he placed on his kids’ screen time. Bill Gates didn’t allow his kids to have smartphones until they turned 14. I don’t like to think of myself as a strict mom, but rather more like Bill Gates.
When my daughter starts high school, she’ll get a cellphone, and when she starts to drive, she’ll probably need a smartphone. Until then, I’m going to stick to low-tech parenting.
Farmington Hills mom of two says kids should have cellphones before age 12. Read her take here. |
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The Piano
V.S.O.P.: Live Under the Sky
Columbia/Legacy
The music on 1978's The Piano and 1979's V.S.O.P.-Live Under the Sky-recorded in Tokyo and released in Japan-was never available in the United States, and much of it has not been available anywhere because Columbia didn't consider this music commercially marketable at the time. The Piano is an extremely rare example of a Herbie Hancock solo piano recording, and V.S.O.P.-Live Under the Sky is a two-CD set containing back-to-back nights in concert by a superstar band of Hancock, Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter and Tony Williams.
Herbie Hancock
There is an audio story associated with both of these releases. The Piano was recorded in a forbidding purist process, long beloved by audiophiles, called direct-to-disc. Hancock's performances in the studio were cut, in real time, onto master acetate discs, from which plates were made to stamp out the two sides of a high-quality LP. Live Under the Sky was a very early digital recording, made on one of Sony's first digital tape recorders, the 1610.
Columbia/Legacy makes extravagant claims for the audio excellence of these two recordings, and it is half right: The Piano is a rich, vivid sonic documentation of an individual piano at a specific moment in a particular acoustic space in the hands of a special artist. And Live Under the Sky is all but unlistenable.
The liner notes for The Piano contain detailed information about the direct-to-disc recording process and imply that this technology is responsible for the superb sound of the reissue. But in fact both of these releases were mastered from digital tapes made on a Sony 1610. CD reissues of direct-to-disc recordings are almost never made from the master acetate discs in creating digital transfers. Direct-to-disc recording sessions always run a tape back-up, and in the case of The Piano it was a digital tape made on a Sony 1610. This tape was sent from Japan to Sony engineer Mark Wilder 26 years later, and he used it to master the CD.
The digital tape source serves this project extremely well. Most recordings of the piano, regardless of format, portray it as a one-dimensional percussion device of varying pitch, but The Piano gets at the instrument's very soul, revealing it as a source of vast aural complexity. Of course, the beauty of this piano's sound is not separable from, and is in fact identical to, what Hancock plays on it. The three standards here-"My Funny Valentine," "On Green Dolphin Street" and "Someday My Prince Will Come"-are firmly linked to Hancock's former boss, Miles Davis, and they are among the most stunning achievements of the pianist's recording career.
The eight-minute master take of "Valentine" is the most gradual and diverse unfolding, a profound contemplation of one Rodgers and Hart endowment in which the melodic essence recurs and recurs in luminous unmistakable fragments as Hancock's creative process climbs and glides down and contracts and erupts again. The chiming, lingering notes are identical with feeling, whether hard keystrokes or barely audible touches. The three alternate takes are fascinating in how Hancock seems to wipe his mind clean and start over. The songs' famous themes emerge, of course, but at different places in the flow of invention. The four Hancock originals, especially "Harvest Time," since they arrive without historical association, feel like pure spontaneous acts of the imagination.
In stark sonic contrast to The Piano, the ensemble unisons on Live Under the Sky, with the serrated edges of Shorter's tenor and the shrieks of Hubbard's trumpet, are harsh enough to rip your ears off. It is rare for a recording to be both glaringly bright and dead, with no air, but this one manages that feat. All the instruments are on a single flat plane, about two inches from your face. It hurts.
With The Piano, sonic and musical excellence are aspects of a single aesthetic experience. Conversely, on Live Under the Sky nastiness unites both the music and its delivery system. V.S.O.P., of course, is Miles Davis' "second great quintet," with Hubbard replacing Miles. Changing out trumpet players utterly transformed this band. It went from a capacity for infinitely subtle creative suggestion to bombast and bravado. It is remarkable that an ensemble with this much talent could play anything as ugly as "Eye of the Hurricane." It is devoid of dynamic contrast, staying on one maniacal level. Thankfully, not every track is as obnoxious as "Hurricane." Carter's "Teardrop" has an attractive melody line, and Shorter and Hancock take fervent, well-shaped solos on Williams' "Pee Wee." But even on slow pieces, the toxic sound and the raw aggressiveness of the players makes the music overbearing.
The exception is the encore that ends the second evening and the second CD. Hancock and Shorter, exhausted by this time, play duets on "Stella by Starlight" and "On Green Dolphin Street." They are rough, with Shorter's tone quavery and his phrasing uncertain. Yet these two pieces, which never move far from their melodies, possess an authenticity of feeling that teases us with what V.S.O.P. might have been.
Given that the Sony 1610 created such a high quality digital master for The Piano, it cannot be the reason for the wretched sound on the V.S.O.P. set. Other factors were clearly in play. The Piano comes from a rigorous, disciplined audiophile recording session, where all the technical engineering moves in the studio were correct. Live Under the Sky was made outside, in the 30,000-seat Denon Colosseum, in the rain, with lots of amplification on stage. The final outcomes are what matter. The Piano is a reference-quality piano recording that begs to be remastered in DSD for SACD release. V.S.O.P.-Live Under the Sky is the perfect album to play loudly when you want to clear your house of unwanted guests.
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Burhou (pronounced bu-ROO) is a small island approximately northwest of Alderney that is part of the Channel Islands. No one lives on Burhou, and it is a bird sanctuary, so landing there is banned from 15 March to 27 July. The island's wildlife includes a colony of puffins (declining in numbers) and large numbers of rabbits.
It has no landing stage as such, but visitors use a small inlet. In rough weather it may be impossible to land.
The Guernsey botanist E.D. Marquand called it, "the most desolate and lonely of all the islands in our archipelago." He had to spend the night there, as his return journey was delayed by fog.
The 1906 book, The Channel Pilot states -
"Between Ortac, Verte Tete and Burhou Island, are scattered many dangerous rocks, and ledges among which the streams run with great velocity."
The States of Alderney member, John Beaman has political responsibility for the island.
Burhou, like many other Channel Islands (e.g. Lihou, Jethou), has the Norman suffix -hou, meaning a small island, from the Old Norse holmr. According to Dr. S.K. Kellet-Smith, "bur" refers to a storehouse - "Burhou is just the place where a fisherman would place a depository for his gear".
Signs of human occupation/visitation are much older. Flint flakes have been found on the island, and one is currently in the Alderney Museum. In 1847, F.C. Lukis found two standing stones, but these have since been lost, according to the archaeologist David Johnston.
The hut
According to the Assize Roll of the 14th century, Burhou was a rabbit warren, and a refuge for fishermen. This would have meant that there would have been some kind of shelter there, as it would be difficult for the fishermen to take refuge without it.
A hut was built on the island in 1820 as a shelter for fishermen and sailors at the instigation of General Le Mesurier (The Governor), but was destroyed during the German occupation of the Channel Islands (the Nazis used it for target practice during WWII). The hut was replaced in 1953, with basic accommodation which is rented out to visitors by Alderney Harbour Office.
Attempts have been made to raise sheep there. In 1900, a French couple lived there for a year. The soil is thin, and spray often goes right over the island, so the soil is very salty. The island has no fresh water supply for much of the year, and has to rely on shipments, or formerly tanks.
Flora and fauna
The island's animals are mainly birds, although rabbits are long established here. The island has many puffins and some storm petrels. Although the latter have declined, they used to nest in the cottage's storm loft. Roderick Dobson in Birds of the Channel Islands said that puffins had been plentiful for over a century. The Birds of Guernsey (1878) by Cecil Smith states likewise. The puffins have had to compete with gulls, and in 1949, hundreds died from red mite infestation. The rabbit holes on the island make good nesting for them. |
Track & Field: Outdoor: 2005: Ran a personal best 1:55.49 in the 800 meter race at the Duke Twilight... qualified for the finals of the 1500 meter run at the ACCs with a personal best 3:53.27... ran a 3:55.08 in the 1500 meter finals of the conference meet to finish 10th in the event... competed in the 5,000 meter run at two meets for the Deacons.
2004: Captured first place at the Tar Heel Opener in the 3,000m... Placed 22nd at the JMU Invitational in the 5,000m run.
2003: Competed in two different events at three different meets during the outdoor season.
2002: Runner-up in the 1,500m at the Wake Forest Invitational ... Posted a 3:55.27 in the 1,500m at the Duke Invitational ... Placed third in the 3,000m steeplechase at the Charlotte Invitational with a time of 9:42.12 ... Ran a 14:44.50 in the 5,000m at the Raleigh Relays.
Indoor: 2005: Ran a 4:16.35 mile at the Meyo Invitational earning him an 8th place finish.
2004: Claimed eighth place in the 3,000m run at the Clemson Invitational.
2003: Placed 6th in the 3,000m run at the Virginia Tech Challenge ... Recorded the second best time of the season with a 14:50.82 in the 5,000m at the Penn State Meet.
2002: Best time in the 3,000m was 8:30.17 at the Virginia Tech Challenge ... Finished 20th in the 3,000m at the ACC Championships ... Placed fourth in the mile at the North Carolina Invitational with a time of 4:27.73
Cross Country: 2004: Competed in all races for the Deacons... finished fifth at the Wake Forest Relays... earned 14th at the Wake Forest Invitational... placed ninth at the East Carolina Invitational.
2003: Finished ninth overall at the Wake Forest Invitational.
2002: Ran in five races for the Deacons ... finished 11th at the Mountaineer Open ... placed 10th at the Wake Forest Alumni Invitational ... finished 46th at the ACC Championships.
2001: Competed in two races for the Deacons.
Background: Led team to the state championship in 2000 ... Placed fifth individually at that same competition ... Named all-state in cross country and track ... Three-time All-American in the 4x1 Mile Relay... Earned six varsity letters between track and cross country ... member of the National Honor Society ... honor roll student ... academic letter recipient at Rockford High School.
Personal: A communications major... Born July 27, 1982 in Grand Rapids, MI ... Son of Michael and Kim Smith.
Records: Indoor: Mile: 4:16.35; 3,000m: 8:25.73; 5,000m: 14:50.82; Outdoor: 800m: 1:55.49; 1,500m: 3:53.27; Mile:4:13; 3,000: 9:42.12; 5,000m: 14:37.92 |
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Creamy bacon sauce makes this pasta bake a delicious, comforting dinner. This is the perfect recipe to make-ahead and feed a crowd.
This is the time of the year when I start thinking about dishes to feed a crowd. Over the festive season having a few dishes up your sleeve that are both easy to make and perfect to feed the masses is a must. Pasta bake recipes are always a good idea. They are versatile, delicious and can be adapted easily. It’s win-win all around.
How to make bacon pasta bake
The best and easiest way to make creamy pasta bake is to use a bechamel sauce as a base. Cook the bacon in a deep frying pan (I prefer using one I can bake the pasta in) until crispy then remove from the pan and drain the bacon fat off. Remember to reserve the bacon fat for the most delicious roast potatoes or to use instead of oil or butter in cooking. Add butter and onion to the pan and cook until the onions are soft. Add aromatics like garlic and herbs (I love using sage in this recipe) then add the flour. Whisk into the butter then pour in milk whilst whisking to create a smooth sauce. Reduce the heat and allow the sauce to simmer for 5 minutes. Add cream (optional) and cheese and season to taste. Add the bacon and cooked pasta to the sauce and mix well. Top with more cheese and place in a hot oven to bake for 15-20 minutes or until the cheese has melted and is golden brown. Remove the pasta bake from the oven and allow to cool for a few minutes before serving.
Freezing and making ahead
- Freezing: Assemble the pasta bake in a foil baking container. Place a piece of parchment paper on top of the pasta bake then wrap well with plastic and a layer of foil. Freeze for up to 3 months. Remove all wrapping and bake from frozen for 45 minutes – 1 hour.
- Make ahead: Assemble the pasta dish then cover well and place in the fridge the day before baking.
What to serve with pasta bake
Pasta bake recipes
- Creamy spinach artichoke pasta bake
- Pizza pasta bake
- Creamy mushroom pasta bake
- Easy cheese and tomato pasta bake
Creamy bacon pasta bake
Ingredients
- 250 g (½lb) streaky bacon chopped
- 3 tbsp butter
- 1 onion finely diced
- 2-3 garlic cloves minced
- 2 tbsp sage finely chopped
- ¼ cup flour
- 2 cups milk
- ½ cup heavy / whipping cream
- 2 tbsp parmesan grated
- 1 cup grated cheddar cheese divided
- salt and pepper to taste
- 500 g (1lb) penne pasta boiled in salted water, drained + 1 cup cooking water reserved
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F.
- In a large, oven-proof pan, fry the bacon until it starts to crisp. Remove from the pan and set aside. Drain off the bacon fat and reserve for cooking with.
- In the same pan, melt the butter and add the onion. Allow to cook until soft.
- Add the garlic and sage and cook for a minute before adding the flour.
- Stir the flour into the butter then whisk in the milk and cream. Reduce the heat and allow to simmer for 5-7 minutes until the sauce is thick and creamy. Remove from the heat then stir in the bacon, Parmesan and half of the grated cheese. Season to taste.
- Add the cooked pasta and some of the pasta cooking water. Stir to coat the pasta in the sauce. At this stage, the sauce should look quite thin. The pasta will absorb more sauce as it cooks so if it looks too dry at this stage, add more pasta cooking water.
- Top with the remaining cheese and more sage leaves if desired then place in the oven.
- Allow to bake for 15-20 minutes until the cheese is golden brown.
- Remove from the oven, allow to cool for 10 minutes then serve.
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for my project I used the Dress Form and the Power of a Woman quote...they just worked perfectly together!
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Q:
How to get the favicon from a 403 page
I am writing a tool that allows the user to input a URL, to which the program responds by attempting to show that website's favicon. I have this working for many sites but one site that is giving me trouble is my self-hosted Trac site. It seems that Trac's normal behaviour, until the end user is autenticated, is to show a custom 403 page (Forbidden), inviting the user to log in. Accessing Trac from a web browser, the favicon displays in the browser's tab, even though I'm not logged in (and Firebug, for instance, shows a 403 for the page content). If I view source from the browser, the favicon's location is right there in the source. However, from my application, requesting the Trac website with request.GetResponse() throws a WebException containing a 403, giving me no opportunity to read the response stream that contains the vital information required to find the favicon.
I already have code to download a website's HTML and extract the location of its favicon. What I am stuck with is downloading a site's HTML even when it responds with a 403.
I played with various UserAgent, Accept and AcceptLanguage properties of the HttpWebRequest object but it didn't help. I also tried following any redirects myself as I read somewhere that .NET doesn't do them well. Still no luck.
Here's what I have:
public static MemoryStream DownloadHtml(
string urlParam,
int timeoutMs = DefaultHttpRequestTimeoutMs,
string userAgent = "",
bool silent = false
)
{
MemoryStream result = null;
HttpWebRequest request = null;
HttpWebResponse response = null;
try
{
Func<string, HttpWebRequest> createRequest = (urlForFunc) =>
{
var requestForAction = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(urlForFunc);
// This step is now required by Wikipedia (and others?) to prevent periodic or
// even constant 403's (Forbidden).
requestForAction.UserAgent = userAgent;
requestForAction.Accept = "text/html";
requestForAction.AllowAutoRedirect = false;
requestForAction.Timeout = timeoutMs;
return requestForAction;
};
string urlFromResponse = "";
string urlForRequest = "";
do
{
if(response == null)
{
urlForRequest = urlParam;
}
else
{
urlForRequest = urlFromResponse;
response.Close();
}
request = createRequest(urlForRequest);
response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
urlFromResponse = response.Headers[HttpResponseHeader.Location];
}
while(urlFromResponse != null
&& urlFromResponse.Length > 0
&& urlFromResponse != urlForRequest);
using(var stream = response.GetResponseStream())
{
result = new MemoryStream();
stream.CopyTo(result);
}
}
catch(WebException ex)
{
// Things like 404 and, well, all other web-type exceptions.
Debug.WriteLine(ex.Message);
if(ex.InnerException != null) Debug.WriteLine(ex.InnerException.Message);
}
catch(System.Threading.ThreadAbortException)
{
// Let ac.Thread handle some cleanup.
throw;
}
catch(Exception)
{
if(!silent) throw;
}
finally
{
if(response != null) response.Close();
}
return result;
}
A:
The stream content is stored in Exception object.
var resp = new StreamReader(ex.Response.GetResponseStream()).ReadToEnd();
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With just days to go in the campaign, Trump knocks environmentally friendly toilets
With just days to go before the election, President Trump has a lot of things on his mind. And water pressure for toilets appears to be one of them.
In a lengthy digression during his rally in Carson City, Nev., on Sunday, Trump claimed that Americans have to “flush their toilet 15 times” due to restrictions on water usage.
“You know what really bothers me?. Right? Look at them. They’re all nodding. Same thing, by the way, same thing with your dishwasher. I freed that up too. The dishwashers, they had a little problem,” the president said.
“They didn’t give enough water, like, so people would run them 10 times, so they end up using more water. And the thing’s no damn good. We freed it up. Now you can buy a dishwasher and comes out and beautiful. Go buy a dishwasher. Go buy it. Those companies. I said, ‘What’s wrong with this thing? It doesn’t clean the dishes.’ Right? The women come up to me, the women who they say don’t like me, they actually do like me a lot. Suburban women, please vote for me. I’m saving your house.”
After reminiscing about watching CNN’s John King dissect some of his surprise victories in battleground states on election night in 2016, Trump told the crowd he wanted to get “back to my very boring story about faucets and dishwashers.”
“So I said to the head, I called up a great dishwasher company from Ohio that we saved, by the way, I said, ‘What’s the problem with your dishwasher?’ ‘Well, they don’t give us any water. I mean, you know, it’d be nice to be able to get enough water.’ ‘What’s the problem?’ ‘We need more water,’” the president recalled.
“Like I said, ‘How much do you need this? Would you like more?’ ‘Well, I’d love more. Will you give us more?’ ‘Yeah. I’ll give you more. You have so much water, you don’t know what to do with it.’ Right? So we gave them what they need. And now the dishwashers are incredible. They work beautifully. And you go one time and you come back and our dishes are nice and beautiful and clean and dry. You don’t have to go 10 times. The same thing with the restrictors in the faucet.”
At one point in his diatribe, Trump suggested reporters would focus on the word “toilet” if he used it.
“I hate to say the three things. It’s the shower, it’s the sink, and you know the third element in the bathroom. But I don’t say it, because every time I say it, they only talk about that one,” Trump said, pointing to the media section.
“Because it’s sort of gross to talk about, right? So I won’t talk about the fact that people have to flush their toilet 15 times. I will not talk about it. I’ll only talk about showers,” he continued. “This way they can’t report it.”
It’s not the first time Trump has complained about low water pressure as president.
In December 2019, he told a very similar story to reporters at the White House, saying he had directed the Environmental Protection Agency to look into the issue.
,” Trump said. “They take a shower and water comes dripping out, very quietly dripping out. People are flushing toilets 10 times, 15 times, as opposed to once; they end up using more water. So EPA is looking very strongly at that, at my suggestion.”
Water also wasn’t the only aside in Trump’s 90-minute stump speech in Carson City.
The president also discussed the economy — Michigan’s, mostly; Hillary Clinton’s emails; the woman at a recent town hall who told him he has a nice smile; Amazon chief Jeff Bezos; the “fake” news media; California’s forest management; Barron Trump’s brief battle with COVID-19; the Atlantic magazine’s report that he called dead U.S. soldiers “losers”; athletes kneeling during the national anthem; the NFL and Roger Goodell; Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Green New Deal; law enforcement and violent demonstrations in cities like Minneapolis, Seattle and Portland, Ore.; his call with the president of Ukraine that triggered his impeachment; and the so-called war on Christmas.
And that was just the first 60 minutes.
Interwoven were attacks on his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, who Trump trails in virtually every national poll, and Hunter Biden, the former vice president’s son and target of a recent controversial and unverified New York Post story.
But none were delivered with the sort of energy Trump dedicated to the water pressure problem, which he claimed he fixed with a call to his “environmental people.”
“So what happens, I called my people, environmental people: ‘Why are we doing this?’ Because when you wash your hands it takes five times longer,” he explained. “You get soapy, you can’t get it off. I said, ‘Open it up.’ They said, ‘What do you mean?’ I said, ‘Take the restrictors off.’”
The president added: “You ever get under a shower and no water comes out? And me, I want that hair to be so beautiful.”
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I had a little dreidel, I made it out of clay, but then I had nothing to do with it except play this fairly boring game.
Breaking out the dreidel on Hanukkah is as much a part of the holiday as frying up the latkes, but that doesn't mean it is very fun. If you've never played the game, the idea is to spin a wooden top (I've never seen a clay one personally), which has four Hebrew symbols painted on it. Each symbol, aside from forming an acronym, represents the rules for game play.
According to Wikipedia, the game is played as follows:
Each player begins with an equal number of game pieces. The game pieces can be any object, such as chocolate gelt, pennies, or raisins. player side is facing up when it stops spinning, they give or take is an odd number of pieces in the pot, the player takes the half the pot rounded up to the nearest whole number) d) If ש (shin) or פ (pei) is facing up, the player adds a game piece to the pot.
And if that didn't help you, playing dreidel is basically gambling with a wooden top.
As a young child growing up in the 1980s, winning pennies was awesome because pennies could still buy things. In 2011, we tend to think kids would scoff at such a concept. Do children today gamble with Facebook friends? Cell phones? Apps? Do children even play dreidel anymore? There must still be a market for dreidels since we saw them at Target the other day, but maybe the dreidel is in need of a makeover. So, we sat down and thought of eight other things you can do with a dreidel. 8. Electrical Outlet Safety Cap
Since we are assuming that children have no interest in this game anymore, they won't be tempted to try and pull the dreidel out of the plug and replace it with their fingers. Hopefully, the dreidel doesn't catch fire.
7. Hebrew-Up Your Dungeons & Dragons Game The dreidel is essentially a d4 that can be used in the same manner as any other DnD dice. Will it assist better in a magic missile or searing light spell? Who knows. Maybe there is a whole new clan of Jewish wizards that are just waiting to be untapped during your next DnD game. The possibilities are as open as your mind, or as much as your Dungeon Master allows..
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#if !defined(_M_X64)
#include "injectdll.h"
#include <Windows.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <tlhelp32.h>
#include <wow64ext.h>
static bool is_process64(HANDLE hProcess) {
BOOL wow64 = FALSE;
if (!IsWow64Process(hProcess, &wow64)) {
return false;
}
return !wow64;
}
static uint64_t wow64_module(const wchar_t* name) {
return GetModuleHandle64(name);
}
static uint64_t wow64_import(uint64_t module, const char* name) {
return GetProcAddress64(module, name);
}
template <class... Args>
static uint64_t wow64_call(uint64_t func, Args... args) {
return X64Call(func, sizeof...(args), (uint64_t)args...);
}
static uint64_t wow64_alloc_memory(uint64_t navm, HANDLE hProcess, SIZE_T dwSize, DWORD flProtect) {
uint64_t tmpAddr = 0;
uint64_t tmpSize = dwSize;
uint64_t ret = wow64_call(navm, hProcess, &tmpAddr, 0, &tmpSize, MEM_COMMIT, flProtect);
if (0 != ret) {
return 0;
}
return tmpAddr;
}
static bool wow64_write_memory(uint64_t nwvm, HANDLE hProcess, uint64_t lpBaseAddress, LPVOID lpBuffer, SIZE_T nSize) {
uint64_t written = 0;
uint64_t res = wow64_call(nwvm, hProcess, lpBaseAddress, lpBuffer, nSize, &written);
if (0 != res || nSize != written) {
return false;
}
return true;
}
static bool injectdll_x64(const PROCESS_INFORMATION& pi, const std::wstring& dll) {
static unsigned char sc[] = {
0x9C, // pushfq
0x0F, 0xA8, // push gs
0x0F, 0xA0, // push fs
0x50, // push rax
0x51, // push rcx
0x52, // push rdx
0x53, // push rbx
0x55, // push rbp
0x56, // push rsi
0x57, // push rdi
0x41, 0x50, // push r8
0x41, 0x51, // push r9
0x41, 0x52, // push r10
0x41, 0x53, // push r11
0x41, 0x54, // push r12
0x41, 0x55, // push r13
0x41, 0x56, // push r14
0x41, 0x57, // push r15
0x48, 0x83, 0xEC, 0x28, // sub rsp, 0x28
0x49, 0xB9, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, // mov r9, 0 // DllHandle
0x49, 0xB8, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, // mov r8, 0 // DllPath
0x48, 0x31, 0xD2, // xor rdx,rdx
0x48, 0x31, 0xC9, // xor rcx,rcx
0x48, 0xB8, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, // mov rax,0 // LdrLoadDll
0xFF, 0xD0, // call rax LdrLoadDll
0x48, 0x83, 0xC4, 0x28, // add rsp, 0x28
0x41, 0x5F, // pop r15
0x41, 0x5E, // pop r14
0x41, 0x5D, // pop r13
0x41, 0x5C, // pop r12
0x41, 0x5B, // pop r11
0x41, 0x5A, // pop r10
0x41, 0x59, // pop r9
0x41, 0x58, // pop r8
0x5F, // pop rdi
0x5E, // pop rsi
0x5D, // pop rbp
0x5B, // pop rbx
0x5A, // pop rdx
0x59, // pop rcx
0x58, // pop rax
0x0F, 0xA1, // pop fs
0x0F, 0xA9, // pop gs
0x9D, // popfq
0xFF, 0x25, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, // jmp offset
0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00 // rip
};
uint64_t ntdll = wow64_module(L"ntdll.dll");
if (!ntdll) {
return false;
}
uint64_t pfLdrLoadDll = wow64_import(ntdll, "LdrLoadDll");
if (!pfLdrLoadDll) {
return false;
}
uint64_t pfNtGetContextThread = wow64_import(ntdll, "NtGetContextThread");
uint64_t pfNtSetContextThread = wow64_import(ntdll, "NtSetContextThread");
uint64_t pfNtAllocateVirtualMemory = wow64_import(ntdll, "NtAllocateVirtualMemory");
uint64_t pfNtWriteVirtualMemory = wow64_import(ntdll, "NtWriteVirtualMemory");
if (!pfNtGetContextThread || !pfNtSetContextThread || !pfNtAllocateVirtualMemory || !pfNtWriteVirtualMemory) {
return false;
}
struct UNICODE_STRING {
USHORT Length;
USHORT MaximumLength;
uint64_t Buffer;
};
SIZE_T memsize = sizeof(uint64_t) + sizeof(UNICODE_STRING) + (dll.size() + 1) * sizeof(wchar_t);
uint64_t memory = wow64_alloc_memory(pfNtAllocateVirtualMemory, pi.hProcess, memsize, PAGE_READWRITE);
if (!memory) {
return false;
}
uint64_t shellcode = wow64_alloc_memory(pfNtAllocateVirtualMemory, pi.hProcess, sizeof(sc),PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE);
if (!shellcode) {
return false;
}
UNICODE_STRING us;
us.Length = (USHORT)(dll.size() * sizeof(wchar_t));
us.MaximumLength = us.Length + sizeof(wchar_t);
us.Buffer = memory + sizeof(UNICODE_STRING);
if (!wow64_write_memory(pfNtWriteVirtualMemory, pi.hProcess, memory, &us, sizeof(UNICODE_STRING))) {
return false;
}
if (!wow64_write_memory(pfNtWriteVirtualMemory, pi.hProcess, us.Buffer, (void*)dll.data(), us.MaximumLength)) {
return false;
}
_CONTEXT64 ctx = { 0 };
ctx.ContextFlags = CONTEXT_CONTROL;
if (wow64_call(pfNtGetContextThread, pi.hThread, &ctx)) {
return false;
}
uint64_t handle = us.Buffer + us.MaximumLength;
memcpy(sc + 34, &handle, sizeof(handle));
memcpy(sc + 44, &memory, sizeof(memory));
memcpy(sc + 60, &pfLdrLoadDll, sizeof(pfLdrLoadDll));
memcpy(sc + 108, &ctx.Rip, sizeof(ctx.Rip));
if (!wow64_write_memory(pfNtWriteVirtualMemory, pi.hProcess, shellcode, &sc, sizeof(sc))) {
return false;
}
ctx.ContextFlags = CONTEXT_CONTROL;
ctx.Rip = shellcode;
if (wow64_call(pfNtSetContextThread, pi.hThread, &ctx)) {
return false;
}
return true;
}
static bool injectdll_x86(const PROCESS_INFORMATION& pi, const std::wstring& dll) {
static unsigned char sc[] = {
0x68, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, // push eip
0x9C, // pushfd
0x60, // pushad
0x68, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, // push DllPath
0xB8, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, // mov eax, LoadLibraryW
0xFF, 0xD0, // call eax
0x61, // popad
0x9D, // popfd
0xC3 // ret
};
DWORD pfLoadLibrary = (DWORD)::GetProcAddress(::GetModuleHandleW(L"Kernel32"), "LoadLibraryW");
if (!pfLoadLibrary) {
return false;
}
SIZE_T memsize = (dll.size() + 1) * sizeof(wchar_t);
LPVOID memory = VirtualAllocEx(pi.hProcess, NULL, memsize, MEM_COMMIT, PAGE_READWRITE);
if (!memory) {
return false;
}
LPVOID shellcode = VirtualAllocEx(pi.hProcess, NULL, sizeof(sc), MEM_COMMIT, PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE);
if (!shellcode) {
return false;
}
SIZE_T written = 0;
BOOL ok = FALSE;
ok = WriteProcessMemory(pi.hProcess, memory, dll.data(), memsize, &written);
if (!ok || written != memsize) {
return false;
}
CONTEXT ctx = { 0 };
ctx.ContextFlags = CONTEXT_FULL;
if (!::GetThreadContext(pi.hThread, &ctx)) {
return false;
}
memcpy(sc + 1, &ctx.Eip, sizeof(ctx.Eip));
memcpy(sc + 8, &memory, sizeof(memory));
memcpy(sc + 13, &pfLoadLibrary, sizeof(pfLoadLibrary));
ok = WriteProcessMemory(pi.hProcess, shellcode, &sc, sizeof(sc), &written);
if (!ok || written != sizeof(sc)) {
return false;
}
ctx.ContextFlags = CONTEXT_CONTROL;
ctx.Eip = (DWORD)shellcode;
if (!::SetThreadContext(pi.hThread, &ctx)) {
return false;
}
return true;
}
static bool injectdll_x64(const PROCESS_INFORMATION& pi, const std::wstring& dll, const std::string& entry) {
static unsigned char sc[] = {
0x9C, // pushfq
0x0F, 0xA8, // push gs
0x0F, 0xA0, // push fs
0x50, // push rax
0x51, // push rcx
0x52, // push rdx
0x53, // push rbx
0x55, // push rbp
0x56, // push rsi
0x57, // push rdi
0x41, 0x50, // push r8
0x41, 0x51, // push r9
0x41, 0x52, // push r10
0x41, 0x53, // push r11
0x41, 0x54, // push r12
0x41, 0x55, // push r13
0x41, 0x56, // push r14
0x41, 0x57, // push r15
0x48, 0x83, 0xEC, 0x28, // sub rsp, 0x28
0x49, 0xB9, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, // mov r9, 0 // DllHandle
0x49, 0xB8, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, // mov r8, 0 // DllPath
0x48, 0x31, 0xD2, // xor rdx,rdx
0x48, 0x31, 0xC9, // xor rcx,rcx
0x48, 0xB8, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, // mov rax,0 // LdrLoadDll
0xFF, 0xD0, // call rax
0x49, 0xB9, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, // mov r9, 0 // EntryFunc
0x4D, 0x31, 0xC0, // xor r8, r8
0x48, 0xBA, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, // mov rdx,0 // EntryName
0x48, 0xB9, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, // mov rcx,0 // DllHandle
0x48, 0x8B, 0x09, // mov rcx,[rcx]
0x48, 0xB8, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, // mov rax,0 // LdrGetProcedureAddress
0xFF, 0xD0, // call rax
0x48, 0xB8, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, // mov rax,0 // EntryFunc
0x48, 0x8B, 0x00, // mov rax,[rax]
0xFF, 0xD0, // call rax
0x48, 0x83, 0xC4, 0x28, // add rsp, 0x28
0x41, 0x5F, // pop r15
0x41, 0x5E, // pop r14
0x41, 0x5D, // pop r13
0x41, 0x5C, // pop r12
0x41, 0x5B, // pop r11
0x41, 0x5A, // pop r10
0x41, 0x59, // pop r9
0x41, 0x58, // pop r8
0x5F, // pop rdi
0x5E, // pop rsi
0x5D, // pop rbp
0x5B, // pop rbx
0x5A, // pop rdx
0x59, // pop rcx
0x58, // pop rax
0x0F, 0xA1, // pop fs
0x0F, 0xA9, // pop gs
0x9D, // popfq
0xFF, 0x25, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, // jmp offset
0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00 // rip
};
uint64_t ntdll = wow64_module(L"ntdll.dll");
if (!ntdll) {
return false;
}
uint64_t pfLdrLoadDll = wow64_import(ntdll, "LdrLoadDll");
uint64_t pfLdrGetProcedureAddress = wow64_import(ntdll, "LdrGetProcedureAddress");
if (!pfLdrLoadDll || !pfLdrGetProcedureAddress) {
return false;
}
uint64_t pfNtGetContextThread = wow64_import(ntdll, "NtGetContextThread");
uint64_t pfNtSetContextThread = wow64_import(ntdll, "NtSetContextThread");
uint64_t pfNtAllocateVirtualMemory = wow64_import(ntdll, "NtAllocateVirtualMemory");
uint64_t pfNtWriteVirtualMemory = wow64_import(ntdll, "NtWriteVirtualMemory");
if (!pfNtGetContextThread || !pfNtSetContextThread || !pfNtAllocateVirtualMemory || !pfNtWriteVirtualMemory) {
return false;
}
struct UNICODE_STRING {
USHORT Length;
USHORT MaximumLength;
uint64_t Buffer;
};
SIZE_T mem1size = sizeof(uint64_t) + sizeof(UNICODE_STRING) + (dll.size() + 1) * sizeof(wchar_t);
uint64_t mem1 = wow64_alloc_memory(pfNtAllocateVirtualMemory, pi.hProcess, mem1size, PAGE_READWRITE);
if (!mem1) {
return false;
}
SIZE_T mem2size = sizeof(uint64_t) + sizeof(UNICODE_STRING) + (entry.size() + 1) * sizeof(char);
uint64_t mem2 = wow64_alloc_memory(pfNtAllocateVirtualMemory, pi.hProcess, mem2size, PAGE_READWRITE);
if (!mem2) {
return false;
}
uint64_t shellcode = wow64_alloc_memory(pfNtAllocateVirtualMemory, pi.hProcess, sizeof(sc),PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE);
if (!shellcode) {
return false;
}
UNICODE_STRING us1;
us1.Length = (USHORT)(dll.size() * sizeof(wchar_t));
us1.MaximumLength = us1.Length + sizeof(wchar_t);
us1.Buffer = mem1 + sizeof(UNICODE_STRING);
if (!wow64_write_memory(pfNtWriteVirtualMemory, pi.hProcess, mem1, &us1, sizeof(UNICODE_STRING))) {
return false;
}
if (!wow64_write_memory(pfNtWriteVirtualMemory, pi.hProcess, us1.Buffer, (void*)dll.data(), us1.MaximumLength)) {
return false;
}
UNICODE_STRING us2;
us2.Length = (USHORT)(dll.size() * sizeof(wchar_t));
us2.MaximumLength = us2.Length + sizeof(wchar_t);
us2.Buffer = mem2 + sizeof(UNICODE_STRING);
if (!wow64_write_memory(pfNtWriteVirtualMemory, pi.hProcess, mem2, &us2, sizeof(UNICODE_STRING))) {
return false;
}
if (!wow64_write_memory(pfNtWriteVirtualMemory, pi.hProcess, us2.Buffer, (void*)entry.data(), us2.MaximumLength)) {
return false;
}
_CONTEXT64 ctx = { 0 };
ctx.ContextFlags = CONTEXT_CONTROL;
if (wow64_call(pfNtGetContextThread, pi.hThread, &ctx)) {
return false;
}
uint64_t dllhandle = us1.Buffer + us1.MaximumLength;
uint64_t entryfunc = us2.Buffer + us2.MaximumLength;
memcpy(sc + 34, &dllhandle, sizeof(dllhandle));
memcpy(sc + 44, &mem1, sizeof(mem1));
memcpy(sc + 60, &pfLdrLoadDll, sizeof(pfLdrLoadDll));
memcpy(sc + 72, &entryfunc, sizeof(entryfunc));
memcpy(sc + 85, &mem2, sizeof(mem2));
memcpy(sc + 95, &dllhandle, sizeof(dllhandle));
memcpy(sc + 108, &pfLdrGetProcedureAddress, sizeof(pfLdrGetProcedureAddress));
memcpy(sc + 120, &entryfunc, sizeof(entryfunc));
memcpy(sc + 171, &ctx.Rip, sizeof(ctx.Rip));
if (!wow64_write_memory(pfNtWriteVirtualMemory, pi.hProcess, shellcode, &sc, sizeof(sc))) {
return false;
}
ctx.ContextFlags = CONTEXT_CONTROL;
ctx.Rip = shellcode;
if (wow64_call(pfNtSetContextThread, pi.hThread, &ctx)) {
return false;
}
return true;
}
static bool injectdll_x86(const PROCESS_INFORMATION& pi, const std::wstring& dll, const std::string& entry) {
static unsigned char sc[] = {
0x68, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, // push eip
0x9C, // pushfd
0x60, // pushad
0x68, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, // push DllPath
0xB8, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, // mov eax, LoadLibraryW
0xFF, 0xD0, // call eax
0x68, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, // push EntryName
0x50, // push eax
0xB8, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, // mov eax, GetProcAddress
0xFF, 0xD0, // call eax
0xFF, 0xD0, // call eax
0x61, // popad
0x9D, // popfd
0xC3 // ret
};
DWORD pfLoadLibrary = (DWORD)::GetProcAddress(::GetModuleHandleW(L"Kernel32"), "LoadLibraryW");
if (!pfLoadLibrary) {
return false;
}
DWORD pfGetProcAddress = (DWORD)::GetProcAddress(::GetModuleHandleW(L"Kernel32"), "GetProcAddress");
if (!pfGetProcAddress) {
return false;
}
SIZE_T mem1size = (dll.size() + 1) * sizeof(wchar_t);
LPVOID mem1 = VirtualAllocEx(pi.hProcess, NULL, mem1size, MEM_COMMIT, PAGE_READWRITE);
if (!mem1) {
return false;
}
SIZE_T mem2size = (entry.size() + 1) * sizeof(char);
LPVOID mem2 = VirtualAllocEx(pi.hProcess, NULL, mem2size, MEM_COMMIT, PAGE_READWRITE);
if (!mem2) {
return false;
}
LPVOID shellcode = VirtualAllocEx(pi.hProcess, NULL, sizeof(sc), MEM_COMMIT, PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE);
if (!shellcode) {
return false;
}
SIZE_T written = 0;
BOOL ok = FALSE;
ok = WriteProcessMemory(pi.hProcess, mem1, dll.data(), mem1size, &written);
if (!ok || written != mem1size) {
return false;
}
ok = WriteProcessMemory(pi.hProcess, mem2, entry.data(), mem2size, &written);
if (!ok || written != mem2size) {
return false;
}
CONTEXT ctx = { 0 };
ctx.ContextFlags = CONTEXT_FULL;
if (!::GetThreadContext(pi.hThread, &ctx)) {
return false;
}
memcpy(sc + 1, &ctx.Eip, sizeof(ctx.Eip));
memcpy(sc + 8, &mem1, sizeof(mem1));
memcpy(sc + 13, &pfLoadLibrary, sizeof(pfLoadLibrary));
memcpy(sc + 20, &mem2, sizeof(mem2));
memcpy(sc + 26, &pfGetProcAddress, sizeof(pfGetProcAddress));
ok = WriteProcessMemory(pi.hProcess, shellcode, &sc, sizeof(sc), &written);
if (!ok || written != sizeof(sc)) {
return false;
}
ctx.ContextFlags = CONTEXT_CONTROL;
ctx.Eip = (DWORD)shellcode;
if (!::SetThreadContext(pi.hThread, &ctx)) {
return false;
}
return true;
}
bool injectdll(const PROCESS_INFORMATION& pi, const std::wstring& x86dll, const std::wstring& x64dll, const char* entry) {
if (entry) {
if (is_process64(pi.hProcess)) {
return !x64dll.empty() && injectdll_x64(pi, x64dll, entry);
}
else {
return !x86dll.empty() && injectdll_x86(pi, x86dll, entry);
}
}
else {
if (is_process64(pi.hProcess)) {
return !x64dll.empty() && injectdll_x64(pi, x64dll);
}
else {
return !x86dll.empty() && injectdll_x86(pi, x86dll);
}
}
}
static bool setdebugprivilege() {
TOKEN_PRIVILEGES tp = { 0 };
HANDLE hToken = NULL;
if (!OpenProcessToken(GetCurrentProcess(), TOKEN_ADJUST_PRIVILEGES | TOKEN_QUERY, &hToken)) {
return false;
}
tp.PrivilegeCount = 1;
tp.Privileges[0].Attributes = SE_PRIVILEGE_ENABLED;
if (!LookupPrivilegeValueW(NULL, L"SeDebugPrivilege", &tp.Privileges[0].Luid)) {
CloseHandle(hToken);
return false;
}
if (!AdjustTokenPrivileges(hToken, FALSE, &tp, 0, NULL, NULL)) {
CloseHandle(hToken);
return false;
}
CloseHandle(hToken);
return true;
}
static DWORD getthreadid(DWORD pid) {
HANDLE h = CreateToolhelp32Snapshot(TH32CS_SNAPTHREAD, 0);
if (h != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) {
THREADENTRY32 te;
te.dwSize = sizeof(te);
for (BOOL ok = Thread32First(h, &te); ok; ok = Thread32Next(h, &te)) {
if (te.th32OwnerProcessID == pid) {
CloseHandle(h);
return te.th32ThreadID;
}
}
}
CloseHandle(h);
return 0;
}
static void closeprocess(PROCESS_INFORMATION& pi) {
if (pi.hProcess) CloseHandle(pi.hProcess);
if (pi.hThread) CloseHandle(pi.hThread);
pi = { 0 };
}
static bool openprocess(DWORD pid, DWORD process_access, DWORD thread_access, PROCESS_INFORMATION& pi) {
closeprocess(pi);
static bool ok = setdebugprivilege();
if (!ok) {
return false;
}
pi.dwProcessId = pid;
pi.hProcess = OpenProcess(process_access, FALSE, pi.dwProcessId);
if (!pi.hProcess) {
closeprocess(pi);
return false;
}
pi.dwThreadId = getthreadid(pi.dwProcessId);
if (!pi.dwThreadId) {
closeprocess(pi);
return false;
}
pi.hThread = OpenThread(thread_access, FALSE, pi.dwThreadId);
if (!pi.hThread) {
closeprocess(pi);
return false;
}
return true;
}
bool injectdll(DWORD pid, const std::wstring& x86dll, const std::wstring& x64dll, const char* entry) {
PROCESS_INFORMATION pi = { 0 };
if (!openprocess(pid, PROCESS_ALL_ACCESS, THREAD_GET_CONTEXT | THREAD_SET_CONTEXT | THREAD_SUSPEND_RESUME, pi)) {
return false;
}
if (-1 == SuspendThread(pi.hThread)) {
return false;
}
bool ok = injectdll(pi, x86dll, x64dll, entry);
ResumeThread(pi.hThread);
closeprocess(pi);
return ok;
}
#endif
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Judge Ed Emmett: County must adapt to handle growth
Published 1:00 am, Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Harris County Judge Ed Emmett wants to start a dialogue about restructuring county government.
As the unincorporated area grows, the county is tasked with funding transportation, healthcare and the jail system on a shoestring budget.
Prior to 1963, the city was annexing large swathes of land and engaging in strip annexation , which placed long, narrow stretches of land into city territory.
However, growth slowed when the Municipal Annexation Act of 1963 passed. The act limited city growth to 10 to 30 percent its size per year, outlawed strip annexation and established extraterritorial jurisdictions, giving a city the exclusive right to annex.
“Because of city debt, the City of Houston decided it wasn’t going to annex those subdivisions,” he said. “But the assumption was always that as subdivisions were built out, they would be annexed into the city.”
When that didn’t happen, the county was left with the bill but no means to pay for it. Now those subdivisions are turning 50 years old and needing repairs.
“We live in an urban environment, but the county was structured for rural areas,” he said. “Harris County is different from any other county in the state if not the nation.”
For example, 1.7 million of the 4 million Harris County residents live in unincorporated areas while 5,000 residents live in unincorporated Dallas County, he said.
The entire unincorporated area is funded mainly by property tax and a small percentage of the hotel occupancy tax, he said.
The problem is complicated by limited purpose annexation in which the city annexes shopping centers and revenue generators, but avoids adopting residential areas, he said. The city is able to do this by making deals with MUDs, where the MUDs get a portion of the tax revenue and the county receives nothing.
While the deals supplement MUD revenue, the county is left with less revenue to run the county.
So far, a solution remains elusive. Either the county has to share in the revenue of the MUDS or we have to help the MUDS provide new streets, said Emmett. However, MUDs have so far been unwilling to enter into partnerships that would either take money away from them or add responsibilities, he said.
“By the next census, unincorporated Harris County will be bigger than the city of Houston,” he said.
That’s why it’s important that voters approve a constitutional amendment allocating Rainy Day funds to transportation, he said.
“It’s vital that it passes. It provides about $1.2 billion a year but we need $4 billion. I’m afraid if we pass it some may say we solved the problem when really it’s putting a band aid on the wound. If we don’t pass this, within two years TxDOT will not have enough to build even a single new mile in Texas,” he said. |
What’s in a name
What’s in a name
Total Property - Issue 2 2020
The costs of building naming rights are seen by some tenants as a marketing investment rather than a rental consideration as they offer the chance of direct advertising and prominence over their competitors.
It’s hard to put an exact price on naming rights. They are subjective and often negotiated as part of a package leasing deal, but can range from $10,000 annually for a small city-fringe or suburban property to hundreds of thousands for a prominent CBD building.
Considerations include the property's location, prominence, profile and evidence of what has been paid for similar buildings.
Chris Menzies, Bayleys’ head of corporate and occupier services, says naming rights can offer a valuable additional income stream for building owners. “The larger and more prestigious the building, the more expensive the naming rights generally are,” he says.
Naming rights rent is an annual calculation throughout the term of a lease. For some big tenants naming rights are a key consideration when choosing premises, though not necessarily on every location.
One Bayleys client is a retail operator with a presence across over 300 locations. While their logo will be displayed at every site, there are only a small number of corporate buildings where they will be charged for exclusive naming rights.
This is a good example of where tenants are able to display their logo by way of signage, as opposed to more prominent office buildings where naming rights apply.
Menzies’ team works with tenants on lease management contracts for large and small buildings.
He says in smaller properties naming rights costs vary, but many are negotiated at between $10,000 and $20,000 a year.
“For naming rights to be of benefit to a tenant, the building has to have a profile, be in a prominent location and have room for the company's logo,” Menzies says.
A good example is ANZ's new offices and naming rights on a striking building at Auckland’s Sylvia Park shopping centre, visible from the southern motorway. Every day thousands of people see the bank's logo.
In the CBD, PwC is moving into the new office tower at Commercial Bay and taking its naming rights from the existing PwC Tower across the road in Quay Street. The new building will then be known as the PwC Tower.
HSBC will put its logo on the empty space left by PwC on Quay Street when it becomes a tenant and takes the naming rights.
Menzies says an advantage to naming rights on less prominent buildings is that they often become known by their branded building name for decades, even if the tenant has gone, leaving a lasting impression.
At 36 Kitchener Street in Auckland's CBD, the 15-storey building is still known as Lufthansa House, long after the airline stopped their naming rights payments.
Generally, the anchor tenant has first right of refusal to naming rights, but it’s not unheard of for an anchor tenant to pay for naming rights yet not signal it publicly, or even to give them up to another company.
In 2007, BNZ gave up the chance to splash its name across its new $240 million national headquarters on Queen Street in favour of Deloitte, which leased the top 10 floors.
The bank said it released the naming rights because it wanted to find a co-tenant that shared its commitment to sustainability.
Naming rights are usually only offered to tenants willing to take a sizable amount of space, but some companies found to their cost during Christchurch’s post-quake rebuild that there is a big difference between naming rights and signage.
Naming rights do not guarantee their logo will be at the top of the property without signage rights.
“The lease should set out where and what signs the tenant can put up, and whether other tenants can also erect signs,” Menzies says.
Even sole tenants can be required to lease space for signage, as landlords can lease the space to anyone.
During the rebuild, many tenants wanted increased identity and for the first time they had the chance to get their name on a building, particularly smaller premium properties that reflected their brand and would appeal to existing and future staff.
Signage rents alone were selling for $45,000 to $50,000 a year in the CBD, and $5,000 to $25,000 on the city fringe.
Menzies says the lines between naming rights and signage can get blurred but, generally speaking, signage is a pure advertising medium encompassing billboards and other types of signs.
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Tuesday, April 11, 2017
It's T-SQL Tuesday time again - the monthly blog party was
started by Adam Machanic (blog/@AdamMachanic) and each month someone different
selects a new topic. This month's cycle
is hosted by Koen Verbeeck (blog/@Ko_Ver) and his chosen topic is "The Times They Are A-Changing" considering changing technologies and how we see them impacting our careers in the future. (His idea
came from a great article/webcast by Kendra Little (blog/@Kendra_Little) titled
"Will the Cloud Eat My DBA Job?" - check it out too!)
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I remember my first contact with this topic came a long time ago (relatively) from a very reliable source having a little April Fool's Day fun:
A previous April Fools joke, but one of my favorites. Enjoy it today on this holiday - Steve.
I can't believe it. My sources at Micrsoft put out the word late yesterday that there is a project underway to port SQL Server to Linux!!
The exclusive word I got through some close, anonymous sources is that Microsoft realizes that they cannot stamp out Linus. Unlike OS/2 and the expensive, high end Unices, Linux is here to stay. Because of the decentralized work on it, the religous-like fever of its followers, and the high performance that it offers, the big boys, maybe just one big boy, at Microsoft have given in to the fact that it will forever be nipping at the heals of Windows.
And they know that all the work being done on clients for Exchange means that many sites that might want to switch the desktop, may still keep the server on Exchange and have a rich client front end that takes the place of Outlook. But don't rule against Outlook making a run at the Linux platform.
SQL Server, however, is a true platform that doesn't need a client to run against. With SQL Server 2005 and it's CLR integration, the platform actually expands into the application server space and can support many web development systems on a single server, within two highly integrated applications: SQL Server and IIS.And with MySQL nipping away at many smaller installations that might have switched to SQL Server before, it's time to do something. So a top secret effort has been porting the CLR using Mono, along with the core relational engine to the Linux platform. The storage engine requires a complete rewrite as the physical storage model of Linux is radially different from that of Windows.
Integration Services, the next evolution of DTS, has already been ported with some impressive numbers of throughput. Given that many different sources need a high quality ETL engine, and a SQL Server license to handle this is still cheaper than IBM's Information Integration product and most other tools, there's hope that Integration Services will provide the foothold into Linux.
No work on pricing, but from hallway conversation it's looking like there will be another tier of licensing that will be less expensive than the Workgroup edition without CALs. There is still supposed to be a small, free version without Integration Services that competes against many small LAMP installations.
There isn't a stable complete product yet, heck, we don't even have the Windows version, but our best guess is that a SQL Server 2005b for Linux will release sometime in mid to late 2006 and the two platforms will then synch development over the next SQL Server cycle.
Moving onto a free platform is a difficuly and challenging task. Especially when you are coming from the proprietary software world. But Microsoft did it once before by moving into the free world of the Internet and taking on Netscape. I'm betting they will do it again.
And I'm sure...that SQL Server...is the best...;
April Fools!!!
Over ten years ago Steve Jones (blog/@way0utwest) of SQLServerCentral thought he was kidding but was actually looking forward into the future in which we are about to live.
Well I have finally cracked it, after years of trying (and a little help from the R2 release) to get SQL Server to install and run happily on the Linux Platform. I could hardly believe it when it all came together, but I’m very pleased that it has. What is even more exciting is that the performance of the SQL Engine is going through the roof.
I am not entirely sure why this is, but I am assuming it is partly related to the capabilities of the EXT4 filesystem and the latest Linux Kernel improvements.
So here’s how I did it :-
Install WINE
Install the .NET 3.5 framework into WINE. This is very important, otherwise the SQL Server 2008R2 installer will fail.
Ensure that you run setup.exe from SQL Server R2 Enterprise Edition – please note that SQL Server 2008 Release 1.5 will not work, and I additionally had problems with the Standard Edition of R2 (but not entirely sure if there is a restriction here with SQL Standard Edition Licensing on Linux).
SQL running happily in WINE on Linux Mint 10 (x64)
I think that the EXT4 filesystem is key to the success of your installation, since when I attempted this deployment using the EXT2 and EXT3 filesystems, SQL Server appeared to have issues installing.
I hope to provide more instructions and performance feedback to you all over the coming months. Enjoy!
Microsoft Certified Master Mark Broadbent (blog/@retracement) gave it a different spin - instead of a spoofed Microsoft announcement he set it up as "look what I did!" and didn't confirm the April Fool until several days later.
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Microsoft got in on the act in March of 2016 (notable *not* on April Fool's Day) with a blog post headed with this logo:
Suddenly, it was all real.
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When I read the announcement and subsequent blog posts and saw the follow-up webcasts, I thought one thing to myself over and over.
WHAT DO I DO KNOW?
I am an infrastructure DBA and have been for over seventeen years. One of my strengths has always been my ability to look beyond SQL Server and dig into the operating system and its components, such as Windows Clustering.
I don't know anything about Linux (other than recognizing this guy):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tux
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I am moderately ashamed to admit I did what many people do in this situation, and what I know many DBA's are still doing on this topic...
http://www.theecologist.org/siteimage/scale/800/600/388011.png
I quietly ignored it and went about my life and job, putting off the problem until later.
Time passed and Microsoft released a "public preview"/CTP of what they began calling "SQL Server vNext" for Linux, and it became more real. Then they released another, and another - as of this writing the current CTP is version 1.4 (download it here).
I recently realized I hadn't progressed past my original query:
WHAT DO I DO KNOW?
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I have determined that there are three parts to the answer of this question:
(1) I need to continue to play with the CTP's and be ready to embrace the as-yet-unannounced RTM version. Everything I have seen so far has greatly impressed me with how similar the look and feel truly is to "normal" SQL Server on Windows. Obviously there isn't a GUI-style Management Studio for non-GUI Linux, but connecting to a Linux-hosted SQL Server instance from a Windows-client Management Studio is basically seamless. From a Linux host we can use SQLCMD and it looks and feels just like Windows SQLCMD.
(2) I need to commit myself to learning more about Linux, at least at the base levels. I have written numerous times before about the never-ending quest for knowledge we are all on, and this is just the next topic to pursue in a long line. I was happy to see that there are many classes on Pluralsight related to Linux and Linux administration. This subject has been something that was down there on my priority list below Powershell and a few other things, but it needs to move up and will do so.
(Side note - if you don't have a Pluralsight subscription, I think you should - it is an awesome resource full of recorded classes on an unbelievable number of topics, including many classes on SQL Server. You can get a ten-day free trial membership here.)
(3) I need to find more excuses to work with colleagues and potentially with clients on this new technology. None of us exist in a vacuum, and everyone has a different spin on a given topic. I recently attended a Microsoft workshop on this topic and it was very interesting to see the different insights from not only the variety of MS speakers but also the other workshop attendees. Interacting with peers and clients will help me learn even more quickly by providing their insights and by requiring me to research and test to answer their questions.
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As with all technology changes, this definitely *will* change our jobs, and like many other things in the SQL Server world, the answer to how it will affect any given individual is:
The impact to you will be determined by your ability to adapt and learn - if you are willing to embrace change (a dirty phrase to many DBA's) and learn new things, this will be an exciting time - not only will you need to learn new things, you will find yourself interacting with a new class of I.T. Professionals you may have never spoken to before - the Linux Administrator.
Friday, April 7, 2017
Recently a client requested some new transactional replication publications on a relatively new pre-production server. The client has plenty of transactional and snapshot replication in their environment, including two other publications on this instance already, so this was just adding more to the existing pile.
Object Reference not set to an instance of an object, (ConfigureDistWizard)
Um...OK...
My first instinct was that something was broken with the tools on the existing server - I RDP'ed to a different client server, and received the same errors when trying to create a publication for this server.
Hmm...
I have had experiences before where the REPL wizards just don't work (such as creating subscriptions to a higher version publication) so I said, "FINE, I'll just use the code!"
...but the sp_addpublication query threw me the same problem.
https://cdn.meme.am/cache/instances/folder61/250x250/71896061.jpg
At this point I figured that something must have been wrong with the replication components themselves - the server was new and not *really* production yet so maybe something had been fouled at setup.
***NOTE*** - I did *not* take the one step I should have at this point - since there were existing publications on a different user database, I should have paused and considered what was wrong with *this particular database* rather than with the instance at large - it would have saved us roughly 24 hours.
I advised the client I would script out the two existing publications and then completely disable and re-enable publishing and distribution on the instance and try again.
No good...
At this point the client suggested blowing away the VM and setting it up again - I could take backups of the existing user databases and restore them after they recreated the VM from scratch. I told them I could continue to investigate but they decided to go ahead with the rebuild.
Even after the server rebuild, I
found that the problem with the Publication Wizard still existed! More than
a little research found that it was due to the particular database still
having some old replication components in it – older than the current version
and therefore not cleaned up when I tried running sp_removedbreplication across
the user databases to try to restart replication setup from scratch.
Since the problem was in one of the user databases it still existed after
the rebuild since we just restored the old databases onto the new server!
This resolved the issue and
allowed the New Publication Wizard to move forward.
In the post-mortem, we found that the impacted database had originally been provided by a vendor and that it almost certainly had been migrated from an older version of SQL Server, hence the old components.
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I want to draw attention to the fact that the blog post I referenced above doesn't have anything to do with errors in the replication New Publication wizard. It discusses a "bug" in SQL Server 2005 the author encountered while trying to apply a 2005 service pack. I found this post simply by spreading my search criteria from my specific error of "Synonym 'dbo.MSreplication_subscriptions' refers to an invalid object" down to simply "dbo.MSreplication_subscriptions error"
When troubleshooting (and searching for information online in general), never discount something simply because it doesn't match your specific situation. You may find as in this case that there is some shared underlying problem that caused a certain set of symptoms for you but had manifest as a different yet similar set of symptoms for someone else. If you are looking for a specific error or message and not finding anything, cast your net a little wider by reducing your criteria - always start with your specific message, but if you don't get anything useful try again, and instead of searching for "Really Long Error Message about this Object and Some Other Stuff" look instead for "<object> <other stuff> error/warning/whatever"
As always, proceed with caution, but this is true even when you *do* find a blog post/newsgroup post/Connect item/etc. that *does* exactly match your situation - just because renaming an index fixed Error 123456 for someone else doesn't necessarily mean it will for you - always consider the potential impact of any course of action *before* deploying it anywhere, even to Dev/Test.
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I write and speak primarily about the tips and tricks that I discover along my SQL Server journey.
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Renal biopsies are taken in a variety of situations; to identify lesions seen on imaging which may be cysts, benign and malignant tumours, to assess pre- or post-transplant status and to evaluate kidney disease such as glomerulonephritis.1-3
This protocol includes renal core and wedge biopsy specimens.
Record the patient identifying information and any clinical information supplied together with the specimen description as designated on the container. See overview page for more detail on identification principles.
At this point it must be determined whether the biopsy is for investigation of a tumour or treatment of a medical kidney condition/transplant rejection as this will determine the pathway followed.
See general information for more detail on specimen handling procedures.
Inspect the specimen and dictate a macroscopic description.
Describe the following features of the specimen:1-4
Record as stated by the clinician.
Core biopsy
Measure the size of each core/fragment in two dimensions:
Wedge biopsy
Measure the size of each in three dimensions:
If more than one core of tissue is submitted it may be worthwhile putting the specimens in separate cassettes to maximise the investigations that can be performed on the tissue.
Biopsies are usually assessed under dissection microscope in a drop of normal saline.
Glomeruli appear as small red spheres in the cortex. The medulla appears as linear stripes. 1,4 Small yellow balls of fat will also be present. 2
Excellent illustrations are available in references 1 and 4.
Guidelines for division of the specimen will vary with the type of biopsy, the clinical question being asked, the urgency of that question, and the approach to subsequent investigations taken in the individual laboratory.3
Native biopsies usually need to be divided into three and submitted for light microscopy, immunofluorescence (IF) and electron microscopy (EM).1,4
A useful diagram provided is in reference 4.
In theory a minimum of one glomerulus per study is usually adequate for IF and EM and the majority should be submitted for light microscopy.1 If the specimen is limited, division is guided by the clinical question and/or immunohistochemistry facilities of the individual laboratory.
When minimal tissue is available, it may be possible to retrieve a few more glomeruli for EM by rinsing out the biopsy needle.1
Renal transplant biopsies may not require electron microscopy and immunofluorescence unless glomerular disease is suspected. 3 However it is important not to transfer the entire specimen to formalin until exact requirements are established.
It is best to dissect the tissue while it is fresh. The majority of the biopsy should be processed for light microscopy but check if samples are required for immunofluorescence and electron microscopy.3
The size of segments for each process will be dependent on the overall size of the core but 3 mm for light microscopy, 3 mm for immunofluorescence & 1 mm for electron microscopy should suffice if there is cortex with at least one glomerulus present in each piece.1 Some medullary tissue for the demonstration of casts in immunofluorescence may be useful if possible.2
One recommendation is to submit 50% of core tissue for light microscopy, 30% for immunofluorescence and 20% for electron microscopy. More tissue from wedge biopsies may be submitted for light microscopy (up to 75% of tissue).5
Wooden sticks may be used (in preference to forceps) to gently lift the cores without crushing.2,4 Renal biopsies must be carefully handled with clean instruments and separated into different solutions without any cross-over contamination of fixatives.2,4
Transfer one piece of tissue into each of the following:
Not required.
Transfer the tissue selected for routine processing directly into cassettes. Lens paper lining or similar is required to prevent loss of tissue during processing.
The use of biopsy pads is not recommended for kidney biopsy specimens as the foam material may cause artefactual holes.1,4
Ensure adequate fixation and process on appropriate short cycle. Microwave fixation may be of assistance in expediting urgent specimens.1,4
Record details of each cassette.
An illustrated block key similar to the one below may be useful.
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Computer Science - Coloured Routes
From a British Informatics Olympiad Final (The British Informatics Olympiad is the national computing competition for schools and colleges)
Alex Will (L6)
The Problem
A group of towns is connected by a rail network. To help travel around the network some routes have been given colours; each station has one `red' route leaving it, and one `blue' route. Routes have an associated direction, so a route from A to B does not necessarily mean there is a corresponding route from B to A.
You are trying to give directions to a friend, so that you can meet them at a station of your choosing. Unfortunately you do not know which station your friend will start from, and due to their identical layouts they cannot be distinguished. To direct your friend, you need to give them a sequence of coloured routes to take, so that they will finish at your chosen station irrespective of where they start.
Due to limitations on the rail tickets and the placement of barriers, it is not enough that they pass through this station before the end of the sequence.
Write a program which reads in details of the rail network, and returns a sequence of coloured routes. To make life simple for your friend, you should return the shortest route possible.
The first line of your input will be an integer 2 ≤ x ≤ 16, specifying how many towns are connected in the network.
There will then follow x lines of two integers; the first integer on the ith of these lines is the destination of the red route from town i, and the second the destination of the blue route. Towns are numbered from 1 to x.
You should output the length of the shortest possible route sequence, followed by an example sequence, using r and b to denote the two types of route, and the town your friend will finish in. If there is no possible route sequence you should just output ‘Impossible’.
The Solution
Background
A brute force method can be applied to this problem.
Initially, the length of a route can be chosen as two steps (according to the problem above). There are 2n combinations of routes for two steps. i.e. r,r or r,b or b,r or b,b. If r,r steps are followed from each city in turn, then the destination city can be noted and compared. If the final destination in both cases is the same then we have a solution. If not, then we move on to the next combination of routes which would be r,b and a similar check can be made. If there are no solutions for n=2, then we can increase the number of routes to 3 and repeat the method and go on incrementing the number of routes until we find a solution. Two cases are shown below for the code and its output. You will observe that more than one solution can be found.
CODED SOLUTION 1 using the Brute Force Method and Recursion to generate combinations of routes (Table 1) by Dr Curtis
The features of this particular piece of code include the use of functions to break down the problem into parts and the use of recursion to generate all combinations of routes depending on the number of routes that are being explored. The main program starts on line 65 and runs for two cases. The first case includes 4 cities and the variable ‘destinations’ on line 75 defines the red and blue routes between cities. The function using recursion is called def generateAllBinaryStrings() on lines 40-61. Recursion is where a function calls itself until a condition is met called the terminal condition. Recursion is often considered to be a more efficient way of writing code. The program has to keep track of the function calling itself multiple times and it does this using a Stack.
The output for Case 1 shows that there is only one solution involving just 5 steps with destination city 3 from all other cities, whereas, there are a number of other possible solutions if 6 steps are allowed. Case 2 shows the solution for the problem described at the beginning of this article. In fact there are 3 solutions using 6 steps that will guarantee our friend will end up in a particular city no matter the starting city. e.g. Solution : 6 [1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0] 4 means that it will take 6 steps following route blue, blue, red, red, blue and red from any city to guarantee that my friend will arrive at city 4 as their final destination, so I will be able to meet my friend in city 4.
CODED SOLUTION 2 using the Brute Force Method (Table 2) by Alexander Will (L6)
This second coded solution uses a Python module called itertools. This module is a library of methods which is great module for creating your own iterators. The tools provided by itertools are fast and memory efficient. They can be used for efficient looping. Itertools as a module is particularly useful for this problem as it contains a function called itertools.product allowing the n value, which will be raised to the power of 2, to be input directly. This returns all of the binary value sets for the equivalent value of n. This is helpful as the binary values can be used to represent the red and blue pathways possible from one city to another. Once the possible binary pathway sets have been collected the program evaluates each option. If all the binary pathway sets from every city end up in the same single city the program will detect the binary pathway as a possible solution to the problem. All the solutions are collected and analysed to determine which route has the least number of steps to reach the destination city for the specific route. This is done by counting the number of digits in the binary route pattern and comparing them to one another, once every solution has been compared to one another a concluding solution will be output along with the number of steps it takes and the destination city from every other city.
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Long/short equity is among the most fundamental of all hedge fund strategies. Funds using this strategy seek to reduce risk by simultaneously taking long and short positions in various equities. Generally speaking, funds will use short positions in individual securities or equity indices to hedge against any movements in the market and reduce market risk. This isolates the security-specific risk of funds’ long positions and allows funds to benefit from the return potential of individual securities while avoiding broad market-level movements.
Some long/short equity funds have a narrow approach. Some managers focus on capitalization, investing in micro-cap, small-cap, mid-cap, or large-cap stocks. Most long/short equity managers tend to have a long bias, which leads them to have exposure to market risk. Long/short equity managers may also switch their long or short biases based on their expectations of future market conditions.
Long/short managers employ either a bottom-up or top-down investment strategy. A bottom-up strategy calls for managers to select individual equities based on fundamental research about similar equities, as well as events that may have an effect on the future price. A top-down approach calls for managers to use macroeconomic principals to forecast market trends in the global economy, assess their impact on various sectors and geographic regions, and then select individual securities. Typically, long/short equity managers outperform the stock markets under bear market conditions and underperform the stock markets under bull market conditions.
About 65% of all hedge funds are long/short equity, which make it the most popular hedge fund strategy. Recently however, investors have not been as keen on long/short emerging-market funds, which generally have a long bias, as they have been in previous years.
Due to the persistent volatility in the markets in general, and the political and financial instability in Europe specifically, many investors have started to flock to developed market long/short equity funds. These funds promise low correlations to both stocks and bonds, and they have the ability to outperform the market during both bullish and bearish environments. These funds are often interesting to investors seeking the best of both worlds—a safer investment that delivers better returns. |
Piczo - New UK Director and European Expansion
Piczo, the massively successful social network that allows you to create your own modular website, announced today that they've hired Chris Seth as their first Managing Director for the UK. The move is part of an expansion into Europe, and also an acceptance that Piczo is huge in the UK. I'm surprised, in fact, that they hadn't focused on the British market sooner - according to the Hitwise data on UK social networks, Piczo is the third largest social network behind Bebo and MySpace, beating Faceparty, hi5, YouTube and other big players. Chris has 16 years experience in digital media and advertising, and formerly worked at the events company Richmond Events.
Piczo is on the same growth curve as Bebo, MySpace, Facebook and YouTube - in other words, insane growth. According to September's ComScore stats, the site has grown 393% in a year and now boasts 4 million unique visitors in the UK. They report that most of these users are aged 13 to 16, and my hunch is that the majority are female.
As mentioned previously, Piczo lets you create a site by dragging and dropping various widgets - you can also paste html code (including Flash and javascript snippets). As a result, the providers of MySpace layouts, MySpace codes and other add-ons have diversified, and frequently offer Piczo-specific tools. Of course, it goes without saying that many Piczo sites are poorly designed - unlike MySpace, you don't even need to include the default navigation in your page. Nonetheless, teens seem to love it - it's one of the fastest ways to get your own personal website. |
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Home Stretch
We're in the home stretch and down to those weekly doctor appointments where you find out with some trepidation how close the 'big event' is. Most of the times you're disappointed since the discomfort has finally reached a point where any joking about it elicits a strong desire to slap the individual teasing. On the other hand, there is a sense of relief as you think of all the little things yet to be prepared for the tiny person's arrival.
Four days prior to the appointment I had the distinct impression that she had 'dropped'. While it's great to be able to breath a little easier, there have been sharp pains in the region and whenever I pick Isaac up I get Braxton-Hicks contractions lasting for over 20 mins. It's a little early, I have 4 weeks left and so my cervix is have the workout of a lifetime trying to 'suck it up' with a few pounds resting directly on it. Dr. DeSalvo confirmed all of this in his own words, "Whoa baby.... yeah she's right there!!!"
Kent came with to the appointment and was given a stern reminder to be full of sympathy since this was definitely not a walk in the park. Permission granted to gripe! No effacement yet, but I'm taking it easy from this point out, it's just a touch too soon for her to come.
hang in there my love! can you send me your mailing address again, want to send some thing for your little one......and the brother. Since I am really behind in sending stuff. I think I should at least at the address first when I remember.....love,Abbey |
Q:
Preserving Authentication over multiple servers
I am writing an application in Google appengine python. Due to the limited support of the appengine environment I have to implement some of the functionality on external dedicated servers. Is there an authentication mechanism available that will preserve login information over the external servers and appengine.
A:
The system you want should probably work something like this:
When a user visits the 'other' server with no session cookie set, the server redirects the user to a special URL on the App Engine app - let's use /authenticate - with a 'next' query string parameter that provides the URL of the next stage (described in #3).
When App Engine receives a request to /authenticate, it checks if the user is signed in there. If they're not, it prompts them to sign in. Then, it generates a token for the user's session, and signs it with an HMAC, using a secret shared by both servers, and redirects the user to the URL provided in step 1, with the HMAC included in the query string.
When the 'other' server receives a request to its special URL (specified in step #1), it validates that the HMAC matches, using the shared secret, and if it does, uses its own session support to set a cookie on the user's browser under its domain, to keep track of the user from then on.
If the 'other' server needs to obtain more information about the user, it can use an API it shares with the App Engine server to request, out-of-band, more information about the user using the token it was given and the shared secret.
This is very similar to the procedure OAuth uses, but entirely noninteractive for the user. It's also the procedure that SSO systems such as Google Accounts use to 'transfer' sessions to other trusted parties.
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