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Any ideas why subdomain dns would be failing in 2.0.7 + tcp?
I migrated from 2.0.1, I just copied the files over, perhaps I missed something.
Wireshark shows the query going out and the reply coming in, so somewhere it is getting lost.
Hi Erik, in your other post I saw your
FreeRTOSIPConfig.h with the following line:
#define ipconfigDNS_CACHE_NAME_LENGTH ( 16 )
This limits the maximum length of domain names. If you double this value, you will find a domain like “mobile.google.com”.
In FreeRTOS+TCP 2.0.7 there are many more checks for correctness of incoming packets and also bound checking.
ipconfigDNS_CACHE_NAME_LENGTH bytes will be declared on the program stack.
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Autor(id): Nora Roberts
Kirjastus: Jove Publications
ISBN: ISBN-10: 0515122734 ISBN-13: 9780515122732
Seisukord: kaaned kohati kulunud, sisu korras
Mõõdud: 178x114x25 mm
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Sanctuary. Successful photographer Jo Ellen Hathaway thought she had escaped that house long ago. It was where she spent her loneliest years, after her family was shattered by the sudden and unexplained disappearance of her mother. Yet the sprawling southern resort off the coast of Georgia continues to haunt her dreams. Even more haunting are the pictures that someone is sending her - strange close-ups, candid shots, and finally, the most shocking and heartbreaking portrait of all a photograph of her long-lost mother...naked, beautiful, and dead. Now Jo realizes that it is time to return to Sanctuary. The island inn, run by her bitterly estranged family, brings back painful memories as she is enmeshed once again in the troubled relationships she has struggled so long and hard to forget. With the help of one man, she must learn the truth about who is stalking her - and about the tragic past that torments her family still. But the menace that drove Jo back to Sanctuary has followed her there. And those on the island will learn that Sanctuary may be the most dangerous place of all....
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First 62 words of the document:
Dialysis versus Kidney Transplant
You have to have it often. Hard to find a match (can
Food and water restrictions. More vulnerable to diseases.
Side effects. (Like being Eat what you like.
Not a cure. Live a normal life.
Stay on it for life. One-off treatment.
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Louise Carroll announces Michael Sorkin and Adam Frampton as two winners of the Big Ideas for Small Lots NYC design competition.
The New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) and the American Institute of Architects New York (AIANY) announced on Tuesday the selection of five New York City-based firms as finalists in the Big Ideas for Small Lots NYC design competition for small-scale, urban infill housing. As 6sqft previously reported, the program was organized by HPD and AIANY as a way to address the challenges associated with the design and construction of affordable housing on 23 lots of underutilized city-owned land. First announced by the city last year, the program falls under Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Housing New York 2.0 plan. The winning proposals were selected by a panel of nine jurors and evaluated on their design, replicability, and construction feasibility. The finalists will advance to the final stage of the program.
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You know what that feels like. You feel overwhelmed—panicky and unable to think about the next steps. The only thoughts that crowd your head are about escape: I can’t do this. Why did I feel I could take this on? This isn’t my strength. How can I get out? And then, if you’re like me, tears.
I had a few options. I could power through the overwhelm and just cheer myself on: You can do this. You’ve done this before. Don’t be a wuss. Or I could completely run away, write a letter to my client and give up. Or I could take a break, do something that gave me joy and come back when I felt calmer.
In the past, the first option was my default solution. I would just ignore the voices in my head and just power through the overwhelm and fear until I got to the other side. I’ve also done the second option a couple of times where I decided things weren’t worth it and just quit.
But this time, I couldn’t quit and I knew there was something better than my default solution (which had led to burnout and lots of unhappiness). Instead, I tried the third alternative which was to take 30 minutes to do something I loved (in this case, I knit a Tiny Stripes hat). I went back to my computer, refreshed, the voices in my head calmer and not so loud.
But what really made the shift was what came after I had finished typing out the first drafts of press releases and presentations. I sat very still and asked myself why I was doing this. The reason was clear: It was because my client was a friend, who I loved very dearly and who I really wanted to help as she grew her business.
And every time it got hard, as it often did during the course of the week, I connected with that love, with my intention of why I was doing what I was doing.
For you, you could be doing something difficult because of your love for your family, your respect for your boss, your belief that your customers deserve the best from you. It could be your desire to travel, to retire early, to pay off a debt, to do something amazing for your mom. Or it could be that this was something you’ve always wanted to do, the fulfillment of a dream.
Whatever it is, connect to that always.
This is the letter that I sent out to subscribers for my monthly little notes in your inbox. If you want to subscribe, just fill out the form below. Would love to send you some joy, inspiration and intention every month including links to things I’ve discovered all over the internet that I think will be delightful for you too. | <urn:uuid:daee19c9-4ea5-4ded-abe8-3c42fdd56ac2> | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | http://auroramsuarez.com/how-to-deal-with-resistance/ | 2018-01-23T00:23:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084891546.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20180122232843-20180123012843-00307.warc.gz | en | 0.984409 | 581 |
In 2004, Cemefi created the Institutionalization and Transparency Standards (ITSs) to increase transparency and accountability in civil society organizations (CSOs). A clear and transparent use of resources builds trust in organizations, facilitates strategic partnerships and increases grants and high-impact social investment.
ITSs are a set of ten objective, non-controversial and easily verifiable references that reflect the level of institutional development of the organization, and enable any person, corporation or institution to know with certainty some of the characteristics of a private, non-profit and of services to others, organization. This resource works as a voluntary institutional process of self-assessment and self-regulation Cemefi credits through documentary evidence.
(Translation: Basic: 1. Charter signed by a notary, 2. Authorized by the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit; 3. Mission, vision and objectives; 4. Verifiable address and telephone; 5. Annual report of activities and results. Medium: 6. Board separate from professional team; 7. Professional staff on the payroll; 8. Volunteers working in the teams. Ideal: 9. More than three years in operation; 10. More than three different sources of income.)
In the first half of 2012, there was a survey of the nearly 500 credited CSOs that have reached an optimal level in the Institutionalization and Transparency Standards, along with a group of corporations and corporate foundations, in order to know their opinion about the usefulness of this tool.
Results show there are many benefits for both polled groups – civil society organizations and grantmakers alike.
Nearly 85 per cent of certified organizations answered that the accreditation increased the level of confidence of their grantmakers, board members and beneficiaries of the institution. Sixty-five per cent managed to increase received grants implementing new fundraising strategies, strengthening their boards and operative teams as a result of increasing the visibility of the institution, contacting new grantmakers and redefining their strategic lines, programs and communication tools.
For participant CSOs, the accreditation process constitutes an empowerment tool that allows them to spot areas of opportunity to improve their institutional management. It is also a valuable element for increasing the visibility of organizations, leading them to improve their position with stakeholders, and increasing the possibility of finding more grantmakers and more substantial grants.
As for polled grantmakers (either corporations or corporate foundations), 80 per cent answered that the Institutionalization and Transparency Standards are a point of reference when choosing their grantees. All of them use at least three of the standards and 60 per cent request that their grantee meet at least the basic standards to be eligible for their granting programs.
Seventy per cent answered that the accreditation increases the reliability of the organization. Sixty per cent considers ITSs to be a diagnostic tool to spot areas of opportunity in institutions and have included them in their empowerment programs for grantees. In addition, the standards have contributed in positioning grantees in the community by making known the results and impact of the projects they support.
From Cemefi we share the results of this survey with followers of Latest from Alliance in order to pose a question: How can creating standards contribute to the performance and professionalization of civil society organizations around the globe? We invite you to reflect on this topic and we hope you will share your own experiences with us.
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It has been a fine month for telling holiday tales. First there was Downtown Springfield's Holiday Walks. The weather has just turned frigid and I was more than delighted to be comfortable and warm in the Herndon Law Office. I had hopes of venturing out and seeing the live reindeer, but wimped out. Of course, I did have Sebastian, the Christmas Moose (puppet) with me. (The quest for the reindeer did, however, lead me to start writing about Sebastian, which will be shared with - or inflicted on - my readers over the Twelve Days of Christmas.)
A Clayville Christmas was my next venue. The weather was clear, and so there was a steady stream of visitors through the Broadwell Inn.
So now we have passed the Winter Solstice, and soon Christmas will be upon us. Tomorrow night I will get the tree up, and turned on the lights. And on Christmas I will light a bayberry candle, to be burnt between Christmas and New Year for health and prosperity to the house.
As to how I will be celebrating the Twelve Days of Christmas I will be finding holiday facts and tales to share. Some may even be hidden in Sebastian's story. I also invite you to make use of my Christmas bibliography too - for some festive reading.
There is nothing quite like being down with a cold over the holidays - not something I would really recommend. Though I am thankful that I came down with after all my shows were done.
In spite of this I was happy to have gotten fresh Scottish Heather for a year of prosperity, and to have acquired true Bayberry candles to burn between Christmas and New Year's. I still had to burn the candle in the bathtub, since the hounds still haven't learned not to try to eat anything on the counter. But the tradition was observed.
However, my grand plan of creating a Christmas Bibliography for the site was put on hold till tonight. I had acquired some interesting new books (though their publishing dates are, in some cases, not all that new), and wanted to share them.
Ah well, they are now ready for next year!
A Bright and Healthy 2013 to Everyone!!!!!
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Is Microsoft Office coming to Apple's iPad?
Microsoft on the iPad: So far there isn't much of that happening outside of the Bing app.
But that might change next year, according to a report from the Daily, News Corp.'s e-magazine delivered each day to Apple's iPad.
According to some unnamed sources of the Daily writer Matt Hickey, Microsoft is prepping iPad-versions of its Office suite of software.
"With the iPad making up over 80 percent of the tablet market and millions of people worldwide using Office, that could mean big bucks for the tech giant based in Redmond, Wash.," Hickey wrote in his report. "In addition to an iPad-ready version, a new edition of Office is expected for OS X Lion sometime next year."
Microsoft's current Office for Mac offering, Office 2011, lacks the ability to take advantage of new features found in Mac OS X Lion. "A Lion version, likely available via the Mac App Store, is widely expected," the report said. "Windows, too, is due for an update, with Office 2012 currently in beta form."
If Microsoft were to challenge iWork on the iPad (and maybe even iPhone) with Office, apps for Word, Excel and PowerPoint could go head-to-head with Apple's own productivity apps.
-- Nathan Olivarez-Giles
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[NOTE: The rules in this post have been extended indefinitely, as they worked. In other words, I’m no longer reading books in the same year that they are published.]
Donald Knuth, a renowned mathematician and recipient of the Turing Award (considered the Nobel Prize of computer science), retired from using email in 1990.
“I have been a happy man ever since January 1, 1990, when I no longer had an email address. I’d used email since about 1975, and it seems to me that 15 years of email is plenty for one lifetime. Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration.”
I want to make 2020 a year of smarter decisions.
To make that a reality, I’ve been pondering how much I want to specialize in speed versus finding targets that don’t require speed. That is why I bolded and underlined the above lines in Donald’s post.
Looking back over the last decade, I have made many good fast decisions, but I have nearly never made good rushed decisions. The former can be made from a place of calm, whereas the latter come from a place of turbulence and blurred judgment.
How can we create an environment that fosters better, often non-obvious, decisions?
There are many approaches, no doubt. But I realized a few weeks ago that one of the keys appeared twice in conversations from 2019. It wasn’t until New Year’s Eve that I noticed the pattern.
This was one of the most important lessons Jim learned from legendary management theorist Peter Drucker. As Jim recounted on the podcast, “Don’t make a hundred decisions when one will do. . . . Peter believed that you tend to think that you’re making a lot of different decisions. But then, actually, if you kind of strip it away, you can begin to realize that a whole lot of decisions that look like different decisions are really part of the same category of a decision.”
Much like my startup vacation/retirement in 2015, I’m now asking myself across the board: what can I categorically and completely remove, even temporarily, to create space for seeing the bigger picture and finding gems?
To that end, I’m committing to *not* reading any new books in 2020. This means I will not read any books published in 2020.
Here are a few reasons why:
- We don’t have that much time left to read books. Tim Urban’s The Tail End makes this clear. Based on his calculus, he might only read another 300 books before he dies. He and I are roughly the same age, and Tim is a very fast reader. Considering that, taking a year to read books that have stood the test of time seems worthwhile.
- I’m susceptible to fear of missing out (FOMO) when it comes to new and popular books. I’ve always found refuge in books, but being wedded to the identity of “the well-read guy” can breed keeping-up-with-the-Joneses consumption. Taking new books off the table for 2020, in a sense, also takes that type of FOMO off the table. I can’t compulsively scratch the itch of new, so I’m better able to calmly use other criteria.
- Each week, dozens of unsolicited books are mailed to me. Here’s an example from one day(!) in 2008, which is perhaps 20% of the current deluge. These books have recently come from publishers like Avery Books and Knopf, among others. I immediately donate all such books to libraries, but it still consumes energy and is a waste of trees. Thanks for permanently removing me from your lists, guys.
- I’m not good at moderation. I’m much better with fasting than caloric restriction, for instance. “No dessert” is a lot easier for me than “some dessert.” I thrive with loving constraints: strict, binary rules that remove all deliberation and protect me from my lesser self.
- For years, I’ve had a public policy of not blurbing books. This is to avoid picking and choosing among friends, which is awful. I’ve put this policy on the blog and in my email auto-response, but it’s not visible enough; I am still asked on a weekly basis. Things can and do get uncomfortable. So, I’m publishing this blog post and fixing the problem further upstream: I’m not even reading any new books in 2020. No “What I’m reading” bullets in the “5-Bullet Friday” newsletter will feature books published in 2020.
- I am prone to procrastinating via reading. It’s a socially acceptable form of avoiding things, but let’s make no mistake: reading is often used to avoid things. If I want to write more, for example, it behooves me to dramatically limit the types of books I’m allowed to read.
To quote Bishop Desmond Tutu, “There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in.”
Making too many decisions is often symptomatic of poor systems or process. I’m as guilty of this as the next person. In 2019, I made waaaay too many decisions, and it exhausted me.
But guilt can serve as a useful diagnostic tool. As one of my favorite people, Maria Popova, said in our last conversation: “Guilt is the flip side of prestige, and they’re both horrible reasons to do something.”
Here are some questions that have helped me think through all of this:
- In my life, where am I making decisions or saying “yes” out of guilt? Can I create a blanket policy that makes it easier for me to say “no”?
- In what areas am I making a lot of decisions, or sending a lot of communication? Are they concentrated anywhere? Can I create a blanket policy that makes it easier for other people to make those decisions?
How can you make higher-level decisions? Look further upstream.
Do you want to try to stay on top of things, or do you want to try to get to the bottom of things?
Personally, I’ve vowed to focus on the latter in 2020. No new books is part of that, and there will be more divesting. Much more.
Where have you made single decisions that removed many decisions? Or where could you make single decisions that remove many decisions? Please let me know in the comments, as I’d love to share ideas as a community.
Here’s to making the right de-cisions (as in “cutting away”) . . .
Onward and upward,
P.S. If you’re interested, this is the last “new” book I’m allowing myself to read. There are two reasons for this particular book: 1) it was sent to me in 2019, and 2) it’s the updated version of an older book that helped me out of a dark place when I needed it most.
The Tim Ferriss Show is one of the most popular podcasts in the world with more than 900 million downloads. It has been selected for "Best of Apple Podcasts" three times, it is often the #1 interview podcast across all of Apple Podcasts, and it's been ranked #1 out of 400,000+ podcasts on many occasions. To listen to any of the past episodes for free, check out this page. | <urn:uuid:d377dad8-d4a9-47c1-a573-e9cedbbf6b80> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://tim.blog/2020/01/20/one-decision-that-removes-100-decisions/#comment-149082 | 2023-10-04T13:41:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511369.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20231004120203-20231004150203-00508.warc.gz | en | 0.955924 | 1,673 |
"No way!" Qin Yu refused to forgive her and insisted on telling her.
Zhai Tong Xin frowned. It was almost time to board the plane, so she looked at the gate anxiously, "There are too many people here, how about we get on the plane first?" I'll tell you when I get up there, okay? "
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Share your gig experiences using iGigBook
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I am a cruise ship musician and so am constantly faced with the challenge of trying to pack my entire life into a single suitcase under 50lbs and a backpack, and living off that for 6 months at a time. I have always had to bring a real book with me to every ship as well as a host of method books and texts (lots of free time so I like to keep myself busy). Before I was traveling with 15lbs o books that took up space equivalent to 2 shoe boxes... now all of that has been reduced to just my iPad. iGigBook's ability to index the .pdf's floating around has been incredibly invaluable for me as often times people decide to call tunes not in the book I have brought with me... I just search and bam I'm ready to play.
Hi there, I am a UK based muso and this Gigbook will do for me, just what it has done for you. Wonderful ! Thing is, I only found out about this a couple of days ago and have not yet bought an ipad or the app. I have hundreds of my own sheets, (words, stuff written in different keys for vocal purposes). I suppose it is easy to put in your own stuff, (apart from the 50 or so fakebooks that we all use) | <urn:uuid:904e412c-1980-4d68-abb8-c2ea22dc8c0f> | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | http://forum.igigbook.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=134&p=821 | 2019-09-19T21:04:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514573735.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20190919204548-20190919230548-00058.warc.gz | en | 0.982467 | 283 |
Today is an exciting day!
I suggested a corn tortilla flavor to them casually a couple weeks ago and I was so happy that they listened and delivered! Sweet Life is a great company that really listens to the consumer!
I love so many of their flavors, especially the “Ripe Banana” that I use in my Banana Cupcakes w/ Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting and also their “Creamy Apple Pie” that I used in my Keto Apple Pie Dessert Nachos posted on my IG!
I’m not affiliated with Sweet Life, which means I don’t receive any compensation/commission by supplying you with this sweet discount code for 15% off your purchase at check out: KINDKETOMAMA15
So, what tortilla recipe did I use?!
Paola is an angel. She’s thorough with her recipes. She covers everything from what substitutions you can use, what tools work best, why she uses certain ingredients, and the science behind them too!
I’ve tried other keto friendly tortilla recipes and sadly they did not measure up. They were always to dry, too much of a coconut taste, too bland.
These are the perfect keto tortilla as they contain zero grain, zero corn, zero added sugar and gluten free.
These tortillas are nice and pliable just like a freshly hand made tortilla.
The ingredients are simple and I consider them all to be staples in my fridge and pantry. Don’t feel guilty about buying any of them, if you don’t already have them because I guarantee you will use them again, if you cook a lot of keto recipes at home. And don’t worry, Paola does name a few substitutions!
These tortillas are probably good as is using just her recipe, but I found that adding Sweet Life Flavor Co’s Corn Tortilla Flavor Concentrate really did set them over the edge! Deepening the flavor of the tortilla so that it’s closer to the real thing!
When to add the flavor concentrate!
I mixed 40 drops of the flavor concentrate right after the recipe calls for water (during step 2). I definitely wouldn’t add the drops to the dry ingredients out of fear that the flavor wouldn’t be evenly distributed.
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July 4, 2013
For Some Young Lizards, Their First Meal Is A Real Life Changer
Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online
We have all heard of 'formative years' that can influence a person's view of the world and, consequently, their behavior - but a new study published in the journal Cell Biology has found for certain lizards their very first meal can have lasting impacts on everything from their future range to agility."A mere detail in life can make all the difference for the fate of individuals," said co-author Manuel Massot of Universite Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris. "Consequently, minor environmental variations can also influence evolution."
Referring to the phenomenon as "phenotypic response," Massot and the study's other co-author Pedro Aragon said they expect to see major significance attached to seemingly small events that take place particularly early on in life.
In the study, the researchers examined the viviparous lizard, or Zootoca vivipara. The lizard is unique because it gives birth to its young live, instead of laying eggs as most lizards do. After being born, the baby lizard must catch its first meal alone because adult Zootoca do not care after their young.
"The first meal of life is a great challenge for them, and it is for this reason that we expected that a single meal can condition a good start in life," Massot said.
The researchers began by capturing 120 pregnant lizards and having them give birth in their lab. Half of the newborns were given an easy first meal, while the other half were dropped into nature to fend for themselves - as they typically would without human interference. After eating, the lizards were placed back out into their natural habitat and recaptured periodically over two years to track their health outcomes.
The team's findings suggested the lizards' first meal had a momentous impact of later outcomes. Lizards that had been fed as newborns were more likely to remain in the same general area. They were also more difficult to catch and less often recaptured, the researchers said, adding that these outcomes could be due to "a greater ability to escape, lower activity, or reduced risk-taking behavior."
Meanwhile, the lizards that had to fend for themselves gave birth to larger litters two years later, averaging 4.3 births compared to 2.9.
The two biologists said the study's findings could have implications for other organisms. They recommended other biologists investigate seemingly minor events that can push species in unpredictable directions.
According to Massot's personal website, the ecologist is also involved in investigating the effects of global warming on species adaptation. His previous research has included studies on the reproductive habits of other European lizards and reptile adaptation to the effects of climate change.
Growing around a foot in length, Zootoca live throughout Europe and Asia. They can vary widely in color and patterning, but are typically medium brown, grey, or black.
The lizards typically mate in April and May - giving birth to three to ten young in July. The newborn lizards are a little longer than one inch when born and eventually they reach sexually maturity around 2 years old for males and 3 years old for females. | <urn:uuid:c11002cf-6d62-4c25-bf5d-056a37211ac7> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112890899/lizards-first-meal-is-important-070413/ | 2017-10-22T19:41:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187825436.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20171022184824-20171022204824-00284.warc.gz | en | 0.976073 | 671 |
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There’s probably nothing more versatile and iconic than a pair of white jeans! This straight leg pair by Camilla and Marc is made from 100% rigid cotton and features a classic white fabrication. With a raw cut hem and a cropped style, rent it for an upcoming date night or a night out.
For a simple yet sexy look for date night, style it with a black bodysuit and a pair of black ankle boots. Add some colour to your outfit by hiring a pink foldover clutch for your evening items. Read our blog post on makeup looks to try for date night.
All dresses listed are in Australian sizes. Model is wearing size 8.
LENGTH: This pant is cropped length.
UNDERGARMENTS: Consider a nude bra or silicone cups to minimise lines.
FABRIC: This pant has no stretch.
GREAT FOR: Narrow, Tall body types.
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Courtney C. Stevens, author of "Faking Normal," will be at the Maury County Public Library at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 27, to discuss and sign her book..
Courtney C. Stevens, author of “Faking Normal,” will be at the Maury County Public Library at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 27, to discuss and sign her book..
“Faking Normal” is an edgy, realistic debut novel praised by the New York Times bestselling author of “Between Shades of Gray,” Ruta Sepetys, as “a beautiful reminder that amid our broken pieces we can truly find ourselves.”
Alexi Littrell hasn’t told anyone what happened to her over the summer by her backyard pool. Instead, she hides in her closet, counts the slats in the air vent, and compulsively scratches the back of her neck, trying to make the outside hurt more than the inside does.
When Bodee Lennox — the Kool-Aid Kid” — moves in with the Littrells after a family tragedy, Alexi discovers an unlikely friend in this quiet, awkward boy who has secrets of his own. As their friendship grows, Alexi gives him the strength to deal with his past, and Bodee helps her summon the courage to find her voice and speak up.
The author, Courtney C. Stevens, grew up in Kentucky and lives in Nashville. She is an adjunct professor and a former youth minister. Her other skills include playing hide-and-seek, climbing trees and being an Olympic torch bearer. “Faking Normal” is her first novel.
The Old Curiosity Book Shop will be onsite to provide books for the event. The list price is $17.99 plus tax.
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2927Re: [delany-list] Re: Project Gutenberg
- Aug 14 6:40 PMOn Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Fred Kiesche wrote:
> Now if we can get that extended to a few more titles...Nova, Babel-17,I doubt it right now. Give it three years after the first two and ask
> Empire Star...
> I have later editions (Gollancz and Vintage, respectively), but wouldWhen I get that far I'll certainly use the help. I'll be running them
> be glad to add my peepers to those checking text, if you need them.
through Project Gutenbergs Distributed Proofing site. www.pgdp.net
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Jesus commands (not just suggests) us to make disciples by teaching them "to obey all the commands I have given you."
Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. 20 Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age. Matthew 28:19-20
Before we can teach them we need to identify them because we can't teach and live them if we don't know them. This is key because Jesus says that we show our love for him by obeying his commands.
Those who accept my commandments and obey them are the ones who love me. And because they love me, my Father will love them. And I will love them and reveal myself to each of them. John 14.21
So here's my effort. I'll update the list as I read through the New Testament using 'The One Year New Testament for Busy Dads' (one page a day).
May I suggest you mark the commands by putting a 'C' next to them? Then, ask yourself something like "How well am I doing this?"
Commands in the Gospel of Matthew
(Note, this is not a 'perfect' list. I'm sure your list will be a little different.)
Repent of your sins and turn to God - Matthew 3.2
Prove by the way you live that you have repented of your sins and turned to God. - Matthew 3.8
People do not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God - Matthew 4.4
You must not test the Lord your God. - Matthew 4.7
You must worship the Lord your God and serve only him.- Matthew 4.10
Repent of your sins and turn to God,- Matthew 4.17
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Patent application title: GAMING MACHINE HAVING A SECURE BOOT CHAIN AND METHOD OF USE
James Ross Mccoull (St. Peters, AU)
Robert Linley Muir (Lane Cove Nsw, AU)
IPC8 Class: AG06F924FI
Class name: Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support digital data processing system initialization or configuration (e.g., initializing, set up, configuration, or resetting) loading initialization program (e.g., booting, rebooting, warm booting, remote booting, bios, initial program load (ipl), bootstrapping)
Publication date: 2011-03-31
Patent application number: 20110078430
Patent application title: GAMING MACHINE HAVING A SECURE BOOT CHAIN AND METHOD OF USE
Robert Linley Muir
James Ross McCoull
IPC8 Class: AG06F924FI
Publication date: 03/31/2011
Patent application number: 20110078430
An electronic gaming machine (EGM) comprises a memory storing boot program
code comprising first code; a central processing unit (CPU) arranged to
access the memory and initiate a boot process by reading the first code
from the memory; and a monitoring device having or with access to
validation code and arranged to take at least one protective action if
the first code does not match the validation code.
1. An electronic gaming machine (EGM) comprising:a central processing unit
(CPU) arranged to initiate a boot process using first code; anda
monitoring device having access to validation code and arranged to take
at least one protective action if the first code does not match the
validation code,wherein the CPU executes the first code, the CPU
calculates a hash of a second code and compares the calculated hash to a
pre-calculated hash and proceeds if the hashes match; andwherein when
executed by the CPU, the CPU calculates a hash of a third code, compares
the hash to a stored hash of the third code, and proceeds if the hashes
2. An ERM as claimed in claim 1, wherein the EGM is arranged to monitor reading of the first code by the CPU.
3. An EGM as claimed in claim 1 wherein the monitoring device is arranged to access a memory prior to the memory being accessed by the EGM.
4. An EGM as claimed in claim 1 wherein the monitoring device stores the validation code.
5. An EGM as claimed in claim 1 wherein the protective action is that the monitoring device causes the EGM to terminate or fail booting.
6. An EGM as claimed in claim 1 wherein execution halts if any of the hashes do not match.
7. An EGM as claimed in claim 1 wherein a memory stores the first, second, and third codes, and wherein said memory is read only.
8. An EGM as claimed in claim 1 further comprising a further memory comprising a signature of one or more external BIOS hashes, and the third code is arranged such that the CPU verifies each external BIOS hash before transferring control to any of the one or more external BIOSes.
9. An electronic gaming machine (EGM) as claimed in claim 1 further comprising:a removable memory device in data communication with the CPU and storing authentication data comprising a public key, the CPU arranged to access the memory and initiate a boot process by reading the boot program code from the memory, the boot process including authenticating at least one set of code to be executed by the EGM by retrieving and employing the authentication data from the removable memory device.
10. An EGM as claimed in claim 9 wherein the authentication data is a certificate comprising the public key and identity data.
11. A method of protecting an electronic gaming machine comprising:initiating a boot process;reading first, second, and third codes from a memory in response to initiating the boot process;calculating a hash of the second code;comparing the calculated hash to a pre-calculated hash of the second code;in response to the calculated hash of the second code matches the pre-calculated hash, calculating a hash of the third code;comparing the calculated hash of the third code to a pre-calculated hash of the third code; andin response to the calculated hash of the third code does not match the pre-calculated hash of the third code, taking at least one protective action.
12. A method as claimed in claim 11, comprising comparing the first code read by the CPU to the validation code.
13. A method as claimed in claim 11 comprising comparing the first code to the validation code prior to the first code being read by the CPU.
14. A method as claimed in claim 11 comprising:storing authentication data in a removable memory; andinitiating a boot process in which a central processing unit reads the boot program code from the memory, the boot process including authenticating at least one set of code to be executed by the EGM by retrieving and employing the authentication data from the removable memory.
15. A method as claimed in claim 14 wherein the authentication data is a certificate comprising the public key and identity data.
This application is a continuation of co-pending U.S. application Ser. No. 11/777,180, filed Jul. 12, 2007, which claims priority from U.S. application Ser. No. 10/089,759, which claims priority as a national phase application of PCT/AU00/01192, which are herein incorporated by reference in their entirety, and relates to, and also claims priority from, Australian Patent Application No. 2006903776, filed Jul. 13, 2006, Australian Patent Application No. 2006907047, filed Dec. 18, 2006, and Australian Patent Application No. 2007903196, filed Jun. 14, 2007, which are herein incorporated by reference in their entirety.
FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH OR DEVELOPMENT
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a gaming machine and a method of protecting an electronic gaming machine.
The development of an electronic gaming machine and program code to be run on gaming machines requires a great deal of effort. Further, given the nature of gambling regulations, there is a need for a high degree of confidence in the security of an electronic gaming machine. Accordingly, there is a need for electronic gaming machines that have a higher degree of security.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In a first aspect, the invention provides an electronic gaming machine (EGM) comprising:
a memory storing boot program code comprising first code;
a central processing unit (CPU) arranged to access the memory and initiate a boot process by reading the first code from the memory; and
a monitoring device having or with access to validation code and arranged to take at least one protective action if the first code does not match the validation code.
In an embodiment the EGM is arranged to monitor reading of the first code by the CPU.
In an embodiment wherein the monitoring device is arranged to access the memory prior to the memory being accessed by the EGM.
In an embodiment, the monitoring device stores the validation code.
In an embodiment, the monitoring device is a field programmable gate array (FPGA).
In an embodiment, the protective action is that monitoring device causes the EGM to terminate or fail booting.
In an embodiment, the boot program code comprises second code and the first code comprises a hash algorithm and a pre-calculated hash of the second code, the first code being arranged such that when the CPU executes the first code, the CPU calculates a hash of the second code and compares it to the pre-calculated hash and proceeds if the hashes match.
In an embodiment, execution halts if the hashes do not match.
In an embodiment, execution proceeds with execution of the second code if the hashes match.
In an embodiment, the memory storing the boot program code is read only.
In an embodiment, the boot program code comprises third code comprising a master private key signature of a pre-calculated hash of the third code, and the second code comprises a master public key (MPK) and a decryption algorithm, the second code being arranged such that when executed by the CPU, the CPU calculates a hash of the third code, decrypts the signature to obtain the pre-calculated hash, compares the two hashes and proceeds if the hashes match.
In an embodiment, the gaming machine comprises a further memory comprising a signature of one or more external BIOS hashes, and the third code is arranged such that the CPU verifies each external BIOS hash before transferring control to any of the one or more external BIOSes.
In an embodiment, the third code is arranged such that the CPU verifies the active boot partition on the active boot device by generating a hash of the boot partition and comparing it to a hash stored on the active boot device before transferring control to the master boot record of the active boot partition.
In a second aspect, the invention provides a method of protecting an electronic gaming machine comprising:
storing boot program code comprising first code in a memory; and monitoring initiation of a boot process in which a central processing unit reads the first code from the memory by comparing the first code read by the CPU to validation code; and taking at least one protective action if the read first code does not match the validation code.
In an embodiment the method comprises comparing the first code read by the CPU to the validation code.
In an embodiment the method comprises comparing the first code to the validation code prior to the first code being read by the CPU.
In an embodiment, the boot program code comprises second code and the first code comprises a pre-calculated hash of the second code, and the method comprises calculating a hash of the second code and comparing it to the pre-calculated hash and proceeding if the hashes match.
In an embodiment, the boot program code comprises third code comprising a master private key signature of a pre-calculated hash of the third code, the second code comprises a master public key (MPK), and the method comprises calculating a hash of the third code, decrypting the signature to obtain the pre-calculated hash, comparing the two hashes and proceeding if the hashes match.
In a third aspect, the invention provides an electronic gaming machine (EGM) comprising:
a central processing unit (CPU);
a memory storing boot program code; and
a removable memory device in data communication with the CPU and storing authentication data comprising a public key,
the CPU arranged to access the memory and initiate a boot process by reading the boot program code from the memory, the boot process including authenticating at least one set of code to be executed by the EGM by retrieving and employing the authentication data from the removable memory device.
In an embodiment, the authentication data is a public key. In another embodiment, the authentication data is a certificate comprising the public key and identity data.
In an embodiment, the at least one set of code comprises the code stored in a disk partition.
In an embodiment, the at least one set of code comprises operating system code.
In an embodiment, the at least one set of code comprises code of a program.
In an embodiment, the CPU authenticates the at least one set of code by employing the authentication data to authenticate intermediate authentication data and employing the intermediate authentication data to authenticate the at least one set of code.
In an embodiment, the EGM is arranged to authenticate the removable storage device prior to employing the authentication data.
Persons skilled in the art will also appreciate that the first and third aspects may be combined. In an embodiment, the monitoring device may be employed to authenticate the removable storage device.
In a fourth aspect, the invention provides a method of protecting an electronic gaming machine comprising:
storing boot program code in a memory;
storing authentication data in a removable memory; and
initiating a boot process in which a central processing unit reads the boot program code from the memory, the boot process including authenticating at least one set of code to be executed by the EGM by retrieving and employing the authentication data from the removable memory device.
Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that the first and second aspects of the invention may be combined with the third and fourth aspects.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF SEVERAL VIEWS OF THE DRAWINGS
Exemplary embodiments of the invention will now be described in relation to the following drawings in which:
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a gaming machine;
FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of the main components of the gaming machine of a first embodiment that relate to implementation of a secure boot chain;
FIGS. 3A and 3B show a flow chart of the secure boot chain in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of the main components of a gaming machine of a second embodiment;
FIG. 5 is a flow chart of a method of a second embodiment;
FIG. 6 is a further schematic diagram of a gaming machine; and
FIG. 7 is a memory diagram.
The foregoing summary, as well as the following detailed description of certain embodiments of the present invention, will be better understood when read in conjunction with the appended drawings. For the purpose of illustrating the invention, certain embodiments are shown in the drawings. It should be understood, however, that the present invention is not limited to the arrangements and instrumentality shown in the attached drawings.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Referring to the drawings, there is shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, a first embodiment of an electronic gaming machine arranged to implement a secure boot chain during which a series of code portions are validated.
A gaming machine 10 is illustrated in FIG. 1. The gaming machine 10 includes a console 12 having a display 14 on which is displayed representations of a game 16 that can be played by a player. A mid-trim 20 of the gaming machine 10 houses a bank of buttons 22 for enabling a player to interact with the gaming machine, in particular during game play. The mid-trim 20 also houses a credit input mechanism 24 which in this example includes a coin input chute 24A and a bill collector 24B. Other credit input mechanisms may also be employed, for example, a card reader for reading a smart card, debit card or credit card. A reading device may also be provided for the purpose of reading a player tracking device, for example as part of a loyalty program. The player tracking device may be in the form of a card, flash drive or any other portable storage medium capable of being read by the reading device.
A top box 26 may carry artwork 28, including for example pay tables and details of bonus awards and other information or images relating to the game. Further artwork and/or information may be provided on a front panel 29 of the console 12. A coin tray 30 is mounted beneath the front panel 29 for dispensing cash payouts from the gaming machine 10.
The display 14 shown in FIG. 2 is in the form of a video display unit, particularly a cathode ray tube screen device. Alternatively, the display 14 may be a liquid crystal display, plasma screen, any other suitable video display unit, or the visible portion of an electromechanical device. The top box 26 may also include a display, for example a video display unit, which may be of the same type as the display 14, or of a different type.
As illustrated in FIGS. 2 and 3, the electronic gaming machine has a central processing unit (CPU) 210. Boot program code forms a BIOS and is stored in a read only memory 220. Logically the boot program code consists of first, second and third code referred to hereafter as a pre-boot-loader, a boot-loader and a BIOS-control-program.
The different portion of code contains components for different security features. Specifically: the pre-boot-loader contains a SHA 1 hash of the boot-loader; the boot loader contains a DSA master public key; and the BIOS control program contains a DSA signature of the BIOS control program SHA 1 hash that is signed by the DSA master private key corresponding to the DSA master public key.
As illustrated in respective FIG. 3, when the electronic gaming machine is reset, the CPU 210 of electronic gaming machine begins executing the first instruction of the pre-boot-loader stored in the BIOS 220. The monitoring device 230 snoops every read access to the pre-boot-loader to thereby monitor reading of the pre-boot-loader by the CPU 305. The monitoring device is implemented by a field programmable gateway and contains a duplicate copy of the pre-boot-loader monitors access to the BIOS 220 that provides validation code that can be used to determine that the pre-boot-loader is valid. The monitoring device verifies that the pre-boot-loader read out by the CPU matches 310 the validation copy of the pre-boot-loader stored in the monitoring device. If it does not match, the monitoring device halts operation in such a manner that this will ultimately cause the electronic gaming machine to fail booting 315. Thus, this ensures that the electronic gaming machine is running a valid, unmodified copy of the pre-boot-loader and hence that the code to check the validity of the boot-loader (as described in further detail below) is still present and will be executed by CPU 210.
The pre-boot-loader then copies the boot loader to random access memory 270. The pre-boot-loader calculates a SHA 1 hash of the boot-loader copy that is held in RAM. The pre-boot-loader verifies that the calculated hash matches the pre-calculated hash that is stored in the pre-boot-loader is described above. If following calculation of the hash the boot-loader 320 it is determined at step 325 that there is no match 325, the boot sequence fails 330. If there is a match, execution is transferred to the boot loader copy in RAM.
These set of steps ensure that the electronic gaming machine is running an unmodified copy of the boot-loader and that the code to check the validity of the BIOS-control-program is still present and will be executed. The boot-loader runs from RAM to eliminate the risk of removing the boot program stored in the BIOS socketed device between verification and execution.
At step 335 the boot-loader calculates a hash of the BIOS control program and copies the BIOS control program to RAM. The boot-loader then retrieves a DSA signature from the BIOS-control-program and retrieves the DSA master public key from the boot-loader. The boot-loader decrypts the signature of the BIOS-control-program hash 340 and determines 345 whether the hashes match. If the hashes fail to match booting is failed 350. Otherwise the verification is successful and execution is transferred to the BIOS-control-program now stored in RAM. The BIOS-control-program then seeks to verify any external BIOS 240 by reference to a signed table of external BIOS hashes 250. The CPU 220 calculates a hash of each external BIOS 360. It decrypts the signed table of external BIOS hashes 250 using DSA and the DSA master public key contained in the boot-loader. Each external bios 240 is hashed and compared to the now decrypted stored hash 365. Any external BIOSES not matched are ignored at step 370. Otherwise control is transferred to the external BIOSes.
These steps ensure the electronic gaming machine is running a BIOS control program that has been signed by a master private key.
Next before the BIOS-control-program transfers control to the master boot record of the active boot partition on the active boot device 260 it verifies the active boot partition 375 by calculating a hash at the active boot partition and verifying the hash against the DSA signature stored on the active boot device using the DSA master key and DSA. If it does not match at step 380 the boot is failed at 385. Otherwise the process proceeds to load and execute the operating system at step 390. These steps ensure the electronic gaming machine is running an operating system and system software that had previously signed by the DSA master key.
Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that the exact sequence of step may vary with a particular BIOS implementation but will in force that code passes a DSA signature verification step before it is executed.
Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that there maybe variations on the above boot sequence. For example, while the above embodiment employs SHA 1 hashes and DSA signatures, other crypto graphic hashes and signatures maybe employed. For example SHA 1-HMAC or RSA or a mixture of techniques. Further, while we have described the use of RAM to avoid hot swapping cache memory could be used instead. There may also be some additional steps carried out before software is executed. For example, the signature of system and game software components may be checked by checking the entire disk partitions, directories or individual files. Such checks may be performed on demand, that is immediately prior to a component being loaded or in advance, that is prior to any components being accessed. Further in some instances it may be appropriate to check components with multiple signatures. This allows the loading of a component to be prevented if it has not be signed by all required parties which may include the manufacture of the gaming machine, a regulatory body or a third party developer.
Further, certificates rooted in the master public key may be stored with the software components than the public keys. Herein the term "authentication data" is used to refer collectively to a public key, a certificate rooted in the public key, or other authentication data including a public key.
FIG. 4 shows a second embodiment where the boot loader acquires a public key from a removable storage device 410 such as an authenticated smart card. In the remainder of FIG. 4 the same numbering is used as in the first embodiment. As discussed above, the boot loader can be used to verify a signature of system and game software either individually or by verifying the partitions on which they are stored. Accordingly, the key (or alternatively a certificate rooted in the public key) is retrieved from the smart card and employed to verify the signatures of the programs or partitions. This allows the approximation of revocation of previously signed program by not producing any smart cards with the relevant matching public key. This can be used in order to revoke incorrectly signed software before it is released. Further, it allows control of the number of software images in active use.
A person skilled in the art will appreciate that while it has been described above that the key stored on the smart card is used to verify signatures of programs/partitions it can equally be used to verify certificates of public keys that are in turn used to verify signatures of programs/partitions.
In an embodiment, the credentials of the smart card are as established as earlier as possible in the boot sequence. For example by employing the monitoring device to determine whether the smart card is valid in a similar manner in relation to which the first code is processed above. Further, rather than relying on keys being encoded within the BIOS, in some implementations it may be desirable to retrieve a key or keys stored on the smart card to use in an earlier part of the boot sequence for example, to verify the external BIOSes.
The process 500 is summarised in FIG. 5. Boot code is stored in memory 510 and authentication data is stored in a removable memory 520. The boot process is initiated 530 and authentication data is retrieved 540 from the removable storage device. The method then involves authenticating 550 at least one set of code with the authentication data. The key from the smart card is then trusted until the next boot.
A person skilled in the art will appreciate that the removable storage device should be readily removable such as a smart card, USB token, or the like.
In a third embodiment an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) is used instead of the FPGA of the first embodiment as the monitoring device. As in the first embodiment, a boot memory contains the software that is first executed by the CPU when it exits the reset state. Monitored memory (or hash checked memory) may also be used to store those parts of the software that access critical security functions.
For example the ASIC may contain logic which can enable or disable access to cash payment mechanisms or auditing information. By putting the enabling switch in monitored memory it becomes possible to check the security and authentication of the machine software before enabling or disabling these features.
The boot program is checked by monitoring the CPU address and data buses 611, as shown in FIG. 6. The ASIC 612, which monitors the buses 611 contains a copy (in internal ROM) of the data in a portion 614 of the boot EPROM 613. When each word of data is fetched from EPROM 613 by the CPU a compare function 616 of the ASIC 612 first checks the address to see if it is within that area duplicated in the internal ROM 617, and if it is it then checks the data word that the CPU 615 is reading from the EPROM 613 against the appropriate word in the internal ROM 617. If the data is the same then the CPU 615 is using the correct data from EPROM 613, but if it is different then there is either an accidental error or deliberate tampering. In this event the ASIC 612 takes appropriate action which may include resetting the board and/or stopping other operations of the ASIC 612 internally.
In the an embodiment, the CPU address and data bus 611 are multiplexed together to reduce the number of pins used. Non-multiplexed buses may also be used.
The ASIC 612 may also contain logic to ensure that all memory locations in the monitored memory are checked. If all locations within the monitored area are not checked when an inappropriate access is made outside the monitored area the check fails and the board locks up. An inappropriate access is an instruction fetch or write cycle. Read cycles are allowed, to enable the software in the monitored region to check other parts of memory.
Two implementations of this are:
1. The address bus 611 is monitored and a register is used to store a scanned address value location. Whenever the address from the CPU matches the value in this register the register is incremented. The memory check is complete when the address register reaches the end of the monitored memory.
2. A signature of address accesses may be implemented. Each address is combined in some form with the previous addresses to generate a fixed pattern. If the sequence of addresses is not the same as the original stored pattern then the check fails. For example each address may be combined using a CRC algorithm with the previous address's although preferably a more secure algorithm would be used.
Other implementations of monitored memory are possible:
1. Instead of checking the program as it is executed, the ASIC disables the EPROM and substitutes data to the CPU from its internal ROM. The ASIC thus acts as a memory device.
2. The ASIC reads the contents of the monitored EPROM area before the CPU exits the reset state and generates a cryptographic hash of the data. Only if this hash matches a predefined value is the test passed.
3. Instead of checking the data as it is read from EPROM the ASIC reads the EPROM contents and verifies it before allowing the CPU out of the reset state.
4. In a variation of the above two implementations, the ASIC allows the CPU to fetch the first word of a program after exiting reset, but inserts into this read cycle the verification reads from EPROM. It is more difficult to tamper with this method as the cycles are not separated clearly.
To provide further protection the monitored boot area may be read and monitored at a later time after the test has passed and game software is running. This provides protection against some forms of tampering where tampered memory is substituted for the original memory after the test passes.
This scheme is most effective with as much functionality of the board as possible implemented in the ASIC. One method of tampering is to replace the entire ASIC, but if significant other functionality is included it becomes a serious technical problem to redesign the ASIC.
Additionally the more critical the ASIC is to the functioning of the board then the more difficult it is to get the board working again if the monitoring circuit disables the operation of the ASIC internally.
If the monitored memory test fails, the board and ASIC are typically reset to protect the gaming machine. Alternately program execution is allowed to continue but certain features of the ASIC are disabled, preventing the board from being used in its full capacity. This allows the software to display appropriate errors messages (especially in the case of accidental memory errors), but effectively stops tampering having any real consequence. In the case of gaming machines, certain critical functions will also be inhibited such as software access to hardware meters 641, and inhibiting input and output of credit or the like, such as by way of the credit card reader 642 or ticket reader/writer 643.
The internal ROM of the ASIC is expected to be small compared to the size of the boot EPROM to reduce cost, although it could be the same size. Alternately, and as described above, the cryptographic hash check may be embedded in the ASIC.
The size of the EPROM to be securely checked can be increased to the total size of the memory in the system without increasing the size of the ASIC internal ROM by embedding a checking program in the area of EPROM that is checked by the ASIC. The checking program generates a cryptographic hash over the entire memory area to be checked (which may include the area monitored by the ASIC) and compares it to a pre-computed value. If it matches then the entire region is assumed to be unmodified. The method relies on it being difficult to tamper with the data which is included in the hashed area while retaining the same hash value and that the ASIC monitors the program which generates and checks the hash.
An advantage of this method is that the hash checking program is relatively small, and can be expected to be smaller than a comparable signature checking program. Therefore the size of the ROM in the ASIC may be reduced in size with this method.
A non-cryptographic checking algorithm may be used instead of the hash function, but algorithms such as checksum or CRC are relatively easy to tamper with and are not preferred.
The data to be checked, either directly by the ASIC or included in the hash-checked region, may include program or data. The data may include text messages such as "0 Aristocrat Leisure Industries" or "This software is authorized by Aristocrat Leisure Industries".
Once the initial part of the boot memory has been authorized it can then securely check the rest of the memory in the system.
The monitored memory area may use a hash mechanism to check more memory as described in the previous section or it may implement a digital signature check. The advantage with a digital signature check is in minimizing the amount of boot code that can never be changed without changing the ASIC. The advantage of a hash check is that a hash is simpler and therefore requires less program space for monitored memory than digital signature software.
Digital signatures are also used to authorize all other modules of software and data in the system, including system software and games. Each authorized EPROM or file has an associated digital signature which is checked. If invalid signatures are found the data will not be used and appropriate action will be taken, such as the machine locking up and displaying a message.
FIG. 7 shows a schematic of a memory map in which a first section of the memory space 721 is checked by the ASIC 612, a second part of the memory space 722 is checked by a hashed code and a third part of the memory space 623 is checked by digital signature. The memory space checked by the checking software may include or exclude the area in which the checking software resides. In the example illustrated in FIG. 7 the signature checked memory space 723 does not encompass the memory space 721 containing the checking software (i.e. the space monitored by the ASIC) but the hash checked memory space 722 does encompass the memory space 721.
In an embodiment, continuous monitoring of the authenticity of software provides extra security. The memory contents are periodically rechecked to ensure that changes have not occurred.
Continuous monitoring requires a method of getting the CPU to start executing software within the monitored (or alternately hash checked, although this is not as secure) memory area.
Once the CPU starts executing software within this secure area it can again perform authorization checks of the system as required. A watchdog type monitor is implemented in the ASIC which must be accessed periodically from software executing within the secured memory area otherwise the ASIC will force the system to shutdown. This transfer to secure area may be simply by software jumping to an address periodically or caused by an interrupt from the ASIC.
The ASIC is able to detect that software is executing from the monitored area. The method used depends on the processor implementation. For processors which support identification of external bus cycles an instruction fetch from a predefined address is used. For processors without identification of bus cycles and also without internal cache memory a sequence of memory accesses is detected that may only be generated by software executing within the monitored area. For CPU without bus cycle identification and also with cache it may not be possible to guarantee detection of monitored area software execution. Tampering could take place by execution of software within the cache so that external cycles appeared to be the correct software accesses.
An alternate method of guaranteeing execution within monitored memory is to periodically reset the CPU. In this implementation the CPU is able to be reset separately from the rest of the system. Prior to being reset, the CPU saves it's operational state in memory for restoration after the authentication checks have been completed. After the ASIC has reset the CPU then the CPU must be executing from monitored memory. A flag in the ASIC indicates the cause of the reset so the CPU knows whether to execute cold start reset code or continuous monitoring code. While the CPU is in the reset state the ASIC checks the state of the relevant pins to ensure that the CPU actually has been reset. In the preferred implementation the ASIC contains a timer which is initialized after each reset and which locks up the board when it reaches a predefined count. The timer would require that the CPU be reset every five minutes for example. Periodically and at least less than every 5 minutes the system software saves the system state and instructs the ASIC to reset the CPU and also timer. The system software can choose a point in it's operation where a slight delay while the CPU resets is not noticeable. Alternately the ASIC generates an interrupt periodically which the system software responds to by saving the CPU state and then the CPU resets.
These authentication checks are as described in the rest of the document. The authentication check can be divided into a number of these execution periods to divide the CPU loading over time. In this case the check software may need to store information between the periods (such as the last memory location checked). Although this data may be stored in RAM, it is accessible by any software running on the machine and could be tampered with. Preferably the ASIC implements some RAM that is only accessible by software running within the monitored memory area.
One possible method of tampering is to find start execution code within the monitored area, which was not intended as a start address for the routine and which has side effects unintended by the system programmers.
This side effect would access the flag in the ASIC without running the security check. One method of preventing this is to implement an address signature check as described for "ASIC Monitored Memory". A significant section of code must be executed correctly for the signature to be correct and it must be from the correct address. Many other methods are possible.
One method of tampering with the system is to allow the correct boot code to be executed after reset and during authentication, then at an appropriate point map into the program memory a new section of code (e.g. in hardware swap EPROMS with a multiplexer circuit). This memory may be automatically mapped in an out of memory space depending on where program execution is being performed. The authentication check reads the original data and passes, but when control is passed elsewhere a different program is executed. To prevent this attack, at a random time the ASIC reads from the CPU data bus the instruction fetched from memory, and stores it in a register together with the address from which it was read. When the periodic authentication check is performed it reads these registers and compares them with the data it reads from the same location. If the data is different then tampering has taken place. This test will eventually, at a random time, detect tampering. To speed up this test more than one data location may be sampled. Because it may take some time before tampering is detected it is preferable that when tampering is detected this information is stored so that the machine cannot be used until this condition is acknowledged by the operator and fixed. It should be stored in non-volatile memory, and preferably non-erasable memory.
True random number generation is not usually feasible in an ASIC and instead pseudo-random numbers are typically used instead. The pseudo-random number may be randomized further by combining it with some external information, such as the contents of the data or address bus.
An alternate method is to use DMA or bus mastering by the ASIC to automatically read the contents of memory and verify the data. This method is most suitable for the boot code, as the complexity of the design for more equivalent functionality to that easily achieved in secure software to very high--although it is possible.
These methods allow the verification of programs and data in boot memory and which is not possible to tamper with by simply changing the program memory.
An advantage of these security systems is that non-volatile re-writable memory can be used to hold the boot program. Even if tampered code were somehow loaded into memory the security mechanisms would prevent it being executed.
An advantage of Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) monitored memory and hash checked memory security mechanisms is that relatively simple logic is required in the ASIC and the rest of the security mechanism is in software. If the entire mechanism were placed in the ASIC it would be far more complex, costly, less flexible and take longer to design.
The above methods may also be supplemented by a further method that involves embedding into the authorized software a message which makes a legal statement about that software and it's ownership or authorization. Such a statement might include a text message such as "This Software Is Authorized By Aristocrat Leisure Industries" or "© Aristocrat Leisure Industries".
The authentication hardware or software expects that the message be embedded in the program/data it is authenticating. If the message is not present in the appropriate place the authentication test fails and the data/program is not used. Unlike digital signatures this method is technically easy to cheat, by embedding the message, but provides legal recourse to the manufacturer if it is detected. Digital signatures are technically difficult but potentially legally weak. The two methods may be combined to provide both legal and technical security.
Referring to FIG. 6, components of a gaming machine are shown. After the secure boot routines held in the EPROM 613 have been verified as discussed below, these routines can be used to load programs from a mass storage system 631 such as a hard disk drive 633 and controller/interface 632. Other mass storage systems can also be used such as a CD or DVD ROM drive, a floppy disk drive or ZIP® drive. The mass storage system 631 may be local to the CPU and read via the buses 611, or may be remote and data sent to a writable memory local to the CPU over a network. The program will be loaded from the mass storage device into RAM by a loader program, which is preferably held in EPROM 613, but could also be held in a ROM associated with a logic circuit such as the ROM 617 of the Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) 612. In alternative embodiments, the ASIC 612 may be replaced by a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). As the program is read from the mass storage device 631, the loaded code is scanned for a predetermined text string embedded in the code such as "© Aristocrat Leisure Industries".
The scanning may either be performed in software by a routine in the loader program, or alternatively the ASIC 612 may be programmed to scan the data flowing over the buses 611 and locate the text string. In another embodiment, a hard wired scanning circuit can be connected to the busses 611 to scan for the string. This method of verification may be used instead of a hash code or encrypted signature, but in the preferred embodiment is used as well as an encrypted signature or hash code verification method.
Once the loaded program has been verified, the embedded text string will be displayed on a display device 634 such as the video display screen of a gaming machine on which the program is running, such that visual confirmation of the validation is provided. This display function is performed by the loaded program thereby also enabling detection of fraudulent use of software on other manufacturers hardware. The loaded program also performs internal consistency checks to prevent alteration or deletion of the text string.
The Multigame authorization system allows games to be used only on the system for which they are authorized. The System program confirms the authorization of the game before it is allowed to be used.
Preferably game authorization comprises one or more of the following steps: The header section of the game memory is checked to confirm that it is an appropriate game (e.g. not another system EPROM incorrectly used, has valid version numbers, etc). The game header is checked for the legal authorization message. The game header checksum or CRC is checked to ensure memory integrity. If the games are digitally signed, then the digital signature(s) are validated. The authorization of the game to run on this particular gaming machine is checked.
If the authorization fails the gaming machine may either continue without allowing that game to be used, stop and ask the operator to remove the game from the machine, or run that game only in demonstration mode.
Preferably each gaming machine contains a unique identification number which the CPU can read and use as part of the authorization code.
This can be implemented using a Dallas Semiconductor serial identification chip (e.g. D5240 1).
If the authorization fails games may run in a limited mode and display an appropriate message on the screen. The limited mode may prevent the machine accepting or paying out money or updating critical auditing information.
An EPROM authorization message is created by applying a digital signature to a message composed of the unique Game Identifier, a unique Gaming Machine identifier and any usage restrictions that may be required (e.g. date restriction on game operation). The signature is generated in a secure environment and sent to the gaming machine where it is stored in non-volatile memory for later use.
The secure environment may be: Within a smartcard. A service technician or operator may authorize the game to run on the machine by connecting the smartcard to the machine where the game is installed. To limit accidental or deliberate fraud the smartcard preferably contains a limit on the number of games that can be authorized. The smartcard may be inserted into a special purpose interface on the gaming machine, a general purpose interface such as is used for player marketing cards or via a PC and communication interface (e.g. RS232 or Ethernet) with a smartcard reader. The gaming machine supplier may generate the authorization key and supply it to the service technician/operator for entry into the gaming machine. The authorizations may be encoded into a removable EEPROM chip which is supplied to the operator with the new games.
Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that various of the above embodiments may be combined with other embodiments or modified to incorporate features of other embodiments.
These and other variations will be apparent to persons skilled in the art and should be considered as falling within the invention described herein.
Patent applications by James Ross Mccoull, St. Peters AU
Patent applications by Robert Linley Muir, Lane Cove Nsw AU
Patent applications in class Loading initialization program (e.g., booting, rebooting, warm booting, remote booting, BIOS, initial program load (IPL), bootstrapping)
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'Adrian Mole really is a brilliant comic creation! Every sentence is witty and well thought out, and the whole has reverberations beyond itself! [Sue Townsend is] one of our finest living comic writers' - The Times". 'A delight. Genuinly funny! Compassion shines through the unashamed ironic social commentary' - "Guardian". 'He will be remembered some day as one of England's great diarists. No matter what your troubles may be Adrian Mole is sure to make you feel better' - "Evening Standard". 'Thank heavens for Sue Townsend! She has an unrivalled claim to be this country's foremost practising comic novelist' - "Mail on Sunday". 'One of the great fictional creations of our time! A joy' - "Scotsman". 'Poignant, hilarious, heart-rending, devastating' - "New Statesman". " | <urn:uuid:4ddf8791-77ca-479b-8e2f-2836fb1ec5f7> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.pantarhei.sk/knihy/cudzojazycna-literatura/lost-diaries-of-adrian-mole.html | 2016-10-23T14:33:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719273.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00084-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.895644 | 184 |
One purpose of our workshop "Baltic teachers in a time of change" was to use the model being together - dialogue - cooperation, to see how it could be used when everybody is involved, when everybody expresses him/herself, listens to others, perhaps changes his/her mind and attitudes - because the hardest job is to change peoples´ way of thinking.
The other purpose was to try to understand what is better now, with many problems, even painful ones, in the new society, or what was better before, in the old system. One must remember that while democracy in itself is understandable for a large part of the world, we in the Baltic states had to start from the beginning. Now we must evaluate: where we are, what has been done, what could be saved and what could be improved.
During this period, when the Baltic states are moving towards democracy, it is a question of great importance what kind of personalities/individuals we are going to have. It seems that the word "democracy" is used more often than it is understood. It has been used mostly on a theoretical level, less in practical action.
As we, teachers of Nica Secondary School in Latvia, understand, it is very essential to get as many people as possible involved in the practical process of democracy, because the success of this process greatly depends on how deeply in the minds and hearts of people principles and institutions of democracy will take root. It will not happen by itself. Everybody must experience what democracy is, what it means to live in a democratic society, what models of individual action, what kind of institutions are necessary to create and keep alive a democratic society.
That's why schools have a really great impact on the process of democratisation of society, because schools must create an atmosphere and a model for the society of the future. This is the problem we as teachers have to face in our everyday work after abolishing the old totalitarian system. What do we replace it with? How?
It is very important that, while young peopie are at school, they
* take part in organising and leading social life at school
* notice existing problems and find their way of solving them
* feel safe to express their own opinions and views, enter into discussions, show their thoughts, to be not only demanding but also engaged and taking responsibility for the processes going on in the school and in society
At the same time this must not only be a slogan, but real practical action, supported and understood by all staff of the school, because there are still schools at least in Latvia, where "democracy" has been understood as "anarchy". Democracy does not mean that all is allowed, it means action with a certain order and rules. The only question is: do teachers know what to do and how to act, how to help their students acquire this knowledge? The problem is, that many teachers do not know how to act in new circumstances, with what to substitute traditional autocratic methods.
The way out of these problems we see is to prepare and change the behaviours and attitudes of teachers. How well prepared the staff and teachers are for democratic changes will decide how their students will acquire models of democratic experience. The same model we must use in cooperation with parents, involving them in their children's school work.
After the introduction the 32 participants formed 4 groups, 1 for each Baltic country and 1 for participants from other European countries (discussing changes after joining the EU)
Notes from the closing round table talk, relating to the Baltic countries:
1. Textbooks and other material were free of charge
2. Compulsory second education
3. All education was free of charge
4. Systematic teachers courses
5. Less social problems
6. Out-of-class and out-of-school activities were free of charge
7. Children s organisations summer camps and summerjobs arranged for all
8. More responsibility of parents all children always attended school
9. There was guaranteed Government care about schools
10. Guaranteed jobs after professional schools and studies
1. Possibility of choice of subjects to study (e.g.languages)
2. Possibility to study abroad and getting aquainted with the experiences of other countries
3. Possibility for creative work and for responsibility
4. A holistic approach to learning is being introduced
5. Allowing alternative education and alternative schools
6. School curriculum is undergoing positive changes, in correspondence with children's needs and abilities
7. Development of national consciousness
8. Freedom of choice, freedom of religion
9. Private schools are allowed
10. Handicapped children are beginning to be integrated
11. A democratic and humane school is beginning to emerge - more open
12. Communication and cooperation between schools from different countries - Latvian schools have started to take part in different global projects
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BALTIMORE (WJZ)— An NSA officer is recovering from his injuries after Maryland State Police say a man hit him with his car after trying to gain entrance into NSA headquarters.
Rochelle Ritchie has details on the mans arrest.
The man has now been charged with DUI and other minor traffic offenses after taking Maryland State Police on a short chase.
Dramatic video was captured of the arrest of a man Maryland Police say was taken to jail after injuring an NSA officer with his car and leading police on a chase.
“We’re still trying to ascertain why he didn’t stay at the traffic stop, why he fled. Those things are still under investigation and officers are looking into it ,” said Maryland State Police Sgt. Marc Black.
The climactic events unfolded Wednesday morning just before 6 a.m. when a dark colored SUV pulled up to a security check point at NSA Headquarters. Officers instructed the vehicle to stop, the driver complied but things quickly took a dangerous turn.
Police say the suspect, identified as Darnell Hawkins, rammed a security barrier before jumping onto the Baltimore Washington Parkway where a short police pursuit followed at less than 50 mph.
“Based on the information we received, there were no weapons found in the vehicles and there is no reason to believe he was trying to do anything but flee police ,” said Sgt. Black.
Hawkins has now been charged with DUI and other traffic offenses.
Maryland State Police tells WJZ it is possible Hawkins could also face federal charges.
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Water, lots & lots of water, and a digester. You might want to cut the end off a garden hose and use it to break up the blockage.
If it's a straight drop into the tank a cleaning wand will work even better.
Get some rubber gloves and a change of clothes. There's a good chance the clog will also block your tank drain. One of these will help with that. Flush King - Valterra FK-01 - Sewer Flushing - Camping World
Google 'the geo method' for other ways of dealing with it.
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A trooper: Paul French. Photo: Getty Images
THERE are obvious disadvantages to walking across Australia in full Stormtrooper garb. But on the bright side, at least Jacob French, 20, is unlikely to suffer sunburn as he treks solo across the Nullarbor from Perth to Sydney to raise $50,000 for children's charity the Starlight Foundation.
''I have always had this dream to walk across Australia, and I thought if I was going to put that much effort into something which would make me happy, I might as well make other people happy on the way,'' the Perth sales assistant said.
''I thought I might as well give people a bit of a chuckle at the same time by doing it in a Stormtrooper suit.'' Mr French started his ''Troopertrek'' on Monday and aims to arrive in Sydney by December, which means walking between 35 and 40 kilometres a day, five days a week, while pushing his 50-kilogram supplies trolley and wearing his customised suit, which he bought online and weighs 10 kilograms.
''It does get very hot,'' Mr French said. ''The helmet is not very well ventilated. It's like wearing a bucket on your head. It's not very flexible either, so I'm moving pretty slowly.
''I hope to finish before the weather gets too much warmer, otherwise I'm just going to get drenched in there.''
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Bruce Springsteen a interprété trois titres lors du concert de charité Stand up for Heroes le 3 novembre 2010 au Beacon Theatre de New York.
Voici la setlist (source Badlands)
With The Max Weinberg Big Band & Roy Bittan
1. Open All Night
2. Kitty’s Back
3. If I Should Fall Behind (with Patti Scialfa)
Découvrez ci-dessous la belle version de Kitty’s Back jouée à cette occasion.
Le compte-rendu de Backstreets est ci-dessous.
Wednesday night at the Beacon Theater brought the meeting that some expected to place across the river back in September, when the Max Weinberg Big Band played the Stone Pony. Max’s ensemble was the house band as Bruce Springsteen played the Stand Up for Heroes benefit last night in New York. He still performed just a handful of songs, as usual, but the team-up made for a very different, swingin’ performance than what Bruce has done previously at this annual event.
After a short intro from Jon Stewart and some praise from Springsteen for Tony Bennett (going on stage after him, said Bruce, was « like following all of Mount Rushmore »), they launched into the Seeger Sessions arrangement of « Open All Night, » featuring the full Big Band, with Max on drums, and surprise guest Roy Bittan on piano. After telling the requisite dirty joke, this being a New York Comedy Festival Event, Springteen and the band teamed up again for « Kitty’s Back, » a song that Max has been part of his Big Band’s repertoire, but a first here with Bruce. Roy stood out as well, tearing it up on some fleet-fingered solos.
Finally, Bruce introduced Patti Scialfa for an acoustic duet of « If I Should Fall Behind. » A live auction followed, Brian Williams serving as auctioneer as a bidding war ensued, and Bruce’s guitar (Max threw in his tie, as well) went for a whopping $140,000. Bruce hand-delivered the guitar, and the money raised — from the auction, and the evening as a whole — went to benefit the good work of the Bob Woodruff Foundation. | <urn:uuid:06df1293-e1b4-4012-bd9b-729fdf6d7e14> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://laurentsamuel.wordpress.com/2010/11/04/bruce-springsteen-au-concert-%C2%AB-stand-up-for-heroes-%C2%BB-le-3-novembre-2010/ | 2017-06-26T00:11:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320595.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625235624-20170626015624-00278.warc.gz | en | 0.861112 | 492 |
So, it turns out former Gov. Eliot Spitzer will not face federal charges for patronizing a prostitution ring. Let's not forget, though, that the Emperors Club VIP's managers and "hooker bookers" were already prosecuted and currently face sentencing. And, guess what, they (and their lawyers) aren't too happy that the very client who led federal investigators to their escort agency in the first place is getting off (this time at their, rather than his, expense).
The agency's founder Mark Brener pleaded guilty to money laundering and prostitution conspiracy and faces 24 to 30 months in prison; manager/madam Cecil "Katie" Suwal pleaded guilty to the same charges and faces 21 to 27 months in jail. Bookers Tanya Hollander and Temeka Lewis face anywhere from six to 16 months for scheduling Spitzer's illegal rendezvous.
But, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York has decided against prosecuting Spitzer because he did not misuse "public or campaign funds" in paying the Emperors Club, and because of the Department of Justice's stance on prostitution prosecutions. Under the Mann Act, which is mostly aimed at addressing human trafficking, the DoJ policy is that, "unless minors are victims, prosecutions ... should generally be limited to persons engaged in commercial prostitution activities." Spitzer -- who "arranged for women to travel from one state to another state to engage in prostitution," which is illegal under the Mann Act -- simply isn't their desired target.
Michael Farkas, Hollander's lawyer, responded to the news today in the New York Post: "I believe [Spitzer] to be a much more egregious actor than my client Tanya … and despite her cooperation and full acceptance of responsibility, she's still facing jail time." It was no bolt from the blue for Suwal's lawyer, Alberto Ebanks: "Their decision to not pursue this matter further against our disgraced former governor doesn't surprise me, as it is not typical or common for federal authorities to prosecute johns, albeit the most powerful john in the state of New York."
On a somewhat similar note, prostitute-turned-blogger Debauchette told Boing Boing that it's just your "typical case of the john being released while the prostitute, or in this case, the agency, gets punished," and added: "Put this within the larger context that Spitzer saw prostitutes while actively seeking their imprisonment, and that Emperors was only attending to his requests, and the whole mess strikes me as a distortion of justice and a sickening waste of resources." | <urn:uuid:0d0fa946-c15a-449c-9fd3-be176cc0a6fd> | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | https://www.salon.com/2008/11/08/spitzer_prosecution/ | 2019-06-20T03:25:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560627999130.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20190620024754-20190620050754-00101.warc.gz | en | 0.970922 | 530 |
MIL-STD-1750A or 1750A is the formal definition of a 16-bit computer instruction set architecture (ISA), including both required and optional components, as described by the military standard document MIL-STD-1750A (1980).
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The 1750A supports 216 16-bit words of memory for the core standard. The standard defines an optional memory management unit that allows 220 16-bit words of memory using 512 page mapping registers (in the I/O space), defining separate instruction and data spaces, and keyed memory access control.
Most instructions are 16 bits, although some have a 16-bit extension. The standard computer has 16 general purpose 16-bit registers (0 through 15). Registers 1 through 15 can be used as index registers. Registers 12 through 15 can be used as base registers.
Any of the 16 registers could be used as a stack pointer for the SJS and URS instructions (stack jump subroutine and unstack return subroutine), but only register 15 was used as the stack pointer for the PSHM and POPM instructions (push multiple and pop multiple).
The computer has instructions for 16, and 32-bit binary arithmetic, as well as 32 and 48 bit floating point. I/O is generally via the I/O instructions (XIO and VIO), which have a separate 216 16-bit word address space and may have a specialized bus.
Because MIL-STD-1750A did not define implementation details, 1750A products are available from a wide variety of companies in the form of component, board, and system-level offerings implemented in myriad technologies, often the most advanced and exotic of their respective periods (e.g. GaAs, ECL, SoS).
Of particular interest is the fact that 1750A systems often offer very high levels of radiation and other hazardous environment protection, making them particularly suited for military, aviation and space applications.
Examples of MIL-STD-1750A implementations include:
- CPU Technology, Inc. CPU1750A-FB, a high performance 1750A SOC designed to give existing applications a late life performance boost.
- Dynex Semiconductor MAS281. A radiation hardened SOC implementation on a 64-pin multichip module with an optional MMU.
- GEC-Plessey RH1750, a radiation-hardened version for aerospace and space flight applications. GEC-Plessey, under its previous incarnation as Marconi Electronic Devices, also initially developed the MAS281 and MA31750A series of processors, later made available through Dynex Semiconductor
- Honeywell HX1750, fabricated on Honeywell's Silicon on Insulator CMOS (SOI-IV) process giving radiation hardness. The HX1750 includes an FPU and peripherals on chip.
- Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) MIL-STD-1750AAV space flight qualified processor. A multi-board silicon on sapphire implementation specifically designed for space flight.
- Marconi Electronic Devices MIL-STD-1750A.
- National Semiconductor F9450 series.
- Pyramid Semiconductor PACE P1750A. The family includes the P1750A CPU, the P1750AE Enhanced CPU, the P1753 Memory Management Unit (MMU), the P1754 Processor Interface Chip (PIC) and the P1757ME Multi-Chip Module. This line was acquired from Performance Semiconductor in 2003.
- Royal Aircraft Establishment Farnborough MIL-STD-1750A implementation in AMD 2901 bit-slice technology.
Processors based on MIL-STD-1750A are usually programmed in JOVIAL, a high-level programming language defined by the United States Department of Defense which was derived from ALGOL 58. To a lesser extent, Ada was used.
In addition, DDC-I provides its SCORE Integrated Development Environment (IDE) with both Ada95 and C compilers, and TADS (Tartan Ada Development System) Ada83 development environment, both targeting processors based on MIL-STD-1750A.
The U.S. Air Force defined the standard in order to have a common computing architecture and thereby reduce the costs of software and computer systems for all military computing needs. This includes embedded tasks such as aircraft and missile control systems as well as more mundane general military computing needs.
The advantages of this concept were recognized outside of the USAF and the 1750A was adopted by numerous other organizations, such as the European Space Agency, NASA, Israeli Aircraft Industries and many projects in academia.
Examples of military aircraft using the 1750A include:
- IAI Lavi fighter
- IBM Federal Systems AP-102 Avionics Computer (used in various roles including the USAF F-111 avionics upgrade)
- US Army AH-64D Apache Longbow Helicopter
- USAF F-16 Digital Flight Control System and Fire Control Computer
- USN F-18 RFCS Flight Control Computer
Use in spaceEdit
Fully space rated implementations make the 1750A one of the few types of computers that are applicable for use in deep space applications. Example spacecraft that use the 1750A are:
- EOS Aqua, Aura and Terra
- ESA Cluster
- ESA Envisat - Envisat's ASAR instrument, built by Matra Marconi Space and comprising the Central Electronics Sub-Assembly and Antenna Sub-Assembly used a total of 42 GEC-Plessey MA31750A processors in a dual-redundant configuration
- ESA Rosetta
- ISRO Mars Orbiter Mission
- ISRO Space Recovery Experiment-1 Guidance and Navigation Computer
- Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX) spacecraft developed at JHU/APL
- MSTI-1, 2 and 3
- NASA Cassini
- NASA Landsat 7
- NASA Mars Global Surveyor
- Naval Research Laboratory Clementine Lunar Orbiter
- NOAA GOES-13, GOES-O and GOES-P
- Orbital Sciences Corporation commercial communication satellite platforms
- USAF Titan-4 Guidance Computer
- "mas31750 DataSheet - PDF - www.BestDatasheets.com". bestdatasheets.com.
- "An Implementation of MIL-STD-1750 Airborne Computer Instruction Set Architecture". dtic.mil.
- "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-09-01. Retrieved 2014-09-23.
- ftp://ftp.elet.polimi.it/users/Marco.Lovera/ESAGNC08/S08/07_Veeraraghavan.pdf[permanent dead link]
- "Orbital ATK" (PDF). orbital.com.
- "Orbital ATK" (PDF). orbital.com.
- Software Vendor Information
- Specification and vendor information
- Ada83 compiler for the 1750A processor
- IDE, Ada95, EC++ and ANSI C compilers for the 1750A processor
- Ada and ANSI C compilers
- MIL-STD-1750A, 2 July 1980, with updated Notice 1, 21 May 1982
- FlightLinux Project Target Architecture Technical Report References to use in spacecraft
- DOD MIL-STD-1750 standard
- Dynex Semiconductor MA31750 Processor
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Western history books tell us that the city states of Greece were the cradle of democracy. Recent tomes, like Benjamin Barber’s “If Mayors Ruled the World,” insist that in an era where partisan politics and empire building bid to spin democracy into its grave, cities are our last, great hope for a sustainable mix of pragmatism and vision where citizenship matters.
When cities and towns work, they have the whole package: responsive, honest governance; a productive economy; healthy environment; access to energy, water, food. Inhabitants are proud of their town, and while some live better than others, there is a general sense of community, participation and opportunity. There are better and worse neighborhoods, depending on the criteria, but all have some distinction. Transportation and an attractive urban core are optimized.
The ten trends leading to operational principles we have identified are manifested both in daily life and long-term development:
Locality, of course, but how do you define its limits? Suburban sprawl and the flight of jobs and wealth from many cities is endemic, leaving a rusting trash heap and burned out ghettos for surviving inhabitants. Yet even where miasma casts a pall, there are opportunities. Detroit is attempting to renegotiate the deteriorated housing of the former motor city into green spaces and urban farming. Beijing and Shanghai could take a lesson in best practices from LA about auto emissions and smog control.
In New York City, Manhattan and Brooklyn are so attractive that the shops, restaurants and services that define strong neighborhoods mix with the nooks and crannies of public spaces. The integrity of many neighborhoods adds to a perception of a whole that is greater than the sum of the parts. The slogans and bumper stickers of “I Love NY” are more than PR hype, and reflect pride in the city.
Even where there are tensions between the open and closed values of communities, there are mitigating steps to be taken. With a heterogeneous and multi-linguistic population, Amsterdam faces similar cultural and ethnic pressures of as many European cities. Symbolic of its efforts to bridge the differences is the magnificent Third World Museum which demonstrates respect and recognition for the confluence and contradictions of disparate cultures.
On the celebratory side, the Vondelpark is an in-town gracious space for biking, hiking and concerts, and the streets, squares and canals full of energy, food and entertainments. Many neighborhoods have farmers’ markets, weekend festivals, flea markets. There are pedestrian malls, and the central square is home to performers and events.
The canals and pedestrian malls, public and commercial squares of the Dam, Leidseplein, Waterlooplein and Rembrandtplein lend form and structure to a city experience in which all can share. Even prostitution and drugs have been transposed into civic benefits, as the legalized and supervised Red Light district and smoke shops and hemp bars draw tourists, and express a commitment to both tolerance and order, public health pervasive, and commerce triumphant.
The Dutch commitment to the environment begins with recognition that it’s critical to work creatively with the forces of nature, but it doesn’t end there. It was no coincidence that when the Global Reporting Initiative came to select a site for its secretariat, Amsterdam and the Dutch government won the bid. Every two years since 2006, GRI and the City of Amsterdam have co-hosted a major, international conference on sustainability.
When a team of citizens from New Orleans, USA, visited the Netherlands after the carnage and mismanagement attending Hurricane Katrina, they were shocked and embarrassed to see what serious effort, allocation of resources and imaginative planning could accomplish.
The Netherlands ability to achieve a consensus around survival and growth carries benefits for many generations, and is a sharp rejoinder to the skepticism and outright hostility to long-term, environmental planning. Even more conclusive is that along with a lively and attractive engagement with social and environmental planning, Amsterdam continues to be one of the world’s great commercial centers.
Collaboration between sectors, and the responsibility of business and finance to contribute is part of the culture, as much as the choices of walking, bikes, trams and private cars; water shuttles and even helicopters ferrying captains of industry. Amsterdam and the Netherlands offer a clinic on how to handle the meeting points. Not only is the cooperation evident between government, business, cultural and social institutions, but the levels of neighborhoods, city, national government are predominantly complementary, rather than caught in turf battles. With the international tribunal located in the nearby Hague, and with the Netherlands structurally part of the European Union, Amsterdam goes about its business of emphasizing synergies between macro and micro in a manner that is both relaxed and intense. The City Museum of Amsterdam presents a diverse mix of history, demographics and culture – and it is a good metaphor for the town’s variety and livability.
Paris has the Louvre, with its implicit assumption that France is the natural heir to past glories and the epicenter of present civilization, the Champs Elysee and the special character of its arrondisements.
Rio has Sugar Loaf, the beaches of Impanema and the statue of Christ towering above the city.
Jaipur welcomes visitors through its pink arches. New York has Times Square, Central Park and skyscrapers in Manhattan. There are the sweeping views of the bay and ocean in San Francisco. Constructions like the Eiffel Tower and Seattle’s Space Needle become points of identity.
On a smaller scale, in Shelbourne Falls, MA, there is a bridge of flowers. For all that we explore a new paradigm, many urban centers have a rich history which carries forward. Marketplaces have traditionally been the core of commerce and social exchange, as in Otavalo, Ecuador, and in Thailand, Chang Mei’s night market. They are potent reminders of how humans have done business since before recorded history.
In Davis, California, a weekly farmer’s market has achieved the scale of a county fair. There are food wagons (no greasy fast foods need apply), music and a spacious meadow for kids and adults to recreate and visit with friends. Gifted with a year round temperate climate, bike paths, a park for skateboarding, so many more amenities, even a strong job market, with the state capitol of Sacramento an easy commute, no wonder the town often comes across as self-congratulatory.
The relationship between UC Davis and the town has been a model of synergy, with faculty, students and administration vitally involved, and the typical town/gown tensions avoided. Non-profits have flourished, with the Twin Pines Foundation facilitating cooperative solutions to housing that bridges gaps in age and financial capacity.
Every town or city worthy of being called a community has people both out front and working behind the scenes. They are the glue that keeps things together. For all the accrued benefit handed over to new residents, the quality of life is a direct result of thought and energy contributed by so many over the years.
Building a sustainable, more collaborative and community-oriented future for cities often means rephrasing past virtues that had been swept aside, but with a little tweaking become relevant again. There are street malls blocked off from autos in Copenhagen, Denmark, among many cities. The restriction to pedestrian traffic creates a lively shopping experience that’s good for local business and consumers.
In a recent book, “Sustainable Communities,” Bruce Seifer and his co-authors lay out how Burlington, Vermont, solved vexing problems and created a productive and livable town. They started with a progressive Mayor, Bernie Sanders, who, in the ‘80s, mobilized the power of government and the self-interest of local business. Before going on to the US Congress and a Presidential run, Bernie nurtured, then was succeeded by a dedicated crew of elected and appointed officials who earned the trust and respect of the citizenry over several decades, and were able to tap into many sources of funding.
When there was a need for a downtown supermarket, government supported a community process to develop options. The result was the expansion of the local food co-op, both in size as well as its appeal through a wider selection.
In Burlington, the all-to-familiar process by which an entrenched and self-serving bureaucracy devolves into corruption simply never happened. “Simple,” however, doesn’t begin to explain why a dedicated cohort of elected officials, administrators, institutions and private citizens were able to put aside their factional and self-interests over a period of decades. For that, give kudos for leadership and the community’s willingness to adapt best practices above special interests.
Denver, Colorado has the Rockies, and a Western spirit of getting things done. When John Hickenlooper, a down-to-earth businessman and geologist, was elected Mayor of Denver, his trajectory to Governor and perhaps more was far from assured. But he took the entrepreneurial energy that had launched a successful brew-pub and applied it to a succession of initiatives that showed real progress was possible – that initiatives could be both cost effective and affect social value.
Reaching out to the various sectors, consulting with differing constituencies, yet never abandoning the capacity to lead and innovate, became the style and substance of his administration. In the process, Hickenlooper built a strong coalition that was both successful and politically savvy.
For example, in Denver, the cost to the system of social and medical services for a homeless person averaged six figures annually. Mayor Hickenlooper’s administration decided that paying for an apartment would be a significant move towards stabilizing lives, with a direct impact on medical costs at a fraction of the expense. Redefining productivity for cities relies on gathering, evaluating and applying data that matters.
Internet services like Yelp and Angie’s List speed the flow of information in cities and make for better choices. Middletown, Connecticut chose to implement wi-fi access for an entire downtown, even before it became a prevalent aid to commerce. Around the world, cell phone service for texting and voice communication is standard, even in the poorest neighborhoods. A sense that at least some of the benefits of a tech and asset rich environment are available to almost anyone decreases tensions and even crime.
Balance the bodegas and storefronts that deliver idiosyncratic products and services against the efficient economies of scale of a centrally directed cohort of franchises, and you can see that for cities, a distributive economy is going to be in flux for a long time.
While less functional cities tend to be asset rich in ways that fail to benefit the body public, democratizing access increases variety. Bicycle exchanges have been common in European cities like Copenhagen and Oslo, and now spread to the USA. Other manifestations of a sharing economy include room and apartment access through Couch Surfer and AirBnb; vehicular access with Zip Cars, Uber and upgraded public transport.
How to fit all these themes together differs for each city and town. Urban planning may be a combination of art and craft, but it is certainly not unknown. In the middle of the past century, Jane Jacobs and Lewis Mumford were brilliant advocates for neighborhood, culture and community as practical and achievable goals. Many European cities and towns grew up helter-skelter, but many others were successful in revitalizing an urban core, and prizing a livable environment.
In the 1960s, Reston, Virginia and Columbia, Maryland were valiant attempts to create new towns that mixed residential, commercial and public spaces. Their aesthetic and social success was overwhelmed by short-term profiteering – just another example that the road to heaven is flanked by speed traps.
Curitiba in Brazil, a city of more than a million inhabitants, has constructed a world class transportation infrastructure that expresses interdependence with the environment by virtually eliminating private vehicles in the urban core through an efficient public transportation system. Incentives for recycling and penalties for pollution and waste are typical in many progressive cities – well beyond what is mandated by central governments.
In 2009, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark created a major show, “green architecture for the future,” with a published book of that title that takes flight with inspiring extrapolations of how our cities can be both sustainable and sustaining. Curitiba was one of the featured cities, for good reason.
The cultural definition of a city usually depends on perspective: who and what it is open to, and where boundaries are drawn. When railroads were the major mode of transportation, there was a right side of the tracks or the wrong side. More recently, the lines of demarcation can be more complex.
In Bolivia, the gap between the upscale capitol of La Paz in the valley and the mountainous and poor town of El Alto has been reinterpreted via a cable car system that is both practical and attractive. Curiosity about what is different and what held in common can be explored.
In a San Francisco, already gifted with a great location and booming economy, an imaginative Director of Public Health, Dr. Mitch Katz, analyzed the city’s failure to provide care to its citizens, and developed two interventions. First, was on-call specialists to be available to primary care providers to consult with. This not only saved time and travel for patients, but the usually prompt response avoided the deepening of medical conditions, and attendant costs. Second, was a comprehensive plan that anticipated the Federal ACA, and guaranteed care to every city resident. This was accomplished by a collaborative partnership between government, employers, healthcare providers and hospitals.
What these cities have in common is understanding the real costs, whether environmental, economic or social, and seeing opportunities to provide systemic solutions within a community framework. Once patterns of accountability and collaboration are established, citizens intuitively make use of a system that rewards them at many junctures.
Trust that a system is working for the greater good leverages the additional capacity to think creatively of how to anticipate future challenges and turn them into opportunities.
New York City, with a significant degree of confidence instilled by the Bloomberg mayoralty, is well into preparing for the next climatological catastrophe. New Orleans, overwhelmed by Katrina, is in worse shape than before because of its failure to accept the raw data that the formerly protective dunes and wetlands have been tragically eroded.
Urban centers exist within countries (as the citizens of Aleppo have been reminded), vulnerable to forces beyond their control; as are nations part of a world ecology and a global economy; as is this planet hostage to asteroidal visitors that might crash our party. Those Greek city states which pioneered democracy suffered from their own versions of inter-connected vulnerability: incursions from Crete and Persia; internecine warfare as a frequent affair between Athens, Sparta, Thebes, etc.; internal demagoguery; presumed distractions and interventions by the most fractious set of gods humans have ever imagined. It may go with the territory, yet the evidence of better and worse is a challenge of its own.
No one city or town has done it all, but the continuum that stretches between embracing or denying the consequences of our past and present actions is huge. Even at the optimal integrity of building and maintaining a sustainable community, however, to paraphrase John Dunne, no city is an island (even New York has the Bronx as its mainland borough) and no best practices will become embedded overnight.
Below are profiles of cities and towns that are models of creativity, civility, and sustainability. Click on any of them to view that city’s profile in the library.
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Burlington, Vermont
- Curitiba, Brazil
- Davis, California
- Denver, Colorado
- La Paz, Bolivia
- Melbourne, Australia
- Portland, Oregon
- Reston, Virginia
- Samso, Denmark
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GAO: In-Flight Wi-Fi Could Be Used to Hack Airplanes
'Internet connectivity in the cabin should be considered a direct link between the aircraft and the outside world,' a GAO report states.
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently published a report [PDF] warning that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) currently faces at least three key cyber security challenges: protecting its air traffic control systems, clarifying cyber security roles and responsibilities between FAA offices, and securing aircraft avionics used to operate and guide aircraft.
Notably, those challenges include a threat from in-flight Wi-Fi.
"According to FAA and experts we interviewed, modern communciations technologies, including IP connectivity, are increasingly used in aircraft systems, creating the possibility that unauthorized individuals might access and compromise aircraft avionics systems," the report states.
And when those in-flight entertainment services include Internet access, the potential security risks grow. "According to cyber security experts we interviewed, Internet connectivity in the cabin should be considered a direct link between the aircraft and the outside world, which includes potential malicious actors. ... One cyber security expert noted that a virus or malware planted in websites visited by passengers could provide an opportunity for a malicious attacker to access the IP-connected onboard information system through their infected machines," the report states.
"Firewalls protect avionics systems located in the cockpit from intrusion by cabin-system users, such as passengers who use in-flight entertainment services onboard," the report adds. "Four cybersecurity experts with whom we spoke discussed firewall vulnerabilities, and all four said that because firewalls are software components, they could be hacked like any other software and circumvented."
Jovi Umawing, malware intelligence analyst at Malwarebytes Labs, told eSecurity Planet by email that while firewalls could potentially be bypassed, it's important to remember that aircraft systems are designed with a focus on safety. "These systems, which we deem life- or safety-critical, have redundancies in place to lessen the chances of tragic outcomes should they be compromised," she said. "As the GAO report does not clearly elaborate if this new threat via cabin Wi-Fi takes into account such systems, we can't know for sure if an attack like this would be successful."
Still, Umawing said, that doesn't mean these concerns shouldn't be taken seriously. "Travelers must still adhere to safe computing practices and treat the plane Wi-Fi in the same way they would free public Wi-Fi in a coffee shop," she said. "That means avoiding logging into websites that contain lots of sensitive information like online banking or social media accounts."
"Airplane Wi-Fi may be password-protected, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t someone logged onto the network sniffing around for packets and looking to take advantage of travelers’ trust in the system," Umawing added.
In January of this year, the GAO published a separate report warning of "significant security weaknesses" in the FAA's air traffic control system, including "weaknesses in controls intended to prevent, limit, and detect unauthorized access to computer resources, such as controls for protecting system boundaries, identifying and authenticating users, authorizing users to access systems, encrypting sensitive data, and auditing and monitoring controls on FAA's systems."
And last June, the FAA warned that the architecture and network configuration of newer Boeing 737s "may allow the exploitation of network security vulnerabilities resulting in intentional or unintentional destruction, disruption, degradation, or exploitation of data, systems, and networks critical to the safety and maintenance of the airplane."
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According to News Reports, the man and child, seen stealing in this surveillance video, are father and son. There's a stipulation regarding arresting them, however. Reportedly they are Canadians and do not live in the United States, making it hard to locate and prosecute them...
I can only imagine the heart attack a father would get after seeing his daughter in a Playboy magazine; It has play tricks on your mind. Sadly, it played such a mind trick on the father of Loradena Chivu that he took his life after seeing his daughter in the spread
How a 7 Year-Old Girl Survived a Deadly Plane Crash that killed 4 Members of her family including her Mom & Dad & sibling...she walked through the woods for about 4 miles and finally found a house where she found help. WATCH:
Four days before Mike Brown was shot by Ferguson Police in Missouri for walking in the street, another black man was gunned down by Ohio Police inside a Wal-Mart for Shopping! New evidence proves that this man was shot on sight without warrant!!
LeBron James has always been open about his upbringing . In a recet interview with GQ magazine, LeBron opens up about his father being M.I.A in his life -- and in a strange way he appreciates not having him in his life. | <urn:uuid:44f27365-19fa-4d70-aec8-766eebeacd80> | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | https://wblk.com/tags/father/ | 2019-08-22T20:56:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027317359.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20190822194105-20190822220105-00287.warc.gz | en | 0.987023 | 266 |
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Pursuant to the California's Sunshine Amendment (Cal. Const. Art. I, § 3(b)) and the Calfiornia Public Records Act, I am requesting the following records:
A database of automated license plate recognition records scans captured by the LA Sheriff's Department in L.A. County between January 1st, 2013 and March 31st, 2013.
I am seeking these records in "any electronic format which holds the information", pursuant to the act. If privacy concerns might otherwise prevent the release of this data, it would be acceptable to replace each license plate as scanned with an anonymous identifier, such that the same license plate number has the same identifier across all data provided.
I do not believe that this information qualifies under the "intelligence information" exemption to the Public Records Act, as this vast majority of this information is not "related to criminal activity".
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2015 Time Zones - Virudhunagar
The graph above shows that there is no clock change in Virudhunagar during 2015.
Note that Virudhunagar uses a special half-hour time zone.
Time Changes in Virudhunagar over the years
Daylight Saving Time (DST) changes do not necessarily occur on the same date every year.
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Setting up a Multi-Touch Preschool:
An Eight Step Plan, with Costs, Apps and Other Details
Reprinted from Children’s Technology Review, March 2011, Vol. 19, No. 3, Issue 132 Copyright 2011
by Warren Buckleitner
In a preschool classroom, the difference between a smooth day and an utter disaster can be small, as any teacher knows. Experienced teachers also know not to skimp on the classroom materials available to children during free play time. I’ve seen a sand table soothe an upset child, simply because it gives him or her something that is easy to use (just run your fingers through the sand), fun to explore (we would hide small plastic toys in the sand), and provides unlimited ways to create (especially when mixed with drops of water). These types of materials lie at the heart of any early childhood curriculum.
That’s why it is so important to consider the iPad, or any other soon-to-be-invented multi-touch tablet or handheld device — as an important new classroom material that can support an active learner. The multi-touch screen makes it easy to accidentally succeed, with all five fingers (see the Taxonomy of Touch, CTR, November 2010) and the 9-hour batteries can make it to the end of the day. Other goodies include a microphone for adding narration to a story, a camera (in the iPad 2) for putting your own face onto the screen, motion sensitivity and enough memory to store hundreds of apps. Now it is possible to hand a child a device that can turn a beanbag chair into an ideal interactive learning environment.
Here’s an early (consider this a draft!) step-by-step procedure for enhancing a typical preschool classroom with multi-touch learning. No traditional classroom materials are replaced! Instead, the technology and apps are carefully selected to supplement existing materials and classroom socialization patterns. This plan assumes you already have robust wireless access (Wi-Fi) in the room. Depending on how much technology you already have, it can cost between $1800 to $4000 per classroom. To keep things simple, we’ve decided to use the iTunes store as a regular consumer, so an active iTunes account is required to be managed and fully controlled by the teacher. Explore Apple’s educational purchasing programs fully, such as the Volume Voucher, that lets you purchase apps in denominations of $100s of dollars. Apple might also be able to provide training. Visit http://www.apple.com/itunes/education/faq to learn more, and make sure to explore all the options that Apple can provide. It is also possible to purchase gift cards, to eliminate the need for a credit card, but at the end of the day, somebody’s credit card will be required. Reminder: This publication has no commercial links to/with Apple. Also note that staff training should be minimal for teachers who are already using iPhones, iPods, iTunes or are comfortable downloading content to other digital media players, although you should not assume that teachers have this level of comfort with technology. Teacher control and empowerment is an underlying part of this plan.
STEP 1: Start by finding and designating a Windows or Macintosh computer to serve as your iPad content manager. For purposes of budgeting, we’ve included a student model white MacBook, currently selling for about $1000 (check for school rates), but it is possible to use just about any Macintosh or Windows computer, as long as it can run the latest version of iTunes. In the ideal situation, this computer is a laptop with a CD-ROM drive and a camera, making it possible to distribute photos to the iPads, or move your existing CD library into the music library. Don’t forget that iPads are good music players, too.
STEP 2: You’ll need an active credit card to set up an account, and the teacher should be the main account holder, based on the idea that they are given the maximum amount of control over what appears on each screen. You’ll need one device, either an iPod Touch but preferably an iPad, per 3 to 5 children. Note that it is now possible to pick up a used iPhone 3, or older iPod Touch as a donation, now that the iPhone 4s have been released; certainly one of the benefits of constantly improving technology. Keep the chargers safely away from children (e.g., all plugged into one power strip, on a higher shelf) and make sure to fill all unused electrical outlets with safety plugs. In the best case, you’ll have 1 device for every 3 to 4 children. If your screen/child ratio gets great than 1:5, you run the risk of arguments over a “scarce” resource.
STEP 3: Prepare your content. Download the apps you want (see the starter list), along with the latest copy of iTunes and the iOS operating system. Next, transfer (or burn) any music CDs or photo albums that you want to keep on the iPads. In choosing apps, make sure you support your curriculum. Once your content library is stocked, its time to start filling up your iPads using the included USB/iPhone table. This is also a good time to put your school’s logo on the main screen, or perhaps a group photograph.
STEP 4: Sync, or connect each iPad to your computer using the included wires. In most cases, the syncing process happens automatically, once your host computer sniffs the iPad. This can take some time, so bring a book.
STEP 5: Time to work on the security. Don’t forget that each iPad is a portal to your credit card information. In addition, you don’t want a child to accidently erase all your apps, or end up on some obscure web site. It is easy to turn on or off these features by exploring the Restrictions tab, found in Settings. Make sure you don’t forget your four digit PIN — we recommend keeping this the same for each device. If you plan on sharing setup privileges with a co-teacher, it is best to think up and use a second PIN that you don’t use for personal use, such as your banking. At this point, you might consider budgeting for a protective case which can increase the chance your iPad will survive a fall on a tile or cement floor. We don’t recommend clear, plastic screen covers, however, as they can reduce the responsivity of the screen.
STEP 6. Make your iPad hard to steal. There are a few things you can do. First, set up the anti-theft features that come standard as part of iOS 4.2 or higher. Here’s what you do. First download and install an app called Find My iPhone (it works for iPads and iPod Touches, too). After you register using your iTunes screen name and password, the app registers your device on a remote Apple server. Now you can start the app anytime to see where your devices are, superimposed over a Google map.
Try it out first to make sure it works– it’s especially handy if you plan on letting your iPad devices go home for a weekend, say with a staff member for inservice. We were able to successfully track four devices simultaneously. Once you’ve found your ipad on the map from another iPad or iPhone, you can choose to lock it up, wipe it clean of any information, or display a please return message, along with a loud audio alarm.
STEP 7. Create a physical storage system. We mounted a clear magazine rack on the wall, well within reach of a short preschooler. The clear plastic makes it easy to know if the device is there or not, making it easy to see if the iPad is being used, and giving it an easy to reach home that children can get used to using. You may consider security locks if needed, that will tether the iPad or iPod Touch to a table.
STEP 8. Time to organize your apps. Start by fine-tuning the apps that appear on each screen, much like you’d test out different materials on a busy classroom shelf. Children are natural app-browsers, which is why it is so important to put the quality apps on the home screen, to increase the chances that they will discover them. Use the iOS folder-making ability to make folders (just hold your finger down over an app icon until it starts to wriggle, and then drag and drop it over another app). Here are some recommended Apps for each area of the curriculum: each could be a folder.
Here’s a list of some no-fail apps from the CTR Software Finder. All have scored well on the CTR Evaluation Instrument. You can place each set in a different folder if you like, but make sure you put the apps you want children to find on the first screen.
123 Color is a collection of dot-to-dot puzzles, that you touch to fill in creating an active counting and letter recognition experience. Visit KidCalc. http://kidcalc.info $1.99. Ages 3-up.
Color & Draw for Kids is an open-ended drawing program that gives you the best of both worlds, free one finger scribbling on a blank screen, or coloring on one of 50 traditional-looking coloring book pages. You can also import your own photos. Builds art, creativity, drawing, fine motor development. TipiTap Apps. www.tipitap.com $.99. Ages 3-9.
Color Collector (camera required) is another one of the Tickle Tap App series. It turns your camera-equipped device into a color sampler. Builds colors, visual discrimination. zinc Roe Design. www.zincroe.com $1.99. Ages 3-5.
Doodle Buddy can be used to sketch out the plans for an invention on an iPad screen. This app is easy to start and use, and it uses multi-touch. Builds art, drawing, creativity. Pinger. www.pinger.com $free. Ages 3-up.
Drawing Pad turns your iPad into a smart easel. Because the tools appear in a drawer on the side of the screen, you can pull them out or put them away, as needed. Builds drawing, art, creativity. Darren Murtha Design. www.touchscreenpreschoolgames.com $1.99. Ages 2-12.
Little Things is a well-designed hunt and find experience that could be a wonderful collaborative problem solving experience. Builds visual discrimination, matching and logic. KlickTock, www.klicktock.com $2. Ages 4-up.
SpinArt. Turn your iPhone screen into a paint-splattered mess with this fun program. Builds art, creativity, logic (spatial relations). Brian Smith. www.7twenty7.net $1.99. Ages 3-up.
Language (Reading & Writing)
Green Eggs & Ham. Like the other Oceanhouse Media titles, Green Eggs & Ham follows the same formula of pulling the text and illustrations from the original Dr. Seuss story, and presenting it, one page at a time with clear responsive labels. The simplicity is refreshing. There are now a huge library of Oceanhouse Media titles, all with this similar design. Builds reading, word recognition. Oceanhouse Media. www.oceanhousemedia.com $3.99. Ages 3-up.
Interactive Alphabet 1.5. Each letter becomes a toy, in this well designed, responsive alphabet book that following a simple, tried-and-true technique. Builds reading, alphabet. Piikea Street. www.piikeastreet.com $3. Ages 3-6.
Letter Writer: Oceans is one of two letter tracing apps (the second is Letter Writer: Space, for lower case). Children move their finger over each letter to learn how it is formed, with autocorrecting feedback. Builds writing, letter tracing, fine motor coordination. Barking Dog Interactive. http://barkingdoginteractive.com/ $.99. Ages 3-7.
Montessori Crosswords is a set of well designed crossword puzzles, with picture cues and audio for each word. Builds reading, writing, language. L’Escapadou. http://lescapadou.com $3.99. Ages 3-up.
Nash Smasher! If you want to try an excellent example of good ebook design, try Nash Smasher! by Bill Doyle with illustrations by Troy Cummings. Of course the design is helped along by a good story. Builds reading, emotions, fine motor. Crab Hill Press. www.crabhillpress.com $1.99. Ages 4-up.
PopOut! The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Children’s ebooks on the iPad don’t get much better than this interactive rendition of Peter Rabbit, where every touch makes something interesting happen in support of the story. Builds reading, language. Loud Crow Interactive Inc. www.loudcrow.com $5. Ages 4-up.
Toy Story 2 Read-Along is a 23 page/screen adaptation that mixes highlights of the second movie (Toy Story 2) with two games, two songs and three coloring activities that let children smart color the page outlines. Builds reading, language, logic, creativity.
Disney Publishing Worldwide. www.DisneyDigitalBooks.com $4.99. Ages 3-9.
Toontastic. Turn your iPad screen into a puppet show. Children can record their own voices as they add clipart. Builds creativity, language, planning, art, music, telling stories, cartoons. Launchpad Toys. http://launchpadtoys.com $3. Ages 5-up.
Magic School Bus: Oceans marks Ms. Frizzle’s iPad debut. Based on the Scholastic book The Magic School Bus: On The Ocean Floor by Joanna Cole and illustrated by Bruce Degen, the app is arranged in ebook fashion, with pages that flip and hot spots that come to life. Content includes seven science explorations, 26 real photos and 11 videos of underwater animals and plant life, plus a trivia game on 20 animals. Builds science, ocean life. Scholastic Media. www.scholastic.com $8. Ages 2-up.
My First Weighing Exercises HD. Turn your iPad or iPod Touch into a balance beam scale. There are three modes of play, each with three challenge levels, and it is possible to alternate between ounces and grams. Builds math, equalities, balance, addition, subtraction, sums, mental math. A&R Entertainment. www.ar-entertainment.net $1.99. Ages 2-7.
Solar System for iPad. For a child with an interest in the stars and planets, this app is fun to just explore, despite the need for reading. Touch a planet, moon or comet to explore, in this carefully crafted interactive science poster that covers every corner of our Solar System. Builds science, astronomy, the solar system, planets. Touch Press. www.touchpress.com $14. Ages 7-up.
Ultimate Dinopedia: The Most Complete Dinosaur Reference Ever lets children explore 600 types of dinosaurs. Builds science, dinosaurs, ecosystems. National Geographic Society. www.nationalgeographic.com $6. Ages 6-up.
Fish School makes the screen into a letter and numeral busy box, where failure isn’t an option. Builds logic, math (counting, numeral recognition) the alphabet, letter recognition, shapes, memory. Duck Duck Moose Design. www.duckduckmoosedesign.com $.99, $1.99. Ages 2-up.
My First Tangrams HD. This $1.99 app includes 36 tangram puzzles, with drag-and-drop autocorrecting. A&R Entertainment. www.ar-entertainment.net $1.99. Ages 3-up.
My First Wood Block Puzzles. Part of the Learning is fun educative game collection, this puzzle app lets you press a block to swap it as you try to reconstruct the picture. It features nine different animals, three difficulty levels,and sound effects. Builds classification, matching. A&R Entertainment. www.ar-entertainment.net $1.99. Ages 2-7.
Park Math. Another great app from Duck Duck Moose turns a playground into things to count, weigh, compare and classify. There are two levels — Pre-K and first grade. Builds math, counting, quantities, adding, subtraction, numerals. Duck Duck Moose Design. www.duckduckmoosedesign.com $1.99. Ages 3-up.
Symmetry Shuffle. Anyone who has ever packed a suitcase knows the value of spatial intelligence — the ability to manipulate shapes in your head. This app contains 12 sets of objects that can be slid, flipped and turned, until all the shapes are correctly aligned. Builds math, geometry, spatial relations. Carstens Studios. www.carstensstudios.com $1.99. Ages 4-up.
Tickle Tap Toddler Pack contains five activities in one iPad friendly app. Builds logic, sorting, counting, music, language. zinc Roe Design. www.zincroe.com $4.99. Ages 3-6.
Boogie Bopper. Another one of the Tickle Tap Apps, Boogie Bopper lets children play ten simple melodies like Bingo and Mary Had a Little Lamb by touching a rainbow shaped xylophone, with circle-shaped keys arranged from low to high. Even an accidental tap plays the right note, and a series of taps can create the song. A second more open-ended mode lets children freely construct their own instrument, by moving musical balls around the screen. There’s not a lot to do, but you can’t beat the design for giving children a way to explore melodies. Builds music, melody, rhythm, causality. zinc Roe Design. www.zincroe.com $2.Ages 2-4.
Magic Piano. Turns your iPod into a zany piano keyboard with social features, that let you share songs with other players, from around the world. Builds music, rhythm. Smule, Inc. www.smule.com $.99. Ages 4-up.
Old MacDonald Piano is a 17 key (octave + 2) piano keyboard, that includes four modes: Play and Sing Along (play Old MacDonald by following highlighted keys), Learn the Song (play and sing along, also with highlighted keys), Karaoke Mode (record your voice and piano playing by following words in English, Spanish or French) and Free Style Mode (free experimentation). See also Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, which shares a similar design. Builds music, piano. Kiboomu Inc. www.kiboomu.com $0.99. Ages 3-up.
TonePad. Make musical patterns, and play with the structure of music. Builds music, timing. LoftLab. www.tonepadapp.com $free. Ages 7-up.
The iPad is less than a year old, yet there’s no doubt it, and devices like it, will influence how children play and learn. Will this be a good or bad influence? That’s up to you. As you would with any traditional material, try each app with different children and change things around once in a while to keep things interesting. After all, starting each day with a set of fresh, fun, engaging materials — whatever the form — can increase your chances for having a smooth day! | <urn:uuid:4d9db672-e38d-4128-89f3-bc5ebd83f85b> | CC-MAIN-2016-36 | http://childrenstech.com/blog/archives/3819 | 2016-08-28T07:04:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-36/segments/1471982935857.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20160823200855-00153-ip-10-153-172-175.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.911605 | 4,135 |
April Movie Releases
With the upcoming release of the highly-anticipated Avengers: Endgame movie, we wanted to write a blog post about exciting movies that have already released this month or that will be coming out. Here are our most-anticipated April movie releases.
The following titles and descriptions were found at IMDB.com.
“We all have a superhero inside us, it just takes a bit of magic to bring it out. In Billy Batson's case, by shouting out one word - SHAZAM! - this streetwise 14-year-old foster kid can turn into the adult superhero Shazam.”
“After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War (2018), the universe is in ruins. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers assemble once more in order to undo Thanos' actions and restore order to the universe.”
“Based on the graphic novels by Mike Mignola, Hellboy, caught between the worlds of the supernatural and human, battles an ancient sorceress bent on revenge.”
“Louis Creed, his wife Rachel, and their two children Gage and Ellie move to a rural home where they are welcomed and enlightened about the eerie 'Pet Sematary' located nearby. After the tragedy of their cat being killed by a truck, Louis resorts to burying it in the mysterious pet cemetery, which is definitely not as it seems, as it proves to the Creeds that sometimes, dead is better.”
The Best of Enemies
“Civil rights activist Ann Atwater faces off against C.P. Ellis, Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan, in 1971 Durham, North Carolina over the issue of school integration.”
Of course, there are even more exciting movies that will be coming out over the course of just a few months. Detective Pikachu will release on May 10th, Aladdin on May 24th, Toy Story 4 on June 21st, Spider-Man: Far From Home on July 5th, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood on July 26th, IT: Chapter Two on September 6th, and so many others!
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Friuli & Slovenia
In a Little-Known Corner of Europe, Italian, Slovenian, and Austrian Cultures Collide in a Land Built Upon its Own Distinct History, Tradition, and Language. Experience This Vanishing Culture While You Can.
Welcome to Italy’s wine-rich Friuli region! In this little-visited locale, tucked between Slovenia and Austria, you’ll find the cultural imprints of both countries — not to mention some of the most rewarding roads you’ll ever pedal. Over the years, this region was occupied by various European powers and it developed a unique language and culture. While it is unlikely that the Friulano language will survive the next century, the customs and traditions of the land live on.
With the Livenza River to the west and the Timaro River to the east, Friuli experiences warm summers and mild winters – a cycling paradise. Our tour pedals across the border to Italy’s northern neighbor to the east – Slovenia. This country’s tourism has grown significantly since 1991, when it gained its independence and then recently joined the EU.
Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to experience an amazing mixture of Venetian Italian and Austrian/Slavic cultures. It will be a trip of a lifetime!
- Be among the first of your friends to ride this beautiful region
- Pedal through lands that inspired Joyce, Hemingway, Freud, and Rilke
- Enjoy a striking variety of cultures: Italian, Austrian, and Slovenian
- Bike through the lush vineyards of Friuli’s burgeoning wine country (and sample the local vintages, of course)
- Spin along “roads less traveled” in Italy and Slovenia
- Discover the towns of Gorizia and Cividale in Italy and Bled in Slovenia
- End in the romantic and charming Ljubljana, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and capital of Slovenia
Day by Day
We meet at 12:30 pm in the lobby of our hotel for lunch and greetings, followed by a bike fitting and a spin near the border. We begin our tour in Gorizia which has a central European flavor and is split into two sides, with the Slovenian side called Nova Gorica. Find out why it was a favorite spot of the Hapsburg nobility in the 19th century, when you experience the mild climate, green parks, and brilliant social life.
Gorizia and the Carso
Pedal towards east and cross the border, discovering a unique and natural environment called “Carso.” According to linguists, the name Carso comes from the root ‘karra,’ a pre-Indo-European word for stone – and stone is the very essence of Carso. The vast limestone outcrops, grottoes, and underground rivers are results of slow water erosion; they constitute an astonishing and unforgettable environment. Today we cross the Italian/Slovenian border multiple times at the abandoned border crossing posts.
Collio, Colli Orientali and Cividale del Friuli
The area of Collio and Colli Orientali del Friuli covers part of the province of Udine and stretches across the hills bordering Slovenia. Today we ride to Colli and explore it in greater depth, wheeling between gentle slopes awash in grapevines. Thanks to the region’s succession of hills and plentiful southward-facing slopes, the area named Collio provides the perfect environment for premium quality winemaking- especially white wines– with over 200 makers! Naturally, you’ll have ample opportunities to sample superb wines. Cividale del Friuli was the ancient capital of the Lombard dukedom and the style of the time is still well represented by the typical architecture.
Slovenia: Bovec & the Soca (Isonzo) Valley
Today we’ll cross the border into Slovenia and explore the Soca Valley (Isonzo Valley in Italian). Note of how quickly the sights and environment change! The clear, alpine waters of the Soca River, called the Emerald beauty by locals due to the crystal quality of the water, the shadowy routes, and fresh breezes from the nearby Mount Triglav will refresh your senses. This area experienced a lot of military action during World War I, including playing host to 12 different battles between May 1915 and November 1917. We spin along the valley visiting the Slavic town of Kobarid and its famous WWI museum, nestled between the Alps and the Adriatic before arriving in Bovec for the evening.
Activity Day in Bovec
This is a day dedicated to enjoying the region. On the Isonzo river you can choose to experience a easy rafting descent, one of the several water sports that Bovec is known for. A local company will provide us with all the equipment necessary to enjoy this experience: wetsuit, boots, life jacket and helmet. In the afternoon you may also choose to hike on the foothills of Mt Canin or simply relax at the hotel. We will have also the option to enjoy an optional loop ride available in the afternoon, which is highly recommended to those of you who wish to take a spin to further explore the valley of Soca river.
The morning begins with a 1-hour shuttle to avoid the climb to the Predil Pass. Our bike ride begins from Kranjska Gora, initially on a beautiful bike paths and then, at times, riding through the countryside en route to Bled. This is another beautiful opportunity to enjoy the Triglav National Park and to savor the enchanting atmosphere of one of the most famous and frequently visited places in Slovenia. We finish our day in the charming town of Bled, famous for its lake and the tranquil atmosphere.
On out last ride today we reach the enchanting Ljubljana, ancient capital of the historical region of Carniola, and currently UNESCO World Heritage Site and capital of Slovenia. This charming town has been influenced for centuries by its geographic position, at the crossroads of the Slavic, Germanic and Latin cultures.
Allow some time before dinner to take a stroll in the old part of town and maybe also visit the castle located in the center and just a few minutes away from our hotel. This is the perfect location to end our fantastic tour across two countries in the middle of Europe, which were once part of the Roman Empire.
Arrivederci and Nasvidenje!
Today we say goodbye. After breakfast, around 9:00 am, there will be one group shuttle to Ljubljana Brnik airport (30 min shuttle ride) station to make your next connection. Perhaps you’ll consider stay another day in this fantastic city or catch a train (5 min taxi ride) to reach other destinationsin Slovenia or Italy.
- Bike rental equipped with odometer, map case, handlebar and seat bags and bike pump
- Ciclismo jersey and water bottle
- Group shuttle during and at the end of the tour
On The Tour
- Cycling clinics & one-on-one coaching
- Guided visits of Gorizia and Cividale
- World War I museum visit in Kobarid
- Open air activities in Bovec (rafting and/or hiking or cycling)
- Full van support and informative guides
Accommodations & Meals
- All accommodations
- All breakfasts
- 5 dinners
- 2 lunches
- Wine tasting
Here’s a sampling of some of the amazing places you’ll stay on your journey.
For a full listing, request a detailed itinerary!
Grand Hotel Entourage
Echoing the rich history of the past, this elegant villa will be a great refuge for the night. With 30 perfectly decorated rooms, this hotel offers all the modern comforts in a renovated, historic building.
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Locanda al Castello
Built in the early 1800’s, this castle was the home to a Jesuit Monastery for many years before it was renovated and converted into a hotel.
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Dobra Vila Bovec
Nestled in the intact landscape, this charming small hotel is an ideal spot to enjoy your stay for two nights and explore the local region.
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Hanging Lake Trail in Colorado will reopen on May 1, 2021. Park officials will continue to implement safety precautions to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Their widely successful online permit reservation system will resume for the 2021 season. Hikers can either self-drive and park at the rest area; or bike or hike along the Glenwood Canyon Recreation Path to the trailhead.
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We are about to enter what I believe will be a significant summer season with the LORD that begins with the celebration of Firstfruits, June 10th, the fourth month of the Hebrew Covenant Calendar. This Firstfruits coincides with a SIGN of a “RING OF FIRE” Solar Eclipse. The “ring of fire” solar eclipse will bring a crescent shaped sunrise for parts of Northeast America and Canada.
The Lord tells us in Genesis 1:14 that he made the sun, moon and stars for signs and seasons. These “signs” were meant to reveal and communicate to God’s people concerning the timing of His redemptive covenant promises.
This “ring of fire” solar eclipse is of significance to us because it falls on Firstfruits: one of God’s divine appointed times in His Hebrew covenant calendar. What is God warning or communicating to us through this sign?
It is interesting to note that “ring of fire” is usually referred to the path along the Pacific Ocean characterized by active volcanoes and earthquakes. The majority of the worlds volcanoes and earthquakes happen along the “ring of fire.”
The LORD says in the latter days He will shake the heavens and the earth.
“Therefore I will shake the heavens, And the earth will move out of her place, In the wrath of the Lord of hosts And in the day of His fierce anger.” (Is. 13:13).
“Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken” (Matt. 24:29).
Thankfully, this sign comes with a promise for those IN COVENANT with the LORD:
“The Lord also will roar from Zion, And utter His voice from Jerusalem; The heavens and earth will shake; But the Lord will be a shelter for His people, And the strength of the children of Israel” (Joel 3:16).
Our job now is to pray about this sign and seek His comfort, wisdom, and instruction so that the LORD will be our shelter and strength. With so many volcanoes and earthquakes erupting around the globe in these recent months, this could be a sign of a big one coming.
I believe this sign further confirms that the remnant needs to be obedient to PREPARE for the shaking and eruption. This shaking and eruption could possibly be a volcano or earthquake, but for sure a shaking God speaks of when He begins dealing with the “Mystery of Babylon.” God is a consuming fire who uses His fiery law to judge the nations (Heb. 12:29; Deut. 33:2).
As Moses was warned to prepare the children of Israel for the ten plagues so they would be safe and remain in peace through it, we must also follow suit and take heed to the warning so we remain steadfast, calm, and peaceful through the shaking. We must remember this shaking will produce great light and glory and restoration on the other side of it. That IS God’s promise. We are not to retreat in fear, but have faith that God is coming for His people who have been oppressed by the enemy.
Although the shaking must take place, God promises us refuge under His wings of protection, just like He did for Noah. (Psalm 91, Genesis 6-9). And out of the shaking, His remnant will arise and shine (Is. 60:1) into a new landscape ahead, just as Noah and his family of eight did as well. Noah had to PREPARE for the coming flood (judgment). I think this summer we need to take measures to prepare if we haven’t already done so.
“I looked when He opened the sixth seal, and behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood. 13 And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree drops its late figs when it is shaken by a mighty wind. 14 Then the sky [i]receded as a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved out of its place. 15 And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains, 16 and said to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! 17 For the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?”(Rev. 6:12-17).
In the days of Joshua conquering the Promised Land, the scriptures say that the “sun stood still” long enough for Joshua and his army to defeat all the kings who had aligned to come against him.
“So the sun stood still,
And the moon stopped,
Till the people had revenge
Upon their enemies” (Joshua 10:13).
Many scholars believe that this was a “ring of fire” solar eclipse that happened back then, so this SIGN could also be a sign of God raising up His remnant army today who are able to rise and defeat the anti-Christ agenda with the help of God’s intervention because it’s too big for them.
We must be steadfast and immovable. In Hebrew, “rauch ha kodesh” means divine inspiration which happens when we are not blocking out God’s truth. If we filter out the truth with what we perceive or see, it promotes fear and dread.
Our greatest preparation is a heart that fears the LORD, not the work of the enemy. Prepare for the shaking that is coming and then:
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VLC player rocks, and Jean-Baptiste Kempf talks about it!
VLC media player is one of the most well known and successful open source projects. From day one, VLC has “invaded” the multimedia world, providing the users of all platforms an easy, simple, free and libre way to playback all kinds of multimedia on their desktop and not only… This Monday, we meet Jean-Baptiste Kempf, in an effort to learn more about an application we all love to use.
Tell us a few things about you, and when/how you got involved with VLC.
I am a 29 years old French geek, living in Paris. I am one of the main VLC developers and I am the President of the VideoLAN non-profit organisation. The VideoLAN project was started at the Ecole Centrale Paris, where I was a student. However, I only started to work on VLC after I finished my studies, in 2006, when I was bored during an internship.
It’s been 14 years since the first version of VLC, and it is now maybe the most popular media player for all platforms. What was the big gap in the media players market that VLC filled successfully?
I think the biggest point of VLC was that it was simple to use, without any codec packs to install and was working quite fast. It was done by geeks for the users, without marketing, just direct and straight to the point.
Give us some details regarding the legal matters of developing a media player that supports playback of many different file types. As far as I know, closed proprietary formats are ownership of the companies or the people who patented them. So whoever wants to play or convert files of such formats must pay a share to the owner. How can an open-source and free of charge media player like VLC even exist, especially for MacOS and Windows where we see the codecs included to the VLC installer?
This is quite simple, to be honest: We are based in France. In France, Software patents are invalid. Therefore the license fees for patents do not apply to us :)
Are there any technical differences between the different platform versions of VLC? Is VLC performing/working better for any reason on a particular platform?
Yes. VLC works better on Linux, because that is the OS that the majority of the developers use. Even the Windows port is developed on Linux. There are technical differences in VLC on the platforms, notably the way we display the video and how we output the audio, because those things are very linked to the APIs of the OS.
How many people are involved in the development of VLC, and what is the level of community contribution?
This is a difficult question. It depends on how you count. If you count people committing almost every day, we would be a handful. If you count people very involved in the project, we would be a dozen, at most. However, each year, we get around 150 different commiters to the VLC project, which is a very important number and shows that the community is very moving.
However, We lack a lot of people in the community, notably for non-coding jobs. Designers, Web maintainers, support, doc and tech writers, communication and for simple coding tasks.
Is there any kind of connection or collaboration with the developers of libraries and other kind of open source software that VLC uses in order to work?
Yes. VLC works well, because we have very good integration with other libraries, instead of reinventing the wheel. We meet and discuss very often with people from the libavcodec community, because this integration is key to the success of VLC. We know each other quite well and we are friends.
An Android version of VLC is in development but still not ready yet. Can you say anything more regarding the release date? Also, is the Android version of VLC going to be as fully featured as the desktop version?
Release date depends on the number of bugs :)
It will support almost all the same features, but some features do not make sense on Android, like DVD or BluRay playback. Moreover, since the CPUs are still limited, encoding and filters might be limited, for a start.
We had the release of version 2.0 a while ago. What are the plans from now on? Are we going to see any new features soon, or just bugfix releases for a while?
We keep adding features, all the time, but we have a lot of work to stabilize 2.0 branch. More important improvements will come in the next major version, with more codec support, better quality and speed.
What would you say are the things that VLC has, and other media players envy? Also, tell us what VLC lacks of, that can be found on other players?
I think that what people envy most, is our name and logo :) Many people who do not understand anything in computer usage know that to play a video, one uses VLC :)
VLC has quite a few issues and shortcoming, notably on the audio playback handling and media files management.
Thanks Jean! It was a great pleasure doing an interview with you. Everyone stay tuned for next Monday’s interview.
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The Elsberry Indians varsity baseball team ended their season in an interesting fashion this year.
After ending the regular season with a double-header at home against Warrenton the Indians received a bye in the first round of the District Tournament, which Elsberry hosted for the second consecutive time.
After that much needed rest, they came out slugging away against Barat Academy in the second round of district play on May 20.
Following a seven-inning roller coaster ride the Indians won that contest by a final score of 11-8.
Senior Caleb Vitro was the player of the game for Elsberry that night.
Vitro went 2-3 at the plate with a grand slam in the bottom of the sixth inning that ended up making all the difference in the game.
Further offensive contributions were provided by Matt Henry, Zach Rimel and Ethan Pott.
Henry drove in one run, Rimel two and Pott three.
The win against Barat Academy earned the Indians the right to face Crossroads at home on May 22 for the District Championship.
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The Arizona Cardinals traded for running back Adrian Peterson on Tuesday in a move to breathe life into their running game, which is last in the league in both yards per game and yards per carry.
Peterson signed with the New Orleans Saints in the offseason but has played little. In five weeks, he has only carried the ball 27 times for 81 yards.
The team has not announced the trade or any roster move, but it could signal the end of Chris Johnson’s tenure. Johnson has gained just 115 yards this season on 2.5 yards per carry.
Peterson has a two-year, $7 million contract the Cardinals will take on.
He will likely take over the starting job, although playing time at the position will continue to be the same with Andre Ellington playing in passing situations.
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Part D drug plans are how Medicare recipients receive their prescription drug coverage. Whether you have a Medicare Advantage plan or a Supplemental plan, your Part D works the same way with 4 levels of coverage. The 4 levels of coverage are:
Deductible Phase – If your plan has a deductible, you must pay the full amount of your medications until the deductible is met. Some plans exclude Tier 1 and Tier 2 drugs from the deductible.
Initial Coverage Phase – You pay a portion of your drug cost via a copayment or coinsurance until your total costs reach $4,130.00 (Initial Coverage Limit for 2021 plans). Once this is met, you move into the Coverage Gap.
Coverage Gap or Donut Hole – You pay 25% of drug costs for brand and generic drugs until total out-of-pocket (TROOP) costs reach $6,550.00 (TROOP for 2021 plans) at which time you move into Catastrophic Coverage.
Catastrophic Coverage Phase – You pay the greater amount of 5% of the drug costs on any tier or $3.60 copay for Tier 1 & 2 drugs and $8.95 copay for all other tiers.
Part D drug plans may have changes every year which might include, premium and deductible increases (or decreases), formulary changes (the drugs covered under the plan), tier changes (changes to tiers of covered medications) and changes in preferred pharmacies. You will receive an Annual Notice of Change every year from your drug plan. You should check to make sure your medications are still covered under the plan, the tiers haven’t changed and whether a deductible has increased or been added.
The Annual Enrollment Period starting on October 15 and lasting to December 7 is the time to switch coverage, with your new plan going into effect on January 2021.
A Medi-Medi plan, also often referred to as a dual-special-needs plan or “look alike” plan, is a type of Medicare Advantage plan for people who qualify for both Medicare and Medicaid or Medi-Cal in California. Medicare is the primary payer on these types of plans with Medi-Cal being the secondary payer. You must go to doctors who accept both Medicare and Medi-Cal, and your share of cost is determined by your asset level. In California, to qualify in 2020 as a single person, your asset level is at $2,000 or below ($3,000 or below for couples). There are many things that are not included in your asset level like your primary residence, household items, pre-paid burial expenses and your car.
The advantages of having a Medi-Medi plan are that they coordinate your care with a provider network and often include extra benefits such as vision, dental and transportation services. You do, however, have to use the doctors and specialists in the plan’s network to be covered (except in cases of emergency). These plans are provided by private insurance companies, and the benefits and costs can vary from company to company. Prescription drugs are included in the plan with copays at no more than $1.30 for generic drugs and no more than $8.95 for brand drugs. If you pay no share of cost, your copays would be $0 for your medications.
You will automatically be enrolled in Medi-Cal if you qualify and sign up for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) through Social Security. You may qualify, as well, if you don’t get SSI, but you must contact your Medi-Cal county office to see if you meet eligibility requirements. If you are considering a Medi-Medi plan, be sure and check that your current doctors are in the plan’s network (if you wish to remain with them), and that your medications are in the plan’s formulary. You can also apply for one of these plans if you become newly eligible for assistance or during the Annual Enrollment Period from October 15 to December 7.
Seven companies have won grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop better and faster testing to help fight the spread of the Coronavirus. Six of the seven companies are here in California.
“This is a very substantial investment to try to speed up the availability of COVID-19 testing to try to deal with this pandemic,” said Francis Collins, NIH Director, during a virtual briefing to reporters.
Mammoth Biosciences, Inc. and Fluidigm Corp. are two San Francisco-based companies that will get a portion of the $1.5 billion in emergency funding provided by Congress back in April. Mammoth will base its testing using CRISPR, DNA editing technology that can pinpoint a specific location in a genetic code. Fluidigm has developed a saliva test that could be a game-changer for ease and rapid testing.
Quidell Corp. and Mesa Biotech, headquartered in San Diego, also received funding. Quidell’s new antigen test can get a result in as little as 15 minutes, and Mesa’s hand-held device can produce results in as little as 30 minutes.
Helix OpCo LLC is located in San Mateo and plans to ramp up processing to up to 100,000 nasal swabs by year’s end using next generation sequencing, and Ginko Bioworks in Boston is scaling up to do the the same. The final company, Talis Biomedical located in Melo Park, California has a test which uses a multiplexed cartridge to detect the virus with results in 30 minutes.
Trump recently signed four executive orders in hopes of curbing high drug prices in the United States. One of the orders targets how Medicare reimburses physicians for the administration of medications in hospital or office settings which is covered under Medicare Part B. The standing rule is that doctors can charge up to an additional 6% of the average sales price of a medication, which would incentivize physicians to use higher cost drugs. Trump’s order reduces the amount that can be charged to the lowest price paid by industrialized nations under an International Pricing Index.
Another executive order revamps the rebate rule which allows pharmacy benefit managers to pocket these payments instead of passing these discounts to the consumer. Under the order, patients would receive the savings instead of these middlemen, who would receive a fixed dollar amount instead of a percentage of the price of the medications.
Obtaining low-cost drugs from other countries is addressed in an order which allows FDA-approved medications to be imported, and the final order targets lowering the cost of insulin and epinephrine. Insulin prices have more than doubled in the last five years and the average cost of a two-pack EpiPen continues to soar. The order would require Federally Qualified Health Centers who serve low-income patients to pass on savings to their consumers instead of pocketing the discounts made available to them under the federal drug discount program or 340B.
If you have Medicare, you are considered among the high-risk groups for having complications should you get the COVID-19 virus, so knowing how you are going to be covered should you get sick is important. Utilizing the services you are entitled to can help keep you and your loved ones healthy and safe during these difficult times.
Medicare covers COVID-19 lab tests with no out-of-pocket costs, so if you feel ill, get tested. If you think that you have already had the virus, Medicare also covers the FDA-authorized antibody test. Once there is a COVID-19 vaccine, that will be covered as well.
Medically necessary hospitalizations are covered, but you will pay any deductibles, copays or coinsurance applicable to your stay. If you have a Medicare Supplemental or Advantage plan, the plan may pay all or some of these associated costs. Advantage plans may also pay for costs like meal delivery or medical transportation.
Under the 1135 Waiver implemented in March by the Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid have expanded the availability and use of telehealth services to allow evaluation and management visits with your doctor, mental health counseling and preventative screenings. These “virtual check-ins” are brief communications with your health practitioner for an issue that wasn’t related to a medical visit within the previous 7 days and does not lead to a medical visit within the next 24 hours or next available appointment. Verbal consent by you and documentation by your doctor is needed to initiate these services. Online patient portals can also be used with prior consent as well.
If you do go to the doctor, be ready for some changes many practices have implemented to minimize exposure to the virus. You might have to wait in your car prior to the start of your appointment, have your temperature taken, wear a face mask, and social distance.
When you are considering your options to cover the gaps in Medicare, i.e. deductibles, copays and coinsurance (yes, Medicare has all those), you might be looking at Supplemental or Advantage plans. There is a lot of confusion about how these types of plans differ and how they cover what Medicare doesn’t.
First, let’s take a look at Medicare Supplemental plans. These plans work similar to a PPO. With a regular PPO plan you can go to doctors in or out of network, but you generally pay more if you go out of network. Medicare Supplemental plans work a little differently because there are no networks. The only stipulation is that you must go to doctors that take Medicare whether they are primary care doctors or specialists. You can go to any doctor throughout the United States, including specialists, and be covered under your Supplemental plan. Supplemental plans are standardized, which means they have the same coverage regardless of carrier or region and are offered by private insurance companies. Premiums are determined by age and geographic location. You don’t need referrals from your primary care doctor to see a specialist. Supplemental plans do not include prescription drug coverage so you would have to purchase a separate Part D drug plan to cover your prescription medications.
Advantage Plans are also called Medicare Part C. Most Advantage plans work like an HMO. You must go to network doctors or you won’t be covered. They are specific to a certain geographic location, usually by county, and, in most cases, you must get a referral from your primary care doctor to see a specialist. Advantage plans are offered through private insurance companies and combine your Medicare Parts A, B and D (prescription drug coverage) into one plan. There are some plans that don’t have the Part D added if you have other drug coverage like Veteran’s Benefits. When you sign up for an Advantage Plan, you opt out of Original Medicare and the plan administers all your benefits. These plans may offer extra coverage like vision, hearing, and transportation to and from medical facilities, although some Supplemental plans are beginning to add these benefits as well. Advantage Plans include Special Needs Plans for people with certain chronic conditions like diabetes or heart disease and those that are eligible for both Medicare and Medi-Cal.
In an effort to address the ramifications of unprecedented job loss due to COVID-19, Covered California is extending Open Enrollment to sign up for health insurance through July 31.
“The ongoing challenges of COVID-19 make it vital that we help Californians get into and stay in Medi-Cal and Covered California health coverage. The goal is to make it easier to access needed care and services during these difficult times,” said Will Lightbourne, director of the Department of Health Care Services.
The Open Enrollment also applies to off-exchange plans. Medi-Cal renewal reviews are also being suspended indefinitely in light of the pandemic to assure those receiving assistance will not lose coverage. New state subsidies that went into effect at the beginning of the year may help more people qualify for premium assistance. Depending on where you are on the Federal Poverty Level chart determines the amount of assistance you will get. While most states cap the amount at 400% of the FPL, California has increased it to 600% of the FPL.
While the worldwide pandemic is currently affecting everyone’s daily lives, you have to wonder what permanent changes this life-altering event will have on the healthcare system. The roles of hospitals and primary care doctors will likely be altered in the new normal of “touchless” care.
Public health policy changed drastically in the wake of the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic which claimed between 50 and 100 million lives. Many countries moved to a more socialistic approach to medicine while the United States embraced a solution which offered health insurance through employers. In 1919 an international bureau for fighting contagious diseases was formed, the precursor to the World Health Organization.
It took years for the U.S. to implement systems like Medicare, Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, but the suddenness of COVID-19 has forced the government to act with an impetus born of necessity. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid quickly expanded the access to telehealth for its members, and a recent Gallop poll showed virtual visits nearly doubled from March to mid-May. Telemedicine is sure to be one of the tools that will be widely used in the future by the healthcare system.
While many hospitals are struggling to staff emergency rooms which is often the first point of contact for those seriously ill from COVID-19, other healthcare services are struggling to survive. Physicians have seen a vast decrease in patient visits because of widespread fear of getting the illness. Elective procedures have been postponed or canceled because of the same fear. Experts say the “fee-for-service” model of doctors billing for each service performed is out-dated and instead should be focused more on “lump-sum” payments tied to quality of patient care. It would give physicians more incentive to expand services like telehealth and patient education instead of focusing on seeing as many patients as possible which the “fee-for-service” model promotes.
The pandemic has also highlighted the inequality of healthcare in minority populations with these groups reporting higher incidence of hospitalization and death. Future governmental policy will need to address how to better care for the people most at risk. Data collected during the pandemic can be used to focus funding and allocate resources to manage risk in these vulnerable populations.
Telemedicine is booming during the coronavirus pandemic. People are afraid to venture out of their homes to seek care at doctors’ offices, urgent care facilities and hospitals for fear of exposure to the virus. But sometimes consulting with a physician is necessary to make sure you stay healthy during these stressful times. Putting off or ignoring physical symptoms can worsen a condition that might otherwise be easily treated with the right care.
The best place to start when considering telemedicine is your insurance plan. Many plans already have this benefit in place or have expanded its use during this crisis. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid have implemented new guidelines to expand access to virtual medical visits. If your insurance doesn’t offer telemedicine, you can use one of the many telehealth companies like Teledoc, LiveHealth or Doctor On Demand. Some require insurance and most will have a copay or set fee per virtual visit.
As at a regular doctor’s office, you will be required to disclose your medical history, including the medications you currently take. Prepare yourself before the visit by making a list of your symptoms, writing down any questions you may have, and have your pharmacy information on hand should the doctor need to call in a prescription for you. Not everything can be checked at a virtual visit, and the doctor may require to see you in person, or if your symptoms are severe, he or she may have you go to the nearest emergency room for treatment.
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The Importance of Friendships
by Dionna Sanchez
No one quite understands our emotions and feelings like a girlfriend. And once we're married with families, we lose that valuable "friendship time". It may be that it's that sense of loss sometimes that makes us feel lonely on an otherwise cheery day.
Friendships are vital to our growth as women. It is so sad that many of us ladies are too immersed in the details of our lives to keep connected to those who are honest with us when we need to hear it. Those gal pals who understand the need to have a good giggle once in awhile.
There are many ways we can share our lives. We can still keep in touch with those dear people amidst busy school-crazed, nap-time sports-filled days. Plan to get together for a sandwich while the baby sleeps, or have her join you at your son's basketball game. If your friend doesn't live in the same town, there's always e-mail, phone calls or letter writing.
We need to treasure our fellow women because we need each other. Hey, she probably needs your encouragement and honesty in her life just as much as you need hers!
Go give a friend a call today and thank her for being there. Don't isolate yourself, but embrace friendships. Let the dear friends you have help you grow as a wife, mom, woman and lady.
~Dionna Sanchez encourages moms through Emphasis On Moms at http://www.EmphasisOnMoms.com/
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Just for fun, I thought I would share with you all the second, and even more fun, part of our Book Week: reading, reading, reading!
We do not own many pieces of furniture (understandable in a house our size!) but we have two big cherry bookcases we bought when we first got married. One faces the front door, and holds more "school-y" books. (I'll have to show you in another post.) This one faces the living room, and holds mostly fiction, with some non-fiction picture books mixed in.
Eldest girl asked a month ago if we could spend Spring Break reading through the bottom two shelves of this bookshelf--the favorite picture books she doesn't really get much chance to read anymore, but which still give so much pleasure. I thought that was a great goal!
These are the two shelves we are reading through this week--most of our picture book collection.
This is starting at the right of the top shelf, which has picture books geared to a slightly older child (or the taller books that don't fit on the bottom shelf). Normally I enjoy keeping the shelves somewhat organized first by genre, then by author, with size variables accounted for--I know, I know--but with the crazy reading going on this week, they are currently a happy, disheveled mess.
Favorite titles from this first pic:
The Biggest Bear
The Scrambled States of America
A Child's Calendar
This version of Snow White
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
Yes, I am such a book nerd that I am going to show you ALL the books. Some of them are special friends, which is why I'm introducing you by name.
The Tale of Three Trees
The Fourteen Bears Summer and Winter
The Long and Dangerous Journey
A Time to Keep
Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch
Of course if you no longer have kids in this stage of life, you will be glazing over at this point. But if you love books, or memories of when your kids were young, or if you just want to snoop at my bookshelves just like you would if you came over sometime, here you go!
The Velveteen Rabbit (I'm not sure my edition is the best out there--so many versions of this story have gorgeous illustrations!--so I didn't link it)
This version of Little Red Riding Hood. I'm a fan of this author's work, and have quite a few on the shelf by her.
This edition of Beauty and the Beast (alas, out of print and highly collectible--sounds like the affordable paperback is a shortened version)
The Maggie B
A Fairy Went a Marketing
Hiding over against the bookshelf wall to the right are the fragile antique books my mother has passed down to us from her own childhood. I keep them tucked away behind Stuart Little just so little hands don't grab them automatically. Out of sight, out of mind. ; )
The Kitchen Knight
The Water Hole
Now we get to the bottom shelf, with the books geared more for the earlier readers, and the books shorted in height.
George and Martha: The Complete Stories of Two Best Friends
This version of Mother Goose
The Giant Jam Sandwich
The Adventures of Mole & Troll
The Little House
Cookies: Bite-Sized Lessons
Norman the Doorman
Mama, Do You Love Me?
The Marble Cake Cat
As you can probably guess, a lot of these books are from my childhood. : )
The Frog and Toad Treasury
Let's Look at the Jungle
The Fire Cat
The Best Loved Doll
Bears in the Night
The last books on the shelf to the right are not in the picture because they are large and have to lay on their sides--mainly Smiley's collection of Richard Scarry books. Those are favorites of mine just because they occupy him for good lengths of time while I'm helping his sisters with school. : )
Child of Faerie, Child of Earth
Eloise Wilkins Treasury
Some of these books made me smile just reading the titles. : ) I am only specifically mentioning my favorite favorite of those on the shelves. But all the books on the shelves have to meet at least two out of my four criteria for what is worth the precious in-house real estate:
* The story has to be well-written.
* There should be something the child learns from the story, or it should broaden the child's mind, or ignite imagination in some specific way. In other words, it has a greater meaning beyond the story itself.
* The illustrations should be exemplary.
* Or the book should be especially nostalgic for me, or someone special gave it to us.
* Bonus points if it makes me smile or cry every time I read it.
I have a loathing for pointless stories and silliness for silliness's sake. I abhor twaddle. It makes me so sad when an excellent story is printed with lame, uninspired artwork. Yes, I'm a book snob. But that does not mean I'm too picky--there are some books I love that have very silly elements (The Giant Jam Sandwich is a prime example) but there is something about them that is clever and whimsical too. And condition does not bother me either, as long as pages are not falling out (and I can't just tape them back in) or the book is molding--what's inside the book is way more important than the outside. Often, the best books are no longer in print, so I am perfectly willing to put up with ragged old books if need be!
There are a lot more excellent books on our shelves I'm not specifically mentioning because they are considered childhood classics (like Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, and Where the Wild Things Are, and Madeline's Rescue.) I just wanted to share with you some of the titles that you might not be familiar with.
Have I mentioned that I love good books?
Happy Reading everyone!
(And if you have a favorite favorite picture book you want to recommend, please share it in the comments!)
Or, even more fun, share pics of YOUR bookshelves!
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The mission of Quilts of Honor is to bestow a universal symbol and token of thanks, solace, and remembrance to those who serve in harm’s way to protect and defend our lives and freedoms. Quilts of Honor are made by the loving hands of countless volunteers who wish to thank those who have served so that they know their sacrifices are appreciated.
We hope you will join us to honor members of our active military and veterans by showing them how much we appreciate their sacrifice and service with our “Quilted Hugs of Gratitude.” Our hope is that these quilts will provide comfort, love and healing to those who have given so much.
The most important message our brave men and women can hear from their fellow Americans are “We Care” and “Thank you for your sacrifice and service.”
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Every year, King Argus makes sure Santa ‘Claws’ stops by the palace for a review of all the pugs that deserve special notice this year. But each year, it tends to be the same story over and over. Argus never hears of any “bad” pugs. How could there be such a thing. So we can see a very impatient Santa as he waits until Argus completes his list of “special pugs”, which tends to be all the pugs Argus knows about. And that’s quite a lot of pugs. | <urn:uuid:5acef1be-0df5-443c-8f4c-9f66376b2f2d> | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | https://pugsville.com/2005/12/ | 2018-08-19T21:36:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221215393.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20180819204348-20180819224348-00253.warc.gz | en | 0.959685 | 122 |
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It’s a murder case that has become a national obsession, gripping headlines since it began nearly three years ago. Casey Anthony, a 22-year-old single mother, was charged for the murder of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee. Caylee’s remains were found in December 2008, near her grandparents’ home in Orlando, Florida. Authorities say duct tape was found wrapped around her skull and her body had been stuffed into two garbage bags and laundry bag. In the days following Caylee’s disappearance, Casey did not show any signs of concern for her missing child, instead, she was seen out at dance clubs and visiting friends. Ever since, there has been a strong public outcry against the Anthony family and many the residents of Florida and around the country say they are convinced she was the one responsible for Caylee’s death.
Now, with the trial just weeks away, 48 HOURS MYSTERY Correspondent Troy Roberts has gained inside access into the defense team and some of their experts who question the accuracy of some of the forensic evidence in the case. They hope to cast doubt on the prosecutions’ evidence against Casey. If convicted, Casey could face the death penalty. Her two leading defense attorneys, Jose Baez and Cheney Mason, share with 48 HOURS MYSTERY how they plan to refute the prosecutions’ evidence, and Forensic Expert Larry Kobilinsky explains that there is not sufficient evidence to prove that Caylee Anthony was even murdered.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- The judge in the murder trial of a Florida mother charged with killing her daughter says jurors may be picked from the Orlando area if they can't be found in another location in Florida.
Circuit Judge Belvin Perry said at a hearing Friday that he still planned to pick jurors outside the Orlando area for Casey Anthony's trial next month. Jurors will be brought to central Florida, where they will be sequestered for the trial. If jurors can't be chosen in a week, the judge said he will consider
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The judge wants to use jurors outside of Orlando because of the media attention the case has gotten.
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The wild book is a very interesting free online slot game based on a very interesting plot. This time you shall be a part of an adventure with one of the sexiest archeologists ever existed in the world of slot games. All you have to do is helping her to find the Wild Book from the mysterious Egypt. Your master is willing to pay you handsomely when the job is done.
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Why would you do such a thing? Good question.
I recently purchased a Fujifilm X Pro-1 camera body. It supports interchangeable lenses from Fujifilm and other brands. With a lens adapter, the possibilities and combinations are endless. So I’m going for it. I’m buying standard Fujifilm lenses, old Canon FD lenses, creating some pinhole options and apparently, lenses from Asia.
First purchase? A 25mm F/1.4 C Mount 1/2″ CCTV Lens from Hong Kong for $28.80. It even came with the necessary adapter.
It fits perfectly and requires full manual settings to make it work. Getting the focus and lighting correct is pretty hit or miss for me. I’m still getting used to it, but here are some examples of the images it creates.No filters, no editing – who needs Instagram?
Let me know what you think.
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Discussion in 'Wii U - Emulation & CEMU' started by azoreseuropa, Dec 29, 2015.
Drastic on android is pretty perfect too.
Is decaf still alive?
As of 22 days ago it was, anyway
And what about 32 days after that?
Yeah, nothing much has happened since then
Seriously, people, it's an open-source project. Literally anyone can submit a pull request
still no wud/wux support?
Is this dead?
Nope. A brand new JIT engine was just contributed, which should provide much higher performance, especially when handling floating decimal numbers.
That's cool. Which there was a blog or something to keep the community engaged and aware of development/plans. Cemu, Citra and Rpcs3 do a good job at this in their own ways.
lol no, it will take another 10 years for this emulator to work well. Thats why open source sucks.
I follow the cemu more than this, i do not think open source sucks, the dolphin emu and GlideN64 plugin for N64 emulators is proof of this, what is lacking is developers with greater knowledge and dedication, i hope this project does not die, as with open source nulldc and reicast
Last Download Decaf
CEMU seems to be whooping it.
Download from http://www.emucr.com/2017/03/decaf-git-20170321.html and how to use ?
Last Decaf Git >> http://www.emucr.com/search/label/WiiU
Thanks for the link man, once I noticed that MASSIVE change log I knew that version was going to be a significant update, and right I was! For me at least, I received a huge performance boost in One Piece: UWR which was a very pleasant surprise (though I only saw it when I removed the "--jit" part since it's not needed anymore). Props to the team for their continued effort!
Decaf Launcher v0.7 Beta??
1) Download and unzip Decaf-emu
2) Download and unzip Launcher and Put him in Decaf folder
1) Start DL_07_BETA_G.exe
2) Choose main folder your game
3) Press 'Start GAME' button
Looks like things are happening on this again. Is there any way for non dev types to help out on this?
Test games and confirm bug reports, or if one doesn't exist, make bug reports on Github.
Anyome who say "outdated since 22 day", check luma3DS github. Sometime dev can take a break too....
Also they are only 2 working on this emulator. And they are the only "team" who actually does real search about the wiiu (not including cemu cause not useful: we would need to RE it and I don't think this will be appreciated by the dev ).
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Wipe Down Germs. It’s probably common sense not to shake a sick person’s hands when you want to prevent a cold — but that’s far from the only place that you can pick up cold germs. A recent study looked for the presence of viruses on classroom surfaces and found that the flu virus was found on as many as 50 percent of surfaces. So take some time when you clean up your office or home to wipe down germy areas — light switches, doorknobs, your phone, your computer, and your TV remote — with your favorite cleaning product. Minimizing exposure to germs can help prevent colds and the flu.
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The Crystal Bible Volume 2 provides an essential companion reference to the original bible, fully describing the properties of over 200 crystals not found in volume 1. Featuring new information on crystals for energy enhancement and healing grids, the historical use of crystals from biblical times to the present day and the latest updates on geological research, this comprehensive guide offers detailed analysis on the extensive range of new crystals on the market. This book also provides essential information on cleansing crystals, types of crystals and crystal shapes to give the reader extensive knowledge of their chosen stones.
This book may look at first glance to be just another crystal book but it’s not. It’s a excellent reference book for new and rarer crystals which I have to say I have never heard of most of them.
Greenland, Russia and China to name a few countries are exporting more crystals and for most like me, with a keen interest; and unless you take up a degree in geology, little is known about them or their healing properties. This is where this book is a real gem, excuse the pun!
As these crystals are now becoming more easily available to purchase via specialist sites and even ebay. This book will no doubt help you expand your collection with some unusual crystals.
Fantastic names like Tugtupite from Greenland. Glorious coloured crystals such as the blood red crystal of the “blood of Isis”, which is in fact a highest grade Carnelian “gem quality” that was used for protective amulets in many places around the world. High priests used this wonderful stone for attuning to Isis Energy in Egypt and were embedded in their breast plates. This historical information makes the book more interesting.
Some of the crystals featured in volume 2 are quite rare and expensive but Judy has also included not so desirable looking stones, such as a bog standard beach pebble “Flint”. This inclusion is great because all those pretty pebbles which we pick up off the beach, now have a new place among our crystal collection as they also have healing properties.
All in all, I would certainly recommend this book being part of your up to date reference library if you are a keen crystal collector.
The only down side I see for this book and the original, is that healers like to make elixirs. Not all crystals can be placed in water for they react or dissolve, not all crystals are safe because they are toxic.
Whilst I was looking for information on this book, I read a review for the previous book of someone giving a warning about a crystal called Cinnabar and that the author had neglected to put a warning about this crystal. I looked it up and indeed there is no warning. In fact there is a suggestion that this crystal can be handled. Not knowing whether the toxic nature was true, I did some research; and I do have to say Cinnabar is indeed Mercury Sulphide. We all know Mercury is highly toxic yet the author neglects to state this, whether Cinnabar is toxic in crystal form I have no idea but certainly in powdered form it is.
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Party with Safe Harbors this Weekend...One Mural Down, 4 to Go! and Community Cleanup
Newburgh, NY―On Saturday, May 12, 2012 Safe Harbors of the Hudson & the Ritz Theater (107 Broadway) will celebrate the completion of Transcendence by Dasic Fernandez, the first mural in the Newburgh Mural Project’s Life in Colors public art series.
- 8:30 AM - Community Cleanup registration (111 Broadway)
- 12:30PM - Hip Hop Seasons Performance and BBQ (corner of Liberty and Broadway)
- 1:30PM - Ceremony for Mural Unveiling (Ritz Theater 111 Broadway, Newburgh)
The mission of the Newburgh Mural Project is to inspire the growth of arts and culture in the community by transforming public spaces into public works of art celebrating the City of Newburgh’s spirit and vibrancy.
Transcendence captures the way in which the arts, like the human spirit, extends beyond all boundaries and exceeds the limits of ordinary experience unifying all things “day and night, darkness and light” into one. The mural was made possible by the generous support of the Institute for International Education (with the Ford Foundation), the Church Communities Foundation, the Ralph E. Ogden Foundation and anonymous support.
You Can E-mail Safe Harbors for more Info. Safe Harbors of the Hudson is a Newburgh-based nonprofit organization who is committed to transforming lives and building communities through housing and the arts. Can't make the Cleanup? How about a bresky for Safe Harbors?! (21+ only). May 17th The Wherehouse will tap a specially designated keg of Newburgh Saison to benefit Safe Harbors of the Hudson.
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There are other benefits to saving money, too, of course. Putting money into a savings account can help you increase your personal wealth. The more money you save in business means more money you take home. A healthier bank account means not falling back on credit cards to help with major purchases.
Saving money used to be something you did laboriously, tracking expenditures and a checking account by hand. Today, with online bank accounts, automatic deposits, and mobile apps designed for saving money, saving can be painless. Luckily there are several apps on the market we can recommend.
There are plenty of great money saving apps to help you out. Check out the 20 best we’ve found.
20 Best Money Saving Apps
Here is our list of the 20 best money savings apps for 2020.
The free Mint mobile banking application gathers your bank account and credit card information in one place. Using the Mint app lets you connect your business account to set-up budgets and goals and then analyzes your bank statements, savings and checking accounts. It gauges how well you are adhering to them. Additionally, the app features budget alerts, investment tracking and a free credit score.
The Goodbudget app performs similar tasks to the Mint banking mobile app and you can also set-up categories for spending to monitor your business and personal finance. It is also ideal for businesses that need to track a variety of payments such as debt pay-off progress. There is also a ‘synchronize and share budget’ feature to eliminate any miscommunication between partners or employees. There is a free plan available, though the Plus plan only costs $60 a year or $7 a month.
This app is another excellent savings tool to help control business expenditure. Mvelopes is concentrated more on categorizing debt payment progress, so while it is a good application for a consumer in debt, it can be very useful for any business with multiple monthly re-payments that need to be met. There is a $19 and a $59 per month plan that each come with additional features, though the basic $6 per month plan will be suitable for most small businesses.
The InDinero app is designed specifically for small business and gathers all relevant financial information from all the business bank accounts and credit cards you sync it with. It gives a comprehensive overview of your spending and will analyze and create forecasts based on your financial behaviors. The InDinero app also offers a basic tax filing service that covers the preparation and filing of one Federal and one State tax return, with extras available at an added cost. At $300 per month, you can expect the very highest quality. There are also custom savings plans available for businesses to choose only the features they need.
You can also use the Wally app to track your business expenses, plus it has an extra receipt-scanning feature to speed-up the data entering process. It is completely free, though the Wally app creators do say they intend to introduce optional premium features in the future ranging between $0.49 and $4.99. These will most likely be aimed at general consumers though, with the basic business budgeting capabilities remaining free.
6. You Need a Budget (YNAB)
This consumer-orientated application has many features that a small business can use to draft budgets and analyze expenditures. You can use it to monitor bills, wages and investments. The You Need a Budget app promises to teach anyone how to prioritize and plan a budget, which is perfect for a new start-up business. You can take advantage of the 34-day free trial, with the monthly plan of $11.99 per month. Alternatively, you can save $60 of the yearly amount by paying $84 for the annual plan in one lump sum.
Simplicity and ease of use is the unique selling point of the Spendee banking app. It lets you monitor and understand your business savings or personal finance at a glance, showing you where you spent your money and whether or not your spending is keeping in line with your assigned savings goals. The Spendee app has a 7-day free trial and a free basic plan, with advanced plans at $14.99 and $22.99 per year.
One of the best apps for saving money and keeping your savings account looking healthy is the Digit app. Both general consumers and small businesses can use the application to analyze your spending habits and automatically saves the perfect amount every day so you don’t have to worry about it. The savings is then diverted into a no-interest savings account to keep your business in great financial shape. The monthly subscription costs $5 and can be canceled at any time.
9. HomeBudget with Sync
Designed as a family-style budgeting and money-saving app, the HomeBudget with Sync app enables groups to synchronize and plan budgets together. For multiple owners of a small business, this app could allow you to align your collective funds together with your business budget which is then managed through the app. It is also an inexpensive option as the app costs less than $5.
10. My Budget Book Pro Edition
This app provides personal and business financial budgeting and savings tools, with its main feature being a spending tracker. Featuring easy-to-read graphics, the My Budget Book Pro Edition app lets you manage multiple accounts and transfer funds between them as well as managing your revenue and expenditure. There is a free version that can be used for any length of time and allows up to 16 monthly transactions, though this limit can be removed with a one-off in-app purchase.
The free EveryDollar app comes from money savings expert Dave Ramsey and helps you create a monthly budget plan to achieve your financial goals. While originally designed for consumers, this savings app allows the user to set up custom categories that can be used for business. There is also the EveryDollar Plus app that has an annual fee of $129.99, which features Dave Ramsey’s premium budgeting tools.
The Cheqroom app is an excellent inventory tracking finance app for businesses of any size. It allows you to access and manage your inventory from any device and can help you make the right assets available when needed. The app also lets you track your AV or IT assets to prevent them from disappearing or being damaged, resulting in significant savings for your business. There is a 15-day trial at no cost with the Basic savings plan costing $55 per month and the Professional $79 per month.
LivePlan helps you create a dynamic business plan with one-page pitches and detailed infographics. Connect it to your accounting software to track your business budget and revenue growth, with automatic financials keeping you aware of your situation. The LivePlan app also includes over 500 sample plans and has lender-ready themes. There is an annual $15 per month fee, or a $20 pay-as-you-go option. They also offer a 60-day money-back guarantee.
14. InvoiceCare (ZenCash)
The InvoiceCare app was previously known as ZenCash and tracks unpaid invoices for you. It syncs with your accounting system to let you manage your accounts from one platform. The app can save your business money by contacting late-paying customers and by keeping your records fully organized. It also has a special customer relations feature that can send thank-you notes. The price starts at $500 per month with a one-year contract for businesses managing up to 20 clients.
If your business offers subscription models, then you probably already know how hard it can be to keep track of them. The ClarityMoney app helps you manage, monitor and terminate any subscriptions that are no longer needed, saving you and your business money. The savings app can also be used to organize your expenses and break down your spending by category. It lets you track all transactions at a glance and is also 100% free to use.
Chargify is also ideal for businesses that deal with online subscriptions, with the app letting you manage expiration dates and renewal plans as well as special offers and coupons. The Rapid Offer Builder feature on the Chargify app is just one of several that is perfect for B2B SaaS companies as it provides millions of subscriptions and pricing combinations to give you an advantage over the competition. There are also many financial insights and analytics options and much more. Start-ups can begin on the $149 per month plan, with advanced packages available at $299 and $499 per month.
The QuickBooks app is a powerful accounting app designed for non-accountants. Known as one of the best finance apps available, it is easy to use and learn initially but can scale according to your business needs. Features include basic accounting management for taxes and inventory. Freelancers and the self-employed have a plan for just $1 per month, while the basic plan starts at $8 with the advanced costing $45 per month.
This cloud accounting mobile app is an invoice and expense managing tool that is also easy-to-learn for business people who aren’t qualified accountants. It is suitable for small to medium-sized businesses as well as freelancers and contractors. The Freshbooks app also boasts excellent customer service. There is a free trial along with plans from $6 per month up to $20 per month.
Use the intuitive Wave app to manage your accounting, payroll, and invoicing, while using the receipt scanner to enter data quickly and easily. This is definitely one of the better finance and banking apps with over two million small business owners using it. The accounting, invoicing and receipts scanning features are all free to use, with an additional credit card processing tool available for a small percentage of the transaction amount.
The Proven app organizes your hiring process, which is ideal for an entrepreneur with several business interests or small enterprises whose managers do not have a lot of spare time to seek out that ideal candidate for a new position. This app lets you post job listings to multiple job boards with a simple click. You can then quickly go through the applications and sort them into three categories of yes, no, and maybe. There is a one-off fee of $5 to use the app., with further fees according to usage.
Are Money Saving Apps Safe?
Cybersecurity is a big issue these days so every small business owner will want to know if the finance/banking app they connect with is safe. Most app developers are aware of this and will include information on their websites detailing exactly how they manage and guarantee the security of your business in this digital age.
For example, the Digit app holds its user’s money at FDIC insured banks, which means they are protected up to $250,000. They also secure data with 256-bit encryption, which is the same level of security used by the military. The Mint app participates in security scanning with VeriSign (a global provider of domain name registry services). That ensures security for sensitive data transfer. They also employ additional measures such as multi-factor authentication, four-digit entry codes and touch ID, as well as letting you manage the mobile devices associated with your account. Should a device be lost or stolen, it can quickly be denied access to your account.
Most apps will use some form of encryption when transferring data. This means whenever data travels between the server and your phone or a debit card, transactions are downloaded from a bank, it only travels via encrypted channels so nobody can see it as it is transferred. It will then be encrypted in the server again with strictly limited access.
If you have any doubts or concerns about security, then most apps and their creators will have customer service you can contact for more information. If an app doesn’t satisfy your security concerns, then there are plenty of other options out there so simply shop around until you find one that does.
Getting Started With Money Saving Apps
With the variety of apps today, how do you get started? The first thing to do is to figure out what you want to use the app for. It might be to save money by putting greater funds into a savings account. It might be for budget planning or accounting, for checking account purposes, mobile banking, chasing invoices, or streamlining your hiring process to free up your time to drive your business forward. Identify the candidate apps that offer the services and tools you need, and see if their security measures meet your expectations by reading what the vendors say about it or contacting their customer service.
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2016 Plants Sneak Preview
Want to know what garden stores will be stocking this year? Check out this hot-off-the-presses gallery of 59 Ball Horticultural new introductions that debuted at this year's California Spring Trials.
'Dreamtime' Jumbo Rose Bracteantha
BallFlora Plant introduces the stunning color contrast of yellow and pink in this bracteantha.
'Serenity Spring Day' Osteospermum
A lovely pink blush distinguishes new for 2016 'Serenity Spring Day' osteospermum from BallFlora Plant.
Hot to Trot Coleus
Intense color distinguishes the Flame Thrower 'Spiced Curry' coleus from BallFlora Plant.
Hot to Trot
Bold colors were a theme at this year's Spring Trials, as seen by this new 'Crested Hot Pink' shade of argyranthemum from BallFlora Plant.
How cool is this 'Night Sky' petunia, previewed by Selecta at the 2015 Spring Trials in California, but not available to consumers until 2017.
Plant experts agree more and more people are looking for rose-like flowers without the high-maintenance reputation of roses. Fiesta 'Stardust Purple' double impatiens from BallFlora Plant certainly fit the lush blossom bill.
'Starlet Beauty' Rose
The pretty in pink 'Starlet Beauty' rose from Ball Ornamentals is a climbing rose with a difference, offering reblooming lush, English-style old roses with continuous color and fragrance.
Valiant 'Apricot' vinca from PanAmerican Seed has big flowers for more impact.
Osteospermum 'Violet ice' is from the 4D Selecta line and features double blossoms and flowers that stay open.
'Glamour' euphorbia from PanAmerican Seed is a vigorous grower and the first landscape euphorbia from seed.
Rapido blue campanula from KieftSeed is part of the company's line of early-blooming campanula with compact, showy blooms.
The Shock Wave yellow spreading petunia delivers a lot of flower power to your garden and is great for baskets.
Revolution Bicolor Yellow Orange gerbera from KieftSeed blooms earlier than other gerbera cultivars and boasts incredible color making these plants great for indoor color and gift-giving.
Bandera purple lavender from Kieft Seed is the perfect fragrant hostess gift when potted up for gift-giving.
'Pink Passion' Petunia
This new for 2016 Easy Wave 'Pink Passion' petunia from PanAmerican Seed is a low maintenance petunia for home gardens.
Easy Wave 'Silver' petunia from PanAmerican Seed is a more vigorous, no-fuss petunia than petunias past.
Revolution 'Bicolor Rose Shades' gerbera from KieftSeed is a stunning pot gerbera. Plant companies are emphasizing potted plants and flowers in place of cut flowers for gift-giving, or to add a dash of color to interiors.
'Plum Vein' Petunia
Easy Wave 'Plum Vein' Petunia from PanAmerican Seed.
'Red Velour' Petunia
Tidal Wave 'Red Velour' petunia from PanAmerican Seed.
Mega Revolution 'Salmon Pink Dark Eye' gerbera from KieftSeed boasts lovely uniform color.
Revolution 'Bright Rose Light Eye' gerbera from KieftSeed would brighten up any indoor space.
Punchy Purple Pansy
Spring Matrix 'Purple White' pansy from PanAmerican Seed is built to last longer in the garden and boasts large flowers.
Spring Matrix 'Primrose' pansy from PanAmerican Seed.
'Solar Flare' Pansy
Matrix 'Solar Flare' pansy from PanAmerican Seed is a great pansy for longer days and warmer growing and shows more red in low temperatures and more yellow in the heat.
Matrix 'Beaconsfield' pansy is new for 2016 from PanAmerican Seed has the largest flowers of any Beaconsfield.
The Sun Spun 'Salmon' petunia from BallFlora Plant is ideal for small pots.
PanAmerican Seed's Sorbet line 'Phantom' viola.
A 2016 entry in the Limerick line of Ball clover is pretty 'Isabella' has a trailing habit that makes it a great container "spiller."
'Vining Red' Dipladenia
In the Summer Romance Ball line, 'Vining Red' Dipladenia delivers intense color and spring to frost endurance with a vining habit.
'Dark Purple' Celosia
Intenz is the proper description, for this rich 'Dark Purple' celosia from Ball.
SolarPower 'Lime' ipomoea from BallFlora Plant boasts lovely chartreuse color, is compact and works well in containers.
Gorgeous dark leaves distinguish this SolarPower 'Black' ipomoea from BallFlora Plant and boast the kind of compact growth-habit that makes these ideal for containers.
Stunning 'Red' SolarPower ipomoea from BallFlora Plant.
'Orchid Pink' Angelonia
Pretty 'Orchid Pink' angelonia from BallFlora Plant's Archangel line is drought-tolerant, deer and rabbit resistant and heat tolerant.
From the BallFlora Plant FlameThrower line, spicy 'Chilipepper' coleus, is compact and great for use as a houseplant indoors.
'Purple Magic' Verbena
From the Aztec Magic BallFlora Plant line, 'Purple Magic' verbena thrives in heat and sun.
'Orchid Magic' Verbena
'Orchid Magic' verbena from BallFlora Plant.
'Magenta Magic' verbena from BallFlora Plant.
'Red and Yellow Eye' Dahlia
Stunning yellow and red color define this Selecta dahlia. Stunning yellow and red color define this Selecta dahlia. This unique line of new dahlias boast great bicolor shades and better performance.
Red and White Dahlia
'Red and White' dahlia from Selecta.
A fresh new yellow dahlia for 2016 from Selecta.
'Apricot Sorbet' Petunia
Colorful 'Apricot Sorbet' petunia, new for 2016 from Selecta.
'Berry Sorbet' Petunia
'Berry Sorbet' petunia from Selecta will be new to garden centers in 2016.
The vividly-hued 'Magenta' petunia is coming from Selecta in 2016.
'Carmine Star' Petunia
'Carmine Star' petunia from Selecta.
'Double Compact Pink' calibrachoa from Selecta excels in small baskets and containers.
Top of the Pops
Pops Pink verbena from Selecta is part of a trend for new, more vibrant bicolor verbena with better powdery mildew-resistance.
Selecta's 2016 'Dark Violet' verbena.
Dark red verbena from Selecta.
White 16 verbena from Selecta.
'Mango Orange' verbena.
Dark pink verbena hits store shelves in 2016, from Selecta.
Dark Violet and White Osteospermum
Gorgeous, complex color distinguishes the 4D series of osterospermum from Selecta.
'Violet Improved' argyranthemum from BallFlora Plant.
Deep blue scabiosa from Darwin Perennials features larger blooms and richer color.
Darwin Perennials likely had baby boomers on their minds when they named their Song Siren flowers after popular rock classics like this 'Angie' achillea.
'Iridescent Bells' campanula x hybrida from Darwin Perennials blooms all summer long.
Presto Dark Red Improved Geraniums from BallFlora Plant deliver a color intensity not found in other red geraniums.
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Harbhajan Singh gave autograph to Pakistani fan (Photo: Videograb)
New Delhi: There is a Test match between India and Australia going on at the Oval. The battle is on as to who will become the new King of Tests? And, here Harbhajan Singh went down on his knees for a Pakistani fan. The question is why did this happen? Why did Harbhajan Singh do this in public at the Oval?
Everyone knows how the relations between India and Pakistan are. But, what Harbhajan Singh did has nothing to do with that relationship. Whatever he did, he did for his fans. Harbhajan, popularly known as Turbanator, is very popular in Pakistan. In such a situation, there are some Pakistani fans as well.
Read this also: From which plan of Australia, the strength of Team India’s top order came out?
Harbhajan Singh met Pakistani fan
The fan for whom Harbhajan went down on his knees at the Oval was a child from Pakistan. That child was physically disabled. Came to the Oval to watch the Test match between India and Australia on a wheel chair. In such a situation, when he saw Harbhajan, he expressed his desire for his autograph. Harbhajan fulfilled his wish sitting on his knees.
— Farid Khan (@_FaridKhan) June 8, 2023
Harbhajan gave autograph to Pakistani fan
This video of Harbhajan Singh with his Pakistani fan has now gone viral. In this video you can see how Harbhajan Singh is giving his autograph on a small bat. Bhajji’s meeting with the fan was about to end when someone asked him, whose friend is Harbhajan Singh? On this he took the name of Shoaib Akhtar.
Shoaib Akhtar and Harbhajan Singh’s friendship was famous
Whether on the cricket field or outside, both Harbhajan Singh and Shoaib Akhtar have been in constant discussion for one reason or the other. The great thing is that neither of them leaves a chance to take a jibe at anyone. However, Harbhajan Singh is currently alone in England. He has reached there for the commentary of the matches.
Also read: How Rishabh Pant boosted the morale of Team India?
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People need to make sure not to use their smartphone while driving because that can lead to some serious consequences. Luckily, there are numerous app such as AutoMate which make sure that drivers have access to everything they need without having to take their eyes away from the road.
AutoMate is bundled with a large number of features such as Maps, Messaging, Voice control, Media Control and many more others. Things get even better for AutoMate fans since app is always being kept up to date with new features and functions. In fact, AutoMate – Card Dashboard fans can download a new APK update which brings the app’s version number to 2.0 RC2.
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Rabbi's On This Day: Saturday, 10/5/13
10/5/2013 12:00:00 PM
Saturday, October 5, 2013
- Grant Hill (Basketball player) (41)
- Kate Winslet (actress, Titanic, Finding Neverland, The Reader, Mildred Pierce, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Revolutionary Road, Contagion) (38)
- Nicky Hilton (socialite, fashion designer) (30)
- Guy Pearce (Actor, Memento, L.A. Confidential, The Adventures Of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Mildred Pierce, The Time Machine, The Proposition, Iron Man 3) (46)
- Bob Geldof (Rock star-turned-activist, The Boomtown Rats, Live Aid) (62)
- Steve Miller (Rock star, "Abracadabra," "The Joker," "Take The Money And Run," "Fly Like An Eagle," "Rock'n Me") (70)
- Daniel Baldwin (actor, Homicide: Life On The Street, Mulholland Falls; brother of Alec and Stephen Baldwin) (53)
- Karen Allen (actress, Animal House, Indiana Jones: Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Starman, Scrooged, The Perfect Storm) (62)
- Clive Barker (horror author, Hellraiser and Candyman movies) (61)
- Brian Johnson (lead singer, AC/DC) (66)
- Mario Lemieux (NHL Hall Of Fame center, 4-time NHL scoring leader) (48)
- Paul Thomas (bassist, Good Charlotte) (33)
- James Valentine (guitarist, Maroon 5) (35)
- Jesse Eisenberg (actor, Adventureland, Zombieland, The Social Network, The Squid and the Whale) (30)
- Dave Dederer (guitarist, the Presidents Of The United States Of America) (49)
- Terri Runnels (World Wrestling Federation superstar; formerly known as Marlena) (47)
ON THIS DAY:
- 1582, the new Gregorian calendar, named after Pope Gregory the Thirteenth, went into effect in most Catholic countries. On February 24th, Pope Gregory had issued a papal bull correcting the Julian calendar, which was 10 days off. Under the calendar, the day after October 4th would be October 15th.Britain and the American colonies didn't adopt the Gregorian calendar until 1752,Russia until 1918, andGreece until 1923.
- 1902 Actor Larry Fine (The Three Stooges) is born. He dies in 1975.
- 1905 Actress Harriet MacGibbon (The Beverly Hillbillies' Mrs. Drysdale) is born. She dies in 1987.
- 1919 Actor Donald Pleasence (The Great Escape, Fantastic Voyage, Escape To Witch Mountain, the Halloween movies, Escape From New York) is born. He dies in 1995.
- 1921 The World Series is broadcast on the radio for the first time.
- 1947, President Harry Truman delivered the first televised address from the White House.
- 1950 Actor Jeff Conaway (actor, Grease, Taxi's Bobby Wheeler, Babylon 5, Celebrity Rehab) is born. He dies in May 2011 from pneumonia and drug addiction.
- 1950 The TV show You Bet Your Life, starring Groucho Marx and George Fenneman, debuts.
- 1956, The movie The Ten Commandments, starring Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, and Edward G. Robinson, opens in theaters.
- 1957 Actor-comedian Bernie Mac (The Bernie Mac Show, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, Bad Santa) is born. He dies in 2008.
- 1961, Breakfast At Tiffany's premiered atRadioCityMusic Hall.
- 1962, the Beatles released their first hit, "Love Me Do," in theU.K.
- 1968 Are You Experienced? by the Jimi Hendrix Experience peaks at Number Five on the album chart.
- 1969 The TV show Monty Python's Flying Circus, starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin, debuts on BBC-TV.
- 1969 The Who appears on The Ed Sullivan Show.
- 1974 "Clap For The Wolfman" by the Guess Who peaks at Number Six on the pop chart.
- 1974 Endless Summer by the Beach Boys hits Number One on the album chart.
- 1979 10, starring Bo Derek and Dudley Moore, opens in theaters.
- 1985, Grambling's Eddie Robinson surpassed Bear Bryant as the winningest coach in college football history, with win No. 324. Robinson retired after the 1997 season with a record of 408-165-15, the most wins by a football coach in any college division.
- 1988 During the vice-presidential debate, Republican Senator Dan Quayle suggests a parallel between himself and John F. Kennedy. Democratic Senator Lloyd Bentsen fires back, "Senator, I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy."
- 1989 Former evangelist Jim Bakker is convicted by a Charlotte, North Carolina, jury of using his Praise the Lord TV ministry to defraud his followers of over $158 million.
- 1989, the Dalai Lama was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
- 1991 No More Tears by Ozzy Osbourne enters the album chart at its peak position of Number Seven.
- 1991 Two albums by Guns N' Roses debut in the top positions on the album chart -- Use Your Illusion II at Number One, followed by Use Your Illusion I at Number Two.
- 1993 The Beatles albums 1962-1966 (otherwise known as "The Red Album") and 1967-1970 ("The Blue Album") are reissued on CD.
- 1999 Live releases The Distance To Here.
- 2000 The Beatles Anthology book is published.
- 2001, Barry Bonds broke Mark McGwire's 1998 season home run record. The San Francisco Giants outfielder hit homers 71 and 72 in the game. Bonds ended the season with 73 home runs, setting the new record.
- 2002 Addressing police and National Guardsmen in New Hampshire, President George W. Bush claims that Saddam Hussein could strike without notice and inflict "massive and sudden horror" onAmerica.
- 2004 Actor-comedian Rodney Dangerfield (Caddyshack, Easy Money, Back To School) dies at age 82.
- 2004 John Lennon's killer Mark David Chapman is denied parole for the third time.
- 2004 Korn releases Greatest Hits, Vol. 1, featuring its covers of Cameo's "Word Up" and a medley of Pink Floyd's "Another Brick In The Wall, Parts 1, 2, & 3."
- 2004 Motley Crue guitarist Mick Mars has hip replacement surgery.
- 2004 R.E.M. releases Around The Sun.
- 2005 Pearl Jam and Robert Plant perform at a Hurricane Katrina benefit at the House Of Blues inChicago.
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LAWRENCEVILLE - A Suwanee man has pleaded guilty to mail fraud and bank fraud charges in a scheme to defraud more than $140,000 from a real estate company and a bank by creating a fictitious bank account.
This is the second federal offense for Robert W. Hughes, a former Delta Airlines pilot, who was convicted of wire and bankruptcy fraud in 1999 and sentenced to 17 months in federal prison.
Sentencing is scheduled for July 2 in U.S. District Court in Atlanta.
"The defendant in this case is like many others who believe they can commit fraud over and over again," U.S. Attorney David E. Nahmias said in a statement. "Often such fraud schemes take place in different communities as the (offender) moves on to the next deal. The FBI and other investigative agencies have been invaluable to our office in locating and helping us prosecute these repeat offenders."
From November 2002 to August 2004, Hughes engaged in a scheme to defraud a real estate development company and a bank, related to a golf community land deal on the Dawson County and Cherokee County line, the U.S. attorney's office said.
Acting as a consultant to the property owners interested in developing a golf course community, Hughes diverted checks intended for the real estate company, and deposited money into a separate account that he controlled, officials said.
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Seventeen Pregnant Girls…At The Same High School…Yup, It’s a Coincidence
Posted by thelanetrain on June 24, 2008
Rumors spread last week following a story that seventeen high school girls from Gloucester, MA (mostly sophomores!) made a pact to get pregnant. Well, now one of the seventeen went on Good Morning America and said the whole thing was a coincidence and that they were just unlucky. Right…. It just so happens that there are seventeen Junos running around in the same high school and we’re expected to believe this wasn’t on purpose?
After The Jump: What’s really going on here…
There must be something in the water at Gloucester High School, or they have the worst sex-ed program in the nation, but somehow, seventeen girls this suburban Massachusetts high school got preggers this year. It all started last week with this article in Time Magazine, which reported that the high school had an increase from four to seventeen pregnancies in the last year. The principal first noticed in October that “an unusual number of girls began filing into the school clinic to see if they were pregnant.” Then in May, “Some girls seemed upset…[that] they weren’t pregnant.” Eventually, the principal got half of the girls to confess that there was a pact to get pregnant and raise the children together. And the ultimate shocker? Not all of the fathers were the strapping young semen-spewers of Gloucester High. As the principal sadly tells Time:
“We found out one of the fathers is a 24-year-old homeless guy.”
Well at least he’s not old enough to be her dad (or so we think).
But the media has nonetheless had a field day with the story, citing a whole cavalcade of reasons and influences as to why it happened or what will become of the children. Some speculate that the glamorized image of pregnant teens in the media influenced the girls to try it themselves, others worry that the town’s strong catholic influence encouraged them not to pursue abortions, but as far as the story is concerned, the pregnancies were not the result of a lack of birth control available to students, contrary to popular belief. Simply put, these girls probably just wanted to have babies, voluntarily.
Then just yesterday, Gloucester’s mayor Carolyn Kirk and the school board issued this press release. The document states that the high rate is nothing more than “a sudden spike” and that most importantly
“We have not been able to confirm the existence of a pact [and] we are seeking to to understand whether is based on fact or rumor.”
But didn’t the principal JUST SAY that the girls confessed to a pregnancy pact? Turns out the principal was fabricating a story. In a follow up with Time, Mayor Kirk states:
“The principal, who was not present at the meeting, is now ‘foggy in his memory’ of how he heard about the pact.”
Essentially, the pact was just something that an upset, stressed out high school principal made-up to justify the large number of sudden unwed mothers-to-be in this very religious community. Sounds an awful lot like this if you ask me. We just need some convincing young children and foppish magistrates to make it complete.
So back to today’s development, the high school student who spoke out by going on national television. Lindsey Oliver, 17, a rising senior at Gloucester High, and apparently, proudly pregnant, finally put the rumors to rest with this end all statement:
“There was definitely no pact…There was a group of girls already pregnant that decided they were going to help each other to finish school and raise their kids together. I think it was just a coincidence.”
Thats it: no pacts, no media influence, no inspirations, just a lot of girls who just happened to get knocked up, and one nervous principal who sensationalizes all the scandalous catholic-taboo-details. Thank goodness.
But hopefully, instead of having seventeen Junos, we’ll see the formation of seventeen forced loving couples like this one.
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Blended Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Training and Certification Program
Combine eLearning with study halls, personal coaching, and practice.
Our Blended Black Belt program includes the full Lean Six Sigma Black Belt course plus additional instructor-led training and guidance:
- 10 hours of virtual group study halls reinforce key concepts, review tool tips, and incorporate discussion time for student questions
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Our Blended Black Belt Program supplements our standard Black Belt eLearning course and certification program with virtual and face-to-face instructor support and coaching. This training model that has been successful for our corporate clients for years is now available to individuals and small groups.
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This program combines proven technology and personal interaction to achieve optimum results. Guided by our experience in working with thousands of corporate clients, we have developed an approach to develop the individual's capability to effect meaningful process change, not to merely pass a test or complete a pretend project.
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Program participants can begin their eLearning at any time, including in advance of the kick-off webinar. The classroom training weeks are scheduled on a quarterly basis.
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MoreSteam eLearning Sessions 1-4 (25.1 hours)
Virtual Instructor-Led Study Hall #1 (2 hours)
MoreSteam eLearning Sessions 5-6 (14.3 hours)
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MoreSteam eLearning Sessions 7-8 (19.8 hours)
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MoreSteam eLearning Sessions 9 (23.15 hours)
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MoreSteam eLearning Sessions 10 (30.55 hours)
1 Week Simulation-Based Workshop - (Check schedule for location.)
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Training is then followed by testing and verification of experience through 2 Black Belt projects. Black Belt candidates will begin their initial project in the early stages of the training. When all the requirements have been completed, you will be awarded certification through MoreSteam.com.
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This course is available in several "industry flavors": Manufacturing (default), Healthcare, Financial Services, and Services. Each version features customized case studies, examples and exercises. You can select your version when you purchase the program.
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If you select the Minitab version of the course, you will need to purchase and provide your own license of the software.
At MoreSteam, we adhere to a high standard, where certification requires you to complete this training course, a comprehensive exam, and 2 approved projects.
Black Belt Certification is included in the Blended Black Belt program.
See the Black Belt certification process for additional information about the exam and project requirements.
- Tuesday, August 29th - Kick-Off Webinar (1 hour)
- Tuesday, September 19th - Virtual Instructor-Led Study Hall #1 (2 hours)
- Thursday, October 12th - Virtual Instructor-Led Study Hall #2 (2 hours)
- Thursday, November 9th - Virtual Instructor-Led Study Hall #3 (2 hours)
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The program cost is $5,950, which includes both the Black Belt training and certification process. Not only is this program more affordable, it allows you far greater flexibility and control over the pace of your studies.
The enrollment fee covers all costs for courses and materials, although if you elect to use Minitab, program participants must have access to a laptop loaded with the lastest version of Minitab. You can begin your enrollment by contacting MoreSteam.com.
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The faculty for this program is provided by MoreSteam.com.
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All students will receive a copy of the course reference manual. The manual is a bound compilation of the topics and tools contained in the online Black Belt course.
At the start of the program, you will be assigned an instructor (Master Black Belt) who will be your primary contact regarding questions and certification requirements. As part of the program, you receive 5 hours of one-on-one project coaching that is consumed as needed. Each coaching session is scheduled in advance and must be for a minimum of 30 minutes.
When in your online training courses, you can use the on-screen Help features (e.g., glossary of terms and site search) for information. You can contact the Course Instructor by email during regular business hours to request assistance.
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With eLearning, you can start at any time after purchase, however we do close registration two weeks before the Wave Kick-Off Webinar. You do not have to wait for other students to get started.
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Absolutely! This program requires candidates to stay on task. Before attending the Virtual Study Halls and Workshop, Black Belt candidates need to complete the defined eLearning lessons. Your coach will monitor your progress and you will be notified if you fall behind.
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From the Kick-off to the last Virtual Instructor-Led Study Hall, the program is 21 weeks in length. Access is provided to the online content for 365 days.
Candidates have a total of 18 months from the date of enrollment to achieve certification.
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Parenting a hurt child calls for innovative, creative, and nurturing ideas. Too often, parents can’t understand why techniques used to successfully parent other children simply have no effect. This session will explore which parenting tools do not work and why, and help parents retire those tools without guilt. Parents will then learn new ways to help their child heal.
Presented by Regina Kupecky, who trains nationally and internationally on adoption issues, sibling issues, and attachment. She has co-authored Adopting the Hurt Child, Parenting the Hurt Child, A Foster-Adoption Story: Angela and Michael’s Journey, the curriculum My Brother My Sister: Sibling Issues in Foster Care and Adoption, and a novel entitled The Mystery of the Multiple Mothers: A Cub County Caper.
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To continue my series on conquering our fears (see Part 1 here), Part 2 consists of one of the more common phobias: Social Phobia. I struggled with social anxiety since childhood (as I discussed in a previous post) and often felt uncomfortable in any situation that involved interacting with people. It wasn’t until six years ago during my psychiatry residency training that I finally gained control of my symptoms. Some of the common thoughts that would race through my mind:
– “Are people judging my appearance?”
– “What should I say so that I don’t sound stupid?”
– “Hurry up and say something so that people don’t think I’m shy and quiet”
– “What I said was so stupid, they must think I’m an idiot”
– “What excuse can I give to avoid going to the event?”
My social anxiety dominated a huge part of my daily life.
If you also struggle with social anxiety, the following are some steps you can take to work towards overcoming your fear:
1. Avoid Avoidance
One of my supervisors always emphasized “avoiding avoidance” in application to overcoming all forms of anxiety, and the statement definitely applies to social situations. The more you avoid, the more you reinforce your anxiety symptoms. Sure, it might be far less anxiety-provoking in the moment to stay at home, but how will you cope with anxiety-provoking situations in the long run? Social anxiety impacts all facets of daily life, from something as common as participating in a regular conversation or going to the grocery store to giving a talk at work.
An example of avoiding avoidance: one of my patients rarely left her home during the day (and would run errands only at night to avoid the crowds) due to social phobia, except to attend her appointments with me. Therefore, in order to encourage avoiding avoidance during the day, I made sure she scheduled weekly, daytime appointments with me in order to challenge her fears of running into people during the day.
2. Climb the social anxiety “ladder”
If you don’t have too much difficulty with shyness and feel motivated enough to expose yourself to a series of social situations, then create a list of approximately 10 situations and rank them in terms of level of anxiety (1 = lowest anxiety situation, 10 = highest anxiety situation). Start with #1 and work your way up. And be sure not to skip because you run the risk of getting too overwhelmed and exacerbating your anxiety, which could lead to increased discouragement, self-doubt, and feelings of failure.
For example, my hierarchy would look something like this:
1 = speak to the cashier at the grocery store
2 = go to the bank after work when it’s busy
3 = attend a new exercise class at the gym
(I’m skipping #4 – 9 for the sake of brevity)
10 = Give a talk/lecture to a large group of people (#10 should be a goal to work towards)
3. Get a self-help manual, workbook, or internet-based self help program for social anxiety
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is one treatment modality shown to be effective for social anxiety disorder. One study found that an internet-based self-help program helped university students with social phobia and public-speaking fears. CBT examines the engrained, negative patterns of thinking (for example, “everyone at the party is judging me” or “anything I say is going to sound stupid”) in order to modify and challenge these irrational thoughts/beliefs. CBTrequires commitment, a lot of homework, and practice of the techniques in order to be successful. After all, the origins of such distorted ways of thinking have likely been engrained since childhood.
The following is a list of recommended resources (if you are currently seeing a therapist, please be sure to run the resources by them before using):
In The Spotlight, Overcome Your Fear of Public Speaking & Performing (for public speaking anxiety)
Overcoming Social Anxiety: Step By Step (Audio/Video Series)
3. Work on self-acceptance and feeling comfortable with being less than perfect
This is something I definitely struggle with, especially since much of our social anxiety centers around our fears of being judged and wanting to maintain a “close to perfect” image, yet at the sacrifice of openly being ourselves. How many times have you been at a meeting or lecture and are hesitant to ask a question or verbalize an opinion, but then someone else speaks up and says the exact same thought before you (this has happened to me numerous times)? Or maybe you have a fear of doing something embarrassing in front of a group of people? Recognize that your opinion is just as valuable as others and that as a human, something clumsy or embarrassing is bound to happen from time to time (even celebrities have major televised fail moments).
4. Seek help from a competent mental health professional
Seeking support from a professional who specializes in anxiety disorders is always an excellent option especially if your social anxiety is preventing you from enjoying and/or moving forward in life.
So, how did I overcome my social anxiety? Well, I went into a field that forced me to learn more about myself, started seeing a psychotherapist, participated in group therapy with my co-residents (a requirement in my residency program, which I believe should be mandated in all programs), exposed myself to situations that challenged and forced me to learn to cope with being in uncomfortable group and public settings (becoming chief resident was among the more challenging roles, yet provided the most growth), among other things. Not to say you have to do ALL these exact same steps to conquer your fear, but that’s the process I underwent in order to feel confident and comfortable being myself in social settings. And yet I STILL have to put in work on a regular basis to prevent my anxiety from getting the best of me (one of the reasons I’m in a weekly psychotherapy group). I took a one year break from therapy after graduating from residency and noticed that my ability to work through my anxiety didn’t come as easily, which motivated me to restart group psychotherapy last year.
Medications can help alleviate your symptoms, but fully gaining control and overcoming the anxiety for the long term requires work, so you have to be willing to expose yourself to uncomfortable situations, willing to keep learning, and willing to face and challenge your fears on a regular basis.
If you also struggle with social anxiety, would love to know which techniques you find most helpful to cope with social situations.
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Today, I thought I would do something a bit different. Something a bit lighter than the conspiratorial things I often write about. A few days ago I was asked, if money and time were unlimited, what top three expeditions would I like to go on? It’s a good question. I guess, to a degree, it changes from time to time. I go on a lot of expeditions and road-trips, but definitely at the top of my “to do” list would be a quest to try and answer an amazing and controversial question: does Megalania still exist? You may wonder: what, exactly is (or was) Megalania? Well, I’ll tell you. The answer is: a giant-sized lizard that, thousands of years ago, roamed Australia. Is it feasible that the subtropical rain-forests of Australia are still home to gigantic, marauding lizards of twenty to thirty feet in length? Could such Jurassic Park-like beasts really remain hidden, undetected, and free to rampage around in near-unstoppable fashion? Just maybe, incredibly, the answer is “yes.”
As for the creature itself, it’s not something created out of the minds of the fantasy-driven and the deluded. Thousands of years ago, Australia really was home to such immense beasts. Do they still live, despite the fact that they have been declared completely and utterly extinct? The creature in question went by the name of Megalania prisca, a huge, vicious monitor lizard that roamed Australia at least as late as 40,000 years ago. It got its name thanks to one Richard Owen, a paleontologist of the 1800s. As for Megalania prisca, it very appropriately translates to “ancient giant butcher,” and/or “ancient great roamer.”
Over the years, there have been a number of reports suggesting that, against all of the odds, Megalania (or something very much like it) just might still be hiding in those aforementioned subtropical rain-forests. Granted, there aren’t many reports, but even a few is enough to have me jetting off to Australia. One day, I hope, I’ll get the chance to go on an expedition that will lay the matter to the rest, once and for all!
Moving on, there’s the matter of Loch Morar, Scotland. I’ve been to Loch Ness on a number of occasions. So far, I have yet to see one of the Nessies. Not at all too far from Loch Ness is the aforementioned Loch Morar. Just like Loch Ness, it is also reputed to be the lair of strange creatures. Outside of the “monster-hunting” community, not many people have heard of the monsters of Loch Morar. They are known as the Morags. One of the earliest reports came from a man named James McDonald, who claimed a sighting of a humped creature snaking through the waters, late one cold, dark night, in January 1887. An astonishing sighting occurred in 1948, when a man named Alexander MacDonnell sighted a huge animal on the bank of one particular stretch of shore. In a few moments it headed into the water and vanished.
Without doubt the most amazing – and, for the witnesses, nerve-wracking – encounters with a Morag occurred on the night of August 16, 1969. That was when William Simpson and Duncan McDonnell were traveling on the waters, near the west end of the loch. Suddenly, as if out of nowhere, a large animal – possibly thirty feet in length – loomed into view and actually slammed into their boat. When Simpson tried to blast the creature with his shotgun, it sank beneath the waves – as a result of the ear-splitting sound of the gun, both men concluded, rather than as a result of Simpson having actually shot the monster. Whether surviving pockets of creatures assumed to be long extinct, giant eels, or something definitively supernatural, the Morags will one day be the subject of an in-depth expedition that I’ll be excited to go on.
As for expedition number three, there’s a terrifying beast that has a particular penchant for ripping out the tongues of cattle. The Mapinguari is a violent thing that haunts the Mato Grosso, a huge Brazilian state, the name of which translates into English as “thick bushes,” and which is dominated by plains, plateaus, and rainforest – the ideal locations in which such beasts just might hide and thrive. Randy Merrill, who has studied the history of the Mapinguari, says that, according to local native legends, the Mapinguari is “…a prehistoric cryptid that reportedly lived (and is still reported to live) in the Amazon rain forests of South America, particularly in Brazil and Patagonia. It was consistently described as …having red hair, long arms, powerful claws that could tear apart palm trees…a sloping back, a crocodile-like hide that arrows and bullets could not penetrate, a second mouth on its belly and backwards feet (said to make a bottle-shaped footprint).” The mapinguaris may not be unknown man-beasts, but surviving pockets of massive creatures that are supposed to have become extinct thousands of years ago: giant sloths, possibly Mylodons, which could reach heights of around nine feet and that weighed in at a hefty 500 pounds.
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The fighters at UFC on Fox 4 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Saturday night did not make it easy for company officials to narrow down the post-fight bonus award winners.
The big winner of the night was Joe Lauzon, who walked away with two $50,000 bonuses.
He and Jamie Varner spent the better part of their bout taking turns trying to take the fight from one another, but each time one would get momentum going the other would snatch it back.
Lauzon, however, was able to utilize his submission attacks one too many times for the former WEC lightweight champion to handle. Varner shot a takedown on Lauzon midway through the third round, but Lauzon slipped on a triangle choke as he did so, locking Varner up for the finish.
Lauzon earned the Submission of the Night, but Varner didn’t walk away empty handed, as the two were also awarded Fight of the Night honors.
Although Lyoto Machida’s knockout finish left Ryan Bader flat on his back and secured “The Dragon” a shot at the UFC light heavyweight championship, it wasn’t enough for the Knockout of the Night bonus.
That award went to a returning Mike “Quick” Swick, who, after two and half years out of the Octagon, returned with a vengeance. Living up to his nickname, Swick bounced back from the edge of defeat in the opening round to catch a DaMarques Johnson kick in round two, planting him on his back and finishing with three successive right hands that put his lights out.
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Saturday, October 25, 2008
The Brits made these posters during war time. I think we all need to read this sign often. Now say it with me with an English accent "Keep Calm and Carry On", and you know I'm feeling so much better. Spot of tea maybe! LOL Happy pink saturday.
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Thursday, October 23, 2008
My name is Cerri Campbell and I am the owner of http://www.thelittlepinkstudio.com/ and http://www.littlepinkstudio.tyepad.com/ I am also a wife and mother to two teenage daughters. I have a love of paper arts and mixed media artwork as well as a love of vintage ephemera. I wanted to be able to bring my designs, ideas, and love of collecting to other people so I created The Little Pink Studio. I am inspired by all things vintage, tattered and shabby bits of lace, old paper, beautiful handwriting, worn ruffles, soft faded colors. My favorite part of having the shop is searching for treasures to bring to the shop. I love finding new (or old) things that I think will inspire people to create something! I also love connecting with other creative people that I may not have ever “met” in any other way. I am always most inspired by vintage materials. I love items that have a past, a history. Faded millinery flowers, vintage wallpaper, the beautiful handwriting of days gone by, papers worn and yellowed with age, old book pages, vintage fabric, tattered and shabby lace, the soft muted colors that only come from age. I am a collector of many, many things! I love to collect dolls. I have a pretty large collection of vintage dolls, my favorites being the Nancy Ann dolls. I also collect vintage ephemera, and millinery flowers, old books, pretty containers, vintage fabric and lace, vintage cake decorations for my daughter and so many other things. Collecting, for me is a way of life!
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
Thursday, October 16, 2008
I like the star she made out of an old ruler.
I started blogging 2 years ago this month, actually I think next week is my anniversary. I wanted to do something special to celebrate this so I guess I better hurry. I live between Dallas and Houston and travel all around Texas to find the cool things I sell at shows. Right now I do have a regular full time job and I antique full time so I guess I have two jobs. I try and do at least 4 shows a year and smaller ones in between. I sell at Zapp Hall twice a year, April and October, Austin Tx City Wide Sale about 2 times a year, the Red Barn Antique Show twice a year January and June and next week I'm doing a one day show in Waco Tx at Bloom and Bee Swanky shop. This is a first I've never done a one day show. Someday I hope to sell at Canton once I retire in 5 years. We have two boys, ages 26 and 21. Our oldest son lives in Austin and youngest still lives at home and goes to college. They are my life!! I live for my boys. She has a slide show http://14632431859204620288.slide.com/ Visit her blog http://www.gardenantqs.blogspot.com/ She is so sweet and talented.
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Monday, October 6, 2008
I opened my shop in April of 2008, a couple of months after I started blogging. I wanted to share my love for vintage and hard to find treasures with others. My favorite part of my boutique is of course shopping for the items! It is most exciting unearthing a treasure at a flea market or yard sale and finding the perfect new home for it. I love to repurpose vintage items. I am especially fond of altering old jewelry into new jewelry pieces, photo frames, altered bottles and such. I also love to add vintage hardware like drawer pulls and knobs to my altered art projects.I have several favorite things I collect. Because of my love for repurposing vintage bling, I have to say my number one collection is of vintage jewelery pieces. I also collect vintage trophies and monogrammed silver.
Her art crown from vintage Items!
She added vintage rhinestone jewelery, an old clock face, and vintage wedding millinery.The base of the crown is a part of an old 70's style lamp she tore apart. She bought it at Goodwill for a couple of bucks. I just love this crown she is so talented!
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Get your game on: Fixing NBA All-Star weekend
I'll start right off with it: instead of Commissioner Silver being pressured to do something about the hack-a-whomever strategy, let’s rally for a change in the all-star game voting procedures. I’m not suggesting anything drastic, but maybe have voters chose players by their specific position instead of frontcourt and backcourt.
The starting five for the Eastern and Western conference teams are as follows
Kyle Lowry (Toronto Raptors)
Stephen Curry (Golden State Warriors)
Dwyane Wade (Miami Heat)
Russell Westbrook (Oklahoma City Thunder)
LeBron James (Cleveland Cavaliers)
Kobe Bryant (Los Angeles Lakers)
Paul George (Indiana Pacers)
Kawhi Leonard (San Antonio Spurs)
Carmelo Anthony (New York Knicks)
Kevin Durant (Oklahoma City Thunder)
If you don’t see anything wrong with those lineups, I’ll just see myself out then.
What I’m about to say next is going to pain me to say as a Heat fan: Dwyane Wade does not deserve to be a starter this year. Jimmy Butler and DeMar DeRozan got flawed out for that. I love D-Wade, not as much as a Heat fan should, but I respect the guy who's brought three championships to South Beach. I still have the poster and Bazooka Joe rookie card that came with one of the first Sports Illustrated for Kids issues he was featured in.
I’m not saying Wade shouldn’t start because of his recent shoulder injury, just I want the East to win and Wade starting is not going to help those chances, he’ll get 15 points at most. Jimmy Buckets and DeMar might have cold feet if they were to start, but I wouldn’t expect either of them to go off for 30. But at least they will bring youth and consistent fast break scoring opportunities. I get it though, the fans are loyal. I’d hate to see LeBron sit on the bench for some young gun when he’s out of his prime.
Three 6 Mafia need to rewrite “It’s Hard out Here for a Pimp” and name it “It’s Hard out Here for a Big.” Not only are they considered to be near extinction, they have been completely overlooked by the fans. I know this isn’t anything new, but this is starting to become the norm and that’s the problem, talk is cheap. Demarcus Cousins and Anthony Davis have been getting talked up by the media and fans since the summer. According to Slam magazine, this year is supposed to see Boogie enter the MVP conversation. Last summer there was a poll released which said 86% of GMs would choose Davis as a franchise player. “His and Hers” had a whiteboard segment about it called “Brow Down” they even went as far as suggesting that the league belongs to Davis.
Meanwhile, both Cousins and Davis are currently at the bottom of the Frontcourt vote at numbers 9 and 10, respectively. They’re figuratively looking up to the likes of Enes Kanter and Zaza Pachulia. Zaza Pachulia was about 14,000 votes away from being a starter. When was the last time you saw a Pachulia jersey? After seeing the final results, I’m seriously wondering who the hell are these people voting the All-Star game? Is it a bunch of kids or a bunch of trolls? Because when I see that Manu Ginobili received more votes than Rajon Rondo and Jeremy Lin received more votes than Isaiah Thomas I can’t help but shake my head. Remember in high school during homecoming nominations when everyone thought it was funny to pair the quiet, nerdy kid with the popular kid? That’s the mentality that seems to be carried into voting for the All-Star Game.
We’ll see who got snubbed and who slipped through the cracks when the reserves are announced. Isaiah Thomas really should be an all-star this year. Considering that his stats are damn near identical to Kyle Lowry’s, there’s no reason for Jeremy Lin (why him and not Kemba?) and Derrick Rose to be above him. Lowry’s averaging 21 points 7 assists and 5 rebounds with 3 TOs a game, Thomas has 22 points 7 assists and 3 rebounds with only 2.8 TOs a game. If it were up to me, the reserves would be:
Isaiah Thomas (Boston Celtics)
Chris Paul (Los Angeles Clippers)
John Wall (Washington Wizards)
Damian Lillard (Portland Trail Blazers)
Jimmy Butler (Chicago Bulls)
Rajon Rondo (Sacramento Kings)
DeMar DeRozan (Toronto Raptors)
James Harden (Houston Rockets)
Chris Bosh (Miami Heat)
Draymond Green (Golden State Warriors)
Hassan Whiteside (Miami Heat)
Anthony Davis (New Orleans Pelicans)
Andre Drummond (Detroit Pistons)
Demarcus Cousins (Sacramento Kings)
Honorable mentions: Kristaps Porzingis, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Blake Griffin, CJ McCollum
Honestly, I just want to see a good defensive game. If the scores don’t surpass 120, I’ll be happy. Sure, three pointers and flashy dunks are cool. But you know what else is pretty rad? A perfectly timed block. Or maybe even an effective half-court trap. There’s got to be some way to lock players into the roster so that millions of votes can be funneled to the players who need all the votes they can get. | <urn:uuid:ac1066f5-b150-4999-8b23-e3e5d860fbcc> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.fsunews.com/story/sports/2016/01/23/fixing-nba-all-star-weekend/79229848/ | 2020-09-19T19:14:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400192783.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20200919173334-20200919203334-00789.warc.gz | en | 0.952529 | 1,213 |
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For creating a lifestyle in wich you build your strength daily without having to go to the gym everyday, my personal approach and further material like podcasts to understand Pavel as a coach and the program in its entirety before deciding to buy the bo. Who has too much time these days! Pdr need for that any more.
If you're not feeling warm and limber after three rounds of this circuit, go ahead and stay in "warm-up" mode until you do. Bring the kettlebell around behind your slnister to your left shoulder right arm reaching up and over your head as neededthen move the kettlebell around your left shoulder and across your chest to the starting position. They provide varying degrees of strength, strength enduran. On Rdella training you will find a review of certified coach Scott Iardella.
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It might help to imagine that you're trying to "pop" your hands forward, away from the crease of your hips. Friend Reviews? Pavel has a great sense of humor and a casual writing style that I really like.
For a few of my clients workot for general overall strength and fitness, and in this book he illuminates this seminal text. Find tips to get fit. Pavel teaches rep set schemes like 5 sets of 1 rep on each side when performing Get Ups and sets of 10 reps when performing Swings? Tokitsu has spent most of his life researching the legendary samurai swordsman and his works, kettlebells are an ideal fit.No need for that any more. How to Do Kettlebell Halos. Now, y. Josh Kaufman!
Experienced athletes can create the tension of pounds and beyond with this technique using a 24kg kettlebell. Kettlebell is a cast iron a cannonball with a handle used to perform power training that combine cardiovascular, step by step. Reverse the motion, strength and flexibility training. This is perfect if you want to be highly productive in other aspects of life but still get quality workouts wrokout.
Josh Kaufman is the bestselling author of books on business, entrepreneurship, skill acquisition, productivity, creativity, applied psychology, and practical wisdom. I've spent the last year investigating various ways to improve my overall level of strength and general fitness. I'm not training for competition, don't have a ton of time to spend at the gym, and I don't want to look like a bodybuilder. That said, there's an enormous amount of research that strength training is one of the best things you can do for overall health, general fitness, and longevity. That said, there's a ton of evidence that freeweights make your entire body stronger in ways that matter a great deal to overall health and longevity: your muscles get stronger, but the increased load on your bones and connective tissues encourages them to get stronger as well.
Physically smarter beats physically harder in the long game of life. To do this workout, you'll need a couple of kettlebells around - a heavier kettlebell for ballistic movements and a lighter one for more static "grind" movements? At the end of a normal get-up, and adjust your hand to press it back up on the other. Go to the website forums and watch him defend derogatory words that I would never ever use. This is a review of Pavel Tsatsoulin's book simple and sinister which outlines the basic of kettlebell training as a foundation for any other strength related sport.
Aubrey Bailey is a Doctor of Physical Therapy with an additional degree in psychology and board certification in hand therapy. Bailey is also an Anatomy and Physiology professor. Lisa is a retired personal trainer with more than 4, hours of hands-on experience working with a variety of clients, from sports teams to weight loss and post-rehab populations. She's also a professional writer. Don't have a lot of time or motivation to do complicated exercises? Have no fear: This stripped-down, straightforward kettlebell routine packs some serious benefits in only a few moves.
What do you want to learn. Once you become more familiar and better at executing the movement you can think about using the arms in the downwards movement of the swing. Thanks for the inspiration to re-visit my physical bucket list. Here's a fantastic kettlebell form video that'll give you a good idea of what the primary movements look like.
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In my last page, I outlined my reasons for finding a reasonable substitute for LHS/LHS-2 hydraulic fluid as used in certain Citroën models. While the use of pure brake fluid has been in widespread in these automobiles for a long time, mostly out of necessity, ride, shifting, steering and longevity has suffered. Many owners of "red fluid" cars have never experienced correct performance.
After learning that the first fluids utilized in these cars contained castor oil, I have tried to determine whether this lubricant could again be employed as an additive. After some reading and probing, I found that there is already a small group of owners who use castor oil, but the amount needed seemed to be, at best, conjecture.
I determined to find the matching ratio of castor oil to brake fluid to match the viscosity of pure LHS-2. After running a series of tests, I found it to be 9.25%. Using that percentage, therefore, one would add 3 oz of castor oil to 1 U.S. quart. Using metrics, one would add 92.5 ml to 1 liter of brake fluid.
To arrive at this figure, I sent a set of 12 samples, each one of an
increasing ratio of castor oil to brake fluid, to an independent
professional tester, Geoff Byrnes, now retired, of The Coatings
Laboratory in Houston, TX. I came upon him more or less randomly, but
he quickly became interested in the project, as he had at one time
owned a Citroen. He even did the work for free!
The samples were of 400ml. each. 200ml was the minimum
sample size, but I chose the larger quantity because it allowed more
mixing. On July, 2000 I received this data from Geoff:
|Amount of castor oil added to 400 ml of brake fluid (ml)||Viscosity in millipascal-seconds (mPa. sec.)|
|Pure DOT 4 Brake Fluid||23|
|Pure Castor Oil||657.6|
|10%||40||37.2 (Anomalous, should be ~35)|
If you look over the above chart, you will find that the viscosity of LHS-2 matches that of a sample somewhere between 8.75% and 10% castor oil/brake fluid. This data was further examined by a designer/engineer of rheometers, Jint Nijman. He agreed in principle to the findings but offered a correction to account for some deviations caused by the testing equipment.
It has been determined that use of DOT 3 fluid is slightly less
hygroscopic and, though its boiling point is higher when fresh, as it
ages the boiling point of DOT 4 fluid drops more quickly. With this in
mind, we prefer to use DOT 3.
The discovery of the correct ratio of castor oil to DOT 3 brake fluid is a significant find but ideally, more experiments chould be done. It would be desirable to find the viscosities of the mixture at higher and lower temperatures to find the viscosity index.
If the specific gravity were known, it would be easier to maintain systems at optimum mix ratio, as is done when determining the freezing point ot anti-freeze in cooling systems. For now, it will be necessary to premix. I would advise keeping only as much of the premix on hand as readily needed because once brake fluid is exposed to the atmosphere, it begins to absorb moisture. However, it is possible that the mix may be less hygroscopic.
The recent discovery of original Citroen technical papers
have revealed that cars issued with castor oil mix experienced clotting
of fluid in cold weather. For this reason, it is very important that
those who decide to use castor oil realize this. If you live in a cold
climate, make sure you drain your reservoir in the fall, refilling it
with pure brake fluid. Then run the car for awhile before driving or
laying it up for storage. In the spring, you can add 3 oz. of castor
oil. This will be sufficient to bring the viscosity up to a fair
average, despite variations in temperatures encountered during the
usual operating season (assuming you store your car in the winter). If
you do this, you needn't do a routine drain and refill. If you live in
a climate where this is not necessary, the entire system should be
drained and fresh refilled every 2 years, annually in damp or humid
Late breaking news: Many thanks to Claude
Moritz of France for his work on this. Recent research has revealed that the
lubricant used in many automotive air conditioning systems nowadays,
PAG (polyalkalyd glycol) has very close affinity to brake fluid.
In its thickest available viscosity, 150, it has shown promise as an
additive in early tests. It seems to be far more soluble and seems to
solve the low temperature risk, but requires higher ratios to attain
viscosity. More work with finding cross brand compatibility between
brands of DOT brake fluid and PAG is needed, plus we are in need to
some long term in-the car experiences to truly stand behind the use of
PAG. All external findings point to no issues with rubber
If anyone has a car they
would like to do tests in, the Citroen world would be grateful.
If you are interested, please contact me.
Please be aware that using this mixture in your car will be done strictly at your own risk.Many thanks to Jan Forrester, Geoff Byrnes, Jint Nijman, Stan George, Tony Jackson, Vincent Jammes, Robert Dircks, and many others, whose advice and encouragement has meant so much!
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Lola T616 winds down the Corkscrew during the 2012 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion.
Mazda-powered Le Mans Lola heads to Pebble Beach
Lola T616 goes up for auction with Russo and Steele
July 18, 2014
Guess what? The firebreathing 787 wasn't the first Mazda to win Le Mans.
Burn your textbooks, question your elders, scrutinize the PR department. The 787B was the first car built entirely by Mazda to ever win the 24 Hours of Le Mans—but it wasn't the first rotary-powered car to do so. There were two other cars, with Wankel hearts, that sought and earned victory in France. The first was the Mazda 717C, in the 1983 Le Mans. The above, the Lola T616, is the second.
It goes like this: In 1983, the FIA created the C Junior class -- just like the Group C prototypes, but entirely restricted by fuel and weight to 55 liters and 700 kilograms, respectively. That year two 717Cs, powered by two-rotor 13B rotary engines, became the only cars to finish in the class: 717C #002, driven by a trio of Japanese drivers, finished first in class and 12th overall, while 717C #001, driven by a trio of British drivers, finished 18th. The other three teams -- British, French and Italian -- either failed to qualify, crashed out or blew their engines. Legend has it that the British team, including BTCC legend and Montego peddler Steve Soper, was so disappointed with the 717C's hairy handling characteristics -- with a 0.27 coefficient of drag, it eschewed stability for top speed—that they tried to break it on purpose, and walk away with a DNF.
Alas, when you try to break a car in anger, it usually responds by staying as unbroken as possible. Both teams finished the race thanks to utter reliability.
They even won an award for fuel efficiency.
A Mazda 717C chases the Rothmans Porsche 956 of Jochen Mass and Stefan Bellof, through the Esses. A Rothmans Porsche would go on to win, but Mass and Bellof did not finish.
A year later, the class was renamed C2. Mazda, having now figured out the black art of aerodynamics, evolved the prototype into the achingly pretty 727C, entering two examples in the 1984 Le Mans. Meanwhile Lola, with the help of BF Goodrich and Jim Busby Racing, evolved its groundbreaking T600, the first prototype with ground effects, into the T616. With a new and more conventional body, the T616 weighed just over 1,600 pounds. The 13B rotary produced 300 horsepower, could propel the T616 up to 200mph on the chicane-free Mulsanne Straight and was dead-on reliable: "That engine was absolutely guaranteed for 24 hours without a hitch," said Busby. "We went almost a full year without an engine failure."
Busby drove the T616s with a motley crew of international rogues: IMSA driver John O'Steen, 717C survivor Rick Knoop, Dutch F1 veteran Johan "Boy" Hayje, Mazda factory driver Yoshimi Katayama, and John Morton -- a man who needs no introduction.
John Morton, John O'Steen, and Mazda factory driver Yoshimi Katayama drove #68. It placed first in the C2 class, 10th overall.
And just like the hairy 717Cs, one of the rotary Lolas won the same class. This time, the other Group C2 cars actually finished. The Lolas even trounced the Mazdaspeed-supported 727Cs. No matter that the 727Cs had churned out laptimes nine seconds quicker in practice than the Lolas: Hewland gearbox issues befell the 727Cs. But the important part was, all four rotary engines finished the race.
Busby later bought the cars in 2003, with co-driver Rick Knoop, and restored them to vintage racing status. At one point, Bruce Canepa became the caretaker. But now, Russo and Steele will be selling both Le Mans finishers at its Monterey auction on August 14-16th, during Pebble Beach week. "Ready to go and steeped in racing history," says Russo and Steele, "the 'Twin Lolas' now stand ready for you to share the glory!"
Jim Busby, Rick Knoop, and Boy Hayje drove the #67 car. It placed third in class.
Mazda has the honor of being the first Japanese engine at Le Mans, in 1973. Amidst a flurry of reliability problems, language barriers, and exploding tires, the Sigma Automotive MC73 didn't finish. "We went home to Japan with a bitter experience of international racing," said Takayoshi Ohashi, who was in charge of Mazda Auto Tokyo. "But we now knew where our weaknesses lay…it was an enlightening experience, which only served to reinforce our opinion of the difficulty of this race: We swore we'd be back!"
Good on them, and their vow to return. Six years later, Mazda became the only company with a rotary engine -- hell, the only Japanese company -- to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans. By 1992, the plug was pulled with the MXR-01 during a wet, wild, Peugeot-dicing bout. If the rumors are true, and Mazda does bring back the rotary, then it deserves to hit up Le Mans again. If the Lola proves anything, it'll be riding high on a wonderful legacy. | <urn:uuid:4df7c887-b777-4897-b4e8-19b09dc33012> | CC-MAIN-2018-17 | http://autoweek.com/article/pebble-beach-concours/mazda-powered-le-mans-lola-heads-pebble | 2018-04-20T16:53:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125944479.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20180420155332-20180420175332-00395.warc.gz | en | 0.955976 | 1,197 |
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"Dustin Runnels, who performed in World Wrestling Entertainment as Goldust, received an early release from his WWE contract late last week. WWE had previously announced that Runnels' contract, which was set to expire in January 2004, would not be renewed.
Runnels, who is expected to work for ZERO-ONE in Japan in 2004, is already seeking bookings on the independent scene. The following press release was sent out by Northeast Wrestling, which handles bookings for several talents:
The "Lonestar " Dustin Rhodes is available for bookings.
The "Lonestar" Dustin Rhodes is a available for appearances, wrestling seminars and indy wrestling shows. The former Goldust in the WWE is a former Intercontinental and World Tag Team Champion. He is available and looks forward to the possibility of working as a tag team with his father Dusty Rhodes.
To book Dustin you can email NEWWrestling@yahoo.com.
Northeast Wrestling is the exclusive booking agent for Dustin Rhodes, Jerry "The King" Lawler, Dusty Rhodes, Al Snow, "The Coach" Jonathon Coachman and Barry Windham.
Runnels had returned to WWE at the 2002 Royal Rumble and settle into a midcard tag team with Booker T during this most recent run."
------------- Well, we knew he would not be resigned. Guess it is good they got it out of the way now. I guess he can now move on to other stuff, hopfully seeing him in TNA soon.
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Well, although I'm sad that he's been let go, I'm glad he got a chance to have one last good run. We can now remember him as one hell of an entertaining guy with the Goldust character. I'm just glad his horrid 1999-2001 WCW run wasn't the last of him.
I'll always remember his "Outside the Ropes" skit on Confidential, where Al Snow was interviewing Lance Storm, and Goldust kept popping in camera view to try and motivate Storm into being entertaining. It was absolutley HILARIOUS, to the point that both Storm and Snow were breaking character and started to crack up on camera. Good stuff.
Originally posted by OMEGAWell, although I'm sad that he's been let go, I'm glad he got a chance to have one last good run. We can now remember him as one hell of an entertaining guy with the Goldust character. I'm just glad his horrid 1999-2001 WCW run wasn't the last of him.
I completely agree. He came in as a one-shot retro-appeal Royal Rumble filler and turned it into a nice second WWE streak capped off by a tag title reign. It's a shame he's not with them anymore, but he more than prove himself as a lively performer.
The backstage skit were Kane's Katie Vick assault was discussed was hilarious. Someone (Rock?) asked who in their right mind would ever sleep with a corpse, and Goldust sheepishly reaised his hand. "It was in college! I was young, OK?!"
Nice new moniker too. You know, he could make a killing in TNA with his skills.
"To be the man, you gotta beat demands." -- The Lovely Mrs. Tracker
Originally posted by Matt TrackerThe backstage skit were Kane's Katie Vick assault was discussed was hilarious. Someone (Rock?) asked who in their right mind would ever sleep with a corpse, and Goldust sheepishly reaised his hand. "It was in college! I was young, OK?!"
That reminds me (for some reason) of the awesome promo he, Booker, and Rock had at King of the Ring 2002, where he was trying to talk street with Booker & Rock. "What about me: The gold wearing, oh so daring... I'm not really any good at this." I bought that DVD just for that skit.
I, too, think he'll go to TNA. However, it'll be interesting to see how they use him, as the Goldust character is owned by WWE, and the Dustin Rhodes character is the very definition of bland.
Originally posted by OMEGAI, too, think he'll go to TNA. However, it'll be interesting to see how they use him, as the Goldust character is owned by WWE, and the Dustin Rhodes character is the very definition of bland.
He's shown that he's game for a variety of characters: the Natural, the omnisexual/mindgaming Goldust, the born again Dustin, Se7en, the goofy Goldust, the Tourette's Goldust. I think he'll manage any angle they give him, but I'd be up for a tough-guy redneck wrestler. As opposed to the brawlers. Even better, if he tweaked the presentation of Goldust and became the Natural Boy, a combo of his dad and Flair. I gotta believe that would kill in Tennessee.
"To be the man, you gotta beat demands." -- The Lovely Mrs. Tracker
Although really, a lot of the stuff he was doing in 2002 was more Dustin Runnels than it was Goldust, so if just channels THAT aspect into what he's doing, it shouldn't matter if he's being Lonestar as long as he's giving Jeff Jarrett the Raspberry Jam Treatment. Because a lot of the comedy stuff he was doing went beyond the original Goldust character...it's like that point in 1997-8 where Mankind ended and Mick Foley began.
So Goldust or no Goldust he's still capable of doing the awesome-funny stuff if he wants.
If Martha Stewart's obituary had a typo in it, would it read "Beloved Aunt"?
Or he could be the Golden Cowboy, a combination of his previous Texan gimmicks with the flamboyant Goldust persona. Someone like Kid Kash can call him a homo and Goldie can slap the taste out of his mouth...
Originally posted by Blanket JacksonAlthough really, a lot of the stuff he was doing in 2002 was more Dustin Runnels than it was Goldust, so if just channels THAT aspect into what he's doing, it shouldn't matter if he's being Lonestar as long as he's giving Jeff Jarrett the Raspberry Jam Treatment.
You know, Dustin doesnt really get much kudos for his in-ring abilities. During his last run with the Fed, i saw Goldust re-invigorated and his tag run with Booker against Vitamin C showed him working hard and caring about his craft. He's always had charisma as Goldust but he could also back it up in the ring.
Still, i hope he doesnt come back to wrestling in a cowboy gimmick or try to be like his pop...he stands out as a wrestler by doing oddball-type gimmicks and making them work.
I think Dustin would be a good hand for NWATNA. He's a versatile performer and can do the comedy without the Goldust suit. Having Dustin there messing with people every week would be good TV plus when he's inspired he can get it done in the ring. He was on fire there for awhile in the ring and doing lots of great work.
Dustin's back has been real bad for awhile so perhaps this is probably the best thing for him. He had tons of good exposure in WWE with Booker T and he can command as high a price on the indy's as anyone now. He'll get to work when he wants and get good money for it.
I'm amped to see who ZERO-ONE puts him up against and if Dustin is inspired to tear it up. I think him and Corino could have a real good old school 80's NWA type match with Corino bleeding and bumping all over the place for Dustin's snug brawling. It'd be fun.
Goldust is a perfect example of me not fully appreciating a wrestler until they're gone. His character was truly unique. Even if Dustin does pop up in another prominent organization like NWA-TNA (of which I have no TV access to anyway), it probably wouldn't be the same. There was an aura about the Goldust character that was one of a kind. Either way, I hope he continues his comedy routine and doesn't go back to his bland Dustin Rhodes gimmick he had towards the end of WCW. *shudder*
I'm guessing this release had to do something with Goldust personally, in terms of not getting along with talent or being too difficult in contract negotiations or something like that. Because with all of these oversized hacks polluting televison, he was way too over as a midcard act for the WWE not to sign up to a small deal.
Side note: On best of RAW 2003 tonight, they showed a 'moment' where Goldust is on the mic talking to HHH and Flair, who are laughing histerically. I don't remember a RAW this year I didn't see, but I some how missed this segment. What was the background to it?
Dustin is far too bland without the Goldust gimmick. If he goes to TNA, he'll get the initial WWE-reject pop, but that'll eventually fade away like the majority of guys who have come in. I can't see his comedy routine working without the gimmick either. Personally, I didn't find anything in his last run funny, but that's just me.
I don't particularly want to see him in Zero One either, unless they put him in a tag team with someone. He's a much better tag wrestler than he is a singles, so maybe he can form a "comedy" team with Steve Corino. However, he seems to be awfully injury prone, and I can't see him lasting an entire tour without being banged up in some fashion.
Originally posted by ParagonOfVirtueSide note: On best of RAW 2003 tonight, they showed a 'moment' where Goldust is on the mic talking to HHH and Flair, who are laughing histerically. I don't remember a RAW this year I didn't see, but I some how missed this segment. What was the background to it?
If I remember, it was during Booker's feud with HHH, some time after WrestleMania. Goldust had come to the ring to challenge HHH, and they didn't take him seriously.
I hope he does have a run in TNA and makes the most of it. Dustin has great charisma, decent ability and name value (even without the gimmick), and it would be a shame if he couldn't find steady work anywhere. At the very least, they could have moved him over to SmackDown, where they are in desperate need of GOOD comedy gimmicks.
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I'm going to miss Goldust a lot. He's one of those guys you can put in any one spot and he's fun. You can put him in with a mainevent guy, and of course Goldust is going to get his ass kicked but the surreal interaction with a main star and Goldust is always fun... And then you can put Goldust on Heat or with a lower/midcard and his charisma makes whoever he's interacting with seem more interesting.
Goldust really is one of the last Old-New School type of wrestling. With over the top cartoonish character. And NO I don't want a roster full of these characters, don't even want half a roster with these character. But a few to give a change of pace to the norm is fun and good. I guess they still have some oddball character, but sorry Rosey getting stuck in a phone booth just doesn't measure up to what gold Goldust delivered... The ironic thing is that "The Natural Dustin Rhodes" would fit perfectly with the new philosophy of who WWF feels that the type of cookie cutter wrestler everyone wants to see. All he needs is some ink on him and he's ready to go
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Jose R. Delarosa, 45, was sentenced to a person yr and purchased to shell out $20,141 in restitution.
Brens pleaded responsible on Dec. 13 to conspiracy to commit obtain system fraud and six counts of entry device fraud.
Delarosa pleaded responsible on Dec.16 to conspiracy to dedicate obtain gadget fraud and 4 counts of obtain unit fraud.
Each admitted that they and other people unlawfully attained credit history card details to order design equipment and developing materials from at minimum 6 House Depot and Lowes retailers in Rhode Island and the Attleboro region, in accordance to court documents.
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Hidden gem restaurants in Anderson, Clemson, Seneca
Finding a new restaurant to eat at is a bit like finding a new house to live in. You know what you like, but no one seems able to meet the expectations. Not only that, but there are new restaurants opening up all the time and you have to pick and choose exactly where you want to spend your money.
In this new era of pop-up dinners and exclusive, one-time menus, finding those hidden gem restaurants can be tricky. You know, the places that are off the beaten path, have only been open a little while or are only getting traction with word-of-mouth. We aren't talking restaurants that have been featured in magazines or TV spots. We are talking small restaurants that are making their way using only the reputation of their food and service.
Here are five we found. Let us know yours by commenting on this story or heading to IM Current on Facebook and sharing your thoughts.
Favor Home Cooking, 864.226.6569
117 E. Franklin St., Anderson
Hours: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday
Murrie Glover has always known her way around a kitchen. From dinners with family to cooking for picnics, she has been lauded for her approach to cooking good ol' comfort food. So, it wasn't much of a leap four years ago when she opened her own restaurant at the Anderson County Country Club that served all those favorites that her family and friends would crave.
About a year ago, Glover had to leave the country club and work on finding a space that would fit her restaurant's, Favor Home Cooking, feel. And she found it on East Franklin Street near downtown Anderson.
Since then, business has been pretty good for this out-of-the-way eatery. It has grown a loyal customer base and continue to see new faces every day it's open.
"We have a personal relationship with our customers," Glover said. "Our space is cozy, we have friendly staff and an environment where you come in and take your time and eat."
Favor Home Cooking specializes in casseroles and comfort food, but it's the fried chicken and mac and cheese that has to be on the menu every single day they are open. Outside of that, it's whatever Glover and her staff want to cook up that day from beef and cabbage casserole to banana pudding.
Yolk Asian Kitchen, 864.623.7977
906 Tiger Blvd., Clemson
Hours: 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday
Troy Song, owner of Yolk Asian Kitchen in Clemson, is proud to call his restaurant hidden. He opened the restaurant a couple years ago with the intention of making food he likes. And if it happened that others liked that kind of food, all the better. He strives to be different from anything anyone else is serving in the Upstate and focuses on rice bowls and bold, Korean flavors that many people haven't encountered before.
"Most people fall in love with the first thing they try," Song said. "They don't get a lot of Korean flavors and they really like them when they try them."
Located on Tiger Boulevard in Clemson, you might think Yolk is a well-known destination, but Song said they are certainly more hidden than anything. But he also said he didn't set out to be popular. He just wanted to do some unique flavors for those who craved the same kind of food as him.
"This is a whole new thing for me," he said. "I'm just experimenting and will keep it going until I don't want to do it anymore."
Tiger Cove Grill, 864.225.5993
4023 Whitehall Road, Anderson
Hours: 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday through Sunday
The Lash family has been through a lot in the last year, not the least of which was when their business, Tiger Cove Grill and Campground, burned a little over a year ago. Since then, the family has been working hard to get the grill back up and running and after some long hours and even more patience, the restaurant reopened just before Memorial Day weekend this year.
The fact is, Tiger Cove is the very definition of a hidden gem. Located out on Whitehall Road where it dead ends into the lake, the views are spectacular and the atmosphere is fun. As for the food? Well, think of it as a locally-sourced bar food with all sorts of special twists along the way.
"We have a new chef here now that is putting together some amazing specials," said Becky Lash, one of the owners. "We have your normal lake food, but every week he is making some wonderful special."
Examples include a Black Angus burger with slaw or a fried tilapia. Lash said the burgers are hand-patted, the ingredients are as local and organic as they can get and the ambiance is unmatched by any restaurant out there.
Look to the club sandwich, chicken wings and fresh salads for a quick meal at lunch or dinner. And Tiger Cove is a private club where your $10 annual dues get you in any time. And you can bring guests as part of those dues. It does close for the winter and reopen around St. Patrick's Day.
Tacqueria Picante, 864.226.0081
221 Brown Road, Anderson
Hours: 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Sunday
If you ask restaurant owners where their favorite place to eat in Anderson is (outside of their own eatery) there is one name that seems to pop up all the time: Taquiera Picante. But when you look at the location, that suggestion is a little baffling.
"We are right next to a gas station and that has kept a few people away," said Angelica Ramirez, manager of Taquiera Picante. "But when they eat with us, they understand and almost always come back."
This authentic Mexican restaurant is all about home cooking the Mexican way. The ingredients are fresh, the onions, cilantro and lime are plentiful and if you have something you crave from a visit to Mexico and know the ingredients, they will do their best to make something that comes close to the original.
Plus, Picante keeps it personal by getting to know their customers. The entire restaurant is run by family members, and they all love working together.
"It's just more fun to work with your family," Ramirez said. "We are a little place and working on it all the time."
119 Ram Cat Alley, Seneca
Hours: Lunch and dinner Thursday through Saturday, brunch on Sunday
Evan Bimas has been in the restaurant world for more than 15 years. In that time, he worked at Seneca's famed Paesano's Italian restaurant as well as the Oconee County Country Club. But finally he took the leap to open his own restaurant and things have been looking up ever since.
Bimas is the owner of Vangeli's Italian restaurant, one of the most talked about eateries in Seneca. Located on Ram Cat Alley, Vangeli's is earning rave reviews all over town for their fresh ingredients, authentic flavors and pleasant staff.
"We only carry certain items for a couple days," Bimas said. "And the things we don't use as much of Thursday through Saturday will become unique brunch items on Sunday."
Bimas admitted that people called him crazy for his style and for the location he chose. After all, several eateries had come and gone from there. But he was tired of seeing friends and acquaintances take the chance and succeed when he was playing it safe.
Now, he has one of the most popular restaurants in the Upstate and word of mouth is growing by the day. And while many are still learning about him, he reaches out the community as often as possible through Jazz on the Alley, his outdoor seating and even partnering with Brews on the Alley a few doors down.
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Jill A. Edy. Troubled Pasts: News and the Collective Memory of Social Unrest. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006. Index. $23.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-59213-497-7.
Reviewed by Elliot King (Department of Communication, Loyola College in Maryland)
Published on Jhistory (July, 2007)
Shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center towers, Rudy Guiliani, then the mayor of New York City, was asked how many people were confirmed dead at that point. He memorably replied, "More than we can be bear." Today, not only is Guiliani remembered for his strong and steady presence during that perilous time, but much of his 2008 presidential campaign is based on the idea that the leadership he showed in the face of terrorism qualifies him to lead the United States.
But a countervailing narrative of Guiliani's actions in relationship to September 11 is also available, though perhaps less widely publicized. Far from having the clear vision and strong hand the United States needs in the fight against terrorism, Guiliani has been accused of being complicit in several decisions that led to additional, unnecessary deaths. Under his watch as mayor, according to this account, the city's emergency headquarters offices were relocated to the World Trade Center in the late 1990s--a controversial move at the time since the buildings had been the targets of an earlier terrorist attack. The shift meant that the city's emergency headquarters was inoperable when it was needed most. Compounding the problems, despite years of proposals to unify their communication systems, New York City police and firefighters used different radio frequencies to communicate among themselves. Consequently, the city's first responders could not talk to each other and coordinate their actions, leading to yet more avoidable deaths.
So ten years from now, will Guiliani be seen as one of the heroes of 9/11 or as one of the people blamed for the city's lack of preparation? How will he be viewed twenty years from now? Fifty years from now?
In her well-researched and thought-provoking study Troubled Pasts: News and the Collective Memory of Social Unrest, Jill Edy, an assistant professor of communication at the University of Oklahoma, explores the role the media play as contested events are incorporated into what sociologists Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann have called the social stock of knowledge and what Maurice Halbwachs has called collective memory. Collective memory is the aspects of past events that are widely shared by specific social groups. They are the memories that transcend individual memory and experience--what we all know and agree upon about past events.
Collective memory is an extremely powerful notion. Indeed, in many ways, national and ethnic identities are defined by each group's collective memories. For example, during the Balkan Wars in the 1990s, Americans learned about battles that took place in the 1300s and 1400s that were not even obscure footnotes in the world history courses taught in U.S. high schools but were very much alive in the minds of the Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, and Albanian Kosovars.
Edy builds two case studies from events during the 1960s to trace how complex news events are reported as they are unfolding and then re-presented in the media over the passage of time. Her objective is to determine how "disparate narratives of controversial events are winnowed and integrated to create a collective memory" (p. 150). The two "troubled moments" she has selected to study are the Watts race riots in Los Angeles in 1965 and the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The convention was engulfed by violence and gave the world the memorable--or, at least, memorable at one time--phrase, "the whole world is watching," which is how young, long-haired protestors taunted the Chicago police, who were using perhaps overly aggressive tactics to try to clear the streets.
In her close examination of the coverage of those two events, Edy makes several interesting observations. As could be expected from reporting from many different reporters over periods of time about events that were far from routine, different story lines emerge in different articles. Not infrequently, the same "facts" are framed differently and therefore seem to have different significance depending on the context of the story itself. For the Watts riots, Edy has identified four major narrative frameworks in the coverage. The riots reflected the residents' lawlessness; the violence was a result of police brutality; the riots were caused by economic deprivation; or the riots represented an insurrection by inner-city African Americans against the white establishment. These different narrative frames often competed with each other within individual news stories, Edy observed, leading to what she calls an "indeterminacy" about the meaning of the event (p. 41).
According to Edy, the coverage of 1968 Democratic National Convention cleaved into two main story lines--what was happening inside the convention hall and the chaos outside the hall. The two story lines were not intertwined within individual articles but instead often were printed side by side in specific publications.
In describing the intricate contours of the news reports for each event, Edy does a careful job in identifying to whom reporters turned for information and what they reported on their own authority. She then applies the same careful analysis to the ways in which the Watts riots and the 1968 Democratic National Convention appear in articles. Once again, it is not surprising to learn that those "troubled pasts" appear most frequently when there is an obvious current news angle. For Watts, the Los Angeles riots of 1992 provided a news hook. For the Democratic National Convention, the Democrats' return to Chicago in 1996 elicited reflection on the 1968 events.
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this part of the analysis is who emerges as authoritative sources about the past. Governmental officials with a stake in defending their actions during the events themselves have often passed from the scene. Instead, the voices of "civilian" participants are more frequently heard. At the same time, the meaning of events is narrowed, with some of the narrative frames from the initial reporting on the events not reappearing in the later recollections.
As interesting as it is, Troubled Pasts has several shortcomings. First, the data is newspaper-centric, which is a significant limitation. Surely magazine articles, television shows and even, dare I say it, books, especially textbooks, play a large public role in building collective memory. Secondly, Edy seems to expect that a single, accepted collective memory should emerge at some point. But that doesn't happen. Throughout her study, competitive narratives remain lively, even as some are discarded. Third, as Edy acknowledges, the use of past events within later press reports is driven more by the storytelling needs dictated by specific articles themselves than bysocial actors trying to impose their view of the meaning of the past. Fourth, the development of collective memory is a complex process of which media representations are but one, perhaps small part. On a more parochial level, perhaps the Watts riots and the 1968 Democratic National Convention will not be broadly remembered at all and will not become part of the collective memory. So these case studies may not be the most salient.
Despite these qualifications, Edy has written a smart book that is of interest to anybody who understands the development of the social stock of knowledge and collective memory as a powerful social process. And how will Rudy Giuliani's role in the aftermath of September 11 be remembered? That will depend on part on the outcome of the election. He could be remembered as a hero or a person to blame. Or he may not be remembered at all.
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Torani also offers other vanilla-flavoured syrups. Its sugar-free vanilla syrup contains purified water, vanilla extract, natural flavours, potassium sorbate (a preservative), sodium benzoate (a preservative), citric acid, xanthan gum, Splenda brand sucralose and acesulfame potassium (another artificial sweetener). Acesulfame potassium is a somewhat controversial sweetener, as it has not been studied extensively. Some critics believe it may be carcinogenic, but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and European Union have both declared it safe for use.
Torani recommends using its vanilla syrup syrup in lattes, teas, and coffees for a smooth creamy flavor. Torani also has a myriad of recipes using this syrup on Torani.com, including many beverage recipes such as a bananas Foster latte, a caramel coffee cake mocha and a Francis Scott Key Lime soda. Baked good recipes on Torani.com that include the vanilla syrup include a huckleberry and mascarpone tart, caramel pots de creme, and a classic creme brulee. Each bottle contains 25 ounces, the equivalent of 25 servings of Torani's vanilla syrup.Learn more about Food Facts | <urn:uuid:5f23acef-dae1-402e-bc7b-32212450701e> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.reference.com/food/ingredients-torani-vanilla-syrup-64a556c5665dd5e3 | 2016-10-24T18:45:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719677.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00534-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.887334 | 325 |
Arizona deputy charged in beating of West Fargo man
WEST FARGO - A sheriff's detective from Arizona who allegedly drove to West Fargo in September and brutally assaulted a man who had an affair with his wife was arrested Wednesday in Phoenix.
Detective Timothy Abrahamson of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Department was taken into custody without incident at his workplace on an arrest warrant for an aggravated assault charge filed in Cass County last Friday.
In a rare move, the Cass County State's Attorney's Office also granted immunity from prosecution to a Maricopa County sheriff's deputy who allegedly rode to West Fargo with Abrahamson, in exchange for the deputy's testimony.
In North Dakota, such immunity offers require approval from the Attorney General's Office.
The victim in the assault, 41-year-old Jason Swart, lost part of his right ear in the attack and suffered serious facial cuts, bruising and swelling that "appeared to be consistent with multiple strikes to the face with some sort of weapon," West Fargo Police Detective Derek Cruff wrote in a search warrant affidavit.
"It appears to me that it was a well-planned-out, longtime-planned-out event," Cruff said.
Abrahamson, 41, who has relatives in the Thief River Falls, Minn., area, made his initial court appearance Wednesday afternoon and was being held in protective custody in jail on $20,000 bond as he awaited extradition to Cass County, said Sgt. Brandon Jones, spokesman for the sheriff's department.
Abrahamson had been on paid administrative leave since West Fargo police contacted the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office a few days after the Sept. 16 assault. He was placed on unpaid leave after his arrest Wednesday.
Jones said he had no additional comment.
"I don't know too much about it, unfortunately," he said.
Assaulted in driveway
Court documents describe an affair that began with Facebook messages between Swart and Abrahamson's wife, and a plot that culminated with Abrahamson allegedly driving to West Fargo and assaulting Swart in his driveway on Sept. 16.
According to the affidavit and charges unsealed Wednesday:
Police responded at 1:38 p.m. that day to Swart's home on Parkway Lane for a reported assault.
Swart told police he had been out with family for lunch and returned home by himself. When he stepped out of his vehicle, a black, low-profile car with two men inside pulled into his driveway.
The driver, described by Swart as having bald fuzz-type hair and a goatee, got out of the car and asked him if he was Jason. The driver then told Swart that he had been receiving Swart's mail and handed him a folder.
"Mr. Swart stated that he turned to open the envelope, and then realized he was lying on the ground in a pool of his own blood," the affidavit states.
When he regained his composure, Swart realized the envelope, the driver and the black car were gone, Cruff said.
Affair found out
Swart told police he believed he was assaulted by the husband of a woman with whom he'd had an affair. He and the woman, a friend from high school named Trinity Abrahamson, had reconnected on Facebook. Cruff said Swart was single at the time.
In July 2011, they met at the Greater Grand Forks Fair. Swart learned that the woman and her husband were separated and talking about divorce, and that evening they went to a bar together and later had sex, the affidavit states.
About two to three weeks later, Swart received a text message from Trinity Abrahamson stating that her husband was aware of the affair and telling Swart not to talk to her again.
Swart told police that on April 6 he was contacted on Facebook by Trinity Abrahamson, who was using someone else's account. She stated she wished to have contact with him again.
But Swart told police he didn't notice the message until more than a month later, on May 18. When he responded, he received a response from the Facebook user saying she'd pass along the message.
Swart didn't have any additional contact related to Trinity Abrahamson until Aug. 15, when her sister sent him a message on Facebook, Cruff said.
The message stated: "Do you have any idea of the pain you have caused my family in the last year? Do you have any idea what Trinity has had to go through because of you?"
Swart told police he'd never met Trinity Abrahamson's husband in person and had only seen a picture of him on Facebook in 2011, and he believed his name was Todd.
Through their investigation, West Fargo police identified the man as Tim Abrahamson, who works in the narcotics division of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Department.
The sheriff's department has gained national attention in recent years for controversial Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the self-proclaimed toughest sheriff in America, and his rigid stance on illegal immigration. Arpaio was re-elected Tuesday.
In a photo lineup, Swart "immediately" identified Tim Abrahamson as the man who'd assaulted him in his driveway.
Through their investigation, West Fargo police learned that Tim Abrahamson had been off duty from Sept. 14 to Sept. 16 - the day Swart was assaulted - and was going on vacation Sept. 18-24.
On Sept. 18, Cruff tried but was unable to reach Tim or Trinity Abrahamson. Fearing for the wife's safety, Cruff contacted her mother in Lake Bronson, Minn., who said she would try to make contact with her. The mother called back and said she'd spoken with Trinity Abrahamson's son, who told her that Tim Abrahamson was in Seattle for work training.
At about 7:30 that evening, Trinity Abrahamson called Cruff from home and said she was with her husband. She sounded like she was on speakerphone, Cruff noted.
Trinity Abrahamson said her husband and Swart had never met before, that she had no problems with Swart and that "her husband had been with her the entire time over the weekend in Phoenix," the affidavit states.
Phone records traced
Two days later, Cruff still hadn't had any contact with Tim Abrahamson - but he did receive a call from an attorney representing him.
That attorney, Robert Kavanagh, was out of the country on Wednesday and unreachable by phone, according to a woman who answered the phone at his law firm in Chandler, Ariz. She said he was checking his email; a message sent to him wasn't returned.
According to the affidavit, cellphone records obtained through a search warrant showed that on the day of the assault, which occurred at around 1 p.m., Abrahamson's work phone had no activity until 10:41 p.m., when the phone was turned on and connected to a cell tower in Paxton, Neb.
Cruff noted it's roughly a 10-hour drive from West Fargo to Paxton.
Abrahamson's work phone was turned on again for 30 seconds at 5:04 a.m. the next morning and connected to a tower in Grand Junction, Colo.
Records for Abrahamson's personal cellphone led police to a car rental business in Phoenix, where records showed he had leased a black 2012 Chrysler 300 two days before the West Fargo assault. The sheriff's office leases undercover vehicles from the same business, Cruff said.
The Chrysler matched a picture of the suspect vehicle drawn by Swart, Cruff said. Records showed the car was returned at 8:51 a.m. the day after the assault, but investigators believe it was actually returned two days after the assault, on the morning of Sept. 18, and that a worker at the business predated the return to save money for Abrahamson.
The vehicle had been returned with slightly more than 5,000 miles, Cruff said.
According to court documents, Abrahamson had told the rental company he was going to South Dakota to visit a family member. He damaged the vehicle on the way back and paid cash to cover the repairs.
In Abrahamson's cell- phone records, authorities found a recurring number belonging to a Maricopa County sheriff's deputy, Steven Carpenter.
Cruff said the two men exchanged text messages the day before the West Fargo assault but then none for several days. However, the messages "go off the chart" after Cruff's initial interview with Trinity Abrahamson, he said.
Carpenter's cellphone records showed a connection to a tower in northern New Mexico six hours after his shift ended on Sept. 15 and another connection two hours after that near the New Mexico-Colorado border, leading police to believe he was on his way to West Fargo with Tim Abrahamson.
Abrahamson has his next court appearance in Arizona on Nov. 16, Jones said.
If convicted of the aggravated assault charge, he faces up to five years in prison and a $5,000 fine.
Key role in probe
Maricopa County has seen its share of political controversy in the past few years, including an alleged public corruption case in which Tim Abrahamson played a role.
In January 2010, he testified in grand jury proceedings related to public corruption charges Arpaio sought to bring against officials at odds with him.
The case hinged on allegations that county officials, an attorney and a judge tried to interfere with an investigation into the construction of a court building. County officials were accused of spending public money to sweep their offices for listening devices, according to media reports at the time.
Abrahamson was the key witness on the bug-sweep investigation, grand jury transcripts show.
The grand jury ultimately ended its probe, and no charges were brought.
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