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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) LSU safety Eric Reid, cornerback Tharold Simon, running back Spencer Ware and punter Brad Wing formally declared their intention on Friday to leave school early and enter the NFL draft.
Those decisions mean the Tigers will lose at least three defensive regulars, with linebacker Kevin Minter also having informed the school he'd be leaving this week.
Reid and Minter both were AP second-team All-America selections. Simon was a starter who had four interceptions this season.
Reid finished with 91 tackles, ranking third on the team. He also made a pair of interceptions, seven pass breakups, a tackle for loss and a fumble recovery.
``It was always my dream to go to LSU and play football,'' said Reid, whose father was an LSU track star. ``This was a very difficult decision because I always wanted to be a Tiger and I love LSU. But, after careful consideration and talking with my family, I feel like this is the right time to make this decision.''
Minter led LSU with 130 tackles, including 15 tackles for losses, in his junior season. The Georgia native's highlights included a 20-tackle performance against Florida and he had 19 tackles in LSU's 25-24 loss to Clemson in the Chick-fil-A Bowl.
Simon had 96 tackles, 22 pass breakups and seven interceptions during his career with the Tigers and said his decision to turn pro after his junior season came ``with mixed emotions and serious consideration with my family.''
Ware has been a productive running back for the Tigers for three seasons, rushing for 1,249 yards and 10 touchdowns, while also catching 39 passes for 404 yards and two scores. The former high school quarterback also passed for a score, hitting Rueben Randle for a 39-yard TD against Auburn in 2010.
``I feel confident that I'm ready to go to the NFL,'' Ware said. ``I want to thank Coach Miles and his staff for helping me develop on the field and mature as both a player and person.''
Wing, an Australian, has been among the top college punters the past two seasons. He averaged 44.6 yards per punt, the highest average in school history for a player with at least 100 punts, though his second season was not as good as his first.
``I want to thank the fans, my coaches and my teammates for three amazing years at LSU,'' said Wing, who took a redshirt as a freshman.
While Ware, Simon and Wing were exceptional players at LSU, they each missed playing time for running afoul of team policies. Ware and Simon were suspended one game during the middle of the 2011 season for failing drug tests. Wing was suspended for this season's Chick-fil-A bowl for an undisclosed violation of team rules.

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(CNN) -- If the furnace in your basement stopped working, and you hired a company to repair it, what would you do if several of the workers came upstairs, told you they couldn't figure out how to get the furnace started, and then began pointing fingers at each other and saying:
"It's his fault."
"No, it's his fault."
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Or if you had a leak in your plumbing, and the plumbers emerged from under your sink to tell you:
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"So typical of him to put the blame on me. He's got it exactly backward. I know how to stop the leak -- he has no idea. And he never has."
You'd tell them that this is not what you hired them to do. Why are they wasting your time and money telling you that it's the other guy's fault that the water is still dripping onto your floor? You'd ask them to keep their personal animosities to themselves and figure out a way to complete the job they'd agreed to do, or else you're not going to give them a cent.
You'd be well within your rights. When work needs to be done, you hire people who promise that they know how to do it, and you expect to get what you paid for. You are the employer; you are the boss.
But in one area, this doesn't seem to be the case.
In politics and government, almost all Americans agree on the tasks that urgently need to be completed.
A few of them:
• Creating jobs so that finding meaningful employment can stop feeling like pursuing an all-but-unattainable luxury.
• A fair solution to health care, that compassionate people along every station of the right/left continuum can live with and be proud of.
• Fixing the fallout from the big-bank machinations and the mortgage crisis that have cost so many people their homes.
Addressing these problems is a task beyond any of us as individuals. So, in the same way we hire workers to repair the furnace or plug the leak under the sink, we hire workers to fix the big national problems.
They have lofty titles and work in buildings made of white marble. We hire our presidents, our members of Congress, and, indirectly, our justices of the United States Supreme Court.
And maybe it is time to remind ourselves -- and to remind them -- that they are, in fact, hired hands.
They are being paid to do a job. They are not being paid to tell their employers -- the citizens -- why they can't get the job done, or why they can't get along with the other hired hands who are supposed to be working beside them.
Only in politics and government, when the hired hands come up short, are they allowed to get away with flicking spitballs at each other as the country waits for results -- spitballs in the form of purportedly clever attack lines packaged and issued by advisers, meant to wound the other side, yet doing nothing to further the completion of the jobs at hand.
Whether, individually, we are conservatives or liberals or somewhere in the middle, we have a right to expect the people who have been hired to solve the country's problems to do just that, and to spare us the name-calling and blame-shifting. We wouldn't accept that from electricians or auto mechanics; there is no reason to accept it from men and women with federal titles.
There is a self-congratulatory phrase that political pros like to throw around: "Politics ain't beanbag." But these days, that's what it increasingly can feel like: a childish game played by people so enamored of the game itself that the playing of it pushes aside the real-world consequences.
Those real-world consequences matter -- they matter desperately. And the people who should be the demanding employers -- the citizens -- are tossed about in the heavy waves of the political storm, as if they are mere bystanders who have no standing in all of this.
There is another phrase, used as the title of a song by the young Bob Dylan in the years before his name became known all over the world. In a different context from the issues we face now, Dylan called his song "Only a Pawn in Their Game."
It would be hard to blame Americans today if they sometimes identify with that phrase.
But they shouldn't have to settle for feeling like pawns.
And this is not a game.
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Unlike some members of my family who have a gift for curling up with and disappearing into a book for hours on end, I am easily distracted and often ready 3-4 books at a time. Summer is one of those times, however, that I am often able to carve out chunks of time to read. I read for both fun as well as "work" all with an eye towards expanding my current thinking and broadening my view of the world.
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The Alienist (a re-read) by Caleb Carr – I have read this one 3-4 times and am riveted each and every time. Set in the late 1890's New York City, it is a must-read for you historical crime fiction lovers out there. While some of Carr's other books were not as gripping, Carr's follow-up to The Alienist, The Angel of Darkness is also a great read.
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In reading order, I am jumping on the Seth Grahame-Smith train by checking out from my library Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and/or/then Unholy Night and/or/then Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance. I will admit, other than my own cute zombie, vampires and other communities of undead have never really been my thing. But since a colleague recently told me that Grahame-Smith's tales were worth a read, I'm giving them a try.
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Baluswami Dikshitar is believed to be the pioneer who introduced violin to Carnatic Music.
Baluswami Dikshitar was the son of Ramaswami Dikshitar, the scholar-composer and a brother of Muthuswami Dikshitar, one of the Carnatic musical trinity. He was a multi-faceted personality who could play on the family asset of the veena, besides swarabat, sitar and mridangam.
Baluswami Dikshitar was profusely decorated and honoured by the patrons of music. From 1825, he was the Asthana vidwan of Ettayapuram. He was also the music tutor of the Raja of Ettayapuram. Baluswamy Dikshitar gave a number of concerts along with his brother Chinnaswamy Dikshitar. The brothers are stated to be the first among duos of prominence known in history.
Vadivelu is one of the illustrious members of the famous Tanjore Quartet (Chinniah, Ponniah, Sivanandam and Vadivelu). The quartet were taken by their father (Mahadeva Annavi, himself an accomplished veena player) to Muthuswami Dikshitar for advanced musical training.
Vadivelu learnt violin under a European missionary at Tanjore. Vadivelu was a musical genius and he popularised the use of violin in Carnatic Music Concerts. He was the best loved of the artistes of Swati Tirunal, and he became the asthana vidwan at the age of 14. A scholar in Tamil and Telugu, he was also a distinguished vocalist, violinist, composer and bharathanatyam exponent.
One of the legendary violinists in the history of Carnatic music, he had his training first from his father Kuppuswamy Iyer, and later under Kottavasal Venkatarama Iyer, a renowned composer of Tana Varnams. His violin recitals were marked with masterly touches, full of masculine grandeur. A prodigy, he could play complicated pieces on a single string. Known for his hard work, he was responsible for ushering in many new techniques to the art of violin playing. He could produce ascending and descending glides (Jarus) with remarkable effect. His was a legendary musician among peers that included Maha Vaidyanatha Iyer, Patnam Subramaniam Iyer and Sarabha Sastri. His stature and musicianship were such that he could dominate the performance while being an accompanist. He had an awe inspiring and intimidating.
Govindaswami Pillai had his initial training in vocal and violin under Umayalpuram Panchapakesa Ayyar and later under Ettayapuram Kothandapani Bhagavathar, brother of the renowned Ramachandra Bhagavathar.
Renowned for his vibrant playing style, Govindaswami Pillai could also play the flute and the mridangam. His graceful touches, his polished play, the sweetness and purity of his notes, his superb rendering of kritis, his exquisite finish and the ease and freedom in all the three octaves and the three degrees of speed, made him a great violinist of his times. According to the musicologist Prof. P. Sambamurthi.
'Govindaswami Pillai had an innate artistic consciousness and looked both to the intellectual and the emotional aspects of music.'
He learnt violin under Trivandrum Ramaswamy Bhagavather, Asthana Vidwan of Travancore Palace. Once, when he was performing in Cochin, Sait Govindanaik, a great connoisseur of music heard the concert, was very pleased with his performance and sent Sundaram Iyer to Mumbai, where he was introduced to Pandit Vishnu Digambar Paluskar, principal, Gandharva Maha Vidhyalaya. Panditji appointed Sundaram Iyer as professor of violin and also taught him Hindustani Music. Thus violin was first introduced in Hindustani Music in 1909 by Sundaram Iyer. In 1916, he was awarded a gold medal and a Certificate of Proficiency. In 1922, he proceeded to Chennai. He was a Faculty Member of the University of Madras in the Music Department. He created a new style of playing the violin known as the Parur style.
Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu was born in November (Deepavali day), in Bangalore, India and was raised in Visakhapatnam. He was appointed Professor of violin in the Maharaja's Music College in Vijayanagaram, at the young age of 26, and became its principal in 1936. he was the first one to start the violin solo concerts. His first solo concert was given in Vellore in 1938.
He was partially blind. He played at the National Physical Laboratory auditorium, New Delhi in 1952, to raise funds for the Blind Relief Association.
Yehudi Menuhin, a world renowned violinist, was greatly impressed when he heard Dwaram play at Justice P.V. Rajamannar's house. The famous playback singer Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao learned Carnatic music under Naidu.
He was known for his extremely well developed soft bowing technique combined with a firm fingering technique.
TKJ was born on May 18 1894 in Kuttalam, a village in Tanjore district. His was a family with a musical background. His father, Kuppuswami Iyer was a violinist, Sanskrit scholar, and a Harikatha performer. TKJ showed a flair for music and languages at a very early age. As a schoolboy, TKJ developed a liking for the violin and requested his father to teach him the instrument. Interestingly, he was also an accomplished Jalatarangam player, an art he learnt from Anayampatti Subbaiyer. TKJ had his schooling at Sirkazhi and matriculated in 1911. He began his career as a government employee at Manapparai and then at Madurai. In 1915, TKJ married Vijayambal, who became a source of inspiration and strength and a partner in his quest for knowledge till the very end of his life.
He designed the seven-stringed violin to ensure that the accompanist could match the vocalist (the need for this was felt especially in the early and mid-20th century when no amplification devices were available). He was known as Piteelu Chowdiah - Piteelu being the word for violin in South Indian languages such as Kannada and Telugu. As he hailed from Tirumakudalu Narasipura near Mysore, so he is also known as Mysore T. Chowdiah.
He was a classicist. He never indulged in acrobatics or sudden thrusts and flashes. Bred on the banks of the river Cauvery, his play imitated its majesty while it is brimful and in full flow. It was dignified, masterly, chaste and satisfying. Violin in his hands found harmony and established close identify with the musician and rarely sought to carve out any distinct identity. The success of the concert was his concern. He was pleasing in manners, unostentatious on the stage and magnificient in play. Had a good personality. He would play for juniors also. He had played for all top artistes. Rajamanickam Pillai was honoured at the Courts of Ramnad, Cochin, Ettayapuram, Travancore and Mysore. He was Asthana Vidwan at Travancore in 1940 and at Ettayapuram in 1942. He had been the recipient of Sangita Natak Academy Award in 1959, Isai Perarignar from the Tamil Isai Sangham and Sangita Kalanidhi from the Music Academy in 1948. Once he got an elephant as a gift and donated it to Sri Adi Kumbheswara Temple, Kumbakonam. His disciples included M.M.Dandapani Desikar and Govindaraja Pillai.
Related to the famous Karur Quartet, Mathrubhutayya and Karur Chinnaswami Ayyah (1888-1967) - a galaxy of composers and violinists, Papa Venkataramiah was a renowned violinist in the field along with the giants like Dwaram, Chowdiah and Rajamanickam Pillai. Son of Karur Srikantiah, Venkatramiah was a polished accompanist and an occasional soloist. He had his musical training under his father, Karur Chinnaswami Ayyah and Malaikottai Govindaswamy Pillai. He had been accompanying the top artistes of the day and was known for his sweet and expressive play. He was very keen about sruti alignment and perfection.
He was popularly known specialised in the seven stringed violin. RRK was a student of Bidaram Krishnappa, the Guru of the violinist Mysore T. Chowdiah. He was a legend of seven stringed violin, and the only performing seven stringed violinist to have lived well into the 21st century. He produced senior musicians like T. Rukmini, Bhuvaneshawaraih and Anoor Ramakrishna.
RRK trained a number of young musicians and is the author of a dozen books on music. He was known for his rigorous practice and discipline. Today's other performing students trained by RRK include Dr. Jyotsna Srikanth, Nalina Mohan, Jyotsna Manjunath. RRK presented many papers on the subject of violin playing and violin fingering techniques. He had commanded a unique position in the field of carnatic music.
R. R. Keshavamurthy was addressed with the title Sangeeta Vidya Sagara more frequently than others. He received many other titles such as Sangeetha Kala Rathna and Nada Bheeshma Vidwan.
He was not celebrated much during his life time. He was known for his terse and tough expressions. A trust in his name is being formed.
Shri.Anantharaman had his musical training under his father Guru Prof. Parur A. Sundaram Iyer. His first performance was at the tender age of seven at Sri Thyagaraja Vidwat Samajam, Mylapore. Over a period of six decades, Shri Anantharaman has accompanied all the stalwarts of Carnatic music - Sri Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar, Sri.G.N. Balasubramanian, Sri. Maharajapuram Viswanatha Iyer, Smt..D.K. Pattammal, Sri. Maharajapuram Santhanam, Sri.K.V.Narayanaswami, just to name a few.shri Anantharaman has also acquired formal training in Hindustani music from his father and has accompanied Hindustani stalwarts like Pt. Omkarnath Takur, Pt. Vinayakrao Patwardhan and many others. Besides performing as an accompanist, he has also given many solo and duet concerts along with his father and brother, Sri. M.S. Gopalakrishnan. Sri. Anantharaman and Sri. Gopalakrishnan have performed a violin duet concert in the Royal Palace of Nepal, as a special invitee of the King.
He had his initial training from 1936 under his grandfather, Srinivasa Ayyangar and Kandadevi Chellam Ayyangar. In 1940, he switched over to T.Chowdiah for advanced training in violin.
Made his debut by accompanying in the solo concert at Mysore of T.Chowdiah and immediately on April 10, 1942 accompanied Ariyakudi Ramanuja Ayyangar at Devakottai. Religious and modest, he has been a popular vidwan. Honours: 'Thandi nada Visharadha' - Sri Sankaracharya of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam. 'Kalaimamani' - Tamilnadu Eyal Isai Nataka Mandram, Chennai.
TN Krishnan, a child prodigy, made his debut concert at the age of eight. At younger age he accompanied the legends like Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar, Musiri, Alathur Brothers, Chembai and Maharajapuram Viswanatha Iyer.
Krishnan first arrived in Madras with Sri Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer who installed him in the care of Sri R. Aiyadurai, a prominent industrialist, philanthropist and connoisuer of Carnatic Music. Mr. Aiyadurai and his wife Smt. Thangam Aiyadurai welcomed the young Krishnan in to their home as their own. The Krishnan family and the Aiyadurai family share close ties till date.
His performance gives the importance he gave to expressional restraint. He scans the ragas with an eye on beauteous light and shade. In the present generation of musicians, he is one of the few instrumentalists who can provide this experience to listeners and create in their minds nostalgic memories of a bygone era. He travels extensively on musical tours all over the world.
At the early age of 12 he started his musical career as an accompanying violinist.
Being endowed with rich imagination, quick grasp and an ability to adapt easily to the individual styles of the leading maestros in Carnatic music while accompanying them in their concerts, he reached the forefront in rapid strides. The rich concert experience he thus gained, coupled with sheer hard work and perseverance and the strong urge to give original expression to the musical ideas surging in him, he emerged as a solo violinist of rare brilliance.
He revolutionised the style of violin playing by inventing a whole new technique that is designed to best suit the needs of Indian Classical Music and establishing a unique style that came to be known as 'Lalgudi Bani'. His flawless and fascinating style, graceful and original, yet not divorced from traditional roots gained him numerous fans. This multi dimensional personality have to his credit composed several 'kritis', 'tillanas' and 'varnams' and dance compositions, which are a scintillating blend of raga, bhava, rhythm and lyrical beauty. The unique feature about Lalgudi is that his music is very expressive. Lalgudi's instrumental genius comes to the fore in the form of lyrical excellence. He brought the most-sought-after vocal style into violin, and his renditions exhibit knowledge of lyrical content of the compositions.
MSG learnt violin from his father, late Professor Parur Sundaram Iyer, who was well versed in the two systems of Indian Classical Music, i.e. North Indian (Hindustani) and South Indian (Carnatic) systems. MSG learnt both systems from his father and gave his first performance along with his father at age of eight. A soloist and accompanist, MSG has been in the music arena for over fifty years playing both Hindustani and Carnatic Music. MSG has done vast research on violin playing techniques. He has developed a new unique style called the "Parur style". He is a versatile violin artiste famous for playing melodies, speed, special fingering technique, and bowing technique. His violin tonal quality will be clear, and audience can clearly hear the swarams thus making it more melodious. He has won numerous awards including the Padma Sri, Kalaimamani, Sangeetha Kalanidhi and the Sangeet Natak Akademi award.
The Violin was his forte. Known for the dexterity and subtlety in handling the violin, he catered not only to the music scholar but also to the layman. His play reflected his own different moods and the demands of his audience with whom he established and enjoyed a good rapport. He dwelled with ease and competence in the high as well as the low octaves.
At the young age of 12, he accompanied great stalwarts like Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar, Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer and Maharajapuram Santhanam in concerts. He also performed with legendary Nadaswaram vidwans like T.N.Rajarathinam Pillai and Thiruvenkadu Subramania Pillai.
He stopped accompanying vocal artistes in 1976 to concentrate more on solo concerts. He was famous for his fingering techniques on the violin. His interest in new attempts and innovations led him to work with veteran thavil vidwan Valayapatti Subramanian. They performed over 3,000 shows together which were also very successful.
Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan had deep faith in the therapeutic merits of music.
Mangathayaru inherits th elegacy of the 'Dwaram' family fromher father and guru, Dwaram Venkataswami Naidu of considerable renown. She was accompanying her father from 1954 to 1964.
At the age of five, she began playing a quarter-sized violin. Studied under Varahur Muthuswami Ayyar and Sandhyavandanam Srinivasa Rao. Got her diploma in Music from the Maharajah's College, Vizianagaram and also taught there during 1973-74. A staff artiste, All India Radio since 1975. Her brother, Dwaram Satyanarayana and she were playing together and both had toured Germany, Holland and Switzerland.
Son of R.Rajagopala and R. Vedavalli and grandson of Ramaswami Pillai, a Bharatanatya exponent and recipient of the title of 'Kalaimamani' and 'Sangita Nataka Academy Award'. Bhaskaran was born at Sikkil. Learnt violin under Tiruvarur Subba Ayyar initially and then under the violin maestro, Mayavaram Govindaraja Pillai for seven years. Then he had his tutelage under Sangita Kalanidhi Rajamanickam Pillai. Made his debut at Kumbakonam as 'second to his master, Rajamanickam Pillai and independently as accompanist to the Pozhagudi Brothers. Got the prizes for young artiste from the Indian Fine Arts Society and in 1961 from the Music Academy, Madras for the 'Junior Artiste of the Year' with a gold medal. He is on the staff of the AIR since 1976 and has been accompanying leading vidwans in sabhas and on the AIR for over thirty-four years. A good violinist known for his soft and pleasing play with rich ragha bhava, improvisation and balanced swara exposition, he has been the recipient of several awards.
Mohan Chandrasekaran is a top rank Violin Maestro in the World of India Classical Music,
whose career has entered the sixth decade. Sri M. Chandrasekaran was born in a family of traditional
musicians on the 11th December 1937.
Sri Chandrasekaran has provided Violin accompaniment to the entire gamut of stalwarts like Sri Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar, Sri Maharajapuram Viswanatha Iyer,
Sri G.N.Balasubramanianm, Sri Madurai Mani Iyer, Chembai Sri Vaidyanatha Bhagavathar, Sri Ramnad Krishnan, Sri T.K.Rangachari, Sathur Sri A.G.Subramaniam, Mayavaram Sri Rajam,
Alathur Brothers, Flute T.R.Mahalingam, Sri Musiri Subramania Iyer, Sri Madurai Somasundaram, Sri Maharajapuram Santhanam, Palghat Sri K.V.Narayanaswamy and a galaxy of elite living exponents
like Sri Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Flute Sri N.Ramani, Dr.M.Balamurali Krishna
and many other leading artistes. He has enthralled audiences all over India and at the cultural
centres of United States of America, United Kingdom, Canada, Malaysia and Singapore. He has received
appreciation of Violin Maestros like Mysore Sri T.Chowdiah, Sri Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu, Sri Kumbakonam
Raja Manickam Pillai, etc. He has also received appreciation from Nadaswara Chakravarti Sri T.N.Rajaratnam Pillai.
Subramaniam was born to V Lakshminarayana, and Seethalakshmi, both accomplished musicians of Tamilian descent.
He lived in Jaffna during his younger years, taking up music studies before the age of five. He began training in violin under the tutelage of his father, Professor V. Lakshminarayana. "Mani", as he is fondly known by fellow musicians and his family, gave his first public performance at the tender age of six.
His brothers are also acclaimed musicians, and include the well-known violinist-composers L. Shankar (alias. Shenkar), and L. Vaidyanathan. He has released recordings with both.
Subramaniam developed a passion for music as well as science from a young age, studying Medicine and acquiring his M.B.B.S. at Madras Medical College. He registered as a General Practitioner, before deciding to pursue music full-time. He has a Master's degree in Western classical music, which he acquired at the California Institute of the Arts.
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EBC Exercise 23 Configuring the Kernel
There are several ways to get and configure the kernel. You could go to the [www.kernel.org The Linux Kernel Archives] find the ---arm--- branch, download a kernel and patch it for the omap. You could use git to get a kernel. Or you could just use bitbake like we did before.
Let's first learn how to do it the bitbake way. I'll also include some instructions for using git.
When you did ECE597 Installing The Ångström Distribution you used bitbake to build console-image. During that build the kernel was downloaded and compiled. If you used the default configure, the source code was removed once it was done. Check and see:
cd ${OETREE}/angstrom-dev/work/beagleboard-angstrom-linux-gnueabi ls
You should see a directory starting with
linux-omap-. The rest of the name tells what version you have. Change to that directory and see what's there:
cd linux-omap-2.6.29-r46 ls
If you see a git directory, you are in luck. If you see just a temp directory you need to do the following to reload the sources:
cd ${OETREE}/build/conf gedit local.conf
Find the line near the top that says
INHERIT += " rm_work " and comment it out.
# INHERIT += " rm_work "
Save the file and then:
cd ${OETREE}/openembedded $ bitbake -c clean linux-omap-2.6.29 $ bitbake -f -c compile linux-omap-2.6.29
Note: These instructions are based on this which is a good reference on finding and modifying the kernel in the oe distribution. In fact, wh1t3s seems to have several nice tips.
This took some three hours on my machine. Your mileage may vary. Once done go back to
cd ${OETREE}/angstrom-dev/work/beagleboard/angstrom-linux-gnueabi/linux-omap-2.6.29-r46 ls
You should now see the git directory. cd to it and look around.
You can now configure the kernel.
sudo apt-get install libqt3-mt-dev make xconfig
After saving the configuration changes to update the .config file, it is a simple matter of rerunning the forced compile step from above to rebuild the kernel:
$ bitbake -f -c compile linux-omap-2.6.29 $ bitbake -f -c deploy linux-omap-2.6.29
If your kernel configuration modifications happen to result in the generation of any loadable modules, then you will wind up with another file in the deployment images folder:
$ cd ${OETREE}/angstrom-dev/deploy/glibc/images/beagleboard $ ls


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Daniel, Henrik Sedin score power-play goals in Canucks' 4-1 victory over Stars
DALLAS - Daniel and Henrik Sedin scored power-play goals, and backup goalie Cory Schneider took care of the rest for the streaking Vancouver Canucks.
Schneider made 44 saves to bail out teammates who admitted they were outplayed for much of the game, and the Canucks went on to their fourth straight victory, 4-1 over the Dallas Stars on Friday night.
"Dallas was probably the better team overall for 60 minutes, but sometimes all you need is a good power play and a good goalie," Daniel Sedin said.
Schneider was backed up by Roberto Luongo, who rejoined his teammates Friday. Luongo had been with his wife, Gina, who gave birth to a boy, the couple's second child, on Wednesday in South Florida.
Schneider, 6-0-2 this season, stopped all 18 shots he faced in the second period, including James Neal's penalty shot.
"Some nights you need your goaltender to steal you a win, and that's what we got tonight, an outstanding performance from Schneids, who made the right saves at the right time," Canucks coach Alain Vigneault said. "We needed him big tonight, and he came up big for us."
Daniel Sedin and Raffi Torres had goals in a 47-second span late in the first period, and Vancouver went on to improve to 13-1-2 in its last 16 games, 6-0-1 on the road during that stretch.
Kevin Bieksa added a power-play goal for the Canucks, who went 3 for 5 with the man advantage.
Stars coach Marc Crawford said some ill-advised penalties drained momentum from his team.
"I think tonight we played a pretty strong game, but we had some adversity and it came in the form of penalties that were self-inflicted for the most part and we didn't have any confidence in our penalty kill," Crawford said. "I thought that maybe we were reading their press clippings about how good their power play is, and it seemed to me, we were back on our heels, and when we got aggressive on the penalty kill, I thought we killed much better."
Brenden Morrow had a power-play goal for the Stars, 0-3-1 in their last four at home. Dallas was coming off a 7-3 loss Wednesday night to Detroit when the Stars gave up six straight goals.
The Sedins combined on the first period's only power play to get their team rolling.
Henrik mis-hit a pass from the right circle that dribbled into the slot to Daniel, who fired the puck past goalie Kari Lehtonen at 17:11.
Vancouver didn't waste any time making it 2-0 when Jannik Hansen's stretch pass sent Torres in alone, and Torres beat Lehtonen with a backhander at 17:58.
Henrik struck on his team's second power play of the night, converting Alexander Edler's cross-ice pass for a 3-0 advantage at 9:52 of the second period.
Neal was awarded a penalty shot when he was tripped by Bieksa on a power-play breakaway at 13:39 of the second period, but Schneider came up with a pad save.
"I've seen him before come down that side. A lot of lefties try to pick low blocker," Schneider said. "I was trying to take it away from him, make him go somewhere else, but he still went there so I was almost cheating a little bit."
When Bieksa's shot from the right point glanced off Morrow and past Lehtonen at 16:50 of the second period, Crawford sent in backup Andrew Raycroft.
Lehtonen has been one of the Stars' best players in the opening three months, but has struggled in the last two games, allowing four goals on 14 Vancouver shots.
"He's hit a point in the schedule where he hasn't played the likes that we've seen from him in the past, and we know that he's a great goalie," Crawford said. "We know that he's got it in him and I don't think there's any player on this team that doesn't believe that he's going to work his way through it."
The Stars avoided the shutout on Morrow's power-play goal at 3:21 of the third period.
NOTES: The Stars have hosted a New Year's Eve game since 1997, going 8-4-2 in those games. ... The teams met for the first time this season. ... The Canucks opened a three-game trip.


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According to Heyworth, the team has divided the map into 55 overlapping regions, or tiles, that will be composed of 22 shots per tile. He said that the camera technology, which Boydston helped to design, is novel in its ability to focus across the entire spectrum of light. Laser focusing also allows for improved image quality at wrinkled parts of the map.
Van Duzer said that the team has already imaged the entire map once and is currently in the process of re-imaging in order to reduce the prospect of errors. He said that while the large size of the map was perceived to be a challenge, an upright easel has been useful in counteracting the problem.
The images are to be processed with the support of the Lazarus Project at the University of Mississippi, using algorithms designed to increase the resolution of the previously illegible text. Afterwards, they will be rendered into natural light, gray-scale, and false-color images for enhanced contrast viewing.
In conjunction with the Beinecke Digital Library, metadata will be assigned to the images taken in order to provide more information about the imaging conditions. The images will eventually become available through the Beinecke Digital Library website. Heyworth estimated that the process of developing versions of the map targeted for researchers would take about six months, with a small jpeg image ready much earlier.
"We try to take images that will be part of the historical record for many generations to come so that the object will not have to be reimaged and exposed," Heyworth said.
Members of the imaging team are giving talks, which are open to the public, at the Beinecke this week about the various aspects of the project.


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It provides faster data transfer rate and more bandwidth to increase memory data transfer rate and computing efficiency, enhancing system performance in 3D graphics and other memory demanding applications.*DDR2 1066 is supported by some of the AM2+ CPUs only. Refer to www.asus.com for the supported CPU models. 64-bit CPU support 64-bit computing, the next generation technology to replace the current 32-bit architecture, delivers advanced system performance, faster memory access and increased productivity. This motherboard provides excellent compatibility and flexibility by supporting either 64-bit or 32-bit architecture. AMD 760G The AMD 760G Northbridge is the latest AMD chipset designed for 5200MT/s HyperTransport™ 3.0 (HT 3.0) interface speed and external graphics in PCI Express™ 2.0 standard.It features the integrated ATI HD3000 graphics and fully DirectX 10.0 comliant. Hybrid CrossFireX Support Boosted Performance with onboard GPU and discrete graphics cardATI Hybrid CrossFireX™ technology is a unique hybrid multi-GPU technology. It takes your gaming experience to the next level boosting PC performance by enabling the chipset's integrated graphics processor and a discrete GPU to operate simultaneously with combined output for blisteringly-fast frame rates unleashing the graphics performance. PCIe 2.0 support This motherboard supports the latest PCIe 2.0 devices for double speed and bandwidth which enhances system performance. DVI Interface DVI (Digital Visual Interface) provides high visual quality of digital display devices such as LCD monitors. SATA 3Gb/s and RAID Support This motherboard supports next-generation SATA hard drives based on the new SATA 3Gb/s storage specification. 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Interview with Nikki Forova: "Skylines in the Sunlight" - 2 views
Michael J on 05 Mar 11Nikki Forova is a Pop singer/songwriter that compares to the likes of Vanessa Carlton, Tori Amos, and Michelle Branch. In October of 2010, Nikki entered and won the MTV Duets contest out of thousands of entries. After a private visit from a representative of MTV, Nikki was flown out to New York for a rare opportunity engagement to perform the song, "A Thousand Miles" with Vanessa Carlton herself and was aired on the MTV television show, "MTV Duets". To listen to my live audio interview and music preview, go to http://www.allindiemagazine.net/2011/03/interview-with-nikki-forova-skylines-in.html If you have a smartphone, download this episode with this link: http://thegreatunknowns.podomatic.com/entry/2011-03-04T11_21_51-08_00 News update: On Sunday, March 27 is another Indie LIVE Showcase hosted by yours truely. Come out to The Mezz inside Hotel Alexandria in downtown LA from 7pm to 10pm and see full band performances by: Johanna Chase and Nobody Gets Killed Also Acoustic performances from 7 to 8pm with: [BREN] Huck Walton and Isaac Sturtevant & Co Ages 18+ and NO COVER! Watch the official commercial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mjeUGHkqvQ


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Nestled inland away from the glistening coastline, the Sunshine Coast Hinterland provides a spectacular backdrop of lush greenery and untouched beauty.
Named by Lieutenant James Cook during his epic voyage along Australia's east coast, the Glass House Mountains are intrusive plugs formed by volcanic activity millions of years ago. Enjoy scenic views from the lookout in Beerburrum State Forest or explore one of the walking tracks through open forests to lookouts offering panoramic views.
Chase waterfalls and enjoy the scenic lookouts from the quaint country towns of Maleny and Montville, through to Kenilworth. Along the way, explore the boutiques and discover the thriving art trial showcasing local artists and their original works.
Discover the heritage village of Yandina and visit the Ginger Factory or visit the iconic Big Pineapple in Nambour.


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Rethink ID policies
to help homeless
I volunteer at the Resurrection House front desk. I suggest an opportunity for local and state government to improve prospects for the homeless to reclaim a "normal" life:
A homeless person cited for sleeping in a public place faces a fine plus court costs of well over $300. Typically, the bill cannot be paid. This leads to more penalties and charges, including the coup de gr�ce: suspension of the driver's license, our society's primary form of photo identification -- until accounts are settled. Other infractions can lead to similar ends.
The loss of a license is profoundly destructive to the homeless as they seek jobs, try to obtain benefits and attempt to access other societal functions where an ID is presented.
A non-driving ID can be purchased, but the homeless may lack the money or documentation required for that. (When you have no permanent address, paperwork and mail are easily lost.)
Hobbled with this additional liability, homeless people's prospects for bootstrapping their way off the street are, to my observation, nil. They are cast into a downward spiral that is nearly impossible to escape.
Perhaps local and state government should reconsider this penalty that is antithetical to the community's own long-term interest in assisting the homeless to help themselves. (It is possible that a hybrid facility as proposed by Robert Marbut might alleviate this pattern by intercepting some homeless offenders prior to adjudication.)
Benjamin Garrett
On kayak fees
I understand that the Sarasota County Commission is putting a $500 fee per kayak on commercial kayak guides using county launching ramps, effectively putting some out of business. This ensures that some people will not enjoy our bay and mangrove areas.
Instead, why doesn't the county use this situation in a positive way? Just come up with an approved ecological lecture on how to save our environment and require that it be given at every rental outing. Maybe there will be volunteers to give these lectures, or the guides could be educated to do so. Any failure to comply could initiate a $500 fine. Maybe the kayak profiteers could be required to hold free student field trips twice a month to increase awareness of the environment.
There are so many opportunities here that would benefit Sarasota in the long run. Maybe the county could come up with things that it would like to be highlighted with kayak trips. Cooperate with small business, don't kill it.
Jon Lewis
GOP went too far
John Boehner, Eric Cantor and our own Vern Buchanan have allowed the tea party extremists to bring the Republican Party and the nation to its knees. They have rolled over and now the tail wags the elephant.
Thousands of Americans, including Republicans, have been furloughed; children, the elderly and veterans are made to suffer while members of the right wing continue to demand that the government remain shut down. If America defaults on its debts, it will wreak chaos throughout the world. They have been warned of the impact of their actions, yet they seem to relish those prospects. Talk about irresponsible.
Even if the shutdown ended today the damage to the economy will be felt not by the billionaire Koch brothers who run the tea party, not by Sarah Palin or Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity or Rick Scott -- it will negatively impact the middle class and the most needy of our country.
The recovery has been stopped in its tracks because of an insidious plan made months ago by the Republican leadership and the tea party, whose hatred of President Obama blinded them to the terrible impact their plan would have on the government, the people of the United States of America, and eventually the world. They have gone too far.
Joseph Bessard II
What to believe?
Sometimes you just come across the perfect quote. This is from "Dark Star" by Alan Furst, set in Europe just as World War II is about to begin:
"Politicians were like talking dogs in the circus: The fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said."
Nancy M. MacKenzie
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Rethink ID policies


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Thanks to those who have generously chipped in to my Paypal account at Darksydothemoon-at-aol-com. I may be able to cut this blegging out within a week or less!
Update: HuffPo says the claim about mutilation may be false, other sites still reporting it.
Just in case any lurking Christians think we write about them too much or exaggerate, I'd take my nosy, over zealous Christian right meddlers any day over these Iraq-Syrian ISIS assholes. This week they ordered everyone in their territory to convert to Islam under penalty of death and, as part of that process, women must under go genital mutilation: [Read more…]


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There is an old adage about the Academic life that reads: "Publish or Perish". Wikipedia reads:
"Publish or perish" is a phrase coined to describe the pressure in academia to rapidly and continuously publish academic work to sustain or further one's career.
Frequent publication is one of few methods at scholars' disposal to demonstrate academic talent. Successful publications bring attention to scholars and their sponsoring institutions, which can facilitate continued funding and an individual's progress through their field.
Let's go a little farther from the "frequent publishing" and just into publishing something in time, and it is evident that a man has two choices:
To publish everything he or she knows and thinks in time, and be completely honest and sincere (without lying, keeping secrets, or even speaking in riddles, but while still keeping some privacy and using tact and wisdom.). ( = "Publish" ).
To keep things to himself or herself, lie, or use other forms of deceit or camouflage, thus resulting in him isolating himself from society and becoming paranoid. (= "Perish" ).
If we look at history, we will see that the most enduring and surviving idea systems were the ones that consistently published: the Greek philosophers, the Jewish scholars, the Muslim scholars of medieval times, the post-Renaissance/post-Printing-press Europeans, the American mass-media / mass-publishing revolution of the 20th century, and the user-generated content Internet of today. Yes, there always was a lot of junk (see Sturgeon's Law that says that "90% of everything is crap"), and that includes most of the content of the very Tanakh (= Jewish Bible) that many people still consider holy. However, there is always a minority of exceptionally good stuff. (For more insights about that, see Paul Graham's essays "What Business Can Learn from Open Source" and "Web 2.0").
It is extremely unlikely that a single man called Aesop told all of the fables that have been attributed to him, and even if (King) David existed, he has not taken all of the actions that he was told to have taken in the Bible, because many such tales were common in the ancient Near East. Instead, they were both ancient memes, and people had no qualms to gradually improve upon them and spice them up.
So you should definitely publish, because keeping your "secrets" or "core competency" for yourself is not only dishonest, but a superbly bad strategy, because you will have little motivation to improve what you did, and other people won't be able to contribute to it, build upon it, or criticise it.
The biggest offender of the "Publish or Perish → Life or Death" principle I can think of and can relate to is the National Security Agency (NSA), and they now face two options: either publish everything they know promptly —or alternatively perish.
How do I plan to make them realise that? See my page with NSA "facts" and its links, as well as my latest anti-NSA activism in the form of the informal screenplay Summerschool at the NSA. The latter stars the actresses Sarah Michelle Gellar (of Buffy fame) and Summer Glau (famous for being featured in xkcd #406: "Venting", and some subsequent xkcd strips) as themselves, and who conspire to slay/terminate/kick-the-ass-of the NSA for good, in a typical David vs. Goliath fashion.
For publishing and therefore life,
This document is Copyright by Shlomi Fish, 2013, and is available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial License 3.0 Unported (or at your option any later version of that licence). In addition to that, the author gives an explicit exemption to use the article in sites with web advertising.
For securing additional rights, please contact Shlomi Fish and see the explicit requirements that are being spelt from abiding by that licence.


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Making your fake guitar automatically whammy may be a step too far, but if you want to make Guitar Hero slightly easier for yourself, check out these guitar pedals. They allow you to either activate star power or hit the whammy bar with your feet instead of your hands, making sure your hands stay exactly where they're supposed to be to not miss a note.
They're wireless, which is nice, but PS2 only, which isn't nice, and run off 4 AA batteries, which really isn't nice. The price of kinda-sorta cheating? $25. [Best Buy via Joystiq]


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Bell: Colts display new identity in win over Seahawks
- Russell Wilson and Marshawn Lynch each had 102 yards rushing for Seattle in its loss
- Colts WR T.Y. Hilton caught five passes for 140 yards and two touchdowns
- Indianapolis LB Robert Mathis recorded six tackles and two sacks
INDIANAPOLIS — As he headed out of the locker room on the winning side of a major comeback in a statement game, wide receiver Reggie Wayne insisted he would not compare.
The Indianapolis Colts elder statesman, almost halfway through his 13th season with the franchise, even rolled his eyes at the notion Sunday.
"I would never compare this team to the other era," Wayne told USA TODAY Sports. "Why should I? This is a totally different team with a totally different mind-set and a totally different system. It's different from the top on down."
He paused, then added: "OK, if there's one thing that's the same, this team will never quit."
The Colts rallied from an early 12-point deficit to knock the Seattle Seahawks from the unbeaten ranks in a 34-28 thriller that reflected the changing times.
The Colts (4-1) had plenty of comebacks when Peyton Manning was the centerpiece of the franchise. But not quite with this type of script. These are the post-Manning Colts, built in a totally different image.
Sure, they have the franchise quarterback in Andrew Luck. And like Manning, he's money in the fourth quarter. Luck has started 21 regular-season games in the NFL, and he has notched nine victories that came with game-winning drives in the fourth quarter or overtime.
Against the Seahawks, Luck coolly triggered a 14-play, 86-yard go-ahead drive and capped it with a two-point conversion pass to Wayne on a busted play. As Luck rolled out and threw a laser on the run to avoid pressure, Wayne turned a corner route into a cross. It all showed just how valuable franchise quarterbacks are.
But this victory wasn't only about Luck, who threw for 229 yards (and not, say, the 414 yards Peyton Manning threw for Sunday):
The Colts got a touchdown off a blocked field goal attempt, with Delano Howell's 61-yard return.
The defense hung tough, and after getting burned by Russell Wilson's scrambling for much of the game, producing game-clinching plays at the finish.
On Seattle's next-to-last possession, linebacker Jerrell Freeman chased down Wilson for no gain on a third-and-2 sprint around left end.
On the Seahawks' final drive, cornerback Darius Butler intercepted Wilson as Freeman barreled toward the pocket on another blitz.
And get this: When the Colts faced a third-and-5 on the fourth-quarter drive that padded the lead with a field goal, offensive coordinator Pep Hamilton didn't put it on Luck's arm. He called for a run by Trent Richardson. First down.
That might have been the most surprising play call of the game, except that Hamilton has declared repeatedly that he wants a power rushing game and balance.
These are the new Colts, gritty and tough enough to beat in a three-week span two of the most physical Super Bowl contenders — the Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers.
"We knew this was going to be a heavyweight fight," Colts coach Chuck Pagano said. "Fifteen rounds."
Listen to Pagano, and there's no mistaking the team identity he and second-year general manager Ryan Grigson are molding. In his postgame news conference, Pagano referred to body blows and boxing matches at least a half-dozen times. He also talked about drawing a line in the sand that they can run the football.
In today's pass-happy NFL?
Talk about the new Colts. In Pagano's mind, it still matters to run the ball. The Seahawks, thanks to Wilson's scrambling, rushed for twice as many yards. But after gaining 29 yards on the ground in the first half, the Colts stuck with it and finished with 109 on 29 attempts.
At halftime, Pagano asked, "Can we run the football?"
"Everyone, to a man, said, 'Yes,'" Pagano said.
Coincidentally, Luck had 29 passing attempts. So there's your balance. But that was only part of the statement the Colts made Sunday.
Against a team that entered the game outscoring opponents 44-7 in the fourth quarter and overtime this season, the Colts scored 11 unanswered points in the final quarter. That, too, is part of the grand plan to win grueling slugfests when it matters most. With balanced toughness.
"I think this game explains what we've set out to do," Pagano said. "If we are fortunate enough to be playing January football, that's what wins games."
Which would offer grounds for the ultimate comparisons to the past.


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MONTREAL — Last month, the C.D. Howe Institute, one of the country's pre-eminent 'think-tanks', released an alarming report titled Outliving Our Savings: Registered Retirement Income Funds Rules Need a Big Update.
The basic thesis of the "e-brief" put forth that the perfect storm of an extended period of low interest rates, combined with the high minimum withdrawal rates from Registered Retirement Income Funds (RRIFs) as well as the longer life expectancies of Canadians, (many of whom rely on RRIF incomes to supplement their modest government pensions) are at risk of outliving their retirement savings.
The report serves as a call for the federal government to lower, or even eliminate, minimum withdrawal rates for RRIFs, at least until such time longer-term fixed income interest rates increase. So far, the government has not indicated any willingness to make such revisions. Therefore, concerned retirees might do well to consider another alternative: registered life annuities.
Annuities have long been pooh-poohed by the investment community because of their inflexibility and irrevocable deposit of capital (usually with no opportunity for growth). However, as we look forward and bear in mind that life expectancies have been extended, quick-witted potential annuitants who take action now, might be one step ahead of the actuaries. Consider further revelations from the C.D. Howe study:
"The life tables current in 1992 (when the RRIF minimum withdrawal rules were last revised) showed that the average 71-year-old man could expect to live 11.2 more years, while the average 71-year-old woman could expect to live 14.6 more years." Fast-forward to the 2009-2011 life tables and the report puts those life expectancies at 14.4 more years for males and 16.9 for females. A case could be made that life insurance companies that issue life annuities have not yet revised their annuity tables to reflect these longer life expectancies thereby giving current (and past) annuitants an inside track on better life expectancy formulas than those coming down the pike.
Mind you, better 'mortality rates,' a rather morbid term used by the actuaries, might be offset by the persistently low long-term interest rates upon which annuity payouts are based. However, if the annuity income can provide the retiree with a fixed income that they cannot possibly outlive, then who's counting, really? Sure, their estates may be taking notice since annuities do not generally provide much in the way of residual benefits for the next generation (though 'joint and last survivor' annuities do provide a lifetime of income payable to the surviving spouse, if applicable). However, given the current set of circumstances as defined above, a perfect solution may or may not be possible, while all solutions should be considered.
Life annuities can be purchased at any age up to age 90. In fact, what many RRIF holders fail to realize is that a registered annuity (an annuity that is created by using registered funds from a RRSP or RRIF) can be purchased using RRIF funds years after the RRIF has been originally established. In fact, the older you are when you apply for an annuity, the higher the payout. So RRIF holders who are looking with concern at their annual depletion rate of their RRIF accounts because of the high RRIF minimums and, quite possibly, the low return on their fixed income investments, might do well to consider converting their RRIF accounts into annuities at later ages.
It should be noted that income from a registered annuity is fully taxable just like the minimum income from a RRIF.
Another strategy to consider might be the combination of a RRIF and annuity. Some might choose to examine what an annuity might pay using half of their RRIF funds, as an example. On one hand, they would enjoy the certainty of the annuity's lifetime of income while, on the other hand, they could continue investing their remaining RRIF and see what the future brings to that program.
Either way, annuities should not be overlooked as a viable alternative to the vagaries of the current RRIF withdrawal minimums.
View the full C.D. Howe Institute report at: http://www.cdhowe.org/tax-rules-put-retirees-at-risk/26395
John Archer is a Financial Security Advisor with RBC Wealth Management Financial Services Inc. in Montreal. firstname.lastname@example.com tel. 514-878-5040.


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- 2-12-16
The first series of numbers is good. The second series of numbers is disturbing.
I'll explain.
Number 1 is the original production rate for the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter. Look it up here (see the chart on page 6). This means the plan was to buy 5 this year, 16 next year, and then make a huge leap to 47 in 2009.
Number 2 is the new production rate, as described in this year's updated spending forecast (see the chart on page 7). So now the US military is buying 2 F-35s this year, 12 next year and only 16 in 2009.
Consider that huge gap in 2009. The old plan called for producing 47 aircraft. The new plan would buy only 16.
Recall that the original business case for the Joint Strike Fighter rested foremost on affordability. A huge driver of affordability is production rate. The more that can be produced, the greater the economies of scale and so forth. If production rate falls, the average unit cost of each aircraft will likely go up.
Under the new spending plan, the US military won't approach the original number for 2009 until 2012. (Also, to make even this schedule work, please assume the flight test phase on the weight-optimized aircraft goes off without a hitch.)
So what does this mean?
- First, it means the US military may not be able to enter full-rate production for JSF until two or three years after 2012, unless the program decides to lower the threshold for what the term "full rate production" means.
- If JSF full rate production is delayed by two or three years, the air force has a new reason to extend F-22 full rate production by two or three years. Recall that the air force wants to keep an active full-rate production line for a fifth-generation fighter, so it follows that a delay for JSF requires an extension of F-22. At current production rates on F-22, a two-to-three year delay could mean an extra 40-60 aircraft.
- The first export versions of JSF may still be available in 2014, but the average unit production cost must be significantly higher than in the original plan.


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ATLANTA (AP) - Police say a student accidentally shot herself in the leg in the parking lot of her midtown Atlanta high school.
Atlanta police spokesman Carlos Campos says the 17-year-old female student at Grady High School sustained a gunshot wound to her thigh around 9:40 a.m. Wednesday. Authorities say she was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital in stable condition.
Campos said the gun belonged to the girl, but he did not know if the girl had the gun inside the school at any point. Police recovered the gun.
Campos said the shooting happened between two buildings on the campus of the school on Charles Allen Drive.
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I noticed Tatyana Goryachova because of her melancholy and because her face was as raw as an uncooked steak, as if someone had scraped a knife across it.
I quickly learned at the journalism seminar I was giving in Kiev, Ukraine, in June 2002 that the editor of the Delovoy newspaper had had acid thrown in her face for writing about corruption in her hometown of Berdyansk.
I decided I had to meet this courageous journalist. I asked her to lunch, and we hit it off.
Since then we've joked a lot about working together. It finally happened in this year's Ukrainian crisis, which the two of us have been covering for USA TODAY.
Tatyana has overcome daunting challenges to stay in the profession she loves.
Two months after we met, she called me in Florida, rattled. "There's a film growing over my left eye," she said. "I'm afraid I'm going to lose it. Could you get me to the States for treatment?"
I got lucky. An American billionaire agreed to pay for her treatment in Dallas on the condition that his identity never be revealed. She now has 97 percent vision in her left eye.
Our friendship deepened when I nominated her for two international courage-in-journalism awards and convinced the World-Herald in Omaha to give her a used press so she could do her own printing. The awards she won were from the International Women's Media Foundation and Human Rights Watch.
I hadn't seen Tatyana for several years when I decided to cover the Ukraine conflict. I found her as determined as ever to get a story, regardless of the challenges.
I spent part of May, June and July reporting from Kiev, Odessa and Berdyansk on my own. Whenever I needed contacts for a story, Tatyana came up with a fistful — so I suggested we work together.
"That would be wonderful!" she said. "It's so hard to do real journalism in Ukraine" — a reference to how many officials keep their thumbs on reporters.
Although I'm now back in the States, Tatyana and I are still collaborating on stories.
The conflict in eastern Ukraine is close to her city, Berdyansk, which has been a staunch opponent of the pro-Russia separatist movement. That has put her life in danger a second time.
The first time was in January 2002, when she crossed a government official who was using his position to promote his business interests at the expense of constituents. He was never convicted of the acid attack he ordered, a situation that's common in the former Soviet Union.
Tatyana hasn't been reporting from the war zone in Donetsk and Luhansk provinces, where the fighting has raged, although she has volunteered to go. She's been gathering information from the hot spots by phone.
Now the violence has come to her.
On July 28, someone fired a rocket-propelled grenade into a state security services building in Berdyansk, which is in Zaporozhye province, adjacent to the war-zone provinces.
The attack appeared to be retaliation for the detention in that building of Yuriy Borisov, the mayor of the Luhansk province city of Stakhanov, where separatist forces are digging in after losing nearby Lysychansk. Borisov faces charges of colluding with the separatists.
In addition to being angry about Borisov's arrest, separatists despise Berdyansk because it's become a staging area for 1,500 troops fighting in the east.
No one in the city knows whether the grenade attack is an isolated incident or the start of a campaign of violence.
Whatever happens, one thing's for certain: Tatyana will continue shrugging off danger and covering stories she thinks are important.
USA TODAY special correspondent Foster has had a 12-year connection with Ukraine as a journalist, media consultant and professor.


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Jane Fonda has landed her first leading television role.
The legendary actress will star in a comedy pilot for ABC called Now What?, according to Variety. The project will be penned by Pushing Daisies' Abby Gewanter.
Jane Fonda to call shots on Aaron Sorkin's new HBO series
Fonda, who guest-starred on HBO's The Newsroom this season, will play a woman who moves in with her daughter to mend their relationship after her daughter publishes a blog post explaining why she hates her mother, Variety reports.
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New technologies have the potential to reduce healthcare costs, improve quality of life and save lives, yet some technologies present the risk of substantial increases in healthcare costs through improper development or implementation. Advances in diagnostic imaging, drug development, implants and intervention must be designed within the context of their value in terms of society's expectations, cost-effectiveness, benefits, and balanced with the potential for producing paradigm shifts in healthcare. There is increased pressure in the U.S. towards the integration of engineering design into cost-effective universal healthcare with societal benefit, yet this must be balanced with support for a process which fosters rapid advances in technological innovation.
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Let's see how long it takes to get it back into my hot little hands. While not a huge amount, it'll buy a LOT of Crunky.
I checked a previous post to see how long it takes for me to finish a four litre bottle of Shochu. I was shocked and surprised that it has been a month almost to the day. I maybe had a glass or two almost every night, so it sounds about right.
Japan is a great place for vices.
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