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What a week! I was out of the country for the last Nationals homestand but you readers did a fantastic job of keeping the blog updated. My only question: Do any of you have photos of George Washington's 7/31 take down of Thomas Jefferson?
Thanks to you, the Washington Nationals racing presidents have taken the lead in the current round of the MLB mascot brackets. Voting for this round closes tonight at 11pm EDT, so if you haven't voted yet, vote now.
Of course, the biggest news is that the Nationals have started winning again, and new 2nd baseman Emilio Bonafacio appears to be the real deal — potentially another
building block of The Plan in place for years to come.
Reminder: Tuesday is Teddy Roosevelt T-Shirt Night at Nationals Park. Which streak will be broken? Bring your Teddy Roosevelt signs and wear your Let Teddy Win gear, and we'll have a little pregame rally behind Section 102. If you don't have your tickets yet, order them today!
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Editor's Note: This is a guest post by Sarah McClung.
When most people hear the term "study abroad," they think of a semester or even a year overseas their junior year of college. Outside of spending your whole masters program at an international university, most people don't think of study abroad in graduate school, let alone study abroad for an MLS or MIS. Imagine the surprise then when I tell others that my very first information sciences class was in Prague. Yes, the capital of the Czech Republic.
I found out about the opportunity to study abroad in a rather round about fashion. Once I decided that I wanted to pursue a MIS, I began scouring the websites of universities I was interested in attending. One of these universities was UNC Chapel Hill. A link to their summer seminars in England and the Czech Republic caught my eye and I felt my heart flutter as I realized that study abroad opportunities existed for library science masters students. While I did not wind up attending UNC Chapel Hill, I made a mental note to remember these programs and the fact that the credits can transfer.
Shortly after I received my acceptance letter to University of Tennessee- Knoxville, I checked out the Chapel Hill program pages again, decided on Prague, and signed myself up for the summer before I started my program at Tennessee (for those of you who are no longer in school, you'll be happy to hear that you can still participate in these programs and not have to pay for credit hours). I spent two glorious weeks befriending fellow library students from around the United States, meeting students and professors from the library science program at Charles University in Prague, and learning from all sorts of librarians in and around Prague. I am still in contact with a number of the library folks I met on this trip and often reminisce about my bang of a start to library school.
There are a number of similar programs offered by other institutions, including:
- University of Southern Mississippi offered a British Libraries and Information Centers course this summer.
- San Gemini Preservation Studies regularly offers preservation courses abroad.
- Pratt Institute offers programs in both London and Florence.
- Florida State University has also offered programs and internships in London and Florence.
- University of Rhode Island has offered a program in China.
Many of the credits earned on these programs can be transferred to your own school if you are not a student at the host school. If having your credits count is important to you, it is highly advisable to look into the program's and your school's policies regarding transfer credits before signing up for these programs.
The keys for getting in on a study abroad library science program are to check often for programs and strike while the iron is hot. Some programs are not offered every year or are only offered once. If you're interested, it might be best to take advantage while you can instead of waiting and risk being disappointed.
If international study is not possible or feasible for you, but you're still interested in traveling and having a non-standard library school or continuing education experience, you might want to explore options that are closer to home. Tennessee offered an on-site federal libraries course in Washington, DC last summer that I quickly signed myself up for. My class and I spent a week visiting two federal libraries a day, befriending one another (a rarity for a mostly distance education program), networking with federal librarians of all stripes, and learning about the vast array of services federal libraries offer and careers an MLS holder can pursue.
Another domestic opportunity I'm aware of is the Rare Book School founded by the University of Virginia. These short, intensive courses cover subjects relating to old and rare manuscripts. I'm certain that there are many, many more unconventional library science educational opportunities available across America and my advice is the same for these as it is for international programs: search often and sign up when you can. Most of the time, these opportunities will only be offered once or for a limited time.
As the saying goes, 80% of life is showing up. Show up for an international or interesting on-site library study experience and allow yourself to find some new library nerd friends, make amazing networking connections, and fall in love with libraries all over again.
Sarah McClung graduated from the University of Tennessee- Knoxville's distance education MIS program in May 2012. She is currently a library assistant at Virginia Commonwealth University's medical library and is in the midst of a job search. She can be found on Twitter @sarahbellum8.
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[Please read "Why we don't always need source citation templates …" before reading this post.]
Elizabeth Shown Mills's 1997 book Evidence! Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1997) contains about 84 total pages of text, not including the Acknowledgment, Introduction, Bibliography, Appendixes, and Index. Of these 84 pages, 25 are contained in the chapter "Fundamentals of citation," 19 are contained in the chapter "Fundamentals of analysis," and 40 are contained in the section of "Citation Formats," which contains templates for over 100 genealogical sources.
The first edition of Evidence Explained (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2007) contains 804 pages, not including the introduction and indexes. Of these 804 pages, 26 pages are contained in the first chapter, "Fundamentals of Evidence Analysis," and 52 pages are contained in the second chapter, "Fundamentals of Citation." The remaining chapters are individually identified by broad resource types.
It is important to note that each chapter does indeed contain "QuickCheck Models" (citation templates) but there is no section of this book that is explicitly called "Citation Formats," or anything of the like. It is also important to note that this book is named Evidence Explained, not Citations Explained.
When this book was first released in 2007, I lugged the 800-plus book on the train every day for a month and read it cover-to-cover, much as I did years before with Evidence! It never occurred to me at the time that other genealogists might consider this book a mere collection of citation templates. I have since become aware that this is exactly how many view the book.
To prove that it is not a mere guide to citations or a collection of templates, let's look at a sample chapter. I chose Chapter 8, "Local & State Records: Courts & Governance," at random.
- The chapter runs from page 371 through page 418.
- Pages 373-382: QuickCheck Models (10 pages).
- Pages 383-385: Basic Issues. This section contains such important information about records analysis as the following passage: "Many of the 'original' court records you consult at the city and county level are record copies (see 1.27) rather than true originals. Historically, attorneys presented the court with documents critical to the case at hand—contracts, depositions, petitions, etc. Courts then maintained these loose documents in bundles, envelopes, jackets, or packets. Certain items of particular significance from a legal standpoint would be copied into record books, although the original packets would usually be preserved, at least for a certain number of years." [8.5, page 385] Note that this is just one short example, and that it does not at all concern citation. These three pages contain only five short example citations, demonstrating other issues being discussed.
- Pages 385-390: Citation Issues. This section discusses specific notes about citing these records. There are several examples in this section, again used to demonstrate the issues being discussed. These notes are insightful, not only for the specific examples being discussed, but for other record groups as well. Take this gem, for example: "Many counties and some cities are no longer functioning jurisdictions or else they have changed their names. Even so, the basic citation pattern remains the same. You would likely add a brief comment to your First Reference Note to explain the situation." [8.12, page 388]
- Pages 390-409: City & County Records. This section contains detailed descriptions and summaries of several record groups, as well as citation examples. It includes background information and basic formats for bound volumes, loose case files, and off-site archival records. The record groups discussed include bastardy cases (presentments), bonds ["Historically, bonds have been posted in a variety of matters. In addition to the better-known administration, guardian, and marriage bonds, bonds also guaranteed appearance in court, peaceful conduct toward others, payment of legal obligations, fulfillment of duty as a public officer, financial support for slaves being freed, and much more." (8.22, page 396)], coroner's inquests, county commissioners' records, election certificates and returns, indigent records, insanity hearings, etc. This section provides not only an education in how to cite various city and county records, with examples that demonstrate variations, but also an education in many lesser-known and lesser-used record groups. It also contains other important tips, like, "The 'source of the source' cited by databases such as this one could refer to the original numbering scheme of the court that created the record or it could refer to a new number assigned by the archive that created the database." This is an important distinction to make when analyzing records not only when citing them.
- Pages 409-418: Colony & State Records. This section contains information about state archival inventories/finding aids, as well as general agencies and record groups: colony-wide courts, state or provincial appellate cases, governors' papers, legislative petitions, and state pension files. Among the information that does not consist of citation templates, one will find the following passage: "When a case is appealed from a local court to a district, state, provincial, or federal court, the file generated at the local level is transmitted to the higher court, where it is assigned a new docket number or case number. The case name may also be reversed. For example, a case might originate locally as John Brown v. Sam Smith. If the case was decided in favor of Brown, then Smith appealed, the name of the new case before the appellate court would be Sam Smith v. John Brown. Your citation to the appellate case should carry the label and the case number used in the appellate court, not the label and number of the original case at the local level." (8.39, pages 413-414)
While the 45 pages in this chapter do contain quite a few citation examples, they include only 10 pages of citation templates. Taken individually, there are 223 citation examples in this chapter. However, this quantity counts each individual citation separately, where the same record may be provided in source list entry, first reference note, and short reference note examples, and counted as three separate citations. The actual number of individual record examples cited within the chapter is less than 100.
The citation examples demonstrate variations in how any individual source might have to be cited. But neither the examples nor the templates will cover every single source that one will encounter. There will be major variations even within one record group, depending on whether you are accessing the record at the courthouse or an archives, a microfilmed or digital image copy, an original file or a record copy; depending on how the archives has organized their record groups; depending on whether the record refers to an earlier case or a separate file; and many other factors. While Evidence Explained does indeed address all of these factors, they are not always noted within the section devoted to the record group that you are looking for specifically.
The bulk of Evidence Explained, in fact, does not consist solely of a discussion of citation issues, as the above brief exploration shows. It certainly contains far more than simply citation templates. Those who have not read anything more than the first two chapters, and the citation models and examples, are missing out on the true value of this book.
And of course, as my previous commenter noted, and there are many out there who seem to agree with him, "I can assure you, I will never read it." If the book were an 800-pound collection of source citation templates, I would agree with you. There would be nothing to read.
In my opinion, Evidence Explained is a much greater work concerned as much with principles of evidence analysis as with source citation. These two aspects of research cannot be separated, though this is a lesson that many still have yet to learn.
If you would like to cite this post:
Michael Hait, CG, "… but we do need Evidence Explained.," Planting the Seeds: Genealogy as a Profession blog, posted 23 Sep 2011 (https://michaelhait.wordpress.com : accessed [access date]). [Please also feel free to include a hyperlink to the specific article if you are citing this post in an online forum.]


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But two years later, confronting one of the automobile-addicted state's most visible problems — crumbling roads — Snyder has roiled conservatives by calling for a major tax increase.
He has proposed boosting the gasoline tax from 19 cents to 33 cents a gallon and hiking car license plate fees by 60 percent, firmly grabbing what many politicians consider a third rail for consumers — gasoline prices.
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People in states with a higher gasoline tax can actually come out ahead financially, said Patrick Anderson, a Michigan economist and limited-government proponent. "If the money builds infrastructure they use to earn money, you can end up in a better place," he said.
But the proposal has stirred turmoil among the state's Republicans, especially those expecting a more traditional cut-other-spending approach for funding core needs.
Road investments have felt the effect of motorists driving less and using more fuel-efficient cars, which cut into fuel tax revenues. The state's main transportation fund is at its lowest level in 30 years when adjusted for inflation.
Snyder wants $1.2 billion in new revenue — nearly one-third over current spending — for upgrading the most commercially important corridors. The system needs a permanent fix — one that doesn't involve taking from other programs, he says.
But many in Michigan's GOP-controlled Legislature flatly reject a tax hike.
"No way," said Sen. Jack Brandenburg, a Republican from Harrison Township north of Detroit. Those who want more road money can "not go to the people for it."
The hike in the gasoline tax and vehicle fees would cost families an average of $120 more a year per vehicle.
"A hundred and twenty bucks is a lot, especially for minimum-wage people," said April Steen, 28, a Lansing nurse who said potholes had bent her rims three times.
Conservative lawmakers are calling for freezing spending on other programs, tapping other funds, privatizing rest areas and leasing advertising space or selling naming rights on state property. The fight may not be resolved until lawmakers' self-imposed deadline for a budget deal in June.


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Do poets have trouble finding rhymes for "hangover"? Or believe that all kids go to bed early on Dec. 31? For whatever reason, there are few good children's New Year's Day, compared with the many about Christmas, Thanksgiving and other major holidays. But John Updike wrote a lovely poem about January that appears in his A Child's Calendar (Holiday House, 32 pp., ages 4-8), and in The Random House Book of Poetry for Children (Random House, 248 pp., $22.99, ages 12 and under), selected by Jack Prelutsky. "January" doesn't mention the New Year but celebrates the month with rhyming iambic quatrains: "The days are short, / The sun a spark / Hung thin between / The dark and dark." The Random House Book of Poetry for Children also includes Sara Coleridge's poem "The Months," which has 12 rhyming couplets, one for each month, that begin: "January brings the snow, / makes our feet and fingers glow."
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amcc/ibm walnut ppc405gp
- 1 walnut - IBM PPC405GP EVB
- 1.1 Overview
- 1.2 apps, theorically
- 1.3 AMCC PowerPC Single Board Computer Modules
- 1.4 cpu
- 1.5 WindRiver VxWorks
- 1.6 boot format
- 1.7 jtag
- 1.8 firmware replacing
walnut - IBM PPC405GP EVB
The board consists of:
- CPU PowerPC 405GP running at 200Mhz
- RAM PC133 SDRAM slot, currently, only supports single sidded DIMMs
- LAN On-chip 405GP ethernet, board doesn't have an ethernet MAC address (the monitor/bootloader is able to fix it)
- UART 2xDCE serial port, speeds up to 230k, only tested to 115200bps
- PCI for pci slots, keyed for 5V only cards
- ROM 512k of boot flash, AMD 29LV040B (amd29lv040b.pdf), socketed
- POWER the board need ATX power
- System PCB ATX board size, 310x250mm
- RTC DS1743, Y2KC real-time clock/calendar 8k x 8 nonvolatile static RAM
- RTC-power-retention DS9034PCX
the real time clock chip is??? there ia chip but dunno about
- FIRMWARE ibm-evb-mon (horrible), it has been replaced by uboot
- CPLD 2x altera EPM7128S (dunno used for)
apps, theorically
- Develop embedded code on an AMCC 440GP Processor.
- You can load QNX or UBOOT -- take your pick. VxWorks? uC/OS-II? Its a matter of preference. Its entirely up to you.
- Monitor program on COM1 using a communication program (like Window's Hyperterminal)
- Similarly, a dumb terminal can be used -- set to the correct parameters described below.
- Communication parameters are 9600 baud, 8 bits, no parity and no handshake.
- Upon power up, you can gain control to the configuration of the eval board via the "console" communication program.
- Intial power on will show the System Info of the eval board (see pics)
- IBM 440GP Power PC
- CPU speed -- 400 MHz
- PLB speed -- 133 MHz
- PCI speed -- 100 MHz
AMCC PowerPC Single Board Computer Modules
In 2004 AMCC licensed the PowerPC 4xx system-on-a-chip design from IBM. AMCC began offering products based on the PowerPC 405 product line and has expanded the product line to include the PowerPC 440 family of products. Each family includes a PowerPC core at the center of a set of integrated peripherals. This makes for a highly scaleable architecture that can be effectively targeted at vertical market applications. As with all Embedded Planet Single Board Computer Modules the AMCC PowerPC products include a firmware suite. Embedded Linux and VxWorks BSPs are available to accelerate development.
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General Description The AMCC PowerPC 405GP and 405GPr family of 32-bit RISC processors is designed to provide a flexible, fast time-to- market hardware solution to satisfy the demands of high-performance embedded applications. Implemented in the scalable PowerPC architecture, the 405GP and 405GPr processors maintain code compatibility with other PowerPC processors for ease in migration and faster time-to-market. An optimized balance of performance, low power, and features makes them ideal solutions for communication, data storage, and pervasive computing applications.
The 405GP and 405GPr processors support speeds of up to 266MHz and 400MHz respectively. Both incorporate a rich mix of features, such as a PCI interface, an SDRAM Controller, a 64-bit on-chip CoreConnect bus, Ethernet and other on-chip peripheral support, and the IBM CodePack™ code compression engine. In addition, power management features, a small form factor, and low power consumption make the AMCC 405 processor family an ideal platform for applications ranging from networking to video.
- High-performance, low-power processors for the most demanding embedded applicationsPowerPC 405GP/405GPr Embedded Processors deliver up to 400MHz performance and a rich mix of features for Internet, communication, data storage, consumer, and imaging applications
- Includes on-chip SRAM with single-cycle access for faster processing in data-intensive applications, such as routers and switches
- Supports full application-code compatibility with all other PowerPC® processors for seamless migration
- Uses the award-winning 64-bit IBM CoreConnect™ high-performance on-chip bus
- Offers a wide array of small-footprint- package options for high-density applications, such as telecommunications devices
- Employs the IBM CodePack™ code compression core to reduce system memory requirements and cost
- On-chip SDRAM Controller
- o Contains separate 32-byte read and 128-byte write buffers
- o Programmable address mapping
- External Peripheral Controller
- o Supports ROM, EPROM, SRAM
- o Flash and slave peripheral I/O devices
- o 8-, 16-, 32-bit external data bus width
- o Programmable address mapping
- External Bus Master Controller - Allows external masters to access SDRAM and PCI
- DMA Controller
- o 4 independent channels
- o Supports transfers between SDRAM, PCI, internal UARTs, and devices on the external peripheral bus
- PCI Interface
- o 32-bit PCI V2.2 compatible
- o Synchronous and asynchronous operation
- o Internal PCI arbiter supports six PCI masters
- o Supports external arbitration
- On-chip Ethernet Support
- o 10/100 MAC
- o Dedicated DMA controller
- CodePack Decompression
- o Stores instructions in memory in compressed format
- o Improves code density by up to 40%
- Other On-chip Peripherals
- o 2 serial ports
- o Master and slave IIC controller
- o Up to 24 general purpose I/Os
- o Interrupt controller including up to 13 external interrupts
WindRiver VxWorks
walnut_target(1) walnut - IBM PPC405GP EVB IBM PPC405GP EVB INTRODUCTION This reference entry provides board-specific information necessary to run VxWorks for the walnut (IBM PPC405GP) BSP. Before using a board with VxWorks, verify that the board runs in the factory configuration by using vendor-supplied ROMs and jumper settings and checking the RS-232 connection. This BSP supports the PowerPC 405GP Rev D and Rev E parts. Rev B and Rev C support is deprecated; support remains as in original release, but has not been validated nor upgraded for this release. Rev A parts are no longer supported with this release. Boot ROMs The IBM 405GP Evaluation Board uses a single VxWorks-supplied AMD Am29F040 ROM (total 512KB). Install the ROM as follows: ROM Socket ----------- - U27 The BSP supports the NVRAM (Dallas Semiconductor DS1743) on the walnut board. The boot parameters will be preserved when the system is powered off. Jumpers Not applicable. FEATURES Supported Features The following features are supported in this release: - MMU on the PPC405GP processor (MMU_BASIC only). - System Timer (uses 405GP PIT hardware timer) - Auxiliary Timer (uses 405GP FIT hardware timer) - Watchdog Timer (uses 405GP WDT hardware timer) - Both 405GP integrated 16550-style serial ports - 405GP integrated Universal Interrupt Controller (UIC) - MAL/EMAC (integrated Memory Access Layer and 10/100 Ethernet MAC) - 405GP PCI controller - AMD 79C97x family of Ethernet controller (using ln97xEnd driver) - Allied Telesyn 2450T adapter (AMD 79C970) has been tested - Allied Telesyn 2700TX adapter (AMD 79C972) has been tested - other adapters with the same AMD controller may also work. - SDRAM autoconfiguration (the default 32MB SDRAM DIMM can be replaced with up to a 128MB DIMM) using IIC to read the DIMM SEEPROM - ECC SDRAM - NVRAM (Dallas Semiconductor DS1743) - Real-time clock (Dallas Semiconductor DS1743) using ds1643rtc.c driver - JTAG RISCWatch bootrom flash programming tool HARDWARE DETAILS This section documents the details of the device drivers and board hardware elements. Devices The chip drivers used by this BSP are: It also provides DCR access routines for the following functional units: - IBM DMA controller - IBM external bus controller - IBM Memory Access Layer (MAL) - IBM SDRAM controller - IBM Universal Int Controller (UIC) Memory Maps This BSP supports MMU on the PPC405GP processor. Memory is mapped using a fixed page size of 4K. The sysPhysMemDesc[] array in sysLib.c is used to initialize the Page Table Entry (PTE) array used by the MMU to translate addresses with single page (4k) granularity. Address translations for local RAM, memory mapped PCI bus, memory mapped IO space and local PROM/FLASH are set here. PTEs are held in a 2-level page table. There is one Level 1 page table and several Level 2 page tables. The size of the Level 1 table is 4K and the size of each Level 2 page table is 8K. Each Level 2 table can map up to 4MB of contiguous memory space. Calculating size of page table required For the following memory map we can calculate the page table size required as follows: Memory Area Address Range Mapped Size Number of Level 2 pages ------------------------------------------------------------------- Local Memory 0 - Ram size 32MB 8 PCI Memory 0x80000000-0x83FFFFFF 64MB 16 PCI IO Regn 1 0xE8000000-0xE800FFFF 64K 1 PCI IO Regn 2 0xE8800000-0xE88FFFFF 1MB 1 PCI CFG 0xEEC00000-0xEEC00FFF 4K 1 PCI IACK 0xEED00000-0xEED00FFF 4K 0 * PP Bridge 0xEF400000-0xEF400FFF 4K 1 UART IO Space 0xEF600000-0xEF600FFF 4K 0 * NVRAM Space 0xF0000000-0xF0001FFF 8K 1 Flash 0xFFF80000-0xFFFFFFFF 512K 1 * included in previous L2 page Total # of L2 pages = 30 Total Memory Required for page table = 30 * 8 + 4 = 244 K. By default, to increase performance the instruction MMU (IMMU) is turned off. In this case, instruction cacheability is controlled by ICCR (which by default is set to cache all RAM). The IMMU can be re-enabled by defining USER_I_MMU_ENABLE in config.h. Serial Configuration The default configuration of the serial ports are 9600bps, 8 data bits, no parity, 1 stop bit. Network Configuration The Enhanced Network Driver (END) used with the integrated EMAC Ethernet core is "ibmEmacEnd": Note that the boot device name is now "emac", rather than "ibmEmac". The EMAC works at either 10Mbps or 100Mbps. EMAC gets the results of the PHY's auto-negotiation process over the MII interface. board. This controller uses the ln97xEnd driver provided with VxWorks. The Ethernet hardware address is configurable at run-time. The first three bytes of the address are always assumed to be 0x0004AC (IBM) and the last three bytes are configurable and stored in NVRAM at address 0xF0000500. To make the ethernet hardware address match the address printed on the decal attached to the Walnut board use the following example as a guide. Ethernet hardware address on the Walnut board decal: 0004AC3E4B22 - boot VxWorks - execute the following command from the shell: sysLanIbmEmacEnetAddrSet 0x00, 0x04, 0xAC, 0x3E, 0x4B, 0x22 Supported BootRom builds The following bootrom file types are supported in this release. When using a Rev B or Rev C processor (which are deprecated), the patch405b.exe or patch405c.exe tool must be run on the entire ELF file. If a compressed bootrom is built, this is not possible. bootrom_uncmp (405GP Rev B (deprecated), C (deprecated), D, E) bootrom_uncmp.hex (405GP Rev B (deprecated), C (deprecated), or D, E) bootrom (405GP Rev D, E only) bootrom.hex (405GP Rev D, E only) ** Note: bootrom builds are only supported through the command line makefiles -- do not use the project mechanism to build a boot ROM. For PPC405GP_REVB (deprecated): A batch file has been provided that will post-process the bootrom_uncmp file. After bootrom_uncmp is built, run the bootrrb.bat file. bootrrb.bat will modify bootrom_uncmp and will create a new bootrom_uncmp.hex. For PPC405GP_REVC (deprecated): A batch file has been provided that will post-process the bootrom_uncmp file. After bootrom_uncmp is built, run the bootrrc.bat file. bootrrc.bat will modify bootrom_uncmp and will create a new bootrom_uncmp.hex. For PPC405GP_REVD_OR_E: It is not necessary to post-process the bootrom files when using the 405GP Rev D or E processor. For all processor revisions: The standard uncompressed ROM and ROM-resident project configuration are not supplied because they will not fit in the bootrom. Creating a bootrom, and bringing up vxWorks Create a bootrom by either a) Rebuilding bootrom_uncmp.hex image and programming it into an AMD 29F040 flash part using the following steps: - For PPC405GP_REVD_OR_E - make bootrom_uncmp.hex or bootrom.hex b) If you have a JTAG RISCWatch processor probe, you can use vx_rw_flash.cmd to program the flash part (see below). Connect a terminal or terminal emulator to the board (the 9 pin connector closest to the printed circuit board). Emulator parameters should be set to 9600bps, 8 data bits, no parity, 1 stop bit. Power-up the board, you should get an error because the default boot line in config.h is not 100% correct for your environment. Type in new configuration parameters using the bootrom menu (set boot device : emac). Your new configuration will be stored in the NVRAM. Workbench bootrom flash programming utility a) Install the WindRiver ICE and power it on. Connect the JTAG interface cable from the Wind River ICE to the PPC405GP board JTAG connector (J24 located on the CPU card). When all of the connections have been made, power up the target board and create a Wind River ICE connection in Workbench. b) Configure the Workbench connection. When creating the connection, specify the PPC405GP CPU. Enter the IP address of the Wind River ICE when requested. c) Load the proper PPC405GP register setting for WindRiver ICE. Once you have connected the probe to the CPU, right-click on the connection in the target manager and attach to the CPU core. At this point, you can go to the main Workbench Window tab at the top of the view and select "show view". Browse the view list and select OCD Command Shell. This launches the original BKM command shell. Navigate to the target manager and right-click on core(405GP). Select the reset tab. You can now put the register file provided by the installation in "play register file" (for example, registers/PowerPC/4xx/IBM/405gp.reg). Reset with IN then click the reset download button. You have now loaded the target board with enough settings to program the boot ROM. Close the Reset and Download window after the register file playback finishes. Select "Window > show view" again and select Flash Programmer. d) Converting the bootrom.hex file to bootrom.bin. Select the Add/Remove tab in the flash programmer. Click "convert file" and navigate to the boot loader project you created previously e.g. WindRiver\workspace\PPC405BootProj\bootrom.hex. Select the project. The start address should be 0x0 and the end address should be set to 0xffffffff. Click "convert and add" to convert the file. At this point, the file is added to the list. Click on the start address entry (should be 0x0) and change it to 0xfff80000. The file is now ready for programming. e) Program the PPC405GP flash. "Erase/Program". Go to OCD command shell and type IN. Be sure this returns the BKM RISCWatch bootrom flash programming utility An IBM RISCWatch based command file (vx_rw_flash.cmd) is provided that will program bootrom_uncmp.hex into the AMD Am29F040 flash part on the Walnut board. A RISCWatch JTAG processor probe and RISCWatch software version 4.5 or newer is required to use this utility. NOTE The vx_rw_flash.cmd utility may need modification if you use a different SDRAM DIMM than was shipped with the Walnut board (see notes inside vx_rw_flash.cmd). To use this utility, - make bootrom_uncmp via the command line interface (not with the IDE). - Run the bootrr_.bat batch file for the correct processor revision. This step will create a patched version of bootrom_uncmp.hex NOTE: The manual step of adding the branch instruction to bootrom_uncmp.hex is NOT necessary if using this utility! - Start IBM JTAG RISCWatch - Make sure that the RISCWatch search path is set up to find files in the Walnut BSP directory. One way to do this is to execute the following RISCWatch command: srchpath add c:\WR\VxWorks\target\config\walnut - Execute the following command to start the flash programming process. This example will place the bootrom_uncmp.hex file into the flash. exec vx_rw_flash.cmd {"bootrom_uncmp.hex"} SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS PowerPC 405GP Rev A (PVR = 0x40110000) This initial hardware sample is no longer supported. PowerPC 405GP Rev B (PVR = 0x40110040) errata There are errata in the 405GP Rev B chip that affect the operation of this Board Support Package. You should familiarize yourself with them. A current 405GP errata list is available from the PowerPC Technical support group (email@example.com). To avoid 405GP Rev B errata a tool patch405b.exe has been included. This tool searches an ELF executable file (output of the linker) for certain patterns of instructions related to the above errata. If it finds a potential problem, it uses reserved space provided by patchtblb.s to create a "patch" which will avoid the errata. The patch table is allocated inside of sysALib.s because it includes patchtblb.s. If you are using a 405GP Rev B be sure to define PPC405GP_REVB in config.h. PowerPC 405GP Rev C (PVR = 0x40110082) errata There are errata in the 405GP Rev C chip that affect the operation of this Board Support Package. You should familiarize yourself with them. A current 405GP errata list is available from the PowerPC Technical support group (firstname.lastname@example.com). To avoid 405GP Rev C errata a tool patch405c.exe has been included. This tool searches an ELF executable file (output of the linker) for certain patterns of instructions related to the above errata. If it finds a potential problem, it uses reserved space provided by patchtblc.s to create a "patch" which will avoid the errata. The patch If you are using a 405GP Rev D be sure to define PPC405GP_REVD_OR_E in config.h. PowerPC 405GP Rev E (PVR = 0x40110145) errata There are errata in the 405GP Rev E chip that affect the operation of this Board Support Package. You should familiarize yourself with them. A current 405GP errata list is available from the PowerPC Technical support group (firstname.lastname@example.com). If you are using a 405GP Rev E be sure to define PPC405GP_REVD_OR_E in config.h. PowerPC 405GPr Rev B (PVR = 0x50910951) errata There are errata in the 405GPr Rev B chip that affect the operation of this Board Support Package. You should familiarize yourself with them. A current 405GPr errata list is available from the PowerPC Technical support group (firstname.lastname@example.com). If you are using a 405GPr Rev B be sure to define PPC405GPR_REVB in config.h. BIBLIOGRAPHY Please refer to the following documents for further information on the Walnut board. PowerPC 405 Reference Board Manual located at 405GP_GPR/PPC405GP_EBM2006__v1_00.pdf obtained from http://www.amcc.com (also on the PowerPC Embedded Processors, Cores, and Tools CDROM) 405GP_settings.pdf included in this BSP. SEE ALSO VxWorks Programmer's Guide: Configuration, VxWorks Programmer's Guide: Architecture Appendix
boot format
original firmware
netbsd-guide says "Do not use the plain ELF kernel as the file provided to the firmware, use the ``netbsd.img file (which is in the format the firmware expects). Of course, you should put the matching ``netbsd as /netbsd on your root file system, otherwise some kernel grovellers won't work"
what is the binary format expected by the original firmware ?
ibm/amcc-walnut jtag connector
|(02) nc
|(04) nc
|(05) nc
|(06) 3.3v
|(08) nc
|(10) nc
|(12) nc
|(13) nc
|(15) nc
|(16) gnd
dht-walnut jtag pinout
- DHT-Walnut: JTAG Pin Out Connector Specifications for DHT-walnut-PPC405GP
- AMCC-PPC4xx: JTAG Pin Out Connector Specifications for AMCC PPC 44X, 40X (4XX) Processors: 405EP, 405GP, 405GPR, 440GP, 440EP, 440GX, 440GR, 440EPX, 440GRX, 440SP, 440SPE
Pin Out description
- TDO=JTAG Test Data Out
- TDI=JTAG Test Data In
- TRST=JTAG Test Reset
- TCK=JTAG Test Clock
- TMS=JTAG Test Mode Select
- *NC*=not connected, used as cable reference
- nc=simply not connected
- SRESET=Soft-Reset
- HRESET=Hard-Reset
- Vcc=board ref voltage, 3V
firmware replacing
see dht-walnut "recover from a breakage" ... using that procedure you will be able to replace the ibm/amcc-walnut original firmware with uboot
please contact me email@example.com
adding promise chip
Promise, a company that is known for their dedication to IDE hard drive controllers since the days of 'EIDE' or 'enhanced IDE' had a pretty hard time when chipset makers as Intel or VIA started to integrate IDE-controllers into their chipsets. People simply didn't need an extra hard drive controller unless they wanted to use SCSI. Each time when a new IDE-specification had been released however, Promise was able to supply a product that would upgrade current systems to the latest IDE-standards. This was the case with 'ATA33', a IDE controller spec that offers up to 33 MB/s data transfer rate between the hard drive and the system, which was first introduced with Intel's good old 430TX-chipset in 1997. At that time, people who owned motherboards with 430FX/HX/VX chipsets (supporting only modes up to 22 MB/s) could upgrade their system with a Promise Ultra33 card, enabling ATA33 mode. Today, Intel's 8xx and VIA's latest chipsets support 'ATA66'. This spec requires new cables between the motherboard and the hard drives, and it's offering up to 66 MB/s data transfer rate. Motherboards with Intel's BX-chipset don't support ATA66 and so Promise could sell their 'Ultra66'-controller to owners of systems with those motherboards.
Now there's one important thing to remember though. Even the fastest IDE drives today can only supply data rates of 30 MB/s when reading the data directly from the disk. Only data that happens to reside in the dedicated read/write cache on the hard drive can be transferred at a higher speed. The same is valid for writes. Data can be transferred to the drive pretty fast, until the cache is full. Then the write speed rate is again limited by the physical abilities of the hard drive, which today is in the range of 20-30 MB/s. Thus you can hardly ever see any improvement when you switch from ATA33 to ATA66. Especially hard drives with small caches can take only little advantage of ATA66. This does of course not mean that the physical read/write rates of IDE hard drives won't skip the 33 MB/s limitation of ATA33 very soon, so ATA66 does make perfect sense as long as it doesn't come at a too high premium.
Besides the normal IDE-controller cards, Promise is also offering RAID-cards for IDE drives. This article will have a close look at Promise's RAID-controller card with ATA66-support, the 'FastTrak66'. RAID
When the average computer user hears the term 'RAID', he either doesn't have a clue what it is altogether, or he might have heard about it in combination with large servers and security issues. Even normal workstations are rarely using RAID, so you might wonder why I am going on about it here.
I also used to put 'RAID' into the world of high-end servers and SCSI-systems, so that it sounded pretty weird to me, when I heard of IDE-RAID for the first time sometime in 1998. However, I finally had to find out that I had been wrong. Once RAID is affordable, it also makes sense in a lot of average systems.
The definition or 'invention' of RAID goes back some 12 years. In a 1988 publication, A Case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) , three University of California-Berkeley researchers (David Patterson, Randy Katz, and Garth Gibson) proposed guidelines for these arrays. The idea was to use 'inexpensive' hard drives to create a large, fast and reliable/secure mean of data storage. If you want to learn more about RAID, I would suggest to read the excellent white paper 'RAID Technology ' from Dell's website. I will only concentrate on the RAID levels offered by Promise's FastTrak66 controller, to keep this article at a reasonable length.
idea of crypt
http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/ ---> http://www.saout.de/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php


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By Janice Harayda
The British equivalents of the Caldecott and Newbery awards are the Kate Greenaway and Carnegie medals, awarded by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CLIP). And CLIP has a well-designed site www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/home/index.php that's a great place to learn about some of the best children's authors and illustrators of the past 70 years. The "Living Archive" page lists all the winners. And if you click on the link that says "Shadow Site," you'll go to another site that has reviews and more.
Many books that have won Greenaway or Carnegie medals are available in American libraries if not always in stores. And some of their creators have won worldwide fame and have delighted children in the U.S. for years – Quentin Blake, Raymond Briggs, Shirley Hughes, John Burningham, Helen Oxenbury, Edward Ardizzone, Jan Pienkowski and others. So if you can't find a medal-winning book, you can often find others by the same author or illustrator. The judges of the Greenaway and Carnegie awards tend to take more risks than the American Library Association's Newbery and Caldecott committees www.ala.org, which have to satisfy more constituences. So the British medalists often include worthy books that would have had little or no chance of an American prize.
One Greenaway winner that's in stock on Amazon and elsewhere is Janet and Allan Ahlberg's interactive The Jolly Christmas Postman (Little, Brown, $17.99, ages 3 and up) www.allanahlberg.com. In this sequel to The Jolly Postman, a letter-carrier calls on well-known characters from fairy tales or nursery rhymes and gives them small items tucked into pockets in the book — Humpty-Dumpty gets a get-well jigsaw puzzle – before ending with a visit to Santa. This is an ideal Christmas gift for 3-to-5-year-olds for whom getting mail is still a thrill.
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On 15 April 2011, Joan Miller wrote a post entitled, "Genea-Bodies: The New Somebodies," in her Luxegen Genealogy and Family History blog. A comment by fellow professional genealogist and blogger Marian Pierre-Louise (who writes the Roots and Rambles blog) inspired one response in this blog (see "Genea-Bodies: A response to the comments" posted on 18 April 2011). The beginnings of the discussion were discussed more fully in that post.
More importantly, it got the world of geneabloggers talking! Here is a list of blog posts circling around the theme of making money through genealogy, that followed the initial discussion:
15 April 2011
- "Genea-Bodies: The New Somebodies," Luxegen Genealogy and Family History
18 April 2011
- "Genea-Bodies: A response to the comments," Tricks of the Tree (now Planting the Seeds: Genealogy as a profession)
- "Genea-Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)," Geneabloggers
- "Genealogy Blogging – For Fun or Profit?," Geneabloggers
- "Genealogy Blogging – for Fun or Profit?," Genea-Musings
- "In Which We (Finally) Discuss Taboo Stuff," Clue Wagon
- "Genealogy Blogging – For Fun or Profit?," Minnesota Family Historian
- "Genealogy Bloggers – Amateurs or Professionals?," Beyond Genealogy
- "Genealogy Blogging: For Fun of Profit?," The We Tree Genealogy Blog
- "Genealogy Blogging – For Fun or Profit?: My Take," Amanda's Athenaeum
19 April 2011
- "Diving in Thumbs First: My Take on the Paid Genealogy Debate," Bayside Blog
- "Careers in Genealogy – "Off the Chart" Thinking," Geneabloggers
- "Us vs. Them," Geneabloggers
- "Careers in Genealogy – My Choices Work For Me," Genea-Musings
- "Careers in Genealogy: Charting Your Own Course," The We Tree Genealogy Blog
- "My Career in Genealogy or Today I Made $1.28 !!," The Armchair Genealogist
- "Careers in Genealogy-"Off the Chart" Thinking: My Take," Amanda's Athenaeum
- "Genea-opportunities – we each choose what is right for us," Dr. Bill Tells Ancestor Stories
20 April 2011
- "Genealogy – What Do You Mean It Isn't Free?," Geneabloggers
- "Bloggers and speakers and researchers, oh my!," DearMYRTLE's Genealogy Blog
- "TANSTAAFGS," Genea-Musings
- "Careers in Genealogy," Minnesota Family Historian
- "What Do You Mean It Isn't Free?," Minnesota Family Historian
- "Free Genealogy Isn't Free," The We Tree Genealogy Blog
- "Joining the "Us vs Them" Discussion," Family History Research
- "Genealogy-What Do You Mean It Isn't Free?: My Take," Amanda's Athenaeum
- "The Pro Versus Hobbyist Genealogist Debate," Ian Hadden's Family History
- "Genealogy and Profit: A Hobbyist's Perspective," You Are Where You Came From
- "Charging For Genealogy Services Is Not Bad," The Family History Researcher
21 April 2011
- "How Do You Make Money In Genealogy?," Geneabloggers
- "What Do You Mean It Isn't Free?," UpFront with NGS [added on 5/10/11]
- "Money, Money, Money and Genealogy," Genealogy's Star
- "NERGC Highlights – Going Pro," The Family Curator
- "How Do You Make Money in Genealogy?," The We Tree Genealogy Blog
- "How Do I Make Money in Genealogy?," Amanda's Athenaeum
- "Let's Keep All Genealogy Free…," Genealogy Frame of Mind
- "Freebies of Choice," The Ancestral Archaeologist
22 April 2011
- "Money Changes Everything – Or Does It?," Geneabloggers
- "Money Changes Everything – Or Does It?," Minnesota Family Historian
- "Money Changes Everything – Or Does It?," The We Tree Genealogy Blog
- "From the Archives: Can I Turn My Love of Genealogy into a Career?," The Armchair Genealogist
- "More on money and genealogy? How can that happen?," Genealogy's Star
- "Genealogy, Computers & Money," JLog
- "NERGC Highlights – On the Topic of 'Making a Buck'," The Family Curator
23 April 2011
- "Making Money from Genealogy," Genealogy Leftovers
24 April 2011
- "…and adding my $.02 to Making Money by way of the Gene Pool," Wading in the Gene Pool
And luckily, the conversation has not ended, as the following posts have appeared in the meantime:
- "A Unique Business Idea Evolves from A Love of Genealogy!," The Armchair Genealogist (27 April 2011)
- "Yep Its That Free Genealogy Thing AGAIN!," Genealogy Frame of Mind
- "How to Become a Paid Researcher," Genealogy Leftovers (30 April 2011)
- "Vendors," The Chart Chick (5 May 2011)
- "The Genealogy Conference Model, The Speakers' 'Big Bucks,' And Maybe a Turducken?," Mnemosyne's Magic Mirror (10 May 2011) [added on 15 May 2011 -MH]
- "Genealogy Conferences – Some Thoughts On 'The Money Thing', PR, and How 'Free' Is Often An Illusion (Part Three)," Mnemosyne's Magic Mirror (13 May 2011) [added on 15 May 2011 -MH]
Quite a few bloggers commented in this discussion. Some were professionals, some were amateurs/hobbyists. Some of the posts comment directly on issues relevant to professional and transitional genealogists.
I would recommend that anyone interested in these issues read this series of posts. And if you know of any other posts that were missed in this survey, please let me know of them in the comments below!


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Field test review of the new Edelrid Mega Jul belay device, a serious contender for a "semi-auto" device.
Edelrid Mega Jul | $29.95 edelrid.de.com ★★★★
The Edelrid Mega Jul comes as close to being a do-it-all, one-stop-shop no-drop belay/rappel device as any I've ever seen. This multifunctional tube-style device is super light, feeds slack to a leader much more quickly than other devices in its category, and can be used in a number of different configurations that increase its braking power to a degree on par with mechanical auto-locking devices.
Two observations: First, I recommend using belay gloves, especially for lead belays, since you can get a rope burn on the crease between your thumb and palm when using the device in Thumb Mode. Second, because this device can be used in so many configurations, I found it initially confusing. The instructional graphics on the side of the device didn't really help, either. I had to dedicate some time to memorizing the way the device worked in order to not fumble around with it out in the field. During a month-long learning curve I was 50/50 for loading the device wrong when belaying a second from above.
The Mega Jul weighs just 65 grams and can be used for double or single ropes from 7.8mm to 10.5mm. I only tested ropes in the 9.1 to 9.8 mm range. Edelrid is also making a sister device, the Micro Jul (not tested), that weighs 60 grams and is meant for half ropes in the 6.9mm to 8.9mm range.
The Mega Jul's most distinctive feature is plastic green U-shaped bend in the device's cable. This "thumb loop" is primarily used during lead belays. Load the rope into the device such that the thumb loop points away from you. Hook your hand underneath the thumb loop as well as the rope so both are sitting in the "basket" between your thumb and palm. In this configuration, you never have to take your break hand off the rope. Feeding slack is accomplished by lifting the thumb loop (and rope) up away from your body. Pull slack with your guide hand (left hand) and the rope feeds through the device much quicker and more easily than with other tube-style belay devices. It feeds almost as quickly and easily as a Grigri 2. Best of all, the Mega Jul locks down on the rope in the event of a fall because the locking carabiner pinches the rope into a notch in the device. I know companies today shy away from the word "auto-locking" but Mega Jul certainly does a great job of braking a fall with very little effort.
The type of locking carabiner you pair with the Mega Jul is important. I tested it with the Edelrid HMS Strike Screw FG, which can be purchased with the Mega Jul as a package for $49.95. I tried using the Mega Jul with other locking carabiners of various sizes, and it didn't quite work as well. Carabiners of thicker diameters performed better, but thinner carabiners allowed rope slip.
To lower a leader after a fall, there are two options—neither one fantastic, representing the biggest shortcoming with this device, but both get the job done. One: use the device in Thumb Mode by pulling the thumb loop and rope away from the harness, this time with your left hand, and controlling the descent with your brake/right hand. Again, belay gloves are a must. Two: Lever Mode. Hold the rope with your brake/right hand when preparing to lower a climber, and use your left thumb to push down on the part of the device that looks like the tip of a nose, which releases the break on the rope. I found Lever Mode preferable.
Like most other belay/rappel devices on today's market, you can belay a second from above with auto-blocking capabilities. Initially, I had a tough time with this mode because my natural instinct was to clip the device to the anchor from the thumb loop—not correct! You clip through the metal loop just beside the thumb loop. I also got confused about which direction to put the bite of rope through the device. Once I got it sussed, however, I could put a second (or two seconds) on belay quickly. Another great feature is that if you need to a lower a second in this configuration, you can clip a third carabiner through the small hole at the "nose tip" feature and use that as a lever to release the auto-block. This gives the Mega Jul a huge advantage over most other autoblock devices, which require more fiddling and backups.
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The Mega Jul is the lightest, most versatile and best-performing all-around belay device I've ever used—once you get comfortable with it.
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As you might have noticed, by my lack of blog posts last week, I have been busy around this place. We've been working diligently at getting the tree in the back yard cut down, the branches chipped, and the gardens set up. So much so that we've actually neglected a few other things around here. Things like ordering a car seat for baby number three as well as our birth kit. I'm in my third trimester now, and we have pretty much nothing set up for the baby yet.
Here's what we have been doing though. Rick and the neighbor, Doug, got the wood chipper working and made short work of nine of the eleven piles of branches in the yard. The other two piles were too big to put through the chipper, so they'll have to wait.
There's still more of the tree to cut down, but the weather has been uncooperative (too windy) to take down the tallest parts. Hopefully this week, before the tree leafs out!
After expressing how chicken wire works just fine to protect your flock from predators, we lost two hens to a fox. Now to our… erm… credit? shame? it wasn't a failure of the chicken wire, so much as a failure to close up the coop at night. I confess to being a lazy chicken owner, and leaving the coop open much of the time. The hens put themselves to bed, and Josie, our big mutt, used to really help in keeping predators away. But this is the first spring we are without her, and I really wasn't thinking much about it until I found a hen dead one morning last week. She was headless and we're pretty sure Rick scared the fox away when he was leaving for work. Somehow, neither of us heard a commotion in the coop, but it was windy and Rick thought he had heard the kids' tent blowing around. Turns out it was probably a chicken scuffle.
We of course cleaned up the mess, and that evening, just around sunset, when Rick went out to close the coop, he found dead hen number two. It had JUST happened. The neighbor had scared the fox as they walked by. We think that the fox might have been coming back for the first hen that it left, and since it was gone, it killed another. Since we found this one fresh – very very fresh, Rick butchered her up (discarding the part where the fox bit her – just her back) and we made chicken and dumplings. She was actually our oldest hen, and I don't think any amount of stewing would have made her legs edible – think really tough chicken jerky. But we tried at least, and her breast meat was ok, and she made tasty broth.
The good news on the chicken front is we're pretty sure those were the two hens that were eating eggs, and the older hen really wasn't laying much at all anymore, so the fox saved us some trouble of getting up the nerve to off them ourselves. We've not had anymore broken or eaten eggs, and our egg numbers are still about what they were, since now we're getting them all instead of racing to beat the hens. AND the chicken wire is still doing it's job, as long as we keep doing ours.
This weekend we spread the wood chips to mulch the garden paths. Our neighbor watched over the fence. I know he thinks we're crazy for going to the effort to mulch the tree instead of just hauling it to the dump, but I'm happy it's going to good use, and hopefully it'll work at keeping weeds down between the beds.
Otherwise, we made a trip to the garden center to get our tomato and pepper plants. I'm excited to try a couple varieties that we've not done before. I spent some time spreading compost in my tomato bed and the plants are hardening off this week to get ready to go to the ground this weekend. I'm chomping at t he bit to get the summer things in the ground. Just waiting for the weather to get on board too.
So this week I plan to get a few more things outside organized, but I also am going to try to focus on a few inside projects as well. Like laundry and getting the baby's room emptied. There needs to be a balance, I know. The to-do list seems never ending this spring. But little by little we seem to be getting items crossed off.
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Prosecutor aggressively tries to poke holes in woman's story about Arizona boyfriend killing
PHOENIX – A woman charged in the stabbing and shooting death of her Arizona lover traded barbs with a prosecutor under a withering cross-examination as she struggled to explain why she can recall precise details of her life from years earlier, yet can't remember crucial aspects of the murder case against her.
Jodi Arias, 32, faces a potential death sentence if convicted of first-degree murder in the June 2008 killing of Travis Alexander in his suburban Phoenix home. She was testifying for a ninth day Thursday as the prosecution began its cross-examination, hammering her with questions about her apparent selective memory.
Questioning grew so heated Thursday that the judge admonished Arias and prosecutor Juan Martinez to stop talking over each other. Arias smirked at times while Martinez stammered in frustration.
Trial is set to resume Monday.
Alternating between tears and poise, Arias has testified in painstaking detail about the events that led her to kill Alexander, she says in self-defense.
Yet when asked for details from the day of the killing, she didn't recall much.
"Do you have memory problems, ma'am?" Martinez asked.
"Sometimes," Arias replied.
Martinez hammered back, noting it's puzzling that she can't remember such crucial details to the case, yet "can tell us what kind of coffee you bought at Starbucks sometime back in 2008."
"When do you have memory problems? Martinez asked, raising his voice.
"Usually when men like you are grilling me and screaming at me or men like Travis," Arias replied calmly.
Martinez also questioned her contention that she was monogamous throughout her relationship with the victim while referring to Arias' previous testimony that the day she killed him, she went to visit a man in Utah and slept in his bed, kissing and cuddling.
She said she didn't know Alexander was dead when she left his home, noting her memory from that day has "huge gaps."
"At that point you didn't know, according to your own story, that Mr. Alexander was dead, right?" Martinez snapped.
"I guess I knew. I just wasn't expecting it," Arias said softly. "I wasn't really in my own mind."
"Make up your mind, please," Martinez responded sharply.
Arias testified on Wednesday she recalled little about the day of the killing. She remembers Alexander in a rage, body slamming her and chasing her around his home.
She said she grabbed a gun from his closet, and it went off, but she wasn't sure if she shot him. She had no explanation for his 27 stab wounds and slit throat. He had been shot in the forehead.
Arias also attempted to explain away her repeated lies. She first told authorities she knew nothing about Alexander's death, then later blamed it on masked intruders before eventually settling on self-defense.
She said she was scared of being arrested, had been contemplating suicide and didn't want to sully Alexander's name with accounts of his violent behavior and lurid details of their sexual relationship, given his public persona as a devout Mormon who was saving himself for marriage.
Martinez also hammered her Thursday on other changing stories. Arias claims she injured her right finger when Alexander beat her months before the killing, even once holding up her crooked digit in a dramatic display for jurors in previous testimony.
However, Martinez noted Arias told a detective after her arrest that she injured her finger on the day of Alexander's death when one of the intruders attacked her.
"You gave him a different story," Martinez said pointedly.
"Yes," Arias replied.
"Then you testified about it in this court and you gave us another story of how this happened, right?" Martinez asked.
"No," Arias said defiantly.
Martinez noted that Arias made no mention of injuring her finger in a fight with Alexander in her journal where she kept pages of intimate details from her life.
"And no one knew about this supposed or claimed injury to your finger until after you killed Alexander, right?" he said.
"That's right," Arias replied.
Prosecutors say Arias planned the killing in a jealous rage, savagely attacking Alexander in his home.
Alexander's friends say Arias is lying about her contention that he had sexual desires for young boys, and that he was physically abusive, and no witnesses have testified of any previous violent behavior or his interest in children. Authorities also have said they did not believe Alexander owned a gun, and there has been no testimony to back up Arias' story that he kept one in his closet.
Arias' grandparents reported a .25 caliber handgun stolen from their Northern California house about a week before the killing — the same caliber used to shoot Alexander — but Arias claims to know nothing about the robbery. She says she brought no weapons to Alexander's home on the day she killed him.
Prosecutors must prove she planned the attack in advance to secure a first-degree murder conviction and a chance for a death sentence.
Of the day she killed Alexander, Arias says she only remembers shooting at him, putting a knife in the dishwasher and disposing of the gun in the desert as she drove from Arizona on her way to Utah. And she immediately began planning an alibi "to "throw the scent off for a little while."


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