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I find myself in a curious state of mind at the moment, as a result of the protest against the excessive rise in students fees/education cuts in London on Thursday, which resulted in destructive and strange events that burst out amid a background of peaceful and reasonable protest.
More than that,on a personal note I find that as well as the continuing student protests there are other things such as panic for my future, the future of relatives and friends that all seem to be pressing upon me and disturbing my psychic equilibrium. I am sure most people are also experiencing this on some level, so much change has occurred, with ordinary people and politicians behaving in forceful ways.
I think a lot of these forces that have laid dormant for a long time are on the one hand very creative and liberating and on the other, especially those illustrated in the news coverage, very destructive but undeniably powerful.
Before I carry on , some music, and in order to maybe bring about a bit of equilibrium I will find something peaceful. This is a song about how winter changes our frame of mind. Joni Mitchell "Urge for Going"
This unusually cold winter in the UK is another factor to affect the psyche here, violent protests usually happen in the heat of summer, but for those thousands of young people to come out in sub-zero temperatures and to keep coming back and protesting even though they know they may be kettled by police for eight hours or more, that's the depth of feeling and determination among them. If the police used water cannons, the water would turn to ice after so many hours, but the enthusiasm of youth cannot be frozen so easily, their anger blazes like the bonfires they make to keep warm when hemmed in, at least for the time being.
My experience of the protest. Although I am a student I hadn't managed to get to a protest until last Thursday due to other commitments, but when our lecturers were emailing us to go for the future of our own courses, and knowing it was the date of the vote in the House of Commons, I decided to get there somehow. Unfortunately I was delayed, so I was only able to join the demo around 3 pm and missed the march. I carried no water or food in case I got kettled but went anyway. I had no idea of the route of the march but for some reason I was convinced it was to finish inParliament Square. It was hard to get there, Westminster tube station was closed so I went to Embankment, Trafalgar Square was unusually empty, I resisted a strong urge to go to the National Gallery and look at the Impressionist paintings. One of the many strange things that day, I later found out that there had been a student "sit-in" at that very gallery and if I'd followed my instincts I could have joined in.
Whitelhall and other main roads leading off from Trafalgar Square were all sealed off by police. I took a little side-street I knew and walked almost intuitively towards St. Jame's Park, ending up in Victoria Street. I walked past sixty or so riot police, but I felt safe in spite of that and carried on until I reached the "kettling" police line that surrounded Parliament Square. To get a better view I went up onto a piece of grass in front of the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre. Along with other buildings in the area it was full of police.
Where I was, everyone seemed very calm, cheerful, holding their placards, some chanting gently,news reporters and ordinary people taking photgraphs. From where I was standing, the events in Parliament Square sounded and looked fairly peaceful.I was there for two hours and apart from two fireworks going off, it seemed calm, with a party atmosphere.
I saw a woman around my age who was standing on her own behind me, she was holding up a notepad on which she had simply written in biro :" Parents Against Student Debt". I stood with her and we chatted for a long time. Many other young people took photos of us.It was such a simple thing she had written, but effective and drew lots of attention.
I don't go on many demos, but whenever I do, I meet wonderful people and it's the only time in London where you can go up to a stranger and make amazing friends as you have an instant rapport through supporting the same cause. She worked in adoption and had two children,one about to go to Uni and the other already having to pay a substantial student debt from their studies. We both were pretty passionate about education and the future of our society. We talked about how education is the route out of poverty. I said how much confidence in myself my first degree gave me, otherwise my life would have been quite different. My father came from a very poor background but worked hard at school and managed to get a degree and a very good job unlike the rest of his family.
Due to my "Arts and Humanities" University education, I am able to express myself and have confidence in my thoughts. I believe that education, partlicularly education in the arts, is crucial to our society. Science is profitable and the arts and humanities seen as a logical waste of money, but to be able to express yourself and come up with new philosophies, new points of view, and to understand the ethics and processes of other writers, artists, musicians,philosophers,cultures and historical events, that is as important as science. Of course you can do all those things without a degree but I cannot emphasise enough that without mine, this blog would never have been written.
Scene from Parliament Square. Most people seemed cheerful even though they were being "kettled".
We talked at length about various issues in education,society and politics and I will not go into them all. I guess one of our most basic points, having experienced parenthood and life's various expenses, was that it was fundamentally wrong for a young person who might, for instance, one day want to get married, buy a house, have children, for which they would need a well paid job, which would then require a degree, to start their lives in a massive amount of debt. However they rephrase it with " oh well , you only have to pay £7 a week" etc.. the bottom line is that you will start your adult life in debt and may finish your adult life in debt, unless you come from an over-priviledged family.For parents who have their children at Eton, at nearly £10 000 per term, University fees will not seem that bad, for a parent with their child in private education in general, it won't be a huge step to pay £9000 per year. But for an average family, who struggle to pay their rent or their mortgage, and fuel bills, food, council tax, TV license, water bills, internet bill etc…how could they possibly allow themselves or their children to borrow that amount of money and pay it back with interest? Since employers require a degree for many basic jobs, young people are in fact "kettled" within the system.
As we discussed these issues, on our patch of grass overlooking Parliament Square, a smartly dressed woman came up to us and said in a well-spoken voice and in a terribly British way :"Excuse me , would you like these mince pies? We brought them with us in case we got "kettled"". Looking around me there were many similar women,it was a bit like being at a Women's Institute fête, to which the mothers had brought along many smiling, chanting, teenage children holding placards with witty slogans, few made made by socialist worker for a change. It was very white, middle-class, British and "terribly nice" at our end. Apart from being kettled out of Parliament Square, and the heavy police presence, the atmosphere was calm and party-like.
As it got to five past five o'clock ( according to Big Ben) , we decided to leave as the vibe changed, I speculated that as we got closer to the six o'clock news, that some more militant protesters might do something to get on TV. Although there was lots of space around us, and we felt very safe,we saw a group of maybe 60 people come out of nowhere, dressed in black carrying a black flag running towards a police line and trying to get into the square. I guessed they were anarchists who had been playing cat and mouse games with the police all afternoon. I didn't see that much of a scuffle between them and the police but it was a sign that things could get agitated.
So in a boring way, I went home , saw no trouble and was anxious to watch the remainder of the protest and the vote on TV.The demo I saw was peaceful but the protest was hemmed in with people unable to leave in single or other numbers.
Next some more Joni, this time a song she wrote about lying politicians. Well have you ever met an honest one?
" The Way It Is " Joni Mitchell ( I can't embed this click on it then to link)
This is her performance live on TV New Year's Eve 1968 (I think, please correct me if I am wrong), a coded political song, but hauntingly effective:
and now for the other side of it all:
(apologies for advertising! for using a news channel but at least there is no commentary, just footage)
Once I got home and turned on the news, I was expecting some level of trouble as the evening drew in, partly because it was there were bound to be some people wanting to cause a ruck , and because all those trapped there would be wanting to get home. But I didn't expect so much chaos across central London.
How did this transformation of British Youth happen so rapidly? Of course there will always be some more extreme political groups and within them, some people who want to riot, but the majority were peaceful protesters. What I am slightly susrprised by is the turn around in the thinking of young people in such a short time.
Leaving the rioters to one side for now, let's talk about the newly politically motivated hippies…When I started my University course back in 2008, the head of our Student's Union gave a talk where hippies were completely ridiculed. Now the president of our student's union has long hair and seems like a hippie to me. I am very happy with this, but such a turnaround in so short a time! There were so many long haired young men on the protest, that I wondered how I missed the announcement that being a hippie was cool again.How did they get the time to grow their hair so long? Until recently "Cheech and Chong" was how most students mentally represented hippies, but this seems to be replaced now with the cooler image of "Che Guevara".
Bob Marley – Burnin' & a Looting
The worst casualty Alfie Meadows, looks to me like a peaceful hippie from this photo, and not a violent thug. Also he is a philosophy student who was protesting with his lecturer mum, and we all know just how violent they are! There was probably no reason at all for his injuries apart from being forced to stay in the same place and someone hitting him with something over the head, somehow,whoever they might be. It should be on camera somewhere, the place was filmed from every possible angle.
There are many stories to be told within that one day of protesting and rioting, from different points of view but whatever pespective you take, it will be a day remembered in history. Not so long ago I was trying to encourage young people to protest as is their democratic right, but I never meant for anyone to be injured or any violence of any kind to occur. My heart goes out to anyone who was injured especially Alfie.
Once I was watching the news events unfolded that seemed weirder by the minute.What kind of constellation was present to cause even the royal family to blythely drive into the middle of the protest? I can't help but think it was fate aiding and abetting a bit more chaos.
A few months ago I was encouraging young people to go on protests and was dismayed at their political apathy. Now I would implore some calm. Smashing things up violently is couter-productive and in the long-term, the violence and aggression will rebound on those who caused it, whoever's side they are on.It's one thing to smash down the Berlin wall, it's another to go on the rampage and just smash things because they are there. In the end it's like smashing up your own home, your own future, there's got to be a better way to demonstrate, and there's got to be a better way to police the demonstrations. There's also get to be a better way of dealing with any problems in our education system. If they have to cut down the number of students, why not raise the academic entry level but make it free, and why not create jobs that don't require a degree?
Students have been a nice little earner for the banks lending them money for too long.
Bob Marley again
I have worn myself out now from ranting and no doubt the reader too.
So as always
Love and Peace


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Is it possible to make a movie both histrionic and dull? "Diana" manages the feat. The film, based on a book by Kate Snell, looks at the romance between a heart surgeon and the Princess of Wales, who comes across here as a lovesick, clingy stalker (by her own admission) during the two years leading up to her death.
Naomi Watts plays the title character, and she works hard to mimic Diana's head tilt, sidelong glances and inflection, but her efforts seem wasted given the soap opera dialogue and frivolous plot. When she meets surgeon Hasnat Khan (Naveen Andrews), it's love at first sight - for her, at least. She starts learning about medicine and jazz, two of his passions, while he maintains an aloof demeanor. When he does come around, the romance turns out to have neither heat nor heart as Watts and Andrews generate virtually no chemistry.
Of course, we know the match turned out to be star-crossed. When Diana died in a 1997 car crash, she was with Dodi Fayed, her boyfriend at the time. What the movie doesn't explain is why we should care about the fate of the movie's central romance.
When Diana died tragically and too young, so much of the world grieved. But the woman whose death spurred a mountain of flowers outside Kensington Palace is trivialized here. Even her humanitarian efforts seem motivated by her romance, and she is shown with her sons only once from afar. This Diana is the protagonist in a Lifetime movie, fighting for an unsound relationship that can never work - even resorting to screaming his name outside of his apartment in the middle of the night - because of her paramour's aversion to fame and his family's disapproval.
There are traces of a more compelling story in "Diana." The film manages to capture the isolation of being surrounded by people who wanted nothing more than her picture and details of her personal life for the next day's front page. At one point Diana is shown inside the empty Royal Opera House, talking on the phone to her son, Wills, about how she's having a grand time. It's not exactly subtle, though it effectively conveys a point. But director Oliver Hirschbiegel seems just as content examining a more superficial story.
To justify the film's focus, the movie's final moments intimate that, had things worked out between Diana and Hasnat, her tragic end might have been avoided. There are voice mails that go unreturned and even a moment when Hasnat might have made some kind of history-altering gesture. This theory glosses over the fact that Diana and Fayed's chauffeur was driving both recklessly and under the influence while trying to flee the paparazzi on Aug. 31, 1997.
In these moments, the movie generates more skepticism than compassion. "Diana" isn't just an egregious case of rewriting history, but one of oversimplifying it.

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Oldspeak: "Appreciate the ruthlessly Orwellian irony. At a time when a fucking CONSTITUTIONAL LAW PROFESSOR is President. In the nation where journalism is the only constitutionally protected profession, press freedom is being snuffed out. With the Borg-like 1% corporate media-industrial complexs' assimilation, evisceration & homogenization of journalism and information dissemination continuing unabated with the soon to be approved Comcast/TimeWarner merger; while respected journalists, their sources and government/corporate whistleblowers being accused of terrorism & espionage, unlawfully harassed, threatened with arrest, jailed and face decades long prison sentences, this doesn't come as very much of a surprise. in this context it's easy to understand how square in the middle of an unprecedented torrent of a range extreme weather events cause by anthropogenic global warming/climate change, the weather reported as sensationalized disaster porn, while global warming/climate change is rarely if ever mentioned in relation. 97% scientists sounding the alarm are ignored. it is as Neil Postman said in 1985 "Americans are the best entertained and quite likely the least well-informed people in the Western world". prescient words. We are literally entertaining ourselves to extinction." -OSJ
By Conor Friedersdorf @ The Atlantic:
Every year, Reporters Without Borders ranks 180 countries in order of how well they safeguard press freedom. This year, the United States suffered a precipitous drop.
The latest Press Freedom Index ranked the U.S. 46th.
That puts us around the same place as UC Santa Barbara in the U.S. News and World Report college rankings. If we were on the PGA tour we'd be Jonas Blixt of Sweden.
If we were on American Idol we'd have been sent home already.
Countries that scored better include Romania, South Africa, Ghana, Cyprus, and Botswana. And 40 others. Put simply, it's an embarrassing result for the country that conceived the First Amendment almost 240 years ago. These rankings are always a bit arbitrary, but we're not anywhere close to the top tier these days. Why?
The report explains:
… the heritage of the 1776 constitution was shaken to its foundations during George W. Bush's two terms as president by the way journalists were harassed and even imprisoned for refusing to reveal their sources or surrender their files to federal judicial officials. There has been little improvement in practice under Barack Obama. Rather than pursuing journalists, the emphasis has been on going after their sources, but often using the journalist to identify them. No fewer that eight individuals have been charged under the Espionage Act since Obama became president, compared with three during Bush's two terms. While 2012 was in part the year of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, 2013 will be remember for the National Security Agency computer specialist Edward Snowden, who exposed the mass surveillance methods developed by the US intelligence agencies.
Elsewhere it notes:
US journalists were stunned by the Department of Justice's seizure of Associated Press phone records without warning in order to identify the source of a CIA leak. It served as a reminder of the urgent need for a "shield law" to protect the confidentiality of journalists' sources at the federal level. The revival of the legislative process is little consolation for James Risen of The New York Times, who is subject to a court order to testify against a former CIA employee accused of leaking classified information. And less still for Barrett Brown, a young freelance journalist facing 105 years in prison in connection with the posting of information that hackers obtained from Statfor, a private intelligence company with close ties to the federal government.
Some Americans reading those critiques will object that terrorism is a real threat, and insist that national security and freedom of the press must be balanced. Even if you agree in principle, consider the countries that rank highest on the 2014 Press Freedom Index. Here are the top 10: Finland, Netherlands, Norway, Luxembourg, Andorra, Liechtenstein, Denmark, Iceland, New Zealand, and Sweden.
Raise your hand if you're afraid to visit any of those countries.
Does anyone truly believe that the way they treat the press is imperiling their security, or that America couldn't prosper even if it was as friendly to the press as Finland? Does Team Obama believe that the terrorists are going to win in Sweden, New Zealand, and Iceland because their balance is too press-freedom friendly?
Take it from Lee Greenwood. "I'm proud to be an American because at least I know I'm freer than 47th-ranked Haiti" just doesn't have the same exceptionalist ring to it.
The index methodology is here. Having looked it over, I still want the U.S. to be on top next year. How about you?


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1. What is that copyright/license header in that .java source file?
This header looks something along the lines of:
/* Copyright (C) 2000-2007 Christoph Steinbeck
* 2001-2007,2009 Egon Willighagen
* Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License
* as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1
* of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
* All we ask is that proper credit is given for our work, which includes
* - but is not limited to - adding the above copyright notice to the beginning
* of your source code files, and to any copyright notice that you may distribute
* with programs based on this work.
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* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
* along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
This header has two major pieces: 1. who has the copyright on this file; 2. what is the license that makes is Open Source.
This is crucial information, and the CDK has a bad history in keeping track of primarily 1. Many source files, actually, still list the Chemistry Development Kit Project has copyright owner, which is a false statement, as the CDK Project is not a legal entity and in many countries therefore not allowed to own copyright. Moreover, none of the contributors ever signed a legal paper to re-assign copyright to this project anyway, like we do with many of our ACS papers.
2. But doesn't the Git/SVN/CVS history have this copyright owner information?
It is true that the Git, SVN and CVS histories of the CDK source code contain a lot of information on this. However, this is not helping, because this information is lost when we distribute our source code. And when others distribute our source code (e.g. Debian and Ubuntu), they have no means of keeping track of this.
Therefore, we must properly annotate our source files with this information.
3. Why is there a contact email?
Because the CDK project should still be the single point of entry regarding the source code.
4. What's with all those years listed in those copyright ownership lines?
Seriously, I have no clue, but every serious project does it, so there must be some legal reason. Indeed, it sounds logical to only list the years when you actually made changes. In the above hypothetical header, I made changes between 2001 and this year, but not in 2008. It might have to do with proper establishment of the end of the copyright period; see below.
5. When must I add my name to the copyright lines?
When you made a non-trivial contribution to the source code, and you must ensure you do this in each such contribution. By adding your name, you make clear that:
a. you are the original author of that contribution (and not someone else)
b. you release the software under the given license
This is the information (re)distributors need to know if they are working within the boundaries of law.
6. Should I complain about people not adding this information in their patches when reviewing those contributions?
Yes, you should.
7. What about all those files that still list Copyright (C) The CDK Project?
File bug reports. For each file, we need to read the commit history, extract the authors of all non-trivial contributions and when those contributions were made, and update the copyright lines.
8. Must the header always list the LGPL as license?
No. The LGPL is our license choice, but if you used code under another (compatible) license written by someone else, that original license applies, and that original license you need to provide in the header.
Additionally, do not forget to list the original copyright owners.
9. Can I rewrite GPL C++/C code as LGPL for the CDK?
Not entirely related to the above, but relevant. I once asked the FSF about this, and rewriting a piece of code in another language is *not* a clean room implementation and does, therefore, not erase original copyright ownership not license applicability. Therefore, we cannot base CDK implementations on, e.g. GPL-ed licensed C++ code, such as in OpenBabel.
10. How can I use GPL code in the CDK?
You cannot. All code depending GPL-code, must be GPL too. There is the ChemoJava project to hold GPL-licensed CDK-based code, which has a number of classes that use the CDK library and depend on GPL libraries
Alternatively, you can try to convince the original authors to relicense. A good recent example here, is the UFF force field implementation of OpenBabel which was relicensed (or dual licensed) as LGPL and now also available from Jmol. Incidentally, this is a reason why it is important to have those copyright lines include the email address, so that in the future people can contact the original authors of code. In a far future, this is even used to decide when copyright no longer applies, because the original authors are dead by then.
(Thanx to Noel for replying to the mailing list!)


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- Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey
It's National Pollinator Week, and what a perfect time to welcome native pollinator specialist Neal Williams to the UC Davis Department of Entomology faculty.
He's actually no stranger to UC Davis. He's been collaborating with researchers at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility since 2001.
The assistant professor joins us from the Department of Biology, Byrn Mawr College in Byrn Mawr, Pa. Before that he served as a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton. You can read all about him here.
From that page, there's a link to a pamphlet that he and Rachael Winfree of Rutgers wrote on the benefits of native bees. You can download it free. Although it's targeted for Pennsylvania and New Jersey farmers, the information is useful nationwide. You'll learn:
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- the difference between a "generalist" bee and an "oligolectic" bee
- what "eusocial" means
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And what does "euscocial" mean?
"Eusocial means the species lives in colonies with a reproductive queen and sterile workers who are her daughters," Williams and Winfree write. "All bees in the colony communicate and cooperate in caring for the brood."
Generalists? Generalist bee species "visit a large variety of plants and crops, in contract to 'specialist' bee species, which forage on a restricted group of plants," the authors explain.
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I can not believe that Stella is now 7 months old! It seems like just the other day that I found out I was pregnant with her. As you can see in the photos of her, she is now able to hold her own bottle. She is little Miss Independent, she wants to do it all herself. Stella has still not started to crawl but is getting up on her hands and knees. She loves for dad to be hold her upside down and swing her around. (I think that she is going to be great at the bars, in gymnastic and a future cheerleader) Her favorite time of the day is when Dad gets home in the evening. He walks in the door and she lights up. She did have her first Dr. appointment the other day because she has had a very runny nose and starting to get a cough but they said it was nothing more than a cold. She is getting much better now. She does weigh 22 pounds and 2 ounces now!
Monday, January 28, 2008
7 Months
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Thursday, January 17, 2008
Hiding Spot
I thought everyone would love to see Stella's favorite spot to hide and play. For some reason no matter were you put her, she always ends up under the entertainment center. She is getting around the house faster and faster each day. She is now able to get up on all fours and rocks back and forth. I am sure that we are just days away from her crawling! It is just scary to think of what all she will be getting into!
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Monday, January 14, 2008
6 months
So, I am a little late at getting started on this blog, probably should have started it when Stella was born but I will try to make up for lost time. I thought this might be a good way for everyone to keep caught up on how Stella is growing and what she is learning. So, to get everyone caught up to date: Stella is 6 months old, She weighs in at 22 pounds and 27 inches long! She is now eating fruits and veggies along with her bottles. She loves to roll over, this is her main form of transportation around the house, though she is learning that once she gets from the rug to the hard wood floor she can scoot backwards anywhere she wants to go.(Note that I did say that she goes backwards, we have not mastered the moving forward yet! I don't think that this is a problem as of yet, if she starts walking and only goes backwards then I think I will start to worry.) Last night Dad discovered that the tooth we have been working really hard on has finally broken through the gums! You can see the top of the tooth and feel it! Our little girl is growing up! Well, that should get you updated on were we are as of now. I hope to be good at keeping up the blog so all those of you that can not stand to go a moment with out my daughter will know what is going on. I know that she is the light of my life and so she must be the light of every one's! :)
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This week marked the 10-year anniversary of the first iPod introduction, so we re-reviewed the original iPod and took a look back on a decade of iPod design evolution. Our other top posts for the week included an excerpt from Steve Jobs' biography about his disdain for Android, a look at the 2011 iPod nano's fitness features, a review of a Jobs-themed one-man show, a discussion about solar panels, and more. Time for the weekly roundup!
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10 Gigabit Ethernet Alliance
The specific purpose of the Corporation is to promote standards based 10 Gigabit Ethernet technology and to encourage the utilization and implementation of 10 Gigabit Ethernet as a key networking technology for connectivity of various computing, data and telecommunications devices.
Website: www.10gea.org
ARC Advisory Group
Founded in 1986, ARC Advisory Group provide market analysis, forecasts, and strategic reports for the full range of enterprise applications, plant systems, and automation solutions including industrial Ethernet..
Website: www.arcweb.com/res/ethernet
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AS-Interface (Actuator Sensor Interface) is the simplest of the industrial networking protocols used in PLC, DCS and PC-based automation systems. It's designed for connecting binary (ON/OFF) devices such as actuators and sensors in discrete manufacturing and process applications using a single cable. It is the ideal partner for Industrial Ethernet.
Website: www.as-interface.com
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Website: www.ethermanage.com/ethernet/
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Website: www.ethercat.org
ETHERNET Powerlink Standardization Group (EPSG)
The ETHERNET Powerlink Standardization Group (EPSG) is an open association of industry vendors, research institutes and end-users in the field of deterministic real-time Ethernet. The group?s goal is to develop, standardize and deploy real-time data communication via standard Fast Ethernet, based on ETHERNET Powerlink and other technologies like IEEE 1588.
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EtherNet/IP (Industrial Protocol) is the first open industrial Ethernet TCP/IP network with real-time control capabilities. A companion network to DeviceNet, EtherNet/IP uses the same proven, robust application-layer protocol as DeviceNet. Combined, both networks promote transparency from sensors to enterprise software. EtherNet/IP specs and information are available at:.
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Website: www.iol.unh.edu/consortiums/fe/index.php
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MECHATROLINK is an open field network that connects a controller with a variety of devices. High-speed communications and data synchronization are provided to increase system speed and provide advanced functionality. Moreover, MECHATROLINK uses simple cable connections to reduce wiring, downsize the system, and enable easy system expansion.
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TechFest Ethernet Technical Summary
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Friday night, Sheryl Swoopes knocked down a jumper in the closing seconds to beat the Los Angeles Sparks, 77-75, breaking the Shock's seemingly unstoppable 20-game losing streak. Last night, Tulsa followed that up with an 11-point victory over the Connecticut Sun. Their winning streak is at two games and counting. Next up, to avoid another place in the history books: With one more victory in their final six games, they'll have a better winning percentage than the worst-ever 1972-73 Philadelphia 76ers.
Consider this, even if you are one of the majority of humans who have never considered a single thing about the WNBA before: After setting the record for the WNBA's longest losing streak this summer, and challenging the NBA's all-time worst marks, the Shock have a chance to avoid being the worst team in the league this year. This is the "Family & Friends Room" of the WNBA's regular season. The Washington Mystics are now 5-23 and on an eight-game losing streak of their own. They have six games remaining on their schedule; if the streak continues, they'll end the season at 5-29. Tulsa, meanwhile, could theoretically end up at 9-25.
The Shock's unwearied game reporter, Danielle Parker, did not yet file a game report for either win.
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Intel's Health guide incorporates interactive tools for personalized care management and integrates vital sign collection, patient reminders, multimedia educational content and feedback, and communications tools such as video conferencing and e-mail.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Intel Corp, the world's biggest computer chip maker, on Thursday won clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to sell an in-home health monitoring system for patients with chronic conditions.
The system, called Health Guide, combines an in-home patient device as well as online access that enables health care professionals to monitor patients and remotely manage care.
It incorporates interactive tools for personalized care management and integrates vital sign collection, patient reminders, multimedia educational content and feedback, and communications tools such as video conferencing and e-mail.
The Health Guide system can connect to specific models of wired and wireless medical devices, including blood pressure monitors, glucose meters, pulse oximeters, peak flow meters and weight scales. It also stores and displays collected information on a touch screen and sends to a secure host server, where health care professionals can review the information.
"We're focusing on chronic conditions and that's approaching a billion patients. The system will enable those people to connect with their caregivers from home," Louis Burns, vice president and general manager of Intel's Digital Health Group, said in a telephone interview.
He declined to estimate the size of the market or growth rates but said the system will initially be marketed to insurance companies, health care providers and governments.
The company is still doing pilot studies and initial results suggest using the system will save money, Burns said.
"The feedback has been good. The clinicians like it and the elders like it," he said.
"The elders like it because it's intuitive ... and they're an active participant in what's going on with their health," he said, adding that older patients are used to being put into a passive role with regard to their own health care.
Medical device makers Medtronic Inc and St. Jude Medical Inc already have remote monitoring systems for heart patients. Burns said he viewed those systems as complements, rather than competitors, to Health Guide.
Intel said it expects Health Guide to be commercially available from health care providers in the United States and the UK late this year or early next year.
Andrew Rocklin, principal of Chicago-based Diamond Management and Technology Consultants, said the Intel system could be expanded to include patients just discharged from the hospital, as well as the generally healthy population looking to stay well.
The key to success, he said, is Intel's ability to sell it broadly so that it can be established as an industry standard.
"Even one big insurance company, or even better a consortia of insurance companies, could start driving scale," Rocklin said.
Shares of Intel, among the most actively traded on the Nasdaq Thursday morning, were up 15 cents to $19.96.
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Star Fox 2 creator Dylan Cuthbert thinks Nintendo finally releasing his game is a "big awesome surprise".
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The message from gamescom's was clear: the term "indie" needs to go the way of the dodo.
Pixeljunk Eden Steam life-to-date income doubled during sale
Pixeljunk Eden went on sale for 99¢ during the Steam 2013 Holiday Sale, and despite this low price tag it managed to sell strongly enough to match its previous lifetime income.
PixelJunk team Q Games and Double Eleven enter multi-game collaboration
PixelJunk creators Q Games and Double Eleven have entered a multi-game collaborative deal, now that the latter's exclusivity with Sony is at an end. Most recently, Double Eleven published Limbo and Frozen Synapse on PS Vita.
Pixeljunk boss talks 'core' next-gen innovation, Microsoft's poor performance in Japan
Pixeljunk developer Q-Games has expressed its hope for a resurgence in core games going into the next generation. Studio president Dylan Cuthbert isn't just talking about Call of Duty though, but proper, innovative 'gamer's games' that can sell for more than a low digital asking price.
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MakeGamesWithUs hacker house cracks education code
I'm not saying that the hacker house packed with high school and college kids on a quiet residential street here is the classroom of the future.
All I'm saying is that the band of summer interns building mobile games in the home's living room is a peek at a world where students -- particularly in tech fields -- will increasingly be judged not by test scores, GPAs and their colleges' designer labels, but by what they've built.
I've written before about how our notions of higher education are bound to change. As college degrees become more expensive, some valley voices are arguing that in some fields degrees have also become less valuable. I see a day when the traditional four-year college degree will be replaced by a certificate awarded based on a combination of course work (including independent online course work), demonstrated ability and work experience. It won't be whether you've mastered the academic material, but whether you can do the job.
In few places that path is easier to see than in the discipline of computer science, which is where the hacker house comes in. It's the brain child of Ashu Desai and Jeremy Rossmann, the founders of mobile game publishing startup MakeGamesWithUs. Both dropped out of college (UCLA and MIT, respectively) to start the company; and while neither is advocating that path for everyone, they argue that a college degree provides limited insight into a potential employee's programming skills.
"The app is the new resume," says Rossmann, who overstates the case to make a point. What he means is that there is power in having actually built a real-live product being downloaded regularly by consumers. It not only shows that a prospective employee can program, Desai says, it shows that he or she can manage a project and finish it.
Rossmann, who at 21 finds himself in a hiring position, puts it this way: "Forget about coding challenges, interview questions around technical issues, whatever. Nothing you can get out of a person live, in the moment, can compare to the finished product."
Rossmann and Desai, 20, didn't set out to help high school and college kids burnish their resumes. Like most startup founders, they are good capitalists and they came up with an idea that could help their company: Why not get a bunch of young app developers to create games and give them the option of publishing the games through MakeGamesWithUs, which supplies artistic, marketing and technical support? The young developers keep their intellectual property and get a cut of any sales, while the founders' young startup gets a growing catalog of titles and a small army to test the development tools it offers.
There's upside for the interns, the founders point out. They spend the summer honing coding skills, learning game development and ideally end up with a finished product in Apple's (AAPL) App Store.
The interns work for free (unless their game meets with App Store success). But set aside any concerns about sweatshop conditions. The four dozen students primarily from Peninsula high schools and South Bay universities work in bright rooms with hardwood floors and window-filled walls. Some plop with laptops on couches, others work side by side at long tables, others hit the patio for a little coding al fresco. And Rossmann and Desai are around to offers encouragement, ideas and support.
"It's really odd how sitting at a computer for six to eight hours can be fun," says David Bell, a Gunn High School graduate who's building a vampire-based game and headed for USC. "Just being in an environment that's relatively quiet and comfortable and having people around who know stuff and can help."
And yes, it has occurred to Bell that having built a game that consumers are playing (as he's confident they will be) will look good on a resume. And why shouldn't it occur to him? It's a jungle out there and those applying for jobs or to college can use whatever leverage they can get.
That's not to say that the interns at the hacker house see their summers there as just a bullet point on a resume. They seemed genuinely inspired by the rush of racking their brains to extinguish bugs and to compose elegant code, the way musicians retool melodies and hunt for the perfect flourish.
And when I talked to interns about their best hopes for their hard work, few put at the tops of their lists scoring a slot in an elite school, landing a lucrative job, or making a killing in the App Store.
Instead, most were generally in line with Simran Kashyap, who'll be a junior at Menlo-Atherton High School. She is working on a fast-twitch game that challenges players to quickly identify particular images among many. I asked her what would be the absolutely best outcome for her game?
"If people actually enjoyed it and played it," Kashyap says.
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THURSDAY, Sept. 16Illegal drug use in the United States increased from 2008 to 2009, federal drug officials reported Thursday, citing growing acceptance of marijuana and an upswing in ecstasy and methamphetamine use.
Driven largely by growing use of marijuana, drug use among those aged 12 and older rose from 8 percent in 2008 to 8.7 percent in 2009, according to a report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. This represents the highest usage in nearly a decade, officials said.
"The results of the survey, to say the least, are very troubling," Gil Kerlikowske, director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, said during a morning news conference Thursday.
"Particularly disturbing [is] the increase in the use of marijuana among 12- to 17-year-olds," he added. In 2002, 8.2 percent of teens smoked marijuana, 6.7 percent did in 2006 and 2008, and 7.3 percent did in 2009, the report found.
Fewer teens today than in the past see drugs, particularly marijuana, as dangerous, he said: "This usually portends an increase in drug abuse, and that's exactly what we have seen."
Kerlikowske took aim at the media for influencing some of the cultural mind-shift. "I can absolutely not rule out this constant discussion of so-called medical marijuana, marijuana legalization and the downplaying of marijuana harms that is prevalent in the media," he said.
The report, based on a survey of some 67,500 people throughout the country, noted non-medical use of prescription drugs rose from 2.5 percent in 2008 to 2.8 percent in 2009.
Monthly use of ecstasy climbed from 555,000 in 2008 to 760,000 in 2009. The number of methamphetamine users shot up, too, from 314,000 to 502,000 over the year, according to the report.
Other findings:
- In 2009, the rate of drug abuse among 12- to 17-year-olds was still below 2002 levels, but higher compared with 2008, the researchers found. In 2009, 10 percent of teens used drugs compared with 9.3 percent in 2008 and 11.6 percent in 2002.
- Only 49.3 percent of teens in 2009 said they thought pot was harmful, compared to 54.7 percent in 2007. This is the first time since 2002 that fewer than half of American teens thought marijuana was dangerous, according to the report.
Mike Meno, a spokesman for the pro-legalization Marijuana Policy Project, told the Associated Press the survey is further proof that the government's war on marijuana is failing despite years of enforcement efforts and arrests.
"It's time we stop this charade and implement sensible laws that would tax and regulate marijuana the same way we do more harmful — but legal — drugs like alcohol and tobacco," Meno told the AP.
Rates of tobacco and alcohol use among teens from 2008 to 2009 remained about the same, the researchers noted.
Among young adults 18- to 25-years-old, illegal drug use rose from 19.6 percent in 2008 to 21.2 percent in 2009, again mostly driven by increased marijuana use, the report showed.
Some encouraging signs emerged, however.
Tobacco use among those aged 12 and up dropped to a historic low of 23.4 percent, and cocaine use among those aged 12 and up has dropped 30 percent since 2006, the researchers found.
The report also found a huge disparity between the number of people who need substance abuse treatment (23.5 million) and the number of those who get it (2.6 million).
The recession may be driving up drug use, said one expert.
Dr. David L. Katz, director of the Prevention Research Center at Yale University School of Medicine, said that "while a rise in recreational drug use over the past couple of years is concerning, it is not surprising."
These trends correspond with the most severe economic downturn in generations, Katz said. "Drug use may represent an escape from a harsh reality for some; a diversion from inactivity for others; and most ominously, a source of revenue for the vendors who may find legitimate work elusive."
The recession has also eroded public health resources, including educational and treatment programs, he added.
But, "while the economic hardship from which we are slowly emerging may help explain disturbing trends in drug use, it certainly does not justify them," Katz said. "The insidious threat of drug use requires our constant vigilance, and our constant allocation of resources."
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