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The Pierce County Auditor's Office is ready to officiate same-sex marriage licenses and has a system in place for those ready to get hitched on Dec. 6, when the law goes into effect.
"We know that some couples will want to be among the first in Pierce County to apply for a same-sex marriage license," said Pierce County Auditor Julie Anderson. "To prevent long wait times and to eliminate the need for overnight camping, we'll allow Dec. 6 marriage applicants to get their queue number in advance."
Marriage license applicants who want to reserve a spot in line for the morning of Dec. 6 can pick up a reserved queue number on Wednesday, Dec. 5.
Those who want to be among the first applicants on the morning of Dec. 6 should:
1. Visit the Auditor's Office in person on Wednesday, Dec. 5, between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. to secure a reservation number.
2. Go to www.piercecountywa.org/marriage to complete and submit the online marriage application.
3. Return to the Auditor's Office with reserved queue number and necessary documents on Thursday, Dec. 6, at 6:20 a.m. (before the 6:30 a.m. opening).
Extended Hours
The Pierce County Auditor's Office will extend licensing and passport service hours for four days in December to accommodate the expected influx of customers.
Here are the dates:
• Thursday, Dec. 6, from 6:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.
• Friday, Dec. 7, from 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.
• Saturday, Dec. 8, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
• Sunday, Dec. 9, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. (note: auto licensing is not available on Sunday)
"This year, we've timed our licensing fair to coincide with the effective date of the marriage equality act," said Anderson. "We expect 150 couples to apply for a marriage license on December 6. Extending our hours will speed service in our office. "
Marriage License Requirements:
• Fill out your application online before you come to the Auditor's Office.
• Driver's license, Military ID, or State ID required.
• License fee is $64 in cash, cashier's check, or money order (checks not accepted).
• Both parties must appear in person together and be at least 18 years old.
• You must wait at least three days to have your ceremony.
• The license is valid for 60 days.
Are you getting hitched on Dec. 6? Tell us in the comments.

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Early one morning, Times-Picayune crime reporter Nola Céspedes goes for her regular run in Audubon Park. More than the heat of the dawning New Orleans day, she's trying to outrun her growing unease with the man she's seeing, who is pushing her to get more serious. Instead, Nola finds herself at the scene of a crime when she discovers a dead body. Worse, Nola recognizes the victim: Judith Taffner, her former journalism professor at Tulane.Not convinced Dr. Taffner's murder was the random work of a psychopath, and not one to put much trust in the good ol' boys of the NOPD, Nola takes it upon herself to investigate. She discovers that Dr. Taffner was working on two explosive stories, both of which would shock even this notoriously corrupt city. And when an apparently related murder occurs in the middle of New Orleans' packed Jazz Fest, Nola realizes it's only a matter of time before she becomes a ruthless killer's next target.Rich with details of New Orleans and featuring an original, tough heroine as fascinating as the city itself, Nearer Home is the perfect follow-up to Joy Castro's Hell or High Water, confirming her status as a talented new crime writer to watch."Exquisite New Orleans background . . . a flawed but plucky heroine, and skillfully paced suspense make this a stay up way past your bedtime read."—Booklist (starred)
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Huntington and South Huntington districts will open Thursday morning but on a two-hour delay.
In South Huntington, road conditions made difficult by Hurricane Sandy last week will force changes in bus stop locations but the Huntington district plans no such revisions.
Schools have been closed since Oct. 29 when the arrival of Hurricane Sandy flooded Huntington neighborhoods, sent trees crashing onto power lines and made travel on many roads difficult, if not impossible. Wires on many streets continue to dangle from poles or are splayed across roads while trees are still slowing or complicating travel.
"The blocked streets have required us to move several bus stops to temporary locations. These alternate sites are located as close as possible to the original stops. Please go to the nearest school bus stop if your street is blocked but not included on this list. We will be working through the day to provide the most efficient transportation possible under the conditions," Dr. David Bennardo, South Huntington superintendent said.
Both districts had hoped to open Wednesday but the arrival of a winter storm pushed the move back a day. Still to be determined is how the districts will make up the lost eight days of class time.
"I know this has been a difficult time and appreciate all of the support, flexibility, and compassion our South Huntington family has demonstrated," Bennardo said. "Please stay strong and know that we are thinking about you."
Both districts have canceled after-school activities for Thursday.
South Huntington bus routes
Group 1:
For the following roads, go to the nearest, safest, existing bus stop on your run. These are short blocks and there should be a stop on the nearest corner.
Adelaide St
Albermarle Ave ‐ between E Rogues Path & Fairfield La
Ark Pl
Barkers La
Birchwood Dr ‐ between Bradbury Ave & Hare Pl
Bradbury Ave
Court Dr ‐ between Federal St & Liberty St
Delamere St ‐ between Brooklyn Ave & Park Ave
Doe St
E 11th St ‐ between 1st Ave & Depot Rd
Evergreen Ave ‐ north of Jericho Tpke
Fairview La
Fanwood Pl
Frostfield Pl
Goldfinch La
Hardwick Dr ‐ between Teed St & Pidgeon Hill Rd
Healy St
High Hold Dr
Jayne Ave
Lamarr Ave
Lancaster Dr
Lindsay St
Meadowlark La
Melville Rd ‐ south of Luyster St
Sheep Pasture Rd
Utah Pl ‐ between Lenox Rd & Wyoming Dr
Valley View Ct
Group 2:
For the following roads, go to the designated, temporary stops noted
6th Ave:
go to either W 11th St or West Hills Rd
8th Ave ‐ between W 11th St & Craven St:
go to either W 11th St or Craven St
Alpine Way
Go to either Alpine Way & Beverly Rd OR
Alpine Way & Everest Ct
Anondale Dr:
go to Pulaski Rd
Bennett Ave:
go to Lodge Ave & Aldrich St
Birch Dr:
go to E 17th St & Depot Rd
Bowden Dr:
use Iceland Dr & Bowden Dr
Coldport Dr:
go out to Coldport Dr & East Gate Dr
E 17th St ‐ between Prospect Dr & Front St:
go to E 17th St & Depot Rd
E 18th St / Meadowbrook Dr ‐ between Luther Pl & E 17th
use Luther Pl & E 18th St
E Rogues Path:
use E Rogues Path & Maplewood Rd
Edison Dr:
use Horton Dr & Melville Rd
Greenhills Rd
Go to Greenhills Rd & Melville Rd OR
Greenhills Rd & Pidgeon Hill Rd
Horton Dr:
use Horton Dr & New York Ave or Horton
Dr & Melville Rd
Leigh St:
use Leigh St & Park Ave or Leigh St &
Lodge Ave ‐ between Aldrich St & E Rogues Path and
Melia Way & Charmian:
use Lodge Ave & Aldrich St or Lodge Ave & Melia Way
Marlboro Dr:
go out to West Rogues Path
Montana Pl:
use Lodge Ave & Aldrich St
Mount Misery Rd ‐ south of Chichester:
can use Mount Misery Rd & Chichester Rd
Pleasant St:
use Berrywood Dr & Nevinwood Pl
Prospect Dr:
use Prospect Dr & Meadowbrook Dr
Reynolds St:
use either Engelke Ave or Melville Rd
Reservoir Rd and Ridge Dr:
use Reservoir Rd & West Hills Rd
Rushmore St:
go out to Rushmore St & Melville Rd
Sheppard La:
use stops on Chickory La
Talbot Pl:
use Nevada Pl & Oregon Dr
Wheeler Dr:
use Nevada Pl & Oregon Dr
Wyoming Dr ‐ from Bogue Pl to Oregon
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John Kuhn scored two touchdowns, DuJuan Harris added another and Rodgers connected with an NFL playoff-record 10 receivers as he threw for 274 yards. Defensively, the Packers (12-5) finally managed to contain Adrian Peterson and were all over Vikings backup Joe Webb, pressed into service because of Christian Ponder's elbow injury.
Peterson was held to 99 yards -- an improvement after gaining 199 and 210 in the first two games. Webb, who hadn't thrown a pass all season, was sacked three times and off target all night. His only highlight was a 50-yard scoring pass to Michael Jenkins late in the fourth quarter.


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YouthCaN: Youth Connecting and Networking
Hello Educators and Youth Leaders!
YouthCaN NYC 2014 will take place at the American Museum of Natural History (in New York City) on Monday, April 28, 2014. Each year the conference attracts as many as 1,200 youth and educators from around New York City, the US and the world – countries such as Lebanon, Algeria, Russia, Senegal, Argentina, Indonesia, the Philippines and many more have participated in past YouthCaN conferences. The conference is a rare opportunity for environmentally inclined youth to meet one another and share their ideas and projects. It will be a wonderful learning experience. The American Museum of Natural History and iEARN are collaborative partners in supporting the youth who work year round on their projects and organizing this celebration of youth taking action and an interest in their world.
All YouthCaN workshops are for students and by students. Workshop topics explore a wide variety environmental issues. This year's topics included: recycling, habitat protection and restoration, water monitoring, renewable energy, school gardening, transportation and many more (click here for a list of this year's workshops within the registration materials).
For those who will be in New York for the whole weekend, on Saturday, April 26th the YouthCaNers will lead Activity Day. This will be an opportunity to meet some of the other young people attending the conference and explore some greener part of the New York area that you might not know about!
Submit your registration to attend workshops at YouthCaN NYC 2014 by clicking HERE.
The deadline for the application is: APRIL 7, 2014
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YouthCaN is a youth led organization that uses technology to inspire, connect and educate people worldwide about environmental issues. Through a network of conferences, activities and events we unite environmentally active youth to exchange ideas about the environment and empower others to make a difference in their own communities. Since 1992, YouthCaN has provided groups around the world with a support system for environmental endeavors and has served as a launching pad for new environmental ideas. Through the use of an online forum, youth can meet and keep in touch with others from different parts of the world. YouthCaN aims to offer students with tools to learn from, connect with, and motivate each other.
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Additionally, new cooling modules of higher capacity and alternate configurations will be available in the near future. This will allow end users to deploy current modules and then replace just the cooling modules to be redeployed without changing the infrastructure. Additionally, several server OEMs are planning to incorporate Liebert XD technology inside the rack thus extending this infrastructure platform well out into the future. This will allow the data center manager to deploy the supplemental solutions infrastructure today and add or replace individual modules without the need to rethink the cooling strategy or replace the cooling technology.
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Raw Japan
Slices of Japanese business, politics and life
Toyota's fortitude tested as jobs on the line
Shedding jobs is never easy for any company, but it's more difficult for some than others.
With global car sales sinking severely and rapidly in the past few months, automakers from Nissan to Volvo and Peugeot are reducing full-time staff in an urgent effort to slash costs. Contract workers — the first to go when business turns bleak — are gone or on their way out at most car manufacturers around the globe.
But when Toyota Motor so much as blinks at the question of whether they would let permanent staff go, the reaction is exaggerated. And it's not just because Toyota is the world's biggest automaker and was, until last year, the most profitable and envied in the business. Toyota is, quite simply, obsessed with job security.
In my many conversations with Toyota officials and executives over the years, 1950 has come up time and again as a major turning point in the company's history. That year, a plunge in car sales and the risk of bankruptcy forced Toyota to sack thousands of workers after management and union workers — on strike
against the proposed steps — failed to reach a compromise.
Insiders describe it as a "traumatic" experience when founder Kiichiro Toyoda stepped down from being company president to take responsibility.
Toyota has not cut any permanent jobs in Japan ever since. It's almost unheard of overseas too, though some were culled in Thailand during the Asian financial crisis in 1997.
But with the worst economic crisis in 80 years forcing Toyota to close factories for days, weeks and months at a time around the world, the jitters are back. This week, a company source said Toyota was considering cutting full-time employees in North America and Britain, most likely through voluntary buyouts. The reduction would be to the tune of 1,000 workers, according to the Nikkei business daily.
Labour issues are so sensitive that it took hours for Toyota to issue a statement regarding the report, which ultimately neither confirmed or denied that it was even considering the cuts.
Today, another Japanese newspaper reported that Toyota would produce 60 percent fewer vehicles in Japan in April. If those levels continued, the current domestic headcount would be untenable, the paper said.
Avoiding job cuts at any cost is commendable, or irresponsible, depending on whom you ask. Some market participants balked when Toyota said in November that it would spend some $300 million this year to keep U.S. staffers on the payroll while factories were idled. That figure is likely to have expanded since.
But Toyota has always stood steadfastly by its commitment to its workforce. Another well-known episode dates back to 1998, when Moody's Investors Service lowered its top-notch credit rating on Toyota citing the automaker's policy of effectively guaranteeing life-time employment.
Incensed, Toyota officials flew to the ratings agency's offices in New York to argue that the commitment it showed to its workers was a strength, not a weakness, and vowed to continue the practice.
It would be difficult to single out Toyota if it does go ahead with the job cuts when rivals such as Nissan and Honda are already taking more aggressive steps to shed headcount. But nobody said being No.1 was easy.
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Paul Newman (known as ol' PL to both friends and enemies; the L stands for "Leonard" or "Lunkhead" - he answers to
both) is probably best known for his spectacularly successful food
conglomerate. In addition to giving the profits to charity, he also ran
Frank Sinatra out of the spaghetti sauce business. On the downside, the
spaghetti sauce is out-grossing his films. He did graduate from Kenyon
College magna cum lager and in the process begat a laundry business which
was the only student-run enterprise on Main Street. Yale University later
awarded him an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters for unknown reasons. He
has won four Sports Car Club of America National Championships and is listed
in the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest driver (70) to
win a professionally sanctioned race (24 Hours of Daytona, 1995). He is
married to the best actress on the planet* was number 19 on Nixon's enemy
list, and purely by accident has 51 films and four Broadway plays. He is
generally considered by professionals to be the worst fisherman on the East
*(Note from BookBrowse: Paul Newman's wife is Joanne Woodward)
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A Mock-Up Site has been created at 5985 Pacific Center Blvd., #210, San Diego, CA 92121. At this site, there are seven model rooms that will be part of UC San Diego Jacobs Medical Center. These mock-up rooms were built by FOAMCo, a local San Diego company.
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Kid you, I do not. Imagining things, you are not.
That's what Master Yoda would probably tell you when you learn that the White House will have to offer a formal response to a petition calling for the federal government to begin construction of a Death Star by 2016.
The petition was submitted to the White House's "We the People" website. The website was created by the Obama Administration as a way for citizens to engage with the government. It's the same site that was flooded with petitions from people in all 50 states asking to secede from the union following the November elections.
If you read the logic behind the Death Star petition, you should find benefits that both Democrats and Republicans can agree on.
"By focusing our defense resources into a space-superiority platform and weapon system such as a Death Star, the government can spur job creation in the fields of construction, engineering, space exploration, and more, and strengthen our national defense," reads the petition.
The White House said that any petition which receives at least 25,000 signatures within 30 days of its posting will receive a response from a White House staffer. The Death Star petition, which was posted Nov. 14, had over 27,000 signatures as of Friday morning. It just made the deadline.
"Great, kid. Don't get cocky." – Han Solo
Building a Death Star on the same scale as the ones in the movies won't be cheap or quick. Coincidentally, students at Lehigh University said earlier this year it would cost $852 quadrillion -- roughly 13,000 times the world's Gross Domestic Product -- to build the Death Star. That's just the cost of producing steel.
In order to find enough molten material to get all that steel, you'd have to access the earth's core – an expensive proposition by itself.
Even if you did get all the materials and money, the Lehigh students figured it would take roughly 833,315 years to produce enough steel to even begin production.
"Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try." - Yoda
We haven't even begun talking about the cost of labor on this thing. Maybe someone should consult with Lando Calrissian, who complained about supply and labor problems on Cloud City in "The Empire Strikes Back."
Think it can't be done?
"I find your lack of faith disturbing." – Darth Vader
If it ever does get built, hopefully someone will come up with a better way to defend it. It only took a few small ships to blow up two of them in the movies.


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Video: Leavitt's Lichens
Steve Leavitt studies one of the world's most common but overlooked symbiotic systems, lichens. Using DNA analysis he explores the hidden world of lichen evolution.Read more about Steve's research, and don't forget to take a closer look at those rocks and trees in your part of the world. Explore more videos from The Field Revealed series!


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The FlexMBA experience features cutting-edge technology tools to accommodate study from wherever you are located. Our distance learning technology offers impressive levels of interactivity and flexibility:
Your online classes feature a live video conference system that shares multiple screens with each student. Professors are able to view all students, and, as a student, you will have the opportunity to interact with your professors and classmates, both in teams and individually. Imagine virtual classrooms enabling classroom participation, document viewing/sharing, and recorded presentations. The easy-to-operate interface makes asking questions a fluid process, just as you would experience in a traditional classroom setting.
You will work in teams and have the opportunity to collaborate via virtual study spaces. Because the Tepper School's courses emphasize teams, we have developed online tools that facilitate small group work. Whether it's for a few students to practice a presentation or a larger group that needs a "room" to complete homework, FlexMBA students will have access to online study spaces to support their online learning.
All classes are taught and recorded in our school's education studios. You will have access to a library of classes, which will be a helpful resource for review. Students working on team projects will have access to record their presentations, conduct video chats and share feedback with professors and other classmates. Document sharing and collaborative technology tools are examples of some of the available tools to assist with students' study needs.


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Office 2013 Install Guide
Office 2013 is now available only for download by TIMGroup members only.
Microsoft Agreements & Products
Office 2013 Recommendations
Compatibility testing of Microsoft 2013 is underway.
Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013
Office Professional Plus 2013 includes Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, OneNote, Access, Publisher and Lync and will be the version available to UAB under our Microsoft Campus Agreement when released to Campus.
UAB IT is testing Microsoft Office 2013 to determine its compatibility with applications and systems deployed in the UAB environment. Current testing includes Office 2013's compatibility with the following:
- Adobe Acrobat
- EndNote
- I>clicker
- Turning Point
Until the testing and evaluation of Office 2013 is complete, UAB IT is not recommending it for mass deployment.
You may download Office 2013 from the UAB IT software site HERE. An install guide is available. (Office 2013 is available for download to TIMGroup members only.)
Deployment: (with SkyDrive disabled when using Office 2013)
UAB IT will post on the download site 2 versions of the ISO.
- As delivered from Microsoft.
- With the registry key to disable SkyDrive in a transform file
Office 2013 uses Microsoft's SkyDrive cloud-based file-hosting service. We recommend disabling SkyDrive at this time. This can be accomplished in two ways: Using the Registry Editor and using the Group Policy Editor.
- Disabling SkyDrive by using the Registry Editor
- Launch the Registry Editor by opening the Run dialog box and entering regedit.
- When the Registry Editor opens, navigate to the following key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\SignIn.
- If the SignIn key doesn't exist, create it by right-clicking on Common à New à Key à SignIn.
- In the right pane of the SignIn key, create a new DWORD value named SignInOptions.
- Double-click on SignInOptions and change its value to 3. To restore SkyDrive functionality, simply set the SignInOptions value to 0.
- Disabling SkyDrive by using the Group Policy Editor
- To use this method, you need to install the Office 2013 Administrative Templates. If you don't have these templates, download them from the Microsoft Downloads Web site and install them.
- Once the Administrative Templates are installed, open the Run dialog box and enter gpedit.msc to open the Local Group Policy Editor.
- Now that you're in the Local Group Policy Editor, navigate down the tree to User Configuration à Administrative Templates à Microsoft Office 2013 à Miscellaneous.
- Find the "Block signing into Office" option in the list of settings and double-click it.
- In the Properties window, click "Enable" and select the option "None Allowed."


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The National Family Partnership® (NFP) announces the national contest for its 28th annual Red Ribbon Week®, Oct. 23-31. Here's how to enter to win $1,000 for your K-12 school and an iPad for the home:
1.) Students bring the Red Ribbon Week® message home by working alongside parents to decorate their front door, mailbox or fence with a red ribbon and this year's theme "A Healthy Me Is Drug Free™."
2.) Take a photo with the family and your Red Ribbon Week® decoration, then upload to redribbon.org/contest by Nov. 4 (must be 18+ to upload your photos).
3.) The voting begins! Ask your family and friends to vote for your entry at redribbon.org/vote Nov. 5-19.
Ten lucky winners from regions across the U.S. will win.
Winners will be announced at redribbon.org on December 6th and recognized at winning schools throughout December.
"Students will once again take Red Ribbon Week's® message of prevention home to their neighborhoods with this national contest," said the NFP's Volunteer President Peggy Sapp. "By decorating their homes together with this year's Red Ribbon theme, families carry the message to their communities."
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Mayhem in Mexico
It's a rare moment for us to get so many great pictures from one event. Diego Uriarte managed to get up close and personal with these protesters in Mexico, close enough to capture the faces of the police as they reacted to the demonstrators.
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Follow that torch
Among the many high-quality Olympic torch relay photos we received, this one from Lee Robinson in London stands out due to its dramatic framing, vivid colors and unique angle.
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Long, Last, Happy
New and Selected Stories
Barry Hannah
Grove Press ($27.50)
by John Madera
Notwithstanding its Evil Knievel-style dust jacket—meant perhaps to evoke the titillating, slash-and-burn early lifestyle of its author—the real daredevil pyrotechnics, the true daring and attack, of Barry Hannahs Long, Last, Happy: New and Selected Stories, are its heavily-machined sentences, prose that may be indebted as much to Hemingways brevity, clarity, and macho bravado as they are to OConnors grotesqueries, but still sentences that only Hannah could produce. As he said in a speech delivered at Bennington College in 2002, I write out of a greed for lives and language. A need to listen to the orchestra of the living.
Reading through Long, Last, Happy, you cant help but be struck by Hannahs attentiveness to life as its lived by largely unlikeable characters, lively and unlovely—or perhaps lovely because of their liveliness. His fictional world offers readers a panoply of the grotesque, picturesque, and burlesque, a true variety show of shysters, wastrels, neer-do-wells, hacks, and failures; hideous schemers and beautiful dreamers; also musicians, soldiers, writers, and academics, not to mention racists and homophobes, each of whose fabulous foibles are incisively rendered in sentences which, without mincing words, make mincemeat of our hypocrisy, dishonesty, malice, violence, and other assorted failings, what Hannah, in Dragged Fighting from His Tomb, describes as that bog and labyrinth where we are all overbrained and overemotioned. Its the kind of language, rendered as much with and for the eye as with and for the ear, that struck Hannah as a miracle, a thing the deepest mind adores, a musical language: an orchestra of the living accompanying memory, the whole lying opera of it.
Speaking of lies, there is no small number of liars in this collection: the old liars of Water Liars, who trade tall tales like the one about fishermen reeling in fifty or more white perch big as small pumpkins, having used nuthin for bait, or the chronic prevaricator in High Water Railers, whose lies were so gaudy and wrapped around they might have been a medieval tapestry of what almost or never happened. The narrator of Hey, Have You Got a Cig, the Time, the News, My Face? is a natural-born liar: There was always a great lie in supposing any life was significant at all, really. And one anointed that lie with a further arrangement into prevaricationthat the life had a form and a point.
Speaking of violence, Long, Last, Happy contains quite the high body count. In Testimony of Pilot, a saxophone prodigys bandleader is killed in a car wreck; later, when he is well into adulthood, his ex-girlfriend dies in an airplane crash, she and her fellow passengers all splattered like flesh sparklers over the water just over Cuba. The story ends with the narrator himself dying on a surgeons table. Coming Close to Donna ends with a girl getting brained with a tombstone. Dragged Fighting from His Tomb opens with the narrator taking a bullet through the throat then overmurder[ing] a fellow soldier by shooting him four times in the face. The narrator of Knowing He Was Not My Kind Yet I Followed, one of Hannahs many stories set during the Civil War, confesses that although he hates this murdering business, he does love the burning and the looting. Behold the Husband in His Perfect Agony ends with the ultraviolence of a woman being dynamited: The thing was still alive. It was staggering in the doorway. Its limbs were naked and blackened. Its breasts were scorched black. It was a woman, hair burned away. Amid all the violence, death, and carnage, Hannah might be describing himself in Two Things, Dimly, Were Going at Each Other: He had been crazy for death these many years, writing about it and studying it in his thick manuscripts. Many, hordes, died in his fictions. Actually, the protagonist of that story turns out to be a thinly veiled William Burroughs. With all the bullets whizzing past, knives slicing skin, muscle, and tendon, and explosives blasting things to Kingdom Come in Long, Last, Happy, its an unlikely weapon, namely a bowl of Lysol thrown at a moment of rage, that wreaks the most havoc in the book.
Speaking of sentences, Hannahs stories are full of stunners that are crafted to conjure a distinct persona, often a crackpot whose scattershot observations shift between the hare-brained and deceptively brainy, at the end of which you can almost hear the requisite rim shot. Some blogorrhea-sufferers, with their swelled heads pricked by all things priapic, will fawn over sentences like I want to sleep in her uterus with my foot hanging out (Love Too Long); and She wore a sundress with a drastic cleavage up front; looked like something that hung around New Orleans and kneaded your heart to death with her feet (Testimony of Pilot); and Shed sunbathed herself so her limbs were brown, and her stomach, and the instinct was to rip off the white underwear and lick, suck, say something terrific into the flesh that you discovered (Testimony of Pilot). They will likely get off on the mythologizing of drunkenness: The drunkard lifts sobriety into a great public virtue in the smug and snakelike heart. It may be his major service. Thus it seemed when I was drunk, raving with bad attitudes (Ride, Fly, Penetrate, Loiter). As funny as these sentences often are, each one carefully attuned to voice and character, these arent the ones that shine most. Hannahs character descriptions are often wonderfully odd and wittily acerbic. These comic observations whittle down the characters that fall prey to Hannahs blade. But its his eccentric lyricism that consistently satisfies, and which, at times, reaches toward an as-thorough-as-Thoreau perspective, one that may be less enlightened, but is by no means less attentive.
Though the largely amoral characters of Hannahs early work provoke or even celebrate violence and mayhem, later stories like Scandale dEstime begin to soften that stance. This story also attests to his ability to craft quiet lines, such as Her eyes blinked pink at the rims when she lifted up, and I was gone for her, out of my depth, or This charity and long-suffering had never even nearly come near me before. The assonantal lilt of those short i-sounds in the former sentence and the latters alliterative rush of ns (never, nearly, and near), not to mention its clever interpolations of near, the way never even suggests a palindrome, attest to Hannahs command of the full resources of language. And Two Things, Dimly, Were Going at Each Other is a story replete with idyllic reminiscences characterized by their Faulknerian flow:
The rain smelled sweet, rich. Thinking of the golden wheat lapping it up, breadbasket of the world, amber fields of, sun-browned boy with a string of bullheads, home-dried cut cane pole with black cotton line, drilled piece of corncob for a bobber, Prince Albert tin with nightcrawlers in wet leaves for bait.
Here, Hannah uses b-words (breadbasket, -browned, boy, bullheads, black, bobber, and bait) to serve as anchors in a lyrical passage that might, because of the glissando effect of its inventory, very well slip off the page. And his eliding of waves of grain —allowing the reader to fill in the blanks, as it were—is a masterstroke, as it eliminates the cliché while still enjoying all of its resonance.
The final section of Long, Last, Happy, features four new stories that find Hannah in top form. It opens with Fire Water, another of his fishing tales; this one features a group of octogenarian women whose idyllic fishing trip is ruined by an arsonists act of conflagration. The story exemplifies many of the hallmarks of Hannahs style: an unhurried, almost gentle rhythm, evocative imagery, and a sultry lyricism evinced in his descriptions of the fire as running, almost speaking in snaps of twigs mad orange all suddenly and a steeple falling into a heart of black and purple as the whole structure went down, wracking, gnashing what teeth were left.
Following the collections final story, Rangoon Green, Hannah posits that writing train[s] our people for logic, grace, and precision of thought, and these are the very qualities Hannahs best writing offers. Story after story reveals compact (if usually skewed) patterns of thinking and speaking that are manifested in sentences that dance, that are elegant even when their subjects are inelegant, that are, yes, graceful even as they stab us. Their precise imagery, description, and characterization; their sharp dialogue, biting humor, and malice; their delight in bizarre human behavior; and their rage against human weakness all confirm not only Hannahs strange predilections, but also his acute perception and insight. In the 2002 talk he gave at Bennington, Hannah opined:
It is often said that a writer is more alive than his peers. But I believe he might also be sleepier than his peers, a sort of narcoleptic who requires constant waking up by his own imaginative work. He is closer to sleep and dream, and his memory is more haunted, thus more precise.Without question these stories, home to a carnival of misfits and miscreants, are evidence that even in death Barry Hannahs work still rises above that of many of his still-living peers—and most especially above the work of his many imitators, the pretenders who, in contrast with Hannahs ideal writer, seem more dead than alive. As Hannah might have put it, these eyes-wide-open stories sing back to you almost as a disembodied friend.
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|Standard route blitz
Date Climbed: Sep 3, 2011
|Loads of fun on a perfect day
|Posted Jul 21, 2014 9:11 pm
|East Ridge
Date Climbed: Aug 31, 2013
|Conquered the East Ridge beast. What a day...
|Posted Sep 2, 2013 9:58 pm
|SW ridge scramble
Date Climbed: Aug 10, 2013
|Last minute climb on our last day in the area. Fun way to end an amazing climbing trip, fun scramble, loose stuff but for the area not so bad. Perfect weather!
|Posted Aug 26, 2013 11:12 pm
|Sunny Day
Date Climbed: Jul 31, 2013
|Started the hike at 5:30 AM and had great weather the whole way. Route was entirely clear of snow and dry.
|Posted Aug 5, 2013 6:41 pm
|Scramble Route
|First over 11,000 feet.
|Posted Jan 29, 2013 5:24 pm
|1st 11,000
Date Climbed: Aug 8, 2003
|First 11,000!
|Posted Dec 16, 2011 12:27 am
|Old School WB
|South-West Ridge (Normal Route)
Date Climbed: Sep 17, 1994
|Fifth Canadian Rockies 11,000'er (summited five 11,000'ers in 1994). Standard scramble route with Tim Bester and Jock Rutherford. Ran up Eiffel Peak after Temple. Beautiful Fall day.
|Posted Oct 6, 2011 3:04 pm
|William Marler
|Great day again
Date Climbed: Sep 24, 2011
|Excellent day out with good friends
|Posted Oct 4, 2011 4:07 pm
Date Climbed: Sep 6, 2011
|The highest I've been yet :)
|Posted Sep 18, 2011 8:45 pm
|9 Peaks In 9 Days
Date Climbed: Sep 6, 2011
|This was the 4th peak of our hiking extravaganza. Temple was our #1 goal for the trip. Eiffel and Temple are probably the most scenic climbs I have ever done up to this point, while Temple was also one of the most fun. We encountered a lot of loose stuff as expected and the gray band wasn't all that hard. This time of year there was almost no snow on the last slope. The only thing we used our axes for was the summit photo.
|Posted Sep 16, 2011 2:51 pm
|SW Ridge
Date Climbed: Aug 28, 2010
|A neat scramble up a big peak!
|Posted Aug 31, 2010 1:14 am
|Normal Route
Date Climbed: Jul 28, 2007
|We had wait so long time for this peak. Finely we did it, but the weather was not so nice.
|Posted Dec 13, 2009 12:04 pm
|William Marler
|Fine Day
Date Climbed: Sep 12, 2009
|Brilliant weather excellent views. The normal route.
|Posted Sep 21, 2009 2:25 am
|Mr. Clam
|normal route
Date Climbed: Sep 3, 2009
|a fun scramble, some routefinding involved.
|Posted Sep 12, 2009 2:48 am
|Brad Marshall
|SW Ridge
Date Climbed: Jul 31, 2009
|Sue and I climbed most of the way to the summit but did not continue on as we had a big day ahead of us getting in to the Neil Colgan hut by Fay the next day. Great climb though in fantastic weather.
|Posted Aug 9, 2009 7:48 pm
|good weather
Date Climbed: Jul 23, 2009
|Fantastic conditions but smoky from B.C. fires so view wasn't as good as possible. lugged two packs otherwise no difficulties encountered. Since my entire family was very sore from too much hiking we intended to just hike sentinel pass trail but after arriving at the pass in early afternoon my dad decided we could give it a go. 3000 feet of shale and a couple hours later we were on top of Mt Temple with fantastic views.
|Posted Jul 26, 2009 8:04 pm
|Three nations summit
Date Climbed: Aug 14, 2008
|We met a couple of Romanian climbers, Bruno and Elizabeth at 8:00amfor the ascent, and with two more spaniards at the trail head. The walk up to sentinel pass was pleasant with good views of mountains, marmots and the odd porcupine!! The scree was tedious but little spots of scrambling were fun. Not much snow apart from the summit cornices, massive, unstable and dripping tons of water!! After plenty of time on the summit we descended back to the car by 6pm.
|Posted May 19, 2009 3:33 pm
|Climbed SW ridge with Katie on a great afternoon.
|Posted Apr 30, 2009 9:34 pm
|Route Climbed: SW Ridge, Normal Route with Brian (Dunsum) and Lubos
Date Climbed: Jul 14, 2008
|No snow except the upper portion. Great warm sunny day and incredible view.
|Posted Mar 5, 2009 12:25 am
|Big Day for the Big Momma
Date Climbed: Aug 6, 2008
|I doubled back from Yoho National Park on my bike tour to climb this peak. Well worth the return trip and tiring bike approach! Eiffel Peak is also good to tag on in a long day.
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Conference commissioners want a committee similar to the NCAA tournament selection committee. The hope is that a panel can be created that won't have any biases.
Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said that's a pipe dream.
"Administrators have too much of a stake in it. Coaches have too much of a stake in it. We all have an agenda, and/or protect our conference; that doesn't work," he said. "Old coaches have the same thing. Old coaches may go to bed too early. I go to bed early. They're not going to watch USC play at 9, 10 at night. I don't know what's a good answer to that to be quite honest with you."
The conference commissioners have to come up with one by the 2014 season. The goal is to pick the best four teams, but that's a subjective process. The human element is part of a process the OU coach was never a fan of to begin with. He would like to see the computers still be part of the process or something akin to the Ratings Percentage Index, used in college basketball and baseball, used by the playoff selection committee.
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Bill Frezza, Contributor
I chronicle the decline and fall of entitlement democracy
UPDATE – "10 Ways the Greek People Can Save Themselves"
Once in a great while an opportunity comes along to deliver justice to a people, giving them what they truly deserve. Greece's time has come.
It must be dawning on all but the most obtuse member of the banking elite that they can't possibly steal enough money from German taxpayers to save the Greek government from default. Put it off, maybe, but collapse is inevitable.
Once this happens, what is the purpose of casting Greece into some selective temporary financial purgatory where the irrelevant Greek economy can continue embarrassing anyone foolish enough to lend their dysfunctional government a dime? Why not go all the way and give the country what many of its people have been violently demanding for almost a century?
Let them have Communism.
Hard as it is for young people to believe, Communism was once a major historical force holding billions of people in thrall. Outside the halls of elite universities, who still takes it seriously? Sure we have Cuba, where the Castro deathwatch is the last thing standing between that benighted penal colony and an inevitable makeover by Club Med. Then there is Venezuela, though hope is fading that Hugo Chavez will carry the Bolivarian banner much longer now that he's busy sucking down FOLFOX cocktails while checking for signs that his hair is falling out. And frankly, a psychopathic family dynasty ruling a nation of stunted zombies hardly makes North Korea a proper Communist exemplar.
What the world needs, lest we forget, is a contemporary example of Communism in action. What better candidate than Greece? They've been pining for it for years, exhibiting a level of anti-capitalist vitriol unmatched in any developed country. They are temperamentally attuned to it, having driven all hard working Greeks abroad in search of opportunity. They pose no military threat to their neighbors, unless you quake at the sight of soldiers marching around in white skirts. And they have all the trappings of a modern Western nation, making them an uncompromised test bed for Marxist theories. Just toss them out of the European Union, cut off the flow of free Euros, and hand them back the printing plates for their old drachmas. Then stand back for a generation and watch.
The land that invented democracy used it to perfect the art of living at the expense of others, an example all Western democracies appear intent on emulating. Being the first to run out of other people's money makes Greece truly ripe to take the next logical step beyond socialism.
As wrenching as it will be we can take comfort in the fact that Greece doesn't have much of an economy to disrupt. The only Greek industry that's worth a damn is tourism, rapidly collapsing as travelers get tired of being stranded by strikes while dodging Molotov cocktails. The rest of us can find plenty of other sources of lamb chops, yogurt, and olive oil. They crushed the concept of private property long ago under the burden of environmental, cultural, and social regulations that govern land use. Wouldn't it be instructive to let them have a go at building a workers' paradise to remind us what state enforced equality looks like?
Unlike neighboring Balkan nations that got to experience the joys of Communism after the Second World War, Greece was brought back from the brink by massive western intervention as well as a Churchillian side deal that obliged Stalin to butt out. The nasty civil war between the Greek Communist Party (the KKE) and government forces backed by Britain and the U.S. set the stage for decades of struggle between communist sympathizers who never gave up the dream, and right wing juntas determined to rule by force. The uneasy peace that has existed since the colonels were booted merely masks underlying tensions as every Greek worries, is someone else working fewer hours than I am?
Whether it is "neoliberalism" or the absence of that has caused "economic misery" in the US is a point for debate. Re Greece, the fact is –undisputed by none bar the extreme left– that the pubic sector is bloated beyond belief, all public-run companies are loosing money, taxation policies are complicated and basically unjust, making tax evasion morally justified to many Greeks, and I could go on forever. The point is that most reforms needed right now are basically common sense reforms –as requested by the so-called troica– which could be implemented rather quickly and easily if only the government had the political will to do so.
Unfortunately you excibit the classic Greek behaviour of exageration. However your foreign readers will most probably take literally all the unfounded stuff you say.
Communist and related parties are frozen to a small minority of voters (many elders and many too young ones [who later on grow up and jump to other parties]).
Greek Tourism isn't going down this year, the reverse trend is observed. Greece is still considered one of the safest places to visit.
People in Greece value private property more than in any other country. The issus is that they don't have respect for public property and are suspicious to the state and because of bloated laws with elaborate details and bureucracy they tend to bend the law (which public servants [for taxation, buildings etc.] had turned to their benefit asking for bribes)
Birbilis, I think you are mistaken. I don't see Greeks respecting private property. Maybe you should come to my house and see all the Graffiti that Greeks write all over the area, and even we've even painted over it, the jerks come back and write their nonsense again. Also, what about all the garbage that people litter all over the beautiful country of Greece. I think you should reconsider your comment.
Also, regarding Turkey, don't forget their economy wasn't in a very good shape in the recent past, they even had cut off 3 digits of their currency in one night.
And don't forget their poor human rights score and the occupation of Northern Cyprus and denial to recognise the existence of a UN recognized country, Cyprus which is also an EU member. Now that Cyprus is going to be at the presidency of the EU for a while the Turks are escalating their threats that EU-Turkey talks will freeze etc. (they still don't allow trading etc. ships from/to Cyprus ports, not honouring deals with the EU and they want to become a member of the EU?)
While I am not Greek, but use to travel a lot to Greece, Western Europe and other Balkan countries, I couldn't agree more with the author. I am now living in Italy, which is probably the closest country if you compare the national way of thinking and living.
Whatever the Greeks like it or not, they are lazy and have been living on credit for quite some time. They probably don't like it, but now it came the time to pay. And the revolt against this. If they want someone to work and everyone to benefit, its time to leave them to handle it internally. Europe doesn't want to work for them. If you go out in Athens, all the coffees and bars are full. Everyone in Athens drives a car and has a home cleaner from Macedonia, Bulgaria or Romania.
This time is over and Greeks must move on. Now it's time to work to pay the bill.
Communism is a very hard "work"… Bet you have a car too, Bet you went to bars and coffee shops too. You obviously do not see the root of the problem.
"neo-liberalism," of course, is in the eyes of the beholder. What has indisputably caused a major part of the financial crisis in the US is the absolute deregulation that turned the financial sector into a pirates' den. Greece has Europes' most over-regulated economy, more so or as much as some East European Communist states (Hungary for example)had. Greece's economy is the mirror image of America's. It is in a straight jacket. Freeing it chaotically would only create a different sort of extreme economic catastrophe. Absolute deregulation, of course, is the ugly extreme of neo-liberalism. Its victims fill the bread lines of America.
Mr Frezza has succeeded where everyone else has failed: he has united disparate Greeks in agreeing that he has a serious knowledge deficit where Greece and Greek affairs are concerned. Uniting the Greeks on any subject is no small achievement. A Greek Presidential medal would not be entirely out of order, and it would appear that many posters here would love a crack at driving the pin through his shirt.
Actually the GReeks managed to con their way into the Euro based on advice not from Fanny Mae but from Goldman Sachs. Oh yes, they wanted a belt and braces fraud job.
North Korean – stunted zombies. Hmm. Nothing like a bit of casual racism.
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The Devil's in the Details
Once upon a time, a beautiful princess was sent by a witch into a long, deep sleep, lasting for a hundred years. The world nearly forgot her and her castle, twined about by roses, until one day, a handsome prince came, kissed her, and awakened her --and all the other nice things happened that you hear about in fairy tales.
Our driver should do what the princess did while it is waiting for data: sleep, leaving the world spinning around. Linux provides a mechanism for that, called interruptible_sleep_on(). Every process reaching this call will fall asleep and contribute its time slices to the rest of the world. It will stay in this function till another process calls wake_up_interruptible(), and this "prince" usually takes the form of an interrupt handler that has successfully received or sent data, or Linux itself, if a time-out condition has occurred.
The previous article in this series showed a minimal interrupt handler, which was called skel_trial_fn(), but its workings were not explained. Here, we introduce a "complete" interrupt handler, which will handle both input to and output from the actual hardware device. Figure 1 shows a simple version of its concept: When the driver is waiting for the device to get ready (blocking), it goes to sleep by calling interruptible_sleep_on(). A valid interrupt ends this sleep, restarting skel_write().
Figure 1 does not include the double-nested loop structure we need when working with an internal output buffer. The reason is that if we can perform only writing within the skel_write() function there is no need for an internal output buffer. But our driver should catch data even while not in skel_read() and should write the data in the background even when not in skel_write(). Therefore, we will change the hardware writing in skel_write() to write to an output buffer and let the interrupt handler perform the real writing to the hardware. The interrupt and skel_write() will now be linked by the "Sleeping Beauty" mechanism and the output buffer.
The interrupt handler is installed and uninstalled during the open() and close() calls to the device, as suggested in the previous article. This task is handled by the following kernel calls:
#include <linux/sched.h> int request_irq(unsigned int irq, void (*handler) (int, struct pt_regs *), unsigned long flags, const char *device); void free_irq(unsigned int irq);
The handler argument is the actual interrupt handler we wish to install. The role of the flags argument is to set a few features of the handler, the most important being its behaviour as a fast handler (SA_INTERRUPT is set in flags) or as a slow handler ( SA_INTERRUPT is not set). A fast handler is run with all interrupts disabled, while a slow one is executed with all interrupts except itself enabled.
Finally, the device argument is used to identify the handler when looking at /proc/interrupts.
The handler function installed by request_irq() is passed only the interrupt number and the (often useless) contents of the processor registers.
Therefore, we'll first determine which board the calling interrupt belongs to. If we can't find any boards, a situation called a spurious interrupt has occurred, and we should ignore it. Typically interrupts are used to tell whether the device is ready either for reading or writing, so we have to find out by one or more hardware tests what the device wants us to do.
Of course, we should leave our interrupt handler quickly. Strangely enough, printk() (and thus the PDEBUG line) is allowed even within fast interrupt handlers. This is a very useful feature of the linux implementation. If you look at kernel/printk.c you'll discover that its implementation is based on wait queues, as the actual delivery of messages to log files is handled by an external process (usually klogd).
As shown in figure 2, Linux can handle a timeout when in interruptible_sleep_on(). For example, if you have are using a device to which you send an answer, and it is expected to reply within a limited time, causing a time-out to signal an I/O error (-EIO) in the return value to the user process might be a good choice.
Certainly the user process could care for this, too, using the alarm mechanism. But it is definitely easier to handle this in the driver itself. The timeout criteria is specified by SKEL_TIMEOUT, which is counted in jiffies. Jiffies are the steady heartbeat of a Linux system, a steady timer incremented every few milliseconds. The frequency, or number of jiffies per second, is defined by HZ in <asm/param.h> (included in <linux/sched.h>) and varies on different architectures (100 Hz Intel, 1 kHz Alpha). You simply have to set
#define SKEL_TIMEOUT timeout_seconds * HZ
/* ... */
current->timeout = jiffies + SKEL_TIMEOUT
and if interruptible_sleep_on timed out, current->timeout will be cleared after return.
Be aware that interrupts might happen within skel_read() and skel_write(). Variables that might be changed within the interrupt should be declared as volatile. They also need to be protected to avoid race conditions. The classic code sequence to protect a critical region is the following:
unsigned long flags;
save_flags (flags);
cli ();
critical region
restore_flags (flags);
Finally, the code for the "complete" error handler:
#define SKEL_IBUFSIZ 512 #define SKEL_OBUFSIZ 512 /* for 5 seconds timeout */ #define SKEL_TIMEOUT (5*HZ) /* This should be inserted in the Skel_Hw-structure */ typedef struct Skel_Hw { /* write position in input-buffer */ volatile int ibuf_wpos; /* read position in input-buffer */ int ibuf_rpos; /* the input-buffer itself */ char *ibuf; /* write position in output-buffer */ int obuf_wpos; /* read position in output-buffer */ volatile int buf_rpos; char *obuf; struct wait_queue *skel_wait_iq; struct wait_queue *skel_wait_oq; [...] } #define SKEL_IBUF_EMPTY(b) \ ((b)->ibuf_rpos==(b)->ibuf_wpos) #define SKEL_OBUF_EMPTY(b) \ ((b)->obuf_rpos==(b)->obuf_wpos) #define SKEL_IBUF_FULL(b) \ (((b)->ibuf_wpos+1)%SKEL_IBUFSIZ==(b)->ibuf_rpos) #define SKEL_OBUF_FULL(b) \ (((b)->obuf_wpos+1)%SKEL_OBUFSIZ==(b)->obuf_rpos) Static int skel_open (struct inode *inode, struct file *filp) { /* .... */ /* First we allocate the buffers */ board->ibuf = (char*) kmalloc (SKEL_IBUFSIZ, GFP_KERNEL); if (board->ibuf == NULL) return -ENOMEM; board->obuf = (char*) kmalloc (SKEL_OBUFSIZ, GFP_KERNEL); if (board->obuf == NULL) { kfree_s (board->ibuf, SKEL_IBUFSIZ); return -ENOMEM; } /* Now we clear them */ ibuf_wpos = ibuf_rpos = 0; obuf_wpos = obuf_rpos = 0; board->irq = board->hwirq; if ((err=request_irq(board->irq> skel_interrupt, SA_INTERRUPT, "skel"))) return err; } Static void skel_interrupt(int irq, struct pt_regs *unused) { int i; Skel_Hw *board; for (i=0, board=skel_hw; i<skel_boards; board++, i++) /* spurious */ if (board->irq==irq) break; if (i==skel_boards) return; if (board_is_ready_for_input) skel_hw_write (board); if (board_is_ready_for_output) skel_hw_read (board); } Static inline void skel_hw_write (Skel_Hw *board){ int rpos; char c; while (! SKEL_OBUF_EMPTY (board) && board_ready_for_writing) { c = board->obuf [board->obuf_rpos++]; write_byte_c_to_device board->obuf_rpos %= SKEL_OBUF_SIZ; } /* Sleeping Beauty */ wake_up_interruptible (board->skel_wait_oq); } Static inline void skel_hw_read (Skel_Hw *board) { char c; /* If space left in the input buffer & device ready: */ while (! SKEL_IBUF_FULL (board) && board_ready_for_reading) { read_byte_c_from_device board->ibuf [board->ibuf_wpos++] = c; board->ibuf_wpos %= SKEL_IBUFSIZ; } wake_up_interruptible (board->skel_wait_iq); } Static int skel_write (struct inode *inode, struct file *file, char *buf, int count) { int n; int written=0; Skel_Hw board = (Skel_Hw*) (file->private_data); for (;;) { while (written<count && ! SKEL_OBUF_FULL (board)) { board->obuf [board->obuf_wpos] = get_user_byte (buf); buf++; board->obuf_wpos++; written++; board->obuf_wpos %= SKEL_OBUFSIZ; } if (written) return written; if (file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK) return -EAGAIN; current->timeout = jiffies + SKEL_TIMEOUT; interruptible_sleep_on ( &(board->skel_wait_oq)); /* Why did we return? */ if (current->signal & ~current->blocked) /* If the signal is not not being blocked */ return -ERESTARTSYS; if (!current->timeout) /* no write till timout: i/o-error */ return -EIO; } } Static int skel_read (struct inode *inode, struct file *file, char *buf, int count) { Skel_Hw board = (Skel_Hw*) (file->private_data); int bytes_read = 0; if (!count) return 0; if (SKEL_IBUF_EMPTY (board)) { if (file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK) /* Non-blocking */ return -EAGAIN; current->time_out = jiffies+SKEL_TIMEOUT; for (;;) { skel_tell_hw_we_ask_for_data interruptible_sleep_on ( &(board->skel_wait_iq)); if (current->signal & ~current->blocked) return -ERESTARTSYS; if (! SKEL_IBUF_EMPTY (board)) break; if (!current->timeout) /* Got timeout: return -EIO */ return -EIO; } } /* if some bytes are here, return them */ while (! SKEL_IBUF_EMPTY (board)) { put_user_byte (board->ibuf [board->ibuf_rpos], buf); buf++; board->ibuf_rpos++; bytes_read++; board->ibuf_rpos %= SKEL_IBUFSIZ; if (--count == 0) break; } if (count) /* still looking for some bytes */ skel_tell_hw_we_ask_for_data return bytes_read; }
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When you call wake_up_interruptible () from the handler the control unpends the sleeping task finish the read system call from the and then return back to continue the handler after calling wake_up ? Or else both the wake_up and unpending sleep task goes in parallel.
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About IF
What is IF
The International Federation for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus (IF) is the worldwide umbrella organisation (INGO) for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus organisations. It was created in 1979 by national organisations of people with these impairments and their parents. Today IF's members consist of 50 regional and national umbrella organisations for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus. Furthermore, IF has intensive contact with regional and national organisations in over 50 countries, spread over five continents.
Support of national associations for SB and/or Hydrocephalus
IF developed a basic manual on how to set up a support group. IF has compiled a set of guidelines for national associations, to assist national associations in their development.Given the importance and valuable work that each organisation does in its respective country for people with Spina Bifida and/or Hydrocephalus, IF strives to reinforce national organisations through a variety of activities like workshops, conferences, knowledge transfer, capacity building as well as consultancy and guidance.
IF Awards
Each year, the International Federation for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus (IF) presents the IF Award to an individual or organisation in recognition of the special contribution they have made to the service of people with disabilities in general or to people with Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida in particular.
IF Statutes