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House Majority Leader Joe Aresimowicz (D-Berlin & Southington) was joined by Senate Majority Leader Martin M. Looney (D-New Haven), State Labor Commissioner Sharon M. Palmer and state business owners today to celebrate the success of the state's Subsidized Training and Employment Program (Step Up).
A new report by the state Department of Labor shows that since the Step Up program's first hire in February of 2012, a total of 1,102 new employees have been hired at more than 375 companies throughout the state. Since November, the number of new employees has increased to 1,199 while nearly 400 employers are now taking part in the Step Up program.
"By providing well-paying jobs, the state's Step Up program has provided hundreds of unemployed jobseekers with meaningful work that will ultimately help our economy to grow. Delmar Products and Value Added Solutions, both in Berlin, have hired a number of employees under Step Up,"
said Representative Aresimowicz. "Over half of the employers taking part in the Step Up program hired individuals to fill a new job created specifically as a result of the program incentives, and in November, nearly 250 new employees had already completed six months of work and were no longer subsidized."
Step Up, focused on job creation, was part of the Jobs Bill passed by the legislature in October, 2011. The state program, which provides wage subsidy and training grant incentives to small businesses, offers up to $12,000 in wage subsidies during the first six months of a new hire's employment while the small manufacturing training grant provides up to $12,500 during the same six-month timeframe.
Rep. Aresimowicz, an army veteran noted that this past June, a new component added to Step Up now allows employers of any size to received wage subsidies for the first six months when an employer hires a post-9/11 military veteran.
As of February 7 of this year, employers across Connecticut have hired 560 unemployed jobseekers using the wage subsidy program, and another 639 under the small manufacturer's training grant.
Administered by the state Department of Labor and the Connecticut's five Workforce Investment Boards, the three Step Up programs provide a total of $30 million ($10 million for each program) in employer incentives.

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Mike Knuble says the only thing bigger than tonights game against the Buffalo Sabres is Thursday nights game against the Boston Bruins.
Goaltender Braden Holtby will make the biggest start of his career tonight when the Capitals face off against the Buffalo Sabres for sole possession of the eighth and final playoff spot in the East
Braden Holtby might want to make a phone call to the Harriburg airport parking garage.
As the Capitals prepared for their biggest game of the season Tuesday night against the Buffalo Sabres, more encouraging news came out of the trainers room.
Capitals coach Dale Hunter acknowledged before Sundays game against the Minnesota Wild that he was looking for a goalie to step up and have a good stretch run.


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Unlike most of us, who run away from crashes, fires and accidents, first responders run to them.
Is it any wonder then that the police officers, fire fighters and other emergency personnel who responded to the crash of Continental Flight 3407 in Clarence are showing signs of post-traumatic stress.
After all, how do you deal with the deaths of 50 innocent human beings, each one of them the son, daughter, mother or father of someone left behind?
How do you get beyond the task of combing through debris and rubble in search of human remains?
And how do you address the sense of helplessness that comes with knowing no one will be found alive?
Those are the questions counselors, therapists and family members will try to answer in the coming weeks as Erie County's first responders start to recover from the Feb. 12 crash on Long Street.
Do you have a message for the men and women who sacrificed so much over the past 12 days?
-- Phil Fairbanks
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By Jean Cole
Alabama 53 south of Pinedale Road has just been shut down due to a traffic accident.
The road was closed just after 5 p.m. Friday, after a wreck occurred about 4:50 p.m. southeast of Ardmore on 53 by Pinedale Road.
Emergency responders were on the scene and treating one victim. One responder reported major damage to the driver's door.
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Demise of China Part 2: Madame Fatale's 'Cavern of Terror'
This is part 2 of an article I wrote previously. CLICK HERE for a review.
I was thinking of Hong Kong, communism and China in general while my wife, daughter, son-in-law, and I spent the weekend at the Halloween Haunt at Kings Island. I love the Kings Island amusement park best during the cool October evenings, with the fog machines creating an eerie atmosphere as dressed up monsters roam around the park terrifying people. This year new to the park, is an attraction called Madame Fatale's Cavern of Terror. As I stood in line I thought of how Lakota—my home school district could justify with a straight face sending public employees to China while opening the doors to that communist country in a mutual exchange. I had to remind myself that the public unions that run Lakota and every other school in the country are in love with the communism of China, and without question Lakota sees such outreach programs with communist China to be wonderful, and beneficial to children everywhere. As I looked around at the fantastic attraction at Kings Island I couldn't help but think that China could not produce a Kings Island on their own. As a communist country, they didn't even think of such leisure activity for their population until they took over the lease of Hong Kong from the British government in 1997.
Disney built an amusement park in Hong Kong and since then, China has been attempting to copy the idea of amusement parks slowly trying to accept little bits of capitalism. China didn't have a choice. Hong Kong was a capitalist city in their homeland but run by the British government seized in the Opium War (1839-1842). England developed a flourishing economy while the rest of China stayed committed to communism 100 years later in 1949. This caused economic drudgery for the 1 billion people living in China except for the fortunate 5 million people living in and around Hong Kong benefiting from capitalism. Since 1997 China has been letting reluctantly the influence of capitalism expand their economy financially, but socially, they are in serious trouble leading them to a cliff of which their country will not avoid.
These thoughts brought me back to my question, why does Lakota pride itself for a relationship with China? Why has The United States allowed itself to become indebted to China's economic wealth? Unfortunately the reason is that the communists in America currently calling themselves progressives wish for The United States to be more like China, but what they don't understand is the reality behind that decision. The evidence of such a fatal flaw in recognition can be seen in the kind of amusement parks America has as opposed to the copy cat regime of China. Kings Island would not exist in China under their own ingenuity. Because of communism, the people of China would have to see it done first. As a communist country short on imagination, they would never come up with a concept for a Halloween Haunt like Kings Island did.
Wild economic creativity is a very specific benefit of capitalism, and America in general. The kind of ingenuity that was on grand display at Madame Fatale's Cavern of Terror was easy for the capitalist producers working at Cedar Fair Amusements. Not so easy for amusement park workers in China who have to look at American websites to figure out what's cool and what's not. Of a particular note was a new trick used in a haunted house that I had never experienced before. One of the monsters in the maze said my name as I walked by, which did cause me to give the guy a double-take. I saw that he didn't attempt to make eye contact with me and as I was going up the stairs out of the pit of catacombs I noticed that he made no further attempt to communicate with me. Instead I saw a woman speaking to the monster with a sheet of paper in her hand. I spent the rest of the evening trying to figure out if I knew the guy from somewhere and if I did how he could have recognized me so quickly in such poor light. As I reasoned through the events leading up to that particular confrontation I realized that the attraction which was entirely indoors had used some type of face recognition software similar to what the TSA are using to match my face with the records they have in the Kings Island season pass database. The woman would tell the monster the names of a particular person as she got them off her computer between groups passing through that zone. It was a neat trick that certainly got my attention.
But in China, doing such things takes great effort, whereas in The United States creativity is actually taken for granted. China is feared all over the world because of its land mass, and its vast numbers of population, but they are in serious trouble because of their communist, collectivist oriented society. After adopting communism from The Soviet Union the Chinese have imposed upon themselves the same kind of economic restrictions that crushed Russia two decades prior. Additionally their social engineering policy of only one child per family is having devastating consequences. Currently China is full of males looking for war with Japan over some territorial islands for the primary reason that there are not enough females to domesticate the males. The men do not have the ability to have their own woman to share a life with, and have sex. They have to share women like all communist societies advocate so strongly. But that doesn't exactly work, so the male population in China is strung up very tight. Currently in China there are between 120 to 130 males for every 100 females. There are more than 35 million people missing in China according to birth records, and the logical belief is that those people were girls born into families who wanted a boy, so they killed the girl. One thing that the communists didn't consider in their masterful social planning is that fathers would want a son to carry on their family name, and if the State only allowed them to have one child per family, they didn't want to waste that on a girl. That kind of culture is what public schools like Lakota are promoting to young students learning the merits of communism.
Using the same reasoning ability to add up the facts as I did over the haunted house name identification incident, it is not difficult to see where China is headed. They have a heavily male population that must pay for sex in brothels, because not all men can have a woman, or they must become homosexual—which is another communist platform item. Homosexuality is advocated by communists because it destroys the traditional family and gives the state the authority role over young people. This has created some very unusual internal problems in China which can be explored more deeply in the article below.
When President Obama speaks of putting America to work building bridges and roads, and hiring more teachers, cops and firefighters, he has in essence copied what communist China has been doing for a number of years, especially since taking over Hong Kong. China to keep its citizens working has been building many "ghost cities" which are giant public works projects designed to keep the economy moving along. But the trouble is nobody lives in them. There are not companies to fill them, and no people to reside there. They are just constructed cities designed by master planners for people who will never arrive. They were built to cover up a serious economic problem that China is about to be crushed under—the failure of communism.
1.1 million workers in China work for Foxconn who probably makes your iPhone if you have one. Foxconn had to close one of its factories after major riots over oppressive working conditions broke out recently in Taiyuan, leaving 79,000 workers out of a job. The reason companies like Apple and other global electronics companies, including Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Microsoft use the Foxconn factories in China to make their products is because the union jobs in America would simply be too expensive. I don't blame them as American companies one bit for seeking out the most competitive advantage to their profit matrix. I blame the communist government of China because they don't give people a choice of economic options. Thorough China's collectivism they have socially engineered themselves into destruction. They work where they're assigned. End of story. The State controls virtually everything even down to the sex life of its citizens. When the pressure becomes too great, the citizens simply kill themselves or riot out of desperation. Read more about this terrible situation below:
Communism is failing China in a huge way and the media in The United States along with the President and other academic types are keeping the failures quite because they are in denial. Many of them have long advocated the utopia of communism in The United States and refuse to see the facts for the facts. I suspect many of them would go through Madame Fatale's Cavern of Terror as I did and would be shocked when a monster called their name out of the fog infested darkness. But they would probably leave it at that, and not pursue the truth any further by adding up the facts to figure out how the monster knew their name. They would simply accept the act without figuring out why it happened, and this is what all communists are guilty of. This is why millions of people are dying in China right now—today! This is why the worst civil rights abuses in the entire world are happening in China with the killing of millions of young girls. If the crimes against women in China were added to the crimes against women in Islamic faith, women's rights groups all over the earth would be in a deserved outrage. But they are not, because they are not advocates for individual rights of women, but collective rights of humanity, and they cannot turn their attention against collective based organizations like the Islamic religion or the political philosophy of communism. There is no place on earth where worker rights are so extremely oppressive as in China right now, today in that far away land where communism rules with an iron fist, accepting crony capitalism so long as their business partners outwardly support progressive causes—so everyone can sleep well at night.
That same night my family and I attended the Halloween Haunt at Kings Island we also went to Skyline Chili at Kings Mills, a delightful restaurant featuring Cincinnati's world famous chili. From the dining room window I could see the Eiffel Tower of Kings Island and all along the circumference of the room a model train ran around the parameter. I enjoyed watching the train as we ate our dinner and I contemplated how wonderful capitalism is. Around the counter the employees waiting to serve a new customer talked casually. Their minds were not on riots like the conditions at the Foxconn plant in China instigated. They simply wanted to get off work in time to play World of Warcraft meeting up in cyberspace with their guild friends. For the young people working at Skyline Chili the world is open to them, and there are limitless options for them to fill their time. At the Foxconn plant in China where the riots took place, the workers live, work, and play all the same facility in service to the State, like all good communists must do without question.
I would support public education in America if they publicly denounced their affiliation with labor unions and disguised communism. I would feel better about my district of Lakota if they did not send employees on "goodwill" missions to a communist country that is currently killing millions of their current citizens behind smiling faces and letting American youth believe everything is alright. Nobody gives a damn so long as their iPhone works, and they have the latest addition. As I watched the train round the tracks at Skyline Chili I realized that what I hate most about labor unions—all labor unions—is that they use communism to erode the world of what's good and wherever they gather they bring misery. Even where they don't gather, they bring misery because it forces people to flee their collective wrath. In the case of companies like Apple seeking to offer a good product at a good price, they can deal with the communism of labor unions in The United States or they can deal with the communism of China and their forced work labor restrictions due to economic limitations. American companies have the upper hand in China because the communist country has no ingenuity on their own, so they rely on America to give them their jobs which can be produced cheaper in China than in the United States. But China with all its power or its population cannot make a haunted house like what was found at Kings Island in Madame Fatale's Cavern of Terror. And for me, that is the most frightening thought I had all evening.
Rich Hoffman
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Demise of China Part 1: The History of Communism and why it grows in Public Education
While it is true, I have less patients for the public education system in America now than I did when I first started fighting school levies, the reason for it is in the diagnosis that in its current form, schools as they function now cannot be saved. Government schools should be erased from the board of thought and reinvented without the influence of labor unions or any government involvement. If you send your child to a public school, you are destroying their minds. That is my opinion after much research. The evidence of my research has revealed without question that communist infiltration into the America public education system in the 1940's and 1950's has caused many of the social and economic problems we see today in 2012. The modern labor union's social/political position and what they desire to teach students, and how they wish to erode away the value of private property through taxation—incentivizing non-ownership, apartment dwellers and other lease agreements as shelters of taxation–public housing like what Russia had in Petrograd are all too clear the strategic intentions when taken in historical context.
It is unlikely that a school district's modern superintendents or their administrators know anything of the history I am about to unleash upon these pages in a two-part symposium focusing on why China wishes war with Japan, and the true modern cost of communism that China is currently experiencing. It is unlikely that they have thought too much about the communism they are advocating in their modern politics—the attempt to teach the American youth of the struggle between the proletariat and the bourgeois, the importance of "green technology" (modern communism) or the dangerous breakdown of family values advocated by intelligentsia in America and how this breakdown occurred through subtle communist propaganda. The participants probably know very little of what they are really doing, or why they do it. They have accepted collectivism as their social role so they only look at their responsibility in that collective, and do not consider the philosophic implications because such a thing would require thought, and they have surrendered that ability. The communists attacked America in the period after World War II not directly, but subtly and that attack can be felt to this very day in any child in any school in America. And every American who pays taxes off their property has been forced to accept that communism just a little each year with every increase in school levies gradually sapping off the wealth of property ownership by attacking the bourgeois and redistributing that wealth to the proletariat. Teachers are not paid so much money through their unions because those positions are socially important. They are paid so much to shut their mouths, not ask questions, and teach what the state tells them to teach. For me the final straw came during the Chicago Teacher's Union Strike of 2012.
Author Ayn Rand wrote a pamphlet for the, entitled Screen Guide for Americans, where she wrote: The purpose of the Communists in Hollywood is not the production of political movies openly advocating Communism. Their purpose is to corrupt our moral premises by corrupting non-political movies–by introducing small, casual bits of propaganda into innocent stories thus making people absorb the basic principles of Collectivism by indirection and implication. The principle of free speech requires that we do not use police force to forbid the Communists the expression of their ideas–which means that we do not pass laws forbidding them to speak. But the principle of free speech does not require that we furnish the Communists with the means to preach their ideas, and does not imply that we owe them jobs and support to advocate our own destruction at our own expense. Texts taken from The Passion of Ayn Rand by Barbara Branden, p. 199. You can also see that guide for yourself by CLICKING HERE.
But to understand how this communism came to our communities in 2012 we have to study the events that led up to it, to the Russian Revolution, which was an event that the political left has salivated over for 100 years. By understanding how communism spread, and why it was appealing, one can then see how we found it in our own back yards and why. The history below is a bit dry and encyclopedic. But it is necessary in understanding the modern political landscape.
Russian Revolution
Russian Revolution, series of events in imperial Russia that culminated in 1917 with the establishment of the Soviet state that became known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). The two successful revolutions of 1917 are referred to collectively as the Russian Revolution.
For centuries, autocratic and repressive czarist regimes ruled Russia, and most of the population lived under severe economic and social conditions. During the 19th century and early 20th century, various movements arose aimed at overthrowing the government. Russia's unsuccessful involvement in World War I (1914-1918) added to popular discontent, and in 1917 these events resulted in revolutions in February and October.
The February Revolution
The immediate cause of the February Revolution was the collapse of the czarist regime under the strain of World War I. Russian industry lacked the capacity to arm, equip, and supply the millions of men who were sent into the war. Soldiers went hungry, and casualties were enormous. Goods became scarce, and by 1917 famine threatened the larger cities. The czar, Emperor Nicholas II, ignored warnings of social and political unrest, and in February 1917 workers occupied the streets of Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg), demanding an end to the war and the removal of the czar. The troops of the Petrograd garrison were called out, but after violent clashes, the workers convinced the troops to let them pass their line of defense. Nicholas dissolved the Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, but the deputies elected a provisional committee to act in its place. On February 27 the revolution triumphed. The Petrograd garrison joined the revolution, and the united workers and soldiers took control of the capital.
Two new bodies exercised effective political power. They were the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies and a provisional government formed by a committee of the Duma. The Soviet tried to cope with the problem of food supply and issued its famous Order No. 1, which placed the military under its authority. The Soviet was composed primarily of Mensheviks and Socialist Revolutionaries. Led by this moderate majority, it recognized the newly established provisional government as the legal authority in Russia.
The Provisional Government
After Nicholas II abdicated on March 2, the provisional government took power. The revolution then spread throughout the country, as soviets functioned with authorities in communication with the provisional government. The government was led primarily by Pavel Milyukov and generally favored an immediate constitutional monarchy and ultimately a republic. Aleksandr Fyodorovich Kerensky, the minister of justice, was the only representative of moderate socialist opinion in the provisional government. The provisional government enjoyed widespread popularity at first as it disbanded the czarist police and repealed limitations on freedom of opinion, press, and association. Its power was limited, however, as it had no firm basis of authority.
The provisional government pledged itself to win the war, but the Petrograd Soviet called for peace. The antagonisms between the government and the Petrograd Soviet resulted in open conflict. The soviets throughout the country became an instrument for revolutionary socialism, as the government continued to postpone action on pressing problems and as the workers and peasants became increasingly convinced that their problems could be solved only by the soviets.
Growth of Bolshevik Influence
The revolution had surprised even the working-class parties that had been agitating for revolution, and only in April, after the return from Switzerland of their exiled leader, Vladimir Ilich Lenin, did the Bolshevik Party assert itself. Lenin advocated opposition to the war and proposed that the party establish a proletarian dictatorship. He declared that the Bolsheviks should issue propaganda to convince the workers of the soundness of Bolshevik policy before seizing power. Revolutionary Leon Trotsky agreed and joined the Bolshevik Party, which was in the minority in the Petrograd Soviet. Events favored the Bolshevik cause. Milyukov, by continuing to support the war, provoked armed demonstrations by workers and soldiers, and the Soviet ordered all troops to remain in their barracks during the protests. Milyukov resigned, and the government was reorganized to include representatives of the socialist parties.
The Bolshevik Party was still a minority at the first all-Russian Congress of Soviets in June. The government, like its predecessor, subordinated all problems to the prosecution of the war, leading to a massive demonstration in July by workers, soldiers, and sailors. The demonstrators converged on the Tauride Palace, where the Congress of Soviets was in session. Caught by surprise, the Bolshevik leadership at first attempted to restrain the masses, but then placed itself at the head of the movement. The Congress of Soviets denounced the Bolsheviks and summoned troops to disperse the demonstrators. The support from the troops in effect recognized the Soviet as the supreme governing authority in the country. Kerensky became prime minister, and a second coalition government was formed.
The July demonstration produced a wave of political reaction. Lenin was denounced and went into hiding in Finland; Trotsky and others were arrested. Because the Kerensky government took no steps to improve the economy, unrest continued, and Bolshevik influence again increased. After a failed attempt by the military to take the city, the Bolsheviks, supported by the soldiers and workers, secured a majority in the Petrograd Soviet, leaving the provisional government virtually powerless.
The October Revolution
On October 24 the Military Revolutionary Committee, under the direction of Trotsky, stormed the Winter Palace, headquarters of the provisional government. Kerensky escaped into exile. While the insurrection was in progress, the second Congress of Soviets, with a Bolshevik majority, began its deliberation. Most of the Menshevik and Socialist Revolutionary delegates withdrew from the congress.
In November the Congress of Soviets took up the issues of peace, land, and a new government. First it proposed an immediate armistice. Then it abolished most private property. Finally, the congress, led by the Central Executive Committee, became the country's supreme authority, with decisions to be carried out by the Soviet of People's Commissars. Among the leading Bolsheviks elected to this council were Lenin, Trotsky, and Joseph Stalin. The congress gained widespread support, and banks and industries were nationalized.
The new government ended Russia's involvement in World War I by signing the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk on March 3, 1918. The treaty, which surrendered the Baltic states, Finland, Poland, and Ukraine, infuriated many Russians. Opposition to the Bolshevik Party, by then called the Russian Communist Party, erupted into a civil war that lasted until late 1920. Lenin's government, operating out of the new capital in Moscow, began a policy of crushing all opposition in the so-called Red terror campaign. Suspected anti-Communists, known as Whites, were arrested, tried, and executed.
After winning the civil war, the Russian Communist Party took strict control of the country, crushing all opposition. On December 30, 1921, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formally established when the ethnic territories of the former Russian Empire were united with the Russian Federated Socialist Republic.
As communism spread across the largest landmass of the world in Russia Mao Ze•dong (mou¹ dze¹dòng¹) also Mao Tse-tung (tse¹-t¢ng¹) bought into the theories of Karl Marx and Lenin and started a revolution of his own. Mao was born in 1893 and died in1976 as the premier Chinese Communist leader and theorist. He founded the Chinese Communist Party (1921), he led the Long March (1934-1935) and proclaimed the People's Republic of China in 1949. As party chairman and the country's first head of state (1949-1959) he initiated the Great Leap Forward and the founding of communes. He continued as party chairman after 1959 and was a leading figure in the Cultural Revolution (1966-1969). In the 1970's he consolidated his political power and established ties with the West. To see more on the history of China and the impact of this communist uprising, CLICK HERE.
In America while all this activity was going on in the Soviet Union and China spies and communist infiltrators into Hollywood, book publishing, the media, and government positions ushered in new concerns for the poor (Harrington's Other America, 1963) helped lead to Pres. Johnson's "Great Society" programs (Medicare, Water Quality Act, Higher Education Act, all 1965). Concern with the environment surged (Carson's Silent Spring, 1962). Feminism revived as a cultural and political movement (Friedan's Feminine Mystique, 1963; National Organization for Women founded 1966), and a movement for homosexual rights emerged (Stonewall riot in NYC, 1969). Pope John XXIII called the Second Vatican Council (1962-65), which liberalized Roman Catholic liturgy and some other aspects of Catholicism. All these movements were set off by insurgents working within The United States in the fashion that Ayn Rand warned about in 1947, in much the way that the Bolsheviks came to power in Russia.
Opposition to U.S. involvement in Vietnam, especially among university students (Moratorium protest, Nov. 1969), turned violent (Weatherman Chicago riots, Oct. 1969). New Left and Marxist theories became popular, and membership in radical groups (Students for a Democratic Society, Black Panthers) increased. Maoist groups, especially in Europe, called for total transformation of society. In France, students sparked a nationwide strike affecting 10 million workers in May-June 1968, but an electoral reaction barred revolutionary change.
The seeds for communism were planted by the time Ronald Reagan became president, the names were changed to protect the Cold War fears from the public, and were advocated in America by the Democratic Party funded by labor unions with money stolen from the property of tax payers to fund their own demise. The intention of communism under Lenin was always a worldwide conquest of the proletariat over the bourgeois. He managed in just a few short years to spread communism to almost the entire landmass of Asia and most of Europe disguised as socialism and mixed market capitalism to gain gradual acceptance over time. And yes, the communists came to America to plant their seeds and they started in Hollywood where they still work closely in relationships established closely with politicians to "shape" society into the beliefs of communism.
[1]Excerpted from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition © 1996 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Electronic version licensed from INSO Corporation; further reproduction and distribution in accordance with the Copyright Law of the United States. All rights reserved.
[1]The World Almanac® and Book of Facts 1997 is licensed from K-III Reference Corporation. Copyright © 1996 by K-III Reference Corporation. All rights reserved.
Stay Tuned for Part 2 on October 2, 2012
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Skycar Update: China is going to beat us to the future
I received a note the other night that disturbed me greatly from one of the people in this world that I truly admire. I won't reveal the details of that note since it contains personal information. But the gist of the correspondence is that it appears that China is on the verge of investing over a billion dollars in Skycar technology's Rotapower engine to begin the process of development of that engine which makes the Skycar possible. To understand what Skycars are, click here to review my article on them.
I have been seeking to pull together all the interested parties to get the United States into the game going as far as contacting President Obama, and General Motors after the bail-out, to help us rediscover ourselves. But there was no response from Obama or General Motors. They aren't interested in new technology, only the old.
So China is getting ready to usher in this technology for all the reasons that you'll hear in the below broadcast of Doc Thompson as Doc discusses how the EPA shut down oil drilling in Alaska. We are our own worst enemy in the United States because too many special interests are getting in the way of development of new technology.
I have been speaking to this company Mollar International for well over 15 years, and what prompted my recent discussion with them was the need of an accurate launch period for their technology so I could do what I could to bring everyone together in America. But as was explained to me in the undisclosed letter, most of the investors in Mollar International, and Freedom Motors, are foreign investors, even though the inventor is as American as there is in our modern age. So as he explained, it's not his first choice, but it is out of necessity. He has to go where the money is, and the desire to produce his product will take him, and right now it's China.
Below I will disclose the non-confidential portions of my correspondence with Mollar International so the reader can see what is coming in the near future. Unfortunately because the United States is over-regulated and drags it's feet in too many ways, it will be China that will be first.
First the letter from me to Bruce, then the response from Bruce.
Hi Bruce,
I was wondering how close your company is to a working model that could perform as a shuttle service beginning with a line running from West Chester, Ohio to Columbus.
Once Skycar performed the shuttle service for key people of this region and gained media, and political support, it would become viable for an amusement park such as Kings Island to offer a transport to Cedar Point. Both amusement parks are owned by Cedar Fair Amusements and would benefit by offering pass holders an economic way to visit both parks within the same day with their Platinum season pass offerings. The two parks are about 300 miles apart and they have a platinum package that allows season pass holders to visit those two parks for free. So a Skycar shuttle would be a great asset to their business model, and a great way to introduce the technology to the public at large and establish trust in the vehicles. Those two amusement parks are two of the largest and most spectacular in the country. A successful implementation of this type of shuttle service would then convince the Disney Parks in Florida to offer a similar shuttle service from their parks in central Florida to their cruise line in Port Canaveral.
This is something I have been considering for a while, but I believe all the above is very possible. I suppose the big question would be as to whether or not your Skycar is technically able to perform the task as of now, and if not, is there a time line that is reasonable so that I could begin to pitch this concept to the interested parties.
I'd be interested in knowing more details if you could provide them.
Dear Rich,
As you know the Moller M400 Skycar is in development, and the working prototype of the M400X has successfully completed its initial hover tests. Unfortunately we are still having difficulties raising the required capital to move forward with our announced plans, therefore our present business plan calls for production of 1,000 of the M200G Neuera over the next 3+ years (2011 through 2014). We can produce this vehicle at much lower cost because of the very limited regulatory oversight that a vehicle of this type appears to require (it is a "ground effect" aircraft and therefore exempt from the traditional certification process and may not require a pilots license to operate).
The interest shown to date in this vehicle suggests that the early production models could be sold at a premium price. It is proposed that the first 40 units of the M200G be sold by auction. If a buyer indicates an interest in acquiring a M200G he will be put on a list of potential buyers. When that list totals some yet-to-be-specified number, the auction will begin. While this will require our resources to focus on the M200-series products for the next couple of years, it should enable us to raise sufficient funds to regain momentum on the M400 Skycar thereafter.
The next phase of the M400 testing will be to extend the hover flight characteristics with manned and untethered flights. We have prepared the M400X for the new, more powerful Rotapower engines required for this phase, and are working to integrate these engines with updated electronics being made for the M200 that make up the artificial stability system. When we get to the next set of tests with the M400 we will endeavor to safely demonstrate the new features with a set of piloted test flights defined by the FAA for an Experimental Aircraft.
After the completion of these tests, will hope to build up to three M400 pre-production aircraft that will incorporate changes to the fuselage and cabin and prepare us for high-speed, and mid-air VTOL to high-speed cruise transition maneuvers. It is our intent to test the full-scale preproduction Skycar in a wind tunnel to validate the transition characteristics prior to performing this transition in flight, but high-speed flight tests may be performed that originate with the nacelles (engine pods) in the horizontal position rather than their VTOL-mode orientation of 45 degrees of rotation. These tests will require that the Skycar use a conventional runway for take off and landing and will be required only for these tests. The Skycar's VTOL mode take off and landing capabilities will continue to be demonstrated during other low-speed test flights. The earliest we anticipate an FAA certified production Skycar is now 2013, and due to the many milestones yet to be achieved it is very difficult to set an actual schedule of availability.
Bruce Calkins
General Manager
Moller International
Skycar is a very exciting technology. Unfortunately for the United States, Wilber and Orville Wright wouldn't be able to fly a plane in Kitty Hawk, and Edison probably couldn't develop a light bulb today, because the EPA would worry about the displacement of sand on a beach from where the plane lands or the elements of a bulb would be considered dangerous for the environment. So we are our own worst enemy.
I will always feel pride to know that the United States still produces people like Paul Mollar who invented the Skycar, but it will be the Chinese that will most likely take the bold first step.
Rich Hoffman
When School House Rock, Rocked! A Time Capsule into the Past
If you want to see just how far the Progressive Movement has penetrated our culture all you have to do is look at School House Rock, from the 1970's.
When I was a kid, I watched Saturday morning cartoons religiously; Hong Kong Phooey, Captain Caveman, and Land of the Lost were among my favorites.
Back then, sometime around 1974 to 1980 it was almost a guaranteed expectation that one of the below School House Rock video's would air during commercial breaks.
These were useful and entertaining and helped a growing generation to understand their role in the country they lived in. You won't find these types of cartoons produced today however. Instead, you get the Tides Foundation's Story of Stuff, which is now shown in schools with public tax dollars supporting the progressive agenda.
When modern day educators and parents that are using public education as a convenient day care facility, or a chance for their child to get a scholarship using sports supplied by the school as a platform to exhibit their skills to colleges in hopes of getting a scholarship which will save that family some costs of higher education, keep in mind that this mind-set is only one generation old. School House Rock is a time capsule into a period before the effects of Progressivism had gained a firm footing in our country. The signs were emerging, but in our arrogance, we did not pay attention.
But now we're awake.
It only takes a generation to destroy everything. It can take decades to rebuild.
Do you're friends and neighbors a favor, send this to them so they can become aware of how quick and radically things changed in just one generation.
Rich Hoffman


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SHELBYVILLE, IL. — FARINA —Ava Paruleski had always declined to participate in postseason three-point contests, worrying that a bad performance might carry over to the game.
But Cowden-Herrick/Beecher City coach Carolyn Wendte convinced her senior point guard to compete in the three-point shootout prior to the Lady Hornets' South Central Regional title game on Thursday, and Paruleski easily advanced to the sectional round by hitting 8 of 15 from beyond the arc, a salty 53 percent clip.
Turns out she was just getting warmed up.
Paruleski went on to shoot an even better percentage from long range in the game, nailing 6 of 9 from downtown — including 4 of 5 during a decisive 20-0 first-half run that blew the game open — as she went on to finish with 20 points in the Lady Hornets' 72-37 victory.
"Tonight was a blessing for that kid," Wendte said. "It was all happening for her from the start, and she was just feeling it. That 3-point shootout, what she thought was going to be a negative for her, it just turned out positive."
Paruleski's hot shooting helped CHBC (23-5) continue a pair of impressive streaks, as the Lady Hornets won their 12th game in a row and their fourth-straight regional title.
CHBC will move on to face NTC rival Dieterich at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Altamont Sectional in a sibling showdown between Lady Hornets coach Carolyn Wendte and Dieterich's Donetta Ohnesorge.
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The Lady Indians (8-15) hung tough early, as a Madison Ohnesorge jumper had Altamont down just three, 13-10, late in the first quarter. But Paruleski countered with a 3 of her own, and she nailed three more from beyond the arc in the first three minutes of the second quarter, as CHBC suddenly found itself up 19 points.


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Availability: Killington Center Inn & Suites
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Within easy reach of skiing facilities, this Killington hotel is located in the mountains, convenient to Gifford Woods State Park, Pico Mountain at Killington Ski Resort, and Killington Ski Resort. Local attractions also include Killington Golf Course and Green Mountain National Golf Course.
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Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
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- Minimum Spring Break check-in age is 18 years old.
- The name on the credit card used at check-in to pay for incidentals must be the primary name on the guestroom reservation.
24-hour check-in
Noise-free rooms not guaranteed
No elevators
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We have included all charges provided to us by the property. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
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- Breakage deposit: USD 100 per stay
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Multistate Tax Commission Executive Committee MeetingHilton Santa Fe Historic Plaza
100 Sandoval Street
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Thursday, July 31, 2008
8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Mountain Time
Dial-In Number: 1-866-381-9862
Conference Code: 8917135
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Welcome and Introductions
Public Comment Period
In accordance with its Public Participation Policy, the Commission provides this opportunity for members of the public to address the Commission directly on this agenda. The Chair may also provide for public comment before or during the committees discussion of specific agenda items.
Approval of Minutes of the May 8, 2008, Executive Committee Meeting and the June 20, 2008, Executive Committee Teleconference
Report of the Chair
Report of the Treasurer
Financial Report for the 11-month Period July 1, 2007 May 31, 2007
Report of the Executive Director
[Report of the Executive Director has been deferred to the Annual Commission meeting immediately following this meeting.]
Committee & Program Reports
[Regular reports by the committees and programs have been deferred to the Annual Commission meeting immediately following this meeting.]
Other Committee & Program Business (if any)
Other Reports
A. Report on Revamping the Commissions Internal Audit Process
B. Report from Working Group on COST Survey Response & Audit Program Improvements
Uniformity Projects
A. Update on UDITPA Revision Project & Related Matters
B. Proposals before the Executive Committee (none anticipated)
1. Uniformity Recommendations for Review
2. Hearing Officer Recommendations for Consideration
Federal Issues with State Tax Implications
A. Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Fairness and Simplification Act
B. Business Activity Tax Simplification Act
C. Cell Tax Fairness Act
D. Hotel Intermediaries
E. Sales Tax Simplification and Fairness Act
F. Other Federal Legislative Activity
Future Meeting and Event Plans
A. Review of Upcoming Meetings & Events Schedule
B. Sites for 2011 and 2012 Annual Commission Meetings [Note: The 2009 and 2010 Annual Commission Meetings will be held in Missouri and Hood River, Oregon, respectively]
Nexus Committee & National Nexus Program
A. Approval of Minutes of Closed Session on May 8, 2008
B. Report on Confidential Matters
Pursuant to the Commissions Public Participation Policy, Section 15, Subsection (c), this item is scheduled for a closed session because it involves confidential taxpayer information, the disclosure of which is prohibited by law. Pursuant to the Commissions Public Participation Policy, Section 16, consideration of minutes is scheduled for a confidential session because that policy requires that the minute book of a closed session be kept confidential.
Audit Committee & Joint Audit Program
Items Related to Pending Litigation & Commission Personnel Matters (if any)
Approval of Minutes of Closed Session on June 20, 2008
Pursuant to the Commissions Public Participation Policy, section 15, subsection (f), an item relating to pending litigation may be scheduled for a closed session if it involves a current adjudicatory proceeding to which the Commission or a member State is a party; if it involves significant exposure to litigation against the Commission or a member State, if this body needs to decide if a significant exposure to litigation exists; or if the Commission or a member State is initiating or making a decision to initiate litigation. Pursuant to section 15, subsection (a) and (e), an item may be scheduled for a confidential session because it involves confidential personnel information or the discharging of responsibilities related to salaries, salary schedules, or compensation paid in the form of fringe benefits.
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Back to Africa: A.D. 701 to 800
The old Axum monarchy established a new residence deep in the interior of Ethiopia around Lake Hayq sometime before A.D. 870. This was actually a Christian monastery with some 300 clerics. The old Axumite area was given up entirely to invading sheep herders. (Ref. 270) Nubia remained essentially as in the last century.
Egypt was a Moslem state but independently ruled by the Tulunid Dynasty. These men were Turkish in origin, having been brought into Islam as professional soldiers. One of them, Ahmad ibn Tulun (869-884) conquered Syria to add to his realm. Egypt, as the ancient granary for southern Europe, no long robbed of its products by foreign masters, entered upon a minor renaissance, with new learning and art, palaces, public baths, a hospital and a great mosque honoring Tulun.
All of the original Moslem provinces in north Africa were now more or less independent with separate rulers. After 800 Tunisia was ruled by the Aghlabid Dynasty until the end of the century when they were overthrown by the Kotama, a Berber tribe from Kabylia. Morocco, under the Idrisids, had founded a Shi'ite caliphate in 789 which had carried on into this century. Still farther west, just on the Mediterranean side of the Straits of Gibralter, were the Rostemids. (Ref. 137, 8) (Please see map in connection with CENTRAL EUROPE, this chapter.)
There were three major trade routes across the Sahara at this time. One went from Fezzan to Kanem, running north of Lake Chad; a second went from Gao, on the Niger bend, to central Maghrib; and the third ran from the western Maghrib to Ghana. (Ref. 83)
Commerce across the Sahara brought gold and slaves to the Mediterranean and stimulated the early Negro states of the sub-Saharan regions. Ghana had few natural resources of its own and its wealth was derived from levies imposed on this trade across the desert. We have seen in previous chapters how Jenne-jeno developed as a trade center on the Niger. By 800 it had perhaps 10,000 people and an extensive riverine trade with the Timbuktu region. (Ref. 268) To the Arabs, the ruler of Ghana was reputed to be the richest and most powerful monarch in all the Biladas-Sudan (Land of Blacks). Around
Lake Chad the empire of Kanem-Bornu developed about the beginning of this 9th century and survived for a millenium. This kingdom, founded by Zaghawa nomads, was originally only one of the seven Hausa city-states, each protected by strong city walls and excelling as manufacturers and long distance merchants. (Ref. 68, 175)
On the east coast of Africa a great wave of trading activity swept the countries bordering the Indian Ocean, resulting in a string of city-states along that coast, most of them founded by Muslims from the Persian Gulf and some from southern Arabia. Bantu-speaking Negroes soon joined them to produce a distinct culture and language (Swahili). Farther south in Zimbabwe, the Shona and particularly the Karangas sub-group, continued in this century to develop agriculture, stock raising, gold and copper trading and the building of large stone edifices. They probably originally came from iron-rich Katanga and had an advanced knowledge of iron mining and metallurgy. They soon became the overlords of the indigenous Gokomere and Leopard's Kopje people as the Rhodesian plateau became a beehive of gold, copper and iron production. The products went to the Arab merchants on the coast. The Shona civilization lasted until A.D. 1500. (Ref. 175, 176, 45)


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On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 12:40:10PM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:On 5/3/2012 11:26 AM, Johan Hovold wrote:Add sub-driver for the ambient light sensor interface on National Semiconductor / TI LM3533 lighting power chips. The sensor interface can be used to control the LEDs and backlights of the chip through defining five light zones and three sets of corresponding brightness target levels. The driver provides raw and mean adc readings along with the current light zone through sysfs. A threshold event can be generated on zone changes.Code is fine. Pretty much all my comments are to do with the interface.[...]diff --git a/drivers/staging/iio/Documentation/sysfs-bus-iio-light-lm3533-als b/drivers/staging/iio/Documentation/sysfs-bus-iio-light-lm3533-als new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9849d14 --- /dev/null +++ b/drivers/staging/iio/Documentation/sysfs-bus-iio-light-lm3533-als @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@ +What: /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:deviceX/gain +Date: April 2012 +KernelVersion: 3.5 +Contact: Johan Hovold<jhovold@xxxxxxxxx> +Description: + Set the ALS gain-resistor setting (0..127) for analog input + mode, where + + 0000000 - ALS input is high impedance + 0000001 - 200kOhm (10uA at 2V full-scale) + 0000010 - 100kOhm (20uA at 2V full-scale) + ... + 1111110 - 1.587kOhm (1.26mA at 2V full-scale) + 1111111 - 1.575kOhm (1.27mA at 2V full-scale) + + R_als = 2V / (10uA * gain) (gain> 0)Firstly, no magic numbers. These are definitely magic.Not that magic as they're clearly documented (in code and public datasheets), right? What would you prefer instead?
The numbers on the right of the - look good to me though then this isn't a gain. (200kohm) and the infinite element is annoying. Why not compute the actual gains? Gain = (Rals*10e-6)/2 and use those values? Yes you will have to do a bit of fixed point maths in the driver but the advantage is you'll have real values that are standardizable across multiple devices and hence allow your device to be operated by generic userspace code. Welcome to standardising interfaces - my favourite occupation ;)
sorry I just did this to someone else in another review (so I'm consistentlySecondly see in_illuminance0_scale for a suitable existing attribute.I didn't consider scale to be appropriate given the following documentation (e.g, for in_voltageY_scale):
wrong!)in_voltageY_calibscale is what I should have said. That one applies a scaling
before the raw reading is generated (so in hardware).
"If known for a device, scale to be applied to<type>Y[_name]_raw post addition of<type>[Y][_name]_offset in order to obtain the measured value in<type> units as specified in<type>[Y][_name]_raw documentation." That is, the gain setting has nothing to do with scaling the raw adc reading to SI-units or such, it's simply a setup dependent gain setting (which affects the raw readings as well). [And as such, should probably go into to the platform data eventually as well.]+ +What: /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:deviceX/illuminance_zone +Date: April 2012 +KernelVersion: 3.5 +Contact: Johan Hovold<jhovold@xxxxxxxxx> +Description: + Get the current light zone (0..4) as defined by the + in_illuminance_thresh[n]_{falling,rising} thresholds.Hmm.. definitely have an in prefix, beyond that I'm not sure what the cleanestThanks for catching this, it's a typo in the sysfs document -- the in_ prefix is in the code.interface will be for this. Could extend the event codes to deal with the zone index. Slightly tricky as the channel could already be modified so chan2 isn't necesarily available.+ +What: /sys/.../events/in_illuminance_thresh_either_en +Date: April 2012 +KernelVersion: 3.5 +Contact: Johan Hovold<jhovold@xxxxxxxxx> +Description: + Event generated when channel passes one of the four threshold + in either direction (rising|falling) and a zone change occurs. + The corresponding light zone can be read from + illuminance_zone. + +What: /sys/.../events/illuminance_thresh0_falling_valuehmm.. every time you think you are making progress a new and exciting device comes along requiring the abi to be extended.Exciting isn't it. :)
in_illuminanceX_threshY_rising_value in_illuminanceX_threshY_falling_value should do with appropriate description.Ok.+What: /sys/.../events/illuminance_thresh0_raising_value +What: /sys/.../events/illuminance_thresh1_falling_value +What: /sys/.../events/illuminance_thresh1_raising_value +What: /sys/.../events/illuminance_thresh2_falling_value +What: /sys/.../events/illuminance_thresh2_raising_value +What: /sys/.../events/illuminance_thresh3_falling_value +What: /sys/.../events/illuminance_thresh3_raising_value +Date: April 2012 +KernelVersion: 3.5 +Contact: Johan Hovold<jhovold@xxxxxxxxx> +Description: + Specifies the value of threshold that the device is comparing + against for the events enabled by + in_illuminance_thresh_either_en, and defines the + the five light zones. + + These thresholds correspond to the eight zone-boundary + registers (boundary[n]_{low,high}). +This interface is going to take some thought. We have in_illuminance0_target at the moment, so I guess we can add a zoning concept to that...But target isn't really related, as far as I understand. That's another calibration setting right? While zone is derived from the average adc readings. (More below.)
True enough. I'd missunderstood this.
This is going to be fun. We'll need the boundaries and attached hysteresis attributes to fully specify these (nothing would indicate that hysterisis is involved otherwise).+What: /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:deviceX/target[m]_[n] +Date: April 2012 +KernelVersion: 3.5 +Contact: Johan Hovold<jhovold@xxxxxxxxx> +Description: + Set the target brightness for ALS-mapper m in light zone n + (0..255), where m in 1..3 and n in 0..4.Don't suppose you could do a quick summary of what these zones are and why there are 3 ALS-mappers? I'm not getting terribly far on a quick look at the datasheet!Of course. The average adc readings are mapped to five light zones using eight zone boundary registers (4 boundaries with hysteresis) and a set of rules.
Glad you did and it pretty much fits, be it with a few extensions being necessary.To simplify somewhat (by ignoring some of the rules): If the average adc input drops below boundary0_low, the zone register reads 0; if it drops below boundary1_low, it reads 1, and so on. If the input it increases over boundary3_high, the zone register return 4; if it increases passed boundary2_high, it returns zone 3, etc. That is, roughly something like (we get 8-bits of input from the ADC): zone 0 boundary0_low 51 boundary0_high 53 zone 1 boundary1_low 102 boundary1_high 106 zone 2 boundary2_low 153 boundary2_high 161 zone 3 boundary3_low 204 boundary3_high 220 zone 4 [ Figure 6 on page 20 in the datasheets should make it clear. ] The ALS interface and it's zone concept can then be used to control the LEDs and backlights of the chip, by determining the target brightness for each zone, e.g., set brightness to 52 when in zone 0. To complicate things further (and it is complicated), there are three such sets of target brightness values: ALSM1, ALSM2, ALSM3. So for each LED or backlight you can set ALS-input control mode, by saying that the device should get it's brightness levels from target set 1, 2, or 3. [ And it gets even more complicated, as ALSM1 can only control backlight0, where as ALSM2 and ALSM3 can control any of the remaining devices, but that's irrelevant here. ] Initially, I thought this interface to be too esoteric to be worth generalising, but it sort of fits with event thresholds so I gave it a try.
That is indeed awkward. I'm not sure how we handle this either. If we need to control these from the other devices (e.g. the back light driver) then we'll have to get themThe biggest conceptual problem, I think, is that the zone boundaries can be used to control the other devices, even when the event is not enabled (or even an irq line not configured). That is, I find it a bit awkward that the event thresholds also defines the zones (a sort of discrete scaling factor).
into chan_spec and use the inkernel interfaces to do it. Not infeasible butI was hoping to avoid that until we have had a few months to see what similar
devices show up (on basis nothing in this world is a one off for long ;)
Perhaps simply keeping the attributes outside of events (e.g. named boundary[n]_{low,high}) and having a custom event enabled (e.g. in_illuminance_zone_change_en) is the best solution?
Maybe, but it's ugly and as you have said, they do correspond pretty well to thresholds so I'd rather you went with that.The core stuff for registering events clearly needs a rethink.... For now doing
it as you describe above (with the addition fo hysteresis attributes) should be fine. Just document the 'quirks'.
They will probably have to. Typically mfd bit goes in first, then the rest get added[...]diff --git a/drivers/staging/iio/light/lm3533-als.c b/drivers/staging/iio/light/lm3533-als.c new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e2c9be6 --- /dev/null +++ b/drivers/staging/iio/light/lm3533-als.c @@ -0,0 +1,617 @@ +/* + * lm3533-als.c -- LM3533 Ambient Light Sensor driver + * + * Copyright (C) 2011-2012 Texas Instruments + * + * Author: Johan Hovold<jhovold@xxxxxxxxx> + * + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it + * under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the + * Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your + * option) any later version. + */ + +#include<linux/atomic.h> +#include<linux/fs.h> +#include<linux/interrupt.h> +#include<linux/io.h> +#include<linux/module.h> +#include<linux/mfd/core.h> +#include<linux/platform_device.h> +#include<linux/slab.h> +#include<linux/uaccess.h> + +#include<linux/mfd/lm3533.h> + +#include "../events.h" +#include "../iio.h"This will need to go through the staging-next tree. In there these headers have moved.I'm aware of the move. Should the different sub-drivers go in through each tree respectively? Right now the four patches are all against rc5.
in a random order after that.
Either option is valid. I personally tend to set indexed = 1 but we decided that it didn't matter either way. Userspace code that uses the abi right should allow[...]+static const struct iio_chan_spec lm3533_als_channels[] = { + { + .type = IIO_LIGHT, + .info_mask = IIO_CHAN_INFO_AVERAGE_RAW_SEPARATE_BIT, + .channel = 0,channel doesn't get used unless you also set indexed = 1.So, you mean I could drop channel as well? Or should I add indexed, as I use channel 0 when reporting the event?
for either.
[...]+static int lm3533_als_set_int_mode(struct iio_dev *indio_dev, int enable) +{ + struct lm3533_als *als = iio_priv(indio_dev); + u8 mask = LM3533_ALS_INT_ENABLE_MASK; + u8 val; + int ret; + + if (enable) + val = mask; + else + val = 0; + + ret = lm3533_update(als->lm3533, LM3533_REG_ALS_ZONE_INFO, val, mask); + if (ret) { + dev_err(&indio_dev->dev, "failed to set int mode %d\n", + enable);extra brackets.I prefer the brackets for multi-line (single) statements even though they are not required. (Especially if the single statement spans several lines -- but I try to be consistent.) If you have a strong opinion about this, I'll drop them.
I don't care either way.
+ } + + return ret; +} +Thanks, Johan
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