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Republican Senator Mike Crapo Arrested for DUISubmitted by JO4RP on Mon, 12/24/2012 - 08:07
U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo of Idaho was arrested early Sunday morning in a suburb of Washington, D.C. for driving under the influence, according to a statement released by Alexandria, Va. police.
Crapo, a Republican, was stopped after a patrol officer saw his vehicle go through a red light. After failing field sobriety tests, he was arrested at 12:45 a.m. and "taken into custody without incident," according to the statement by Alexandria police.
Edit: Why is a Mormon under the influence of alcohol?
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I dislike the Mormon profiling
Yeah, yeah, Mormons are suppose not to drink. Still not cool to bring it up as a free snark on the rest of us. He was wrong and stupid, but so is anyone in office doing the same.
How about when any politician breaks a law or found committing adultery, we bring up their faith too? Is it assumed that other faiths don't have similar standards of conduct? Or that it does not matter?
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No penalty?
He is in office so he cannot be sentenced, can he?
Crapo was stinko?
He's a Mormon? Me too.
I've been following RP and the Liberty movement for years and NEVER heard of Crapola.
I've heard of Mike Lee. I've heard of a Rep from Provo who was a Div I athlete, both of whom are decent.
But most Mormons have no clue about Liberty and are walking in darkness at noonday when it comes to being awakened.
If this guy was drinking, as it appears he was, then he's breaking one of the most basic commandments for Mormons and he is a liar, because I'm assuming he's got a current temple recommend. He's probably got a lady friend and plenty of lobbyists as close associates.
Mormons should be leading the fight for Liberty but we are mostly asleep as rich folks like Huntsman and Romney dominate the political landscape.
"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a rEVOLution before tomorrow morning." - Henry Ford
He is, he was, but he is VERY sorry.
Glad to see that made it here without me. He is Mormon, he plays it at election time. What folks need to focus on is WHERE WAS HE DRINKING? he did not have to tell, perhaps the price for being cooperative?
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Was he drunk though?
In the real world you can have a couple drinks and still blow past the limits in most states. It is the holidays. Not defending his actions, just curious how intoxicated he was. I suppose he failed the test but I never thought those tests were very fair to begin with.
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Many state and/or federally
Many state and/or federally licensed professions have little tolerance for a DUI. One DUI for a nurse, doctor, lawyer, or some vehicle operators (pilots, train, etc) and you might be out of a job and profession. But if you hold one of the highest political offices in the land it is probably not too much of a problem.
Crapo? Is it really Crapo?
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no direct position on marijuana but here is his response on drugs,
Crapo: We have seen an explosion in the availability of illegal drugs and criminal activity in many parts of the country. We want our families to live in safe communities, attend schools where violence and illegal drugs have no place and patronize businesses that adhere to a code of ethics.
Source: crapo.senate.gov/issues (01/11/2011)
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he forgot about...
having the good sense to NOT drive drunk...
"I gots mine!"
Screw all ya'll, he said!
its 'cos I owe ya, my young friend...
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9/11 Truth.
Crapo credit card add coming out.
The current salary (2011-2012) for rank-and-file members of the House and Senate is $174,000 per year.
Cab ride in Washington DC, priceless...
***Note: Personally I do not believe in seat belt or impaired driving laws as they are victimless crimes. Impaired driving should be considered an aggregating circumstance in damaging another person or that person's property after a crime occurs against another individual not the State as is currently the government revenue based argument.
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian." ― Henry Ford.
Well, he did introduce
S 835 in which looks at a glance like a second amendment defending bill to some extent,
S 1552 looks pretty fair - an exception to the endangered species act that people may protect themselves from grizzly bears without repercussion.
And he did cosponsor S202.
Although a lot of the other bills kind of seem neither here nor there.
Don't know how his voting record stands. No time to have a look at that atm.
Voting Record
Here it is, just the fact's.
This is
so much for worrying about the "fiscal cliff"...
he gets drunk every night and then makes the decision to drive on top of that...America, what a country!
no word yet on his female accomplice...
your political reps in action...yay!
its 'cos I owe ya, my young friend...
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How Did Dumbledore Destroy The Ring?
How exactly did Dumbledore get and destroy Marvolo Gaunt's ring?
I was wondering how exactly did Dumbledore get to the ring and how did he destroy it and like what's the story behind it? (I know he destroyed it with the Sword of Gryffindor, but I can't quite remember all the details). 10 points BA.
During the summer of 1996, Dumbledore tracked one of Voldemort's Horcruxes to the house of the Gaunts. Dumbledore journeyed to Little Hangleton, where he found the remains of the shack hidden behind weeds and bush. Voldemort had placed many powerful enchantments around the former home of his ancestors; however, Dumbledore proved skilful enough to pass through them unharmed. When he found the Horcrux, a ring formerly owned by Marvolo Gaunt, he saw that the stone in the ring was one of the Deathly Hallows, the Resurrection Stone. This stone, according to legend, had the power to revive the dead (but in reality, a spiritual form of the person was brought back instead). His desire to see his family overrode his common sense for just a moment and he placed the ring on his finger, forgetting that the ring had been cursed on by Voldemort. The curse quickly spread, and were it not for his own prodigious talents, he would have died within moments. Despite this injury, Dumbledore proceeded to destroy the ring with t he Sword of Gryffindor(that contained the Basilisk venom) and with it, a piece of Voldemort's soul. He craked the stone and detached it from the ring, but the stone was still working fine when Harry used it in 1998.
why did dumbledore kill himself?
i mean i know he was "weakened" but didn't he still ahve the elder wand? why did he tell snape ot kill him? couldn't he destroy the hrocurxes with harry?
Two reasons ...
1) Dumbledore was weakened because he touched the Ring Horcrux, activating a Dark spell which left his hand blackened. Snape was able to confine the spell in Dumbledore's hand for the short term, but also warned him that it wouldn't last forever. Within a year or so, the spell would kill Dumbledore anyway, and it would be an agonizing death. So Dumbledore and Snape made the arrangement for Snape to kill him with a Killing Curse in order to spare him a worse death from the spell's effects.
2) Dumbledore knew (via Snape) of Draco's having been "assigned" to kill him. Since Draco hadn't killed before, killing Dumbledore would have put a scar on his soul and Dumbledore didn't want to be in any way responsible for that. Snape, on the other hand, was a battle-hardened veteran, so his soul would not be so affected by killing Dumbledore. The Death Eaters made Snape vow to kill Dumbledore if Draco failed to do the deed; Snape's arrangement with Dumbledore was (if necessary) to intervene and stop Draco from killing Dumbledore and then do it himself, to protect Draco's soul.
The second reason ended up being a moot point as Draco chickened out at the last second, but those two reasons are why they made the agreement. Hope that explains things.
How did Dumbledore's hand become black?
Is it from him destroying it or him putting it on? please include the page number(s).
It turned black when he was getting the ring in order to destroy one of Voldemort's horcruxes. It's not properly explained until the seventh book. It gives away a LOT of the plot so I don't want to spoil you incase you haven't read it.
In my UK edition of HBP it's on page 470 and 471. It's towards the end of the chapter "horcruxes" which is chapter twenty three.
The more indepth explanation is on page 576 of my UK edition of Deathly Hallows. The chapter "Kings Cross", near the end. Chapter thirty five.
Basically Dumbledore put the ring on because he was tempted by what the ring could do (again don't want to ruin it) but it was cursed and damaged his hand. It would of killed him if it were not for Snape.
The effects of the ring initially are on page 546 of my UK edition of Deathly Hallows. The Chapter "The Prince's Tale", chapter thirty three.
"And now Harry stood in the Headmaster's office yet again. It was night time, and Dumbledore sagged sideways in his throne-like chair behind the desk, apparently semi-conscious. His right hand dangled over the side, blackened and burned. Snape was muttering incantations, pointing his wand at the wrist of the hand, while with his left hand he tipped a goblet full of thick golden potion down Dumbledore's throat. After a moment or two, Dumbledore's eyes fluttered and opened.
'Why,' said Snape, without preamble, 'why did you put on that ring? It carries a curse, surely you realised that. Why even touch it?"
Marvolo Gaunt's ring lay on the desk before Dumbledore. It was cracked; the sword of Gryffindor lay beside it.
Dumbledore grimaced.
"I... was a fool. Sorely tempted..."
It goes on for another page. but basically you get the gist.
how did dumbledore die(exactly)?
When Dumbledore found the ring Horcrux and saw the Resserection Stone in it, he put it on his finger in hope to see his family again.He does this so that he could apologize to them. Dumbledore made a mistake however by doing this because he forgot the Horcrux was cursed. Snape stopped the curse from spreading and trapped it in his hand and this is why Dumbledore's hand is black throughout Half Blood Prince.
Snape tells Dumbledore that he has about a year to live and Dumbledore makes a plan. He tells Snape that he knows about Voldemort's plot to have Draco Malfoy kill him. To save Malfoy's soul from being damaged and to save him pain and humiliation, Dumbledore orders Snape to uses the killing curse on him. This way, Snape would not be murdering him, but doing him a favour becasue he knows he is saving Dumbledore pain and humiliation.
Also, by doing this, Dumbledore would have the Elder Wand buried with him and thus, the wands powers would be ended. He knew it was a Deathly Hallow and that Voldemort would come for it eventually. There was a minor snag in the plan when Malfoy disarmed Dumbledore on top of the Tower, but everything turned out okay in the end because Harry later disarmed Malfoy.
So, that is basically how Dumbledore dies. He was not murdered by Snape after all.
Hope this helps!
How did Dumbledore die?
did the potion that he drank for the locket(Horcrux) have any effect on it?
Dumbledore didn't want to battle so, the potion making him weaker or reflex slower didn't matter and Snape only killed him because it was apart of Dumbledore's plan
Also Dumbledore had Snape kill him not for a painless or quick death but because he wanted his 'hallow' wand to be taken by Snape or someone else (it was all apart of his plan)
He was going to die anyway from putting on Gaunt's Ring, so drinking the potion and having Snape kill him was best.

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Clofarabine is a cancer medication that interferes with the growth of cancer cells and slows their growth and spread in the body.
Clofarabine is used to treat acute lymphoblastic leukemia (a type of blood cancer) in children and young adults up to 21 years old.
Clofarabine is usually given after other cancer medicines have been tried without successful treatment.
Clofarabine may also be used for purposes not listed in this medication guide.
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Clofarabine can lower blood cells that help your body fight infections and help your blood to clot. You may get an infection or bleed more easily. Call your doctor if you have unusual bruising or bleeding, or signs of infection (fever, chills, body aches).
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The brick facade of Quillayute Valley High School in Forks, Washington — the real-life version of the high school in Twilight — is about to disappear.
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Happy Thanksgiving (mostly to the Americans), and hi to everyone else! I should be catching up with Barbara soon and asking about new stories/upcoming plans. She's been busy with teaching, and I've been…busy with my partner's cancer. Yep, about when the robot finally was getting less needy, lymphoma entered my love's life. It's been a […]
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By Deb on May 19, 2013
Okay…finally, after answering questions over a looooong period of many years, I can say: YES, THERE ARE AUDIOBOOKS. Audible has a number of them, including a lot of the older Del Rey fantasies, and at least some of the Benjamin January books. I've never understood the appeal of the audiobook, but I sincerely […]
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Hi, all- I've just added the latest two arrivals to the Further Adventures. The latest two stories are Shadowbaby, set in the Winterlands/Dragonsbane universe, and Nanya of the Butterflies, a Sun Wolf and Starhawk story. Both stories are brand-new, never-before-published, and approximately 15 K words in length (I tell you the latter because…people ask). All […]
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Plus-One joins the Further Adventures stable (Antryg alert!) tonight
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Hi, all- Hope you're having a great summer! The latest Further Adventures story, Plus-One, debuts tonight. If anyone thought that traveling to California meant Joanna and Antryg were going to have a nice peaceful life, unmarred by brushes with alien lifeforms, random Voids, and errant mageborn (not to mention rock stars, ectoplasm, and the intricacies […]
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Yes! Another Further Adventures story – Sun Wolf and Starhawk
By Deb on December 13, 2011
Hi, all- Barbara just sent the latest, all-new Further Adventures story, Fairest In The Land. This one is a Sun Wolf and Starhawk story…do the Wolf and Hawk get run out of town after their latest adventure? You'll have to read on to find out! Fairest – as well as any of the other ten Further […]
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New Further Adventures Story – Antryg and Joanna
By Deb on November 21, 2011
Yes! Barbara just finished the brand-new Antryg and Joanna story "Corridor" to join the Further Adventures lineup. Perfect for indulging in after the Thanksgiving feast, or for the plane ride to the feast! Head over to the Further Adventures page to read an excerpt, and to buy "Corridor" or any of the other nine stories […]
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On July 15, Gwinnett voters will decide whether to authorize Gwinnett County "to exercise redevelopment powers under the Redevelopment Powers Law." The law would give Gwinnett County a new tool to revitalize declining and blighted areas, reduce crime and gang activity in the process, and make those areas vibrant parts of our community again through the creation of Tax Allocation Districts, also known as TADs.To ensure that voters make an informed decision on this issue is to put the myths alongside the true facts. Myth 1: Taxpayers could get "stuck with the bill." Fact: The Redevelopment Powers Law protects taxpayers from this occurring by prohibiting any pledge of the general taxing power of the government to a TAD (See O.C.G.A. 36-44-14). The Redevelopment Powers Law states that TAD bonds are not backed by the full faith and credit of the county, only by revenues generated by the TAD itself. If a TAD doesn't generate the projected amount of revenue, the private investors who bought the TAD bonds bear that risk, not the taxpayers. Therefore, investors buying those bonds demand very conservative and achievable financial projections. That's why no TAD in Georgia has ever failed to meet its revenue projections. Most have exceeded projection. This taxpayer protection is not a matter of opinion; it's a matter of law. The law is clear on this point. Myth 2: TADs take money away from our schools. Fact: The Georgia Supreme Court held that the "Educational Purpose Clause" of the Georgia Constitution prohibits any use of school taxes for TADs. Under Georgia law, there is no way a TAD could take money away from schools. In November, there will be a statewide referendum to decide if the Georgia Constitution should be amended to allow local Boards of Education to vote to dedicate a portion of increased school tax revenue to a TAD. A majority of Georgia voters could vote to approve that amendment. When a TAD is created, the amount of property taxes paid prior to the creation of the TAD is "locked in." The county government and the school system continue to receive exactly the same amount of property tax revenue after a TAD is created as they did before. Only additional, new tax revenues - the "increment" - that result from increased property values within the TAD can be used to fund a TAD. The increment would not exist if not for the private investment in the redevelopment project itself. Second, the school system and county are currently losing money as the value of properties in these blighted areas decreases. For example, the OFS property at Jimmy Carter Boulevard and Interstate 85 paid $1,053,991.02 in property taxes in 1991. By 2007, its property tax bill declined to only $466,531.16. The total amount of property tax revenue lost by the school system in that 16-year period, on that parcel alone, was $4,389,523.00. If we don't revitalize these areas, schools continue to lose tax revenue. County taxpayers will have to make up the difference. Myth 3: If a TAD is created, property owners in the surrounding area will see higher property tax bills. Fact: This myth is true. Increasing the value of properties, improving infrastructure and safety in declining and blighted areas is the point of TADs and redevelopment. The residential areas near Jimmy Carter Boulevard, Buford Highway and Pleasant Hill Road used to be safe, attractive places. As nearby commercial properties deteriorated, residential property values also declined, creating conditions that have allowed gangs, crime, graffiti and illegal immigrants to proliferate. The negative effects are obvious. TADs can be an effective tool in reversing negative trends and increasing property value. Myth 4: We have no control over how TADs are used. Fact: Approval of this referendum by the voters July 15 does not create a TAD. Georgia law mandates the process for creating a TAD provides the public with multiple opportunities to review a TAD proposal and provide comment in public hearings. The Board of Commissioners is prohibited by law from voting to create a TAD until the required public notice and public hearings have occurred. Revitalization of declining parts of the county can significantly reduce crime, provide traffic congestion relief and improve our overall quality of life. TADs can be a powerful tool used to get these areas back on track. Nick Masino is the executive director of Partnership Gwinnett, economic development director for the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce and former mayor of Suwanee.
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In a recent New Yorker profile, director Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale, Greenberg) is described as a kind of Kubrick-esque control freak on set, the kind of guy who might do 55 takes for a throwaway scene of actors rooting around in a closet. When you hear stories like these about other directors, they make intuitive sense. (The precision of The Social Network's punchlines feels like the product of David Fincher doing up to 99 takes per scene; the jungle chaos of Apocalypse Now feels like the product of Francis Ford Coppola going slowly insane in the tropics during the shoot.)
But it's a surprise to hear that after seeing Baumbach's latest film Frances Ha, a portrait of a struggling 20-something dancer in New York named Frances Halliday (Greta Gerwig) that feels as delightfully breezy and spontaneous as the production behind it apparently wasn't. Though it's as sharply observed and bitterly funny as his earlier films about family dysfunction and mental illness, Frances feels like the result of a director working hard at creating a counterpoint to the heaviness and tragic weight that have defined his earlier films. Making a soufflé, after all, does require you to beat the hell out of some eggs.
Like the pastry, this is a film that's light, airy, and as French as the contemporary New York setting will allow. As with its French New Wave inspirations (much of the film's music comes from Francois Truffaut's composer Georges Delerue), this loosely-plotted film finds Frances stumbling through episodes of triumph and (more often) humiliation — bonding and bickering with BFF Sophie (Mickey Sumner), behaving badly at upscale dinner parties, and scrambling to scrape together rent, roommates, and recital gigs at the ballet company where she's an understudy.
Frances is a familiar Baumbach type — educated enough to care deeply about projecting an image of success and erudition, but not quite successful or erudite enough to actually pull it off. (When told her plan to do something terribly stupid with her credit card is in fact a bad idea, she responds with exasperation, "I know that — I see documentaries!") She's also the type who impulsively dives into attempts to bolster that image anyway — often a disastrous combination. (Asked at a dinner party if she's been to Paris, she responds, "Not really, no. Kind of, once! Actually, no. Hey, what's that museum there with the escalators and tubes?")
If Baumbach is withering about Frances' pretensions, he's also deeply compassionate in portraying her attempts to maintain her friendships with people moving past her towards marriage and adulthood. She's trying desperately to hold on to a certain type of intimacy — not one involving sex and love, but one fueled by proximity, time, and a shared language of inside jokes. (Her most withering rebuke to Sophie: "Don't treat me like a three-hour brunch friend!"). And Gerwig is wonderful in the role — the rhythm of her sing-song rambling is a delight even when it's clearly hurtling towards disaster, and she also has a gift for physical comedy. (Watch for the way she wards off a romantic advance from Adam Driver's rich-kid lothario.)
Alongside that rich central portrayal is a wealth of other sparkling miniature details and very funny jokes. Like many directors, Baumbach knows how music can lift the spirits of his characters (as in the exultant scene here where Frances pirouettes down a city street to the strains of Bowie's "Modern Love"), but he's also keen on showing how music can also fail miserably as a mood-changer, even when it's needed most (as when a lonely Frances strolls around on a vacation with Hot Chocolate's "Every 1's a Winner" mocking her through her headphones.) And some terrific jokes here are born out of Baumbach's gift for editing — watch for the way that some of the funniest moments here come from Baumbach cutting away from a scene at the right split-second, isolating Frances at a peak of petulance or glee.
There's no doubt that some readers won't be able to help groaning at the very concept of this film — it's true that pretty much everything here was well-worn territory even before Lena Dunham put together two seasons of "Girls." (It is interesting how chaste this film is compared to Dunham's series — armchair psychologists might pin that on the fact that Baumbach and Gerwig are dating.) But it's hard to be mad at a film that contains this much warm humor and poetry, however familiar it may be. And if the cheerful ending here seems a touch convenient, it's refreshing that it avoids the temptation to make a serious generational statement, opting instead for a light-hearted shrug that things will probably be fine. The spell the film weaves lasts right up to the final scene, which explains the reason for that truncated title and underscores how this film is also as much a tribute to New York as Woody Allen's own black-and-white classic Manhattan. It's a scene where Baumbach shows how New York is a city that can compress and constrict you, but also one that shows the end result of that constriction can still manage to be something funny and wonderful.


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Notable Bar-ba-loots
Lou or The Fat Bar-ba-loot (appears in the film) is a biggest Bar-ba-loot in the Truffula Valley. He's often seen lagging behind the group. In the Blu-ray combo pack, he is featured among with Pipsqueak in Wagon Ho, which is when he and Pip are having a joyride on the Once-Ler's wagon, and Serenade, which is when he tried to win the heart of a pretty female bar-ba-loot. He's a second Bar-Ba-Loot who can talk in the sequel, first being Eila.
PipsqueakPipsqueak (appears in the film) is one of the smallest Bar-ba-loots in the Truffula Valley. He was first seen with the other creatures trying to go up against the Once-ler after he throws dangerous items at them. When one of the bar-ba-loots jumps to attack the Once-ler, with the Once-Ler shielding himself with a bag of marshmallows, and rips the bag apart, causing it to rain marshmallows; he eats the marshmallows along with the other creatures, then he smiles at the Once-ler with marshmallow teeth. When the Lorax appears and asks the Once-Ler if he chopped down the tree; he quickly points the finger at Pipsqueak even though he's clearly too small to even hold an axe. At the end of the Once-ler's flashback, he leaves the Truffula Valley along with the other creatures feeling disappointed at the Once-ler and even refusing the marshmallow. In the Blu-ray combo pack, Pipsqueak is featured in all three of the mini movies, alongside with Lou in Wagon Ho and Serenade, and he was with the Lorax coping his moves and runs away screaming at the thought of looking like the Lorax when he's older in Forces of Nature. He also gains a love a interest in Serenade.
- Pipsqueak seems to be the Lorax and the Once-ler's favorite creature in all of the Truffula Valley.
- In the movie, the Bar-ba-loots are shown to have a fondness for marshamallows.
- Pipsqueak's name means small.
- The Once-Ler's mother referred to them as bears.
- In the Blu-ray combo pack, if you go to the makings of the mini-movies, the cast who worked with the movie reveals that The Fat Bar-ba-loot's name is Lou


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Johan Oskar Backlund (April 28, 1846 – August 29, 1916) was a Swedish-Russian astronomer. His name is sometimes given as Jöns Oskar Backlund, however even contemporary Swedish sources give "Johan". In Russia, where he spent his entire career, he is known as Oskar Andreevich Baklund (Оскар Андреевич Баклунд). Russian sources sometimes give his dates of birth and death as April 16, 1846 and August 16, 1916, in the Julian calendar that was used in Russia during that period.
(856) Backlunda was discovered at Simeis during the First World War while Simeis was not in communication with the Rechen-Institut for long periods of time were given provisional designations containing the Greek letter SIGMA. These are here abbreviated S.
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Super Dual Auroral Radar Network
The Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN) is an international radar network for studying the upper atmosphere and ionosphere, comprising twenty one radars in the northern hemisphere and eleven in the southern hemisphere [1] that operate in the High Frequency (HF) bands between 8.0 MHz (37m) and 22.0 MHz (14m).
The Java applets that are used as the radar data display system currently indicate the 10 MHz (30m) and 14 MHz (21m) frequency bands as being primarily used in 2012 (in the Northern Hemisphere). The radars measure the Doppler velocity (and other related characteristics) of plasma density irregularities in the ionosphere.
In the standard operating mode each radar scans through 16 beams of azimuthal separation ~3.24°, with a total scan time of 1 min. Each beam is divided into 75 range gates of length 45 km, and so in each full scan the radars each cover 52° in azimuth and over 3000 km in range, an area of over 4×106 km².
SuperDARN began in 1983, when the first radar installation was constructed in Labrador, Canada.[2]
Additions to the ionospheric RADAR network (in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres) have occurred about once every 4 years.
Since Linux became popular, it has become the default operating system for the Superdarn network. The operating system (superdarn-ros.3.6) is currently licensed under the LGPL). [1]
SuperDARN sites[edit]
The following is a list of SuperDARN sites, based on lists maintained by Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory,[3] University of Saskatchewan,[4] and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.[5] As of 2009, the network is expanding to the middle latitudes, including sites in Hays, Kansas (near Fort Hays State University), Oregon, and the Azores, in order to support mapping outside of the auroral regions during large magnetic storms.[2]
*: Part of the Southern Hemisphere Auroral Radar Experiment
Northern Hemisphere
- Because the SuperDARN network evolved in the west during the late Cold War, coverage of Russia's arctic regions is poor.
- Although there is no shortage of possible sites to cover Russia's arctic regions from Northern Europe and Alaska, the coverage would probably not be of high quality.
- So far there has been no movement within those managing the SuperDARN network to do joint ventures with Russian universities to build the Russian part of the network.
Southern Hemisphere
- Although Antarctica is covered reasonably well, the Sub-Antarctic regions do not have uniform coverage.
- Java VM real time display software interoperability (where both poles could be observed at the same time) is still a work in progress.
|SuperDARN in action
- ^ http://superdarn.jhuapl.edu/info/info.html. Retrieved 2013-07-19
- ^ a b "National Science Foundation constructs radar facility on FHSU grounds; internship created". Fort Hays State University. August 27, 2009. Retrieved 2009-11-04.[dead link]
- ^ "SuperDARN Radar Locations". Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Retrieved 2009-07-14.[dead link]
- ^ "About SuperDARN". University of Saskatchewan. Retrieved 2006-06-03.
- ^ "SuperDARN Technical Information". Virginia Tech. Retrieved 2009-07-14.[dead link]
Research papers[edit]
Research papers related to SuperDARN and related technologies
Real time display of SuperDarn radar
- Realtime Java applet display (North American Arctic)
External links[edit]
Each participating university should be listed here. As these are ongoing research sites, these links are subject to change.
Northern Hemisphere Stations
- Canada : SuperDARN at University of Saskatchewan
- Canada : Canadian Space Agency SuperDARN portal
- US : VT SuperDARN at Virginia Tech
- US :SuperDARN at the University of Alaska Geophysical Institute
- US : SuperDARN at Virginia Tech
- US :SuperDARN at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire
- UK : SuperDARN UK
Southern Hemisphere Stations
- Australia : SuperDARN Tiger at Latrobe University
- ...
Media related to Unwin Radar at Wikimedia Commons


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Catapult LP:
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- Built in C++/SystemC power estimation achieves up to 80% power reduction at the architecture level
- Sequential clock gating for fine grain power reduction of register, clock tree, and logic power
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- Provides SystemC/C++ power estimation
Catapult® LP is the industry's first high-level synthesis (HLS) tool that adds power as an optimization goal. By leveraging Calypto's existing best in class power analysis and optimization technology, Catapult LP provides a closed loop optimization across power, performance and area (PPA) to address the challenges of power-aware design.
Catapult LP takes advantage of Calypto's unique PowerPro® technology by embedding it 'under the hood' of Catapult to seamlessly produce the lowest power RTL and optimize designs at the architecture level where 80% of power decisions are made. For the first time, Catapult LP enables designers to explore different hardware architectures and measure the power, performance and area of each solution. The net result is an ability to perform architectural refinement from an abstract C++ or SystemC model and deliver closed loop PPA optimization from high-level synthesis. Catapult LP goes beyond the architecture level by leveraging Calypto's patented sequential analysis technology to deliver automatic fine grain clock gating. This two prong approach of optimizing the architecture followed by maximum clock gating efficiency at the register level promises the greatest power savings.
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|November 2014
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|*Catapult LP for a Power Optimized ESL Hardware Realization Flow
|November 2012
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This paper describes, in general, the Catapult® flow for exploring low power architectures, and it discusses in detail the low power optimization results achieved using the Catapult LP design flow. The case study was conducted using real customer designs. Designs were synthesized using Catapult with and without low power optimizations turned on. With low power optimizations on, Catapult uses the Calypto PowerPro® technology under the hood for implementing RTL power optimization techniques and for estimating a design's power usage.
|*High-Level Synthesis Report 2011
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This report analyzes the survey results of 1,133 engineers and engineering managers and identifies relevant emerging trends.
|*7 Steps to Higher Productivity: STMicroelectronics HLS Flow for Complex IPs
|December 2010
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This paper covers STMicroelectronic's project, where they wanted to have a completed video processor IP design in silicon in time for CES 2010, so they could fully demonstrate the 3D graphic capability of their latest SOC.
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This book provides a step-by-step approach to using C++ as a hardware design language, including an introduction to the basics of HLS using concepts familiar to RTL designers. Each chapter provides easy-to-understand C++ examples, along with hardware and timing diagrams where appropriate.
The book progresses from simple concepts such as sequential logic design to more complicated topics such as memory architecture and hierarchical sub-system design. Later chapters bring together many of the earlier HLS design concepts through their application in simplified design examples. These examples illustrate the fundamental principles behind C++ hardware design, which will translate to much larger designs. Although this book focuses primarily on C and C++ to present the basics of C++ synthesis, all of the concepts are equally applicable to SystemC when describing the core algorithmic part of a design.
On completion of this book, readers should be well on their way to becoming experts in high-level synthesis.
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Algorithmic C (AC) datatypes are a class-based C++ library that provides arbitrary-length integer, fixed-point, floating-point and complex data types. They enable algorithm, system and hardware designers to precisely model bit-true behavior in C++ specifications while accelerating simulation speeds by 10-200x faster versus alternate datatypes.
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|January 2014
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|November 2013
従来のデザインフローは、C++のような高位言語でアルゴリズムの機能をモデル化し、これを手作業でRTLにコーディングしていました。この手作業によるRTL生成は時間がかかるだけでなく、エラーを発生しやすく、またバックエンドの配線遅延問題に影響を与えてしまいます。CatapultによるC++からの高位合成は、主にワイヤレス、ビデオ、画像処理など、非常に複雑で高い計算能力を必要とするアプリケーションで使用される、ASICハードウェア・サブシステムを構築するために使用されてきました。ASICで利用されてきたCatapultの機能とAltera社のAccelerated Libraryを組み合わせることにより、ANSI C++でモデル化したアルゴリズムから、FPGAハードウェア上で動作するように最適化されたRTLを迅速に生成することができます。さらに、このデザインフローを使用することで、C++からFPGA DSPブロックを直接生成し、高位合成制約を使用してバックエンドのタイミング問題を簡単に解決することが可能です。
|*生産性向上のための7つのステップ: STMicroelectronics社の複雑なIPのための高位合成フロー
|December 2010
|*AC Datatypes
|October 2012
カリプト社が無償で提供するビット 精度のC/C++データタイプです。g++やVisual C++でコンパイルでき、SystemC比最大200倍の高速性を生かし、語長や固定小数点最 適化を迅速に行えます。データ型としては、任意の語長の符号付き、符号なし整数型、固定小数点型タイプがあり、 CatapultとSLECによる高位合成フローでもサポートされています。
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|May 2014
|*How to Maximize the Verification Benefit of HLS - Webinar
RTL verification is a major challenge in today's design flow, requiring huge amounts of resources to satisfactorily validate the RTL code. By raising the abstraction level design and verification is performed, and automating the RTL creation, High Level Synthesis (HLS) can reduce the RTL verification effort by 50%. This because the C++ or SystemC designs used in an HLS flow typically simulate 1,000-10,000 times faster than RTL. This webinar describes how to write a bit-accurate C++ design for HLS and how to use that model to improve specification functional coverage and avoid time-consuming debug at the RTL.
Topics we will be covering are:
(Recorded Live 5/15/2014).
|January 2014
|*Optimizing SystemC/C++ Hardware Architectures Through HLS (HLS #5) - Webinar
Next to numerical precision, hardware architecture has the biggest impact on RTL quality generated by high level synthesis (HLS). In this 50 minute webinar, we will cover how to code different hardware architectures in C++ or SystemC to achieve optimal results in HLS. Webinar will focus on C++ and SystemC code examples on different hardware architectures and the effect on the final implementation.
|November 2013
|*How to Maximize the Verification Benefit of High Level Synthesis with SystemC (HLS #4) - Webinar
In this 50 minute webinar, Calypto will cover a verification approach that leverages SystemC simulation and High Level Synthesis (HLS) to reduce the RTL verification effort by 50%. The SystemC designs used in an HLS flow typically simulate 100-1,000 times faster than RTL. This is because the interfaces and timing are specified in an abstract source. This webinar describes how to write a bit-accurate SystemC design for HLS and how to use that model to improve specification functional coverage and avoid time-consuming debug at the RTL. (Recorded Live 11/5/2013).
|July 2013
|*How to Maximize the Verification Benefit of High Level Synthesis with C++ (HLS #3) - Webinar
In this 50 minute webinar, Calypto will cover a verification approach that leverages C++ simulation and High Level Synthesis (HLS) to reduce the RTL verification effort by 50%.
The C++ designs used in an HLS flow typically simulate 1,000-10,000 times faster than RTL. This is because the interfaces and timing are specified in an abstract source. This webinar describes how to write a bit-accurate C++ design for HLS and how to use that model to improve specification functional coverage and avoid time-consuming debug at the RTL. (Recorded live 7/16/13).
|March 2013
|*How to Optimize for Power with High Level Synthesis (HLS #2) - Webinar
In this 50 minute webinar, Calypto will cover techniques to measure and reduce power in a High Level Synthesis (HLS) flow, starting from C++ or SystemC.
For many designers, power optimization has become a key optimization target. This webinar explains how moving to a more abstract source gives designers the ability to better optimize for power. The webinar will cover both automated tool flows and manual techniques. The automated tool flow focus on sequential clock gating, which uses both static state progression data and simulation vectors to disable registers that are not active. The manual flow focuses on how to change the source code and HLS constraints to trade-off power with area, performance, and numerical precision. (Recorded Live 3/26/2013).
|December 2012
|*Comparing C++ to SystemC for HLS (HLS #1) - Webinar
A practical comparison between SystemC and C++ for High Level Synthesis
Have you ever wondered the difference between C++ and SystemC for high level synthesis (HLS)? This 50 minute webinar will provide a practical overview of the differences between the two most common ESL hardware description languages. The webinar will show side by side coding examples of the two languages for basic hardware concepts such as: hierarchy, IO, numerical precision and timing. As the only company to support both SystemC and C++ for synthesis with the industry's most successful HLS tool (Catapult), Calypto is uniquely placed to discuss the differences between the two languages.
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Urbanization is closely linked to modernization, industrialization, and the sociological process of rationalization.
Percentage of population which is urbanized, by country, as of 2006.[4] As more and more people leave villages and farms to live in cities, urban growth results. The rapid growth of cities like Chicago in the late 19th century and Shanghai a century later can be attributed largely to people from rural communities migrating there. This kind of growth is especially commonplace in developing countries.
The rapid urbanization of the world's population over the twentieth century is described in the 2005 Revision of the UN World Urbanization Prospects report. The global proportion of urban population rose dramatically from 13% (220 million) in 1900, to 29% (732 million) in 1950, to 49% (3.2 billion) in 2005. The same report projected that the figure is likely to rise to 60% (4.9 billion) by 2030.[5]. However, French economist Philippe Bocquier, writing in THE FUTURIST magazine, has calculated that "the proportion of the world population living in cities and towns in the year 2030 would be roughly 50%, substantially less than the 60% forecast by the United Nations (UN), because the messiness of rapid urbanization is unsustainable. Both Bocquier and the UN see more people flocking to cities, but Bocquier sees many of them likely to leave upon discovering that there's no work for them and no place to live." [6]
According to the UN State of the World Population 2007 report, sometime in the middle of 2007, the majority of people worldwide will be living in towns or cities, for the first time in history; this is referred to as the arrival of the "Urban Millennium". In regard to future trends, it is estimated 93% of urban growth will occur in developing nations, with 80% of urban growth occurring in Asia and Africa.[7]
Urbanization rates vary between countries. The United States and United Kingdom have a far higher urbanization level than China, India, Swaziland or Niger, but a far slower annual urbanization rate, since much less of the population is living in a rural area.
People move into cities to seek economic opportunities. In rural areas, often on small family farms, it is difficult to improve one's standard of living beyond basic sustenance. Farm living is dependent on unpredictable environmental conditions, and in times of drought, flood or pestilence, survival becomes extremely problematic.
Cities, in contrast, are known to be places where money, services and wealth are centralised. Cities are where fortunes are made and where social mobility is possible. Businesses, which generate jobs and capital, are usually located in urban areas. Whether the source is trade or tourism, it is also through the cities that foreign money flows into a country. It is easy to see why someone living on a farm might wish to take their chance moving to the city and trying to make enough money to send back home to their struggling family.
There are better basic services as well as other specialist services that aren't found in rural areas. There are more job opportunities and a greater variety of jobs. Health is another major factor. People, especially the elderly are often forced to move to cities where there are doctors and hospitals that can cater for their health needs. Other factors include a greater variety of entertainment (restaurants, movie theaters, theme parks, etc) and a better quality of education, namely universities. Due to their high populations, urban areas can also have much more diverse social communities allowing others to find people like them when they might not be able to in rural areas.
These conditions are heightened during times of change from a pre-industrial society to an industrial one. It is at this time that many new commercial enterprises are made possible, thus creating new jobs in cities. It is also a result of industrialisation that farms become more mechanised, putting many labourers out of work. This is currently occurring fastest in India.
In recent years, urbanization of rural areas has increased. As agriculture, more traditional local services, and small-scale industry give way to modern industry the urban and related commerce with the city drawing on the resources of an ever-widening area for its own sustenance and goods to be traded or processed into manufactures.
Research in urban ecology finds that larger cities provide more specialized goods and services to the local market and surrounding areas, function as a transportation and wholesale hub for smaller places, and accumulate more capital, financial service provision, and an educated labor force, as well as often concentrating administrative functions for the area in which they lie. This relation among places of different sizes is called the urban hierarchy.
As cities develop, effects can include a dramatic increase in costs, often pricing the local working class out of the market, including such functionaries as employees of the local municipalities. For example, Eric Hobsbawm's book The age of the revolution: 1789–1848 (published 1962 and 2005) chapter 11, stated "Urban development in our period [1789–1848] was a gigantic process of class segregation, which pushed the new labouring poor into great morasses of misery outside the centres of government and business and the newly specialised residential areas of the bourgeoisie. The almost universal European division into a 'good' west end and a 'poor' east end of large cities developed in this period." This is likely due the prevailing south-west wind which carries coal smoke and other airborne pollutants downwind, making the western edges of towns preferable to the eastern ones.
Urbanization is often viewed as a negative trend, but in fact, it occurs naturally from individual and corporate efforts to reduce expense in commuting and transportation while improving opportunities for jobs, education, housing, and transportation. Living in cities permits individuals and families to take advantage of the opportunities of proximity, diversity, and marketplace competition.
The urban heat island has become a growing concern. Urban sprawl creates a number of negative environmental and public health outcomes. For more than 100 years, it has been known that two adjacent cities are generally warmer than the surrounding areas. This region of city warmth, known as an urban heat island, can influence the concentration of air pollution. The urban heat island is formed when industrial and urban areas are developed and heat becomes more abundant. In rural areas, a large part of the incoming solar energy is used to evaporate water from vegetation and soil. In cities, where less vegetation and exposed soil exists, the majority of the sun's energy is absorbed by urban structures and asphalt. Hence, during warm daylight hours, less evaporative cooling in cities allows surface temperatures to rise higher than in rural areas. Additional city heat is given off by vehicles and factories, as well as by industrial and domestic heating and cooling units.[10]This effect causes the city to become 2 to 10o F (1 to 6o C) warmer than surrounding landscapes.[11]. Impacts also include reducing soil moisture and intensification of carbon dioxide emissions.[12]
In cities of the developed world urbanization traditionally exhibited a concentration of human activities and settlements around the downtown area, the so-called in-migration. In-migration refers to migration from former colonies and similar places. The fact that many immigrants settle in impoverished city centres led to the notion of the "peripheralization of the core", which simply describes that people who used to be at the periphery of the former empires now live right in the centre.
Recent developments, such as inner-city redevelopment schemes, mean that new arrivals in cities no longer necessarily settle in the centre. In some developed regions, the reverse effect, originally called counter urbanisation has occurred, with cities losing population to rural areas, and is particularly common for richer families. This has been possible because of improved communications, and has been caused by factors such as the fear of crime and poor urban environments. Later termed "white flight", the effect is not restricted to cities with a high ethnic minority population.
When the residential area shifts outward, this is called suburbanization. A number of researchers and writers suggest that suburbanization has gone so far to form new points of concentration outside the downtown. This networked, poly-centric form of concentration is considered by some an emerging pattern of urbanization. It is called variously exurbia, edge city (Garreau, 1991), network city (Batten, 1995), or postmodern city (Dear, 2000). Los Angeles is the best-known example of this type of urbanization.
Rural migrants are attracted by the possibilities that cities can offer, but often settle in shanty towns and experience extreme poverty. In the 1980s, this was attempted to be tackled with the urban bias theory which was promoted by Michael Lipton who wrote: "...the most important class conflict in the poor countries of the world today is not between labour and capital. Nor is it between foreign and national interests. It is between rural classes and urban classes. The rural sector contains most of the poverty and most of the low-cost sources of potential advance; but the urban sector contains most of the articulateness, organization and power. So the urban classes have been able to win most of the rounds of the struggle with the countryside..." [13]. Most of the urban poor in developing countries able to find work can spend their lives in insecure, poorly paid jobs. According to research by the Overseas Development Institute pro-poor urbanisation will require labour intensive growth, supported by labour protection, flexible land use regulation and investments in basic services.' [14]
Urbanization can be planned urbanization or organic. Planned urbanization, ie: new town or the garden city movement, is based on an advance plan, which can be prepared for military, aesthetic, economic or urban design reasons. Examples can be seen in many ancient cities; although with exploration came the collision of nations, which meant that many invaded cities took on the desired planned characteristics of their occupiers. Many ancient organic cities experienced redevelopment for military and economic purposes, new roads carved through the cities, and new parcels of land were cordoned off serving various planned purposes giving cities distinctive geometric designs. UN agencies prefer to see urban infrastructure installed before urbanization occurs. landscape planners are responsible for landscape infrastructure (public parks, sustainable urban drainage systems, greenways etc) which can be planned before urbanization takes place, or afterward to revitalized an area and create greater livability within a region. Concepts of control of the urban expansion are considered in the American Institute of Planners [15].
New Urbanism was a movement which started in the 1990s. New Urbanism believes in shifting design focus from the car-centric development of suburbia and the business park, to concentrated pedestrian and transit-centric, walk able, mixed-use communities. New Urbanism is an amalgamation of old-world design patterns, merged with present day demands. It is a backlash to the age of suburban sprawl, which splintered communities, and isolated people from each other, as well as had severe environmental impacts. Concepts for New Urbanism include people and destinations into dense, vibrant communities, and decreasing dependency on vehicular transportation as the primary mode.
Urbanization in the Industrial Age:
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