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A voltage-controlled oscillator or VCO is an electronic oscillator whose oscillation frequency is controlled by a voltage input. The applied input voltage determines the instantaneous oscillation frequency. Consequently, modulating signals applied to control input may cause frequency modulation (FM) or phase modulation (PM). A VCO may also be part of a phase-locked loop.
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VCOs can be generally categorized into two groups based on the type of waveform produced: 1) harmonic oscillators, and 2) relaxation oscillators.
Linear or harmonic oscillators generate a sinusoidal waveform. Harmonic oscillators in electronics usually consist of a resonator with an amplifier that replaces the resonator losses (to prevent the amplitude from decaying) and isolates the resonator from the output (so the load does not affect the resonator). Some examples of harmonic oscillators are LC-tank oscillators and crystal oscillators. In a voltage-controlled oscillator, a voltage input controls the resonant frequency. A varactor diode's capacitance is controlled by the voltage across the diode. Consequently, a varactor can be used to change the capacitance (and hence the frequency) of an LC tank. A varactor can also change ("pull") the resonant frequency of a crystal resonator.
Relaxation oscillators can generate a sawtooth or triangular waveform. They are commonly used in monolithic integrated circuits (ICs). They can provide a wide range of operational frequencies with a minimal number of external components. Relaxation oscillator VCOs can have three topologies: 1) grounded-capacitor VCOs, 2) emitter-coupled VCOs, and 3) delay-based ring VCOs.[dubious ] The first two of these types operate similarly. The time spent in each state depends on the rate of charge or discharge of a capacitor. The delay-based ring VCO operates somewhat differently however. For this type, the gain stages are connected in a ring. The output frequency is then a function of the delay in each stage.
Harmonic oscillator VCOs have these advantages over relaxation oscillators.
A disadvantage of harmonic oscillator VCOs is that they cannot be easily implemented in monolithic ICs.[dubious ] Relaxation oscillator VCOs are better suited for this technology.[citation needed] Relaxation VCOs are also tunable over a wider range of frequencies.
A voltage-controlled capacitor is one method of making an LC oscillator vary its frequency in response to a control voltage. Any reverse-biased semiconductor diode displays a measure of voltage-dependent capacitance and can be used to change the frequency of an oscillator by varying a control voltage applied to the diode. Special-purpose variable capacitance varactor diodes are available with well-characterized wide-ranging values of capacitance. Such devices are very convenient in the manufacture of voltage-controlled oscillators[note 1] For low-frequency VCOs, other methods of varying the frequency (such as altering the charging rate of a capacitor by means of a voltage controlled current source) are used. See Function generator.
The frequency of a ring oscillator is controlled by varying either the supply voltage, the current available to each inverter stage, or the capacitive loading on each stage.
A voltage-controlled crystal oscillator (VCXO) is used for fine adjustment of the operating frequency. The frequency of a voltage-controlled crystal oscillator can be varied a few tens of parts per million (ppm), because the high Q factor of the crystals allows "pulling" over only a small range of frequencies.
There are two reasons for using a VCXO:
A temperature-compensated VCXO (TCVCXO) incorporates components that partially correct the dependence on temperature of the resonant frequency of the crystal. A smaller range of voltage control then suffices to stabilize the oscillator frequency in applications where temperature varies, such as heat buildup inside a transmitter.
Placing the oscillator in a temperature-controlled "oven" at a constant but higher-than-ambient temperature is another way to stabilize oscillator frequency. High stability crystal oscillator references often place the crystal in an oven and use a voltage input for fine control.[1] The temperature is selected to be the turnover temperature: the temperature where small changes do not affect the resonance. The control voltage can be used to occasionally adjust the reference frequency to a NIST source. Sophisticated designs may also adjust the control voltage over time to compensate for crystal aging.[citation needed]
Analog applications such as frequency modulation and frequency-shift keying often need to control an oscillator frequency with an input — a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO). The functional relationship between the control voltage and the output frequency may not be linear, but over small ranges, the relationship is approximately linear, and linear control theory can be used.
Real VCOs (especially those used at radio frequency) may have non-linear relationship, but linear control theory models are still useful. There are devices called voltage-to-frequency converters (VFC). These devices are often designed to be very linear over a wide range of input voltages.
Modeling for VCOs is often not concerned with the amplitude or shape (sinewave, triangle wave, sawtooth) but rather its instantaneous phase. In effect, the focus is not on the time-domain signal A sin(ωt+θ0) but rather the argument of the sine function (the phase). Consequently, modeling is often done in the phase domain.
The instananeous frequency of a VCO is often modeled as a linear relationship with its instaneous control voltage. The output phase of the oscillator is the integral of the instaneous frequency.
For analyzing a control system, the Laplace transforms of the above signals are useful.
Tuning range, tuning gain and phase noise are the important characteristics of a VCO. Generally low phase noise is preferred in the VCO. The noise present in the control signal and the tuning gain affect the phase noise; high noise or high tuning gain imply more phase noise. Other important elements that determine the phase noise are the transistor's flicker noise (1/f noise),[2] the output power level, and the loaded Q of the resonator.[3] See Leeson's equation. The low frequency flicker noise affects the phase noise because the flicker noise is heterodyned to the oscillator output frequency due to the active devices non-linear transfer function. The effect of flicker noise can be reduced with negative feedback that linearizes the transfer function (for example, emitter degeneration).
Leeson's expression[4] for single-sideband (SSB) phase noise in dBc/Hz (decibels relative to output level per Hertz) is[5]
Commonly used VCO circuits are the Clapp and Colpitts oscillators. The more widely used oscillator of the two is Colpitts and these oscillators are very similar in configuration.
VCOs generally have the lowest Q-factor of the used oscillators, and so suffer more jitter than the other types. The jitter can be made low enough for many applications (such as driving an ASIC), in which case VCOs enjoy the advantages of having no off-chip components (expensive) or on-chip inductors (low yields on generic CMOS processes). These oscillators also have larger tuning ranges than the other kinds, which improves yield and is sometimes a feature of the end product (for instance, the dot clock on a graphics card which drives a wide range of monitors).
VCOs are used in:
Voltage-to-Frequency converters are voltage-controlled oscillators, with a highly linear relation between applied voltage and frequency. They are used to convert a slow analog signal (such as from a temperature transducer) to a digital signal for transmission over a long distance, since the frequency will not drift or be affected by noise. VCOs may have sine and/or square wave outputs. Function generators are low-frequency oscillators which feature multiple waveforms, typically sine, square, and triangle waves. Monolithic function generators are voltage-controlled. Analog phase-locked loops typically contain VCOs. High-frequency VCOs are usually used in phase-locked loops for radio receivers. Phase noise is the most important specification for them. Low-frequency VCOs are used in analog music synthesizers. For these, sweep range, linearity, and distortion are often most important specs. Audio-frequency VCOs for use in musical contexts were largely superseded in the 1980s by their digital counterparts, DCOs, due to their output stability in the face of temperature changes during operation. From the 1990s on, pure software is the primary sound-generating method, but VCOs have become popular again often thanks to their imperfections.
A clock generator is an oscillator that provides a timing signal to synchronize operations in digital circuits. VCXO clock generators are used in many areas such as digital TV, modems, transmitters and computers. Design parameters for a VCXO clock generator are tuning voltage range, center frequency, frequency tuning range and the timing jitter of the output signal. Jitter is a form of phase noise that must be minimised in applications such as radio receivers, transmitters and measuring equipment.
The tuning range of a VCXO is typically a few parts per million over a control voltage range of typically 0 to 3 volts. When a wider selection of clock frequencies is needed the VCXO output can be passed through digital divider circuits to obtain lower frequency(ies) or be fed to a PLL (Phase Locked Loop). ICs containing both a VCXO (for external crystal) and a PLL are available. A typical application is to provide clock frequencies in a range from 12 kHz to 96 kHz to an audio digital to analog converter.


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Mann was a little kid back in the early Seventies, which the Philadelphia-born 26-year-old spent with one ear tuned in to the radio and the other directed toward the city's vast and eclectic music scene. He soaked up as much of it as he could, especially the Philly soul grooves crafted by the production team of Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, the R&B knockoffs by poppy white boys such as Todd Rundgren and Hall and Oates, and the folkie creations of singer/songwriter Jim Croce. In true Philly fashion he sang for spare change in a street-corner doo-wop group and wrote songs as he learned his away around the guitar.
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Mann left Miami in mid-1994 for New York City, where he worked the club circuit and hashed out his songs in the stairwells of apartment buildings -- an acoustically sound environment, perhaps, but also the last place Mann expected to run into a hotshot producer. "I'd always practice in the stairwell of this midtown Manhattan apartment building where some friends of mine lived," he explains. "The acoustics are great and no one bothers you because they're all at work. So I'm playing and this big guy comes in wearing a T-shirt and jeans and he has this long hair. I ask him if he's in a band, and he says, 'Kinda,' and asks if he can listen. So he hangs around a bit while I'm playing and it turns out the guy's Ric Wake. I mean, you can never underestimate the power of having a stranger in the audience."
Wake, the man behind numerous hits for artists such as Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, and Hall and Oates, liked what he heard and took Mann into the studio. The results A captured on his DV8 debut A establish Mann as a soul vocalist with a hard-core fixation on singer/songwriters such as Carole King and Jackson Browne. Although he worries that his songs are sometimes too personal, Mann favors heart-on-sleeve confessional lyrics, which he wraps around subtle hooks that unfold with sly grace. Songs such as "Ain't Gonna Keep Me Hangin' On," "Will I Ever," and "Let's Start Over Again" are straightforward vignettes from the heart of heartbreak city, while "Killed by a Flower" and "Tossing Pennies (In a Well)" are much better than their titles suggest. Musically, he strikes a balance between the groove-based Philly soul of his youth and the folkie acoustic moves he's picked up during years of coffeehouse gigs and songwriter showcases.
"Ric pretty much let me navigate my own course," Mann claims. "I just wanted to make a record that people would want to listen to from start to finish. You want people to grow into the album and appreciate it as a whole. That means a lot to me, because so many people base their whole act on one single. They have to rush through production to pound out an album just so they have something to match the single. I don't think that anyone at the label is looking at me as just an artist with a single or as a flash in the pan, but as someone they're willing to bet on for the future."

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In war and post-war Africa, youth populations are colossal and most governments are weak. Most international observers do not realize that African youth are faced with a daunting irony: that while they are demographically dominant, many if not most of them feel like and act as if they are members of an outcast minority. The separateness of so many young citizens raises questions about who is actually represented by mainstream civil society groups and traditional community leaders, the entities with which most international actors engage. In turn, this casts doubt on the degree to which governments claiming to welcome and support youth programs are viewed as legitimate, and whether these programs for finite numbers of youth cohorts are appropriate, since only a tiny fraction of young people in need stand to benefit and many more may feel, yet again, left out.
The Youth in War and Post-War Africa: Priorities and Policies conference will feature a panel of experts and practitioners on the priorities and situation of war-affected African youth and another panel of policy and opinion leaders on the strengths and deficits of government and donor policies that impact this population. In addition, the issues and challenges that the April 2012 conference will have direct relevance to war-torn and exceptionally youthful countries in other regions, such as Afghanistan and Timor-Leste, as well as the entire Middle East, where youth bulge demographics and youth-driven political resistance are overriding concerns.
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Hugo Kamya, Professor, Clinical Practice Sequence, Simmons College
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Mats Utas, Associate Professor, Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Uppsala University
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Volume 2014 (2014), Article ID 127643, 6 pages
Research Article
A Filtering Algorithm for Maneuvering Target Tracking Based on Smoothing Spline Fitting
1College of Information Science and Technology, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian 116026, China
2Department of Engineering, Faculty of Technology and Science, University of Agder, 4898 Grimstad, Norway
Received 15 October 2013; Revised 14 December 2013; Accepted 20 December 2013; Published 6 February 2014
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SEVIERVILLE, TENN. - December 7, 2011 - The Salvation Army has issued an urgent plea to the Sevier County community to help provide Christmas toys and clothing for nearly 800 children this year. The program, which relies solely on community involvement, helps Sevier County families in need each Christmas. The original deadline was Thursday, December 8, but to date, only half the names have been adopted so the deadline is being extended until Tuesday, December 13.
"Each angel represents a child in our community who needs help," explained Lt. Justin Caldwell, Salvation Army Corps Officer in Sevierville. "Shoppers need only to take an angel from the tree. Each angel has the clothing needs and information for the child on it so they can make the appropriate purchases."
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The Salvation Army has been serving East Tennesseans since 1899. "Sevier County residents have always supported our work and we are confident that they will rise to the challenge again," said Caldwell.
Adopted Angels should be returned to the location where they were picked up or delivered to the Salvation Army's Christmas Distribution Center in Belz Outlet mall next to Pottery Barn.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070120/ap_on_re_us/katrina_brown Political storm clouds gathered again over the federal government's response to Hurricane Katrina as former Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown said party politics influenced decisions on whether to take federal control of Louisiana and other areas affected by the hurricane. Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco said the partisanship Brown described was "disgusting," while a White House spokeswoman said Brown was making "false statements." Brown told a group of graduate students Friday that some in the White House had suggested the federal government should take charge in Louisiana because Blanco was a Democrat, while leaving Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a Republican, in control in his state. ... "Unbeknownst to me, certain people in the White House were thinking, 'We had to federalize Louisiana because she's a white, female Democratic governor, and we have a chance to rub her nose in it,'" he said, without naming names. "'We can't do it to Haley (Barbour) because Haley's a white male Republican governor. And we can't do a thing to him. So we're just gonna federalize Louisiana.'"
Well, I can tell you, as some one who has lived in the New Orleans area most of my life, except for the time I was in the Navy, and when I lived in NYC for a while back in the 90's, that Kathleen Blanco is an incompetent moron. This state is way worse shape than it was when she took office in Jan. 2004. She had "deer in the headlights syndrome" LONG before Katrina ever happened. In fact, it is very, very likely she gets voted out of office this November. She is in way over her head as a governor. I, personally, don't care for one party or the other (I am an independent). I think BOTH sides of the isle are nothing but self serving aristocrats that think they are "better" than us "peasants". So, I hold both in EQUAL disdain. I don't know the ins and outs of all the behind the scenes happenings of Katrina, but I can tell you Katrina was an utter failure on ALL aspects (federal, and especially state and local levels even more). It was also a failure of citizenry as well. EZ76
If that Katrina Hurricane had hit up in the Appalachin Mts instead new Orleans and the victims were all poor whiteys who are still out Possum Hunting for Xmas dinner this story would have been forgotten the day after it happend. The Katrina story is pure Racism, (against whitey).
I advise anyone who discusses Katrina in here to be careful of their words so as to not be branded a racist by the usual suspects. Katrina was a prime example of the welfare state mentality that is quickly consuming the mentally challenged populace of this country. If idiots are relying on the government to come save the day, then their plight is no one's fault but their own. The government failed the simpletons from top to bottom, but the simpletons failed themselves by relying on the government, and not themselves.
Yeah, they should have gotten on a plane and got out of there when they heard the storm was coming. I'm sure they had the money for that...
of course... these people were baffoons for not packing up the SUV and driving north with the fam to their retreats on the lake in Arkansas... of course, all they had to do was leave the area.. easy...
I especially liked the simpletons who walked across the bridge to get away and were met by police with guns drawn ready to fire. If there is nothing to hide, why has Lieberman decided not to fully investigate?
Yeah well, maybe the politicians could have used those buses that were sitting in flooded parking lots to get people out? Nah... Heck, once the flooding took place, most did a good enough job of looting neighbors houses and area stores. Again, you and your buddies can rely on the government to come save you when the power goes out, but I certainly won't.
I don't know why the politicians weren't using the busses, but that certainly sounds like part of the problem. Despite our opinion that people should be responsible for their own actions, the government (at all levels, not just the federal government) represents itself as being capable of helping people during a disaster, so it's not surprising people rely on it. If the government were clear that it doesn't provide disaster relief, and wasn't spending tax money on FEMA and equivilant state agencies, I'd agree with you. But these people were given an expectation that wasn't met.
I disagree. People are ultimately responsible for themselves. The problem is that the welfare mentality of our government, and of society, has pushed the onus of accountability on everyone but the individual. The gross failure of all levels of government, and FEMA, is a prime example of this. People aren't talking about eliminating the massive budgets of these organizations, nor are they discussing how the individuals failed themselves, instead they've moved to pass more blank check government bailouts, and have moved to figure out how to improve FEMA, as opposed to how to destroy it. Remember, politicians want you to have to rely on them. Your doing so makes them more and more important.
Then I think you and I agree on the problem (the government failed to do what it said it could do) and the solution (the government should promise less, tax less, and make people be responsible for themselves more).
WEATHER BULLETIN Up here, in the Northern Plains, we just recovered from a Historic event--- may I even say a "Weather Event" of "Biblical Proportions" --- with a historic blizzard of up to 44"inches of snow and winds to 90 MPH that broke trees in half, knocked down utility poles, stranded hundreds of motorists in lethal snow banks, closed ALL roads, isolated scores of communities and cut power to 10's of thousands. FYI: George Bush did not come. FEMA did nothing. No one howled for the government. No one blamed the government. No one even uttered an expletive on TV Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton did not visit. Our Mayor did not blame Bush or anyone else. Our Governor did not blame Bush or anyone else, eithe r. CNN, ABC, CBS, FOX or NBC did not visit - or report on this category 5 snowstorm. Nobody demanded $2,000 debit cards. No one asked for a FEMA Trailer House. No one looted. Nobody - I mean Nobody demanded the government do something. Nobody expected the government to do anything, either. No Larry King, No Bill O'Rielly, No Oprah, No Chris Mathews and No Geraldo Rivera. No Shaun Penn, No Barbara Striesand, No Hollywood types to be found. Nope, we just melted the snow for water. Sent out caravans of SUV's to pluck people out of snow engulfed cars. The truck drivers pulled people out of snow banks and didn't ask for a penny. Local restaurants made food and the police and fire departments delivered it to the snowbound families. Families took in the stranded people - total strangers. We fired up wood stoves, broke out coal oil lanterns or Coleman lanterns. We put on extra layers of clothes because up here it is "Work or Die". We did not wait for some affirmative action government to get us out of a mess created by being immobilized by a welfare program that trades votes for 'sittin at home' checks. -From an Emergency managment responder in Colorado
The "Bush Haters" "The Liberals" "The Politically Correct" they don't give a sh!t about all those "HONKIES IN THE SNOW" JESSIE & AL DON'T LIKE SNOW (can Jessie Jackoff ski)?
Yeah, let's all become survivalists and return to the hunter-gatherer lifestyle. As a matter fact, even in that lifestyle, you still have tribes that try to care for the whole. Let's get rid of those tribes, too, lest people forget about personal responsibility. We're an advanced society and because of that we have different specializations, and there's no way for us to prepare for every contingency. If you get sick, you yield your personal responsibility to a doctor. If you're caught in a category 5 hurricane, you yield your personal responsibility to experts, too. If you're financially destroyed and have nowhere to turn, you yield some of your personal responsibility to experts who can help you find a way out.
Search my previous post for the phrase "individual responsibility" and see if you can figure it out. Good luck.
What Patters is saying is perfectly clear. If you guys are in favor of "people taking care of themselves", why don't we get rid of the police? Just have a military to protect our borders' integrity, and let everyone fight it out for themselves. Is it because there IS a time and place for the government to step in? Granted it should be much less often than is now the case, but it's not always about helping yourself.
Never allow the Government to "Assign You A Doctor" and never allow the Government to tell you who to live with. "Mr Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall", the people that those socialist communist bastards erected that wall to force their way of life on tore that wall down with their bare hands. Does anybody ever buy a rubber boat from Wal Mart down in Florida and try to "Sneak Into Cuba"?
Different culture within one country. Folks in the plains are much more hearty than those in the gulf states.


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The front lines of Canada's culture war have moved to, of all places, Royal Military College.
Its senate — comprising the chancellor (Defence Minister Peter MacKay), the commandant, the principal, the deans of the faculties, the director of cadets, the academic director of RMC St-Jean, Quebec, and a faculty representative — has, as a body, if not unanimously, proclaimed to Canada's future military elite that the college is A-OK with gratuitous violence, calling people pukes, trashing multiculturalism and left-wing pinkos who ride bicycles, describing men with long hair as girls, speaking derogatively of francophone Canadians, labelling someone with a non-anglo name as "some kind of dog food" and supporting the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
CBC hockey commentator Don Cherry is celebrated for those views and RMC's senate voted to grant Mr. Cherry an honorary doctorate at its November convocation, citing (in the words of principal Joel Sokolsky) "his work on behalf of the Forces, his charity work [and] his standing in promoting athletics in Canada." All of which has created a fuss and an interesting outcome.
RMC's faculty board immediately passed a resolution expressing "their dissatisfaction that Cherry will be a recipient of the degree." Queen's University doctoral student Catherine Lord, who teaches French to RMC officer cadets, sent an open letter to the Kingston Whig-Standard in which she wrote:
"On many occasions, [Mr. Cherry] publicly expressed his contempt for many groups of the Canadian population, notably for the French-speaking Canadians, for the [sexually diverse] community and for the immigrants. RMC is increasingly representative of the diverse society in which we live. RMC is a strong and unifying place; it makes Canadians proud and attracts year after year dynamic and intelligent young adults. These students certainly feel Canadians first, regardless of their spiritual beliefs, their political allegiance, their sexual orientation, their mother tongue or their cultural background. What message will RMC send, in celebrating Don Cherry, to the students coming from these groups? And what will the Canadian people remember from RMC, as a serious and prestigious institution?"
To which Éric Leroux, professor of information technology at l'Université de Montréal, added in a letter to Montreal's La Presse: "Est-ce à dire que M. Cherry est un modèle à suivre pour les étudiants de ce collège? L'orientation militariste de cette institution n'excuse pas ce dérapage." Dérapage, if your French is a struggle, means "skidding" or "side-slipping".
None of which the RMC establishment gets. A spokeswoman for the college, Capt. Cynthia Kent, said: "People are entitled to their opinions obviously . . . ." Whether Capt. Kent was referring to Mr. Cherry's opinions or Ms. Lord's opinions is ambiguous. Mr. Cherry's opinions slide by (dérapage) under the Charter's Section 2(b) — "freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication." Tolerating bigotry is one of the obligations of a democratic society, although celebrating it — especially for young people being trained to kill for the state — is something else. Ms. Lord's opinions are chiselled in stone in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Canadian and Ontario human rights acts.
In any event, Mr. Cherry, who has been described as Canada's most successful demagogue of the past quarter-century, suddenly rejected the degree offer. "I can't accept the degree and I won't attend the convocation," he said in an interview with Sun Media. "I am sad because I was really looking forward to spending time with the 800 cadets." Kingston — to be briefly tangential — once had an excellent community newspaper when the Southam family owned the Whig-Standard. It has been bought by Sun Media and now espouses Sun Media's views: viz. a column by Sun Media writer Joe Warmington appearing in the Whig-Standard, praised Mr. Cherry's unstinting support for Canada's military, referred to Ms. Lord's criticism as bizarre and vitriolic and quoted Mr. Cherry as saying: "When I was in Afghanistan in all the bases I visited I didn't see Catherine Lord there anywhere." Yup, don't listen to her.
Un modèle à suivre? Although it's hard to find an explanation for the RMC senate's decision other than that they intended Mr. Cherry to be a model to follow, let's be charitable for a moment and employ that hoary journalistic maxim: "Never rule out stupidity as an explanation." The decision to grant Don Cherry an honorary doctorate is stupid. It is insensitive, as is Mr. Cherry's mode of hockey commentary. It is beneath the intelligence of the Canadian armed forces leadership and Canadians should be grateful that the people who actually teach young officer cadets objected to it.
It is also immoral, bringing us to the case of Capt. Robert Semrau with which it resonates.
Capt. Semrau shot dead a severely wounded Taliban fighter in Afghanistan in 2008. He was charged with second-degree murder, attempt to commit murder, behaving in a disgraceful manner contrary to the National Defence Act and negligently performing a military duty. At his court-martial, he was acquitted of all charges except disgraceful conduct. He was demoted to second lieutenant and dismissed from the Canadian Forces without severance pay. Lieutenant-Colonel Jean-Guy Perron, the military judge who sentenced him, described Capt. Semrau as a courageous soldier and leader "probably caught between his moral values and his duties as a soldier". But he added: "How can we expect our soldiers to respect the rules of engagement if our officers don't?"
There, that's the point. If RMC's leaders choose someone with the views and utterances of Don Cherry to honour, how can they expect the cadets to behave differently.
The point is about moral values: it is morally wrong to establish prejudice, bigotry, demeaning treatment of those with whom one disagrees and the employment of unjustified violence as a model to follow. The point is about what kind of moral cultures Canadians tolerate for those who are given guns and allowed to use them. The point is that police who beat, abused and unjustifiably detained Toronto citizens last summer at the G20 demonstrations worked in a wrong moral culture — as did their commanders and governing politicians who refused to call a public inquiry into their actions. The point is that RCMP officers who tasered to death Robert Dziekanski worked in a wrong moral culture, as did the Ontario Provincial Police who were responsible for the killing of unarmed protester Dudley George.
The baby boomers and the Conservative government they elect have given Canada a new military culture.
The military marches around Ottawa today in combat fatigues when, little more than a decade ago, they didn't. They have become the heroes of middle Canada, celebrated at sporting events, remythologized as the new icons of nationalism and lionized by people like Don Cherry, Rick Mercer and Wayne Rostad (both Mr. Mercer and Mr. Rostad have been appointed honorary colonels, along with former journalist and now Conservative senator Pamela Wallin, chair of the Senate's defence committee, and a clutch of some of the country's wealthiest business tycoons).
Former chief of the defence staff Rick Hillier has been hugely successful in recasting the image of the armed forces into a portrait that fits Canadians' imagined community –ordinary men and women from next door carrying out dangerous work with professionalism, decency and fair play.
He also has been an indefatigable apostle of Canada's military as warriors. Warriors were the centrepiece attraction at a black-tie dinner titled True Patriot Love held in Toronto two years ago (and again this year), organized by some of the city's super-wealthy with $750-a-head tickets. Soldiers in battle dress rappelled down ropes from the ceiling. Retired captain Trevor Greene, who survived an axe blow to his head in Afghanistan, was brought to the stage. Gen. Walt Natynczyk, Canada's current top soldier, pointed out Leading Seaman Stephanie Russell in the audience, one of four women submariners: "This lady is a strong woman warrior," he said, "and I am proud of her."
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, all living former prime ministers, the provincial premiers, the national party leaders, Toronto's mayor and a notable clutch of aspiring politicians were listed on the dinner's tribute committee. Many of the city's backroom political movers and shakers were on the fundraising committee. The dinner's co-chairs were drawn from the cream of Toronto's business community, and the event had corporate sponsorship.
That's us, that's who we've become, and if you don't Support Our Troops you're a bad Canadian. Which is all well and good. We wish to Support Our Troops.
It's a question of what kind of military culture Canadians are being asked to support. Less than two decades ago members of the Canadian Airborne Regiment's Two Commando beat a Somali teenager to death, an act initially covered up by top military commanders. An investigation subsequently revealed that Two Commando's base at CFB Petawawa was a hotbed of white supremacist racism, employed brutal and humiliating hazing rituals, had adopted a U.S. Confederacy flag as its unofficial symbol and that its commanding officer was relieved of his post when he said the "rogue commando" he led was unfit for overseas service. That was Canada's Abu Ghraib.
It was an issue of moral values. The men and women of the Canadian Forces do dangerous and difficult work in the name of all their fellow citizens. It is essential that they hear a clear message on what moral standards their fellow citizens expect them to follow.


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Then why bother? Then one relaxes. The anxiety, the tension, the anguish disappears. Suddenly you become vulnerable, no more closed. Suddenly you are open, suddenly you become inviting. And this is the point to be understood: once you are exposed to others, only then will you be exposed to yourself. If you are hiding from others, whatsoever you are hiding from others will by and by be thrown into the basement of your unconscious mind. Others may not know about it but by and by you will also forget about it.
But whenever you come within the vision of a perceptive man, everything will be revealed. That is one of the basic reasons why, in the East, the relationship of a disciple to a master is so valued: because the master is just like a ray of light, an X-ray, and the disciple exposes himself. And the more the master penetrates and knows about the disciple the more the disciple becomes aware of his own hidden treasures by and by. Trying to hide himself from others, he has become such an expert in hiding that he hides from himself also.
You don't know much about yourself. You know just a fragment about yourself, just the tip of the iceberg. Your knowledge about yourself is very limited - not only limited, it is almost irrelevant! It is so partial, it is so fragmentary, that unless you put it in the context of your whole being it carries no meaning. It is almost meaningless.
That's why you go on living without knowing yourself. And how can one live without knowing oneself? And you go on projecting things on others which have nothing to do with others; they may be just hidden forces inside you. But you don't know that they are hidden inside you, you project them onto others. Somebody looks like an egoist to you: you may be the egoist and you project. Somebody looks very angry: the anger may be inside you and the other is just like a screen - it is you projecting.
Unless you know yourself exactly, you will not be able to know what is real and what is projection. You will not be able to know about others also. Self-knowledge becomes the door of all knowledge; it is the very base. Without that foundation, all knowledge is just knowledge in appearance; deep down it is ignorance.
I have heard an anecdote:
Mistress Jones, deeply troubled, was consulting a psychiatrist.
"My husband," she said, "is convinced he is a chicken. He goes around scratching constantly, and sleeps on a large bar of wood he has fixed up as a perch."
"I see," said the psychiatrist thoughtfully. "And how long has your husband been suffering from this fixation?"
"For nearly two years now."
The psychiatrist frowned slightly and said, "But why have you waited till now to seek help?"
Mistress Jones blushed and said, "Ah well, it was so nice having a steady supply of eggs!"


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Aureus for iPhone and iPod Touch
Hey everybody!
I'm proud to present Galta's first game: Aureus! Aureus is a nice little twist on the classic tile matching game formula, which concept I had in mind for some time now. Try it if you wonder what it is to play some sort of bejeweled game in the dark, with most of the blocks hidden from your sight. The game demands strategy of course, but above all lots of memory (or speed, if you have the memory span of a goldfish!) Aureus offers the two game modes expected from tile matching games (endless and time limit), plus an online mode which lets you fight other players live, both locally and over internet (I missed playing Tetris with friends on my HP48!). It also features an upgrade system based on virtual coins (purely virtual, with no in-app purchases). Here's a small video. Nothing fancy, but it should give you an idea of the gameplay: Youtube link | Pop Up Enjoy! |
I've played a little of both endurance and time trial mode. At first, you can see a board with several figures of different shapes and colors. Then, the screen goes dark, and you need to remember where the pieces of the same color and shape that are adjacent to each other are, and remove them from the board by selecting them with your finger (you can match a minimum of 2 pieces). If you miss one when selecting, the already selected pieces will darken and you need to start over. However, (if I understand it correctly), the machine will be overheating with time, meaning game over when it reachs the max. The overheat will be reduced when you select figures of the same color and shape, but when you miss (you select different figures by mistake) the machine will be overheating faster. So you need to be fast, and remember where the figures are when it's getting dark. I need to get the hang of the game, but my first impressions are very positive. I like it! |
Thanks gabikun!
Exactly: the idea is that the bigger match you make, the more point and coins you get. Hence the best way to play is to make a series of small matches to regroup similar blocks, and then one big final match with the biggest group you can. That is, if you don't forget its shape, as the balance between memorization and speed can be pretty hard to master as the speed increases! Also, upgrade the machine as soon as you can, to slow down the overheating, or to reduce the impact of your mistakes. This will make you last much longer! |
Ok, played a little more (and I'm pretty high in the leaderboards now :P). Awesome puzzle game. Right now I have 1 question:
How does the "speed bonus" work exactly? I've been fast when doing matches but only half the time got the "speed bonus" message. And... maybe an exploit here. If you pause the game, when you continue it, the game select a free hint to you. And not an easy one, it selects the best match you can do. So, it can be used when preparing a big match: get rid of the trash, pause the game, and get ready to get bonus points. |
I was watching you rise in the leaderboards
So there are 2 conditions to have a speed bonus: - you must match at least 4 blocks - the time difference between the new match and the last one must be inferior to a certain amount which depends on the number of blocks (basically the more blocks in your new match, the more time you have to get the speed bonus) Hence doing quick 2 or 3 block matches won't produce a speed bonus, but you can get one by doing a much slower but very big match. Time bonuses can multiply the current matches' points by up to 5, so it's really something to look for! I went back and forth many times with the hints on resume, but haven't found a better solution. However the help it provide is mitigated by the fact that pressing pause does not instantly stop and resume the game: the blocks continue to fall and the pressure continues to increase during the (short) animation. This means that when things get really fast, pressing pause just to have a "free" hint can be quite dangerous Hence at high speed it's much safer to use additional hints bought from the store. That being said, I should probably reduce a bit the pertinence of hints when resuming from pause, if only for the Time Trial mode. I'll do this for the next update, thanks! Speaking of the store, have you tried playing online? I fear there's not a lot of people yet to play random strangers, but if you have 2 devices or a friend with the game, it's the fastest way to produce coins (well, at least when you win ) |
Ok, now that I know about the "speed" feature, I've been able to score even more!
I've tried to exploit the "pause" feature, but, strangely, I didn't my best highscores with it, so it seems not to be an exploit at all... Just more questions: the x2 and x4 blocks multiplies your total gained score by that ammount? playing the time attack mode, I went from 100.000 points to 900.000 in just one move (I did a rectangle, breaking some x2 and x4 blocks in the process, with speed bonus). I liked your game so much, that I paid it to send it to a friend, to try the multiplayer (and to thank you for the code). Good job! |
Hey, thanks for promoting the game, and let me know what you think of multiplayer!
The X2 and X4 are added together, and then multiplied by the score you would have made otherwise. For example, if you make a match which would normally score 3 000 points, but there are one X2 and two X4, your final score would be 3 000 * (2+4+4) = 30 000. In your case you must have made a huge match with *lots* of multipliers! That's exactly how I play myself: I try to group multipliers together, then to group some squares (of any color) and explode everything in one shot. And to completely explain scoring: the basic score (before multipliers) is dependent on the speed, the number of blocks, the level and the current state of your upgrades. The biggest factor is the number of blocks of course. |
Hello again!
I'm releasing a small 1.0.2 update today, and I have a dozen promo codes for you in the "Promo codes and contest" section. I'm also preparing a much bigger update for the end of the month, whose main feature will be native iPad support. But this 1.1 update will also contain some changes in the game speed, and I'd be really interested in your feedback: I think the final speed is great (when everything is upgraded), but the initial speed might be a bit slow, and I fear that it might turn people away from the game. -> if any of you manage to grab a promo code, I'd be really happy to hear your opinion. Thanks! |
I've been playing with my friend, and both thought multiplayer was awesome! There are some things that didn't understand:
- I'm a little more experienced in this game than my mate, and because of that I won the majority of times... except for one. She beats me in only ONE move! and the game told that too. How was it? I tried to do the same but couldn't! - Do one-player upgrades affect multiplayer? |
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Times Square Shake Shack Opens to the Delight of Tourists and Midtown Workers
By Ben Fractenberg on July 12, 2010 5:29pm
By Ben Fractenberg
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
TIMES SQUARE — Is that line for burgers or Broadway?
Shake Shack opened up a new Times Square location on Eight Avenue and 44 Street Monday morning — much to the delight of tourists and local workers.
"The shakes were good, but the fries were awesome," said Tom McCook, 38, who was visiting New York with his family from Tucson, Arizona. McCook said he and his family tried to go Sunday night but the restaurant wasn't open.
Daniel Lobovsky, 26, decided to stop in to Shake Shack for the first time after passing it on the way to work.
"For a burger and fries it's a little pricey, but it's good food," said Lobovsky, who works on 51st Street and Seventh Avenue.
The space is open and airy, with floor to ceiling to windows facing eight avenue. The dark wood counters are made out of reclaimed bowling alley lanes.
Upper West Side resident Kathleen Adams, 22, said the line at the new location was much shorter than the ones she typically encounters at the one near her home. She also said planned to go to the new Upper East Side Shake Shack when it opens because that's where her boyfriend is.
But that's as far as she is willing to go.
"I'm not going to Citi Field because I'm a Yankees Fan," said Adams.


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Is There A Way to be Comfortable with Missionary Work?
This Sunday, I'm teaching a Sunday School class which is a special course geared toward teaching members to be better missionaries. I'm teaching this class as part of my calling as a ward missionary. The class is a four-week course and this week is the second week in the course. The title of the lesson is: "Finding Comfortable Ways to Share the Gospel."
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Police say Corey Starks's father died of natural causes back in 2010, and after his death and hidden burial, Starks continued to cash in his father's Social Security checks.
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Good player, Garrido, though he does seem to have occasional concentration lapses. Other than that, he is strangely unspectacular but efficient, not at all the Basquetcase stereotype. Almost English-style. Learned that at ManC, maybe? Can`t see Marc getting a look in while Javier`s fit. Even then, Whittaker can do both sides, plus we have Cafu, Benno1 & Benno2(?) for the other side. I think when\if things really click, we might actually give somebody a good thrashing, ere long. The old Clinical Cliché.
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Christopher Guest, the man behind Waiting for Guffman, turns his comic eye on another little world that takes itself a bit too seriously: the world of competitive dog shows. Best in Show follows a clutch of dog owners as they prepare and preen their dogs to win a national competition. They include the yuppie pair (Parker Posey and Michael Hitchcock) who fear they've traumatized their Weimaraner by having sex in front of him; a suburban husband and wife (Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara) with a terrier and a long history of previous lovers on the wife's part; the Southern owner of a bloodhound (Guest himself) with aspirations as a ventriloquist; and many more. Following the same "mockumentary" format of Spinal Tap and Guffman, Best in Show takes in some of the dog show officials, the manager of a nearby hotel that allows dogs to stay there, and the commentators of the competition (a particularly knockout comic turn by Fred Willard as an oafish announcer). The movie manages to paint an affectionate portrait of its quirky characters without ever losing sight of the ridiculousness of their obsessive world. Almost all of the scenes were created through improvisation. While lacking the overall focus of a written script, Best in Show captures hilarious and absurd aspects of human behavior that could never be written down. The movie's success is a testament to both the talent of the actors and Guest's discerning eye. --Bret Fetzer
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I think blue swollen arms are cliche at this point...
I think blue swollen arms are cliche at this point...
^ They are. But Konomi is no Kentarou Miura, so I wouldn't put it past him.
Sso you got a 37 hit combo in Marvel vs. Capcom? TRY A 5,375 HIT COMBO, BITCH.
- ScrewAttack's Review of Star Solider (N64)
Way to rape the thread guys.
Ok Ok I'll locate down one of those old tech threads where we used to have fun with the plot and leave this one a little cleaner.
Oh please.... Since when do we have clean threads in the PoT subforum? Lol.
^Hey, I tried. I revived the believable storyline thread and the "make a new tennis move" thread.
Ever since then, there has been more posting in the forum...by me at least