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Diego Stocco – Wired For Sound
There is enough equipment available to use, that two DJs and two producers might not have one piece of gear in common. The same song could basically be produced using a mix of software and hardware, or even no software at all. A sparse setup is all that is required to being to make music, as long as the producer himself/herself is filled with ideas to help propel them forward. Nowadays, many producers employ the use of a DAW because it is much easier to record and fix errors using a piece of software, than it is using recorded tracks and tapes – but the similarities can stop there.
After that their musical gear can differ greatly. Some may prefer to use vintage analog synthesizer keyboards to create their melodies, while some may go with an analog guitar that is distorted enough to sound like something other than a guitar. Some may keep it purely digital-based and only use a MIDI controller to trigger loaded samples from their computer. And then there are guys like Diego Stocco who mix sophisticated recording techniques with low fidelity instruments. In this short video he uses some homemade instruments that shouldn't even be considered a musical instrument, but is able to turn noise into something listenable.


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LOGAN, Utah (AP) -- Senior Katie Edwards scored a team-high 21 points, reaching the 1,000 point career mark, to lead Montana past Utah State 71-70 on Friday night.Edwards became just the 23rd Lady Griz player to reach the 1,000-point mark, hitting a jumper early in the second half.Montana (1-0) hit seven of its first eight shots to race to an 18-8 lead, and led 35-34 at the half.The Grizzlies never trailed in the second half, but were never able to stretch the lead to more than seven points.Utah State (0-1) cut Montana's lead to within one point two times in the final minute. Taylor Richards brought USU to 69-68 with less than 10 seconds to play, but Laura Cote was perfect at the line and Utah State missed a 3-point shot with three seconds to go that would have pulled the Aggies even.Ali Marchant scored at the buzzer to make the final score 71-70.Edwards was the lone Montana player to reach double figures, but Cote and Tamara Guardipee each scored nine while Sonya Rogers and Johanna Closson netted eight.Montana, which was outrebounded 39-33, shot 43.5 percent from the field. Utah State shot 48.3 percent, but was 1-of-9 from the 3-point arc.
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Reflections from Inside the Prison Bubble
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The Winter of Discontent
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Not buying it for a second.
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Wii U is more powerful than the 360 and PS3 so why not. Rockstar could make a killing.
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I'd never heard of CDON, but they are a big retailer in their native countries. Would love to see the next GTA on Wii U but Rockstar might be too lazy to modify it for use with the GamePad.
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Weepu returns for All Blacks
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Piri Weepu will make his first start of the year for the All Blacks against the Boks in Dunedin on Saturday © Getty Images
New Zealand have recalled Rugby World Cup-winning scrum-half Piri Weepu for Saturday's Rugby Championship clash with South Africa in Dunedin on Saturday.
Weepu earns a promotion from the bench in the only change to the All Blacks' back line as a reward for steering his side past Argentina as a second half substitute in their most recent outing last weekend. Aaron Smith, who has started New Zealand's previous six Tests this year, is named among the replacements.
Coach Steve Hansen has opted for three changes up front in the wake of the bruising clash with the Pumas with another anticipated against the Boks. Sam Whitelock replaces Brodie Retallick at lock, Liam Messam comes in at blindside for Victor Vito and Andrew Hore takes the hooking duties from Keven Mealamu. Retallick, Vito and Mealamu all drop to the bench where there is also one other change that sees utility back Tamati Ellison drafted in at the expense of Ben Smith.
"At the halfway stage of the... Rugby Championship we are very happy, from a results point of view," Hansen said in a statement. "There is a second challenge we have set ourselves, to constantly improve our game and in that regard we are not the finished product. However, the coaching staff and team leaders are reasonably happy with the progress we are making."
New Zealand: Israel Dagg; Cory Jane, Conrad Smith, Ma'a Nonu, Julian Savea; Aaron Cruden, Piri Weepu; Tony Woodcock, Andrew Hore, Owen Franks, Luke Romano, Sam Whitelock, Liam Messam, Richie McCaw (captain), Kieran Read
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Startup Commits to Making Cloud Private and Open
IQBox enables easy, secure sync for any connected Internet device using an encrypted FTP connection. IQStorage commits to IQBox project for users who want secure cloud storage without the security headaches that come from leaving sensitive data exposed on the public cloud.
Toronto, Ontario (PRWEB) November 07, 2013
IQStorage.com has released IQBox alpha, a free and open-source software solution for file synchronization. While similar to other file synchronization programs, such as DropBox, IQBox sets itself apart by allowing users to maintain full control of their data.
Having to entrust your vital data to third-party servers is now a thing of the past: IQBox supports syncing to a broad range of Internet-connected computers and devices.
Simon Lightstone, the founder of IQ Storage Inc., created IQBox to put people in control of their own data.
"Information is the lifeblood of the modern enterprise, and consequently everyone is trying to own your data. We are doing the opposite."
"Open standards and privacy are now more valuable than ever. At IQ Storage, we have capitalized on our extensive FTP hosting and online backup experience to create a tool which champions these values. The IQBox sync tool is free, light-weight, built on open standards, and open source."
With the IQBox tool installed on a desktop computer, folders can be kept in sync with any device which supports an FTP server. This includes other desktops running FTP server software, NAS devices, private dedicated servers over the Internet, public FTP sites, and more. While it was designed to work with FileZilla Server, IQBox works with many other FTP servers. For a complete list of features, visit the IQBox Google Code page.
"Past attempts at open-source and private cloud solutions have failed largely due to unnecessarily complex software. As a result, people went back to companies like DropBox, which provide simplified solutions at the expense of control. IQBox breaks this trend with its straightforward setup and intuitive interface."
Even at this early stage of development, IQBox has already been praised by reviewers for its simple and intuitive interface.
Rather than introducing yet another complex proprietary protocol or complicated back-end system, IQBox leverages the established encrypted FTP standard. The advantages of this are numerous: it is an Internet standard, it is already well-supported, and many organizations already have compatible systems in place. IQ Storage plans to support more standards, like WebDAV, in the future.
In technical terms, IQBox is an FTP client with intelligent real-time automation that makes syncing files between a desktop and an FTP server simple and transparent.
IQBox alpha is now available for download at:
It currently supports all Windows platforms, with Mac and Linux beta versions scheduled for mid-March 2014. IQBox alpha features strong FileZilla Server support, and a growing list of supported FTP servers.
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Isn't it just possible that economically successful parents do a better job of coaching their children in fruitful lifestyle habits and career strategies than economically unsuccessful parents? This still represents a vicious cycle that needs to be broken, but doesn't necessarily imply that more prosperous parents buy their children's success.
A friend of mine thinks we're in a recession because of the deficit, and that only be attacking the deficit can we possibly stir the economy to recovery. The Economist is telling me that such misconceptions aside, attacking the deficit will stir the economy to recovery. My City friends are telling me that a light touch on tax and not touching their Christmas bonuses will stir the economy to recovery. David Cameron tells me that making vast numbers of people unemployed, shunting them in to a recession market flooded with recently graduated students who can't get in to University (because the funding's been cut) and then cutting unemployment benefits in order to incentivise them to 'get a job' in a market (where there are no jobs), will aide economic recovery.
I'm not a socialist, technically I'm part Keynesian, part liberal, part capitalist, but I have yet to divine any logic in any of the arguments above. Much as I would like to see proper measures taken to reduce the ridiculous debt this country's gleefully thrown itself in to, the constant insistence by the goverment that even their daftest proposals are because of the atrocious legacy of debt is beginning to sound repetitive and deeply unconvincing.
As are claims we live, or should live in a meritocracy. Like it or not a substantial proportion of the population can't always be meretricious. Bad parenting, psychological damage, severe lack of confidence, mild learning disabilities that affect social interaction rather than intelligence, people depressed but not clinically, uninspired or recently devastated - all these prevent some people from being proactive. So what do we do? Ignore them? Sneer at them? Say it's their own fault and they should just pull their socks up and stop moaning. I only hope the peers of such commentators are as forgiving with them when circumstances drop them in to the same trap. Reward those who make the effort, who rise out of their own skills and ambitions, but that is no argument for pulling away the ladder from under those that aren't so lucky.
There are certain responsibilities we have, a price we pay, for living in society. We live in a community, whether it's local or national, and we should behave like it. No one, given a real choice, would live on social welfare. If they do 'choose' to there is a reason for it - the teachers that ignored them at school, the Job Centre that wouldn't give them confidence training, the high cost of child care that stopped them working, the belief hammered in to them that if they didn't succeed by the age of 18 then they were socially worthless.
FAIRNESS is about that good old fashioned feeling that we all deserve a shot, that we should help each other do it, that for one to revel in glory whilst others wallow in poverty is intrinsically wrong. So the girl in the picture may be "lazy or mentally deranged", but that's no excuse to ignore her.
Black Baron wrote: Aug 23rd 2010 5:19 GMT The best thing politicians can do to create a 'fairer' society is to encourage meritocracy. Handing out benefits willy nilly only ensures the Dependency culture strengthens. These are particular reasons the last Labour government failed, especially their own natural voters.
My (perhaps forlorn) hope for the Coalition is that they give people the opportunity to better themselves through their own endeavours and make work work.
Don't just hand out fish, teach people to fish. A sound piece of wisdom as old as the hills but so often forgotten.
This is populist Daily Mail-esq rubbish. Benefits were not handed out 'willy nilly'. One of the main criticisms of the Labour benefits system is that it's incredibly complex and difficult to work from the claimants' perspective.
I hate to have to reiterate basic arguments, but some people are able to better themselves easier than others. What would you do, simply take benefits away from people who don't work?
This intergenerational fairness arguement is short sighted. Is it fair to severely recede public serves that many children are dependant on? Is it fair to make their parents unemployed? Is it fair to restrict their chances at school due to the increased chances of them being raised in poverty?
The best thing politicians can do to create a 'fairer' society is to encourage meritocracy. Handing out benefits willy nilly only ensures the Dependency culture strengthens. These are particular reasons the last Labour government failed, especially their own natural voters.
My (perhaps forlorn) hope for the Coalition is that they give people the opportunity to better themselves through their own endeavours and make work work.
Don't just hand out fish, teach people to fish. A sound piece of wisdom as old as the hills but so often forgotten.
"Nirvana is not for this world." - Milton Friedman. The plight of the poor has persisted throughout recorded history, without stop. The very kinds of economic systems that are designed to make the poor "better off" as an end in itself create the sort of welfare-trapped, grinding poverty existence that has befallen this sector of society.
There will always be a "poorest 10%," which will always seem poor by comparison. But please, keep the context in mind: the poorest 10% in Britain are better off than the poorest 10% in a country with a lower Gini coefficient.
Moreover, mobility cannot be measured by the Gini coefficient. What's needed is to lower the minimum wage so that the poor have the opportunity to gain the skills necessary to create a better life for themselves; this is mobility.
That girl in the photo looks capable of work...she's either lazy or mentally deranged, and statistically speaking, I'd wager the former.
I think that the debate about fairer society has been somewhat hijacked. In reality, we should focus at different things: affordability for the lower income brackets and social mobility for the upper income brackets.
In UK, housing costs are the killer. Housing market is ripe for regulation everywhere, in a sense how many houses can a person own, what mortgages he can take and how often he can flip a house. There's nothing wrong with blanket regulations of the market: in reality, we see that in the countries with more regulated housing markets (say, Germany) overall economy is healthier.
If somebody on welfare starts to work, and don't lose "all" benefits, that is not really a cost. Its a net gain, and long term it is even a larger net gain as it might put that individual on a path towards supporting them selfs.
That of course does not prevent individual in organizations from arguing from a budgetary fixed perspective when it comes to rules and decisions. I'd actually suspect that illogical arguments abound in most organizations and indeed governments and references to budgets is usually high up on that list.
I'm not convinced that the increase in the Gini coefficient in the early 80's was such a bad thing. I remember coming out of university with a PhD in engineering in the mid 70's and finding that I was getting paid little more than a semi-skilled worker on the production line. Not only that, but there was little likelihood of any significant increase over time. The incentives to obtain high level skills had been completely destroyed. The result was the phenomenon we called the "Brain Drain". Anybody with any drive moved out. It was such a major issue that it even became the stuff of a spy movie - The Ipcress File with Michael Caine.
Historically normal. It always amazes me when those with less will support those with more with taking more and more away from themselves. I'm shorting this market.
A big mistake here. I was at the IFS conference on the budget. The IFS speaker said the budget was progressive, particularly the increase in VAT.
This is because the 'rich' buy more things with VAT attached than do the 'poor'.
They also pointed out that the 'poor' (the lower 10% of income) are a transient group who are 'poor' for only a short time and include billionaires who live on capital and hence do not appear in the income statistics.
The concern for the 'poor ' is totally misplaced. In the UK they do not exist.
Labor competition from developing countries means that the lower skilled British worker will have to accept lower paid work in the future. The benefit system needs to reflect this reality by being much less generous, so that the country does not create a large pool of poor dependent people with no stake in society. But the high cost of living in the UK doubly penalises the poor employed. It is time to focus on reducing these costs. We have accepted the principle of progressive taxation, the arguments for it are even more relevant in an era of globalisation, but we retain a nanny state interest in regressive taxation for the poor. When a low skilled worker drives home from work, and goes out for a pint and a cigarette, he is paying "sin" taxes on his petrol, road tax, alcohol and tobacco. These taxes are a massively higher proportion of his income than they are for the wealthy middle class.
It is time to improve the lot of the poor by massively reducing the regressive "sin" taxes: Make petrol 50% cheaper, ditto road tax and booze and fags - and the TV licence!
Finally, the state needs greater enabling services such as extremely cheap universal child care from 8am to 6pm, to subsidise two parent working families. A much better solution than a benefits system that traps low skilled workers into a life of poverty.
Will, the much slower increase in inequality during Labour's time in office is however directly attributable to tax & benefit changes. According to the Institute of Fiscal Studies:
"Labour's tax and benefit reforms have reduced income inequality compared with what would have happened if benefits and tax credits had simply been uprated in line with prices, the normal practice of the previous Conservative government. Labour's tax and benefit reforms thus seem to have prevented a larger rise in income inequality."
More detail here: www.ifs.org.uk/bns/bn89.pdf
So the Economist is possibly being unfair to Labour on the inequality point. Equally, it's likely we'll see inequality increase not reduce under the "Fairness" Coalition.
It is fair to equate 'fairness' with government tax redistribution? (as your article seems to do).
After all the big increase in inequality in the 80s & 90s shown on your graph was not a direct consequence of tax & benefit changes, so why do you think that it can be changed by such means? This seems much more about social attitudes than wealth redistribution.
Looking closely at the girl begging in the photograph, I am confident that whatever her problem was, it was not that she didn't have a roof over her head the night before - she looked far too well kept to have slept rough.
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different ways for Sinningia leaf cuttings
The easiest way, to take-off a leaf, do some cuttings along the veins and lay it flat (down side facing down), and anchoring the leaf firmly on the soil with pins or a small object on top; the leaves which I have cut have rooted, but the roots seemed to develop very slowly. A small bulblet forms where roots develop. However, being very much frustrated by the slowness of the process, I have sought a different technique under the same conditions.
That technique - slicing the leaf along the main vein, removing the vein and inserting the two halves with the cut side in the compost - has been used to propagate the closely related Streptocarpus. The technique applied for Sinningias, has yielded better results then if laying the leaves flat on the compost. The leaves also remained firmer. In average, the roots and the bulblets were bigger. Yet, both methods have not yet given rise to any baby plants from underneath.
Would that take longer ? When do I have to separate the bulblets, before or after they sprout ?
With Sinningia, I've taken a few leaves with stems and started them in water. While in the water they have formed a bulb with roots. After planting in soil the leaves, within a month or so, start producing plantlets and flowers. I know this does not answer your question but I thought I'd add to it.


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UPDATE: Iconic American brands Betty Crocker and Converse make it to the final round. Vote now!
UPDATE: ClickZ's Holiday Social Showdown winner will be announced Tuesday, January 3.
The Holiday Social Showdown is getting down to the wire! We started with 16 contenders, picked off losers each week, and now we've finally made it to the last round. Perhaps contrary to predictions, the final survivors are not young brands with built-in social media savvy. Indeed, the remaining contestants are two iconic American brands with a long history of strong brand marketing.
Judging has been based on campaign innovation, social engagement data from SocialBakers, and expert insight from Ken Kraemer, executive creative director at social media marketing agency Deep Focus. Big name brands including Absolut, Bacardi, Coke, Target, and Xbox have all buckled under the pressure.
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Betty Crocker vs. Build-a-Bear: Betty Crocker Wins!
Considering the innovation of Build-a-Bear's highly-engaging, live streaming video "Get Your Wish On" experience, this was a difficult choice to make. And, even though the custom stuffed animal toy maker promoted the planned launch of its Christmas Eve Santa tracker on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, the initiative itself is less social than it is immersive.
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Another classic American brand, footwear maker Converse, won this matchup.
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I'm developing in Ubuntu Linux and C++.
I captured the desktop image to XImage.
How to save XImage as base64 string in PNG format?
I was about to say that the answer should be using libpng. However after a quick look at the documentation I find this library way much more complex than needed (easy things should be easy, hard things should be possible... after looking at the manual seems that easy things with libpng are instead close to impossible). PNG format has a gajillion options, libpng is extremely flexible and pluggable but apparently there is no easy shortcut when you just want to do something simpler (like saving a single opaque image).
I think I would be tempted to just dump the image in a raw format and then use imagemagick (possibly through a pipe).
On the other hand did you consider use Qt instead of bare X? Capturing the screen is easy and you can get it in a much more manageable format (QImage). Saving to almost any file format you like is also trivial (png format is however somewhat hard on CPU with Qt, so not recommended if you wanna do a live video capture).
Here is a C function to convert
I am sure you can easily fit this into your code. You just need to use appropriate library to save a PNG file (instead of a jpeg file).


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6. Adam Sandler and Paul Shaffer - "Hallelujah (Sandy Relief Version)"
7. Bon Jovi - "It's My Life"
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Before Game 3 of the National League Division Series, Ian Desmond got to speak to Frank Robinson, the ex-Washington manager who was set to throw out the ceremonial first pitch.
In their conversation, Robinson didn't offer Desmond any advice, and the Washington Nationals' All-Star shortstop — who wears No. 20 in Robinson's honor — didn't need it. While many of his teammates struggled at the plate in an 8-0 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals, Desmond brought his bat, going 3 for 4 as one of the few bright spots.
"Desi's a big-game player. That's been evident all year," right fielder Jayson Werth said. "He's got the mentality and just the wherewithal to be that type of guy."
It's not Desmond's fault that he came up clutch in a big game as others failed to do so. He never came up with runners in scoring position while teammates went 0 for 8 in those spots, and he was stranded every time he got on.
"To get shut out is never fun," Desmond said. "To win, you've got to have timely hits, and we didn't do that today."
Desmond singled twice and doubled Wednesday as one of the few Washington hitters who enjoyed some success against St. Louis starter Chris Carpenter.
"I'm just trying to go up there and let the game happen," Desmond said. "I'm not putting too much pressure on myself, just kind of sticking with what I've been doing all year long."
He was a .292 hitter all year long to go along with 72 runs scored. He crossed the plate in Games 1 and 2, too.
In this series, Desmond is 7 for 12 (.583).
"It's just seeing the ball and hitting the ball. That's pretty much it," he said. "It's not science. Just go up there, and if you see one you like, swing at it."
But as much as Desmond tried to shrug off the praise, it was hard to deny he was one of the few players Wednesday who produced in a charged environment that featured the largest crowd in Nationals Park history.
That he managed to never lose his cool at the plate or in the field came as no surprise to his teammates. They know some fans are seeing Desmond for the first time in the MLB postseason, but they know he was producing well before October.
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KLFM (aka Kernighan-Lin Fiduccia-Mattheyses) is a well known graph bipartitioning algorithm in electronics design automation, genomics, logistic automation (packing), other key industrial applications. KLFM as we know it of today, was first published back in 1989 in "A Linear-Time Heuristic for Improving Network Partitions" paper [pdf]. That work, and later @andrew_kahng research "Fast Hypergraph Partition" [pdf] was either based on the assumption or converted the network hyper graph (each hyperedge often connecting more than two nodes) into a simplified graph with simple edges (connecting only two nodes). Surprisingly, we were not able to find a simple KLFM open source implementation, so we dared to spend few evenings and developed an opensourced one to contribute to the community. Continue reading
Justification of Tcl, PHP and C++ use in Electronics Design
Years ago, open source visionary Richard Stallman started a comp.lang.tcl theme with "Why you should not use Tcl" title. Having implemented large Tcl projects with tens of thousands of lines of Tcl source code, we should partially agree with another quote from Stallmans address "Tcl is ok for writing small programs, but when you push it beyond that, it becomes insufficient". Small Tcl programs are extremely effective. We previosuly twitted on a scripting language comparison and analysis why Tcl, while being a healthy and live, became a niche applications language. Let's paractically explore by example, where Tcl, PHP (or Perl, Python, Ruby) and C++ fit in Electronics Design Automation software development cicle. Continue reading
EDA custom language parsing with Lex and Yacc
EDA early days was in mid 1970-s, when the first commercial place and route tools were developed. Gerber ASCII format was introduced for machine plotting and exchanging PCB information. Later semiconductor industry employed specialized text languages for ASIC design exchange, with human readable formats such as LEF, DEF and so on. With number of transistors on a chip exceeding few billions on a typical nowadays SoC, and size of the data exchange files becoming enormously large, it is critically important to use high performance language parsing technology.
Please recall Backus-Naur Form, most widely used notation technique for context-free grammar. BNF language syntax description provides a set of deviation rules, as example of DEF parser. Lex and Yacc allow using similar clear and understandable concept:
ndspecs: ndspec | ndspecs ndspec ; ndspec: layer | via | viarule | spacing ; word_via: WORD | VIA | LAYER | WIDTH ; specword: word_via { spec_stack_add($1.string); } ;
In 1975, Mike Lesk and Eric Shmidt introduced complementary lexical analyzer generator Lex and parser generator Yacc for language parsing,that allowed developers to create very efficient C parsers. Modern GNU development tools share the same concept, with Flex as a GNU alternative for Lex and Bison being equivalent of Yacc.
We'd like to demonstrate creating Lex/Yacc parser in this walk-trough. Lex and Yacc description is beautiful and simple, very much alike BNF, while generated C parser is blazing fast and does not require lots of RAM/CPU resources. Continue reading
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Publishing schematic and board layout files (v18 – SMD 1-layer version, v17 – trough hole that actually went into last production batch) on source forge.
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Singal line protection circuitry. It is needed to protect MCU from very strong automotive induced voltage spikes. Opto-coupler is used
DC-DC regulated voltage stepdown supply with resettable fuse. Device can work on both USB (programming, logic analyzer, Parking Assistant frontend mode) and standalone (intelligent parking assistant) mode. Impulse regulator can be ultra-affordable 33063 or 34063 produced by virtually any semiconductor manufacturer (we used OnSemi).
USB and external power self-sense socket (18F4550 datasheet module is impractical):
USB Parktronic Firmware
From 2008 to 2012, we have shipped Microchip PIC 18F2550/4550 based USB parktronic device (and related projects) to clients in more than 20 countries. With number of customer support requests declined, we feel that it is right to retire this project and make it part of opensource. All the source code of USB Parktronic Firmware have been published on sourceforge, so you are free to change firmware in a way of your liking and produce those devices for your own need. We thank the customer base for continued support of this project.
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In a previous blog post, we've discussed USB microcontroller device that hooked up to a generic automotive parking radar to function as a safety device for a plastic fab robot. In order to connect to internal data bus of a 3-rd party device (and we have explored quite a few of them), a firmware on a pretty spacious 18F4550 Microchip controller also had Logic Analyzer functionality, which is capable of capturing 2-line (one can add more lines by adding digital inputs the original schematic) switching signals of up 1MHz working frequency. We created custom Qt C++ application for it, that we are willing to share for those who need to reverse engineer custom digital devices and run their own custom graphical data analyzis. Source code for your reference is published on Sourceforge.
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- minimize length of wiring required to connect all nets to external pins on the block boundary
- minimize signal propagation delay, meet timing constraints
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- by running vector logic simulation, verify thermal dissipation
- in some cases try reducing block size and implement block in various aspect ratios
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We have the experience doing full chip design (a customer asked to implement OpenSparc II based 90nm design from RTL to GDS), although our primary skillset is custom digital blocks layout using industry standard tools (Synopsys ICC, Cadence Encounter, and we have some legacy lower node tools at hand that allow us completing on medium complexity digital blocks).
it is easier to do block planning by looking into original RTL code, netlist heirarchy and understand logic structure. In some cases we advise recoding parts of RTL or tune sythnesis parameters / back annotate from P&R stage and re-synthesize the particular block, altough modern synthesis (Design Compiler) and P&R (Encounter, ICC) tools have gathered lots of designer heuristics over the years, interoperate well and generally produce acceptable results for ASICs.
Still placement and routing may use designer help in a form of floorplan as soft / hard blocks (modules, keep ins or keep outs – terminology vary), blocks relations, routing blockages. Designer may want to interfere with detaield placement to generate datapath module for a bus with a custom script or 3-rd party tool, it can also require some try-and-probe design iterations trying to downsize gates, reduce bounding box of a block, etc and verify block timing each time.
We can add extra value to custom design by developing point EDA tools / scripts for a particular block that is aware of it's internal structure and allow achieving dramatic layout quality optimization, nearly hand-crafted layout quality. Those tools can be very helpful when migrating ASIC block to higher technology node (from 90nm to 65nm, for example) or different technology (UMC <-> XFAB <-> TSMC <-> GF).
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Opensource Qt/C++ GUI
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what animal eats lily flowers and leaves?
What eats lily foliage and flowers? I though all parts were poisonous. I was watching an asiatic come up and noticed over time that something was nipping off half of the leaves facing the front. We have lots of rabbits and squirrels but they usually go for my annuals. No deer here. Raccoons, possums; but I never see them in the raised beds.
But I figured it would soon be tall enough that I needn't worry. Yesterday I saw that the whole top was now bitten off; all the buds! Fortunately I have a lot more; this one was in a more exposed location.
We have a LOT of rabbits and squirrels (racoons, oppossum, etc.,) in my neighborhood and in my experience most mammals leave the foliage alone (prefering to eat the bulbs).
Were your lilies eaten as they came up from the ground, (i.e., up to 4-5 inches tall)? If so, you may have slugs. They can eat the whole top off of a lily in very short order. They need cover and so tend to get lilies planted with other dense companion plants (hosta, scilla) or when there is unshredded leaf mulch around.
I was busy with a community planting project this spring and didn't spread slug bait around my L. Regale (planted among scilla) and slugs munched up several of them. Once the lily gets tall enough slugs don't bother them. It seems that while they were busy munching up some of the lilies others were able to get tall enough to "escape". So, thankfully, I still have some this season. This Fall the scilla are getting dug up. They're a pretty spring flower but they spread to aggressively, and densely, to be planted with my lilies.
I live in Maine and we have LOTS of deer but they haven't been a problem because I also have two large dogs. Growing tulips has always been a problem but I figured it was moles, voles, etc. etc. However, this year something ate all the tulips and then even ate day lily foliage and now whatever it is has eaten my lilies. These are elder lilies- rubrum, casablanca, etc.- with very sturdy large stems which were about 3 feet tall already. One day fine, but over the next few days they were chomped down. I have some problem with the lily beetle, but could this be deer? Also eating my 1 year old kniphofia, etc. but I have never had my lilies mauled. Have I just been lucky and THIS is reality? If it is deer, any suggestions for prevention, or would I be better off just planting more deer resistant plants. But I do love lilies and had just planted 30 asiatic and orienpet lilies last fall. Any guidance is appreciated.
Rabbits love lily leaves & buds. I have watched them get some of mine. They also will eat daylily foliage to the ground. They love tulip foliage & buds.
This is new to me as of last year, Rabbits in my yard now love Clematis stems. What shocked me was they chewed through the hard dry low stems & left the new soft growth of the stems alone. I could not believe they would go for the hard over the soft. I have had Clematis for 10 years & last year was the beginning of the Clematis eating.
I had to cage 9 Clematis with chicken wire to save the Clematis.
In my yard, its woodchucks and deer. I have some new lilies that are about 3 ft tall, and the tops have been all eaten off. Due to the height, I suspect deer are the problem. Normally, I use deer-away or a product like it, but I guess I got careless and didn't spray them because nothing was eating them up until now. Deer repellent won't repel the woodchucks though, not much will. Since the tops of my lilies were eaten, I assume I won't get flowers this year. Any chance they might grow new buds and flower anyway? Since they're new, I was hoping to get a few flowers to see what they look like.
I don't think it's rabbits, unless they are 2 feet tall! Or slugs (same reason). It's just the tops beheaded. I do have slug bait out anyway. These lilies were already tall. Today, coming home after a trip, I saw some 3 feet tall ones were now missing their tops! No deer here, but we do have racoons: do they eat lilies?
All the rubrums are now missing their tops! And the cuts/bites are way off the ground.
There's nothing nearby for a rabbit to brace itself against: I'm picturing one climbing the leaves like a ladder! I have blood meal (used it around the tulips) but I've never been able to tell if it's working.
Are you sure you don't have deer? They've been pushed into many areas that they used to avoid. I would think if you had bugs that you would see them and if it were smaller mammals they would be eating your plant lower down. Though, as hpny2 noted, it could be woodchucks. They are much bigger than rabbits and eat all kinds of stuff.
You can get green coated chicken wire to surround you raised bed and see if that stops it. (That will distinguish between bug or mammal.) It's not beautiful, but it's not as unattractive as you might think, since it's hard to see from a distance with foliage behind it. It would have to be pretty tall to deter deer but a shorter (say 2.5') height would stop woodchucks.
Short of getting a dog (for the woodchucks and deer) and a cat (for the moles, voles, chipmunks, rabbits, etc.,) - both with high prey drives, I don't know what else to suggest. It must be frustrating.
Good Luck!
i came home today to have family dinner and my mother had the exact same problem about which linnea56 posted - i did a search on google and this topic came up. after reading the responses i am still at a loss as to what it could be. all the buds of the lilies have been chewed/bitten off and even stranger all the buds are lying on the ground next to the lilies. it is *definitely* not deer as they live in a very developed suburb and are not close to any forest. neighbours have suggested that it may be rabbits, but again it is hard to imagine a rabbit being able to get up that high to bite off the buds.
regardless of what IS doing it (given our location it is most likely a small mammal of some sort) does anyone have any recommendations for keeping whatever it may be away from the lillies? thank you in advance!
same thing happened to me, but not with my lilies..it was my sunflowers, and only my sunflowers. as soon as they hit 2 feet, the tops were chopped off and laying on the ground next to the stem..all i could do was look around and say "b*st*rds"!!!!! lol. If it is groundhogs, rabbits or sqirrels you should use "Rabbit and Groundhog Out" works on squirrels too. I think my mom said they make stuff for deer too. It's 100% natural and doesn't wash off easily. I got mine from a nursery, but it has a website addy on the bottle. www.deerout.com You should only need to apply once a month, unless you get alot of rain. This stuff works really well. good luck!
Here is a link that might be useful: www.deerout.com
Chipmonks can climb lily stalks and will eat the buds - they're looking for water. They usually won't sheer the whole top off though, just eat the buds one by one and leave the debris on the ground. (I discovered this two seasons ago actually watching them do it and have since left them a tray of water out of the way and along their run. Haven't lost a lily to chipmonks since, nor any to deer since discovering Liquid Fence.)
I do have a pan of water out in the garden. I noticed a few years ago that something was biting the green tomatoes, presumably from thirst. So now I put the pan of water out a few weeks before ripening. MAybe this is helping the lilies now too; I didn't have it out yet when I first posted. I don't think the rabbits could be desperate for food right now; there's a virtual buffet out there. I put out a lot of sweet potato vines this year; they have been trimming those daily. The ones I put in pots are really full and lush, the ones in the ground nibbled to near extinction.
Actually I find summer to be one of the worst times for lagomorph problems. The soft growth they prefer is starting to harden; many plants are now unpalatable to them due to toxins and other chemicals they generate to protect themselves; they don't as a general rule eat domesticated grasses (when you see them in a yard, they're eating the weeds); and the little leverets from the spring are now juveniles and need to forage on their own too.
Absolutely rabbits can do the job. I transplanted stargazer lily 3 times when I moved. Each time the 1 foot tall lily was sheered to the ground and totally consumed overnight. Even with rabbit fence they managed to squeeze in. We had rabbits galore in our new location which ate everything in site. They did the same thing to a 15 inch high euchinacea which rabbits aren't suppose to even like. This year my cat has had a chance to scout the neighborhood and I have had no rabbit damage at all.
What is your horticultural zone, Lyn? In general on these forum, it's useful to know before recommending something. You'll see most of us put it right after our names so it will show up whenever we post.
Here in zone 5, it's too soon for them to show above ground. I doubt the deer would have eaten the bulbs, but many animals might eat the emerging foliage.
I have lots of squirrels in my yard, and I have actually seen a squirrel eat one of my stargazer lilies. I don't know if it was interested in the leaves because I chased it before it could do anymore damage. I have some tiger lilies in the back and they eat the first shoots off them. For that reason, I enclosed my prized lilies, and I put out nuts for the squirrels so they stay away from my plants. First two feeders were filled last week.


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Catalpa bignonioides Aurea
...so for my husband's birthday, we planted this tree (he wanted one baaahhhd). The one we planted is only 2 feet tall, OMG!!! But it's "fast growing", he says. I found a very good description of this tree over at the Great Plant Picks website but I'd like some firsthand feedback - anyone grow/have/know something about this tree? Please, tell me more about it.
Many thanks,
Here is a link that might be useful: Catalpa bignonioides Aurea
I have one and it is a beautiful tree. The foliage and flowers are beautiful. I got mine from a mail order catalog so it was tiny. It is 9 years old and only 5' tall. It has grown slow for me. I have it in a crowed flower bed in front of an arborvitae hedge. It was always getting shaded out by the perennials and the cedar hedge made for dry growing conditions. I was planning on cutting it back every year, but it was always so small I never did. It's finally taller than the surrounding perennials and finally starting to grow. It flowered for the first time this year. The flowers look like impatiens. I am afraid to cut it back now as it took 9 years for it to get this big for me. Here is a close up of the flowers. Karen