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The pundits and the politicians who think the U.S. should unconditionally support Israel are committing treason against U.S. My recommendation for them- just abandon your U.S. citizenship and become Israeli citizens.
Those who think a U.S. senator cannot criticize Israel at all should also abandon your U.S. citizenship and become Israeli citizens. I am just glad that most Jewish Americans don't share your sentiment.
Notably absent from this piece is any coverage of Kerry's South American adventures in places like Nicaragua and Honduras. That he favored the Sandinistas/Noriega crowd despite their human rights violation records that were well known at the time. And how he demanded that the Law Library of Congress retract its findings that the Honduran high court acted legally in its ouster of Zelaya. He preferred the Hugo Chavez/Obama Admin description of denying Zelaya's power grab as a coup d'etat.
A full blown Senate hearing complete with questions about his thinking in South America and any plans for NAFTA should make for some interesting fireworks.
Everything suggests that Mr Kerry is an excellent choice to be America's chief diplomat, being the sort of person who thinks twice before he says nothing.
Seriously though, thank god for his commonsense views on Iran.
"Everything suggests that Mr Kerry is an excellent choice to be America's chief diplomat, being the sort of person who thinks twice before he says nothing."
I agree with you. As for his thinking "twice before he says nothing", that's what one expects from a United States Navy officer, especially one who saw combat, like Lieutenant Kerry.
An unprecedented opportunity, John !
Politicians say whetever is needed to be said in order to either get or retain a job.
Truth is never an issue, only their own future.
History shows us that !
Please correct me if I am wrong, but John Kerry is the fourth Secretary of State who served in the United States Navy, after Cyrus Vance, Warren Christopher and Edmund Muskie, or the sixth if you include James Baker and George P. Shultz (both USMC).
Kerry was nominated Sectretary of State on 12/21/2012, and his ship when he was serving in the USN as an officer, USS Gridley...
was the DLG-21, later CG-21. (He also commanded swift boats in Vietnam.)
Some sailors would say that this is a good omen and I would agree with them...
" Some sailors would say that this is a good omen and I would agree with them..."
I am yet to meet a sailor who does not believe in omens of some sort. Well, maybe not publicly. But, yes, it is a good omen for Kerry. I certainly hope that it is an equally good omen for the country, too. We'll know, once he will have brought his ship home safely. I wish him a firm and steady hand on the helm. He will have to navigate some treacherous waters...
Yes, they are wise folks... even publicly! Good people. And imagine the Roman sailors before, at and after the battle of Actium, for example. Those were omens!
I'd rather trust a former non-professional Navy officer who has become a politician than some professional politicians.
So do I. Especially in the Middle East, Israel and Palestine.
More treacherous waters than the Mekong river and its affluents?
" More treacherous waters than the Mekong river and its affluents?"
Yes. He will have to navigate in a never-ending series of Scyllas and Charybdises. On the Mekong at least there were some stretches of water where there were some friendlies, here and there; but the waters Kerry will have to navigate will offer no respite from those Scyllas and Charybdises. Not even for a moment.
P.S. Yes, Conrad is great. Even in Coppola's interpretation; or especially in his interpretation.
And, of course, Conrad, himself, was a sailor, too...
Now you mention Scylla and Charybdis, only five or six days ago I replied to someone who chose a wrong way with me:
"Almost touché, sed... incidis in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdim."
which expressed exactly what I wanted to say and convey.
(It was a thread in which the use of Latin was supposed to be normal.)
Well, NATO, the EU, Japan... are there, Kerry will not be so lonely.
And what a sailor! One of my two favourite sailors-writers, Conrad and Nicholas Monsarrat.
When I was a youngster (teenager) some friends of mine criticized me for preferring Conrad's 'Lord Jim' to Salgari's Sandokans, which were much more popular and fashionable...
"incidis in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdim."
This could actually be one of Kerry's main mistakes and dangers.
Hopefully he'll make a better secretary of state than presidential candidate.
Well, he likely won't get Swift-Boated by the people he will be dealing with.
Certainly we can all agree he would have made a better president than the incompetent installed by the Supreme Court in 2000.
"Mr Kerry has taken positions on both sides of the hawk-dove divide. On the one hand, he came out for a Libyan no-fly zone, for ditching the Mubarak regime in Egypt and for arming Syrian rebels before the Obama administration. On the other, he has been a leading voice calling for diplomatic engagement with Iran and with Syria's president".
The above-alleged "hawk-dove divide" is misleading. The underlying commonality in Kerry's diplomacy is timidity in the face of Islamist expansionism.
" Mr Kerry is a man who believes that America is exceptional not because we say we are, but because we do exceptional things, the president said."
Mr. Kerry certainly did one exceptional thing: he married an exceptional fortune by marrying a (non-American born) woman who had also married that same exceptional fortune, the American Heinz family fortune.
He does seem better qualified for this post than Mrs. Clinton. Having been in war, and received several shrapnel wounds, at least he understands from first hand experience what it means when failed diplomacy leads to armed conflict.
Of course he'll be confirmed by the Senate. John McCain even referred to "Secretary Kerry" before he was nominated. So why would Lexington "wonder if it is more useful to think of Mr Kerry as a sort of anti-Pawlenty"? Kerry is better qualified for the position than is Susan Rice.
Well, at least a new Secretary of State who can speak a foreign language (French) fluently. The last one was Condi Rice (Russian); and before her, it was Kissinger who could read and write, and carry on a conversation, in a language other than English. Yeah, what is the deal with all these foreigners who don't even have the common courtesy to speak English... ;-)
You don't have to go all the way back to Kissinger. You're forgetting the polyglot Madeleine Albright who went around conducting interviews in numerous languages. Also, Colin Powell apparently speaks some Yiddish, though it is unclear if he can carry a conversation.
I stand corrected. I really should feel embarrassed about that slip, for I, myself, heard her translate for Vaclav Havel. Yes, you are absolutely right. I must confess that, it must have been a subconscious slip on my part, because I just simply did not care for her as a Secretary of State. It is no excuse, of course; and I know it.
Kissinger's accent remained so thick, I was only ever sure he was speaking English after a few seconds delay.
One wonders what "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" have to say regarding this nomination.
Nothing of value, to be sure.
No Secretary of State is going to make much of a difference in the current state of the impotence and decline of the United States of America .To speak of American exceptionalism in these circumstances is whistling in the dark. With Susan Rice she would have at least regaled us with the colorful controversies she managed to generate so easily.
I am all for pragmatism and output policy. But I also recognize that sometimes there is a gap between what any decent person could accept and what said person can actually achieve. So on settlement construction for example no US government is ever likely to approve and one cannot have policy entirely ignore this.
I have an irresistible urge to take a pair of clippers to that flowing Kerry mane. Otherwise, go John!
Obama unfortunately does not understand that unfortunately, the economy works, evolves and reproduces machines, kills humans in wars, substitutes us in labor and war fields, advances and progresses in brief with steady steps in a clear direction: that of the supremacy of a new super-organism, the company-mother of machines, associated in vast global networks and organized by flows of money, in markets, which act as a collective brain of a planet of corporations, machines, weapons and human workers and consumers. This brave new world is what a true science of economics would explain and a true science of history would manage for the benefit of man. As it is, it is managed automatically by flows of money which build according to the laws of cybernetics and systems sciences, which people like me discovered and resolved in the 90s and 2000s, an entire new 'reality', a 'terraformed' earth, a new ecosystem, where humans are no longer dominant, but company-mothers and their biological will of evolution, reproduction and adaptation of the Earth ecosystem, to its offspring of machines, are. So the life-time of mankind and the planet is dedicated almost exclusively to that future of machines and its complex super-organisms. Guided by profits, neoclassical economics pretends to be a 'mathematical' science, independent of history, uninterested in the collateral effects that the production of machines, money and weapons might cause to mankind. It is my opinion though that the economy should serve mankind first, then profits and finally machines, not the other way around, as it is today. Since we constantly increase productivity and fire labor, to increase profits, resulting in a constant evolution of machines towards the age of the singularity where robotic workers and terminator armies will have made mankind obsolete.
That was a BIG thought.
I pity the American Indians; that was where we started the process, wasn't it?
So Obama appoints a super 1% Rich old White guy as the secretary of state, which has not occurred since 1997. FORWARD!!!!!
honestly though could care less, as long as the person is qualified and capable which Kerry is for this position.
*Couldn't* care less damn you!!!
Perhaps their apathy does have lower depths... and Kara could indeed reach a state of caring that is less than the current state.
Perhaps their snide superciliousness is merely a reflection of envy towards a society which had, for a while, insulated its populace-at-large from the historically usual violence en masse, allowing said culture to be more blithe about temporal bull$#!+. Don't be one of those snide idiots, supamark.
Maybe people want to know if he's capable.
Get a sense of humor or keep your pie-hole shut, I wasn't speaking to you.
The only way to get an arrogant US Senator to stop running for re-election is to appoint them to a cabinet position, or hope they resign resign from office before they run for President.
Otherwise, these self-regarding morons will be with us until they pass away.
Good move, Mr President.
An Idiot will always seek support from another idiot, I can see why so many countries abroad think the US days are numbered.
Explain why you're calling them idiots? Your ideological disagreement with the pair isn't grounds for doubting their intelligence BTW.
It has nothing to do with ideological disagreement, not everything has to do with simple ideological disagreements, my observation is purely based on their performance up to this date. I do not like Obama's lack of intelligence and vision in his management of international affairs and I have never considered Kerry as anything more than a dilettante. My distrust of these two characters are simply base on my primeval instincts, which has served me well up to now.
lol, okay... you have fun with that.
"have fun with that"? How interesting... and revealing?
I hope you extend your trust of your primeval instincts to other areas of your life.
Of course I do, I trust and totally rely on my own instincts in all areas of my life, so far it has not failed me in most areas and has been profitable for me. I do my best to be well informed and make my own assessments, my primeval instincts has been very reliable to me when it comes to assessing men and their potentials. Sadly, these two self-serving clowns are not going to help me or my country, what I find surprising is that majority of the people in the world do not see it.
Well, I guess the rest of the world does not necessarily see your personal instincts, nor if they did, would think they should act according to them. What the rest of the world did see though is what Bush Jr did, and that was indeed a clown job that will be difficult to be matched by any future president (or politician, for that matter).
Forgive me for saying this but you comment makes very little sense, of course "the world does not necessarily see (my) personal instincts", they are mine alone. Most informed and decisive people do act on their own instincts, that is what separates them from the herd who are guided by the party they belong to. I was right about Bush too, I did not think much of him either, I did not like his money senses and his lack of diplomatic skills. I believe Obama was elected and reelected for the wrong reasons, he also happened to be very lucky that his opponent was a woman and he followed Bush. Democracy guarantees us that the majority wins but it does not guarantee the majority is clever or right.
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Review of Drake Tax - 2011
Best Firm Fit:
1040-focused practices looking to broaden their services with integrated write-up and tax planning options, as well as retail environments with multiple locations.
- Exceptional live support
- Affordable all-inclusive pricing includes all entities, states, e-filing, plus tax planning, document management & write-up with ATF payroll
- Multi-office manager sync system
- Free basic websites for firms
Potential Limitations:
- No client portals
- Limited document automation tools (scan & fill)
- Limited internal collaboration tools
Drake Software's tax practice suite offers an all-inclusive system with broad compliance support and built-in tax planning, write-up and document management features. Drake has routinely won our Readers' Choice Awards for best tax prep system, with users consistently pointing to the vendor's live support staff, as well as the benefit of the all-in-one package. Over the past few years, Drake has expanded its offerings to include a debit card method of refund disbursement, a web-hosted version of the tax system and 2-D barcode scanning of W-2s and K-1s. (The company noted that it believes this approach provides greater accuracy than OCR-based scan and fill systems.)
Core Product Functions/Features
Drake Tax includes all federal, state and D.C. compliance, with unlimited e-filing for all individual and business returns, as well as nonprofit and estate and gift tax reporting. The system also supports virtually all local taxing jurisdictions, including localities in New York, Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania. Forms, instructions, client communications and live support are available in English and Spanish.
Drake's interactive interface opens to a home page that provides a client selection list based on engagements that can be customized and filtered by the preparer (Personal Client Manager), shortcut links to recently worked-on returns, the program's appointment scheduling system and system notifications. An icon bar at the top of the screen also provides links to tax research, a forms view and the Client Status Manager, which allows creation of firm-based rules and status selections, including billing options and an audit trail.
Data-entry functions take place on interview-based worksheets that are accessed from a return management screen that offers tabs for moving between entry categories for general, income, adjustments, credits, taxes, state, misc and other forms. Each of these sections has text-based links that allow jumping directly to data entry for specific items or for moving directly to form worksheets. Actual form views can be brought up with one click, but data entry cannot be performed directly on the forms. From the return management screen, users can also use a one-click MFJ/MFS comparison or access document management functions, the built-in tax planner, data import tools and e-mail features.
Unlimited e-filing of federal and state returns is included, with management and tracking of acknowledgements, receipts and other information available from the EF toolbar. The system automatically checks for applicability of the AMT and also includes a simple kiddie tax export feature for generating form 8615 and keeping it associated with the parents' return. 4.75
Paperless Workflow
Instead of an OCR-based "scan and populate" system, Drake offers 2-D barcode scanning for W-2s and K-1s that allows the information to be pulled in from encoded forms. It also offers spreadsheet import of Schedule D data. The program also offers a document management system that provides an expandable folder format similar to Windows Explorer that automatically stores returns generated in the program into year-based folders, and also allows preparers to store any other file types, such as scanned supporting documents and spreadsheets.
Returns generated by the program can be viewed and saved as PDFs, but with no annotation or tickmark functionality specific to the program. Documents are organized by name and type, or can be organized as wanted, but are not automatically organized by standard tax preparation workflow order. A scanner integration feature is included on the document management work screen. Users can also link documents, and the utility offers direct emailing of returns or documents from the program. Drake includes customizable client letters in English and Spanish.
Security features enable firms to use password protections to limit user access rights to specific returns or areas of the program, including override rights, while maintaining an audit trail of user actions on returns. The Multi-Office Manager utility offers support for firms with either multiple locations or remote staff, allowing data to be synched back to the home office system. No online portals or electronic organizers are offered for direct collaboration and document sharing between the firm and clients. Data from QuickBooks files and a trial balance import tool can bring in information using an Excel template. Free data conversions are offered to firms switching from most other professional tax compliance packages. 3.75
The various modules in Drake Tax offer integration that allows for import of K-1 data across returns, as well as quick generation of kiddie tax returns. The program's trial balance and spreadsheet import tools are fairly easy to use and offer simplified mapping of data into appropriate worksheets. The tax planning utility provides multi-year scenario testing with built-in rules for AMT, taxation limitations and other factors. The Drake system also includes a basic Fixed Asset Manager that offers books for federal, state, book and custom, plus eight report types, including depreciation schedules, listings, Sec. 179, dispositions and summaries. As previously noted, a document management system is also built into the program.
Online tax research is also included when you purchase Drake Software and includes quick references and tools. Drake partners with multiple financial institutions for bank products, including RALs, direct deposit check and debit cards, and firms can have preparation fees deducted from refund proceeds. Other methods of client payment, such as credit card services or check scanning, are not offered. The program includes extensive fee management options and client letters, plus the ability to set custom status types for tracking client payments. It also offers billing statement customization, including application of sales tax where necessary. 4.25
Drake is often applauded for its live and all U.S.-based bilingual customer support, with no automated phone systems and response times generally under 10 seconds. Live support is included with the program and is available during tax season from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. (ET) on weekdays, and 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Saturdays. The preparer calling for support must have access to the firm EFIN. The program's built-in assistive features include an extensive Help/search utility, tutorial, setup assistant and the full user manual, while line-specific form instructions can be brought up using a right-click menu.
Drake's online support center includes full user manuals and documentation, a knowledgebase, FAQs, state-specific resources, information on preparer regulations, sample 7216 letters and even a free sales tax calculation lookup engine for all U.S. jurisdictions. The company also provides several educational options through its e-Training Center, which includes interactive tax courses, tutorials and practice returns for individual, corporate and partnership returns, in basic and advanced levels. All courses are free and available for CPE credit. Users can also download program updates (or these can be set to automatically update), and if the firm is using the free preparer website that Drake offers its users, they can select website tools from the support center.
As an alternative to the locally installed program, Drake started offering a hosted version of its tax system in 2009, providing firms with the benefits of web-based access to the program, without having to manage installations and updates. It is hosted on Drake's secure servers. 5
Executive Summary & Pricing
The Drake system provides virtually everything a tax practice needs at one simple cost, making it a good turnkey solution for new firms or those looking to enhance their tax services with planning, write-up, after-the-fact payroll and other offerings. The system is best suited to smaller and mid-sized practices primarily focused on 1040s, with some moderately complex returns, as well as a growing business client base. Drake also offers excellent program support and tax training options. The system costs $1,495, although various discounts are often available and early renewal pricing is under $1,095, making it one of the most affordable fully comprehensive professional tax suites on the market. Pricing includes any number of users within a practice. A pay-per-return model is also available, with each return costing $19, inclusive of federal and state e-filing.


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Application notes for help migrating courses and projects from PIC and 8051 microcontrollers to Cortex-M:
ARM and Energy Micro are official University Program partners providing teaching materials and development tools at a low entry cost. The partnership encourages learning and helps institutions start their own microcontroller training programs quickly.
Who is it for?
The ARM and Energy Micro University Program partnership is primarily intended for universities planning to expand their microcontroller labs. However, the lecture series is also valuable for people wanting to learn more about microcontrollers in general, with special focus on low power application development.
What is included?
The Energy Micro University package contains several parts:
The lectures begin from scratch - explaining the basics, like what a MCU is, what it can be used for, etc. It goes through how to compile simple programs to interfacing registers and modules. Each lesson is complete with small excercises with solutions. The series is made so that each lecture does not depend on the previous lecture, so that you are free to pick and choose the lectures that suit you the best.
The Keil MDK-ARM (Microcontroller Development Kit) Software Tools are available free of charge to qualifying institutions to support teaching, laboratory work and educational research projects. Faculty requests for these materials should be addressed to email@example.com.
Simplicity Studio ensures teachers and students always have access to the latest documentation, firmware and kit software to use in conjunction with the kits.
Especially valuable for universities trying to establish a low-power microcontroller lab is the bundle with discounted kits. The package contains 10 EFM32 Giant Gecko Starter Kits. Each kit contains everything you need, including debugging, power monitoring (AEM) and peripherals.
How to get started?
Delivery address needs to be at an accredited university.
The FRDM-KL25Z is an ultra-low-cost development platform enabled by Kinetis L Series KL1x and KL2x MCUs families built on ARM® Cortex™-M0+ processor. Features include easy access to MCU I/O, battery-ready, low-power operation, a standard-based form factor with expansion board options and a built-in debug interface for flash programming and run-control. The FRDM-KL25Z is supported by a range of Freescale and third-party development software.
An ultra-low-cost, all-in-one development tool for evaluating, developing and debugging Kinetis MCUs features the K40X256VLQ100 (144LQFP) MCU with USB, touch-sensing and segment LCD functionality. It comes pre-flashed with demonstration software to exercise a small portion of the capabilities of the Kinetis K40X256 device and the KwikStik hardware. The on-board Segger™ J-Link™ debug interface allows the user to evaluate the features of the on-board K40 MCU or to develop, debug and program their own target hardware based on any Kinetis MCU.
A Full MCU development kit + tools for around $10!
The STM32F0DISCOVERY helps you to discover the STM32F0 Cortex-M0 features and to develop your applications easily. It includes everything required for beginners and experienced users to get started quickly.
Based on the STM32F051R8T6, it includes an ST-LINK/V2 embedded debug tool, LEDs, pushbuttons and an additional prototyping board for easy connection of additional components and modules.
The STM32F4DISCOVERY helps you to discover the STM32F4 high-performance features and to develop your applications easily. It includes everything required for beginners and experienced users to get started quickly.
Based on the STM32F407VGT6, it includes an ST-LINK/V2 embedded debug tool, two ST MEMS, digital accelerometer and digital microphone, one audio DAC with integrated class D speaker driver, LEDs and push buttons and an USB OTG micro-AB connector.
The STM32 Value line Discovery is the cheapest and quickest way to discover the STM32. It includes everything required for beginners and experienced users to get started quickly. The STM32 Value line Discovery includes an STM32F100 Value line microcontroller in a 64-pin LQFP package and an in-circuit ST-Link debugger/programmer to debug Discovery applications and other target applications. A large number of free, ready-to-run application firmware examples are available on www.st.com/stm32-discovery to support quick evaluation and development using the LEDs, button and extension header to connect to other boards or devices.
mbed is a tool for rapid prototyping with microcontrollers.
Microcontrollers are getting cheaper, more powerful and more flexible, but there remains a barrier to a host of new applications; someone has to build the first prototype! With mbed, we've focused on getting you there as quickly as possible.
The mbed Compiler lets you write programs in C/C++, and then compile and download them to run on the mbed microcontroller. It's all online, so you don't need to be a sys-admin to start. In fact, you don't have to install or setup anything to get started.
The mbed Sponsorship Program aims to support worthy people doing worthy projects with microcontrollers. We've allocated some mbed microcontrollers for use in projects or activities that go towards an academic qualification or official engineering achievement. Sharing the results of the project with the rest of the mbed community benefits everyone.
LPCXpresso is a new, low-cost development platform available from NXP. The platform supports ARM-based LPC microcontrollers and includes a simplified Eclipse-based IDE and a low-cost target board combined with a JTAG debugger.
Designed for simplicity and ease of use, the LPCXpresso IDE (powered by Code Red) will provide software engineers a quick and easy way to develop their applications. The LPCXpresso target board is jointly developed by Embedded Artists, Code Red, and NXP. The initial LPCXpresso target board features the LPC1343 with integrated USB 2.0 Full Speed Device.
There are plans for future board support of other LPC microcontroller products, including the Cortex-M0 based LPC11xx LPCXpresso
The Arduino Due is a microcontroller board based on the Atmel SAM3X8E ARM Cortex-M3 CPU (datasheet). It is the first Arduino board based on a 32-bit ARM core microcontroller. It has 54 digital input/output pins (of which 12 can be used as PWM outputs), 12 analog inputs, 4 UARTs (hardware serial ports), a 84 MHz clock, an USB OTG capable connection, 2 DAC (digital to analog), 2 TWI, a power jack, an SPI header, a JTAG header, a reset button and an erase button.
PSoC® 5 is a true programmable embedded system-on-chip integrating configurable analog and digital peripheral functions, memory and a microcontroller on a single chip. The breakthrough new PSoC 5 architecture boosts performance through integrated high-precision 20-bit resolution analog, programmable PLD-based logic, and the 32-bit ARM® Cortex™-M3 CPU up to 67 MHz.
Texas Instruments is a leader in bringing 32-bit capabilities and the full benefits of ARM® Cortex-M™-based microcontrollers to the broadest reach of the academic microcontroller needs. Now with over 270 compatible ARM Cortex-M-based Stellaris microcontrollers and over 30 Stellaris evaluation, development, and reference design kits, Stellaris fits the performance, integration, power, and price-point requirements of nearly any university microcontroller need. Universities can now enter the TI/ARM ecosystem with full confidence in a compatible roadmap of processors from $1 to 1 GHz. You will never need to change architectures again. The scalable Hercules TMS570LS Safety MCU family enables universities to develop easily safety-critical projects for transportation applications. While the underlying architecture looks more familiar to universities used to working with the ARM7-based MCU, Hercules provides a more robust, higher-performance MCU with real-time needs. Developed to meet the requirements of the ISO 26262 ASIL-D and IEC 61508 SIL-3 safety standards and qualified to the AEC-Q100 automotive specification this ARM® Cortex™-R4F based family offers several options of performance, memory and connectivity. Dual core lockstep CPU architecture, hardware BIST, MPU, ECC and on-chip clock and voltage monitoring are some of the key functional safety features available to meet the needs of automotive, railway and aerospace applications. Concerto brings together connectivity and control by combining an ARM Cortex-M3™ core with C2000's C28x core on to one device. With Concerto, projects such as solar inverters and industrial control can keep the benefits of separating the communication and control portions while maintaining a single-chip solution. In addition, Concerto enables safety certifications in your projects via enhanced hardware and safety features.Texas Instruments Cortex-M Stellaris Platforms
Texas Instruments Cortex-R4F Hercules Platforms
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The Maple board consists of the essentials: a fast processor with lots of peripherals. At the center of Maple is a 72MHz ARM Cortex M3 chip, providing the increased computational power desired by more advanced users. LeafLabs aims to promote ARM in the educational and hobbyists sectors by providing this platform with an ARM tool-chain built from open source components and a programming environment that is intuitively easy to use. For those of us who love and are familiar with Arduino, Maple comes in an Arduino-compatible format, complete with Arduino pin layouts and programming environment. In the future, a Cortex native version is available in order to take full advantage of this fantastic micro-controller.
Actel's SmartFusion™ Evaluation Kit offers a simple, low-cost way to try the world's only FPGA with hard ARM Cortex™-M3 and programmable analog. The device contains on-chip flash and on-chip SRAM memory, as well as additional SPI flash memory. The board can communicate via Ethernet and HyperTerminal. The board also contains LEDs, switches, OLED and various voltage, current, and temperature monitoring functions for analog experimentation on the board.
Actel's SmartFusion™ Development Kit offers a full-featured development board so you can try the world's only FPGA with hard ARM® Cortex™-M3 and programmable analog. The device contains on-chip flash and SRAM memory, as well as additional off-chip memory on the board. The board can communicate via Ethernet and HyperTerminal. The board also contains LEDs, switches, OLED, and extensive analog experimentation, including voltage rail monitoring, current POT, temperature diodes and voltage sweeping using active bipolar prescalers (ABPS). Networking interfaces include Ethernet PHY, EtherCAT, CAN, UART, and RS485. See board details below for more information.
The ARM LPC1114 Cortex M0 Stamp module is suitable for low-cost developments because of the low power consumption and low price. It is easy to use as stand-alone or on a breadboard.
Keil (an ARM company) offers starter kits based on the ARM Cortex-M3-based STMicroelectronics STM32F103 microcontroller. These kits include an evaluation board, a Keil ULINK-ME USB-JTAG interface, as well as the RealView MDK-ARM evaluation software tools. For academic pricing information, please contact ARM or your local Keil distributor.
The STM32 Primer is a fun, innovative evaluation and development tool package that provides a quick, easy introduction to the features of the STM32 and its powerful ARM Cortex™-M3 core. It plugs directly into a host PC's USB port for in-circuit debugging/programming, and comes with Raisonance's Ride software toolset (Debug up to 32K of code) and the GNU C/C++ compiler (unlimited compiling).


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The name of the starting hand with two cards that are a Six and a Nine(69)any suit in Texas Hold`em poker
This sucks, I keep getting dealt big lick all night and can't get a decent hand to play.
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In the poker variant of Texas Hold 'em, The "Big Lick" refers to holding a six and a nine as your two hole cards. In sexual terms, when a man and a woman, two women, or I guess two guys are performing oral sex on one another at the same time, this is referred to as a "69". As with the "Big Slick", the "Big Lick" often produces fortunes to be lost when gambling.
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Nickname for the starting hand of 69 in Texas Hold'em, for obvious reasons.
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Phoronix: How We Are Using Btrfs To Find Regressions Incredibly Fast
In previous articles I have hinted that at Phoronix we are working to take advantage of the Btrfs file-system within the Phoronix Test Suite and Phoromatic to provide an interesting feature that will further expand our automated testing capabilities, but how does this file-system come into play? Well, here is what's being worked on and it should be of terrific value to many people.
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LVM has had these kinds of snapshots for years. Indeed ask most competant system admins how they back-up their systems and chances are LVM shapshots will feature heavily.
I am still miffed as to why more distributions do not use LVM in their out of the box installs.
Nothing to see here, move along.
Hmm, I have to say, this is the first time I read about PTS, and actually got excited about it.
The feature he is discussing (the binary search) is pure awesomeness for me, a developer.
Thanks for seeding me with that idea Michael :-)
Hello there Phoronix-Team,
I just read this article and I'm curious about the concept of sharing some test-systems to help testing and probably finding bugs in the kernel and other oss/gpl software.
Is the concept similar to i.e. sharing cpu/ram/time like Boinc?
Well, I got a root server and a more than idling oversized-NAS back at home.
In both cases I could offer some ressources to set up some VMs for regression testing the mentioned software packages/pieces for free.
What do you think about it?
Is this said too easy?
Thanks for your reply.
Bye, darude
Hi Michael,
that is really cool. The author of the article mentioned companies with ressources in their intranet.
The question for me is, what effort is necessary to run an infrastructure which is any useful to the project.
For example: Are changes to the VM Host necessary or will there be basic VM templates to use.
Is there a dedicated website where this project belongs to?
I wrote the article, the code, and most everything else on Phoronix.
Really it's minimal effort for the company setting it up.
It all depends upon the client's individual requirements.
Besides the info on http://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/ and http://www.phoromatic.com/ not really at this time.
Thanks Michael,
sorry for not getting that you're the author of the article and the PTS.
I got a lot to read to understand the sense of the Phoromatic Tracker and its purpose. I am most interested in doing regression testing of various opensource software packages.
To learn how this is done, I'm trying to install he PTS on for example Ubuntu 10.10 Alpha and send the results back to the tracker.
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Learning to Cope
One vital ingredient in the psychotherapeutic process: Just talk.
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(11) Anonymous, February 2, 2014 2:48 PM
(10) SusanE, August 1, 2013 11:20 PM
You are right. People long for someone to listen.
Rabbi, For whatever reason people talk to me. Strangers in stores, restaurants, at gatherings. When my kids were teenagers they used to say "Mom! why do people come up and tell you stuff? I really didn't know then. The stories are of an achievement or a happy time or of a sadness, or of an unexpected event in their lives. They just needed to tell it. And I was nearby. - - - - - - - I am a mouthy person and many times a know-it-all as you know from my spouting off here on Aish. But, it's different when a stranger walks over to me and begins talking.... I listen. I can feel what they are feeling. Rabbi, there are so many of us who are desperately lonely. We have family and we have friends, but we don't have any one who listens to us. Every living being needs a safe place. After 40 years of these experiences I think that is why they share their stories. I must look safe. Thank you for this article on coping and and the need to talk.
(9) Chaim, July 23, 2013 1:55 AM
Would love to speak but my chavrusa doesn't show up
(8) Mati, July 19, 2013 1:57 AM
There is nobody for me to speak to
(7) Richard Price, July 18, 2013 10:30 PM
Yes but..
We do need others who are willing to listen, but thye must be genuine and ideally have gone through some psychotherapy themselves, there is nothing worse than a listener who is trying to be a counsellor and not coming from a genuine space, my last pyscho analyst was brilliant and I have been priviledged to undergo and be part of intense group work and one to one for over 10 years , therapy when it is working right and the client want to make progress is a real God send , God Bless you Rabbi
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On a day in which the Dowling College pitching staff stymied the Wilmington University baseball team's lineup for most of the nonconference doubleheader, the home team found a way to keep battling and pull off a split at Wilson Field, falling 6-2 in game one before fighting back to take game two, 3-2, with a walk off in the bottom of the 10th on Sunday afternoon.
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Today's Online Commentary & Diversions:
• List: Comic Book Resources begins counting down their Top 100 Comics of 2010. In the first batch:
#87: Prison Pit Book 2 by Johnny Ryan: "Absurd, crude, lewd, funny, entertaining, twelve kinds of wrong, one of the most effed-up books I've ever read. It's burned into my brain and I can't get it out. And I love it." – Chad Nevett
#99: A Drunken Dream and Other Stories by Moto Hagio: "I'd never heard of Moto Hagio until Fantagraphics published this best-of collection of her stories, and it's easy to see why Hagio is one of the queens of shojo manga in Japan. The short story 'Iguana Girl' (about a girl who grows up with her mother treating her like she is an iguana) is strong enough to make you feel like you've gotten your money's worth, but the remaining nine stories are also all excellent to boot." – Greg McElhatton
• List: Dave Ferraro of Comics-and-More ranks Moto Hagio's A Drunken Dream and Other Stories at #6 on his 10 Best Manga of 2010: "Moto Hagio's artwork is stunning. Her storytelling is fluid, her characters expressive, and her drawings in general are beautifully arranged and look effortless. Each and every one of the ten stories in this 'best of' collection of short stories... are enchanting, full of warmth and wonderful characters, and brimming with emotion. [...] A very necessary project, done right."
• Review: "Uptight #4 is an example of that increasingly-rare animal: a satisfying alt-comic book. [...] It speaks to Crane's versatility that he can pull off a slice-of-life relationship story and a fable in the same comic book." – Rob Clough, The Comics Journal
• Review: "...[J]ust about the sweetest graphic novel imaginable... it's a lovely, positive collection, with fine drawing and characters that are well worth spending some time with. ...[T]his is a story about people and how they live together and support each other. That kind of story is so vanishingly rare in comics that it should be treasured when we do find it — particularly when it's as lovely and engaging as Castle Waiting." – Andrew Wheeler, The Antick Musings of G.B.H. Hornswoggler, Gent.
• Review: "Deitch's mad brew of semi-psychedelic farce and skewed reality takes the actual (and factual) short-lived tenure of an obscure 1950s-era kiddie-show host as source material and extrapolates a fantastical set of circumstances with humans, demons, not-so-funny animals and other characters — including Deitch himself. Reading this book [The Search for Smilin' Ed] is a wild ride; Deitch's prodigious storytelling talents and graphic craftsmanship keep things moving — and compelling." – Richard Pachter, The Miami Herald
• Plugs: At Comics Comics, Jeet Heer singles out The Artist Himself: A Rand Holmes Retrospective and The Search for Smilin' Ed by Kim Deitch as two recent books deserving of more attention from critics and readers, calling the latter book "a delight not just because it gives us one of Deitch's most deranged meandering tall tales but also because the whole handsome package was designed to highlight the cohesiveness of Deitch's world-making project, the way his fictional universe and its large cast make up a single unfolding story."
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REVIEW: The Grandmaster
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The story has been told in movies before, but never has the legend of Ip man been so artistic. Spanning decades and encompassing the chaos that overtook China and the fall of the last dynasty. The film shows the beauty and pride in separate styles of martial arts and the eventual downfall due to war, technology and a world moving at a pace that doesn't allow one time to breathe.
Made with an all-star cast, The Grandmaster delivers action, love and pain as a man's life is opened like a book. The Ip man (Tony Leung) is joined by Ziyi Zhang (Best known from Rush Hour 2 and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon). Together they deliver a stellar performance which is multiplied by the director and cinematographer of the film. And while it becomes somewhat slow at points, it does work to move you along as a courageous fighter finds himself powerless when the world around him tears itself apart. Focused on Love and Loss the story of the man who taught Bruce Lee is worthy of a movie, or even several.
Note: The version I reviewed was with subtitles.
Grade: B+
MPAA Rating: PG-13
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