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This course prepares dental assistants and dental hygienists to monitor nitrous oxide use during dental procedures. Upon successful completion of the course, the participant will be qualified, as stipulated by the NH Board of Dental Examiners.
Dates: Online portion: Online portion: April 29 – May 16
Clinical portion: Saturday, May 16, 8:30 am - 2:30 pm
Price: $175
Hours: 6
Instructor: Gilda Pronych, DDS, FAGD
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Interview: Peter Molyneux On Curiosity's Failings, GODUS
Last time I spoke with Peter Molyneux, he was practically abuzz with renewed vigor. He'd left Microsoft, started his own hand-picked studio, and ascended back into the high-concept realm he so loves to call home. But reality has a way of dousing even the most excited of flames, and Molyneux knows that better than just about anyone. But the godfather of god games was different when we spoke today: insanely thrilled to be launching a Kickstarter for his Populous meets Dungeon Keeper meets Black & White god opus GODUS, yes, but also wearied, frantic, and tremendously apologetic. It's been a rough few weeks for 22 Cans, and it showed. And then something crazy happened: Molyneux cried. Openly. Without reservation. But not for the reason you might think. 'I just,' he winced, his voice audibly cracking, 'I still believe so much.'
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The environmental agencies of both states have rejected the use of wedge wire screens as ineffective.
"We didn't really consider wedge wire," said Susan Rosenwinkel, the project manager and principal environmental engineer for New Jersey's DEP. "Our position is in order for the science to work wedge wire needs a freshwater environment, and a draw of less than 100 million gallons per day, and the intake velocity rate must be less than 0.5 feet per second. The velocity of water coming into the nuclear plants is about 1 foot per second and they use 2 billion gallons of water a day."
The Need to Chill
Cooling systems are vital to power generation, particularly those of nuclear plants. In a nuclear plant operation there are a series of three heat exchanging loops of water. The first is water superheated to more than 700 degrees Fahrenheit within the reactor and cycled through thin metal tubes in a steam generator and then back into the reactor.
The second contains relatively uncontaminated water which flows over the metal tubes containing the reactor water and, through this contact, is heated to about 500 degrees Fahrenheit. It is kept liquid under pressure and then flows through pipes towards the giant turbines There, the pressurized hot water is released, and flashes to steam which blows over the 40-ton turbine blades and turns it. The turbine runs the generator which makes electricity.
After the steam passes the turbine, it flows over pipes containing cold water from the river, and that contact causes the steam to condense back to a liquid. It can then be pumped back to the steam generator to repeat the process. The water in the third loop which was used to cool the steam, however, was sucked from the river and is then dumped back into the river — but 30 degrees hotter than before. This thermal pollution forms a barrier which alters the aquatic balance, changes the habitat for fish, plants, and parasites, and causes fatal heat shock in billions of passing fish.
The heat dumped into the waterway is tremendous, particularly at nuclear sites. The thermal discharge at PSEG's, coal powered, Mercer Generating Station in Hamilton, for example, dumps about 1.5 billion BTUs of heat into the waterway, according to company records. The nuclear power plants at Salem, however, dump about 30 billion BTUS of heat hourly into waterway. That is the equivalent of the heat which would be generated by exploding a nuclear bomb, the size of the bomb which destroyed Hiroshima, in the waters of Delware River/Bay every two hours, all day, every day.
It is for that reason that the states have required plants to go to closed cycle cooling systems.
"We don't mandate a particular technology," said Nancy Wittenberg, assistant commissioner for New Jersey's climate and environmental management programs. "We just mandate a measure of production. Hope Creek nuclear plant has a cooling tower, while the two Salem nuclear plants do not.
"Whether they build a cooling tower or use another closed cycle system is their decision, as long as it meets our objectives.
There are a variety of systems, ranging from mechanical draft — which resembles a three story radiator and is used at the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant — to the massive cooling towers used at the Hope Creek plants. New York's DEP specifically recommends the mechanical draft type of system to retrofit on existing plants. Entergy's public contention that the DEC is ordering the installation of cooling towers at Indian Point is false.
Chuck Nieder, a biologist and head of the DEC Steam Electric Unit and author of the state's assessment, noted that while cooling towers are the most effective and would eliminate 98% to 100% of the fish mortality, the mechanical draft systems may be more cost effective for existing plants and would still reduce the mortality to an acceptable 95 percent level and are successfully used at the Nine Mile Point nuclear station.
In addition Nieder said an analysis of fiscal data provided by Entergy showed that cooling towers — the most expensive option — would cost $1.5 billion to construct and operate over the 20 year life cycle, but that amounts to only 5.9% of Entergy's projected profit of $24.5 billion and is not unreasonable.
Riverkeeper attorney Reed Super said "cooling towers are more expensive than the mechanical draft6 and take a lot more land. If they were mandated state wide they would reduce fish kills by 100 percent, whereas the mechanical draft would eliminate only 95%
"There comes a point of diminishing returns, where you are spending a lot of money for that last 5%. The DEC is right to recommend that for brand new facilities, but just as correct to recommend mechanical draft for retrofitting existing ones."
In New Jersey, the DEP analysis found that The Salem nuclear plants are killing more than 3 billion fish annually. For the past 20 years, the company has developed and maintained an extensive wetlands restoration site designed to foster spawning of and safe development of Barnegat Bay aquatic life. But that program has been deemed ineffective by the state DEP and challenged on other grounds by the New Jersey Environmental Federation.
"The wetlands were taken over by invasive phragmites," said Federation vice chair Jane Nogaki. "Restoring wetlands, while admirable, will not bring back the annual loss of fish that occurs year after year. We don't think you can take three billion fish a year out of the system and not have an impact on the health of the estuary.
"And in the process of restoring wetlands, PSEG has introduced over 22,000 pounds of the herbicide glyphosate into the estuary in an attempt to control the phragmites. They have been performing annual herbicide applications in Lower Alloways Creek wetlands for 15 years, and that is certainly not a sustainable effort."
Dueling Federal Agencies
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is at odds with both state agencies. Their environmental assessment of Essential Fish Habitat for the Indian Point, Oyster Creek, and Salem nuclear plants found that the impacts were "moderate" and there were no environmental impediments to continuing the once-through operations for another 20 years. According to the agency, the difference between their assessment and that of the environmental agencies or National Marine Fisheries Service is that they are not really evaluating the same systems and impacts.
"When you talk about essential fish habitat we are not really talking about the animals," said NRC biologist Dennis Logan. "You are talking about the habitat the fish live in. It is a separate and distinct question from looking at the fish populations themselves. Some species are adversely affected and some are not affected at all.
"Essential fish habitat looks at the changes in the habitat. The fish stock that goes through, that came in as fish and died or were removed from the system by going through the power plant and are no longer available as food or recreation are another matter. It is not a direct impact on the habitat."
And Drew Stuyvenberg, the NRC's environmental project manager and coordinator of assessments in the division of license renewal, said "a lot of those fish are anchovies, and there are a lot of anchovies in the Hudson River and they produce a lot of eggs. The standard we look at is whether the impacts are so great that the power plant could not remain operating as a choice for decision makers. The test is, are those impacts outside the impacts of other alternatives to licensing?"
But Colosi of the National Marine Fisheries Service was critical of the NRC's approach which, he said, looked at a "variety of predominantly physical impacts that the NRC dismisses based upon prior experience at other nuclear plants."
He contended that Stuyvenberg's assessment that altered current patterns around the massive intake and discharge pipes "have not been found to be a problem at operating nuclear power plants" is wrong.
"Given the large volumes of water consumed at Indian Point each day and the relatively narrow configuration of the Hudson River, it seems plausible that under full operation, the plant could induce noticeable changes in the current regime or induce changes in the local erosion and accretion rates that have unintended adverse effects such as losses of submerged aquatic vegetation, chronic disturbances that discourage settlement of tiny pretty items, and similar effects.
"Our regulations compel us to assume the worst case scenario, that the effluent is creating a barrier to migrating fishes and other unacceptable environmental conditions."
Below are the New Jersey power plants using once through cooling in their generating systems.
1. PSEG - Salem Nuclear Generating Station
Lower Alloways Creek, Salem County
Power source: Nuclear
Power Generated: 2200 Megawatts (MW)
Water Intake: 3 Billion gallons per day
2. Exelon - Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station
Forked River, Ocean County
Power source: Nuclear
Power Generated: 670 MW
Water Intake: 1.5 Billion gallons per day
3. PSEG - Hudson Generating Station
Jersey City, Hudson County
Power source: Coal
Power Generated: 1,112 MW
Water Intake: 892 Million gallons per day
4. PSEG - Mercer Generating Station
Hamilton, NJ
Power Source: Coal
Power Generated: 620 MW
Water Intake: 680 Million gallons per day
5. RC Cape May Holdings - BL England Generating Station
Beesleys Point, Cape May County
Power Source: Coal and oil
Power Generated: 450 MW
Water Intake: 276 Million gallons per day
6. Conectiv - Deepwater Generating Station
Pennsville, Salem County
Power Source: Coal
Power Generated: 167 MW
Water Intake: 286 Million gallons per day
7. PSEG - Sewaren Generating Station
Woodbridge, Middlesex County
Power Source: Natural Gas and Oil as a backup
Power Generated: 582 MW
Water Intake: 540 million gallons per day
(Sewaren is a supplement plant, or "peaking" plant used in times of high demand. It is online about 10% of the year.)
Source: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
Roger Witherspoon writes Energy Matters at www.RogerWitherspoon.com


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End of an era as Carlisle's Warwick Street fire station closes
Last updated at 15:48, Monday, 19 March 2012
Firefighters past and present gathered to share memories at a reunion day to mark the end of an era.
The special event was held for current and former Carlisle fire service members to say a final farewell to the Warwick Street city station, before they move out.
New developments on Raffles Avenue in Raffles and Eastern Way, Durranhill, are to replace the current Rickergate building which was severely flooded in 2005.
New houses will also be built on land beside the new community fire station, which is situated on the corner of Brookside and Raffles Avenue and opposite the Elms.
The building has been a big part of station manager John Wall's life ever since his dad, John Wall Snr, joined the service in 1970.
The family lived directly opposite the station at 7 Warwick Street and Mr Wall has vivid memories of the experience from a young age.
He said: "I can remember my dad coming home for dinner and there was a bell that would go if anything happened.
"One day he dropped his dinner, ran across the street and then I stood on the pavement to wave them off as the engine went past."
Mr Wall added that it would be difficult to say goodbye to a building that means so much to many people.
He explained: "It's a fantastic event to celebrate the closure of the city centre.
"As station manager my head understands the decision because we can move forward.
"In my heart it'll be a very emotional day."
The station was opened in 1940 and a memorabilia room was set up to display old helmets and uniforms, as well as a flag and pictures showcasing the history of Carlisle's fire service.
Crew manager Anthony Rooney said: "It was a joint venture to organise the reunion and there are many people here who are retired firemen.
"We are going to be leaving this station soon and a lot of people here will be leaving behind some happy times.
"I was hoping for a lot of people and Friday's event was a really good turnout."
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Microprocessor-controlled equipment, such as cash register/inventory control systems, sometimes require in-field modification of programs which run on the microprocessors. Under the invention, such modified programs are downloaded to the equipment, via a commercially available paging service, through a satellite link. When owners of the equipment receive the new programs, they update old programs, as appropriate.
1. A method of modifying a previous program contained in microprocessor-controlled equipment, comprising the following steps:
a) storing said previous program in a manner which allows it to be re-used at a later time in said equipment;
b) using a paging service, transmitting a new version of said program, together with a code identifying said equipment;
c) receiving said new version at said equipment;
d) loading said new version into program memory of said microprocessor;
e) preventing said paging service from causing said new version to run on said microprocessor; and
f) transmitting a message, prior to transmission of said new program, which specifies the time when said new program will be transmitted.
2. A system for modifying a previous program contained in microprocessor-controlled equipment, comprising the following steps:
a) means for storing said previous program in a manner which allows it to be re-used at a later time in said equipment;
b) means for transmitting a new version of said program through a paging service, together with a code identifying said equipment;
c) means for receiving said new version at said equipment;
d) means for loading said new version into program memory of said microprocessor;
e) means for preventing said paging service from causing said new version to run on said microprocessor; and
f) means for transmitting a message, prior to transmission of said new program, which specifies the time when said new program will be transmitted.
The invention concerns downloading computer programs, or data, to a microprocessor-controlled device, via a satellite link.
Many commercial electronic systems are controlled by a microprocessor which runs programs which are stored in non-volatile memory. One example is found in inventory control systems, which communicate with cash registers in a retail establishment.
Sometimes it is desired to change a program which runs on the microprocessor, as when a bug has been found or a new version becomes available. This change in program often requires physical removal of the individual integrated circuits in which the program is stored, and replacement by other integrated circuits which contain the new program.
Such removal-and-replacement disrupts the parties who rely on the systems for their business operations: the systems are rendered inoperative during the removal-and-replacement. In addition, the removal-and-replacement, in general, should be performed by trained technicians, who are not inexpensive to hire.
An object of the invention is to provide an improved approach to modifying programs and data contained in microprocessor-controlled equipment.
In one form of the invention, a paging service broadcasts machine code to selected pagers, which store the code, and make it available to nearby microprocessors.
FIG. 1 illustrates a prior-art pager.
FIG. 2 illustrates one form of the invention.
FIG. 3 illustrates 12 earth satellites.
FIG. 4 illustrates part of the equipment of FIG. 2.
FIG. 5 illustrates a system embodying the units 50 of FIG. 4.
This discussion will first consider an embodiment of the invention which is implemented using existing, commercially available, equipment.
FIG. 1 illustrates a commercially available pager 3, such as that available from Motorola Corporation, Schaumburg, Ill. Such pagers, in general, perform two functions: a notification function and a data transfer function. As to the notification function, the pager 3 receives a signal from an artificial earth satellite (not shown). A receiver/decoder stage 2 detects the signal, which triggers a transducer (not shown) on the pager to produce a beeping sound, or a palpable thumping.
As to the data transfer function, the receiver/decoder 2 can also receive data, and store it within a buffer 6. The data is visibly displayed, as on a liquid crystal display 9. Typically, such buffers are limited in size to a few dozen, or a few hundred, bytes, because the pager is designed to display a small amount of data, such as a name or telephone number, or both.
FIG. 2 illustrates one form of the invention, and shows part of a pager 3. The buffer 6 within the pager has been enlarged to a suitable size to hold the data required by the invention. The buffer is also made accessible to a microprocessor 12, which controls external equipment 14. This external equipment can take the form of the inventory control system, discussed in the Background of the Invention.
How the microprocessor is given access to the buffer 6 will depend, of course, on the architecture of the pager. If the buffer 6 is controlled by a memory controller 15, then the microprocessor 12 can be given access to the memory controller 15, as indicated by dashed line 16. Alternately, the microprocessor, as indicated by line 17, can be given direct access to the buffer 6, by allowing the microprocessor to gain access to the control lines and busses (neither is shown) of the buffer 6.
In ordinary operation of the invention, the buffer 6 will remain dormant. In operation, the microprocessor 12 runs a program 18 contained in a program memory 21, in the usual manner, and may also utilize system memory 24. However, when the program 18 is to be changed, the buffer 6 comes into operation.
A party in possession of the new program delivers the new program, in digitized form, to a service (not shown) which communicates with the pager 3. Such services are commercially available, and will be termed "paging services" herein. One such service is GTE Telecom Marketing Corporation. In general, it is expected that the delivery of the data to the paging service will be accomplished by a common-carrier public-telephone link, using a modem.
The paging service signals the pager 3 of FIG. 2, and transmits the new program data, which the pager stores within its buffer 6. After the program data has been transmitted, the paging service transmits an end-of-data marker, which is stored in the buffer 6, at the end of the program data. A detector 21, designed to detect the end-of-data marker, detects the presence of the end-of-data marker on bus 23, as the marker is being written to the buffer 6, and issues a signal to microprocessor 12, as by pulling an interrupt line In.
When the microprocessor 12 is notified of the end-of-data marker, by interrupt In, the microprocessor takes several actions. One is to back-up the old program 18, as by writing it to a section of system memory 24. This backing-up is done to protect against the event that the new program is defective, in which case the old program will be re-used.
The second action is to temporarily disable the pager 3 from accepting new data, which would corrupt the program data just received, and now contained within the buffer 6.
The third is to copy the new program, now contained within the buffer 6, into program memory 21, to replace existing program 18. In this copying, a precaution must be taken not to contaminate the new program with the old program. For example, assume the old program is 500 bytes long, and the new program is shorter, at 400 bytes. Merely over-writing the old program with the new program will be ineffective, because, after byte number 400, the last 100 bytes of the old program still remain in program memory 21. One solution is to over-write the new program over the old program, and then look for the end-of-file marker of the new program. When it is found, it is erased, together with all data subsequent to it.
The fourth step is to terminate disablement of the pager 3.
After execution of these steps, the old program has been replaced, without human intervention, with the possible exception that initialization of the replacement, which occurs at the paging service, may have required human intervention.
One problem to be confronted is the existence of hackers, who may, without authorization, actuate the pager 3, and load it with nonsense data, or worse. To combat hackers, several measures can be taken.
One measure is to rely on the paging service to provide security. The data sent by present-day paging services is quite secure, for several reasons. One is that the original digital data, transmitted by the paging service, does not generally correspond directly with the digital data representing the program to be transmitted.
For example, each "0" in the program may be transmitted as a sequence of characters, such as "101011." Similarly, each "1" in the program may be transmitted as a different sequence, such as "100100." The data may also be pre-encoded for error-correction, and the encoding may be done by keys which periodically change. Thus, for a hacker to load unauthorized data into buffer 6 in FIG. 2, the hacker must know how to format and encode the unauthorized data in a manner which the receiver/decoder 2 will recognize. Such formatting and encoding is not considered simple.
Further, this data (which is multiply encoded as described above) is transmitted in the radio-frequency domain, using a methodology which is quite complex, such as Binary Phase Shift Keying (BPSK) or Gaussian Minimal Shift Keying (GMSK). The data may be further split into two quadrature channels, termed I and Q channels. Imitating such a methodology, to break into a pager, requires significant expertise.
Further still, as mentioned above, each pager is assigned a name. A 16-bit name allows approximately 64,000 possible names from which the hacker must choose, in trying to attack a given pager. Because of the large number of possible names, merely identifying the name of the pager to be attacked is a significant obstacle.
In addition, pager messages are believed to be preceded by special strings of data, termed "headers," which contain the pager's name, and other information. The receiver/decoder 2 in FIG. 2 only responds when the proper header is received.
Consequently, significant deterrents stand before a hacker who wishes to generate a non-authorized signal which the pager 3 will recognize and accept. Thus, in one form of the invention, an existing, commercially available paging service is used to transmit the programs, perhaps together with programming the pager to accept data only at a specified time every day. This programming can be handled by the microprocessor, which actuates a line 29, which activates the pager 3, at the specified times.
A second measure is based on the recognition that the signals reaching the pager 3 are relayed by an artificial earth satellite. The uplink to the satellite (that is, the signal sent to the satellite by the paging service) is considered secure against all but the most sophisticated hackers. However, the downlink (that is, the signal sent by the satellite to the pager 3) is less secure.
But the source of the signals received by the pager can be localized to a region of the sky. That region is either (a) the location of the satellite, if the satellite is geo-stationary, or (b) a swath of sky, if multiple satellites are used. FIG. 3 illustrates the multiple-satellite case. If 12 satellites 40 are used, each 30 degrees apart, then a given antenna (not shown) is designed to cover the 30-degree arc A.
In either case, the antenna used by the pager 3 will be highly directional. Such an antenna would require that a hacker's antenna possess a lobe which physically coincides with one of the pager's antenna lobes. This requirement will, in all likelihood, place the hacker in physical proximity of the pager's antenna, and thus subject to detection, which is considered a deterrent to hacking.
A third measure is to provide each pager with a unique name, longer than the 16-bit name mentioned above. The pager 3 is designed to accept data only when the proper name precedes the data. As an example, if each name is 99 bits long, then 6.34�1029 different names are possible. If a hacker, in attacking the pager 3, attempts one million names per second, then 6.34�1023 seconds will be required, corresponding to 2�1016 years, which exceeds the estimated age of the universe.
A fourth measure, also mentioned above, is to assign a time-of-day to each pager 3. The pager only "listens" for its name during a brief window, centered at the assigned time-of-day. If no name is received, then the pager blocks receipt of all data until the next window arrives. If the proper name is received, the pager accepts the data which follows.
A fifth measure is a variant of the fourth measure. The paging service transmits an encrypted message to the pager, specifying a future time at which the program will be transmitted. The pager refuses all messages until that time arrives.
A sixth measure is to coordinate the pager's satellite data link with another, closed link. For example, the system can be equipped with a telephone modem 31, as shown in FIG. 2. When a new program is to be transmitted to the buffer 6, the paging service first makes a telephone call to the microprocessor 12, through the modem 31. If the call delivers the proper password to the system, the pager 3 becomes activated. Then, the paging service transmits the pager's name, followed by the new program, via satellite link.
Of course, as long as a telephone link exists, it may be thought that the new program can be transmitted using that link. However, the data rate allowed by a telephone channel is severely restricted, compared with that allowed by a satellite link. As a rough approximation, assume each cycle of a sine wave is capable of carrying one bit of information. The bandwidth of a common telephone channel is about 3500 Hz, meaning that the highest frequency available is 3500 Hz, corresponding to 3500 bits/second, using this approximation.
In contrast, artificial satellites can use frequencies in the GigaHertz range, corresponding to a frequency of 109 Hz, and higher. Plainly, the satellite link can transmit data roughly one million times faster than the telephone link (under this one-bit-per-sine-wave approximation). For long programs, this faster transmission can be significant, meaning that transmission by telephone is not desired.
Another issue regarding security is that the paging service is allowed to transmit material, such as programs, but the paging service, in general, is denied authority to run programs on the recipient devices. Only the owners of the devices are allowed to run programs which are transmitted by the paging services. Of course, the owners can grant limited, or greater, authority to the paging services to run programs, if desired.
FIG. 4 is a re-arranged view of part of the equipment of FIG. 2, labeled as 50, together with an antenna AN. FIG. 5 shows four of these units 50, which receive signals from a satellite 40, which signals are broadcast by a paging service 55. A significant feature of the system is that the signals are broadcast in "parallel" to all units 50, but only the units 50 for which the signals are intended accept the signals. Further, the signals can be intercepted by any person or device within the signal path.
In another approach, some, or all, of the pagers are given the same names. Thus, these pagers can be addressed simultaneously by the paging service. Data, or programs, can be downloaded into these pagers in "parallel."
1. Archiving the old program was discussed above. However, the archiving is only needed for the a short time, during which a determination is made as to whether the new program is functioning properly. If the new program is not functioning properly, the old program is re-loaded into program memory, and is used as before, until a correct new program is obtained. On the other hand, when the new program is found to be functioning properly, the archived old program is discarded. (Of course, situations may exist when permanent archiving of the old program is desired, and the old program is retained.)
In the situations where the old program will be either re-loaded into program memory, or discarded, there is no need for a permanent, dedicated memory region to archive the old program. Instead, the buffer 6 of pager 3 can be used to archive the old program. That is, for example, when the data in address 1 of the buffer is loaded into address 1 of program memory, the latter data is placed into address 1 of the buffer. This procedure is repeated for all data. In effect, the data in program memory and the buffer are swapped. At the end of the swapping, the old program will reside in buffer 6, and the new program will reside in program memory 21.
2. Replacement of a program was discussed above. However, the invention can load data generally into buffer 6 of FIG. 2, rather than programs, and the data will be transferred to the proper location by processor 12.
3. In many cases, the program code 18 will take the form of machine code. That is, the code 18 is a sequence of binary numbers, which include machine-language instructions and data. Restated, the code 18 will be "executable" by the processor 12. The transmitted code 18 preferably does not take the form of non-executable code, such as source code.
4. A microprocessor generally executes the instruction which is located in memory at an address which is contained within the microprocessor's program counter. Then, the program counter is incremented, so that it points to the address of the next instruction. Many microprocessor-controlled systems are designed to that, upon initialization, a predetermined address is loaded into the program counter, causing the program beginning at that address to be executed.
In FIG. 2, that predetermined address would be the first address of program 18. Thus, the microprocessor's program counter can be said to "default" to that predetermined address.
Sometimes, systems are designed with a predetermined section of memory dedicated to programs for the microprocessor. Designers of software for the system are warned not to place anything, other than program material, into this memory space. This memory space is commonly termed "program memory."
From another point of view, "program memory" is the section of memory addressed by the incrementing program counter of the microprocessor. However, "program memory" does not start at the default address and extend to infinity. For example, the program itself contains a "Stop" or "End" instruction, beyond which the program counter does not pass.
5. The term "paging service" refers to a service which transmits signals at radio-frequency, or higher, to a satellite, which then relays the signals to earth. These signals are received by multiple pagers. Since the signals contain an address (or name) of a specific pager, or pagers, only the addressed pagers respond to the signal, and accept data contained within the signal.
Also, a "paging service" is not expected to be operated by a user of the invention. The user will provide programs to be distributed to the paging service, which will distribute the programs to the units 50 in FIG. 5.
6. It is possible to implement the invention using a cellular telephone modem, rather than a pager. However, the inherent security of a paging network is not available in cellular telephones. For example, telephone numbers are generally ten digits in length, corresponding to just under ten billion possible numbers. Thus, identifying the telephone number of a device to be attacked is not difficult.
Further, it is known that ham radio enthusiasts can listen to cellular traffic, by tuning to the proper frequency band. Since the cellular traffic is easy to detect, it is easy to simulate.
Further still, the data rates possible in present-day cellular modems are comparable to ordinary telephone data rates.
Nevertheless, it is possible to add sufficient encryption-and-security equipment to a cellular modem system, to deliver the program to program memory 21.
7. It is preferable that the pager-receiver be always operative, so that it always "listens" for new material. To this end, the pager-receiver should be equipped with a battery back-up, to accommodate power failures.
8. In one form of the invention, recipients acknowledge receipt of new material, so that the transmitter receives confirmation of the receipt. If the transmitter fails to receive confirmation, the transmitter takes appropriate action, such as (1) repeating the transmission, (2) sending a message to the receivers, as by electronic mail or normal postal service, informing the receiver of the failed transmission, or (3) sending magnetic copy of the transmitted material to the recipient, as by mailing a floppy diskette.
The detection of receipt of the material by the receiver and transmission of acknowledgment can occur in numerous different ways. As one example, when new material is transmitted to a recipient, the transmitter, by pre-arrangement, loads a specific code into a specific location in the receiver. This code can take the form of setting an interrupt, loading a specific data word into a specific memory location, creating a file on a disk having a specific name, and so on.
The recipient periodically looks for the code, as by executing a small computer program. When the code is found, the recipient erases the code, and transmits a message to the sender, which identifies the code. This transmission can take the form of electronic mail, a message sent through another pager, a FAX transmission, and so on.
Since the sender knows the identities of all intended recipients, the sender can match the acknowledgments with the list of intended recipients. When confirmation is found to be lacking from some intended recipients, appropriate corrective action is taken, as described above.
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Candida albicans, a major human fungal pathogen.
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Candida albicans is the most common human fungal pathogen (Beck-Sague and Jarvis, 1993). It is normally a harmless commensal organism. However, it is a opportunistic pathogen for some immunologically weak and immunocompromised people. It is responsible for painful mucosal infections such as the vaginitis in women and oral-pharangeal thrush in AIDS patients. In certain groups of vulnerable patients it causes severe, life-threatening bloodstream infections and it causes severe, life-threatening bloodstream infections and subsequent infections in the internal organs. There are various fascinating features of the C. albicans life cycle and biology that have made the pathogen the subject of extensive research, including its ability to grow in unicellular yeast, psudohyphal, and hyphal forms (Fig. 1A); its ability to switch between different but stable phenotypic states, and the way that it retains the ability to mate but apparently loses the ability to go through meiosis to complete the sexual cycle. This research has been greatly facilitated by the derivation of the complete C. albicans genome sequence (Braun et al., 2005), the development of a variety of molecular tools for gene manipulation, and a store of underpinning knowledge of cell biology borrowed from the distantly related model yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Berman and Sudbery, 2002; Noble and Johnson, 2007). This review will provide a brief overview of the importance of C. albicans as a public health issue, the experimental tools developed to study its fascinating biology, and some examples of how these have been applied.
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How some Christian commentors have helped…to solidify my atheism
When I first came to the de-Conversion blog I was afraid to read comments left by Christians. I was afraid that my atheistic position was actually weak, and that they would present some argument for God that I hadn't considered, or that was so rationally sound that I couldn't ignore it. And to be perfectly honest, I wanted them to succeed in convincing me. I read the responses searching for a glimmer of truth, looking for some defense that would lead me back into the comfortable faith of my childhood. It didn't take me very long to figure out that would never happen.
Here is why:
1. They never bring anything new to the table.
I've been an avid reader of the blog for over a year now, and I've read virtually every comment. I've read hundreds of Christian arguments and apologetics, but of those hundreds, no one has ever introduced a new or novel argument. They all use the same hackneyed apologetic tactics and arguments, and to make things even more frustrating, they present these arguments as if no one has ever heard of them before, as if they are completely original and earth-shattering. Since most of us here are former Christians who were deeply immersed and educated in the faith, this attitude is nothing less than insulting.
2. They present no convincing arguments...
Continue Reading September 24, 2008 at 3:17 pm Dover 404 comments
I'm not sure I want to be called an atheist anymore
I change my mind a lot. For most of my life I have been on an involuntary spiritual journey that has led me into and out of Christianity, through explorations of Buddhism, through agnosticism and into atheism. And now I am not sure where I am heading.
This year I've decided that I'm not sure I want to be called an atheist anymore, even though I don't believe in god(s). I know according to the dictionary that I am an atheist, but I've become disillusioned with the atheist movement, which largely seems to thrive on making fun of believers and ignoring the desire for spiritual fulfillment that most people feel.
Although I have some Christian friends in America, over the past years, I have found myself viewing all religious people as some sort of monolithic negative stereotype, hell bent on controlling everything and everyone, and teetering on the edge of insanity. I spent the summer in Lithuania where I met people from all over the world, I found that I'd made new friends who were Catholic, Orthodox, Evangelical, Buddhist, agnostic, and "just spiritual." Although we didn't talk very much about religion, we engaged in meaningful and interesting conversations about many different topics. I found myself rethinking the stereotypes I'd come to accept, and wanting to engage more fully with people of differing backgrounds and philosophies. I want to be open to see where my own spiritual journey will take me next, and I am not willing to be pegged down by labels or stereotypes, even those of my own invention…
Continue Reading September 21, 2008 at 11:48 pm druchunas 113 comments
What are the best arguments, and what are the strawmen?
My on-going experiment to ruthlessly engage with those who wish to effectively argue for Christianity has been underway for what seems like an eternity (no pun intended), but in many ways, I'm no closer to finding that killer argument (unsurprising really). Reflecting back on my days as a Christian, I wish I had come up against some of these arguments earlier so it would have resulted in a paradigm shift in my thinking – but I'm really not sure that there was ever an argument out there that could penetrate the barriers to change prior to when one is ready.
So, it seems that no argument I have submitted to a Christian has even caused them to flinch. It's quite depressing to leave it at that, because I imagine if I carried out a similar onslaught with members of another religion, I would get the same result – and they can't ALL be right. At least some (if not all) people of religious faith seem to be immune to reasoned argument. Maybe that's quite obnoxious on my part.
So what have I learned? What are the arguments to which the response has been particularly weak and/or non-forthcoming but there are also lines of debate which yield absolutely no fruit?
First of all, it is completely futile trying to point out contradictions, inaccuracies and difficulties within the bible. The response is one of 'yes, it's difficult, we need to try hard to understand all this… our mind is small compared to god's"…
Continue Reading September 9, 2008 at 10:58 am qmonkey 11 comments
Null Hypothesis ≠ Presuppositionalism
It was just over a year ago that I seriously considered a range of theological, philosophical and empirical data regarding the existence of God and the likelihood that any theistic religion, particularly Christianity, was true. As I read books, blogs and web sites, I occasionally stumbled across the term, presuppositionalism. I quickly gathered that this is a branch of Christian apologetics that starts with the premises that God is real and that Christianity is true, and then seeks to find rational support for those premises. I probably don't need to point out to you that this method of reasoning is circular. Presuppositionalists try to weasel out of that charge by claiming that there are different types of circularity, that their method does not rely on mere vicious circularity (which they agree is a logical fallacy) and that all methods of inquiry rely, to some degree, on presuppositionalism. Therefore, even if they are guilty, so is everyone else.
Presuppositionalists claim that their presuppositions – 1. that God exists and 2. that the Christian version of God is the correct one – are not unreasonable and are, in fact, the only ones by which humans can make any sense of the world. Naturalists, on the other hand, claim that humans are capable of observing and testing data in the world and drawing sound conclusions about the nature of the universe on the bases of their tests and observations…
Continue Reading September 3, 2008 at 9:57 pm the chaplain 13 comments
The de-conversion story of an Ashkenazi Jew
Hi everyone! My name is Shai, I am 23 years old, I live in a city near Tel-Aviv, Israel, and I am an atheist. As an atheist, I lack the belief in a god, gods, or any other supreme/supernatural being. I believe that everyone on the planet earth are godless creatures that were not created by anything and that the origin of life and its evolution are the product of purely natural processes.
Now that I've firmly depicted my worldview, I want to share with d-C's readers why and how I adopted this rather unusual worldview. (if you lived in Israel, you'd know that it's quite unusual, although, as far as I know, not illegal, to be an atheist)
I was born and raised in Israel. Since I read that this blog is mainly about Christian de-conversion, my story is probably going to be a bit alien to you. My atheism owes itself to 3 major factors: My personality, my upbringing, and some atheist asshole who sent me some websites about critical thinking and atheism.
First of all, let me tell you a bit about religion in Israel. Israel is defined as a "Jewish democratic state". Although I bet it sounds to any American/Anglo-Saxon reader to be some sort of cynical euphemism for "Jewish Theocracy" – it's not entirely true. Israel, on the whole, is a fairly secular nation. But that's not because Jews are a jolly good bunch who know that personal freedom should trump religious dogma at all costs. First of all, we have organizations here in Israel that are entirely dedicated to removing religious impositions upon Israeli citizens…
Continue Reading August 31, 2008 at 6:25 pm deconversion 37 comments
From Gospel Preacher to Good Atheist
My Early Years – Growing up, I was a typical American kid. I had a brother and a sister, a loving mom and dad, and we were taught to believe in Christianity, America's status quo faith. Mom and dad were not religious fanatics, but they were mild fundamentalists who believed that Christianity was the only way and that no one could have the highest morality without belief in the Christian God. I swallowed this philosophy hook, line, and sinker from day one, though I didn't become a baptized believer until my eighteenth birthday.
I was converted for the same reason that many others were — I was at a time in my life when I needed emotional and psychological support. I had fought my own battles with depression growing up, but when Christianity came along, that was the end of my singing the blues! Finding something to believe in is a big part of the psychological make up of the individual. I had also just fallen out of a relationship with a girl and this made me begin to "look upward" for help like I'd never done before. I was a party-goer, by and large, but I knew that someday, I would have to give up my selfish life and become a part of what I was taught God told me to do — to be baptized and live as a Christian. I remember how it felt to start looking for answers in the bible and pray like I never had before. I was a changed man at my conversion one cold February morning in 1994. What I felt Christ did for me was all too apparent in my mind. I decided to live for him since he gave so much for me, and I was so thankful that I had escaped the eternal flames of Hell that awaited me …
Continue Reading July 29, 2008 at 8:09 pm deconversion 216 comments
Atheistic attacks on Christianity
A pristine second-hand copy of What's So Great About Christianity? by Dinesh D'Souza became available to me recently. D'Souza tackles the current onslaught of atheistic attacks on Christianity by addressing the primary arguments within the framework of traditional Christianity or the kind of Christianity that takes the Bible to be the revealed word of God, the primary source of revelation.
The first two chapters are, for the most part, a sociological survey of the current success of Christianity as the world's fastest growing religion. Vibrant Christianity, it seems, is an emerging force particularly in South America, Asia and Africa.
The third and forth chapters contain quite an informed characterization of the atheistic challenge to religion and Christianity in particular. D'Souza quotes a number of prominent figures to highlight their overtly negative views. Had I not read The End of Faith and listened to a portion of The God Delusion audiobook, I might have taken quite a dim view of Dawkins and Harris, considering them to be taking mere elitist positions in relation to science.
However, I now know that while their attacks on religion are strong, both men remain positive and mystically-oriented rather than negative and materialistic…


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Authorized users of medical marijuana in Canada can make brownies and take cannabis in their tea in addition to smoking the weed, the British Columbia Supreme Court decided on Friday. The challenge to federal regulations was brought by Owen Smith, head baker of the Cannabis Buyers' Club of Canada. The ruling comes as Canada's laws against marijuana possession in the wider population are under unprecedented fire.
Smith, after hearing the decision, said: "This is a great step toward patients' abilities to control their own medicine. We took THC and cannabis away from pharmaceuticals this morning and put it back in people's backyards where they can make their own medicines."
Four former British Columbia attorneys general have called on the federal government to legalize cannabis, saying current laws tax police resources while putting millions of dollars into the coffers of organized crime. They also cited an upsurge in gang-related drug violence. A similar call came from former Vancouver mayors, with the backing of current Mayor Gregor Robertson. The pro-legalization calls have come from all corners of the political spectrum, and such personages as Ujjal Dosanjh, a former British Columbia Premier and ex-Canadian Health Minister.
Our Canadian friends know this is the time to keep up the pressure for change in the face of the blow-back underway America's cannabis culture should take this position, too. Learn more here.
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The Sedalia Duplicate Bridge Club met July 24 at the Sedalia Senior Center. The results were as follows: Richard Dimond, of Warsaw, and Harry Satterwhite, of Sedalia, first place. Russell Evans, of Warrensburg, and Charles Huddleston, of Sedalia, second place. Jimmie Melvin, of Warrensburg, and Shirley Meuschke, of Marshall, third place. Ruth Ann Heinzler and Charles Peterson, both of Marshall, fourth place.


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The New Year is here, and that means we're in the coldest months of 2013. Time to make sure you're bundling up properly, and no better place to start than the top! Introducing: The Trooper Hat!You can buckle this hat to hold the flaps. And you might be wondering… hey, where's the SWA branding?! You're sportin' it from the back.So do your ears a favor... read more
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Isaac Oliver
by Robert Cooper
line and stipple engraving, 1826
8 1/4 in. x 5 1/4 in. (210 mm x 133 mm) plate size
Given by the daughter of compiler William Fleming MD, Mary Elizabeth Stopford, 1931
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Iowa Dems: There's Room For A Non-Clinton To Run For President
Not every Iowa Democrat is cheering for Hillary Rodham Clinton to run for president. Some have a gnawing desire for someone else.
Md. Has New Tools Aiding Immigrant Youth
Maryland officials have announced three initiatives aimed at helping families who are sponsoring unaccompanied immigrant youth who have fled violence in Central America.
Maryland's Housing Secretary to Retire
The Secretary of the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development is retiring.
O'Malley Steps Forward In Iowa As Potential 2016 Clinton Competitor
Martin O'Malley's latest foray into Iowa begins, appropriately, in a place called Clinton.
Heroin Drives Spike in Overdose Deaths in Md.
Maryland had a 33 percent increase in drug overdose deaths in the first quarter of this year.
Md. Governor, Faith Leaders Meet on Immigration
Gov. Martin O'Malley is meeting with Maryland faith leaders to discuss how to help unaccompanied immigrant children who have been coming across the border from Central America.
Hopkins Hospital Workers Agree Not to Strike
Members of a union that represents thousands of maintenance workers, housekeepers and others at Johns Hopkins Hospital have agreed not to strike as planned after a request from the governor.
Md. Primary Could Play a Role in O'Malley's Future
Sure to be paying as much attention to the results in Tuesday's primary election in Maryland as Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown will be the man Brown wants to replace — Gov. Martin O'Malley.
Md. Officials Encourage Early Voting
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Bill To Create School Start Times 'Task Force' Signed By Md. Governor
Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley signed a bill Thursday that will create a task force to study the research on the sleep needs of children and teens and make a recommendation by the end of 2014 on whether state schools should push back their start times.


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