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Johnson chasing icons Petty, Earnhardt
While still at Granite Hills High, Johnson became the youngest champion of the Mickey Thompson closed-course off-road racing series. He was soon driving 800-horsepower TrophyTrucks in long-distance desert races such as the Baja 1000. Chevrolet then extended Johnson an invitation to try stock car racing.
The rest is history.
Which brings us back to Johnson's place in NASCAR history if he equals – or eclipses – Petty and Earnhardt in championships?
Johnson's critics point to the fact that all his championships have come during NASCAR's era of the contrived Chase for the Championship 10-race playoff. Truth is, Johnson would have one fewer title under NASCAR's old, full-season scoring system – and Jeff Gordon would have six.
But two of Petty's championships came before Winston came aboard as the title sponsor in 1971. Before winning the title resulted in bonus money, many drivers – including such Hall of Famers as David Pearson and Junior Johnson – didn't compete in every points race.
And while Earnhardt was known for his charges through the pack, "The Intimidator" won only 11 percent of his 676 starts. No one knew how to play the points system better than Earnhardt, who would settle for third and take the points if he knew he didn't have a winning car.
And it wasn't until late in his career that Earnhardt, who was killed just before the finish of the 2001 Daytona 500, became the beloved figure he is now. Like Johnson, Earnhardt was disliked by many fans through the bulk of his career.
One of the things that sets Johnson apart from Petty and Earnhardt are the rapidity of his titles.
If Johnson claims his sixth title Sunday in the season-ending Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway (noon in San Diego, ESPN), it will be his sixth title in a span of eight seasons. He would be 38.
Petty's seven titles came over a span of 16 seasons. He was 38 when he won his sixth title and 42 when he claimed his seventh. Earnhardt's seven titles came over the span of 15 seasons. He was 43 when he won his seventh – and second straight – title.
Johnson, of course, won the first of his record five straight titles in 2006 at the age of 31. Both Petty and Earnhardt twice won back-to-back titles.
Only two drivers enter Sunday's season finale with a shot at overtaking Johnson in the championship race.
Matt Kenseth trails Johnson by 28 points. Kevin Harvick, who won last Sunday's race at Phoenix, is 34 points back. No matter what either Kenseth or Harvick does Sunday, Johnson needs only 23rd or better to claim the title. If those drivers falter, Johnson could finish even further back and still win the crown.
But Harvick thinks there is an opening.
"We're thinking of locking Jimmie in the Porta-Potty," said Harvick. "That should sum up our chances. We've run good during the Chase and we're 34 points back. They're just that good at every track."
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A 2003 novel by Khaled Hosseini.
Great religious novels such as THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY, BRIDESHEAD REVISITED, THE END OF THE AFFAIR or THAT HIDEOUS STRENGTH do not grow on trees. Even less often do they grow on a sailing ship's masts or spars. Imagine Thornton Wilder, Graham Greene, C.S. Lewis or Evelyn Waugh composing a sea adventure tale about two young lovers separated permanently in 1799 by their religious beliefs.
In the case of French Republic privateer Captain Raoul Yvard and beautiful Ghita Caraccioli marriage is rejected by Ghita on account of Raoul's exalted French Republican belief in pure reason allied with perceived active opposition to Jesus or at least to priests. That is the religion displayed in James Fenimore Cooper's 1842 novel, THE WING-AND-WING, or LE FEU-FOLLET. If you refuse to read books dipped in religion, then this novel is not for you, all of its other memorable aspects notwithstanding.
Cooper's novel is one of six sea tales selected for The Heart of Oak Sea Classics series of books. Probably 90% of readers do enjoy THE WING-AND-WING as pure sea adventure, and it is a great one -- set in one of the titanic eras of the modern world, from the French Revolution to the final defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte. On stage, though not often seen, are British Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson and his evil Irish love, Lady Emma Hamilton. Napoleon is tearing up Italy and the British are out to stop him.
One 5' 11" tall, gallant, hot-headed French sea captain, Raoul Yvard, age 26, preys on British and Italian shipping in his small, 180 tons privateer, the lugger, Le Feu-Follet (meaning jack o' lantern or will of the wisp). Yvard is a thorn in Lord Nelson's side and eventually three great British men of war are sent to capture the Feu-Follet.
Yvard beats off a British attack once, flees a frigate, is caught, imprisoned and sentenced to death, escapes with the help of his intensely anti-British first mate, New Hampshireman Ithuel Bolt, and lives to fight one final small scale land and sea battle against seven boatloads of British sailors trapped south of Sorrento amid the Isles of the Sirens.
Raoul's sea judgment is, however, impaired. For he is in love with 19 year old Ghita Caraccioli, pious Italian Catholic girl whom, with her other-worldly uncle, Raoul had rescued a year earlier from pirates. Fictitious Ghita is the granddaughter of that real Italian Prince-Admiral unjustly hanged during the tale from a yard arm by Horatio Nelson. She returns Raoul's love but will not marry a revolutionary French atheist. Not now. Not ever. For he tempts her too strongly from the service of God. Wherever Ghita flees, however, Raoul tracks her down -- even in the heart of Nelson's fleet in the bay of Naples, during her grandfather's execution.
At tale's end there is a glimmer of hope that the two might conceivably marry when ultra-rationalist Raoul looks at the bright stars above Italy. He is impressed by astronomers who speculate that some stars are actually inhabited worlds. One star in particular fascinates Yvard that night. He tells Ghita: "If it be really a world, some all-powerful hand must have created it. Chance never made a world, more than chance made a ship. Thought -- mind -- intelligence must have governed at the formation of one as well as of the other" (Ch. XXX). That is as close as the religions of the two lovers will ever come in this life.
In his preface to the 1851 edition of THE WING-AND-WING, author Fenimore Cooper gives the recurring human context of the religious disagreement not unknown in all cultures between an irreligious man like Raoul and a religious woman like Ghita. "There is something so gratifying to human vanity in fancying ourselves superior to most around us, that we believe few young men attain their majority without imbibing more or less of the taint of unbelief, and passing through the mists of a vapid moral atmosphere, before they come to the clear, manly, and yet humble perceptions that teach most of us, in the end, our own insignificance. ... Perhaps the greatest stumbling-block of the young, is a dispostion not to yield their belief unless it conforms to their own crude notions of propriety and reason. ... From arrogantly claiming a right to worship a deity we comprehend, we soon come to feel ... (that) a being that can be comprehended, is not a being to be worshipped."
Ghita might have done as so many women, and as Raoul begs her to do: marry a man opposed to her religion, pray for his conversion and continue to serve God loyally. But she will not.
A novelist friend of mine recently told me: "religion does not sell books." If you are a reader not attracted to religion in novels, do not, for that reason alone, despair of THE WING-AND-WING.
For it is a great meditation, as well, on injustices such as the British impressment of American seamen like Ithuel Bolt and such as Lord Nelson's vengeful execution of a fallen foe Prince Carracioli. The book also ends with a gallant small-scale naval battle against great odds. Being small, that engagement is easily grasped -- unlike God -- by today's young readers, and is memorable.
The novel shows as well a gallant young Frenchman too passionate and adventure-loving for his own safety. This is a tale from the final years of the great centuries when wooden ships went to sea propelled only by the winds, tides and currents.
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Next-generation mobile broadband network expected to be ready within 2 years
Singapore could be among the region's first to experience mobile broadband capacity of up to ten times that of current networks.
All three telcos in the country, SingTel, StarHub and M1 are conducting technical trials with the system.
High definition gaming on the go and that's not the only possibility.
Imagine watching a high-definition video on your smartphone. You then decide to make a conference call to a few friends to ask them out for drinks and proceed to switch on an application to check real-time traffic conditions before heading out - all in a seamless manner not currently possible with the existing 3G network.
Now, this is what the Long Term Evolution network promises when it finally rolls out.
Yuen Kuan Moon, executive vice president, Consumer Group, SingTel, said: "We are trying to take this to the mass market, basically to make it accessible, first of all, in terms of positioning and pricing. Secondly, more importantly, to make it user-friendly."
So will consumers bite?
Said one man in the street: "Most likely I will take it up because of the faster broadband access."
"Maybe I'll use it in the future. But not now because I'm still a student so I'm not earning my own expenses yet," said one student.
With lots of testing still to be done, Singapore telcos are working hard to make the tech-lover's dream, a reality.
So it'll take a while before consumers can decide if Long Term Evolution, or LTE, really is a thing of beauty. - CNA
Obama urges Hu to back Iran sanctions
Obama and Hu discussed the growing international push to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions in an hour-long telephone call that followed China reported agreement on Wednesday to enter into serious negotiations over possible new UN-backed sanctions against Tehran.
Western powers say Tehran wants the means to make nuclear weapons, but China – which buys large amounts of oil from Iran – has for months fended off calls to back sanctions.
Together with Beijing's announcement on Thursday that President Hu will attend a nuclear security summit in Washington this month, the in-depth talk between the two leaders also augured lower tensions between Washington and Beijing after a rash of disputes.
"President Obama underscored the importance of working together to ensure that Iran lives up to its international obligations," the White House said in a statement after the telephone call, which took place later on Thursday Washington time – Friday morning in Beijing.
Western powers say Tehran is violating international nuclear safeguards and have told it to curtail uranium enrichment work, which could eventually be used to produce fissile material for nuclear weapons.
Iran denies it is seeking nuclear weapons and says its nuclear activities are peaceful.
In remarks reported on state television, Hu told Obama that he opposes the spread of nuclear weapons, but he did not directly broach Iran or sanctions.
"China has always taken seriously the issue of nuclear security, and opposed nuclear proliferation and terrorism," said Hu.
The mainland president's reported comments, and remarks from his foreign minister, showed that while Beijing may be ready to consider new sanctions against Iran, it is not prepared to publicly commit to supporting such sanctions, leaving room for haggling in the UN Security Council.
China is one of the five permanent members of the Security Council, each wielding the power to veto any resolution and thus block proposed UN sanctions.
Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi called for "flexibility" during talks with Iran's top nuclear envoy Saeed Jalili, who flew to Beijing on Thursday.
Yang's brief published remarks from his meeting with Jalili did not mention backing sanctions, but they also did not repeat China's long-standing line that sanctions are not the "fundamental" cure to the dispute.
Yang "urged all sides to enhance diplomatic efforts and demonstrate flexibility, and to create the conditions for resolving the Iran nuclear issue through dialogue and negotiations," the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on its website on Friday.
Beijing and Washington have jousted in recent months over internet censorship, Tibet, US weapons sales to Taiwan and US charges that the yuan is undervalued, raising the possibility that those tensions could spill over into dealings over Iran.
"I don't think China wants these bilateral issues to overshadow negotiations (over Iran), which is really an international issue," said Guo Xiangang, China's former diplomat to Tehran.
"China has always understood that it will take some time for relations with the United States to overcome the tensions, but also that the tensions would never overwhelm the whole relationship," said Guo, now a vice president of the China Institute of International Studies in Beijing.
At the UN, diplomats said the United States, Britain, France and Germany expect to meet with both Russia and China next week to begin drafting sanctions proposals.
A diplomat with knowledge of the talks said on Thursday China probably would support US proposals to blacklist banks, impose travel bans and freeze assets, but would not blacklist Iranian shipping firms, ban arms imports, or target oil and gas sectors.
Dam debate looms large over Mekong summit
Beijing's Vice Foreign Minister Song Tao will join the premiers of Cambodia, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam in the Thai resort town of Hua Hin to discuss management of the vast river, on which more than 60 million people depend.
A crippling drought in the region and the much-debated role of hydropower dams are due to dominate the two-day summit of the inter-governmental Mekong River Commission (MRC) - the first in its 15-year history.
China, a "dialogue partner" of the MRC, is expected to staunchly defend its dams, which activists downstream blame for water shortages, after the Mekong shrivelled to its lowest level in 50 years in Laos and Thailand's north.
Nations in the lower Mekong basin may press China to share more information on the river, said Anond Snidvongs, director of the Southeast Asia START Regional Centre, which researches environmental change.
In addition, "they will request resources from China, ie, more money. I don't think there will be confrontation, at least from official appearances, but behind closed doors there will be strong debate," he told AFP.
China - itself suffering the worst drought in a century in its southwest, with more than 24 million people short of drinking water - says the reason for water shortages is unusually low rainfall rather than man-made infrastructure.
It says the dams, built to meet soaring demand for water and hydro-generated electricity, have been effective in releasing water during dry seasons and preventing flooding in rainy months.
"China will never do things that harm the interests of (lower Mekong) countries," Yao Wen, a spokesman of the Chinese Embassy in Bangkok, said at a recent forum in the Thai capital.
The crisis has grounded cargo and tour boats on the so-called "mighty Mekong" and alarmed communities along what is the world's largest inland fishery.
The chief of the MRC's secretariat, Jeremy Bird, last week hailed Beijing's agreement to share water level data from two dams during this dry season, saying it "shows that China is willing to engage with lower basin countries".
Yet questions remain over the impact of the eight planned or existing dams on the mainstream river in China. Vice Minister of Water Resources Liu Ning said Wednesday more were needed to guarantee water and food security.
China should continue to share information on the river, said Carl Middleton, Mekong programme coordinator at the campaign group International Rivers.
"The drought is obviously important but the real question is: what relationship will China have with the MRC in the future?"
Campaigners fear that the settling of political scores could block co-operation over the Mekong - especially the current animosity between Cambodian premier Hun Sen and his Thai counterpart Abhisit Vejjajiva.
Hun Sen has not visited neighbouring Thailand since the two countries became embroiled in a row late last year over Cambodia's appointment of ousted Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra as an economics adviser.
"That's what worries me quite a lot, that the debate will be more political, and not even related to water," said Anond.
Thailand has invoked a tough security law and will deploy more than 8,000 troops in Hua Hin to ensure protesters do not disrupt the summit, in light of mass anti-government "Red Shirt" rallies in Bangkok since mid-March.
A year ago, regional leaders were forced to abandon a summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) after demonstrators from the same movement stormed the Thai venue.
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Taiwan-China ECFA talks fail to produce "early harvest" list
Two days of meetings at the Ta Shee Resort in Taoyuan County finished prematurely at Thursday noon.
Contrary to expectations, the two sides failed to come up with an "early harvest" list of products and services which would enjoy priority for tariff cuts under the eventual agreement.
"We have not completed the talks yet, and we have not yet reached an agreement," Chinese chief negotiator Tang Wei replied to reporters' questions about the list.
He denied the lack of results at the talks was to blame on China's insistence that the final ECFA text should include a passage about the normalization and liberalization of cross-straits trade. Taiwan has reportedly objected to the phrase as too specific, fearing that it might strengthen Beijing's case to demand agricultural liberalization.
Taiwan's chief negotiator, Huang Chih-peng, said China had agreed not to demand low tariffs for its farm produce, but Taiwan wanted to promote the export of its agricultural products. Over the past few months, Taiwanese farmers have voiced fears about facing competition from cheap and low-quality Chinese imports.
Huang, the director-general of the Bureau of Foreign Trade at the Ministry of Economic Affairs, called for a quick decision on holding a third round of talks.
The Mainland Affairs Council said the most important thing about the ECFA talks was that Taiwan made an effort to obtain what it wanted and to hold on to what it didn't want to open up.
This was the government's basic principle during the negotiations with China, and would remain so during future talks, according to the MAC.
The MAC said the size of the "early harvest" list should not be the focus of attention, following reports that it would be much shorter than originally planned.
Before the latest talks began Wednesday, it was already announced that financial services would not be included, contrary to expectations.
The second day of the meeting was disrupted for a short time when an opposition Democratic Progressive Party politician entered the hall and shouted "Taiwan, China, One Side, One Country," reports said. The man was a former Formosa Television talk show host who managed to fool security checks by pretending to be a journalist, according to media reports.
President Ma Ying-jeou, who has been the driving force behind the ECFA, told visiting young business people that he hoped Taiwan could sign an agreement everybody could accept.
Ma said ECFA would lead to a lowering of Chinese tariffs on Taiwanese products and would make the latter more competitive with goods from its rivals, South Korea in particular.
He acknowledged it was not certain that Taiwan would be able to sign Free Trade Agreements with other nations once ECFA had been concluded.
ECFA Talks Achieve Positive Results
During the two-day talks in Tashi, Taoyuan County, the two sides exchanged views on operational and technological topics for the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA), which is intended to normalize mainland-Taiwan economic ties and bring the two economies closer.
According to the statement, it was agreed that both sides' most urgent and necessary issues shall be considered when deciding what products and services are to be included in the early harvest program.
The mainland side said that it fully considered the interests of Taiwan farmers and did not require the island to expand its imports of mainland farm products. It is not going to include farm products in the early harvest program.
The mainland said it would "do its best" to ensure that medium- and small-sized companies and vulnerable industries on the island are not negatively affected by the program.
The two sides also reached agreement on a timetable for consultations concerning rules of origin, the statement said without giving details.
In addition, the mainland will consider Taiwan's request to expand the tax reduction items in the livestock and farming categories that the island will send to the mainland.
The pact will not involve the mainland sending labor to Taiwan.
The two sides also agreed to hold the third round of expert-level talks on the mainland "as soon as possible," according to the statement.
The mainland side is composed of directors from the mainland's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), experts and economic affairs officials.
The expert-level meetings focus on preparing a framework for formal ECFA discussions at the next round of talks between ARATS and its Taiwan counterpart, the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), which will take place in the first half of the year.
Shanghai's prime housing prices soar highest globally
According to the annual report which tracks 56 locations worldwide, prices of prime residential properties in Shanghai soared 52 percent last year, followed by Beijing with a 47 percent jump and Hong Kong with a 40 percent gain, from 12 months earlier.
"Prime residential properties around the world registered a mixed performance last year with prices falling in nearly 75 percent of the 56 locations monitored by Knight Frank," said Liam Bailey, head of residential research at Knight Frank, a global property consultancy. "Boosted by China's fast economic recovery, the prices of prime properties in cities like Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong rose at a phenomenal rate last year."
House prices in Dubai and Dublin fell 45 percent and 25 percent respectively in 2009 from a year ago.
By region, prime residential property prices grew 17 percent in Asia Pacific and 7.8 percent in South America on average from a year earlier. But they fell 12 percent in Europe and 7.7 percent in North America year on year, according to the report.
While the world's wealthiest investors remained cautious about prospects for their investments this year, property continues to be a key long-term part of their portfolios.
"The attraction of tangible assets remains strong, with property taking up 30 percent of the average investment portfolio, the single largest allocation," said Aamir Rahim, CEO of Citi Private Bank's Asia Pacific operation. "Residential property is the most popular asset in the sector followed by commercial property."
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HK-Shanghai in talent tug-of-war
Hong Kong and Shanghai may complement each other as the nation's premier financial centers, but the competition between the two cities to attract talent rages on.
Hong Kong enjoys some advantages. It's a mature financial city with its own pool of local talent, experienced in dealing with the broad range of financial instruments and familiar with the practices of overseas markets, including mainland markets. By contrast, Shanghai remains the upstart, aggressively courting ambitious young professionals to come and reap seemingly unlimited opportunities.
Shanghai has the sponsorship of the State Council in its efforts to become established as an international financial center by 2020. Financial reforms are being shifted into place, so that the regulatory environment in Shanghai is brought up to internationally accepted standards. With reforms in progress a high-profile campaign is underway - as headhunters make every effort to lure from afar, experienced professionals in banking, investment, insurance and other financial fields.
The reaction in Hong Kong to all the frenetic activity up north has been fairly sanguine thus far. The view in Hong Kong is that the two cities are serving different markets.
till, there can be no question that the two cities are locked in fierce competition to attract talent, observed former Hong Kong Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development Frederick Ma Si-hang
Speaking at a University of Hong Kong lecture, Ma said people are the key to creating a competitive advantage in any international financial center.
The eventual winner, he said, may be decided on the battleground of personal taxation.
Hong Kong has a flat tax on salaries - 15 percent across the board. That beats the approximately 40 percent tax rate on the mainland by a long way. Shanghai is moving to get around this, by offering tax refunds for qualified professionals. The best Shanghai can do, however, is to lower the tax rate to around 25 percent.
Tax concessions can be a major asset in the recruitment arsenal, Ma said. An even more important issue, however, is the issue of retaining key talents, Ma said, and that issue is far more complex. "Many people would like to live in London simply because the quality of life is good, they can go to see musicals in the evening, they have a lot of places to go, to Oxford, to Cambridge during weekends."
In this respect, Shanghai has a decided advantage. The city is within a few hours drive of scenic, quaint water towns and unique historic sites. Xitang, the colourful town that provided the locations for Mission Impossible III starring Tom Cruise, is only a short train ride away.
Recruitment teams have spread out from Shanghai in recent years, full of confidence. Shanghai headhunters turned up in New York, London and other global financial centers ready to scoop up professionals spun out of work amid the global financial crisis.
With some of the world's leading financial institutions brought to ruin through their orgy of rampant speculation and bad investments, employment in the New York financial sector dropped 11 percent to 313,000 from October 2008 to last October. Financial houses in London shed some 60,000 jobs.
Hong Kong recruiters weren't sitting idly by either as top professionals overseas scrambled to find work.
"The manpower situation in Hong Kong benefited twofold from the financial meltdown. More talent became available from companies affected by the credit crisis in and outside Hong Kong," said Nita Law, Regional Head of Human Resources, North East Asia, Standard Chartered Hong Kong.
"Secondly, international talents who normally prefer to stay in the West began looking for opportunities in Asia, especially in big markets like Hong Kong and Singapore. Growth in Asia presents more long-term opportunities. We have seen talent come here at senior levels from New York, San Francisco, London, and other Western cities," she said. Before the crisis it was difficult to attract high calibre people from these places, she added.
The high cost of living in Hong Kong is a handicap. Hong Kong is one of the most expensive places to live, ranking fifth highest in the world and that acts as a deterrent for the recruitment of top talent. Shanghai is ranked as 12th highest. The figures emerge from the 2009 cost of living survey taken by Mercer's, a major human resources firm. Both cities also share some advantages, says Loretta Chan, a partner in the executive search company Wellesley Partners.
In Hong Kong there is strong demand among financial institutions for Mandarin-speaking professionals eager to find talent to manage growing business with mainland companies based in Hong Kong. Hong Kong citizenship also serves as a strong draw for mainland talent, she said.
On the other hand, for Hong Kong financial professionals, aside from some of the perks offered here, heading north gives them a shot at promotion, greater responsibilities and a chance to enhance their resumes, she said.
Over a cup of coffee near his office after work, a Hong Kong professional working for the mainland subsidiary of HSBC, said that more "promising prospects" drew him to Shanghai. He was one of the victims of the financial crisis, laid off from his last job in New York, soon after the crunch hit. "I could have returned to Hong Kong," he said. But instead, "I chose Shanghai because it has more opportunities for me to develop my career," he added.
His colleague, a Dutch national who had worked in Amsterdam and Brussels, agreed. "Compared with the financial environment of London and Hong Kong, I think there is still a long way to go for Shanghai. The number of financial products is limited. But it's developing and getting better," he said.
Hong Kong recruiters try to raise the issue above the level of simple dollars and cents. "People chasing the money will inevitably grow roots and demand more than big salaries and low taxes. Hong Kong's strong international links and focus on business and the arts would be a big draw for overseas talent," said Pradhumn Wadhwa, alumni of the Stockholm School of Economics.
Citing the prevalence of English as one major attraction for expatriates from the West, he said, "The work is the same for the most part from city to city. It comes down to issues such as how dynamic a city is and the quality of living. If I had to choose between larger quarters and having after-work drinks at an art gallery, I'd pick the latter."


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In the new redesign, I'd like to see the parchment have an actual code block. The Code button now is just for seeing the HTML, but I want to see an actual code block where the font is forced to some sort of monospace font and spaces aren't trimmed. I think we have enough users that are doing some sort of programming that this could be warranted. I am not asking for anything major like syntax highlighting and registering what kind of language you wrote. I am just asking for some block that allows us to have a monospace font like Courier and to keep the format that we typed.
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text: Pasce Minirig speaker review Gadget Reviews 17 November 11 by Gordon Kelly Build quality, smart design, sound quality and battery life are four hugely compelling plus points and make no mistake, the Minirig is hugely compelling products. Is it flawless? No. There are some factors to point out, though we wouldn't necessarily describe them as black and white flaws.Wired is tired One potential deal breaker for some is the Minirig has no wireless connectivity -- no Bluetooth, no Apple AirPlay, no Kleer streaming technology. Both AirPlay and Kleer offer lossless audio quality, which wouldn't feel entirely out of place on a speaker of this quality, but the former is Apple only and expensive to integrate; the latter requires a separate dongle for your device (typically in excess of £70) then you mustn't lose it. As for Bluetooth, even with its A2DP bass-enhancing profile, it delivers poor sound quality and drags down battery life on both the speaker and device it is playing from. Would the option have been nice? Possibly, but a 3.5mm cable (provided) has the best sound quality of all and requires no setup or battery compromise while keeping cost down.Another is ignoring microUSB as a charge option. Since it is now almost the default charge standard in the tech sector it would have been arguably more convenient. Again the flip side is valid: the Minirig uses a 5.5/2.1mm DC barrel power socket (the standard for 12V applications) and it is equally widely available online as microUSB while Pasce supplies the cable with a USB end so it can be charged anywhere. A DC barrel power socket is also fully protected against reverse polarity, has a stronger physical connection and a better aesthetic. In terms of ensuring sound quality it is also easier to eliminate sound leakage with a tight seal around a circular socket than microUSB's irregularly shaped port.A final quibble is the battery LED which is almost too clever for its own good. Shifting from green (100-90 percent) to blue-green (100-25 percent) to blue (30-25 percent), to purple (25-0 percent) to red (dead) looks great, but we can't help thinking a simple green LED transitioning to red would be simpler at a glance. Is it crucial? With the enormous capacity of the Minirig, no.Conclusion What really puts these quibbles in place, however, is price. The Minirig retails for just £85, a snip considering its sound quality obliterates products from established brands like the £65 Logitech S315i or £160 Aliph Jawbone Jambox and it can even stand toe-to-toe with the 1.3Kg, £259 Bose SoundLink Wireless Mobile Speaker.Meanwhile build quality is exceptional and it thrashes them all when it comes to battery life. The road is rocky for new businesses, particularly in the current financial climate, but we can't think of another new audio company we'd rather see succeed. Specifications Dimensions (height x diameter)72mm x 101.6mm Weight 424g Driver 3-inch (76mm) with neodymium motor system Frequency response 100 - 20,000Hz (+/- 3db within thisrange) Battery life 60 hours at low listening level, 9 hoursat maximum listening level Input power 5V DC @ 500mA Charging time 6 to 8 hours Audio input/output 2 x 3.5mm jack socket Construction Anodised aluminium and polycarbonate Edited by Nate Lanxon Back to start 12 Read on one page Comments I have had a go with one of these, and can honestly say it is one of the nicest sounding speakers that I have ever heard, (well, that's not quite true, it's the nicest sounding speaker that I have ever heard with a price point below £500)! Highly recommend this product. Joe Goldman Nov 17th 2011 Having this when on travels is amazing!! Chilling on the beach in Sydney with amazing sound quality tunes pumping out is the way to go - fully recommend this product!!! Alex Clark Nov 18th 2011 I've owned a Minirig for a couple of weeks now and I can't remember how I managed without one. Fantastic product; sound quality is excellent, goes as loud as you'll ever need, built to last and you can hook a load up together for a properly loud outdoor party system. Almost time to order my second! Jeff Dale Nov 18th 2011 The Minirig is a truly astonishing piece of kit. The sound quality blew me away especially condidering the size of the unit, and you don't need to pump up the volume to appreciate it. The lack of USB charging is largely irrelevant, it just goes on and on between charges and you will never be far away from a power outlet when you need one - and it means you don't need a laptop or something with you when you do need to charge it. I also think the multicolour LED is a nice touch, offering plenty of warning when the battery is getting low rather than the usual red LED which mostly only kick in when you have a few minutes of play time remaining. But the sound quality is what it's all about, little else matters. Great job, just buy one - you will not find anything that comes close for the price. coolcity Nov 21st 2011 Can I just recommend the PASCE MINIRIG again? I've had mine a few months and recommended it before for it's fantastic sound for the size. We had a lovely outdoor party 5/6 May, at which we managed to break the jack lead off in one of the jack points. Luckily it has 2 jack points, so it didn't stop us partying, and it ran for more than the estimated 8 hours on one battery charge. I posted it back on 8 May, and I am delighted to report it's return, all safe and mended, today. There and back, no questions and no charge, within 5 working days. Great product and Great service. Happy happy happy ☺ Linda Grant May 15th 2012 Accidentally stumbled on this review and now I really want one of these bad boys. However it appears everyone is out of stock. Literally. Testament to how good this thing is I suppose *sulk* Hoang May 16th 2012 A friend of mine introduced me to this little beauty and I immediately bought one. I have been looking for an audio solution for festies and camping and was really impressed. It arrived this morning and my work colleagues are just as impressed as I am - I am spreading the word! I feel a party coming on....... Jojo Jul 27th 2012 I recently researched some small speakers to supplement my new Roberts radio which has very poor sound levels. I found the jawbone jambox and then this. I bought both! (amazon 1 click purchase is dangerous!) Firstly the jawbone jambox arrived. The sound is nice warm and bassy and has great Bluetooth connectivity feature..but its not loud really disappointed with the volume AND the price. Then a few days later a cylindrical package arrived on my desk. Within minutes it was plugged in and on. OMG! how loud is this! amazing pro piece of kit lovely sound, not as warm as the jambox but crisp and powerful. I wish I had never bothered with the jambox. This is all you need. Richard Sep 10th 2012 I recently researched some small speakers to supplement my new Roberts radio which has very poor sound levels. I found the jawbone jambox and then this. I bought both! (amazon 1 click purchase is dangerous!) Firstly the jawbone jambox arrived. The sound is nice warm and bassy and has great Bluetooth connectivity feature..but its not loud really disappointed with the volume AND the price. Then a few days later a cylindrical package arrived on my desk. Within minutes it was plugged in and on. OMG! how loud is this! amazing pro piece of kit lovely sound, not as warm as the jambox but crisp and powerful. I wish I had never bothered with the jambox. This is all you need. Richard Sep 10th 2012 In reply to Richard so at normal listening levels you would claim the Jambox to have better bass? i am asking because i sometimes need a speaker for the beach ect which also sounds good at lower levels. i don't want to drown the whole beach. the jambox so far has quite an acceptable sound even at lower levels, especially if you turn on live-audio which brings bass a bit to the foreground. but i am looking for something that has even better bass response outside. the bose soundlink is great but it is too big and too expensive for the beach, i would be afraid it to get damaged through sand etc.now i am trying the jabra solemate which should arrive during the next days, but the mini rig was always tempting, i would only like to know if it can compete soundwise as it is a normal closed system in contrast to all the passive-radiator or ported designs. oluv Oct 5th 2012 After sampling pretty much every portable speaker on the market (other than the Philips Shoqbox), and reading just about every single online review, I took a gamble on the Minirig based on the review alone - this thing has given me the biggest return on investment ever!In sync with many of the reviews above, this is by far the best portable audio system I have ever heard. I find myself skipping through my itunes library simply to listen how it sounds through this - I am noticing things in songs that I haven't ever noticed before due to the clarity of this little beast. The sound is warm, encompassing, with a perfect balance of highs and lows, and it sounds great across all spectrums of music.I have compared the sound against the systems mentioned in the reviews above - in my humble opinion this is far superior - the price (less than the cost of some of the competition) makes it an absolute bargain as well.This is an investment in your listening pleasure rather than a cost! Timmeh Oct 5th 2012 Thinking of buying a MiniRig, can you connect it to a Hi Fi system? D Callaway Dec 11th 2012 In reply to D Callaway Probably yes, just get a cable that converts RCA output into 3.5mm jack. samguy Jan 2nd 2013 Reply to a comment Name Email Comment Submit » Latest on wired.co.uk


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"It's been quite a year. The good Lord's been good to us, blessed us a bunch, so we hope we can continue on the path we're on, staying positive and keeping it real and moving forward with our faith and family," he adds. "That's the recipe that's gotten us here, so we're going to stick with that."
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Bilzin Sumberg's Mortgage Repurchase Defense Experience
In late 2006, several of our mortgage loan originator clients began to notice an increase in the volume of "repurchase" demands being made by the entities to which they had sold loans in prior years – primarily the major banks and the Government-Sponsored Entities (GSEs), including Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Our clients were stunned by what they viewed as a sudden about-face by the loan purchasers. These clients had dutifully originated the loans by following criteria created and developed by the big banks and Wall Street. Those criteria often specifically called for loose, reduced documentation requirements and an absence of verification of certain borrower information. When this inevitably led to the foreclosure crisis in America, the big banks and GSEs acted as if the originators were somehow "guarantors" of the accuracy of all information provided by the borrowers – even in categories that the originators were not even permitted to verify.
The uptick in repurchase demands turned into an avalanche by late 2008 and 2009. Loan aggregators (the big banks and the GSEs) seemingly wanted the world to believe that every originator that had sold them loans in previous years had somehow "misled" them about the quality of those loans. Trustees and receivers acting on behalf of failed lending institutions took the same approach, blaming the originators, rather than recognizing that originators had been supplying the products the failed lenders had wanted. They simply followed the lenders' own rules and requirements in originating those products.
Early on, as the Bilzin Sumberg Repurchase Team reviewed "repurchase" and "make-whole" demands received by our clients – demands related to such high risk products as stated income loans (a/k/a "liar loans"), and no income/no asset (NINA) loans – we recognized two fundamental truths:
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We also knew, as partners of one of the few major law firms that generally declined to represent the big banks (for business reasons), Bilzin Sumberg was uniquely positioned to help originators without incurring incapacitating conflicts. We also realized that the best team to handle the flood of impending "repurchase" demands would be a combination of transactional and litigation lawyers. We have more than 45 years of combined experience between Robert M. Siegel and Philip R. Stein, our two partners who lead the Bilzin Sumberg Repurchase Defense Team. Phil specializes in complex litigation and has successfully represented both plaintiffs and defendants in trials, appeals and arbitration proceedings throughout the country. Bob is a commercial finance lawyer and has represented both lenders and borrowers in numerous complex financial transactions, including several multi-billion dollar deals, both nationwide and abroad. Both Phil and Bob devote a substantial part of their practices to representing originators and sellers of mortgage loans throughout the country, as they defend against pre-litigation and post-litigation loan repurchase claims made by banks and other investors.
We handle major repurchase litigation matters literally coast to coast for originators, both large and small, in matters involving a handful of loans to lawsuits involving multimillion dollar claims. We have handled matters adverse to virtually all of the big aggregators and the failed institutions that are pursuing repurchase claims, including Bank of America, CitiMortgage, JPM Chase, Aurora Bank, Lehman Brothers, Ally, and SunTrust Mortgage. We do so with a focus not only on litigation success, but also on cost-efficiency for our clients. We pride ourselves on taking a business approach to resolving all "repurchase" matters, without litigation when it can reasonably be avoided. Because we understand the pertinent legal and business issues inside and out, we often are able to help our clients avoid litigation altogether, or resolve a filed lawsuit on favorable terms.
Over the years, we have developed what clients and opponents alike recognize is an unparalleled knowledge base related to repurchase issues, ranging from "loan level" issues to how securitization and failed bank agreements may affect an originator's obligations when confronted with a repurchase demand. We know these issues as they relate to our clients' particular adversaries and as a result, we have well established strategies to employ in defending against repurchase issues, whether in, or outside of, litigation.
Robert (Bob) M. Siegel
Bob Siegel heads Bilzin Sumberg's Corporate Finance Practice and is Partner of its Corporate & Securities and Business Finance & Restructuring Groups. He is one of the most knowledgeable lawyers in Florida in the areas of secured transactions under the Uniform Commercial Code, Florida usury law, letters of credit, and personal property leasing transactions. Over the course of his career, Bob has represented both lenders and borrowers in numerous complex financial transactions, including several multi-billion dollar deals, both nationwide and abroad. He has developed a substantial client base across the United States as well as overseas, practicing law on a national level with other top lawyers, financial advisors and other professionals in high-profile matters.
For the past several years, Bob has devoted an extensive amount of time in the representation of numerous mortgage originators and sellers throughout the country. He has developed strategies to prevent or minimize potential losses resulting from mortgage investor repurchase and indemnification demands. He frequently provides substantive litigation support to the firm in matters involving these issues. He is a frequent speaker and author on this topic.
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Phil Stein is a Partner in Bilzin Sumberg's Litigation Group and focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation. Phil devotes a substantial part of his practice to representing originators and sellers of mortgage loans throughout the country, as they defend against loan repurchase claims made by banks and other investors. He is also particularly experienced in litigation involving: financial fraud and other business torts; commercial contracts; complex business disputes; corporate governance; trade secrets; executive compensation; and professional liability issues (including director and officer liability issues, and accounting malpractice claims). Phil has successfully represented both plaintiffs and defendants in trials, appeals and arbitration proceedings throughout the country.


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Very nice vlog ..it is good there are more and more of those.Very tasty bites;)ReplyDelete
Thank You Dzoli, Glad you like it.ReplyDelete
These look yummy!ReplyDelete
Thank you, The plastic wrap was a big help in accomplishing this one. They were very yummy.ReplyDelete
What type of Greek yogurt is needed..plain? Also could you substitute the yogurt for something else? Thanks!ReplyDelete
Thanks for your inquiry. I used plain greek yogurt with a 2% fat content to make both the stromboli and calzone recipes. I have used regular plain yogurt in the past but found that I needed to use more flour to get the dough to the right consistency since the water content is much higher in regular yogurt. Also I found the dough to be less sturdy with the regular yogurt.
I'm not sure if anything else would work. There are pizza and stromboli mixes on the market that involve mixing with water. Trying one of those mixes may work with the rolling techniques in the video I'm just not sure.
If you do try some differing ingredients in the dough, I hope you'll come back and leave a comment with your results. I find gluten free cooking to be a community learning experience and I look forward to anything you might want to add to help future readers.
If I try some future variations I report back as well. :)
Thank you SO much for sharing this! When I found this recipe last week I was so happy I almost cried (in all fairness I'm pregnant, hormonal, and have been craving stromboli for the past 7 months).
I made this last night and what a HUGE success! Definately surpassed my expectations. Next time I'll make sure that I don't roll the dough too thin, as the top cracked while baking, but still tasted delicious.
I look forward to trying more of your recipes, and might just have to buy stock in GF Bisquick.
I'm so glad the stromboli was a success. Even mine gets cracks sometimes. Our gluten free doughs will just never be as strong as their glutenous counterparts.
Congratulations on the soon to be new addition to the family. From one mom to another, I'm wishing you an easy delivery.
I made this for my husband, and he couldn't even tell it was gluten free. It was very yummy, and easy to make!!! The only thing was the bottom of it was hard...not burnt...just really hard to cut through. Any suggestions on what I could do for that? Thanks!ReplyDelete
Hi Shannon, I know exactly what you mean. If the bottom crust seems too hard, first try to make sure that you're baking it on a high oven rack vs anything towards the bottom of the oven. Since you may have already done that you may also want to try using two pans piled on top of each other which would create a small airspace between the pans making the surface of the top pan just a little cooler. I hope this helps. Glad you liked the recipe.Delete
Thanks I will try that! Can't wait to make it again!ReplyDelete


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A Yorkshire woman sustained serious injuries today after jumping in front of a Windsor Grey to avoid voting in the European elections.
Emily Wooding, 21, whose last vote was for Wagner in the 2008 X-Factor series final, had been complaining of confusion and stomach ache caused by the furore surrounding today's twitter trending topics before she decided to hurl herself in front of a 500kg equus.
"I went on twitter to share a pic of me quiche," said Wooding, "but everyone was talking about meps. What are meps? And what the fuck is a Farage?"
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"It was all too much. Proper confusing like," said Wooding from her hospital bed. "I wanted to just stay at home and bake cookies for me man."
Wooding had run to the local race course in distress after reading her 500th condescending Facebook status of the day urging her to vote.
Her friends Kenneth and Julie Walters, who own a vegan bike shop in Shoreditch, insisted "Anyone who votes UKIP just delete us now" in a show of their enlightened belief in the British democratic system that everyone can vote according to their preference.
Wooding discussed her confusion further. "Russell Brand told me not to vote," she said, "but now Paul from work has shared a picture of Ed Miliband eating a pasty I don't know what to think."
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WARD CUNNINGHAM relishes personal tendencies most people would hide as flaws. He has a terrible memory. He was a slow reader. "Writing," he says, "kind of sucks." But each shortcoming has become a motivation in his longer-term game of revolutionizing computer programming. The most important of all was his aversion to a practice most engineers crave—planning.
"Throw away the plan," he says. "The plan will be wrong. Planning impedes learning, because with most computer projects, about halfway through, you realize what you should have done. So let's just not be stupid. Let's expect to learn.
"I'm actually a lousy learner," he adds. "But I just didn't stop."
Cunningham's make-it-up-as-you-go ethos has produced some of the most important breakthroughs in computing in the past two decades, ranging from "design patterns" (a sort of "good habits" method of programming methodology inspired by Christopher Alexander's architectural treatise, A Pattern Language) to the wiki, the foundation for such participatory databases as Wikipedia. Now the principal engineer for AboutUs.org, the world's largest wiki for websites, Cunningham also has a new side gig as the first "Nike Open Data Fellow." He splits his time between the Beaverton campus and Wieden & Kennedy's Portland Incubator Experiment (PIE). The agenda: taking Nike's growing open-source database of sustainable materials and practices and making it participatory. "It's daring," he says of the new job, "in the sense that they don't have a clear idea of what I'm going to give them."
In the modest home he's shared with his wife and two sons in Garden Home since arriving to work as principal engineer at Tektronix in the late '70s, Cunningham's many computers are actually outnumbered by inventions: a home temperature and humidity monitoring system and a range of kinetic sculptures he can set into motion with his iPhone, what he calls "one-day projects," crudely built from hobby-shop parts but often driven by the latest in web technologies. Variously describing them as "ways of seeing" or like the exercises of "playing piano," they are important to his thinking because they are not his job.
"I think of myself as an artist when I want to free myself from the obligation to deliver something," he says. "I think artists are pretty good at separating what they want from what the customer wants. And with that is mastery. Sometimes you master skills so that you can apply them in a fresh way. I'm always working on mastery of computers. The challenge is to will them into something worth doing. And 'worth doing' is artistry." —Randy Gragg


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There are two ways that I like to judge PR and marketing firms. I like to look at the work that they do for their clients, and I like to look at the work they do for themselves. I'm not sure if one is more important than the other, but I think it's kind of ridiculous if a firm doesn't do a good job communicating their brand. VSCPR is "an award-winning strategic public relations and digital marketing boutique founded in 2002″ that does a fantastic job with their messaging. They're based in San Francisco, CA with offices in New York, Mumbai, and London. The VSC in their name stands for visibility, strategy, and creativity, and the company calls its people "the pyromaniacs of PR." Their website certainly exudes all of those things.
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While I think VSCPR did an amazing job with the messaging on their website (especially considering that it's only about 4 total pages), I also think they're missing something big. There's no client list, case studies, or anything like that. All they have is a revolving list of news stories that their clients are in. That's great since it's actually showing that VSCPR has been successful in achieving placements for their clients, but it doesn't explicitly say who the clients are. They do say that they "work with the most influential VCs, entrepreneurs (repeat clients), incubators and angel investors across six key categories: Mobile / Social / Gaming / Advertising / Retail / Enterprise." But if you want to learn more about VSCPR, you're in luck. First check out this video:
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The second edition of Proto.in, an event showcasing technology start-ups and products, will be held on 21 July and 22 July 2007, in Chennai. Held bi-annually at IIT Madras, this two-day event is organised by a national network of entrepreneurs and technology enthusiasts identified as 'The Knowledge Foundation'.
Twenty VC firms have confirmed participation for Proto.in second edition, including Sequoia Capital, Canaan Partners, Matrix Partners, Greylock Partners, Mentor Partners, Clearstone Ventures, Band of Angels, amongst others. NASSCOM, IAMAI, TiE and TeNeT are providing active support for the event.
Highlighting the objective of the event, Vijay Anand, chief organiser, Proto.in, said, "What India needs currently is an environment that encourages and supports innovation and entrepreneurship in technology. Proto.in is a significant effort in this direction. It is a platform that recognises and nurtures breakthroughs in technology. With support from the industry and related associations, Proto.in is sure to alter India's technoscape."
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text: On Sunday 22 August 2004 06:18 am, Frank Barknecht wrote: > Hallo, > > Jason White hat gesagt: // Jason White wrote: > > My main interest at present is in making archival recordings of > > material that I originally recorded on audio cassette. My system > > currently contains a C-Media CM8738 controller as part of the Asus > > system board, which is recognized by Alsa. I assume that for quality > > results I will need better sound hardware. > > Not necessarily. Cassette tape is not exactly high end material. I > don't think, your recordings will suffer much by recording them with > the onboard card. But I don't know that special board and chip > combination, so I would recommend you just try it out. > > If you're not afraid of a command line application, I highly recommend > ecasound for recordings. With the cute "ecasignalview" you can check > the recording levels, tune them with alsamixer, then just use: > > $ ecasound -i alsa,hw:0 -o recording.wav > > to record from the first card. > > > I asked this question of a local user's group last year and was > > informed that the M-Audio Delta 66 is of high quality and has good > > Alsa support. > > The 66 probably indeed is overkill for your task. I'd second the > suggestion of a cheaper stereo card based on the ICE1712 chipset, as > the Audiophile or some Terratec or Hoontech cards. There are a lot of > them. > > > It was further suggested that one of the USB A/D converters could be > > useful as it would also work on a laptop. > > I'd only recommend USB for a Laptop. PCI is much easier to set up and > works more reliable. You also get "more bang for the buck" with PCI > cards, as USB cards tend to be a little bit overpriced. But if you're > on a budget and need one card for both laptop and stationary machine > (or if you hate screwdrivers), then USB is fine as well. It provides > enough bandwidth for high quality stereo recordings. > > > To connect to a cassette tape recorder is it sufficient to run a cable > > from its audio output to the input of the sound card, or is an audio > > isolation transformer also necessary (not sure where one would acquire > > this but I have heard that they are sometimes needed)? > > Isolation is only necessary if you run into a ground loop: a buzzing > sound when both tape and PC are connected to the power line. You That'll only happen on 2 different circuits with different ground potential. Buy a ground tester for a couple bucks at the hardware store and tap all your power off the same outlet. Much cheaper than an isolation transformer. You really don't even need the ground tester unless you're worried about getting electrocuted (like a playing situation). Although, if you have a lot of equipment, an IT might be worth the investment as the mother of all surge suppressors. > should be able to directly connect the tape to your soundcard, > provided is has line-level inputs (most cards do). Personally I just > connected my computer to the monitoring Tape2 input/output of my hifi > amplifier, so I can also record from a vinyl record player if I want > to. (You cannot directly connect a record player to most soundcards > because of RIAA distortion, you need a real phono input.) > Actually, to use a phono level signal into regular line inputs you can use a matching transformer or a preamp > Ciao


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- cardboard,
- aluminium foil,
- and an Arduino.
It also provides the Arduino and Processing codes to immediately start playing !
Ideal for quick prototyping of games and electronic setup, as well as for educational purposes
Step 1: Prepare the tactile keyboard
Shapes, dimensions, and arrangement of the keys can be varied. In this example, I used triangle shapes arranged in a Top/Down/Left/Right configuration to create a game controller.
Round shapes in a line, can make a keyboard, for a visual or musical control panel, for example.
Step 2: Wire the keyboard to the breadboard
Then twist the wires so that they reach the breadboard. The wires might be sufficient to hold the keyboard in the air, otherwise you may build a simple cardboard base, for example.
Step 3: Connect the Arduino
Connect the wires dangling from each of the keyboard keys, to one end of each of the resistors.
is it possible to run another processing sketch
eg \\\\\\\\\ import processing.dxf.*;
void setup() {
size(400, 400, P3D);
void draw() {
void mouseDragged() {
ellipse(mouseX, mouseY,10, 10);
void keyPressed() {
within a case statement or link the case statement to another sketch , so that when a button is pressed, the other sketch runs ?
The Processing code can do that easily with the createWriter() commande. You can see an example at http://www.processing.org/reference/createWriter_.html
Other than that , you could try to do it using Gobetwino (http://playground.arduino.cc/Interfacing/GoBetwino) or using the write() function of the SD library if you log your file on a SD card (http://arduino.cc/en/Reference/SD).
Let us know how it goes !


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Te Papa was thrilled to work with Production Shed TV in 2013 and 2014 on a documentary inspired by the Berry & Co. soldier portraits held in the museum's collection. The documentary, which was originally produced for TVNZ, features the stories of six soldiers depicted in the collection. This June, you have the opportunity to see the documentary again, but this… Read more »
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Farewell Berry Boys, George, Roy, Frank, and Alfred
Four of Te Papa's 'Berry Boys' were amongst the 8500 men who left with the Main Body of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force on 16 October 1914. These men, in their fresh uniforms, were draper George Hornig (above, in a photo taken in 1912), cabinetmaker Roy Houchen, and Frank Barber, from Wellington, plus Alfred Gower, a… Read more »
A silver ribbon of bayonets
'Sometimes they marched with fixed bayonets and you saw this silver ribbon come winding through the crowd…' Ena Ryan This wonderful, almost cinematic line comes from an interview with Ena Ryan, a Wellingtonian who was born in 1908. In the interview she vividly recalls the outbreak of the First World War, and the trips with her father… Read more »
Who are the people in your neighbourhood?
Just as the old Sesame Street song enthuses, take a little walk through your neighbourhood and see who you meet. Chances are that this week you will come across some faces from the past. For bent, the mysterious artist responsible for many magical happenings around the city, from giant pigeons to miniature box cities, has been busy reuniting people of the past with… Read more »
Taking to the streets lest we forget
This week Te Papa, Archives New Zealand and Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision are taking our collections to the streets for an outdoor multi-media presentation as part of the Wellington City Council's First World War commemoration programme. The launch of Lest We Forget on the 16 October marks the 100th anniversary of the departure of 8000 New Zealand troops… Read more »
Berry Cover Boys
Gerald Gower (left) and Alfred Featherston Gower (right) are the two brothers who grace rather strikingly the cover of Berry Boys: Portraits of First World War Soldiers and Families by Michael Fitzgerald and Claire Regnault. The studio paraphernalia you see in the image above would have been cropped out in prints made from the original… Read more »
Girl Peace Scouts: a prophylactic against hoydenish romps
The Girl Peace Scout movement was developed in New Zealand by Lieutenant Colonel David Cossgrove and his wife Selina in 1908, in response to his daughter Muriel's request for a scouting organisation for girls. Based in Christchurch, Cossgrove had been responsible for translating Robert Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys into a New Zealand context. In 1909… Read more »
Berry Boys: First in, first served
Early enlister John Jessen (above) was the first of the soldiers photographed by Berry & Co to enlist for service. The 23-year-old signed up on 8 August 1914, just two days after the Defence Department invited single men between the ages of 20 and 35, weighing not more than 12 stone (76kg), to volunteer for… Read more »
The Berry Boys: Hot off the press (well almost)
This coming August marks a climax of Te Papa's Berry Boys soldier identification project, with the screening of a documentary on seven of the soldiers on TVNZ in early August (details to come), and the launch of Berry Boys: Portraits of First World War Soldiers and Families by Te Papa Press. The latter brings all of the soldier portraits… Read more »
Berry and Co's proxy portraits
At Te Papa, photos of 30 unidentified World War soldiers are on display in The Berry Boys: Naming the Kiwi faces of War. These men had their photographs taken at the Berry & Co studio sometime during the war, but we no longer know who they are. The soldier subjects in another 30 'Berry Boys'… Read more »


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It's a strange coincidence that the current series of Top Gear is about to finish in a couple of weeks, and Mercedes GP have just announced that Michael Schumacher will be racing for them in F1 next season.
Anyway, Schumacher is back, on a three-year deal with the former Brawn/now Merc Formula 1 squad – which is frankly something of an epic early Christmas present for us all.
He'll be racing alongside fellow German Nico Rosberg, and will reunite with his former Ferrari boss Ross Brawn, who runs the show at Merc, and with who Schumacher won a few races or something in the old days like.
It will be the first time Big Schu will have raced in F1 since his 'retirement' at the end of 2006, although he nearly came back earlier this year to stand-in for the injured Felipe Massa at Ferrari.
It was only a neck injury – one sustained during a motorbike race – that kept Big from the Prancing Horse cockpit that time, but that all healed and OK'd by doctors recently, so a way back to racing was a go.
As soon as Merc failed to retain current World Champion Jenson Button for next year, Big Schu became the favourite, with the most high-profile rumour monger being that of BBC Sport's Eddie Jordan – which is a worry, 'cos it now looks like he knows what he's talking about.
So, the Big Mac's back. Will he be quick? Will he be really quick? Will he regret it this time next year? How nervous are the other drivers feeling? How gutted is Nico Rosberg feeling right now?
These and many other things you are free to discuss below…


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Tom Dalyell wonders whether coins and notes, passed from hand to hand, can spread diseases such as SARS (14 June, p 55). Try this: grab a handful of change and hold it for 20 seconds or so; put down the change; smell your palm.
The metallic odour, which persists for several minutes, seems to suggest that something has been left behind - probably a suspension of metal oxides in grease. This greasy suspension, plus the bio-friendly environment of a trouser pocket, could well act as a medium for growing and spreading bacteria and other causes of disease.
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Melville took an early lead with a run in the bottom of the first inning but Swift Current tied it up in the fifth when Matt Spillman singled in Alex Schultz in the fifth.
The Indians broke things open with three runs in the eighth inning. Jake Gonzalez singled in Danny Clifford to give the Tribe their first lead of the game. Mario Sanchez scored one batter later when he came in from third as Gonzalez was thrown out trying to steal second. Taylor Steen would then hit a ground rule double and come around to score on an RBI triple from Schultz.
Chris Haddeland won the pitching duel between WMBL First Team All-Stars. He allowed only two walks, five hits, and one run over eight complete innings. Cody Chartrand came in and closed things out with a scoreless ninth inning.
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