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ANY offer made by OE3FVU or PE0WGA on Ebay is fraud.If you find OE3FVU, PE0WGA as username on Ebay it doesn't reflect anything related to me !!!
My passion: 144 MHz
First licensed in December 1975 in the Netherlands as PE0WGA. Since March 1995 living in Austria (using PE0WGA/OE - I was not eligable for using the CEPT assignement as I was living in OE !!!); since October 1995 QRV as OE3FVU. Worked 118 countries (113 confirmed, 5 underway, just missing Hawaii, see below), 44 USA States, 699 squares on 2 meters. I am holder of the nr. 121 DXCC for 144 MHz.
I achieved my first goal in November 2013 with the DXCC on 144 MHz, next goal is WAS on 144 MHz as well.
Update on 2014 11 24: Still missing a few states: MO, NE, RI, SD, TN, WY.
I probably also need a QSO with another station in Hawaii as KH7Y who initially was very friendly and promised me to re-send his QSL if the one he sent via the post got lost, answered my email quite an unfriendly way, after I sent him 3 times a QSL card with 2 USD each:
Good Evening Franz, My card was returnd to you as I stated before. I do not have the funds to be buying postage and I cannot guarntee what the postal people mess up either. This station with all the contests and EME efforts makes somewhere around 60,000 QSO per year. The QSL business is a real pain in the ass to say the least. Send your info to my manager in Spain, EA5GL and Pedro will take care of you. Otherwise the next OE card I receive I will put another cand in for you and ask tht they forward to you.
Many thanks and Aloha, Fred KH7Y, 3C7Y
-----Original Message-----
...Sent: Monday, July 1, 2013 2:57am
Dear Fred,
You responded that the qsl was on his way and that in case it was not received by me, you would be so kind and re-send it. Well, I never received your QSL and I would appreciate it very much if you can resend the QSL card. I would need it to apply for my 2m DXCC. Please confirm by email once you have send it. Thanks in advance
Best 73
Franz (OE3FVU / PE0WGA)
To my fellow HAM's in the USA: PLEASE Feel free to help me, by calling me - do not surpress your wish to make a sked with me, just drop me an e-mail message.
Setup on VHF
144 MHz setup are 4x 14 ele MXP28 Yagi from M-Square with H and V feedlines (30 meters ECOFLEX 15), 2x CAVeme cavity LNA's in each RX line, 2x FT847 (2x WSJT 10) and parallel feeding an IQ+ Rev. B. using LinRad and MAP65. TX (V or H) is done typically with FT847 feeding an Henry 3002, with appr 1200 Watts Out on EME and 400 Watts out on MS. 4x 17 CueDee for 70 cms is fitted (theoretically as the have been taken out for mainetnance, I hope to put them back in in Spring 2015) in the mast with an MGF1302 pre-amp and ECOflex15 back to the shack to an FT-847 or IC-475H. The first successes with 70 cm EME have already been achieved by using 35 Watts only, without pre-amp. I also hope to have a few 100 Watts available soon.
The second mast carrying a 6 element with MGF1302 preamp on 6 meters and is fed by either the FT-847 or - more typically - the IC-575H. The mast carries also a 9 element homebrew 2 meter antenna with MGF1302 pre-amp fed by the IC-275H.
The 3 element SteppIr is also suitable for 6 meter and will be modified for use on 4 meters (70 MHz) in the hope that 4m will become available in OE eventually.
In principle.I will be available for skeds at any time of any day. So feel free to contact me here or via my website www.oe3fvu.eu for any sked on 2, 4, 6 or 70 cms. (4 meters for X-Band only).
Setup on HF
Since 1974VHF has fascinated me and it still does. HF was never my thing, but as I recently obtained a 3 element SteppIr for 6 to 20 meters, this might change.The antenna was installed on 8 October 2014 between the 4 longyagi's for 2m, expecting that there would be no negative influence on the 2m performance, as the antenna is at 90° compared to the azimuth of the 2m System. Indeed i can not find any degredation of the EME array (yet). Knowing that the 2m beams are in parallel to the SteppIr Elements, I expected severe performance degredation.
Actually the performance was not bad at all, only the frequencies of resonance were off in the main direction. On 180° could find only marginal resonance differences. I have than adapted ONLY the dipole settings for optimal SWR and was than amazed by the performance of the antenna. I have not yet been very active on the bands, but I am certain that this will change. Try to find me at JT65A segment on the band, where I will try to work as many stations with 3 or 10 Watts. If you hear me in any other mode, be sure that I won't be working at more than 100 Watts.
On 30, 40 and 80 meter I use a quick and dirty horizontal loop antenna, about 20 x 80 meters at some 3-5 meters above my garden. I recently made the first 160 meter (JT65A) QSO's also using the antenna, although the SWR is poor. I used to have a windom FD-4 in place but the performance was less than mediocre to say the least. After 45 years of service it broke and I than put up this quick and dirty loop, which performed significantly better than the Windom.
Bad Operating Practice on JT65A
Unfortunately I have noticed during JT65A QSO's on HF, that some stations tend to think that receiving their report is enough and do not bother to give me a report or, give me no confirmation that they received my information. I do not need the whole formal procedure as listed in WSJT, but I consider a QSO without a condfirmation as an incomplete QSO. In such cases I send my information another time, and if there is still no answer, the QSO will not be logged. NO QSL will be sent either.
Sample of a minimum QSO:
answer: OE3FVU PE0WGA -12
answer OE3FVU PE0WGA 73 or OE3FVU PE0WGA RR73 or TU FRANZ or 3W 5ELE 73
or similar. I tend to send RR 3W 3EL 73 or TU 3W 3EL 73 as last message. As the QSO takes place on a defined QRG, there is no discussion possible for whom the message is intended.
I also notice that many HAM's do not understand the meaning of WSJT (Weak Signal communication by k1JT). Weak Signal does not mean to work QROO, a few Watts is enough. I usually work with just 3 or 5 Watts on 20m and higher and 10 Watts on 30, 40 and 80 meter. I work around the globe with these powers! Try to minimize as much as possible to avoid interference!
QSL Policy H.F.
HF: I will not send any paper QSL, neither direct nor via the bureau, for any QSO on HF, unless specifically asked for. However I will answer any paper QSL card that I receive via the bureau or direct if a small donation (1 USD for EU and 2 USD for rest of the world - NO NEED for SAE, but your address itself would help).
QSL Policy V.H.F. and U.H.F.
Direct QSL will be sent to any first contact via EME ("initial"), provided that I can find the address in the net. Else, like any other QSL, I will send the card via the bureau. In practice that is once every 4 months.
Due to a horendous price increase for mail outside Europe the following apply for non-european Direct QSL: I will wait for sending the QSL cards until I am in a country with significant less postal charges. I will be in PA every 3-4 months (april, september, december) . PA postal charges are about half of the Austrian ones. If, however, you would like a QSL directly on a short notice, please send me a direct QSL with some green stamps in it.. NO NEED FOR SELF ADDRESSED ENVELOPES.
I send a QSL card for every QSO (except for QSO's made a PE0WGA before 1995 as I have no log available anymore), if you have not received a QSL yet, let me know; I will resend one - as long as I can find it as a valid QSO in my log that is. However I print out the QSL cards about once every 3 to 4 months so please have some patience. Again, if you need it quicker, let me know.
LoTW and e-QSL
I am a certified user of e-QSL and registered user at LoTW.
As I am using HRDLOG for HF logging, I automatically upload the QSO data to e-QSL and HRDLOG.net after every succesfull QSO: Every few days I also upload the lot to LoTW.
I use VQlog for VHF. This excellent Logging programm, especially designed for the serious VHF DX'er has no possibility to automatically upload the contacts to e-QSL and LoTW. This means that from time to time (once every month in practice) I manually upload these contacts to both e_QSL and LoTW and also HRDLOG.net.
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A reconfigurable compute engine interconnect fabric includes a reconfigurable interconnect layer (24, FIG. 2) between an application layer (22) and a physical layer (26) which identifies the input and output pins for the engine and their functions.
1. In a system in which reconfigurable compute engines have input and output pins and are interconnected to perform a predetermined function and in which each of said reconfigurable compute engine includes an application layer and a physical layer, an interconnect fabric, comprising:
a reconfigurable interconnect layer between said application layer and said physical layer, the interconnect layer being reprogrammable to provide a different switching function to set the connections for the physical layer for defining a new function for the compute engine by redefining interconnects without reconfiguring the physical layer and thus without affecting the application layer and regardless of what is happening in the application layer.
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15. A method for rapidly switching the mode of operation of a system employing a number of reconfigurable compute engines having an application layer, a physical layer and an interconnect layer that forms an interconnect fabric, comprising the steps of:
interconnecting selected reconfigurable compute engines by providing a reconfigurable interconnect layer between the application layer and the physical layer of a reconfigurable compute engine for changing the function of the engine by reprogramming so as to tailor the inputs and outputs to use the existing physical layer in running the corresponding application for altering the function of the application by reprogramming of the interconnect layer, such that the compute engine performs a new function by redefining interconnects without reconfiguring the physical layer and without affecting the application layer and regardless of what is happening in the application layer, whereby a mode change can be made by loading a new application in an engine and reconfiguring the interconnect layer by reprogramming thereof to accommodate the new application using the existing physical layer.
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This invention relates to the interconnection of reconfigurable compute engines and more particularly to an interconnect fabric which itself is reconfigurable to support the different modes of operation for the interconnected reconfigurable compute engines.
Reconfigurable compute engines in the past have been connected together so as to provide a computational system which can address many different types of tasks utilizing the same computer elements. Reconfigurable compute engines in general are exemplified by the field programmable gate arrays which when interconnected and appropriately programmed provide such functions as communications, signal intelligences spatial processing, and jamming. When a suite of electronics is provided in an aircraft, it is oftentimes desirable to be able to reutilize the compute engines by changing their modes on the fly so that the avionics suite performs the above noted functions.
The reason for the utilization of field programmable gate arrays is so that the amount of equipment in an aircraft payload can be minimized due to space and power limitations. However, present field programmable gate arrays, FPGAs, are at present only programmable by programming the entire unit, and thus regardless of the different applications instantiated in the FPGAs oftentimes all interconnects must be changed to effectuate each mode change.
Inherent in the programming of such FPGAs is the ability to configure a physical layer which is coupled to the application programmed into the FPGA so as to provide input and output pins which carry data, timing, and other signals between the FPGAs that are connected together to provide a particular function.
Thus, it is important that the interconnect between the FPGAs support, inter alia, low deterministic latencies on the order of 1 to 10 nanoseconds and support edge sensitive signal distribution, for instance, for clocks, strobes, triggers and the like. There is also a need for the physical layer to support synchronized data transport.
In general, in order to provide the programming for a system composed of a number of FPGAs, it usually takes 400 man-hours to generate an FPGA configuration, which is preceded by research and development typically on the order of another 400 man-hours. Thus, for each mode of operation of the FPGAs, upwards of 800 man-hours are required.
Were one wishing to change the mode of operation of the FPGAs in an electronics bay of an aircraft one would not want to completely reprogram each one of the FPGAs for each mode of operation, nor rewire the interconnects between the modules. Thus when changing the mode from communications to, for instance, spatial processing, since there is a suite of software which is capable of supporting both applications without alteration, it would be highly desirable to be able to provide a reconfigurable fabric which could selectively connect each of the FPGA modules together and support, for instance, all of the timing required, including strobing, clock triggers and the like, and to, for instance, simultaneously accommodate packet switched networks as well as circuit switched networks. Moreover, whatever interconnect fabric is supplied, it must be as flexible and scalable as possible so as to utilize the various resources and switch between them on demand.
There exist systems where the functionality resides in either general purpose processors, GPPs, or reconfigurable compute engines, RCE, or combinations thereof. Such systems require interconnect fabrics that support a wide range of data flow. While general purpose processors have interconnect requirements that are being satisfied by current technologies such as Ethernet and Myrinnet, there is no suitable fabric with characteristics appropriate for use between reconfigurable compute engines.
Nowhere is such an interconnect fabric more urgently needed than in command, control, communications and computers used for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. In some initiatives one needs to have a single system that can support communications, signal intelligence, jamming and run on the same hardware. As an example, it is an important requirement to have the hardware configured to have a number of receive channels and a number of transmit channels and to reconfigure the RCEs either to perform a communications function, signal intelligence or jamming.
As mentioned above, the RCEs presently are realized using FPGAs, with the combination of the FPGAs, for instance, in communications having a tuner that feeds them, with the FPGAs then feeding some processor and feeding back up to another FPGA and then to a transmitter. The interconnection protocols for connecting the FPGAs together provide for the receive and the transmit functions associated with communications.
On the other hand signal intelligence systems have only a tuner, FPGA and a processor. It will be appreciated that when operated in this mode there is no transmission so that only one half of the system normally configured for communications need be used. A jammer usually has processing followed by a FPGA, with the output of the FPGA then coupled to a transmitter so that the jammer consists in essence of a receiver and processing, with the output utilized to drive a transmitter for counter measure purposes.
In any avionics suite, there may be up to a dozen FPGAs which are connected to do many of a variety of functions. For instance at any given time, one might utilize five FPGAs to do communications and two to do signal intelligence. Later one might want to change the avionics around so that other FPGAs are connected together to provide, for instance, a spatial processing task or a jamming function.
In the past, one would utilize a well-defined static interconnection system for whatever mode or function was required to enable one FPGA to talk with another one.
However, because multi-mission systems are desired, it is important to be able to make the avionics package completely reconfigurable so that any FPGA can communicate with any other FPGA. In order to do so one needs a data fabric to allow the FPGAs to exchange data at high rates with low and deterministic latencies.
In order to connect the FPGAs, at the physical layer, one is talking about the ability to sustain a certain bandwidth on a given twisted pair. For twisted pairs one considers point-to-point terminations and the twisted pairs should be able to accommodate an edge sensitive strobe. It should be able to accommodate packet switched data, circuit switched data, or to accommodate fixed point-to-point connections with synchronized or asynchronized data.
Beyond the physical layer, one needs to be able to provide for different protocol stacks. Depending on the function implemented in any one of the reconfigurable compute engines, the particular protocol stack determines the kind of signaling whether it be discrete strobes, packet switched or circuit switched type of topologies or the like which have to be supported.
In short, one needs to have a common suite of hardware that would perform the multi-mission or multi-mode architecture. One therefore needs a fabric that has the ability to support all the different interconnect methods without having to go and change the underlying hardware.
Not only must the interconnect fabric support all kinds of clocks, it must also support those whose clock rates require that there be some minimum number of clock edges. It must also accommodate 8B/10B encoded signals and for instance, must support 10 MHz square wave clock pulses. The fabric must also be able to support discrete signals or signals which involve a simple level which is changed.
While the above lists some of the types of signals that one could expect, one also needs to have the fabric support a number of different mode changes without having to reload the FPGA. In short, one could think of the fabric that needs to be provided as a distributed switch architecture where the intelligence lies in each reconfigurable compute node.
In short, the fabric or physical structure should be able to support two modes. One mode is one in which there are parameters that are set as bits in a register or are embedded in each reconfigurable compute engine that defines what pins are to exist at one FPGA node. The pins are arranged such that they are either source pins, destination pins or pass through pins. However, just supporting the above while supporting a limited number of reconfiguration states is insufficient. What is required is a structure that does not lend itself to just being a bit in a register. What is necessary is the reloading of some number of the FPGAs so that complimentary configurations can be instantiated so that several of the FPGAs can talk to each other.
In short, what is necessary is logic that is installed in the FPGAs to instruct the way that the FPGAs are interconnected and allows one to change the way they are interconnected without having to reload the FPGA or without having to rewire them. What is therefore necessary is to have some modality to a virtual circuits set up that can be torn down at any time that a mode change needs to be made. With the respect to the pins for the FPGAs, a pin on a node needs to be able to be configured to be a transmitter, a receiver or beyond that to function as a pair for differential signal arrangements that can accommodate edge sensitive reconfigurable strobes or encoded signal structures. A reconfigurable fabric also needs to be able to accommodate either packet switched topologies or circuit switched topologies or combinations of each, as well as accommodating singleton kinds of implementations. Moreover, the fabric needs to be able to accommodate optical translations.
In order to accommodate all of the above functions, in the subject inventions an interconnect mechanism is provided that can be dynamically reconfigured to support scalable connection-oriented packet switched networks and connection-oriented circuit switched interconnects between multiple reconfigurable compute engines. The connections need to be made all at the same time so that there is no sharing and for all intents and purposes looks like a cross point array. The subject under interconnect mechanism or fabric supports multi-cast, broadcast, or single node-to-node embodiments.
It should be noted that the difference between the fabric and a bus is that with a bus sequential events are made to occur, where in a fabric simultaneous signaling occurs. In one embodiment, assuming that the RCE is an FPGA, each of the FPGAs is provided with an applications program, an interconnection layer, and a physical layer. It is the purpose of the interconnection layer to be reconfigurable regardless of what is happening with the application within the FPGA and to set the connections for the physical layer both as to what connections corresponds to what operation, and also the modality of the pin itself, whether it be a receiver pin, a transmitter pin, or a timing connection.
Thus, rather than having to completely reload a field programmable gate array, in the subject invention all that is necessary to interconnect the field programmable gate arrays for a given mode or function is to reconfigure the interconnection layer. This reduces programming from the aforementioned 800 man-hours to as little as 200 man-hours.
The subject invention thus provides the user with the flexibility of dynamically defining the modes and the interconnects necessary between the RCEs.
By not having to reconfigure each and every FPGA for a mode change, one can utilize a standardized physical layer which does not have to be changed during mode changes and which does not require a complete reload of the FPGA.
While companies that manufacture FPGAs design the input and output pins so that they can physically be inputs or outputs, and then can be driven at different voltage levels, utilization of the subject programmable interconnect layer brings the programming to another level. The interconnect layer defines the functions of the pins and the functions of groups of pins as well as describing or designating the data and where it is to flow.
In short, the interconnect layer provides an interface to the physical layer from the application by providing a variety of physical mechanisms and switched topologies so that the application is abstracted from the physical interconnect. In one embodiment, the system allows processing components to communicate over one or more FPGAs without specific knowledge of the interconnect structure and without components having specific knowledge of the particular topology, particular cards or anything else. This is because the application is abstracted by the interconnect layer which actually handles setting up the particular routing required, essentially at instantiation time. In short, the system decouples the application components from needing to know anything about the particular fabric, meaning that the subject system provides a very rich interconnect service.
Thus when a core or cores are loaded into an FPGA, the FPGA interconnect IP core is positioned between the application or applications instantiated in the FPGA and the physical layer supported by a given vendor. Note that the interconnect layers are that which are distributed amongst the FPGAs, with complementary parts of the interconnect layer being provided at the different FPGAs.
When an aviation suite is provided in such a manner, one can in one instance do spatial processing which requires a specific data flow to be supported. This would include the classic scatter gathering problem across a number of input sensors and destinations. For communication applications, one has some number of tuners and transmitters that are supporting different signal structures from different radios. Thus the subject fabric has to bridge data from one receiver to a transmitter and this may occur multiple times.
For instance, in order to do a mode change to support signal intelligence one abandons the communications support and may double the amount of frequency spectrum that one can cover by allocating all of the receive channels to support nothing but spatial processing and by implementing the scatter gathering problem across all of the tasked nodes. It will be appreciated that in so doing no new wiring of any kind is required in subject fabric. Additionally, the subject fabric is able to support the low and deterministic latency required.
If for instance one wants to go from communications to signal intelligence one may need to allocate all of the resources to this problem and to do so without rewiring or writing different software.
The utilization of the applications unaltered by the interconnect also and importantly eliminates the problem of providing a large amount of non-recurring engineering.
With the above reconfiguration management, all of the equipment is reusable providing increased utilization and efficiency. One obviously first writes something that is generic and reprogrammable from an interface point of view and provides one wrapper that helps plug in the standard interconnect logic that never has to be changed. One can change topologies, functions, and change mixes of functions, and do so only by throwing the switches in the subject interconnect layer provided between the application and the physical layer. Thus, even if one has ten different topologies or configurations, one does not have to redo the interconnect layer of the FPGAs ten times. As a result what is accomplished is efficient mode change both from the point of view of design and from the point of view of implantation.
As will be appreciated, the subject fabric combines the ability to support deterministic, low latency interconnects versus simple packet switching which generally does not have deterministic latency. As will be appreciated latency does not always end up being as short as one would like it to be. With the subject fabric one can accommodate packet switched topologies or circuit switched topologies and quite often applications that require both. One can have messaging to get from one node to another which is not necessarily time critical; but there are applications where accompanying strobes are absolutely critical.
In summary, a reconfigurable compute engine interconnect fabric includes a reconfigurable interconnect layer within each reconfigurable compute engine between the application loaded into the engine and the physical layer used for inputs to and outputs from the engine. The reconfigurable interconnect layer identifies the input and output pins for the engine and their functions. Thus, a system made up of reconfigurable compute engines can be changed by loading appropriate applications into respective engines and connecting complementary engines by defining the pins and specifying their functions using the reconfigurable interconnect layer such that no physical connecting structure need be changed to effectuate a mode change. The fabric supports strobes, clocks and various forms of data transfer including circuit switched, packet switched and discrete signal modes. Moreover, the fabric is flexible enough to support deterministic low latency interconnects or simple packet switching which does not have deterministic latency, node to node messaging and both packet switched and circuit switched topologies. In one embodiment, the reconfigurable compute engines include FPGAs.
These and other features of the subject invention will be better understood in connection with the Detailed Description in conjunction with the Drawings, of which:
Referring now to
In order to provide for the reconfigurable interconnect structure shown in
It is the purpose of this invention to be able to interconnect complementary FPGAs through the use of an invariant physical layer in which the interconnect layer defines the input and output for each of the FPGAs both as to the type of pin that they represent and also which pins are connected to what pins between the FPGAs.
With this arrangement, the applications loaded into the FPGAs may be made to change depending on the mode of operation for the entire system, with the physical layer being a fabric which connects the pins of complementary FPGAs together under the control of the interconnect mechanism which resides in the FPGA interconnect layer.
Referring to
The subject system is different from the bus structure shown at 50 in which a number of general purpose processors 52 are interconnected by a bus 54 to which are applied time sequenced or multiplex signals such that the interconnection between the general purpose processors is not done in parallel but rather is done serially.
Referring to
As can be seen from
As can be seen, each of the RCEs is connected to its associated general purpose processor, here respectively illustrated at 112, 114, 116 and 118 interconnected with a second fabric 120 of a conventional Ethernet or other variety.
The entire system illustrated in
Referring to
Thus for instance, data transmitter pins 136 and 138 on RCE 130 are connected to complementary pins 136′ and 138′ respectively for RCE 132, which pins correspond to data receiver pins. The connections designated by arrows 144 correspond to a connection oriented switched circuit data path between RCE 130 and RCE 132.
Likewise a path 146 between strobe transmitter pin 142′ at RCE 132 is established by connection to a strobe receiver pin 142 on RCE 130. Note that path 146 represents a connection oriented circuit event strobe path in this case.
What will be appreciated is that the interconnect layer for each of the RCEs defines the pin and what the function of the pins is so that the physical layer remains invariable, with the pins and their functions being determined by the interconnect layer. Thus the physical layer remains unchanged, whereas the interconnect functions are programmable through the programming of the interconnect layer. Note that the programming of the interconnect layer does not affect either the application or the physical layers so that mode changes can be rapidly effectuated utilizing the same or lesser numbers of available RCEs.
Having now described a few embodiments of the invention, and some modifications and variations thereto, it should be apparent to those skilled in the art that the foregoing is merely illustrative and not limiting, having been presented by the way of example only. Numerous modifications and other embodiments are within the scope of one of ordinary skill in the art and are contemplated as falling within the scope of the invention as limited only by the appended claims and equivalents thereto.
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Dr. Duffy attended Rochester Institute of Technology for his undergraduate degree. He received his medical degree from SUNY Upstate Medical University and completed both his internal medicine residency and hematology and medical oncology fellowship from SUNY Upstate Medical University. Dr. Duffy is board certified in hematology and medical oncology.
Dr. Schaffer attended the University of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia, for her undergraduate degree. She received her medical degree from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed her residency at the Medical Center of Delaware and oncology fellowship at the Medical College of Virginia. She was a consulting associate at Duke University Medical Center for five years and in private practice in Richmond for two years. Dr. Schaffer is board certified in internal medicine and medical oncology.
Our nurse practitioner, Hillary Locklair, received her Bachelor of Science in therapeutic recreation/psychology in 2001 from Virginia Commonwealth University and her Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 2005 from Virginia Commonwealth University School of Nursing where she worked as a RN in bone marrow transplant for six years. Ms. Locklair received her master's in nursing as a family nurse practitioner in 2012 from Virginia Commonwealth University School of Nursing. She is certified by and a member of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. In addition, Ms. Locklair belongs to the Oncology Nursing Society and the Virginia Council of Nurse Practitioners.
Our nurse practitioner, Megan Cannon, received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Magna Cum Laude and Master of Science in Nursing from Virginia Commonwealth University School of Nursing. Megan is certified by the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. In February 2006, Megan was inducted as a member of Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society. She began her nurse practitioner career in clinical research with VCU Massey Cancer Center. When not at work, she enjoys spending time with her husband and two young girls.
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A proposal that would allow school faculty and staff to carry guns is one of at least 22 proposed bills Gov. Bill Haslam is against this legislative session.
In response to a recent request from the Knoxville News Sentinel, the governor's office provided copies of all "philosophical flag" letters that have been sent to legislators this year as of last Friday.
It was almost 40 years ago, but Nancy Smith remembers the one year the men's pro tennis tournament was held at the Mid-South Coliseum; her father had box seats. But even more memorable is that not long after the tournament moved to The Racquet Club of Memphis, a young and unknown Czech player came to town and, in that far simpler time, stayed at her parents' house.
Countywide school board members meet Tuesday, Feb. 12, in special session to send a still-forming budget for the first fiscal year of the consolidated school system to the Shelby County Commission.
Shelby County Commissioners agree on an issue having to do with the coming merger of schools in Shelby County.
At least nine of the 13 commissioners favor giving Memphis City Schools teachers and other system staff who live outside Shelby County five years to move within the county and keep their jobs with the new consolidated school system that takes effect July 1.
A prominent Republican state senator recently asked the state Department of Economic and Community Development to make sure and take the call if the department gets a ring from Molly Mickler Smith, the daughter of FedEx founder Frederick W. Smith.
Smith & Nephew Inc. could be in danger of losing some or all of the 15-year tax incentive the company received in 2009 as part of its $42 million investment to convert a Memphis office complex into a centralized hub for research, marketing and medical education.
IT'S NOT BUSINESS ANYMORE. IT'S PERSONAL. This is our town, and you're not welcome here.
So pack a plane with all your meaningless spin, all your lackeys and suck-ups, all your apologists, all your legal but unethical tactics, all your eye popping price gouging, all your cold and calculated manipulation of lives, your own employees' lives, and a city's pride and get the hell out. There's so much of all of that in the massive fuel dump you just dropped on Memphis that I'm sure it'll take more than one plane to haul it all off and we may never be rid of the stench it's leaving behind.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam has included funding in his budget proposal for a $62 million renovation at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and a $45 million center for the University of Memphis's nursing and audiology programs.
As a student at Central High School and the University of Miami, Tiffany Johnson enjoyed writing more than anything.
Shelby County Commissioners take a final vote Monday, Jan. 14, on a "wage theft" ordinance to set up a process of local complaints from employees that would go through the General Sessions Environmental Court.
2013 Sports Forecast by the numbers: 1. The Grizzlies swing a deal before the trade deadline but are fined by the NBA when, out of habit, they try to trade O.J. Mayo.
2. The Memphis Airport is invited to join the Big East.
Shelby County Commissioners take what is expected to be their next-to-last vote Monday, Dec. 17, on a "wage theft" ordinance that will probably be amended as it faces organized resistance from the local restaurant and hospitality industries.
The freshly painted walls at Paradigm Marketing & Creative include the definition of creativity spelled out to serve as a constant reminder of the 20-year old firm's mantra.
"The ability to transcend traditional ideas and to create meaningful new ideas," the wall leading into the newly refurbished kitchen area reads.
FedEx Corp. took another step Tuesday, Dec. 4, in its reaction to a slow growth global economy as well as its own desires to make major changes to the oldest division of the Memphis-based global corporate giant.
FedEx executives announced terms Tuesday, Dec. 4, of an employee buyout expected to run from June 2013 through May 2014.
Employees in the Corporate, Express, Services and TechConnect divisions of FedEx in the U.S. with at least five years of continuous service at FedEx as of Nov. 30 will get buyout packets. Preference would go to those with the most seniority in their section if more employees in a section accept the offer than there are slots.
Myra Gammon has joined Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare as a business development account manager for Community Care Associates. In her new role, Gammon is responsible for the development and management of the Occupational Health and Wellness Services program.
Shelby County Commissioners take up the proposed sale Monday, Dec. 3, of 33.6 acres of land in the Frank C. Pidgeon Industrial Park in southwest Memphis.
Carolyn Hardy, owner of the Hardy Bottling Co. and consultant to the Blues City Brewery operation that later bought the plant, wants to buy the last available roadside acreage in the industrial park for a business to store and stage modular containers.
Entrepreneurialism is the last frontier – an uncharted region with unprecedented, unforeseen, unknown dangers, challenges and rewards.
All adventures begin with a new map, just like the territory you charted in your business plans. You drafted this plan in the ardor of a visionary impulse, tempered with a will to thrive as you grow.
Erika Ewen has joined Cushman & Wakefield/Commercial Advisors Asset Services LLC as controller. Ewen will direct the accounting department in all accounting functions and financial reporting of Commercial Advisors Asset Services as well as all property management clients.
For 11 years now, Acker Robison Realty has been helping businesses around the Memphis area with their commercial real estate needs.
The boutique firm, founded by Michael Robison in 2001, handles the full gamut of commercial brokerage services, representing landlords and tenants, purchasers and sellers in the office, industrial and retail sectors.
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In this series on productivity, author Jess Stratton takes you through the latest tools that will help you run your business and life more efficiently. Each installment covers a particular feature or technique in a different online tool, such as Google Apps, Skype, YouTube, Mint.com, Etsy, and more. Learn about topics ranging from recording and publishing video chats to managing your finances online.
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Jess Stratton here and welcome to Monday Productivity Pointers. In the last video, I showed you how easy it was to create your own AutoText entries in Microsoft Word so that you can keep reusing text that you type all the time. In fact, I encouraged you to make as many Quick Part entries as you possibly could. With all the entries that you type all the time. So, what happens when you get a new computer, sit down to a fresh installation of Microsoft Word and out of habit punch in your key combination and no text pops up.
That's because your old auto text entries need to first be brought over to the new computer. It's one file that needs to be copied from your old computer pasted to your new one. Now, the trick is knowing what file and where it needs to go. In this video, I'm going to show you how you can track down that elusive file and copy it. Now, to get it over to the new computer, it's just a matter of maybe transferring it through a network drive. Emailing it to yourself or putting it on a flash drive any of those will work.
But we're going to concentrate on finding that file. I've got my Windows machine opened and I've opened up Windows Explorer. Now when you open it up it defaults to Libraries but I'm going to come down here on the left hand side and click Computer. Because I want to search for my Building Blocks file and I need to find it on the entire computer. So on the right hand side in the search box, click your mouse, and you're going to type building blocks..x. Now building blocks is indeed two words. Hit the enter key and your computer is going to start searching.
So remember if you saved your files in the building blocks template you only need to look for one file, building blocks. If you saved it in the normal template you also have to search for normal.dot. Now we've got quite a few results here. I'm going to show you how to find the file that you need. The first thing that you need to look at is the icon on the left side. These are searches, and these are documents. You may also have forgery icons in here, and that's not what you want. So right away you can narrow it down to only documents.
Now the next thing that you need to know to make sure it's the right building block..x is you want the one that's in your Window's profile. You can see here that this one is in C/Users/JessStratton, so that looks pretty good. It's probably the one we want. Now there's also another file here that's located in a profile also. But this one's called built in building blocks. That's not the right one. So we can cancel out all these because they're not actually called building blocks, and some of them aren't even in any user profile locations. This one looks good.
Now if it comes down to a few an you really aren't sure which one you want A trick that you can do is to go into Microsoft Word and quickly create a brand new Quick Cards text, save it in the building blocks template and do your search again. You can see here, it tells you what the date modified of each file is. So if the date modified is today because you just created an entry you'll know that, that's the right file. So once you've got the file, you've identified it, right-click with your mouse and you have a few options here.
You can send it to a flash drive, a USB drive. You can copy and paste it into another drive. You can share it on the network or you can even e-mail it to yourself as an attachment. The trick is, you need to get it on some sort of media so that you can put it on the new computer. Now I'm going to close out of this search, because if we're on the new computer we need to do the exact same thing. Come over to the new computer, open up Windows Explorer. Click Computer, and on the top right hand side search for Building Blocks.dotx.
Hit the Return key so the search can happen. Now you'll have a default Building Blocks.dotx. If it's a brand new computer and you've opened up Microsoft Word on that computer, you'll still have a Building Blocks file. There just won't be anything in it. Look for the one that's got your user profile, you'll need to know what the login name for the new Windows machine is. And what we always do before we make a change to a system file is back up the old one. So right-click this one, copy it and paste in onto the desktop.
This way if anything happens or you accidently overwrite the wrong file, you can always come here. You've got your backup and you can restore it. So try to make that a habit. Now that you've identified the folder remember, we're on the new computer now. You can right-click with your mouse. And scroll all the way to the bottom and chose Open file location. This is a really quick way to get to that long, ugly folder list. So now that we're in the folder, you can right-click and choose Paste.
Once you're in the right folder. You need to go to your USB flash drive or your file attachment that you emailed to yourself with your old file and copy it to the clipboard. And then you can come in here, right-click, and choose Paste. it's going to paste the building blocks in. You can rename the old one. And right-click and rename the new one, building blocks. What you've now done, is you've overwrote, the existing empty building blocks with your old, populated building blocks.
Now you can close out of everything, open up Microsoft Word, start typing your auto-text, an it'll pop up. So that's how you move, building blocks entries from one Microsoft Word installation, to another one.
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Preheat oven to 350° F. In a medium bowl, combine beans, cream cheese and Rotel; bake in oven for 20 minutes. Add shredded cheese and bake for another 10 minutes. Serve immediately with tortillas or tortilla chips.
Nutritional Information:
Calories 345
Total Fat 11g
Saturated Fat 6g
Cholesterol 29mg
Sodium 222mg
Total Carbohydrate 46g
Dietary Fiber 11g
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For Claudia, the wine business is an international family affair. Claudia's parents grew up on wine estates and immigrated to California from Germany in 1961. A bilingual dual-national, Claudia has enjoyed the best of the "new" and the "old" worlds. She was born and raised in California and grew up in the Napa Valley. After earning a degree in Economics at Stanford University, she worked in San Francisco before returning to her familial roots in Germany.


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Titan Torque Wrench 1/4" Drive
Properly torqued fasteners ensure reliability and safety. The Titan torque wrench will help you achieve that with ease and confidence. The Titan torque wrench is offered in 1/4" drive that has an operating range of 2-24 Nm (most common for the majority of bicycle applications). These torque wrenches have been calibrated and tested before leaving the factory and are accurate to +/-4%.
Works great and is a great value.
I bought two torque wrenches and got them tested in the company`s metrology lab. Both could get a stamp from the lab as Calibrated. I got them for $30 each, great product for the price.
This wrench allowed me to precisely set it and it clicked noticeably when the tightness was reached.
The socket head are not included, but you can buy those socket head at Home Depot. I love this!! I'm using this for head set, pedal, bearing tightening. Very useful!!
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from the distant-support dept.
So what's their problem? Just tell a sysadmin [xkcd.com] to fix it.
Thank you so much Mr. Wowsers for giving NASA this great idea. I suspect, given the genius of the thought, you will be contacted for employment shortly.
Forgot something and noticed halfway? Happens to me all the time...
sudo apt-get update mars
Good news everyone!
NASA will only have to wait half as long to find out if their software upgrade worked!
i spoke to mars and it assured me it wasn't offended
but it was happy for you to be offended on its behalf
99% of brickings are the result of people doing stuff that the manufacturer did not intend for you to do
In that case, that should happen with deep space probes quite a lot.
Curiosity made the Mars run in 1.82543347 × 10-5 Parsecs
pff worst case scenario : they send him over to mars to jtag the rover by hand...
Similar to some devices here on Earth, the rover should have an automatic revert solution.
It does. Scientists put a small switch in at the back which you hold down while powering it up and it will reset itself.
The perversity of nature is nowhere better demonstrated by the fact that, when exposed to the same atmosphere, bread becomes hard while crackers become soft.


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Lonemagpie wrote:
I find it hard to get the point of novelising a movie that's based on a novel...
I generally resist that as well, although, yeah, there are some cases where the film/TV show is
different from the original than it almost makes sense. There's a new edition of
(the original novel by Bram Stoker) that has the guy from the new NBC TV series on the cover, but anybody who picks up that book, expecting anything like the TV show is in for a big shock. That's a case where it might have made sense to commission a novelization of the TV show instead. (Too bad Fred Saberhagen is no longer with us.)
But, yeah, I've never really seen the point of hiring, say, David McIntee to rewrite
The Island of Doctor Moreau
where there's already a perfectly good novel by H.G. Wells.
And from an editorial standpoint, it's frankly easier to slap a new cover on an old book than produce a new book on a crash schedule . . . assuming you can get permission from the studio.
There's another consideration, of course. If you're dealing with a public-domain classic, the studio or publisher may want something they can sell
. The problem with a doing a movie tie-in edition of, say,
Pride and Prejudice
or whatever is that everyone in town can put out their own edition to cash in on a new movie--and there are probably already multiple editions in print. Having the movie cover is a plus, but there's still going to be plenty of competition in the marketplace . . . .
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While Thursday's show was the lowest-rated episode of the year, it was not the least-watched episode of the year. That distinction still belongs to the May 30 show, which bottomed out when the program changed timeslots. Thursday's show averaged 1,053,000 viewers over the course of two hours, a drop-off of five percent from the week before.
On a positive note, Males 12-34 and Males 18-34 drew six-week highs.
-- TNA Wrestling road agent Al Snow will appear at Fandomfest Comic and Toy Expo at the Kentucky International Convention Center 221 S 4th St. Louisville, Kentucky and The Galthouse Hotel & Convention Center 140 North Fourth St. Louisville, Kentucky. The event take place July 26-28.
-- This week, Robbie E asks Gail Kim three questions for a chance to get on "The List." However, all she has to do is answer one.