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Syma Mini Helicopter R/C S107G 15536$29.99
An excellent helicopter for an outstanding price! The Syma Mini Helicopter is easy to use making it a good start for beginners but it's versatile enough to entertain those who are already familiar with R/C helicopters. Capable of several surprising maneuvers, this little chopper is an absolute blast. Small and fast, this helicopter was designed to fly around inside your house. Zip around coffee tables and zoom over the couch with Syma's helicopter. The controller has the capability to fly two helicopters at once, with one chopper being on a separate frequency. For ages 14 and up, this helicopter is a great way to spend time together as a family
Product Features:
- 2 Selectable frequencies let's you fly up to 2 helicopters at once.
- Amazing Technology in the palm of your hand! Syma Newest Model S107 3CH Gyro RTF Metal RC Helicopter. No Assembly required, Ready To Fly! Equipped with the latest Gyroscope technology. Colors and frequencies may vary.
- Full 3 Channels: Up, Down, Left, Right, Forward and Backward.
- A 25-30 minutes charge is equal to a 8-12 minutes flight. Recharging takes place via the transmitter or USB cable.
- The transmitter has an Alignment Trim, a Charging and Power Indicator, a Left/Right Lever and a Trimmer. A lightweight Lithium Polymer battery.
- Length: Approx. 7.5 Inches. Width: Approx. 7.5 Inches (with main rotors). Height: Approx. 3.8 Inches(from bottom to balance bar). Main Rotors Surface Diameter: Approx. 7.5 Inches.
- Suitable for indoor flying only. Suitable for ages 14+.
- Battery for the helicopter: 3.7V-180MAH LI-POLY.
- Flight Range: Approx. 30 Ft.ROHS, ASTM, FCC and CE Approval
X12 Remote Control Nano Quadcopter$19.99
Product Features:
- 4 Ch Remote Control Quadcopter
- 360° Eversion
- 6 Axis Stabilization System
- 3.7 Volt
- Uses 4 AA Batteries (Not Included)
Dimensions: 77mm Long X 77mm Wide X 27mm High
The color will vary on this item!!!Learn More
2.4G Helicopter with Gyro S33$79.99
If you have never used a remote control helicopter, you are missing out. These helicopters are so much fun! Let your imagination run wild when you are out in the field with your new toy. The 2.4G helicopter with Gyro S33 is one of the better models we carry. This model offers better control in the air and is incredibly easy to fly. You can fly this helicopter at a longer distance, even if there are multiple helicopters being flown in the area. The radio frequency will not be disrupted! Whether you are an experience helicopter pilot, or a beginner, you can easily fly the helicopter. It comes equipped with 2 speeds for either a beginner or experienced flyer. The 2.4G helicopter comes with a 7.4v 1500mah lithium polymer battery that exhibits a high amount of power and 6-7 minutes of flight time. So get yourself a 2.4G helicopter from Rural King today and start flying!
Product features:
- Easy to control for any experience level
- 7.4v 1500mah Lithium Polymer battery
- 2 speeds
- Recharge time: 120-150 minutes
2.4G Quadcopter X3$29.99
The X3 Quadcopter is the ultimate flying machine. With a 4 channel remote and the 2.4ghz signal you can fly further with other quadcopters around and little to no interference. This copter is great for beginners to experts, with the balancing gyro you can float with stability in one place like a pro.
Drones are a modern item rapidly gaining in popularity. Remote controlled airplanes have always been popular but with the advancement of UAVs, new life has been breathed into the hobby. The X3 Quadcopter can fly like an aircraft and hover like a helicopter. With incredible precision, the copter is something you can truly master with relative ease. Zip around the park or your neighborhood with ease as you expertly pilot this little drone around. With its stable flight the X3 is not difficult to fly and won't fight you like other quadcopters will.Learn More
Extreme F1 Single Blade RC Helicopter 76129$69.98
The Extreme F1 Single Blade RC Helicopter provides hours of fun for the both the beginner or expert flyer!
Product Features:
- Built-in gyroscope stabilization - for stable & smooth flights with precision control
- Fly up to 10 helicopters at one time!!!
- Crash resistant
- Single blade cuts through the wind
- Landing gear cushion pads - ideal for landing on hard surfaces
- Durable body
- Built-in rechargeable Li-Poly battery
- Remote Control (requires 4 AA batteries)
- Calibration trim control
- Built-in search light
- Flies up, down, left, right, forwards, backwards, and it hovers!
Channels 3.5 Flight Time Up to 10 minutes Charge Time 80 minutes Flight Distance Up to 200 feet Batteries (not included) 4 AA
With a 2.4G digital remote control you can fly up to 10 helicopters at one time - with more range, faster response, and accuracy. This cutting edge technology will enhance your flying experience.
Digital Remote Control Features:
- Up/Down Hover Throttle
- On/Off Switch
- High/Low Speed Control
- Power Indicator
- Break-Resistant Antenna
- Directional Throttle
- Left/Right Calibration Trim Control
- LCD Display
- Forward/Backward Calibration Trim Control
Syma 2.4G Remote Control Quadcopter with Wi-Fi Camera X5SW$79.99
This little chopper is fast and furious! Its incredibly stable flight means you can preform outrageous aerobatic maneuvers. You can fly these with your friends because more than ten people can fly these with no interference whatsoever. The coolest part about this quadcopter, however, is its camera wifi. Use your phone to fly the quadcopter from the copters point of view. This quality quadcopter can withstand physical punishment so don't be afraid to fly a little loose and dangerous with this chopper.
Product Features:
- Up/down,forward/backward,turn left/right ,sideward
- Use you phone to see the view of the camera on the Quadcopter
- 360 degrees /Headless/Stable/Easy to fly
- With Camera Wifi( see screen from the phone directly and take video/pic, 300,000 pixels)
- Mode 1& Mode 2 operating Switch
- 2 Speed is available
- More than 10 people can fly it together with no interference
- SD card /USB charger/Main Blades
- 3.7V 500 mAh Li Poly
- Charging time: About 100 Minutes (USB charging)
- Flying time: About 6 minutes
- Controlling Distance: About 50 meters
- Controller runs off of 4-AA batteries (not included)
- Dimensions: 31.5cm length x 31.5cm width x 9.5cm height
GoPro Hero 3 Camera Mount BLH7909$13.99
- Mounts to the gimbal and not directly on the quadcopter.
BLADE 350 QX2 AP Replacement Battery EFLB30003S30$59.99
Battery Type: LiPo Capacity: 3000 - 3999mAh Configurationi: 3S Connector Type: EC3 Maximum Continuous Current: 90A Maximum Continuous Discharge: 30C Voltage: 11.1V Wire Guage: 12 AWG
Extreme Stunt RC Helicopter 59412$59.98
The Extreme Stunt RC Helicopter provides hours of fun for the both the beginner or expert flyer! Enjoy this extremely fast, professional grade helicopter in the comfort of your own home or in the great outdoors!
Product Features:
- Air traffic - fly up to 8 helicopters at one time!
- Flight controls - up, down, forward, backward, left, right, hover, side to side
- Battery - rechargeable, swappable
- Stabilizations - digital trim left, right, forward, backward, up, down, gyroscope
- Remote Control - 2.4 GHz digital spread spectrum
- Charge helicopter from A/C adapter or USB charge wire (included)
Channels 4 Charge Time 60 minutes Flight Time Up to 8 minutes Flight Distance Up to 200 feet Batteries (not included) 4 AA batteries
BLADE 350 QX2 Carrying Case BLH7849$139.99
Keep your favorite quadcopter safe with this brushed aluminum case from Blade. Its locking design and ability to hold everything you could possibly need with your 350 QX make it the perfect all-in-one solution to carry, store and secure your investment!
This case was designed to fit the 350 QX and the 350 QX2 AP combo with gimbal and tall landing gear installed. No modifications necessary!
- Sturdy foam insert provides protection for everything you need to fly your 350 QX and more
- Accommodates the 350 QX with long landing gear
- Accommodates the GB200 gimbal
- Holds up to 6 flight batteries
- Holds various tools and accessories
- Holds charging or camera equipment
- Fits DX5e up to DX18
- Locking design with keys
- Brushed aluminum with bright graphics


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Flipkart and eBay are two very popular websites when it comes to online shopping for Indians. And, now with Amazon's entry, the competition is heating up. Of course, unlike the former two sites, Amazon has limited offering of books and DVDs. TheBusiness Standard has donean interesting experiment with the trinity to check out how they are pitched against each other.
According to the article in the newspaper, two items were bought through all the three sites– Khaled Hosseini's book titledAnd The Mountains Echoedand a DVD of Ang Lee's Hollywood hit Life of Pi.
How they fared: As per the report, all three sites offered the book at different prices. Amazon's price was Rs 370, Flipkart Rs 420 (they charge Rs 50 delivery charge for books which cost less than Rs 500) and eBay Rs 479. But, remember it's the individual seller who decides the price and the delivery charges on eBay. And, like the other two sites, Amazon also allows you to preview the book. Read the Business Standard story here.
As far as transaction speed goes, they found that Amazon was better than Flipkart. However, unlike Flipkart, Amazon did not offer cash-on-delivery option. On eBay, the seller decides whether to give a cash-on-delivery option or not. Of course, let's not forget that their business models are different, while Amazon and eBay are marketplaces, Flipkart hold its own inventory.
While choosing to shop online, it's always good to compare across websites for prices. If possible also read the terms and conditions of use. Remember, price should not be the only deciding parameter. The mode of payment, transaction speed, customer service, the speed of delivery along with refunds policy should be taken into account.
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HTC Desire 526G+ Review: A good budget smartphone, but competition has the price advantage
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text: OXFORD November is officially Oxford Recycles Month, and the ninth annual Recycled Holiday Ornament Contest kicked off at the Oxford Academy Primary School. Notices went home in Friday Folders. This event was designed to coincide with the states NY Recycles and the national America Recycles Day held every year on November 15th. All three of Oxford Academy school districts art teachers: Katie Thomas, Charity Gipp, and Joni Eaton will be spreading the message of recycling with their students during Oxford Recycles Month.


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Vintage No 126 Mainspring Winder Kendrick & Davis Watch
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- Item Category: Furniture & Furnishings
- Source: eBay
- Sold Date: Feb 27, 2011
- Channel: Auction House
This auction is for a vintage Kendrick & Davis Co. Lebanon, NH No. 126 Mainspring winder in the original box. This is used. I have shown every thing that was in the box. I am not sure if there was something other than that small handle that should be in the spot of the large hole. The interior box is wood. The box does show some wear onthe edges. Buyer gets these as seen and described. . . It is 1lb shipping when boxed - insured... ... . I combine shipping on multiple purchases. Please note I am located on the east coast so shipping times vary in length depending on your location. The USPS states priority takes 1-3 days, Parcel post 3-9 days. UPS states shipping can take 3-6 days. So if you are on the west coast please expect the longest time for delivery. I can not control how long it takes once I ship it. I usually ship the day after payment. Please email me at least 24 hours prior to the end of the auction with any questions, I try to answer all emails in a timely fashon, but I don't monitor the email all day long. Please use the Ebay ask buyer question method to ask any questions. . There is insurance coverage included is through ebays shipcover and is insured for the full amount of the purchase.. Paypal is prefered method of payment.- . I have the right to relist an item after 10 days if I don't receive confirmation of sale or payment from the buyer. Please do not request a Buy-it-now request. I let all my auctions run their course. Thanks and good luck. Please note I need to charge tax on all CT. sales, it will be added to the invoice. All international shipping is by USPS Priority mail ONLY this will cost more than first class.


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With an easy press during overclock, this exclusive onboard switch allows gamer to effortlessly fine-tune the performance without having to short the pins or moving jumpers!
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|Back Panel Interfaces
|1 x mini-DIN Keyboard/Mouse / 1 x Toslink S/PDIF Out / 1 x IEEE 1394a FireWire / 1 x RJ-45 Network / 9 x Type A USB 2.0 USB / 1 x Mini-phone Audio Line In / 1 x Mini-phone Microphone / 4 x Mini-phone Audio Line Out
|Internal Interfaces
|1 x HDD LED / 1 x Power LED / 1 x On/Off Switch / 1 x Reset Switch / 3 x USB Header / 1 x FireWire Header / 1 x S/PDIF Out / 1 x Audio Header / 1 x CD-in/Aux-in Connector
|Audio Channels
|Number of SATA Interfaces
|Product Model
|Maximus III GENE
|Manufacturer Part Number
|Product Name
|Republic of Gamers MAXIMUS III GENE Desktop Motherboard
|Manufacturer Website Address
|Product Series
|Republic of Gamers
|ASUS Computer International
|Product Type
|Desktop Motherboard
|Expansion Slots
|2 x PCI Express x16 / 1 x PCI Express x4 / 1 x PCI
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|Green Compliance Certificate/Authority
|RoHS / WEEE
|Maximum Memory
|Green Compliance
|Package Contents
|Republic of Gamers MAXIMUS III GENE Desktop Board User's Manual 1 x I/O Shield 1 x ROG Connect Cable 1 x ROG Cable Labels (12 in 1) 1 x SLI Cable 1 x 2-in-1 ASUS Q-Connector Kit 3 x 2-in-1 SATA Signal Cables 1 x Cable Ties 1 x ROG Theme Label Support DVD
|Gigabit Ethernet
|Form Factor
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|9.60" Width x 9.60" Depth
|Processor Technology
|Enhanced SpeedStep Technology
|Chipset Model
|P55 Express
|Total Processor Support
|64-bit Processing
|Multi GPU Support
|CrossFireX / SLI
|Processor Socket
|Socket 1156
|Chipset Manufacturer
|RAID Controller
|SATA Controller
Tech Specs
|LGA1156 socket for Intel® Core™i7 / Core™i5 Processors
|Supports Intel® Turbo Boost Technology
|* Refer to www.asus.com for Intel CPU support list
|Intel® P55 Express Chipset
|Dual channel memory architecture
|4 x DIMM, max. 16GB, DDR3 2133(O.C.)/2000(O.C.)/1600/1333/1066 MHz, non-ECC, un-buffered memory modules
|* Hyper DIMM support is subject to the physical characteristics of individual CPUs.
|**Supports Intel® Extreme Memory Profile (XMP)
|*** Please refer to www.asus.com or user manual for the Memory QVL(Qualified Vendors Lists).
|Expansion Slots
|2 x PCIe2.0 x16 slots (support single at x16 or dual at x8/x8 mode)
|1 x PCIe x4 slot
|1 x PCI 2.2
|Multi-GPU Technology
|Supports NVIDIA® Quad-GPU SLI™ Technology / ATI® Quad-GPU CrossFireX™ Technology
|Intel® P55 Express Chipset built-in:
|6 x SATA 3.0 Gb/s ports
|Intel Matrix Storage Technology supports RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10
|JMicron® 363 controller:
|1 x SATA 3.0 Gb/s port
|1 x External SATA 3.0 Gb/s port at rear (SATA On-the-Go)
|Gigabit LAN controller featuring AI NET2
|High Definition Audio
|SupremeFX X-Fi built-in
|8-channel High Definition Audio CODEC
|EAX® Advanced™ HD 4.0
|X-Fi CMSS®-3D
|X-Fi Crystalizer™
|Creative ALchemy
|Blu-ray support
|Supports Optical S/PDIF out port on rear
|IEEE 1394a
|2 x 1394a ports (1 port at back I/O, 1 port onboard)
|max. 14 USB 2.0 ports (5 ports at mid-board, 9 ports at back panel)
|ROG Exclusive Overclocking Features
|CPU Power Design
|8-phase CPU power
|2-phase VTT power
|2-phase Memory power
|ROG Connect
|CPU Level Up
|Extreme Tweaker
|Loadline Calibration
|Intelligent overclocking tools:
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|O.C. Profile
|Overclocking Protection:
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|Voltiminder LED
|ASUS C.P.R.(CPU Parameter Recall)
|Other Special Features
|Onboard Switches: Power / Reset / Clr CMOS (at rear)
|ASUS Q-LED (CPU, DRAM, VGA, Boot Device LED)
|ASUS Q-Connector
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|ASUS Fan Xpert
|ASUS MyLogo3
|ASUS EZ Flash 2
|ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3
|Back Panel I/O Ports
|1 x PS/2 Keyboard port (purple)
|1 x Clr CMOS switch
|1 x Optical S/PDIF out port
|1 x IEEE1394a port
|1 x External SATA port
|1 x LAN (RJ45) port
|9 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports (1 port for ROG Connect)
|1 x ROG Connect On/Off switch
|8-channel Audio I/O with gold-plated jack
|Internal connectors
|3 x USB 2.0 connectors supports additional 5 USB 2.0 ports (1 port reserved for ROG Connect at rear)
|7 x SATA connectors (one is from JMicron® 363 (black))
|5 x Fan connectors: 1 x CPU / 2 x Chassis / 2 x Optional
|1 x IEEE1394a connector
|1 x SPDIF out header
|1 x CD audio in
|1 x Front panel audio connector
|2 x thermal sensor connectors
|1 x 24-pin ATX Power connector
|1 x 8-pin ATX 12V Power connector
|1 x En/Dis-able Clr CMOS header
|5 x ProbeIt measurement points
|1 x Go Button
|System panel connector
|16Mb AMI BIOS, PnP, DMI2.0, WfM2.0, SM BIOS 2.4, ACPI2.0a Multi-Language BIOS
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|1 x ROG Connect Cable
|1 x ROG Cable Label (12 in 1)
|1 x SLI Cable
|1 x 2-in-1 ASUS Q-Connector Kit
|3 x 2-in-1 SATA signal cables
|1 x I/O Shield
|1 x Cable Ties
|1 x ROG theme label
|1 x User's manual
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|Sound Blaster X-Fi Utility
|ROG GameFirst Utility
|ASUS TurboV EVO Utility
|ASUS PC Probe II
|ASUS Update
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Book your room at Gran Hotel Sol y Mar
Get an overview of this hotel4-star beach hotel with a full-service spa
Collect 200 points
Simply enter your Nectar card number when prompted. Your points will be credited 30 days after you return from your trip.*Offers may apply
Nestled on the beach, this Calpe hotel is within a 10-minute walk of Arenal-Bol Beach, Archaeology Museum, and Llavador de la Font. Banos de la Reina Archaelogical Site and Cantal Roig Beach are also within 1 mi (2 km).
Hotel Features
Catch some rays at the beach or spend the day relaxing at Gran Hotel Sol y Mar's full-service spa. Then enjoy a meal at one of the hotel's 2 restaurants.
Room Amenities
All 330 rooms offer free WiFi, 24-hour room service, and hair dryers. Guests will also find safes and phones.Would you like to give us feedback? Share it! Opens in a new window
Gran Hotel Sol y MarC/ Benidorm, 3 Calpe Alicante 03710
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
Gran Hotel Sol y Mar features a full-service spa and a sauna. Dining is available at one of the hotel's 2 restaurants. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. High-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary.
Event facilities measuring 7535 square feet (700 square meters) include meeting rooms. This beach hotel also offers multilingual staff, laundry facilities, and 24-hour room service. Parking is available onsite for a surcharge.
- Free WiFi
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Total number of rooms - 330
- Number of floors - 9
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Bar/lounge
- Meeting rooms
- Number of restaurants - 2
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Elevator/lift
- Full-service spa
- Turkish bath/Hammam
- Laundry facilities
- Multilingual staff
- Luggage storage
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Conference space size (feet) - 7535
- Conference space size (meters) - 700
- Number of meeting rooms - 5
- Year Built 2007
- Sauna
- Shopping on site
- Wedding services
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Free Wi-Fi
- Laundry facilities
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Self parking (surcharge)
Room Amenities
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Free WiFi
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Daily housekeeping
- Phone
- Hair dryer
- Bidet
- In-room safe
- Room service (24 hours)
Where to Eat
Restaurante ANFORA - This restaurant specializes in Mediterranean cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
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This page lists all fictional heads of state and/or government who appear in the works of Harry Turtledove, but whose role is relegated to a few sentences, and whose names are never revealed. Most of these characters appear in works set in the future.
The Case of the Toxic Spell DumpEdit
King and Prime Minister of the Confederated ProvincesEdit
The Confederated Provinces is an analog of the United States, but is a constitutional monarchy, rather than a republic, with a king and a prime minister. Both are mentioned in passing. The king is described as a figurehead, and the prime minister is described as having the real power.
Emperor of AzteciaEdit
Aztecia is an analog of Mexico, but is an empire, and implicitly, an absolutist one, rather than a republic. Towards the end of the novel, the reigning emperor has his entire cabinet put to death.
Curious NotionsEdit
The Emperor of Austria-HungaryEdit
Mentioned in passing; presumably in power as a consequence of his country's alliance with Germany. [1]
The Emperor of BrazilEdit
Mentioned in passing; presumably, the German Empire restored this monarchy which had been overthrown in 1889.[2]
The Emperor of ChinaEdit
Mentioned as being the focal point of a plot to challenge the German Empire by setting up a Chinese one to rival it. [3]
The King of EnglandEdit
Mentioned in passing, it's unclear if he rules England or the United Kingdom.[4]
The Kaiser of the German EmpireEdit
In the late 21st Century, this unnamed Kaiser is the de facto ruler of most of the world.
The Sultan of the Ottoman EmpireEdit
Mentioned in passing; presumably still in power as a consequence of his country's alliance with Germany.[5]
The King of PortugalEdit
Mentioned in passing; presumably, the German Empire restored this monarchy which had been overthrown in 1910, four years before the break-point.[6]
The King of West AlgarveEdit
An unnamed Algarvian nobleman agreed to serve as King of West Algarve, a position with limited real power; he was in fact a puppet of western Algarve's Unkerlanter conquerors. At least two Algarvian nobles, including Sabrino, had refused to take the office before Unkerlanter officials found a collaborator pliable enough to accept the crown on Unkerlanter terms.[7]
The Disunited States of AmericaEdit
The Prime Minister of CaliforniaEdit
Mentioned in passing. [8]
Ohio's LeaderEdit
Possibly a consul; despite a war between Ohio and Virginia, we never learn his or her name.
Prime Minister of IranEdit
In the home timeline, this person is the target of an assassination attempt.[9]
Shah of IranEdit
Mentioned in passing as ruling Iran of the home timeline.[10]
The GladiatorEdit
The General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Italian People's RepublicEdit
Mentioned several times throughout the novel.
In High PlacesEdit
The Pope and the King of FranceEdit
In 1381, toward the end of the decades-long outbreak of the Great Black Deaths which devastated northern Europe, the Pope and the King of France ordered the death on the wheel of a heretical cult leader named Henri. The day after Henri's death, these two heads of state, while relishing in their triumph, were killed in a freak accident involving the structural collapse of a church in which they were praying. Other important higher-ups were killed in the same disaster.[11]
In the Presence of Mine EnemiesEdit
The Perón of ArgentinaEdit
In 2010, the Perón described Kurt Haldweim a model for all rulers aspiring to greatness. [12]
The King of BulgariaEdit
In 2010, the King of Bulgaria visits the Poglavnik of Croatia on an official state visit. Video footage of the two men embracing is shown on the Seven O'clock News. [13]
The Poglavnik of CroatiaEdit
See main article for information on his role in the story.
The Premier of FranceEdit
Joined with other critics of the 2011 Putsch "in principle".[14]
Duce of the Italian EmpireEdit
This unnamed person wielded the actual power in Italy.[15] He expressed his condolences upon the death of Kurt Haldweim, calling him a man of power and of peace. [16] He was initially supportive of Heinz Buckliger. [17]
Emperor of JapanEdit
The Emperor of Japan expresses sympathy for the German people upon the death of Kurt Haldweim,[18] as does the Emperor of Manchukuo. This person could be the historical Akihito, but Turtledove does not provide enough information.
Caudillo of SpainEdit
The Caudillo of Spain described Kurt Haldweim as a man of world-historical proportions.[19]
"Someone Is Stealing the Great Throne Rooms of the Galaxy"Edit
The Galactic Emperor and EmpressEdit
Mentioned in passing, with the implication that they are absolute monarchs. There is the further implication from the text that they are not as popular as they might like to be, but that it is not safe to express disapproval of their government.[20]
Southern VictoryEdit
The Emperor of Mexico during the Great WarEdit
The name of the Emperor who ruled Mexico during the Great War is never given. It is known that Mexico was ruled by the Hapsburgs at the time.[21] In other parts of the series, we learn that Maximilian I and Maximilian II were emperors sometime before the Great War, and that Maximilian III and Francisco José II ruled after it. Therefore, the moderators have taken a calculated leap of faith in referring to him by the logical name Francisco José I elsewhere in this wiki.
The Premier of QuebecEdit
No leader of the Republic of Quebec is ever identified by name. In The Center Cannot Hold, one unnamed Quebecois leader is briefly seen at the funeral of Theodore Roosevelt. It is from this scene that we know that the title of the highest official in the Quebecois government is Premier.[22]
The Prime Minister of IsraelEdit
The Prime Minister is a man. He delivers a speech promising an eye for an eye after Iran apparently launches a nuclear attack on Tel Aviv. This results in a nuclear counter-strike on Tehran and the Iranian holy city of Qom[23]
The President of the United StatesEdit
Aside from the fact that the President is a man and a Democrat in Eruption, he is not named or described.[24]
The Vice President of the United StatesEdit
An unnamed Vice President appears in All Fall Down as the commencement speaker at Marshall Ferguson's graduation. This person shares a few characteristics with the contemporary Vice President, Joe Biden.[25]
"Trantor Falls"Edit
Gilmer's RivalEdit
No sooner has Gilmer returned from his negotiations with Yokim Sarns than he learns that a rival warlord is gathering a fleet of warships within ten parsecs of Trantor in preparation for an attack on the planet. While formal legal claims of sovereignty made by warlords such as Gilmer and his rival would certainly be dubious, the state of affairs in the inner galaxy at the time of the story does appear to suggest that such warlords are the highest political authorities in the region.[26]
The Two GeorgesEdit
The Emperor of AustriaEdit
The Austrian Empire is said to be ruled by the House of Hapsburg. Its head of state is presumably the Emperor, but not even the barest description of this person is given.
The Tsar of RussiaEdit
The reigning Tsar of Russia is referenced throughout the novel, but never named. Nor is it mentioned whether the House of Romanov still rules, although this is likely. For much of the work, it appears Russia is the mastermind behind the theft of The Two Georges.
The Prime Minister of BritainEdit
The Prime Minister of Britain is referenced once after the The Two Georges painting is stolen. While the PM is identified as female, no other details are given, and she does not play a direct role in the novel outside a brief radio broadcast. A popular fan theory identifies her as Margaret Thatcher but is purely speculative.
Videssos SeriesEdit
Maleinos II's PredecessorsEdit
It is mentioned a number of times by various characters that Rhavas's grandmother was Maleinos II's grandfather's sister and that the grandfather was an usurper the way Stylianos was. Neither the grandfather nor the Avtokrator he overthrew or his son who presumably was Maleinos II's immediate predecessor were named. While it is likely that either his father or grandfather were named Maleinos, it is possible he was named after a previous Avtokrator that one, the other, or both admired. Therefore, we have one, two or even three unnamed Avtokrators immediately preceding Maleinos II.
King(s) of Kings of MakuranEdit
Throughout the trilogy of books detailing the ascension and emperorship of Krispos, the King of Kings of Makuran has offstage involvement in various plot points. It is not known whether one King of Kings ruled Makuran throughout the period of time covered by the trilogy, or whether there were different kings at different points in the story. No names are ever provided in any of the relevant scenes. [27]
The President of PeruEdit
One of the leaders of the few remaining free countries at the time of the story, El Presidente presides over a rump state located around the Andes Mountains. United States President Harris Moffatt III spoke to El Presidente by phone on occasion.
Risson's predecessor as the Emperor of the RaceEdit
The Emperor who ruled the Race in the early 1920s, and who formally ordered Atvar to conquer Tosev 3, is mentioned in Homeward Bound, but not by name. It is said that he was more interested in form and ceremony than in the substance of policy, a marked difference from the incumbent at the time of the novel, the 37th Emperor Risson. This emperor is referred to as "His Majesty's predecessor" and is implied, though not explicitly stated, to have been Risson's immediate predecessor.[28] The Conquest Fleet celebrated this emperor's hatching day as a holiday during their war against Tosev 3. Due to the difference in the amounts of time it took Earth and Home to complete orbits of their respective suns, this holiday would occur twice in one Tosevite year, to the confusion of many human observers such as Liu Han and Nieh Ho-Ting.[29]
- ↑ Curious Notions, pg. 43.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Ibid., pg. 185.
- ↑ Ibid., pg. 43.
- ↑ Ibid. pg. 43.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Out of the Darkness p 490
- ↑ The Disunited States of America, pg. 41.
- ↑ Ibid., pg. 278.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ In High Places, pg. 15.
- ↑ In the Presence of Mine Enemies, pg. 73.
- ↑ Ibid., pg. 51.
- ↑ Ibid., pg. 422.
- ↑ Ibid., pg. 107.
- ↑ Ibid., pg. 51.
- ↑ Ibid., pg. 225.
- ↑ Ibid., pg. 72.
- ↑ Ibid. 71.
- ↑ Adams, John Joseph, editor. Federations. 2009: Prime Books. p 95.
- ↑ Walk in Hell p 304
- ↑ The Center Cannot Hold p 37.
- ↑ Eruption, pg. 325-326.
- ↑ Ibid., e.g. pg. 54.
- ↑ All Fall Down, pgs. 12-14, HC.
- ↑ Greenberg, Martin ed. Foundation's Friends: Stories in Honor of Isaac Asimov. New York: Tor, 1989. p 91.
- ↑ Krispos Rising, Krispos of Videssos, Krispos the Emperor (throughout)
- ↑ Homeward Bound p 231 et al
- ↑ Upsetting the Balance pp 482, 488.


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Las Vegas - The pressure of coaching, where decisions often come every few seconds, has a way of turning a monk to a motor-mouth.
Adrian Dantley may not have ever taken a vow of silence, but more than one knowledgeable observer has commented on how surprisingly vocal he looks manning the Nuggets' summer league ship here.
"I'm enjoying it," coach George Karl said. "His personality's a little more energized, a little more animated."
Dantley insists that those who know him know he can talk when he wants to. But he won't disagree that running things for the first time since he guided a high school team while he was still a senior at Notre Dame has affected him.
During the regular season, he can simply do his job of working on the post moves of Denver's big men. Here, every last decision, from play-calling to substitutions to timeouts, falls on him.
He recalled a piece of advice he once heard: "When you're the head coach, you sleep on the pillow a little bit differently."
Of course, the stakes in Vegas are low. Dantley has courted his players' favor by trying to divide their minutes equally, a tactic that never would fly in a real NBA game. He said he may start doling out minutes less evenly in Denver's final two games here.
Dantley describes this summer as a work in progress.
Aside from a three-year stint as an assistant at Towson, Dantley said he mostly took it easy before joining the Nuggets in 2003. But while he values the family time that gave him, he said that in retrospect he could have started coaching sooner.
Karl reasoned that it takes some ex-players longer than others to find that discipline, but he said he could see a future for Dantley.
"Once they get professional, understand the work ethic of what it takes to be a head coach," Karl said, adding, "So much of coaching is getting them to listen, stories. I think great players have great stories."
Aside from Karl, the Nuggets have decades of coaching experience between assistants Doug Moe and Tim Grgurich, though neither is interested in serving as Karl's backup on nights he may be tossed, suspended or otherwise unavailable. Karl has not decided on whether Dantley might inherit that role from the departed Scott Brooks.
Denver director of player personnel Mark Warkentien has been seen spending time here with Andy Miller, agent for Atlanta free-agent forward Al Harrington. Warkentien declined comment, but the Nuggets almost certainly would have to engineer a sign-and-trade for Harrington, since he is bound to make more than the mid-level exception. ...
Guard Earl Boykins paid the summer Nuggets a visit Monday during their scrimmage with Minnesota. Trade rumors have been flying around the team lately, with Carmelo Anthony seemingly the only untouchable player.
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Why is the government in the business of declaring holidays? Not everybody celebrates the same ones, and I'm pretty sure very few people ACTUALLY celebrate ones like "Lee Jackson Day". Some people celebrate none at all. Wouldn't it be more logical and respectful to let people celebrate x amount of time for holidays/whatever so they can enjoy those important to themselves? I mean..I'm atheist so it makes no difference to me, but it seems like it would be nicer to have your own religion's holiday off if you happen to be religious and not Christian..
Should the government declare national/state holidays?
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Without federal holidays the only extra time off federal workers would get would be vacation time they request off which can easily be denied.
Postal workers work 6 days a week with in 2012 11 scheduled holidays... and its hard for them to get off especially post masters if they don't have an RO.
I agree it could be problematic there fencer, but if there was rules in place to allow specific no-blackout days..it would let those who aren't Christian enjoy the time with their families on their actual holy days. I mean, I would have no objection to it being used for other things that may be important..
It just seems to be playing favorites here
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I love holidays merely for the days off of work/school.
Awww. How cute... A popularity contest! Guess we're back in middle school!
Culturally, the country is Christian, so historically the holidays are Christian. But I have never heard of someone bring denied a day like Yom Kippur. If anything, in shift work where everyone has to work holidays, they have a better chance of getting it off if less people request it.


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In the realm of the absurd, Steven Millhauser explores real feelings.
The story is a keen example of his work. He eschews realism for the fantastic, but his object is to show how real human hearts operate. The glove becomes a wedge, holding the narrator and Emily apart. In the hands of a less confident writer, the glove would become overtly symbolic, but Millhauser is more interested in story than in symbol. He is interested in the glove qua glove. The narrator is exquisitely tormented by this object:
Ever since I'd become friends with Emily, I had felt an easy flow between us, an openness, a transparency. This restful merging, this serene interwovenness, was something I had never known before. … The glove was harming that flow. … It occurred to me that the glove was changing her—turning her into a body, with privacies and evasions.
What we have here is clearly a young man discovering the ineluctable otherness of women, but Millhauser doesn't dwell on this stuff. He knows we just want find out what's under that glove. That's great storytelling—where there's meaning to be teased out, but we hurtle instead in to plot and hot emotion.
Among the older stories, brainiac standouts include "The Eighth Voyage of Sinbad," a bit of postmodern pastiche (remember that stuff?) that makes for surprisingly good reading. It recalls the off-kilter narrative pleasures of Millhauser's first novel, Edwin Mullhouse, the Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954 by Jeffrey Cartwrigh t, where problems of authorship are evoked in the very title. Millhauser's characters are often dealing with the challenge of representing experience in a meaningful way. The maker of automatons in "August Eschenburg," the inventor of a machine that recreates the sensation of touch in "The Wizard of West Orange"—these characters are troubled by their inability to capture reality fully. They often speak of doomed fate, as though they know their efforts will be failures but can't help themselves. It's not a long leap to read these stories as an acknowledgment of the difficulty of storytelling itself.
The book is full of gorgeous writing about seriously entertaining characters. Why then has We Others left me feeling crabby? Because of its very form: new and selected stories. As a reader and buyer of books, I find the genre to be a puzzling and even disappointing publishing convention. Neither fish (new stories) nor fowl (collected works), these books give longtime fans a pain: To get the new stories, we have to pay for the old stories.
The format is designed to attract new readers to an undiscovered writer, and in Millhauser's case that's a very worthy idea. At the same time, Millhauser's work is so odd and capacious that it doesn't quite seem to fit into this limited kind of book. Millhauser himself seems to find the format odd. He chose the stories, and he says in an author's note that he soon gave up trying to find stories that were representative of his work and chose instead pieces that "seized my attention as if they'd been written by someone whose work I had never seen before."
He goes on to invoke the "mysterious" nature of what makes a story work: "What makes a story bad, or good, or better than good, can be explained and understood up to a point, but only up to a point." He seems to be saying that from his standpoint, critical assessment isn't useful—he can only intuit, not define, what is his best work. Think back to the story of the glove. It works because it's not just driven by an intellectual idea of what the glove means—it's driven by plot, character, emotion. Millhauser knows that intuition and feeling are his strengths, even though his writing is adamantly intelligent and prodigiously researched.
Hardcore fans will nonetheless be curious to see what the master himself has chosen. There's a focus on the eerie, rather than the beautiful. He has leaned toward the disturbing, and left aside the shimmeringly lovely prose he is also capable of producing, such as the title novella from The King in the Tree, a retelling of the Tristan and Isolde myth that is almost frightening in its beauty. I would have liked to see more of this.
Greedily, I would have liked to see more in general. Instead of this "new and selected" business, I wish I could have had all the stories gathered into one place. Why not a collected stories of Millhauser, and soon? He deserves such a treatment, and not just because his stories have been so thoroughly imagined and carefully written since the very beginning of his career. The collected stories would be a major joy, a gorgeous rummage, because of the way Millhauser returns repeatedly to his eccentric obsessions. These concerns—with technology, with magic, with ghosts, with the problem of reality—lie like glittering threads across We Others. I'd love to see them writ even larger.
There's something moving about the idea of this man, now growing older, returning over and over to these ideas, reworking his most fruitful ground. It takes a kind of stamina to explore the meaning of things so relentlessly, and a kind of humility to admit you haven't pinned it down entirely. We Others begins to show us how these obsessions have spanned Millhauser's lifetime, much the way his characters' obsessions span their own lifetimes. It's like watching a man live out his fate, a favorite Millhauser word.


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Karen Hughes, Stay Home!
What on earth is she doing in the Middle East?
Could someone please explain to me what Karen Hughes is doing. Her maiden voyage to the Middle East has turned into a fiasco. She assures a room of Saudi women that they, too, will someday drive cars; they tell her they're actually happy right now, thank you. She meets with a group of Turkish women —hand-picked by an outfit that supports women running for political office—who brusquely tell her she has no credibility as long as U.S. troops occupy Iraq.
In a sense, this is par for the course when American officials meet with unofficial audiences abroad. But here's the puzzler: Why is it Karen Hughes who's taking these meetings? It was strange enough when her longtime friend President George W. Bush named her as the undersecretary of state for public diplomacy. It's absolutely mind-numbing to discover that she considers it one of her mandates to be the public diplomat.
The main task of this posting is to improve America's image in the Muslim world. Let us stipulate for a moment that Hughes is ideally suited for the job—that she can figure out how to spin sheiks, imams, and "the Arab street" as agilely as she spun the White House press corps in her days as Bush's communications director.
Even if that were so, why would anybody assume that she is the one to do the face-to-face spinning? Wouldn't it be better to find someone who—oh, I don't know—speaks the language, knows the culture, lived there for a while, was maybe born there?
Put the shoe on the other foot. Let's say some Muslim leader wanted to improve Americans' image of Islam. It's doubtful that he would send as his emissary a woman in a black chador who had spent no time in the United States, possessed no knowledge of our history or movies or pop music, and spoke no English beyond a heavily accented "Good morning." Yet this would be the clueless counterpart to Karen Hughes, with her lame attempts at bonding ("I'm a working mom") and her tin-eared assurances that President Bush is a man of God (you can almost hear the Muslim women thinking, "Yes, we know, that's why he's relaunched the Crusades").
Hughes is the third person that President Bush has appointed to this admittedly daunting position since the 9/11 terrorist attacks. And she's the third piece of living evidence that he has no idea what "public diplomacy" requires.
His first pick was Charlotte Beers, a brilliant advertising executive—a reflection of the notion that all we needed to do was come up with a better slogan. Beers was driven out of town on a rail after preview audiences howled and jeered at a propaganda film she'd produced. Next up was Margaret Tutwiler, the hard-driving press spokeswoman for James Baker when he was secretary of state under Bush's father. She, too, came up zeros.
And now here is Hughes, once again a strong woman with no substantive experience on the subject, who was named to the job last March but put off coming to work so she could spend quality time with her son before he went off to college—a laudable priority for Hughes personally, but this indulgence by the president of the United States casts doubt on how urgently he regards the job's mission.
Back in the days of the Cold War, the U.S. Information Agency ran a vast, independent public-diplomacy program in embassies all over the world—libraries, speakers' bureaus, concert tours by famous jazz musicians, and broadcasts of news and music on the Voice of America. Together, they conveyed an appealing image of a free, even boisterous, America in the face of an implacable, totalitarian Communist foe.
It's hard to say what kinds of programs—which cultural messengers or emblems of freedom—might effectively counter the hatred and suspicions of today's foes. But Karen Hughes would be spending her time more wisely trying to come up with some.


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Since Matt Bloom is taking over for Bill DeMott as the head trainer for WWE, some are wondering whether or not he will continue as the commentator for NXT. The announce table was already thinned out a bit earlier this week when Alex Riley decided to become an in ring performer again and work a program with heavyweight champion Kevin Owens. It would be difficult for Bloom to consult and coach the wrestlers backstage if he is commentating.
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DeMott bullying Rusev
One of the more interesting allegations that were leaked about Bill DeMott this week was the fact that he once bullied Rusev while he was going through the WWE developmental program. It is being said that the former ripped the New York Jets shirt that the latter was wearing because he did not like that particular team. DeMott allegedly also slapped the current United States Heavyweight Champion in the neck, which was injured at the time.
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Wireless Embedded Internetworking Short Course
David E. Culler
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Lab 8 TCP
In previous labs we have built up complete and powerful wireless sensing applications using UDP to transmit datagrams over the embedded network, as well as whatever portions of the conventional network we choose. This is a powerful framework and the 6LoWPAN adaptation layer makes it as efficient as any of the link-only proprietary or industry standard protocols which provide no systematic interoperation with the rest of the internet. Essentially any application protocol or object representation can be layered over this.
However, the internet architecture also defines a reliable stream transport TCP/IP. It uses IP datagrams and end-to-end reliability mechanisms to provide a reliable byte stream between pairs of hosts, regardless of the mix of link media that are on the intervening route. Most of the applications on the internet are built on TCP, including the web, ftp, email, ssh, and so on. One powerful aspect of the internet architecture is that it provides the primitives and the tools for solving networking problems, but does not dictate the solution.
In this lab, we will look at TCP/IP for our embedded devices. We begin with reviewing the BSD sockets API for TCP/IP on conventional hosts. Please take a look at the TCP examples in unix/ipv4 and unix/ipv6. TCPclient.c and TCPserver.c are essentially the peers in the echo protocol.
The client side is similar to what we have seen before. It sets up a sockaddr structure, either in the IPv4 or IPv6 address family.
server.sin6_family = AF_INET6;
if (inet_pton(AF_INET6, argv[1], &server.sin6_addr) <= 0)
error("Invalid IPv6 address\n");
server.sin6_port = htons(port);
and creates a socket to get a handle on the stream. Notice, TCP is indicated by the SOCK_STREAM parameter..
if ((sockfd = socket(AF_INET6, SOCK_STREAM, 0)) < 0)
error("ERROR opening socket\n");
then is connects to the server. This is, of course, the big difference. TCP is connection oriented, like a virtual circuit. It is primarily a point-to-point relationship. It is not typically used like your UDP listener which just collects packets coming from a whole host of places.
/* connect to server on port */
if (connect(sockfd, (struct sockaddr*)&server, sizeof(server)) < 0)
error("ERROR connecting\n");
It can then write to the stream, here using send, and read responses, here using recvfrom. A stream of bytes goes in one direction. A stream comes back in the other. The client and server layer an application protocol over the stream. Such a protocol defines what is sent over the stream and what needs to be received before something is sent back.
for (;;)
/* get message to send */
printf("enter message: ");
memset(buf, 0, sizeof(buf));
fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), stdin);
/* write message to socket */
if (send(sockfd, buf, strlen(buf), 0) < 0)
error("ERROR writing to socket");
/* read response from socket */
memset(buf, 0, sizeof(buf));
if (recvfrom(sockfd, buf, sizeof(buf), 0,
(struct sockaddr*)&from, &fromlen) < 0)
error("ERROR reading from socket");
printf(" reply: %s", buf);
Beneath this application level exchange is the TCP protocol, which breaks the stream into segments, provides windows, timeouts, retransmission, duplicate detection, and all those things that we study and teach in conventional networking.
The server side is quite a bit more complex and serves to illustrate the relationship between networking paradigm and operating system concurrency model.
We create a socket to have a handle on the stream
/* create TCP/IPv6 socket */
if ((sockfd = socket(AF_INET6, SOCK_STREAM, 0)) < 0)
error("ERROR opening socket\n");
but when we set up the addressing structure we don't know who will be communicating with us. We bind to a port so that the client can find us. We are a service on that port.
/* setup destination sockaddr */
server.sin6_family = AF_INET6;
memcpy(&server.sin6_addr, &addrany, sizeof(addrany));
server.sin6_port = htons(port);
/* bind to port */
if (bind(sockfd, (struct sockaddr*)&server, sizeof(server)))
error("ERROR binding to socket\n");
When we call listen. The second parameter to listen indicates how much queuing the kernel should do on this socket on our behalf. This is one little indicator of the deep relationship between buffer management and communication. Buffers provide elasticity and hide round trip delays. They improve our ability to utilize available bandwidth. There are a place to put those concurrent activities, e.g., messages, that we can't deal with immediately. But, they consume storage – and on embedded nodes storage is what is in very short supply. Also, the amount of storage depends on the rate at which things come in versus what we can service. Here, we may have many clients pounding on us, so we have no way to control the load. We can queue a few. The rest have to be rejected.
/* start listening for connections */
if (listen(sockfd, 1) < 0)
error("ERROR listening to socket\n");
The really import step is accept. When this call is made our thread goes to sleep until something comes in from a client. (Actually, since they are performed sequentially, it is hard to tell whether the thread blocks on the listen or the accept. In any case, it blocks until there is a connection to accept.) If we had other events to service, we would have need to spawn a thread to handle them prior to this call. In addition, when a connection is accepted, it is given a new client. The main reason for this is to manage concurrency. If the server is to service multiple simultaneous requests, it can fork a thread for each one and hand the socket for the particular client to that service thread. The main thread of the server can keep accepting connections and farming them out to clients. Here we have a single thread and serve one client at a time. We recvfrom the client specific socket and send the response back. When the client closes the connection, we break out of the loop and close the client-specific socket.
/* accept first incoming connection */
if ((connfd = accept(sockfd, (struct sockaddr*)&from, &fromlen)) < 0)
error("ERROR accepting econnection\n");
/* create readable form of IPv6 addr */
inet_ntop(AF_INET6, &from.sin6_addr, ns, INET6_ADDRSTRLEN);
printf("Accepted connection from %s\n", ns);
for (;;)
/* read incoming message from socket */
memset(buf, 0, sizeof(buf));
if ((n = recv(connfd, buf, sizeof(buf), 0)) < 0)
error("ERROR reading from socket");
/* check if connection was closed */
if (n == 0)
/* print on server stdout */
printf("%s", buf);
/* echo message back to client */
if (send(connfd, buf, strlen(buf), 0) < 0)
error("ERROR writing to socket");
Incidently, this echo service is like persistent http. Http 1.0 opens a connection and make a single request. Persistent http can make multiple requests to the same server before closing the connection.
Notice one more important aspect of the interface. The recv call passes a pointer to a buffer where the received data is to be placed, along with a length. The application is providing the buffering for the incoming stream. Typically, your linux machines has tons of memory, so the application makes this so big that it doesn't worry about it. However, as we operate in a memory constrained environment, a single incoming request may get broken over numerous recv's.
The BSD sockets API and the WINSOCK API have been in place for years. They are deeply intertwined with the Unix and Windows concurrency model. On the other hand, the wireless sensor network community have used the Active Message abstraction that appeared in the original version of TinyOS and was adapted from high performance parallel computing. The research community has never really asked what the communication abstraction should be and how it should be integrated with the low-power, event driven execution model. Perhaps more importantly, how it deals with the very limited storage capacity on these embedded nodes.
In previous labs, we saw that the UDP programming interface fit naturally in the event driven model. Each datagram signaled an event. The kernel provided storage for the incoming datagram. The application used it, but did not retain it. The application provided the buffer for send. The same addressing structures were used. The main difference was that we did not pass around a handle for the socket. Instead, the relationship between the application and the socket was established at build time. At run time, we picked the port to bind to.
Let's return to tos/echo and look at the tcp server, EchoTcpC.nc.
The configuration wires the echo server to one of the TCP sockets provided by the kernel.
configuration EchoTcpC {}
implementation {
components KernelC;
components EchoTcpP as EchoP;
EchoP.Boot -> KernelC.Boot;
EchoP.Tcp -> KernelC.Tcp0;
The server is in the implementation module, EchoTcpP.nc, reproduced here. It uses the Tcp interface which is found in kernel/interface/tcp.nc. It is the collection of commands and events related to managing a TCP connection. The commands are the usual operations that the application performs on the socket, bind, send, recv, close. The events are the state transitions in the TCP state machine, i.e., the handshake between the client and the server. This involves an additional command, connect. We are focused here on the server side. Again, in the event driven model it is even simpler than on the Linux platform.
#include "Echo.h"
module EchoTcpP {
uses interface Boot;
uses interface Tcp;
implementation {
enum {BUF_SIZE = 128};
uint8_t m_buf[ BUF_SIZE ]; /* Transmit buffer */
event void Boot.booted() {
call Tcp.bind( ECHO_PORT, m_buf, sizeof(m_buf) );
event bool Tcp.accept( sockaddr_in6_t *to ) {
return TRUE;
event void Tcp.connected() { }
event uint16_t Tcp.recv( void *buf, uint16_t len ) {
/* echo back message */
if ( call Tcp.send( buf, len ) != SUCCESS ) return 0;
return len;
event void Tcp.acked() {}
event void Tcp.closed() {
/* setup socket for new connection */
call Tcp.bind( ECHO_PORT, m_buf, sizeof(m_buf) );
This simple example illustrate a number of important subtleties. First, storage allocation. This follows the TinyOS storage model of static allocation. Make sure up front that your application has all the storage it will ever need. Dynamic allocation is nice because you allocate storage as you need it. It can be advantageous because different activities can share the same storage and operate in a smaller footprint. One the other hand, if they happen to operate at the same time, the system may hang because there isn't enough storage available. This is especially problematic because it can be rare and only at critical times that are very hard to test. When the crisis happens and the rare events happen at the same time the network crashes. Dynamic allocation also increases the likelihood of dangling pointers and unanticipated interactions between logically distinct parts of the system or application. There is nothing that prevents you from writing a dynamic buffer manager, but you don't have to and the system won't impose one on you. Whatever storage you want to use for transmitting byte streams over the socket is what you provide to Tcp.bind. Here we are making that binding at boot time.
Of course, the TCP server may send zillions of bytes over this socket. All of them will be sent through this buffer. The application allocates the buffer, but the kernel manages it use and reuse. If you send so fast that the buffer becomes full and there is no room for more bytes to be placed into it, the send call will fail with nothing added to the buffer. More on this later.
There is no need to call listen. Since there isn't a thread hanging on the socket, the application protocol is much simpler. Once there is a buffer bound, any connection that comes in will signal an accept event. Accepting the connection causes the handshake to complete. When the connection is established, the connected event is signaled. As segments of the stream come in, tcp.recv events will be signaled with a buffer containing a portion of the received stream. The recv event fires chunk by chunk as the stream comes in.
Often in embedded application we will want to process the request straight off the air so we store a minimal amount of information about it. We'll see this more later. Here, we just hand the received buffer to the send command. The kernel will transfer the message to the transmit buffer (the one that was bound to the socket) and spool it out over the network. When the send has been completed, the acked event is signaled. This is also what the application uses to know that it can retry a previous send that failed for lack of buffer space. Since we are dealing in the embedded world where we need to be careful about optimistic protocols that work "almost all the time" (especially if you throw enough resources at it), we have built congestion control into the API from the beginning.
Finally, when the connection is closed, the corresponding event is signaled.
This interface design, and that for UDP/IP, is the soon-to-be published work of Jonathan Hui. It hasn't yet had the opportunity to stand the test of time. But, in my view its beauty and elegance are revealed in its simplicity. Without explaining the underlying subtleties, it seems obvious how it works.


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GHS head coach Josh Buis said the outcome was the result of the Tiger Cubs being a smaller squad than the Trojans.
"The thing we ran into tonight offensively is, to he honest with you, their Jimmies and Joes were stronger than our Jimmies and Joes," he said. "And that's what it ultimately came down to.
"Now from a football player-wise, we have good football players -- just as good of football players as them. But it ultimately comes down to size and strength and I can assure you that won't be the case next year," Buis said.
Things didn't start well for the Tiger Cubs in the contest as quarterback Nick Gilliam threw an interception on the first play of the game. The Trojans took over at the Greencastle 27-yard line, but the GHS defense was able to dig in its heels and kept the Trojans out of the endzone.
Bishop Chatard drove the ball down to the GHS two-yard line and where they faced a fourth and goal. Senior Ben Hesler busted through the line and pressured quarterback Max VanVliet whose pass hit the turf short of the goal line.
On its next possession, Derrick Lenihan got things going with a five-yard run, but a screen pass from Gilliam to Lenihan resulted in one-yard loss. Greencastle tried to take a big chunk of real estate on the next play, but Gilliam's pass was short of receiver Ryan Battin and was picked off. This time Bishop Chatard would make the Tiger Cubs pay for their mistake.
Trojan runner Ryan Kleinschmidt began the drive with a 19-yard run, but it was Sean Parson three plays later that gave Bishop Chatard the lead on an 11-yard run with 3:10 to go in the quarter.
Greencastle's defense experienced its fair share of struggles in the first half and the Trojans were more than happy to capitalize on them. Bishop Chatard added 16 more points in the first half, including a safety to take a sizeable 23-0 halftime lead.
The offense for Greencastle had problems finding its way Friday, but was able to put together a sustained drive toward the end of the third quarter. The Tiger Cubs went on a drive that landed it on the doorstep of the endzone.
Facing fourth and one, Lenihan rushed for a little more than a yard to give Greencastle a first down at the 12-yard line. But that's when the Tiger Cub offense went silent.
On two consecutive plays, Gilliam tossed a pass to Nick Hutcheson in the endzone, but the receiver wasn't able to haul in either catch. That was followed up with another incomplete pass as the third quarter ended.
After switching ends of the field, Greencastle faced a critical fourth down play, but Gilliam's pass was behind receiver Chad Keyt as Keyt maneuvered in the endzone.
Bishop Chatard added another touchdown before the end of the contest to bring the contest to its final total of 30-0 in favor of the Trojans.
After the team meeting on the field, Greencastle's underclassmen formed a tunnel as the senior class walked off the field for the final time in their GHS career.
Following the team's loss, Buis reflected on the season and what the future has in store for the Greencastle football program.
"I think obviously we had some success this year," Buis said. "It's been a long time since Greencastle has had a good football team. Not only a football team, but also a football program. I think our senior class this year has done a great job of laying the foundation for our young kids to build on.
"This year was a measuring stick. We did some good things tonight. Offensively we put a drive together. The defense played very well, especially with some of the situations we put them in, but we have to continue to get better," he added.
Buis said the team would have a little break before it got back to work for next season, but he also threw down the gauntlet for his returning players.
"I told our kids after the game, we're going to give them until after Thanksgiving break to really decide if they want to pour their heart and soul into this football program, this community and this school," Buis said. "We'll find out after Thanksgiving break who wants to be part of a great winning tradition here. Because we're going to hit that weight room hard every single day and we're going to find a way to take this program back to greatness. We have good young kids."
The coach pointed out the varsity and junior varsity program were a combined 15-3 on the season and he said the sky's the limit for the program.
Buis also gave kudos to new Greencastle superintendent Lori Richmond and school administrators for their commitment to the football program and GHS athletic department.
"We have some great things to look forward to at this high school," Buis said.
Greencastle ends the season with a record of 7-3.
At Greencastle
Class 3A Sectional
Bishop Chatard 7 16 0 7 -- 30
Greencastle 0 0 0 0 -- 0
First Quarter
BC -- Parsons 11 yard run, kick good 3:10
Second Quarter
BC -- Van Vliet 2 run, kick good 11:06
BC -- Safety 3:02
BC -- Hepp 23 pass from Vliet, kick good 1:10
Fourth Quarter
BC -- Parsons 5 yard run, kick good 4:09
Bishop Chatard
Rushing -- Kleinschmidt 24-127, Van Vliet 6-8 TD, Weimer 4-37, Hartley 4-7, Parsons 3-24 TD
Passing -- VaVliet 16-25 192, TD
Receiving -- Wagner 6-80, Hill 5-56, Hepp 2-33 TD, Fagan 1-9, Weimer 1-9, Sahm 1-3
Rushing -- Lenihan 8-10, Christy 3-9, Gilliam 2 -(-12)
Receiving -- Shuee 5-65, Battin 4-19, Keyt 1-7, Lenihan 4-3
Passing -- Gilliam 14-31 104, 3 INT, Muncie 0-1


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Yes, though many profs got no grants at all
"The average faculty member at UW-Madison brings in close to a quarter million dollars a year" in grant money.
Accurate in raw dollar terms
Republicans approved 12 times larger tax breaks for "people making over 350 grand" than for "the average middle-class person."
Right on guns, iPad; but pencil and paper?
"You can't bring an iPad or a piece of paper and a pencil in the (Wisconsin Assembly) gallery to take notes of what's going on," but "you can bring a gun up there."
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Then and Now: How the World Has Changed Since Facebook Was Born 10 Years Ago
Digital Playground has Grown Into Tech Behemoth
By JON M. CHANG
Feb. 4, 2014
The Facebook you see now is almost unrecognizable compared to the version that debuted ten years ago today. Even the name is different. The social network was officially called "The Facebook" until 2005.
Facebook started as a digital playground for Harvard students and transformed into a tech behemoth, now boasting more than 1.2 billion users. And as Facebook has changed over the past decade, so has the whole tech ecosystem surrounding it. As the social network celebrates its tenth birthday, here's a look back at 10 other things that have changed since 2004.


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