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If you have a look at def.h in your sketch (I assumed for the sake of it that the board below is actually the sensorboard you have), you'll find the 'normal' sensor orientation below. So let's say you've inverted the board, whilst keeping front pointing forward.
ACC measures roll on negative Y, GYRO measures roll on negative X. So two axes for different sensors, but as they are still the same place on the board, it'll still measure the same axis, but the wrong way up/round (or so I believe ).
If you'd put a dot on the right lower corner of the top-side of a cube, and you'd rotate the cube so top becomes bottom, the dot would be on the lower left of bottom. Or at least that is my way of thinking about sensor orientation.
That would mean roll axis would be positive now your board is upside down. Pitch would be negative for ACC, positive for Gyro. Yaw (Z value for both) would be negative on ACC, positive on gyro...
Please back-up your original code and test/verify in GUI before flight!!!
#if defined(DROTEK_6DOFv2) #define ITG3200 #define BMA180 #define ACC_ORIENTATION(X, Y, Z) {accADC[ROLL] = -Y; accADC[PITCH] = X; accADC[YAW] = Z;} #define GYRO_ORIENTATION(X, Y, Z) {gyroADC[ROLL] = -X; gyroADC[PITCH] = -Y; gyroADC[YAW] = -Z;} #define ITG3200_ADDRESS 0X69 #endif
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first, let me -shortly- introduce myself.
I started flying electric gliders when I was 14. With limited success. Years later I re-started with an EPP model, which is more tolerant to failures ;-) But my time was too limited. In the meantime I played around with an indoor Coax-Heli (these 100$ things) for a while, which was good fun.
Regarding programming, OSS, I have some exerience, not too much.
Also, I know what an UART, PWM and PID is, quite well. So, I have some prerequisites, I think.
I must admit, that I did not read all >3089 posts in this thread, but I did browse through all 255 pages searching for some keywords -without the answer I was searching for. So please allow the questions below, even if they might seem straight forward to you.
I bought the following components (ebay, used):
Flyduino MEGA Flight Controller CPU Board Citrus-IMU V2.1 – 10DOF Flydusense V1.2 Sensor Bob Flyduino FMP04 GPS Bob FMP04 GPS Modul
Due to the nature of this buy, I did not have the opportunity to select the parts myself -but on the bright side: I did not have to select them myself.
But now: What software do I use with it? The Manual of the Flyduino Mega speaks of the MultiWII, but browsing through the forums, I see, that Multi is somewhat lacking GPS features and is more made for manual flying. Well, I want to do both, so I don't know whether MultiWii is the right software.
Flyduino.net speaks of Ardupirates and -possibly in future Aeroquad as alternatives.
I've been searching over and over.. But I find little about Flyduino with these.
What I did find was a tutorial for flyduino with Megapirates.
But then, I see little activity at Megapirates google-site. On the contrary, I see MegapirateNG, which could be a successor ("NG"). But the website does not state this. Unfortunately it also does not say that is compatible with the flyduino -although in some forums, people seem to be reporting about this combination.
Could you please shed some light on this subject?
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never used ardupirates, but very happy with multiwii
Seems like you've read up on some older posts for MultiWii.
Multiwii is very much alive, with regular updates almost daily (currently in winter it's a bit slower though).
the newest versions can do GPS navigation. Not waypoint navigation yet , but return to home (RTH) and position hold (PH) work very good.
also baro hold (elevation hold) is recently been improved, and is very good now....
have a look at http://www.multiwii.com/forum/
latest dev release (much further than 'official' 2.1) can be found at http://code.google.com/p/multiwii/source/list
perhaps useful to have a look at turtoiseSVN to get easy updates.
The download section http://code.google.com/p/multiwii/downloads/list
is a good starting point (upto R1240), but then use turtoiseSVN to update to the latest dev version... (r1297 as per this moment)
You can use either MultiWii or MPNG which is a direct port of the ArduCopter2 code. ArduPirate and MegaPirate are discontinued...
MultiWii has only basic GPS functions but is much more stable from the start than MPNG.
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thanks for your reply.
I could not see any hints that MPNG is compatible to the Flyduino Mega on their website. Nor could I find how to configure it. Is it straight forward, so that no documentation -besides source code comments- are neccessary, or did I miss some documentation?
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Thanks to RadigUli on Multiwii forums who has presented a great fix for PPM on to pin A8 or throttle channel. We no longer have to use a serial port to input ppm controls on the Flyduino Mega (or any mega based controller), his code is implimented in the latest Dev Build r1240. I have been bench testing this and all seems to working great.
Still a little curious if you can actually use Serial 0 on this board in flight but now its not necessary for my build.
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So far things are looking great on my build!
I got the PPM Sum working great on the A8 pin, my GY-86 is working great and accurate and the GPS module I got from rctimer, has great accuracy even indoors, 10-12 satellite connections in my living room! Also the new Dev version configures the GPS automatically! EEProm and battery on V2 is great!
Still waiting on my 5.8 FPV equipment from FoxTechFPV which I will use with the minimOSD from hobbyking (also still waiting on), I will hook these up to my Gopro 3 for the FPV, FoxTech just came out with a cable for the new GoPro to power it and have video for FPV.
Also updated some info on my website and added some photos to my gallery.
I am still waiting on a few more pieces to finish up the Bluetooth to FrSky, so I can output telemetry info from multiwii to my phone or computer from my Controller. In addition to on the OSD.
Still much to do and calibrate but things are getting there. The learning curve has been steep but I have been having fun learning it all and achieving my build goals.
Also want to thank all you guys for your posts, additions to code, Paul for his Flyduino Mega, I still think its one of the best boards on the market even a year after I got it!
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I find this idea very well flydusipder 10inch
I ask several questions:
What are the lengths of the arms?
Should modify the original frame?
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Joined Feb 2012
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United States, PA, Dallastown
Joined Jul 2009
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Here is a post on it on RCGroups #732-733
Not 100% but this looks like the diagram for it: http://static.rcgroups.net/forums/at...611_Pinout.jpg
Thats just what I can find in a google search real quick for ya...
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Sorry wrong thread
United Kingdom, Dorset
Joined Feb 2012
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Thanks for that. I managed to find the same drawing. That's all the info I could find also. Got it compiled and Megapirate loaded but can't seem to connect for some reason. Arduino says upload complete so I assume its on there ok.
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Dana announced today that GSP and winner of Kos/Daley will be coaching the next season of TUF.
This is a ****ing travesty.
GSP has only fought once this year and against a guy who didn't even belong in there with him.
Before that he had been sidelined with an injury for almost a year and now the UFC wants to put the title on hold and put GSP up on the shelf of inactivity again?
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Throughout a more-than-two-decade career at UB, Henry J. Durand Jr. has worked to expand opportunities and support for under-prepared students or academically at-risk students who are in need of assistance to succeed at the university.
Members of the UB community will gather this weekend to honor Durand, outgoing senior associate vice provost of undergraduate education and executive director of Cora P. Maloney College, for his 24 years as an administrator, mentor and advocate for students and UB's opportunity programs.
Durand has retired from his administrative positions to take a full-time appointment as a clinical associate professor in the Graduate School of Education.
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Mr Emniyet, who started in his position at the college this year, said male teachers who breached the staff dress code - for example, by wearing shorts - would face the same three-strikes warning system as female teachers who did not adhere to the headscarf policy.
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The days of using those things called compact discs are nearly over; music has become almost entirely digitized. Why major retailers still have CD sections is baffling. When you stroll through the CD aisles, it's almost like going back in time to around 2002; CDs from artists like Shania Twain and Slipknot collect dust as customers blissfully pass by.
Music piracy took the forefront in the music industry for quite a few years and almost everyone remembers Kazaa, Limewire, Bearshare and other p2p (peer-to-peer) networks. Then came torrenting music, not without help from programs like Utorrent and BitTorrent, which a few uninformed stragglers out there are still using.
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There are dozens of streaming services out there, but the few that seem to be most widely used are Pandora and Spotify. Grooveshark, Songza and Last.fm are a few other noteworthy services, too.
Perhaps you're still in the stone age and using your super-awesome five-disc CD changer stereo, if so don't fret, all you need is an internet connection.
I've tried a good portion of the most popular streaming sites, but new ones seem to pop up too frequently to keep up. Each one is set up with a different, quirky interface designed to appeal to users in a way that another service doesn't.
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Pandora, the sort-of "OG" (original gangster) of free-music-streaming sites, launched in 2000, prides itself in its ability to tailor a radio station to exactly what you want to hear, and they do this through using complex algorithms that they comprehensively call the Music Genome Project.
"We believe that each individual has a unique relationship with music - no one else has tastes exactly like yours. So delivering a great radio experience to each and every listener requires an incredibly broad and deep understanding of music. That's why Pandora is based on the Music Genome Project, the most sophisticated taxonomy of musical information ever collected," a statement on their website says.
When you go to the site, you enter an artist, composer or genre to create a station. Instantly, songs that Pandora thinks are similar to what you entered will begin playing, and from there, you can give a song a thumbs-up or -down if you like it or don't, and it will continue to improve the station that way.
Spotify, a Swedish company, is different. Instead of visiting a website, you must install the Spotify program, which is a music player set up similarly to Windows Media Player or iTunes. Instead of making a station (although you can do that too), a benefit that Spotify has that Pandora doesn't, is that you can find a particular song or artist you want to hear at any given time.
As of December 2012, reports say Spotify has a catalog of approximately 20 million songs.
There are different ways that people use streaming sites, too.
Desktop-wise, many people have switched to Spotify and abandoned Pandora due to the ability to make your own playlists with specific songs. However, Pandora still seems to dominate the mobile-world, and that is most likely because, although Spotify's desktop version is cost-free (although you can upgrade to avoid advertisements), their mobile version costs money for that aforementioned benefit of playing specific songs and making playlists. The "Spotify radio" is free on the app though, but that's only for users in the U.S. (Apparently, we really aren't willing to pay for their service while everyone else is.)
People seem to still prefer Pandora's app though, considering it has over 50 million downloads on Android's app marketplace with a 4.8 out of 5 rating, while Spotify has only over 10 million with a 4 out of 5 rating. Many cite Spotify's radio as being inferior to Pandora's in its ability to tailor an appealing radio station to a user's taste.
Songza, along with a few others like Stereomood, are built around finding music that appeals to a specific mood. Songza gets really specific to your mood; you can find playlists created by users that are for "A Weekend Dance Party" or "Relaxing (No lyrics)," "Songs from Apple Commercials," and tons more. You can even browse through genres, specific decades, cultures and more.
I tend to switch back and forth between Spotify, Songza and Pandora, depending on the situation.
While on my laptop, I enjoy using Spotify if I'm looking for something specific. (Yesterday I looked up Of Monsters and Men's discography and discovered, thanks to Spotify, that I love them.)
If I am literally too lazy to think of something specific, which happens often, I will switch to Songza's website (songza.com) and find a playlist that appeals to my mood. (I seem to always choose something to help me work, like "Energetic Classical" or "Classical for Studying.")
In the car, Pandora is still my favorite avenue for music. Their app on my phone is easy to use in a rush, and it works so well in appealing to my taste that I don't have to constantly try and change it to hear songs I like.
Whatever the avenue used, there's tons out there. No need to feel guilty pirating music anymore and worrying about viruses, and in these difficult economic times, who has the extra cash for musical pleasure when you can get it for free? Musicians still receive royalties from streaming sites, so contrary to the beliefs of some, it's certainly not stealing; your favorite artists are still getting paid.


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Magic Jack, for anyone who's managed not to find out what it's all about, is a simply fantastic gizmo that is saving people hundreds, if not thousands of dollars on their call costs every single year. It works using voice over IP technology, which first became popular with Skype. However, Magic Jack has improved call quality and includes a free phone number as well, giving it more features than Skype for a smaller price.
One such feature is caller ID. Whenever someone calls you, Magic Jack will display their number for you. That's always useful! It gives you a chance to "be busy," if there's someone you don't particularly want to speak to calling you!
On many phones you can even save people's names with their numbers, in much the same way we tend to do with our cell phones, so that a name will display when someone calls.
It works both ways though! Caller ID will also apply to your outgoing calls as well, so your number will show up for the person you're calling too.
What's particularly good about Magic Jack is the fact that these extra features really are included within the cost of the service. There's no hidden extras or added fees, which is, to be perfectly honest, entirely refreshing. The other services include call waiting and voicemail, which are always useful.
The brains behind Magic Jack is also so confident about the quality of the service that he's offering a free 30 day trial. You simply go onto the website, sign up and they'll send you the dongle and everything you need to get going with the service.
If for some crazy reason you decide you don't want to continue with the service, then you simply return the dongle with your notice of cancellation within that 30 day period and you do not do a thing.
The free trial doesn't scrimp on features. Where some services only offer a limited package with a free trial, Magic Jack is offering a full free trial, meaning you have access during the period of that trial to all of the added features; caller ID, voicemail, call waiting, free directory assistance and a free telephone number.
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After a Two-Year Overseas Manhunt, Police in France Seize a Suspect in the Sniper Murder of a Buffalo, New York, Doctor Targeted by Antiabortion Radicals
Finally, on March 29 the FBI called with news that may bring the Slepians some comfort. Earlier that day police in a small town in France had arrested James Charles Kopp, a radical in the antiabortion underground, after he tried repeatedly to cash a $20 wire transfer believed to have been sent to him by supporters in America. Long sought as the prime suspect in Barnett Slepian's murder, Kopp, 46, had eluded investigators in at least three countries before arousing suspicion in Dinan, some 250 miles west of Paris.
Within hours FBI and police descended on a run-down apartment building in Brooklyn and arrested two reputed Kopp associates. According to an FBI affidavit detailing intercepted phone conversations and e-mail exchanges, Dennis Malvasi, 51, and Loretta Marra, 37—both of whom have served time for crimes related to antiabortion protests—appear to have been supplying Kopp with money and preparing to help him return to the U.S. via Canada using a fake passport.
Malvasi, a convicted abortion-clinic bomber, and Marra, who was arrested with Kopp in Vermont after blockading a clinic there in 1990, are being held on charges of conspiring to harbor a fugitive. Kopp, meanwhile, remains in custody in France while U.S. officials draft a formal request for extradition.
Back in Amherst, where Barnett Slepian had been constantly harassed by abortion opponents, word of the arrests brought a sense of relief. But his widow, Lynne, realizes that what lies ahead will not be pleasant. "For most people this would be the end," she says. "For me it's going to open a lot of wounds."
Her ordeal began on a fall day in 1998, when Bart Slepian, an obstetrician-gynecologist with a thriving practice, received a sobering fax from a Buffalo clinic where he regularly performed abortions. The fax warned that several clinics and doctors in the region had been targeted by a sniper. Lynne, who had met her husband in 1979 while working as a nurse at Buffalo General Hospital, where he was a resident, says the warning didn't frighten Bart, one of the few doctors in the region who was willing to provide abortions to patients who wanted them. "He could never understand a physician who would take a patient and say, 'You made a mistake, go somewhere else,' " she says.
Besides that, says Lynne, her husband had come to accept the fact that a degree of danger went with his work. For years protesters had besieged his office, taunted his patients and, in 1988, disrupted his celebration of Hanukkah with Lynne and their four sons—Andrew, now 18, Brian, 16, Michael, 13, and Philip, 10. As antiabortion tactics turned more violent in the late '80s, the doctor viewed the possibility of harm with a degree of defiance. "Somebody gave him a bulletproof vest and he said, 'Why bother?' " recalls Lynne. " 'If somebody wants to shoot me, they'll shoot me in the head.' "
On the evening of Oct. 23, 1998, Slepian returned to the family's two-story brick house in Amherst around 10 p.m. He was in the kitchen heating soup and chatting with his wife when a gunshot shattered a window and ricocheted through the house. "We were all standing there as it whizzed over our heads," recalls Lynne. Hit in the back by a bullet that passed through his lungs, Bart Slepian was pronounced dead at 11:30 at a nearby hospital.
Outside the house, where the shooter was apparently braced against a fence, investigators found a single strand of hair, as well as a Russian-made rifle buried nearby. A crucial break in the case came when one of the Slepians' neighbors gave police the Vermont license number of a battered Chevrolet seen in the neighborhood. That led authorities to Kopp, a California native and well-known militant who traveled the country from one protest to the next. "He was kind of a folk hero in the movement," says Jeff White, former national head of Operation Rescue, a pro-life group for which Kopp volunteered in the late '80s before taking a more radical turn.
The FBI manhunt focused overseas after Kopp's car was found abandoned two months later at Newark International Airport in New Jersey. "I sat down with Lynne and said, 'We are going to catch him,' " says then-FBI special agent in charge Bernie Tolbert, who pushed to have Kopp placed on the Ten Most Wanted list. "We lived this case 24 hours a day." Using wiretaps of suspected confederates in America, investigators tracked Kopp, who has used as many as 30 aliases, to Ireland, where he briefly clerked at a Dublin hospital. By March of this year, Irish police were closing in when Kopp apparently fled to Paris, then Dinan, where he bunked in a youth hostel outside town.
A few days later French police distributed a picture of the suspect. By then Kopp was already a familiar face at the Dinan post office, where he'd attracted attention by using three different aliases in one day to receive wire transfers. "He was a little nervous," recalls postal inspector Christian Guillot, "and you noticed that, because he had a rosary that he kept turning in his fingers." When a postal worker spotted Kopp making a call from a phone booth a few days later, she alerted police.
For the moment Kopp's legal status is uncertain. Though France and the U.S. are bound by a treaty that facilitates the return of fugitives, France has refused to extradite suspects who might face the death penalty. Prosecutors in this country will have to bear that in mind when they seek extradition in the coming days. Whatever the outcome, Lynne Slepian won't rest easy until Kopp is brought to trial. "It's very lonely," she says of her life since her husband's murder. "Especially at night. I sleep with the cats. I have to be both parents to the children. I have to make all the decisions. People assume we've gone on. But there's not one hour that goes by that this doesn't affect everything we do."
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Senator Dill to Speak at UMM on Proposed National Park
MACHIAS, Maine – State Senator Cynthia Dill (D-Cape Elizabeth) will speak in favor of a Maine Woods National Park during a presentation at the University of Maine at Machias on Wednesday, January 25. Her talk will take place at 7 p.m. in the Portside room of Kimball Hall.Click here to read the full post
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Zach Armstrong Named YSCC Player of the Week
The Yankee Small College Conference (YSCC) has announced that Zach Armstrong (Waldoboro, Maine), a senior forward for the University of Maine at Machias Clippers men's basketball team, has been named Player of the Week for December 11, 2011.Click here to read the full post
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Open Registration for Spring 2012 Courses
Whether you are a recent high school graduate, want to finish the college education you put on hold, are interested in exploring your interests, or want to become more competitive in the job market by learning new skills, the University of Maine at Machias has the classes and programs you need to achieve your goals.Click here to read the full post
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New Music Improvisation Course Offered for Spring
UMM's Interdisciplinary Fine Arts program has announced a new music improvisation course being offered during the spring semester. Intermedia Improvisation (MUS I07) is a unique class that involves all forms of artistic and creative production in an ensemble workshop atmosphere.Click here to read the full post
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UMM to Host Community Holiday Party Dec. 19
MACHIAS, Maine – The University of Maine at Machias will host its annual Community Holiday Party on Monday, December 19 from 4 to 6 p.m. at Kilburn Commons. The event is free and open to the public, and will feature food and games for all ages to celebrate the holiday season.Click here to read the full post
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UMM Basketball Coach Brady Records 100th Win
MACHIAS, Maine – University of Maine at Machias men's basketball coach Brac Brady recorded his 100th win in a 63-57 victory over UMaine-Presque Isle on Tuesday, December 6. Brady has compiled a 100-73 record in seven seasons at UMM.Click here to read the full post
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Katherine Richardson Receives Maine Bankers Scholarship
MACHIAS, Maine – The trustees of the Maine Higher Education Assistance Foundation (MeHEAF) are pleased to announce the awarding of a scholarship in the amount of $1,000 to Katherine Richardson, a business and entrepreneurial studies major at the University of Maine at Machias. She is a graduate of Machias Memorial High School.Click here to read the full post
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UMM Senior to Showcase Melted Crayon Art in Solo Show
MACHIAS, Maine – Kaitlyn Burke, a University of Maine at Machias senior majoring in Interdisciplinary Fine Arts, will take part in her first solo art show at the UMM Art Galleries. Her exhibit of melted crayon art and illustrated children's poems will be on display December 6 through January 20. An opening reception for the exhibit will be held Tuesday, December 6, from 5 to 7 p.m., providing an opportunity to meet the artist and hear about her work.Click here to read the full post
Published on 01-Dec-11 14:00
UMM Announces End-of-Semester Concerts & Recitals
MACHIAS, Maine – The University of Maine at Machias is pleased to announce several upcoming concerts and performances.Click here to read the full post
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Students Collect 1,250 Pounds of Food for Washington County Families
On November 9th, the students of Meghan Duff's Social Psychology class held a bake sale and bottle drive at the UMM vs. Lee/Maine Maritime Academy basketball games. The drive's aim was to raise money and awareness for the Washington County Food and Fuel Alliance, a program that provides healthy food, food security, and fuel assistance to those in need in Downeast Maine.Click here to read the full post
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Do you really want to know why Jerry Jones decided to build the new Cowboys Stadium in Arlington? The reason is simple…Dallas/Irving fans are lame, and the lack of support for the Cowboys on gameday is a complete embarrassment. Anyone who saw the game against the Patriots saw and heard the lack of crowd noise from a supposedly sold out game.
The fans at Texas Stadium are pathetic. You could hear the play calls from home, and there was not enough people pumped up and getting rowdy in the stands. Several times in the game the camera would pan over to some lousy sap just sitting there, and next to him, hundreds, thousands more of the same figures. Get up and make some f'ing noise Dallas!!
The real reason Jerry is building the new Cowboys stadium is partly for this reason. We do not have home field advantage, local fans are lame, and the current capacity of 65,812 at Texas Stadium is not getting it done. Jerry is hoping the new stadium which will hold at least 80,000 will help the team just because of the shear numbers of fans. The stadium can be configured upto 100,000 as well. If I were Jerry, I would configure the stadium to the maximum size. At least with more "fans" in the seats, the noise would have to increase. What a very sad state of affairs. Its pathetic. You look at similar/smaller stadiums like Lambeau and Soldier Field and those fans get very loud and disruptive. Even in Buffalo, the noise factor was apparently alot for our team to handle on the road. What the hell is wrong with this picture, when you have two undefeated teams squaring off, in a playoff type atmosphere and the fans at the stadium barely register a few decibels above a whisper.
Jerry needs to import the real True Blue fans from outside cities, like San Antonio, Houston, Austin, El Paso, the Rio Grande Valley and get them in the seats. These are where the majority of the real fans reside anyway.
The new stadium completion cannot come any sooner. Dallas fans should be ashamed. Will you guys show up for the Vikings game? I'm willing to bet not, so prove me wrong.
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DETAILS: The sixth annual Santa to the Sea Half Marathon is scheduled for Sunday morning, December 8th. The race starts at 8:00 A.M. in front of Santa on Ventura Boulevard and travels through the City of Oxnard where it ends at the Marine Emporium Landing located at 3600 South Harbor Boulevard. Over 3,000 runners will be participating in this year's race.
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Motorists wishing to travel northbound and southbound in the city are encouraged to use Oxnard Boulevard as it will not be affected by the race.
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Detroit Mayor Dave Bing last month introduced a controversial plan to relocate some residents from blighted to healthy neighborhoods in order to shrink the city and target services. In the month since, he's offered few new details even as opposition grows.
Did he say too little too soon?
While he was expected to go into more depth in last night's State of the City address, Bing only touched on the plan in an apparent attempt to dispel the myth he'd move forward without citizen input.
Bing reiterated that position this morning on WJR AM-760, stressing the need for healthy dialogue.
"The community has to buy in to make it a reality," he told host Paul W. Smith. "So I'm going to have to spend a lot of time out in the community, talking to them about the specifics of what I'd like to do and get input from them. In the end, it is my decision to take the plan forward, and I know it is not going to be easy.
Demographer Kurt Metzger, who's Data Driven Detroit team has helped the administration identify blighted structures, earlier in the morning told the radio station that a relocation plan could take years to develop and fine tune.
"Youngstown, Ohio has been brought up a lot as an example," he said, referencing the much-smaller city also looking to downsize. "It's been a two-year process and they've yet to move anyone as they try to get community buy in."
While Bing has not gone into detail on tactics he'll use to encourage relocation, Metzger said the process needs to be people-driven and humane.
"People will hold on," he said. "A home means a whole lot. it really is your world, and you're going to try to hold onto it. And that's why this can't be about eminent domain or saying you've just got to move and we really don't care what happens to you in the end. This is going to have to be a much different process."
Bing's State of the City address was generally well-received, but former-Mayor and current City Councilman Ken Cockrel Jr. suggested it lacked substance.
"The state of the city addresses are basically pep rallies," he told the Detroit News. "But it's going out and executing on the field that actually wins the game, to use a sports metaphor. And I think, in order to really move Detroit forward, we need to see more details."
Bing did offer additional information this morning on the first phase of his downsizing initiative: demolishing up to 10,000 vacant, blighted homes during his four-year term.
The city has identified all 10,000 houses, he said, and has already scheduled utility shutoffs for some of the structures. "We'll start to put all of that on our Web site in April and start the process."
In the meantime, Bing's myth-busting raises some interesting questions: However well-intentioned, did he discuss the plan too soon? It's clear the typically-quiet mayor will be forced to loudly champion the plan, so should he have begun the process by reaching out to the community in an effort to curb opposition before it had the chance to grow?
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Who says that an 'average female' should be eating 2000 cal a day?
Ignore all that nonsense you may read. First of all, none of us are 'average.' I happen to be 70 years old, 146 lbs, and hypothyroid. If I ate 1500 cal a day, I'd gain rapidly. Most women I know who are your size eat 1200-1800 cal a day; it all depends on the individual.
If you're not hungry, don't eat! If you find yourself losing or gaining weight, that's the time to check on your calories. But if you're not hungry and maintaining your weight, just enjoy your primal eating.


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Fines for Failure to Cooperate within Antitrust Proceedings – The Ultimate Weapon for Antitrust Authorities?
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Yearbook for Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, Vol. 4, No. 5, 2011
The aim of this article is to analyse a powerful competence available to antitrust authorities in Europe in the form of the imposition of fines for the failure to cooperate within antitrust proceedings. While fines of that type are imposed in practice very rarely, the article considers the existing decisional practice of the Polish antitrust authority as well as the European Commission, and presents the way in which their approach has evolved throughout the years. The article analyses also the question of the formal initiation of proceedings concerning procedural violations and the importance of the use of a uniform and fair approach towards the scrutinized undertakings, especially as fine graduation is concerned. For that purpose, the article provides also a comparative analysis of past proceedings conducted by the European Commission and selected judgments of EU Courts.
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GRAND RAPIDS – The school board tonight approved more than $8 million in building repair and improvement projects to be funded with a tax approved by voters last November.
The campaign centered on keeping kids "warm, safe and dry." The 1-mill, five-year sinking fund tax will generate $4 million annually.
The projects listed for 2012-13 total $3.3 million and $5.4 million in 2013-14. Ken Klomparens, facilities director, said there are more projects listed than money available because flexibility was needed to initiate contracts.
Some projects on the list for next year include: repair deteriorating masonry at Central High School, $1 million; improving the operation of heating and cooling systems at Creston High School, $300,000; roof replacement at Congress Elementary,$105,752; renovate restrooms, electrical upgrades and fire alarm replacement at Aberdeen Elementary, $240,000; new roof at West Leonard Elementary, $140,000 and asbestos removal, emergency power generator and electric/lighting upgrades at Campau Elementary, $142,623.
The measure passed with 52.9 percent of the vote. The cost to bthe owner of a home worth $108,500, based on median home value, about $54. The school district won't receive the first tax collection until August.
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The California State Senate has passed a bill to celebrate "Harvey Milk Day" -- essentially considered "Gay Day" -- in every California public school, affecting children as young as 5 years old.
In a 24-14 vote, the state senate passed the bill SB 572, declaring May 22 to celebrate Harvey Milk in public schools. It requires no parental consent for student participation, according to SaveCalifornia.com.
For Californians to make their voice heard, visit SaveCalifornia.com and follow their requests to contact state senators and the governor. Scroll down for more."SB 572 could mean homosexual-bisexual-transsexual pride parades in public schools every May 22," said Randy Thomasson, president of SaveCalifornia.com, an organization that is working against the bill.
The legislation encourages all California public schools to "conduct suitable commemorative exercises … remembering the life of Harvey Milk and recognizing his accomplishments as well as the contributions he made to this state."
"SB 572 pressures elementary, junior high, and high schools... in support of the radical sexual agenda of Harvey Milk," Thomasson said.
"Where are the boundaries? Where are the definitions? This in-your-face, anything-goes, homosexual-bisexual-transsexual indoctrination is definitely not what parents want for their children," he said.
The bill states that "Perhaps more than any other modern figure, Harvey Milk's life and political career embody the rise of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights movement in California, across the nation, and throughout the world."
Critics of "Gay Day" insist that government schools have their priorities out of order.
"It's absurd that government schools teach children not to smoke or use drugs, yet would teach children as young as kindergarten that homosexuality is good and healthy and maybe even for them. That's just not true. Homosexual and bisexual behavior causes up to 82 percent of all HIV transmissions in California," Thomasson said in a statement.
SaveCalifornia.com is encouraging parents to take action against the bill, despite its passage in the California State Senate.
"This anti-family, anti-child bill is supported by the California Teachers Association and the California Federation of Teachers. It's important to protest this bill now, when it is expected to pass the Democrat-controlled State Senate, and later, and every step in the legislative process, all the way to the Governor's office," the group says.
Last year, the same bill (numbered AB 2567) passed the Democrat-controlled Legislature, but was vetoed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Although betting odds made UFC 156 look like one of the more one-sided main cards in ages, the underdogs came out swinging on Saturday.
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Benihana Inc.
) posted restaurant sales of $23.7 million during the four-week
period ending December 4, 2011, reflecting a growth of 4.6% year
over year. The upside in sales was primarily driven by continued
comparable restaurant sales momentum across all three restaurant
Benihana Teppanyaki deserves a special mention which accounts
for around 67% of total restaurant sales followed by RA Sushi and
Haru, representing growth of 23% and 10%, respectively. Comps at
Teppanyaki were the highest among all three concepts. The
Miami-based company generated 99.5% of its revenues from restaurant
sales and the remaining 0.5% from franchise fees and royalties.
Behind the Headline Numbers
The largest operator of Japanese restaurants in the U.S.
witnessed company-wide comparable restaurant sales growth of 6.5%
to $23.6 million in the second four-week period of the third
quarter of 2012, representing the twenty-third consecutive period
of growth. However, store operating weeks during the period were
1.6% lower than the year-ago period.
The comparable restaurant sales grew 8.0% at Benihana Teppanyaki
restaurants on the back of 6.7% higher guest count. The 8.0% growth
came of the top of an 8.9% increase in the same period of the prior
year. Same-store sales rose 4.7% at RA Sushi and 1.0% at Haru.
We expect Benihana to finish third-quarter 2012 on a strong-note
as the company came up with solid comps in the first two months of
the quarter. Continued strong performance assures a solid holiday
season at Benihana. The Zacks Consensus earnings estimate for the
third quarter is pegged at 9 cents.
Benihana currently operates 96 restaurants, including 63
Benihana Teppanyaki restaurants, 25 RA Sushi Bar restaurants and 8
Haru sushi restaurants. Additionally, the company has 18 franchised
Benihana Teppanyaki restaurants, which are operational in the U.S.,
Latin America and the Caribbean.
Benihana currently retains a Zacks #3 Rank that translates into
a short-term Hold rating. We are also maintaining our long-term
Neutral recommendation on the stock. Its prime competitors are
Papa John's International Inc.
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P.F. Chang's China Bistro Inc.
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Phrenology (from Greek: φρήν, phrēn, "mind"; and λόγος, logos, "knowledge") is a hypothesis stating that the personality traits of a person can be derived from the shape of the skull. Phrenology is now considered a pseudoscience. Developed by German physician Franz Joseph Gall in 1796, the discipline was very popular in the 19th century. In 1843, François Magendie referred to phrenology as "a pseudo-science of the present day." Phrenological thinking was, however, influential in 19th-century psychiatry and modern neuroscience.
Phrenology is based on the concept that the brain is the organ of the mind, and that certain brain areas have localised, specific functions or 'modules'. Phrenologists believed that the mind has a set of different mental faculties, with each particular faculty represented in a different area of the brain. These areas were said to be proportional to a person's propensities, and the importance of the given mental faculty. It was believed that the cranial bone conformed in order to accommodate the different sizes of these particular areas of the brain in different individuals, so that a person's capacity for a given personality trait could be determined simply by measuring the area of the skull that overlies the corresponding area of the brain.
As a type of theory of personality, phrenology can be considered to be an advance over the old medical theory of the four humours. However, phrenology does not have any predictive power and is therefore dismissed as quackery by modern scientific discourse.
Phrenology, which focuses on personality and character, should be distinguished from craniometry, which is the study of skull size, weight and shape, and physiognomy, the study of facial features. However, researchers of these disciplines have claimed the ability to predict personality traits or intelligence (in fields such as anthropology/ethnology), and are alleged to have sometimes comprised a sort of scientific racism.
The attempt to locate faculties of personality within the head can be compared to the attempt of philosopher Aristotle of ancient Greece to localise anger in the liver. However, the first attempts to measure skull shape scientifically, and its alleged relation to character, were performed by the German physician Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828), who is considered the initiator of phrenology. Gall was one of the first researchers to consider the brain to be the source of all mental activity.
In 1809 Gall began writing his greatest work "The Anatomy and Physiology of the Nervous System in General, and of the Brain in Particular, with Observations upon the possibility of ascertaining the several Intellectual and Moral Dispositions of Man and Animal, by the configuration of their Heads". It was not published until 1819. In the introduction to this main work, Gall makes the following statement in regard to his doctrinal principles, which comprise the intellectual basis of phrenology:
Through careful observation and extensive experimentation, Gall believed he had established a relationship between aspects of character, called faculties, to precise organs in the brain. Gall's most important collaborator was Johann Spurzheim (1776-1832), who disseminated phrenology successfully in the United Kingdom and the United States. It was Spurzheim who popularised the term phrenology.
Other significant authors include the Scottish brothers George Combe (1788-1858) and Andrew Combe (1797-1847), who initiated the Phrenological Society of Edinburgh. George Combe was the author of some of the most popular works on phrenology and mental hygiene, e.g., The Constitution of Man and Elements of Phrenology.
The American brothers Lorenzo Niles Fowler (1811-1896) and Orson Squire Fowler (1809-1887) were leading phrenologists of their time. Orson, together with associates Samuel Wells and Nelson Sizer, ran the phrenological business and publishing house Fowlers & Wells in New York City. Meanwhile, Lorenzo spent much of his life in England where he initiated the famous phrenological publishing house, L.N Fowler & Co., and gained considerable fame with his phrenology head (a china head showing the phrenological faculties), which has become a symbol of the discipline.
In the Victorian age, phrenology as a psychology was taken seriously and permeated the literature and novels of the day. Many prominent public figures such as the Reverend Henry Ward Beecher (a college classmate and initial partner of Orson Fowler) promoted phrenology actively as a source of psychological insight and self-knowledge. British Prime Minister David Lloyd George was known to have a keen interest in the subject, once contriving a meeting with C.P. Snow after noticing that the author had "an interestingly shaped head." Thousands of people consulted phrenologists for advice in various matters, such as hiring personnel or finding suitable marriage partners. As such, phrenology as a brain science waned but developed into the popular psychology of the 19th century and functioned in approximately the same way as psychoanalysis permeated social thought and relationships a century later. Beginning during the 1840s, phrenology in North America became part of a counter-culture movement evident in the appearance of new dress styles, communes, mesmerism, and a revival of herbal remedies. Orson Fowler himself was known for his octagonal house.
Throughout however, phrenology was rejected by mainstream academia, and was for instance excluded from the British Association for the Advancement of Science. The popularity of phrenology fluctuated during the 19th century, with some researchers comparing the field to astrology, chiromancy, or merely a fairground attraction, while others wrote serious scientific articles on the subject. The last phrenology book in English to receive serious consideration by mainstream science was The Brain and Its Physiology (1846) by Daniel Noble, but his friend, William Carpenter, wrote a lengthy review article that initiated his realisation that phrenology could not be considered a serious science, and his later books reflect his acceptance of British psycho-physiology.
Phrenology was also very popular in the United States, where automatic devices for phrenology analysis were devised. One such Automatic Electric Phrenometer is displayed in the Collection of Questionable Medical Devices in the Science Museum of Minnesota in Saint Paul.
During the early 20th century, a revival of interest in phrenology occurred on the fringe, partly because of studies of evolution, criminology and anthropology (as pursued by Cesare Lombroso). The most famous British phrenologist of the 20th century was the London psychiatrist Bernard Hollander (1864-1934). His main works, The Mental Function of the Brain (1901) and Scientific Phrenology (1902) are an appraisal of Gall's phrenology teachings. Hollander introduced a quantitative approach to the phrenological diagnosis, defining a method for measuring the skull, and comparing the measurements with statistical averages.
In Belgium, Paul Bouts (1900-1999) began studying phrenology from a pedagogical background, using phrenology analysis to define an individual pedagogy. Combining phrenology with typology and graphology, he coined a global approach known as psychognomy.
Bouts, a Roman Catholic priest, became the main promoter of renewed 20th-century interest in phrenology and psychognomy in Belgium. He was also active in Brazil and Canada, where he founded institutes for characterology. His works Psychognomie and Les Grandioses Destinées individuelle et humaine dans la lumière de la Caractérologie et de l'Evolution cérébro-cranienne are considered standard works in the field. In the latter work, which examines the subject of paleoanthropology, Bouts developed a teleological and orthogenetical view on a perfecting evolution, from the paleo-encephalical skull shapes of prehistoric man, which he considered still prevalent in criminals and savages, towards a higher form of mankind. Bouts died on March 7, 1999, after which his work has been continued by the Dutch foundation PPP (Per Pulchritudinem in Pulchritudine), operated by Anette Müller, one of Bouts' students.
During the 1930s, Belgian colonial authorities in Rwanda used phrenology to explain the so-called superiority of Tutsis over Hutus.
Empirical refutation induced most scientists to abandon phrenology as a science by the early 20th century. For example, various phrenology cases were observed of clearly aggressive persons displaying a well-developed "benevolent organ", findings that contradicted the logic of the discipline. With advances in the studies of psychology and psychiatry, many scientists became sceptical of the claim that human character can be determined by simple, external measures.
On Monday, October 1, 2007 the State of Michigan began to impose a tax on phrenology services.
Phrenology was a complex process that involved feeling the bumps in the skull to determine an individual's psychological attributes. Franz Joseph Gall first believed that the brain was made up of 27 individual 'organs' that created one's personality, with the first 19 of these 'organs' believed to exist in other animal species. Phrenologists would run their fingertips and palms over the skulls of their patients to feel for enlargements or indentations. The phrenologist would usually take measurements of the overall head size using a caliper. With this information, the phrenologist would assess the character and temperament of the patient and address each of the 27 "brain organs". This type of phrenology analysis was used to predict the kinds of relationships and behaviours to which the patient was prone. In its heyday during the 1820s-1840s, phrenology was often used to predict a child's future life, to assess prospective marriage partners and to provide background checks for job applicants.
Gall's list of the "brain organs" was lengthy and specific, as he believed that each bump or indentation in a patient's skull corresponded to his "brain map". An enlarged bump meant that the patient utilised that particular "organ" extensively. The 27 areas were varied in function, from sense of colour, to the likelihood of religiosity, to the potential to commit murder. Each of the 27 "brain organs" was located in a specific area of the skull. As a phrenologist felt the skull, he could refer to a numbered diagram showing where each functional area was believed to be located.
The 27 "brain organs" were:
Phrenology has long been dismissed as a pseudoscience because of neurological advances. During the discipline's heyday, phrenologists including Gall committed many errors. In his book The Beginner's Guide to Scientific Method Stephen S. Carey explains that pseudoscience can be defined as "fallacious applications of the scientific method" by today's standards. Phrenologists made dubious inferences between bumps in people's skulls and their personalities, claiming that the bumps were the determinant of personality. Some of the more valid assumptions of phrenology (e.g., that mental processes can be localized in the brain) remain in modern neuroimaging techniques and modularity of mind theory. Through advancements in modern medicine and neuroscience, scientists have generally concluded that feeling conformations of the outer skull is not an accurate predictor of behaviour.
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Steve Ott scored a controversial goal in the sixth round of the shootout, and the Dallas Stars ended a three-game skid with a 3-2 victory against the Detroit Red Wings.
Dallas goalie Alex Auld and Detroit's Jimmy Howard were perfect before Ott backhanded a shot through Howard's pads.
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If you roll over a traditional IRA into a self-directed traditional IRA, you don't pay any tax on the transfer as long as you complete it within 60 days. No tax is levied if the IRA custodian moves the money. If you transfer the assets over to a Roth IRA, you have to pay income tax on the money you move. You use Form 5498 to report such a transfer, unless your custodian handled it. You also use it to report any regular contributions you make to your account.
Unrelated Business Income
One exception to the IRA's tax-exempt status is if you buy a business through your IRA. Using your IRA to buy shares in, say, Starbucks isn't taxable, but buying a coffee shop and using IRA funds to hire a manager would be. IRA business ownership generates unrelated business taxable income, or UBTI; if it earns more than $1,000 in UBTI, it has to file Form 990-T and pay tax. This requires applying to the IRS to give your IRA a tax ID number. If your custodian isn't familiar with UBTI, he may not be able to help with the tax rules.
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BAY CITY, MI -- Sunday got off to a good start for Gary Barber at the 27th annual Bay City River Roar.
The 60-year-old Bay City resident won the Formula Light pole and was to begin the championship race in the first slot. But then the wind picked up and the rain came down. And even though the storm was short-lived, it left conditions less than ideal for powerboat racing on the Saginaw River.
And Barber found out the hard way.
"I was just trying to hold my own, and it was really rough with this wind," Barber said. "It caught my boat a couple of times and, the third time, it inverted (the boat) and I had to extract and it ended the race."
Champion Mark Schmerbauch took the lead from Barber early and didn't relinquish it. The 30-lap race ended after 26 laps when Barber's signature orange boat went airborne and landed upside down.
Divers plunged into the river as Barber surfaced, then assisted him into the rescue boat. Barber waved to the crowd to show he was all right.
Barber finished in ninth place while Essexville's Jim McGuire placed seventh.
The championship races were scheduled to begin with the Formula 2 race at 1 p.m. But strong winds and a brief storm pushed the races back. When they finally began at 3 p.m., the wind and bumpy waters were still a factor.
"It was very rough out there," McGuire said. "I played it safe, I probably could have been a little faster, but in conditions like that, it's better to be cautious."
This year's race marked the fourth time McGuire has suited up and tried to conquer the Saginaw River. The seventh-place finish, out of 17 participants, was his personal best.
"I would have liked to have done better," he said. "But we came out in one piece, and we don't have any work to do. That's like a win for us."
Barber, who has competed in the River Roar every year since 2008, was closing the gap on Schmerbauch early in the race before it was delayed by a crash. He wasn't able to recapture the momentum, and at one point had to back track after one of the buoys was caught on the front of his boat.
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Nintendo recycles DSi with XL display
Nintendo of America has confirmed that it will be selling a XL version of its DSi handheld gaming device for $190.
The DSiXL - which is scheduled to launch on March 28 - was designed to create a more "social experience" with its "multiple viewing" angles.
"This product really fills a gap between portable play and social experiences that up until now is only available on consoles," Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America executive vice president of sales and marketing, told CNET.
Nintendo also announced a number of new titles for its lineup of DS devices, including a book-reading app that offers gamers access to 100 classic titles.
"That, of course, is a nod in the direction of the popularity of electronic book readers such as the Amazon Kindle," opined Dean Takahashi of VentureBeat.
"We'll see if all of this is enough to stave off growing competition from Apple with its iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad products."
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"The DSiXL isn't as large as an iPad or as comfortable as a Kindle, nor will it come equipped with a digital delivery service that offers more than games, but Nintendo still plans to get into the electronic book arena," wrote Nicholson.
"[Although] Bram Stroker's 'Dracula' was the only book specifically mentioned, we're willing to guess that the majority of works will be public domain, but that'll need some official confirmation that we can't obtain at the moment."
Finally, Dunaway showcased a demo of Nintendo's long-awaited Super Mario Galaxy 2 game for the Wii, which is slated to be released on May 23.