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ArcaOS 5.0
And a new OS/2 distribution has arrived.
What's new?
- The Arca Noae Package Manager, a frontend for yum, the "Yellowdog Updater, Modified" of Red Hat (and Yellow Dog) fame.
- More ported UNIX and GNU software (alas no Emacs).
- Odin is included.
- Apparenly the icons are bigger now.
What's old and good?
- The Sybase Watcom compiler comes as a package and is usable (but its IDE is not).
- vi is a much better editor than epm, e and tedit.
- Odin allows running 32 bit Windows applications.
What's ugly?
- Still no command line shell that supports multitasking (but OS/2 had one until version 1.3 in 1991!).
- No hex editor. No xxd.
The desktop looks like the desktop.
The "Computer" object is like Windows' "My Computer" or "This PC" icon.
I always liked the "Command Prompts" object which contained traditionally the OS/2 and MS-DOS command prompts as well as the Windows program manager seamless and stand-alone. ArcaOS adds the 4OS2 shell (which is really not great but an improvement on OS/2's cmd.exe, neither shell is even better than Windows' cmd.exe).
The OS comes with FireFox and a few other common available Internet programs. Putty also works via Odin.
Unfortunately the package manager does not offer an X server or rdesktop client so connectivity is limited to pure ssh or Telnet.
What the OS can do is run 16 bit Windows programs, the majority of them (but not, for example, Microsoft Cinemania '94). It probably runs most of the 16 bit Windows programs better than Windows Vista and above do these days.
ArcaOS also comes with Java 1.6, ultimately limiting the software that is runnable to most real mode DOS programs, most 16 bit Windows programs, some 32 bit x86 Windows programs, all (i.e. the few existing) 16 and 32 bit OS/2 programs and 32 bit Java programs up to version 1.6 of the platform.
Coins from the Mandate Period
These are a few (essentially worthless) coins I picked up.
The first three are from the French Mandate of Syria. Lebanon had just been split from the territory and the two countries under French control became l'Etat de Syrie and 'Etat du Grand Liban. (The letter is "grand" because today's Lebanon includes some regions around the original Libanon as well.)
And these are coins from the British Mandate of Israel/Palestine. (I don't know how they dealt with Iraq currency-wise.)
The currency was the Palestine Pound which was equal to the British Pound but was decimalised. Instead of 12 pence to the shilling and 20 shillings to the pound, the currency was subdivided into 1000 "mils" ("milim" in Hebrew). Note that 1 pound in 1942 was approximately the equivalent of 40-50 pounds today and hence 2 mils were a usable 10 New Pence.
Bank notes existed as well (printed by a private bank in London) but I don't have any here.
A few years after independence the "Palestine Pound" was hebraised and became the "Israeli Lira" (with "lira" being the Italian word for "pound" used by the Ottoman Empire) and was then finally replaced by the (even more hebraised) Israeli Shekel (with "shekel" being the Hebrew word for a certain weight less than a pound) and the Israeli New Shekel.
Israeli Lira had the adorable socialist paradise look fashionable in the 1950s.
The strong, happy labourer (with a moustache and otherwise clean-shaven, not religious) and the female farmer (also strong and happy) were now in power.
The obverse of the notes showed artefacts from Israelite history and the words "Bank of Israel" in Hebrew, Arabic and English.
I bought a QNAP TS-541+ NAS. It came with 8 GB RAM and I added an 8 TB hard drive and a 500 GB SSD.
After downloading the QFinder tool the NAS configured itself and finally showed this Web interface.
The interface is quite snappy and works really really well. In fact I haven't seen a Web interface as well-done as this ever before. (Citrix XenApp comes close but is not nearly as pretty.)
So far I found you can create users and groups, shares (SMB, AFP, and NFS), and an FTP server. The NAS also acts as a Web server and can be a VPN server or even a (apparently Windows-compatible) domain controller.
Each user has a home directory. Only the "admin" user can log in via ssh (or Telnet, if enabled). The su and sudo commands are missing.
The NAS also supports the creation of virtual machines. I think it uses KVM.
There are a lot of apps and features I didn't even try or look at yet.
So far I recommend the device fully.
Could not connect to one or more vCenter Server systems
Very very very often vCenter 6.5 will greet me with the helpful message "Could not connect to one or more vCenter Server systems". It turns out this is a bug in vCenter 6.5.
To recover vCenter, I had to follow these simple few steps.
1. Secure shell into the vCenter appliance and open the vpxd log file.
2. In it, find error messages at the end that look like this.
error vpxd[7F0A533E7700] [Originator@6876 sub=vpxCommon opID=HostSync-host-19-795056c4] [Vpxd_HandleVmRootError] Received unrecoverable VmRootError. Generating minidump ...
error vpxd[7F0A533E7700] [Originator@6876 sub=Default opID=HostSync-host-19-795056c4] An unrecoverable problem has occurred, stopping the VMware VirtualCenter service. Error: Error[VdbODBCError] (-1) "ODBC error: (23505) - ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "pk_vpx_vm_virtual_device";
--> Error while executing the query" is returned when executing SQL statement "INSERT INTO VPX_VM_VIRTUAL_DEVICE (ID, DEVICE_KEY, CONN_AL_GU_CONTROL_FLAG, CONN_CONNECTED_FLAG, CONN_START_CONNECTED_FLAG, CONN_STATUS, DEVICE_INFO_SUMMARY, DEVICE_INFO_LABEL, DEVICE_CONTROLLER_KEY, DEVICE_UNIT_NUMBER, DEVICE_TYPE, DEVICE_TEXT) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)"
3. Open the postgresql log file (use ls -trl to find the current one, check the last two or three).
4. Find the corresponding (to the above errors) entry. It looks like this.
VCDB vc ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "pk_vpx_vm_virtual_device"
VCDB vc DETAIL: Key (id, device_key)=(101, 3002) already exists.
VCDB vc STATEMENT: INSERT INTO VPX_VM_VIRTUAL_DEVICE (ID, DEVICE_KEY, CONN_AL_GU_CONTROL_FLAG, CONN_CONNECTED_FLAG, CONN_START_CONNECTED_FLAG, CONN_STATUS, DEVICE_INFO_SUMMARY, DEVICE_INFO_LABEL, DEVICE_CONTROLLER_KEY, DEVICE_UNIT_NUMBER, DEVICE_TYPE, DEVICE_TEXT) VALUES ($1, $2, $3, $4, $5, $6, $7, $8, $9, $10, $11, $12)
5. Make a not of the id and device_key (here 101 and 3002).
6. Start the psql client and connect as the postgres user. (Apparently no password is needed.)
/opt/vmware/vpostgres/current/bin/psql -U postgres
7. Switch to the VMware database. Note the case sensitivity.
\c VCDB
You can also show the tables in the database using
8. Show the offending device entry. Use the ID and DEVICE_KEY found above.
SELECT * FROM vpx_vm_virtual_device WHERE ID=101 AND DEVICE_KEY=3002;
9. If the device looks like it could be the offender (perhaps it is an externally connected USB device), go ahead and delete it (but don't blame me if this goes horribly wrong).
DELETE FROM vpx_vm_virtual_device WHERE ID=101 AND DEVICE_KEY=3002;
10. Reboot the vCenter appliance.
Also see http://vman.ch/vcenter-vdbodbcerror-unique-constraint-pk_vpx_vm_virtual_device-fix/.
Visual Studio 2017 First Look
Visual Studio 2015 used up lots of disk space, all on drive C:, regardless of where and what one chose to install it. Visual Studio 2017 is a lot more modular. Visual Studio 2017 also appears to have integrated Xamarin as well as third-party tools.
The Windows section of the installer offers three ways to develop for Windows.
Universal Windows Platform development targets Windows 10, Windows Server 2016 Desktop Experience, Windows 10 IoT Core, and Windows 10 Mobile. It supports both .NET languages and C++. I am guessing Windows 8 support is long forgotten for good reason.
Desktop development with C++ targets all versions of Windows that support Win32 applications down to Windows XP.
.NET desktop development targets all versions of Windows that support .NET Framework 4.0 and above, i.e. Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista and above. It does not target but can also be used for versions of Mono that support .NET Framework 4.0 and above on Mac OS, GNU/Linux and other platforms supported by Mono.
The Web & Cloud section offers a motley collection of features, some of which target the Web, some of which target Microsoft's cloud Azure, and some of which target all sorts of other things.
ASP.NET and web development provides a Web framework for .NET. It targets Internet Information Server on Windows. It does not specifically target but might work with Mono.
Node.js development appears to be a JavaScript environment of some kind.
Office/SharePoint development contains tools for Office and SharePoint development, which Microsoft apparently consider "Web" and "Cloud".
Whereas Azure development actually is Microsoft's cloud and Visual Studio provides utilities and build tools.
And I assume Data storage and processing is a collection of programming tools for SQL Server and Azure Data Lake.
Mobile & Gaming provides tools for mobile and game development, as the name might suggest.
Mobile development with .NET is really Xamarin and contains .NET libraries to support statically-linked targeting (with the Xamarin libraries) of iOS, Android and Universal Windows Platform.
Mobile development with JavaScript I guess supports mobile development with JavaScript using Apache Cordova.
Game development with C++ contains C++ libraries for game development for DirectX and the Unreal engine.
Game development with Unity contains Visual Studio support for the Unity game development framework for .NET.
Mobile development with C++ targets native iOS and the Android NDK.
Other Toolsets is everything Microsoft didn't want to sort into the above categories, although it would fit.
Visual Studio extension development is the SDK for Visual Studio itself.
.NET Core cross-platform development targets all .NET Core platforms including Windows 10, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2016 Server Core, Windows Server 2016 Nano Server, Windows 10 IoT Core, Windows 10 Mobile, GNU/Linux and Mac OS. It presumably also works with Mono platforms.
Linux development with C++ targets GNU/Linux using a Microsoft compiler and C runtime library.
All-in-all Visual Studio 2017 appears to be a return to CP/M times at Microsoft. Instead of supporting Microsoft platforms only, Microsoft have returned to trying to develop the best developer tools for Microsoft and non-Microsoft platforms. (After all, Microsoft have started as a developer tools company.)
Microsoft do not provide an ISO or even an offline installer. But such a beast can be created by running the provided online installer in a special mode.
Microsoft explain here how to create an offline installer for Visual Studio 2017.
tl;dr vs_enterprise.exe --layout C:\vs2017offline --lang en-US creates a Visual Studio 2017 offline installer in c:\vs2017offline. Replace vs_enterprise.exe with the appropriate name for the installer you have.
IBM PC Boot Loader - Reading the Root Directory
A FAT12 file system's directory consists of a number of 32 bit long entries. The first 11 characters of each entry are the file name (8 characters) and file type (3 characters).
Mounted as a -t msdos in Linux it looks like this.
On the disk, as seen in a hex editor, it looks like this.
Note that file names shorter than 8 characters are actually 8 characters long with the missing characters filled with spaces (ASCII 0x20).
Returning to the existing boot loader, with the variable names updated because I felt like it. This is the new beginning of the boot sector.
As noted in earlier blog entries this code is loaded at address 0x7C00. The root directory has to be loaded somewhere too (and later the FAT). There is also need for a stack segment (which here starts at 0x6C00 some 4 KB before the code).
Remember that segment registers are extended by a nybble (half a byte). Hence 0x6C0 in a segment register equals the segment base address 0x6C00. (In order not to be confused I start the names of offsets with a "p" and the names of segment addresses with "a".)
The boot loader main routine configures the segment registers (code = data = extra, stack at 0x6C00) and defines a stack of 4 KB. It then proceeds to print "hello" before calling the loaddir and findfile routines and ending the program with printing "bye" before rotating forever.
The loaddir routine loads the disk's root directory at address 0x7E00. The root directory is 14 sectors long and starts at sector 19.
The IBM 3.5" 1.44 MB floppy disk has 80 tracks and 18 sectors per track. (It also has two sides, if you can believe it.) The fact that the root directory is located right at the beginning of a track and is shorter than the track allows reading it with little calculation and in one move.
Sector 19 is the second sector of the second side of the first track.
Tracks are zero-based. Hence the first track is track 0. This goes into CH.
Sectors are one-based. Hence the second sector is sector 2. Goes into CL.
Disk sides are zero-based. Hence the second side is side 1. Goes into DH.
There is only one drive. Drives are zero-based. Drive 0 goes into DL.
This routine uses hard-coded block addresses. (I think this is appropriate since the geometry of the disk was known when the boot sector was written. It's also easier to write. The routines for calculating logical block addresses from physical addresses and vice versa explained in a previous entry are not being used.)
After loading the root directory at address 0x7E00 each entry needs to be read and compared to the name of the file that needs loading. This is as far as this goes for now.
This routine displays the file name and type it finds when comparing each directory entry with the image file name. (Ultimately it should of course load the file and far jump into the newly loaded code.)
The accumulator (AX) is initialised with 0 to be used as an offset, the counter (CX) with the number of root directory entries (224). The source index (SI) is initialised with the address of the image file name and the destination index is initialised with the address of the root directory in memory (0x7E00).
At this point the loop starts.
The current directory entry is at DI+AX. The relevant part of the entry is the first 11 bytes, the file name (8 bytes) and the file type (3 bytes). This is compared with the image file name. The string comparison is done using a special x86 instruction for string comparisons that uses the SI and DI registers (which are already filled correctly) and the CX register (which therefor has to be saved before and restored after the string comparison). The string comparison is to be done on 11 characters, hence CX is initialised with 11.
If the two 11-character strings are equal, the file is found and its name displayed on the screen. There happens to be a zero following the file name. This is because byte 11 is the attribute byte and there are no attributes set. I am using this fact so I can use my writes routine which prints zero-terminated strings.
When running, it looks like this.
Note that there is no carriage return and line feed following the file name and file type output.
To be continued...
Data Types and Pointer Sizes
Because I was bored and because boring repetetive tasks interest me greatly, I wrote a little program that displays data type sizes and compiled it for a variety of platforms immediately available to me.
This is the program.
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
char *s = ""
"\nType sizes of current architecture and system\n"
"char: %d\n"
"short: %d\n"
"int: %d\n"
"long: %d\n"
"long long: %d\n"
"float: %d\n"
"double: %d\n"
"long double: %d\n"
"pointer: %d\n\n";
sizeof(long long)*8,
sizeof(long double)*8,
sizeof(char *)*8
It does absolutely nothing useful, only displays the sizes, in bits, of various data types (the last one being a char pointer).
The first three compiled versions were for 32 bit Windows NT (x86 and ARM) and 64 bit Windows NT (AMD64).
The first binary tells us that in 32 bit Windows NT (Windows 10 in this case), a byte is 8 bits long (this is true for all the platforms involved here), an int is a long is 32 bits and a long long is 64 bit. Pointer size of 32 bit Windows NT is, you guessed it, 32 bits.
Windows NT on ARM works exactly the same way. 8 bit bytes, 16 bit shorts, 32 bit ints and longs and 64 bit long longs plus 32 bit pointers.
Note the 64 bit long double floating point type which is identical with the 64 bit double type for all Windows platforms.
64 bit Windows NT simply has a greater pointer size, the most unexpected 64 bit for the 64 bit operating system.
This is called the LLP64 or IL32P64 data model and is used by Windows NT on AMD64 and Itanium.
But on the other hand it should be noted that UNIX, represented here by the favourite Unix clone GNU/Linux, uses 64 bit longs (and 128 bit long doubles). Pointer size is also 64 bit. This is called the LP64 or I32LP64 data model and is used by various operating systems including most UNIX derivatives and clones.
Back in the PC world 32 bit OS/2 just like 32 bit Windows NT. This is of course not a coincidence. Windows NT started its career as Microsoft's planned replacement for OS/2.
OS/2 was a weird 16-32 bit hybrid and also supported 16 bit software.
A 16 bit OS/2 executable lives in a 16 bit world, with 16 bit ints and 16 bit pointers. This is a segmented architecture. While pointers were 16 bit it was possible to address significantly more memory than 64 KB in total.
Note the traditional Windows and OS/2 identity of double and long double.
MS-DOS (note the 8.3 file name) provided (or existed in) a similar environment. The difference was that OS/2's memory addresses were not real. Again this is a segmented architecture.
OpenVMS on Alpha uses the same data model as Windows NT. 64 bit VMS appeared before Windows NT which at the time ran on the Alpha CPU but in 32 bit mode.
But note that OpenVMS does not adhere to the Windows and OS/2 tradition of identical double and long double types.
It is possible on OpenVMS to create a 32 bit executable. This doesn't seem to impact the other data types. I am not sure what it really means.
Note the fact that OpenVMS file names are case-insensitive and cannot contain dots. (Like in MS-DOS the dot separates the file name from the file type specifier. This is actually a good idea.)
I want to introduce my friend VereMolf.
Further details might follow.
Windows Registry Keys - A Growing List
This blog entry is the beginning (and continuation) of a growing list of Windows Registry Keys about which I had reason to know or in which I had to modify values.
I try to keep them sorted in roughly alphabetical order, not counting \WOW6432Node.
- HKLM:\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Citrix\ICA Client
- REG_DWORD VdLoadUnLoadTimeOut
- VdLoadUnLoadTimeOut sets a connection timeout in seconds. Set to something large (10 seconds) to avoid "This version of Citrix Receiver does not support selected encryption" errors which are apparently triggered by Receiver deciding that that must be the case for the connection not finishing. (Found in Citrix Knowledge Center CTX133536.) Why this is a hard-to-find registry value and not simply enabled by default is a Citrix mystery.
- HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\
- REG_DWORD EnableLUA
- Configures Limited User Account (User Account Control). 0 disables LUA, 1 enables LUA. Explained here in the Microsoft Developer Network. Check that article for further options.
- HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting
- REG_DWORD Disabled
- Set to 1 to disable Windows Error Reporting. (That's the annoying discussion Windows starts after an application crashes.)
- HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList
- REG_DWORD UserName
- UserName can be any user name. Set its data to 0 to hide the user from the login screen. (You can still log on as that user by typing his name.)
- HKLM:\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer
- REG_DWORD DisableNotificationCenter
- Set to 1 to disable the annoying "Notification Center".
- HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU\
- REG_DWORD AUOptions
- Configures Windows Update. (Explained here in the Microsoft Developer Network.) 1 actually disables automatic updates, This allows users to choose themselves when to check for and download updates.
- HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control
- REG_DWORD ServicesPipeTimeout
- Apparently this configures the time services have to react and start. Default might be 30 seconds (30000 decimal). Given in milliseconds.
Windows Account Tokens
In Windows NT user rights are defined by access permissions (defined in ACLs on file system and other objects) and privileges (defined for user accounts). Privileges override permissions.
Privileges for a a user account are defined in an account token. Specifically, they are one kind of TokenInformation which can be of different kinds. The different kinds of TokenInformation object are defined in the TOKEN_INFORMATION_CLASS enumeration and are gotten using the GetTokenInformation function for the token. The kind of TokenInformation needed here is TokenPrivileges (one of the values of TOKEN_INFORMATION_CLASS).
The TokenPrivileges come in structure TOKEN_PRIVILEGES. TokenPrivileges contain a number of privileges.
Each privilege is a LUID_AND_ATTRIBUTES structure consisting of, you will love this, a LUID and a 32 bit value Attributes. The LUID is a structure containing two 32 bit values representing lower and upper doublewords of a 64 bit value (a quadword). (Windows NT defines a "word" as a 16 bit value, even on 32 bit and 64 bit systems.)
The LUID encodes the privileges, apparently on a per-system basic (as the LUID is unique for each system). The Attributes define whether the privilege is enabled or used or whatever else might be encoded there because all the documentation I could find was another MSDN entry for LUID_AND_ATTRIBUTES in the MSDN hardwars section.
The privilege is enabled.
The privilege is enabled by default.
The privilege was used to gain access to an object or service. This flag is used to identify the relevant privileges in a set passed by a client application that may contain unnecessary privileges.
The LookupPrivilegeName function returns the (readable) names of a token's privileges encoded in the token's LUID.
I wrote a crude test program that displays the privileges of a user.
It can display privileges for the current local user or for any domain user.
Specifically, for my local user (who is an administrator), it displays this:
When started without elevation, it looks like this:
(So this is what User Account Control does to honest people!)
It really doesn't work for other local users.
So I decided to try out my little program with a domain user.
My domain user isn't an administrator.
But I can see the privileges of other users:
User "hubert" has the same privileges as my user.
Running the program against the domain administrator account crashes the program because the domain administrator holds vastly more privileges than my 1000-item array can handle. (Yes, its size can be increased.) Running the program as domain administrator returns the same 23 privileges held by my local administrator account outside the domain.
Related links
- Security and Identity on MSDN
- Manipulate Privileges in Managed Code Reliably, Securely, and Efficiently (article by Mark Novak in March 2005 issue of MSDN Magazine, downloads CHM file)
- MSDN Magazine Issues and Downloads


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Coleman, and Indianapolis native, checks in at No. 25 overall and the No. 6 shooting guard. That is a bump up from No. 33 overall and the No. 8 shooting guard which he was in the last update. The reason for the bump has been Coleman's consistency shooting the basketball as well as an improvement with his handle and understanding.
Also in the top 100 in-state are K.J. Walton and Hyron Edwards, though at this point Indiana has only shown tepid interest in both as the season has gone along.
One player Indiana keyed in on early was Bryant Crawford. Coming into the season Crawford was the No. 1 overall point guard and the No. 28 player overall. However Crawford has had a tough year and fell in the rankings. Now he checks in as the No. 7 point guard and the No. 51 player overall. Crawford needs to improve on his shooting and decision making in order to go back up in the rankings.
One player who has made his way up the rankings that IU is definitely involved with would be Allonzo Trier. The Oklahoma native is right on the cusp of five-star status and sits at No. 20 overall and is the No. 5 shooting guard. That is a significant bump for Trier who was No. 41 overall and the No. 10 shooting guard. In fact, Trier was one of the biggest risers on the strength of a very impressive junior season.
Indiana no doubt is going to have to focus on the post prospects in 2015, and one they are in the final six with is Daniel Giddens. Overall Giddens slipped slightly from No. 34 overall to No. 41, but he is still considered one of the better shot blockers and rebounders around. Giddens needs to improve on the offensive end, but he does have the size and athleticism to anchor a defense down low.
Also the Hoosiers are heavily involved with Doral Moore. Moore stayed relatively steady on the cusp of five-star status at No. 22. He is having a very solid high school season, and was one of the more debated players in the class. Moore had some definite momentum for a five-star grade, but in the end he came up just short.
Indiana also has their eye on national targets such as Stephen Zimmerman Carlton Bragg, and Chase Jeter as well as another big in Raymond Spalding. Zimmerman, Bragg and Jeter each stayed as five-stars with minimal movement while Spalding jumped up from three-star status to four-star and No. 75 overall. Spalding got the bump because of his impressive size and athleticism, though still at this time he is a bit more potential than production.
Overall the Hoosiers are looking to likely address point guard as well as the power forward and center positions in the 2015 class after loading up on wing shooters in 2014, and as one would expect, Indiana is involved some many of the best in the country.

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Start Your Engines! The Destination? A Greener Future for us All.
The Shell Eco-marathon is an autosport event, which challenges young engineers to design, build and drive the most energy-efficient car. With three annual events in Asia, Americas and Europe, 500 teams from 50 countries take to the track to see who goes farthest on a single litre of fuel.
We sent NI engineers to London to check out this year's European Eco-marathon and to meet the NI sponsored teams.
What happens when you put a fish behind the wheel of a myRIO controlled robot? Students at the University of Virginia wanted to find that out.
I often pose this kind of question, in one form or another, to my team and to our industry and education partners as a check to ensure we are consistently exceeding expectations and providing the most needed and most innovative solutions for educators and researchers.
I got some amazing answers at our annual conference, Academic Forum at NIWeek. Here are my key takeaways and favorite moments from this incredible event.
Guest Blog: Andy Bell, Director of Academic Programs at NI
Students from the National Taiwan University demonstrate their engineering design project, Turboquad.
Multisim Live is out of Beta! But what does that mean for you?
CASSANDRA - An IoT System for Homecare Cardiac Surveillance
Partnering for impact around the world by empowering engineers and innovators
YSEALI Food Innovation Challenge winners with Austin Mayor Steve Adler and USAID Economic Growth officer Becca Acuna
When you combine the NI platform with the raw creativity of a young engineer, incredible things can happen. Ladies and Gentlemen, we proudly announce the Top 10 Student Projects Worldwide 2017
Prepare to be inspired.
A friendly face returns to share yet more of his lab class materials and awesome student capstone projects.
Just because you stuck a Wi-Fi chip on an existing system or idea, doesn't mean you've made the IoT.
Learn how NI and its partners are transforming engineering education in Vietnam and across Southeast Asia.
Guest Blog by Chandran Nair, Vice President - Asia Pacific (APAC) at NI
"To take huge steps forward, students must understand how to build and design engineering systems if they are to keep up with the rapid rate of innovation and deliver on the promise of tomorrow. IoT will be a fundamental theme on those systems."
Andy Bell
Director, Academic Programs
Episode 3 - Travis hits the beach in Florida and gets valuable insight from professionals across the United States as we kick off ECEDHA 2017!
Educators, what would your students say to you five years into their careers? Recent graduates and young professionals, what feedback do you have for your professors now that you're out in the "real world"?
How would you normally calculate Pi? Look it up online? Try to measure the circumference and radius of a circle? Well I wanted to try using a pendulum instead!
This tongue-twisting, mechatronic musician is capable of playing anything from Beethoven to hip hop. The wondrous instrument is built with NI myRIO, and designed to excite and inspire the next-generation of engineers. Halléoojamaflipaphone is currently on tour with the esteemed Hallé orchestra, and has already played to almost 10,000 school children.
Episode 2 - Travis gets to speak with Tricia Berry, one of the creators of Girl Day, as we dive into Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day on the UT campus!
Mobile World Congress has particularly exciting news for us at NI this year; one of our most celebrated academic research teams has partnered with industry to run field trials of their 5G Massive MIMO system. So just how do universities go from your typical undergraduate courses to setting world records in 5G research?
Within the next few years, an ingenious device called the 'Watt Balance' will fundamentally redefine the kilogram! An Austin-based YouTuber has used the NI platform to explain this complex instrument, in a supremely accessibly way.
This is the first of many Impulse Response vlogs! Be the first to view and comment!
Episode 1 - Travis is on the road visiting key universities in Switzerland.
NI adds value through its key partnerships
Hardships and system failures are not going to stop the Berkeley Hyperloop team. Crazy enough, that has lit a fire in them to iterate and move forward, stronger than ever.
Photo courtesy of Berkeley Hyperloop team
I love LinkedIn. The ability to see someone's choices in education, the pivotal changes in their career path, and the breadth of experiences that combine to qualify them for their current position is not only inspirational, but also telling of what it takes to get to one's chosen destination.
These students exemplify what it takes and what is possible.
Past NI Student Design Showcase finalist team - DTU EcoCar
Learning by experimentation at CU Boulder
You can't get a better package than this (on a Tuesday)! Travis opens some mail and discusses what he finds, today on Impulse Response!
Did you know that in addition to programming an FPGA directly from Multisim you can also generate and view the VHDL code it is implementing? I didn't!
Procrastination in the name of experimentation. Brian procrastinates from doing work by characterizing a light-to-frequency converter he found randomly on his desk.
Catch Travis in Sion surviving a 7.8 magnitude earthquake simulation.


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Mon, May 06 2013 03:30pm PDT
Bizpowa.com, the French adult webmaster message board, is planning its annual meeting in Paris later this month. Called "Feel Like Home," the show is in its fifth year and will be held at the Hotel Edmond in Paris on May 18.
Baci Lingerie to Participate in Revlon Run
Mon, May 06 2013 03:15pm PDT
Approximately 15 Baci employees, family members and friends will participate in this year's Entertainment Industry Fund (EIF) Revlon Run/Walk For Women fundraiser as "Team Baci Babes" on May 11, at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum at Exposition Park.
JuicyAds Adds Lifestyle Department, Taps Industry Vet
Mon, May 06 2013 02:30pm PDT
JuicyAds has tapped an industry veteran with a "stellar track record" in marketing, public relations and events to helm its newly launched Lifestyle Department. JuicyAds wouldn't disclose the name of the "mystery hire."
Porn Star Priya Rai Goes to Bollywood
Mon, May 06 2013 12:15pm PDT
Adult star Priya Rai will make her Bollywood debut soon.
James Deen to Direct, Perform for Evil Angel
Mon, May 06 2013 11:30am PDT
James Deen will become the newest director on the high-profile roster of Evil Angel this July.
Jincey Lumpkin Featured in New Lesbian Filmmaker Documentary
Mon, May 06 2013 11:30am PDT
Jincey Lumpkin, the founder and "chief sexy officer" of Juicy Pink Box is appearing in a new interactive documentary "I Love Your Work."
Rick's Cabaret Opens Temptations Club in Sulphur, La.
Mon, May 06 2013 11:15am PDT
A subsidiary of Rick's Cabaret International Inc. has opened a new Temptations gentlemen's club in Sulphur, La. The 6,000-square-foot club has a 24-hour liquor license.
Sasha Grey's Erotic Novel Debuts Thursday
Mon, May 06 2013 10:30am PDT
Former porn star Sasha Grey swapped the silver screen for graphite scrawls in her latest career twist: an erotic novel called "The Juliette Society," which debuts Thursday.
Vivid's 'Iron Man XXX' Set for May 14 Release
Mon, May 06 2013 09:00am PDT
Vivid Entertainment announced today that it will release "Iron Man XXX: An Axel Braun Parody," on May 14 online at Vivid.com and in stores nationwide on May 21.
Porn Eats Up 30% of All Internet Bandwidth, Infographic Suggests
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A new infographic released by adult website PaintBottle.com suggests that porn makes up nearly 30 percent of all the data transferred across the Internet.
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4 bedroom terraced house for saleHolstein Avenue, Weybridge, Surrey
Guide Price £799,950
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Located in the heart of Weybridge Town Centre is this well presented, four bedroom period home. The accommodation is spread over three floors and comprises a formal sitting room, kitchen/dining room, family bathroom, two double bedrooms, one single and a master suite with a south/east facing Juliet balcony. EPC = E.
Further to the existing configuration there is scope to convert an outside store building to facilitate a utility area or a ground floor W/C.
The paved garden has a southerly aspect and provides rear access to the service lane behind.
On street permit parking is available.
Local amenities include; Weybridge High Street, accessible within 500 ft; Queens Road 0.5 miles away, Churchfields Recreation Ground 0.2 miles and the River Thames tow path 0.7 miles.
Weybridge offers a selection of excellent state and private schools which include; St Charles Borromeo Catholic Primary 0.1 miles, St James C of E Primary 0.4 miles, Manby Lodge Infants 0.5 miles, Heathside Secondary 0.6 miles, St George's Infants and Juniors 0.3 miles and St George's Seniors 0.9 miles *.
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Contestants taking part in a horse race for thoroughbred Arabian horses in Syria's southern Aleppo countryside. Syria had nearly 750 breeding Arabian horses in 2010, according to the World Arabian Horse Organization which aims to preserve Arabian purebreds around the globe.
Following the opening of Ipoh-Lumut highway, the Parit jetty ceased to operate in the 1980s, and the town has since faded into oblivion.
At an advanced age of 66, she is today the only female Chinese worker at Simpang Renggam's once bustling pineapple estate.
The "Seven Magic Mountains" art installation by Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone in Ivanpah Valley near Las Vegas. The seven towers of colorful stacked boulders stand more than 30 feet high in the Mojave Desert.
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By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
Published: September 21, 2008
TERRACINA, Italy — Before Michele Assunto hauls in his fishing net from the banks of
a reed-lined canal here, he uses a pole to push the garbage out of the way. "They really need to clean this up," he growls.
Where another canal empties into the sea here at the small community of Porto Badino, the only animals that can survive are giant rats, local officials say. Of course, the sea is not fit for swimming for 200 yards on each side of the outlet, they add with a shrug — yet bathers splash in the Mediterranean nearby.
In many parts of this affluent coastal region southeast of Rome and northwest of Naples, canals dumping effluent into the Mediterranean from farms and factories coexist with fishermen and beachgoers. There is little doubt that this area would need considerable work to return to a more pristine state. For places as far gone as this one, however, a new breed of landscape architect is recommending a radical solution: not so much to restore the environment as to redesign it.
"It is so ecologically out of balance that if it goes on this way, it will kill itself," said Alan Berger, a landscape architecture professor at M.I.T. who was excitedly poking around the smelly canals on a recent day and talking to fishermen like Mr. Assunto.
"You can't remove the economy and move the people away," he added. "Ecologically speaking, you can't restore it; you have to go forward, to set this place on a new path."
Designing nature might seem to be an oxymoron or an act of hubris. But instead of simply recommending that polluting farms and factories be shut, Professor Berger specializes in creating new ecosystems in severely damaged environments: redirecting water flow, moving hills, building islands and planting new species to absorb pollution, to create natural, though "artificial," landscapes that can ultimately sustain themselves.
Professor Berger, who is the founder of P-Rex, for Project for Reclamation Excellence, at M.I.T., recently signed an agreement with Latina Province to design a master ecological plan for the most polluting part of this region.
He wants the government to buy a tract of nearly 500 acres in a strategic valley through which the most seriously polluted waters now pass. There, he intends to create a wetland that would serve as a natural cleansing station before the waters flowed on to the sea and residential areas.
Of course, better regulation is also needed, to curb the dumping of pollutants into the canal. But a careful mix of the right kinds of plants, dirt, stones and drainage channels would filter the water as it slowly passed through, he said. The land would also function as a new park.
Professor Berger was quick to acknowledge that the approach was vastly different from the kind normally advocated by established environmental groups like the World Wildlife Fund or the Nature Conservancy, which generally seek to restore land or preserve it in its natural state, often by closing down or cleaning up nearby polluters. In the Florida Everglades, for example, the state is buying and closing a sugar plant to preserve the environment. But that approach may not work in places that are already severely degraded, Professor Berger said.
"The difference between me and W.W.F. is that when I look at this place, I never think about going back," he said, referring to the wildlife fund. "The solution has to be as artificial as the place. We are trying to invent an ecosystem in the midst of an entirely engineered, polluted landscape."
At first glance, Latina does not look like an environmental disaster zone. Bordered by mountains to the east and the Mediterranean to the west, it is a place of spectacular rural vistas and even a few famous beach resorts, like Sabaudia.
But in many ways, Professor Berger said, it is as damaged and distorted as the area around an abandoned mine in Breckenridge, Colo., that he is also redesigning, as part of a Superfund cleanup underwritten by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Indeed, the entire environment here is a manufactured one already — and one that is successful, in economic terms at least.
Two thousand years of "water management" have turned the once-malaria-infested Pontine Marshes into a region, Latina Province, that is among Italy's most prosperous. It is home to industrial parks, resorts filled with weekend homes, and farms — some of which make Italy the world's leading producer of kiwis.
Latina's prosperity is built on drained swampland, kept habitable by six pumps as huge and noisy as airplanes, put in place in 1934 by Mussolini. Each day they pull millions of gallons of water — up to 9,500 gallons a second — out of the soggy ground, directing it into an elaborate system of cement-lined canals that ultimately dump it into the sea.
The entire province would return to marshland in seven days if the pumps were turned off, Carlo Cervellin of the Pontine Marsh Consortium said. He is in charge of maintaining and regulating the immense machines, which are in a pump house at the lowest point in the province, in Mazzochio.
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Alan Berger, a landscape architect at M.I.T., is designing a wetland to cleanse polluted water before it flows to residential areas and the sea. "We are trying to invent an ecosystem," he said.
Roman emperors and popes had tried for centuries to drain the marshes to allow better access to the sea along the famed Appian Way, all with limited success. The draining of the Pontine Marshes was one of Mussolini's engineering triumphs.
The area was still a sparsely inhabited malarial breeding ground when Mussolini brought in workers from Northern Italy to create a public works project centered on the pumps that in some ways rivaled the construction of the Panama Canal. Many died in the process, and there was no environmental impact study.
"The goal was to pump water out as fast as possible," Professor Berger said.
What emerged from the swamp was a triumph of Fascist determination as well as one of Italy's economic powerhouses. Mussolini built the city of Latina on the newly dried-out land, where it became a center of industry and farming.
But prosperous does not necessarily mean sustainable.
Professor Berger came to Rome's American Academy in 2007 on a yearlong fellowship to study the history of the Pontine Marshes. It was only after he started to collect data on the land and the water that he realized how damaged the area was.
With the help of the local government in Latina, he collected thousands of aerial photographs as well as data from water and soil in an effort to document drainage patterns and the flow of water and pollutants.
"If there was ever a place to know exactly where your food is produced, it's here," he said. "I would only eat from uphill."
Pristine water enters the Latina plain from high mountain streams in the area of Ninfa; it becomes dirtier and dirtier as it heads toward the sea, picking up the runoff from a succession of factories, farms and homes.
Professor Berger found that half of the water in the system was severely contaminated, he said, with phosphorus and nitrogen levels that get worse as it runs through the canals toward the coast.
"In terms of phosphorus, much of the water is in the raw-sewage range, and in terms of nitrates, it was in the swine effluent range — like being right downstream from a pig farm," he said.
By the time the water reaches the sea at some outlets, Professor Berger's aerial photos show, it has become a plume of silt filled with pollutants. Pharmaceutical factories and large farms are along the canals. Farmers also use the water for irrigation.
Presented with his research, local officials were surprised at the portrait of pollution that emerged. They were also impressed enough with the solution he proposed that they are continuing to work with him now that he is back in the United States.
"He studied the zone from a different point of view than ours," said Carlo Perotto, the planning director for the province. "We had different people concerned with water, industry and agriculture. He opened a new way of thinking."
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Faith, I would think, is the actual belief that what one hopes for is attainable. A man dying of thirst in the desert may hope for water and have no faith that he will get it. But suppose there is a second man, who stands atop the next dune and makes a signal to him, perhaps with semaphores, signifying two H's and an O. Now the first man is entitled to faith.
I would agree with Flannery O'Connor that if she spends three hours in the morning writing, she has to spend the rest of the day getting over it. This doesn't leave much time for square dancing. Bourbon is better anyhow.
From an Interview by Robyn Leary, 1984
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
By Sir Edward Strachey, Bart.
What is Nonsense? I know when you do not ask me. I know that in infancy it is as the very air we breathe; that it cheers and strengthens us in the long weary working ways of manhood; and brightens and gladdens our old age. But how can I bring it within the words of a definition? If the question is pressed, I must answer it with another. What is Sense? Sense is the recognition, adjustment, and maintenance of the proper and fitting relations of the affairs of ordinary life. It is a constitutional tact, a keeping touch with all around it, rather than a conscious and deliberate action of the intellect. It almost seems the mental outcome and expression of our five senses; and perhaps it is for this reason, as well as because the sense of the individual always aims at keeping itself on the average level of his fellows, that we usually talk of sense as Common Sense. If we call it Good Sense, it is to remind ourselves that there is a right and a wrong in it as in everything human. But it is not Bad Sense, but Nonsense which is the proper contrary of Sense. In contradiction to the relations and harmonies of life, Nonsense sets itself to discover and bring forward the incongruities of all things within and without us. For while Sense is, and must remain, essentially prosaic and commonplace, Nonsense has proved not to be an equally prosaic and commonplace negative of Sense, not a mere putting forward of incongruities and absurdities, but a bringing out a new and deeper harmony of life in and through its contradictions. Nonsense in fact, in this use of the word, has shown itself to be a true work of the imagination, a child of genius, and its writing one of the Fine Arts.
From the days when Aristotle investigated the philosophy of laughter, and Aristophanes gave laughter its fullest - I might say its maddest - expression on the stage at Athens, down to this week's issue of "Punch," Nonsense has asserted and made good its claim to a place among the Arts. It has indeed pressed each of them in turn into its service. Nonsense has found the highest expression of itself in music, painting, sculpture, and every form of poetry and prose. The so-called Nonsense Club, which could count Hogarth and Cowper among its members, must have been worthy of the name, for so we have the "March to Finchley" and "John Giplin" to testify; but as far as I know, Edward Lear first openly gave Nonsense its due place and honour when he called what he wrote pure and absolute Nonsense, and gave the affix of "Nonsense" to every kind of subject; and while we may say, as Johnson did of Goldsmith, that there was hardly a subject that he did not handle, we may add with Johnson, that there was none that he did not adorn by his handling. His pen and pencil vied with each other in pouring forth new kinds of Nonsense Songs, Nonsense Stories, Nonsense Alphabets, and Nonsense Botany. His visit to India supplied him with matter for what I might call Nonsense Philology and Nonsense Politics; and ever since his death I have been able to add two new forms of his Nonsense, an Eclogue with the true classical ring, or the Heraldic Blazon of his Cat Foss; the music to which he set the "Pelican Chorus" and the "Yonghy Bonghy Bo" is worthy of the words to which it is wedded; and those who remember the humorous melancholy with which the old man sat down at the piano to play and sing those songs, will give his Nonsense Music a place too.
But "pure and absolute" as Edward Lear declared his Nonsense to be, he was no mere buffoon. His own sketch of his life, given in another part of this volume, and fully confirmed by all that he has left behind him, shows him to have been a conscientious lover of hard work, from the time when, at the age of fifteen, he began to earn "bread and cheese" by selling his "queer songs and sketches," at prices from ninepence to four shillings. This love of hard work is so characteristic of genius, that a great man has (no doubt with some exaggeration) made the capacity for taking infinite pains a definition of genius itself, while the individual humour which is shown in Lear's pictures is itself the sufficient proof of his genius. He was a landscape painter of individual power. The mere list of the books of Natural History which he illustrated; of the many and distant lands which, poor and weak in health, he visited; and his journals and records of these places, "with such a pencil, such a pen," is enormous; and all this while he was carefully cultivating and training himself in the proper work of an artist, which was the real business of his life. And while it is true that, without all this preparation, the Books of Nonsense could not have been written, it is true also that they are only the outcome and overflow of a life which was no less serious and noble than genial and loving. Like Shakespeare, he understood that all merriment should be held "within the limit of becoming mirth," and this limit he found for himself in his fondness for children, - "he loved to see little folks merry," - and in that habit of doing conscientious and finished work which characterises the true artist. He gives an account for the beginning and growth of this work in the Introduction to his "More Nonsense," to which I refer the reader. I have myself said more elsewhere on a subject which has for me a never-ending interest. I will rather give here an account of a visit paid by my son Henry to our old friend:-
"When staying at Cannes at Christmas 1882, I was invited by Mr. Lear to go over to San Remo to spend a few days with him. Mr. Lear's villa was large, and the second he had built; the first became unbearable to him from a large hotel having been planted in front of it. So he put his new house in a place by the sea, where, as he said, nothing could interrupt his light until the fishes built. The second house was exactly like the first. This, Mr. Lear explained to me, was necessary, or else Foss, his cat, might not have approved of the new villa. At breakfast the morning after I arrived, this much-thought-of, though semitailed, cat jumped in at the window and ate a piece of toast from my hand. This, I found, was considered an event; when visitors stayed at Villa Tennyson, Foss generally hid himself in the back regions; but his recognition of me was a sort of 'guinea stamp,' which seemed to please Mr. Lear greatly, and assure him of my fitness to receive the constant acts of kindness he was showing me. Being an art student, my interest in Mr. Lear's paintings was as great as in his Nonsense, and I can vividly recall the morning spent in his studio, a large room upstairs. He was then at work on a series of water-colours, and his method seemed to be to dip a brush into a large wide-necked bottle of water-colour, and when he had made one or two touches on the drawing, to carry it to the end of the room and put it on the floor, the performance being repeated until quite a row was arranged across the room. Downstairs he had a gallery lighted from the top, which had many beautiful water-colours along the walls, and one great canvas of Mount Athos, which seemed finished, but which he was always making experiments upon in white chalk. At the end of the gallery stood a huge canvas, I think it was 18 feet long, covered over with lines in squares, but no drawing on it. This, he told me, was to be a picture of Enoch Arden on the desert island. My remark that this would be a great undertaking roused Mr. Lear to declare warmly that an old man must never relax his efforts or fail to attempt great things because he was seventy. I could not, however, but feel that there was some inconsistency between this and his habitually saying he was going to live two years longer, and no more. Mr. Lear as an artist was by sympathy a pre-Raphaelite; he was not one of the original brotherhood, but considered himself a nephew of the originators of the movement, and he told me he had written to his friend, Sir John Millais, 'My dear aunt, I send you a drawing of my cat to show you how I am getting on.'
"Mr. Lear told me that, as a boy, his voice being a good one, he used to be taken to sing at artists' parties, and he was very proud of once having heard Turner (whose art he worshipped) sing a song. Apparently there was no great matter in the ditty, and the note was very untuneable, for Turner had neither voice nor ear. The refrain Mr. Lear remembered, and used to hum, chuckling to himself, 'And the world goes round a-bound, a-bound.' Mr. Lear told me that he approved of the saying of some one, 'Study the works of the Almighty first, and Turner next.' Once meeting a friend who had stayed in a house where Turner was painting, Mr. Lear anxiously asked, 'Cannot you tell me something the great man said?' 'He never said anything,' was the reply.
"Mr. Lear's household arrangements were peculiar. Three brothers, young Albanians, - sons of his old servant Giorgio, - did all the housework and cooking, and the youngest, a youth of seventeen, he looked after with fatherly care. He had taught him to say the Lord's Prayer with him every evening, telling me how he felt it his duty to prevent the young man growing up without religion, and expressing his horror of a godless world.
"Mr. Lear was by temperament melancholy; it was not the grave air assumed by a humourist to give his jokes more point, but a gentle sadness through which is humour shone. He felt keenly the neglect of the world for his pictures, but he seemed anxious to prevent all but the nearest friends seeing them. When I was staying with him, it happened to be the afternoon on which he was supposed to be at home to show his pictures to possible buyers. Early in the afternoon he told me that he sent his servants out, and was going to open the door himself. He explained that if any one came he did not like he could send them away, and also keep out Germans. He seemed to have a great horror and fear that a German might be let in by accident. What caused this fear I was not able to discover. As the afternoon advanced a ring at the door-bell was heard, and Mr. Lear went to open the door. Sitting in the gallery, I heard the voice of a lady inquiring if she could see the pictures, and I could hear Mr. Lear, in a voice of the most melancholy kind, telling her that he never showed his pictures now, he was much too ill; and from his voice and words I have no doubt the lady went away with the idea that a most unhappy man lived here. Mr. Lear came back to the gallery with much satisfaction at the working of his plan, which was so far superior to the servant's 'Not at home,' as by his method he could send away bored and let in people he liked. Later on, some friends he wanted to see came, and the melancholy old man, too ill to show his pictures, changed into the most genial host. In the evenings he often sang; the 'Yonghy Bonghy Bo' was inimitable. His voice had gone, but the refinement and expression was remarkable. His touch, too, was finished and smooth; unfortunately his playing was by ear, so that many of the really beautiful songs he composed were lost. One such still haunts me; the words, Tennyson's 'In the Garden at Swainston,' were set to most touching and appropriate music. I think he felt the words very strongly; they echoed his own feelings; he had outlived many friends, and many dead men 'walked in the walks' with him. He showed me a long frame with photographs of his friends in it; it hung in the drawing-room, but there were several blank places. He told me when a friend died his picture was taken out and put into a frame hanging in his bedroom. This melancholy never soured his mind nor stopped his matchless flow of humour and bad puns; but it coloured them all. My visit to Villa Tennyson coming to an end, on the last evening after dinner he wrote a letter for me to take back to my father, sending him the then unpublished conclusion to Mr. and Mrs. Discobbolos; and when this was done he took from a place in his bureau a number of carefully cut-out backs of old envelopes, and on these he drew, to send to my sister, then eight years old, the delightful series of heraldic pictures of his cat. After he had done seven he said it was a great shame to caricature Foss, and laid aside the pen.
"The next day ended my visit - one which I shall ever remember. The touching kindness which marked all his actions towards me I shall never forget; and I still see the tall, melancholy form, with loose clothes and round spectacles, leaning over the railings of the San Remo railway station, though happily I did not then know that I was looking on that kindly figure for the lasy time. H. S. "
In conclusion, and as counterpart to this account of the good old man and his household, let me commend to the reader the autobiographical sketches, to one of which I have already referred. They were published "By Way Of Preface" to a former edition of the present volume and are here reprinted.
Edward Strachey. Sutton Court, September 1894.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
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Sunday, September 14, 2008
By Nick Squires in Rome Last Updated: 5:31PM BST 09 Sep 2008
For years it was the French who worked themselves into a lather over their native tongue being infected by English.
Now it is their southern neighbours across the Alps who are wringing their hands at the growing incursion of Anglo-Saxon words and phrases into every day use.
From 'il weekend' to 'lo stress' and 'le leadership', Italians increasingly sprinkle their conversations with English terms, some of them comically mangled and bizarre sounding to a native English speaker.
'Baby parking', for example, is a strange conflation which means child care centre or nursery.
A 'baby gang', on the other hand, is a more sinister construct. It means a group of young criminals or hoodlums.
As with the French and their use of Franglais, Italians sometimes throw in English words to appear worldly and cosmopolitan, and at other times to describe things slightly alien to the Italian mindset, from 'il fitness' to 'il full immersion training'.
But now a cultural guardian of the Italian language is saying 'basta!' – enough.
The Dante Alighieri Society, a less strident equivalent of France's Academie Francaise which promotes Italian culture and language around the world, has called on Italians to reject Anglo-Saxon linguistic imports, 'Anglitaliano', and return to the true lingua italiana.
Over the last four months the society, named after the Florentine poet Dante, author of The Divine Comedy and regarded as the father of the Italian language, asked visitors to its website to nominate their least favourite Anglicisms.
The results judge the ugliest imports to be 'weekend', 'welfare' and 'OK', followed by 'briefing', 'mission', 'know how', 'shampoo' and 'cool'.
The worlds of business and politics contribute many of the alien words, from 'question time' to 'premier' and 'bipartisan'.
Other English words regularly used by Italians which escaped the ire of the society's correspondents include 'sexy', 'webmaster' and 'water', short for water closet or lavatory.
"Italians unite against il weekend", the society declared on its website. "In short, it is clear that Italians are calling for more respect and more protection for correct language."
Many Italians are unlikely to be swayed by such exhortations.
"I don't think it matters if we use English words," said Alessandra, 25, a secretary in a Rome travel agency. "It's part of globalisation. Often it's faster – like using 'il weekend' instead of 'fine settimana'."
But her boss, Maria, disagreed. "People think it's chic to use English words but I don't like it at all. I want to speak either Italian or English, not an Esperanto mix of the two. It's important to keep language clean."
Saturday, September 13, 2008
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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (AFP) – A motorcyclist was killed after losing control of his bike at 385 kilometers (239 miles) per hour and crashing on Utah's famous Bonneville Salt Flats, authorities and reports said Thursday.
The American Motorcyclist Association said in a statement on its website that 49-year-old Cliff Gullett of Montana was killed in an accident during a time trial at the location, around 185 kilometers (115 miles) west of Salt Lake City.
The AMA said Gullett was competing in the 500cc class during a time trial speed racing event when his bike crashed. Reports said Gullett was aiming to set a record for the fastest two-stroke, two-cylinder motorcycle.
The Salt Lake Tribune cited police investigators as saying Gullett was travelling at 239 miles per hour before the crash.
The Bonneville Salt Flats have been used as a speed testing ground since 1896 and became famous in 1935 when British motorsport legend Malcolm Campbell broke the world land speed record at the site.
Monday, September 8, 2008
From The Sunday Times
September 7, 2008
When Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman completed Long Way Round - their 19,000-mile motorcycle ride from London to New York, via Europe, Asia and Alaska - the actors raised the bar for gap-year travellers the world over. Their epic ride was filmed for TV and young men fantasised about following in their tyre tracks, leaving everything behind and hitting the open road with nothing but a bike and a buddy.
Sitting at his desk in the City of London, Tom Smith, a recently graduated economist in his early twenties, was one of them. Not content with just watching and wishing, he and two friends decided to recreate the second of McGregor's great adventures - Long Way Down - a 15,000-mile journey from Britain to South Africa, shown on BBC2 last year.
Only Smith wanted to go one better. Whereas McGregor and Boorman had been followed by a team that included two off-road vehicles, their drivers, a couple of cameramen, an editor and a producer, Smith and his friends would do it properly. That meant no cushy support team, even though they faced collisions, breakdowns, hungry lions, temperatures as high as 50C and weeks when bad food and upset stomachs saw them dropping several jeans sizes.
"We thought doing it unsupported would give us more freedom and make it more of an adventure, but it was also a financial necessity," said Smith, as he neared the end of his three-month journey last week. Part of that adventure has been a series of breakdowns that meant he'd just spent an uncomfortable 1,800 miles riding pillion over rough ground.
"We wanted to do it off our own backs but there have been times when if someone had said, 'Here's a shiny new bike to ride,' we would have accepted that with open arms. If something went wrong with our bikes - and it has done - we had to either fix them ourselves or find someone who could, which, when you're in the middle of nowhere on a dirt track, isn't always easy."
It was June 3 when Smith, on a well-timed sabbatical from his job at the Bank of England, set out from London on his specially adapted Kawasaki KLR650, leaving an "out of office reply" that must rank as one of the coolest. It said simply: "I'm not in the office at the moment - I'm riding across Africa."
He was joined by two Canadian friends he had met a couple of years before while studying for a masters in economics at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Yarema Bezchlibnyk, 33, - known as Jerry - had learnt to ride only nine months before, while Tyson Brust, 30, studying to be a doctor, had been riding for about two years. "Tyson's the navigator, Jerry's the linguist and I'm the money man," said Smith. "Thanks to my job I know all the exchange rates."
It had taken a couple of years to assemble enough money for the trip (about £15,000 each), to kit out their bikes with tougher suspension, crash bars and stronger bolts, and have some basic off-road training.
They planned to travel across Europe, through Syria and Jordan, then down through Africa, roughly following the Long Way Down route, via Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and Botswana, arriving in South Africa early this month.
All their gear, including tents, sleeping bags, first aid kits, spare parts such as tyres and brake pads, a video camera and clothing for all temperatures had to be carried. "Food had to be found along the way, often from small roadside stalls, sometimes from generous families," said Smith. "Goat meat, or, more accurately, goat gristle stew, lots and lots of rice and camel stew."
The new diet didn't agree with them. "After leaving Turkey our bowels developed a bipolar disorder, flipping between a dammed state and one of uncontrollable flooding," wrote Smith in his blog. "It's when the dam bursts that you run into trouble. In that situation it was not uncommon for one of us to yell 'campo' at the others - our code word for telling the other two to carry on ahead while business was taken care of in the nearest bush."
The cries of "campo" went on for weeks. "We could definitely move our belts up a few notches tighter after that."
In Ethiopia, where the roads were a bustling mix of cars, bicycles, donkeys, horses, dogs, carts, people and farmers moving herds of livestock, they were dicing constantly with disaster. "Ethiopian roads are very dangerous; we all came off our bikes there and there were lots of near misses. We met up with a couple of other bikers along the way and we saw one of them crash into a small child who ran out in front of him without looking. The kid was okay - he broke his leg but he'll make a full recovery. It was a horrific sight to see."
A few hundred miles up the road, Brust collided with a dog in similar circumstances, flying off his bike onto the tarmac and injuring his shoulder. "I was doing maybe 30 or 40mph and I barely had time to touch the front brake and my front wheel went right over the dog," he recalled. "The dog actually got up and ran off, but after that kind of impact I doubt it would have survived. It left me pretty shaken."
Bezchlibnyk, the least experienced of the group, once lost control of his bike while riding up some steps into a hotel courtyard and crashed into the lobby. Temperatures peaked in Sudan, where it was 50C in the midday sun, and the trio had to take breaks in the shade to recover.
"We were wearing jeans and T-shirts and still sweating buckets and drinking water constantly - you'd have passed out in leathers," said Smith.
In Kenya they biked across the Masai Mara national park, spotting wildebeest, cheetahs and elephants - all from a safe distance. "On our way there we were riding around looking for a campsite and it was pitch black. When we found one, we were warned about driving around in the dark as there were elephants about, which may have explained the huge piles of dung in our path - apparently they are quite dangerous," said Smith.
On a good day they managed to cover 250 miles; when they needed to make up ground they travelled as far as 450 miles, but on some days, particularly in Tanzania, where the unmade roads were bumpy and sandy, it could take 12 hours to cover just 100 miles.
"In one 150-mile stretch full of rocky terraces and deep sandy ruts, Jerry dropped his bike at least 14 times. Tyson and I fared slightly better, we only came off about three or four times."
The following night, after another arduous ride, they were struggling to make up time. With darkness falling, they were warned that lions had been spotted close by, so the team pushed on for another 30 miles, Smith nursing a sprained ankle from a tumble and Bezchlibnyk struggling to steer his bike, which had been damaged by his many falls.
On closer inspection the following morning it was clear Bezchlibnyk's bike had a cracked frame and could have split in two at any moment. Remarkably, they found a local mechanic who welded it together, but the next day Bezchlibnyk was so preoccupied with his frame, he didn't notice one of his panniers drop off - the one containing his passport and all his papers. "He didn't notice his case was missing for 60 miles," said Smith. "And since our cases look exactly like those that drug dealers might use to haul vast quantities of cash around, it's almost certain it was being prised open in some Tanzanian village by then." Bezchlibnyk headed off to Dar es Salaam to get new papers, hoping to rejoin his friends further along the route. Smith and Brust set off alone but within a few hundred miles they, too, had ground to a halt. "I forgot to check my engine oil - a cardinal sin in the motorcycling world and one that I paid for dearly," said Smith.
Starved of oil, his Kawasaki broke down north of Lilongwe, the capital of Malawi, and there was no getting it going again. No local garage could get the parts quickly enough, so the plan was to get the bike trucked to Johannesburg for repair while Smith carried on the trip on the back of Brust's bike. They covered almost 1,800 miles like this, including a few hundred miles across the Botswana salt flats - "like riding across the surface of the moon and pretty hard when you're riding two-up".
With his Kawasaki still languishing in Malawi, Smith rented a BMW F 800 GS to cruise the last few hundred miles in style. Then, as if the trip hadn't been eventful enough and with just two days' biking left, he and Brust decided to do "the world's highest commercial bungee jump" – throwing themselves 708ft off a platform on the Bloukrans River bridge near Plettenberg Bay in South Africa.
They finally made it into Cape Town on Friday with Bezchlibnyk not far behind. After 15,000 miles in the saddle, Smith admits he's going to find it hard to go back to his desk at the Bank of England, though thanks to a diesel shortage in Malawi, there has been no truck to transport his bike to South Africa and his ailing Kawasaki is still stranded. "I'm going to have to go back and get it at some point," he said.
The trio are raising money for two charities: Riders for Health, which provides and maintains motorcycles for healthcare workers in Africa, and Dignitas, a charity that aims to improve access to treatment for HIV and Aids in Africa. For more information or to donate, go to http://www.ditchthecomfortzone.com/
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
"Fascinating" is what I said to her. "Positively fascinating." Three glasses of wine and five cigarettes seemed so recent; almost as though I hadn't begun at all. And yet there it was, plain and sleek in the evening light, barely detectable through the long, off-white curtains which were always floating out in just such a way that I could not quite tell what it was. "I mean it simply isn't even boring at all." At those words she rose quite quickly and disappeared amongst a row of urns from which spouted rather illegal looking ferns. "Fascinating" I repeated to myself slumping forward to pour another glass of Rioja.


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