text:
The market has judged rising interest rates to be very bad for mREITs. If you ask the question: are falling gold prices good or bad for jewelry companies like Tiffany & Co. (NYSE:TIF) or Signet Jewelers (NYSE:SIG), you would get a more nuanced answer. Lower gold prices would lower the raw materials costs for jewelry companies. That would allow them to increase their profits either from selling products at the previous prices with higher profit margins, lowering prices and selling more jewelry or a combination of both.
The downside of lower gold prices for jewelry companies is that the value of their existing inventory declines. Possibly a jewelry company that had a very large inventory of finished goods or work in progress, that was financed with borrowed money might go bankrupt as a consequence of a sharp decline in gold prices. This is not a bad analogy for mREITs. An increase in long-term interest rates could increase mREITs' earnings from the spread they earn from mortgage securities financed with borrowed money. However, the value of their inventory of mortgage securities declines as long-term interest rates rise. If they are leveraged too much and the decline in the value of their inventory is too rapid and severe, they could suffer the same fate as an overstretched jewelry company stuck with too much gold in a collapsing market that might not be able to rollover its loans.
Recent market action in the baskets of mREITs such as ETRACS Monthly Pay 2xLeveraged Mortgage REIT ETN (NYSEARCA:MORL), Market Vectors Mortgage REIT ETF (NYSEARCA:MORT) and iShares Mortgage Real Estate Capped ETF (NYSEARCA:REM) suggests that the market is ignoring the possible higher earnings and dividends that can result from the higher yielding mortgage securities mREITs could buy. Alternatively, the markets might not believe Ben Bernanke's assertion that short-term rates will remain low for an extended period. The market appears to be focusing on the impact on the mREITs' book values from the sharp increase in long-term rates that has occurred and the possibility of even higher future long-term rates.
There has been much speculation on the extent that the decline in mortgage securities' values has impacted the book values of mREITs. The agency mREITs use hedges to mitigate the impact of higher interest rates on their portfolios. The markets seem to be dubious as to the efficacy of the hedging in protecting the book values from the impact of the rise in long-term interest rates.
The tool used to estimate the impact of a change in interest rates on the value of a mortgage portfolio is duration. In the 1930s, Frederick Macaulay realized that the weighted average of the times of cash flows for a bond, which he named duration, could indicate how much a bond would change in value in response to a change in interest rates. A fixed-income security with a duration of one year will increase in value by 1% if interest rates decline by 1% or decline by that amount if rates rise by that amount. A fixed-income security with a duration of 5 years will increase in value by 5% if interest rates decline by 1% or decline by 5% if rates rise by 1%. The change in value does not directly depend on the level of interest rates. Thus, a bond or a portfolio of fixed-income securities portfolio with a 5 year duration will decline by the same 5% if interest rates are 3% and increase to 4% or if interest rates are 13% and increase to14%.
Many agency mREITs disclose estimates of their duration both for their total mortgage assets and for the net duration of their portfolio after considering the effects of their hedges and liabilities. American Capital Agency Corp. (NASDAQ:AGNC) presenting at the Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) Financials Conference on June 12, 2013, indicated that on June 7, 2013 the duration of their mortgage assets was 5.2 years and the duration of their hedges and liabilities was -4.5 years for a net duration of 0.7 years. At that time AGNC indicated that a 100 basis points rise in rates would increase the net duration to 1.2 years and that a 200 basis points rise in rates would increase the net duration to 1.3 years. Also presenting at the Morgan Stanley Financials Conference, Amour Residential REIT (NYSE:ARR) indicated that on June 7, 2013 the duration of their mortgage assets was 5.1 years and that after considering the duration of their hedges they had a net duration of 1.7 years.
CYS Investments, Inc (NYSE:CYS) at the Deutsche Bank (NYSE:DB) dbAccess Global Financial Services Investor Conference on June 5, 2013, referred to their March 31, 2013 10-Q filing, which included a table that indicated the duration of their mortgage assets was 3.3 years, and after considering the duration of their hedges, they had a net duration of 1.9 years.
The price movements in AGNC, CYS and ARR could suggest that market participants are either ignoring what AGNC, CYS and ARR say their durations are or that they think AGNC, CYS and ARR are outright lying.
Duration calculations for mortgage securities and portfolios of mortgage securities are complex and different methods of calculation can yield different results. The complicating factor for mortgage securities is that unlike a plain bond, changes in interest rates also change the weighted average of the times of cash flows for a mortgage security. An increase in interest rates makes it less likely that homeowners will refinance their mortgages. Refinancing causes the mortgages to prepay principle, which speeds up the cash flows. A decline in prepayment speed increases the yield to maturity of a mortgage security trading at a premium as it extends the period over which principle will be repaid. For a mortgage security trading at a discount, declines in prepayment speed decreases the yield to maturity. This convexity of extension risk means that the duration of a mortgage security can increase rapidly as the market price of the security declines below par.
A further complicating factor is that many models used to calculate duration of mortgage securities and hedges assume parallel movements in interest rates. That is both short-term and long-term interest rates moving up or down by the same amount. In recent months, long-term rates have increased while short-term rates have not. Some types of hedges like a short position in Eurodollar Futures would not provide much of an offset to higher long-term rates in a period of stable short-term rates.
Even given the various caveats regarding mREIT duration calculations, if the durations claimed by the agency mREITs are anywhere near accurate, those who have been negative on the sector will be in for a very big surprise when the actual book values of the mREITs are reported. One possibility is that the agency mREITs are now trading at deep discounts to book value. That could be because markets are pricing in extreme future increases in interest rates or the possibility of a witch-hunt type hysteria developing on the part of regulators or the media regarding mREITs, similar to what occurred in the 1990s regarding derivatives such as inverse floaters. See: Are mREITs The New Inverse Floaters?
Rising short-term rates are unambiguously bad for agency mREITs and just about everyone else. The only people who clamor for higher short-term rates now are those concerned about the inflation that has not occurred yet and some who advocate the position that savers are being cheated by the low short-term rates. They apparently believe that people who put their money in risk-free assets such as treasury-bills, insured savings accounts and money market funds are entitled to significant returns without taking any risk even if it comes at the expense of the rest of the American taxpayers who would pay the higher rates on those as treasury-bills.
As I discussed in: Federal Reserve Actually Propping Up Interest Rates: What This Means For mREITs, an increase in long-term interest rates can be beneficial for agency mREITs as spreads and earning can increase. At the Investor Conference on June 5, 2013 CYS actually stated that they wanted interest rates to go up as long as they do not rise too quickly.
Whether rising interest rates are good or bad for investors in mREITs depends on the investor's objectives and holding periods. For short-term traders, unless market perception changes from its present view with regard to the impact of interest rate changes on mREITs, higher long-term rates are negative for mREITs. For longer-term agency mREIT investors, higher long-term rates can actually be beneficial. As I explained in: A Depression With Benefits: The Macro Case For mREITs, an investor who bought MORL at the all-time high price of $32.25 on April 12, 2013 with the intention of holding for ten years and reinvesting all dividends during that period could in a sense be better off now as a result of the carnage in the mortgage markets. Investors who buy agency mREITs with the intention of holding for a relatively long period, reinvesting the dividends and making periodic additional investments should actually welcome higher long-term interest rates.
Disclosure: I am long CYS, ARR, AGNC, MORL. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.


text:
Ask an Eye Doctor and Get an Answer ASAP
Hi. I'm online and happy to answer your question today.
I can tell you without equivocation that the food supplement and "no cataract surgery" eye drops are a total waste of money.
Nothing you can eat and no drop that you place in your eye will have any effect whatsoever on your cataract.
I would recommend having a second complete eye exam by another ophthalmologist and, if she recommends surgery, and you are no longer able to do the things you want or need to due because of decreased vision, then you should proceed with removal of your cataract.
The only way to get rid of a cataract is to have it surgically removed.
Does this make sense to you?
And, now, the obligatory word from our sponsors: :o)
I hope that this information was helpful for you. Please, allow me get credit for my time and effort in assisting you and press the ACCEPT button for this assist. I will be glad to answer additional questions until you are satisfied. Thank you very much. Positive Feedback and/or Bonus is welcomed and appreciated.
Thank you for your conclusive answer. In plain English tems: what is catract? Why is it developing with aging? And what are the reasons that the only cure is by surgery? Many say that it can be done only once. Is that true? With further aging after surgery, what measures can I take to prevent reoccuring of cataract?

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Bartolo Colon Home Run tattoo!
There are few things in the world less important than a mans word. In this case, a statement was made at the beginning of the season, and it came true.
Matt Sassi said to his buddy, Anthony Triola: "If Bartolo Colon hits a home run this year, I'll get a commemorative tattoo". Before the game on Saturday I met them in McFadden's and they told me about this bet. You'd think, ok... that's not happening. Right? WRONG!
Coolest part of the bet was that they were both there to witness the feat in person. Matt is a Middletown, NY native that moved to San Diego. What were the odds that Bart would be on the hill the day of our invasion? What are the odds he'd go yard? Slim to damn near impossible.
Matt could have chickened out and not gotten it at all, or gotten something small that could easily have been hidden. Instead he went balls to the freakin' wall with pretty much a half sleeve. Tossed THE 7 LINE ARMY on there for good measure and added the date of Bart's now famous swing.
You manned up, Matt. Bravo.
I trust The 7 Line is hooking this man up! Pretty sure he shouldn't have to hit refresh four thousand times to get a 7line ticket :)


text:
SCOUTS and Guides from the Vale will be parading along Evesham High Street on Sunday, May 11.
The Parade and following open air service in the Market Square is in honour of St George, patron saint of Scouting.
They will set off from Evesham Railway Station at 2.30pm and proceed along High Street to the Market Square.
The High Street will be closed during the parade but disruption should not last for more than 30 minutes.


text:
Should I Eat At Chick-Fil-A?
Jonathan Merritt wonders whether we want a country where people won't do commerce with those who have beliefs different than their own. It's a question I've asked myself before and after I decided to boycott Chick-Fil-A and Merritt makes a compelling argument.
He writes,
Should [people] swear off the legendary chicken sandwiches to support gay rights? Or could they eat one of the filets anyway, knowing their dollars would be but a drop in the bucket for a chain that has more than $4 billion in annual sales and donated a pittance to groups they may disagree with?
Merritt describes Chick-fil-A as a "laudable organization on balance" that contributes millions of dollars to charitable causes–including a large foster care program–and has provided thousands of scholarships for its employees to attend college.
Whether or not Chick-fila-A's charitable contributions and scholarships make it laudable is moot; the larger question is whether it's even possible to integrate our commercial lives with our personal values and political views with any regularity. I bank at Bank of America for its ease of accessibility despite its oft-cited predatory practices. Most any major business has its hand in shaping regressive public policies–through direct or indirect lobbying– that adversely impact the general public.
Perhaps–as usual–I'm being overly cynical. But it's a question worth pondering.


text:
Black Fischli - Shoulder bag - £549
oh no - sold out
Large day bag in black, made from soft calf leather. Inspired by a striped monkfish.
Features a small front pocket with zip, fish eye detailing and a zip pocket on the side opening.
Adjustable hand-woven leather strap with silver plated fastening.
Handmade in London
64 cm hight, 42 cm diameter,
30 cm wide, 20 high face pocket, adjustable strap


text:
Who Has The Worst Commute, And Not Just On Memorial Day?
When you're stuck in traffic on 131 just trying to get to home this Memorial Day Weekend, you may daydream about living in Hawaii to get away from it all. The nice weather, the sandy beaches, the food… and even the traffic! A new survey that's out reveals the nation's worst traffic cities. A city in Hawaii is #1 -Honolulu! This comes from an organization called INRIX, which studies the daily commutes of the top 100 major metro areas. The top 10 worst traffic cities along with the hours wasted in traffic per year:
1. Honolulu (58 hours)
2. Los Angeles (56 hours)
3. San Francisco (48 hours)
4. New York City (57 hours)
5. Bridgeport, Connecticut (42 hours)
6. Washington, D.C. (45 hours)
7. Seattle (33 hours)
8. Austin (30 hours)
9. Boston (35 hours)
10. Chicago (36 hours)
Tuesday at 8am is the busiest morning commute hour, while Friday at 5:30pm is the busiest evening commute hour when the average trip takes 16 percent longer. So no, Grand Rapids and Detroit did not make this list, but I think that's probably a good thing. This is one list we shouldn't be on. Let's just stick to being Beer City, USA.


text:
|David Gideon takes Super Stew title
|Faith Huffman | News-Telegram News Editor
Sept. 19, 2004 -- Commercial Glass & Mirror's stew cook David Gideon took top honors Saturday as the first place super stew winner at this year's World Champion Hopkins County Stew Contest.
They went home with the $500 prize donated by A.K. Gillis & Sons, Coca-Cola Bottling of Sulphur Springs and Buster Paving for having the best stew of the past champs competing in the stew cook-off. The Banker's Clearinghouse bid $1,200 for a quart of Commercial Glass & Mirror's first place super stew.
Also earning first place honors this year in the beef stew category was cook Rob Cody. This first place winner, sponsored by Grocery Supply Company, left the contest with the $300 prize donated by Best Western Trail Dust Inn. Their first place beef stew sold for $500 at auction to Agriland and the NETBIO Organization.
The $300 prize for first place chicken stew went to cook Annie Wilkerson, who was sponsored by AppleTree Acres. The $300 prize was donated by Grocery Supply Company. The stew sold for $750 to a consortium of attorneys which included Ramey & Sheffield, Bryan & Mattison; Johnson Law Firm; Powers & Blount; and Doug Froneberger, Chad Cable, Ruth Lewman, Ron Fergurson and Gregg Price.
The $250 prize provided by Ocean Spray Cranberries for super campsite went to the Johnny Chester campsite. The cooks for this team were sponsored by John Chester Fencing Co.
Best campsite and costume went to the Dr. Darryl Doughtie team. The $250 prize awarded to team members Angie and Doyle Starrett and Todd Tinsley was provided by D'Zahn Holstein Farms and Advantage Copy Systems.
The Randy Hopper team took second place in the beef stew contest. The Way Bible Church team's $150 prize was donated by Custom Shutters Inc. and the stew sold at auction for $350 to Tire Town, Fuller's Towing and C.D. Ballard Trucking Co.
The second place chicken stew award went to John McAfee. The Pro Auto Tint team's $150 prize was provided by Town & Country Cleaners, SatPro Inc. and Star Embroidery. The stew sold at auction to a consortium consisting of Century 21 Hometown, Century 21 First Group, Professional Land Title, Hopkins County Abstract, Allen Real Estate and Coldwell Banker Watson Co. for $550.
Hall Oil Company paid $200 for a quart of beef stew prepared by third place beef stew cook Pam Canup. Dairyland Automation provided the $50 prize for this team, sponsored by Feeders Supply Co.
Cook Sharon Sink went home with the $50 prize donated by Brookshire's Food Store for the third place chicken stew entry, which was auctioned to Sprint-NRG Petroleum for $250. The team was sponsored by Martindale Feed and The Gathering.
Older Archives
Looking for News-Telegram Sports and News Archives for January 2004 - November 2008


text: ×Close Product Image 1 of 1 Sleep Thieves See image Sleep Thieves By Stanley Coren × Added to Cart List Price $19.99 Your Cart ( items) Cart total Continue Shopping CHECKOUT NOW Choose a format: Trade Paperback eBook Choose a format: Trade Paperback Trade Paperback eBook Free Press | 320 pages | ISBN 9780684831848 | April 1997 Add to Cart Buy Simon & Schuster Add to Cart Amazon Barnes & Noble Books-a-Million IndieBound List Price $19.99 In Stock: Usually ships within 1 business day Browse Related Books Psychology > General Buy from another retailer Amazon Barnes & Noble Books-a-Million IndieBound Get a FREE eBook when you join our mailing list. Plus, receive updates on new releases, recommended reads and more from Simon & Schuster. Email Address Free eBook available to NEW subscribers only. Offer redeemable at Simon & Schuster's ebook fulfillment partner.Offer expires in three months, unless otherwise indicated.See full terms and conditions and this month's choices. More Books from this Author The Left-Hander Syndrome The Left-Hander Syndrome By Stanley CorenBy Stanley Coren Born to Bark Born to Bark By Stanley CorenBy Stanley Coren The Modern Dog The Modern Dog By Stanley CorenBy Stanley Coren Why Does My Dog Act That Way? Why Does My Dog Act That Way? By Stanley CorenBy Stanley Coren See more by Stanley Coren About the Author Photo Credit: John Bouliane Stanley Coren Stanley Coren an international authority on sidedness, is professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Born to Bark: My Adventures with an Irrepressible and Unforgettable Dog (2010), among other books. BECOME A FAN BOOKS Related Websites Stanley Coren's Official Site www.stanleycoren.com/


text:
Recruiting at Marist
Outline of the many recruiting programs we have to offer.
- Career and Internship Fair: This event, held twice a year, is an opportunity for students to network with employers. Employers come to campus to promote their organizations and share valuable advice and information with Marist students regarding career trends, employment outlook and occupational options.
- On-Campus Interviews: Recruiting officially spans for the Fall from mid October through December and in the Spring from February through April. We do make exceptions to those time lines if they are not convenient for an employer. All OCR schedules are managed via FoxQuest. Employers must ask for this right by contacting Desmond Murray at 845-575-3547. Interviews take place at the Center for Career Services in the Cannavino Library.
- Posting a Job or Internship: To list a part-time or full-time job or internship opportunity with Marist, we ask employers to visit Marist College's Online system - FoxQuest. This system is managed by NACE - National Association of Colleges and Employers and is a national, web-based system for recruiting college students and graduates for full-time and internship opportunities
Returning Employers log in hereFirst time employers:
- First, visit FoxQuest: http://marist-csm.symplicity.com/employers/
- Choose the "Register and Post Job" button if you want to post a job at this time. You will then receive, via email, a password within one week.
- Choose the "Register" button, fill out the registration form and Submit. If you choose the "Register" button, the software will send a password to your email within one week.
Marist College reserves the right to withhold this service from organizations or positions that are not deemed to be appropriate for our students in relation to their educational and career goals. Marist College and/or Career Services does not verify or screen job candidates. It is the responsibility of the employer to research candidates thoroughly.


text: Jim Cross - Unregistered September 30, 2012 4:36 PM I think this is great news for McLaren. Lewis has always been self-centered and immature. I think Whitmarsh has had to tolerate it because of Ron Dennis' relationship with Lewis. Now Whitmarsh can focus on pulling the team together around Button and Perez and, if he is the right leader, put his own stamp on the organization. 31 agree 10 disagree


text:
October 6, 2009
Senators Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and John Kerry (D-Mass.) introduced draft legislation of a cap and trade bill with slightly more stringent near-term carbon reduction targets and Kerry's message was simple: The recession worked so well to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, let's keep it going. Senators from both sides of the aisle expressed concerns about the target but Kerry argued since the recession gave us a head start on greenhouse gas reduction, we can kill the economy some more.
"Let me emphasize something very strongly as we begin this discussion. The United States has already this year alone achieved a 6 percent reduction in emissions simply because of the downturn in the economy, so we are effectively saying we need to go another 14 percent."
In other words, 10 percent unemployment is the new norm, says the Heritage Foundation:
- It took a year for the United States to reach 10 percent unemployment through the financial meltdown and the housing crisis.
- If the trade off is a 6 percent reduction in emissions for a 3.5 percent reduction in unemployment in one year alone, we could get to a 20 percent reduction in carbon dioxide by October 2011 and push the unemployment rate to 18 percent.
- On the bright side, we'd still be below Spain's 19.3 percent.
Make no mistake, this bill is a jobs destroyer, explains Heritage:
- Despite attempts to market cap and trade as a "clean energy jobs" bill, net job losses approach 1.9 million in 2012 and could approach 2.5 million by 2035.
- Particularly hit hard is the energy-intensive manufacturing sector, which according to the Heritage Foundation economists, would lose 1.4 million jobs by 2035.
For the record, you won't hear proponents of cap and trade calling it a "green" jobs bill anymore. That doesn't poll well. It's "clean energy" jobs now, says Heritage:
- Cap and trade will drive up energy prices so high to force people to use less energy.
- Consumers will drive less, fly less and companies will pump out less CO2 because people will buy less. But people still need to drive their cars and turn on their lights.
- All cap and trade does is force people to spend more to use less.
- The trade off for reduced carbon dioxide emissions is reduced economic activity.
Source: Nick Loris, "John Kerry: If You Enjoyed This Year's Recession, Just Wait for Cap and Trade," Heritage Foundation, October 5, 2009.
For text:
Browse more articles on Environment Issues


text:
|Authors Name
|Oak Ridge National Laboratory [1]
|Ponomariov, Branco Leonidov [1]
|Princeton University. Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy [1]
|Research Institute of Economy, Trade & Industry (Japan) [2]
|Schmidt, Jan Cornelius [2]
|Seavey, Art [1]
|Sercy, Kenneth [1]
|Shapira, Philip P. [3]
|Silva, Carol L. [1]
|Sonnenberg, Anthon [1]
|Southworth, Frank [2]
|Sovacool, Benjamin K. [5]
|Sun, Xiaojing [4]
|Texas A & M University. George Bush School of Government and Public Service [1]
|Thomas, Valerie M. [1]
|University of Illinois at Chicago. Graduate Program in Public Administration [1]
|University of Tokyo. Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology [2]
|Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Government and International Affairs [1]
|Walsh, John P. [6]
|Wang, Yu [4]


text:
Frontier Academy RVA: Managing Millennials
The Frontier Project
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (EST)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
Generation Y. Generation Next. Echo Boomers. Millennials. No matter how you refer to them, they're flowing into the workforce in droves and as some would say, creating a myriad of management challenges in their wake. Millennials are making waves in our corporate environments because they have a completely different set of expectations for their jobs and managers. There is no doubt it's been a struggle for many workplaces to accommodate them. Our Managing Millennials workshop focuses on giving you a keen insight into the perspective of the typical millennial employee, and gives you practical tools to deal with the new and different way these employees want (and demand) to engage with their work environments. We'll cover technology, teleworking, coaching, delegation and the keys to giving them the structure they crave to keep them happy throughout their careers.
Ideal Participants:
Anyone who manages people and anyone who finds themselves confused with how to effectively manage the population of Millennials on their team.
When & Where
Frontier Academy
2006 E Franklin St
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (EST)
Add to my calendar


text:
Holley Fain
Up bright and early as they continue filming episodes of their hit show, Chace Crawford and Leighton Meester puckered up on the set of "Gossip Girl" on Friday (February 13).
The Nate Archibald hunk handed over some flowers to the Blair Waldorf babe, with the two quickly embracing and sharing a passionate smooch.
10:18 pm


text:
Balloon Fight could refer to:
- Balloon Fight (game)
- Balloon Fight (stage)
- Balloon Fight (universe)
- Balloon Trip - Villager's up special based on Balloon Fight.
|This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.


text:
Since Gangplank's trades in social capital, we've never had our shortage of people willing to help out from time to time. A little over two months ago, a few of those folks joined forces to become the first official class of the Gangplank Volunteer Program.
Since then, these folks have blown me away with their dedication to even the most heinous of tasks (i.e. cleaning out and setting up the library). They genuinely want to help keep Gangplank running smooth so that everyone can work and have a good time.
I wanted to take a moment to recognize their awesome work and encourage everyone to tell them 'thank you' the next time you see them.
Debbie is a longtime Gangplanker. The official Gangplank podcast producer, Debbie most often volunteers her time making Gangplank Studios folks sound fabulous. Additionally, she has made the Gangplank library her personal pet project, coming in week after week to organize shelves, input new books and check-in returns. Debbie is always full of good ideas and a hug. You can most often find her hanging out during Hacknight.
A more recent addition to Gangplank, Seth is the mysterious and quiet volunteer. These qualities work in his favor during his volunteer work, letting him be a 'fly on the wall' while he videotapes or photographs Gangplank events. Seth has a gift for editing video that weaves a story out of simple images, as you can see in this video he produced.
The word that comes to mind when I think about Wendy is tough. No matter how busy she is in her work as a freelance writer, she somehow finds time to volunteer whenever she's in Gangplank – whether that's giving tours, welcoming people into Gangplank, writing blog posts or interviewing members.
Eileen Kane
Eileen is a super-volunteer who is quite literally EVERYWHERE. I can't even begin to see the number of events you may have seen her at because she's at all of them. Her boundless amounts of energy and positive attitude come in handy whenever there is a big task to be done.
Thank you volunteers!


text:
I am not aware of any USB GSM modems compatible with FreeBSD (which
does not mean a lot, though)
There are GS Modems available with WiFi or regular cable connections.
The biggest issue will however most probably be that most GSM Internet
connections are already NATed. Right, you've got no public IP. No need
to worry about putting the something in "Modem" or "bridge" mode, as
incoming connections will be blocked off by the ISP anyway.
Only very few ISP provide "real" Internet access, with a public IP.
These will typically provide you with their own modem hardware.
- Klaus
> Hello mighty m0n0wall experts
> I come to ask a humble favor from you all. Due to instability of
> internet connection in our office, we are thinking to use usb gsm
> modem for our internet service backup. The thing is that we need to
> enforce the nats and rules already in the firewall.
> Is there a tutorial on how to install usb gsm modem to m0n0wall and set it as wan?
> What are the compatible usb modem out there.
> Currently we are using prolink phs300 coupled with tp-link wifi
> router. But this will hinder the m0n0wall functions. Or can I use
> the tplink as a bridge between m0n0 wan and the modem?
> The m0n0wall version we use is the latest version.
> Thank you. All helps are appreciated.
> --
> Rendra Basuki
Best regards,
Klaus mailto:ks at stock dash consulting dot com


text:
U.S. President John F. Kennedy's skillful management of the Cuban missile crisis, 50 years ago this autumn, has been elevated into the central myth of the Cold War. At its core is the tale that, by virtue of U.S. military superiority and his steely will, Kennedy forced Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to capitulate and remove the nuclear missiles he had secretly deployed to Cuba. As Secretary of State Dean Rusk rhapsodized, America went "eyeball to eyeball," and the Soviets "just blinked." Mythologically, Khrushchev gave everything, and Kennedy gave nothing. Thus the crisis blossomed as an unabashed American triumph and unmitigated Soviet defeat.
John F. Kennedy's handling of the Cuban missile crisis: The Myth That Screwed Up 50 Years of U.S. Foreign Policy | TheNewsCrier.com
Current Status: Blessed (1)
Seeded on Mon Oct 8, 2012 11:40 PM
keyboard shortcuts: V vote up article J next comment K previous comment


text:
Tel: (902) 889-2607
Town: Musquodoboit Harbour
Ostrea Lake Haven Cottage, Musquodoboit Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada contact information, including address, telephone, email, and website link ( where applicable ) is provided by Select Inns of Atlantic Canada for your convenience. Please get in touch with Ostrea Lake Haven Cottage directly for additional information about accommodations, rates and polices and to reserve your vacations.
Select Inns, B&B's and Boutique Hotels of Atlantic Canada
is owned an operated by Web-Max.ca
Rates and other accommodation information change seasonally.


text:
Galaxies much like ours harbor mysterious magnetic fields, which turn out to build up much faster than scientists realized, a new study has found.
By analyzing light coming from distant galaxies at a time early in the universe's history, astronomers were able to show that these galaxies developed magnetic fields much sooner than expected. The finding may force scientists to rethink their understanding of how magnetic fields grow inside galaxies.
"The magnetic fields in these galaxies were very strong, at least as strong as they are today, at a time when the age of the universe was only one third of its current age," said researcher Francesco Miniati of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. "That puts strong constraints on the evolution of magnetic fields."
The discovery was made with the help of faraway light sources that served to illuminate the galaxies being studied.
Miniati and his colleagues used the European Southern Observatory?s Paranal Observatory to observe the very distant bright objects, called quasars, in both visual and radio frequency light. Quasars are the central regions of some galaxies where supermassive black holes generate tremendous emissions across the electromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves to visible light and x-rays.
The radio waves the researchers observed often showed signs of having passed through a magnetic field. It turned out, when a normal galaxy lay between Earth and the quasar, the magnetic field signature on the light was most strong. This told the researchers that it was the foreground galaxies, and not the quasars, that held the responsible magnetic fields.
"We were surprised that we could actually measure this so cleanly, and we were surprised that these galaxies had such strong magnetic fields early on," Miniati told SPACE.com. "This has been suggested before, but seen convincingly only for some individual galaxies. What we were able to show with this measurement is that all regular galaxies early on have these kinds of strong magnetic fields."
Scientists think galactic magnetic fields start from tiny magnetic seeds, perhaps created inside stars or quasars, and are then amplified over time as the turbulent movement of galactic gas, stirred up by stellar explosions, and the galaxy's rotation cause the magnetic fields to grow. This standard picture, however, can only account for strong magnetic fields that build up slowly over time. The new finding means scientists must come up with an improved explanation for how magnetic fields build up inside galaxies in the young universe such as those Miniati and his team observed.
The researchers detailed their discovery in the July 17 issue of the journal Nature. The study was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada and the U.S. Department of Energy.
- How Magnetic Fields Help Stars Form
- The Top 10 Weirdest Things in Space
- Video Player: Radio Galaxy's Extreme Event


text:
>In the PC-BSD installer when you choose to setup a manual partitioning,
>you only see "UFS, UFS + S, UFS + J", etc. So you don't know what the
>letters actually mean. Would it be possible to add a mouse-over box with
>some descriptive text?

We plan to add help/descriptive text to all of the PC-BSD menus by 9.0. We discussed design a bit over the weekend at OLF as there is only
so much screen real estate and many users tend to ignore Help buttons. The most logical solution so far is to provide some text on the
screen and a More link for those readers who wish to continue reading if all the text did not fit on the screen.

Ping me if you're interested in helping in writing/reviewing the text. Basically, any screen which currently doesn't have a Help button
(i.e. non-KDE menus) will need some help text. The goal is to provide text that is actually helpful, so the more writers/reviewers the
better.

Cheers,

Dru


text:
Wem weather map
- Recent locations
Your chosen location:
City of London
An error has occurred.
Weather type
Forecast summary
Regional forecast for West Midlands
Largely dry tonight with clear spells. Sunny spells tomorrow.
This Evening and Tonight:
Any showers this evening will fade away, leaving a dry night with plenty of clear spells. However, cloud may be thicker at times in the north of the region, perhaps giving some hill fog. Minimum Temperature 11 °C.
Tuesday will see another fine day with sunny spells, although there is a chance of the odd shower in the west in the evening. Feeling warm in light winds. Maximum Temperature 24 °C.
Outlook for Wednesday to Friday:
Becoming windier through the rest of the week with a spell of heavy rain during Wednesday. Mainly dry with sunny periods on Thursday and Friday, perhaps with the odd shower.
Updated at: 1710 on Mon 24 Jul 2017
UK forecast for the next 5 days
Fine for many tonight, cloudy and damp in the east.
This Evening and Tonight:
Outbreaks of light rain will continue across eastern parts of England before fading towards dawn. Dry elsewhere with clear spells, but staying cloudy on coasts in the north and east. The odd mist or fog patch also possible by dawn.
Cloudy and damp in the east at first, but soon turning drier and brighter with plenty of sunny spells. Perhaps the odd shower later, especially towards northeast Scotland. Generally warm.
Outlook for Wednesday to Friday:
Changeable and often windy with a spell of rain for all during Wednesday. Drier in the south on Thursday and Friday, but blustery showers elsewhere, heavy in the northwest.
Updated at: 1610 on Mon 24 Jul 2017
Outlook for the UK over the next 6-30 days
UK Outlook for Saturday 29 Jul 2017 to Monday 7 Aug 2017:
A generally unsettled spell of weather is expected over the weekend with a mixture of sunshine and showers for most. Heavy showers and strong winds are most likely in the north west with a risk of hail and thunder, as well as a possibility of gales in exposed areas. The unsettled regime looks set to continue until early August with further frontal systems affecting the UK, interspersed with clearer or perhaps showery weather and some unseasonably windy conditions across many areas. Temperatures should be around normal to cool, with perhaps only the far south east seeing some warmer conditions at times, although there is low confidence on this. There are no signals for any significant change from these changeable conditions during the period.
Updated at: 1258 on Mon 24 Jul 2017
UK Outlook for Tuesday 8 Aug 2017 to Tuesday 22 Aug 2017:
Changeable or unsettled conditions are likely at first with periods of rain interspersed with clearer or showery weather. There are some signals for high pressure to build which would allow for more settled conditions and rising temperatures, mostly likely in western parts. By the middle of August signals become mixed and confidence is low, however the preferred solution is for an Atlantic driven setup with the most unsettled conditions in the north west but drier in the south east.
Updated at: 1405 on Mon 24 Jul 2017
Location Details
Location: 52.8533, -2.7253
Altitude: 80.0 m above mean sea level


text:
Father: Guy Vernon TOWSLEY b: 24 MAY 1885 in Caledonia, Michigan
Mother: Ethel SMITH b: ABT 1886 in Canada
RootsWeb.com, Inc. is NOT responsible for the content of the GEDCOMs uploaded through the WorldConnect Program. If you have a problem with a particular entry, please contact the submitter of said entry. You have full control over your GEDCOM. You can change or remove it at any time.


text:
We are entering baking season and that means we will have a lot of new sales. This is the time of year when you want to stock up on items like yeast and sugar, so add these deals to your list so you don't have to buy them at higher prices out of season. Here are the scenarios…
At Kroger:
Buy one Domino Sugar Quick Dissolve Flip Top Canister (12 oz) $2.19 thru 10/9
Use one $1/1 Domino Product in a Flip Top Canister 9/25 R.P.
Buy one Fleischmann's Yeast (0.75 oz) $1.50 thru 1/17
Use one $0.75/1 Fleischmann's Yeast Product 10/2 SS (Exp. 11/15)
Thanks Kroger KrazyExtreme Couponing Tip: You can usually get two prints of most internet coupons. To find them in the easiest possible way, use our preclipped links that take you right to the coupon. Then come back and click the same link to get your 2nd print. This will save you the time spent searching for the coupon.
Never miss another hot coupon, deal or freebie again! "Like" Couponaholic .NET on Facebook, Follow us on Pinterest, Follow us on Twitter, Follow us on Instagram or Subscribe to our Daily Email Newsletter!


text:
Dr. Roto's Exclusive Rankings
21) Rashad Jennings
The Giants have said that he will be the bell cow back this season, but I am not sure that is completely accurate with rookie RB Andre Williams on the roster. However, he is clearly the most complete RB that the Giants have, so he will get his fair share of touches.
22) Joique Bell
In a PPR league, Bell is a quiet assassin. Most people overlook him because he does not get a ton of yards rushing, but he is a terrific receiver out of the backfield and a very consistent performer on a week-to-week basis.
23) Trent Richardson
Richardson was 2013's biggest disappointment. He was so bad that I cut him in one league as I could not waste the roster space come playoff time. There are no excuses for Richardson. He knows the playbook, the team, and the players. I see a slight comeback for him, but he is no more than a late fourth-round pick.
24) Pierre Thomas
There has been a lot of debate on Fantasy Sports radio this offseason about Thomas and his potential in the Saints' offense. With Darren Sproles gone to Philly, there are touches to be had. Thomas is a gritty player who does not get the respect that he deserves. If you start out your draft going WR heavy, Thomas would be a terrific RB2.
25) Frank Gore
Every season, Fantasy experts start the funeral for Gore, only to see him continue to run the ball effectively. The 49ers drafted Carlos Hyde in the second round which will give Gore the chance to take a breather at times during games and be ready to withstand the rigors of an entire season.
26) Chris Johnson
Johnson has gone from CJ2K to CJ 1/4K over the past couple of seasons. However, by signing with the Jets he has put himself in a situation where he can once again be successful. The Jets have a solid offensive line and are committed to the running game. All of this should add up to a comeback season for Johnson.
Cleveland Browns RB Ben Tate
27) Ben Tate
Tate owners know how talented he is. They also know that he cannot stay healthy. Signing with the Browns was a great move for him as he is a perfect fit in their downhill running scheme. If Tate can stay healthy (a huge if), he can easily surpass 1,000 yards on the ground this season.
28) Bishop Sankey
Sankey is the biggest question mark for me this season at running back. He showed flashes of ability at the University of Washington but nothing that struck me to think that he was capable of being the linchpin of a running game in the NFL. I see him more as a complementary back than a bell cow type runner.
29) Steven Jackson
Jackson never seemed to shake the injury bug in 2013 and was a supreme disappointment to his Fantasy owners. Now to complicate issues, the Falcons drafted Devonta Freeman, who has the ability to steal the job if Jackson continues to show wear and tear. Look for Jackson to have one last hurrah in 2014, as he finds the end zone at least eight times.
30) Lamar Miller
This really might be Miller's last chance to show the Dolphins brass that he is able to be the franchise running back that team is seeking. New OC Bill Lazor has gone on record to say that Miller will be used the same way that the Eagles used LeSean McCoy last year, so the opportunity is there for Miller to be an impact Fantasy player.
31) Ray Rice
It will be interesting to see how far Ray Rice falls in drafts this year. Often, Fantasy owners play with their hearts and let their personal feelings affect them when they draft. While I don't condone what Rice did to his fiancé, it won't affect when I select him. He is no more than a sixth or seventh round pick for me and I will treat him as such.
32) Fred Jackson
Each year I struggle with selecting Fred Jackson. I tend to pass on players who do not have a clearly defined role. Jackson is part of a three headed hydra at running back for the Bills (along with Spiller and Bryce Brown) so once again, I doubt that he will be on my team this year.
Carolina Panthers RB DeAngelo Williams
33) DeAngelo Williams
Williams is always good for two or three huge weeks every season. That said, the rest of the time he is maddening due to his inconsistency. He loses goal line carries to both Mike Tolbert and Cam Newton and he is often removed on obvious passing downs for Jonathan Stewart. I will try to avoid taking Williams in leagues this year.
34) Jeremy Hill
I really like the skill-set that Hill brings to the Bengals. He is a big back but he has surprisingly good hands too. Due to the fact that Gio Bernard is not a 20-plus carry RB, look for Hill to get about 10-15 touches per game. I would not be surprised to see him be the best rookie RB in the NFL in 2014.
35) Maurice Jones-Drew
I will not be running with MJD this year. He is sharing carries on a team with a struggling veteran QB.
36) Danny Woodhead
Woodhead is the poster child for PPR leagues, as he value skyrockets compared to standard leagues where he is no more than an also ran type player. The Chargers signed RB Donald Brown in the offseason so I wonder how the three RB committee will work. I will let someone else find out and pass on Woodhead.
37) Darren Sproles
Many Fantasy owners will shy away from Sproles thinking that he will lose a significant amount of touches. However, the beauty of Chip Kelly's offense in Philadelphia is that the team runs many more plays that its opponents. That said, there are more chances to be had for all the offensive players which should help Sproles keep his numbers similar to last year.
38) Khiry Robinson
I just have a feeling that he will finish the year as the starting RB for the Saints. Bill Parcells believes in his talent and Sean Payton will give him a shot to win the job. If you draft him, be patient. Talent always emerges even if it takes some time.
39) Devonta Freeman
He is small in stature but he makes up for it with a varied and explosive skill set. He is the perfect complement to Steven Jackson and he should have the opportunity to get about 10-12 touches per game. Keep him on your radar in the mid-rounds.
40) Darren McFadden
McFadden is like fool's gold; it always looks better than it is. I will pass on him and let some other sucker take him.
Please CLICK HERE and share your thoughts with Dr. Roto about his RB PPR rankings on our brand new SCOUT FANTASY FORUMS!


text:
|Start new thread in this topic | Flip this thread | Refresh the display
peole really annoy me with what they think are disposable pets(31 Posts)
the latest I have read is someone giving a dog back to a rescue because it ate a sandwich
I mean what the actual F??
When my other dog was a pup, I had just had a baby, my second one, my sister had died 6 months previously, I went out and left the dogs in the house and forgot to lock the kitchen door. The had literally emptied the whole of the fridge and freezer, even eaten frozen yorkshire puddings, there was food and sick everywhere! My first thought was;
1) I will have to take them to the vets
2) what a mess, this is going to take a long time to clean up
3) I will have to remember to lock the door in future, maybe a lock for the fridge would be a good idea
4) i am a bloody idiot
At no point did I think, i must get rid of the dogs WTF is wrong with people? Dogs aren't sodding rocket science
I was discussing our dog and impending baby with Dh a few nights ago he said "I hope Ddog gets along with the baby otherwise we will have to rehome the baby" This from the man who once told me he hates dogs.
taken not taking! too much wine last night
My Lab/Collie cross was always getting threatened with getting taking to the local dog home as a pup. I always told her "next time you chew something I am taking you to Cardonald". I always wonder what she could have chewed that would have been so bad that I would have taken her back. She ate rugs, pulled up a brand new carpet, money, two mobile phones, skirting boards and a couch. She is 13 years old now and still with me
All of which was down to me realising it was my inexperienced owner stupidity and not her fault. In her favour was she is the most loving and friendly dog. Which also did not stop people telling me I should get rid of her when I got pregnant. She had been part of the family for 6 years at that point ffs
Mine is a rescuse dog she had 2 pervoius owners one of which brought her back after 24 hours beacause she weed on the carpet.
I got her at 6mths house trained her it took a long while for her to settle even now after 7:5 yrs she a bit of a velrco dog she is the most loyal gentel animal you could ever.
I think people just dont realise they have to work with them to get them settled. When she came to us she had poorly tum and cost me 100 pounds at the cet with injections and meds it never occocured to me to take her back
I got one of my dogs at 14 weeks old because the owner found out she was pregnant with her second baby.
I have 3 under 5 and now pregnant with DC4 and I wouldn't dream of rehoming one of my dogs because I have children.
We had ddog for 5 months when I got pregnant.
It was unbelievable how many people asked if we were going to keep her when the baby came
It had never even occured to me and dh. Ddog was part of the family. Baby would be part of the family. Any problems that might arise would be dealt with as and when.
I have actually broken contact with a friend (not very close but had known her for years) over the treatment of her dog. She had a 7yo dog and two children aged 3 and 7, but had to get rid of the dog because she didn't have time for it.
Which in theory maybe, just maybe, would be fine, if I didn't know for a fact that she had extra (paid) childcare so that she had time for herself to go to the gym, go jogging, etc etc.
Wtf not take some of that time and look after your bloody dog? How can get rid of a dog that had been with you for SEVEN YEARS?
My in laws' old jack Russell ate a whole Sunday dinner off the plate on the table. Well apart from the broccoli. He didn't like broccoli.
FIL only left the table for a minute.
My dog is the worse scavenger ever. So we make sure she can't get things. We try to make allowances for her go go gadget legs.
There is a poster on another forum who runs a small dog rescue. At the end of each year she posts a list of reasons why owners have given their dogs over to her. The best one ever was "dog doesn't co-ordinate with the curtains" but loads are objections to really mundane predictable puppy behaviour like the puppy ate my dinner when I left it under his nose, I left the puppy alone for 10 hours and it chewed the sofa, it's been two days and it's still not house-trained, etc. There is so much information on pet ownership on line (not to mention books, trainers, etc) I don't understand what people are thinking when they get a dog. Some of the posts on here are so incredible you wonder if they are made up on purpose.
I got my pup at 16 weeks after her owner couldnt handle her. He didnt say why exactly, but I think it may of been because she wasnt toilet trained (eventhough he had said she was) 2 weeks after getting her she was 100% toilet trained and knew loads of tricks and now 3 months later is the best dog I could of asked for. I dont know how anyone can get rid of a pet, I get attached after 5 mins lol.
It bugs me when people sell a 10 week old puppy because they are "out at work all day and it's not fair on the dog". Surely you knew this 2 weeks ago when you got the pup??
I'll admit I didn't think it through properly when I got my current dog; I had two very elderly dogs and had completely forgotten how much hard work a puppy was, plus hadn't thought through the logistics of exercising a pup alongside two that couldn't really walk that far, whilst pushing a pushchair! However, I never once considered getting rid of her, just changed my routine and employed a dog walker for when I was at work. Some people just don't think past "aww isn't it cute?"
I have had 3 or 4 dogs here that my "friends" have wanted rid of, the worst was a dog called tiny... He was a st Bernard. He'd been kept outside in a pen that wasn't big enough for him and wasn't trained in any way, he was 2.
I took him, got a huge pen, despite the neighbours kids feeding him stuff and winding him up, he was amazing, I adored that dog! He was 4 when he died, the vet said it was almost certainly caused by his ill treatment before he came to us.
My dh did animal care and is known as the guy that sorts out dogs... I've currently got a seriously malnutritioned (if that's the right word) 7 month old pup in my kitchen. He was in our garden when we got home from shopping last week.
I've no idea what to do with him.. I suspect he might be a pitbull too so he will probably be pts...
I have had 3 or 4 dogs here that my "friends" have wanted rid of, the worst was a dog called tiny... He was a st Bernard. He'd been kept outside in a pen that wasn't big enough for him and wasn't trained in any way, he was 2.
I took him, got a huge pen, despite the neighbours kids feeding him stuff and winding him up, he was amazing, I adored that dog! He was 4 when he died, the vet said it was almost certainly caused by his ill treatment before he came to us.
My dh did animal care and is known as the guy that sorts out dogs... I've currently got a seriously malnutritioned (if that's the right word) 7 month old pup in my kitchen. He was in our garden when we got home from shopping last week.
I've no idea what to do with him.. I suspect he might be a pitbull too so he will probably be pts...
Ooooh! I really want one! And I think my lab would too!
He's a lovely little fella, omletta, though his barrel body and short legs are quite comical, sometimes!
One of our fosters stole and ate and entire loaf of bread, that I bought to make my supper with.
When DH told me I asked how that was possible, when I had hidden it at the back of the worktop, he told me "D0oin, when that dog stands up on her back legs, she is taller than you, there is no where in the kitchen you can reach, that she can't"
I bought a small stool and kept the bread on top of the cupboards after that. Sending her back didn't occur to me.
My previous boss got a Weimeraner puppy, then he & his DW had planned pregnancy. They got rid of the dog as it was too much hard work. I've never had a dog of my own but I could have told him that! I completely lost all respect for him, selfish t**t.
It was a really good natured dog as well. Bastard.
One of my close friends did this and ill admit I lost a lot of respect for her and thought your an idiot really.
Her DD was scared of dogs so she and her DH decided the best way to "cure" her was to buy a puppy (probable as next door were buying its litter mate) anyway they bought a puppy the next day I went round to see it as you do but already it was obvious they hasn't thought it through, it had already chewed up half the garden and they were moaning.
Anyway 2 weeks later the puppy was given away as they are both out working FT and couldn't come gone to let it out, WTF didn't you think of that at the time?
Don't know who they got the puppy from, probably not a diligent breeder if they give a puppy to anyone pitching up with £600.
We would live a dog but right now is not the time for us to have one
Sometimes when people separate their circumstances change poorpaws , maybe have to move into rented accommodation that don't allow pets etc. I had to move to a council place and I'm not strictly allowed to have a dog here (ssshhh) but I've had her many years and am not giving up a ten year old dog that is settled with me. The woman who gave her up at the pound had a history of getting puppies, then handing them back when they got too big. They banned her.
I do agree some people simply don't understand the amount of work and money a dog can be until they are faced with the harsh reality of it.
My dog snatched two slices of bread from the work surface whilst I nipped to the loo. I was looking around for the bread for ages before I twigged.
Also people get rid of dogs when they separate. When I got divorced I was willing to fight for my two dogs just as much as for my daughter. (Got them all without too many problems thank goodness).
ouryve - is that a jackhuahua? I want one so badly.
I've just come home to find puppy poo smeared all over the kitchen floor, the water bowl empty (content on floor also) and a basket of plastic bags cleverly removed from a cupboard and also smeared in said poo!
My first thought was 'oh shit.....,' the second 'look at pups amazing wagging tail, he is so happy to see me' and final 'this is my fault because he's been alone for two hours'.
My parents recently adopted a cross chihuahua/jack russell. He's microchipped and when it was read, it turned out that he'd originally been named Twilight. Poor boy had a convoluted history, it turns out that he'd been sold, probably when his original owners realised he was a bit too big to fit in a handbag or carry everywhere (hate this craze) and his new owners just let him wander and were never traced.
hmm this dog ate a sandwich though seeker. Genuine reasons I can understand but someone handed a dog into the dogs trust because they had had a new sofa and the dog no longer matched
Sometimes people take on too much.
If they really can't cope, it's better if the dog goes to someone who can cope.
of course it takes time to train a dog (or them to train you )
|Start new thread in this topic | Flip this thread | Refresh the display
Join the discussion
Registering is free, easy, and means you can join in the discussion, get discounts, win prizes and lots more.Register now
Already registered with Mumsnet? Log in to leave your comment or alternatively, sign in with Facebook or Google.
Please login first.


text:
What 'Back to The Future II' Got Right & Wrong About 2015
Celebrity| | By Ryan Miller
The future has come. October 21, 2015 was the day Marty McFly and Doc Brown flew into the future in the DeLorean in Back to the Future Part II. (They even got the Wednesday right!) Back in 1989 when the film came out, the moviemakers shared a lot of predictions of what the future would be like. It turns out, they weren't completely off base! They actually got a lot of things right, or close enough. Maybe the filmmakers really did know how to time travel?
So how close did their version of 2015 get to real life? Let's take a look at the predictions that came true and the things the movie got totally wrong (but we really wish were right!).


text:
Fair, 82 °F | Forecast
Sign up to get emails about all the hottest deals and discounts!
Come play beach kickball vs. our sister resort, hotel BLUE! This game is played just like beach kickball with one twist.. Instead of having your game face on you'll have to have your PIRATE face on!!
*Activities are for ages 5 and up and are subject to change. See activities sheet upon arrival for most up-to-date schedule and check the activity board if there are changes due to weather. Please sign up for all activities and meet under the umbrellas at the activity area at the start of each activity.Next Date:
at area restaurants, attractions, entertainment, shopping and more!
Exclusively for guests of VacationMyrtleBeach Resorts
Save money be presenting your VMB discount Card at any of our participating vendors.
Find out how you can save up to $225


text:
Stages of Reading Development
Learning to read is like learning to walk or talk; however, this process can not be rushed. Reading is a skill which is built upon through stages and is an ongoing process. Every child will move through each of the five stages of reading development at their own pace, when he or she is ready. Children can not be rushed or pushed through these stages.
While the progression from one stage to another is dependent upon the mastery of the previous stage, many learners may be operating in more than one stage during their school years. The five stages of reading development are described below.
|Stage O: "Pseudo
Reading" or Pre-reading - Preschool (ages 6 months to 6 years)
|Stage 1: Initial
Reading and Decoding -Grade 1 and beginning Grade 2 (ages 6 and 7)
|Stage 2:
Confirmation and Fluency Grades 2 and 3 (ages 7 and 8)
|Stage 3:
Reading for Learning the New Grades 4-8 (ages 9-13)
|Stage 4:
Multiple Viewpoints - High School, grades 10-12 (ages 15-17)
|Stage 5:
Construction and Reconstruction - College and beyond (age 18+)


text:
- Medical Student Education
Family and Community Medicine Medical Education
The division of medical student education within Saint Louis University's department of family and community medicine focuses on education throughout the four years of medical school.
Director of Medical Student Education: Kelly M. Everard, Ph.D.
Program Coordinator:
First Year and Second Year Electives
We offer the following electives in the first year to provide a variety of experiences in family medicine:
- FCM-130 Tools for the Future Primary Care Physician
- SALC-104 Vulnerable Populations
- SALC-117 Corrections Medicine at Juvenile Detention
- SALC-131 Casa de Salud Latino Patient Advocacy
- SALC-133 Project LEAN (Live, Exercise, Attitude, Nutrition)
- SALC-138 Labor of Love: Vulnerable Women & Maternity
- SALC-146 Pavement Paramedics
Third Year Clerkship
Our required third-year family medicine clerkship is one of the highest rated clerkships in the medical school. It is designed to enable students to establish competencies in the comprehensive approach to the practice of medicine.
- Clerkship Faculty and Staff
- Clerkship Schedule
- Clerkship Goals and Objectives
- Preceptor Assignments and Orientation
- Clerkship Means of Assessing Competency
- Clerkship Assessment of the Student
The board specialty of family medicine is centered on lasting, caring relationships with patients and their families. Family physicians integrate the biological, clinical, and behavioral sciences to provide continuing and comprehensive health care. The scope of practice encompasses all ages and genders, each organ system and every disease entity.
Our family medicine preceptors work in a variety of community settings, such as solo practices, group practices, residencies and community health centers.
Fourth Year Electives
- FCM-410 Global Health: Cross Cultural/International Experiences
- FCM-411 Advanced Topics in Family and Community Medicine
- FCM-414 Primary Care Research
- FCM-416 Post Graduate Training and Life Skills Mastery
- FCM-419 Web-based Morbidity and Mortality Rounds
- FCM-427 Medical Management of Eating Disorders
- FCM-430 Inter-professional Team Seminars
- FCM-434 Casa de Salud Ambulatory Clinic
- FCM-437 Community Medicine
We also offer two family medicine sub-internships for students who have completed their basic clerkships to give them the opportunity to hone skills in the diagnosis and management of medical problems in a family medicine inpatient setting. Students are able to evaluate and manage a broad range of inpatients from initial assessment to discharge who require acute medical and/or surgical care.
- FCM-501 SLU Family Medicine - St. Elizabeth's Hospital
- FCM-503 Family Medicine in Patient Service at St. Mary's Health Center
Additional Information
Faculty, staff and students within the Saint Louis University School of Medicine may visit Oasis for more information on our electives. You may also contact the director of medical student education, Kelly Everard, Ph.D. or the program coordinator, Laura Grentz-Dolan, M.S.


text:
Nicole Kidman has slammed press reports she will marry country music star Keith Urban in Australia next month
Aside from the long circulating rumors mention that Nicole Kidman is going to tie the knot with Keith Urban, the Aussie actress insists those reports as false.
And commented on the latest news mentioned that the couple has sent out invitations for a wedding held on March 11 in Sydney, Kidman's publicist Wendy Day said, "Everything about that story is nonsense."
Further Wendy added "Nicole Kidman is not getting married to Keith Urban at a Catholic church in Sydney on March 11. I know of no wedding. I know of no wedding date. I know of no wedding plans."


text: #710: Automatic pkg upgrade fails: xscreensaver conflict with xscreensaver-gnome -----------------------------+--------------------------- Reporter: mjollnirpaul | Owner: Type: System Defect | Status: new Priority: critical | Milestone: Component: PC-BSD Updater | Version: 9.1-RELEASE Resolution: | Keywords: pgk, security -----------------------------+--------------------------- Comment (by kris): Do this to fix: # pkg delete -f xscreensaver # pkg upgrade -y Does it correct the issue? It should resolve the bad deps, and not try to pull in conflicting xscreensaver packages anymore. -- Ticket URL: <http://trac.pcbsd.org/ticket/710#comment:3> PC-BSD <http://trac.pcbsd.org> PC-BSD Project Management


text: Sean Cavanaug: > In the Von Neumann model this has been made difficult by the stack > itself. Thinking of exceptions as they are currently implemented in > Java, C++, D, etc is automatically artificially constraining how they > need to work. It's interesting to take a look at how "exceptions" are designed in Lisp: http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/beyond-exception-handling-conditions-and-restarts.html Bye, bearophile


text:
Masters 2013: Play Augusta with our Sky Sports experts as they take on the Shot Centre
See how to play Augusta with our Sky Sports experts as they take on the Masters Shot Centre.
By Paul Higham Twitter: @SkySportsPaulH
Last Updated: 02/04/13 5:43pm
You can watch all four days of the Masters live on Sky Sports, and while we've also got our course guide we can take you right inside what it's like playing these famous old golf holes thanks to our Shot Centre technology.
Here's a look at some of our experts tackling the unique challenges that Augusta offers in the first golfing major of the year.
Hole 1 - Tea Olive
Par 4, 455 yards
This is it - the first hole in the first major of the year and nerves will be jangling for even the most experienced of old pros when they make it to the tee box. With the famous trees at Augusta flanking both sides of the fairway it's a tough task to find the short stuff. Here our Simon Holmes looks at how to play the first hole at the Augusta National.
Hole 6- Juniper
Par 3, 180 yards
An 180-yard par three from an elevated tee is hardly the kind of hole that sounds overly daunting upon first inspection, but the likes of Arnold Palmer and Jose Maria Olazavbal have made a seven on it so it is not by any means a pushover - see how Denis Pugh gets on when he tees it up in the shot centre.
Hole 8 - Yellow Jasmine
Par 5, 570 yards
A brave Denis Pugh is back in the shot centre and tackling the monstrous 570-yard par five eighth hole at Augusta. It's a huge hit to clear the bunker on the right and from then it's up hill all the way home to the green - can Denis tame this beast?
Amen Corner
It strikes fear into the heart of every golfer alive, but how can Sky Sports' Denis Pugh and European Tour professional David Horsey get on when they go about taking on the fearsome combination of the 11th, 12th and 13th holes at Augusta in our Shot Centre?
Hole 11 - White Dogwood
Par 4, 505 yards
A testing hole if ever there was one, with two lusty blows needed to get yourself into position for a par on a long par four. In this section of Shot Centre Denis Pugh is joined by European Tour star David Horsey as he gives us pro's view of tackling one of the most renowned courses in the world in Augusta - even if it is only on screen.
Hole 12 - Golden Bell
Par 3, 155 yards
On paper the short par three in the middle of Amen Corner should not be too much to fear for our Masters hopefuls, but as Denis Pugh and David Horsey explain, just the memories of years gone by is enough to cloud the mind and run up a big score. It's only a short knock across a pond but with water, some difficult bunkering and a devlish green, watch out!
Hole 13 - Azalea
Par 5, 510 yards
The final piece in Rory McIlroy's meltdown a few years back, a huge dogleg left dominates this hole and it is one of the most famous on the course - just five yards further than the 11th but sometimes even that extra stroke to get home doesn't help. See how Denis Pugh and David Horsey end their tussle with Amen Corner.
Hole 15 - Firethorn
Par 5, 530 yards
Simon Holmes and Mark Mouland take a look at the second shot to the par five at Augusta, which can often be a desperately difficult decision given the water that guards what looks like a tiny putting surface from distance.
Hole 16 - Redbud
Par 3, 170 yards
Denis Pugh and David Horsey are back to take you through the 16th hole at Augusta - the par three that will forever be remembered for Tiger Woods making that amazing chip-in back in 2005. Ian Poulter and Padraig Harrington have both hit holes in one here.
Hole 18 - Holly
Par 4, 455 yards
We have a full team of Rob Lee, Denis Pugh and Peter Oosterhuis all braving the Shot Centre to take up a double challenge of taking on the 14th hole and then the nerve-jangling finish up the hill at the famous 18th hole - where Masters Green Jackets have been won and lost.


text:
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is an emerging low-power wireless technology developed for short-range control and monitoring applications that is expected to be incorporated into billions of devices in the next few years. This paper describes the main features of BLE, explores its potential applications, and investigates the impact of various critical parameters on its performance. BLE represents a trade-off between energy consumption, latency, piconet size, and throughput that mainly depends on parameters such as
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is an emerging wireless technology developed by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) for short-range communication. In contrast with previous Bluetooth flavors, BLE has been designed as a low-power solution for control and monitoring applications. BLE is the distinctive feature of the Bluetooth 4.0 specification [
The advent of BLE has occurred while other low-power wireless solutions, such as ZigBee, 6LoWPAN or Z-Wave, have been steadily gaining momentum in application domains that require multihop networking [
The widespread use of Bluetooth technology (e.g., in mobile phones, laptops, automobiles,
This paper describes the main features of BLE, investigates the impact of critical parameters on its performance, and explores its potential applications. The rest of the paper is organized as follows: Section 2 overviews the BLE protocol stack and describes the operation and main characteristics of each layer; Section 3 evaluates the energy consumption, latency and network size of BLE and discusses application layer BLE throughput; Section 4 explores the application and market adoption possibilities for BLE, and provides a comparison with other wireless low-power technologies. Finally Section 5 concludes the paper with the main remarks.
This section presents the BLE protocol stack, and describes the main mechanisms and features of each layer.
Like in classic Bluetooth [
Although some of the BLE Controller features are inherited from the classic Bluetooth Controller, both types of Controller are currently incompatible. Hence, a device that only implements BLE (which is referred to as a
BLE operates in the 2.4 GHz Industrial Scientific Medical (ISM) band and defines 40 Radio Frequency (RF) channels with 2 MHz channel spacing. There are two types of BLE RF channels: advertising channels and data channels. Advertising channels are used for device discovery, connection establishment and broadcast transmission, whereas data channels are used for bidirectional communication between connected devices.
Three channels are defined as advertising channels. These channels have been assigned center frequencies that minimize overlapping with IEEE 802.11 channels 1, 6 and 11, which are commonly used in several countries.
An adaptive frequency hopping mechanism is used on top of the data channels in order to face interference and wireless propagation issues, such as fading and multipath. This mechanism selects one of the 37 available data channels for communication during a given time interval.
All physical channels use a Gaussian Frequency Shift Keying (GFSK) modulation, which is simple to implement. The modulation index is in the range between 0.45 and 0.55, which allows reduced peak power consumption. The physical layer data rate is 1 Mbps.
The receiver sensitivity is defined in BLE as the signal level at the receiver for which a Bit Error Rate (BER) of 10−3 is achieved. The BLE specification mandates a sensitivity better than or equal to −70 dBm. The coverage range is typically over various tens of meters.
In BLE, when a device only needs to broadcast data, it transmits the data in advertising packets through the advertising channels. Any device that transmits advertising packets is called an advertiser. The transmission of packets through the advertising channels takes place in intervals of time called advertising events. Within an advertising event, the advertiser sequentially uses each advertising channel for packet transmission. Devices that only aim at receiving data through the advertising channels are called scanners.
Bidirectional data communication between two devices requires them to connect to each other. The creation of a connection between two devices is an asymmetric procedure by which an advertiser announces through the advertising channels that it is a connectable device, while the other device (referred to as an initiator) listens for such advertisements. When an initiator finds an advertiser, it may transmit a Connection Request message to the advertiser, which creates a point-to-point connection between the two devices. Both devices can then communicate by using the physical data channels. The packets for this connection will be identified by a randomly generated 32-bit access code.
BLE defines two device roles at the Link Layer for a created connection: the master and the slave. These are the devices that act as initiator and advertiser during the connection creation, respectively. A master can manage multiple simultaneous connections with different slaves, whereas each slave can only be connected to one master. Thus, the network composed by a master and its slaves, which is called a piconet, follows a star topology. Currently, a BLE device can only belong to one piconet.
In order to save energy, slaves are in sleep mode by default and wake up periodically to listen for possible packet receptions from the master. The master determines the instants in which slaves are required to listen, and thus coordinates the medium access by using a Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) scheme. The master also provides the slave with the information needed for the frequency hopping algorithm (including the map of data channels to be used) and for the connection supervision. The parameters related with the management of a connection are transmitted in the Connection Request message and can be updated during the connection for various reasons (e.g., using a new data channel map due to a change of the interference pattern).
Once a connection between a master and a slave is created, the physical channel is divided into non-overlapping time units called connection events. Within a connection event, all packets are transmitted using the same data channel frequency. Every connection event starts with the transmission of a packet by the master. If the slave receives a packet, the slave must send a packet to the master in response. However, the master is not required to send a packet upon receipt of a packet from the slave. At least, an Inter Frame Space (IFS) of 150 μs must pass between the end of the transmission of a packet and the start of the next one. While master and slave continue to alternate in sending packets, the connection event is considered to be open. Data channel packets include a More Data (MD) bit which signals whether the sender has more information to transmit. If none of the devices has more data to transmit, the connection event will be closed and the slave will not be required to listen until the beginning of the next connection event. Other circumstances that force the end of a connection event include the reception of two consecutive packets with bit errors by either the master or the slave, and the corruption of the access address field of a packet sent by any device. In order to allow bit error detection, all data units include a 24-bit Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) code.
For a new connection event, master and slave use a new data channel frequency, which is computed by using the frequency hopping algorithm. The time between the start of two consecutive connection events is specified by the
Link Layer connections use a stop-and-wait flow control mechanism based on cumulative acknowledgments, which at the same time provides error recovery capabilities. Each data channel packet header contains two one-bit fields called the Sequence Number (SN) and the Next Expected Sequence Number (NESN). The SN bit identifies the packet, whereas the NESN indicates which packet from the peer device should be received next. If a device successfully receives a data channel packet, the NESN of its next packet will be incremented, and that packet will serve as an acknowledgement. Otherwise, if a device receives a packet with an invalid CRC check, the NESN of the received packet cannot be relied upon. This forces the receiving device to resend its last transmitted packet, which serves as a negative acknowledgement.
The L2CAP used in BLE is an optimized and simplified protocol based on the classic Bluetooth L2CAP. In BLE, the main goal of L2CAP is to multiplex the data of three higher layer protocols, ATT, SMP and Link Layer control signaling, on top of a Link Layer connection. The data of these services are handled by L2CAP in a best-effort approach and without the use of retransmission and flow control mechanisms, which are available in other Bluetooth versions. Segmentation and reassembly capabilities are not used, since upper layer protocols provide data units that fit into the maximum L2CAP payload size, which is equal to 23 bytes in BLE.
The ATT defines the communication between two devices playing the roles of server and client, respectively, on top of a dedicated L2CAP channel. The server maintains a set of attributes. An attribute is a data structure that stores the information managed by the GATT, the protocol that operates on top of the ATT. The client or server role is determined by the GATT, and is independent of the slave or master role.
The client can access the server's attributes by sending requests, which trigger response messages from the server. For greater efficiency, a server can also send to a client two types of unsolicited messages that contain attributes: (i) notifications, which are unconfirmed; and (ii) indications, which require the client to send a confirmation. A client may also send commands to the server in order to write attribute values. Request/response and indication/confirmation transactions follow a stop-and-wait scheme.
The GATT defines a framework that uses the ATT for the discovery of services, and the exchange of characteristics from one device to another. A characteristic is a set of data which includes a value and properties. The data related to services and characteristics are stored in attributes. For example, a server that runs a 'temperature sensor' service may account with a 'temperature' characteristic that uses an attribute for describing the sensor, another attribute for storing temperature measurement values and a further attribute for specifying the measurement units.
BLE offers various security services for protecting the information exchange between two connected devices. Most of the supported security services can be expressed in terms of two mutually-exclusive security modes called
The BLE Link Layer supports encryption and authentication by using the Cipher Block Chaining-Message Authentication Code (CCM) algorithm [
It is also possible to transmit authenticated data over an unencrypted Link Layer connection. In this case, a 12-byte signature is placed after the data payload at the ATT layer. The signature is computed by applying an algorithm that uses 128-bit AES as the block cipher [
In addition to the described services, BLE supports a mechanism called privacy feature, which allows a device to use private addresses and frequently change them. The privacy feature mitigates the threat by which an adversary can track a BLE device. The private addresses are generated by encrypting the public address of the device, which can be resolved by a trusted device that has been provided with the corresponding encryption key.
Each security mode accounts with different levels, which express requirements as to the type of
Pairing comprises three phases. In the first phase, the two connected devices announce their input/output capabilities and, based on these, they choose a suitable method for the second phase.
The second phase has the purpose of generating the Short-Term Key (STK), which will be used in the third phase to secure the distribution of key material. In the second phase, the pairing devices first agree on a Temporary Key (TK), by means of the Out Of Band, the Passkey Entry or the Just Works methods. The Out of Band method uses out of band communication means (e.g., NFC [
In the third phase, each endpoint of the connection may distribute to the other endpoint up to three 128-bit keys called the Long-Term Key (LTK), the Connection Signature Resolving Key (CSRK) and the Identity Resolving Key (IRK). The LTK is used to generate the 128-bit key employed for Link Layer encryption and authentication. The CSRK is used for the data signing performed at the ATT layer. The third key (
The Security Manager Protocol (SMP) carries out the message exchange of the three described pairing phases. SMP operates on top of a fixed L2CAP channel.
A vulnerability that currently exists in BLE is the fact that none of the pairing methods is protected against passive eavesdropping. Therefore, an adversary who obtains the pairing messages can determine the LTK, the CSRK or the IRK. However, according to the Bluetooth 4.0 specification, a future BLE version will use elliptic curve cryptography and Diffie-Hellman public key exchanges in order to solve the described vulnerability issue [
At the highest level of the core BLE stack, the GAP specifies device roles, modes and procedures for the discovery of devices and services, the management of connection establishment and security.
The BLE GAP defines four roles with specific requirements on the underlying controller: Broadcaster, Observer, Peripheral and Central. A device in the Broadcaster role only broadcasts data (via the advertising channels) and does not support connections with other devices. The Observer role is complementary for the Broadcaster,
Finally, since certain types of applications may benefit from reusing common functionality, additional profiles can be built on top of the GAP. Bluetooth follows a profile hierarchy, whereby a new profile including all the requirements of an existing profile can be defined. A highest-level profile that specifies how applications can interoperate is called an application profile. Application profiles, which are also specified by the Bluetooth SIG, favor interoperability between devices from different manufacturers.
This section evaluates the performance of BLE in terms of energy consumption, latency and piconet size, for various use cases and configurations, and discusses application layer BLE throughput. The size of the notification, command and response messages considered in this study is the maximum one (
We first investigate the theoretical lifetime of a slave that is connected to a master in a data collection application. Note that a slave is typically a device with limited energy supply, whereas a master may not suffer the same energy constraints. We consider two different methods by which the master obtains sensor measurement readings (which are handled as attribute values) from the slave, which is assumed to act as the attribute server. We denote these methods by one-way ATT communication and round-trip ATT dialogue, respectively. In the one-way ATT communication, the slave sends a notification in response to a poll from the master. In the round-trip ATT dialogue, the master sends a request to the slave, which transmits a response to the master (and both the request and the response trigger Link Layer acknowledgments). For the two methods described, the first packet transmission from the master takes place at the beginning of each connection event.
The evaluation is carried out theoretically by assuming current consumption values obtained from measurements for the CC2540 radio chip, for a transmit power of 0 dBm [
The study considers the impact of
Note that for applications that can exploit the maximum
In order to complement the previous study, we also measure the average current consumption of a CC2540 node configured as a slave for the one-way ATT communication. The distance between the slave and the master is 0.5 m, and the transmit power of both devices is 0 dBm. The slave is powered by a coin cell battery that has a capacity of 220 mAh and a nominal voltage of 3 V. Measurements are carried out by using an Agilent Technologies Power Analyzer (N6705A model).
As it can be seen, the device lifetime results shown in
It is possible to perform multiple configurations of the
The choice of appropriate parameter values should be made by taking into consideration application requirements. While delivery delay may be tolerated for certain sensor measurement reading applications, a user that presses a button in a remote control is sensitive to delays greater than 500 ms [
We next study by simulation the average latency of one-way ATT communications and round-trip ATT dialogues between a master and a slave, as a function of the
The latency of each message exchange is measured as the difference of times between the start of the transmission of the first message and the end of the correct reception of the last message. We assume that a connection has been created between the two BLE devices before the ATT message exchange.
For very low BER values (e.g., 10−6), the average latency of round-trip and one-way ATT message exchanges are smaller than 2 ms and 1 ms, respectively, for any
On the other hand, we have measured the latency of an error-free one-way ATT exchange during the experiments presented in Subsection 3.1. The latency value obtained is 676.7 μs, which is consistent with the delay expected to transmit a maximum-sized notification, receive the corresponding acknowledgment and wait for two IFS intervals. The measurement has been performed on the basis of a CC2540 slave current consumption plot, which is illustrated in
We next investigate the maximum piconet size,
As shown in
Nevertheless, the maximum piconet size in a real scenario may be smaller than the theoretical one, due to limitations in terms of memory or antenna availability in the master. It is expected that a computer or a smartphone acting as a master will not suffer significant memory limitations. However, in some current smartphone models, the antenna is used by the classic Bluetooth and the WiFi stacks in addition to the BLE one, thus reducing the total time available for BLE and the number of possible simultaneous BLE connections.
The maximum BLE application layer throughput for a connection between two devices has been obtained in prior work by simulation and mathematical analysis, as a function of
Despite the theoretical or simulation-based findings, the maximum BLE throughput that can be achieved in a real scenario may be limited due to a variety of factors. These include implementation constraints such as the number of application layer messages a device can send per connection event (due to memory limitations), as well as processing delays.
We have conducted experiments in order to measure the maximum achievable throughput in a BLE link composed of two connected CC2540 devices. The distance between both devices is 0.5 m and their transmit power is 0 dBm. According to our measurements, in these conditions, the BER of the BLE link is lower than 10−5. In each experiment, the slave has been programmed to send the maximum number of notifications allowed by the BLE stack currently used in the CC2540 (
BLE may benefit from the widespread use of Bluetooth technology, since BLE easily integrates into classic Bluetooth circuitry, and hence it is likely that future Bluetooth devices will be dual-mode devices. According to published forecasts, BLE is expected to be used in billions of devices in the near future [
While BLE is emerging, other low-power wireless technologies, such as ZigBee, 6LoWPAN or Z-Wave, have already achieved significant presence in several market segments. However, they do not have high deployment expectations in devices such as smartphones. BLE, on the other hand, is expected to have a strong position in these.
Healthcare, wellness and sports constitute an application domain where classic Bluetooth has already been used [
Another opportunity for BLE is the possibility that the mobile phone may constitute a universal remote control for the domestic devices in a home. Smart energy and home security applications may further exploit BLE-enabled mobile phones. The single-hop scope of BLE may require proper transmit power tuning. In fact, most Wireless Home Automation Network (WHAN) technologies support the formation of multihop networks [
On the other hand, BLE can be used for contactless applications, such as mobile payment, ticketing or access control. However, Near Field Communication (NFC) was primarily designed for this use case space [
BLE is also adequate for industrial environments, which are challenging due to multipath fading and radio interference from machinery [
This paper describes the BLE protocol stack, provides a performance evaluation of this technology and explores its potential applications. In BLE, there exists a trade-off between energy consumption, latency, piconet size, and throughput that mainly depends on the
This work is supported in part by the Spanish Government through project TEC2009-11453. Joaquim Oller was supported by FEDER and by the Spanish Government through an FPI grant.
Theoretical lifetime of a slave for one-way and round-trip ATT message exchanges, and for different parameter configurations, based on CC2540 current measurements [
Experimental setup used for measuring the current consumption of a CC2540 slave. The devices on the left and on the right of the picture are configured as the master and the slave, respectively. The slave is connected to the power analyzer. (Note: the screen of the power analyzer shows the current consumption due to the transmission of the three advertising packets of an advertising event (see Subsection 2.3)).
Average current consumption measured in a CC2540 slave, for the ATT one-way communication and
Theoretically expected slave lifetime for various
Average latency for one-way and round-trip message exchanges, for various
Latency measurement of a one-way ATT exchange, performed on the basis of a CC2540 slave current consumption plot. The marker m1 is placed at the start of the reception of the poll packet from the master. The marker m2 is placed at the end of the notification transmission.
Theoretical maximum number of slaves per piconet for various types of interactions between devices and scheduling schemes.
Security services and features for the security modes and levels defined in BLE.
|Link Layer
|ATT layer
Main characteristics of ZigBee, 6LoWPAN, Z-Wave, BLE and classic Bluetooth. The data of ZigBee, 6LoWPAN and Z-Wave has been obtained or adapted from the literature [
|868/908 (all chips) 2400 (400 serie chip)
|9.6/40 (from 200 series chip) 200 (only 400 series chip)
|≤721(v1.2), 3000 (v2+EDR), ≤24,000 (v3+HS)
|GFSK (v1.2), GFSK/π/4-DQPSK/8DPSK (v2+EDR), 802.11 (v3+HS)
|FHSS (2 MHz channel width)
|FHSS(1 MHz channel width)
|−85 or better(2.4 GHz band)−92 or better(868/915 MHz bands)
|−101 (at 40 kbps)
|−87 to −93 (typical)
|−32 to 0
|−20 to 0
|−20 to 10
|20/4/0(Class 1/2/3)
|TDMA+CSMA/CA (beacon mode) and CSMA/CA (beaconless mode)
|127 (maximum)
|64 (max. MAC payload in 200 series chip)
|8 to 47
|358 (maximum)
|16-bit CRC. ACKs (optional)
|8-bit checksum. ACKs (optional)
|24-bit CRC. ACKs
|8-bit CRC (header); 16-bit CRC and 2/3 FEC (payload). ACKs
|<5 (beaconless mode, at 250 kbps)
|<39 (at 40 kbps)
|16- and 64-bit MAC addresses. 16-bit NWK identifiers
|16- and 64-bit MAC addresses. 128-bit IPv6 addresses
|32-bit (home ID), 8-bit (node ID)
|48-bit public device Bluetooth address or random address
|48-bit public device Bluetooth address
|Coordinator, Router and End device
|Edge Router, Mesh Node (mesh under), Router (route over), Host
|Controller and slave
|Master and slave
|Master and slave
|Mesh routing, tree routing, and source routing
|RPL (other protocols are not excluded)
|Source routing
|Not currently supported
|Scatternet (routing protocol out of the scope of the Bluetooth specifications)
|30/10/5 (mesh routing/tree routing/source routing)
|Outside scope of Bluetooth specifications
|Integrity, confidentiality, access control (IEEE 802.15.4 security, using 128-bit AES)
|128-bit AES encryption (400 series chip)
|Security Modes/Levels. Pairing. Key Gener./Distribution. Confidentiality, Authentication, and Integrity
|Pairing and Link Key Generation. Authentication. Confidentiality. Trust Levels, Service Levels, and Authorization.
|Key management
|Key management currently out of scope
|45–128 kB (ROM), 2.7–12 kB (RAM)
|24 kB (ROM), 3.6 kB (RAM)
|32–64 kB (Flash), 2–16 kB (SRAM)
|∼40 kB (ROM), ∼2.5 kB (RAM)
|∼100 kB (ROM), ∼30 kB (RAM)


text:
Kloo by Berroco Design Team
Welcome! You are browsing as a guestWould you like to see 3 projects made from this pattern and much more? create a free account What am I missing?
© Berroco, Inc.
© Berroco, Inc.
This pattern is available for $6.00 USD
buy it now or visit pattern website
buy it now or visit pattern website
This striking one-of-a-kind fringed wrap combines stripes of Marmot and Vintage Chunky to create a colorful corduroy effect. (Berroco)
Skill Level: Intermediate
Berroco Marmot (50 grs),
2 Balls #3710 Opal (A),
4 balls #3703 Moonstone (B), and
1 ball each #3755 Garnet (C), #3756 Aquamarine (D) and #3740 Peridot (E)
Vintage Chunky (100 grs), 3 Hanks #6189 Charcoal (F)
The booklet that includes this pattern is sold by our retailers in both print and digital formats. Check with your LYS to see which version(s) they offer. Berroco Store Locator
For more information, see: http://www.berroco.com/patterns/kloo


text:
[Date Index]
[Thread Index]
[Author Index]
mathematica@linux, character encoding
For some reason I can't get these two east-european characters printed
properly (to pdf) from the text-cell: ð and ¹. They are not shown in the
same font in "working screen environment", while they produce some mash
in "printout scr. env.".
Can someone try testing this sequence of characters "cèc cæc z¾z s¹s
dðd" (in a text cell) on his/her computer (copy&paste from here) and
see what's the output like.
All the options that I've tried in Global Option Inspector that were
related to fonts and encodings didn't help, some of them made things worse.
Since the $SystemCharacterEncoding command says "ISO8859-1", I should
maybe try to change something in Linux configuration, but I don't know
Mathematica v. 7.0.1
Fedora Linux 11


text:
Subject: Re: [htdig3-dev] Segmentation fault in long run
From: Geoff Hutchison (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Date: Mon Feb 28 2000 - 17:59:51 PST
At 2:27 PM -0600 2/28/00, Gilles Detillieux wrote:
>There's not a single _function_ listed in that backtrace that's in
>ExternalParser.cc, so the external parser wasn't even being called
Yeah, you're right--serves me right for skimming through a message *twice*.
>-g, while the db package was not. I'm a bit unclear on the Db::put ()
I think this may be in the C++ interface to the Berkeley code, but
I'm not entirely sure.
>It may also be informative to build with --disable-shared, as it may
>be because of shared libraries that the debugging information seems
>incomplete, not to mention the possibility of another strange bug related
>to shared library support.
Yes, this is a good point, we may want to put this in the FAQ on
dev.htdig.org. I almost always recompile with --disable-shared when
I'm debugging because it really complicates things.
To unsubscribe from the htdig3-dev mailing list, send a message to
You will receive a message to confirm this.
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b28 : Mon Feb 28 2000 - 18:13:12 PST


text:
Looks like Kent Prairie Apartments is no longer available on Rent.com which means this information is likely out of date.
Arlington premier location, park like setting
You will enjoy amenties such as washer and dryer in every apartment home, basketball court, exercise room, gazebo and playground. Close to shopping and schools.
Lease Terms: 6, 9 or 12 month Security Deposit: $700 ($200 non-refndable/$500 refundable) Pet Policy: Cats only, 2 per unit with a $500 deposit ($250.00 non-refundable) per cat.
Cats Accepted. Call for service animal policy.
109 units
Don't have a Rent.com account? Create one.
Creating an account allows you to acccess your saved and contacted properties on any device. Already have an account?
Log In
We are experiencing technical difficulties at the moment. Please try again later.