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The Story of the Yemenite Jewish Ambassador to Hitler
A Yemenite Jew named Israel Subaryi supervised the transport of weapons and other supplies from Nazi Germany to Yemen in the 1930's; a well-respected businessman, he was the chief representative of his country's leader, the imam.
In May 1938, the Sturmfels sailed from Hamburg, Germany to Yemen, with seven rifles, 16 pistols, 340 barrels of gunpowder, water canteens, food and other supplies. During the Nazi years, this was one of many ships that brought arms and other goods to Yemen.
The person who supervised this process, thanks to his close connections with Nazi officials, was none other than a Yemenite Jew named Israel Subaryi. A well-respected businessman, he was the chief representative of his country's leader, the imam, in Hitler's Germany, where he resided until war erupted in 1939.
Subaryi's unique personal archive - which includes lists of cargo shipped to Yemen by the Nazis, correspondence with the imam and numerous other documents - has been donated by his daughter and grandson to Yad Vashem.
Today's Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day marks the "Fragments of Memory" campaign, whose aim is to spur collection of documents and objects held by private individuals since the war. As Yad Vashem sees it, the Subaryi archives exemplifies the importance of such a campaign, which will help shed light on historical events that have been shrouded in mystery.
Subaryi's story is unusual in many respects. He was born in Sana'a, Yemen's capital, in 1894. His daughter, Naomi Subaryi, relates that her father's initial dealings in business involved selling hard-boiled eggs to Turkish soldiers stationed in Yemen. He later opened a clothing store and also Sana's only hotel. In the capital, then a center for researchers, tourists and spies from around the world, Subaryi forged his first ties with businessmen from Europe.
Subaryi had a knack for languages - Arabic, Hebrew, Turkey, Italian, French and German. His store, located close to the imam's palace, attracted the ruler's attention, and he developed connections with the court. Visitors to Yemen in the 1930s reported that he had access to the ruler's inner circle, and was considered a loyal adviser; there were rumors that the Jewish businessman even knew the whereabouts of the imam's hidden treasures. The relationship between the ruler and his colorful Jewish adviser is described in depth in "A Jew in the Imam's Service," written (in Hebrew ) by Prof. Yosef Tobi.
In the mid 1930s, Subaryi's personal business interests dovetailed with those of Germany and Yemen: The imam wanted to strengthen his country's army, writes Toby, while Nazi Germany sought to enhance its position in the Arab world. Subaryi, living in Hamburg, became Yemen's main importer of weapons, a large portion of which came from Germany; this was his primary preoccupation in those years. He also arranged the shipping of various commodities to Yemen that were scarce or nonexistent at the time: Indeed, the Yad Vashem documents show, for instance, that in August 1937, he was involved in sending to Yemen a motorcycle, perfume, boots, candies, a refrigerator, rubber pipes and a beach chair.
During these years Subaryi belonged to a circle of businessmen, many of them Jews, who also lived in Hamburg. Several worked as high-level representatives for German companies, but their status deteriorated as the Nazis came to power. By 1938, the circle dissolved and Subaryi realized that his time in Germany was running out - and that a return to Yemen was not an option: Tobi writes that advisers to the imam convinced him that Subaryi had imported defective weapons.
Subaryi debated immigration to the United States or Eretz Israel, but opted for the latter, reaching its shores in 1939; a few years later he was joined by relatives from Yemen. He tried to continue his career in Mandatory Palestine, and even purchased a hotel on the corner of Ben Yehuda and Gordon Streets in Tel Aviv, but efforts to replicate his successes failed.
"I am sure that had he moved to the U.S., he would have done better; he was a man of the world. Israel didn't suit him," reflects his daughter, Naomi. She describes the Subaryi home in Jerusalem as a unique combination of Yemenite and German culture: It featured heavy furniture, strict educational discipline for the children - and it was secular. Subaryi died in 1967 at the age of 73.
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Sinn Sisamouth: ស៊ីន ស៊ីសាមុត
Sinn Sisamouth (1932-1975) was a famous and highly prolific Cambodian singer-songwriter in the 1950s to the 1970s. Widely considered the "King of Khmer music", Sisamouth, along with Ros Sereysothea, Pan Ron, and other artists, was part of a thriving pop music scene in Phnom Penh that blended elements of Khmer traditional music with the sounds of rhythm and blues and rock and roll to make a Westernized sound akin to psychedelic or garage rock. Sisamouth is believed to have been killed under the Khmer Rouge regime.
Sinn Sisamouth was born in 1935 in Stung Treng Province, the son of Sinn Leang and mother Seb Bunlei who was of Lao-Chinese descent. He was the youngest of four siblings, with one brother and two sisters. His father was a prison warden in Battambang Province and was then a soldier during the Colonial Cambodia period. His father died of disease and his mother remarried, and the union resulted in two more children. Sisamouth attended Central Province of Stung Treng Elementary School when he was five. At the age of six or seven, he started to show interest in the guitar, and he would be asked to perform at school functions. He was also interested in Buddhist scripture and other books, as well as playing soccer and flying kites.
Around 1951, he passed elementary school and intended to study medicine in Phnom Penh, but continued working at becoming a singer and writing songs. Just as he had in elementary school, he became well known in his school for his music, and was asked to sing at school ceremonies. By the time Cambodia was granted independence from France in 1953, Sisamouth's fine singing voice landed him a spot on national radio as a regular singer. He also continued his studies, working at Preah Ketomealea Hospital. –taken from Wikipedia (larger article available)

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1. Your cartridge sucks because;
(_) everybody has one
(_) nobody has one
2. My cartridge is inherently superior because;
(_) I shoot it
(_) you don't
3. Cartridge X is a poor choice for hunting because;
(_) bullet selection for handloaders is poor
(_) factory fodder is too mild
(_) no one cartridge can do all that
(_) it couldn't stop a charging maskrat
(_) it destroys too much meat
(_) its been over-hyped in the gun media
4. Cartridge X is no good for dangerous game since;
(_) double rifles aren't chambered for it
(_) ammo is no longer stocked for it
(_) Capstick used it
(_) Capstick didn't use it
5. The proper uses for cartridge X are;
(_) wounding groundhogs and possums
(_) anything between blacktail and elephant
(_) nothing over 75 yards
(_) anything up to 500 yards with a good field rest
6. Cartridge X is a good/bad brush load because;
(_) it can drop an oak tree and still bring home dinner
(_) it breaks up on impact with a mosquito
(_) its killed more deer and elk than all other cartridges combined
(_) its wounded more deer and elk than all other cartridges combined
7. Caliber X is vastly superior to caliber Y because;
(_) no gun in caliber Y ever shot well
(_) metric calibers are the work of the Devil
(_) a gunrag writer said so
(_) I once saw a deer run over 10 yards after being hit with a Y
(_) X has 12.3 ft-lb more energy at 400 yards
8. You should not even consider cartridge X for the following reasons;
(_) it has been in use so long it must be obsolete
(_) it is so new you can't trust it
(_) Elmer Keith liked it
(_) Elmer Keith hated it
(_) Jack O'Conner was rumored to have shot one once
(_) barrel life will be less than 200 rounds
(_) velocities that low are only for potato guns and buffalo chips
9. Cartridge X is {fill in the blank} for all North American game;
(_) totally inadequate except in the hands of an expert
(_) ridiculously overpowered and a sign of mental instability
(_) OK, if that's all you can handle
(_) so boring, game animals will laugh at you
10. Cartridge wars are fun because;
(_) I get to show people how knowledgable I am
(_) I learn new adjectives and their proper use
(_) they've taught me that whitetail deer are tougher than rhinos on crack
(_) participating sure beats watching another sitcom about unemployed New Yorkers
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I really wish i had read these reviews before buying for mothers day.
These flowers where expensive and not even worthy of 1 star.
Dead roses more cheap foliage than anything else and freesias that opened dead.
How a reputable retailer like Debenhams can can put a name to these begs belief.
Buy a bunch from the supermarket Half the price and last twice as long.
Debenhams call these designer bouquets please dont be fooled they are absolutely disgusting and the head of the department should be sacked for gross incompetency.
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Sometimes we go out in search for something but end up discovering a totally different thing, new and nice, the same way I stumbled upon this market in Serilingampally, Hyderabad. All the materials (vegetables, fruits and flowers) sold in this market are so fresh and beautiful. I was like a kid in a candy land, I could not stop myself from taking loads of pictures, so be prepared to be bombarded with them.
Vegetable, Fruit And Flower Market | Hyderabad - Serilingampally market
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Vibrant, colorful, and intricate sarees are absolutely stunning, but how do you keep them looking fantastic after parties, big events, and festivals? Many women opt to hand wash their sarees for fear of ruining them in the washing machine, but you needn't worry! In fact, even some of the most delicate of sarees can be popped in the washer with your usual load, as long as you follow some useful laundry tips! Here we'll take a look at some of the more fragile materials and designs, and how best to wash them:
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Today I am reviewing Vantiv Cool Water bath gel, I got this in my October Vellvette Box. I never get tired of trying out new body wash, whenever I see a new one with impressive packing I get it even before my old one is finished.
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Hi everyone, How are you ? I was out of station for a few days, I will get back to your comments with a day. Today I am reviewing IDB nail polish - Mango Mischief. I got this IDB nail polish in my April Enchantess Bag.
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Ibhejo.com is a site that has been designed to shop products from USA. They have lots of options to shop from, apart from that they also have option to request product.
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1) Wind is made up of
2) What does a 'wind sock' tell someone?
3) List 6 possible directions of wind flow
4) What causes wind ?
5) What does the wind gauge you built in class tell you?
6) Wind is made up of: A) air B) carbon molecules C) dust
7) This causes wind to blow: A) difference in color B) shock waves C) differences in pressure
8) How does wind blow? A) North to South B) East to West C) High pressure to Low pressure
9) This area has little wind: A) Horsey Latitudes B) Doldrums C) Alaska
10) Wind curves in this direction in the Northern Hemisphere: A) Right B) Left C) It doesn't curve
11) Wind curves in this direction in the Southern Hemisphere: A) Right B) Left C) It doesn't curve
12) The Jet stream is this height off the ground: A) 100 KM B) 10 KM C) 10 FT
13) Prevailing winds blow the: A) same all the time B) right in the summer and left in the winter C) don't blow at all
14) Winds are named by: A) The direction they came B) the direction the are blowing C) Both choice A and B are correct
15) Uneven heating causes wind: A) True B) False
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County commissioners approve job offer to assistant county attorney candidate
The Stevens County Board of Commissioners authorized County Attorney Aaron Jordan to offer the job of assistant county attorney to Carl Thunem, one of five candidates interviewed for the position, at their meeting on Wednesday.
Thunem has accepted the position and is expected to start work in May, after he returns from a deployment with the Army National Guard in Kuwait.
Jordan told the board that he and the hiring committee - Human Services Supervisor Gary Knockenmus, Commissioner Phil Gausman and Human Resources Manager Sue Schultz - unanimously chose Thunem as their top choice for the position.
Thunem, a 2007 graduate of the University of Minnesota law school, is a captain in the Army National Guard. Thunem was working as a judicial clerk in rural Jackson County before his deployment.
"The military experience that he's got is going to add tremendously to this position," said Jordan. "Even at his relatively young age, he's been given some pretty serious duties."
Because of his deployment, Thunem would not be able to begin work until May, but Jordan said he was comfortable continuing to work with Deb Economou as a part-time assistant until Thunem could begin work.
Although all of the candidates had roughly the same level of experience, Gausman said Thunem "stood head and shoulders above the rest."
Jordan said that Thunem seemed excited about the position and wanted to have an outside private practice and was "excited about doing that."
Board offers public comment period, plans to broadcast meetings
The board held their first scheduled public comment period at the beginning of Wednesday's meeting.
Although no citizens were in attendance to speak, Board Chairman Larry Sayre he would be working with County Coordinator Brian Giese to develop a protocol and rules for the public and the chair to use during the comment period.
Sayre said Giese had collected some examples of policies from other counties, and that he would like to bring a policy to the board at an upcoming meeting to approve.
"It gives those who are here from the public some guidance as to the direction they should be going, and so forth, and gives the chair himself some leeway as well as to how the meetings should proceed," said Sayre.
The board also took a first step towards filming meetings and making them available to the public by authorizing IT Director Scott Busche to purchase a digital video camera and memory cards.
Bushe told the board he has also started a YouTube account for Stevens County (http://www.youtube.com/user/StevensCountyBoard/) where he could upload recordings of the meetings and make them available to the public and to local public access channels.
"This is a starting point," said Busche. "Probably not as fancy as some other ones you've seen, but I don't know how fancy you want to go on this."
In general, the board expressed support for the idea of recording their meetings and making the video available to the public, although there were some questions about what meetings to record and if there were any liability issues.
"I think it's a good idea," said Sayre. "I think, initially, when we were looking at construction, particularly of the board room, this was one of the areas that we wanted to address. Most counties and cities are doing the same thing."
Jordan said he thought recording was always a good idea.
"I think it's akin to having squad videos in every cop car," explained Jordan. "There's going to be good and bad with it, obviously. There are going to be times when there are things you'd rather have on there, but there will be a lot more times when you capture things [you want]."
Other business
The board approved Human Services claims and warrants of $190,653. The amount was higher than in previous months because the entire contract with the Life Care Center, $121,600, is paid at the beginning of the year.
Veterans' Service Officer Hugh Reimers gave the board an annual update from his office. In 2011, Reimers opened 39 new files, filed 17 new claims, processed 269 other benefits applications and made 716 total contacts with veterans in Stevens County.
Although the number of veterans in the area has been slowly declining, the total expenditures on local veterans has been increasing. Reimers said this is because a higher percentage of veterans are seeking services, and medical advances mean that more conditions qualify for reimbursement.


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As mentioned in the previous post generic drugs now account for more than 70% of prescriptions filled in the US and that percentage is likely to increase with patent protection expiring on several blockbuster products over the next 3-5 years. With additional support from the Obama administration to exploit the potential cost savings from the use of more generic drugs and continued efforts to ease the way to market for generic drugs, including biologics, you would think the future for generic drugs has never looked more promising. Yet, there are five vulnerabilities and risks that could undermine the cost savings potential and success of generic drug manufacturers in the future.
- Manufacturing Quality
Drug manufacturing is difficult, especially delivering lot-to-lot consistency for tablets and capsules and ensuring the sterility of injectable products. One of the biggest concerns raised most often about the use of generic drugs is whether they are, in fact, the same as the branded products. The FDA goes to great lengths to dispel purported generic drug misinformation and to provide definitive answers to common questions regarding comparability. According to the FDA website:
"Health care professionals and consumers can be assured that FDA approved generic drug products have met the same rigid standards as the innovator drug. All generic drugs approved by FDA have the same high quality, strength, purity and stability as brand-name drugs. And, the generic manufacturing, packaging, and testing sites must pass the same quality standards as those of brand name drugs."
I'm not sure how the FDA can possibly making sure "all generic drugs have the same high quality, strength, purity and stability as brand-name drugs." When you consider the increasing number of generic drug products being made available by more manufacturers (many, if not most, not even in this country), their assurance seems a bit definitive and even suspect (lacking credibility) given FDA's already stretched resources and limited inspection capacity and capabilities.
Generic drug vulnerability in manufacturing quality comes with the potential for some well publicized cases of documented manufacturing problems, safety issues, or FDA warnings about any quality concerns that would compromise healthcare provider and public confidence in the efficacy or safety of generic drugs. In fact, any concerns voiced by the FDA with regards to the use of generic drugs could destroy the confidence of an already skeptical patient population.
- Unsustainable low prices
Even though generic drug manufacturers have built their business models around being low cost providers they still must make a reasonable profit to stay in business. It is important to note that drug manufacturing, especially sterile injectable drugs, is not cheap. Regulatory compliance and cost of goods can still make pharmaceutical manufacturing expensive, even for generic drugs.
When the healthcare market (e.g., pharmacies, wholesalers, Pharmacy Benefits Managers) drives competitive prices down to a point where even generic drug manufacturers can no longer make a reasonable profit, fewer manufacturers participate in that market and ultimately the healthcare market becomes more susceptible to shortages for those products. I believe this is a major reason for the current shortage of over 150 medically necessary drugs, many which are generic drugs.
So, generic drug manufacturers are vulnerable to the negative financial impact of unsustainable low prices. When they decide to manage this by limiting or eliminating the manufacturing of low or no margin products they leave themselves open to criticism and diminished public confidence as more of the critical drug shortages start to be blamed on the generic drug industry rather than on Big Pharma (the perception today).
- Supply of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs)
As generic drug manufacturers squeeze their suppliers for lower prices, those suppliers also lose interest in delivering at those low prices and a cascade of events begins to drive a shortage of APIs when you need them. Without the financial incentives (reasonable profits) to ensure supply availability, even API suppliers start to limit and maybe even discontinue making the lowest margin products on a regular basis in favor of higher margin opportunities.
Unlike in other markets, the regulatory and manufacturing challenges of pharmaceuticals makes it difficult and time consuming for new manufacturers (API or generic drugs) to step in and take advantage of these drug shortages. Even if a new manufacturer were able to begin production, the finished generic drug's price would almost certainly be much higher than the previous generic drug price. Again, potentially irritating and alienating the healthcare market and patients.
- Burdensome Government fees
Additional fees levied on generic drug manufacturers (i.e., FDA reviews) as proposed by the Obama administration could erode the cost savings potential to the healthcare providers system. Expecting generic drug companies to absorb these incremental fees could be counter productive (resulting in higher generic drug prices). More importantly, high fees across a portfolio of products could put sustainable profitability for smaller generic drug companies at risk, even forcing some out of the market.
- Product Liability
As more products become available and more patients take generic drugs, product liability cases will inevitably increase for generic drug companies. As a result, they may become more inclined to avoid or quit manufacturing products with the potential for an inordinate amount of litigation. Again, with their low cost of operations and thin profit margin business models, repeated and protracted litigation for low margin products may not be financially feasible, will add to their overall cost base, and could negatively impact healthcare provider and patient perceptions of quality.
The potential liabilities for generic drug companies is especially noteworthy in light of the pending Supreme court review of whether or not generic drug companies can be held liable for "failure-to-warn" when they rely on the prescribing information developed by the branded drug company and approved by the FDA. Should generic drug companies not prevail, it will open generic drug manufacturers to new potential liabilities and future litigation which could further compromise their low cost business models.
So, while the future looks very promising for generic drug manufacturers, it is not without challenge or risk. For the market to continue to reap the financial benefits of a consistent and safe generic drug supply, generic drug manufacturers must guard against these vulnerabilities. And as much as insurers and patients might enjoy the low prices we pay for generic drugs, the low prices only matter when the products are as effective as the brand, are safe to take, and are available when we need them.


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AS the North-East emerges from the recession, and is once more on the road to economic recovery, only now are we beginning to see real growth in our local industries, writes Jonathan Townsend, Regional Director, North of England, The Prince's Trust
However, to stay ahead, we must act and ensure that we harness the full potential of our region's unemployed young people.
The reality is that while the crisis that rocked the UK and the region's economy has abated and the region's businesses are reporting heightened demand for their services, local employers tell us they are increasingly concerned by skills shortages developing as a consequence of this accelerated growth.
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Within The Skills Crunch, a new report from The Prince's Trust and HSBC, business leaders highlight the damage that skills gaps could do, not only to staff morale but to company survival rates. They also raise concerns about how they will struggle to grow in the future as their ageing workforces retire. In fact, more than half (59 per cent) of North East businesses are already struggling to fill vacancies. Two thirds fear skills shortages will slam the brakes on the UK's economic recovery (68 per cent); while more than two-fifths fear it would cause businesses to fold (45 per cent).
When the credit bubble burst in 2008 the damage to the local economy was devastating and many young people suffered due to the lack of jobs. This must be avoided if we do not want the same to happen again.
It is therefore deeply concerning when we have thousands of unemployed young people in the North East who are still desperate for work. Indeed there are almost one in four (24 per cent) young people currently struggling to find a job in the region right now.
The decisions we make today will have long-term consequences that must protect the local economy and our young people. We believe that now is the time for employers, government and charities – such as The Prince's Trust – to work together to tackle the North East's impending skills crunch and up-skill the workforce of the future.
We know that unemployed young people want to work and that employers have vacancies they want to fill. In fact, our report highlights that 75 per cent of North East business leaders see the recruitment of young people as vital to averting a skills crisis.
Prince's Trust programmes in the North East are already helping employers to fill skills gaps with young people who are dedicated, passionate and grateful to have been given a chance – sometimes for the first time in their life. We also work in schools, helping to give young people the skills they need to find a job in the future.
Our employability schemes are run in partnership with employers in sectors which have identified skills shortages such as construction, retail and logistics. We help to break down the barriers between unemployed young people, who often have little hope for the future, and employers, resulting in real jobs with companies in the North East such as Marks & Spencer, Asda, and Swissport.
One such young person is Ann Marie Patterson, 22, from Seaham, County Durham.
Ann Marie enjoyed school but struggled academically and left at 16 with low grades. She tried further study but felt unsupported and left to find work. Ann Marie spent a year searching and was delighted when she finally found work with a local charity. However, after six months, her contract was not renewed due to lack of funding. She attempted to find work afterwards but was left disappointed when she found it difficult due to having little real vocational experience or skills.
Ann Marie said: "I was having no luck applying for jobs and I couldn't understand why so I took courses to see if I could improve my CV and skills but it didn't help. I was at rock bottom and my confidence was almost non-existent. Not having a job and structure to my day combined with constant knock-backs made this one of the hardest times of my life."
She was unemployed for a further two years and losing hope when she got in touch with The Prince's Trust, who put her forward for the Get into Retail programme in partnership with Asda, which aims to provide young people with the skills and experience to move into the retail industry.
She impressed Asda so much on the course that on completion she was offered a permanent position in the Seaham store as a shop assistant. AnnMarie is thriving in her new role and thrilled at having been given that chance to use her skills and finally prove herself.
The Prince's Trust worked with more than 3,942 disadvantaged young people in the North-East last year, but with more support from the public and private sector – we could help many more.
Only by working together to invest in the next generation will we be able to avoid a skills vacuum in the future.
To download The Skills Crunch report and find out how your business can get involved with The Prince's Trust please visit: www.princes-trust.org.uk/skillscrunch.


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Typically fab Victoria Wood script with a typically fab performance from Alfred Molina makes true story Loving Miss Hatto a real treat.
Loving Miss Hatto follows the 50 year love story of classical pianist Joyce Hatto and her record producer husband William Barrington-Coupe.
The intriguing thing about the pair of them is that although Joyce had quite a long career as a classical pianist from the mid fifties to the 1970's she never made a name for herself.
However in the mid 1990's "Barrie" decided to pull off a major con and started releasing albums under her name on his own classical music label – in reality the recordings were simply by other musicians.
Incredibly these, thanks in no small part to the burgeoning internet, the recordings began to make a real name for Joyce and it wasn't until she died in the mid 2000's that the fraud came to light.
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UK / BBC-1 / 1×90 minute episode / Broadcast Sunday 23 December 2012 @ 8.30pm
Writer: Victoria Wood / Producer: Radford Neville / Executive Producer: Andy Harries / Director: Aisling Walsh
Alfred Molina as Barrie
Francesca Annis as Joyce
Rory Kinnear as Young Barrie
Mamie McCoy as Young Joyce
Phoebe Nicholls as Mrs Hatto
Eve Matheson as Pilks
Tony Turner as Mr Hatto


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Passover is not simply a Jewish holiday; it is an invitation to be free and a method for achieving freedom.
The holiday of Passover takes it's name, according to the Hebrew Bible, from the ancient Israelites last night in Egypt. On that night, some 3,200 years ago if the story is historically accurate, God "passed over" the houses of those leaving Egypt, sparing them from the last of the ten plagues: the death of the first born Egyptians. The Hebrew name for Passover is Pesach, from the word meaning to pass over.
Passover celebrates more than a one-time liberation though, inviting each succeeding generation to confront the oppression and slavery of it's own era. Passover celebrates freedom — past, present and future, both national and personal. And it's surely not limited to Jews as both the Bible and later rabbinic commentaries portray as much as 20 percent of those participating in the exodus as having been non-Israelites.
According to the Talmud, the foundational text of Rabbinic Judaism, in every generation, every person should see themselves as a slave who is being liberated from Egypt. This seemingly impossible task, the obligation to feel that we are characters from a distant past, is perhaps best understood as being possible when we appreciate that the Hebrew word for Egypt is itself a kind of pun.
In Hebrew, Egypt is called "mitzrayim," literally a tight spot. Celebrating Passover is about identifying those "tight spots," the "egypts" in our own lives and in the lives of others, and seeking liberation from them.
The central practice of Passover today is the Seder –the family table centered dinner party featuring story-telling, conversation, eating matzo and drinking wine. While there is a "standard" text, called the haggadah (Hebrew for "the telling")around which this is all orchestrated, the key to the whole thing is a question-based approach in which anything can be asked and all people are invited to offer their own answers.
Questions and questioning are central features of freedom and each is celebrated at the Seder. Passover reminds us that we are only as free as our minds and spirits are. Physical freedom is a necessary, but insufficient, component in the freedom we all need.
While it often makes for somewhat chaotic evenings, that family and intellectual tumult, so often associated with Jewish culture, is a sacred expression of the freedom which Passover celebrates.
There are physical signs within the tradition as well. Eating matzo at the seder not only reminds us of the food eaten by ancient slaves, but of the path to freedom which we all seek. In fact, the unleavened flatbreads are described by the ancient rabbis of the talmud as bread which provokes questions and invites answers.
The eating of the matzo is paralleled by drinking four cups of wine at the Seder. The four cups are meant to remind us of the four terms which the Bible uses to describe how God liberated the Israelites.
The wine itself is a reminder of the divine-human partnership, the covenant, which is necessary to achieve true liberation. Just as God/nature provides the grapes but require human technology and effort to turn the juice into wine, liberation requires our participation. Liberation, the wine reminds us, doesn't just happen. Neither we as individuals, nor the world in which we live, will be free until we are part of the process.
Passover invites us to be free — to free ourselves and our world. It brings together family, friends, and food in the context of lively conversation, inviting us to find the freedom we all seek. May it be so for each of us, whoever we are and wherever we may be.
More On Faith and Passover:
Rabbi Boteach: An ancient Passover for a modern generation


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Amok has updated his website with another two images of the Targaryen kings that he painted for the Art of Ice and Fire art book.
He has also posted GRRM's descriptions for these two kings, Baelor I the Blessed and Viserys II.
Westeros.org is the premiere fansite for George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire. Discuss the series on the forums and browse the fan-edited wiki. Read all about HBO's Game of Thrones, learn more about the books from our resource collections and play the MUSH.
New to the series? Read our spoiler-free review of A Game of Thrones.


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Hanson of Sonoma
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Well the preseason didnt exactly go according to plan. But how does everyone feel about the season starting?? are we ready to jump into a game thursday with the wings?
What is everyone's thoughts on what has gone on during the preseason, and whats about to happen with the begininng of the regular season approaching?
I know I am excited for the season to get going, and im looking for a stronger finish this year.... Just excited!!


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No sound after 30min-1h: how to know what makes my sound crash ?
I encoutner teh problem: No sound after 30min-1h: how to know what makes my sound crash ?
I would like to know what is happening. What takes the sounds apparently after a certain time, or the process that makes the problem?
thanks for any ideas :( :)
In my experience some process tries to make a sound, using play or similar, but doesn't exit properly. Use top and look for a 'zombie' process when the sound dies.
18588 ? S 0:05 /usr/bin/artsd -F 10 -S 4096 -s 60 -m artsmessage -l 3 -f
frenchn00b 25370 0.0 0.0 2748 464 ? S 09:52 0:00 sleep 30s
cat script
You could try killing/stop using artsd, alsa is quite capable of dealing with mixing these days. If it still happens then maybe you have found a bug.
Best way to find out is to compile the program as an un-stripped binary and read the debugging output, it's not too hard as long as you are aware of how the thing is compiled in the first place (ie. what ./configure options are used, patches applied etc... ).
So clearly the mixer cant handle mplayer in background from tty6
soo bug or not ?
haha! wow!
so try:
cat script
alsa can handle mixing, if the sound using apps use alsa natively. So -ao alsa, and NOT -ao oss for mplayer. Festival is pretty much hard coded to use OSS afaik. Festival doesn't seem to play well with anything other than /dev/dsp for card 0. And some web browsers / or their configurations are OSS bound.
My audio issue is HDTV related. Turning off/on the TV fixes my cutout. It has some strange Video 3 audio input for HDMI 1 (DVI) video input. Which works well with my after market soundcard. For a while anyway. My videocard also has HDMI audio, so that might be getting in the way.
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Release Date: 1995 |
Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound OffILL DO WHAT I WANT :D
Album Rating: 4.0""but this really brings out the emotion and pain in his voice"
sweet, and nice review overall. pos'd"
Haha I really thought I could have described it better, but ah well, thanks bro
Digging: Information Flash - Ego Murda Sound
90's thrash wasn't all too good
Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Offthrash?
I'm not referring to this record, talking about Kreator
Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Offwhy lol
Just commented on a Kreator thread and came straight to this, got all mixed up
Album Rating: 4.0tut
visions have you heard abominations bro
Album Rating: 4.0Morbid Angel? Or something else?
heyo nice review have a pos
Album Rating: 4.0Ha well thanks Captain, and cheers azninva
yes morbid angel of course
What about Goatlord?
Album Rating: 4.0"yes morbid angel of course"
Funnily enough no I haven't haha.
"What about Goatlord?"
Nope haha, would you recommend them?
i recommend both the darkthrone album and the band yes but first check out abominations plz and comment hard about it
judging by your name i can tell you are a lover of righteous riffs and leads of truth so im sure you will enjoy
Album Rating: 4.0Why yes I do, okay dude I'll listen to it tomorrow
you should listen tonight its worth it
Album Rating: 4.0"you should listen tonight its worth it"
Bro I've listened to so much new music today, I'm on a music hangover haha
Bands: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z


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Unemployment may be high, but all companies are hiring if you have the right conversation. Dale Callahan, Ph.D., author of Resumes are Worthless, discusses how to uncover hidden job opportunities during the next Small Business Lunch & Learn program on Monday, August 6, from noon to 1 p.m. at the main library.
"Now Hiring, All Companies" will be presented in the second-floor events room. Admission is free. Bring a sack lunch. Drinks will be provided.
Dale Callahan sees the employee/employer model in a state of flux. Those looking for jobs and careers the old-fashion way are set for great amounts of frustration and instability. He argues that the only hope is to operate like a company of one - learning to behave like an entrepreneur even if you work for a Fortune 100 corporation.
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|Numéro de publication
|Type de publication
|Numéro de demande
|Date de publication
|23 févr. 2010
|Date de dépôt
|19 déc. 2006
|Date de priorité
|15 déc. 1999
|État de paiement des frais
|Autre référence de publication
|Numéro de publication
|Pablo A. Vicharelli, Pete A. Boyer, David F. Freeman
|Cessionnaire d'origine
|Verizon Laboratories Inc.
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|Citations de brevets (27), Référencé par (3), Classifications (8), Événements juridiques (3)
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The present invention generally relates to network planning and more particularly to handling vector data for wireless network planning.
Wireless communications systems are used to satisfy a variety of mobile voice and data communication needs. Currently, there is demand for additional wireless capabilities so that customers can expand their use of wireless communication devices. This demand is forcing wireless service providers to expand their networks at a rapid rate. The mobility of wireless communication users complicates the deployment of additional network infrastructure such as base stations.
Wireless networks are complex because the infrastructure is often spread over large geographic regions, wireless signals are attenuated as a function of distance, and wireless traffic is not evenly distributed over the served region (e.g. wireless traffic is often clustered into defined areas such as along roadways). Network engineers model wireless networks before deploying system hardware to ensure complete signal coverage and adequate channel capacity. Currently, computer based planning tools are used to perform the complex computations necessary for modelling a wireless network. These models use digitized map databases, geographic coordinates, terrain data, and feature data in an attempt to account for important design constraints. However, the use of digitized map databases undesirably limits the accuracy of computerized network planning.
Since digital maps represent sampled data, there is a spacing between adjacent sample points. The area between each sample point is referred to as a map pixel. The size of each map pixel varies based on the sample spacing used. For example, the area of each map pixel is approximately 90 meters north-south by 70 meters east-west for a 3 arc second USGS map, which is normally used for wireless network planning. Current planning tools use the map pixel as the smallest unit of reference; therefore, features smaller than a map pixel in one dimension are not accurately interpreted. Several types of features used in wireless network planning are smaller than a map pixel in one dimension. Accurately modelling the distance to these features is desirable. Features smaller than a map pixel in one dimension are normally referred to as vectors, with roads and county boundaries being among the most common vector types encountered in wireless network planning.
Therefore, a need exists for more accurately computing distances to points along vectors when performing network planning. Furthermore, computing the distance to vector features should not overly burden data storage systems by generating excessive data points.
It is an advantage of the present invention that a system and method are provided for incorporating the accuracy of vector data into network planning without incurring the penalties realized when all pertinent data is treated with the same granularity. The disclosed invention makes it possible to perform accurate distance dependent propagation loss calculations to vector features located within map pixels. Furthermore, the present invention surpasses current art methods when modelling transient roadway events, such as traffic jams.
The above and other advantages of the present invention are carried out in a network planning system where many input and output variables are required and computed. Variables are stored in data planes which are indexed by geographical location. The use of data planes makes it possible to store non-vector data and vector data with separate granularities while using a single geographical coordinate system. Some examples of non-vector data which are also common to vectors are base elevation and terrain. Data common to vectors and non-vectors is only stored in a single data plane. In contrast, variables unique to each data type are stored in the respective data planes. An example of a variable unique to vector data planes is width. Keeping unique variables in the respective data plane ensures that other processes, such as display system processing and computations, can determine when a specific variable should be accounted for.
A more complete understanding of the present invention may be derived by referring to the detailed description and the claims when considered in connection with the Figures, wherein like reference numbers refer to similar items throughout the Figures, and:
FIG. 1—is an illustration showing a prior art method of rasterizing a road;
FIG. 2—is an illustration of data planes as used by the present invention;
FIG. 3—illustrates a method for identifying map pixels using a unique identifier;
FIG. 4—is an illustration of a comprehensive display created using data planes;
FIG. 5—is an illustration showing generation of vectors on data planes;
FIG. 6—is an illustration showing superposition of vector points on a grid of map pixels;
FIG. 7—illustrates a flow diagram of steps used in wireless network planning;
FIG. 8—is an illustration showing radial signal paths for map pixel display;
FIG. 9A and 9B—illustrate a pixel representation of a propagation path loss calculation;
FIG. 10—illustrates a flow diagram of a method for computing propagation loss;
FIG. 11—is an illustration of a representative apparatus for performing invention;
FIG. 12—provides a map showing road orientations;
FIG. 13A and 13B—illustrate the use of vector data; and
FIG. 14—is an illustration showing propagation losses for various road orientations.
A typical wireless network consists of at least one base station (BSS), or cell site, associated with a specific geographic location within the service area. Cell sites can be further divided into macro cell or micro cell sites depending on the antenna height and area served. The present invention can be used for planning macro and micro cells; however, descriptions of the invention and preferred embodiments will be discussed in the context of the more general macro cells. Often a BSS contains more than one antenna in order to serve a larger area. When more than one antenna is used, each antenna serves a particular area, known as a sector, around the BSS location. In situations where signals from more than one antenna reach a particular location within the BSS service area, the antenna producing the stronger signal at the measured location is referred to as the best server.
Line-of-sight (LOS) from BSS to mobile receiver is required for signal reception; therefore, network planners must take into account terrain features, land-use-land-cover (LULC), population density, foliage, etc. Since BSS locations, mobile receiver locations, elevations, and land use features can be uniquely identified by geographic location, representing these features of interest on geographic maps is convenient. Rasterized maps are used to display feature data on a general purpose computer system using the disclosed method. Any type of rasterized map database can be used; however, for cellular network planning most network planners use the USGS 3 arc second database. The 3 arc second database provides a reasonable compromise between database size and geographic location resolution. Rasterized maps consist of sampled data with the area between each sample point referred to as a map pixel. A map pixel is the smallest unit of resolution for a given set of digitized map data. As previously noted, each map pixel is approximately 90 m N-Sx70 m E-W for a 3 arc-second raster map.
When performing computerized wireless network planning, it is helpful for planners to have a comprehensive display capability so that various information types can be displayed simultaneously. For example, a comprehensive display allowing the network planner to view BSS locations, terrain features, population density, and road locations at the same time allows the planner to quickly comprehend the results of a given network configuration. The present invention produces comprehensive displays by creating multi-dimensional maps. The multi-dimensional maps are produced by manipulating multiple data types (variables) relative to a reference to produce a meaningful display.
The present invention makes it possible to accurately compute the distance to, and properties of, intra-pixel features. The following discussions will detail correct processing of vector data; however, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the techniques disclosed herein can be used on other intra-pixel features without departing from the spirit of the invention.
To accommodate vector features of varying width, a separate input variable is used to specify the width of the vector feature. In general, the database used to store vector features is smaller in size than the map pixel database because most map pixels will not contain roads, land boundaries, or other features which are represented by vectors. However, if vector features are complex, the vector database can be made larger to accommodate more detail than is required for storing map pixels.
The variables associated with vectors are organized as a set of webbed data planes, as shown in
An important result of wireless network planning is the determination of expected signal-to-noise ratios for all possible mobile receiver locations within the service area. As previously mentioned, accurately predicting the distance dependent propagation loss to locations within the service area is essential to producing an accurate wireless plan. Many methods exist for computing the propagation loss; however, a generalized form can be written in dB units as
P receiver =P transmit +G base −L+G mobile; Eq. 1
Propagation path loss, L, is computed for a particular base station to mobile receiver geometry. A general equation for the propagation path loss at a particular receiver location can be written as
L=L basic +L obstacle −G slope −G water +L rain; Eq. 2
The path loss calculations are very complex and time consuming; therefore, techniques are employed to minimize computation times. For example, the result of each raster path loss calculation is saved as a map pixel output variable. Once the path loss for a particular map pixel has been calculated and stored, it will not be recomputed if another radial passes through it. Instead the stored value will be used again for subsequent radials passing through that pixel.
After the radials are computed against the map pixel background, input variables and calculation parameters are used to further enhance the path loss calculation associated with each map pixel. The variables for each map pixel are retrieved from the appropriate data planes. Some examples of common input variables and calculation parameters are shown in Table 1; however, other input variables and calculation parameters can also be used.
Propagation Path Loss Calculation Inputs
Calculation Parameters
Terrain Elevation
Model To be Used
Transmitter Height
Land Use/Cover
Mobile Antenna Height
Attenuation for Land Use
Average Height for Land Use
Resolution Desired
Height of Obstacles
Window width for Effective Antenna
Orientation of Road Pixels
Window width for Average Land Use
Road Orientation Angle Tolerance
It may be helpful for the reader to visualize the radial distance 901 as a profile shown in
When the process reaches the limit in step 1006, it checks to ensure that all radials required for the particular base station have been calculated, step 1014. If not, the angle of the radial is incremented, step 1016, and the propagation path loss for the pixels in the next radial are calculated. When calculations are completed for one base station, the process computes the necessary values for the next base station, step 1018. The process repeats until calculations have been performed for all relevant base stations within the selected coverage area.
To account for the overlap of base station service areas, the process is further enhanced to account for instances where the received power from one base station is recorded for a map pixel that can also be served by a second base station. Once the received power from the second base station is calculated, the two possible powers are compared. The larger value is stored as the received power from the best server, while the second largest is retained elsewhere in the database.
The display device 1112 may be a cathode ray tube (CRT), LCD, or the like, for displaying information to a user. Alternatively, the display device 1112 can be omitted and any interim or final data normally displayed to an operator, can be sent to another output device such as a printer or hard disk. Keyboard 1114 and cursor control 1116 allow the user to interact with the wireless network planning apparatus 1100 while performing network planning. The cursor control 1116 may be, for example, a mouse. In an alternative configuration, the keyboard 1114 and cursor control 1116 can be replaced with a microphone and voice recognition means to enable the user to interact with the wireless network planning apparatus 1100.
Communication interface 1118 enables the wireless network planning apparatus 1100 to communicate with other devices/systems via any communications medium. For example, communication interface 1118 may be a modem, an Ethernet interface to a LAN, or a printer interface. Alternatively, communication interface 1118 can be any other interface that enables communication between the wireless network planning apparatus 1100 and other devices or systems.
Execution of the sequences of instructions contained in memory 1104 causes processor 1102 to perform the method as illustrated in
When roads and other vectors are rasterized using prior art methods, the entire pixel containing a road is given a land use of open/road. It is known in the art that the attenuation factor for a road is equivalent to open space and less than that of other land cover types. When a road parallels a radial drawn from a base station, there is a path of low attenuation along the road. For a parallel radial, the low attenuation path can be many pixels in length. In contrast, if the road is perpendicular to the radial, only one map pixel will have the lower attenuation factor. In actual network planning, it is unlikely that a road will be perfectly parallel to a radial; therefore, for the disclosed invention parallel is defined as within a specified angle of deviation from the radial. Typically, a radial can deviate 10-20° from the angle of the road is still considered parallel to the road; however, angles outside the 10-20° range can also be used.
The present invention avoids the accuracy limitations encountered in network planning using pixel level resolution by using vector features and modifying calculations accordingly. When the propagation path loss to a vector feature is calculated, the raster propagation path loss model is refined to accommodate the greater accuracy of the vectors. This enables other parameters such as incremental (intra-pixel) elevation, incremental (intra-pixel) coordinates for features, and fine road resolution to be used when making propagation loss calculations. For example, the incremental elevation of a feature is added to the terrain elevation to provide a new mobile antenna height, the coordinates and resolution of the feature are also used to calculate the propagation path loss to the feature and to modify the land use average distribution to account for the placement of the vector. Using these additional parameters results in a more accurate solution.
When the disclosed method is employed, as shown in
Although the preferred embodiments of the invention have been illustrated and described in detail, it will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications may be made therein without departing from the spirit of the invention or from the scope of the appended claims. For example, propagation loss parameters can be incorporated to better account for weather conditions, the size and shape of structures, vehicle density, etc. In addition, the system and method can be used to deal with aircraft on flight paths rather than vehicles on roads.
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Hyderabad: Convener of 12% Reservation Committee for Muslims, Mr. Mohammed Abdus Saleem Farooqui told that under the auspices of Sadhana Committee, hunger strike campaign would be launched from 28th July at Koratla in Kareemnagar District in the premises of Municipal office. He has requested all the Muslim leaders, teachers, NGOs and students to participate in the hunger strike programme and make it a success. So that pressure could be exerted on the Govt. to provide 12% reservations to Muslims as promised by Mr. KCR in TRS manifesto during the elections of 2014.
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Mumbai, Aug 3 (IANS) Expectations of a rate cut by the apex bank coupled with capital infusion into public sector banks cheered investor sentiments and led a barometer index of the Indian equity markets to trade up 105 points during the late afternoon session on Monday.
The wider 50-scrip Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) was, however, flat during the session. It rose 17.55 points or 0.21 percent at 8,550.40 points.
The S&P BSE Sensex, which opened at 28,089.09 points, was trading at 28,220.02 points (2.30 p.m.), up 105.46 points or 0.38 percent from the previous day's close at 28,114.56 points.
The Sensex touched a high of 28,263.35 points and a low of 28,071.37 points in the intra-day trade.
According to analysts, investors are hopeful of a cut in the interest rates during Tuesday's Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) monetary policy review.
"The most important upcoming trigger for the markets is the monetary policy review. A cut in interest rates will restore investor confidence," Devendra Nevgi, chief executive of ZyFin Advisors, told IANS.
"Even if there is no rate cut, the knee-jerk reaction will neither be that disappointing nor long-lasting. The fact that RBI may maintain a status quo in the interest rates has also been factored in."
According to Nevgi, markets will closely go through the language used by the RBI governor in his assessment of the economy to give further cues on the future of rate cuts.
"The language on the Indian economy, oil prices, monsoon, inflation and the US rate hike will be closely monitored as it will give the guidance to future RBI moves," Nevgi said.
India Inc expects a rate cut by the RBI during this review. Indian industry feels that the upcoming review might be the last chance to cut rates in this calendar year before inflation spirals up and the US Fed decides on its own rates in September.
Anand James, co-head, technical research desk, Geojit BNP Paribas, told IANS that the markets were hopeful that the government will find a way to end the parliament logjam.
"Parliament's logjam has cast a shadow over the government's ability to pass economic reforms. It has also put a question mark over the fate of key legislation like the GST (goods and services tax) and the land bill," James told IANS.
He said that last week's healthy roll over figures from expiry of July derivative contracts and announcement of Rs.70,000 crore in PSBs (public sector banks) in the next four years continues to boost the markets.
Sector-wise, healthy buying was observed in banking, consumer durables and automobile stocks. However, metal and oil and gas scrip came under selling pressure.
The S&P BSE banking index zoomed by 235.41 points, the consumer durables index rose 157.51 points and the automobile index went up 149.08 points.
The S&P BSE metal index fell 61.79 points while the oil and gas index slipped 30.97 points.


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I left star wars the old republic due to the insane ability delay I was getting in the game. I came here to GW2 and the first 2 days were awsome, no issues. Then ability delay started to creep up on me again. Now it's standard in the game.
My question to me is an honest one if any devs can take their precious time to answer. Why am I getting ability delay in different online games. My computer is fine. My internet is fine. I'm fine. So what's the dealla yo?
This issue gave me so much greif for 1 month total. I totally checked every angle from ISP to hackers and I've come up with the only credible solution.
It is the game itself. Why? I'm not sure and honestly don't want to know.


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RTI Connext® messaging software forms the core nervous system for smart, distributed applications. It allows devices to intelligently share information and work together as one integrated system.
Our customers span across medical, energy, mining, air traffic control, trading, automotive, unmanned systems, industrial SCADA, naval systems, air and missile defense, ground stations, and science.
RTI is committed to open standards and open architecture. RTI provides leading implementation of the Object Management Group (OMG) Data Distribution Service (DDS) standard.
RTI is the world's largest embedded middleware provider, privately held and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
RTI works with Wind River to accelerate the development of systems for the Industrial Internet of Things
The industrial side of IoT poses a unique set of challenges to device developers. The cyber physical systems at their devices' cores generate massive amounts of data. This data has to be distributed and acted upon in real time. And because industrial systems have critical economic and safety implications, they must be absolutely reliable and secure.
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Das Wasserschlößchen liegt im Ortsteil "Klein-Welzheim". Es diente samt Parkanlage und Fischteichen den Äbten des Klosters Seligenstadt als sommerliches Refugium. Erbaut 1705 von Abt "Franciscus II. Blöchinger von Seligenstadt". Heute in Privatbesitz. Obwohl das romantische Plätzchen unter Ortskundigen gut bekannt ist, wird es von Touristen gern übersehen.
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Germany? Before the beginning there was Ginnungagap, an empty space of nothingness, filled with pure creative power. (Sort of like the inside of my head.)And it ends with Ragnarok, the twilight of the Gods. In between is much fighting, betrayal and romance. Just as a good Godly story should be.Heroes have their own graveyard called Valhalla. Unfortunately we cannot show you a panorama of it at this time, nor of the lovely Valkyries who are its escort service.Hail Odin, wandering God wielding wisdom and wand! Hail Freya, hail Tyr, hail Thor!Odin made the many lakes and the fish in them. In his traverses across the lands he caused there to be the Mulheim Bridge in Cologne, as did he make the Mercury fountain, Mercury being of his nature.But it is to the mighty Thor that the Hammering Man gives service.Between the time of the Nordic old ones and that of modern Frankfort there may have been a T.Rex or two on the scene. At least some mastodons for sure came through for lunch, then fell into tar pits to become fossils for us to find.And there we must leave you, O my most pure and holy children.Text by Steve Smith.


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Brown bagging it is no longer the way to go. Keep your kid up with the current green trend with a bag from Envirosax ($15).
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STMicroelectronics Rolls Out 65nm HDD Iterative Decoding Channel
STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), one of the world's largest semiconductor suppliers and a leader in complex System-on-Chip (SoC) solutions for disk drives, is sampling its first 65nm iterative read channel for the low-power mobile segment of Hard Disk Drives (HDD). ST's iterative channel signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) gain is a key enabler for sustaining the industry's aggressive 40% compound annual growth rate in storage capacity. As well, even with the increased complexity of iterative technology ST has decreased power by greater than 25%, vital in mobile HDD applications.
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Backend verification specialist edXact SA announced that it has signed distribution agreements with EDA Sales, Inc. in California and WIN Technology in Korea. This will strengthen the company's expansion into key regions for the semiconductor industry.
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Dolomite, a world leader in microfluidics, has appointed Insta BioAnalytik Pte Ltd in Singapore as a distributor for their microfluidic services and capabilities. Insta BioAnalytik will work with local clients helping secure new business opportunities and manage customer relations for Dolomite in the Singaporean region.


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One program offers payday loan alternatives through in partnership with employee sponsor groups.
Agency prohibition total for year now at 45 after seven hit with bans in August.
Thirty credit unions now among users, company says, with traffic evenly split between mortgage and auto loans.
A veteran lending manager says there are three ways to grow a profitable loan portfolio and he describes in brief how it's done.
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Vermont Federal Credit Union, Burlington, Vt., announced that Trish Porter joined the credit union as the director of business services.


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An angry Mike Woodson threatened to install a Twitter policy in the wake of J.R. Smith's latest social-media feud with Brandon Jennings, who criticized Smith's brother and Knicks teammate Chris. Woodson said he will "address'' Smith about his latest flap and they spoke before Thursday's game against the Rockets.
The reigning NBA's Sixth Man of the Year defended his little brother and appeared to threaten Jennings on Twitter. Jennings, now with the Pistons, criticized Chris Smith for even being on an NBA roster. The NBA is reviewing the situation.
Wednesday night, Jennings wrote: "Wait wait wait JR smith brother is in the NBA but @PoohJeter & @BBROWNLAU isn't. Call me hater but not Rollin!!!" One of the players, point guard Bobby Brown, was nearly signed by the Knicks this summer before going to China.
The tweet was later deleted. J.R. Smith fired back with on Twitter with a message of his own — also later deleted — in which he said he would send his "street homies" to Detroit. The Knicks face the Pistons Tuesday in Motown.
"No respect for these lil kids who pop at the mouth on twitter an then want to delete they tweets,'' Smith wrote.
Smith said before the Rockets game he wasn't threatening Jennings.
"Threatened? No,'' Smith said. "There's a way of threatening someone and that's not the way to publicly threaten somebody. I know Brandon. We have a pretty good relationship before this. Hopefully we'll continue it afterward.''
Woodson wasn't pleased. "I got wind of it and we'll address it after the game,'' the Knicks coach said. "If you're going to tweet, tweet something positive. I don't know the social-media game. I deal with you guys and keep it moving."
Smith was fined by the NBA in his first season as a Knick in March 2012, for tweeting a photo of a naked woman in his hotel room in Milwaukee.
When asked if he could install a policy, Woodson said it was a good idea.
"It might come to that," he said. "You just gave me a good idea. I like that.''
Smith wouldn't disclose what Woodson said to him and said he hasn't spoken to the NBA.
"I don't know what to expect,'' Smith said. "I didn't think it was a big deal, apparently it is. I'm always getting in trouble with Twitter. I don't know what it is. I'm trying to shake it.''
Smith said he is tired of his brother taking flak for making the Knicks roster.
"It happens every day. People criticize him, telling him what he deserves and doesn't deserve,'' Smith said. "I think he works hard for what he does.
"I was definitely frustrated, tired of people picking on my little brother. It is my little brother. I'm going to step up for him — good, bad or ugly.''
Smith wouldn't say whether Woodson has banned him from Twitter.
"We spoke,'' Smith said. "I don't know if he wants me to talk to you about it.''
Chris Smith also got in on the action, responding to the slight on Twitter: "If they hate, then let them hate and watch the money pile up‼ everyone have a blessed day from yours true.. jr smiths brother lmao…"
Smith is making $491,000 this season, but is costing the Knicks $2.1 million because of the stringent luxury tax. He is earmarked for the D-League and speculation is he was kept as a lure for J.R. Smith to re-sign for less money with the Knicks.
Smith said he'd like to get Jennings' number before they face off next week to talk it out. "It's not that serious,'' Smith said. "I go to L.A. in the summer and [we] hoop together.''


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Thanks for the note about Zanthoxylum simulans. I'm surprised that you say you are in climatic zone 8 if you get winter temperatures down
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As regards the winter hardiness of Zanthoxylum simulans - like most plants, it gets hardier as it gets older. In its first few years of life it is
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The two Twin Cities orchestras and their musicians are meeting with mediators Wednesday for the first time in weeks.
Karmit Bulman, executive director of the Conflict Resolution Center in Minnesota, joined The Daily Circuit Wednesday, Jan. 2. The fact that they're resuming negotiations is a good sign, she said.
"When you bring in a mediator, you're close," Bulman said. "But that is if the parties hang in there with the process. You know it doesn't happen overnight in something that's this complex, but the most important part of mediation is the willingness of the parties to come to the table."
Management and musicians need to feel like they can be open with each other, she said.
"It's important in this process that each side be able to lay out what are their concerns, what are their interests, what are their needs, and to be fully heard in an open kind of environment," Bulman said.
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An amazing new plan to end hippies moaning about the global warming swindle has been announced today. The UN has unveiled radical new plans today in an attempt to silence the organizations critics who are now holding meetings at least once a week to discuss why no one is listening to them.
The plan involves spreading thousands of tons of the miraculous growing aid Miracle Grow over millions of acres of rainforest throughout the Amazon and other major rainforests and jungles worldwide. This is hopefully enough to encourage at least 200% extra growth and hence ridding the atmosphere of Carbon dioxide.
Miracle Grow works by harnessing magic to make something bigger. The critics who have held a summit to discuss this move have spoken out again, as always, releasing this statement: 'This will not work, we need to drastically reduce our output of carbon dioxide by using less energy' .....and more stuff along those lines to which the press and world officials told them to 'Shut up' and everyone left.
The process of buying the Miracle Grow has already begun according to our sources, which explains the global shortage and the fact that the resource in recent months has risen in value such that it is now more expensive than gold by unit volume.
The plan should be underway by tomorrow and hopefully the global warming will be reversed by 'Saturday afternoon' according to a bloke with a computer.


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There's an important message behind a partnership that
Cadence and Wind River announced
April 27 - virtual prototypes don't have to stand apart from the rest of
the design flow. The partnership promises to build a bridge between virtual prototypes
and the RTL implementation and verification environment, including simulation,
emulation, and acceleration. It also raises the possibility of using virtual
prototype models directly for implementation, and as I'll explain, may change
the way some of those models are developed.
Some background is necessary to understand the partnership.
In May 2009, Cadence announced
a collaboration with Virtutech, then an independent company, to link the
Cadence Incisive
Software Extensions product to Virtutech's Simics virtualized system
development environment. In brief, Incisive Software Extensions was extended to
read Simics function calls, and to non-intrusively access the virtual
prototype. As a result, software developers can have access to all the features
of Incisive metric-driven
verification - including verification plans, randomization, and coverage
metrics - for debugging hardware/software interfaces and hardware-dependent
software such as device drivers.
Building Tighter
So what's new in 2010? For one thing, the partnership is now
with Wind River, which became an Intel
subsidiary last year. After Intel bought Virtutech earlier this year, Wind River added Simics to its product line, which
includes Linux and VxWorks operating system platforms and a comprehensive
portfolio for embedded software development. The Cadence-Wind River partnership is
the kind of collaboration that will be needed to enable System Realization as described in the EDA360 vision paper. The link between virtual prototypes and the RTL environment is an important step towards System Realization, which seeks to enable hardware/software platforms with complete software stacks up to the
applications level.
At present, the partnership expands on the 2009 agreement in
a couple of ways. First, Wind River and
Cadence are demonstrating the use of the Cadence C-to-Silicon
Compiler to synthesize Simics models into RTL. From there, the models can
be brought into RTL simulation as well as acceleration and/or emulation with
the new Palladium
XP Verification Computing Platform. Secondly, transaction-based
acceleration is now possible between Simics and Palladium XP. That means that
RTL, SystemC, and Simics models can be co-simulated as software executes
through a transaction-level testbench on a workstation.
Building on the 2009
partnership with Virtutech, the 2010 partnership with Wind
River adds more links between virtual prototypes and RTL design.
Various co-simulation scenarios allow you to trade off speed
and accuracy, but also require some thought. Simics typically runs in the
hundreds of MHz, while Palladium XP runs in the 1-4 MHz range. Palladium XP, of
course, is much more accurate. A very wide variety of speed/accuracy
combinations is thus available.
High-Level Synthesis
The most interesting possibility, in my mind, is that of
synthesizing Simics models into RTL code for implementation and verification.
Since the Simics Device Modeling Language (DML) compiles to C, and C-to-Silicon
Compiler can read C, in theory any Simics model can be synthesized once you
provide constraints for timing, area and power.
In practice, high-level synthesis will probably work well
for algorithmic models, but results are less predictable for Simics device and
processor models. That's because these models are typically not created for
implementation, and as such, may not be sufficiently optimized in synthesis for
silicon implementation. One solution is to develop models that are more
optimized for implementation, and another is to reuse the legacy RTL that is
often available for devices and processors.
Is a virtual prototype-to-RTL flow important enough for
people to start writing models that are targeted for eventual implementation?
With a bridge in place, and with clear time-to-market benefits from the new
flow, we believe the answer will increasingly be "yes."
An SCDsource
article provides more information about the Simics-to-Palladium XP link.
Richard Goering
Richard - no question EDA360 is on the right track. We are committed believers that the bridge from system to silcon must be supported through structured SoC assembly with views both down into the hardware realization and up into the bare-metal software level.
A very realistic realization of your concept to map virtual prototypes to implementation seems entirely feasible, through synthesis for some aspects of the design, but more generally through mapping to proven configurable (and static) IP, selected and analyzed in the implementation view for power, performance and area feasibility.
Verification is similarly a comprehensive validation of the driver-level against the real implementation through traiditional simulation methods, driven from the assembly platform hardware and register views, and the application level against the driver level through application validation on the virtual platform.
These trends are exactly what is driving our 1Team(R)-Genesis product line. We're happy to see that others agree!


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Manchester United have been accused of deploying Conference-style football against Fulham during the 2-2 draw at Old Trafford that forced midfielder Michael Carrick to claim the club are suffering "setback after setback".
With defender Phil Jones waiting to discover whether he faces a lengthy spell on the sidelines because of a hip injury suffered in training last week, United go into Wednesday's Premier League clash with Arsenal at the Emirates lurching into crisis having fallen nine points adrift of Champions League qualification.
Out of both domestic cups and with the Champions League now offering United their only hope of a trophy this season, manager David Moyes will take his squad to Dubai following the Arsenal game for a training break aimed at re-energising his players for a late-season assault on the top four.
But with United having failed to defeat Fulham despite delivering 81 crosses into the penalty area on Sunday, Moyes's tactical approach, dismissed as "straightforward" and amounting to no more than "get it wide, get it in", by Fulham manager René Meulensteen, has now been derided as similar to the football played in the Conference.
"I was just saying to the lads that I've never headed that many balls since the Conference," said Fulham defender Dan Burn, who played at that level with Darlington.
"But at the end of the day I'm happy for them to play like that. We knew that was going to happen.
"Once we were dropping further back, we were going to get more compact and make them play around us because we thought we had the strength in numbers.
"I'm 6ft 7in. It helps when dealing with them sort of balls. They had plenty of crosses, loads of chances and stuff but the second goal was quite lucky. I always felt we had something left.
"It's the first time I've played against Man U. It's still a massive club and with the players they've got there, they know that they should be doing better."
While Burn later took to Fulham's official website to insist he had not intended to be "disrespectful" towards United, his observations echoed those of Meulensteen, Sir Alex Ferguson's former assistant at Old Trafford.
United's inability to beat opponents they would ordinarily be expected to overcome – they have lost to Stoke and drawn at home against Fulham and Sunderland in the last month – has contributed to the downbeat atmosphere enveloping the club.
And Carrick admits that the players are at a loss as to why results and performances have been so disappointing in recent weeks.
"I can't really explain how we have ended up with that result," Carrick said. "We thought it was going to turn. We have thought that all season, we still believe it will and we still believe results will come for us. But it seems like setback after setback at the moment.
"We will pick ourselves up because we have a big game on Wednesday now. The only way to deal with it is to move on.
"There are a lot of positives to take from the Fulham game, it is just tough to explain how we have not won it."
With recent signing Juan Mata claiming Fulham's injury-time equaliser was "cruel" on United, Carrick insisted that Moyes's players are suffering more than anybody as a result of the team's slump.
"Of course the players care," Carrick said. "It is the pride we have in ourselves and each other.
"No one wants to go through a spell when people are questioning you and things are going wrong, but we have had enough success over the years that we retain a belief in ourselves even when things are not going so well.
"It isn't for the want of trying. It is not a case of not caring. We care just as much, if not more, than anybody else. We have had success over the years and it comes easy when you have success, but you have to deal with the down times as well.
"But we will pick ourselves up. That is the business we are in."


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