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Test access from HDP to S3
To test access to S3 from HDP, SSH to a cluster node and run a few hadoop fs shell commands against your existing S3 bucket.
To test access, SSH to any cluster node and switch to the hdfs user by using
su hdfs.
Amazon S3 access path syntax is:
For example, to access a file called "mytestfile" in a directory called "mytestdir", which is stored in a bucket called "mytestbucket", the URL is:
The following FileSystem shell commands demonstrate access to a bucket named "mytestbucket":
hadoop fs -ls s3a://mytestbucket/
hadoop fs -mkdir s3a://mytestbucket/testDir
hadoop fs -put testFile s3a://mytestbucket/testFile
hadoop fs -cat s3a://mytestbucket/testFile
test file content
For more information about configuring the S3 connector for HDP and working with data stored on S3, refer to Cloud Data Access HDP documentation.


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Humanity experienced a life-altering split. The details of how are long lost. All humanity knows is that some went for the stars while the rest were left to rot on a dying Earth. Those left behind hide and salvage what they can from the old world, staying hidden from the star-beings, commonly known as Harvesters.
Scrappers is August's flash fiction that brings readers into a continuation of last month's sci-fi horror universe. Enjoy the story in written word, audio, artwork and soundscape.
Big Picture
We try to stay hidden by staying underground. People like me have to go to the surface, though. When we do, we do our best to keep noise levels down and stay light-footed. You'd be amazed at how well satellites can pick up the alteration of landscape from the skylines. Even the smallest detail – like a footprint – can be detected by their drones. Stealth is all we can do until we find a better way to fend them off. There are probably a dozen names given to them. Everyone has a grudge for something they did or someone that they took. The Godly, Gene Freaks, Anti-Sapien, or whatever your choice of phrase is, we all know them as the Harvesters. The Harvesters always return to Earth. They come for us. They find us. No matter how well we hide.
"Angie, get with it," came a croaky voice.
My eyes shot up to the sound, seeing a man looking over at me, the orange hue from the setting sun casting sharp shadows on his leathery-skin. The neon green LED lights from his goggles shined right at me. Ruggy, my partner. We had a mission. Gather scraps.
"Sorry," I said. "I wasn't really here." My thoughts were being dragged off into the big picture of the world. The Harvesters. Our attempts to survive. Stuff that Ruggy wouldn't really care about hearing.
"Keep your mind on our why we're on the surface. I don't want to be here like you, but there aren't any options." He shifted his rifle under his arm, holding the gun at a forty-five-degree angle, gaze forward. "Magnify your map and stay on course. The operator said there is an amplitude of metal not far from here."
The Lost
I adjusted the interface that displayed within my goggles. With a twitch of my eyelid, the goggles changed the glass to project night vision. Another subtle eyelid movement caused the UI to zoom in on the map that displayed at the corner of my eye. It brought up a detailed landscape of the rubble that we walked through. Well, a map of what everything used to look like.
"These maps aren't helpful," I said. "They're well over a century outdated." I looked at the top-down view of the geographical location of the map. It showcased skyscrapers, roads, and complete pathways. In reality, all I could see was a charcoal skyline, rubble ground, and nature attempting to grow new green life in between the concrete cracks.
"It's the best that we have to work with," said Ruggy. "Us Scrappers always get the low-tech stuff."
"Yep," I said. There wasn't much of a point in discussing the topic. He was right. Scrappers were a low rank. That's why we stick together. Plus, I knew what Ruggy was thinking: shut up and do your job. It was tough to do just that. We were in the middle of a long-forgotten civilization trying to find old metal scraps, praying that we wouldn't be detected by the Harvesters – not exactly motivating.
"This seems like a waste of time for us," I said. "We've never gone this far out into the Lost."
"Yeah, well," Ruggy said. "When we've raided all of the other closer past cities, we don't have much of a choice but to go further in."
I scanned the ground in front of me, holding the rifle tight. There were washed-out yellow painted rocks mixed in with grey rocks. These were once roads, at least what is left of them. I've seen complete streets in the archive photos before. Never had I seen such large chunks of remnants in person.
"All of this seems so surreal," I said. "These people used to live in peace before it all went south."
"They didn't think so," Ruggy said, taking a turn down an archway. "Down this way," he said.
I followed behind him looking at the massive archway. It was large enough to house a twelve-man transport shuttle. "What makes you say that?" I asked.
"They weren't happy and tried to change the world which got us into this mess," Ruggy said.
"I suppose." Ruggy had a point, the past civilization were the ones that brought humanity into a technological revolution. I just liked to imagine there was a better world at some point in time. "They only wanted to do what was good for us," I said.
"Are you really that naïve? Come on, kid." Ruggy said. "The history books always look as good as they can, even if they are on the losing side. I am sure that Harvesters paint a pretty glorified image of their past, justifying why they do what they do. Good is relative."
"If you don't trust the history books, what do you trust?" I asked.
"Well," Ruggy said. "I don't trust much. I do know not to trust one stupid book. That's been the issue with humanity for centuries. We put our trust in a book. Now, we're living the greatest downfall from this repetition of history."
My pace slowed down as we came across a massive semi-complete structure. It was about one-third of a sculpted head. A bearded man with a long nose and long hair, although it was difficult to tell from the missing pieces.
Amazing, I thought while looking up to the mountain in the near distance. Remnants of a sculpture's base could be seen around a pile of rubble. An educated guess would be the head had tumbled down the mountainside during an explosion. That was my best guess. I really had no idea.
Gods on Repeat
I picked up my pace, realizing Ruggy had continued on without me. Once I caught up beside him, I said, "It really isn't all from one book though. There's bureaucracy, corruption, and human greed to take into account."
"True, but they shroud it in justification from their holy books."
"Yeah, it is tragic we kept repeating the past."
"Its ridiculous. We used to believe in super beings, gods, in the sky that judged our lives. Our 'holy book' was science and it was just as bad as the rest."
"The science era wasn't much different from religion," I said looking at Ruggy's leathery face.
"Why's that?" he asked.
"Because the Harvesters turned themselves into gods in the sky, judging us."
Ruggy chuckled. "How poetic."
I couldn't tell if he was being his typical unenthusiastic self, or if he was actually impressed with what I challenged him with. It was hard to know with Ruggy, he always had the same mood with anything that he did.
The two of us continued down the uneven path, hopping over large clumps of city remains and plants that had grown over the past world. Looking at it all made a part of me want to just go back to the cruiser and give up. Gathering scraps was tedious. The Lost was depressive to look at. It wasn't like I had much choice. Scrapping was all I was good at. I didn't have any other skills that could help humanity survive. There were no educational systems for me to go to. People that possessed knowledge from the past carefully chose who they passed knowledge onto. We have to operate this way. There is no time for everyone to learn everything. We had to learn one skill fast and stick to it.
The Harvesters were technologically advanced, mentally superior, and physically herculean. There was no time for anyone to wish about what they wanted to do. The higher commands run us through rigorous tests, analyze what we are best at, and that is what we do until the day we die. It's that simple.
"Here's food for thought," Ruggy said as he reached the top of a steep rock. "Playing off of what you said, about The Harvesters being living gods and such…" he extended his hand for me.
"Yeah?" I asked as I took his hand, letting him pull me up.
"You ever fathom that humanity has just repeated itself?"
"What do you mean?" I asked, panting looking down at my health-cuff. The screen lit up with a flick of my wrist. It stated we were just over fifty kilometres from our cruiser. I thought that was a lot, but seeing that Ruggy hadn't even broken a sweat, made me feel like a goof. Looks like I'd have to get on a tighter exercise routine when we got back to base.
"The Harvesters," Ruggy said. "They were us at one point. Gods are only projections of what we wish to be. They had access to become one, and that is what they did. Perhaps humanity has gone through similar routes in the past, and religious books are just history books about them."
"You mean like what the Babblers are doing?" I raised my eyebrow with a smirk. The idea was humorous. "You know Babblers are just desperate to find meaning to all this chaos by speaking about it like some prophecy."
"Exactly my point. The Babblers are no different than any prophet. I take it you never got familiar with some of the archive's religious texts?"
"No, can't say that I have," I said. "I'm a Scrapper, I rarely have time to read."
"Yeah, you're also in your twenties. Ah, don't worry about it. I was a baboon at that age, too, chasing all the fucks I could get."
My nostrils flared. Who did Ruggy think he was summing me up as some young horny uneducated kid? He had a way of belittling people. Unfortunately, I had to work with him. Scrappers stick together once they were chosen. Scrapper's code.
"Anyways…" Ruggy said after my prolonged rage-silence. "Perhaps the past religions like Christianity, Hellenism, Hinduism, you name it, all had holy men who saw things for what they were." Ruggy brought out his hand. "I'm not saying this is the kind of stuff that I believe in, but just playing off your idea."
I smirked. "Really? You know a damn lot more than I do about religion. You sure you're not becoming a Babbler?"
"Zip it. Just throwing the idea out there that maybe this isn't the first time humanity has surpassed itself and went for the stars, leaving the rest of us down here."
"It's a wild theory."
I wasn't sure what else to say. Ruggy knew a lot more about humanity's past than I did, and it wasn't worth challenging him. As he put it so delicately, I was just a young horny kid. His statement had me wondering though – was humanity just repeating itself? Did the past civilizations turn men into gods, like the Harvesters? It's a crazy idea, and no one truly knows. History was distorted. The details of how they went for the cosmos and left us here was a convoluted – and confusing – rabbit hole that isn't worth going down. Trust me. I've tried. Every 'fact' contradicts itself as to how humanity's split started.
I followed behind Ruggy as we continued down the mapped-out path projected on the goggle-screens. Of course, the goggles could only estimate roughly where we went. It's not like we had any satellites to work with. That's a giant flag to attract Harvesters. The chips processors are attached to our health-cuffs, they do some weird science-algorithm-tech thing that I could never understand. All I know is the map talks to the cuff, and they can estimate my steps with the city's map's size.
"Looks like we're almost there," Ruggy said.
"So, the operator found some jackpot from their A.I. algorithms or what? I still don't get why we had to come out this far." I asked.
"I don't know Angie. That isn't my department, nor yours. They tell us where to go, and we got the scraps. That's all."
"Right," I said while tightening the grip of my rifle. We had never gone this far out into The Lost before. The fact we left our cruiser made me uncomfortable. If a Harvester were to show up, we were on our own. We couldn't outrun them – that's pointless. We had no transportation – we were sitting ducks on foot.
Ruggy brought his rifle up as we turned the corner. The smell of burning metal began to pick up. This was abnormal. Burning smells meant something recent was around. Nothing burns in The Lost. Those fires and explosions happened long before our time.
I used my eyelids to navigate through the goggle's interface. The screen projected a keyboard and message thread between Ruggy and I. My eyelids twitched in swift movements, stringing together alphabetic characters into words.
DO YOU SMELL THAT? I typed out in the chat.
YEAH, KEEP YOUR GUARD UP, Ruggy typed back as he descended down a rocky, narrow, path.
I felt the sweat build up on my pits and palms. Whatever this was wasn't part of our standard protocol. The operators typically had us find piles of rubble we had to dig through to snag metal. This was something different.
We continued down the path, creeping slowly to avoid loose rocks. The last thing we needed was to make noise. Ruggy reached the end of the steep decline to where the path opened up. Smoke rose from the open charcoaled ground. Even with the goggle's enhanced vision, Ruggy nor I could make out what was in front of us.
I raised my rifle as I reached Ruggy's side, stopping right in front of the opening.
My eyelids moved, typing, I CAN'T SEE ANYTHING.
NOR CAN I, Ruggy wrote.
YOU SURE THIS IS THE RIGHT PLACE? I asked.
The map was pretty accurate when it synched with the health-cuffs. Plus, there was only rubble all around us. There was nothing of value here other than this mysterious smoke and burning smell.
WHAT DO WE DO? I asked.
Ruggy tightened his grip on his rifle and stepped forward. He didn't look back, expecting me to follow. I had to. Ruggy was right, we were Scrappers. With that in mind, I took a deep breath and marched alongside Ruggy into the smoke.
The closer we got, the smell heightened into strange stinging sensation. It overpowered my senses and couldn't smell anything else. God, I wanted to have a mask at this point in time. Scrappers always got the leftover supplies and never the ones we needed. At least we had the goggles, it kept our eyes clear as we moved through the unknown.
I stayed slightly behind Ruggy, making sure nothing came from his sides or behind us. We entered the thick of the haze. Nothing was visible beyond a few feet. The further we stepped in, the smoke changed into an orange-red hue.
FIRE, Ruggy typed.
IT'S A CRASH? I responded.
A roar erupted from the brighter flames further ahead. We raised our rifles. A humanoid silhouette rose from the flaming ground, deformed from the light. Large limbs reached up for the sky. Too large to be human. The roar morphed into a howling groan. A sound of agony.
HARVESTER, Ruggy typed.
YOU SURE? I replied
I exhaled slowly. A part of me was annoyed. There were so many questions that we hadn't answered. We were making choices that were beyond our rank. Whatever we were witnessing was not a Scrapper's role. Harvester or not, this was something we had to report. There was also the fact we could end up getting killed. Scrappers were about stealth and retrieval, not killing things.
WE SHOULD CALL IT IN, I typed.
WE CAN'T, REMEMBER? Ruggy replied. WE'RE ON A LOCAL CHANNEL. HELPS WITH STEALTH.
I wasn't sure what else to say to Ruggy. We wouldn't be able to make it back to the cruiser, report the finding, and expect to find whatever we found to still be here. Action was needed. Besides, Ruggy had his mindset regardless of any protocol. He wanted to find out what this was. I had no other choice. I couldn't leave him behind. Scrapper's code.

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You know we are in big trouble when we have to have the year-round availability of food products that have to be trucked-in/flown-in/shipped-in from sources thousands of miles away from us. The carbon footprint of the banana and the pineapple available at our local grocery is stomping the life off of future generations.
You know we are beyond big trouble... we are doomed, when we are not satisfied with 6-10 varieties of apples. We have to have this Honey Crisp apple, grown in France!!! We grow a heck of a lot of apples in Ontario and in the rest of Canada... why do we need apples from France?
This apple was bought at the local Zehr's in Guelph. Feb 10th.


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Today I received a letter from the said Dr from the Fibro clinic. He listed my ailments as Fibro Syndrome Osteoarthritis Previous CFS Diabetes type 11 and persistently low Platelet count!
I read the letter and thought wish I could send him a reply!!
He said I had been seen at another hospital for Orthopaedic Surgery who confirmed I had bad knees and needed a replacement of both,Said she had a steroid injection in her knee with good result. Her knee joints appear to be stable and she can move them from 0 to 120 degrees Her hip rotation is good.(he never touched my hip. And I cant walk but he forgot to mention that! He then went on to say he has refered me to a coping skills program to teach me Exercise tolerance I have given her a book to do exercises from as she needs to strengthen her muscles due to knee problems.....Er I cannot Walk or swim or drive but he never even mentioned my fibro!
He did say I had Persistently low platelets and why had my Dr not let him know? I have only had them low for the last 6 months,and my Dr is keeping a check on it.
He seemed more interested in the fact that in his opinion there was not a lot wrong with my legs, that losing weight and doing exercise would not cure !! He was so rude I never want to see him again.
Have any of you encountered this with your Fibro Consultant?
I still have not had any Physio so not amused ! ;-(
Gentle hugs (((((((((((((((((((((((((( ))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
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Mr Cleverley
Welcome to Diamond Class!
My name is Mr Cleverley and I will be working alongside Miss Harrison and Mrs Ralph in teaching the Year 5/6 children at Cheadle Heath Primary. I am also the subject lead for Modern Foreign Langauges; French is our language of study at Cheadle Heath.
We have a really exciting curriculum planned for this year, starting with the topic 'Conflict', where we will look at conflicts across the world and the Second World War in particular. The next topic wil be 'Survivor', where the children will be learning all about surviving in different environments. Later in the year, we will be looking into Evolution and Darwin's voyage to South America. Lastly, we will look at the invasion of the Vikings.
If you have any questions or queries please don't hesitate to get in touch or approach me on the playground or send an email to email@example.com .


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Picnic weather in February? Experts forecast unseasonably warm spell – and no rain till March
PUBLISHED: 10:00 20 February 2019 | UPDATED: 12:08 20 February 2019
It's looking to be a very dry week, according to forecasters in East Anglia – with temperatures across the region feeling unusually mild for this time of year.
One year since the Beast from the East battered our region, the outlook in East Anglia has turned on its head – with mild temperatures, sunny spells and a significant absence of wet weather painting a very different picture for the end of Feburary.
Forecaster Adam Dury, from Weatherquest, said there is not likely to be any rain at all until March, with temperatures peaking at 15C towards the end of the week – more than double the month's average of 7C.
Mr Dury said it is set to be a dry day today, with "some thick cloud around this morning, but turning bright and breaking up a little bit this afternoon".
He added that sunny spells with develop as the day goes on, with highs similar to previous days this week – at roughly 11C or 12C.
Things will remain dry overnight, with a little mist and fog developing early tomorrow morning.
Temperatures will then start to climb a little higher on Thursday, perhaps reaching 13C, with conditions feeling much milder than usual.
Mr Dury said Friday is likely to be the warmest day, with the mercury peaking at 14C or 15C – closer to averages for April and May. Conditions will then stay dry throughout the weekend.
In fact, we are unlikely to see any rain at all until March, meaning our late-winter could easily be mistaken for springtime.
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text: 2 By Adelaide Blog TalkBox - How To November 17, 2017 Every TalkBox comes with an online companion for you to listen to the native speaker audio, track your progress, and ask your questions. Here's a tour for you! If you're not sure how to log in, hop over to this post. Adelaide / About Author Hi! I'm Adelaide. I founded TalkBox.Mom, and I help families to talk in a foreign language the same day they start. More posts by Adelaide Comments (2) erica_lynn_12 August 17, 2018 at 12:48 pm Reply This is a great little video on how everything works online. We just ordered our book and are excited to start with our monthly subscriptions in September!!! Thanks for creating this for families 🙂 shellbolina October 26, 2018 at 12:02 pm Reply We got really excited about your program at the Fort Worth convention. We bought Spanish 1 and started using it, but sort of flopped with it. THEN you emailed me with the webinar this week and TOTALLY rebooted us! From that, I have been on your blog and have found some KEY things that have helped me better understand how to use this. We're beyond excited and are ready to really get going now. Thank you for all the resources you are making available to teach and support us! Michelle Leave a comment Cancel reply Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Send Comment


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It was a really interesting day at Smart London Camp 2018 today. The meeting was an unconference so no sessions were advertised in advance but lots of choice was on offer after the initial pitching session.
The event organisation (mainly by people in the GLA I think) was also very good.
I went to 5 sessions covering: the ethical considerations around the widespread collection of data (much of it personal) on our city streets; the use of technology to encourage volunteering; the structuring of data to support re-use; the ways in which we can create a data culture and grow our collective data literacy; and the use of chatbots and voice interfaces in public sector service delivery.
Of these, the better sessions were those that had a specific question or challenge to work on. For example, "what can London to to encourage a 'data culture'?" These sessions forced people to propose solutions, rather than just having a general discussion on a particular area.
My personal take-aways were around the need for greater data literacy (which came up in all the sessions I went to in one form or another) and greater digital literacy (which seems to be easily confused with data literacy — not surprisingly — but which has a different, though related, context). In both cases, the underlying question seems to be around how Smart London can develop and encourage a society in which levels of data and digital literacy are increased.
There was also a recurring theme around the need to focus first and foremost on user-need, rather than on technical solutions looking for a problem.
It seems obvious to say it, but if we really want to give people greater control over the way services are delivered, if we want to empower them in the political process, if we want them to grow economic activity in the digital environment, if we want them to take greater ownership of their own health and the environment, then we need to increase their ability to make sense of data and to interact online safely and with confidence.
This is partly a challenge for the providers of 'public' services to the city (typically those in the public and third sectors) who generally need to look at their own culture and skill sets and ask themselves how they are going to digitally transform. But clearly, there is also a question for the wider community; for schools, for the health service, for businesses, and so on. And for individuals.
Thinking purely about transformation of local government for a moment… it strikes me as critical that any transformation to support the development of smart cities is not done by individual councils in isolation. The last thing that I want as a tax payer is for every local authority in London, much less in the UK, to invest effort on their own in defining data ontologies or in thinking about good practice when building chatbots or voice interfaces or whatever. We need to see much greater levels of collaboration, and much greater sharing of knowledge, around the 'new digital': around data, IoT, ML, AI, voice and so on… in much the same way that GDS has enabled the sharing of good practice around the delivery of services on the web.
Secondly, as a resident of Bath & North East Somerset, I want to understand how Smart London can impact on Smart Bristol or Smart Bath. Ultimately on Smart UK. Some of the discussion today was about how the London boroughs can work more closely together. But the kind of geographical partitioning represented by our political borders are of little interest to the citizen in practice. If I live outside London but work in London then a smarter city without a corresponding smarter rural area fails to realise the full potential of the opportunity presented by digital.
There is no doubt that much of the locus of smart city thinking in the UK will happen in London. Rightly or wrongly that is more or less inevitable. Size will dictate. So let's find ways of making sure that London learns from other cities (both within the UK and around the world) and that other cities in the UK can learn from London's experience. That way, we can all benefit.


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Christina Aguilera spent the afternoon searching for the perfect pumpkin with hubby, Jordan Bratman, and son, Max Liron, at Mr. Bones Pumpkin Patch in Beverly Hills.
The busy mom recently told Cosmopolitan UK that her
"everyday goal is to make sure Max is happy and feels safe. I didn't grow up in a safe environment that made me feel safe or peaceful so I want to provide that for him. He's so happy – he laughs a lot. It's important for me to be the first person he sees when he wakes up and the last thing he sees when he goes to bed."
So very nice. I wish more parents made this pledge.


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Introducing Henry Wilberforce Seewald.
Jessa (Duggar) Seewald and her husband, Ben, announced their new baby's name on Tuesday, a week after his birth.
The name Henry, which the couple thought was "cute," comes from Matthew Henry, a man who wrote a commentary series on the Bible. Meanwhile, William Wilberforce was a British politician who helped put an end to the slave trade.
"[Wilberforce is] a real hero of ours," Ben said in TLC video posted on their website, "He was someone who really walked with God … Even after facing defeat so many times, he persevered and he lived to see the day when slave trade was made illegal throughout the British Empire. That is something that was really inspirational to us."
The pair — who tied the knot in 2014 — welcomed Henry Wilberforce on Feb. 6.
"He was born at 4:26 a.m. this morning, weighing 8 pounds and 11 ounces and measuring 21 3/4 inches long. Mom and baby are both doing well," they announced on their blog.
Duggar, 24, and Seewald, 21, are already parents to 1-year-old son Spurgeon Elliot. Spurgeon is named for the British preacher Charles Spurgeon.


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Rear Trunk Mat / Cargo Liner
Condition : 100% Brand new
Material:Strong Polyethylene Form (TPR - Thermal Plastic Rubber Foam)
Quantity:1 PCS
Color:Same As picture show
Fitment:Toyota Camry 2012-2014
Feature :Raised 3D lip helps to contain spills
Water proof, anti-Scratch, and Chemical Resistant. Protects the carpeted cargo area of your car.
Customized to match the contours of your vehicle
Can be rolled up for shipping and storage, the ripples on edges will smooth out and return to its molded shape once it has time to relax for a day or two in vehicle
Note: Due to the size of this product, it will only be rolled for shipping.
In order to smooth it out, please just turn it over, and roll it again.
Or leave the mat under the hot sun for few hours, then it should return to its molded shape after a day or two in vehicle.


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ReGBA by Nebuleon is a Game Boy Advance emulator based ultimately on gpSP 0.9 by Exophase. The project is currently in alpha. This build is a preview for your consideration. Some features are missing and will be coded later. You can also submit patches on GitHub.
Release notes:I have revalidated the optimisations, and it turns out I used the wrong register in some GCW-specific code. I have fixed this, resulting in ReGBA/GCW0 alpha 12. Up to 4% of performance has been restored.
Download: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...a-alpha-12.opk
Dingoo A320 users dont need this; they can continue using alpha 10. Alphas 10, 11 and 12 will be byte-identical on the Dingoo A320.
The last commit that went into this build is commit dc526d2: GCW Zero, mips/stub.S: Correct the MIPS32 R2 instructions. The instructions used the wrong register..
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The King Of Fighters: Flames Of Courage is 2D fighting game based on the KOF saga: it has multiple characters to select, complex combos and lots of action. Ported to GCW Zero by grom.
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Locomalitos game LAbbaye des Morts ported to GCW Zero by d_smagin! The gameplay is directly inspired by Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy.
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# Shipping and Availability of Units
A fulfillment company was approached to deal with shipments in order to speed up the delivery process. However, due to their unfitness in handling the task, we now severed ties with them and are back to shipping the units ourselves.
We are in the process of obtaining exact shipment details/numbers of the units handled by the fulfillment company and will inform you about the accurate number of devices shipped so far, when the details are available to us. We want to stress out that the delivery process has never stopped and the units continue to ship.
# Quick Start Guide
For all of you who have received the units, the development team prepared a Quick Start Guide that will help you go through the basic steps of GCW Zero usage. It is meant as an online equivalent of a printed manual, which we are unable to include in the box due to the constantly evolving nature of the device (software side of the project is under development and a lot changes with every new firmware update).
You can find the Quick Start Guide under the following location:
# Software Porting Guidelines
With an increasing number of people receiving units, we have already started to see third party software releases for the GCW Zero. Motivated by this, the development team prepared Software Porting Guidelines. This document dictates criteria required in order for a port to be accepted into our official repository.
You can take a look at it at the following link:
# Griffon Legend, A Retro Inspired Action RPG
The GCW Zero has received an exclusive reimplementation of "The Griffon Legend" (released in 2005) from FreeBasic to C by Dmitry Smagin.
The game, an action RPG, features an original storyline and is inspired by the 16-bit style RPGs of the SNES/GENESIS era. It was originally written by Daniel "Syn9" Kennedy in FreeBASIC, with sound by David Turner and was limited to a Windows release.
With the help of Dmitry Smagin the game is now featured on the GCW Zero for the first time ever. Griffon Legend can be freely downloaded from the GCW software repository and will be preinstalled on new units.
[1] http://github.com/dmitrysmagin/griffon_legend
[2] http://syn9.thehideoutgames.com/index_backup.php
[3] http://www.gcw-zero.com/downloads
October 28th, 2013, 22:24 Posted By: wraggstervia http://pdroms.de/page/2
Gmu is an open source music player. Gmu supports Ogg Vorbis, MP3, Musepack, FLAC and various module formats (such as s3m, stm, it, etc.). It also includes a playlist and a file browser. radon86 compiled it for the GCW Zero.
October 28th, 2013, 22:20 Posted By: wraggstervia http://pdroms.de/page/2
ReGBA by Nebuleon is a Game Boy Advance emulator based ultimately on gpSP 0.9 by Exophase. The project is currently in alpha. This build is a preview for your consideration. Some features are missing and will be coded later. You can also submit patches on GitHub.
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ReGBA alpha 11 is available.
Download: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...a-alpha-11.opk
This build contains a quick fix for Dooms garbled graphics. As I suspected, MIPS32 R2 instructions are to blame. I disabled some of them (and will need to revalidate them before enabling them again later). The performance will be up to 4% less in any release from now on until the MIPS32 R2 instructions are validated, which will be unnoticeable in all games except Mario Golf and Tennis.
In this release, there is also a small change to the progress bar. The text is now inside the bar, and the background is TRS-80 blue.
The last commit that went into this build is commit fbc3d1a: OpenDingux: Quick fix to disable most MIPS32 R2 instructions in the stub, but allow the SYNCI instruction..
October 28th, 2013, 22:19 Posted By: wraggstervia http://pdroms.de/page/2
Open Sonic is an open-source game based on the Sonic the Hedgehog universe. It introduces a different style of gameplay called cooperative play, in which its possible to control 3 characters simultaneously. Unlike most similar games, Open Sonic provides a greater level of interaction between the player and the levels. Its more than just a jumpn'run; the user must come up with some strategy in order to get through the levels.
Ported to GCW Zero by d_smagin.
October 28th, 2013, 22:18 Posted By: wraggstervia http://pdroms.de/page/2
d_smagin ported Valarsofts Ghouls and Ghosts Remix from Windows to the GCW Zero. The game combines the gameplay of Ghostsn Goblins, Ghoulsn Ghosts and Super Ghoulsn Ghosts.
October 21st, 2013, 15:10 Posted By: wraggstervia http://gbatemp.net/
The Griffon Legend is an action-RPG designed in the likeness of 16bit era video games. The game was released in 2005 for the PC, thanks to the efforts of Dmitry Smagin it has been ported to a handheld for the first time. If you own a GCW Zero, grab the game from the GCW Zero software repository and let us know what you think about it.
October 21st, 2013, 15:09 Posted By: wraggstervia http://gbatemp.net/
Solarus Engine v1.1, which is an open-source Zelda-like game engine has been ported by Shin-NiL to the GCW Zero. There are two games available to try; Mystery of Solarus DX, which was made to be a sequel to Link to the Past, and and Mystery of Solarus XD, a parody mini-game. Both the games are available at the official website. If you're a Zelda fan and own a Zero, be sure to check this out. Rest assured, if you don't have GCW0 yet, the games are playable on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Android. Also, if you're interested in creating your own adventure, be sure to check the Solarus wiki page.
October 20th, 2013, 00:59 Posted By: wraggster
The Nvidia Shield has been a solution in search of a problem, and this week the company began a justification campaign for the $300 device's existence with some interesting upgrades. This week the company announced Nvidia GameStream, due to launch on October 28, and the Shield "console mode."
A big selling point of the Shield to begin with was the ability to stream PC games to the device. That will leave beta on the 28th. Initially it will support local PC streaming for "more than 50 top PC games," but the long-term plan is to support Nvidia's Grid cloud gaming service.
Even more interesting is the "Shield Console Mode," which turns the device into a microconsole, similar to concepts like Ouya and PlayStation Vita TV. Attaching Shield to a TV via HDMI and then pairing it with a "Nyko PlayPad Pro Bluetooth controller," users can stream PC games, play Android games, browse the internets and "watch their favorite movies at native 1080p."
The Shield will offer $100 off beginning October 28 with free copies ofAssassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, Splinter Cell: Blacklist and Batman: Arkham Origins. The company plans to share details on participating retailers soon.
October 15th, 2013, 12:13 Posted By: wraggstervia http://gbatemp.net/threads/the-griff...w-zero.356106/
The Griffon Legend is an action-RPG designed in the likeness of 16bit era video games. The game was released in 2005 for the PC, thanks to the efforts of Dmitry Smagin it has been ported to a handheld for the first time. If you own a GCW Zero, grab the game from the GCW Zero software repository and let us know what you think about it.
October 14th, 2013, 02:50 Posted By: wraggstervia http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php...dpost&p=969081
So somebody asked for Caanoo version, and here is the latest build:
This should run on GP2X/Wiz/Caanoo, but I've only tested this on GP2X and Caanoo. The main change is that SegaCD compatibility issues should be resolved now. 32X compatibility has been improved too, but it'll be too slow on GPH consoles. I don't know if/when I can optimize 32X, although it should be possible to improve it still.
From what I see there is not much action on these boards any more, I guess everyone moved on to one of the gazillion Android devices that are available these days.. If anyone still uses this on their GPH consoles (especially on good old GP2X), it would be nice if you posted here so that I know if it's worth building future PD releases for GPH consoles or not.
October 12th, 2013, 01:19 Posted By: wraggstervia http://pdroms.de
Sonic Robo Blast 2 is a 3D open-source Sonic the Hedgehog fangame built using a modified version of the Doom Legacy port of Doom. SRB2 is closely inspired by the original Sonic games from the Sega Genesis, and attempts to recreate the design in 3D. While SRB2 isnt fully completed, it already features tons of levels, enemies, speed, and quite a lot of the fun that the original Sonic games provided. Ported to GCW Zero by Shin-NiL.
October 12th, 2013, 01:18 Posted By: wraggstervia http://pdroms.de
Powermanga is an arcade 2D shoot-em-up game with 41 levels and more than 200 sprites. Ported to GCW Zero by elwing.
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October 12th, 2013, 01:16 Posted By: wraggstervia http://pdroms.de
If you own a GCW Zero device you might be happy to know that there was an improvement/update for the OpenDingux OS.
* included improvements in OpenGL ES from the Etnaviv project; read details here
* set GPU clock to 500 MHz (was 432 MHz)
* set VPU clock to 166 MHz (was 333 MHz, but it didnt actually work at this speed)
* print a reminder that the login name is root in the network configuration utility
October 11th, 2013, 23:36 Posted By: wraggstervia http://pdroms.de/
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September 25th, 2013, 01:27 Posted By: wraggsterEven in the age of the NVIDIA Shield, dedicated Android gaming handsets are still a bit of a rarity, which is all more of a reason to take a gander at the leaked GamePad 2 from Archos. The device first reared its head at the FCC, and thanks to an online retailer -- which has since scrubbed all references to the product -- we're now treated to a press shot and a smattering of technical specs for the successor to the original GamePad. This time around, it's purported to sport a slightly more dense 1,280 x 800, 7-inch IPS display, along with a 1.6GHz quad-core CPU and 2GB of RAM. In addition to the previously available 8GB model, a new 16GB version is said to be in the works, and in both cases, the GamePad 2 will retain a microSD expansion slot. There's no word yet on pricing or availability, but you can bet that we'll hear more from Archos soon enough.
September 24th, 2013, 23:46 Posted By: wraggsterDistributor MSE Group will launch the Wikipad gaming tablet in the UK and Ireland this month, which aims to fill a huge hole in the mobile gaming space.
Having hit the US earlier this year, the tablet will now go on sale in the UK on September 24th.
Fraser Townley, president of sales at Wikipad, told PCR: Half of tablet usage is gaming and we believe the Wikipad does this better than any other tablet. The exclusive and patented removable controller, upgradeable storage and our focus on gaming makes the Wikipad different from other tablets.
We believe we have carved an exciting niche that fills a huge hole in the mobile gaming space.
The Wikipad is specifically designed for mobile gaming, featuring an Nvidia Tegra 3 mobile processor with a quad core CPU. Its lightweight removable controller features standard game pad controls, including dual-analog sticks, buttons, D-pad, bumpers and triggers.
Users can download games via the Google Play Store, Amazon App Store, the Nvidia Tegrazone and Sony PlayStation Mobile.
September 19th, 2013, 12:43 Posted By: wraggster
A simple resistive DAC is all you need to drive a VGA display. Combining that with an on-chip DAC for audio, the STM32F405RGT6 looks like a good choice for a DIY game console. [Makapuf's] Bitbox console is a single chip gaming machine based on the STM32 ARM processor.
Weve seen some DIY consoles in the past. The Uzebox is a popular 8 bit open source game system, and [makapuf] was inspired by its design. His consoles use of a more powerful 32 bit processor will allow for more complex games. It will also provide more colors and higher quality audio.
One of the keys of the Uzeboxs success is the development tools around it. Theres a fullemulator which allows for debugging with GDB. [Makapuf] has already built an SDL based emulator, and can debug the target remotely using GDB. This will certainly speed up game development.
After the break, check out a demo of the first game for the Bitbox: JUMP. Also be sure to read through [makapuf]s blog for detailed information on the build.
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- glace cherries for decoration
Crumble fruit cake into a bowl and sprinkle essence/alcohol over the top and[singlepic id=19 w=200 mode=watermark float=right] stir through. Melt chocolate and add to cake mix. Mush/blend/mix with hands until the chocolate is mostly evenly distributed and your mixture comes away from the edges of the bowl easily.
Place baking paper onto a tray, and roll mixture into bite size balls and place on tray. Place tray of balls into freezer for about 4 hours.
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Chop glace cherries into small pieces and melt white chocolate and allow to thicken (cool) slightly. Using a teaspoon, drizzle a small amount of white chocolate over each ball and place a piece of glace cherry on top so it looks like a little cream covered pudding. Place tray back in fridge until chocolate is set.
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I used a small melon baller to measure my balls, (which equates to about 1.5 tsp) so they were evenish, and I yielded about 85 balls. Of course you can make them larger. They are quite rich, however, and in my opinion a little bit of rich is nice, and you might find that making them bigger might make them a bit "too much".
Not all 85 will make it to the morning tea, however. As I'm sure DH will want to have a taste 😀
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This is only one of my hats, the 'hatinator' isn't quite finished, as I had to make changes to the overall design.
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I have a strong conviction one should never sleep the night before a big trip, especially if said trip begins before the sun rises. No good journey is ever packed well for ahead a time, and there's no real satisfaction of excitement if you're running screaming out the door with at least two things left behind and something not yet zipped up.
This is, actually, a horrid exaggeration on my part. Any situation where two things have been left behind usually reduces me to the temperament of a child, and it is one of my baser instincts to shut down and throw a fit when things don't go just so. This may be why, when trying to catch the earliest plane out of the mountainous tomb called West Virginia, I walked out to my mother's jeep balancing my laptop one-handed like a waitress at an internet cafe [if there was such a thing], and wishing to god that seven gigabytes of girl punk rock and anti-folk would download and sync just a little bit faster. The Xanax in my system was keeping me from panicking about it, but only just.
It was an incredibly bourgeois problem, of course, and not the only thing weighing on my mind. On the ride to the airport, as I did my best not to blind us in the plasmatic glow of my widescreen machine, my mother was also bringing me up to date on the condition of my step-father, who just hours before had been rushed to the hospital with numbness and various other things indicative of a heart condition. He was stable, and awake, and relatively okay now, and the doctors didn't know much of anything concerning what had went wrong beyond that, and the whole of the situation was enough to place a good bit of guilt and worry on a traveler.
Stress and I have fought my entire life -- and if this surprises anyone than you will excuse me if I feel a bit proud. Hiding the panic, at least by my summation, is a skill. Removing myself completely from the day-to-day disasters and creeping anxiety is a near impossibility, but one that I felt this new opportunity would afford me, and selfishly I feared that before ever getting on the plane, something serious would arise to halt my escape.
But I have moved too far ahead of myself. First, some back story. Almost seven years ago I started at Bennington College in Vermont, a liberal arts school which did nothing for my stress, but may just have turned me into something of a worthwhile person [will have to see on that one -- some will make the observation that quite the opposite has happened, and I am afraid we are not yet on a long enough timeline to say for sure]. But my first friend there, and the first person I met [and that it worked liked that is a testament either to him, or me] there was Ben Garner, a long-haired, hippie type who, at the time, was mostly looking for someone to talk about Pink Floyd to, and accompany him to Wal-Mart to purchase a copy of "Thriller."
He was a child of his passions, and I could respect that. And though over four years we wandered in and out of one another's lives, I left Bennington with one of those friends who you knew would be available in some capacity for the rest of your life -- assuming you were liberal with the term "available" and possibly, "life." When roughly a year ago, perhaps more, Ben contacted me and told me he had proposed to Sarah in Italy [a girl who, despite being several years behind us, had left the school when Ben and my class had graduated], I was surprised but happy for them, and hopeful to attend their upcoming nuptials in Cape Cod of all places, which were far away and placed on a calendar that, at the time, looked much different for me than it wound up being. And my failures aside, their wedding date still came, and I realized that I had a little money in my pocket from freelancing, and a suit that had been bought for the gauntlet of funerals I had run in the past year, and strong feeling that if everyone else said I could get out of town for five days, I might actually want to.
So, I was headed back to New England, refusing to quote a John Denver song [that wouldn't last, though it would be a different song]. I had been lucky, in a sense, that the bulk of my friends from school, my "old crew" as it were, of Sam, Hannah, and Julia, were also invited, and Julia's family had a place in Hull, just outside of Boston [by ferry], and only a couple hours away from the Cape. I barely remembered the house when we had stayed there before, but knew they had room, and were wonder hosts to just the kind of freeloader I was -- a gracious one. Everything seemed well and in place, and when I rolled out of the jeep with my luggage, my laptop put away and my iPod still not full, I had resolved that if this many things had worked out, then I would be damned if I was going to let some little family trifle that everyone else said was taken care of bother me.
Even if that meant hitting the bars in my layover destination very, very hard.
I guess, in a very simple way, that was the soul goal I had while I stood waiting at the security checkpoint [other than using the two hours I still had until take-off to finish off my mp3 player, so I might have something else to amuse myself with other than the pressurized pops of my ears] -- and as someone who had spent most of his life as a non-drinker, I found it made the entire experience somewhat more bearable. If only every situation where you stood there holding your coat, your belt, your shoes, and most specifically the waistband of your pants, pockets turned out, had the promise of a cocktail hour after, then travelers, convicts, and high school students might be an entirely happier bunch.
I gobbled up a greasy breakfast of the local specialty [we call it "Tudors" and if you survive it, you've really no reason to fear air travel], and while waiting, I rearranged a few things that had felt too hastily packed and realized with a strong sense of satisfaction that I was ready, or at least as ready as I could be. It was a strange feeling, disrupted only by the common worries of what I was leaving behind, and as I sat there, thinking about what was next, I found myself surprisingly calm. I wandered into a strange place, where assuming I stayed well-mannered and pleasant, kept myself witty and occasionally smiled, I would now be pushed and guided from place to place, despite any sort of condition I might have, be it mental, physical, or otherwise. Check the ticket, hand the money, say thank you, be cordial, take the drink, give up the plate, enjoy the coffee, mind the time, all of these things for the next five days would be handled, and all I had to do was look vaguely like I deserved to be there.
It was incredibly freeing, and set a nice tone for the coming days.
Diary of a Southern Gentleman, Pt. 1.
Posted by Randall Nichols Friday, June 18, 2010 12:03 PM
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"The Xanax in my system was keeping me from panicking about it, but only just."
All of your writing it fantastic, but that line really won me over in the context of anti-folk. Love this.
Thank you so much. You forget people are reading sometimes. Can't tell you how much I appreciate that.
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Conference Committees
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International Steering Committee
Wojtek J. Bock, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada
John Canning, The University of Sydney (Australia)
Youngjoo Chung, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (Korea, Republic of)
Wei Jin, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong, China)
Julian Jones, Heriot-Watt University (United Kingdom)
Hypolito José Kalinowski, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (Brazil)
Jose M. Lopez-Higuera, Universidad de Cantabria (Spain)
Alexis Mendez, MCH Engineering LLC (United States)
Glen A Sanders, Honeywell International (United States)
Nobuaki Takahashi, National Defense Academy (Japan)
Luc Thévenaz, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland)
Reinhardt Willsch, Institut für Photonische Technologien e.V. (Germany)
Technical Programme Committee
Jacques Albert, Carleton University (Canada)
Chris Baldwin, Weatherford (United States)
Ole Bang, Technical University of Denmark (Denmark)
Xiaoyi Bao, University of Ottawa (Canada)
Francis Berghmans, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)
Gabriele Bolognini, Istituto per la Microelettronica e Microsistemi, CNR (Italy)
Gilberto Brambilla, University of Southampton (United Kingdom)
Clay Kirkendall, Naval Research Laboratory (United States)
Stephen Collins, Victoria University (Australia)
Geoffrey A Cranch, Naval Research Laboratory (United States)
Michel J. F. Digonnet, Stanford University (United States)
Wolfgang Ecke, Institut für Photonische Technologien e.V. (Germany)
Gerald Farrell, Dublin Institute of Technology (Ireland)
Pierre Ferdinand, Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique (France)
José Luís Fabris, Universidad Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (Brazil)
Miguel Gonzalez-Herraez, Universidad de Alcalá (Spain)
Young-Geun Han, Hanyang University (Korea, Republic of)
Zuyuan He, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China)
Juan Hernandez-Cordero, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (México)
Leszek R. Jaroszewicz, Military University of Technology (Poland)
Robert A. Liebermann, Intelligent Optical Systems, Inc. (United States)
Manuel López-Amo, Universidad Pública de Navarra (Spain)
Cicero Martelli, Universidad Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (Brazil)
Robert McLaughlin, University of Western Australia (Australia)
Edgar A. Mendoza, Redondo Optics Inc. (United States)
Hideaki Murayama, The University of Tokyo (Japan)
Kazuhide Nakajima, NTT Corporation (Japan)
Kyunghwan Oh, Yonsei University (Korea, Republic of)
Bishnu Pal, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (India)
Gary R. Pickrell, Centre for Photonics Technology (United States)
Jürgen Popp, Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena (Germany)
Yun-Jiang Rao, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (China)
Takanori Saitoh, ANRITSU Corporation (Japan)
Akira Sakamoto, Fujikura Ltd. (Japan)
José Luís Santos, Universidad do Porto (Portugal)
Satoshi Tanaka, National Defense Academy (Japan)
Pedro Torres Trujillo, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Medellín (Colombia)
Moshe Tur, Tel-Aviv University (Israel)
Anbo Wang, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (United States)
David J. Webb, Aston University (United Kingdom)
Minghong Yang, Wuhan University of Technology (China)
Libo Yuan, Harbin Engineering University (China)
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Thomas Bosselmann, Siemens AG (Germany)
Richard Claus, NanoSonic Inc. (United States)
Brian Culshaw, University of Strathclyde (United Kingdom)
John Philip Dakin, University of Southampton (United Kingdom)
Anthony Dandridge, Naval Research Laboratory (United States)
Gordon W. Day, IEEE—The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (United States)
Thomas Giallorenzi, Naval Research Laboratory and Optical Society of America (United States)
Masimitrsu Haruna, Osaka University (Japan)
Kazuo Hotate, The University of Tokyo (Japan)
David Jackson, University of Kent (United Kingdom)
Alan D. Kersey, CiDRA (United States)
Ralf Th. Kersten, neuroConn GmbH (Germany)
Byoung Yoon Kim, KAIST (Korea, Republic of)
Herve Lefevre, iXBlue (France)
Yanbiao Liao, Tsinghua University (China)
Anna Mignani, Istituto di Fisica Applicata Nello Carrara, CNR (Italy)
David D. Sampson, The University of Western (Australia)
Eric Udd, Columbia Gorge Research (United States)
Marc Voet, FBGS Inernational (Belgium)
Ryozo Yamauchi, Fujikura Ltd. (Japan)
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Jesús Mirapeix, Universidad de Cantabria (Spain)
Adolfo Cobo, Universidad de Cantabria (Spain)
Olga Conde, Universidad de Cantabria (Spain)
Mauro Lomer, Universidad de Cantabria (Spain)
Francisco Madruga, Universidad de Cantabria (Spain)
Maria Ángeles Quintela, Universidad de Cantabria (Spain)
Antonio Quintela, Universidad de Cantabria (Spain)
Luis Rodríguez-Cobo, Universidad de Cantabria (Spain)
José J. Valdiande, Universidad de Cantabria (Spain)
Pedro Anuarbe, Universidad de Cantabria (Spain)
María Ruiz, Universidad de Cantabria (Spain)
Rubén Ruiz, Universidad de Cantabria (Spain)
Hany Shokry Girgis, Universidad de Cantabria (Spain)
Rafael Hidalgo-Gato, Universidad de Cantabria (Spain)
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Li-Bo Yuan, Harbin Engineering University (China)
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Robert A. Lieberman, Intelligent Optical Systems, Inc. (United States)
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Young-Geun Han, Hanyang University (Korea, Republic of)
Kazuo Hotate, The University of Tokyo (Japan)
Xiaoyi Bao, University of Ottawa (Canada)
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Gabriele Bolognini, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italy)
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Zuyuan He, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China)
Wei Jin, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong, China)
Leszek R. Jaroszewicz, Military University of Technology (Poland)
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Pierre G. Ferdinand, Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique (France)
Wojtek J. Bock, Université du Québec en Outaouais (Canada)
Hideaki Murayama, The University of Tokyo (Japan)
Minghong Yang; Wuhan University of Technology (China)
Gilberto Brambilla, University of Southampton (United Kingdom)
John Canning, The University of Sydney (Australia)
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The International Conference on Optical Fibre Sensors (OFS) was first held in London, in 1983. Since then, it has become established as the leading forum for the delivery of new research in optical fibre and guided-wave-based optical systems for sensing, instrumentation and imaging, as well as their applications in physical, chemical and biological measurement. Nowadays OFS is acknowledged as the world's leading interdisciplinary conference on all topics related to photonic sensing with an emphasis on those enabled by optical waveguides and especially by optical fibres.
OFS provides a vibrant forum for reporting the latest advances in fibre-optic and photonic sensing technologies and related devices. The conference has also fostered the exchange of knowledge and ideas within the research and industrial communities. The conference series is held every eighteen months, in rotation between the Americas, Europe, and Asia and the Pacific.
In 2014, OFS will be held in Spain for the first time. OFS23 will be held from Monday to Friday, 2–6 June, in Santander, Cantabria. The conference has now passed three decades and shows every sign of continuing to grow in importance and popularity.
The OFS community is exceptionally heterogeneous. It is not 'owned' by a particular scientific or engineering society, but is stewarded by its own International Steering Committee. Conference participants are highly diverse, and come from a wide range of disciplines in physical sciences and engineering and, to an increasing extent, from life sciences as well. Perhaps it is, above all, the intrinsic interdisciplinarity that keeps the Conference relevant and attractive to many around the world. After all, none of the really important global problems today have solutions lying within a single academic discipline; therefore, we believe that the OFS community is uniquely positioned to contribute to their understanding and definition of viable and sustainable solutions.
Prof. Alan Rogers has been a leading figure in our subject since its inception, and his recent death is a sad loss to the community. OFS23 will recognise his generous and outstanding contributions in a special session (Tribute to Alan Rogers) and by naming one of the Best Student Paper Awards after him: the Alan Rogers Best Student Paper Award on distributed sensors and sensor networks.
A glance at the programme for OFS23 emphatically confirms the reality of the increasing need for more sophisticated sensors and larger sensing networks to address the world's most topical and pervasive problems: of energy, environment, sustainability and health. The programme of the Conference shows the optical sensing community's commitment to tackling such challenges, including examples such as the generation and distribution of electrical energy, energy storage and energy efficiency, monitoring of environments whether natural or engineered, transport infrastructures and manufacturing. Also, exciting progress is evident at the interface between physical sciences and the life sciences: where optical fibre sensors are becoming an essential component of the new subject of biophotonics—that is becoming established as an invaluable tool for R&D in biochemistry and medicine.
OFS sustains its position at the leading edge of its subject; it continues to evolve to incorporate new science, novel concepts and technologies, advanced techniques and methodologies, combined to achieve more effective, efficient, and economical sensing based on light. This conference series has undergone considerable evolution and healthy growth over the years, reaching now its 23rd occasion, which can already be considered a success in respect of the number of submitted contributions (535), an absolute record in the history of the Conference.
During OFS23, a total of 401 papers will be presented and discussed, 68 in oral and 333 in poster format. After a first review process (with 4 reviews per paper) 375 high quality papers from 35 countries have been accepted. In addition, another six postdeadline papers will be accepted for presentation at OFS23 in a second review process. It must be also remarked that the Conference attendees will have the opportunity to enjoy 20 invited presentations from worldwide leading researchers, with 3 of them as plenary talks of one hour each, delivered by highly renowned scientists from leading Institutions.
OFS is only ever as good as the quality of the papers presented, and we are grateful to all of our authors for their excellent contributions. Moreover, we would particularly like to thank our Technical Programme Committee, which has undertaken the onerous task of carefully reading and assessing all the submissions, and has been consistently diligent and reliable in providing the advice on which the programme has been built. Also to be recognised is that in OFS23, due to the large number of submissions received, the contribution of many members of the International Steering Committee and International Honorary Committee has been crucial to ensure a full review of all submissions: thus satisfying the general OFS23 principle of a minimum of four reviewers per paper. This was indeed a collective endeavour that we deeply appreciate and acknowledge.
OFS23 has been organized during a period of deep economic crisis in Europe with strong impact in Spain, making the many challenges of organising a large complex international conference even more acute. Within this context, we are especially appreciative of the support of companies and institutions that have generously sponsored the Conference, representing a key contribution enabling us to achieve the high quality to which we have aspired for OFS23. Thank you!
We are grateful to all staff of the conference office for their hard work and enthusiasm, in particular we would like to thank Jesus Mirapeix, Ana Maria Ruiz, and Jose Valdiande at the Photonics Engineering Group and the SPIE staff for their effective and indefatigable dedication.
To SPIE, we would like to record our appreciation for their advice and technical skills in the editing and production of the Proceedings of OFS23.
Whatever your reasons for joining OFS-23, we are delighted to welcome you to the city of Santander and to wish you an enjoyable and successful Conference.
José Miguel López-Higuera
Julian Jones
Manuel López-Amo
José Luis Santos
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Plenary Presentation I
NanoPhotonics: pushing sensing to its limits in size and speed
Prof. Dr. Niek van Hulst
ICFO – the Institute of Photonic Sciences and
ICREA – Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Spain
Optical fibres are historically at the base of near-field optics for nanoscale sensing and microscopy, opening routes to the detection of single molecules, quantum dots, protein complexes, etc. Fibres with conventional sub-wavelength aperture however are inefficient; while fixtures with plasmonic nano-antenna probes are highly superior for light control on the nanoscale. In this presentation I will focus on optical control, both in space and time, by resonant nanoantennas and phase shaped fs pulses.
For spatial control, we manipulate single photon emitters close to optical antennas (monopole dipole, multipole and multi element) to explore nanoscale field concentration, directionality, spectral resonances and sensing applications. Exploiting resonant antenna designs the emission can be enhanced up to 1000 times and steered into narrow forward angular cones.
For temporal control, we exploit phase shaped fs pulses to drive resonant antennas and single quantum systems to dynamically control both their fs response and nanoscale fields. Both amplitude and optical phase of antennas is directly captured. Interestingly when applied to single-molecules and even molecular antenna complexes a superior degree of coherent control beyond the ensemble is realized..
In conclusion, with this presentation I hope to provide insight on the advances and potential of modern photonics at the cross-roads between nm and fs scales.
This work is supported by ERC-Advanced Grant 247330 on NanoAntennas, MICIINN Consolider CSD2007-046, Fundació CELLEX Barcelona and LASERLAB-EUROPE.
Plenary Presentation II
Novel light-based technologies for biomedical applications
Prof. Dr. Seok-Hyun Yun
Harvard Medical School-Wellman Center for Photomedicine Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology, United States
Upon absorption of a photon, molecules can be excited or altered, triggering various photochemical events useful for sensing and therapy. The light-induced processes are thermodynamically robust because of high activation energy, and are energy-efficient because downstream biochemical events may amplify their biological effects. Numerous techniques based on photochemical processes have been developed, such as photodynamic therapy and optogenetics. Despite the great promise of the light-based techniques in medicine, a major common challenge has been the difficulty of delivering light deep into the tissue. Owing to intrinsic absorption and scattering, the penetration depth of light is no more than several mm's in tissue. To date, the clinical use of optical techniques has been limited to superficial layers, such as the skin and retina, or the epithelial surfaces of organs that are accessible by catheters or endoscopes. In this talk, I will present some of the novel, nonconventional, intriguing approaches that have a potential to solve the problem of light delivery, using the concepts originally developed in optical fiber sensor community and employing polymers and cells as biocompatible photonic materials.
Plenary Presentation III
Quantum technologies for sensing, metrology and imaging
Prof. Dr. Jonathan P. Dowling
Theoretical Physics, Hearne Institute for Theoretical Physics
Louisiana State University, United States
Over the past 20 years bright sources of entangled photons have led to a renaissance in quantum optical interferometry. These photon sources have been used to test the foundations of quantum mechanics and implement some of the spooky ideas associated with quantum entanglement such as quantum teleportation, quantum cryptography, quantum lithography, quantum computing logic gates, and sub-shot-noise optical interferometers. I will discuss some of these advances and the unification of optical quantum imaging, metrology, and sensing via the common language of quantum optical information processing. In particular I will discuss ways to exploit quantum optical entanglement to beat the Rayleigh diffraction limit in imaging systems such as in microscopes, LIDAR, and optical lithography. I will also discuss how this entanglement can be used to beat the shot noise limit, for example in fiber optical gyroscopes, as well as to the sensing of biological or chemical targets.
Given that the following papers were not available at the time of publication, their three associated abstracts have been included.
Three decades of optical fiber sensors commercialization: dawn, present and future
Alexis Mendez, MCH Engineering LLC (United States)
Over the past three decades, fiber optic sensors (FOS) have made a complete transition from basic lab prototypes to successful commercial products. A broad variety of commercial sensors and instruments are nowadays readily available, which enjoy increased acceptance and widespread use in different fields and industries. FOS solutions are commonly used in real-life applications ranging from structural sensing and health monitoring of materials and structures; to downhole pressure and temperature sensors for oil and gas reservoir monitoring; to high voltage and high current sensing systems for the power industry; to biomedical patient devices—among others. The commercialization road has been slow-moving and rocky at times, but always progressive and dotted with multiple successful companies and products.
This talk will provide a historical overview of FOS technology evolution and its associated commercialization efforts over the past 30 years. A historical summary will be made of the early FOS players and products, key present success stories and milestones, and envisioned future prospects. The main goal is to contrast the historical past trajectory against the maturity of its present market and future commercial outlook.
Nanoscale sensing using optical fibres: new photonic architectures and surface functionality enabling novel sensors
Tanya Monro, The Univ. of Adelaide (Australia)
Optical glasses and fibres can be imbued with the properties of nanomaterials, and fibres can be structured with features spanning from 0.02–20 microns. Adding in surface chemistries that offer molecular recognition, one can create sensors to detect specific small molecules or proteins. Emerging sensing architectures will be presented including dip sensors that operate on volumes comparable to a single cell, the detection of single nanocrystals from a distance and fibre-tip sensors.
Direct laser writing in fiber: cladding photonics, optofluidic sensing, and smart catheters
Peter Hermann, Univ. of Toronto (Canada)
The manipulation of femtosecond laser light inside transparent media can be directed on varying interaction pathways to open new directions for creating dense memory storage, three-dimensional (3D) optical circuits, 3D microfluidic networks and high-speed scribing tracks. The presentation follows these fundamental interactions towards controlling glass processes in optical fibers that enable highly functional and compact devices to form with the benefits of seamless integration with single mode optical fibers. 3D optical circuits are formed within the fiber cladding that couple efficiently with the fiber core waveguide while chemical etching of laser-generated nanogratings is further applied to open microfluidic channels and optical resonator components for building into 3D opto-fluidic microsystems. Such all-fiber microsystems offer reduced fabrication and packaging costs for enabling more compact and integrated approaches in telecommunication, fiber laser, sensing, lab-in-fiber, smart medical catheter and biomedical probing device.


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Ribosomal 18S RNA is widely used as a housekeeping gene in expression studies, including end-point PCR, Northern analysis, and real-time experiments. However, there are two disadvantages and two points of error introduction in using 18S rRNA as a reference gene. First, 18S has no poly(A) tail, so it is commonly reverse transcribed with specific primers or random hexamers, independently from poly(dT)-primed transcripts. Secondly, due to its abundance, the 18S cDNA must be extensively diluted to be comparable to the tested genes. In this study, 18S rRNA from five taxonomically diverse plant species, including Physcomitrella patens, Adiantum capillus-veneris, Centaurium erythraea, Arabidopsis thaliana, and Zea mays, was successfully reverse transcribed (RT) using poly(dT)(18). As all other homopolymers, including poly(dA)(18), poly(dC)(18), and poly(dG)(18), could serve as RT primers, it was concluded that homopolymers anneal by mispriming at the sites of complementary homopolymeric runs or segments rich in complementary base. Poly(dC)(18) was the most efficient as RT primer, and the only one which interfered with subsequent PCR, giving species-specific pattern of products. Poly(dT)-primed RT reactions were less efficient in comparison to specific primer or random hexamer-primed reactions. Homopolymeric priming of 18S in RT reactions is general in terms of RNA origin and the method of RNA isolation and is possibly applicable to other tailless housekeeping genes.
Source:Plant Molecular Biology Reporter, 2013, 31, 1, 1-63