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Redlands Connection is a concoction of sports memories emanating from a city that once numbered less than 20,000 people. From the Super Bowl to the World Series, from the World Cup to golf's U.S. Open, Wimbledon and the Olympics, plus NCAA Final Four connections, Tour de France cycling, major tennis, NBA and a little NHL, aquatics and quite a bit more, the sparkling little city that sits around halfway between Los Angeles and Palm Springs on Interstate 10 has its share of sports connections. – Obrey Brown
It's July 6, 2018. A World Cup quarterfinals day. France had just beaten Uruguay, 2-0. At 11 a.m., Pacific, Belgium took on Brazil for a spot in the Cup semifinals.
American soccer icon Landon Donovan had made a bold prediction a few years earlier. He talked about Belgium in 2014. By 2018, that European nation was bidding for a Cup.
Flashing back, it's a distant memory in the days when young teenager Landon Donovan flashed up and down high school soccer fields, darting in to take a pass, dribble up the field, set up a teammate, or launch a shot into the mouth of a soccer goal.
In years ahead, he wasn't worried about playing Rialto Eisenhower, San Gorgonio or Victor Valley from the Citrus Belt League.
What was on his mind that summer of 2014 is Group G – Germany, Ghana and Portugal. Or on just making the Team USA roster. America's coach at the moment was German legend Jurgen Klinsmann.
America had been in such a state of disorganization as a soccer side, Team USA went international to hire a coach. Klinsmann, a goal-scoring superstar for the Germans, was brought over to direct the American side.
Donovan would eventually feel the sting.
In reality, his days at Redlands High as a freshman – when he was the '96 CBL Most Valuable Player – and his half-season at Redlands East Valley, were just soccer matches in miniature.
He was an IMG Academy (Fla.) kid playing for club and national youth teams, plus prepping for a remarkable career that was about to unfold. Leaving REV midway through his sophomore year (1997-98) to play professionally overseas, Donovan's touch seemed magical.
The magnificent Donovan, an L.A. Galaxy/U.S. World Cup player, has scored an American record 57 international goals – and likely would've added to that mark in his fourth Cup appearance in 2014.
"I hope so," he said at the time.
As of April 22, 2014, Donovan claims he didn't have a clue if he'd be included on USA's roster. "We'll find out in the beginning of June," he said.
Was he being coy? After all, he's one of the greatest USA scoring threats ever. Donovan shrugged.
"You never know. I hope so – yes."
It's amazing that such a remarkable talent as Donovan grew up in the Redlands area. Klinsmann, though, didn't pick him.
Donovan to USA soccer is what Phil Mickelson is to golf, or LeBron James to basketball – American stars without controversial baggage away from the arena (Tiger Woods, Lance Armstrong, among others).
Asked to identify the world's best players, Donovan pondered for just a few moments. No American players came from his lips.
"Cristiano (Ronaldo, of Real Madrid) and (Spaniard Lionel) Messi."
The pondering, perhaps, came just because he was trying to separate the two between No. 1 and No. 2.
It's impossible. "They're both good for different reasons," says Donovan, who may have settled on Messi being best-on-the-planet.
Donovan's been on the pitch, playing against both players, incidentally.
Messi's a goal-scoring legend.
Said Donovan: "He gets himself into position better than other people can. He's more of an individual talent when he gets the ball alone." Messi might be five or six inches shorter than NBA great LeBron James, "but it's the same athleticism."
The 2014 World Cup was wide open. Donovan was hoping to play. It would be one last hurrah.
Germany, he said, "is emerging. A lot of people are talking about Belgium."
Belgium? Four years later, Belgium was on the threshold of winning the 2018 World Cup. They'd taken down 5-time Cup champion Brazil, 2-1, in St. Petersburg, Russia. In the semifinals, however, France ended Belgium's run with a 1-0 outcome.
Team USA wasn't in the 2018 field.
Four years before, in 2014, Donovan's name wasn't on Team USA's roster. It might've been the first breakdown of the American side. By 2018, Team USA couldn't even qualify to be among the 32 World Cup teams. Donovan, by then, was gone.
You have to wonder, though: If Klinsmann hadn't taken him down in 2014, would Donovan, at age 36, have lasted through a 2018 attempt?
The USA/Donovan side shouldn't be taken for granted, though. An eventual USA World Cup triumph, though perhaps unexpected, would be a great story.
In 2014, he said, just getting out our group "would be good. Getting out of our group would be success. Anything after that is icing on the cake."
Soccer fascination's growing in the USA, he says. "Our young kids now are passionate about it."
Team USA goalkeeper Hope Solo, meanwhile, said there's too much club, too many parents paying for their kids' involvement. The inference seemed to be that toughness is limited.
"A rich white kid sport," she called it.
Donovan: Interest level is high. "It takes time (to grow the same fascination between the USA soccer and the European Premiership)."
That's part of the answer, perhaps: Grow up USA players on European rosters. To gain the toughness. To gain the experience. To gain the international flavor. It's just the way Donovan pulled it off.
During qualifying, those USA players would reassemble for their national team. Donovan did it. As a teenager who trained for Bayer Leverkusen, a Bundesliga (league) side, he trained — rarely appeared — before being "loaned" to the Earthquakes for 2001-2004.
There were 11 seasons in Galaxy colors. On loan to Bayern Munich and Bayer Leverkusen, Donovan's cap time started coming to an end.
Donovan, at 32, retired after the World Cup. Perhaps, but only as a Cup player. "We'll see," he said at the time.
By 2016, Donovan retired as a Galaxy striker.
Playing for six Major League Soccer Cup championship teams (four in L.A., two in San Jose), the Redlands kid was a goal-scoring dynamo — 160 in MLS matches, plus those 57 international net-finders.
Briefly, he returned to play for Leon, a Mexican team, but Donovan's contract was terminated in June 2018.
As a U.S. player, he played in more international matches than all but one.
It's kind of cool, isn't it, that Donovan sprung his worldwide legend from Redlands?


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Given the outsize performance of the U.S. stock market over the past few years, it may be tempting to cut back or omit alternative investments in portfolios.
But Tom Karsten, CFP and president of Karsten Advisors, makes sure his clients have between 5% and 7% of qualified clients' assets in venture capital (VC) and private-equity (PE) investments.
The goals of specific alternative investments vary.
A growth-oriented VC fund managed by Raleigh, N.C.-based Hatteras Funds, for instance, has positions in roughly 20 tech companies and returns no income to investors.
In contrast, a PE investment with New York-based GPB Holdings focuses on car dealerships and has an 8% current distribution rate.
Karsten admits that the level of due diligence required to evaluate PE and VC offerings can be daunting. He addresses that by attending conferences about the industries he's considering and by conducting in-depth research on prospective investments.
"We look at reports and due diligence reports from the law firms," he said in an interview with ThinkAdvisor.
"As kind of a final step for me, I physically visit the fund sponsor myself," the Fort Worth-based advisor explained "So we will not go into those funds unless we have gone to their offices personally to go through the process ourselves. It's more time consuming, of course, but it gives me the comfort level to be able to then place clients into it."
The due diligence has paid off so far, he adds: The income-alternatives are producing higher income than that available from bond portfolios or income-oriented equity portfolios.
For growth investments, Karsten aims for total returns in the high teens and the funds are producing those results. "That's what we would be targeting and on an average basis with the fund; that's where we have seen those returns," he says.
"Some of them are better than others over the years, but that's where we typically feel we need to be to justify what is in many cases a little bit higher risk profile," the advisor stressed.
In 2013, the Bloomberg Hedge Funds Aggregate Index returned an average of 7.4% in 2013. As for private equity, distressed-asset funds were up 18% in 2013, and buyout funds generated a 16% return, according to Bain & Co.

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Police: Driver tried to run over men in 7-Eleven parking lot
Suspect allegedly hit one of them after they wouldn't buy a TV from him.
A 55-year-old man was charged with several counts Tuesday after he allegedly twice tried to run over three men with his Ford Thunderbird outside a 7-Eleven store in Glendale.
Lloyd Morris, of Glendale, who allegedly hit one of the men with his car, faces three felony counts of assault with a deadly weapon, one count of resisting an officer and one count of hit-and-run in connection with the July 20 incident, according to a Los Angeles County Superior Court complaint.
The alleged victims told officers that Morris approached them just before midnight outside a 7-Eleven in the 1100 block of East Broadway, opened the Ford's trunk and tried to sell them an old TV, apparently to get money to buy beer.
Police released two surveillance videos on Tuesday showing a white Ford Thunderbird backing out of a parking spot and driving directly toward the men who were described as Glendale residents in their early 20s and their Mercedes-Benz. The men were smoking next to their car when the attack occurred.
In the video footage, the Thunderbird is seen nearly mowing the men down the first time as they jump out of the way, and then a second time in reverse as the men try to run away.
The car then strikes one of the men sending him flying into the air and the back of the Mercedes before driving off.
The men, including the one who was struck, scramble into the Mercedes and take off in pursuit.
Police used Morris' license plate number to track down his address in the 2900 block of Edmonton Drive, where an officer spotted him standing next to the damaged Thunderbird in the middle of the street, according to police reports.
Before the officer could say anything, Morris yelled and allegedly told the officer he would shoot him.
He refused to comply with several orders to get on the ground, and urged the officer twice to shoot him, according to police.
Police used a Taser to subdue and arrest Morris, but even then, he allegedly tried to spit on and bite officers.

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WASHINGTON -- Unprecedented optimism surrounds the 19th International AIDS Conference, starting here next week.
It will not mark the end of the pandemic, but the first AIDS conference on U.S. soil in 22 years may well be the beginning of the end.
"We're talking about ending AIDS," says conference co-chair Diane Havlir, MD, of the University of California San Francisco.
That's not to say the road ahead is clear, she told MedPage Today earlier this year in a wide-ranging interview.
But there is a growing sense that many of the tools needed to slow and stop the pandemic are either in hand or under development. What it will take, as always, is the political, financial, and social will to get the job done.
The meeting's theme – Turning the Tide Together – is intended to emphasize the need for a global commitment to end the pandemic, according to Elly Katabira, MD, president of the International AIDS Society, which organized the conference.
"The past few years have been a scientific watershed in the life of the HIV/AIDS epidemic," Katabira said in a statement, "one that has given us the tools to potentially make major inroads into the epidemic on an unprecedented scale."
As usual, the conference will get visits from a range of luminaries, including U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former first lady Laura Bush. All told, some 25,000 delegates are expected to attend and they will focus on basic and clinical science, as well as the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS, and social and programmatic sciences.
Havlir recalls the 13th conference, held in Durban, South Africa, in 2000, as a major turning point. From that meeting, she says, came a "global commitment to treatment" of HIV, followed by increasingly successful efforts to bring therapy to all who need it.
Indeed, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) reported this week that more than 8 million people are getting treatment, up from about 5.7 million in 2009.
She's hoping the Washington meeting will lead to a similar commitment – this time to end the pandemic.
"We're at a very, very exciting place," she said. "There is great optimism."
That said, HIV has a way of defeating the most optimistic. In 1996, researchers and clinicians thought that drug cocktails – highly active antiretroviral therapy, or HAART – would put the virus on the run.
It didn't take long before they found that the therapy was not a cure and the initial optimism was dashed – so much so that for years scientists avoided using the word 'cure' in connection with HIV.
But what HAART does do is keep people alive. And decades of drug development now mean that relatively simple and easy-to-take regimens are more and more widely used. New data on those approaches is expected here.
The meeting will also grapple with issues of HIV and aging – an aspect of the pandemic that would have seemed almost science fictional the last time this meeting was held in the U.S.
At that meeting -- in 1990 in San Francisco -- the picture was one of almost unrelieved gloom. There were few treatments and they were not very effective. An HIV diagnosis seemed to be a death sentence. Prevention of HIV was certainly possible – condoms and abstinence were and remain highly effective ways of avoiding HIV. But despite early optimism, there was no vaccine.
It would be 6 years before the advent of HAART and a decade before the Durban conference charted a way forward toward universal treatment.
Now, however, major clinical trials have shown that treatment itself is a preventive tool. In heterosexual couples where one partner is HIV-positive, treating that person almost completely eliminates the risk of transmitting the virus to the uninfected partner.
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Villa Almira (Ref:2080)
- Sleeps 6
- 3 Bedrooms
- 3 Bathrooms
- 130m2
- WiFi
- Private Pool
Villa Almira is located in Panormos / Rethymno on the Greek island of Crete. This detached vacation rental property is air-conditioned and sleeps up to 6 people with 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms along with private swimming pool and sea views. The villa is walking distance to the beach and restaurants.
Lounge, Kitchen, 3 Bedrooms, 3 Bathrooms, Private Pool and Garden
Living Room
The Air Conditioned living room has sofas, WiFi Internet and DVD player. There are sea views from the living room.
The air-conditioned kitchen features: granite work-tops, full oven, cooking hob, fridge/freezer, microwave, dishwasher, washing machine, filter coffee machine, toaster and kettle. There is also a Barbecue.
Villa Almira has 3 air conditioned bedrooms:
Bedroom 1 is air conditioned with a double bed.
Bedroom 2 is air conditioned with 2 single beds.
Bedroom 3 is air conditioned with 2 single beds.
Villa Almira can sleep up to 6 people. (FREE Travel Crib and Highchair available on request.)
Villa Almira has 3 Bathrooms:
Bathroom 1 is a family bathroom, bath with shower. W/C.
Bathroom 2 is a family bathroom, bath with shower. W/C.
Bathroom 3 is a family bathroom with shower. W/C.
Maid service, bath towels and hand towels are included.
Swimming Pool
Private Pool Size: 7.0m x 5.0m
Depths: Shallow=1.20m; Deep End=1.40m
Aspect:Pool Access: Ladder
Additional Pool Features: Poolside Dining Area, Sun Beds, Pergola and Sea Views
- 24/7 Guest Concierge
- Villa with Private Pool
- Detached Villa
- Private Tended Gardens
- Private Off Road Parking
- Sea Views
- WiFi Internet
- DVD Player
- Cleaning Included
- Towels and Linen Provided
- Cot and Highchair on request
- Dishwasher
- Washing Machine
- A/C - Air-Conditioning
- Hair Dryer
- Poolside Dining Area
- Pool Sun Beds
- Pergola
- Garden BBQ
- Sea Views from Pool
- Valuables Safety Box
Property Location
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Villa Almira Reviews
Really nice
This was the second time of visiting the Almira Villa in Crete and third year with Agni Villas. Always a perfect holiday and never want to come home!
excellant location , beautifully decorated , very quiet , good price
Wonderful relaxing time what we came for ,the villa is lovely ,the whole area is nice people very friendly .The food to die for .love Agnitravel so professional nothings ever a problem,will be back to you and Crete. Thank you Phill/Sheri Smith
Great villa for a family holiday. This was our first trip to Crete and Villa Almira was perfect for the family. Panormo is the perfect place if you don't want a tourist trap. It has good facilities and great access to the E70, but you feel like you are in a Cretan village which makes a difference. The villa is in a good position. It's really private even though there is a villa next door. There are no other villas within 30m. We really liked this aspect. You are close to the sea and the town (10 mins slow walk.). There's a shop within 2 mins for essentials as well. The villa is a really great place to relax. Lots of places to sit, well equipped house with lots of nice touches. Overall this is a great value villa and we're already talking about coming back. One thing to consider is the size of Crete. Rethymno isn't too far (30 mins) but some of the major sites are an hour away. And the roads aren't what you'd normally expect - safe enough but very twisty so it's much slower progress. We visited Rethymno, Knossos and did the Cretan Experience. I recommend all of them. The Kastro restaurant is also amazing. Great service and best food in town.
Weve had a great time. The villa was excellent and fully equipped! A lovely and clean pool, very nice view and close to the beach and town. Perfect!
Perfect location. Comfortable villa. Excellent service. Many recommendable and reasonably priced tavernas in the nearby village.
Beautiful Villa set in an idyllic location. Panormo very relaxed resort within 10 minute walk with plenty of tavernas to choose from, all we sampled were excellent. Great butchers, bakers and supermarket all within walking distance. Met owner once and he was very friendly and helpful. Had a thunder storm which disrupted the Wi-Fi which we were unable to connect to once the storm cleared. Only suggestion was to provide some wine glasses as it would have complimented the bottle of wine which had been provided on arrival.
Perfect experience
Perfect, if it wasnt for the fact that we are ticking off all the Greek islands, we would go back tomorrow 😄 Better than described, the view is breathtaking. The village definitely deserves more of an up sell, it is so quaint and friendly with an array of cafe/bars and restaurants aswell as some beautiful shops and a fantastic well stocked supermarket. Housekeeping came as expected and was left spotless on both occasions, we saw the pool maintenance guy who was also very thorough and friendly.
We Had a gréât vacation House is very confortable
Villa Almira is a fantastic villa and we cant wait to return!
Excellent Holiday. Would recommend.
The instructions to find the Villa from the airport were fantastic and very accurate. The villa is exactly as described and as expected. Its location is perfect with great open sea views. The parking is inside the gate and secure. The garden is large and well maintained with 6 sunbeds barbi table and chairs and the pool. Great place to spend lazy days. Inside the villa is well equipped and very large. We did not need anything other than what was provided. Great to have the coffee machine as well as a kettle the cooking storage and cleaning facilities were just right for the time spent doing these chores on holiday. There was a maid service twice a week in any case. The walk to the ocean is about 2 minutes. The fishing and snorkelling is good at any point along this front. We saw lots of variety of fish during snorkels. The walk into Panormo takes about 10 minutes whichever way you go. There is a huge variety of places to eat and drink and of all the places we visited during our 2 weeks we preferred this village more than any other. Good shops also. I went out running every day and found a different route each time almost some nice walks nearby too. verall very satisfied with the property and the location. Thank you
My party and I had a wonderful time in Panormos - to the extent that we are likely to return to Villa Almira next year probably in September again.
Many thanks for all your help we have had a wonderful holiday
We had a fantastic holiday in the villa and would return. The owners made us very welcome with arrival and departure gifts. It was a wonderful experience all in all. The village of Panormos is excellent with bistros and cafes all seeking to make your stay memorable. Swimming in the nearby cove was an additional treat to the fabulous pool with the villa.
Crete is wonderful. It was a lovely villa and we will definitely use Agni again. This was the 3rd time we have stayed in one of your villas. Thanks!
Great lovely villa Crete is wonderfull. We will definitely use Agni again. This is the 3rd time we have stayed in one of your villas thanks
Brilliant villa perfect for children great views again. Agni did it for us, 3rd villa we have rented from Agni Travel.
Lovely villa and Panormas is fantastic. We would definitely like to return.
Excellent service from Agni Travel. Fabulous villa in great seafront location. Had superb week would definitely come back. Thank you.
Fabulous location for this lovely villa. Rocky coastline only 2 mins away - perfect for snorkeling. There are also sheltered sandy beaches in Panormo which is quite unspoilt. It has a pretty little harbour with a great choice of restaurants all within walking distance from the villa. Some good day trips possible to Rethymno a Venetian port and various villages in land. Knossos is also easy to get to from here. Overall great villa with sea views good for chilling out and central enough to enable some day trips to local attractions.
We all really enjoyed the villa and the pool was great.The location was excellent just a short walk from the villa to the village. We found the locals very friendly. We met the owners of the villa who were very helpful and pleasant. The maid was very sweet. We look forward to returning in the future.
We all really enjoyed the villa and the pool was great.The location was excellent just a short walk from the villa to the village. We found the locals very friendly. We met the owners of the villa who were very helpful and pleasant. The maid was very sweet. We look forward to returning in the future.
We all really enjoyed the villa and the pool was great.The location was excellent just a short walk from the villa to the village. We found the locals very friendly. We met the owners of the villa who were very helpful and pleasant. The maid was very sweet. We look forward to returning in the future.
All I can say is that we all found the villa exceptional and had a lovely and relaxing time. Thanks.
Great, thanks!
Excellent villa, very well equipped and clean. Lovely pool and added bonus of free WiFi. We were very well looked after by cleaning and maintenance staff. Perfect location in walking distance of village with a range of tavernas and shops. Ideally situated for visiting the northern coast of Crete. Village is unspoilt and traditional Greek atmosphere people very friendly. Lovely views to the sea and sheep and lambs nearby. Gentle stroll to beach and harbour.
The villa had a really great view to the sea and was beautiful.
Superb! Great weather and beautiful villa near to the village with beautiful scenery and people. Thank you Agni Travel
Lovely setting for the villa.
We really had a very lovely 2 weeks and were lucky with the weather for early April. We had some warm sunny days mixed with just a few rainy ones. The villa was really beautiful and very well-equipped. It is also very well maintained by the housekeeper and the gardener and pool cleaner. The owners were very kind and helpful with any questions that we had. It was a real pleasure staying in Panormos as well. Its a small village but we enjoyed the local Tavernas and the little shops. We wanted to have a relaxing break and it certainly hit the spot. The views from the villa are stunning and waking up to the sea view each morning and having my coffee on the terrace with a great book was just perfect. The people in the village were very hospitable and we even had help one evening with a flat tire from some locals who refused any payment for fixing it in about 15 minutes while we waited. We did make some excursions and went to Vamos Traditional village for cooking lessons (highly recommended) we spent a day near Heraklion to see the ancient ruins and visit the aquarium. We also went to Rethymno a few times to visit the harbor and the Old Town. Everything was pretty easy to find by car and we even drove south on day to Plakias Beach and traveled through the gorge which was beautiful. We also tried scuba diving at the nearby Paradise Diving Center which was fun and made for a great day. We had a nice mix of rest and activity and the time went by way too fast. I highly recommend this villa if you're looking to unwind and de-stress. I think I slept better in those few weeks than in the last several months.
Villa was just what we wanted.
We were very pleased with the villa and its location to the village. A few hints and tips about the local area for beaches and dining would be useful. We would definitely consider using this villa again.
Simply a fantastic villa and location. The staff were helpful. The owners were lovely. The best family holiday we have had.
Fantastic week.
Very enjoyable and relaxing. Recommend Agni Travel.


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Talk:ACPI Wakeup
Does this only work on x86_64?
Works fine on X86_32 for me --Benjsc 12:56, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
It works on 32 bit as well. If you miss /proc/acpi/alarm then it seems that this dissapears if you run smp.
Does anyone have experience with the Via EPIA boards? I'm not able to get it working and thus still use nvram-wakeup...
How do I use ACPI wakeups with MythWelcome? The instructions for it are all for using it with nvram-wakeup. --Turpie 11:09, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/2838 Looks like capability for ACPI with MythWelcome is coming. Hopefully we'll see an update to the WIKI once 0.21 comes out or sooner if someone with svn version gets ambitious.
2.6.22 Kernels
I just updated my fedora 7 kernel and apparently the 2.6.22 linux kernel removes the /proc/acpi/alarm feature, see http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/22/320 does anyone know the new method for these new kernels? --Vossman 06:18, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
There is no documentation, only some hidden description in the git commit that introduced this feature. So I wrote some short documentation, but it isn't included in the source tree yet, AFAIK.
It can be found here:
There is also a message in the mythtv mailing list here:
I found a note here that says: "Also it seems, that /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm only accepts times more than 2h in the future." If you are having problems this might be it.
--Vossman 07:25, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
I am having the same issue as this guy here [1] I have no trouble getting the value into the /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm that is all fine and dandy. But my machine does not wake up when I set this value. I use Fedora 7 and /proc/acpi/alarm worked great before. I am thinking of reporting this to bugzilla.kernel.org and bugzilla.redhat.com if other people are experiencing this post a comment. --Vossman 16:01, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
I finally got wakeup working with the 2.6.26 kernel after applying the patch found here. Steps to test:
# echo "+300" > /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm # cat /proc/driver/rtc
The output should look like this:
rtc_time : 18:14:34 rtc_date : 2009-02-22 alrm_time : 18:19:32 alrm_date : 2009-02-22 alarm_IRQ : yes alrm_pending : no 24hr : yes periodic_IRQ : no update_IRQ : no HPET_emulated : no DST_enable : no periodic_freq : 1024 batt_status : okay
Make sure that alrm_IRQ is set to yes. After that, turn off your computer. It should come back on in about 5 mins (300 seconds).
I'm using an Intel D865PERL motherboard.
--Kroylar 02:16, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
Fedora Core 6 kernel 220.127.116.11 vs kernel 184.108.40.206
I have a backend running FC6 (kernel 220.127.116.11-49.fc6) that shuts down and wakes up just fine using the script mentioned in the article. However, after upgrading to kernel 220.127.116.11-61.fc6, it no longer works. I figured out (thanks to the comment in the article) that a new wakeup mechanism is in place for the new kernel, namely /sys/class/misc/rtc/power/wakeup. I tried using that, but all I get when I try to echo anything into it (as root) is "invalid argument". Even resetting fails (echo 0 > /sys/class/misc/rtc/power/wakeup). As of writing, this article is the *only* place that mentions this path in google's index. I've reverted to the 22.214.171.124 kernel which still works great, using mythtv-0.20.2-167.fc6. Judaz 19:16, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
This is in response to Judaz's post above. /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm has NOT been moved to /sys/class/misc/rtc/power/wakeup. The documentation provided with the kernel source explains that the wakeup file is a way to query/set whether a device in the system can wakeup. Here's an excerpt from the 22.214.171.124 kernel source documentation that describes the power/wakeup files in sysfs (found in Documentation/power/devices.txt):
/sys/devices/.../power/wakeup files ----------------------------------- All devices in the driver model have two flags to control handling of wakeup events, which are hardware signals that can force the device and/or system out of a low power state. These are initialized by bus or device driver code using device_init_wakeup(dev,can_wakeup). The "can_wakeup" flag just records whether the device (and its driver) can physically support wakeup events. When that flag is clear, the sysfs "wakeup" file is empty, and device_may_wakeup() returns false. For devices that can issue wakeup events, a separate flag controls whether that device should try to use its wakeup mechanism. The initial value of device_may_wakeup() will be true, so that the device's "wakeup" file holds the value "enabled". Userspace can change that to "disabled" so that device_may_wakeup() returns false; or change it back to "enabled" (so that it returns true again).
The wakealarm file should still reside in /sys/class/rtc/rtcN. If that directory does not exist on your system, it means the kernel was compiled without support for /sys/class/rtc/rtcN. If you're building your own kernel, you can enable it in "make menuconfig" via the following:
Device Drivers -> Real Time Clock -> /sys/class/rtc/rtcN (sysfs)
If you're using prebuilt kernel packages and /sys/class/rtc doesn't exist, complain to your distro maintainer. Hope this saves someone else the headache it's put me through! --Ebenblues 22:19, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
strage stript for the wakealarm feature in new kernels
The script is somewhat strange in some parts.
#!/bin/sh # $1 is the --settime switch that nvram-wakeup normally expects # $2 is the date/time in seconds since 1970 DATE=`date -d "1970-01-01 $2 sec" "+%F %H:%M:%S" -u` SECS=`date -d "1970-01-01 $2 sec" "+%s" -u`
Why is the argument $2, which is seconds since epoch, converted into seconds since epoch? I think that part can be scratched. Just echo $2 > /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm should do fine (at least it does for me)
# Save the wakeup time echo "$*" > /myth.wakeup.args echo $DATE > /myth.wakeup.time echo $SECS > /myth.wakeup.secs
Why are files written into the root directory? Just scratching the "> /myth.wakeup.args" should be fine, as the echo output can be seen in the backend log then.
I got this to work in 2.6.24
I'm running Fedora 8, kernel 184.108.40.206-92, and this works. Note that I had to first use the FC6 fix located on this page.
If I run these commands, my pc will wake up in 5 minutes.
su chmod ugo+rwx /proc/acpi/alarm echo "+00-00-00 00:05:00" > /proc/acpi/alarm halt -p
Note that if I use shutdown -h now, or /etc/init.d/halt start, or something else, it DOES NOT work. Only halt -p!
Also, I did not have a /sys/class/rtc folder, but I did have a /proc/rtc file. No /proc/rtc0 either.
Rlbond86 23:14, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
Disable or Enable in BIOS?
The page says wake from RTC alarm (or the like) should be disabled. This seems wrong, and on my motherboard at least I had to enable the setting.
Shane kerr 19:52, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
- On most motherboards, you need to disable it in BIOS, because you want to program the RTC from the OS. There used to be notes about almost all motherboards needing to disable it. But if your motherboard is an exception, you should probably add a note to the wiki about some motherboards needing it enabled. BTW, have you tried disabling it to make sure you need it enabled? --Per Olofsson 20:01, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
Wake on USB?
--- I don't understand why Wake on USB isn't mentioned in this Wiki page at all?! --The Daver 07:48 04 Aug 2009 (CDT)


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Hull needed only a point to climb into the automatic play-off spots and would have grabbed all three themselves but for some fine second-half saves from Tomasz Kuszczak.
Tigers goalkeeper David Stockdale was also busy in a first half dominated by Brighton.
Spanish full-back Bruno linked up well with Craig Mackail-Smith to tee up Dani Lopez for a shot which Stockdale got down well to palm away at full stretch.
Stockdale also had to tip a fierce free-kick from Andrea Orlandi over the crossbar, while Bruno's cross was headed wide by Leonardo Ulloa.
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For the past week or so we have had gorgeous weather here in Middle Tennessee. Low humidity and cooler temps have made it feel like fall. I decided to take a little walk down our road instead of my usual workout routine in the house. My fast walk soon turned into stopping and gathering the interesting little presents that the nature around me had left in my path.
Poke berries are such a beautiful shade of dark purple, contrasted against the bright magenta stems and green leaves. The immature berries are a cool chartreuse. When crushed, the berries yield the most deep, magenta pigment. I couldn't resist mashing them and adding a few drops of water to extend it to make some paint.I had a jar full of black walnut hulls that I had been soaking since last fall in my pantry so I combined the two to make this pattern in my journal. It will become the background for some future creation, either collage or a photo background.
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BY Nancy Scola | Thursday, June 9 2011
A three day weekend has been declared in PdF land, so with that, my time here on techPresident is officially done. Again, it's been a pleasure. I'll see you on the Internet. Read More
China Keeping Tabs on Microbloggers' Organizing, Crude Poems
BY Nancy Scola | Thursday, June 9 2011
Chinese authorities are cracking down on perceived challenges that are popping up on 'microblogging' platforms, reports the New York Times' Michael Wines in a pair of articles. They are, reports Wines, objecting to ... Read More
Tech-Savvy FCC Managing Director Wraps Up Stint, Heads to USAID
BY Nancy Scola | Thursday, June 9 2011
Steve VanRoekel Today's the last day in the office for Steve VanRoekel, the managing director of the Federal Communications Commission. Appointed by FCC chair Julius Genachowski, during his two year stint VanRoekel ... Read More
A Call for Saner Texting Economics
BY Nancy Scola | Thursday, June 9 2011
The folks over at Revolution Messaging, which grew out of the Obama campaign and has come specialize in using mobile communications and other digital tools to advance political causes, are aruging that in the United ... Read More
Google Tells Kazakhstan It Won't Help 'Fracture the 'Net'
BY Nancy Scola | Thursday, June 9 2011
Google.kz Google Inc. is saying that it won't obey a requirement of Kazakhstan's Ministry of Communications to physically host servers serving up its .kz domain within the borders of that central Asian country. Doing ... Read More
Rep. Anthony Weiner, Internet Daredevil
BY Nancy Scola | Thursday, June 9 2011
Rep. Anthony Weiner; photo credit: mysticchildz If you really pay attention to the details of this whole Anthony Weiner situation, one of the things that jumps out is just how amazingly reckless the 46 year-old married ... Read More
A Look Back at the PdF-That-Was
BY Nancy Scola | Wednesday, June 8 2011
Jay Rosen; photo credit: Esty Stein A fairly random short collection of links to bits floating around on PdF '11: Two people who had never heard of Jim Gilliam before yesterday reflect on his talk. First, Jake Levine: ... Read More
Where the Church of the Internet Goes From Here
BY Nancy Scola | Wednesday, June 8 2011
Jim Gilliam, you might have heard, gave a provocative and stirring talk at Personal Democracy Forum yesterday in which he declared that "The Internet is My Religion." Gilliam described his embrace of a faith ... Read More
Pawlenty's "Google Test" Has Fans in Digital Government
BY Nancy Scola | Wednesday, June 8 2011
Tim Pawlenty; photo credit: Gage Skidmore Talking about the need to reduce the size of government, Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty says that he thinks about applying "The Google Test." The what ... Read More
Reading Your Inbox for Political Dollars
BY Nancy Scola | Tuesday, June 7 2011
You know how Rapportive can serve up social data keyed off your Gmail inbox? Meet Inbox Influence. It does the same thing, basically, but with details on the political money tied to the people and organizations in your ... Read More


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Built in 1930, the Yau Ma Tei Theatre is the only surviving pre-war cinema building in the urban area of Hong Kong. The theatre closed down in 1998 and was listed as a historic building in the same year.
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Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have achieved the first efficient chemical synthesis of ingenol, a highly complex, plant-derived compound that has long been of interest to drug developers for its anticancer potential.
The achievement will enable scientists to synthesise a wide variety of ingenol derivatives and investigate their therapeutic properties. The achievement also sets the stage for the efficient commercial production of ingenol mebutate, a treatment for actinic keratosis (a common precursor to non-melanoma skin cancer), that at present must be extracted and refined inefficiently from plants.
''I think that most organic chemists had considered ingenol beyond the reach of scalable chemical synthesis,'' said TSRI Professor Phil S. Baran.
Baran and his laboratory report their achievement in this week's issue of Science Express, the early online edition of the journal Science.
An anti-cancer substance from natureIngenol and its derivatives are found in the widely distributed Euphorbia genus of plant, whose milky sap has long been used in traditional medicine to treat skin lesions.
Ingenol mebutate, extracted from the common ''petty spurge'' plant (E. peplus), was recently approved by the US FDA, European Medicines Agency, Medicines Australia and Health Canada to treat actinic keratosis, a common type of pre-cancerous lesion associated with cumulative sun exposure. Formulated and marketed as Picato, the drug has also shown effects in models and in early trials of non-melanoma skin cancers.
In late 2011, the drug's manufacturer, Denmark-based LEO Pharma, collaborated with Baran's laboratory to find an efficient way to synthesise ingenol mebutate using organic chemistry - the usual method for producing modern drugs. ''At the time, the only way to get the product was by a relatively lengthy extraction process from the E. peplus plant,'' said Michael Sierra, LEO Pharma's director of external discovery. ''We were hoping to get a more efficient synthetic route for production, as well as a method that would allow us to make new derivatives.''
Studies have shown that ingenol mebutate, which is applied topically, can treat precancerous skin cells with unusual swiftness, while sparing healthy skin cells. The treatment has a direct cancer-cell-killing effect, and also induces an inflammatory reaction. Researchers suspect that derivatives of ingenol mebutate may be useful in treating other types of cancer, if they can be delivered properly.
Until now, it was debatable whether such derivatives could ever be synthesised. Some prominent researchers have suggested recently that the efficient chemical synthesis of structurally unusual ''terpenoid'' compounds such as ingenol is an unreachable goal - and that drug developers should seek biotechnology solutions instead.
Even leading scientists of LEO Pharma initially had their doubts. ''It was initially hard for me to sell this project to the company,'' said Sierra. ''But I knew Phil, and I knew that his lab could do this.''
Achieving the 'unreachable' goalBaran and his team started by examining what is known about ingenol's natural synthesis in plant cells. ''A key feature of the natural synthesis is that the basic framework of the molecule is built first, and then in a second phase the important oxygenated functional groups are added,'' said Steven J. McKerrall, a graduate student in the laboratory who was one of the two first authors of the study.
Following that basic strategy of mimicking nature, McKerrall, Baran and their colleagues began designing the synthesis. They were eventually able to hone the process to 14 steps, starting from a common and inexpensive chemical, carene, and ending with long-sought ingenol. ''Syntheses of ingenol have been described in the past, but they all require more than 37 steps ,'' said co-lead author Lars Jørgensen, a postdoctoral fellow in the Baran Laboratory.
The new and concise synthesis turned out to yield relatively large quantities of ingenol, making it an efficient approach to the production of ingenol mebutate and other ingenol derivatives. The two-phase design also provides a significant amount of a key intermediate compound, which enables the efficient preparation of various ingenol derivatives. ''We won't have to go through the entire synthesis every time we need to make a new ingenol derivative; we can start synthesizing from this intermediate compound,'' said Jørgensen.
Sierra and others at LEO Pharma were pleased with the project's outcome. ''It's a pretty amazing feat - the total synthesis of ingenol within a year and a half of starting our collaboration,'' he said. ''It's great to work with a research group like this.''
To Baran, the achievement serves also as an emphatic rejoinder to those who had declared chemical synthesis a dead-end technique for making such complex natural compounds. ''With this study we rebut that argument conclusively,'' he said. ''And there are many other complex natural compounds waiting to be synthesized using a strategy like ours-this is really just a glimpse of the future of chemical synthesis.''
The other co-authors of the paper, ''14-step synthesis of (+)-ingenol from (+)-3-carene,'' were Christian A. Kuttruff and Felix Ungeheuer of TSRI and Jakob Felding of LEO Pharma. The research was funded by LEO Pharma.
The Carlsberg Foundation and the Danish Council for Independent Research (Technology and Production Sciences) provided post-doctoral fellowships for Lars Jørgensen and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation provided a post-doctoral fellowship for Christian A. Kuttruff.


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Though sales of the Nintendo DS and the PlayStation Portable are strong, there are many who use the devices exclusively for homebrew applications. While some of these homebrew devices or homebrew-enabling schemes are looked upon less than favorably by the big manufacturers, such as the infamous R4 flash cart for the DS, there are some companies who see the value in releasing devices capable of homebrew software. Enter the Wiz, a new open-source handheld gaming unit from GamePark Holdings.
Homebrew and open-source applications often offer utility unrivaled by the more mainstream units, and that's something GPH is hoping to take advantage of with this new handheld. The Linux-powered device (running its own GP2X distribution) sports an Arm9 533MHz processor with a 3D accelerator, 64MB of RAM, 1GB of built-in NAND flash memory, an external SD card slot, and a single USB 2.0 connection. The display is a 2.8" OLED touch screen panel with a resolution of 320 by 240 (QVGA). The unit is powered by a 2000mAh Lithium-Ion battery that nets an advertised five hours of play time.
Official commercial games, launching alongside the unit, are a strong focal point. While previous devices in the line have been host to for-pay games, the Wiz will debut with a full suite of official games from third-party developers. Launch titles Asura Cross Wired, a fighting game, and Her Knights, a side-scrolling action game, will come alongside the release of the handheld and future titles that are slated for release through 2009, including puzzlers, rhythm games, shooters, and even RPGs.
The most attractive feature for gamers is surely the device's ability to play classic games via emulation. There are no fewer than 130 different emulators currently available for the GP2X which can be used with the Wiz, including emulators for nearly every console, handheld, and home computer ever released—and even some arcade machines. Thanks to the inclusion of an external SD card bay, gamers will easily be able to fit all of their favorite Atari 2600, NES, Super NES, Sega Genesis, N64, and Neo Geo games. Other more powerful but imperfect emulators for the device, such as those for the PlayStation and the Nintendo DS, are also ever-evolving.
The Wiz supports many different games, including commercial titles and even Flash games
Other out-of-the-box applications include a digital media player, a photo viewer, a comic reader, an E-Book reader, a planner, a calculator, a voice recorder, and more. The device also comes with an integrated Flash Player (Flash plug-in 7.0). The device also includes a number of built-in smaller games, as well as support for user-created games and other software, such as emulators. Built-in games include a number of original titles like Myride, a UFO shooter mini-game collection, and a touch-to-kill game called Space Varmits, as well as popular clones like Snake on Dope, a Snake clone.
GamePark Holdings is no stranger to the handheld market—it is responsible for the GP line of open source handhelds. The company's previous unit, the GP2X F-200, proved to be a solid handheld with a great screen and a level of versatility unrivaled by popular mainstream gaming devices. Low battery life and a lack of commercial games hurt the device overall, and those ailments are two of the main points of improvement with the Wiz.
Given that the operating system of the device is open-source, a large homebrew community has already begun preparing for the launch of the newest model. A wide variety of homebrew applications are already available for the various GP2X devices. The unit itself also comes packaged with the SDK, so hobbyists can begin making their own open-source games right out of the box. More information about the GP2X homebrew and open-source development community can be found at the GP2X file archive.
Of course, the question of whether or not the device can truly challenge the Nintendo DS and the PlayStation Portable is liable to arise when discussing the advent of any mainstream open-source portable. While the Wiz may never be able to capture the mass market in a significant way, the attractive device could become a hit amongst savvy gamers: the flexibility of the device is extraordinary, and making use of homebrew doesn't require time-consuming firmware hacking that could irreversibly damage the device.
The Wiz is expected to ship in mid-October of this year. While it's not the strongest mobile open-source device of its kind, the likely price point of around $170 (the F-200 retailed for the same) makes it an incredibly attractive device at a modest price.
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