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Trying to find some information for a buddy about modchipping the PSX (Jap PS2 with DVR). I;ve have scoured google and only read rumours of a Memory Stick called 'VAST' which seemed like vapourware...
Is there anyway to mod these gorgeous machines?
Only one modchip supports this machine.
But i forget the name of it... Too long ago.
Maybe fmcb will work.
That would be interesting!
Are you talking about the Ghost 2 chip? I haven't found an install guide for it yet.
There was a user a few years ago on here who was in the middle of attempting to use a NTSC-J PS2 to create the FMCB files for use on the PSX, however the thread died on the fifth page. (I have PMed the user so heres hoping)
If I remember right, the MC-KELFs are differently encrypted on those models...
FMCB 1.8b seems to be somewhat ready, but in cases like this it is pretty much in the beginning-stages...
The recent PS3-Developments might bring us something good, but not sure about it...
Yes, the 'Ghost2' is the only I heard of, which should work in this 'DESR's.
Who wants to hardmod a 'PSX' anyway/at all?
cheers TnA - my buddy doesnt have guts to solder a chip in (id do it for him reluctantly), just checking posibilities. Ill keep an eye out for when FMCB is compatible!
This injection methode is past.
So there´s no prob to use homebrew software...
In the past months the epic fail of zony shows massive movement on different platforms.
So if ps3 and psp are open why should be no movement in the ps2 section?
Because nobody talks about here?
Most of the secrets of the PS2 have already been discovered, as Sony didn't really encrypt everything there was in the ROM of the PS2s.
(Their method of keeping their consoles hack-proof in those days was just plain obscurity. )
Anything else that's unknown about the PS2 will require low-level hacking of the hardware, or just reverse engineering of Sony's modules.
FYI the PS2 doesn't use any of those keys used by the PS3 and PSP, with the possible exception of the Magicgate key(s).
@OP: If I may say this: I really think that you should not modify that PSX.
It's really a rare and valuable console, and modifying it would be like......
Unless you really don't mind losing something precious.
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Vin # ?
I am changing my insurance on my 29 Hudson and noticed that the California DMV has my engine # as my Vin # and not the # on the tag on the fire wall that matches the frame # on the rear of the car. I just passed on the same # that is on my registration witch is the engine # to the new insurance comp. Think this could be a problem or just let it be ? I never noticed this untill they asked about all information being correct on the form. Ron
Ron, the Super Six, and Essex engine numbers were in sequence as they were produced, and have no relevance to the serial numbers of different models. I believe the car number and engine number were not tied together until 1938, with the 112 models.. Hudson actually produced a considerable number of motors which were used in industrial situations, and these were included in the numbering system as well, hence the irrelvance between t he car and the engine number.
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Ron, you can take your car in to the DMV and have one of their officers confirm the VIN, I have an appointment next week to that with a "canned ham" trailer that I bought recently. However dealing with those folks can be a real pain. It took me 3years and multiple VIN inspections to get a title for my last trailer. So I don't have a real high opinion of the place. Good luck, logic does work real well with them.
Richard E. wrote:Ron, you can take your car in to the DMV and have one of their officers confirm the VIN, I have an appointment next week to that with a "canned ham" trailer that I bought recently. However dealing with those folks can be a real pain. It took me 3years and multiple VIN inspections to get a title for my last trailer. So I don't have a real high opinion of the place. Good luck, logic does work real well with them.
Thanks.....When I got my Hudson about 20 years ago it had not been registered in about 10 years and was out of the California system. I had to do just what you are talking about with Calif. The car has always been registered since then but I never noticed that the engine # was used and not the frame #. Maybe I should just let it alone as long as its in their system like this and this engine stays with the car ? Ron -
Ron: The question you ask has some pretty significant ramifications if not correct. Your real question has to do with how the INSURANCE carrier will react if a claim must be made. I would ask the question of those folks. Better to be in alignment with the requirements of the insurance carrier rather than be sorry.
Ron, the CA DMV exists soley to generate revenue for the State. As long as you continue to write them checks, the happier they are to serve you.
reading posts and found this one regarding engine number on registration/title. When I bought my 28 Essex didn't notice until I got it home the engine number was on the title not the serial number.
What did you find out from the DMV or did you just leave the engine number. Was your 29 an original CA car also???
Wayc4e28 -
Save your self some grief. If you do make any changes and if you belong to AAA, go to them rather than DMV and have them make the changes. I'm sure you know that So Cal DMV's are staffed with idiots and morons.
Massachusetts is not far behind them - were he still alive the late Jim Fortin would be happy to put MA DMV people up for idiot of the year awards.
In his case, and I've heard this happening in at least one other state, he was trying to register a Hudson, the year I've forgotten and couldn't because the VIN had to be 16 or 17 characters. I told him, jokingly, to add zero's to the beginning of the number, 000000000123456 - he did and his application sailed thru DMV with no problem. LOL
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HTC One Mini Coming to T-Mobile?
Is this phone coming to T-Mobile. I thought the rumor was that it was but I also see rumors about it being an ATT exclusive. I'm with VZW right now and I'm looking to leave and go to T-Mo but my wife doesn't want a big phone. She has a Droid Incredible 2 right now (4 inch screen) and she wants something around that size...probably no bigger than 4.3. This would be the perfect phone for her I think. I've searched the T-Mo website for phones that are smaller with decent specs and they don't seem to exist. Not really sure what my options are besides this rumored phone. Anyone know anything about the status of this phone for T-Mo? Or would anyone recommend a smaller Android phone on T-Mo? For reference, I have a Galaxy Nexus and she thinks that's too big...so Nexus 4 would be out of the picture, same with HTC One, GS4, etc.
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Many of you may not even know what PCGL is. I'm not going to give the whole explanation of it but when you read about it you will know how much of a pioneer the people trying this are being. I am looking forward to it to really lean up a bit and bring out vascularity before memorial day.
I'll post my theoretical plan and then from here on out I will update it with how it goes. Not my "plan" on eating is VERY aggresive on this and I wont be one bit surprised if I can't get all this food down. Also my supplements from NP are not here yet so tomorrow could be ugly while I wait...
1. 214 - 5'10" approx 10-11%
2. Long cycle history, low resonder
3. On large cycle now but holding off on lean mass to try PCGL
My ideas:
1. Use supplements to overcome sides
2. Rely on timing
Supplements I think will help and why:
BCAA - Fast absorbed, signal muscle protein, stave off catabolism
Waxy Maize Starch AKA Vitargo - Keep muscles full, VERY fast absorbing carb to allow for later feeding before shots
Yellow Gold - Non-insulin mediated carb uptake to keep insulin levels low with waxy maize and higher sugary carb intake.
Poseiden - Strong electrolite drink, shown to improve energy and hydration
Dosing and meals ect:
7am - 30mcg sub q - 30mcg x 2 in Bi's - 90mcg total - then back to bed
9am - Yellow gold aka berb
9:15 - 25g BCAA, 75g waxy maize, 2 servings poseiden
10:00 - 30mcg X 2 - Upper chest
12:00 - Meal - Egg whites, white bread X 2 sandwiches
1:15 - Yellow g
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5:30/6:00 - Post WO shake
7:00 - Meal TBD but low fat and egg white based
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11:45 - Yellow g
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I found some pieces of paper on my dresser this morning with tasting notes from the night of the Grand Tour in Vegas a few weeks ago, where I tasted some amazing wines. Of course, the hundreds of wonderful wines on pour were excellent enough, but I hooked up with some buddies from Zurich at Delmonico Steakhouse following the tasting. My companions included vintners Silvo Denz who owns Château Faugères, and Frank Ebinger, who makes and sells Spanish wines.
There were five of us, and we went large on 2002 cult Calfornia Cabernet Sauvignons that included Bond St. Eden Napa Valley, Shafer Cabernet Sauvignon Stags Leap District Hillside Select, Harlan Estate Napa Valley, and Araujo Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley Eisele Vineyard.
Obviously, this was not a blind tasting. In fact, it was over some juicy steaks. But here are my brief notes anyway:
2002 Bond St. Eden Napa Valley: This is long and jammy with lots of plum and berry aromas and flavors. Full and velvety with bright and focused fruit with coffee undertones on the finish. Hard not to drink now but could use another couple years of bottle age. 93 points, non-blind.
2002 Shafer Cabernet Sauvignon Stags Leap District Hillside Select: This reminds me of the 1990 Latour when I tasted it very young. It shows wonderful precision and power, yet remains balanced and very, very long. Gorgeous aromas of crushed raspberries and spices with currants. What a wine. I would leave it for another five years. 97 points, non-blind.
2002 Harlan Estate Napa Valley: This is big and alcoholic but impressive with masses of fruit and chewy tannins. Loads of plumy, jammy fruit with an underlying minerality. Velvety tannins. I will be curious to see how this evolves. 92 points, non-blind.
2002 Araujo Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley Eisele Vineyard: Wonderful aromas of vanilla, coffee, plums, currants and fresh herbs follow through to a full bodied palate, with big yet silky tannins and a long, long fruity finish. All in balance. It needs another five years of bottle age. 95 points, non-blind.
We all took a vote at the end of the meal for which wine we preferred, and Shafer was the clear favorite. "It's funny how some people don't consider Shafer to be a California cult wine, but it clearly is, in terms of quality," Denz said.
It made me think back to a tasting I did in Florence of California cults versus Tuscan cults, and Shafer Hillside Select was the overall winner. The Shafer family sure knows how to make California Cabernet.
Totv — La Quinta, CA — May 24, 2007 3:25pm ET
James, I swear your life sucks sometimes! Those are all amazing wines, I've tried every one of them. What would be fun though, is to do them all side by side blind. When you come back this way, maybe we could organize something like that......Dustin.
Hugh L Sutherland Jr-m — miramar beach, fl — May 24, 2007 5:43pm ET
I do not know why I read this article. I get very tired of members of the WS bragging about the very expensive (and probably free), rare wines that they tasted in fancy expensive restaurants. Wouldn't this space have been better used if you had discussed wines that us mere mortal and deprived people (who agonize over spending $50 for bottle of wine) could afford?
James Suckling — — May 24, 2007 6:49pm ET
I am not bragging. I thought it was an interesting tasting that showed what a relative bargain Shafer Hillside is to some of the very, very expensive California cult wines.
Troy Peterson — Burbank, CA — May 24, 2007 8:07pm ET
It is what it is James, and I've never taken anything as bragging. I need someone to tell me when a special bottle is really worth its price. There are too many expensive cult wines out there that are coasting on past success. Thanks for the informal updates!
Jason Schulze — Houston/Texas — May 24, 2007 8:31pm ET
James-I appreciate the insight on thes wines. I am on the waiting list for Bond and Harlan Estate, but have seen the Shafer at a couple of places in Houston. Nice to know that I can grab a bottle that exceeds the others as opposed to waiting an eternity for the privilege of buying one of the others!
Tom Chen — Irvine, CA — May 24, 2007 8:54pm ET
James, Thanks for the post. Definitely an interesting subject for me. I'm trying to decide which 2002 Cali Cab to open this year for my 5th wedding anniversary. I did have the Shafer HSS last year for our 4th anniversary and it was great. I'm leaning toward the Araujo Eisele this year, unless you have another suggestion. Tom
Steven Glazer — Orinda — May 25, 2007 12:35am ET
What an unfortunate cheap shot by Hugh. Many of the blogs and especially the magazine spend a considerable amount of space and reviews on average priced wines of great value. I consider it a privilege to read honest evaluation of wines I may consider for a special ocassion. I'm on the list at Shafer and am hoping that one day I will get a chance at a bottle of HS. I know the price will be hard to swallow but by reading the excellent WS reviews I can have some confidence that the wines will be a pleasure to drink. Thank you James for the window into your world.
Willim Tisherman — Katonah, NY — May 25, 2007 8:54am ET
I have no problem with your tasting and reporting on an expensive group of wines. But why the numbers? Am I missing something, or do the ratings in this post serve only two functions: to make clear that you thought they were all splendid, and to indicate your personal perference on that night with that group.
It would be far more useful to Cab lovers if you were to express your impressions with more descriptors that could help readers potentially decide which one of these we might buy. The notes on readiness certainly help, but why not give us more useful information. Which was the most food-friendly, and what did you eat with them? Which ones changed in the glass? (To me, this is one of the most important traits of complexity.) Were these bottles consistent with other vintages you had had of the same wines, and/or other wines of the same year? Which, in your opinion, are overpriced? And while you did include the group consensus as to Shafer being the overall favorite, did any of the other tasters feel any of the other wines had slipped or showed poorly that night?
The ratings are not only distracting, but also they seem to limit your ability to put these wines in context--both in the context of their Napa Cab peers and the context of that particular evening. It makes one wonder if the "pieces of paper" you found on your dresser had little more than numbers. - Tish
James Suckling — — May 25, 2007 9:45am ET
I think the Araujo is a gorgeous wine and that would be my next pick after the Shafer. Good call Tom!
Anacleto Ludovic — paris france — May 25, 2007 10:26am ET
well , always the same thing. thanks james because, when someone want to put a big amount of money on a wine , you are expecting something special about it. I prefer reading about those great wines than buying them and at the time of opening it, being a bit disappointed. well thanks againludovic
Chris Kolodziej — Reno,NV — May 25, 2007 10:55am ET
James, If I had your job I would brag every day. You have a great job that you get to enjoy and then write about. With these wines alot of us who are on lists or waiting to get on do not get to taste most of them ahead of time so I think its great to get your point added to Mr. Laube and Mr Parkers. I like the fact that even though your not Cali guy you let us know what you think. Who knows maybe someone who agrees with your pallet on these wines may be willing to be more inclined to try some of the other wines you write about from other parts of the world. All good for us and wine. Cheers.
Sam Chanhao — calgary — May 26, 2007 4:16pm ET
Good call James,I totally agree with you, the Shafer HSS is a bargain compare to those BIG BOYS.I also like it cosistency made very good wine year in year out, it must be something to do with that HS site!( and the talent people..). A few week back I had a chance tasted it(blind)againts those BIG BOYS,one of them come with the gold ring,and at the end of the night the Shafer HSS is the cut above.Great wine from start to finish and awesome nose!!This is a wine would make anybody best buddy very very happy. Oh! Hugh I think you would enjoy these two fine bargain ..the regular NAPA CAB from Robert Mondavi and the SONOMA CAB from Sebastiani they both 2004 vintage.Hope you like them.
Kirk R Grant — Ellsworth, ME — June 12, 2007 9:29pm ET
James, Like many others I appreciate your thoughts on ALL bottles you open. I certainly appreciate your thoughts on these wines as they are literally "trophy wines" to so many drinkers. It's always fun to hear what other editors from other regions think about certain wines....also, seeing as I paid through the nose ($500) for my bottle of 2002 Harlan Estate it's great to hear that maybe it needs more time, or maybe it's just smarter to sell and stock up on 2001 Brunello's
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I am trying to find out more information for using the GC5016, and cmd5016 tool on the TI website.
How do I include the cmd5016 program in my software design?
Radio Joe
The cmd5016 tool is used to develop the register programming for the GC5016 DDC / DUC. The attached guide "Using cmd5016", and the GC5016 datasheet have the descriptive information for programming.
The GC5016 SEK GC Studio software has a graphic language wrapper that works with cmd5016. The TSW4100 EVM has a Matlab GUI software package that developes the PFIR filter taps, and text programming that
works with cmd5016. In the attachment there are sample files for the GC5016 DDC, DUC, and Transceiver (both DDC and DUC at the same time) modes.
In transitioning from the GC5016 SEK EVM design, to the customer board, having an EVM project that can be demonstrated, and exporting the programming file from GC Studio to a 2 column output file (hexadecimal address, hexadecimal data), is the minimal development needed. Most customers do not want to imbed the cmd5016 interpreter into their embedded system.
The cmd5016 tool has a .h (for h insert file programming), and a .gc101 (dwr16 hexadr hexdata) text file for programming. Typically these are read as files or compiled into the customer embedded host software. The .h file insert file programming, also has an example C function that can read in the page addr, reg addr, reg data structure.
Note: the attachment contains the cmd5016 software, and a batchfile to call the cmd5016 software from a windows DOS terminal application.
I download the using_cmd5016_ 101105.zip file you have uploaded.It is very useful for me .but I have a probelm with the cmd5016.exe that is when I put cmd5016TmpCmdFile into cmd5016.exe .only cmd5016TmpCmdFile.anl have worlds which are "Couldn't open coefficient file: fck69p12_fp10_fs12p2_6CIC_96.taps" other four flies have nothing.I do not known how does it happen.could you tell why and what shall I do .
thank you very much.
The error message indicates that the 'fir_coef" 'filename' line input to cmd5016 could not find a PFIR coeffiicient file and path in the filename field.
I have attached a coefficient set you can save to the above filename, and retry your test.
-3 31 -45 -127 -200 -178 -37 141 211 88 -149 -293 -178 142 393 310 -101 -499 -486 12 600 710 139 -682 -985 -371 727 1314 710 -714 -1703 -1192 608 2167 1883 -352 -2739 -2922 -173 3512 4667 1308 -4754 -8415 -4723 7109 22239 32767 32767 22239 7109 -4723 -8415 -4754 1308 4667 3512 -173 -2922 -2739 -352 1883 2167 608 -1192 -1703 -714 710 1314 727 -371 -985 -682 139 710 600 12 -486 -499 -101 310 393 142 -178 -293 -149 88 211 141 -37 -178 -200 -127 -45 31 -3 Note: there should be 1 coefficient value per line. Regards, Joe Quintal Application Engineer TI Wireless Radio Products
Note: there should be 1 coefficient value per line.
Joe Quintal
Application Engineer
TI Wireless Radio Products
Thanks for your reply. I have use the coefficient you give ,but the problem has not been solved. I have uploaded the result .could you see it for me.
I think the problem maybe I use the cmd5016 in the wrong way.for double click can not open the cmd5016.exe,so I just put the "cmd5016TmpCmdFile" file into the cmd5016.exe, after a few seconds,there are five files below .is it right for what I do ?
thanks again
The cmd5016.exe program is run from a batch file. cmd5016 (text file name).
In the example, the 96 tap PFIR is used for the DUC portion, a 95 or 191 tap PFIR is used for the DDC portion. In the attached zip file,
extract the files to a folder.
rename the cmd5016.txt to cmd5016.bat. Then run the cmd5016.bat. this should run cmd5016, and place the analysis comments in the .anl file.
I have also included the matlab PFIR filter design element, so you can see the channel response.
Texas Instruments
The problem has been solved,you are a good teacher.thank you very much.
I am using the GC5016 chip.I do as you tell me to use the cmd5016 and get the *.h file.I want to use the DSP to config the GC5016.but after I run the program .I can not get the GC5016's output .there are no output clock and no output datas.I don't known why.I use C language function which is given in the example.as follows:
#include <stdio.h>#include "hfile.h" //NOTE: change this name to match the name of your hfile#define UNKNOWN -10#define GLOBAL -1#define PAGE_ADDRESS 2
extern int write_gc5016(unsigned short addr, unsigned short val);int config_gc5016();
int main (){ config_gc5016();}
int config_gc5016(){ short i, currentPage, retval;
currentPage = UNKNOWN; //initialize to unknown page
for(i=0; i<nwrites; i++) //loop through all register writes {
//if page is not currently right and register is NOT global, then set to new page if((currentPage != regs[i].page) && (regs[i].page != GLOBAL)) { retval = write_gc5016(PAGE_ADDRESS, regs[i].page); if (retval) //if error writing, then exit and return error value return (retval);
currentPage = regs[i].page; //update current page }
//page is currently set right; write the register retval = write_gc5016(regs[i].addr, regs[i].val); if(retval) //if error writing, then exit and return error value return(retval);
//config done without errors, return 0 return(0);}
write_gc5016() is a function which is used in the DSP to put the value into the address.is it right?
after I config the GC5016's registers.what should I do to known whether the registers have been configed?
could you help me ? thank you !
There are several other items needed to run the GC5016, other than the uprocessor register programming:
Power Supplies 1,8v and 3.3v are OK
Ck - clock is proper amplitude and frequency,
TRST - JTAG Reset is pulled to GND directly or through 1K resistor.
RST - this signal is initially a logic '0', it is pulled to a logic '1' (> 2.4v) after the 1.8v power supply is OK.
The GC5016 can have a level or Edge Write Mode, this is controlled through the WRMODE pin (logic '0' for Edge Write).
Section 17.4 of the datasheet describes there are global and paged addresses in the GC5016. The low 16 addresses are global. The upper 16 addresses require a page, and then
the address within the page.
You can use your processor and write different values to addresses 0x02, and 0x03. Register address 0x2 you can write the lower byte. Register address 0x3 you can write the lower
14 bits.
Once you can write and read reg address 0x2, and 0x3; set the page register to 0. Write to the 0 to F pages, using addresses 0x10 to 0x1f to write the channel A PFIR coeffficients,
after writing all of the coefficients, then read them back, once this works, you can go onto the diagnostic test.
follow the GC5016 datasheet, section 19 for board bring up. (you only need to run diagnostic test 1 instead of all the diagnostic tests)
once you can reliably write to and read from the GC5016 registers, then you would repeat this process using your .h file.
Most Common problems for no output:
Ck clock is not correct
TRST is not '0'
RST is not '1'
uprocessor registers are not written properly
I also have some questions to ask for you .
1. you say that clock is proper amplitude .I am not sure what amplitude is proper. in my test.the clock amplitude is 3.2V and frequence is 10MHz .is that OK ?
2.you tell me to read the registers.but I don't known how to read them,maybe I don't understand the Page , Addr and Val correctly.could give me an example to tell me how to read the registers in order to check whether I have write the registers correctly.
3.I don't known how to use the *.gc101 file.in the *.gc101 file ,there are "dwr16" and "dcm16" .what are they?are they functions?I guess they are about "write" and "read", is that right ?
4. I want to ask something about the Sync.in the datasheet .it says that in the Standlone mode,I have to set pseudo_command sync_mode to "9".but what I should do in the circuit . there are SIA, SIB, and SO ,how to connect them?
thank you for answer my question.
Here are some answers:
1) The GC5016 Ck waveform needs to meet the DC characteristics and AC characteristics in the GC5016 Datasheet. In looking at the Ck input if the signal is 10Mhz, and goes from 0v to 3.2v this is a proper amplitude.
The GC5016 logic low is < 0.8v, the logic one is > 2v. If the clock amplitude exceeds -0.5 and VPAD + 0.5 (3.8v), the ESD circuitry will limit the amplitude. 0 to 3.2v is OK for amplitude. The CK input needs to have a specific frequency, low period, high period and rise time. The maximum rise time and fall time is 2ns. At 10Mhz, use an oscilloscope and try to monitor the GC5016 CK signal near the input ball. The signal should
have a rising edge faster than <=2ns risetime, it should be a logic '1' for 48ns, it should havea <=2ns falltime, and a logic '0' for 48ns, period of 100ns.
2) Reading the GC5016 registers, is writing the page register, and then reading a register. The uprocessor read at an address, is shown in the timing diagram
Figure 27 of the GC5016 datasheet shows the Read Cycle. Figure 28 shows the Write Cycle, given the WRMODE pin is GNDed. In the initial testing, you can write to register 0x2 (Page mode register)
and read from register 0x2. Once you have verified the timing per the timing diagrams, you can expand the test, to check the remainder of the address lines. The suggestion was to use page address 0,
and addresses 0x10 to 0x1f which are for the PFIR coefficients. Write a different value to all 16 registers, then read them back.
a) write a value to register 0x2 - you can write a pattern to the lower byte. Reading the register, you should read the pattern that you wrote
b) write a value to register 0x2, write a different value to register 0x3 - register 0x2 (lower byte), register 0x3(lower 14 bits), once you write the values, you should then read them back
c) write 0 to register 0x2, to set the page register to 0
write different values to addresses 0x10 through 0x1f. then read the same addresses back - you should get the proper value that you wrote when you read the PFIR coefficient memory
3) the gc101 file has 3 instructions, dwr16 - write a 16bit value, address, data
drd16 - read a 17bit value at address
dcm16 - read a 16bit value at address, compare this with data, and mask off 0x bits before compare - increments an error counter if there is a compare error
These are described in the GC5016 documentation - GC101_control_sw.zip which is attached
4) if the sync_mode is set to 9, the SIA, SIB pins can be tied to GND or 3.3v through a resistor (5K or less), the SOB pin can be left as a test point. During the diagnostic test, this pin should toggle.
After the fourth SOB toggle, the checksum should be stable.
I have solved the problem.thanks again.


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] Hmm, I guess what I like best about Edmund is how he has strong principles (though I'm not blind to his faults), is steady and dependable and is very passionate about anything that is important to him, though of course he doesn't show it. Good point about his gunuine kindness to Fanny. And I also think that the father-like manner, that Cassia mentioned, is very appropriate for Fanny, who needs that sort of person. And how he will speak up about anything that he doesn't approve of. Oh, and to save the best for last, how he wants to confide only in Fanny, which I think is very flattering, even if she had to painfully endure his blabbering on about Miss so-and-so.
Oh, good job! These all seem like valid points, and make Edmund seem more attractive to me than he has seemed for a number of years. As I mentioned, I am ambivalent about all the characters in MP (except Aunt Norris, whom I thoroughly dislike.)
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Probably one of the better 5.9s at El Rito. The route starts on the the north end of the Pirate's Wall. After the mildly tricky start, continue up the arete, clipping bolts as you go. At top is an overhang, which appears trickier than it actually is, then the anchors above that.
The far left (north) end of Pirate's wall, heading up the arete.
7 bolts to anchors.
Great climb! One of my favorite routes.
I put a new biner at the top of this one on 5/21/11. One of the fixed biners up there wouldn't open wide enough to allow a rope through, so I just left a new one up there.
Fun climbing but chossy. Footholds near the bottom are crumbling and big chunks of the route higher up look ready to fall off.


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Jake's Beatdown, Jake M., Game Wizards, Twinsburg, OH, 8-24-03
Participants: 15
Monsters +5 stars:
GAF x1
Spear Dragon (poker) x2
Bazoo (heard about the new rulings, so I want to take them out) x1
Kycoo x1
Newdoria x1
Exiled Force x1
WotBF x1
Spirit Reaper x1
Cyber Jar x1
Kuriboh x1 (Want to get rid of this too) x1
United We Stand x1
Scapegoat x1
Dark Hole x1
Premature Burial x1
MST x3
Fissure x1
SoRL x1
Graceful Charity x1
Monster Reborn x1
NoC x1
Raigeki x1
Snatch Steal x1
HFD x1
The Forceful Sentry x1
Heavy Storm x1
D. Duo x1
Mirage of Nightmare x1
Book of Moon x1
Pot of Greed x1
Change of Heart x1
Torrential Tribute x1
Imperial Order x1
Ring of Destruction x1
Call of the Haunted x1
Magic Cylinder x1
Total Cards: 40
I arrived at the tournament 15 minutes early. I paid my entree fee (5 bucks) and got a PGD pack. My brother got a Legacy of Darkness, and my friend got a Labyrinth of Nightmare. My brother pulled a Shadow Tamer and I laughed at him. HAHAHA. my friend got a Bazoo, HAHA (new rulings) and I got a Mirage of Nightmare. I traded my bro Mirage for a Spear Dragon, because I already had a Mirage in my deck. We also saw my friends friend, and his little brother. On to the tourney!
First Match: Jake (Mega Beatdown) vs. 4-eyes (Beatdown)
Duel 1:
He went first, and set a monster and a trap. I did the same thing on my turn. His next turn he just drew and that was it. I drew Feather Duster and used it to destroy his Mirror Force. I flipped my Newdoria, and NoC'ed his WotBF. I summoned Kycoo, and They both attacked. He went and played SoRL, and set another card. I drew Heavy Storm, and used it to destroy his cards. I summoned a GAF and they all attacked and that was game.
Duel 2:
He went first again and summoned his Lily, and set two cards. I played fissure, summoned a Spear dragon, and attacked, but it was Magic Cylindered. I set a card, and ended my turn. He Summoned a GAF, and went to Attack, but I used Book of Moon. I tributed for Jinzo, and Premature Burialed my Spear dragon. I poked with spear dragon, then attacked Directly, with Jinzo. His turn, he reborn his Lily in Defense and played SoRL, and started laughing hysterically saying "ha this is my only ha defense ha-ha" I was frightened so I decided I needed to Finish him off.. I used MST on swords, Summoned Newdoria, and used Monster Reborn on his GAF. What else can I say? That was the end for this insane glassed wielded freak.
Victor: Me
After I beat the kid, I saw my bro and my friend had won. I also saw my friends friend whose named Anthony, is 7, beating down a 10 year old kid. I walked over there and Anthony attacked with a Opticlops but in response to the attack his opponent uses "trap hole". I started laughing, and everyone said you can't do that obviously. The kid started making a bogus excuse, then realized he was wrong and started sobbing like a little sissy girl. I almost started crying also, because of the laughter. I don't know what was so funny about a 7 year old kid making a 10 year old kid cry over a Yu-Gi-Oh game, but if you've seen it happen before, you know what I mean.
Match 2:
Me (Beatdown) vs. Anthony (Make 10 year-olds cry deck)
Duel 1:
This match I got a terrible hand so I actually had to set cyber jar. He attacked it just to my luck, he got 4 monsters, and I got none. He attacked with all of them and I only had 3300 left. Luckily for me, I drew a spirit reaper to delay his attacks. Finally I got Raigeki, used it, then Tributed Spirit Reaper for Jinzo, Monster Reborned his 7 colored fish, equipped Jinzo with united we stand, and pretty soon, it was all over for Anthony.
Duel 2:
This match the same thing happened with Cyber Jar again, and then I Dark Holed, and Annihilated him. Nothing else to tell.
Victor: Me
Once again I got done early, and started walking around. My friend got eliminated by a kid who beat me last time I was here. But my brother advanced with me, to the semifinals.
Match 3:
Me (Beatdown) vs. Roger (Machine Beatdown)
Duel 1:
The first match of this duel went buy quickly. I summoned GAF, set Rod, and ended my turn. He summoned Mechanical Chaser and used Limiter Removal, and Attacked, but I blew the Mechanicalchaser up with RoD. It was my turn, and I summoned a Spear Dragon, and Monster Reborned the Mechanical Chaser. He lost.
Duel 2:
After I beat him the first duel he started saying "every time I make a deck, it does good the first to rounds, then it starts to fizzle" Once again, frightened by my opponent, I wanted to get the match over with. I summoned my GAF again, and he Snatch Stole, then summoned his Mechanicalchaser. He attacked with both. I set a WotBF and played SoRL. He drew HFD and played it. He Summoned a Gemini Elf, Monster Reborned his Jinzo he threw out with Graceful Charity, and his Gemini attacked WotBF. He then said that's game after attacking with Mechanicalchaser and Jinzo with Limiter Removal. But then I said "no" I took Kuriboh with WotBF and used Kuriboh on the Jinzo. Unfortunately my triumphant move, didn't last and he just attacked worth Gemini Elf for the duel.
Duel 3:
He won.
My brother was also eliminated in the semi's at the hand of the kid who beat my friend. We left and didn't watch the finals but I bet The kid who took out my bro and friend won it. He said alls he wanted was cases for his cards, if he won, but the store was out of cases! Hahahaha!
Getting Mirage of nightmare in a pack
Trading Mirage for Spear dragon
Making it to the Semi-finals
Watching 7-year old make 10 year old cry (probably shouldn't be a Prop, but it was hilarious)
Seeing my friend and bro get beaten by the kid who beat me last tourney
Making it to the semi-finals
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Leaving an not watching the Finals.
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First of all, hello to everyone here. This is my first post on these forums, but I have been avidly reading the fabulous tips and info provided here. I am planning on getting a new PC in January with Vista on it, but for now, the problem I am having is on a friends' laptop, and he is requesting my assistance in fixing it.
When trying to load Internet Explorer (IE7), the 'spinning blue circle' pointer shows for a few seconds, then stops, and no IE window opens. It would appear that IE failed to load, but gave no error message.
On checking the task manager, however, I found that there were 40-50 iexplore.exe processes running. I promptly ended every iexplore.exe task, and tried again, only to have the same result, and 1 iexplore.exe process showing in task manager.
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It seems that something is trying to load IE repeatedly, but I am unable to figure out what or why. I could not find anything odd in the startup programs, and a spyware/virus check was negative.
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New mac user, love it so far, I have a program I downloaded called Videoglide, I didnt have a serial so I used the demo. Now I have the program with a serial but the serial goes for an earlier version, I thought I deleted it but when I try the install disc i get a message that a newer version is already installed, I can for the life of me find it anywhere and cant install the program, any help would be appreciated, Pete
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You checked in both the /Applications and your local Applications folders to see if this program is present? Also use spotlight and search for Videoglide and it should show you where all the program is hiding..
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Assuming this is the guide for the product you're talking about, there should be an uninstaller at /Applications/VideoGlide/VideoGlide Tools/VideoGlide Uninstall. Reinstall the newer version and use the appropriate uninstaller.
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Have you tried using spotlight or finder? Or you can try Needful Things: Applications (I find it really good for better, deeper searches) - you might be able to find what you're looking for easier and it shows all files, right click on a file and it will show you where it is.
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The use of the term "serial" by the OP leads me to think that perhaps this is pirated software. I would recommend (whether it is or not) to follow the uninstall instructions provided by cradom, and then get in touch with the developer about how to go about installing a clean, updated version.
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Easyfind did the trick, unfortunately I think it is a pirated disk (eBay). I have already sent 2 emails to the company. I think I am going to start over and pay the $29 or whatever for the program, Its not worth my time or the consequences messing around with illegal software, my son bought this without my knowledge, its a good lesson for him.
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seven concerts:
-Roger Waters (The Wall Tour) at the Staples Center
-Patti Smith (a free show at the Santa Monica Pier)
-Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood at the Hollywood Bowl
-The Swell Season at the Greek Theater
-Iron & Wine at the Wiltern
-Sufjan Stevens at the Wiltern
-Beirut at Terminal 5
@DEN B "Pia Zadora (Razz Room San Fran) last May"
Sounds great. Too bad I missed it, but a good friend of mine wouldn't stop talking about the show. He even have a picture taken with Pia and her daughter at the Razz.
Although seeing things from other people's perspectives may not be one of your strong suits—stridency certainly is—you are surely perceptive enough to realize that some participants on this site have familial obligations (e.g. small children) that curtail their ability to spend all their free hours at the cinema. For many of us—as alien as it may seem to you—after-hours DVD-viewing has become our primary means of staying connected to cinematic experiences and trends. Ah, you might protest, these experiences are hardly "cinematic" if not discovered in a glorious cinema (in Richmond or glorious Melbourne), but the direct engagements cinephiles find at home, on their TVs or computers, are no less legitimate, admirable, or real. Post after post, you show an uncannily and uncommonly myopic and solipsistic vision of what really matters in this world.
Thanks for the details. Sounds like you definitely got the full historic package there—alternately enthused and outraged audience and all . And needless to say, that's a powerhouse of a setlist. Particularly the presence of Tombstone Blues, which Bob didn't really perform for years after that tour.
Since you mention it, I'd love to hear any thoughts about the Rolling Thunder show.
"He even have a picture taken with Pia and her daughter at the Razz"
so did I!
smashing pumpkins
smashing pumpkins
the cure
fyf 2011
peter hook and the light perform unknown pleasures and closer
My Bloody Valentine
Yo La Tengo
Sonic Youth
Bon Iver
Portishead. Respect.
Haven't been to much concerts in Lebanon – everything that comes our way is either Euro-trash trance music or commercial Hip-Hop artists.
Patti Smith (Byblos , 2008)
Triple Bill : French Band Coco Rosie , Pianist Gonzales and Lebanese project YAS (Yasmine Hamdan and Producer Mirwais (Byblos , 2009)
Steppenwolf / Deep Purple (Atlanta GA , 2007)
Placebo (Beirut , 2009 or 2010)
Moby (Byblos , 2011)
De Phazz
Snoop Dogg
Elton John
Off the top of my head….
Bon Iver – Space Gallery in Portland, Me. Maybe 2009. Super intimate, pre-blow-up. Bowerbirds opened and they too are solid.
James Brown – Lowell, Ma. Maybe 1996. He had just been released from prison. It was packed and jumpin'
Bob Dylan – Highgate, VT. Maybe 1995. He opened up for the Grateful Dead and was lucid and rockin. At least that is how I recall it. The weather was perfect and people were only mostly paying attention giving it a really relaxed effortless feel.
Ween – Horde Tour Great Woods, Ma (might be the Tweeter Center now). Maybe 1995. Driving summer rain. Crowd was into it and moderately naked. Primus, Beck, Neil Young, and Ben Folds were all on the bill and the day essentailly blew my mind.
Toots and the Maytals/Marley Family – Western Mass on the side of a mountain. Maybe 2004.
@ Z. Bart…..I would love to catch Will Oldham. His latest is on heavy rotation at my house currently.
I find it peculiar that people refer to pop shows by pop and rock singers as "concerts". It's a case of lowbrow culture appropriating language. A bit like calling pop singers "artists" (or even worse: "artistes", yucch).
Death cab for Cutie: Codes and Keys tour! Though, I don't like their recent album, but It was really great!
I do revisit Talking Heads Stop Making Sense from time to time. I wouldn't mind revisiting Burning Spear. I saw him in Charleston, SC, in 1994. The Neville Brothers with special guest Stevie Ray Vaughn at Tipitina's during Mardi Gras, 1987 I believe. Rebirth Brass Band provided the warm up. Tom Petty with Stevie Nicks in Gainesville, 1981 as I recall. Boozoo Chavis at the Barns of Wolf Trap (1992).
It's not very cinematic or classy but I'll mention it anyway;
My Bloody Valentine at the Manchester Apollo was their first gig in so many years, all suffering from tinnitus, hearing problems and nearly deaf from when they last played together 20 years previous. At the end of the gig they played the noise section from You Made Me Realise, people started running for the exit and cleared over half of the people out of the venue within minutes. Bouncers running around hysterically handing out ear plugs, glasses falling off tables and all the bar staff were nearly in tears.
Kevin Shields is a perfectionist engineer and this gig was possibly the loudest in history, you can't really go much louder than this and maybe only a few Japanese musicians could compete. If you're doing a film soundtrack I doubt something like this would be appropriate. There is a lot of music in my family and I think I can safely say rock and roll is nothing to be ashamed of, they have suffered greatly for their art.
1. Pearl Jam in 1993 (saw Nirvana the same year and honestly PJ was much better live)
2. Smashing Pumpkins in 1995 or 1996 (?) after Mellon Collie came out
3. Modest Mouse and a then unknown Shins around 2000 or 2001 (?)
4. A relatively unknown Arcade Fire in 2004 right after Funeral came out. It was in a small club in Santa Fe with only 100 or so people in the audience. They blew me the fuck away. I remember telling some girl there that they were going to blow up, and sure enough, they did. I also got to talk to Win and Regine after the show and they were really nice, humble, and I got them to sign my CD.
5. Yo La Tengo in 2011 underneath a beautiful sunset in Santa Fe, NM
Wish I could remember the dates, but:
1. Pink Floyd – Animals tour
2. Tina Turner – sometime in the 80's.
3. Smashing Pumpkins – in the mid-90's, in Philadelphia, just a week before the drummer OD'd in New York.
4. Jethro Tull – Minstrel in the Gallery tour
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On Dinosaur Time
You can't understand dinosaurs without a sense of time. We need to know when a dinosaur lived to comprehend how it fits into what paleontologist William Diller Matthew called "life's splendid drama." But we throw around Deep Time estimates, framed in millions of years, so often that it's easy to become inured to the wider context of life's history.
The Mesozoic Era, which lasted from about 250 million to 66 million years ago, is often called the Age of Dinosaurs. As a kid, this brought to mind one endless summer when dinosaurs flourished. And many of the books I read picked one environment from three different periods within the era to represent dinosaur life. Little Coelophysis was the canonical Triassic dinosaur; the huge sauropods and theropods of the Morrison Formation represented the Jurassic, and a Cretaceous Tyrannosaurus versus Triceratops face-off ultimately capped off the succession. With the periods juxtaposed this way, millions of years didn't seem so very long.
But let's unpack some of that scenery. Diplodocus, Apatosaurus, Allosaurus, Stegosaurus and their neighbors roamed western North America about 150 million years ago. This slice of time falls in the latter portion of the Jurassic. The traditional representatives of the latest Cretaceous scene—Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops—did not evolve until about 67 million years ago. By themselves, these dates are just labels, but think of them falling along evolution's timeline. About 83 million years separated Apatosaurus from Tyrannosaurus and Allosaurus from Triceratops. The so-called Age of Mammals—which began when the non-avian dinosaurs were wiped out—has been going on for about 66 million years. Less time separates us from Tyrannosaurus rex than separated T. rex from Stegosaurus.
Consider how much life has changed in the past 66 million years. Archaic mammals flourished and ultimately went extinct long before anything like the world's modern fauna appeared. Saber-fanged, knobbly-headed herbivores such as Uintatherium, lemur-like primates called adapiforms, razor-jawed carnivores known as creodonts and many other strange forms proliferated and disappeared. Even lineages familiar to us today, such as horses, rhinos and elephants, evolved and diversified and are now represented by just remnants of what once existed.
The time between the last Triceratops and now has seen radical evolutionary changes. Now think of the 83 million years between the Jurassic and Cretaceous titans. During that time, the first flowering plants bloomed; the fish-like ichthyosaurs disappeared as plesiosaurs and mosasaurs became the predominant predators of the seas; vast herds of hadrosaurs and ceratopsids occupied places once dominated by sauropods; tiny tyrant dinosaurs transformed into apex predators, and early birds established themselves in ever-greater variety alongside their dinosaurian kin. These are just a few highlights, and that is part of the wonder and frustration of tracking the history of life on earth. We are offered only glimpses of an ever-changing picture, and when viewed separately, it's easy to forget how those snippets relate to each other. But when we can step back, and consider how all those snippets run together, the long and ever-changing history of life on our planet seems all the more fantastic.
December 12, 2011
Dinosaurs In Space!
Last year, David Willetts hit a sour note when he unveiled his vision of improving science education in Great Britain. "The two best ways of getting young people into science" the Minister of State for Universities and Science said, "are space and dinosaurs. So that's what I intend to focus on."
Researchers, writers and science fans quickly jumped on the comment. And rightly so. Space and dinosaurs are popular, but they don't appeal to everyone. Not every child dreams of becoming an astronomer or paleontologist. But my favorite response to the British official's comments was the genesis of #spacedino on Twitter. If only spacedino were real, critics joked, we would have a perfect outreach tool. Who wouldn't love dinosaurs in space? What I didn't know at the time was that dinosaurs had already been beyond our planet.
The first dinosaur to venture into space was a species that greatly influenced our understanding of dinosaur lives, the hadrosaur Maiasaura peeblesorum. This 76-million-year-old "good mother lizard" cared for its young in large nesting colonies, and small bits of bone and eggshell found at a nesting site were carried by astronaut Loren Acton during his brief mission to SpaceLab 2 in 1985. This was a glamorous time for the dinosaur; Maiasaura was made Montana's state dinosaur the same year.
Dinosaurs didn't return to space until 1998. In January of that year, the shuttle Endeavor borrowed the skull of the small Triassic theropod Coelophysis from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History for its mission to the Mir space station. Like the remains of Maiasaura before it, the fossil skull was returned to earth after the mission was over.
I guess I was wrong about spacedino. The simple combination of space and dinosaurs isn't very exciting at all. Dinosaurs on spacecraft amounts to nothing more than trivia. It was not as if the dinosaurs were going to be included in some kind of time capsule—like the Golden Record on the Voyager spacecraft—to teach whoever might eventually discover it about past life on our planet. Real space dinosaurs just can't compete with their science fiction counterparts.
July 29, 2011
The Intriguing, Frustrating Camposaurus
If you haven't heard of Camposaurus, you're not alone. This is one obscure dinosaur (and not to be confused with the better-known and very different Camptosaurus). First described in 1998, this animal may hold a critical place in the evolutionary tree of theropod dinosaurs, although, then again, it might not.
Very little is known about Camposaurus. The only parts that have been found and definitively referred to this dinosaur, recovered from the Late Triassic rock of Arizona, are a few parts of the dinosaur's lower limb bones. (The original description mentioned bones from other individuals, but it is unclear whether these really belong to Camposaurus.) Still, the anatomy of these parts identified the dinosaur as a neotheropod dinosaur, and its geologic context made it potentially the oldest known representative of the huge, diverse group of dinosaurs which contained genera such as Ceratosaurus, Allosaurus, Tyrannosaurus, Spinosaurus and many, many more. The Camposaurus fossils, as a consequence, could be important for calibrating the early evolutionary history of theropod dinosaurs.
Naturally, the fact that so little is known about Camposaurus has made it a controversial dinosaur. Paleontologists have been trying to figure out where it fits in the theropod family tree—and whether the dinosaur even deserves a distinct name—for over a decade. The known bones are so hard to properly diagnose that they seem more likely to confuse than enlighten. Now paleontologists Martin Ezcurra and Stephen Brusatte have published a reexamination of the paltry Camposaurus bones, and they affirm that the dinosaur will remain important to questions about the early days of theropod dinosaurs.
According to Ezcurra and Brusatte, there are two subtle features which set Camposaurus apart from other early theropods, such as the well-known Coelophysis. The first is a distinctive ridge on one of the lower leg bones—the tibia—where it articulates with the fibula, and the second is the absence of a knob of bone on part of the ankle. Such subtle differences can make all the difference between whether a dinosaur genus or species is kept as distinct, ends up being lumped into another taxon, or remains a problematic mystery.
Ezcurra and Brusatte also attempted to figure out where Camposaurus fit among other theropod dinosaurs. As had been previously suspected, the dinosaur turned out to be most closely related to Coelophysis—so close, in fact, that Camposaurus might turn out to be a species of Coelophysis itself. Additional fossils will be needed to be sure, and, at Chinleana, paleontologist Bill Parker brings up an important point about the significance of the specimen in terms of its age.
Camposaurus has been thought to be the oldest known neotheropod dinosaur based upon the geologic details of the place it was found, known as the Placerias quarry. This site was thought to correspond to a certain part of Triassic rock called the Mesa Redondo Member of the Chinle Formation, but Parker reports that he has found this to be in error. The quarry is actually in slightly younger rock than has been proposed, meaning that Camposaurus is not as old as had been assumed. It's still a very old theropod, but how old it really is and its relationship to other theropods remains tentative.
The takeaway from all these paleontological jots and tittles is that our knowledge of early dinosaurs is still in a state of flux. Determining the identities, relationships and ages of Triassic dinosaurs is an ongoing task, and our understanding will continue to change as new fossils are found. At the moment, the Camposaurus fossils play an important role in providing some of the only context we have for the early evolution of the neotheropod dinosaurs, and hopefully paleontologists will soon find the fossil clues that will allow us to understand how this great lineage got its start.
EZCURRA, M., & BRUSATTE, S. (2011). Taxonomic and phylogenetic reassessment of the early neotheropod dinosaur Camposaurus arizonensis from the Late Triassic of North America Palaeontology, 54 (4), 763-772 DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01069.x


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A teacup to set your teeth on edge
Partaking in a cup of tea is supposed to be a soothing experience but not when it's being served in this macabre design by Lily X Su.
I … seek to create uneasiness. We are in an era flooded with objects, objects of use, comfort, sophistication, flamboyancy… There are many objects that serve immediate comfort, yet few are made to be a companion to our recurring feelings of uneasiness.
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As people age, their brain and nervous system go through natural changes. The brain and spinal cord lose nerve cells and weight. Nerve cells may begin to transmit messages more slowly than in the past. Waste products can collect in the brain tissue as nerve cells break down, causing abnormal structures called plaques and tangles to form. A fatty brown pigment (lipofuscin ) can also build up in nerve tissue.
The breakdown of nerves can affect the senses. You might have reduced or lost reflexes or sensation, leading to problems with movement and safety.
Some slight slowing of thought, memory, and thinking seems to be a normal part of aging. Although these changes are natural, many people have misconceptions about the type and extent of these changes. A common myth is that all elderly people become senile. Or, many people blame increased confusion on "getting old" when it may really be caused by an illness.
These changes are not the same in everyone. Some people have many physical changes in their nerves and brain tissue, others have few changes. Some people will have atrophy and plaques, some will have plaques and tangles, and some will have other changes.
Furthermore, these changes are not always clearly related to their effects on your ability to think. For example, plaques and tangles are associated with Alzheimer's disease , but some people with the most severe symptoms have fewer plaques and tangles than those who have mild or moderate symptoms.
Dementia and severe memory loss are NOT normal processes of aging. They can be caused by degenerative brain disorders such as Alzheimer's disease.
Delirium can complicate dementia, but is often due to illnesses that are not related to the brain, which can also cause changes in thinking and behavior. For example, almost any infection can cause an older person to become severely confused.
Poorly controlled blood sugar (glucose) levels in people with diabetes is another common cause of temporary difficulties with thinking and behavior. Rising and falling glucose levels can interfere with thought.
Discuss any significant changes in memory, thought, or ability to perform a task with your health care provider, especially if these symptoms occur suddenly or along with other symptoms. A change in thinking, memory, or behavior is important if it is different from your normal patterns or it affects your lifestyle.
There is some evidence that both physical and mental exercise can help maintain thinking abilities. Reading, doing crossword puzzles, and engaging in stimulating conversations -- as well as ordinary physical exercise -- may all help keep your brain as sharp as possible. Such strategies have not been proven, however.
See also:
Knopman DS. Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Medicine. 23rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders; 2007:chap 425.
Minaker KL. Common clinical sequelae of aging. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Medicine. 23rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders; 2007:chap 23.
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Happy Easter everyone! Well, hello sweeties, I'm back and can't wait to dig in to more Rob and Kristen goodies. I truly missed you all and I mean everyone.
To all my Twattie pals, I'm sorry I wasn't able to do my usual "follow Friday", like I said my internet connection was quite a challenge and I didn't have my list. I will just do them next Friday or maybe I'll do "follow Sunday", lol.
It's already April, you guys, a few more days until Kristen's 20th birthday! Now, that is something to look forward to. Remember Me opened in the UK last Friday, April 3, and it was Remember Me Saturday UK yesterday. I hope British fans won't disappoint Rob and continue to watch till today and next week. We are still waiting for The Runaways wide release on April 9, Kristen's special day and we are hoping more theaters will open the Jett/Currie biopic that day. And it's down to 86 days till Eclipse! The LA Premiere is slated June 24 and more announcements will be made as we head on towards Eclipse full media blitz.
Ok, that will be it for now. I'm just so excited to be back. Meanwhile, we will be on the lookout for more Bel Ami filming pics from Rob and let's hope for some news about Kristen's new projects or some deets about her birthday celeb, ok? Luv you guys! xoxo