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Walnuts! Wake up to this Wonder. A complete food that provides a rich combination of healthful substances. These substances like omega-3 fatty acids, gamma tocopherol (a form of vitamin E), polyphenols and antioxidants work in synergy to overcome various diseases.
Walnuts contain very high levels of healthy fatty acids. These fatty acids have proven to be very helpful in reducing inflammation in the body and protecting the body against diabetes, heart disease, cancer and arthritis. Additionally it showed through research that regular consumption by young men also increases the level of fertility.
Walnuts are especially very helpful with combating type II diabetes and possess a very unique ability to give the blood vessels a much needed tune-up in people suffering from diabetes. They help to improve the endothelial function which is very required because it is the endothelial cells that start to malfunction when people with diabetes start developing vascular disesases. They are very rich in alpa-lenolic acid which helps to maintain the arteries in good condition. These nuts are also a very good source of L-argininre, an amino acid which relaxes the blood vessels and helps maintain blood pressure.
Besides providing all the above benefits there is one more addition to this goody bag, which is – no effect on the weight and waist line! The high levels of protein and fibre of this nut prevents one from overeating or rather eating less overall.
So let's phrase it simply….a few walnuts a day, keeps diseases at bay!
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Do you want to start your own platform game? It's not as easy as it looks!
A number of people have created projects to help you, platformer engines. You can start building your own game on them.
I have collected usefull platformer engines. If you have your own, and you want to have it in this gallery, just post below.


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Tim Knight writes the regular media column, Watching the Watchdog, for HuffPost Canada.
Two hundred and thirty-seven years ago the people of the United States issued their ringing Declaration of Independence from Great Britain.
Included in the declaration were words that have given hope to people ever since:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
But all people were not created equal in those new United States. Not while millions of men, women and children were slaves -- considered less than fully human because of the colour of their skins, property to be bought and sold like cattle.
It took another ninety years and a civil war that threatened to destroy his country, before the sixteenth president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, issued the Emancipation Proclamation declaring an end to the evil of slavery.
Later that same year, Lincoln delivered his famous Gettysburg address. He spoke immediately after a clash between southern and northern armies that killed and wounded more soldiers than any other battle in the American Civil War.
His speech ended with the immortal words:
"It is for us the living...to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced...that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
One hundred and fifty years later, after being sworn in as forty-fifth president of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama, the country's first African-American leader, issued what amounts to his own Declaration of Independence and Emancipation Proclamation.
"We affirm the promise of our democracy," he said, his voice ringing out in the clear, cold Washington morning to many millions of people around the world. "We recall that what binds this nation together is not the colors of our skin or the tenets of our faith or the origins of our names. What makes us exceptional -- what makes us American -- is our allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago."
"Today we continue a never-ending journey to bridge the meaning of those words with the realities of our time. For history tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they've never been self-executing; that while freedom is a gift from God, it must be secured by His people here on Earth.
"Through blood drawn by lash and blood drawn by sword, we learned that no union founded on the principles of liberty and equality could survive half-slave and half-free. We made ourselves anew, and vowed to move forward together."
Obama went on to talk of the urgent need for America to free all its people, not just victims of racism but also the poor and the sick.
"For we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it."
"We do not believe that in this country freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few.
"And we must be a source of hope to the poor, the sick, the marginalized, the victims of prejudice -- not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes: tolerance and opportunity, human dignity and justice."
As he went on, his voice took on the cadence and fervor of Martin Luther King's great "I Have a Dream" speech shortly before the civil rights leader was assassinated.
"We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths -- that all of us are created equal -- is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls [women's rights], and Selma [voting rights], and Stonewall [gay rights]; just as it guided all those men and women, sung and unsung, who left footprints along this great Mall, to hear a preacher say that we cannot walk alone; to hear a King proclaim that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth."
Then came Obama's call for an end to sexism and homophobia in American society.
"It is now our generation's task to carry on what those pioneers began. For our journey is not complete until our wives, our mothers and daughters can earn a living equal to their efforts. Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law -- for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.
Toward the end, Obama spoke of the attempts in many Southern states to keep black people from voting. And of his efforts to find a way to welcome millions of illegal immigrants living in America. And of the urgent need to control the terrible plague of guns.
Our journey is not complete until no citizen is forced to wait for hours to exercise the right to vote. Our journey is not complete until we find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see America as a land of opportunity - until bright young students and engineers are enlisted in our workforce rather than expelled from our country.
"Our journey is not complete until all our children, from the streets of Detroit to the hills of Appalachia, to the quiet lanes of Newtown, know that they are cared for and cherished and always safe from harm.
And he echoed Abraham Lincoln, one of his predecessors in the American presidency, when he made, in his final words, this call for a nation more worthy of its past.
"Let us, each of us, now embrace with solemn duty and awesome joy what is our lasting birthright. With common effort and common purpose, with passion and dedication, let us answer the call of history and carry into an uncertain future that precious light of freedom."
How sad that 237 years after the founding of those not-so-United States, the forty-fifth president has to warn that America is still racist and sexist.
That there's a growing gap between rich and poor.
That the sick are still not cared for properly.
That not every American has equal voting rights.
That gay people still face prejudice.
That illegal immigrants live in a twilight world of uncertainty.
And that children's very lives are threatened by all those guns.
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What does it feel like to be airbrushed?
Campaigners are calling for restrictions on the way magazines airbrush photos. Seeing your face and body transformed is an unnerving experience.
My guilty pleasure is fashion and gossip magazines. I will check out those unflattering bikini shots of celebrities and be amazed at how their "fat-busting diet" did such a great job on their abs in just six weeks. Or swoon over the flawless skin of that A-lister advertising the latest £10,000 handbag in just her pants and wonder, "Why doesn't my skin/hair/teeth look like that?"
It's no secret that advertisers and magazines use airbrushing to give their images an aspirational sheen. It's been happening for years.
In 2008 it was reported that magazines could soon be banned from using airbrushed photographs of celebrities, such was the anxiety over teenage eating disorders.
It didn't happen.
Women and equalities minister Jo Swinson says that manipulating people's bodies in photographs is "one of the most pernicious types of retouching". But she's against a ban.
It would be hard to police. The responsibility is on people taking photographs and creating the images afterwards to "think about the audience their image is going to and what is appropriate", she says.
Normally the debate is cast in terms of teenage girls and whether they are being sold a false reality.
But what does it actually feel like to be airbrushed? I decided to find out.
I wasn't brave enough to be photographed with no make-up so I had a base layer of foundation and powder as well as minimal eye make-up and some blusher and lip-gloss.
Photoshoots are a weird experience.
"Look to the side... put your hands on your hips... smile... don't smile... don't smile so widely," I'm told.
Photographer Sarah Brimley helps me relax to try to get my best "natural" picture. She has worked with some of the biggest models in fashion as well as a number of celebrities.
It's standard to retouch photos for small things like skin, fixing stray hairs, she says. "Digital cameras are so sharp that retouching is even more necessary because you can see every little blemish on the skin. In film you never used to see that."
Extreme airbrushing is rare, she believes.
The exception is celebrities. "They'll say can you make my nose different-shaped or make me slimmer. It happens with almost every celebrity we photograph." The most common request is to make the waist "go in a bit" or make the legs longer, she says.
Insiders know all this. "But the general public who don't understand the industry, they think these people look like that and they don't," Brimley says.
She did a lovely job with my photos and I thought the untouched images were actually quite flattering.
Then it was time for the post-production.
It was a brutal experience.
Like most fashion photographers, Brimley does post-production on all the pictures she takes, but never to extremes. But I wanted to see what was possible so I asked her to do a more extreme job than she would ever normally do.
She took around 10 years and three stone off me. All in less than an hour.
Every blemish vanished from my skin, as did the scar on my forehead. She whitened my face, lengthened my neck, changed the shape of my nose, widened my eyes, elongated my legs, sliced off parts of my arms and thighs and narrowed my hips.
Suddenly the original images that I was quite happy with at the start, looked old, tired and a bit chubby.
Georgina Wilkin, 23, a former model who developed an eating disorder because of the pressures of the job, recognises the phenomenon.
"I've had a few times where I've worked for a magazine and the magazine's come out and I hardly even recognise myself. My legs have been skimmed off, my pores have been eliminated, my nose has been straightened. "
The result can be humiliating. "I felt awful - you feel that what you are as a human being isn't good enough."
Magazines are not shackled by rules. In 2003 there was controversy after GQ editor Dylan Jones admitted airbrushing a cover image of Kate Winslet, who spoke in the interview about the attractions of curvier women.
In contrast, adverts are covered by regulations.
The Advertising Standards Authority says there's nothing inherently wrong with retouching images. Only 63 of its 30,000 complaints last year related to post-production.
But airbrushing must be done responsibly, says Vena Raffle, the agency's head of investigations. "We step in where we think the techniques lead the ad to be misleading, harmful or offensive, or where it's socially irresponsible."
That last definition is hard to pin down. Is it socially irresponsible to make an actress's legs longer and arms skinnier in a photo?
And what about giving extremely skinny women bigger breasts and hips? In 2010 the former editor of Cosmopolitan admitted to airbrushing anorexic models to make them look healthier.
Airbrushing is creating impossible expectations, Wilkin argues. "Models in magazines and mannequins in shops - that body is not achievable. It seems like it's moving further and further away from reality."
Eating disorder charity Beat is calling for a ban on airbrushing that changes the shape of the body. Susan Ringwood, its chief executive, says people have become so used to this alternative norm that they no longer notice. "Because it's everywhere we've lost some of our critical faculties in understanding this is no longer real."
There's an alternative view - that this is just an inevitable part of technological change. "In the old days it was lots of make-up, very careful selection of models and good lighting and countless takes with cameramen and lighting engineers, who made sure the absolutely perfect take was got," says Ian Twinn of the Incorporated Society of British Advertisers. "Now it can be done more quickly, people can manipulate and change, airbrush and digitally enhance the image afterwards."
Consumers are not stupid, he says. They know and want to buy into a dream, he argues. The same could be said for magazine readers or TV viewers.
It's not clear what effect this is having on today's teenagers.
Jemma, a 14 year-old schoolgirl who wants to be a model or actor, uses post-production techniques herself.
She edits the selfies that she puts on social media. "Sometimes I like how I look naturally but you have to take loads of pictures to get the right one. Most of the pictures I put on Instagram or Facebook will be edited. I'll lighten them, hide spots, things like that."
Even though she is aware of airbrushing techniques, Jemma says it is something she forgets about while flicking through a glossy magazine. "Because I'm not thinking about it, you just think they're really skinny and that must be real."
Looking again at my airbrushed images, there's something else I lost - any sign of a personality. I look like a clone, almost inhuman. My head is too big for my skinny body, the portrait picture doesn't seem to look like me at all.
The models used in these magazines are of course naturally stunning and won't need anywhere near the work I had, but it's simultaneously comforting and frightening how much they can change a person.
So next time I see that flawless face or those impossibly long legs and think, "Why don't I look like that?", I'll remind myself, that with a bit of help from Photoshop, I actually can.
Having seen the result, it's not a look I'll be revisiting any time soon.
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Jermall Charlo (25-0, 19 KOs) will be making his middleweight debut against Jorge Sebastian Heiland (29-4-2, 16 KOs) in a 12-round 160 lb eliminator match. The winner will become the mandatory challenger to the 160 lb WBC titleholder — currently Gennady Golovkin.
"I've been training since end of January to prepare myself for the move up to middleweight," said Charlo. "I'm feeling stronger, I'm feeling smarter and overall, I'm feeling better. Heiland is a tough fighter and I know he plans on bringing his A-game on July 29. He's just as hungry as me. We both want to be in a place to fight the best in the division, but I never overlook the opponent in front of me. It's been a great camp so far and I'm ready for this fight. It's time to make my mark so I can become a two-division world champion. I plan to take care of business at 160 just like I did at 154."
Additionally, the under card will feature a 10-round heavyweight fight between Gerald Washington (18-1-1, 12 KOs) and Jarrell "Big Baby" Miller (18-0-1, 16 KOs).
"This is a great opportunity for Showtime viewers to witness Jermall Charlo's ascent in the middleweight division in an ordered title elimination bout," said Lou DiBella, President of DiBella Entertainment. "Huge fights could be ahead for him. Washington and Miller is a significant heavyweight match up. Showtime viewers will see highlights of someone establishing themselves as an immediate player. Fans at Barclays Center are in-store for a terrific tripleheader."
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Venky Vembu Jan 18, 2012 2011 has not been a great year for Anil Ambani. The companies in his telecom-to-energy conglomerate are sitting on a mountain of debt, a chunk of which is denominated in foreign currencies and is coming up for redemption; three of his executives at Reliance ADAG were implicated in Indias biggest corruption scandal, and he himself had to suffer the ignominy of an informal chat with the CBI; stocks of his companies have been battered down; attempts to sell parts of his business to raise funds to retire debt have not yet fructified; fresh borrowing costs have shot up, and have been compounded by the sharp fall in the rupee in recent months; and, in recent days, he has even been the victim of an anonymous defamation campaign. About the only good thing to happen to the group was a lessening of tensions with brother Mukesh Ambani, but the vultures were circling overhead anyway. And just when the perfect storm of bad karma was threatening his empire, Anil has been thrown a lifeline.
It comes in the form of a $1.2 billion loan to Reliance Communications (RCom) from three Chinese state-owned banks the China Development Bank (CDB), the Export Import Bank of China, and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC). This is, in fact, the second time RCom has borrowed from Chinese banks; last March, Anil borrowed $1.9 billion from the CDB, much of whose proceeds were used to purchase telecom equipment from Chinas Huawei Technologies.
According to HSBC, the latest loans will help Reliance Communications cap its interest expenses at 5 percent, compared to the dollar funding cost of 6.8 percent. Analysts point out that this is a really, really big deal not just for Reliance, but also for other Indian corporates, since they too face redemptions on their foreign currency convertible bonds (FCCB), and would have been slammed if Reliance hadnt been able to secure the finance. Raj Kothari, a convertible trader based in London, told Bloomberg that If Reliance Communications had defaulted, the whole Indian convertible market would have collapsed. Juergen Maier, a fund manager at Raiffeisen Capital Management, noted that without the Chinese, they (Reliance) would have been in big trouble.. The Chinese are the last lenders left Whats in it for the Chinese? Since theres no such thing as a free lunch or an ultra-cheap loan what are the Chinese banks motives in taking a large bet on Anils empire? For one thing, the primary vehicles for Chinas loans to overseas corporations principally the ExIm Bank and CDB, from which Ambani secured his low-cost loan are state-owned policy banks with the express mandate to advance Chinas national interest. China has been using these banks as the advance vehicle to leverage its financial muscle to expand its exports to developing economies at a time when its primary export markets in the US and Europe are shrinking. China is also looking to graduate from low-cost made-in-China junk to higher-end exports, such as telecom infrastructure and equipment needed in energy projects. For instance, the loan that Anil secured last year was used to part-finance a $10 billion deal to purchase power generation equipment from the state-owned Shanghai Electric; it was then billed as the largest single business transaction between India and China. Given the significance of that deal, Shanghai Electric offered the equipment at a 30-40 percent discount (relative to what, say, a General Electric, would have offered). The preferential-interest rate loan lowered that discount even further, to about 60 percent. To that extent, these cheap loans may appear to be a win-win proposition for both sides. But theres a catch But in the stampede to secure cheap Chinese loans, Anil Ambani and other companies who are contemplating similar deals could also end up paying a price, going by the experience of other entities in other countries that similarly entered into concessional loan agreements with Chinese lenders.
CDB, observes Erica Downs at the John L. Thornton China Center at Brookings, is a link between the strategic ambitions of the Chinese government and the commercial interests of Chinese firms because the financing it provides to support cross-border deals connects state policy to commercial activity. And although China frequently claims that its concessional loans come without strings attached, they in fact come with specific conditionalities that often work to advance Chinese strategic and commercial interests at the cost of the borrowers. Since the mid-2000s, for instance, CDB has participated in some of Chinas most high-profile cross-border deals. Yet, its not always been a reliable lender. The case of Indonesian state-owned power company PLN, which entered into an arrangement with China Exim Bank, CDB and Bank of China to finance a $8 billion project to build a dozen coal-fired power plants, is illustrative. The project was to have been completed by 2011, but in January 2009, the Chinese lenders, who had until then lent only $2 billion, suspended the rest of the loan tranches. The reason? According to Indonesias Energy and Mineral Resources Minister, the project had been taken hostage by the Chinese lenders in order to put pressure on the Indonesian government to settle an unrelated commercial dispute between an Indonesian airline and a Chinese commercial aircraft manufacturer. Chinese officials told Indonesian leaders that only if the dispute was settled to Chinas advantage would the other loan tranches to the power project be released. Additionally, the Chinese lenders wanted Indonesia to agree to higher interest rates on the loans for the PLN project. Only after the airline dispute was settled to Chinas advantage was the lending for the PLN power project resumed; but by then the project was delayed and its cost had escalated. The case suggests that large-scale Chinese financing in developing countries can confer leverage on Chinese state-linked financial institutions that extends across projects in the same recipient country, noted Mikael Mattlin and Matti Nojonen at the Bank of Finland. The researchers point out that contrary to Chinas claims that Chinese loans and investments in developing economies come without any conditionalities, in fact, China is certainly not above attaching conditions to lending. Most conditions are likely not imposed by a unitary state actor but emerge from the voluminous business activities of Chinese state-linked lenders and enterprises in developing countries. The broader concern, they say, relates to the extent to which China uses its growing financial power to gain commercial or political leverage. Similar expressions of concern that Chinese loans may not serve the borrowers interests and may be a Trojan Horse to promote Chinese commercial and strategic interests have been heard from Ghana (as in many parts of Africa), Sri Lanka, Belarus and Tonga.
Selling themselves short This does not mean Anil Ambanis group is going to face any such problem. However, the risk is that, as happened in the Indonesian case, when disputes arise between Indian and Chinese entities, the Chinese lenders will leverage their enormous hold on the Indian companies to settle the disputes to the advantage of the Chinese entities. Chinese telecom equipment makers have in the past had trouble with the Indian establishment on security-related matters; even power projects in India built by Chinese companies have run into controversies. In such eventualities, the space for the Indian agencies to establish their case will be constrained if Chinese lenders extract their pound of flesh from the Indian companies that are indebted to them. Even in the absence of disputes, Chinese lenders, principally CDB and China Exim Bank, have been known to advance Chinese strategic interests, even when the loans they advance were in the commercial space. It will be interesting to see whether Anil Ambani will face pressures from the Chinese to help with their political lobbying. In recent years, the import of thousands of illegal, unskilled Chinese labourers had become a source of friction between the two countries. The Indian government had then disallowed the issuance of Indian visas for unskilled and semi-skilled labourers from China. Given the financial situation of the Anil Ambani group, theres no way to know how the Chinese will use their leverage to further its own interests in India.


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JNI buys Troika Networks' Fibre Channel technology
Troika has sold its Fibre Channel technology to HBA maker JNI. The company is attempting to move toward a storage services platform that consolidates multiple storage networking tasks into a centrally managed device.
Troika Networks is parting ways with its Fibre Channel hardware and software products with the announcement of a $10 million licensing agreement with JNI.
JNI Corp., San Diego, Calif., and Troika Networks Inc., Westlake Village, Calif., announced that JNI has licensed the exclusive rights to Fibre Channel software and hardware products for storage area networks (SANs) in enterprise class servers running Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Solaris operating systems.
The licensing and royalty agreement provides JNI with an exclusive source code license to Troika's Path Command Plus software that provides high availability for both host and target devices through host bus adapters (HBAs) in Fibre Channel SANs. Additionally, JNI also acquired exclusive distribution rights for Troika?s Zentai family of controllers for use as SCSI-to-Fibre Channel HBAs.
JNI will take over all sales and support of current Zentai HBAs and Path Command Plus software on the market and, beginning today, these products will be released by JNI and are available immediately.
JNI makes host bus adapters (HBAs) that connect servers to storage devices and competes with Emulex Corp., and QLogic Corp.
Eric Sheppard, senior research analyst for International Data Corp., Framingham, Mass., said Troika might have encountered some growing pains in a market filled with more recognizable names.
Since Troika is a start-up - founded in 1998 - it may have suffered some customer hesitation when it came to SAN adoption.
"Troika didn't get the traction like they would have had with a brand like JNI's," said Sheppard. He said trepidation about the complexity of SANs is driving customers toward bigger brand names with proven track records.
"JNI can bring the technology that Troika created into more channels and customers," said Carin De Groff, Troika's director of marketing.
"The sale of the Zentai product family and Path Command Plus is a win-win for both Troika and JNI. This enables Troika to focus on a newer product line, the upcoming storage services platform," she said.
Troika is changing its storage focus by creating what it calls a storage services platform. The new technology consolidates multiple storage networking tasks into a centrally managed device, Troika said. Target customers for Troika?s storage services platform deploy and manage large data centers using Fibre Channel-based storage networks.
JNI said 2001 was a tough year to be in the Solaris market, which accounts for approximately 90% of JNI's revenue. This deal gives JNI a quick entry into high-end Windows storage environments.
"We've had a windows driver, but there has been nothing compelling about it over our competition," Chris Wildermuth, Director Strategic Marketing, JNI Corp. "This [licensing agreement] gives us a jump start on our own technology development by at least a year."
The Path Command Plus software, currently running on the Zentai HBAs, is certified by a number of major SAN vendors in Windows environments.
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An exciting opportunity to assist with developing the Uniquely Scotland brand for an initial 8-month period starting in March 2017. The role would be on a part time basis of 3 days in the office per week plus the opportunity to conduct some private tours around Scotland. Work would involve a wide range of experience covering all aspects of running a bespoke tour operator business including:
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Celebration of Native American Music and Culture Coming to Long Beach
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In celebration of Native American Heritage Month, Raindance, in collaboration with Whirlwind Studios, is hosting a major Native American Music concert at the Ernest Borgnine Theater in Long Beach on November 15th, 2014.
The show will headline Two Time Grammy Award winner and Native American Lifetime Achievement Award winner Rita Coolidge, and guest stars Two time Native American Music award winner Shelley Morningsong with her husband Fabian Fontenelle, Native Blues artist Tracy Lee Nelson, World Champion Hoop Dancer Lowery Begay, and the best Traditional Native American Dancers from all over the Country.
Native Harmonies is produced by Xavier and Gabrielle Canale, owners of Raindance, a Native American and Western gift shop in Long Beach's Shoreline Village. Xavier and Gabrielle have been featuring Native American performers at their store and at the Boardwalk Theater in Shoreline Village for the past couple of years.
"We started noticing a genuine appreciation for the talent and beauty of Native American performers by the public," shared Xavier Canale. "We wanted to give them a broader stage and audience for which to perform to bring Native American Culture on the front and center of the American Culture, where it belongs."
Native Harmonies will be emceed by its Artistic Director Mac Lopez, who's also the owner of Whirlwind Studio. Lopez, among his many talents, is one of the best Native American Flautist and Flute makers in the U.S and is also a renowned Native American Music event producer, having produced and directed 7 such shows for the Kumeyaay-Ipai Interpretive center in Poway.
Native Harmonies will also feature a Red Carpet/photo op event with famous Native American actor and community leader Saginaw Grant and many of his Native and non-Native American Celebrities friends and Colleagues. Grant is best known from his appearance in Johnny Depp's "The Lone Ranger" as chief Big Bear..
The event will include Native American food from Chef Paul Buchanan of Primal Alchemy along with the live musical performances. VIP tickets are available and will give special access to our V.I.P reception for a meet and greet with some of the performers and Native American Celebrity guests. Dining room will open at 4:00pm for food, drinks, Native American Art and Crafts and live music, and again immediately after the show until 12 midnight for the post show reception.
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Nature called you to Costa Rica — now here you are, suspended in the jungle canopy, locking eyes with a curious monkey. This action-packed tour of Costa Rica's highlights is perfect for the adventurer with limited time who wants to explore the region's diversity. Get your adrenaline pumping, follow a trail to the base of a waterfall, melt away in thermal springs, or relax on a beach — your CEO will help you find the secluded spots only the locals know.
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Drive to Sarapiquí to visit the G Adventures-supported Mi Cafecito Community Coffee Plantation. Learn about the impact this project has had on the community and sample some of the products they sell. Continue on to the Arenal region and take advantage of a free afternoon and a full free day tomorrow to experience the adventure activities and natural wonders of the area. Enjoy an included relaxing soak in the local hot springs.
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Babies can be expensive. They can be little consumption engines. I have three little consumption engines myself, ages 8, 6 and 18 months, so I know this all too well.
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God. How'd I miss that? Earlier this month, Dick Francis died. He was 89 years old. In the Guardian, Alison Flood offers reminiscences of the great man's work
I think I was about 12 when I started to get into them myself, and although I haven't read one for years, Francis's death yesterday reminded me just how much I used to love them. The thrill, the glamour, the sheer difference of the racing world to my own appealed immensely to me, as did the "lonely hero up against a host of more powerful enemies" theme which seemed to be part of them all. (…) I asked my father if he'd really enjoyed receiving a Francis every Christmas or if they were just grin-and-pretend-you-like-it presents, and he told me they were "always interesting, but a bit in one ear and out the other". My mother, however, described them as "chick lit for men" and I think that's a fair summing-up.


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Today was a very exciting day for us here at SiteVisibility! Brighton Dome was completely packed with search marketing enthusiasts, delegates from search agencies, in-house marketing teams and business owners, not only from Brighton, but also from across the UK and even Europe. This year's first edition of BrightonSEO was bigger and more exciting than ever before.
The best SEO experts and enthusiasts across the UK have devoted their time today to share their detailed and practical knowledge with us.
However, the many talks and presentations throughout the day must have left you all with loads to process, and therefore we have decided to make it easier for you by putting together a quick summary of some of today's talks and the most striking conclusions. So sit back and enjoy our BrightonSEO Round-up:
1. Phillip Sheldrake: Future SEO Vistas – The Semantic Web and the Internet of Things
Philip Sheldrake (@Sheldrake), founding parnter at Meanwhile, kicked off this edition of BrightonSEO with his take on Web 3.0 or "The Semantic Web". Here's a few things to remember from his talk:
- We move from 'web 1.0' Documentation to 'web 2.0' – participation to 'web 3.0' – semantics
- The definition of an SEO is progressively moving towards someone who improves the presentation, discoverability machinability of data for all stakeholders
- The semantic web by definition will 'understand' the meaning of its own content and the participation of users
- Google is improving its core product by offering extended semantic support using microformats & microdata.
- Types of media have expanded as well as paid, owned & earned media we now have machine media, content created on the fly from a number of semantically sourced sources
- Social sites who try to protect their networks are doomed to die as the connections are now becoming much more open
- As SEOs we will now be part of the flow of influence and our job will now be to manage and direct that flow by understanding the needs of our audiences.
2. Sam Noble – How to launch or re-launch a brand or product online effectively
Launching or re-launching a brand or product online can be a very daunting task. Building up on her experience prior to the launch of Koozai in May 2011, Samantha Noble(@Koozai_Sam) provides us with a overview of tips, suggestions and things to avoid, Moreover, her list of tools and resources will assist you to achieve the best results:
- A brand is how people perceive it, rather than how the brand want to be perceived.
- Brand confusion is one of the main reasons for re-branding
- Make sure you find the right branding agency
- When choosing a name, make sure it is easy to spell, memorable, TLDs and social profiles are available and make sure you trademark it
- Remember to update everything (bank details, stationary etc)
- Update all social profiles, link build to them so that you dominate all SERPS for your new brand name
- When launching, make sure you have a PR ready and a Blog post written
- Monitor old accounts/old brand mentions so that you can update to new brand
3. Adam Lee – Killer Market Research for Peanuts
Adam Lee (@NoPorkPies) discussed how understanding consumer needs is essential for creating a good marketing strategy. He discussed 3 marketing research processes of people in various positions:
- Method 1 – persona creation of niche audience members to create a network map which will determine where your audience can be reached
- Method 2 – primary research with polls and questionnaires
- Method 3 – Behavioural analysis of customers to learn their habits – habits can results in brand loyalty.
Doing a collection of these activities can give you a wealth of information to produce a tailored strategy. One criticism would be that the low budget example in method 1 would be highly unlikely to invest in Brandwatch as it is not the cheapest!
4. Glenn Jones – Microformats and SEO
Glenn Jones (@glennjones) talked about rich snippets and creation of schema.org, which has brought semantic mark up into sharp focus for the SEO industry:
- Rich snippets can be great for displaying additional info in the search results: Eg. Reviews, Products, Contact information. See schema.org
- Rich Dnippets are all about building better user search experiences. There are 3 ways to markup structured data: Microformats, Microdata (html5), RDFa
- Microformats vs Microdata (html5) and RDFa: Microformats usually used for Simplicity. Others usually used for more complex data. Check out Microformats.org
- Useful tools alert!… Google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets
- Authorship -Useful for adding the author to rich snippets. Eg. Can interlink a recipe with an author profile/Google social profile.
- Rich snippets tend to result in a 10-25% improvement in click through rates.
- Be warned – If you trying gaming rich snippets, Google do have the right to stop your site using rich snippets.
5. Roland Dunn – Searchbots: Lost Children or Hungry Psychopaths? What Do Searchbots Actually Do?
Roland Dunn (@roland_dunn) presented his talk entitled Searchbots: Lost Children or Hungry Psychopaths? What Do Searchbots Actually Do?
He wanted to explore how and if we can see how Google searchbots have spent their time, when they visited and where they visited a site.
The conclusion is that there is very little data out there that gives us enough info and so we are left with Webserver Logfiles (a record of all requests from sites) these however are lengthy and difficult to pull data from. So, one of the big questions that we want to know is: do google bots request all URLs served by a website? The simple answer is no. So then, are the Google bots spending their time cost-effectively? Again it appears not. Many examples show that they spend a lot of time on irrelevant pages.
Conclusion: Google bots are not quite a lost child or a hungry psychopath but instead can be described as a distracted teenager. We may in fact need to give them a helping hand when crawling our sites – navigation, robots.txt etc. (see slides) Points: 1. Embrace Logfiles. 2. check searchbot behaviour 3. If they become lost or distracted-help them out.
6. Charlie Peverett – It's only words? Working with Content Strategy
Charlie Peverett (@cpev) was our first speaker after lunch. In his presentation, he talked about the importance of content strategy for SEO.
- It's not enough to just mention 'great content' in an SEO checklist
- Content – the assets with which we communicate with users
- In 2012 content is: political, expected to achieve multiple objectives, expensive
- In the past, pr pieces were only read by journalists, now they are read by everyone. Remember, all content can be seen by everyone.
- Brand is also seen as more important now
- Use the same language ie don't use terms such as 'link bait' and 'over-optimised'
- Read 'content strategy for the web
- Know your value
7. Lexi Mills – How you can get BIG links from BIG media sites
In her presentation, Lexi Millls (@leximills) has shared some of her top tips and tricks on how to get BIG links from BIG media sites. She also provided some interesting insights on how PR and SEO can be used to work together by building up the level of report and conversation:
- Key point about PR is to get the right story to the right person at the right time!
- It's not all about relationships and who you know either, links and stories can be distributed with no previous relationship
- Research journalists on twitter and linkedin, find out how they talk and behave
- When it comes to targeting a journalist, pick your battles well, make sure its relevant and attainable
- In your outreach emails make sure you add specific target keywords
- Always make sure from the outset that you are requesting a followed link, this can get confusing if it isn't agreed early on
- If "give us a link" feels a bit spammy or pushed maybe use terms like "could you accredit us?"
- NOTHING beats correspondence and relationship building more than using the phone to outreach
- Remember any response good or bad is A RESPONSE act upon this don't just archive it
- Lexi recommended a couple of syndication platforms PRNewswire and Businesswire which she had positive results from
- When syndicating Lexi uses no more than 3 anchor text links in the PR and directs them to separate pages, important to mix it up!
- Remember if your contacting journalists directly they can be funny about non-branded anchor text, so as a rule of thumb stick to branded links
- Useful twitter feeds #prwin, #prfail, #journalistrequest
8. James Owen – Maximizing your SEO Agencies
James Owen (@jamesoSEO), SEO Manager at Hotels.com, shared the steps Hotels.com go through in order to maximize their SEO agency success. Some important points:
- Essentially 5 stages in the process: preparation, set-up, testing, fine tuning and reporting
- Clearly define financial objectives, destination objective (which landing pages do you want
rankings, keywords (branded and non-branded) and theme objectives from the start
- Ensure that guidelines are relayed early on to the agency for content production. Will help
efficiency of sign-off procedure
- Provide all marketing collateral to the agency that need for their off-page work, delays in this will mean delaying the campaign
- When using multiple agencies, utilise the agency according to their best skill-sets and talents, some agencies will be better at optimising and syndication PRs whilst
others may be utilised better for creative link building
- Report on your agency and asses how well they are doing by calculating the efficiency rate
and ascertaining what impact they've made on profit margin, keyword rankings,
traffic etc. and how long has it taken?
- Effective reporting to track CVR/Visits/GBV. Make sure the reporting is done at a branded
and non-branded keyword level, and that keywords that aren't ranking are also tracking.
- James recommends Bright Edge as an efficient reporting tool for monitoring your
agencies' SEO campaign
9. Stefan Hull – Search marketing – from Panda to Black Swan
Stefan Hull (@stefanjhull) has discussed the ways in which Search Marketing is changing and the consequences that these changes bring to the way we do things. What to remember?
- Don't chase after googles algorithm, chase after your best interpretation of what users want
- Content farms were hit in 2011. Link spams turn in 2012?
- "Not saying buying links is bad but it's about managing risk"
- What if Google discounted all your bad links tomorrow?
- Does your director know what you're doing?
10. James Carson – I Believe Authors are the Future
In his presentation, James Carson (@mrjamescarson), focused on Authorship mark up, one of the hottest topics in SEO. Here's what caught our attention:
- Social Shares are a long way from replacing link building, but have just added to & personalised results
- Requires Google+ account
- Author identity adds authority to the source of a link & therefore could effect rankings
- Adding author code is fairly simple, 'just add rel=author code to your post'
- Authors can then build up their own personal authority
- This creates an issue for agencies who tend to use 'anonymous personas'
- This is good news for journalists, as it reinforces their status as experts
- However, this will all take time for Google to recognize!
- DO IT NOW! It is likely to have a big effect so get on Google+ & add the code.
11. Dom Hodgson – I appear to have started a sweetshop (and advertising company)
Dom Hodgson (@Thehodge) spoke about his latest quest, his online sweetshop and he told us the story of how it came about. From an idea down the pub to his very own online sweetshop as well as combined office and sweet shop combined.
His idea was that everyone loves pick and mix and so he decided open his very own online store. His concept, to make buying sweets online fun. His first attempt mainly revolved around a winking squirrel. "If you ever put a squirrel on a website, make it wink" was his advice.
He quickly learned that his quest had been slightly shortsighted with many hidden costs. He also received complaints whilst the site had only just gone live!
His second attempt at a site involved more sweets a better design and involved the death of the squirrel. To finish the talk, he took the opportunity to make the second site go live, invited members of the audience up to celebrate the countdown with party poppers.
Quite a way to end the day!
Hope you all enjoyed this year's first edition and see you all at the next BrightonSEO – that is, if we don't meet at Horatio's bar before that!


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The Super Bowl half-time counterprogramming parade continues with the revelation of details on Howard Stern's TV On Demand's Stupid Bowl III: The Boys Vs. the Girls.
The channel is offering a 28-minute flag football game pitting members of Stern's staffers against drag queens with Penthouse Pets as cheerleaders.
Howard TV On Demand, which has been up and running for about a year, is a 24/7 digital channel available for $13.99 a month on Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cox, Cablevision, Charter, and Rogers.


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Celebrity Pregnancies 2014
List Rules Celebrities pregnant between January and December of 2014.
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Celebrity pregnancies 2014 includes all of the most famous Hollywood starlets, models, star athletes, singers, and more who were expecting babies during the year. Which celebs are expecting babies in 2014? Find out right here, and expect this list to grow greatly as the months fly by. You can also find out which celebs gave birth by checking out this list of 2014 celebrity babies.
If 2013's celebrity pregnancy baby boom is any indication, expect a ton of famous people to announce pregnancies in 2014. Can anything top the Kim Kardashian pregnancy from 2013? We'll see! Kim's baby bump was one of the most famous bumps in Hollywood, and rightly so, but at some point, another celebrity baby bump will be even more watched (especially if the celeb is expecting twins!). And, of course, if any royal, particularly Kate Middleton, gets pregnant, she immediately generates huge headlines.
Here's the bottom line: If an A-lister gets pregnant, expect her to land on this list immediately, and with her due date information, if it's known (some celeb women still keep mum on their due dates, of course). And, if they decide to give their instantly famous child a bizarre name, that child will land on this hilarious list of the most ridiculous celebrity baby names.
10/29/2014 - After months of swirling rumors, RadarOnline.com confirmed that Jessica Biel is pregnant. It will be the first child for Biel, 32, and her husband Justin Timberlake, 33. The couple was married in 2012.Said the source, "Jessica is at least three months pregnant and she's due in April!"
Age: 33
Birthplace: Ely, Minnesota, United States of Americasee more on Jessica Biel
10/27/2014 - Angela Unkrich is pregnant with her second child. Her husband, Alfonso Ribeiro announced the news on Dancing with the Stars - he is a contestant on the show's 19th season. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air star and his wife are already parents to a son, Alfonso Lincoln Ribeiro, Jr., and Alfonso has a daughter, Sienna, from a previous relationship.
Angela is already well along in her pregnancy, however they do not yet know the sex of the baby. Alfonso said, "We're super excited and waiting to find out, we're going to see if we're going to find out or not, the sex. It's going to be springtime, springtime baby."(Source)
10/23/2014 - Michelle Clunie, an actress known for her work on Queer as Folk, is pregnant. She is having a child with her longtime friend and producer of the X-Men films, Bryan singer. It had been rumored that Singer, who is bisexual, had enlisted Clunie as a surrogate, but the pair plans to raise the child together, with Singer covering the child and Clunie's living expenses.(Source)
Age: 49
Birthplace: Oregon, USA, Portlandsee more on Michelle Clunie
10/16/2014 - Jude Law, 41, announced that he will become a father for the fifth time, as singer-songwriter Cat Cavelli, 23, is pregnant. The pair struck up a romance on location in the Czech Republic, where Law was shooting a film.
The couple has since separated, but Cavelli is reportedly "delighted" to become a mother.(Source)


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First I would like to say thank you for all of the help. I have three of your books, most recently the S.W.A.T Workout book, and they all have helped me make tremendous gains in my physical and mental stamina.
I have just recently separated from the Navy and applied to a Police Department in New Jersey. Their physical test is a little bit unique, and I was hoping you would be able to provide some specific tips for this test. It consists of all of the same exercises: push-ups, sit-ups (2 minutes), Pull-Ups, Squat-Thrusts (1 minute), and a 1 mile run.
However, their test is run without any break between the exercises. I am not worried about the individual exercises, I am more worried about not getting to rest in between them, and how to train for that.
Thank you for your help. Chris
Chris – I think making circuits (non-stop with timed events) 1-2 minute exercises will do the trick. For now, get specific and master these events. Don't just focus on them individually, but follow a circuit format. For example, try this:
Easy 5 minute dynamic warm-up and light stretch.
Repeat 3-4 times
- 1 min pushups
- 1 min situps
- 1 min pullups (resort to pulldowns after failure)
- 1 min burpees (which is a squat thrust with a pushup)
- 5 min tabata (20 sec sprint / 10 sec easy) bike or elliptical
- 30 sec fast / 30 sec easy on treadmill or track.
If you prefer, you can opt to run 1/2 mile fast as you can, or 1 mile at your goal pace. Try this every other day for a few weeks and see how you perform in your actual test.
I would also do this workout:
Mon / Wed / Saturday (Rest on Friday!)
Try this routine for two weeks, but, at the end, instead of doing this circuit try the actual test and see how you do.
Tuesday / Thursday (Rest Sunday!)
On the days in between, focus on your goal mile pace for the run.
For instance:
Repeat 6-8 times
- Run 1/4 mile at goal mile pace*
- Rest with easy jog or walk 1 minute
On the second week try this one on Tuesday and Thursday: Repeat 3-4 times
- Run 1/2 mile at goal mile pace
- Rest with easy jog or walk 2 minutes
*Goal mile pace means you run the quarter miles at 1:30 if your goal is a 6 minute mile or 1:45 if the goal is a 7 minute mile. No faster, no slower. Muscle memory this pace so you can do it for multiple sets, and soon you will be able to hold it for a full mile.
This will help you get used to the circuit based testing your department does, and train your body to recover by changing muscle group exercise, not just completely inert resting.


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Congratulations to a pair of SPS elementary students who earned starring roles in The 5th Avenue Theatre's production of "The Sound of Music"!
Coleman Hunter, a fifth grader at North Beach Elementary School plays Kurt von Trapp and Aubrey Thomas, a third grader at Greenwood Elementary School plays Brigitta.
The Sound of Music opened November 24, 2015 and runs through January 3, 2016.
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How do we develop? Why do we develop? What does development mean? With these enquiries Helen Zeru Araya would like to continue her research in Vienna based on her background through growing up in a city with a young life of 125 years, Addis Ababa, a city which half of it is dying and half pioneering.
Addis Ababa is going through a massive transformation, a rapid pace to "development", with new construction of mega buildings and vanishing slums. There is a new rush to build a modern city on top of the old city by demolishing, adjusting and reestablishing the city. Helen Zeru Araya is interested in the social, traditional and cultural change that comes with this process of change beyond its physical structure built on the ground. As a city being a home for human beings its architecture cannot be imagined freely of a social, cultural and political circumstance.
She wants to compare this with the archives of the city of Vienna, how the ongoing process of building up the city took place, how it shifted the social and culture way of living, the adoption and the process of accepting the change.While her stay at the residence program at the studios das weisse haus she wants to do research on the archives of the city Vienna: How the city was constructed, its architecture and look for detailed objects, renewed fragments of the streets, replaced parts of a buildings or renewed façades – everything which shows a constant formation of a city. She will document the research process through photography, video, sound, objects and work and playfully compare it with the new city Addis Ababa.
Helen Zeru Araya is artist in residence of spring 2013 at studios das weisse haus.
Helen Zeru Araya, born in 1980, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Currently lives and works in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
2013: Pop up addis , curated by Zacharias Abubeker and Sara Eklund, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Heart to Heart, National Gallery, curated by MeskeremAssegued, with Istituto Italiano di Cultural, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Inspires women II, Laphto Gallery curated by NuruAbegaze , Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Interferens_en 013, EnBW showroom curated by Marisa Maza, Berlin, Germany.
2012: 1stTibilis Triennial – Offside Effect, Addis future, Georgia; Independent curators international (ICI)'s Project 35:volume 2, curated by Fran wuGiarratano with MeskeremAssuged, New York; Meeting here, GIZ, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Notions of peace chapter 2, Serenade Gallery, curated by Karen, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Notions of peace, Serenade Gallery, curated by Karen, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; RUNDGANG, UNIVERSITAT DER KUNSTE BERLIN, Berlin,Germany; Inspired women, Laphto Gallery curated by Nuru Abegaz from Ethiopian contemporary Art Gallery (ECAG), Addis Ababa,Ethiopia; Examples to follow, Modern Art Museum and Goethe Institute curated by Adrienne Goehler, AA,Ethiopia.
2011: Fana Wogi, Modern Art Museum, curated by Aida Muluneh, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; I women, Asni Gallery, curated by Konjit seium, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Neutral experience3, National Gallery, Curated by Henok Getachew, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Netsa art village, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Neutral experience 2, National Gallery, Curated by Henok getachew and Solomon Tsegaie, AA, Ethiopia; Alliance ethio Frances, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
2010: Addis Photo Festival, with Mihret Kebede, Alliance ethio Frances, curated by Aida Muluneh, AA, Ethiopia; Let's talk about love baby, curated by Chido Johnson, Chicago (on continues show at www.letstalkaboutlovebaby.com).
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Helen Zeru Araya in collaboration with Nina Schuiki:
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Last update: Sep. 20, 2000
This article describes how to write a BeOS joystick driver. It assumes knowledge on BeOS device drivers (kernel drivers and modules).
Be discloses little information on device driver development for minor fields, one of which is joysticks/gameports; a little information available is sonic_vibes driver source codes, BJoystick in Be Book and Be Developer Newsletter article. Thus I have investigated how to write a joystick driver and gained information enough to write a narrowly working one, as described below.
The contents of this article is based on my own investigation and Be does not publish nor guarantee them except some. I do not guarantee their correctness. Also beware that there are many unknown issues left.
First we will have a glance at BeOS joystick API (the BJoystick class). For details, refer to Be Book and Be Developer Newsletter article.
BJoystick has two operation modes, standard mode and enhanced mode. Standard mode is obsolete, based on BeBox gameports, limited to 2-axes and 2-buttons regardless of joystick models, and is seldom used. Enhanced mode is added in R4 and allows you to make best use of joystick features. In addition, the Joysticks preference is effective under enhanced mode only. Thus you will usually use enhanced mode. You can enter enhanced mode from standard mode, but it is done by default when the gameport is opened. In order to use standard mode, you have to explicity specify not to enter enhanced mode.
Applications will have access to joysticks as follows (function names represent the member functions in the BJoystick class). To use enhanced mode, you have to configure your joystick in the Joystick preference in advance.
BeOS joystick support framework is constructed as follows:
applications Joysticks preference------------+ | | | | |BJoystick joystick definition files | | | | operating system----------------+ | | |kernel driver API | | gameport drivers--------+ | | | |module API | | | joystick modules | | gameport hardware | | joystick hardware
Functionality of main components is show below:
A kernel driver to manipulate the gameport and input joystick data. Dependent on the gameport hardware (ISA sound card, PCI sound card, USB, proprietary interface etc).
The driver publishes device files under /dev/joystick/. When the app calls BJoystick::Update(), a read request will occur to the device file, and the driver's read() will be called. In reply to this, the driver inputs joystick data, interprets it and returns it. The returned data format is the joystick structure in standard mode and the extended_joystick structure in enhanced mode (both of which are defined in joystick_driver.h).
Under standard mode the gameport driver itself also performs data interpretation, but under enhanced mode the driver only performs raw data input and delegates interpretation to the appropriate joystick module, assuming possibility that data interpretation may vary depending on joystick models. This will allow you to separate gameport hardware dependent part from joystick model dependent part.
However it is not clear about details of how they share their roles. Unlike other buses and ports, the gameport does not necessarily allow you clear separation, and its necessity is relatively low. Therefore you can also implement them so that the joystick module performs most process including raw data input. As this article assumes that the gameport driver always performs raw data input, some differences will arise if you do it in the joystick module. In case of USB, you ought to always do it in the gameport driver because interface to the USB bus manager can be complicated.
Besides, if the joystick has force feedback capability, force feedback should occur by writing the extended_joystick structure to the device file under enhanced mode. However details are not clear.
A module to interpret raw data by the gameport driver and convert it in the format the operating system can understand (the extended_joystick structure). Dependent on joystick models. The API is defined by the joystick_module structure in joystick_driver.h. Called by the gameport driver under enhanced mode. Note that the operating system does not call joystick modules (except std_ops()).
A text file describing characteristics (product name, numbers and names of axes and buttons, joystick module name etc.) for each joystick model. Joysticks preference presents a list of product names obtained from the definition files and the user chooses among them the one connected to the game port. This information (the joystick_module_info structure) will be passed by the operating system to the gameport driver when the gameport enters enhanced mode. Based on it the gameport driver will choose the appropriate joystick module.
BTW, your choice in the Joysticks preference is saved under ~/config/settings/joysticks/, where there are symbolic links driver_name/port_number, which point to joystick definition files selected for each port.
Each file resides in the following locations:
|Gameport drivers
|Joystick modules
|Joystick definition files
|Gameport device files
Besides them, there is a thing called the "generic gameport module" (/system/add-ons/kernel/generic/gameport, the generic_gameport_module structure in joystick_driver.h) which is used in the sonic_vibes driver, but its role and usage are not clear. I will not take it into account here since you can write a driver without using it.
Developing a joystick driver implies writing a gameport driver, writing a joystick module and writing a joystick definition file.
I will breifly discuss processes the gameport driver API should implement. Refer to joystick_driver.h in the sonic_vibes driver for details about structures etc.
If your gameport is PCI or ISA, you can detect and initialize it. But the driver will be unloaded soon after init_hardware(), so it makes no sense here to store obtained information into global variables. If you'd like to do it, you must allocate an area and store into it. In case of PCI, devices are usually mapped into the physical memory space, so you'll need an area anyway.
The driver initializes internal variables etc. Also you can detect and initialize your gameport here every time instead of doing in init_hardware(). In case of USB you will only obtain the bus manager and register the driver with it here and do actual process in device_added()/device_removed().
The driver finalizes. In case of USB you will deregister the driver and release the bus manager.
The driver publishes device names. Device names are usually made as "joystick/driver_name/port_number" (e.g. joystick/gameport/201, joystick/ymf724/1). In case of USB, they will change dynamically by plugging and unplugging joysticks. There's nothing special.
The driver returns the device hooks. Nothing special too.
If the supplied device name is applicable to the driver, the driver obtains the port number from it and examines the port. If a joystick is attached, the driver allocates and initializes a cookie. A cookie typically contains following information:
Obtains the port number from the cookie and inputs data from the gameport. Under standard mode the driver interprets the input data, converts it into the joystick structure to return. Under enhanced mode the driver calls read() in the joystick module, tell him to convert the input data into the extended_joystick structure to return.
Under enhanced mode the driver passes the write data (the extended_joystick structure) to force() in the joystick module and tell him to perform force feedback. Detailed process is not clear.
The driver performs ioctls (B_JOYSTICK_*) defined in joystick_driver.h. B_JOYSTICK_SET_DEVICE_MODULE and B_JOYSTICK_GET_DEVICE_MODULE are mandatory.
When the gameport will enter enhanced mode by the app's instruction, B_JOYSTICK_SET_DEVICE_MODULE will be called along with the joystick information configured in the Joystick preference. The argument is a joystick_module_info structure, which includes the joystick module name, the product name, number of axes and buttons etc. If the given information is compatible with the actually connected joystick, the driver saves joystick_module_info, obtain the joystick module (get_module()), calls configure() in the module to tell him to initialize and enters enhanced mode. BTW, when you do "Probe" in the Joystick preference, it calls this ioctl for every joystick definition file and it assumes the one(s) with no error may be connected.
B_JOYSTICK_GET_DEVICE_MODULE only returns the joystick_module_info structure given by B_JOYSTICK_SET_DEVICE_MODULE.
Nothing to do.
The driver releases the cookie. Under enhanced mode the driver calls crumble() in the joystick module to tell him to finalize, and release the module (put_module()).
I will breifly discuss processes the joystick module API should implement. There are still many unknown issues left about joystick modules compared to gameport drivers.
The module allocates and initializes a cookie according to the given port number and the joystick_module_info structure. Unlike the gameport driver's cookie to be used for communication between the operating system and the gameport driver, this cookie is to be used for communication between the joystick and the gameport driver, The contents of a cookie might be the raw data the gameport driver inputs.
If the module can detect joystick model automatically, it may rewrite the joystick_module_info structure with the detected information. In particular, full automatic detection is desired in case of USB since USB allows you to obtain all necessary information from the joystick without relying on the joystick_module_info structure (and its source, the joystick definition file). That is, it'd be ideal that you provide only one (virtually dummy) joystick definition file (e.g. "Generic USB HID Joystick) for all USB joysticks and that users can choose it regardless of his USB joystick model.
Called from read() in the gameport driver, the module interprets the raw data given by the driver and stores it into the extended_joystick structure.
Called from write() in the gameport driver, the module performs force feedback based on the extended_joystick structure given by the driver.
The module releases the cookie.
B_MODULE_INIT and B_MODULE_UNINIT will be called but no process is required.
Publishes the joystick_module structure.
Refer to my sample source codes.
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The movie "The Artist" takes us back to the dawn of The Talkies Era in Hollywood, from 1927-1932.
A silent movie – or rather, a sound film with a music soundtrack – it evinces such mastery of form that it could easily be mistaken for a real classic. Set in 1927, the movie is so meticulous it doesn't just look like a silent film but one from that specific year. In its cutting, its degrees of light and shadow and its contrasting hues of black and white, it is a product of serious study, honest appreciation and love.
Jean Dujardin, playing a silent-film idol, gets into the consciousness of those days. His character is something of an amalgam of Douglas Fairbanks, Valentino and John Gilbert, and his smile is evocative of those men.
And so we meet George Valentin (Dujardin) in that crucial year, 1927, when he is on top of the world, a screen lover and action-adventure hero, known for his acrobatic swashbuckling and an amazing dog who follows him everywhere, in movies and in life. George is a shameless showoff, always on, but there's nothing obnoxious about his vanity. Like Gilbert and other stars from this time, he is a happy child, secure in the world's love.
At his height, he meets an aspiring starlet, Peppy Miller (Bérénice Bejo), and gives her a break. Then talkies arrive, and his star starts sinking just as hers begins to rise. It is a measure of the sheer beauty of Dujardin's acting that the sight of doubt creeping into his eyes should be so painful. Just as "The Artist" is a tribute to an earlier period of American film, Dujardin's work here is a tribute to every actor who ever had his heart broken. His discovery of his own unimportance, his education in suffering, is the human education, and a story well suited to this most universal medium.
Though shot in the United States, this is, in fact, a French film. The cast of "The Artist" includes actors with many different native tongues.. The co-stars, Penelope Ann Miller (as the actor's wife) and John Goodman (as a studio head), are American. But Dujardin, Bejo and Hazanavicius are major names in the current French cinema. Yet the silence makes them universal, so there is nothing foreign about them. John Goodman makes a bombastic studio head, and such familiar faces as James Cromwell, Penelope Ann Miller, Missi Pyle and Ed Lauter turn up.
At 39, Jean Dujardin is well-known in France. I've seen him in a successful series of spoofs about OSS 117, a Gallic secret agent who mixes elements of 007 and Inspector Clouseau. He would indeed have made a great silent star. His face is almost too open and expressive for sound, except comedy. As Norma Desmond, the proud silent star in "Sunset Boulevard," hisses: "We didn't need dialogue. We had faces!" Dujardin's face serves perfectly for the purposes here. More than some silent actors, he can play subtle as well as broad, and that allows him to negotiate the hazards of some unbridled melodrama at the end. I felt a great affection for him.
Beyond the technical, "The Artist" has the soul of a silent film. It has incidents and bits that evoke that age's sensibility – everything from a loyal dog to beautifully visualized moments of sober reflection and longing. Silent cinema depends on the poetics of the human body and spirit. It's a form that demands a gestural truth that is pointed and pure and does not allow for irony.
In the end, that is the tragedy "The Artist" is really exploring, the death and extinction of a medium that brought the world together, that everyone could experience in the same way, never from the outside, never as a stranger. With delicacy and originality, it laments what went away. But it also performs a resurrection, because in Dujardin's performance we discover something extraordinary and lovely, the first truly great silent film performance in about 80 years.
The inspiration for the production design, sets, staging, lighting and so forth, Mr. Hazanavicius says, came principally from two F.W. Murnau classics, 1927′s "Sunrise" and 1930′s "City Girl." Film critics consider these films, particularly "Sunrise," to be among the greatest movies ever made – with or without sound. Film buffs will spot Mr. Hazanavicius' nods in "The Artist" to other silent masters, too, including Charlie Chaplin, Fritz Lang, Erich Von Stroheim and King Vidor.
Mr. Dujardin, 39, who speaks little English, is a well-known actor in France. But heretofore unknown elsewhere. "He's like our George Clooney," director Francois Truffart told the L.A. Times recently. Ms. Bejo, 35, has starred in English-speaking dramas, such as 2001′s "A Knight's Tale" with the late Heath Ledger; but most of her acclaim comes from French comedies. She co-starred with Mr. Dujardin in the first OSS 117 film.
Thanks to Jerry Garrett for his insights about the history of Hollywood and THE ARTIST on his blog.