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Lord have mercy!Maybe my priest's advice will help you: in the beginning (before conversion and just right after it) God as a good Father leads us by the hand, but after some period, when we should be more mature, He lets go of your hand, but He stills being close to us - children must learn "walk" without any special help. At this time we should trust Him and use our experience and knowledge from the time God was leading us so closely. As always, we have to go through difficult time that after it we can be stronger and more sure that our choice was right. So, pray and participate in the Holy Mysteries - that's the best treatment for our souls.
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Another interesting little treasure from my tin. This is clearly a Victorian mourning pin. It is a very unusual setting - almost like muffin cups with the bottom of the jet? held in the muffin tin. There are no marks except "made in Germany) on the pin. The metal is very soft. You can see that the stone on the right was twisted - after I took this pics I tweaked it to see if it would move and it moved so easily. The whole setting appears to be very pliable so I am not sure what it is made of - it looks like brass but brass is not generally this soft. The carving (or pressing) on the stones is symmetrical so that the carving makes a circle with the inner 4 pieces. But if you look closely there are little differences in each one which makes me think it is carved, and this, along with the fact that it is made in Germany, makes me think it is jet. What do you think?


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I'm sure it'll be no surprise that blue is a favorite color of mine to design with. Clearly that's obvious just by glancing at a few of the DIYs posted here as most of them have some sort of blue in them. Even the blog design has a bit of blue in it. Studies show blue is associated with clear thoughts, focus, intellect and communication. In addition, blue is thought to be a calming color as well as being a hue that promotes creativity. Awesome! Now I'm even more happy to have so much blue around me.
As for gray, there's not a lot of positive things written about any benefits of using the color, mainly siting it's indecisive nature being that it's not black and it's not white. But I find that extremely funny since so many designers love to design with gray. Ultimately I think color design is very personal and you should choose what makes you feel good. For me, I love a palette of blue, brown and gray. Check out these gorgeous rooms below to see why.
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D'oh . . . for some reason I thought the fishing derby was on Saturday. I noticed a lot of college students were back for the weekend with canoes and kayaks in tow or on the roof racks.Originally Posted by Hiram357
I haven't heard of anyone yet that has hooked one of those four-year free tuition fish yet . . . I'm thinking they've tagged a Great White with that prize and there's no way anyone's going to haul that bad boy in.
Yes . . . a year or two ago they offered both the fishing derby and geocaching derby . . . I suspect they might not have got a lot of takers on the geocaching derby or maybe it didn't offer the same challenge as the fishing derby and they may have scuttled it . . . all speculation on my part however since I honestly don't know anything other than the fact that they did do a geocaching derby once before.
Was the pizza any good . . . I was in on Thursday and bought a large hamburg pizza, honey-BBQ wings and a chance at winning free pizza for a year (I didn't win though . . . the folks probably thought it would be bad economically for them if they had to supply me with free UHOP pizza for a year as it would have cut into their income.)


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- theora: reference encoder/decoder (the decoder now in svn support all theora features) library with MMX optimizations: theora svn, theora official releases.
- theora-old: old encoder/decoder (the decoder does not support all theora features, but it's faster than theora in many cases) library, with MMX optimizations; theora version up to 1.0 alpha 7 were using this code trunk: theora-old svn.
- theora-exp: experimental encoder/decoder (the decoder is the same of reference, the encoder is new and supports all theora features) library: theora-exp svn.
- [Etheora]: a simplified API to theora reference encoder/decoder.
See also
- Theora Hardware: List of hardware-players supporting Ogg Theora
- TheoraSoftwarePlayers: List of media players that can play Ogg Theora
- TheoraSoftwareEncoders: List of software that can encode to Ogg Theora
- TheoraDecoders: List of decoder implementations
- TheoraEncoders: List of encoder implementations
- List of Theora videos: Get some files to see what the codec's like
- Games that use Theora: List of known games that use Theora
- TheoraTestsuite: Different samples to test player compliance


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Healing a broken life: Nathan lives with survivor's guilt and PTSD following a failed Afghan mission
One in a series of stories about homeless veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
It was 5 o'clock on a July morning, and Nathan's mother stopped the car on Park Boulevard.
They looked at the collection of San Diego's homeless veterans stretching up the block. It was a line of haggard faces, all waiting to get a warm meal and a cot for the weekend.
Nathan, a tall, broad-shouldered former Navy SEAL, was under a court order to join them. His precarious high-wire act fueled by alcohol and post-traumatic stress disorder had finally collapsed, ending in a dust-up outside a bar and a criminal charge.
A judge mandated treatment, starting with the "Stand Down" event for homeless vets.
Earlier in the series
Nathan remembers that morning, less than seven months ago. His mother cried.
He was becoming one of them. He was already one of them.
"I was on the way out. I've put a gun in my mouth. I've felt it in my mouth. I've not known if there was a round in the chamber because I've been so drunk. And I've pulled the trigger," said the 29-year-old San Diego native.
"I was in a bad, bad spot."
Nathan, who doesn't want his last name printed because of his pending legal case, came home from Afghanistan with haunted thoughts.
His mind still carries the image of 11 buddies whose remains he had to gather after a disastrous June 2005 mission in Afghanistan's Hindu Kush mountains. It was the single largest loss of life for Navy SEALs at that point since World War II: Operation Red Wings.
Three SEALs were killed in a firefight, and eight SEALs died when a rescue helicopter went down. Nathan was one of the remaining team members sent to collect the bodies and put them into bags.
When he left the SEALs after five years, he couldn't shake it. He carried the guilt of surviving while they had not. So he numbed up.
"It was very hard to go in public when I first got out. I froze up in the airport. I remember the first time I came back from combat, this is after I lost all my buddies, I just froze. I didn't even move," he said. "I would sweat, sweat, sweat — booze. OK, I feel good now."
On the surface, he was lucky. He got an easy, high-money job for a security contractor, teaching people weapons. But underneath he wasn't the good-times guy.
What people didn't see was the darkened room, the bottle of Jameson whiskey and the obsessive Internet searches on military topics. The cocaine.
"I was making four times as much, and I was working a lot less. So I had a lot more time to get in trouble," he said. "For a guy like me — any operator who's been to combat — if you have idle time and money in your pocket, nine times out of 10 you're going to go booze. Because you don't want to be alone."
Nathan's mother said the family knew something was wrong. Her son had been the life of the party, a bit of a hot dog. Now he wouldn't sleep on a bed, only the floor. They were afraid to do anything that might spook him.
When she opened his bedroom, she was sometimes scared she might find him dead.
"The biggest thing we saw was, he didn't want to be around people anymore," said his mother, who asked that her name not be printed.
"We didn't even understand what he was going through, not even in the least," she said.
Four years after discharge, the downward spiral turned into a frenzy.
Outside a bar, he had a heated exchange with a group of guys who saw it as a threat. It led to a criminal charge.
It meant he couldn't work with firearms while the case maneuvered through the court system. His outside world fell apart, finally mirroring his state of mind.
"When you start adding substance abuse, it turns that PTSD into something that is uncontrollable. It literally is uncontrollable," Nathan said during two days of interviews at Veterans Village of San Diego, where he received court-ordered treatment for PTSD.
"And it ate me up. And I allowed it to eat me up."
He agreed to tell his story because he wants people to know it happens, even to former Navy SEALs.
Unable to work as before, Nathan holed up in his brother's house. His savings dwindled. He came out once a day to find food. Otherwise he stayed in his room, with the whiskey. He didn't call anyone. When his parents phoned, he threatened to run to Mexico.
His brother moved, and Nathan faced a choice: Ask his parents if he might move back. Or hit the streets. Listening to the thunderclouds in his head, he chose the latter.
He was lucky. It was only a couple cold nights sleeping in his truck near the Ocean Beach Pier. His phone rang, and his parents told him to come home. He did.
But that didn't solve his problems.
Nathan elected for his case to go through San Diego County veterans court. The court, which opened in early 2011 and is one of several in the state, allows former service members with mental-health problems to get probation for their charges if they seek treatment. Some convictions are even dismissed.
The court was created to help first-time offenders. People convicted of major crimes, such as rape or attempted murder, aren't eligible.
Nathan and his mother say that getting arrested may have kept him alive.
"The best thing we did was not bail him out," she said.
The former SEAL's rehab came through Veterans Village, the Pacific Highway nonprofit organization that offers a 120-day residential program. But the court first made him appear at this summer's "Stand Down," a military term for a pause in the action.
As a touchstone, Nathan kept the cutoffs and T-shirt he wore that July day, when his mom dropped him off on Park Boulevard. Veterans from the streets appear once a year for the Veterans Village event at San Diego High School.
They come for haircuts and showers, free clothes and shoes. Some people arrive in hope of getting their legal disputes handled by on-site lawyers. Many are gray-haired men who served during the Vietnam War era. They are not new to the streets.
Young faces from the post-Sept. 11 generation of veterans are still fairly rare there.
By the time Nathan arrived, hundreds of people were waiting along Park Boulevard, their belongings bundled in tarps and stacked in shopping carts.
The former SEAL remembers it was hard to step out of the car. His mother said she worried he would skulk off after she drove away.
"I didn't know anything about Stand Down," Nathan said. "I was just told to show up at this address on this date. And I showed up and it was just like, 'Oh, man. There's a thousand bums, and I'm one of them.'"
Life in treatment has been an about-face for the former petty officer second class. No more Jameson. No more sullen silences.
Until last week, he lived in a dorm room with three other guys at Veterans Village. His world consisted of two metal bunks and a shared bathroom.
In one class, they read aloud from an Alcoholics Anonymous book. They discussed spirituality in another hourlong session. Nathan fidgeted in class. Sitting still isn't natural for him.
But getting numb can't be the answer anymore. Nathan believes that PTSD means he can never touch alcohol again.
"If I do, I'm going to kill somebody or kill myself. People think they can, but they can't. It's a tough pill to swallow. I didn't want to swallow it at 22," he said.
"The party's over, and it's time to grow up. It's time to be a man," he said. "I'm a former frickin' Navy SEAL. I'm supposed to be working in the White House right now. And I'm living here. I don't say it like that; this place saved my life. But look where I'm living. I'm a homeless veteran."
Nathan also believes that he never would have become an alcoholic if he hadn't witnessed combat, hadn't seen his buddies dead. There would have been nothing to numb, he said.
It possibly didn't have to go this way.
Nathan went to the La Jolla VA to file his paperwork upon discharge from the Navy in 2007. He sat in a room with VA doctors for an assessment. They heard about his drinking. They saw from his records where he had been.
They wanted to admit him then for PTSD treatment, according to Nathan's memory of the meeting. But he wasn't having it. He was still in tough-guy mode, learned from years of the-only-easy-day-was-yesterday military culture.
"I said, 'Thank you very much. It's been very nice. I'll get back to you guys on Monday.' And I didn't call them for five years," he said. "Now, looking back, that would have been an awesome plan."
His mother said doctors called the house, trying to convince him. Nathan was in denial. But his mother admits that the family played a role, too.
"Part of it was us. We said, 'Oh, you can't say you have post-traumatic. You'll never get a decent job,'" she said.
Nathan thinks combat vets, in particular those from special operations, should get at least three months to decompress before returning to normal American life. He calls the idea a "retreat," where service members take classes on the interaction of PTSD and drugs or alcohol and tackle their VA paperwork.
The Navy SEAL and Marine Corps Special Operations commands already try this tactic, on a smaller scale.
Since 2008, the SEALs send troops returning home from combat to an undisclosed spot outside of the United States for two to three days of what is called "third location decompression." Then they go home to their families.
Nathan graduated from Veterans Village last week and moved out on his own. He recently got his VA disability benefits approved, providing a steady trickle of money. He's got an employment deal lined up with a company that produces military gear. His legal case still dangles.
In five years, he wants to be successful in a company he has started. Entrepreneurship is a common goal among combat vets. They've seen what they can accomplish. And they want to be the ones giving the orders.
Nathan's mom can't look that far ahead for her son. She knows his family can't be his safety net again.
"We're just happy that he's where he is now," she said. "I would like to see him happy and come to grips with his (survivor's) guilt."
In the meantime, Nathan said he is giving himself permission to accept help.
"I want to enjoy life," he said. "I fought for this country. I deserve the benefits that this country has to offer."


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I can still remember the first time I got to play a MiniMoog synthesizer. I had heard it being used by rock groups like Yes and Emerson, Lake & Palmer and was fascinated by the range of sounds it was capable of making. The MiniMoog was a breakthrough device in many ways. Unlike the other synths of the era, it was portable and it didn't require the use of patch cords to route the audio signals to processing modules, making it playable in realtime. Amazing sounds, portability, and easy of use were key factors in the MiniMoog's popularity and subsequent ubiquity.
Today, synthesizers remain on the forefront of music making and I'm still enamored of their potential. Whereas synths were once single voice analog devices with inherent stability problems, they are now rock solid (pun intended) digital devices with even more amazing capabilities like multi-timbral, multi-voice polyphony, and sampled sound acquisition and playback.
As a result of my continuing interest in synthesizer technology, I recently wrote an iPhone/iPod Touch app called PSynth (Figure 1), which is a complete electronic music synthesizer and recorder that fits in the palm of your hand. I've learned a lot about electronic music and how synthesizers work over the years and so I decided to write a series of articles (starting with this one) detailing some of what I have learned. Being a programmer and musician, I have long been interested in using computers for music generation and PSynth is the direct result.
In the remainder of this article, I discuss the background necessary to understand how computer based music synthesis works and will provide a basic platform for experimentation. Note: Although PSynth was written in Objective-C as required for iPhone apps, Java will be used in these articles to make the code easier to understand.
In the second article of this series, I will present code for a multi-waveform oscillator (a staple of electronic music) and for an envelope generator, which is also an important electronic music component. In the third article, I will describe the digital equivalent of a voltage controlled amplifier (VCA) and a voltage controlled filter (VCF) and discuss the part these components play in our synth discussion. And, in the final article, I will show how effects such as delay and phasor can be deployed in our synthesizer architecture. By the time you finish reading these articles, you should be well versed in the basics of electronic music and software synthesis and have the code you need.
Be advised, I will be talking about only the real-time code used for electronic music production. If you are interested in the UI end of things, check out item four in the Resource section at the end of this article.
Introduction to Samples
Before delving into how to construct electronic music components/modules, it's necessary to ascertain information about the environment in which these components will run. Five important questions must be answered, all related to samples. Samples are to digital audio what pixels are to digital images.
- What is a sample?
- What sample rate will our components/modules support?
- What is the data type of the samples?
- What is the sample data type resolution/length?
- Will our components/modules support mono and/or stereo?
Samples can be visualized as values extracted at periodic intervals from a continuously variable analog waveform. Sampling converts the analog waveform into a discrete series of samples (numbers) representing the value of the waveform at precise times. Sampling converts the waveform from the analog domain into the digital domain, which is better suited for processing by computers. The analog waveform can be reconstituted from the stream of digital samples if certain criteria (described shortly) are met.
While we have discussed samples as being extracted from analog waveforms, this is not always their origin. Samples can also be algorithmically generated in software. For example, samples representing a sine wave at a frequency of 1000 Hz can be generated so as to be indistinguishable from their analog counterparts. Waveform generation will be described in the second article of this series.
Sample rate (the rate at which samples are acquired) is important because it determines the bandwidth of signals that can be expressed digitally without adverse side effects. The Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem states that "an analog signal that has been sampled can be perfectly reconstructed from an infinite sequence of samples if the sampling rate exceeds 2B samples per second, where B is the highest frequency in the original signal." In practice, this means is the highest frequency that can be expressed as a series of samples must be less than ½ the sample rate. Any frequencies higher than this Nyquist limit will cause aliasing of the signals, thus creating frequency components not present in the original signal (a bad thing).
Audio subsystems in modern computers are capable of supporting a wide variety of sample rates. At the low end of the spectrum, a sample rate of 8000 samples/second is typically used for voice applications; whereas samples rates of 96K samples/second and higher are reserved for high end audio acquisition and processing applications. A sample rate of 44,100 samples/second is typically used for music stored on CDs.
It is important to understand that the faster the sampling rate, the more load placed on the systems processing the samples. It is therefore important to choose a sample rate carefully by trading off the bandwidth required for signal fidelity with the resultant system loading. In the EMU 1820m sound card I use for home recording, the faster I set the sample rate, the fewer inputs and effects I have available. This is because faster sample rates place increased load on the host system.
A sample can either be a whole number (integer value) or a real number (floating-point value). Integer samples have a word length. An integer sample can be 8 bits, 16 bits or 32 bits in length and can be a unsigned or signed quantity. 32-bit signed values are used most often these days, but there are exceptions. Real valued samples can either be single (float) or double-precision (double) floating-point values.
Sample word length determines audio resolution and noise in a system. A byte sample has 256 possible values, whereas a 32 bit integer has 232 possible values, resulting in better resolution (hence, less signal distortion due to quantization). The increased resolution available to longer word length samples also means that the noise in the system will fall well below typical signal levels and therefore be less noticeable.
Most electronic music modules utilize mono or single channel sample streams. Some, however, accept a single channel stream as input but produce a multi-channel output stream. Multi-channel streams (stereo being the best known) require the processing of multiple samples per sample time — again increasing system loading.
Programming in the iPhone/iPod Touch environment, as I did for PSynth, required that I follow the rules for that environment. The API documentation said it was best to use floating-point values (floats) for samples because the hardware was optimized for them. So I did. I developed all of the PSynth code using the iPhone emulator provided with the development tools (Xcode) for testing and got everything to work. I then moved the code onto an iPod Touch and it didn't make a sound. After some serious head scratching, I found out that the real devices don't support float samples like the emulator did. I then had to write more code that accepted streams of float samples and converted them to integers so the hardware could play them. So, for PSynth, I used float samples for sample generation and processing. I then converted them to integers for the hardware. I used a sample rate of 22050 samples/second. All sample streams within PSynth are mono.


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I'm so flattered to be a part of the Sewing 101 series here at Pickup Some Creativity. What a wonderful resource for beginner and advanced sewers alike! I'm happy to be sharing a tutorial with you all today.
Incase you haven't noticed, ruffles are all the rage, and they're everywhere! I don't really know of another embellishment that is used quite as much, so if your someone who sews, ruffles are a great thing to know how to make. They are simple and easy. In the little time it takes to make them you can transform an article of clothing or an accessory from blah to beautiful! Here's a little tutorial on making two different kinds of ruffles...
2. On your machine, set your stitch length to the longest setting... on my machine that is a 7. This is called a basting stitch.
3. Using your basting stitch, sew right down the middle of your strip of fabric, making sure to leave plenty of thread at both ends. DO NOT back stitch at either end.
4. Pick up one of the threads on one end of the fabric and gently start to scrunch the fabric down the length of thread, while pulling gently at the thread. This creates your gather or ruffle.
Thanks so much, Jenny. Ruffles are such a great detail to add to almost any project. Please pop over and visit Jenny's blog. She has great tutorials, healthy recipes, including this fabulous super hero cape and cuff she shared during Celebrate the Boy.


text: The members of indie art rock band Nurses had known each other since elementary school and finally put Nurses together around 2004. On a whim, they moved from their hometown in Idaho to California. In 2006 they recorded in San Diego with producer Jason Cupp (the Elected, Finch) and self-released Hangin' Nothin' But Our Hands Down. The lineup as of spring 2007 consisted of Aaron Chapman (vocals, guitar, piano), John Bowers (guitar, piano, vocals), Bobby Bolton (drums, vocals), and Charlie Bolton (bass, vocals). However, for their 2009 Dead Oceans debut Apple's Acre -- which was recorded on a laptop -- the group pared down to the core duo of Bowers and Chapman. Nurses expanded their sound and lineup on 2011' s Dracula, adding member James Mitchell to the fold and recording in a studio they built in an Oregon cabin. ~ Kenyon Hopkin


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Turn call waiting on or off
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A number of icons displayed indicate various settings and events.
The battery icon shows the remaining battery power. The bigger the coloured section of the icon, the more power.
Battery charging
The battery charging icon shows the battery is charging.
Signal strength
The signal strength icon shows the strength of the network signal at your location. The more lines, the stronger the signal.
Flight mode
The flight mode icon shows flight mode is turned on.
Network mode
The network mode icon shows the network mode currently used by your mobile phone.
Call divert
The divert icon shows all voice calls are diverted.
Missed calls
The missed calls icon shows you have one or more missed calls.
The SMS/MMS icon shows you've received a new SMS or MMS.
The email icon shows you've received a new email.
Silent mode
The silent mode icon shows silent mode is turned on and all phone sounds are turned off.
The alarm icon shows the alarm is set.
Active data connection
The active data connection icon shows a data connection is active.
The Bluetooth icon shows Bluetooth is turned on.
The Wi-Fi icon shows your mobile phone is connected to a Wi-Fi network.
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Screenshots of Ice Cream Sandwich widgets have leaked. Come on everyone, let's stare at the subtle differences between the Android builds.
The Android Police, not to confused with the Dream Police, have uncovered screenshots of Ice Sandwich widgets. The fine officers have posted a series of side-by-side images of the widget screenshots of Ice Cream Sandwich and Honeycomb for Gmail, Email, and Calendar.
With the release of the latest Android OS being announced tonight, expect to see more of these leaks. We'll be live blogging tonight's Ice Cream Sandwich social starting at 10PM Eastern, 7PM Pacific. [Android Police via Engadget]


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All types of diabetes involve the hormone insulin. Insulin, which is made by the pancreas, takes sugars (that we get from eating food) from our blood to our cells to use as energy. If insulin is not present or is not working effectively, then glucose can build up in the blood, causing life-threatening conditions.
Type 1 diabetes, which affects 5 percent of all people with diabetes, is an autoimmune disease most often diagnosed in childhood or the teen years; in fact, traditionally, it was known as juvenile diabetes. In this type of diabetes, the pancreas produces very little insulin or no insulin at all. People with Type 1 diabetes have to inject themselves once a day with insulin to regulate the levels of glucose in their blood.
The majority of all diagnosed cases of diabetes are Type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is also known as adult-onset diabetes since it is often diagnosed later in life. In Type 2 diabetes, your body may be producing insulin but your body is essentially ignoring it, producing the same buildup of glucose in your bloodstream.
There are certain risk factors for Type 2 diabetes, the most well-known being obesity. Other risk factors include ethnicity, age and diet.
There's also gestational diabetes, which affects about 18 percent of all pregnancies. A woman who develops high blood sugar levels (and didn't have diabetes prior to her pregnancy) during pregnancy is said to have gestational diabetes. If you're pregnant, your doc will usually give you a blood glucose test between your 24th and 27th week of pregnancy so you can be treated accordingly.
So is there any way to prevent diabetes?
Type 1 is medically unpreventable autoimmune disease, but Type 2 is definitely preventable in many people. Millions of people in the world are diagnosed with diabetes, and millions more don't even know that they're at risk.
One of the most important things you can to do prevent the onset of Type 2 diabetes is to maintain a regular exercise routine. Almost anything will do, as long as it involves you moving. The International Diabetes Federation recommends doing at least 30 minutes of aerobic activity daily, like walking, swimming or even dancing! As long as it's something you enjoy, you're bound to stick with it.
Another thing you can focus on is your diet. A diabetes prevention diet would include lots of fruit, vegetables and whole grains. It would essentially help you maintain regular blood glucose levels by eating a variety of nutritious foods and sticking to regular mealtimes. It is not a diet, per se, as much as it is a lifestyle.
Some other studies have showed that reducing your stress, getting the right amount of sleep, and even having sufficient vitamin D levels can all help in prevent diabetes.
What's most important is to get prescreened, and if you're older than 45, to get regular blood glucose tests. Diabetes is manageable, but it can also be preventable in lots of us, so if you think you're at risk, you have another great reason to get off the couch and get moving.
Related diabetes stories on MNN:
- Changes in gut flora linked to type 2 diabetes
- Study: Weight training my reduce diabetes risk in men
- Alarming rise in diabetes for children


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Piatti Ristorante necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 49 diseños de 12 diseñadores freelance.
Piatti Ristorante and Bar
We are a new restaurant located in Glastonbury, CT, USA. We are a casual, yet elegant, restaurant providing Italian fare to the relatively affluent community around us. We provide a romantic, upscale, sophisticated setting for couples and families to enjoy. Glastonbury had a median age of 40, with an average income of $80k. 73% of the population is families.
individuals and couples 30+, families. Our clientele tends to be a more discerning group, both well-educated and affluent.
Looking for a site that fits our style. Although we are an Italian restaurant, we do NOT want a traditional Italian restaurant look. The site must be clean, easy to navigate and not overly cluttered.
Colors: brown and tan, maroon, dark greens. Background color can be black (we use black inside restaurant), and you can use maroons and possibly a ruby red as accent colors.
Navigation: will have either drop downs or a "sub menu" bar (see "sites we like" for an idea).
- Dinner Menu, Wine Menu, Drink Menu
Contact Us
About Us
Sites we like/dislike
- Dislike the colors, use colors we discussed
- Like the home page layout with the box layout
- Like the motion and bw/color mix in the photos
- Like the motion picture, flame
- Like the join email club button in plain site
- Like the colors (black)
- Like how the pictures fade in bw to color
- Like the simplicity of the site
- Like the secondary selection bar when you choose a main menu item. example, About Us, secondary- Contact, in the news, etc..
- Like how the pictures compliment the page
- Dislike the picture behind the menu bar, too busy
- Like - again like how the secondary menu bar is incorporated
- Dislike the site in general


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Women in the Empires & Kingdoms – The Royal Ladies on Ancient Greek & Roman Coins
Women portrayed on coins, the empresses, queens and divas on the historical coins of ancient Greece and Rome
The ancient times were populated with many royal rulers. Many people do not even look at the power behind the throne was actually, many times, a woman. Some of the ones that capture the imagination being Queen Cleoptra VII of Egypt, lover to both Julius Caesar and Mark Antony and mother to their children. Without the role of women in history, we are missing fifty percent of the historical context or more. Many of the coins these women issued are still available for our collecting pleasure. The goal of this guide is to give you a list of just some of the women portrayed on coins of the ancient times. You can click on the name of each of the women on this list and easily search my eBay coin store to see her ancient coins available for sale and learn more about each. You may want to also visit the ancient Roman coin collecting guide which has a chronological list of the emperors and empresses of the Roman empire.
- Cleopatra, anything related to her name, there being several Cleopatras in history, one of them being the lover of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony
- Livia Drusilla wife of Augustus
- Agrippina Jr., wife of Claudius, mother of Nero
- Poppaea, wife of Nero – Roman Emperor: 54-68 A.D.
- Domitia, wife of Domitian
- Faustina I Roman Empress and wife of Antoninus Pius
- Faustina II Roman Empress Marcus Aurelius wife and mother of Commodus
- Lucilla, Roman empress, wife of Lucius Verus
- Crispina, wife of emperor Commodus
- Julia Domna Roman Empress 193-217 A.D.
- Plautilla, Empress wife of emperor Caracalla
- Julia Soaemias – Roman Empress Mother of Elagabalus, Roman Emperor 218-222 A.D.
- Julia Paula – Roman Empress & First wife of Emperor Elagabalus
- Julia Maesa – Grandmother of Roman Emperors Elagbalus & Severus Alexander
- Julia Mamaea Roman Empress Severus Alexander mother
- Tranquillina, Roman Empress wife of Gordian III
- Herennia Etruscilla Roman Empress wife of Trajan Decius
- Salonina – Roman Empress Wife of Gallienus
- Severina, wife of Aurelian – Roman Emperor 270-275 A.D
- Galeria Valeria Roman Empress wife of Galerius 308-311 A.D.
- Saint Helena Roman Empress Mother of Constantine the Great
- Fausta, Roman empress wife of Constantine I the Great
- Aelia Flacilla Roman Empress Theodosius I Wife 379-385 A.D.
- Eudoxia – Roman Empress wife of Arcadius
- Sophia, wife of Justin II – Byzantine Emperor: 565-578 A.D.
- Eudocia, wife of Constantine X – Byzantine Emperor 1059-1067 A.D.
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The larger Ash dome enclosing
The larger Ash dome enclosing the Moore RC24 (MORC24) telescope requires 220V power for rotation and for shutters. The rotation control is through a DIN relay system and modular relays similar to that used for the Sirius domes, except the wiring mimics a manual AC motor drum switch. One relay sets direction and another relay toggles the mains power on and off. The same pattern is used to open and close the shutter through a dropline.
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The domes at Moore and Mt. Kent observatories have their own control systems designed to interface with the electromechanical hardware supplied by the dome manufacturer. The esstential design elements shared by all domes are
- Rotation encoder
- Rotation motor controller
- Shutter motor controller
- Software connected to the telescope control system
Additionally, some domes have environmental and shutter status monitors.
This page is a description of the dome control hardware and software highlighting similarities and differences between the systems for the various telescope enclosures at Moore and Mt. Kent observatories.
Rotation Encoder
We use an RFID tag encoder that senses tags attached to the inside perimeter of a dome. On the CDK20 Sirius domes, the tags are attached to the gear drive rail as shown here:
The tags on CDK20N are 4 degrees apart. Each tag has a unique identifying code. When the dome rotates and brings a tag into the sensing space of a tag reader, software traps the tag event and identifies the dome azimuth angle based on a map of tags to angle that is saved for each dome.
The tag readers are from Phidgets, a company that makes USB-interfaced hardware for electronics hobbiest. They supply an OpenSource library that enables us to include the tag reader in the dome control software.
Dome rotation software has been written to use the INDI protocol and communicate with the telescope control software in an observatory operations package.
- PyDome scripted control interfaces with telescope and camera operations for automated dome tracking during long exposure sequences
More information is available on the Shared Skies software page.
Sirius Domes for CDK20N and CDK20S
The original Sirius electronics controls dome rotation and the opening and closure of the upper and lower shutters through manually operated switches. The control board is proprietary, but its operation is determined by wiring to screw terminals that we have modified to connect to external digital systems. The common schematic for rotation and shutters at both sites is shown here:
A switch applies 12 VDC power to one of two lines that select the direction of rotation, or similarly open or close the two shutters. In computer controlled operation there is a relay system in parallel with the manual switch, such as shown here:
with the power for the relays provided by the "COM" 12 VDC power of the dome electronics. Note that "COM" is not ground, but the common 12VDC from the battery power of the system. Fuses and circuit breakers protect the motors from overload, and the control board is designed so that most operations are safe. In this respect, there are limit switches on the shutter motion that turn off power to the motors when the shutters are fully open or closed. There is no hard-wired logic to insure that the lower shutter is closed before the upper shutter drops down over it, however.
At the CDK20N we have a relay box mounted on the dome wall containing 6 socketed industrial relays with 12 VDC coils. The relays are wired such that the application of the "COM" voltage to a control line causes the relay to close with the same effect as the corresponding switch.
The relay box is hardwired to the dome rotation electronics, and may also be hardwired to the shutter electronics though a dropline to the rotating dome. The line falls at the perimeter of the dome and may sweep 180 degrees in either direction from south, largely free of obstruction. However, the dropline is connected through an 8-pin Phoenix Contact connector that will pull apart if the cable is caught.
Alternatively, a National Control Devices MirC Wi-Fi relay mirror is used which accepts contact closures from the same Phoenix connector as input, and trips relays on a mirror card at the shutter electronics module. This system eliminates the possibility of that the cable will detach in remote operation. However it also uses more power from the dome solar powered battery.
The master relay box is controlled by a Digital-Loggers Web Din Relay shown here:
The device provides a robust configurable interface that enables web-based control of the dome shutters and rotation. Since it runs its own internal server. interfacing with it is simple through TCP/IP over port 80.
Each labelled relay controls a single normally open line, and connects to the dome 12 VDC system to switch on that function. The lines are color coded, and connected by a 9-wire cable that is terminated with a Phoenix Contact connector close to the DIN controller:
- Rotate CW (decrease azimuth) - yellow to relay 1
- Rotate CCD (increase azimuth) - brown to relay 2
- Open Upper - orange to relay 7
- Close Upper - green to relay 8
- Open lower - blue to relay 5
- Close lower - violet to relay 6
This relay order leaves a safe gap on the user interface between shutter and dome rotation. It also avoids relay 3 which, on the module in the CDK20N dome, may have a high resistance contact.
Sirius Shutter Control at CDK20S
At Mt. Kent the shutter control is wireless and utilizes a system designed by Dr. Rhodes Hart incorporating a solar-powered microcontroller. The controller manages TCP/IP communications through a secure wireless network accessible to remote observers and to observatory control software. Since it is aware of the environment, and requires a heartbeat signal from the observatory watchdog program, it will automatically close the dome should communications or mains power failures occur. It can be programmed to be aware of the rain and dew sensors as well. Addtional details on this controller, which has been duplicated for use in all the enclosures at Mt. Kent, will be provided on another page. Fundamentally it takes on the same role as the relay mirror used in the CDK20N dome, with the addition of monitoring for telescope safety.
RC24 Ash Dome
The larger Ash dome enclosing the Moore RC24 (MORC24) telescope requires 220V power for rotation and for shutters. The rotation control is through a DIN relay system and modular relays similar to that used for the Sirius domes, except the wiring mimics a manual AC motor drum switch. One relay sets direction and another relay toggles the mains power on and off. The same pattern is used to open and close the shutter through a dropline.


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