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Skip to 0 minutes and 6 seconds EMMA: Once you've gathered all the sources needed for your research, you probably feel like you have this jumbled mess of your core books, websites, journals, newspapers and all those other types of sources that you might have found, with no idea of what to do with them or how they fit together. I like to lay my sources out, either physically or digitally, working out which ones fit to which parts of my essay. If I was going to write a for or against style essay, for example, I'd arrange them on two sides as clearly as I possibly can, so that they make more logical sense to me.
Skip to 0 minutes and 40 seconds They won't necessarily fit into either side particularly well, so you have to interpret them and work out how they fit within your argument. I would do the exact same thing if I were writing sections or chapters as well, putting sources towards the introduction or the methodology. Obviously, to be able to logically order them like this, you have to have an idea of what you want the order to be. Always start with an introduction. It sets out the context for your work and will tell the reader exactly what they're going to be told, what your overall position will be and exactly how you plan to guide the reader through your work. So remember those three things; context, hypothesis, and structure.
Skip to 1 minute and 21 seconds Next comes the main body of the work. Here you have the opportunity to explore in more depth the importance of your research, what the background to it is, and what work has already been done in this field. You can show examples as evidence of the issues that you've considered in shaping your general point of view. So for each section; outline your point, provide evidence for it, then link it back to your research question, and on again to your next point. Try and remember to be balanced. So, for every point you make, make a counterargument to show that you've thoroughly considered all sides of the argument. Again, consider three things; overview, examples, and paragraphs. Finally, you will reach that conclusion.
Skip to 2 minutes and 5 seconds Give a very clear statement of your argument in a way that satisfies your research questions. It's also worth considering, at the end of every piece of research, exactly what the implications of your work are, who agrees with you, and where further research might be useful. So; answer, argument, implications. Some research, a little bit like my own, will need a bit more structure than this. It might include, but isn't limited to, a literature review, where you document work that exists in your field already, its significance, and your take on it. Also, a methodology section, where you can explain complicated methods, or forms of analysis.
Skip to 2 minutes and 47 seconds You then go on to reveal your results, followed by a discussion which indicates what their significance is and the impact on your research questions. To use the for and against argument again, what you're doing is taking a source as evidence for your point, analysing it and evaluating it before linking it on to another point. And so the process goes on until you reach your conclusion. Effectively, what you're trying to do is tie all the strands of evidence together into one coherent piece of work.
Organising your sources and structuring your essay
Once you have gathered all the sources you need for your research, it might seem like you have a jumbled mess of books, journals, websites, newspapers, all different types of resources that you just don't know what to do with or how they fit together.
Some might contradict each other, even though they make the same point. It's all about working out where exactly to place them.
In this animation with voiceover Emma, illustrates an approach to structuring and writing up your report so that you end up with a coherent piece of work.
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Are you middle-aged or older?
If so, here's a quick and simple test that can predict how long you'll live.
The test doesn't require any preparation or special equipment, and takes you only a few minutes to do. You can take the test in your home, in whatever you're wearing, including pyjamas! 😉
Here are the instructions:
- Sit cross-legged on the floor.
- Without worrying about how much time you take, try and get up from the floor with as minimum support — using your knee(s) or hand(s) — as possible.
Here's a tip:
- When you're sitting on the floor, first uncross your legs.
- Now put your legs in front of you, with the knees up.
- Now see if you can stand up, using the strength of your legs alone.
How did you do?
- If you got up from a sitting position on the floor without using ANY support, you get a perfect score of 10.
- Subtract a point for each support used, e.g., subtract one point if you used a hand; two if you used a hand and a knee; four if your used both hands and both knees.
The sitting-rising test reveals a person's level of musculoskeletal fitness, which is a strong predictor of health in the middle-aged and above. How an individual scores on the test is a predictor of his/her longevity-mortality.
Dr. Claudio Gil Araujo and colleagues at the Clinimex Exercise Medicine Clinic in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, conducted a study on 2,002 men and women, aged 51 to 80, on their ability to sit and then rise unaided from the floor.
The participants were ranked on a score of zero to 10. People who scored 10 did not use any support to sit or rise from the floor.
The study found that the ability to sit on the floor before rising to a standing position was closely linked to all causes of death.
After doing the sitting-rising test, the participants were followed for an average of about 6 years. During the follow-up period, nearly 8% of the participants died. Most of those deaths occurred among people with low test scores. Only two people who scored 10 on the test died.
Compared to those who scored 8 or higher, people who scored below 8 were twice as likely to die. Those who scored zero on the test were 5 to 6 times more likely to die, according to the study. Each one-point increase in the score was associated with a 21% reduced risk of death.
Dr. Araujo explains that a high score on the sitting-rising test might "reflect the capacity to successfully perform a wide range of activities of daily living, such as bending over to pick up a newspaper or a pair of glasses from under a table. It is well known that aerobic fitness is strongly related to survival, but our study also shows that maintaining high levels of body flexibility, muscle strength, power-to-body weight ratio and coordination are not only good for performing daily activities but have a favorable influence on life expectancy."
Although the study found an association between ability to rise from the floor and death risk, it did not prove a cause-and-effect relationship.
The study was published Dec. 13 in the European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention.
H/t NewsMax and Daily Mail.
If you got a low score on the test, it's not too late to do something about it. Start doing strength exercises like squats, sit-ups, leg-lifts and lunges, to improve your musculoskeletal fitness!
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A mother of a 3-year-old boy found wandering the streets of Chicago's West Englewood neighborhood alone was charged Tuesday.
She is charged with misdemeanor child endangerment.
Amanda Martin found the child wandering in the bitter cold just before midnight last night. The temperature overnight was in the teens. She went to hold his hand and she said it was like ice. He was fully dressed with an open coat and hat, jeans and sneakers, but his mother was nowhere to be found. Martin says he wasn't crying and didn't seem scared. She couldn't understand his real name only his nickname "The Big Boss." He didn't know exactly where he lived.
Martin called 911. Chicago police came quickly.
Martin is grateful she's the one who found the boy.
As for his mother, she spent the morning at the 7th District being questioned by detectives before being charged. Apparently a friend saw her son's picture on TV this morning and let her know he wasn't home.
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Jason Hettler, a security officer at the Indian Point nuclear power plant north of New York City, took several weeks off work in 2009 to help his wife, who was coping with a high-risk pregnancy. He took off more time in 2012 and last year, when she had another health problem.
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MARK PERRY: No amount of subsidies can ignite electric car sales
It's tempting to call the shameful taxpayer subsidy for electric cars -- vehicles that are unaffordable for all but a small number of wealthy Americans -- this nation's costly little secret.
But it's no secret, and that's the real shame. It's obvious now that electric vehicles can't compete with gasoline-powered cars, even with generous government subsidies.
And for years, automotive engineers have documented that the performance of electric vehicles -- particularly their short range and battery uncertainty under real traffic conditions -- falls short in virtually every aspect.
What's truly shameful is that such disparities have done nothing to change policy. Subsidizing electric vehicles has been a devil's bargain, making the development of other alternative technologies like conventional hybrids and advanced gasoline engines more difficult.
Since 2008, taxpayers have spent or provided loan guarantees of $6.5 billion for electric vehicles. That includes $2.4 billion for battery and electric drive component manufacturing, $3.1 billion in loan guarantees for electric vehicle projects and $1 billion in tax credits for the vehicles.
The price that American taxpayers pay for commercializing electric vehicles is painfully evident in the billions spent on green projects that are driven by politics rather than performance.
Instead of letting plug-in vehicles like the Nissan Leaf, GM Volt and Ford Focus Electric compete on their own against fuel-efficient gasoline-powered cars, the government has used subsidies to create an artificial market that otherwise would not exist.
Using taxpayer dollars to favor one automotive technology over another is contrary to the free-market principles that undergird our economy. Simply put, subsidizing electric vehicles doesn't make economic sense.
That's evident in the lackluster sales of the vehicles. Even with a $7,500 tax credit, GM sold a meager 7,671 electric-hybrid Volts in 2011, far fewer than its goal of 10,000. Nissan sold 9,674 all-electric Leafs.
We won't even come close to President Barack Obama's prediction a few years ago that 1 million electric cars would be on the road by 2015.
The production costs of electric cars have not dropped to make them competitive with gasoline-powered vehicles. The average American can't afford an electric car, no matter how strongly one might feel about curbing our dependence on foreign oil and driving an emission-free vehicle.
Barring a huge run-up in gasoline prices, it would take more than a decade of driving to offset the Chevrolet Volt's $41,000 price tag or even the Nissan Leaf's still hefty window sticker of $33,000.
And the bills can pile up. Unless you're willing to wait eight hours to recharge your car, you'll want a high-speed recharger installed in your home, adding thousands of dollars to the cost. Maintaining an electric car is likely to be more expensive than a conventional car, because there are not many repair shops capable of doing the work.
And a battery that costs about $20,000 may last only eight years, leaving customers with a vehicle that has little resale value.
How does the government justify spending taxpayer money to subsidize wealthy Americans buying expensive cars?
Most of the all-electric sales have been concentrated in California, where the vehicles are popularized by high-profile celebrities and driven by people who have stratospheric incomes.
Supposedly the price of electric cars will come down as volumes increase, making the vehicles more affordable.
But even if the federal tax credit increases from $7,500 to $10,000, as Obama has proposed, and other states mimic California by adding an additional $1,500 tax credit, Americans may not buy electric vehicles because of their shortcomings in size, comfort and range.
The surest way to guarantee a product's failure is to subsidize it. Over time, cars that succeeded in the marketplace have been those that were developed and commercialized without government involvement.
If a technology isn't capable of succeeding on its own economic merits, there's no amount of taxpayer support that will ever make it a commercial success.
Mark J. Perry is a professor of economics at the University of Michigan in Flint, and a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. Readers may write him at UM Flint, 2111 Riverfront Center, Flint, Mich. 48502-1950.


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Looking for a fun activity for the kids' table this Thanksgiving? Your tots will love making these cute little turkeys using pinecones and play dough! Give your Little Pnuts a fine motor workout with this fun and easy activity.
What You Will Need:
- Large Pinecones for the turkey "bodies"
- Miniature pinecones for turkey "heads" (large acorns, pom-poms, or just a ball of play dough would work, too)
- Play dough (any color)
- Feathers and/or pipe cleaners (cut in half)
- Google eyes
- Small triangles of construction paper or craft foam for "beaks"
Making the Turkey:
Take a large pine cone and show your Little Pnut how to poke small pieces of play dough between the scales. Next, take your feathers and/or pipe cleaners and poke them into the play dough, creating the turkey's colorful tail. Then, make a face on your turkey's "head" using small bits of play dough to stick on google eyes and a beak, and for the grand finale, use a larger ball of play dough to stick the head onto the body.
For younger Little Pnuts, you may want to make the turkey's head ahead of time and hot glue it onto the turkey's body before doing the activity. Older Little Pnuts will enjoy doing the whole activity themselves! Be creative with your materials – have your Little Pnuts help you think of other items that could be used for the turkey's feathers. Some we thought of include colorful pasta, cut-up straws, popsicle sticks, etc.
Developmental Milestones:
This activities focuses on the following Developmental Milestones for your Little Pnuts:
Fine Motor Skill Development, Hand/Eye Coordination, Focus & Concentration—Stephanie Haass, Little Pnuts Early Childhood Activities Expert & Blogger, www.two-daloo.com


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Brewed By: The Alchemist
Style: Gluten Free Saison
Celia is a 2010 World Beer Cup gold medal winner in the gluten free beer category. I picked up this bottle in Vermont; it is currently not available in Maine.
Celia is a hazy golden color in the glass, steady visible carbonation and a short white head that did not settle.
The Belgian yeast is pretty noticeable in the nose; it blends well with the light sorghum smell. The orange peels are pretty strong and there is just a hint of alcohol there as well.
Right up front in the flavor is the orange peels, a bit too strong for my taste. The Belgian yeast does an excellent job of covering up the sorghum flavors and the hops lend a pleasant bitterness and a slightly earthy, vegetal flavor as well.
Overall not a beer I'd want to drink more than one of, I don't think it's bad but the strong orange peel flavor just doesn't work for me. If you are a fan of Saison's and like a beer with an orange flavor this is a gluten free beer that will work for you.
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Hi, i am making an application that will use a access database and an excel spread sheet. It will basically save data from mutiple text box inputted by the user into both excel and access. The part of the application i need help with is below what i am trying to do is learn how to define the table in the excel tables. I have looked around and have had no progress with defining tables field. Below i have included in the comments the definition type for each column. If possible I would like to have a complete list of excel definition for the field I can use with excel oledb. Any help will be surely appreciated. thx.
dim fName as string = textbox1.text
dim lName as string = textbox2.text
dim ClientID as string = textbox3.text
' Create a excel workbook with a table named Interviews. The table has 10
' fields: ClientID (autoNumber), lastName (char 20), firstName(20),
' phone(number), email(20), date(date), time(time), Voicemail(true/false),
' callBack(true/false), Scheduled(true/false).
Dim conn As New OleDbConnection()
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cmd1.CommandText = "CREATE TABLE Interviews (ClientId autoNumber, lastName varchar(20), firstName varchar(20))" ' and so on.........................................
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Country: U.S.
Age: 31
Past Olympic experience: Won silver in giant slalom and combined at Salt Lake City. Was fifth in the downhill and sixth in giant slalom at Turin.
Career highlights: Won the overall World Cup titles in 2005 and 2008 and has six world championship gold medals. He has 31 career World Cup victories, including five in Super G.
Quote: Miller, who was roundly criticized for his cavalier attitude at Turin when he partied hard and failed to win a medal, on whether he'll compete in the 2010 Games: "If the hype around me is too negative [leading into the Olympics], I won't do it."
Country: Austria
Age: 28
Past Olympic experience: Finished 10th in the Super G at Turin.
Career highlights: Was the World Cup Super G champion last season when he won races at Beaver Creek and Bormio and finished second at Whistler. Won the giant slalom at Whistler last season, his first career win in that discipline.
Quote: "I know that slope is perfect for me. I can be fast here and that gives me a lot of confidence."
Country: Canada
Age: 27
Past Olympic experience: Was fourth in the Super G at Turin.
Career highlights: Was fourth in downhill and sixth in Super G at the 2007 world championships. He had five podium finishes, including his first career win in a downhill at Garmisch, Germany, in the 2006-07 season when he finished 12th in the overall standings. He tied for fourth in Super G at Whistler last season.
Quote: On Own the Podium: "It's pretty easy to sit behind a desk and say 'We're going to win all these medals. We're going to be the best winter country out there. We're going to kick everybody's ass.' It's not that easy. I think that was a mistake. When you're saying things like that, it's added pressure to athletes."
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Age: 34
Past Olympic experience: Competed in three Olympics, winning a silver in the Super G at Nagano. Was 12th in Super G and 19th in giant slalom at Turin.
Career highlights: World Cup downhill champion each of the past two seasons. Also finished second in the Super G in both seasons.
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(koo dah foo drah) - The moment when "lightning strikes" or something unforgettable occurs that you want to capture forever. This is Coup de Foudre!
For the past 20 years, we have had the great fortune and honor to work with wine, savor it, and witness its impact on consumers as they navigate the wonders of wine and the sheer pleasure that it brings. We have watched many people commemorate special times in their lives with wine. A few years ago, we embarked on our path to create a unique wine with elements worthy of a Coup de Foudre.
Once a year the rarest new Napa Valley wines become available under one roof at Premiere Napa Valley. Wineries throughout the Napa Valley are given one task to participate: create a one-of-a-kind wine for this event to be purchased by one lucky bidder. This event is only open to select members of the wine trade and the successful bidder is the sole owner of this unique wine.
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Varietal: Cabernet Sauvignon
Vintage: 2018
Release Date: October - 2020
Appellation: Calistoga
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Hotline Answers "Panic Button" Food Safety Questions
"Help! I'm having 20 people over for dinner and I think I cooked the meat unsafely!" The USDA Meat and Poultry Hotline receives similar calls every day about the safety of food. During the holidays, people are busy and sometimes forget that unsafe handling and cooking can lead to foodborne illness.
Here are some questions callers have asked regarding the safety of their holiday foods.
Q. "I just discovered I cooked the turkey with the package of giblets still inside the cavity. Are the turkey and giblets safe to eat?"
A. If giblets were left in the cavity during roasting, even though this is not recommended, the turkey and giblets are probably safe to use. However, if the packaging containing the giblets has changed shape or melted in any way during cooking, do not use the giblets or the turkey because harmful chemicals from the packaging may have penetrated the surrounding meat.
Q. "This morning, I discovered the pork roast was left out all night. I took it out of the freezer to thaw for awhile last night and forgot to put it back in the fridge before I went to bed. The roast is completely thawed and warm to the touch. If I cook it, will it be safe?"
A. Unfortunately, this roast should not be eaten. It has been out of refrigeration too long. Refrigerate perishables, prepared foods, and leftovers within 2 hours (1 hour if the temperature is above 90 °F.) At room temperature, bacteria that may be present in raw meat and poultry multiply very rapidly and some types of bacteria will produce toxins which are not destroyed by cooking and can possibly cause illness. Never thaw frozen meat or poultry on the kitchen counter. Refrigerator thawing is much safer. You may also thaw foods in cold water or in the microwave. These foods must be cooked immediately to a safe minimum internal temperature before refrigerating.
Q. "I received a gift of a smoked pheasant from a mail order company. It was packed in a box with no dry ice or frozen gel packs. It wasn't cold even though the label said "keep refrigerated." Because it is smoked, will that make it safe?"
A. Poultry and hams are smoked for flavor, not preservation. The only exceptions are country hams and dry sausages which are safe at room temperature because of their high salt content and dryness. If a product is labeled "keep refrigerated," that's a warning that it must be kept cold to be safe. Don't eat the product. If perishable food arrives warm—above 40 °F as measured with a food thermometer—notify the company. It's the shipper's responsibility to deliver the product on time, properly packaged and handled safely; the customer's responsibility is to have someone at home to receive it and refrigerate it immediately.
Q. "I purchased a fresh stuffed turkey from my local grocery store in the deli department. One of my houseguests said it's not safe to cook and eat it. Is she right?"
A. Your houseguest must be well-informed on food safety. She's right: DO NOT USE IT! We recommend discarding or returning the product to the store where purchased.
USDA recommends only buying frozen pre-stuffed turkeys that display the USDA or State mark of inspection on the packaging. These turkeys are safe because they have been processed under controlled conditions. DO NOT THAW before cooking. Cook from the frozen state. Follow package directions for safe handling and cooking.
Q. "The instructions on the ham said it would take about 4 hours to cook, but the thermometer read 160 °F after 3 hours. The problem is that we won't be eating for another 2 hours. Can I leave it out on the counter covered with foil?"
A. That's not a good idea. Bacteria that cause foodborne illness can contaminate safely cooked food left out at room temperature. Scientists have found that after 2 hours at room temperature, bacteria can multiply on foods to high enough levels to cause illness. Since the ham will be out extra time for carving and serving, it's better to cover it and keep it in a 200 °F oven until you're ready to serve it. Check the ham with a food thermometer to make sure it doesn't go below an internal temperature of 140 °F while it's in the oven.
Q. " What should I do? I put a 20 lb. turkey in a 200 °F oven before I went to bed last night, and the pop-up timer says it's already done at 7:30 this morning. We won't be eating until 3 p.m."
A. You have two problems here. First, overnight cooking of meat at a low temperature isn't a safe method so we don't recommend eating this turkey. It's not safe to cook any meat or poultry in an oven set lower than 325 °F. At 200 °F, meat remains in the "Danger Zone" too long (between 40 and 140 °F) where bacteria multiply rapidly and can form toxins.
Secondly, holding a safely cooked turkey at a safe internal temperature of 140 °F or above for this amount of time can dry it out and affect the quality. If a safely cooked turkey must be held from 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., for optimal safety and quality it should be carved and refrigerated in covered shallow containers and served cold or reheated to an internal temperature of 165 °F. Use a food thermometer to check the internal temperature.
Q. "My aunt has a holiday party every year. It lasts all afternoon and into the evening. She leaves food sitting out on the table for hours. I have small children and am concerned that they could get sick if they eat it. What should I do?"
A. You're right to be concerned about your children. They, as well as pregnant women, older adults, and persons with a weakened immune system, stand a greater chance of getting sick and suffering complications from foodborne illness. Everyone should avoid eating perishable foods which are not either kept cold or hot. Hopefully your aunt will keep hot foods kept hot (140 °F or warmer) in a chafing dish, slow cooker, or warming trays. Cold foods should be held at 40 °F or colder, nestled in bowls of ice or replaced often from the refrigerator. You can offer your child these with confidence.
Q. "I baked some pumpkin pies over the weekend to serve tomorrow on Thanksgiving. They've just been sitting on the counter. Should I have refrigerated them?"
A. Yes. Foods made with eggs and milk such as pumpkin pie, custard pie and cheesecake, must first be safely baked to a safe minimum internal temperature of 160 °F. Then, they must be refrigerated after baking. Eggs and milk have high protein and moisture content and when these baked products are left at room temperature, conditions are ripe for bacteria to multiply. It's not necessary to refrigerate most other cakes, cookies or breads unless they have a perishable filling or frosting.
Q. "I roasted my holiday turkey yesterday and put it in the refrigerator. It isn't stuffed so I thought it was safe. Then my daughter said I shouldn't have refrigerated it whole. Is it safe to eat today?"
A. We do not recommend you refrigerate a cooked turkey whole — it could take too long to cool down to a safe temperature. For optimal safety, cut whole or large pieces of poultry into small pieces. It's okay to leave the drumsticks, thighs and wings intact, if you prefer. Refrigerate in covered shallow containers within 2 hours of cooking. This is very important to ensure rapid, even cooling and quick reheating.


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Grand jury likely in death of Adrian Peterson's son
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. >> Prosecutors expect to ask a grand jury to consider more serious charges in the death of the 2-year-old son of Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson.
Tom Wollman, Lincoln County state's attorney, said Tuesday he'll review the recently completed autopsy findings and other reports before looking at any new charges against Joseph Robert Patterson, 27.
"We'll seek a grand jury review in the near future," Wollman said.
Sioux Falls police identified the boy Tuesday as Tyrese Robert Ruffin, who died Friday after being hospitalized with severe head injuries. Earlier Tuesday, they'd given an incorrect surname.
Patterson, the boyfriend of Tyrese's mother, was charged last week with aggravated assault and aggravated battery and is being held on $750,000 cash bond. A message left for Patterson's attorney Tuesday was not returned, and Patterson's mother said she didn't want to comment.
The criminal complaint accuses Patterson of intentionally of recklessly injuring Tyrese by causing bleeding of the skull or brain damage by blows, shaking or making the boy's head impact an object or surface.
Prosecutors are also asking that a suspended sentence be imposed for a 2012 domestic assault conviction, saying the deal required Patterson to show no violent, threatening or assaultive behavior for three years. A hearing on the motion is scheduled for Oct. 30.
Lincoln County court records also show a July 2012 protection order was taken out against Patterson, in which he had to stay 1,000 feet away from a former girlfriend, their son and her two other boys for five years. The woman told the court that Patterson spanked her 3-year-old son's bare bottom until it had welts after hearing the boy acted up at church.
The woman asked the court to drop the protection order two months later, saying she wanted their son to be raised by both his mother and father.
No plans for a memorial service for Tyrese have been announced, and his relatives told The Associated Press they did not wish to talk to reporters.
Peterson, who has declined to discuss the relationship he had with the boy, rushed to the Sioux Falls hospital to see the child Thursday, missing practice. He returned to Minneapolis for Friday's practice and learned that the child died.
He played Sunday in the Vikings' loss to the Carolina Panthers.
"Anytime you lose a child, no matter the circumstances, it hurts," Peterson told reporters after the game. "I can't describe it."


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Google has confirmed that the Motorola Xoom and Nexus S smartphone will not be treated to the freshest version of the firm's mobile operating system, Android 4.2.
The news was revealed on Google's forum by Jean-Baptiste Queru, who is the Technical Lead for the Android Open Source Project in a post regarding the Android 4.2 update.
Details about the devices not receiving the update are at the end of the post, with Queru writing: "There is no support for 4.2 on Nexus S and Xoom. Those devices should continue using 4.1.2."
Reasoning unknown
Both devices got an upgrade to the original Jelly Bean, Android 4.1 earlier this year, and while the update from the Xoom raised some eyebrows, Google's recent acquisition of Motorola goes some way to explain why the tablet got treated.
What's possibly more puzzling is Google's decision not to bump both devices up to Android 4.2 – which itself isn't a vast leap forward in terms of development from 4.1.
Queru offered no reasoning as to why Google has taken the decision to stop the updates at Android 4.1.2 for the devices, so we've contacted the search giant to try and find out more.
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Nicaraguan Government hides 98% of Covid-19 deaths
Public employees: "Nicaragua has no future with Ortega"
"Gag Law" approved by Ortega will enter into force in 60 days
Ortega Murillo forutne "injured" after devastating blows by US sanctions
Citizen Observatory: Deaths associated to COVID-19 rise to 2,768 in Nicaragua
Pressure in Nicaragua to Sign Life Sentence Petitions
The Farmers' Movement publicly denounced that Health Ministry personnel were coercing people into signing the government's petition for life sentences. Members of the Farmer's Movement in Rio San Juan made this allegation during an interview with Confidencial.
Since last week, they stated, their members denounced this irregular demand for signatures. According to complaints, those who seek hospital attention, or attend community health events, are first asked to "support" the petition. Their signatures support the introduction of life imprisonment as a sanction for undefined "hate crimes".
One set of denunciations came from residents of the El Dorado III community, in the municipality of San Miguelito. The municipality is located in the department of Rio San Juan, in the far south of Nicaragua. On September 29th, residents say, a health brigade arrived in the zone "supposedly to attend to the entire population." Every month, such brigades come to the community to examine patients and do ultrasounds.
However, the Farmer's Movement members noted that as soon as the brigade arrived, they dedicated themselves to passing the petition. They asked the community members to sign while they were receiving the medical services.
One pregnant woman who lives in El Dorado III stated that she was harassed until she had to leave. She couldn't even wait for the results of her exam and ultrasound.
"They grabbed me from the line. I had already had the exams and the ultrasound and I was waiting for them to explain the results. A woman there came up to me and told me to sign. When I refused, she asked me to hand over exam papers, saying that she'd talk to me about them afterwards." The woman complainant asked to remain anonymous to avoid further reprisals.
This citizen declared that the woman demanding her signature then issued such serious threats that she decided to leave.
"She told me that the first headless body to appear would be mine, only because I didn't sign. She then made some calls, and at that point I became fearful. So I left, just like that, with nothing, without receiving the attention that's supposedly free and for everyone."
Those visiting the hospitals are also pressured
Victor Diaz, a territorial leader in Rio San Juan, explained there's growing pressure to sign the petitions. Such pressure has become "more frequent now" in the hospitals and health centers. "They want to get their laws approved, so they can punish the opposition," Diaz stated.
He noted that before the brigade came to El Dorado, on September 29, he was already aware of other cases. Some residents of the Santa Elena community were asked to sign when they went to the public hospital in San Carlos.
"Another community member from the Farmers' Movement told us of something similar that happened to them. In the third week of September, they brought a seriously ill patient to the hospital. The health personnel told them they had to sign before they could receive health services. So, they signed, because they were bringing in a person with a chronic illness and couldn't go to another place."
Diaz believes that the actions of these Health Ministry authorities "violates the right to health and life." He urged them to stop "utilizing their services to obtain signatures." "They're endangering the lives of the rural residents. The rural families usually don't have money to pay a private clinic."
The signatures gathered supposedly support efforts to punish murderers, abusers and rapists of women and children with life in prison. Daniel Ortega unveiled this proposed measure during the commemoration of Central American Independence on September 15th. Petitions began circulating in the third week of September. At no time, however, did he specify that its objective was reducing violence against women or the increasingly common femicides.
From that time on, Nicaraguan state employees from the different institutions and public university students have been under pressure. They complain of being obligated to sign the petition supporting the Sandinista Front's proposal. The government party is seeking to allow life sentences without parole for those they say committed "hate crimes".
A Confidencial report cites workers from the Managua mayor's office, the Tourism Institute, the Education Ministry and the Custom's Office. All complain that they were forced to sign the Sandinista Front's proposal. They did so out of fear for their jobs. In the majority of the cases, the State employees noted that the papers they were given to sign were blank. There was no exact explanation of what they were signing. They were simply asked to note their first and last names, their ID numbers, and to sign.
Rosario Murillo, Nicaragua's, first lady, vice president and chief government spokesperson, announced that they've collected over 650,000 signatures. Murillo said these support the regime's request to the Nicaraguan Supreme Court to allow life sentences for "hate crimes".
Nicaragua Adopts the Cuban – Venezuelan Model
In early October 2018, Daniel Ortega's regime installed a state of siege via a Police decree prohibiting civic marches. The OAS Inter-American Commission for Human Rights warned at the time that Ortega instituted a de facto State of Emergency. He had essentially suspended constitutional rights such as the freedom of assembly and mobilization, free speech, and a free press.
The goal of the state of siege was to wipe out the independent civic protest and to suppress and divide the opposition. Further, they aimed to impose a false normality through repression. With this, they hoped to coopt the large business leaders and reestablish the regime's political and economic alliances.
Nevertheless, looking at the facts, Ortega instead deepened his national and international isolation. In addition, for two consecutive years he aggravated the economic recession and the social crisis. This continued until the negligent management of the Coronavirus health crisis brought him an unexpected political invoice. The mismanaged public health crisis wore down the credibility of his leadership, even among the members of his own party.
The regime now announces the imposition of new punitive laws. There's a push to allow the use of life sentences for certain crimes. There's a new law to regulate supposed "foreign agents", and a "cybercrimes" law, better known as the "Gag law". With these, the regime is recognizing the failure of the police state. The repression never succeeded in squashing the civic protests. Even without massive demonstrations, the spirit of the resistance remains intact. Despite the National Coalition's stumbles and the lack of a united national front, today the resistance is greater and better organized. It now has a presence in all of the country's municipalities.
In the next two weeks, the regime's parliamentary steamroller will assure the approval of that combo of punitive laws. These impose severe jail sentences for any and all opposition, a majority who represent over three-fourths of the electorate.
However, in reality, the regime has never needed legal pretexts to repress and imprison. Almost two years ago, the police assaulted the offices of Confidencial and Esta Semana and executed a de facto confiscation. This was done without the backing of any judicial orders. Yet, despite the television censorship, they never silenced us. We continue our truth-based journalism. Meanwhile the independent press – persecuted, harassed and sometimes exiled – now enjoys much more credibility and influence than the official machinery.
The latest Cid-Gallup polls confirm that the majority of the population no longer believes the government's lies about COVID-19. The express burials and the Ministry of Health statistics on pneumonia fatalities and COVID-19 tests speak for themselves. These facts refute the daily monologues of Vice President Rosario Murillo. Because of that deception, every day political support for Ortega and the FSLN shrinks still more. His backing among the public employees, both civilian and military, continues eroding.
In reality, the "Gag Law" is aimed at threatening the honest and professional public servants. It is meant to keep them from leaking information to the press and the public regarding acts of political corruption. Such acts are occurrences that the regime wishes to hide.
The "Cybercrimes Law" also threatens users of social media with jail time. However, the dictatorship will continue losing the battle for the truth in social media. They can't control the massive exercise of free speech and the use of new information technologies now at the service of citizens.
These punitive laws aren't a symptom of strength, but rather of the political and moral defeat of a minority regime. Why, then, does Ortega need to impose them against wind and tides? There are at least three hypotheses to explain this imperious political necessity. All are based on the regime's urgency to adapt the Cuban and Venezuelan "model" of repressive authoritarianism to Nicaragua.
First, they intend to make full use of the Constitution and laws as one pillar of their repressive strategy. However, they don't want these as guardians of rights, but as a means to criminalize democratic liberties and civic protest. Clearly, it's not a carbon copy, but this strategy definitively reflects the Cuban and Venezuelan "model". The regime is adapting that model to fit a dynastic family dictatorship with the aim of liquidating the democratic project in Nicaragua.
Expedited by the "Law" he's mandating, Ortega will now be able to eliminate organizations of civil society. He will also control any eventual adversaries and political competitors, by criminalizing them as "foreign agents". The Venezuelan experience demonstrates that despite high international political costs, the Cuban "model" can prove effective in giving the regime stability. Through this model, pure and harsh repression can be draped in a "legal" mantle. For Ortega, this translates into an incentive to accumulate political hostages and gain time.
Secondly, the regime intends to take over the agenda of justice and present itself as a punisher of "hate crimes". The latter would now carry a sentence of life in prison. This, in the end, is merely a defensive act. It responds to the need to assure the Sandinista bases that they're not the ones under the gaze of justice.
Those accused of true "hate crimes", crimes against humanity, crimes with no statute of limitations, are in the regime's inner circle. The finger points to members of the Ortega-Murillo regime who are most directly tied to the repression. However, as in the April killings and the failed official narrative of an attempted "Coup d'Etat", Ortega will point the finger elsewhere. He'll try to convince his followers that his own hate crimes can be attributed to the victims.
Thirdly, although the Nicaraguan Constitution proclaims political pluralism, this combo of punitive laws assures there'll be no competitive elections. With these laws, Ortega has ratified his stance for the November 2021 elections. Given this, it's illusory to expect some electoral opening from a regime that's willing to play All or Nothing. Though they risk further international sanctions and a declaration of illegitimacy, they'll be celebrating the elections with no competition and without transparency.
Will we arrive at the opening of the 2021 electoral campaign without a political reform? The answer to this interrogative doesn't depend on Ortega, but on the political opposition. Ortega has already decided to radicalize his authoritarian model. Meanwhile, the opposition continues to be paralyzed. They're discussing which electoral box is the safest, in imaginary elections in which they haven't even been invited to participate.
Meanwhile, the national debate must center itself on determining the most effective strategy. The opposition must work on joining forces, weakening the regime, and altering the balance of power. They must thus force a political reform on the regime, one that results from national and international pressure. First, the reform, with or without Ortega, and later free elections.


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More technical details: http://home.xmsnet.nl/openthermprotocol/
Homeseer script: Opentherm gateway and script integration into Homeseer by blb
Known supported central heating units: Remeha Avanta, Intergas combi compact cw4/cw5, Intergas prestige cw6
- Forward OpenTherm messages between the thermostat and the boiler
- Report about the messages on the serial interface
- Change the thermostat setpoint
- Set the clock of the thermostat
- Send the outside temperature to the thermostat
- Control the domestic hot water option of the boiler
- Obtain additional information from the boiler
The gateway has been primarily designed for a Remeha Avanta heater with a Honeywell Chronotherm Modulation thermostat. With a lot of help it's now also perfectly communicating with Intergas heaters.
Intergas seems to have issues with encoding the messages in Manchester code when the flame is on or the pump is running. For the gateway to still decode messages and send messages during this time, it has to be less accurate then the Openthem Specification describes. There is a custom gateway firmware available for this.
My gateway has been running stable now for a week so it's time to round things up and mount it on the wall.
Red = Opentherm Error
Yellow = Flame ON
Green / Green = Opentherm Messages


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There are more than 200 road ends in the Hamptons today where you can park your car, walk out onto the beach and go for a swim in the ocean or the bay. Perhaps 120 of them are in Southampton Town and 80 of them are in East Hampton Town.
Over the years, the community has prided itself on maintaining this openness. And the residents have come to expect it. It's one of the great pleasures of this place. And it's the law. The King of England decreed it in 1686. The law was adopted by New York State after the creation of the United States. And it is enforced by the Trustees, a separate body of government.
Years ago, it was almost amusing for me to read about wealthy summer residents running out in front of their beachfront homes demanding that beachgoers leave "their" beach, only to find themselves threatened with arrest. These were not their beaches. These beaches belong to the public. [expand]
The key to going to the beach, of course, is access to it. It was just eight years ago that a summer resident in Bridgehampton put steel posts into the ground at the entrance of a sand road owned by the Town to block vehicles from going down it. Local fishermen had been driving down the road to the beach there. It was next door to his house. It annoyed him.
This act drew immediate outage from the sitting Town Supervisor. He ordered the Town Highway Department to go down there to tear these steel posts out and they did.
But that was eight years ago. Now, one by one, with the Town's approval, road ends are being regulated, "no parking" signs are going up and these accesses are being blocked. It's to appease the new "taxpayers," these same summer residents, who are now about in the majority, who want everything closed off now that they have theirs, and then wonder why what they came out here to enjoy is vanishing. By their actions, they are causing this, changing the Hamptons into a gated community where nobody drives on the beach, nobody parks near the beach and nobody can even see the beach or the ocean except for the oceanfront homeowners sitting in seclusion behind their hedgerows. It is, frankly, a terrible turn of events.
Today, that sand road (crossing Town-owned property) in Bridgehampton has the steel posts back up due to a clerical error in the Town Attorney's office that the wealthy summer resident seized upon. There are "no parking" signs everywhere, and in no time the signs will read "Keep Out."
How can this be happening? Unfortunately, that right to keep the beaches open for the general public is being enforced by Town Trustees with limited budgets. One by one, as high-priced lawyers are hired by the wealthy to challenge them, the Trustees' hold on things is slipping away. In my opinion, if the Towns can't back them up properly—as they failed to do in Mecox—then the State should step in with stronger laws. Governor Andrew Cuomo knows this area well. I was a guest of his at his home in Southampton on South Main Street when he was Attorney General. He loves this place. And the beaches are now, quite suddenly, being taken away. (The most recent challenge would close off an entire mile of ocean beaches in Napeague.) It has to stop.
You need to look no farther than a dead-end road called Noyac Bay Avenue in Southampton to see this process at work. Noyac Bay Avenue is a paved road that widens where it comes to an end so as to accommodate a dozen or so cars that park on both sides of the street to go to the little bay beach to walk, swim or surfcast. [expand]
Now, suddenly, there are "no parking" signs at this road end. Why? The members of a private club next door that has no claim whatsoever on this public road have caused this to happen. They went to Town Hall to put an end to the public going there. And the Town accommodated them.
How could this have happened? Easy. It's in the air. We are sliding into becoming a gated community. Go with the flow. Here are the details of this story.
This club is called the Northampton Colony Yacht Club, headed up by Commodore Laurence Tullio. It has its own clubhouse and its own beach. It has a fence around it and a gate. But it does not have any yachts.
The yachts which are owned by the members of this club, along with yachts owned by other people, are located on the other side of this dead-end road in a public marina with a single dock sticking out into North Sea Harbor. It has accommodations for about 30 boats.
There is no fence separating this marina from the dead-end road. If you park your car at the dead-end you can see the marina. That's the case at many of the 300 dead-end roads on the South Fork.
But the Northampton Colony Yacht Club said they were troubled by this situation. There have been widespread thefts of equipment from these boats, they told the Board. Fishing gear has vanished. Nets have been taken. People have been on these boats. On one vessel, a cup-holder was damaged.
The Town Board asked if these crimes had been reported and they were told that they had. But they felt that this situation needed to be handled in a different way. Make parking illegal down at the end of Noyac Bay Avenue.
And so that is what the Town Board did. In practice, since they fund the Trustees, they can simply override the Trustees—a separate government body—by refusing to fund them.
What the Commodore and his friends did not count on was the persistence of a retired physician, a local resident now 87, who every day for years has taken his car down to park at the end of that road to watch the boats come through the channel there and to walk the beach. His name is Dr. Stanley Shore.
He drove down there one day and found the new sign. No Parking. He left. It didn't sit well with him. He went to the Town Board to ask about this sign and was told about the thefts. He said he didn't believe it. It was a peaceful place.
Curious, he made a FOIL (Freedom of Information Law) request to the police department, asking for records of incidents at that location. He found there had been only one reported incident of theft down there in recent years. That was in 2008. He went back to the Town Board to give this information to them, and to ask them to reverse their decision. They are now thinking about it. But as a matter of fact they have been thinking about it for some time. And the most recent information is that they intend to have the whole place surveyed, so they can see exactly what part of this place is owned by the Yacht Club, what part is owned by the Marina and what part is owned by the Town, so they can see what is what. This, however, gives the Yacht Club the rest of the summer to have their privacy.
Commodore Tullio, when asked, said that indeed some of the many thefts from the boats have not been reported to the police.
Town Councilman Chris Nuzzi said this to a newspaper reporter: "The reality is the more people that can park there, the more welcoming it is."
This statement is an outrage. One third of the Town of Southampton Parks & Recreation Seal shows people fishing, another third of the seal shows people using the beaches, the final third shows a family walking by a windmill. Nowhere on the seal does it say that if you live in the town you have to be special to do that.
Meanwhile, in East Hampton, the town officials might not realize they are combating this trend, but in passing a new law a few weeks ago they did just that. The new law allows the Town to have overgrown brush and foliage removed to open up picturesque views of farm fields, bays and harbors for the general public. Not unexpectedly, as they move to implement this new law, they are facing furious objection. Who could possibly object to this? Guess who?
Other efforts to block the closing of beaches by both East Hampton and Southampton Towns, have included efforts to declare the backs of beaches parallel to the ocean official sand roads so emergency vehicles could not be barred from rescuing those in trouble. In Bridgehampton, an experiment to put poles in the ground with numbers on them at thousand-foot intervals to direct officials to rescue operation locations has been declared a success and they are now considering doing this town-wide.
Somewhere here is a solution to the alarming trend of our losing the rights to our beaches. Long ago, the right to enforce this rule was created by the Governor of the State of New York. The law is named after him—the Dongan Patent.
If the local Trustees cannot hold off this trend, then I appeal to Governor Cuomo to look into this matter and create a new law that would strengthen the rights to this enforcement. [/expand]


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News on Explosion at Boston Marathon
Explosions Hit Boston Marathon
"We will find out who did this, and we will hold them accountable," President Obama said in a press conference following the Boston Marathon bombings. At least two are dead, including a child, and 132 hurt reports CNN after two twin explosions took place near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. The FBI is calling the bombings a terrorist attack but is unsure if the source is domestic or international. In a briefing around 7:00am (AEST), law enforcement officials announced that a third incident happened at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum at 6:30am (AEST), which they first treated as related but now appears to be a fire, not a bomb. The marathon area is on lockdown following the two marathon blasts, which occurred at 4:50am (AEST), and all victims have been evacuated.
The Boston Athletic Association says 23,326 runners began the race this year, which takes place on Patriots' Day, a holiday in Massachusetts. Earlier the A.P. reported that injured spectators were taken to tents set up for the runners. POPSUGAR Fitness Editor Michele Foley was in the press room at the Fairmont Copley when she heard two explosions. After being told the hotel was on lockdown, she immediately took to Twitter. "As the pictures started to come in from social media," Michele reports, "we were all affected, people were in total shock, crying, and in disbelief." She says the mood at the hotel is a mix of confusion, shock, and sadness.
Australians concerned about loved ones in Boston can call 1300 555 135 for information. DFAT reports no Australians have yet been identified among the dead or injured. See more photos from the scene below.


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Don Pesci: The Dick and Chris Show on the road
Gov. Dannel Malloy at first allowed that legislators who were to create bills assuring Connecticut citizens would not be exposed to another mass murder incident such as had occurred in Sandy Hook should take their time and craft a bill that would suit the purpose.
Then he jumped ahead of his own gubernatorial commission and publicly announced his own prophylactic measures, for which he received some mild criticism: How was the legislature to write an effective bill in the absence of hard data furnished by three investigatory bodies, the most important of which was the criminal investigation? Apparently, Malloy took this objection to heart, because he then issued strong signals that the various commissions should be allowed to complete their assignments so that a proper bill might be written.
After all, Malloy and members of Connecticut's all-Democrat U.S. Congressional delegation - most prominently Senators Dick Blumenthal and Chris Murphy - had visited Sandy Hook, met with family members of children slain by mass murderer Adam Lanza, and assured them that effective remedies were in the offing, with Blumenthal insisting that national legislation was exceedingly important because state borders are porous and illegal weapons might easily pass through the semi-permeable membrane of state laws.
Connecticut already has on its books some of the most restrictive gun laws in the nation. Murphy has been running tight end around the National Rifle Association (NRA), pummeling it defensively whenever he can and at the same time hoping to receive a pass from the anti-weapon team that he might carry to a touchdown.
Several difficulties have intervened. In New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo quickly rammed through the legislature a ban on certain weapons but neglected to exempt New York policemen from the ban, a major boo-boo. The governor and legislature also launched a ban on magazines that contained more than 7 rounds, only to realize when the applause had died down that there is no company in the United States that produces such a magazine; so the solons in New York prohibited more than 7 rounds in any magazine holding more than 7 rounds, which raises the embarrassing question: How is the law to be enforced in the absence of X-ray vision glasses that would allow the rearmed New York police to count the number of bullets in an opaque magazine? Cuomo and the anti-gun nuts in the New York legislature are still struggling with that one.
The moral to these goof-up is: Not only does haste make waste; sometimes, it makes you look incredibly stupid. And state office holders do not want to appear to be imbeciles. Idiot voters in the Unites States, it is generally supposed, are still in the minority.
The Dick and Chris show alighted in Connecticut days after Harry Reid, the U.S. Senate Democratic Majority Leader had buried hopes for a federal ban on assault weapons. Connecticut, much more progressive on this point than most states, already has such a ban. A federal ban is the Holy Grail of Senators Blumenthal and Murphy.
Why? Because, as Blumenthal has been telling us, gun runners, the sort of disreputable folk who sell guns to criminals not legally authorized to use them, easily run around porous state laws; but a federal law... well sir, that's the ticket!
Now then, it is important to understand that the proposed anti-assault weapon ban that was to have been presented in the U.S. Congress - the Holy Grail of Blumenthal and Murphy -- was not shot to death by itchy-fingered members of the NRA. The measure was not put up for a vote in the chamber where Blumenthal and Murphy do business -- when they are not hustling Connecticut legislators in their home state to hastily pass a bill in the absence of determining data -- because it was withdrawn by Reid, whose specialty lies in counting votes. The Democratic votes in a chamber owned by Democrats weren't there.
Here is the breathless Blumenthal hustle: "Connecticut's failure to act in the next two weeks will be a detriment when we go to the floor. On the other hand, if Connecticut can act within the next two weeks, it will provide a very powerful momentum. It will speak volumes about determination and dedication here to making sure our nation is safer."
Connecticut legislators, who wish to avoid the trapdoors through which idiot New York politicians have fallen, are pausing to consider hard data soon to be released in affidavits that have been carefully hidden from public view. As Attorney General in Connecticut for more than 20 years before his elevation to the U.S. Senate, Blumenthal should understand the importance of affidavits in prosecution and bill writing.
Blumenthal and Murphy need to get back to work in the Beltway rounding up votes for the Holy Grail in THEIR Democratic-dominated Senate.
They should make haste: Time wasted is time lost.
Don Pesci is a writer who lives in Vernon. E-mail: email@example.com.


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Digital panel voltmeters help you to visually monitor the performance of industrial control machinery. They provide accurate readings for applications that require a precise digital readout of AC or DC voltages.
What are digital panel voltmeters used for?
Digital panel voltmeters are widely used for industrial, laboratory and office service applications. Their compact size makes them perfect for use in high-end consumer electronics and other products that need accurate line monitoring. They are vibration and moisture proof. This allows them to function well in harsh environments. Plug the digital device into any socket outlet and you can instantly read the voltages given.
Types of digital panel voltmeters
Digital panel voltmeters have a number of different parameters such as supply voltage and meter accuracy. Typical mounting options include 12-pin DIPs and traditional bezel mounts. Digital screen options include a range of red, blue or green LED or LCD display units to suit your needs under different lighting conditions. Housings can can be circular, square or rectangular.


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Network Working Group M. Bakke Request for Comments: 4018 Cisco Category: Standards Track J. Hufferd K. Voruganti IBM M. Krueger HP T. Sperry Adaptec April 2005 Finding Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) Targets and Name Servers by Using Service Location Protocol version 2 (SLPv2) Status of This Memo This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2005). Abstract The iSCSI protocol provides a way for hosts to access SCSI devices over an IP network. This document defines the use of the Service Location Protocol (SLP) by iSCSI hosts, devices, and management services, along with the SLP service type templates that describe the services they provide. Table of Contents 1. Introduction................................................ 2 2. Notation Conventions........................................ 2 3. Terminology................................................. 3 4. Using SLP for iSCSI Service Discovery....................... 4 5. iSCSI SLP Templates......................................... 11 6. Security Considerations..................................... 18 7. IANA Considerations......................................... 19 8. Summary..................................................... 19 9. Normative References........................................ 19 10. Informative References...................................... 20 11. Acknowledgements............................................ 21 Bakke & Hufferd Standards Track [Page 1] RFC 4018 iSCSI and SLPv2 April 2005 1. Introduction iSCSI [RFC3720] is a protocol used to transport SCSI [SAM2] commands, data, and status across an IP network. This protocol is connection- oriented and is currently defined over TCP. iSCSI uses a client- server relationship. The client end of the connection is an initiator, and it sends SCSI commands; the server end of the connection is called a target, and it receives and executes the commands. There are several methods an iSCSI initiator can use to find the targets to which it should connect. Two of these methods can be accomplished without the use of SLP: - Each target and its address can be statically configured on the initiator. - Each address providing targets can be configured on the initiator; iSCSI provides a mechanism by which the initiator can query the address for a list of targets. The above methods are further defined in "iSCSI Naming and Discovery Requirements" [RFC3721]. Each of the above methods requires a small amount of configuration to be done on each initiator. The ability to discover targets and name services without having to configure initiators is a desirable feature. The Service Location Protocol (SLP) [RFC2608] is an IETF standards track protocol providing several features that will simplify locating iSCSI services. This document describes how SLP can be used in iSCSI environments to discover targets, addresses providing targets, and storage management servers. 2. Notation Conventions In this document, the key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119]. Bakke & Hufferd Standards Track [Page 2] RFC 4018 iSCSI and SLPv2 April 2005 3. Terminology Here are some definitions that may aid readers who are unfamiliar with SLP, SCSI, or iSCSI. Some of these definitions have been reproduced from [RFC2608] and "Finding an RSIP Server with SLP" [RFC3105]. User Agent (UA) A process working on the client's behalf to establish contact with some service. The UA retrieves service information from the Service Agents or Directory Agents.Show full document text


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Moving a website to Azure while adding Continuous Deployment from Git
I've got this little one page website I wrote a few years ago that attempts to detect the version of the .NET Framework you have and give you a download for the smallest redist you need to get up to date. It's called SmallestDotNet. It was written and thrown up while watching an hour of TV. Fortunately or unfortunately this little throwaway still gets about 10,000 page views a month. It also has a tiny JSON API that a lot of people have actually embedded into their sites and products.
Additionally, it's starting to break. IE9+ doesn't include .NET Framework details in its HTTP User-Agent. The site isn't setup for .NET 4.5, etc. You get the idea. Plus, it's a pile of if statements and prayer and it's just horrible. Worse yet, it lives in a ZIP file on my hard drive and I drag it into SmartFTP to deploy. Yes, I know, this is all thick with irony.
I took and hour over lunch today to accomplish these basic goals:
- Get this
crapsite into source control so others could help fix it
- Move the site to Azure and off my blog's server
- Update the site's DNS
- Setup continuous deployment with Git to Azure
- Fix the .NET 4
- Maybe add .NET 4.5 detection
- Cleanse myself, possibly by reading Programming Pearls
Making a Site in Azure
I use the Azure Command Line Tools (get them with npm install azure). (I did an npm update azure --global to make sure I had the latest.)
I clone my Git Repository, create an Azure site, then make sure my Azure site is setup as a remote. (Soon the remote add will be made automatically when creating an Azure site from within a Git repro)
git clone https://github.com/shanselman/SmallestDotNet.git
azure create site SmallestDotNet
I copied my site in from elsewhere and
git add .
git commit -m "Initial Commit"
Next, I'll associate my Azure site with my GitHub (or CodePlex) repo. I could also deploy from local files, but I like the idea of an auto-deploy since I'll guessing I'll be making lots of changes and this is one less thing to worry about.
From the Deployment tab on the Azure Portal I'll use OAuth to authorize azure with GitHub.
I'll confirm the repository I'm using:
This sets up a WebHook plugged into GitHub so it'll notify Azure when a push happens, Azure will deploy.
Now, I'll push my repository to origin.
git push origin master
Within a second or so of this push, the site automatically updates and is up and running at smallestdotnet.azurewebsites.net. I'll do a custom domain in a second.
Yes, I should probably make a deployment branch. I could have two small Azure sites and then have each represent a deployment from a different branch in Git. Then I could git push staging and git push production.
To move the domain name records from my own server to azure, I'll log into my DNSimple account (referral link for a free month!) and create a CNAME that points to my new site.
Back in the Azure Management Portal - about 10 minutes later - I'll click Manage Domains and enter my new CName.
I'm also using an A record so read the instructions carefully. After Azure verifies the CNAME, I return and add the A record. That way I can have not just www. but also the "naked" domain work as well.
I visit the site, and boom. It's there. http://www.smallestdotnet.com/ is on Azure in less than a lunch hour. About 25 minutes, actually. Whew.
Next, I have to fix the horrible code and bugs. Join me and issue a pull request. ;)
Thanks to Calin Balauru for his help with the code a few months back.
Related Reading: ScottGu on Continuous Deployment in Azure with Git
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A lot of producers are also trying to simplify the range of offerings. Not many producers want a wine list with 40 different wines on it- It gets redundant to list a kabi, Spätlese and Auslese trocken from 6 different vineyards.
But I thought part of the whole idea of fine wine, certainly for most folks who value the idea of terroir (sorry I know that's a whole 'nother discussion), is to differentiate the Dieserkleinishceweinberg Sonnenuhr Auslese Trocken from the Dasandereweinberg Himmelreich Auslese Trocken.
Thats not what I mean. We love to make single vineyard wines (as long as the vineyard is interesting) but without Prädikat, the vineyard becomes the focus, not the 5 or six different wines made from it Kabinett thru TBA. One could even go so far as to say that producing 6 different Prädikat wines from a single source diminishes the influence of terroir. No one is going to harvest all of the vinegar and botrytis and throw it into the press with the healthy grapes in search of 'true terroir' of course.
There's another thing I don't get here. Why not produce just one wine from the site, if that's what you really want to do, but give it the appropriate "prâdikat", as Bürklin-Wolf used to do? It wouldn't at all diminish the focus on the vineyard, it would give more information to the consumer and would mesh in with the prädikat system rather than compete with it.


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Studio will Showcase Cast and Filmmakers AND Debut Footage from its Upcoming Movies including RED and DRIVE ANGRY 3D
Los Angeles, CA July 7, 2010 – Summit Entertainment, which impacted Comic-Con for the past two years when it introduced thousands to THE TWLIGHT SAGA cast in San Diego, will be doing it again by bringing two of the most anticipated actions films, RED and DRIVE ANGRY 3D, to this year's convention. Summit will provide a first ever look at exclusive footage as well as cast and filmmaker during panels on Thursday, July 22nd and Friday, July 23rd in Hall H.
Details of the panels are as follows:
Thursday, July 22, 2010 – 2:15pm – 3:15pm – Hall H:
RED – Stars Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Karl Urban, and Mary Louise Parker join director Robert Schwentke and Red's graphic novel writer Warren Ellis as they debut the final trailer exclusively to Comic-Con 2010, before it's ever in theaters, and answer questions about bringing this well known D.C. Comics graphic novel to the big screen. Based on the graphic novel by Ellis, Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich and Helen Mirren star in this explosive action-comedy in which former CIA top agents become the Agency's top targets because of the secrets they know.
Friday, July 23, 2010 – 10:30am – 11:00am – Hall H:
DRIVE ANGRY 3D – In a Comic-Con exclusive, stars of the film including Nicolas Cage and Amber Heard as well as director Patrick Lussier will debut footage from the high-octane, blood-spattered road trip through hell. In this newest action horror shot in 3D, a vengeful father hunts down the people who brutally killed his daughter and kidnapped her baby.
In addition to the exciting panels, Summit Entertainment will once again have a booth set up in the Grand Hall at Comic-Con where the studio will showcase titles from its upcoming slate. Those who stop by will be able to answer a call at the Summit phone booth to speak live with Summit filmmakers and talent or customize a t-shirt at the live t-shirt press. In addition, the prize wheel never stops spinning with thousands of promotional giveaways and exclusive prizes to win throughout the convention!
About Summit Entertainment LLC
Summit Entertainment is a worldwide theatrical motion picture development, financing, production and distribution studio. The studio handles all aspects of marketing and distribution for both its own internally developed motion pictures as well as acquired pictures. Summit Entertainment, LLC also represents international sales for both its own slate and third party product. Summit Entertainment, LLC releases 10 to 12 films on average annually.


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Every new play experiments with new types of puppets, but the theatre is known for its delicate, hand-held puppets that come alive through the artistry of visible puppeteers. The staging is aesthetically composed with wealth of surprises and exquisite detail.
The performances are all carried by an intimate and intense atmosphere with few actors on the stage and a very detailed universe that requires great concentration from the audience. Consequently, the plays are performed for a limited audience, so the best possible contact – and experience – can be created for every single child.
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My program has 2 threads, a MainThread and a ChildThread. Each thread has its own queue .
Every time the ChildThread receives data, it put in its queue and send that data to MainThread and MainThread keep track that data in its own queue also.
Does anyone know how to pass data between Threads?Code:void *Main_Thread(void) { Queue mainQueue; // wait to receive data from Child Thread } void * Child_Thread(void) { Queue childQueue; // wait for data arrive and put in the queue // send the data to Main Thread to put in its queue }
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I had a similar problem just recently. No matter what I did the tivo would not boot up completely (I could get a bash prompt).
Anyway it's not too hard, if you know your way around linux. Get vplay (make sure you have the latest source).
edit mfs_streams.c
change both instances of "/Recording/NowShowing" to "/Recording/NowShowingByClassic"
to compile (on a pc running linux):
make proto
make i386
I then copied the i386 folder to a pc running windows, say c:\i386.
I attach my tivo drives to my pc thus:
primary tivo -> primary slave
secondary tivo -> secondary slave
I use Kazymyr's Bootable Utility CD. Got it here: http://www.9thtee.com/tbdv2_6i.iso and burn it to a cd.
I boot up off the cd and then mount the partition (on the primary master) that contains the i386 folder thus:
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/c
then you can cd into /mnt/c/i386 and run the programs therein.
before you do so however you need to have a correct MFS_DEVLIST (which is the tricky part):
export MFS_DEVLIST="/dev/hdb10 /dev/hdb11 etc... /dev/hdd2 ..."
to find the correct devices to add to the above statement you need to type this on the command line:
export MFS_DEVLIST="/dev/hdb /dev/hdd"
and then run:
it will warn you about some errors or somesuch but in it you will find the needed /dev/hd... strings.
then you can create the correct MFS_DEVLIST statement. For example mine reads:
export MFS_DEV="/dev/hdb10 /dev/hdb11 /dev/hdb12 /dev/hdb13 /dev/hdd2 /dev/hdd3"
type it on the command line.
Then you type:
which will return a list of the file parts (fsids) for each show.
actually it only returns the first part's fsid. So what I do is:
./mfs_ls "/Recording/NowShowingByTitle"
which returns a object fsids for each recording, then I do:
./mfs_dumpobj <fsid of the show I want to extract>
which returns a bunch of stuff. I then make note of the fsid's for each RecordingPart.
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Then you can extract the ty (to a directory on your c drive, eg, ty_files).
./mfs_export <fsid> /mnt/c/ty_files/recording_partX.ty
I know this seems convoluted but I am no expert. However, it works for me. YMMV.


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The year of the goat
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If you've ever wondered what it would be like to run rampage through a town with the gruffest of attitudes, then wonder no more. Goat Simulator lets you unleash the frustrations of a baaaaad day as you jump, spin, bash and lick everything in your path. Milk your chance to prove you're the butt of no one's joke as you smash unsuspecting humans and objects into oblivion.
Blow away bleaters with explosives as you trot away unscathed. Or take your stubborn mutton to the skies fur the greater good, by wrapping your ridiculously long tongue around helicopters and jetpacks. No kidding – Goat Simulator has it all…


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Meet Aisline, a SuicideGirl who has a very interesting occupation and lost her virginity in an even more interesting way.
Name: Aisline Suicide
Age: 24
Location: Canada
Occupation: Hooker
Current crush: Spencer Reid… hehehe
Stats: Big, Medium, Big
Body mods: A few.
Heroes: My mother.
Gets me hot: Hair pulling
Sign: Cancer
I lost my virginity: To your mom.
Cigarettes: I have black lungs.
I am looking for: A woman.
My kink factor: I'll try anything once, especially if you beg for it.
My politics: Politics, who cares?
Pot: Nope
My status: Cheater
My idea of a good time: Stay in and watch old movies on TV.
Makes me happy: Warm weather, Music, Driving around aimlessly, Late nights, Early mornings.
Makes me sad: People with no morals. People with no common sense, People who can't act in public, Disrespect, Greed, Poverty & John Mayer.
5 things I can't live without: iPod, Blackberry, laptop, a steady internet connection and my family/cats
SuicideGirls is a community that celebrates alternative beauty and alternative culture from all over the world. Since 2001, tens of thousands of models have submitted millions of photos to their website hoping to become SuicideGirls.


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This video was created by Diane Emineth, Innkeeper of the Sandlake Country Inn, to be shared with her guests and with her permission, to all of you. Located just 10 minutes north of Pacific City, is this secret hideaway nestled on the scenic Oregon coast. The historic farmhouse built from shipwrecked bridge timbers in 1894, is located in a country setting approximately 1 mile from the Pacific Ocean coastline.
Enjoy the video and thanks, Diane.
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Having former Street Machine Expression Session guru Ryan Carter on board was clearly a big plus – just check out his re-imagined Holden press material, cleverly modified to include Old Love's many modifications.
If you've never seen the car before, here's a quick rundown of the main mods. Underneath, the Chop Shop boys fabricated a tubular chassis-strengthening structure and plated the original chassis rails and K-frame. To that, they added a parallel four-link rear-end and Panhard bar out back, with a CAD-designed double A-arm set-up up the front, using tubular arms and HQ stub axles.
The steering uses a Flaming River power rack and the brakes are monster Harrops all 'round. All of this was designed to give Old Love a bitching stance, without the need for airbags and without rubbing. Power comes from an LS1 crate motor and 4L60E four-speed auto.
Body mods included converting the car (originally an EK) to FB-spec, eliminating the strip that once ran between the front and rear doors, deleting the drip rails and quarter-vent windows, and fashioning the custom single-bar grille.
Inside, Old Love has power windows, central locking and air conditioning, just for starters. Other mods include the two-piece fibreglass hoodlining, which is held in place by a central billet strip that also incorporates the rearview mirror. Front seats are highly modified Ford Territory items, with the whole lot covered in Scottish leather by Stitched Up Trim.
Watch the late Laurie Starling talk us through the car in the video here.
There is a heap more to the car, too; you can read the whole story at smoty.streetmachine.com.au and check out the build pics above.


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"What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet."
Juliet, in Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2)
A recent article in The Atlantic about how our names impact our lives got me to thinking about how and why we name our children – and what they say about us, about our parents, what our names mean to others of their generation. And why are some names popular at certain times in history. Like now.
According to babycenter.com, these are the ten most popular baby names for 2013:
- Sophia
- Emma
- Olivia
- Isabella
- Mia
- Ava
- Lily
- Zoe
- Emily
- Chloe
- Jackson
- Aiden
- Liam
- Lucas
- Noah
- Mason
- Jayden
- Ethan
- Jacob
- Jack
That just makes me feel like I've missed a genealogical bus somewhere. Of those 20 names, I doubt I'd name a child most of them. But that may be a generational thing; I was raised with a different set of names. Some of these names are also – from my perspective – old-fashioned. I suppose that's the around-again effect we see in so many other cultural items (like the endless recycling of pop music tropes from the 60s and 70s…).
Still, I wouldn't name a child a lot of things, from Crystal to Britney to River (or Dweezil or Moon Unit). I might give a girl the middle name of Yseult and a boy Tristam, but only because I would want to be able to explain the wonderful, romantic story behind those names… I wouldn't want to burden them with these as first names.
My wife's name, Susan – a name that I love to hear and still sounds like wind chimes to me after more than 30 years – doesn't appear in the top 100, while my own shows up at a mere number 80. That surprises me somewhat, because at least when I was growing up, my name was a rarity and Susan was popular, at least in my travelled circles.