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Ok so, you're a 20-year-old student with an opportunity to write for an online publication, what subject would you chose? I had this question linger with me the whole flight to Paris, my hometown.
Sharing a passion for both my anthropology studies and music, I was looking for a topic that mended both. Having landed with no clearer indication as to the subject I'd choose, I felt that taking a walk in the lively streets of the "11ème arrondissement" of Paris might help inspire me. With all of its bars, cafés, shops, theatres, and concert halls, this neighborhood is a home for all sorts of hipsters, workers, artists, fortune-tellers, travelers, tourists and anyone feeling the Parisian-Bohemian spirit. Still walking around, trying to figure out what to write, a bar named the Black Cat ("Chat Noir"), stood before me with answer: they were hosting a flamenco show a few days later. And there it was.
A few days later, with beer in hand, a friend and I decended to the bar basement, and arrived to the cozy, intimate show room. Inside the warm atmosphere, Laurent Noel and Niño de Gambetta had already started the show. While we tried to sit down quietly—not to disturb the other spectators— we could hear a soft murmur of guitar over Spanish and Arabic intonations. Their performances were wonderful, and thankfully, they later agreed to an interview. Announcing what was next to come, Niño de Gambetta started to chant an Alegría; one of the many sorts of chants in flamenco. Flamenco combines three practices: singing, dancing and playing the guitar. In the beginning, singing (cante) was done "a palo seco", which means without accompaniment. Many sorts of singing flamenco exist, they differ according to the singer and the geographical location. The lyrics are organized in several verses (coplas), the theme of which varies both according to the type of singing, and the language (Gypsy or Andalusian).
Who are Laurent and Nino, and how did they come to discover flamenco?
As Laurent Noel, the guitarist, tells it: "I have classical music experience from the conservatory; I played classical guitar and only began playing flamenco late, at the age of 30, by listening to Paco de Lucía and Vicente Amigo, two great guitarists. The more interested I got, the more I understood that flamenco is primarily the accompaniment of singing and dancing to the guitar. I started to play, doing round trips between here (Paris) and Andalusia."
As for Niño de Gambetta: "I started by doing contemporary dance until the age of 27, and then one summer, I went to Granada and I saw several flamenco shows. I really felt for the singing. Then I went to live in Madrid where I took courses of flamenco dancing and started, on the side, to sing and play the guitar. As I went along, I started to have problems with my hand, which pushed me to study more the singing part of the dance. I eventually became impassioned by it."
We talked about how the flamenco guitar did not become an integrated part of flamenco before the eighteenth century. In its origins, only the singing supported the dancing. As flamenco gradually gained popularity, the guitar became inseparable from song. The flamenco guitar is played according to a well-defined musical structure, the "compass"; the tempo according to which guitarists construct their own melodies and harmony. With time, the melodious and rhythmic foundations got increasingly complex. The guitar became a mode of expression in itself, that could be separated from the other arts, and flamenco compositions become the subject of solo concerts.
Flamenco dance (baile) is the extension of the music in a style, equal parts solemn and sensual. It is an interpretation of the melody through gesture. It distinguished itself from the other Andalusian types of dance. Flamenco, therefore, attracted audiences precisely because of this oblique from such popular group dancing as can be found in the "jota" or the "sardane".
Performing flamenco requires attention, dexterity and communication. Dancers, guitarists and singers must have the capacity to play according to each other's moves. The steps of the dancer hit the floor at the pace of the guitar's rhythm which stretches and carries the voice of the singer under harmonizing sound. It's what made Laurent leave the classical repertoire to start playing Flamenco.
Laurent : "Before, when I was in classic(al music) and I always played as a soloist; I was alone in the world. I wanted to reconvert myself and start playing with people, which is very difficult in classical music. Now I do concerts, play with people. Accompanying is what I especially like; being at the service of the singing and the dance. Moreover, it leaves space for improvisation. In classical music the partition is a bit sacred. In flamenco there's really an interaction. As Brice (Niño de Gambetta) was saying earlier, I don't know what he's gonna sing. For any singer, you don't know what he's gonna sing, and same for the dancer, you don't know if he's gonna do a llamada, if he's gonna stop, do steps… It demands that you be really attentive and chase the step or the note to play the right chord. It's very difficult but also very fascinating. You have to listen because anything can occur."
What attracted Niño de Gambetta towards flamenco singing: "The first thing that attracted me was the emotional involvement in the singing. It's an expression of human suffering, on a global, metaphysical (level). It's a cry, a primitive song about human fate in this world: it can absurd, tragic… It's really the expression of emotions that is really strong. And it's also the expression of a political and social suffering. The gypsies created the singing part, (…) but it's them that gave flamenco this dimension."
Before it reached the Parisian nightlife, flamenco was a form of folk music present in Andalusia. Before the Christian Reconquista in the fifteenth century, the region was home to Judaic, Arabic and Christian cultures. All three of these cohabited in relative unison, which made the region fertile ground for cultural cross-pollination. Thus, from Arabic melodic structures and Judaic and Byzantine musical influences—themselves stemming from Persian and Indian musical influences.
The first coplas were most surely written in Cordoba where the Omeyyades caliphate ruled. That said, it is hard to pinpoint the geographical birthplace of flamenco. Later, the rise of so-called 'modern' flamenco, came to be when the European gypsies trickled in. The first waves of migrants entered Spain in the year 1425. Their progressive integration into Andalusia refined the artform. Even though flamenco singing already existed in a certain form within the Andalusian population, the gypsies contributed to the proliferation of this practice and were the prime inventors of the "bulerías" and the "siguiriyas" (alternative song patterns). They also brought to the dance that dual sense of solemnity and sensuality, discussed earlier.
In this little cave of a Parisian bar, my friend and I could feel the gypsy resonances run through our limbs. It's not only the dulcet and plaintive sounds of Niño de Gambetta's voice and Laurent's guitar that brought us back to eighteenth century Andalusia, but also the content of Niño's songs. It is not surprising that this region aroused the Romantics' curiosity and inspiration. Indeed, flamenco music inspired numerous writers like Cervantes, Hugo, Gaultier and Mérimée. Unfortunately the Romantic literature that depicted these times of cultural turmoil tended to omit the many reasons the flamenco performers suffered.
Upon their arrival in Spain, the gypsy populations didn't have to wait long until they experienced social, spacial and racial segregation. Eighteenth and nineteenth century Spain, marked by a strong movement towards centralization, left many disempowered. The south of Spain suffered economic and political inequalities with the rest of the country. Andalusian and gypsy populations underwent hunger, violence, poverty, and misery. The social, racial, political and economic fracture that conditioned their daily lives became the raw material for the artform.
Today, Flamenco is widespread and performed all over the world. From being initially confined to the family circle, it gained popularity in the "cafés cantantes" that developed during the nineteenth century. Flamenco artists began to make a living from their art. Despite the social, economic and cultural repercussions of the popularization of Flamenco, this art fatally became more and more bourgeois. Artists had to respond to the expectations of an ever-growing demand, and the Romantics of the time integrated Flamenco in their new aesthetic canons, putting aside its prime soul: the expression of suffering. In the beginning of the twentieth century, artists like Antonio Chacon made this art enter the realm of opera and theatre. Flamenco became increasingly technical, formal and academic. What was sought was the beauty of the form and structure rather than the profoundness of the content. This drift divided Flamenco between an authentic branch marked by tradition (and still played within small communities), and a sophisticated one that won over the bourgeois and intellectuals.
Is the original soul of Flamenco lost today?
For Laurent, "There is today a strong return to tradition. In the 80's and 90's, artists experimented fusing it to jazz with more complex chords but I still find that there is a return, a trend to play traditionally. In certain cities you cannot do whatever you want with Flamenco. I remember a guitar course in Jerez de la Frontera where one of the students began to insert a chord a bit modern, a bit jazzy. And suddenly the professor stops and says to him: "No no no, you can't do this, some people could break a chair on your head!" Every city has its own style. In Jerez it's very traditional whereas in Sevilla it is more modern."
For Niño de Gambetta, the particular frame in which Flamenco arose makes it very difficult to seek newness in it's origins: "What is sure is that we'll never find again the social conditions of the times that created Flamenco. Today with the new technologies, you go to Jerez and the youth also listens to rock and rap music. This hurts Flamenco culture. At the time it was the only music, the only medium of expression. Although life is not evident today, it was even harder back then. You cannot have the same singing as before. You'll never find again this way of singing. You won't find the original soul as it was… Today with the Americanization of culture and pop culture, a lot of things are lost and you realize that there are a lot of Flamenco artists that start playing jazz without really knowing what they're doing. Even Paco de Lucia, he really made fusion and integrated jazz within Flamenco. To hear real Flamenco, that is the expression of a suffering that corresponds to a reality, if you can't find this reality it's not Flamenco anymore, it becomes a stationary music. The question is even asked of us: As white occidental French people singing flamenco, are we authentic? It'll never be the Flamenco of the origins. We can still get inspired by its source and seek its roots, otherwise we would lose something."
But wouldn't we also lose something if we cast away the history of a by-now well-traveled Flamenco? And what of it's inclusions in other mediums?
Again, de Gambetta: "It's another style. Flamenco opera is another aesthetic, another view of life. You can sing it but you cannot call it Flamenco. Now did it enrich Flamenco? I'm not sure… Musically speaking I don't think so. Some people were able to do something fruitful, but if you sing Flamenco without attending to the tradition, without respecting the codes, it's not Flamenco anymore…"
"Si yo tendria mas de una vida no me importaria ir por las ramas, pero como tengo sola una, me alonjo al tronco de la pureza. It means that if I had multiple lives, it wouldn't bother me to explore the leaves of the Flamenco tree, but since I've only got one, I prefer to seek for the roots, the purity, the essence." This nugget that Niño told me at the end of the interview sums up the attitude that Flamenco draws on: an attitude predicated on an honest and natural representation of reality, without artifice or showy effects. An attitude borrowing fate from fatality, drawing its protest, without complaint, as the cry felt by the downtrodden, through music, dance, and song. Even more than that, and as Niño shared, Flamenco is a practice that spreads to all aspects of life: "For me, now, Flamenco is everything. As we say, Flamenco is a manner of living, it becomes an aesthetic of living. It brings me joy and moments of trance…".
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Perhaps one of the best places to bird in all of southern California is Bolsa Chica. It's an ecological reserve in Huntington Beach which I won't dare attempt to rewrite here as there are far better Internet pages offering in depth insight as to what you can expect birding wise and also how expansive this area truly is. One place you can research this further is of course Wikipedia.org by clicking this link to the Bolsa Chica Eco Reserve. You may also want to review this web site for the California Dept. of Fish and Wildlife which also includes a link to a map in PDF format that is printable.
Here's a link to ebird which shows the total number of species sighted on this walk bridge.
There are many entrances to access this area. In this section I will focus on the Walk Bridge section of the park which you can see from the map below it is on Pacific Coast Highway and north of Sea Point Street and south of Warner Ave. Depending on your direction of travel you can use these GPS coordinates (33.696389,-118.045278) to get to this location.
The parking lot is not very large and holds perhaps 30-40 vehicles. Admission is free and there are rest rooms (porta potties) in the parking lot.
The photos below are taken from the parking (signs) and also the walk bridge. if you opt to go to the other end of the walk bridge and follow along the fence there's also good birding there as well.

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WWE Monday Night Raw Superstar Bobby Roode will now be known as Robert Roode going forward. As longtime IMPACT Wrestling fans may recall, Bobby went by the name of Robert Roode for quite some time in IMPACT before going back to his original name of Bobby.
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Jabal Shams is a mountain located in Northeastern Oman north of Al Hamra town. It is the highest mountain of the It is a popular sightseeing area located 240km from Muscat. In the summer, temperature is around 20 degrees Centigrade and in the winter it drops to less than 0 degrees.
The Jabal Shams true highest point is the North Summit occupied by a military base and is a restricted area. It is measured at 3009m.
Jabal Shams has a second summit, the South Summit, which is publicly accessible for trekking via the W4 trail marked by Ministry of Tourism, Oman. The elevation of the second summit 2997m.
Things to do
Hiking, Via Ferrata, Abseiling, Camping, Cultural Tour
Drive North side way through the mountains towards the Batinah plain and visit the village of Bilad Sayt, a mountain village set on a stunning point of view and cross through Wadi Bani Awf, a beautiful wadi with plenty of spots for great pictures. Head off to Wadi Ghul, a spectacular deep canyon in the mountain range out of which rises Jabel Shams, the highest pick in Oman at over 3,000m. Jabel Shams, the mountain of the sun, is home to weavers of heavy woollen rugs in distinctive red, black and brown geometric designs. Along the steep and windy road leading to the top of the mountain, you will discover small villages hiding within the mountains rocks and then reach the incredible Grand Canyon, where you can enjoy a walk in the cool atmosphere of the mountain.
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Wagstaff04 wrote:Th13teen is maybe the smoothest ride at AT. It's pacing is great, and the drop is insane, however I prefer the first drop off the lift hill. If you're in the back row, that drop is an experience like no other.
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With that in mind wouldn't you find the whole experience better if the drop wasn't trimmed? Heck they could have done away with the second lift hill if they took the trims out. Let's build a coaster with a fast, pacey layout and then make it slower because it'll wear the wheels out too quickly.


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Orbit, or orbital path, is a term used to describe the flight path of an object in space which has a repetitive motion and has a distinct center with respect to its flightpath.
A starship uses a form of orbit to maintain its relative position. The term orbit is also used to define the flight path of a planet within its own star system. (ENT: "The Andorian Incident"; TNG: "Force of Nature")
In 2269, Spock detailed to Abraham Lincoln that the USS Enterprise was 643 miles, 2,021 feet, 2.04 inches above the surface of Excalbia. (TOS: "The Savage Curtain")
There are several forms of orbit; some of them are referred to by Starfleet personnel with names like "standard orbit" or "high orbit."
- Synchronous orbit: This form is used by a starship to maintain position towards a specific point on a planet's surface. The ship's velocity will be the same as the rotation speed of the planet. (TNG: "Relics")
- High orbit: A form of orbit in which the starship maintains a large distance from the planet's surface for safety reasons but is still close enough to use the transporter. (VOY: "Ex Post Facto", "The Omega Directive") The USS Voyager parked in high orbit over Earth, when it visited the planet in 1996, at an altitude of 20,000 kilometers. (VOY: "Future's End")
- Polar orbit: A type of spacecraft orbit that passes within 22,300 miles of the geographic poles of a planet. An image of the Nimbus 1 satellite in polar orbit of Earth was seen in the USS Enterprise library computer. (TOS: "The Cage") A polar orbit may also be used as an evasive maneuver, since electromagnetic interference from a planet's magnetic pole may disrupt starship sensors. (TNG: "Peak Performance", "The Hunted")
- Stationary orbit (aka Fixed orbit): In this type of orbit, the spacecraft orbits over the same spot on a planet. (TOS: "Miri"; TNG: "Angel One", "Interface"; ENT: "Terra Nova", "These Are the Voyages...")
- Decaying orbit: In this type of orbit, the spacecraft will decrease its distance from the planet until it burns up in the planet's atmosphere. (TOS: "The Galileo Seven")
Terok Nor (later Deep Space 9), was in synchronous orbit of Bajor during the Occupation. (DS9: "Emissary", "Necessary Evil", "Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night")
See also
External links
- Orbit at Wikipedia
- Synchronous orbit at Wikipedia
- Geostationary orbit at Wikipedia
- Stationary orbit at Wikipedia
- Orbital decay at Wikipedia
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Police forces arrested 10 Warraq Island residents on Sunday in connection to clashes that took place earlier the same day when security forces attempted to implement 700 demolition orders for buildings that "encroach on state lands," according to an Interior Ministry statement.
Thirty demolition orders were carried out yesterday, with the Giza Governorate asserting on Monday that citizens had not been forcibly removed residents from their property in the process.
North Giza Prosecution informed lawyers that the 10 residents arrested yesterday are being held in Central Giza Prison. Amr Barakat, the head prosecutor, visited the prison to interrogate the detainees, but lawyers were denied access to the facility. Officials at the prison continue to deny that those arrested are being held there, according to Ahmed Osman, a lawyer from the Association of Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE).
Osman told Mada Masr earlier on Monday that a team from the Front to Defend Egyptian Protesters was unable to locate the whereabouts of individuals who had been arrested during clashes between security forces and residents protesting the implementation of the demolition orders.
Osman added that lawyers visited the Giza Security Directorate on Sunday upon being informed that detainees were being held at the Imbaba Police Station. Officials from the police station, however, denied detaining any of the 10 people arrested, directing lawyers to the Warraq and Shubra al-Kheima police stations.
Lawyers subsequently asked the families of those arrested to file reports with the prosecutor general stating that their relatives had been forcibly disappeared, according to Osman.
North Giza Prosecution initiated investigations into the events surrounding the implementation of demolition orders that took place in Warraq, privately owned Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper reported on Monday, adding that the prosecution has solicited testimonies from injured officers and members of the police.
Police forces fired tear gas and birdshot at protesters during the clashes, killing one person and injuring at least 19 others, according to a statement issued by the Health Ministry. The Interior Ministry reported that 37 police personnel were injured in the melee.
According to Mahmoud, a resident of Warraq, the ferries that transport residents to Cairo's mainland stopped early Monday morning. He told Mada Masr that only one out of the five ferries resumed activity on Monday afternoon, adding that police forces are stationed on the Nile River bank at the entrance to Shubra al-Kheima.
During the hours in which the ferries were not working, residents could not enter or exit the island. "Residents who work night shifts were unable to return home, while others could not transport those injured to hospitals nearby," Mahmoud said.
In a statement issued Monday, Giza Governor Kamal al-Daly confirmed that police forces carried out 30 out of the 700 demolition orders on Sunday. "Inhabited properties were not approached, even though some are built on state lands. Tenants were not forced out of their apartments and agricultural land was not touched," Daly wrote.
The statement adds that the governor will hold meetings with Warraq residents to "correct misconceptions that the campaign is meant to the evacuate the island of residents, which is completely untrue." He pointed out that all those who have owned agricultural land for a period of time have the right to legalize their situation, as well as those who own the property on which they're residing.
General Alaa al-Harras, deputy governor of Giza for neighborhood affairs, was cited in the privately owned Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper on Monday as saying that the ferries will be in service again after consultation with the Giza Security Directorate. "No demolition orders will be implemented today,"Harras stated, adding that there is no intention on the part of security forces to enter the island on Monday.
"The state will continue to demolish properties found to be in violation [of ordinances] and will not cease with the demolitions until the file is closed completely," Cabinet spokesperson Ashraf Sultan stated yesterday in an appearance on the television show Raye Aam (Public Opinion). "Some residents of the islands have built properties on lands belonging to the state, and some have unlawfully gained possession of agricultural land. There are also encroachments on the Nile River, and there is a strong political will to reclaim these lands."
In a statement issued on Sunday, the Cabinet asserted, "The state has great interest in this issue and deals with it from a national perspective that does accept complacency with these irresponsible practices, which constitute a flagrant violation of the rights of citizens and future generations."
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi asked the government in May to urgently reclaim state-owned lands that have been illegally seized. "There's an island in the middle of the Nile that stretches over 1,250 feddans. Havoc has spread in it, and people have been building on land that they seized. And now there's 50,000 houses there. Where does their sewage go? It goes into the Nile water that we drink. We can't allow that and hurt ourselves," Sisi said in a speech last month, mentioning Warraq Island specifically.
In the conference on land reclamation held in June at which Sisi delivered that speech, the government announced that it had retrieved 118 million square meters of state land in a few weeks, an area constituting 69 percent of total land seized since the establishment of the State Land and Assets Reclamation Committee in 2016, which is headed by former Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb.


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Renesas RX Support
J-Link is compatible with the Renesas RX100, RX200 and RX600 series MCUs.
- Supports direct download into flash memory
- Supports software breakpoints in flash memory (Unlimited Flash Breakpoints) [More..]
- Seamless integration into the Renesas HEW & IAR Embedded Workbench IDE
- On-chip trace support
- Virtual UART support (C2E / E2C support)
- All kinds of events are supported (Execution break, data access, trace break, combination/sequentation of events)
All that is needed to use J-Link with a Renesas RX100/RX200/RX600 series MCU, is an RX Adapter which is available for J-Link, J-Link Pro, J-Link Ultra+, J-Link EDU and any other licensed J-Link compatible debug probe. The required software can be downloaded from SEGGER's website and used free of charge.
The J-Link RX software is a separate software package to use J-Link in Renesas HEW and IAR EWRX. The package comes with additional DLLs. These DLLs are not part of the standard software and documentation package for J-Link.
Compatible MCUs
J-Link supports various groups of the RX series devices. For a detailed list of supported devices, please refer to the supported devices list. J-Link supports the JTAG interface as well as the FINE interface for debugging RX based devices.
Supported IDEs
J-Link is compatible1 with the Renesas E1 emulator, all features supported by the IDE + E1 can also be used with J-Link. J-Link has been tested with the following IDEs:
- Renesas HEW
1Boot mode and programming of the user boot area are currently not supported by J-Link.
Getting Started
J-Link is compatible1 to the Renesas E1 emulator and works with Renesas HEW and IAR Embedded Workbench for RX (EWRX). In order to get J-Link up and running with Renesas HEW / IAR EWRX, a separate software package is necessary which comes with additional DLLs. These DLLs are not part of the standard software and documentation package for J-Link. In the following, the setup for preparing HEW / EWRX for J-Link is described.
1. If J-Link shall be used in IAR EWARM, steps 2-3 can be skipped. If J-Link is used in HEW for the first time, some additional setup steps are required to make J-Link available in the list of selectable debuggers in HEW. This is especially necessary in older HEW installations which by default only have E1/E20 available.
2. Download and run the J-Link HEW registration installer, created, provided and maintained by Renesas, first: HEW J-Link registration installer
3. The installer will register J-Link in HEW and make it available in the list of selectable debuggers.
4. Download and install the latest J-Link RX software package
5. After the installer has been run, the DLL updater will open and show which installations of HEW and EWRX have been found and can be updated.
6. Update the HEW / EWRX installations
7. Done.
1Boot mode and programming of the user boot area are currently not supported by J-Link.
J-Link vs Renesas E1
Advantages of J-Link
- Higher speedFirst of all, J-Link is much faster. We achieve (at the time of writing, using the current versions of both the J-Link and E1 software) a speed of approximately 2-6 times the speed of the E1. This is true for basically all operations, incl. download to flash, setting of breakpoints in flash as well as startup and typical debugging operations like single stepping or memory read operations.
- Smart breakpoint management
Flash breakpoints are much faster on J-Link than on E1 or E20, but because of the large flash sectors of up to 128KB, setting or removing flash breakpoints is still time consuming. J-Link uses different techniques to minimize the amount of times a flash breakpoint is set or removed. Some of these techniques are: Instruction set simulation, use of hardware breakpoints where possible, dynamic conversion of breakpoint types, flash caching, CRC checking and others
- SDK available
You can write your own application and control an RX600 series MCU using J-Link
- Same probe for ARM and RX600 CPUs: No need to switch debug probes!
- Control panel allows monitoring of operation64-bit OS supported
- J-Link commander: Free Command line utility for J-Link
- J-Flash: Allows using J-Link for production purposes
Production Programming
The built-in Flash loader can be used to program the flash of supported RX devices directly from within the debugger or via J-Link Commander. This allows using J-Link for flash programming of smaller production batches. To program the flash via J-Link Commander, a sequence of commands such as the following can be used:
speed 12000 // Select High JTAG speed
h // Halt target CPU
exec device=RX600 // Select correct device (RX600, RX62N, RX62T) to enable flash programming
loadbin C:\file.bin,0xFFF80000 // Load program into flash
r // Reset target CPU (not required if all you want to do is program flash)
g // Start target CPU (not required if all you want to do is program flash)
q // Quit
The command can be stored in a Commander script file, which can be executed as follows: JLink.exe.
Available J-Link RX Hardware
J-Link RX adapter
All that is needed to use J-Link with a Renesas RX100, RX200 or RX600 series MCU, is a regular J-Link + the 20-pin to 14-pin RX adapter.


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An extensive working vocabulary is a prerequisite for good fortune at the Graduate Record Exam. This popular manual presents 800 college-graduate-level words with definitions that incessantly appear at the exam. The book begins with a pre-test to lend a hand readers assess strenghts and weaknesses. Additional features include:
The book concludes with a post-test to assess progress. Answers are provided for all exercises and for all questions within the pre- and post-test.


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The Pupil Premium was introduced in April 2011 and, in 2012–13, individual schools were allocated funding for children from low-income families who were eligible for free school meals, looked after children and those from families with parents in the Armed Forces.
On 26th January 2015, we received a letter from Rt Hon David Laws MP, congratulating our school on the improvement in the Key Stage 2 results of our disadvantaged pupils since 2011. He stated: 'It is clear that you and your staff have provided your disadvantaged pupils with a good start in life and prepared them well for secondary school.'
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The Government is providing funding of £150 million per annum for academic years 2013/14 and 2014/15 to provide new, substantial primary school sport funding. This funding is being jointly provided by the Departments for Education, Health and Culture, Media and Sport, and will see money going directly to primary school headteachers to spend on improving the quality of sport and PE for all their children.
The sport funding can only be spent on sport and PE provision in schools.
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Dmitri Shostakovich's long-lost Impromptu for Viola and Piano, Op. 33, recently unearthed in the Moscow State Archives, receives its world-premiere recording on Matthew Lipman's Ascent, the acclaimed young American violist's solo debut album, featuring, in the artist's words, "music enraptured by flights of fantasy."
Blues Dialogues: Music by Black Composers
Violinist Rachel Barton Pine headlines a groundbreaking album of blues-influenced classical works for violin by 20th and 21st Black composers.
Thomas Hampson makes his Cedille Records debut with a program of songs by five composers of the early 20th century associated with the city of Chicago: Ernst Bacon, Florence Price, John Alden Carpenter, Margaret Bonds, and Louis Campbell-Tipton.
Soprano Patrice Michaels, "a formidable interpretative talent" (The New Yorker), and collaborative pianist extraordinaire Kuang-Hao Huang offer an album of world-premiere recordings saluting the life and work of legal pioneer Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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2019 Grammy Nominee for Best Engineered Album, Classical
Liquid Melancholy, featuring virtuoso clarinetist John Bruce Yeh of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, exudes a kaleidoscope of colors and moods while showering listeners with attractive melodies in a program of music by James M. Stephenson, one of America's most popular and prolific present-day composers.
Eclipse: Chamber Music by Mischa Zupko
Eclipse encompasses world-premiere recordings of inventive, virtuosic, and impassioned chamber works, written in a present-day musical language by the strikingly original American composer and pianist Mischa Zupko. Joining him are two close friends and accomplished colleagues, the sublime violinist Sang Mee Lee, who chairs the string department at the Music Institute of Chicago, and internationally renowned cellist Wendy Warner, a protégé of Mstislav Rostropovich.
Enterprising chamber group Fifth House Ensemble, noted for its "conviction, authority, and finesse" (New York Times), joins forces with swinging and virtuosic Mediterranean folk band Baladino and 2014 Rome Prize-winning composer Dan Visconti for an exhilarating, boundary-breaking collaboration.
The Cavatina Duo's Sephardic Journey emerged from startling discoveries in their family history. When Spanish flutist Eugenia Moliner and Bosnian guitarist Denis Azabagic learned they each had distant roots in the
Sephardic Jewish world of Old Spain, the husband-and-wife duo of "consummate virtuosos" (American Record Guide) decided to explore their mutual heritage through music.
Mythology Symphony: Orchestral Works by Stacy Garrop
Flourishing American composer Stacy Garrop's first album of orchestral music features the world-premiere recording of her Mythology Symphony, a five-movement work inspired by famous female figures from Greek mythology. Characterized by Garrop's talent for lyricism and vivid storytelling, the symphony receives a typically vibrant and compelling performance by Billboard-charting international conductor Alonda de la Parra leading the Chicago College of Performing Arts (CCPA) Symphony Orchestra of Roosevelt University.
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Celebrated new-music sextet eighth blackbird, whose last three Cedille Records albums garnered Grammy awards, continues to soar with Filament, a sizzling selection of four-world premiere recordings, plus a concert performance of Philip Glass's influential Two Pages.
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Acclaimed lyric soprano Patrice Michaels, "a formidable interpretative talent" (The New Yorker), conceived and headlines this inventive, wide-ranging two-disc project of 26 songs where classical music and jazz find common ground in ways that will delight fans of both musical genres.
Visionary chamber-music group Fifth House Ensemble of Chicago aims for the stratosphere with Excelsior, its adventurous debut album on Cedille Records. The title refers to an experimental, extreme-altitude U.S. Air Force project of the Cold War era, reimagined as music by noted contemporary composer Caleb Burhans.
Two x Four 2014 GRAMMY Nominee for Best Contemporary Classical Composition (Anna Clyne)
2014 GRAMMY Nominee for Best Contemporary Classical Composition (Anna Clyne)
Renowned violinists Jennifer Koh and her distinguished mentor Jaime Laredo illuminate captivating connections between student and teacher, and composers across the centuries, in Two x Four, an album of four double-violin concertos, performed with the Curtis 20/21 Ensemble conducted by Vinay Parameswaran.
Gaudete Brass makes its Cedille Records debut with Chicago Moves, an album of new and diverse American works for brass quintet, all but one are world-premiere recordings written expressly for this Chicago-based ensemble of young brass virtuosos.
Songs of Smaller Creatures and Other American Choral Works
Conducted by Christopher Bell, Chicago's Grant Park Chorus is "as fine a symphony chorus as any to be found anywhere in the nation" (Chicago Tribune). Celebrating its 50th season, the chorus makes its a cappella CD debut with an all-American program of eight imaginative, moving, and sometimes whimsical works written between 1975 and 2005, including four world premieres.
Notable Women: Trios by Today's Female Composers
This imaginative program, devised by the dynamic Lincoln Trio, features works by six celebrated contemporary American female composers. Four of the pieces are world-premiere recordings: Lera Auerbach's Trio, Stacy Garrop's Seven, Laura Elise Schwendinger's C'è la Luna Questa Sera?, and Joan Tower's Trio Cavany. Chicago Sun-Times critic Wynne Delacoma called the program "an afternoon of bracing, highly varied music written by some of contemporary music's most talented composers — male or female."
In Eleanor's Words: Music of Stacy Garrop
In Eleanor's Words: Music of Stacy Garrop offers world-premiere recordings of three works by "a rising composer who . . . excites the enthusiasm of performers and audiences alike" (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review).
The Billy Collins Suite: Songs Inspired by His Poetry
Billy Collins, former U.S. poet laureate, has been hailed as the first American poet since Robert Frost to garner great critical acclaim and broad popular appeal in equal measure. Musical settings by five contemporary American composers — some sung, some narrated over instruments — shed new light on Collins's delightfully witty poetry.
On Rhapsodic Musings, Koh brings her "deep musicality and an ear for the fine points of composers' styles" (The New York Times) to works from the dawn of the 21st century by Elliott Carter, John Zorn, Augusta Read Thomas, and Esa-Pekka Salonen.
American Choral Premieres is the latest testament to the choir's mission and stellar reputation.
With its music director and conductor Paul French, the mid-size, mixed-voice ensemble performs world-premiere recordings of sacred and spiritual pieces by nine recent and contemporary composers including Alan Hovhaness's Four Motets, Op. 268; George Rochberg's Behold, My Servant; Easley Blackwood's A King James Magnificat, Op. 44; and William Ferris's Lyrica Sacra.
Chicago a cappella returns to disc with Christmas a cappella: Songs From Around the World, a sparkling selection of seasonal songs by contemporary composers and arrangers, including seven world premieres.
Chicago's acclaimed Music in the Loft series showcases chamber music's stars of tomorrow. Composers in the Loft presents five diverse works - four in world premiere recordings - by the series' former composers-in-residence: Ricardo Lorenz's Afro-Cuban flavored Bachangó for solo piano; Carter Pann's eclectic Differences for cello and piano; Pierre Jalbert's in turns rhythmically driven and mysterious Trio for violin, cello, and piano; Stacy Garrop's String Quartet No. 2: Demons and Angels, tracing a true-life descent into madness and murder; and Vivian Fung's Miniatures for clarinet and string quartet, inspired by the music of China's Uighur people.
Robert Kurka: Symphonic Works 2004 GRAMMY Nominee for Best Engineered Album, Classical
2004 GRAMMY Nominee for Best Engineered Album, Classical
American composer Robert Kurka was on the threshold of a major career when cancer cut his life short in his mid-30s. "[A] splendid sampling of Kurka's orchestral works. . . . The pieces recorded here reveal a prodigious imagination coupled with relentless energy." (La Scena Musicale)
Each of the composers represented on this recording is a Chicago composer, but you won't find a "Chicago School" here. These are seven unique individuals whose lives have been touched in different ways by this heartland center. Some were born and educated here, then moved away; others came from abroad and adopted Chicago as their home; still others spent virtually their entire productive lives in this city. All write music that is imaginative and earnest. Their subject in these works is the flute paired with another instrument. Throughout the recording, the flute (or piccolo), like a gracious hostess at a party, moves with suppleness between its musical guests, entering into dialogues on widely disparate topics.
American Works for Organ and Orchestra
American Works for Organ and Orchestra offers a sonic extravaganza of neglected masterpieces by noted American composers. Here are four works that showcase the spectacular sonority of full organ combined with large symphonic ensemble.


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You'll find a lot of examples for DataTemplateSelectors with Listboxes, but you hardly find any with Pushpins for the Bing Maps Control.
After searching for hours but not finding any, I decided to figure it out myself and let "the world" know how I did it.
In fact setting it all up wasn't difficult so difficult, in fact to get most stuff done I followed this "guide" at Windows Phone Geek.
After an hour or so I had all basic ingredients to make it work, but then came the hardest part : finding the correct XAML syntax to display the PushPins correctly.
At first I had pushpins in pushpins, to get rid of those it took about a complete day of trail and error, until I found the missing piece.
Ok, here we go:
For this example I want my map to display a yellow pin with a little man on, which represents my location, a blue pin which displays the name of the location, and a red pin which also displays a name of the location.
First, like the "guide" instructs us, we need the abstract class "DataTemplateSelector", of which we will derrive our "PushPinDataTemplateSelector" class, this class will then override the "SelectTemplate" function.
public abstract class DataTemplateSelector : ContentControl { public virtual DataTemplate SelectTemplate(object item, DependencyObject container) { return null; } protected override void OnContentChanged(object oldContent, object newContent) { base.OnContentChanged(oldContent, newContent); ContentTemplate = SelectTemplate(newContent, this); } }
With this class in place we can now make our PushPinDataTemplateSelector. This class will derrive from the abstract class DataTemplateSelector and we will override the SelectTemplate function. This function in fact just returns a type, which can be found in the Bing Map Control's available templates. That's how the magic happens in fact.
public class PushPinDataTemplateSelector : DataTemplateSelector { public DataTemplate RedPin { get; set; } public DataTemplate BluePin { get; set; } public DataTemplate MyLocation { get; set; } public override DataTemplate SelectTemplate(object item, DependencyObject container) { switch (item.GetType().ToString()) { case "PushPinDataTemplateSelectorExample.ViewModel.MyLocation": return MyLocation; case "PushPinDataTemplateSelectorExample.ViewModel.BluePin": return BluePin; case "PushPinDataTemplateSelectorExample.ViewModel.RedPin": return RedPin; default: break; } return base.SelectTemplate(item, container); } }
So, this DataTemplateSelector derrivate is now ready to be used in our XAML.
We still need some other classes to make it work, first a base class of which we will derrive our pushpin types. The structure of this base class depends largly of what you want to display on/as your pushpins. Here's an example of a "PinLocationBase" class, important is of course the "Location" property which is a GeoCoordinate that holds the position on the map. I added an extra property called Name because I want to display a name in the PushPin.
public class PinLocationBase { public GeoCoordinate Location { get; set; } public string Name { get; set; } }
I put this class always in the ViewModel, because most of the time this will be only used for that one page that contains a Bing Map Control, if you have more than one page with a map on, you probably want to move it to your Models.
Now you need some derrived classes of your PinLocationBase class so you can distinguish between your location, a blue pin location or a red pin location. This is very easy since it are actually just aliasses of the PinLocationBase class.
public class MyLocation : PinLocationBase { } public class BluePin : PinLocationBase { } public class RedPin : PinLocationBase { }
You can put these 3 classes in the same file as the base class.
Your ViewModel, finally, should contain a property that returns a List, you can use the "mvvminpc" snippit for that, like so:
/// <summary> /// The property's name. /// </summary> public const string ListOfPinLocationsPropertyName = "ListOfPinLocations"; private List _listOfPinLocations = null; /// <summary> /// Gets the ListOfPinLocations property. /// Changes to that property's value raise the PropertyChanged event. /// </summary> public List ListOfPinLocations { get { return _listOfPinLocations; } set { if (_listOfPinLocations == value) { return; } var oldValue = _listOfPinLocations; _listOfPinLocations = value; // Update bindings, no broadcast RaisePropertyChanged(ListOfPinLocationsPropertyName); } }
You'll need to fill the List with either MyLocation classes, BluePin classes and/or RedPin classes. I noticed that the best was is to populate a temporary List and then assigning this temporary list to the ListOfPinLocations property.
And now comes what was for me the hardest part : getting the XAML right so it works as wanted, and it doesn't display a pin in a pin or just nothing. Anyway, here's some copy+paste XAML for you… you can change the templates to whatever you like.
<BingMap:Map x:Name="MyMap" LogoVisibility="Visible" CopyrightVisibility="Collapsed" ScaleVisibility="Visible" CredentialsProvider="{StaticResource BingMapsAPIKey}" ZoomLevel="10" Culture="{Binding System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.Parent}" Margin="12,0,12,0"> <BingMap:MapItemsControl ItemsSource="{Binding ListOfPinLocations}"> <BingMap:MapItemsControl.ItemTemplate> <DataTemplate> <BingMap:Pushpin Location="{Binding Location}"> <BingMap:Pushpin.Template> <ControlTemplate> <local:PushPinDataTemplateSelector Content="{Binding}"> <local:PushPinDataTemplateSelector.MyLocation> <DataTemplate> <Grid> <StackPanel Orientation="Vertical"> <Grid Background="#FFDD2C" HorizontalAlignment="Center" MinHeight="31" MinWidth="17"> <Image Height="29" Source="pushpins/man.png" Stretch="None" Width="15" HorizontalAlignment="Center"/> </Grid> <Polygon Fill="#FFDD2C" Points="0,0 17,0 0,15" Width="17" Height="15" HorizontalAlignment="Left"/> </StackPanel> </Grid> </DataTemplate> </local:PushPinDataTemplateSelector.MyLocation> <local:PushPinDataTemplateSelector.BluePin> <DataTemplate> <Grid> <StackPanel Orientation="Vertical"> <Grid Background="#003974" HorizontalAlignment="Left" MinHeight="31" MinWidth="29"> <TextBlock Text="{Binding Name}" Margin="4,4,4,4" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Foreground="White"/> </Grid> <Polygon Fill="#003974" Points="0,0 29,0 0,29" Width="29" Height="29" HorizontalAlignment="Left"/> </StackPanel> </Grid> </DataTemplate> </local:PushPinDataTemplateSelector.BluePin> <local:PushPinDataTemplateSelector.RedPin> <DataTemplate> <Grid> <StackPanel Orientation="Vertical"> <Grid Background="#743900" HorizontalAlignment="Left" MinHeight="31" MinWidth="29"> <TextBlock Text="{Binding Name}" Margin="4,4,4,4" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Foreground="White"/> </Grid> <Polygon Fill="#743900" Points="0,0 29,0 0,29" Width="29" Height="29" HorizontalAlignment="Left"/> </StackPanel> </Grid> </DataTemplate> </local:PushPinDataTemplateSelector.RedPin> </local:PushPinDataTemplateSelector> </ControlTemplate> </BingMap:Pushpin.Template> </BingMap:Pushpin> </DataTemplate> </BingMap:MapItemsControl.ItemTemplate> </BingMap:MapItemsControl> <BingMap:Map.Center> <System_Device_Location:GeoCoordinate Altitude="NaN" Course="NaN" HorizontalAccuracy="NaN" Latitude="51.0634402162154" Longitude="4.34346499605191" Speed="NaN" VerticalAccuracy="NaN" /> </BingMap:Map.Center> </BingMap:Map>
Basically these are all the ingredients you need to make it work… not that difficult, and a lot like the "guide" instructs, like I said, too bad that you can find a lot of ListBox examples, but I needed a Bing Maps Control example which I just couldn't find.
I've added a sample project, so you can see it in action.


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You can get a grant that covers part of the cost of acquiring a new electric (plug-in) car or van if you meet certain conditions. Grants are available for 25% of the cost of a car, up to a maximum of £5,000 and 20% of the cost of a van up to a maximum of £8,000. Any vehicle that's charged with electricity is applicable so this is a great way to update your fleet with modern electric-powered vehicles.
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The secret to great SEO. There is none, says Derek Powazek. "The good advice is obvious," he writes. "The rest doesn't work." The comments are part of rant that suggests that search engine optimization--or SEO--is generally not something that's worth spending time or money on. Powazek argues that Google is constantly changing its algorithm, making the work of SEO consultants irrelevant. "These scammers claim that they can dance the magic dance that will please the Google Gods and make eyeballs rain down upon you," he writes. "Do. Not. Trust. Them." What should you do? Powazek suggests remembering that your website is for your customers, not Google: "Make something you believe in. Make it beautiful, confident, and real. Sweat every detail. If it's not getting traffic, maybe it wasn't good enough." Danny Sullivan tries to talk him down, and offers three examples where SEO makes sense. (Via Techmeme.)
More woes for small business lender. The CEO of CIT Group, the beleaguered small business lender that has been teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, is resigning. Jeffrey Peek "transformed [CIT] from a sleepy lender to small- and midsize companies around the country to a big financial player with aspirations of greatness-only to be laid low by the financial crisis last year" the New York Times reports. CIT received $2.3 billion in federal bailout money last year, but regulators have refused to put any more money in. The company is likely to enter into Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the Times says.
Steve Jobs, teen idol. It's official, Steve Jobs is cooler than Tony Hawk. Well, maybe not cooler, but he is the celebrity entrepreneur that is most admired by teenagers. That's according to a recent survey conducted by the youth organization Junior Achievement, who polled 1,000 U.S. kids aged 12 to 17 and asked them to choose the celebrity entrepreneur they admired most. Jobs received 35 percent of the vote, followed by Oprah Winfrey with 25 percent, and Tony Hawk with 16 percent. Twin fashionistas, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen received only 7 percent of the kid's votes. When asked why they admired Jobs, 61 percent said it was because he "made a difference in/improved people's lives or made the world a better place."
Skype founders hope to go from Kazaa to ka-ching. The New York Times reports that Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, the creators of Skype and peer-to-peer file-sharing service Kazaa, are trying their hand at another online music startup, Rdio. However, according to the piece, the duo faces two major challenges developing their self-financed company -- coaxing licenses out of music labels (who haven't forgotten the frustration Kazaa caused the industry), and trying to reinvent the monthly subscription concept, which many view as dated. With iTunes dominating the online music market with its pay-by-song method, and both Yahoo and AOL switching to free music streams, is the monthly subscription model still a viable one for startups?
Why Google Wave will never catch on. Slate's Farhad Manjoo says Google Wave will never be as popular as Twitter. Why? In two words: live-typing. Every key stroke you type into Wave is transmitted live, in real time, says Manjoo, who narrates the disastrous effect this can have on trying to communicate ideas. "On Wave, every misspelling, half-formed sentence, and ill-advised stab at sarcasm is transmitted instantly to the other person. This behavior is so corrosive to normal conversation that you'd think it was some kind of bug. In fact, it's a feature'š indeed, it's one of the Wave team's proudest accomplishments." Live-typing, he adds, is representative of other problems with the software, namely that it "creates new headaches by attempting to fix aspects of online communication that don't need fixing."
Regional VC's shrivel up. In flusher times, venture capital firms spread from their HQ's in Silicon Valley and Boston to places like New York, Washington, and Texas. Not anymore. Boston and the Valley are quickly becoming the last two strongholds of VC activity, according to the Wall Street Journal. Funds across the country are suffering, as only 83 new funds totaling $8 billion were started through September of this year compared to 205 new funds totaling $30.5 billion in 2006. According to the research firm VentureSource, Silicon Valley and Boston accounted for 63 percent of that total, up from 50 percent in 2006. All of this is more of a reason to ditch VC and fund yourself.
A different kind of 12-step program. Can't seem to get your start-up off the ground? On his blog, A Sack of Seattle, entrepreneur and VC Andy Sack offers his 12 Step Program for Unignited Start-Ups. As he explains, "This is a simple program aimed at start-up addicts who find themselves in their company that is not meeting up to their expectations." Get ready to get motivated; Step #9 on Sack's list is to "Subscribe to Tony Robbins on Twitter."
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OK, so Elle Fanning might be a little young to be thinking about marriage, but this floral crown is wedding style gold! At the London premiere of Maleficent, the teen actress wore her fair hair up in a topknot, which was nestled in a headband of flowers. The white and pink blooms were tied with a soft pink ribbon that cascaded down Elle's back. It seemed like something out of a Shakespearean play, but the makeup was also garden-inspired. Elle finished off the fresh beauty look with a monochromatic makeup palette comprising rosy shadow, blush, and lip gloss. We can easily see this look on the Spring-loving bride, or at the very least it's sure to become a flower girl favourite.


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A new £211m extension of the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) has opened.
The 3.7-mile (6km) expansion from Canning Town to Stratford International forms a key part of the London 2012 Olympic Games transport network.
There are four new stations along the new route, which connects the Olympic Park to five arenas in east London.
The extension completes a £500m upgrade of the Docklands Light Railway, which Transport for London (TfL) says will improve capacity by 50%.
Mayor of London Boris Johnson said: "This expansion of the DLR is a further demonstration of the improvements that the London 2012 Games are making to our city.
"This work will be of permanent benefit for Londoners and all those travelling in the capital from here on in.
"It's fantastic news and another example of London's lasting legacy of playing host to such a momentous event."
Director of transport for the Olympic Delivery Authority, Hugh Sumner, said: "The opening of the new DLR extension is the last piece in the jigsaw for major upgrades and improvements to networks serving the Olympic Park.
"We have worked closely with TfL to fund and deliver a much-improved service which will leave east London better connected after the Games."


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In a report about efforts to control healthcare costs broadcast on National Public Radio this morning, Len Nichols, of the New America Foundation, an organization lobbying for reform in a wide array of areas, declared that "the ideal healthcare system" already exists in a number of places -- and the first one he mentioned was Grand Junction.
The effusive press the Western Slope community has been receiving of late about its healthcare approach can be traced to "The Cost Conundrum," a June 1 New Yorker piece by Atul Gawande. Here's how he explains the GJ system:
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One of the lowest-cost markets in the country is Grand Junction, Colorado, a community of a hundred and twenty thousand that nonetheless has achieved some of Medicare's highest quality-of-care scores. Michael Pramenko is a family physician and a local medical leader there. Unlike doctors at the Mayo Clinic, he told me, those in Grand Junction get piecework fees from insurers. But years ago the doctors agreed among themselves to a system that paid them a similar fee whether they saw Medicare, Medicaid, or private-insurance patients, so that there would be little incentive to cherry-pick patients. They also agreed, at the behest of the main health plan in town, an H.M.O., to meet regularly on small peer-review committees to go over their patient charts together. They focussed on rooting out problems like poor prevention practices, unnecessary back operations, and unusual hospital-complication rates. Problems went down. Quality went up. Then, in 2004, the doctors' group and the local H.M.O. jointly created a regional information network--a community-wide electronic-record system that shared office notes, test results, and hospital data for patients across the area. Again, problems went down. Quality went up. And costs ended up lower than just about anywhere else in the United States.
Grand Junction's medical community was not following anyone else's recipe. But, like Mayo, it created what Elliott Fisher, of Dartmouth, calls an accountable-care organization. The leading doctors and the hospital system adopted measures to blunt harmful financial incentives, and they took collective responsibility for improving the sum total of patient care.
With the healthcare debate devolving into precisely the sort of political quagmire that doomed an overhaul during the early years of the Clinton administration, expect representatives of both the left and the right to cite Grand Junction -- with progressives using it to prove that change is good and conservatives mentioning it to show that upgrades can be made without onerous new regulations. Sounds like a healthy discussion.
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She received her PhD in Sociology, graduate certificate in gerontology, Master of Science in Counseling and Bachelor of Science in Physical Therapy from Georgia State University.
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Microsoft to kill iTunes with Urge?By Derek Sooman
Could the Empire of iTunes be about to fall? An alliance that will try to do just that has been announced between MTV and Microsoft, who are to provide a new online offering called Urge. To be launched on Wednesday of this week, Urge can be integrated with the latest version of Microsoft's Windows Media Player and will utilise a pricing model that is based on both Apple iTunes and the monthly subscriptions offered by services such as Napster. Users will be able to download songs for a monthly subscription of $9.95 for computers and $14.95 for MP3 players. Additionally, users can also buy tracks for download at the same price as iTunes, 99c or Albums for $9.95. MTV and Microsoft say that, at launch, Urge will have more than 2 million tracks available, which as far as I know is equal to iTunes' catalogue.
Could this be the iTunes killer that we have all been wondering might come along? Microsoft has a habit of moving into established sectors and completely taking them over (like Web browsing), so could Urge signal the beginning of the end for iTunes in terms of market dominance? Could iTunes become another Netscape?
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In Central Ohio 16 miles southeast of Columbus, Pickerington is home to over 18,000 residents. Pickerington visitors may shop for antiques or crafts in the Olde Pickerington Village district, or visit the Motorcycle Hall of Fame Museum to see classic bikes and exhibits. Outdoor enthusiasts may sled in winter, or play tennis in summer, at Pickerington's five city parks.
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Managed by the Columbus and Franklin County Metropolitan Park District, familiarly known as Metro Park, Pickerington Ponds (metroparks.net) spans more than 1,600 acres and is home to over 260 bird species. Pack a picnic lunch and spread out at Glacier Knoll Picnic Area, where grills and electrical outlets are available, or the Wood Duck picnic shelter, with a charcoal grill and picnic tables. Trails for walking or jogging at Pickerington Ponds include the 0.5-mile Yellowlegs Trail, one-mile Meadow Lark Trail, 1.7-mile Arrowhead Trail -- which crosses a creek -- and the 1.1-mile Killdeer Trail. Bikers may use the area's 5.9-mile paved Blacklick Creek Greenway, which links Pickerington Ponds to Portman Park.
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If you follow me on Instagram, you already know that our family is anticipating a new arrival this spring! I finally made a (very impromptu and very lame) announcement this week over on IG, letting y'all know that I'm 17 weeks and beyond thrilled that God has granted us this gift of another little life to love.
This photo is actually from my 8 week ultrasound. Baby's quite a bit bigger now – about the size of a bell pepper, according to my handy-dandy pregnancy tracker app.
I had visions of adorable family photos with me holding a little painted pumpkin in front of my belly that said "Due April 2018," but then LIFE and, well, I wound up with a mirror selfie belly shot in my poorly lit bathroom. Some bloggers offer you glamour and beauty at every turn, but I figure if you're hanging around here, you're the sort of person who will let me off the hook. Because you know I just can't pull off pretty all the time, and you love me anyway. Thanks for that. 😉
So, if you're wondering why I dropped off the face of cyberspace for the past couple of months, now you know! It's all for a good cause. The best cause ever! The kind of cause that makes the thought of another unmedicated labor almost bearable and is totally worth sacrificing two solid months of productivity to 24-hour nausea. I know, I make pregnancy sound *so* appealing – but the truth is, I'm grateful. Maybe a little more grateful now that I'm on the other side of morning sickness.
Surprisingly, I thoroughly enjoyed this fall in spite of the near constant nausea and fatigue. We've been happily checking off boxes on our Autumn Wish List and enjoying lots of time together as a family. Our homeschool stayed blessedly on track, and we're all really enjoying our work this year. We also made it through soccer season with two kids playing this year on separate teams, and that is a seriously big win in my book! #notasportsfan #badsoccermom
I'm already looking forward to Advent. (It's my favorite season of the liturgical year.) This year it holds a special significance, as it always does when I find myself expecting during this season. Everything seems so immediate and yet so far off, so tangible yet so ethereal. There is so much expectation; there is so much hope.
Each day, I try to hold onto the present moment. To rest in Him. To thank him for all the blessings, no matter how much discomfort comes along, no matter how many of my plans must be laid down in the receiving of His gifts. I don't want anything, not even my own impatient spirit, to rob me of this season: this holy time when I have the great privilege to be everything to some little someone.
We'll be finding out our baby's gender just after Thanksgiving. I can't wait to finally give this precious person a name! I'm so looking forward to meeting him or her, to the magical days of learning who has shared this sacred space of me for 40 weeks. But that is all yet to come. In this moment, I feel the tiny taps of life in my belly. I hold my other children close and remember their beginnings, and I marvel at all that God has done in the span of such short years. Precious years, holy years, trying years, joyful years — all of it, always, amazing grace and undeserved gift.


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Working at Hildebrand Family Self-Help Center, Inc.Welcome to Hildebrand Family Self-Help Center, Inc.! Each member of our 70 person team is committed to our vision of breaking the cycle of homelessness for the families that we serve through a family-centered, strengths-based approach to client services.
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Everyone has their favorite "go-to" award winning recipe: Grandma's homemade soft chocolate chip cookies, Nana's creamy butterscotch pie or great aunt Gigi's savory chicken n dumplins. I personally could go on and on about my favorites. As luck would have it, whenever I attempt to make one of these dishes, I always seem to be missing an ingredient. I try to mimic the best I can with what I have in the pantry, but it never comes out tasting as delicious as it would if I had just taken the time to go to the grocery store and purchase the necessary ingredients. The reality is that if you want to create the delicious dishes like the ones I have previously mentioned, you must follow the directions accordingly. 'Winging it' and hoping for the best is a recipe for disaster!
You may be surprised to find out that enjoying a successful retirement is a lot like having a blue-ribbon winning recipe at the state fair. If you have prepared, planned and taken inventory of those ingredients, while following the directions, the result can be everything you imagined and more! You can't 'wing it' when it comes to retirement and expect it to be a success. To enjoy a successful retirement, you need all the ingredients, in the right amounts and in the correct order.
First, start with your goal. What's your retirement flavor? Are you wanting to retire in the snowy mountains of Colorado or on the white sandy beaches of Florida? Are you wanting to travel the world or stay close to home and spend more time with family and friends?
Once you know what you want your retirement to look like, the next step is to develop the financial plan to get your there, the recipe for success. There are many questions that you will need to answer. How much income do I need during my retirement to cover all my needs? How much money should I be putting into savings and my 401k? How quickly should I be paying off my debts and in what order?
It's important to remember that the plan is just the starting point. Life is seldom a straight path and change is inevitable. So, it's important to make sure your plan also changes to stay aligned with your retirement goals.
Like a complex recipe, planning for retirement can have a lot of ingredients with a lot of instructions. Each of us will have to decide; do we want to learn the culinary arts, or do we want to have a chef prep our favorite dish? That's what Unified Trust is here to do. You work hard to get to retirement and our belief is that you should get the most out of it. With a firm certified for fiduciary excellence, a team of certified financial planners, accredited investment fiduciaries and chartered financial analysts, we have the ingredients needed to help you achieve your goals. Where a chef strives to provide a dish that makes your taste buds sing, we as fiduciaries strive to build successful financial futures to help clients reach all their retirement goals.
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Freelee's challenge: 1 year of doing the whole shebang--diet, exercise, water, sleep, etc. Stop worrying about weight gain and the momentary ups and downs of detox. Just do it!
50 min. circuit training
25 min. Just Dance
Meal 1: 96 oz. oj
Meal 2: 2 strawberries, a couple bites of mango, 1 Roma tomato, 2 small heads butter head lettuce, Dirty Rice (black beans, white rice, mushrooms, beet greens, green onions, celery, Herdez salsa)
Meal 3: Black beans, white rice, organic catsup
Meal 4: Black beans, white rice, Herdez salsa
3005 cal. 86/4/10 C/F/P, 2350 mg. sodium
12 cups/ 96 oz.
11:00-8:00 Sleep was interrupted sometime in the early morning by an experience that reminded me of a hemorrhoids commercial--itching, burning, pain. Was able to fall back asleep eventually and it had mostly subsided once I woke up.
2 hour nap in the afternoon, which messed with my sleep for the next night
Today's Pleasures
An awesome workout and that post-workout happiness
Getting 3 cases of replacement mangos
Awesome butter lettuce from the farmer's market
Watching my little guy interact with lots of people in stores--he is so funny and friendly and curious
White coating on my tongue upon awakening
Dark puffy under-eye circles in the morning
Some gas
An enormous, corn-filled bowel movement (felt much better after that)
Increased redness and bumpiness on forehead, nose and chin
Sore raw spot on the inside of my lower lip
Mild depression
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Moderate... kinda crabby and down today.
Daily Thoughts
Seems like a downward spiral with the salty cooked food. I don't enjoy the symptoms they give me. Had some cravings during my shopping trip this morning. I haven't had those in awhile. I was thinking about going to a Chinese buffet and chowing down on a bunch of fried salty food. I did not, but it was unsettling. I realize that my calorie consumption has been crawling downward lately. Also, today I physically measured out my beans and rice. Seems like I may have been over-estimating some of my portions (specifically the cooked foods) recently, so the calorie counts may have been slightly above what I actually consumed.
I bought only conventional food today, no organics (other than the Farmer's Market lettuce and spinach) so that I could try to get more food within my budget. Hopefully my dates will get here this week, too! I truly am grateful for the abundance I have and the prices available and I will try to focus on that rather than wishing I was in Hawaii or Thailand. :)
I am going to do updated pictures and a summary post when I hit 60 days soon. Does anybody have any questions that they would like me to answer? I have a couple from Grape Nut and February Girl, thanks!
Also, I don't have anybody confirmed for my greens party yet. If you are able to come, I'd LOVE to see you!
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Thanks, you guys! Means a lot to me. Lala, I do have some baked and sweet potatoes and I will use those when I have to instead. Goddess of Green, I absolutely love Jourdans but I only order there maybe once or twice a year because I simply cannot afford it. I struggle to afford enough bananas and oranges and dates. I am very sad to be missing sapodilla season right now, as they are one of my all-time favorite fruits. Mama O, I will try that recipe for my family who eats cooked food. I happen to have a bunch of organic no-salt tomato paste right now. Rice really is hard on my system and I am going to move away from it, but if I find myself needing to, then I will for sure try this. Janna, I fought through yesterday and felt MUCH better! Feb Girl, You're my heart. Thanks for the recipe.
K, I'll chime in with a recipe too:) Boil potatoes in vegetable broth and a ton of chopped parsely. Blend into a creamy potatoe soup and season as you wish:)
P.S. I'm depressed too:( Hang in there! Brighter days are coming!!!!
Hey Greenmama! I just wanted to thank you for sharing your experiences...I look forward to your blog posts every day. :)
Also, wanted to share a way that my husband and I eat rice without using salt. We buy organic tomato paste (with no salt) and cook it with celery, a chopped tomato, a bit of onion, chili powder, and the rice. It all cooks together and makes a delicious spanish rice that tastes salty but has no salt added. We add this to our evening salads and our dressing is a fresh salsa that we make in our blender (tomatoes, onion, cilantro, lemon juice). Sometimes we make a mango salsa instead (mangoes, tomatoes, onion, cilantro, garlic {I know you don't eat garlic--would be just as tasty without!}, jalapeno). Anyway, then we pile the salt-free spanish rice on our lettuce and top with our fresh salsa, and it's delicious, high-carb, and salty-tasting without having any salt. And if you wanted, you could probably just cook the beans (if they're canned) with the rice.
Wish we could come to your greens party! Have a great time! :)
I don't have problems when I eat beans/rice, but I am trying to cut it. However, I have noticed a big difference in the last two weeks minimizing salt containing products. Have you considered sticking to plain rice/roasted veggies/sweet potatoes when you run out of fruit? Just because it seems those other foods really seem to negatively effect you. Take care GM!
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