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Part One: Chapter 1, (pages 5-18)
1. During what time does Dead Souls take place?
(a) The 1500s.
(b) The 1900s.
(c) The 1400s.
(d) The 1800s.
2. What is the name of the town that Tchitchikov visits at the beginning of the novel?
(a) F.
(b) N.
(c) S.
(d) T.
3. Why are the townspeople interested in Tchitchikov?
(a) He is new.
(b) He is rich.
(c) He is good looking.
(d) He is strong.
4. With how many servants does Tchitchikov travel?
(a) Four.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.
5. What does Selifan do for Tchitchikov?
(a) He is the bellhop.
(b) He is the coachman.
(c) He is the cook.
(d) He is the footman.
6. What does Petrushka do for Tchitchikov?
(a) He is the cook.
(b) He is the footman.
(c) He is the coachman.
(d) He is the bellhop.
7. What does Tchitchikov ask the servant at the hotel about?
(a) The job openings in town.
(b) The prominent people in town.
(c) The religious beliefs of the hotel owner.
(d) The single women in town.
8. What is Tchitchikov's first name?
(a) Varlam.
(b) Anton.
(c) Pavel.
(d) Ivan.
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The company raised its operating profit by £83m to £404m last year despite a series of strikes by postal workers last autumn.
The business put its improved performance down to modernisation programmes and efficiency drives it was able to put in place.
Royal Mail chairman Donald Brydon said: "These are good results achieved against a backdrop of harsh economic conditions."
However, most observers were more concerned with the confirmation by the government that, under business secretary Vince Cable it would look at bringing private capital in to accelerate the modernisation of the post office.
"We will seek to ensure an injection of private capital into Royal Mail, including opportunities for employee ownership," said the government in its key coalition agreement document released yesterday.
Cable added: "Royal Mail is showing signs of financial recovery, but it still faces huge challenges."
The previous Labour government, under the then business secretary Lord Mandelson shelved its controversial plans to sell off 30 per cent of the Royal Mail last year after widespread unrest from its backbenchers.
The Communication Workers' Union general secretary Billy Hayes said: "This is old politics wrapped in new language. The British public has consistently rejected the privatisation of Royal Mail. The move to regurgitate failed policies will be deeply unpopular."
Potential bidders for the post office include private equity house CVC Partners, Dutch postal giant TNT and Germany's Deutsche Post, who were all interested when Labour proposed its plans in 2009.
Royal Mail said yesterday that three-quarters of its existing £2bn investment plan aimed at transforming Royal Mail's operations had already been spent.
It also added last year that it cut around 8,000 jobs, all through voluntary redundancies.


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One of my favorite stories involving skateboards and life is when Tony Alva first showed up at Coronado. Apparently, he waddled his dreaded and 40-something ass up to the side of the bowl and said "Daddy's Home". This is maybe 9 years ago before there were killer skateparks on every corner. He proceeded, on his first run, to rip that flow bowl by the water by the bridge right down to it's foundations.
Well, it wasn't my first run at Eldo today. Doing the basic math, I'd say it was about my 11,000th (I did the math - I think this is fairly accurate: 85 days a year for 21 years averaging 6 runs a day) but it really is opening day for the inner wood snipe in me. As related ad nauseum in these digital pages before when Eldo is good - it's grand. And the sticks in the faces nad the rock scrapes and the pungees to the face and all the WIND - did I say wind - really pays off. With the season - or NON-season we are having - or I should say we had been having - my favorite parts of the mountain...what I would refer to as the furry backside, even more accurately the furry butt-cracks of the backside - well they have just been unsafe, and plain gnarly and not do-able. You can't jump off a ten foot rock in tight trees without a certain amount of fluffyness. It doesn't negate the risk - it just reduces it.
So, today, I finally got to what I think I will now call 'steez' rocks, and did launch said rocks. There are lines that I hit today that I haven't ridden in 10 months...so it's such an amazing feeling to come ripping into places, doors open in the mind and you recall (hopefully accurately) that you veer slightly left on the first two pillows, then right through the narrow aspens over the third, and that you need to go straight out on the steez rock, and turn about 30 degrees right to avoid the branches and deadfall at the bottom. Tight trees, woods, unknown and untracked or trammeled places. Sounds like summer. Only, there's no pedaling.....just a steady feed of gravity, silence and bliss. It's puking snow like it means it....it's gonna get deep.


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I've been so busy sewing lately, I havent made a card for a couple of weeks, but managed to make this one for my great-nephew's 14th birthday. I used Maja Design 'Denim & Friends' 6x6 papers plus the 'Shades of Denim' monochrome 6x6 paper pack for the layers. Having the exact co-ordinating colours to hand makes it so easy to layer up.
The sentiment was computer generated and printed directly onto a sheet of Maja paper then cut into strips. All edges were distressed and inked with blue chalk ink. I added natural button twine, a wooden star button, blue/white 16mm saddlestitch ribbon and some platignum liquid pearls in the top left hand corner
There is a new 'Use any Image' challenge over on The Ribbon Girl blog and there are three wonderful prizes to win so I hope you will be inspired by the design team makes and come and join in.
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(1) Disclaimer - the above post was written before terror broke loose on January 7th/8th/9th. More has happened since last Sunday to make sense of, but I have little coherent thoughts to add. 4 million people marching without incidents – that's good I suppose. Thursday's foiling (in Belgium) of another terrorist plot is good (the foiling) – it is also bad since the plot confirms the deadly mix we all have been dreading since May: readily available Kalashnikovs on the black market (the Paris jihadis, too, got their weapons in Brussels) + returned Syria-combatants (in proportion to its population Belgium is thought to have the most Syria-Jihadists in europe) + radicalisation (radicalize and de-radicalize: new omni-present verbs) in disadvantaged neigbourhoods (Belgium scores worst in Europe as to the education- and employment-gap between immigrants and natives).


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Facebook Engagement-For-Hire Economy Has Generated More Than 100 Million Fake Likes• http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
After Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg earlier this week confirmed allegations that the company had sold at least $100,000 of ads to a Russia-backed troll farm – igniting a firestorm of liberal sanctimony as pundits like Rachel Maddow proclaimed that they had finally found the "smoking gun" proving that Russians had swayed the election in President Trump's favor – researchers at the University of Iowa have pulled back the curtain on the seedy underbelly of Facebook's illicit influence-peddling economy.
In a study reported by USA Today, the researchers described a thriving ecosystem of websites that allow users to generate millions of fake "likes" and comments. Working with a computer scientist at Facebook and one in Lahore, Pakistan, the team discovered a thriving community of 50 sites offering free, fake "likes" for users' posts in exchange for access to their accounts, which were used to falsely "like" other sites in turn.
The results have been staggeringly effective:
"The scientists found that these "collusion networks" run by spammers have managed to harness the power of one million Facebook accounts, producing as many as 100 million fake "likes" on the systems between 2015 and 2016."


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UPDATE - 13 MARCH 2018 (from Shyla's new foster dad): Shyla is integrating well with my other four hounds. She likes to sleep with Mary. She will definitely make some adopter very happy. She has a great personality. Being a stray, we thought she would have accidents in the house. So far, no accidents. She does her business outside. She loves to run around our half acre back yard.
UPDATE - 10 MARCH 2018: Shyla went to her new foster home today. She was able to join us at the adoption event where she loved getting belly rubs and trotting around after some of the other dogs. We were surprised she wasn't adopted, but now we will be able to learn more about her from her new foster family.
INITIAL IMPRESSIONS: This sweet little beagle girl is named Shyla. She is about 3 years old, very affectionate, playful and loves belly rubs!!! She's great with people and other dogs. She was a stray at the Louisa County Animal Shelter in Virginia, so her history is unknown. She will be available soon for fostering or adoption.


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On 04/12/2013 03:37 PM, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
I like what the referenced script does. Unfortunately, it works with autotools and those have been removed from virt-manager and replaced with python's distutils which has the same or at least similar objectives but is definitely different.On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 02:01:39PM -0400, Gene Czarcinski wrote:I think this can be solved by adding an option to sdist or rpm subcommands that allows temporarily overwriting __version__. Then all the __version__ building logic can be moved to an external script, which just passes the value to setup.pyGreat minds and all that stuff. This is more or less the approach I thought to look into. Something where the default is as it now is but with some means of specifying a "user version" override when sdist is run.I haven't followed the conversation closely, hopefully all of this was not discussed yet ;) The solution you are aluding to sounds a lot like the git-version-gen script which is used in several projects, see http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/athena/astaff/project/opssrc/cups/autoconf-2.65/build-aux/git-version-gen for example. This is the solution Eric mentioned at the beginning of this thread https://www.redhat.com/archives/virt-tools-list/2013-April/msg00106.html The way the versioning is done is: - if there's a 'vXXXX' tag pointing at the current HEAD, then version is XXX - else version is XXXX.z-hash where XXXX is the most recent tag in the current branch, z is the number of commits made since that tag, and hash is a short hash for HEAD This gives you a version number that always increases, even for snapshots from git.
I like using a tag as the basis for "version." Unfortunately, this is a bit difficult. AFAIK, you cannot set a tag via patch and version is set from the value of the hardcoded and git tracked virtcli/cliconfig.__version__ which has the current value of "0.9.4". In addition, the tags which are used to identify the commit which is the base (top level) for a release has the form of RELEASE-0.0.0-1 ... a little string editing gets this to "0.0.0".
While I like the information provided by git-describe--tags, it does not necessarily produce an increasing number. Consider a base with the tag of "0.9.100". Now have two branches off that. The two branches sill likely have different values for commits as well has the commit-id but the relationship is definitively defined and you could desire to replace "0.9.100.19" with "0.9.100.10" (last number is the number of commits). The git-describe--tags information would (IMHO) be good for an internal "version" but not when used for the version-id in a sdist-tarball or an rpm. Right now, I am not going to worry about git-describe--tags and a potention internale version-id.
So, my focus is the version-id for taballs and rpms (that is in the spec file that is part of the tarball.
Right now I am envisioning a "bunch" of small steps the first two of which should be acceptable:
1. For the current master (gtk3.2+), update cliconfig.__version__ to be "0.9.100" to indicate development/prerelease for whatever the next release will be called.
2. Put spec.in back in witjh @VERSION@ and add "my_sdist" class to setup.py. Before running the regular sdist, spec.in is copied to spec with @VERSION@ updated to the value of cliconfig.__version__.
Here is where is starts getting questionable.3. Add a "pkgversion" keyword to setup.py-configure and, if something is specified, update cliconfig.__version__ to that value during cliconfig initlization. This is a nice to have but the result will be that the pkgversion value is used for everything and not just the sdist-tarball.
The problem is the the setup() kerword "version" is initialized/set long before sdist is called. I do not see how to change it. Furthermore, specifying any version when sdist is run is thus useless.
First of all, I am NOT a python expert or anything like that (think beginner or novice). Therefore, there may be a way to override the methods and I do not understand how to do it.
It appears that [all of this is under "distutils"] sdist uses Command and which, in turn, uses dist. dist has the primary definition for class Distribution but also has this somewhat hidden class DistributionMetadata and it is that last class which defines get_fullname() [name + version]. In the sdist class, there is the make_distribution() method which calls distribution.get_fullname().
Creating a good, acceptable version-id is easy. Getting it used without re-writing a lot of code not so much.
If one of you python experts out there knows how to do the override, I would appreciate any help.


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New Delhi: Legendary playback singer Kishore Kumar`s son Amit will be crooning the iconic song Naino Mein Sapna in the remake version of Jeetendra-Sridevi starrer Himmatwala.
Director Sajid Khan got Amit to re-record the chartbuster track in the new version of the film. Lata Mangeshkar and Kishore had lent their voices for the original song.
"We wanted to recreate the magic of Naino Mein Sapna` song. The original was sung by a legend for the male version..so we wanted someone who can do justice to the iconic song," Sajid Khan told PTI.
"Amit`s voice is too good. I feel no one except Amit could have sung `Naino Mein Sapna`. He has sung exactly like Kishore Kumarji," he said.
Shreya Ghoshal was chosen for the female voice. As the makers already had the rights to the song so they have retained first few lines from the original. The music has been given by Sajid-Wajid.
Himmatwala is the remake of the yesteryear`s superhit film with the same name, starring Jeetendra and Sridevi.
The new one has Ajay Devgn and southern star Tamanna Bhatia playing the main leads.


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"Maximizing the back end" has been a mantra for dealers over the last several years. Using menu selling strategies takes dealers part of the way to the profits they need. Electronically connecting dealers to aftermarket providers – just as dealers already are connected to financing sources – is the next step in revolutionizing the F&I process.
Streamlining the End of the Back End
Increasingly important to dealerships are the back end profits from the sale of aftermarket products such as vehicle service contracts, GAP, security systems, paint and fabric sealants, and other aftermarket coverage products. However, until now, the more aftermarket products dealers sold the more potential grief a dealership had to deal with on the "back end" of the aftermarket product sales process.
Based on conversations with dealers and aftermarket providers, about 30 percent of aftermarket vehicle service contracts require some type of manual follow-up to correct errors. The most frequent problems include:
If this isn't aggravating enough, the sheer volume of paperwork itself can be an obstacle to getting things right the first time and moving on to the next deal.
While the errors may seem relatively small, the consequences can be significant. Dealers who undercharge customers for aftermarket products are on the hook for the difference. Adding to the difficulty is the lag time between selling to customers and finalizing the contract, which can stretch to 45 days or more. Too many dealers have experienced the drop in customer satisfaction that occurs when customers drive off the lot after purchasing aftermarket products – such as wheel protection or a service contract – then return a few days later with a problem covered by the contract, only to learn the contract has not been processed.
Innovative dealers have been looking for a way to make aftermarket sales and contracting intelligent, fast, accurate and secure – a network through which dealers can electronically connect to their preferred aftermarket providers, similar to the network they already use to connect to their preferred financing sources.
Features of this aftermarket network include:
The key is making the process fit seamlessly with both the current dealership workflow and F&I systems.
Higher Profits, Lower Risk and Greater Visibility
Automating the aftermarket contracting process promises tangible benefits for dealers. Electronic rating of insurance and other products will drastically reduce errors by delivering accurate, real-time quotes from the service provider for all types of vehicles and products. Driving profitability and CSI, accurate numbers and verification of eligibility help to limit chargebacks and avoid re-contracting situations.
When dealers combine the aftermarket network with menu selling techniques, owners and general managers can get unprecedented visibility into sales performance, real-time reporting on aftermarket presentation performance, product penetration, gross-per-unit and profit.
Win–Win–Win for the Industry
What's in it for aftermarket providers and agents? Fewer errors and electronic processing of contracts reduce administrative costs and allow easy remittance. Additionally, because dealers typically have excellent relationships with their providers and independent agents, the aftermarket network will ensure those relationships remain strong. Instead of rehashing the number of contracts sold, the amount owed or the accuracy of paperwork, dealers and providers will be able to collaborate on ways to sell more products and make more money.
Further, agents accustomed to helping out with paperwork after busy sales days will appreciate the extra time they have available to consult with dealership staff on ways to sell more products – and even achieve more bundle sales.
So it really is a win–win–win for the industry because of the tangible benefits for dealers, aftermarket providers, agents and, ultimately, customers.
What's In It for You?
Higher profit – by increasing the speed, accuracy and efficiency of the aftermarket contract process and by avoiding contract errors that you normally would have to absorb.
Higher CSI – by tightening the aftermarket process so customers can move to the part of the sales experience they enjoy the most: taking delivery.
Greater insight into your cash-flow – by removing the complication and hassle out of the month-end remittance process.
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Xtime Unveils New Service Management Features
Xtime announced the launch of three new features designed to maximize customer retention and dealer profits as well as the latest book from executive and service expert Jim Roche.


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On May 11, Sacramento Regional Transit's board of directors set in motion the machinery required to reduce service levels. The first look at what that machine has wrought will come Monday at the board's executive committee meeting.
The staff operate under ground rules established by the board back on Aug. 29, 2001. Bus routes have to meet certain criteria and those that fall below the standard are subject to remedial action.
Those rules worked well enough during service reductions mapped out in 2006 and 2008, but not this year.
"Using the 2001 Guidelines as the strategy for recommending reductions at this time would affect routes which currently maintain a relatively healthy ridership base, while preserving other routes that have low performance but are within their group averages," the staff explain in an issue paper. "This could leave some areas of higher ridership without access to service."
So instead of taking a chain saw and lopping off whole limbs from the tree of service, and perhaps threatening the tree's survival, the staff has set about with pruning sheers. It is deeply regrettable that any cuts are necessary, but clearly thoughtful pruning is to be preferred to the alternative.
The proposed service cuts have been split into two blocks. The first would take effect Sept. 6. The second in January. Whether the January cuts would be necessary would depend upon the state of the budget in September.
The staff's pruning has targeted for the first round of cuts those low-performing routes where alternative service is available. In addition, reducing service on routes rather than eliminating them and modifying routes to minimize the impact of changes are also guiding the pruning shears.
Even with the use of shears rather than chain saws, the preferred option would cut nearly 10 percent of bus service and displace roughly 40 drivers. An estimated 800,000 annual passengers would be affected.
Here's the proposal. Click to enlarge. Pay attention to the notes.
Eliminating the No. 9 community shuttle on Walnut Avenue in Carmichael and modifying the No. 82 to cover much of that route on every other trip will leave me with hourly bus service since I live inside the area likely to be skipped in order to cover Walnut.
The elimination of the No. 73 in Rancho Cordova will discomfort the wife's already uncomfortable bus to light rail to bus to work and back daily commute. Instead of having a choice of overlapping hourly buses -- in effect a bus every half-hour -- she'll have just one chance each hour to make her connection.
If, in September, it looks like more cuts will be needed, RT may have to pick up that chain saw and whack evening or late night and weekend bus and rail service. Alternatively, or maybe even in addition, the community bus service and the express routes could disappear.
Or maybe the board can break that 50-50 tie and finally start charging for parking. Third time's the charm, as they say.
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Qualcomm Reports $139M Net Profit
SAN DIEGO (AP) _ Increased revenues drove profits higher at wireless technology firm Qualcomm Inc., but the company warned Thursday that its business will slow through March because of the weak global economy.
Qualcomm reported a net profit of $139 million, or 17 cents per share, on revenues of $699 million for its first fiscal quarter, compared with a loss of $419 million, or 56 cents a share, on revenues of $655 million during the same period a year earlier.
The company's pro forma 2002 net income of 23 cents per share met the expectations of analysts surveyed by Thomson/First Call Corp.
Revenues in the final three months rose on higher royalties on Qualcomm's patented wireless technology and increased shipments of integrated circuits and higher software fees.
But the company warned that its revenues will fall between 3 percent and 6 percent amid weak global economic conditions with earnings to between 19 cents and 21 cents per share. Analysts surveyed by Thomson/First Call had expected earnings of 24 cents in the second quarter.
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Configurator uses a simple serialaccess procedure to configure one or more FPGA devices. The user can select the polarity of the reset function by programming four EEPROM bytes. The device also supports a write-protection mechanism within its programming mode. Space FPGA Configuration EEPROM AT17LV01010DP Advance Information Rev. 4265B–AERO–06/04 1 Pin Configuration Figure 1. 28-pin Flat Pack RESET/OE NC WP2 CE GND NC NC NC NC NC CE0 NC NC READY 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 NC NC WP1 CLK DATA NC NC NC NC VCC 18 17 16 15 NC SER_EN NC NC A717LV010-10DP 4265B–AERO–06/04 A717LV010-10DP Block Diagram SER_EN WP1 WP2 POWER ON RESET READY Device Description The control signals for the configuration EEPROM (CE, RESET/OE and CCLK) interface directly with the FPGA device control signals. All FPGA devices can control the entire configuration process and retrieve data from the configuration EEPROM without requiring an external intelligent controller. The configuration EEPROM RESET/OE and CE pins control the tri-state buffer on the DATA output pin and enable the address counter. When RESET/OE is driven High, the configuration EEPROM resets its address counter and tri-states its DATA pin. The CE pin also controls the output of the AT17LV010-10DP configurator. If CE is held High after the RESET/OE reset pulse, the counter is disabled and the DATA output pin is tristated. When OE is subsequently driven Low, the counter and the DATA output pin are enabled. When RESET/OE is driven High again, the address counter is reset and the DATA output pin is tri-stated, regardless of the state of CE. When the configurator has driven out all of its data and CEO is driven Low, the device tri-states the DATA pin to avoid contention with other configurators. Upon power-up, the address counter is automatically reset. This is the default setting for the device. Since almost all FPGAs use RESET Low and OE High, this document will describe RESET/OE. 3 4265B–AERO–06/04 Pin Description DATA Tri-state DATA output for configuration. Open-collector bi-directional pin for programming. CLK Clock input. Used to increment the internal address and bit counter for reading and programming. WP1 WRITE PROTECT (1). Used to protect portions of memory during programming. Disabled by default due to internal pull-down resistor. This input pin is not used during FPGA loading operations. RESET/OE Output Enable (active High) and RESET (active Low) when SER_EN is High. A Low level on RESET/OE resets both the address and bit counters. A High level (with CE Low) enables the data output driver. The logic polarity of this input is programmable as either RESET/OE or RESET/OE. For most applications, RESET should be programmed active Low. This document describes the pin as RESET/OE. WP2 WRITE PROTECT (2). Used to protect portions of memory during programming. Disabled by default due to internal pull-down resistor. This input pin is not used during FPGA loading operations. CE Chip Enable input (active Low). A Low level (with OE High) allows CLK to increment the address counter and enables the data output driver. A High level on CE disables both the address and bit counters and forces the device into a low-power standby mode. Note that this pin will not enable/disable the device in the Two-Wire Serial Programming mode (SER_EN Low). GND Ground pin. A 0.2 µF decoupling capacitor between VCC and GND is recommended. CEO Chip Enable Output (active Low). This output goes Low when the address counter has reached its maximum value. In a daisy chain of AT17LV010-10DP devices, the CEO pin of one device must be connected to the CE input of the next device in the chain. It will stay Low as long as CE is Low and OE is High. It will then follow CE until OE goes Low; thereafter, CEO will stay High until the entire EEPROM is read again. A2 Device selection input, A2. This is used to enable (or select) the device during programming (i.e., when SER_EN is Low). A2 has an internal pull-down resistor. READY Open collector reset state indicator. Driven Low during power-up reset, released when power-up is complete. It is recommended to use a 4.7 kΩ pull-up resistor when this pin is used. SER_EN Serial enable must be held High during FPGA loading operations. Bringing SER_EN Low enables the Two-Wire Serial Programming Mode. For non-ISP applications, SER_EN should be tied to VCC. VCC 3.3V (±0.3V). 4 A717LV010-10DP 4265B–AERO–06/04 A717LV010-10DP FPGA Master Serial Mode Summary The I/O and logic functions of any SRAM-based FPGA are established by a configuration program. The program is loaded either automatically upon power-up, or on command, depending on the state of the FPGA mode pins. In Master mode, the FPGA automatically loads the configuration program from an external memory. The AT17LV Serial Configuration EEPROM has been designed for compatibility with the Master Serial mode. This document discusses the Atmel AT40KEL applications. Control of Configuration Cascading Serial Configuration EEPROMs Most connections between the FPGA device and the AT17LV Serial EEPROM are simple and self-explanatory. • The DATA output of the AT17LV010-10DP configurator drives DIN of the FPGA devices. • The master FPGA CCLK output drives the CLK input of the AT17LV010-10DP configurator. • The CEO output of any AT17LV010-10DP configurator drives the CE input of the next configurator in a cascaded chain of EEPROMs. • SER_EN must be connected to VCC (except during ISP). • The READY pin is available as an open-collector indicator of the device's reset status; it is driven Low while the device is in its power-on reset cycle and released (tri-stated) when the cycle is complete. For multiple FPGAs configured as a daisy-chain, or for FPGAs requiring larger configuration memories, cascaded configurators provide additional memory. After the last bit from the first configurator is read, the clock signal to the configurator asserts its CEO output Low and disables its DATA line driver. The second configurator recognizes the Low level on its CE input and enables its DATA output. After configuration is complete, the address counters of all cascaded configurators are reset if the RESET/OE on each configurator is driven to its active (Low) level. If the address counters are not to be reset upon completion, then the RESET/OE input can be tied to its inactive (High) level. Reset PAT17LV01010DPolarity The AT17LV010-10DP configurator allows the user to program the reset polarity as either RESET/OE or RESET/OE. This feature is supported by industry-standard programmer algorithms. Programming Mode The programming mode is entered by bringing SER_EN Low. In this mode the chip can be programmed by the Two-Wire serial bus. The programming is done at VCC supply only. Programming super voltages are generated inside the chip. Standby Mode The AT17LV010-10DP configurator enter a low-power standby mode whenever CE is asserted High. In this mode, the AT17LV010-10DP configurator consumes less than 100 µA of current at 3.3V. The output remains in a high-impedance state regardless of the state of the OE input. 5 4265B–AERO–06/04 Electrical Characteristics Absolute Maximum Ratings* Operating Temperature.................................. -55°C to +125 °C *NOTICE: Storage Temperature ..................................... -65 °C to +150°C Voltage on Any Pin with Respect to Ground ..............................-0.1V to V CC +0.5V Supply Voltage (V CC) ......................................... -0.5V to +7.0V Stresses beyond those listed under Absolute Maximum Ratings may cause permanent damage to the device. This is a stress rating only and functional operation of the device at these or any other conditions beyond those listed under operating conditions is not implied. Exposure to Absolute Maximum Rating conditions for extended periods of time may affect device reliability. Maximum Soldering Temp. (10 sec. @ 1/16 in.)............. 260°C ESD (RZAP = 1.5K, CZAP = 100 pF)................................. 2000V Operating Conditions 3.3V Symbol Description VCC Military DC Characteristics -55 to +125°C Max Units 3.0 3.6 V VCC = 3.3V ± 0.3V Symbol 6 Min Description AT17LV010-10DP Min Max Units VIH High-level Input Voltage 2.0 VCC V VIL Low-level Input Voltage 0 0.8 V VOH High-level Output Voltage (IOH = -2.5 mA) VOL Low-level Output Voltage (IOL = +3 mA) 0.4 V ICCA Supply Current, Active Mode 10 mA IL Input or Output Leakage Current (VIN = VCC or GND) 10 µA ICCS Supply Current, Standby Mode 200 µA 2.4 -10 V A717LV010-10DP 4265B–AERO–06/04 A717LV010-10DP AC Characteristics CE TSCE TSCE THCE RESET/OE TLC THOE THC CLK TOE TOH TCAC TDF TCE DATA TOH AC Characteristics when Cascading RESET/OE CE CLK TCDF DATA FIRST BIT LAST BIT TOCK TOCE TOOE CEO TOCE 7 4265B–AERO–06/04 AC Characteristics VCC = 3.3V ± 0.3V Military Symbol Description TOE(1) OE to Data Delay TCE(1) CE to Data Delay 60 ns TCAC(1) CLK to Data Delay 60 ns TOH Data Hold from CE, OE, or CLK TDF(2) CE or OE to Data Float Delay Max Units 55 ns 0 ns 50 ns TLC CLK Low Time 25 ns THC CLK High Time 25 ns TSCE CE Setup Time to CLK (to guarantee proper counting) 35 ns THCE CE Hold Time from CLK (to guarantee proper counting) 0 ns THOE OE High Time (guarantees counter is reset) 25 FMAX Maximum Clock Frequency Notes: AC Characteristics when Cascading Min ns 10 MHz 1. AC test lead = 50 pF. 2. Float delays are measured with 5 pF AC loads. Transition is measured ± 200 mV from steady-state active levels. VCC = 3.3V ± 0.3V Military Symbol Description Max Units TCDF(2) CLK to Data Float Delay 50 ns TOCK (1) CLK to CEO Delay 55 ns TOCE (1) CE to CEO Delay 40 ns TOOE(1) RESET/OE to CEO Delay 40 ns FMAX Maximum Clock Frequency 10 MHz Notes: 8 Min 1. AC test lead = 50 pF. 2. Float delays are measured with 5 pF AC loads. Transition is measured ± 200 mV from steady-state active levels. A717LV010-10DP 4265B–AERO–06/04 A717LV010-10DP Ordering Information Memory Size Ordering Code Package Operation Range 1 Mbit AT17LV010-10DP-E 28-pin Flat Pack Engineering Samples 1 Mbit AT17LV010-10DP-M 28-pin Flat Pack Standard Mil. 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Rolling Stones Concert Review 1981
Mick Jagger Info Here
What A Show !
Mick Jagger above everyone's head in a cherry picker ? Keith Richards looking like the picture of good health ? Fireworks after the concert on a 90 degree afternoon ? The first time I saw The Rolling Stones in concert was in Philadelphia on September 26th 1981. This was the second official concert in support of the recently released Tattoo You album.
We had gotten up quite early that Saturday morning and my friend and I drove to Cherry Hill, NJ, and got a hotel room, had breakfast and the proceeded over to JFK Stadium, along with the other 100,000 fans going to the show. We all wondered, "is this really the Stones last tour ?"
As is typical at a Stones show, there was loads of police, some on horseback, some walking around and it looked like some of the local Navy sailors were there for added security as well. It took about 15 minutes to get in and once inside the stadium we grabbed some seats as it was all general admission.
The opening act was George Thorogood and the Delaware Destroyers, none of us had ever heard of him. Besides being the sound check, he basically blew us all away with his set. Just think about it, George Thorogood playing at 11 a.m. on a Saturday. Now there is a wake up call !!
Next came Journey. It must be tough to be the band that plays before the Stones, I think Journey found that out that day. Must say I did think the song Wheel In The Sky rocked that day when they played it early afternoon.
When the Stones opened with Under My Thumb, it was like everyone was wondering what they looked like. How's Mick looking ? Is Keith on anything ? Whats Ronnie doing ? Where is Bill and Charlie ? The stage was massive but their sound was big enough to handle it, by 1981 standards the sound mix was clear all day. As best as I can remember other songs played that day included; Lets Spend The Night Together, Neighbors, Let Me Go, Beast Of Burden, and Time Is On My Side. Outstanding versions of Black Limousine, Honky Talk Woman, Start Me Up, and You Can't Always Get What You Want were also played. And yes during Jumping Jack Flash, with Keith and Ronnie at the center of the stage-here comes Mick out over the crowd in a cherry picker. Wild stuff for 1981. By the time the played their last song Street Fighting Man, I wouldn't say the crowd was drained, we were looking for more, but not necessarily that day. In the early 1980's rock and disco were still pushing to see who could gain more market share. This day the Stones proved-They were the market !
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I liked your description of the atmosphere and the pre-concert stuff, it was interesting to hear about that as well as the concert itself. Thanks for sharing your experience.
I saw them the first time at Anaheim Stadium, Anaheim California in 1978 one month shy of my 17th b-day. My Mom took me and this was to be the first of many concerts. Still have my ticket stub. Those were the days you could afford to go to a concert. Saw them in 81 at the LA Coliseum with about 120k. Awesome. Even ended up on the 11 o'clock news. I say if you haven't been to a Stones concert you are missing out.
Correction: I checked my ticket, it was $15.75 for general admission. Ah the good ol' days.
I was at the Saturday show after turning twelve just a few weeks earlier. Quite an experience to say the least. One that I'll never forget. Oh, the ticket price? $17.50 for general admission.
Saw the opening show in Philly 1981. I remember Ron Wood lost a ring off stage. Someone gave it back to him from the first couple of rows. Also a few chords into Let it Bleed, Ron stopped the tune and asked Keith "Is that a G or a C I'm supposed to be playing"??? Last really good Stones tour. :)
Great hub. 81 I was six, but I have become a fan in thirty years since. Your experience was well told and you must have had a blast.
Thanks for the good read.
Too funny, I just posted a hub with a bumper sticker I got from a Stones show in '81 from San Fran. I've seen them 4 times and loved every one. Nice hub, thanks for your experience. Check out my music memories when you get time. Peace!!
Thanks, Philly '81 was my first Stones show also. Unforgettable, especially Mick yelling for Keith to help him out with the vocals!
I saw the Rolling Stones live back in the 1970's. It was a great concert with Santana as lead in band. It was in San Francisco and a great party. Thanks for sharing.
It sounds like you have had a good time! Thanks for sharing your memory.


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We Eat Well — "You can't find gooseberry pie anywhere, but we get it here every year," said Longview's Harry Blair, who ate at the Parkdale Grange Blossom Dinner with his wife, Dorothy, and his brother, Terry, and his wife, Suzie. Harry and Terry get Granger Tommy Elliott to sign the Grange's "Feeding the Flock" cookbook, which contains the gooseberry pie recipe. The couples visit Blossom Craft Fair, and come to the Grange for dinner and go to the West Side Fire Department Sunday breakfast. "We do it every year. We do the orchard run. We love it." Suzie said, "The trees are really good this year." Harry said that when they arrived at the Grange, they were told, "Grab your pie, have your dinner, and you can always grab that second piece, so I did that." Said Suzie, "That's the way to eat here. We eat well."
Blossom Fest is first and foremost about the blossoms and right now the Hood River Valley is absolutely covered in whites and pinks thanks to the fruit trees in the valley's many orchards that are currently blooming. But fruit trees aren't the only parts of the valley in bloom; the wildflowers in the east hills are going crazy, as well. This photo, taken Friday afternoon from the Whoop-dee Trail off the Old Dalles Drive east of Hood River, shows both the blooming orchards of the Hood River Valley, as well as the yellow balsam root and the red Indian paintbrush currently blooming in the east hills.
Adult Center importance — Hood River Valley Adult Center volunteers Mida Kay, Jinx Woods and Paul Zastrow talk to locals at the weekend's Blossom Craft Fair in Odell about the center's need for help — especially with the Meals on Wheels program — and pass out the monthly calendar of activities. They also held two free raffle drawings, one for a $15 credit at the center's thrift store.
Odell Lioness Raffle — Michelle Guertin sells raffle tickets at the Odell Lioness booth during the craft show, held at the fairgrounds. The Lionesses assembled a gift basket — or actually, several — filled with over $1,200 of merchandise donated by area businesses. The winning ticket will be drawn during their May meeting.
Beautiful music — Members of the Gorge Strings, under the direction of Deniese Sajdak, entertain the attendees of the Blossom Craft Fair Sunday afternoon. Donations and proceeds from a bake sale help support the all-volunteer group. The string ensemble welcomes beginning and intermediate string players. Visit http://bit.ly/1nkG3kA for more info.
Lust for lavender — Rebecca Brochu tends to one of the 3,000 lavender plants at Hood River Lavender in Odell Saturday. The lavender farm, which features 70 different varieties of lavender, was open last weekend specially for Blossom Fest. Although the lavender isn't yet in bloom (that occurs in June) guests enjoyed hot lavender tea and lavender shortbread cookies while perusing the many different homemade organic lavender products the farm has for sale, including facial soaps, essential oils, jellies, perfumes, potpourri, and many others. Hood River Lavender owner Diane Orcutt said the farm will be open for u-pick seven days a week starting Thursday, May 1. Once again, the annual Lavender Daze festival will be held at Hood River Lavender during the third weekend of July.
Quality quilting – Cindy Sherlock studies quilt blocks before voting for her three favorites, during the quilt show at the Blossom Craft Fair at Wy'east Middle School. The winning blocks will become part of the 2014 Harvest Fest Quilt.
Edie Pfaff pours one of Mt. Hood Winery's many award-winning spring releases at the winery's tasting room in Pine Grove on Saturday. Guests enjoyed tastings and food pairings while drinking in the sweeping views of the Hood River Valley. Mt. Hood Winery recently came home with multiple gold, silver, and bronze medals for a number of their varieties during the 2014 Great NW Wine Competition. The winery is one of many in the Columbia River Gorge that are participating in the sixth-annual Columbia Gorge Passport Month.
All-you-can-eat — Sunday's annual West Side Fire Department all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast drew its usual large crowd, but the headgear looked a little different as firefighters greeted guests. Brian Lay, center, sold raffle tickets, and handed out the accustomed red fire hats along with other fun things for the kids, and pens and fire prevention material to the adults. On Lay's head, and Don Moore's and Becky Beckner's, were fuzzy bunny ears. Volunteers poured coffee and took breakfast orders wearing purple or blue ears. Volunteer Steve Benton explained, "The breakfast doesn't happen on Easter Sunday every year, so this year one of the members went and bought a bunch, as a way to celebrate. I think I'm the only guy in pink ears."
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When Diniyar Bilyaletdinov comes into one of the slightly outdated lounges beneath the old yet still charming Main Stand at Goodison Park he is accompanied by his interpreter, Yelena, and is quick to apologise for not having the confidence to try speaking in English. Then the questions start and the man with the Premier League's most unpronounceable surname forgets himself and instinctively replies in his new language.
He has been having weekly lessons since his £10m move from Lokomotiv Moscow in August and is now proficient enough to hold the basics of a conversation, particularly if it includes such important phrases as "man on" or "offside". After a few weeks of puzzlement, he can also now appreciate the billboard that Everton have put up behind the Stanley Park End to celebrate his acquisition. "I've travelled 1,620 miles to play here," it says beneath a picture of the player who arrived at Goodison on the back of a personal recommendation from Guus Hiddink, Russia's national manager.
So what has he learned from his first three months on Merseyside? First things first, he has been here long enough now to realise that, in Liverpool, they have their own language and it is known as Scouse. "It is not the words that cause the problem," he says, "it's the accent." But he is slowly getting the hang of it and, as you might expect, enough people have drilled him about the importance of tomorrow's local hostilities for him to realise that, to Evertonians, the derby against Liverpool is the biggest game of the season. "In Moscow it's very different," he says. "When the Moscow teams play each other the build-up starts a few days before; here, they seem to talk about this game all year round."
He has come to realise that the game he watched on television in Moscow in February, anguished about having missed out on a mid-season move to Everton and wondering what might have been when Dan Gosling's stoppage-time goal eliminated Liverpool from the FA Cup, is already chiselled into club lore. Then there has been the crash course in what is known, in the law of the dressing room, as banter – and the old rule that when a player comes from abroad they need more than just a nice first touch to be accepted fully.
Bilyaletdinov found this out the hard way when his new team-mates arranged a night out in Manchester recently. "I was at home dressed to leave," he recalls."The usual kind of thing – jeans, T-shirt – and then my phone rang. It was Phil Neville, and he said, 'Don't forget to put on your team suit'. I was surprised but he said, 'I just wanted to let you know we always wear our suits when we go out as a team'.
"This was the captain talking – he had a serious voice, you know, and I just thought, 'Oh God…' I was running late, in a state of panic. My shirt was not even ironed, but my girlfriend, Masha, helped while I quickly got changed. So I was all smart. Nice suit, ironed shirt, tie, polished shoes. Then I got to the restaurant and everyone was in their jeans and, yes, everyone found it very funny. Nice joke."
He is an undemonstrative type, quietly spoken, dressed in black, straightforward haircut – typical, you could say, of many Muscovites. But there is a sense of fun behind that poker face. He has already promised to sing as some kind of initiation ceremony at the players' Christmas party and, when Neville wasn't looking, Bilyaletdinov took the captain's jacket and scraped the contents of his plate into the inside pocket. "I have a sense of humour too," he smiles. Fifteen-all.
Bilyaletdinov grew up in a sporting family of Tatar descent – his father, Renit, having a 15-year career with four clubs in Russia's top two divisions, including the Lokomotiv side that his son went on to represent 150 times. Renit is now the reserve-team manager at the Lokomotiv Stadium, while his other son, Marat, at 25 a year older than Diniyar, is a midfielder for SAC Moscow.
The younger of the two siblings grew up as a long-distance supporter of Arsenal, though not a fully paid-up member of the In-Arsène-We-Trust foundation, commenting almost out of the blue that, "I always liked Arsenal because of the way they used to play, but in recent years, no, I think they have lost something in the way they play."
Enrolled at a specialist football school, the young Bilyaletdinov was primed for this career from an early age. Yet he also combined his early years at Lokomotiv with studying for an engineering degree at the Moscow State Industrial University, where he wrote a thesis on the workings of juggernauts. "I have always been interested in the design of cars and other vehicles," he says. "It's a passion of mine; what goes into them, what makes them run so fast. That's what I would be doing now if I had taken another career."
But football was his true speciality. Bilyaletdinov was in the Lokomotiv side at the age of 19, he won the first of his 32 Russia caps a year later and had been captaining his club for three seasons when he first got the opportunity to move to Everton in the January transfer window.
"I remember Guus Hiddink telling me that Everton were one of the clubs who had impressed him the most when he was managing Chelsea. He said it would be good for the development of my career and that Everton were a team, first and foremost, who wanted to play good football and get results. I know David Moyes rang him, too, to ask him what he thought of me."
The transfer collapsed in January, but was resurrected in the wake of Everton banking £24m from Manchester City for Joleon Lescott. Bilyaletdinov spoke again to Hiddink and two other Russians with experience of the Premier League, Roman Pavlyuchenko at Tottenham Hotspur and the new Chelsea signing Yuri Zhirkov – though not, curiously, Andrey Arshavin of Arsenal. "No," he says. "He is not my friend and I didn't speak with him." He does not elaborate.
The suspicion in Russia – where, incidentally, Everton already have a supporters' website called Russian Toffees – was that Bilyaletdinov might be too lightweight for English football, but the answer to that can probably be gauged by the fact that his next appointment after this interview, on Thursday, was a lunch to collect Everton's player-of-the-month award for October.
"It's very fast," he says. "The mileage is probably the same, but the speed is different. And there is more of this [he taps his head]. You need more concentration and attention. Every game is a hard game – not exactly like being in a washing machine, but something along those lines."
In his understated way, he gives the impression that he is enjoying it – though it has not been the exact experience he had imagined. For starters, Everton have one win in 10 games, falling to 14th in the table. Bilyaletdinov has scored twice in three Premier League starts, but he was also shown a red card in the last of them, for a foul on Stilian Petrov, the Aston Villa midfielder. "It was not malicious. I was really disappointed and upset about it, because I was banned for three matches just as I felt that I was doing well."
The disappointments continued when he went away to play for Russia in their World Cup qualifier against Slovenia and, having scored twice in the 2-1 first-leg win, was part of the side that lost 1-0 in Maribor to go out on away goals. "It was a tragedy for everyone in Russia. When you think of the number of football fans in my country, and they were all looking forward to us getting to the World Cup."
So Bilyaletdinov, one imagines, is bursting to get a few things out of his system now his ban has expired. "Everyone has told me that Liverpool is the biggest match in every season. The players, the staff, the fans who come to watch us train, they have all told me what to expect. And a victory will be psychological. It will help to relieve the pressure, especially being against Liverpool."


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In the year 2032, the robots rise and rule the earth. Ten years later they are fighting each other for our world and new worlds discovered in the universe. The human race has teamed up with the white robots to eradicate the gray robots from the earth. In return they have agreed to leave us with our home and rule the rest of the universe.
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Enjoy 12 of 90 levels of robotic rage spanning six worlds. Keep in mind, your ally robots may have special abilities, but so do your enemy robots. You'll need to use strategy, skill, and let's face it, a little luck.
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Many small business owners need to take a loan for starting and running their business. Sometimes this debt can become a burden and the company must try to pay it off as fast as possible. Here are some ways you can pay down your small business debt.
Snowball method
You should pay off your smaller debts first and then move on to the bigger ones. After you have paid off the smallest balance, you should pay off the next lowest amount due, at the same item, add the previous debts' minimum amount to the new debt. So, at the end, you will have more money to pay of debt in your largest account.
You can bring together your various loans with different interest rates to a single low-interest loan. The debt consolidation company will decide on the new loan rate. They are the ones who will be collecting the payment. This way you only need to pay one bill every month.
Cost cutting
You should cut down your business costs. You can sell off unneeded assets, equipment, etc. You can reduce the size of your workforce and try to increase sales by various new marketing activities.
Stack method
It is the opposite of snowballing. You should first pay off debts with highest interest rates before you move onto the debts with lower interest rate. But you need to continue to make the minimum payment on all the accounts.
Chapter 13 Bankruptcy
It is the last resort; however, you can pay off debt without giving up control of your property. You can develop repayment schedule to creditors. You will need to pay a part of your future income for three to five years.
These are most effective ways of paying off your company debt. It won't affect your credit score and you won't need to give up your company.


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|The furballs at age 2
The trouble is that, besides making it hard to type since somebody keeps head-butting my laptop, my cats know exactly what the camera is and that it requires them to hold still. Being the wonderful and cooperative creatures that they are, it is next to impossible to get decent photos of them unless they're asleep. I have many pics of sleeping kittehs. The only time they want to be in frame is if I'm trying to take a pic of something else. I've also noticed that I have a disproportionate number of pics of Cass. Today I figured out why that is.
Cassandra doesn't like being photographed but she is also very lazy so she doesn't always make an effort to thwart me. It took me three shots, only one of which was blurry, to get this pic.
And you have to admit, for all her bland expression (she's usually either very haughty or very surly looking in pics so this is an improvement), it is a pretty decent photo. Also, there's the blanket she's sitting on which is something of a secret weapon. Cats love crocheted things and they adore Binky, the baby blanket my grandma made me. Putting Binky on a piece of furniture virtually guarantees that a cat will sit there at some point and, as long as I don't have to move much to get at the camera, getting a good pic is only a matter of time.
Calliope, on the other hand, is a problem. I love my little chubby kitteh very much but she is the squirmiest cat I have ever known. She does not like to sit still unless she's stalking something or asleep which makes getting pictures of her really challenging. Today I have dubbed her "Calliope the Eternally Blurry." Why? Because of this.
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And, well, you get the idea. I played with my camera settings to make the exposure time as short as possible and even that didn't help. It took me 22 shots to get this, the only non-blurry pic in the bunch.
As is the nature of such things, it's probably the least flattering of all of them. She is a chunky kitty, but she's no where near as large as she looks in this one.
The quest will continue. At some point Calliope is bound to slip up and let me get a cute shot of her so I can update my photos. Maybe. Eventually. I hope. But, for now, I shall leave you with one of the pics I had forgotten about. Not one of the super cute pics that I have, because there are only so many sleeping cat pictures that people can take, but one that I've always liked. It gave Cass the nickname of "demon eyes" for a while. I should probably note that both of her eyes are blue, I have no idea why her retinas reflected differently.


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Doubts Over Search For Qld Crew Member Lost Overboard
Authorities will decide early on Tuesday whether to resume the search for a Sunshine Coast man presumed to have fallen from a charter vessel off the Queensland coast.
Jeffrey Costar, 35, reported missing from 24-metre charter fishing vessel MV Night Crossing early on Sunday morning about 200km north east from Yeppoon, north of Gladstone.
He was last seen at 2am on Sunday, with a fellow crew member raising the alarm two hours later.
Aircraft and boats spent Sunday and Monday searching for the man but are yet to uncover any trace of him.
The charter boat operates out of Gladstone and had more than a dozen other passengers on board when the man disappeared.


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Yesterday while getting dressed I inadvertently ended up tucking my hair into my turtleneck sweater. This led me to the wonderful conclusion that my hair is now short enough to do the whole tucking into turtleneck thing! Most attempts I made last winter with my much longer, curlier hair would result in a bird's nest the nape of my neck. So cheers to short hair!
I'm probably way too excited over something as simple as tucking my hair but I think it's one of those easy things that adds another dimension to a look. Imagine a casual sweater and jeans look, instantly made cooler by tucking your hair. Plus all the fashion-y people do it so copying the look makes me feel fashion-y ;)
In my I-can-have-turtleneck-hair high, I ended up collecting some inspo for my fall/ winter fashion pinterest (@sharmtoaster) board on how to achieve this cozy look.
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Skye Bank Plc has concluded plans to deploy 8,000 Point of Sale (PoS) terminals in states covered by the second phase of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) cashless policy. This is in addition to 7,000 PoS already deployed in Lagos being the total figure to 15,000.
The CBN recently announced that by July, the cash-less policy would be extended to Ogun, Anambra, Rivers, Abia states and the Federal Capital Territory after a successful pilot test in Lagos State.
In a statement, Group Head, e-Channels, Skye Bank Plc, Mr Chuks Iku, said that to ensure the success of the exercise, branches of the bank in Kano and Abuja have been trained and had consequently commenced customer education in relation to how PoS could be used, providing product knowledge and creating awareness about the policy and other payment channels. He said the awareness exercise would commence in the other states ahead of the roll out.


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Thursday, 11 August 2011
King: Recovery will not happen soon
From today's Morning Star by John Millington
Bank of England governor Mervyn King admitted today that the economy would not recover to pre-recession levels for at least the next three years.
Mr King gave a damning assessment of the economy at a packed press conference in London, claiming that it was vulnerable to "headwinds" from enormous debt overhangs from public and private debt.
He also warned that despite any countermeasures taken by the government, Britain would remain vulnerable to fluctuations in energy and other import prices.
"The outlook for growth in the world economy has deteriorated and, largely as a consequence, near-term growth prospects at home are somewhat weaker," he said.
"The intensification of sovereign fiscal concerns has been associated with renewed funding stresses for banks which are contributing to high borrowing spreads, tight credit conditions for households and smaller companies and exceptionally weak credit and money growth in the UK."
The Bank of England governor also said that the euro-zone disaster in recent weeks had raised challenges for Britain.
"The greatest risks to the prospects for global demand come from the euro area and the substantial challenges faced by several member countries as they seek to ensure the sustainability of their fiscal positions and preserve the stability of their banking systems," he said.
Slashing growth forecasts, Mr King said that inflation was likely to hit 5 per cent by autumn and not reduce by 2013 at the earliest.
"Inflation has been pushed up by rises in energy and import prices and the increase in the standard rate of VAT," he added.
Mr King also said that Bank of England monetary policy could do "very little."
In a stark omission, Mr King refused to speculate on the prospects of a double-dip recession and added living standards would only be squeezed further if import and export prices rose.
Leap co-ordinator Andrew Fisher said: "Demand has been suppressed by unemployment, falling wages of those in work and consumer inflation.
"Until those issues are addressed - and there is no prospect of that from this government - then the crisis will continue and exacerbate.
"Politicians are proving themselves entirely powerless in standing up to those destroying our economies - the speculating financiers, bankers and corporate executives hiking prices to maintain profit margins."
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Dr. Natasha Kislenko, Santa Barbara Symphony's Principal pianist, will be featured on the SB Symphony's upcoming program, "Favorite Piano Masterpieces" on November 19th and 20th. Dr. Kislenko will open both performances with Manuel de Falla's Nights in the Gardens of Spain, and will also be featured on Mozart's Concerto for Two Pianos with guest pianist Markus Groh. For more information, please see the press release below, or visit the event page on the SB Symphony's website.
Note: Patrons ages 20-29 can purchase $20 tickets; students with valid ID can purchase $10 tickets. Seating in both cases is confined to selected sections of the Granada Theatre. Regular tickets start at $29 and can be purchased at www.granadasb.org or by calling 805-899-2222. Group sales discounts of as much as 20 percent are available.
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October 20, 2016
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Santa Barbara Symphony to Present Piano Masterpieces, Including Mozart's Double Concerto and Works by Tchaikovsky and De Falla
Performances at the Granada Theatre on November 19 & 20 will feature acclaimed German soloist Markus Groh & Symphony Principal Natasha Kislenko.
Santa Barbara, CA — The Santa Barbara Symphony, under the baton of Maestro Nir Kabaretti, will perform two of the world's most cherished piano masterworks with the help of German-born virtuoso Markus Groh at the Granada Theatre on November 19 and 20. Mr. Groh will join Symphony Principal Natasha Kislenko for Mozart's exquisite Concerto for Two Pianos before tackling Tchaikovsky's famed Piano Concerto No 1. Ms. Kislenko will be the featured soloist for Manuel de Falla's lush and arresting Nights in the Gardens of Spain to open both concerts. Performances will take place at 8 pm on Saturday, November 19, and at 3 pm on Sunday, November 20. Tickets are now available.
"This is an especially enticing program for those who love and appreciate great piano music, including two masterpieces that we all adore," said Maestro Kabaretti, now in his 11th season as the Santa Barbara Symphony's music director. "It isn't every day that our audiences have the opportunity to enjoy a double concerto, much less one featuring a world-class soloist teamed with the Symphony's brilliant Natasha Kislenko. These concerts promise an abundance of musical thrills."
Hailed as one of his generation's most versatile pianists, Mr. Groh rapidly rose to prominence upon becoming the first German to win Belgium's prestigious Queen Elisabeth Competition in 1995. He has performed with the London Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, among many others, and has appeared in recital throughout the world. His numerous chamber music collaborators have included Claudio Bohórquez, Julia Fischer, Maximilian Hornung, Albrecht Mayer, Paul Meyer, Andreas Ottensamer, Boris Pergamenschikow, Heinrich Schiff, Akiko Suwanai, Radovan Vlatkovic, and the legendary Peter Schreier. Mr. Groh's recordings of works by Brahms, Liszt, Debussy, Prokofiev, and Britten have met with effusive critical praise, including Gramophone "Editor's Choice" honors for his all-Liszt CD released by Avie Records. He will be making his Santa Barbara Symphony debut.
A member of the Santa Barbara Symphony since 2010, Ms. Kislenko has concertized extensively to critical acclaim in Russia, Germany, Bulgaria, Italy, Spain, Turkey, Brazil, Paraguay, and across the United States. She is a faculty member at the Music Academy of the West and UC Santa Barbara.
The Santa Barbara Symphony's 2016-17 season will continue with a family concert performance of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf featuring storyteller Michael Katz on November 26. The Symphony's popular New Year's Pops Concert will include an appearance by the spellbinding aerial performance troupe Cirque de la Symphonie. On January 28 and 29, guest conductor David Lockington will lead orchestral accompaniment for screened scenes from Walt Disney's beloved Fantasia films, as well as performances of Hindemith's Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber. The Symphony will next present the West Coast premiere of American composer Jonathan Leshnoff's Clarinet Concerto along with Copland's iconic Symphony No. 3 on February 11 and 12. Additional highlights include a pairing of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons and Piazzolla's The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, with guest violinist Philippe Quint (March 18 and 19); Sibelius' Symphony No. 5 and Grieg's Piano Concerto, featuring guest soloist Lilya Zilberstein (April 15 and 16); and a celebration of Paris, including Mozart's Symphony No. 31, Saint-Saëns' Cello Concerto (with guest artist Zuill Bailey), Liszt's Les préludes, and Gershwin's An American in Paris (May 13 and 14).
The Granada Theatre is located at 1214 State Street in Santa Barbara. Complete season program information is available online at www.thesymphony.org.
The Santa Barbara Symphony is led by the charismatic Nir Kabaretti, who was named the orchestra's music director in 2006 and its artistic director in 2008. Maestro Kabaretti has conducted the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquesta Filarmonica de Buenos Aires, the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, to name just a few. His extensive operatic experience includes productions at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence, Teatro Real in Madrid, Switzerland's Opéra de Lausanne, and Teatro alla Scala in Milan. Winner of the 1993 Forum Junger Kunstler Conducting Competition in Vienna, he was named the music director of the Southwest Florida Symphony in 2014.
The concerts on November 19 and 20 are generously supported by Casa Dorinda, Jo Beth Van Gelderen and Karen Quinn, the Elaine F. Stepanek Foundation, and JoAnne Ando.
Tickets start at $29 and can be purchased at www.granadasb.org or by calling 805-899-2222. Group sales discounts of as much as 20 percent are available. Patrons ages 20-29 can purchase $20 tickets; students with valid ID can purchase $10 tickets. Seating in both cases is confined to selected sections of the Granada Theatre.
The Santa Barbara Symphony was founded in 1953 on the belief that a special city deserves a special orchestra. Consistently lauded for its unique ability to present brilliant concerts, engage the community, and deliver dynamic music education programs, the organization prizes both innovation and artistic excellence, and is widely recognized as one of the region's premier cultural institutions. Its award-winning Music Education Center serves more than 8,000 students throughout Santa Barbara County each year. Charismatic Israeli conductor Nir Kabaretti was appointed music director of the Santa Barbara Symphony in 2006. For additional information, visit www.thesymphony.org.
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World Corporate Golf Challenge (WCGC) are pleased to confirm the newest license holder to join the world's largest corporate golf event. Scorenet Corporation from Japan will be running a WCGC National Qualifier to launch the event. The winning corporate team will go on to represent their company at the 2018 World Final. [Read more…]
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Lu Ying Asset, winners of the 2017 World Corporate Golf Challenge Final
Lu Ying Asset have won the World Final of World Corporate Golf Challenge held at Oitavos Dunes Links, in Cascais, Portugal. Lei Chi e Xiaonan Liu, representing Lu Ying Asset from China, finalized with 135 points after two rounds of golf. They won with only one point above Centrimagem from Portugal (134 points), while the The Inventor Solutions from Pakistan finished in third position (124). WCGC Ambassadors Eddie Polland and portuguese legend goalkepper Ricardo Pereira suppported the teams during the week and participated during the ONI Corporate Cup, an invitation only event for Senior executives and our Licensees Business Partners. [Read more…]
ONI sponsor at 2017 WCGC Corporate Cup
The World Corporate Golf Challenge is delighted to announce that ONI, the Portuguese telecommunications company, treating patients from 25 countries for more than three years, is sponsoring this year's Corporate Cup in Cascais, Portugal, from the 21st – 25th June 2017, at Quinta da Marinha and Penha Longa golf courses. [Read more…]
Cascais and The Oitavos, Host Venues – WCGC Final
Cascais and its spectacular coastline is a must-see destination for any visitor to Portugal. Flanked on two sides by the Atlantic Ocean, the region is only 25 km from Lisbon and its international airport. Nearby, passing the beach of Guincho, is the imposing Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point of continental Europe. [Read more…]
All set for the 2017 WCGC Final
A full week of business networking, emotions and competition. This is what it is going to be experienced during the twenty-forth edition of the World Corporate Golf Challenge World Final, the culmination of the world's largest network of corporate golf days, where the National Winners from approximately 30 countries will come to Cascais to compete. [Read more…]
ABONUS will represent Slovakia at WCGC World Final
Beautiful golf course at Hruba Borsa near capital city of Bratislava staged Slovakia's National Final 2017 on June 1. Top 32 companies competed at beautiful sunny thouhg windy weather for one spot to Cascais dream. [Read more…]
Mimis Group wins Maiden World Corporate Golf Challenge Ghana final
The team from MIMIS Group of Companies Benigno Mimis and Sailesh Chudasama won the maiden World Corporate Golf Challenge Ghana Final organized by the International Chamber of Commerce Ghana and media partners Business and Financial Times, GTV Sports, Multimedia Broadcasting and Multi TV sports at the Celebrity Golf Club, Sakumono. [Read more…]
Quintessentially Ltd to represent Mauritius at the WCGC world finals
The 2017 edition of the WCGC Mauritius qualifying event, the AXYS Mauritius World Corporate Golf Challenge Qualifier, took place on Saturday 2nd June 2017 at the beautiful Legend Golf Course, Belle Mare , under wonderful sunny conditions. [Read more…]
VPAR Live Golf Scoring will repeat as Official Scoring Partner
VPAR Live Golf Scoring is to once again partner the World Corporate Golf Challenge at this year's 2017 World Final. After the continued success of VPAR Live Golf Scoring at the last World Finals, the WCGC are delighted to announce VPAR as our Official Scoring Partner in Cascais, Portugal. [Read more…]
Huxley It team wins the WCGC Belgium National Final
Huxley It has won, after a tough and close competition, the National Final of the World Corporate Golf Challenge in Belgium. [Read more…]
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Title: JobsDB Malaysia - "Spot The CopyCat" Contest
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Additional iPads for those who can identify an imitation of "SPOT THE COPYCAT" contest by other jobsites as well!
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JobsDB, the leading online recruitment network in Asia Pacific, in conjunction with the launch of its revamped Recruitment Management System ("RMS"), is launching the "Spot the Copycat Campaign" to assert its intellectual property rights in its groundbreaking features that are first to be found in any job portal in Malaysia.
How to Win:
- Find out if these features are copied by other jobsites.
- Copy the URL and make a screen capture.
- Fill in the entry registration form and copy the URL and screen capture (from step 2) in the box provided.
- Send the completed form to email@example.com.
Prizes will be awarded to participants who correctly identify any other Malaysian jobsite/recruitment company that copies any one of the new features listed below:
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Photographer's signature reversed out of negative. Autographed by the dancer/ballerina. Toumanova was born in Russia, performed with the Paris Opera Ballet and the New York City ballet under famed choreographer George Ballantine. He "discovered" her for the Ballet Russe and made extensive use of her abilities on pointe in New York productions as well. She danced the lead in Swann Lake in 1942. She also danced the lead role in Cocteau's Phedre in Paris in 1950. She made her Broadway debut in the 1939 musical Stars in Your Eyes. Toumanova made her feature-film debut in Days of Glory (1943). She later starred in a number of films, including Casablanca, Deep in My Heart, and Torn Curtain. Maurice Seymour was the preeminent celebrity photography studio in Chicago and New York during the 1920s-1940s. There were actually two brothers: one ran the Chicago studio and the other operated the New York site. They used large format cameras, studio lighting and photographed the famous. They became the preferred photographers of ballet dancers.
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Keith Urban: Daughter Doing 'Superbly Well'
New father Keith Urban, aka Nicole Kidman's husband, just wrote a little note on his official website about his baby girl.
He writes, "It's been 10 days since the birth of our beautiful new daughter, Sunday Rose, and like any of you who are parents yourselves, we're experiencing the pure bliss of welcoming her into our lives. We're all doing superbly well and we continue to be absolutely overwhelmed by the outpouring of love and well wishes we are receiving. Thank you all for your beautiful notes and prayers. I can't wait for Saturday night's stadium show in Philadelphia, my first gig as a father! See you there. Love, Keith."


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Discussion in 'Amps and Cabs [BG]' started by jokerjkny, Apr 2, 2004.
never really understood, but was wonderin'...
High, Mid, Low... Ringing any bells here?
bass, treble, antenna
Yes... Acme's are 3-way with the dedicated subs, mid and high driver with crossovers splitting the signal 3 ways. AccuGroove are 3- or 4-way. Etc.
As I understand it, it has to do with weather or not the speaker divides the signal in different frequency ranges and routs these divided signals or not. A one way system like a single 15 or SVT 8x10 sends the same signal to all of its speakers. A 2 way system like a Bergantino HT112 sends the low part of the signal to the 12 and the high part to the tweeter. This dividing is done by a component called a "passive cross over" A 3 way system like an Acme B2 sends the low to the 10's the mid to the 6" and the highs to the tweater. So on and so on.
Hope this helps.
What graybeard said. That pretty much nails it.
Then there are biamp and triamp systems that use electronic crossovers and amplify the signals - lows, mids, highs, sublows, etc. with different amplifiers and send them to speakers specifically designed for that signal range. PA's use this method all the time.
Great comments.
To be redundant, you basically break the frequency response up into (3-way) lows, mids & highs, or (4-way) sublows, lows, mids & highs. Then compartmentalize these individual frequencies by choosing drivers that will excel in their needed parameters. (Ex. Highs: 3,500 to 18k) As basstrader & GreyBeard said, passive crossovers & electronic crossovers can be used to divide the frequency up & send it to the correct drivers.
We further isolate ours by separating the drivers into their own compartments & giving them their own tuned ports. One of the difficult issues is not only finding drivers that work well, but ones that work well together.
The middle of the road is the industry standard 2-way system with multiple 10 drivers & a compression horn. Here you are dividing the frequencies up into 2 pieces. The other extreme, and the opposite of what we are doing, is my friend Phil Jones. Hes using multiples of the same driver in one cabinet, similar to what Bose did.
Let me state that there is no single design thats correct. You can make a 1-way, 2-way, 3-way or 4-way cabinet sound great or you can make one that sounds horrible. Everyone has their preference & its these options that help make life interesting. Im just honored to be able to do my part in adding to the choices available.