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The Velo Studio will be closed Friday, June 30th through the holiday week so I can hang out with the kids before they head off to summer camp. The Studio will re-open on Saturday, July 8th. For those looking to give one of the demo bikes a try, contact me before the weekend and we can arrange for an extended test ride.
I will be available for special appointments if needed – just give me a call at 508.251.9737 and we will arrange a time.


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Candace Cameron played big sister DJ Tanner on "Full House."
She has been married to hockey player Valeri Bure since 1996 and now goes by Candace Cameron Bure. She wrote a book called "Balancing It All," about juggling Christianity, a marriage, motherhood, and more. In 2014, she appeared on "Dancing With The Stars."

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Strip Away 2
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Strip Away 2 features a montage of tough Nissan vehicles charging through industrial landscape and wilderness. Suddenly, fenders, grills, doors, even truck beds fly off the vehicles, until only the American-made frame remains, charging over a huge suspension bridge. "We wanted to create a tougher, bolder version of the original SUV-based spot," noted Skunk Director Raf Wathion. "We wanted something more industrial; something that really evoked the workaday utility and rugged capability of these vehicles." The stripping-away effect was a collaborative effort between MPC and Skunk, who first shot the trucks on set without the elements that would later be exploding off of the vehicles. Using supplied CAD models, MPC then camera-tracked and matchmoved the live-action footage to replace those missing components. "After the tracking and matchmoving was done, exploding the models was a fairly simple task," noted Wynd. "To make these effects seamless, the tracking and matchmoving had to be perfect, and the lighting of the CG models needed to match exactly. In some cases, we created proxy geometry of the environments to supply correct reflections and shadows for the computer-generated imagery." MPC pulled the spot together with compositing through Flame and Nuke, a process that included a considerable amount of cleanup for each scene. A finishing touch on the spot included adding a spinning fan to the live-action chassis. Colorist Ricky Gausis handled telecine.
Client: Nissan Titan, Frontier and NV Title: Strip Away 2 Air Date: May 2012 Advertising Agency: TBWA\Chiat\Day Executive Creative Directors: Tito Melega, Karl Dunn Creatives: Liz Levy, Jason Locey Senior Agency Producer: Katie Johnson, email@example.com EP: Elaine Hinton Head of Production: Richard ONeill Production Company: Skunk Director: Raf Wathion DOP: Glynn Speeckaert Producer: Shelly Townsend Editor: Stewart Reeves VFX: MPC LA VFX Supervisor(s): Dan Marsh, Jake Montgomery CG Supervisor: Mike Wynd VFX Team: Jake Montgomery, William Schilthuis, Jessie Amadio, Ian Wilson, Nikki Mull VFX EP: Asher Edwards VFX Producer: Jenny Bright Telecine: MPC LA Colorist: Ricky Gausis


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I know we can't have the '00s internet forever, but it is sad to watch beloved sites falling one by one:
Myspace lost fame and is now only used for band advertising
Facebook is overrun by ads, and is primarily used for sharing outdated memes
4chan is now where teenagers go to feel empowered by "Anonymous"
Digg is just dead
IRC is where Linux gurus go to show off
Google plus is a dream deferred
R.I.P. Megauploads
Tumblr's for girls fawning over British actors and Feminists ranting to themselves
cheezburger/memebase is where memes go to die
Should I expect more to keep falling? Will newer sites spring up to replace them?
I've been looking for smaller, more intellectual communities interested in coding and/or hacking (by the reclaimed definition) and/or anything computer science related, any ideas?
Reddit seems to have survived, and things like PBS's ideachannel give me hope


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Like having a hidden camera in other teachers' classrooms, An Interpersonal Approach to Classroom Management engages you from the start by contrasting how two teachers respond differently to common situations. The authors expertly bridge the gap between educational psychology and peer and student-teacher management from the perspectives of student engagement, classroom relationships, and teacher self regulation. Both current and prospective teachers will find helpful tools for exploring their beliefs, motivating students, and responding to conflict. Key topics include:
Student behavioral, relational, and cognitive engagement in the learning process
Classroom structures that contribute to student engagement
The contribution of peer relationships to positive and negative behavior management
Strategies that help children learn to manage their own behavior
Connecting with students who are culturally and linguistically diverse
This practitioner-friendly guide takes you on an enlightening journey that will help you manage by design rather than by default. The results—improved relationships and enhanced learning—will not just make a difference; they will make all the difference.


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By Jonnelle Marte
Worries over China's growth pushed down U.S. stocks today, and analysts say a continued slowdown there could soon spill over to high-flying commodities.
The Dow fell 52 points today, after BHP Billiton Ltd., an Australian mining company, said it expects demand for iron ore from China to weaken to single digits as the country's economy slows. That set off worries that commodities, particularly industrial metals, were vulnerable to losses. "We think China is going to slow from its breakneck pace and that will impact commodity demand," says Frank Trotter, president of EverBank Direct.
Commodities soared over the last decade along with economic growth, but at a much faster — and some say unsustainable– pace. For example, while the world economy grew by roughly 4% in the 10 years ending in 2011, industrial metal prices grew almost four times as fast, says John Lonski, chief economist for Moody's Analytics. Normally, the two keep pace, says Lonski, which means much of the recent price increases may have been speculative. "It's a clear warning to investors that base metal prices are very vulnerable to lower than expected demand," says Lonski.
Of course, any drop in commodity prices would be modest in the short-term, some experts say. Even with the expected slowdown in China and other emerging market countries, growth could still be robust enough to support agriculture and precious metals. The threat of rising oil prices could also keep inflation concerns and commodity prices high, he says. "I think it will be a moderation more than a substantial slowdown," Trotter says of China's growth.
Still, advisers say investors should be prepared for possibly lower commodity prices, a shift that could also impact stocks. Ethan Anderson, chief investment strategist with Rehmann Financial in Grand Rapids, Mich., recommends mutual funds that invest in a basket of commodities such as precious metals and agriculture as well as industrial metals, so that they are less vulnerable to big price shifts in any one sector. Investors should also shy away from equity sectors that are particularly tied to commodity prices, such as energy and materials, he says.


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Photography is a blessed art that allows its artists to flourish and thrive all throughout the entire process. You will probably be amenable to the statement that if there is any right time to make a living out of photography, the right and perfect time for it is probably right now. There are so many different things and angles and niches to explore in the photography industry and the crème de la crème of all of those is the wedding photography niche. Make no mistake, the rest of the other niches in photography don't come in any less, they pay quite handsomely as well and if done right, it can be something that you can wrestle yourself into and live out your passions and dreams while earning some major bucks in the process.
It all starts out quite the same really. You take photography as a new found hobby and practice it every day. Over the course of time, after probably some classes and seminars taken and tons of self help videos and blogs, you notice that you have improved dramatically and your friends and family and even a bunch of other people you don't know very much start following your works and portfolio online. Then one day, it dawns upon you, you can seriously do it for a living. You can be as good as this wedding photographer north wales. You're talented enough to be able to pull it off and you've already started investing in the right kind of gear. Why not, right?
Well, making a business out of your passion, particularly something that you can be potentially good with, is not a bad idea at all. Here are a few tips to help boost your photography business if you're contemplating on starting one or are still in the process of working it out:
Work tirelessly on your portfolio
You can't just make a pitch to prospective clients and not have a portfolio of any kind to show to them to prove that you're actually any good, can you? This is why it is important for to gain experience and to take on projects seriously and with laser like focus – no matter how big or small they may be. If you really are just starting out, stage a personal project with your friends and family who will gladly do it for you for free. Chances are, all you had to do was ask and you never mustered up the courage until now.
Actively participate on social media
You're probably using social media for your personal accounts but once you're starting out with your business, you should make up accounts for that too. After all, studies show that 75% of effective consumer marketing is actually conducted through social media. Make your presence known. Update dutifully, start off with weekly updates then build on from there. Reply to comments and suggestions and answer any inquiries as promptly as you possibly can. It will blow your mind how many business entrepreneurs gain clients through social media every day. It's a gold mine people have been tapping into and the good news is that it never runs out. The more you cultivate your social media presence, the more traction you get towards getting actual prospective clients in the future.


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The partners of the food and drink chain gathered in the European Food SCP Round Table are committed to helping consumers and other partners along the food chain to make informed choices by providing them with accurate and understandable information on relevant product characteristics, including environmental performance. Effective environmental information requires scientifically reliable and consistent environmental assessment methodologies to be applied along the food chain. There is at present no commonly applied methodology to assess and communicate environmental information along the food chain, including to consumers, in a practical and reliable way.
On 20 November 2013 the European Food SCP Round Table adopted the ENVIFOOD Protocol (1.0). The ENVIFOOD Protocol is a scientifically reliable, practical and harmonised methodology for the environmental assessment of food and drink products. It represents an intermediate step between ISO standards, the European Commission's Product Environmental Footprint and product-specific rules. It is not a stand-alone document or a product category rule for food and drinks.
This version incorporates feedback from a public consultation, which was held from 21st November 2012 – 31st March 2013. It also takes into account results from voluntary pilot testing, which took place from 1st February – 31st August 2013. It was also the result of two scientific workshops hosted by the European Commission Joint Research Centre in Ispra and a detailed analysis of relevant methodologies and data for food and drink products. The workshop summaries, 'Towards the ENVIFOOD Protocol: Deriving Scientifically-Sound Rules from Existing Methodological Alternatives' and 'Outcomes of the second workshop of the Food Sustainable Consumption and Production Round Table Working Group 1: deriving scientifically sound rules for a sector-specific environmental assessment methodology', are available for download.
Further Information:
- Role of the Round Table in the governance of the pilot test of the European Commission Product Environmental Footprint methodology for food, feed and drink products
- Scoping document on the Governance of the ENVIFOOD Protocol and related technical activities of the Round Table WG1, WG2 and WG4
- Working paper: Data: needs, the role of the ENVIFOOD Protocol and Round Table governance
- Working paper: Product Category Rules: needs, the role of the ENVIFOOD Protocol and Round Table governance
- The Working Group 1 Road Map outlines the process for developing the ENVIFOOD Protocol to support the assessment of the environmental performance in line with the Round Table's Guiding Principles.
- The European Food SCP Round Table adopted 10 Guiding Principles on the voluntary environmental assessment and communication of food and drink products to underpin the development of the ENVIFOOD Protocol.
- Report on the public consultation and pilot test of the ENVIFOOD Protocol, published following a Working Group 1 Workshop on the follow-up of the ENVIFOOD Protocol public consultation and pilot testing, held in February 2014.
- The Food SCP Round Table organised a Working Group 1 Workshop on 'Environmental Footprinting, Biodiversity and Water Footprinting' at FAO's premises in Rome on 22 April. Please click here to download the PowerPoint Presentations.


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Simple touch interface. Good call quality. Smooth music and video playback.
Only 2G data speeds. Short battery life. Buggy Bluetooth.
Bottom Line
The Samsung Caliber SCH-r860 lets MetroPCS subscribers get in on the touch-screen action with a solid phone for music, video and voice calling.
The Samsung Caliber offers MetroPCS subscribers a lightweight, touch-screen phone to go with their shrewdly priced unlimited plans. Following up on last year's Samsung Finesse SCH-r810 ($349.99, ), the Caliber has a sleeker look and a better camera, and continues to hold the Finesse's place as MetroPCS's premier multimedia phone.
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Design, Voice Quality, and Apps
Stripped of the bloatware plaguing similar Samsung touch-screen phones devices on AT&T, the Samsung Caliber is actually a nice, easy-to-use phone. It measures 4.5 by 2.2 by 0.5 inches (HWD) and weighs 3.7 ounces. It's made of black plastic, with a glossy back panel featuring a dot pattern, and a thick chrome accent band around the edge. The expansive 3.2-inch touch screen sports 240-by-400-pixel resolution, and was sufficiently sharp and bright in testing. The on-screen QWERTY keyboard looked reasonably roomy. But the lack of iPhone-style predictive text and the plastic resistive touch screen slowed typing, making this phone more for media consumption than for messaging.
The Caliber is a tri-band CDMA (850/1700/1900 MHz) device; it lacks both 3G and Wi-Fi. Voice quality was fine, with no complaints on either side of the call. Reception was average. The speakerphone sounded fine, and was loud enough to use outside. But I couldn't get the Caliber to pair with Aliph Jawbone Icon ($99, ), or Plantronics Voyager Pro ($99.99, ) Bluetooth headsets, or a set of Motorola MotoROKR S9-HD ($129.99, ) stereo headphones. Normally I'd call this a bug with my test unit, but we ran into the same exact problem with MetroPCS's Motorola Hint QA30 ($249.99, ). Voice dialing works without training, but of course I couldn't get it to work with my Bluetooth headsets. Make sure the MetroPCS handset you want to buy connects to the exact headset you own. Battery life was pretty poor at 3 hours and 44 minutes of talk time.
The home screen features three panes that you can swipe between, along with Samsung's now-customary TouchWiz widget toolbar on the left side. There are two main menus: the first consists mostly of the browser and MetroPCS-related account services, while the second contains the camera, camcorder, music player, and other key apps. The Access NetFront 3.5 browser rendered desktop pages well, and the full-featured touch interface was simple to navigate. But the 2G data radio meant browsing was effectively WAP only. The Caliber works with MetroPCS's Web-based mail@metro e-mail service, and you can download a free instant messaging app. The phone also includes the Networks-In-Motion-powered MetroNavigator for voice-enabled, turn-by-turn GPS directions.
Multimedia, Camera, and Conclusions
Like the Finesse was in its day, the Caliber is MetroPCS users' best choice for music and video. There's 117MB of free internal memory, and my 16GB SanDisk microSD card worked fine in the side-mounted slot. The latter combines with the standard-size 3.5mm headphone jack support to make the Caliber a great primary music player, assuming you don't need stereo Bluetooth. The music player was simple to navigate and displayed album art. Standalone WMV and MP4 videos played smoothly in full screen mode, and the 3.2-inch LCD made viewing a pleasure.
The 3-megapixel auto-focus camera includes an LED flash. Test images looked warm and a bit pink, but they looked reasonably detailed both indoors and outdoors. The flash made even moderately lit indoor scenes viewable, even with the shades closed. Focus was slightly soft, but shutter speeds were fast enough that all of my test images were usable. Recorded videos were smooth but too dark, at 320-by-240-pixels and 14 frames per second.
The Caliber is a sharp-looking device overall, but the Samsung Freeform SGH-r350 ($79, ) remains our Editors' Choice. MetroPCS subscribers are probably looking for a bargain. Even though it looks and feels cheap, the Freeform's $79 upfront price is a stunning deal, and its hardware QWERTY keyboard is better for messaging. It also has better battery life. If you want more power, but you're willing to give up the touch screen, the Samsung Code SCH-i220 ($299.99, ) smartphone offers a fast processor, powerful e-mail with support for Microsoft Outlook and Exchange, and free GPS navigation. But its 2G data speeds and mediocre OS will still leave power users wanting. For media-centric buyers looking for a touch-screen MetroPCS phone, the Caliber is the number-one choice.
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Continuous Talk Time: 3 hours 44 minutes
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Hi all! Have been busy and a bit lazy I never got to make Jean's cards last week. Have had company last week and again now this week Kristina,Jane, Kate and Finn are visiting this week.. It's fun to have family here! Kris is my daughter-in-law, Matt's wife. The kids are grandchildren of course but only 3 of there 5could come. We picked them up at the airport last night late. The plan was delayed 4 times from taking off due to severe storms Our daughter Kristin and grand daughters Jillian and Juliet were here the week before for just a few days. I know you are wondering when Tom and I will be back. More than likely will be leaving mid week next week.
Anyway here are my 2 cards I made and taught. Will send Jean's when or if I get them.


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Fireworks over NYC, Bombs over Baghdad
Lightning flashes, thunder explodes in the skies over NYC. The sound blends in with the sounds of bombs falling into the heart of Baghdad that are broadcast over my radio. Even though it is getting late here and I always try to leave early on Fridays so I can spend the evening relaxing at the Met, I cannot bring myself to leave tonight.
Another flash and I jump, visions of airplanes slamming into tall buildings flicker into my consciousness.
The clouds are oppressive. Heavy, like smoke. The sky changes from a muddy brown to a flat battleship grey. Rain drenches the streets, transforming them into glistening multicolored rivers of oil while the sky growls menacingly.
Jumpiness is contageous in NYC. Earlier today, part of La Guardia Airport was evacuated temporarily and six baggage handlers were decontaminated because one piece of luggage was found to contain a "suspicious white powder". Fortunately (or maybe not -- it did generate a lot of drama), this powder proved to be harmless, as are most personal hygiene products that are commonly carried in luggage.
There is an overwhelming sense of fear and anger here; cold, hard, unyielding. Barely restrained. Suddenly, being loud, rude and obnoxious is no longer a game that New Yorkers excel at: It is serious business. Some people use our bombs in Baghdad as an excuse to reveal and indulge their feelings of racism or sexism. It's very ugly sometimes.
But other New Yorkers cope differently with the stress. Today, I realized that I cannot postpone the inevitable any longer, so I ventured out to buy some food. When I managed to get into Fairway and Zabar's, the best food stores in the city, I found their narrow isles nearly empty (well, nearly empty by NYC standards) and shopping was almost pleasant. An older woman wearing a dark grey velvet top-hat, burnt sienna coat and red silk scarf -- all matched in a strange sort of way -- chatted with me for quite some time about her secrets for adding extra "zing" to canned Progresso soups. After talking for a few minutes, she decided I was an actress in the theatre. I laughed and said, no, I am a scientist but I'll take that as a compliment.
"Oh, it's a compliment," she said and winked. "Don't let anyone keep you from doing the thing you want to do," she added mysteriously as she walked away.
But this small moment of camaraderie was short-lived. Walking down the sidewalks back to the museum, snippets of conversations on the streets reminded me of the threat ... Afghanistan ... Baghdad ... I look up at the sky, hoping to be cheered up as I was a couple days ago by the unexpected sight of a pair of mourning doves flying overhead ... bombs ... Iraq ... marines ... dead ... but instead I see a 727 flying over like a missile, fast, deadly, purposeful ... hey, isn't that plane a little low ... ? My gut twists and I hold my breath, the plastic grocery bags cutting into my hands. But the plane misses the steeple of the cathedral across the street from me and continues on to its destiny, its close proximity to buildings merely a optical illusion.
Nine one one.
New Yorkers are very afraid right now. I wonder how they can live with such crushing fear.
And just now, a brilliant flash transforms night into day, a frozen strobe light moment. The sidewalks are submerged. crash, nature's fury explodes all around NYC.
Thunder is so astonishingly loud here, how will I know if a bomb goes off in Manhattan? But I wonder if this knowledge even matters: If I evacuate my building now for any reason, I will be soaked to my underwear in five minutes. I wonder if the storm will continue like this all night? I need to get home to my lories, who will no doubt be rioting soon.
And now, outside my open apartment window, hail falls like white knives from the heavens. More lightning, thunder, rivers.
tags: NYC Life
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"It is Christ who, in the bishop's ministry, continues to preach the Gospel of salvation and to sanctify believers, through the sacraments of the faith", he said. "Indeed, 'episcopate' is the name of a service, not an honour. It is the bishop's responsibility to serve rather than to dominate, according to the commandment of the Master: 'the greatest among you should be like the youngest, and the one who rules like the one who serves'".
He then invited the new bishops to "proclaim the Word in every occasion, opportune or otherwise. … And through prayer and the offer of sacrifice for your people, you will draw from the fullness of Christ's holiness the many and varied riches of divine grace. Through prayer. Remember that first conflict in the Church of Jerusalem, when the bishops had so much work in looking after widows and orphans, and decided to appoint deacons. Why? To pray and preach the Word. A bishop who does not pray is a bishop who arrives only half way along the path. And if he does not pray to the Lord, he falls prey to worldliness".
The bishop must accompany service and prayer with love. "Love, with the love of a father and of a brother, all those whom God entrusts to you. Above all, love the priests and deacons. They are your collaborators, the nearest of the near for you. Never make a priest wait: he asks for an audience? Answer immediately! Be close to them. But also love the poor, the defenceless and those who need welcome and help. Encourage the faithful to co-operate in the apostolic task and listen to them willingly".
Finally, Francis encouraged them to pay close attention to "those who have strayed from the fold of Christ, because they too have been entrusted to you by the Lord. Pray for them. Remember that in the Catholic Church, brought together by the bond of charity, you are united with the College of bishops and must bring with you the care of all the Churches, generously assisting those most in need of help".


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About IWEE
iWeee allows you to share your tips & make findings easy for other people in your network. My role was to design the UI of this app.
4 Core Functions of App
People can make findings easy by sharing these 4 things...
by creating different cards.
Browse by Category
From this screen, you can quickly jump to the cards or service you are looking for. The different colored icons are identifying the global categories of the app.
Steps of sharing/creating a card
By passing through the 3 steps you can create your card.
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All your youth are belong to us
Can't believe that the Alt-Right is even a FUCKING THING.He can't run.
Seriously what the fuck happened? This, the internet, was supposed to be OUR platform. We were the ones who were going to change the world and, now? Now you have a bunch of younger people interested in right-wing politics? Just what the FUCK happened?
Another question, what year is it? Oh that's right, IT'S 2017, and there are STILL people whose worldviews shift right.
He can't hide.
He gets helicopter ride.
Eventually, people notice. Eventually, people see through the mass of lies they have been told. And it's often the young men who see through them first. The Left's worldview is false. The Conservative worldview is false. The Libertarian worlview is false.
And that is why the Alt-Right will win out in the end, so long as it continues to maintain a political philosophy in line with history, science, reason, and truth.
We are the philosophy of Truth and Beauty. That is a winning combination.
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New Parents Don't Need to Hear That Parenting Will Get Harder
Last week, a Real Simple article declared that according to new research, middle school is the hardest parenting phase. While many parents of middle schoolers found this validating, it left some newer parents feeling worried.
I don't yet have middle schoolers, and I'm trembling at the thought of it. Like many of us, I have vivid memories of the slow collision of childhood and adolescence. The researchers involved in the study cite the beginning of puberty, the formation of cliques and increased academic pressure as reasons that moms of 12- to 14-year-olds are more prone to depression and high stress levels.
I get it. The stakes become higher as the specter of sex, drugs and alcohol materializes. Our kids begin to distance from us, transforming from the little people who needed us so much to not-so-little people who need us in different ways.
But I also know that new parenthood can feel overwhelming. Exhausting. Relentless. It may be one of the hardest things we've ever undertaken.
So this is for you, new moms and dads, who want to plug your ears and burrow under a blanket when you imagine parenthood getting harder.
RELATED: 5 Parenting Choices That Won't Break Your Baby
Parenting young children is so very physical. It's like working construction, but with leaky boobs and raunchy diapers and sleep-torn nights. You're holding and rocking and carrying your babies. You're wiping butts and noses. You're feeding and bathing them while your own body might go neglected. You haven't slept well in weeks or months or years. Maybe you have postpartum depression or anxiety, or maybe you simply can't remember the last time you did something truly kind for yourself.
Becoming a parent is like no other transition—it's the act of going, overnight, from being responsible for only yourself to being responsible for a helpless other. And it takes time.
And maybe acclimating to being a parent is way harder than you thought. Maybe you're still trying to bridge the gap between the you who used to roam freely through the world, coming and going as you pleased, to the you who is so tightly tethered. Maybe you're struggling to adjust to the intensity of the love you feel as well as the enormous potential for loss that love comes with. And that even as you love your child so deeply, you loved your old life, too. You loved your time and your dreams and your freedom. You loved sleeping in and afternoon sex and impromptu road trips.
Becoming a parent is like no other transition—it's the act of going, overnight, from being responsible for only yourself to being responsible for a helpless other. And it takes time—maybe more time than most of us admit—to get used to that cloak of obligation.
So yes, parenting gets harder in some ways.
But first?
It usually gets easier. You'll learn to rest in the sweet spots of parenting, to refuel yourself with the snuggly mornings, the moment when you realize you're done buying diapers, the warm pride in your kid's eyes when he reads to you for the first time.
RELATED: I'm More Sensitive to Tragedy Now That I'm a Mom
You'll learn to take care of yourself, to fill yourself up so you have endurance for the marathon of letting go. And while your kids morph over and over again as they become who they're meant to be, that strange sensation of being someone's parent becomes more and more familiar. It feels less like a too-tight coat and more like something you've worn for as long as you can remember, something like a second skin, something you couldn't—wouldn't—take off for anything.


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Teacher of English, Sittingbourne, Kent, ME10 4PT
Closing date:Expiring today
Start date: September 2019
Contract type: Full Time
Contract term: Permanent
Suitable for NQTs: Yes
Teacher of English - M/UPR
Required from September, a dynamic, innovative and creative teacher of English to develop further the excellence of the subject at this outstanding girls' grammar school. This is a high profile area of school life, so the ability to teach to A-level is essential. There is scope for the successful candidate to teach related subjects in Media and Film Studies at A-level. Significant contribution to the school's wide enrichment programme would be expected.
Applications are invited from creative and ambitious colleagues who can make a substantial impact on our continuous improvement.
Please contact Linda Sayers at the school or visit the website to download further information and an application form: www.highsted.kent.sch.uk
(Closing date noon 22 February 2019)
Highsted Grammar School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check.
Highsted Grammar School is an Equal Opportunities Employer.
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Body Passages is a dance and poetry project between Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble (CDE) and Poetry Center of Chicago (PCC).
Body Passages is an evening of new collaborative works devised by local poets and dancers. Body passages is new performance series curated by Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble (CDE) and Poetry Center of Chicago (PCC) that encourages the crossing of artists and audiences. CDE and PCC have paired professional dancers and poets create their own artist-led projects fusing language and movement.
When & Where:
Saturday, August 19, 2017 - 7pm (CDE Auditorium, 1650 W. Foster)
Sunday, August 20, 2017 - 7pm (Uncommon Ground, 1401 W. Devon Ave.)


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Wednesday, April 15, 2009
A Cushy Life
6 comments:
- Lisa said...
Beautiful cats, and the cushions are very nice as well! Have fun at Asilomar, I hope to make it there one day.
- April 15, 2009 at 6:25 PM
- Barbara Strobel Lardon said...
The cushions are beautiful! Love the name of your cat..."Burnt Toast".
Your quilting is just perfect for the cushions as well.
- April 16, 2009 at 11:09 AM
- Bunny said...
I love all your work. The cushions are just beautiful.
- April 16, 2009 at 6:42 PM
- sa1946 said...
Jane your work is so inspiring, I saw you at the AQP and fell in love with your work. I have since "drooled" over your web site and have downloaded your ebook. I too am the "green with envy quiet quilter in the back row". I hope to gain the courage to create the master piece that lurks in my heart and head. Thank you for giving me courage.
- April 23, 2009 at 6:25 PM
- Terri's ThreadArt said...
Hi Jane,
I really enjoyed reading your blog!
I have been a fan for years!
I am hoping to go to your Hudson River Workshop ~ should this economy treat me a little better by then!
Here is a link to my blog with a pic of "Crazy Cool Cat's" I used to sell on etsy using mostly your fabrics!
I also did a beaded pin cushion that I will be entering in a quilt show next year. I can't find the pic on my blog though
Have a GREAT week-end!
- April 25, 2009 at 8:14 PM
- Terri's ThreadArt said...
opps! Forgot to leave the link!
- April 25, 2009 at 8:15 PM


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Prior to 22 years ago…the Catholic faith was officially banned in Romania. The suffering that the Church went through here, deep behind the Iron Curtain has never really been told to a great extent for various reasons. It has never really made it into the bloodstream of the western mainstream media, most likely because the western mainstream media never really likes to report on or really even admit the horrors – and they ARE horrors – of the Communist regimes.
The physical brutality that so many priests and bishops and nuns and seminarians went through here at the hands of their Communist overlords is almost indescribable, but we shall attempt to bring it to life for you.
Voris also points out that these are recent events, within the memories of many people still living today:
We aren't talking about ancient history or what the emperors of Rome did to the first century Catholics. We're talking about contemporary events, in living
memory. Think of it like this: when Americans laugh about disco in the 70's or the economic prosperity of the 80's, this is what was happening at the same time on the other side of the globe. [And the video describes what "this" is.]
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Editor's note: Audrey Irvine is a senior assignment manager for CNN. Her experiences in the dating world inspire her "Relationship Rant" column. Check back every week for her take on dating and relationships.
(CNN) -- As I pack away the summer clothes, letting go of sunshine memories and preparing for the chilly fall air, I reflect on my dating life. Dates are like the changing seasons.
Consider the guy in the fall who seems so interesting with his comfortable sweater and boots, but come spring all that is revealed under that sweater turns out to be as regular as his ever-expanding six-pack. There's nothing wrong with the changing seasons; it makes the year interesting, just like those dates.
The real tragedy occurs when seasons collide. Just like global warming, there is confusion when seasons occur out of place or when one season lingers too long. In dating, that tragedy happens when a date has no idea his season has passed.
A couple of weeks ago, I was at work when I kept receiving hang-up calls with no voice mail message. It was annoying, but it didn't faze me until the same number appeared on my cell phone. Again, there was no voice mail.
I finally called the number back. A man answered, saying, "Hey there Audrey, do you remember me?"
I always hate this question, especially when I have no idea who you are. I responded that I didn't remember and wondered why I was getting all these hang-up calls. He reintroduced himself to me. Let's cue the uncomfortable silence.
Yes, I remembered him. I went on a couple of dates and had some decent conversation with this man FOUR YEARS AGO! Yes, that's right, four years ago and we have not talked since.
We didn't end on a bad note. It's just that our season had passed (at least in my mind it had).
Sadly, it hadn't for this guy. So, it went a little like this. He tried to convince me that he had been trying to "find the courage" to call me. (Note: If it takes four years of courage to revisit a dating experience, please remain timid and scared.)
The conversation went from bad to worse.
Him: Have you thought about me in the time that has passed?
Me: Actually, no.
Him: I was afraid you wouldn't answer my call because you recognized my number.
Me: I didn't know the number because I didn't save your number.
Him: I was hoping to pass through Atlanta this weekend. Maybe we can hang out.
Me: I have plans with my co-workers.
Him: Maybe I can tag along.
Finally, I realized that this conversation was going nowhere. So, it happened. I shined the mirror to his face and told him that his season had passed.
I explained that a lot had happened in four years in case he didn't notice. We ushered in a new administration from President Bush to President Obama. I managed to go from being a natural dark brown to a lighter more gray friendly shade of auburn. Whitney Houston went from "Being Bobby Brown" to staging an amazing career comeback.
What would possess any person after an extended period of no communication to think that you can just act like nothing has happened? He had pressed pause on our interaction while I pressed stop.
It was painful for both of us, mostly for him. But it had to be done. I would hope that someone would have the decency to let me know when my season had passed. The difference is I don't think I would wait for four springs, summers, falls and winters to pass before I got a clue.


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Saturday, March 07, 2009
It started out a normal sort of a Friday with a date to meet a friend and her son at Barnes Wetland Centre This is arguably one of the most unexpected places in the capital, a large area of wetlands offering home to frogs and newts and insects and birdlife and people pointing large telescopes into bushes. It also has a café and a great playground; it is Barnes, after all.
My friend and I were planning on a leisurely stroll followed by a sit-down in the playground topped off with a light lunch. We've done it before, same place, same offspring; it wasn't much of a stretch and we'd have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for those pesky kids.
The day before we were due to go I had an email asking if I could look after the spud's best friend for a couple of hours so I offered to take her with us, I mean, she's sweet, well behaved, easy! Ha. Plus, I thought, there would be two adults and my friend's older and more responsible son... however early on he hared off so that all I saw of my friend was the flash of her tail-feathers through some reeds.
It all went pretty well until we tried to leave the playground. My friend was in one corner bribing her son and I was left shouting into the play tunnels at what I thought may be my charges. After several minutes chasing, several more begging and a few seconds of ineffectual threats (harried Mum: "There'll be no lunch!" Two-headed toddler monster "Yay!") I pretended to leave without them. This got them as far as the gate where the spud burst into tears. An amused park worker turned to them and said 'Don't worry, your Mummy is right there' where-upon Charlie's friend stated 'That's not MY Mummy, that's Charlie's Mummy' and suddenly he was demanding to know where her Mummy was. I solved the entire mess by hoisting her up and shouting 'she's with us' over my shoulder leaving the poor spud to run beside me hanging onto my leg.
There's a loo outside the gate and I made the key error of asking if they needed it. Clearly, although my friend's older boy was happily going in, this was a massive insult and the threat of having to do a wee meant more tears and a sit-down from the spud which I subverted by putting down his friend and and carrying him instead, not my first choice as he is easily twice as heavy as she.
Twenty feet on he had to do a wee RIGHT NOW. I gathered them into a bush and was about to yank down his trousers when 20 school children rounded the bend. He grabbed his trousers and shouted 'No wee-wee!!' in terror and we huddled silently together until they were gone, where-upon the spud did his wee-wee to the vast interest of his friend who doens't have a willy and did a lot of pointing. By this point my friend had caught up, overtaken us and was headed into the distance after her rapidly-disappearing son.
The spud and his friend were now locked into battle as to who would get a carry and who would drag their feet and whinge. It was pretty dire. We'd gone 30 feet in 20 minutes and frankly, I was about ready to throw myself on the ground beside them and wait for my own Mother to arrive.
Thank God for packets of raisins, is all I have to say.
Lunch was a many splendoured thing, not least because by the time I got them both through the café and sat down at a table the sun was shining and we were all so tired that we just sat there chewing and smiling at each other, no shouting and apart from some chair-standing, no protests, no tears. Just sitting, followed shortly by the sound of them both snoring gently in their car-seats while I drove them home in the blissful silence.
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Not even kidding when I say that post gave me sweaty palms. You deserve a medal. And a leash. And a big ol' packet of raisins.
- 7:50 am, March 08, 2009
- Jen said...
My good friend has twins. She kept them in a stroller for outings until they were 4. Now I understand why.
- 12:23 pm, March 08, 2009
- Helen + ilana = Hi said...
Oh how I love it when the shoe is on someone else's foot! That was funny!
When Hairs 1&2 were toddlers we did have leashes.
Lovely egalitarian leashes but leashes non- the - less.
Egalitarian leases you say (ala John Cleese).
That's when you are just as tied up as yer kid. Belt round him. Belt round me. 6' of leash between the two. Everyone's hands are free but no one is getting more than 6' from anyone else.
I'll see if I can dig up a zoo photo to post on my blog to show you.
- 10:45 pm, March 08, 2009
- lady macleod said...
AH yes the lovely sound of the exhausted snoring, and then you wake and realize you still must get the tikes home. Well done my dear.
- 12:38 am, March 11, 2009
- Jonny's Mommy said...
I dread taking Jonathan out on some days. Other days...all is fine and it is fun.
It's always an adventure isn't it?
- 3:05 pm, March 11, 2009
- DJ Kirkby said...
Do you know this is the first time ever that I am glad I didn't have twins!
- 7:06 am, March 12, 2009
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- 2:27 pm, March 12, 2009
- Michelle said...
Play dates at home with friends are one thing, but taking someone else's child out in public is an undertaking to say the least! Sparx, this is LOL funny! And I loved the ending--a blissful ride home!
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We'll let you decide: "Is it an IP test evolution or revolution?" However, the way to develop test, supply test to others, reuse test, integrate test features, validate test, and target tests to manufacturing is changing. IP Providers, Chip integrators, verification and validation, Test and Product engineering, Failure Analysis, board test, and system testing will be affected by the new IEEE Std. 1149.1-2013 and IEEE Std. P1687.
This is the second article in a series of articles on a new approach to an old problem: "How to leverage reuse and automation on an industry scale to save/make more money?" This series of articles will focus on the newly revised standard IEEE Std. 1149.1 and a proposed IEEE Std. P1687 standard. In this series we'll discuss the capabilities of the 1149.1-2013 and P1687 standards, how they will be used, who needs them, and how the industry in general may be changed in the coming years. This article will attempt to objectively compare and contrast the two standards. The next article will look at which standard might be best in different situations.
Both standards now provide the means to describe both the structure and the procedures needed to integrate and automatically use Intellectual Property (IP). This will change what IP suppliers will be expected to provide to their customers, and change how chip design and integration teams buy and use IP. These capabilities can now be accessed through the standard 4 or 5 pin interface of the 1149.1 Test Access Port (TAP.)
For many years, IP macros or on-chip instruments were relatively small, specialized pieces of logic. They could be integrated into a chip easily, and even when they contained I/O drivers or receivers, hooking up to the 1149.1 test structures on a chip was not a significant problem.
That has changed in the world of the modern SOC using multiple IPs, especially the large and complex high-performance IP such as CPU, communication (i.e. SerDes) or external memory interface (i.e. DDR) macros. Integration and test of these types of IP are much more difficult, which implies a higher risk of integration errors and higher support costs for the IP provider.
These large IP macros face many of the same problems that chips on a board faced prior to the introduction of IEEE Std. 1149.1, commonly referred to as JTAG. Prior to 1149.1, attempting to generate board tests required the full chip netlist, and resulted in massive test vector sets. The original 1149.1 provided a standard set of structures to control and observe all of the signals into and out of a chip without having a chip netlist, thereby protecting any proprietary design information while generating very reasonable sized test vector sets. These standard structures allowed the design of general tools that could provide high quality board tests automatically, and resulted in a positive transition in the design and use of digital systems.
The lack of a standardized way in the past to document internal IP or instrument test features in the past impacted what IP providers could deliver and support to their customers. IP suppliers had to balance how many test and other features they provided, including how they were documented. IP suppliers had to bear the risk that their IP would be used or tested in a way not intended thereby producing bad results. The increasing complexity and the lack of a standard test interface also created an increased risk for the integration team. The risk of errors and an open liability for support and assistance to the chip integration team could be expensive and difficult for the IP supplier to predict.
In fairness, we note that IEEE Std. 1500 provided a partial answer by defining a standard wrapper for an IP, similar to what is provided for the chip by 1149.1. This allowed testing the chip logic outside the wrapper, and separately, the application of pre-defined test patterns to the IP inside the wrapper. The language to define the wrapper and the testing of the IP is called Core Test Language (CTL). A full description of CTL can be found in IEEE Std. 1450.6. General tools are available for creating and using a 1500 wrapper, and for mapping IP test patterns to the wrapper. However, the access to this wrapper from the chip boundary is not defined, and the tools and tests for 1149.1 and 1500 were all separate instead of being an integrated set. This continues to burden the chip integrator with access details and makes an integrated approach to chip and board test more difficult, and possibly more error prone.
1149.1 and P1687 Support for Intellectual Property
Until the latest versions of the 1149.1-2013 and P1687 standards, there has not been a standard that addresses all the specific needs to document the connection of internal IP to an external chip interface for direct access. Certainly there are lots of interfaces like earlier 1149.1, I2C, PCIe, and others that define a pin interface that use a protocol to talk to internal structures. However, using these to talk with internal IP in a standard way was not defined. We have been using these interfaces for years in an ad hoc manner to get part of the job done. Larger companies that have many resources have developed internal tools and methods for a specific product or IP. While this was sometimes a good solution, it was typically costly to develop and even more costly to maintain and enhance. Third party EDA companies could not develop generic tools and have a more cost effective solution that could be available across the industry.
There has also been no assistance in any released standard for integrating IP containing chip I/O into the board test structures. IP have become more and more important with time. These large, complex, I/O IP are likely to contain programmable I/O. The programming may just support functional tuning for the specific board, or may support multiple I/O protocols, but there was no standard way to perform that programming. These I/O IP may also contain specific hardware for special chip or board tests, such as verifying the correct "eye" detection, "wrap-back" tests, or Bit Error Rate Test (BERT) of a high speed channel. These tests may be treated as either board or system tests, therefore falling within the scope of 1149.1. They can also be treated as "instruments" not restricted to a test situation, and therefore logically coming under either 1149.1-2013 or P1687.
It was a specific intention of the 1149.1-2013 working group to support the initialization of large I/O macros. It was a specific intention of the P1687 working group to support access to internal instrumentation. Both standards defined structural and procedural descriptions of internal structures. The needs of both led to parallel solutions that, when generalized, result in similar but not identical abilities to describe the access structures and procedures for IP and instruments.
Essentially, with either standard, the IP supplier can now document all of the structural and procedural details needed to access the features of their products in a standard machine-readable form. In the past, these details would have been relegated to a dusty specification document which is in turn open to misinterpretation and not readily available to the chip customers. Chip test, board designers, and board test, and all users downstream of the chip design will need this information. The structural documentation of an IP can now be simply included-by-reference in the chip structural documentation. Furthermore, the procedural descriptions supplied by the IP provider are included as part of the chip level procedural documentation. The chip integration team does not need to create these descriptions.
For 1149.1, the IP and chip providers supply two types of files: structural documentation in Boundary-Scan Description Language (BSDL) or BSDL "User Package" files using new attributes, and procedural documentation in a set of Procedural Description Language (PDL) procedures. For P1687, the IP and chip providers also supply two files: structural documentation in Instrument Connectivity Language (ICL), and procedural documentation in a set of PDL procedures. Due to differences in the intent of 1149.1-2013 and P1687, there are differences in the two flavors of PDL that prevent a single PDL language from supporting both standards, but they are similar.
You can think of PDL as defining the stimulus and reading the response directly to and from the ports of the instrument, for P1687, or to and from the fields of the test data register segment of the IP for either standard. Details of configuring the network for access and scanning the register are hidden from the PDL writer. You can think of the structural documentation sections of the BSDL or ICL file as a description of what switches are available to configure the network, what register fields or ports are available for writing and reading, and optionally what values are defined for a given register field or port. The underlying PDL compile, or "retargeting", process will use the structural information to automatically access the correct register fields.
The new structural description capabilities for both standards include a few standard building blocks. These building blocks are pre-defined in an 1149.1-2013 standard package or a P1687 ICL file and can be used to connect IP segments together to create a reconfigurable network that forms the test data register. A basic network can be built from three types of segments: always in-line segments, excludable segments, and selectable segments. The chip integrator can use the excludable segment building blocks to bypass a segment or not, or a selectable segment description to select one out of N segments to include. These basic switched segments can be combined and nested to form complex networks. This ability to document a reconfigurable network, or any network with a changing JTAG TDR length, was not supported in a standard prior to 1149.1-2013.
1149.1-2013 also supports specific controls for power-down domains during test. We will not dwell on this, or several other new capabilities of this revised standard in this series of articles.
P1687 is a proposed IEEE standard that will hopefully be approved and published very soon. P1687 has been created to address how to gain access to internal blocks of logic called "instruments". An instrument can be almost any group of logic from a single gate to a huge block, sub blocks, or an entire sub-system. Examples could be IP such as DDR, CPUs, temp sensors, memories, sub-systems, etc. Basically any group of gates that you'd like to group together to have test stimulus applied internally within a chip can be described.
P1687 provides a modeling language, ICL, which is more robust than BSDL. This allows the description of the reconfigurable network, and even allows the description of combinational logic between a TDR segment and the instrument ports. Since the standard currently only uses the 1149.1 TAP as its access mechanism, the shift register cells of the TDR must still comply with that standard.
You can think of P1687 as providing a superset of the network description section of 1149.1-2013. P1687 has a lot of the same goals and shares most of the advantages of 1149.1-2013 for IP.
Steps Towards the IP Evolution
Leveraging these standards has many advantages to allow significant savings. The steps in the development process will also need to be changed slightly and the deliverables from step to step will change as well. The flow chart, figure #1, shows the major changes to traditional design and reuse.
IP Providers will have several advantages in utilizing 1149.1-2013 and P1687. Providers will have more control over the way their IP is being tested. This will lead to fewer customer issues and risk of support problems. The IP provider will need to develop the tests in the correct PDL format and create the BSDL package or ICL.
Chip integrators will then be able to "Plug and Play" the IP into the chip test network described from using either standard. The provided IP PDL can be called from the chip level PDL. There is no need to develop a new test access strategy and no need to try and develop test sequences based on the IP spec.
Chip level test verification test patterns can then be automatically generated (retargeted) based on the original IP PDL, chip level PDL, and integrated network description provided by the chip integrator (ICL or BSDL).
After the test patterns simulate without errors, the chip level manufacturing patterns can be generated from the simulation patterns along with any other formats to support board test, debug, or system test.
The retargeting step should ideally only occur once to ensure that the simulated patterns are used downstream in the target manufacturing platforms. This gives another level of quality assurance to the process and makes debug possible if issues need to be tracked back to simulation. It is almost guaranteed that retargeting with different tools will produce slightly different patterns and possibly different results. Since PDL is a high level procedure description language, how the data arrives, the number of serial frames needed, the order of tests, which tests are run in parallel, and more could vary between vendors. Analyzing the network and being efficient in the pattern generation process is important to reducing vector count and optimizing the overall solution.
1149.1 and P1687 Network Description
The simple 1149.1-2013 network in the figure #2 shows three presumably different IP (shown in dark blue) connected into a complex network. The first (left) IP does not have an internal TDR segment, so a simple wrapper (shown in light blue) is provided to include the TDR segment with the IP. When this wrapper is supplied by the IP provider, then the IP provider can also supply 1149.1 PDL for this IP. 1149.1-2013 treats the wrapped IP as a single entity. In this network, the first IP may be bypassed, or "excluded" in the terms of the standard, with the selecting multiplexer controlled from a register cell, in red, that is outside the segment it controls. The two IP on the right are two of possibly many IP where only one will be selected for scanning. A TDR field that is outside the selectable segments, again in red, will control the selection, as shown. Both control cell fields can be anywhere in the TDRs of the chip, allowing full hierarchical nesting to any level, but must always be outside the segment controlled by that control cell.
The P1687 network, figure #3, shows a similar network but illustrates the greater flexibility of the P1687 structural description. The first IP again has no built-in TDR segment, but no wrapper is needed. Similarly, the second IP (top right) not only has no built-in TDR segment, but has combinational logic between the TDR and the IP. In both of these cases, the PDL would write to and read from ports of the IP, and the retargeting process will convert the values at the ports to values in the register segment. In the last IP shown, the TDR segment is built-in and the IP provider would provide the ICL description of this TDR segment. Again, the two IP on the right represent two out of possibly many IP, only one of which may be selected at a time. Again, control cells are in red, and the structures may be nested in a hierarchy.
As shown in the figure, P1687 has the advantage of immediately supporting existing (or future) IP that do not have a test data register built-in or in a wrapper. For IP not having the TDR segment included, P1687 has the disadvantage of forcing every chip integration team using the IP to build a test data register within the network and to write the ICL that describes the network. This may increase the possibility of introducing errors. Furthermore, the P1687 retargeting tool will need to analyze and retarget the pattern through any logic, as illustrated above with the top right IP block, between the TDR and the ports of the instrument. If the TDR segment for accessing the IP is built-in, then the IP provider would supply the ICL as well as the PDL. The PDL could then be written to the register fields, and one source of possible integration errors would be eliminated.
The structural documentation of either standard can provide any desired level of detail of test data register fields or instrument ports. If a TDR segment is supplied, full documentation could include the number of bits and position of each appropriate field in a register segment, even if the bits are not contiguous. Fields or ports that are reserved for proprietary purposes can be listed as reserved or even left undocumented. Also, legal, illegal, and reserved values to be written to or read from the fields or ports can be defined and given names for convenience. Where desired, 1149.1-2013 also allows constraints. A constraint is checked by software prior to scanning a register to prevent illegal values or combinations of values from being scanned to a TDR, whereas P1687 has no such function.
With this type of fully described structural documentation, the procedural documentation becomes a matter of writing or reading named values to and from named fields or ports. It is not necessary for the PDL writer to know all the details of the register network, location of fields or ports within the network, or even the binary values being written and read. This makes it easier to think about the problem and define the proper solutions. This type of higher level test stimulus can then be applied with automated tools leveraging either of the new standards.
Alternatively, just the length of the register segment or the width of the ports in the IP can be documented, and the PDL can write and read binary values to and from specific bit ranges of the width. This style of PDL (commonly called bit-banging) is more difficult to write and debug, but does reduce even further the amount of information revealed by the IP supplier.
Improving Reuse, Reducing Cost, and Reducing Risk
These new structural and procedural descriptions define and limit what IP customers are expected to do with the IP, thus avoiding many problems of incorrect usage. 1149.1-2013 requires specific names of PDL procedures to be executed automatically during board test initialization. PDL procedures may be supplied to provide additional functional, verification, test, or debug capability. Such debug procedures can be used by the customer or by the IP supplier when necessary for support. The entire system is reasonably simple and straightforward, and eliminates multiple sources of error in the current design, verification, and test flow.
This new flow and methodology can remove much of the detail work involved in creating procedures requiring serial bit streams as previously used with the 1149.1 interface. It also enables integration of the IP into a chip without the integrator having to understand all the IP register segment details and without having to manually generate test procedures for the IP at the chip level. In fact, neither the chip integrator nor the downstream test engineers have to concern themselves with what the PDL is actually doing or how the test data registers or instrument ports are formatted.
Both standards also allow, for the first time, description and integration of the 1500 wrapper structure in an 1149.1 chip description. This allows PDL to access an IP with a 1500 wrapper at the same time it is accessing other IP.
All of this is intended to provide ease of use, maximize reuse, establish a documented verification and test methodology, and faster generation of tests while minimizing debug time.
It is clear that both of these standards will affect you and the entire industry in the next year or so if you are in the semiconductor industry doing IP or chip development. The results will be a significant advance in rigor and standardization of IP deliverables, significant improvements in the ability of an IP provider to control the use of their IP, and significant increases in the ease of use of IP. IP suppliers will be able to deliver IP with essentially turn-key integration with the rest of the chip, especially in the often mis-understood and even neglected areas of test.
1149.1-2013 has many other features that are new and not discussed in this article. Significant functionality with regards to power domains, segmenting the boundary scan register, chip initialization and more has been added.
While we have focused on IP test, today 1149.1 will be required for instrumentation that utilizes 1149.1-2013 or P1687.
Authors: Carl Barnhart, Alan Bair, Bill Bruce, and Jim Johnson - SiliconAid Solution Inc.
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The Honor 10 is a real mid-range bargain, costing half what most flagships do yet packing in almost as much tech and arguably an even more stylish build than most, so we have high hopes for the Honor 11.
Nothing much is known about the phone so far, but we can take some educated guesses about when we might see it and what it might feature.
You'll find those below, along with a list of the things we most want from it, to make it even more impressive than the Honor 10.
Cut to the chase
- What is it? The successor to the Honor 10
- When is it out? Probably mid-2019
- What will it cost? Likely at least £399.99 (around $540, AU$720)
Honor 11 release date and price
There aren't any Honor 11 release date rumors so far and that's no surprise, as we probably won't see the Honor 11 for quite a while given that the Honor 10 only landed in mid-April.
So a launch in or around April 2019 is our best guess for now. That said, the Honor 9 was announced in June 2017, so it might not be April, but around mid-2019 seems likely in any case.
Don't count on being able to buy it in the US or Australia though, as many Honor phones don't hit those countries, the Honor 10 included.
As for the price, you're probably looking at a minimum of £399.99 (about $540, AU$720), as that's what the Honor 10 launched for. We wouldn't be surprised if the price goes up though.
Honor 11 news and rumors
There aren't any Honor 11 rumors yet, but some things seem likely. For example, the Honor 11 will probably use the Kirin 980 chipset, as that's likely to be the next one in the range, following on from the Kirin 970 found in the Honor 10.
It's also possible – though less likely – that the Honor 11 will have an in-screen fingerprint scanner, given that the Honor 10 already has an under-glass one and the Porsche Design Huawei Mate RS (which is made by the same parent company) has an in-screen scanner. Though such a feature may be reserved for the pricier Huawei P21 if it happens at all.
What we want to see
While we're waiting for Honor 11 rumors, here's a list of the seven things we most want from it.
1. Water resistance
The Honor 10 has a lot of high-end features, but one that it lacks is water resistance. Coupled with its largely glass build that makes it feel like a very vulnerable phone, and while we don't necessarily want to see too many design changes we would like to at least be able to get it wet.
So hopefully the Honor 11 will offer some amount of water resistance. We'd like to see at least IP67 certification (which is what the likes of the iPhone X has and means it can be submerged up to 1 meter deep for up to 30 minutes) but the more the better.
2. Better battery life
The Honor 10's battery life is reasonable, but nothing special, lasting around a day but not much more, as seems to be standard with phones.
For the Honor 11 we'd like to see that improved. If it could stretch to two days of life that would make all the difference, meaning you'd be fine if you forget to plug it in overnight and even making it more viable to take camping and to other off-grid activities.
3. The same stylish back in more colors
We're big fans of the Honor 10's bold, reflective back that in some shades can even morph color, but there aren't enough shades available, and not all options are available in all regions.
Given how eye-catching the look is, we'd like more opportunity to tailor it to our tastes, so for the Honor 11 we want more than just a few color choices.
4. A faster camera
The Honor 10 has a fairly capable dual-lens camera, but it can take a surprisingly long time to start up. Snapping is speedy enough once it does, but the time taken to actually get into the app can mean missing a fleeting photo opportunity, so we want to see that fixed for the Honor 11.
There's enough power in the Honor 10 that the delay shouldn't be necessary as it is, so perhaps a software update could fix it on the existing hardware, but either way we'll be really unimpressed if it manifests itself again on 2019's phone.
5. Wireless charging
The Honor 10 supports fast charging but one thing it lacks is wireless charging, so we'd like to see that remedied for the Honor 11.
Its absence is perhaps a cost-cutting measure, and arguably a worthwhile one since the Honor 10 gives you an awful lot of phone for the money, but hopefully the company can find a way to include wireless charging on the next model without pushing the price up.
6. A microSD card slot
There's lots of storage in the Honor 10 and that's a good thing too as there's no microSD card slot. But while the up to 128GB of storage found in the Honor 10 should be enough for most people it won't be enough for everyone, so we'd like a microSD card slot coupled with at least that much storage in the Honor 11, to keep everyone happy.
7. Better low light photography
While the Honor 10's camera is fairly good it's not a match for the snappers on the Huawei P20 and Huawei P20 Pro, especially when it comes to low light shots, so we'd like to see the Honor 11 borrow from them and perform better when the sun starts to set.
- The OnePlus 7 is another affordable flagship due in 2019


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You might be a virgin and not even know it.
Aside from that term's more traditional meaning, "virgin" is common parlance among fans to describe those yet to experience The Rocky Horror Picture Show, a saucy, tongue-in-cheek pastiche in the style of so-bad-its-good science fiction and horror movies. Originally a stage production, the musical was adapted into a grainy-yet-glittering movie starring Tim Curry as the titular, gender-bending Dr. Frank-N-Furter, supported by Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick and Dallas' own Marvin Lee Aday, better known as Meat Loaf.
The film version first ran -- and bombed -- in 1975, but despite initial failure, it soon found a nocturnal niche in midnight screenings, developing not only a cult following of devotees, but also a secondary life through fan participation. What does that even mean?
You get to yell and throw stuff at the screen.
Not just anything, though. Fans have developed a canon of responses to characters' lines, as well as particular props required to fully enjoy the campy vulgarity. As you might have gleaned from the "virgin" phenomenon, this musical is not for kids.
But, say you're into garter belts and raunchy melodies. Here's what to say, do, wear and where to see Rocky Horror in North Texas this Halloween season and beyond.
Watch at home on FOX: Rocky Horror purists will claim that it really should be experienced in-person, at a midnight screening, but for those unable to make it out this year or anyone feeling a bit shy about their "virginity" -- not that there's anything wrong with it... -- FOX has continued the current trend of airing revamped live musicals. Smart move: Its Grease: Live attracted 12.2 million viewers in January.
The network's two hour special, The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again, airs Thursday, Oct. 20, beginning at 7 p.m. CST. It stars Laverne Cox, Christian Milian and Adam Lambert, with an appearance by Tim Curry as the Criminologist Narrator.
Props provided at Alamo Drafthouse Richardson: Say you're up for going out, but midnight is still a little past your bedtime, then Alamo Drafthouse Richardson's Rocky Horror party might be more up your alley. Beginning at 11:05 p.m. on Oct. 21, the event features free props and subtitles for songs and the best "callbacks" (that's the sassy, unscripted stuff fans yell at the screen), to help guide along those less versed in the Rocky Horror universe. Tickets are $12.
See it with a shadowcast in Dallas and Fort Worth): Know how when you're trying to peacefully enjoy The Big Lebowski for the fifty-seventh time and your drunk friend pantomimes the whole movie in front of the screen? A shadowcast is like that, but not annoying.
Local troupe Los Bastardos enacts the show in costume and makeup in Lake Worth at Texas Movie Bistro on Oct. 22 and 31 and in Dallas at the Inwood Theatre on Oct. 28 and 29. They'll lead the way for those needing a refresher or seeing the first time on the big screen. Showtimes and ticket prices vary. More info Lake Worth and Dallas. More about the Los Bastardos rules and pre-show, which takes place about 30 minutes before screenings.
Two late-night opportunities at Angelika Dallas: While Rocky Horror screenings tend to be popular around Halloween, it's not holiday specific. Catch it at the Angelika in Mockingbird Station at midnight on Nov. 11 or Dec. 9. Tickets are $10.
Some spots like Alamo Drafthouse provide everything you will need. In other cases, it's not cool to trash a theater without explicit permission. For Los Bastardos shows, the group asks that you do not bring water guns or toss small, hard to clean up pieces of confetti or paper. Other rules may apply on a theater-by-theater basis, so it's always a good idea to call ahead. If you're screening at home or watching the live FOX version, you'll need: rice, newspapers, water pistols, flashlights, rubber gloves, noisemakers, confetti, toilet paper, toast, party hats, bells, playing cards, hot dogs and prunes... or any, slightly less-messy combination of the above.
Why in hell do I need toilet paper and prunes, you may ask? Here's a nifty props guide from TRHPS Official Fan Site.
These are a bit harder to explain unless you're there, in the moment. To complicate matters, these extraneous lines an audience shouts at the screen continue to change and evolve to this day. Here's a meticulous guide. Note that many callback lines are NSFW (or anywhere, really). Our best advice if you're a first-timer: Just sit back and learn from the pros.
Transylvanian attire
Part of what makes The Rocky Horror Picture Show so beloved is that early midnight screenings offered a safe-haven for people to meet like-minded individuals with a wicked sense of humor. Even if you don't go with a full-on character costume re-creation, some general ideas you can grab pretty quickly at thrift or discount stores include:
Dr. Frank-N-Furter: corset, heels, garter belt, stockings, pearls and red lipstick OR scrubs and rubber gloves
Riff Raff: ill-fitting black suit with a white shirt held together with a safety pin, fingerless black gloves
Magenta: French maid costume and frizzy red wig
Eddie: leather jacket, jeans and biker boots
Brad: sweater vest, pull over and glasses; it's a pretty general '50s square look
Janet: cardigan and vintage pink dress OR corset, fishnet tights and feather boa
Rocky Horror: platinum blonde wig, gold Speedo-style skivvies and gold wrestler boots
Do the Time Warp (again)
Even if you're at a showing with a fairly tame crowd, chances are high that people will spill into the aisles to dance to the song "The Time Warp." It's easy, silly, awkward and vulgar, and you can do it without much practice. Via TRHPS Official Fan Site:
Jump to the LEFT with hands UP
Step to the RIGHT
Hands on HIPS bring KNEES IN tight
Do the Time Warp AGAIN
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I have another great giveaway for my readers! You can win 2 tickets to see Newsies in Cinemas in MA on February 16th, 18th or 22nd. Go to http://tinyurl.com/z7bllre to win tickets.
We can't wait to see it. My daughter does a routine to Seize the Day from the show so we can't wait to go and see it.
More about the show:
Straight from the Broadway stage, Fathom Events and Disney Theatrical Productions are thrilled to bring the Tony Award®-winning musical NEWSIES to cinemas nationwide in an exclusive three-day event on February 16, 18 and 22. Filmed live on stage at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, CA, this not-to-be-missed high energy show stars Original Broadway cast members Jeremy Jordan as "Jack Kelly," Kara Lindsay as "Katherine," Ben Fankhauser as "Davey" and Andrew Keenan-Bolger as "Crutchie". They're joined by North American Tour stars Steve Blanchard as "Joseph Pulitzer," and Aisha de Haas as "Medda Larkin," and Ethan Steiner as "Les" along with members of both the Broadway and North American Tour ensembles, filling the stage with more "newsies" and more dancing than ever before. Set in New York City at the turn of the century and based on a true story, Newsies is the rousing tale of Jack Kelly, a charismatic newsboy and leader of a ragged band of teenaged 'newsies,' who dreams only of a better life far from the hardship of the streets. But when publishing titans Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst raise distribution prices at the newsboys' expense, Jack finds a cause to fight for and rallies newsies from across the city to strike and take a stand for what's right. For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit: www.fathomevents.com
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Weird and Forgotten Olympic Sports
The quadrennial contest between pharmaceutical companies and anti-doping agencies draws billions of television viewers (spoiler alert – the anti-doping agencies usually come second). In a simpler time, before human growth hormone, steroids, and amphetamines became common locker-room words, performance-enhancing drugs would not have helped contestants in some strange Olympic.
The Great Croquet Match
In early days, the sports that made up an Olympic gathering were largely selected by the competitors themselves under guidance from their host countries. In 1900, the Games were held in Paris. The French, being adept at the game, decided to put croquet on the calendar. Ten players signed up, all French.
The opening event was a doubles match between the team of Gaston Aumoitte and Georges Johin and ..... no one. No other team showed up so Gaston and Georges walked off with the gold medal, and, presumably also the silver and bronze. In an angrier world a bit of unrest might be expected from the grandstand among those who had paid to watch a no-contest bout, but on this occasion decorum befitting the game of croquet prevailed. There was only one spectator, an Englishman who had traveled all the way from Nice to watch the nail-biting tussle.
Was the Olympic Committee discouraged? Of course not. Croquet made a repeat appearance in 1904, only in its American version, which is called roque. This is played on a hard surface surrounded by a bank. As the Games were held in St. Louis there was not a large contingent of foreign players; in fact, there were none. Only the Americans fielded a team, which made for a predictably boring tournament.
Croquet or roque have remained off the Olympic agenda ever since.
Highlights of the 1900 Olympics in Paris - It's a short presentation
Olympic Art
From 1912 until 1948 art competitions formed part of the Olympics – On your marks, get set, PAINT. The man who resurrected the Ancient Olympic Games into their modern form, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, wanted art included, and so it came to be.
Medals were awarded in the disciplines of sculpture, painting, architecture, music, and literature. All of the creation had to be inspired in some way by sport. But, this was no a gripping display of athleticism. Artists created their entries before hand and juried judging took place during the Games. That does sort of take away from the spontaneity and anticipation of a tournament. The best sketch of nude reclining in under five minutes might have created some pizzazz.
One imagines the play-by-play announcer struggling to make the art Olympics gripping. "The French judge is now giving a close inspection of Tarquin Snodley's granite sculpture 'Peanuts Have Feelings Too.' He seems deeply impressed by the chisel work and he's moooving ooon tooooo zzzzzz."
More Non-Athletic Exploits
Could it be that the change from one century to the next made people go squirrely (remember Y2K), but we're back to Paris in 1900.
One sport is rather quaintly listed on the program as "automobilism." There were 14 separate races. One was for a seven-seater car and bizarrely only a silver medal was awarded to an "unknown driver" at the wheel of a Panhard-Levassor. The "small car" Paris-Toulouse-Paris race of 1,347 km was won in a time of 45 hours, 49 minutes, and 35 seconds. The second-place finisher was 12 hours behind. The winning driver was one Louis Renault. Wonder what he went on to do?
Only one person, Gilbert Brown of the United States, was able to break the stranglehold the French had in all competitions. He won in the fire truck category and it appears there were no other drivers.
In August 600 anglers showed up to compete in four separate events. However, the whole contest is surrounded in mystery; nobody seems to have discovered any results. Perhaps, they're still evaluating claims.
Hot air ballooning was a big thing in – guess when? – correct, Paris 1900. There were 18 separate contests, one of which was to drift over a target on the ground and drop a missile as close to the bulls eye as possible. The Comte Henry de la Vaulx figures prominently in the winner's column.
Tripping the Light Fantastic
The ballroom dancing fraternity has long campaigned for its activity to find a place on the Olympic stage. Well, why not?
The Winter Olympics includes ice dancing and no one can say that doesn't involve a great deal of athleticism. For a while (1988 and 1992) ski ballet was an Olympic sport, but it lacked the grace and fluidity associated with dancing. It seemed to involve a number of somersaults launched from a standing position supported by ski poles. Not very elegant.
So why not ballroom dancing? Or poll dancing even? (Vertical dance if you want a term with less salacious overtones). Believe it or not there was an online petition doing the rounds seeking to get this exotic activity accepted into the Olympic fold.
And, where is the sequin-covered clothing?
Other "sports" are jostling for a place in the spotlight. Here's a Press Association story from 2015 "Snooker, chess, bridge and tug of war are among the 26 sports to have applied for inclusion in the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo."
All these games have their own world championships, yes, even tug of war, so why would they want to get cozy with the scandal-prone International Olympic Committee. It's about exposure to a world audience in the hope of attracting new players.
Herewith, a few suggestions for competitions to be featured in future Olympic Games:
- Rock, paper, scissors
- Toe wrestling (Born in a pub in Derbyshire, England in the mid-1970s)
- Cannonball Diving
- Dwile Flonking (Also originated in an English pub - see below)
- Bog snorkelling (A conversation in a bar in Wales in 1976 got this started. Are we detecting a trend here?)
- Texas Hold 'em, Solitaire, Cribbage.
Any suggestions?
Dwile flonking
Bonus Factoids
The Paris Olympics of 1900 had several unique events such as live pigeon shooting, kite flying, and equestrian long jump. The actual Games lasted from May 14 to October 28.
Olympic gold medals aren't actually gold; they are made of silver with gold plating.
Competitors in the original Olympics Games in Ancient Greece competed stark naked, so it was bound to happen that somebody would want to resurrect that idea. Now, Nude Olympics are held in several places including beaches near San Francisco and Adelaide, Australia.
"When the Olympics Gave Out Medals for Art." Joseph Stromberg, Smithsonian Magazine, July 24, 2012.
"Encyclopedia of the Modern Olympic Movement." edited by John E. Findling, Kimberly D. Pelle, Greenwood Press, 2004.
"The 10 Strangest Olympic Sports." Lateef Mungin, CNN, July 25, 2012.
"Fox Tossing, Octopus Wrestling, and other Forgotten Sports." Edward Brooke-Hitching, Simon and Schuster, 2015.
"Snooker, Chess and Bridge among Sports to Apply for 2020 Olympics Inclusion." Press Association, June 12, 2015.


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Last week on Marina's final Caribbean sailing of the season, the officers, staff and crew celebrated a tremendous milestone with two very special guests. The March 7th sailing of Caribbean Pearls marked the 40th cruise for Jerome and Elizabeth Kohel, making them the first guests to become Oceania Club Diamond members and the most frequent guests in Oceania Cruises history.
While Marina was docked in Miami, Oceania Cruises President Kunal S. Kamlani hosted a lunch for the Kohels onboard in Privée. The guests of honor were joined by Executive Vice President of Passenger Services Victor Gonzalez, Manager of Loyalty Marketing Nick DeSantis, Oceania Club Ambassador Jennifer Faust, and Kunal's wife, Daniela.
Victor Gonzalez, Jennifer Faust, Jerome Kohel, Elizabeth Kohel, Kunal S. Kamlani, Daniela Kamlani, and Nick DeSantis
The Kohels hail from Kalamazoo, Michigan, and they first sailed with Oceania Cruises onboard Regatta in March 2004. They have since cruised for over 520 days and visited more than 60 countries. While the Kohels have sailed all over the world, the Caribbean is one of their favorite destinations. They like the escape from the Michigan winters, and the relatively short flight to embarkation in Miami gives the Caribbean a slight advantage over transatlantic destinations such as Europe and Africa.
No matter what the itinerary, the Oceania Cruises family keeps the Kohels coming back time and again. "We came for the ships. We came back for the crew," says Mr. Kohel.
Captain Dimitrios Flokos, Mr. and Mrs. Kohel, and General Manager Damien Lacroix
Both Mr. and Mrs. Kohel sing the praises of the entire Oceania Cruises team, saying how much they look forward to seeing all of the familiar faces and warm smiles each time they return to the ships. So many of the officers, staff and crew have become dear friends that it feels as if they're being welcomed home by family each time they embark on a new voyage. The Kohels say they have especially enjoyed watching staff members move up through the ranks, as they have seen so many promoted to new positions over the years.
On every Oceania Cruises voyage, past guests are celebrated and milestone cruises are recognized during the Oceania Club cocktail party. At this special event held in Horizons, Oceania Club Ambassador Jennifer Faust introduced the Kohels, and Captain Dimitrios Flokos presented them with their Diamond Oceania Club pins. General Manager Damien Lacroix also offered his congratulations, and Cruise Director Dottie Kulasa had a beautiful bouquet of flowers for Mrs. Kohel.
Mr. Kohel, Dottie Kulasa, Jennifer Faust and Mrs. Kohel
While the Kohels are not particularly fond of the spotlight, they graciously accepted the expressions of gratitude from the captain and senior officers and agreed to let us share their story with you here on the blog. Enjoy this short video of the momentous occasion.