With the installation of 908 utility-scale turbines in the first quarter of 2017, the U.S. wind industry is boasting its strongest start in eight years, according to the American Wind Energy Association's (AWEA) U.S. Wind Industry First Quarter 2017 Market Report.
New wind turbine installations in the first quarter totaled 2 GW of capacity and spanned the U.S. – from Rhode Island and North Carolina to Oregon and Hawaii. Great Plains states Texas (724 MW) and Kansas (481 MW) led the pack, says AWEA.
According to AWEA, the early burst of activity reflects how 500 factories in America's wind power supply chain and over 100,000 wind workers are putting stable, multiyear federal policy to work: The industry is now in year three of a five-year phase-down of the production tax credit.
The report says Texas continues as the overall national leader for wind power capacity with 21 GW installed – which is enough to power more than 5 million average homes.
Notably, North Carolina became the 41st state to harness wind power when it brought online the first wind farm to be built in the Southeast in 12 years: Avangrid Renewables' Amazon Wind Farm US East.
AWEA notes that expanding wind farms continue to benefit rural America, considering over 99% of wind projects are built in rural communities. According to AWEA's recently released 2016 Annual Market Report, wind now pays over $245 million per year in land-lease payments to local landowners – many of them being farmers and ranchers.
Further, American wind manufacturing facilities remained busy in the first quarter. With 4,466 MW in new construction and advanced development announcements recorded in the first quarter, the near-term pipeline has reached 20,977 MW of wind capacity; that's about as much as the entire Texas wind fleet's existing capacity, AWEA points out.
AWEA says wind is also supplying a growing number of cities, universities and other organizations, including the U.S. Department of Defense. Notably, in the first quarter, a Texas wind farm came online to supply a PPA with the U.S. Army.
Avangrid is acquiring a 50% ownership interest in Vineyard Wind, an offshore wind energy developer that is part of the Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) portfolio.
Avangrid is a subsidiary of AVANGRID Inc. Iberdrola S.A., a worldwide leader in the energy industry with significant offshore wind holdings in Europe, and owns 81.5% of the outstanding shares of AVANGRID common stock.
Last summer, Massachusetts required utilities to procure 1,600 MW of offshore wind energy within the next decade, setting off an intense competition among offshore wind developers in the region. Three companies to date have acquired lease rights to build projects off the coast, including Vineyard Wind. Vineyard Wind's project area is about 15 miles south of Martha's Vineyard.
Iberdrola holds offshore wind projects under development or construction in England, Germany and France. Avangrid recently won its first offshore wind lease auction in the U.S. off the coast of North Carolina. CIP is providing investment and management for projects under construction in Germany and Scotland. Executives with extensive offshore wind experience from these European projects will now be joining Vineyard Wind's local development team, based in New Bedford, Mass.
According to the company, CIP and its executives have developed or invested in some of the biggest offshore wind projects in the world, including the 402 MW Veja Mate project off the coast of Germany and the 588 MW Beatrice project off the coast of Scotland. CIP manages more than $4 billion in assets. It acquired Vineyard Wind in August 2016.
Vineyard Wind plans to begin construction of its project in early 2020 in order to bring the economic development and clean energy benefits of offshore wind to Massachusetts as soon as possible. Vineyard Wind has also worked hard to establish long-term relationships and partnerships with the local community that will provide significant benefits to the project.
Timken Co. Acquires AeroTorque Corp.
North Canton, Ohio-based Timken Co. has acquired AeroTorque Corp., a U.S. manufacturing and engineering firm for torque damping products and torque monitoring for wind turbines. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
According to AeroTorque, the deal includes the assets of PT Tech, as well as wind torque controls, industrial clutches and brakes.
"Acquiring the AeroTorque business expands our offering in existing and comparable end markets," says Hans Landin, Timken's vice president of mechanical power transmission.
Timken engineers, manufactures and markets bearings, gear drive systems, chains, belts, couplings and lubrication delivery systems.
Hinesburg, Vt.-based Renewable NRG Systems has been sold to St. Louis conglomerate ESCO Technologies. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
A manufacturer of filtration and fluid control products for the aviation, space and process markets, ESCO says it sees Renewable NRG Systems as a way to enter the renewable energy market. The company says Renewable NRG Systems will operate inside ESCO's Utilities Solutions Group with Doble Engineering Co., a service provider in the electric power industry, offering solutions and services to minimize risk, improve operations and optimize electric power infrastructure performance.
Renewable NRG Systems' capabilities span resource assessment products and wind plant optimization equipment, such as turbine control sensors, LIDAR and condition monitoring systems. The deal is expected to complement Doble's product line, which includes diagnostic equipment, intelligent software, advanced services, comprehensive support and professional training.
ESCO reports privately held Renewable NRG Systems has annualized sales of approximately $45 million (with nearly half of its sales coming from international markets) and operating margins in the mid-teens.
The news sent shock waves throughout the wind industry.
As site assessments are conducted for at least a year and more commonly and ideally for two years, Hamilton says this is a market where construction and commissioning of wind plants will peak in 2020 and then rapidly drop.
Suzlon Wind Energy Corp. (SWECO) has inked a long-term renewal on a wind energy portfolio that consists of four sites in three U.S. states totaling 399 MW of Suzlon's S88 turbine technology.
According to Suzlon, the operations and maintenance contracts were renewed in January for a period of six years. The customer did not release the names and nameplates for the wind farms.
"I am exceedingly happy to see EDP Renewables North America renew these key contracts, demonstrating confidence in our ability to provide long-term economic value, along with high performance," says Andy Cukurs, SWECO's CEO, in a statement.
"We were pleased to renew these contracts with Suzlon and are looking forward to a continued partnership delivering consistent performance at those projects," says Gabriel Alonso, EDP Renewables' CEO.
The global renewable energy industry has grown significantly since 2010, enabling widespread achievement of cost reductions and lowering the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) for renewable technologies, according to new research from MAKE Consulting.
Although regional variability in LCOE for wind and solar will persist, MAKE notes that the lowering of costs continues to improve the competitiveness of renewable technologies globally relative to fossil fuel-based power generation. As costs have declined for renewables, the added cost of environmental regulations and declining load factors have reduced the cost-effectiveness of fossil fuel technologies despite record-low fuel prices.
The LCOE of wind and solar power in the U.S. is very cost-competitive, according to MAKE. The LCOE for solar in the U.S. on average has dropped to levels achieved for wind due to significant module cost reductions. A low LCOE for wind in the U.S. is due to quality wind resources and advantages of economies of scale in Texas and north to Canada. The deployment of the latest generation of blades and advanced operations and maintenance (O&M) practices allow for lower levels of LCOE. However, further reductions in LCOE are critical for future development opportunities for wind and solar as federal incentives phase out.
Variability in LCOE exists in other regions of the Americas, especially as many markets are still developing.
In Mexico, wind and solar, at least the projects awarded at auction that have yet to be built, are cost-competitive with gas-fired generation. The cost position in Brazil is much higher than in Mexico due to supply-chain dynamics. Moreover, significant currency risk in Brazil has increased the LCOE for wind and solar and may impact it over the long term.
The latest generation of 3 MW+ turbine models positions the German onshore wind energy market well for the auction system of renewables pricing that will replace the feed-in tariff as part of the energy policy restructuring. The solar market in Germany has experienced several rounds of renewable auctions and is nearly cost-competitive with wind energy, the company notes.
As for the global markets, MAKE says the LCOE of onshore wind in China and India will need to be reduced for national targets to be met under evolving market mechanisms. Lastly, MAKE says the European offshore market will experience a significant improvement in LCOE over the next five years due to infrastructure investments in the North Sea, the latest generation of 7 MW+ turbines and optimization of O&M practices.
During the second half of 2016, global wind turbine orders from 11 vendors totaled nearly 15 GW, and leading the pack was Vestas, which reported 6,445.15 MW, according to a new report from Navigant Research.
Navigant Research tracked all publicly announced wind turbine orders between July and December in 24 different countries. The latest version of the firm's "Wind Turbine Order Tracker" reports a total of 14,743.9 MW of sold capacity.
With its total, Vestas sold nearly 3,000 MW more than it did in the first half of 2016, the report points out.
With 2,011.0 MW of announced orders, Gamesa came in second place behind Vestas, says Navigant. Thanks to four large offshore wind orders, MHI Vestas – a joint venture of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Vestas – came in third place.
Regionally, Asia Pacific led the pack: It showed an increase of 1,800 MW over the first half of the year, thanks to strong showings in both India and Australia.
Citing a "strong finish" for the U.S., second-place North America, with 3,688.1 MW, narrowly beat out Europe, which placed in third with 3,522.8 MW of disclosed turbine order capacity. Despite more than doubling its order total from the first half of the year, Latin America came in fourth place. Lastly, the Middle East and Africa took fifth, the report concludes.


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Madness and Play
Tomb Raider: Diary of a Madman
First things first, I absolutely loved Tomb Raider. It looks beautiful, the gameplay is very tight and the narrative and writing are exceptional. A few things about it didn't necessarily work, as is to be expected in any creative work, but there is one note which jarred especially with me. It's a minor one, it is entirely possible to complete the game without even noticing it, but that doesn't mean that it should be ignored.
So, there are spoilers ahead, mainly to do with theme. I've tried to keep major revelations to a minimum.
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Madness and Play, Chapter 2, Excerpt
This is an unedited, abridged excerpt from the first draft of the second chapter of the book I'm writing. This is an early version of some of the arguments but gives you an idea of both the style of writing I'm initially looking at and the themes I'm investigating.
There is a curious confluence of ideas between gaming and madness streaming down the years of theory and concept, although not one strong enough to be necessarily formalised. It is not that madness describes a game-world, or that to play games is to be mad, but it is certain that both have been and can be described as worlds separate to that of reality. The history of madness is a history of enforced confinement and separation, and the developing idea of the madness itself being a disconnection between the afflicted person's perceptions of what is real and what is truly there. The player of games meanwhile willingly enters, just for a while, a space where the rules are defined, different to and cushioned from the rules that govern the outer world.
In his history Madness and Civilisation Foucault traces the idea of madness, from pre-classical times where he posits a mental world of almost pre-fall wholeness: one in which overwhelming passions and mystical insight instead of dysfunction and folly marked out differences. In this world the main othered group, to be kept separate and outside, was the leprous; but with time the mad and the leprous became conceptually mixed. (This in itself is only a very surface reading of the first chapter of Foucault's book.) From that point on the path madness follows is one of disease, disorder and vagrancy, ladened with meanings that are not itself but always, from the great conceptual shift of the classical period, to be confined.
At times it has been the fact of physical confinement, often predicated out of political or humanitarian ideals as in the hôpitals of the new French republic or the Asylums of Victorian England, that has suggested a deeper fundamental separation to theorists of the mind. Elsewhere in history it has been the study of the mad, of what they say and do and believe, and the fears thereof amongst the sane, that have promoted the need to keep them apart. Just think even now how loaded with political power the phrase 'care in the community' has become and you won't laugh so much at our ancestors who thought that a madness that resided in imbalances of vapours could pervade through a malignant air and infect those nearby.
Foucault's longstanding message that the things that we do shape the way we think and talk about concepts comes through as his history races ever closer to the present and theory and action reinforce one another until madness is truly defined as a separate way of thought, until madness is defined and codified and treated not as an alternate way of being but as dysfunction and nothing else.
Whether or not you agree with the way in which we currently conceptualise mental illness is, at this point, immaterial. While Foucault's argument is powerful and his analysis compelling it is by no means a given that the modern view of madness is entirely socially constructed, and in fact a counter argument is that the focus pulling effect has been towards a real truth, one which was discovered incrementally and through a great many experiments: crude at first and often disastrous for those whose lives were experimented with, but essentially self-correcting and progressive.
Despite societal changes, certain tropes and stigmas remain common, and surface even in the most recent iterations of popular culture, which includes game design. The strength of the representation is cemented further when viewed within some certain works of art. Lady Macbeth's psychosis and paranoia is confined within one of the greatest works in English language, if we are not going to be rid of this powerful psychodrama from our culture for the sake of its inherent sexism then I don't think that its conflation of villainy and madness is going to convince us either, and maybe it shouldn't even do so as there is a certain validity there. However, the plaudits rightly showered on the play, and its creator's central place in what for many is and should be the core of our culture, provide its depictions with a legitimacy that goes beyond their narrative use. Shakespeare is art, and art is truth. Not every popular depiction is necessarily able to be so heralded unchallenged, but the syllogism remains in the background, while the depictions in all media foreground themselves and repeat, in entertainment's lazy way, across a hundred iterations of the same essential stories, until they acquire a form of accepted truth that is as easy to leave unquestioned as was art's before it.
So where does gaming sit within this history of popular culture? We tend to talk about it, and I will be doing so too in this book, as a bit of a monolith, as gaming culture. But gaming and games are spread out across activities and people and concepts; an anti-entropic climb from children playing make-believe, to family boardgames, to sports, to gambling to the people who call themselves 'gamers' and play with esoteric, highly organized rulesets.
Even non-games are called games, because they have something fundamental in common: there is the Tarot, with its cards and rules; there is politics or street crime, with their levels and layers and fronting; and there is Hip-Hop, with playful unrealities, avatars and contests of skill. But what is it that binds these all together, that binds them to some of the earliest conceptions of what makes a game a game, rather than just a pastime? I would say that it is the sense of there being another world, a game-world, in which all this takes place in.
Even when it is so close to reality as to be indistinguishable, for a person to conceptualise that they are playing a game they have to believe that the rules are in some way different to those of reality. The purest game worlds are those which are truly separate, where although we can win or lose we do not bring our win or our loss outside, only the memory of it – the experience of which can teach us important lessons about victory and defeat in the real world, as well as strategy and forward thinking and so on. We can also take with us the emotions – the joy of victory and the sadness of defeat, and the skills and sometimes the spoils of the game.
There is often a snobbery, with (often older) games like chess being considered 'better' and 'purer' than other games. There have always been crazes and fashions in gaming, and games that have been considered dangerous to mind or spirit, addictions that have destroyed lives as surely as there have been escape routes that have saved them. Even as games were being theorised as teaching tools they were also being theorised as dangerous illusions. Unrealities that simulate reality, that can easily confuse and ensnare the weak minded.
And eventually the two worlds under our microscope interact. Like any art form with any representational expression games of all forms have attempted to depict the mad and the unwell and to place them within the framework of a larger understanding; be that of war, or crime or the entirety of life as we experience it depending on the game's theme and scope. This is exactly as you should expect, and as a primarily popular form those depictions have tended to follow the patterns laid down in the rest of popular culture, which makes popular culture a good place to start looking for an overview of mental illness tropes.
Tropes, memes and other ways of streamlining the processing and re-presentation of meaning develop over time; spinning out of complex ideas and eventually coming to stand for those ideas. This is not an essentially deleterious process, as it can allow for something to stand for more than it is, so that a single idea can carry layers of meaning accreted through history or encoded at the time of its first usage. However, it can also allow for lazy, construction-kit storytelling, where each piece is fitted together because it works to do so, but without examining the inner workings of the pieces. It can also allow for lazy, prejudiced thinking, because what is a prejudice other than a trope; a black-box that short-circuits a mental flowchart snapping through to make decision making less burdensome.
Madness is sometimes used as a shorthand – both in popular language and in terms of the moral structure of games – for deviancy or sub-humanness or necessary death. Sometimes games give you moral choices about how you deal with the mad (Bioware etc.), sometimes a moral choice is displayed, but given to the character and played out in cut-scene (so you might finish the boss fight but rather than a death animation the character is shown wrestling with, or giving, mercy – or allowing the mad boss to kill themselves, or at least be the agent of their own death so avoiding ultimate responsibility for their death in true Disney villain style), and sometimes the need for death is given a moral imperative – either by the protagonist 'I'm putting you down', the antagonist 'please stop the voices!' or the situation - where the mad character will not stop attacking until they die, even if they don't intend harm.
How do popular ideas of madness integrate themselves into the structures of games, and is this different fundamentally, or merely texturally, to the rest of popular culture and representational mediums? How do games deal with the issues unique to gaming? Should gamers, both players and designers, have any specific cause to be more heavily invested or understanding of these issues? These are questions that I hope to answer over the course of this book.
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Q: how to cache in node js? I am new to nodejs. I have one API which returns file in response. Currently when I get the request, I read the file every time and send it. Can we do caching in memory to speed up?
I checked this package. can we use this package to speed up.
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From ancient times, chinese people like to start the year with Good fortune/Good luck. Thus, tradition such as giving out红包(redpocket)that brings luck to the receiver is widely practiced.
For us, Anvil Business Club started the chinese new year with a gathering at the 鸿运火锅(Lucky Hotpot), "which might bring goodluck to us" at G/F of NexgenTower, which coincidentally situated at the building of our Honorary Chairman Jeffrey Ng.
There were a total of 112 members and guests attended the event. We started the night with three cultural performances. 1. The lion dance, which is believed to bring good luck and scares away bad elements. 2. 长嘴茶艺壶表演 (chinese kungfu tea show), which is said to be originated from 四川Sichuan during Sung Dynasty。 3. 变脸表演 (face off in 四川sichuan opera), the performer changing his mask/face multiple times during the performance.
After the show, the current club president Patrick Cua delivered the opening remarks, followed by the ice breaker game (Human bingo), the winners were all ladies 1. Gem Myka Sy 2. Aileen Liu 3. Melany Sy 4. Achi Ai Siy as the boys are all busy chatting and eating. It was then followed by choptics game, the winning Team Joeben Tai, Yohan Sy, Ahia Jac Licauco, Micki Chua, Dorthee Li. Then the regents and officers selected of Mr 帅哥 william villanueva and Ms 美女 sally ko to be the best-dressed of the night.
President Patrick cua formally introduced the current Anvil Execom chairman Wilson Lee Flores, VPs Christopher Go, Christopher Yae, Hubert Henry Chua, kenneth dee, yours truly, Treasurer Jun Lu and secgen William Villanueva. It was then followed by introduction of the new directors of the club which consist of young, energetic and talented individuals. They are Ian Cheng, William Lim Jr., Aldrin Derrick Chua, Sheryll Yu, Vicente Sy, Cherie Haw and Joeben Tai.
Our club chairman wilson lee flores delivered the closing remarks by acknowledging the organizing committee of the Cny party lead by director sheryll yu, project chair Julianne Ormoc, team members LaiSy, Clarissa Lee, Hazel Lee, Trisha Sy, Vikzen Shynx, Kevin Tan, Dewey Tan, Winny Grace Yu and Sherine Ann Koa.
Chairman also acknowledged the team responsible for feb 1 Anvil socio-civic project by giving 10,000 pcs tikoys to the residents of Camarin Caloocan with Special guests Senatorial Candidate and former SAP Bong Go, Mayor Oca Malapitan and Counsilors of Caloocan C/o by past president ReynoldSiy!"the uncle of anvil" ,energetic and resourceful director Joeben tai and the young and pretty Project chair Nicolette Lee.
Lastly chairman announced that the next speaker of Anvil forums will be Alfonso Uygongco of la filipina, which he is meeting with before coming to the CNY party (the legit reason why he is late). One of the top local market leader in flour business and others.
- Anvil Secretariat Ms Ellen and Carter!


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Why Students in Auto Training Schools Are Talking About the Toyota GR Yaris
Published on January 30, 2020	by cati in Blog, CATI
In January 2020, Toyota revealed one of its most exciting innovations to date, the Toyota GR Yaris.
Developed by Toyota Gazoo Racing and Tommi Mäkinen Racing, the GR Yaris combines a powerful engine with a lightweight, aerodynamic structure, to make a pocket rocket of a vehicle that is undeniably fun to drive.
The downside? Toyota is only planning to sell the car in select European markets. This decision has fueled uproar among car enthusiasts who have launched a petition demanding the GR Yaris launch in North America. The petition has already reached more than 6,000 signatures.
Read on to discover what it is about this car that has got auto lovers all revved up.
Built to Win by Race Car Experts
One look at the Toyota GR Yaris and its obvious the car has been developed off the back of Toyota's World Rally Championship (WRC) experiences. In 2018, Toyota won the 2018 FIA WRC and the GR Yaris is a homologation model for the next Yaris WRC race car.
Check out this video to see it for yourself:
Powered by a 1.6 litre, three-cylinder engine – the most powerful engine found in a road car – the GR Yaris generates an impressive 268 hp and 273 lb-ft of torque. The car can reach a max speed of 230 km/h and accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h in less than five and a half seconds. Automotive trade schools will teach you all about the ins and outs of powerful engines like this through hands-on training.
Lightweight Sleek Design Lets You Fly Along the Roads
The Toyota GR Yaris isn't just fast – it's really, really light. At just 1,280 kg, this car has a power to weight ratio of 5 kg per bhp, which will make you feel like you're physically flying along the roads.
To keep weight low, Toyota invested in carbon fibre polymer and aluminum materials, and chose a unique three-door format.
The Toyota GR Yaris is also impressively aerodynamic. The roofline is about 91 mm lower than the regular Yaris, meaning it can really slice through the air.
Learn How Suspension and Torque Distribution Improves the GR Yaris at Automotive Trade Schools
Studying at auto training schools will give you a better understanding of automotive principles like suspension and torque. With its famed double-wishbone rear suspension and torque distribution technology, the Toyota GR Yaris is a great example of these principles in action.
The newly developed double-wishbone rear suspension stops the car from rolling and keeps all four tyres firmly on the road, even when racing around corners.
The unique torque distribution technology allows the driver to switch between normal, sport, and track modes. Depending on whether you want to navigate winding roads, race competitively, or just take it for a leisurely drive, you can adjust the front/rear torque balance all the way from 100:0 to 0:100 to best suit your needs.
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Q: Gulp cancel changes after "npm start" is executed I started working on a old project, that makes use of gulp which is triggered by the npm start script as you can see my package.json :
The problem is that when I run "npm start" the changes I make in my HTML pages are deleted, or better said - the HTML files goes back to the state it was at the beginning
Ideally I would want to run "npm-start" without having to "undo" the changes applied by gulp, any suggestion?
package.json
  "main": "gulpfile.babel.js",
    "scripts": {
        "start": "gulp",
        "build": "gulp build --production"
    },
    "devDependencies": {
        "@babel/core": "^7.18.6",
        "@babel/preset-env": "^7.18.6",
        "@babel/register": "^7.18.6",
        "babel-loader": "^8.2.5",
        "browser-sync": "^2.27.10",
        "gulp": "^4.0.2",
        "gulp-babel": "^8.0.0",
        "gulp-clean-css": "^3.3.1",
        "gulp-cli": "^2.0.1",
        "gulp-concat": "^2.6.1",
        "gulp-extname": "^0.2.2",
        "gulp-if": "^3.0.0",
        "gulp-imagemin": "^7.1.0",
        "gulp-load-plugins": "^2.0.7",
        "gulp-postcss": "^9.0.1",
        "gulp-sass": "^5.1.0",
        "gulp-sourcemaps": "^3.0.0",
        "gulp-uglify": "^3.0.2",
        "js-yaml": "^4.1.0",
        "panini": "^1.7.2",
        "rimraf": "^3.0.2",
        "vinyl-named": "^1.1.0",
        "yargs": "^17.5.1"
    },
    "dependencies": {
        "fsevents": "^2.3.2",
        "sass": "^1.53.0"
    }
}

Here you can see the configuration of the gulp file.
gulpfile.babel.js:
'use strict';

import plugins from 'gulp-load-plugins';
import yargs from 'yargs';
import browser from 'browser-sync';
import gulp from 'gulp';
import panini from 'panini';
import rimraf from 'rimraf';
import yaml from 'js-yaml';
import fs from 'fs';
import named from 'vinyl-named';
const sass = require('gulp-sass')(require('sass'));

// Load all Gulp plugins into one variable
const $ = plugins();

// Check for --production flag
const PRODUCTION = !!(yargs.argv.production);

// Load settings from settings.yml
const { PORT, PATHS } = loadConfig();

function loadConfig() {
    let ymlFile = fs.readFileSync('config.yml', 'utf8');
    return yaml.load(ymlFile);
}

// Build the "dist" folder by running all of the below tasks
// Sass must be run later so UnCSS can search for used classes in the others assets.
gulp.task('build',
    gulp.series(clean, gulp.parallel(pages, javascript, images, copy, copyRobots, copySitemap), sass2, api));

// Build the site, run the server, and watch for file changes
gulp.task('default',
    gulp.series('build', server, watch));

// Delete the "dist" folder
// This happens every time a build starts
function clean(done) {
    rimraf(PATHS.dist, done);
}

// Copy files out of the assets folder
// This task skips over the "img", "js", and "scss" folders, which are parsed separately
function copy() {
    return gulp.src(PATHS.assets)
        .pipe(gulp.dest(PATHS.dist + '/assets'));
}

function copyRobots() {
    return gulp.src('src/robots.txt')
        .pipe(gulp.dest(PATHS.dist));
}

function copySitemap() {
    return gulp.src('src/sitemap.xml')
        .pipe(gulp.dest(PATHS.dist));
}

// Copy api files out of the api folder
function api() {
    return gulp.src(PATHS.api)
        .pipe(gulp.dest(PATHS.dist + '/api'));
}

// Copy page templates into finished HTML files
function pages() {
    return gulp.src('src/pages/**/*.{html,hbs,handlebars}')
        .pipe(panini({
            root: 'src/pages/',
            layouts: 'src/layouts/',
            partials: 'src/partials/',
            data: 'src/data/',
            helpers: 'src/helpers/'
        }))
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Florida Senate Education Leaders Provide a Balance?
Posted on November 30, 2016 November 30, 2016 by Sue Legg
Senate President Joe Negron has announced his Education Committee members. They appear to share a broader spectrum of interests than those in the Florida House. The Senate Education Committee Chair will be Sen. Dorothy Hukill, a Republican from Volusia County. Volusia supports public schools and has relatively few charter schools.
Education Law Center Tells What to Expect and What to Do
If the Trump administration follows through on its pledge to gut public education, and the appointment of DeVos indicates it might, then it is time to circle the wagons. Read the Education Law Center proposals on how to fight back. In a state like Florida, we must take the case to the people; too many legislators may not listen.
What's at stake?
Civil rights enforcement; accelerated segregation
Less funding for already underfunded public schools.
3. Ignoring needed charter management reform to control self dealing.
4. Shift of $20 billion in federal Title I funding from low income public schools to private sector charter and religious schools.
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BUILDING FIREWALLS: PROTECTING PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN THE TRUMP ERA
By David G. Sciarra
With the selection of Betsy DeVos as Education Secretary, Donald Trump has made good on his promise to do everything possible to undermine and weaken America's public education system. President-Elect Trump made few promises about his education agenda during the campaign, but what he did promise – $20 billion in federal funding taken from public schools to be used for private and religious school vouchers – foreshadowed his pick of a conservative billionaire who has donated considerable sums to promote charters and vouchers at the expense of the public schools and the children they serve.
Ms. DeVos's track record in Michigan provides a clear picture of her priorities as Education Secretary. She and her husband have funded campaigns to increase the number of charter schools, including for-profit charters, especially in high poverty communities such as Detroit and Flint. They have funded this effort despite the fact that Michigan's expansive charter sector is among the least accountable and worst performing in the nation. Ms. DeVos also bankrolled an attempt to bring vouchers to Michigan, but those efforts were stymied due to a constitutional amendment passed in 1971 prohibiting public funding for private schools.
The bottom line is this: the Trump Administration will do nothing to support public education across the country. Instead, federal funding will be used as a carrot, or perhaps a stick, to force states to accelerate the unregulated growth of charters and expand existing voucher programs or enact new ones to facilitate the flow of tax dollars from public schools to private and religious schools and other private providers.
What we can also expect is a wholesale retreat from federal enforcement of civil rights protections for vulnerable student populations, from LGBTQ to ELL students. In short, it is not an exaggeration to call the Trump-DeVos education agenda an all-out assault on our public schools, the centerpiece of which is the diversion of billions of dollars from public education to private spending.
What can the vast majority of Americans who care about public education do?
This is a good time to remind ourselves that public education has always been – and will continue to be – the obligation of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. This obligation is embedded in the guarantee of a public education in state constitutions. It is the states, not the federal government, that control access, quality, governance, student rights and the bulk of funding for their public education systems.
A storm of policy and public relations to promote educational inequity and disparity across the nation will emanate from Washington under the new administration. But if we turn our full attention to the states, we can – and must – energize existing coalitions and campaigns of parents, educators, students and community organizations to protect and defend the public schools. Let's start now to erect state and local firewalls to safeguard our schools.
Here are a few ways we can begin:
1) We must press our congressional delegations to oppose the Trump anti-public education agenda, starting with the DeVos appointment but continuing to block other proposals, from dismantling the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) to diverting Title I funding for vouchers under the guise of "portability."
2) If a state constitution prohibits the use of public funding for other purposes, it's time for advocates and activists to get ready to stand behind it. Some state constitutions contain such prohibitions or have been interpreted by courts to do so. If state law is unclear, it's time to propose a law to "lockbox" and protect public school funding. Most states already underfund their public schools, and what our children don't need is the federal government trying to divert any amount of that funding to private and religious schools.
3) This is the right time to start state-level conversations about rejecting offers of federal funding that come at the price of defunding public education and causing even more inequity and disparity of opportunity for students, especially low-income students, students with disabilities, English language learners and students of color.
4) Legislative campaigns for charter school reform must be reinvigorated. In many states, an overhaul of charter school laws is long overdue to ensure full accountability with regard to student access and school performance, as well as the use of public funds. Segregation of students based on disability, the need to learn English, academic risk or other factors must be fought in statehouses, including moratoriums to prevent funding loss and student segregation resulting from uncontrolled charter growth.
5) We must review state-level student and civil rights protections and develop an agenda to strengthen that critical framework. This must include enhancing anti-discrimination and anti-bullying laws; school discipline reform; open admissions for homeless children, youth in foster care, and un-documented students; and other measures to safeguard the rights of students.
On the one hand, a Trump Administration offers the opportunity to join the many advocates laboring to ensure equal and quality education for all children in their states, often in extremely challenging political environments. On the other hand, Trump's election is a wake-up call about a fundamental, enduring lesson: education equity advances or regresses primarily through state action on funding, essential resources and programs, and students rights. Actions taken by the federal government, even those intended to promote equity in the states, can only go so far. And sometimes those actions impede progress.
Let's not get distracted by "inside the beltway" prognostications or rarefied debates over how bad things may be. Those of us working in the states know what's coming. It's time to renew and redouble efforts to protect public education in our states and communities. Millions of children are depending on us.
David G. Sciarra is Executive Director of the Education Law Center, where he serves as lead counsel in the landmark Abbott v. Burke school funding litigation and directs ELC's advocacy on behalf of the nation's public school children.
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NY Times: DeVos Worst of Choices
In today's N.Y. Times, Douglas Harris who is a charter advocate and researcher from Tulane University, states that Betsy DeVos has easily the worst record of all the possible choices for U.S. Secretary of Education. Why is that?
New Mexico: Charters Need Regulation
by Meredith Machen
LWVNM has a new charter school position that shows where we stand. We need to stand together to fight all attempts to drain essential resources from traditional public schools!
LWVNM Charter School Regulation Position
Adopted by the LWVNM Board, November 12, 2016
The League of Women Voters of New Mexico believes that every student should have access to a high quality, publicly funded education regardless of race, ethnicity, family income, or geographical location. The League believes in accountability, transparency, and equity in the use of public funds for education.
Charter schools are discretionary programs intended to fill unmet needs and/or to test innovative instructional strategies to produce quality educational outcomes. Policy makers must ensure that adequate funds are available for traditional public schools and define how charter schools fill unmet needs. Appropriate instructional and support services must be provided to meet the diverse needs of individual students in both traditional public and charter schools.
Regarding the mission of charter schools, the LWVNM believes the following:
A charter school should not be authorized unless
its mission would serve a need the traditional schools cannot;
funds are available;
there is a demonstrated need based on student population projections.
New Mexico should provide flexibility and supplemental funding for magnet programs and career academies within traditional public schools.
Charter school innovations demonstrated to be effective should be disseminated to improve the traditional public education system.
The state should establish a closure policy revoking the contract of a charter school that fails to meet minimum academic, financial, and organizational standards for two consecutive years or for two of the three most recent years.
For the sake of assuring accountability and transparency and minimizing the fiscal impact, LWVNM recommends the following:
A charter school's finances should be available for public scrutiny, and budget processes should be similar to those for school districts, which require the public to be provided with an opportunity for input into decision-making.
Charter school governing council members should adhere to standards and best practices as delineated by the NM School Boards Association.
Funding to state-chartered schools should minimize the amount allocated to for-profit management and business operations with oversight provided by state-approved auditors.
The school funding formula should be equitable so as not to advantage charter schools over traditional public schools.
NM should develop an effective performance-based accountability system for charter schools focused on increased proficiency, academic growth, and college/career readiness standards to ensure that charter schools demonstrate positive student outcomes. Charter schools that do not meet the established benchmarks should be put on time-limited improvement plans and not allowed to increase enrollment until they have met the benchmarks.
LWVNM believes that public funding for virtual schools should be less per student since the schools do not require brick and mortar facilities.
For more information about the League's formal two-year comprehensive Charter School Regulation Study and how this position was determined through research and member consensus, please contact [email protected] This position will be incorporated into LWVNM's complete Education position available at http://lwvnm.org/positions.html#education.
Betsy DeVos to be Secretary of Education
For those of you who are concerned about the role of billionaire philanthropists in education, you have a bigger worry. Betsy DeVos has been an avid advocate for private school vouchers. DeVos is from Michigan, a state with rampant charter school scandals. She was also chairwoman of Alliance for School Choice and the All Schools Matter PAC as well as a board member of a number of other education organizations. She points to Florida as her biggest success with the American Federation for Children which supported the corporate tax credit scholarship program. Her ties to Florida also include Jeb Bush's Foundation for Excellence in Education where she is a board member.
Some people grow into a job, but DeVos' past is likely to be her prologue. She had experience with a private school where parents were working hard to help their children succeed. From that beginning, she evidently generalized that private schools were better than public ones. Parents who chose to leave public schools, one assumes, will try harder to help their children succeed. The end result is increased segregation, less choice and little accountability.
Single Gender Charters in Trouble
Duval County has four single gender charter schools; two for boys and two for girls. Evidently, there are just not enough parents to make them viable. Total enrollment for the four schools is 349 middle and high school students. It is not enough, the schools are $333,000 in debt. Staff cuts are being made and donors are being sought.
Superintendent Vitti doubts the non-profit management company, Profectus Learning Systems, operating the schools can survive. He said that even with cuts in staff, debts are likely to grow. The schools may not be able to provide the required academic programs.
Many people like the idea of small schools. Some children simply do better with more personal attention and less distraction. Others thrive on the diversity and opportunities larger schools provide. Providing an affordable balance is difficult. Similar problems are occurring in other communities where charters and private schools siphon off students from local public schools. Soon, all schools are small and underfunded.
Who Controls Our Schools?
Posted on November 20, 2016 June 7, 2017 by Sue Legg
by Carole Hentscel
This is a profound piece of writing by the Independent Media Institute, read the complete report listed (e-book ). It asks, I think, are we playing a shell game with education dollars by diverting them to charter chains, testing companies and construction?
pg 29 & 30 Tampa- addresses Charter Schools USA using tax exempt bonds to acquire land and build schools, but then its related management company rented those facilities back at exorbitant prices. Charter Schools USA charged 5 percent management fee to local Charter School operators, but siphoned off 23 percent of one school's budget reported by local CBS TV affiliate.
pg 33 "Despite myriad reports detailing many conflicts of interest and examples of profiteering state legislators and congress have imposed few additional transparency and accountability requirements in Florida, Texas and California".
pg 38 Recommendations:
1. A moratorium on charter expansion
2. Audit and account for all public funds granted to date
3. Subject charter boards to public meetings and open records laws.
4. Ban founders from hiring relatives and firms where they have ownership stakes.
5. Require more evidence based school practices to obtain federal funds.
6. Adopt national standards for competitive bidding and contracting by charter boards
7. Restore elected/appointed school board oversight of charters in their district.
8. Enforce open and inclusive enrollment practices.
9. Require charter trade associations to disclose political donors and activities.
10.Ban on-line charters. Except for carefully overseen pilot projects within districts, with clear evaluation, assessment, and sunset provisions, on-line charters must be abandoned.
The privatization of American public education is carefully explained in this just released report. How a group of billionaires has aggressively pushed to privatize the traditional public school system is outlined step by step.
Federal Education Policy Changes Afoot?
I have avoided posting all of the speculation about possible changes in education leadership and policy in the new administration. It is just plain hard on my peace of mind, especially when most of it will not happen. I firmly believe that the real changes will be through the change in leadership in the Florida legislature. As you know, I am not sanguine on those. You can see previous posts.
This morning, however, I ran across an article that helps us think more realistically about what change at the federal level would take. This Ed Week article reviews legislation that would have to be amended to redirect funding. It also points toward a likely push for school choice funding in the Congress. It is worth a read.
Florida State School Board 2017 Priorities
What is important to the Florida State Board of Education (SBE) this year? According to this report, the SBE is focusing on capital outlay funding, charter expansion priorities, streamlining teacher preparation programs, and online education. As priorities from different stake holders emerge, the negotiation with the legislature will intensify.
Bright Futures not so Bright
I knew that the qualifications for Bright Futures scholarships had gone up. Now I understand the impact. In order for the State to save money, the rich get richer. The Florida lottery supports these scholarships. While the revenue for the lottery is still increasing, the percentage allocated to education is decreasing. It would be interesting to know why and how much.


I was recently reminded about a session I did with Emma Lopes at the International House Young Learner conference back in 2006 in Torres Vedras.
When I was working as the DoS at IH Porto we regularly coordinated projects for the whole school to get involved. It created a very motivating environment and brought all ages and levels together. It was also good publicity for the school as we would invite people in to have a look at what were doing.
Having tasks that are differentiated by outcome (rather than by level) means that students can work within their own capabilities. It also helps teachers identify students' strengths and weaknesses which aids future planning and assessment.
Hopefully this document (a pdf version of the original session) will inspire and motivate other teachers to look outside for topics for projects.


According to a PhoCusWright study of 27,000 U.S. hotels comprising 65 major brands, two out of every three online traveler reviews were posted to an OTA. Equally important as the majority OTAs now hold in the online review game is their influence therein.
Roughly 7% of unique visitors to any major OTA complete a booking within the same month, he said. Of those who click through to read a full review, that percentage bumps up to 13%.
"It makes a very clear case for why OTAs have invested in building their review content for their hotel shopping platform," Quinby said.
It also makes a very clear case for why hoteliers should be paying close attention to what guests are saying about them on the likes of Expedia, Priceline and Travelocity.


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Epigenetic modifications, such as histone modifications, DNA methylation status, and non-coding RNAs (ncRNA), all contribute to antibody maturation during somatic hypermutation (SHM) and class-switch recombination (CSR). Histone modifications alter the chromatin landscape and, together with DNA primary and tertiary structures, they help recruit Activation-Induced Cytidine Deaminase (AID) to the immunoglobulin (Ig) locus. AID is a potent DNA mutator, which catalyzes cytosine-to-uracil deamination on single-stranded DNA to create U:G mismatches. It has been shown that alternate chromatin modifications, in concert with ncRNAs and potentially DNA methylation, regulate AID recruitment and stabilize DNA repair factors. We, hereby, assess the combination of these distinct modifications and discuss how they contribute to initiating differential DNA repair pathways at the Ig locus, which ultimately leads to enhanced antibody-antigen binding affinity (SHM) or antibody isotype switching (CSR). We will also highlight how misregulation of epigenomic regulation during DNA repair can compromise antibody development and lead to a number of immunological syndromes and cancer.


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In Somes sound, we picked up a stowaway, a longtime friend, Wendy. With Wendy and SV Blue Raven, we headed a bit offshore to Long Island for lobsters and a bit of hiking. Most of the island is owned by and managed as a preserve with great trails through the spruce forest and over the spongy moss-covered forest floor or along the rocky shoreline. We hiked both. Thanks to Wendy for the great pictures.
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That's interesting. I live on Long Island, New York. I never knew until now that there is a Long Island in Maine too.


American Express Co. (NYSE:AXP) reported earnings and reported that Ken Chennault will retire as CEO. It was reiterated as Hold but the target was raised to 93 from 85 at Jefferies. Amex trades in a 52-wk range of $64.75 to $93.35.
Baker Hughes, a GE Company (NYSE:BHGE) analysts started as Neutral with a 36 price target at UBS. The stock trades in a 52-wk range of 32.43 – 68.59. It has a consensus analyst target price at 45.29.
Nike Inc. (NYSE:NKE) was downgraded to Neutral from Buy with a 54 price target at Goldman Sachs, with the firm noting that Nike is likely to be range-bound while it works through excess inventory and on expectations that it will lower expectations at its investor day later this month. Nike has a 52-wk trading range of 49.01 – 60.53 and a consensus price target at 58.58.
Sprint Corp. (NYSE:S) was downgraded to Neutral from Outperform at Macquarie, just a day after BTIG maintained its Sell rating. The 52-wk trading range is 5.83 – 9.65, and the consensus price target is 7.28.


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WCDMA Wide band code division multiple access (WCDMA) is a wireless protocol for wideband communication.
Wi-Fi / WiMAX / Wi-Mesh WiFi (802.11) and WiMAX (802.16) wireless Ethernet chips are used in fixed broadband wireless access networks that use point-to-multipoint architecture. WiFi chips are based on the IEEE 802.11 standard. WiMAX chips are based on the IEE 802.16 standard. WiFi is an abbreviation for wireless fidelity. WiMAX is an abbreviation for worldwide interoperability for microwave access. The IEEE 802.16 or WiMAX standard is also known as WirelessMAN®, a registered trademark of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Wi-Mesh is designed to extend the reach of WiFi networks over long distances by allowing multiple access points to carry each other's traffic. Unlike Wi-Fi hotspots, which need a direct connection to the Internet, mesh networks pass the data request until a network connection is found.
ZigBee® ZigBee® chips (802.15.4) are a cost-effective, standards-based, wireless networking solution that provides low data-rates, low-power consumption, security, and reliability. ZigBee is a registered trademark of the ZigBee Alliance, a trade association that promotes this open standard.
Other Other unlisted or proprietary technology types.
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CompactPCI (cPCI) / PXI Compact PCI (cPCI) is a high-performance industrial bus that uses the electrical standards of the PCI bus and is packaged in a Eurocard. Specifications for the CompactPCI bus are developed and maintained by the PCI Industrial Computers Manufacturers Group (PICMG). cPCI buses are used extensively in systems that require high speed data transfers. Examples include data communication routers and switches, real-time machine control, real-time data acquisition, military systems, etc.
Fibre Channel Fibre channel is a high-speed, serial data transfer architecture that uses links of twisted-pair, coaxial or fiber optic cable. Small computer system interface (SCSI) devices can use fibre channel arbitrated loop (FC-AL), the most popular fibre channel typology. Using optical fiber, FC-AL supports full-duplex data transfer rates of 100 Mbps. Eventually, FC-AL is expected to replace SCSI in high-performance storage systems.
IEEE 1394 (FireWire®) IEEE 1394 or FireWire® is an interface standard adopted by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for very fast digital data transfers such as streaming video. IEEE 1394 connectors are used to transmit and receive data among FireWire devices, and are designed to replace external high-speed peripheral connections to personal computers, including hard disks, CD-ROMs, DVDs, graphics cards, high-speed scanners, direct video, monitors, etc. Tiny, robust FireWire connectors will also become important parts of home entertainment, communication, and appliance networks. FireWire is a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc.
I2C Inter-integrated circuit (I2C) bus is a two-wire, low to medium speed, communication bus.
PCI Peripheral component interconnect (PCI) is a local bus system designed for high-end computer systems. PCI buses transfer 32 or 64 bits of data at a clock speed of 33 MHz. They also support 3 to 5 critical peripherals, which are either integrated directly onto the motherboard or added via expansion cards. PCI buses fully support cards that were developed for standard I/O buses.
PCI Express PCI express (PCIe) fits common system architectures, provides greater speed and independence, and increases bandwidth and scalability. PCIe offers 4 Gbps of peak bandwidth per direction and 8 Gbps of concurrent bandwidth. PCIe is referred to as a third-generation input / output (3GIO).
PECL Positive emitter coupling logic (LVPECL).
RS232 RS232 is a standard interface approved by the Electronic Industries Association (EIA) for connecting serial devices. This popular, serial communications standard provides asynchronous communication capabilities with hardware flow control, software flow control, and parity checking. Most gears, instruments with digital control interfaces, and communication devices have an RS232 interface. The typical transmission speed for RS232 is 9600 bps at 15 m.
RS422 RS422 supports multipoint connections whereas RS423 supports only point-to-point connections. RS422 provides much longer transmission distances than RS232, but less signal line. RS422 uses a differential transmission technology and provides high-speed transmissions up to 10 Mbps over a maximum transmission distance up to 1.2 km at 110 kbps.
RS485 RS485 is almost identical to RS232 except that transmissions are three-way rather than two-way. RS485 is often used in applications where a single controller needs to control multiple devices. Up to 64 devices may be connected with RS485. An enhanced version of RS422, RS485 is compatible with the RS422 interface and provides a two-wire bus topology. Using an RS485 two-wire bus provides a very inexpensive network system; however, RS485 defines only the electronic signal specifications. Consequently, users must define the software protocol for RS485 two-wire communications.
SLIC Subscriber line interface circuits (SLIC).
USB On-The-Go USB on-the-go (USB OTG) is an expanded USB 2.0 specification. It is designed to overcome the shortcomings of the original USB 2.0 standard.
VME VersaModule Eurocard bus (VMEbus) is a popular, 32-bit bus used in industrial, commercial and military applications. The VMEbus is based on the VME standard, which defines mechanical specifications such as board dimensions, connector specifications and enclosure characteristics, as well as the electronic specifications for sub-bus structures, signal functions, timing, signal voltage levels, and master/slave configurations. The VMEbus uses 3U and 6U Eurocard, rugged circuit boards that provide a 96-pin plug instead of an edge connector for durability. Several VMEbus varieties are available.
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Device Type / Function
Bandwidth Manager Bandwidth managers control and manage (allocate) the throughput bandwidth of communication systems.
Clock Rate Adapter Clock rate adapters can generate different clock rates form a single input-clock.
Crosspoint Switch A crosspoint switch is a switch matrix with a certain number of inputs and certain number of output switches. Crosspoint switches are used to distribute data and signals in networks and systems.
E-Commerce Processor E-commerce processors are used in the transmission of secure data though the internet.
Error Correction Chip Devices are chips for error correction.
Fabric Manager Fabric managers control and manage switch fabric systems.
Framer Framers are chips that build data frames.
Link Layer Controller Link layer controllers are interfaces used in layer two of the seven-layer PSI model. They control the transfer of data between adjacent nodes in a network.
Media Access Controller (MAC) Media access controllers (MAC) are interfaces that control access to the network media, generally by using carrier sense multiple-access with collision detection (CSMA/CD).
Modem IC modems enable computers to transmit data over telephone lines or via wireless signals
Packet Switching Fabric Chip Packet switching chips are communication integrated circuits (ICs) used in packet-switched networks to rout packets between network nodes.
Powerline Networking Powerline networking devices are interface ICs used for data communication through power lines.
Physical Layer Controller Physical layer controllers (PHY controllers) are interfaces used in layer one of the seven-layer PSI model.
Receiver Receivers are designed to receive signals or data from antennas or from other devices in the system.
Repeater Repeaters are interfaces that re-transmit a weak signal after increasing its power.
SerDes Serializers-deserializers (SerDes) convert serial data to parallel data, and vice versa.
Transmitter Transmitters are designed to generate and send signals or data.
Transceiver Transceivers are dual devices that can operate as a transmitter and as a receiver.
VoIP Devices use voice over IP (VoIP) technology.
ZigBee® Coordinator ZigBee® coordinators (ZC) are interfaces used as main controllers.
ZigBee® Router ZigBee® routers (ZR) are interfaces used to transmit data from node to node in a network.
ZigBee® End Device ZigBee® end devices (ZED) are interfaces which talk only to a parent node. They do not transmit data to any other devices in the ZigBee network.
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-5 V Devices operate with -5 V.
-4.5 V Devices operate with -4.5 V.
1.2 V Devices operate with 1.2 V.
3 V Devices operate with 3 V.
3.6V Devices operate with 3.6 V.
Other Other unlisted supply voltages.
Number of Transmitters The number of transmitters (drivers) in the chip.
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Number of Receivers The number of receivers in the chip.
Data Rate The rate or transmission of reception, in bits per second (bps).
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Bias / Operating Current The minimum current needed for active chip operation.
Maximum Modulation Current The range of current needed to modulate the laser driver.
Pd The power dissipated by the device while in the on-state.
TJ The full-required range of ambient operating temperatures.
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Bare Die Devices are sold in semiconductor die form. They do not have a case or packaging.
BGA Ball-grid array (BGA) places output pins in a solder ball matrix. Generally, BGA traces are fabricated on laminated (BT-based) substrates or polyimide-based films. Therefore, the entire area of substrates or films can be used to route the interconnection. BGA has another advantage of lower ground or power inductance by assigning ground or power nets via a shorter current path to PCB. Thermally enhanced mechanisms (heat sink, thermal balls, etc.) can be applied to BGA to reduce the thermal resistance. The sophisticated capabilities make BGA the desirable package to implement electrical and thermal enhancement in response to the need for high power and high speed ICs.
FCBGA Flip chip ball-grid array (FCBGA) uses a combination of flip chip and ball grid array features. FCBGA enables short electrical paths for high frequency applications. The simultaneous soldering of all joints in one pass through a reflow furnace facilitates the mounting of packages with thousands of solder joints.
PBGA Plastic ball-grid array (PBGA) is the general terminology for the BGA package adopting plastic (epoxy molding compound) as the encapsulation. According to JEDEC standard, PBGA refers to an overall thickness of over 1.7 mm.
MCM-PBGA Multi-chip module plastic ball-grid array (MCM-PBGA).
SBGA Super ball-grid array (SBGA) provides a high-power BGA package with a very low profile. With SBGA, the IC is directly attached to an integrated copper heatsink. Since the IC and I/O are on the same side, signal vias are eliminated, providing a significant improvement in electrical performance (inductance).
TBGA Tape ball-grid array (TBGA).
CPGA Ceramic pin-grid array (CPGA).
PPGA Plastic pin-grid array (PPGA).
FCPGA Flip-chip pin-grid array (FCPGA) attaches the chip to the board facedown, without any wire bonding.
IPGA Interstitial package grid array (IPGA) carries additional pins on a 0.5" offset pattern in between the pins of a regular PGA pattern. It almost doubles the available pins on the same package size as a standard PGA.
PGA Pin grid array (PGA) is a second generation package that uses through-hole technology (THT). Pins are located on a 0.1" grid in various patterns. Package size is reduced by moving pins to the underside of the package in a grid pattern.
CSP Chip scale package or chip size package (CSP) has an area that is no more than 20% larger than the built-in die. CSP is compact for second level packaging efficiency and encapsulated for second level reliability. CSP is superior to both direct-chip-attach (DCA) and chip-on-board (COB) technologies. CSP is used in a variety of integrated circuits (IC), including radio frequency ICs (RFIC), memory ICs, and communication ICs.
FCCSP Flip-chip chip-scale package (FCCSP).
SuperFC® Super flip-chip or SuperFC® packages feature a controlled bond line die attached directly to a copper heat spreader. SuperFC® is a registered trademark of Amkor.
UCSP Ultra chip scale package (UCSP).
WLCSP Wafer-level chip-scale package (WLCSP) allows an IC to be attached facedown so that its pads connect to the printed circuit board (PCB) through individual solder balls without any underfill material. WLCSP minimizes IC-to-PCB inductance, features small package size, and provides enhanced thermal conduction.
LGA Tape ball-grid array (TBGA) uses a fine, polyimide substrate and provides good thermal performance with high pin counts.
FLGA Fine-pitch land-grid array (FLGA) is extremely compact and lightweight, making it suitable for miniature disc drives and digital cameras.
QFP Quad flat packages (QFP) contain a large number of fine, flexible, gull wing shaped leads. Lead width can be as small as 0.16 mm. Lead pitch is 0.4 mm. QFPs provide good second-level reliability and are used in processors, controllers, ASICs, DSPs, gate arrays, logic, memory ICs, PC chipsets and other applications.
LQFP Low quad flat package (LQFP).
TQFP Thin quad flat package (TQFP).
PQFP Plastic quad flat package (PQFP).
QFN Quad flat non-leaded package (QFN) is also known as QFNL.
VQFP Very thin quad flat package (VQFP).
MSOP Mini small outline plastic package (MSOP) products are packed in tape reel assemblies that include a carrier tape with embossed cavities for storing individual components. The carrier tape is made from dissipative polystyrene resin. The cover tape is a multilayer film composed of a polyester film, adhesive layer, heat-activated sealant and anti-static sprayed agent. The reel is made of polystyrene plastic (anti-static coated or intrinsic) and individually bar coded. Reels are placed inside barcode-labeled boxes for shipping.
PSOP Power small outline package (PSOP).
SOP Small outline package (SOP).
QSOP Quarter size outline package (QSOP).
MLP Micro lead-frame package (MLP) is an ultra-slim, miniature package with a typical height of only 0.75 mm, length of 2 mm and width of 3 mm.
SOIC Small outline integrated circuit (SOIC).
TSOJ Thin small outline J-leaded package (TSOJ).
TSOP Type I, Type II Thin small outline package (TSOP) is a type of DRAM package that uses gull wing shaped leads on both sides. TSOP DRAM mounts directly on the surface of the printed circuit board. The advantage of the TSOP package is that it is one-third the thickness of an SOJ package. TSOP components are commonly used in small outline DIMM and credit card memory applications. Thin small outline package may be Type I or Type II.
TSOP Type I Thin small outline package (TSOP), Type I is a DRAM package that uses gull wing shaped leads on both sides. TSOP DRAM mounts directly on the surface of the printed circuit board. The advantage of the TSOP package is that it is one-third the thickness of an SOJ package. TSOP components are commonly used in small outline DIMM and credit card memory applications.
TSOP Type II Thin small outline package (TSOP), Type I is a DRAM package that uses gull wing shaped leads on both sides. TSOP DRAM mounts directly on the surface of the printed circuit board. The advantage of the TSOP package is that it is one-third the thickness of an SOJ package. TSOP components are commonly used in small outline DIMM and credit card memory applications.
SSOP Shrink small outline package (SSOP).
VSSOP Very thin shrink small outline package (VSSOP).
TVSOP Thin very small outline package (TVSOP).
TSSOP Thin shrink small outline L-leaded package (TSSOP).
SOJ Small outline J-lead (SOJ) is a common form of surface-mount DRAM packaging. It is a rectangular package with J-shaped leads on the two long sides of the device.
HSOF Small outline flat-leaded package with heat sink (HSOF).
HSOP Small outline with heat sink package (HSOP).
PLCC Plastic leaded chip carrier (PLCC).
LCCC Leadless ceramic chip carrier (LCCC).
DIP Dual in-line package (DIP) is a type of semiconductor component packaging. DIPs can be installed either in sockets or permanently soldered into holes extending into the surface of the printed circuit board. The pins are distributed into two parallel lines along opposite site of the rectangular package. There are several types of DIP packages, such as Ceramic Dual in-line package (CDIP), Plastic Dual in-line package (PDIP), and Shrink Plastic Dual in-line package (SPDIP).
CDIP Ceramic dual in-line package (CDIP) consists of two pieces of dry pressed ceramic surrounding a "DIP formed" lead frame. The ceramic / LF / ceramic system is held together hermetically by frit glass reflowed at temperatures between 400° - 460° centigrade.
PDIP Plastic dual in-line package (PDIP) is widely used for low cost, hand-insertion applications including consumer products, automotive devices, logic, memory ICs, micro-controllers, logic and power ICs, video controllers commercial electronics and telecommunications.
SIP Single in-line package (SIP) is a semiconductor package which has only one row of pins.
SDIP Shrink dual in-line package (SDIP).
SC-70 SC-70 is one of the smallest available IC packages. It is used in cellular phones, PDAs, electronic games, laptops and other portable and hand-held applications where space is extremely limited.
SZIP Shrink zigzag in-line package (SZIP).
TDFN Thin dual flat no-lead (TDFN) packages are fine-pitch, high-performance replacements for 6-pin SOT23 and SC-70 packages. TDFM offers improved thermal characteristics and reduced parasitic compared to these other packages. With the same footprint as equivalent MLF and Mini-BGA packages, TDFM has a much smaller footprint than SOT23 packages.
SOT23 SOT23 is a rectangular, surface mounted, small outline transistor (SOT) package with three or more gull wing leads. SOT23 features a very small footprint and is optimized for the highest possible current. Because of its low cost and low profile, SOT23 is used in home appliances, office and industrial equipment, personal computers, printers, and communication equipment.
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Pin Count The number of pins in the package.
Number of Devices in Package The total number of devices in the IC package.
RoHS Compliant Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) is a European Union (EU) directive that requires all manufacturers of electronic and electrical equipment sold in Europe to demonstrate that their products contain only minimal levels of the following hazardous substances: lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyl and polybrominated diphenyl ether.
ESD Protected The interface has embedded electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection.
JTAG pin Joint Test Action Group (JTAG) products are semiconductor devices that allow access to the inner workings of an IC for testing, controlling, and programming purposes.
Over-Voltage Protection The interface has an embedded, over-voltage protection system
Integrated Charge Pump Charge pumps are circuits that generate higher voltages from low-voltage inputs by using capacitors as storage elements. They are used in notebook computers and mobile phones.
Built-In Oscillator The device has an internal oscillator.
Automatic Power Control Loop (APC) The device has an embedded power control loop (APC) to maintain average output power over temperature range and lifetime.
Thermal Shutdown The interface has an embedded, over-thermal protection system which shuts down the chip when a maximum temperature is reached.
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Oh, so THAT'S where Key gets their ideas: "The Dandelion Girl"
Author: gendomike Published Date: December 22, 2007 6 Comments on Oh, so THAT'S where Key gets their ideas: "The Dandelion Girl"
Thanks to Kurogane, I discovered that one of the puzzling lines Kotomi utters ("the day before yesterday, I saw a rabbit, and yesterday a deer, and today, you.") in the past couple of episodes of Clannad actually comes from a short story by Robert F. Young called "The Dandelion Girl." (Full text of the story here.) It was a science-fiction short story written in 1961, and published in the Saturday Evening Post. The author apparently wrote for both that publication and also for America's premiere "soft" science fiction and fantasy magazine, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (F&SF). I remember longing to have one of my own short stories published in that prestigious journal. I'm impressed some writer at Key knows his literary SF.
I encourage you to read that story. It's not only well-written, it is also quite moving. In fact, it's like a Key story in many ways, involving time travel, unrecognized love, and a despondent man who discovers something about life that he's forgotten. The Japanese, according to the Hayakawa SF poll, seem to have a particular affection for this story, so I suppose it's no surprise that tales of this kind show up in Key productions and even in RahXephon.
Since we're now talking about literary science fiction, you know what I'd love to see? An anime adaptation of Flowers for Algernon. They could make Algernon really cute, shoot all of Charlie's scenes from subjective shot angles like in ef, and make the love story contained in it real tragic. SHAFT should do it. Damn right.
Tagged Clannad, sf, shaft, story
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6 thoughts on "Oh, so THAT'S where Key gets their ideas: "The Dandelion Girl""
korosora says:
lol SHAFT fanboy now? 😛
Demian says:
Betterman had an algernon reference, but that really was in name only and it definitely isn't a cute series.
bakavic says:
I was wondering where that phrase came from…many thanks to you and Kurogane for the info. The way everything clicks together at the end was interesting. You made my day.
I did a look googling for Algernon, and there seems to be a J-drama for it in 2002? Dunno how that turned out. Also realised that there was the original short story, and the novel – only read the short story, not sure what I missed in the novel.
omo says:
Flowers for Algernon = Down Syndrone is MOEEEEE
No thank you.
@korosora: Damn right I am! They seem to have a knack for the kinds of shows that I like these days.
@Demian: heh. It's a well known enough story that I'm sure references appear everywhere. I was assigned the book in school, after all.
@bakavic: you're welcome. 🙂 Indeed, it appears there has been more than one Japanese live-action adaptation of the story, along with more than one American movie too. I'd say the novel has a much richer development of the relationship between Charlie and his teacher/lover.
@omo: But Charlie is a MAN. 🙂 A man can't be moe (in the same way)! Unless they are going to go for the Renge definition of moe. In which case I will join you in saying 'no thank you!' It has to be done seriously or it can't be done at all.
Have you guys seen the live action film for Flowers for Algernon? Let's just say that pretty much put an end to any of my inclination to see that classic short story turn into anime.
As much as Kotomi makes a reference to Dandelion Girl, the latter could probably benefit from an anime oav adaptation or something. Or, egads, an ero game adaptation >_>


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Peel the pears, removing cores from bottom and leaving on stems. Marinate in Moscato with the spices, sugar and citrus zests for 12 hours. Then in medium sized saucepan, bring poaching liquid to simmer, lower heat, add pears, cover with aluminum foil and cook slowly. After 10-15 minutes, test by poking knife into bottom of a pear (should be tender, not mushy). Remove pears and reduce the liquid by about half, then let it cool down.
Combine butter and sugar in mixing bowl, and then add lemon juice and flour. With small spoon or spatula, spread batter thinly in 2-3 inch diameters on nonstick cookie sheet (or sheet lined with parchment paper) and bake in an oven at 325 degrees for 8-10 minutes or until lightly brown. Gently lift and cool on wire rack; or drape over rolling pin before cooling to achieve curled shapes.
Heat the cream to boiling with vanilla bean. Cut the chocolate into pieces and place in a bowl. Pour the hot cream over the chocolate. Whisk gently.
Place a poached pear in the center of a bowl (slice bottom to stand up). Add the reduced juice and a chocolate coulis on half of the pear. Garnish with a tuiles cookie along with a scoop of ice cream (Chef's recommendations: if not homemade Earl Grey Tea ice cream, butter pecan vanilla by Häagan-Dazs® or Ben & Jerry's will do fine).


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Gloucester man Andy Wildgoose, one of the country's unsung key workers, has scooped a very welcome £3,000 in these tough times – thanks to My Club Lotto.
Chipping Sodbury FC fan Wildgoose bought a My Club Lotto 50/50 lottery ticket last month immediately after the Western League Premier side joined a growing band of football, rugby, cricket and other grassroots sports clubs taking advantage of the revenue sharing scheme and other commercial services offered by MyClubMarket.
Local resident Wildgoose, 55, purchased his ticket via www.myclublotto.co.uk and came up trumps. It is well deserved for the big-hearted charity worker and carer. And the club will also benefit financially to the tune of £300 as part of My Club's unique lotto game which helps bolster the coffers of grassroots clubs.
"Brilliant," said Mr. Wildgoose. "It means I can afford to go on holiday soon for the first time in about 15 years. I'm not thinking of going abroad – I much prefer the idea of going up to the Lake District. For one thing, the fish and chips will be better there than abroad, apart from all the other complications of travelling overseas at the moment.
"Also, I will use some of the money to help one of our teams (Chipping Sodbury currently run six) buy some new kit."
Wildgoose has been unable to holiday for over a decade because he has been the prime carer for his 94-year-old mother in between working for a local Blue Cross Charity Shop. Prior to that, Andy spent over 10 years working for a homeless charity helping those with the drink and drug addictions.
"The impact of Lockdown has been tough for everyone. In my case I have been Furloughed from a job in the charity shop, so took the decision to be become sole carer for my mother because we didn't want the added complications of assistant carers coming in," said the humble Wildgoose.
"It was only last week that I took my mother out from home in her wheelchair for the first time in 10 weeks. Family and friends have helped bring in food. It's not been easy, but we don't want my mother to go into a care home, so when I go on my holiday, thanks to the My Club Lotto win, other members will come to look after her."
Despite his domestic and charity work commitments, Andy also finds time to sit on the Chipping Sodbury Football Club committee and also produces the match-day programme and runs the website. So, he certainly deserves some respite.
Wildgoose was once a fervent Bristol Rovers fan but, like a growing number of football fans, became disillusioned with the trappings, baggage and cost of the professional game, and prefers the grassroots.
"As a Rovers fan, I go back to the days of the Bruce Bannister/Alan Warboys 'Smash &Grab' strike partnership. I still have a place in my heart for the Rovers and will look out for their results but, like many people, I prefer to support my local side these days. I have been a Chipping Sodbury fan for a long time now and I'm looking forward to when we start playing again.
"No-one seems quite how long that will be, though. So, I'm fairly sure the holiday I plan to take, thanks to this My Club Lotto win, means I won't mean I will miss any games."
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