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Mike Tyson: Knocking Down Demons
Marcia A. Talbert
Recovering from drugs is the fight of MIke Tyson life.
You will be shocked once you see Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth, a one-man stage show directed by Spike Lee for HBO Home Entertainment. While watching this honest, funny and intelligent account of the one-time heavy weight champion's highs and lows, you'll start to wonder if we've had him pegged wrong all along.
From his troubled upbringing and his standout career to money problems, prison sentences and the love he has for his children, the man known as "Iron Mike" tells his story in a way that casts a light on the fragility of his humanity. While he pretty much laid out his entire life in front of a live audience at Broadway's Imperial Theater in New York City, he was excited to share even more with JET Magazine in anticipation of the DVD release of Undisputed Truth.
Below he talks about how substance abuse helped shape the events of his life, why he's not ashamed of his past and what he really wants for his future.
JET: How does it feel to be back in the limelight?
Mike Tyson: I'm just trying to take it to the top. A few years ago, I was written off. I was going through horrific stuff. It was just one thing after another. It's like I'm addicted to chaos.
JET: Speaking of addictions, when and how did you first start using drugs?
MT: Drugs have always been a part of my life. It was the culture I grew up in.
JET: Some people don't like to revisit the past. Was making this show cathartic for you?
MT: I was by myself on stage and I feel like I gave an emotionally naked performance. I'm not ashamed of my past and I don't wish to close the door on my past. My past is an indication of where I've been and how far I have to go. Very few people have come from the debts of squalor to the heights that I have come to. To come from so low and reach so high, I feel like a homeless person who has become president.
JET: Your former trainer Cus D'Amato was like a father to you. What was his opinion of your drug use?
MT: One time, I had just lost the finals in the Olympic trials. [I had been getting high before the fight and Cus knew it]. He said, "This must be some really good stuff for you to let down your ancestors." That took a lot out of me.
JET: What drugs have you used?
MT: Marijuana, cocaine and I drank a lot of alcohol. All of my troubles stemmed from using alcohol. I would have never thought about cocaine if I wasn't getting drunk. I always started with alcohol and then did everything else.
JET: What advice do you have for up and coming boxers about addiction?
MT: Everybody's addiction is different. It's not about me telling someone 'Just don't do it,' and then they stop doing it. It is a process. There is a process of becoming addicted and there has to be a process of becoming un-addicted.
JET: What has helped you to remain drug-free?
MT: I was clean from 2009 to 2013. I had a relapse last year. Now, I've been clean for five months. You have to realize that you are powerless and the only way you can get back your family is through God. That is the only way back to sanity.
JET: What is it about drugs that keeps pulling you and others back into its grip?
MT: It's an illusion of the best of times. Even people who have great jobs and marriages do drugs because it is an escape. It is euphoric. Until you start going to the dark side and then it becomes dark and ugly.
JET: What was it like working with your friend Spike Lee?
MT: Spike made me realize that I can do this stuff. He called us and wanted to be a part of it. He taught me that I can handle this and be on stage by myself. He made the show really gritty and hard and really beautiful all at the same time.
JET: So, what's next for you?
MT: I promote fighters through my company Iron Mike Productions. A lot of young entertainers ask me to work with them. I can't believe someone wants me to mentor them. I don't look at myself as someone who is coming back, I look at myself as someone who is starting over. I think I'm out here grinding and struggling because I want so much more in life. I don't see myself with the same eyes as everyone else. Sometimes people don't see my flaws. I know my flaws. Not being in prison, not cheating on my wife, not being violent. That is success for me.
JET: As a fight promoter, what will you do differently than Don King?
MT: I will never hurt anyone the way he hurt me. But I allowed him to do those things to me. I put myself in that position. My goal in life is not to abuse people. My goal is to have great champions. I'm not trying to get rich. I'm trying to make the greatest fights that people have never seen before. I just want people to say this guy promotes the most exciting fights.
JET: We hear that you are testing your acting chops, tell us about your upcoming roles.
MT: I worked on the movie Algeria Forever, the first Algerian martial arts film. It's set to release this year. I'm also doing voiceover on a cartoon for Adult Swim. I'm a detective with pigeons as my sidekicks. There is no airdate yet, but it's set to release in 2014. Other than that, I'm reading different scripts.
For more of his story pick up a copy of JET Magazine on newsstands until March 10.
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The Witch's Cradle by Maya Deren
It's taken a while for Maya Deren's less familiar films to drift into YouTube's Sargasso Sea so I hadn't seen this one until now. The Witch's Cradle (1943) isn't really a film like Deren's other short works, more a collection of fragments for something that was left unfinished. But the Surrealist tenor of the piece means that the diverse shot sequence and unusual imagery can be interpreted in a variety of ways. Pajorita Matta is the woman wandering like a Cocteau heroine through the darkened rooms of one of Peggy Guggenheim's galleries where we catch glimpses of sculptures and a Max Ernst painting, Blind Swimmers (1934). Prior to this there are brief shots of Marcel Duchamp with this fingers tangled in a cat's cradle, and later on we see that Pajorita Matta has a pentacle drawn on her forehead, a precursor of Deren's subsequent occult explorations in Haiti. Disjointed as it is, I prefer this to the solo films that Deren produced after her collaboration with Alexander Hammid, Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), most of which were filmed dance performances. The Witch's Cradle offers another taste of enmeshed mystery.
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Alexander Hammid
• Meshes of the Afternoon by Maya Deren
Author JohnPosted on April 5, 2019 Categories {art}, {film}, {occult}, {painting}, {sculpture}, {surrealism}Tags Alexander Hammid, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Maya Deren, Pajorita Matta, Peggy Guggenheim, Sargasso Sea
Julian House artwork for Other Voices, a new singles series on the Ghost Box label. Other Voices 01 is a collaboration between Sean O'Hagan of the High Llamas and Jon Brooks of The Advisory Circle.
Last week I linked to a copy Zadie Smith's new introduction for Crash by JG Ballard. That piece could only be read in full by NYRB subscribers but this week the Guardian has the full text:
I was in college when the Daily Mail went to war with [David Cronenberg's] movie, and found myself unpleasantly aligned with the censors, my own faux-feminism existing in a Venn diagram with their righteous indignation. We were both wrong: Crash is not about humiliating the disabled or debasing women, and in fact the Mail's campaign is a chilling lesson in how a superficial manipulation of liberal identity politics can be used to silence a genuinely protesting voice, one that is trying to speak for us all.
Related: Thomas Jones in 2008 reviewing Miracles of Life:
Despite all the bodily fluids spurted and smeared onto wrecked dashboards, the problem isn't that it's too pornographic but that it isn't pornographic enough: the novel is too conscious of the deeper meaning of the sex and violence for the sex and violence to work as elements in themselves.
The fetishisation of Ballard's novel (and Ballard's fetishes) show no signs of abating: B-Movie (Ballardian Video Neuronica), is a short film by John Foxx, Karborn and Jonathan Barnbrook.
• Last Thursday I was watching a live performance by Pye Corner Audio and Not Waving, so it's good to find this mix by the pair surfacing in the same week. Kudos to the latter for choosing something by Chrome. More mixes: FACT mix 468 by Throwing Snow, and Secret Thirteen mix 120 by Drøp.
• Ellen Datlow's horror anthology, Lovecraft's Monsters, continues to gather plaudits. Among recent reviews there's Matt Barone at Complex who included the book in his Year's Best Genre Fiction Books (So Far) list, and also praised my illustrations.
In recent years, many of the people on book covers have been women without faces. So prevalent is this visual cliché that the publishing industry has cycled through at least two well-documented iterations. The first, the Headless Woman, features some poor thing cut off above the neck, like the swimsuit-clad beachgoer on Alice Munro's story collection "The View from Castle Rock." The website Goodreads's Headless Women page has 416 entries. Last year, the Headless Woman was supplanted by the Sexy Back, in which a woman is shown from behind, often gazing out over a vista.
Eugenia Williamson on the packaging of books for a female readership.
• The latest Taschen volume from Dian Hanson, editor of (among other titles) The Big Penis Book, is My Buddy. World War II Laid Bare, featuring photos from the archives of Michael Stokes. World of Wonder has pages from the interior.
• I Have Walked This Body by Jenny Hval and Susanna is a track from a forthcoming album inspired by Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid's Meshes of the Afternoon. It sounds fantastic so I'm looking forward to hearing more.
• If you have a spare half-million dollars, and don't mind the possibility of possession by murderous supernatural entities, the Palmer house from Twin Peaks is for sale.
• Read an extract from Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll by Peter Bebergal.
• The Stars and Their Courses: over six hours of the Nevada night sky in 4k definition.
• Lee Siegel on the fraught friendship of TS Eliot and Groucho Marx.
• Harmony Korine talked to Kenneth Anger for Interview Magazine.
• New Scientist: How magic mushrooms induce a dream-like state.
• 3D-print your own Marcel Duchamp chess set.
• Scott O)))
• Crash (1980) by Tuxedomoon | Burning Car (1980) by John Foxx | A Crash At Every Speed (1994) by Disco Inferno | Burning Car (Dubterror Remix, 2008) by John Foxx
Author JohnPosted on July 6, 2014 March 31, 2019 Categories {architecture}, {art}, {books}, {design}, {drugs}, {electronica}, {film}, {gay}, {horror}, {music}, {occult}, {photography}, {science}, {television}, {work}Tags Alexander Hammid, book covers, Chrome (group), David Cronenberg, Dian Hanson, Disco Inferno, Drøp, Dubterror, Ellen Datlow, Eugenia Williamson, Ghost Box, Groucho Marx, Harmony Korine, Jenny Hval, JG Ballard, John Foxx, Jon Brooks, Jonathan Barnbrook, Julian House, Karborn, Kenneth Anger, Lee Siegel, Marcel Duchamp, Matt Barone, Maya Deren, Michael Stokes, Not Waving, Peter Bebergal, Pye Corner Audio, Scott Walker, Sean O'Hagan (musician), Sunn O))), Susanna, Susanna (musician), The Advisory Circle, The High Llamas, Thomas Jones, Throwing Snow, TS Eliot, Tuxedomoon, Twin Peaks, Zadie Smith1 Comment on Weekend links 215
Figuras Miticas: Bailarin II (1954) by Leonora Carrington.
• The 26th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists have been announced. Ghosts in Gaslight, Monsters in Steam; Gay City: Volume 5 made the LGBT Anthology list, so congratulations to editors Evan J. Peterson & Vincent Kovar, and everyone else involved. I illustrated and designed the cover of that volume which also contains a piece of my fiction, Study in Blue, Green, and Gold.
• Music in School (1969), episode 4: "A New Sound". Amazing BBC TV programme for schools showing children playing avant-garde compositions using bowed metal sheets, tape loops, and primitive electronic equipment. I was at school then, and can't help but feel a little jealous. Related: Delia Derbyshire Day approaches.
• Voices Of Haiti (1953), recorded during ceremonials near Croix Des Missions and Petionville in Haiti by Maya Deren.
These days it's hard to remember that Whistler's Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl caused a bigger uproar at the Salon des Refusés of 1863 than Manet's Déjeuner sur l'herbe, or that Monet was more influenced by Whistler than vice-versa. The delicacy of Whistler's perceptions and his willingness to sacrifice everything for the sake of harmony make for an art less bracing than that of Degas or Pissarro. And yet how much life there is in his little Thames riverscapes. Perhaps we need another major exhibition—there hasn't been one for twenty years—to re-evaluate him.
Whistler's Battles by Barry Schwabsky
• Mix of the week (and a very good one it is): Abandoned Edwardian Schoolhouse by The Geography Trip.
• Morton Subotnick tells Alfred Hickling how recording Silver Apples of the Moon blew his mind.
• The fantasy artwork of Ian Miller. A new book, The Art of Ian Miller, is published next month.
• Queen for a Day by Alison Fensterstock. A look at the Mardi Gras Queens of New Orleans.
• Tex Avery (1988): A 50-minute BBC documentary about the great animation director.
• The Gentle Revolutionary: Peter Tatchell talks to Joseph Burnett about Derek Jarman.
• The Soaring and Nearly Forgotten Arches of New York City.
• Dennis Hopper's photos of American artists in the 1960s.
• Vodun at Pinterest.
• Litanie Des Saints (1992) by Dr. John | Dim Carcosa (2001) by Ancient Rites | Far From Any Road (2003) by The Handsome Family
Author JohnPosted on March 9, 2014 March 9, 2014 Categories {animation}, {architecture}, {art}, {books}, {design}, {electronica}, {film}, {gay}, {illustrators}, {music}, {occult}, {painting}, {photography}, {politics}, {surrealism}, {television}, {work}Tags Alfred Hickling, Alison Fensterstock, Ancient Rites (group), Barry Schwabsky, Delia Derbyshire, Dennis Hopper, Derek Jarman, Dr John (musician), Evan J Peterson, Ian Miller, JM Whistler, Joseph Burnett, Leonora Carrington, Maya Deren, Morton Subotnick, Peter Tatchell, Silver Apples, Tex Avery, The Geography Trip, The Handsome Family, Vincent Kovar, voodoo5 Comments on Weekend links 202
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Niels Klim's descent to the planet Nazar from the 1845 edition of Nicolai Klimii Iter Subterraneum (Niels Klim's Underground Travels) (1741) by Ludvig Holberg.
BibliOdyssey posts illustrations from different editions of Ludvig Holberg's satirical fantasy, appends the usual informative links and draws our attention Stories of a Hollow Earth at The Public Domain Review. I'd not come across the latter site before but it's now bookmarked.
• While the economy of Europe continues to circle the toilet bowl it's good to know that our Prime Minister is focusing on the important issues such as…limiting access to internet pornography. "Look at the implementation, and no matter where you stand on porn, I think you'll see this plan is going to cause a lot of problems on its way to the eventual fail bin," says Violet Blue. I was wondering how the four targeted ISPs would feel about a filtering plan that would drive many new customers elsewhere. The Register reports their response which comes down to offering guidelines rather than attempting the difficult and contentious task of filtering millions of websites.
• Related: Won't you fuck off, Reg Bailey, in which the report by the small Christian pressure group that started all the fuss is eviscerated. | Elsewhere: Porn is good for society says Anna Arrowsmith, while Tristan Taormino asserts that "writing and publishing erotica, especially for minorities, is a political act." Then there's Pornsaints, "an artistic approach to porn, a pornographic approach to art, a pornartistic approach to religion."
• In the music world: Richard H Kirk and Peter Care discuss Cabaret Voltaire and Johnny YesNo, Roy Harper talks to Alex Petridis, and soundtrack composer Cliff Martinez is interviewed (and pictured playing a Cristal).
• Witch's Cradle at Strange Flowers (Maya Deren, Marcel Duchamp and Peggy Guggenheim), The Ghosts of Senate House, London, and Aleister Crowley's Abbey of Thelema as it is today.
• RIP Frank Kameny, co-founder of the Mattachine Society, and a tireless gay rights advocate from the early 1960s on.
• Bruce Weber photographs some of the dancers from Matthew Bourne's Dance Company.
• Terry Gilliam says "I used to think I could will things into existence. Not any more."
• Charts at Business Insider: What the Wall Street protesters are so angry about.
• Five From…: assorted wit and wisdom in the Tumblr labyrinth.
• Glass art by Jasmine Targett.
• Ballard Geocoded.
• Porno Base (1982) by 23 Skidoo | Kylie Minogue (2003) by Satanicpornocultshop | Tantric Porno (live) (2009) by Bardo Pond.
Author JohnPosted on October 16, 2011 February 2, 2013 Categories {architecture}, {art}, {books}, {dance}, {electronica}, {fantasy}, {film}, {gay}, {music}, {occult}, {photography}, {politics}, {sculpture}Tags 23 Skidoo, 23 Skidoo (group), Aleister Crowley, Alex Petridis, Anna Arrowsmith, Bardo Pond, BibliOdyssey, Bruce Weber, Cabaret Voltaire, Cliff Martinez, Frank Kameny, Jasmine Targett, JG Ballard, Kylie Minogue, Ludvig Holberg, Marcel Duchamp, Mattachine Society, Matthew Bourne, Maya Deren, Peggy Guggenheim, Peter Care, Pornsaints, Richard H Kirk, Roy Harper, Satanicpornocultshop, Strange Flowers, Terry Gilliam, Tristan Taormino, Violet Blue10 Comments on Weekend links 80
Entr'acte by René Clair
One of the best—and most entertaining—films to come out of the Dada/Surrealist period, Entr'acte (1924) is also worth watching for the appearance of notable figures such as Francis Picabia (who initiated the project), Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Erik Satie.
This extraordinary early film from director René Clair was originally made to fill an interval between two acts of Francis Picabia's new ballet, Relâche, at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris in 1924. Picabia famously wrote a synopsis for the film on one sheet of note paper, headed Maxim's (the famous Parisian restaurant), which he sent to René Clair. This formed the basis for what ultimately appeared on screen, with some additional improvisations. Music for the film was composed by the famous avant-garde composer Erik Satie, who appears in the film, along side its originator, Francis Picabia. The surrealist photographer Man Ray also puts in an appearance, in a film which curiously resembles his own experimental films of this era.
Entr'acte is a surrealistic concoction of unrelated images, reflecting Clair's interest in Dada, a fashionable radical approach to visual art which relied on experimentation and surreal expressionism. Clair's imagery is both captivating and disturbing, giving life to inanimate objects (most notably the rifle range dummies), whilst attacking conventions, even the sobriety of a funeral march.
Entr'acte can be watched and downloaded at Ubuweb. Tate Modern is running a major exhibition of the works of three of the participants, Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia, until 26 May, 2008.
• Impressions de la Haute Mongolie revisited
• Short films by Walerian Borowczyk
• The South Bank Show: Francis Bacon
• Rose Hobart by Joseph Cornell
• Some YoYo Stuff
• Beckett directs Beckett
• Not I by Samuel Beckett
• La Villa Santo Sospir by Jean Cocteau
• Un Chant D'Amour by Jean Genet
• Borges documentary
• Film by Samuel Beckett
• Towers Open Fire
Author JohnPosted on March 2, 2008 May 18, 2009 Categories {art}, {dance}, {film}, {surrealism}Tags Francis Bacon (artist), Francis Picabia, Jean Cocteau, Jean Genet, Joseph Cornell, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Maya Deren, René Clair, Samuel Beckett, Ubuweb1 Comment on Entr'acte by René Clair

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Q: Jsf Project with Sql Server - Windows Authentication do you know the way i have to configure my web project to be able to connect to sql server with windows authentication? what i need is to use the user credentials to access to the database, i will use
Apache tomcat 7
JSF 2.1.2

Do tou know if this is posible?

A: Yes, it is possible.
You will need the sqljdbc_auth.dll. There's 3 places you can place it:

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*in your WEB-INF/lib of the application

*In your Tomcat's lib folder

*In C:\windows\system32. Possible problems. The dll is distributed with the JDBC driver of Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=11774
In your connection string, use integratedSecurity=true; (example: jdbc:sqlserver://MyServer;databaseName=MyDatabase;integratedSecurity=true;)
Update 1: found this post on Stackoverflow for more info.

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Americans, Exclusive
Exclusive — Ken Buck: Americans Are 'Victims' of Nancy Pelosi's Coronavirus Aid 'Extortion'
Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) told Breitbart News during an exclusive interview on Wednesday that the American people are the "victims" of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) "extortion" of coronavirus aid.
Buck spoke to Breitbart News as Pelosi continues to hold up coronavirus aid to the American people and small businesses suffering from the effects of the pandemic. The speaker's hardline tactics and unwillingness to negotiate with President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans has led to many coronavirus aid programs such as the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) to languish. Pelosi's refusal to find a middle ground with the president has led to many rank-and-file Democrats revolting against the House leader.
Buck told Breitbart News that he applauds the president for refusing to give in to Pelosi's brinksmanship-style negotiations, which he said would lead to leftist carveouts, such as a bailout of California's pension system.
"I think the strategy is to try to portray the president as unable to lead during this difficult time and get things through Congress, and that is unfortunate because the people who are suffering because the workers and the small business people and the folks are going to have a very difficult time coming back from this," the Colorado conservative told Breitbart News. "But I applaud the White House on not caving that Nancy Pelosi is making. I think Speaker Pelosi would love to have the California pension system paid off and all kinds of other things. It is just extortion, and, unfortunately, the victims are the American people."
Pelosi has tried to get another round of coronavirus aid along the lines of her $3 trillion, 1,815-page HEROES Act that contains numerous leftist carveouts, including bailouts of state and local governments, mandatory early voting and mail-in ballots, and elimination of the limitations on the deductions for state and local taxes (SALT). The SALT deduction primarily benefits wealthy, mainly Democrat states.
Buck said that America cannot continue spending itself further into debt and that the country must reopen if it wants to revitalize the country's economy.
"I think the key is to recognize that we are $30 trillion in debt right now, and we can't keep going in this direction, and we have to be responsible with how we spend federal dollars. Speaker Pelosi has no desire to be responsible, and I'm not just talking about her freezer of ice cream or her haircuts; she is just unable to stop the spending, and she will bleed this country dry if we don't draw the line somewhere," he said.
"I think the American public recognizes that," Buck added.
Buck mentioned that other countries had success by reopening their countries with limited spikes in coronavirus cases. Sweden chose to impose lockdowns and focus on personal responsibility as well as protecting its most vulnerable citizens. The Scandanavian country kept its schools, businesses, and restaurants open.
"When you look at foreign countries and the success they've had with their economies being opened and people acting responsibly, you can talk about masks, and you can talk about social distancing. You can talk about a lot of things, but what we can't afford is to keep our economy locked down, and one reason we can't afford is the social pathologies rise as we keep people isolated," Buck said.
"We're seeing a lot more crime. We're seeing a lot more deviant behavior, drug use, domestic violence, and child abuse," Buck said.
"It's really important that we get back to normal, and this is a disease that we can protect vulnerable populations because of age or medical issues, but we've got to make sure that our economy is running, or we're not going to have the resources to deal with it in the future," Buck added.
Sean Moran is a congressional reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter @SeanMoran3.


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Q: Wordpress вывод контента В общем, в чем вопрос: мне надо, чтобы на странице выводился результат работы php-скрипта, там выводится данные в xml вида <?xml...?> <xml><offer></offer>...<offer></offer></xml>.
Я сделал отдельный шаблон:
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И скрипт записал в контент, но он результат работы скрипта, каждый тег <xml> и <offer> оборачивает в

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Как либо убрать эти
, либо по-другому получить результат работы скрипта?
A: @Bo6JI9, как и сказал @Etki, вам поможет удаление фильтра.
Сделать это можно следующим образом:

remove_filter ('the_content',  'wpautop');

Подробнее об этой функции можно почитать тут: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wpautop


California has been a hub for skiff sailing since the first 29ers were brought to the US, but we're in a rebuilding phase right now, and there's a lot of work to be done to get back to the top of the fleet! One of the keys to success is getting the top talent together from around California to push each other, and to raise the bar in everything from technique to training approaches. This weekend was a good step forward, and it's exciting to see so many enthusiastic young teams getting involved in the class. This debrief will focus on a few major takeaways from the weekend to help you keep making progress in the next few weeks until we can do it again!
In the skiff classes more than any other class, nailing down good fundamentals before ratcheting up the difficulty is key, as there is such a huge difference between good maneuvers and great maneuvers in these boats. To play the game, you need to develop the tools, and that starts with knowing your footwork and handwork forwards and backwards. We did quite a bit of tacking and gybing in a range of breeze this weekend, and saw some great maneuvers, but there is still refinement to do for everyone.
If you're new to the mechanics check out this playlist, about 29er maneuvers.
Whether you're new to the mechanics or a veteran, take a look at the boat handling videos from the weekend, and do a little technique dissection. How was the handwork? Footwork? Was the boat stable through the maneuver or did the movements shake the rig around in a lot of unnecessary movements? Was the turn in sync with the weight? Was the sheet in sync with the turn? You'll get way more out of this debrief if you actually do the analysis yourself rather than me giving you all of the answers!
What goes into a good start? When people think about starting practice, the number one thing I hear teams talk about is acceleration on the starting line. How fast can you get from parked to full speed? Undoubtedly this is an important skill to work on, but there are many other factors that go into starting, which I would actually argue are more important than the mechanics of the acceleration itself.
Time-distance drill: Set a watch for two minutes, and get into position 1:30 from the starting gun. Try to pick a spot where you think you'll drift down onto the boat end or the pin end just in time to pull the trigger in the last few seconds and start right next to your mark. Fight to avoid sliding for the final minute and thirty seconds and see where you end up. Adjust your positioning and try again!
AMWOT drill: Check it out here. This one is huge for mastering the down speed boat control.
Two Boat Time Distance Drill: Same as the first drill, but one boat is assigned to be a windward boat and the other is the leeward boat. The goal of the windward boat is to force the leeward boat down the line without going for the hook. The leeward boat is trying to stay up the line, and eventually end up on a mark at the gun. This is a great one for practicing the tactical game. As the windward boat the goal is to stay out of phase with the leeward boat, while the leeward boat is trying to get in sync with the windward boat.
Master these skills, and you'll start to view the starting line game in a totally new way.
Getting to the top is all about refining your learning process to improve faster than those around you. Figuring out how to ask the right questions is critical, and it starts by getting more specific about the questions you're asking. Rather than targeting improvement in "steering" as a whole, we need to be digging into the details. "I want to work on the down turn at the tops of the waves, and ensuring that the boat stays loaded through the troughs," gives you a clear target - a goal that you can come back to when reviewing video or looking at gps tracks to see if you moved the needle. Refining your focus to emphasize specifics like this is a skill that takes practice, but if you make a habit of setting daily goals, and then evaluating your progress at the end of the day, you'll improve very quickly, and when you do you'll see your skills respond accordingly.


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Hurunui River
The Hurunui River is one of the most diverse rivers in Canterbury. It has two main branches, each with distinctive attributes originating east of the Main Divide* in New Zealand's Southern Alps. Some 150km long, the total catchment area (click to see interactive map) of the river is 2671 km2.
The source of the north branch of the Hurunui is predominantly Lake Sumner, a remote high country lake. The south branch originates in the Southern Alps at Harpers Pass, with hot springs nearby. Some of the tributaries include the Jollie Brook, the Glenrae River and the Mandamus River.
* 'Main Divide' refers to the area of the Southern Alps that divides the water catchments of the eastern side of the island from those on the west coast. The Main Divide also forms the boundary between the Canterbury and West Coast Regions.
Hurunui River: autumn
Once past the foothills, the Hurunui River flows out onto the Canterbury Plains and through the Culverden basin until it reaches the coast just a few kilometres south of Port Robinson. Like most of Canterbury's braided rivers, because of its sporadic flow regime and high sediment load, it forms a 'braided' estuary/lagoon system as it enters the Pacific.
Hurunui River mouth
In 2007, the New Zealand Fish and Game Council and the New Zealand Recreational Canoeing Association (now known as Whitewater NZ) lodged an application with the Ministry for the Environment for a Water Conservation Order to protect the Hurunui River. In 2009, the Special Tribunal considering the application recommended to the Minister that a conservation order be granted for the North Branch of the Hurunui River but not the South Branch. Whitewater NZ appealed this decision, wanting the order to include the South Branch.
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Important Bird Areas on the Hurunui River: links to 7-page PDF file that includes maps, habitat types, and threats relevant to the larger Rakaia catchment. This document was extracted from Forest & Bird's 177-page 20Mb file on all rivers, lakes, and coastal areas.
Hurunui Water Project
The Hurunui Water Project (HWP) applied to Environment Canterbury for resource consents to dam the river and to take water for irrigation. In 2009, they indicated they would delay the processing of its applications so that the Canterbury Water Management Strategy (CWMS) could address the issue of water storage. Hundreds of protest marchers, kayakers and fishers travelled down the Avon River objecting to the scheme. Sam Mahon, a Canterbury based artist concerned about water pollution, made a bust of Environment Minister Nick Smith out of dairy-cow dung in order to publicise the campaign to stop the Hurunui River from being dammed for irrigation.
In 2010 HWP lodged a High Court appeal of Environment Canterbury's decision to make the damming of the Hurunui River a non-complying activity in the Canterbury Natural Resources Regional Plan. They then created HWP Biodiversity, a new arm of the HWP, to research ways to reduce the impact of irrigation.
The central question is whether the economic development of farmland through irrigation should trump the environmental integrity of the river, both through abstraction of water for irrigation and nutrient runoff entering the river.
In accordance with the Environment Canterbury (Temporary Commissioners and Improved Water Management) Act 2010, the Canterbury Water Management Strategy sets as its first order priorities: environment, customary use, community supplies and stock water; with second order priorities as irrigation, renewable electricity generation, recreation and amenity. The Zone Committee (in this area, the Hurunui and Waiau River) recognizes that clean drinking water, land use, water quality and quantity, environmental flows and allocation for the rivers, biodiversity protection and enhancement, irrigation, hydropower development and water storage options, and the principles of kaitiakitanga are all (intimately) interrelated and must be considered as a whole rather than in isolation.
In 2018 the project stalled. Information on their website may or may not be up to date.
In 2017, The Zone Committee allocated funds to enhance and restore bird breeding habitats on the Hurunui River. This project included culling a large number of predatory Southern black-backed gulls in 2018, in order to reduce predation on black-billed gulls black-billed gulls and backed-fronted terns.
Bird numbers on the Hurunui River 2006-2009 (xls spreadsheet including maps)
River Report 24-hour Infoline
Hurunui and Waiau Zone Implementation Programme (ZIP)
Hughey (2007) The 2006 birdlife survey of the Hurunui River – results and management implications (open access PDF)


Few retirees actually "outlive" their money. Generations ago, many older people lived in dire straits, sometimes "down to their last dime." Social Security was created to help them. Today, Social Security is still around, and most retirees are smart about their savings and income: they avoid reckless spending, and if they need to live on less at a certain point, they do. Health crises can and do impoverish retirees and leave them dependent on Medicaid, but that tends to occur toward the end of retirement rather than the start.
The amount you withdraw annually from your retirement savings may vary. Anything from health care expenses to a dream vacation to a new entrepreneurial venture could affect your annual withdrawal amount. So could the performance of the financial markets.
Retiring on 70-80% of your end salary may not be feasible. Some articles state that new retirees should strive for that goal, but it can be tough to achieve.
In the initial phase of retirement, you will probably want to travel, explore new pursuits and hobbies, and get around to some things you have put on the back burner. So, in the first few years away from work, you could spend roughly as much as you did before you retired or potentially more.
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LA Lakers Rumors: Dwight Howard wanted Mike D'Antoni fired & Kobe Bryant amnestied
By Chat Sports Staff August 24, 2013
Last night, CSN Bay Area's Ric Bucher reported that Dwight Howard made some incredibly audacious demands to Lakers' management during his free-agent negotiations in June. According to Bucher, Howard told Jim Buss and Mitch Kupchak that he wanted Bryant "amnestied or muzzled", and D'Antoni let go.
The Lakers management clearly had no interest in this arrangement. It's unclear whether Howard actually thought there was a chance of the Lakers agreeing to his requests, although it seems unlikely - it's nearly impossible to imagine Lakers management amnestying the face of the franchise to sate the demands of a player who had only been there for one (largely unimpressive) season.
The full text of Bucher's report (posted on Sulia last night) is below:
"Talks with various people close to the situation make it clear there were two prerequisites for Dwight Howard to remain a Laker: fire Mike D'Antoni and amnesty, or at the very least muzzle, Kobe Bryant. As audacious as that might sound, it doesn't come without precedent in Lakers' history. When Kobe re-upped in 2004, it coincided with Shaq being shipped to Miami and Phil Jackson being let go. Of course, Kobe didn't have to pressure the team braintrust -- Mitch Kupchak and Jerry and Jim Buss -- to make those moves, since Dr. Buss, in particular, was done with both Shaq and Phil at the time.
The Lakers apparently asked Dwight to be patient on both fronts for at least another season, telling him "hey, you're going to have to gut this out another year," a source said, although it sounds as if VP of basketball ops Jim Buss isn't ready to abandon Kobe anytime soon. "Dwight didn't want to play with Kobe for 2-3 more years," Buss said. "I'm going to stand behind Kobe because of his history with the franchise." It would seem, then, with all that happened, the Lakers had the wherewithal to keep Howard if they had desired; they simply found the price too high."
This completely refutes the perception that Kobe and Dwight had an "amicable" relationship. While Howard was still a Laker, he and Kobe went out of their way to defuse reports of a rift, but now that Howard is a Houston Rocket, there's no reason for either of them to play nice. If Bucher's report is true, it'll be fascinating to see how this plays out over the next season.


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Beloved Antichrist
by manosg STAFF
February 19th, 2018 | 40 replies
Release Date: 2018 | Tracklist
Review Summary: Excessive and overblown or something more?
27 character roles, 15 vocalists, 46 tracks and 182 minutes of running time. Beloved Antichrist is probably as demanding to listen as it was to be conceived and materialized. Well, maybe not as much but listening to a 3-hour rock opera – or as Christofer Johnsson described it, a "rock/metal musical with opera vocals" – repeatedly is not a walk in the park. Considering the amount of information we are exposed to on a daily basis and the diminishing attention span which is a direct effect of this and the fact that new music is only a couple of clicks away, Christofer Johnsson's decision to release this work now seems quite odd. But then again, as he admitted, Therion is no longer in fashion which might be quite liberating and may be the reason that he decided to record something so diverse, so deep in Therion's discography.
Beloved Antichrist might not be as diverse as previous LPs compared to the transition from "Cthulu" to "To Mega Therion", but it is unlike what Therion have released before. To begin with, it is more vocal-driven, less heavy metal and – like every opera – it has a storyline. Inspired by Vladimir Solovyov's A Short Tale Of The Antichrist, the opera presents the story of a very religious man who has the ability to talk to god. Once he loses this ability, he decides to commit suicide by jumping off a cliff. However, he gets saved by the devil who offers him a dark gift which he accepts and then writes a groundbreaking book that contains groundbreaking concepts about humanity, politics, religion, and philosophy. The book is so important that he gets to become the world leader and under him, humanity prospers like never before. Nevertheless, it becomes known that he is the antichrist which divides the human race as some want him dead because of his "evil" nature while others support him because of how the world has flourished with him at the helm.
In terms of instrumentation, the first act is more like your typical rock opera, the second act is more characteristic of Therion as it includes their known formula of symphonic metal, while the third act is a combination of the two. However, the delivery (or libretto) consists entirely of operatic vocals which might put some people off and the emphasis is on creating a story which flows seamlessly. In addition, there are no big choirs or choruses like on previous LPs. In fact, if you are judging Beloved Antichrist as a typical symphonic metal album, you will be disappointed. There are no hooks and catchy riffs here but its cinematic nature is quite immersive and beautiful melodies are scattered throughout. There are no moments of building tension such as on Vovin for example, but each piece creates the platform for the next one and everything serves the story of the album. As such, individual pieces don't work so well out of context which explains why the singles didn't make the best impression when they came out before the official release of the album. However, "Forgive Me" is one of the most beautiful Therion tracks I've listened recently.
At the end of the day, it seems that Beloved Antichrist will probably be a love/hate affair deeply dependant on the time and effort one is willing to devote. Of course, fans of rock operas and Therion will find it easier to get into this behemoth of an album. It is easy to disregard a 3-hour opera as overblown and boring, especially nowadays that everything is free and two-clicks away. In fact, Beloved Antichrist as excessive as it may seem, is a breath of fresh air to the decaying world of modern symphonic metal provided that you give it the time it demands.
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sheesh, that average though
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Album Rating: 1.5
Man, this album's runtime is about 150mins too long. Can't believe I listened to it twice
brainmelter
this sounds massive, conceptually and literally. but I think I'll pass on this one, that 1.9 avg is pretty violent
manosg
haha I can understand the average and why people are dismissing the album but what can I say, I was also very skeptic at first but really enjoyed it. It's going to be interesting to see whether other guys on here feel similarly.
EvoHavok
Great to finally see some positivity for this. Sweet read!
Glad you enjoyed, Evo! This is not half bad but it just needs a bit more effort than previous Therion LPs and most of us just aren't conditioned to function like that anymore. Hopefully, Therion fans will like it.
deslad
Very enjoyable and spot on write-up manos! As a fan of rock operas, I must say it is rather disappointing imho that this one has such a low average. It is a great album, but like you said it takes some time to grow on you.
Agreed, des!
BlackwaterPork
Excellent review my man
Much appreciated, Pork!
Papa Universe
Someone actually listened to it?
A few people actually
DungeonBoy
Awesome review man. Never really been able to get into these guys, their classical fusion has always been a bit too over the top for me. Not sure I would even have the attention span to digest three hours of them, but I enjoyed your thoughts.
Cheers Dungeon, much appreciated. Yeah if their previous albums didn't do much for you, this one won't change your mind. Have you tried any of their death metal stuff?
I have, but it's been a very long time since I jammed any of them. I never really connected with any of them from memory, I just remember it was more of a shock to me that they started as a DM band since I first checked them out in their more modern state.
hey manos! could you name a therion album this is most similar too?
Hey budg! Oh man, not easy to compare it to one previous album without being in danger of misleading you. Act 1 has no great similarity to any of the previous albums because it's more like a rock opera. Act 2 is more typical of Therion and more particular their less electric moments, maybe a much more inspired version of Sitra Ahra. Act 3 is a mix and max of the first two acts.
They just hyper focus too much on the classical side of the music and everything else is just so damn plodding. The only album where it really feels like they treated both metal and classical equally was Theli.
thanks man. ill check it at some point no doubt, but yeesh 90 minute rock opera? whenever i get the therion bug i just listen to vovin, fixes me right up
Doctuses
182 minutes wtf.
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inner core heats the magma around it. Magma rises forcing the plates to move. These are called convection currents. Magma from mantle breaks through earths crust. Magma cools on the surface to from lava. Over time this can cause a volcano.
Volcanic islands. lava travels long way before cooling (shield volcano). overtime can create volcanic islands. Then becomes inhabited by life.
volcanoes, mountains, ocean trench and volcanic islands.
earthquakes are formed due to the friction between the two plates creating seismic waves.
ocean trench. These are formed due to one plate being denser than the other (oceanic plate) this folds under the continental plate creating a deep ridge in the ocean. The oceanic plate then melts into magma which then goes into a convection current which forms a volcano.
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I had two design criteria in mind. The first was to keep it low-cost. Some spend $1000 to $1500 on their BB-8s. I wanted to spend as little as I could, so as many parts as possible had to come from my existing stock and from online classifieds and thrift stores. Not counting the parts that were discarded along the way, the cost came in just shy of $300.
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First I tried a minimalist approach. For the ball, I found my 12″ cardboard globe on kijiji.ca. I bought an RC toy truck at a yard sale and attached a pole to it for holding magnets near the top of the globe. I then made a head with corresponding magnets under it. The head magnets attract to the pole magnets, keeping the head on. Meanwhile, the truck rolling inside the ball makes the ball move.
Making the ball roll around was easy. Making it roll around while keeping the head on was very hard. The magnets at the top of the pole attract the magnets under the head, pulling them down hard onto the surface of the globe. That essentially glues the truck to the top of the globe.
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But the most dome-like head I could make stay on was just a cardboard skeleton. Anything more filled out would be heavier and require a stronger magnetic attraction. The toy truck's motor would not be up to it.
For more powerful motors and more mass I figured I could kill two birds with one stone by going with drill motors and drill batteries in a hamster drive configuration. Using drill parts kept costs down as the batteries and one drill came from yard sales while the other drill was free through freecycle.org. Meanwhile, both are heavy.
To make sure it all fit, I drew up a 3D model in Blender, the free 3D modelling and animation software that I use a lot. In fact, finding out how to make the batteries and motors fit was the first step. They had to be as low as possible. Their large mass low down is what keeps the droid vertical, with the much lighter head at the highest point.
The drill batteries had to be easily removable for recharging. To hold them under the drive plate I simply used Velcro. Meanwhile, the drill battery stems went up through a hole in the drive plate. I made a connector to electrically connect to the battery terminals. It is a plastic rectangle with thin copper sheet metal for the contacts. Once the battery was Velcroed in place, this plastic and metal piece was lowered down onto the stem, the copper metal making contact with the battery terminals.
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My final hurdle was that the motors would behave oddly when the motors were told to turn in opposite directions but were fine when they were told to turn in the same direction. This turned out to be a bad assumption on my part about how the RC receiver was wired internally — none of the output wires were common inside. After some changes to the circuit, I now had stable electronics.
I had basically been treating the RC receiver as a black box, but when I asked for help about my converter board here on Hackaday, it was pointed out that the receiver likely contained H bridges. Opening it up, that's exactly what I found. The converter board works fine for now, but in the near further I'll use one of the suggestions from that Hackaday post to eliminate the board altogether. I might even try all of the suggestions, just for fun.
The motors were too long to fit in line between the wheels and so had to be mounted off to the sides. To transfer rotation to the wheels, I drew up some gears in Blender and 3D printed them at our local University of Ottawa Makerspace. In the print settings I used 2 shells and only 50% infill. The gears are held firmly onto the shafts solely using nuts and washers on either side. They've held up amazingly well, even with slipping and grinding during development.
For the bearings for the center gears and the wheels I used an old trick of making bearing blocks from hardwood.
I wanted to keep as much room as possible on the drive plate available for adding things later and so initially I'd mounted the motors at only three points. But this allowed the motors to move a little causing the gears to slip. To fix that I later added a fourth mounting point and haven't had any slipping since.
At the end of the shaft for the drill motors is a hole that a screw goes into. That's part of how the chuck is kept on a drill motor, and that's how one gear was kept on. However, this screw had a tendency to get loose. Putting a little Loctite on the threads fixed that.
Given that I was trying to fit a lot in a small droid, I had to mount some things higher than I'd have liked to. When the droid stops, mass high up causes the droid to wobble. In the BB-8 droid used for promotional events they've gone to a great extent to keep the majority of the mass as low as possible. Originally I had the Arduino batteries and the RC receiver with its extra batteries fairly high up. I later mounted them much lower. When holding the internals in my hands I could tell the difference but it didn't make a noticeable difference with the wobble.
Instead, for that I added Adafruit's BNO055 inertial measurement unit (IMU) board. With it I could tell what angle the droid was at when stopping and experimented with PID loops and other algorithms of my own to minimize wobble. That helped.
As I said, I used a 12″ cardboard globe. To increase the traction of the wheels inside the globe I sprayed the globe's interior with an anti-slip spray from a hardware store. This made a huge difference. However, over time the anti-slip coating vanished, and so I'm looking for another, more permanent coating, perhaps urethane or something. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know in the comments. It also has to stop off-gassing eventually. The anti-slip spray had an odor for a long time.
But the main problem with the cardboard globe was its thinness. With the huge weight of the internals pushing down on it where the wheels are, it warped significantly and required a lot of effort and a copious amount of tape to keep the two hemispheres together. This large amount of tape also made an uneven ridge for the head to slide over, making it get stuck. At that point either the drive system continued to move while the head fell off or the drive system couldn't move at all.
The solution was to carefully coat a new globe in three layers of fiberglass. I took my time doing this, over a month and a half, applying one piece at a time and then sanding before putting the next piece. The result was a fantastic improvement. It no longer deformed and now it takes a minimal effort to attach the two hemispheres with only eight narrow strips of transparent duct tape.
My BB-8 is now at the point that I can call it finished. At least it's finished as far as all the engineering is concerned, and that's usually where I call it quits.
While the paint job worked out well, up close you can see that the details are painted on. It'd be nice to have at least the lines on the head be actual grooves. Also, these drill motors are brushed motors and I've since learned that doing high frequency PWM to brushed motors damages them over time. I'd like to replace them with brushless motors. And as anyone who's use cordless drills a lot knows, drill batteries don't last long, and so it'd be great to switch to LiPos.
But for now, the reactions I get from both kids and adults is beyond my wildest expectations. Kids threat it like a friend while adults have petted it and called to it like it was a baby or a dog wagging its tail. I'd call that a success.
Ask Hackaday: How Do You Convert Negative Voltages to Positive?
I have a good background working with high voltage, which for me means over 10,000 volts, but I have many gaps when it comes to the lower voltage realm in which RC control boards and H-bridges live. When working on my first real robot, a BB-8 droid, I stumbled when designing a board to convert varying polarities from an RC receiver board into positive voltages only for an Arduino.
Today's question is, how do you convert a negative voltage into a positive one?
In the end I came up with something that works, but I'm sure there's a more elegant solution, and perhaps an obvious one to those more skilled in this low voltage realm. What follows is my journey to come up with this board. What I have works, but it still nibbles at my brain and I'd love to see the Hackaday community's skill and experience applied to this simple yet perplexing design challenge.
I have an RC receiver that I've taken from a toy truck. When it was in the truck, it controlled two DC motors: one for driving backwards and forwards, and the other for steering left and right. That means the motors are told to rotate either clockwise or counterclockwise as needed. To make a DC motor rotate in one direction you connect the two wires one way, and to make it rotate in the other direction you reverse the two wires, or you reverse the polarity. None of the output wires are common inside the RC receiver, something I discovered the hard way as you'll see below.
I wasn't using the RC receiver with the toy truck. I extracted it from the truck and was using it to control my BB-8 droid. My BB-8 droid has two motors configured as what in the BB-8 builders world is called a hamster drive, though is more widely known as a tank drive or differential drive (see the illustrations). Rotate both wheels in the same direction with respect to the droid and the droid moves in that direction. Reverse both wheels and it drives in the opposite direction. Make the wheels rotate in opposite directions and it turns on the spot.
The motors in my BB-8 are drill motors and are controlled by two H-bridge boards. An Arduino does pulse width modulation to the H-bridge boards for speed control, and controls which direction the motors should turn. Finally, the RC receiver is what tells the Arduino what to do. But a converter board, the subject of this article, is needed between the RC receiver and the Arduino. Note that the Arduino is necessary also for countering when the BB-8 droid wobbles and for synchronizing sounds with the movement, but those aren't addressed here.
Since there are two motors and two directions for each motor, the RC receiver needs to control four pins on the Arduino to make the two drill motors behave as follows: motor 1/clockwise, motor 1/counterclockwise, motor 2/clockwise, motor 2/counterclockwise. And whatever voltages the receiver puts on those pins has to be relative to the Ardunio's ground.
And herein lies the problem. The Arduino expects positive voltages with respect to its ground on all those pins. So I needed a way to map the RC receiver's two sets of motor control wires, which can have either positive or negative voltages across them, to the Arduino pins which only want positive voltages. And remember, none of those RC receiver wires are common inside the receiver.
Now, keep in mind, electronics is a general interest of mine and except for what we were taught in high school physics class, I'm self-taught. That means I've "read ahead" but much of my knowledge has been determined by what projects I've done. So I have gaps in my knowledge. I'd never turned negative voltages into positive before. It sounded simple enough. Searching online didn't help though. The closest I got was in two old posts in forums where the answers were "It's easy to do. I can do it with a single resistor." But there was no further explanation and I didn't ask my own question anywhere at that point.
Instead I came up with my own approach with just one set of wires from the RC receiver first. The wires coming from the receiver were blue and brown and could have either polarity depending on which way the receiver is being told to rotate the motor: clockwise or counterclockwise. That meant I needed two diodes to create two possible paths for the different polarities the brown wire could be: positive or negative. I then added a battery for the one path that was negative, to turn it into a positive.
Next, I put a PNP transistor between the positive of the battery and the receiver. With no signal from the RC transmitter, the transistor's base is negative with respect to the emitter, but not enough to turn the transistor on. That's because the battery's negative is connected to the receiver's blue wire and since there's no signal from the transmitter, the brown wire is also at the same potential as the blue wire, and with battery negative.
The idea was that when the transmitter sent a signal to make that brown wire negative with respect to the blue wire, it would become even more negative and turn on the PNP transistor. A positive signal would then go from the battery, through the transistor to the Arduino.
The most obvious problem was that the Arduino wanted to see 3 volts to register as a HIGH input, meaning the battery would have to be at least 3 volts and so even with no signal from the transmitter, that would be -3 volts to the transistor, turning it on when it wasn't supposed to be on.
And so I immediately thought of using a relay instead. I'd use the current running through the negative path to energize the relay, closing a switch that was completely independent of the RC receiver. The Arduino has a 5V output pin, so I made that switch close a circuit between the 5V pin and the Arduino's pin 7, giving pin 7 the needed positive voltage.
The 1 in the circle in the schematic shows where I wanted to put a resistor in order to limit the current going through the relay's coil. However, I tried with resistors all the way down to 4.7 ohms but the coil didn't have enough current to close the switch. With no resistor, it worked and the current was 70mA. The relay's coil was rated for 3V/120mA so I left it.
Using a relay did seem very heavy-handed, but it was the only solution I could come up with and I already had the relay in stock.
The next step was to add a second relay, doing the same for the second set of wires coming from the RC receiver for the second motor.
But the behavior was seemingly sporadic. And keep in mind that there was a whole dual H-bridge circuit that was also connected to the Arduino's ground. I'd worked with relays a lot before, and the RC receiver came from a commercially made and functional toy so I had no reason to suspect that. On the other hand, I'd made the H-bridge circuit from scratch since I already had most of the parts, and I was new to H-bridges and MOSFETs. So at first I spent a good two weeks of spare time thinking my problem was with the H-bridge and drill motor side. I'm sure we've all experienced the same blindness, thinking the most likely culprit is the part you had a hand in.
But at some point I disconnected the H-bridge and tested just the RC receiver circuit, watching the voltages at the Arduino pins while I remotely turned on both "motors" in both directions in all combinations (no motors were connected at the time though). The only odd behavior I saw was when I turned the motors on in opposite directions.
Notice in the schematic that I'd connected together both blue wires coming from the RC receiver. Up to that point I'd been assuming that the blue wires were common inside the receiver and that it was only the brown wires that switched from positive to negative with respect to the blue wires. From the behavior I was seeing it looked like both wires were switching polarity, possibly around some other internal common reference.
So I added a third relay on one of the positive paths of one of the sets of wires. That meant the corresponding blue wire no longer needed to be grounded, keeping both of the receiver's blue wires separate. Note that I didn't bother putting in a fourth relay for the remaining positive path, and it turned out to not be necessary. At that point the circuits worked great and continue to do so.
And so I ask, is there a better way to convert the RC receiver output to something the Arduino can use? Relays require power, so it would be nice if there was a solution that didn't require any extra power. My relay solution seems very early 1900s. Or maybe it's a good solution after all, but just one of many. Let us know in the comments below.
I just uploaded a new video tutorial on how to use the Grove dual H-Bridge module with the DynamixShield and an Arduino Due to control DC motors.
H-Bridge only drives motor one direction:What am I missing?


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package org.apache.aries.tx.control.jdbc.xa.impl;

import static org.osgi.service.transaction.control.TransactionStatus.NO_TRANSACTION;

import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.util.UUID;

import javax.transaction.xa.XAResource;

import org.apache.aries.tx.control.jdbc.common.impl.AbstractJDBCConnectionProvider;
import org.apache.aries.tx.control.jdbc.common.impl.ConnectionWrapper;
import org.apache.aries.tx.control.jdbc.common.impl.ScopedConnectionWrapper;
import org.apache.aries.tx.control.jdbc.common.impl.TxConnectionWrapper;
import org.apache.aries.tx.control.jdbc.xa.connection.impl.XAConnectionWrapper;
import org.osgi.service.transaction.control.LocalResource;
import org.osgi.service.transaction.control.TransactionContext;
import org.osgi.service.transaction.control.TransactionControl;
import org.osgi.service.transaction.control.TransactionException;

public class XAEnabledTxContextBindingConnection extends ConnectionWrapper {

	private final TransactionControl				txControl;
	private final UUID								resourceId;
	private final AbstractJDBCConnectionProvider	provider;
	private final boolean							xaEnabled;
	private final boolean							localEnabled;
	private final String							recoveryIdentifier;

	public XAEnabledTxContextBindingConnection(TransactionControl txControl,
			AbstractJDBCConnectionProvider provider, UUID resourceId, boolean xaEnabled, boolean localEnabled,
			String recoveryIdentifier) {
		this.txControl = txControl;
		this.provider = provider;
		this.resourceId = resourceId;
		this.xaEnabled = xaEnabled;
		this.localEnabled = localEnabled;
		this.recoveryIdentifier = recoveryIdentifier;
	}

	@Override
	protected final Connection getDelegate() {

		TransactionContext txContext = txControl.getCurrentContext();

		if (txContext == null) {
			throw new TransactionException("The resource " + provider
					+ " cannot be accessed outside of an active Transaction Context");
		}

		Connection existing = (Connection) txContext.getScopedValue(resourceId);

		if (existing != null) {
			return existing;
		}

		Connection toReturn;
		Connection toClose;

		try {
			if (txContext.getTransactionStatus() == NO_TRANSACTION) {
				toClose = provider.getConnection();
				toReturn = new ScopedConnectionWrapper(toClose);
			} else if (txContext.supportsXA() && xaEnabled) {
				toClose = provider.getConnection();
				toReturn = new TxConnectionWrapper(toClose);
				txContext.registerXAResource(getXAResource(toClose), recoveryIdentifier);
			} else if (txContext.supportsLocal() && localEnabled) {
				toClose = provider.getConnection();
				toReturn = new TxConnectionWrapper(toClose);
				txContext.registerLocalResource(getLocalResource(toClose));
			} else {
				throw new TransactionException(
						"There is a transaction active, but it does not support local participants");
			}
		} catch (Exception sqle) {
			throw new TransactionException(
					"There was a problem getting hold of a database connection",
					sqle);
		}

		txContext.postCompletion(x -> {
				try {
					toClose.close();
				} catch (SQLException sqle) {
					// TODO log this
				}
			});

		txContext.putScopedValue(resourceId, toReturn);

		return toReturn;
	}

	static XAResource getXAResource(Connection conn) throws SQLException {
		if(conn instanceof XAConnectionWrapper) {
			return ((XAConnectionWrapper)conn).getXaResource();
		} else if(conn.isWrapperFor(XAConnectionWrapper.class)){
			return conn.unwrap(XAConnectionWrapper.class).getXaResource();
		} else {
			throw new IllegalArgumentException("The XAResource for the connection cannot be found");
		}
	}

	private LocalResource getLocalResource(Connection conn) {
		return new LocalResource() {
			@Override
			public void commit() throws TransactionException {
				try {
					conn.commit();
				} catch (SQLException e) {
					throw new TransactionException(
							"An error occurred when committing the connection", e);
				}
			}

			@Override
			public void rollback() throws TransactionException {
				try {
					conn.rollback();
				} catch (SQLException e) {
					throw new TransactionException(
							"An error occurred when rolling back the connection", e);
				}
			}

		};
	}
}


Lush tropical plants, colorful leis & decor along with a special Tahitian dance performance help to bring the tropics to the center of Sacramento.
When you're not busy visiting our vendors or dancing the night away to a live band, stop by the Tiki Hut for a specialty cocktail or grab some friends and jump into the photobooth to create your very own take home souvenir. Make sure to participate in our wine raffle with tons of amazing wines (and bonus prizes) or bid on your favorite auction item.
Dozens of vendors from around Northern California participate at this festive event to bring you the very best they have to offer.
From craft brews to gourmet desserts and everything in between, there's a variety of quality fare for your tasting enjoyment. And it's all included for the price of admission!


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Boutique Tags are a fun and unique way to personalize your store!
At Store Supply Warehouse we want you to be ready for the upcoming fall and winter holiday seasons. This is a wonderful time of the year to stock up on boutique tags for packaging. They come strung with either a black or white string knotted and ready for use and are sold in boxes of 500. The best part of all is our Boutique Tags are over 40% off with small tags just $4.74 per box and large tags only $6.49. With beautiful tags available in a variety of colors, styles and sizes these are sure to help kick your creativity into gear.
Our Ornate Oval tags are a great accessory to add a special message to gift boxes. Your customers will appreciate that you took the time to help them create something special.
Our Oval tags are available in solids and patterns. Add an oval tag for a message or add a custom sticker with your store brand or a special message so that your customers will remember your store and stop by again. You can also add these to our merchandise bags and gift boxes.
Our final boutique tag style is our scallop. This tag features a scalloped tiered top and beveled bottom. We featured this tag style with our jewelry boxes and curling ribbon. Take the time to make it special and memorable. Everyone appreciates a gift that is custom made just for them. The little extra touches go a long way and leave a lasting impression on your customer and your business.
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We are well into the summer months across the country however, it is time to start getting your store retail ready for Back To School. Back To School retail sales are second only to winter holidays as a top sales generating time of the year.
According to NRF (National Retail Federation) families plan to spend more this year on back to school and college merchandise. These same families are also starting to shop early to comparison shop for the best deals on products and services their kids will need.
Children's Mannequins: We offer a selection of flexible mannequins that work well for children's clothing and accessories. We have sizes starting at 3 months through 7 years. We also have a children's dressmaker form with a natural wood base and finial. This form is adjustable and appropriate for displaying tops and bottoms.
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Chalkboard and Sidewalk Signage: It is always important to have signage to attract customers inside your store. Sidewalk and chalkboard signs offer an instant message to entice customers to come in and check things out! Our signage has a large display area to write in or spell out whatever you would like. There are many styles to choose from so consider one of these for your store.
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Craig Music Publishers
House of El Music
Novello & Co Ltd.
Harold DarkeX
Harold Darke
Classical Harold Darke Sheet Music: 12 items found
Organ: In The Bleak Midwinter (Christmas Carol) - Harold Darke
Organ - Intermediate - Digital Download
Composed by Harold Darke. Arranged by Aubrey Tucker. 20th Century, Christian, General Worship, Christmas, Recital. Score. 4 pages. Published by Aubrey Tucker (S0.663435).
In the Bleak Midwinter (Darke)
Woodwind Quintet - Intermediate - Digital Download
Composed by Harold Darke. Arranged by Mark A. Craig. 20th Century, European, Christmas, Recital. Score, Set of Parts. 9 pages. Published by Craig Music Publishers (S0.850375).
Retrospection-Six Pieces For Organ
Organ - intermediate-advanced
Composed by Sir William Henry Harris, Gordon Jacob (1895-1986), York Bowen (1884-1961), Ernest Tomlinson (1924-), and Harold Darke. Post-1900. Book Only. Novello & Co Ltd. #MUSNOV010182. Published by Novello & Co Ltd. (HL.14027157).
In the Bleak Mid-Winter - SATB with optional Orchestra
SATB, Piano - Digital Download
Composed by Harold Darke. Arranged by Paul Thompson. Christian, Sacred, Christmas. 8 pages. Published by House of El Music (S0.401655).
(Minimum order: 10)
Six Miniatures
Oboe and piano - easy to intermediate
Oboe with Piano Accompaniment. Composed by Harold Darke. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. Edition Schott. Classical. Performance score. 24 pages. Schott Music #ED 11127. Published by Schott Music (HL.49002669).
SATB Choir (SATB Choir)
Composed by Harold Darke. Music Sales America. A Cappella, Classical. Octavo. 4 pages. Novello & Co Ltd. #MUSNOV450994. Published by Novello & Co Ltd. (HL.14013729).
Usually leaves our warehouse: Within 4 to 6 weeks $2.50 $2.38
My First Christmas Album
By Academy of Ancient Music, Back, BBC Concert Orchestra, Bjorklund, Higginbottom, Hunt, Norrefalk, Nystrom, Oxford New College Choir, Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Stringer, Tewkesbury Abbey Choir. Sackett, Worcester Cathedral Choir, Wordsworth, and Johnston. By Bernard, Charpentier, Davies, Galian, Gauntlett, Gruber, Hopkins, Jacques, Kirkpatrick, Kotilainen, Marks, Pierpoint, Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713), Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), Witold Lutoslawski (1913-1994), John Rutter (1945-), Hoagy Carmichael, George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), Traditional, and Harold Darke. Classical. CD (1 disc). Published by Naxos (NX.8578340).
Christmas with Septura
By Septura. By George Grederic, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestraina, Mykola Leontovych, Robert Parsons (1530-1572), Michael Praetorius (1571-1621), Heinrich Schutz (1585-1672), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943), Peter Warlock (1894-1930), Peter Cornelius (1824-1874), and Harold Darke. Classical. CD (1 disc). Published by Naxos (NX.8573719).
A Christmas Celebration
By Halle Children's Choir, Halle Choir, Halle Orchestra, Halle Youth Choir, and Stephen Bell. By Adam Saunders, Richard Bissill, Roderick Elms, Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908), John Ireland (1879-1962), Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953), Leroy Anderson (1908-1975), John Rutter (1945-), John Williams, Elizabeth Poston (1905-1987), Traditional, Marta Keen, John Gardner, Christina Rossetti, Harold Darke, and Nigel Hess (1953-). Christmas. Listening CD. Published by Naxos (NX.HLL7545).
Carols from Chelsea
By James Orford, The Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, and William Vann. By Adam, Anderson, Byrd, French, Gardner, Gauntlett, Gruber, Pott, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), John Ireland (1879-1962), Herbert Howells (1892-1983), John Rutter (1945-), Irving Berlin, Traditional, and Harold Darke. Classical. CD (1 disc). Naxos #SOMMCD 0161. Published by Naxos (NX.SOMMCD-0161).
There Is A Lady Sweet And Kind
SATB Choir and Piano (SATB Choir)
Composed by Harold Darke. Music Sales America. Classical. Octavo. 8 pages. Novello & Co Ltd. #MUSNOV400888. Published by Novello & Co Ltd. (HL.14008338).
Memphis Boychoir & Chamber Choir: Our Dancing Day
By Kristin Lensch, Memphis Boychoir and Memphis Chamber Choir, Memphis Brass Ensemble, and The Ceruti Quartet. By Diane Belcher, Edgar Pettman, James Peebles, Paul Spicer, Richar, Thomas Pavlechko, Michael Praetorius (1571-1621), Samuel Scheidt (1587-1654), Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), John Rutter (1945-), Kenneth Leighton (1921-1988), Daniel Pinkham (1923-2006), William Mathias, Bob Chilcott, Gerald Near (1942-), John Gardner, and Harold Darke. Classical. Listening CD. Naxos #PO7169. Published by Naxos (NX.PO7169).


Northridge High School infielder William Hamiter fulfilled a lifelong dream Wednesday afternoon when he signed to play baseball at the University of Alabama.
The senior said he grew up an Crimson Tide fan, adding that his family has season tickets to UA baseball games.
He committed to UA before his sophomore year when the team was still under its previous coaching staff. Hamiter met current Alabama coach Brad Bohannon, who spent 14 years as an assistant coach in the SEC, before he took over at UA. The two have a good relationship.
Hamiter met his fellow incoming freshmen when they took their official visits together Saturday.
"It was good getting to know them," he said.
During his junior year at Northridge, Hamiter batted .422 with a .543 on-base percentage and was named second-team all-state as a Class 6A shortstop. He had 43 hits, seven doubles, four triples, nine home runs and 46 RBI. He also represented the North team in the 2018 Alabama North-South All-Star game.
Academically, Hamiter owns a 4.2 GPA and scored a 30 on his ACT. He was named to Northridge's All-Academic team.


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As a former student of Little Lever School, we would like to invite you to join the Little Lever School Alumni. The aim of our Alumni Community is to establish and maintain long-term relationships with our former students, to share and celebrate in their success whilst supporting and inspiring our current students with their life choices. Whether you lef...t last year or 20 years ago, we want to stay in touch with you!
• It provides you with the opportunity to give something back to your school community; perhaps you could help us raise funds for school projects, come back and give your time or knowledge to our current students, or just attend one of our many and varied events, shows and fundraisers throughout the school year.
• You will receive, and be invited to contribute to the school's termly newsletter • Through membership of the Little Lever Alumni Community, you will be reminded of old stories and memories from your peers, teachers and school days.
We hope that you will want to connect with your fellow alumni and Little Lever School. Joining the alumni is easy, simply go to http://vle.little-lever.bolton.sch.uk/alumni/, select 'join the alumni community' and follow the instructions.