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This driver provides interfaces to BBN's custom firmware running on the II
X6-1000M. This document attempts to answer basic questions about use of this
firmware for multiplexed qubit readout.

The BBN firmware analyzes multiple channels per physical channel, and there are
three points where the user may "tap off" each data stream. These tap points
correspond to the raw physical channel data (raw stream), the demodulated data
from the digital downconverter (demod stream), and the kernel integrated data
from the decision engine prior to thresholding (result stream). We introduce a
channel tuple `(a,b,c)` to identify each of these streams. In this tuple, the
first index represents the physical channel (`a = 1` for channel 1, `a = 2` for
channel 2). The second and third index together select a stream from the
physical channel. When `b = 0` and `c = 0`, you get the "raw data" (decimated by
4) from the physical channel. When `b = 1` and `c = 0` you get the demodulated
data (decimated by 32). When `b = 1` and `c = 1`, you get demodulated and
integrated data. However, this last stream has sufficiently large latency to not
be very useful in feedback scenarios. When `b = 0` and `c = [1..n]` for `n`
available integrated streams, you select kernel integrators that bypass the
demodulator. When `b = 0` and `c = [n+1..2n]`, you select a stream of
thresholded state outputs, where the output is always `1` or `0` and matches the
state as written to the digital outputs on the card. When `b = 0` and
`c = [2n+1..3n]`, you select the `(c mod n)`'th output of the correlator.
Some examples of streams  (assuming the card was programmed with 5 integrated
streams and 2 demodulated):

* (1,0,0) - raw data
* (1,1,0) - demodulated data from DSP channel 1
* (1,1,1) - result data from demodulator + kernel integrator on DSP channel 1
* (1,0,1) - result data without demodulator from DSP channel 1 kernel integrator
* (1,0,2) - result data without demodulator from DSP channel 2 kernel integrator
* (1,0,6) - thresholded state data stream 1
* (1,0,7) - thresholded state data stream 2
* (1,0,11) - correlated stream 1
* (1,0,12) - correlated stream 2

Physical channel 2 provides an equivalent set of streams with `a = 2`.

The thresholders are connected to fast digital I/O which are broken out to
cables and used for connecting to other hardware for applications such as
decision-based gates. The pinout in the current X6 firmware is as follows:

DSP0 (`a = 1`): Thresholders 1,2,3,4,5 connect to DIO_P 0,2,4,6,8 respectively.

DSP1 (`a = 2`): Thresholders 1,2,3,4,5 connect to DIO_P 10,12,14,16,18 respectively.

DIO_P19 provides a "valid" signal to indicate that the state signals on the DIO
lines are prepared and correct. This signal is an OR reduction of all individual valid
signals for each of the thresholders. However, since some thresholders will
predictably finish before others (depending on their source), it can be useful to
apply a bitmask so that some valid signals are not included in the overall valid
computation. Each DSP module has its own bitmask, represented as a single 32-bit number
(although only the 5 least significant bits are used due to there being 5 thresholders).
For each DSP, the valid signal of thresholder `n` is included in the overall OR reduction
if and only if bit `n` of that DSP's bitmask is set. For example, suppose you want to
only include the valid signals of thresholder 1 and thresholder 4 in DSP0 and those
of thresholder 2 and thresholder 5 in DSP1. You would, in this case, construct the
following bitmask values:

DSP0: (1 << (1-1)) | (1 << (4-1)) = 0x01 | 0x08 = 0x09 = 9

DSP1: (1 << (2-1)) | (1 << (5-1)) = 0x02 | 0x10 = 0x12 = 18

For any card, the bitmasks can be specified in the experiment's YAML file using the field
`state_vld_bitmask` or by calling the `libx6` function `set_state_vld_bitmask`.

The sources of the thresholders are also multiplexed between the integrator and the
correlator outputs. For any thresholder `n`, if the input selector is set to `0` the input
will be that of integrator `n` and if the selector is `1`, the input will be that of
correlator output `n`. This selector can be toggled using the `set_threshold_input_sel`
function or by specifying the field `threshold_correlated` in the YAML file. Note that
this field takes a Boolean value, with `false` corresponding to `0` and `true`
corresponding to `1`.

Each DSP module also contains a correlator so that fast matrix multiplication may be
performed quickly before thresholding. The inputs to correlator are set by calling
`set_correlator_input` or by specifying the inputs directly in the YAML file with the field
`correlator_inputs`. A value of `n` on the selector will assign the inputs according to the
following:

`1` to <num_integrators> : Integrator output `n`

<num_integrators+1> to <2*num_integrators> : External input `n`-<num_integrators>

In the current X6 firmware build, the external inputs of DSP0 are connected to the
integrators of DSP1 and vice versa so that correlation across multiple physical channels
may be implemented. The correlation matrix may be programmed by calling
`write_correlator_matrix` or by specifying the field `correlator_matrix` in the YAML file.
In either case, the matrix is specified as a 1D row-major list of matrix elements. Note
that the magnitude of the sum of correlator matrix elements in any row must not exceed 1.

Do these things to acquire data with the card:

* Set the capture settings just like you would with an Alazar digitizer
* Enable the streams that you want to capture with the host PC
* Set the NCO frequency (IF frequency) for each enabled demodulator stream
* Provide an integration kernel for each *result* stream
* Optionally set integration thresholds for hard-decisions on fast digital lines

## Gotchas, limitations, etc.

* Requires the X6 to be programmed with QDSP >20180828 (accessible in Z:\X6\bitfiles)

* For record lengths > 4000, you must disable the raw streams. These packets are
  too large for the VITA mover to handle, so after sending the first packet or
  two, no data will be sent to the computer unless you disable raw streams.

* The kernel integrators with and without the demodulator operate on data with
  different decimation factors (the demodulator decimates by 8). A `(1,0,1)`
  stream kernel has a max length of `record_length / 4`, while a `(1,1,1)`
  stream kernel has a max length of `record_length / 32`.

* The `(1,0,1)` and `(1,0,2)` kernel integrators act on a real data stream.
  Therefore, the output of these channels will be purely-real if the kernel is
  purely-real. The `(1,1,1)` kernel acts on a complex data stream from the
  demodulator; consequently, this stream typically contains both real and
  imaginary components regardless of the kernel.

* The socket API only works when the card is in `digitizer` mode. In `averager`
  mode, no data will be sent over the socket.

* Remember to set the state valid bitmask to use fast digital I/O!

* The magnitude of the sum of correlator matrix elements in any row must not
  exceed 1.

## MATLAB usage

You can either make individual calls to the appropriate methods, or get
everything "at once" by passing a settings struct to `setAll()`.

### Individual methods example

```matlab
x6 = X6();
x6.connect(0);
x6.reference = 'external';

% enable all streams
for phys = 1:2
  % the raw stream
  x6.enable_stream(phys, 0, 0);
  % demod stream
  x6.enable_stream(phys, 1, 0);
  % demod + integrator stream
  x6.enable_stream(phys, 1, 1);
  % integrators without demod streams
  x6.enable_stream(phys, 0, 1);
  x6.enable_stream(phys, 0, 2);
end

% set NCO frequencies
x6.set_nco_frequency(1, 1, 10e6); % for channels (1,1,0) and (1,1,1)
x6.set_nco_frequency(2, 1, 20e6); % for channels (2,1,0) and (2,1,1)

% write integration kernels
x6.write_kernel(1, 1, 1, ones(64,1));  % max length of 2048 / 32 = 64
x6.write_kernel(1, 0, 1, ones(512,1)); % max length of 2048 / 4 = 512
x6.write_kernel(1, 0, 2, ones(512,1));
x6.write_kernel(2, 1, 1, ones(64,1));
x6.write_kernel(2, 0, 1, ones(512,1));
x6.write_kernel(2, 0, 2, ones(512,1));

% write decision thresholds
x6.set_threshold(1, 1, 0.5); % for stream (1,0,1)
x6.set_threshold(1, 2, 0.5); % for stream (1,0,2)
x6.set_threshold(2, 1, 0.5);
x6.set_threshold(2, 2, 0.5);

% set capture settings (2048 record length x 10 segments x 1 waveform x 1000 round robins)
x6.set_averager_settings(2048, 10, 1, 1000);

% then later...
x6.acquire();
x6.wait_for_acquisition(10);
x6.stop();

% and download data with, e.g. for (1,1,0)
wf = x6.transfer_stream(struct('a', 1, 'b', 1, 'c', 0));
```

### SetAll example

The settings structure groups together the virtual channel information into
groups labeled by first two indices in the channel tuple (i.e. `a` and `b` in
`(a,b,c)`).

```matlab
settings = struct(
	'address', '0',
	'deviceName', 'X6',
	'reference', 'external',
	'averager', struct(
		'recordLength', 2048,
		'nbrSegments', 10,
		'nbrWaveforms', 1,
		'nbrRoundRobins', 1000)
	),
	'enableRawStreams', false,
	'channels', struct(
		's11', struct(
			'IFfreq', 10e6,
			'enableDemodStream', true,
			'enableDemodResultStream', false,
			'enableRawResultStream', true,
			'rawKernel', ones(100,1), % may alternatively supply a base64 encoded string of kernel
			'threshold', 0.5
		),
		's21', struct(
			'IFfreq', 10e6,
			'enableDemodStream', true,
      'enableDemodResultStream', false,
			'enableRawResultStream', true,
			'rawKernel', ones(100,1),
			'threshold', 0.5
		)
		% and so on for other channels...
	)
);
x6 = X6();
x6.connect(0);
x6.setAll(settings);

% then continue as above
x6.acquire();
% ...

```

## C API

Most methods take the device ID as the first argument.

`connect_x6(int ID)`

Connect to X6 with the given device ID. For a single X6 card, ID = 0.

`disconnect_x6(int ID)`

Disconnect from the X6 card.

`set_reference(int ID, int REFERENCE_SOURCE)`

Set the reference clock source to `EXTERNAL = 0` or `INTERNAL = 1`.

`enable_stream(int ID, int a, int b, int c)`

Enable stream (a,b,c).

`disable_stream(int ID, int a, int b, int c)`

Disable stream (a,b,c).

`set_averager_settings(int ID, int recordLength, int segments, int waveforms, int roundrobins)`

`set_nco_frequency(int ID, int a, int b, double frequency)`

Set the NCO/IF frequency for channels (a,b,0) and (a,b,1).

`write_kernel(int ID, int a, int b, int c, double *kernel, unsigned bufsize)`

Transfer integration kernel for channel (a,b,c) to the X6. `kernel` is expected
to have interleaved real and imaginary data in the range [-1, 1].

`set_threshold(int ID, int a, int c, double threshold)`

Sets the decision engine threshold for channel (a,0,c).

`acquire(int ID)`

`wait_for_acquisition(int ID, int timeout)`

Blocks execution in the caller until finished acquiring data, or `timeout`
seconds have elapsed.

`stop(int ID)`

`transfer_stream(int ID, struct ChannelTuple *channels, int numChannels, double *buffer, unsigned bufsize)`

The `ChannelTuple` struct is defined as follows:
```C
struct ChannelTuple {
  int a;
  int b;
  int c;
}
```

You pass an array of such structs as well a buffer, and the driver will fill
`buffer` with the data from the corresponding channel(s). When passed a single
`ChannelTuple` you get the data from that stream. When passed multiple
`ChannelTuple`s, you get the correlated values of those data streams. Currently,
correlations are only computed for result streams.

For raw streams, buffer is simply filled with the scaled physical data. For
demod or result streams, the data is interleaved real/imaginary every other
point.

`transfer_variance(int ID, ChannelTuple *channels, int numChannels, double *buffer, unsigned bufsize)`

Like `transfer_stream` but returns the variance of the corresponding
stream(s). For non-physical streams, the variance has three components: real,
imaginary, and the real-imaginary product. `buffer` is filled in triples, e.g.:
`[d1_r, d1_i, d1_p, d2_r, d2_i, d2_p, ...]`.

`register_socket(int ID, ChannelTuple *channel, int32_t socket)`

Registers file descriptor / handle `socket` to send data for the stream
indicated by `channel`.

## Transferring data

libx6 provides two different methods for transferring data off of the card. The
first is a polling mechanism via the `get_num_new_records()` API call which
returns a non-zero result when new data has arrived. The caller may subsequently
use `transfer_stream()` get fetch that new data. This approach is used in our
MATLAB wrapper to trigger a `DataReady` event when data arrives.

The second approach is to provide libx6 with one half of a locally connected
socket pair for each enabled stream. On posix systems, you can create such
sockets using the system `socketpair()` method from `sys/socket.h`. No such
native method exists on windows; however both cygwin and python gloss over this
difference, allowing users to ignore posix/windows differences. You pass one of
these sockets to libx6 with `register_socket()`. Then captured data is sent over
the socket via a simple `[msg_size data]` wire protocol, where `msg_size` is a
`uint64_t` indicating the data size in bytes.


Nirmal has BE from M.S. University, Baroda, ME in High Voltage from IISC and PhD from Texas A&M. He has held industry, research & academic posts in India, USA and NZ. Currently, he is an Associate Professor in Electrical & Computer Eng. at University of Auckland. He works on protection, renewable grid integration, electricity markets, blackouts, restoration & resilience and engages on industry projects through consultancy. He is passionate about life-long-learning, energy policy, innovation and media outreach.
He is actively involved with IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) and NZ Electricity Engineers Association (EEA). He is CIGRE NZNC Executive Committee member and its AORC representative since 2008, elected as Secretary (2014-17) and Observer Member for CIGRE B5 (Protection and Automation) since 2010 participating and leading working groups. He was the General Organizing Chair 2017 CIGRE AUCKLAND. In IEEE PES he has held various leadership positions and was nominated as Candidate IEEE Division VII (Power & Energy) Director Elect 2017 and Candidate IEEE PES Treasurer (2018-19) and will be serving in the IEEE Region 10 (Asia-Pacific) Executive Committee in 2019.
He was the General Organizing Chair for IEEE PES 2012 POWERCON and IEEE PES ISGT-ASIA 2017. He is currently the General Chair for AUPEC 2018.


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Why Entrepreneurs Will Turn To The Crowd For Funding
I believe that every entrepreneur should have access to capital and that every entrepreneur should be able to raise capital on their own terms regardless of geographic location, gender, race, industry, access to VCs, banks and accredited investors, and any of the other myriad factors that impact whether a company is able to raise money.
The only things that should impact an entrepreneur's ability to raise capital successfully is whether their business idea is a good one and whether they have the technical and business acumen, the endurance and the grit, to see it through.
Traditionally, this is not the way funding works. Entrepreneurs go to VCs or banks. Those parties make demands, look for certain benchmarks or growth factors, and inevitably are limited by their own biases. It is well-documented that the world of VCs has a lack of diversity and that these small networks are generated primarily from other small networks, most notably Stanford and Harvard.
In 2012, President Barack Obama signed the JOBS Act, which, when its two parts were enacted into law in June 2015 and May 2016, serves as the legal framework for equity crowdfunding. Equity crowdfunding was designed to open the doors of the funding process and give greater access to both entrepreneurs and investors. The goal was to create opportunity.
With equity crowdfunding, entrepreneurs can pitch their business and their grit to anyone: to friends, fans, users, and everyone in between. If the crowd agrees with the entrepreneur, then they can invest in them and their dream and come along for the ride. If the work prevails, if the luck holds out and the timing is right for the market, then both the entrepreneur and the investors have an opportunity to be rewarded for their time, money, and on the entrepreneur's end, the sweat.
It's a continuation and evolution of the American dream and of capitalism: let the markets decide what is worthy of investment in its purest form. Why restrict these opportunities to accredited investors, who were the only ones who could buy stock, or other securities, in a company before its IPO since the Securities Act of 1934? The "wisdom of the crowd" is a phrase for a reason, and the public should be able to invest in startups.
Of course, the Great Depression was caused by the general public speculating in private stocks, and that economic crash is what happens when fraudsters are able to scam the public. That is why the regulations set in place by the JOBS Act require companies to publicly file their offering. Companies cannot sell securities to the general public without offering certain disclosures about their business—information that is crucial to the investment decision-making process and provides barriers to would-be scammers.
For those interested in learning more about the specifics of equity crowdfunding and the JOBS Act, please check out this article on the different regulations at entrepreneurs' disposal. But ignoring the nuts and bolts of costs, filings, restrictions, and the differences between the two regulations, the short of the argument for equity crowdfunding is this:
Crowdfunding creates more opportunities for entrepreneurs.
It helps businesses raise capital and grow their business when they otherwise might not have access to that money. Maybe it's a restaurant in rural Ohio that wants to open a second venue and is raising capital to do so. A VC would be uninterested in that deal as it doesn't meet their required returns threshold in order to justify the capital commitments of its investors. Perhaps the local bank is not offering favorable terms for a loan. As an alternative, that restaurant could turn to the crowd, perhaps targeting the very people who eat there, to raise the money needed to open the second location.
Crowdfunding creates more opportunities for everyday investors.
Traditionally, seed funding rounds were limited to the wealthy. The lower and middle class could not have invested in Facebook when it was a scrappy startup or Amazon when it was gearing up to first sell books. Those massive returns as these small 5-person teams without a dollar in revenue went on to become multi-billion dollar companies only went to the wealthy who had the opportunity to invest early. With equity crowdfunding, investors could help fund that second restaurant in Ohio and see modest returns on their loan. They could also invest in the next software company that dreams of being the next big thing. If the investor makes the right investment decision, there is the possibility that committing to an entrepreneur's vision could deliver their investment and more many times over.
Crowdfunding creates more liquidity.
More investors are participating in funding rounds, and per equity crowdfunding regulations, those shares and debt agreements can actually be traded on public secondary markets (pending at most a one-year lock up period). The larger the investment community participating in these seed rounds, the greater the secondary market for those rounds. Investors no longer have their money locked up in a startup for 5-10 years as they wait for that startup to either be acquired in an M&A or to go public via an IPO. They can trade their investment for profit or loss much sooner than was possible before.
With that liquidity, there is what is known as a "liquidity premium."
Investors are willing to pay more for liquid asset because they are safer investments (investors can get out quicker). There's also a psychological element to it. People are averse to risk, and long-term holding is risky. Traditionally, with these types of assets, there is an illiquidity discount in today's market, in which you may invest $40,000 in a startup, but you may have to give anywhere between a 20-30% discount off your investment to get another accredited investor interested enough to buy your shares.
Kickstarter has proven that the crowd can be a powerful fundraising tool.SHUTTERSTOCK
These benefits of equity crowdfunding are becoming more apparent. Last March, Regulation Crowdfunding, one of 2 regulations for this type of crowdfunding, crossed the $100M mark in capital raised, and now is well on its way to $200M with $135M raised in the 5 months since. Keep in mind that it took nearly 2 years to raise the first $100M since Regulation Crowdfunding's inception in May 2016.
That's not small change, but for perspective, venture capital poured $84B into US companies in 2017. It's a different scale, and also a different model, as the equity crowdfunding we are discussing is targeted towards seed funding rounds as opposed to the Series C, D, and on, rounds of funding that command increasingly eye-popping figures that make up the majority of the VC funding above.
It's also worth noting that the $135M of Regulation Crowdfunding ignores all of the capital raised via Regulation A+ (which there is no reported total on, but Forbes reported last year that just 32 companies raised $396M via Regulation A+). Still small in comparison, but representative of a growing model that is only a few years old.
Time will tell how much of the market adopts equity crowdfunding, but I would put money on it being a much larger market share than what it currently is. There is too much opportunity and potential with this model. Why would businesses accept the terms of a VC when they can set their own terms, their own valuation, and raise just as much money? Why would everyday investors not participate in this marketplace when there is liquidity and a chance to make handsome returns?
As liquidity grows through user adoption and the launch of new broker-dealers to facilitate the secondary market for the trading of these privately-held securities, the entrepreneurs and the public are poised to take control of the fundraising process. Decisions are no longer made by the wealthy and powerful, but by the crowd. Talk about democratic.
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Bill would tighten VA's IT spending controls
By Judi Hasson
A bill introduced in the House Oct. 17 would tighten spending controls for information technology at the Department of Veterans Affairs and give the chief information officer control over the department's entire technology budget.
Sponsored by Rep. Steve Buyer (R-Ind.), chairman of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee, the legislation is intended to rectify what some lawmakers view as out-of-control IT spending by one of the largest agencies in the federal government.
In the past decade, the VA has spent more than $10 billion upgrading its IT systems to deliver better services to veterans. At the same time, the agency has experienced expensive IT failures. Several recent Government Accountability Office reports state that the VA lacks adequate program management for almost all of its major IT programs.
The new legislation would give the VA's CIO authority over resources, budget and personnel related to the department's IT operations. It would tighten oversight of IT projects throughout the department, which has more than 200,000 employees, and require a strategic plan for all IT spending.
The legislation would give the department's CIO the power to select CIOs for the Veterans Health Administration, the Veterans Benefits Administration and the National Cemetery Administration. Each position would be designated as a deputy CIO reporting directly to the department CIO.
At a hearing last month, Buyer said he was concerned about the "cost of letting the bureaucracy maintain the status quo." He said the organization now in place at the VA "lacks the authority to provide a better service to the veteran."


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Gizchina reports that the headphones are created from high quality materials and they are harvested by hand.
What is the feature. These headphones are made of zirconium alloy and corrosion resistant. Each earpiece three emitter: the first – with a diameter of 0.47 inches, the second diameter of 0.2 inches, and the third with balanced armature.
Headphones reproduce the sound with frequency up to 100 kHz. For example, most headphones with a frequency of 20 KHz. This allows you to transmit sound with the most detail and more deep and clear bass.
Along with the device, the user receives a case, 13 pairs of ear cushions and cleaning cloth.
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We have chosen two from among the several clones of Pinot Noir planted here: the celebrated Pisoni clone and Dijon clone 828. At Bernardus, we use only hand-picked and hand-sorted grapes for our wines.
Our 2016 Sierra Mar Pinot is showing its usual elegant style. In the aromas we find scents of spicy red fruits with a hint of toasty oak. On the palate we find soft, lush flavors of ripe red cherry and cranberry along with subtle hints of oak spice. This Pinot is perfect to enjoy now or can be aged for several years to come.
Fermentation: All our Pinots are hand-picked, hand-sorted and destemmed. We then gently pump the grapes into small fermenters retaining a maximum of whole berries. Each vat is inoculated with specially selected yeasts and hand punched or pumped over twice daily throughout fermentation. Once primary fermentation is complete, we gently press the solids and add this to the free run wine. It is then barrel aged for 10 months before the final blend is made for bottling.
Appellation: Sierra Mar Vineyard, Santa Lucia Highlands. 100% Pinot Noir.
Cooperage: 100% French: Sirugue and Billon, about 40% new.


Roadstar.ai, a China and USA-based startup developing SAE Level 4 autonomous technologies, has selected AWare, Renovo's production-grade operating system (OS) for automated mobility, as its development and commercialization platform.
Roadstar gains access to the ecosystem of AWare-compatible vehicles, sensors and other third-party technologies and services that interact with its Automated Driving Systems (ADS). By providing automotive safety infrastructure and a full microservice abstraction of the vehicle, compute and sensors, AWare enables Roadstar to focus on its core HeteroSync and DeepFusion ADS technologies, while safely, reliably and cost-effectively interfacing with third-party technologies and services across a wide range of vehicles.
Roadstar's first AWare-powered vehicle model is the Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivan. The company plans to produce 1,500 autonomous cars in 2020, covering the central business districts of first-tier cities in China.
The Renovo AWare OS provides a vehicle-independent abstraction API and range of microservices that offers developers a range of technologies necessary for commercial automated mobility services, and to write applications that can be deployed at scale. AWare has the necessary performance to run today's most demanding ADS, as well as the safety and security features required for automotive validation.
AWare is a trusted layer in functionally safe architectures and features multiple computational domains including low-level safety controllers. Renovo is accelerating the commercial realization of automated mobility on demand (AMoD) and automated Mobility as a Service (AMaaS) at scale by enabling AWare compatible technologies and services across the widest range of vehicles, fleets and the cloud.
Despite a highly competitive and fast-moving market, Roadstar.ai has already achieved several leading benchmarks in the industry, winning several awards for its technology. In May, the company announced it had raised US$128m in series A financing to support and accelerate the development and deployment of its automated driving technology.
Roadstar has been testing its automated vehicle technology on public roads under its California DMV Autonomous Vehicle Testing permit in the USA and on public roads in Shenzhen, China.


Ford has clearly called Jim Hackett as its new aggregation admiral and CEO, afterwards Mark Fields, who is clearly retiring. The 62-year old's antecedent clue almanac accommodate stints as CEO of Steelcase, acting able-bodied administrator at the University of Michigan and controlling administrator of Ford Smart Advancement LLC back March 2016.
"Jim Hackett is the appropriate CEO to advance Ford during this transformative aeon for the auto industry and the broader advancement space. He's a accurate abstracted who brings a unique, human-centered administration access to our culture, articles and casework that will alleviate the abeyant of our bodies and our business," said Ford.
Hackett's predecessor, 56-year old Fields, departs the aggregation afterwards a 28-year career with the Blue Oval. His retirement quells antecedent letters that he was absolved due to Ford's tanking shares, which saw a amount bead of 40% during his tenure. "Mark Fields has been an outstanding baton and deserves a lot of acclaim for all he has able in his abounding roles about the apple at Ford," said Ford.


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Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase is an important enzyme in gluconeogenesis. It is found in both the cytosol and mitochondria of the liver cells. The enzyme is regulated by insulin, glucocorticoids, cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) and diet to maintain glucose homeostasis.
PCK1, PEPCK1 - soluble in the cytosol.
PCK2, PEPCK2 - soluble in the mitochondria.
Both conditions are extremely rare.
They have been reported in siblings.
Both are autosomal recessive inheritance.
The enzyme mutation in PCK1 is at gene map locus 20q13.31, and in PCK2 at 14q11.2-q12.
Hypoglycaemia - difficulty keeping blood sugars high.
Metabolic acidosis from accumulation of lactic acid.
Deficiency of the enzyme can cause persistent neonatal hypoglycaemia but failure of downregulation has also been linked with type 2 diabetes mellitus and, especially, maturity-onset diabetes in the young (MODY).
LFTs are abnormal and liver biopsy shows giant cell hepatitis.
Culture of skin fibroblasts shows reduced activity of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase.
Autopsy shows considerable fatty infiltration of both the liver and the kidneys. Fatty infiltration of other tissues also occurs but is less marked.
Genetic counselling may be given as for any other autosomal recessive disorder. There is no literature about antenatal detection.
Cao H, van der Veer E, Ban MR, et al; Promoter polymorphism in PCK1 (phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase gene) associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2004 Feb89(2):898-903.


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Lahore is the cultural hub of not only Pakistan, but also the entire South Asia. The city is home to heritage sites, eminent educational institutions, parks, and shopping malls. However, the city has not been able to offer proper housing to its more than 10 million population, calling for the need of high-end apartment projects.
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Liberals and their problem with free speech
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It's an amazing phenomenon to see how liberals act when they're backed into a corner, which is usually one of two ways; they either ridicule you or demand you be silenced. I suppose that whole first amendment "thing" must really get under their skin, huh?
Interestingly enough, there is an ongoing campaign by a liberal activist to stop advertisers from running commercials during Glenn Beck's show on Fox News.
How someone has so much free time to pursue such a pointless endeavor aside, this type of behavior is commonplace among Democrats. If you don't toe the line for the liberal agenda, you must be unworthy of exercising your first amendment rights.
It's astonishing to me that the left will demonize Fox News, but think the vitriol spewed by Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, Chris Matthews, Ed Schultz and every other anchor on MSNBC is actually considered "news."
In a recent journalistic scandal, a number of leftist journalists, including reporters from Time, The New Republic and The Guardian, expressed their desire to see Fox taken off the air because of their center right reporting, which illustrates my point.
I admit Fox takes a more conservative slant, but so what?
The left has MSNBC, NBC, CNN, CBS, ABC and PBS. Aren't conservatives entitled to at least one television network?
If you don't like Fox then don't watch it, but don't tell me I don't have the right simply because they aren't a carbon copy of the dribble coming out of your preferred networks.
It's the same reason why the left wants to reinstitute the Fairness Doctrine.
It kills them that the free market decided that conservatives are the kings of talk radio while the progressive Air America flopped after six tumultuous years.
It's also why the left-leaning NPR fired Juan Williams for speaking his mind on Fox News.
Nothing was more disgusting than the way the Democrats tried to label the tea party as racists.
It's the most often used play in the Democratic playbook to demonize your opposition.
If someone disagrees with you then label them as a racist, forcing them out of the debate entirely.
I recently heard on "The Ed Schultz Show" on MSNBC that a Huffington Post spokesperson said that in Nevada, Sharron Angle ran a "racist" campaign.
Pretty ironic considering that only a few months ago her opponent Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) remarked, "I don't know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican."
Coincidentally, Reid's son Rory lost to Hispanic Republican Brian Sandoval in his attempt to become Nevada's next governor.
Instead of admitting that Angle's message of limited government, lower taxes and increased economic opportunity was a legitimate platform, Reid ridiculed her and made her out to be an extremist while insulting Latinos who care about those issues.
This mantra of "shut up and vote Democrat" has no place in American society.
The point is that liberals only harp about Constitutional freedoms like freedom of speech when it suits them.
In times such as these they really can't have it both ways.
The exposing of the irrationality of liberalism has reached a crescendo in U.S. politics with the drubbing they took at the ballot box on Election Day.
These types of "thoughtcrime" silencing tactics were rejected by Americans in most of these races, and will continue to be less acceptable in the future.
The left wants to steer this country into the ditch.
If we're faltering because of their irresponsible policies then let's make sure they hear us all the way down.
It drives me up the wall to even read this. Like Jon Stewart said–we work together "every damn day;" it's only in the media that we don't. And it's because of embarrassingly extreme opinions such as this that people don't want to have anything to do with each other. "In times like these they can't really have it both ways." No–in times like these, we HAVE to have it both ways.
Just reading this column drives me up the wall. It isn't a matter of "left" or "right." Like Jon Stewart said–we work together "every damn day." And it's because of bizarrely and embarrassingly extreme opinions such as this that no one wants to have anything to do with each other. "They can't really have it both ways." No–in today's society, we HAVE to have it both ways. And on Glenn Beck and Rachel Maddow…just as a pointer, Rachel went to Stanford and Oxford; Glenn didn't go to college….so who would you rather have as a political mentor?
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And speaking of biopics, as Deadline notes, Bohemian Rhapsody is now the biggest musical biopic in history. Its $175 million domestic total tops the previous number one (via Box Office Mojo), Straight Outta Compton and its $161 million in box office receipts.
Part of the secret apparently? Singalong versions!
Singalong versions have helped fuel some of the offshore fervor, particularly in Asia and Latin America. There has also been great success with premium formats like IMAX, Dolby and Screen X.
A singalong cut makes a lot of sense — particularly since the film basically recreates Queen's Live Aid set song for song, moment for moment. You can sing along with the whole darn thing!
I didn't think Bohemian Rhapsody was a particularly good or interesting movie. But Rami Malek made a very convincing Freddie Mercury, and Queen's music remains wonderful — and Queen's fans remain very loyal. That, I think, was all it took to turn the film into an all-time hit.


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Water is the single most essential component of all things in our lives. Nowadays one needs to pay for water in the cities. We need to be careful while using water, so that others are not deprived of this very essential commodity. I see people wasting wate, simply r because they think it is easily available, even when they have to pay for it. Just now the water rates are not too high, but if we carry on abusing and wasting it, we may have to pay a heavy price to get clean water for our daily needs.
Water is a Nature's gift to all living beings.
I am generally very careful with water and try not to waste. I water the plants with the water that is used for washing rice and vegetables. I never flush the toilet unnecessarily and never keep the tap running while washing my face or brushing my teeth.
Because of the intense heat, most tropical countries face water problems, especially during summer months. But I see that most people in my country neither value the importance of water nor do they learn from experience. They waste water when it is plentiful and struggle to find enough water when the levels deplete. It happens at all levels of society. The rich seem to have a disdain for conserving water since they can "afford to pay" for water. The middle class want to show that they are not far behind, and the poor are completely ignorant. They face the maximum amount of difficulties, and yet they do not care. The best example is my maid, who keeps the tap on while washing utensils even when it is not needed. I keep telling her to turn the tap off when it is not needed, but she fails to understand. In her own home she has to struggle for a pot of water and depends solely on the public tap which serves the entire community. Daily water wars are very common in these localities, and yet they don't seem to realise the importance of water in their lives.
In dry places like Gujarat, Rajasthan and parts of other northern states in India people, especially women, walk for miles together going in search of water sources. During harsh, dry summer months, their entire day is taken up by this task.This sufficiently proves that the government and the local authorities have not been able to find a solution for such a major problem, or that they simply have not had the political will to do so..
An incident comes to my mind - our neighbors have a huge house with a lawn and garden . During summer months their sprinklers are continuously watering the lawns to keep them green and lush-thats o;k, as they buy water from the tankers when the corporation water fails. Closeby there is a small colony where the poorer section live and sometimes when their public taps go dry, the poor things come to the neighbors, asking for a pot of water. I watched as they were turned away without being given any water. The extra water from the compound runs down a little pipe outside the compound and into a gutter, and these people were desperately trying to catch the flowing water from the pipes in their pots and little mugs, , , what a sad situation! That's how callous most people are.Thankfully, the watchman from our apartment block called them and gave them a few pots of water.
I personally feel that we need to teach the youngsters about respecting natural resources like water, trees, etc. I feel that not enough is being done to conserve nature; one fine day we will come to regret this. I see most people wasting water unnecessarily and then when there is a shortage they curse the government and the authorities-but they fail to do their part in trying to utilise water in the right manner, and help in conserving it. Nowadays even the smaller villages are facing water problems because the water tables are connected, and as the need increases the supply decreases-and there is bound to be problem In India. There are talks about linking rivers so that the water gets equally distributed..
Rainwater harvesting-which is nothing but conserving rain water which otherwise would flow away into the sea-for future use is gaining a lot of importance and in some cities the authorities are insisting that each house has its own rainwater conservation system put in place. We have to learn to respect Nature and her bounties.


Samsung this morning sealed a deal to buy future mobile connectivity and location technologies from British chip designer and manufacturer CSR, in a transaction worth £198 million in cash.
The agreement stands to beef up the Korean tech giant's patent portfolio and also includes a further investment of £21.9 million to acquire a 4.9 per cent stake in the UK-based company, according to a statement issued by CSR earlier today.
Specifically, the deal transfers 21 US patents and their international equivalents to Samsung. CSR said that it now intends to focus on development in growth markets, outlining voice and music, automotive infotainment, indoors location, imaging, and Bluetooth Smart as key areas.
Joep van Beurden, CEO of CSR, ventured that the deal strengthened both companies' position in key segments and would "unlock material value" from his shareholders – in other words, that they could look forward to a sweet payout, with over £180 million of the deal expected to be returned to the company's coffers.
"This transaction will accelerate our transformation into a higher gross margin platform company operating in attractive growth markets where we have a leading market position. I believe that under Samsung's ownership the handset operations will be in better position to prosper in the global handset market," he said.
CSR's most recent successes lie in the audio tech sector, where its technology is employed by luxury headphones like those manufactured by Sennheiser and the Beats by Dr Dre range.
While the deal seems obviously beneficial from a future standpoint, it is likely to be the patent acquisitions that are of most immediate interest to Samsung, who is currently locked in a bitter global legal war with rival firm Apple related to patents for key devices like the Nexus 7 and the Galaxy Tab 10.1.


Broadway stars, writers, musicians and producers donned hard hats and dedicated a day to making a difference by building affordable homes for deserving families with Habitat For Humanity – New York City as part of Broadway Builds on Monday, September 24, 2012.
Broadway volunteers spent a day helping revitalize eight homes in a multi-family building in Bedford- Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Together, they painted and landscaped the Jefferson Avenue Residences and helped promote Habitat for Humanity – New York City's work creating affordable homeownership opportunities for low-income families. The event's co-chairs included Jordan Roth, Daryl Roth, Michael Cerveris, Stephen Belber, Emily Bergl and Broadway Serves.
Among those who took part were Laura Linney, Patrick Stewart, Jordan Roth, Daryl Roth, Michael Cerveris, Stephen Belber, Emily Bergl, Carrie Preston, Billy Crudup, Tom McCarthy, Stew, Dominic Fumusa, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Harriet Harris, Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Arian Moayed, and Jennifer Mudge.
Habitat for Humanity – New York City is the largest builder of Habitat homes in the Northeast, and thousands of volunteers build with Habitat-NYC each year. Each homebuyer contributes at least 200 volunteer hours as part of their partnership.
To volunteer, donate or learn more, visit Habitatnyc.org or call (212) 991-4000.


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Today, it's impossible to browse a news site or attend an industry event without seeing or hearing the phrase "big data" tossed around as the next big thing for business – much like Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) was only a few years ago. Companies across the globe are acknowledging the fact that there is a surplus of data being collected with the potential to provide invaluable business insight. The volume of data is so large it's measured in zettabytes, and 96 percent of that data isn't easy to get to because it is behind a firewall, locked inside digital corporate vaults.
Few companies have actually been able to extract meaningful intelligence from all of their data and realize its full potential. In one recent report, IDC estimated that only 0.5 percent of all data is being analyzed. Many are trying to jump in on the action without a true strategy or understanding of what big data is.
The fact of the matter is big data is not new. Enterprise organizations have been working with extremely large data sets for decades, combing through the mountains of information contained within their repositories to gain insight into customers, their buying habits and demographics. When people talk about "big data," what they should really be talking about is analytics.
While most marketing efforts are retrospective, the promise of big data lies within the ability to make predictions based on it. That's what gets people excited. Once big data is analyzed, trends can be revealed, correlations can be determined and business can run more efficiently.
What's really new is the technology available that allows us to make sense of the data. Companies must be able to prioritize, organize and analyze it – both structured data (which businesses have traditionally analyzed) and unstructured data. And since 80 percent of data is unstructured, CIOs are putting greater emphasis on unlocking its secrets. What's more, technology is helping to put structured data into context by mapping it to the vast amount of unstructured data.
Imagine having a grasp on every piece of relevant conversation and contextual data point that surrounds an asset or a resource at your company. Unstructured data represents that conversation and context. It encompasses everything from social media interactions, to recorded meetings, to handling of PDF documents, to emails, fax transfers and more. As you can imagine, society has become experts at generating it – so good that estimates indicate the rate at which data is generated and captured is doubling every 90 days. The proliferation of smartphones and tablets that became very useful mobile recorders for images, audio and video has exponentially accelerated the structured data creation.
To truly ensure business continuity, a company needs to be able to easily associate all of its related data – again, both structured and unstructured – to each other. For example, your social enterprise, it's branding, the management of assets that represent it, the customer's digital experience in experiencing the branding and the interaction with the customers – all of it is based on unstructured information and it all has huge value. Couples that relevant information with structured information such as entries in your Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, and you can better achieve clarity around the transactions your company conducts.
So why not just do it already? Unstructured data is facing the same challenges that structured information faced in its early days. CIOs must overcome fragmentation of information and processes; the infamous three V's of information – volume, variety and velocity; security; and governance issues. These top four challenges, if left unsolved, can result in organizations that are slow to create change, projects that are harder to automate, increased tunnel vision among internal organizations, business risk and higher costs of IT operations.
And, when it comes down to it, not all data is vital to a business. This is particularly true as automated tools create new content without any human intervention. This type of data can easily dilute other useful information, so it is important for companies to implement centralized enterprise information management technologies that can prioritize data to be organized and analyzed. In the words of Nate Silver, we need to separate the signal from the noise and that's not easy to do with unstructured data but we have arrived at the point where we have practical solutions to address all aspects of enterprise information management.
The value of big data comes from the knowledge gained from it and what you do with it. Organizations are in need of solutions that combine both technology and business processes so they can take full advantage of their information. It can't just be about content management, or the customer experience or information exchange. To get above the hype, CIOs must take a holistic approach to setting their big data strategy, aiming to manage and leverage all relevant information across the enterprise.


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Çörek ist ein rundes türkisches Gebäck, das mit oder auch ohne Zucker zubereitet werden kann. Es gibt verschiedene Sorten von Çörek, das meistens mit Tee zum Frühstück gegessen wird.

Geschichte
Çörek wurde schon in der Prophetenzeit, im Schiff von Noah durch die Ehefrau gebacken. Es wurde damals für die Verlobung der Paare hergestellt und von den Familienmitgliedern in zwei Hälften geteilt. Dies sollte als ein Zeichen für die Zustimmung gelten, und es wird heute noch bei einigen Verlobungen durchgeführt. Çörek ist alttürkisch und bedeutet "rundes Brot". Im Osmanischen Reich wurde ebenfalls Çörek oft gebacken und verzehrt. Dort wurden unterschiedliche Namen für Çörek verwendet: Tsoureki ( Griechisch τσουρέκι), choreg (Armenisch չորեկ), çörək (Aserbaidschanisch)

Zubereitung
In einer Schüssel werden Milch, Hefe und Zucker gut verrührt, Joghurt, Olivenöl, Eier hinzugegeben und auch verrührt. Mehl und Salz werden gemischt und zur vorbereitete Mischung hinzugegeben. Anschließend werden die Zutaten zu einem geschmeidigen Teig verknetet und zu einem runden Laib geformt, dieser mit Eigelb bestrichen und mit Schwarzkümmel bestreut. Nach dem Gehen wird der Teig im Ofen gebacken.

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Though his stonewalling has always put the lie to his claim, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has maintained since 2009 that he supports the establishment of a Palestinian state. In a new interview published online Monday, however, the premier admits that such a state isn't in the cards if he manages to prevail in tomorrow's national elections.
Mr. Netanyahu made the assertion on the eve of an election in which he is trailing in the polls. He has been campaigning aggressively, appealing to conservatives for support.
Netanyahu's latest remarks echo his reported comments to voters earlier this month, when the prime minister's right-wing Likud Party issued a statement that quoted Netanyahu as saying, "[I]n the present situation in the Middle East, any vacated territory will be immediately overtaken by radical Islam and terrorist organizations sponsored by Iran.""For this reason, there will be no withdrawals and no concessions," Netanyahu was said to have added, calling his 2009 endorsement of a Palestinian state "irrelevant."
The prime minister's office denied the remarks, avowing that Netanyahu "never said such a thing."


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Q: prestashop 1.6.1.17 making http to https, cannot open front office and back office I am new to prestashop. I currentlly got the ssl certificate and change the http to https, When I change this on backend office

At this point I can log in to back office. and the url is green.

Then the front page is not working
It says redirect many times.

Then I changed the .htaccess file added this
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://buyfood.co.nz/$1 [R,L]

Then I cannot even log in to backend office.
Please help me, Thank you!!!

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I had this feeling that I needed to create something really Christmassy. And from that feeling, this gingerbread granola happened.
As I've done in the previous couple years, I decided to give granola as a gift this year too. But instead of doing one of my go-to recipes, I wanted to try something new. And I'm glad I did, because this one turned out great. It's really good. Actually so good, that I'm not even going to mention how many times I've gone and taken just a bit of it while writing this. As it would be kind of embarrasing to tell you how many breaks I needed to write this sentence. And just to add another word of warning, there will be this really lovely scent in your home after making this. So be careful.
Even though I just made this lovely granola and it smells like Christmas in our apartment, I haven't really got that into that Christmas feeling. I totally forgot to listen to Christmas songs so I tried to cover it this week by listening to them non stop. That wasn't such a good idea. We don't have a single christmas decoration in our apartment as we're moving in between christmas and New Year's and it felt a bit foolish to buy something to this place. So I've just been missing glögg (traditional Finnish Christmas drink, it's like mulled wine), gingerbread cookies and my mom's Christmas decorations. Or maybe I'm just remembering all those white Christmases that lasted for ages when I was a kid, and everything feels a bit dull compared to those memories.
Even thought that Christmas feeling is still hiding somewhere, I'm really looking forward to Christmas. Cooking and baking, talking and spending the whole day in my pyjamas, reading and of course eating good food. Luckily these thing can be made no matter where you're spending your Christmas or what's the weather like.
Christmas traditions, those familiar things and all the same old decorations are nice. But then again, sometimes it's really relieving to forget all those traditions and try something new. Spend the holidays abroad, invite new people to spend Christmas with you or try a totally new menu. So instead of all that pressure that's lurking around we could just focus on the things that we truly enjoy. Like in this gingerbread granola, which is a perfect substitute for making gingerbread cookies. And you'll also get a couple nice gifts from it too at the same time. And maybe while we're doing those things that we really like and enjoy, the feeling of Christmas will come to us just naturally, without all the fuss.
I didn't have the energy to make gingerbread cookies this year, but after seeing so many pictures in Pinterest, I knew that I had to go out and buy those damn gingerbread spices. But instead of doing the traditional cookies, I wanted to make a granola. And now while I'm munching on the granola, I'm wondering how I haven't made it earlier?! I can honestly say that this is one of my favorite recipes already, so if you're in that kind of a gingerbread craving state as I was, this will save you.
1. Preheat the oven to 150°C / 300°F. Crush the nuts a bit into smaller pieces. In a large bowl, combine all the dry ingredients and spices. Mix well.
2. Warm the coconut oil and honey on the stovetop until runny. Add it to the dry ingredients and mix carefully. Transfer granola to prepared baking sheet and spread into an even layer. Bake for about 35 to 45 minutes, rotating halfeay through. Let cool completely before serving and storing in an airtight glass jar.
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Ohhhh story of my life, hah! I have a habit of crunching on tiny little pieces of food (the crispier the better), so I know this would be a dangerous recipe in my kitchen :D Such a wonderful addition of cardamom, and coconut oil is one of my favorite fats for cooking!
Oh yes, the crunchier the better:) And more dangerous! This is a delicious recipe even if I say so, but be careful 'cause it's so addictive! I'm glad you liked it and thanks for commenting!