A device tree for Linux running on Zynq typically has the following form.
This is the device tree used with Xillinux, with two parts cut out: The one describing the CPUs (because it isn't interesting) and the one defining the peripherals (because it's long, and we'll get down to its details later on).
The source of the device tree used by default is available as e.g. /boot/devicetree-3.3.0-xillinux-1.0.dts in Xillinux' file system.
After the version declaration, the device tree starts with a slash, saying "this is the tree's root", and then there are assignments within curly brackets. From the DTS compiler's point of view, these curly brackets enclose deeper hierarchies in the tree (think directories in a file system). It will be the kernel code's job to walk down this tree, and grab the desired information from certain paths (like reading from a file after reaching the desired path in a file system, if you like).
It's important to remember that the tree's structure is built just the way the kernel expects to find it. The assignments have no specific meaning to the compiler. In fact, many assignments are ignored by the kernel, just like a file in a file system is ignored if no program cares to open it.
The comparison with a file system isn't only natural, it's also implemented in the kernel's /proc/device-tree: Each curly bracket is represented as a directory having the name of the string coming just before it.
Note the axi@0 element's definition in the device tree listing above. It says "ps7_axi_interconnect_0: axi@0″. The string before the colon is the label, which is possibly referred to within the DTS file, but doesn't appear in the DTB. As just said, It's the string close to the curly brackets that defines the name of the hierarchy (and hence also the directory).
As this example demonstrates, the assignments turn into plain files in the /proc filesystem. If there is no assignment (e.g. "ranges" under "axi@0″), an empty file is created.
What the examples above show, is that the device tree can be used conveniently to convey information to user space programs as well as code within the Linux kernel, as the /proc/device-tree pseudo-filesystem makes this information accessible. Needless to say, there is a dedicated API in the kernel for accessing the device tree's structure and data.
And you may have noted that the integer is represented in Big Endian. The Zynq's processor runs Little Endian. Just a small thing to keep in mind.
Which one is used depends on kernel configuration parameters. In Xillinux, the device tree's chosen/bootargs is used.
The chosen UART for kernel boot messages is hardcoded in the initialization routine. As a matter of fact, boot messages will appear on the UART even if the ps7_uart_1: serial@e0001000 entry in the device tree is deleted altogether (but the UART won't be available as /dev/ttyPS0).
The somewhat misleading "aliases" and "linux,stdout-path" assignments are leftovers from other architectures, and have no significance at this time.
Continue to part III, which begins showing the relation between the device tree and the Linux device driver.


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Nigerians In Sports: Alex Iwobi Scores First EPL Goal In 15 Months
Mikel Eager To Bring Winning Mentality To Stoke
Iheanacho Nominated For Goal Of The Season Award
Osimhen Wins Best African Player In France Award
Nigerians in the English Premier League
Arinze Ude
Published on 23rd September 2013
Chelsea 2-0 Fulham
John Mikel Obi grabbed the headlines on Saturday when he scored his first goal in 158 games to seal a derby win for the Blues at Stamford Bridge.
The midfielder had never scored in the Premier League prior to last Saturday's game and he reacted to a corner to become an unlikely hero for the Blues.
West Brom 3-0 Sunderland
Victor Anichebe replaced Nicolas Anelka in the 69th minute as his team ran riot against Paolo Di Canio's men.
Paolo Di Canio became the first managerial casualty of the season on Sunday. Sunderland has picked just a point from 5games.
Newcastile United 2-3 Hull City
Sone Aluko won the game for Hull City with a stunning volley in the 76th minute. The Nigerian will be hoping to impress the Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi ahead of next year's World Cup. Sammy Ameobi was on the bench for the Magpies but his older brother, Shola was not on the team.
Southhampton 1-0 Liverpool
Victor Moses played full minutes as Liverpool slopped to its first defeat of the season. Dejan Lovren scored the only goal of the game for the Saints.
Youngster, Jordan Ibe was on the bench for Liverpool.
Cardiff 0-1 Tottenham
Odemwingie finally made the bow for Cardiff against Spurs, coming off the bench in the 65th minute to replace fellow striker, Frazier Campbell but he couldn't stop his side from going down. Paulinho scored the only goal of the game in injury time to send Tottenham joint top of the league.
Related Topics:english premiership league, EPL, John Mikel Obi, Nigerian Footballers, Osaze Odemwingie, Sone Aluko, Victor Anichebe, Victor Moses
Arinze Ude is a PhD Student at the University of the West of England Bristol, UK, where he's exploring on the mechanisms of donor cell leukaemia. He shares his deep thoughts on his blog and the Naked Convos. He is keen to promote personal development of the Nigerian youth via thought-provoking articles.

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Q: argument of type string | null is not assignable to parameter of type string error When I try to get local storage records It gives following error.
"Argument of type 'string | null' is not assignable to parameter of type 'string'.\n  Type 'null' is not assignable to type 'string'.",

here is the code
this.service.getAllPets(this.CatDog).subscribe(
  data => {
    this.pets = data;
    console.log(data);
    // tslint:disable-next-line:no-bitwise
    const newPet = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem('newPet'));
    if (newPet){
      this.pets = [newPet, ...this.pets];
    }
    console.log(this.route.snapshot.url.toString());
  }, error => {
    console.log('httperror:');
    console.log(error);
  }
);

A: JSON.parse accepts an arg of type string
localStorage.getItem returns an arg of type string or null (if its not found)
therefore you can add a quick default value set before the parse.
like so:
const newPet = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem('newPet') || "{}");

another option is to fetch the result from the localstorage, check that it is not null and then parse it.

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Jolly Shandy is a type of soft drink mixed by less than 1% ABV (Alcohol by volume) beer and Lemonade.

History
The first Jolly Shandy in Hong Kong opened in 1986. It is now mostly available in supermarkets, convenience stores, western restaurants, and Chinese restaurants.

The apple flavor Jolly Shandy and the grapefruit flavor Jolly Shandy were released in 1999 and 2001 respectively. The company of Henieken Malaysia Berhad Malaysia re-launched its beverage brand in 2007. The lemon taste was improved and Vitamin C was added into it.

A new version of the beer mix called Jolly Shandy Lychee was introduced to the customers not satisfied with the original taste of Jolly Shandy. The packing size of the Lychee flavored Jolly Shandy is 330 mL and contains 0.6% alcohol content. It is produced in mainland China.

Ingredients
In Hong Kong, there are currently four flavors of Jolly Shandy: lychee, golden kiwi, lemon, and ginger. Other flavors like apple, peach, and pineapple have been discontinued. Some special flavors of Jolly Shandy such as Mandarin orange flavor are sold in Malaysia and Singapore.

Jolly Shandy is a brand of trendy and energetic beverage under the banner of Carlsberg. It also has vitamin C and a tangy flavor. The ingredients of Jolly Shandy include water, sugar, beer, barley malt, carbonating agent (carbon dioxide), acidity regulator (citric acid), flavoring, Caramel color (E150c), Hops, and antioxidant (E300).

A typical can of Jolly Shandy (330mL with 0.6% alcohol) contains 7.5 grams per 100 mL of sugar, 0 mg of sodium, 0 grams fat, and 36 kilocalories per 100mL.

Design

Jolly Shandy's package design has been changed several times since its launch. Its appearance also differs in different regions.

In Hong Kong
In the 1990s, Jolly Shandy appeared with a two color design, separating the upper and lower parts. Golden "Jolly" and silvery "Shandy" labels were put in the middle part of the can. The three different flavors had their own specific colors. Before being changed to the current design, Jolly Shandy was on sale with a black coating, while there was a lightning sign in the respective colors of the different flvors as decoration. The color of the word "Jolly Shandy" was also changed to silver. In 2013, the design of Jolly Shandy was reworked by a design team led by Alfonso Granati. The two new color designs with bright colors are used to represent the youngster-focused strategy. In the new design, the dot of letter J in the label "Jolly" has been changed to yellow.

In Malaysia
The design of Jolly Shandy in Malaysia is different from that in Hong Kong. It has the same "Jolly Shandy" label with the Hong Kong product but there are several concentric circles in the background.

Promotions and Advertising

Re-branding
A new packaging design of Jolly Shandy was introduced in 2013. Carlsberg group had reportedly increased the sales of Jolly Shandy by 30% since the introduction of the Cartils' redesign. The company slogan (Traditional Chinese:新作為 夠薑轟出嚟!) promotes ginger Jolly Shandy, the company's latest flavor.

In Mass Media
The brand's localized Facebook page was launched in 2013. The Facebook page constantly releases updates and promotions of the product and is most famous for its 'piggyback' marketing technique. The page usually looks at events and news stories and comes up with the ideas that allow them to 'piggyback' off without having the huge cost. The ironic messages implied in the advertisements have successfully made the page famous and are particularly popular among Hong Kong teenagers. Aside from the Facebook page, the brand also collaborates with local YouTubers and promotes the soft drink through their YouTube channels. The latest Jolly Shandy television commercial was released in 2013, featuring the Cantonese artist G.E.M. The singer collaborated with Jolly Shandy to promote her concert tickets. In addition, Jolly Shandy also advertises on public transportation within the available regions.

See also
 Carlsberg Group
 Shandy
 Beer in Hong Kong

References

Cocktails with beer
Beer in Malaysia
Alcoholic drink brands
Carlsberg Group

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Apologies for this taking slightly longer to go up than usual.
As for random design notes, yes, the sock puppet makes this a loose homage to a certain Canadian duo who are not only politically incorrect (well, the sock puppet anyway) but also hilarious and generally right on the dot. Though these characters are far, far less explicitly rated.
And the whole "sock puppet" angle exists simply because Jeff Bennett's announcer voice on the recap bumpers of Legend of Korra is awesome and needed inclusion somehow. And so we have Jeff the sock puppet.
Don't be surprised if another puppet named Tom shows up, either. I quite like Tom Kane's intro bumpers on The Clone Wars as well.


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WATCH: New teaser and poster arrive for the Tomb Raider reboot as full trailer lands tomorrow
Exciting times ahead for Tomb Raider fans as we get our first real look at the upcoming movie reboot starring Alicia Vikander.
We got a poster for the movie today as well as a teaser (below) for the new trailer (which will drop tomorrow so stay right here!) giving us our first look at Vikander in action and she certainly looks the part shooting arrows and dodging dangerous looking obstacles.
However, we have to ask, what the heck is going on with her neck in that poster?!
She looks like she has a velociraptor's neck! Little too much photoshop, perhaps?
Anyway, the story takes place seven years after Lara's father disappears, with 21-year-old refusing to inherit his business empire and choosing instead to attend college while tiding herself over working as a bike courier. Eventually, she's inspired to investigate what happened to him, and kicks off her search at his last-known location, a tomb on an island off the coast of Japan.
"When I was asked to take on this role I got really excited – Lara Croft is a truly iconic character," Vikander said earlier this year, "I think people can identify with her for lots of different reasons, but for me I very much see her as a model for many young women. She's trying to carve out her place in the world and connect her future with her past."
Roar Uthang directs with a supporting cast of Dominic West, Walton Goggins and Daniel Wu.
Tomb Raider will be released on March 16 next year.
Oh, and Jumnaji: Welcome To The Jungle gets a new trailer tomorrow too.
Here's the teaser if you're curious:
Just for the heck of it, we fixed her neck in the poster:
Tags: alicia vikander, Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle, tomb raider


An acquaintance related his story to me about how his attempts to help his poison ivy with homeopathy led to inflammation of his eye, giving cause for a miraculous cure with homeopathy.
"I suspected that a red itchy patch on my fingers was poison ivy. I am not particularly sensitive to P.I. so I decided to try applying a topical over the counter P.I. scrub called Tecnu Extreme which contains a 3x potency of Grindelia. Grindelia is a homeopathic remedy which in its proving causes skin rash similar to poison ivy and is thus capable of curing persons of P.I. when their symptoms are similar. I applied Tecnu Extreme for a few days and this was enough to see me through the most uncomfortable part of the cycle of my eruption. I stopped as soon as I began to feel better. The cycle was shorter with less inflammation and itching, the blisters dried up faster and I felt less irritable.
But, I woke up one of the mornings with one of my eyes feeling rather irritated – not really red, but definitely as if I had a foreign object in my eye. I could see nothing in my eye, nor could my wife. I rinsed it with over the counter eye drops, but that did not help much. I happened to have felt some gritty material on my cheek bone. I surmised I had rubbed my eye during my sleep or on waking, getting some of the gritty scrub stuff from Tecnu Extreme on my hand into my eye and thus, the irritation.
I know that the remedy, Aconite, has been called the 'Arnica of the eye'. So, I took a dose of Aconite 6c. I gave it several hours to help my eye which it barely did. It did create some quite uncomfortable pain and aching which I had not previously experienced and some bland tears. I decided not to repeat it for this reason.
I got out one of my first aid books – this time to look up trauma for eyes. I looked in the book by Dr. D.M. Gibson – First Aid Homeopathy – in accidents and ailments. One of the recommendations for irritation that persists after removal of foreign material – either manually or by eye bath – is Euphrasia drops. I decided to try this since I felt that any gritty material from Tecnu Extreme was gone from my eye and what I was experiencing was remaining irritation – as if the upper inner eyelid had an abrasion. Euphrasia drops can be made by putting 2 drops of mother tincture of Euphrasia into a small over the counter bottle of saline eye drops. Strangely enough, someone in my family had used this just 2 weeks prior. Gibson says if you do not have Euphrasia mother tincture you can take the remedy, Euphrasia 6c, internally. He also says another useful fluid for eye wash is an infusion of tea leaves.
I was quite pleased that over two days my eye irritation improved. I very happily stopped the drops and waited for complete resolution. Had this improvement not happened, I was prepared to visit my eye doctor.
But, alas, my eye had more to say. A day or two after my eye felt better the inner corner began to itch very intensely. I remember thinking I really wanted to apply cold compresses but did not take the time. Then the inner half if my eye got very red, bloodshot and began to sting with the itching. I put the Euphrasia drops in the frig and used cold drops – it felt good but did not help the symptoms get better. The next AM the inner half of my eye was still red, itched, had stinging / pricking pains, felt too warm, was a bit achy and half of the white area was swollen. Cold made it feel a lot better. I consulted my homeopath and we decided I could benefit by a dose of Apis 6c. One dose of this remedy made me want to kiss a honey bee ! In a few hours I was 50% better, in 24 hours 98% better and all better in 48 hours !
Editor's notes: Apis mellifica is the Latin name for the honey bee. The remedy is made from the venom but the bee is not sacrificed. Anyone stung by a bee knows about the swelling, redness, heat and stinging pain. The remedy, Apis, because of the Law of Similars ( likes Cures likes) of homeopathy, can cure similar symptoms in a suffering person. Not only stings but hives, sore throats and muscular skeletal pains in addition to mental/ emotional suffering, to name a few areas, can be made better and cured. Always consult a professional homeopath for a constitutional case taking when symptoms have become chronic.
Euphrasia is also known as Eye Bright. This plant has an affinity for eyes. The mother tincture is still an herbal preparation but when it has been diluted and succussed in accordance with FDA guidelines by pharmacies, it becomes a potentized homeopathic remedy allowing it to act more deeply with one's vital energy to cure eye and sinus problems and more. Be sure to consult a professional homeopathic practitioner if your symptoms have lasted for more than three to five days and have not resolved with your well chosen remedy.
Grindelia robusta is a plant growing along the Pacific coast in California. It is a member of the daisy family. As a homeopathic remedy it can be healing for people who are suffering from skin eruptions and respiratory problems to name a few.
You can read more about poison ivy help and these homeopathic remedies on the internet at the website for the National Center for Homeopathy – http://www.homeopathycenter.org.
Always something to be learned from nature! Thanks, Barb!


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#ifndef BERRYABSTRACTCONTRIBUTIONFACTORY_H_
#define BERRYABSTRACTCONTRIBUTIONFACTORY_H_

#include <berryObject.h>

#include <org_blueberry_ui_qt_Export.h>

namespace berry {

struct IServiceLocator;
struct IContributionRoot;

/**
 * ContributionFactories are used by the IMenuService to populate
 * ContributionManagers. In {@link #createContributionItems(IServiceLocator, IContributionRoot)}
 * you fill in the additions List with {@link IContributionItem} to be inserted at this
 * factory's location. For example:
 *

 *
 *

 * AbstractContributionFactory contributions = new AbstractContributionFactory(
 *    "menu:org.eclipse.ui.tests.api.MenuTestHarness?after=additions") {
 *  public void createContributionItems(IMenuService menuService, List additions) {
 *    CommandContributionItem item = new CommandContributionItem(
 *        "org.eclipse.ui.tests.menus.helloWorld",
 *        "org.eclipse.ui.tests.commands.enabledHelloWorld", null, null,
 *        "Say Hello", null);
 *    additions.add(item);
 *    item = new CommandContributionItem(
 *        "org.eclipse.ui.tests.menus.refresh",
 *        "org.eclipse.ui.tests.commands.refreshView", null, null,
 *        "Refresh", null);
 *    menuService.registerVisibleWhen(item, new MyActiveContextExpression(
 *        "org.eclipse.ui.tests.myview.context"));
 *    additions.add(item);
 *  }
 *
 *  public void releaseContributionItems(IMenuService menuService, List items) {
 *    // we have nothing to do
 *  }
 * };
 * IMenuService service = (IMenuService) PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getService(
 *    IMenuService.class);
 * service.addContributionFactory(contributions);
 *

 *
 *

 *

 * Only the abstract methods may be implemented.
 *

 *
 * @see IMenuService
 * @see MenuManager
 * @see ToolBarManager
 */
class BERRY_UI_QT AbstractContributionFactory: public Object
{

private:

  QString location;
  QString namespaze;

public:

  berryObjectMacro(berry::AbstractContributionFactory)

  /**
   * The contribution factories must be instantiated with their location,
   * which which specifies the contributions insertion location.
   *
   * @param location
   *            the addition location in Menu API URI format. It must not be
   *            null.
   * @param namespace
   *            the namespace for this contribution. May be null.
   * @see #getNamespace()
   */
  AbstractContributionFactory(const QString& location,
                              const QString& namespaze);

  /**
   * Return the location as a String.
   *
   * @return the location - never null.
   */
  QString GetLocation() const;

  /**
   * This factory should create the IContributionItems that it wants to
   * contribute, and add them to the additions list. The menu service will
   * call this method at the appropriate time. It should always return new
   * instances of its contributions in the additions list.
   *

   * This method is not meant to be called by clients. It will be called by
   * the menu service at the appropriate time.
   *

   *
   * @param serviceLocator
   *            a service locator that may be used in the construction of
   *            items created by this factory
   * @param additions
   *            A {@link IContributionRoot} supplied by the framework. It will
   *            never be null.
   * @see org.eclipse.ui.menus.CommandContributionItem
   * @see org.eclipse.jface.action.MenuManager
   */
  virtual void CreateContributionItems(IServiceLocator* serviceLocator,
                                       const SmartPointer<IContributionRoot>& additions) = 0;

  /**
   * Return the namespace for this cache. This corresponds to the plug-in that
   * is contributing this factory.
   *
   * @return the namespace the namespace of this factory
   */
  QString GetNamespace() const;

};

}

#endif /* BERRYABSTRACTCONTRIBUTIONFACTORY_H_ */

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Bosch Tronic 3000 US6 (formerly RP6PT Powerstream) Electric Point-of-Use Tankless Water Heater with 98 Percent Efficient and minimal stand-by loss.
Ultra compact and lightweight, these point-of-use/under-sink tankless water heaters were designed to provide an endless supply of hot water for 1 kitchen and/or bathroom sink at a time in commercial and residential applications. 277v Hardwired.


An off white fishnet purse with rope handles. The wooden ornaments act as a closure.
One small interior pocket, purse was handmade in the Philippines.
Condition: Has one little spot on the back of it, see picture.
Purse body is 16" x 12.5".


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January 13, 2013 – 11:59 pm
January 13, 2013 – 8:49 pm
November 6, 2012 – 9:14 pm
My mom, Jacqueline Clemens, was born on this day in 1941, in Morristown, New Jersey. Her family had great success, and even glamor. Though she was a very beautiful girl, she was never comfortable being the princess that her mother wanted her to be. She was more of a tomboy. She never talked much about the trappings of being well off as a young girl. Instead, she was proud of the prizes she won in horseback riding and swimming (at camp), and the ways she found to live independently.
Her favorite radio show when she was a kid was "Sky King," about a rancher who flew a small plane around the west, stopping outlaws and helping people in trouble. Mom especially liked the Penny character, the Sky King's niece, who he taught to fly in the show (she talked about how she thought it would be great to fly a plane around the west and take care of people too, as a practitioner).
Mom loved adventurous girls, and believes that streak in her came from her grandmother, Victoria Coelho da Rocha. Her "Maman" was a Portuguese-Jewish transplant to Brazil, whose family once owned choice real estate in downtown Rio de Janeiro. Mom told a story of having an adventure with her when, on a visit to New York when Mom was 7 or 8, she booked them into a hotel room in Manhattan. Spying some coins on the roof of a building outside the hotel window, Maman sent Jackie out to gather them (tethered to the room by sheets tied together).
In 1958, when she was 17, she sailed from New York on a "grand tour" of Europe with her brother and parents, an especially luxurious thing to do then. She loved running around the ship on her own, and had some romance with the son of the Iraqi ambassador to the U.S., Mahmoud Shabandar. They must have been a very pretty couple to watch dance. After they returned, Mom visited him at Harvard to dance with him again at the Winter Formal.
She went off to college at the University of California at Berkeley. She studied sociology, but most of all she joined in the huge cultural change that was happening right then and there, when young people got together and decided to do things their own way. She sat-in on the steps of Sproul Hall, and heard Mario Savio speak about the injustices of the U.S. social order that needed fixing.
She and my father were members of the Students for a Democratic Society, the seminal student organization of the 1960s. They danced with students from all over the world at the University's International House, and talked about liberation theology at the Catholic Newman Center in Berkeley. They got married, very conscious of the politics and history of that, and idealistically wanting very much to be equals. They were at the very center of many changes that made this country a better place.
Mom had me in 1968, in Princeton, New Jersey, and in 1969 she and dad joined the Peace Corps. They packed up their comfortable American life and set off for an adventure with a tiny baby.
In Chile, she worked counseling women about family planning, while my father taught math. She said she loved it there, because it taught her about "what was really important, and what was not." She loved being a mother, and said she surprised herself with how well it came to her. Once, when she was rushing out the door with me in one arm and the the keys Dad forgot in the other, she tripped and fell. She said she twisted as she hit the ground so she cushioned me from the fall, then popped up again holding out the keys. She said, "I have no idea how I did that!"
She told how she enjoyed the life of a thrifty volunteer. She made her own baby food by grinding up vegetables with a hand-cranked machine. She sent me to preschool with a sandwich wrapped in wax paper and string that she re-used over and over again. On their second assignment to Chile, the socialist government was ousted by the U.S., and the country was unstable. They decided to leave finally, but found that they did not have any way to get to the airport; they had no gas for their tiny Citroen car, and transit wasn't running. So they sold a few things including my toy tractor to a neighbor for some gasoline, leaving the car at the airport.
In 1974, they had my brother Michael in New York City, where they lived in Columbia faculty housing on Riverside Drive. Mom painted murals of trees and fruit in the sterile apartment kitchen, collected rain water in a bucket, and built a table herself from hardwood, fastened with dowels. She had a dog named Ché. She fed her sons Challah bread, yoghurt, and wheat germ, no sugar.
Once, she was almost mugged while walking with me and Michael, running away holding on to us tightly. Mom wanted to live in a place closer to nature, and in 1978, we all left New York for Utah. Though their marriage ended, Mom and Dad made a good home for their sons there.
In typical fashion, Mom took on going back to school and making her own life in a determined and careful way. She became a Registered Nurse, then later a Nurse Practitioner. She worked as a ward nurse, a visiting nurse, an ER nurse, and finally decided to specialize in Oncological nursing. She was devoted to caring for her patients, and talked about how absolute it was for her to put her patients needs and care above everything else. This was not just a platitude for her, it was an imperative that I heard her discuss many times with her friends and on the phone with colleagues, sorting through some ambiguous circumstances that needed a second opinion. She was a member of the Newman Center in Utah, and went on several retreats in the south-western desert to build her Catholic faith.
At the Veterans Administration hospital in Salt Lake City, she worked with an oncologist named Grant Harrer. She told me a story about making a report to him on a patient with a small and irrelevant mistake about the patient's shirt. He had her re-do it, asking her to make it "as perfect as you possibly can"; she said he taught her to be better and even more careful than before. She was extremely lucky to also work with a doctor named Kirk Lund. Later, Kirk became her doctor in Spokane, when she was diagnosed with brain cancer 22 years afterwards.
After her son Ben left home, she worked as an oncology nurse in Montana for a clinic started by Dr. Harrer. Her son Michael was very academically strong, and she helped him to become a star at his high school and apply to extremely competitive colleges. He chose the California Institute of Technology, and she supported him through taking on that rigorous challenge. She went to work at an advanced oncology care facility (doing bone marrow transplants for children) in Louisville, Kentucky. She helped her son Ben to chose to pursue a degree in fine art (she was very supportive of a choice that did not have much practical value but that she could tell was what he wanted).
She then chose to become a general care clinician in Whitefish, Montana, working at a small office with two other doctors caring for whatever patients needed. She dealt with all kinds of things, from poor people who hadn't seen a doctor in years to people whose life she saved with by diagnosing a dangerous condition via an eye exam. She had a collection of hundreds of grateful letters from the people she helped, and strong fans among the local doctors as someone who did the absolute best job she could with the care of everyone she saw.
She started then to get interested in training dogs. She had raised two Shetland Sheepdogs in Utah, and started to become serious with a new Shelty, Bonnie. She did Obedience, then Agility, then Tracking. Her dogs were internationally ranked and she competed in hundreds of trials and rallies. She earned Master Agility Champion with her dog Rosie. She literally had hundreds of ribbons, which lined the walls of her house (upstairs and downstairs). She truly loved her dogs, and said that her love and bond with them was what made them do so well. She hated when she saw anyone yelling at a dog, as she religiously practiced positive reinforcement as the only way she trained.
She raised and trained her dogs to many titles.
Bonnie (Obediance Trial Champion)
Nickles (North American Dog Agility Council Agility Trial Champion, Obediance Trial Champion, Agility Excellent, Open Jumpers With Weaves Preferred, Agility Dog of Canada, Agility Dog I, and Scent Hurdle Dog Excellent)
Brio (Obediance Trial Champion, Master Agility Excellent, Excellent Jumper with Weaves, Agility Champion, Novice Fast, Elite Agility, Junior Handler, Rally Excellent, Therapy Service Dog, Delta Society Pet Partner)
Raisin (Companion Dog Excellent, Master Agility Excellent, Master Agility with Jumping Excellent, Elite Agility Certificate, Rally Novice, Novice Fast)
Luke (Open Agility, Novice Agility Jumper, Agility Novice, Agility Gambers Novice, Novice Agility Certificate, Novice Jumper, Herding Capability Tested)
Crispy (Companion Dog)
When she retired from practice, she moved to Spokane to be closer to dog events. She spent a great deal of time on the road with four to five dogs, going all over the northwest and Canada. She was still new in Spokane, so she asked her neighbor Carol Klover to take her to the doctor one day, as she had been having some troubles. She had a brain tumor, a Glioblastoma Multiforme, the same cancer that killed Ted Kennedy in the space of a year. When she was diagnosed she was afraid, but simply faced it with determination to do the things she wanted to somehow.
Immediately after she woke up from surgery, having had a 6-centimeter mass removed and still having trouble talking and moving, she told us directly: "don't put anything off." If there was something we wanted to do, do it right now. About two weeks afterwards, she was up, moving stiffly but quickly, running with her dogs in her back yard.
She had multiple courses of radiation and many courses of chemotherapy, but never complained. She simply kept at it, doing as much of the things she could do as she possibly could. Her friends at the dog club (particularly Matt Kochel) helped her travel to and compete in dog events even when she was weak or confused, and she was very grateful for their sweetness and generosity.
As Mom struggled against the tumor's progress, Carol and Mom became friends, and Carol helped mom keep living the way she wanted too at her house. She had accidents, and Carol saved her life four times. Dr. Kirk Lund gave her extremely good care, treating her as a friend and as a colleague when making scary decisions. When she needed more help, her caretakers made it possible for her to live independently for as long as possible, particularly Marianne Kincaid, but also Leah Colborn and Kayla Knicely. Michael and I are extremely grateful to Kirk, Marianne and Carol for the above-and-beyond kindness and generosity they showed our mother through the exhausting, horrible struggle against that disgusting cancer.
Mom died peacefully and comfortably, early in the morning on Sunday, November 4th, 2012. It was not easy for her to let go of life, as she was always determined to get what she wanted from it. I am sure there is more she wanted to do. She was luckier in her sickness than many other people though, and got to do much that she wanted. She was a brave, strong, and utterly decent person, and we will miss her very much.
Today I remembered a part of a poem that I am fairly sure she must have showed me when I was a kid, by Pablo Neruda (I don't know how else I would have known about it):
Joyful, joyful, joyful,
as only dogs know how to be happy
with only the autonomy
of their shameless spirit.
Experience Design: Reasonable Conclusions
[Note: I have tried to distill a set of ideas about the kind of design that I am most used to doing. Much of these ideas are based on other smarter people's work. This is more of an exercise in putting down what makes sense to me than advocating for a particular approach, which depends, etc.]
Experience design is an intersection between technical expertise and human needs. It connects what people want, what is emotionally meaningful to them, and what is technically elegant.
Experience design is not a separate process, deliverable, or strategy. It connects a development team to users, through mutual alignment, prototyping, testing, and iteration.
An outline of a process for Experience Design…
First: alignment of team. Product strategy and ideation between development and product, before sprints. Whiteboard sketches, mocks and an overall vision. Conscious decision not to discuss product direction/strategy in sprint. Discipline of team to be able to realign between sprints (this is role of product).
Next: continuous, close collaboration. Design commits to deliver (or collaborate on) presentation code stories. QA, design, and engineering write test cases up front. Interactive prototypes (HTML, or whatever works), not mocks or wireframes. Engineers stub-out models and rough views in collaboration with design.
Finally: finished design. Design pattern library provides basic building blocks for working presentation code. Developers and design collaborate on trying out test cases and iterating on interaction. Design delivers presentation code towards end of sprint.
Apple's iBooks Author Does not Create a Book
After almost a thousand years of trying it out, I think it's safe to say that the book as a way of publishing things is a success. Yet all the things that make books work are being abandoned in the latest tool to make ebooks.
A "book" still means something made out of paper-like material; the word origin refers to a slab of beechwood or (in the case of the latin word codex), bound leaves of some kind. The idea of printing being involved is not at the core of what a book is, and to have the object is to have access to the knowledge there. Ebooks are any kind of publication produced for electronic reading; again, what produced the content is not at the core of what an ebook is.
So what is basic to being booklike? Some kind of package for publishing, and one that belongs to the reader. A book and an ebook are more alike than they are different from this perspective, and it's a recent development that they have diverged. Because of the success of Amazon and other companies in creating closed systems for people to buy and read ebooks, suddenly the idea of a book is contingent on a particular company giving a key to a locked box, etc.
And now, Apple's iBooks Author program requires publishing a book in one proprietary format and for sale on one store, in such a way that can only be read on one kind of device. A truly faustian bargain.
The marketing for iBooks Author says it "allows anyone to create …just about any kind of book for iPad," but given that what it actually makes is very far from the actual definition of a book (or even an ebook for that matter), I don't think it's accurate to say that. It's something, maybe more like an old-school CD-ROM. It's just not a book.
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why make pictures?
September 13, 2010 – 10:55 pm
Top: Tricycle, Memphis, 1969-71
William Eggleston, Dye transfer print
Over the last twenty-five years, I went to school to be an artist, abandoned that, became a designer, married, and had a daughter. After many life changes, I think about almost everything differently. But I still have this incoherent desire to make pictures, not much different (and not much more understood by me) than when I was much younger. Then, I thought that people make things for their own sake, because they are beautiful or some part of the truth. I am not sure about that anymore. There are many much more important things to me now, but nothing more mysterious than that (despite only extremely sporadic and privately satisfying pictures) I keep wanting to do it. It could be just my own personal hang-up. At this point, I want more to understand this drive than do anything meaningful with it!
I'm interested in photography, since it has some of this same mystery. In contrast to painting, sculpture, or even film, millions of people take photos meaningfully. Photographs can be completely mundane for even close family, or epic and affecting to anyone, and the difference is usually pretty ellusive. After I took a picture of a tricycle I saw a similar picture of a tricycle by William Eggleston, but there's no meaningful relationship between the images (other than to point out just how great he is). There are plenty of good images in the world, more are not needed. What is meaningful, then? Why do it?
So, I read Photography After Frank, by Philip Gefter, and Why People Photograph, by Robert Adams, to see if there was some vocabulary people use to write about this and how to make sense of it. They are both good books with strong ideas and clear thinking.
Gefter was the front-page picture editor for The New York Times and a critic for that newspaper. He surveys a lot of recent good photos and motives behind them. Usefully, he offers themes like "the document," "staged documentation," "photojournalism," "portraits", "collections," and "the marketplace." He offers a way to anchor and understand the work of good artists. For example, he writes that in
…the 1980s the photograph underwent a rigorous, necessary, and unforgiving examination by postmodern artists and critics. They challenged its fidelity to fact, its role in constructing social realities, its validity as a form of art, — to the point where straight documentary photography seemed conventional, even retrograde.
I can see that in the edgy Cindy Sherman, subversive Sherrie Levine, and the raw Nan Goldin, all of whom were newly-made art-world stars when I was in school. But this way of thinking seems to say that these artists made images because they were engaged in some kind of cognitive research project (collaborating in teams!), however. Having (very briefly) met two of these people and seen all three speak a number of times, I don't believe anything like that motivated them. They all seemed very self-absorbed and chaotic (but appeallingly vulnerable and human). In one case their best description of their method was to "struggle out from under my fear of being disgusting" (I believe this was Nan Goldin at the New School, but I can't find a reference for it). Even though the cultural effect of their work might be formal, their work was not pursued logically or methodically. The critical/art history approach doesn't help me.
Adams' book is much more personal about the 'why' in photography, divided into sections on "what can help" ("…humor, teaching, money, dogs"), "examples of success," and "working conditions." He speaks as someone who has spent many hours with the desire to make images and struggling with the results. Speaking of "living in several landscapes," he mentions living "in hope" but mostly of "a simple, generic" place, a
country crossroad on the high plains. There are thousands to choose from. Often there doesn't seem to be anything there at all–just two roads, four fields, and sky. I feel foolish to have stoopped, but small things can become important– a lark or a mailbox or sunflowers. And if I wait I may see the architecture– the roads, the fields, the sky. […] We might find there a balance of form and openness… It would be the world as we had hoped, and we would recognize it together.
This is an appealling way of seeing, tying together the act of taking pictures with two people (him and you, to whom he's giving a direct invitation) experiencing familiar things with new appreciation. This feels to me like the Buddhist direction, where the practice and living with humility is more important than the results of the activity. This may in fact be a good way to live, but it doesn't answer the question of 'why' (even if it is a good side-step of that) for me.
There is something visceral and silent about taking pictures. Analysis is useful for understanding 'why not,' but not why. After abandoning the wish for importance, insight, understanding, beauty, or connection, why does the drive stick around? It seems too easy to just say that the meaning of making pictures is the work itself.
David Foster Wallace and the Failure of Zen
February 24, 2010 – 12:56 am
David Foster Wallace, giving the commencement address at Kenyon College in 2005, among many other things, said:
I submit that this is what the real, no-bullshit value of your liberal-arts education is supposed to be about: How to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default-setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone, day in and day out.
The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default-setting, the "rat race" — the constant gnawing sense of having had and lost some infinite thing.
The capital-T Truth is about life before death. It is about making it to 30, or maybe 50, without wanting to shoot yourself in the head. It is about simple awareness — awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us…
He expressed, in a painfully coherent way, a sharp dilemma that he saw: between his own strong drives, needs and desires, and an awareness and compassion of others that could detach him from the fact that he would never be able to satisfy those drives or desires. What he argues for is a recognizably Buddhist approach; compassion and awareness, but you hear the despair in how it's described.
There's a good deal of evidence from an excerpt from his unfinished book, The Pale King (about a man that works for the I.R.S.) that he was thinking along these lines:
Lane Dean, Jr., with his green rubber pinkie finger, sat at his Tingle table in his chalk's row in the rotes group's wiggle room and did two more returns, then another one, then flexed his buttocks and held to a count of ten and imagined a warm pretty beach with mellow surf, as instructed in orientation the previous month. Then he did two more returns, checked the clock real quick, then two more, then bore down and did three in a row, then flexed and visualized and bore way down and did four without looking up once, except to put the completed files and memos in the two Out trays side by side up in the top tier of trays, where the cart boys could get them when they came by.
What is this other than a painful attempt at meditative practice? And when he says the below in a manuscript note, it's even more explicit:
Bliss — a second-by- second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive, conscious — lies on the other side of crushing, crushing boredom. Pay close attention to the most tedious thing you can find (Tax Returns, Televised Golf) and, in waves, a boredom like you've never known will wash over you and just about kill you. Ride these out, and it's like stepping from black and white into color. Like water after days in the desert. Instant bliss in every atom.
Of course, Wallace calls such awareness and compassion 'unimaginably difficult' in his commencement address, and when he says he is not claiming any special knowledge or authority on how to do it, he's not being modest. He is talking about his own struggle, a struggle that few are conscious or smart enough to try, and almost no one (especially not these smug Zen monks) would be able to express in such clear and heartbreaking terms.
Those who practice Zen, I think, would say they strive to achieve a "mind as the mind that faces life like a small child, full of curiosity and wonder and amazement. 'I wonder what this is? I wonder what that is? I wonder what this means?' Without approaching things with a fixed point of view or a prior judgement, just asking 'what is it?'" Undoubtedly, this is a wonderful way to exist, and I would myself very much like to live that way.
But imagine Mr. Wallace, bristling with talent, supremely gifted with words, aching to wrestle with a good chunk of what people have done with literature. Could he actually do any of that while detaching himself in that way? It would be like cutting off an arm, or at least a finger. Buddhism seems to offer one track of fulfillment, but it doesn't seem like it encompasses enough for someone like him. Maybe he needed two tracks, one for his life and one for writing, each with different rules. I wish he was still around, so I could see what he would undoubtedly have figured out.
design and agile
October 6, 2009 – 3:15 pm
New methods for managing people making Web sites are big these days, with the most popular being Agile. Basically it boils down to making a small team of builders completely responsible for a project, and enforcing constant communication as people work on it in well-defined chunks. There are many engineer/programmer proponents for this, but few designers seem to have adopted the approach (though there some, but others are skeptical or downright hostile to it).
The difference is another example of Aristotle vs. Plato, the scientific, evolutionary approach vs. the aspirational large vision. Design wants to create a beautiful vision up-front for what a new world would be, but divorced from the deeper and more meaningful design that engineers do.
Without going into the problems and tensions that have been common in these projects, I think it's safe to say that no one has developed a great 'best practice' for how it can actually work (and I've worked within dozens of Agile teams and read quite a bit about it, so anyone who claims to have it solved I can say is probably pulling your leg). So what could work better, at least?
Often there is the assumption that designers need time to develop separate deliverables and have their ideas specified out before they can talk to builders. This is a breeding-ground for mistrust, and more importantly the designers shouldn't be working without an intimate knowledge of the technical design–what information is gathered, how it moves around, and what's done to it. Designers should get into the project at the very start, talk through the project in detail with the whole team, and make decisions with the team. They should be making sketches or prototypes the first day.
Visual and Interaction Design Comes Last
Many sprints I've worked on have tried to have design done a sprint ahead of implementation, or a week, etc. This is sadistic. When engineers are iterating and improving as they go but designers get one shot at it before they've seen any working code, everyone is set up to fail. Rough interaction design and pages should be done collaboratively with engineers as they work, and detailed interaction design and visual design should come last, as a refinement of that.
Actual Alignment
Much of the attempts at collaboration between designers and engineers in Agile projects have put the designer in a rough spot, between the product owner and their team. The designer makes mocks/comps/boards to should how the thing could look, and the product person signs off on that before the sprint starts. The documents for what will be built, however (e.g. the stories, acceptance criteria, etc.), doesn't include the designs. Inevitably, the team makes changes to the designs as they implement, and the designer is either out of the loop (working on a different part, or not part of the team), or has to redesign on the fly in mid-sprint. Designers and engineers should put aside time for 'alignment' tasks, where they discuss and agree on what they will build, either as part of the pre-sprint tasks or the sprint itself. This is similar to 'engineering-only' sprints, which focus on the 'plumbing' of a project and not what users see.
The alternative to having these kinds of deep integration of designers into Agile teams, I believe, is mediocre work, or a lot of additional work to fix the inevitable breakdowns that happen when talented people work together. This is actually much more simple human nature stuff that's been going on in offices everywhere, for a long time, probably since cave-people first called a meeting.
Republican House Districts Emit More Carbon per Capita
August 26, 2009 – 9:44 pm
Shown are U.S. House districts (average population of 650,000 people), red for Republican and blue for Democrats, with districts that emitted more carbon per capita last year shown in darker colors.
I discovered project "Vulcan" at Purdue University, which is mapping carbon emissions on a detailed level in the US; very cool. I wondered whether there is a difference in emissions between parts of the country that lean Democrat or Republican. Fortunately the wonderful Vulcan project people made it very easy to find out by publishing their data (I used the simplified data set showing emissions per capita change over about 8 months, and binned the counties by predominant House district). I did a fast and sloppy job, so this map is just approximate. To me it shows that there is a pronounced difference between the parties in likelihood to emit carbon, but (as the Vulcan project found) geography is a larger factor.
UPDATE: Kate Sherwood, who has an extremely intimidating amount of expertise and knows what she's doing, points out that the method I'm using to map county data to congressional districts is flawed (I used centroids of counties to centroids of districts) and inaccurate so it really should be taken as only approximate (I removed the percentage thing from the title, that sounded too specific)! She pointed me to a better resource for mapping counties to districts and I am going to re-do it with that…
data as interface: flow
I believe that there are two kinds of ideas in the world: those that divide things into two types, and those that don't… and then there's a third, which tries to wriggle out of either. This is one of those.
The basic idea: a better interface to data would be to turn the data itself into the interface, as a flow between an overview and actual experience.
What is an 'overview'?
visual language of overview: parallel
movie trailer, menu, signage
graphs, piles, sorts, maps, matrices
optimizes attention
optimizes action
browsing, analysis, editing, outlining, listing
powerpoint, excel
What is 'experience'?
visual language of experience: serial
long, slow changes
based on important details
based on sustained attention
email & twitter
This is false duality of course; the actual value of either references the other, and both are necessary and interesting and have been around since the dawn of time. The reason this is an interesting thing to revisit is that there is a huge advantage in new media and social contexts: you can jump between them quickly and continuously, so that they start to merge into a 'flow.' This flow is an interface, perhaps a good one.
In basic terms, the flow interface resembles a lot of existing interfaces:
a list of emails > reading an email
table of contents > page
map > walking
But the differences that would be possible include:
use content itself in the overview, not a label/symbol/sign
browse and refine both the overview and the experience
interact with one through the other
interaction with an overview element shows an experience
interaction with an experience element references an overview
Now speed things up, so that the interface can offer:
"you can sort this stuff into piles three ways, which one works the best?"
"we have these three prototypes that show how the product could work"
"have a taste of 12 dishes before you pick your meal, then change your mind halfway through"
And of course, this can benefit from the language of data visualization, but we need a framework for overviews and a framework for experiences, not just one, and the ability to pick the framework itself should be content-based and usable through familiar conventions:
show proportional distances instead of vertices or measurements
make maps
show size relation, piles
show a tree graph
show nodes and edges
And here is where I sketch some actual designs for the very vague concepts I'm throwing around, but of course I haven't got there yet. But I think it would be easy to show new interfaces for twitter, netflix, and digg that work this way.


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Q: How to check which menu item has been selected in Form Load in Joomla I am running Joomla and using the ChronoForms plug component to create Forms.
I have a problem in that I want to set menu items on a menu in Joomla but want to make use of querystrings so more than one menu item might have the same Form Name but a different querystring. However it isn't possible to use querystrings in menu items with ChronoForms.
One possible solution I am investigating is to do away with querystrings and just check on Form Load which menu item has been selected and then process the form accordingly.
Has someone any ideas how to do this?

A: I am not sure what you are asking here, but i you wish to have multiple menu items pointed to the same form, you can do this by manually editing the menu item alias. Am I following what you are trying to accomplish?

A: Look at the menu link created by ChronoForms, when you add it to a menu (without querystring). You can use that as a base for an 'external URL', where you can add whatever you want to it.


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Arizona homeowners in need of a remodel, repair or addition will likely require the services of a handyman or general contractor. Before beginning the project, a reputable contractor will have a contract for the customer to review and sign.
This contract should outline the details of the work to be performed, payment schedule and work schedule, among other legalities. Read on to find out what contractors should include and what customers should be looking for to avoid a costly contract dispute.
Contracts for builders should include 10 key elements. For most parties, the price is the most important part of the project. Contractors want to earn enough to pay for employees, taxes and other expenses with some money left over to pay themselves for their time and work.
At the same time, homeowners generally want to pay as little as possible, so there will often be negotiation over the final price. Once the price is determined, the contract should detail the payment method. Is it a lump sum, installment or other schedule?
A contract should also include time frames, material terms and what would be happen if any disagreements were to arise. There should be a solution – such as mediation, arbitration or litigation – outlined in the contract as well.
Disputes can occur during the course of a project – even if the parties have a close relationship. It's advisable to have a contract that outlines the legal remedies available to either party to settle a disagreement. It's important that the contract is not one-sided, but rather benefits both parties.


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Great Ormond Street Hospital interested in pioneering work of Betsi physiotherapy lead
A lead physiotherapist who pioneered a policy aimed at understanding bone fractures in children with limited mobility has been asked to speak at Great Ormond Street Hospital.
The famous children's medical institution in London is one of many interested in the work of Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board's Angela Wing.
The advanced clinical practitioner in paediatric physiotherapy presented her thesis around childhood fractures in children with low bone density for her Master's degree at Bangor University.
Her research led to Betsi Cadwaladr being the first health board in Wales to enact the new policy, making people aware of the dangers of fractures in children with low mobility because of long-term disabilities.
It's also claimed it became the first health board in the UK to have a clear multi-disciplinary pathway in the management of these children.
A shin fracture in a child with low bone density
Angela has presented her work to the Association of Paediatric Chartered Physiotherapists' conference and the National Back Exchange, which advises on all aspects of moving and handling - and musculoskeletal health.
She has been in conversation with a number of hospitals around Wales, as well as rolling out awareness training to hospice physiotherapists and special school staff.
She said: "Great Ormond Street Hospital in London has been in touch and asked me to do some face to face training and we are looking into it at the moment.
"The policy applies to long term disabled children because they are not standing and running around like every other child. They don't develop strong bones and we weren't recognising this as a health board.
"Historically it's been a little researched area and the big message is about raising awareness of the risk so they can diagnose fractures early.
"I have trained all of my paediatric physios and adult learning disability physios and all staff are training to be aware of it.
"I'm pushing staff to share the policy with families and talking about this with them. We are empowering parents with the knowledge."
It is important because when children receive a fractured bone it can trigger safeguarding concerns around them – and a lack of knowledge on the subject means some parents can face an uncomfortable time explaining how their child became injured.
Angela's research is being shared with colleagues in police and social services and warns parents of children with long-term disabilities even the most ordinary pursuits, like playing, could result in an injury.
She added: "I was working as a manager and dealing with the aftermath of children with fractures and families not being supported or knowing that risk.
"We still don't know why they fracture but the policy makes families aware of the risk, so they can make informed decisions about their children's care.
"Cerebral palsy is one of the really common ones but it's pretty much all children not standing because of a long term disability."


Good day all my name is Clark from Kennesaw GA. I recently rescued a backyard/barn Lotus Elan +2 she's rather mint and intact considering where she was kept for yrs.
Everything seems to be there, needs new rubbers seals, for sure a complete restoration. Motor looks strong the PO used to be a racer mechanic from the info shared by his late wife.
A few things has been done. He was swap the alternator, swap in axcel set up in the rear and he also adapt a breather connector to the carbs back into the exhaust, what be my guess to remove the build up fume out the carbs to be burn faster from the exhaust side. This Elan had to have seen some track times.
A good find, later Federal Plus 2S Elans are quite rare. What is the VIN number?
The crossover tubes are original. They were fitted to all Federal spec Big Valve twin cam engines as part of the anti-smog craze sweeping through the US post Ralph Nader. Most people remove them and blank off the holes on the inlet side. However, you may choose to keep the car as original as possible, in which case hang on to them, since they may in time become worth something!
Hi Moody, she looks great, what a lovely colour! When you say Mint, you mean that in a colour sense, rather than "condition is mint"?!
Well done for rescuing her.
Tks Rich I met mint on how together she is pierces are not all over the place and the body has held up fairly nicely in comparison to where it was park fir yrs.
As far as the break servos, yes there are two I'm not sure if that was a US spec. I hope others would share some light on that regards. However, I do know for fact that the prior owner was a racer and mechanic.
She has definitely seen track time to much up grade has been done plus his wife info was a great addition to he history of what her husband hobby and passion was. I wish he had done a better job keeping records or his wife knew more than the facts. Never the less I'm please to learn all about her and restore her back to hit the road again on weekend drives.
Sounds good Moody. Yes it's definitely a good result to find such a whole car, saves on a lot of investigation on what parts are, and where they go!
Congrats on finding a great original car.
Yes, the twin servos was a federal thing with split (front/rear brakes). No room for two servos on the baby elan ( ) so we didn't get any servos at all!
pharriso wrote: Congrats on finding a great original car.
Tks can wait to meet him I need all the help I can get. I'm so eager to get going on working on her.
seeing it outside there under tarps all those years and on the ground, I can image the frame is rusted away?
welcome to the group and good luck with your restoration.
Hi Clark. That Unit No has one too many digits in it. Would it be 0246N?
I'm that other Plus 2 owner near you. I'm in the Lawrenceville-Buford area of Gwinnett County, and I am indeed refurbishing a '69/'70 Plus 2.
I'm aware of one other Plus 2 in Georgia, over by Augusta. The owner is a member here but basically never posts anything and hasn't responded to my inquiries to talk offline or meet up.
There are a few 'baby' Elans in the Atlanta area of course and you'll get to know those guys (Frank, Greg, etc.) soon.
I really like your car's colour and would love to see it in the flesh! You're welcome to come see mine too and I'm more than happy to lend whatever help I can if you need it. PM me and let's talk more.
rgh0 wrote: I have seen photos of twin Servo US Elans with them both located in the nose ahead of the radiator compared to the Plus 2 where they were located on the left of the engine bay like this car.
Hope that clear the confusion. Let me know tks.


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En 2022 eligió a su autoridad municipal mediante el sufragio secreto y universal.

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神經再生醫學博士學位學程
臨床醫學研究所
Carnosine, a common dipeptide in mammals, has previously been shown to dissemble alpha-crystallin amyloid fibrils. To date, the dipeptide's anti-fibrillogensis effect has not been thoroughly characterized in other proteins. For a more complete understanding of carnosine's mechanism of action in amyloid fibril inhibition, we have investigated the effect of the dipeptide on lysozyme fibril formation and induced cytotoxicity in human neuroblastoma SH-SY5Y cells. Our study demonstrates a positive correlation between the concentration and inhibitory effect of carnosine against lysozyme fibril formation. Molecular docking results show carnosine's mechanism of fibrillogenesis inhibition may be initiated by binding with the aggregation-prone region of the protein. The dipeptide attenuates the amyloid fibril-induced cytotoxicity of human neuronal cells by reducing both apoptotic and necrotic cell deaths. Our study provides solid support for carnosine's amyloid fibril inhibitory property and its effect against fibril-induced cytotoxicity in SH-SY5Y cells. The additional insights gained herein may pave way to the discovery of other small molecules that may exert similar effects against amyloid fibril formation and its associated neurodegenerative diseases.
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已發佈 - 十二月 11 2013
生物化學、遺傳與分子生物學 (全部)
農業與生物科學 (全部)
多學科
深入研究「Carnosine's effect on amyloid fibril formation and induced cytotoxicity of lysozyme」主題。共同形成了獨特的指紋。
Carnosine Chemical Compounds 100%
carnosine Agriculture & Biology 97%
Amyloid Fibril Chemical Compounds 79%
Muramidase Medicine & Life Sciences 77%
Dipeptides Medicine & Life Sciences 69%
lysozyme Agriculture & Biology 66%
dipeptides Agriculture & Biology 64%
Amyloid Medicine & Life Sciences 63%
Wu, J. W., Liu, K. N., How, S. C., Chen, W. A., Lai, C. M., Liu, H. S., Hu, C. J., & Wang, S. S. S. (2013). Carnosine's effect on amyloid fibril formation and induced cytotoxicity of lysozyme. PLoS ONE, 8(12), [e81982]. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0081982
Carnosine's effect on amyloid fibril formation and induced cytotoxicity of lysozyme. / Wu, Josephine W.; Liu, Kuan Nan; How, Su Chun; Chen, Wei An; Lai, Chia Min; Liu, Hwai Shen; Hu, Chaur Jong; Wang, Steven S.S.
於: PLoS ONE, 卷 8, 編號 12, e81982, 11.12.2013.
Wu, JW, Liu, KN, How, SC, Chen, WA, Lai, CM, Liu, HS, Hu, CJ & Wang, SSS 2013, 'Carnosine's effect on amyloid fibril formation and induced cytotoxicity of lysozyme', PLoS ONE, 卷 8, 編號 12, e81982. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0081982
Wu JW, Liu KN, How SC, Chen WA, Lai CM, Liu HS 等. Carnosine's effect on amyloid fibril formation and induced cytotoxicity of lysozyme. PLoS ONE. 2013 12月 11;8(12). e81982. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0081982
Wu, Josephine W. ; Liu, Kuan Nan ; How, Su Chun ; Chen, Wei An ; Lai, Chia Min ; Liu, Hwai Shen ; Hu, Chaur Jong ; Wang, Steven S.S. / Carnosine's effect on amyloid fibril formation and induced cytotoxicity of lysozyme. 於: PLoS ONE. 2013 ; 卷 8, 編號 12.
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About Nat Torkington
Nine to Noon: 12 August 2009
August 12, 2009 – 12:25 pm
I went through two telephones in this Colorado house and neither of them could hold onto the call. Now that's frustrating! Here's what I was going to speak about:
I will talk about recent American software company acquisitions and what it tells us about the economy and the future direction of cloud computing. Then I'll tell you how to teach your kids to program.
Links: FriendFeed acquired by Facebook (BusinessWeek), SpringSource acquired by VMWare (InfoWorld), Poison for Venture Capital (NY Times), the Scratch visual programming language.
FriendFeed and Facebook
Facebook's the biggest social network: more than 250m active users, with >120M logging on every day. They get a billion photos each month. It's huge. But a person might belong to plenty of other social networks: Twitter, MySpace, they might have their own blog or two, they put photos on Flickr, …. It's very easy to have a decentralised identity these days: my Internet presence isn't just what I post on nathan.torkington.com, there's much more.
Friendfeed was an aggregator–it gave you one page to track all the things your friends do on many different sites. It looked a bit like the Facebook event stream, and so one of the rumours that went around after the acquisition was "Facebook bought it because they do a better job of presenting information to the user". To get to the bottom of that, you should know why companies buy other companies.
There are four reasons: technology, HR, customers, and optics. A technology acquisition is where the company being bought has something new and hot, and the acquiring company wants it. Google often buys companies for their technology–they just bought one that does better video encoding over the web, which can save them millions in bandwidth bills because of all the traffic that YouTube does. An HR acquisition is where the company being bought has good people but no good technology. Buying for customers means you want to sell your technology into a new market and the company you're buying has connections in that market. Optics is a fancy way of saying "we sold it so nobody feels bad about the company closing".
Friendfeed was an HR acquisition. We know this because (a) they said so, and (b) the team is being split up. If the technology were good, they'd keep the team together working on the technology. So don't expect Facebook to start looking like Friendfeed any time soon.
This acquisition is notable because FriendFeed was started by a big-name crew of former Google employees. They made Google maps hackable, they built GMail, they …. Google didn't want to see them leave, but they were determined to set out on their own. Now they've been bought by Facebook, the company that Google worries more about than they worry about Microsoft. It shows that brilliance isn't enough to create great products and make lots of money.
SpringSource and VMWare
Imagine you're a website developer. You need to test your website on three or four versions of Internet Explorer and Firefox, several versions of Windows and Mac. Do you have one computer for each possible combination? No, you make your computer pretend to be a computer running Windows 95, or Mac OS 10.1, and the most popular software to do this is VMWare. It lets you run one or more "virtual" computers in your one real computer.
This is hugely popular with "cloud computing", where a company runs a big data center full of real computers. They rent you just enough computer to get your job done, and they handle all the hard bits of backup, keeping the site airconditioned, swapping out broken hardware, etc. They use VMWare and software like it so give you a virtual computer that's "just enough" of the physical computer for your needs. That way they can rent the same physical computer to several customers, each getting just enough compute for their needs.
VMWare just bought SpringSource, who made tools that make it easier to write big programs in Java. Lots of people used SpringSource. This was definitely a technology acquisition, because VMWare wants to own as much of the software bits of cloud computing as possible. So they bought the leading Java tools company, they'll make sure it works VERY well on their cloud virtualisation software, and now there's ANOTHER reason to use VMWare when you shop for or set up a cloud … you get more pieces of the puzzle, and they all work well together.
So you might think that this means it's all good and there's lots of money floating around in Silicon Valley and the VCs are all happy as Larry. You'd be wrong. The piece in the New York Times that I've put in the links refutes this nicely.
If you're a VC, you put money in when a company is small so that it can become big and you make lots of money when it sells. Venture-funded companies often go through several "rounds" named after letters: you get the A round from the first set of investors, then a few years later you com e back and say "we've grown nicely, please pony up to get us to the next stage" and those same investors and maybe new ones will kick in more money in your B round, and so it goes until you're bought by another company or you IPO.
At each round there's a "valuation" — the rather arbitrary amount of money that the company is worth. It's arbitrary because often they don't have any sales. You're forced to come up with a number so you can decide how many shares the new investors get. There's an art to it, some rough guides (number of users, even if they're not paying; size of the market), but there's one thing you don't want to see happening … and it's been happening.
Valuations have been going down.
A "down round" is where a company comes back for a B round and the market says "yeah, actually, last round you were smoking crack and thought it was a $10M company. Now we look at it and we think it's only a $5M company". The investor that kicked in $1M in the last round got 10% of the shares (1M invested, 10M company worth), The same investor coming into THIS round gets 20% of the shares (1M invested, company only worth 5M). AND if the company sells for its valuation, the early round investor has LOST money.
This is, as the article says, poison — VCs take risks, but nobody wants to put money in if the investments are losing money.
As if that's not bad enough, nobody's cashing out — there aren't IPOs, there are few and far between big sales. This is the VC version of the liquidity problem hitting the global markets: you need to be able to sell the company you've invested in, so you can get money back to return profits to your own investors and then to start the next round of investments. If nobody buys your company, and you can't IPO, you're stuck with your money locked into a company where, to be honest, it's doing you no good.
In short, still grim times in Silicon Valley.
For the last two years I've been using a system called Scratch to teach 7 and 8 year old kids to program. It's ridiculously easy and fun. It's free, developed out of MIT and it really is programming, it's not a sham.
Scratch is visual: you don't type in programs, you assemble them from little blocks. You can't write something the computer can't run: if two blocks aren't meant to go together, their shape is such that they can't be forced to go together. Compare this to typing programs in, which kids are slow at and hate, where a single typo can make your program unusable and the error messages are rarely useful.
You see a stage on which there's a cat. The cat's a "sprite", a character, and characters can have costumes. You assemble scripts that make the characters do things: move, talk, change colour, lay down tracks, react to the mouse or keyboard. You can record and play your own sounds, draw your own characters, set up lots of characters interacting, and even write games.
Kids love it. Boys on the whole want to write games, and there are a lot of sample games that come with Scratch so they can see how to do it. Girls on the whole more interested in getting a lot of characters interacting and telling stories.
I teach classes in the same way: show them two or three simple scripts that make the cat walk back and forth across the screen, or change direction to chase the mouse, and then make it say "got it" when it catches the mouse. Then they've seen decisions, how to repeat things, how to get positions and other values, and that's the basis of many of the programs.
Try it. If you've got kids and have wondered "what's the best way to get them doing something more with the computer than just looking at YouTube", show them Scratch.
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Fun though it may be to live in that stage of life where responsibilities are low and freedom is high, college life can still get quite tasking on the youth. Just when you tick off a task from your checklist, another deadline comes your way sucking out the excitement college life has to offer. When students hardly seem to catch a break, they are bound to feel bogged down by the workload which may possibly have serious effects on their mental health. But prevention is always better than cure and it's best, as a student, to nip the problem at it's bud by seeking out ways to cope with the bustle of college.
First and foremost, it is important to recognize the difference between stress and anxiety. Similar though they may be in their symptoms, they are not the same. Nowadays, people very loosely interchange the two conditions. They are different when it comes to the time period for which they last and their effects on one's mental health.
Stress is usually taken as a negative but what people don't know is that stress is of two types – Eustress and Distress. Eustress refers to the mild alarm sounded to push yourself into meeting those deadlines. This is a positive stress, important for getting tasks done. But the problem arises when people aren't able to come down from this heightened state of arousal, making it difficult to function on a daily basis. The state of distress results in the impairment of effective daily functioning such as messed up sleep cycles, change in appetite, weight loss or gain, inability to concentrate, etc. If this is left unchecked, it can lead to a mental disorder like anxiety.
Anxiety is characterized by an excessive amount of worry and tenseness of both past and future events. Unlike distress which usually subsides after the task is complete, anxiety lasts for months on end and does not necessarily arise when a deadline is at hand. Anxiety affects almost all areas of life including relationships and one's own health.
Everyone has their own personal way of relieving themselves of stress. What might work well for one person, might possibly be futile for another. The trick is to figure out your own personal stress buster. But, nevertheless, there are some techniques that you can't go wrong with.
It is important to get your sleep cycle back to normal. If you've spent the last few nights frantically finishing last minute work, sleeping earlier for the next few days should get your body clock back to normal. Avoid using your mobile device at night as it affects to quality of your sleep.
It's no surprise that organising yourself better will help take some of the load off. Your mind is more at ease when your time is evenly distributed to meet deadlines.
Taking time away from the hustle and bustle of things will give your mind a breather. You have the liberty to choose what activities you find relaxing. It could be listening to music, reading or a hobby. You're good to go as long as the activity doesn't require too much brain effort.
Using your down time to find yourself is a great way to practice mindfulness. It is technique in which one detaches themselves from the rest of the world and focuses on self-discovery and self-awareness. Journaling can help gather one's thoughts and gain some release after a hard week.
No, I don't mean getting someone else to get work done for you. It is crucial to talk about what you are going through with a trustworthy mate. It can often be very therapeutic to share your feelings, knowing that someone understands your struggles.
Before you begin to see things getting out of hand and find yourself functioning inefficiently, seeking professional help is always advisable. Colleges are equipped with counselors and psychologists that deal with problems like stress and anxiety. Medication prescribed by a psychiatrist is advisable in extreme cases of anxiety disorders.


This statistic shows the revenue of other accommodation in Greece from 2010 to 2015, with a forecast to 2022. It is projected that the revenue of other accommodation in Greece will amount to approximately 31.7 million U.S. dollars by 2022.
The industry classification is based on the NACE Rev. 2 - system in Greece. The industry "other accommodation" has the code "I5590".


Men's Crew is on the move!
The Redhawks are proud to announce a partnership with Lake Union Crew as the new home of Seattle University Men's Rowing for the 2018-2019 season.
Located on the shores of Lake Union with dock access that provides sweeping views of Gasworks park and downtown Seattle, LUC offers an array of amenities which will help usher in a new chapter of Redhawk rowing. In addition to serving as the shell house of SU Men's Crew, LUC also contains a weightlifting, plyometrics, and yoga studio all within the confines of its' Queen Anne facility. Lastly, a brand new erg room is scheduled to be completed before the start of the fall season.
Accessible via a 3.5-mile car or bike ride from the heart of Seattle University's campus means shorter commutes and longer rowing sessions on the water, as well as the promise of year-round two-a-day practices for varsity.
The move marks an exciting new period of growth for Seattle U as the team looks to revamp its development strategy for both the varsity and novice programs. Head coach Nichole Martin, joined by new novice coach Lauran Woodward, is busy fine-tuning the schedule for the 2018-2019 season as SU Men's Crew expects to double its varsity roster size to 16, taking full advantage of its spacious new home in the heart of rowing capital of the North West.


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Q: Is there a way to start gdb up in single-key mode? When I start up gdb, the first thing I do is hit C-x, s to go into single-key mode. A startup option would be nice to have, or a .gdbinit command.

A: As far as I know, there isn't one.
Your best bet is to file a bug in the gdb bugzilla.

A: I recommend you to check it out carefully on GDB Manual, if there is no such command, you can just modify GDB source code to do it, or write a command-line-file-for-gdb, and use -x option to start gdb.