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Should I Write A Book?… (Huge Announcement)
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What's up, everybody. This is Russell Brunson. Welcome back to Marketing Secrets Podcast. That beep means I need to put my seatbelt on before I drive away. And I am here today to answer the question, should you write a book? Today, something that has been on my mind is this question I get asked a lot, which is, should I write a book? And it's funny because, as you guys know, I've written three books. One of them was a New York Times bestseller. Woohoo! So that's pretty exciting. But it's funny because I never was a writer. I didn't want to be a writer. I hated writing in school. Even to this day, someone asked me, two days ago actually, he said, "Russell, do you like writing books?" I was like, "No, writing books is horrible. It is the most painful process of all time." And so, no, I do not like to write books, yet I've written three, and I'm probably going to write more.
And people ask, "Well, why would you do that?" I'm like, "Well, it's the most painful process part of all the things I do." It's the hardest thing to do, but at the same time, it's also the thing that live the longest, that lives beyond yourself, that lasts, especially if you write a book that matters. I know there's a lot of people who teach how to write a book really fast, and I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about should you write a book that's going to be your legacy, the thing that people are going to remember you by? And a couple of things, I remember when I first got started, it was about 18 years ago, I remember going to events where people were selling the dream of, "You need to write a book. It's going to give you credibility," all these things.
And so I put it in my head, I want to write a book. But I didn't for almost 10 years. But I remember when I started, I was like, "I'm going to write a book. It's going to be called Dot Com Secrets, because I don't know why. I just love that name." A lot of people told me they hated it. In fact, Jeff, Walker was like, "It's the worst name of a book ever." But whatever, I still like it. So anyway, I decided I'm going to write a book. I remember there was something cool about just in my head knowing that I'm writing a book. Even though I hadn't actually written anything, I just was like, "Okay, well, what's the outline? What's the table of contents? What's it going to look like? What should I write?" I started brainstorming it. But there was something when I flipped the switch to I was writing a book that just became exciting. I don't know.
And I remember after I got done and I was like, "This is so hard. I'll never write a book again." But then when I decided I'm going to read Expert Secrets, there was something magical. I don't know. Maybe it's the romance of being an author and writing, and I don't know all that stuff, but there was something magical where I was like, "I'm writing again," and I got in that fun stage. And the same thing with Traffic Secrets, the romance. And I remember after each book, I was like, "I'll never write a book again. I'll never write a book again." But about the time that I got done the Expert Secrets book, I was hanging out with Brendan Bouchard. He's written, I don't know, a ton of books. And I remember he told me, he's like, "No, you're an author." He's like, "You just write a book every two years. That's just how it works. For the rest of your life, you should do that." And I was like, "Huh, interesting."
And it took me a while, I'm not going to lie. Almost until I decided to do Traffic Secrets. After that, I was like, "All right, I'm going to do that. That's going to be a thing where I'm going to read a book every two years for the rest of my life." And so when Traffic Secrets got to the end, I was burned out because it was a brutal one. Plus, as some of you know, after finishing Traffic Secrets, I went back and I rewrote Dotcom Secrets and I rewrote Expert Secrets. So that was a season of too many words, hundreds of thousands of words. And I was just like, "I don't know if I can keep doing it." It was hard. So I haven't written anything in, it's been over a year. Holy cow. Weird. Yeah, because basically 2020 happened. We blinked and 2020 happened, and now we're back right now it's February of 2021, and I haven't written anything. So it's been over a year. It was just crazy.
Anyway, I tell you this because I knew my next book what I want it to be, and I've told you guys on this podcast it's called Bootstrap. This is going to be the ClickFunnels story. And I'm excited. The problem is I also know, to write that book, it's going to be big and overwhelming and there's a lot that goes into it. And while I've started the process of it, I just know it's probably a two to three year project, if I'm honest with myself, because I have to learn how to write it a different style. It's not a how to book. It's like a storybook. And I want to sync it to The Hero With A Thousand Faces and all these story arcs. I interview 1000 people because I want to get everybody's perspective. I don't want to tell the story from my perspective. I want to tell it from everybody's perspective.
And so that's one that's big. Plus, I don't have an ending to the story yet. What's the ending of the story? "And then we were happy." No, it's got to be awesome. "And then we went public," or, "Then we whatever," something cool. So I'm still waiting for the ending of the story. So it was hard to write the beginning if you don't know the ending and I'm hoping the book's not going to be a tragedy. I don't think it will be, but you never know. I don't know. I don't have a full picture, so I can't write that one yet. Although, I do know that is my legacy project of like telling the ClickFunnels story and how we did it all kind of stuff. So I sit back and I know that I have a lot of friends that have written personal development books. I've never wanted to do a personal development book, but there's something that, man, for almost probably nine or 10 months now it's been in my thoughts and I keep thinking about it, keep thinking about it, keep thinking about it.
And yesterday I was like, "What if I just wrote that book first?" And then I was like, "Huh? It'd be a lot easier to write. I could get it done. We could launch it next year. It could be out in the world." But is it worth writing? I don't want to write a book just to write a book. A lot of people just write a book because, "Oh, I need a book." I want to write a book that's going to change people. That 500 years now people will reference it. That's the kind of book I want to write. So it's just like, can I make this something that's amazing, that's different, that's unique, that's not the same conversation, but it's a different conversation that'll inspire and help people for a long time? And so that's been the questions going through my head. And recently I figured out the title of it, and then I bought the domain, which was not cheap. So I bought the domain for it. And then it was, "Okay, this could be a thing."
So yesterday I reached out to somebody who I know who actually designed the very first Dot Com Secrets book covers. He's name is Rob Secades. And I was like, "Rob, I'm thinking about writing a book. Do you want to design the cover for me?" And he got all excited. I got all excited. I'm like, "Ah!" So now he's designing the cover of the book. And now officially, as soon as that conversation ended, in my head, I was like, "I'm writing a book. I haven't even told my wife about it yet." Gosh, she's going to freak out. I almost want to not tell her and then just be like, "Hey, it's done," when it's done, because she knows the pain that I go through to write a book. But that got me excited, and then I emailed our publisher and was like, "Hey, if I wrote a book on this, would you be interested?" And this morning I got emailed back and he's like, "Heck yeah, that'd be amazing." He was freaking out and, "Let's do this thing,"
And he's like, "To hit the dates you want to sell this thing by here's when we have to have the manuscript back and everything." And I was like, "Oh," and now I'm sitting in my car, out front of the office excited because officially the switch has been turned on. I'm writing my next book and I'm not going to tell you what it is yet. But I do want to tell you that there's this weird energy that comes with it. And so to come back to the question initially for you guys, which is, should you write a book? The answer is a deafening yes. You should write a book. Same questions, well, when should I start writing it? I would propose you start writing it today. You've just got to flip the switch. When you start flipping the switch, these last 24 hours, my mind has been trying to figure out, what's this book? What's it look like? What's the outline? What's unique? What's different? What's the frameworks we're going to use?
The swirling in your head, in your mind, and all these things, I'm like, "Oh, it's amazing." So if I was you, I would commit, "I'm going to write a book." And you don't have to write today, and maybe you hate writing, and that's okay. But just, "I'm going to write a book." And if you're like, "What's the title going to be?" And then I would hire someone to go create the book cover, because for me at least I can't design a site until I've got a logo. I don't know. I'm very visual that way. But I see a book cover and it's like, "Oh my gosh, I can see the tangible thing that people will be holding in their hands someday to make this real." And then your mind will start looking for the answers like, "Okay, what is this going to look like? What's page one? What's the first section? What's the second section? What's chapter one, two, three? Where do I want to take people? What's the mission of this book? What's the goal? All those things.
Maybe somebody I'll write a whole course on how to write a book because that could be a fun thing too. But for now, I just want you think about that. If you start, you'll start opening your mind to the ideas. And even if it takes you 10 years to write a book, that's okay. But now you're putting things down. I remember Matt Fury told me one time, he's like, "If you wake up every morning and you write two pages a day," he's like, "that's 700 and whatever pages a year." He's like, "That's three books a year." So even if you say, I'm just going to write one page a day. If you wrote one page a day, that's 365. That's a big book. It gives you tons of time to take weekends off and whatever. But if you wake up and say, "Everyday, I'm going to write one page a day," if you do that consistently, within eight, nine months, you've got a book done, which is exciting. And there's something magical in the romance of just saying, "Hey, what are you up to you?" "I'm writing a book." "What? You are?"
"Yeah. I'm writing a book," which is crazy exciting. So anyway, I just want to put that out there. I do think everyone should read a book. I think one of our missions for all of us on this earth is to come down to this earth and we have an opportunity to help other people. You've heard me talk about this a lot. I believe that entrepreneurship is all of us has been called to serve a group of people. So the first part is identifying who are the people I've been called to serve, and then you find them and say, "How do I serve?" And you start looking through those things. And then I feel like one of our other role roles is, we're going through this life experience, we're learning all these things, and we're having experiences and tests and trials and problems and reading books, we're studying things, and I think part of our job is to curate your learning. It's like all the stuff you experience in this life, we should be curating those things.
And you can be curating for yourself, for your spouse, for your kids, for your kids' kids, for your grandkids, the people you've been called to serve, whatever it is. We've all been here given our own unique minds, our own brains, our own experiences, and I think so many times we go through life and experience stuff, which gives us growth, but then we never actually leave anything behind to contribute to the next set of people, the people after us who were coming, who are like, I'm on the earth now. Does anyone got a playbook for how to navigate this?" And so all the growth that you went through, all the things you learn, all the things you experience, like all this stuff, if you don't leave a playbook behind for somebody else, oh, what a tragedy. If you look at, and I'm going to talk about this in my new book, by the way, but one of my favorite principles from Tony Robbins is the six human needs.
And there's the needs of the body and the needs of the spirit, and I'm going to go deep into it right now, but there's four needs of the body and there's two needs of the spirit. And the two needs of the spirit are growth, number one, and then contribution. I think most people here on this earth get to the spot where you figure out the needs of the body and then you can move to the next tier, and now you start focusing on growth, which is your personal development. I think so many people go through that, and it's amazing. But then the most fulfilling, the last step in this process, is contribution, which is now you're leaving something behind. How do you contribute to other people? All the growth you've gone through, what's the purpose of it? And if you don't leave something behind, then so much of the things you went through is in vain, because it only affected you.
And so I want to argue that at that as much as I love the romance of writing a book, I think a bigger part is you creating this thing that gives you the ability to contribute your life's lessons back. And so I'm excited for this new book for me, because it's not that I know the answers to these questions, but it's been a question that I've been chasing for the last decade. And I think that I've gotten further to the answer than most people who have had a chance to be on this planet yet I think it's something that everyone who's been on this planet should understand. If I can give you a treasure map that gets you there faster, it'd be a disservice if I didn't. And so that's why I'm writing this next book, and I'm pumped and I'm excited. And I hope that, first off, you're excited for the book.
I'm not going to tell you the title or the name or anything. I just want you to freak out with me a little bit. Ah, freak out. But more importantly, because I think if I told you the title and all stuff it would distract from what I want you to think about, which is yourself, which is like all the growth you're going through right now, what's the contribution you're going to leave behind? And so think about that, okay, based on that, I'm going to write a book. And it may be a decade process, but I'm going to start the process so I can tell people, if they to ask me, "What are you doing?" "I'm writing a book?" "What? How cool is that?" I'm like, "What are you doing?" "Nothing." "How you feeling?" "Okay." If they're not doing anything, they're not creating anything, so it's like, most people's lives are so boring and static and just like, blah.
But we're creators, we're entrepreneurs. We're the crazy ones. We need to be creating or else we're dying. And so just that process of somebody asking, "What are you doing?" "I'm writing a book." "Really? You're writing a book? What's it about? Tell me about it." It opens up this excitement and this energy and gets your mind spinning, and there's so many cool, exciting things for you. So should you write a book? The answer is, yes. You've gone through too much to not share it with the people you love. Even if nobody reads it, maybe one person reads it, would it be worth it? Yeah. If one person can learn from the things that you experienced and that can change their life, it was totally worth you documenting the process and turning it into a manual, even if it's for that one person. And if you follow the process I teach you guys with the free plus shipping funnels and all that kind of stuff, you can get into a lot more people's hands and hopefully help thousands or tens of thousands or millions or more. And that ripple effect will be because you decided to contribute, which is exciting.
So, all right, that's all I got. I'm out for the day. I'm going to go start outlining my new book. So excited. Appreciate you guys for listening. If you enjoyed this episode, if you're writing a book, take a snapshot on your phone of this. You just push the two phone buttons. Boom. It takes a picture. Post that picture up to Instagram or Facebook or any of the other social platforms that you chill on. And tag me and tell me that you're committed to writing a book. I'd love to see it. Appreciate you all. Thanks for listening and I'll talk to y'all soon. Bye, everybody.


A medical student who loves football. Any free time I have is usually dedicated to football. I support Al Ahly and Real Madrid (Al Ahly comes first of course). Contrary to popular belief, I believe that females enjoy football as much as males do; I am a living proof :D Proud that I am writing for King Fut.


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This project is funded by a R21 grant from the NIH Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease.
The study of the human microbiome, with its multitudes of host-associated organisms, holds great promise for increasing our understanding of human health and disease. With its fragmented sequence data unlinked from genome of origin information, the particular challenge of metagenomics is how to provide reliable functional annotation and taxonomic assignment. Here we address these issues by leveraging existing profile hidden Markov models (HMMs) of functionally characterized gene families. Instead of relying on fragment matches to full-length genes or gene models, we will determine which segments of gene models are capable of high-quality annotations of function and origin, and focus on those. By this approach, the portions of the gene models that have low sequence conservation or have variable insertion/gap length (tending towards low recall), or those that are composed of sequence shared among multiple gene families and functions (tending towards low precision) are systematically eliminated, increasing overall signal-to-noise. The high-quality segments of the models (?mini? HMMs) will be our analytical tools. Using these methods we hope to provide robust approach that frees metagenomics from the limitations of assembly-first strategies, and thereby provide access to information about the numerous low-abundance species in complex biological samples. We will use bacterial single-copy genes as taxonomic markers, and will produce a database of these genes from high-quality genomes. We expect to identify ~80 suitable marker genes, determined for several thousand genomes. For each of these genes, we will produce a corresponding reference phylogenetic tree. In the course of producing these resources, the existing models (TIGRFAMs and Pfam HMMs) will be updated based on the current set of reference genomes and a constant, state-of-the-art construction process. These resources, and any software we produce will be made available through our public website. With these methods and resources, we will obtain taxonomic profiles, investigate genes of interest and devise methods for linking those genes to the taxa in the profile. We will utilize real and synthetic metagenomes to perform validation of the methods, and establish statistical confidence metrics for our results.
Aim 1: Develop a single copy gene-based, read-by-read method for the accurate and quantitative determination of bacterial taxa present in metagenome samples.
We will first develop an up-to-date database of single-copy bacterial genes, and high-quality sequenced genomes that contain all such genes. Using this reference and protein sequence HMM methods, we will discover short marker regions and corresponding "mini" HMMs that have superior recall and precision in the detection of single-copy genes from read-sized sequence fragment data. Based on the mHMM performance, we will identify regions (PhyloBlocks) that have the additional quality of being able to discriminate most bacterial genera in phylogenetic placement procedures. Reference phylogenetic trees based on these regions (concatenated) for each marker gene will be calculated. Existing tree-placement methods will work with these alignements to make phylogenetic placements of mHMM-derived metagenoic sequences and determine confidence values for those assignments. Finally, we will use synthetic and natural metagenome datasets to test, calibrate and validate these methods.
Aim 2: Apply the methods of Aim 1 to taxonomically restricted genes of interest from metagenome samples, and develop methods for the association of those genes with the taxa identified through the methods developed in Aim 1.
Genes of interest in human microbiome studies (for instance: toxins, antibiotic resistance genes, inflammatory factors or oxidative stress-response genes) will not be shared by all taxa of bacteria, and unlike universal genes, may have been subject to lateral gene transfer. Subsequently, genes may be discovered that do not appear to correspond closely to taxa in the set of known genes of interest, due to sparsity in the reference trees, or gene loss events and subsequent incomplete knowledge of the gene's true taxonomic profile. Conversely, due to lateral gene transfer, a gene of interest may appear to be closely related to a member of the gene of interest profile, but yet actually reside within the genome of an entirely distinct organism. We will investigate methods for constraining the taxonomic placement of reads from genes of interest based on the global taxonomic profile of the sample (from single-copy marker genes), and the inferred abundances of the organisms encoding the genes of interest.
This research is funded through award(s) Improved Analysis of Metagenomes through the application of Read-Sized Profile HMMs to Marker Gene Subsequences.


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Достойное существование
Достойное существование – это особая категория, характеризующая свободу прав человека в финансовом, экономическом, социальном, политическом, духовном, юридическом смысле.

Право на достойное человеческое существование, хоть юридически и закреплено и выступает как требование, но не имеет единых критериев, поскольку, ни один из мерил не обладает какой – либо значимостью.

Например: Человек живущий в сельской местности нуждается в меньших затратах, чем человек живущий в большом городе. Но следует заметить, что в данном случае речь идет о таком показателе, который связан с финансовым и экономическим ресурсом. Определение достойного существования имеет очень спорную оценку и в разных источниках литературы трактуется по-разному. Поэтому прийти к единому мнению, что же такое достойное существование пока не удалось.

О термине «Достойное существование» писали: Е.Н. Викторук, Е.А. Лукашева, Б.В. Емельянов, Ю.Г. Ершов, B.C. Соловьёв, П.И. Новгородцев.

Литература
Права человека. Энциклопедический словарь./ отв. ред.С.С.Алексеев.,М.: Изд-во Норма, 2016 г.

Права человека

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Reducing sleep by 1/3rd for 10 days boosted DNA damage by 247% in the liver, 145% in gut & 166% in lungs (in mice).
The damage could be repaired by two days of catch-up sleep. DNA repair enzymes were significantly decreased in sleep-deprived animals. This is no surprise because repair mechanisms occur during sleep.


*A refers to the instantaneous coefficient of thermal expansion of Monel 400 with an unit of 10-6in./in./°F.
*B refers to the mean coefficient of thermal expansion of Monel 400 with an unit of 10-6in./in./°F.
*The tabulated temperature values shall be interpreted as "going from 70°F to the indicated temperature".
*C refers to the linear thermal expansion of Monel 400 with an unit of in./100 ft.
ASTM B164 UNS N04400, hot rolled bars 50mm x 1.2m, annealed.
The tabulated data in above 3 tables are for information and it is not to be implied that Monel 400 materials are suitable for all temperature ranges shown.


It's always great fun at BWP Christmas Party. The venue at The Crazy Bear, Stadhampton was amazing! Below you can see some of my photos as well as a short video which captured company's end of year celebrations.


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Q: Shadow DOM styles encapsulation I want to create a Chrome extension which will inject a widget into a web page.
My widget must have a consistent style when injected on any page. Afaik, the best way to achieve this is to use Shadow DOM.
It seems that by design Shadow DOM styles inherits from parent's page styles. One have to use all:initial CSS property for host element to prevent parent page's styles leak into the shadow DOM styles.
So, I have a sample code:
(function addWidget() {
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  let mount = document.createElement('div');
  rootEl.appendChild(mount);
  let shadowRoot = mount.attachShadow({mode: 'open'});
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If you open Chrome's dev tools and execute this code in the console, it'll work as expected on most websites. But on some websites (like reddit.com) the styles are still inherited from the parent page.

What changes I have to make to be sure that the widget's styles will be consistent across all web pages.

A: wOxxOm gave the correct answer:

Use mount.style.cssText='all:initial' instead of :host

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Emergency backup helps keep lessons going
By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor
Hurricane-force winds and pelting rain can wreak havoc on a campus's IT infrastructure. At Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Fla., where tropical storms are common, acting IT director John Duff and his staff maintain an off-site data center that keeps the school's computer systems running during and after the most vicious storms.
Eckerd's attention to data backup, as well as the expanded wireless access in its academic and residential buildings and its practice of fixing student and faculty computers free of charge, helped earn the college a top-10 spot last year in a list of "America's top wired colleges," published by the Princeton Review. Duff, who started at Eckerd College 12 years ago after working in the telecommunications industry, said the school's IT staff have found ways to improve on its technology services even further this year.
Eckerd's focus on continuing class schedules even in the aftermath of a hurricane, Duff said, is a point emphasized during freshmen orientation every August.
"We want to create that expectation even before [students] get here," said Duff, 55, who ran Eckerd's program for adult learners before taking charge of its IT staff a year and a half ago. "It's something that over the past five or six years has really been a priority for the college. We want to continue to have business as usual. … It's really crucial to us."
The 1,800-student campus hasn't been hit by a hurricane so far this year, but Duff recalled years when Eckerd faculty and students evacuated the campus as many as five times during the heart of hurricane season, from May to November.
"The campus has always been spared, though," Duff said, adding that Eckerd College sits about six feet above sea level during high tide on Florida's Gulf Coast. The college has tested the important switchover from on-campus servers to the off-site data system, and students are warned of the system-wide shift weeks ahead of the test.
Faculty and students still would have access to school eMail accounts during inclement weather, because the backup data center–located in nearby Tampa–runs Eckerd's eMail servers.
Eckerd was ranked seventh in the 2008 Princeton Review rankings partly because of its free PC diagnosis and repair workshop, where IT employees clean, repair, and upgrade from 30 to 40 student computers a month. Student IT staff members make house calls to dorms that have persistent problems with an internet connection.
Eckerd improved its wireless internet access this summer after a few student complaints last school year about weak signals in dormitories. An intern and a student IT worker mapped out residential areas where wireless signals were scant, and the school installed 44 more access points.
The demand for wireless internet access–as more and more students access the web through mobile devices such as iPhones–has changed dorm culture in recent years, Duff said. Some students aren't familiar with wired internet access.
"We tell them to plug in, and we'll have students who don't know what that means," Duff said with a laugh. "They're accustomed to having wireless access, which make us feel a little bit older around here. … We've seen it reach the stage where there's that level of expectation. It made us raise out eyebrows."
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America's Top Wired Colleges 2008

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Air Crew Europe Star
The Air Crew Europe Star was awarded for two months of operational flying from the UK over Europe.
This medal was issued between 03 September 1939 and 05 June 1944. It was not awarded after D-Day. The Air Crew Europe Star may not be awarded until the 1939-1945 Star has been qualified for by 2 months service in an air operational unit. The total requirement to earn both stars is four months.
The six–pointed star is yellow copper zinc alloy.
The obverse has a central design of the Royal and Imperial cypher, surmounted by a crown. The cypher is surrounded by a circlet containing the words 'The Air Crew Europe Star'. Stars issued to Australian personnel have recipient names engraved on the plain reverse.
The ribbon is light blue with black edges with narrow yellow stripes between the blue and black, representing continuous service by day and night.
ATLANTIC or FRANCE AND GERMANY.
Regulations only allow one bar to be worn with the Star. When the ribbon is worn alone a silver rosette ribbon emblem is worn to denote the award of a bar.


Last night we hosted our annual charity event, Art with Heart, with all proceeds going to Tomorrow Man. Tomorrow Man was founded by Tom Harkin and is supported through auspice by Gotcha4Life. Currently in Australia suicide is the largest killer of men aged 15 – 44, (6 Australian men every day, one man every three hours). The goal of Tomorrow Man is to work toward changing this through programs that benefit men's/boys mental health. Please click on this link to see Tom in action.
It was a successful evening with a great turn out of people, thanks to all who joined us.
The theme for this year's exhibition was 'Gravity'. Here are some pieces which were up for auction last night, you can view the whole collection on our Facebook page.
We had so many wonderful artists donate this year which has led to a very successful evening as most artworks have now been sold. We will be contacting the successful bidders soon however if you wish to snap up some great pieces still available, please visit our Truly Deeply Facebook gallery .
We look forward to selling the remaining pieces of art over the next month and presenting a nice big cheque for Tomorrow Man.
We would also like to say a big thank you to our generous sponsors who donate their products and services in support of the event – we couldn't hold such a successful evening without them.
Great initiative Tom – please let us know whenever you are doing this again, as Six Degrees Executive would love to be involved.


The latest edition of the Banking Code, the voluntary consumer-protection standard for UK banks, was released last week. The new code claims to "give customers the most up to date information on how to protect their accounts from fraud." This sounds like a worthy cause, but closer inspection shows customers could be worse off than they were before.
Clauses 12.5 and 12.9 include some debatable advice about anti-virus software and clicking on links in email (more on this in a later post). While malware and phishing emails are a serious fraud threat, it is unrealistic to suggest that home users' computers can be adequately secured to defeat attacks.
Fraud-detection algorithms are more likely to be effective, since they can examine patterns of transactions over all customers. However, these can only be deployed by the banks themselves.
Existing phishing schemes would be defeated by two-factor authentication, but UK banks have been notoriously slow at rolling out these, despite being widespread in many other European countries. Although not perfect, these defences might cause fraudsters to move to easier targets. Two-channel and transaction authentication techniques additionally give protection against man in the middle attacks.
Until the banks are made liable for fraud, they have no incentive to make a proper assessment as to the effectiveness of these protection measures. The new banking code allows the banks to further dump the cost of their omission onto customers.
When the person responsible for securing a system is not liable for breaches, the system is likely to fail. This situation of misaligned incentives is common, and here we see a further example. There might be a short-term benefit to banks of shifting liability, as they can resist introducing further security mechanisms for a while. However, in the longer term, it could be that moves like this will degrade trust in the banking system, causing everyone to suffer.
The House of Lords Science and Technology committee recognized this problem of the banking industry and recommended a statutory change (8.17) whereby banks would be held liable for electronic fraud. The new Banking Code, by allowing banks to dump yet more costs on the customers, is a step in the wrong direction.


Sangeet Mela is Australia's premiere Indian classical music and dance festival featuring both Hindustani and Carnatic styles. Sangeet Mela 2016 will feature renowned sitar maestro Pt Ravi Shankar's protégée, Shubhendra Rao and pioneer of the Indian cello Saskia Rao-de Haas in a sensational "East Marries West" performance.
Along with sensational tabla solo, divine Bharat Natyam dance with live ensemble, exquisite Carnatic and Hindustani vocals, gorgeous Mohiniattam dance, and much more, Sangeet Mela is a glorious celebration of the world's finest performance art forms, Indian classical music and dance.
Please note that all tickets will be $10 extra if purchased at the door. All general admission seats are unreserved. Gold/Silver seats will be allocated in order of purchase.
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Sangeet Mela 2016 is supported by the Lord Mayor's Suburban Initiative Fund and The Gabba Ward, and proudly sponsored by Platinum Sponsor SolarSpan, Australia's favourite all-in-one patio roof, insulation & ceiling, giving superior comfort & style to your outdoor area. Also supported by Supporting Organisation Sahaja Yoga Meditation, Silver Sponsors Homeopathy for Health (Rukmani Paliwal), Sitar Restaurant, Target Travels & Tours, Yoga With Yolanda, IGA Forest Lake, and Exclusive Media Sponsors Brisbane Indian Times and Australian Indian Radio. Sangeet Mela is organised by Sangeet Premi Club in conjunction with EthnoSuperLounge, and underwritten by a consortium of dedicated Indian classical music lovers including Australia-India Cultural Exchange Association, Tabla Wala Australia, and FinancialFirst.
Applications close Friday 22nd July, 2016. Winners will be informed by Friday 5th August, 2016.
Winners must be available to present 20 minutes performance (15 minutes for percussion) at Sangeet Mela 2016 on Saturday 3rd September at QLD Multicultural Centre, Kangaroo Point.
Open to applicants born after 3rd September 1991 (under 25 years old on the date of Brisbane Sangeet Mela). Previous Sangeet Premi Rising Star Award winners are not eligible. It is expected that applicants will be capable of performing at a high standard approaching professional level. We do not recommend that young children apply unless they are unusually talented.
Judging committee may not give an award in some categories if the quality of applications is deemed insufficient. The award may also be granted to any individual deemed worthy by the judging committee, although they may not have officially applied. In 2016 we hope to award 3-5 awards in the 8 overall categories.
Percussion (15 mins) – tabla or pakhawaj lehera accompanied by naghma.
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One of the oldest cities in the US, Hartford has a long history. The city has been dubbed as "the insurance capital of the world." This is the place where Colt started his famous gun company. The city became quite prominent to the economy of the country in the late 18th century with the influx of money from various industries. You must be wondering why we are telling you the history. The reason is that because of its history, the city of Hartford has some of the most flamboyant architecture in the world. Huge mansions and public buildings are the crowning jewels of this charismatic city. Book cheap flights to Hartford and uncover the forgotten gem of New England.
Often called the gateway to New England, the city of Hartford doesn't enjoy as much fame as its fellow New England cities. While Boston and New Haven have enjoyed a lot of fame and tourist footfall, Hartford has often been ignored. Not anymore, though. The city is becoming more and more attractive to tourists. After all, it is a beautiful city with a plethora of attractions.
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The beautiful Connecticut River runs along the western borders of the city, adding a serene charm. Trees of all kinds skirt the river banks and people can be seen picnicking at these spots. Every street is shaded by trees and there are plenty of parks to relax and sunbathe. Certain preserved wooded areas are also great for trekking and offer picturesque trails and tracks. You can ride around in a bike or just walk and take in all the peace and tranquility. All in all, the city is quite green. Grab last minute flight deals to the city and explore all the attractions Hartford is home to.
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Mark Twain said, "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." It only makes sense that once we are in Hartford, we pay homage to one of the greatest writers of all time.
Born as Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Mark Twain was the alias this legendary writer used while creating works such as Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He conceived, not surprisingly, both these literature giants in Hartford. Visit Mark Twain House and Museum for a better understanding of this author and his life. If you are not such a big fan, visit the house just for its aesthetic value. It is incredibly gorgeous. Make a hotel booking that is close to the Mark Twain House and Museum as the area has some spectacularly designed buildings.
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Humans have an unexplainable attraction to roses. A universal emblem of love, rose has been the theme of many a stories since humans have learned to write. No other flower has been written about so much and, therefore, it is only natural that one must visit a rose garden whenever possible. Especially when the rose garden in question is Elizabeth Park Rose Garden. The park opened its gates to public in the year 1904 making it the oldest municipal rose garden in the US. It is also the third largest in the country. A must visit for garden lovers. Rent a car and drive to the Elizabeth Park Rose Garden as the road leading to it witness almost negligible traffic and the way is aptly pretty.
When you are in a city as old as Hartford, there are many nation's firsts you come across. Wadsworth Atheneum is another such museum. Deemed as the oldest public art museum in the US, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art is housed in a Gothic Revival building. The building itself is iconic and has an elegant castle like feel to it. The museum houses over 50000 significant artwork. The styles of paintings displayed here range from impressionist, modernist to contemporary. The museum is said to be one of the largest art museums in the state of Connecticut. All these attributes have led to the museum being listed on the US National Register of Historical Places.
Hartford is not just famous for Mark Twain. The city is a delight for food lovers. The city's culinary expertise is almost as significant as its history. One restaurant that should always serve as the introduction to Hartford's food scene is ON20. The classy restaurant is located on the 20th floor and opens up to the splendid views of the Connecticut River. If you like a healthy dose of live music with your food, then head to Max Downtown. Book a low cost flight to Hartford and dine at some of the most exquisite restaurants in the city.


Also I re-learned the ABC language to figure out the bass tab and wrote a script to convert ABC to bass tab after work today so that I could play the damn thing.. It's been real.. and fun.
None of the words you wrote made sense to me, but your music reminds me of Sebadoh and that makes me happy. I don't know if that is win-win, or just win.
Thanks, Elmore. That makes my day. The original plan was to make a Joy Division sounding track, but I just plain ran out of time and had to upload everything as recorded and was a bit embarrassed.


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What Are The Best Bars and Pubs In Itaewon 2023
Looking for the best bars in Itaewon? Itaewon is located approximately 4KM from Seoul, but if you're heading out for a drink and have no interest in moving too far, it can help to know where the best bars are within walking distance!
In the coming years, it will be hard for anyone to ignore the city of Itaewon. Known for its vibrant nightlife and delicious food, the city is quickly becoming a favourite destination for tourists, expats and locals alike.
Itaewon, which is next to the sizable Yongsan American Garrison, was once despised by residents as a filthy, red-light neighbourhood. But in recent years, Itaewon and its neighbouring suburbs, including Kyunglidan and Haebangchong, have undergone a significant rebirth to fast become one of Seoul's trendiest neighbourhoods.
Along with cool lounge bars and some of Seoul's top party venues, this neighbourhood is home to several chic international restaurants. Itaewon emerges as one of Seoul's premier party districts after dark.
The audience is an intriguing patchwork of all identities and backgrounds, with a small but vibrant Muslim community (focused around Korea's only mosque), the LGBT community (with a number of well-known bars and clubs), and a diverse array of nationalities and cultures dispersed throughout.
The Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, one of Korea's top art museums, as well as a number of mid-range to upmarket restaurants and cafes can be found in Hannam-dong, which is toward the eastern end.
A History Of Itaewon
The Itaewon Stretch
Best Bars In Itaewon
Sam Ryan's Sports Bar
Prost Pub And Grill
The Grand Ole Osprey
Privilege Bar
Itaewon is the epicentre of Korean culture. Despite the recent relocation of American troops to Pyeongtaek, the area nevertheless retains its cosmopolitan history. The military installation, Haebangcheon (HBC) Village, nightclub district, and the surrounding affluent Hannam-dong street are Itaewon's most well-known attractions. All of these special locations are located at the foot of Namsan Mountain, cascading downhill to the stunning, sparkling Han River. It is hardly surprising, even by geographical standards, that both locals and visitors adore the region.
Itaewon developed into a retail area 20 years after the Korean War (1950–1953). International grocery markets, bargain clothing stores, foreign restaurants, and winding alleyways and alleys were all home to these establishments. Particularly in the 1990s, a huge inflow of people from the Middle East and Africa was observed, bringing with them their scrumptious culinary traditions. These eateries quickly gained a reputation for serving some of the city's best cuisine. Many of these businesses still remain today, along with Itaewon Antique Street, which primarily sells products from Europe and the United States. The prices in Itaewon are well-known for being high, despite the fact that it is one of Seoul's older neighbourhoods with many deteriorating facades.
Itaewon continued to have a predominately foreign culture until the late 2010s. Things started to change, though, when the US military base announced that it would move to Pyeongtaek, displacing most of the foreign residents and their late-night routines.
Numerous stores, eateries, and coffee shops in the region were forced to close in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak. Itaewon, which had formerly been under water, had nearly deserted its streets by early 2021. Another tragedy caused by COVID-19 was the heartbreaking, long-standing story of gentrification. The majority of premises were bought by greedy landlords who converted popular kebab stands into upscale bars that were exclusively accessible to the wealthy. Even in the centre of Itaewon's club district, there is a self-service photo studio! Additionally, the COVID-19 outbreaks in Itaewon stoked widespread xenophobia and anti-LGBTQ+ prejudice among Koreans.
People have continued to swarm to Itaewon despite all of its changes over time. Itaewon Freedom, a hip-hop song by Korean musicians Yoo Se-yoon and JYP, was first released in 2011.
One of the most well-liked areas for foreigners is Itaewon. With its obsidian-black facade, the Grand Hyatt towers over the city, and stalwarts like the Hamilton Hotel host some of the greatest pool parties there are. Many of the shops on the main street sell touristic items at negotiable prices. While Itaewon had had a reputation for its fake wares, gentrification has all but eliminated these vendors. However, Itaewon is one of the few options in Seoul if you're looking for genuine imports, international cuisine and craft beers.
The partying district and Homo Hill, Seoul's gay hamlet, are located on the main streets directly outside Itaewon Station. The 2020 Netflix blockbuster series Itaewon Class is a fantastic illustration of the vibrant nightlife.
When the US military was active in the 1960s and 1970s, Itaewon developed a reputation as a popular entertainment district. You might have noticed the "Texas Village" and sizable shoe and clothing stores that still there today if you had visited during this time. It was so welcoming to foreigners that some bars even forbade Koreans from entering, and jazz clubs shot to popularity.
Itaewon wasn't all roses and sunshine. In fact, Korean women intentionally avoided the area as it became more unsafe and connected with mysogony. As the 1970s progressed, more embassies relocated here, the Hamilton Hotel built in 1973, and upscale residences beside housing for foreigners only quickly proliferated. The Seoul Central Mosque was constructed in 1976 thanks to collaboration amongst several Islamic nations.
The 1990s recession slowed Itaewon's expansion and led to a crackdown on adult-oriented enterprises on Hooker Hill. Despite the government making prostitution illegal in 1961, brothels had been prevalent in the area since the 1960s. Due to the Russian economic downturn in 1998, the region was overrun with Russian prostitutes who also had gangster tendencies. A territorial dispute between two Russian employees resulted in a stabbing fatality in 1999. However, this didn't deter labourers, and Hooker Hill remained well-known until quite recently. Due to these hazardous streets, other neighbourhoods like Gangnam and Hongdae attracted the attention of foreign tourists. Homo Hill began in the middle of the 1990s as well, with the first bar opening between 1995 and 1996.
Whether you're looking for an amazing spot to enjoy some drinks or want to explore all that Itaewon has to offer, we have the perfect guide for you. Read on to discover a selection of the best bars in Itaewon;
As the name implies, Globe boasts a diverse international clientele, and in addition, the music, the ambiance, and the feelings are all international and contribute to it being one of the best bars in Itaewon. The establishment has undergone numerous adjustments in recent times, but only positive. The Globe is expanding and changing as it becomes more welcoming to customers, more vibrant with elaborate food and drinks, and larger overall.
The owner, occasionally remodels and alters the interior design to demonstrate a contemporary culture, a vintage culture, or occasionally a fusion to blend forms of design. The setting changes with the owner's imagination. Recommended to anyone who like art, interior design, fantastic music, positive energy, and a night to remember for years to come. from a client who is incredibly happy and impressed.
Directions: 12, Itaewon-ro 27ga-gil, Yongsan-gu, Seoul 04350 South Korea
Blacklist is a tiny, ultra-chill artisan cocktail bar located in Seoul's Itaewon neighbourhood. Other bartenders in the area strongly praise this location, and it was easy to see why.
Located on the third floor of a multi-story storefront on a busy street, but there is an exterior sign, so you just need to look closely to find it. The speakers are blasting great music, and there is a laid back atmosphere that's welcoming and convinces you to seat for it. The handcrafted cocktails are shaken and stirred. It is a cosy, little modern urban establishment. While you're there, order an Old Fashioned or a traditional Daiquiri.
Directions: 134 3F Itaewon-ro, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, South Korea
Excellent location for a few whiskies – each one comes with a tiny accompaniment, such as cheese or chocolate. Whiskey on Tuesday only costs $5 per pour, which is not too bad in a neighbourhood like Itaewon. What more could you want than a helpful service and fine whiskey at an even better price?
The wait staff are helpful and speak enough English to ensure a smooth experience. For the location, the cost of the cocktails and meal was excellent.
The atmosphere is really pleasant and fits the area's interest in antiques. It's like entering the 1940s. It almost seems too inexpensive when you take your surroundings into consideration.
The Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, one of Korea's top art museums, as well as a number of mid-range to upmarket restaurants and cafes can be found nearby.
Directions: 40, Itaewon-ro 27ga-gil, Yongsan-gu 서울 용산구 이태원로27가길 40 , Seoul 04350 Korea, Republic of
In Itaewon, Sam Ryan's is situated behind the Hamilton Hotel. Numerous televisions throughout the establishment display American sports, while Premiership football and rugby can also be seen upon request.
a reliable, family-run sports bar with above-average food! I'll tell you, this is one of the few pubs in Seoul's Itaewon district where I virtually always order supper, even though I always drink a beer (or three) everytime I visit! Not just me, but many other patrons of the restaurant, also offer the chef high praise for the curry chicken. salmon steak, scrambled potatoes, and chicken fingers are all available.
Pub-sized portions are large enough to satisfy a man with a "genuine" appetite. Okay, to be fair, they provide a little bit too many hash browns and could use a bigger salmon steak, but those are minor issues in the grand scheme of things. Good range of cool draught beers, including Kilkenny. Lively location with a mixed population of "foreigners" and Koreans who are seated or standing close enough to strike up a conversation with one or two strangers… However, I believe a weekday trip is preferable to a weekend excursion. On some weeknights, they close around midnight, but that doesn't it stop making the list of one of the best bars in Itaewon.
Directions: 50 Itaewon-ro 27ga-gil, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, South Korea
A very stylish, affluent, and young clientele. A free and laid-back bar with European influences is available for your enjoyment 365 days a year.
Part of a multi story venue, the place is always buzzing with good music and you can see long queues to get in. The place is quite full everyday but on weekends its jam packed with hardly any place to stand. For foreigners please do carry your passport as Identity proof to get in the place.
Menu has a variety of pub classics and signature items such as homemade burgers and sausage samplers. Customers are constantly lining up for the DJ and music, which offers a comprehensive beer and beverage menu in addition to trademark variety of pub fare.
Best of all, there is no cover charge to get in. You can even visit the other floors (different venues with different music and scene) for free!
Directions: 26, Itaewon-ro 27ga-gil, Yongsan-gu 1F, Hamilton Hotel Annex, Seoul 04350 South Korea
The "Grand Ole Opry," one of Itaewon's most well-known clubs, is not shown on any digital maps. Samsook is a Korean woman who opened the saloon-style bar more than 40 years ago. She is well-known for her four marriages and dislike of Korean men. The Koreans and foreigners both adore the widow Samsook. Many customers share their foreign currency as wall decor when they visit her bar.
It's a charming bar with reasonable prices. The only remaining old-school bar from the area's seedier era is this one. It has a rich history and many interesting stories. The music is excellent. The "Foreigners Only" sign is a nod to bygone days rather than some bizarre reverse xenophobia, so don't be concerned about this when/if you see it!
Everything makes sense once you discover the history of the neighbourhood and the bar. A great place and possibly my overall winner of the best bars in Itaewon.
Directions: 16 Usadan-ro 14-gil, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, South Korea
Excellent selection of cocktails, and good to very good bar food. Great music in the background as well. Outside was open, but too cold to be usable – I imagine this is wonderful in the Summer months though,
Very nice and fun place to go for lite food, and good drinks. Nice views, good people watching. This bar has great selection of drinks including creative cocktails and whiskey, even mock-tails. Fancy interior and friendly staffs here made our night.
Directions: 23 Jangmun-ro, RF, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, South Korea
Along with cool lounge bars and some of Seoul's hottest club venues, this area is home to a number of fashionable international restaurants. Itaewon emerges as one of Seoul's premier party districts after dark.
The crowd is an intriguing patchwork of all identities and backgrounds, with a small but vibrant Muslim community (centred on Korea's only mosque), the LGBT community (with a number of well-known bars and clubs), and a diverse array of ethnicities and cultures dispersed throughout. Found somewhere that can make the 'best bars in Itaewon' list? Let us know. Finally, be sure o check out our Best Bars In Hongdae Article.
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InfoComm: Digital Signage Embraces Fast Cellular Networks
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March 31, 2016 - AV Buyers.Club, Blogs, DS Digital Signage, ProAV News, rAVe [PUBS],
By Monica Heck
Special to InfoComm International
As 3G and 4G LTE cellular technology – and now 5G trials — make headlines around the world in the field of mobile video delivery, the same technology has quietly emerged in the digital signage space. Swiss signage vendor Navori Labs recently disclosed that it's powering 20,000 networked mobile ad players in taxi cabs in the Middle East and Asia over 3G and 4G cellular modems.
In this particular deployment, Android tablets are equipped with a 4G or 3G cellular modem to support content updates, live data delivery and real-time GPS tracking. Organic bandwidth consumption is limited to 19 MB per month on the 3G connections, based on a 24/7 connection cycle, giving priority to content downloads.
This large-scale mobile signage network, expected to expand to 50,000 players in the region in the next couple of years, is a first in the digital signage space based on its sheer scale and inclusion of LTE. Navori's and other projects, such as Autobahn Tank & Rast's early adoption of cellular technology to update content on more than 3,000 digital signage screens in 360 German motorway service areas, indicate that cellular networks have piqued the interest of the digital signage community.
4G LTE in particular, with its high data speeds, is well positioned to support the demands of the Internet of Things (IoT) when it comes to the type of machine to machine (M2M) communication common to digital signage network updates. The key difference between broadcast and digital signage use of fast cellular networks is, of course, that digital signage doesn't often require live streaming. Many cellular-based signage applications use "store-and-forward" or caching infrastructures for content distribution, whereby the remote signage player downloads updates of a few kilobytes at various times.
In some cases, often to limit data costs, a 4G connection is established to one sign or kiosk charging station, which in turn becomes a Wi-Fi access point for nearby devices.
"This combination of LTE and Wi-Fi could be called Bring Your Own Network, " explains Andrew Lund of Digi International, which supported digital-out-of-home (DOOH) advertising company Monster Media's use of Verizon's cellular network to wirelessly update content on thousands of displays across the U.S. In that case, the cellular network was deemed a more cost-effective and secure solution compared to a wired WAN, landline, Wi-Fi or even satellite technology.
Also in the U.S., Aurora Digital Signage, a Verizon wireless digital signage partner, is at the coalface of operator collaboration when it comes to digital signage data delivery over cellular networks, pairing its signage solution with Verizon's cellular connectivity solutions. The company deploys cellular digital signage technology in sensitive data spaces such as hospitals, financial institutions or government entities that won't allow outside units to access their networks. Indeed, the specter of Target's infamous network breach at the end of 2013 still looms in organizations' minds.
"We bring in our own network, turning screens into signs using 'stick PC' devices and using cellular data to operate a signage network without ever touching any other sensitive information," says Brent Robinson, CEO of Aurora Digital Signage. "It also eliminates concerns like firewall issues and network settings, while allowing the deployment of digital signage in areas without Wi-Fi. We're doing a project for a city, with off-the-grid locations where they want to use digital signage for communication without paying for a whole Wi-Fi network. A cellular data point will give them the same functionality."
Over the last seven years, Robinson says he has witnessed the emergence of ideal conditions for boosting the profile of cellular networks in the digital signage space, making such a solution technologically viable. Those conditions include the advent of 4G, the evolution of smaller form-factor, plug-and-play hardware and the plummeting cost of digital signage technology.
The Data Usage Bill
However, the elephant in the room remains the data usage bill that lands on the customer's doorstep. Although Robinson believes cellular companies are starting to make pricing more appropriate and enterprise-friendly, Jeff Hastings, CEO of BrightSign, believes the biggest challenge to using LTE technology for digital signage is the business case.
"The issue that has emerged after our many trials is not technical," Hastings says. "It's the fact that the cost per month is economically not feasible."
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Hastings says that the M2M world is an "odd place" for carriers such as Verizon. "We're seeing rates for business customers in the range of $10 to $20 per gigabyte, which is an insane amount of money when you compare it to consumer plans."
A cursory glance at Verizon's M2M business plans shows that 1 MB a month costs approximately $9. "The hardware cell modem adds around $100 and a content update, usually about 1 GB, will cost even more," Hastings says. "So for most customers, the first year cost is about $200 just to connect the device to the Internet. This is considered too costly for most customers."
Hastings sees no inherent advantage to using a fast cellular network setup, other than the fact that it's completely wireless and can be placed in off-grid locations, such as transportation hubs and vehicles. Even the security advantage is a red herring, he says, addressed in other solutions through the adoption of PCI-compliant (Payment Card Industry) signage technology. "Economics aside, there would be way more adoption of this type of technology," he says.
Michele Dupré of Verizon Enterprise Solutions says it's important to look at the bigger picture and the overall business goals of the customer. "It's not just the wireless connectivity, you have to look at the entire package," she says. "If it has its place in a retailer's strategy, for example, and if it turns out LTE delivery — as opposed to wired or Wi-Fi delivery — is the way forward, the strategy will absorb the costs as the benefits will outweigh the inconveniences."
Rogers Brewer at AOpen agrees that price is rarely a factor if tangible value is built into the solution. "Because [with cellular] you're running on a very stable, secure network, it's very robust," he says. "Think of the headache related to interlinking any of this digital signage into your infrastructure, as opposed to being plug-and-play."
That said, although AOpen partnered with Sprint for a 3G solution and with Verizon using the Sierra 4G hotspot module, Brewer hasn't seen the turnaround he expected. "People want to stay with what sells and until someone does it at the right price point with the right partner, I think that everybody is missing an opportunity," he says. "I don't know that it will be the differentiating factor for one company but it's a nice solution to have in your arsenal."
In Europe, where 4G has better penetration than other parts of the world and B2B data packages are more attractive, wired digital signage installations are still considered more reliable overall.
"More and more small projects, such as 'shop-in-shop' solutions, are using 3G or 4G," says Florian Rotberg, Managing Director of Invidis Consulting. "The drawback is that voice is always a priority on these networks. We met some challenges close to a school for example, where the signage network connection dropped at 10 a.m. on the dot when kids were phoning on their break, which affected the data transmission rate significantly." (Integrated Systems Events, which along with InfoComm International produces the Integrated Systems Europe show, recently entered into a joint venture with Invidis Consulting. Invidis will bring its Digital Signage Summit to InfoComm 2016 in Las Vegas this June.)
Rotberg says that as long as 4K content isn't used, price doesn't usually kill the cellular network business case in Europe. "Less than 5 percent of digital signage projects are over LTE and it will always stay niche, as cable is more reliable," he says.
But there are those who believe the niche stands to grow larger. In a future where LTE technology and cost become more attractive, and piggybacking on existing networks becomes more painful and dangerous from a security perspective, LTE is likely to become a stronger presence in the digital signage world. Says Digi International's Lund, "There are other advantages of LTE that aren't about speed, but related to latency and building penetration that from a technology standpoint make it attractive," concluded Lund.
This column was reprinted with permission from InfoComm International and originally appeared here.
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HSBC bulks up DCM
HSBC adds further weight to its debt capital market''s team with the appointment of Florian Schmidt.
HSBC Markets has hired Florian Schmidt in a move to boost its debt capital markets operations in Asia. Schmidt will be re-locating to Hong Kong from Singapore, where he spent three years as an executive director with Nomura.
Recently, he has been enjoying a six month sabbatical to take time out with his new baby and write a book about trains and travel in Asia. Prior to Nomura, German-born Schmidt spent six years with Deutsche Bank, four of which were based in Hong Kong.
"I almost went back to Germany," he says, "but I decided to stay in Asia because it will be very exciting working for HSBC. I was keen to join a house with a very strong platform in domestic debt capital markets. It's what issuers in the region want at the moment."
Schmidt will report to Stephen Williams, head of Asian debt capital markets and a recent recruit from UBS Warburg. Williams was appointed following the promotion of Mark Bucknall, who now heads HSBC's global debt capital markets operations from Hong Kong.
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HSBC wins bid to acquire insurer Axa Singapore
HSBC Life Singapore and Axa Singapore will merge operations to form the city-state's seventh-largest life insurer based on annualised new premiums.
HSBC overhauls DCM
Andy Cairns and Aaron Tan become co-heads of Asia Pacific debt finance.
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HSBC Global AM gets new head of China and HK equities
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Q: How do I query the vimeo api for a specific video title? Hi I'm querying for a specific video by title - and at the moment I get mixed results.

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*my videos are all named with a consecutive number at the end ie ANDNOW2022_00112, ANDNOW2022_00113 etc

When I search /videos/?fields=uri,name&query=ANDNOW2022_00112 I get all of the videos returned
I've also tried the query_fields using
/me/videos?query_fields=title&sort=alphabetical&query=ANDNOW2022_00112
I just want the one I've searched for - or a no results returned.
At the moment I get all of the videos with AN2022 in the title/name. Now 'usually' the one I searched for is at the top of the list but not everytime.
Any tips appreciated.

A: Okay I'm not going mad :)
This is from Vimeo and is here for those with the same issue - basically to get t to work you need to understand that:
After speaking with our engineers, the current search capability are not "Exact" search.
When adding numbers or underscores the search is split into parts so "ANDNOW2022_00112" is transforming the query into the parts "andnow2022", "andnow", "2022", and "00112". So this is why your seeing these results. Our engineering team are in the process of improving the search capabilities and hope to provide a release in the near future.
Which means for now I'll have to rename my files.

A: Preface:
Vimeo does not currently offer an API endpoint for exact title search — but even if it did — it's possible to upload multiple videos and assign them identical titles. There's no way to use the API to positively identify a video by title — this is why every uploaded video is assigned a unique ID.

Solution:
Because the API returns data which includes an array of video objects, you can solve this problem in the same way you'd solve any similar problem in JavaScript where you have to find an element in an array: Array.prototype.find()
Here's how you can apply it to your problem:

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*Query the API using the parameters you described in your question.

You might also be interested in using the sort and direction parameters for greater control over a deterministic sort order.

*Find the first item in the returned array of video objects that match your expected text exactly, and return it (or undefined if it doesn't exist)

Here's a code example with some static data from the API that was used to search for the video Mercedes Benz from the user egarage — note that I've omitted quite a few (irrelevant) fields from the response in order to keep the example small:

// Mocking fetch for this example:
function fetch (_requestInfo, _init) {
  const staticJson = `{"total":2,"page":1,"per_page":25,"paging":{"next":null,"previous":null,"first":"/users/egarage/videos?query_fields=title&query=Mercedes%20Benz&sort=alphabetical&direction=asc&page=1","last":"/users/egarage/videos?query_fields=title&query=Mercedes%20Benz&sort=alphabetical&direction=asc&page=1"},"data":[{"uri":"/videos/61310450","name":"50th Anniversary of the Pagoda SL -- Mercedes-Benz Classic Vehicles","description":"Penned by designer Paul Bracq, the W113 SL had big shoes to fill: it had the incredible task of succeeding the original and instantly iconic 300 SL Gullwing. But you can't copy a legend, so Bracq designed one of his own. Straight lines replaced curves and a low-slung roof was replaced by a high top design that gave the car its nickname: the Pagoda.\\n\\nMUSIC: Developer Over Time","type":"video","link":"https://vimeo.com/61310450"},{"uri":"/videos/55837293","name":"Mercedes Benz","description":"To celebrate Mercedes Benz 125th birthday, the 2011 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance showcased the models that trace the lineage to Benz and Daimler —particularly Mercedes-Benz. This tribute chronicled early racing greats, coachbuilt classics, and preservation cars. Produced in association with DriveCulture.","type":"video","link":"https://vimeo.com/55837293"}]}`;
  return Promise.resolve(new Response(staticJson));
}

async function fetchVideoByTitle (token, userId, videoTitle) {
  const url = new URL(`https://api.vimeo.com/users/${userId}/videos`);
  url.searchParams.set("query_fields", "title");
  url.searchParams.set("query", videoTitle);
  url.searchParams.set("sort", "alphabetical");
  url.searchParams.set("direction", "asc");

  const headers = new Headers([
    ["Authorization", `Bearer ${token}`],
  ]);

  const response = await fetch(url.href, {headers});
  const parsedJson = await response.json();

  // Find the video that matches (if it exists):
  const maybeFirstVideoObj = parsedJson.data.find(video => video.name === videoTitle);
  return maybeFirstVideoObj;
}

async function main () {
  const video = await fetchVideoByTitle(
    "YOU_ACTUAL_TOKEN",
    "egarage",
    "Mercedes Benz",
  );

  console.log(video); // {name: "Mercedes Benz", link: "https://vimeo.com/55837293", ...}
}

main();


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Blend together. Drink as a smoothie if you don't have a lot of time OR turn it into homemade popsicles! The kids feel as though they are getting a great treat and I love the fact that they are nutritious with the spinach providing nutrients and the yogurt the much desired protein element.
Banana Boats I'm a HUGE peanut butter fan. I'll eat it with anything. The girls love these banana boats, and I love that they are incorporating fruit with protein. Slice a banana in half. Put peanut butter on the top. Call it a banana boat and you are ready to go! We also eat peanut butter with apple slices.
The girls LOVE making this snack.
1. Take a cup of plain yogurt.
2. Add in a tablespoon of all natural peanut butter.
3. In another bowl mash up half of a banana (the girls enjoy this part, as they do all the work!) and add to the mixture.
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Here's the problem. How can we really know what we're missing if we've never had it before? The less free we are, the less we know what freedom feels like and how it shapes who we are. The more dependent on government we become, the less we crave independence. This is why it is important to find literature that takes us out of our present moment and introduces us to different ways of thinking.
We have to imagine a different ideal.
The author of The Joys of Living is Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924). Here you can download an epub his book on this link.
I first bumped into his writing when researching the entrepreneurs of the Gilded Age. He turns out to be the great psychologist and sociologist of the generation that built the modern age in America. He was a physician, a hotel owner, and a fantastic thinker and writer. He was the editor of Success magazine, a hugely influential publication during the age when Americans adored their inventors and entrepreneurs.
It's a world and a time I admire because it was built by the unleashing of the capitalist spirit in the second half of the 19th century. It was the height of the age of laissez faire. Slavery was gone. Women gained authentic rights. Upward social mobility was a common expectation. Lives lengthened. Infant mortality fell dramatically.
In one generation, creative and motivated people could move from poor immigrant to wealthy benefactor of museums. The rich of yesterday became the middle class of today, even as tomorrow would mint the newly rich, and the process continued without end, each advance touching everyone throughout society.
There were new products, new services, and new forms of communication and transportation, and each seemed to point to a future of peace and prosperity. Such inventions were celebrated in great public spectacles called World's Fairs.
It was a time when incomes were not taxed -- a major factor in why it could be accumulated to become powerful investment capital. Most schooling was private or community based. There was no professional licensure. There were no passports. There was not a single regulatory bureaucracy in Washington. There was no welfare state. No one had yet experienced a world war.
Orison Swett Marden was the public intellectual who made sense of it all. He was a serious journalist, a great thinker, and a wonderful writer. His outlook embodies the ebullient optimism of the Gilded Age. He studied the phenomenon of progress and tried to discern its causes. He located them in the hearts and minds of the men and women who made the difference. He devoted his life to chronicling their lives and the lives of those they touched with their creativity and generosity.
"The greatest conqueror of age is a cheerful, hopeful, loving spirit."The point was not to celebrate privilege, but rather to see the possibilities available to every person. Marden himself was like many of the first-generation rich of this period. He came from poverty. He faced family hardship. He worked his way out of difficulty to find promise and reward. He saw how the sacrifices made in youth turn to a bounty in middle age. There was cause and effect that operated in the universe. Hard work, dedication, determination, and dreams could remake one's world and the whole world.
The greatest discovery of the time was not a technology, but a philosophy. It was the philosophy that the individual human mind was the most productive resource on the planet, more powerful than all the natural resources or man-made machinery. It was the human mind that was the real source of progress and prosperity.
Previous generations believed they were trapped by fate, by class, by social position, or by forces more powerful than they. This generation saw the truth that nothing could contain an idea whose time had come, so long as there were great men and women around who believed in it and acted upon it. This is why so many notable men of his time cited Marden as their inspiration: Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Harvey Firestone and J.P. Morgan.
Marden's recipe is made of three parts: seeing, emulating, and acting. To his mind, there are no circumstances that we face that would make doing this impossible. The source of joy is around us, but we have to seek it, see it, embrace it, and expand upon it.
As for daily discouragements and obstacles, they are unavoidable features of life. They exist in all times and places. You can never get rid of the enemies of your personal progress but you can make the most of things as they are. In the course of this, we all make blunders, mistakes, and have plenty of reason to criticize ourselves. But this is the most unproductive activity. You can't accomplish anything for the future if your gaze is always in the past.
The right attitude of the entrepreneur is to think of the past as dead and tomorrow as not yet born. The only time that really belongs to us is the here and now, the passing moment. If we dedicate ourselves to make the best out of the present, one decision and action at a time, we can make a great future for ourselves. The art of living is the art of living in the today.
It is unapologetically designed to inspire, and it does this as few books I've ever read. It really amounts to spelling out a life philosophy, one that is deeply practical and actionable in every way, every day. Indeed, this might be the most inspiring book you will ever read — not because it solves all mysteries concerning who we are, how we got here, or what we should seek as the very purpose of life.
He stays away from these larger questions, because it's the smaller questions that are more interesting and effective. What he deals with more directly concerns what we might call a more mundane aspect of philosophy: how we should approach each day in order to get the most out of life.
As such, this is a philosophy of how to live an excellent life, no matter what our calling is. Capitalist, monk, mother, teacher, worker, banker, mechanic, musician, preacher, writer — whatever we do can be done with a sense of joy, a spirit of awe, and an ambition to drive forward the engines of progress.
In some ways, this book is a relic in the best sense of that term. I don't even believe it could be written today. We lack the social template that could produce such a work. The spirit is not in the air that could allow us to extract such thoughts. People today are too vexed, too burdened, too distracted to see these things. But Marden did see them. And just because we are too often blind to the reality that he illuminates in these pages doesn't mean that it is not our reality too.
Note that nowhere does he talk of storming Washington, agitating for our rulers to overthrow themselves or sending institutions into upheaval, much less agitating for societal transformation and uplift. He speaks only to the individual. He tells you what you can do in your time, right where you are, to bring happiness to your life. Social and political change is an effect. It comes only after we change ourselves.
His values: work, creativity, seeking out joy, feeling happiness, letting go of the past, living in the present, never regretting mistakes, never feeling fear, always being loyal, spreading good cheer, looking past obstacles, being kind to others, staying out of debt, keep life balanced between the need for money and the need for beauty, and never losing one's ideals. This is the essence of the Marden world view.
"No one can be really happy or successful unless he is master of his moods."It's the perfect time to draw attention to this work more than one hundred years after its publication. It's amazing to me that it had ever been lost. I'm sure that it will make a difference in your life. You might use its wisdom to make a difference in the world around you. Indeed, this is an example of the kind of book that could completely change the world. Why? Because Marden understands freedom and the individual mind, and their power, once combined, to make a gigantic difference now and in the future.
My whole experience suggests that personal inspiration is the ingredient lacking in the current generation of people who have come to love liberty. They have access to texts, knowledge, and theory as never before in human history. What they lack is a method for using what they know and the personal drive to do so.
People are too quick to blame outside forces for failure without realizing that outside forces conspiring against progress are part of the structure of all environments in all times and places. This book provides that missing element, that key to brush away despair and unlock the inner drive to make a difference.
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"The trouble with many people who lack imagination is that they have no utopia, no vision, and life is a hard, monotonous grind. Everyone should have a utopia and should live in it much of the time -- a place where everything is ideal, and where everybody and everything is what they ought to be."
"Debt is one of the greatest sources of unhappiness, especially with young married people.


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The Gold Dust Day Gecko, a native to Madagascar, sometimes referred to as the Madagascar Day Gecko, does well in a tropical climate. Unlike most geckos, it is a diurnal animal, active during the day. They are territorial animals; males are especially aggressive towards other males.
These geckos are very colorful, usually bright green or a yellowish green. Halfway down their backs, they have three red teardrop markings. A blue shade is present around the eyes with bright gold markings on the back and neck. They feed on various insects and other invertebrates and are capable of eating other smaller lizards. They also eat soft, sweet fruit as well as pollen and nectar from flowers. But they don't bite humans.
Although these geckos will come into the house, probably looking for food, they are an arboreal species, spending most of their time in trees. If exclusion is desired, treat them as you would mice, rats and cockroaches; make sure to screen all windows, doors, ventilation passages and any small openings into the house.
Another species of gecko is the House Gecko, residing with humans in homes rather than in the wilderness. Being aggressive, this pale brown gecko drives other species away from the house. They are primarily nocturnal.
There are over 900 species of geckos worldwide, but only seven or eight reside in Hawai`i. Geckos are the only lizards who are able to make sounds, other than hissing. Feeding on cockroaches, mosquitoes, ants, termites and moths, geckos are beneficial to home owners.
It has been thought that geckos are able to run up and down walls and ceilings due to tiny suction cups on their toe pads. However, recently scientists found that geckos have a network of tiny hairs and pads on their feet. With millions of hairs on each foot, the combined attraction of the weak electrical forces allow the gecko to stick to virtually any surface, even polished glass.
Occasionally citrus trees have been pruned up off the ground. Some have asked, "What is the reason for this?"
Skirt pruning of citrus has been around for a long time in those countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. The skirt of the tree includes those branches which hang down and touch the ground or are near to the ground. In Italy, the skirts are pruned as high as the goats can reach.
In the United States, California in particular, skirt pruning done with clippers or a pruning saw, not goats, is a recent development and mainly came about as a means of controlling snails in the orchard. By skirt pruning, usually 18 – 24 inches, snails as well as ants are denied easy access into the tree. Then the trunk is the only route. Farmers can concentrate their pest control efforts on a small area, the trunk, rather than spraying the whole tree with pesticides. In the case of snails, copper foil is often banded around the trunk; snails will not cross the copper band. For ants a sticky material is sometimes applied.
Skirt pruning will also help control brown rot disease of citrus fruit. Since low hanging fruit is eliminated, the overall fruit quality will improve.
Many people are drawn to raised bed gardening for several reasons. In addition to the fact some areas do not have sufficient soil, raised bed gardens generally look nice and appear easy to maintain. In many parts of the United States, reasons for building raised beds are to keep gophers out or to have warmer soils in the early spring after the winter thaw. For portions of the Hawaiian Islands, gardening in raised beds or containers is necessary because of a lack of soil on lava hardened terrain.
(4.) the gardener prefers less stooping.
On the other hand something to consider is the maintenance of raised beds. If the frame is made of wood, it will eventually rot. If metal is used, it may rust. Actual construction of the bed can be time consuming and costly. In addition to wood, rock and plastic can also be used.
Two questions often arise. First, how deep do I need to make the beds? The literature gives a range of 6" to 18". Crops like lettuce, onion and bok choy will do fine in a shallow bed. Yet deeper beds are needed for carrots, parsnips, corn and tomatoes. Secondly, where do I get good soil? You can buy bagged potting mix at the garden store, which can be very expensive. Or you can buy a truck load of soil but be cautious. Soil may look good, but you can't see N-P-K deficiencies or excesses, pathogenic fungi, bacteria, nematodes or pesticide residues including persistent herbicides. Bringing in soil can be risky.
Installing raised beds can be a satisfying project. But first, find out what your particular problem really is and why you are considering a raised bed. Perhaps correcting the problem would be a better solution than a raised bed project. Possibly cheaper and less time consuming.
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What is the difference between yams and sweet potatoes? Are they the same, yet by a different name?
Many years ago orange colored sweet potatoes were introduced to the Southern United States. In an effort to distinguish these from the traditional white-fleshed potato, producers called them yams, which is the Anglicize African word, nyami. Today, most of the starchy tubers consumed in the US and labeled as yams are in reality sweet potatoes. Yet yams and sweet potatoes are not the same; in fact, they are quite different from each other.
As far as botanical order is concerned, they are at opposite ends. The sweet potato is a dicot, set in the morning glory family. The sweet potato, whose sweet and moist flesh varies in color from white to yellow and orange, is native to South America; the skin is typically smooth. Garnet, Jewel, and Beauregard are orange fleshed sweet potatoes that often masquerade as yams in the local supermarkets.
Yams, on the other hand, are a monocot, closely related to grasses. In contrast, yams are dry and starchy and rather bland. While yellow or purple in color, the skin is rough and a bit shaggy. Yams are native to North Africa and Asia. They range in size from that of a small potato up to 150 lbs. Yams are a primary agricultural crop in West Africa, where 95 percent of the world's yam crop is grown. Incidentally, both yams and sweet potatoes can be purple.
In this article, we are not speaking about genetically modified organisms (GMO'S). A GMO is a plant, animal, microorganism or other organism whose genetic makeup has been modified using genetic engineering, i.e. gene modification, recombinant DNA methods (also called gene splicing) or transgenic technology.
A hybrid is defined as a plant that results from the cross between two plants of differing genetic characteristics, i.e., two species, subspecies, cultivars, varieties, etc. Some crosses may occur naturally, but most hybridizing is deliberately done by man in order to produce a plant with improved characteristics such as disease resistance, greater vigor and uniformity. Hybrids generally have higher yields and better exterior quality.
Today, hybrid seed is prevalent both in agriculture, as well as home gardening, and is a major contributor to the rise in agricultural output in the last 50 years. The commercial hybrid market actually began back in the 1920's, when the first hybrid corn was produced.
The disadvantage of using hybrid seeds is that the resulting seed cannot be used at the end of the season for next year's crop. The seed taken from a hybrid will either be sterile or produce plants that are not true to the mother plant, i.e., not true to type. Thus it becomes necessary to purchase new hybrid seeds each year.
On the other hand, heirloom seeds are from open-pollinated varieties. This means that plants grown from these seeds will be identical to their parent. In addition, their genes have not been subjected to modern breeding techniques and manipulation. Note: All heirloom varieties are open-pollinated but not all open-pollinated varieties are heirlooms.
Heirloom seeds can be saved from year to year and planted for the next crop. Although they may have some built-in hardiness, heirlooms generally do not possess disease resistance, vigor and uniformity that hybrids do.
One of the main advantages attributed to heirlooms is their excellent flavor. In hybridization programs, plant breeders sacrifice flavor in preference to other attributes such as disease resistance and higher yields.
"May I borrow your house?" is the Mayan translations for Mah-Ha-Na. This is the name for the moth which often rests at night under the eaves of the house. The common name is Black Witch Moth, Ascalapha odorata.
Its wingspan can reach 7 inches. The wings are dark brown, and both pairs are crossed by a series of alternating light and dark wavy lines. There is often an iridescent blue cast over the wings. Females have pinkish-white bands across the middle of both wings, whereas the males lack these pale bands. In addition to the Hawaiian Islands, they are common in the Caribbean, South and Central America and migrating into the continental USA and southern Canada in the summer.
This moth lives in the tropical and subtropical forests where trees of the pea family grow. This includes acacias, albizia, cassia and samanea (monkeypod). The caterpillars feed on the foliage of these trees. The moth often flies great distances in only a few nights, hiding by day wherever it can find dense shade, frequently under the eaves of houses.
While they mostly fly during the summer season, in the southern areas of the United States and in Hawaii, they are also known to fly during late October, hence the name Black Witch Moth.


Hello, did you miss me last Monday? We had visitors, so I didn't post. We had a wonderful weekend with Neil, Ange and Harry which included a lovely walk around Skipness and a luxurious visit to Portavadie Marina's Spa. It was bliss!
I was back at PiYo this week which felt great after a few weeks off, I really needed the stretch and the workout. I've also been running, culminating in a long, slow run on Saturday. @TheWelshWookie and I did eleven miles along the Crinan canal. The weather forecast was for rain, but it didn't appear so we ran in sunshine for most of the way. It felt really good to get such a steady run under our belts. With Disneyland Paris' inaugural half marathon in three weeks time it was just what we needed. We spent time this weekend making the arrangements for our trip- I'm really looking forward to it!
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Q: What does "Unknown error 517" mean in Android shell? I'm trying to write to a character device in Android shell. But mksh responds with "Unknown error 517" for a whole range of operations. I've tried to use strace to track down the issue, but its not helpful. This also occurs for a whole range of device nodes in AOS 4.4, but not in 4.2.
This is what I do:
# chmod 666 /dev/smd0
Unable to open /dev/smd0: Unknown error 517

# cat /dev/smd0
tmp-mksh: cat: /dev/smd0: Unknown error 517

The device is there and I can both create it (mknod) and remove it, so it's not a permission problem as far as I can see.
# ls /dev/smd0
crw-rw----    1 1000     1000      222,   0 Feb 13  2014 /dev/smd0

All I get in strace is:
ioctl(10</dev/tty>, SNDCTL_TMR_STOP or TCSETSW, {c_iflags=0x500, c_oflags=0x5, c_cflags=0xbf, c_lflags=0x8a3b, c_line=0, c_cc="\x03\x1c\x7f\x15\x04\x00\x01\x00\x11\x13\x1a\x00\x12\x0f\x17\x16\x00\x00\x00"}) = 0
ioctl(10</dev/tty>, TIOCSPGRP, [23069]) = 0
[pid 23069] open("/dev/smd0", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 EPROBE_DEFER (Unknown error 517)
[pid 23069] open("/dev/smd0", O_WRONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 EPROBE_DEFER (Unknown error 517)
[pid 23069] write(2</dev/pts/5>, "Unable to open /dev/smd0: Unknown error 517\n", 44) = 44

Looking at the mksh sources in the shf.c file doesn't offer any insight either.
I also found the EPROBE_DEFER tag in the Linux Kernel sources, in the file: ../include/linux/errno.h:
#define EPROBE_DEFER    517     /* Driver requests probe retry */

Any ideas what could cause this problem?

A: As you've discovered, 517 is the value of the linux error EPROBE_DEFER, and it just means that a device driver is telling the linux kernel to try probing a particular device later. The Linux kernel calls a driver's probe() method when it wants the driver to prepare a device for usage.
Unfortunately, EPROBE_DEFER does not tell you why the probe needs to be retried, nor what you might need to do to ensure that it will succeed if you did retry. Here is a thread complaining about that.

A: This is simply because bionic's error definitions do not know about errno #517 (yet). mksh just uses what the operating system('s C library) — in this case, Android's bionic — provides.
This part of shf.c generates the Unknown error: %d message when the underlying operating system('s C library) doesn't know about the error the underlying operating system('s kernel) generates, which is here the case.