Sorry it's taken a while to to get going and start writing again. Its been a wild few months! In February this year I entered a little cooking comp called Cheflab at my good friends Ryan and Tania's restaurant, Baby Mammoth. After being told numerous times to keep it simple (something I found hard to do but glad I did having to make close to 70 dishes) I decided to make my own version of Hestons "Meat Fruit". It was crazy cooking in a real commercial kitchen for that many people and I hope to be included for round 2 soon.
1. Place the shallots, garlic and thyme in a saucepan with the Madeira, ruby port, white port and brandy. Set aside to marinate for 24 hours.
2. Heat the marinated mixture until almost all the liquid has evaporated, making sure to stir regularly to prevent the shallots and garlic from burning. Remove from the heat and discard the thyme.
3. Preheat the oven to 100°C. Fill a bain-marie with 5cm water and place in the oven. Preheat a water bath to 50°C.
4. Sprinkle the table salt over the livers and put them in a sous-vide bag. Put the eggs and the alcohol reduction in a second sous-vide bag, and the butter in a third.
5. Seal all the bags, then place in the water bath for 20 minutes. Remove the bags from the water bath.
6. Combine the eggs, alcohol reduction and meat in a blender and blend until smooth. Slowly blitz in the butter and blend until smooth. Pass the mixture through a fine sieve using the back of a small ladle.
7. Pour the mixture into a terrine dish and place in the bain-marie then cover the bain-marie with aluminum foil. Cook the parfait until the temperature in the centre reaches 64°C. Remove from the oven and allow to cool. Refrigerate for 24 hours before serving.
8. Place the gelatin in cold water to soften. Gently heat the mandarin purée and glucose in a pan to combine.
9. Add the softened gelatin and stir well until dissolved. Remove from the heat and stir well.
10. Pass the mix through a fine sieve and reserve in the fridge until required.
11. Using a spoon, fill the egg moulds with parfait, ensuring there is enough pressure to create a completely smooth surface. Level off the tops so that they are flat and cover with Clingfilm. Gently press the Clingfilm directly onto the surface of the parfait and place in the freezer until completely frozen.
12. For the mandarin jelly use a spoon to fill the yolk moulds with the mandarin jelly, ensuring there is enough pressure to create a completely smooth the surface. Level off the tops so that they are flat and cover with Clingfilm. Gently press the Clingfilm directly onto the surface of the jelly and place in the freezer until completely frozen.
13. Once frozen remove and place both the parfait and jelly into the fridge to defrost approx 30 minutes.
14. To serve, grill some sourdough and pour a dash of olive oil to dress. Place the parfait egg next to the toast and top with the mandarin jelly yolk. Garnish with sprig of parsley and enjoy!


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What I'm Diggin'
Posted by John on October 19, 2008
Posted in: reviews, singles, songs.	Tagged: chris cornell, craig david, david cook, keane, ne-yo, will young.	6 Comments
Pop music is rocking my world big-time at the moment. There really is a lot of good, innovative, groovy music out at the moment that it's hard to pick standouts. But I'ma try, a'ight?
– Will Young, "Let It Go" (CD) – In contention for album of the year, I can't get enough of this. I don't remember the last time I had a CD where four songs on the record were five stars, but this is the one. "Changes" is just a lush, classy track, "Let It Go" does a great job to capture the melancholy that some men feel from time to time, and "Won't Look Down" has a soaring pop chorus with an optimistic tone that you can't resist, even if you try. My highlight, though, is "Love". For those of you who remember back to the golden age of sophisticated Brit pop in the late 80s, you'll remember a group called Swing Out Sister. "Love" hits all the right notes in tribute to SOS, and it was so unexpected, that I can just listen to it over and over. Can someone see what they can do about giving Swing Out Sister another chance here in the US? They're still together, and they're big in Japan. Literally.
– Craig David, "Insomnia" (single) – Yeah, yeah, I know. "Disturbia", "Forever", "Tattoo", "Closer"…it's like a bastard cousin of all those recent jams. Honestly? I don't care. Craig hasn't had a track that resonated as well with his voice as "Insomnia" does since his first record. While it seems like he just released an album a couple of months ago, this track is from his upcoming Greatest Hits compilation, produced by Jim Beanz of the Timbaland camp. Who knows what his record company's plan for him in the US is, but if the Pop Gods have even a remote amount of reason and justice in mind, they'll give this record a shot. It's a hit in the making.
– Ne-Yo, "Nobody" (album cut) – In a marketplace where CDs debut high, only to sink like a stone in the following weeks, "Year of the Gentleman" is really showing some legs, and cuts like "Nobody" have to be helping the cause. This song doesn't feel like a rip-off as much as it does a tribute to "Off the Wall"-era Michael Jackson. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, but in the "heir to the King of Pop" contest, Ne-Yo is miles ahead of the competition. Folks like Usher and Chris Brown have attempted to make runs at it, but they just don't have the credentials to pull off the triple threat of singer, dancer AND songwriter. Ne-Yo does all of that, plus he's got a movie coming out that he's starring in and producing. Not too shabby!
– Keane, "Perfect Symmetry" (CD) – This record continues to inspire me, although a little bit of the shine has worn off for the moment. I think I played it out a bit too much, but who's counting, right? Some of my favorites are "Again and Again", "Pretend That You're Alone", "Spiralling", "Perfect Symmetry", and "The Lovers are Losing". If you can find it, I highly recommend the Japanese bonus track "My Shadow". It's one of those piano-and-vocal-driven tracks that Keane do so well.
– David Cook, "Light On" (single) – I'm going to take some abuse here, but this song has really grown on me. The chorus has that power pop vibe that I really enjoy, and I'm kind of feeling the perky, upbeat theme. Maybe my recent Chris Cornell encounter is helping fuel my increased love of the track, as he wrote the song. It's the only track that Cook didn't have a hand in writing, but I think given the current pop marketplace, it's a good starting place. Most added at Hot AC radio last week, and the full-length comes out the week before Thanksgiving.
What are you all diggin' at the moment?
Make Me Wanna "Scream"
Posted in: concerts, reviews.	Tagged: chris cornell, timbaland.	1 Comment
Ah…big city living. How I have missed you so. During my 14 months in Lansing, I only saw one concert (Annie Lennox), and I had to drive to Detroit to see that one. Now that I've been back less than 3 weeks, I've already got a show under my belt, with at least 2 more coming up in the next 2 weeks. If nothing else, this should give me something to write about.
Last night's show was one that I wouldn't have necessarily paid to see, but I'm glad it worked out to see it. Chris Cornell, formerly of Soundgarden and Audioslave, has a new CD coming out that was fully produced by Timbaland and J-Roc. Entitled "Scream", the record's release date is now up in the air, but looks like January. It's being billed as something undefinable, but let's be honest. It's definitely Timbaland, whether there's a screaming guitar or a lush line of synths involved. I kept an open mind, and went into the show with no preconceived notions of what to expect. Good thing I did…
The show started out late. Like almost 10 PM late. Now, it was originally scheduled to go on at 9, but still, this wasn't at a club, this was at a formal concert theater, so I wasn't prepared for the nightclub attitude. DJ Freestyle Steve, personal DJ for Timbaland, worked the crowd, and he was a great hype man. Everyone was caught up in the vibe, and I didn't see anyone that wasn't into it. Good way to start off the night.
From there, it gets a bit uneven. Tim's band came out and got set up, and then Timbaland emerged. This setting really seemed to work well with him. The Ogden only holds a couple thousand folks, and the show was sold out, so it really had a high energy with a bit of an intimate vibe.
The set consisted of the expected tracks from "Shock Value", along with tracks with other artists and a few album cuts I wouldn't have expected. "Oh Timbaland", "Promiscuous", "Bounce", "Apologize", "Release", "Throw It On Me", "Sexyback", "The Way I Are"…he covered all of the expected bases, but it was a bit awkward at times. Since he utilizes other artists for all of the singing (and a good chunk of the rapping), there were times that he was standing there, grooving while the backing track with the vocals was playing. However, when he was engaged, he was REALLY engaged. The way he took "Release", and broke it down instrument by instrument was really cool, and showed a bit of his production skill. That helped make up for his excessive talking in between tracks, which got a bit annoying after a while.
In a little bit of a Timbaland exclusive, he announced "Shock Value, Vol. 2" will release on February 14th. As a sampler, they played "Talk That Sh*t", which the Interwebs say T-Pain is on, but man, it sure sounded like Lil Wayne on that track.
So we're pushing up on 11, and the set ends, and the crew takes a half hour to change things over, so it's LATE. Maybe I'm old, but my back was killing me from standing for almost 3 hours at that point. There was no way I was leaving my first concert back in Denver early, so I just hung in there, and Chris finally made it out around 11:20. Had I done research, I would have known that he was going to play the album from start to finish, but I didn't, which I'm glad for. Sonically, this is definitely a project to hear live. I've gone and listened to some of the tracks that have been released as singles on iTunes, and they pale a bit to the live experience.
As a whole, I enjoyed it. There were a few things that bothered me a bit, but I don't think they are major. Chris appears to have picked up Tim's habit of grunting and saying "yeah" at the beginning of tracks. He did that on at least three tracks that I remember. Since I haven't heard the CD with a track listing in front of me, and the track listing hasn't been released yet, I can't fully ID all of the songs, but I will say that some of this DOES sound a bit innovative, but much of it sounds like "Shock Value". "Scream" might as well be the sequel to "Apologize", but something like "Part of Me" has potential. Chris seemed to get lost in the mix at times last night, but when he was at full energy, he was awesome. "Watch Out" live had a futuristic Offspring sound to it, while the closing "Two Drink Minimum" even got a bit bluesy and sultry.
All in all, a fun show, even with the little nuisances included. Impressively, the crowd was very much into both sets, which helped. I feared that they would lose some enthusiasm after Timbaland finished, but that didn't happen. If nothing else, I will be checking out the final version of "Scream" when it is finally released.

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I wanted to make a loop antenna for receiving WWVB based on the Amidon R33-050-0750 Ferrite rod. This uses the type 33 material and is 1/2" diameter by 7.5" long. After trying a number of different windings I think the current version may be optimum for WWVB at 60 kHz. It's bank wound using 2 layers of 5x36x44 Litz wire.
The following explanation of "Bank Winding" is for a 4 layer coil.
"Bank Wound" means that you start the winding at the left end, then make 4 turns then wind backwards for 3 turns then forward for 2 turns and then backward for one turn. Now there are 4 layers of wire all at the left end. This process is repeated until the length of the rod is covered. The important fact about this type of winding is that the electrical distance from any one turn to it's immediate neighboring turn is is just a few turns. If the coil was wound a layer at a time, then the electrical distance between turns may be hundreds of turns. The self capacity of the completed coil depends on both the capacity between adjacent turns and also the voltage between the turns.
If you look at the equivalent circuit for a single layer coil where the turns are spaced about one wire diameter it can easily be seen the the total coil voltage is divided so that 1/N of the voltage is across each turn-to-turn capacitance. That's to say the capactance is very closd to the capactance of the first to the last turn. But if you added a second layer then the two coil terminals are at the same end and the turn-to-turn capacitance for the turns adjacent to the two terminals has 100% of the coil voltage across it. The next turns away from the terminals has (N-1)/N of the full coil voltage, etc. This results in a huge self capacity.
There are a number of effects that cause the A.C. resistance of a wire to be higher than the D.C. resistance.
In a straight wire, with no other wires near by, as the frequency increases the electrons carrying the current move away from each other and so end up more and more near the surface of the wire and less and less along the centerline.
Is similar to Skin Effect, but is caused by the interaction between wires that are near to each other.
Litzenhardt wire is made up of a number of independent conductors that are insulated from each other. There are a large number ways that the strands can be arranged.
The wire I used is made from AWG number 44 wires that are in bundles of 36 wires and there are 5 of these bundles in the final wire. If you needed a cable with 180 seperate wires you could use this Litz wire that way. Since a single # 44 wire has a diameter of 0.00198" the total area of the 180 wires is equivalent to a solid wire of diameter 0.02656", or between AWG 21 and 22.
The problem is the insulation takes up space that could be used for copper. The result is that Litz wire typically only works well below a few MHz. It's interesting that at mains power frequencies (20, 50 or 60 Hz) the largest size single strand wire you can buy is determined by skin effect. If a load requires more square mills of copper area then you need to use multiple insulated conductors.
MWS - Litz tool - input the AWG size to get the cross sectional area and it tells you the available strand count and wire sizes.
The following plots were made using the HP (Agilent) 4395A in the Network Analyzer mode and using the Z Transform technique where the unknown device is placed in series with the center conductor.
The problem with this winding is that it's very difficult to bring it to reasonance because of the difficulty in finding fixed caps of the exact value you need.
A much better approach is to make the coil on a sliding former so tuning can be done simply by sliding the former. That's the way the commercial WWVB antennas are made.
The marker shows 1.004 k Ohms at 32.960891 kHz. The network analyzer has already separated the real and imaginary parts so this is pure inductance.
You can see that at 100 Hz the real part of the impedance is about 1 Ohm. i.e. the DC copper resistance. The marker shows the resistance has climbed to 29.325 Ohms at 60 kHz.
Without making a plot of "Q" vs. frequency and analyzing the slope it's hard to say what's causing the resistance. It may be skin effect, proximity effect, or dielectric losses or some combination of these.
Marker shows 94.308 dB at 62.485345 kHz.
Ohms = 10 ^ (dB/20) = 51, 927 Ohms.
The HP 4332 LCR meter measured the caps at 1.35 nF.
The loading capacitance value was chosen so that when the coil, caps and a small variable cap and the input capacitance of an amplifier are connected the resonance point can be brought right on 60.0 kHz.
A similar plot of just the coil shows that it's self resonance frequency is very close to 500 kHz. That's good in that you don't want to run a high Q coil near it's self resonant frequency and here we are well away from it.
This appears to be an improved version of the Temic LF time receiver chips. They specify the resistance at reasonance [40k to 100k for the CME8000 = (1/Q) * SQRT( L/C) ] of the loop for best signal to noise. They have an antenna design - tool to help. The Q should not be between 40 and 150 for the CME8000 if higher temperature effects may tune the cirucit out of reasonance. Note that they have a single IC that can be used with a single loop antenna and by switching caps will tune to LF time stations at 40, 60 or 77.5 kHz and knows how do decode them.
The above loop with the caps that are installed has a resistance at reasonance (60 Hz) of about 52 k Ohms.
The reasonating cap should not be an X7R type since they change capactance up to 10% during soldering.
The desired loop would be 1.5 mH for WWVB and the cap would be 4.7 nF with a Q of 100.
To get the above coil down to 1.5 mH would require removing a lot of turns which would reduce it's series resistance increasing the Q, probably to way over 100. Then either a fixed resistor can be added to control the Q or the reasonating capactance needs to be designed to track with temperature.
C-MAX has an app note on the choice of resonating caps. In order to get surface mount caps they have gone with multilayer ceramic cape. But that makes for a big problem. If the wrong type is used there will be large permanent changes in the capacity because of the soldering operation (maybe measure cap first then use silver epoxy for attach?). For the loop above I used a combination of mica caps and a variable cap to tweak the total.
When the loaded Q is high there can be a problem with temperature causing the center frequency to shift to the point the received signal drops. For most commercial applications the Q is limited to 120.
There is an upper limit on Q imposed by the signal bandwidth. L.F. time code stations use a modulation that changes once per second so a bandwidth of say 10 Hz would be plenty. This implies that at a Q of 6,000 you will start reducing the modulation.
But the C-max limitation of Q<=120 comes from temperature stability.
In the photos above remember that my loopstick is 7.5" long and the CME module is only 2.5" long. It's interesting that both of the ICs on this module were made by Atmel. The 3 station LF time receiver is the Atmel CME8000 and the micro controller is the AT89LS52 (8051 based) driven by a 11.0592 MHz crystal.
They make a number of different versions of the LF time signal board and all those that have an on board RS-232 chip, like the MAX232, can NOT be used in real time because the switching noise of the RS-232 chip for generating the negative voltage is many 10s of dB higher than the received LF time signal. The model shown here was chosen because it has only TTL/CMOS outputs, i.e. does not have the RS-232 chip on the board.
The CMMR-6P-60 is the 60 kHz version (they also offer 40 kHz and 77.5 kHz versions) for WWVB. It's based on the C-MAX CME6005 which is the analog front end without a CPU.
The C-Max data sheet has a table calling this the CME6005 w/o CPU and that's the way Digi-Key has listed it. But it's really an evaluation kit for the CME6005 and comes with an attached (and tuned) 60mm x 10mm loop stick antenna. The C-max bag has a sticker "Tested Sample". This is important because of the difficulty in tuning the antenna to reasonance using surface mount caps.
Notice that the wire between the antenna and PCB is twisted. That is required to minimize interaction between the magnetic field caused by any digital circuitry and the very low level input signal.
Note there is a through hole type cap on the loop stick and in addition there are pads on the board for C4, C3 & C7 to reasonate the antenna. Since those three have no cap installed it's clear that the thru hole cap attached to the antenna is resonating it at 60 kHz. A method to do that is described in the CME6005 data sheet.
The cylindrical package is a 60 kHz series resonant crystal acting as a filter. It's possible to connect two crystals in parallel (and two of the three frequencies and this board would then output the time code for whichever station was within reception range. But C1 and C2 may need to be different values for different stations.
This circuit operates on 1.2 to 5.5 volts aned draws about 100 uA. That means all inputs and outputs are very high impedance.
13 Jan 2009 - have a receiver module powred at 3 V and a DMM watching the output (1 second per bit should be visable) but so far the output is between 2.9 and 3 V. Maybe later tonight it will start working. Looking with a scope shows pulses about 4 us wide at random times. The outputis mostly at +3 V and the pulses go to 0 V. Using a GPS receiver to supply a trigger pulse once per second confirms that the narrow pulses from the CMMR-6P are not correlated with the time.
The gaps in the bottom part of the trace correspond to the time code. But they are not solid.
by 7:23 about the same, dots, not solid at the bottom.
This is connected to TCO and not working very well. Maybe there was a wiring probllem?
Changed from powr supply to battery operation and added LED and resistor to monitor.
First connected LED to the TCO output, but that means the LED is normally on all the time draining the batteries and it didn't seem to work very well.
Connecting the LED to the logic inverted output TCON works better and saves the batteries.
This is a very handy gadget in that you can take it to different places to see how well it works.
Put in the bedroom at night you can see that the data is more solid, but far from noise free.
Next to put a scope on TCON.
A couple of wires were soldered to the board so that other antennas can be connected.
The unit shown at left did not have solid blinking of the LED but the unit built in Octobeer 2010 does have solid LED blinking 24/7. See video below.
Graphic displays, both CRT and LCD, emit radiation because of the scanning and modulation signals. When testing the CMMR-6P-60 using the Rigol scope if the receiver gets too close to the screen the data is totally garbled.
When the scope is close to the receiver the data is corrupted.
Moving the receiver away from the scope solves the problem.
In a real application if the receiver is near electronic equipment there may be a similar problem.
A Nikon D300s camera when close also corrupts the data, discovered when making the video below.
My first testing with a LED directly connected to the CMMR-6P-60 showed noise during the daytime, but around local midnight the flashing was a solid one pulse per second. In Oct 2010 with a different CMMR-6P-60 I'm seeing no noise 24/7. There are two differences, now there's a resistor in series with the LED to limit current (make the battery last longer) and I'm using three AA cells (make the battery last longer).
I notice that the K5JHF clock, just below, did not sync up as soon as it was powered up at 3 pm but did sync around midnight. It uses two AA batteries and the receiver output drives a micro controller input pin that's very high impedance. That seems to say the receiver wants to run from about 5 VDC and not from two AA batteries.
This is a kit to make a clock based on the CMMR-6P-60. Shown below as received.
Note: This clock DOES NOT make the DST/ST switch automatically, i.e. there's a software bug.
flashes along with the CW.
This kit makes use of some surface mount parts but is straight forward to hand assemble with a soldering iron. But there's one gotcha. The2x5 header for the LCD is located inside the 2x8 DIP socket for the micorcotroller so you have to install the 2x5 first then the 2x8.
Also be sure that pin 1 on the LCD matches pin 1 on the kit PCB. The piezo has seperate "Tic" and "Toc" sounds that are cute.
Now, where did I put the CMMR-6P-60?
Got another CMMR-6P-60 from the maker of this clock kit.
When first powered on around 3 pm local time the clock did not sync, but did sync around midnight, but ever since it has not displayed any starting letter when I've checked.
I'll be checking closer to noon to see how it's doing.
This means that the clock lost lock at 5:02 am this morning, but no first letter has appeared since so am confused how they work.
This menas the clock has NOT synced for a few days. The time show is 12 seconds slow.
This photo of the clock running a little before noon shows no prefix letter. Note I have assembled the kit so that the setting buttons are facing the same direction as the LCD face to make it easy to operate the buttons.
of 14:34:16, but . . .
The K5JHF clock is displaying 13:34:19, i.e. there's a 1 hour error.
The Heathkit GC-1000 WWV clock has a similar problem in that it makes the DST/STD time swtich when the station in Colorado changes, not in your time zone.
10 03 14 05 03 59, so it was in sync early this morning and so the problem is a software bug, not a lack of sync.
25 Oct 2010 - Since the Rigol scope was being used to investigate the CMMR-6P-60 antenna a quick look at the K5JHF clock confirmed that the Pon pin was grounded and to check for digital interference. If the loop is brought close to the micro controller PCB the data gets garbled. But when the loop is as far away as the short wires that come with the loop stick antenna the noise is gone. For most applications seperating the loop stick from any digital electronics by say 6" or more might be a good idea if you don't have a scope to check for interference.
"Large Balun Ferrite Rods 10x200mm"
They are very similar to the 7.5" rod above, but this time I'll make provision to tweak the resonant frequency in a simple manner.
After cutting the tape each rod needs to be cleaned of tape residue.
Rods measure: 9.75 mm (0.383") dia x 199..2mm 7.846" long.
Making coil former from 67 # paper. Wrapped a little more than one turn then glued and tapped. Rod slides easily in and out of former now. The hope is that it will also slide on the rod after the coil is wound on it. Note that if ordinary 20 # copy paper was used the wire tension would lock it to the rod.
L = 392 uh = 0.392 mh without the ferrite rod inserted.
relative permeability = 25.62 mh / 0.392 mh = 65.4.
Measured at 40 kHz with 1 ma current in coil.
Note: a Q of 150 is a single count from a Q of 150.
Shown below are the 750, 60 and 120 turn coils.
The 120 T coil has been adjusted to reasonate at 60 kHz with the 4n7 cap..
It would work a little better if turns were removed so it was closer to the center.
First cut would be 1.5 mh/ 65.4 = 22.9 uh.
H = since L is proportional to N^2 reducing the inductance from 25 mh to 22.9 uh requires a change in turns of 33.
H = 0.0095 * 23 = 0.216"
L = 422 uh & Q = 63 with coil at center of core.
Self resonant frequency with ferrite core is about 2.3 Mhz. i.e. well above 60 kHz.
HP 4274A LCR Meter measuring 160 turn Loop antenna.
It looks like a few turns can be removed to improve the Q at 1.5 mh, but the next step will be to sweep the inductance on the HP 4395A.
A 4n7 cap has an impedance of 564 Ohms at 60 kHz. If the real resistance of the tank at 60 kHz is 37.3 k Ohms then the Q is 66 which is about half the Q from the 4274A LCR meter at 40 kHz.
Tank circuit connected directly to 50 Ohm input.
When a Galleon 60 x 10 mm 60 kHz resonant loop-stick was connected to the exact same setup, after 32 averages there is no signal at 60 kHz so the 200x10 mm Russian ferrites make better antennas.
I think the antenna performance metric should be G/T, i.e. the ratio of the Gain to the noise.
C-Max says that too high a Q leads to temperature instability.
The other factor is the impedance at reasonance, i.e. related to the value of the resonating cap. The cap needs to be larger than the coil's self capacitance in order to get a high Q value, so miniumzing the self capacity of the coil seems like a good thing.
turns over 2.27" spaced apart. aprox 100 turns.
Measured on 4275A at 40 kHz shows 0.952 mH and Q of 92.
Self resonant frequency with ferrite core is about 4.8 MHz.
because the turns had not been counted. It was in Photoshop that it was determined to be really a 131 Turn coil.
An extension wire was soldered to the above 120T loop antenna and about 30 more turns were wound (to the end of the former. Then it was measured on the HP 4275A LCR meter showing about 2.4 mH. Turns were removed until it measured about 1.5 mH with a Q of 235 at 100 kHz. Then put onto the HP 4395A in Z:Trans mode (RF OUT & A input) with the same 4n7 cap as before and the former moved until resonance was at 60 kHz. This turns out to be very difficult at this high a Q so a fine tune can be made be tuning a little high then winding on a fractional turn. Then one wire was opened between the loop and the cap to make a series circuit and that was connected to the 4395A in spectrum analyzer mode (R input).
This is about the same real impedance as the above close spaced 120Turn loop. Which is consistent with using the identical 4n7 resonating capacitor and the same 32 AWG wire.
21 Oct 2010 - When soaked in the freezer (zip lock bag) overnight and tested next morning the peak was at 62.5 kHz. The cap was out of the bag and quickly came to room temp. Much better to use the C-Max method of using shrink tube to hold the cap next to the ferrite. Have a bunch of caps of different chemistry on order to see what tempcos are available.
where Fhi and Flow are down 3 dB from the peak.
But this may not mean much considering the source and load resistances.
The loop and cap are series connected for this spectrum plot.
Taken at 9:30 am 19 Oct 2010 in my office, i.e. near a working computer and during the day. The signal is WWVB 20 dB above the noise!!!
To make the noise easier to see the video bandwidth has be lowered to 0.1 Hz rather than use averaging.
The improvement may be because of the series LC connection, the spaced turns covering more of the ferrite or reducing the self capacitance, or something else?
Oct 22, 2010: Some more of the CMMR-6P-60 WWVB receivers have been received so that a number of receivers can be tested in parallel with different loops.
The first test will be to compare the stock receivers to see how similar they are with the stock loop antennas.
Then replace one of the stock antennas with the 131T antenna and see what difference it makes on the output at different times of the day. So far the first stock receiver is producing strong output all the time.
The CMMR-6P-60 WWVB Receiver is shown for just over one minute, a full digital data frame and in the background you can hear sharp ticks that are coming from another WWVB receiver. In another room is a Self Winding Clock Co. "Western Union" pendulum clock that can also be heard. The red LED is fed through a 4k7 resistor and the receiver is being powered by three Alkaline AA batteries (about 4.5 Volts).
There was a problem making this video in that when the Nikon D300s was close(4" or so) to the CMMR-6P-60 the receiver quit working. In order to make the video I used a 2X tele extender so that the camera could be about a foot from the receiver.
Recorded 25 Oct 2010 at about 0913 to 0914 Pacific Daylight Time (1613 to 1614 UTC).
* 4.7 nF is the cap that C-Max uses on their antennas.
Dwire = 7.874" /SQRT(f) = 0.032" which is 20 AWG. So using a larger wire diameter in solid copper should improve the Q and lower the resistance of the coil.
The skin depth in copper is about 10 mills.
Note 32 AWG is about the wire size C-Max uses.
If a free running 32 kHz oscillator was enclosed in a combination of thermal mass and insulation where the time constant was much longer than a day then the daily temperature variations would not be such an influence. To get a feel for how big a mass and what insulation that represents some experiments follow.
A brass rod 1/2" dia by 3 3/4" long weighing 102 grams is heated in the oven, removed and lightly wrapped in a towel. The time and temperature are recorded. The time for the temp to drop by 1/e is 6 min 35 seconds. So to get a multi-day time constant would take much more mass and much better insulation.
Block is 6061 3.362" x 2.500" x 2.000" (16.81 cu in or 275.5 cc) and weighs 1 # 12.4 oz (805 grams); 2.92 g/cc or 1.68 oz/cu in.
Styrofoam Insulation is sold by Michael's Arts & Crafts store. Branded as "Make It: Fun!" for floral arrangements.
B10125WS 1-3/16 x 9-7/8 x 11-7/8 inch (3 x 25 x 30.1 cm Styrofoam Block weight: 2.6 oz (73.7 g) 0.0325 g/cc or 0.0187 oz/cu in.
Styro Cutter Model No. 601+ nominal hot Rod ( a hot wire is supported at both ends so can not cut trenches, but a rod can) kerf is 1/16"
The wall wart is rated at 6 VAC & 500 ma for a power of 3 Watts. This means that it cuts very slowly, not recommended. The Hot Wire Styrofoam cutters on You-tube are using much more power and cut at a more reasonable rate. Also it's easy to bend the rod over if you try to cut too fast.
Looks like Elmer's wood glue. After one hour still not starting to set. No info on the bottle about set time. Some faster way would make doing an assembly much easier.
Notice that the denisty of the Styrofoam is about 90 times lower than Aluminum.
This is a newer generation WWVB clock compared to the earlier ones. It syncs much faster and it rotates the hands very fast for the daylight savings time change. But it probably is not making use of the new phase modulation.
This is the newest WWVB La Crosse clock that receives the phase modulation. I powered it up around noon and within 5 minutes is was synced.
This is the chip used in the La Crosse WT-3102 WWVB Clock above that received the phase modulation signal.
WWVB is upgrading their transmission so that receivers on the East coast will be able to synchronize even with a weak RF signal strength by adding phase modulation. The old constant phase (except for the small phase step) is not gone so receivers that locked to the carrier phase, like the HP 114 and a bunch of other frequency standard receivers will no longer work in stock format. There's talk of a circuit that can be added between in input and receiver that will remove the phase modulation and do that without the degradation in signal to noise ratio that a squaring circuit introduces, but I haven't seen one yet.
http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/wwvb.cfm is the NIST web page talking about the new phase modulation format.
http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/upload/NIST-Enhanced-WWVB-Broadcast-Format-1_01-2013-11-06.pdf is the paper, but does not cover all the different formats.
WWVB Time signal Broadcast: An Enhanced Broadcast Format and Multi-Mode Receiver, Liang, Eliezer, Rajan & Lowe, IEEE Communications mag. May 2014.
This paper goes into some detail about the different frame length messages. There are a number of references with links.
Y. Liang, D. Rajan, O. Eliezer, "Receiver Design of Radio-Controlled Clocks Based On The New WWVB Broadcast Format," IEEE Trans. Wireless Communications, accepted for publication.
Y. Liang, O. Eliezer, D. Rajan, and J. Lowe, "WWVB Time Signal Broadcast: An Enhanced Broadcast Format and Multi-Mode Receiver," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 52, no. 5, pp. 210–217, May 2014.
Y. Liang, O. Eliezer, D. Rajan, A. Ramasami, W. Khalil, "Interference-Robustness Improvement in BPSK Receivers for the Enhanced WWVB Broadcast" in IEEE Texas Symposium on Wireless and Microwave Circuits and Systems, April, 2014.
Y. Liang, D. Rajan, O. Eliezer, S. Balasubramanian, and W. Khalil, "A New Broadcast Format and Receiver Architecture for Radio Controlled Clocks," in IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp. 1128 - 1131, August 2013.
Y. Liang, H. Liu, and D. Rajan, "Optimal Placement and Configuration of Roadside Units in Vehicular Networks," in IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, pp. 1–6, May 2012.
Y. Liang, O. Eliezer, and D. Rajan, "Optimization of Cosine Modulated Filter Bank for Narrowband RFI," in IEEE GLOBECOM, pp. 1-5, December 2011.
O. Eliezer, T. Jung, R. Lobo, M. Appel, Y. Liang, D. Robbins, and P. Nelsen, "A Multi-Mode Software-Defined CMOS BPSK Receiver SoC for the Newly Enhanced WWVB Atomic Clock Broadcast," in IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits, June 2014.
J. Lowe, M. Deutch, G. Nelson, D. Sutton, W. Yates, and P. Hansen, O. Eliezer, T. Jung, S. Morrison, Y. Liang, D. Rajan, et al. "New Improved System for WWVB Broadcast," in 43rd Annual PTTI Meeting, 2011.
Y. Liang, D. Rajan, O. Eliezer, "Sequential Frame Synchronization based on Hypothesis Testing with Unknown CSI," Manuscript in preparation.
Y. Liang, D. Rajan, O. Eliezer, "Design of Non-linear Block Codes Given Unequal A-priori Message Probability," Manuscript in preparation.
Y. Liang, D. Rajan, O. Eliezer, "Design of Sync Word Given Unequal Energy per Bit," Manuscript in preparation.
Many of these have some amount of duplication.
8331201 Leap second and daylight saving time correction for use in a radio controlled clock receiver, Oren E. Eliezer, Xw Llc, Grindstone Capital, Llc, Xw Llc Dba Xtendwave, Dec 11, 2012, 368/47, 375/329, 375/316, 368/28 - "The one second/one hour corrections are scheduled to occur when they should take place and the correction is applied exactly when DST or leap second is to go into effect, without having to receive anything around the time of the correction."
8300687 of the same name but issued Oct 2012?
The phase modulation system is similar to the one used on the German DCF77 time station, so a receiver that works for it might be modified to work with WWVB.
Blikenlight - The Clock - by Udo Klein in Germany a DCF77 receiver shield for Arduino. The hardware front end is a commercial module (the larger the loopstick the better).
LORAN-C Receiver by Poul-Henning Kamp - an improvement would be to band limit the loop antenna, but not high Q since sferics will cause ringing.
MSF Radio Receiver - the MSF signal suffers the same problems as the WWVB signal.
Projection clocks including a WWVB version.
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A few months ago, Acuity started a tax practice, and in our 14 years of existence, this was something we never thought we'd do. Since inception, we had been an outsourced accounting practice, starting with CFO services, and adding controller and bookkeeping practices along the way. While we had always preferred to let traditional CPA firms manage our clients' tax filings in order for us to focus on internal accounting, we began noticing problems with our clients' tax relationships. In many cases, they actually brought issues directly to our team to ask for help.
Repeatedly, we saw our small business clients experiencing two specific issues with their tax providers. First, and most troubling, was that they had virtually no relationship with the person doing their taxes, only hearing from their firm once a year to request financials to file the return. If clients heard from their tax preparer more frequently, it was usually through an occasional email newsletter containing technical IRS regulations written in confusing accounting jargon.
Second, our clients complained about the inefficiencies of exchanging financial information with their CPAs. Clients routinely received tax folders in the mail with requests to print or make copies of documents to be returned via snail mail. Our team at Acuity assured these tax CPAs that we put all of our clients on cloud-based accounting systems and could give them direct, secure access to their clients' books. Nonetheless, the CPAs would respond that they did not use cloud software and preferred to have us or the client go through the manual process of printing out and mailing the reports. However, because Acuity modernizes our clients' accounting function by using QuickBooks® Online Accountant, the situation made their tax CPAs' antiquated processes and systems that much more frustrating to deal with.
As a result, the decision to launch our own tax practice was driven by our clients' need for a better tax experience. Because we already maintain their accounting records, we can directly access almost all of the information needed to file their returns without having to drag them through time-consuming information requests. Acuity was one of the early adopters of a 100 percent cloud-based bookkeeping practice, so we saw the opportunity to do the same with tax and knew that Intuit® ProConnect™ Tax Online could serve as the foundation for launching a truly modern cloud-based tax practice.
We also believe that adding tax services to our firm will attract new clients who might not have previously considered the benefits of our outsourced accounting services. Most small businesses actively reach out to accounting professionals for help with their taxes out of fear of making a mistake that could potentially land them in trouble with the IRS. However, many of these same small businesses still try to do their own bookkeeping without realizing how much more efficient they could be if they outsourced it to a professional. We believe very few of these businesses have seen the impact a higher-level accounting professional a controller or CFO can have. Therefore, when a business owner initially comes to us for tax help, we see it as a great opportunity to introduce them to our other valuable service lines.
Compliance is another key area of consideration. Regulation-oriented services such as tax benefit from having strict timing deadlines. The regularity creates very clear engagement cycles and communication touch points with clients throughout the year. For firms with significant advisory or consultative practices focused more on project-based work, the specific rhythms of tax services should create better client retention and more consistent revenues.
For us to be successful in launching this practice, we'll certainly look at traditional metrics such as the number of tax returns filed for clients, average number or returns processed per tax staff person and percent of returns filed on time versus extended. However, two metrics will be particularly important to measure our success. First, were we able to be 100 percent paperless, not just in filing tax returns but in the full tax engagement lifecycle? This will signal whether we've been able to create a modern practice instead of falling back into the inefficient habits of most traditional tax practices. Second, will there be specific Net Promoter Score survey data from our tax clients that will help us improve our processes and meet our clients' goals?
Ultimately, our clients' feedback regarding whether we were able to make their tax filing experience better is the only metric that truly matters.
Kenji Kuramoto is founder and CEO of Acuity, a firm that has served thousands of entrepreneurs and small businesses to help them build better accounting functions. He started his career as a CPA with a global public accounting firm, but quickly developed a passion for entrepreneurship and left to become the CFO of a fast-growing tech company before launching Acuity. Find Kenji on Twitter @kenjikuramoto.


Thank you, Grandma Kathy, for the beautiful and lovingly made dress for Natalie! She loves it, it fits her perfectly, and I can't wait to debut this handmade treasure at church (and probably everywhere we go for the next several weeks -- Natalie tends to practically live in her most loved dresses).
And here's a recent photo of Natalie and Naomi hanging out. I have been playing with my brother's hand-me-down digital Canon Rebel camera. I love its heft and the richness it brings to each shot.
Welcome my mom to the blog realm!
My mom's life is in process of taking a turn for the creative, and she's invited me to join her artful journey. She's decided to learn the ropes of the online community, including blogging and running an Etsy shop. I've gladly offered to help in any way possible ... and yesterday we launched her blog!
Give my mom a warm welcome at Color, Cut, and Paste! I'm very proud of her and excited to help share and sell her amazing craft creations.
She hopes to launch her Etsy shop in the next couple months, so stay tuned.
In the meantime, I've dusted off my brother's hand-me-down digital Canon Rebel camera and have been practicing with backdrops, props, and lighting. I have hopes of sprucing up my own product photography and taking photos of items for my mom's shop.
My mom's cigar box purse was one of the first things I photographed with the new (to me) digital camera. I placed the box upon a vintage suitcase in front of a goldenrod-colored blanket suspended from hooks in the ceiling. Everything is situated in front of the window in my craft room for delicious afternoon light.
In February, Natalie, Naomi, and I painted some clothespin fairies for an afternoon craft time together. I die-cut the butterfly wings out of embossed Grungeboard and attached them with hot-melt glue. I also used the hot glue to attach the pipe-cleaner arms. We then painted and glittered the fairies to our hearts' content.
These two fairies were Valentine's gifts for our friends.
Natalie, age 4, painted this one for herself. She is named Leaf-Leaf and has fun flying around the house and making guest appearances in Natalie's dollhouse.
Naomi, age 18 months, painted this one all by herself. Natalie named this fairy Paint-Paint.


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The True Cost of Losing an Executive & the Best Ways of Structuring Plans to Retain Executives
For organizations to thrive in today's economy, finding and retaining the best executives is vital. Given the unprecedented challenges and increased competition blooming across a myriad of industries, retaining top executive talent is crucial.
Many companies tend to be myopic as it relates to understanding the true cost of losing an executive. It is important for companies to focus on the "total" costs that will accompany the loss of an executive, particularly an extremely talented executive.
The real cost of executive turnover is, for the most part, an unknown. This is largely due to the fact that most companies don't have systems in place to track exit costs which can include the following:
Lost productivity
Potential customer dissatisfaction
Reduced or lost business
Administrative costs
Lost expertise
It takes collaboration among departments (HR, Finance, Operations) which, in effect, need to develop tools to measure these costs concomitant with reporting mechanisms. As we all know, collaboration between two departments, much less multiple departments, on any issue can be challenging.
Traditionally, most people think that the costs of losing an executive are just "explicit" costs which are more tied to fees paid to a search firm to find a replacement. However, the more impactful costs are the "implicit" costs of losing a key executive, also known as opportunity costs. Thus, the summation of explicit and implicit costs illuminate the true cost (i.e., total cost) of losing an executive. Generally speaking, the total cost can be approximately 200 - 300 percent of the executive's salary.
In 2019, according to Statista (1), 16.5% of executive teams (CEOs, CFOs and COOs) turned over. Also in 2019, according to the Work Institute (2), a shocking 42 million people voluntarily left their jobs. This equates to 27% of the workforce. This was an increase of over 2 million in 2018, which saw 40 million voluntary departures and an increase of over 88% since 2010.
It is important for companies to find ways to reduce the likelihood of this loss by creating and/or enhancing incentive plans. These plans should be designed to embrace executive retention, amplify cost savings and, more importantly, preserve the value of the enterprise.
Explicit Costs
Executives should be of paramount importance given the high costs associated with their turnover. Direct replacement costs, or explicit costs, can include search fees, legal fees (employment agreements, severance and non-compete agreements, etc.), advertising, background check and time spent internally (interviewing, screening and personal assessments) all of which can equate to 50-60% of one's salary. For instance, suppose a 45-year-old executive makes $250,000 annually, then decides to work for a different organization. Under the general assumption, tangible direct replacement costs and other related costs would range from $125,000-$150,000.
Implicit Costs
Explicit costs represent just part of the true cost of losing an executive: implicit costs can also be impactful. The time necessary to replace the executive alone would constitute a high opportunity cost. The alternative where the executive stays and remains productive during the same time period is usually preferred.
This opportunity cost can entail other factors, such as a negative work atmosphere that contributes to employee disengagement. Per Gallup, employee disengagement costs the US economy upwards of $350 billion per year (3) (note: other employees who see high turnover tend to disengage and lose productivity).
From a company standpoint, the lost productivity and engagement of employees associated with a departed executive can create costs equal to $10,000 or more per year, per employee. For example, if an executive's departure impacts even just 10 employees, implicit costs associated with disengagement alone could total $100,000. Other implicit costs that need to be considered are as follows:
Cost of Onboarding - training and management time.
Lost Productivity - it may take a new employee one to two years to reach the productivity of an exiting executive.
Lack of Customer Service and Increased Errors - for example, new employees take longer and are often less adept at solving problems.
Long Term Training Cost - over two to three years, a business will invest 10 to 20 percent of an employee's salary or more in training.
Cultural Impact - whenever someone leaves, others take time to ask why.
Losing a key member of your team can be extremely painful and challenging for the entire organization. Moreover, it can create costs that most have never considered or even know how to measure. What is the solution? How can companies reduce or even eliminate the economic impact of unexpectedly losing a key executive?
Pay to Stay vs. Pay to Go
The focus should be finding cost effective ways to motivate and encourage executives to build their careers at your organization. Rewarding executives based on performance and years of service are two drivers that can be incorporated into every executive retention plan. There are two ways to deliver value to an executive and reward them for their commitment and loyalty; cash and benefits.
Delivery of cash with an accompanying vesting schedule and a predetermined payout can be extremely "sticky". There can also be a non-compete incorporated into the plan design.
Delivery of benefits based on years of service whereby the benefits are paid for 100% by the company and/or benefits can be structured to be portable to the executive are seen as extremely attractive.
We will explore a Long Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) and other executive benefit plans that take into consideration both of these strategies. The goal is to put plans in place that are less costly than the economic impact of losing a key executive.
Cash - Long Term Incentive Plan
Establishing an LTlP can reduce the company's explicit hiring and training costs by 50 percent. The true savings created by an LTlP becomes even greater when considering the implicit costs associated with losing an executive.
The most impactful LTIP's deliver both an immediate cash component and a deferred cash component. The immediate cash component is typically tied to a vesting schedule whereby a percentage of the LTlP benefits are delivered based on a vesting schedule (e.g., 1/3 vested a year, 100% vested in 3 years). A common percentage paid out over the vesting schedule is 50% of the total LTlP benefits. The remaining 50% that is deferred can be invested to earn a tax deferred rate of return and paid at a future point in time (e.g., 10 years, retirement age, etc.). It is this deferral component that creates the "golden handcuff" and is utilized to retain the executives in the long term.
Below is a hypothetical graphical cost comparison of establishing an LTIP vs. incurring the costs of losing an executive.
Long-Term Incentive Plan (LTIP)*
Benefits - Split Dollar and Executive Long Term Care
In addition to cash, there can be substantial value in providing executives and their families with valued benefits. The benefits provided would be in addition to traditional employee benefits. Two of the most popular benefits for executives are establishing a split dollar plan and an executive long term care plan. Both plans can be established without any P&L impact to the company while providing substantial cash benefits to the executives and their families.
A split dollar plan is a structure that allows a company to provide tax free life insurance benefits to an executive with little cost being incurred by the executive. Moreover, based on years of service, a cash component can be designed into the plan at retirement age or after a certain period of time. It is important to note that the plan can be designed to recover 100% of the company's costs.
An "investment oriented" long term care insurance plan can provide executives with substantial tax free benefits in the event they lose two of five daily living activities. The premium is paid for by the company which creates a money market account on the balance sheet of the company. In the event the benefit is not utilized by the executive either because a) they didn't meet the minimum number of years of service required to receive the benefit or b) they remain healthy, the company will be returned 100%+ of their premiums.
The true cost of losing an executive equals the summation of the explicit and implicit costs that arise upon their departure, with the latter representing the most formidable costs, depending upon the quality of talent lost and the quality of the talent acquired. As Zappos CEO once remarked, poorly chosen hires have cost the company "well over $100 million" (6). It is clear that a company can be much better off creating ways to retain talent rather than taking on the risks of hiring new talent; the known usually outweighs the unknown.
Companies across the country pay these costs every year for multiple executives which runs into the million of dollars. By way of example, a company with $1 billion in revenue, depending on the industry, will generally have about 250 executives that are considered highly compensated executive level employees. If the average salary is $180,000 and a company loses 5% of their executive team a year (i.e., approximately 12 executives out of 250), that equates to a total cost, conservatively, of about $4.3 million. Given the magnitude of this cost and potential damage on the enterprise value of the organization, it is important for companies to ask themselves two questions:
What can we do to better retain our key people to effectively reduce executive turnover?
Is the solution something that is less costly than the economic impact that is created when an executives leaves?
Based on our experience in working with C-level talent and executive teams, it is important for a company to be proactive in understanding the cost formula:
Pay to Stay < Pay to Go
Exploring ways to reduce the impact of executive loss and, moreover, developing plans that preserve and enhance the long term enterprise value of the organization, should be an important part of every company's strategic plan.
Mezrah Consulting (MC) is a national executive benefits and compensation consulting firm based in Tampa, Florida. Mezrah Consulting's work is predominantly focused on executive benefits planning for sizable publicly traded and privately held companies. MC is a knowledge company offering its clients highly creative and innovative solutions. MC uncovers value and recognizes risks that other firms typically do not see.
MC specializes in the design, funding, implementation, securitization and administration of non-qualified executive benefit programs. MC has been engaged in this consulting niche for over 25 years, advising companies in over 27 states and providing custom non-qualified plan administration on its proprietary cloud platform.
For more information contact Lori Brink at (813) 367-1111 or lbrink@mezrahconsulting.com or learn more at MezrahConsulting.com.
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Manke and Sand on top after first round at 100th Washington Men's Amateur
WA Golf President Paul Ramsdell served as the afternoon starter during today's opening round.
Bremerton, Wash. – RJ Manke of Lakewood and John Sand of Hoquiam both shot 6-under-par 66 to tie for the lead after the first round of the historic 100th Washington Men's Amateur Championship, being held this week on the Olympic Course at Gold Mountain Golf Club in Bremerton, Wash.
The championship consists of 54 holes of stroke play, with the full field of 120 players cut to the low 60 players and ties after 36 holes. The three-day championship is being conducted by Washington Golf (WA Golf).
Championship links:
Full scoring
Complete information
To stay connected on social media, follow WA Golf on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook and use the hashtag #WAGolfMensAm.
RJ Manke
"I've just always loved this golf course," Manke said after his bogey-free round. "I played it a lot growing up. It just feels like home playing here. My iron game has been good lately, so I was able to capitalize on that and make some putts."
Manke won the 2018 Washington Men's Amateur. The last time a player won more than one title in this championship was when Don Scott won back-to-back titles in 1968-1969.
Manke, who attended Bellarmine Prep in Tacoma, played four years on the Pepperdine University men's golf team which recently won the NCAA National Championship. He has just transferred to the University of Washington, where he will play for the men's golf team in the fall in his final year of eligibility.
John Sand
Sand was runner-up in the 2019 Washington Men's Amateur, losing in a playoff to champion Reid Hatley. Sand won the 2016 Washington Men's Champion of Champions.
Sitting one shot back of Manke and Sand is Spencer Clapp of Federal Way, whose 5-under 67 included a 31 on the front nine. "I definitely made a lot of putts today," Clapp said after the round. "My playing partners were joking that I made a total of about 200 feet of putts on the first eight holes. I seemed to be canning everything."
After the fog delayed today's starting times by one hour, Clapp teed off at 10:10 and posted his 67 before Manke and Sand finished, giving them something to shoot for.
Clapp played golf while at Decatur High School in Federal Way, so has played many competitive rounds at Gold Mountain. After high school Clapp played four years on the men's golf team at Sonoma State University (Calif.), graduating in 2019. He tied for ninth in last year's Washington Men's Amateur.
Hatley sits tied for fourth after an opening round of 71.
Only nine players broke par in today's opening round on the 6,988-yard par-72 Olympic Course.
The state's premier men's amateur championship, which is a counting event toward the World Amateur Golf Ranking, traditionally attracts the region's finest players.
About the 100th Washington Men's Amateur Championship
The Washington Men's Amateur is the longest-running continuously-held golf championship in the state. Its illustrious history traces the arc and the growth of the state's golf community. Past champions include Fred Couples, Joel Dahmen, Alex Prugh, Brock Mackenzie, Kermit Zarley, John Bodenhamer, and Pacific Northwest Golf Hall of Famers Al Mengert, Bud Ward, Jack Westland and Harry Givan, among many others. A history of the championship can be found here.
About Gold Mountain Golf Club
Owned by the city of Bremerton, Gold Mountain Golf Club is one of the top municipal golf facilities in the country, consisting of two championship layouts, the Cascade Course and Olympic Course. Opened in 1996, the Olympic Course was designed by Northwest architect John Harbottle III. It has hosted numerous regional and national championships, including the 2006 U.S. Amateur Public Links, and the 2011 U.S. Junior Amateur, won by Jordan Spieth. This is the third time the Olympic Course has hosted the Washington Men's Amateur, with it previously being held there in 1997 and 2007.
About Washington Golf
Founded in 1922, WA Golf is a 501c4 non-profit, amateur golf association governed by men and women volunteers. Serving more than 75,000 individual members at more than 550 member golf clubs and 270 golf courses throughout the state of Washington and Northern Idaho, WA Golf works to continually expand the game of golf to people of all backgrounds and abilities.
WA Golf also serves as a statewide representative of the United States Golf Association and works closely with a number of allied associations within the golf industry for the betterment of the game.
Tags: Championship news, Gold Mountain Golf Club, john sand, Olympic Course, Reid Hatley, RJ Manke, Spencer Clapp, Washington Men's Amateur


With global sponsor, SoftLayer, and local partners Kahn & Associés and Mutual Benefits, our TechChampions tour continues across Europe, in search of the Bright Stars of Tech, on our ongoing mission to help connect top European innovators with the global investment, big brands, and industry players who can help them reach the next levels of success.
In Europe, it is often the Nordics that get attention when it comes to Tech. But, at this year's mega show CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Vegas, France took second place next to the US, for the most Tech startups to participate.
Indeed, France has a lot to show for itself in Tech. Heavy hitters like Criteo (Bully Award Winner) who went public in 2013; Ridesharing leader, BlaBlaCars; and Wit.ai, who recently announced it will be bought by Facebook ... are just a few on the list. Paris alone is home to more than 4,000 tech startups - in a political and economic environment that has become one of the most conducive to European entrepreneurship.
On June 9, we'll hear from some of the HOTTEST Tech firms in Paris, who will present before an audience of potential investors, big brands, and ecosystem supporters. With some of the industry's "been-there-done-thats," we'll see how the innovation climate in France stacks up against the rest of the world. And, we'll top it all off with White-Bull-Style networking with drinks and nibbles.
This is a free, intimate, and invite-only event. Space is limited, so if you are interested in joining us, please contact us here, tell us a little about yourself ... and why you'd like to come.


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Parameter Space: The Final Frontier
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Fun with bitstrings and bijections
Here are two bijections between (infinite) bitstrings and (finite or infinite) sequences of positive integers:
You can think of a bitstring as being made up of consecutive runs of one or more 0s or 1s, like "0000" and "111" and "0".
From bits to integers: Prepend a 0 to the bitstring, then slice it up into runs of 0s and 1s and write down the length of each run. If the string ends in an infinite run, stop the sequence of integers after the last finite run.
From integers to bits: Write down alternating runs of 0s and 1s, with lengths given by the numbers in the sequence. If the sequence stops, write an infinite run of whichever bit value is next. Then delete the first 0.
For example, "001110011100111…" maps to [3, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3…] and "110001100011000…" maps to [1, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3…].
The annoying extra-0 trick is to distinguish pairs of bitstrings like the above, which are flipped versions of each other.
Note that "00000…" maps to [] and "11111…" maps to [1].
Gaps between 1s
On the other hand, you can think of a bitstring as being made up of runs of zero or more 0s ending in a single 1, like "001" and "000001" and "1".
From bits to integers: For each 1 in the bitstring, write down the number of 0s immediately preceding it plus one. If the bitstring ends in an infinite run of zeros, stop the sequence of integers after the last 1.
From integers to bits: For each number N in the sequence, write down N-1 0s and then one 1. If the sequence stops, write an infinite run of 0s.
Note that "00000…" maps to [] and "11111…" maps to [1, 1, 1, 1, 1…]
Both at once?
The all-zeros string maps to an empty list under both bijections, but the all-ones string is different. It's also easy to see that these bijections are pretty different on a generic bitstring.
Suppose we start with the list [1] and repeatedly do the following:
Encode the list into a bitstring using the run-length-encoding map
Decode that bitstring into a list using the gaps-between-1s map
What does the sequence of bitstrings look like?
The first few steps look like this:
[1] –> 11111…
11111… –> [1, 1, 1, 1, 1…]
[1, 1, 1, 1, 1…] –> 101010…
101010… –> [1, 2, 2, 2…]
[1, 2, 2, 2…] –> 110011…
So our first few bitstrings are:
I'll let you discover the pattern for yourself (pen and paper is sufficient, but Python is faster), but if you get impatient CLICK HERE to see the first 64 bits of each of the first 64 strings.
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Q: Android - Show fragment on resume I currently have a navigation drawer, which has a few fragments (Home, Help, About) in my activity. On startup it opens up Home. The issue i'm having is that when i go to another fragment such as Help and then proceed to put the phone to sleep and subsequently turn on the phone back on it'll always return to Home instead of help.
I'm quite new to lifecycles but was hoping to get some feedback on how to resume from a different fragment.
EDIT: Provided relevant code
Update: Realised that this happens because i reinit the views on resume.
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    initializeUI();
}

private void initializeUI() {

    fragAbout = new About();
    fragHelp = new Help();
    fragHome = new MyViewPager();

    // Adding fragments to activity
    FragmentManager fragmentManager = getSupportFragmentManager();

    FragmentTransaction transaction = fragmentManager.beginTransaction();
    transaction.add(R.id.main_activity_fraglayout, fragHome);

    transaction.commit();

    ...

}

private void addDrawerItems() {

    ...

    DrawerItemAdapter drawerAdapter = new DrawerItemAdapter(this, R.layout.nav_list_row, drawerItems);
    mDrawerList.setAdapter(drawerAdapter);

    mDrawerList.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {
            switch (position) {
                case 0:
                    ...
                    newFragOnClick(fragHome, "Home");
                    break;
                case 1:
                    ...
                    newFragOnClick(fragSettings, "Help");
                    break;
                case 2:
                    ...
                    newFragOnClick(fragAbout, "About");
                    break;
                default:
                    break;

            }
        }
    });
}

private void newFragOnClick(Fragment frag, String actionBarTitle){

    FragmentManager fragmentManager = getSupportFragmentManager();
    FragmentTransaction transaction = fragmentManager.beginTransaction();

    transaction.replace(R.id.main_activity_fraglayout, frag);
    transaction.commit();
}

A: Use sharedpreferences to save the current tab position and in onResume() use it to move to the saved position.

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In the ideal case, I'd not have to take my iPhone out of my pocket.
The BLE device connects as soon as my camera is turned on, and this should launch the app if it's not launched already. When the camera is turned off, BLE disconnects and the app should go into sleep mode (stop updating location and sending data over BLE) (note that app might be in background at this time). When the camera is turned off again (while app is in background/iphone locked), the app should reconnect and start updating location and sending data to the BLE receiver.
It's a lot to ask and might be too good to be true, but is this possible?
(iOS 7+ SDK is OK)

A: You can operate as a Bluetooth LE central (scanning for peripherals) in the background - Refer to the Core Bluetooth Programming Guide however, while in the background peripheral scanning and detection may not happen as quickly as when the app is in the foreground.
Your app could post a local notification when the peripheral was detected, and the user could respond to this notification to launch your app into the foreground, but you cannot force your app into the foreground without user interaction.  You can send information to the camera via BLE even while your app is in the background and you can receive location information while in the background too - refer to the Core Location programming guide.
The disconnection is straight-forward.  When you detect a disconnection you can shut down location services to conserve battery power.


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