non-blocking.  Subsequent calls to connect() will set errno to EALREADY.
returned, and a more specific error code is stored in errno.
[EBADF]            s is not a valid descriptor.
[ENOTSOCK]         s is a descriptor for a file, not a socket.
[EISCONN]          The socket is already connected.
[ECONNREFUSED]     The attempt to connect was forcefully rejected.
[ENETUNREACH]      The network isn't reachable from this host.
[EADDRINUSE]       The address is already in use.
error codes listed here on failure.
connection attempt has not yet been completed.
[EINTR]            The connection attempt was interrupted by a signal.
[ENOENT]           The named socket does not exist.


Whether this is your first trip to Walt Disney World or you're a seasoned Disney visitor, we have the answers to some of the most asked FastPass+ questions.
What is the best way to make, modify, or cancel a FastPass+ selection?
There are three ways to go about doing this. I find the easiest way is via the My Disney Experience app. The other ways are on a desktop at http://www.mydisneyexperience.com or at a FastPass+ Kiosk while in a Disney park.
How many FastPass+ selections can I make for each day I am in a Disney park?
You can make up to three FastPass+ selections for a single park per day. Once you redeem your initial set of selections (or the last arrival window has passed), you can make another FastPass+ selection for the same day. I will make selection right after I have scanned my MagicBand in line for my last FastPass+ selection. After you have redeemed your fourth selection, you can then make your fifth FastPass+ selection in the same manner, and so on.
When can I make my FastPass+ selections?
You can make FastPass+ selections up to 60 days prior to your check in date if you are staying at a Walt Disney World Resort hotel and have theme park tickets. When staying on Disney property you are able to select FastPass+ for the entire length of your vacation, up to 14 days.
If you are staying off Disney property you can make FastPass+ selections up to 30 days prior to the day you will use them. Example: If you're traveling May 1 – May 6 you can make May 1st selections on April 1st, May 2nd selections on April 2nd, and so on.
You can begin making your selections at 7:00am Eastern Time on the 30 or 60 day out marks.
Even though you can only make FastPass+ selections for one park per day, if you purchased theme park tickets with a Park Hopper option then you will able to make same-day selections at a second park. This can be done after you have used your initial FastPass+ selections at the first park you visit. Use the My Disney Experience app to add additional selections at a second, or third park. Keep in mind, you can only make extra FastPass+ selections one at a time.
Is there a charge for using the FastPass+ service?
No, there is extra charge for using the FastPass+ service. It is included with your theme park ticket.
If I have multiple people on my reservation, do we all have to make the same FastPass+ selections?
The answer is no. Everyone on your reservation can create different FastPass+ selections. When you go to make a FastPass+ selection a list of the people on your reservation comes up. You then select who you want to make a FastPass+ selection for. Once that selection is made you can create FastPassses for the other members of your party.
Remember, children under three do not need FastPass+ selections.
If I miss my FastPass+ arrival window, do I lose my opportunity to experience the attraction?
If you know you're going to miss your arrival window (which is one hour) modify your selection to a later time frame, if available, using the My Disney Experience app. When FastPass+ selections are no longer available for the attraction I would keep an eye on the wait times for the standby queues.
Do I have to utilize the FastPass+ service?
It is up to you. You do not have to use this service if you do not want to. If you are more of a spontaneous person then explore the standby queues at attractions. If you realize you want to make FastPass+ selections, it is not too late, you can do so via the mobile app or kiosk. FastPass+ gives you the option to be able to plan or to be spontaneous!


Graham is our resident filmmaker for Wildland + Brandcraft. Growing up in Kennewick, he attended Columbia Basin College for two years studying music before making the switch to film at Central Washington University. He now lives in Richland, and has dreams of seeing the Tri-Cities become a film production hub for Washington State. He enjoys exploring the shrub-steppe and all things spaaaaaaaace.


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The Anthropology of Hackers
Gabriella Coleman
Editor's Note: Pasty kids with greasy hair typing on command lines. Dark villains of the networked world. Security magicians with odd political beliefs. We have a lot of ideas about who hackers are, but very few people have actually tried to seriously investigate the anthropology of one of the more fascinating social groups to emerge at the end of the 20th century. NYU's Gabriella Coleman studies their culture, an odd brew of faith in freedom of information and traditional liberalism, along with a generous salt-and-peppering of nerdiness and counterculturalism. In the latest edition of our syllabus-as-essay series, Coleman guides us past the stereotypes and into the many hideouts and projects of the hacker underground.
A "hacker" is a technologist with a love for computing and a "hack" is a clever technical solution arrived through a non-obvious means. It doesn't mean to compromise the Pentagon, change your grades, or take down the global financial system, although it can, but that is a very narrow reality of the term. Hackers tend to value a set of liberal principles: freedom, privacy, and access; they tend to adore computers; some gain unauthorized access to technologies, though the degree of illegality greatly varies (and much, even most of hacking, by the definition I set above, is actually legal). But once one confronts hacking empirically, some similarities melt into a sea of differences; some of these distinctions are subtle, while others are profound enough to warrant thinking about hacking in terms of genres or genealogies of hacking -- and we compare and contrast various of these genealogies in the class, such as free and open source software hacking and the hacker underground.
Since 2007, I have taught an undergraduate class on computer hackers at New York University where I am Assistant Professor in the Department of Media, Culture and Communication. The class opens a window into the esoteric facets of hacking: its complicated ethical codes and the multifaceted experiences of pleasures and frustrations in making, breaking, and especially dwelling in technology. Hacking, however, is as much a gateway into familiar cultural and political territory. For instance, hacker commitments to freedom, meritocracy, privacy and free speech are not theirs alone, nor are they hitched solely to the contemporary moment. Indeed, hacker ethical principles hearken back to sensibilities and conundrums that precipitated out of the Enlightenment's political ferment; hackers have refashioned many political concerns -- such as a commitments to free speech -- through technological and legal artifacts, thus providing a particularly compelling angle by which to view the continued salience of liberal principles in the context of the digital present.
Week One: Introductions and the MIT Hackers
One of the canonical books on hackers is Steven Levy's superb journalistic account Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution published in 1984. The book is famous for defining the "hacker ethic," a set of aesthetic and ethical imperatives that include a commitment to access, meritocracy, and a belief that computers can the be the basis for beauty, even a better world. While in a general sense, the hacker ethic can be said to exist -- in part because many hackers have adopted this terminology -- this benchmark at times acts as the Achilles heel of journalistic and academic studies of hackers; it is often invoked in simplified terms, applied wholesale to hackers whitewashing the most fascinating ethical dimensions that flow out of computer hacking, which are precisely the ethical eddies, cracks, and tides that render hacker action more ambivalent and ambiguous than a crystal clear standard.
Week Two: The Craft and Liberalism of Hacking
Hacking may be contemporary but the logic of its labor goes back centuries for it is a prime example of a "craft" as defined by the sociologist Richard Sennett in The Craftsman. Reading about craftsmanship helps students understand the material and social life of hacking. But in reading the pages of Levy, one also gets a whiff of an ideological scent among hackers, for example, in their hyper-elevation of meritocracy and individualism, both of which have a long and complicated life in the liberal tradition. Since liberalism becomes important in the course later and is hard to define, we start grappling with it early on and we lean heavily on Stuart Hall's piece, "Variants of Liberalism."
Week Three: Phreaking
The canonical (and I think misleading) story about hacking is that was born at MIT and evolved outward from there. Although MIT was certainly one place where hacking got its start, there were other genealogies in formation at the same time. We thus reappraise this version of history when we pay visit to another class of technologist, the phone phreakers -- the direct ancestors to the hacker underground. In the late 1950s, they started to study, explore, and enter the phone system by recreating the audio frequencies that the system used to route calls. To learn about these technological spelunkers of the phone system, we rely on a few of the early chapters in Bruce Sterling's The Hacker Crackdown and on Ron Rosenbaum's riveting Esquire article "Secrets of the Little Blue Box". The institutional independence of phreakers, in combination with some early political influences, such as the the Yippies (Youth International Party), made for a class of technologist whose aesthetic sensibilities and linguistic practices proved to be more daring, vivacious, audacious, and more transgressive than university-based hackers at MIT, Carnegie Mellon, and Stanford.
Week Four: Poor Man's ARPAnet (aka USENET) versus the Internet and the Politics of Technology
Hackers build technology that behaves not only technologically but also politically. To start thinking through this issue, we read one of the seminal pieces on the topic, Langdon Winners' "Do Artifacts have Politics." We use the framework to think about ARPAnet and its successor, the Internet, whose contradictory politics are laid out by Roy Rosenzweig in "Wizards, Bureaucrats, Warriors, and Hackers: Writing the History of the Internet." We also read Bryan Pfaffenberger, "If I Want It, It's OK: Usenet and the (Outer) Limits of Free Speech," as it covers some the earliest free speech battles that raged among hackers on USENET, battles that brought into relief the tension between elitism and populism that continues to be a defining mark of hacker sociality.
Week Five: The Hacker Underground and the Politics of Transgression
Phreaking was eventually eclipsed by what is commonalty referred to as the hacker underground, although for a period of time the two co-existed, a relationship signaled by one of the most popular e-zines in the history of hacking, Phrack, which my students read, along with textfiles, churned out in massive quantities by hackers. To learn about the underground, we read parts of Bruce Sterling's Hacker Crackdown as well one of the most definitive academic accounts on the subject Hacker Culture by Douglas Thomas. We supplement this material with a short piece by Dick Hebdige -- Threats, Striking... Poses -- as a way to understand how transgressive subcultures derive pleasure in performing the spectacle that is expected of them.
Weeks Six and Seven: The Politics of Free and Open Source Software
Perhaps one of the most important political interventions made by hackers is through the production of Free and Open Source Software (such as the web browser Firefox and the GNU/Linux Operating System). We start with the intellectual progenitor of Free Software, uber-hacker Richard Stallman. We read the "GNU Manifesto" published in 1985 where he proposes his philosophical and practical vision for Free Software. To get students up to speed about the fraught three hundred year history of intellectual property law, we read Carla Hesse's magnificent "The Rise of Intellectual Property, 700 B.C - A.D. 2000: an Idea in Balance" -- a gem for its ability to convey so much in such economical terms. Finally, we rely heavily on Chris Kelty's excellent account: Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software.
Week Eight: The Aesthetics and Politics of Code
Free and Open Source Software is about software, specifically source code, the underlying directions written by programmers and powering software. But what is code? What are its politics? To acquaint ourselves with the material and aesthetic properties of software, we read a handful of chapters from Software Studies by Mathew Fuller. We then move more squarely to the politics of code with Lawrence Lessig's piece "Open Code and Open Societies" as well "Code is Speech: Legal Tinkering, Expertise, and Protest among Free and Open Source Software Developers" based on my fieldwork with Free Software developers.
Week Nine: Encryption, Privacy, and Anonymity
Many hackers are concerned with privacy, some dedicating their lives to building and refining encryption software that can ensure privacy or anonymity. To get a bit of this history down, we read Steven Levy's "Crypto Rebels" and "How PGP Works/Why Do You Need PGP?" by Phil Zimmerman, the maker and liberator of one of the most famous pieces of encryption software (PGP stands for Pretty Good Privacy). We top things off with Cory Doctrow's novel Little Brother, which hits many flagship issues concerning privacy and encryption. Finally, I have students visit the Tor project website to acquaint themselves with a contemporary and vibrant Free Software project that makes software that helps ensure privacy and security.
Week Ten: The Pleasure of Creation
By the time we reach this point in the class, one thing is certain: hackers are obsessed creatures, motivated by the deep pleasures of hacking, learning, sharing, and for some, transgressing. We spend a week exploring the multi-facted, even kaleidoscopic, nature of pleasure. Martha's Nussbaum's short article -- "Mill between Aristotle & Bentham" -- introduces students to the theory of eudaimonia. First defined by Aristotle, eudaimonia identifies happiness as form of human flourishing, secured through the unfolding of human capacities, a version of pleasure quite common among Free Software developers. We read excerpts of Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy and Roland Barthes' The Pleasure of the Text (which students tend not to find all the pleasurable) to get a taste of the more blissful, hedonistic, and Dionysian features of pleasure that can also mark many instances of hacking and especially transgression.
Week Eleven: Anarchism and the Politically Minded Hacker
Many hackers express some degree of ambivalence over the politics of hacking as Patrice Riemens has argued and as hackers themselves have raised. This is not the case with a small but well organized cadre of hackers located primarily in Latin America, Europe, and North America who have charted collectives, many of them influenced by the political philosophy of anarchism. To grapple with anarchism as a political philosophy (which, similar to hacking, is plagued with a parade of misconceptions), we turn to David Graeber's fantastic pamphlet, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology. We also read Jeff Juris's ethnographic work about technology activists during the counter-globalization era Networking Futures.
Week Twelve: Trolls and the Politics of Spectacle
If anyone has been paying attention to the Internet in recent years, it has been impossible to miss a class of provocateur and saboteur: the Internet troll, whose raison d'être is to be as offensive as humanely possible via raunchy (but often humorous and quite esoteric) language, images, pranks, and tricks, basically, doing it for what they call the "lulz." To get a sense of the cultural logic and exploits of trolls we read "The Trolls Among Us" by Mattathias Schwartz. To help us grapple with the nature of spectacle, we read a couple of chapters of Dream: Re-imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy by Stephen Duncombe. We read excerpts from Lewis Hyde's magnificent book on tricksters to consider whether the troll might be an example of these mythical creatures that have dazzled countless societies with their trickery. We watch a talk on a protest movement against the Church of Scientology whose roots lie in the act of trolling but eventually turned into a morally serious protest movement, which nonetheless retained the tactics of spectacle as part of its political arsenal.
Week Thirteen: Nerds
Not all hackers are nerds but nerdiness does seem to crop up an awful lot among hackers (although many hackers grow out of nerdiness to become "geeks"). What does it mean to be a nerd? Where did the term even come from? What is the history of nerdom and its relationship to other ethnic groups? Benjamin Nugent's account American Nerd, The Story of my People is the way to get at these questions and issues, which we then apply to computer hackers. The book is a real hit with the students, probably because it is jargon free yet conceptually quite rich.
What's not there (and sometimes there):
A lot. As outlined, the course does not address many important instances and dimensions of hacking, and to conclude, I would like to gesture at some of this material. First, there is very little written about the information security scene but I point my students to some blog entries and references to it in hacker zines or talks. There is not all that much material on hacking and Free Software outside of North America and Europe but the literature is growing and I plan on including it in the future. We always bring in many current events, for example, the spring of 2010, discussing Wikileaks in considerable detail and I show all sorts of video clips in class. Every year I tend to include some themes and issues, not included above. One theme is the hacker in the workplace and we read Scott Rosenberg's excellent Dreaming in Code. Finally, I often teach a section on gaming, assigning a chapter from Levy's Hackers covering the creation of one of the first video games, Spacewar and assign Julian' Dibbell's first hand account on the economies of virtual world, Play Money.
Author image: Riana Pfefferkorn.
Images: Screen captures from the television show Net Cafe during its show 1996 program on hackers. Stored on Archive.org.
Trained as an anthropologist, Gabriella Coleman examines the ethics of online collaboration/institutions as well as the role of the law and digital media in sustaining various forms of political activism. She's an assistant professor at New York University.

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Constellations Facts
Humanity has been associated with the constellations for thousands of years. A constellation is a group of stars that form a pattern that can be seen in the night sky.
The earliest civilizations viewed them as part of their religious gods, told tales about heroes, and even used them to help guide them on sea voyages.
Other ancient civilizations such as the Maya used the constellations to create intricate and very accurate calendars.
For the Western world is was the Greeks that founded many of the names and ideas of the constellation information that we use today.
Constellations are the mapped stars
The constellations are the mapped stars in the night sky as seen from Earth, from pole to pole so that it creates a sphere around the entire globe. The original number of constellations was 48, and over many years, astronomers continued to add new ones to help chart the heavens.
They eventually added an additional 40 constellations and today the number of 88 remains as the official number.
All Shapes and Sizes
The constellation patterns come in all shapes, sizes, and types, and the older constellations range from gods to animals.
The newer or more modern constellations relate to astronomical inventions or tools. The map or celestial sphere is the way that astronomers look at the sky.
Although called a sphere, it isn't really a sphere but an imaginary map so that the viewer can understand various changes in the stars as the earth moves.
The map is important because some areas on Earth don't allow all of the constellations to be seen.
Each region has a different map and they can all be put together.
There are 6 known constellation charts:
Chart 1. North Pole Sky. Round chart of sky at the north pole.
Chart 2. South Pole Sky. Round chart of sky at the south pole.
Chart 3. Equatorial Sky. Centered chart of sky 1 at the equator.
The stars that make up the constellations don't have to be close to each other. Some of the stars are brighter because they are extremely large, while others are brighter because they are closer to the Earth.
Some of the more well-known or famous constellations include:
Orion: can be seen from all over the world and is named after a mythological Greek hunter. It has two bright stars: Rigel and Betelgeuse
Ursa Major is Latin for "Larger Bear" and is visible in the northern hemisphere. You might be familiar with The Big Dipper which is part of the Ursa Major constellation. For thousands of years, people have used The Big Differ to find the direction of north.
Ursa Minor is Latin for "Smaller Bear" and it's located near Ursa Major. It is the small ladle handle of the Little Dipper.
Draco is Latin for "dragon" and can be seen from the northern hemisphere. Draco was one of the original 48 constellations.
Pegasus is named for the mythology Greek flying horse and can be viewed in the northern sky.
The Zodiac constellations are those in a band where the Sun, Moon, and Planets all move. Many civilizations used the Zodiac constellations in astrology for foretell the future.
There are 13 zodiac constellations with twelve also used as signs for the zodiac calendar and astrology.
Capricornus - constellations of the zodiac. Its name is Latin for "horned goat" or "goat horn". Best visible during the month of September.
Aquarius - Situated between Capricornus and Pisces. Its name is Latin for "water-carrier" or "cup-carrier". Best visible during the month of October.
Pisces - lies between Aquarius to the west and Aries to the east. Its name is the Latin plural for fish. Best visible during the month of December.
Aries - located in the northern celestial hemisphere between Pisces to the west and Taurus to the east. The name Aries is Latin for ram
Taurus - Taurus is a large and prominent constellation. You can find it in the northern hemisphere's winter sky. Best visible during the month of January.
Gemini - Its name is Latin for "twins,". Best visible during the month of February.
Cancer - Its name is Latin for crab. It's a medium-size constellation. Best visible during the month of March.
Leo - Its name is Latin for lion. Best visible during the month of April.
Virgo - Its name is Latin for virgin. it is the second-largest constellation in the sky. Best visible during the month of May.
Libra - Its name is Latin for weighing scales. It is fairly faint and best visible during the month of June.
Scorpius - Its name is Latin for scorpion. It is an ancient constellation that pre-dated the Greeks. Best visible during the month of July.
Sagittarius - Its name is Latin for the archer. Best visible during the month of August.
Ophiuchus - Its name is from the Greek Ὀφιοῦχος Ophioukhos; "serpent-bearer". Best visible during the month of July.
Travelers in the past used the position of the constellations to help them navigate the seas and on land. If you find Ursa Minor it's easy to then find Polaris (the North Star) and in this way, travelers could figure out their latitude for ships crossing the oceans.
By recognizing the star patterns during various seasons, cultures could decide when the best time to plant and harvest their crops.
Facts about Constellations
The word "constellation" is Latin that means "set with stars."
Taking up only 0.17% of the sky, the smallest constellation is Crux
The largest constellation is Hydra which takes up 3.16% of the sky.
Both the Big Dipper and the Little Dipper are part of the small patters of stars within a constellation that are called "asterisms."
Of the 88 constellations, 22 different constellations names all start with the letter "C."
Twenty two different constellation names start with the letter "C."
Q&A:
What does the word constellation mean?
set with the stars
How many constellations are there?
Can all constellations be seen from anywhere in the world?
How many sky charts are there for all of the constellations?
Why would some stars be brighter in the night sky?
some are bigger and some are closer to Earth
What is the map of constellations called?
celestial sphere
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Running, Walking, and Biking Trails
Bike, hike and ride these nature-filled miles
Run, walk or bike along Orange County's trails on a sunny Florida day! Bring your dog on a leash but be sure to pick up after them.
Cady Way Trail stretches 6.5 miles from Winter Park to Oviedo by way of the Fashion Square Mall. The trail has shelters and rest stops with benches and water fountains. Picnic tables and a playground are also available at the Cady Way trailhead located ¼ mile north of State Road 50 on Herndon Avenue, adjacent to the post office.
The Apopka Loop Trail (14.6 miles, paved) at Magnolia Park connects on the north shore of Lake Apopka to property owned by St. Johns River Water Management District, considered to be an excellent birding area.
The Little Econ Greenway is located one mile north of State Road 50 on Dean Road and runs along the Little Econlockhatchee River. Nearly 5 miles long, the trail begins at Jay Blanchard Park and extends to Goldenrod Road.
Unique wildlife
Pine Hills Trail
The Pine Hills Trail - phase 1 (2.5 miles) begins at Alhambra Drive and extend north to Silver Star Road, including a spur trail that connects with Barnett Park.
The longest of the three trails is the West Orange Trail, which begins at Killarney Station on Old State Road 50 and extends north into Apopka. Ten miles of this 20.8-mile trail is equestrian, providing a scenic trail-ride. Four trailheads and five outposts are located along the trail, allowing you to park and access the trail.
Trail Safety
Trail Use Guidelines
Dial 911 for emergency service.
Non-Emergencies
Dial 311 or (407) 836-3111. TTY (407) 836-4250.
Spanish-speaking operators and interpreters are available.
OCFL 311
OCFL 311 is a mobile app for Apple & Android to assist Orange County Florida residents report local non-emergency community issues efficiently and conveniently; many of which can be submitted anonymously. Residents who provide their contact information can view the status of their reports to ensure proper resolution.
Residents can submit reports about:
Other common issues
Also, OCFL 311 conveniently maps locations of important community issues so residents can be aware of events that may impact their neighborhood.


Winterborne Whitechurch is situated in the Winterborne Valley at the point where the stream intersects the road between Dorchester and Blandford Forum which lies five miles to the north.
Recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 within the 'Hundred' (County sub-division) of 'Combsditch', along with Blandford, Charlton, Bloxworth and Thornicombe, Winterborne Whitechurch was registered as "Wintreburne" with a total population of 3 households.
The 'grade 1′ listed parish church of St. Mary dates back to the early Norman period, with a possible Saxon cross built into the outside north wall. 'Whitechurch' derives from two possible sources – either from the colour of the original stone or because it was built of stone rather than the common wood.
The ancient font dates from circa 1450 and features a rare emblem of a vine round the top. The unique 15th Century pulpit was originally in Milton Abbey. During the Commonwealth (1649 onwards under Cromwell), the pulpit was plastered over for preservation. Hundreds of years later, regarded as an ugly piece of work, the pulpit was discarded and remained in the Abbey yard for years. In 1867 the nave and contents at Whitechurch burnt down and the discarded pulpit was obtained as a temporary replacement. Only in the very late 19th Century and by accident, plaster having come away when the reverend attempted to pull out a nail, was the original treasure below the plaster work discovered.
The stenciling around the windows and arches was painted by Mrs Wynne, the vicar's wife and her daughter around 1882.
John Wesley, father of the cleric and minor poet Samuel Wesley, and grandfather of the founders of Methodism John and Charles Wesley, was the vicar from 1658 to 1662. Samuel was born in Whitechurch vicarage, being baptised in 1662.
The vicarage was built in 1743 and enlarged in 1781. Edmund Morton Pleydell built Whatcombe House in 1750. West Farm's thatched circular horse drawn milling house (probably a cider press), was constructed around the same time. One of the five church bells is dated in the 14th Century, the others between the 17th and 20th Centuries.


Beijing International Radio, TV & Film Exhibition(BIRTV) is China's top-notch exhibition in the industry of radio, film & TV, which has been well received by the broadcasting industry at home and abroad.
Guandong Nanguang Photo&Video Systems Co., Ltd showcases not only the LED light, but also an innovation and new technology trial.
A team of Nanguang staff was busying to introduce the NANGUANG products and showing lighting to visitors.
There are variety of products showed in this exhibition, from LED on camera light to LED panel light and powerful LED spotlight, and also portable lighting kit interview lighting, and free foldable LED flexible lighting, for news, person interview lighting solution; even as the first domestic studio lighting to fulfill wifi LCD touch lighting adjustment solution.
NanGuang booth was interviewed by multiply platform.
For more information, please welcome to visit NANGUANG booth 1B113.


How To Become A Successful Trader offers an exciting tool for traders, investors, and hedge fund managers to maximize their trading performance. You gain a deeper understanding about how to enhance the positive forces of your psychology to create a winning career. With the knowledge of your Trading Personality, you are able to customize strategies and decide which method of trading; either Discretionary System, a Mechanical System, or a Hybrid System is best suited to your personality. This book provides a road map and selection criterion for mutual funds, banks, hedge fund mangers and trading firms on how to choose a more effective trader for their firm. Dr. Gandevani's book utilizes a scientific research in dealing with trading psychology. His professional experience in trading and dealing with many traders whom he has trained as well as extensive research on psychology provided the unique and necessary insight for writing this book.


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Q: How to programatically change the background image of canvas in enyo This is the kind i made for canvas. I want when i click on left/right buttons, background image property of canvas should change.
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    name:"enyo.sample.imagecanvas",
    kind:"Control",
    components:[
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{kind:enyo.Control,tag:"canvas",name:"canvas",index:"0",attributes:{width:1000,height:650},fit:true,src:"assets/1.jpg"},

{kind:"enyo.Control",tag:"img",name:"right",ontap:"righttap",src:"assets/right_arrow.png",fit:true},

],
imgsrc:["1.jpg","2.jpg","3.jpg","4.jpg","5.jpg","6.jpg","7.jpg","8.jpg","9.jpg"],

lefttap:function(){
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    index++;
            if(index > 8){
                index = 0;
            }
    //how to change canvas background image.

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}
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Can anyone suggest how to do that?

A: I would use the drawImage method of the canvas context.  Alternately, you could put the image in a div behind the canvas if you're going to be drawing other stuff on the canvas.  Just set the background of the canvas to transparent.
See: http://www.html5canvastutorials.com/tutorials/html5-canvas-images/

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KUCHING: Local challenger Tan Lin En got his campaign in the Sarawak 13th ATF Asian 14 & Under Series off to a winning start at the Sarawak Lawn Tennis Association tennis centre yesterday.
Given a first round bye, the tournament boys singles top seed had no problem in seeing off F. Widyarohmadhansyah of Indonesia 6-0, 6-4 to seal his spot in the quarterfinals.
Tan next plays B Cortes in the last eight after the Filipino upset seventh seed from Singapore Maximus Wong 6-0, 6-2.
Also safely through were second seed Rupert Ohrelle Tortal who beat Hong Kong's Ho Him Ling 6-1, 6-2, third seed M Kamarul Zaman of Malaysia who defeated Ho Wan Li also of Hong Kong 7-6 (2), 6-0.
Fourth seeded N Mukherjee of India was sent packing 6-1, 6-3 by Hong Kong's Lai Ching Chung while John David Velez of the Philippines and Ryan Lim Lai Eng also made it to the last eight.
There were more upsets in the second round of the girls' singles as the top seed from Hong Kong Shek Cheuk Ying, fifth seed Tan Xin Hung of Sarawak, Malaysia were dumped by their respective opponents.
Alexa Joy Milliam of the Philippines upstaged Shek 6-3, 2-6, 6-3 while Xin Hung lost 5-7, 4-6 to compatriot Wong Kai Xuan.
Those booking their berths in the quarterfinals included second seed Lim Zan Ning of Malaysia, third seed Lim Sze Xuan of Malaysia, fourth seed Pimmada Lim of Thailand, sixth seed Soo Hui Yii of Malaysia, seventh seed Lydia Liong Ting En of Malaysia and eighth seed Lai Ching Laam of Hong Kong.
Meanwhile, the top seed pair in the boys doubles competition M Kamarul Zaman and Nikhil Mukherjee were dumped by Brent Sigmond Cortes-Rupert Ohrelle Tortal 6-0, 7-5 in the last eight.
Brent-Rupert will next play third seeds Luke Koh and Maximus Wong in the semi-finals after the latter beat Akaash De Silva and Mohammad Saadeddin 7-5, 6-4 in another match.
The other semi-final will be played between Rainer Angelo Selmar-John David Valez and Lai Ching Chung-Ho Wan Li.
Girls doubles second seeds Soo Hui Yii and Tan Xin Hung also made their exit after they were beaten 6-2, 6-3 by Tamryn Brown and Alexa Joy Milliam but the top seeds Pimmada Lim and Lim Xuan Sze will meet third seeds Lim Zan Ning and B Michael Tiang in today's semi-finals.
Joining them in the last four are Lai Ching Laam and Lydia Liong Ting En who blanked N Lee and Annabella Wong 6-0, 6-0.


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Anonymous 15/05/08(Fri)19:20 No.50716 [Reply]
would you suck it y/n
that was a good thread though
Clearly he means that he finds this an excellent thread.
It's worse, if you ask me. Guro tends to be so over the top that it's not so much grotesque as it is ridiculous, whereas girls with dongs are just grotesque.
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semi-flaccid futa dicks are the best
I'm actually not used to seeing that picture without the templar assassin edit now.
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Anonymous 15/05/06(Wed)04:17 No.50629 [Reply]
Can we get the dank meme thread going?
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Duckroll Thread Anonymous 15/04/28(Tue)15:42 No.50488 [Reply]
It's going to be hilarious redirecting everyone here 10 years from now when it finally gets bumped off page 1.
And nobody posts in it. QED
I like cute
Oh man, I'm really close to being out of the male target audience for Precure too. What happens then?
You become a wizard. Sometime in the next few years, Toei's secret agents will take note of your developing magical powers. They'll track you down, kidnap you, and take you to their secret Precure facility. They'll bring in a cleverly constructed body double and arrange an apparent suicide to cover up your disappearance, just in case anyone would even notice that you're gone. Once you're in the facility, you'll never be allowed to return to the outside world. This is where they keep all the old washed up Precures. You'll be forced to breed with them and teach your daughters the ways of magic. If they're successful enough, they might become part of the next generation of Precures. No one knows for certain what happens to the failures, but there are rumors that Toei commissioned hundreds of child-sized plastic boxes similar to those used by FEMA. If the Precure you're assigned to gives birth to a boy, don't expect to see him for long. Male children take decades to develop their magical powers, so they are covertly switched with normal babies at hospitals around the world. The unsuspecting parents often support the leech they believe to be their son well into his 30's before finally kicking him out. Because of their innate magical powers, these future wizards often have trouble integrating with normal society, even though they're unable to manifest them. Quite conveniently, this means they can disappear without being missed should Toei decide they are needed to continue the line of Precures.
You already failed.
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Where is Everybody? Anonymous 15/05/01(Fri)02:53 No.50520 [Reply]
It feels like /photos/ has been deader than usual for a while now.
It's May 2015, how many of you faggots still lurk here? Post here to let me know you're alive.
Can't wait for the day when we finally get to rise from our graves and devour the flesh of the living.
>faggots
Please stop using homophobic slurs. You're not 12 anymore.
F A G G O T
How do you know he isn't 12, shitlord? Agephobic remarks will not be tolerated.
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[Board Culture] Short Thoughts #9 Anonymous 14/10/22(Wed)03:04 No.47069 [Reply]
Where did 2014 go?
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Joke's on you, I'm not marriedu
Man, fuck those asshole horses in the frigid outskirts.
/projects/ sure is depressing.
Life sure is depressing.
I sure wish the spambots would stop trying to sell me nikes
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Random quotes from random places Episode II Anonymous 14/04/08(Tue)01:32 No.42567 [Reply]
The other thread is on autosage.
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[nostalgia]I LIKE POSTING REPLIES TO THREADS[desire] Anonymous 15/04/15(Wed)20:30 No.50324 [Reply]
i wish there was a board somewhere with good quality shitposters and decent traffic so i could shitpost in an enjoyable real time fashion amongst my peers.
i used to like that a lot when it used to exist, seems like a shame that its gone.
inb4 its still there because it isn't
inb4 ppl accuse me of shitposting stupid ass threads because i'm on drugs or just retarded
inb4 OP can't inb4
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If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
If wishes were wings, horses would fly.
But gnfos is still alive.
If wishes were fishes we'd all castanets
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Gikopoi Anonymous 14/06/04(Wed)16:41 No.44308 [Reply]
In these troubling times, one institution still stands.
11 posts omitted. Click Reply to view.
Oh, then I've been banned again.
Okay thanks.
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Get the hell in here
Back in the days when I had Flash installed I'd play with this thing once in a while.
However for security reasons I cannot install Flash on any of my computers. Tis a sad fate.
Why don't you just emulate flash on a Linux box inside a multi-layer firewall? As long as you're using quantum logic, it's essentially risk free.
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I'm going to learn to love.
Is that something you learn though?
You don't need love to be happy.
>>50186 >>50184
The Beastie Boys told me I could learn to love life, and then it would feel good to be alive.
Sexy anime girls.
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Anonymous 10/06/24(Thu)15:51 No.9880 [Reply]
/photos/ meetup.
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Me on the bottom left, with the blue hair.
Me in the middle sucking on the most 偉い人.
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All of us other girls hate you because you're so full of yourself, but we can't say anything because of your superior position. It's very awkward.
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The CBS Sports Facilities, Amenity Areas, Wellness & Spa salon – staged in Poznan in Poland from 24 to 27 January – kicked off this year's worldwide leisure and wellness exhibition season.
Held as part of BUDMA, the largest construction show in Poland whose previous event attracted 1200 exhibitors and 51,000 visitors, CBS is aimed at everyone involved in the part of the construction industry that focuses on planning, designing, building, furnishing and managing sports and recreation facilities.
Alutherm – a Polish representative of the European Economic Interest Group (EEIG) Inter Pool Cover – was one of the exhibitors at CBS, showing its pool enclosure products. Pictured is Wiesław Rygielski, Managing Director of Alutherm Poland.


Dimapur, July 3: A host of BJP members today accompanied Kevechutso Doulo who took over the charge as NEPED chairman at Kohima. The meeting was chaired by team leader of NEPED (Nagaland Empowerment Protection and Economic Development) Menokhul John, Commissioner and Secretary.
Speaking on the occasion, Kevechutso Doulo expressed gratitude to Chief Minister Neiphu Rio, Deputy CM Y Patton and the party for entrusting him the new responsibilities. As the State longs for peace and development, he said under the visionary leadership of the Chief Minister at the State and under the Prime Minister of India, transformation and changes can take place in Nagaland. He appealed to the staffs of the NEPED to continue to work as team to reach the unreached areas of the State focusing on the rural people and in particular the women.


We use two datasets to characterize impacts on ecosystem services. The first is a spatially explicit measure of the impact of human consumption or 'demand' on ecosystem services as measured by the human appropriation of net primary productivity (HANPP) derived from population distributions and aggregate national statistics. The second is an actual measure of loss of productivity or a proxy measure of 'supply' of ecosystem services derived from biophysical models, agricultural census data, and other empirical measures. This proxy measure of land degradation is the ratio of actual NPP to potential NPP. The HANPP dataset suggests that current 'demand' for NPP exceeds 'supply' at a corresponding ecosystem service value of $10.5 trillion per year. The land degradation measure suggests that we have lost $6.3 trillion per year of ecosystem service value to impaired ecosystem function. Agriculture amounts to 2.8% of global GDP. With global GDP standing at $63 trillion in 2010, all of agriculture represents $1.7 Trillion of the world's GDP. Our estimate of lost ecosystem services represent a significantly larger fraction (~10%) of global GDP. This is one reason the economics of land degradation is about a lot more than the market value of agricultural products alone.
Sutton, Paul C. & Anderson, Sharolyn J. & Costanza, Robert & Kubiszewski, Ida, 2016. "The ecological economics of land degradation: Impacts on ecosystem service values," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 129(C), pages 182-192.
Partha Dasgupta, 2008. "Nature in Economics," Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer;European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 39(1), pages 1-7, January.
Farley, Joshua & Costanza, Robert, 2002. "Envisioning shared goals for humanity: a detailed, shared vision of a sustainable and desirable USA in 2100," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 43(2-3), pages 245-259, December.
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The Diabetes Care Project was a three year pilot programme which analysed new models of health care delivery for adults with type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
The Australian Government provided $31.4 million in funding and the Victorian Government contributed $2 million, bringing the total project value to $33.4 million over the period 2011-2014. Following an open tender process in May 2011, a consortium led by international consulting firm McKinsey and Company, were selected to manage the Diabetes Care Project.
funding for care facilitation, provided by dedicated Care Facilitators.
The evaluation of the Diabetes Care Project found that improved information technology and continuous quality improvement processes were not on their own sufficient to improve health outcomes. However, combining these changes with a new funding model did make a significant difference. The report also found that the funding model used in the pilot was not cost-effective and would need to be further researched and refined.
The findings of the Evaluation Report of the Diabetes Care Project (written by McKinsey and Company) are already being used by the Department of Health to develop policies that will better support chronic disease management in the future. The findings will support primary care researchers and the new Primary Health Networks to develop their own innovative health care approaches.
The findings will also feed into the work of the new Primary Health Care Advisory Group. This group will consider innovative care and funding models, along with better care for people with complex and chronic illness, better recognition and treatment of mental health conditions, and greater connection between primary health care and hospital care.
The report has also been provided to the National Diabetes Strategy Advisory Group, to be considered in the development of the National Diabetes Strategy.


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What the Anchorage earthquake means for the Bay Area, Southern California, Seattle, and Salt Lake City
Posted on December 11, 2018 December 11, 2018 by Jason Patton
Jason R. Patton, Ph.D., Ross Stein, Ph.D., Volkan Sevilgen, M.Sc.
Here are the three most important insights gleaned from last week's earthquake. (Our initial article on this Alaska earthquake can be found here.)
Building Codes Work
Anchorage was destroyed in the 1964 M=9.2 Good Friday quake, and rebuilt in the mid-1960s to high code standards. So, buildings performed well. Good buildings will also perform well in the Bay area, which Temblor accounts for in its damage estimates.
In late March of 1964, there was a magnitude M=9.2 earthquake in Alaska now called the Good Friday earthquake. Secondary effects included strong ground shaking, damaged buildings and infrastructure like roads, rapid uplift and subsidence across broad regions, landslides, and a tsunami that traveled across the Pacific Ocean.
This earthquake had a major impact upon the debate about plate tectonics. Watch this excellent and entertaining video to learn about how this Good Friday Earthquake fit into the story of plate tectonics.
Over 100 people perished from the earthquake and the secondary effects in 1964. The majority of the earthquake damage was located in the Anchorage area.
Following the earthquake, the efforts to rebuild Anchorage resulted in improved building codes that regulated the construction of buildings designed to withstand the forces felt during an earthquake like the Good Friday earthquake.
The 2018 M=7 earthquake generated ground shaking strong enough to damage buildings. However, because the buildings built in Alaska were designed with these improved building codes in mind, the buildings performed rather well during this later M=7 earthquake.
Elsewhere in earthquake country, like in California, Washington, and Utah, buildings are also constructed with these seismic hazards in mind. Thankfully, the modern buildings built in these regions should also behave well during earthquakes. However, there is much room for improvement for buildings built prior to about 1975, when major changes occurred in the building code, and again in about 1995. If you live in these areas and your home or building is older, your building may need a seismic retrofit. Visit this page to locate an expert or licensed professional who can help you make the best choice for your needs.
The closer you are the stronger you are shaken
The Anchorage M=7 quake struck 44 km (26 miles) deep, and the top of the fault lies 32 km (20 miles) below the surface. In contrast, in the Bay area, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, and for some Seattle events, large quakes will extend from a depth of only about 12 km (8 miles) all the way to the ground surface, and so will be roughly four times more destructive for the same size. Temblor uses these shallower depths in our damage estimates.
Let's say we live in San Francisco or in Seattle. On 30 November 2018, did we feel the Alaska M=7 earthquake? Why not? That's right, because we were too far away. The closer to the source earthquake, the stronger the ground shaking and the greater the intensity.
Do you know what your exposure is to earthquake hazards, what your potential risk from seismic hazards? To learn more about your exposure to these hazards, visit temblor.net.
Below is a map prepared using the temblor.net app. Seismicity from the past month, week, and day are shown as colored circles. The rainbow color scale represents the chance of a given earthquake magnitude, for a given location, within the lifetime of a person (technically, it is the magnitude with a 1% chance per year of occurring within 100 km).
Global Earthquake Activity Rate (Bird et al., 2015) map for this region of the western United States. Faults are shown as red lines. Warmer colors represent regions that are more likely to experience a larger earthquake than the regions with cooler colors. Seismicity from the past month are shown.
Liquefaction is a menace
Most of the Anchorage damage was to roads and pipelines in liquefaction zones. The Bay area, the Southland, Seattle, and Salt Lake City also have highly liquefiable soils, which we account for in our calculations. Infrastructure damage will interfere with water, power, cell and internet access and commutes after a large quake.
After the dust settled, the observations of damage led to some rapid repairing of roads and other important infrastructure. Upon first glance, the majority of damage from the M=7 Anchorage earthquake was to roads and pipelines in liquefaction zones. More about liquefaction and how this process can lead to damage can be found in our earlier article here.
Vast areas of land in the Bay area, the Southland, Seattle, and Salt Lake City have liquefiable soils. Damage to essential infrastructure in these soils could have economically catastrophic impact to the economies of any of these municipalities. The potential for a location to experience liquefaction is also included in the Temblor Earthquake Score.
This map of the Anchorage area, compares Temblor Stamp (site amplification model) to the preliminary damage survey by the EERI Clearinghouse, Archbold et al., 2018. Warmer colors represent higher site amplification and higher liquefaction potential, white rectangles are locations of the building damage or ground failure
Bird, P., Jackson, D. D., Kagan, Y. Y., Kreemer, C., and Stein, R. S., 2015. GEAR1: A global earthquake activity rate model constructed from geodetic strain rates and smoothed seismicity, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., v. 105, no. 5, p. 2538–2554, DOI: 10.1785/0120150058
Archbold, J., Hassan, W.M., Kijewski-Correa, T., Marshall, J., Mavroeidis, G.P., Mosalam, K.M., Muin, S., Mulchandani, H., Peng, H., and Pretel, R., 2018. Alaska Earthquake Preliminary Virtual Assessment Team (P-VAT) Joint Report, Structural Extreme Event Reconnaissance Network StEER: Structural Extreme Event Reconnaissance Network& Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI), 80 pp.
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Great work. Covers some factors that are usually not discussed after large earthquakes.


The Amstrad PCW series is a range of personal computers produced by British company Amstrad from 1985 to 1998, and also sold under licence in Europe as the "Joyce" by the German electronics company Schneider in the early years of the series' life. The PCW, short for Personal Computer Word-processor, was targeted at the wordprocessing and home office markets. When it was launched the cost of a PCW system was under 25% of the cost of almost all IBM-compatible PC systems in the UK, and as a result the machine was very popular both in the UK and in Europe, persuading many technophobes to venture into using computers. However the last two models, introduced in the mid-1990s, were commercial failures, being squeezed out of the market by the falling prices, greater capabilities and wider range of software for IBM-compatible PCs.
Shortly afterwards the Tandy 1000 was introduced in the UK with the MS-DOS operating system and a similar suite of business applications and became the only other IBM-compatible personal computer system available for less than £1,000 in Britain. At the time the cheapest complete systems from Apricot Computers cost under £2,000 and the cheapest IBM PC system cost £2,400. Although competitors' systems generally had more sophisticated features, including colour monitors, Whitehead thought the Amstrad PCW offered the best value for money.
In the US the PCW was launched at a price of $799, and its competitors were initially the Magnavox Videowriter and Smith Corona PWP, two-word processing systems whose prices also included a screen, keyboard and printer. The magazine Popular Science thought that the PCW could not compete as a general-purpose computer, because its use of non-standard 3-inch floppy disk drives and the rather old CP/M operating system would restrict the range of software available from expanding beyond the spreadsheet, typing tutor and cheque book balancing programs already on sale. However, the magazine predicted that the PCW's large screen and easy-to-use word processing software would make it a formidable competitor for dedicated word processors in the home and business markets. The system was sold in the US via major stores, business equipment shops and electronics retailers.
The PCW redefined the idea of "best value" in computers by concentrating on reducing the price, which totally disrupted the personal computer market. The low price encouraged home users to trade up from simpler systems like the Sinclair Spectrum, whose sales had passed their peak. According to Personal Computer World, the PCW "got the technophobes using computers". In the first two years over 700,000 PCWs were sold, gaining Amstrad 60% of the UK home computer market, and 20% of the European personal computer market, second only to IBM's 33.3% share. Having gained credibility as computer supplier, Amstrad launched IBM-compatible PCs, once again focussing on low prices, with its PC1512 surpassing the IBM PC on performance and beating even the Taiwanese clones on price. Amstrad became the dominant British personal computer company, buying all the designs, marketing rights and product stocks of Sinclair Research Ltd's computer division in April 1986, while Apricot later sold its manufacturing assets to Mitsubishi and became a software company.
Users of Windows, Unix or macOS systems who wish to run programs that were developed for the PCW 8256, 8512, 9256, 9512 and 9512+ can use an emulator called "Joyce". There is also another one only for Windows called "CP/M Box".
The PCW included a version of CP/M known as "CP/M Plus". This provided a range of facilities comparable to those of MS-DOS, but imposed a significant limitation: it could not address more than 64 KB of RAM. Since CP/M took 3 KB of this, the most that CP/M applications could use was 61 KB. The rest of the RAM was used as a RAM disk (exposed under the drive letter "M:" for "memory"), which was much faster than a floppy disk but lost all its data when the machine was powered off. On the other hand, the standalone Locoscript word processor program was able to use 154 KB as normal memory, and the rest as a RAM disk.
All PCW models, including the PcW16, used the Zilog Z80 range of CPUs: Z80A at a clock speed of 4 MHz for the 8256, 8512, 9512, 9256, 9512+ and PCW10; and Z80A at 16 MHz in the PCW16.
Unusually, the Z80 CPU in the PCW 8256, 8512, 9512, 9256 and 9512+ had no directly connected ROM, which most computers used to start the boot process. Instead, at startup, the ASIC (customised circuit) at the heart of the PCW provided access to part of the 1k ROM within the Intel 8041 microcontroller used to drive the printer. The Z80 would copy 256 bytes via the ASIC into RAM, providing sufficient instructions to load the first sector from a floppy. The ROM-based code cannot display text, being too small to support character generation; instead, it displays a bright screen which is progressively filled by black stripes as the code is loaded from floppy.
Most models of PCW were bundled with a 9-pin dot matrix printer mechanism, with the later 9512 and 9512+ models using a daisywheel (with a different cable; the printers were not interchangeable with the dot matrix models). These PCW printers could not, of course, be used on other computers, and the original PCW lacked a then-standard Centronics printer port. Instead, the Z80 bus and video signals were brought to an edge connector socket at the back of the cabinet. Many accessories including parallel and serial ports were produced for this interface. Some of the later models included a built-in parallel port; these could be bundled with either the dedicated Amstrad printer or a Canon Bubblejet model.
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NEW YORK • Jordan Spieth can become the PGA Tour's first US$11 million (S$15.5 million) man - if he wins this weekend's PGA Championship.
The 22-year-old, winner of this year's Masters and US Open, would become the first golfer to pocket more than US$11 million in PGA Tour earnings in a season should he claim a third major title at Whistling Straits.
"He now goes into each Major plotting, planning and on a mission, preparing himself for a win," said six-time Major champion Nick Faldo, a golf analyst for CBS Sports.
"I pride myself on the couple of Majors I won and went there with the intention to win when I was in my 30s.
"This young man now goes to the Majors with the intention to win, and that's pretty darn impressive for a 22-year-old."
Spieth's haul this season is more than US$9.3 million through 20 PGA Tour events, including US$1.8 million each for his triumphs at both the Masters and US Open. The top prize at the PGA Championship is also US$1.8 million.
Only two golfers have topped $10 million in official season prize money on the PGA Tour: Tiger Woods, in 2005, 2007 and 2009, and Vijay Singh, who brought in a record US$10.9 million by winning nine times in 29 events in 2004.
Spieth said one of the goals he set at the beginning of the year was to make the cut in all four Majors.
"They have gone according to plan up to this point," he said. "I've got some work to do these first two days and from there we'll work our butts off to try and get a third Major this year."
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Commission on Structural Chemistry
Chair: Alessia Bacchi (Italy)
Dipartimento di Chimica Generale ed Inorganica,
Chimica Analitica, Chimica Fisica
Parco Area delle Scienze, 17A
I-43100 Parma, Italy
Email: alessia.bacchi@unipr.it
The IUCr Commission on Structural Chemistry (IUCr CSC) is one of several International Union of Crystallography Commissions and is responsible for supporting activities relating to chemical crystallography. This page reports on those activities and provides historical and background information.
Created by J. Flippen-Anderson
Modified and Updated November 2005 by Alessia Bacchi
IUCr CSC Sponsored Meetings, Schools and Symposia 2005 – 2008
· Fourth Russian National Crystal Chemical Conference - Chernogolovka June 26 - 30, 2006
http://www.icp.ac.ru/conferences/new/NCCC2006
The Conference will be held in the year of the fiftieth anniversary of the Scientific Center in Chernogolovka (SCC), RAS, and it will take place at the Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics in SCC. Scientists from Russia and other countries are invited to participate in the Conference.
Conference languages are Russian and English.
Conference Topics:
1. Organic crystal chemistry
2. Crystal chemistry of coordination and organometallic compounds
3. Inorganic crystal chemistry
4. Crystal chemical aspect in materials science. Relation between structure and properties
5. Chemical bond in crystals
6. Structural aspects of reactions in crystals
7. Dynamic crystal chemistry
8. Structural investigations by means of synchrotron and neutron irradiations and electron diffraction
9. Modern features of powder diffraction
10. Modern problems of education in the field of crystal chemistry
11. New experimental methods in crystal chemistry
· "INDABA5" workshop "Models, Mysteries and Magic of Molecules" - Berg-en-Dal Kruger National Park South Africa 20-25 August 2006
http://www.sacrs.org.za/indaba/
The INDABA workshop is organized by the South African Crystallographic Society (SACrS) in conjunction with the Structural Chemistry Commission of the International Union of Crystallography (The SC Commission has been involved with the INDABA since its inception). Next year's theme is "Models, Mysteries and Magic of Molecules". Details of the theme, venue and organizing committee can be found on the website
Invited speakers and/or programme committee members for INDABA5:
Frank Allen
Mihael Atanasov
Jan Boeyens
Hans-Beat Buergi
Peter Comba
Gautam Desiraju
Martin Egli
John Helliwell
John Ogilvie
Eiji Osawa
Zorka Papadopolos
Vaclav Petricek
· School "Structural analysis by X-ray diffraction, crystallography under perturbation" - Université Poincaré Nancy I- 28 august – 02 september 2006
http://www.lcm3b.uhp-nancy.fr/nancy2006/
This school will gather together around 80 participants and 10 speakers from different countries and different scientific areas, physicists, chemists. The program will cover all basics of single crystal X-ray diffraction and structural analysis of small molecule systems. Several sessions will be more precisely devoted to crystallography under perturbation (light excitation, pressure), which is a rapidly developing field of crystallography. The courses will be separated into main sessions and tutorials of several crystallographic softwares (wingx, crystal, peanut, shelx). The preliminary program is the following:
I) Crystal structure determination
1) Basis of crystallography (direct lattice, reciprocal lattice, symmetries)
2) From diffusion to the diffraction of X-rays
3) Direct methods, heavy atom methods
4) Crystal structure refinement (least-squares)
5) Thermal smearing models
II) X-ray diffraction under perturbation
1) Diffraction under light excitation : photo-crystallography
2) Diffraction under pressure
3) Presentation of thesingle crystal diffraction beamline of the French synchtotron SOLEIL
III) Utilisation of crystallographic softwares
1) General presentation
2) Tutorials
Invited speakers: Several invited speakers have already accepted to participate to this school:
David Watkin : Chemical Crystallography Laboratory, Oxford, England (courses on least-squares methods)
Robert Blessing : Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, Buffalo, USA (courses on direct methods)
Hans Beat Bürgi : Laboratorium für Chemische und Mineralogische Kristallographie, Bern, Switzerland (courses on thermal smearing effects)
Claude Lecomte : Laboratoire de Cristallographie et Modélisation des Matériaux Minéraux et Biologiques, Nancy, France (introductory lectures)
Jean-Claude Daran : Laboratoire de chimie de Coordination, Toulouse, France
Reports on IUCr CSC Sponsored Meetings, Schools and Symposia 2006
IUCr CSC other activities
(1) Prepare articles for the IUCr Newsletter identifying Commission officers, members and consultants and announcing and reporting on meetings, schools, workshops, projects and other activities. If appropriate identify significant developments in the area of the Commission and awards to or news about community leaders.
(2) World Directory Liaison –Gather names and addresses of scientists interested in the research area of the Commission and forward them to the IUCr Newsletter Office (e-mail addresses) and the General Editor of the World Directory (e-mail addresses).
(3) Liaison with Commission on Crystallographic Teaching (Chair: P. Spadon: paola.spadon@unipd.it) – Provide the following in the area of expertise of the Commission:
A list of names and dates of national and international schools
A list of books, web sites, teaching aids
(4) Liaison with Commission on Crystallographic Nomenclature (Chair: A. Authier: AAuthier@wanadoo.fr) and COMCIFS (Committee for the Maintenance of the CIF Standard; Chair: I.D. brown: idbrown@mcmaster.ca) – Propose a list of definitions of technical terms or jargon pertinent to the activities of your Commission. The old International Tables have lists of some basic definitions that should be updated.
(5) Liaison with Commission on Journals – Propose expanded areas of coverage of existing journals (print, electronic or virtual), new areas of coverage or perhaps a new journal or changes in formatting to serve better the needs of the Commission.
(6) Liaison with Commission on International Tables – Propose new volumes of International Tables (print, electronic or virtual), tailored to the needs of the Commission.
(7) Liaison with the Chair of the IUCr/Oxford Press Book Series Selection Committee (H. Schenk: schenk@science.uva.nl) – Identify the need for new books on the topic of the Commission and potential authors.
(8) Webmaster Maintaining the Commission web site
(10) 60th Anniversary Planner – 2008 will be the 60th anniversary of the IUCr and the 40th anniversary of JAC. Suggestions for suitable events to celebrate the occasion will be identified.
IUCr CSC History
Establishment of a Commission on "Small Molecules"
After the IUCr Congress in Ottawa in 1981 there were grumblings within the small molecule community that "disproportionately few oral sessions were devoted to small molecule structural analysis and those were relegated to the last days of the meeting when protein crystallographers had departed and most attendees were exhausted". To correct this perceived injustice a band of rogue small moleculers (Duax, Flippen-Anderson, Niedle and Stezowski) organized a grass roots movement to establish an IUCr Commission dedicated to "small" molecules. They contacted as many National Committees as possible in an effort to generate enough support to get their proposal on the agenda for the IUCr meeting in Hamburg in 1984. Response from the National Committees was favorable enough to get the proposal on the agenda. From the beginning there was much discussion on what the commission should be called and what topics it should encompass. All small molecules? Only bioglogical molecules? How "big" is "small"?
Lively discussion on naming the Commission and what it should include continued, even at the Congress itself (Acta Cryst. (1987) A43, 438-439), but the end result was that the establishment of the Commission on Small Molecules was officially at the 13th General Assembly in Hamburg.
The terms of reference for the Commission are:
(a) to advise the IUCr on organizing or sponsoring sessions on small-molecule structural analysis at Congresses and conferences;
(b) to promote and coordinate scientific exchange between countries in the field of small-molecule structural analysis;
(c) to cooperate with the Commissions of the Union on matters dealing with small-molecule structural analysis;
(d) to cooperate with other international bodies concerned in small-molecule structural analysis.
Later in the Assembly the size of the Commission was increased to have a Chairperson and 10 elected members. This was approved only for the 1984-1987 triennium and the Commission was subsequently reduced to a Chairperson and 8 members. Today the Commission is composed by a Chair, 9 members, and 10 consultants.
The first Chair of the Commission was John Stezowski. He was followed by Bill Duax,Frank Herbstein, Karl Kruger, Judy Flippen-Anderson, Lee Brammer and currently Alessia Bacchi.
The name of the Commission was officially changed to the Commission on Structural Chemistry at the 17th General Assembly in Seattle. The terms of reference have not changed.


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Heresy Charge Against "Black Pope" -- Pope Francis and Cardinal Müller Are Presented With Heresy Charge Against Jesuit General
Jesuit General Arturo Sosa Absacal left of Pope Francis: is the
"Black Pope" spreading heresy?
(Rome) Next Sunday, Pope Francis will visit the small diocese of Carpi in the Po Valley. A courageous priest of this diocese is currently pestering the Pope. He raises the question with a memorandum of whether the new Jesuit Father General, Arturo Sosa Absacal, spreads heresies.
Memorandum against the "Black Pope"
The priest is Don Roberto Bertacchini and is a pupil of three priests of stature, the German Jesuit, Father Heinrich Pfeiffer, art historian at the Gregoriana in Rome, and the two Italian Jesuits, Father Francesco Tata, former religious prosecutor of Italy, and Father Piersandro Vanzan, Augustine connoisseur and leading author of the Roman Jesuit paper, Civiltà Cattolica . The reference to his Jesuit teachers is not without significance in the matter. Bertacchini was ordained priest in 2009 by the then Archbishop Carlo Ghidelli of Lanciano-Ortona.
Last week, as the Vaticanist Sandro Magister reports, Don Bertacchini sent both Pope Francis and Cardinal Gerhard Müller a memorandum. On six pages, the priest critically comments on a recent interview of the new General Superior of the Jesuit Order, who has been in office since October 2016. The Venezuelan Arturo Sosa Abasca stands very close to Pope Francis, himself Jesuit.
Does the Jesuit General Want a "Christianity without Christ"?
The Jesuit general had represented theses in the interview, which are "so serious that they can not be passed over without silence, without making one's self complicit." Bertacchini accuses the "Black Pope", as the Jesuit general is traditionally called, of speaking of "a Christianity without Christ".
Magister published Bertacchini's memorandum . Giuseppe Rusconi, the Swiss Vaticanista, published the interview where he criticized him last February 18. Arturo Sosa had reviewed the text and released it for publication.
Bertacchini's criticism is centered on the massive doubts expressed by the Jesuit General about the credibility of the Holy Scriptures. Arturo Sosa made fun of it. Rusconi addressed himself to criticism of the controversial papal Amoris laetitia . The words of Jesus were opposed to the admission of remarried divorced persons to the Sacraments. Sosa replied sloppily that nobody could know exactly what Jesus had said "really," because no one had "a tape recorder" with him.
According to Bertacchini, the Jesuit General says that the words of Jesus on the indissolubility of marriage are not a theological fixed point, but only the point of departure for the doctrine, which must then be developed "comfortably." In this way, however, the exact opposite could be represented, in other words the compatibility of divorce and Christian life."
Jesuit genius "too smart" to openly represent a heresy
Bertacchini emphasizes that Arturo Sosa Absacal SJ, "is too smart to fall into an obvious heresy, which in some respects is even worse. It is, therefore, necessary to follow the thread of his reasoning."
In an interview, the Jesuit General asked whether the evangelists were credible or not. His answer: One must distinguish. He thus implied, by way of a roundabout way, that it is not said, about the credibility of the Gospels. He thus questions the truthfulness of Jesus' whole doctrine of faith. The Jesuit had been careful to go into details. He remained general, but nevertheless offered a statement destructive in its core. If we consider that, in all his statements on marriage and the newly remarried divorced, Pope Francis never cited the words of the Lord on the indissolubility of marriage, the thrust of the Jesuit General would be clear. Bertacchini added:
"If the Pope does not quote these passages, it means that he has made a distinction and does not consider it authentic. They are therefore not binding. But all the popes have taught the contrary! So what? They will be wrong. Or they have said true things and taught for their time, but not for ours. "
The Jesuit General does not say it apertis verbis, but interprets it and lets it show through.
"This gives the Pope's a reading to the family pastoral, which deviates from the traditional doctrine."
Jesuit General: "We know today that Jesus never taught that marriage is indissoluble"
Sosa asserts nothing less than that
"We know today," that Jesus probably, probably almost certainly, never taught that marriage is indissoluble. The evangelists would have misunderstood this."
"On the other hand, the Sensus fidei tells us that the evangelists are credible. Our Jesuit General, however, rejects this credibility and even ignores the fact that St. Paul received this doctrine from the teaching as directly following Jesus, and passed it on to his congregations." (1 Cor 7: 10-11).
According to Bertacchini, the consensus of the Synoptics is "too clear" in the rejection of adultery. Moreover, St. Paul reaffirms this doctrine in the Epistle to the Ephesians and even strengthens it. He reaffirmed it by quoting the passage from the book of Genesis, which Jesus also quoted, and strengthened it because Christ loved the Church in an indissoluble way, so much so that he gave his life for it and beyond his earthly life. This faithfulness of the Lord is what Paul calls the model of marital fidelity.
There is, therefore, evidently a continuity between the pre-Easter and the post-Easter teachings. Equally obvious is the break with Judaism, which retained the possibility of the repudiation. Bertacching asks the following questions: "If Paul himself refers to Jesus for this break, what is the meaning of the Gospels? Where should this leap come from which determined the practice of the early Church, if not of Christ?"
It should be remembered that divorce was also permitted in the Greco-Roman sphere, and that a form of the concubinage existed, which could easily lead to a later marriage, like the life of St Augustine shows. The rejection of a abandonment, divorce, concubinage constitutes a cultural breach, a phenomenon which is decisive in the history of culture, what should it point back to, if not to Jesus? And if Jesus is the Christ, why should the faithfulness of the Gospels be doubted?
"Apart from this, if Jesus is not to have said these words, from whence comes the drastic commentary of the disciples in Matthew 19:10 (" then it is not good to marry at all?") Among these disciples was also the evangelist himself who does not strike a good figure. They understood late what Jesus taught them because they were then still dependent on the traditions of their time that Jesus criticizes. "From a historical point of view, the pericope Mt 19, 3-12 is credible in every respect," the priest said.
Bertacchini then goes into detail on the "dogmatic horizon" of the statements of the Jesuit General. In it, he expanded his criticism and extends it to a recent article in the Roman Jesuit journal Civilta Cattolica, with the Jesuit Giancarlo Pani, where the prohibition of female priesthood is questioned. Bertacchini criticizes the fact that the solemn gospel, which calls for infallibility, is questioned without hesitation. The priest criticizes this work of subversion with the aim of destroying safe dams.
What will Pope Francis do with the inscription of Don Roberto Bertacchini? What will CDF Prefect Müller do with it?
Link to Katholisches...
Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com
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Labels: Bad Jesuit, Courageous Priest, Don Roberto Bertacchini, Father Arturo Sosa Abascal, Good Jesuit, Heresy, Modernism, Pope Francis, Sandro Magister, Scriptural Inerrancy, Secularism
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Once again, South Dakota started its legislative session this year with clean bills in the House and Senate, each poised to restore the rights of South Dakota's adult adoptees to their original birth certificates.
After last year's premature victory celebration by certain out of state adoptees, last year's bill sadly came up just short of passing.
This year also ended in a failure to pass adoptee rights legislation.
Despite the best efforts of South Dakota SEAL (Support and Education for Adoption Legislation,) and its allies Senate Bill 152 failed its floor vote 22 to 12 (with one member excused). Senator Adelstein announced his intention to reconsider the vote, but in the end it did not go up for reconsideration.
On the House side, HB 1223 started as a clean bill but as it passed through the Health and Human Services Committee two amendments were added including one moved by Representative Moser which subverted the intent of the bill and ensured some number of adopted people would be left behind had it passed.
This was (mis) described as a contact "preference" when the actual effect of the legislation would have been that of a disclosure VETO.
This 'preference definition creep' is precisely what I have been warning about for some time now.
The bill was amended with a birthparent disclosure veto (under a false title of "birthparent contact preference,") that creates a special right for birthparents to ban access–a special right that no other parent or adult has over the birth certificate of another person. This ban guts the purpose of the bill and creates more bureaucracy and government control over the lives of individuals and families in South Dakota.
Last Friday the House bill with the amendment on it came up for the full floor vote but fortunately failed to reach the 2/3 majority that was required due to the fee to the special fund.
The vote was 42 Ayes to 21 Nays with 7 Representatives excused.
In the end, Representative Moser voted against the amended version (a "Nay" vote) of the bill, apparently in opposition to ANY access for ANY number of adoptees.
While three of the bill's cosponsors were excused, of the 17 remaining cosponsors of the original version, all but one voted "Yea" in favor of the amended version of the bill that would ultimately leave some number of adopted people behind.
It's been very confusing. The bill's sponsored who claimed to want a clean bill, voted YAY for the corrupted amended version and the sponsor of the corrupted version voted NAY against his own amendment!
At no time on the floor was there ever a vote to remove the odious amendment.
After the vote, the Lead Sponsor, Representative Bolin announced his intention to reconsider the vote. the reconsideration was originally scheduled for Monday (yesterday) but by early afternoon had been dropped.
While it was good to see the corrupted version of the bill go down to defeat, it was also heartbreaking, knowing that South Dakota adoptees had failed to regain their equality and would be forced to wait another year to try again.
Hopefully, over the next year South Dakota adoptees and allies will continue the educational process and prepare for the introduction of another clean bill next year.
In the mean time, I urge those who contacted legislators to follow up with them and offer thanks to those who voted to support restored adoptee rights.
Thanks for the SD summary and especially the link to the vote count,.
16 co-sponsors of the original version voted "Yes" in favor of the amended version of the bill that would ultimately leave some number of adopted people behind. I'm going to try and write to each one of them and ask WHY?
Yup, I saw that, and that was part of why I also spent time this year contacting the legislators.
I think BN has always done a good job of working with locals whenever possible, yet still speaking out and working where necessary against bad bills that affect us all.


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Headquartered in Guangzhou City, China, Maike provide tuning and styling accessories, such as stainless steel bumping parts, side steps, grille guards, roof racks, chrome parts, muffler tips, door mirror covers, dashboard kits, license plate frames, mudguards, and van spare parts. Our goal is to try our best to achieve customers' satisfaction. Persisting in excellent quality and fulfilling promise, we have 1ff8long-term customers in all over the word. And we will devote to offer more high quality products and better services. Maike is always your reliable partner!
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