Pippa's Patch: ET Phone Home !!!!!
The naughty woman that calls herself Lynne tempted me beyond belief... she posted up her gorgeous ET Phone Home block, it's foundation paper pieced and you know how much I like PPing lately, here's her link to the pattern lilysquilts.
but I'm thrilled with the result and am contemplating what to do with it. A cushion....hmmm or perhaps a mini wall hanging. I like this idea but not sure i've got time to quilt it... Lynne also sent me the templates for ET so I'm going to see if one or two of the patchwork ladies want to make it the old fashioned way.
wooohooo you did a fabulous job, that looks amazing!
Well done! They look absolutely perfect!!
One for a cushion or on a (tote) bag. More for a table runner, wallhanging or a (lap size) quilt?
Wow Pippa that is absolutely gorgeous.
I totally HAVE to make one too now!
I would more than love one as a cushion for my armchair.
First of all - ouch! Second, the block looks great. I was tempted by Lynne's tutorial as well.
LOVE your fabric choices! You did such a great job too! Isn't paper piecing fun! Oh, and I've totally done that before with the rotary cutting and the finger nail. I didn't have twitter as an excuse though. When I first saw this block on Lynne's blog I hoped she's post the tut for it but I didn't know she did until you posted, thanks for the heads up!
This looks fabulous! Love the fabrics and the pattern.


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Justia Patents Communications: Electrical Patents Condition Responsive Indicating System Patents With Particular System Function (e.g., Temperature Compensation, Calibration) Patents Selection From A Plurality Of Sensed Conditions Patents Condition Position Indicator Patents Display Board Patents (Class 340/525)
Display Board Patents (Class 340/525)
Home video capturing and monitoring system
Abstract: This application discloses a home video capturing and monitoring system including a video camera, an executable application, and a remote server. The video camera further includes a camera configured to capture video data, a communications component configured to wirelessly communicate video data to a monitoring device, and a speaker configured to output one or more audio messages from a user. The application is executed by the monitoring device, and configured to receive and display the video data captured by the camera while capturing the one or more audio messages from the user and sending them to the video camera via the remote server for playback by the speaker of the video camera. The remote server is configured to receive, store and analyze the video data communicated from the video camera, and relay the one or more audio messages captured by the monitoring device to the video camera.
Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
Inventors: Gregory R. Duffy, Melissa D. McLean, Aamir S. Virani
System and method for playing back wireless fire system history events
Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for displaying alarm and communication system events. The method includes the steps of providing a control panel coupled to a plurality of environmental sensors within a protected area, storing a sequence of events detected within the protected area by a communication system and at least some of the plurality of environmental sensors along with a time of the respective event in a history buffer of a memory of the control panel, depicting the plurality of environmental sensors and communication system on a display of the control panel and playing back the sequence of detected sensor and communication system events for a selected time period from the history buffer on the display where each of the plurality of depicted environmental sensors on the display is shown in an activated state for each instant of time of the selected time period that the history buffer indicates that the sensor was in the activated state and a deactivated state otherwise.
Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
Inventors: Shubhankar Sundriyal, Douglas Joseph Labrecque, Monica Ravi, Muthukumar Kandasamy, RajeshBabu Nalukurthy
Method and system for performing a function at a user device by combining category display areas
Abstract: A user device and method comprises a screen display and a user interface. A display control module defines a first display area with a first boundary therearound and displaying a first category indicator for a first category therein. The display control module defines a second display area with a second boundary and displays a second category indicator for a second category therein. A gesture control module receives a movement signal from the user interface for moving the first display area relative to the second display area using a user interface. The display control module defines a third boundary around a third display area representing the first category and the second category when the first boundary and the second boundary touch or overlap and displays the first category indicator and the second category indicator within the third boundary. When the third display area is selected, a function may be performed.
Assignee: The DIRECTV Group, Inc.
Inventors: Charles W. Beeson, Jason L. Howk, Yoonjung Kim, Laura Ginhee Wirsta
Method and apparatus for the detection of distortion or corruption of cellular communication signals
Abstract: A system for troubleshooting signals in a cellular communications network, and in particular, for determining the cause of distortion or corruption of such signals, includes a robotic or other type of switch. The robotic switch can tap into selected uplink fiber-optic lines and selected downlink fiber-optic lines between radio equipment and radio equipment controllers in a wireless (e.g., cellular) network to extract therefrom the I and Q data. The selected I and Q data, in an optical form, is provided to an optical-to-electrical converter forming part of the system. The system includes an FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) or the like, and an analytic computer unit, or web server, and SSD (Solid State Drive) and magnetic disk storage, among other components of the system. The system analyzes the I and Q data provided to it, and determines the cause, or at least narrows the field of possible causes, of impairment to transmitted signals.
Assignee: Viavi Solutions Inc.
Inventors: Jeffrey Abramson Heath, Eric Walter Hakanson, Dmitriy Yavid, Christopher Silvio Cosentino, Stuart William Card
System and method for advanced data management with video enabled software tools for video broadcasting environments
Abstract: Video editing software tools platform utilizing a video display to provide access to specific video editing software tools, such as video oriented applications or widgets, that can assist those in a video broadcasting team, such as a camera operator or video editor, with a video broadcast feed. Various video editing software tools can provide features and functions that can add visual context to video data presented in the image stream from the video camera and provide archived information pertaining to the same. Various embodiments relate to systems and methods for simultaneously switching input image streams to output devices, while providing optional image processing functions on the image streams. Certain embodiments may enable multiple users/viewers to collaboratively control such systems and methods.
Inventors: Jack Wade, Chris Greve
Automatic illuminating user interface device
Abstract: A user interface (UI) device for a premises management system may include at least one proximity sensor, a first interface component configured to illuminate in a first illumination style based on a first rule set when an individual is detected within a first range by the at least one proximity sensor, and a second interface component to receive input from the individual and configured to illuminate in a second illumination style based on a second rule set different from the first rule set when the individual is detected within a second range closer to the UI device than the first range.
Inventors: David Hendler Sloo, Jeffrey Alan Boyd
Cross-client sensor user interface in an integrated security network
Abstract: A system user interface (SUI) provides an iconic, at-a-glance representation of security system status. The SUI is for use across all client types, and includes numerous display elements presented across all types of client devices used to monitor status of the security system. The display elements of the SUI include an orb icon, text summary, arm button, device and system warnings, interesting sensors, and quiet sensors. The SUI provides system status summary information (e.g., security and sensors) uniformly across all clients. The SUI provides consistent iconography, terminology, and display rules across all clients as well as consistent sensor and system detail across clients. The SUI also includes an interactive Timeline interface, a widget-based Slideshow timeline interface, and a graphical interface for managing schedules, set points, and controls for lighting and thermostats and general energy usage.
Assignee: iControl Networks, Inc.
Inventors: Jim Fulker, Ken Sundermeyer, Paul J. Dawes, Reza Raji
System and method for parallel image processing and routing
Abstract: Various embodiments relate to systems and methods for simultaneously switching input image streams to output devices, while providing optional image processing functions on the image streams. Certain embodiments may enable multiple users/viewers to collaboratively control such systems and methods. Additionally, some embodiments may enable control by a set of computer input devices (e.g., keyboard and mouse) to switch between multiple computer systems, possibly by following the movement of a computer input device cursor, between virtual displays, as the cursor is controlled by the set of computer input devices.
Inventor: Jack Wade
Presence based illumination and analytics system
Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, devices, and methods relating to presence based detection and analytics including detecting a first movement associated with a bed; based on the first movement, sending a first signal to turn on at least one light and sending a second signal indicative of the first movement; detecting a second movement associated with the bed; and based on the second movement, sending a third signal to turn off at least one light and sending a fourth signal indicative of the second movement.
Assignee: Luna Lights, Inc.
Inventors: Donovan Morrison, Matt Wilcox, Wesley Youman
Air-conditioning apparatus controller and air-conditioning system
Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus controller includes a light-emitting indicator that emits light in a plurality of colors, a main display that displays a setting screen for light-emitting indication by the light-emitting indicator, a touch panel through which an instruction related to settings displayed on the main display is input, a data processing unit of a controller that causes the main display to display the setting screen, and performs setting processing for assigning an indication color to an indication content to be provided by the light-emitting indicator, in accordance with the instruction transmitted from the touch panel, and a data storage unit that stores settings for the processing performed by the data processing unit.
Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
Inventors: Kazuo Maeda, Hirotaka Masui, Masato Tanigawa
Data accessing system and method for the same
Abstract: The invention provides a data accessing system and a method for the same. The data accessing system comprises a data access unit and a data storage unit. When the data access unit is configured to access a plurality of data with continuous or discrete addresses, it issues a plurality of request instructions. The request instructions are encapsulated into a special instruction by an encapsulation module, and transmitted to the data storage unit by a data transmission interface. The data storage unit obtains the plurality of request instructions by using a de-encapsulation module to de-encapsulate the special request instruction, and executes the plurality of request instructions to access the plurality of data, so as to enhance the efficiency of data access.
Assignee: Accelstor Ltd.
Inventor: Shih-Chiang Tsao
Location tracking using fiber optic array cables and related systems and methods
Abstract: Fiber optic array cables and related systems and methods to determine and/or track locations of objects are disclosed. The fiber optic array cables can be employed in an optical-fiber-based communication system, including a centralized optical-fiber based communication system. In one embodiment, the fiber optic array cable is configured to carry optical RF or radio-over-fiber (RoF) signals to establish communications with objects. The fiber optic array cable includes multiple reference units along the length of the cable. The reference units can be configured to convert received optical RF signals into electrical RF signals to establish RF communications with objects capable of receiving electrical RF signals. The reference units are also configured to convert received electrical RF signals from the objects into optical RF signals, which are then used to determine the location of the object.
Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLC
Inventors: Jacob George, Michael Sauer, Dean Michael Thelen
Imaging service using outdoor lighting networks
Abstract: A system and methods to provide imaging service using outdoor lighting networks. The system uses outdoor lighting networks to manage/control video/image sensors connected to the network, e.g. hosted at lighting units, and coordinates the capture of useful video/image data associated with events. The system also provides an information search platform for users to retrieve only the relevant video/image data associated with events of interest. Furthermore, the system controls when and how to retrieve video/image data at lighting units across the whole network according to user requests, the priority of the events, and available bandwidth.
Assignee: PHILIPS LIGHTING HOLDING B.V.
Inventors: Hongqiang Zhai, Kiran Srinivas Challapali, Dave Alberto Tavares Cavalcanti, Jianfeng Wang
Device and method for assisting a driver in driving his vehicle into and out of a parking space in a parking facility
Abstract: A device and method for assisting a driver when parking his vehicle in a parking installation and removing his vehicle therefrom is provided. The vehicle is equipped with a driving assistance system which permits remote-controlled movement and steering. The device has a parking management and monitoring apparatus which is configured to determine, at the start of a parking phase, a first route for a vehicle, which has been left behind by the driver in an entry region of the parking installation, to a currently available free parking space within the parking installation, and transmit corresponding movement instructions to the driving assistance system of the vehicle, and determine, at the end of the parking phase, a second route for the vehicle from this parking space to an exit region of the parking installation, and transmit corresponding movement instructions to the driving assistance system of the vehicle.
Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
Inventors: Christoph Arndt, Uwe Gussen, Frederic Stefan
Wearable alarm system incorporating phased-array radar water sensing
Abstract: A safety system comprised of safety devices each worn by a caretaker and up to three people requiring minding, that alerts using color coded LED lights and audible tones when a monitored person is in danger. The device alerts if the person is beyond a preset distance, is close to or is in a body of water, or signals they are in trouble, using phased-array radar coupled with image processing. The phased-array radar allows the remote sensing of water in either daylight or night. The phased-array radar comprises multiple antenna elements including an independent antenna element phase shifter allowing beamsteering. The device scans an object using a preset beamsteering algorithm independent of movement. The multiple antenna elements and beamsteering improve image data accuracy which is then interpreted and correlated with a body of water characteristics. The phased-array radar is also used for caretaker-monitored person communications.
Inventors: Charlotte Ann Watkins, Paul Lockwood
Wristband and application to allow one person to monitor another
Abstract: According to an embodiment of the disclosure, a wearable device includes a plurality of sensors. The plurality of sensors are configured to detect information concerning a wearer or a surrounding of the wearer of the wearable device. At least some of the detected information is automatically communicated from the wearable device to a remote application based on either a request from a user of the remote application or a trigger initiated on the wearable device when the detected information from the one or more sensors indicate an event has occurred. In certain configurations, the event may be an uttered request for help or a detect increase in heart rate above an expected signature. In certain configurations, some of the information is transmitted to a security or law enforcement agency. In certain configurations, some of the information transmitted is prior recorded information that would otherwise be deleted had the request or trigger not occurred.
Inventor: Erangi Desoyza
Medical monitoring system
Abstract: Medical patient monitoring devices that have the capability of detecting the physical proximity of a clinician are disclosed. The medical patient monitoring devices may be configured to perform a first selected action when the presence of a clinician is detected in a first detection area, and to perform a second selected action when the presence of the clinician is detected in a second detection area. The medical patient monitoring devices may be configured to determine whether a clinician is present in a detection area based on the strength of a signal from a clinician token, and based on a signal strength adjustment value associated with the clinician token. When the presence of a clinician is detected in a detection area, the medical patient monitoring devices may be configured to perform a predetermined action that is determined from a remote database communicatively coupled thereto.
Assignee: MASIMO CORPORATION
Inventors: Massi Joe E. Kiani, Anand Sampath, Bilal Muhsin
Communication device, service providing device, and communication server
Abstract: There is provided a communication device including an acceptation unit configured to accept a service execution request for requesting execution of a service, a control unit configured to specify a service providing device to which a request for execution of a service provided by the service providing device is made based on a device record that includes the service and provision destination group information that indicates a provision destination group of the service, and the service execution request accepted by the acceptation unit, a transmission unit configured to transmit the service execution request to the service providing device specified by the control unit.
Inventors: Kazuyuki Sakoda, Yoichiro Sako, Kohei Asada, Katsuhisa Aratani, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Takatoshi Nakamura, Mitsuru Takehara, Yuki Koga, Hiroyuki Hanaya, Tomoya Onuma, Akira Tange, Kenta Kawamoto, Taizo Shirai, Masayuki Takada
Method and apparatus for providing search information
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to technologies for sensor networks, machine-to-machine (M2M), machine-type communication (MTC), and Internet of things (IoT). The present disclosure may be used in intelligent services (smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, or connected car, health-care, digital education, retail business, security and safety-related services, etc.) A method and apparatus for transmitting information in a communication system are provided. According to the present disclosure, an electronic device receives sensing data from at least one sensor, receives a distress signal from at least one user device, and displays search information for guiding to an area to be searched determined based on the sensing data and the distress signal through a display screen of a wearable device.
Inventors: Young-Eun Lee, Do-Hyun Pyun, Tae-Jin Woo, Seung-Ku Kim, Bo-Seok Moon
Abstract: An interface module includes a touchpad that is transparent and able to detect a user's press, a display screen, disposed behind and cooperating with the touchpad to form a touch screen, and a front frame including an exterior periphery and an internal rim, delimiting in the interior space of the front frame a front housing and a rear housing. The touchpad is disposed inside the front housing and the display screen is disposed inside the rear housing.
Assignee: DAV
Inventors: Christophe Delmaere, Eric Damian, Laurent Lucaora
Assignee: QOSCIENCE, INC.
Automated camera response in a surveillance architecture
Abstract: A detection and response device for a surveillance system detects events, responds to events, or both. The detection and response device may be used with or provided by a variety of surveillance systems, including peer to peer surveillance architectures. The device may utilize one or more defined geospaces. If an event occurs in a geospace a predefined response may then be provided. The predefined response may include automatically targeting one or more cameras to areas relevant to the event and presenting one or more predefined views optimized for viewing the event. If an event does not occur within a geospace, the detection and response device may provide one or more default responses.
Assignee: Leverage Information Systems, Inc.
Inventor: Raymond G. Leblond
Parking management apparatus and system
Abstract: A parking management system is provided. The system includes a plurality of first parking management apparatuses configured to detect whether parking spaces are occupied and to adjust a brightness level of lights based on occupancy information of the parking spaces. The system also includes at least one second parking management apparatus configured to detect whether a vehicle passes through one of an entrance and an exit of a parking facility and perform corresponding operations based on a detection result. Further, the system includes a server, where the first parking management apparatuses are cascaded through a first Bluetooth module.
Assignee: SENGLED OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD
Inventors: Xia Wang, Chaoqun Sun, Jinxiang Shen
Real-time deployment of incident response roadmap
Abstract: In various representative aspects, a method and a system that guide an incident response team to efficiently respond to an information security incident based on a roadmap are disclosed herein. A delegated incident response lead may oversee the whole process, including the creation of the roadmap, the performance of the team members, and the statuses of all tasks. When an incident occurs, incident response team members are notified, and delegated tasks in the roadmap are laid out. With a secure collaboration platform, the incident response team may work together in a secure, uncompromised environment.
Assignee: Cybersponse, Inc.
Inventor: Joseph Loomis
Methods and apparatus to detect root causes of alarm patterns in process control systems
Abstract: Methods and apparatus to detect root causes of alarm patterns in process control systems are disclosed. An example method includes retrieving process control data generated in a process control system during a historical period of time. The process control data includes alarm data associated with alarms activated during the historical period of time. The example method also includes generating an alarm activation timeline for the historical period of time. The alarm activation timeline includes icons representative of the alarms to visually represent a temporal relationship of activation of the alarms, where one of the icons is representative of an alarm that is no longer active. The example method further includes storing the alarm activation timeline in a database.
Assignee: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.
Inventors: Vidya Ramadoss, Brandon Hieb, David R. Denison, Kim O. Van Camp, Paul K. Daly, Deeann Gates DelGuzzi, Steven Lee Dienstbier, Rajaraman Ramachandran, Bruce Hubert Campney
Security adjustments in mobile devices
Abstract: Systems, device and techniques are disclosed for implementing a security configuration change based on one or more base events and a current security configuration. An inference module may identify a security configuration change based on receiving base events from a state storage/event listener and analyzing the base events to determine if a current security configuration is optimal given the base events.
Assignee: Google Inc.
Inventors: Tal Dayan, Maya Ben Ari, Brandon Keely, Subir Jhanb, Ido Ofir
Inventors: Jacob George, Michael Sauer, Dean M. Thelen
Storage medium and control device
Abstract: There is provided a storage medium having a computer program stored thereon and readable by a computer for an imaging terminal including an imaging unit, the program, when executed by the computer, causing the computer to perform operations including: acquiring captured image data generated by imaging a specific region on a target product with the imaging unit, the specific region including display lamps representing a state of the target product; specifying a display state of the display lamps in a captured image by analyzing the captured image data; acquiring identification information for identifying state related information according to the specified display state of the display lamps, the state related information relating to the state of the target product corresponding to the specified display state of the display lamps; acquiring the state related information based on the identification information; and outputting the acquired state related information on the imaging terminal.
Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
Inventor: Ryuji Yamada
Portal monitoring
Abstract: The present invention relates to a portal monitoring system that uses distributed sensing to detect metallic objects passing through the portal. The system comprises a length of fiber optic (102) comprising an optical fiber (106) mechanically coupled to a material (108) whose physical characteristics vary dependent on the applied magnetic field. The fiber optic (102) is arranged in the vicinity of a portal (200) and a fiber optic interrogator (104) is adapted to provide distributed sensing on the optical fiber to provide measurement data from a plurality of contiguous portions of said optical fiber at each of a plurality of times. A data analyzer processes the measurement data to detect signals characteristic of a disturbance in the magnetic field along the optical fiber. The system of the present invention is able to monitor multiple people passing though a portal at the same time and provide an indication of the location of metallic objects within the portal.
Assignee: Optasense Holdings Limited
Inventor: Magnus McEwen-King
Devices, systems and methods to determine area sensor
Abstract: A weighing scale includes a platform supporting a load. Force transducers beneath the platform output respective transducer force signals of the load. An area sensor above the platform outputs area force signals of load forces applied to respective spatial areas of the platform. A processor is configured to determine the load's weight and location on the platform based on the transducer force signals and the area force signals. A method of weighing the load is also described. A method of monitoring the load includes measuring first transducer force signal(s) and first area force signal(s) of the load, and then repeatedly measuring second force signal(s) of the load using the transducer(s) or area sensor until the first and second signal(s) indicate a change in a weight or location of the load. A changed weight or changed location of the load is then determined using the measured second force signal(s).
Assignee: LifeScan, Inc.
Inventor: Curtis Lee
Driver assist system for vehicle
Abstract: A driver assist system for a vehicle includes at least one non-visual sensor and a color video rear backup camera having a field of view rearward of the vehicle, with the field of view of the camera encompassing a ground area to the rear of the vehicle. An image processor processes image data captured by the camera. A video display screen is viewable by a driver of the vehicle. During a reversing or parking maneuver of the vehicle, images derived, at least in part, from image data captured by the camera are displayed by the video display screen to assist the driver in operating the vehicle. At least one indication is provided to a driver of the vehicle, at least in part, responsive to detection by the non-visual sensor of at least one object external of the vehicle.
Assignee: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.
Inventors: David W. Taylor, Kevin C. McCarthy, Niall R. Lynam, Kenneth Schofield
Emergency response system and method
Abstract: An improved emergency response system and method includes at least one zone display structured to present a plurality of zones that convey certain information to bystanders, dispatchers, and/or emergency responders. Each zone corresponds to a different portion of the local premises, such that the zones are collectively configured to convey at least directional information pertaining to the local premises. The zone display is further configured to present at least one universal directional indicator associated with each zone. Accordingly, the information associated with the zones and directional indicators is utilized to facilitate an emergency response. The presenting of the zones can include depicting at least a portion of the premises via mapping overlay display. Further, the zone displays can depict threat level indicators corresponding to perceived circumstances of one or more zones.
Inventor: Jeffrey Childers
Abstract: A display device includes movable members arranged to face a display screen of a liquid crystal display panel, a movable member driving mechanism, a display controller that controls the display of an image in a first display area and controls the display of a predetermined mark in a second display area on the liquid crystal display panel, and a drive controller that controls the movable member driving mechanism to move the movable members in accordance with a movement of the mark displayed. The display of an image object in the first display area and the display of the mark in the second display area are controlled so that the position of the image object displayed in the first display area corresponds to the position of the mark displayed in the second display area.
Assignee: Alpine Electronics, Inc.
Inventor: Takashi Yasumoto
Generation and utilization of a database of cell phone usage events
Abstract: A system and program of instructions for generating and utilizing a database of driving trip data and event data to identify drivers by mobile devices during a driving trip, comprising identifying a driver, determining a driving trip based on driving trip data, identifying device usage events associated with the driver, determining a driving context for the driver based on the driving trip, the usage events and context data, filtering the usage event data associated with the portable electronic device based on the driving context to create a set of risk events that occurred during the trip, and taking some action based on the set of risk events. The usage event data includes phone calls, text and other forms of messages, emails, applications, and other usage information, including usage associated with third party sources, each of which occur during the operation of a motor vehicle during a trip.
Assignee: Mykee Acquistions L.L.C.
Inventors: Michael S. Riemer, Michael J. Costello, Matthew J. Howard
Abstract: A driver assist system for a vehicle includes a camera and a control having an image processor, which processes image data captured by the camera. At least one non-visual sensor is operable to detect objects external of the vehicle and to provide non-visual sensor data to the control. During at least one of (i) a reversing maneuver and (ii) a parking maneuver, images derived, at least in part, from image data captured by the camera are displayed by a video display screen that is viewable by the driver to assist the driver in operating the vehicle. The control provides an indication to the vehicle driver, with the indication including at least one of (i) a visual indication displayed by the video display screen and (ii) an audible indication. The indication is provided, at least in part, responsive to detection by the non-visual sensor of an object external of the vehicle.
Controllers and methods for accepting multiple different types of input signals
Abstract: According to various aspects, exemplary embodiments are disclosed of controllers and methods for accepting multiple different types of input signals. One example controller includes an input circuit including first and second input terminals for receiving an input signal and at least one programmable resistor coupled to the first terminal. A processing device is coupled to the input circuit. The processing device is configured to control a resistance of the at least one programmable resistor based on a terminal setting. The terminal setting indicates whether the input signal is a voltage signal, a current signal, or a resistance signal. The processing device is configured to interpret the input signal applied to the processing device via the input circuit.
Assignee: Emerson Electric Co.
Inventor: Anil Ramachandran
Display apparatus, display method, and vehicle
Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display apparatus includes an image data generation unit configured to generate image data and an image projection unit configured to project a light flux including an image toward a human riding in a vehicle. The image is based on the image data. The image data generation unit is configured to generate the image data relating to the image including a first display object indicating a travel direction of the vehicle at a travel direction change point when a distance between the travel direction change point and the vehicle is a first distance. The image data generation unit is configured to generate the image data relating to the image including a second display object displayed to correspond to a position of the travel direction change point when the distance is a second distance shorter than the first distance.
Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
Inventors: Takashi Sasaki, Haruhiko Okumura, Takahisa Yoneyama, Yugo Kuwabara, Yasuhiko Kawawada, Osamu Nagahara, Noriko Odate, Shigeo Morimoto
Fault-tolerant distributed fiber optic intrusion detection
Abstract: An intrusion detection system for monitoring a premises includes at least one optical cable that houses at least one optical fiber and extends about the premises. Optical time domain reflectometry (OTDR) means is operably coupled to opposite first and second ends of the at least one optical fiber. The OTDR means includes first signal processing circuitry that analyzes the backscatter signal received via the first end of the at least one optical fiber in order to detect an intrusion of the premises, and second signal processing circuitry that analyzes the backscatter signal received via the second end of the at least one optical fiber in order to detect an intrusion of the premises. The redundancy of intrusions decisions made by the first and second signal processing circuitry can be verified.
Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
Inventors: Andrew Strong, Arthur H. Hartog
Multi-mode display
Abstract: A networked display has multiple modes of operation. In the first operating mode, the display receives and shows information related to charging an electric vehicle. In a second mode of operation, the display receives and shows information related to home energy usage. Other operating modes may also be supported.
Assignee: Greenwave Systems Pte. Ltd.
Inventors: Sonny Windstrup, Martin Manniche, Karl Jonsson
Position estimation of a wireless terminal in a structure using base station signal information
Abstract: A wireless terminal, method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The wireless terminal includes circuitry configured to receive a wireless signal transmitted from a base station; perform signal intensity measurement of the received wireless signal; receive, via a graphical user interface, section information that identifies a section of a building structure for which the signal intensity measurement is to be performed; and transmit measurement information acquired by the signal intensity measurement of the received wireless signal, base station identification information that indicates a base station of a transmission source of the wireless signal, and the section information. The measurement information is associated with the base station identification information and the section information.
Inventor: Junichi Rekimoto
Alert management
Abstract: A first alert and a second alert are received. The first alert indicates a first fault related to a first component of the multiple components and the second alert that indicates a second fault related to a second component of the multiple components. The first component affects the second component such that the first fault caused the second fault. A correlation between the first alert and the second alert is determined and, based on the determined correlation, a determination is made that the first fault is a root cause of the first alert and the second alert. An indication that the first fault is the root cause of the first alert and second alert is provided.
Inventor: Taliver Brooks Heath
Site and alarm prioritization system
Abstract: An approach for site prioritization and then a review and prioritization of the alarms at the site. A feature may to first find the site most in need of attention and then check the alarms of that site. A rule algorithm may determine a prioritization of site according to primitive rules which can be customized and modified nearly at any time making site priority a dynamic determination. At the site, the alarms may be ordered by criticality.
Inventors: Prabhat Ranjan, Liana Maria Kiff, Jeff Lawry, Michele Berlot, Thomas Gall, Barnali Chetia
Patient bed
Abstract: A patient bed with a multimedia system is disclosed. A patient can access a net work through the multimedia system, and to join a net meeting to chat with other patients. The multimedia system can also provide a consolidated platform of medical information for a doctor or a nurse. An input device of the patient bed may have a touch pad, which allows the patient to control the position of patient support through finger gesture.
Inventors: Wei-Ting Liu, Wei-Hua Lu, Chih-Kuei Hu
User interfaces for enabling information infusion to improve situation awareness
Abstract: A security system is configured to display a representation of an area on a display unit, receive input from a plurality of different types of sensors that are positioned within the area, display a plurality of icons on the display unit, wherein the plurality of icons represents the locations of the plurality sensors in the area, and display in a panel on the display unit output from the plurality of sensors.
Inventors: Hari Thiruvengada, Tom Plocher, Paul Derby, Henry Chen, Saad J. Bedros
Method and apparatus for charge control of a portable terminal having a solar battery
Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for controlling charging of a portable terminal equipped with a solar battery that converts solar energy into an electrical energy, the apparatus including a thermistor in which a resistance value changes according to a temperature change; a comparator which outputs a first signal when a temperature surrounding the thermistor is less than a preset reference temperature as determined by the resistance value change of the thermistor according to the temperature change and outputs a second signal when the temperature is at least the preset reference temperature or more; and a charging unit which is activated and receives the electrical energy from the solar battery to charge a battery when the first signal is inputted from the comparator, and is deactivated and blocks the charge of battery in case the second signal is inputted.
Inventors: Jun Chul Kang, Seung Chul Choi, Jae Ahn Ryu
Connection of personal terminals to the communication system of a motor vehicle
Abstract: A communication system of a motor vehicle is provided. The communication system includes a vehicle operating unit, a vehicle output unit, and an interface computer. The interface computer is connected to the vehicle operating unit and the vehicle output unit. The interface computer is implemented for the purpose of connecting a mobile terminal to the vehicle operating unit and the vehicle output unit such that information from the mobile terminal is displayable on the vehicle output unit and the mobile terminal is operable via the vehicle operating unit.
Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors: Ulrich Weinmann, Jens-Peter Weiss, Thomas Stauner, Wolfram Manthey
Adaptive security network, sensor node and method for detecting anomalous events in a security network
Abstract: An adaptive security network, sensor node and methods for detecting and responding to anomalous events in a security network are provided herein. In general, the adaptive security network comprises a plurality of sensor nodes interconnected to form a communication network, wherein each sensor node is configured for detecting an anomalous event occurring within a vicinity of the sensor node and for identifying the detected anomalous event as a specific threat-event, a specific non-threat event or an unidentified event. In addition, the adaptive security network comprises a central processing and control system coupled to the plurality of sensor nodes for receiving an event notification message from at least one of the sensor nodes indicating an identity of an anomalous event detected by the at least one sensor node.
Assignee: Solio Security, Inc.
Inventor: David Curtiss
User-managed parking system
Abstract: A server device may receive parking information that identifies a first plurality of parking spots, within a parking structure, that are available for parking, and a second plurality of parking spots, within the parking structure, that are unavailable for parking; store the parking information in association with information identifying the parking structure; receive, from a user device, a request for parking information associated with the parking structure; populate, in response to the request, a visual representation of the parking structure with the parking information, where the visual representation of the parking structure identifies the first plurality of parking spots and the second plurality of parking spots; and transmit the visual representation of the parking structure to the user device to assist a user, of the user device, in locating one of the first plurality of parking spots.
Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
Inventor: Dahai Ren
Method for managing the strain of a user of a human propulsion vehicle, and vehicle adapted for said method
Abstract: A method of managing physical effort expended by a user of a human-propelled vehicle provided with a control unit connected to an electric motor that is powered by a battery and that is arranged to take the place at least in part of the user for the purposes of propelling and of braking the vehicle, as a function of a program executed by the control unit in order to manage the physical effort expended by the user. A vehicle adapted to this method.
Assignee: IMW-Productions
Inventors: Eric Jean, Bruno Garin
BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION DISPLAYING APPARATUS AND BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION DISPLAYING SYSTEM
Abstract: A biological information displaying apparatus includes: a displaying section on which a measurement display screen displaying biological information under measurement and an abnormality display screen displaying information alarming an abnormality of the biological information, and the biological information at a timing when the abnormality occurs are displayed; and a display controlling section which is configured to display the abnormality display screen on the measurement display screen, so that the abnormality display screen is superimposed on the measurement display screen. In case where the abnormality display screen is displayed on the displaying section, the display controlling section controls the displaying section so that, even when the abnormality resolves, the information alarming the abnormality of the biological information, and the biological information at the timing when the abnormality occurs are continued to be displayed on the abnormality display screen.
Applicant: NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATION
Inventors: Hiromitsu Kasuya, Rie Tanaka


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Television, magazines, movies and mass-marketed advertising have always contributed to—and reflected—the style of an era. In the 1950s, children's books, for instance, often boasted whimsical line drawings designed to mimic toys of the time. This season's texts are not immune to widespread pop cultural influence. In an age when Internet use has dominated the communications scene, highly competitive, attention-getting production methods are currently shaping the book design industry. In many cases, art and literature are no longer relegated to one-dimensional surfaces, but rather, die-cuts, inserts and special folding processes create multi-dimensional books, allowing readers to interact more with the end product.
The following selections have been chosen because of their novel approaches to overall design and how they best reflect the new design era. Chronicle, a company known for its creativity, is represented with several three-dimensional pieces, as well as renowned art book publishers Harry Abrams and Phaidon, in addition to independent publishers and high-end comic book producers. The selections demonstrate the importance of how production choices influence design. They are also among some of the most hotly anticipated and award-winning projects of the season.
Art: 21
Robert Storr, Thelma Golden, Katy Siegel and Lynn M. Herbert
Harry Abrams Books
www.abramsbooks.com
As a companion to a new public television series on the contemporary visual arts, Art: 21 introduces some of the most interesting artists working in America today. Using lush print and paper stock, the book focuses on how creativity is affected by changing notions of place. The design mirrors a new model of layout, featuring open-aired textual spaces and strong linear tones. Kim Kanstani, director of education at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, describes the book as, "A refreshingly innovative and engaging approach to capturing the process, personal insights and motivations that inspire a diverse and dynamic group of contemporary artists." No small feat, according to Abrams, a company that also considered how images in print would be used in celluloid.
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Running Press Book Publishers
America Kerby Miller
Bill Klaila
Dan Eldon
Deyan Sudjic
Gregor Schneider
Harry Abrams
Hazel Rochman
Janet Cardiff
Jennifer Steinkamp
Katy Siegel
Kim Kanstani
Lynn M. Herbert Harry
Natalie Hope McDonald
Paparazzi Pat McGreal
Patricia Mulholland Miller Chronicle Books
Renate Dollinger
Robert Storr
Rochelle Steiner Saint Louis Art Museum
Stephen Hendee
Stephen John Phillips
Steven Bluttal
Steven Parke Vertigo
Teresita Fernandez
Thelma Golden


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Ones to Watch: Leadership Lessons - Master Class
Five Tips for Being a Successful CIO
Federal IT Flunks Out
Project Management - When Failure Is Not an Option
By Meridith Levinson
John Parker had no illusions about the considerable challenges awaiting him as CTO of A.G. Edwards. The management team had painted a clear picture during his job interviews in fall 2001. IT costs were too high. Projects dragged on for years, if they were completed at all. Some had derailed so dramatically that the St. Louis–based retail brokerage firm had to write them off. Poor project management was taking a toll on the bottom line.
The executives told Parker they needed a CTO who could overhaul the IT department and ensure that a planned five-year, $196 million migration of a mission-critical mainframe system would proceed smoothly. They simply couldn't afford to have a project of that magnitude follow IT's usual MO, where systems developed in isolation—sometimes over the course of years—often failed to meet the company's requirements once delivered. It just couldn't happen.
What Parker found after he was hired matched what he had heard during his interviews: Almost half of all projects were late and over budget. Most cost 54 percent more and took 54 percent longer than original estimates. And he found evidence of the write-offs. "We were running hundreds of projects over the course of a year, and 1 to 2 percent of them would have been written off and the write-offs would have been significant," says Parker, now CIO. In 2002, A.G. Edwards wrote off $46 million worth of software investments, according to a company filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Fast-forward to 2006. The company's project success rate (defined by the number of projects that arrive on time, within budget and that deliver the expected business value) has soared from 54 percent in 2002 to 88 percent today. Improved project management has had a dramatic impact on the company's financials: The SEC filing shows that IT and telecom costs declined from $295 million in 2002 to $241 million in 2005, even as investment in the mainframe migration continued. Meanwhile, net profits jumped from $71 million in 2002 to $186 million in 2005.
Parker achieved this project management turnaround by transforming how IT operated—from its interactions with the business to the structure of its project management office. Experience has taught him there's more to running successful projects than methodologies and tracking software, which is where most IT organizations get hung up. Successful projects hinge on sound leadership and constructive relationships between IT managers and the business. So Parker set out to improve his department's track record by working with the company's top executives to identify the most important projects and by providing all IT managers with leadership training to improve their credibility with the business.
"If you try to fix project management without fixing the top first, you're not going to have much success," says Parker. "Projects will always flame out if your leaders aren't flying air-cover for projects when they get into trouble, regardless of how good your project management procedures and tools are."
Parker also brought in a project management expert to instill some discipline into the process. Ed Pilewski, now VP of IT productivity and quality, chose not to take the traditional route of forcing a rigid project management methodology on the technology staff—a tactic that can backfire and create resistance to change. Instead, he implemented a standard framework for measuring, monitoring and reporting on a project's progress that fosters transparency and accountability. The framework also gives project managers some flexibility in how they approach their work.
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The company also reinvented its project management office, or PMO. Project managers used to report into a centralized office; now they report into different functional groups within IT, such as application development, network engineering and quality assurance. The idea is to increase their stake in a project's success and put them on an even playing field with the functional managers. The mission of the productivity services office, as the PMO is now called, is to help project managers with planning and to provide them with the reports they need to keep their projects on track—a departure from the old, bureaucratic model.
In fact, A.G. Edwards' holistic approach to project management represents a departure from the standard operating procedure and is worth emulating, say field specialists. "Other companies are doing bits and pieces of what A.G. Edwards is doing," says Sam Lawler, director of GlassHouse Technologies' project management practice. "What makes A.G. Edwards unique is that they've made a real commitment as a firm to address project management top to bottom."
A.G. Edwards' top-to-bottom approach to project management has worked well for the company—and it can work for you too.
The consequences of poor project management can be dire: Plenty of companies, from Nestl¿o Nike, have seen earnings negatively affected by botched IT implementations. In spite of the financial risk, many still haven't mastered project management: Just 29 percent of IT projects conducted in 2004 were completed on time, on budget and with all features and functions originally specified, according to The Standish Group, a consultancy that publishes a biennial benchmark report on IT project success rates.
Good project management is crucial to prevent backlogs as the economy quickens and companies take on more IT initiatives in 2006. "There's a strong need for project management today. With market conditions improving and profits starting to reappear in organizations, businesses have money to spend on technology, which increases demand for IT," says GlassHouse's Lawler. Yet CIOs cited project backlogs as their primary barrier to effectiveness in CIO's 2006 "State of the CIO" research (see "The Project Backlog," www.cio.com/state). "Project management is the number-one success factor for getting anything done in an organization," says Lawler. "A firm's ability to execute its strategy lies within its ability to manage projects."
But project management isn't easy. A PMO or a formal project management methodology (such as PMI or ITIL) doesn't guarantee success, as A.G. Edwards, which had both, can testify. "I've gone into many organizations that use a project delivery methodology, yet their projects continue to fail," says Peter Graham, a vice president with consultancy Palladium Group. "If that's the only thing that's done, you may see some incremental uptick in quality or ability to meet deadlines, but you won't get sustainable results."
Projects remain challenged for two reasons. First, implementing formal methodologies requires a change management effort not just in IT but across the business. Second, PMOs often become minibureaucracies that fail to address the problems that dog projects, such as a lack of shared accountability between functional and project managers. The need to address those intractable challenges explains why A.G. Edwards couldn't simply rely on a new methodology or its existing PMO to improve project success rates.
Start from the Top
When Parker came on board in November 2001, he observed the classic case of the IT department as order-taker—never saying no to the business, and never explaining what it could and couldn't do vis-¿is projects. He knew that to improve project success rates, he had to change this mentality and the business units' perception that IT staffers were passive or incompetent. "A successful project is really a marriage of businesspeople and IT people," says Parker, who oversaw a variety of successful fast-track projects while serving as Northwest Airlines' VP of information services from 1999 to 2001.
At A.G. Edwards, Parker's first step was to make IT managers realize they were more than yes-men and yes-women and to build their credibility with the business. He began by providing ongoing leadership training to all 250 employees with management responsibility in his IT department. He wanted them to understand their role in achieving A.G. Edwards' strategic goals. Parker also reasoned that if the IT managers were positioned as bona fide leaders, their business-unit counterparts would take their opinions more seriously, and the groups would be able to work more collaboratively on projects.
"Leaders set the tone for the relationship with the business community and for the level of efficiency, discipline and performance that you get out of your IT shop," he says. "If your leaders are taking orders, there's no way they can effectively form the right kinds of relationships with the business to drive projects effectively."
The training was particularly important for frontline managers, who had always associated themselves with their teams and never with the IT leadership. Parker sought their participation because of the close influence these managers have on staff who execute the project work, from writing code to testing functionality. So he created a series of quarterly meetings during which line managers learn to work with budgets, provide vision and express opinions diplomatically.
Parker also worked with CEO Robert Bagby and the senior management team to align IT with the business strategy. The goal was to establish a plan to strengthen and streamline business operations and identify the technology to enable growth. To do that, he met regularly with a governance committee that comprised the top eight executives to facilitate alignment and consensus on the most important initiatives. Pinpointing priority projects meant that Parker could focus his troops on their execution. He says if you don't zero in on the initiatives that support business strategy and generate revenue, you end up with your employees working on low-value projects, like changing screen colors.
Transforming how IT managers perceived themselves and did business was a dramatic shift for the department and for the company. Although Parker had support from senior management, he still met resistance from certain "bad actors" in the business community who refused to use the proper channels to request work or to follow the new processes for specifying requirements.
Parker initially opted for a subtle approach to this problem. "I didn't march into anybody's office and say, 'These are the new rules of engagement with IT.' That just wouldn't work," he says. Instead, Parker positioned himself as the good cop with recalcitrant colleagues. He would mention to them the challenges he had with certain division heads or managers. He stopped just short of saying, "This is the problem I'm having with you. You need to stop second-guessing the platforms we've chosen and stop telling your direct reports not to give us the detail we need around requirements."
He also made positive examples of division heads and managers who engaged with IT and encouraged them to act as proponents for change. When he needed to be direct with those division heads who were telling their employees not to provide detailed requirements, he showed them charts explaining how that would increase the likelihood of project failure.
Parker often used consultants to play the bad cop. For example, he had them spell out in no uncertain terms that businesspeople had to develop their requirements with more detail. But Parker himself could also be tough in dealing with toxic "IT bashers" who deliberately worked against the technology department. If he couldn't get them to "cease and desist" on his authority as the CIO, he asked their bosses or their bosses' bosses for help.
Implement the Tactical Plan
With the IT strategy set, a governance committee for prioritizing projects in place and leadership development under IT managers' belts, it was time for a fresh approach to project management. To get the ball rolling, A.G. Edwards hired Pilewski as an independent consultant in June 2003. Three months later, he was named VP of IT productivity and quality.
Pilewski knows a thing or two about project management. Prior to A.G. Edwards, he spent six years as an independent consultant turning around large IT projects in danger of failing. He also worked for Capgemini as director of project delivery for its Midwest division.
When Pilewski arrived, the brokerage firm already had a project management methodology in place. Pilewski kept that. Then, he made a pivotal change: He introduced what he calls the standard plan framework to monitor and report on the progress of projects. The framework is basically a set of repeatable steps designed to improve project delivery and accountability. Pilewski had used it before and knew it could benefit A.G. Edwards.
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Leicester City Council
Leicester City Council, where caseloads are capped and social workers are listened to
A sponsored feature from Leicester City Council
"Leicester is an exciting place to work." – That was the conclusion of a recent peer review of Leicester City Council's children's social care and early help services by our local authority colleagues in Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
What impressed them was not only the passion and energy of our social workers, the aspirations and initiatives of our services, and the city itself.
At Leicester City Council, we are strongly committed to child-centred practice and improving children and young people's lives by working in partnership to raise aspirations, build achievement and protect the most vulnerable.
It is a commitment that runs through our service like words in a stick of rock.
Diverse cases
"We have made significant progress in improving the quality of services in the past year," says our principal child and family social worker Kate Wells. "We now have a good workforce development offer, good support and induction for new staff, clarity on our service structure and a real emphasis on the quality of practice.
"Our social workers enjoy the diversity of Leicester and their cases. Leicester is a place where you can work for a diverse population, be part of a welcoming and talented team, and ensure good services and support for our communities."
As a social worker in Leicester you will be joining an authority that has capped caseloads and not only listens to but responds to what our social workers say will help them help make children and families' lives better.
When social workers said mobile devices would help them manage their time and better support children, we provided them. When our personal advisors for care leavers said they needed more capacity, we expanded the team.
Reflective supervision
At Leicester we also take social workers' learning and development seriously. Our AYSEs have comprehensive support and induction, and we are always developing more ways to give social workers, at all stages of their career, new opportunities to develop their skills and experience.
Learning and development should also be about more than reactive training and that's why Leicester has partnered with De Montfort University to deliver regular 'bite-sized lectures' where our social workers learn about the latest research in social care.
There are many other exciting initiatives underway at Leicester too, including:
– Ongoing investment in evidence-based edge of care and specialist services such as our multi-agency CSE hub and therapeutic service for looked-after and adopted children
– The roll out of a new reflective supervision tool that helps social workers form child-centred plans
– Work to implement the Signs of Safety approach across our services
– The development of a child-centred practice methodology
Be part of our talented team
We are looking for confident and imaginative professionals to join our team of talented practitioners.
If you are motivated and passionate about making a difference to the children and families across our incredible city, then we want to hear from you.
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Q: Writing an image to a socket in C I made a server that can serve html to a browser, but for some reason it wont send images. Every time I send an image over the socket, the browser receives some of the image, like the headers specifying the format, but the body of the image is all /00/00/00 just null characters.
Here is the code: (I just changed the response header from content-type: text/html to image/gif, so ignore the name of the variable, I know it is wrong.)
/*Refer to documentation for questions and functionality, as well as limitations*/
/*I have given each section of code an index in the form of a comment, which you can refer to in the documentation*/
#include <arpa/inet.h>  /* htons() htonl()          */
#include <unistd.h>     /* read() write()           */
#include <stdlib.h>     /* exit()                   */
#include <string.h>     /* strlen() strcat()        */
#include <stdio.h>      /* FILE scanf() printf()    */

int main(void)
{
    /*startof[a]*/
    char filename[256];
    FILE *file_pointer;
    unsigned int file_size;
    unsigned short int port_number;
    struct sockaddr_in listening_socket_address;
    int socket_address_size;
    int listening_socketfd;
    int new_socketfd;
    struct sockaddr_in new_socket_address;
    char HTTP_REQUEST[8192];
    char file_buffer[2097152];
    char HTTP_TEXT_RESPONSE_HEADER[] = "HTTP/1.0 200 OK\nContent-Type: image/*\n\n";
    char HTTP_RESPONSE[2097152];
    int response_size;
    /*endof[a]*/

    /*startof[b]*/
    printf("Please enter the name of the file (text formats only) to be transmitted today, you can give a whole path, or just the name if it is in the same directory as this program :)\nFilename: ");
    scanf("%255s", filename);
    file_pointer = fopen(filename, "r");
    fseek(file_pointer, 0L, SEEK_END);
    file_size = ftell(file_pointer);
    printf("File: %s is Size: %d Bytes\n", filename, file_size);
    rewind(file_pointer);
    printf("File: %s has been rewinded to position: 0\n\n", filename);
    /*endof[b]*/

    /*startof[c]*/
    printf("Enter port number: ");
    scanf("%hu", &port_number);

    listening_socket_address.sin_family = AF_INET;
    listening_socket_address.sin_port = htons(port_number);
    listening_socket_address.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_ANY);

    socket_address_size = sizeof(listening_socket_address);
    /*endof[c]*/

    /*startof[d]*/
    listening_socketfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
    bind(listening_socketfd, (struct sockaddr *) &listening_socket_address, socket_address_size);
    listen(listening_socketfd, 1);
    new_socketfd = accept(listening_socketfd, (struct sockaddr *) &new_socket_address, &socket_address_size);
    /*endof[d]*/

    /*startof[e]*/
    read(new_socketfd, HTTP_REQUEST, 8192);
    printf("\nHere is the HTTP Request:\n\n%s", HTTP_REQUEST);
    /*endof[e]*/

    /*startof[f]*/
    fread(file_buffer, 1, file_size, file_pointer);

    strcat(HTTP_RESPONSE, HTTP_TEXT_RESPONSE_HEADER);
    strncat(HTTP_RESPONSE, file_buffer, file_size);

    response_size = sizeof(HTTP_TEXT_RESPONSE_HEADER) + file_size;

    write(new_socketfd, (char*)HTTP_RESPONSE, response_size);
    close(new_socketfd);

    printf("Here is the HTTP response:\n\n%s", HTTP_RESPONSE);
    /*endof[f]*/

    return 0;
}

The image I am using is a gif89a, and the browser is able to tell it is a gif89a, but all the actual data inside the gif is just null characters.
I am thinking that perhaps because the image is in binary, it is being smashed by some weird formatting/ byte order mishap that the browser(firefox) is using, an I need to turn it into base64 for portability reasons.

A: There are a lot of things wrong with this code, but most importantly, you are simply not sending a valid HTTP response:

*

*You must use \r\n for line breaks.

*image/* is not a valid media type for a single file, use a more appropriate media type, like image/gif, etc.

*You are missing a Content-Length header to specify the image's size, since you are not using HTTP's chunked transfer encoding.

*Do not use sizeof(HTTP_TEXT_RESPONSE_HEADER), which includes the null-terminator. Use strlen() instead.

*Don't use strncat() to append binary data to a char[] array. That will break on the first 0x00 byte encountered.

*Open image files in binary mode.

*Don't try to write() the entire HTTP response in a single send.  That simply will not work.  The kernel buffer may not be large enough to send it all.  The receiver's kernel buffer may not be large enough to receive it all.  You need to pay attention to the return value of write(), which will tell you how many bytes were actually accepted by the kernel for sending. Call write() in a loop until all of the bytes have been accepted.
With that said, try something more like this:
/*Refer to documentation for questions and functionality, as well as limitations*/
/*I have given each section of code an index in the form of a comment, which you can refer to in the documentation*/
#include <arpa/inet.h>  /* htons() htonl()          */
#include <unistd.h>     /* read() write()           */
#include <stdlib.h>     /* exit()                   */
#include <string.h>     /* strlen() strcat()        */
#include <stdio.h>      /* FILE scanf() printf()    */

int write_all(int fd, const void *data, size_t data_size)
{
    char *ptr = (const char*) data;
    ssize_t written;

    while (data_size > 0)
    {
        written = write(fd, ptr, data_size);
        if (written < 0) return -1;
        ptr += written;
        data_size -= written;
    }

    return 0;
}

int main(void)
{
    /*startof[a]*/
    char filename[256];
    FILE *file_pointer;
    unsigned int file_size;
    unsigned short int port_number;
    struct sockaddr_in listening_socket_address;
    int socket_address_size;
    int listening_socketfd;
    int new_socketfd;
    struct sockaddr_in new_socket_address;
    char HTTP_REQUEST[8192];
    char HTTP_RESPONSE_HEADER[128];
    char HTTP_RESPONSE_HEADER_FMT[] = "HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\nContent-Type: %s\r\nContent-Length: %u\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n";
    char file_buffer[1024];
    char media_type[] = "image/gif";
    int request_size;
 response_size;
    /*endof[a]*/

    /*startof[b]*/
    printf("Please enter the name of the file (text formats only) to be transmitted today, you can give a whole path, or just the name if it is in the same directory as this program :)\nFilename: ");
    scanf("%255s", filename);
    file_pointer = fopen(filename, "rb");
    if (!file_pointer) {
        // display error message...
        return -1;
    }
    fseek(file_pointer, 0L, SEEK_END);
    file_size = ftell(file_pointer);
    printf("File: %s is Size: %u Bytes\n", filename, file_size);
    rewind(file_pointer);
    printf("File: %s has been rewinded to position: 0\n\n", filename);

    // TODO: set media_type to appropriate type
    // based on what kind of file is being sent...
    /*endof[b]*/

    /*startof[c]*/
    printf("Enter port number: ");
    scanf("%hu", &port_number);

    memset(&listening_socket_address, 0, sizeof(listening_socket_address));
    listening_socket_address.sin_family = AF_INET;
    listening_socket_address.sin_port = htons(port_number);
    listening_socket_address.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_ANY);
    /*endof[c]*/

    /*startof[d]*/
    listening_socketfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
    if (listening_socketfd < 0) {
        // display error message...
        return -1;
    }
    if (bind(listening_socketfd, (struct sockaddr *) &listening_socket_address, sizeof(listening_socket_address)) < 0) {
        // display error message...
        return -1;
    }
    if (listen(listening_socketfd, 1) < 0) {
        // display error message...
        return -1;
    }
    socket_address_size = sizeof(new_socket_address);
    new_socketfd = accept(listening_socketfd, (struct sockaddr *) &new_socket_address, &socket_address_size);
    if (new_socketfd < 0) {
        // display error message...
        return -1;
    }
    /*endof[d]*/

    /*startof[e]*/
    // TODO: read client's request per HTTP protocol...
    request_size = read(new_socketfd, HTTP_REQUEST, 8192);
    if (request_size < 0) {
        // display error message...
        return -1;
    }
    printf("\nHere is the HTTP Request:\n\n%.*s", request_size, HTTP_REQUEST);
    /*endof[e]*/

    /*startof[f]*/
    response_size = sprintf(HTTP_RESPONSE_HEADER, HTTP_RESPONSE_HEADER_FMT, media_type, file_size);
    printf("Here is the HTTP response:\n\n%s", HTTP_RESPONSE_HEADER);

    if (write_all(new_socketfd, HTTP_RESPONSE_HEADER, response_size) < 0) {
        return -1;
    }

    while (file_size > 0) {
        response_size = fread(file_buffer, 1, min(file_size, sizeof(file_buffer)), file_pointer);
        if (response_size < 1) break;
        if (write_all(new_socketfd, file_buffer, response_size) < 0) break;
        file_size -= response_size;
    }

    close(new_socketfd);
    /*endof[f]*/

    close(listening_socketfd);
    return 0;
}

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Cock Magic est le huitième épisode de la dix-huitième saison de la série télévisée d'animation américaine South Park et le  de la série globale. Il est diffusé pour la première fois sur Comedy Central aux États-Unis le . L'épisode traite du jeu de cartes Magic : L'Assemblée et de combats de coqs, amenant de nombreux double sens, ainsi que de sport féminin et de droits des animaux.

Résumé
Le membres de l'équipe de volley féminine de l'école de South Park en ont marre que les garçons ne viennent jamais voir leurs matchs, ayant toujours autre chose à faire ou n'ayant aucune envie de voir des filles faire du sport. En ce moment, Cartman, Kyle et Stan sont passionnés par les parties de jeu de cartes Magic : L'Assemblée auxquelles leur ami Kenny participe. Le garçon en anorak orange a d'ailleurs un très bon niveau.

Un jour, alors que les garçons racontent à leurs camarades le dernier combat de Kenny, qu'ils qualifient de spectaculaire, le concierge de l'école les entend et leur propose d'aller voir quelque chose d'encore plus violent en rapport avec de la "Magic". Intrigués, ils se rendent le soir au restaurant chinois City Wok, qui organise dans son sous-sol des combats clandestins de coqs jouant à Magic, appelés "Coq Magic" ("Cock Magic" en VO). Impressionnés, les garçons décident d'aller dans une ferme d'élevage en batterie pour se trouver un coq, malgré les réticences de Kenny qui regrette que ses amis ne veulent plus le voir jouer et qui n'aime pas les conditions d'élevage de ces coqs joueurs, ni les compétitions auxquelles ils sont forcés de participer. Le choix des garçons se porte sur un jeune coq qui n'a pas encore de deck défini, et qu'ils nomment McNuggets.

L'inspecteur Yates et la police du comté de Park sont déterminés à trouver où sont organisés les matchs illégaux de Coq Magic. Ils interrogent Stuart McCormick, qui fréquente ces évènements mais ne laisse rien paraître.

De son côté, Randy apprend que les garçons se passionnent pour le Coq Magic, et les averti du danger que cela représente, car il en était un spécialiste dans sa jeunesse, et cela lui avait causé des problèmes. Il parle en réalité de "Cock Magic" (idem en VO, "cock" voulant dire "bite"), qu'il appelle aussi "prestigibitation", et qui consiste à faire des tours de magie avec son pénis. Il leur fait une démonstration, qui n'intéresse nullement les garçons. Randy pense cependant que les mentalités ont changé et décide de se remettre sérieusement à la "Cock Magic". Il fait notamment un spectacle lors d'un anniversaire de très jeunes enfants, qui en ressortent traumatisés. Après le départ de Randy, les parents appellent la police, qui croyait en apprendre plus sur les matchs de Coq Magic. En arrivant sur les lieux, ils arrêtent la mère qui a organisé la fête, l'accusant d'essayer de les écarter de leur enquête principale.

McNuggets se montre très doué avec les cartes Magic, à un tel point qu'il accède à un nouveau stade de la compétition, qui se déroule dans le sous-sol d'un restaurant chinois Panda Express. Stan ne peut pas venir car il apprend que sa petite amie Wendy Testaburger est capitaine de l'équipe de volley féminine de l'école, et ne souhaite pas la vexer davantage en ratant un autre match. Il s'arrange cependant avec Cartman pour qu'il lui raconte tout ce qui se passe par téléphone, auquel il reste scotché pendant tout le match de volley.

Le premier adversaire de McNuggets sera Gadnuk le Destructeur de Mondes, un coq qui n'a jamais perdu un seul combat ni un seul point de vie. Après avoir assisté à un match, les garçons veulent déclarer forfait, mais la foule s'y oppose. Kenny décide de prendre la place de McNuggets, devenant le premier humain à participer à un match de Coq Magic. Après un duel captivant, Kenny est aux portes de la victoire, mais c'est alors que la police débarque dans le sous-sol. Ils ont découvert l'endroit grâce à un prospectus, que personne n'a pourtant distribué. C'est en fait l'œuvre de Randy, qui a fait la promotion d'un spectacle surprise de Cock Magic pendant cette soirée Coq Magic. Le père de Stan apparait, et tout le monde est captivé par le spectacle, en particulier les agents de police et l'inspecteur Yates, invité à participer au dernier numéro. Toutes les personnes venues pour le Coq Magic profitent que les représentants de la loi soient distraits pour partir discrètement.

Les garçons se demandent ce que va devenir McNuggets, maintenant que sa carrière de combattant clandestin est terminée. Stan a alors l'idée de faire jouer l'équipe de volley féminine contre le coq et son deck de cartes Magic, un match des plus étranges qui attire cependant le public que les joueuses désirait tant, composé d'élèves, de parents et d'amateurs de Coq Magic.

Notes
 Dans la salle de Coq Magic sous le City Wok, on peut voir Wing en tenue de vendeuse de cigarettes.

Accueil critique
Les avis sur cet épisode ont été plutôt positifs.

Dan Caffrey de The A.V. Club lui donne un A−, en soulignant que dans cet épisode, .

Max Nicholson du site IGN lui donne la note de 6,5 sur 10, disant qu'il l'a trouvé .

Daniel Kurland de Den of Geek donne 3,5 étoiles sur 5 à l'épisode, déclarant que .

Notes et références

Épisode de South Park, saison 18

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"Star Wars: The Last Jedi was the worst movie I've ever seen. The writing was so bad. Also, I watched Bright on Netflix. Great movie. The critics are all wrong and were paid to write bad reviews."
I mean, seriously. Bright has comparatively good fan reviews compared to The Last Jedi. Just check out the screenshot below this image. Another entirely unscientific look at Rotten Tomatoes profiles that gave Bright good reviews shows that many of them are new profiles that have only reviewed Bright and Star Wars. I'm not sure if they're just trolling or for real, but if part of their bad review of The Last Jedi includes something like "disconnected Hollywood elite," it's entirely unclear what the reviewer is connected to that makes them think Bright is good and TLJ is bad.
I think it's possible that "fan" reviewers are simply rating the exact opposite as the critics and then inventing reasons that they disagree and why the critics are wrong, much like Donald Trump is seemingly undoing anything and everything that happened during the Obama administration, regardless of its current or potential benefit. It's basically just a political show, and that's what it seems like a majority of bad TLJ reviews are.
The extra confusing layer is that bad reviewers say TLJ is too liberal and political, and then go write another review say Bright was great. Bright, which you hopefully haven't seen (it's embarrassingly bad), is a movie with political commentary so lacking in nuance and making any new or interesting observations about race in America that it is part of why it's so bad. It's set in a world where they basically represent people of color as orcs, and wealthy white people as elves. It depicts extreme police violence towards the orcs, and shows that they experience disproportionate discrimination and poverty. One of the main characters is an orc that turns out to be a hero and the human main character learns to accept that they're not so different.
Can anybody explain to me how TLJ is the worst movie ever because it's too political and progressive while Bright, which is overtly political somehow doesn't get the same criticism.


But "a lot of people claim [their product incorporate] AI but don't deliver on it", she observed.
AI is not always the best fit in a security context, suggested Kay. In general, there is a need to automate and manage risk effectively, and doing the wrong thing can be worse than taking no action – you don't want AI to break your business by shutting down a crucial service, she said.
If an automated system detects suspicious activity, a common response is to shut down or isolate that component. That's fine if it is just one PC in your contact centre, because all the other agents can keep working.
But when the suspect computer is part of a wider system (eg, a Web server that's part of an ecommerce site along with a database server and other elements), it's important to understand the interdependencies before taking action, especially if restarting the overall system is a complex process.
Weak information leads to more false positives, and each decision made on the basis of weak information increased the risk of a bad outcome, she said.
Machine learning does have a part to play in maintaining security, but it should be "just in there" in much the same way as a driver doesn't think about a car having anti-lock braking.
Traditionally, most of the effort has gone into the prevention part of IT security, said Kay. But there's an increasing realisation that detection and response needs more attention.
Network traffic — if appropriately analysed — can provide useful information for the detection piece, especially as intruders increasingly know how to alter, disable or delete logs.
ExtraHop's approach, which comes from its background in performance management, is to take a copy of network traffic for analysis. That way, "they [intruders] don't know you're there", Kay explained.
This data provides "a strong foundation" for advanced analytics, and in turn those analytics go beyond detection to suggest possible courses of action.
This makes it easier for staff to explore situations, and allows them to investigate a larger number of alerts.
Traffic analysis "makes good business sense" for some organisations, said Kay, but it hasn't been seen as a priority until recently. Now, organisations have a better idea of risks and costs, and "the downside of going down".


Official statistics show that throughput of general cargo via the major Yangtze ports fell by 8.7 per cent to 115m tons in January, compared with the same month last year, largely due to the timing of the week-long Chinese New Year holiday. Container throughput also fell by 3.6 per cent to 800,000TEU. Meanwhile, passenger volumes rose by 6 per cent to 620,000.
Statistics from the Yangtze MSA show that eight accidents were reported in January in the section under its remit, between the provinces of Anhui and Chongqing. Six of them were collisions. These accidents involved 14 vessels, carrying sand, oil, containers, ro-ro cargo and other general cargo. Three non-cargo-carrying vessels were involved in collisions, causing two deaths and a direct economic loss of Rmb20,000.


It's Teacher Appreciation Day. I don't usually write a specific post for TAD. Typically, I try to appreciate myself, and my colleagues every day. But events of the past year reminded me that I could write a post for today with a specific subject. That subject is Sid Ayers.
None of you know Sid, though some of you may have known him. A quick calculation suggests that he is no longer with us. Sid was a guidance counselor in upstate New York during the 1950's. From what I know, which is all second-hand, Sid may even have been a part-time guidance counselor. I don't even really know the actual name of the school where Sid taught. It might have been this one, but I'm not really sure. To be honest, I don't know very much about Sid.
I do know one thing, however. At some point in the fall of 1957 or the early winter of 1958, Sid was informed that there was a new university opening in the NY State University system. The new school, located on Long Island, was focused on training science teachers. Part of the opening process involved a state-wide search for possible students. If Sid knew any students in his school who might be interested, the university was offering free tuition.
Sid did know one student who fit the description. So he pulled the student out of class, told him about this rather sweet deal, and signed him up for higher education. The student, a bright guy who hadn't really figured out too much about what he was going to do after high school, turned out to be a perfect choice.
So it was that my father was able to leave upstate New York, go to college, have three children over the span of two marriages, and spend a career teaching science to thousands of students.
I have to imagine that this isn't the first nice thing that anyone has ever written about Sid Ayers. I am sure he was a good guy, and that he had a family who loved him very much. Still, in at least this one instance, he changed the life of one of his students in ways that I'm sure even he couldn't have possibly imagined. If this isn't a story worth telling today, then I don't know what is.
Happy Teacher Appreciation Day, to Sid, and to all the educators who are making the world a better place in ways they can't even imagine. We all owe you more than we can ever really know.
Edit: Right after I wrote this, I found this webpage. I don't know if this is the same Sid Ayers, but the coincidence is too close for me to think that it isn't.
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Umbrella trials and platform trials are shaping the future of cancer research. These trials, which allow researchers to study several treatments at once, hold the promise of making effective, highly targeted, new drugs available—and available more quickly—to high-risk multiple myeloma patients.
With its launch of MyDRUG (Myeloma – Developing Regimens Using Genomics), the first ever multiple myeloma platform trial, the MMRF is leading the charge in this new research approach. The MyDRUG trial was developed based on key findings from the MMRF CoMMpass Study and the Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium (MMRC) Molecular Profiling Initiative, which revealed that myeloma is not one uniform disease but rather a variety of different disease subtypes defined by different genetic mutations. In other words, an individual's genomic blueprint determines how myeloma behaves.
Using this information, the MyDRUG trial is testing different treatments that are known to specifically target genetic mutations in patients with high-risk myeloma. In the MyDRUG trial, high-risk patients are those who received treatment at diagnosis but whose response to this treatment did not last long. Historically, these patients have unfavorable long-term results. Therefore, the idea behind MyDRUG is to offer treatments to these patients that are different from what is currently available…and thus different from what has not worked. The strategy behind MyDRUG is to individualize treatments to these patients based on their specific genetic blueprint rather than simply applying the conventional, one-size-fits-all, approach to treatment. Ultimately, MyDRUG is a way to combine information about the biology of myeloma with new treatments.
Patients enrolled in the MyDRUG trial undergo genome sequencing, a test that analyzes a person's genetic structure and can reveal the presence of cancer-related mutations. Based on the results, patients are matched to a specific treatment that targets their unique myeloma subtype and assigned to the branch of the MyDRUG trial that is studying that treatment. In addition to receiving the specific, subtype-matched treatment, all patients are given the standard-of-care regimen of Ninlaro + Pomalyst + dexamethasone. High-risk patients with no mutations detected receive a four-drug combination (Darzalex + Ninlaro + Pomalyst + dexamethasone)—a treatment that is otherwise unavailable.
Currently, MyDRUG is testing the following treatments, many of which are already approved for use in other cancers, that target specific genetic mutations or cytogenetic abnormalities:
Cobimetinib (RAF/RAS mutations)
Enasidenib (isocitrate dehydrogenase [IDH] mutations)
Abemaciclib (cyclin-dependent kinase [CDK] mutations)
Erdafitinib (fibroblast growth factor receptor [FGFR] mutations)
Venetoclax (chromosomal translocation t[11;14])
Any other mutations not listed
Another unique feature of the platform approach is that the trial can enroll patients indefinitely (by contrast, traditional clinical trials have set enrollment deadlines). Treatments that are shown not to work are removed from the study. Also, when additional information about genetic mutations and/or new drugs that target those mutations becomes available, the treatments can be added to the trial.
The MyDRUG trial is led by MMRF CSO Dr. Daniel Auclair and Dr. Shaji Kumar at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota and is enrolling patients at 17 cancer centers and academic research institutions throughout the United States. You can listen to Dr. Kumar review the MyDRUG trial and other innovative clinical trials at https://event.webcasts.com/starthere.jsp?ei=1231794&tp_key=9a3981e296.
To learn more about joining the MyDRUG trial, contact a Nurse Patient Navigator at the MMRF Patient Support Center at 866-603-6628.
MMRF. The MMRF Launches MyDRUG – First-ever Platform Clinical Trial in Multiple Myeloma [press release]. November 29, 2018.
MMRF. MyDRUG.
MMRF. What is the MyDRUG study?
NIH. US National Library of Medicine. ClinicalTrials.gov. Myeloma-developing regimens using genomics (MyDRUG). Updated December 12, 2018.


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A trip to Housesteads will give visitors an insight into how life was for the 800 Roman soldiers based here as they wander the remains of the barrack blocks and the commandant's house. The fort boasts some of the oldest toilets ever seen and there's a fascinating museum too, complete with a model of how the fort looked in Roman times. Explore the story of the fort through dramatic film footage of the stunning World Heritage Site and CGI recreations of the original Roman buildings. See what it was really like to live on this hilltop fortress of Vercovicium, the Roman name for Housesteads which means 'place of the effective fighters'. With a history that goes back almost 2,000 years, it offers a unique family day out in Northumberland.
Housesteads has many facilities for all to enjoy. There is charged parking at Housesteads, with the fort lying uphill from the car park (a fairly strenuous ten-minute walk on steep gradient). The on site gift shop, as well as selling Roman themed souvenirs, provides visitors with the option to purchase snack food, sandwiches and hot and cold drinks or there is a picnic area for visitors to use. Dogs are allowed on leads but there are restrictions, assistance dog's welcome. Housesteads Roman Fort is family friendly and has male and female toilets with baby change facilities and extensive play areas for the children.
Please visit http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/housesteads for opening times, admission and more information.
Housesteads Roman Fort, Haydon Bridge, Hexham, Northumberland, NE47 6NN
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