On August 21, 2017, a solar eclipse is going to appear, visible to most of the continent of North America. Bethany is very, very excited. What's going to happen, and what are scientists doing to take advantage of the event? Bethany Brookshire starts with a primer on the upcoming eclipse with chơi baccarat trực tuyếnLisa Grossman, chơi baccarat trực tuyếnastronomy writer at Science News, then discusses three eclipse-related citizen science projects that need data: Smithsonian Astrophysicist Trae Winter tells us about the Eclipse Soundscapes project; Morrison Planetarium Senior Presenter Elise Ricard discusses the Life Responds project; and University of Massachusetts Assistant Professor of Engineering Kiersten Kirby-Patel talks about the EclipseMob Experiment. It's not too late, and you don't need to be under totality to make your eclipse count!
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Henry "Trae" Winter III is an astrophysicist working for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). He has worked on eight NASA missions observing the Sun with varied duties such as designing optics, analyzing complex data sets, instrument calibration, planning observations, and designing software to automatically detect features in big data streams. His primary research focus is improving computer simulations to explore how energy is released in the Sun's atmosphere, the corona, and in other stars. He also designs video wall exhibits that bring the wonder and beauty of the Sun and the universe to public. His exhibits have been featured at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, the National Air and Space Museum, and the Harvard Art Museums' Lightbox Gallery.
Elise Ricard is currently a Senior Presenter at the Morrison Planetarium at the California Academy of Sciences. She has a diverse background in museums including education and collections care.
Kiersten Kirby-Patel is an assistant professor of engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Her research activities in applied electromagnetics are united by an emphasis on theoretical analysis that leads to design-level engineering insight. She has active projects focused on EBG-backed low-profile antenna design and analysis techniques, application of estimation theory to link signature keying security, and crowdsourced measurement of LF wave propagation during the upcoming 2017 solar eclipse.


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'Westworld' Showrunners Hint at Medieval and Roman Worlds in Season 2
By Brandon Katz • 10/04/17 5:01pm
What can fans expect in season two of 'Westworld'? John P. Johnson/HBO
Just when fans were starting to familiarize themselves with the twisty setting of HBO's Westworld, the showrunners up and pull the rug out from under us. The season one finale revealed that Westworld is just one of many park attractions (we got a quick glance at Samurai World), but we didn't quite know just how deep that rabbit hole went. Now, creators and showrunners Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy are teasing the presence of Roman World and Medieval World in season two. Oh boy.
Fans of Michael Crichton's original 1973 Westworld film may not be that surprised as both locations were featured in the movie. When asked at the 2017 Vanity Fair Summit why they never made it into the show, Nolan replied, "We had to save something for season two." How badly do you all want to see Ed Harris in a suit of armor right now? Maybe even a complete Samurai get up? Make this happen HBO.
Given the central themes of Westworld—creation vs. creator, nature of humanity, etc.—Nolan and Joy also spoke about the advancement of Artificial Intelligence.
"I feel evenly split between the fear that A.I. will enslave us and make us do its bidding and my fear that it won't," said Nolan. "If you look at things that have gone down in the last year, humans are terrible at running this world. It's clear that there's room for improvement." He was optimistic about the idea that systems "can yield dramatic improvements in a way our world functions."
"People like to ask, 'Why would A.I. want to be evil and destroy us?'" Joy said comparing it to the goal of a corporation. "A corporation's goal is to make profits. It's very simple. It's binary. It's either less or more. Computers work along the same thing. If you can see how, with the simplest of directives that can get blown into something beyond what could image, that's the kind of thing we're talking about."
Westworld will return to HBO for its second season in Spring 2018.
Filed Under: TV, Entertainment, HBO, artificial intelligence, Westworld, Ed Harris, Jonathan Nolan, Arnold's House, Lisa Joy
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The UN Deceit and the New Islamic World Order
Muslims collectively believe, in light of their recent massive migration to the West and a much higher birthrate compared to Westerners, that they may sooner rather than later achieve their goal of an Islamic world order. In order to fulfill this, as the First Amir and Imam of Jamat e Islami Syed Abul Ala Mawdudi (1905-1979) stated: "Islam can use every power available every way it can be used to bring worldwide revolution." Their hidden and most powerful advocate in their present-day jihad has been the United Nations Organization, which has sought to propel political Islam at the cost of nations' sovereignty. A recent example of this was when the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 2015 had planned to vote on the historical status of Jerusalem's Temple Mount and its associated Western Wall. According to Denis MacEoin, UNESCO's plan was to deny any Jewish link to this most central of all Jewish holy sites, to trash a history going back thousands of years, and to claim the Mount and the Wall as Islamictes.
Islam believes that it is eternal and had therefore preceded the other two monotheistic religions: Judaism and Christianity. Even though Islam only came into the global scene through the Prophet Muhammad in the seventh century AD, but was entitled to elbow out the two older religions.
Lies by UNESCO to rewrite history, erasing all traces of Judaism and Christianity to favor a jihadist Islamic fancy, were already under way in 2015. UNESCO fraudulently renamed two ancient Biblical Jewish sites, Rachel's Tomb and the Cave of the Patriarchs Islamic sites. This was just, however, one example of how both the Islamic world, represented through the Saudi-funded Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)—the self-proclaimed voice for the Muslim world, which included 57 states, including Turkey and Palestine—has been able use the UN to employ one of its primary objectives, that of coercing Western nations to criminalize Islamophobia: to penalize any criticism, negative stereotyping, or deprecation, even if true, of Islam or the sharia. One may ask, is this the role of the United Nations?
The United Nations was historically created in reaction to World War II and the atrocities committed during the conflict so that such holistic events would not be repeated in the future. Yet from its inception the UN has sought to create a one world government at the cost of national sovereignty, human rights, especially in light that it has promoted selective human breeding through eugenics, birth control, and abortion. One of the earliest pioneers of UN global government was UNESCO's first-ever Director-General, Sir Julian Huxley, a well-known proponent of eugenics. In his UNESCO: Its Purpose and Its Philosophy (1946), he states:
"The moral task of Unesco [sic] is clear. The task is laid upon it promoting peace and security can never be wholly realised through the means assigned to it — education, science and culture. It must envisage some form of world political unity, whether through a single world government or otherwise, as the only means for avoiding war. [UNESCO] can do a great deal to lay the foundations on which world political unity can later be built." This was actively pursued by then-President George H. Bush when he proclaimed on September 11, 1991: "a New World Order." This new order was to be governed the UN elites and their associations, such as the International Monetary Fund, which like the UN, was fostered into existence by Soviet agents Alger Hiss and Harry Dexter White. Not being able to fully achieve this, Muslims are now successfully filling in the void.
Their first global step to achieve a new world order under the sharia occurred in 1990 when the OIC declared in the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam (CDHRI):
"Allah … gave humanity a universal and well-balanced civilization, in which harmony [under the Islamic Sharia] is established between hereunder and the hereafter, knowledge is combined with faith, and to fulfill the expectations from this community to guide all humanity, with is confused because of different and conflicting beliefs and ideologies and to provide solutions for all chronic problems of this materialistic civilization." In spite of this self-evident contradiction between the CDHRI and the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights published the CDHRI in December 1997, thereby seeming to give it a certain authority within the United Nations. And, sure enough, the it then became a quotable source at the United Nations.
A salient example of the OIC's success occurred in March 2011 when the UN Rights Council passed Resolution 16/18, which called on all countries to combat "intolerance, negative stereotyping, and stigmatization of religious belief," but stopped short of mandating criminal penalties, even though it did recognize the Muslim Brotherhood invented the concept of Islamophobia. With the backing of President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, OIC-sponsored Resolution 66/167 quietly passed the 193-member UN General Assembly on December 19, 2011. This was widely viewed a watershed toward making defamation of Islam and Islamophobia recognized legal concepts that could be criminalized, thereby giving Muslim elites more global clout.
Whether they are so-called extremists or benevolent organizations, a universal crusade on the part of Muslims to defend and impose their cultural and political identity is at hand — all one has to do is see lawmakers, such as Ilhan Omar going unchecked. This has been advanced by the Rothschilds, who control the main stream media, and their chief puppeteer, George Soros, who spends his time planting agitators in governments and manipulating animosity between Russia, the US, and Europe. They have teamed up with their fellow fascist, the ideology of Islam, to assist in destroying sovereignty. And with a capitulation of church and state leaders, it is now wonder Muslims have gotten a foothold in our society. Yes, Islamists have more than enough ammunition to establish an Islamic world order, but at the same time there is still something that can be done to stop their prevalence.
N.B. This article was originally published on May 28, 2019 on my blog:
https://thegreatarchitect.blog.
Mario Alexis Portella is author of Islam: Religion of Peace? – The Violation of Natural Rights and Western Cover-Up
Book is available on Amazon:
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https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/islam-mario-alexis-portella/1129630361?ean=9781973635550
WestBow Press:
https://www.westbowpress.com/Bookstore/BookDetail.aspx?BookId=SKU-001168034
Terry Gain says:
ECAW
Opposing a fascist atheist who is of Jewish heritage does not make one anti-Semitic, no more than disagreeing with my opinions makes one anti-Catholic. Smarten up.
The top main essay reveals that "the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 2015 had planned to vote on the historical status of Jerusalem's Temple Mount and its associated Western Wall. According to Denis MacEoin, UNESCO's plan was to deny any Jewish link to this most central of all Jewish holy sites, to trash a history going back thousands of years, and to claim the Mount and the Wall as Islamictes."
So the more fool are they of UNESCO, because the God had given all land that now composes the State of Israel, including all of the Golan Heights and the West Bank , to the Jewish people. This may be found in the Bible, as seen in, for example, Genesis 28:13-15. 35:10-12. Deuteronomy 32:48,49. Psalm 105:7-11. 135:4. In other words the Jews have all this land by Divine Right.
Furthermore, the Jewish people should have this land by historic rights as shown in First Kings 4:20,21, 24,25. 8:55, 56.
Still, in all fairness, there is one way for the members .of UNESCO to convince God to change His Mind about being so much for Israel and then cause Him to turn His back on Israel and then have that nation be no more. That way is for the them to gather together and then change the laws of astrophysics, including those laws of astrophysics the control the sun, the moon and the stars. For God had declared in His Word, the Bible, in Jeremiah 31:35,36. "Thus saith the Lord, Who gives the sun for a light by day and the ordinances of the moon and stars for a light by night…The Lord of host is His name. If those ordinances depart from before Me, saith the Lord, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before Me forever."
This above article reveals to the reader that "With the backing of President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, OIC-sponsored Resolution 66/167 quietly passed the 193-member UN General Assembly on December 19, 2011. This was widely viewed a watershed toward making defamation of Islam and Islamophobia recognized legal concepts that could be criminalized, thereby giving Muslim elites more global clout."
This shows some things about Obama .That he was very busy to do a much harm as possible in the short time he had before he left Office. This also exposes the falseness on his claim that he is "a Christian." For a real Christian would take seriously the teaching of Jesus. By Obama backing the UN resolution Obama Obviously doesn't care what Jesus taught . For Jesus taught "If a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand." Mark 3:24. {K.J.V.]
In addition , to risk sounding really far –out it had been reported that Obama's national security advisor , James Jones, had declared the President Obama in the year 2009 had religious experience in the White House Office in the Obama believed that God appeared to him in a vision and told him the he should work for the dividing of the land of Israel into "two states." [1] if this report of a supernatural experience of Obama actually occurred then the Bible contains the answer to this story . For the Bible teaches that Satan is so very deceitful that he can "appear as an angle of Light" Second Corinthians 11:14 . Furthermore, to divide is showing that Obama ,who is for sure not the Anti-Christ is Nevertheless influenced by the spirit of the coming Anti-Christ who is predicted, in the Bible ,to come in the future. So to divide the land that composes Israel according to the Bible is wrong . So wrong ,in fact , when the real arch – villain who is will be the Anti Christs comes to power in the Middle East he "shall divide the land" Daniel 11:39. As for Obama is the reported religious vision he had in which supernatural being told him to "divide the land " that this instruction is in contradiction to the Bible in Daniel 11 39. It's thus in the light of Isaiah 8:20. An instruction in error, folly and darkness. Shame on Obama for wanting to "divide the land" and likewise being taken in by a deceptive religious experience.
[1] THE TERRORIST NEXT DOOR by Erick Stakelbeack pages 218. 219.
"…This has been advanced by the Rothschilds, who control the main stream media, and their chief puppeteer, George Soros, who spends his time planting agitators in governments and manipulating animosity between Russia, the US, and Europe."
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Is there some detailed evidence to back this up or is it what it looks like, anti-Semitic conspiracy theorising?


← Contact With Gary Schoener and the WICC?
(Fox 9) It's called the "Minnesota Transparency Initiative." This month, in the interest of transparency, Saint John's Abbey released thousands of pages of documents tied to monks "credibly accused of sexual abuse of minors" decades ago. However, some of the victims tell Fox 9 the release went too far — exposing private information about survivors.
Names of survivors were not released, and were redacted. However, one survivor, Louise (last name withheld), pointed Fox 9 to information she believes is personal and identifying that was posted online. Another survivor pointed to a deposition posted online.
In Louise's case, documents included copies of e-mails sent from a psychologist to the head of the Abbey detailing information about Louise's family, medication, and health diagnoses.
Louise said she was outraged not only because personal information was posted, but also because she believed the information was confidential. A letter sent from the head of the Abbey, Abbot John Klassen, offered victims the use of a free outside counseling service that was "confidential, and independent of Saint John's." But Louise says comments she shared during the counseling sessions were e-mailed to Klassen, and posted online. The documents have since been removed, but Fox 9 was able to verify the posting of e-mails from a psychologist.
"I took them at their word, and I feel that I was lied to. And they try to use the weapon of shame against me, and I refuse to be shamed," said Louise.
Louise has filed a police report with the Stearns County Sheriff.
"The harm is that it's a strategic move, it looks like to me, to threaten survivors, and [the Abbot] does it hypocritically in the name transparency," Louise told Fox 9.


With my Droid Razr Maxx connected to my laptop/Windows 7 via USB, I try to sign in to MotoCast for the first time after installation and get the error: "The MotoCast service indicated your request was unauthorized. Check to make sure the MotoCast service is working." The Motorola Device Manager Service is running on the laptop.
Moved to MotoCast community for better support.
I am not a Motorola/Lenovo Employee. I am just a volunteer who happens to be a Moderator. All comments are my own and are not necessarily Motorola/Lenovo's position.
This is not a subscription. It is a Droid app that links to a PC running MotoCast via USB or wifi to transfer files.


text:
// =======        test example     ============================================
//
//     Copyright (c) Marvell Corporation 2000-2009  -  All rights reserved
//
//  This computer program contains confidential and proprietary information,
//  and  may NOT  be reproduced or transmitted, in whole or in part,  in any
//  form,  or by any means electronic, mechanical, photo-optical, or  other-
//  wise, and  may NOT  be translated  into  another  language  without  the
//  express written permission from Marvell Corporation.
//
// ============================================================================
// =      C O M P A N Y      P R O P R I E T A R Y      M A T E R I A L       =
// ============================================================================
#ifndef     _MHOST_H_INC
  #define   _MHOST_H_INC

#include "mGLOBALS.h"
#include "mREGS.h"
#include "mParams.h"
#include "mErrors.h"

#include "mHBI.h"

#ifdef      EXTERN
  #undef    EXTERN
#endif

#ifdef      INSTANTIATE_MHOST
  #define   EXTERN
#else
  #define   EXTERN extern
#endif

/*----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Public data structure definitions and defines
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
typedef enum { mMASTER_ONLY,mMASTER_WITH_SLAVE_PRESENT,mSLAVE }mtHOST_MASTER_SLAVE_MODE;

#define mDEV_IS_MASTER      0
#define mDEV_IS_SLAVE       1

  #define mMAX_FIS_SIZE_SECTOR_NUM          0x10
  #define mONE_SECTOR_FIS_SIZE   0x80
  #define mMAX_FIS_SIZE          0x800
  #define mLONG_FIS_SIZE         0xA4  // all in 10-bit symbols: (410 data + 2*(48 ECC symbols + 2 HRLL symbols + 4 CRC symbols + 1 AECC))*10/8/4 and aligned at word(4byte) boundary.
  #define mLONG_HOST_SIZE        0x148 // # of hwords = 2*mLONG_FIS_SIZE
  #define mLONG_HOST_SIZE_REG4L  0x290 // # of bytes = 4*mLONG_FIS_SIZE

#define mNORMAL_HOST_SIZE      0x100

typedef struct
{
    // 28-bit address: Feature (na), Sector Count (7:0), lba_low (lba[7:0]),lba_mid (lba[15:8])
    //         lba High (lba[23:16]), Device Register (lba[27:24])
    // 48-bit address: Features (na), Sector Count (2 bytes), lba_low, lba_mid, lba_high are all have 2 bytes
    //         DrvHd (bit 7 and 5 are obsolete, LBA bit shall be set to one, the DEV bit shall indicate the selected device,
    //         bits [3:0] are reserved).
    // Rearranged the order of the data members in this structure to avoid padding bytes. JSB.
    mUINT_16   secCnt;          // 2 bytes
    mUINT_16   features;        // 2 bytes
    mUINT_8    secNum;          // 1 byte  - lba_low (lba[7:0]) or Sector Number in CHS mode
    mUINT_8    cylLo;           // 1 byte  - lba_mid (lba[15:8])
    mUINT_8    cylHi;           // 1 byte  - lba_hi  (lba[23:16])
    mUINT_8    drvHd;           // 1 byte  - in 28 bit mode only: lba [27:24] for lower 4 bits, bit 4 and 5 are not defined, bit 14 (1:lba mode, 0:CHS mode - set by host)
                                //         - in 48 bit mode: bit 6 is used for LBA bit, bit 7 is used for FUA
    mUINT_8    command;         // 1 byte
    mUINT_8    PrevSecNum;      // For 48 bit: lba[31:24]
    mUINT_8    PrevCylLo;       // For 48 bit: lba[39:32]
    mUINT_8    PrevCylHi;       // For 48-bit: lba[47:40]
} mtCDB;

typedef struct
{
    union
    {
        mUINT_16 all;
        struct
        {
            mUINT_16 autoFdmaActivated      : 1;  // first DMA activate disabled
            mUINT_16 reserved               : 15; // reserved
        } bits;
    } sataMode;
} mtHostStatus;

/*----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Public Data (other modules can use these vars by including this .h file:
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
EXTERN mtHostStatus mHostStatus;

/*----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Public Function Prototypes (other modules can use these functions by
 including this .h file):
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
EXTERN void             mHostSetAtStatus(mINT_16 status);
EXTERN void             mHostClrAtStatus(mINT_16 status);
EXTERN void             mHostSetAtError(mINT_16 error);
EXTERN void             mHostGetCDB(mtCDB *pmtCDB);
EXTERN void             mHostGetCDBfromQram(mtCDB *pmtCDB,mUINT_16 slotNum);
EXTERN void             mHostGetCDBfromStagingTF(mtCDB *pmtCDB);
EXTERN INLINE mUINT_8 mHostGetCmdOpcodeFromStagingTF(void);
EXTERN void             mHostInitRelease (mINT_NATIVE cachedSectors, mINT_NATIVE hostSectors,mUINT_NATIVE writeDir);
EXTERN void             mHostSetupForDataXfer(mINT_NATIVE sectors, mtBOOLEAN writeOp, mtBOOLEAN autoStatusForWrite);
EXTERN void             mHostContinueRelease ( mUINT_NATIVE hostSectors,mUINT_NATIVE writeDir);
EXTERN void             mHostInitParams(mtPARAM_HBI_PAGE *pmParamPage, mtHOST_MASTER_SLAVE_MODE masterSlaveMode);

EXTERN mUINT_8          mHostGetAtStatus(void);
EXTERN mUINT_8          mHostGetAtCmd(void);

EXTERN INLINE void      mHostReset(void);
EXTERN INLINE void      mHostDMAen(void);
EXTERN INLINE void      mHostStopXfer(void);
EXTERN INLINE void      mHostStartXfer(void);
EXTERN INLINE mtBOOLEAN mHostIsReadXferActive(void);
EXTERN INLINE void      mHostSetHdPerCyl(mUINT_8 val);
EXTERN INLINE void      mHostSetSecPerTrk(mUINT_8 val);
EXTERN INLINE void      mHostSetAutoReadCntl(mUINT_16 val);
EXTERN INLINE mUINT_16  mHostGetAutoReadCntl(void);
EXTERN INLINE void      mHostSetAutoWriteCntl(mUINT_16 val);
EXTERN INLINE void      mHostSetDir(mUINT_16 dir);
EXTERN INLINE void      mHostIntrSrcInit(mUINT_16 intr);
EXTERN INLINE void      mHostIntrSrcEn(mUINT_16 intr);
EXTERN INLINE void      mHostIntrSrcDis(mUINT_16 intr);
EXTERN INLINE void      mHostClrIntrStatus(mUINT_16 bits);
EXTERN INLINE void      mHostSetConfgCntrl(mUINT_16 bits);
EXTERN INLINE void      mHostSetBitAtMode(mUINT_16 bits);
EXTERN INLINE void      mHostClrBitAtMode(mUINT_16 bits);
EXTERN INLINE void      mHostInitAtStatus(mINT_16 status);
EXTERN INLINE void      mHostSetMultipleBlkSize(mINT_16 sectorsPerBlk);
EXTERN INLINE void      mHostSetDeviceNumber(mtBOOLEAN slaveOrMaster);
EXTERN INLINE void      mHostSetDeviceNumber(mtBOOLEAN slaveOrMaster);
EXTERN INLINE void      mHostSetTaskFileReg(mtATA_TASK_FILE_REGS AtReg, mUINT_8 value);
EXTERN INLINE void      mHostIordyEn(void);
EXTERN INLINE void      mHostIordyDis(void);
EXTERN INLINE void      mHostSetSeqRdLbaMode(void);
EXTERN INLINE mUINT_8   mHostGetTaskFileReg(mtATA_TASK_FILE_REGS AtReg);
EXTERN INLINE mUINT_8   mHostUseDefaultCfgSrc (void);
EXTERN INLINE mUINT_16  mHostGetIntrDisable(void);
EXTERN INLINE mUINT_16  mHostGetResetStatus(void);
EXTERN INLINE mUINT_16  mHostGetAtMode(void);
EXTERN INLINE mUINT_16  mHostGetAutoWriteCntl(void);
EXTERN INLINE mUINT_16  mHostGgetConfgCntrl(void);
EXTERN INLINE mUINT_16  mHostGetMultipleBlkSize(void);
EXTERN INLINE mUINT_16  mHostGetIntrStatus(void);
EXTERN INLINE mUINT_16  mHostGetConfgCntrl(void);
EXTERN INLINE mtBOOLEAN mHostTransferActiveChk (void);
EXTERN INLINE void    mHostSetBlkXferCnt(mUINT_16 numberOfSectors);
EXTERN INLINE void    mHostSet48BitReg(mLBA_48_BIT_REGS reg, mUINT_16 val);
EXTERN INLINE void    mHostSetSeqWrLbaMode(void);
EXTERN INLINE void    mHostQintrSrcInit(mUINT_16 intr);
EXTERN INLINE void    mHostQintrSrcEn(mUINT_16 intr);
EXTERN INLINE void    mHostQintrSrcDis(mUINT_16 intr);
EXTERN INLINE void    mHostSetFISsize(mUINT_16 val);
EXTERN INLINE mUINT_16    mHostGetFisSize(void);
EXTERN INLINE void    mHostSetMultipleFisSize(mUINT_16 val);
EXTERN INLINE mUINT_16    mHostGetMultipleFisSize(void);
EXTERN INLINE void    mHostClrTMflowIntrStatus (mUINT_16 val);
EXTERN INLINE void    mHostClrEsataErrIntrStatus (mUINT_16 val);
EXTERN INLINE void    mHostSetTMflowIntrSrc(mUINT_16 val);
EXTERN INLINE void    mHostSetTMfifoThreshold(mUINT_16 val);
EXTERN INLINE void    mHostClrHBIreset(void);
EXTERN INLINE void    mHostSetEsataErrIntrSrc(mUINT_16 val);
EXTERN INLINE void    mHostSetESATAconfig(mUINT_16 bits);
EXTERN INLINE void    mHostClrBitESATAconfig(mUINT_16 bits);
EXTERN INLINE void    mHostInitPhyTunningControl(mUINT_16 val);
EXTERN INLINE void    mHostSetBufferSegSel(mUINT_16 val);
EXTERN INLINE void    mHostInitQoperation(void);
EXTERN INLINE void    mHostSetTMforceRerr(void);
EXTERN void           mHostSetAltAtError(mUINT_16 error);
EXTERN void           mHostInitTMparams(mtPARAM_HBI_PAGE *pmParamPage);
EXTERN void           mHostSetAltAtStatus(mUINT_16 status);
EXTERN void           mHostManualFISxfer(mUINT_NATIVE writeDir);
EXTERN void           mHostRxBIST(void);
EXTERN mtERROR        mHostBISTDriveInitiator(void);
EXTERN mtERROR        mHostBISTG2HFTP(void);
EXTERN mtERROR        mHostBISTG2MFTP(void);
EXTERN mtERROR        mHostBISTG2LFTP(void);
EXTERN mtERROR        mHostBISTG2SSOP(void);
EXTERN mtERROR        mHostBISTG2_5120COMP(void);
EXTERN mtERROR        mHostBISTG2_81920COMP(void);
EXTERN mtERROR        mHostBISTG2PRBS_7(void);
EXTERN mtERROR        mHostBISTG2LongBit(void);
EXTERN mtERROR        mHostBISTG1HFTP(void);
EXTERN mtERROR        mHostBISTG1PRBS_7(void);
EXTERN mtERROR        mHostBISTG1MFTP(void);
EXTERN mtERROR        mHostBISTG1LongBit(void);
EXTERN mtERROR        mHostBISTG1LFTP(void);
EXTERN mtERROR        mHostBISTG1SSOP(void);
EXTERN mtERROR        mHostBISTG1_5120COMP(void);
EXTERN mtERROR        mHostBISTG1_81920COMP(void);
EXTERN mUINT_16       mHostGetAltAtStatus(void);
EXTERN INLINE mUINT_16    mHostGetRxFISType(void);
EXTERN INLINE mUINT_16    mHostGetTxFISType(void);
EXTERN INLINE mUINT_16    mHostGetRxFisTypeErrLog(void);
EXTERN INLINE mUINT_16    mHostGetTxFisTypeErrLog(void);
EXTERN INLINE mUINT_16    mHostGetTMflowIntrStatus (void);
EXTERN INLINE mUINT_16    mHostGetQcmdIntrSrc(void);
EXTERN INLINE mUINT_16    mHostGetEsataErrIntrSrc(void);
EXTERN INLINE mUINT_16    mHostGetTMflowIntrSrc (void);
EXTERN INLINE mUINT_16    mHostGetTMflowStatus(void);
EXTERN mUINT_32           mHostGetQslotBsy(void);
EXTERN INLINE void    mHostSetWrSeqConfig(mUINT_16 val);
//EXTERN INLINE void mHostClrTmStatusHi           (mUINT_16 val);
EXTERN INLINE mtBOOLEAN mHostGetFdmaActivated(void);
EXTERN INLINE void mHostSetFdmaActivateDis      (mtBOOLEAN val);
EXTERN INLINE void mHostSetBitAutoStatusConfg   (mUINT_16 val);
EXTERN INLINE void mHostSetBitAceConfg1         (mUINT_16 val);
EXTERN INLINE void mHostSetBitAceConfg2         (mUINT_16 val);
EXTERN INLINE void mHostSetBitOverrideCntl      (mUINT_16 val);
EXTERN INLINE void mHostSetCxsbFwReqEoc         (void);
EXTERN INLINE void mHostSetCxsbFwReqNonQDataXfer    (mUINT_16 secCnt, mUINT_16 bSeg, mtBOOLEAN writeOp, mtBOOLEAN autoStatusForWrite);
EXTERN INLINE void mHostSetCxsbFwReqQcmdDataXfer (mUINT_16 secCnt, mUINT_16 bSeg, mtBOOLEAN writeOp, mUINT_16 qSlot, mtBOOLEAN autoStatusForWrite);
EXTERN INLINE void mHostResetCmdxh              (void);
EXTERN INLINE void mHostResetCrsb               (void);
EXTERN INLINE void mHostSetBitMsgLogConfg       (mUINT_16 val);
EXTERN INLINE void mHostSetMsgLogCntl           (mUINT_16 val);
EXTERN INLINE void mHostSetBitMsgLogCntl        (mUINT_16 bits);
EXTERN INLINE void mHostSetBitCxsbCntl          (mUINT_16 bits);
EXTERN INLINE void mHostClrBitCxsbCntl          (mUINT_16 bits);
EXTERN INLINE void mHostSetCrsbCntl             (mUINT_16 val);
EXTERN INLINE mUINT_16 mHostGetCxsbCntl         (void);
EXTERN INLINE mtBOOLEAN mHostIsNonQcmd          (void);
EXTERN INLINE void mHostCrsbCmdResume           (mUINT_16 val);
EXTERN INLINE void mHostSetFwStatus             (mUINT_8 val);
EXTERN INLINE void mHostSetFwError              (mUINT_8 val);
EXTERN INLINE mUINT_16  mHostGetBmSectorsXfer(void);
EXTERN INLINE mUINT_8     mHostGetFwStatus      (void);
EXTERN INLINE mUINT_8     mHostGetFwError       (void);
EXTERN INLINE void mHostSetBitMiscStatus        (mUINT_16 val);
EXTERN INLINE void mHostClrBitMiscStatus        (mUINT_16 val);
EXTERN INLINE void mHostSendFwStatus            (mUINT_8 status);
EXTERN INLINE void mHostSetBitATdevConfgCntrl   (mUINT_16 bits);
EXTERN INLINE void mHostClrBitATdevConfgCntrl   (mUINT_16 bits);
EXTERN INLINE void mHostsetCxsbFwReqSDBFisSend  (mUINT_16 qSlot);
EXTERN INLINE void mHostResetFlowCntl (void);
EXTERN INLINE void mHostsetCxsbFwReqSDBAggregatedFisSend (void);
EXTERN INLINE mUINT_16 mHostGetESATAflowPwrRstCntl(void);

//Add from HostSATA.c
EXTERN void mToggleTxFlowReset(void);
EXTERN void mToggleLinkSMReset(void);
EXTERN void mToggleCmdExeReset(void);
EXTERN void mToggleCxsbReset(void);
EXTERN void mToggleNcqPhaseReset(void);
EXTERN void mToggleRxTxFlowReset(void);

  #define mHostGetAtCmd()             mHBIgetAtCmd()
  #define mHostSetSectorCount(val)      mHBIsetSectorCount((val))
  #define mHostSetUserFISword0L(val)    mHBIsetUserFISword0L((val))
  #define mHostSetUserFISword0H(val)    mHBIsetUserFISword0H((val))
  #define mHostSetUserFISword1L(val)    mHBIsetUserFISword1L((val))
  #define mHostSetUserFISword1H(val)    mHBIsetUserFISword1H((val))
  #define mHostSetUserFISword2L(val)    mHBIsetUserFISword2L((val))
  #define mHostSetUserFISword2H(val)    mHBIsetUserFISword2H((val))
  #define mHostSetUserFISword3L(val)    mHBIsetUserFISword3L((val))
  #define mHostSetUserFISword3H(val)    mHBIsetUserFISword3H((val))
  #define mHostSetUserFISword4L(val)    mHBIsetUserFISword4L((val))
  #define mHostSetUserFISword4H(val)    mHBIsetUserFISword4H((val))
  #define mHostSetManualFlowControl(val)    mHBIsetManualFlowControl((val))
  #define mHostSetSectorNum(val)        mHBIsetSectorNum(val)
  #define mHostGetSectorNum()           mHBIGetSectorNum()
  #define mHostGetEsataErrIntStatus()   mHBIgetEsataErrIntStatus()
  #define mHostGetUserFISword1L()       mHBIGetUserFISword1L()
  #define mHostGetESATAConfig()         mHBIGetESATAConfig()

  #define mHostGetQCmdControl()         mHBIgetQCmdControl()
  #define mHostSetQcmdCntl(val)         mHBIsetQcmdCntl((val))
  #define mHostClrQcmdCntl(val)         mHBIclrQcmdCntrl((val))
  #define mHostClrQcmdIntr(val)         mHBIclrQcmdIntr((val))
  #define mHostGetQcmdIntrStatus()      mHBIgetQcmdIntrStatus()
  #define mHostClrTmStatusHi(val)     mHBIclrTmStatusHi(val)
  #define mHostGetBlkXferCnt()          mHBIgetBlkXferCnt()

//  #if (mNCQ_OP == mENABLE)
    #define mHostGetCmdTagId()          mHBIgetCmdTagId()
    #define mHostClrTmStatusLow(val)    mHBIclrTmStatusLow(val)
    #define mHostClrTmStatusHi(val)     mHBIclrTmStatusHi(val)
    #define mHostGetTmStatusLow()       mHBIgetTmStatusLow()
    #define mHostGetTmStatusHi()        mHBIgetTmStatusHi()
    #define mHostGetXMLOGSBCnt()        mHBIgetXMLOGSBCnt()
    #define mHostClrXMLOGSBCnt()        mHBIclrXMLOGSBCnt()
    #define mHostGetXMLOGSBData()       mHBIgetXMLOGSBData()
    #define mHostSetQcmdAbort()         mHBIsetQcmdAbort()
    #define mHostEnableQCmd()           {                                                                                \
                                          mHostClrQcmdCntl(m_tHBI_QCMDCNTRL_bits_qAutoRelDis);                              \
                                          mHostSetQcmdCntl(m_tHBI_QCMDCNTRL_bits_qAutoStatEn|m_tHBI_QCMDCNTRL_bits_qCmdEn); \
                                        }

    #define mHostSetATdevCongCntl()       mHBIsetBitATdevConfgCntrl (mUINT_16 bits)
//  #endif // (NCQ_OP == mENABLE)
  #define mHostGetLastQslot()           mHBIgetLastQslot()
  #define mHostGetQhead()               mHBIgetQhead()
  #define mHostSetQhead(val)            mHBIsetQhead((val))
  #define mHostGetLBAfromQslot(val)     mHBIgetLBAfromQslot((val))
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German propaganda posters #3
German propaganda posters 3: 22 posterr & 4 photos. Waterproof inks
by: Bill Cross [ BILL_C ]
Armorama
"Propaganda" is a dirty word.
However, in China, all of the media is under the direction of the Propaganda Department of the Communist Party. Yet all countries attempt to control the flow of official information: the United Kingdom's Official Secrets Act, or the efforts in the US to prevent the release of damaging information like the Pentagon Papers or Wiki Leaks. Still, we associate the term "propaganda" with efforts to fool us, usually by less-than-moral governments.
Joseph Goebbels, head of the aptly-named Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda during the Third Reich, once said ": if you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." He then added "the lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State" (the citation comes from Thinkexist.com).
The Nazis were very good at using propaganda to pervert or hide the truth, especially in graphical form like posters. Archer Fine Transfers has been releasing a series of German propaganda posters (along with other areas like their recently-released Italian posters. This third edition covers more of the pre-war Nazi era.
Inside the usual Archer glassine is a sheet of 22 posters and four photos printed in rich inks on high quality real bond paper.
I have a lot of respect for Archer because they don't pull their punches. This set (along with the previous two) will freeze your blood at times. While there is none of the Jew-baiting demagoguery found in set #2 with its posters for that horrid film "The Eternal Jew," the images are no more benign here: matching posters for the Hitler Jugend and the Bund Deutscher Mädel youth groups (the latter was the women's auxillary to the HJ).
The set offers a rich selection of posters, most from the pre-war era, a period usually ignored by other diorama companies. Included are two movie "one sheets," the advertising mechanism of Hollywood around the world (even Hollywood in chains). The first is for the 1933 movie about "SA Man Brand"; the other is for the controversial masterpiece "The Triumph of the Will," Leni Riefenstahl's paean to the 1934 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg. Speaking of which, there are three colorful posters from that Congress, along with one for an exhibition in Berlin of "Aryan" art from 1942.
A pre-war poster shows a young Hitler as God's chosen with a dove appearing above his head as he give's the Hitler salute. It's an incongruous, yet effective melange of Fascist and Christian symbolism, a mixture that helped the Nazis to undermine and even neuter the churches in Germany, despite the heroic resistance of many priests and ministers. A poster for a 1933 book by H. Morgenroth and M. Schmidtwhile Kinder, was wisst ihr vom Führer? ("Children, what do you know about the Fuehrer?") is positively creepy: its illustration shows a fatherly Hitler putting his hands on the shoulders of a young boy, appearing to "glamor" him like a vampire on the TV series "True Blood."
The war years are not overlooked, with later posters showing the need to buck up morale as things turned ugly for Germany. "Der Sieg wird unser sein" (Victory will be ours) is likely 1942-3, while another poster simply affirms "Our Luftwaffe." Goering had promised the German people that bombs would never fall on Germany. And while the earlier Archer sets seem to be specifically German, there are several posters in Dutch that would be appropriate for a Market-Garden diorama, for example.
And always the portraits of Hitler.
They were, of course, ubiquitous across the Reich. This set has four large ones, with four smaller, photo-sized portraits for an office wall or other public interior space.
The quality of the printing is, as usual from Archer, outstanding. The colors are perfect to scale - one problem with making your own posters off the Internet is the colors are usually too lush and even garish and over-saturated. Shrinking those images down to 1/35th scale will make them look like a psychedelic black light poster from the 60s. These images look real because the colors are more muted as they would be if shrunk down from 1:1. The waterproof inks mean you can soak these images in water, and then plaster them on a rough surface with white glue - just like a real poster.
Posters were a staple of the Nazi penchant for gaudy public display, and the flaunting of their colorfully macabre symbols. I'm glad to see Archer giving us more reasons to incorporate posters into our builds. The emphasis on pre-war ones fills a gap, though you might want to look at the two previous releases if you're set on a Battle of Berlin diorama. Pasting an "SA Mann Brand" poster on the wall won't work unless you weather the hell out of it.
Thanks to Archer Fine Transfers for providing this review sample. Be sure to mention you saw this set reviewed on Armorama when ordering.
Highs: Beautifully-printed in rich color. Easy to adapt to almost any diorama.
Lows: The emphasis on the early years of the Third Reich may make the set less valuable for those doing battle dioramas or wanting only WW2-era posters.
Verdict: Highly recommended. The three sets of German posters cover much of the propaganda art from the Third Reich, and will improve any diorama set in occupied Europe or Germany.
Mfg. ID: AR35369
Suggested Retail: $6.95
Our Thanks to Archer Fine Transfers!
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About Bill Cross (bill_c)
FROM: NEW JERSEY, UNITED STATES
Self-proclaimed rivet counter who gleefully builds tanks, planes and has three subs in the stash.
Copyright ©2020 text by Bill Cross [ BILL_C ]. All rights reserved.
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As destination wedding photographers, we have the chance to see and photograph a variety of places, and this lovely wedding at Riverside Farm in Vermont was truly one of the most beautiful. Having spent the weekend before in Jamaica, the cool Vermont air seemed especially crisp, and the smell of evergreens warmly welcomed us. We had the pleasure of meeting Lizzie and Jed in NYC where they live while we were there for a few engagement shoots last May and immediately felt like friends, chatting over coffee and learning more about what made these two so great. The wedding itself was a photographer's dream, with stunning landscapes and the soft northern sunlight, but the love in the air is what really made it worthwhile. At the rehearsal dinner we gained new understanding and appreciation of Lizzie and Jed, and the clear and positive impact they had on so many others' lives, and the wedding was no different. With a circle of close friends and loving families standing at their sides, Lizzie and Jed exchanged personal and meaningful vows, and enjoyed a reception dinner with the coziness of Thanksgiving crossed with the dance party of the century. Simply put, it was a night to remember.


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Death may be a rather outré topic to shore up this lapsed blog, but I promise not to dampen your spirits. Some would wax solemnly philosophical to bravely confront the frightening specter of death. Not so my late father. Guided by pragmatism and wit, Dad was wont to allaying the fear of death by regularly asserting deadpan that death is a perfect opportunity for a big blowout. No joke, my father was divinely bestowed with just the right mix of dark humor and foresight to request and then correctly predict that his own funeral actually be a party since "it's hard enough in life to get everyone together." And so, I present you with a light-hearted anecdote about my recent comical encounter with the Málach Hamávis (the endearing Yiddish term for Angel of Death).
Last week, while indolently milling about the house pre-coffee, I received a call from an unknown number in Israel. I pressed mute to allow myself time to industriously procrastinate further. But the caller was obstinate, and I intrigued, so I yielded. It was Avraham from the Israeli Ministry of Justice, Administrator General and Official Receiver, Department for the Location of Property Owners and Transfer of Unclaimed Assets to the State, whose soporific voice made it sound like I should not have been at all surprised to be receiving a wake-up call from the Israeli Ministry of Justice, Administrator General and Official Receiver, Department for the Location of Property Owners and Transfer of Unclaimed Assets to the State on my cell phone in Brazil. His monotone recitation of quite possibly the longest job title in existence seemed proof enough that this was no prank call. As fortune would have it, Avraham explained, property in Israel was long ago bequeathed to one Yankel Machonbaum, who may or may not have been my paternal great grandfather, b. 1884, d. 1960, and to which all living heirs, yours included, may now have claim.
Suddenly perfectly alert, I walked Avraham painstakingly through the knotty family tree, which I had meticulously drawn up but a year earlier because – oh the irony! – a childless great uncle Abe had died with a will scrawled on a paper napkin that had never been probated. The lawyer I retained to dig through the red tape on I've-Never-Met-You-Uncle Abe, unfortunately for me, did find legal standing to probate a paper-napkin will (translation: no lucky lottery win for me), but, by some twist of fate, I now found myself once again entertaining the possibility that I stood to draw the lucky inheritance card from a real-life version of Monopoly. How's that for a good party, Dad?
While Avraham droned on (and stressed more than once how unlikely it is that I am heir to Yankel's gelt), I found myself thinking how completely ironic it would be to make money (dare I say, make a killing?) off two people I had never met and who certainly had no intention of granting me, my father or any living relative so much as a penny. And from there, I asked myself what moral could possibly be drawn from this spiel. Is this a wake-up call to get my affairs in order before Death comes knocking? Maybe this is all happening to ensure I don't inadvertently become someone else's Great Grandpa Yankel and let random people benefit from lethal loopholes. Could it be a ghostly message from my father to make my funeral party wishes known in life so surviving family members can make the most of a typically dour situation? Maybe this is just some guilt-inducing sign to finally sit down and fill in all the missing information on ancestry.com.
And then it dawned on me. The prospects of becoming filthy rich were offering me a whole morning of heady amusement. Jauntily though I may have walked off after hanging up with Avraham, I was keenly aware that the thrill of an unexpected financial windfall drew on elaborately imagining my newfound life as a multi-millionaire and not on any likelihood of such a vision materializing. I thanked the deceased for giving me a laugh and prompting me to let my creativity have a good run. And then, none the richer and all the richer, proceeded to go about my day.


The Singapore Tourism Board (STB) has launched an open Request for Proposal (RFP) for a global media planning and buying agency. The incumbent media agency MEC's contract will be ending in March 2017.
The selected media agency will be appointed for an initial period of two years, with an option to extend the contract annually for up to two additional years, subject to performance. Independent consultant, The Observatory International, will be assisting STB on the pitch.
"As we enter into a new phase of destination marketing for Singapore, it is crucial for STB to shape our media strategy to one that is innovative, agile and impactful, leveraging real-time and data-driven marketing across our global markets. We look forward to a dynamic client-agency partnership to succeed together in this evolving global media environment," said Lynette Pang, assistant chief executive, STB in a statement given to Marketing.
In April this year, the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) unveiled a "medium-term marketing strategy". According to a statement from STB, this is to rally the industry in tackling the increasingly complex tourism landscape. Grounded in insights and research, the marketing strategy was developed through in-depth study, analysis and consultation with local and international experts and industry players across the fields of marketing and travel.
Meanwhile, at the start of the year, the tourism body picked a TBWA as its creative and digital partner.
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The Pachycephalosaurus is both a funny dinosaur and an interesting one because of the unique appearance of its skull and the way it had to use it. The solidly built dome-shaped cranium of this dinosaur was surrounded by bony protuberances and had a thick bump of nearly ten inches that could inflict some serious damage. The shape of its skull is so unique that it was first confused with a kneecap. Taken out of context, the roof of the head of Pachycephalosaurus looks like a patella.
Paleo-artists have traditionally portrayed pachycephalosaurs as beasts rushing headlong into each other like muskoxen in order to demonstrate their dominance within herds and earn the right to mate. This hypothesis seems to be confirmed by computerized tomography performed by paleontologist Joseph Peterson in 2012 that shows several marks of potential injury gathered on the thickest region of the dome. It is also possible that they would give each other head shots in the flanks or in the flanks of predators like tyrannosaurs and raptors. The main argument against this thesis is as follows: two half-ton Pachycephalosaurus bouncing headlong at full speed into one another would have probably knocked each other's light cold out; not a very adaptive behavior on the evolutionary side. Anyway, although pachycephalosaurs were among the last standing dinosaurs just before the Cretaceous meteorite impact, the huge bump on their skulls will not have been enough to save them from extinction.
In order to honor their dragon-like appearance and a certain series of bestselling novels, the name Dracorex hogwartsia was given to a new species of pachycephalosaur discovered in 2006. After hearing the happy news, successful writer JK Rowling declared it the greatest honor ever given to her since the publication of her Harry Potter books. However, according to Dr. John R. Horner, who worked as a dino consultant for the Jurassic Park trilogy, the Dracorex and another similar creature, the Stygimoloch, are actually juvenile Pachycephalosaurus as illustrated by their flatter skulls. It should not be surprising, then, that in the future paleontologists come to withdraw the honor given to the author of the Sorcerer's School.
It should be noted that fossils of Pachycephalosaurus are extremely rare. The best fossil currently known is a very well preserved, complete solitary skull discovered in 1940 in Montana. The only other bones unearthed from this dinosaur are incomplete helmet bumps found in North America at the turn of the 20th century. Since scientists have very little information available, they must rely on the anatomy of close relatives to perform a realistic reconstruction of the animal. It is known, for example, that this superior Cretaceous beast was probably bipedal and one of the largest bone-headed dinosaurs reaching length of about 15 feet.
It is also known that Pachycephalosaurus was a close relative of Triceratops; for this reason ceratopsians and pachycephalosaurids are bundled together inside a group of dinosaur called marginocephalians. These animals both had a bony margin at the back of their skulls. As was the case with Triceratops, the Pachycephalosaurus had to fear the presence of tyrannosaurs in the vicinity since they all lived at the same place and at the same time.
The central part of Pachycephalosaurus head consisted of a very thick bone that formed a protective helmet, shielding the animal's little brain by suppressing shock waves around the impact zone, from the sides of the head to the backbone. The many ossified ligaments that strengthened the skull then had to dissipate the effects of the shock.
But the biggest mystery of Pachycephalosaurus is its diet. It has long been thought that this animal was exclusively herbivorous until recently after the discovery of a new skull with the most complete jaw and dentition to date has initiated new studies. The back part of the jaws of this juvenile pachy is like that of the others: a broad, leaf-shaped dentition well adapted to shred rough vegetable matter, fruits and seeds. But the front part of its jaw – a part that had never been found fossilized before – had sharp triangular teeth like those found in carnivorous theropods such as Tyrannosaurus and Velociraptor. Due to the lack of additional evidence, it is impossible to say with certainty whether this was a feature exclusive to juveniles or whether it was a permanent trait. Speculation is rife that Pachycephalosaurus may have been an opportunist, partially meat-eater, perhaps changing diet with the seasons as modern bears do.
Pachycephalosaurus probably had to be omnivorous and fed on shrubs and ferns as well as small mammals, frogs, salamanders and even perhaps small dinosaurs.
Recent research have also highlighted an interesting point: the style and complexity of the skull's ornamentation of this dinosaur seem to be different depending on the age of the individual but also evolved during the two million years of geology covered by the rocks of the Hell Creek Formation.


In an effort to shed some pounds, many people choose to give up beverages high in sugar for diet varieties that offer similar taste, with far fewer calories. Unfortunately, while these brands may offer a solution to consuming fewer calories a day, they might also increase the risk of dementia and stroke, suggests the findings of a new study. At our Happy Valley dentistry, we also want patients to understand that sodas – whether diet or regular – also pose a threat to your oral, and now apparently overall health.
According to researchers from Boston University School of Medicine, just one artificially sweetened beverage a day seems to increase an individual's risk of dementia and stroke threefold, when compared to those who consume less than one beverage a week.
Despite the data, researchers noted that only a few people involved in the study developed dementia or suffered a stroke, so the absolute risk remains small.
Additionally, "We can't establish cause and effect, but our results suggest that we look more closely at artificially sweetened beverages to see how they are affecting our bodies and what affect they might have on different diseases," wrote lead researcher Matthew Pase, a senior fellow at the university.
Exactly why diet drinks might show a connection to these types of condition is also unknown.
The results of this study is just the latest to find compelling links between our mouths and our bodies. Early research has found that individuals who suffer from poor oral health conditions like tooth decay and gum disease have a significantly higher risk of both stroke and dementia.
Other studies have found that individuals who consume more than one sweetened beverage a day have a higher risk of both tooth decay and gum disease.
Now, researchers have linked soda consumption with both dementia and stroke. Even if a clear link between soda consumption and these diseases cannot be clearly identified, it's obvious that a cyclical effect connects what we put into our bodies, how it impacts our oral health, and how our overall health responds.
Some other studies have found that diet soda is lined with vascular disease, which might have an effect on the brain. Additional research had shown a link between weight gain and artificially sweetened beverages, which might increase dementia and stroke risk, say researchers.
Yet another study found that artificial sweeteners change normally healthy gut bacteria, which might also have a negative impact.
A lifetime of healthy teeth and gums means more than just enjoying a great looking smile. What these studies are showing is that protecting our oral health also means protecting our overall health.
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The American Dental Association recommends spending at least two minutes brushing in the morning and again at night. You also need to floss at least once a day. By practicing these habits, and by scheduling regular exams and cleanings at our Happy Valley dentistry, you can better protect your health now and in the future.


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Fla. Supreme Court justices nearly missed ballot
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) _ Florida Gov. Rick Scott nearly got a chance to replace three veteran state Supreme Court justices.
That's because Justices Fred Lewis, Barbara Pariente and Peggy Quince almost missed the noon Friday deadline in order to qualify for the ballot this year.
The seven-member court abruptly put a court hearing on redistricting on hold for more than an hour in order to allow the justices to finish their paperwork and turn it into state elections officials.
When asked it about on Friday, a court spokesman said that a personal matter had come up unexpectedly.
Dan Stengle, a lawyer working on behalf of the campaigns of the three justices, acknowledged Monday that it was discovered at the last minute that certain forms had not been turned in due to an "oversight'' by the campaign treasurer.
State election records show that the justices turned in their forms with minutes to spare. Pariente's candidate oath form, for example, was filed just six minutes before the deadline.
"It was a little nip and tuck,'' Stengle said. "All's well that ends well.''
In Florida appeals judges and supreme court justices are appointed by the governor.
But instead of running for re-election, they are subject to an up or down or merit retention vote every six years. If the justices had failed to file their paperwork, Scott would have appointed new justices.
Lewis and Pariente were appointed by the late Gov. Lawton Chiles, a Democrat. Chiles and incoming Gov. Jeb Bush agreed to appoint Quince jointly.
The three justices are expected to be the target of a fairly active campaign calling for their defeat since they have taken part in rulings that have been sharply criticized by Republican politicians.
Pariente recently was the lead author of a decision to strike down a state Senate redistricting plan that forced the Legislature to hold a special session to redo the plan.
Back in 2010, the state Supreme Court removed from the ballot three constitutional amendments pushed by the GOP-controlled Legislature including a "health care freedom'' amendment that would make it illegal in Florida to have a health insurance mandate. Legislators in 2011 reworked the amendment and placed it on this year's ballot.
House Speaker Dean Cannon responded to the court decisions by pushing his own overhaul of the state courts that will require future state Supreme Court justices to be confirmed by the state Senate. Voters will vote on Amendment 5 this November.
Scott himself has sharply criticized the high court especially over a ruling that stated Scott went too far when he ordered state agencies to freeze rulemaking and instead allow the governor to review and approve rules first. Legislators passed a bill this year that makes it clear Scott has power over state agency heads who report to him.
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Melanie Brooke starts temping as a secretary to power hungry Margaret Bateman and soon attracts the attentions of company President Tom Henley.
Melanie Brooke starts temping as a secretary to power hungry Margaret Bateman and soon attracts the attentions of company President Tom Henley. Tom has had many affairs, so with suspicions aroused his wife Christine hires the services of private detective Jonah Slide. Melanie accepts Tom's invitation to dinner at the corporate apartment, but refuses his advances. Telling Tom she cannot get involved with a married man, she rushes from the apartment. Moments later Tom opens the door to an unexpected visitor, a visitor that becomes his murderer.Jonah has done his job well, he has photographed the evenings events. He gives Christine the incriminating shots of her husband with Melanie and is left with evidence that can, with a little blackmail, make him rich.


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package net.sourceforge.openforecast.tests;

import junit.framework.Test;
import junit.framework.TestCase;
import junit.framework.TestSuite;

public class OpenForecastTestSuite
{
    private OpenForecastTestSuite()
    {
    }

    public static Test suite()
    {
        TestSuite suite = new TestSuite();
        try
            {
                // Test models and core classes
                suite.addTestSuite((Class<? extends TestCase>) Class.forName( "net.sourceforge.openforecast.tests.BasicTest" ));
                suite.addTestSuite((Class<? extends TestCase>) Class.forName( "net.sourceforge.openforecast.tests.DataSetTest" ) );
                suite.addTestSuite((Class<? extends TestCase>) Class.forName( "net.sourceforge.openforecast.tests.SimpleExponentialSmoothingTest" ) );
                suite.addTestSuite((Class<? extends TestCase>) Class.forName( "net.sourceforge.openforecast.tests.DoubleExponentialSmoothingTest" ) );
                suite.addTestSuite((Class<? extends TestCase>) Class.forName( "net.sourceforge.openforecast.tests.TripleExponentialSmoothingTest" ) );
                suite.addTestSuite((Class<? extends TestCase>) Class.forName( "net.sourceforge.openforecast.tests.MovingAverageTest" ) );
                suite.addTestSuite((Class<? extends TestCase>) Class.forName( "net.sourceforge.openforecast.tests.MultipleLinearRegressionTest" ) );
                suite.addTestSuite((Class<? extends TestCase>) Class.forName( "net.sourceforge.openforecast.tests.PolynomialRegressionTest" ) );
                suite.addTestSuite((Class<? extends TestCase>) Class.forName( "net.sourceforge.openforecast.tests.WeightedMovingAverageTest" ) );

                // Test builder(s)
                suite.addTestSuite((Class<? extends TestCase>) Class.forName( "net.sourceforge.openforecast.tests.CSVBuilderTest" ) );
                suite.addTestSuite((Class<? extends TestCase>) Class.forName( "net.sourceforge.openforecast.tests.TimeSeriesBuilderTest" ) );

                // Test outputter(s)
                suite.addTestSuite((Class<? extends TestCase>) Class.forName( "net.sourceforge.openforecast.tests.DelimitedTextOutputterTest" ) );
                suite.addTestSuite((Class<? extends TestCase>) Class.forName( "net.sourceforge.openforecast.tests.TimeSeriesOutputterTest" ) );
            }
        catch ( ClassNotFoundException exCNF )
            {
                System.err.println( "Check setting of CLASSPATH environment variable" );
                System.err.println( "Unable to locate test class:" );
                System.err.println( "  "+exCNF.getMessage() );
            }

        return suite;
    }
}
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