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Q: SPI library for PIC18F27K40 I have a PIC18F27K40 and would like to use the hardware SPI module. Of course, it would not take too much code to write a SPI library myself, but if it exists already I prefer to not reinvent the wheel.
Before, I always used the legacy peripheral libraries (plib), but they haven't been updated for a long time, and pconfig.h does not contain the required #defines for my chip.
Is then the only way now to use the MPLAB Code Configurator? I don't have MPLAB installed and it seems a large overhead if it's only to generate some peripheral libraries. Is there no other way?

A: Example generated code follows, as you requested, for MSSP1, master mode 0,0, SMPMID, 1MHz (at a 64MHz FOsc). First for file "spi1.h":
/**
  MSSP1 Generated Driver API Header File

  @Company
    Microchip Technology Inc.

  @File Name
    mssp1.h

  @Summary
    This is the generated header file for the MSSP1 driver using MPLAB(c) Code Configurator

  @Description
    This header file provides APIs for MSSP1.
    Generation Information :
        Product Revision  :  MPLAB(c) Code Configurator - 4.15
        Device            :  PIC18F27K40
        Driver Version    :  2.00
    The generated drivers are tested against the following:
        Compiler          :  XC8 1.35
        MPLAB             :  MPLAB X 3.40
*******************************************************************************/

/*
    (c) 2016 Microchip Technology Inc. and its subsidiaries. You may use this
    software and any derivatives exclusively with Microchip products.

    THIS SOFTWARE IS SUPPLIED BY MICROCHIP "AS IS". NO WARRANTIES, WHETHER
    EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, APPLY TO THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED
    WARRANTIES OF NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, AND FITNESS FOR A
    PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR ITS INTERACTION WITH MICROCHIP PRODUCTS, COMBINATION
    WITH ANY OTHER PRODUCTS, OR USE IN ANY APPLICATION.

    IN NO EVENT WILL MICROCHIP BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE,
    INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL LOSS, DAMAGE, COST OR EXPENSE OF ANY KIND
    WHATSOEVER RELATED TO THE SOFTWARE, HOWEVER CAUSED, EVEN IF MICROCHIP HAS
    BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OR THE DAMAGES ARE FORESEEABLE. TO THE
    FULLEST EXTENT ALLOWED BY LAW, MICROCHIP'S TOTAL LIABILITY ON ALL CLAIMS IN
    ANY WAY RELATED TO THIS SOFTWARE WILL NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNT OF FEES, IF ANY,
    THAT YOU HAVE PAID DIRECTLY TO MICROCHIP FOR THIS SOFTWARE.

    MICROCHIP PROVIDES THIS SOFTWARE CONDITIONALLY UPON YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE
    TERMS.
*/

#ifndef _SPI1_H
#define _SPI1_H

/**
  Section: Included Files
*/

#include <stdbool.h>
#include <stddef.h>
#include <stdint.h>

#ifdef __cplusplus  // Provide C++ Compatibility

    extern "C" {

#endif

/**
  Section: Macro Declarations
*/

#define DUMMY_DATA 0x0

/**
  Section: SPI1 Module APIs
*/

/**
  @Summary
    Initializes the SPI1

  @Description
    This routine initializes the SPI1.
    This routine must be called before any other MSSP1 routine is called.
    This routine should only be called once during system initialization.

  @Preconditions
    None

  @Param
    None

  @Returns
    None

  @Comment

  @Example

    uint8_t     myWriteBuffer[MY_BUFFER_SIZE];
    uint8_t     myReadBuffer[MY_BUFFER_SIZE];
    uint8_t     writeData;
    uint8_t     readData;
    uint8_t     total;

    SPI1_Initialize();

    total = 0;
    do
    {
        total = SPI1_Exchange8bitBuffer(&myWriteBuffer[total], MY_BUFFER_SIZE - total, &myWriteBuffer[total]);

        // Do something else...

    } while(total < MY_BUFFER_SIZE);

    readData = SPI1_Exchange8bit(writeData);

 */
void SPI1_Initialize(void);

/**
  @Summary
    Exchanges a data byte over SPI1

  @Description
    This routine exchanges a data byte over SPI1 bus.
    This is a blocking routine.

  @Preconditions
    The SPI1_Initialize() routine should be called
    prior to use this routine.

  @Param
    data - data byte to be transmitted over SPI1 bus

  @Returns
    The received byte over SPI1 bus

  @Example

    uint8_t     writeData;
    uint8_t     readData;
    uint8_t     readDummy;

    SPI1_Initialize();

    // for transmission over SPI bus
    readDummy = SPI1_Exchange8bit(writeData);

    // for reception over SPI bus
    readData = SPI1_Exchange8bit(DUMMY_DATA);

 */
uint8_t SPI1_Exchange8bit(uint8_t data);

 /**
  @Summary
    Exchanges buffer of data over SPI1

  @Description
    This routine exchanges buffer of data (of size one byte) over SPI1 bus.
    This is a blocking routine.

  @Preconditions
    The SPI1_Initialize() routine should be called
    prior to use this routine.

  @Param
    dataIn  - Buffer of data to be transmitted over SPI1.
    bufLen  - Number of bytes to be exchanged.
    dataOut - Buffer of data to be received over SPI1.

  @Returns
    Number of bytes exchanged over SPI1.

  @Example

    uint8_t     myWriteBuffer[MY_BUFFER_SIZE];
    uint8_t     myReadBuffer[MY_BUFFER_SIZE];
    uint8_t     total;

    SPI1_Initialize();

    total = 0;
    do
    {
        total = SPI1_Exchange8bitBuffer(&myWriteBuffer[total], MY_BUFFER_SIZE - total, &myWriteBuffer[total]);

        // Do something else...

    } while(total < MY_BUFFER_SIZE);

 */
uint8_t SPI1_Exchange8bitBuffer(uint8_t *dataIn, uint8_t bufLen, uint8_t *dataOut);

/**
  @Summary
    Gets the SPI1 buffer full status

  @Description
    This routine gets the SPI1 buffer full status

  @Preconditions
    The SPI1_Initialize() routine should be called
    prior to use this routine.

  @Param
    None

  @Returns
    true  - if the buffer is full
    false - if the buffer is not full.

  @Example
    Refer to SPI1_Initialize() for an example
 */
bool SPI1_IsBufferFull(void);

/**
  @Summary
    Gets the status of write collision.

  @Description
    This routine gets the status of write collision.

  @Preconditions
    The SPI1_Initialize() routine must have been called prior to use this routine.

  @Param
    None

  @Returns
    true  - if the write collision has occurred.
    false - if the write collision has not occurred.

  @Example
    if(SPI1_HasWriteCollisionOccured())
    {
        SPI1_ClearWriteCollisionStatus();
    }
*/
bool SPI1_HasWriteCollisionOccured(void);

/**
  @Summary
    Clears the status of write collision.

  @Description
    This routine clears the status of write collision.

  @Preconditions
    The SPI1_Initialize() routine must have been called prior to use this routine.

  @Param
    None

  @Returns
    None

  @Example
    if(SPI1_HasWriteCollisionOccured())
    {
        SPI1_ClearWriteCollisionStatus();
    }
*/
void SPI1_ClearWriteCollisionStatus(void);

#ifdef __cplusplus  // Provide C++ Compatibility

    }

#endif

#endif // _SPI1_H

Now, for file "spi1.c":
/**
  MSSP1 Generated Driver File

  @Company
    Microchip Technology Inc.

  @File Name
    spi1.c

  @Summary
    This is the generated driver implementation file for the MSSP1 driver using MPLAB(c) Code Configurator

  @Description
    This source file provides APIs for MSSP1.
    Generation Information :
        Product Revision  :  MPLAB(c) Code Configurator - 4.15
        Device            :  PIC18F27K40
        Driver Version    :  2.00
    The generated drivers are tested against the following:
        Compiler          :  XC8 1.35
        MPLAB             :  MPLAB X 3.40
*/

/*
    (c) 2016 Microchip Technology Inc. and its subsidiaries. You may use this
    software and any derivatives exclusively with Microchip products.

    THIS SOFTWARE IS SUPPLIED BY MICROCHIP "AS IS". NO WARRANTIES, WHETHER
    EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, APPLY TO THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED
    WARRANTIES OF NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, AND FITNESS FOR A
    PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR ITS INTERACTION WITH MICROCHIP PRODUCTS, COMBINATION
    WITH ANY OTHER PRODUCTS, OR USE IN ANY APPLICATION.

    IN NO EVENT WILL MICROCHIP BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE,
    INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL LOSS, DAMAGE, COST OR EXPENSE OF ANY KIND
    WHATSOEVER RELATED TO THE SOFTWARE, HOWEVER CAUSED, EVEN IF MICROCHIP HAS
    BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OR THE DAMAGES ARE FORESEEABLE. TO THE
    FULLEST EXTENT ALLOWED BY LAW, MICROCHIP'S TOTAL LIABILITY ON ALL CLAIMS IN
    ANY WAY RELATED TO THIS SOFTWARE WILL NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNT OF FEES, IF ANY,
    THAT YOU HAVE PAID DIRECTLY TO MICROCHIP FOR THIS SOFTWARE.

    MICROCHIP PROVIDES THIS SOFTWARE CONDITIONALLY UPON YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE
    TERMS.
*/

/**
  Section: Included Files
*/

#include <xc.h>
#include "spi1.h"

/**
  Section: Macro Declarations
*/

#define SPI_RX_IN_PROGRESS 0x0

/**
  Section: Module APIs
*/

void SPI1_Initialize(void)
{
    // Set the SPI1 module to the options selected in the User Interface

    // SMP Middle; CKE Active to Idle;
    SSP1STAT = 0x40;

    // SSPEN enabled; CKP Idle:Low, Active:High; SSPM FOSC/64;
    SSP1CON1 = 0x22;

    // SSPADD 0;
    SSP1ADD = 0x00;
}

uint8_t SPI1_Exchange8bit(uint8_t data)
{
    // Clear the Write Collision flag, to allow writing
    SSP1CON1bits.WCOL = 0;

    SSP1BUF = data;

    while(SSP1STATbits.BF == SPI_RX_IN_PROGRESS)
    {
    }

    return (SSP1BUF);
}

uint8_t SPI1_Exchange8bitBuffer(uint8_t *dataIn, uint8_t bufLen, uint8_t *dataOut)
{
    uint8_t bytesWritten = 0;

    if(bufLen != 0)
    {
        if(dataIn != NULL)
        {
            while(bytesWritten < bufLen)
            {
                if(dataOut == NULL)
                {
                    SPI1_Exchange8bit(dataIn[bytesWritten]);
                }
                else
                {
                    dataOut[bytesWritten] = SPI1_Exchange8bit(dataIn[bytesWritten]);
                }

                bytesWritten++;
            }
        }
        else
        {
            if(dataOut != NULL)
            {
                while(bytesWritten < bufLen )
                {
                    dataOut[bytesWritten] = SPI1_Exchange8bit(DUMMY_DATA);

                    bytesWritten++;
                }
            }
        }
    }

    return bytesWritten;
}

bool SPI1_IsBufferFull(void)
{
    return (SSP1STATbits.BF);
}

bool SPI1_HasWriteCollisionOccured(void)
{
    return (SSP1CON1bits.WCOL);
}

void SPI1_ClearWriteCollisionStatus(void)
{
    SSP1CON1bits.WCOL = 0;
}

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Boys varsity basketball suffers tough loss to FHN 73-65
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Despite outrebounding and outplaying the Forest Hills Northern Huskies for most of the game, the boys varsity basketball team suffered a tough loss 73-65. Even with a poor shooting night, junior point guard Jimmy Scholler led the team with 20 points, and senior forward Dan Deindorfer added 19.
The first quarter saw the Rangers come out with an interesting defensive strategy. Playing against two of the best shooters in the area in the Huskies' Ethan Erickson and Trent Summerfield, the Rangers decided to have senior Josh Wise and junior Mitch Wilkinson face guard the two. Josh and Mitch had a hand in their face all game, trying to make it as difficult as possible for them to get the ball, nevermind shoot it. The Huskies looked a little shocked at the Rangers' defensive philosophy, and FHC took advantage of it. Dan was a force down low for the Rangers, as he had 9 of his 19 points in the first quarter to give the Rangers an 18-16 lead.
"They seemed to be really surprised by what we did defensively," Mitch said. "We just wanted to force the other three [players on the court for the Huskies] to beat us. [We have to] give them credit because they did that."
The Huskies came out hot in the second quarter, but the Rangers were able to keep with them. Ethan Erickson had 7 quick points in the quarter to pace the Huskies. The Rangers were able to take good care of the ball for most of the game but did not in the second quarter. FHC committed 4 of their 10 total turnovers in the quarter, which let the Huskies get out and run in transition where it is very hard to stop them. Despite the turnovers, the Rangers only trailed by 3 at the half, 29-26.
Final stats:
Jimmy Scholler: 20 points, 6 rebounds, 7 assists, 2 blocks
Dan Deindorfer: 19 points, 7 rebounds, 1 block
Mitch Wilkinson: 11 points, 8 rebounds, 5 assists, 1 block
Tate Hallock: 7 points, 4 rebounds, 1 steal
Josh Wise: 5 points, 2 rebounds, 1 assist
Jake Ball: 3 points, 6 rebounds, 2 assists
Jay Shields: 1 rebound
The third quarter started with both teams trading buckets until the Huskies started to pull away a bit. With four minutes remaining in the quarter, the Huskies took a 9-point lead, and it seemed as if the game was getting away from the Rangers. FHC was helped by the Huskies committing eleven fouls that set the Rangers up for opportunities at the free throw line. The Rangers clawed their way back and only trailed 48-46 at the end of the quarter.
A Jimmy three-pointer gave the Rangers their first lead of the half, but that would be the last time the Rangers had the lead. The Huskies seized control of the game, scoring on four of their next five possessions. The Rangers picked the wrong time to go cold from the free throw line, as they were just 8/14 on free throws in the fourth and shot just 56% from the line for the game. The Huskies were able to make their free throws down the stretch and were able to pull away, winning 73-65.
"We definitely missed opportunities tonight," Jimmy said. "We didn't shoot very well as a team, but we played really hard; sometimes you just don't make enough plays to win, and that's what happened tonight."
With the loss the Rangers fall to 7-4 on the season and 3-2 in OK-White conference play. The Rangers are back in action on Friday at 5:30 when they host the East Grand Rapids Pioneers in a non-conference game.
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August 16, 2017 Music, Arts & Culture » Arts
Inside Outsider
Local outsider artists step out of the shadows and into the light
By Charlie Swanson
'Out of the Shadows: A Collection of Transformative Art' opens with a reception featuring a lineup of entertainment on Friday, Aug. 18, at Steele Lane Community Center, 415 Steele Lane, Santa Rosa. 4pm. Free. facebook.com/wellnessartcollaborative.
In the art world, the term "outsider art" is a label created by those who live and work on the fringes of society. These artists often suffer from mental-health issues or disabilities, and their brilliant works are frequently only brought to light after their death.
In the North Bay, several mental-health-service providers are determined to put a positive spin on the term "outsider art" and recognize the contributions of otherwise marginalized community members through the Sonoma County Wellness Art Collaborative.
The organization hosts a new group exhibit, "Out of the Shadows: A Collection of Transformative Art," opening Friday, Aug. 18, at the Steele Lane Community Center in Santa Rosa, with a reception featuring spoken-word and musical entertainment.
At the forefront of the collaborative is Adam Kahn, a licensed marriage and family therapist who has worked for the past 10 years at Buckelew Programs, a community-based service provider that helps people with mental-health challenges to live independently within the community. Now a supervisor at Buckelew, Kahn formed the Sonoma County Wellness Art Collaborative to promote the creative works of many of these individuals.
"Culturally, we appreciate our artists who have eccentricities, but I don't know that we really appreciate our eccentrics who have artistic abilities," says Kahn. "And a lot of the folks we work with do have those artistic abilities. Their way of being in the word is so unique, but oftentimes it's not something that's appreciated by the mainstream. A lot of that expression is shoved into corners or dark places."
For the wellness art collaborative, Kahn reached out to other North Bay mental-health service providers, including Community Support Network, Telecare Sonoma ACT (Assertive Community Treatment) and St. Joseph's Health. Kahn says the partners all see the benefits of the intersection between arts and mental health.
"The arts brings in people from all different backgrounds, we're really experiencing that while gearing up for this show," says Kahn.
"Out of the Shadows" will include more than 60 pieces of art from over 30 participating artists. The range of art at the show runs the gamut of media, including painting, photography, sculpture and even puppetry. The subject matter of the work reflects the role that art plays in each artist's life, be it for coping or to express the anguish of their situation. "The muse is as unique as the artist," says Kahn.
All the artwork will be for sale, and the proceeds will go to the artists, many of whom live under the poverty line or are homeless, in addition to living with severe mental illnesses or traumatic brain injuries.
"To me, the sale of the artwork is almost secondary," Kahn says. "Some of our artists might feel differently, but I've seen such a great response, not just from the public, but from the artists who have the opportunity to show their work and have that kind of interaction with the public.
"It really does create a sense of self-worth for them."
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Change Agent – Issue 33
"Does clinging to an occupation make you better at your job?"
By Seth Godin 7 minute Read
Something really scary happened to me. I flew to England to give a speech. And on the way there, while on the plane, I had a panic attack.
It's not that I'm afraid of flying. No, I had the attack because I'm afraid of going through Customs. Now, I've never tried to smuggle anything in my life, and my passport is in fine order. But I've always had this phobia about being unjustly incarcerated by an uncaring bureaucrat in a foreign country. That's the main reason why I've never torn one of those tags off of a mattress or pillow. I mean, there are rats in prisons! Anyway, this time, my fear was the result of something slightly more rational: a form. This was no ordinary form; it was an official government document.
The form wasn't that big — maybe about four inches by six inches. It asked for a bunch of rudimentary information, such as my name and address. But on the reverse side of the form, in tiny writing, near the bottom of the page, was a word that struck absolute terror in my heart: "occupation."
Suddenly, I was beset by doubts and fears, uncertainties and unanswerables! I felt a new-economy identity crisis looming. What am I? The government of the United Kingdom wanted to know. It was insisting on knowing. And if I supplied the wrong answer, if I lied on the form, who knew what would happen? I could spend years rotting in the basement of some prison, eating porridge for breakfast, and bangers and mash for dinner.
Am I a writer? An entrepreneur? A typesetter? A traveling salesman? A public speaker? An accountant (though an admittedly poor one)? A marketer? I could go on and on. On any given day, I probably have 15 or 20 "occupations."
That's when it hit me: The world is changing. The days of "milkman," "mailman," and "soldier" are pretty much gone. Most of the people I know and work with would have had just as much trouble as I had with the occupation question (although I don't think that any of them would have had a panic attack).
What are you?
Does clinging to an occupation make you better at your job? Does it make it easier for you to identify the folks you'd like to work with, the people who can help you do your job — or does it just obfuscate things and drag you into meetings that you shouldn't be in? Or does it supply an employment security blanket, a comfortable totem from the old economy that you can carry with you to give you a sense — genuine or false — of stability? Or, even worse, do you use your title as a shield, so that when people ask you for help, you can say, "Sorry, that's not my job"?
I wish we had better titles: "the person responsible for buying Internet advertising that really works," or "the one person at this company who can approve your invoice." Think about how much time you'd save if you didn't have to fend off people whose needs don't match your job title. Even better, think of how much you and your company would gain if your inappropriate title didn't keep you from doing the stuff that you're actually supposed to be doing. Or take it one step further: What if, instead of a job title, you had a "job entitle"– which came with a sticker that you could apply to projects and opportunities that you'd be really good at, if only you had a pass card to gain admittance to them?
While we're at it, what is your job description? Is it a hopeful, optimistic, powerful document that gives you permission to explore new opportunities and to get something done? Or is it a defensive shield that makes it easy for you to identify what's not your job? Companies that don't have any employees who have the phrase "increase our international presence" in their job description rarely take the time and risks necessary to develop an international presence. Organizations that provide their employees with carefully worded job descriptions are giving them permission to ignore excellent business opportunities, and in doing so, are losing out every day.
Here's a true story: I once went on a sales call to offer one particular company a media opportunity that was guaranteed to increase its sales. If sales didn't increase, the company would owe nothing. The company's five biggest competitors had already signed up, but this firm — the sixth company in the industry oligopoly — was resisting the opportunity. I finally got a meeting with the vice president, who, I was informed, was in charge of this sort of thing.
The meeting was a success. The VP loved the idea. He agreed that it would increase his company's sales, and he was scared to death that his company would be left out, while all of his competitors would be included.
But as we finished talking, he looked at me quite sadly and said, "Even though this is exactly what we need, I can't buy it."
Crushed, I asked him why not.
"Because," he told me, "my job description doesn't allow me to buy media aimed at the small-business market." Anticipating my follow-up question, he added, "And as far as I can tell, there isn't anyone in the company who does have the authority to spend money on something like this. And frankly, given the way that this place works, it's just not worth calling a meeting and hashing out whose budget this project would come out of."
While we're on the subject of failed bureaucracies, inert organizations, and brain-dead "corpocracies," why don't big companies publish their org charts and phone directories? Put 'em online, I say. A vice president at IBM once spent a full hour drawing an org chart for me, in an attempt to make her company more accessible, because she realized that a fortress mentality wasn't good for IBM. Of course, as soon as she'd finished drawing the two-page chart, IBM announced a re-org. So much for making it easy to do business with IBM.
The other day, out of boredom, I engaged in one of my favorite hobbies: I called Microsoft at 425-882-8080. "Hello," I said. "Could you please tell me the name and extension of the person who's in charge of marketing Windows 2000?" (Note: That person's name is not much of a secret. A quick Web search will get you what you need.)
"I'm sorry, sir. I can't divulge that sort of information," a courteous but officious receptionist responded, as if I were the first person ever to have the audacity to ask for such private information. It was as if I'd asked her for the Windows source code, rather than for a marketer's name and extension.
Here's the New Economy Customs Form Question of the Month: What sorts of bad things would happen if every vendor, every analyst, every customer, and, yes, even every headhunter knew exactly who did what, why, and how — at Microsoft or at your company? What would be the big deal if your occupation were trumpeted far and wide?
One of the reasons that we hesitate to make such information readily available has to do with fear. But that's a story for another day. An equally important reason is that in our fast-moving, very flexible world, any org chart would be obsolete the day before it was printed. Or, alternatively, the very act of getting an org chart done in the first place would probably require so much internal soul-searching and politicking that it might never get written.
But how can a company be fast if everyone on the team doesn't know who's in charge of what? How can a company be permeable to the outside world if the outside world doesn't know whom to talk to? Is it really possible to create a system of rapid, informal communication that keeps all parts of an organization in sync? When an invoice comes in, you route it to the guy in accounts payable, because that's his occupation. But whose job is it to decide whether using MP3 technology to improve customer satisfaction is a good idea?
Which leads us right back to where we started. The chances that you have just one occupation are slim. And rather than pretend that we all have just one occupation — as the British government seems so intent on doing — maybe we ought to embrace the "multipational" nature of our jobs. ("Multipational" is a new word that I've invented. It means "having more than one occupation at a time"; it's the workplace equivalent of "multinational.") We could each pick a new, all-purpose title that signals what we're really focused on — titles such as "customer joy specialist," or "change agent," or perhaps even "gal who will take a meeting and then work the organization."
It's not silly. It's about communicating — to your peers, to the outside world, and to yourself — what you really do all day.
I'm proud to say that after some soul-searching, I took pen in hand and wrote, "Dad, Husband, and Bald Guru in Search of Real Answers." Then, I squared my shoulders and handed over the Customs form. And I didn't even get busted.
Seth Godin (sgodin@fastcompany.com) is permission-marketing yahoo! at Yahoo! His most recent book is "Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers into Friends, and Friends into Customers" (Simon & Schuster, 1999).
A version of this article appeared in the April 2000 issue of Fast Company magazine.
SETH GODIN has written twelve books that have been translated into more than thirty languages. Every one has been a bestseller
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Q. Where is the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office located?
A. The address for the Sheriff's Office is 110 Cedar Bluff Road. We are directly behind the Cherokee County Courthouse. The telephone number is (256) 927-3365.
Q. How do I report a crime to the Sheriff's Office?
A. If the crime is in progress call 9-1-1. If the crime has already occurred and no emergency exist call (256) 927-3365 during business hours, after hours call dispatch at (256) 927-3939 or (256) 927-3938. Ask for a deputy to come to your location to complete an incident/offense report.
Q. How do I obtain a copy of an incident/offense report that I filed?
A. Reports can be obtained at the Sheriff's Office during normal business hours.
Q. How do I obtain a warrant against an individual?
A. Warrants are issued by the Circuit Clerk. You must first complete an incident/offense report and deliver the report to the clerk when you obtain the warrant. If the offense is a felony offense an investigator will assist you in obtaining the warrant.
Q. Where do I apply for a concealed weapons permit?
A. If you live in Cherokee County you should apply at the Sheriff's Office during normal business hours. Normal business hours are Monday through Friday from 8a.m. until 4p.m..
Q. How can I find out if a particular person is in the Detention Facility?
A. Please go to the Sheriff's Office website and check the inmate roster page. All inmates are published to the website when they are booked into the facility, along with their charge and any available bond amounts.
Q. What is this schedule for inmate visitation?
A. Visitation time is listed on the Detention Center page on the website.
Q. Where can I find information about convicted sex offenders in my community?
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Ben Loehnen, a senior editor at Simon & Schuster, is also a birder.
Investigative journalist Charles Fishman foresaw and detailed this "era" in a book that spans time and geography, and presciently explored how all of us need to rethink the way we use and value water.
Most of us don't think about water at all. It's cheap. It's available. It's seemingly limitless. Our daily life: We take long showers. We water our lawns. We do the dishes. We eat almonds with abandon (1.1 gallons of water per nut!). Americans pay an average water bill that's a pittance—and too often divorced from any kind of market. We are profligate with water because it's undervalued. And most of us don't witness where water's use is truly titanic—power plants, golf courses, agricultural fields.
But Fishman is not a crank or a scold. What makes this book so invigorating and so imaginative is the way he explores the innovations in water use and reclamation in places such as Las Vegas or Orange County, Florida, or at companies such as IBM and Campbell Soup Company. Necessity—of supply and demand, of geography and circumstance—has triggered local solutions to a global issue. The book abounds with optimism and stories of resilience.
Water, after all, is recycled—always has been, always will be. Just think: You could have showered this morning in the same water a brontosaurus drank, or made tea with water that once nursed the earth's first protozoans! "No water is being created or destroyed on Earth," Fishman writes. Some of it's just being used more responsibly and intelligently—and hopefully increasingly so.
California's crisis is a reminder: The era of "smart water" is upon us, and the moment for The Big Thirst is now.


A list of "shell" companies where firms keep money offshore will be published to discourage tax evasion, David Cameron has announced, making changes to client due diligence for obliged entities.
Ministers had already announced the register, intended to lift the "cloak of secrecy" around company ownership contained within the consultation document for 'Trust and Transparency For UK Companies'. This consultation also raised a number areas of weaknesses concerning ownership and control and will affect client due diligence procedures for regulated entities.
More changes to the way UK companies declare ownership and control will be made by amendments to the Companies Act 2006 to bring the requirements in line with the fourth European Directive on Money Laundering and updated European Data protection Act, both expected to clear the European Parliament early 2014.
The prime minister said making the register public will make it easier for firms and developing countries to know who they are doing business with. Labour, anti-corruption campaigners and charities welcomed the move.
Speaking at the Open Government Partnership summit in London, Mr Cameron said a small minority of companies have hidden their business dealings in a "complex web of shell companies" for too long.
"This cloak of secrecy has fuelled all manner of questionable practice and downright illegality," he said.
"Illegality that is bad for the developing world – as corrupt regimes stash their money abroad under different identities.
"And illegality that is bad for Britain's economy too – as people evade their taxes through untraceable trails of paperwork.
Mr Cameron made tax transparency a key issue at the G8 summit earlier this year, and he will say he is "delighted" to announce the "central register of company beneficial ownership" will be publicly available.
He will also urge other world leaders to live up to commitments they made at the summit in Northern Ireland.
Shadow treasury minister Shabana Mahmood welcomed the announcement of the public register but said the government must go "much further to tackle tax avoidance".
"With the amount of uncollected tax rising in the last year to £35bn, it's clear this government is failing," she said.
She accused the government of failing to close tax loopholes and said it should be "doing more to open up tax havens".
There is a distinction between tax avoidance – legal measures to avoid paying tax – and illegal tax evasion.
Roger Barker, of the Institute of Directors, also welcomed the move, saying it was "right that the true owners of companies should be transparent both to the company itself and the wider business community".
He added: "Significant practical challenges remain in order to ensure that any register of beneficial ownership is accurate and robust, but we support government efforts to begin this process".
Gavin Hayman, of anti-corruption campaigners Global Witness, said: "Anonymous shell companies are the global getaway cars for crime, corruption and tax evasion.
He said the register would be "vital" for those fighting to prevent money intended for poverty eradication being "siphoned off".


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Het Manoir de Gisson is een gebouw in het centrum van het historische centrum van Sarlat in de Dordogne, het is sinds 2011 toegankelijk als museum.

Exterieur

Het manoir bestaat uit  twee bouwdelen van verschillende architectuur uit de 16e eeuw, ze zijn verbonden door een 13e-eeuwse zeskantige traptoren die is gedekt met zware leistenen platen.
Oorspronkelijk bevatte het manoir 15 vertrekken, het rechterbouwdeel en de toren zijn nu (2011) toegankelijk als museum, in het rechter bouwdeel is een hotel.

De toegang van de toren is origineel met aan de bovenzijde een korfboog ondersteund door kolommen en een fries versierd met florale motieven.
Aan de voorzijde is een balkonterras op twee niveaus voorzien van een gietijzeren hekwerk. Het balkon biedt uitzicht op het plein van de historische Ganzenmarkt.

Het gebouw is geklasseerd als historisch monument en is gelegen in het beschermde gebied van de middeleeuwse stad.

Interieur
Het interieur is ingericht in de stijl van de 17e-eeuwse bourgeoise van met name de familie Gisson.
In de kelder bevindt zich een verzameling rariteiten, dit soort collecties was in die tijd erg gebruikelijk. Wie wilde tonen veel gereisd te hebben bracht allerlei bijzondere voorwerpen mee voor een verzameling. Ook zijn hier objecten te zien die de kijker voor de gek moesten houden zoals de hoorn van
een Narwal die werd gepresenteerd als de hoorn van de eenhoorn. Ook zijn er gekrompen menselijk schedels voorzien van recepten om ze zo te prepareren.

De bovenste verdiepingen geven een beeld van het leven in het huis van de familie Gisson, deze voorname familie voerden meerdere titels zoals: notaire royal, avocat, consul de la Ville, capitaine de dragons, chevalier de l'ordre royal de Saint-Louis.

De kamers zijn ingericht met meubilair uit de 17e eeuw en ook de parket, de betegelde vloeren en de lambrisering geven een duidelijk beeld van die tijd.

De grote salon heeft meerdere keren gediend als achtergrond voor filmopnames. Het boudoir was de kamer voor de vrouw des huizes om te handwerken en gasten te ontvangen. De keuken, de rookkamer, het kantoor en het bediendevertrek zijn eveneens in stijl ingericht.

Galerij

Sarlat-la-Canéda
Museum in Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Historisch monument in Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Gisson
Bouwwerk in Dordogne


If you read up on the ancient sagas of the Vikings, you'll find all manner of supernatural phenomenon. Seriously, these stories feature people going toe-to-toe with giants and trolls on a regular basis. But there's one enchanted item in those myths that has left a lot of anthropologists scratching their heads. "Sunstones" were said to guide a sailor from one fjord to another, and new discoveries are making it seem more and more probable that they actually existed.
Picture a Viking warrior at the head of a longship, navigating by consulting a small transparent crystal. That ... doesn't seem possible, right? Crystals aren't exactly GPS. Yet that's exactly what the Vikings did in major legends such as "The Saga of King Olaf." There isn't any definitive proof, but there's a lot of circumstantial evidence to suggest those myths have roots in reality. In the 10th century, the magnetic compass hadn't yet come to Europe. That meant the only way to travel by sea was by the sun or by the stars. And since the skies of Scandinavia are notoriously cloudy, getting around that way would be a tall order.
Unless, of course, you had some way to see where the sun was, even behind a cloud. Meet Iceland spar, a transparent variety of calcite found in large deposits on the volcanic island. These crystals are special for a lot of reasons. They cleave easily from the stone and they're a piece of cake to break into small, handheld shapes. Oh, and they've got beautiful birefringence. That means they split light into two parts — look at one sock through the crystal, for instance, and you'll see a complete pair.
But what really would make the crystals helpful for navigation is the way they interact with the polarization of the light. Polarization essentially refers to the angle at which light strikes a surface. When you rotate a piece of Iceland spar you'll eventually hit the angle at which both images are equally bright. Then, you can start scanning the sky for the sun, even under a heavy cloud cover. Because some of the sunlight will come through the clouds, the polarized crystals capture a pair of concentric rings of light around the sun. Voila — you've got yourself a sun detector good enough to launch a hundred screaming berserkers.
Besides the fact that they would have worked the way the sagas said they did, there are some pretty compelling reasons to think Iceland spar is, in fact, the stone of legend. In 2013, a French team discovered the wreck of the Alderney, complete with a large chunk of calcite. The Alderney was an Elizabethan ship that sank in the year 1592, more than 500 years after King Olaf. But the fact that the stone was discovered so close to known navigational equipment could suggest that it stayed in the sailor's toolkit long after the age of Vikings had passed.
Perhaps most excitingly, a new study released in 2018 suggested that the sunstone could easily explain the range of the Viking sea empire. The computer model simulated 3,600 voyages in the season of heavy ocean traffic, between the spring equinox and the summer solstice. These simulated voyages also varied by cloud cover, type of crystal, and how frequently the sailors consulted them. As it turned out, using sunstones more frequently made a huge difference. With consultations scheduled every five to six hours, the boats got lost over and over again. Checking the sunstone every four hours led them safely to shore between 32 and 59 percent of the time. But if they checked every three hours instead, they found their way home during between 92 and 100 percent of voyages.
We don't have an answer to the mystery of the sunstones quite yet, but we're feeling pretty confident that Iceland spar is the missing piece. Either that, or they were following Thor the whole time.
Want to find out more about history's most metal civilization? Check out Else Roesdahl's "The Vikings" for a rollicking, historically accurate look at the sea-ravagers. We handpick reading recommendations we think you may like. If you choose to make a purchase through that link, Curiosity will get a share of the sale.