While the University ensures academic freedom and wishes to encourage innovation in instruction, the faculty also has a collective responsibility to ensure the academic quality and integrity of the University's courses, programs, and degrees. This responsibility extends to those courses and programs offered through Distance Education.
Faculty and students have a right to know the modes of delivery and technological requirements of each course, program, and degree offered by the University. Students shall have access to this information before enrolling in a course or program.
Distance education programs and courses shall be consistent with the educational mission of the University.
Courses which are offered as Distance Education shall provide the opportunity for substantial, personal, and timely interactions between faculty and students.
Students in the Distance Education program shall have adequate access to library and student services.
The University shall provide appropriate support services to faculty who teach Distance Education courses.
Distance Education program in the University is an optional mode of instruction. Nothing in this policy shall imply that Distance Education is a preferred or required mode of instruction in the school curriculum.
1) In the curricular review process, distance education programs shall demonstrate that they provide the opportunity for substantial, personal, and timely interactions between faculty and enrolled students.
i. The selection and evaluation of formally approved adjunct and/or part-time faculty.
ii. Ensuring that the technology used suits the nature and objectives of the Distance Education program.
iii. Ensuring the currency of materials, courses, and program.
iv. Ensuring the integrity of student work and the credibility of the degrees and credits the University awards.* It is the responsibility of the director to ensure that reasonable safeguards are in place to prevent academic dishonesty.
3) Ownership of materials, faculty compensation, and copyright issues shall be agreed upon by the instructor and the University prior to the initial offering of a course.
4) No individual, program, or department shall agree in a contract with any private or public entity to deliver distance education courses or programs on behalf of the University without prior approval from the university.
1) Faculty Committee shall review all Distance Education courses, even if the curriculum is largely derived from existing campus-based courses and shall continue to ensure that the educational program offered through distance education is appropriate for delivery through distance education methods.
2) The method of delivery for new courses shall become part of each curriculum proposal, to be reviewed under the normal curricular process.
3) Any significant change in the method of delivery for existing courses or programs shall be submitted as a course change proposal, to be reviewed by the director of the distance education.
4) The academic review process by the committee shall be used to evaluate the educational effectiveness of Distance Education courses (including assessments of student based learning outcomes, student retention, and student satisfaction), and when appropriate, determine comparability to campus-based programs.This process shall also be used to assure the conformity of Distance Education courses to prevailing quality standards in the field of distance education.
5) A review and approval of all distance education courses, including those initially approved by the director of Distance Education, shall begin immediately and conclude within two years of the implementation of this policy. This review shall follow the normal process specified in the policy file.
6) The University shall maintain clear standards for satisfactory academic progress.
7) The University shall ensure the completion of student evaluation of learning outcomes by duly qualified faculty, which are appropriate for use with the distance education methods used, and evaluated by duly qualified faculty.
1) The University standards are followed in setting course-loads per instructor and/or academic unit.
3) Any distance education program has received resource approval prior to commencing operation.
1) Distance Education Courses will be offered according to the general University academic calendar. Courses are offered on a semester calendar, however, if appropriate, shorter cycles are permitted with the permission of the Distance Education office.
2) Final examinations will be scheduled according to the designated examination period for the semester or cycle, unless otherwise approved by the Distance Education office.
3) Academic Credit will be awarded by designated course units on the basis of course content, course competence, extent of student time on task and instructor-student contact.
4) As with any transfer coursework, academic credit may be transferred from a distance education course offered by other colleges or universities that are accredited by recognized agencies.
a. Well-articulated learning goals and expectations.
g. The inclusion of well articulated learning goals, course expectations and requirements, and methods of communication with instructor, on the course syllabus.
Student transcript for Distance Education courses will be handled as traditional face-to-face course. Transcripts will not reflect the modality of courses.
References to personal traits such as race, ethnicity, disabilities, age, and gender may be made public in accordance with the FERPA regulations.
Instructors in Distance Education program have responsibility for the quality of all program curricula. Ultimately, it is the instructor who is responsible for ensuring the integrity of the Distance Education offerings.
In specific cases student work may be utilized to serve a larger assessment such as for accreditation purposes. Such assessments will vary by the University and instructors should confer with designated officer whether his/her course is subject to such assessment.
1. The University shall employ a sufficient number of faculty to assure that (A) the institution's response to, or evaluation of, each student lesson is returned to the student within 10 days after the lesson is received by the institution; and (B) the institution's response to, or evaluation of, each student project or dissertation is returned to the student within the time disclosed in the catalog.
2. The University shall maintain a record of the dates on which lessons, projects, and dissertations were received and responses were returned to each student.
3. The University shall ensure that the materials and programs are current, well organized, designed by faculty competent in distance education technique and delivered using readily available, reliable technology.
4. The University standards are followed in assigning course loads to instructors and awarding incentives to instructors teaching courses in distance education programs.
5. The Distance Education office possesses or has access to equipment, software, technical/design/production expertise, training, and technical/administrative support for effective and proficient delivery of distance education courses and programs, including potential changes in the technology or course structure.
2) Students have access to laboratories, facilities, and equipment appropriate to the courses.
3) Students are provided with an adequate means for developing the necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities to use effectively any technology required for distance education courses.
4) Students are provided with necessary technical support, during evenings and weekends as well as "regular" operating hours, to resolve hardware and software problems encountered while enrolled in distance education courses.
1) Students are provided with accurate and timely information about the University, its distance education courses and programs, costs, and related policies and requirements.
2) Students are provided with an adequate means for developing the necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities to use effectively any technology required for distance education courses.
3) Students are provided with necessary technical support, during evenings and weekends as well as "regular" operating hours, to resolve hardware and software problems encountered while enrolled in distance education courses.
4) Students are provided with adequate access to the range of student services including enrollment/registration, academic advising, tutoring, career counseling and placement, personal counseling, and disability services.
5) Students are provided with an adequate means for resolving student complaints and grievances.
1. The University assesses each student, prior to admission, in order to determine whether each student has the skills and competencies to succeed in a distance education environment.
2. The University shall provide adequate support services for the instructor and students participating in Distance Education courses, including necessary equipment, personnel and training.
3. The University designates the Distance Education office for technology support regarding the Distance Education program.
4. The Distance Education office handles administrative systems, equipment maintenance and general user support.
5. The Distance Education office also handles faculty support including instructional application and pedagogical issues involving technology.
6. The Distance Education office shall provide guidance and manuals for student training for the program.
7. Personal technology support is provided via telephone or email.
Ownership of materials, instructor compensation, and copyright issues shall be agreed upon by the instructor and the University prior to the initial offering of a Distance Education course. Unless otherwise agreed by the University and the instructor and specified in writing, the University claims the intellectual property rights on the educational contents and materials in the course so that the University can use the intellectual property and its future potential for the University.


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NSString *const RDMDidProcessPushNotificationPayload = @"RDMDidProcessPushNotificationPayload";

@interface RDMStudentDataProcessor ()

@property (nonatomic, strong) RDMStudentDataController *dataController;
@property (nonatomic, strong) NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter;

@property (nonatomic, strong) NSOperationQueue *queue;

@end

@implementation RDMStudentDataProcessor

+(instancetype)sharedInstance {

    static RDMStudentDataProcessor *_sharedController = nil;
    static dispatch_once_t onceToken;
    dispatch_once(&onceToken, ^{
        _sharedController = [[RDMStudentDataProcessor alloc] initWithDataController:[RDMStudentDataController sharedInstance]];
    });

    return _sharedController;

}

-(id) initWithDataController:(RDMStudentDataController *)dataController {
    self = [super init];
    if (self) {
        _queue = [[NSOperationQueue alloc] init];
        _queue.name = @"Data Processing Queue";
        _queue.maxConcurrentOperationCount = 1;

        _dataController = dataController;
        _dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
        [_dateFormatter setTimeZone:[NSTimeZone timeZoneWithName:@"UTC"]];
        [_dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy'-'MM'-'dd'T'HH':'mm':'ss'.'SSS'Z'"];

    }
    return self;
}

-(void) updateDevice:(RDMStudentDevice*)device
withLinkDictionaries:(NSArray*) linkDictionaries
andTeacherDictionaries:(NSArray*)teacherDictionaries
      withCompletion:(RDMCoreDataSaveCompletionBlock)completion {

    [self.queue addOperationWithBlock:^{

        NSManagedObjectContext *temporaryContext = [self.dataController createTemporaryContext];

        NSError *error = nil;
        RDMStudentDevice *deviceInTemporaryContext = (RDMStudentDevice*)[temporaryContext existingObjectWithID:self.dataController.device.objectID
                                                                                error:&error];
        if (error) {
            NSLog(@"Could Not Find Device: %@", error);
        }

        [self processTeacherDictionaries:teacherDictionaries
                               forDevice:deviceInTemporaryContext
                               inContext:temporaryContext];

        [self processLinksDictionaries:linkDictionaries
                             forDevice:deviceInTemporaryContext
                             inContext:temporaryContext];

        [[NSOperationQueue mainQueue] addOperationWithBlock: ^ {

            NSError *error = nil;
            if (![self.dataController saveMainContextSyncronously:&error]) {
                if (completion) {
                    completion(error);
                }
                return;
            }
            if (completion) {
                completion(nil);
            }
            return;

        }];

    }];

}

-(void) processTeacherDictionaries:(NSArray*)teacherDictionaries forDevice:(RDMStudentDevice*)device inContext:(NSManagedObjectContext*)context {

    NSPredicate *guidPredicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"guid == $GUID"];

    for (NSDictionary *teacherDictionary in teacherDictionaries) {
        NSString *teacherGUID = teacherDictionary[@"guid"];
        NSString *displayName = teacherDictionary[@"displayName"];
        NSNumber *hasBeenDeleted = teacherDictionary[@"hasBeenDeleted"];
        NSDate *lastUpdated = [self.dateFormatter dateFromString:teacherDictionary[@"lastUpdated"]];

        NSDictionary *teacherSubstitution = @{ @"GUID" : teacherGUID };
        NSPredicate *teacherGUIDSerach = [guidPredicate predicateWithSubstitutionVariables:teacherSubstitution];

        NSSet *foundTeachers = [device.teachers filteredSetUsingPredicate:teacherGUIDSerach];
        RDMTeacher *teacher = [foundTeachers anyObject];
        if (!teacher) {
            teacher = [NSEntityDescription insertNewObjectForEntityForName:@"RDMTeacher"
                                                    inManagedObjectContext:context];
            teacher.device = device;
            teacher.guid = teacherGUID;
        }

        teacher.lastUpdated = lastUpdated;
        teacher.displayName = displayName;
        teacher.hasBeenDeleted = hasBeenDeleted;
    }

    [context performBlockAndWait:^{

        NSError *error = nil;
        if (![context save:&error]) {
            NSLog(@"Error: %@", error);
        }

    }];
}

-(void) processLinksDictionaries:(NSArray*)linkDictionaries forDevice:(RDMStudentDevice*)device inContext:(NSManagedObjectContext*)context {

    NSPredicate *linkPredicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"guid == $GUID"];

    for (NSDictionary *linkDictionary in linkDictionaries) {

        NSString *linkGUID = linkDictionary[@"guid"];
        NSNumber *hasBeenDeleted = linkDictionary[@"hasBeenDeleted"];
        NSDate *lastUpdated = [self.dateFormatter dateFromString:linkDictionary[@"lastUpdated"]];
        NSDate *lastSentOn = [self.dateFormatter dateFromString:linkDictionary[@"lastSentOn"]];
        NSString *teacherGUID = linkDictionary[@"user"];
        NSString *url = linkDictionary[@"url"];
        NSString *name = linkDictionary[@"name"];

        NSDictionary *linkSubstitution = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:linkGUID forKey:@"GUID"];
        NSPredicate *linkGuidSearch = [linkPredicate predicateWithSubstitutionVariables:linkSubstitution];

        NSDictionary *teacherSubstitution = @{ @"GUID" : teacherGUID };
        NSPredicate *teacherGUIDSerach = [linkPredicate predicateWithSubstitutionVariables:teacherSubstitution];

        NSSet *foundTeachers = [device.teachers filteredSetUsingPredicate:teacherGUIDSerach];
        RDMTeacher *teacher = [foundTeachers anyObject];
        if (!teacher) {
            //We are getting a link from an unknown teacher;
        }

        NSSet *foundLinks = [device.links filteredSetUsingPredicate:linkGuidSearch];
        RDMStudentLink *link = [foundLinks anyObject];
        if (!link) {
            link = [NSEntityDescription insertNewObjectForEntityForName:@"RDMStudentLink"
                                                 inManagedObjectContext:context];
            link.guid = linkGUID;
            link.device = device;
            link.teacher = teacher;
        }

        link.name = name;
        link.url = url;
        link.lastSentOn = lastSentOn;
        link.lastUpdated = lastUpdated;
        link.hasBeenDeleted = hasBeenDeleted;

    }

    [context performBlockAndWait:^{

        NSError *error = nil;
        if (![context save:&error]) {
            NSLog(@"Error: %@", error);
        }

    }];

}

-(void) processPushNotificationPayload:(NSDictionary*)payload showImmediately:(BOOL)immediately {

    [self.queue addOperationWithBlock:^{

        NSManagedObjectContext *temporaryContext = [self.dataController createTemporaryContext];

        NSError *error = nil;
        RDMStudentDevice *deviceInTemporaryContext = (RDMStudentDevice*)[temporaryContext existingObjectWithID:self.dataController.device.objectID
                                                                                error:&error];
        if (error) {
            NSLog(@"Could Not Find Device: %@", error);
        }

        NSString *linkURL = payload[@"linkUrl"];
        NSString *linkName = payload[@"linkName"];
        NSString *linkGUID = payload[@"linkGUID"];
        NSString *teacherGUID = payload[@"teacherGUID"];
        NSDate *lastSentOn = [self.dateFormatter dateFromString:payload[@"lastSentOn"]];

        NSPredicate *linkPredicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"guid == $GUID"];

        NSDictionary *linkSubstitution = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:linkGUID forKey:@"GUID"];
        NSPredicate *linkGuidSearch = [linkPredicate predicateWithSubstitutionVariables:linkSubstitution];

        NSSet *foundLinks = [deviceInTemporaryContext.links filteredSetUsingPredicate:linkGuidSearch];

        NSDictionary *teacherSubstitution = @{ @"GUID" : teacherGUID };
        NSPredicate *teacherGUIDSerach = [linkPredicate predicateWithSubstitutionVariables:teacherSubstitution];

        NSSet *foundTeachers = [deviceInTemporaryContext.teachers filteredSetUsingPredicate:teacherGUIDSerach];
        RDMTeacher *teacher = [foundTeachers anyObject];
        if (!teacher) {
            //We are getting a notification from an unknown teacher;
        }

        RDMStudentLink *link = nil;

        if ([foundLinks count] > 0) {
            //Update the link
            link = [foundLinks anyObject];

        } else {
            //Create the link

            link = [NSEntityDescription insertNewObjectForEntityForName:@"RDMStudentLink"
                                                 inManagedObjectContext:temporaryContext];
            link.guid = linkGUID;
            link.device = deviceInTemporaryContext;
            link.teacher = teacher;
        }

        link.url = linkURL;
        link.name = linkName;
        link.lastSentOn = lastSentOn;
        //lastUpdated is untouched so that next sync we get the actual object

        [self.dataController saveTemporaryContextAndPushToMainContext:temporaryContext
                                                       withCompletion:^(NSError* error) {

                                                           if (error) {
                                                               NSLog(@"Error: %@", error);
                                                           }

                                                           NSError *obtainPermanantIDsError = nil;
                                                           if (![temporaryContext obtainPermanentIDsForObjects:@[link] error:&obtainPermanantIDsError]) {
                                                               NSLog(@"Error %@", obtainPermanantIDsError);
                                                           }

                                                           RDMStudentLink *permanentLink = (RDMStudentLink*)[self.dataController.managedObjectContext existingObjectWithID:link.objectID error:&obtainPermanantIDsError];

                                                           if (permanentLink) {

                                                               [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] postNotificationName:RDMDidProcessPushNotificationPayload object:self userInfo:@{ @"link" : permanentLink, @"showImmediately": @(immediately) }];
                                                           }

                                                       }];

    }];

}

@end

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Updated as of July 21, 2021, 8:38 AM MST.

Note that the list excludes overseas departments Mayotte and Réunion (France), both west of Mauritius.

List of African countries by GDP (PPP) per capita

See also
 List of African countries by GDP (nominal)
 List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita

References

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Q: Configure application on Google Cloud Platform with environment variables I'm a newbie with Google Cloud App Engine and I want to deploy my simple Node.js application. I need to configure it for "production" environment. For example, I want to provide some credentials for email box, which my application is going to query for new emails.
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Naira Marley Biography starts with his real name. Azeez Fashola, also known as Naira Marley, is a rising Nigerian singer/songwriter.
A versatile singer, has a strong song genre in hip hop and can bring out a new melody.
The hit single "Issa Goal", featuring Olamide and Lil Kesh, brought him international fame. Officially, the song was meant to support Super Eagles at Russia's Fifa World Cup.
Naira Marley Education
It is a lie to claim that you know Naira's biography but not his date of birth. Although his birth date is kept low, he was dull on March 21.
Naira marley was born in Agege, Lagos State. He moved to Peckham when he turned 11.
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His most popular stage name is because of motivation. Naira Marley was inspired by Bob Marley, a reggae legend.
His hairstyle and dreadlocks are identical to Bob Marley's.
He said that Bob-Marley was the inspiration for how he got his nickname.
He shares a close resemblance to the former King of Reggae. To show his love for his model, he even wears a dread lock.
According to Naira Marley he never imagined or planned to become a singer. . He was a voice-over artist and an MC until he realized he had a musical talent.
Naira marley said he used to pay for the studio tracks of his friends until he tried his luck and saw the potential.
He did "Marry Juana", a solo track, with Max Twigz. The song was instantly a UK street hit.
"I paid my mates to go into a studio because I believed they had talent,"
-Naira Marley
"They recorded something and were like, "Jump on that man!" I was like, "Bro, are you sure?" '.
I jumped on the it anyway."
Much to Naira's delight, his verses in Nigerian were the most rated by the crew.
He decided to give it another try, this time with a solo track. The result was "Marry Juana", a UK street classic.
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>> During the month of March, Women AdvaNCe is exploring the minimum wage and its effect on North Carolina women and families. We delve into a different aspect of the minimum wage each Wednesday. Today we review research from the recently published Shriver Report.
Last year in North Carolina, more than>> 90,000 working women earned $7.25 or less an hour. Add that to the number of men earning minimum wage, and nearly 140,000 North Carolinians showed up for work and earned a paycheck, but didn't earn enough to keep themselves or their families out of poverty.
According to >>The Shriver Report, women earning minimum wage are unhealthy, unhappy, and rapidly losing the resources they need to care for their loved ones. Even as they earn low wages in the workplace,>> these women's share of unpaid work—caring for young or old family members—continues to increase, overtaxing them to a point of desperation.
The Shriver Report, a national project spearheaded by the Center for American Progress in conjunction with media leader Maria Shriver, studies societal change with a focus on forward progress. The most recent report, released in early 2014, is titled>> A Woman's Nation Pushes Back from the Brink, and builds on previous research regarding women's happiness, healthiness, and their roles in today's society.
After polling more than 3,000 people, researchers at gathered statistics about low-income women's feelings about their financial stability. More than a third of the women polled wished they had delayed having children, and nearly 75% wished they had put more of a priority on their education. Women without college and high school degrees make up the vast majority of minimum wage earners, and are>> more likely to live in poverty in North Carolina.
In fact, a 2013 report from the Institute for Women's Policy Research showed that families headed by a single mother have the lowest median income of all families at $20,000 annually. While that figure puts a mom with one or two children still below the poverty line, it actually represents a full-time hourly wage of $9.60 an hour– $2.35 more than North Carolina's current minimum wage. It comes as no surprise then that more than 42% of these moms report stress levels that are so high they consider taking time off from work to cope.
President Obama has recently called on Congress to raise the minimum wage to $10 an hour, an amount that could help pull hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians out of poverty. At least >>19 states have set higher minimum wages, and while more are considering measures that would fairly compensate workers, North Carolina is not among them. Although>> research shows that increasing the minimum wage would benefit low- and middle-income workers as well as decreasing reliance on social programs such as Food Stamps, many politicians say they fear higher pay would drive business out of the state and lead to job loss.
Researchers who worked on The Shriver Report recommend tackling pay inequality and increasing workplace support for women in general. Although younger, college-educated women are increasingly approaching pay parity, low-income and blue collar women still earn only a percentage of what their male counterparts bring home. The weight of so much financial strain is unraveling the mental health of female workers and leaving them feeling unsupported and without options.
Women make up only >>23% of representatives in the North Carolina General Assembly– despite making up>> more than half of the general population. It is essential that we speak up about what workplace inequality means to us. Lawmakers must learn about the human toll that a lack of maternity leave, job flexibility, and good pay means to women in our state.
According to the Shriver Report, more than 73% of Americans believe women should receive equal pay, and 78% said all women and families should have access to health care. These are not marginal interests, or special needs. The health and livelihood of our state's women is essential to the well being of our population as whole.


POLICE are trying to keep cyclists safe on the roads of Redditch by handing out high-vis gear and advice.
Anna Higgins and PCSO Mike Smith set up their station at the top of Unicorn Hill today (Wednesday) as part of the Be Safe Be Seen campaign. Safer Roads Partnership, West Mercia Police and Warwickshire Police have all teamed up to create the project which is aimed at helping bike users and preventing them from getting knocked off or hit now the winter has draw in.
They have also been setting up these stop points throughout Hereford and Stratford Upon Avon this week.
The officers will be stopping cyclists who they believe will not be visible enough on the road and are left vulnerable.
Miss Higgins said: "We really are trying to prevent anyone from being hurt now that it is getting dark much earlier. We are getting longer nights and darker mornings and we think it is really important to take preventative measures.
When the partnership carried out the scheme last year they saw more than 450 benefit from the advice given.


A collection of posts from this week that I found interesting.
Evi L Bloggerlady starts us off with Unplanned: A Review.
SiGraybeard – Plastic Bag Bans – Hurting the Environment and Making People Sicker.
The Other McCain Border Crisis at 'Breaking Point' in Texas.
Democrats have embraced an anti-American ideology on immigration, taking the side of foreign law-breakers against U.S. law enforcement.
Smitty at The Other McCain – Operation 'Unplanned' Maintenance.
Ace at Ace of Spades HQ – Statistics And Probability In Scientific Research Is Immensely Complicated, And Is Almost Always Misinterpreted By The Media And Especially By Juries.
Don Surber – Reporters fear retribution. They should.
President Trump has exposed the newspapers for what they are: Pravda with sports coverage.
And again from Don Surber – The prescience of Donald Trump.
This is the national emergency that President Trump predicted. All the self-appointed experts were wrong.
The Pirate's Cove – Life Under Modern Socialism: Venezuela To Ration Electricity.
Vodka Pundit – Surprise! NYC Losing Restaurant Jobs to $15 Minimum Wage.
The Geller Report – Jihad-Rep Ilhan Omar Refuses To Condemn Gays Being Stoned To Death.
The Daley Gator – Remember when I said the Left would weaponize #MeToo?.
Stately McDaniel Manor – Jussie Smollett: Fighter For Social Justice.
Professor David Yamane of Gun Curious – The Continuing Expansion of Permitless Concealed Carry Laws in the United States.
Michelle Malkin – Nancy Pelosi's perv problem.
The latest beneficiary of her soft-glove treatment is former Vice President and potential 2020 Democratic presidential aspirant Joe Biden — a.k.a. the veep creep.
And again from Stately McDaniel Manor – License To Kill: The Murder Of Erik Scott, 02-27-19 Update.
I hope your weekend is off to good start.


But, other than that, GOOD WORK! Now go to sleep!
to map RSSI to DIO0?
Yup, that's what that line does.
Cool. By the way, from an energy perspective, is it also better to use the RFM69 based wake-up timer method than the WDT, for cases where the delay is < 8 seconds? i.e. maybe it should be the new default wakeup timer, except in cases where that interferes with something actively going on with the RFM69 radio. I know, I know, RTFM.... IIRC, though, the answer would be yes.
is it also better to use the RFM69 based wake-up timer method than the WDT, for cases where the delay is < 8 seconds?
At about 2 seconds the 2 RX windows themselves cost about the same as the WDT. Additionally you need to execute the code to start listen mode, end it and reinitialize the radio. We'll should time that to see how much power it costs.
Oh, and Kobuki, I hereby officially award you with Joe's highly coveted Listen Mode Medal.
But, seriously, good work on testing this so quickly.
What you noted about the RSSI. Why do you receive 3 interrupts?
The radio wakes the 328p three times with an RSSI until the selected time has passed. I would have expected 2 interrupts: one for the initial RX window right when listen mode is entered and one after the idle period. But I immediately get 2 during the first RX window and the the third at the correct time.
You might want to check out the datasheet. All kinds of signals can be mapped to DIO0. In this case we don't want payloadready (which I use with normal listen mode), but RSSI detected.
Hmm, it doesn't sound right. It can be circumvented by ignoring the bogus signals and then entering sleep mode, though. Haven't run your skecth yet, so it might not be a feasible solution.
I know about the mappings, but for the special purpose of external wakeup, I haven't fully explored their necessary settings yet. It seems from your code that you set RSSI IRQ for RX mode on DIO0, into which the module enters when waking itself up via its own internal RC timer to start RX mode for the defined period.
It can be circumvented by ignoring the bogus signals and then entering sleep mode, though.
Sure. if you check my code I just call powerDown 3x - once for each interrupt. As I said two interrupts are completely expected. The second one during the first RX window is a bit surprising.
Nothing special for wakeup. the 328p wakes up on any interrupt. So by enabling interrupts and mapping a signal at the radio to DIO0 we'll get woken up by that signal, in this case "RSSI detected" which is active when RSSI has been detected as above threshold.
Why are 2 interrupts expected?
Not special for the 328p, but special use case of settings and interrupts for the RFM module, my original proposal which we're discussing right now. I thought that either in packet mode we might just get the same interrupt (remember that I suggested no sync word, no preamble), namely PayloadReady, or switching to another mode, eg. continuous mode + ook, we'd get it. BTW if it's indeed the case, I'm sure PayloadReady would fire only once until cleared. Would make life simpler and less quirks would be needed.
Very simple: when you enter listen mode the radio immediately start an RX window. You get an interrupt for that window, but you want to wait for the second window to get the idle delay.
I thought that either in packet mode we might just get the same interrupt (remember that I suggested no sync word, no preamble), namely PayloadReady, or switching to another mode, eg. continuous mode + ook, we'd get it. BTW if it's indeed the case, I'm sure PayloadReady would fire only once until cleared. Would make life simpler and less quirks would be needed.
Oh, I see. You want to use OOK, fixed 1 byte packet length, no preamble, no sync word, etc. and then receive the noise as packet. Yeah, I don't know if that would work. In any case RSSI detection is faster than receiving a byte, so the RSSI approach is likely superior.
No, I don't want to use OOK mode, but it's a possibility. All we want is some noise to trigger the interrupt. At the very high bitrate you've set in your test code, it would probably take around 50 uS to receive a byte, or maybe less. And if it works, there are no other tricks/circumventions needed. I will test it, I hopefully will have more time at the weekend.


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Q: ConstraintViolationTransactionFailureException when deleting all nodes from Neo4j When attempting to delete all nodes from my Neo4j graph database, which I have successfully done many times in the past on smaller datasets, I consistently ran across Error: undefined - undefined after running this query

MATCH (n) DETACH
DELETE n

I figured the number of nodes I was attempting to delete at once may be too large (>100000), so I then tried this query

MATCH (n)
OPTIONAL MATCH (n)-[r]-()
WITH n,r LIMIT 10000
DELETE n,r

and many variations of it, acting on mostly what I read in this post: Best way to delete all nodes and relationships in Cypher. All returned this error
org.neo4j.kernel.api.exceptions.ConstraintViolationTransactionFailureException: Cannot delete node<32769>, because it still has relationships. To delete this node, you must first delete its relationships.
and each time, the node Neo4j could not delete differs. Is there any way of resolving this issue?
Perhaps also noteworthy, while desperately running variations of the previous query, when I ran this query

MATCH ()-[r]-()
OPTIONAL MATCH (n)-[r]-()
WITH r,n LIMIT 10000
DELETE r,n

I got this rather unique error
Java heap space
in the console, which showed up as Neo.DatabaseError.General.UnknownError in the banner.

A: One of the problems with the way your queries are written is that each DELETE is only attempting to delete a single node/relationship pair at a time. If any nodes have more than one relationship, you will get that constraint violation error, since in order to delete a node you have to delete all of its relationships (either beforehand or at the same time).
To delete 10000 nodes (and all their relationships), use this query:
MATCH (n)
WITH n LIMIT 10000
DETACH DELETE n;


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Graffunder Takes WORCS Podium Again!
By DR Staff
Corona, CA - July 16, 2012 - Husqvarna's Cory Graffunder rode to another podium finish at the eighth round of the World Off Road Championship Series (WORCS), finishing third at the newly added Pala round in Southern California. With just two rounds remaining, his third place keeps him within sight of the PRO 2 Championship, of which he is seven points behind.
"Today was one of those races you are just happy to get behind you," Cory explained. "My Husky worked great, but the course was just a really long motocross track. There wasn't much off-road to it. My goal was to finish as strong as possible and salvage as many points as I could."
The addition of the Pala event was a mid-season changeup as the WORCS series was unable to secure the resources to safely host the Gorman, California event. After carding a respectable finish on one of this year's faster courses, Cory looks forward to a more technical track at Anza where he hopes to close up the points chase.
"I really excel in the tight difficult events," Graffunder said. "The next round has the potential to be a bit tighter, so I am hoping to use it to take over the championship lead. I plan to come out strong in Anza!"
Cory returns to racing at the ninth round of the WORCS series on Sunday, August 12 at Cahuilla Creek MX Park in Anza, California.
For more information on the entire 2012 Husqvarna line-up, please go to www.husqvarna-motorcyclesna.com. Head to your nearest dealership to pick up a copy of the 2012 RiDE MORE Catalog, available now!
Be sure to follow Team Husqvarna on Facebook or via Twitter @HusqvarnaNA.
Husqvarna Motorcycles. Tradition on two wheels since 1903.
Husqvarna Motorcycles, a part of the BMW Group since October 2007, are widely known and respected in the off-road world for a heritage of competition and numerous motocross and enduro world championships. Originally founded in Sweden in 1903, Husqvarna motorcycles have been designed and manufactured in Varese, Italy since 1987.
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Husqvarna Motorcycles NA, LLC is part of BMW (US) Holding Corp. BMW Group's sales headquarters for North, Central and South America is located in Woodcliff Lake, NJ. Husqvarna has continued to expand its professional race team to compete in AMA National Enduro, GNCC, EnduroCross, the AMA Western Hare Scrambles Series and WORCS championships. Husqvarna team riders are competing aboard 2012 Husqvarna TC250, TXC250, TXC310 and TXC511 off-road models.
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Guys, 'Fast & Furious' is Now the Densest, Most Complicated Franchise in Hollywood
Guys, 'Fast & Furious' is Now the Densest, Most Complicated Franchise in Hollywood
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We live in The Age of Accessibility. The movies that get made today are the ones that can be marketed to and most easily understood by the widest possible audience. That means stripping properties of all but their most essential elements. That means making reboots and remakes instead of sequels whenever possible. That means an emphasis on simplicity over complexity.
Consider some recent blockbusters. The #1 movie in America is currently "Star Trek Into Darkness," the twelfth film in the science-fiction franchise's history, but just the second since the complete reboot from 2009's "Star Trek" which washed away decades of continuity and started things over from scratch. "The Amazing Spider-Man" only had three previous movies worth of story to contend with when Marc Webb joined the franchise. He could have just made a sequel; Webb and Sony Pictures chose a reboot instead. Next month at the multiplex will be dominated by "Man of Steel" — a reboot that stands in stark contrast to the last Superman movie, 2006's "Superman Returns," which was loaded with references to the older films in that series.
Look at the minimalism of those titles, too. Last fall, Tyler Perry starred as James Patterson's famous detective in "Alex Cross." Later this summer, we'll see "The Wolverine" — a strikingly simple title for the follow-up to something called "X-Men Origins: Wolverine." And this Christmas, there's a new entry in the long-running franchise based on Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan novels. This one is a reboot (the franchise's second) starring "Star Trek"'s Chris Pine. Its title? "Jack Ryan."
And yet in the midst of this trend toward absolute accessibility, there is one Hollywood franchise that has bucked the conventional wisdom about simple, uncomplicated storytelling. It continues to celebrate its continuity, and to deepen it with each new film. And it's done it with great creative and financial success.
That franchise, kind of shockingly, is "Fast & Furious."
It's shocking because this is a series known for its complete and absolute stupidity. The stupidity of its characters, who are almost entirely meatheaded lunks, the stupidity of its storylines, like the one that involved a drug dealer trying to secretly smuggle drugs into Mexico with incredibly flashy street racers with bright neon reflective paint jobs, and the stupidity of the dialogue. But a funny thing happened while Vin Diesel's Dominic Toretto and Paul Walker's Brian O'Conner were living their lives a quarter mile at a time: the "Fast & Furious" movies got smarter. Totes smarter, yo.
Granted, these films are still defined by their embrace of flagrantly idiotic action sequences. The new movie, "Fast & Furious 6" includes a scene where a bunch of muscle cars fight a tank, and another where a bunch of muscle cars fight a cargo plane (in "Fast & Furious 7," I will settle for nothing less than muscle cars versus an evil sentient space station). But the plot line that ever-so-loosely connects these epic battles between dudes and bros has gotten remarkably knotty. You can enjoy "Fast & Furious 6" without having seen any of the previous movies. But fully understanding what the hell is going on (beyond, y'know, "VROOM! GRUNT! SMASH!") requires a working knowledge of the entire franchise in a way that is growing increasingly rare in big budget blockbusters.
What started as a fairly simple — okay, okay, extraordinarily simple — story of an undercover cop (Walker) who gets a man-crush on his dopily philosophical target (Diesel) has metastasized into a sprawlingly intricate crime epic. Although the first and second sequels pushed the franchise away from its burly, pectoral-muscle-covered heart, director Justin Lin and screenwriter Chris Morgan — who've collaborated on each sequel since 2006's "The Fast & the Furious: Tokyo Drift" — have found ways to make even the orphaned entries important, salvaging fun elements from not-so-fun movies. Tyrese Gibson's Roman and Ludacris' Tej both debuted in 2003's "2 Fast 2 Furious;" Sung Kang's Han was first featured in the aforementioned "Tokyo Drift" (more on him in a minute).
With each subsequent installment, the cast swells. 2009's "Fast & Furious" added Gal Gadot's Gisele, who started a romance with Han. 2011's "Fast Five" introduced Dwayne Johnson's Agent Luke Hobbs and Elsa Pataky's Elena. All of these characters return in "Fast & Furious 6," many with their own subplots and love stories.
The narrative of "Fast & Furious 6" hinges on the fate of one Letty Ortiz (Michelle Rodriguez), the longtime paramour of Diesel's Dom. Letty appeared in the first film, "The Fast & the Furious," then rejoined the franchise (along with most of the original cast) in "Fast & Furious." In that film, she was presumed killed while working undercover for Walker's Brian, who was, at the time, an FBI agent. But now Letty turns up alive, working with an international criminal name Owen Shaw (Luke Evans), so Dom, Brian, and their team partner up with their former nemesis Hobbs to find their friend and take down the bad guy.
Everything between the stunts is still basically filler. But Lin and Morgan don't get enough credit for just how dense and rewarding that filler has become. Their approach is perhaps best typified by their treatment of Sung Kang's Han; talking about him will require some significant SPOILERS for the earlier films in the series (I'll try to stay vague about "Fast & Furious 6").
Although "Tokyo Drift" technically starred Lucas Black as a displaced American teen, the real star was Kang, who brought a wounded, sad soul to a popcorn movie built around the concept of cars turning for 104 minutes. Although Han died in "Tokyo Drift," he reappeared no worse for wear in "Fast & Furious;" in a crafty bit of reverse engineering, the fourth film (and the fifth and sixth) were actually set before the events of the third. The exact chronology didn't make a whole lot of sense, but you forgave it anyway because Han was such a fun addition to the crew and Kang was such a wonderfully laconic presence.
Han's doomed fate was alluded to, with a wink, in each new movie. In "Fast Five," when asked by Gisele where they should travel with their share of the Rio heist loot, he suggests Madrid. When she quips that she thought he wanted to go to Tokyo, he shoots back "We'll get there… eventually."
At that point Lin and Morgan could have just forgotten about "Tokyo Drift" completely. They could have moved ahead and pretended like it never happened — and in the Age of Accessibility, that's probably what most franchises would do. Instead, with "Fast & Furious 6," they did the exact opposite. They not only didn't ignore this rather unwieldy bit of continuity, they actually found a way to use it that simultaneously sets up "Fast & Furious 7" and retroactively enhances "Tokyo Drift" by layering in a really effective motivation for all of Han's behavior. It's not just smart; it's actually elegant. It's borderline ingenious.
AND IT'S A "FAST & FURIOUS" MOVIE.
Shrinking production schedules mean Justin Lin won't return for "Fast & Furious 7;" he'll be replaced by James Wan, the talented director of the first "Saw" and "Insidious." His focus will no doubt remain squarely on the cars (and, God willing, the evil sentient space stations). But I hope he continues this franchise's surprisingly dedicated approach to continuity. In the Age of Accessibility, it's a decidedly old-fashioned technique, but given these films' hero, and his predilection for classic American muscle cars, it's a fitting one.
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Structural Geology Symmetry Features of the Earth Associated with the Gravitational Field
parallels, 62nd, spreading, equator and figure
SYMMETRY FEATURES OF THE EARTH ASSOCIATED WITH THE GRAVITATIONAL FIELD, STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY, AND HYDROGEOLOGY In my recent book entitled "The Natural Water of the Earth and the Lithosphere" (1960), I formulated a new theory of orogenesis. According to this theory, orogenesis is part of a process of re-formation of the planetary figure of the Earth related to variations in the velocity of terres trial rotation, which cause an increase or a decrease in the planetary or polar flattening of our planet. I called this re-formation of the Earth's figure spreading of the Earth.
According to Shmidt's theory, spreading first took place during the period in which the spheroidal body of the Earth formed from an angular asteroid. The spreading which occurred at this time, during the increase in the dimensions of the asteroid and as a result of this increase, was the biggest spreading in the history of the planet. It may be assumed to have taken place when the Earth changed from a region of cohesive forces into a region of attractive (gravitational) forces. Spreadings recurred during each new orogenetic process.
Such orogenesis, then, is the part of the re-formation of the figure of the planet which occurred in the solid envelopes of the Earth, and which manifested itself most distinctly in the lithosphere. It is this part of the re-formation of the figure which we have called the spreading of the solid body of the Earth. The spreading takes the form of large-scale subcrustal tangential displacements of mass at the poles, at the 62nd parallels, and at the equator. Such displacements do not take place at the 35th parallels.
As a consequence of the tangential mass displacements over large distances, upheavals and subsidences of the topography take place at the 35th and 62nd parallels, that is, at the two definite boundaries of the zones, and also at four definite antipodal meridians located 90° from one another. This situation may be assumed to result from the existence of critical parallels and critical meridians which develop during rotation of the planet and which determine the structure of the Earth. The shape of the Earth,
therefore, is not something which was handed down to it from a previous liquid phase (as was assumed, for instance, by Clairaut). Rather, it is an acquired characteristic which can be attributed to the loss by the planet of the angular form possessed by the asteroid.
The empirically observable distribution of mountain chains over the terrestrial ellipsoid can be substantiated mathematically. Stress-discharge zones must have appeared in the crustal layer, which also explains the existing distribution of mountain ridges. The most deformed zones should be: the equator, the critical parallels at t35° and ±62°, and the poles, as the studies of Stovas over the last ten years have demonstrated. The maximum stress and maximum shifting of areas is at the 62nd parallel and at the equator, and minimum shifting takes place at the poles and at the 35th parallels.
The equator and the 62nd parallel are conjugate parallels. By this we mean that an increase in the length of one of these results in a decrease in the length of the other. The length of the 35th parallel, however, remains constant for a change in the degree of flattening. The conjugate variation of the length of arc of the equator and the 62nd parallels should cause deformations (tangential latitudinal stresses) there. These stresses are a maximum at the equator and they decrease with the approach to the 35th parallel, where they drop to zero. Further on, according to Stovas, the sign of the stress is reversed. It continues to increase toward the high latitudes, reaches a maximum at the 62nd parallel, and then decreases toward the pole, where it is once again zero. In general, as Stovas points out, a meridional warping of the surface of the Earth's figure should be produced. The meridional tangential stresses cause latitudinal deformations.
From "The Earth in the Universe" by Fedynskii, V. V (January 1, 1968)