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Q: Getting a blank page after adding the Routing in react Am working on a react web application and in my App.js when I pass the components without the routing they get rendered.

    function App() {
      return (
      <>
        <NavbarComp />

<LoginForm/>

        </>

        );
    }
    export default App;

this for exemple renders all the components without any probleme. But when am adding the routing ike follows:

    import 'bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css';
    import NavbarComp from './Components/NavbarComp';
    import { BrowserRouter as Router, Route, Routes } from 'react-router-dom';
    import './App.css';
    import CardList from './Components/CardList';
    import Footer from './Components/Footer';
    import LoginForm from './Components/LoginForm'
    import Profil from './Pages/Profil';

    function App() {
      return (
       <Router>

                <NavbarComp handleLoginClick={handleLoginClick}/>
                <Routes>

                <Route exact path="/login" element= {<LoginForm />}>
                </Route>
                <Route exact path="/homepage" element= {
                    <>
                    <CardList/>
                    </>
                }
                ></Route>
                <Route exact path="profil" element={
                    <Profil />
                }>
                </Route>
                </Routes>

            </Router>

        );
    }
    export default App;

when compiling am getting a blank page.

A: you don't need the fragments
 <Route exact path="/homepage" element= { <> <CardList/> </>}></Route>
also, it can be a selfclosing tag as follow

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Liberty's Lauren Hofer shoots over a pair of Dublin Coffman defenders during the first half of Tuesday's OCC-Central Division showdown in Powell.
Savitha Jayaraman (24) drives toward the hoop during Tuesday's game against visiting Dublin Coffman.
The Olentangy Liberty girls basketball team came out strong with an 18-5 first quarter and held off a late charge by Dublin Coffman to stay undefeated and take over sole possession of first place in the OCC-Central with a 64-59 victory Tuesday night in Powell.
The Patriots got a little bit from everybody in the first quarter. Bre Yashko began the 9-0 start with a three-pointer. Alexa Fisher added a three of her own later in the period and Katie Harrop, Savitha Jayaraman and Lauren Hofer each scored four points in the opening frame.
Krafty said Fisher was able to cut to the hoop a little bit better during the Patriots trip to Florida just before the New Year.
"I think I'll have to take a couple of days just to rest and regroup and start strengthening it again," Fisher said.
The injury seemed to spark the Rocks. Emma Warnsman and Abby Vollmer hit three-pointers to bookend the 10-0 run for Coffman (10-2, 6-1). Jacy Shelton scored the other four points and finished with a game-high 26.
Fisher fed Gracie Foth for a layup on the right side to end the run before Yashko hit four-of-six free throws down the stretch to seal the win for Liberty.
Yashko led the Patriots with 18 points and hit three three-pointers. She also had five rebounds. Fisher finished with 15 points, including 10 in the third quarter, and five assists and Lauren Hofer added 13 points, five rebounds, three blocks, two steals and two assists.
Coffman ended Liberty's dream of a perfect regular season with a 47-40 win in Powell in the season finale last season.
The Patriots got some measure of revenge by defeating the Shamrocks in the district final 53-45.
Now, Liberty (12-0, 7-0) is alone in first place in the OCC-Central with its perfect record intact, while snapping Coffman's 10-game winning streak.
Warnsman scored nine and Lilly Edwards added six with a game-high 10 rebounds for the Rocks.
Liberty travels to league foe Thomas Worthington Friday night for the second of three games this week. Tip is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
http://aimmedianetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2016/01/web1_hof1.jpgLiberty's Lauren Hofer shoots over a pair of Dublin Coffman defenders during the first half of Tuesday's OCC-Central Division showdown in Powell.
http://aimmedianetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2016/01/web1_sav1.jpgSavitha Jayaraman (24) drives toward the hoop during Tuesday's game against visiting Dublin Coffman.


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Blog Watch Glee Season 2 Episode 8 Online
Watch Glee Season 2 Episode 8 Online
Watch the latest musical show on TV, Glee season 2 episode 8 with an episode title "Furt" where a wedding might happen as the series features Coach Sue wearing a tracksuit wedding gown which I am not sure if its a dream sequence or a reality but her mother will be visiting her which indicates the greater possibility that the scene was real.
The following is the promotional trailer plus the summary of the Glee season 2 episode 8.
As glee club co-captains Rachel Berry and Finn Hudson move forward in their relationship, club member Kurt Hummel faces a key decision in his life and commences preparations for his father Burt's impending marriage to Finn's mother Carole. Wanting to compete, Sue also decides to marry, which brings her Nazi hunter mother Doris to Lima, Ohio for a surprise visit.
Well whatever happens on this episode, will it be a wedding or not what is definite is we are all watching Glee episodes. November 23, 2010 is the air date of this one and can be watched here at ShowFreeVids.com.

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« News and Analysis (4/8/15)
"The men were among thousands detained after the ousting of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi in 2013. Egypt's mass trials of Brotherhood supporters have drawn international criticism of the country's judicial system" …
Egypt Sentences Muslim Brotherhood Leader, Others to Death (Reuters)
… and an American who "been on a hunger strike over his detention for more than 14 months" has been sentenced to life imprisonment:
Report: Court Sentences US-Egypt Citizen to Life in Prison (AP /abc News)
"The Islamic extremist group has claimed complex hackings before, but experts and a French official said the ability to black out a global television network represented a new level of sophistication for the group":
French Television Network Hacked by IS-linked Group (Christian Science Monitor)
Muslims served in the U.S. military under the command of General George Washington, …Â the Civil War, [and] Muslim Americans fought and died in World War II and Vietnam" holding "military grades from private first class to sergeant":
Saluting Muslim American Patriots (Huffington Post)
Imam "Hazim … said the FBI told him they were undercover FBI agents and that the sting was arranged to get Booker 'off the streets…. Â think the two FBI agents set him up, because they felt at that point someone else might have done the same thing and put a real bomb in his hands'":
Cleric: Man Charged in Kansas Bomb Plot Is Mentally Ill (AP / St. Joseph News-Press)
"Leaders of the UM Muslim community tried to mediate, but the women [who vandalized Mahmood's apartment] were unwilling to meet…. Derek Draplin, a UM student, editor of The Michigan Review, and friend of Mahmood's called his treatment 'completely hypocritical'":
At U of Michigan, a Muslim Student Unmasks the Hypocrite He Says Vandalized His Apartment (Reason)
Cenk Uygur tells New Atheists who "support  profiling and 'want [authorities] to go into [Muslims'] mosques, universities, college groups, and if need be urge first [nuclear] strikes against them" they are "foaming at the mouth neoconservative"[s who should] … stop pretending you're liberals":
Is New Atheism an Anti-Muslim, White Supremacy Movement? (Middle East Eye)
"What you're dealing with is this religious imperative to be one community. Faith is supposed to tie us together with this sacred bond, and in some ways it does. But making that bond something that shows up in all times and circumstances is something that takes work":
Black Muslim Leaders Aim to Unite Their Faith Community to Fight Racism (Huffington Post)
"The demonstration came after two male Iranian pilgrims alleged abuse after Saudi officers at Jeddah's international airport searched them. Details of the abuse have not been made public though Iran formally has called for the Saudi officers to be punished"
Hundreds Defy Ban to Protest Saudi Arabia in Iran's Capital (AP / abc News)
"The Yarmouk camp in Damascus is home to factions that support Syrian President Bashar Assad and groups that oppose him, and it was unclear whether Palestinians from both sides of the divide had indeed agreed to join forces":
Palestinians Agree to Military Force Against IS Fighters in Syrian Refugee Camp (Christian Science Monitor)
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Java vs Ruby performance comparision.
In Levelfive solutions, we have used so many technologies for our client projects.
Before we choose any technology or a programming language, we always understand the client's requirements and accordingly choose it. But its mandatory for the programmers to understand the performance of the language well.
This post will show you the performance of Java vs Ruby. For performance, we have used Brute Force Prime Generator and also we have tested the solution across Windows Machine and Linux Machine as well.
Here is how performed in Windows.
Here is how performed in Linux.
Sort of – native types exist, but have wrappers.
None evaluates as false. Everything else is true.
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In this edition of "Great Wines with Great Friends" we take a look at a nice mature Bordeaux from an interesting Right Bank producer. With 40 hectares of vineyards, Chateau Figeac is the largest producer in Saint-Émilion and one of the most well known estates. It is not to be confused with the other 151 Chateau throughout France whose name includes "Figeac". It's wine carries the Premier Grand Cru Classé (Class B) classification within the Saint-Émilion ranking system.
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Posted on 26 November 2021 26 November 2021 by St Marks
The year concludes with reflections on gratitude, and awards for outstanding student achievements
A year of superb student achievements – academic, sporting, cultural, and in community service – has been recognised with awards presented at the College's recent Final Dinner.
The Final Service and Dinner on Saturday 30 October were the climax of a jam-packed Term 4. A Quiz Night run by the Charitable Foundation raised a record sum for charities. Old Collegian and entrepreneur David Rohrsheim gave a fascinating talk on how his experience at St Mark's helped equip him with the skills to bring Uber to Australia, and former Defence Minister Christopher Pyne spoke compellingly on Australia's strategic position. A "Mark's Day Out" music festival on the tennis courts was a great opportunity for students to relax before exams, the Variety Evening (or College Revue) featured sparkling skits – and there was much more!
Having been equal first in the High Table Cup for some time, the College ended the year narrowly behind St Ann's (in first place) and Aquinas, after securing third place in the Table Tennis and in the Athletics. In both of these sports (as throughout the year), the College competed with energy and commitment, and with some outstanding individual performances – including from Kira McMahon, who set a new record in the women's 200m.
A highlight of October was the election (for the first time through electronic voting) and the appointment of an impressive team of student leaders for 2022. These came in the days after a fun "Leadership Dinner" in the Learning Commons at which the Head of College (Professor Don Markwell) enthusiastically thanked the student leaders of 2021 for their exceptional leadership and service to the College this year.
This theme of gratitude continued at the College's Final Service at Christ Church North Adelaide – attended by the Premier, the Hon. Steven Marshall MP, and including performances by the College choir and music student Elinor Warwick on violin – prior to the Final Dinner.
Both the Chaplain (the Rev'd Grant Moore) and Professor Markwell spoke in the Service on the importance and benefits of gratitude.
"We have so much to be grateful for", Professor Markwell said. (His address is here.)
Looking back on 2021, Professor Markwell said that he was "grateful for – and proud of – all that our students have achieved this year –
superb academic results in first semester
passionate and dedicated sporting performances throughout the year, from tennis in March to athletics in October, with grit and determination throughout
the creativity and flair of artistic achievement, both in music reflected, for example, in our Arts Evenings, and in visual arts reflected in Marksenfeast
the wit and warmth of our Variety Evening
the inspiring community service of our Charitable Foundation, including in fundraising and in working to help those less fortunate than us through Café Outside the Square and Anglicare
the many social activities organised by the Committee, underpinned by huge amounts of hard work on their part, including such wonderful memory-making events as the winter wonderland Narnia Ball and Mark's Day Out
the work that has been done on the Gassie to help return it to its former glory
the many and various activities to promote wellbeing and belonging among our students organised by so many of our student leaders, and
all the acts of friendship and kindness and camaraderie which students in our community show each other, helping to support each other in hard times as well as good, and building the lifelong friendships which every student, I hope and believe, will take from here.
"I am grateful for the outstanding student leaders of 2021 who have worked so hard and so well to make this year a special one for each and every student of St Mark's.
"I am grateful also for the outstanding staff who have also worked with such commitment to support our students, including in their academic studies and their personal wellbeing."
Looking ahead to 2022, Professor Markwell said that he was "grateful and excited
for the excellent student leaders who have been elected and appointed for 2022
for the major expansion in student support we will see with Stuart Meldrum becoming Director of Wellbeing and Dr Rachel Buxton moving to a mentoring and advisory role, with new staff coming on board as well
for continuing rapid growth in our College enrolments
for the fact that growing vaccination rates should give us greater scope to have all the activities we want, including those we have had to forego last year and this
for the opportunity to welcome our new College caterers, and
for the fact that next year we will celebrate the 40th anniversary of co-education at St Mark's."
Professor Markwell said that he was "grateful also for the scholarships and bursaries which enable students to be at St Mark's who otherwise could not, or would face much more daunting financial challenges".
Speeches by student leaders at the Final Dinner reflected their great affection for the College "family" to which they owe so much, and the sadness of farewell of those who are leaving the College – leaving with happy memories and life-long friends.
A toast to the students leaving the College was proposed by the College Club President for 2022, Caitlin Glascott, to which student leaders Kaidy Morgan and Aidan Jones responded highly entertainingly on behalf of "the Leavers".
The toast to the College was proposed in a most moving speech by Sophie Ludbrook, who was later presented with the Collegians' Prize by the President of the Old Collegians' Association, Mr Michael van Dissel. The Collegians' Prize is awarded (following a rigorous selection process involving student leaders and staff) to a student who has made the most outstanding contribution to the College, their university, and the wider community over a period of years.
Sophie Ludbrook is a third-year medical student and Hawker Scholar who served with distinction as President of the College Club this year, and as President of the Charitable Foundation in 2020.
The Final Dinner again saw the award of the Lilias Needham Medal for Service to a student who has given "an outstanding example of selfless service – of acting in a generous spirit for the good of others rather than for their own glory".
The medal is named for Lilias Needham (1900-75) who, as well as enabling the creation of the prestigious Hawker Scholarships, was an extremely generous benefactor to St Mark's College, including making possible the purchase of the house named in memory of her brother C. A. S. Hawker – but who insisted there be no public recognition of her generosity in her lifetime.
The 2021 Lilias Needham Medal for Service was awarded to Alice McKenzie, a third-year Bachelor of Science (Animal Behaviour) student who has served as Secretary of the College Club this year, and as the College Club's Merchandise Officer last year.
The College also again recognised the most outstanding individual academic performances with commendations and colours at the Final Dinner. These are based on first-semester results for first-year students, and first-semester results combined with earlier results for second and later year students.
Commendations and colours were awarded to:
Academic Commendations for first-year students:
Holly Boswell
Jessica Cassidy
Oliver Leslie
Darcy Lillecrapp
Talia Robinson
Sinead Sidhu
Jack Stimson
Academic Commendations for second-year students:
Regan Binder
Riley Cornell
Oliver Douglas
Caitlin Glascott
Jessica Hulett
Emily Jeffrey
Lachlan Matheson
Isabel Unwin
Grace Whyte
Academic Colours for second-year students:
Chloe Futcher
Max Gordon
Elinor Warwick
Kate Whyte
Academic Commendations for third-year students:
Kristen Coles
Katherine Dumas
Jackson Furst
Hamish Hill
Kira McMahon
Eliza O'Connell
Madeleine Taylor
Niamh Van Berkel
Academic Colours for third-year students:
Kaitlin Beltakis
Niamh Jones
Academic commendation for fourth year and above:
Samantha Hauptman
Academic Colours for fourth year and above:
Ashlee Nichol
Special mention was made of the outstanding academic achievement of Gemma Nunn, who had completed her degree mid-year.
This year also saw many fine individual sporting performances, which were recognised by the College Club with these Club colours, announced at the Final Dinner by the Sports Officers, Eliza Lee and Abraham Tuckwell:
Patrick Douglas
Swimming:
Ella Browne
Jonty Pretorius
Netball:
James Andrews
Kara Phillips
Debating:
Benjamin Ransom
Bellarose Watts
Football:
Blake Dodson
Taylor Glover
Gia Thomson
Hockey:
Brodie Carrigan
Alicia McCully
Saxon Westbrook
Soccer:
Eliza Lee
Connor Marzohl
Table Tennis:
Chloe Grosser
Athletics:
The College Club also recognised other student achievements with these Club colours:
Arts Evening:
College Revue:
Sarah Whyte
James Andrews was again recognised as Male Athlete of the Year, and Taylor Glover was recognised as the Female Athlete of the Year.
The College Club also recognised outstanding students in their first year in the College with awards, announced by the College Club President (Sophie Ludbrook), to Sinead Sidhu and Ben McCure.
Students who were graduating (or completing their degrees) at the end of the year were recognised with presentation to them by the Head of College of College banners. These students are:
James Andrews, Bachelor of Project Management
Kaitlin Beltakis, Bachelor of Health and Medical Sciences (Advanced)
Jack Brady, Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting)
Clayton Burke, Bachelor of Finance
Yemaya Coleman-Smith, Bachelor of Music (Popular Music)
Isabel Dawson, Bachelor of Music Theatre
Blake Dodson, Bachelor of Sport, Health and Physical Activity
Tayla Farlie, Bachelor of Business (Marketing)
Corey Finlay, Bachelor of Business (Sport and Recreation Management)
Abby Goodwin, Bachelor of Paramedic Science
Oliver Hoskyns, Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting and Corporate Finance)
Aidan Jones, Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice
Annabelle Jones, Bachelor of Arts
Alice McKenzie, Bachelor of Science (Animal Behaviour)
Sophie Moore, Bachelor of Human Movement
Kaidy Morgan, Bachelor of Agricultural Sciences
Matt Mouvet, Bachelor of Arts
Eliza O'Connell, Bachelor of Music Theatre
Oliver Quixley, Postgraduate Certificate in Film and Television
Bonnie Seagrim, Bachelor of Architectural Studies
Shawn Wang, Bachelor of Engineering (Civil and Structural) (Hons)
Bianca White, Bachelor of Health Science
Adam Feder and Gemma Nunn, both Bachelor of Agricultural Sciences students, had completed their degrees mid-year.
The Head of College, Professor Don Markwell, again warmly thanked all student leaders who had served the College during 2021, and made presentations to the most senior appointed student leaders: the Senior Academic Tutor, Niamh Jones, and the Assistant Deans, Kate Beltakis and Ashlee Nichol.
As we look back with gratitude on all that our students achieved in 2021, we also look ahead to 2022 with great optimism. Congratulations to the St Mark's students of 2021 on a year to be proud of, and best wishes for the year ahead!
Photos by Kaidy Morgan, Emerson Fielke and others
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Home > Malware & Viruses > TrickBot Group Most Likely Moving Its Activities to New Malware
TrickBot Group Most Likely Moving Its Activities to New Malware
TrickBot, the famed Windows crimeware-as-a-service (CaaS) solution used by various threat actors to distribute next-stage payloads like ransomware, looks to be in the midst of a shift, with no new activity since the beginning of the year. According to a report by researchers at Intel 471, the halt in malware activities is "partially due to a big shift from Trickbot's operators, including working with the operators of Emotet."
Even while the malware's command-and-control (C2) infrastructure continued to provide more plugins and web injects to infected nodes in the botnet, the last round of TrickBot attacks was recorded on December 28, 2021. Surprisingly, the drop in campaign volume has coincided with the TrickBot gang collaborating closely with the operators of Emotet, which resurfaced late last year after a 10-month hiatus due to law enforcement attempts to combat the malware.
The attacks, which began in November 2021, comprised an infection sequence that employed TrickBot to download and execute Emotet binaries, even though Emotet was frequently used to dump TrickBot samples before the shutdown.
"It's likely that the TrickBot operators have phased TrickBot malware out of their operations in favor of other platforms, such as Emotet," as said by the researchers. "TrickBot, after all, is relatively old malware that hasn't been updated in a major way."
Additionally, immediately after Emotet's comeback in November 2021, Intel 471 discovered instances of TrickBot sending Qbot installations to the infected systems, highlighting the prospect of a behind-the-scenes shake-up to relocate to other platforms. With TrickBot becoming more visible to law enforcement in 2021, it's not unexpected that the threat actor behind it is actively working to change tactics and improve their protective mechanisms.
As per an independent report issued last week by Advanced Intelligence (AdvIntel), the Conti ransomware gang is thought to have acqui-hired many elite TrickBot engineers to retire the malware in favor of upgraded tools like BazarBackdoor.


Anesthesiologists are given a lot of responsibility in the workplace. As part of a hospital's medical team, they are responsible for deciding which drugs will be used to sedate patients, and in what quantities. The role of the anesthesiologist is often taken for granted, but it's a vital part of the surgery process- too little anesthesia and a patient could be conscious during surgery, too much and they could go into a coma or even die. Most anesthesiologists realize the gravity of their responsibilities and have years of experience making sure that they get their dosages just right. However, there are some of these doctors who are less responsible and make mistakes that have life-altering consequences for their victims.
A patient undergoing surgery has to be evaluated before the procedure and given an amount of anesthetic based on factors such as their weight and gender. After being put under, the anesthesiologist must monitor the patient's vital signs to ensure that they are responding to the sedatives normally. This is necessary because of the very small margin of error that anesthetics have, and brain damage or a stroke could result from even a small error on the doctor's part.
A small mistake that an anesthesiologist makes could change their patient's life forever. If they don't pay adequate attention to their patient, they could receive a dosage of drugs that could cause lasting damage to their brain. Overdosing on anesthetics has been known to cause lasting neurological damage. Since the brain is responsible for so many functions of the body, the damages caused by excessive sedation can be far-reaching and very serious. These damages could be as innocuous as an allergic reaction, or as serious as a stroke, blindness, or paralysis. If an anesthesiologist is especially negligent, they could even kill their patient. Anesthesiologists have immense power and responsibility, and those that cannot handle that responsibility should be held accountable so that they are stopped from affecting anyone else's lives.
If you or a loved one has put your life in an anesthesiologist's hands and sustained injuries because of their negligence, you're eligible to receive compensation for any damage to your health.
An experienced legal team will be able to prosecute a medical malpractice anesthesia case with ease. With a clear medical record showing a disability maintained after surgery, and the testimony of other medical professionals advocating that that disability was caused by negligence on the part of the anesthesiologist, it will be straightforward to convince the hospital to reach a settlement or for the judge to rule in your favor. The money won, in this case, will help the victim of the negligence recover and adapt to their injuries, and the ruling will ensure that the negligent anesthesiologist will not be able to cause lasting damage to any other patients.
Car accidents may inflict enough force to seriously injure someone, and on the worst cases, even kill someone. It is sad to say that trucks are even worse. Due to their sizes and weight, you really don't want to get involved in an accident with these vehicles.
For this reason, both you and the truck driver should make the effort of avoiding truck accidents. Still, truck accidents happen in our roads, resulting into injuries, property damages, hospital bills, repair costs, and worst, funeral costs.
According to the website of the Clawson & Staubes, LLC: Injury Group, trucking accidents may happen because of various reasons, such as when the truck driver has become reckless, the truck has malfunctioned, or the trucking company has not been doing safe trucking practices. Whatever the reason may be, somebody is clearly at fault.
As a driver, you have no direct correlation with these reasons, so there is nothing you can really do about them. But there is one reason where you can play a part in – no-zones. No-zones are the blind spots of trucks. To prevent accidents associated with no-zones, both you and the truck driver should coordinate in the road.
Front no-zone – Most trucks have elevated compartments, so their drivers have the tendency to not see what is directly in front of them.
Side no-zone – Trucks are typically long and narrow, so their drivers may not have full view of their length, especially on the passenger side.
Knowing the existence of these no-zones is important, because if you do, you can intentionally avoid them and prevent accidents that can be triggered by blind spots.
To avoid front no-zones, do not stay directly in front of trucks. Increase your speed a little to form a gap between your vehicle's rear and the truck's front side.
To avoid rear no-zones, do not tailgate trucks. You may even go below the truck in case of a collision. Also, make it a habit to drive a little slower in front of trucks, so you have time to react to unexpected brakes and turns.
To avoid side no-zones, it is best to not stay near the sides of trucks. If you cannot see the face of the truck driver directly or on the mirror, it is likely that the driver doesn't see you as well.
According to the website of these Milwaukee car accident attorneys, those who have been injured in car accidents may have legal options. But of course, this doesn't mean that drivers can do everything they want. They need to be safe on the roads regardless of the legal consequences, and they can do this by having a considerable distance from trucks.
Are Head Injuries causing a Decline in the Number of NFL Wannabees?
Borland's concerns are based on the cases of three other NFL players, Dave Duerson, Mike "Iron Mike" Webster, and Ray Easterling who, after their deaths, were diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), an injury that causes a breakdown in the brain. CTE, according to medical professionals, was most likely caused by the repeated blows to the head the three players suffered throughout their careers; CTE made these men experience intense suffering, often to the point of breakdown.
When he was asked to comment about the lawsuit filed by NFL players against the League for its obstruction of the research on the dangers of sustained, cumulative head trauma, Super Bowl winning quarterback and TV personality Jim McMahon said that he knew his shoulders, knees, and back, his whole body actually, would be beat up, however, nobody ever mentioned the head. Even football legend, Mike Ditka, whose whole life was football, said that, if he had a son, he wouldn't tell him to play football: the risk is simply much worse than the reward.
Foe so long, the NFL denied any possible link between the sport and brain injuries or CTE. In 2014, however, it reversed course and settled a lawsuit filed by former NFL players amounting to more than $765 million; these players attribute their neurological problems to their time in the league. While NFL players may receive compensation, this is not the same for non-professionals, who played in college bu never made it to the NFL. Some of these former college players now also struggle with depression and short-term memory problems.
Football is a dangerous and violent game. It involves very strong and heavy players running into each other at full speed. The sad thing is, the more violent it is, the more fans, owners and camera crew are awestruck, not fully understanding these violent collisions can result to chronic brain damage and/or irrecoverable body impairment.
For those filing NFL concussion lawsuits, the NFL has approved a fund for settlements that players can apply to on their own. Without help from a seasoned lawyer, however, a player may not be able to receive the maximum compensation possible from the fund, which is $5 million. To receive this maximum amount, a player ought to be able to prove that he is experiencing certain long-term neurological injuries – a real challenge without legal help.
Driving while intoxicated is a serious offense that can have devastating consequences on the part of the driver. When it leads to the death of another person, the defendant could be charged with vehicular homicide. A Nashville criminal attorney Brent Horst will tell you that if a BAC that exceeds the limit of 0.08 and a fatal accident happens, that driver can be charged with vehicular homicide.
1. That the driver acted negligently while operating a motor vehicle causing the death of another person. If negligence was proven, the defendant may face an imprisonment of up to six months and the mandatory license suspension of 1 to 5 years.
2. That the death was the proximate result of committing a speeding offense in a construction zone. If proven, vehicle homicide is elevated into first degree misdemeanor and the driver can be subjected to a potential sentence of up to six months and a mandatory license suspension of 1 to 5 years.
3. Vehicular homicide becomes a fourth degree felony if any of the following conditions apply: 1) driving with no license or suspended license; 2) prior conviction of vehicular homicide or any traffic-related homicide, manslaughter, or assault offense. The driver could be subjected to 18 months in prison. The license suspension is elevated to 2 to 10 years in this situation.
4. If the driver has been previously convicted of a traffic-related murder, felonious assault, or attempted murder, the licenses will be suspended for three years to life.
In order to prove negligence on the part of the driver, the prosecutor must show that the driver understood but disregarded the fact that their driving presented a potential threat to others. Proving simple negligence will not suffice. The sentence for vehicular homicide will depend on how the offense is committed.
Car accidents that involve pedestrians will surely be fatal. According to the Toronto personal injury lawyers of Mazin & Associates, PC, the result could be grave injury, permanent disability, or death of the driver, bystander, and others. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4.735 pedestrians were killed in traffic crashes in 2013 alone. In addition, there were over 150,000 pedestrians that were injured and treated in emergency departments.
All states require vehicle owners to carry liability insurance to pay for personal injuries to third parties as well as payment for property damage to third parties. This will depend on whether the state where the accident happened follows the "no fault" clause. In these states, the insurance company shoulders the medical expenses and other costs, regardless of who was at fault.
If the pedestrian has auto insurance, they can still collect damages from their provider even if they are not driving when the accident happened. In some no fault states, there is a cap to the driver's coverage. In other states, the driver's insurance will shoulder the damages. If the driver has no insurance, then the pedestrian's UIM or no fault coverage will pay for the losses.
However, the problem with mandatory coverage in no fault states as well as the UIM insurance is relatively low and does not pay for pain and suffering. For medical and lost income, there is a certain threshold and if that amount is reached, then the remaining amount will be collected from the defendant's insurance company or from the defendant themselves.
Assisted living is a somewhat new concept, yet it is the fastest growing stable option for health care when it comes to seniors. There are a number of services and activities aimed for the well being of seniors that would given elders their much needed physical or mental assistance while still having the independence to enjoy the new stage of their life. It lets them enjoy their golden years – all while ensuring that their health and well being are properly taken care of and looked after.
Those who wish to avail assisted living from their elder loved ones, make sure to check every facility because each is different and could offer something distinct from others. Furthermore, each state and jurisdiction has their own regulations and licensing requirements regarding assisted living facilities, and this could greatly affect the choice you make since your senior loved one may have specific needs and demands. Generally all assisted facilities give basic health and other medical monitoring along with daily care and activities. Basic meals, social programs, and access to medical aid are just among the basic activities of daily living (ADL) provided by these facilities, but if you want to find one that can cater to your senior loved ones distinct needs, then visiting and checking as many facilities are possible may be the only option.
When choosing the assisted living, factor in things such as the type of residence you wish to put your elder into, the location of the facility, the type of services offered and needed by your loved one, and the people working and living there. Make sure that the community will be and enjoyable and comfortable place for the elder and will give then the best services that they deserve. Although the cost for these assisted living spaces differ, if they can provide the best care for your senior loved one then it is not a waste of money.


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We set off to enjoy the May day bank holiday at the Aspinall Arms in Whalley, as it was the Ribble Valleys Jazz Festival. I thought it would be great for our little man to enjoy some live music in a relaxed outdoor garden area. As we arrived there was a sign saying Beer& Gin Festival, if only I had prepared I could have had a couple of the speciality Gins but unfortunately I was driving so I was the responsible adult…. well as responsible as I could be! The sun was shining what a great atmosphere lots of family's with little ones running up and down a prefect bank holiday!
As the music hadn't started James headed straight to where all the boys and girls were playing on an old tractor. He couldn't wait for his turn and loved pretending to drive it, the only trouble we had was getting him off it! luckily there were lots of distractions and we managed it in the end.
It makes me laugh how he does all the noises and pretends to drive the tractor he's growing up so quickly I keep thinking where has my little tiny baby gone haha but its farmer McDonald now… think he suits it!
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(Video On-demand, March 2013) For a straightforward low-budget woman-in-peril thriller, House at the End of the Street isn't too bad: There are a few narrative curveballs, the lead actress is compelling and the brisk pacing forgives a lot of other issues. Few people outside the Ottawa area will care that the film was shot in the neighborhood, but plenty will see the film because it stars a then-little-known Jennifer Lawrence. Fortunately, Lawrence has what it takes to play a plucky teenager in danger: her performance is compelling as she holds her own alongside Elizabeth Shue. The rural setting is good enough for a few chills, and after a clumsy start, the direction builds a decent sense of tension as each suspense set-piece is put together. It wouldn't be fair to overhype House at the End of the Street as anything more than a run-of-the-mill thriller, especially during its first act, but it's quite a bit better than its savage critical reception may have suggested. If nothing else, it shows Jennifer Lawrence running around looking scared in the classic tradition of exploitation thrillers.
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Hamlet 2 (2008)
(On DVD, July 2011) There's a mess of intentions in Hamlet 2 that makes it hard to cohere as a purely enjoyable comedy. On one hand, the film is generally more successful when it plays things broadly, taking advantage of Steve Coogan's go-for-broke willingness to try anything, and an irreverent attitude that places no gags beyond the script's reach. The "Rock Me, Sexy Jesus" musical number is the highlight of the film, topping whatever risqué subject matter and foul language may not have reached. There are a few good absurd touches and unexpected character reversals, such as starring Elizabeth Shue as herself, taking plot directions from a young drama critic, meeting the accomplished parents of a good kid posing as a gang-banger, and ultimately having the kids save their teacher's self-esteem rather than the usual other way around. As with most comedies, there are a few smiles here and there. But Hamlet 2 is also saddled with a misguided intent to delve into humiliation comedy, to carry scenes too long after the point of the joke, and to attempt providing redundant emotional scaffolding to the comedy. As a result, the film runs long even at roughly 90 minutes. Coogan, playing a character often too dumb to live, is exactly the kind of actor who overacts when he's not reined in: his performance is a symptom of a film that hasn't quite mastered tonal harmony from beginning to end. There's enough off-kilter experimentation here to keep anyone interested, and the third act is successful enough to patch most of the early film's laugh-free rough spots, but Hamlet 2 doesn't quite manage to do justice to the kind of film it's mocking. The DVD contains a making-of featurette that tells us a bit about the writers' intentions (parody the "inspirational teacher" movies sub-genre) and shows us that the film's been fun to make.
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Posted in blues, new release, review By Bill Kopp On April 8, 2014
Album Review: Magic Sam — Live at the Avant Garde
Soulful blues guitarist Magic Sam (Sam Maghett) was only documented on album-length studio recordings twice in his short career. West Side Soul in 1967 and the following year's Black Magic – both released on the venerable Delmark label – showed the electric guitarist to good effect. But quite a few live recordings (of varying fidelity) provide a more intimate sonic portrait of Magic Sam. One of those – this newly-released set – documents a date at Milwaukee's Avant Garde in summer 1968.
Fro a field recording, the recording quality is superb. While it's a bit thin and tinny in places, all of the instruments come through: Sam's piercing guitar and thick lead lines, Big Mojo Elem's tight bass work, and Bob Richey's rock solid drumming are all well-placed in the house mix, and so that's what was captured by Jim Charne's multiple-microphone setup.
The recording was planned and carefully executed; this was no "reel-to-reel hidden inside a bag" sort of recording. Though Charne was merely a high school senior when he captured this performance, he clearly knew how to operate the equipment. The resulting tapes are, as Charne writes in the set's liner notes, a faithful document of the show: "When the band went on, the tape rolled. What we heard in the room is what we got on the machine."
And what they got was Sam and his bandmates confidently running through sixteen tunes in just over an hour. Blues standards from Willie Dixon and Muddy Waters are prominently featured, alongside several Magic Sam originals and modern blues numbers like Freddie King's immortal "San-Ho-Zay" (the set opener). Soulful lead vocals and plenty of tasty guitar solos abound. Even on the nearly-one-chord workout "Feelin' Good," Sam thrilled the assembled small crowd with his singing and guitar work while Big Mojo and Richey provided peerless support. The slower blues (such as Lowell Fulson's"It's All Your Fault Baby" were just as exciting in their own way as the more uptempo blues numbers. A highlight of the set is a reading of Amos Blakemore's "Come On In This House," in which Sam engages in call and response between his vocal and guitar licks; every lyric line is answered with some fleet-fingered guitar work; the rhythm section lays back and provides their most subtle backing on the set.
But there are many high points on Live at the Avant Garde, and those who enjoy blues guitar work will want to hear it all. The question that arises at the end of listening to this CD is: are there even more Magic Sam live treasures waiting to be released? While we wait for an answer – should one even be forthcoming – this set should provide many hours of pleasure.
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Keystone Habits and Powerful Levers
I had the pleasure of meeting Paul O'Neill when he was sworn in as Secretary of the Treasury for President George W. Bush in 2001. He was a graduate of Fresno State, now California State University, Fresno (CSUF) and I felt a kinship since the university was in the heart of my Congressional district.
After about a year though, he was forced out of the Administration, accused of being disloyal to President Bush. It wasn't Paul's tenure in the Administration that impressed me. It was his unorthodox and incredibly successful tenure as CEO for Alcoa Aluminum beginning in 1987. Here's an excerpt from Forbes Magazine article written by Rodd Wagner quoting Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit:
Introduced to a group of investors and analysts in October 1987, he [O'Neill] didn't talk about revenue and expenses and debt ratios and earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization.
"I want to talk to you about worker safety," he told the Wall Street crowd.
"Every year, numerous Alcoa workers are injured so badly that they miss a day of work," he continued. "Our safety record is better than the general American workforce, especially considering that our employees work with metals that are 1,500 degrees and machines that can rip a man's arm off. But it's not good enough. I intend to make Alcoa the safest company in America. I intend to go for zero injuries."
When one attendee asked about inventories and another asked about capital ratios - the standard vocabulary for these kinds of sessions - O'Neill returned to the same theme.
"I'm not certain you heard me," said the new CEO. "If you want to understand how Alcoa is doing, you need to look at our workplace safety figures. If we bring our injury rates down, it won't be because of cheerleading or the nonsense you sometimes hear from other CEOs. It will be because the individuals at this company have agreed to become part of something important: They've devoted themselves to creating a habit of excellence. Safety will be an indicator that we're making progress in changing our habits across the entire institution. That's how we should be judged."
One of the investors told author Charles Duhigg he bolted for a phone after hearing O'Neill's declaration. "The board put a crazy hippie in charge and he's going to kill the company," the investor said he told his clients. "I ordered them to sell their stock immediately, before everyone else in the room started calling their clients and telling them the same thing."
"It was literally the worst piece of advice I gave in my entire career."
A prescient investor would have gone long on Alcoa stock. "By the time O'Neill retired in 2000, the company's annual net income was five times larger than before he arrived, and its market capitalization had risen by $27 billion," wrote Duhigg in his bestselling book, The Power of Habit. "Someone who invested a million dollars in Alcoa on the day O'Neill was hired would have earned another million dollars in dividends while he headed the company, and the value of their stock would be five times bigger when he left."
"What's more," Duhigg wrote, "all that growth occurred while Alcoa became one of the safest companies in the world.
Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit developed the notion of keystone habits and devoted an entire chapter telling the Paul O'Neill story:
"So how did O'Neill make one of the largest, stodgiest, and most potentially dangerous companies into a profit machine and a bastion of safety?
By attacking one habit and then watching the changes ripple through the organization. "I knew I had to transform Alcoa," O'Neill told me. "But you can't order people to change. That's not how the brain works. So I decided I was going to start by focusing on one thing. If I could start disrupting the habits around one thing, it would spread throughout the entire company."
O'Neill believed that some habits have the power to start a chain reaction, changing other habits as they move through an organization. Some habits, in other words, matter more than others in remaking businesses and lives. These are "keystone habits," and they can influence how people work, eat, play, live, spend, and communicate.
Keystone habits start a process that, over time, transforms everything. Keystone habits say that success doesn't depend on getting every single thing right, but instead relies on identifying a few key priorities and fashioning them into powerful levers….The habits that matter most are the ones that, when they start to shift, dislodge and remake other patterns."
There are two powerful levers, or keystone habits that if pulled, will ripple through this nation, reforming our culture and aligning it with the kingdom of God. Those are the reformation of charity and strenthened bond between child and parent.
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The Best and the Worst Super Bowl Commercials
We'd like to be able to say there was a standout winner amongst the ads in this year's Super Bowl but we really can't There were several we liked, though, and several we hated. We, like many others, enjoyed Volkswagen's The Force commercial in which a small boy dressed like Darth Vadar attempts to use the force on objects around the home including his father's Passat. Of course, the boy can't make His Force do anything. That is until Dad, unbeknownest to the boy, flips the remote leading to boy to think The Force has finally worked.
We liked the Motorola Xoom commercial which riffed of Apple's 1984. The ad did a nice job poking fun at Apple's minions and their cult-like following. In a way, the little love spark between the man and the women in the ad was more like Motorola's attempt at saying "can't we all just get along" rather than their intentioned notion the Xoom will separate you from the pack. Either way, the commercial was engaging and was a nice attempt to set the Xoom apart from the iPad.
We liked Coke's Border Crossing commercial in which two border crossing guards from opposing countries come together to enjoy a Coke together. It was nicely in line with the brand's notion Coke brings happiness to a situation.
We're a sap for this sort of thing but we don't think we're wrong when we say Chrysler's commercial with Eminem was a beautiful attempt at getting Americans to look inward again and to see Detroit as a place that can create innovation. As many have said, the execution could have gone wrong in many different ways but it stayed on an even keel and delivered a warm feeling without going over the top with too much bravado.
With its Reply All, Bridgestone tapped into something we've all experience at one time or another; the unintentional sending on a private email to a large group of people. This approach made it very easy for almost anyone to identify with the plight of the person in this ad who mistakenly sent the email and the great lengths he went to in order to stop it from reaching an unintended audience. This ad, itself, was hilarious. But it's unlikely the need fro great tires is even remotely on the mind of a person who just missent an email. The brand's second spot, Carma, sent a heartwarming, if not very weird, message
Bud Light's Hack job spot drew a smirk but that's about it. On the other hand, employing Man's Best Friend to host a Bud Light-fueled party better exemplifies the mindset of the mundane beer drinker who only cares about where the next party is. While that sounds like a slam on the brand, it's not. After all, it makes perfect sense given that the target audience for Bud Light is less refined and fine with drinking carbonated water that looks like beer.
CarMax struck the right chord with a kind of humor that actually drove home the salient points of the brand; that it makes the car buying experience fun and hassle-free.
Honorable mention: HomeAway for its highly produced James Bond shtick and that baby tossed against the glass.
In terms of what we disliked, there was quite a bit of silliness and idiocy. While many polls placed the Doritos Pug spot in which the dog crashes through the door at the top of their polls, the problem with that spot is that you saw the joke coming inside of the first second making the next 25 seconds the most boring 25 seconds of the entire broadcast. Perhaps of any broadcast.
While GoDaddy is usually tossed off as sexist trash, we felt this year's unveiling of Joan Rivers as the new GoDaddy Girl added an interesting twist to the domain registrar's usual bag of tricks. That said, now more than ever, it feels like the joke is tired, old and has been repeated far too many times for it to be even remotely humorous any longer.
We laughed at Teleflora's boob joke but really that's all it was; a crassly humorous joke. That's not to say that many men would really like to send that sentiment to their girlfriend or wife but it doesn't paint the brand in a very positive light.
There's a running joke on Twitter that Groupon is now seeking a new ad agency. That may not be much of a joke in the coming weeks as the negative sentiment regarding their ads pours in. While it's clear the brand was going for a snarky inside joke pointing out the fact we humans tend to place far too much importance on the unimportant and not enough on the truly important, making light of deforestation with female grooming and the even more egregious stab at the plight of people in Tibet by lauding their cooking resulted in some of the sort Super Bowl work we have ever seen.
While it's always funny to see Ozzy Osbourne the Best Buy spot from Crispin Porter + Bogusky was horrifically disjointed trash. What was the message? The Justin Bieber is weird? That Ozzy is a clueless idiot? How does this help anyone make the decision to shop at Best Buy? In fact, it might scare a lot of people away. After all, who wants to run into a freak like Ozzy or a pretty boy like Justin Bieber when shopping for your next piece of electronics?
Akin to a couple of elementary school boys telling jokes to each other in the bathroom, MINI's Cram it in the Boot from Butler Shine Stern & Partners was, while funny for a second like a fart joke, pure dreck. And using a five foot long sub as a stand in for a male appendage used to "cram it" in the "boot?" How old were the creatives on this account?
BMW. Wait, what? The ran ads in the game?
The rest of the Doritos ads? Ever seen the movie Idiocracy?
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New Info on the Rice Computers
Zevi Salsburg, John Kilpatrick, Marty Graham (peeking out from behind a visitor and his wife)
I had a really busy day today. I know I say that all the time, but it's true. Lots of running from here to there and so forth. It's partly because more and more things just seem to fall out of the clear blue sky and land in my lap. (This isn't a complaint, by the way. Far from it. I love the surprises.) Here's one example: I got an email at the end of last week from my friend Bart Sinclair over in Engineering. He had found an thick file full of various items having to do with the R1 and R2 computers. Did I want them? Yes, I certainly did. A couple of these things we had, but many I'd never seen before. So I ran over there first thing this morning and got them. Since I completely lacked the discipline to just bring them to the Woodson and get back to what I should be doing, I sat and rifled through the stuff, thereby falling behind on my schedule. Naturally, I blame Bart.
For the curious, here's the list he sent in his email:
* A set of documents that relate to some I/O devices used in the project (I recall seeing and using the Potter printer and the videojet printer) from 1971
* a manual on the operating system and assembly language programming for the Rice University Computer (1964)
* the basic machine operation manual for the Rice University Computer (1962)
* a technical report "Leaking Mode Computation on the Rice Computer" by Jean-Claude De Bremaecker, Jane Jodeit, John Iliffe, and Sigsby Rusk (1967)
* a technical report "A Direct Technique for Improving a Matrix Inverse" by Gary Sitton (1966)
* a technical report "Tags for Description and Control" by Jane Jodeit and Gary Sitton (1967)
* a technical report "A Machine-Oriented Logic Incorporating the Equality Relation" by Elbert Ernest Sibert, Jr. (1067 – this is actually a copy of his PhD thesis)
* a copy of Ed Feustel's paper "On the Advantages of Tagged Architectures" (1972 – this is probably the most widely known publication to come out of the Rice Computer Project)
* a mimeographed copy of a description of the R2 instruction set (1972 – this was the computer that I and John Doerr worked on as undergraduates – failed miserably, but not our fault)
* a copy of "The Rice Research Computer – A Tagged Architecture," also by Ed Feustel (1972 – this also had to do with the R2)
* a handful of design schematics for pieces of the original Rice Computer (1958-1960)
* a set of photos of people associated with the original computer, with names. One that you might particularly appreciate has Zevi Salsburg, John Kilpatrick, Marty Graham, and a visiting faculty member and his wife standing in front of the computer console. Another has Ted Schutz, An Hurd, Jo Mann, Jane Jodeit, John Iliffe, Phil Deck, Marty Graham, ?, Jim Peal, and Joe Bighorse posed in front of one of the computer bays.
* There's also a letter, which appears to have come with the pictures, from Marty Graham to Kay Flowers in 1986. that identifies people on the photos with their titles, or in the case of Jodeit Mann, and Hurd, as math undergraduates. Phil Deck was a graduate student in EE.
* a line printer print-out dated 27 August 1986 titled "AN ICSA CHRONOLOGY" (all caps, of course) compiled by Joni Sue Lane, beginning 1965 and going through 1985. It would be interesting to know the occasion that prompted Joni Sue to put this together. For whatever reason, this print-out was in the same envelope as the photos and letter from Marty. Perhaps it was a copy that Marty had kept and was sending back to Rice along with the other stuff.
Here's one of the pages. Frankly, I can't make heads or tails of most of it but I strongly suspect that it's quite meaningful to others. That's why we keep things like this:
I haven't had a chance yet to really dig down in the ICSA history but that is what's most interesting to me in this batch.
Bonus: More signs going up on the buildings today–and these ones are both very visible and very pretty! This is one of the guys who put them in. He's a really big Texans fan:
Here's what the letters looks like. They have little dowel-like things on that back, which fit into holes the guys drilled in the buildings:
And this is the new sign up on Rayzor. I think it looks great. Very dignified:
61 Responses to New Info on the Rice Computers
effegee says:
…ICSA history…
Talk to Carlyn Chatfield in IT. She has been interviewing IT retirees and others to assemble an IT history which naturally includes ICSA. She has several hours of video and is working up a timeline.
Wendy Kilpatrick Laubach '78 says:
Hey! You finally found a picture of my dad, John Kilpatrick!
He loved working with Zevi Salsburg. I still remember the day he answered the phone, listened, and said, "That's the worst news I've heard in a long time." Zevi Salsburg had just died of a heart attack, very young. It must have been the mid-1960s.
When I was little I used to play in the computer building with the rolls of paper tape they used in the computers, and with the barrels of ball-bearing-sized little dots of paper (chads) they had punched out of the tape. You could hold on to one end of the tapes and throw them down the stairwell. The computer was huge; it filled a room with banks and banks of equipment.
Edward Feustel says:
It was in the very late 1960s or probably the early 1970s. He was President of the Sigma Xi Houston Chapter and I was the Secretary at that time.
Dwayne Chesnut says:
Hello, Wendy. I was a graduate student with your dad from the fall of 1959 through the summer of 1960. As I mentioned in a previous post, I switched to working with Zev — probably sometime in late August or early September of 1960. I must confess that I don't remember seeing you in the computer room, but that is probably because I was there generally from about 10 p.m. until 8 a.m. Also, my third child was born in November 1959, so I had my own kids to enjoy.
The computer was indeed huge — as I recall, there were two or three racks of vacuum tubes about 20 or 30 feet long and more than 6 feet tall. It took 14 tons of air conditioning capacity to keep it from overheating.
Your mention of paper tape reminds me of Jean Claude deBremacker (sp?), who showed up every Saturday with a huge roll of paper tape containing a week's worth of seismic data. Quite often he managed to let the roll spool out from the center (holding it by the edge and parallel to the floor), and wound up having to straighten it out by letting it hang down the stairwell. He probably didn't enjoy that aspect of paper tape as much as you did!
I became adept at gluing the chads back into holes, using a hand punch to create a new single hole, and splicing paper tape using Elmer's glue and a 16-mm movie film splicer. Since it took a long time to punch out all of my programs, it actually saved time when I found a bug to change the octal code on the tape. These skills have never been needed again!
Scott D Bighorse says:
My Dad was Joe Bighorse! Small world!
Melissa Kean says:
Hey! Someone was just asking me about him the other day! We don't have much background information on him . .
mjthannisch says:
I liked the rates for repair. I'd love to get my computer fixed that cheaply today.
Guy Almes says:
Is there enough documentation on the architecture of the Rice University Computer (aka R1) for an emulator to be written? It would be interesting to be able to write and run programs for it, if only as a way to understand better what it was like to use it, and to examine critically what its strengths and weaknesses were.
I gave everything I had including listings of the OS and Compiler and instruction manual to Randy Neff, now a Docent at the Computer History Museum in California.
Could we get Randy engaged in this thread? With the passage of time, the historical interest in the "R1" increases. It may be possible to have enough documentation to build a real emulator for it, and that could be great for computer architecture history folks and may generate some cool projects for Rice Comp undergraduates.
Paul McJones says:
I'm another volunteer at the Computer History Museum. Today I started cataloging the three boxes of Rice materials that Ed Feustel donated to CHM (lot # X4736.2008). After I get them cataloged, I plan to scan portions. I welcome feedback from R1 folks to help me do a better job cataloging and to figure out what to scan. I'm also in communication with Ed Feustel and John Iliffe. You can contact me at paul@mcjones.org; see http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects for some other software history projects I've worked on.
— Guy
Deborah Gronke Bennett says:
Did you know about this online history of the R1? It has been online a long time – when Google was first available this page was the only hit for a google of "Ampex Core Memory". http://www.cs.rice.edu/History/R1/
I attended Rice with a friend whose father had been a graduate student who worked on the R2. The machine was located in an upstairs room in Abercrombie. That room was called "The Pit" when I attended Rice in 1976-1982.
Thanks to Deborah for the pointer to the History/R1/ web page; it is very valuable. It seems not, however, to be detailed enough to use to write such an emulator. Writing one could be an interesting project if the needed documentation were available.
By the way, I worked on the R2 with several good friends in the 1971-72 era. As fascinating as that was, I have more interest now in the R1.
Why so?
William Watson says:
My late father, James Kenneth Watson, worked on the Rice Institute computer from early 1958 to late 1959, while it was under construction, and also from fall of 1963 through spring of 1966, while working on his PhD. I believe he completed his degree the same year as his friend Joel Cyprus.
My dad had a small number of documents on R1. I passed most along to Adam Thornton, the author of the long article on R1. Adam said that he planned to eventually pass them along to the Woodson center. I kept my dad's copy of the 1962 Basic Machine Operations manual. I suspect that manual alone might have enough information to create an emulator. If not, the other documents described in the first message in this thread ought to suffice.
In 1958-59, my father's main role was to make sure that R1 was clearly documented. Once it was complete, or nearly so, he moved up to Oklahoma University in Norman, and led the effort to build their copy of the machine, known as OSAGE. I've not seen any information about the history of that machine.
Then our Dads worked together, Joe Bighorse
Mark Linimon says:
Mark Linimon here.
I wound up with the complete design drawings for the R1 when they were thrown out around 1975 or so. I would be glad to donate them back to the University — but only given that the University is more interested in preserving them than they were back then 🙂
I think it would be interesting to more fully document both projects. Myself and others such at Michael Donegan have been in touch about putting up a history of the R2, but so far all we have is various email messages to show for it. Doing post-mortems of why projects fail can be educational. (The short version: it was too ambitious a leap.)
Mark, Give your material to the Computer History Museum in c/o Randy Neff.
The computer should have been done in TTL as Prof. Frank Huband suggested instead of the higher speed ECL which failed because of thermal properties and the lack of Ernie Siebert's design time.. The PDP-11/20 front end processor effort failed because we obtained a wire-wrapped controller for the 2311 disk from a company that did not do a good design. It failed and with it all the I/O. Between the two failures, the project was doomed.
Newell Starks says:
I worked on the R2 during the summers of 1972 and 1973 on a NSF Grant. Spent many hours silver soldering new leads back onto ECL components.
It is easy to second guess technology decisions with the benefit of hindsight. TI failed to make the transition from TTL to MOS in a timely way – actually letting LJ Sevin, then MOS Department head, to leave and form Mostek. The list goes on and on for almost every technology company. It is super simple to miss that wave.
At that time ECL was arguably fastest – my recollection is that lack of a second source was the killer issue. It seemed to me that the heat transfer issue could have been solved if the lead reliability problem had not been there.
Within the R2 working environment, my observation was that the interactions between professors, grad students and regular students was seamless. It was the first time that I enjoyed an almost titleless teamwork environment that is taken for granted in software development today. People principally appeared to contribute by meritocracy – some folks were simply better than others at different things and didn't mind helping others.
Thanks for the comment! I basically only understood the last part about the meritocracy but I really like that part. It's what we're supposed to be doing.
I'm having to go through a bit of re-education these days. The current political reality is that "meritocracy" is seen as a toxic word meaning "government by the good-ol-boys club". The original meaning I was taught in my 20s was strictly about technical contributions. Understand I'm not protesting this; the open source software project I am on is currently in a self-analysis mode about exactly _why_ our "club" seems to be exclusively white men, and the casual use of this word appears to exacerbate it. Could it be that even some of us good-ol-boys need to grow up a bit? We'll see.
Here's my interim web site for the Rice R1 and R2 materials donated by Edward Feustel and John Iliffe to the Computer History Museum. I should have posted this sooner, but I was hoping there would be a more formal version at CHM by now … someday!
http://www.mcjones.org/rcp/
Many thanks! We will keep a copy in the Rice archives.
Amusingly I have doing a cleanout of my shed this week and found a piece of the ECL 2 days ago. IIRC it was an interface to an IBM typewriter and that circuitry was abandoned ~1972. I asked if I could have it when I started working on the project.
It brought back some not-so-good memories. The ECL used was flat-packs because they were the fastest gates that could be acquired at the time (1ns?) But the selection was poor so most of the logic was quad NAND gate chips. (Mistake 1 — too many wires.) These things was then placed into these little plastic trays. Undereath the chips was a plastic runner-thingy that had flat conductors that you could trim to fit. IIRC that was only used for power and ground. Once that was in, the chips were put on top. Mistake 2: any mistake in the runner was permanent.
Mistake 3 as I was told (as a freshmen, so long ago …) is that solder rotted the runners. So over time you had to go back and rework everything.
That mistake made the machine totally fragile. e.g. if you bumped into one of the metal frames that had the dozens of trays in it, you were guaranteed to break at least one solder joint, leading to wasted time.
By comparison the cache storage unit was made up of a handful of either MOS or TTL DIPs and that was on a piece of breadboard and never needed to be fiddled with.
In my big cleanup this week we have not actually gone through my cardboard boxes yet — we were removing the stuff in front of it — so I don't know if any other treasures will show up. Will keep people informed.
I put up some pictures of the circuitry. Sorry that I forgot to orient the pictures before uploading, I got distracted.
IIRC at this late date, the disk controller was built by some Rice engineers who were starting a design company after they graduated. They had, of course, left out one minor design criterion: Do Not Allow The Head To Seek Into The Spindle. Fortunately with the loose physical tolerances of the time, we did not destroy the head the first time we, uh, found out about this flaw.
I stumbled across this thread by chance while looking for pictures of Rice and the R1 — it is fascinating to see how much current interest there is in that unique machine. I like to tell people it was my first personal computer! I spent my first year of graduate study working for John Kilpatrick, intending to calculate the ground state energy for the hydrogen molecule. I made some exciting progress on our test problem, the hydrogen molecule ion, then ran into what I believed to be insurmountable technical difficulties in evaluating some nasty integrals. The available approaches simply could not work with the limited memory and lack of backup storage (no magnetic tape or disk drives). John and I had a couple of rather vigorous discussions, and I wound up working for Zevi Salsburg. I had three children by this time, and could not see a clear path for earning my PhD. I started working for Zevi in the fall of 1960, changing topics from molecular quantum mechanics to statistical mechanics of phase transitions (there is an error in the often-cited history of the R1 about my thesis topic — I never wrote any code for the hydrogen molecule or molecule-ion). At any rate, all ended well. John was on my oral committee, along with Franz Brotzen and Zevi. I finished my calculations about the end of summer in 1962, then suffered a severe case of writers block trying to get something coherent written about what seemed to be a huge amount of work. Over Zevi's protest, after getting enough written for a paper covering part of our work, I went to work for Shell Development in January 1963, without having finished my thesis. My starting salary had been set at $1000 per month, and Noyes Smith, head of the Shell lab, said he would be happy to have me start work at any time, but my salary would be reduced to $850 until I passed my oral. Then he said my first job was to finish my thesis, and offered typing and drafting help as needed. What a great incentive! I finished pretty quickly and passed my oral on the Ides of March, 1963.
I may still have some of the original code I wrote for my thesis problem — I have hauled it around for years, but may have tossed it in a rare fit of getting rid of useless stuff. If anyone is interested, I will send it to them if I still have it.
To clarify some of the earlier discussion, I found a memorial issue of the Journal of Computational Physics, with a dedication to Zevi Salsburg written by John Kilpatrick. Zev died June 20, 1970.
This is very interesting. It points to the difficulties of doing (what we would now call) computational science during the early days of the Rice Computer.
Also, by all means, keep the original code you have.
It would be *very interesting* to see if that code could run on an emulator for the Rice Computer.
I do still have the original code — more on this later. If anyone is serious about building an emulator, my thesis has excruciating detail about the Monte Carlo procedure and the algorithms I developed. The complete thesis is online at http://hdl.handle.net/1911/14121
John Iliffe says:
Fascinating to read these comments. I have the warmest memories of John Kilpatrick, Zevi Salsburg and J Kenneth Watson. And yes, I remember Wendy's visits to the Abercrombie Lab.
On the question of emulation, I haven't preserved details of the order code of R1. If there are obscurities in the available documents I could certainly try to iron them out.
John, it is really good to hear from you, even indirectly. Please send me an email to dwayne.chesnut@gmail.com
Gary A. Sitton says:
Hello, John, remember me? I worked at the R1 project and took a course from you also while working on my Master's degree (which I got in 1970). I am 74 now and mostly retired but have done DSP algorithm and C code development for the last 30 years.
Gary Sitton MSEE '70
PS: What ever happened to Jane Jodiet other than divorcing Max?
Hello Gary,
Yes of course I remember sharing R1 with you in late night sessions. Jane Yodeit (Griffin) was really the backbone of the programming effort. We kept in touch for several years – I visited her in Minneapolis where I think she worked for Adabas AG. But she was too sharp for corporate life and when the chance arose she retreated to (I think) Santa Fe, by this time divorced. We corresponded for some years, and she responded to Adam Thornton's queries in 1996. We kept in touch by email and card, then I got no response, so I assumed the worst. I see that Max is still around.
Enjoy your retirement!
Do you guys think there's any way you could all get together and let me listen? I don't have any idea where you all are, but that would be a wonderful thing.
I live in Las Vegas, NV now. Don't know where the other folks are — John Iliffe is the only person I know who has posted on this blog. It would be really cool to pursue this in depth. My notebook of code is about 3 inches thick, and pretty detailed. I even constructed flow charts for most of the routines.
The first code I wrote and debugged predated the completion of the Assembly Program, AP1. I had some coding sheets printed so I could write in assembly language, and I also designed and had printed (mimeographed, as I recall) some forms for the corresponding octal code. So I hand-translated the assembly statements into octal, then punched the octal tapes on a Frieden Flexowriter. Looking at my notebook now, I am amazed that I ever had enough energy and patience to successfully write and use a program.
This is very interesting. Your notebook etc. would be a very valuable addition to the Rice Computer stuff at the Computer History Museum. Having both AP1 and octal would be of particular value in helping nail down the information needed to (a) build an emulator and (b) write programs and (whether by hand or by machine) turning them into machine code for running.
Lynn Jodeit Ouellette says:
Dear Author,
I am the daughter of one of the authors (Jane Jodeit) mentioned in this article. John Illiffe mentioned her time in Santa Fe. She had wonderful experiences in Santa Fe, was very involved in supporting the arts there. Unfortunately she did pass away in 1999. Do you know who I might contact to learn more about my mother's contributions to this work? It would be meaningful to me and my children and especially fun because we have recently relocates to the Houston area!
Lynn Jodeit Ouellette
I will be more than happy to do some research and see what I can come up with. Thanks for commenting! If you'd like to come in for a vista you'd be most welcome.
Melissa Kean
As I said in an earlier reply, I'm currently cataloging a set of documents (and some photographs) from the Rice Computer Project. As I get a little further into the project, I can point you to documents that she created. There are also a set of Polaroid snapshots of the participants, including your mother. If you'll send me your email address, I'll keep you posted.
Paul McJones (paul@mcjones.org)
I'll wrestle you for it, Guy.
Seriously, Dwayne, you should at least think about placing this material in an archive and sending copies to other interested archives. It's important.
Melissa, I'm told that the key archive for this will be at the Computer History Museum. So I think we're in agreement. Although I'd love to participate, I'm not suggesting that I get the materials personally (apart from copies via the CHM).
I knew what you meant. I was just kidding, an old habit. Like you, we'd be happy with copies.
I would be more than happy to place this information in an archive — just tell me whom I should contact. I don't necessarily want to keep a copy of it, but it might be prudent to have it copied in case the original gets lost in transit. I don't think it can be run through a document feeder — the paper is more than 50 years old, and a lot of it is on computer printout that was trimmed to letter size.
Concerning its use for building an emulator, I guess the first question I have is, does anyone care enough to actually do the work? A lot of the complexity of the code was the extensive use of overlays mandated by the lack of bulk storage and the small memory. In recent years I have toyed with the idea of writing a MathCad program to do these calculations, which would probably run hundreds of times faster on my desktop workstation.
In addition to the code I hand-translated, there is some that was compiled by AP1. Not only that, but in a final fit of documentation after I started to work for Shell, someone — probably Jane — wrote an inverse compiler to translate octal code into assembly language, called 1PA. So most of the code is now in assembly language (printed, of course).
Dwayne:
You are right to play down the idea of writing an emulator. The order code would be the easy part, but getting together a consistent set of manuals, system tapes, and applications would be daunting. Rice missed a trick in not marking the 50th anniversary of R1 in some way. I think the CHM should discount the possibility of someone (of whom only a handful remain) coming along and emulating the machine, and seriously consider binning the archives to make space for something else. But before doing so it would be worth sifting through them and extracting material which might be the chapters of an "overview" to complement Adam Thornton's account, e.g. (1) hardware (2) system software (3) compilers (4) applications (5) legacy etc. As you can guess, I'm not a fan of "computer rebuild" projects.
Pat Groves says:
I worked on the Rice Computer Project as a grad student for Marty Graham from 1961 through 1965 or 1966. I have great memories of many long nights spent upstairs in the computer room typing on the Flexowriters to make the punched paper tape, pouring over the assembly language coding for our projects and working in the lab next door to construct new circuits for the computer. The group who worked there (including Joel Cyprus, John Iliffe, Jane Jodeit, Mary Shaw, Ernie Siffert, Sigsby Rusk, Joe Bighorse, Ken Watson, Algie Badger, Gary Sitton, Jean Claude De Bremaecker (who was also my geophysics advisor), Dr. Salzburg, and many others was a close friendly group who could always be counted on to help with the daily challenges and problems.
People who worked on the Computer Project will remember such amusing things as the speed gauge which could, in tight loops, be gotten up to about 10K instructions per second, all the beeps that would start coming out of the computer (from an error correction) when a loop got too tight, changing the ribbons on the line printer, Dr. Graham's continuing search for a new and better instruction to add to the machine, Ernie's programs to make the lights on the console (or some pattern in the front rack) flash in patterns, Mary's continuing work to get a higher level language compiler (What was the name?) to work, the daily computer shutdown from 2 PM to 4 PM when "the engineers" had the machine to replace burned out vacuum tubes, occasionally replacing one of the enormous CRT memory tubes, checking to make sure the cooling tower (Yes, the computer had it's own cooling tower out back.) was operational, signing up for for 10 or 15 minute segments of time when Dwayne or Joel were not using the computer, etc.
One significant difference in the way we programmed in those days — compared to today's use of object-oriented programming where memory usage and code length are considered inconsequential — was that we would spend days if not weeks in attempts to remove a single line of code from a loop. We would look for very esoteric ways to utilize the index registers and other "hardware" registers to avoid storing in the electrostatic memory — which was only 8K in size until the installation of the core memory module purchased from Ampex in about 1966.
At any rate, I would be very interested in being informed of any gatherings, virtual or physical, of any who worked on the machine.
My father was Joe and I remember a lady named Pat – barely. I'm willing to bet my mother does.
Bill Harris says:
Pat, by "higher level language compiler," do you mean Genie? I recall a Genie-LISP (or LISP-Genie or something like that), as well. It was basically Genie with CAR, CDR, COND, and a few other functions, as I recall. I recall doing some experimentation with it in a Hanszen class led by Dr. Siebert. Either he was adding equality to his resolution algorithms and my project involved exploring how equality improved performance of resolution, or he told me what to do to add equality, and then I experimented to discover performance improvements.
Were there any other variants of Genie in use? With the talk of considering an emulator or not, I presume there's no modern Genie compiler available, right (even without AP2 support)?
Adam Thornton says:
Hey, I know this is coming a bit late to the party, but I'm the guy who wrote the 1994 paper on the R1. I have a couple of the manuals and one for OSAGE. I would have to read through them again to tell whether they plausibly represent enough documentation to build an emulator, but the answer is not clearly "no".
Adam, Very interesting. I look forward to hearing what you conclude,
I sent paper listings of the OS, the Genie Compiler, and all the Libraries to Randy Neff at the Computer History Museum. I also sent them the detailed computer manual — a couple of linear feet of stuff.
One of the problems would be reconstructing "the switch panel" that could be used for debugging.
OSAGE? I would love to read that. My father Joe Bighorse was Osage Indian. Hmmmm, interesting coincidence?
williamwatson says:
OSAGE was the copy of R1 built at Oklahoma University. A significant part of the role my father (Ken Watson) played on R1 was to ensure that it was thoroughly documented. At the end of 1959, my father left work on R1 and went to Norman, where he was instrumental in the construction of a copy, known as OSAGE. The name may have reflected the location of the machine in Oklahoma, or could well in part have been named in honor of Joe Bighorse, with whom he certainly worked closely on R1 in the 50s.
My father gave me his materials on R1 and OSAGE, and I passed them along to Adam, aside from a copy of the 1962 Principles of Machine Operation manual that others seem to have had.
More context, or history on my father and his connection. He was born and grew up in Ada, OK, started at the local college (then: East Central State Normal School?, now East Central Oklahoma University), then transferred to OU in Norman. After finishing his bachelor's degree there in 1951, he worked for a year, then was convinced by an uncle to go to grad school. Shortly after he arrived at MIT, he realized that he was woefully unprepared. He got his Masters from MIT in 1955, but complained regularly to OU about their program. At some point, likely in the fall of 1957, while he was working in the SF Bay Area, OU got in touch with him and conveyed that it was "time to put up or shut up." If he wanted to make a difference in their program, they had a plan, and a part for him to play in it. Rice had gotten funding to build R1, and OU had gotten funding to build a copy. The way my father described what he'd been told was that he was to head to Houston, stopping by Los Alamos "to pick up the plans" along the way. My father had met a young Stanford grad while skiing near Tahoe, and didn't want to leave her behind. They got married January 4, 1958, and skied everywhere they could on the way to Houston. My father worked on R1 for the rest of 1958 and most of 1959. They then moved to Norman, where he built the computer. He evidently decided that he liked the academic life, as they left Norman and he returned to Rice for the fall of 1963. He got his PhD in the spring of 1966, likely working on R1 during that time.
I just thought to search for information on his PhD, and found the 1966 announcement. He worked on "Fabrication and Switching Characteristics of Ferromagnetic Thin Films". He landed a position at The University of Florida, and taught there until the fall on 1994, working for a while on magnetic bubble memories.
I thought I remembered hearing that my dad was one of the early EE PhDs from Rice, behind Joel Cyprus, but see Cyprus got his in 1963, while my dad's was alphabetically the fifth in 1966 alone.
I'm wondering how far we could get with implementing the machine as documented when it was behaving correctly, and not worrying too terribly much about fidelity to the inputs and outputs, or the mechanisms of the switch panel, to start with. If we can get something that just implements the instruction set and memory access, we have a lot more than what we started with.
After all, it's an emulator…we can start off with a completely nonhistorical mechanism for setting memory and register contents since they're gonna be implemented as byte arrays anyway. Likewise, single-instruction stepping is easy to do.
It'd be nice to be able to fork a copy of me that had time to do this.
Clare Durst says:
I worked as the SECRETARY to the computer project in 1959; it wasn't complete at that time and i remember winding transistors. I had graduated from Rice in 1957, about a year after marrying Lincoln Durst who taught math at Rice (less of a scandal then, marrying a prof while a student, than it is now). I knew John Kilpatrick and Zevi and of course Marty, and John Ifill and the rest. Dwane, your name is familiar but that's about it. I certainly remember Jane Griffin and she was an inspiration to me! We moved away from Rice in 1965. Lincoln was associate director at the American Math Society 1970-1985; he died in 2011. At Brown University, where I worked 1976-1998 I mostly did "computer stuff", training people in the academic Deanery to use macs and PCs; I continue that in my retirement community in mid-coast Maine.
I was looking for this R1 article which included my father – written early 2000 timeframe, but cannot find (the joys of finding 404 replacing a treasure). Perhaps you might have a method to retrieve. http://www.cs.rice.edu/History/R1/
Not sure if this is the one you mean, but this is the one I wrote in 1994 (now at archive.org):
https://web.archive.org/web/20080224035658/http://www.princeton.edu/~adam/R1/r1rpt.html
It is the exact article and I remember your name, now that I see it. We displayed a printed version at my father's memorial service. Thank you, thank you!!
I just sat down and turned on my laptop to find this. You guys really made me happy. Thanks!
I remember your asking if you could display the paper at his service, and saying that he had been very proud of the project and his work on it.
I'm really proud of that paper (which is now almost half my life old, which is a strange thought). I've written lots of things over the years that made people better informed. I haven't written many that made them *happy*, and knowing that this one did that makes me very glad.
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require_relative "spec_helper"

describe "Channel creation" do

  class TestChannel
    extend Channels::Basic

    attr_reader :all_counter, :filtered_counter

    def initialize
      @all_counter      = 0
      @filtered_counter = 0
    end

    for_all_messages do |hl7|
      @all_counter += 1
    end

    define_filter :contains_hi do |hl7|
      hl7 == "hi"
    end

    when_matching :contains_hi do |hl7|
      @filtered_counter += 1
    end

  end

  before(:each) do
    @channel = TestChannel.new
  end

  context "when a message matches" do

    before(:each) do
      @channel.handle("hi")
    end

    it "should run through the all message block" do
      @channel.all_counter.should == 1
    end

    it "should be executed by the filtered block" do
      @channel.filtered_counter.should == 1
    end

  end

  context "when a message doesn't match" do

    before(:each) do
      @channel.handle("no match")
    end

    it "should run through the all message block" do
      @channel.all_counter.should == 1
    end

    it "should not be executed by the filtered block" do
      @channel.filtered_counter.should == 0
    end

  end

end