Okay, prepare yourself for one of the most delicious muffins you will ever eat! That's right. Double Chocolate Banana Muffins have superior taste and texture and, [NEWS FLASH] they're a great way to use up overripe bananas! These muffins use both cocoa and miniature chocolate chips in the batter, then more miniature chocolate chips are sprinkled on top along with sugar. The outcome is both sensational and deeply satisfying.
Last month our church welcomed a new youth pastor and his wife. One of the gals in our Sunday school class has two boys in our youth program and they teach a middle school boys Bible Study every other Sunday night. So she was asked to hostess a "come and go" reception in her home for youth and our new youth pastor and his wife. I offered to provide some sweet treats (naturally). I had a lot of bananas I wanted to use up again, so I made three different kinds of chocolate muffins with bananas in them, plus a strawberry dessert.
Debra said my "desserts" went like hot cakes. The kids gobbled them up in no time flat with no leftovers. 🙂 I decided to make muffins because they're easier than cupcakes (no icing required on these), and also a little quicker than some desserts. Plus, I'd been dying to try these muffin recipes after seeing them on Pinterest.
Yes, these muffins taste as good, if not better, than they look. While I used them for a dessert, they're great for a breakfast treat or a midday snack as well. I liked using miniature chocolate chips rather than the regular size because it seemed like the muffins were more chocolaty as a result.
The only thing I really changed from the original recipe was how I baked the muffins. If you bake muffins at a flat 350 the entire length of baking time, they usually don't raise very well. I started the muffins at 425 and baked them 5 minutes at that temperature before lowering the temperature to 350 and baking them an additional 15 minutes or so. That way the extra heat causes the muffins to raise quickly, and then the reduced temperature enables them to hold their shape without flattening out.
If you're looking for a fabulous muffin recipe, then you need to give Double Chocolate Banana Muffins a try really soon. They are sure to be a hit with your family for any time or occasion including holidays, country breakfasts, tailgating parties, or just because….And don't think you have to make these muffins just for breakfast either. They're great any time of the day or night!
Double Chocolate Banana Muffins make a great snack for anytime of the day or night!
Miniature chocolate chips grace the batter as well as the top of these muffins for rich, chocolaty flavor.
Double Chocolate Banana Muffins will soon become a family favorite.
Place sugar, cocoa, egg, mashed bananas, baking soda and baking powder in a mixing bowl.
Add oil and whisk to combine. Don't whisk too hard, it's okay to have banana clumps.
Add UNBLEACHED all-purpose flour. Bleached flour toughens baked goods. Add miniature chocolate chips.
Stir ingredients with a wooden spoon to combine, but only just until moistened. Don't overmix.
Spray muffin tins with cooking spray. Divide batter between 14 muffin tins. Sprinkle additional miniature chocolate chips on top. Sprinkle with granulated sugar.
Bake at 425 for 5 minutes. Reduce heat to 350 and bake an additional 15-20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
All the kids raved over these delectable muffins.
If you want a chocolate treat for friends or family, Double Chocolate Banana Muffins is a great option.
These scrumptious muffins are great for holiday breakfasts or any time you want a dose of chocolate. These have miniature chocolate chips in the batter and sprinkled on top. Also a great way to use up overripe bananas!
Mix bananas, sugar, oil, egg, cocoa, baking soda, and baking powder with a whisk until well combined.
It's okay to have pieces of banana, so don't whisk too hard.
Add flour and a cup of miniature chocolate chips.
Stir gently with a wooden spoon just enough to moisten the batter.
Spoon muffin batter evenly into 14 different muffin tins.
Sprinkle each muffin with approximately one teaspoon of sugar.
Reduce oven to 350° and bake about 20 minutes longer, or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
NOTE:The secret to having muffins that raise perfectly every time is to start the baking at a high temperature (425°), and then lower the temperature to 350° after 5 minutes. This allows the muffins to raise properly. If you bake muffins at a steady 350° for the whole length of baking time, they will usually be flat on top.
I thought Double Chocolate Banana Muffins were delicious.
Making a batch of Double Chocolate Banana Muffins is a great way to use up overripe bananas.


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Claire's employee alleges pressure to pierce children without consent
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Piercing boutique Claire's says it is reviewing its consent policy after an employee said she was told to pierce children's ears without their consent.
Canadian Raylene Marks says her manager told her she should have pierced a seven-year-old's ears even though the girl, who was with her mother, clearly did not want her ears pierced.
The girl eventually left without getting pierced.
However Ms Marks says she quit over her manager's response.
"The girl pleaded and sobbed for 30 minutes not to be pierced. Despite Mom saying, 'Honey, we can go home whenever you want' she was not letting her daughter go home," Ms Marks said in an open letter to the company posted on Facebook.
"I'm inclined to respect a child's right to say, 'NO', to any adult forcing any kind of non-medical contact on them, so I told the other piercer I wouldn't be part of the ear piercing for this girl."
The girl left the store in Edmonton, Alberta without having her ears pierced.
When Ms Marks' manager asked her about the incident the following day, she told her manager that if the mother had insisted on staying, she would have refused to perform the procedure.
"You would have had no choice but to do it," she says her manager told her.
Claire's, which has boutiques across North America and in the UK, said in an email response that it was investigating the matter and "reviewing the policy to ensure that the intent is clear".
Kylie Jenner defended over baby's pierced ears
"Claire's has been piercing ears for more than 40 years, and has pierced over 100 million ears. Customer well-being is our main priority, and we ensure that any child piercing we do is carried out with the best care in consultation with, and with the agreement of the legal guardian," the spokesperson wrote.
Claire's 'considers UK store closures'
Indians, Hispanics and Nigerians defend Kylie Jenner over baby's pierced ears
Was Claire's the ultimate accessory for tweens?

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Beauty is back on the blogging menu tonight ladies and for starters we have a brand new brow product from Benefit Cosmetics- Gimme Brow! As you know I work at BeneTowers (aka Benefit Head Office) so I've had this product for quite a while now but it officially launches everywhere in the UK tomorrow and I'm desperate to let you know why I've fallen head over brows for it.
Have you fallen head over brows for this Benefit beauty?
I absolutely love this product, I haven't stopped using it since I got it!
Oh my word, this sounds so perfect for me! Need to try asap!
That looks amazing! I really want one after seeing the difference!
This is incredible, may have to have a little splurge on this!
Wow, I'm so excited about this product! can't wait to give it a try!


One of the primary benefits of inbound marketing is the ready availability of marketing metrics to determine how well your strategy is working. Just because you have extensive analytics options, however, doesn't mean they're all of equal value.
Knowing what to measure and how it can inform your marketing strategy is critical to getting value from your efforts. These 5 metrics are key to evaluating whether you're achieving what you set out to do.
With these, you get what you pay for (literally) and the standard pay-per-click or pay-per-impression model provides you with reports on exactly how many users you reached, in order for them to charge you.
Organic growth, however, is a whole different ball-game. This is when users arrive at your site driven by social referral URLs (not the ones stemming from advertisements!), keyword searches, blogging and link-building. This is the traffic you really want, because it shows you're ranking well in search and people are finding you through value-driven methods.
No, we don't mean the number of parties you get invited to! Social engagement is when your followers on social networking platforms actually interact with you. These are generally easy enough to measure with tools such as the Facebook Page Insights, but often business owners don't realize the value of an interaction. It's worth more than just accumulating Likes, though; the way social media algorithms work, the more people who interact with your posts, the more you will appear in your fans' news feeds. Which in turn encourages engagement, and so on. So keeping a close eye on how many people find your posts interesting enough to like, comment or share them helps your visibility, as well as showing you what's working and what isn't.
This isn't just about the number of leads you get (and convert!), it's also about where they came from and how they got there. Lead generation by content, channel and activity goes well beyond just knowing how many people viewed your website. Imagine how much customization you can incorporate into your marketing efforts when you know what sources drive the most traffic, which types of content are pulling users in and even the ones that are resulting in actual sales. To do all this, your website design process needs to include creating crucial elements such as individual landing pages for each marketing initiative, and customizing them by product line or other criteria.
When a user comes to your website a second, third or fourth time, chances are good they are typing in your URL directly. That's great, because they know your name now so it means your brand awareness is working. What's not great about it, however, is that you can no longer use them to establish which keywords are driving your traffic. And if they only buy on their fifth visit, you're never going to know how you got them in the first place. This makes it essential that you know (and record!) the original source of returning visitors, even if that isn't the source that resulted in their eventual conversion.
If your marketing strategy extends beyond attracting leads and encompasses a customer retention program, then it's vital for you to be measuring the lifetime value of your clients. That's the ONLY way you'll be able to calculate the long-term ROI on your marketing expenditure. Anybody can add up the sales in a year based on incoming leads and compare it to the spend for the same period. To determine whether there's a point in going on with your marketing strategy year after year, however, you really need to know if it's paying off in the long-term.
Without usable inbound marketing metrics to inform your decisions, you run the risk of falling for the "marketing is a luxury we don't need" argument. Remember, without marketing you'll have no market, no marketplace and no market share. It's only with adequate analytical intelligence, however, that you'll know what works.


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SODOM Releases 'After The Deluge' Single From '40 Years At War – The Greatest Hell Of Sodom' Album
German thrash metal veterans SODOM have released a new single, "After The Deluge". The track is taken from the band's upcoming 40th-anniversary album, "40 Years At War - The Greatest Hell Of Sodom", which will arrive on October 28 through Steamhammer/SPV.
Commented SODOM bassist/vocalist Thomas "Angelripper" Such: "We dedicate this lyric video to our recently deceased friend and former guitarist Uwe Christoffers. With this fantastic song he wrote for SODOM back in 1985, he stays alive for all eternity. We will forever hold him in our restless and blackened hearts."
"40 Years At War - The Greatest Hell Of Sodom" sums up SODOM's history in an unusual and highly ambitious way.
"Our goal was to re-record one song from each of our previous albums," Angelripper explains. "Not necessarily the most obvious ones, we wanted to go for rarities or tracks we've never or very rarely played live."
The CD and vinyl double LP with their martial cover artwork penned by Eliran Kantor (KREATOR, TESTAMENT, GWAR, among others) include 17 tracks, all newly recorded by the current SODOM lineup featuring Frank Blackfire (guitar),Yorck Segatz (guitar) and Toni Merkel (drums).
Angelripper explains: "We cover the songs unaltered, that's to say in exactly the same key and with the original lyrics. We're better musicians now than we were back then, of course, so the new versions sound tighter and more up to date but the arrangements of the songs were deliberately kept unchanged."
SODOM's 40th-anniversary festivities will be carried over into their concerts in the fall. "We'll not only play the SODOM classics but also consider fan requests," Angelripper says. "We're launching a poll about songs we've rarely or never played live on a tour to find out which ones the fans want to hear."
That's exactly what SODOM is about: being close to their fans, full of ideas, burning for action while keeping their eyes on the goal ahead.
Angelripper says: "If you want to draw a summary of the past four decades, it can only be this: 40 years later and we're still here."
"40 Years At War - The Greatest Hell Of Sodom" track listing:
01. Sepulchral Voice
02. After The Deluge
03. Electrocution
04. Baptism Of Fire
06. Body Parts
07. Jabba The Hut
08. Gathering Of Minds
09. That's What An Unknown Killer Diarized
10. Book Burning
11. Genocide
12. City Of God
13. Ashes To Ashes
14. In War And Pieces
15. S.O.D.O.M.
16. Caligula
17. Euthanasia
SODOM's latest studio LP, "Genesis XIX", came out in November 2020 via Entertainment One (eOne) in North America and Steamhammer/SPV in Europe. The disc was recorded by Siggi Bemm and mastered by Patrick W. Engel and comes shrouded in the cover art of Joe Petagno of MOTÖRHEAD fame.
Angelripper described "Genesis XIX" as "one of the toughest and most diverse studio recordings that SODOM have ever released."
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Libertarian Anarchy would have delighted Murray Rothbard. In this book, a distinguished Irish philosopher defends forcefully and eloquently Rothbardian anarchism.
Most contemporary political philosophers, unfortunately, are not libertarians. Nicholas Wolterstorff, best known as a founder of "reformed epistemology" but a philosopher of extraordinary range, is no libertarian either — far from it.
Robert Skidelsky is best known for his three-volume biography of Lord Keynes, and his son Edward is a philosopher who has written an excellent book on Ernst Cassirer.
This book contains the oddest sentence I have ever read about the current financial crisis, or for that matter about any financial crisis.
The efforts, spurred by Mayor Bloomberg, to ban large cans of drinks deemed too sugary have been much in the news lately; and a peculiar point in the mayor's defense of this measure is highly relevant to Laurence Vance's excellent book.
This notable book collects twenty-two articles by Peter Boettke; eight of these have been written in collaboration with others, including Peter Leeson, Christopher Coyne, Steve Horwitz, David Prychitko, and Frederic Sautet.


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\section{Introduction}

Many years ago Gottfried \cite{Gottfried} wrote dispersion sum rule
interlacing proton magnetic moment and proton charge radius
with integral over total photoproduction cross-section on protons:
\beq
\int^{\infty}_{0}
\frac{d\nu}{\nu}[\sigma_{tot}^{\gamma B\rightarrow X}(\nu)=
4\pi^2\alpha[\frac13\bra r^2_{Ep}\ket +\frac{1-\mu^2_p}{4m^2_p}]
\eeq
where $\bra r^2_{Ep}\ket$ is the proton mean square charge radius
and $\mu_p=1+\kappa_p$ and $\kappa_p$ are total and anomalous
magnetic moments of proton in terms of nuclear magnetons.

As  years ago it was proved experimentally
that total photoproduction cross-section on protons is
arising with energy \cite{PDG} the Gottfried
sum rule results to contain  diverging integral and
therefore cannot be valid.

But recently an interesting sum rules for photoproduction
of baryons were proposed which overcome this difficulty
considering instead  differences between
integrals over total cross sections on various baryons \cite{DDK1}.
In this way convergency of the integral was achieved
and series of sum rules were evaluated
\cite{DDK, BDDK}. The main assumption for the convergency lies in
equality of the Pomeron exchange for all the baryons
of the octet. It is seems to be valid for the baryons of the same
isomultiplet and plausible for the whole unitary octet.

\section{DDK universal sum rules}

The DDK universal sum rule \cite{DDK}
can be written as the equality with left-hand side (LHS) in terms of baryon anomalous
magnetic moments and Dirac baryon mean square radii  and
right-hand side (RHS)
as integral over difference of total photoproduction cross-sections
on octet baryons
\bea
\frac13[F_{1B}(0)\bra r^2_{1B}\ket -F_{1B^\prime}(0)\bra r^2_{1B^\prime}\ket]
-[\frac{\kappa_B^2}{4m_B^2} -\frac{\kappa_{B^\prime}^2}{4m_{B^\prime}^2}]=
\eea
$$
\frac{2}{\pi^2\alpha}\int^{\infty}_{\omega_B}
\frac{d\omega}{\omega}[\sigma_{tot}^{\gamma B\rightarrow X}(\omega)-
\sigma_{tot}^{\gamma {B^\prime}\rightarrow X}(\omega)],
$$
which relates Dirac baryon mean-square radii $\bra r^2_{1B}\ket$,
$\bra r^2_{1B^\prime}\ket$
 and anomalous magnetic moments  $\kappa_B$ , $\kappa_B^\prime$
to the convergent integral due to presumed cancellation
of the otherwise arising  high energy total cross-sections at
$\omega\rightarrow\infty$. Electric form factors
$F_{1B}(q^2)$, $F_{1B^\prime}(q^2)$ reduce to electric
charges $e_B$, $e_{B^\prime}$ at zero momentum transfer squared $q^2=0$.
Instead the Dirac baryon mean-square radii $\bra r^2_{1B}\ket$ can be
reliably taken from the
relation
\beq
\bra r^2_{EB}\ket=\bra r^2_{1B}\ket+3\frac{\kappa_B}{4m_B^2}
\eeq
either from experimental data (for $p$, $n$ and $\Sigma^-$)\cite{PDG}
or from theory \cite{Kubis}.
We put them into the Table 1. ( Note that sum of the  4th and 5th
coluns just give the 3rd one. )

We remind the first sum rule of \cite{DDK1}
\bea
\frac13 \bra r^2_{1p}\ket-\frac{\kappa_p^2}{4m_p^2}+
\frac{\kappa_n^2}{4m_n^2}=
\frac{2}{\pi^2\alpha}\int^{\infty}_{\omega_N}
\frac{d\omega}{\omega}[\sigma_{tot}^{\gamma p\rightarrow X}(\omega)-
\sigma_{tot}^{\gamma n\rightarrow X}(\omega)]
\label{DDK}
\eea
with $\omega_N=m_\pi+m_\pi^2/2M_N$.

Here $\bra r^2_{1p}\ket$ is electric square radus of the proton
and  $\kappa_{p,n}$ mean  anomalous magnetic moments of proton and
neutron. It agrees well with experiment as
LHS=1.93$\pm$ 0.18 mb and RHS=1.92$\pm$ 0.32 mb \cite{DDK1}.

It was generalized in \cite{DDK} to all the octet baryons
writing 28 relations. But as it is easy to see only 7 of them are
linearly independent, and we choose them as Eq.(1) plus other 6 relations
below.
The important issue is that while treating photoproduction on
$\Lambda$ ( or $\Sigma^0$) we should also add the $\Sigma^0\Lambda$
contribution. For the differencies $\Sigma^0-\Lambda$
 these contributions cancel each other.
But in other cases with single $\Sigma^0$ or single  $\Lambda$
in pair with any other baryon we have found noticeable effects.

$$
\frac13 \bra r^2_{1\Sigma^+}\ket-\frac{\kappa_{\Sigma^+}^2}{4m_{\Sigma}^2}+
\frac{\kappa_{\Sigma^0}^2}{4m_{\Sigma}^2}+
\frac{\kappa_{\Sigma^0\Lambda}^2}{4m_{\Sigma\Lambda}^2}=
\frac{2}{\pi^2\alpha}\int^{\infty}_{\omega_N}
\frac{d\omega}{\omega}[\sigma_{tot}^{\gamma {\Sigma^+}\rightarrow X}(\omega)-
\sigma_{tot}^{\gamma \Sigma^0\rightarrow X}(\omega)];
$$

$$
\frac13 \bra r^2_{1\Sigma^-}\ket-
\frac{\kappa_{\Sigma^0}^2}{4m_{\Sigma}^2}-
\frac{\kappa_{\Sigma^0\Lambda}^2}{4m_{\Sigma\Lambda}^2}+
\frac{\kappa_{\Sigma^-}^2}{4m_{\Sigma}^2}=
\frac{2}{\pi^2\alpha}\int^{\infty}_{\omega_N}
\frac{d\omega}{\omega}[\sigma_{tot}^{\gamma \Sigma^0\frac{\kappa_{\Sigma^0\Lambda}^2}{4m_{\Sigma\Lambda}^2}\rightarrow X}(\omega)-
\sigma_{tot}^{\gamma \Sigma^-\rightarrow X}(\omega)]
$$

\bea
\frac13 \bra r^2_{1\Sigma^+}\ket-\frac{\kappa_\Lambda^2}{4m_\Lambda^2}+
\frac{\kappa_{\Sigma^+}^2}{4m_\Sigma^2}+
\frac{\kappa_{\Sigma^0\Lambda}^2}{4m_{\Sigma\Lambda}^2}=
\frac{2}{\pi^2\alpha}\int^{\infty}_{\omega_N}
\frac{d\omega}{\omega}[\sigma_{tot}^{\gamma \Lambda\rightarrow X}(\omega)-
\sigma_{tot}^{\gamma \Sigma^+\rightarrow X}(\omega)]
\label{DDK1}
\eea
$$
\frac13 \bra r^2_{1\Xi^-}\ket-\frac{\kappa_{\Xi^0}^2}{4m_\Xi^2}+
\frac{\kappa_{\Xi^-}^2}{4m_\Xi^2}
\frac{2}{\pi^2\alpha}\int^{\infty}_{\omega_N}
\frac{d\omega}{\omega}[\sigma_{tot}^{\gamma \Xi^0\rightarrow X}(\omega)-
\sigma_{tot}^{\gamma \Xi^-\rightarrow X}(\omega)]
$$
$$
\frac13 \bra r^2_{1p}\ket-
\frac13 \bra r^2_{1\Sigma^+}\ket-\frac{\kappa_p^2}{4m_p^2}+
\frac{\kappa_{\Sigma^+}^2}{4m_\Sigma^2}=
\frac{2}{\pi^2\alpha}\int^{\infty}_{\omega_N}
\frac{d\omega}{\omega}[\sigma_{tot}^{\gamma p\rightarrow X}(\omega)-
\sigma_{tot}^{\gamma \Sigma^+\rightarrow X}(\omega)]
$$
$$
\frac13 \bra r^2_{1p}\ket-\frac{\kappa_p^2}{4m_p^2}+
\frac{\kappa_{\Xi^0}^2}{4m_n^2}=
\frac{2}{\pi^2\alpha}\int^{\infty}_{\omega_N}
\frac{d\omega}{\omega}[\sigma_{tot}^{\gamma p\rightarrow X}(\omega)-
\sigma_{tot}^{\gamma \Xi^0\rightarrow X}(\omega)]
$$

We control relations by
putting also two corollaries:
$$
\frac{2}{\pi^2\alpha}\int^{\infty}_{\omega_N}
\frac{d\omega}{\omega}[\sigma_{tot}^{\gamma \Sigma^+\rightarrow X}(\omega)-
\sigma_{tot}^{\gamma \Sigma^-\rightarrow X}(\omega)]
$$
=4.0131 mb (4.2654 mb \cite{DDK})

$$
\frac{2}{\pi^2\alpha}\int^{\infty}_{\omega_N}
\frac{d\omega}{\omega}[\sigma_{tot}^{\gamma n\rightarrow X}(\omega)-
\sigma_{tot}^{\gamma \Xi^0\rightarrow X}(\omega)]
$$
= -0.4075+0.0875=-0.3200 mb (-0.3156 mb \cite{DDK})
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\section{Unitary symmetry relations}

We study now unitary symmetry of these sum rules for the
differences of the integrals of total photoproduction
cross-sections on baryons of the octet 1/2$^+$. As we will see all of them
could be described in terms of only 3 parameters.

We remind universal formula for magnetic moments which transfers either
in the NRQM formula (with $F$=2/3 and $D$=1 and $e_q\rightarrow \mu_q$)
or into the unitary symmetry result (by putting
quark electic charge explicitly) \cite{Gelmi}:
\beq
\mu_{\Sigma^0}=(e_u+e_d)F+e_s(F-D).
\eeq
All the other baryon magnetic moments but that of $\Lambda$
are obtained just by changing properly quark indices.
Instead that of the $\Lambda$ baryon could be written as
\beq
\mu_{\Lambda}=\frac13[2\mu_{\Sigma^{ds}}+2\mu_{\Sigma^{us}}-
\mu_{\Sigma^0}]=
\frac13[(e_u+e_d+4e_s)F+(2e_u+2e_d-e_s)](F-D)].
\eeq
For the corresponding transition moment one get
\beq
\sqrt3\mu_{\Sigma^0\Lambda}=\mu_{\Sigma^{ds}}-\mu_{\Sigma^{us}}
=(e_u-e_d)D,
\eeq
where subscribes $ds$ and $us$ mean just that we interchanged
quarks $d\leftrightarrow s$ and $u\leftrightarrow s$
in the $\Sigma^0$ wave function.

We have seen that similar reasoning can be applied to the QCD sum rules
not only for magnetic moments \cite{Oz} but also for other
vertex quantities \cite{Aliev}. But in the QCD sum rules
the quantities analogues to $F$, $D$ would contain the dependence on the quark
parameters absent in the simple unitary symmetry model \cite{Oz}.

We now proceed with differences of the total cross-sections on
octet baryons by using as operator not the electric charge of quarks
but
their electric charge squared. That is, we describe
finite parts of the integrals in Eqs.(\ref{DDK},\ref{DDK1})
which we denote just by
symbol of the target, in terms of $\cal{F,E}$'s depending on the quark
parameters  at this stage only phenomenologically putting subindices
$s$ and $ss$ to indicate number of strange quarks in baryon
\beq
{\cal{P}}={2e_u^2 }{\cal{F}}+{e_d^2}{\cal{E}}
\eeq
\beq
\Sigma^0={(e_u^2+e_d^2)} {\cal{F}}^s+e_s^2{\cal{E}}^s
\eeq
\beq
\Xi^0={2e_s^2 }{\cal{F}}^{ss}+{e_s^2}{\cal{E}}^{ss}
\eeq
and so on.

Upon using our relations \cite{Gelmi, Oz}
we write for the finite $\Lambda$ contribution
\beq
\Lambda=(1/3)[{(e_u^2+e_d^2+4e_s^2)} {\cal{F}}^s+
[2e_u^2+2e_d^2-e_s^2]{\cal{E}}^s]
\eeq
with
${\cal{E}}^s$=${\cal{E}}$= ${\cal{F}}-{\cal{D}}$ in the unitary limit.

The structure ${\cal{F}}$ corresponds to the contributons
of two (quasi)similar quarks ($uu$,$dd$,$ud$, $ss$), while
the structure ${\cal{E}}$ corresponds to single-quark
contribution \cite{Gelmi,Oz}. Subindices $s$ and $ss$ indicate
number of strange quarks in baryon.

\begin{table}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|c|c|} \hline
B & $\kappa_B[\mu_N]$ & $\bra r^2_{EB}\ket $ [mb]
& $3\kappa_B/2m^2_B $ [mb]
& $\bra r^2_{1B}\ket$ [mb] &  $\kappa^2_B/4m^2_B $ [mb]\\
\hline
p & 1.7928 & 7.17 & 1.19 & 5.98 & 0.3560\\
\hline
n & -1.9130 & -1.13 & -1.27 & 0.14 & 0.4075\\
\hline
$\Lambda$ & -0.6130 & 1.10 & -0.29 & 1.39 & 0.0295\\
\hline
$\Sigma^+$ & 1.4580 & 6.00 & 0.60 & 5.40 & 0.1458\\
\hline
$\Sigma^0$ & 0.6490 & -0.30 & 0.27 & -0.57 & 0.0293\\
\hline
$\Sigma^-$ & -0.1600 & 6.70 & -0.07 & 6.77 & 0.0019 \\
\hline
$\Xi^0$ & -1.250 & 1.30 & -0.42 & 1.72 & 0.0875\\
\hline
$\Xi^-$ & 0.3493 & 4.90 & 0.12 & 4.78 & 0.0070\\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{ Contributions of magnetic moments and charge radii of  octet
baryons 1/2$^+$ in mb}
\end{center}
\label{table1}
\end{table}

\begin{table}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|c|} \hline
B-B$\prime$ & LHS (mb) & RHS  & RHS  (mb)
& Unitary formulae \\
targets &This Work&Eq.(13)(mb)&DDK[4]&\\
\hline
p-n & 2.0445 &  2.0  & 2.0414 & $(2/3F-1/3E)$\\
\hline
p-$\Sigma^+$ & -0.0172 & 0.0 & -0.4158 & $8/9(F-F^s)+1/9(E-E^s)$\\
\hline
$\Sigma^+$-$\Sigma^0$ & 1.9710 & 2.0 & 2.0825 &
$(1/3F^s)$\\
\hline
$\Sigma^0$-$\Sigma^-$ & 2.0411 & 2.0 & 2.1829 &
$(1/3F^s)$\\
\hline
$\Sigma^0$-$\Lambda$ & 0.0002 & 0.0 & -0.0006 & 0 \\
\hline
$\Xi^0$-$\Xi^-$ & 1.4955 & 1.5 & 1.5921 & $(1/3E^{ss})$\\
\hline
$\Sigma^-$-$\Xi^-$ & -0.658 & -0.66 & -0.5921 &
$2/9(F^s-F^{ss})+1/9(E^s-E^{ss})$\\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{ DDK sum rules for baryons 1/2$^+$.
In the 3rd column $F=F^s=E=E^s=6.0, F^{ss}=9.72, E^{ss}=4.5$ are used.}
\end{center}
\label{table2}
\end{table}
Thus we can write the righthand sides of the DDK sum rules,
that is, the integral over differences of the total cross-sections
on two different baryons $B$ and $B^\prime$.
We choose $p$ and $\Sigma^+$ putting the rest into the Table 2 and
put them into the form
\beq
[2e_u^2{\cal F}+e_d^2{\cal E}]-[2e_u^2{\cal F}^s+e_s^2{\cal E}^s]=
\int^{\infty}_{\omega_{thresh}}
\frac{d\omega}{\omega}
(\sigma^{\gamma p\rightarrow X }(\omega)-
\sigma^{\gamma\Sigma^+\rightarrow X }(\omega)).
\eeq
We repeat that while treating photoproduction on
$\Lambda$ ( or $\Sigma^0$) we should also add the $\Sigma^0\Lambda$
contribution. For the differencies $\Sigma^0-\Lambda$
these contributions cancel each other.
But in other cases with single $\Sigma^0$ or single  $\Lambda$
in pair with any other baryon we have obtained noticeable effects.

We have succeeded to fit
the RHS's of Eqs(\ref{DDK},\ref{DDK1}) with $F=E= F^s=E^s=6$ and
$F^{ss}=3.3, E^{ss}=4.5$ (see Table 2).
Only cascade hyperon contributions differ strongly
from unitary symmetry parameters which can be explained by
presence of two heavy quarks and only one light quark in these hyperons.
Discovery of doubly charmed baryons $\Xi_{cc}$ \cite{PDG} can help us to
solve this disaccord.

\section{Conclusion}

We have shown that unitary symmetry of the BDDK sum rules for the
differences of the integrals of total photoproduction
cross-sections on baryons of the octet 1/2$^+$ holds
within some reasonable lines. In fact we succeeded
in describing DDK sum rules in terms of only 3 parameters.
It is also shown that one should take into account not only
$\Sigma^0$ and $\Lambda$ baryons  while analysing total
cross-sections $\sigma^{\gamma\Sigma^0\rightarrow X }$ and
$\sigma^{\gamma\Lambda\rightarrow X }$
but also take into account
the $\Sigma^0\Lambda$ transition mode.

I am grateful to Takhmassib Aliev and Boris Ishkanov for
valuable discussions. I have also in memory a
conversation years ago on the subject with Eduard Kuraev who
prematurely has left us in 2014.

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Part 4 covers ADO.NET programming. It starts with a simple example, and then illustrates how to retrieve .NET objects, not values, using the SQL REF() function, which is one of the advantages of using Matisse. The article also shows a simple GUI application using DataGrid with the post-relational database.
If you are already familiar with ADO.NET, there is nothing really new in the article except how to use the SQL REF() function to directly retrieve objects without any mapping. It is explained in the Returning Objects section below.
To describe ADO.NET programming in the article, I use the same schema as the one I used in the previous articles.
// Execute the SELECT statement.
The ADO.NET connection object for Matisse is created by the class MtDatabase, whose name is a little different from the standard naming convention.
The class MtDatabase and other ADO.NET related classes are defined in the com.matisse and com.matisse.Data namespaces.
// Get the manager of the project.
// This is a navigation through relationship.
First, you need to have the class Project generated from the database schema using the code generation tool (explained in Part 3 of this series), in order to directly retrieve objects.
As shown above, to retrieve objects using an SQL SELECT statement, use the REF function in the select-clause (line A), and call the GetObject method on the ADO.NET DataReader object (line B).
After you get a Project object, you can get the manager of the project (line C) and the members working in the project (line D) by accessing the properties of the Project object. This is another advantage of using a post-relational database. It really simplifies the data access layer.
Note that you need to pass a MtPackageObjectFactory object to the MtDatabase constructor to specify where the stub classes (e.g., Manager) are located, i.e., in the namespace MatisseApp in the assembly named PersistentClasses.
The next piece of code is extracted from a program that uses DataGrid to show an SQL query result (see the figure below). Again, there is nothing special in this code, but it demonstrates that Matisse provides a relational interface.
Matisse also has an interesting feature that allows you to call an SQL stored method (non-static) on an object as a regular .NET method call; no SQL statement is required. I will talk about that feature in my next article.
In this article, I showed how to use ADO.NET with Matisse, especially how to return objects using ADO.NET.
In my next article I will discuss the use of "Object APIs" for .NET programming with Matisse, which provide performance improvements as well as the ability to use the full-text indexing.
The next piece of code is equivalent to the program shown in the previous article to insert objects of Employee, Manager, and Project using "Object APIs".
I'm trying to see how to model a definition of "complex types". The database is to hold type definitions, with base types as well as structures (basically, a type is a name and optionnally a list of members).
In relational, this is easy through a rel table holding the member name as well as its position in the structure. But in Object model I can't see how to do that.
I may have misunderstood your point. Please correct me if so.
You have an object "String" from the class "Type", as well as an object "Boolean" and an object "Person". Moreover, I want a relationship stating that a Person has three members : 2 strings and a boolean.
I am not trying to define the class person, but to define a class "Type" that can be hierarchically composed of other "Type"s, and thus define the "Type" person, but also any other "Type" i'd like.
a table "Type" containing "String", "Boolean", "Person"
a table "TypeMember" containing two refs to the able type, one being "Parent", one being "Member".
OK, I see what you mean. You want to store type information as data.
You can define it with Matisse in simpler way.
The relationship Members means that a Type object can have 0-to-many Type objects as its members, and also it means a Type can be a member of another Type several times.
If you are interested in the meta-schema of Matisse, just install and play with it. It's as simple and powerful as relational. Basically, it consists of three things: MtClass (meta-class), MtAttribute, and MtRelationship.
When I do queries on my database it appears as though Matisse is case sensitive. IE if I were to look for 'venus' instead of 'Venus' as it is in the database, I will not get any results. How can I ensure that my queries are case insensitive ?
VARCHAR (or STRING) fields are case sensitive just like any other database products.
P.S. Did you look at the 6th article of this series?
Probably, Entry Point Dictionary gives you better performance.
I was wondering if it is possible, in ONE select statement, to get the projects that have John Venus AND Amy Mars in their team... ?
In other words, I am only interested in the the projects that have both these employees as team members, and I want to do it in one statement rather than having to iterate through all the projects that have one of them in order to keep those that also have the other.
seeing what other articals you have submitted.
As a software developer with sql databases pushing the 40 gig mark, wholesale bank application, I am always looking in to database related topics and I have found this product as well as your write up one of the top topics I have read in sometime.
I wonder if Microsoft is taking a simular approach to databases in the next release.
The explanation above for retrieving the project object, and consequently the the members and manager of the project, is very clear. However, I was wondering how one would add a reference to an existing object. Lets say that you create a new project, and the manager of that project is supposed to be an employee that is already in the database, how does one do this ?
You are getting the MATISSE-E-VERSIONMODE error because you are trying to update object(s) within a read-only transaction, which is called "version access" with Matisse.
When using ADO.NET with the database, you can access the database without explicitly starting transaction. In this case, the ADO.NET provider starts a read-only transaction. (There is an exceptional case, but let's ignore it for now).
Also, look at the example above in the Appendix: Using ADO.NET to insert objects.
many to many on same key?
Excellent series of articles! Thanks very much!
As an experiment, I'm trying to convert a schema that has a many-to-many relationship on the same key. In relational, this is easy to do with a rel table. We also have various relation types defined on the rel table. The desired effect is to represent a hierarchy of instances (like a tree structure) with different relationship types. Its kind of a document mgmt system, so for instance a Folder might have a collection of documents within it (child relation) or the documents may have been scanned (reproduction relation). The different rel types are less important that representing a hierarchy, but both are issues I am trying to work out.
Any thoughts on how to accomplish this in Matisse? Also, any thoughts (or experience) on how this might perform with more than 15 million rows in the main table?
Re: many to many on same key?
The next SQL DDL statements achieve your example of documents and folders.
Two classes: Document and Folder which inherits from Document.
can be contained in more than one folder.
You don't need an intermediate (rel) table.
Thanks for the reply. I think this will do the trick.
Although this question is not directly pertinent to any of the articles, I permit myself to ask as I really really need some help !!
I would really appreciate your input !
I've just uploaded a new article that should answer your question above.
what is the major advantages over using this DB instead of using mssql/oracle with an entity model?
the entity model does pretty much the same, or?
Re: compared to entity classes?
Your question is (not exactly, but) like "Well, I can simulate object-oriented programming with C and I think memory management is not that difficult problem. So, what's the advantages of using .NET instead of C?"
so what can matisse do that cant be done with a enity layer ontop of sqlserver/oracle?
or even , what does it do so much better?
dmitry, i'm currently considering mattise instead of sql server as a backend.
are their many pitfalls to this database engine? is it still relational underneath the hood? how good is the TPC? and how reliable is it, IE is their any enterprise level clustering, etc?
It's not relational under the hood. It's logical (and simple) object model, and it is viewed as relational model.


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Argomenti è stata una rivista letteraria mensile fondata Firenze nel 1941, diretta da Alberto Carocci e Raffaello Ramat, che cessò le pubblicazioni dopo il nono numero, nello stesso anno d'esordio.
La chiusura avvenne per decreto del Ministero della cultura popolare, allora diretto da Alessandro Pavolini, che aveva ritenuto oltraggiose le allusioni e i sottintesi di vari articoli, tra cui Esistenza di Cesare Luporini.

La rivista, il cui primo numero uscì nel marzo 1941, stampato nella tipografia fiorentina dei Fratelli Parenti, nacque dalle precedenti esperienze di Solaria (1926-36) e La riforma letteraria (1936-39), periodici che lo stesso Carocci aveva diretto. Argomenti si proponeva di dar voce a una critica al regime fascista, sia pure espressa, come obbligavano i tempi, in modo velato e indiretto e, a volte, celando gli autori dietro pseudonimi e sigle.

Tra i principali collaboratori, di orientamento liberal socialista e antifascista, oltre al già citato Luporini, troviamo gli storici Giorgio Spini e Mario Vinciguerra, l'archeologo e storico dell'arte Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli, gli scrittori Mario Soldati, Giacomo Debenedetti e Arturo Loria, i filosofi Eugenio Garin e Guido Calogero.

Nel 1953, Carocci insieme con Alberto Moravia, fondò il trimestrale Nuovi Argomenti che, fin dal titolo, volle richiamarsi alla precedente esperienza del 1941.

Note

Bibliografia
Enzo Ronconi (a cura di), Dizionario della letteratura italiana contemporanea, 2 voll., Firenze, Vallecchi, 1973.

Voci correlate
 Solaria
 La riforma letteraria
 Nuovi Argomenti

Collegamenti esterni
 Progetto CIRCE (Catalogo informatico riviste culturali dell'Università degli studi di Trento), Scheda della rivista
 Argomenti (Firenze), scheda ACNP - Catalogo italiano dei periodici dell'Università di Bologna.

Riviste letterarie italiane del XX secolo
Periodici fondati nel 1941
Mensili italiani del passato

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Q: Processing input of Bash command run using a Java program I'm using the following object, to run a bash command through my Java code.
public class Scripter {
    private final String[] ENV = {"PATH=/bin:/usr/bin/"};

    private String cmd;
    private Process process;

    public Scripter(String cmd) throws IOException {
        this.cmd = cmd;
        process = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(cmd, ENV);
    }
}

Now I'm calling this object and trying to print the output in this function.
public static void main(String[] args) {
    Scripter gitCheck;

    try {
        gitCheck = new Scripter("git --version");
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
    if (sc.hasNext()) {
        System.out.println(sc.next());
    }
}

The program goes on an infinite loop and does nothing. What am I doing wrong here?

A: You're trying to read a string from the standard input of the Java process:
Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
if (sc.hasNext()) { ... }

So your Java program will block until you actually pass something into its standard input, or close the standard input.
(It's not an infinite loop, and it has nothing to do with the git command)
If you're trying to read the output of the git command, you'll need to read process.getInputStream() instead of System.in.

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I built the example administration pages in my MongoDB membership provider project as shown here. It is a small, three controller area in the project that uses Bootstrap for all of its look and feel. I am using all of the standard Razor html controls for the form elements with the form styled according to the Bootstrap Base CSS.
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Tag Archives: James M. Cain
Double Indemnity (1944) Billy Wilder
A dark Los Angeles night. A reckless speeding car is seen racing through the streets running a red light. When it comes to a screeching stop, a hunched over man gets out and enters the Pacific All Risk Insurance Co. Building. After looking at row after row of desk after repetitive desk, he goes into his private office. The man is hurt badly. Hunched over, perspiration running down his face, he begins to tell his tale into a dictaphone. His name is Walter Neff, and he is about to make a confession. Continue reading →
8 Comments Posted in 1940's, Barbara Stanwyck, Billy Wilder, Edward G. Robinson, Film Noir, Film Reviews, Fred MacMurray, Twenty Four Frames Favorite Films Tagged Barbara Stanwyck, Billy Wilder, Double Indemnity, Edward G. Robinson, Film Noir, Fred MacMurray, James M. Cain
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) Garnett
The first time John Garfield, and we the audience, see Lana Turner in "The Postman Always Rings Twice" she is exquisite looking, dressed all in white wearing a turban, a tight blouse with her bare mid-drift exposed, and a tight fitting pair of shorts containing the shapeliest pair of legs ever to stand in high heels. Garfield, kneeing down to pick up her lipstick case that rolled across the floor, is hooked from the moment he sees her. His eyes working their way up from her incredible legs to her full breasts to her superlative face. It remains today, more than fifty years later, one of the greatest screen entrances in film. For half the film, director Tay Garnett had Turner wear white, her turban, those fantastic short shorts, her jacket, her waitress outfit, even her hair is platinum blonde. Only after plans are set in motion to kill her husband do the outfits all turn to black, visually symbolizing the good and evil of her character. This visual imagery would be used almost fifteen years later by Alfred Hitchcock with Janet Leigh's white and black bras and half-slips in "Psycho."
In James M. Cain's novel, Cora is not blonde nor is she beautiful. Frank Chambers narrates, "She had a sulky look to her and her lips stuck out in a way that made me want to mash them in for her."
A few pages later, when they have their first chance to make love , Frank says, "I took her in my arms and mashed her mouth up against hers"
"….Bite me! Bite me!"
"I bit her. I sunk my teeth into her lips so deep I could feel the blood spurt into my mouth. It was running down her neck when I carried her upstairs."
In Cain's prose, passion and pain merge into an uncontrolled obsessive wild fire. In Garnett's 1946 film the sadomasochistic passion runs at a lower flame, understandably since the production code would not allow such unbridled fervor. Still, Cain's rough love comes through, the illicit lovers fight and love, trust and mistrust passionately, with Cora always the dominant partner and Frank the submissive male. The kind of traits so typical in film noir. Lana Turner, an actress of limited talent, does give us one of her finest performances, though she looks to have arrived from another world. The problem is she is too glamorous, too much the movie star, for a roadside diner wife making you wonder what is a gorgeous ruthless woman, with not one hair out of place, doing married to an old man in the middle of nowhere. She never convinces you that she ever waited on a table anywhere, not even at Schwab's Drugstore. You never forget she is Lana Turner, movie star, subsequently this reduces the impact her character makes on the story, though visually she is stunning and knocks you out. Her movie star glamour becomes a distraction to the plot, a beautiful distraction but one nonetheless.
Garfield on the other hand is Frank Chambers, a drifter, a wanderer, going nowhere, seduced by a beautiful ambitious woman hell bent on going somewhere. From the beginning, you know Frank is doomed, signals are given as soon as you see the "Man Wanted" sign he tosses into the fire when he takes the job at the diner. He is hooked and together they plan their pathetic scheme to get rid of Nick, Cora's husband (Cecil Kellaway), leads to their doomed destination. Unlike Turner, you believe Garfield as Frank, a role in some ways similar to so many he has played in the past. Additionally, Garfield came from a working class background, a troubled youth from the Lower East Side of New York. He had the credentials.
Despite the sexuality and violence, the film is a fairly faithful rendition of Cain's steamy lust driven work. This was Cain's first novel, published in 1934, after being rejected over ten times by various publishers. Originally titled "Bar-B-Q" publishers Alfred Knopf purchased the rights and changed the name to "The Postman Always Rings Twice." The book was a hit and various movie studios were interested in acquiring the property for the screen. However, this was 1934 and the newly enforced Production Code turned thumbs down on Cain's lurid work. In spite of a promise made by censor Joe Breen that the novel would never make it to the screen, MGM purchased the screen rights sitting on the property for twelve years.
By 1946, the novel had been filmed twice in Europe. In 1939, a French version "Le Demier Tournant" directed by Pierre Chenal and as "Ossessione" in 1942 by Italy's Luchino Visconti, an unauthorized adaptation. The victory of World War II was still fresh in everyone's minds still, there seemed to be a dark void in the American psyche and post war films began to reflect this in works like "The Maltese Falcon and "Stranger on the Third Floor."
Two more Cain novels, "Double Indemnity" and "Mildred Pierce", reached the screen in 1944 and 1945, respectively. Billy Wilder, along with Raymond Chandler figured out how to translate Cain's sadistic sex and murder into sly allusions and insinuations to get passed the censors. In 1946, MGM felt they could now dust off Cain's first big hit and put it on the screen. Of course, much of the novel's, sado-sex and violence would still have to be toned down; censorship had relaxed somewhat but not too much. L.B. Mayer wanted Lana Turner for the role who at first did not want to do it fearing it would be bad for her image. Mayer convinced her that this would be a stretch to show off her talent. Warner Brothers loaned John Garfield to MGM in what would turn out to a good move for all concerned. Garfield gave one of his most subtle and moving performances, which soon led to a more mature style in films like "Body and Soul" and "Force of Evil."
One of the major criticisms of the film is the ending with it's, strangely enough, religious overtones including Frank asking the Priest about him and Cora being reunited in the afterlife. It is an odd ending, considering one of film noir's traits is its anti-heroes existential viewpoint, which the film's ending is at odds with, unlike say, Siodmak's "The Killers", made the same year where Ole "The Swede" Anderson takes responsibility for his situation by accepting the consequences of his past actions remaining in his room and refusing to run anymore. It is like the filmmakers, after all that came before, the murder, the duplicity still wanted a happy ending and Frank while not ecstatic seems to accept his doom with a contented look on his face. This is partially why the film has met with widely diversified responses, some considering it a classic film noir, others saying Cain's classic pulp fiction was ruined by Hollywood. The truth may rest somewhere in the middle.
Directed by Tay Garnett with a screenplay by Harry Ruskin and Niven Busch, the film opened in May 1946 to critical applause and large audiences. Cain however, was not happy with the changes made though he was impressed with Lana Turner's performance, so impressed that he gave her a signed leather bound copy of the book. Off screen, Garfield was also "impressed" with Turner, as was she with him, enough so they had a short lived romantic liaison. Apparently, the sparks that flew on screen did not translate off-screen and the affair was over quickly though they remained friends long after the filming ended. That said, Jane Ellen Wayne in her gossip filled thin biography of Lana Turner states that Tay Garnett said while Garfield and Turner were attracted to each other they did not have an affair. So what is the truth? We may never know, though it is well known that both Garfield and Turner had large sexual appetites and they were attracted to each other.
In addition to Garfield and Turner, there are some nice performances by Hume Cronyn as the deceitful slimy lawyer, Leon Ames as the D.A. and Cecil Kellaway as Cora's husband Nick Smith. The changing of Cora and Nick's last name to Smith from Papadikis was certainly another attempt to sanitize the novel. In the book Nick was sometime even called "The Greek." Audrey Totter, as Madge, who Frank has an affair with is wasted in an early role.
The final verdict? Well, the film is not the extraordinary classic some folks say it is. It is not up there with the two previously made films based on Cain novels, "Mildred Pierce" and Billy Wilder's masterpiece "Double Indemnity." Of course, few films are on the same playing field as Wilder's film. That said, if you put aside the fact Lana Turner is just too stunning, and too well lit, to be believable as a waitress at a pit stop diner, and ignore the unsatisfying un-noir like ending, "The Postman Always Rings Twice" remains a flawed yet significant portrayal of ill-fated passion, and a ground breaking work in adult film entertainment.
Sources: The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain
TCM Website Articles
Lana: The Life and Loves of Lana Turner – Jane Ellen Wayne
Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir – Eddie Muller
10 Comments Posted in 1940's, Film Noir, Film Reviews Tagged Audrey Totter, Cecil Kellaway, Hume Cronyn, James M. Cain, John Garfield, Lana Turner, Leon Ames, Tay Garnett, The Postman Always Rings Twice


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Q: The "if" condition not working For some kind of reason, the variable declared in the if condition get's an unused variable and the variable that's going to be used later gets the undeclared variable.  Why is this happening and what's the way to fix it.?
NSString *name = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"Josh"];

if ([name isEqualToString:@"Josh"])
{
    NSString *greeting = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"Hello Josh"]; //Warning: Unused variable 'greeting'
}
else
{
    NSString *greeting = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"Hello %@", name]; //Warning: Unused variable 'greeting'
}
NSLog (@"%@", greeting); //Error: 'greeting' undeclared

A: You should definitely read about variables scope.
Here's a proper code:
NSString *name = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"Josh"];
NSString *greeting = nil;

if ([name isEqualToString:@"Josh"])
{
    greeting = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"Hello Josh"];
}
else
{
    greeting = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"Hello %@", name];
}

NSLog (@"%@", greeting);

A: By declaring those greeting vars within the if and else blocks, you are only defining them within that scope. You'll need to define greeting before the if/else blocks, like so:
NSString *name = @"Josh";
NSString *greeting = nil;

if ([name isEqualToString:@"Josh"])
{
    greeting = @"Hello Josh";
}
else
{
    greeting = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"Hello %@", name];
}

NSLog (@"%@", greeting);

As a general rule: when you declare a variable within a {+} control block, the variable won't be visible outside that block.


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Flat rate is a term used to describe a type of interest that is always based on the initial amount borrowed at the start of the agreement. It does not consider any of the monthly payments made across the length of the car finance agreement. Unlike APR or other types of interest, it is solely based on the original sum borrowed and does not consider the amount of money you have paid off.
The best way to explain is with an example. Let's say we are borrowing £15,000 across five years at a flat rate of interest set at 5%. The interest on the loan each year is set at 5%, so in this example it would be £750 per year. The length of loan is five years, so the total interest is £3,750. The total repaid would therefore be £18,750.
Let's say you repay a total of £4,000 per year. In the fifth year of the agreement, despite the amount owed having been reduced by £16,000 you are still paying interest based on the initial sum of £15,000.
What's the difference between flat rate and APR?
The primary difference between flat rate and APR is that in an APR package, the amount of interest you pay is adjusted to the amount left outstanding to repay. That means that across the term of your car finance package, the amount of interest paid will reduce as it is based on the amount left outstanding on your car finance agreement.
Choosing the right finance rate is a vital part of the car finance process. Our Customer Advisors are fully trained and FCA regulated to ensure that all our customers are provided with all the information they need to make the right decision on their car finance arrangements. We won't just find you the best deal, we'll also provide you with a clear breakdown of costs, so you can see if the car finance package is right for you.


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{{#extend "layout-default"}}
  {{#content "css_vendor" mode="append"}}
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{global}}/vendor/asrange/asRange.css">
  {{/content}}

  {{#content "css" mode="prepend"}}
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{assets}}/examples/css/uikit/icon.css">
  {{/content}}

  {{#content "fonts" mode="prepend"}}
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{global}}/fonts/glyphicons/glyphicons.css">
  {{/content}}

  {{#content "js_vendor" mode="append"}}

  {{/content}}

  {{#content "scripts" mode="replace"}}

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Icons

Glyphicon

            Official Website

Search from Glyphicon.

            <form role="search">

                <input type="text" class="form-control round" placeholder="Search icon...">
                <button type="submit" class="input-search-btn">

                </button>

            </form>

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asterisk

plus

euro

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cloud

envelope

pencil

glass

music

search

heart

star

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user

film

th-large

th

th-list

ok

remove

zoom-in

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off

signal

cog

trash

home

file

time

road

download-alt

download

upload

inbox

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list-alt

lock

flag

headphones

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volume-up

qrcode

barcode

tag

tags

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camera

font

bold

italic

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align-left

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list

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facetime-video

picture

map-marker

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edit

share

check

move

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play

pause

stop

forward

fast-forward

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eject

chevron-left

chevron-right

plus-sign

minus-sign

remove-sign

ok-sign

question-sign

info-sign

screenshot

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ok-circle

ban-circle

arrow-left

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arrow-up

arrow-down

share-alt

resize-full

resize-small

exclamation-sign

gift

leaf

fire

eye-open

eye-close

warning-sign

plane

calendar

random

comment

magnet

chevron-up

chevron-down

retweet

shopping-cart

folder-close

folder-open

resize-vertical

resize-horizontal

hdd

bullhorn

bell

certificate

thumbs-up

thumbs-down

hand-right

hand-left

hand-up

hand-down

circle-arrow-right

circle-arrow-left

circle-arrow-up

circle-arrow-down

globe

wrench

tasks

filter

briefcase

fullscreen

dashboard

paperclip

heart-empty

link

phone

pushpin

usd

gbp

sort

sort-by-alphabet

sort-by-alphabet-alt

sort-by-order

sort-by-order-alt

sort-by-attributes

sort-by-attributes-alt

unchecked

expand

collapse-down

collapse-up

log-in

flash

log-out

new-window

record

save

open

saved

import

export

send

floppy-disk

floppy-saved

floppy-remove

floppy-save

floppy-open

credit-card

transfer

cutlery

header

compressed

earphone

phone-alt

tower

stats

sd-video

hd-video

subtitles

sound-stereo

sound-dolby

sound-5-1

sound-6-1

sound-7-1

copyright-mark

registration-mark

cloud-download

cloud-upload

tree-conifer

tree-deciduous

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Hello! For my engineering class this year our goal is to design and engineer a solution to solve a certain problem. My partner and I are trying to come up with a product that helps to reduce the mess produced from the act of shaving and/or trimming your beard. If you or someone you know shaves or trims at least semi-regularly, please take a look at our survey (linked below). It would help us tremendously and we would greatly appreciate it. It takes less than 5 minutes! If you can, please share this to help spread the word. Thanks so much!
Would you mind explaining what this product does exactly?
We all shave here (that's the purpose of this forum), but can't really tell what you are trying to achieve.
I filled in the survey by the way.
So this product would effectively deal with shaving messes. Something that would keep sinks/counters clean and is convenient for everyone. This survey is going to help us verify our product idea and design it towards consumers. Thanks for taking the survey!!
It's a link to a survey for research, not a referral.
Whatever this was, it's now closed..


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An article on heart health written by a cardiologist -is the piece of writing you would most likely believe as true.
"As a result" gives a hint that an effect is coming next.
Because consumers today are presented with so many choices, it's generally best if your advertising is targeted to the demographic profile of the potential customer.


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The whole class of J's except J6 are a popular dive site near Melbourne, Australia.
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Home General Info Spain's construction sector rises from the ashes
Spain's construction sector rises from the ashes
Construction companies in Spain once built more residential homes every year than the rest of western Europe combined, fuelled by cheap debt. But a 35 per cent slump in prices after the 2007 financial crisis left much of the sector bankrupt.
Spain still has half a million new unsold homes, many in surreal empty cities that have become monuments to a speculative property bubble that brought down the country's banking sector and wider economy. "The markets at the time were sceptical about the opportunity [in Spanish house building]," says Mr Velayos.
"They were sceptical about the momentum for residential. They were surprised we were buying land so aggressively." But Neinor, created by US private equity group Lone Star in 2014, has become a success story, one of the country's first residential homebuilders able to rise out of the ashes of the ruined sector and build again.
Six months ago Neinor Homes became the first to float on the Madrid stock exchange, with Lone Star selling 60 per cent of the company, which was valued at €1.3bn. Shares have risen 13 per cent since.
"We knew there was an opportunity because the Spanish economy was growing again and for nearly a decade there had been practically no new residential homes built," says Mr Velayos. Share on Twitter (opens new window) Share on Facebook (opens new window) Share this chart Neinor served as a catalyst for the whole sector, with others entering the market. Companies such as Aedas, Vía Célere, Aelca and Metrovacesa are also building, giving the sector depth for investors.
"Residential construction activity in Spain is finally back," says Adolfo Ramirez-Escudero, chief executive of the Spanish arm of real estate service firm CBRE. "The demand is there and companies are building again." Many of these companies are also now considering initial public offerings. Two people with knowledge of the deal say that Aedas is considering a listing this year.
Aedas declined to comment. This comes as the wider Spanish property market seems to have turned a corner. Housing prices fell 35.2 per cent from 2007 to 2015, according to property site Idealista, but are up 3 per cent this year and 2 per cent last year.
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Kathie Lee Gifford's Today family is making it clear that she's going to be missed!
On Friday, in honor of the 65-year-old TV personality's final day on the NBC morning show after more than a decade, her longtime co-workers took to social media to bid her farewell.
Hoda Kotb, who served as Gifford's co-host, shared a sweet quote by Beau Taplin on Twitter that alluded to Gifford's departure. "Sunsets are proof that endings can be beautiful too," the message read.
Meanwhile, Jenna Bush Hager, Gifford's replacement alongside Kotb, said that Gifford has taught her about "the power of humor, and steadfast faith." Hager shared the kind words alongside a photo of herself and her two daughters, Margaret, 5, and Poppy, 3, with Gifford, revealing that her girls "adore" their mom's now-former co-worker.
Craig Melvin shared a snap from Thursday's episode of Today, gushing that Gifford is "one of a kind."
While saying goodbye is never easy, on her penultimate episode of Today on Thursday, Gifford said she was "at peace" with her decision and has enjoyed receiving so much praise.
"Usually you have to die before people say such nice things about you," she quipped.
When ET's Nischelle Turner caught up with Gifford and Kotb last month, they were emotional about Gifford's departure.
"She's the best friend you can have," Gifford tearfully said of Kotb. "I consider Hoda one of my dearest forever."
"The day that I met Kathie, that was big line of demarcation. I feel like everything changed and got better and got happier," Kotb agreed. "I felt more fulfilled and I felt like I took risks that I never thought I could take."
Watch the video below for more on Gifford.


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Q: convert div data to image using html2canvas and php I want to convert my div data to image and stored it in directory and db using Ajax request on button click. The code executes well and stores data both in directory and db but the problem is that when I click the button for first time it does not do anything but when I click button for the second time and so on it stores the the image correctly in both places.
I don't know where i am going wrong, any suggestion would be highly appreciated.
Thanks!
My View code:

-- Data I want to convert to image --

<form method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" id="myForm">
    {{csrf_field()}}
    <input type="hidden" name="img_val" id="img_val" value="" />
    <input type="submit" id="take_shot" value="Take Screenshot"/>
</form>

My Jquery Code:

<meta name="csrf-token" content="{{ csrf_token() }}" />
<meta name="screenShot" content="{{url('htmlcanvas')}}">

My Controller code:
    public function storeImageHtmlCanvas(Request $request)
        {
            if($request->ajax()) {
                if($request->img_val != null)
                {
                   $dbImage = new Admin_Image;
                   $data_uri = $request->img_val;
                   $encoded_image = explode(",", $data_uri)[1];
                   $decoded_image = base64_decode($encoded_image);
                   $path = storage_path() . '/screenshots/';
                   $file_name = time();
                   file_put_contents($path.$file_name.".png", $decoded_image);
$dbImage->admin_image =  $file_name.".png" ;
$dbImage->save();
                   $output = "success";
                }
                return response()->json($output);
            }
        }

A: html2canvas is asynchronous (~= it executes in background while the script continues to run) so when the first Ajax request runs, dataurl is undefined.
You need to trigger the AJAX request inside the onrendered function, like so
    $('#take_shot').click(function(){
        $('#calendar').html2canvas({
            onrendered: function (canvas) {

            //Set hidden field's value to image data (base-64 string)
            dataurl = $('#img_val').val(canvas.toDataURL("image/png"));

            // dataurl is defined, you can trigger the ajax request
            var form_data = new FormData($("#myForm")[0]);

            $.ajax({
                type:'POST',
                url: $('meta[name="screenShot"]').attr('content'),
                data : form_data,
                cache: false,
                processData: false,
                contentType: false,

                success:function(data){
                    alert(data);
                }
            });

            }
        });

        return false;
     });
    });


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Annual International Conference : A Middle Power and the Middle Kingdom in Today's Asia: The Korea-China Relationship
Location: School of Global and International Studies Building Auditorium
Caught in the middle of intensified competition between the United States and China over dominance in East Asia, South Korea finds itself back in its historical position as a shrimp between two whales. This year's summit diplomacy, however, has brought hopes of peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and new prospects for its role in the future. How will the Korea-China relationship develop in the years to come, and what does it mean for the United States' role in Asia?
This third annual international conference of Indiana University's Institute for Korean Studies brings together scholars and diplomats to discuss the past, present, and future of the Korea-China relationship from a variety of perspectives—political, economic, cultural, social, and more.
Academic Presentations:
Sixiang Wang "Wagging the Imperial Dog": Negotiated Autonomy and the Diplomacy of Universal Empire in Early Chosŏn Korea
June Hee Kwon Borderland Dreams: Korean Chinese Migrants between Chinese Dream and Korean Dream
Sunhee Koo Hallyu and Beyond: The Impact and Influence of Hallyu on the Chaoxianzu Community and its Identity
Policy Discussion: Jaewoo Choo, Adam Liff, Mark Minton, Jung H. Pak, John Park, Lee Feinstein


Many types of structures are built in the factory and designed for long-term residential use. In the case of manufactured and modular homes, units area built in a factory, transported to the site and installed. In panelized and pre-cut homes, essentially flat units (factory-built panels or factory-cut building materials) are transported to the site and assembled.
A home built entirely in the factory under federal building code administered by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The Federal Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards (the HUD code) went into effect June 15, 1976. Manufactured homes may be single or mulit-section and are transported to the site and installed. The federal standards regulate manufactured housing design and construction, strength and durability, transportability, fire resistance, energy efficiency and quality. The HUD Code also sets performance standards for the heating, plumbing, air conditioning, thermal and electrical systems. It is the only national building code.
This is the term used for homes built prior to June 15, 1976, when the HUD Code went into effect.
These factory-built homes are built to the state, local or regional code where the home will be located. Multi-section untis are transported to the site and installed.
Factory-built homes in which panels-a whole wall with windows, doors, wiring and outside siding-are transported to the site and assembled. The homes must meet state or local building codes where they are sited.
Factory-built housing in which materials are factory-cut to design specifications, transported to the site and assembled. Pre-cut homes include kit, log and dome homes. These homes must meet local or state building codes.


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Lighthouse self-adhesive 2x2 coin mounts are also available in boxes of 100.


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Q: Unable to post data to a collection in mongodb database I am working with mongodb right now for creating an android app using react native.My problem is i am not able to post data to collection in mongodb.
My app.js code
const express = require("express");
const app = express();
const morgan = require("morgan");
const mongoose = require("mongoose");
const cors = require("cors");
require("dotenv/config");
app.use(cors());
app.options("*", cors());
//middleware
app.use(express.json());
app.use(morgan("tiny"));
//Routes
const categoriesRoutes = require("./routes/categories");
const productsRoutes = require("./routes/products");
const usersRoutes = require("./routes/users");
const ordersRoutes = require("./routes/orders");
const api = process.env.API_URL;
app.use(`${api}/categories`, categoriesRoutes);
app.use(`${api}/products`, productsRoutes);
app.use(`${api}/users`, usersRoutes);
app.use(`${api}/orders`, ordersRoutes);
//Database
mongoose
  .connect(process.env.CONNECTION_STRING, {
    useNewUrlParser: true,
    useUnifiedTopology: true,
    dbName: "eshop-database",
  })
  .then(() => {
    console.log("Database Connection is ready...");
  })
  .catch((err) => {
    console.log(err);
  });

//Server
app.listen(3000, () => {
  console.log("server is running http://localhost:3000");
});

My categories.js:
const {Category} = require('../models/category');
const express = require('express');
const router = express.Router();

router.get('/', async (req, res) =>{
    const categoryList = await Category.find();
    if(!categoryList) {
        res.status(500).json({success: false})
    }
    res.send(categoryList);
})

router.post('/', async (req,res)=>{
    let category = new Category({
        name: req.body.name,
        icon: req.body.icon,
        color: req.body.color
    })
    category = await category.save();

    if(!category)
    return res.status(404).send('The category cannot be created!')

    res.send(category);
})

module.exports = router;

My category.js:
const mongoose = require('mongoose');
const categorySchema = mongoose.Schema({
    name: {
        type: String,
        required: true,
    },
    icon: {
        type: String,
    },
    color: {
        type: String,
    }
})

exports.Category = mongoose.model('Category', categorySchema);

Through postman tool i checked it but there is no error even though i am unable to post the data and in mongodb database it is displaying as Query Results: 0


We all know there is need everywhere in the world and the travel industry is responding with more and more hotels are setting up social responsibility projects to support their local communities. Pack for a Purpose works with these hotels to provide a resource for travellers before they set off on a trip, listing the projects in action all over the world and, crucially, the supplies needed by each and every one of them. As a single traveller, you can make a big impact, using any extra luggage space to carry destination specific, meaningful supplies to a destination in need. As a group, the possibilities are endless.
We are committed to supporting social responsibility projects in every destination we travel to and would love nothing more than assisting you in doing the same. If you would like to integrate Pack for a Purpose into your next group incentive, get in touch. Click here to enquire online, or call us today on +44 (0)207 426 9930.


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Q: Getting selenium java to click in the middle of the browser window Getting selenium java to click in the middle of the browser window.
I just need it to click in the middle of the window (so I can pause an embedded video).

A: To click in the middle of the browser window:
Dimension window = driver.manage().window().getSize();
new Actions(driver)
        .moveByOffset(window.getHeight() / 2, window.getWidth() / 2)
        .click()
        .build()
        .perform();

but better provide locator of video to click directly on it, and not on abstract "middle of the browser window"


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Q: Problems while trying to flash a memory using openocd and jtag I'm using openocd and jtag for the very first time in my life (after 30 years of playing with electronics), when I dump the flash using dump_image, I got a 4 byte sequence (0x80 0x01 0x59 0x18) in every Kb. downloaded.
Example
0x000000 0x80 0x01 0x59 0x18 real data
0x000010 real data
...
0x000400 0x80 0x01 0x59 0x18 real data
....
0x000800 0x80 0x01 0x59 0x18 real data

Real data, means the bytes that was in the flash at the exact position, so, 4 bytes sequence don't shift the real data, it just overwrite the data.
My openocd configuration (just copy some entries):
set  _CHIPNAME tc3162l
set  _ENDIAN big
set _CPUTAPID 0x1438000d

#chip memory MX29LV160CBTC

jtag newtap $_CHIPNAME cpu -irlen 5 -ircapture 0x1 -irmask 0x1f -expected-id $_CPUTAPID
target create $_TARGETNAME mips_m4k -endian $_ENDIAN -chain-position $_TARGETNAME
flash bank mymemory cfi 0xbfc00000 0x200000 2 2 $_TARGETNAME

Tap defined from the first autoprobe, Flash defined based on the original bootloader data sent to serial console, flash probe shows error....
I don't know if the problem might be due to:

*

*The first flash write that I've done for the new bootloader using the AT commands might corrupt the flash data, I just flashed the bank 0.

*I got some problem configuring openocd.

*I'm using a bad address for flash definition (I just got that address from the original bootloader).

*Some marker in the flash memory that means something for the Operating System, for example erased sector, or anything like that, but the whole image (2mb) have the same pattern.

*openocd should find the flash memory by itself????

*Must init some register of the cpu to work properly whit the flash?

scan_chain

   TapName             Enabled  IdCode     Expected   IrLen IrCap IrMask
-- ------------------- -------- ---------- ---------- ----- ----- ------
 0 tc3162l.cpu            Y     0x1438000d 0x1438000d     5 0x01  0x1f

flash list

{name cfi base 3217031168 size 2097152 bus_width 2 chip_width 2}

flash probe 0

Flash Manufacturer/Device: 0xb540 0xb540
Could not probe bank: no QRY
Try workaround w/0x555 instead of 0x55 to get QRY.
Could not probe bank: no QRY

I been searching in the net for some problem like that without lucky, readed all the openocd manual, some papers about the tc3162l, the datasheet from flash chip and I've learned a lot of jtag, tested different configurations for the flash chip.
Tested with zjtag (found the tap but not the memory), urjtag (found the tap).
Sorry for my english, it's not my primary language and for the long post, just try to explain everything.
I hope that somebody can bring me a tip about the problem or something to read to learn more about jtag, openocd, flash memories and so on.
Background and Presentation
I been playing with electronics as a hobby for more than 30 years, and I'm a newbie with jtag, some days ago I've found an old Zyxel adsl modem in the trash so I play with it, first flashing some parts of the nand with the embedded commands (ZyOs, AT commands) and everythings goes well, I found in the site of another vendor a linux toolchain for the same chipset and the same memory space so I start to playing with it, after a few days I was able to compile the kernel and the apps and finally make an image, the bootloader code is not compilable, the bin is already in the toolchain as a file.
I use the modem AT commands to load the kernel into RAM and execute it, runs ok until try to load the ramfs and hangs, anyway, there is a lot of things that I have to do to build a proper image and run the os into the modem.
After play with read and write with the flash (downloading parts of the flash and uploading again), using embedded AT commands, I got confidence to try something new, so I flashed the bootloader (found in the toolchain) and brick the modem.
I know that the bootloader is the most important code in a firmware, but I need to replace it due to the start address of the modem main code and the start address of the linux kernel.
Nevermind, I'm playing and learning, so I built a wiggler jtag clone, connect to the board and started to play with a VERY new interface and protocols in my life, the JTAG.
Using openocd, it founds the tap and the ID is from Lexra, an IP developer, the chip is a Trendchip tc3162l, very old, but for playing is ok.
I was designing an audio board to select audio inputs for my speakers using the TEA6320, I've started with a 16f84 (got some unused) and got out of memory, my design have a lot of features, like remote control, lcd display, serial port control, clock, alarms, so I switched the design to a 16f648, and I got 400 bytes free at the moment with all of these features. when I found the modem, I think to use it for control my audio switcher as a central unit to control the TEA, the serial port, LCD display and using the ethernet port to implement a upnp service to control the audio system. I have experience using upnp with OpenWRT, in the toolchain that I found for the modem there is a upnp server.
Thanks, Luis