Just wanted to say thanks for the Lighthouse that I bought from you. My parents couldn't get over the gift. Mom especially liked the detailed windows and door. She couldn't wait to call my Aunt Jeanne and brag that I finally got her a gift that looked like I had given it some thought! Thanks again!!
I am writing to you because I wanted to thank you for all the time you spent showing my parents around last week. My dad has always enjoyed lighthouse and I'm sure that is because he grew up off the coast of Maine. My mom told me how you personally took the time to show him different styles of lighthouses at your facility and even showed him the machine that cuts the foam. He couldn't stop talking about the day. I think they decided on the Cape Hatteras style and I must admit, the pictures have me awaiting the arrival of their lighthouse anxiously. It looks just like the real thing! I love the doors and windows, but I think the piece that caught my eye the most was the top. The black railing and cage that holds the light is absolutely beautiful!! I can't wait until it arrives and I can see the real thing!
I LOVE the lighthouse that I purchased from you!! I had my heart set on a specific design and although my budget isn't that of some people, you gave me options that helped me realize my dream of owning my very own lighthouse! The Barbershop striping is exactly as you described and the painted doors and windows are a perfect fit. I couldn't wait to unpack it when it arrived. I didn't think I would ever find it amongst all the packing peanuts, but I didn't have to fret about any damage either. I wanted you to know that I sat it in the corner of my family room and all my friends are saying how cute it is! I told them where I got it so you just might be getting some new orders very soon! Have a wonderful day and thanks again!!!
I wanted to thank you for all your help in my recent purchase of a Wishing Well. Since I was a little girl, I have been fascinated with the idea of tossing coins into the Wishing Well and making a wish come true. It wasn't until my first grandchild was born that I remembered that long ago fantasy and wanted to pass it along to Celia. I found your webpage immediately when I typed in Wishing Wells and found one that was exact replica of the one I had always pictured. Now Celia and I can spend hours around the wishing well tossing in pennies and making wishes.
I'm not one to brag about things that I get, but I wanted to let you know that for the first time, I couldn't wait to tell my friends all about my new purchase. I'm retired and I have done well, so I like to spend money like nobody's business. At least this is what my wife keeps saying. I earned it so who cares?! I have a large yard that faces the river and decided I wanted something to spruce it up. A friend suggested maybe a lighthouse would look good and so I started searching the Internet and your page popped up. I decided that I wanted something large for the backyard and decided on the 8ft. Cape Hatteras. My son had to help me set it up and even he couldn't believe how authentic it looked. The detailed painting as well as the handcrafted windows with glass and curtains were so real. He just went on about how much he liked it. It is the hit of the neighborhood and even the fishing boats toot their horns when they go by.
As a college student, it is very tough sometimes to find a gift for a parent that I can afford. My dad was looking on line a few months back and came across your web page. I was working on a paper for my English class and I stopped when he asked me to look at something that caught his eye. It's my dad, so I stopped and looked. He was pointing to a lighthouse that was white with black painted windows. It was definitely eye-catching. Christmas was coming and so I noted the page as an afterthought and finished my paper. Later that night, I was scrolling through the Internet and decided to look up the page that my dad was checking out. I found the lighthouse and the price. This was probably the best Christmas that my dad and I have had in a long time and it was all because of your lighthouse. The look on his face when he opened the box was AWESOME!! I think I even saw my mom tear up a bit. I guess next year I better find something she likes just as much.
I ordered a lighthouse from you for my daughter and had it delivered to her house in Connecticut as a surprise. She wasn't home when they attempted to deliver it and so they left a note and she called them as soon as she returned. They delivered it later that afternoon. She called me immediately almost squealing. She couldn't stop talking about how pretty and real it looked. She loved the top especially with the details. She said that the pieces underneath the wood made it stand out and the double railing made her wish she had a real one to walk around. I wanted to thank you for giving me the opportunity to surprise my little girl for her 40th birthday!
I am writing to say thank you for the Custom built Row Boat Shelf that I bought for my husband last month. My husband is a huge fisherman and so I am inundated monthly with the latest fishing magazines which always seem to land on the floor beside his favorite easy chair. Now we can put them on the Row Boat shelf which has been conveniently placed beside his favorite chair.
My wife likes lighthouses and I swear every time we stumble on something at these antique shops that has anything to do with lighthouses, we have to stop and most times purchase. I can't tell you how crazy it makes me. Last month, we decided to pick up and take a roadtrip which we haven't done since the kids left home. We decided to scout out some of the local places in hopes of finding some more lighthouse paraphernalia when your website popped up. I pointed out that you were only about an hour from where we were and called to set up a visit. My wife was beside herself when we arrived and she saw all the lighthouses you had in stock. Her favorite actually turned out to be the one that I liked as well. So thank you for the beautiful stone lighthouse and base that we ordered for our backyard. We are patiently waiting for its arrival.
Writing to say thanks for the E-Line lighthouse that I bought from you. I really liked the colors and the painted windows and door. The lines are very crisp and clean looking. The details are superb. I can't wait to put it in the screened in porch. I was a bit worried about the shipping, but it was packed with so many peanuts, I don't think it even shifted in the box until I opened it.
My wife and I would like to thank you for all the time and effort that you and your staff put into the building of our new lighthouse. I have always enjoyed travelling the different states looking at all the lighthouse that I can and I finally decided to purchase one that I can look at every day. My wife and I began searching on-line for lighthouses and your site came up immediately. We were highly impressed with the deluxe models and so we focused our attention on the details of the deluxe model. We really liked the American model with the stars and American Flags in the windows. The blue top with the white accent pieces sets it off beautifully. We are even happier that we spent the extra money and did the LED windows. When it is lit, the lighthouse adds a soft glow to the room. Thanks again for all your help and thanks to your staff for the hard work on the details. Cudos to you!!
Buying anything for my dad is always a huge risk. I think I can count on one hand the number of things that I have purchased over the years that he has actually liked or used. So this past Father's Day, I purchased one of your Deluxe Lighthouses hoping that he would enjoy it. My thought really was that if he didn't like it…It would look good in MY backyard! It was shipped directly to my parents' house. They were out of town so my husband and I along with our two boys found the perfect spot to anchor it out back. My parents arrived home from visiting my brother the next afternoon and were shocked to see the lighthouse. I had left a card on the kitchen table wishing my dad a Happy Father's Day and I hoped he enjoy his gift. The Lighthouse is still anchored in my parent's backyard and he tells me how much his friends like his gift. Truly grateful!
I bought a large wooden windmill for my daughter's great grandma last year. I remember when my husband and I were dating, he happened to mention how much his grandma loved windmills. After we were married, I can remember visiting her and she would talk about how she loved them. Her stories often reflected to an earlier time in her life when she was a young girl. She blushed the day she walked out to her back porch and saw the large Wooden Windmill with the large paddles rotating in the wind.
Our school was celebrating a mile stone and we were looking for something that would stand out to commemorate the day. Our Superintendant took it upon himself to find the perfect gift. After searching the Internet, he came across your website and custom built lighthouses. The area of dedication was not small and so he chose a large Lighthouse. He was excited that you would custom paint our school logo as well as match the school colors for the stripe and so with a little persuasion, he convinced the board that this was the way to go. Like most lighthouses, this one stands as a beacon of hope for those students entering our school and the parents who entrust those students to our school. The Lighthouse is very real and authentic with the lights shining through the windows. It arrived safely and on time for the unveiling. So thank you for your time and hard work.
I wanted to say thank you for the recent purchase of an E-Line Lighthouse. As much as I loved the added details of the Deluxe Style, it was not in my price range. I do like the model that I ordered. The painted on doors and windows give it an authentic look that I can enjoy as well. It sits beside my recliner and its soft glow mellows my evenings after a long and stressful day at work. Keep doing what you do and maybe I can save up enough for the deluxe edition with the LED lighting system and Custom crafted top.
I was looking for a gift for my wife. Our 5th anniversary was approaching and I just was at a loss on the gift. I tried the Internet and used key words that she likes. I hadn't really thought about a theme until the words I typed into Google, brought up Dutch and Netherlands. Our compact yard area out back and around the front of the house is littered with Garden Gnomes, those little things that give you nightmares in the dark. My wife loves them! I don't give them a second thought until your website popped up with the windmills. It must be a sign from God that Jennifer wants a wooden windmill to go with her garden gnomes for our 5th anniversary. Thanks for helping a struggling husband with his anniversary shopping!
Wanted to thank you for the help in finding something to cover up the well cap in my front yard. I have always prided myself on making my yard look nice. I keep it cut and cleared of leaves, but we recently moved into a larger home and a larger yard that had a few flaws. The overgrown bushes and dying apple trees were not a problem that a little extra hard work couldn't fix, but the well cap that was positioned almost 10 feet to the left of the front door was a problem I could easily counter. The Wishing Well that you suggested was the perfect solution. It fits nicely over the well cap and provides an added piece of beauty to the front yard. Thanks again for the help.
We have our wonderfully crafted lighthouse sitting on our patio and we could not be more happy. We originally saw your beautiful lighthouses on WNEP News Watch 16 and also on the television show Home and Back Yard and just fell in love with them. Then after talking with you on the phone and visiting your wonderful shop we knew we could not go wrong. Your a delightful young man, and it was a pleasure working with you. Please feel free to add our comments to your web site.
There are few letters I have been inspired to write that give me more joy than this one, which expresses my feelings to you with regard to the 20' Cape Hatteras lighthouse replica you custom crafted for my family. This lighthouse is more than a lawn ornament to me, it is a monument to a deceased loved one. Given the great significance of the project, I felt it prudent to do some careful research of all my options beforehand, so as not to make any mistakes or wind up with any regrets. I am very happy to say that my search led me directly to you at Kevin's Custom Crafts! From the moment we first spoke, I knew for certain that I was in contact with the person and the company that would meet all of my expectations in this regard. Well, my friend, it is with great pride I can say that you exceeded each and every one of my expectations, across the board!!! The lighthouse itself is a work of art, true to the original Cape Hatteras Light in every respect. To me, it is easily worth every penny I paid for it and is, without a doubt, one of the most "feel-good" purchases I have ever made in my life! Through your "artful magic", we now own a great lighthouse, that all by itself is the best decoration to be seen! It is admired by all who come to our home. Even more importantly, I feel other people should know that your true dedication, care and "heart" was so obviously and indelibly in this project right from the very beginning – and it shows so beautifully in the final product. I am very content to say that this masterfully-crafted lighthouse is easily the best of it's kind anywhere and at any price!! The best thing of all is that I had the opportunity to make a new friend who is both honorable and talented– one who certainly treated me with an uncommon level of respect that goes way beyond the norm. I would most gladly be a reference for you any day of the week and highly recommend you to others who would seek the finest work. You have earned my family's heartfelt thanks for your efforts. Excellent job Kevin!
Thanks so much — The lighthouse arrived an hour ago, and my mother is so excited she's wading through all that fine packaging as fast as she can to get to it! I can feel good about having purchased the best from you & not trying to save a buck on a cheaper assembly. when I think back later to this moment of joy for her. Lastly I want to thank you for doing your best to get it out by her birthday. We truly appreciate your efforts. Keep up the good work! You got another happy customer.
We received the Patriot lighthouse last Tuesday. It is unbelievable. What a work of art. Mom is thrilled (beyond thrilled). As soon as it was delivered she took it out of the box and set it up in the livingroom. Revolving beacon and all. It rained all week but as soon as we can pour some cement and set it up on the lake I'll take a picture so you can see your lighthouse in it's new home. Keep up the great work. I will definitely be giving people your number.


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Is Alcohol Really as Bad as they Say it Is?
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The fight over safety labels between the health sector and the multibillion-dollar liquor industry is warming up just as the federal government finally begins formal consultations today on long-awaited warnings, introduced in the United States 22 years ago.
The federally-funded Alcohol Education and Rehabilitation Foundation yesterday released its favoured warnings, including: ''Drinking alcohol increases your risk of developing cancers'' and ''drinking alcohol damages the young developing brain''.
The foundation has dismissed as ''weak'' the voluntary warnings being introduced by most beer, wine and spirit companies.
The foundation's warnings have been developed on advice from health promotion experts and were backed by the Australian Medical Association, which has urged the government to introduce tough mandatory warnings.
The proposed labels would refer people concerned about their alcohol intake to a government helpline.
The office of the Parliamentary Secretary for Health, Catherine King, said the Commonwealth was working with the states in developing a response to a report last January urging alcohol health warnings.
The task of considering diverse views on health warnings was ''complex'' and a response would be put to a ministerial council in December.
The chief executive of the Alcohol Education and Rehabilitation Foundation, Michael Thorn, yesterday said there was concern among health groups that the alcohol industry has sought to pre-empt the warning measures and urged the government to administer the warnings.
''The country's biggest alcohol companies will soon be using their weak, voluntary labels to direct consumers to 'Get the Facts' on an industry-funding website. ''But Australians need to get the facts now - at the point of purchase or consumption,'' Mr Thorn said.
Trish Worth, who chairs the industry-supported educational group, DrinkWise Australia, questioned whether the latest warnings were reasonable.
''Some people would argue these are alarming. It is very important to get the full information and that is what we have done,'' Ms Worth said, referring to the DrinkWise website.
The president of the AMA, Steve Hambleton, said the labels introduced voluntarily by the alcohol industry ''do not go far enough … They represent a soft approach on health labelling.


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Nigeria Loses N400bn Annually To Medical Tourism, Says Buhari
He encouraged them to go on researches and study how other countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and Americas finance universal healthcare delivery, and make their findings beneficial to the country.
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has decried the huge amount Nigerians spend annually seeking medical care outside the country.
The President expressed his concern at the inauguration of new participants of the Senior Executive Course of the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS).
Buhari, who was represented by Simon Lalong, Governor of Plateau State, called on course participants to find solutions to problems and gaps in the institutional, legal and policy for financing universal healthcare.
The President said his administration is determined to re-energise the health sector in other to reduce the rate of medical tourism, saying his government made available N55.1billion in 2018 to fund basic healthcare system in accordance with the National Health Act signed in 2014.
He said: "I am pleased to be at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, on the occasion of the inauguration of the Senior Executive Course 41, 2019 of the National Institute. When in 2018, I approved the theme of your study, Funding Universal Healthcare Delivery in Nigeria, the decision was borne out of the sincere desire of my administration to tackle the challenges of health sector funding in Nigeria.
"The essence of this programme is to ensure that quality basic healthcare services are delivered to the majority of Nigerians across the country irrespective of their locations. Early in 2018, the government provided N55.1billion, which is the 1 per cent Consolidated Revenue Fund, to cater for the Basic Healthcare Fund, provided for in the National Health Act.
"Government has shown strong commitment in the revitalization of the health sector. These efforts notwithstanding, our health sector is still characterized by low response to public health emergencies, inability to combat outbreak of deadly diseases and mass migration of medical personnel out of the country.
"This has resulted in increasing medical tourism by Nigerians in which Nigeria loses over N400billion on an annual basis. Thus, I consider the theme for 2019 very apt, timely and important because the primary purpose of governance is to ensure the security and well-being of the citizens including health security."
Isaac Adewole, the Minister of Health, delivered the inaugural lecture on health, while Justice Yakubu Dakwak, Chief Judge of Plateau State, administered the oath of office on the 66-course participants.
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To celebrate MAR10 Day on 2019, Nintendo is offering a special Nintendo Switch bundle game sales deal.
Ever since his inception in 1981 for arcade game Donkey Kong by game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, Mario has been a popular video game character for over 200 titles and has been serving as a mascot for Nintendo throughout years.
Heading closer to MAR10 Day 2019, Nintendo decides to celebrate the occasion by offering a sweet Nintendo Switch deal for fans that grants you a discount on any titles on the handheld console featuring the mustached hero.
Starting from Sunday, March 10, players can enjoy 50% price off when they purchase a Switch system sold for only $299.99 with any of the five select Mario games and instantly save $30 by paying just $329.98 in total before March 16, 2019.
Titles discounted for the offer includes Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Mario Tennis Aces, New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe, Super Mario Odyssey and Super Mario Party. Check out on Amazon, Best Buy, GameStop, Target and Walmart to get the deal while it lasts.
You don't have to feel left out even if you already own a Switch, because MAR10 Day can still help you save $20 off from every eShop digital downloads on the above-mentioned games, meaning you can now buy these first-party Nintendo titles for only $39.99.
Even if you are not interested in the host of exclusive sales they are offering, head over to your My Nintendo account to redeem some reward points aside from picking up a March calendar and themed wallpapers from there.
Also, you can take part in cool activities arranged by Frito-Lay Variety Packs at Nintendo New York store on March 10, if you are in the city by any chance. Participants would require a code to play and win without even making any purchase at all.
Everyone's favorite Italian plumber from Mushroom Kingdom will have more adventures to take on when Dr. Mario World and Super Mario Maker 2 will release later in 2019 for mobile devices and Nintendo Switch respectively.
Reggie Fils-Aime of Nintendo America to retire soon this year as Doug Bowser is named the new President.
Known for his charismatic personality and beloved by fans, COO and President of Nintendo of America, Reggie Fils-Aime has served the company for 15 years now and his enthusiastic presence on the spotlight has made everyone a fan.
However, he has publicly announced of his retirement from the company and position recently after a decade and a half long career. On April 15, 2019, Reggie will step down from his respective spot as he officially makes his departure.
In a heartfelt video posted on official Twitter account of Nintendo America, Reggie directly addresses all fans to announce his retirement.
Throughout his tenure at Nintendo of America, Reggie Fils-Aime has been a part of the launch and success of platforms like Nintendo 3DS and Wii, next-gen handheld hybrid console Nintendo Switch in 2017 and even Super Smash Bros. Ultimate last year.
For long, Reggie is renowned as a cultural phenomenon within gaming community and was an exceptional leader among his peers. However, he has earned a well deserved retirement after years of his service to spend time with his wife, family and friends.
Current head of sales and marketing, Doug Bowser will step up and take up his position in the company as Reggie leaves. Previously worked at Electronic Arts and Procter & Gamble, Doug was mentored by Reggie for past years and plans on to continue his work.
Of course, Reggie Fils-Aime leaving Nintendo of America will create a void in our hearts that can never be filled but we only wish the best for him as he takes time off from making games whilst wishing to see him every now and then to keep the joyful memories alive forever.
With every long-awaited Nintendo trailer from E3 2018, Nintendo absolutely killed it this year. Don't miss any of it.
Fans on Nintendo consoles always wait to start each year with Nintendo Direct that comes with all major announcements for upcoming games that will be coming to their favorite platforms and it keeps them on the edge of their seats.
Unfortunately, January of 2019 has passed, so we have all of our hopes invested in February and finally an official confirmation has assured that the broadcast will begin today at 2 PM PT and as we sweat our palms in excitement, here it comes.
Here goes 36-minute long presentation on Nintendo Direct, announcement for upcoming games for 2019.
Original side-scrolling platform game from Wii U, Super Mario Maker is getting a sequel rather than a port or the original. Developers have been working on it for some time and the title is currently set to arrive in June 2019 for Nintendo Switch.
This exclusive follow-up allows players to create slopes and that just what many have already been expecting. Everything that made the 2015 release great is going to be there alongside a new bunch of features and tools at your disposal.
Developer Team Ninja has allied themselves up with publisher Nintendo to bring upcoming action RPG title Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order to Switch handheld. Thanos and his Black Order are set to arrive on summer 2019.
Pick some of your most favorite Marvel characters from the popular superhero teams of Avengers, Defenders, Guardians of the Galaxy, X-Men or others like Captain Marvel to assemble your fan-boy dream team for a four player local or online co-op based storyline.
Puzzle platformer series BoxBoy! from developer HAL Laboratory returns for an all-new sequel BoxBoy! + BoxGirl! even after completing a trilogy on Nintendo 3DS. By April 26, the game will be available to digitally purchase on Nintendo eShop.
The series is moving to Switch while taking a leap from single player category to co-op play now that he has a partner. Our square-shaped hero can box it up around all the way to a total of 270 stages solving puzzles to beat them all in this latest installment.
Have you been smashing your opponents to your heart's content in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate lately? Because Nintendo is looking forward to introduce some changes in upcoming free update 3.0 for their fastest-selling crossover fighting game that are yet to be revealed in details.
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Captain Toad of Mushroom Kingdom will receive a free update later today for his solo spin-off title that would include a cooperative multiplayer support to all the existing levels of a maze-filled world to go look for more hidden fortunes with company.
Also, a paid downloadable content is about to add 18 new challenge that takes you to a kingdom of sweets or sunken ships though five new courses for Captain Toad and Toadette to hustle for Shiny Crowns in a special episode, available to purchase from today.
A spiritual successor to Castlevania series that was backed by a successful Kickstarter campaign, Bloodstained is a Metroidvania-type game that focuses gameplay on side-scrolling action and is expected to arrive sometime later in summer 2019.
Protagonist Miriam explores various gothic castles in her quest and uses her curse to stop a demonic outbreak on the world. Not only is she able to steal abilities from her enemies with her powers but it also helps her defy the laws of reality.
Developer/publisher Square Enix brings out the sequel to sandbox action role-playing game Dragon Quest Builders for Switch on July 12, 2019. You can now join with up to four friends via online multiplayer and build their own world through block-building.
Set within the world of DQ, players can create houses, weapons, traps and utilities as you like them to be. These structures will also help you to cross air, water and other obstacles or you can just fast-travel with the retro-styled map.
A genre defining RPG title that is mostly praised for its traditional turn-based combat, Dragon Quest XI S is a port of the 2017 original by developer/publisher Square Enix that has been enhanced for better performance on Switch consoles.
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Based on popular Disney and Pixar characters, Japanese collectible toy line Disney Tsum Tsum has conquered all and now a themed party game is in works by B.B. Studio and Bandai Namco Entertainment for bringing the experience to Nintendo Switch.
Scheduled to arrive on September 2019, this title will bring friends and family for some quality fun time together as it supports up to four players to join for both co-op and competitive multiplayer action with several other mini-games to try out.
Starlink will receive more Star Fox content through an update by developer/publisher Ubisoft in April, where Falco Lombardi, Peppy Hare and Slippy Toad will become new playable characters for joining up to take on new missions on Atlas star system.
Not only will they have unique pilot abilities of their own to drive but they have skill trees to develop. Their access to deal with Star Wolf's mercenaries is not limited to new missions but to base game Star Fox missions as well, which makes things interesting.
In a short window of half-an hour time, Nintendo Direct unleashed a load of announcement for many upcoming anticipated Switch titles and DLC. Many of these games are not launching until the second half of the year or not have a release window just yet though.
Many of the titles that got showcased in the official video above were originally announced back in E3 2018 but fans will be very happy to at least get a definite launch date on their favorite consoles for sure and appreciate it.
Nintendo has delayed their upcoming mobile game Mario Kart Tour to summer 2019 in order to improve its quality.
Even Nintendo has finally given in to the irresistible charm of mobile gaming when they announced Mario Kart Tour for mobile devices and shifted focus developing new titles for the platform considering its ever growing market.
Without much details related to the game to discuss, we had a release window targeted for April 2019 back then and now, Nintendo has reportedly delayed the game and pushed back to summer 2019 until any further official notice.
After launching back in 1992 as a go-cart racing game featuring other Mario series characters, Super Mario Kart pioneered a sub-franchise on its own by generating 13 installments for arcade games, consoles and portable devices so far.
Latest among the line was Mario Kart 8 Deluxe that came out in April 2017 to re-engage the players in throwing banana peels and shells at each other while racing. The game even had a crossover with Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild by adding Link to the game via a free DLC.
Longtime Mario fans and many other players were excited wondering to play their favorite games on smart phones but Nintendo had to pedal the brakes as they wanted to improve quality of the game and had to postpone from releasing on previous schedule.
The company wanted to take a huge step into the smart device business and originally planned to offer post-launch content as part of their continued service. They also have their priorities set straight about existing mobile titles that fans are already enjoying.
Current mobile titles like Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, Fire Emblem Heroes and Pokémon GO have seen massive success upon release. When they dropped Super Mario Run for the platform, it was downloaded 40 million times within first four days.
Mario Kart is so popular to the fans that it is about to become a theme park ride at Universal Studios Japan and this delay can eventually turn out to be good for Mario Kart Tour as Nintendo has a history of making delayed game worth the wait.


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Congratulations and welcome to Dallas International! We look forward to meeting you. Please read the International Student Handbook and complete all post-admission requirements. If you have any questions, contact Admissions.
International students must attend the general Orientation program for new students as well as International Student Orientation, which immediately follows the general Orientation program. When you arrive on campus, stop by the Admissions office in Pike 113. We would love to meet you!
Visa: Your visa should be stamped inside your passport.
I-94: Go to the US I-94 website and download your I-94 document.
You must bring your immigration documents to the Admissions Office (Pike 113) prior to International Student Orientation.


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Live Nude Events… Behind the Scenes of Like Minds 2010's Online Event
Product Launch, Products, Social
#likeminds, conference management, live events, tweets, Twitter, Twitterface, ustream video
We had an interesting Thursday/Friday last week. For those who don't know, our product Twitterface has come out of beta and is now a paid product. Pricing is still being finalized. We have a new feature that allows video on the page, as you can see by clicking the image, and the Like Minds conference held Friday in Exeter, UK was kind enough to partner with us on our first ever debut of this offering, to show their event live online while it happened in Exeter.
What we learned, was more than we bargained for. Things blew up. We had to make adjustments, there were issues and confusion. And of course, all of it happened in front of everyone watching… talk about exposing yourself! It's a bit nerve-wracking to do these experiments in the social space where things could go horribly wrong and people may jump all over you about it. But it gave us so much real experience, and mostly worked well, so I am thankful we are offering this now. I wanted to recap what was going on behind the scenes of this fantastic conference and tell you what we're doing to make these events better in the future.
The Twitterface page for Like Minds had the aim of using an assortment of services, and whenever you combine technologies, mayhem often ensues before you get it totally right. Our goals were:
Live Streaming of the Conference
Watching Real-Time Conference Conversations
Tweeting from the Page
Links to Conference Information
Delivering Live Blog Feeds
Providing an Online Experience that Extended the Live Experience
Our partner and developer Joe Taylor did an amazing job of coding the video feature for Twitterface pages so that it's easy for someone to embed a video on the page. It is super-easy to use the embed code from Ustream, YouTube or anywhere you have embed code offered and put it on the video page. It's not as flexible as it hopefully will be in the future though – the pane that shows up beneath the video, does not automatically adjust to fit the video width, so we need to work on that. However, we can adjust that pane width after the chosen video (or service you will use) is added, to make the page look more polished. So that's a minor inconvenience for now. Overall, I was thrilled with how adding a video and changing video codes work.
Watching Real-Time Conversations
A lot of people like to read and watch conversations without joining in, or they like to hop in and participate. We wanted this to be easy and so we added an auto-refreshing of the panes feature to Twitterface a few weeks ago. In reality, something we did not anticipate was our product producing api overage errors. We are going to have to work with Twitter to see what we can do about that. When an unknown number of people are hitting the page, and panes are refreshing every 20 seconds (or longer) it caused our limits to be hit quickly. I didn't really know we had limits, as Twitterface is a whitelisted product, so to see this happen as the conference opened, at 4 am our time (Joe and I were up to make sure all went smoothly) nearly caused us a heart attack. What was frustrating is that we had tested this on Twitter the night before and this never happened – of course, there weren't as many people hitting the page. Doh! We figured out that having a profile name up, instead of searches, would give tweets and not api errors so everytime we saw the api errors happening, we switched to a profile name. We'd like to thank @thebrandbuilder and @adders for being such great live tweeters as they saved our necks because we put their profiles on and still had some coverage.
Our product has its own login (it does not use oauth) and is meant for one person to use, like your Twitter account on the web works. But we wanted people to be able to send tweets from this page without having to leave it, and we wanted it to be secure as possible and use Twitter's oauth mechanism. So hooking that up, in conjunction with our tool being architected like it is, was a hurdle we had to get over. With the help of our developer Tom Jenkins, who now has a dayjob but graciously did work for us in his spare time on this, we managed to get a working oauth widget on the page, and though it had a few display bugs (the page had to be refreshed if the widget box didn't work right) it worked and you could tweet from the page.
One of the initial features of Twitterface was links to real sites in the footer, to make navigating to other places easy. The conference organizers added their schedule, a link to ways to participate, a link to add photos to a Flickr pool and links to their sites at the bottom of the page, and we used that Schedule link constantly to adjust the page settings… we put the speaker's name beneath the video as they were about to speak and changed that pane when they went to lunch to keep people in the loop about what was going on in Exeter.
Like Minds had two official live bloggers using a service called CoveritLive to do real-time coverage of the day. Our dream was to drive these feeds, since they had an RSS feed, into the page but we needed a way to do it. The awesome @dlvrit service saw my pleas for help on Twitter and gave us the PERFECT solution. I was so happy. Unfortunately, you can't test CoveritLive without them going live, so what we did not know was that our solution was not going to work. Until we were Live and in front of thousands of people, of course. The RSS feed produced only some sort of timestamp, not actual coverage, so later in the day we discovered @adders was blogging live, and tweeting also about his live posts, and so we switched to his tweets and it helped so much. We love http://dlvr.it and will work with them in the future on live event feeds though – they supported us above and beyond what we anticipated and their tool is excellent.
Providing an Online Experience
Despite all the technical problems and glitches, one thing we seemed to actually deliver on was providing a great online experience for virtual attendees. This is important, because Like Minds and we at Fresh ID want to come up with ways to do paid attendance to certain events in the future. So a good experience is very key to this working at all. Throughout the day, attendees watching the Twitterface page seemed to have good things to say about it – like they felt like they were in Exeter, that they loved watching it online, that it was so good to be able to watch it live they felt they could cry. In reality, you can go to Ustream and watch a live event. And of course you can set up hashtags and things in your own Twitter client and keep an eye on things that way. But what we wanted to create was an extension of the Live Event, and that means branding. That means attention to detail, and focused conversations, and cutting out the noise. So I think what worked for people, and the reason we've created the product, is that they were attending a branded experience online, because they couldn't be at the real event in person, and they felt the connection because it was planned, branded and constantly monitored to ensure a smooth experience and really, the best one we could give them despite technical issues that gave the Fresh ID team headaches all day long.
So, the net result of the day was pretty positive, both at the event, and on Twitter from what we could tell. Here are some things we've learned, that will affect our product offering and future events:
Events must be monitored every single minute, by someone. I got up at 4 am because in the UK they were going to start around 10 am. Joe had stayed up – it was 2 am his time in California, and thank goodness we did get up/stay up because the api limit issue would have made this page unusable had we not started making changes to refresh times and adjusting pane settings to not display the error when it happened. The opening of Like Minds was smooth and fun there it seemed, but it was a nightmare for us and drove home the continual monitoring issue, which we had not planned for. I'd had two hours sleep because of getting the page finished Thursday night, so though I didn't plan to stay up, it wasn't optional. My team was also not around – Joe eventually went to bed and Lisa and Matt were en route to meetings and the office. So during their lunch, I got ready very quickly and drove to my office to continue monitoring until Matt got there, and then he took over the rest of the day. We will be offering this as a service to companies who need it, but people who do not hire us to do this DEFINITELY need to plan to have a person attending the page and making constant adjustments to keep things flowing.
One of the things Like Minds did to us was use video from two different ustream channels, which I sort of figured out on my own. LOL! We did not have a member of their web team on a phone speed dial or even Twitter. I mostly worked with Scott Gould to set this up, one of the founders and event organizers, and I didn't want to bother him because I knew he was busy at the event. Fortunately, I happened to notice he had streamed from both a LikeMinds and a ScottGould ustream channel, so if one went off-air we checked the other to make sure we weren't missing something. But we needed communication with a member of the tech team there – it would have helped us know what was going on and when they were going to stream or not stream.
We have to talk to Twitter directly about these api issues, and we've never worked with them directly. Fortunately for me, I am making that Lisa's job. Haha! I hope we can get that improved, but if not, we know how to get around it during an event.
The official hashtag for Like Minds is @wearelikeminds, but no one tweeted from it all day and we needed it when we had to switch from a search to profile views only because of api issues. I really recommend that you assign someone to tweet from the official account – even if you have to ask a participant to do it and hand over the login temporarily. For people wondering what is going on, that would make a big difference and it would have solved some of our problems doing this live offering also.
The presentations could not be viewed behind the presenter, but with some adjustments they could have been. We are going to design a combo video/slideshare page I think, but it would have been very nice if the presentation had been dropped down behind the presenter (almost even with his feet) so online viewers could see the slides and hear the person talk at the same time – in fact, that would totally rock!
Organizing the remote event team, with the team on the ground, for fast communication via skype or twitter makes sense. We will make sure to do this in the future. I actually think it helps for the remote monitoring team NOT to be at the event, to minimize distractions. It is too easy to have to put out fires at the event and lose track of monitoring this page – for us, our sole job was to watch the page, fix issues and keep things flowing online, and we were not hit up with other issues that took focus off of that task by being in the building where it was happening.
When Like Minds broke for lunch, there was no Ustream feed for at least an hour and a half. I think we lost some online viewers then. I know that in the future Scott wants to enable video at the lunchtime talk sessions – that would have helped, or even having an event take place on stage (maybe one of the lunches is done there) would have helped not break the momentum of online viewing. I loved the lunch idea though – they had numerous mini-sessions over lunch at different restaurants around the city! Such a cool idea. Attendees got to choose the type of food, speaker and type of conversation they wanted to have.
One of the things I noticed, was that this conference WAS very pleasant to attend online. When I got up at 4 am I was still in bed. So here I was in my jammies, comfortably propped up on pillows in the dark, while everyone in England was looking dapper and had makeup on and their hair done. Yet I was learning the same cool information they were – it was REALLY pleasant! And watching the tweets from people actually there, plus being able to tweet without leaving the page was very nice. This is an experience I would want to repeat at tons of other events… not just conferences, but musical events or education of some type – it really did work like I envisioned it, aside from our little issues (which we will find a way to make better!)
We were very pleased with the analytics behind spreading the word about the event Twitterface page. One thing we did at the 11th hour was a press release, informing folks that this would be a live event online. We definitely want to do that earlier than midnight before the event, next time. LOL! Because that press release was picked up by numerous sources – Lisa has the exact count. We've had over half a million potential tweet impressions of the twitterface.com/likeminds2010 link, and 75o of the aggregated bit.ly link for that url, and it was mentioned online in blogs, on Twitter and on Facebook in more conversations that I don't have a number count for. We had over 660 people watching the page it seems, from Google Analytics. That number is important, because only 300 people or so could attend the actual event in Exeter before it was sold out (and it was sold out.) So they increased attendance twice over in online attendees – pretty cool!!
I want to thank all of the people on Twitter who helped us test this page with a live ustream video of race cars in the wee hours Thursday night. I wish I could give you all a present – you helped us so much and we're very grateful you took the time to test the tweeting and video watching for us.
We have had many inquiries about doing this for other events, including SXSW which is coming up soon. Contact us and let's talk about hooking this up for your event! We'd love to keep experimenting with what we're doing and perfect the kinks in the process.
In the coming days we'll be hearing from someone who attended the event virtually (@brandguardian is writing a blog post) and I am eager to hear what others thought, so if you watched our Twitterface page during the event Friday and want to share your experience, please let us know in the comments!
Trey Pennington
March 1, 2010 at 7:15 am	· Reply
Brilliantly done Kris. Great instructional value in your post. Thanks.
I'll be talking with you about using your services for a 9/24/2010 event I'm putting together.
Scott Gould
Kris this is awesome. From the idea that we shared to the delivery that you did, we've learnt some very valuable lessons.
We'll talk them through!
Kris Colvin
March 2, 2010 at 5:34 pm	· Reply
Thanks Scott and Trey for your comments. As usual, Like Minds was completely stellar as evidenced by the many comments on Twitter following the event, and all of the many blog posts and press coverage about it at http://bit.ly/aQma0r – I'm so happy we were able to be part of it, even from afar!


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% Jeff Sandberg
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# NAME
vid2gif - turn videos into gifs

# SYNOPSIS

**vid2gif** [*options*] *file*

# DESCRIPTION

**vid2gif** is a simple tool for turning videos into gifs. Under the covers it relies completely on ffmpeg for its magic.

# GENERAL OPTIONS

**-h**, **--help**
:   Show help page

**-v**, **--version**
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# VIDEO OPTIONS

**-s**, **--start** *timecode*
:   Video segment start timecode; either *hh:mm:ss.sss* or *ss.sss*

**-e**, **--end** *timecode*
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**-t**, **--time** *seconds*
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# GIF OUTPUT OPTIONS

**-r**, **--size** *width*[x*Height*]
:   Width and height; Use -1 to preserve aspect ratio

**-f**, **--fps** *framerate*
:   Framerate of output gif. Defaults to video framerate

**-o**, **--output** *filename*
:   Output filename.

**-p**, **--preview**
:   Open gif in quicklook after creation. **OS X ONLY:**
# PROCESSING OPTIONS

**-d**, **--diff**
:   Use diff for ffmpeg *stats_mode* setting during palette generation.

**--dither** *mode*
:   Dither mode for palette use. Consult ffmpeg manual for details

**--dmr**, **--diff-mode-rectangle**
:   Enable diff-mode: rectangle when dithering, which helps with motion dithering

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When the Major Cruise Lines Plan to Restart Service
The major cruise lines are planning to start operations again this summer.
Carnival Cruise Line, in an update, said it intends to start cruising again with some ships in North America starting on August 1, while other itineraries and ships are projected to start service again later this year. Carnival plans to have eight ships in service from Miami, Port Canaveral and Galveston on short cruises.
Royal Caribbean announced it had extended its suspension of sailing for its global fleet through June 11, 2020.
The company said it plans to return to service on June 12, 2020, with some previously announced exceptions.
Most crew is also being sent home.
MSC Cruises announced further extension of the halting of all its new cruise departures fleetwide through to July 10.
MSC Cruises USA is offering guests affected by this measure a Future Cruise Credit (FCC) where they have the opportunity to transfer the full amount paid for their cancelled cruise plus an additional 25 percent credit to a future cruise of their choice, on any ship and any itinerary, departing on or before December 31, 2021.
Norwegian Cruise Line announced in late April an extension of its pause of service through the end of June. Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings recently raised enough capital to keep it going in a zero-revenue situation through early 2021.
Costa ships are out of service through early July at this point.
Princess Cruises, in a recent update, cancelled the remainder of its summer season.
All AIDA sailings through June 30 are currently cancelled.
Royal Caribbean, which owns Celebrity, announced it had extended its suspension of sailing for its global fleet through June 11, 2020.
Holland America Line has extended its pause of global cruise operations and cancel all Alaska, Europe and Canada/New England cruises for 2020, according to a press release.
In addition, Amsterdam will not operate the 79-day Grand Africa Voyage from Boston, Massachusetts, to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, that was scheduled to depart on Oct. 3, 2020.
German brand TUI Cruises has hit pause through June 11, in line with Royal Caribbean, which is a partner in TUI Cruises in a joint venture arrangement.
Should it be safe to set sail, Marella Cruises will commence its summer 2020 program in July 2020, with three of its five ships sailing. More details here.
Bahamas Paradise
Sailings will resume onboard Grand Celebration on June 13 and onboard Grand Classica on July 10, according to a press release.
Hurtigruten is planning for a gradual restart of operations on the Norwegian coast. The first planned departure will be Finnmarken from Bergen on June 16.


M2M Cellular modems allow embedded systems to communicate and connect to the network in places that may not have other standard connections such as WiFi or Ethernet. Embedded systems are being deployed in more remote locations that still require and mandate an internet connection. Gateworks boards have Mini-PCI-Express slots that allow for a wide range of cellular modems to be connected.
You will find below examples and setup instructions for many devices Gateworks has qualified.
Please check with Sierra Wireless for availability and EOL status.
M2M cellular modems operate as a point-to-point serial device. Typically they are used as IP network interfaces by initiating a connection to a cellular carrier using standard AT modem commands then running pppd which performs CHAP authentication and implements the PPP protocol. The pppd daemon uses the chat application for AT command scripts and creates a network interface once authentication succeeds. Some devices expose more than one serial interface for things like AT commands, proprietary API's, NMEA data from optional GPS etc can be used while the network is connected.
Production hardware needs to be Carrier Approved - a process that the end-customer needs to work through with the M2M Carrier (Cellular provider) on the finished device.
FCC Certification should be considered as well.
The Cellular Carrier dictates if your plan provides 'mobile termination' (the ability to accept connections from the Internet) and the IP address provisioning (IP class, static vs dynamic, IP range). For GSM Carriers this is based on the APN.
Products that use USA cellular networks typically need to be certified with the network.
Some Mini-PCIe modems are pre-certified, however the product as a whole (enclosure, SBC, antenna) may still need to be certified.
Gateworks recommends contacting the network provider of choice for more information.
Many modems do not follow the Mini-PCIe pin specification.
Gateworks designs the Mini-PCIe slots to strictly adhere to the formal specification by PCI SIG.
Please compare the modem pinout to the Gateworks pinout to ensure compatibility.
Some Gateworks SBCs have special resistor loading to eliminate some of these conflicts. Please contact Gateworks support (support at gateworks.com) to learn more.
If one of these modems must be used, email Gateworks support (support at gateworks.com) to learn more about resistor loading that may eliminate these conflicts.
Some modems now support USB 3.0 for faster speeds required for Cat6.
Gateworks routes USB 3.0 to select Mini-PCIe slots on the Newport GW62xx, GW63xx and GW64xx (the GW61xx only has USB 2.0). The Laguna and Ventana families do not support USB 3.0.
Modems typically require non-volatile firmware that gets flashed onto the device. This firmware is available from the modem manufacturer and/or carrier. Often you will need a different firmware version for different carriers and the firmware can also drastically change the behavior and control protocol the modem uses.
Often vendor/carriers support only a Windows utility to update the firmware in which case you will need a miniPcie-to-USB adapter to put the modem on a PC.
4G : 4th Generation of mobile communications technology meeting requirements defined by ITU (International Telecommunications Union) in IMT Advanced. LTE or WiMax.
LTE : (Long Term Evolution) - Considered 4G.
HSPA+ :High Speed Packet Access Plus - Considered 3G. theoretical top speed of 21Mb/s. Average is around 4Mb/s.
Frequency Bands - Many carriers and technologies utilize different radio frequencies. Confirming the cellular radio operates on the same frequencies as the targeted provider is required for proper operation.
If your modem/firmware/driver provides an AT command control interface you will have a serial device which you send AT commands and receive responses. While many modems share common AT commands, each modem/manufacturer typically has their own set of extensions.
You can use any typical terminal program such as 'screen', 'minicom', 'picocom' or even simply stty/echo/cat to communicate. Be aware of translations that may occur based on your terminal and/or configuration of these terminal programs. For example, modem AT interpreters expect to receive commands terminated by a CR (carriage return, hex 0x0d code) and will not respond if your terminal program is translating CR's to LF's (beware of using screen within a screen session for example, which will do this).
Modems should auto-baud meaning they should support a variety of baudrates. Typical settings would be 57600baud, 8 data bits, 1 stop bit, no parity (8N1).
Mobile Interface Broadband Model (MBIM) is a new standard by the USB Implemented Forum. It specifies a new MBIM USB device model providing multiple IP connections over a single USB interface without the need of 802.3 frames (which was the case for ECM and NCM) and a new MBIM control protocol to talk to modem devices.
The Qualcomm MSM Interface (QMI) is a modem control protocol that appears in many modern Qualcomm based modems.
Some QMI modem/firmware/SIM combinations support 802-3 only, others support raw-ip only, and some support both. It is important to make sure the driver and the network device are configured to use the same link protocol.
QMI modem/firmware/SIM combinations can support IPv4, IPv6, or both IP families. If you are trying to connect and receive an error related to IP family check that your asking for something supported.
To use QMI services you need a 'Client ID' or CID. The CID's can be created then released when they are no longer needed. When working with sessions the CID is what allows QMI services to be operated on the right session. Both libqmi and uqmi userspace applications allow you to issue QMI commands by using an existing specified CID and to not release CID upon completion. It is important to use this when configuring and starting connections. For example, you can have an ipv4 session concurrent with an ipv6 session, each must have their own CID that is not released (until the connection is closed) and must be used when referring to those sessions.
When using qmicli you do this with the --client-cid=<cid> and the --client-no-release-cid options.
When using uqmi you obtain a client-id with the --get-client-id option and use an existing one with the --get-client-id option and release a CID with the --release-client-id option.
cdc_mbim / USB_NET_CDC_MBIM - CDC MBIM support: Provides support for CDC MBIM (Mobile Broadband Interface modem) devices.
see below for details on how to build even more up to date versions from source if needed.
mbimcli --device /dev/cdc-wdm0 --query-subscriber-ready-status # should show "Ready state: 'initialized'"
The libqmi library is a protocol support library much like libmbim is for MBIM and has a qmicli and qmi-network command-line tool as well. Since libqmi-1.16.0 and libmbim-1.14.0 there is support for QMI-over-MBIM as well but not clear what is using this. ModemManager is using libqmi to control QMI based modems.
ModemManager is a package containing a background service/daemon and a command-line-interfalce (mmcli) that can be used to configure and connect modems.
Note that after starting the service (if manually started) it does take 20 to 30 seconds to finish modem detection.
Some additional commands for handling SIM PINs are '--enable-pin', '--disable-pin', '--change-pin=<NEW_PIN>', '--puk=<PUK>' to enable PIN locking, disable PIN locking, changing the PIN, and unlocking a PUK-locked (Personal unblocking code) SIM.
root@ventana:~# mmcli --modem 0 --simple-connect="apn=h2g2"
NetworkManager is a package containing a background service/daemon and a command-line-interfalce (nmcli) that can be used to configure and connect network interfaces. It is often used in conjunction with ModemManager for Cellular modems.
Connection 'mymodem ' (6d89ff6e-6eb6-4f0f-80d1-fb081165f710) successfully added.
You can also build the latest modemmanager, libqmi, libmbim easily from source on an Ubuntu system. It is recommended to use stable releases which you can easily do from the PPA's provided above however if you wish to debug, contribute patches, or try patches from the various mailing lists you will need to build from the git repo sources.
Use ModemManager to see if your modem is detected and attempt connecting. Querying a modem with ModemManager will also tell you what control interfaces exist and what type of control they use which is critical to understanding the requirements for your modem.
Gateworks recommends connecting the modem and SIM to a Desktop or Laptop running Ubuntu Linux for isolated troubleshooting apart from the Gateworks hardware. To connect a Mini-PCIe modem to a desktop or laptop, please purchase a USB to Mini-PCIe adapter from a third party like Amazon or Newegg, etc.
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 1199:9071 Sierra Wireless, Inc.
comgt : Most GSM / 3G modems : Uses AT commands through the comgt package.
uqmi : Newer modems using Qualcomm chipsets : For modems that speak QMI (Quallcom MSM Interface) such as many of the 4G/LTE modems, use uqmi.
the gcom app is used on the interface 'device' to determine what card is being used. Depending on the card and the service various AT commands may be sent for modem configuration.
Modems that speak the QMI protocol for configuration/connection require a driver such as qcserial that exposes the modem's serial interfaces, as well as the qmi_wwan driver, which exposes a network interface and a QMI interface, along with userspace tools that speak to the QMI interface.
OpenWrt has a written the uqmi application from scratch which replaces the more bulky (~1.4MB) libqmi and also includes netifd protocol handler support (meaning you can use UCI for configuration).
You you see 'Unable to connect, check APN and authentication' in the log, then you either have an invalid APN or auth credentials or you need to increase the delay config parameter.
some devices have AT commands that are required to take them out of low-power modes. For example, Sierra Wireless modems are shipped configured in low-power (airplane) mode. A startup script can be used to always set full power mode on bootup (Note: it appears this is just the way they are shipped - this setting is persistent so you should only need to set it once).
logger -t "3g" "Enabling full power mode for \$device"
Go to the Network tab, then the Interfaces tab.
Click on "Add new interface..." at the bottom left of the screen.
Name the interface. Here it is named "wan"
Check "Custom Interface" with nothing entered in the text box.
Under the Protocol field, select "UMTS/3G from the drop down menu.
Continue to fill out the remaining fields.
Click on Save & Apply at the bottom right of the screen.
Reboot the board. The modem should be woken up from the /etc/init.d/3g script a few seconds after the board boots.
Some of the Gateworks boards have options to physically route USB signals to either front-panel connectors (the default configured by the bootloader and/or kernel) or a PCI slot for use with a PCI-to-PCIe carrier for PCIe USB products like cellular modems.
Please refer to the Gateworks USB Device Table and USB Steering pages for details for each board.
Depending on the carrier and plan, SMS messages can be sent from Gateworks boards via a Cellular Modem.
Gateworks has tested and verify this works sending to a normal handset.
The example shown is using AT commands which could be turned into a script if desired.
Verify that your modem supports SMS messages by typing the following AT command. If you see +CMGF: (0-1) then it is supported.
> This is a test message from a Gateworks Single Board Computer sending SMS.
Note that after hitting ctrl+z CMGW shows a numerical number. This number is the ID of the SMS to be sent.
OK Should appear after hitting enter for the send command. If ok appears, please check receiving handset. The 'from' number will be from whatever number is registered with the SIM.
OpenWrt will show both usb0 and usb1 enumerated. usb1 should be used for the internet.
AT+UCGDFLT - Configures the initial PDP context, i.e. sets the configuration of the PDN (packet data network) activated at attach time in LTE network. The configuration can be optionally saved in NVM (non volatile memory).
Does your modem require a driver or driver update that is not available in the Linux kernel version you are using?
look at the kernel messages from the dmesg command for messages that might indicate a modem is not supported or lack of a known driver supporting that device. Most modem drivers will create a number of 'tty' devices in /dev/tty* - if you see no messages about this you may be missing driver support.
Is your module in low-power / airplane mode?
Many cellular modems use AT commands for control. Examples shown on this page are a quick and easy way to issue commands, however, no responses can be seen. While many model and brands use similar AT commands you need to contact the modem vendor or search the Internet for a complete list for that particular brand and model.
To get to a console where AT commands and their responses can be seen, a serial program needs to be used, such as minicom or screen.
Consult your modem documentation for AT commands for that device and firmware.
Most Modem firmware will only check a SIM on power-up. If a SIM is activated or inserted after the cellular card is powered, the cellular may need to be re-powered or re-initialized to recognize the SIM. While each modem likely has a unique way to do this via an AT command, a QMI command, or an MBIM command resetting the modem is always another option.
Refer to the USB reset wiki page for details on how to do this on various boards and miniPCIe sockets.
A quick way to verify the module has connected up to the cellular carrier and has received an IP address is to run the ifconfig command from the Linux console. The following is an example output, note the 3g-wan entry, this will not show up if a connection has not been established. In this example 32.177.140.183 is the IP address. Once a connection is established, you should also be able to ping to the internet.
The GW16103 Mini-PCIe SIM, uSD and USB expansion board can be used to provide SIM support for boards with Mini-PCIe sockets.
The GW16038/GW16062 carriers can be used in specific slots of the Gateworks Laguna product families.
The GW16038/GW16062 carriers have 3 SIM connector sites (labeled USIMA, USIMB, USIMC) which can be selected depending on jumper position and software controlled GPIO steering. Jumper block W1 can set SEL0/SEL1 signals low/high or GPIO controlled. The card selection is shown in a table on the PCB silkscreen. You can set the jumpers to a specific SIM connector or allow 2 GPIO signals from the baseboard to select the location (useful for example in a product that needs to select a specific SIM based on other criteria such as geographic location).
These can be very useful for debugging with a desktop or laptop.
Be mindful to look to see if the adapter also has a SIM slot.
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Q: How to implement a Python custom class for outliers removal in pipeline? I'm trying to implement a Python custom class for outliers detection and removal by means of the Isolation Forest algorithm. My plan is to use it in a GridSearchCV for the hyperparameter tuning of a neural network (regression). Here is my code,
class OutlierExtractor(BaseEstimator, TransformerMixin):
    def __init__(self, contamination):
        self.contamination = contamination
        self.mask = None

    def fit(self, X, y):
        iso = IsolationForest(contamination = self.contamination)
        yhat = iso.fit_predict(X)
        mask = yhat != -1
        self.mask = mask
        return self

    def transform(self, X, y):
        X = X[self.mask, :]
        y = y[self.mask]
        return (X, y)

and the Pipeline
estimator = Pipeline([
            ('outliers', OutlierExtractor(0.1)),...
            ]

but, running grid_result = grid.fit(X, Y) it gives the error transform() missing 1 required positional argument: 'y'.
How to fix it?
Furthermore, it would be very fine being able to perform the tuning on the contamination parameter too.

A:
running grid_result = grid.fit(X, Y) it gives the error transform() missing 1 required positional argument: 'y'

Despite your not providing the full traceback and the implementation details of your grid, I am almost sure the problem is in your OutlierExtractor.transform method. It does not conform to scikit-learn transformer API, in which transform methods are expected to return only (modified) samples X, but you return both X and y. It is possible though that the error might be caused by other reasons and you might have to resolve them first.

How to fix it? Furthermore, it would be very fine being able to perform the tuning on the contamination parameter too.

I am afraid it is not possible to set up outlier detection inside scikit-learn pipelines. Fixing transform does not help either. Ideally, we would love to have support for the intermediate outlier detection inside Pipeline (we have Pipeline.fit_predict only for the last step outlier detection, e.g. when IsolationForest is the final predictor in your pipeline). However, this is not implemented yet. If my memory serves me right, there was an issue on this problem in the official github repository of scikit-learn. Also, here is a scikit-learn enhancement proposal SLEP001, which touches on outlier detection too.
In order to include IsolationForest in model selection, you would want to manually create a parameter grid for it and launch GridSearchCV for every entry of this grid. Here is a minimal example:
from sklearn.ensemble import IsolationForest
from sklearn.model_selection import ParameterGrid  # or ParameterSampler
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split, GridSearchCV

X, y = # your data
grid = GridSearchCV( # your model grid search )

isolation_forest = IsolationForest()
isolation_forest_params = {
    'max_features': (0.5, 0.75, 1.0),
    'bootstrap': (False, True),
    'contamination': (0.1, 0.2, 0.3),
}
isolation_forest_param_grid = ParameterGrid(isolation_forest_params)

# Here we split data once but you might want to use
# nested cross-validated grid search instead.
X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X, y, test_size=0.1)

best_score, best_params = 0, {}
for params in isolation_forest_param_grid:
    isolation_forest.set_params(**params)
    outlier_mask = isolation_forest.fit_predict(X_train)
    X_inliers, y_inliers = X_train[outlier_mask == 1], y_train[outlier_mask == 1]

    grid.fit(X_inliers, y_inliers)
    score = grid.score(X_test, y_test)
    if score > best_score:
        best_score = score
        best_params = grid.best_params_
        # Prepending 'if' prefix so that parameter names will not overlap.
        best_params.update({f'if__{k}': v for k, v in params.items()})

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Letters for Wimps? What Wimps?
Letters for A Teachable Moment
A New Biochemistry
Retrospective: Mahlon Hoagland
Retrospective: Charles Tanford
FASEB Excellence in Science Award
Herbert Tabor Lectureship
Burnham Touches Down
Jupiter Rising
Active Learning in the Classroom
Effective Laboratory Management
BioBits
Mahlon Hoagland (1921—2009)
BY THORU PEDERSON
Mahlon Hoagland, who contributed two seminal discoveries to the field of gene information flow, died on Sept. 18, 2009, at his home in Thetford, Vt., three weeks before his 88th birthday. Working in a group headed by Paul Zamecnik at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Mahlon revealed the enzymatic activation of amino acids at their carboxyl termini by the formation of acyl anhydrides with adenylate (1, 2) and co-discovered, with Zamecnik, transfer RNA (3, 4).
Mahlon was the son of a leading behavioral neurophysiologist. A career in either biology or medicine seemed ordained when he entered Harvard University in 1941, transferring from Williams College. At Harvard, he was deeply impressed by Louis Fieser's organic chemistry course, recalling, "I was enthralled by his ability to breathe life into molecules" (5). When the war broke out, Harvard premedical students were fast-tracked. Mahlon was commissioned as a Navy midshipman and entered Harvard Medical School in 1943. Two years later, on a fateful morning at Boston's Children's Hospital, he contracted tuberculosis from a baby for whom he was caring. His infection progressed rapidly, and he ended up at Chelsea Naval Hospital, where he was discovered by a Harvard physician, Walter Burrage, who evacuated him to the Trudeau Institute in Lake Placid, N.Y., to "take the treatment," the term used in that era to indicate fresh air and rest.
Returning to Harvard Medical School in 1947 to repeat his fourth year, Mahlon found that his initial interest in surgery remained strong. However, his promised appointment as a surgical resident at Massachusetts General Hospital was rescinded by the chief, who didn't want a post-TB doctor rumbling around the wards. Mahlon applied for, and received, a surgical residency appointment at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital but soon found that his tubercle infection had reactivated. Accordingly, he took a research post at Massachusetts General Hospital's Huntington Laboratory, headed by the physician-toxicologist Joseph Aub. One of Aub's many interests was beryllium toxicity, based on the problem of industrial exposure to the element (as beryllium oxide) in the phosphors used in the manufacture of fluorescent lamps. For the next three years, Mahlon worked on the induction of osteogenic sarcoma in animals exposed to beryllium as well as its effects on plant growth, becoming a recognized expert in this area of toxicology.
Although Mahlon was strongly influenced by Aub, it was another investigator he encountered in the group who made a deeper and more lasting impression on him— Paul Zamecnik. Zamecnik had joined Aub's group in 1938 and had been directing a comprehensive program on the control of liver growth viewed as an issue of protein synthesis. By the time Mahlon had completed his beryllium projects, he had received an American Cancer Society fellowship and, on Zamecnik's advice, joined Kaj Linderström-Lang at Copenhagen's Carlsberg Laboratory. There, he was significantly influenced both by Linderström-Lang and Herman Kalckar. Mahlon then returned to Massachusetts General, where, again on the advice of Zamecnik, he did a stint in the laboratory of Fritz Lipmann.
Lipmann had written a prophetic review in 1941 on the energetics of ATP activation as a general mechanism in biological chemistry. Mahlon's stint in the Lipmann lab exposed him to its gestalt and steered his attention to the possibility that covalent ATP activation might be involved in protein synthesis. This idea had not escaped Lipmann's ever-fertile mind, and the two groups found themselves in "comfortable competition" a few floors apart. But Mahlon got it first.
In addition to his glittering training with the Copenhagen and Boston leaders in biochemical energetics, Mahlon had another great advantage— a cell-free system that the Zamecnik group had painstakingly developed, springing from an initial interest in protein turnover in normal liver and hepatomas and aided by key contributions by Philip Siekevitz, another member of the able team Zamecnik had assembled. The group also enjoyed a relatively unique trove: C14 amino acids from Robert Loftfield. Using a pyrophosphate exchange assay, Mahlon discovered amino acid activation (1, 2). Presciently, he and Zamecnik also observed that, once activated, the amino acid was not released from the catalytic activity (vide infra).
Only two years later, Mahlon found that the temporal and subcellular fraction pathways through which amino acids reached the ribosomes involved a "soluble" RNA (3, 4). This discovery was seeded by a puzzling result Zamecnik had obtained previously: that labeled amino acids became attached to a small amount of RNA in the system. Mahlon's experiments defined the temporal and enzymatic attachment of activated amino acids to this soluble RNA and led to the important deduction that the enzymes responsible for activating the amino acids catalyzed their linkage to the RNA (these enzymes later to be defined as the aminoacyl tRNA synthetases). Previously, in 1956, Francis Crick had predicted, in a privately circulated document, the existence of an "adaptor" that would have to be involved in translating the DNA code into protein. Mahlon later wrote, admiringly, that he had had an image arise in his mind, that of him and Zamecnik "slashing and sweating our way through a dense jungle, rewarded at last by the vision of a beautiful temple, looking up to see Francis, on gossamer wings of theory, gleefully pointing it out to us!" (6).
Having made two monumental discoveries while he was a "senior" postdoctoral fellow, Mahlon was on the recruitment hot list. Harvard Medical School bacteriologist Bernard Davis had followed Mahlon's career with increasing admiration and appointed him assistant professor in his department of microbiology. Mahlon undertook teaching for the first time, and, as he would recall later with a combination of humility and amusement, he was called into Davis' office after every lecture for an intense post-mortem. He set up his lab, attracted fine students and postdocs, but increasingly disliked the landscape and moved to Dartmouth College as chair of biochemistry. There, he turned his research to the control of protein synthesis in regenerating liver and also led efforts to integrate basic research findings into the medical school curriculum. In 1970, Mahlon was recruited to take over the Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research, which had been founded in 1943 by his father and Gregory Pincus. He promptly added a program in cell biology and won a core grant from the National Cancer Institute, making that institution the first NCI-designated cancer center in Massachusetts.
At the Worcester Foundation, Mahlon turned his attention to writing and speaking to lay audiences about the importance of basic research. The terms "curiosity driven" and "unfettered" were among his favorites, and readers and audiences reacted warmly. They did so, in part, because Mahlon possessed an unassuming, modest style and an almost childlike excitement about the discovery process. In the mid-1970s, Mahlon catalyzed a group including James Watson, Arthur Kornberg, George Palade, Lewis Thomas and others to form the Delegation for Basic Biomedical Research. The group went to Washington and brought a new cogency to the view that fundamental research can predict no outcomes. The group was an overnight sensation and soon was widely imitated.
After retiring in 1985, Mahlon authored or co-authored six books that conveyed his unique talent for expressing science to a general readership. He was a longtime member of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and received numerous other honors and awards, including the Franklin Medal (1976) and the 1982 and 1996 book awards from the American Medical Writers Association. He and Zamecnik were nominated for the Nobel Prize more than once.
Having made two seminal discoveries as a young investigator, Mahlon spent the last part of his career leading and reforming the Worcester Foundation and inspiring lay audiences to understand what makes science happen. It is a matter of subjectivity as to the arena in which he made his most enduring contribution: as a biochemist or as an eloquent statesman-spokesman for basic research. Maybe it's a tie. He was a gifted biochemist over short quanta of everlasting discoveries, a gracious, modest man and an eternal optimist for science.
We offer our deepest sympathy to Mahlon's family. Below are reflections by his colleagues.
To do my work, I climbed onto the shoulders of Mahlon Hoagland, who was a great trailblazer and who laid the foundation and basic framework for the grand world of aminoacyl tRNA synthetases. These ancient, universal proteins, which appeared at the base of the tree of life in conjunction with the development of the genetic code, embody so many mysteries yet to be solved. Little did any of us know that Hoagland's early work would guide those like me into a land filled with surprise and meaning— from the role of tRNA synthetases in the evolution of the tree of life to their development of expanded functions that are critical for wellness and homeostasis and that have applications to human diseases.
Paul R. Schimmel
Ernest and Jean Hahn Professor
I encountered and spoke with Mahlon occasionally during the '60s. What struck me most was the modesty and the quiet demeanor of such a highly accomplished scientist. The impression I got was of an urbane, sophisticated and broadly educated individual. Quite recently, in preparation for historical talks at some meetings, I have had the occasion to read and re-read some of Mahlon's classical papers and reviews, and one cannot but be impressed with the clarity and precision of his writings. In scientific publications and in books, Mahlon had the tremendous gift of taking the reader along with him and conveying the sense of excitement that he felt about science.
In describing experiments showing that aminoacyl sRNAs were the intermediates in protein synthesis, Mahlon writes, "It was night by the time the samples were dried, stacked and ready to move automatically under the counter tube. I still can clearly see the dark windows of the lab, smell the organic solvents, hear the buzzing of a defective fluorescent lamp in the next room. In front of me were the transfixing flashing lights of the Geiger counter as the samples began to be counted… Those little numbers caused a shiver to go down my spine: Amino acids had left the RNA and entered protein!" (7) As someone who started working with radio isotopes using what was likely the same type of gas flow counter that Mahlon was describing, I read these lines and could sense the excitement that he must have felt as he saw the flashing lights of the counter indicate to him that the number of counts in sRNA were going down and those in the protein were going up. This was scientific writing at its best, and Mahlon was a master at that.
Uttam L. RajBhandary
Lester Wolfe professor of molecular biology,
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1. Hoagland, M. B. (1955) An enzymatic mechanism for amino acid activation in animal tissues. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 16, 288—289.
2. Hoagland, M. B., Keller, E. B., and Zamecnik, P. C. (1956) Enzymatic carboxyl activation of amino acids. J. Biol. Chem. 218, 345—358.
3. Kresge, N., Simoni, R. D., and Hill, R. L. (2009) The mechanism of amino acid activation: the work of Mahlon Hoagland. J. Biol. Chem. 284, e7—e8.
4. Hoagland, M. B., Stephenson, M. L., Scott, J. F., Hecht, L. I., and Zamecnik, P. C. (1958) A soluble ribonucleic acid intermediate in protein synthesis. J. Biol. Chem. 231, 241—256.
5. Hoagland, M. Toward the Habit of Truth: A Life in Science. W. W. Norton, 1990.
6. Hoagland, M. (2004) Enter transfer RNA. Nature 431, 249.
7. Hoagland, M. (1996) Biochemistry or Molecular Biology? The discovery of "soluble RNA." TIBS 21, 77—80.
Thoru Pederson (Thoru.Pederson@umassmed.edu) is the Vitold Arnett professor in the department of biochemistry and molecular pharmacology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
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[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/Bihaqo/t3f.svg?branch=develop)](https://travis-ci.org/Bihaqo/t3f)
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TensorFlow implementation of a library for working with Tensor Train (TT) decomposition which is also known as Matrix Product State (MPS).

# Documentation
The documentation is available via [readthedocs](https://t3f.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html).

# Comparison with other libraries
There are about a dozen other libraries implementing Tensor Train decomposition.
The main difference between `t3f` and other libraries is that `t3f` has extensive support for Riemannian optimization and that it uses TensorFlow as backend and thus supports GPUs, automatic differentiation, and batch processing. For a more detailed comparison with other libraries, see the [corresponding page](https://t3f.readthedocs.io/en/latest/comparison.html) in the docs.

# Tests
```bash
nosetests  --logging-level=WARNING
```

# Building documentation
The documentation is build by sphinx and hosted on readthedocs.org. To locally rebuild the documentation, install sphinx and compile the docs by
```bash
cd docs
make html
```

# Citing
If you use T3F in your research work, we kindly ask you to cite [the paper](http://jmlr.org/papers/v21/18-008.html) describing this library
```

@article{JMLR:v21:18-008,
  author  = {Alexander Novikov and Pavel Izmailov and Valentin Khrulkov and Michael Figurnov and Ivan Oseledets},
  title   = {Tensor Train Decomposition on TensorFlow (T3F)},
  journal = {Journal of Machine Learning Research},
  year    = {2020},
  volume  = {21},
  number  = {30},
  pages   = {1-7},
  url     = {http://jmlr.org/papers/v21/18-008.html}
}
```


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joebowlerchronicles.com
Ingenue
Portrait Studies
Joseph Bowler Jr ~ September 1928 - November 2016
photo by Rob Kaufman
Born in Forest Hills, New York in 1928, Joe began to draw when he was three. His first illustration for a national magazine was published by Cosmopolitan when he was nineteen. While working as an apprentice at the prestigious Charles E. Cooper Studios, Inc. he had the opportunity to learn the craft from some of the finest artists in the profession.
At Cooper Studio, Joe was inspired by the illustrations he saw being done by the top artists in the field. During the day Joe's time was spent cleaning palettes and brushes, matting paintings and running errands. He did his own work in the evenings, sometimes working all night. After being there about six months, Coby Whitmore brought Joe an illustration for matting. Coby saw a sample illustration Joe had been working on the night before and asked if he could take it with him to Cosmo to show the Art Director. Upon Coby's return, he told Joe, Cosmo had bought the sample and to bill them for $1,000. Earning $35 a week at that time, it seemed like a fortune. Within six months, Joe's illustrations were appearing in three major magazines. Coby became a mentor and friend to Joe, a friendship that lasted a life time.
Bowler contracted polio in 1958, while on vacation in Europe. The polio initially effected all of his muscles and he spent 7 years working with a physical therapist, Henry Stano. Though the recovery was long and painful, about three months in, Joe regained the use of his hands and arms and got back to the job of being an illustrator, that is painting. It was a turning point in Joe's life, not only in his physical capacity but his attitude and approach to painting.
Joe was elected to the Society of Illustrators in 1952. In 1967 The Artists' Guild of New York named Joe their Artist of the Year. By this time, magazines were commissioning him to do portraits of well known people. These included a 1968 McCall's fashion article portraying eight presidential candidates' wives; the August 1971 issue of Ladies' Home Journal cover portrait of Rose Kennedy; The Saturday Evening Post cover of Julie and David Eisenhower. In 1992 Joe was inducted into the Illustrators Hall of Fame.
In 1972, Joe and his wife Marilyn moved to Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. This proved to be the ideal location in which to make the transition from illustration to portraiture. Portraits have been Joe's primary focus since the move but he makes sure to take time to paint just for himself.
On March 10th, 2008, Joe's wife Marilyn died. Married for 58 years they shared a partnership in every sense of the word. Marilyn was a true collaborator and support system standing beside Joe in work and family. Over the years Marilyn handled the business of portraiture, the business of being a successful artist. Many of the painters who have visited Joe over the years were in awe of Marilyn's understanding of how to become a successful working artist. Her grace and charm in meeting with clients as well as other artists was truly remarkable. We miss her warmth, guidance and wisdom.
On November 14th, 2016, Joe died in his home on Hilton Head Island, SC. His daughters Jolyn and Brynne and his grandson Coby were with him. He painted almost every day of his adult life and loved doing it. He was a generous soul and saw beauty in almost everything. He adored his wife Marilyn who was his best friend, best critic and truly the best partner he could have had.
Please note that all images on this website are the sole property of the artist's estate.
No reproduction of these images is allowed without the express written permission of a representative of the estate.


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