I used to live on Hi-C.
Like, growing up, I'm quite positive it coursed through my veins.
But let's talk about what was in our childhood beverages, shall we? Dangerous dyes, high fructose corn syrup, and probably 1,000 other things that will haunt me in my old age.
As a parent, I've been trying to make better choices not only for myself, but for my kids. We're working on eating less refined foods and opting for products with a readable, understandable and short list of ingredients. I've been challenging myself to make more food at home instead of buying the processed foods at the store (it's a slow process, but we're getting there - post series to come! Stay tuned)!
In our household, we try to make our beverages of choice water and milk. I haven't felt good about giving my kids juice, for fear of what bad stuff I was allowing them to put into their bodies.
A few weeks ago, I got to meet with Lou, our local Honest Tea representative. He sat down with me and shared all about Honest Tea. Lou took time to answer my questions, which I loved. What other companies strive to have personal relationships with their community?
Shh. Do you hear them? The angels?
Don't adjust your screens. I really am that cool.
Local: Honest Tea was started in Maryland, and began by pitching their tea to Whole Foods. The rest is history!
Friendship: The company was the brain child of 2 college buddies (Barry was actually Seth's professor! And don't you love how I talk about them on a first name basis like we're BFF's? I'm sure they won't mind. Or think I'm the least bit creepy). I love when awesome things come out of good friendships.
Organic: Each and every drink manufactured by Honest Tea is certified USDA organic.
Lower Sugar/Lower Calorie: Created to be a better choice, Honest Tea drinks allow kids and adults alike to have tasty healthy beverage options.
This girl thinks it's top notch. And I don't even have to feel bad about it!
Did I also mention I'm giving away 1 Honest Tea Bag O' Swag to one of YOU, my fantabulous readers?
Since it's Honest Tea, it'd be wrong to lie. Amiright?
To enter: Share a comment below about what intrigues you about Honest Tea and which beverage you'd be most interested to try. Make sure to leave your email address so I can contact you if you are the lucky winner!
Giveaway will run from Friday, August 10 to Friday August 18 at noon. I'll contact the winner and announce shortly thereafter. So get those comments in!
Also? They will be supplying one of the lucky CSHM Olympic Challenge medalists with a Bag O' Swag as well. So get your Event Pictures in, people!
Have you had Honest Tea before? I'd LOVE to hear about your experience!
I would definitely like to try an Honest Ade, any to be exact! They sound marvelous and I would be interested to see how my children would like Honest Kids. Thanks for the great review!
I just saw Honest Tea in Target this morning and immediately thought of this page. I had no idea they also made kids beverages so I would absolutely love to give the apple juice a try since my 2 year old consumes mass quantities. I try to buy "organic" or "natural" (not from concentrate) products. Apple juice is really the only thing he screams for. It never occurred to me that something marketed as natural would be anything but and that there might be even better choices out there, rather than diluting it with water. I am glad I read through this post to know there are other healthy options to consider.
Oh man, I LOOOOOVE honest tea. I have had tons of them (didn't know they made kids drinks, though!). What I really want to try are the sunglasses. :) But seriously, soooo good. I love the Black Forest Berry, the Pomegranate one, and the Pearfect White Tea the best. I didn't know that they were local and started the way they did - very cool! PS you should pick me to win since I'm your biggest fan. Oops, was that too obvious brown-nosing?
I love the Cranberry Lemonade and find it refreshing that they are steering away from using any sugar at all in their products!
Organic and Lower Sugar/Lower Calorie, can't get any better. I'd like to try honey green tea.
I'd like to try the kids version. Low sugar is a must for my crazy kids!
Sign me up. I love so many of their flavors but the white peach tea is one of my favorites.
I like that it is low sugar low calorie and want to try the ORange Mango!
I've had Honest Tea a few times and have found it way tastier than most of the pre-bottled tea options!
Sweet tea is da bomb. I'd love to try their version. :-) Great giveaway!
I love the Honey Green Tea! It's got just the right amount of sweet to go with the yumminess of green tea that I love so much. It's a WINNER!!
My husband loves Honest Tea! He would be thrilled if I won! His favorite flavor is green tea with honey, but I would love the opportunity to try out the other varieties. I believe you have my email address already, but of not...let me know on FB and I'll send it to you.
Now that the kids are headed back to school, I'm looking for healthy lunch options to pack for them. I've never tried Honest Tea before, but I'm looking forward to giving their kids line a try. I love the fact that there's less sugar. I'm headed to Target tomorrow to buy some and give it a try.
Would love to win! We try and choose natural/organic options when it comes to drinks, which we mostly drink water so winning this would be a treat!
We already drink the Honest Kids juice pouches! Both of my kids really enjoy them...dd's favorite is Berry Berry Good Lemonade!
The fact that these drinks are organic and low on sugar is a big plus. I will definitely be adding this to my grocery list this week!
I'd like to try the kids pouches. I'm always looking for a way to get M to drink more throughout the day, bu I hate giving her anything with sugar!
The peach oolalong has been my favorite for years! But I'd love to try some of the pouches!
Honestly.... Honest Tea intrigues me for its flavor. How can a drink with such a low amount of sugar taste so amazing?
I would like to try their Green Dragon tea with passion fruit, its name is so mysterious and also their pomegranate red tea with goji berries because of the nutrition those berries have. I just think they are an amazing combination.
I would love to try honest tea. My three year old loves juice and I would love an organic alternative in any flavor. I did not know when I originally gave him apple juice how much he would enjoy it. It is almost a security thing for him.
I love that there kids drinks are not full of junk.
I've only ever tried the Honest Peach White Tea(it was on sale at giant 10/$10) and I'm curious if my daughter will like the kids drinks. As for the tea, I love that it's refreshing without all the sugar. It almost reminds me of the "sun tea" my mom used to make when i was a kid.
No I appreciate hearing all thoughts on it! I think taht is definitely a valid concern!


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Lal Singh Chaddha: The trailer of Amir Khan's Awaited Movie Has Been Released
It's been almost four years since the Bollywood film Perfect Aamir Khan. Fans are anxiously awaiting the film's release here. The latest film by Aamir Khan Thugs of Hindustan was released with great anticipation and saw a terrible defeat. With the result of this film, Aamir is fully dedicated to his own film. It's been almost four years since Lal Singh Chadha took the lead among the audience. The film, directed by Advait Chandan, began as a remake of Forest Gump. The film, which was prepared last year, is to be released on August 11. The film crew has released a trailer for this order.
Experience the extraordinary journey of Laal Singh Chaddha, a simple man whose heart is filled with love, hope and warmth. 🙂#LaalSinghChaddhaTrailer out now!
Releasing in cinemas worldwide on 11th Aug.https://t.co/iDS01jchLW#LaalSinghChaddha
— Viacom18 Studios (@Viacom18Studios) May 29, 2022
Hindi film 'Lal Singh Chaddha' directed by Advait Chandan with Aamir Khan as the hero. Naga Chaitanya plays one of the lead role in the film, with Kareena Kapoor as the heroine. The producers have released the Hindu trailer 'Lal Singh Chadda' entitled 'Experience the extraordinary journey of a common man'. The film unit, which has already aroused interest in the film with posters and songs, screened this trailer during the exciting T20 final competition. Later it was released on social media platforms.
A mentally dissatisfied man watching a trailer finds joy in his life. How Sirigi emerged from an unstoppable position as a winner in cross-country leagues. It looks like a movie with elements. The film will be an emotional journey that shows different aspects of Lal Singh Chadha's life.
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China's One Road, One Belt project is one of the biggest infrastructure initiatives undertaken in modern times. Sarah Shaw from 4D Infrastructure, who runs Territory Funds Management??s Global Infrastructure mandate talks about the implications for investors in this great article.
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Q: How to Start Gimp .png with Brightness/Contrast controllers? Situation: start Gimp .png with brightness/contrast options as one-liner in terminal
Motivation: have a plane of brightness-contrast where you can control them on x-axis and y-axis; synonym non-linear plane of brightness-contrast, ... (see here for its expected output at the end of the question body)
Pseudocode to get the mode Colours > Curves
gimp --contrast --brightness file.png

Related issue simply starting Gimp in Ubuntu 16.04
Related bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gimp/+bug/1576977.
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Output in Terminal
(gimp:4270): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: g_object_set_valist: object class 'GeglConfig' has no property named 'cache-size'

(gimp:4270): GEGL-gegl-operation.c-WARNING **: Cannot change name of operation class 0x1A523C0 from "gimp:point-layer-mode" to "gimp:dissolve-mode"

(gimp:4270): GEGL-gegl-operation.c-WARNING **: Cannot change name of operation class 0x1A52890 from "gimp:point-layer-mode" to "gimp:behind-mode"

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(gimp:4270): GEGL-gegl-operation.c-WARNING **: Cannot change name of operation class 0x1A58390 from "gimp:point-layer-mode" to "gimp:color-erase-mode"

(gimp:4270): GEGL-gegl-operation.c-WARNING **: Cannot change name of operation class 0x1A58730 from "gimp:point-layer-mode" to "gimp:erase-mode"

(gimp:4270): GEGL-gegl-operation.c-WARNING **: Cannot change name of operation class 0x1A58B90 from "gimp:point-layer-mode" to "gimp:replace-mode"

System: Linux Ubuntu 16.04 64 bit
Hardware: Macbook Air 2013-mid
Gimp: 2.8.16
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When you want to ensure that your business has the very best possible protection, going over all your insurance options with an independent engineer and architect insurance company is a fantastic place to start. Insurance is absolutely vital for those in the design profession, however a lot of people underestimate its importance, also underestimating the devastating effect protracted litigation can have on the future of your business and career. Many architects and engineers do not realize that just one lawsuit can completely destroy a small firm and go without insurance totally. A lot of individuals who thought they are able to prepare for their business's future are totally unprepared for the worst case scenario. When you are thinking about ensuring the protection of your business in the long term, finding the very best possible alternative is important. You never want to entrust just anyone with the future of your business. This is why it is essential to get in touch with an architects and engineers insurance brokerage like Fenner & Esler.
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Break out those high socks & short shorts! This rad, retro shirt will keep you looking funky fresh. Fabric: Lightweight French Terry 93/7 Cotton/Polyester Neck: Scoop Binding: Self-fabric cuffs and waistband. Side seamed.


Dubai's reputation as a scorching cosmopolis of staggering skyscrapers, mile-long shopping malls, and insanely luxurious living is well-deserved. Fresh off the plane, you can't help but marvel at it all, the alacritous efficiency, fabulous food, and the well-earned and long-time-coming respect at work. But whether you're just passing through the emirate, or staying for one year or five, for work or for play, one thing is certain: You are definitely going to run into the legendary expatriate community flooding in from every corner of the planet. 'Only in Dubai: an Essential Guide to the Emirate's Expats' is a collection of Dubai's one-of-a-kind expats, from the jet sleek Jumeirah Janes and prolific Palm Posers to the vaguely lost Third Culture Kids. The Yo-Yo Dieters are desperately trying to resist the city's abundant all-you-can-eat buffets, while the chronically traveling Transients are never even around long enough to pull up a pew at sundowners. Written by award-winning British-Lebanese writer and journalist Sophie Robehmed, 'Only in Dubai' is a light-hearted and touching tribute to the city that she called home for a year.
The Secret List Marrakech Travel Guide: Your Key to The Jet Set Scene in Marrakech.
Quick and informative read about expat's in Dubai.


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@Dexys-Midnight-Runners
new wave 80s post-punk british pop
Dexys Midnight Runners - the name consistently spelled without an apostrophe - were a British post-punk and Northern Soul band who achieved their major success in the early to mid 1980s. The word Dexys in this case, comes from a colloquialism of dextroamphetamine, a type of amphetamine diet pill that was a popular 'upper' drug with England's Northern Soul scene in the 1960s.
Founded in 1978 by former singer of the Killjoys, Kevin Rowland, and guitarist Kevin "Al" Archer, in Birmingham (United Kingdom), the band was unique in that musically, they seemed best suited to the budding Mod/Skinhead Revival scene in the United Kingdom, but in many ways, especially fashion, they came off as rather hard to 'sell' to any particular scene. Musically, they've always been a sort of "soul-fusion."
An early single, "Geno" (written as an ode to American Northern Soul singer, Geno Washington), was immensely popular, despite being repeatedly bad-mouthed by the NME. In fact, "Geno" remains their biggest-selling single in the UK, thanks in part to at least one re-issue.
The following album, Searching for the Young Soul Rebels (1980), was an interesting punk and soul fusion, and despite (or perhaps because of) decidedly mixed reviews by the press, it was extremely well-received by the public.
Their second album, Too Rye Aye (1982), had a decidedly different sound, thanks largely to an immense line-up change, most notable for the fact that the horn section of …Young Soul Rebels had been replaced by "the Emerald Express," the band's Celtic folk section (featuring violinist Helen O'Hara). The sound was still obviously soul influenced, at the very least, but this time it was Celtic soul. The album's first UK single was even titled "Celtic Soul Brothers."
Too-Rye-Aye was the most popular Dexys album Stateside, in fact it was the only one to break US charts, (though the album itself was only a modest to intermediate success in the US). This is largely because the US a-side single for "Come On Eileen" was debatably too popular (the single has been re-issued at least once in the UK; despite this, "Geno" was still their biggest-selling UK single). Undoubtedly the most "pop radio"-oriented song of the entire Dexys Midnight Runners catalogue.
A third album, Don't Stand Me Down was released in 1985 ending a three year silence from the band. It featured a noticeably different line-up. The ever-experimental Rowland abandoned the Too-Rye-Ay Celtic Soul/New Wave formula in favor of a more laidback Van Morrison conversational album. The previous album was a "Big Band" sound when compared to the new one (though, amusingly, the number of guest musicians featured on Don't Stand Me Down, plus the credited band members, seemed to outnumber all previous members of Dexys combined, including ex-Dexys who had recorded only song before leaving).
Don't Stand Me Down was well-received by critics though universally ignored by the music-buying public due in large part to Rowland stubbornly refusing to release any song from the album as a single, until considerably "late" after its release, as well as confusing listeners who may have been expecting a sequel to Too-Rye-Ay's Dance Pop. Sales of the album were sparse and it was considered a failure by the label. In the 20-plus years since it's original release it has come to be viewed by many as Rowland's magnum opus.
After Rowland's first solo endeavor in 1988, Dexys was briefly reformed in 1993, by Rowland with Big Jim Patterson, though this endeavor resulted in little, if anything more than a television performance.
In 2003, the career retrospective album ('don't call it a "greatest hits" collection'), Let's Make This Precious was released, featuring two new tracks, "Manhood" and "My Life In England, Part One." The new tracks were touted as singles and received regular radio play in the UK, though never commercially released outside the album.
Rowland officially announced in June 2005 that Dexys were back in the studio, recording and seeking a new contract. The current line-up includes Rowland Mick Talbot (former member of Merton Parkas and Hammond player for Paul Weller).
In the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, notably, Dexys Midnight Runners are the only band to have all of their albums listed, and with a full page review for each album (understandably, most albums only get a half-page review). All three albums received glowing reviews, save Too-Rye-Aye, wherein it was noted "[Too-Rye-Aye] is the worst of the three Dexys albums; but if this is the worst album in your collection, pat yourself on the back."
1) Come on Eileen
2) Come On Eileen - Single Edit
3) Geno
4) Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile)
5) Geno - 2000 Remaster
6) The Celtic Soul Brothers (More, Please, Thank You)
7) Let's Make This Precious
8) Plan B
9) Come On Eileen - Album Edit
10) Seven Days Too Long
11) Tell Me When My Light Turns Green
12) Old
13) Liars A to E
14) Burn it Down
15) There There My Dear
16) Show Me
17) All In All (This One Last Wild Waltz)
18) I'm Just Looking
19) The Celtic Soul Brothers
20) Thankfully Not Living in Yorkshire It Doesn't Apply
21) I'll Show You
22) Until I Believe In My Soul
23) Keep It
24) The Teams That Meet In Caffs
25) Jackie Wilson Said
1978 – present (44 years)
Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Al Archer Andy Growcott Andy Leek Billy Adams Bobby Ward … Brian Maurice Giorgio Kilkenny Helen O'Hara Jeff Blythe Jimmy Paterson John Edwards Julian Littman Kevin Rowland Lucy Morgan Mick Talbot Micky Billingham Nicky Gatfield Paul Speare Pete Saunders Pete Williams Robert Noble Roger MacDuff Seb Shelton (1981 – 1983)
Steve Shaw Steve Spooner Steve Wynne Tim Dancy Tommy Evans Vincent Crane
http://www.dexysonline.com/
@Dexys-Midnight-Runners/events
Lloyd Cole and The Commotions
The Teardrop Explodes - Passionate Friend
The Go-Go's - Can't Stop The World
The Housemartins - Get Up Off Our Knees
Devo - Pity You
Fun Boy Three - Faith, Hope And Charity
Fun Boy Three - We're Having All The Fun
The Pale Fountains - longshot for your love
Television Personalities - I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives
Spandau Ballet - Musclebound
Tenpole Tudor - Swords of a Thousand Men
Squeeze - Labelled With Love
The Go-Go's - How Much More
The Pale Fountains - lavinia's dream
The Vapors - Jimmie Jones
Spandau Ballet - Chant No 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On)
Kim Wilde - You'll Never Be So Wrong
The Vapors - Waiting For The Weekend
Lloyd Cole and The Commotions - Rattlesnakes
Altered Images - Dead Pop Stars
Kim Wilde - Shane
The Teardrop Explodes - Reward
The Housemartins - Everyday's The Same
Haircut 100 - Lemon Firebrigade


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Bostoner Rebbe may refer to:

 Pinchos Dovid Horowitz, the first rebbe of the Bostoner hasidim

 Levi Yitzchak Horowitz, son of Pinchos Dovid Horowitz

 Mayer Alter Horowitz, Bostoner rebbe of Jerusalem, 2nd son of Levi Yitzchak Horowitz

 Naftali Yehuda Horowitz, Bostoner rebbe of Boston, 3rd son of Levi Yitzchak Horowitz

Chaim Avrohom Horowitz, Bostoner rebbe of New York and Beit Shemesh

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Earlier this year I got to meet some long lost cousins. After doing a great deal of genealogical research, combined with some amazing coincidences, some of my American cousins made contact with our Sicilian relatives (the ones that never immigrated to America). My great grandfather, Sebastian Guidice and his wife Maude Pizza came to America via Ellis Island and had a prolific family. Sebastian's brother stayed in Sicily and did the same. Well, long story short with lots of letters trips to Sicily, several of our distant cousins came to visit our family and spent two weeks traveling all over the US.
My brother Ryan and I rendezvoused with the entourage in New York City for a couple of days, and we actually caught up with them and met, in of all places, the Boat to Ellis Island. This seemed beautifully serendipitous, since the boat to Ellis Island is what separated the family in the first place.
We had an amazing time with the group for a couple of days before we had to part ways again. Here are some shots from the trip.
On the Ferry to Ellis Island.
Adorably, Giovanna looked strikingly similar to many of the immigrant images in the museum.
My brother searching the Wall for Sebastian and Maude's name.
Found it! Sebastian Guidice. That's my American Cousin Judy in the background who did all the leg work and research to make this happen. She even wrote a book about the whole saga.
View from the top of Rockefeller Tower.
Wall street was way cooler that I thought it would be.
Mell Bell's Belly days (hours?) before delivery!
We are on standby to take Mell Bell to the hospital any day now! We did a bunch of family shoots out on the beach today and took a few moments to do some last minute maternity portraits.
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Elaine had the classiest bridal shower I've ever seen at Circa 1886 and the Wentworth Mansion. Organized by her maid of honor the ladies dawned amazing hats and had a Kentucky Derby themed shower.


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The Lord of the Rings: Jango Fett's Revenge
S.K. Eletoñ (ghastby) Fanfiction, The Lord of the Rings: Jango Fett's Revenge January 30, 2015 December 28, 2016
Treebeard looked at Pippin as though he were the biggest idiot on the fucking planet.
"SIDE? I AM ON NOBODY'S SIDE. BECAUSE NOBODY'S ON MY SIDE."
Merry and Pippin were astonished that the talking tree didn't want to die for them.
"But Saruman's armies are cutting down all the trees!" pipped Pippin.
"I'm sorry you little prick. What are hobbit houses made out of again?" Treebeard asked, astonished he was even going to have to explain this shit to the short hairy-toed fucks.
"…Wood." admitted Merry, defeated.
"But trees don't have feelings!" offered Pippin.
Treebeard once again looked at Pippin as though he were the biggest idiot on the fucking planet.
"The only reason I haven't tossed you jabronis into the fucking pits of Isengard is because my brother-in-law wants to see you."
"Who's you're brother-in-law?" asked everyone who's familiar with the Tolkien universe and knows that Treebeard does not in fact have a canon brother-in-law.
"Gandalf the shitty-ass wizard." said Treebeard, (This is now canon) "You haven't seen him walking around with my sister?"
"Your sister's his staff?" asked Merry, bewildered at how clever I am.
"Yes, faggot."
"But she's so small and doesn't talk."
"She gets a lot of exercise and what the fuck is there to talk about?"
"A lot of shit, actually."
"Name one thing that's happened on your journey thus far."
"Gandalf DIED." offered Pippin, attempting to surprise Treebeard like a dumbass.
"No he didn't, he's alive. See? You literally can't name a single thing that's happened."
'Boromir…' thought Merry sadly. He decided not to bring it up, because Treebeard would probably just make fun of him. And not how Sean Bean dies in every movie he's in. He'd make fun of the actual character of Boromir dying. Treebeard is in no fucking mood for this shit, and Merry knows it. Pippin doesn't because he's a fool of a Took.
"Our friend Boromir died!" said Pippin angrily.
'You fucking idiot.' thought Merry.
"Oh, I'm so sorry, Pippin." said Treebeard, as sarcastically as Entenly possible. "I know how much pain you must be in, because THOUSANDS OF MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY ARE DEAD."
"Fucking wrecked." said Gandalf, who appeared before them in shining white…robes.
"Gandalf!" squealed the hobbits with glee. In unison, because I'm too lazy to write a unique line for each of them.
"Gandork, I thought we were skipping this whitey shit." sighed Treebeard.
"What are you talking about?" asked Merry.
"He's a White Wizard now, which is fucking useless. White men can't fucking jump." explained Treebeard.
"I can't become a Black Wizard unless I die doing something bad." explained Gandalf. Remember, this is all canon.
"Okay, so kill Pippin, and Merry will stab you." said Treebeard.
"That's literally the best idea anyone's ever had." said Gandalf, and he stabbed Pippin through the chest with Glamdring or however the hell you spell it. Fine, I'll look it up… HA, I GOT IT RIGHT. I DIDN'T EVEN SEE THE HOBBIT MOVIES. I ACTUALLY REMEMBERED FROM READING THE BOOK YEARS AGO, WHICH YOU'VE NEVER DONE, YOU CASUAL PIECE OF SHIT. *except for Chris*
"Pippin noooo!" cried Merry, as he rushed over to his dead-ass friend.
"Now kill me, bro." said Gandalf, and he pushed Merry like a bully.
"I CAN'T." wept Merry.
"DO IT. OR I'LL KILL THE ENTIRE SHIRE." roared Gandalf.
That did it. "RRRRRAAAHH!" yelled Merry as he lifted his pathetic little dagger to try to stab Gandalf.
But then suddenly, a bolt of…air… punched Gandalf through the trees.
It was Saruman.
"Stole your kill, bro." he laughed with his booming voice. The entire land shook.
"And now I level up to Super-White Wizard." he laughed again. Still booming.
And then, I don't know, Gandalf walked through the trees toward them, wearing black robes.
"A Black Wizard versus a Super-White Wizard?" remarked Treebeard. "I think this is like, a tie or something."
"There's only one way to find out." said Jango Fett, and he shot them both at the same time because he has two guns. It works out perfectly.
Gandalf jumped over the laser blast, but Saruman, still white, was unable to jump, and instead deflected it. It bounced into Merry, killing him. He was finally reunited with his dear friend. In elf hell.
Jango Fett flew away as the two wizards began punching the shit out of each other.
His new mission? To kill Frodo Baggins and steal the Ring of Power for his own use to become an invisible bounty hunter.
He flew into Mordor without having to stop to refuel because fuck, and he confronted Bilbo. I mean Frogo. I mean Frogo. Fuck, I typed it again. Frodo. He tracked Frodo and found him and said
"AH HA. I'M GONNA KILL YOU NOW AND STEAL THE WRING. WRING? RING."
"You leave Mr. Frodo alone!" shouted Samwise Gamgee, the best fucking character in the entire story. But not even Sam could stop the wrecking ball that was Jango Fett, and he fell over, knocked out cold from a cock-punch from the best damn bounty hunter ever. Remember, he hunted down a rogue Sith and killed her like a dog. Just for money. God damn.
But when all hope seemed lost, a crucial element of the story comes into play- Sauron had used his giant flaming eyeball to follow the mysterious trail of smoke from Jango's jetpack. And holy shit, "I SEEE YOUUU."
The next thing Jango and the hobbits knew, they were surrounded by Nazgul. Oh shit.
Star Wars: The Fett Awakens
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I won third place in Medical Device + Diagnostic Industry magazine's Dare-to-Dream Medtech Design Challenge.
MD+DI is a magazine written exclusively for original equipment manufacturers of medical devices and in vitro diagnostic products.
A month ago, the editors of MD+DI created a medtech design contest, where we challenged you to design your dream device under the assumption that real-world challenges were non-existent.
In August, the editors of MD+DI asked you, the medtech community, to put on your creative hats and dream up a device that would tackle health-care problems both big and small.
"The inspiration for this dream device obviously came from a very personal place," said Jamie Hartford, managing editor of MD+DI. "The Intracranial Cerebrospinal Fluid Pressure Regulator is a novel improvement over the standard of care for intracranial hypotension caused by cerebrospinal fluid leaks, a condition that can cause devastating headaches. I like that it uses wireless power transfer, which is really the next step for implantable devices."
October 17th Debt Ceiling: Are you ready for the Greater Depression?
Unless you never read a newspaper, watch TV or turn on the radio, you know that the politicians in Washington DC are screwing up the world economy and don't even know it.
The only solution is to get rid of parties.
Remember the Wigs and Hat parties from your Civics Class in school? The Founding Fathers saw, in their own day, the dangers of parties over Statesmen.
When was the last time you were invited to one of their parties?
I don't vote based on parties. I vote on if I think the person will represent my interests. None of them do anymore.
None of them understand how the monetary system works.
That you think a green piece of paper has value is only a mater of belief that it has value, a mater of perception.
The perception that the Dollar is worthy of being the worlds reserve currency is also a mater of perception. The damage has already been done to the perception of the Dollar being worthy of holding.
Oct/17/2013 is when the US run out of the ability to borrow 'Money'.
Government raises your taxes with new CPI calculations.
Is the Dollar Dead? Bank of England says so.
"We can always print money" - Alan Greenspan on Meet The Press Aug/07/2011.
Why is the cost of my Bill of Material (BOM) so much higher than last week? The Orwellian doublespeak answer: Quantitative Easing.
Are you ready for the Greater Depression?
This week I spent a bit of time with Dr. J. C. Chiao, of University of Texas at Arlington, learning about the field of Physiotronics [TM], which covers the area of Implantable Wireless Medical Devices and Systems. With the recent suicide of my wife due to chronic pain, from Intracranial Hypotension caused by leaking Cerebralspinal Fluid (CSF Leak), the information on An integrated wireless body network for chronic pain management. The system provides a wireless closed loop for neurorecorders to recognize pain signals and neurostimulators to inhibit pain is of great personal interest. Page two and six are the pain related ones.
Perception of pain requires propagation of Neural Signal Action Potentials (APs) via communication between neurons (Nociceptors) over Nociceptive afferent fibers (Aδ, C).
Dr. Chaio's group is currently doing animal trails, with rats, of their APRI [TM]: Automatic Pain Recognition and Inhibition which is a closed-loop On-demand feedback system that is measuring the actual nerve signals that transmit pain to the brain. To my knowledge all other current techniques use only subjective methods of those in actual pain, such as the Mosby Pain Rating Scale, or fiddling with the knobs of a TENS unit far to much as Karen often did. The closed loop system will allow for less pain medication to be injected, and being automatic allow the user to get on with having a life.
I do have one significant concern, due to my bias of not wanting to puncture the spinal dura, which is what causes Intracranial Hypotension, is currently the neural sensors require physical contact with the pain sensing nerve. I'm hoping this does not cause erosion of the dura leading to a CFS Leak. This may be nothing but my personal parainoia.
Also I'm not sure Dr. Chiao, and the medical field at large, understand the importance of the ratio encoding of the nervous system. Something I researched extensively when working with Dr. Flanagan on an update to his Neurophone [TM] years ago. You can read my old research here: Mind9.
This weekend is your last chance to vote for my device in the Dare to Dream Medical Device Contest : How do we make this device happen?. If you are having trouble voting in the device contest from a phone use this link and vote for #5, "Intracranial Cerebrospinal Fluid Pressure Regulator". See here for more information.
Is consciences itself influencing your Embedded System?
This week [Sept. 20th 2013] I spent a fascinating evening with Bob Jahn and Brenda Dunne of the former Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory, who are now running the International Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL). Bob Jahn is Emeritus Professor of Aerospace Sciences and Dean Emeritus of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences of Princeton University. He was founder and director of PEAR from its inception in 1979 until its closing in 2007, with Brenda serving as its laboratory manager. Bob is now Chairman of ICRL and Brenda serves as its President.
Bob and Brenda over 28 years investigated psi from an engineering point of view. That is, the primary subject of their human/machine experiments was not the human, but the machine. This shift in emphasis required different experimental designs based on the accumulation of very large databases from a relatively small group of human operators, manipulation of physical variables rather than psychological ones, and data processing and statistical techniques drawn from engineering practice.
The way we pose our questions can frequently affect the answers we get.
PEAR experiments involved many different types of Random Event Generators. For our discussion here I assume the REG is based on the decay of a radioactive element. It is impossible to know when a radioactive particle will be emitted from a mass. The unpredictably of this emission form a random event that is coupled into a logic system to record such events.
Lets assume we have a simple apparatus of three bins in which a collection of balls can accumulate. The bin on the left is called the 'low-side', middle bin the 'baseline' and the bin on the right is called the 'high-side'.
The Random Event Generator determines which of the three bins the balls will fall into. Over a long enough period of time, without any outside influences, the three bins will accumulate the same number of balls.
Now the fascinating part to me is that untrained operators (that is people that claim no special abilities of any kind) can influence which bin gets the most balls. It gets even more interesting that the device can be influenced remotely from the present, past or future! Time and distance are a construction of our current physical understanding of the world, however they are not a requirement of Nature. In their studies they did determine that this is a wave-based phenomenon and not particle based.
What I found strangest of all (as if this all isn't strange enough) is that the influence on the devices were gender specific. Males who could see the device had the best outcomes of getting the balls to fall into the bins of their choosing. Females regardless of their choice tended to have the balls fall into the 'high' bin. Bonded couples (that is dating or married heterosexual couples) had a seven fold increase in the balls falling into the bin of their choosing. Pairs of males or pairs of females had no better outcomes than an individual operator of the same gender.
PEAR accumulated billions of bits of data from the REGs of many types and found the same outcomes over 28 years of study.
Dare to Dream Medical Device Contest: How do we make this device happen?
On August 7th, my wife of twenty years committed suicide.
For twenty-four year she battled with Chronic Pain, that she ultimately lost to suicide, when she could take the pain from Intracranial Hypotension, caused by leaking Cerebral Spinal Fluid (CSF Leak), no longer.
I refuse to let Karen's death be in vane, see about donating her spine: http://blog.softwaresafety.net/2013/08/my-wifes-suicide.html.
Now I need your help. I know some of you work in the medical device field. Now do we make this device happen (I know it is a slow process), see below?
10 Finalists Announced For Dare-to-Dream Medtech Design Challenge (slideshow).
Editors have already scored the submissions. Now it's up to readers.
The scores will be added to reader votes and a grand prize winner and two runners up will be announced Oct. 1.
This one is mine: Intracranial Cerebrospinal Fluid Pressure Regulator .
When I saw this contest announced I thought it was a good way to get the issue of Intracranial Hypotension in front of the group of people, Nerds like me, that design medical devices, so that someday this group will have a solution to IH.
Wining the contest will get IH in front of even more people. However wining is that not important to me, I'll be donating the proceeds to IH research. What I want accomplish is getting IH in front of the people that can do something about it. I know some of you work in the medical device field. Now do we make this device happen (I know it is a slow process)?
Karen's complete medical history is here http://www.kpaddock.com.
Reminder: "The Codebreaker": A film about Alan Turing-to youngstown state university, in two weeks on Sept. 12th.
After years in the making, NASA has now released to the public their first-ever Software Engineering Handbook (SWEHB); NASA-HDBK-2203 (2013-02-28) .
YouTube video showing how a person can navigate through the NASA Software Engineering Handbook to find software engineering related information. This video is about ten minutes long and can be used as a good training or awareness tool.
Each section of the SWEHB provides six areas of information per entry: the requirement, its rationale, guidance for implementation, notes for small projects, associated resources, and related lessons learned.
The 135 software engineering requirements for NASA projects are listed in a small, blue booklet, seventy pages long, called NASA Procedural Requirement (NPR) 7150.2 AKA NASA Software Engineering Requirements ; View all pages in PDF. The new handbook is "A sort of hitchhiker's guide to the NPR". The handbook does not impose additional requirements; it is meant to be an assist.
Haley Stephenson explains how the SWEHB was developed as a collaborative Wiki in The Hitchhiker's Guide to Software Engineering at NASA . Many mangers do not seem to appreciate the value of using something like Dokuwiki to collaborate and document the development of a project. Without such documentation, years later, we are left to wonder "why did we use the red widget, rather than the better blue widget?". Perhaps they are afraid of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Rule 26; Duty to Disclose; General Provisions Governing Discovery ? See also Michael Barr's Dead Code, the Law, and Unintended Consequences .
Always keep in mind that Software never works in isolation. Safe Software is useless if the system as a whole is not safe. To that end make sure that NASA Systems Engineering Handbook (in PDF here) has a place on your desk or bookcase.
Standard for Software Assurance with Requirements Compliance Matrix [MS_Word] and Requirements Compliance Matrix [MS_Excel].
I have worked with many of you over the years. You know that I'd occasionally be absent for that planed meeting and recently was out of town for a few months to get my wife treatment for a Cerebral Spinal Fluid Leak (CSF or CFSL); Intracranial Hypotension.
Her problems started with a car accident 23+ years ago and it was only last fall that she learned, through her own studies, that the cause of her debilitating headaches were from CSFL.
Your brain is supposed to be floating around in your skull as a protective shock absorber. A leak of this fluid cause the brain to start hitting things and yanking on things that were never meant to be yanked.
Ultimately she could bare the pain no longer and this Wednesday, Aug./7th/2013, she took her own life to stop the pain.
There are no words to describe the emptiness I fell right now. If you have a wife/spouse/significant other make sure you appreciate all the things they do for you, and let them know it. Also make sure you know how to do the important ones too. At the moment I have no idea how to pay the gas bill on the on line account she setup. Would you know the passwords if you had to take over this duty? Fortunately I do in this case as she was good at keeping some of them written down, but alas not all of them.
Her funeral is tomorrow, August 12 2013.
The research into CFS Leaks is only about ten years old and Karen had this problem for nearly 24 years. We only know two people that are known to have had it longer at 26 and 32 years.
I refuse to let Karen's death be in vane. To that end I am paying for a private autopsy to be done Monday morning Aug. 12th, even tho the cause of death is known. The reason for the autopsy is to have her spine removed. It will be sent to Duke Medical School to be studied in the hopes something may be learned to prevent an other suffer of this painful condition from taking the same route Karen did to end her pain.
Karen touched so many lives that the outpouring of sympathy and support has been amazing that I can not keep up with the number of people she helped. I will be updating Karen's web site with more details and resources to help others, and most of all educate doctors about CSFL.
The Northeast Ohio Professional Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (NEOACM), in association with the Youngstown State University's Student ACM and Computer Science Department is sponsoring a college screening of a drama-documentary on the life of Alan Turing titled CODEBREAKER . Patrick Sammon, the Executive Producer and Creator of CODEBREAKER , will attend this screening to introduce the film and provide Q & A afterward. This screening will be free and open to the public and will take place on September 12, 2013 at the Williamson Auditorium on Youngstown State University's campus. NEOACM is looking for sponsors for this event.
This drama-documentary is about the heroic life, death, and legacy of Alan Turing, one of the 20th century's most influential scientists, yet few people have heard his name, know his story, or understand his legacy. Turing was a British mathematician and logician, who made major contributions to mathematics, cryptanalysis, logic, philosophy, and biology. He also laid the foundations for computer and cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and artificial life thus laying the foundation for our modern society. Turing's crucial involvement in breaking the German naval Enigma code during World War II is accredited by historians in helping shorten the war by two years and saving millions of lives. Tragically, this great mind only lived 41 years. In 1952, British police arrested him for having a relationship with another man. Two years later, Turing committed suicide due to events surrounding his arrest.
Considering Turing's wide influence, this film is ideal to be watched by students and professionals of a wide variety of disciplines including computer science, mathematics, engineering, informatics, information security, biology, and history. During 2012, marked the 100th anniversary of Alan Turing's birth, universities, technology centers, and professional associations worldwide celebrated by honoring his legacy. This special screening will enlighten a well-varied audience and inspire them to value diversity in their profession and in our world.
It is our hope you will see the value of this screening on YSU's campus and will choose to serve as a sponsor for this important event or join as an advertiser!
Can your teenage children survive without Texting or Internet, for a day, a weak or years? Recent storms across the country have had many go without power for days, and a few people without power for weeks. Now consider what happens when the power goes out for years. The U.S. has 80,000 miles of extra-high voltage (EHV) transmission lines making up the backbone transmission grid that enables the long-haul transport of electricity for our nation, all of it acting as a giant antenna to pick up Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) events. Such a EMP event could come from natural solar storms or a man made deliberate attack. "The first warning the U.S. would have of such a strike in progress would be the EMP..."
Congressional documents (see below) from the Committee on armed services indicate that a small nuclear device detonated 250 miles above northeastern Nebraska would have wide spread devastation throughout the continental United States, as well as Canada and Mexico.
Secure High-voltage Infrastructure for Electricity from Lethal Damage Act or SHIELD Act - Amends the Federal Power Act [16 U.S.C. § 824a(c)] to authorize the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), with or without notice, hearing, or report, to order emergency measures to protect the reliability of either the bulk-power system or the defense critical electric infrastructure whenever the President issues a written directive or determination identifying an imminent grid security threat.
Directs FERC to consult with governmental authorities in Canada, Mexico, and the Electric Reliability Organization (ERO) regarding implementation of emergency measures.
Prescribes: (1) implementation procedures; and (2) related cost recovery measures affecting owners, operators, and users of either the bulk-power system or the defense critical electric infrastructure.
Directs FERC to require any owner, user, or operator of the domestic bulk-power system to implement measures to protect the system against specified vulnerabilities.
Requires FERC to issue an order directing ERO to submit for approval, within 30 days, a reliability standard requiring implementation, by any owner, operator, or user of the bulk-power system in the United States, of measures to protect the bulk-power system against an identified grid security vulnerability (including a protection plan with automated hardware-based solutions [This could be creating a new market area for Embedded Systems]).
Directs FERC also to order the ERO to submit reliability standards to: (1) protect the bulk-power system from a reasonably foreseeable geomagnetic storm event or electromagnetic pulse event (EMP); and (2) require entities that own or operate large transformers to ensure their adequate availability to restore promptly the reliable operation of the bulk-power system in the event of destruction or disability as a result of attack or a geomagnetic storm or EMP.
Directs the Secretary of Energy to establish a program to: (1) develop technical expertise in the protection of electric energy systems against either geomagnetic storms or malicious acts using electronic communications or electromagnetic weapons; and (2) share it with owners, operators, or users of systems for the generation, transmission, or distribution of electric energy located in the United States and with state commissions.
Scientists, Politicians Take Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Threat Seriously. Human Exposure to EM Fields.
Natural or man-made EMP attack on the horizon?
DHS Study of Critical Infrastructure Risks from GPS Disruptions.
From Its Birthplace: A Symposium on the Future of Nuclear Power, March 27 and 28th and the coming Grid Collapse.
Some of the mega-transformers have a two year lead time, when they need to be replaced. 90% of consumed power passes through a high voltage transformer at some point. If these transformers fail, especially in large numbers, therein lies a very big problem. --- Power Hungry: Prototyping Replacement EHV Transformers EHV transformers, and the nation's electric grid, are on the Department of Homeland Security's mind .
Alas in typical politics can't just get something done in one try, H.R. 2417 has been handed off to the Energy & Commerce Committee , where it may take a EMP event to get it moving...You may want to speak to your congressional representative about this issue.
Not addressed is the issue of the cost to the 'user', which is you and I. In typical government overreach The Man could come and demand that you retrofit your house with EMP protection, at your expense. On the upside the massive and permanent failure of The Grid could finally result in things like Cold Fusion becoming a reality on a large scale.
R. James Woolsey testimony before the house Committee on Energy and Commerce. ; May 21, 2013 "Information Warfare Operation of Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran. These potential adversaries in their military doctrines include as a dimension of cyber warfare a wide spectrum of operations beyond computer viruses, including sabotage and kinetic attacks, up to and including nuclear electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack..."
They could not afford Linux?
I was recently walking down Beverley Boulevard in Beverley Hills, where I walked past a store that my bank account is unworthy of entering. In the store's window there was a very large multicolor LED sign. What the sign was selling was the Windows[TM] crash dialog, asking for a button to be pressed. I'm sure this is not what the store wanted to be selling. My first thought on seeing this was "This place can't afford a sign that uses Linux?".
It is unlikely that the buyers of that sign had any idea of what made it work, until it crashed. Makes me wonder if we should start labeling our products like "Linux Inside"? A quick web search even found a GNU/Linux distribution intended for digital signs.
While Linux has no fee that does not necessarily mean it has no costs with designing it into a product. A designer that has only ever used Windows may end up spending less money designing in Windows[TM] due to the learning curve that it takes to embedded Linux in a product.
Something that I find a bit annoying is that the majority of the world thinks the choice is either Linux or Windows[TM] when there are other options available. Commercially there is QNX, vxWorks. uCOS-II and uCOS-III from Micrium, and other commercial vendors. I'm partial to uCOS-II myself, as you find my name in the first edition of the book for helping getting it debugged and documented.
In the Free and open-source software (FOSS) area there is NetBSD that works, and can be made to work, on many kinds of odd hardware. I'd prefer it over Linux due to its non-viral license. There is also Minux-III, the original Minux being the direct parent of Linux. Inferno is also interesting if you need a large scale networked system for something like a medical office application.
What uncommon systems do you recommend? Do you even think such systems are always required for embedded devices? Sometimes a simple 'big loop' might be enough, or be preferable as it is easier to verify.
For the last ten years Gimpel Software has posted a short stand alone program with an obscure C bug in it, with the challenge to the reader to figure out the bug.
Gimpel does this to show off their static analyzer Lint, the nitpickyest of all programs, something that I use almost daily. Lint exposes bugs by looking at a project as a whole, with multi-pass value tracking, rather than just as a file at a time as most humans would. Lint also can test for compliance with various guidelines such as MISRA or The Barr Group's Embedded C Coding Standard .
You can even input your own bugs to test short snippets of code that you might come across. For example the abysmal "if( A==B==C )" found in some of Freescale's USB stack code (I'll save the rant on poor manufacture example code for an other time).
I always looked forward to the challenge of the Bug of the Month, sadly it has be discontinued in favor of a new blog (May not be operational until late summer). I really don't like how everyone thinks replacing something useful with something akin to 'Social Media' is a good thing, how about you?
Colleagues over the years have complained that Lint puts out to many warnings. That is usually the case of Linting legacy code. Error messages may be turned off in layers. Get rid of the ones that will crash the system first, followed by the ones that might, until you get down to none or the ones you are willing to live with. Also with people trying to turn serious development in to some kind of game, see Development has become the game. Whats your Potty Mouth Score today? , make Lint a game. Can you write code that will give no Lint errors today?
Looks like I'm up for a trip to the library, just came across an intriguingly titled paper: The Cyborg Era Begins by Robert F. Service in Science in the area of Bioelectronics .
Abstract: Electronic components are invading the body. In the lab, cling wrap–like circuitry draped over the hearts of test animals can track the activity of each of the heart's four chambers and kill tissue that initiate potentially deadly arrhythmias. Other arrays penetrate brain tissue to monitor the abnormal nerve firing patterns in epilepsy or induce gene expression in the brain tissue of mice. One team has even made a 3D printed bionic ear able to pick up ultrasonic bleats that humans cannot hear. These early prototypes can't produce science-fiction cyborgs; most are used in medicine. But over time, expect devices that will make us better athletes and soldiers, or even improve our complexions.
My entry on Probabilistic Programming got me to wondering about estimating productivity. Made me dig out J.P. Lewis classic paper Mathematical Limits to Software Estimation .
Abstract: Algorithmic (KCS) complexity results can be interpreted as indicating some limits to software estimation. While these limits are abstract they nevertheless contradict enthusiastic claims occasionally made by commercial software estimation advocates. Specifically, if it is accepted that algorithmic complexity is an appropriate definition of the complexity of a programming project,then claims of purely objective estimation of project complexity, development time, and programmer productivity are necessarily incorrect.
Mr. Lewis wrote a lengthy supplement, elaborating on the many misunderstands of what the paper actually said. Alas it did not really help me figure how to estimate the time it might take to use probabilistic methods. At this point, that is probably not even possible given this prenatal state of the probabilistic methodology?
Machine learning is at the heart of modern approaches to artificial intelligence. The field posits that teaching computers how to learn can be significantly more effective than programming them explicitly. This idea has revolutionized what computers can do in a wide range of domains, including Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Predictive Analytics, Cyber, and various scientific disciplines. Example applications include self-driving cars, image search and activity detection, object tracking, topic models, spam filters, recommender systems, predictive databases, and gene sequencing. Unfortunately, building effective machine learning applications currently requires Herculean efforts on the part of highly trained experts in machine learning. Probabilistic Programming is a new programming paradigm for managing uncertain information. The goal of the Probabilistic Programming for Advancing Machine Learning (PPAML) program is to facilitate the construction of machine learning applications by using probabilistic programming to: (1) dramatically increase the number of people who can successfully build machine learning applications; (2) make machine learning experts radically more effective; and (3) enable new applications that are inconceivable today.
Machine learning applications work by building a model of a phenomenon of interest and then training or conditioning that model with observed data, similar to the way we may 'teach' a Neural Network today. What Probabilistic Programming is not is the classic Inference Engine, rather it is a front end to classic IEs or yet unthought of IEs. BUGS would be an example of a classic IE. The Probabilistic Programming approach separates the model from the solver, making it possible for one set of users to develop the model without having to implement or know the details of the solver. With Probabilistic Programming languages, once they exist, developers will be able to focus on developing their models while solver experts will be able to embed their expertise in reusable new style inference engines.
Where I see Probabilistic Programming being of the most use in Embedded Space is in the area of network routing for the Internet of Things (leaving aside the issues of lack of conventional radio spectrum and the raising Internet noise floor slowing everything down for the moment).
There are some Software Safety issues to address, such as how is a Probabilistic Programming verified and validated? No human may actually know how it works, to explain how a particular conclusion was reached. MISRA well known for their C and C++ safety Guidelines does have an obscure section on Autocode generation. However that is still based on conventional technology of today. What happens when true Artificial Intelligence systems do start creating programs that we rely on?
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Weight of the Soul or Dust on the Scale?
Back around Halloween I mentioned my visit to the J. B. Rhine Research Center (Rhine was the first to do experiments with 'ESP' at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina in the 1920's), see Near Death at the Rhine Research Center . The first formal report of the optical work, Electromagnetic Emission From Humans During Focused Intent by William T. Joines, Stephen B. Baumann (deceased), and John G. Kruth, see Journal of Parapsychology 76(2), is now online (Membership is required). The formal report does cover Mitogenetic Radiation something I thought was lacking previously.
What also fascinates me is that if they can get the funding for this future research project: They want to try to weigh people that claim they can leave their body, sometimes refereed to as Astral Travel or Astral Projection (the original experiments invovled death, no one wants to be killing the research subjects today) , and see if there is a change in their weight.
[Jim Williams] worked for a few years with the Nutrition and Food Sciences Dept at MIT, building equipment for them. Once he built a scale that was so sensitive he could stand on it, take a bite out of a donut and measure the weight of the bite. He had to add a low frequency notch filter to take out the heartbeat of the user as the blood flowed up and down the femur arteries, modulating the weight on the scale. - I Remember Jim Williams, a Guru of the Analog Electronics World, as Much an Artist as Engineer.
Scott Wayne, Analog Dialogue's editor, pointed me to Jim Williams scale paper, Thank You Scott: High resolution scale: Measures up to 250 lb +/- .01 lb, detects a single bite of food , Analog Dialogue, vol. 10, no. 2, p. 17, 1976. Every issue of Analog Dialogue, from Volume 1, Number 1, 1967 through the present is available in Analog Devices' Analog Dialogue's archives.
Getting back to our current time, Vishay Precision Group (VPG) has released a Video, described here, on their Z-Foil Resistors.
In the video, a custom designed scale is used to weigh 200 grams of gold at +25C and +60C, first utilizing thin film technology for the gain resistors and then using the Z-foil resistors.
At +25C, both the thin film and Z-foil resistors measure the 200 grams of gold for a value of $11,400. With an ambient temperature increase to +60C, however, the assembly utilizing precision thin film resistors weighs the gold as 197.8 grams for a value of $11,277 - which represents a 'loss' of $123. The same assembly using Z-foil resistors is not affected by the temperature change, providing an accurate measurement of 200 grams at +60C - and no loss in measured value.
See also Why Honest Weigh Scales Are Application Specific and Application Note 5275: Calibration - Needless or a Necessity? , from Maxim Integrated.
In 1976 we could measure +/- 0.16 of ounce change in a 250 pound person. Thirty-seven years on, I wonder if Analog Devices, Intersil (see the video), Linear Technology (Jim Williams), Maxim Integrated or Vishay Precision Group (VPG), would step up to the challenge of funding the Rhine's project to showcase their current technologies, on how things have improved? Maybe you think you are up to the challenge of this scale design? Let us know.
Anyone that has been around electronic devices for any length of time know that when the devices fail, they tend to go up in smoke, leading to the idea that electronic parts are run by Magic Smoke . Alas our sterilized, sanitized, paranoid society is taking the *fun* out of such things as hands on learning.
While places like Analog Devices' Engineering University are great for learning theory and hands on labs with their hardware, sometimes it is far more educational, and down right *fun*, to learn why things went wrong. Only experience is going to teach one, the important debugging skill, of the differences in smells between burning resistors, burning capacitors, and burning circuit board material. Also teaches the importance of wearing protective eyewear (never know when a backwards part might try to impale itself into the ceiling or ones face if it is closer), and having a electrical rated fire extinguisher next to the workbench.
What brings us to Magic Smoke , is that Vishay has upgraded their old line of Electro-Pyrotechnic Initiator Chip Resistor (EPIC) (and Design Guide and App Notes) to the new Massive Electro-Pyrotechnic Initiator Chip Resistor (MEPIC) .
The new Vishay Sfernice resistor is optimized for electronic igniter applications in automotive safety systems for the deployment of airbags and other safety devices; digital blasting in mining applications; and in fireworks applications for better synchronization of fireworks, music, and special effects.
With firing energy down to 1.5 mJ and a typical ohmic range of 2 Ohms (+/- 10 %), the device provides designers with very predictable, reproducible, and reliable behavior.
Offered in the standard 0805 case size for the wraparound and flip chip versions, with other sizes available upon request, the resistor features easy set-up of firing levels, and is compatible with various pyrotechnic compositions.
Picture of Aliens and UFO's found on military web site.
How many are taking the Software Engineering exam this April?
As regular readers are aware I've been chronicling events related to the new Software Engineering Exam, that some states are starting to offer as part of a Professional Engineer title.
I contacted the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) and asked them how many people had signed up for the new test, to be given for the first time this coming April. Sadly I was told that information was confidential. Answers like that always invoke thoughts of conspiracy theories in my mind, as to what is being hidden? More than likely it is simply a mater of confidentiality. The data probably could be gotten from each states licensing board if you were motivated enough to ask, I'm not right now.
I did pick up a couple of other tidbits of information. The new Software Engineering exam is considered a Group-2 exam, meaning that it has very small numbers of takers each time it is given. Hence this exam is only given once a year. Group-2 exams are required to have a sponsoring society, which for this exam is the IEEE. Do you think interest in this exam will increase with time (Without government mandates)?
The Electrical and Computer Exam, that has been around since 2009, is a Group-1 exam meaning that it is one of the larger exams that has been given frequently, as such requires no sponsor.
There has been concern that so few schools have the required accreditation for taking the Software Engineering exam. As each state board must approve a candidate before they are allowed to take the exam. They are the final decision maker on who is eligible and who is not.
At this point now we wait. We are waiting for the next software disaster that kills people due to our collectively buggy software rushed out the door to meet trade show deadlines and market pressures, rather than properly engineering the software in the first place. That will lead to the draconian government regulations. The framework for the regulations are now in place. As an industry are we going to clean up our act now or complain greatly when it is to late, when regulations are forced upon us?
By the way, what do you tell the Middle School Student that asks "Um, I'm in middle school... Are jobs actually like this?". I've given my answer in the past.
I have written in the past, Why is the cost of my Bill of Material (BOM) so much higher than last week? The Orwellian doublespeak answer: Quantitative Easing , about how the government is manipulating the money supply, and how it has real world effects on our designs. Dollar Stretcher Guest Blogger Rick Kahler has written about how the government is now inflating the money supply, as my past columns predicted they would, by manipulating how the Consumer Price Index (CPI) is calculated. They have manipulated this number many times in the past such as by adding in the Military Personnel, removing real world items like food, gas and fuel. So do check out Rick's The Ultimate Stealth Tax: Inflation . Also you can get real inflation numbers (1980 and 1990 based) from John Williams ShadowfStats.
"...The chained CPI is a tax increase for much the same reason. Many income tax brackets and deductions are indexed to inflation. Smaller annual adjustments to the brackets because of the lower CPI will push more people into higher tax brackets..."
One of the significant causes, of which there were many, of the Great Depression was when the Federal Reserve contracted the money supply. Even Warren Buffett has stated that he is concerned what will happen once the Federal Reserve Bank starts selling its holdings. Interestingly Governor Ben S. Bernanke has commented on this in the past: Money, Gold, and the Great Depression -- Remarks by Governor Ben S. Bernanke, At the H. Parker Willis Lecture in Economic Policy, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, March 2,2004.
Many are saying that we should return to the Gold Standard. That is each 'dollar' is exchangeable for real tangible gold, in theory. Places like the World Gold Council are, of course, all for this. Many banks are already starting to dump US Dollars to stock up on Gold. Hence the same people that are creating the mess we are about to face will be the same people controlling the Gold. Do you see this as an improvement? I do not.
Central banks souring on the dollar.
Buffett is worried about Fed policy .
Markets on edge as Fed officials differ on bond-buying .
Economic forecasts no better than a random walk .
Global economy facing hesitant and uneven recovery, says OECD [Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development] .
Introduction to inflation by Rick Kahler.
The Treasury sells bounds, sheets of paper with no intrinsic value, to the Federal Reserve for things that politicians do not have the honesty to come out and say directly that they need to raise our taxes to support. The Fed buys these bonds with 'money' that it created from nothing. This created 'money' is put into circulation, making your money worth less each time it happens. This inflation is the most insidious hidden tax that you and I pay. Few figure this system out because it is usually hidden behind the Orwellian doublespeak of economics such as Quantitative Easing.
Will you be ready for the Greater Depression?
This week the Northeast Ohio Chapter (NEOACM) of the Association for Computing Machinery is going to hold a round-table discussion on government mandated licensing of Software Engineers.
I have been chronicling the developments of what the various states are doing or have planed for licensing of software professionals over the last year, so I have been invited to be one of the panelists. If you are going to be in the Youngstown Ohio area this coming Thursday [2013/Mar/7th] stop by the Youngstown Business Incubator at 6:00 PM.
First you must have a four year degree (The state of Maryland has an exception that I need to look in to), and the degree must be accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). ABET lists only twenty-two Software Engineering programs. Software Engineer Insider summarizes a few of them. The closest to the NEOACM chapter are Penn State Behrend and Gannon University, both in Eire PA.
Next you must take, the completely unrelated to Software Engineering, the eight hour long exam that covers Chemical, Civil, Electrical, Environmental, Industrial, Mechanical, Other Engineering Disciplines, before you can even take the Software Engineering exam. Perhaps this is why Software Engineer Insider states "Other software engineers may want to take the licensing exam as a badge of accomplishment.". I'm sorry but I find that distressing. Egos have no place in the areas of safety that this Software Engineer license claims to be about. Read some of the background links above and you find Ego makes more than one appearance. Pathetic.
You must also have experience in Software Engineering, four to twelve years as it varies by state, before you can take the Software Engineering (SE hereafter, not to be confused with Structural Engineering that is a more common NCESS exam right now) exam. Seems like a classic bootstrap problem, can't get the license until you have experience, and you are not allowed to practice without a license? This is where Mentoring enters the picture, however there are no state licensed Software Engineers yet to be Mentors.
"Computer Science covers the core concepts and technologies involved with how to make a computer do something. Learning to program a computer by writing software is essential, and computer programming is used in most computer science courses..."
"Computer Engineering teaches you how to design systems that include both computer hardware and software. You will take classes on how computer hardware works and how to build a computer..."
"Software Engineering focuses on how to design and build software in teams. You will take many of the same courses as you would in computer science, but you will take additional courses that teach you about topics like requirements engineering, software architecture, software testing, and software deployment. You will learn about working with people (communication, management, working with non-technical customers), processes for developing software, and how to measure and analyze the software product and the software process..."
So Software Engineering knowledge that is being tested for is more about project management than anything else. As I've said for years "Most causes of system faults are created before the first line of code is written, or first schematic is drawn. The errors are caused by not understanding the requirements of the system", so in this one regard these new exam requirements may be a Good Thing. However good requirements doesn't directly address real world problems like the number one cause of most crashes and security breaches being buffer overflows.
What is on the exam and who brought us to this point (besides our collectively buggy software)? The organizations that I know have been have been involved in the preparation of the exam are IEEE-USA, assisted by the IEEE Computer Society, the National Society of Professional Engineers, and the Texas Board of Professional Engineers. Do you know of others?
The most valuable section of the document is the list of fifteen reference books from which the exam question pool is based. The exam is 80 questions, however I have not found how many questions are in the actual question pool anyplace. Reproducing the list here would be certain to have the copyright police show up. So I'm only going to mention three that I know are safe from the copyright police. First is professor Phillip A. Laplante's Requirements Engineering for Software and Systems (Applied Software Engineering Series) that supports my conjecture this is about selling training material not safety. Second Steve McConnell's Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction, Second Edition that is on any software design reading list, as it should be. If you have read this book before, then read the new rewritten second edition. Finlay Linda Westfall's The Certified Software Quality Engineer Handbook , as I was already familiar with it, so felt safe to list it.
For full disclosure if you buy those books by the above links I do get a small pittance from Amazon's Affiliate Program, so I too am making a profit related to safety.
Given a small key space (a few bits) calculate the Diffie-Hellman secret key value. I taken this as representation of the silly concept that such a exam as this is useful. I am not a cryptographer and I have no idea how to calculate a DH key by hand. I base my designs on people that are experts in the relevant fields and rely on their expertise and software to calculate such keys. A better question might be why DH is used verse the One Time Pad (one of the other questions). Knowing how keys are exchanged is what is important, not how they are calculated.
Given a flow graph, typical of Dot from Graphviz, calculate the flow path.
Given a similar flow graph as above, calculate McCabe's Cyclomatic Complexity value. Myself I use C and C++ Code Counter to do such things.
Given a set of statistics calculate the probability of software failure on demand; they use the incorrect acronym 'POFOD'. Are they are saying it is impossible to have perfect software?
What software keeps an aircraft stable in flight? Their answer is overly simplistic.
What is the difference between Real Time and Non-Real Time modeling languages?
Incoming tasks must be serviced in a given time to meet requirements. How many processes does it take to guarantee requirements are meet? Myself I'd use Erlang, but that is not one of the answers.
What is the best way to keep a project on schedule?
Develop, create, and modify general computer applications software or specialized utility programs. Analyze user needs and develop software solutions. Design software or customize software for client use with the aim of optimizing operational efficiency. May analyze and design databases within an application area, working individually or coordinating database development as part of a team. Exclude "Computer Hardware Engineers" (17-2061).
Secondly, returning to ABET, they describe the difference between a two year technology degree and a four year BS degree. From all the job ads I see in the Embedded Space the work that companies want done fall into the area of ABET's two year degrees, yet most all of the jobs demand that you have a four year degree to make it past the HR gatekeepers. Anyone care to explain that? Fortunately most new opportunities are found via networking bypassing these impediments to your career.


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JIMMY McGRIFF DIES
On Sunday 25th May, the Philadelphia-born blues/jazz organist, JIMMY McGRIFF, died aged 72 after battling with multiple sclerosis for several years.
Although McGriff (born April 3rd 1936) learned to play the piano as young as five years old in his local Baptist church, he did not initially pursue music as a career – in fact, he served in the US army in Korea, and upon his return, went on the beat as a policeman in his native Philadelphia for two years. However, his passion for music eventually got the better of him and he gave up law-enforcement to study music at New York's Juilliard School of Music. Turned on to the Hammond B-3 organ by its use in gospel music, McGriff broke into the US R&B Top 10 in 1962 with his blues-soaked instrumental reading of Ray Charles's R&B classic, 'I've Got A Woman' on Sue Records. He also had US chart entries in the '60s with 'All About My Girl,' 'Kiko,' and 'The Worm.' In the late-1970s, McGriff experimented with jazz-funk-fusion before returning to bluesy organ jazz in the 1980s and '90s. His final album was last year's 'Live At Smoke.'
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Breder ist der Familienname folgender Personen:

 Andrea Breder (* 1964), deutsche Leichtathletin
 Anton Breder (1925–1989), deutscher Leichtathlet und saarländischer Olympiateilnehmer
 Dennis Breder (* 1980), deutscher Schachspieler und -trainer
 Hans Breder (1935–2017), deutsch-US-amerikanischer Künstler und Hochschullehrer
 Reinhard Breder (1911–2002), deutscher SS-Sturmbannführer und örtlicher Gestapo-Leiter


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Baoshan, tidigare stavat Paoshan, är en stad på prefekturnivå i Yunnan-provinsen i södra Kina. Den ligger omkring 380 kilometer väster om provinshuvudstaden Kunming.

Administrativ indelning
Baoshan består av ett stadsdistrikt och fyra härad:
 Stadsdistriktet Longyang (隆阳区), 5 011 km², 850 000 invånare;
 Häradet Shidian (施甸县), 2 009 km², 330 000 invånare;
 Häradet Tengchong (腾冲县), 5 845 km², 610 000 invånare;
 Häradet Longling (龙陵县), 2 884 km², 270 000 invånare;
 Häradet Changning (昌宁县), 3 888 km², 340 000 invånare.

Klimat
Genomsnittlig årsnederbörd är  millimeter. Den regnigaste månaden är juli, med i genomsnitt  mm nederbörd, och den torraste är januari, med  mm nederbörd.

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Waccamaw Community Foundation accepting applications for eight scholarships
MURRELLS INLET, S.C. – Students in Horry and Georgetown counties are making plans for college in the fall, and the Waccamaw Community Foundation's 2023 Scholarship Program is helping lighten the financial burden.
Waccamaw Community Foundation, the Waccamaw Region's only community foundation, has opened applications for eight scholarships. Students can apply online via a web-based application portal, which is accessed through WCF's web site www.waccamawcf.org from January 16, 2023 through Friday, March 3, 2023. Recipients will be notified at the end of May.
"As a foundation, we are always promoting economic mobility," said Mike Mancuso, executive director of the Waccamaw Community Foundation. "There is no better way to achieve this mobility than continuing education. These scholarships are offered by our giving donors through the foundation in an effort to improve quality of life throughout our community."
Available scholarships include:
Boone Foundation Scholarship
Boone Foundation Scholarship Awards are available to residents of South Carolina according to the following criteria.
● Preference to students from Horry County.
● Must be enrolled in a graduate degree program in law or the performing arts at the University of South Carolina, George Washington University, Converse College, or Winthrop University.
● Minimum grade point average of 3.5.
● Demonstrate financial need.
● Nominations must be received through the institution's Office of Financial Aid.
The Edsel J. "Coupe" DeVille Memorial Scholarship
Created by the Surfside Area Rotary Club in honor of Edsel J. "Coupe" DeVille, a retired Air Force Colonel and the co-founder of Right Flight, who wanted to change lives through access to education.
● Applicants must be graduating seniors from St. James High School or Socastee High School. Horry County students who have family who are members of Surfside Area Rotary Club are also eligible to apply.
● Students should have demonstrated involvement in extra-curriculars or community activities and financial need.
● This scholarship is not necessarily for "A" students, as academic performance is evaluated on an individual basis in relationship with the student's full application.
John M. Draughn and Trena B. Draughn Scholarship
This scholarship, in an amount up to $2,000, is awarded to a North Myrtle Beach High School Senior who maintains high moral principles, is trustworthy, and exhibits leadership qualities.
● Applicant must be accepted and attend either Coastal Carolina University (CCU) or Horry Georgetown Technical College (HGTC).
● A GPA above 2.0 or higher on a 4.0 scale is required.
● Applicant must show financial need.
● An essay of 200 words or less is required telling why you feel you should receive the scholarship.
● An official transcript must be included.
● Major in a business-related field of study.
● Preference is given to students with some work history in the past two years.
● Nominations must be received through the guidance department at the applicant's high school.
Thomas W. Jones Memorial Scholarship
This renewable scholarship is to be awarded to a graduating high school senior or current student at the University of South Carolina's School of Engineering.
● Applicant must attend the University of South Carolina enrolled in the School of Engineering.
● A GPA of 2.5 or higher on a 4.0 scale is required.
● Applicant must have ties to either Georgetown or Horry County.
Felix and Juantia Rhue Scholarship
The Felix and Juantia Rhue Scholarship Awards are available to residents of Georgetown County and based on the following criteria:
● Candidate will be an African American high school senior, residing in Georgetown County, S.C., attending a Georgetown County school, with a minimum GPA of 2.5 or better, and planning to enroll in an accredited four-year institution in the U.S. Standardized test scores will also be a consideration.
● Involvement in extra-curricular and community activities, and leadership roles, based on student's self-reporting and letters of recommendation.
● Financial need, based on personal financial information provided by the student in the application. Student employment experience should be stated and will be a consideration, though not a requirement.
● Character and personality, based on letters of recommendation.
● Personal aspirations and ability to overcome obstacles, based on letters of recommendation.
Sue's Hope Scholarship
This is an annual scholarship in the amount of $1,000 to be awarded to a North Myrtle Beach High School or North Myrtle Beach Christian Academy Senior.
● Submit an essay, "Vision for My Future Education," of no more than 500 words. Student essay should demonstrate: A sense of "hope" despite obstacles in student's life, examples of challenges or obstacles student has overcome, and how student is trying to (or has already achieved) turning his or her life around.
● His or her potential, and his or her desire to succeed.
● School transcript with GPA of 2.5 or higher, on a 4.0 scale. (Note: This scholarship is not intended for the top performing academic student, but for the student who would be "left behind" because of finances, for not being the top performing academic student, or for some other obstacle.)
● Community service record from teacher in charge of all community service hours for graduating students.
● Official record of clubs, organizations, and individual achievements.
● Nominations must be received through the North Myrtle Beach High School Guidance Department or through the North Myrtle Beach Christian Academy Guidance Department.
The Sun News Educational Foundation Scholarship Endowment
This is an annual scholarship in the amount of $1,000.00 to be awarded to graduating seniors from high schools in Horry and Georgetown counties entering as full-time students a two-year/junior, technical/community, or four-year college selected in accordance with the following selection criteria and weighting:
a) 30% – Community Involvement based on student's self-report and letters of recommendation.
b) 30% – Leadership qualities as demonstrated in the school-setting as well as in the community based on the student's personal essay, letters of recommendation, and candidate interview.
c) 25% – Personal aspirations and ability to overcome obstacles, based on student's personal essay, letters of recommendation, and candidate interview.
d) 15% – Academic achievement, ability, and performance, based on GPA and standardized test scores.
Mildred E. Swatko Memorial Scholarship
This renewable scholarship is awarded to a student enrolled in the Nursing or Golf Course programs at Horry-Georgetown Technical College.
● Applicant must have maintained a "C" average or better in high school.
● Must demonstrate financial need.
● Preference for this scholarship is to Nursing Program students.
● No more than 250-word essay establishing why they deserve the scholarship.
● To receive this scholarship for each academic year, student must remain in good standing with a minimum of a 2.8 GPA or higher.
For more information on the Waccamaw Community Foundation, visit waccamawcf.org


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A powerful undersea earthquake sent Alaskans fumbling for suitcases and racing to evacuation centers in the middle of the night after a cellphone alert warned a tsunami could hit communities along the state's southern coast and parts of British Columbia.
Tuesday's quake was recorded at 12:32 a.m. in the Pacific Ocean about 170 miles southeast of Kodiak, home to one of the nation's largest Coast Guard bases.
It prompted the warning across thousands of miles of Alaska's southern coast, from Attu in the Aleutian Islands to Canada's border with Washington state. Kodiak is about 200 miles (321 kilometers) south of Anchorage, the state's largest city, which was not under a tsunami threat.
In British Columbia, sirens blared and officials banged on doors to wake people from their sleep as a tsunami warning was issued along a large swath of the Canadian province's coastline.
Alemany had not heard the sirens, even though they are a block and a half from his home. When he took out his earplugs, the noise was "really, really loud," and it became clear quickly they needed to evacuate, he said.
The family decided to flee to Alemany's parents' home. They had to decide on the fly whether to take their dog and three cats. They didn't, in spite of their son's protestations.
The time between the siren sounding and the all-clear was tense, and his son and daughter were scared. "But in the main, I think people kind of knew what they needed to do and just waited for information," he said.
Back in Alaska, people reported on social media that the quake was felt hundreds of miles away, in Anchorage. Reports varied about how long the quake's shaking lasted, depending on location.
Kodiak resident Ted Panamarioff survived the 1964 earthquake, which was magnitude 9.2. But his father died in the ensuing tsunami, he said. To him, Tuesday's quake felt far milder, although it did wake him up.
Bohrer reported from Juneau, Alaska. Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Rachel D'Oro and Dan Joling in Anchorage, Rob Gillies in Toronto, Ken Moritsugu in Toyko and Seth Borenstein in Washington, D.C.


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Tsantsabane Local Municipality is an administrative area in the ZF Mgcawu District Municipality of the Northern Cape in South Africa.

Tsantsabane was the original name given to the town by the Batswana because of the presence of many shiny stones (e.g. the hematite).

Main places
The 2011 census divided the municipality into the following main places:

Politics

The municipal council consists of thirteen members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Seven councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in seven wards, while the remaining six are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received. In the election of 1 November 2021 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of seven seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.

References

External links
 Official website

Local municipalities of the ZF Mgcawu District Municipality


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KENNEWICK — A 23-year-old Kennewick woman who acknowledged she is not "a perfect mom" will do time on a work crew for leaving her two young children alone in a bathtub.
Her youngest son, who was 17 months old, nearly drowned in the tub and suffered permanent brain damage.
Judge Cameron Mitchell told Chrystal Garcia before sentencing her in Benton County Superior Court that he knows Garcia's already suffered the consequences of her actions.
But he also found Garcia criminally liable for her son's injuries when he ruled her guilty of third-degree assault with aggravating circumstance.
Armando was without oxygen for at least two minutes and suffered permanent brain damage.
Mitchell said the boy's injuries are "horrific."
"If in fact there can be a situation where one might be better off not to survive, this could be one of those situations," the judge said.
Armando requires full-time medical care, a feeding tube and breathing assistance devices and his vision and hearing are impaired.
The boy's muscles also are permanently flexed, leaving him in constant pain, and he remains in a state of semi-consciousness.
Garcia was charged with third-degree assault and first-degree criminal mistreatment, but Mitchell acquitted her of the second charge after a one-day bench trial earlier this month.
"I'm not a perfect mom, but who is?" Garcia said as she became emotional. "I know I did wrong."
She said if she could go back in time and not leave her children alone in the bathtub, she would. She also said she's working to get her son back and has made arrangements for him to be transferred to a medical facility in Walla Walla next week.
"He's doing good. He's just too far from me to learn his needs. But he will be home sometime in the future," she said.
Deputy Prosecutor Christine Bennett requested the exceptional sentence because of the severity of Armando's injuries and Garcia's "somewhat lack of taking responsibility for her actions."
Bennett said on the recorded interview with police Garcia was heard saying she didn't do anything wrong.
"What she did was wrong. It was very wrong," Bennett said. She said an exceptional sentence was warranted if it's "the way to get her to learn what she did was wrong."
Defense attorney Larry Ziegler, however, was adamant that his client shouldn't even have been charged in the case, let alone be found guilty.
"She made what I thought was a terrible mistake," Ziegler said. "I do not think the assault statute was ever meant to apply to cases like this. ... I firmly believe this issue involved in this case is something that's going to be decided by a higher tribunal."
He said the state made the case out to be that Garcia was a "constantly bad mother," but that was not the case. She cared for her boys, didn't give them sweets or sodas and kept them clean and fed, he said.
"It makes absolutely no legal or practical sense to me to lock this lady up," he said.
Ziegler also said Garcia was following the procedures in the dependency case filed by the state to try to get her son back. He also filed a notice of appeal in the case.