The domain name industry should not rely on ICANN to protect it from incoming EU privacy law.
That's the strong message that came out of ICANN 60 in Abu Dhabi last week, with the organization's CEO repeatedly advising companies to seek their own legal advice on compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation.
The organization also said that it will "defer taking action" against any registrar or registry that does not live up its contractual Whois commitments, within certain limits.
"GDPR is a law. I didn't come up with it, it didn't come from ICANN policy, it's the law," Marby said during ICANN 60 in Abu Dhabi last week.
"This is the first time we've seen any legislation that has a direct impact on our ability to make policies," he said.
GDPR is the EU law governing how companies treat the private information of individuals. While in force now, from May next year companies in any industry found in breach of GDPR could face millions of euros in fines.
For the domain industry, it is expected to force potentially big changes on the current Whois system. The days of all Whois contact information published freely for all to see may well be numbered.
But nobody — not even ICANN — yet knows precisely how registries and registrars are going to be able to comply with the law whilst still publishing Whois data as required by their ICANN contracts.
At this point, we know that the GDPR will have an impact on open, publicly available WHOIS. We have no indication that abandoning existing WHOIS requirements is necessary to comply with the GDPR, but we don't know the extent to which personal domain registration data of residents of the European Union should continue to be publicly available.
Marby told ICANNers last week that it might not be definitively known how the law applies until some EU case law has been established in the highest European courts, which could take years.
A GNSO working group and ICANN org have both commissioned legal studies by European law experts. The ICANN one, by Swedish law firm Hamilton, is rather more comprehensive and can be read here (pdf).
Even after this report, Marby said ICANN is still in "discovery" mode.
Marby encouraged the industry to not only submit their questions to ICANN, to be referred on to Hamilton for follow-up studies, but also to share whatever legal advice they have been given and are able to share.
He and others pointed out that Whois is not the only point of friction with GDPR — it's a privacy law, not a Whois law — so registries and registrars should be studying all of their personal data collection processes for potential conflicts.
Because there is very likely going to be a clash between GDPR compliance and ICANN contract compliance, ICANN has suspended all enforcement actions against Whois violations, within certain parameters.
This is not ICANN saying that registries and registrars can abandon Whois altogether, the statement stresses, but they might be able to adjust their data-handling models.
Domain firms will have to show "a reasonable accommodation of existing contractual obligations and the GDPR" and will have to submit their models to ICANN for review by Hamilton.
ICANN also stressed that registries may have to undergo a Registry Services Evaluation Process review before they can deploy their new model.
The organization has already told two Dutch new gTLD registries that they must submit to an RSEP, after .amsterdam and .frl abruptly stopped publishing Whois data for private registrants recently.
General counsel John Jeffrey wrote to the registries' lawyer (pdf) to state that an RSEP is required regardless of whether the "new registry service" was introduced to comply with local law.
"One of the underlying purposes of this policy is to ensure that a new registry service does not create and security, stability or competition concerns," he wrote.
Jeffrey said that while Whois privacy was offered at the registry level, registrars were still publishing full contact details for the same registrants.
ICANN said last week that it will publish more detailed guidance advising registries and registrars how to avoid breach notices will be published "shortly".


ematician having to solve an equation, both sides of which were entirely made up of unknown quantities--where would he be? Happily this is not the case. The Law is ONE throughout, and the apparent variety of its working results from the infinite variety of the conditions under which it may work. Let us lay a foundation, then, by seeing how it works in what we call the common course of Nature. A few examples will suffice.
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Speaking of the most "net red" recently in Shanghai, I am afraid that it is a non-Wukang Building. This building is not a solitary "big", its background is a Hengduan historical culture.
As the largest protection area of ??Shanghai, we will refer to the total area of ??square kilometers in the style, including the square kilometers of Xuhui region, 950 excellent historical buildings, 1774 reserved historical buildings, 2259 general historic buildings.
And to achieve this "most poetic neighborhood", every road, every wall, every tree is an indispensable "one word" of "poetry". Responsible for the repair and maintenance of the refusal style, the Xu Fang Group, adhered to the combination of protective inheritance and organic update, focusing on increasing the improvement in the face, forming refined management "Hengfu standard."
So, how is the details of "moisturizing silent" in the style of the scene? The Dajiang East Studio went to the ground to explore.
"Wukang Building" has recently been found in the art, often goes to the old readers of the Shanghai Library to find that the high-level road behind the rectification is more charming. On the road of about 1000 meters across, 36 art well cover with the "Wukang Building" pattern. Yu Hui, general manager of Shanghai Xu Fang Construction Industry, introduced that in order to make the well cover and the road more coordinated, according to different characteristics of different road sections, three different paving materials were used when rushed to the sidewalk. The "artistic manhole cover" is used in imitation marble, "the pendant" surrounding high-intensity compound imitation iron materials, water-water stones, etc., and other sections use a waterproof.
In this way, neither the root growth of the channel tree, and the rain can be quickly drained. Fine management is also reflected in construction or on-site management.
The road traffic in the style is large, and the pedestrians are more, so the road renovation construction time is located 21 o'clock.
At the same time, it is also laid a bridge in the construction road to ensure that every road returns to normal passing the next morning. When construction, the reflective cone isolation construction area and the non-construction area are used, and a full-time traffic safety officer assisted the traffic order.
At the same time, the whole road construction is carried out overall milling of the road surface. There are many unique houses on Gao'an Road, which seems to be a normal historical building wall, which covers a variety of walls such as pullery, compression, and water mill. Yu Hui said that "pull" is like painting, the workers are artists painted on the wall.
What technology is used in the wall, but also the style of architecture.
"Washing and blowing" Let French phoenix "pleasant people" hugged a shadow of French phoenix, is a large landscape with a style.
This sidewalk tree that is known "Sundier Wood", one goes to spring, and the fruit is flying, and it also causes trouble to the pedestrians. Last year, Xu Fang Group's Shanghai Xuhui Garden Development Co., Ltd. has developed the "Washing" integrated fruit fly to prevention and treatment technology, achieved good results. First of all, it is a winderman. The wind cylinder on the car is aligned with the branches.
Then, the foggy car travels along the middle lane, spraying the water mist, the water mist is bonded to the ground, quickly falls to the ground.
Then, the high-pressure sprinkler shifts the high-pressure water column to the pavement, and the forah sticks stick to the ground.
Zhang Jun, general manager of Xuhui Garden Development Co., Ltd., refers to the green refined nourishes of the historical and cultural style, covering 53 green spaces, 3 parks, and 7022 lines in Xujiahui Street, Tianping Street and Hunan Street area.
The sidewalk trees in the appearance area are more thick than the trees in other regions. Many trees have been seeded for seven or eighty years, and even have a hundred years old. Sometimes 40 workers go to the tree, only 9 trees can be trimmed down one day.
It is different from general green space, park and sidewalk trees, and there is a specialized refined maintenance standard in the style, refining the annual maintenance measures, fixed post, calibration, timing, and people. Here, a sidewalk tree maintenance team mainly based on veterans, inheriting the fine quality of the military to the team. The white seam in a red brick wall has four kinds of workforming details, and the intensity will continue to be inherited. Yu Hui said that the old architecture is old, and the "old mage" of the craftsmanship is inseparable from a batch of craftsmanship.
Just take the inconspicuous pull craft wall, there is no 5 years of practice, I can't do it. In order to transfer these crafts, Xu Fang Group has established training bases and cultivates construction repair talents. When Dongjie came to the training base near Shilong Road 345 Shanghai South Station, it was catching up with the first Shanghai Housing Repair Skills Competition. In the sultry in Huangmei rainy season, the craftsmen have wall repair tiles, sweating, and discuss. In a month, more than 170 first-line repairs will take out the family's skills, in the competition, and finally. The training base seems to have a concentrated Shanghai Modern architectural template.
No 100 meters of channels, from the typical and materials of the EMS, small bricks, concrete, water measuring bricks and colorful asphalts.
The roadside is a large, two, four giving sites, etc., the roadside, is a large, two, four giving sites, etc. The 64-year-old Lingying Xiang master taking advantage of the mystery of the guided the gap, introducing the east sister: "Take the white sewing in the red brick wall of the Shanghai Outang Room, there is concave sewing, bump, Springs and seams 4 kinds of work methods, corresponding to different parts and functions. "Lao Ling was less than 20 years old, followed the carpenter father, 40 years, woodworking, watt, water and electricity sample. Lao Ling has participated in the three repairs of Wukang Building, witnessed the concept of historical building protection in different times.
"In the 1970s, the so-called old building repair is a hole tackle." Lao Ling said that the second repair of Wukang Building in the 1990s, but only the surface "old as old", such as Brick red coating brushes the old wall.
"I have been in recent years, the government invests in, and the cultural and security concept is progressing, and the old building really resumes historical appearance.
"When the Wuxi Building is repaired, the craftsmen are carefully grinding the previously repaired facade cement and coating, filling into the patch-free repairing material.
La Ling said: "The demand for the old buildings is higher than the high, and the technical requirements for workers are getting higher and higher." Yu Hui said, "the old" is not simple restoration, but also without damaging the building body To meet the residence needs of existing households. In the nearest renovation, the surrounding airlines around the Wukang Building are all in-situ, which is white in the sky. Originally messy air conditioning external machines are also unified "stealth" to the well-designed outer rack.
Yu Hui said that the craftsman who is active in the old building will be nearly retired, and the workers in this craft will be less and less, and they must train off-hands. The old vendor is striving for fine, there is a strong professional honor, I hope this kind of craftsman can continue. At present, half of the training base training is a first-line worker, half of the project management personnel.
"We hope to improve the overall level of old buildings from the concept to the concept of the process. Promoted the renovation of the residential historic buildings in the 11 million square meters of the country and the repair and transformation of the house of 2.6 million square meters. The Secretary-General of the Office of History and Cultural and Excellent Historical and Cultural and Excellent Historical Architecture Protection, Zeng Zhejiang, introduced that in order to cultivate the corresponding craftsman team, according to "the story of the story, the venue of the competition, the venue of the teaching and research", Shanghai strengthens Repairing skills training base construction.
"A one-book", historical building to build a gene library "In the management of excellent historical buildings and historical and cultural style, Shanghai is implementing the most stringent, most scientific protection system, formulating strengthening historical style, promoting historical building activation utilization A series of policies.
"2021 Shanghai Culture and Natural Heritage Day main forum, the relevant person in charge of Shanghai Housing Management Bureau said.
After more than 30 years, Shanghai has formed a comprehensive historical building protection system, involving 1058 outstanding historic buildings, 397 style protection roads (streets), 250 style protection neighborhoods and 44 historical and cultural districts, "points, line The combination of faces should be guaranteed. Shanghai launches "a one-piece" protection file preparation.
As of the end of 2020, completed 3151 excellent historical architects, accounting for more than 97%.
"Shanghai will continue to promote the protection of historical buildings. Shanghai has included excellent historical buildings into a gridized inspection system to establish a" automatic discovery "mechanism.
Next, pilot pilot the key protection site of excellent historic buildings and all feature components and fully detailed survey measurements, form three-dimensional model, and build a specialty standard family, establish an excellent historical building genetic map. "The person in charge of the Shanghai Housing Management Bureau said.
"There is a city memory in Shanghai in the style, and the soft power of Shanghai's urban governance." Zeng Zhe said. (Editor: Gong Shao, Xuan Zhaoqiang).
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Chapter 124 First piece of holy marks
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Attys: Youth home staffers followed protocol in restraint before death
KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — Lawyers and family members of Kalamazoo youth home employees charged with manslaughter in the death of a teen resident say they were following procedure and are 'victims of circumstance.'
State records show 16-year-old Cornelius Fredericks was restrained April 29 by half a dozen employees at Lakeside Academy, eventually losing consciousness. He died May 1 in the hospital. His death was ruled a homicide caused by complications from restraint asphyxia.
On Thursday, the Kalamazoo County prosecutor issued involuntary manslaughter and second-degree child abuse against three people: Michael Mosley and Zachary Solis, who helped restrain Fredericks, and Heather McLogan, a nurse monitoring the restraint.
High-profile Michigan attorney Geoffrey Fieger, who is representing the teen's family in a wrongful death lawsuit against Lakeside, is calling for justice.
"He threw apparently … a sandwich and for that a number of staff members suffocated him by doing exactly what was done to George Floyd — sit on his back," Fieger said in a Thursday video call with News 8.
He said he's working to get the video showing what happened.
"I know enough right now to know that it's extremely, extremely gruesome and troublesome," Fieger said. "(Fredericks) didn't commit any crime. This is not a police situation. He's in a home, in essentially foster care paid for by the taxpayers."
Lakeside, which is on Oakland Drive north of West Kilgore Road, housed and educated young people with behavioral challenges, including youth in foster care and juvenile justice programs. The state was contracted with the facility at the time of Fredericks' restraint; following his death, the state ended that contract and moved to revoke Lakeside's license.
"My client is a victim. He is a victim of this circumstance," Solis' attorney Don Sappanos said.
He said his client has cooperated with investigators and only restrained Fredericks' legs.
"This isn't something that was secreted away in a little side room. This was for all to see in a cafeteria with multiple supervising officials there and my client, we believe the evidence will bear out, never, never left the leg area of the victim," Sappanos said.
The attorney said Solis was a low-level employee who was following Lakeside procedures during the restraint.
"(There are) multiple people that worked at the facility and were standing there directing and orchestrating this whole event that are not charged," Sappanos added.
Solis' mother and father sent their condolences to the boy's family. They said their son cared deeply for the teen and all the boys at the academy.
"He'd take them out to dinner, he'd take them to movies, he'd take them to basketball games," Solis' mother Yolanda Solis said. "He was always, always with those kids. He'd go pick up the parents and bring the parents to visit the kids."
The attorney for Mosley, Kiana Garrity, said in a Thursday statement it is her understanding that her client was "following Lakeside protocol at all times," though she had yet to see the video of the restraint.
"That said, Mr. Mosley was a youth counselor – a subordinate – while others on scene were superior personnel. And to my knowledge, these superior personnel have neither been terminated nor reprimanded by Lakeside/their parent company," Garrity's statement continued. "Again, Mr. Mosley maintains that he was following protocol at all times. Lakeside officials have released a version of events – multiple times to the media – that deflects responsibility from their own employee policies and procedures. They have attempted to control the narrative but we intend to show the entire truth surrounding the instruction and training of their youth counselors."
Anastase Markou of Levine & Levine Attorneys is representing McLogan.
"This is a terrible tragedy. Our hearts go out to his loved ones and the Kalamazoo community. However, justice cannot be served by an injustice," Markou said in a Friday statement. "My client, Heather McLogan, has done nothing criminal and when the evidence is in, she will be vindicated."
All three defendants are expected to turn themselves in to be formally charged, though it's not yet known precisely when each will be arraigned.
The prosecutor has indicated more charges may be forthcoming.
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So today I started messing about with designing another worksheet – this time using a set of images (art postcards) as the 'text'. This is based on a lesson I've done a few times before, but it's always been fairly improvised. The process of creating the worksheet has felt like it's focused the lesson a little more, and it really struck me how intertwined the materials and the plan can be – to the extent that if need be we can pick up a book and walk into a cover class at a minutes notice (which, incidentally, is precisely what happened on my first ever day in the classroom, and I have to say, there's a lot to be said for diving in at the deep end).
Here's the worksheet – the first two pages are a collection of the images I use in the lesson, basically for the reader's benefit, because rather than a handout, I like to use actual postcards which learners can then pick up, move around, categorise, etc. The artist is referenced on the back of each card.
In terms of actual content (as opposed to design/layout), the really new bit here is the Paul Klee sentences. It was in putting together the grammar reference page that it struck me how disjointed it was – which interestingly it hasn't felt in the classroom when it's been more improvisational. So I felt a segue was necessary between discussions about the paintings and the grammar reference. I don't think it's quite right yet though.
The grammar reference page took awhile, and I kept thinking how much quicker it would've been to do by hand, but I appreciate that it looks more professional this way. When I've done this lesson before, I've elicited the grammar stuff to the whiteboard. It seems more fluid and involving of the learners that way, so the worksheet feels like it might somehow constrain that part if I were to follow it to the letter. Which I won't. The worksheet provides a take-away reference for learners, but it's vital to remember that a good lesson is largely about what we do with the materials.
I'm using Ian McGrath's summary of Alan Maley's taxonomy of procedures for use with raw texts. Given that the text is an image, it'll be interesting to see what my reflection using this typology reveals… so here goes!
Yes: brainstorming, arrows to match grammar components, and writing (although that'll be done on a separate piece of paper.
Oh my, yes. Image to story.
Grammar includes matching, the 'text' not so much.
Yes – categorising postcards into groups and selecting three for the basis of a story.
No, unless you count identifying the pictures in stage 9.
No, but in the past I've extended in this way with learners identifying forms and patterns in each others' texts. Something I didn't feel would quite work on a worksheet.
Hmmm, kinda but not really.
It's really interesting to observe how a lesson that's previously been so organic can start to feel restricted by a worksheet. Is that because of the instructions? I don't ordinarily include instructions on my worksheets, why am I doing it here? Maybe because I want the worksheet to speak for itself – but that's for teachers, not learners. So who am I creating for? I'm reiterating what I said above, but vital to remember that throwing parts away is as important as bringing stuff in. It's the space between the bars that holds the tiger.
Lovely worksheet! It is well-structured, engaging, coherent, and the students are stimulated both linguistically and cognitively. I think that your use of the visuals as stimuli and inputs for the whole lesson is brilliant. I agree that the part on Klee might seem a bit disjointed from the rest of the lesson. However, I believe that it would very much depend on how the teacher manages that part of the lesson. For example, she might start by asking the students who their favourite painters are and then she can talk about her "favourite" painter (i.e. Klee) maybe using the marker sentences that are given for the grammar focus. I like the idea of proving the students with a ready-to-use mind map at the beginning, but I'm wondering if it would be better to leave them the choice on how to draw it. As for the grammar focus part, I think that it is challenging, engaging and clear. The only thing that I personally find slightly confusing are the timelines. I was wondering if it would be better to use the same greenish colour that you have used to highlight the verb form in the marker sentences for the actions/events that they refer to on the timeline. For example, on the timeline where you highlight the use of Past Perfect, I would leave the Past Simple cross and the arrow in red, but I would use the green colour for the Past Perfect cross. I think that would personally find it clearer.
I very much agree with you on the reason for putting the instructions on worksheets, they are definitely for teachers and not for the learners. Theoretically, we could write two worksheets, a teacher version and a student version. The student-worksheet would be with no instructions as they would given in class by the teacher. A couple of years ago I bumped into an oldish (1997) Italian coursebook that is now out of print but which was ground-breaking when it came out. Well, the student book had no instructions whatsoever and would have been unusable without the teacher book. Was that a trick to force teachers into buying two books? Or was it a decision based on pedagogical principles? I would opt for the latter since it was self-published by the International House in Rome and was written by its own teachers. On a related note, if you have watched Jason Renshaw's masterclasses on materials design, at 6:15 of this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9dHOFoVhb4) he talks about his dislike for stating the obvious and for putting self-evident rubrics on his worksheets (e.g. read the following text).
Thanks for your comments and feedback. You make some really useful suggestions about the timeline colours, and raise an interesting question about the mind map at the start.
With a class where I had previously looked at mind mapping and visual notebooks I certainly wouldn't include the framework, as it's significantly more memorable and personalised if learners create their own. However, with a new or cover class I think the framework can be a useful starting point – so long as learners are clear that it's only a suggestion, otherwise it could be intimidating to think they have to fill out and extend every area.
You make a good point about creating two worksheets. My hard drive of materials and resources I've created in the past include a lot of instruction free worksheets and some accompanying scanned hand-written notes of a rough lesson plan or ideas for activities, and this format seems to work best for me. What to do with the material does (and should) change so much from group to group so instructions can quickly become redundant, as well as leaving less space for the learner to make their own notes.
Renshaw makes an interesting point, and I've just identified one of the things about including instructions on worksheets that has always felt so awkward for me: instructions can seem so patronising and controlling.


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Home | Applications | Application Areas | Communications Applications
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Ultrasound/Ultrasonic
Electronic communication continues to evolve as the world community continues to demand the transfer of more information at ever increasing speeds. Analog and digital technology is used in both point-to-point and broadcast communications that are being delivered by wireless, fiber optic and cable network systems. In order to develop and maintain these systems engineers need to be able to test and qualify the signals being received and transmitted. Signal loss or attenuation needs to be reduced, noise monitored and key parameters characterized. Furthermore, as systems become ever more complicated sources of error need to be detected quickly and corrected.
Utilizing the latest PC based technology, Spectrum digitizers and arbitrary waveform generators make excellent tools for the development, testing and operation of communication systems. They offer a wide range of bandwidths, sampling rates, and dynamic range allowing them to match the expanding range of communication measurement needs. When large dynamic range and maximum sensitivity is required high-resolution 14 and 16 bit digitizers are available for the capture and analysis of signals that go as high as 250 MHz in frequency. These high-resolution cards deliver outstanding signal-to-noise ratio's (up to 72 dB) and spurious free dynamic range (of up to 90 dB) so that small signal variations can be detected and analyzed.
For even higher frequencies 8 bit digitizers are available that offer up to 5 GS/s sampling rates and 1.5 GHz bandwidth. In wireless applications, where signal frequencies may even go above 1.5 GHz, the digitizer products can also be used with down-converters to further extended their operational frequency range. Each digitizer card can have from one to four channels (eight channels on lower speed cards) and up to eight cards can be linked together with Spectrum's Star-Hub system to create instruments with up to 32 fully synchronous channels making them suited to applications with multiple input and output (MIMO) transmitters and receivers. With large on-board memories (up to 4 GSamples/card) and advanced streaming and readout modes the digitizers are ideal for capturing long and complex communication signals. Using the streaming over the cards fast PCIe bus to a RAID based storage array allows the capture and storage of hours of information. Spectrum's SBench 6 software can also be used to view and qualify I and Q signals. FFT's are available for frequency domain analysis and parametric calculations can be used to characterize timing issues such as leading and trailing edge pulse jitter.
Typical communications applications include wireless systems using RF and microwave, MIMO, wireless LAN's, mobile phones, base station monitoring, surveillance, satellite communications, bus testing, cable testing, antenna and transmitter testing.
Spectrum Product Features
14 and 16 Bit Resolution
Sampling rates up to 5 GS/s and Bandwidth over 1.5 GHz
Segmented Memory with FIFO Readout
Streaming data to RAID disc array at up to 3 GByte/s continuously
High SNR and SFDR
Matching Card Families
M4i.44xx: 14/16 Bit 500 MS/s to 130 MS/s digitizer
M4i.22xx: 8 Bit 1.25 GS/s to 5 GS/s digitizer
M2p.59xx: 16 bit 20 MS/s to 125 MS/s Digitizer
Self-excited electronics like power supplies, oscillators, transmitters, and signal generators can often be tested using a measuring instrument (digitizer, oscilloscope, spectrum analyzer, etc.) alone. Externally excited electronic devices like amplifiers, filters, receivers, and digital interfaces require a signal source and a measuring instrument for testing.
RF Measurements Using a Modular Digitizer
Modern modular digitizers, like the Spectrum M4i series PCIe digitizers, offer greater bandwidth and higher resolution at any given bandwidth than ever before. Although they are in the class of general purpose measuring instruments they are capable of many RF and lower microwave frequency measurements. This article focuses on some examples of common RF measurements that can be performed with these modular digitizers.
Find out how the College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China employ a Spectrum Digitizer M3i.4142 and a AWG M2i.6021 to provide test signals for multifunction vehicle bus (MVB) protocol testing (main article in Chinese) by clicking on this link
Learn how a Spectrum digitizer M3i.2132 and UWB technology is used by Telecom ParisTech to develop a compact Indoor Localization System (article in French and English) by clicking here
By using multi-heterodyne interferometry with a high resolution M4i.4471-x8 digitizer the State Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instruments, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, has developed a method for making absolute distance measurements. Experimental results demonstrate an agreement within 750 nm over 80 m distances and an update rate of 167 μs. To see the full white paper click here


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ATmega168 Tetris
Sunday, 22nd November 2009
The tvText library I discussed last entry allows you to display text on a PAL TV in black and white using a 20MHz ATmega168 and a pair of resistors. If this doesn't sound terribly exciting, it's probably because it isn't. However, if you bear some limitations in mind and change the font, you can use this text output as a more general tile-mapping system and use it for games that employ simple graphics.
The new circuit, featuring five sloppily-wired input buttons.
I added five buttons to the test circuit — up, down, left, right and fire — to act as game input. This circuit is shown in the photograph above. I also added support for 8×8 characters alongside the existing 6×8 characters to the library, set as a compile-time option. This drops the number of characters per line from 32 to 24, but having square tiles makes producing graphics much easier. The reduction in size of the text buffer also frees up more of the precious 1KB of SRAM for the game!
Even though it was always recommended as an excellent game for beginners to write, I don't believe I've ever written a Tetris clone before. Its simple block graphics makes it an ideal candidate for this system, and it always helps to work on a game that's fun to play. Armed with a Game Boy and a stopwatch I attempted to recreate a moderately faithful version of what is probably the most popular rendition of the game.
Click to watch a gameplay video on YouTube.
I think the result plays pretty well, but don't take my word for it — if you have an ATmega168 lying around, you can download the source and binaries here.
ATmega168 AVR AVR TV game Electronics PAL TV tvText
USB joypads and text on your TV courtesy of an ATmega168
ATmega168 Snake


Nothing is ever hurried at Quintarelli. The wines take their time and are given the time they need. In the still, quiet calm of the family cellars above the town of Negrar, along the winding via del Cerè, deep in the Valpolicella zone, the wine from the family's hillside vineyards ages patiently and gracefully in large casks until it is ready. Every release is a masterpiece, a testament to time, tradition, skill, and passion, the creations of a master artisan. You can't really compare these wines to any other in the region, or anywhere else in the world. They really are in a class and a category all their own.
Multiple passages through the vineyards produce a myriad of wines, many produced using the appassimento technique whereby the grapes are dried on rush mats before being pressed and made into wine. From the delicious and seductive Bianco Secco, to the benchmark Valpolicella that created a revolution in the thinking about what it was possible to produce in this region, to the Rosso del Bepi and Amarones produced according to the quality of the harvest, to the otherworldly Recioto and the exceedingly rare Bandito, the sheer artistry and depth of the range is truly exceptional. A bottle of Quintarelli never disappoints!
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Adam Schefter Calls Jordan Love Pick a 'Triple-Slap' in the Face of Aaron Rodgers
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Nobody knows what goes on in the mind of Aaron Rodgers, but it would be easy to understand if he still wasn't over the Green Bay Packers selecting Jordan Love in the 2020 NFL Draft. The Packers are still a very good team with Rodgers at the helm, and picking up a quarterback in the first round (and one who needs years of development at that) does not serve the goal of winning a Super Bowl while Rodgers is still in a Packers uniform.
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He has a point. Not only did the Packers not draft a player who could help them win in 2020, they drafted a development quarterback with the obvious aim to eventually replace Rodgers. On top of all that, they traded up for the right to do so!
There's a chance we all eat our words four years down the line, but from the current standpoint, the pick seems a master class in how to both piss off your best player/longtime quarterback and prevent your team from getting better in the immediate future.
It's honestly a bit of a struggle to justify the whole process when considering all the factors. Preparing for life after Rodgers? Sure. Preparing for life after Rodgers by drafting a quarterback the year after he threw for 4,000 yards, 26 touchdowns, and secured the second seed in the NFC? I mean, okay, maybe. Drafting that quarterback in the first round when there were multiple skill-position players available who could step in and help win right away? I don't know about that. Trading up for that quarterback? That's borderline insane.
I still envy Rodgers, what with the millions in the bank and being extremely famous and all that. But I don't envy how he probably felt watching all that unfold. It makes total sense he retreated to the warm embrace of tequila on draft night.
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The Ghion Hotel Metting: A Refugee's Perspective
Dr. Bereket Berhane Woldeab October 13, 2011	Articles Leave a comment
The legacy of past generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living. K. Marx
Saliha must have been dozing when the accident happened. When she came to her senses she could see an overturned Toyota pick-up land cruiser and human bodies strewn all around it. A baby was crying near her, and it took her a while before she can recollect that the baby had been travelling with his mother on the back of the now overturned vehicle. Miraculously, the baby had survived the accident unscathed. Saliha picked up the tear soaked baby and went in search of his mother.
Saliha was originally from the town of Adi-Keih, in Eritrea. She was the eldest in a family of nine, and when she left her home and family in July 2010 to head for the Shegerab refugee camp in the Sudan her dream was to reach Israel and help out financially the family she left behind. In her neighborhood she had witnessed a remarkable improvement in the life style of families who have relatives in Israel. She spent almost three months in the refugee camp looking for a reliable trafficker who can arrange the dangerous trip northwards into Israel. Towards the end of October she finally contacted what she thought would be a trustworthy Eritrean man, who acted as a liaison with the Bedouin human traffickers who monopolize the routes across the desert. The price tag for the trip was 3000 USD, paid by her relatives living abroad with the understanding that she would repay the debt once she started working in Israel. And Saliha and a small convoy of four pickup trucks, each carrying around 14 refugees, were somewhere near the southern Egyptian border when the above accident happened.
I met Saliha in Addis-Ababa on July 7, 2011. She had just been deported from Egypt a week back. It was almost one year since Saliha left her family and home, and in these few months she had been through, what are at times unbelievable, sad, harrowing, and terrifying real time experiences that would make even the robust-hearted faint. And when she was calmly recounting her stupefying experiences to me I couldn't but marvel at this stoic young lady.
Saliha had survived the accident in the middle of the desert only to be 'sold' to another notorious Bedouin outfit on reaching the Sinai, in what has become almost a routine and devilish money extortion scheme, and another horrifying ordeal for refugees crossing the Sinai. Refugees are held as hostages and subjected to innumerable inhumane atrocities (–torture, rape, organ harvesting…) till ransom money is settled. Saliha was confined to a 4 x 4 structure of corrugated iron sheets for almost three months, and all the time she had to spend her days and nights cuffed and chained at her ankles to 23 other girls. Conditions of her captivity were nauseating, horrendous, savage, and brutal. Listening to her story, I just couldn't fathom this dark aspect of a humanity that seems to flourish by meting out wanton savagery on its helpless victims. There were many Eritrean collaborators, as well, many going by aliases.
And it was only after her relatives managed to come up with the USD 10,000 ransom money requested by her captors that Saliha won her freedom and was allowed to proceed to the Israeli border. But, again, fate was against her and she was caught by Egyptian border patrol before she could cross the border into Israel. It was little comfort to Saliha that a few in her group, mostly men folk, did make it across the border and into Israel. Instead, Saliha was forced to spend the next few months languishing in a series of harsh Egyptian police stations and prisons-Arish, Rafah, Nekel-Sina, Bilel-Abid, and Romana- before she was finally deported to Ethiopia, thanks to the efforts of Dr Alganesh and very few other Samaritans.
When I interviewed Saliha there were also five other young girl deportees with her. One of them-Mihret, was happily suckling a five month old baby which she delivered while in an Egyptian prison. She didn't know that she was pregnant when she crossed the border into the Sudan around one year back. Another one-'Yordanos', was withdrawn and visibly depressed. She had been repeatedly raped while being held hostage in the Sinai, and had miscarried a five month old fetus in the Bilel-Abid prison.
Back in July, when I met these girls, the number of Eritreans deported from Egypt to Ethiopia has reached 3000. These are mostly young men, but all had passed through an almost same kind of heart-rending experience. The Ethiopian government was not only kind enough to accept the deportees (…when so many countries have refused), but to treat them humanely and with dignity befitting a human being.
Currently there are five refugee camps in Ethiopia hosting around 60,000 Eritreans. Preparations are also underway to open a sixth camp in order to accommodate the ever increasing flow of refugees into this country. And the above cited figure doesn't include the thousands of Eritrean refugees who transit through the camps and those resettled in the west by the UN refugee agency.
Selection of urgent and crucial issues high on the Eritrean political agenda is, naturally, a subjective process. But if we are to take a close and honest look at the mirror, a daunting task for some, we should have little difficulty in recognizing that the refugee situation is a top priority, as is the fate of the thousands of prisoners of conscience and politics in Eritrea, and also that of a whole nation held in bondage and fear by a brutal system.
Eritrea is literally hemorrhaging across its porous borders. So many have written on the demographic and otherwise composition of these fleeing human tides, and suffice it here to say that these represent Eritrea's future. Twenty years after our territorial independence, our martyrs would have been appalled were they able to see our present predicament. The recognition of the above facts and figures should have been deeply troubling to those of us alive and kicking, and to those who care (…or purport to care) about Eritrea and its future.
In the meantime, the system ruling in our country is still confounding pundits, enemies, sympathizers and supporters alike by its doggedly reckless and suicidal behavior. Twenty years after the guns and cannons of Independence have died down, the ruling regime is still reliving the past, gurgling down old glories in an orgy-like manner, in what amounts to a fetish practice. The recent colorful and spectacular events associated with the 20th Independence day commemoration is yet another indication that this regime will keep on regurgitating its old glories and successes till ''thy kingdom come''.
The ruling elite in Eritrea has no inclination at all for instituting the modern world's preeminent model of organization, that of a democratic and participatory government. The country has become a sort of syndicate which is run by a select few who have wrested an almost total control of state machinery and the entire population by the instruments of force and fear. State affairs are run in an erratic manner, and the managerial style amounts to ''administrative chaos'', with so many gray lines blurring the line between ministries, agencies, and institutions. The ubiquitous PFDJ offices throughout the nation have become the nerve centers of administration with the local party bosses and cadres increasingly usurping the role of managing daily affairs, from the complex to the mundane. Before I left Eritrea a few years back, it has become common practice to see party officialdoms measuring bushels of grain to the public at ''down the market'' price. A sinister means to control the mouth of the population!
Moreover, there is this fervent allergy to the spirit of entrepreneurship, material wealth, and improvements that has seen Eritrean capital fleeing as well into neighboring countries (Ethiopia alone has in the last few years absorbed 187 Eritrean investors!). And coupled with the disastrous economic policy that relies on ''voluntary labor'' and increasingly tightening state control, the economic health of the country is in shambles.
And despite the latest flurry of activities on the diplomatic front, the regime has this proclivity for viewing itself as beyond the reach of regional and international bodies. In more than one occasion the regime was guilty of emotional tantrums attended by political brinkmanship and military adventurism, reckless adventures that were dearly costly to the nation and its less than five million people. As I write this article Eritrea's tormentor is sitting at the UN conference in NY, and this return to the International body shouldn't signify a change of behavior. It just shows that the regime is feeling beleaguered, and is pulling the last card out of its sleeve to ward off the threat of yet more sanctions following the damning UN monitoring group report.
I was bemused when I saw participants at the Ghion Hotel meeting having a difficult time finding a perfect word that characterizes this regime that rules in our country. What befits such a system of governance: Dictatorship? Authoritarianism? Totalitarianism? Chauvinist? Or vogue terms like ''outlaw'' or ''failed'' state? Some wouldn't even settle for these descriptive words, trying vainly to come up with worse adjectives that befit the peculiarities of the system. But personally, and semantics aside, this government has miserably failed to nurture, protect, and educate its subjects. Simply put: it has utterly failed its people! Period!
But a discussion on the Eritrean political edifice will not be complete without including opposition and Diaspora politics. And, here too, honesty demands that these two segments have so far, knowingly or unknowingly, neglected to appreciate the dynamism and the salient features of the Eritrean political scene, the tragic realities which I tried to raise before. Instead, they too have been wallowing in the murky waters of our not-so-distant past by groveling before traditional, religious, and ethnic identity, slinging back and forth venomous and dirty words, pricking old scars and regurgitating real and imagined misfortunes. This arena, with its not-so-few unreconstructed political actors, is also guilty of using ethnic-religious cleavages for its selfish and temporary political gains. And, while this callous disregard for universal and liberal democratic principles should have been out rightly condemned by those who know better, any of these political actors has also its 'army' of intellectuals ready to defend and justify the political blunders of their respective camps.
Two latest incidents in New-York give us a big and shocking reminder of an increasingly fractious and disillusioned Eritrean Diaspora. The fact that thousands of Eritreans living, procreating, and prospering in one of the greatest democracies in the world can still flock in their thousands hankering for the words of a despot is simply incomprehensible to me; and, on the other extreme of the spectrum, the words used by the brave young men chasing away the PFDJ strong man leaves much to be desired for. Frankly, the words used nauseated me. There should have been a much better and respectable way of humiliating the man.
If the government in Asmara is to suddenly collapse tomorrow it will be no-thanks to anybody except for the regime itself. Like many post-revolutionary governments, our ruling political elite have failed to take their history lessons seriously and easily succumbed to the selfish and disastrous ways of innumerable previous dictators. For 20 years no attempt has been made to secure popular legitimization from the Eritrean people and blatant disregard for human rights and political liberty coupled with ruthless crackdown on any form of dissent has turned the nation into a virtual prison. The ruling regime is tittering on the brink of disaster because of a mixture of ego-centric dogmatism, arrogance, and ignorance associated with a series of disastrous internal and foreign policies, all compounded by the eccentric ways of the ruler himself. This regime is desperate and is using a life support machine to prolong its life, and the irony is that this machine is also being fed by the continuing imbroglio within the thirty or so opposition parties and their lack of a common front, and also by the dislocated political discourse in the Diaspora which has so far failed to mobilize an indecisive silent majority.
It was in this context that I was invited to attend a meeting of Eritreans which was held at the aging, but still elegant, Ghion Hotel in the centre of down town Addis-Ababa from Sept. 6-10, 2011. Millions of Eritreans in the homeland and tens of thousands in the Diaspora continue to wait apprehensively for a much needed change. Those who have lost hope are seeking it across the border, and the daily flow of refugees continues ceaselessly, draining our homeland of its much needed human resource. But hope is increasingly becoming elusive in our contemporary harsh world beset by multiple ailments, and the tens of thousands of refugees in Africa and outside Africa keep glancing back towards Eritrea, for signs of change and for a beckoning horizon. But the prospects are grim, the atmosphere restive, and the horizon dark and threatening.
How is change to be realized in our homeland? The ideal most share, I believe, is that of a peaceful transition to democracy and that of a system of governance that preserves our integrity and security as a sovereign entity while at the same time making real the aspirations for equality and mutual respect that our diverse society hungers for, and which 20 years of Independence and PFDJ rule have so utterly failed to realize. But this may turn out to be only a wishful thinking.
The Ghion Hotel meetings brought under one roof an increasingly extent and graying species of veteran opposition leaders and a few young and rising politicians. There were around 80 people representing the numerous opposition groups within and outside the EDA umbrella group, representatives of various civic societies in the Diaspora, intellectuals, journalists, and a sprinkling of refugees (I belong to the latter group).
For five intense days participants discussed many sensitive issues regarding the complex Eritrean political situation. Emotions especially tended to flare up when ethno-religious subjects were raised, and a few were guilty of demagogy and unreason by trying to sideline core issues by appealing to narrower sectarian or partisan cleavages. Discussions continued as well deep into the night with smaller groups sitting in the hotel lobby or walking the beautiful and expansive gardens within the premises of the hotel. These smaller groups also mostly tended to congregate across ethno-religious lines, another uncomfortable reminder of the uneasy undercurrent in opposition politics.
Such a gathering of few people for a few days cannot possibly be expected to exhaustively address all the contentious issues regarding our past, present, and future. And this meeting was obviously being held to ratchet up momentum for the oncoming and much awaited Congress which is to be held in a few weeks time. But the spirit under which the meeting was held and the honest and free flow of ideas gives one a much needed hope and reassurance that our differences are not insurmountable if we can develop the habit and the patience to sit together and talk out our grievances without resorting to the instruments of hate and violence. I especially admired the bold and candid self critical summary of the opposition camp read out at the gathering by their representative. These report was a consensus summary of a meeting the various opposition groups had had one week earlier. It was a remarkable and commendable effort and such self critical evaluations are needed on a much broader scale if the momentum for change is to make huge strides.
The formal communiqué of the 5 day meeting has already been posted in many sites; and, the purpose of this article is not to clarify or add on the deliberations of the meeting. The following is being written to remind our politicians that their future challenge lays not only in replacing one totalitarian system by a democratic one. The biggest challenge is to answer the aspirations of our diverse society by making democracy work while at the same time protecting the heterogeneity of our society without succumbing to narrower sectarian or traditional divisive politics. And, in this respect, I would like to raise the following four issues before I finish with this article.
First and foremost, an intelligent political leadership must have the wisdom to understand that human societies have been evolving through all sorts of conflicts since pre-historic times, and for all intents some of these conflicts will definitely continue for decade, if not centuries, into our future. And, here, intelligence means the foresight to see that some of the remedies being offered as solution do not cause the seeds of violence and hatred to spread. Politicians should be wary of solutions that may succeed only in destroying forms of existence that have endured for centuries.
There must not be a monopoly of ideas. The whole modern world and its travails should be sifted and scanned, and experiences of near and far countries with experiences similar to ours should be dissected and viewed in detail. A winning strategy and philosophy that fits our contemporary world demands this. It also demands a commitment to the principles of liberal democracy and principles of universal human rights, and avoidance, at all costs, of any sort of conflict or entanglements from which there are no easy exits.
The refugee situation will be the second issue I want to raise. So far this huge population, mostly in the Sudan and Ethiopia, has not been properly tapped. Besides there is this tendency in certain circles to view the refugee as a problem, rather than as part of the solution, only fit for handouts now and then. And the derogatory terms used by some to describe the fleeing youth population will only help in further alienating the refugee from an active participation in the politics of his country.
Some of the veteran politicians at the meeting were bemoaning the disenchantment and apathy of the refugee when it comes to the politics of his country. I share their concerns. But the refugee and his/her precarious circumstances need special consideration, empathy, and deep understanding. This refugee has so many frustrations, and it has a deep emptiness inside which hungers to believe in something that he/she believes in. And, increasingly, the Eritrean refugee is finding it easy to fill this void with the teachings of religion, substances of abuse, or other means of recreation. These frustrations can be channeled into a national cause worth fighting for, but the refugee will need much more convincing ideas that fit its needs. In order to be mobilized the refugee will need leaders and activists that lead from the front (…not from behind), leaders that espouse progressive vision and message that fit the times. Here too attempts to mobilize the refugee across ethnic religious cleavages will not give the desired result.
One of the biggest puzzles for Eritreans living at home is why their relatively better educated and affluent Diaspora kinsmen and -women are so short sighted when it comes to the politics of their countries of origin. This is the third issue I want to discuss. As I have already mentioned above, this segment continues to be so dislocated, disillusioned, and fraught with so many divisions. I will just focus on one of many relevant issues.
It has been more than a decade since the ending of the disastrous border war between Eritrea and Ethiopia and, left to their own means, the bottom illiterate peasants living across the border area are doing a superb job of diplomacy and rapprochement with their Ethiopian neighbors living right across the border. And, yet, these are also the people who gave everything for Eritrea, starting from their flesh and blood to their worldly possessions, and continue to be persecuted on a daily bases by a brutal system of governance. But the Diaspora community is not only abetting the daily excesses of the regime by its continuing silence, but adding more insult to injury by continuing to engage in obfuscating and obstructing proxy wars of regional politics and hysterics. This Diaspora bug also abounds amongst many of the Eritreans living here in Ethiopia and other not so affluent countries.
I have great admiration for the Diaspora representatives who attended the Ghion Hotel meeting. But change demands much more than free ride to conferences and declarations. One of the greatest tasks for the Diaspora would be to ''mop up its front door'' by solving the seemingly deep, but mostly absurd, divisions that continue to paralyze it. If thousands can flock to hear the words of a dictator in New-York, then there must be something terribly wrong in the way you manage your politics. I am sure he will not have received the same kind of reception in the multitudes of refugee camps.
The Ghion Hotel meeting venue and the source of financing were the perfect blend needed for those prone to conspiracy theory to start thumping furiously at their keyboards and spin out all sorts of wild stories. This should be expected as any sort of Ethiopian involvement in Eritrean politics will always continue to be controversial, especially with so many unresolved issues from the recent border war. And this will be the final and fourth point I will try to discuss.
A high level government official present throughout the meeting gave clarifications on most of the outstanding issues with Eritrea. Despite his government's awkward indecisiveness regarding the EEBC's border ruling that handed the flash point village of Badme to Eritrea, he pledged that his government accepts the final and binding ruling of the Hague court. But he emphasized the need for much broader talks to resolve wide ranging issues besides this 'insignificant' piece of land. He also clarified the much publicized recent policy change of his government towards the regime in Asmara by stressing that this policy doesn't in any way indicate direct interference in Eritrean politics. He repeatedly reiterated that regime change in Eritrea belongs to Eritreans and Eritreans alone. But he didn't hide his government's wariness with the Asmara regime, and he pledged full support to the opposition.
The Ethiopian government has so far shown a superb magnanimity and hospitality to Eritreans. This is a far cry from what happened in the early days of the 1998 border war. Government leaders have on so many occasions expressed their regrets for the 'errors' that resulted in tens of thousands of displacements. To this effect a special task force has been set up to oversee the return of property to Eritreans who are coming back to reclaim lost property, and so far 150 cases have been settled and around 400 are under process. In the past few years the government has started to award scholarships to Eritrean refugees in government owned higher institutions of learning. Around 1000 have benefited so far. A few years back it was like a taboo to visit Ethiopia, but now an increasing number of Eritreans are selecting is as their tourist destination. All this is as a result of pragmatic, bold, and wise policies that were instituted with a broader picture of the future.
Why are then so many apprehensive when the name Ethiopia is mentioned in association with Eritrean politics? Inevitably the question arises from a genuine fear of the sort of military adventures the US government under Bush II was known for. And, our opposition politicians and policy makers in the Ethiopian government would be wary to remember that the solution that comes from this kind of interventions would be much more destructive than the problem itself.
Before I part, I want to extend my appreciation to the organizers of the recent conference and wish success to the fast approaching Congress.
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Ruskin has a large number of branded goods to his name, on the whole he had nothing at all to do with them, from cigars, to pottery to Laura Ashley patterns, his name and image were used to promote product he and his ideals explicitly abhorred.
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The box bears an idealized portrait of Ruskin surrounded on one side by puti bearing a heraldic shield and on the other by a Britannia like figure hold aloft a wreath and cradling a phallic sealed scroll - maybe the declaration of independence. The top of the box bears the coat of arms of the British Royal family and the words John Ruskin, best and biggest - it seems likely the whole confection is just a random amalgam of images and pseudo endorsements, it being unlikely that Ruskin or the Royal family would endorse a cigar manufacture in Newark.
The brand also extended its reach with an advert depicting a cowboy galloping down the high street to pick up a box of Ruskin Cigars sitting on the ground.
Little information available, based in Newark and bringing tobacco in from Alabama, choosing Ruskin as a brand, a man that had publicly declared his dislike of tobacco, purloining the British monarchies coat of arms, advertising cigars as aids to thought and health, the list goes on as to why things might have gone wrong for the company.


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Q: Do P-channel JFET current go from source to drain? For an N-channel JFET transistor, current moves from drain to source. I've read that a P-channel JFET works similarly, but with the voltages reversed. Does this mean that its current travels from source to drain instead?
(The gate current can be neglected)

A: This can be confusing - it's not entirely consistent naming.
I'm sure you've read else where and even on this site "don't worry if it's holes or electrons - the convention is positive charge flowing from a positive voltage to a more negative voltage to define +'ve current flow"
Or
" a negative charge flowing in the opposite direction equals positive current flow - the two signs cancel and you end up with positive charge flowing in a positive direction"
except ...
Then why does a nfet have a source that is on the -'ve rail and a drain that is at higher voltage?  after all the "source" should be considered the the circuits above it "sourcing positive current and it drains the positive current into the drain.  It would be consistent then.
So the short answer is, all those saying are true with respect to current, but device polarity is important to functionality and manufacturing.  If you are connecting complementary polarity devices (P & N) in the same substrate you DO need to think about whether the device works with Electrons or with Holes or you'll mess up.
The easiest way to remember this is:

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*an N -type device needs a source of negative charge connected to it's Source - the negative rail.

*a P type device needs a source of positive charge connected to it's Source - the positive rail.

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Former FED HQ compound has new mission
As the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Far East District (FED) remembers the accomplishments of its past, the District also takes a few moments to learn about the new mission of an important part of its history, the former FED headquarters Dongdaemun compound.
Far East District's STEAM outreach thrives despite COVID-19 restrictions
"If you're bored with playing, you can just go to the pool," explained one student while showcasing his dream house design. "I see a future engineer!" exclaimed Chad McLeod, chief of Construction Division. For the second year in a row, United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Far East District (FED) volunteers virtually shared their Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math (STEAM) expertise and captured children's imaginations with engaging STEAM activities, May 27. The event was a part of a relationship with Humphreys Central Elementary School that started in 2013.
FED honors National Nurses Week, reflects on COVID-19 impact
In honor and appreciation of National Nurses Week, May 6 – 12, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Far East District (FED) reflects on the contributions of those serving on the front lines of the pandemic and how COVID-19 has impacted the District and every FED project site in South Korea.
Practicing COVID Resilience: How the FED Stays Ahead
From improving warfighter capabilities and laying the foundation for a 216-bedroom housing unit on Camp Humphreys to ensuring the support staff has the capability to work remotely, the Far East District (FED) has not allowed the COVID-19 pandemic to slow them down.
Despite COVID19, students' thirst for learning continues
For the very first time in a complete digital e-learning platform, students from kindergarten through 4th grades of Humphreys Central Elementary School (HCES) posted and shared videos of their experiments and exchanged live questions and answers with members of the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Far East District (FED) and 11th Engineer Battalion on their various Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) activities, May 29.
Far East District on-boards new employees during COVID-19
CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea—The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Far East District (FED) has on-boarded a few new employees during COVID-19. As this pandemic has changed the way operations occur globally, most of their transition to the district is unique due to the virus.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Far East District, completes construction of 3rd generation hardened aircraft shelters at Kunsan Air Base
With the joint effort of the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers (USACE) of the Far East District (FED) and the Republic of Korea, 20 newly constructed third generation hardened aircraft shelters (HAS) will be ready for use by the summer of 2020 at Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea.
Customer service, morale; driving forces for FED mailroom operations during COVID 19
CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea— Receiving mail and packages can often be a morale booster for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Far East District employees while serving overseas. The COVID 19 pandemic continues to change operations almost daily, however, the district consolidated mailroom has continued its mission throughout this challenging period.
Completion of Phase I Fuel Oil Facility, improves USFK warfighter capabilities
CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Far East District (FED) has demonstrated resolve and dedication to completing the mission during COVID19, as the district has held three Acceptance Release Letter (ARL) ceremonies during the pandemic.
Far East District employees find innovative solutions to support mission while teleworking
CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea –Due to the global pandemic, COVID 19, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Far East District (FED) has reduced its manpower to mission essential only reporting to the office daily. In an effort to stop the spread of the virus, many district employees have adopted a telework schedule.


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Q: Former Storage Spaces hard drive not showing up in Windows on any PC When HDD is properly retired/removed from Storage Spaces on Windows 10 and then connected to entirely different Windows 10 PC, it doesn't show up in Disk Management console, it isn't automatically mounted, Windows does not prompt the user to format the drive and Storage Spaces UI doesn't show any indication that the HDD is taken by Storage Spaces and hence is invisible to the rest of the PC until Storage Spaces does something with it. You can see the following in Device Manager window (notice the HITACHI drive visible):

When you open Disk Management console, however, the drive isn't visible:

If you try to guess and look into Storage Spaces UI, the HDD isn't listed in there either:

We can prove, that Storage Spaces is currently grabbing the HDD and preventing rest of the system to see it by running the following Storage Spaces cmdlet in PowerShell: Get-PhysicalDisk, which yields the following output:

I can see the HDD status as OK, Starting. This status never changes, it is forever stuck at this state. How can I make this HDD work in Windows 10 and get rid of Storage Spaces hooking up to it, preventing access?

A: This error behavior is still present in Windows 10 as of build 1909. The Storage Spaces UI should usually display an option offering to Reset the disk (which releases it from Storage Spaces completely), but it isn't doing that sometimes.
The way to resolve this is to run the following sequence of PowerShell commands:

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*Open PowerShell with Administrator privileges (Administrator is required to run this command).

*Execute cmdlet Get-PhysicalDisk | select FriendlyName, SerialNumber, UniqueId This yields following output:

*Copy the UniqueId of the HDD in question. In example shown above that is 5000CC2A24E320F6

*Execute cmdlet Reset-PhysicalDisk -UniqueId "5000CC2A24E320F6", be sure to replace the UniqueId value with your own.

Now the disk is reset and you can see it in Disk Management console:


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As they are our heros we are superhappy that Jerry gave us a long interview about the development of the campusboard and his training as well as handing out this vintage footage of them training in Jerry's cellar. That's how climbing training used to be before gyms like the Café Kraft or the Foundry existed: Dirty, dusty, dark.
Jerry says it: It's all about DEDICATION. Enjoy!
And don't forget to watch the interview as well!
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in.reuters.com—Asia's internet firms are challenging the region's traditional banks for consumer finances, tapping their massive user networks for business and following a trail blazed in China by tech giants Alibaba and Tencent.
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9:30 am to 5 pm. Regular museum admission is $5 adults; $3 students; children 5 and under are free.