It's a little earlier than I usually like to delve back into football in the offseason, but with the bulk of free agency over, the hope of the offseason had already turned to worry for this Bengals fan. I thought I'd write a little bit about this rather than trying to cover all the signings and moves that have just taken place, and hopefully reflect some thoughts on the wider situation.
There are many ways to build a roster in the NFL, and the Cincinnati Bengals are very much a team who believe in draft and develop rather than spending wildly in free agency. This is an approach that I very much agree with, but it is worth taking note that the New York Giants spent a lot in free agency last year and significantly improved their defence. I think the trick is to make sure you get the right kind of players at the right kind of price, which sounds pretty trite, but given that there are thirty-two teams competing for the same players (theoretically) then as the saying goes, it only takes one a*#?hole, to drive up the price.
Still, the focus for the Bengals was always going to be resigning their free-agents, and this is where things got interesting for the Bengals and their fans. One of the problems the team had last season was protecting Andy Dalton, particularly as Cedric Ogbuehi seemed to struggle at right tackle. With two offensive line starters up for free agency, this would seem like a resigning priority along with cornerback Dre Kirkpatrick. However, the only player out of these three priority players who did resign with the Bengals was Kirkpatrick. I was not entirely surprised that right guard Kevin Zeitler was signed elsewhere as Bengals.com editor Geoff Hobson had been writing about the philosophy of Bengals being not to invest heavily at the guard position, and with the Cleveland Browns having a huge amount of cap space, they could simply offer much more money than the Bengals were prepared to pay. I was hopeful that stalwart left tackle Andrew Whitworth would play another season, but at thirty-five years old the LA Rams were prepared to give Whitworth a multi-year deal that was too rich for the Bengals to compete with.
And like that, the best two players on the offensive season last season are no longer Bengals and the commentary has not been good about this. I am worried, but there is at least a working plan behind these moves that I am not sure have been explored enough in the media. Although, I could have easily missed the discussion.
No one would want to lose their long term left tackle when there have been few signs of regression in his play, and Kevin Zeitler was one of the best right guards in the league going into a second contract. Nor is the upheaval in the offensive line helpful when this is the position group that most relies on continuity on the team.
However, one of the strengths of the New England Patriots, and something that Bill Belichick is often praised for is the team's ability to let go players at the right time, and they would rather let a player go too early than a year too late. It is not exactly fair to compare Marivn Lewis to one of the greatest coaches in the game, and nor does Lewis have the control of personnel that Belichick has, but I can at least see the plan the Bengals have in place.
Two years ago the Bengals drafted two tackles in the first two rounds, and this was clearly the start of their succession plan. Last offseason the Bengals did not resign Andre Smith and Ogbuehi was set to start at right tackle after missing most of his rookie season recovering from the knee injury he had when drafted. I don't think it is controversial to say that this did not go well, and now he will be starting at left tackle in place of one of the best tackles in the league. However, he spent the majority of his time in college playing left tackle, and whilst his struggles with the bull rush will not simply disappear, it seems too often that people think you can just swap linemen between the right and left sides of the line. These days there are more quality pass rushers coming from the left side of the defence, and so your right tackle needs to be able to hold up in pass protection. I'm not sure how different your right and left tackle need to be as this depends greatly on scheme, opponent, and philosophy, but I do worry about the assumption that you can move linemen around and so I'm hoping that Ogbuehi does better in what could be his more natural position.
The problem is that we can't know until the live games start. The Bengals have resigned Andre Simth, but the talk is that he will be replacing Zeitler at right guard, which is another change in position although at least it will be a right handed stance.
Apart from the resigning of receiver Brandon LaFell and running back Cedric Peerman, the only other big moves the Bengals made was to sign twenty-six year old middle linebacker Kevin Minter from the Arizona Cardinals and released long term starter Rey Maualuga. This looks to be a like a straight replacement, but also signals a shift in philosophy away from the fierce hitting Maualuga who was excellent against the run, but in the modern NFL was nearly limited to a two down player thanks to the spread formations and passing attacks that now dominate the league. I am sorry to see Maualuga to go, but this is a move that makes a lot of sense to me, and whilst not a splashy move, by releasing both the thirty year old Maualuga and the thirty-five year old Kevin Dansby the Bengals have got a lot younger at a position that is increasing having to be able to cover in the open.
It is usually when a team gets outside of their plan that they get into trouble. I'm sure those in the front office would argue that they have execute several important moves, but there has been a lot of talent leave the team in recent years. In fairness, a large percentage were older players, and the Bengals would have liked to keep one of the two receivers they lost last year. The offensive line worries me thought, and will do until they prove themselves on the field no matter how many positive offseason pieces I read on player training. I am not panicking however, and with the draft coming up and the Bengals having elven picks thanks to the formula that grants compensatory picks to a team for lost free agents, I can see how they can build for next season. There is a lot on the line for Marvin Lewis, but if feels like I have been writing that a lot over the last few years, but there can only be so many failures to win a playoff game before something changes. There is no guarantee that would bring success, and Mike Brown is fairly famously loyal and not willing to waste money, either to cut players or fired coaches, but even his patience can only stretch so far.
For now, there's the nerves and hope of the offseason, so back to other things to keep me distracted. I'll write again around draft time.
F is for Fanatic, or fan.
This week's column is brought to you by the letter f, which for the purposes of the blog will stand for fanatic, or fan, rather than what I was saying on Sunday. It was a rough day for Bengals fans with the excellent season crumbling before our eyes, and inevitably it had to be against the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Steelers seemed to maintain their composure that bit more than the Bengals, but it was a cruel blow to lose Andy Dalton to a thumb fracture. I don't want to write a woe is me piece, or spill bile directed at the Steelers, but I wanted to take a moment with the end of the regular season looming to take a look at the experience of being a fan.
You may well have heard people make reference to fan being a contraction of fanatic, and whether this is a true derivation or a nice line, there is no question that there are a huge number of people invested in various sports teams across the world, and some of them can be very committed. I would tend to think of myself as informed rather than maniacal, but there's no question that I was excessively upset with the situation on Sunday. In fact I was probably as upset as I was with the dispiriting playoff loss to the Colts last season. I bounced back fairly quickly from that game as there were so many injuries to the offence's skill players that I didn't buy into the Andy Dalton narrative about not being able to win a playoff game. However, the plain fact of the matter is that he hasn't yet, and one of the wonderful things about this season was that through play alone Marvin Lewis and Andy Dalton were changing that story, and I felt that it stood a very good chance of being put to bed this season. There's still a slight chance that it might, but I wouldn't back it to happen, although there's a chance that if Lewis and Hue Jackson can work with AJ McCarron that a playoff win can be found and the leagues longest playoff win drought will finally come to an end.
The key thing for this column though is that here I am on a different continent, in a world beset by problems more serious than a team's ability to beat another at a contest of strength, skill, and speed, yet still there was a significant period of time where what I was upset about the bad fortune that had befallen a group of people I have never met dressed in orange and black. And yet I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing. Yes I would agree that a lot of professional sports people, particularly the men, are overpaid when compared to the truly important work that people put in for society, but that doesn't mean I want to get rid of professional sports. These issues speak to the nature of markets and their interaction with society rather than a problem with sport. I won't give you a complete treatise on the faults of free market capitalism, or pretend that I have a solution, but I do want to take a moment to examine the fan experience, sports, and why if we can maintain a sense of proportion that sport is important.
I have written before about the importance in coaching, and I don't think it is a coincidence that sport coaches are often called in to give talks on management or write books on how to build successful teams. However, you average fan may not be reading books on coaching techniques, incremental improvements, or developing a coherent philosophy for success. However, I strongly believe that we all only have so much time that we can spend in focussed work. This is perhaps even more the case if you work in a high pressure situation, or for long hours. If we look back at human history, we see the need to escape the every day woven through the human experience. As a writer, a musician, and so technically an artist, I know how important it is to connect with people's everyday experience, but also to take them out of themselves. I hate criticisms of escapism as very few people can be completely serious all of the time, and I'm not sure how much time you would want to spend with those who are. The ability to stretch your imagination, whether you are dreaming of being a Jedi Knight, scoring the goal that take Leicester City to the top of the league, or playing for your home town Bengals, is important. The ability to step outside of yourself, to escape the drudgery of your day, to take a well earned break, is really useful and I would definitely say life enhancing.
Very few people are given the physical talent and the opportunity to play professional sports, let alone pull off a move to their childhood team like AJ Hawk managed this offseason when he joined the Bengals. However, playing sports at any level is a useful way of keeping active, and if professional sports can inspire children to play a sport, and if as a society we can make that a habit so we have more adults exercising regularly, then we are already on the way to a healthier society.
The benefits of sport are not just physical though. I spend a large amount of time writing about the NFL because I enjoy, but it is also a type of practice. I'm never too sure how much faith I put in the idea of the 10 000 hour rule, but you don't get better at anything without practice. I don't just write about sports, in fact the first thing I started writing is fiction and over the course of the year that is what I spend the majority of my time writing, but this blog is a kind of cross training. Just as you hear of NFL players training in different sports in the offseason, or using martial arts training to help them play football, this blog helps me work on the discipline and craft required for writing. This however is not the only non-physical benefit of sport.
A team can help community in a city, or even further afield as sports become increasingly global, but the mental benefit is more than bringing a group of people together, or making you happy when a team wins. Going back to children's participation in sport, this is a good place for a child to learn what it means to be part of a team, and how to work hard at something, and possibly most importantly, dealing with failure. Why is dealing with failure important? Because in a society that seems to be increasingly trying to protect children from failure, that praises success, we very seldom seem to focus on the steps that it takes to become successful.
In Seatle Seahawks' head coach Pete Caroll's book, Win Forever – Live,Work, and Play Like a Champion, Caroll outlines the steps and journey that took him to defining his coaching philosophy that he calls Win Forever. This is the philosophy he uses to approach coaching a football team based around his belief in competition, and how he thinks a football team should function, but also how he approaches life in general. I have been thinking about this as at the end of the book he also challenges the reader to come up with their own plan, which believe it or not I have been thinking about off and on since the spring. I wouldn't say it's coherent yet, and I haven't got the definition down to twenty five worse or less, but I have the name. Process over outcome, which I grant you is not as snappy as Win Forever, but here's the point – I don't think you can always win. I don't think you even should. Success does not come about through a series of success built on success, which in fairness is not what Pete Caroll is trying to say, success is the achievement of a goal through continuing a process in the face of adversity. To succeed at anything, first you have to fail. I'm in danger of sounding like an internet meme, but in a world of random probability it is impossible to absolutely guarantee an outcome for anything other than the most basic of tasks. However, by focussing on controlling the process, learning from your mistakes, and by continually trying to improve, you can maximise your potential for success, and that's all anybody can do. I base this on my experience of playing drums for over twenty years and easily clocking 10 000 practice hours, and over the last twenty years or so I have clocked up a fair number of hours writing. However, not everyone has those interests, and another way to get there is sport. I don't know how many hours I have spent running, but I am still learning and whilst I will never get close to international competition, I am still inspired by Paula Radcliffe, Haile Gebrselassie, Mo Farrah, and David Rudisha. I also love lifting weights, and through spending many years fighting gravity with a barbell I have learned about discipline, dealing with adversity, and persistence.
I am not saying there are no problems in sport, in fact if you have been listening to the podcast you will have heard me point out huge failings in the way the NFL runs. I'm also not saying that being overly obsessed with your team isn't a problem – obsession taken too far can definitely cause problems, but if obsession can be harnessed it can also lead to greatness. I may love writing, I may adore the arts, but I love sport as well, and being a fan is as much of my personality as anything else. I don't mind if you don't love the NFL, but don't give up on sport, I am sure that if you look there's something out there for you.
Moving away from my soap box, I'm also pretty damn competitive, so I won't pretend that I'm not happy about having an eight game lead over Dan with three weeks to go of the regular season, but I'm not overconfident so let's get to the Thursday night game and the first of our picks for week fifteen.
The Rams caught me of guard last week by playing well, but they have a history of winning games that make you think they are turning a corner, and then sinking straight back into the mire. The Buccaneers have definitely made progress this year, but were handled surprisingly easily last week by a Saints team that have not been good this season and who have had real problems all season on defence. The Rams defence is definitely better than the Saints and so I should have pause this weeks, but whilst I'm nervous, I simply do not trust the Rams in this situation.


New York-based Wahed Invest has launched an automated investment service in Britain to tap into Muslim investors seeking religiously permissible investments, the sharia compliant robo-advisor said on Monday.
Hawzah News Agency (London, UK) – The firm has received approval from Britain's Financial Conduct Authority, marking its first international foray since it raised $5 million (3.92 million pounds) in seed capital last year.
Digital wealth management firms, known as robo-advisors, create and manage portfolios made up of low cost funds catering to affluent but not necessarily very wealthy customers.
The market was developed by startups such as Wealthfront and Betterment, which in recent months have added new features such as financial planning tools and human advice to lure in more customers.
Wahed aims to appeal to a Muslim community in Britain estimated at around 2.6 million, in particular young professionals in their late 20s and early 30s, said Kareem Tabbaa, Wahed's chief product officer.
"We are focusing on young families and household that are looking for easy-to-use financial products," Tabbaa said. "Customers can open an account with as little as 100 pounds and there is no lock-in period."
The firm plans to add a recurring-deposit option and develop a mobile app, while it is considering future expansion in markets in the Middle East region, Tabbaa added.
Islamic funds follow religious principles such as bans on investing in gambling and tobacco stocks, similar to socially responsible funds.
An added benefit of an Islamic robo-advisor is that clients can invest in sharia-compliant funds that are typically only available to wealthy individuals or institutional investors, Tabbaa said.
For instance, the firm offers portfolios that include Islamic investment products such as a sukuk fund from Franklin Templeton, a global equity fund from HSBC and a physical gold exchange traded fund.


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The Hamming distance between two integers is the number of positions at which the corresponding bits are different.

Given two integers x and y, calculate the Hamming distance.

Note:
0 ≤ x, y < 231.

Example:

```
Input: x = 1, y = 4

Output: 2

Explanation:
1   (0 0 0 1)
4   (0 1 0 0)
       ↑   ↑
```

The above arrows point to positions where the corresponding bits are different.

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Home » PSA News » Power Stamp Alliance Announces Reference Design Board for Next-Generation 10nm Intel CPU Microarchitecture
[March 14, 2019] – At the OCP Summit 2019, the Power Stamp Alliance (PSA), which is creating collaborative solutions for 48V-to-low-voltage on-board DC-DC power converters, today announced a new reference design board for processors based on the next-generation 10 nm Intel® CPU microarchitecture, code-named "Ice Lake" by Intel®. Engineers designing high-performance computers and servers being used in large data centers, which are increasingly using 48-volt rack-level power distribution systems, can now match the performance and energy efficiency of these new processors with a flexible and efficient point-of-load power solution backed by a multi-vendor ecosystem.
PSA 48V direct conversion DC-DC modules – or 'power stamps' – primarily target advanced IT equipment and large data processing installations, many of which follow the principles of the Open Compute Project (OCP).
The new reference design board for Intel's upcoming first volume 10nm processor will enable design engineers to evaluate the power stamp concept and specific point-of-load stamps from dc-dc vendors. It can help to accelerate the project development cycle for new server designs and other equipment using the latest Intel® processors in a 48 V rack environment. This latest reference design board extends the Power Stamp Alliance's portfolio of reference design boards, which include a board suitable for the Intel® VR13 (Intel® code-named Skylake) processor architecture and a board for ASIC devices. The Power Stamp Alliance has a roadmap for future reference design boards for processor architectures used in high-performance computing.
By creating and sharing a specification for a standard product footprint and functions, the Power Stamp Alliance has created a multi-vendor ecosystem to assure practical levels of alternate source capability to server and storage system manufacturers, while encouraging a competitive supply chain through differentiation in topology, circuitry, and performance from multiple, independent manufacturers. Formally launched at the Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit in 2018 with the publication of specifications, drawings and pin-out descriptions for main and satellite power stamps, the Alliance has since also published a new Orcad Library and Allegro Footprint Package (Macro) to its website to enable designers to embed Power Stamps into their own schematic, along with the linked Allegro reference footprint for proper layout. Most recently, the Alliance announced the industry's first graphical user interface (GUI) that developers can use with products from any member company, and a new reference design board for high-current ASIC and/or FPGA chipsets.
The Power Stamp Alliance will be represented at the OCP Summit 2019 by its Founding Members, Artesyn Embedded Technologies, Bel Power Solutions, Flex, and STMicroelectronics.
The Power Stamp Alliance has been formed to define a standard product footprint and functions that provide a multiple sourced, standard modular board-mounted solution for power conversion for 48Vin to low-voltage, high-current DC-DC applications. These 48V single-stage, direct-conversion DC-DC modules – or 'power stamps' – primarily target devices being used in large data centers (e.g. high-performance computers, ASICs, and FPGAs), many of which follow the principles of the Open Compute Project (OCP). The Founding Members of the Power Stamp Alliance are Artesyn Embedded Technologies, Bel Power Solutions, Flex, and STMicroelectronics.
Power Stamp Alliance and the Power Stamp Alliance logo are trademarks and service marks of the Power Stamp Alliance. Intel® is a trademark of Intel Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. The code names Skylake and Ice Lake are Intel terminology referencing processor architectures and platforms owned by Intel. No endorsement by Intel is expressed or implied. All other names and logos referred to are trade names, trademarks, or registered trademarks of their respective owners. © 2019 Power Stamp Alliance. All rights reserved.

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Keepsake archive, 1978-1999
Scope and Contents Starting in 1978, the Department of Special Collections at McFarlin Library, the University of Tulsa, has produced a series of booklets and pamphlets under the rubric of Keepsakes. The archive consists of those materials gathered during their production. Consists of graphics, artwork, production layouts, and related materials for Special Collections keepsake publications.
V. S. Naipaul archive, 1935-2000
Scope and Contents This collection is the life archive of Nobel prize winning author V. S. Naipaul. Sir Vidia was born in Trinidad, educated at Oxford, and author of A House for Mr. Biswas and 20 other volumes of fiction and non-fiction reporting. The collection also includes manuscripts, correspondence files and personal and family memorabilia.
Winston Weathers archive, 1947-2003
Scope and Contents This collection consists of the papers and library of Winston Weathers. The bulk of the papers are housed in the original folders created by Winston Weathers and each folder usually contains a copy of the original work, publisher correspondence, copyright papers, reviews and thank you's.
Names: Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-2018 X
Authors, English -- 20th century 1
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 1
Authors, Trinidadian -- 20th century 1
Authors, Trinidadian -- 20th century -- Correspondence 1
Imperialism -- History -- Fiction. 1
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Keepsake (McFarlin Library) ; 2 1
Osage Indians -- Social life and customs. 1
Pragmatism and the Politics of Academe. 1
Radio plays. 1
Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Andre Deutsch Ltd. 1
Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Naipaul, V. S. 1
Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Weathers, Winston. 1


Club racing is at the heart of WWSC's sailing programme. Racing is perhaps the best way to improve your sailing and, with this in mind, we aim to provide interesting courses and some friendly competition.
Most racing takes place on a handicap basis with Class 1 (our fast fleet) comprising most dinghy classes and Class 2 (a fleet of slower dinghies including Fevas, Toppers, Scows and traditional day boats). For those with less confidence or new to sailing there are often opportunities to crew a double handed boat. We also run a special "Rookies Race" during the season where support will be on hand before and during the race and the sailors have their own start to protect them from jostling on the line!
All members - young and old - are encouraged to try their hand at racing and to volunteer for race team duties. Please approach any committee members if you'd like further information about taking part in club racing.
WWSC's 2019 Sailing Instructions are available to download via this link.


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According to the report, polio vaccination has decreased in Syria from an average of 99 percent to 52 percent.
Mangaluru: About 74.25 lakh children below five years will be administered polio drops in the state during the first round of Pulse Polio Immunisation drive to be held from 8am to 5pm on Sunday.
Minister for health and family welfare UT Khader said the department has made all necessary arrangements to make the first phase of Pulse Polio drive of the year a success. A total of 32,617 booths will be set up and 1,03,464 vaccinators will be deployed to administer polio drops to all children below five years across the state.
While 51,732 teams of health workers have been formed to carry out the drive, 6,522 supervisors will monitor the process. To make the drive more effective, 1,205 mobile teams and 1,736 transit teams have been formed, Khader said.
Chief minister Siddaramaiah will launch the Pulse Polio drive in Bengaluru on Sunday, he said. "Though the nation has been officially declared as polio-free by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 2014, we need to be cautious about its recurrence. In Karnataka, no polio cases have been reported after 2007. However, since police cases are reported in neighbouring countries like Afghanistan and Pakistan, we need to take precautions," Khader said.
The department has identified more than 29,000 high risk areas including dwellings of migrant labourers and construction workers in the state. Elaborate arrangements have been made to administer polio drops to children in high-risk areas. Transit teams will administer drops to children at bus stands, railway stations, airports and other public places. Senior government officials, WHO observers and professors from medical colleges will monitor the drive and submit a report to the government, the minister said.
"Children below five years should be given polio drops compulsorily on Sunday even if the vaccine is given to them in previous drives," the health minister added.


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Oil Tanker Attacked off Nigeria as Another Crew is Kidnapped
Chief Oyibo News
An oil tanker was attacked on Sunday in West Africa's Gulf of Guinea and most of its crew were kidnapped, the latest in a string of incidents highlighting the security risks to shipping in the region.
The vessel — an oil products tanker named Duke, hauling fuel oil — was attacked and boarded while sailing from Angola to Togo at 7 a.m. London time on Sunday, its owner, Union Maritime Ltd. said in a statement. One crew member remained on the ship, while the rest were reported missing, the International Maritime Bureau's piracy-reporting center said in a separate notice.
Acts of piracy on shipping in West Africa have been steadily increasing in recent weeks. Earlier this month 19 sailors were kidnapped from a supertanker off the coast of Nigeria, and four crew members were taken from a smaller Greek tanker docked at a port in Togo in early November.
About 82% of crew kidnappings globally take place in the Gulf of Guinea, according to the IMB. The region remains a hotspot despite a worldwide decline in piracy in the first nine months of the year, compared with the same period in 2018. Passing ships have been advised to stay at least 200 nautical miles from the Gulf's coast and preferably 250 nautical miles away, the Bureau said Monday.
Union Maritime said it is currently focused on the safety of its crew and didn't plan to comment further on the incident for the time being. V.Ships, which manages the crew, said the vessel had 21 personnel on board, including 20 from India who were abducted and one Nigerian national who was left on it.
Jihadists execute aid worker abducted in Nigeria


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Medicinal cannabis to be trialled on children with drug resistant epilepsy in Queensland
Medicinal cannabis for children with severe epilepsy.
THIRTY Queensland children with drug resistant epilepsy will have access to a medicinal cannabis product under a compassionate access scheme.
Queensland Health Minister Cameron Dick today called on the parents of children with uncontrolled seizures to contact 13 HEALTH to express an interest in taking part in the scheme.
Mr Dick said the Palaszczuk Government had signed a Memorandum of Understanding with UK-based pharmaceutical company GW Pharmaceuticals that would allow up to 30 Queensland children to access the medicinal cannabis product, Epidiolex.
Epidiolex is a liquid form of the cannabis-derived product, cannabidiol.
The minister said the number of children able to access the medicine was restricted by the limited amount of product that could be obtained at this time.
GW Pharmaceuticals board of directors chairman Dr Geoffrey Guy said GW Pharmaceuticals had been working on the scientific application of cannabinoids for almost two decades.
He said Epidiolex had shown positive results in a compassionate-use scheme in the United States.
Epidiolex is being investigated overseas as a treatment for two rare childhood epilepsy syndromes, Dravet and Lennox-Gastaut.
Mr Dick said the Palaszczuk Government had committed $6 million over three years to medicinal cannabis trials.
He said a new agreement between the Palaszczuk Government and GW Pharmaceuticals would facilitate a new research program for cannabis-based medicines for children with treatment-resistant epilepsy.
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As always, Gender Workshop is brought to you by your friendly neighbourhood Crip Dyke.
A new and interesting series of posts directly related to gender should commence later today. And, yes, I'm aware that life came along inconveniently and too-long delayed my promised gender-sudoku post. That, too, will come, but not immediately.
The poor thinking we humans do both implementing and reflecting on the system.
Any general improvement in critical thinking among the various peoples of the world should be of use in correcting #2, at least over time. And so I can be a bit of a martinet on the issue of carefully and critically thinking for oneself.
Don't move forward with any other aspect of the puzzle until you've gotten the top-right square to this position. The 8 gained in box C:A (the top-left square) is a consequence of filling in the top-right square to this point. The 1 & 8 gained in the bottom-middle square are not relevant, though they follow easily from our starting position because of the 8 in box A:F.
As ever, Online Sudoku Workshop is brought to you by your friendly, neighborhood Crip Dyke.
Our genders were, as yet, unaffected by this configuration.
As ever, even though it's the very first in the series, Online Sudoku Workshop is brought to you by your friendly, neighborhood Crip Dyke.
Hopefully, in our last workshop entry, we got an understanding of what social construction is, and what it isn't. I'm a firm believer, as I said in that post, of people being better educated about social construction theory so that they can understand what is and isn't being said when someone asserts, "Donkey is a social construct".
Gender Workshop, as ever, is brought to you by your friendly, neighborhood Crip Dyke.


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Maria Fortiz-Morse Pro
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Filmmaker Maria Fortiz-Morse is committed to telling stories about people whose voices are rarely heard. As a Stanford MFA student in documentary film and video, Fortiz-Morse created character-driven films that raised larger social issues. Her work includes Trash-Out, which explores the housing crisis through the eyes of contractors cleaning up a foreclosed home, and Keith and Daniel, an intimate look at a mother caring for two disabled sons in the Midwest. Fortiz-Morse says one of her goals is to advocate for children by documenting the world through their eyes. In her thesis film, Little Mom, she tells the story of two adolescent girls who help their families care for their disabled brothers. She plans to continue making independent films in an effort to raise awareness of contemporary social issues across a wide audience."


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Q: Can a set be infinite and bounded? I don't understand a statement in my math book course, I was restudying the compact sets part of the chapter when at a certain moment there is a corollary saying :
'every infinite and bounded part of $\mathbb{R^n}$ admit at least one accumulation point'
because for me a set is either bounded so finite or infinite so unbounded.
I don't really understand because I can accept the fact that without a metric, bounds make no sense in topology but here $\mathbb{R^n}$ is clearly known as a metric space.
thank you for your help

A: The set of all numbers between $0$ and $1$ is infinite and bounded.  The fact that every member of that set is less than $1$ and greater than $0$ entails that it is bounded.

A: Leibniz speculated about intervals (in time and/or space) that are simultaneously infinite and also terminating (one way of interpreting "bounded*). The presence of such sets in his calculus is what led him to consider infinite (and infinitesimal) numbers as useful fictions, to the chagrin of many of his disciples who held a more realist view of infinitesimals.
In a modern hyperreal framework, you can indeed have an infinite interval $[0,H]$ which is nontheless bounded (by an infinite hyperreal).

A: When we say that a set is finite or infinite, we are referring to the number of elements in the set, not to the "extent" (putting it roughly) of those elements.  You can think of it in the following way.  Any set, all of whose elements lie between (for example) $0$ and $1$, is bounded, because no part of the set can possibly "go to infinity".  But clearly it is possible to have an infinite number of elements in such a set.  For example, all reals between $0$ and $1$, or all rationals between $0$ and $1$, or simply all the numbers $\{\frac{1}{2},\frac{1}{3},\frac{1}{4},\ldots\,\}\,$.

A: infinite refers to the cardinal of the set.
bounded refers to the values.
$(1, \frac{1}{2},\frac{1}{3},\frac{1}{4} ...)$ is a set that defines an infinite number of values, all of which are included in the interval $(0, 1]$
It is infinite and bounded.

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Females: Carapace witth pseudorostral lobes extending in front of moderately large ocular lobe and meeting in midline; antennal notch closed but not fused. Five pereonites exposed; first pereonite short. Pleon longer than carapace and pereon combined; telsonic somite well produced posteriorly with distal margin rounded. Third maxilliped with well-developed exopods. First 3 pereopods with well developed exopods; pereopod 4 with rudimentary 1-segmented exopod bearing few setae. Basis of pereopod 1 widened distally with large lobe on distal end; lobe produced to articulation of ischium and merus. Carpus of pereopod 2 much shorter than merus. Endopod of uropod 2-segemented, distal segment very short; medial margin of exopod with plumose setae.
Males: Second antennae reaching to end of pleon. Five pairs of pleopods.
Source: Tafe, D.J. & Greenwood, J.G. (1996) The Bodotriidae (Crustacea: Cumacea) of Moreton Bay, Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 39, 391-482.
First antenna not strongly geniculAte, joints not at all globose. Basis of pereopod 1 with distal lobe. Pleon not ridged. Telson fused to pleonite 6, tesonic somite well produced posteriorly.
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You implement a write-only property in a class by implementing the set accessor, but not the get accessor. This will allow client code to write the property's value, but not read the current value.
Below is an example of a write-only property for the Dog class. The BarkPassword property can be written to, but not read back. The class then uses the internal value of BarkPassword in the SecureBark method, to verify that the dog is allowed to bark.


>> least everything is shared.
> sounds better than what there is now, for outsiders.
> would go a long way (again in my opinion).
make the process different than it is.
what directory things get installed in, etc.
it as identical as possible to the original.
For example, here is a problem that I had to solve for 4.9 yesterday.
root, and submit a BUG upstream for them to potentially fix this package.
not change (or want to change) the package that upstream has produced.
the SVN repo and regenerate the SRPM package.
packages, since the SRPM is unmodified from upstream.
You have everything you need already in the SRPM.
> that wouldn't have detracted from the centos-devel's focus.
What makes you think that we HAVE a "split" source tree?
SRPMS that are produced upstream.
We only change a handful of SRPMS (the ones that are labeled .centos).
they do not change at all.
component parts and create this so called source tree.
the vast majority of the packages.


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Minutes after we mourned the disappearance of a star-system for rating L.A.'s restaurants, L.A. Weekly critic Besha Rodell appears to be rekindling the format in 2013. Not only that, but she's even adding a fifth star to S. Irene Vibila's discontinued Death Star four-star system, which created a black hole upon its disappearance. "The Weekly has traditionally eschewed a star system," Rodell writes, who felt liberated without the pressure of rating restaurants over the last few months. "But in light of the starless vacuum that exists in L.A. today, we believe one could only add value for our readers." Of course, the great Patric Kuh still stars his reviews in Los Angeles magazine, but the skies were mostly dark for our two weekly critics in 2012.
Whatever the pain, we think it's well worth it to bring back a dependable, quickly-digestible guide to where a restaurant lands or falls on its mission to feed us. Sure, star systems may not be flawless, and are at their worst rather reductive, but at least stars (or turkey legs or whatever one opts to use) can put a definitive punctuation mark on a review, eliminating the wishy-washy and clarifying cautious opinions.


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All things…Every life, every community, every industry touched by sin will be restored through Christ's work on the cross and the work of those who heed his call.
Denver Institute for Faith & Work invites you to "All Things New," a celebration of Christ's mission fulfilled through the work of his people. Join us on Saturday, May 18th for dinner and a program honoring Tree of Life Award recipient Dr. Bob Cutillo, M.D. for his work serving Denver's homeless. Hear how God has worked through this year's 5280 Fellows and gain inspiration to know, love, and serve Christ through your own callings. The evening will include the opportunity to financially support Denver Institute for Faith & Work.
Saturday May 18 6:30 p.m.
Bob Cutillo (MD, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons) is a physician for the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless in Denver, Colorado, an associate faculty member at Denver Seminary, and an assistant clinical professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He has also served as a missionary to the Democratic Republic of Congo. Bob currently lives in Denver, Colorado, with his wife, Heather, and they have two married children. He is also the author of "Pursuing Health in an Anxious Age" (2016).


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Honors Program Hosts Guests from Aquinas College
Pictured from left to right: Pearce, Dr. Jonathan Thorndike (Belmont Honors Director) and Urbanczyk
Belmont's Honors Program recently hosted two guests from Aquinas College in Nashville: Joseph Pearce, writer-in-residence and director for the Center for Faith and Culture, and Dr. Aaron Urbanczyk, dean of Arts and Sciences at Aquinas. Urbanczyk delivered a special lecture to the entering class of first-year Honors Program students on one of the foundational texts of Western philosophy and Christian theology, St. Augustine's Confessions. The Honors students read Augustine's Confessions as a text in their entry course on "Classical Civilizations." Urbanczyk talked about the importance of reading, literacy and the Roman education system in the life and conversion experience of St. Augustine.
Pearce has written on a wide variety of literary figures including William Shakespeare, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, Oscar Wilde and Alexander Solzhenitsyn. He was awarded the prestigious John C. Pollock Award for Christian biography for his book on Solzhenitsyn. His most recent books include Shakespeare on Love: Seeing the Catholic Presence in Romeo and Juliet (2013) and Bilbo's Journey: Discovering the Hidden Meaning in the Hobbit (2012). Pearce is the editor of the St. Austin Review and editor for the Ignatius Critical Editions published by Ignatius Press. Pearce will return to Belmont in January as a special guest lecturer in an Honors course on the Inklings of Oxford.
Dr. Urbanczyk's teaching and scholarly interests include American literature, literary theory and 20th century Catholic fiction. His essays, articles and reviews have appeared in Religion & the Arts, the St. Austin Review, The Intercollegiate Review, Modern Age, Essays in Arts & Sciences, Papers on Language & Literature, the Journal for Cultural & Religious Theory, Perspectives in Religious Studies, The Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly, The Catholic Thing, and the Ignatius Critical Editions of Frankenstein, The Scarlet Letter and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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Deans for Impact believes all teacher-candidates should know the cognitive-science principles explored in The Science of Learning. And all educators, including new teachers, should be able to connect those principles to their practical implications for the classroom.
What do we know about how students learn and what does that mean for how we teach? That's what The Science of Learning seeks to answer.
Deans for Impact appreciates the support of the following individuals and organizations for The Science of Learning.
How might a deeper understanding of how students learn influence what early-career teachers do in the classroom? A group of teacher-education programs led by members of Deans for Impact tried to answer this question by exploring how to embed cognitive-science principles into their programs.
The Boston Teacher Residency induction team wanted to know if increased knowledge of cognitive-science principles could help beginning teachers with their practice.
Temple University faculty wanted to help their teacher candidates build on a foundation of knowledge about cognitive science and apply that knowledge in their practice.
In October 2015, Deans for Impact and the Center for American Progress hosted a panel discussion on The Science of Learning at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.


The program was phenomenal! I appreciate all of the thought, information, care and passion that went into the development of the class. I also appreciate the exceptional breadth and depth of knowledge that Mina and Peggy shared. The program and instructors are authentic, extremely knowledgeable and generous.


For the compilation album, see Curriculum Vitae (album). For the 1975 film, see Curriculum Vitae (film).
A curriculum vitae (English: /kəˈrɪkjʊləm ˈviːtaɪ, -ˈwiːtaɪ, -ˈvaɪtiː/), often shortened as CV or vita, is a written overview of a person's experience and other qualifications for a job opportunity. It is akin to a résumé in North America. In some countries, a CV is typically the first item that a potential employer encounters regarding the job seeker and is typically used to screen applicants, often followed by an interview. CVs may also be requested for applicants to postsecondary programs, scholarships, grants and bursaries. In the 2010s, some applicants provide an electronic text of their CV to employers using email, an online employment website or using a job-oriented social-networking-service website, such as LinkedIn.
In the United Kingdom, most Commonwealth countries, and Ireland, a CV is short (usually a maximum of two sides of A4 paper), and therefore contains only a summary of the job seeker's employment history, qualifications, education, and some personal information. Some parts of Asia require applicants' photos, date of birth, and most recent salary information. CVs are often tailored to change the emphasis of the information according to the particular position for which the job seeker is applying. A CV can also be extended to include an extra page for the jobseeker's publications if these are important for the job.
In the United States, Pakistan, Canada, Australia, Germany, India, Cuba and Russia a CV is a comprehensive document used in academic circles and medical careers that elaborate on education, publications, and other achievements. A CV contains greater detail than a résumé, a shorter summary which is more often used in applications for jobs, but it is often expected that professionals use a short CV that highlights the current focus of their academic lives and not necessarily their full history. A CV is generally used when applying for a position in academia, while a resume is generally used when applying for a position in industry, non-profit, and the public sector.
Curriculum vitae is a Latin expression which can be loosely translated as [the] course of [my] life. In current usage, curriculum is less marked as a foreign loanword. Traditionally the word vitae is rendered in English using the ligature æ, hence vitæ, although this convention (curriculum vitæ) is less common in contemporary practice.
The plural of curriculum vitae, in Latin, is formed following Latin rules of grammar as curricula vitae, and is used along with curricula vitarum, each of which is debated as being more grammatically correct than the other.
In English, the plural of the full expression curriculum vitae is seldom used; the plural of curriculum on its own is usually written as "curricula", rather than the traditional curriculums.
a presentation by headings: it will highlight the candidate's experiences without revealing the chronology of the career. The most common topics: personal presentation, course and training, professional experiences and finally your interests. Do not hesitate to add a references section if you have good recommendations relevant to the position.
a presentation by skill: it will showcase your achievements during your career more than the title of your posts.
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An interview is a conversation where questions are asked and answers are given. In common parlance, the word "interview" refers to a one-on-one conversation between an interviewer and an interviewee. The interviewer asks questions to which the interviewee responds, usually so information may be transferred from interviewee to interviewer. Sometimes, information can be transferred in both directions. It is a communication, unlike a speech, which produces a one-way flow of information.
A job fair, also referred commonly as a career fair or career expo, is an event in which employers, recruiters, and schools give information to potential employees. Job seekers attend these while trying to make a good impression to potential coworkers by speaking face-to-face with one another, filling out résumés, and asking questions in attempt to get a good feel on the work needed. Likewise, online job fairs are held, giving job seekers another way to get in contact with probable employers using the internet.
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Singing is such a wonderful outlet for creativity and community...which is what RPL is all about! We are so happy to introduce two opportunities for Homeschool Families to sing!
RSVP to Marney if you are interested!
Love to sing? Want to serve?
RPL aPella is a our"Service through Singing" group for homeschoolers -- kids and parents alike!
We Will be meeting weekly, alternating between rehearsing songs and performing for different groups in the CC Young residents as part of our inter-generational partnership. We will have the opportunity to sing for a variety of audiences, from independent living, to full-time nursing care of various levels. This is an invaluable experience for children!
We will meet on Fridays, 2:30-3:30.
On Friday Feb 15 we are singing some Old Fashioned love songs for the Memory Day Care activity room. Come join us to sing or visit with the residents! We will send you a playlist to list to if you can come, just let us know!
You don't have to attend every time, but be sure to let us know when you are planning to attend one of the volunteer/performance days. Kids/parents who don't want to sing can also volunteer by visiting with the residents, making artwork to share with them serving refreshments, etc.
The vision of RPL aPella is to create an ongoing group in which families can sing together in a relaxed and fun setting, as we give something back by sharing the gift of music with residents at CC Young.
* This group is recommended for children 7+ and their parents. If you have a homeschooling child younger than 7 interested in participating, please contact Marney to discuss.
* Participation is free to RPL Members. If you are not a current member, please contact Marney to discuss options.
* Parents do not have to participate alongside their kids, but we hope you will! We are designing this to be a fun activity that you can do as a family, and enjoy it all the more.
* Previous singing experience - for parents or adults - is not required at all! If you're motivated to learn and have some fun, you are welcome!
* Parents with younger kids: if there is enough interest ,perhaps we can have a revolving schedule to trade-off supervising Littles during rehearsals.
* Attending weekly is encouraged if at all possible, for continuity for everyone concerned.
* The weekly meeting time is conveniently scheduled right before rehearsals for ":WHIRLD!" - with a 30 minute break before rehearsal starts. If your child is auditioning for WHIRLD! we will arrange your rehearsals on Fridays to keep your calendar simple as possible!
* Note that we will be moving toward performing for CC Young residents twice a month, as part of our inter-generational partnership. These will be casual performances, primarily for those in Assisted Living and Memory Care. These performances will also be times where anyone - child or adult - can perform any song or musical instrument, which is a valuable opportunity to get more comfortable with performing.
Further questions? Email us here!


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/** @file
 *
 * @defgroup ble_sdk_lib_advdata Advertising and Scan Response Data Encoder
 * @{
 * @ingroup ble_sdk_lib
 * @brief Functions for encoding data in the Advertising and Scan Response Data format,
 *        and for passing the data to the stack.
 */

#ifndef BLE_ADVDATA_H__
#define BLE_ADVDATA_H__

#include <stdint.h>
#include <stdbool.h>
#include <string.h>
#include "ble.h"
#include "app_util.h"

#define ADV_LENGTH_FIELD_SIZE              1UL                                 /**< Advertising Data and Scan Response format contains 1 octet for the length. */
#define ADV_AD_TYPE_FIELD_SIZE             1UL                                 /**< Advertising Data and Scan Response format contains 1 octet for the AD type. */
#define ADV_AD_DATA_OFFSET                 (ADV_LENGTH_FIELD_SIZE + \
                                            ADV_AD_TYPE_FIELD_SIZE)            /**< Offset for the AD data field of the Advertising Data and Scan Response format. */
#define AD_TYPE_TK_VALUE_DATA_SIZE         (sizeof(ble_advdata_tk_value_t))    /**< Data size (in octets) of the Security Manager TK value AD type. */
#define AD_TYPE_TK_VALUE_SIZE              (ADV_AD_DATA_OFFSET + \
                                            AD_TYPE_TK_VALUE_DATA_SIZE)        /**< Size (in octets) of the Security Manager TK value AD type. */
#define AD_TYPE_LE_ROLE_DATA_SIZE          1UL                                 /**< Data size (in octets) of the LE Bluetooth Device Address AD type. */
#define AD_TYPE_LE_ROLE_SIZE               (ADV_AD_DATA_OFFSET + \
                                            AD_TYPE_LE_ROLE_DATA_SIZE)         /**< Size (in octets) of the LE Bluetooth Device Address AD type. */
#define AD_TYPE_BLE_DEVICE_ADDR_TYPE_SIZE  1UL                                 /**< Data size (in octets) of the Address type of the LE Bluetooth Device Address AD type. */
#define AD_TYPE_BLE_DEVICE_ADDR_DATA_SIZE  (BLE_GAP_ADDR_LEN + \
                                            AD_TYPE_BLE_DEVICE_ADDR_TYPE_SIZE) /**< Data size (in octets) of the LE Bluetooth Device Address AD type. */
#define AD_TYPE_BLE_DEVICE_ADDR_SIZE       (ADV_AD_DATA_OFFSET + \
                                            AD_TYPE_BLE_DEVICE_ADDR_DATA_SIZE) /**< Size (in octets) of the LE Bluetooth Device Address AD type. */
#define AD_TYPE_APPEARANCE_DATA_SIZE       2UL                                 /**< Data size (in octets) of the Appearance AD type. */
#define AD_TYPE_APPEARANCE_SIZE            (ADV_AD_DATA_OFFSET + \
                                            AD_TYPE_APPEARANCE_DATA_SIZE)      /**< Size (in octets) of the Appearance AD type. */
#define AD_TYPE_FLAGS_DATA_SIZE            1UL                                 /**< Data size (in octets) of the Flags AD type. */
#define AD_TYPE_FLAGS_SIZE                 (ADV_AD_DATA_OFFSET + \
                                            AD_TYPE_FLAGS_DATA_SIZE)           /**< Size (in octets) of the Flags AD type. */
#define AD_TYPE_TX_POWER_LEVEL_DATA_SIZE   1UL                                 /**< Data size (in octets) of the TX Power Level AD type. */
#define AD_TYPE_TX_POWER_LEVEL_SIZE        (ADV_AD_DATA_OFFSET + \
                                            AD_TYPE_TX_POWER_LEVEL_DATA_SIZE)  /**< Size (in octets) of the TX Power Level AD type. */
#define AD_TYPE_CONN_INT_DATA_SIZE         4UL                                 /**< Data size (in octets) of the Slave Connection Interval Range AD type. */
#define AD_TYPE_CONN_INT_SIZE              (ADV_AD_DATA_OFFSET + \
                                            AD_TYPE_CONN_INT_DATA_SIZE)        /**< Data size (in octets) of the Slave Connection Interval Range AD type. */
#define AD_TYPE_MANUF_SPEC_DATA_ID_SIZE    2UL                                 /**< Size (in octets) of the Company Identifier Code, which is a part of the Manufacturer Specific Data AD type. */
#define AD_TYPE_SERV_DATA_16BIT_UUID_SIZE  2UL                                 /**< Size (in octets) of the 16-bit UUID, which is a part of the Service Data AD type. */
#define AD_TYPE_OOB_FLAGS_DATA_SIZE        1UL                                 /**< Data size (in octets) of the Security Manager OOB Flags AD type. */
#define AD_TYPE_OOB_FLAGS_SIZE             (ADV_AD_DATA_OFFSET + \
                                            AD_TYPE_OOB_FLAGS_DATA_SIZE)       /**< Size (in octets) of the Security Manager OOB Flags AD type. */

#define AD_TYPE_SEC_MGR_OOB_FLAG_SET                   1U                      /**< Security Manager OOB Flag set. Flag selection is done using _POS defines */
#define AD_TYPE_SEC_MGR_OOB_FLAG_CLEAR                 0U                      /**< Security Manager OOB Flag clear. Flag selection is done using _POS defines */
#define AD_TYPE_SEC_MGR_OOB_FLAG_OOB_DATA_PRESENT_POS  0UL                     /**< Security Manager OOB Data Present Flag position. */
#define AD_TYPE_SEC_MGR_OOB_FLAG_OOB_LE_SUPPORTED_POS  1UL                     /**< Security Manager OOB Low Energy Supported Flag position. */
#define AD_TYPE_SEC_MGR_OOB_FLAG_SIM_LE_AND_EP_POS     2UL                     /**< Security Manager OOB Simultaneous LE and BR/EDR to Same Device Capable Flag position. */
#define AD_TYPE_SEC_MGR_OOB_ADDRESS_TYPE_PUBLIC        0UL                     /**< Security Manager OOB Public Address type. */
#define AD_TYPE_SEC_MGR_OOB_ADDRESS_TYPE_RANDOM        1UL                     /**< Security Manager OOB Random Address type. */
#define AD_TYPE_SEC_MGR_OOB_FLAG_ADDRESS_TYPE_POS      3UL                     /**< Security Manager OOB Address type Flag (0 = Public Address, 1 = Random Address) position. */

/**@brief Security Manager TK value. */
typedef struct
{
  uint8_t tk[BLE_GAP_SEC_KEY_LEN];   /**< Array containing TK value. */
} ble_advdata_tk_value_t;

/**@brief Advertising data LE Role types. This enumeration contains the options available for the LE role inside
 *        the advertising data. */
typedef enum
{
    BLE_ADVDATA_ROLE_NOT_PRESENT = 0,                                 /**< LE Role AD structure not present. */
    BLE_ADVDATA_ROLE_ONLY_PERIPH,                                     /**< Only Peripheral Role supported. */
    BLE_ADVDATA_ROLE_ONLY_CENTRAL,                                    /**< Only Central Role supported. */
    BLE_ADVDATA_ROLE_BOTH_PERIPH_PREFERRED,                           /**< Peripheral and Central Role supported. Peripheral Role preferred for connection establishment. */
    BLE_ADVDATA_ROLE_BOTH_CENTRAL_PREFERRED                           /**< Peripheral and Central Role supported. Central Role preferred for connection establishment */
} ble_advdata_le_role_t;

/**@brief Advertising data name type. This enumeration contains the options available for the device name inside
 *        the advertising data. */
typedef enum
{
    BLE_ADVDATA_NO_NAME,                                              /**< Include no device name in advertising data. */
    BLE_ADVDATA_SHORT_NAME,                                           /**< Include short device name in advertising data. */
    BLE_ADVDATA_FULL_NAME                                             /**< Include full device name in advertising data. */
} ble_advdata_name_type_t;

/**@brief UUID list type. */
typedef struct
{
    uint16_t                     uuid_cnt;                            /**< Number of UUID entries. */
    ble_uuid_t *                 p_uuids;                             /**< Pointer to UUID array entries. */
} ble_advdata_uuid_list_t;

/**@brief Connection interval range structure. */
typedef struct
{
    uint16_t                     min_conn_interval;                   /**< Minimum connection interval, in units of 1.25 ms, range 6 to 3200 (7.5 ms to 4 s). */
    uint16_t                     max_conn_interval;                   /**< Maximum connection interval, in units of 1.25 ms, range 6 to 3200 (7.5 ms to 4 s). The value 0xFFFF indicates no specific maximum. */
} ble_advdata_conn_int_t;

/**@brief Manufacturer specific data structure. */
typedef struct
{
    uint16_t                     company_identifier;                  /**< Company identifier code. */
    uint8_array_t                data;                                /**< Additional manufacturer specific data. */
} ble_advdata_manuf_data_t;

/**@brief Service data structure. */
typedef struct
{
    uint16_t                     service_uuid;                        /**< Service UUID. */
    uint8_array_t                data;                                /**< Additional service data. */
} ble_advdata_service_data_t;

/**@brief Advertising data structure. This structure contains all options and data needed for encoding and
 *        setting the advertising data. */
typedef struct
{
    ble_advdata_name_type_t      name_type;                           /**< Type of device name. */
    uint8_t                      short_name_len;                      /**< Length of short device name (if short type is specified). */
    bool                         include_appearance;                  /**< Determines if Appearance shall be included. */
    uint8_t                      flags;                               /**< Advertising data Flags field. */
    int8_t *                     p_tx_power_level;                    /**< TX Power Level field. */
    ble_advdata_uuid_list_t      uuids_more_available;                /**< List of UUIDs in the 'More Available' list. */
    ble_advdata_uuid_list_t      uuids_complete;                      /**< List of UUIDs in the 'Complete' list. */
    ble_advdata_uuid_list_t      uuids_solicited;                     /**< List of solicited UUIDs. */
    ble_advdata_conn_int_t *     p_slave_conn_int;                    /**< Slave Connection Interval Range. */
    ble_advdata_manuf_data_t *   p_manuf_specific_data;               /**< Manufacturer specific data. */
    ble_advdata_service_data_t * p_service_data_array;                /**< Array of Service data structures. */
    uint8_t                      service_data_count;                  /**< Number of Service data structures. */
    bool                         include_ble_device_addr;             /**< Determines if LE Bluetooth Device Address shall be included. */
    ble_advdata_le_role_t        le_role;                             /**< LE Role field. Included when different from @ref BLE_ADVDATA_ROLE_NOT_PRESENT.*/
    ble_advdata_tk_value_t *     p_tk_value;                          /**< Security Manager TK value field. Included when different from NULL.*/
    uint8_t *                    p_sec_mgr_oob_flags;                 /**< Security Manager Out Of Band Flags field. Included when different from NULL.*/
} ble_advdata_t;

/**@brief Function for encoding data in the Advertising and Scan Response data format
 *        (AD structures).
 *
 * @details This function encodes data into the Advertising and Scan Response data format
 *          (AD structures) based on the selections in the supplied structures. This function can be used to
 *          create a payload of Advertising packet or Scan Response packet, or a payload of NFC
 *          message intended for initiating the Out-of-Band pairing.
 *
 * @param[in]      p_advdata       Pointer to the structure for specifying the content of encoded data.
 * @param[out]     p_encoded_data  Pointer to the buffer where encoded data will be returned.
 * @param[in,out]  p_len           \c in: Size of \p p_encoded_data buffer.
 *                                 \c out: Length of encoded data.
 *
 * @retval NRF_SUCCESS             If the operation was successful.
 * @retval NRF_ERROR_INVALID_PARAM If the operation failed because a wrong parameter was provided in \p p_advdata.
 * @retval NRF_ERROR_DATA_SIZE     If the operation failed because not all the requested data could fit into the
 *                                 provided buffer or some encoded AD structure is too long and its
 *                                 length cannot be encoded with one octet.
 *
 * @warning This API may override the application's request to use the long name and use a short name
 * instead. This truncation will occur in case the long name does not fit the provided buffer size.
 * The application can specify a preferred short name length if truncation is required.
 * For example, if the complete device name is ABCD_HRMonitor, the application can specify the short name
 * length to be 8, so that the short device name appears as ABCD_HRM instead of ABCD_HRMo or ABCD_HRMoni
 * if the available size for the short name is 9 or 12 respectively, to have a more appropriate short name.
 * However, it should be noted that this is just a preference that the application can specify, and
 * if the preference is too large to fit in the provided buffer, the name can be truncated further.
 */
uint32_t adv_data_encode(ble_advdata_t const * const p_advdata,
                         uint8_t             * const p_encoded_data,
                         uint16_t            * const p_len);

/**@brief Function for encoding and setting the advertising data and/or scan response data.
 *
 * @details This function encodes advertising data and/or scan response data based on the selections
 *          in the supplied structures, and passes the encoded data to the stack.
 *
 * @param[in]   p_advdata   Structure for specifying the content of the advertising data.
 *                          Set to NULL if advertising data is not to be set.
 * @param[in]   p_srdata    Structure for specifying the content of the scan response data.
 *                          Set to NULL if scan response data is not to be set.
 *
 * @retval NRF_SUCCESS             If the operation was successful.
 * @retval NRF_ERROR_INVALID_PARAM If the operation failed because a wrong parameter was provided in \p p_advdata.
 * @retval NRF_ERROR_DATA_SIZE     If the operation failed because not all the requested data could fit into the
 *                                 advertising packet. The maximum size of the advertisement packet
 *                                 is @ref BLE_GAP_ADV_MAX_SIZE.
 *
 * @warning This API may override the application's request to use the long name and use a short name
 * instead. This truncation will occur in case the long name does not fit the provided buffer size.
 * The application can specify a preferred short name length if truncation is required.
 * For example, if the complete device name is ABCD_HRMonitor, the application can specify the short name
 * length to be 8, so that the short device name appears as ABCD_HRM instead of ABCD_HRMo or ABCD_HRMoni
 * if the available size for the short name is 9 or 12 respectively, to have a more appropriate short name.
 * However, it should be noted that this is just a preference that the application can specify, and
 * if the preference is too large to fit in the provided buffer, the name can be truncated further.
 */
uint32_t ble_advdata_set(const ble_advdata_t * p_advdata, const ble_advdata_t * p_srdata);

#endif // BLE_ADVDATA_H__

/** @} */


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Ya Udah Bistro > Blog & Updates > Expatriate Adventures > Hapless Aliens & Their Perilously Fun Times Part 5: Do not Think with the Dick
Hapless Aliens & Their Perilously Fun Times Part 5: Do not Think with the Dick
August 3, 2018 4:04 am Published by Yub Editor
Grub & grog are promptly ordered from the rich Ya Udah Bistro menu.
WE CONTINUE THE TALE OF THE FIVE ADVENTURESOME EXPATS IN JAKARTA
Once again, the dramatis personæ:
Droll Paul, very tall and very droll, a crooked English entrepreneur on the run from the authorities in Perth. A very leisurely Australian run actually, having to do with an awkward misunderstanding, one which could conceivably be interpreted as "fraud" were it unfortunate enough to be brought up in a court of law. Snooty, elegant and condescending, as well. Has a long bule nose and a management firm striving to impart mysterious advanced western corporate techniques to unsuspecting Indonesian start-ups [aka 'marks']. Looks down that long nose on the whole wide world. Basically a useless fuckwit selling useless shit. A 'character' (these are common in the East – particularly in Seminyak, where they are always trying to one-up each other). The others tolerate Paul, in spite of his manner – or rather, his lack of them). Why? Only God knows. Maybe just for fun.
Alan. Fresh, sweet, smart, fun Alan. He survived an insane Chinese-Indonesian gambling addict who attempted to have him killed for insurance money and a grinding ESL-teaching job at Bank Qabur. After that trial by fire he'll do fine, rolling with the punches.
Lulu is knocking them back. She is what is known in the trade as a 'serious drinker'. However, she is a solid citizen who pays her own way, tips the waitress fatly is entertaining and an all-around rewarding customer who knows how to hold her grog. She's been married and divorced in Kuwait and married and divorced in Kazakhstan and married and divorced in California to a serial line of [immensely wealthy] dummies, lambs she has shorn neatly in divorce court. Is she on the lookout for a new hubby in blissfully unaware Indonesia? Not likely, as by now with the alimony she's scraped off the hides of her various exes she could buy and sell just about all of the candidates. Watch her when she folds her folding money and stashes it in her purse: it's frightening. So what's she doing here? Oh she loves Indonesia. And it loves her (duit).
Brett is bad and he knows it. He grew up in a bad family living in a bad part of town. He likes Indonesia because folks here just assume a grumpy whitey is a bule gila and tolerate his moods. He actually tries to put a hold on 'the Bad' because otherwise sooner or later he'd be grabbed by the collar and given the bum's rush out of Indonesia toot sweet. But he's bad. Nobody likes him. Secretly, he envies everybody else, because they're happy and he's not. But don't expect him to show it. Brett is currently >ahem< 'out of work' (but everybody knows he's a notorious Remittanceman) ('stay-away-for-pay').
Hiroshi. First import-export… then 'event organizing'… then 'management consulting' for shady Japanese companies… no one was quite sure what purpose the smooth, handsome Japanese man, 40 and looking 14, served in life. Hiroshi was always expensively-dressed, drove a luxury European car, and was a polite and careful listener. He met personal questions with a beaming smile, and not much else.
'I only saw that Agnes one last time before she disappeared into that anonymity which aging bargirls seek out, either as the wives of ojek drivers or selling gorengan beside the wet market. Or they strike it rich and go settle down to a boring middle-class life as a housewife in Ratingen or Utrecht.
'It was when we all pitched in and helped out with the, what, the tsunami –'
'It was not a tsunami Paul. Just high waves.' Alan interjected, always a stickler for historical accuracy.
Paul frowned and continued 'Well yes yes but the effect Alan is not that much different when the waves come sweeping up from the deeps, not even slowing down for the beach or the palm trees that surround it, and they tear away all the lovely real estate that you have built up over decades.'
'Did the woman have flood insurance?' Hiroshi asked, thoughtful as ever. 'That place must have been worth a few billion.'
'Dear Agnes, from Manado. She was a superannuated sex worker, my friends, one who never bothered much with school or education'. Brett growled. 'I doubt if she even knew what "insurance" was after the fight with Earl's estranged family over the pile of assets he left behind – and she didn't make off with.'
He grunted 'I would have enjoyed being a fly on the wall at those meetings. Imagine them finding out that their über-successful engineering genius father had been cleaned out by a Jakarta hooker.'
'In fact, my understanding is that she was not a "lady of the night" Alan protested. 'Simply a "bad girl" who would not listen to her family or do what they wanted. So she started dating bules and got preggers.'
'Did Agnes love this oil worker – what, Earl?' a feminine voice interjected. Lulu was the secret romantic.
'She may have, at one point. But her family, you know. It's always the family, the family that interferes, plots and schemes. Greedy brothers and sisters and parents and relatives throw a monkey wrench into the works when the horny, love-starved expat comes into orbit around a local charmer.'
Alan persisted. 'Especially when the bule is thinking with his penis.'
Lulu frowned. 'Excuse me, but not having been endowed with one I do not understand how you can "think" with a penis. It has no brain.'
Paul chimed in. 'Well that's the problem, dear lady. It's all muscle and no brain. So its decisions are often horrendous.'
Alan was curious. He wanted to hear the story. 'Earl – it was "Earl", right? He met her in a bar, I understand. A club.'
Paul's eyebrows arched into the heavens. 'Oh not just a club, Alan my dear fellow. Tanamur. The place to see and be seen, smooch and be smooched, sucked, whatever, in the late 1970s. It was the club, the one that would hold 500 revellers and you could have fun with whatever sex you chose, male, female, in-between or uncertain, as long as you picked up the tab for it.'
Alan looked a bit mistrustful. 'He picked her up there and married her?'
'Not so fast there Billy-boy. First she had to work her not-inconsiderable charms on him, to show that she truly cared.
'The fact that she had a handsome eight-year-old son by a Scandinavian diplomat who had vanished into the blizzards was another factor. Earl met the boy and was impressed by him so deeply that he immediately agreed to pay for the boy's schooling.
'Kid is nearly 30 at this point. Computer genius. He's on track to be an internet millionaire by now, if he can stay out of jail.'
'What do you mean she "worked her charms" on the old guy?'
'Well look at it this way. Earl was from the Deep South. Alabama, East Texas, the Florida panhandle – all darkest Africa for those who've never been there. Knuckle-draggers. Beauty queens with at least five teeth. Those amazing sloped-back Neanderthal foreheads and widely-spaced eyes you get when cousins marry cousins marry cousins – '
'- and "daddy's little girl" "marries" daddy'.
Paul raised his palms in protest. 'But let's give Earl his due. He escaped the trap of the Deep South.
'After he graduated from Elmer Suggs Bible College and Chainsaw-Sharpening Emporium, he got his Engineering degree, never missed a beat and came out of Sam Houston Institute of Technology with a Ph.D. in Petrochemical.'
Lulu smiled knowingly. 'Real smart feller.'
Brett: 'Real fart smeller. Didn't know much about women apparently.'
'No, that's the sad truth. Married at 23 to–'
'Oh my God, a coon-ass.'
'Yep, from deepest darkest Lousy-ana. Belle of Baton Rouge.'
Droll Paul sighs, shrugs. 'The first marriage, with Juicy Lucy from Baton Rouge did not work out. One fine day, without a word, she emptied the joint bank account, unplugged the TV set – couldn't live without that – and hit the road. She beat it. Earl never saw her again. Or his TV.'
'Gone with the wind. Old Earl – he just rolled with the punches. Didn't miss a beat. Probably missed her but never complained.
'He walked into Humble Oil, talked turkey to the Drilling Manager, and within fifteen minutes had his first real job.'
'Boy that must have been aeons ago.'
'Yeah, the oilies are the dinosaurs of Kemang. Extinct species. Gone and forgotten. It's only places like Sportsman and the other bule bars that miss them.
He was in his 'lecture mode'. 'Humble Oil dates from 1911. Founded in Humble, Texas.'
Brett butted in. 'The one thing you can never say about a Texan is that he or she is "humble".'
'I remember what they used to say about Humble, the most hated name in the oil business: "I wouldn't walk across the street to piss on them if they were on fire".'
'Then the Rockefellers smelled success and bought shares. Eventually took over as 'Humble' became 'Esso' then 'Enco' before they got into a big fight with Sohio. Then it all became Exxon.
'Where the hell did "Exxon" come from? What an ugly fucking name.'
'I suspect a computer shit it out. The marketing jerks at Standard Oil confirmed that it did not mean anything naughty in any popular language so they kept it.'
'So our boy Earl rose rapidly in the business. He had also taken a degree in Business Administration along the way so he was able to close deals with clients around the world. So he ended up in the oil business in Indonesia, and Indonesia ended him up as well.'
'First week here his oilie mates took him to get laid in Tanamur. He thought he'd died and gone to Heaven. Unfortunately that is not how it all worked out.
'There, in the smoky darkness, he met Agnes. Agnes spoke surprisingly good [bar-girl] English, and was charming and good-looking – at least in the smoky darkness.
'It didn't matter. They eloped to a local No-Tell Motel together and the way she rogered Earl he thought he was 22 all over again.
'She wanted it again. He protested. "Once a king, always a king – but once a knight is enough" he pleaded. She didn't get it but could tell that the old fellow had shot his wad.
'I want to see you again' she smiled. 'I will take you to nice place around Jakarta. I show you our nice city. I pay everything!'
Earl didn't have to pause to consider. 'Little lady, that sounds fine' he purred, barely able to move after the fierce sex romp. She did not seem like any woman he had ever known. Which, when you come down to it, pretty much ended with Fanny Pearl Thibodeaux. Agnes had aroused more than lust in the weathered oilman. He felt a sense of curiosity.
'OK little lady, I'm all yours.'
Little did he know how 'all yours' he was to become.
THE UNLIKELY ROMANCE OF EARL & AGNES, TO BE CONTINUED…


Let the voices of local talent move and inspire you at this evening of performance poetry and music! On the last Friday of each month (in December, it will usually be the last Friday before Christmas). For upcoming dates visit our calendar.
Moving Voices is a space where you can share other songs and poems you've written, or ones you like.
You are also very welcome to just listen.
This event never fails to move us deeply, make us laugh, bring a tear to our eye and a smile to our lips.
If you would like to perform, please arrive between 7 & 7.30pm and speak to the host when you get here.
There will be a break around 9pm, so if you do arrive late we'll try to get you in for the second half. Performers, please keep your piece to around four minutes or less, so that there is time for everyone to participate. We usually have time for everyone to perform twice, if they want to.
The doors open at 7.30pm – the cafe is open right through from 11am so you can pop in beforehand and enjoy some supper or a snack.
Most events are held on our first floor, accessible by a wide staircase with a sturdy banner. Comformatable seating is provided. We regret that, due to space and other constraints, we are generally unable to relocate our events to the ground floor for those who require ground level access – so sorry.
Cost: This event is by 'Magic Hat' donation – we suggest £4/£5 as a guide amount.
Your donations are truly important and deeply appreciated, but the intention is that no one ever miss a meetup of this lovely group through lack of cash, so please never allow financial hardship to keep you away.
All donations help is to meet our runnings costs and continue to hold a space for emerging art.
Food & refreshments: There will be a licensed bar at this event selling yummy organic and fair trade drinks, as well as tea, coffee and soft drinks, snacks and suppers.
Other information: This event is suitable for adults and young people.


This page will link you to various wars fought in and around the Ancient Near East. The accounts are rather brief and do not purport to be an exhaustive treatment of the subject matter. Periodically, new articles will be added to this page.
The following links pertain to the Persian Wars. These wars should not be confused with Alexander the Great's conquests. The battles fought in the Persian Wars predated Alexander. At this time the Persians had already conquered all of the Ancinet Near East, including Egypt, and were intent on subduing the neighboring Greek mainland and expanding their empire throughout Europe.
The below links will let you experience the major campaigns of Alexander the Great from his rise to power in Greece after the death of his father, Phillip of Macedonia, his conquest of Mesopotamia and the entire Near East, and his excursion into India.
This concludes the tour of the War Room. I hope you enjoyed your visit. Please leave an email at my home page with your comments.


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Iraqi resilience shines through in Karakosh
It is three years since Islamic State militants were driven out of the northern city but the rebuilding process continues
Iraqi Christians attend a mass during a Christmas Eve celebration at al-Tahira al-Kubra Church in Karakosh in 2018. (Photo by AMMAR SALIH/EPA/MAXPPP)
By Amina Lahmar | Iraq
Five years ago, on the night of Aug. 6-7, 2014, Islamic State (IS) forces invaded the Christian city of Karakosh in northern Iraq, forcing its citizens to flee.
Christians and other minorities were finally able to return home after the Battle of Mosul in October 2016.
Faraj-Benoît Camurat, president of the Fraternity Association in Iraq, looks back on the tumultuous events that have shaped their lives in recent years.
La Croix: What is the situation of Christians and other minorities in Karakosh today?
Faraj-Benoît Camurat: There is a great diversity of situations. The city was 98 percent Christian in a total population of 50,000 inhabitants before the IS invasion. Only half of them are back.
Today the city is reviving and its services are more or less the same as before, whether it is the hospital or the administrative services. Commercial life is also returning to normal.
But some neighboring cities in the Nineveh plain are still almost empty, such as Tell Kaif and Batnaya.
Following the Iraqi referendum on the line of demarcation between the Iraqi federal government and the autonomous region of Kurdistan, Batnaya found itself divided between the two.
This has slowed things down a lot and hindered the reconstruction of the city. Before, it had several thousand inhabitants – but only five Christian families returned.
In Tell Kaif, north of Mosul, about 40 families returned out of more than 300.
In Bashiqa and Bahzani, despite the intensive mining by IS, it is estimated that 60 to 70 percent of the Yazidis have returned. They have already rebuilt five temples.
But even more than Christians, they are afraid to leave their villages. As for the Kakai, whose religion comes from Persian antiquity, they reside in the far east of the Nineveh plain. These territories were an important area of confrontation.
Being a rather isolated, close-knit and closed group, they chose to return en masse.
Some do not wish to return because they are afraid and because they hope to become refugees in another country, or because they have found more comfortable situations elsewhere.
What has been the state of minority relations with Sunni Muslims in the region?
Relationships will take time to be rebuilt.
Justice must be done to ensure that reconciliation is sustainable. Sunni tribes are also torn between those who have joined IS and those who have suffered it.
But there are also beautiful stories, such as Sunnis working with Yezidis and Christians. The resilience and resilience of these Iraqis make me deeply optimistic.
Today, however, everything is still to be done, and it will take time.
What are the Fraternity's actions in Iraq on the ground today?
Fraternity in Iraq has made economic recovery program its priority.
The aim is to enable displaced returnees to be active in its reconstruction, to restore employment and an economically viable future, and finally to enable minorities to take the first step by re-establishing contact with their Sunni neighbors.
Fraternity in Iraq also acted for the heritage.
When Karakosh was liberated, the priority was not churches but dwellings. However, we have had the mausoleum of Mar Behnam rebuilt, which bears the name of a Christian holy martyr, and is also a place of pilgrimage for the Yezidis and Muslims. This allows for exchanges and discussions.
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The Historic Vehicle Association in conjunction with the Society of Automotive Historians and the College of Charleston together with supporting sponsors will be presenting the Third International Driving History Conference. The same event last year received rave reviews and below you can read about some of the activities that made the conference so spectacular.
San Diego County and the Inland Empire now has its own chapter of the Society of Automotive Historians (SAH). For further details CLICK HERE.
Nick Georgano passed away in Guernsey where he had moved to in retirement. He authored or edited an astonishing array of books, over 60 titles published in the UK and the USA apart from many translations, ranging from modest Shire volumes to The Complete Encyclopaedia of Motorcars first published in 1968 and its ultimate successor The Beaulieu Encyclopaedia of the Automobile.
The SAH has added "digital member" to its list of member categories. A digital member has all SAH member rights and privileges, but all media and communication is delivered (via email) and available electronically (via the website: autohistory.org). For example, this means that a digital member receives the bimonthly SAH Journal and the Automotive History Review as downloadable PDF files via email and will not receive hard copies in the mail. However, the digital versions of these publications are available and sent while the printing process is underway, so the digital versions are not subject to the added time it takes to print, mail and deliver the printed versions. Annual digital membership, regardless of domicile, is $20.
Please note: while annual membership dues for North America (U.S. / Canada / Mexico) remains at $50, given ever increasing postage expenses, annual "Overseas" membership (all territories beyond U.S. / Canada / Mexico) has been set at $60.
Like all members, digital members have full access to the "members only" section of the website, which includes all the past issues of the SAH Journal and the Automotive History Review. From time-to-time the SAH produces a printed member directory—while digital members will not receive a printed copy, the website has a member directory with full search capabilities. If digital members wish to purchase a directory as well as issues of other SAH publications, they are available at their given price plus postage.
New Member Benefits (Publisher Discounts!): we are pleased to announce that our members can now purchase books from Veloce Publishers (see: veloce.co.uk) at a 35% discount, and books from Racemaker Press (see: racemaker.com) at a 15% discount. Just use your SAH member number when ordering. Recognizing that our members are car and book enthusiasts, we will try to add more publishers to this list.
Website Benefits: all members are entitled to access the "members only" section of the SAH website: autohistory.org. There, you will find portals to access all the issues of the SAH Journal and the Automotive History Review as well as other features, like the photos and images library; and the website will continue to expand its features and benefits.
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