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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
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Having noted the success of Disney's Mary Poppins, its 1964 Edwardian Era Musical, Metro Goldwyn Mayer sought three years later to re-establish its position as the leading purveyor of musical films by hiring The Sherman Brothers, the same song-writing team that had scored Poppins, to adapt another period piece into a big-budget musical extravaganza. The result was Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Caractacus Potts (an English inventor with an American accent played by Dick Van Dyke) rebuilds an old wreck of a race-car and makes a few slight improvements, such as giving it the ability to sail and to fly. With his kids, grandfather and the beautiful daughter of a candy mogul, Caractacus travels to the distant, vaguely mitteleuropäisch land of Vulgaria (location shooting for the film version was done around the Bavarian castle of Neuschwanstein and in the medieval town of Rothenburg-ob-der-Tauber), where they get in trouble with the country's Evil Aristocrat leaders who hate children, but like their car (hey, it's better than a Lada). Naturally, they steal both.
The book it's based on was written by Ian Fleming. Yes, that Ian Fleming. The movie itself was directed by Albert Broccoli of the same fame. Gert Fröbe, who played the Baron, also played Auric Goldfinger. Benny Hill was the Toymaker. Oh, and the screenwriter was Roald Dahl. Seriously, you can't make this stuff up.
Tropes used in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang include:
Absurdly Spacious Sewer: Under the castle.
Accidental Aiming Skills: The Baron tries to shoot his own wife when she gets launched into the air and held up with a Parachute Petticoat under the pretense he's trying to help her down. But he does succeed in popping her dress and having her land safely, much to his disappointment.
Ad Break Double Take: The Intermission is followed by a replay of the scene preceding it.
All Just a Dream: All the parts with Vulgaria and the car flying (except the very end) are a story Potts tells to his children while on a date with Truly.
Except in the stage musical, where we are expected to believe all this really happened.
Of course this introduces the Fridge Logic of how a mundane Chitty can fly at the very end if the rest was made up. What is the point of All Just a Dream if it there is no consistency?
Fridge Brilliance: Caractacus knew his car could fly all along. That was why he included it flying in his story.
Or Was It a Dream?
Amphibious Automobile
Anachronism Stew: The Baron's army includes knights in greathelms, Napoleonic cavalry, and late 19th-century riflemen. In what is, by best estimate, no earlier than 1913, and might actually be the 1920s.
Also, the costuming is definitely Edwardian, but the steamship, the zeppelin and the cars could conceivably be from the 1930s.
Aristocrats Are Evil: Baron and Baroness Bomburst, the leaders of Vulgaria.
Though averted hard with Truly Scrumptious, who is, well...
And played with in the case of her father, Lord Scrumptious, who comes across initially as a right bastard, but turns out to be Grandpa Pott's old commanding officer and a much nicer guy than he appeared.
Artistic License Physics: Yeah, yeah, we know, but... Two relatively small fabric wings and a pair of drone-sized rotors are not going to support a ton and a half of motorcar.
Attack! Attack! Retreat! Retreat!: The lone Vulgarian foot soldier following behind the cavalry, when the gates close behind him.
Auto Kitchen: Caractacus Potts has a Rube Goldberg Device breakfast-making machine as one of his many household inventions.
Awful Wedded Life: How the Baron seems to view his marriage to the Baroness, even though (other than her neurosis about aging, apparent dimness, and a certain moral flexibility about the fate of children) she doesn't seem to be all that bad and is quite devoted to him.
Bang Bang BANG: The tiny cannons Bomburst's forces use all make booming noises quite out of proportion to their size.
The Baroness: The Baroness.
Unlike most examples, this Baroness is in fact an actual baroness. She is married to a baron and lives in the capital of a barony.
Black Humor: Toward the end of the film, several characters are thrown into the lake near Neuschwanstein Castle. If you know the history of Neuschwanstein (there were several tragic drownings in that lake), this is a lot darker.
Blush Sticker: Truly and Caractacus wear small red circular stickers on their cheeks as part of their doll disguises during the Baron's birthday party.
Brick Joke: On the way back to Vulgaria, the two spies are thrown off the zeppelin when Baron Bomburst tries to lighten it. Later, we see the spies having swum all the way back, but because the Vulgarian people are fighting at the castle, they head back into the water to swim away.
Building Is Welding: The children peer in a window at one point to see Caractacus doing some welding on Chitty's frame early in the process of rebuilding it.
Bungling Inventor: Caractacus.
Car Song: The theme tune.
Child-Hater: Having been invented by Roald Dahl, Vulgaria naturally has its whole culture built (very illogically) around this. It's not a Country of Hats, though, because it came about only because of the Baroness' neurosis and is imposed on an unwilling population.
Childless Dystopia: Vulgaria.
Chroma Key: Used to make Chitty fly. You can see blue matte lines in some shots, especially around Jeremy and Jemima's hair and inside the see-through trim on Truly's hat.
Cliff Hanger: Chitty plunging off the White Cliffs of Dover just before the Intermission.
Cold Equation: Played for Laughs when the crew of the Baron's airship have to jettison excess weight in order to carry Grandpa's hut back to Vulgaria. (This occurs during Grandpa's song "Posh!".) After exhausting everything not critical to the airship's function, they toss the two spies overboard. (Non-fatally — the spies manage to swim back to Vulgaria just in time to see the Baron overthrown.)
Cool Airship: The baron's "zeppelin" (actually a blimp) has a pretty cool design.
Cool Boat: Chitty can float as well as fly. (Although technically, sea-going Chitty is a hovercraft.)
Cool Car: Guess...
Counterpoint Duet: "Truly Scrumptious/Doll on a Music Box" during the Baron's birthday party.
Crapola Tech: Caractacus has this problem with his inventions; it was so bad that it went all the way through and out the other side to being good for his "toot sweets", which became edible dog whistles.
Creation Sequence: A montage of scenes showing Caractacus's actions — often idiosyncratic and sometimes apparently silly — during Chitty's reconstruction.
Creator Backlash: For many years, Heather Ripley, who played Jemima, never talked about the movie because her parents divorced during its making and she blamed the film for it. However, her attitude towards this movie has become fonder now.
Dawson Casting: Truly Scrumptious was supposed to be in her twenties, though Sally Ann Howes was in her mid-thirties when she took the part.
Deliberately Monochrome: The Vulgarian villagers.
The Ditz: One gets the impression that the Baroness is more than a little dim; it's entirely possible that the ramifications of the anti-child law — ranging from the implied murder of children to the extinction of the Vulgarian population in a single generation — simply never occurred to her.
Driving Into a Truck: Lord Scrumptious is captured by being tricked, Looney Tunes-style, into driving up into the back of a truck.
Dystopian Edict: The Bombursts' law against children.
Eagle Land:
Spy 1: But I can speak English and still be Vulgar(ian).
Spy 2: That would make you an American.
The Edwardian Era
Ejection Seat: When Baron Bomburst commands Grandpa to make the eponymous car fly, Grandpa presses a button at random that sends the Baroness shooting skyward out of her seat. (See Parachute Petticoat, below.)
English Rose: Truly Scrumptious.
Failed a Spot Check: The children failing to notice that the candyman was the Child Catcher in a brightly-colored robe with a ribbon on his hat.
Everyone at the party who failed to notice little things like manacles being snapped around their ankles.
Fantastic Ghetto: The sewers in which the children are sequestered.
Fatal Method Acting: Narrowly averted. Robert Helpmann's dancing reflexes saved him when he was riding the Child Catcher's carriage and it turned on its side too quickly. Helpmann leapt off in time, amazingly unharmed.
Finish Dialogue in Unison: Grandpa Potts recounts one of his stories from India, saying "I got up this morning and I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he..." and his son Caractacus, with his two children, Jeremy and Jemima, finish the joke for him: "...ever got in my pajamas I shall never know." Grandpa nonchalantly replies, "You've heard it before." And everyone laughs.
Flying Car: Chitty, obviously.
Furthermore it's at least ten years before the invention of the first reliable helicopter, and yet Chitty has vertical propellers!
Chitty is an autogyro, not a helicopter.
Food Fight: Makes up a fair amount of the first stage of the rebellion against the Baron.
Gainax Ending: The ending has the Caractacus and Truly fly off in the car. Despite it already being revealed the car only had the ability to do that in the dream sequence.
Genre Adultery: Based on a children's book written by a man famous for gritty spy novels.
Gentleman Adventurer: Played with. Grandpa Potts thinks he's this trope, but he's really just insane.
More likely just eccentric, he never seems to take it seriously beyond the cosplay.
Gorgeous Period Dress
Have a Gay Old Time: "You'll find a slight squeeze on the hooter an excellent safety precaution, Miss Scrumptious."
Homemade Inventions: Caractacus's various devices. Some of the fun of them is noticing where he repurposed existing things — like silverware — to make parts for them.
Hubcap Hovercraft: Chitty's amphibious mode, which appears to be a genuine hovercraft.
Inferred Holocaust: Unusually, in the Backstory of the movie: It's never explicitly specified what the law against children was going to do about any children already in existence, but the very fact that their parents hid them away suggests that a "Massacre of the Innocents" was in the offing. Worse, that was by no measure an entire barony's usual population of tweens and teens living under the castle, even given how small Vulgaria seems to be — they are likely to be the survivors of an initial purge of children from the barony.
And afterward: The youngest children hidden under the castle are perhaps 10 or 12, which tallies with the Toymaker's line that the Bombursts' law against children was passed a decade or so earlier. Even assuming that the villagers took turns caring for them, how many infants died during the first months or years of their exile? What happened that no children younger than 10 or 12 are in evidence? It's unlikely that an entire barony has chosen celibacy for over a decade — so what happened to any babies born in that time? Or worse, any women who got pregnant?
Invasion of the Baby Snatchers: The Child Catcher, and more generally the Baron himself.
It Will Never Catch On: Among Caractacus's not-quite-working inventions are a prototype television and a vacuum cleaner.
Just Train Wrong: There is a brief shot of a train from the Great Western Railway. Except it's not, it's actually a rather poorly-disguised World War II-era "Austerity tank".
Let X Be the Unknown: One of the spies goes by the codename of "X". His superiors get confused and think they are speaking to Rex or Tex.
Mad Scientist: Not merely Caractacus himself (who, as his father says, is "Eccentric — definitely eccentric. Can't think where he gets it from!"), but also a collection of (rather grotesque) inventors forced by the Baron to work on a supercar for himself.
At least one of them was just a telephone repair guy whom the baron kidnapped.
Magic Bus: Chitty.
Man Child: Baron Bomburst, ironically.
Mean Character, Nice Actor: Believe it or not, Robert Helpmann, who played the terrifying Child Catcher, was extremely kind, especially towards the children.
Meaningful Name: Caractacus Potts. Dick Van Dyke himself once said it was just a long form for "crackpot".
Lampshaded in the case of Truly Scrumptious with the song that bears her name. ("By coincidence, Truly Scrumptious, you're truly, truly scrumptious.")
In-Universe, "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" is a descriptive name born of the sounds the car makes. (On the meta-level, it came from "Chitty Bang Bang", the name of several real race cars of the era, which was obscene (for the time) World War I slang about what soldiers do when they get their leave chits.)
Mr. Starship: Chitty. But this instance of the trope is not so much the fault of the audience as it is the fault of the main characters who endow Chitty as a character themselves. One may notice that the characters only take it so far; for example, they never refer to Chitty as 'he,' only as 'it.'
Names to Run Away From Really Fast: C'mon now? Bomburst? (Not to mention "Vulgaria"?)
Kids, NEVER TAKE SWEETS FROM A STRANGER, PARTICULARLY IF THAT STRANGER IS CALLED THE CHILDCATCHER.
Never Say "Die": It's never explicitly specified what the law against children intended to be done about the children already in the country, but given that their parents took the risk of hiding them all away under the Baron's castle, it's safe to assume they weren't going to be escorted to the border and given homes in the next country over.
Nice Job Breaking It, Herod: The Bombursts' law banning children only results in the children being hidden and learning survival skills that aid them in overthrowing the Bombursts years later.
No OSHA Compliance: The Scrumptious candy factory doesn't have handrails and has some of the boiling vats of sugar sitting on the edges...
The Nose Knows: The Childcatcher's huge nose lets him track people's scent.
Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Dick Van Dyke is in a movie set in England with English actors playing the other members of his family and he still uses his American accent. Of course, we all know what happened the last time he attempted a British accent.
Of Corsets Sexy: The Baroness
Oh Crap: At first, the children when they realize the Childcatcher has joined the battle. But then the Childcatcher himself when he realizes he's outnumbered.
Old-Timey Bathing Suit: Caractacus and the children, at the beach.
Paper-Thin Disguise: Liberally sprinkled throughout the second half of the film and always successful: The Pottses' and Truly's disguises as jacks-in-the-box, followed by the Child Catcher's disguise as a candyman, and finally Caractacus and Truly disguised as a marionette and a doll.
Parachute Petticoat: Happens to the Baroness when she is launched from Chitty's Ejector Seat.
Parenting the Husband: Baron and Baroness Bomburst. She buys the man toys, for God's sake, and coos over him as if he were a precocious, temperamental infant. (Which, admittedly, he totally acts like.)
Percussive Maintenance: When the giant music box that is given to the Baron as a gift for his birthday doesn't start up correctly, a swift kick from Caractacus gets it started again. Possibly a choreographed part of the whole performance, though, and thus a subversion.
Perfectly Cromulent Word: "Phantasmagorical". Which is, in fact, a real if somewhat obscure word that hasn't been in common usage since the 19th century.
Playing Gertrude: Lionel Jeffries, who plays Grandpa Potts, was actually six months younger than Dick Van Dyke.
Plunger Detonator: Complete with the Looney Tunes gag of the detonator exploding instead of the dynamite.
Prophetic Names: With an surname like Scrumptious is it any wonder Truly Scrumptious's father went into sweet production?
Punny Name: Truly Scrumptious
Also, Caractacus (say it really fast, and drop the "acus") Potts.
Possibly Lampshaded when Caractacus asks his children if they believe he's a crackpot.
Definitely Lampshaded when he admits to Truly that it's a silly name.
Ironically, despite Fleming's penchant for women with Punny Names in his Bond novels, Truly Scrumptious was invented by Roald Dahl. Lord "Skrumshus" didn't have a daughter in the novel.
Pushed in Front of the Audience: Mr. Potts at the fair lets this happen when he realizes it will hide him from the angry customer to whom he just gave a horrible haircut.
Recursive Adaptation: There was a Novelization by John Burke of the movie, scripted by Roald Dahl from the original book by Ian Fleming, since the movie script wasn't really close to the original at all. In it, all the scenes in Vulgaria are more explicitly said to be Potts' fantasies due to his inability to cope with the loss of his wife.
Right Under Their Noses: The villagers of Vulgaria hide their children in the subcellars and sewers under the Baron's castle.
Road Runner vs. Coyote: The sequence where the Vulgarian spies are trying to capture Chitty.
Robot Girl: Truly masquerades as one as part of the plan to overthrow the Bombursts.
Rube Goldberg Device: Pretty much everything in the Potts Household is set up this way, by Caractacus himself.
Running Gag: Truly ends up in a boggy pond whenever she's driving by the Pottses.
Ruritania: Vulgaria.
Scarily Competent Tracker: There's a reason he called the Childcatcher, His nose knows.
Sentient Vehicle: Chitty. First there's its "autopilot" mode while flying to Vulgaria. And then it drives itself into the castle to rescue the Pottses and Truly (and Grandpa).
Sesquipedalian Smith: Caractacus Potts.
Shipper on Deck: Jeremy and Jemima work very hard to get their dad Caractacus together with Truly.
Shout-Out: During breakfast, Grandpa Potts tells everyone "I got up this morning, and I shot an elephant in my pajamas.", making everyone say in unison "How it ever got into my pajamas, I shall never know."
Sickeningly Sweethearts: Played with. The lyrics and tempo of "Chu-Chi Face" make it sound like the Baron and Baroness are this trope. But throughout the song, the Baron makes repeated attempts to kill her while she (mostly) seems to remain oblivious.
Sinister Schnoz: The Child-Catcher.
The Sixties: The original novel was set in early-60s Britain, with the eponymous car being a vintage barn-find Caractacus bought because neither he nor anyone else in the Potts family wanted to be the twelfth family on the block with a black Morris Minor.
(May possibly be The Fifties combined with Did Not Do the Research: A highway mentioned early in the novel did not exist until the 1960s, but Fleming may not have known that.)
Spoiled Brat: The Baron, a rare adult version.
Spy Tux Reveal: When first deployed, the Vulgarian spies shuffle out of the water still wearing the ship's funnel disguises they wore on the baron's ship, and pull them off to reveal completely dry clothing underneath.
Steampunk: The movie has a steampunk sensibility, but Chitty is a 20th century gasoline-powered vehicle, and the mood is the very opposite of "punk". The novel is set in the 1960s and is definitely not steampunk.
The setting is still not "punk" but Dieselpunk might be a closer match for Chitty herself.
Swing Low, Sweet Harriet: Truly on her garden swing. Rrrrowrrr...
Those Magnificent Flying Machines: Chitty and the Baron's blimp. Early in the film, Caractacus attempts to build a set of rocket wings, as well. Epic Fail.
Thrown From the Zeppelin: Happens literally to the two spies when they need to lighten the load on the baron's zeppelin.
Too Dumb to Live: The children are told point blank about the Child Catcher, ordered to stay put, and not to go outside no matter what...and they still go running after him with the call of sweets in hand.
The worst of it is that they had seen the Child Catcher before and yet they were fooled by his Paper-Thin Disguise.
Trap Door: Baron Bomburst tries to dispose of his wife through one.
Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: The baron and Baroness.
Vehicle Title: If you don't know by now...
Very Loosely Based on a True Story: The episode of the two spies dressed as "English gentlemen" may be based on a World War II story in which two German spies were apprehended in the fen-country of Norfolk because (having been misled by P. G. Wodehouse and other similar English authors) they had attempted to pass as Englishmen by wearing spats and top-hats, both unsuitable to the terrain and hopelessly out of fashion by the 1940s.
Caractacus is reputed to be partially based on Henry Leland.
Chitty itself is based on several actual early race cars which all bore the name "Chitty Bang Bang". See the trivia page for a bit more information.
Villain Love Song: "You're my little chuchi face!".
We Don't Need Roads: This might actually be the Ur Example of this trope. The major premise was basically "Check out this car: it can fly."
Yes-Men: The baron's advisers/court is made up entirely of these.
Zeppelins from Another World: One of the signs that we're in the fantasy world of Caractacus's story is the extremely fanciful design of the Vulgarian "zeppelin" (which is actually a blimp, as it does not possess a rigid frame supporting and defining the gas bag).


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//IBM_PROLOG_BEGIN_TAG

//IBM_PROLOG_END_TAG

#ifndef _ADAL_SCAN_TYPES_H_
#define _ADAL_SCAN_TYPES_H_

#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdint.h>
/* ioctl commands */
#define IOCTL_GETOFFSET		0x0002
#define IOCTL_WRITEREG		0x0005
#define IOCTL_READREG		0x0006
#define IOCTL_RESET		0x0007
#define IOCTL_GETTRACE		0x0008
#define IOCTL_WRITESCAN		0x0009
#define IOCTL_READSCAN		0x000A
#define IOCTL_SETERRORMASK_SCAN	0x000B
#define IOCTL_SHIFT_DMA		0x000C
#define IOCTL_CCR0		0x000D

/* types of shift operation */
#define ADAL_SHIFT_SCOM		0x0
#define ADAL_SHIFT_SCAN		0x1

/* types of scan operation */
#define ADAL_SHIFT_SCAN_READ	0x0
#define ADAL_SHIFT_SCAN_WRITE	0x1
#define ADAL_SHIFT_SCAN_MOD	0x2

/* types of scom operation */
#define ADAL_SHIFT_SCOM_READ		0x3
#define ADAL_SHIFT_SCOM_WRITE		0x4
#define ADAL_SHIFT_SCOM_BULKREAD	0x5
#define ADAL_SHIFT_SCOM_BULKWRITE	0x6
#define ADAL_SHIFT_SCOM_MOD_OR		0x7
#define ADAL_SHIFT_SCOM_MOD_AND		0x8

/* all registers within SCAN ENGINE */
#define SCAN_FIFO_REGISTER 0x00
#define SCAN_COMMAND_REGISTER 0x01
#define SCAN_FRONT_END_LENGTH_REGISTER 0x02
#define SCAN_RESET_REGISTER 0x06
#define SCAN_STATUS_REGISTER 0x07
#define SCAN_EXTSTATUS_REGISTER 0x08
#define SCAN_CHIP_ID_REGISTER 0x09
#define SCAN_COMP_MASK_REGISTER 0x0C
#define SCAN_TRUE_MASK_REGISTER 0x0D
#define SCAN_SHIFTCRTL_REGISTER 0x10
#define SCAN_PIBERR1_REGISTER 0x11
#define SCAN_PIBERR2_REGISTER 0x12

#define SCAN_ERRP_REGISTER	0x21
#define SCAN_RS_REGISTER	0x1C
#define SCAN_CMDOP_REGISTER	0x1B
#define SCAN_CMPMSK_REGISTER	0x1A

#define SCANRESETFULL 0x02
#define SCANRESETLIGHT 0x01

/* valid OPTIONS */
/* default 0x00000000 is: */
/* HEADERCHECK */
/* NO SETPULSE */
/* NO SCAN via PIB engine */

#define SCANHEADERCHECK   0x00000000
#define SCANNOHEADERCHECK 0x00000001
#define SCANNOSETPULSE    0x00000000
#define SCANSETPULSE      0x00000002
#define SCANNOEXTRAACLOCK 0x00000000
#define SCANEXTRAACLOCK   0x00000004
#define SCANNOEXTRABCLOCK 0x00000000
#define SCANEXTRABCLOCK   0x00000008
#define NOSCANVIAPIB      0x00000000
#define SCANVIAPIB        0x00000010

/*! @struct	ioctl_scan_register
 * use this struct to read or write register
 */
typedef struct ioctl_scan_register
{
        unsigned long address;
        unsigned long value;
} ioctl_scan_register_t;

/* changed with CR092 */
typedef struct ioctl_scan_readwrite
{
        char * userbuffer;
	int chainAddress;
        size_t bitlength;
        unsigned long options;
        unsigned long status;
        unsigned long aiostatus;
        unsigned long isAio;
} ioctl_scan_readwrite_t;

#define BITMAP_ACTION_MASK	0x0FF	/*!< action(s) to take on series */
#define BITMAP_ACTION_COPY	0x000	/*!< action: copy bits */
#define BITMAP_ACTION_INVERT	0x001	/*!< action: invert bits */
#define BITMAP_ACTION_FILL	0x002	/*!< action: fill with dummy bit */

#define BITMAP_DIRECTION_MASK	0x100	/*!< series processing direction */
#define BITMAP_DIRECTION_FWD	0x000	/*!< series is processed forward */
#define BITMAP_DIRECTION_BKWD	0x100	/*!< series is processed backward */

#define BITMAP_DUMMY_BIT_MASK	0x200	/*!< filler bit to use in filler action */
#define BITMAP_DUMMY_BIT_ZERO	0x000	/*!< fill with zero */
#define BITMAP_DUMMY_BIT_ONE	0x200	/*!< fill with one */

typedef struct bitmap {
	unsigned long offset;	/*!< offset into scanned bits */
	unsigned long length;	/*!< length of the series to process */
	unsigned long flags;	/*!< how the bits should be processed */
} bitmap_t;

typedef struct scan_op {
	uint8_t type;		/*!< type of operation : READ, WRITE, MOD */
	uint32_t chain_address;	/*!< chain address */
	uint32_t bit_length;	/*!< front end length */
} scan_op_t;

/* @struct	scom_oper
 * oper because of conflict of names in types.h in adal_scom
 */
typedef struct scom_oper {
	uint8_t type;		/*!< type of operation : READ, WRITE, BULKREAD,
					BULKWRITE */
	uint64_t address;	/*!< address */
	uint32_t size;		/*!< size of data in words :
					if we want 1 read/write - size = 2,
					 m = n * 2, when 'm' size, 'n' - count of
					 read/write. */
} scom_op_t;

typedef struct shift_op {
	uint8_t type; /*!< type of shift operation : SCAN, SCOM*/
	uint32_t flags;
	uint32_t *data;
	uint32_t gid;
	union {
		scom_op_t scom_op;
		scan_op_t scan_op;
	} op;
} shift_op_t;

/*! @struct	shift_stream
 * Singly linked list with shift_op and with gid of operation
 * for better searching.
 */
typedef struct shift_stream {
	shift_op_t *shift_op;		/*!< operation */
	uint32_t *gid;			/*!< &(op->gid) */
	struct shift_stream *next;	/*!< next element of stream */
} shift_stream_t;

#endif

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Tuesday, June 25 at 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, June 27 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, June 29 at 8 p.m.
The Seligman Performing Arts Center, 22305 West Thirteen Mile Rd.
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Use your Wii Remote as a game controller.
But before we get into the details of doing so, here are some materials that you will need before we get started.
A few free programs for the Wii Remote that will be discussed in detail later.
A few warnings to consider: This guide is written for those who have PCs only. If you have a Mac or other operating system, this guide will is not for you. The instructions and pictures will be specifically for Windows 10, since that is the operating system I am running. Older versions can attempt to follow along, however there is no guarantee that the process I go through will be the same as yours.
Depending on your system, you will need to either download the Windows 64-bit version or 32-bit version.
Note that both downloads will be in a zip file, so create a folder to hold the files.
If you have a 64-bit version of Windows and/or receive an error when trying to connect your Wii Remote, move on to the next step. Otherwise, the next step may be skipped.
NOTE: This step can be skipped if you do not have Windows 64-bit or do not receive the driver signature error.
Because this driver was not made by Microsoft, your PC will not recognize it. In order to bypass this, we will need to disable driver signature enforcement.
1. In the Windows search bar, search "recovery" without the quotes and select "Recovery options".
3. After restarting, click the "Troubleshoot" button -> "Advanced Options" -> "Startup Settings".
4. Click "Restart" and when prompted press the key "7" to "Disable driver signature enforcement".
Now, your Windows will seem to start and run normally, the only difference now is that driver signature is disabled, meaning we can now use our drivers that we downloaded, until we restart our computer. We can now move on to the next step.
Every time you would like to connect your Wii Remote, you will have to do this whole process again. If you would like to disable driver signature enforcement permanently, you can do so by following the steps below.
3. Press enter and restart your computer.
So, with the drivers all downloaded and your PC off of driver signature enforcement (for 64-bit only), now all we need to do is connect your Wii Remote to your PC!
1. Run the "TinyInstaller.exe" to install the actual driver. Note: Admin rights are needed to run this program.
2. Afterwards, check in your programs and features to see if the driver installed correctly. Check to see if the program shows up in the list as shown in the picture above. (Search "program and features" in the Windows search bar) Note: If you ever want to uninstall this driver, you can do so here.
4. Turn on your Bluetooth and keep this window open.
5. Turn your Wii Remote over and click the red sync button.
7. If prompted for a passcode, click next without typing any numbers, then cancel. The Wii Remote should connect afterwards.
8. Take a look at your Wii Remote. If the lights look similar to the picture above, then your Wii Remote is successfully paired! If it does not have lights and it says it is paired in the Bluetooth settings, remove the device from the Bluetooth setting and try connecting it again.
Now that our Wii Remote is connected to our PC, lets use another program to map out the Wii Remote inputs as keyboard inputs so that it will work PC games.
3. After downloading my profile, place it in the same location as the JoyToKey program.
4. Open JoyToKey. You will see on the left column a profile called Wii Remote Game. If you do not, make sure that the .cfg file you downloaded from me is in the same location as the JoyToKey program, and reopen JoyToKey.
5. The profile I provided is a basic template for providing your own inputs. You can see on the right column I did the basic Up, Down, Left, Right arrows, corresponding to their respective arrows on the keyboard. The other buttons I left blank, for you to decide.
6. Lets say a game requires you to jump with the "Z" key, and we want to jump by pressing "1". Double click the row named Button1.
7. Make sure you are in the "Keyboard" tab, and click on the first "Disabled" rectangle you see. It should highlight yellow, meaning you can now do any input on your keyboard and it will map to whatever button you chose, in this case it was "1". Type Z, and you should see Z show up in the box.
8. Change the other buttons (1,2,+,-,A,B) to those that match your game settings.
So we have our Wii Remote formatted to be used as a game controller. What if we wanted to use it as a mouse?
2. Place it in the JoyToKey folder.
4. On the left column, select the "Wii Remote Mouse". (Note: Left clicking the profile name will change between profiles after minimizing JoyToKey).
5. Minimize the JoyToKey program. You should be able to use the Wii Remote as a mouse now! Hold it like you would hold a TV remote, and use the DPad to move the mouse up and down, the A button to left click, B button to right click, and Minus button to Alt+Tab. This profile is very basic. You can add more to it and tweak it to your liking by changing the settings.
6. Open JoyToKey and double click on any of the functions that control the mouse movement.
7. From the top left, the slider determines left and right movement of the mouse. So sliding it to the left will make the mouse move left, and if you slide it far left the mouse will move far to the left when pressing the left Wii Remote button. Similarly, the vertical column determines up and down movement of the mouse. Below you can see mouse clicks, such as left click and right click. Any of these can be mapped to the Wii Remote. The rest of the settings are up to you to explore and experiment!
There is a way to reconnect the wiimote to pc or i have to pair it again?
Wow, for some weird reason my wiimote would pair, but wouldn't connect...I finally got it working. This was very tricky so probably better to read whole thing and do what it says rather than stopping and wondering its not working, cause this isn't do 1 thing and works, results for me didn't show up til I did literally everything, and messed around. If you did everything a good restart should help. Took a good hour or so. I could have avoided the first half of failures if I just kept reading. But later it was still finicky.
Will the wii remote still be linked to the wii itself? Because I also want to use it for the wii itself.
You can still connect it normally back to the wii. I haven't tried using it with both the wii and pc at the same time, but i am sure that the wii remote will only connect to one device at the same time.
Awesome, I'll have to try this out, can you use a Nunchuck with this method?
Yep! After connecting your Wii Remote via Bluetooth, you can connect your Nunchuck to it and it'll work; you can also map out any inputs from the mouse/keyboard on the Nunchuck using the JoyToKey.
Yep! You can do so through the Joy2Key program.
Do you know anything about connecting it along with a Guitar Hero guitar? I've paired it before (with GlovePie), but I'm looking for a simpler/more efficient way to do it.
Hi! I just tried connecting it to my Guitar Hero guitar after connecting my Wii Remote normally via Bluetooth (using the method I described) and it worked! On the JoyToKey program it registered all the buttons I pressed.
Joy2Key is VERY rudimentary when it comes to remapping things, especially for a Wiimote. Look into GlovePIE (https://glovepie.en.softonic.com/) for a similar utility that is intended for use with the Wiimote; you can setup actual pointer functions using the motion controls, instead of the clunky d-pad to move the mouse cursor. It also supports as far back as WinXP, so no Windows10 requirements. As well, many (properly made) games and software don't require specific drivers or remap utilities; depending on your desired function, they may not be necessary at all. Something like Dolphin emulator will do its own mapping of controls, without using Joy2Key or GlovePIE at all.


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Bringing Trauma to Your Mobile
by: Nancy Baym
I am just back from a very inspiring weekend attending the Futures of Entertainment 3 conference hosted by the Convergence Culture Consortium. One of the most exciting elements was getting to hear directly from several media producers who are doing fascinating transmedia "world building" projects in association with their television shows and movies.
One example was Lance Weiler (seen on the far left), director of the horror film Head Trauma, recently named one of the 18 People Who Changed Hollywood by Business Week magazine. He spoke about extending Head Trauma beyond the film (transcribed by Xiaochang Li on the C3 weblog — click through to read the whole panel discussion):
The movie is about the fragmentation of memory, a guy who comes back home after 20 years to settle his grandmother's estate and finds it inhabited by squatters; he hits his head and starts having recurring nightmares that start to turn into reality. So we started to play with what's real and what isn't. We started with interactive comics and there were all kinds of easter eggs and rabbit holes as you moved through it.
We interjected mobile experiences so when the movie had a world premiere we handed out these Jack Chick-style comics and there were ciphers and clues within them. On the back it asks "do you want to play the game?" and when you called the number that's there you'd get the nemesis of the movie; they'd hang up and then we'd call or text them back. This continued back and forth. Even when you went to the website, we could figure out that you were on there and call you during your visit to it. Throughout the premiere there was a whole give and take with phones - about 86% of the audience was engaged mobilely.
And we had an online series with all these subliminal things in it, and there was a remix area, where people could remix their own fragments. At one point when people showed up somewhere based on the clues in the game for a secret movie showing I ended up calling the LAPD and they came by with the helicopter and I executed all these SMS and phone calls saying things like "We're watching you!"
They built a fake exit box into the website associated with the game so that when people tried to get out of the site they instead got a telephone call that said "Where do you think you're going?"
Creepy.
But wow.
There are many things to admire about this, but I was particularly struck by the integration of film, internet, telephone, and face-to-face encounters.
I will write more about the event in the coming days, but if you just can't wait, check out the thorough coverage of every panel on the C3 blog here.
Original Post: http://www.onlinefandom.com/archives/bringing-trauma-to-your-mobile/
future, entertainment, conferences, Nancy Baym

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There are writer's writers. And there are chef's writers. Michael Ruhlman is in the latter group. By way of his earlier books "The Making of a Chef" and "The Soul of a Chef," narratives about the education and ascendance of America's culinary elite, as well as collaborations with the überchefs Thomas Keller ("The French Laundry Cookbook") and Eric Ripert ("A Return to Cooking"), he has won access to their kitchens and their confidences.
In "The Reach of a Chef," Ruhlman pulls back the curtain as American chefs are "stepping out of their monk's robes, slipping off their clogs and donning pairs of hand-stitched John Lobb loafers." It seems a great change has come since 1996, when Ruhlman the writer enrolled at the Culinary Institute of America to become Ruhlman the chef.
To tap the zeitgeist, he takes a once-more-around-the-block approach, revisiting subjects from his previous books, asking a variety of linked questions including "Where had the artist gone, the figure the American restaurant-going public most adored?" and "What did it mean to be a chef?"
The issue is that chefs like Keller and Emeril Lagasse are no longer leashed to their ranges: "The best in the country scarcely cooked anymore as a direct result of their success at cooking."
Instead of cooking, chefs have opened fast-casual chains, pursued television deals, hawked toothpaste. "A meeting with the chef's lieutenant can now mean not the sous-chef but rather the brand consultant," Ruhlman writes. "The kitchen door had opened on a grand, exciting and mysterious vista. Some chefs had already left the kitchen for the land of milk and honey, and most of the rest craned their necks to see what was out there."
Ruhlman has great affection for his subjects. He feels the pain they feel after working the line from 5 in the afternoon until midnight. He knows the secret joys of their jobs: "When you're cooking you're kind of eating in your mind the whole time." And he knows their secret dependencies: "To serve the kind of food that has earned worldwide acclaim, Keller . . . has to rely on all parts of the globe — and a company called FedEx, which has probably done more to change what we eat in American fine-dining restaurants than any other."
Empathy, however, can beget coziness. Of Keller, his apparent muse, Ruhlman writes, "His cookbooks were so lavish that they were sometimes criticized for being too fine (and too big) to actually use. Like everything Keller put his hand to, they seemed sprinkled with magic dust and sold in big numbers." At first blush the sentiment registers as merely overwrought. And then you check the promotional material and realize that Ruhlman helped to write those books.
Ruhlman is a gusher. He declares his experience at Keller's French Laundry to be "right up there with losing my virginity, if not actually divine in some small way." And he can go cornball quick. Of Grant Achatz, the Keller protégé then at the helm of a suburban Illinois restaurant, now piloting his own postfusion Chicago boîte, Ruhlman writes: "Grant was trying to go where no one else had gone before. He was a young culinary James T. Kirk and Trio was his Enterprise."
No matter his faults, Ruhlman serves his readers. The "cooking-struck, chef-adoring, restaurant-crazy consumers" get a behind-the-curtain pass to what may prove to be America's theatrum mundi. And culinary professionals get a portrait of life on and off the line at a time when the "frontier for the modern American chef was largely uncharted territory. And the chef was out of balance."
John T Edge is the author of "Donuts: An American Passion."


The hit free-to-play action MMORPG Elsword, invites players on a completely new hell-raising experience as the popular Event Dungeon, Gate of Darkness, receives a total overhaul. Created as a portal to Elrios, it's up to Elsword's team to thwart the denizens of the darkest realms from entering Elrios. It's now up to players to close the Gate of Darkness by attacking the gate itself in an all-out epic battle.
Groups of dungeon crawlers will be randomly selected to enter the mysterious Gate of Darkness once a boss monster is slain; it's then that evil will pour from the Gate of Darkness to attack and enter Elrios through a Dimension Portal that must be protected at all costs. However, this feat can not be done alone! If a party has less than four members, a special group of heroes will also join the fight.
How will players take on an army from hell . by fighting back with an army of their own! Strategically summon monsters of different types to battle the demons with varying offense and defense characteristics, and no infernal assault on Elrios is complete without a fiendish overlord of unimaginable power. Will our heroes be vanquished when the ultimate evil steps through the Gate, or will Elrios summon a champion of her own to help our heroes? Victors will be rewarded handsomely with amazing Gate of Darkness prizes including new armor, new weapons and more.
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NCSOFT today announced that Lineage II's latest expansion, Helios, is now live for all players.


I also have an ebooks TBR, an audiobook TBR and a Scribd TBR. Not to mention the library holds I pick up every week.
When your TBR piles are so big you know you don't have much of a chance of getting through them all unless you swear off adding new books to your to-read lists for the next ten years or so (and I know lots of you know exactly what I'm talking about here), what do you when you feel the urge to reread a book?
Every now and then, this happens to me. Despite all these new, unread books beckoning to me, calling out my name, almost but not quite reaching out to wrap their bookish arms around me, I suddenly think of a much loved older read and I want nothing more than to cuddle up in my reading chair, snacks at hand, and re-read to my heart's content.
Sometimes I give in. And sometimes I resist. But it's always such a dilemma every time this happens.
Emily of New Moon, by L.M. Montgomery. Because I was on Twitter the other night when the #womeninfiction hashtag came up and I immediately thought of Emily.
The Forever King, by Molly Cochran and Warren Murphy. Because I was reading The Camelot Kids for a book tour, and The Forever King is one of the best urban fantasy King Arthur novels I've read.
Pride & Prejudice, by Jane Austen. Because I always want to re-read Pride & Prejudice, at least a few times every year. Despite this, it's been nearly ten years since my last re-read of it.
Make Way for Lucia (The Mapp and Lucia books), by E.F. Benson. Because I received an email a while ago from author Guy Fraser-Sampson who has written some sequels to the Mapp and Lucia books (and this reminds me, I never emailed him back—this was way back when I was at inbox 1000 and non-essential emails were getting lost all over the place). What really bugs me, though, is I went hunting for my copy of Make Way for Lucia and couldn't find it. And I suspect it accidentally got placed in the books-to-give-away pile when we made our big move to the city four years ago.
Any of the Bill Bryson travel books (I have all of them). Because I read this post from the Guardian Books blog about Bryson's forthcoming new release, The Road to Little Dribbling, and suddenly I wanted to sit with one of his books and spend the night smiling and laughing with his words.
The Good Soldier, by Ford Madox Ford. Because I read an article about this book recently (I can't remember where or even what the article was about specifically) and this happens to be one of the few classics (that's not a play) that I really enjoyed when I was in school.
Where'd You Go, Bernadette, by Maria Semple. Because Candace happened to mention on Twitter a few weeks ago how amazing the audio version is, so now I really really want to listen to it in audio.
So there you go. My ongoing rereading dilemma. Out of all these books I've just mentioned, I know I'm going to do a reread of Where'd You Go, Bernadette in audio (I put a hold on it at the library as soon as I heard how good the audio is), and I am *this* close to rummaging around for the first Emily book. And the others? They're still tugging at my heart.
What about you? Do you like to re-read books? Do you ever feel that re-reading dilemma?
This entry was posted in Books and Reading and tagged comfort reads, rereads on March 26, 2015 by Belle Wong.
I'm off on a weekend trip to Montreal with my sister – it will be a real foodie weekend, and I'm looking forward to good eating and some nice sisterly bonding. My sister and I have never travelled together before, so I'm really looking forward to our weekend away. Plus, she's an event planner, and as you might expect, everything's all arranged – room booked, reservations made, market and shopping plans in place!
We're driving there (I say "we" but of course, I mean my sister's doing the driving) and while we'll be doing a lot of chatting along the way, I plan to spend a bit of time listening to audiobooks, too.
After I put together my list of potential listens, I realized I'd selected "Comfort Re-reads". Which makes sense, because I'll only be listening sporadically, and I don't really want to be in the middle of a thriller of a read and have to keep stopping to, you know, be social and talk. But with a comfort re-read, it's easy to turn the iPod off when necessary, and just as easy to turn it back on and slip right back into where I last left the story.
My son and I have been listening to Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban at night before he goes to bed, which has made me really want to reread the rest of the books in audio – again. I actually started Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire tonight, while I was packing. It's a great comfort read, and so nice to be back in the world of Harry Potter.
But if I get tired of Harry Potter (okay, not likely to happen but I want to be prepared), next on my list is the first book in the His Dark Materials series: The Golden Compass, by Philip Pullman. It's been a while since I've read the series, and I've never done them in audio, either. I'm thinking they'll make a good re-read in audio.
My final pick (only three books, I know – but I'm only going away for the weekend!) is a bit problematic. The last time I read Roger Zelazny's Amber Chronicles was many, many years ago, when I was still in university – as in, pre-kids (and my two oldest are both in university themselves now, so it was really quite a few years ago). I'm not too sure it really counts as a comfort re-read – I suspect, my memory being what it is, it will feel more like an almost new read.
The Great Book of Amber contains all ten books in the series; I was thinking I'd get to it this summer, but we're already halfway through the summer and I haven't even started yet. So maybe I'll get started with the audio version of the first book.
Although, I probably won't, not this weekend!
What about you? When you go on holiday, especially holidays involving road trips, what kind of audiobooks do you like to bring along for the ride?
This entry was posted in Books and Reading and tagged Amber Chronicles, audiobooks, comfort reads, fantasy, Harry Potter, His Dark Materials, these will definitely make the drive feel shorter on July 19, 2013 by Belle Wong.
I fell in love with Pinterest a few months ago, and have been madly pinning away ever since. In addition to lots of other, non-bookish things, I have a board called Bookish Things where I pin all the awesome bookish stuff that delights my little bibliophile heart.
But recently, I've discovered a few more fun bookish ways to use Pinterest. My favourite so far? Pinning my TBR!
Check out my board, The Ever-expanding TBR Pile. Isn't it a great little bookish board? What I love is being able to see my to-read list visually. It's SO beautiful!
And best of all, I pin a lot of books directly from my favourite book bloggers' review posts – this means when I write about the books I'm reading or have read, I can link directly to those who are to blame for adding to my TBR pile the reviews which persuaded me to add the book to my to-read list. I've tried many ways in the past to keep track of who recommended what, as I like to give credit where credit is due; pinning my TBR pile does this fabulously for me.
I also have a Pinterest board for books read (or currently reading) in 2012. It's on the sparse side right now, but just being able to pin a book on my board once I'm done is proving to be very motivating when it comes to my reading goal.
And just yesterday, I started boards for Rave-Worthy Reads and Comfort Reads. I've only pinned a few books so far, but it's been fun thinking about what books I've loved in the past few years, and what books qualify as comfort reads for me.
Bottom line? I think Pinterest is such a great way to spread the news about great books!
What about you? Do you use Pinterest for bookish pinning?
This entry was posted in Books and Reading and tagged comfort reads, pinning my TBR, Pinterest, rave-worthy books, TBR on January 23, 2012 by Belle Wong.
I'm just tickled to be hosting this 42nd Bookworms Carnival! Thank you to everyone who sent in their links on such short notice.
I chose the topic of Comfort Reads because there are always those times in life when a much-loved, well-read book is exactly what I need, and I'm hoping you all feel the same, too.
The desire for a spot of comfort reading hits me most often during the winter: usually at night, when it's toasty warm inside and bitterly cold outside. I look at my special reading armchair and thoughts of a good, familiar book and a mug of hot tea come to mind.
I've enjoyed seeing the titles my fellow bloggers turn to when they're up for some comfort reading; there are many old favorites of mine in the group, plus some new titles that of course I've now added to my list of books to get my hands on. All I can say is, it's a good thing Christmas is just around the corner!
Ah, the classics! I have quite a few classics on my own list – especially Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, A Room with a View, by E. M. Forster, and The Good Soldier, by Ford Madox Ford. Only one person submitted a classic, but it's a lovely one for reading on a cold night, all warm and cozy in front of the fire.
Heather from Age 30+ … A Lifetime of Books submitted Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë. If you're like me, whenever you think of Wuthering Heights you think of Heathcliff. I also tend to think of dark and glowering brows, too! Heather has included a great detailed list of the cast of characters that does a wonderful job of refreshing your memory about this classic if it's been a while since you've read it.
There's something about a good fantasy that gives that old favorite one an edge when it comes to being a comfort read. I think it's because the world you dip into is so different and all-encompassing (with the best fantasies, anyway), that you literally are swept away for those few hours you're re-reading.
Heather submitted as another comfort read, Mists of Avalon, by Marion Zimmer Bradley, one of my own favorite reads. I've always had a fondness for retellings of the King Arthur story, and I read this when I was a teen and just adored it. Heather says, "I guess I'd have to say that if you DO find it challenging, it is VERY worth the effort you put into it. For me, this is a "must read" for just about everyone." And I agree totally!
Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series is another series I turn to in my own comfort reading, so I was pleased to see it showing up in the submissions. Zee at Notes from the North recommends listening to the Dragonsinger series in audio, which sounds like a great idea. Jemi at Just Jemi has also included the Pern series in her list of comfort reads, and I am in complete agreement with her! I recently bought the first three books in the series in ebook format, so that I'll always have them to dip into.
Zee also includes in her list a fantasy series by David Eddings, the Belgariad and Mallorean series; I've read a few books by Edding, and she's reminded me it's time for a revisit.
Jackie at Literary Escapism submitted three urban fantasy books that sound like fantastic reads; I haven't read any of them, and have added them to my list. There's Friday Night Bites, by Chloe Neill, a novel about the Chicagoland vampires, and Destined for an Early Grave, by Jeaniene Frost, another novel about vampires. And I've had the Riley Jensen series, by Keri Arthur, on my list for a while now; the latest installment, Bound to Shadows, sounds so good.
There's nothing more perfect than curling up with a good mystery, and with the passage of time, I find that my memory of exactly whodunnit has dimmed enough for old favorites to be just as enjoyable as they were the first time I read them.
For Aarti, at Booklust, Footsteps in the Dark, by Georgette Heyer, is a favorite read. She says, "Footsteps in the Dark is a thriller mystery of the first order, complete with secret passageways, priest holes, skeletons and a cowled monk." She definitely has me sold on this one! I've never read a Georgette Heyer, and one of her mysteries seems like a good place to start.
Candace, at Beth Fish Reads, submitted a book from one of my new personal favorites: the Hamish Macbeth series by M.C. Beaton. In her review of Death of a Travelling Man, she notes that she started this series in audio mainly because of the narrator, Davina Porter. Candace likes to read her series in order, but I tend to grab hold of whatever I can find; I seem to have started the series at the opposite end, and the majority of the ones I've listened to have been narrated by Graeme Malcolm. I like Porter's narration a bit better, but Malcolm does some great accents.
And I'm very glad Jemi included Agatha Christie in her list. She says, "Agatha Christie's mysteries are kind of like chocolate for me," and that's such a perfect description of how the Christie books feel to me, too. My memory isn't as good as Jemi's, though – I've been rereading Christie in audio, and I find that I've forgotten who the culprit is in most of the novels!
The books I read as a child will always hold a special place in my heart; one of the first things I did as a "real grown-up" holding down a job (ie finally having a bit of money to spend) was to start buying copies of all the old favorites that I'd borrowed time and again from the library when I was little.
I grew up with Anne of Green Gables, by L.M. Montgomery, so I was so glad to see that Jessica, of The Bluestocking Society, and Jemi both chose Anne Shirley as one of their favorite comfort reads. I have read and reread the whole Anne of Green Gables series so many times, I can quote whole sections from the book. Jemi writes, "As a shy, serious girl, I wanted to be Anne's friend." I could have written that! I remember wishing I knew someone like Anne, too; the term "kindred spirits" will always hold a special place in my heart.
There's something just so comforting to me about reading about food; I go on occasional food-writing splurges, during which time I'll read nothing but food writing. I also come out of these splurges with a few extra pounds, I think, because one thing about good food writing – it makes you hungry!
Margot, of Joyfully Retired, has submitted a book that's one of my personal favorites: Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen, by Laurie Colwin. As Margot points out, "Her tone is strictly conversational – just as if you are sitting in her kitchen talking about food." That's what makes this book such a charming book for me; I loved Margot's example of having a conversation with the author as she was reading it!
A lot of the books in my own comfort reading pile fall into a general, non-genre category. When I look at them, I see that a charming, cozy feel is a common element.
I loved Jessica's review of 84, Charing Cross Road, by Helene Hanff. This is a book that has long been on my "I really want to read that" list, and her review is a good reminder that I really do need to get to it.
Amy, from Amy Reads Good Books, submitted Trouble, by Kate Christensen. I've never read any novels by Christensen, but Amy's caught my attention with this: "it was a thoughtful meditation on how we do or do not bounce back from trauma as we age." Another interesting book!
Jackie at Farm Lane Books has chosen The Nutmeg Tree by Margery Sharp as her comfort read – Sharp's books are out of print, but she was lucky enough to find three of them! Ever since I read Jackie's review of The Nutmeg Tree, I've been on the lookout for books by Sharp. They sound like the perfect comfort read.
Myrthe, at The Armenian Odar Reads, submitted The Chosen, by Chaim Potok. This is a lovely review; she writes, "It is the one book that still makes me cry all through the last chapter, a book that I immediately want to start again when I finish it." I haven't read The Chosen yet; it sounds like such a beautiful coming-of-age story.
I was also thrilled to see that Melanie, at The Indextrous Reader, submitted Alexander McCall Smith: "My version of comfort reading must always include Alexander McCall Smith," she says in her post. Me too! She has great things to say about both the Mma Ramotswe series and the Scotland Street series. I haven't yet fallen under the allure of the Mma Ramotswe series yet, but McCall Smith's Scotland Street and Isabel Dalhousie series are both very near and dear to me.
Melanie also submitted The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets, by Eva Rice. The title is so charming. Melanie writes, "Full of eccentric English characters, revealing social conditions, ancient houses, True Love, teatime and Selfridge's, I greatly enjoyed this lovely and unusual novel." I think it will be one I'll enjoy too.
Finally, Meg's review of The Sugar Queen, by Sarah Addison Allen, at Write Meg is so enticing; this is another book I'm adding to my burgeoning list of books to get my hot little hands on. Meg calls The Sugar Queen a "seriously delightful, magical story", and reading her review, it sounds absolutely charming and whimsical, with dashes of mystery and magic.
This ends the Comfort Reads edition of the Bookworms Carnival! I hope you've rediscovered some old favorites in this list, and perhaps added a few to your list that you haven't read before.
Play along with us! What are some of your comfort reads?
This entry was posted in Blogging and Blog Events, Books and Reading and tagged audiobooks, children's books, comfort reads, essays, fantasy, favorite reads, general fiction, mysteries, paranormal, reading fun on December 9, 2009 by Belle Wong.
MsBookish is hosting the 42nd Bookworms Carnival! The topic? One that is near and dear to my heart: comfort reads.
What are the books you turn to time and time again? The ones with which you love to snuggle up in your favorite armchair, steaming mug of hot chocolate or tea by your side? I'd love to hear about them!
If you have a review of a favorite comfort read, or a post talking about some of your favorite comfort reads, and why you love them, please send me your link to be included in this edition of the Bookworms Carnival.
Due to a few email glitches, this post is going up a little late – if you could spread the word about the Comfort Reads Bookworms Carnival, that would be great, too!
The current submission deadline for this edition of the Bookworms Carnival is November 27.
This entry was posted in Blogging and Blog Events and tagged Bookworms Carnival, comfort reads on November 23, 2009 by Belle Wong.


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ABU matriculates more than 13,000 students
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By Mohammed Lawal
Zaria ( – Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria on Friday matriculated more than 13,000 students for the 2018/2019 academic session.
Vice Chancellor of the university Prof. Ibrahim Garba told the new intakes at the Main Campus in Samaru, Zaria, Kaduna State to uphold the rules and regulations of the university.
Garba said that they should consider themselves lucky to have gained admission to the university because out of more than 40,000 candidates that applied, a little over 13,000 of them were admitted.
"You should therefore, consider the admission as a special privilege. The matriculation oath which has just been conducted today (Friday) is a ceremony that formally initiates you into the body of university community.
"By this process, you have been formally accepted into Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) rules and regulations," he said.
Garba reminded the new students that by the matriculation ceremony they have sworn and affirmed that they would abide by the laws of the university and uphold its traditions.
He advised them to shun examination malpractice, cultism, drug abuse, indecent dressing and all forms of antisocial behaviour.
The VC assured them that the university had experienced and dedicated lecturers and supporting staff to train them to achieve future career ambitions.
"As fresh students, you should note that academic programmes in the university have maximum time frames within which must be completed.
"A student who could not complete his/her programme of study beyond the maximum period allowed or due to poor performance or unacceptable behaviour is compelled by regulation to withdraw from the programme and or the university.
"Ahmadu Bello University is an institution of great diversity in gender, ethnicity and religion and it is the largest and most cosmopolitan of all Nigerian universities," Garba said.


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Q: Transpose part of a matrix I have monitoring data collecting information for service usage.
Originally it's "who", "what", "where", "when" (and a little more, but that's basically the information about to be statistically evaluated).
I already managed to read data from database, transform lengthy "who" and "what" using tidyr::extract() to a shorter, handy, form and "when" from timestamp to date by trunc().
Result is similar to what this example structure produces:
my_data <- structure(
  list(
    Service =
      c("AService", "AService", "AService", "AService",
        "AService", "BService", "BService", "BService"),
    Datatype =
      c("Foobar", "Foobar", "Foobar", "BarFoo",
        "BarFoo", "Crumpy", "Rusty", "Rusty"),
    Direction =
      c("IN", "IN", "IN", "IN", "IN", "IN", "IN", "IN"),
    Date =
      structure(
        c(18993, 18993, 18994, 18993, 18994, 18994, 18993, 18994),
        class = "Date"
      )
  ),
  class = "data.frame",
  row.names = c(NA, -8L)
)

Next step was to group and summarise (count):
counted <- my_data %>%
  group_by(Direction, Service, Datatype, Date) %>%
  arrange(.by_group = TRUE) %>%
  summarize(Service, Count = n(), .groups = "keep") %>%
  distinct()

This gives a data structure more or less equivalent to:
Direction | Service  | Datatype | Date       | Count
----------+----------+----------+------------+------
IN        | AService | BarFoo   | 2022-01-01 | 1
IN        | AService | BarFoo   | 2022-01-02 | 1
IN        | AService | FooBar   | 2022-01-01 | 2
IN        | AService | FooBar   | 2022-01-02 | 1
IN        | BService | Crumpy   | 2022-01-02 | 2
IN        | BService | Rusty    | 2022-01-01 | 1
IN        | BService | Rusty    | 2022-01-02 | 1

and I want:
Direction | Service  | Datatype | 2022-01-01 | 2022-01-02
----------+----------+----------+------------+-----------
IN        | AService | BarFoo   | 1          | 1
IN        | AService | FooBar   | 2          | 1
IN        | BService | Crumpy   | 0          | 2
IN        | BService | Rusty    | 1          | 1

What's the idiomatic way in R? What's the elegant way?
I'm clueless, what phrases to search for - all searches for "transpose" in connection to "matrix" and "partially" end up giving me advises about "panda" and "python" but not "R".
This example is, of course, short. Real data is thousands of items. And contains "OUT" as well, but filtering this is not my problem.

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Photographer Fends Off Komodo Dragon From His Boat With Just A Pair Of Sticks
Mike Wood
Published 9:48, 06 September 2018 BST
| Last updated 8:45, 07 September 2018 BST
Dragons aren't real? Pfft. Tell that to a Komodo dragon - while not as dangerous as Harry Potter's notorious Norwegian Ridgebacks, they're still not the sort of creatures that you want to be messing about with - as these Indonesian fisherman very nearly found out. Watch the amazing footage here as they fend off one such lizard with just a stick:
The fisherman's boat was attacked by two Komodo dragons, who were attempting to board the vessel in the waters off the coast of Rinca Island, in the Komodo National Park in Indonesia.
The massive lizards can be seen snapping at the boat, but the fisherman keep them at bay with a forked stick, prodding them back into the water.
American cameraman Andy Lerner was on hand to take the spectacular video.
Credit: Andy Lerner/Media Drum World
"Being close to apex predators is always a thrill; whether it's big cats, white sharks or these dragons," said Lerner.
"It's something most people don't get a chance to do, so I love sharing it. I really like the prehistoric look that these animals have. I think we have a visceral reaction to something that connects us to dinosaurs.
"They really did look and move the way we think dinosaurs did. Maybe it's the fear, but it also triggers a kind of wonder.
"These particular dragons are used to being fed by tourist boats and are have been conditioned from that to check out the boats for a meal as they come in close.
"This of course unfortunate and is not natural behaviour for the dragons as I would always prefer, but to safely take these photos it was my best choice. They are surprisingly fast and erratic swimmers, especially when hungry."
Komodo dragons are the world's largest species of lizard, reaching as much as three metres in length and weighing up to 14 stone.
It is thought that they grew to such an unusually large size as a result of their isolation on the small group of islands that form their habitat, as there are no other large predators there to impede their growth.
Komodo dragons eat meat - usually carrion killed by other animals, though they will stalk and kill their own prey as well if required to.
While they rarely attack humans, they have been known to from time to time - it is estimated that five people were killed by Komodo dragons between 1974 and 2012.
"The dragons are of course very dangerous - the absolute best you can hope for if bitten by a dragon is to just lose a limb," said Andy Lerner.
Featured Image Credit: Media Drum World
Topics: Videos, Animals
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ECSTASY OF WHODINI PASSES AWAY
By JumpinJack AJ,
December 23, 2020 in Caught in the Middle
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JumpinJack AJ
Suburban Kid Wit An Urban Degree
JJFP.com Potnas
Location:H-town, Maryland, USA
Interests:Hip-Hop, Comedy, Acting, Writing, Bringing positive vybes in this negative world.
This one hits hard.
https://blackamericaweb.com/2020/12/23/john-ecstasy-fletcher-of-whodini-death/
Source: Paul Natkin / Getty
John Fletcher, the rapper better known as Ecstasy from the 1980s hip-hop group Whodini, has reportedly passed away.
"One Love to Ecstasy of the Legendary #Whodini," Questlove wrote on Instagram Wednesday (December 23). "This man was legendary and a pivotal member of one of the most legendary groups in hip hop. This is sad man."
Fletcher, along with fellow rapper Jalil Hutchins formed Whodini in 1982 in Brooklyn, New York. Together, they were one of the first groups to add R&B elements to their music with singles such as "Five Minutes Of Funk," "Friends," "Big Mouth," "Freaks Come Out At Night" and "One Love."
Between 1982 and 1986, the group released three albums including their self-titled debut in 1983, Escape in 1984 which went platinum and Back In Black in 1986. Fletcher often wore a Zorro hat on stage and the group helped introduce producer and songwriter Jermaine Dupri to the business as he starred as a dancer on their tours.
"My God, this one hurts me so bad,I can't even believe I'm posting this," Dupri wrote on Instagram. "Ex you know I love you thank you for every word,every conversation every good time,may your soul Rest In Power."
In 2012, Whodini was featured in an episode of Unsung detailing their rise in the industry. An official cause of death has yet to be determined.
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NJ Rebel-Yes, The Rhythm The Rebel!
Location:Seaside Heights, New Jersey
Interests:Playing and Watching Basketball(favorite team: Chicago Bulls fan 4 life favorite players: Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen forever),listening to hip-hop(preferably JJFP, KRS-ONE, Public Enemy, 2Pac, Run-Dmc, Nas, Rakim,Talib Kweli, The Roots, LL Cool J, Slick Rick, and any other mc that reps the art and not the charts)), regaee, and r&b, computers, video games, freestyling and writing rhymes, representing hip-hop to the fullest!
rest in paradise, WOW


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Job Directory Amazon Software Engineering Manager, Aurora PostgreSQL
Software Engineering Manager, Aurora PostgreSQL Amazon
Manager of Software Development - AWS Relational Database Service team - Seattle, WA
Want to work on the coolest technology while growing your career, in a group that cares about people just as much as products?
Amazon is breaking new ground and changing the rules for relational Databases. The PostgreSQL-compatible edition of Amazon Aurora is helping customers have enterprise performance, availability and durability, along with compatibility with the world's most advanced open source database - PostgreSQL. If you're an engineering manager who is looking to grow, come on board! We have one of the most senior teams in AWS - and our senior engineers are eager to brainstorm, mentor, and get software built together. We built software, we patent new things, and we attend conferences around the world to learn even more.
Amazon Aurora is an exciting new area of innovation for AWS, and the PostgreSQL-compatible edition of Amazon Aurora is the newest part of it, built on one of the cleanest code bases in the open source community. The PostgreSQL-compatible version of Amazon Aurora is a new relational database which offers enterprise-class performance, availability and durability - all at open source prices - to our customers, along with the management benefits of RDS. We're a relatively new team in Database Services, one of the fastest growing businesses within Amazon Web Services. We are currently spread across Seattle, the San Francisco Bay Area, Boston, Sydney, and Dublin. Not only do we have deep database and systems programming problems to solve for our customers, but we also minimize the effort required to maintain SQL databases by automating administrative tasks like backup / restore, scaling CPU / RAM / storage and replication / failover for high availability, allowing our customers to spend their valuable time focused on building their businesses.
RDS for PostgreSQL runs the largest fleet of PostgreSQL databases in the world. We make regular software releases, take care of our customers, and take care of our engineers. PostgreSQL is the most advanced open source database out there, and we're proud to contribute to its success. By combining the open source power and popularity of PostgreSQL with Amazon Web Services, for both our database engines, we think we have a winning combination for both startups and enterprises who are moving all their most important data and applications to the cloud. Check out the awesomeness of PostgreSQL at https://www.postgresql.org/.
We have challenging problems to solve in distributed systems, concurrency, database internals, caching, query optimization, languages, and performance engineering. We intend to be the world's best and fastest database, built by an excellent team, all while having fun - come join us on the journey!
We are looking for a Development Manager to join our team and help us take the service to the next level. To apply for this role, you should possess solid analytical, design and problem diagnosis skills. Expertise with high-performance systems or service design is a plus. You should be comfortable building and managing teams through all phases of software development, including hiring and growing your own team of managers. The ability to translate high-level technical requirements into executable project plans is essential. If this sounds like you, come join us and help AWS continue to lead the cloud computing revolution.
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The Other Partner in the Galbraith Oil Scandal
By Michael Rubin
About Michael Rubin
The Norwegian press has been doing great work in investigating the Norwegian oil firm DNO's somewhat questionable dealings in Iraqi Kurdistan, during the course of which they identified former ambassador Peter Galbraith as a claimant to a share of the Tawke oil field.
The other claimant is Shahir 'Abd-al-Haq, a Yemeni businessman, who had handled DNO's business in Yemen and, at some point, also bought shares in Tawke. It is uncertain whether Galbraith and 'Abd-al-Haq were formal partners, or were just thrown together by mutual interests and holdings in the same field. What is not disputed, however, is that they are co-plaintiffs in court proceedings in London seeking compensation from DNO for having been ousted from the contracts.
'Abd-al-Haq has appeared on the U.S. radar screen before, as he helped Iraqi president Saddam Hussein subvert U.N. sanctions and import weapons. So now we have Peter Galbraith, who was an outspoken advocate for Kurdish rights in the wake of Saddam's ethnic cleansing becoming a partner with a man who helped arm Saddam. Greed makes strange bedfellows.
Michael Rubin is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, senior lecturer at the Naval Postgraduate School's Center for Civil-Military Relations, and a senior editor of the Middle East Quarterly.


What Day Of The Week Was January 17?
January 17, 2019 was the 17th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 348 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Thursday.
Emperor Theodosius I dies at Milan, the Roman Empire is re-divided into an eastern and a western half. The Eastern Roman Empire is centered in Constantinople under Arcadius, son of Theodosius, and the Western Roman Empire in Mediolanum under Honorius, his brother, at the age of 10.
France recognizes the Huguenots under the Edict of Saint-Germain.
Emperor Susenyos of Ethiopia surprises an Oromo army at Ebenat; his army reportedly kills 12,000 Oromo at the cost of 400 men.
The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands.
Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by Elzie Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.
Franco-Thai War: French forces inflict a decisive victory over the Royal Thai Navy.
Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins early in the morning. Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation.
During a visit to South Korea, Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II.
Who were born on January 17?


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Com la tecnologia mòbil canvia com fem i gaudim de l'art
How mobile tech is changing the way we make and enjoy art
From Shakespeare on your smartphone to interactive app-driven experiences,Matt Trueman explores new ways to engage with art
The Guardian, Matt Trueman, Tuesday 11 November 2014
Remember the Walkman? How it allowed you to take your music wherever you went. The e-reader has done the same thing to your library and the tablet device to your TV and your DVD collection. Last week, Shakespeare's Globe launched Globe Player, a service that allows users to stream and/or download its productions onto their computers and mobile devices. Online audiences can watch 51 of the theatre's past productions wherever (and whenever) they happen to be. The Google Cultural Institute has also made huge swathes of visual art and museum exhibits just as accessible.
Mobile technology has changed the way we encounter art. It has made art mobile. "On demand" has extended into "on the go". Art is everywhere – and everyone with a smartphone is a potential audience member.
As Ruth Mackenzie, interim CEO and creative director of The Space, a new BBC and Arts Council England-backed digital arts platform, puts it: "The average person looks at their mobile 100 times a day, so just imagine if art were a part of that diet. What if, instead of playing Candy Crush, you did art?" That picture's too simple; it implies the only shift is in the interface – the mode of encounter as opposed to the encounter itself. Screens have replaced the page and the stage, but it's deeper than that; digital art is a form of its own, with its own rules and possibilities.
One possibility is that offered by The Space, which is running an open call for new digital art designed for mobile tech and tablet computers. Any artist over 18-years-old, from anywhere in the world can apply. "If film was the new discovery and the dominant artform of the 20th century, then maybe digital art is going to be of the 21st," says Mackenzie. "That's the opportunity we've got." (…)
Mobile technology is a two-way encounter. It can tell the artists about the participant – and vice versa. Blast Theory's next project, an app called Karen, relies on that.
Karen is a virtual life-coach in the form of an app. "Initially, she claims to be able to offer advice, but gradually she gets more interested and the boundary between her professional life and her personal life starts to break down a bit," says Adams. Crucially, Karen adapts to the information you provide.
But Karen isn't a computer game. There's no winning and losing. It's narrative-driven, but it's not really television or film; it's a hybrid form. Technology is shifting the territory of art. The more we see the screen – whatever its size or shape – as an artistic interface, like the stage or the cinema, the more we can see anything on it as art.
For Adams, it's in "the world of games, particularly indie games, that the most exciting and risk-taking work is taking place". Artists are starting to pick at the seams of the form. Take Papa Sangre, a game for handheld devices created by content business Somethin' Else. Described as a "video game with no video," it presents players with a black screen to represent a pitch-black labyrinth, which players navigate using the surround-soundtrack they hear through headphones. Sidestep the mythic-quest casing and you've got a smart little artwork exploring sensory deprivation, but one that could only exist on a mobile device.
With the right selection of apps, every smartphone owner has a digital camera or a set of mixing decks to hand; every tablet user can cut together a film and upload it straight onto YouTube. These devices make every user a potential artist in a more spontaneous way than ever before. "There's access to the means of creating art that simply wasn't there 20 years ago," says Mackenzie. "You can talk about finding new audiences, but I think we're going to find new artists too."
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Defense Digest, Vol. 23, No. 4, December 2017
Tom Wagner (Philadelphia, PA) has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America organization as the Philadelphia region's 2018 "Lawyer of the Year" in the area of Personal Injury Litigation, Defendants.
Teresa Ficken Sachs (Philadelphia, PA), Vice-Chair of our Appellate Advocacy and Post-Trial Practice Group, was inducted as a Fellow into the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers (AAAL) at the Academy's 2017 Fall Meeting. The AAAL was founded in 1990 to recognize outstanding appellate lawyers and to promote the improvement of appellate advocacy and the administration of the appellate courts. Membership is limited to 500 lawyers in the United States and is reserved for accomplished appellate advocates who have demonstrated the highest levels of skill and integrity.
Marshall Dennehey is pleased to announce that the firm has been named a Best Law Firm for Female Attorneys by Law360 and its 2017 Glass Ceiling Report. Law360 grouped firms based on U.S. attorney headcount in order to evaluate them with similar-sized peers. They excluded any firm that had below-average female representation at even a single level of the firm. They then ranked the rest based on their percentage of female attorneys both at the non-partner and partner level. Marshall Dennehey ranked number eight on the top ten list for firms with 300-599 attorneys.
Alan C. (A.C.) Nash (Fort Lauderdale, FL) has been appointed to the 17th Judicial Circuit Professionalism Panel by Judge Jack Tuter, Chief Judge of the 17th Judicial Circuit. Florida's Professionalism Panels are charged with receiving, screening and acting upon complaints of unprofessional conduct by attorneys practicing in their respective Circuit. While they are not a disciplinary body intended to address violations of the rules regulating the Florida Bar, they do play an integral role in improving professionalism in the legal community by providing an informal educational process to address conduct inconsistent with the Standards of Professionalism and Civility.
Janice L. Merrill and Chanel A. Mosley (Orlando, FL) presented "EDs & EMRs & E-Discovery, Oh My! How to Stay on the 'Yellow Brick Road' When the Threat of Litigation Arises" at the Florida Assisted Living Association 2017 Annual Conference & Tradeshow.
Additionally, Janice and Chanel presented "The Defense Bar Strikes Back: EMRs & eDiscovery Risk Management" at the Florida Society for Healthcare Risk Management and Patient Safety Annual Meeting & Education Conference.
Christopher Conrad (Harrisburg, PA) was a guest lecturer at Dickinson Law School, where he presented "An Introduction to Age Discrimination in the Employment Act" to law students as part of the law school's 1st year Problem Solving course.
Kacey Wiedt (Harrisburg, PA) presented at SEAK's 36th Annual National Workers' Compensation and Occupational Medicine Conference. In "How Employers, Insurers and Self-Insurers Can Save Money," Kacey explained how to judge the compensability of workers' compensation claims and determine which ones to accept or defend. He discussed how to partner with defense counsel to create accountability and reduce overall costs on litigated claims, as well as providing practical suggestions for deciding how and when to settle claims and resolve difficult legacy claims.
David Oberly (Cincinnati, OH) presented to the Greater Cincinnati Human Resources Association on the topic of "Wage Discrimination Update." Approximately 60 HR professionals attended the presentation, which focused on the major laws prohibiting wage discrimination, salary history inquiry bans, EEOC directives and best practices for minimizing wage discrimination claims.
Congratulations to John Hare and Mohamed Bakry (Philadelphia, PA), who contributed to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's ruling in Commonwealth v. Muniz, which held that the retroactive registration of sex offenders under Pennsylvania's Megan's Law is unconstitutional. On behalf of 22 university-based experts on sex crimes, John and Mohamed filed an amicus curiae brief demonstrating that Megan's Law registries actually suppress the reporting and prosecution of sex crimes.
Doug Kent (King of Prussia, PA) co-authored the cover story article appearing in the summer issue of the CLM Magazine, Construction Claims. Titled "360 Degrees Hot: A Drone Can Collect More Data More Safely and in More Situations Than Can Traditional Collection Methods," the article discusses how the insurance industry is recognizing the value of drones for inspection and investigation purposes following property and casualty losses.
Tony Natale (Philadelphia, PA) was published in the August edition of the national CLM Magazine. Tony's article, titled "If You See Something Say Something—The Importance of Identifying and Reporting Workers' Compensation Fraud," discusses the implications of ignoring fraud and how reporting fraud can benefit the entire community.
Defense Digest, Vol. 23, No. 4, December 2017. Defense Digest is prepared by Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin to provide information on recent legal developments of interest to our readers. This publication is not intended to provide legal advice for a specific situation or to create an attorney-client relationship. ATTORNEY ADVERTISING pursuant to New York RPC 7.1. © 2017 Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin. All Rights Reserved. This article may not be reprinted without the express written permission of our firm. For reprints, contact tamontemuro@mdwcg.com.


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PRS Applications - Reliable Services for a Secure Digital Europe
The specific focus is on innovative solutions that make use of the Galileo PRS time signal, which is key for critical infrastructure such as power grids and telecommunication networks as well as the functioning of the global financial system.
Stay tuned! One of these finalists will become the BMVI PRS Challenge winner!
A Robust, Powerful, and Affordable PVT Solution
GNSS services are fundamentally important in our evolving digital society. Securing positioning and timing is crucial to ensuring trust in GNSS services, especially in connection with critical infrastructures like energy, telecommunications, and banking.
The Galileo Public Regulated Service (PRS) provides high-end protection against spoofing and jamming for government-authorised users. As in the case of other GNSS services, the accuracy of PRS can be significantly improved using Precise Point Positioning (PPP). PPP leverages carrier-phase measurements using more precise satellite orbit and clock data to reach sub-decimeter / sub-nanosecond accuracy. When using a PPP service for PRS, the most stringent accuracy and integrity requirements can be fulfilled. This project offers a combined PRS/PPP service to boost the accuracy and performance of GNSS-enabled applications.
Spaceopal and IABG have sound experience in dealing with PRS technology development and in operating and servicing the Galileo system. Spaceopal already offers a commercially available PPP service for open service signals (Navcast), including corresponding applications. By combining their expertise, these two companies have assembled the capabilities required to realise a PRS/PPP service.
Secure Time and Frequency Synchronization from Space
Time synchronisation is a basic requirement in operating important infrastructures in many of the world's strategic sectors, including energy, telecommunications, transportation, and finance. The high demands it places on the accuracy of time measurements (currently on the order of single-digit nanoseconds) represent an essential factor in enabling new technologies and innovations. Time synchronisation is traditionally achieved via cable protocols with internal network timing. However, the use of such dedicated networks is not always possible for financial or logistical reasons, especially for systems operating on different continents (finance), in densely populated urban areas (5G or IoT) or in highly decentralised ways (blockchain). Melior is working on a cost-effective alternative means of synchronising time based on a system that uses the well-known GNSS Common View (CV) technique. It proposes using CV in combination with the Galileo PRS to enhance the security of PRS systems, increase the security of the Galileo Open Service, and provide secure and robust synchronisation with nanosecond-level accuracy among Galileo receivers.
Cesar Prados
Space-based position, navigation and timing (PNT) signals have become critical to everyday life in modern digital societies. Almost every economic sector relies on them.
Galileo ensures the EU's sovereign and reliable access to the key technology of satellite navigation. Its Public Regulated Service (PRS) is the first encrypted, robust navigation signal also available to government authorised civil users, for example police forces, critical infrastructure and others under the "security umbrella". The PRS assures continuous availability even when access to other services may be denied.
Consequently, the Galileo PRS opens up a distinct innovation potential for improving security in the digital society.
In order to unleash this potential, the Galileo Competent PRS Authority (CPA) of Germany in the Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) awards the PRS Special Prize.
In general, the PRS Special Prize looks for pioneering and inspiring ideas that make use of Galileo PRS in the following areas:
Robust PNT applications for police forces, customs and frontier defence, emergency services
Robust PNT applications for critical infrastructure
As last year, the specific focus is on innovative solutions that make use of the Galileo PRS time signal, which is key for critical infrastructure such as power grids and telecommunication networks as well as the functioning of the global financial system.
Prizes 2020
Support Voucher
The winner/winning team will receive a voucher for EUR 5,000 to support the further development of the idea.
Funding Opportunity
The winner/winning team will also be given the prospect of comprehensive funding in the national support programme for Galileo PRS.
Extra EUR 10,000 Cash Prize if your concept gets selected as Galileo Masters 2020 Overall Winner
Additional Prize
Chance to win one of six tailored Galileo Incubation prizes worth up to EUR 62,000 each
The proposed PRS application will be carefully assessed as to the respective balance between security, user needs, and innovation potential, and ranked based on the following criteria:
Relevance for Galileo PRS and security
Degree of innovation
Practical feasibility
Maturity of the idea
About BMVI
The Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) is one of the "Space Ministries" of the German government that is in charge of EU's flagship programmes Galileo and Copernicus.
The Competent PRS Authority (CPA), the central national security entity in relation to PRS, is established within BMVI.
Germany hosts one of the leading space and PRS industries in the EU.
Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI), Division DG 23
team@galileo-masters.eu
www.bmvi.de
Telematics in Transport / Competent PRS Authority
Timo Hoffmann
Satellitennavigation (Galileo, EGNOS)
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