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Mobile World Congress 2012: Smartphone Roundup
Posted on Friday, Mar 2 2012 on 12:00 AM
Mobile World Congress is a dignified affair held yearly in Barcelona that companies take very seriously. For example, unlike CES, there are lots and lots of suits -- after all, this is a congress. Here, some of the most unique and desirable handsets meet the eyes of press, analysts and buyers for the very first time. Accordingly, anxieties were high among company leaders as they put their best foot forward and held their breath for the first round of impressions. This year's show has been a wild ride, and we've seen many devices stretch the boundaries of our imagination. There were more than a few stunners, and as the dust settles, companies such as HTC, Nokia and LG can all hold their heads high. Join us after the break as we reminisce the most notable smartphones from Mobile World Congress.
This past year, many smartphones from HTC fell just short of being ideal. The One X is proof that the company has listened to the critiques, and oh, how times have changed. This incredibly slim handset features an understated yet elegant design, yet inside it packs a Tegra 3 SoC with a quad-core 1.5GHz CPU (or a Snapdragon S4 with a dual-core 1.5GHz processor in AT&T's variant), a beautiful 4.7-inch 720p Super LCD display, 16GB of internal storage and an oh-so-desirable f/2.0, 8 megapixel camera that effortlessly captures beautiful imagery at a rapid pace. It features Ice Cream Sandwich with a Sense 4.0 overlay that's much less obtrusive than previous versions, and our interactions with the phone were buttery smooth. Put simply, the HTC One X stole the show at Mobile World Congress. So long as battery life is up to par, it'll set the pace for every smartphone to follow in its wake.
The HTC One S is positioned as the company's mid-range device, but in all seriousness, it could very well be an ideal smartphone for anyone that finds the One X's 4.7-inch display a bit excessive. It shares many of the same design cues as its larger sibling, and HTC's attention to detail is very apparent -- for example, when swiping across the screen, your finger will effortlessly cascade off the glass. It features a 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4, a 4.3-inch qHD Super AMOLED display, a similar 16GB of storage and the same 8MP camera that's found in the One X.
Nokia PureView 808
The PureView 808 from Nokia won the official Bestof Show award here at Mobile World Congress, and while the device has undoubtedly moved the cameraphone to a new echelon, we've no doubt there was a bit of Euro bias in the vote. Put simply, the PureView 808 is a middling (and slightly clumsy) device with an amazing 41-megapixel camera. It features a 1.3GHz CPU, a 4-inch ClearBlack AMOLED display at 640 x 360, and packs quadband GSM and pentaband 3G connectivity -- all in a device that runs Symbian Belle. That said, yeah, we want one.
The Optimus Vu has literally met the boundaries for how wide a smartphone can be. It's a short and broad device that's undoubtedly LG's answer to the Galaxy Note from Samsung. It features an excellent 5-inch IPS display with a rather unique 4:3 aspect ratio. While it may appear a bit clumsy, we found its width to be quite ideal for text input on the virtual keyboard. Naturally, it also features stylus input, though we still prefer the Galaxy Note in this arena. Internally, there's a 1.5GHz dual-core CPU, an 8 megapixel camera and a 2,080mAh battery. At just 8.5mm, it's an incredibly thin device, through you'll certainly want to test drive this one in your pants pocket before making the commitment.
The sequel to the Optimus 2X is here, and it asks to be called the Optimus 4X HD. As the name implies, it now packs a Tegra 3 SoC with a quad-core 1.5GHz CPU and a large 4.7-inch IPS display with 720p resolution, along with an 8 megapixel primary camera. While there's no doubt plenty of power with this handset, LG's software struck us as rather slow and cumbersome -- which is, sadly, all too reminiscent of the Optimus 2X. Nonetheless, we were rather fond of the device's build quality and its display, but further software optimization will be necessary to get this one off the ground.
Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G
It's no game-changer, but there's still plenty to love about the Galaxy S Blaze 4G. It takes many of the design cues of the original Galaxy S lineup and crams Galaxy S II innards into the handset. It features a 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon S3, a 4-inch Super AMOLED display, a 5 megapixel camera and will support T-Mobile's 42Mbps HSPA+ network. Once T-Mobile lowers the $150 price to a more palatable level, it promises to be a very strong mid-tier contender.
It's difficult to stir our passions with a low-end device, and just to be clear, value-conscious consumers will likely find better options elsewhere, but Nokia has proven that it's ready to take Windows Phone down to a level that's accessible to a larger audience. That on its own makes the Lumia 610 worth a humble mention. It features an 800MHz CPU, 3.7-inch WVGA TFT display, a 5MP camera and quadband GSM / EDGE / WCDMA.


LEGENDARY and groundbreaking crooner turned avant-garde composer Scott Walker has died aged 76.
The singer-songwriter, born Noel Scott Engel, rose to fame in the '60s US pop trio The Walker Brothers best known for their hit Make It Easy On Yourself.
He broke from the group to launch a solo career for which he is best known, including his late '60s quartet of albums Scott to Scott 4.
Walker's later solo work included the trilogy of heavily orchestrated experimental albums Tilt, The Drift and Bish Bosch.
His record label 4AD announced his death in a statement on its website yesterday.
It read: "It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Scott Walker.
"Scott was 76 years old and is survived by his daughter Lee, his granddaughter, Emmi-Lee and his partner Beverly.
"From teen idol to cultural icon, Scott leaves to future generations a legacy of extraordinary music; a brilliant lyricist with a haunting singing voice.


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Any phone will work with basic features for you. More money usually means a better camera, battery, faster CPU, more memory, etc. The Moto g6 Play $199 looks good for your needs and has a big battery. It is better than the E5 Play for $129, and not as good as the new g7 $299 with more memory etc. There is a shipping charge for each phone.
As far as moving to the new phone it should be easy since your old phone is still working. When you get the new phone and run the install it will ask if you have an old phone and can copy the accounts and apps from the old to the new. You will still have to enter some account info and settings for apps, but it saves a ton of time. Also, the Republic install will ask if you want the phone number and plan from the old phone transferred to the new. In less than an hour total your new phone will be up and running.
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I did a quick Google search and found the specs for the WiFiBlast Extender and it only supports up to 802.11n and 2.4 GHz. As I said in the presentation your WiFi should support 802.11ac and both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz. It would be like buying a PC today with WIndows 7 that was current 10 years ago.
Not sure what problems you have with your current WiFi or if a new/better main router might fix the problem and not need an extender. Also, if you buy from a local store, you should be able to return a new router or extender if it does not do what you need it to do.
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Try a laptop in store at Best Buy, Walmart, Staples, etc. to make sure the display and keyboard will work for you, you do not want to be surprised. Check prices online.
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Q. From a PCC Member - Both Century Link and Comcast charge top dollar for land phones, as we all know. Does anyone have experience with replacing your land line and your extension phones with a cell phone-based Bluetooth system from V Tech, Motorola or other companies?
A. From Tom Kreuzer, a PCC Board member. I have done that for the last 10 years and highly recommend it. This is how I use mine.
I have a Panasonic unit with one base and 3 remote units that I think I paid about $75 six years ago. I supports bluetooth links to 2 cell phones. Pair it to your phones and it works perfect. For incoming It will show which phone it is from and the caller ID name for most calls. For outgoing calls you can select which phone to use. I did not like it connecting every time I stepped into my house, so I put the base on a power strip. I leave the base off until I am home for the day and plug in my phone to charge it. Bluetooth has a range of up to 30 feet, I charge my phone next to the base. It works great.
Decide the number of phones you need and other features. I would buy from Amazon or Walmart. I have gotten refurbished items that were half off.
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Training the next generation of power engineers
by Syracuse University
Professor Tomislav Bujanovic with students in Syracuse University's Smart Grid lab. Credit: Syracuse University's College of Engineering and Computer Science
Most people only think about the electricity that powers our homes and gadgets when it isn't there. When the power is humming, we tend to take it for granted. The trouble is, the network that delivers the electricity to keep our lights on, known as the grid, is sometimes pushed to its limits. High demand can lead to blackouts and increased operational costs. At the same time, the grid is being asked to do more than just distribute power in today's interconnected world.
We need a new generation of power engineers to build and operate a "smart grid" that incorporates renewable energy sources, advances in control systems, communications, signal processing and cybersecurity. Syracuse University's College of Engineering & Computer Science has taken up the charge to educate and prepare the smart grid workforce for the future.
When it comes to educating students about complex subjects like this, it's not just what you teach, but how you teach it. That's why Professors Tomislav Bujanovic and Prasanta Ghosh of the College's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department have made the pedagogy of their power engineering track a priority.
The College offers modernized power courses and new smart grid courses to graduate and undergraduate students. It also hosts a smart grid lab that provides hands-on experience. The courses and the lab were developed using grants from the Department of Energy.
In a recent paper presented at the Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education, Bujanovic and Ghosh provide examples of the hands-on experiments electrical engineering students are conducting as part of their undergraduate coursework. Students apply the theoretical concepts they have learned in the classroom to control a machine's torque, speed, and position using a digital controller designed in Matlab Simulink and dSpace real-time interface hardware. Students demonstrate what they have learned from the hands-on experiment by analyzing their observations and writing a professional report in which they are required to communicate technical material effectively.
By integrating the concepts learned in the classroom with hands-on experiments, students gain a more thorough understanding of the topic. Introducing real-world application of engineering concepts at the undergraduate level and providing them access to a world-class smart grid lab sets this program apart from electrical engineering courses at other institutions.
Beyond learning the science of power engineering, students also learn to work as a team to complete their experiments. Bujanovic describes how this skill will be vital to those in the smart grid workforce:
"The complexity of the smart grid necessitates the expertise of many people of many different disciplines. It is not possible for one person to be an expert in everything. This means that strong teamwork skills are absolutely essential to a successful career working in contemporary power engineering and on the smart grid."
Finally, a key element of the pedagogy is an emphasis on the importance of open-minded, lifelong learning. Students are provided with the knowledge and skills to launch their careers in today's world. They must also understand that their continued success in the field of engineering hinges on their ability to learn new concepts and new technologies. The "state-of-the-art" in any given field is constantly in flux, so a successful engineer must master the ability to remain curious and learn continuously throughout their life to remain relevant.
At first blush, learning the skills that will keep our lights on and upgrade the grid can seem daunting, but with the College of Engineering and Computer Science's approach, students gain a firm grasp of the subject matter and many become passionate. An overwhelming majority of electrical engineering students at SU find this track attractive. 95 percent of graduating electrical engineering students have taken advantage of the power engineering track in the past year.
Taking charge in electricity research
More information: For additional details on Bujanovic and Ghosh's pedagogy, check out their paper, "Laboratory Experiments for Enhanced Learning of Electromechanical Devices."
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5 Utility Stocks to Buy for an Extra Durable Portfolio
These five utility stocks to buy should be able to rally so long as inflation remains checked
By Luke Lango, InvestorPlace Contributor Jan 3, 2020, 7:32 am EST January 3, 2020
[Editor's note: "5 Utility Stocks to Buy for an Extra Durable Portfolio" was previously published in November 2019. It has since been updated to include the most relevant information available.]
Utility stocks were supposed to be yesterday's favorite investment. The theory regarding utility stocks was simple: Robust economic growth coupled with a full labor market was supposed to spark rising inflation.
The Fed was supposed to fight rising inflation with rate hikes. Fixed income yields were supposed to rise. Utility stocks, which were long viewed as bond substitutes in an era of ultra-low interest rates, were supposed to fall.
But that theory hasn't fully materialized into reality.
The result? Utility stocks haven't lost their shine. With inflation relatively contained and investors ducking into safety, stocks in utilities are still attractive assets to own for dividend yield hunters. Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund(NYSE: XLU), a utilities ETF, has jumped 23% in 2019.
The markets' recent volatility has contributed to the XLU's gain, as investors flee toward any safe haven. Not to mention, a number of other catalysts are in play.
Inflation isn't soaring higher because technology giants are suppressing inflationary pressures (just think about the downward pressure Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) is putting on all consumer goods prices). This trend won't reverse any time soon, and thus, inflationary pressures should remain subdued for the foreseeable future. With those forces subdued, utility stocks have room to rally.
With that said, what are the best utility stocks to buy for your portfolio? Here's a list of five stocks that I think are worth a look:
American Electric Power (AEP)
Considered one of the industry's heavyweights, American Electric Power (NYSE:AEP) is a massive electric utility company that delivers electricity to more than five million customers across eleven states.
Over the past five months, AEP stock has been recovering from a dip, but it's up a whopping 20% from its year-ago price.
The business right now is doing pretty well, as robust economic strength in the company's core markets has boosted the business. Overall, sales and earnings are both trending higher at a healthy rate.
Sempra Energy (SRE)
Another one of the industry's heavyweights is Sempra Energy (NYSE:SRE), the multi-faceted energy company that provides energy services to more than 40 million customers globally across Southern California, Texas, Chile and Peru. In 2019, SRE stock was up more than 39%.
Sempra's business is doing well: Both revenues and earnings are trending higher amid a favorable economic backdrop.
Plus, the company is continuing its energy diversification efforts by expanding its liquid natural gas (LNG) business, something which the company feels can help fuel sustainable long-term growth.
The dividend yield on SRE stock sits right around 2.6%. That isn't great, but it's right around where the yield has been over the past several years.
Duke Energy (DUK)
Next up is electric power and gas utility giant Duke Energy (NYSE:DUK). Much like the other names on this list, Duke's operations are stable and healthy. That said, DUK stock was up more than 7% in 2019 with a dividend yield north of 4%.
Business remains fine, mostly thanks to favorable weather and strengthening economic conditions. And Duke's revenues and earnings have been trending consistently higher at a slow and stable rate.
This level of growth should persist for the next several years as economic conditions remain solid.
American Water Works Company (AWK)
Although electricity and power are very important utilities, another utility of equal importance is water, and that is where American Water Works Company (NYSE:AWK) comes into the picture.
American Water provides waters services to 15 million people across 46 states and Canada. That makes American Water the largest and most diverse publicly traded water company.
Moreover, American Water is planning on spending a whole bunch of money over the next several years to modernize water distribution infrastructure, an investment that will likely lead to rate hike approvals and robust long-term earnings growth.
AWK stock has a dividend yield of 1.66%. That isn't great. But what the company lacks in dividend yield, it makes up for in earnings growth, which should be able to run around 10%-per-year for the next several years.
That combination of healthy earnings growth and stable yield should make AWK stock a winning investment.
NextEra Energy (NEE)
Perhaps the utility stock with the most long-term earnings-growth potential on this list is NextEra Energy (NYSE:NEE). That is because not only does NextEra operate a massive utility business like the other utility players on this list, but the company is also a leading player in renewable energy and battery storage.
Over the past decade, this company has grown earnings and dividends at an 8%-per-year clip, and that robust growth should continue so long as the company's renewable business continues to scale.
The one thing to be worried about when it comes to NEE stock is that the dividend yield is at 2.1%, which is a five-year low. But earnings growth is robust, and it is large enough to compensate for a historically low dividend yield. Plus, last year the NextEra Energy stock price grew more than 40%.
As of this writing, Luke Lango was long AMZN and AWK.
Article printed from InvestorPlace Media, https://investorplace.com/2020/01/5-utility-stocks-to-buy-for-an-extra-durable-portfolio/.


Read the Encrypted Letter and speak to Jorik Kerridan in the stable behind Northshire Abbey.
I was asked to bring this to your attention as soon as you returned from the kobold camps, [player]. It appears to be a letter sealed with the insignia of Jorik, one of our local trainers. I wouldn't hesitate to read it before you go about any other business here in the Abbey.


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The Obama Effect
Multidisciplinary Renderings of the 2008 Campaign
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Timely, multidisciplinary analysis of Obama's presidential campaign, its context, and its impact.
November 4, 2008 ushered in a historic moment: Illinois Senator Barack Obama was elected the forty-fourth President of the United States of America. In The Obama Effect, editors Heather E. Harris, Kimberly R. Moffitt, and Catherine R. Squires bring together works that place Barack Obama's candidacy and victory in the context of the American experience with race and the media. Following Obama's victory, optimists claimed that the campaign signaled the arrival of an era of postracism and postfeminism in the United States. This collection of essays, all presented at a national conference to discuss the meaning and impact of the nomination of the first presidential candidate of African descent, remind the reader that reaching a point in U.S. history where a biracial man could be deemed "electable" is part of a still-ongoing struggle. It resists the temptation to dismiss the uncertainty, hope, and fear that characterized the events and discourse of the two-year primary and general election cycle and brings together multidisciplinary approaches to assessing "the Obama effect" on public discourse and participation. This volume provides readers with a means for recalling and mapping out the enduring issues that erupted during the campaign—issues that will continue to shape how our society views itself and President Obama in the coming years.
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"Neither biography, hagiography, or demonization, The Obama Effect provides a refreshingly balanced interrogation of many issues the candidacy and presidency of Barack Obama has unearthed in American society, politics, and identity construction. It is an important contribution to a much-needed substantive body of work trapped neither by Obamamania nor Obamaphobia. This is a highly recommended read ranging across disciplines." — Ricky L. Jones, author of What's Wrong with Obamamania?: Black America, Black Leadership, and the Death of Political Imagination
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Non trivial ARM64 software needs to become available. Adobe is going some way towards ARM migration with full featured Photoshop on iOS and Premiere Rush, but Autodesk have no significant ARM software at all apart from Sketchbook. And thats only DCC software, there is very little high end games being ported to ARM, mainly due to space restrictions in mobile platforms with the slow rollout of 256 GB+ solutions. PS3/XB360 era games have long since been attainable on ARM SOCs but very few of them have been ported due to those space restrictions.
As for Linux and Android apps on Chromebooks, Google shot themselves in the foot there. Mainline Linux software is predominantly x86 and Android apps are predominantly ARM, meaning with Chrome you either get great Linux support with an x86 CPU, or great Android support with an ARM SOC. I'm still confused why so few Chromebooks have ARM SOCs when their performance is often favourably compared to Intel based counterparts.
It might also be worth noting that SHIELD TV failed as an independent games console due to lack of interest porting games to ARM, and even cash flush nVidia balked at doing continuous ports themselves, as evidenced by the promised Crysis 3 port that never materialised. Even now, Half Life 2 remains a SHIELD exclusive after years.
With any luck, the new EPIC store may alter the status quo in games development for Android.
And Windows is running Windows apps - who would have guessed that. Its just that x64 Windows running x86 and x64 Windows apps and ARM Windows is running ARM32, ARM64 and x86 Windows apps. Thats all to it. There is no inherent restriction whatsoever - contrary to Windows RT, which was running only ARM32 UWP.
In you argument you fail to realize, that most user only use a fraction of the available apps. As they become available under native AArch64 execution or running reasonable under emulation Windows ARM devices certainly are an option. Apps i am using 90% of the time are already native AArch64 - some of them i just compiled. You have to realize that re-compilation is an easy task for those who are familiar with it - it is not more complicated than under Linux.
If your betting that x64 CPUs will eventually achieve the efficiency - and thus the performance under certain power budget - of ARM CPUs you are up for a big disappointment. Either the Windows ecosystem can adapt to new architectures or its deemed to vanish. This holds in particular now, since alternative architectures do not have a technology disadvantage compared to Intel anymore. Intel/AMD had it much too easy to get away with its crappy x64 ISA in the past.
Windows cant adapt, UWP failed multiples times already, this is why there is x86 emulation in the first place, and it will be x64 as well.
This is like the 678th thread ive participated about how ARM is much better than x86 and x86 is doomed in the past 10 years, it is always "next year you will see", the only thing im saying here is if ARM wants to take on Windows, they to be competitive with X86 cpus thats it, once that happens you will realise as a horde of ARM notebooks is hard to ignore. Right now they are slower, the devices with them cost a lot, they lack x64 support and the mayor advantage is a GPU i cant even use as games are x64 now. Simple, dont try to tell me or anyone else what apps i should be using, before buying a Windows 10 S ARM or a Windows 10 ARM with x86 support i would rather get a Chromebook. You just cant beat Android + Linux ecosystem with the crappy UWP.
I don't see that as being a big disadvantage. As Chromebooks proliferate, you'll get more development targeting ChromeOS specifically, based on which hardware becomes dominant in the platform. Right now it's cheap x86 chips dominating the space. That could easily change.
Software matters a lot more than the platform it is running on. Google move of allowing android apps is brillant. This is why i would not use a Windows 10 S regardless of the platform.
Yeah many many platforms failed due to lack of software or said software was hard to find. Remember WinNT was on MIPS and PowerPC workstations and were DOA due to lack of applications.
Point being, ChromeOS is an either/or proposition. If you want one for cheap Linux you get an x86 one, if you want it for cheap Android-on-something-better-than-a-tablet then you get an ARM one. Demand from the consumer will define which hardware variations become dominant in the ChromeOS ecosystem.
This is like the 678th thread ive participated about how ARM is much better than x86 and x86 is doomed in the past 10 years, it is always "next year you will see"
I have no influence on what strange messages you are trying to believe -wherever you heard them the 678th time the past 10 years. How about just sticking to my argument when replying to my posts?
Right now they are slower, the devices with them cost a lot, they lack x64 support and the mayor advantage is a GPU i cant even use as games are x64 now.
Either you are blind or just uninformed. Evidence shows, that ARM devices are faster than x64 counterparts under the same power budget - that is the very definition of higher power efficiency. Of course you already showed your ignorance early in this thread by using benchmarks, where the ARM devices ran x86 code under emulation - and trying to sell this as prove of your statements. Meanwhile we have Cortex A76 devices on the marked and ARM is going to release Cortex A77 in 1H2019 - not to mention Apple A12.
Well battery life is more concerned nowadays.
I don't see what that password generator has to do with the topic at hand.
Thala, bear in mind SoC implementation of any new high end ARM core lags at least 5-6 months behind its announcement, which is has been May the past 2 years, with the earliest implementation being Huawei/HiSilicon Kirin in october or november, next earliest being Snapdragon in late Q1 to early Q2 the following year.
Having said this, I do wonder if any non-Server implementations of Ares, Zeus and Poseidon may make it into flagship devices. I've still little idea of what they will bring, though A65-AE would seem to suggest SMT is forthcoming at the least, and possibly SVE or a new high end client side SIMD instruction set. The old research paper detailing ARGON came to mind when the new HELIUM SIMD launched with ARMv8.1-M, at this point NEON seems long in the tooth and SVE seems to be aimed at HPC wins more than anything else.
Ok i see you refuse to understand why Windows is Windows. If you dont understand why someone uses Windows instead of Linux, MAC, or Android thats no my problem.
Im going to ask you a simple question then. Why ARM presence in desktop and notebooks is nearly non-existant? There is always market for a power efficient SoC. AMD sold AM1 cpus and the only thing they were good for is power efficiency. OK by AMD own words they were a failure, but they existed and archived far more than ARM did so far.
Interestingly, some Wine developers just blew past Microsoft and beat them to running x64 apps on ARM64, link here.
The performance is limited by QEMU x86-ARM binary translation, but hopefully some console emulator types can swoop in and make some improvements there, I've no idea if Google have invested anything in this area for the sake of their Android emulator.
, but hopefully some console emulator types can swoop in and make some improvements there, I've no idea if Google have invested anything in this area for the sake of their Android emulator.
Android is using QEMU and get dev done through Linaro as far as I know. I don't think they are very concerned by speed.
If ARM wants to get into the PC Market, then they need to push for a Common Reference Platform with standard Firmware just like x86/x86-64 PCs have.
Right now ARM is a good mess as far as OS support goes.
Now thats not entirely true. Windows for example needs an UEFI, which among other things support device enumeration and some base drivers. The availability of UEFI was the key of installing Windows on Raspberry Pi, a device where Windows were never supposed to run. Likewise with a proper UEFI you can also install Windows (ARM version) on QEMU.
Keep in mind we are talking about a usual binary distribution of Windows, where no special adaptation to HW architecture are compiled via source code modifications.
The new ARM Helios (Neoverse E1/Cortex A65-AE) core sounds interesting for lower end systems assuming it ever makes it there. Even without SMT you get 1.4x A53 in Integer IPC (1.8x with SMT), and 2x A53 in FP IPC (2.4x with SMT). All of this drawing 183 mW per core at 2.5 GHz.
Probably wont benefit high end phones massively, excepting management of power sucking background apps - however, assuming it has a lower license cost vs A76, it could make a compelling main core for Rasberry Pi 4.
Also, with recent improvements to web layout engines like Servo targetting high parallelism, I could see this level of efficiency working well for the lower end phone market.
None of those are related to the CPU cores that are kinda good compared to everything else.
Further improvements to the nascent Panfrost driver may help the problem of low GPU performance by at least opening up the market for open source mobile GPU beyond Broadcom..
Yet more improvements to the Panfrost driver - seems to be picking up steam.
The framebuffer display driver supports Direct3D via Reference or WARP driver options (both using SW rendering). Not sure where you got from that it does not? So you should be able to run Direct3d games both native (ARM64) or via emulation (x86).
I do imagine this to be very slow though.
It does not, they give a error about no D3D or DirectDraw Support. What is kinda strange because thats not what dxdiag says. At least DirectDraw games should run.
Which game does give an error? I did test with SNES9x (native ARM64) using 3d3 driver and it does initialize and run.
Damn, MS has some work to do there.
Old 32 bit games, like Age 1& Age 2 (No DirectDraw Support), Freelancer and Populus 3 (No D3D support).
Well... 1GB of ram is not really enoght to run W10 and a SD or USB 2.0 is not really a good way to run Windows at all. But it does kinda work with very fast SD cards. I expect RPI4 to actually be able to run W10 ARM ok, just dont expect very high performance out of A55 cores that i would expect to be present on RPI4.


Janakalyan Primary School, on edge of mountain, with bare walls, rough floors. The ceiling leaks rain and snow. In playtime, some children fall down the mountain and die.
Tauthali Primary School, with no windows or doors. Mountain goats, birds, and water buffalo enter classrooms at night. They leave behind droppings and a horrid smell.
In August 2001 I cried. I cried in Nagarkot, Nepal, at the dilapidated state of the huts called schools. I cried at impoverished school children with no blackboard, chalk, pencils or paper, repeating words like parrots because there was no other way to learn. And I cried at how one headmaster had saved for years to buy a buffalo, and now wakes at 3am daily and walks miles through the mountains to sell buffalo milk to pay for basic school items like another teacher. Until then, after he's sold the milk, he teaches everything himself.
The tragic situations touched my heart. I felt my heart well up, then swell up, and I swore then and there to help all the schools in the area.
Nagarkot would be a beautiful area if it were not for the poverty. Situated on a Himalayan ridge, on one side it overlooks the Valley of Kathmandu. The city's lights twinkle in the distance at night. On the other side are the highest Himalayan peaks, including Mount Everest, always snow-capped.
But my time in Nagarkot was not spent in idle sightseeing. It was spent mobilising local support within the seven local 'schools', from the area's nine village chiefs, and from the Villages' Development Chief.
By the time I left, visits had been made to schools to ascertain needs. One school's poor children were crammed into small, filthy, crumbling classrooms because new partially built classrooms had run out of funds. They only need £500 to finish the work.
Another school had 200 students, but only four pencils between them. This did not really matter, as they had no paper to write on.
Two other schools were situated about halfway up a mountain so that children from villages in the valley far below, and the ridge way above, could all attend school. There were no real paths, only roughly hewn footsteps in steep mud or rock, with often a sheer drop on one side. The path is highly dangerous, especially when wet, and children on their way to school had slipped off the mountainside and died.
These tragic circumstances increased because schools had no games, no ball, and no skipping rope or coit, nothing except stones to play with. At one school, children played musical chairs, to a tune of the teacher's humming. But the school had no chairs. So bare-footed children stood on rough stones.
There are too many horrid things to relate. Suffice to say, seeing the schools and ascertaining needs was followed by discussions with the area's Villages Development Chief, Mr Bill Bahadur. He agreed to call a meeting with the Chief's of all nine local villages, with the objective of raising villager support for a planned Schools Development Programme.
Provide labour from their pool of unemployed tradesmen.
Set up individual parent-teacher School Management Committees with one committee over all, to ensure monies are well spent.
Send girls to school, instead of sending them to work hard on the mountain slopes from the age of three).
As an initial agreement, the outcome was successful. Before leaving, from personal savings I bought enough basic play and school items such as footballs, coits, skipping ropes, blackboards, chalks, exercise books, pencils and rubbers for each child in each school.
Each pound buys perhaps 10 times more than in England.
Let's wipe away the tears from Nagarkot's visitors.
My travel fares to visit the Schools in Nepal come out of my pocket.
100% of your donations helps children's education.Come with me if you wish, and see the suffering you'll relieve.


This paper presents a novel design of a dynamic voltage restorer (DVR) which mitigate voltage sags, swell and phase jumps by injecting minimum active power in system and provides the constant power at load side without any disturbance. The design of this compensating device presented here includes the combination of P WM-based control scheme, d q 0 transformation and PI controller in control part of its circuitry, which enables it to minimize the power rating and to response promptly to voltage quality problems faced by today's electrical power industries.
immense knowledge of power electronics was applied in order to design and model of a complete test system solely for analyzing and studying the response of this efficient DVR. In order to realize this control scheme of DVR MAT LAB/SIM U LINK atmosphere was used. The results of proposed design of DVR's control scheme are compared with the results of existing classical DVR which clearly demonstrate the successful compensation of voltage quality problems by injecting minimum active power.
Fig.2.Source Voltage with Sag of 0.5 p.u.
Fig.6.Source Voltage with Swell of 1.5 p.u.
As the world is moving towards modernization, the most essential need that it has is of an efficient and reliable power of excellent quality. Nowadays, more and more sophisticated devices are being introduced, and their sensitivity is dependent upon the quality of input power. Because even a slight disturbance in power quality, such as Voltage sags, voltage swells, and harmonics, which lasts in tens of milliseconds, can result in a huge loss because of the failure of end use equipment s. For catering such voltage quality problems an efficient DVR is proposed in this paper with the capability of mitigating voltage sags, swells, and phase jumps by injecting minimum active power hence decreasing the VA rating of DVR.
 K u m a r, R. A nil, G. Siva K u mar, B. K a l y an K u mar, and Ma he sh K. Mi s h R a. "Compensation of voltage sags and harmonics with phase jumps through DVR with minimum VA rating using Particle Swarm Optimization." In Nature & Biologically Inspired Computing, 2009. NaBIC 2009. World Congress on, pp. 1361-1366. IEEE, 2009.
 Song song, Chen, Wang Jian wei, Ga o Wei, and Hu Xiaoguang. "Research and design of dynamic voltage restorer." In Industrial Informatics (INDIN), 2012 10th IEEE International Conference on, pp. 408-412. IEEE, 2012.
 A. Bendre, D. Divan, W. Kranz, and W. E. Brumsickle, "Are Voltage Sags Destroying Equipment?," IEEE Industry Applications Magazine, vol. 12, pp. 12-21, July-August 2006.
Numerous controllers based fluffy rationale have been connected on electric power framework. As often as possible, time reaction of the fluffy controllers is gradually, on the grounds that the quantity of participation capacities are too much. Many research are proposed to limit the quantity of enrollment work, for example, fluffy polar controller technique. By utilizing this strategy, number of enrollment capacity can be limited, so the time reaction of the controller turn out to be quicker. This paper displays the Dynamic Voltage Restorer (DVR) based Fuzzy Polar Controller Method to remunerate adjusted voltage list. Reenactment results demonstrate this proposed technique can repay adjusted voltage hang superior to PI controller.
DVR based PI Controller can keep up half voltage hangs at 110 % and 30% voltage droops at 98%. DVR based Fuzzy Polar Controller can keep up half voltage lists at 100 % and 30% voltage lists at 97%. As per the mistake normal everything being equal, are demonstrated that the execution of DVR based Fuzzy Polar Controller superior to DVR based PI Controller. Further investigation for unbalance remedy is being attempted to demonstrate the viability of the proposed controller.
This paper researches the execution of Dynamic Voltage Restorer for repaying distinctive voltage droop levels with different flaws and to lessen the Total Harmonic Distortion amid the alleviation procedure. The DVR is actualized with three stage voltage source inverter and is associated at the purpose of normal coupling so as to direct the heap side voltage. The pay depends on PI and Mamdani Fuzzy Controller. Broad reproduction examines under various size of hang for flaws on load side for adjusted and lopsided conditions are directed utilizing shortcoming generator. Reenactment result investigation uncovers that DVR performs consummately with PI and Fuzzy control approach. What's more, ability and execution of DVR for different vitality stockpiling limits and infusion transformer rating are additionally broke down. The execution of these controllers is approved with recreation results utilizing Matlab/Simulink.
The DVR handles both adjusted and uneven conditions viably and infuses the digressed voltage part under supply unsettling influences to keep the heap voltage adjusted and consistent at the ostensible esteem. In this manner the proposed DVR can alleviate different dimensions of voltage hang and distinctive sorts of shortcomings. Reenactment results in MATLAB/SIMULINK demonstrate that the control conspire gives a precise following of the voltage reference and a quick transient reaction. Both the controllers shows great execution and limit the THD level. It is discovered that FLC gives better execution with THD of 0.42% where as PI gives 0.46% THD. The expansion in KVA rating of infusion transformer and DC stockpiling esteem successfully repays the voltage droop and diminish the THD level. Be that as it may, higher estimation of DC stockpiling and transformer rating makes it increasingly costly. The adequacy of a DVR framework basically relies on the rating of DC stockpiling limit, infusion transformer rating and the heap. From the recreation, it obviously demonstrates the significance of these components and how it influences the execution of DVR is dissected.
This paper introduces a novel plan procedure of decoupled PI current controller for changeless magnet synchronous generator (PMSG)- based breeze turbines sustaining a lattice fixing inverter through consecutive converter. In particular, the plan procedure comprises of consolidating aggravation eyewitness based control (DOBC) with criticism linearization (FBL) system to guarantee ostensible transient execution recuperation under model vulnerability. By rearranging the DOBC under the input linearizing control, it is demonstrated that the composite controller decreases to a decoupled PI current controller in addition to an extra term that has the primary job of recuperating the ostensible transient execution of the criticism linearization, particularly under advance changes in the reference. Also, an enemy of windup compensator emerges normally into the controller while considering the control input immersion to plan the DOBC. This licenses to expel the impact of the immersion squares required to constrain the control input. The proposed control plot is executed and approved through experimentation directed on 22-post, 5 kW PMSG. The outcomes uncovered that the proposed system can effectively accomplish ostensible execution recuperation under model vulnerability just as enhanced transient exhibitions under control immersion.
Fig. 2. System's response under the composite controller consisting of the feedback controller (13) and the PI-DO (34)–(37). The controller was tested experimentally using the block diagram of Fig. 3. Specifically, the PI-DO (34)–(37) was evaluated with and without the consideration of the reference jump .
Fig. 3. System's response under the composite controller consisting of the feedback controller (13) and the DOBC (25). The controller was tested experimentally using the block diagram depicted in Fig. 2.
Fig. 4. System's response under a conventional PI current controller .
Fig. 5. Performance evaluation of the proposed PI-DO under model uncertainty.
This paper has introduced a novel structure of decoupled PI controller to upgrade the transient execution for the present control of PMSG-based breeze turbine. The proposed controller strategy was built up by consolidating a DOBC with criticism linearizing control law. For reasons unknown, the composite controller has a decoupled PI-like structure in addition to two extra parts. The initial segment is fundamentally an enemy of windup compensator, while the second part utilizes the reference bounce data to counteracts the impact of the sudden advance changes in the power request on the transient reaction. This change of the decoupled PI controller grants to ensure zero enduring state blunder without giving up the ostensible transient execution indicated by the state input controller. This remarkable element can't be accomplished under the current decoupled PI controller, especially when the model parameters are not precise. Trial tests have been performed, and the outcomes bolster the utilization of the reference bounce data to enhance the transient execution under the decoupled PI controller. Along these lines, the proposed methodology furnishes professionals with a substitute strategy in structuring a vigorous decoupled PI current controller for PMSG-based breeze vitality change framework.
ABSTRACT: Use of power electronic converters with nonlinear loads produces harmonic currents and reactive power. A shunt active power filter provides an elegant solution to reactive power compensation as well as harmonic mitigation leading to improvement in power quality. However, the shunt active power filter with PI type of controller is suitable only for a given load. If the load is varying, the proportional and integral gains are required to be fine tuned for each load setting. The present study deals with neural network based controller for shunt active power filter. The performance of neural network controller evaluated and compared with PI controller.
The active power filter controller with neural network based controller has been seen to eminently minimize harmonics in the source current when the load demands non sinusoidal current, irrespective of whether the load is fixed or varying. Simultaneously, the power factor at source also becomes the unity, if the load demands reactive power. Thus, neural network based controller is far superior to PI type of controller which requires fine tuning of Kp and Ki every time the load changes. In the present work, the performance of a range of values of the load is considered to robustly test the controller. It has been demonstrated that neural network based controller, therefore, significantly improves the performance of a shunt active power filter.
Laszlo Gyugyi, "Reactive Power Generation and Control by Thyristor Circuits", IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. IA-15, no. 5, September/October 1979.
Akagi, Y. Kanazawa, and A. Nabae, "Instantaneous reactive power compensators comprising switching devices without energy storage components," IEEE Transaction Industrial Applications, vol. IA-20, pp. 625-630, May/June 1984.
Z. Peng, H. Akagi, and A. Nabae, "A study of active power filters using quad series voltage source pwm converters for harmonic compensation," IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 9–15, January 1990.
Conor A. Quinn, Ned Mohan, "Active Filtering of Harmonic Currents in Three-phase, Four-Wire Systems with Three-phase and Single-phase Non-Linear Loads", IEEE-1992.
A. Morgan, J. W. Dixon, and R. R. Wallace, "A three-phase active power filter operating with fixed switching frequency for reactive power and current harmonic compensation," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 402–408, August 1995.


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Joseph Calleja (born January 22, 1978) is a Maltese operatic tenor.

Early life and career
Calleja was born in Attard, Malta. He began singing at the age of 16, having been discovered by tenor Brian Cefai and continued his studies with Maltese tenor Paul Asciak.  He attended De La Salle College. At the age of 19 he made his operatic debut as Macduff in Verdi's Macbeth at the Astra Theatre in Gozo and went on to become a prize winner at the Belvedere Hans Gabor Competition the same year. In 1998 he won the Caruso Competition in Milan and was a prize winner in Plácido Domingo's Operalia in 1999.

On November 2, 2012, the University of Malta presented Calleja with a Doctor of Literature Honoris Causa in acknowledgment of his achievements as an internationally renowned tenor.

On October 8, 2015, Calleja was elected to the board of directors of the European Academy of Music Theatre.

Concerts in Malta

In 2009, Calleja began a series of annual concerts at the Granaries in Malta. The first concert was performed with Michael Bolton. In 2010, he sang with Dionne Warwick and Riccardo Cocciante and his choir of 500 children. In 2011, he appeared with soprano Hayley Westenra and Italian singer Lucio Dalla. In 2012, he was joined by Ronan Keating and Gigi D'Alessio. In 2013, he sang with Zucchero, Rebecca Ferguson, Gianluca Bezzina, Riccardo Cocciante and Tenisha. In 2015, he sang with Anastacia as a special guest. In 2012, Calleja was appointed Malta's first Cultural Ambassador, a role he takes very seriously.

Recordings
Calleja's first solo recital disc, Tenor Arias, was released in 2004. He followed that up in 2005 with The Golden Voice. In 2011, his third solo album Joseph Calleja – The Maltese Tenor reached second overall position on the German charts and debuted at number one in the US Billboard Classical Traditional chart. His 2011 DVD of La traviata from the Royal Opera House and costarring Renée Fleming was nominated for a Grammy award. His 2020 album The Magic of Mantovani. The Original Recordings With Joseph Calleja topped Amazon's UK's Opera Charts.

Philanthropy
The Drake Calleja Trust came into existence on the 1st September 2015.  Established by publisher and philanthropist James JP Drake, the patron of this trust is Joseph Calleja. It has completed six application calls until 2021 and awarded seventy scholarships for studies in the United Kingdom to exceptionally talented music students of classical music on undergraduate, postgraduate, and research levels. Through these grants, students have purchased new instruments, participated in competitions, masterclasses and training, attended auditions in the UK and other countries, made recordings, and furthered their studies.

On 25 October 2013, Calleja together with Bank of Valletta launched the BOV Joseph Calleja Foundation. The aim of the foundation is to help vulnerable individuals and social groups in the Maltese community. Specifically, its attention is directed towards helping underprivileged children with unique artistic or musical talents.

List of recording and videos
2003: DVD of Maria Stuarda featuring Calleja as Leicester, recorded by the Fondazione Orchestra Stabile de Bergamo
2004: Solo recital disc, Tenor Arias, conducted by Riccardo Chailly with the Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Milano
2004: "Puccini Discoveries": Cantata Cessato il suon dell'armi, conducted by Riccardo Chailly with the Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Milano
2005: Solo recital disc, The Golden Voice, conducted by Carlo Rizzi with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields
2009: CD of I Capuleti e i Montecchi featuring Calleja as Tebaldo, conducted by Fabio Luisi
2010: DVD of Simon Boccanegra featuring Calleja as Gabriele Adorno with Plácido Domingo in the title role; recorded at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
2011: DVD of La traviata featuring Calleja as Alfredo Germont, recorded at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London (Grammy nomination)
2011: Solo recital disc, The Maltese Tenor, with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
2012: Solo recital disc, Be My Love – A Tribute to Mario Lanza, BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Steven Mercurio
2013: Solo recital disc, Amore, with the BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Steven Mercurio and featuring Nicola Benedetti and Ksenija Sidorova
2013: CD of Simon Boccanegra featuring Calleja as Gabriele Adorno with Thomas Hampson in the title role; conducted by Massimo Zanetti
2016: DVD and Blu-ray of Mefistofele featuring Calleja as Faust, with René Pape in the title role; conducted by Omer Meir Wellber at Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich.
2018: Verdi, Orchestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, conducted by Ramón Tebar, Decca

Calleja made a guest appearance on Renée Fleming's album By Request, singing the role of Alfredo in the act 1 closing scene of La traviata. His recording of "La donna è mobile" from Verdi's Rigoletto was featured in the soundtrack for the 2007 film No Reservations, starring Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Film
Calleja appears as tenor Enrico Caruso in James Gray's 2013 film The Immigrant, which also features Joaquin Phoenix and Marion Cotillard.

Repertory

Zephoris in Si j'étais roi (Adolphe Adam)
Tebaldo in I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Vincenzo Bellini)
Arturo in I puritani (Bellini)
Elvino in La sonnambula (Bellini)
Pollione in Norma (Bellini)
Lind in Isabella (Azio Corghi)
Nemorino in L'elisir d'amore (Gaetano Donizetti)
Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti)
Leicester in Maria Stuarda (Donizetti)
Ernesto in Don Pasquale (Donizetti)
Roberto Devereux in Roberto Devereux (Donizetti)
Faust in Faust (Charles Gounod)
Roméo in Roméo et Juliette (Gounod)
Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni (Mozart)
Rodolfo in La bohème (Giacomo Puccini)
Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi (Puccini)
Count Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia (Gioachino Rossini)
Fenton in Falstaff (Giuseppe Verdi)
Edoardo di Sanval in Un giorno di regno (Verdi)
Macduff in Macbeth (Verdi)
The Duke in Rigoletto (Verdi)
Alfredo in La traviata (Verdi)
Hoffmann in Les contes d'Hoffmann (Jacques Offenbach)
 Ruggiero in La rondine (Puccini)
 Nicias in Thaïs (Jules Massenet)
 Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly (Puccini)
 Gabriele Adorno in Simon Boccanegra (Verdi)
 Fritz in L'amico Fritz (Pietro Mascagni)
 Nadir in The Pearl Fishers (Georges Bizet)

Personal life
Calleja has two children.

References

External links

 Opera Vivrà – Joseph Calleja's biography

1978 births
Living people
Operatic tenors
Maltese opera singers
Operalia, The World Opera Competition prize-winners
People from Attard
21st-century male opera singers
20th-century male opera singers

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This also applies for narrators of audiobooks. My wife and I frequently take audiobooks on long roadtrips. Great way to make them seem shorted. Almost as much as the book itself, what makes or breaks the experience is the talent. We love when first person books are read by a good actor you can easily picture as the character.
Benedict is incredibly talented in pretty much everything he does. I was very fortunate to meet him in person during my modeling days on a magazine photo shoot. He is such a sweetheart, humble and very charismatic.
Well, that was just awesome. Thanks for sharing!


How have y'all been?? With the the season of festivities doing the rounds, I'm sure you beauties might be super excited . Well, time flies and yea!!! Life definitely goes on, with it's teensy bit of ups and downs.
That's how life really is, so we've got to embrace the ups and stand strong through our downs, because ladies! trust me what ever happens definitely happens for a reason and whatever happens in your past will definitely connect to something good in the future.
Some people come into our lives to stay ,wereas some people just come into our lives to teach us lessons through life. So, don't be afraid to make mistakes, no one's perfect, annnd every mistake made is a lesson well learnt.
So, be your chirpy self,,also happiness comes from within, you will be happy if you choose to be.
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A Brief History of Tuba Valve Systems
Early in the 19th century when valves were just coming into use on brass instruments they probably were not quite as good as the ones we have today, and valve combinations did not work well on them. Early instrument makers probably figured that most notes would be played either open or with a single valve. Consequently, they made a semitone valve, a whole-step valve, and a minor third valve. Musicians soon found that they could get away with using the first and second valves for a minor third instead of using the third valve alone, and some experimented with making the third valve tubing longer. For example, Paul Bernard of the Paris Conservatory published fingering charts show the third valve used for a major third instead of a minor third, and this system was commonly used in Sweden until quite recently. Most trumpets and euphoniums as well as many British-style tubas have tuning slides on the third valve long enough to keep that option open, but it is rarely used today.
Although the original bass tuba patented by Wieprecht and Moritz in Prussia in 1835 had its valves arranged in a different order, the one corresponding to our modern fourth valve was tuned to a perfect fourth, just as it usually is today. The fifth valve on that instrument was a "long semitone" valve, similar to the one described in Example 1 in the section below about "adding a fifth valve". Such a valve reduces the need for slide-pulling when used instead of the second valve in combinations such as 123 or 24.
Four-valve tubas from the early 20th century were sometimes made with the fourth valve tuned to a major third (two whole-steps) like the "swedish" third valve described above. All of Fred Geib's tubas apparently were built that way. When Mr. Geib added a fifth valve it was natural to tune it to a perfect fourth, continuing the pattern, so that each interval down to the perfect fourth could be played with a single valve. It turns out that one can find valve combinations with this system that work pretty well for every note down to the pedal note and even beyond, but no one claims that those combinations are simple and easy to learn.
Tuning the fourth valve to a perfect fourth has been a more common practice, ever since the beginning. When a fifth valve was added to such an instrument it was tuned to two whole steps, like Geib's fourth valve. Perhaps because of Roger Bobo's influence this has been called the "Mirafone system" although it existed long before that brand name was in use. As with Geib's system, one can play chromatically down to the pedal note if one can remember the fingerings.
Around 1970 Chester Roberts began advocating a "long whole-step" fifth valve, which has become available on many brands of tuba and is in common use today. Instead of using 124 and lipping up to get a perfect fifth, one uses 45. It turns out that one can find reasonably good fingerings for all of the other notes with this system, too. For example, you can use 235 instead of 123 or 24. Some tubists find this set of fingerings a bit easier to understand and remember.
Ever since seeing a 5-valve tuba while in high school I wondered about its possibilities. Eventually I figured out a logical approach to the question and published an article about it in the T.U.B.A. Journal Vol. VII, No. 1, Summer, 1980. An expanded version is in this website.
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Our little journey last summer brought many of the experiences of the Ingalls family to life for us. From sweeping out a dugout to making a corncob doll, we felt like we had walked in Laura's shoes. But we hadn't eaten at her table. While Breece and Avery enjoyed a stick of old fashioned candy at nearly every stop, there was very little authentic pioneer flavor to our food experiences along the Laura Ingalls Wilder Highway.
Not that we expected to find blackbird pie or fried salt pork, but we thought that some enterprising restaurateur could have at least put pancake men or heart shaped cakes on the menu. It would have been lovely to try some of the treats Laura rhapsodized about — especially those light, crispy honey-brown bubbles of dough she called vanity cakes.
But nowhere we visited had so much as a package of donut holes labeled "Vanity Cakes" for the tourist trade.
Though we'd left Plum Creek and the prairie far behind, our taste for Laura-related adventures hadn't subsided. With Janet and Avery back in Boise, Idaho, and Breece and Rachael home in northern Virginia, we decided we'd each try to make Ma's simple fried treats and share the results.
Laura and Mary had never been to a party and did not quite know what it would be like. Ma said it was a pleasant time that friends had together.
Since Laura and Mary's "country party" was how we all got introduced to vanity cakes in the first place, Breece and I thought it would be most appropriate to fry our dough with friends. We have a lot of friends who appreciate fried dough. But to really appreciate vanity cakes and all they represent, we needed Madelyn Rosenberg and Wendy Shang — both extraordinary authors of children's books and real bonnetheads.
Wendy, determined that we achieve THE BUBBLE in our vanity cakes, did some reading up on the success and failures of other makers of vanity cakes and found a positive reference to the Indian bread poori (or puri). I consulted my friend Rita, who makes poori and golgappa and all kinds of other delights. We decided that Rita's advice about making a moist dough that is rolled flat before frying made good sense.
But we also decided that we had to try to fry as described in On the Banks of Plum Creek. Or as close as we could get. Barbara Walker's The Little House Cookbook has a recipe along with this interesting tidbit of information: Laura Ingalls Wilder never learned to make vanity cakes herself. That didn't bode well.
Armed with a new deep fat fryer, we assembled our cooking crew at Wendy's house. For the first time Breece had some male companionship on a Laura Ingalls Wilder adventure — Wendy's boys Matthew and Jason and Madelyn's son Graham. Plus we had the enthusiastic Karina and Kate, who even got out their sunbonnets.
Bonnets didn't get worn for long though and everybody donned aprons. With the fryer plugged in and heating up, we started mixing up dough, with Wendy following The Little House Cookbook recipe while I worked up a variation on the poori using Cream of Wheat.
There was much anticipation as the first vanity cake was dropped in the fryer.
But then, disappointment and frustration.
No puffy, airy, crispy delight! We had dough bombs. Time to modify the recipe. Next up in the fryer was our poori vanity cake.
Not a beautiful bubble, but it was hollow! And crunchy. It also was made without egg. Could it be the egg that made our first cake bomb? Or was it because we rolled and flattened the poori cake? We decided to try different techniques and adjust the recipe.
Our trial and error continued to yield a lot of errors. The kids were wandering away. We started thinking Laura's enthusiasm for vanity cakes was a misplaced childhood memory. Which led to Madelyn's fond thoughts for funnel cake and how, in her imagination, funnel cake was vanity cake.
That sounded good to the kids and to us, though we were all still hoping for bubble shaped treats. So we found a no-yeast beignet recipe.
We fried up a whole batch and covered them with powdered sugar. We covered the vanity cakes with powdered sugar too and there wasn't a crumb left.
After the sugar buzz wore off and the kids were playing Wii (no creek nearby), we talked about what Wilder might really have been remembering when she described, "The cakes were not sweet, but they were rich and crisp, and hollow inside. Each one was like a great bubble. The crisp bits of it melted on the tongue." Maybe the memory of fun with friends is what made her vanity cakes so rich and delicious. I know that's how I'll remember ours.
Aunt Rachael told us that she and Breece made vanity cakes and that we should make them too. While Nama (Janet) got the recipe, Grandpa cleaned up the kitchen for us just so we could mess it up again. My little sister Wren got Nama's camera to take pictures and I got out an apron.
In the book, vanity cakes are treats for a party, but we are making them just for fun. And to eat!
Aunt Rachael said that the only vanity cakes they made that bubbled up was one that was rolled flat first. So that is what we tried. We rolled all the dough out into a thin layer then cut it into four circles.
We cooked them one at a time in hot oil until they were brown on both sides. Then we sprinkled on powdered sugar. Lots and lots of powdered sugar.
But still delicious! We ate them all and made some more.


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Contact Made: After Teixiera fail, Liverpool make €18m offer for 'excellent' international attacker
With the the deal for Alex Teixeira seemingly dead in the water, Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has reportedly turned his attention to a different attacking target.
According to TalkSport today:
"Liverpool have joined Arsenal in the race to Spanish attacker Nolito, [and] the club has submitted an €18m bid for the Spanish attacker".
If this story is true, it looks like the Reds have activated Nolito's release clause, which currently stands at €18m.
Some info about Nolito:
* 29 year old left-winger, who can also play on the right. Current Contract expires in June 2019.
* 35 goals/22 assists (52) in 89 apps for Celta Vigo (One every 119 mins). Four appearances for the Spain national team.
* This season: 13 goals/assists in 15 games (One every 101 mins)
* Dec 2012: Agent confirmed Liverpool's interest in a transfer: "Clubs like Valencia and Liverpool are interested in him [Nolito] but there are still no concrete proposals".
* Nov 2015: Celta coach Eduardo Berizzo raved: "Nolito is good enough to play in any team, including Barcelona."
* Nov 2015: When asked about his future, Nolito told reporters: "I have my feet on the ground. I intend to disconnect from the stories around about my future. What will happen will happen".
* Jan 2016: Berizzo told reporters: "I have no notification from my club that the exit of Nolito is true, but if it happens, we need to have the capacity to replace him".
* Jan 2016: Sergio Busquets' assessment: "Nolito would bring us [Barcelona] a threat in the flank as he is doing at Celta. He is an excellent player."
Nolito is a tough, robust player, who's suffered only two injuries in the last ten years. However, it wouldn't be Liverpool-related without some kind of hamstring injury, and like Teixeira, the Spaniard is currently out injured with...a hamstring injury (!)
A viable alternative to Teixeira?


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Q: Mongoose adding incorrect value in UpdateOne I'm trying to update a User's discord ID based on their key to link the two. Here is my code:
console.log(user.discordID);
User.updateOne({key: user.key},{discordID: user.discordID}, (err, result) => {
       if(err){
              console.log(err);
              return err;
              }
       console.log("Updated missing User discord ID");
       console.log(result);
       console.log(user.discordID);
});

I pass in the user object to the function and have verified the values are correct. The console.logs show the correct value, 660955020694650891, both before and after the update. But in the DB itself after the update the value is 660955020694650900. For the life of me I can't figure out why this is happening and it is derailing other functionality. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

A: Its probably because the number of the discordID is bigger then the 'Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER', which means that javascript can not represent the exact number.
See more information here:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Number/MAX_SAFE_INTEGER
You can solve the problem by using BigInt.
See details here:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/BigInt

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