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wordpress | Almost 19 years later, TDDM is still at it with it’s devotionals!
TDDM is a teen devotional ministry dedicated to writing devotionals and bible studies for teens to help strengthen their walk and to glorify our Lord at the same time. Devotionals are written everyday by some of the best teen Christian writers on the net. Every person at this ministry cares about you. If you need somebody to talk to, we welcome you with warm hearts and opens arms.
Every day a new and insightful devotional will be posted for your reading. They are written to help you with your questions as well as strengthen your walk with Christ. If you do not believe in Jesus, or would like to, I ask that you look at this page. | 2019-04-19T07:21:52Z | https://teenddailydevotionalministry.wordpress.com/about-2/ | Porn | Kids | 0.422836 |
imdb | In the future where dormant powers awaken in certain people, a secret organization is formed to hunt these people down. A mysterious powerful boy Quon will stop at nothing to end this persecution.
Flower drawings are being found near murder victims around the city, leading investigators to assume that the flowers depicted are used to drug the victims. Meanwhile, a new Attractor appears with the ability to talk to plants.
A Strange Journey through the mind leads Quon to ancient Japan. A new Attractor is discovered, and while this dream state becomes more dangerous, so does the situation for their new would be ally.
This review will be for all 6 movies(the entire show)~no spoilers~. Right off the bat this show draws in your attention with awesome powers & action. The basic outline is, all over the world their's people who have some type of ability that most don't even realize they have. Some of them(most of them) find out in a not so fun manner causing the others to be fearful and resent those with abilities. There's a secret order thats hunting all of these people down, thats basically all you know within the first 5 minutes. Now as the story goes, the pacing of the movies are absolutely perfect. No where does it seem like anything is being rushed to fast or not given enough time. The show has such a diverse cast of characters all with such unique personalities & abilities its really easy to get into this show and start getting attached. The animation is great, studio Bones is well known for being one of the best, they definitely follow through with this series. The artwork of everything is just so appealing, the characters, the buildings, to the greenery its all very beautiful. The sound effects & music are great, nothing feels out of place at all. The ending credit song is a great match, really gets you hype for the next episode(movie). The dub is great, not a single character feels off or out of place. It almost gave me a little bit of a "Guilty Crown" feeling, in terms of being hunted & also being the heroes. If your looking for an awesome action anime with really nice visuals and a very diverse set of abilities & cast this is definitely something you want to check out. The story may not be something as deep as something like "Gurren Lagann" but its a good story. It knows what it wants to do, sets out and does it, a cool story with cool fights, powers & good animation/artwork.
4/5 Why? Its overall just a good series, enjoyable story, great artwork & animation, great diversity of characters & abilities. Really I can't think of any complaints. If your a fan of action & abilities/powers then you will more than likely enjoy this. Studio Bones has yet to disappoint me. Definitely watch at least the first 2 movies before you decide if your going to stick with it or not though. | 2019-04-18T23:08:42Z | https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3565112/?ref_=vi_nxt_ap | Porn | Reference | 0.281087 |
wordpress | Have you ever spoken to a translator of the Bible . . . This is awesome and more. . .
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Why Do Most Churches Not Talk About the End Times?
Few churches preach on the end times but many churchgoers have questions about it.
By Diane M. Hoffmann, B.th., M.Th., Ph.D./Th.
It is indeed amazing how few churches teach or preach on the end times. Yet, many churchgoers and unchurched ask questions about it, especially now, as we see the chaos and frightening events taking place increasingly around us.
According to write-ups on the question of why most churches don’t talk about the end times, there are diversified reasons given. Some churches don’t take the Bible literally, particularly on the topics of prophecies and end-times. Some feel the book of Revelation is a mere allegory and therefore not a subject of belief. Others may have ministers who lack the training and education in that area and do not take the time to expand their knowledge on their own. Many have been turned off by the date setters and sensationalists. But there is another reason.
Fear of offending people, because there is so much division as to the exact interpretation and understanding. Fear of dividing the church and creating arguments among the congregation. Fear of showing their lack of knowledge on the subject. Fear of the political correctness that has reached up to the church in these last days.
The various understandings never fail to raise contentions when discussions are attempted, so it seems best to leave it alone. For example, the rapture (pre-, mid- and post-), the millennium (pre-, post- a-), the representation of the woman of Revelation 17, the mystery of Babylon, the one-hundred and forty-four sealed servants, the two witnesses, and so much more.
It is said that the most neglected book in the Bible is the book of Revelation. It is often regarded as a difficult and complex book to understand. Yet it is so important that God has attached to it a special blessing for those who read, hear and keep the things that are written therein. (Revelation 1:3).
And yet again, the first three chapters are most informative and simple to understand. The next chapters, four to eighteen, are the more complex, where the unfolding of the dealings of God on earth takes place, but one can skip over this temporarily to the rest of the chapters and read about to the glorious victory that is to come.
It is a book of power, throne, and victory and kingdom on earth for both Christ and His Church. His Church being not religions or denominations, but all those who believe in Him.
It would be ashamed to miss out on the most important book for the time we are living in now. We are living in the book of the end times. Everything else in the Word of God is in the past – except of course for the letters on how we should live as Christians. Now is the future.
The part of the book of Revelation that is the hardest to read and understand is so because we are seeing it being revealed as we speak. We’re not quite at the end yet. And it is only as we read it week by week, month by month, that our eyes are opened to clearer vision. Nobody can claim to understand everything about it yet.
There are prophecies throughout the Word of God that lead into the last book of the end times. It is helpful to read within the books of the major and minor prophets in the Old Testament, where we see history repeating itself. The book of Daniel expands directly into Revelation. In the New Testament, Jesus gives us a good summary of things to come in Matthew chapter 24, Mark chapter 13 and Luke chapter 21.
There is much in the Word of God that the church can use creatively to weave into Sunday sermons, to satisfy and guide the longing of both the beginner and the more advanced.
All sixty-six books/letters in the Word of God work together. Some places are harder than others to grasp. But, the Bible interprets itself through reading and re-reading. It has been said that the Bible does not need re-writing, it needs re-reading.
There is no limit to the time we need to spend in the Word of God in order to get it all. Even a lifetime is not enough, because as we familiarize ourselves and connect the dots of each of the passages of scriptures, we find new riches to be applied to the times we now live in.
Surprisingly, most people are eager to learn about the end times. They only need their pastors to give them the Word of God. At the very least, the church needs to guide people to do their own study of the subject by providing reading and study material from reputable sources, rather than leaving it up to them to obtain the wrong teaching from unconventional self-made or false teachers on the internet. Christians and non-Christians should be encouraged to attend regular group Bible studies facilitated by qualified teachers. And the pastor of the church should participate in them all.
There is nothing more effective to build the faith of the church than seeing the prophesies that have been fulfilled.
As the Word of God says, one does not know a prophecy is true until it has come to past (Jeremiah 28:9). When we see that God’s prophecies are true, we can be certain that those that have not yet come to past will do so as declared by the Word of God. “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” “But how shall they hear without a preacher?” (Romans 10:17 and 15).
My God is bigger than you . . .
I have lost three jobs in a short period of time, a matter of weeks. All to some very strange circumstances, all to reasons I have never encountered in my life.
Some might say, oh, the devil is after you. I typically would believe it too; however, I have learned that my God is so much bigger than the things the devil can throw at me. Instead of these being a threat, I saw them as a warning. God was letting me know, I was going to take some left turns.
I am looking this as God’s taking over the controls and steering me with direction. So, are they bad things – could be. I have to look at all the things that have happened to me in the last 10 years as a part of God getting me on the path I should of been on had I turned my life over to Christ 40 years ago when he first entered my life.
Read all about it . . .End of Times . . .
I am not sure how you feel or what you believe. If you are a Christian, I am guessing you are if you have read this sentence; but I believe we are in a head on collision with the prophecies of the Bible and the End of Times.
To me it seems we are right up approaching the peak of where we cannot turn back and once we cross over a particular point, the rest of the events in the Bible will come at us like lightening speed and give us almost no chance to react, unless we are prepared.
I have this software, you may have it to, named “Logos 7”, it has a feature where I can search the Bible by topic, thus I searched using the term “second coming of Jesus Christ” and below are the related verses to this request. It’s a long list. I began to link the Bible references to a Tecarta Bible Online and became overwhelmed with the task. I will continue as time goes, but for now it’s just a great list.
I have wondered the following and propose it to you. If you do believe as many people do, that we are in the End of Times, what are you doing to prepare?
I wonder if those of us who do believe this should not start an alliance, a working together, a support so to speak. Making sure we are prepared, we don’t miss any of the signs, we recognize the false prophets. Remember, Jesus said those who come before him in his name will even fool those of us who are devout followers of him.
I did some statistical look up on who believes, it is not most of us maybe a third of Christians truly believe we are in those last critical days and most probably will be alive when Jesus does in fact return. I pray we are, what an honor to be alive during this time, as an honor for the disciples to be with Jesus personally. God Bless, enjoy the list and hope to hear from you!
36 “But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.
37 For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, 39 and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
25 “Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. 2 Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. 3 For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, 4 but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. 5 As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept. 6 But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.’ 7 Then all those virgins rose and trimmed their lamps. 8 And the foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ 9 But the wise answered, saying, ‘Since there will not be enough for us and for you, go rather to the dealers and buy for yourselves.’ 10 And while they were going to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut. 11 Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, ‘Lord, lord, open to us.’ 12 But he answered, ‘Truly, I say to you, I do not know you.’ 13 Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.
9 “But be on your guard. For they will deliver you over to councils, and you will be beaten in synagogues, and you will stand before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness before them. 10 And the gospel must first be proclaimed to all nations. 11 And when they bring you to trial and deliver you over, do not be anxious beforehand what you are to say, but say whatever is given you in that hour, for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit. 12 And brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death. 13 And you will be hated by all for my name’s sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
14 “But when you see the abomination of desolation standing where he ought not to be (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. 15 Let the one who is on the housetop not go down, nor enter his house, to take anything out, 16 and let the one who is in the field not turn back to take his cloak. 17 And alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days! 18 Pray that it may not happen in winter. 19 For in those days there will be such tribulation as has not been from the beginning of the creation that God created until now, and never will be. 20 And if the Lord had not cut short the days, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, whom he chose, he shortened the days. 21 And then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘Look, there he is!’ do not believe it. 22 For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform signs and wonders, to lead astray, if possible, the elect. 23 But be on guard; I have told you all things beforehand.
27 And then he will send out the angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven.
10 Then he said to them, “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. 11 There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences. And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven. 12 But before all this they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my name’s sake. 13 This will be your opportunity to bear witness. 14 Settle it therefore in your minds not to meditate beforehand how to answer, 15 for I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict. 16 You will be delivered up even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you they will put to death. 17 You will be hated by all for my name’s sake. 18 But not a hair of your head will perish. 19 By your endurance you will gain your lives.
34 “But watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a trap. 35 For it will come upon all who dwell on the face of the whole earth.
7 Be patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient about it, until it receives the early and the late rains. 8 You also, be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand. 9 Do not grumble against one another, brothers, so that you may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing at the door.
10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.
11 Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, 12 waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn!
3 knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires.
12 “Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me, to repay each one for what he has done.
Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? | 2019-04-18T18:49:30Z | https://riproarghol.wordpress.com/tag/idolatry/page/2/ | Porn | Reference | 0.320562 |
wordpress | I promised an update on using Swarm/Foursquare, and since I’ve been doing some travelling on the last week or so, I’ve had a chance to put both apps through their paces.
The first point is that I don’t use the actual Foursquare app much. I check in to places using Swarm, and only go into Foursquare to wrote reviews, or to check who else has checked in at a particular location.
Secondly, Swarm is easy to use, and seems to work better in poor signal locations than the old Foursquare did (which is definitely a situation that I encounter regularly). I would like more ‘stickers’ (which give information about what you’re doing at a given time, e.g. working or drinking coffee!), but apparently you unlock these by checking into different places.
So I conclude that it is still possible to use Swarm/Foursquare to record my travels, which was my main aim with the previous app. Adding reviews of places is something I’m happy to do. All the lists I set up are still there, and I can still add places to them. Having invested over 4 years in using the app there was no question of uninstalling it. (Many of the new features, like ‘plans’ on Swarm, and local search on Foursquare, are of no interest to me, so I don’t see myself using them).
I’m sorry about the loss of points and mayorships, but don’t see them coming back any time soon, sadly. Judging from the various discussion groups, the Facebook page etc., it seemed that a significant number of users were going to uninstall Foursquare, but whether this is enough to persuade the company to reverse some of these changes is questionable! We’ll have to watch this space and see. | 2019-04-23T19:59:49Z | https://boomnet.wordpress.com/2014/08/19/using-swarm-and-the-new-foursquare-app/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.424188 |
tripod | Backstreet Boys & 'N Sync In Label Conflict?
(10/6/99, 1 a.m. PDT) - Attorneys for the Backstreet Boys have reportedly forwarded a letter to Jive Records Chairman/ CEO Clive Calder, claiming the label is in breach of contract and, therefore, the band is no longer on the Jive label, according to Billboard.
The Backstreet Boys' reported legal action comes after much speculation, but as of yet there is no official confirmation to reports that fellow boy band 'N Sync intends to make a move from RCA to Jive, which is also home to teen singing sensation Britney Spears.
Backstreet Boy Kevin Richardson tells LAUNCH that the Backstreet Boys play a large role in managing their own careers. "I think for us, we just want people to know that everything they hear on the album is real--it's us coming up with the treatments for our videos, and the ideas for our tours, and the stage show, putting it together. I mean, we're not just guys that are told what to do and where to be."
Adding to the confusion, Trans Continental Records released a statement last week, which read in part, that "'N Sync is first and foremost a Trans Continental Records act that is distributed in the U.S .by RCA, a label of BMG." Last year, the Backstreet Boys underwent a highly publicized split with their managers, reportedly because the company also represented 'N Sync.
A source at Jive tells LAUNCH "there is some tension" between the label and the Backstreet Boys, but refused to comment further on the situation. A spokesperson for the Backstreet Boys tells LAUNCH that they "have no comment...at the moment."
Meanwhile, the Backstreet Boys' latest album, Millennium, is No. 2 this week on the Billboard 200. 'N Sync's self-titled debut (which has been out longer), is currently at No. 46 after 79 weeks on the chart. Both albums have been RIAA certified at 7 million in sales. | 2019-04-24T11:03:07Z | http://lilylove.tripod.com/news/19.html | Porn | Business | 0.618485 |
wordpress | A collection of notes that I find useful in my practice as an internist / neurointensivist. ‘pbrain’ is short for “peripheral brain,” a term for the little notebooks interns carry in their lab coats, the size of which, it is said, is indirectly proportional to the size of his/her medical knowledge.
Enjoy this resource. Leave a comment.
hey there..came across your ‘peripheral brain’ while searching for Cosyntropin test.
I’m an intensivist working in India. I mostly use Evernote to store/retrieve my notes.
You have some great stuff here. | 2019-04-20T04:43:06Z | https://pbrainmd.wordpress.com/about/ | Porn | Reference | 0.974392 |
wordpress | Every year i used to set my family a Christmas quiz for something to do over the holiday. The cheating so and so’s went straight to the computer so I made it harder.
What is the most northerly capital in the world?
Which bear would find in the 100 Acre Wood?
What is the capital city of Afghanistan?
On a Monopoly board, which street shares the same colour as Leicester Square and Piccadilly?
Which actor was the first to play Doctor Who?
Which actor played the original ‘Grandad’ in Only Fools and Horses?
Which actress links ‘The Darling Buds of May’ and ‘Rosemary and Thyme’?
In the 1994 Disney film the Lion King, which actor provided the voice of the evil lion ‘Scar’?
Kurt Cobain, lead singer of Nirvana, featured heavily in the news during the 90s – but who was he married to?
Whitney Houston’s ‘I Will Always Love You’ was featured in which film?
Freddie Mercury topped the charts in August 1993, two years after his death – but with which song?
What was the name of the housekeeper in the 90s Irish sitcom, ‘Father Ted’?
What was the name of the first cloned sheep, hitting headlines in 1996?
How many pints are there in a firkin?
Which juice drink takes its name from the Maori phrase meaning ‘be healthy’?
Who invented the electric, pop-up toaster?
What was the name of the first test-tube baby?
Which is the only orchid plant that produces edible fruit?
This English naval administrator and Member of Parliament was born in February 1633, although he is now more famous for something else he created.
What is Madonna’s middle name?
Which famous celebrity is ‘A Pretender’ – when the letters of his name are rearranged?
What was Miss Marple’s first name?
Who painted ‘The Laughing Cavalier’?
Which British Prime Minister was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature?
In maths, what is 4 cubed?
Who made the catchphrase ‘correctomundo’ famous?
Which singer’s real name is Vincent Damon Furnier?
Which 2 main London railway stations have the word Cross in their names?
In which capital city would you be if you had visited Grafton Street and the Ha’penny bridge?
What type of beans would you find in a tin of baked beans?
What was the name of the first British woman to travel into space?
From which English port did the Titanic set sail on April 10th 1912?
In Douglas Adams’s book ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy’, what is the answer to the universal question of life, the universe and everything?
What is the capital city of Peru?
What does a Hippologist study?
What substance is the lead in pencils made of?
In the term CAT scan – what does CAT stand for?
In the nursery rhyme ‘Jack and Jill’, what did Jack bind his head with?
According to the bible, what animal did Noah release out of the ark first, when the rain stopped?
What was the name of Adrian’s love interest in Sue Townsend’s book ‘The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ ‘?
What were the first names of the Brothers Grimm?
What is the name for a word or phrase which is spelled the same forwards as it is backwards?
I have no feet but I can run. I give you health and also fun. What am I?
The Battle of Edgehill was the first of which conflict?
Who was the first man to walk on all 5 continents?
In what year did the London Underground first open?
How many spots are there in total on two dice?
What was the name of the cat at 10 Downing Street between 1989 and 1997?
What is the name of the pigment that makes leaves green?
Which actress appeared in ‘Brighton Rock’, ‘The Calendar Girls’ and ‘Gosford Park’?
Frederick Bulsara is the real name of which singer?
What name was taken by Cardinal Joseph Sarto when he became pope?
What is a baby oyster called?
What is the capital city of Croatia?
What is stored in a Bodega?
How would a French person wish you a Merry Christmas?
Christmas Island belongs to which country?
Which city is generally considered to be the birthplace of Jesus?
Which 1846 book tells the story of a little girl selling matches on the cold streets on New Year’s Eve?
Name all 8 reindeer, as listed in ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas’?
What name is given to small sausages wrapped in bacon, a staple at a British Christmas dinner?
26th December is known as Boxing Day and which saint’s day?
What is the greatest-selling Christmas single of all time?
True or False; if you add together all of the gifts in the song ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’, you get 363 gifts.
What is the name of the dot above a lowercase ’i’ or a ‘j’?
What is the nautical term for the back of a ship?
Sophie Ellis-Bextor is the daughter of which former Blue Peter presenter?
What musical instrument does Lisa play in the Simpsons?
In Sandro Botticelli’s famous painting, ‘The Birth of Venus’, what object is Venus standing on?
Which country elected the first female Prime Minister, in 1960?
Which two of Henry VIII’s six wives outlived him?
King Zog ruled which country?
How many main balls are there to choose from in a National Lottery Thunderball game?
Petra is a World Heritage site in which country?
Colin Fry has made his name as what type of entertainer?
Who is the famous television presenter wife of Vernon Kay?
Which Beatles album had the original artwork banned, as it contained images that were deemed too shocking?
How many pieces does each player begin with in a game of chess?
Who provided the voice of the evil lion ‘Scar’ in Disney’s ‘Lion King’?
Mount Rushmore has sculpted heads of four American Presidents; George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt… and who else?
In ‘Back To The Future’, Marty McFly travelled back in time – to which year?
Calvados is a brandy made from which fruit?
In the nursery rhyme ‘Sing a Song of Sixpence’, where was the queen?
How many people survived the sinking of RMS Titanic?
The river Po flows through which country? | 2019-04-20T18:35:29Z | https://fredarth.wordpress.com/2013/11/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.089392 |
wordpress | Utility room and downstairs w.c.
North Korea remains the world’s most restrictive nation in which to practice Christianity, according to the 2014 World Watch List released by Open Doors, a nonprofit organization helping persecuted Christians worldwide. The hermit kingdom is at the top of the rankings for the 12th consecutive year.
The list is compiled of countries where Christians face the most pressure and violence. Other nations included are Somalia, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un’s absolute rule over the country and the lack of accurate information coming out of Pyongyang makes it difficult to know exactly how the Christian community is treated.
Curry said Kim’s regime might feel threatened by people in North Korea practicing Christianity.
“There’s a weird theocracy that’s been developed over three generations … that’s is especially fearful of any sort of spirituality or personal faith that would run contrary to the fact Kim Jong-Un [and his predecessors] … consider themselves Gods,” said Curry. | 2019-04-25T18:05:33Z | https://jboy2244.wordpress.com/2014/01/ | Porn | News | 0.634083 |
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utoronto | University of Toronto scientists have uncovered more than 300 drug targets in cancer, attracting interest from the pharmaceutical industry looking to develop more precise treatments. Led by Professor Igor Stagljar of U of T’s Donnelly Centre, the study maps interactions between receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) and protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs) in humans, which can lead to cancer when their functions are disrupted. The highly anticipated study will be featured on the cover of the journal Molecular Cell, available in print on January 19.
Most cancer patients are treated with punishing chemotherapy drugs that have serious side-effects. In the last 15 years, a new generation of "smart" cancer drugs has been developed such as Gleevec, which effectively cures some forms of leukemia. These drugs are designed to target cancer cells with needle-like precision to avoid harming tissue that’s healthy. They do this by blocking proteins called kinases, which include receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) that control cell growth. RTKs are often mutated in cancer. However, the existing drugs block only a fraction of RTKs because these proteins have features that have made them notoriously hard to study.
Senior research associate Dr. Zhong Yao was able to carry out the largest study of RTKs to date by mapping their physical interactions with PTPs using methods previously developed in Stagljar’s lab.
“We tested interactions between almost all 58 RTKs and 144 PTPs that exist in human cells. Our map reveals new and surprising ways in which these proteins work together. These insights will help us better understand what goes wrong in cancer in order to develop more effective treatments,” said Stagljar, who is also a professor in U of T’s molecular genetics and biochemistry departments.
Lodged inside the cell’s outer envelope, or membrane, RTKs receive signals from the outside world—a hormone, for example— telling the cell to grow and divide. Normally, their activity is controlled by PTPs, which bind the RTKs and shut them down. This prevents sustained cell division that could lead to cancer.
The RTK’s place in the cell membrane is critical for their function, but it is also what has made them such a tough nut to crack. Traditional methods haven’t been able to capture the often short-lived physical interactions between RTKs and PTPs because the surrounding membrane has to be dissolved, which changes the proteins’ behaviour. Stagljar bridged this gap by developing MYTH and MaMTH, technologies designed precisely for measuring such fleeting interactions between membrane proteins in their natural setting.
The resulting map charts out more than 300 interactions between RTKs and PTPs in human cells, each a potential way to fight cancer. The findings have attracted attention of major pharmaceutical companies, including the pharma giant Genentech, which could lead to future collaborations in drug development.
Stagljar worked with two leading experts in PTP biology: Professor Anne-Claude Gingras of the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute and U of T’s Department of Molecular Genetics, and Professor Benjamin Neel of New York University, who was formerly with U of T and the University Health Network’s Princess Margaret Cancer Center.
“We wanted to show that these two assays we developed in our lab – MYTH and MaMTH – are suitable for studying these two important classes of proteins on such a large scale. The resulting wealth of important data can be used to develop new therapies against various types of cancer,” said Stagljar. “Ultimately, we want to build a map of interactions with all 3,000 or so human membrane proteins, of which at least 500 have direct roles in the onset of many human diseases. This will keep us busy,” he added. | 2019-04-25T05:00:34Z | http://www.moleculargenetics.utoronto.ca/research-highlight/2017/1/17/u-of-t-research-unlocks-new-data-for-cancer-drugs | Porn | Science | 0.864966 |
wordpress | I know, I know…all I ever give you guys is Before pictures, never any Afters. But here’s the thing…Everyone expects before pics to look bad. I am not a great photographer, so my after pics never make anything look as good as it feels.
I’m so excited about this new project, Zach’s most ambitious yet. He tore down the wall between the dining room and second parlor in order to make a great room!
In doing so, he came across a LOT of foolish, dangerous mistakes made by previous homeowners, including THREE joists in a row that have been cut almost entirely through to accomodate sewer pipes. Can you guess what sits atop two of these two-thirds-gone joists?…That’s right, the bathtub. *Shudder*.
So, he had to build a weight-bearing wall to fix this problem. When it was built, it looked so much like a chimney that we have decided to put a mantel and gas fireplace there, and hang some artwork or a nice mirror over it. Can you picture it?
He’ll enclose part of the shaft as a cold-air return to vent the upstairs . Those big silver vents run heat/ac to the second floor bedrooms and future attic playroom. The left-hand side will be a cleverly concealed, tall, narrow closet.
Which means moving all the switches so that they make sense with the new orientation.
Zach found an old stovepipe chimney, and we’re still toying with the idea of putting a wood-burning stove into that taped off front parlor. Maybe we’d be going a little overkill with the romance of Fire, there. But we probably will at least leave some of that brick exposed and do something artsy. I’ll keep you posted.
Can I tell you how happy I am to have a husband who can do all this stuff? And DOES IT! Despite my ridiculous whining about living in construction dust. The man is a saint. A talented SAINT.
My work, all mine. Yup I’m pretty amazing.
damn. damn. damn. you are one lucky lady! do you want to know how much i paid to have that much work done on my house? do you? no. and yet, i’m considering doing it again to 2 more rooms, but the dust and mess really drive me nuts.
do hope to see after pics!
You guys are going to have the fanciest house around. I think a fireplace will look really cool in that room. I can’t wait to see the after pics!
I can see it! When does Zach want to come back and help us with our bathroom? You guys are about due for a visit. | 2019-04-21T20:06:38Z | https://ibbyskibby.wordpress.com/2009/02/05/great-room-before-pics/ | Porn | Arts | 0.19033 |
wordpress | Donald Trump might have become the president of the United States. But make no mistake, it is really Holy Darkness that won this election.
Last year, Kali, the Hindu Goddess of death, destruction and resurrection, appeared on the Empire State Building, projected as an avatar of conservation by the filmmakers of Racing Extinction, a documentary about the environmental catastrophe now upon us. At the time I was so struck by the image, I wrote an article about the apparition. This is the sign of the times, Kali Takes New York, I raved.
On election night, as the results were projected onto the Empire State Building, all I could see was Kali’s fierce stare. This was déjà vu. This time, Kali took America.
Donald Trump might already be picking his deplorable cabinet, but it is the Dark Mother, the destroyer of worlds, oracle of holy change, the tenderhearted be-header, that won this country. Kali has brought down our house in a shocking blow; all the illusions of America, stripped in a single night. We are not who we thought we were. Now we must get ready to stand in her fires of transmutation. We need them.
Listening to Hillary Clinton’s concession speech, one had the impression that this was a different woman from the political candidate that we have come to begrudgingly accept as the champion of the Democratic Party, assured by the establishment to become the first Madam President.
Stripped of her hopes and lifelong dreams, speaking honestly and transparently about her pain, this woman in a dark suit was a far cry from the controlled, manicured version of her shiny political persona. Stripped of her agenda, stripped of her certainties, this Hilary might have won the country. This Hillary touched our hearts. This is what we look like after the Dark Mother has had her way with us.
We stop shining of the false light. As our heart breaks, as our veneer cracks, we open to more integrity, more truth, more tenderness. We stop trying to be all things for all people. We become this one small thing, feigning nothing.
Paradoxically, the price of true hope, it seems, is being unsettled beyond repair. And this is exactly the opportunity our political moment is presenting to us all. Right now, from all corners of our shocked culture, there are cries of hope, demands of needing to become even brighter lights amidst the spreading darkness. I disagree.
I think that this moment gives us an opportunity for reckoning only if instead of running for the light, we let ourselves go fully into the dark. If instead of resolving our discomfort too quickly, we consider the possibility of staying in the uncomfortable, in the irreconcilable, in the unsettled.
Before we rush in to reanimate the discourse of hope prematurely, we must yield to what is present. Receptivity is the great quality of darkness; darkness hosts everything without exception. The Dark Mother has no orphans. We must not send suffering into exile — the fear, the heartbreak, the anger, the helplessness all are appropriate, all are welcome. We can’t dismember ourselves to feel better.
We can’t cut off the stream of life and expect to heal.
Cutting off the inconvenient is a form of spiritual fascism. By resolving to stay only in the light in times of immense crisis, we split life; engage in emotional deportation, rather than hosting the vulnerable. Difficult feelings need to be given space so they can come to rest. They need contact.
In a culture of isolation, be the invitation to everything.
The intuition that the Dark Mother has returned is pervasive if we heed the signs, and our thirst for the dark is deep. Her every apparition spreads like wildfire. My Kali article went viral within hours, it was as if that image of Kali up there on top of the world overlooking Manhattan nourished the collective soul.
There is a great yearning for change in the order of things, and the Great Mother is leading the revolution. I’m with her.
We are collectively getting so sick and tired of lies, of the superficial, of the shiny neon lights of pop culture, pop spirituality and politics as usual. We thirst for the Real. And the Dark Mother is here to quench.
We saw darkness reclaiming its place also in the passing of Leonard Cohen, this most belated of biblical prophets. He left us with his last and perhaps most spiritually astute album, “You want it Darker,” which has skyrocketed in popularity. The entire album is the ultimate invitation into Holy Darkness. Once he famously preached that the cracks are how the light gets in. Now, he assured us God wants it darker.
Many have interpreted it to be an expression of hopelessness. No. He is asking the only relevant question of our time, whether we can swallow the pill of darkness and still say Hineni! I am here, God, here I am, bring it on! In his last interview about the album, Cohen says that this track is about offering ourselves up when the “emergency becomes articulate.” I think we can all agree that it has finally become articulate.
The mystics tell us that we need spiritual crisis. That we must enter the Cloud of Unknowing, the deepest despair, the most profound darkness within, without hope, in order to grow spiritually. They call such a time of deep crisis, of great uncertainty, the Dark Night of the Soul. There, in our radical desperation, in our absolute abandonment, it is said, the Divine Doctor awaits. Holy Darkness was Her medicine all along.
Darkness heals us without a spoonful of sugar; the wound is the gift, and this election is a good dose.
As the spirit of the Dark Mother hovers upon the collective waters, she has much to teach us. Kali is the great protectress and ultimate sacred activist. She is standing at Standing Rock, roaring against the black snake and the abuses of corporate capitalism. She is marching in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement.
She is here mourning the dying out of species and showing her terrible tongue at the shocking xenophobic, nationalist regressionism swallowing the planet. She is the changing of the tides, and she means business. She has come to burn up the old paradigm of separation and transfigure the collective heart.
Scientists tell us we live amidst the 6th extinction. Every 20 minutes, another species disappears from our planet. Our oceans are dying, our rivers are burning. Kali beckons us to embrace our sacred fury and let our heart roar for all living beings. Like her, we must rise as protectors, else perish as fools. She knows that we belong to each other and share one fate.
Recently, three protesters at Standing Rock got their Kali on. In a radical act, worthy of the great Mother herself, they crawled inside the Dakota Access Pipeline, putting their bodies on the line. Reading about it, I was shocked, I was troubled, I was moved. Suddenly I realized that love is always a disturbing presence. We must disrupt the order of things to obey the orders of Love.
These acts will keep growing, because the fires of truth that Kali has lit are spreading. As the old story of convenience and profit turns to ash, hearts across the planet are aflame for love and justice. Over a million people checked into Standing Rock after organizers worried that police can track protesters through their Facebook statuses.
Started by an indigenous mother, the Standing Rock protest has become a cultural creative movement no one could anticipate. Here everything meets: social justice, ecological justice, economic justice, sacred activism. And there are reasons to celebrate, such as the Army Corps’ momentous decision to deny the pipeline permit.
This might not be the end of DAPL, but this victory is a testament to the sacred fire. This is a beginning. This is what a prayerful movement looks like. This is what a culture waking up looks like. The struggle is far from over, but the zeitgeist has spoken. Hineni! it bellows.
Deeply we recognize that we are living amidst the churning of ages, although the climate catastrophe is not yet visible, most scientists now believe it is inevitable.
Climate change is here, whether we believe in it or not. Politically, with the election of Donald Trump, our country and the world have entered a dark night of the soul. We might still live in a culture of shine, greed, glam and white supremacy, but the Dark Feminine has now reemerged into this cycle, and heaven has no fury like the Great Mother scorned.
Now we must rest here in this darkness, to lay heart to the ground as a country, and feel intimately all that is being unraveled here. After all, every seed must go into darkness, must turn inside out, must break open in order to grow.
It is my prayer that our country sprouts. That this regression give rise to a counterculture of grassroots movements the likes of which we have never seen. And to a culture of love beyond measure.
Vera de Chalambert is a spiritual storyteller and Harvard-educated scholar of comparative religion. She recognizes the intricate process of healing and awakening, unfolding for so many around the planet at this time, and offers healing sessions and spiritual direction via Skype and phone. Vera has studied with spiritual teachers, healers and visionaries the world over, and mined for her soul at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, and Jason Shulman’s School for Nondual Healing and Awakening. She is deeply influenced by Buddhist and Kabbalistic lineages, and is a lover of the world’s great wisdom traditions. She speaks internationally and writes about mindfulness in the modern world and the Divine Feminine. You could visit Vera on her website, and follow her on Facebook and Twitter. | 2019-04-21T10:24:06Z | https://evolutionarymystic.wordpress.com/2017/05/18/kali-takes-america-im-with-her-vera-de-chalambert/ | Porn | Reference | 0.44615 |
wordpress | Brian Goulet’s Swab Shop is an excellent resource. However, Please also read Margana’s post at An Inkophile’s Blog: Beware Online Ink Swatches! It’s important to know what you are getting into before you get started. Seeing an ink on the computer screen is not that same as seeing it in person.
There is also the FPN Ink Sample Exchange.
Finally, for another source for online pictures you can browse the FPN Ink Review Index. Also, you can Google whichever ink you are interested and find various blog reviews.
Todd Nusbaum at isellpens.com also has ink samples. I believe that Pear Tree is out of business?
This is my first time of buying ink samples and I love it. I’ve always just bought based on the online reviews, but it’s wonderful to really test out a color before buying. | 2019-04-20T18:43:03Z | https://dizzypen.wordpress.com/faqs/online-ink-swatches-how-do-i-know-if-they-are-accurate/ | Porn | Shopping | 0.993574 |
wordpress | I’ve had enough of you for a lifetime. I used to run away, far far away when you would attack. I was a timid little girl. I was an infant Christian. Though I do not know everything i need to know, I am growing and learning. Gods grace and mercy is sufficient for me. I will not bow down to you devil. I will not scurry away and back down like I did before. I am stronger. When you attack now, I know it is you. I know how you attack me. I recognize your voice and actions and now I am smart enough to discern the difference. I will not allow you in My life anymore. Your days were numbered before I was even born, and they are still numbered. You have no power in my life. I don’t expect you to back down, but don’t expect me to back down either. Don’t underestimate my tiny hands. My heart is tempered steel and no weapon you use against me will suffice. I know what is to come. God has forewarned me so that my faith in him stands. I accept my challenges and trials – Because I also choose to accept my blessings! So take that devil! I am no longer timid in the eyes of God. I am no longer weak. I will stand and stand firm. I’ve tried life your way – and I failed and I was miserable. Now I am going to try life Gods way – and if I fail – (which I won’t), I will look you up – because I know you are always willing to take me back. The sad truth is I am NOT willing to take YOU back. May my tongue be sharp enough to cut the marionette strings you had over my life and those around me. Take that! | 2019-04-21T23:05:04Z | https://modernmiracleme.wordpress.com/tag/mercy/ | Porn | Reference | 0.233374 |
livejournal | Spencer: What if someone is vealing sick - can they cancel?
Nathan: Absolutely not - there's too much at steak.
S: does that mean they'd be chopped from the list?
N: No, not at all. It's really only people who fail to bring wine that deserve to be slaughtered and hung out to dry. We have very grape expectations in the wine department.
S: Or would you rissoleve to give them another chance?
N: Depends on the interrogation. We'd grill them to ascertain whether they're really as sick as they say, or just mincing words.
S: Thanks for your completeness there are no other issues I need to braise with you. I am no longer worried about attendance being a fry in the ointment.
Well done! A medium effort would have left me feeling blue and saute sad!
N: Does this mean you're not ready to chuck in the towel?
S: That's right - I won't hide behind any one's skirt!
N: Don't let Angus hear you call his kilt a skirt! He'll have his mignons onto you in no time!
S: I fillet would be unkind of you to share this with Angus - I have no beef with him and he might come at me like a tournedo! Even over a poultry issue like this.
N: Perhaps we'd better call a truce. And you needn't worry about Angus. He may be a pain in the rump at times, but he's generally as harmless as a butterfly.
Spencer [breaking the email thread and visiting in person]: Agreed. I knew you'd try and get the last word in, though.
Nathan these are really good. | 2019-04-22T02:48:30Z | https://gemsling.livejournal.com/167226.html | Porn | News | 0.593584 |
wordpress | Not your average pot pie found in the freezer section, this is even better because you can decide what goes into it. If you prefer a biscuit topping, you can use one – homemade or canned. If you don’t like carrots, or peas, or corn, then leave them out. If you’d like to have peppers, more garlic, parsnips, broccoli – the list goes on forever – then add it!
This is a basic, all-American pot pie recipe, in my opinion. You can add or subtract, make a twist for another flavor (Southwestern? Thai?), or change out the topping for endless possibilities. I tweaked the recipe found on Feeding Andy, which in itself is a great recipe. I’ve knocked down the amount of dishes, changed a few ingredients, and increased the amounts for a batch-style recipe. You can freeze the filling by itself for later use, or make everything but the topping and freeze the whole thing for another day.
Preheat oven to 450F. In a saute pan over medium-low heat, melt butter and stir in onions. Cover and Fill a 4-6 quart pot with water and blanch vegetables (it works best if you blanch and shock each separately, but you can drain them all in one colander). Use the same water to poach chicken breasts until cooked through. Remove from water, drain and dice fine. Combine vegetables and chicken in two greased 13×9 pans. Bring veloute to a simmer, add heavy cream, and simmer 5-8 minutes or until thick and custard-like. Split veloute mixture in half over both pans. Cover one pan with crescent roll dough and bake 15-20 minutes, or until dough is puffy and golden-brown. Dig in while you let the other pan cool, then cover with a double-layer of aluminum foil, label and freeze.
1 veloute: a gravy-like sauce made with a blonde roux and chicken stock. To make 4 cups, start with 4 tablespoons each of butter and flour in a pan over low heat. I use the same pan that I browned the onions and garlic in, so get all the pan drippings and flavor. Cook over medium-low heat, whisking constantly, until color has formed and flour taste is gone. Slowly whisk in 4 cups of chicken stock, bring to a simmer and let cook for 5-10 minutes. | 2019-04-21T02:55:22Z | https://wanderluck.wordpress.com/2012/09/08/ | Porn | Reference | 0.148875 |
wordpress | I’m sitting here feeling rather fat as I write this. I feel a bit guilty considering it isn’t even Easter yet, but I do have a good excuse.
In a quest to find out which supermarket produces the tastiest and best value for money hot cross buns, I have been testing samples from some of the big supermarkets.
My husband loves hot cross buns. When we met he used to eat them all year round – keeping them stocked up in the freezer – and even managed somehow to cut each bun into three slices instead of two to make them seem like they lasted longer. So I wanted to find out which ones we should be buying this Easter.
I selected four supermarkets in my taste test – Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda and my local Co-op. I decided to pick in most cases the in-house bakery option or if that wasn’t available the closest product to that.
To vary it a little – I was a bit concerned they would all taste the same – for the Sainsbury’s option I went for their low fat Be Good To Yourself range.
I had considered heading to Waitrose to test Heston Blumenthal’s wacky range of Earl Grey and mandarin or acacia honey buns, but ruled them out in the end as I decided it would be comparing apples and pears – and working out at 89.5p per bun, they are hardly low cost.
Having selected my purchases and brought them home, I gave them a quick once over. I was surprised to find that there were quite a few variations in their appearance.
The Tesco buns’ crosses were whiter and more uniform, while Asda’s were pretty skewiff, as though the baker was a bit drunk when he or she was making them.
Asda’s, however, were lovely and soft, while I was surprised to notice that the Co-op’s were much darker and their crosses weren’t straight either.
The low fat Sainsbury’s buns had a creamy-white cross on them, which made them look quite different from the others. I wondered if this was something to do with the low fat ingredients chosen.
Asda’s were the cheapest of the bunch at 65p for four, so just 16.2p each. I was also surprised to find that Tesco and the Co-op tied at second place in terms of pricing, with each bun costing 16.7p each.
As the Co-op is somewhere I shop when I’m short of time and don’t expect to be cheap, this was a surprise but then the buns are on special offer until 14th April. Sainsbury’s Be Good To Yourself buns were the dearest at six for £1.30 or 21.7p each.
As I said earlier, the Co-op is somewhere I shop on the hop, so I was shocked to find that their hot cross buns came top in my taste and pricing test. The flavour was lovely and cinnamony but not too sweet.
The cook was generous with the sultanas, although they did tend to be all on one side of the bun – a frequent issue I found in the test with other samples. At 16.7p, I felt this was good value.
Asda’s bakery hot cross buns were lovely and soft – no doubt because they were slightly fresher than some of the others and had most likely been baked that day. There was also a good proportion of fruit.
The flavour was much lighter than the Co-op’s offering and not as heavy with the seasoning – I would have preferred more – but it was still tasty and the pricing – 16.2p – was great value.
Tesco’s buns were crunchy and also had quite a light flavour to them but more flavour than Asda’s ones. However, what let them down a little bit for me was the stinginess with the sultanas and the fact that they were all bunched on one side.
But while 16.7p – the same price as the Co-op’s – isn’t bad value, I’d expect slightly better value from Tesco.
The disappointment of the bunch was the Sainsbury’s low fat offering. They were labelled as only 3% fat but when I compared the calorie rating to the Co-op’s, the Co-op’s actually had fewer calories per bun – 170 calories compared with Sainsbury’s 187.
The Co-op’s were 4% fat. Sainsbury’s buns were nice and soft but the flavour from the sultanas was much too overpowering for my taste. Considering they were the least tasty of the bunch, they are also the most expensive, which is why they came bottom in my test.
Having worried that they might all taste the same, I was very surprised to find so many differences in flavour and fruit distribution as I did, as well as price. It just goes to show that it’s worth shopping around for the best deal and for hot cross buns that suit you and your family’s palate.
I now have a lot of leftover hot cross buns that I need to fit in my freezer. At least it will keep my other half happy for the next few months! | 2019-04-24T10:03:03Z | https://piperterrett.wordpress.com/ | Porn | Shopping | 0.936041 |
cnn | Is there such a thing as an ethical electric car?
New cars sold in the United States must now be outfitted with rearview cameras to try and reduce the number of deaths and injuries that happen when vehicles back over people.
The federal safety requirement took effect on Tuesday, about four years after it was first announced by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
"NHTSA prioritizes safety on US roads, and yesterday we reached an important milestone," said NHTSA administrator Heidi King, in a statement on Wednesday. "This technology helps drivers see behind the vehicle, which we anticipate will help save lives and prevent injuries."
The rule applies to all new vehicles weighing fewer than 10,000 pounds, whether they're manufactured in the US or imported. Most models of cars, SUVs and trucks weigh less than 10,000 pounds.
Most new cars are already in compliance with the rule. According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, 97% of 2018 models have rearview cameras, compared to 8% in 2006.
This is a victory for organizations like Consumers Union and Advocates for Highway & Auto Safety, both of which had long advocated for the requirements.
"This regulation by the US Department of Transportation will save lives and save consumers money," said Advocates for Highway & Auto Safety, in a statement. "No longer will consumers need to pay for a rearview camera as an expensive option."
According to the most recent numbers available from the NHTSA, these types of accidents cause 210 fatalities and 15,000 injuries per year in the United States. More than 30% of the people who die are children under 5, and more than a quarter are seniors 70 or older.
Consumer Reports has conducted studies, using traffic cones in place of children, showing that the use of rearview mirrors without cameras can have blind spots that range from as little as six feet behind small sedans to 44 feet or more behind full size SUVs. The introduction of rearview cameras allow drivers to see what was in that blind zone. | 2019-04-26T05:41:50Z | https://money.cnn.com/2018/05/02/news/cars-backup-cameras/ | Porn | Kids | 0.64648 |
wordpress | Unanswered Email Sent to John Pantry at Premier Christian Radio 07.06.2017 | Thoughts and Observations of a Certified Nut!
We have never met but i found your post searching for answers to similar treatment, bizarre shunning en mass! 😂🤣,..
You are and were a sensitive child of God. The only thing that kick started this whole life of trauma was someone decided to sow seeds of fear instead of love into a child who would obviously grow into an adult and these seeds of fear have now grown into a wild garden. This is NOT your fault. Everything your experiencing is a result of incorrect leadership and descipleship.
Fear causes confusion and all kinds of evil. YOU are not these things and they are not your experiences. You are a highly sensitive and sweet hearted person Sue and you have been misunderstood and through their fears THEY sowed seeds of rejection (fear) Into you and it grew into confusion. It’s natural for that to happen. You were staring or looking I would call it.. because your little mind was so curious and intently listening and wondering to what you were hearing it’s how some people process information. It’s not abnormal in any way, we all process information differently, some people move and fidgit around when processing information, they’re seen as having attention deficit problems. It’s completely wrong and ignorant to judge how a child investigates information.
Jesus has not called us to judge that’s his job we are called to live at peace where possible and to love everyone. (Yeah i know that’s a tough one lol) . But what I’m saying is you were treated completely wrong by people who clearly do not have the love of God in them. Patience kindness goodness… you know all that stuff are fruits of the spirit and evidence of someone being spirit filled and spirit led. If you do not perceive that in a place or person do like Mathew 10.14-15.
Thank you, Tammy, I think that is a very kind and wise assessment and I particularly needed to hear it tonight. Processing information, that is interesting. | 2019-04-22T10:50:58Z | https://suebarnett.wordpress.com/2017/06/09/unanswered-email-sent-to-john-pantry-at-premier-christian-radio-07-06-2017/ | Porn | Kids | 0.805713 |
wordpress | Quiche is a wonderful dish that can easily be adapted to the season at hand. In the winter, it’s a piping hot slice of comfort, while in the summer it acts as a light meal. It’s hearty, filling, and reasonably healthy as well — as long as you make a few key modifications to traditional recipes that call for crème fraiche and lots of butter.
I made this particular quiche back in early September using fresh tomatoes, yellow beans, mushrooms, and onions. The pie shell was packed to the brim with veggies, layered with grated cheese and covered in eggs. I would be lying if I said I went easy on the cheese in this recipe, since it is one of my weaknesses, but even so it was definitely a healthy quiche. | 2019-04-22T16:22:19Z | https://dontforgettheoliveoil.wordpress.com/tag/french/ | Porn | Health | 0.990683 |
wordpress | Organizer: Rob Colwell, U. of Connecticut, USA. Speakers: Matthew Fitzpatrick, U. of Maryland, USA; David Nogués- Bravo, U. of Copenhagen, Denmark; Thiago Rangel, U. Federal de Goiás, Brazil; Felisa Smith, U. of New Mexico, USA; John W. Williams, UW-Madison, USA; Kathy Willis, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and U. of Oxford, UK.
Organizers: Miguel Matias, Imperial College London, UK; Miguel Araújo, CSIC, Spain and CMECC, U. of Copenhagen, Denmark. Speakers: Miguel Matias, Imperial College London, UK; Vigdis Vandvik, U. of Bergen, Norway; Amy Freestone, Temple U., USA; Brian McGill, U. of Maine, USA; Vojtech Novotny, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic; Michael Kaspari, U. of Oklahoma, USA; Erica Crespi, USA; Sarah Supp, U. of Maine, USA.
Organizers: Will Pearse, McGill U., Canada; Jonathan Davies, McGill U., Canada. Speakers: Susanne Fritz, (BiK-F), Germany; John Harte, UC Berkeley, USA; Luke Harmon, U. of Idaho, US; Sally Keith, U. of Copenhagen, Denmark; Will Pearse, McGill U., Canada; Daniele Silvestro, U. of Goethenburg, Sweden; Xiao Xiao, Utah State U., USA.; A. Marcia Barbosa, CIBIO/InBIO – UEvora.
Speakers: Brett Riddle, U. Nevada Las Vegas, USA; Tereza Jezkova, University of Arizona, USA; Joshua Harrison, University of Nevada, Reno, USA; Michelle McMahon, U. of Arizona, USA; John Wiens, University of Arizona USA; Catherine Badgley, University of Michigan, USA. | 2019-04-18T17:19:57Z | https://tucson2017ibs.wordpress.com/symposia/ | Porn | Arts | 0.134317 |
google | The teachers have a genuine interest in my child.
The communication about the standards is strong.
Would you refer others to St. Gerard PK-Please answer yes or no and explain.
What is your favorite thing about St. Gerard PK?
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google | The present inventions relate generally to neurostimulation systems.
Neurostimulation systems, such as spinal cord stimulation (SCS) systems, deep brain stimulation systems and peripheral nerve stimulation systems, include at least one electrode positioned to enable stimulation of neural elements that are the target tissue (i.e. the tissue that, when sufficiently stimulated, will create the desired therapeutic effect). The electrodes are commonly mounted on a carrier and, in many instances, a plurality of electrodes are mounted on a single carrier. These carrier/electrode devices are sometimes referred to as “leads”. The electrodes may be used to cause nerves to fire action potentials (APs) that propagate along the neural fibers. More specifically, supplying stimulation energy to an electrode functioning as a cathode creates an electric potential field that causes depolarization of the neurons adjacent to the electrode. When the field is strong enough to depolarize (or “stimulate”) the neurons beyond a threshold level, the neurons will fire APs.
Stimulation energy may be delivered to the electrodes during and after the lead placement process in order to verify that the electrodes are stimulating the target neural elements and to formulate the most effective stimulation regimen. The regimen will dictate which of the electrodes are sourcing or returning current pulses at any given time, as well as the magnitude and duration of the current pulses. The stimulation regimen will typically be one that provides stimulation energy to all of the target tissue that must be stimulated in order to provide the therapeutic benefit (e.g., pain relief), yet minimizes the volume of non-target tissue that is stimulated. Thus, certain types of neurostimulation leads are typically implanted with the understanding that the stimulus pattern will require fewer than all of the electrodes on the leads to achieve the desired clinical effect; in the case of SCS, such a clinical effect is “paresthesia,” i.e., a tingling sensation that is effected by the electrical stimuli applied through the electrodes.
The present inventor has determined that conventional stimulus regimens, and the manner in which they are formulated, may be susceptible to improvement. For example, there are instances where the target tissue is not directly adjacent to an electrode and, because electrical field strength decreases exponentially with distance from the electrode, a relatively strong electric field must be created to generate APs in the target neural fibers. The electric field may, however, result in the generation of APs in the non-target fiber bundles between the electrode and the target fibers. The generation of APs in the non-target tissue may, in turn, lead to undesirable outcomes (e.g., discomfort) for the patient. The present inventor has determined that it may also be desirable in, for example, the context of leads that are oriented transverse to the target neural fibers, to selectively control the shape of the AP generating region in order to prevent the generation of APs in non-target fibers.
Apparatus and methods in accordance with some of the present inventions involve the creation of APs in neural fibers and the selective blocking of the APs in some of the neural fibers in which APs are created. Such apparatus and methods are advantageous for a variety of reasons. For example, such apparatus and methods facilitate stimulation regimens that create APs in tissue that is not directly adjacent to the depolarizing electrode(s) while preventing APs from propagating in the tissue therebetween that produce undesirable outcomes for the patient.
Apparatus and methods in accordance with some of the present inventions involve the use of local current imbalances and the sinking of current at a remote cathode(s). Such apparatus and methods are advantageous for a variety of reasons including, but not limited to, facilitation of the selective control of the width and depth of AP generating regions. For example, the programmer may increase the current sourced at one or more electrodes within the stimulation site, which tends to reduce the width of the AP generating and propagating region, without a corresponding increase in the current sunk at one or more other electrodes within the stimulation site (which would increase the depth of the AP generating region).
The above described and many other features of the present inventions will become apparent as the inventions become better understood by reference to the following detailed description when considered in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
Detailed description of exemplary embodiments of the inventions will be made with reference to the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 is a side view of a neurostimulation system in accordance with one embodiment of a present invention.
FIG. 2 is an end view of an implantable pulse generator in accordance with one embodiment of a present invention.
FIG. 3 is a plan view of a lead in accordance with one embodiment of a present invention.
FIG. 4 is a functional block diagram of an implantable pulse generator in accordance with one embodiment of a present invention.
FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a stimulation regimen that may be produced by the implantable pulse generator illustrated in FIG. 1.
FIG. 6 is a diagram showing another stimulation regimen that may be produced by the implantable pulse generator illustrated in FIG. 1.
FIG. 7 is an illustration of a stimulation pulse that may be produced by the implantable pulse generator illustrated in FIG. 1.
FIG. 8 is an illustration of another stimulation pulse that may be produced by the implantable pulse generator illustrated in FIG. 1.
FIG. 9 is a functional block diagram of an implantable pulse generator in accordance with one embodiment of a present invention.
FIG. 10 is a graph of the changes in neural fiber transmembrane potential that results from a conventional neurostimulation regimen.
FIG. 11 is a graph of the changes in neural fiber transmembrane potential that results from another conventional neurostimulation regimen.
FIG. 12 is a graph of the changes in neural fiber transmembrane potential that results from a neurostimulation regimen in accordance with one embodiment of a present invention.
FIG. 13 is a graph of the changes in neural fiber transmembrane potential that results from a neurostimulation regimen in accordance with one embodiment of a present invention.
FIG. 14 is a section view of a dorsal column being treated with a conventional neurostimulation regimen.
FIG. 15 is a section view of a dorsal column being treated with a neurostimulation regimen in accordance with one embodiment of a present invention.
FIG. 16 is a section view of a dorsal column being treated with a neurostimulation regimen in accordance with one embodiment of a present invention.
FIG. 17 is a flow chart summarizing various processes in accordance with the present inventions.
The present inventions have application in a wide variety of neurostimulation systems. Although the present inventions are not so limited, examples of such systems are illustrated in FIGS. 1-9. Referring first to FIGS. 1 and 2, an exemplary implantable neurostimulation system 100 includes first and second implantable leads 102 and 104. The exemplary leads 102 and 104 are in-line leads and, to that end, both of the leads consist of a plurality of in-line electrodes 106 carried on a flexible body 108. In the illustrated embodiment, there are eight (8) electrodes on lead 102, which are labeled E1-E8, and there are eight (8) electrodes on lead 104, which are labeled E9-E16. The actual number of leads and electrodes will, of course, vary according to the intended application and the present inventions are not limited to any particular numbers of leads and electrodes. The implantable neurostimulation system 100 may, alternatively, employ other types of leads such as, for example, the paddle lead 102 a with electrodes 106 a on a wide platform 108 a illustrated in FIG. 3. In any case, the leads may be implanted into a desired location, such as adjacent to the patient's spinal cord, through the use of an insertion needle or other conventional techniques. Once in place, the electrodes may be used to supply stimulation energy to the target neural elements or other target tissue.
The exemplary neurostimulation system 100 illustrated in FIGS. 1 and 2 also includes an implantable pulse generator (IPG) 110 that is capable of directing stimulation energy to each of the electrodes 106. The stimulation energy may be stimulation energy waveforms such as, for example, pulses having various shapes and sine waves. To that end, each of the electrodes 106 on the lead 102 is electrically connected to the IPG 110 by a respective signal wire 112 (some of which are not shown) that extends through, or is imbedded in, the associated flexible body 108. Similarly, the electrodes 106 on the lead 104 are electrically connected to the IPG 110 by respective signal wires 114 (some of which are not shown). The signal wires 112 and 114 are connected to the IPG 110 by way of an interface 116. The interface 116 may be any suitable device that allows the leads 102 and 104 to be removably or permanently electrically connected to the IPG 110. Such an interface may, for example, be an electro-mechanical connector arrangement including lead connectors 118 a and 118 b within the IPG 110 that are configured to mate with corresponding connectors on the leads 102 and 104 (only connector 120 a on lead 102 is shown). Alternatively, the leads 102 and 104 can share a single connector that mates with a corresponding connector on the IPG. Exemplary connector arrangements are disclosed in U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,609,029 and 6,741,892, which are incorporated herein by reference.
The exemplary IPG 110 includes an outer case 122 that may be formed from an electrically conductive, biocompatible material such as titanium and, in some instances, will function as an electrode. The IPG 110 is typically programmed, or controlled, through the use of an external (non-implanted) programmer 124. The external programmer 124 is coupled to the IPG 110 through a suitable communications link, represented by the arrow 126, that passes through the patient's skin 128. Suitable links include, but are not limited to, radio frequency (RF) links, inductive links, optical links and magnetic links. The programmer 124 or other external device may also be used to couple power into the IPG 110 for the purpose of operating the IPG or replenishing a power source, such as a rechargeable battery, within the IPG. Once the IPG 110 has been programmed, and its power source has been charged or otherwise replenished, the IPG may function as programmed without the external programmer 124 being present.
With respect to the stimulus regimens provided during operation of the exemplary neurostimulation system 100, electrodes that are selected to receive stimulation energy are referred to herein as “activated,” while electrodes that are not selected to receive stimulation energy are referred to herein as “non-activated.” Electrical stimulation will occur between two (or more) electrodes, one of which may be the IPG case, so that the electrical current associated with the stimulus has a path through the tissue from one or more electrodes configured as anodes to one or more electrodes configured as cathodes, or return electrodes. The return electrode(s) may be one or more of the electrodes 106 on the leads 102 and 104 or may be the IPG case 122. Stimulation energy may be transmitted to the tissue in monopolar, bipolar, or multipolar fashion, as examples. Monopolar stimulation occurs when a selected one of the lead electrodes 106 is activated along with the case 122. Bipolar stimulation occurs when two of the lead electrodes 106 are activated. The lead electrodes 106 may be on the same lead, or on different leads. For example, electrode E3 on lead 102 may be activated as an anode at the same time that electrode E4 on lead 102, or electrode E11 on lead 104, is activated as a cathode. Tripolar stimulation occurs when three of the lead electrodes 106 are activated on the same lead, or on different leads. For example, electrodes E4 and E6 on lead 102 may be activated as anodes at the same time that electrode E5 on lead 102, is activated as a cathode. Generally speaking, multipolar stimulation occurs when multiple lead electrodes 106 are activated.
Turning to FIG. 4, an exemplary IPG 110 has a plurality of dual current sources 130. Each dual current source 130 includes a positive current source that can function as an anode (+I1, +I2, +I3, . . . +Icase) to “source” current to a load, as well as a current source that can function as a cathode (−I1, −I2, −I3, . . . −Icase) to “sink” current from the load, through a common node 132. The load is the tissue that resides between the activated electrodes 106, the wires (and other conductive elements), and the coupling capacitor (C1, C2, C3, . . . Ccase) that connects the associated electrode to the common node 132 of the dual current source 130.
The operation of the control circuit 134 may be explained in the context of the following example. Referring to FIG. 5, the control circuit 134 may be used to simultaneously turn on (or enable) the positive current sources in the dual current sources 130 connected to lead electrodes E1 and E3 during time T1. The negative current source in the dual current source 130 connected to lead electrode E2 is also turned on during time T1. All other current sources are off (or disabled) during the time T1. This causes electrodes E1 and E3 to be activated as anodes at the same time that electrode E2 is activated as a cathode. Currents +I1 and +I3 are sourced from electrodes E1 and E3 at the same time that current −I2 is sunk into electrode E2. The amplitudes of the currents +I1 and +I3 may be any programmed values, and the amplitude of the current −I2 will be equal to −(I1+I3). That is, the current that is sourced from electrodes E1 and E3 is equal to the current that is sunk at electrode E2. Sinking all of the current sourced into the target tissue region at the target tissue region is referred to herein as “local current balance.” As used herein, “local” electrodes are electrodes that, when sourcing or sinking stimulation current in the vicinity of the target tissue, have a clinically significant neuromodulatory effect on the target tissue.
As another example, the control circuit 134 may be used to cause a portion of the current sourced from one or more lead electrodes to be sunk by one (or more) lead electrodes and the remainder of the current to be sunk at the IPG case. Turning to FIG. 6, and for reasons that are discussed in greater detail below with reference to FIGS. 12, 13, 15 and 16, the control circuit 134 may be used to simultaneously turn on (or enable) the positive current sources in the dual current sources 130 connected to lead electrodes E1 and E3 during time T1. The negative current sources in the dual current source 130 connected to lead electrode E2 and case electrode Ecase are also turned on during time T1. All other current sources are off (or disabled) during the time T1. This causes electrodes E1 and E3 to be activated as anodes at the same time that electrodes E2 and Ecase are activated as cathodes. Currents +I1 and +I3 are sourced from electrodes E1 and E3 at the same time that current −I2 and −Icase is sunk into electrodes E2 and Ecase. The amplitudes of the currents +I1 and +I3 may be any programmed values, while the sum of the amplitudes of the currents −I2 and −Icase will be equal to −(I1+I3), i.e., −I2 will be equal to A% of −(I1+I3) and −Icase will be equal to B% of −(I1 +I3), where A% +B% =100%. That is, the sum of the current that is sourced from electrodes E1 and E3 is equal to the sum of the current that is sunk at electrodes E2 and Ecase. Sinking a portion of the current sourced into the target tissue region at a remote location, such as at the case electrode Ecase, is referred to herein as “local current imbalance.” As used herein, a “remote” electrode is an electrode that, when sourcing or sinking stimulation current, will not have a clinically significant neuromodulatory effect on the target tissue other than reducing the amount of current sourced or sunk at the target tissue.
After time period T1, the control circuit 134 will typically switch the polarities of the electrodes during a second time period T2. Thus, an electrode that was functioning as an anode during time period T1 will function as a cathode during time period T2, and an electrode that was functioning as a cathode during time period T1 will function as an anode during time period T2. Operating the control circuit 134 in this manner produces a biphasic stimulation pulse that is characterized by a first phase (period T1) of one polarity followed by a second phase immediately or shortly thereafter (period T2) of the opposite polarity. The electrical charge associated with the first phase should be equal to the charge associated with the second phase to maintain charge balance during the stimulation, which is generally considered an important component of stimulation regimes, although this is not required by the present inventions. Referring to FIG. 7, the charge balance of a biphasic stimulation pulse 136 may be achieved by making the amplitudes of the first and second phases, as well as the periods T1 and T2, substantially equal. Charge balance may also be achieved using other combinations of phase duration and amplitude. For example, the amplitude of the second phase may be equal to one-half of the amplitude of the first phase and the period T2 may be equal to twice the period T1, as is the case in the biphasic stimulation pulse 136′ illustrated in FIG. 8.
Neurostimulation systems in accordance with the present inventions may also employ the alternative IPG 110′ illustrated in FIG. 9, which includes a plurality of dual voltage sources 130′ that are respectively connected to the lead electrodes E1-E16 and the IPG case electrode Ecase. Each dual voltage source 130′ applies a programmed voltage to the associated electrode when turned on by way of a node 132′ and a coupling capacitor (C1, C2, C3, . . . . Ccase). Alternative implementations may, as an example, employ fewer dual voltage sources than there are electrodes. Here, at least some of the dual voltage sources will be connected to more than one electrode. A programmable voltage control circuit 134′ controls each of the dual voltage sources 130′ and specifies the amplitude, polarity and duration of the voltage that is applied to the electrodes.
The dual voltage sources 130′ and control circuit 134′ may be used to produce the biphasic stimulation pulses that are characterized by a first phase (period T1) of one polarity followed by a second phase immediately or shortly thereafter (period T2) of the opposite polarity applied between any two or more electrodes. Charge balance of the biphasic stimulation pulse may be achieved by making the amplitudes of the first and second phases, as well as the periods T1 and T2, equal. Charge balance may also be achieved using other combinations of phase duration and amplitude. For example, the amplitude of the second phase may be equal to one-half of the amplitude of the first phase and the period T2 may be equal to twice the period T1.
Additional details concerning IPGs may be found in U.S. Pat. No. 6,516,227 and U.S. Pub. App. 2003/0139781, which are incorporated herein by reference. It also should be noted that the block diagrams illustrated in FIGS. 4 and 9 are functional diagrams, and are not intended to limit the present inventions to any particular IPG circuitry.
The present inventions also have application in non-implantable neurostimulation systems. For example, the present inventions may be embodied in, and/or performed using, transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (“TENS”) systems. In TENS systems, the sourcing and sinking electrodes are placed on the patient's skin. Current is sourced into the neural tissue by way of the skin. Current is also sunk, both locally and remotely, by way of the skin.
The neurostimulation systems described above with reference to FIGS. 1-9 have application in a wide variety of stimulation regimens. Examples of such regimens are illustrated in FIGS. 10-16. FIGS. 10-13 graphically illustrate the changes in transmembrane potential (ΔVm) of neural fibers in fiber bundles that are in the vicinity of certain electrodes when electric fields are generated by the electrodes during the neurostimulation regimens, while FIGS. 14-16 highlight portions of tissue structures where the change in transmembrane potential is above a predetermined level. The neurostimulation regimens illustrated in FIGS. 10-13 are associated with neurostimulation systems employing a lead that is generally parallel to the neural fibers, while the neurostimulation regimens illustrated in FIGS. 14-16 are associated with neurostimulation systems employing a lead that is generally transverse to the neural fibers. Additionally, although the present inventions are not so limited, the regimens illustrated in FIGS. 10-13 are discussed in the context of first and second fiber bundles FB1 and FB2. In the illustrated examples, the first fiber bundle FB1 is the closest fiber bundle to the electrodes, the second fiber bundle FB2 is the next closest fiber bundle to the electrodes, and the first fiber bundle is located between the second fiber bundle and the electrodes.
Conventional stimulation regimens for use with a lead that is generally parallel to the neural fibers, which serve as a reference for certain stimulation regimens in accordance with the present inventions, are illustrated in FIGS. 10 and 11. In FIG. 10, electrodes E1-E3 are activated in a conventional stimulation regimen where electrodes E1 and E3 are functioning as anodes and electrode E2 is functioning as a cathode. No current is sourced or sunk at any of the other electrodes. E1ectrodes E1 and E3 are each sourcing 50% of the total current (e.g., 1 mA each) and 100% of the total current (e.g., 2 mA) is being sunk at electrode E2. As such, there is local current balance at the stimulation site. The depolarizing electric field generated by electrode E2 is sufficient to create APs in some of the neural fibers in the first fiber bundle FB1. In other words, the depolarization threshold DPT has been met for the first fiber bundle FB1 in the tissue adjacent electrode E2. The depolarizing electric field generated by electrode E2 is substantially weaker at the second fiber bundle FB2 and is below the AP-creating depolarization threshold DPT. The locus of stimulation is, therefore, defined by the portion of the depolarizing electric field generated by electrode E2 that is at or above the depolarization threshold DPT.
E1ectrodes E1 and E3, which are functioning as anodes in the stimulation regimen illustrated in FIG. 10, will create hyperpolarizing electric fields in the neural tissue adjacent to electrodes E1 and E3. When the electric field is at or above the hyperpolarization threshold HPT, the neural fibers within the electric field will block APs that were fired at other points along the fibers. It should be noted here that the magnitude of the hyperpolarization threshold HPT has been estimated to be about 2 to 8 times the magnitude of the depolarization threshold DPT. The hyperpolarizing electric fields generated by electrodes E1 and E3 in the exemplary stimulation regimen are below the hyperpolarization threshold HPT at the first fiber bundle FB1. As such, APs in the fiber bundle FB1 that fired at points in the neural fibers adjacent to electrode E2 will not be blocked at points adjacent to electrodes E1 and E3. The hyperpolarizing electric fields generated by electrodes E1 and E3 will, of course, be even weaker at the second fiber bundle FB2.
Turning to FIG. 11, electrodes E1 and E2 are activated in a conventional stimulation regimen where electrode E1 is functioning as an anode and electrode E2 is functioning as a cathode. No current is sourced at any other electrode. All of the current sourced at electrode E1 (e.g. 2 mA) is being sunk at electrode E2 and there is local current balance. With respect to the first fiber bundle FB1, the depolarizing electric field generated by electrode E2 meets the depolarization threshold DPT, which will result in the generation of APs by at least some of the fibers in the first fiber bundle. The hyperpolarizing electric field generated by electrode E1 is below the hyperpolarization threshold HPT and, accordingly, the APs will not be blocked. Within the fiber bundle FB2, the depolarizing electric field generated by electrode E2 is below the depolarization threshold DPT and the hyperpolarizing electric field generated by electrode E1 is below the hyperpolarization threshold HPT.
In both of the regimens described above, the generation of APs in the fibers within the second fiber bundle FB2 will require an increase in the depolarizing electric field generated by electrode E2 over that illustrated in FIGS. 10 and 11. There may be instances where the generation of APs in the first fiber bundle FB1, which necessarily results from the creation of a depolarizing electric field that is strong enough to meet the depolarization threshold DPT at the second fiber bundle FB2, may lead to undesirable outcomes (e.g. discomfort or undesirable reflexive activity) for the patient. Some of the present inventions solve this problem by preventing APs generated in the first fiber bundle FB1 from reaching the brain or end organ. Specifically, such inventions create local AP blocks and the AP blocks prevent APs created within a portion of the depolarizing electric field that is at or above the depolarization threshold DPT from traveling, in one direction or both directions, beyond the stimulation site. The effective locus of stimulation is, therefore, the region of neural fibers that are generating APs that are not blocked at other portions of the stimulation site.
As illustrated in FIG. 12, one example of a stimulation regimen in accordance with a present invention involves locally blocking APs generated in the first fiber bundle FB1. At least a substantial portion of the APs (i.e., >10-20%) are blocked by hyperpolarizing tissue in the first fiber bundle FB1, located on opposite sides of the tissue in the first fiber bundle FB1 that is generating the APs, to at least the hyperpolarization threshold HPT. This may be accomplished by significantly increasing the level of current sourced from electrodes E1 and E3, as compared to the level illustrated in FIG. 10 (e.g., about 2.5 mA each), in order to reach the hyperpolarization threshold HPT within the first fiber bundle FB1 at electrodes E1 and E3. Turning to electrode E2, the amount of current sunk at electrode E2 should be sufficient to create a depolarizing electric field that is strong enough to meet the depolarization threshold DPT at the second fiber bundle FB2 and cause fibers within the second fiber bundle to generate APs.
The inventor herein has determined that sinking all of the current sourced by electrodes E1 and E3 at electrode E2 could result in a depolarizing electric field that would meet or exceed the depolarization threshold DPT in fiber bundles well beyond the second fiber bundle FB2. In those instances where the creation of APs beyond the second fiber bundle FB2 is undesirable, a portion of the current sourced by the electrodes E1 and E3 will be sunk at an electrode that is located remotely from stimulation site, thereby creating a local current imbalance at the stimulation site. Sinking some of the current at a remote electrode allows the intensity of the depolarizing electric field created by electrode E2 to be reduced to a level where the hyperpolarization threshold HPT will not be met in fibers within the second fiber bundle FB2.
The portion of the current in the exemplary stimulation regimen illustrated in FIG. 12 that is sourced by electrodes E1 and E3, but is not sunk at electrode E2, is sunk at the IPG case electrode Ecase. Although the relative amounts may vary to suit particular situations, a majority of the current is sunk at electrode Ecase in the illustrated example. More specifically, 60% of the current sourced by electrodes E1 and E3 is sunk at electrode Ecase and the remaining 40% is sunk at electrode E2. There are a variety of advantages associated with the use of the case electrode Ecase as a remote cathode in a locally imbalanced stimulation regimen. For example, because the case electrode Ecase will typically be much larger than the lead electrodes, the current density and electric field intensity will be greatly reduced. This reduces the likelihood that the non-target tissue in the vicinity of the case electrode Ecase will be stimulated. IPG cases are also typically located in areas, such as a subcutaneous pocket in the abdomen, where there is not a substantial amount of tissue that is susceptible to stimulation.
It should be noted here that there are a variety ways to remotely sink current. One example is, as discussed above, sinking current at the remotely located case electrode Ecase. Current may also be sunk, for example, at some or all of the electrodes on a remotely implanted lead. Another example is sinking current at a dedicated, and preferably spherical, remotely implanted electrode on the end of a lead.
Another exemplary stimulation regimen in accordance with a present invention, which may be employed when AP block is only desired in a single direction, is illustrated in FIG. 13. Here, electrode E1 is functioning as an anode and electrode E2 is functioning as a cathode. No other local electrodes are sourcing or sinking current. The amount of current sourced from electrode E1 (e.g. about 4-8 mA) is sufficient to reach the hyperpolarization threshold HPT within the first fiber bundle FB1, thereby creating a local AP block at electrode E1 in at least a substantial portion of the fibers (i.e. >10-20%) within the first fiber bundle. The amount of current being sunk at electrode E2 is sufficient to create a depolarizing electric field that is strong enough to meet the depolarization threshold DPT at the second fiber bundle FB2 and cause fibers within the second fiber bundle to generate APs. Such a depolarizing electric field will, of course, also cause the fibers in the first fiber bundle FB1 to generate APs. However, at least a substantial portion of the APs in the first fiber bundle FB1 will be prevented from passing electrode E1 by the hyperpolarization.
Additionally, in those instances where the creation of APs in fibers beyond the second fiber bundle FB2 is undesirable, a portion of the current sourced by electrode E1 will be sunk at an electrode that is located remotely from the stimulation site, thereby creating a local current imbalance at the stimulation site. As noted above, this reduces the intensity of the depolarizing electric field created by electrode E2 to a level where the hyperpolarization threshold HPT will not be met beyond the second fiber bundle FB2. In the illustrated regimen, the current from electrode E1 that is not sunk at electrode E2 is sunk at the IPG case electrode Ecase. Although the relative amounts may vary to suit particular situations, a majority of the current is sunk at E2 in the illustrated example. More specifically, 60% of the current sourced by electrode E1 is sunk at electrode E2 and the remaining 40% is sunk at electrode Ecase.
Turning to stimulation regimens for use with a lead that is oriented generally transverse to the neural fibers, and as illustrated for example in FIG. 14, such regimens frequently include electrodes over the center of the dorsal column DC and over the dorsal roots DR on either side of the dorsal column. A conventional stimulation regimen, which will serve as a reference for certain stimulation regimens in accordance with the present inventions, is illustrated in FIG. 14. Here, electrodes E1 and E3 are functioning as anodes and electrode E2 is functioning as a cathode. E1ectrodes E1 and E3 are each sourcing 50% of the total current (e.g., 1 mA each) and 100% of the total current (e.g., 2 mA) is being sunk at electrode E2. No other electrodes are activated and there is local current balance at the stimulation site. The combination of the hyperpolarizing electric fields generated by electrodes E1 and E3 and the depolarizing electric field generated by electrode E2 results in an area within the dorsal column DC that is at or above the depolarization threshold. This area, which has an overall depth and width, is the locus of stimulation LOS.
The present inventor has determined that locally current balanced stimulation regimens, such as that illustrated in FIG. 14, do not allow the depth and width of the locus of stimulation LOS to be highly controllable using only total current sunk and sourced. For example, conventional, locally-current-balanced stimulations regimens would not allow the regimen programmer to reduce the width of the regimen illustrated in FIG. 14 without effecting the depth. Stimulation regimens in accordance with some of the present inventions, on the other hand, employ a local current imbalance that facilitates high fidelity control of the width and depth of the locus of stimulation LOS.
As illustrated in FIG. 15, a stimulation regimen in accordance with one example of a present invention employs a local current imbalance and a remote cathode to provide the desired locus of stimulation LOS. More specifically, as compared to the stimulation regimen illustrated in FIG. 14, the stimulation regimen illustrated in FIG. 15 creates a locus of stimulation LOS that has a smaller width and the same depth. The current sourced at electrodes E1 and E3 is increased (e.g., 4-8 mA each) in order to strengthen the hyperpolarizing electric fields created thereby. Strengthening of the hyperpolarizing electric fields created by electrodes E1 and E3 tends to result in a narrowing the locus of stimulation LOS because it weakens the lateral edges of the depolarizing electric field created by electrode E2. Additionally, the amount of current sunk at electrode E2 may be controlled such that the depth of the locus of stimulation LOS is the same as that illustrated in FIG. 14. More specifically, a portion of the total current sourced at electrodes E1 and E3 (e.g., 40%) is sunk at electrode E2, which is functioning as a local cathode to depolarize tissue, and the remainder of the total current sourced at electrodes E1 and E3 (e.g., 60%) is sunk at a remote electrode. In the illustrated example, the remote electrode is the case electrode Ecase. No current is sourced or sunk by other electrodes in this example.
Current steering techniques may also be employed with local current imbalances to further control the locus of stimulation LOS. Referring for example to FIG. 16, the current sourced the electrodes E1 and E3 in the illustrated stimulation regimen is not equal. Electrode E1 is sourcing 80% of the total anodic current (e.g., 8 mA) and electrode E3 is sourcing the other 20% of the total anodic current (e.g., 2 mA). The locus of stimulation LOS is, accordingly, “steered” toward to electrode E3. With respect to the local current imbalance that is employed to control the depth of the locus of stimulation LOS, a portion of the total current sourced at electrodes E1 and E3 (e.g., 40%) is sunk at electrode E2 and the remainder of the total current sourced at electrodes E1 and E3 (e.g., 60%) is sunk at a remote electrode. Here too, the remote electrode is the case electrode Ecase. No current is sourced or sunk by other electrodes in this example.
Stimulation regimens that involve the local current imbalances of the type described above with reference to FIGS. 12, 13, 15 and 16 may be developed by the programmer during and/or after the lead placement process. For example, and referring to FIG. 17, the external programmer 124 (FIG. 1) may be used to cause the IPG 110 to source and sink current in a locally balanced stimulation regimen of the type described above with reference to FIGS. 10, 11 and 14 after the lead(s) are in place (Step 200). In those instances where the stimulation regimen is not providing the desired paresthesia, the external programmer 124 may be used to cause the IPG 110 to increase the anodic current (Step 210). The additional anodic current may be used to block APs in certain fiber bundles (FIGS. 12 and 13) or to alter the shape of the portion of the electric field that is generating APs (FIGS. 15 and 16). If necessary, the external programmer 124 may also be used to cause the IPG 110 to create a locally imbalanced stimulation regimen, where some of the anodic current is sunk at a remote location such as the IPG case 122 (Step 220).
Although the inventions disclosed herein have been described in terms of the preferred embodiments above, numerous modifications and/or additions to the above-described preferred embodiments would be readily apparent to one skilled in the art. By way of example, but not limitation, the present inventions include neurostimulation systems that also comprise at least one neurostimulation lead. It is intended that the scope of the present inventions extend to all such modifications and/or additions and that the scope of the present inventions is limited solely by the claims set forth below.
blocking at least some of the action potentials in the first neural fiber bundle with a second electrode that is the first distance from the first neural fiber bundle and the second distance from the second neural fiber bundle.
sinking another portion of the current from the second electrode at a remote electrode.
3. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein blocking at least some of the action potentials comprises blocking at least some of the action potentials in the first neural fiber bundle with second and third electrodes that are each the first distance from the first neural fiber bundle and the second distance from the second neural fiber bundle and are located on opposite sides of the first electrode.
sinking another portion of the current from the second and third electrode at a remote electrode.
circuitry, operably connected to the lead connector, that generates electrical waveforms to block at least some of the action potentials in the first neural fiber bundle with a second lead electrode.
wherein the circuitry to generate electrical waveforms to create action potentials comprises circuitry to sink a portion of the current from the second lead electrode at the first lead electrode and to sink a portion of the current from the second lead electrode at the remote electrode.
the circuitry to generate electrical waveforms to create action potentials comprises circuitry to sink a portion of the current from the second lead electrode at the first lead electrode and to sink a portion of the current from the second lead electrode at the case electrode.
the circuitry generating electrical waveforms to block at least some of the action potentials comprises circuitry to generate electrical waveforms to block at least some of the action potentials in the first neural fiber bundle with second and third lead electrodes located on opposite sides of the first lead electrode.
the circuitry to generate electrical waveforms to create action potentials comprises circuitry to sink a portion of the current from the second and third lead electrodes at the first lead electrode and to sink a portion of the current from the second and third lead electrodes at a remote electrode.
the circuitry to generate electrical waveforms to create action potentials comprises circuitry to sink a portion of the current from the second and third lead electrodes at the first lead electrode and to sink a portion of the current from the second and third lead electrodes at the case electrode.
circuitry, operably connected to the lead connector and the case electrode, to sink a portion of the current from the first lead electrode at a second lead electrode and to sink a portion of the current from the first lead electrode at the case electrode.
the circuitry to sink current comprises circuitry to sink a portion of the current from the first and third lead electrodes at the second lead electrode and to sink another portion of the current from the first and third lead electrodes at the case electrode.
the circuitry to source current comprises circuitry to source equal amounts of current at the first and third lead electrodes.
sinking another portion of the current from the first electrode at a remote electrode.
sourcing current into neural tissue comprises sourcing current into neural tissue with first and third electrodes located on the implantable lead and on opposite sides of the second electrode.
all of the current sourced at the first and third electrodes is sunk at the second electrode and the remote electrode.
sinking a portion of the current from the first electrode at a second electrode comprises sinking current sufficient to generate action potentials in the neural tissue at the second electrode.
sourcing current into neural tissue with first electrode comprises sourcing current sufficient to block action potentials at the first electrode.
sinking another portion of the current from the first electrode comprises sinking another portion of the current from the first electrode at a case electrode.
orienting the implantable lead transverse to the elongate fibers. | 2019-04-25T18:41:26Z | https://patents.google.com/patent/US20070142863A1/en | Porn | Science | 0.319796 |
wordpress | When was the last time you made fresh footprints on a beach? The only footprints! It is a special and restorative experience. It is almost impossible to find a beach that seems like it is your own private beach. At least, one that is accessible. There is such a beach, not so far from Puerto Vallarta, in the state of Jalisco, Mexico.
Actually, it is part of the south coast of Jalisco. An area to be discovered, and soon will be. It is only a matter of time, and the natural migration of those who have had enough of the crowded beaches north of Puerto Vallarta. A photo of the beach at Sayulita, an hour plus drive north of Vallarta, during Easter week is enough to make one long for a time 15 years ago, when you had the place to yourself. Well, there is no going back, so maybe it is time to start exploring.
Maybe make a plan to drive south for a change. Less traffic. Attractions like the botanical gardens. Towns like El Tuito to discover. Be sure to stop at the roadside bread stand on the way at El Columpo. Fresh hot little breads filled with chocolate, cheese, and fruits. Drive though pine forests, and feel the fresh cool mountain air. From the town of Tuito, head to the beaches for a day or maybe an overnight stay. When you see the beaches, you will want to stay. It is that kind of place. Find that piece of beach and make your footprints. My favorite time at Chachalaka is early morning or as the sun is setting. The light is best then, especially if waves are washing over your footprints. | 2019-04-26T06:48:57Z | https://pvmirror.wordpress.com/from-the-south/exploring-the-south/may-2014-%E2%97%8F-footprints-in-the-sand/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.983489 |
wordpress | With the addition of 10 freshmen, the Missouri Tigers softball team had plenty of new faces Saturday at their annual Black and Gold game. But you won’t hear any of the Tigers say it’s a rebuilding year.
Senior power hitter Ashley Fleming hit the single home run of the day. “I was recruited to hit and I should be hitting like I have the past few years,” Fleming said. She led the team with a .356 batting average in the 2011 season.
Before the game started, the 2011 team received their Big 12 championship rings. Former players including Rhea Taylor and Abby Vock were there to see old teammates and reflect on last season.
Fleming led the Black team by hitting a homerun in the intersquad match, which helped beat the Gold team 8-0. Coach Ehren Earleywine set the lineup for his best hitters on the Black team against his ace, redshirted junior Chelsea Thomas, starting for the Gold team.
“When I made the lineup I thought, if I’m a fan, what do I want to see?” Earleywine said.
Alongside Fleming on the Black squad was freshman outfielder Kayla Kingsley, who showed why she is in contention for a roster spot this season.
“For a little girl, she’s got some real lively hands,” Earleywine said.
Kinglsey was recently out for a week after being hit in the head by a bat that had flown out of freshman Lindsey Muller’s hands. Kingsley played centerfield for the Black team on Saturday, but Earleywine said the lineup is not final; he is still deciding which freshmen to red shirt this season.
Freshman Ashtin Stephens could possibly be redshirted, as an MRI has discovered a labrum tear in her hip. Doctors will decide Monday if she will be able to play this season or not.
If this game were any indication of how the season will go, Earleywine would be pleased. | 2019-04-21T22:32:39Z | https://barbaramaningatarchives.wordpress.com/category/photo/ | Porn | Sports | 0.726449 |
wordpress | Hungarian lecso (lecsó) is a typical Hungarian dish that consists of tomatoes, peppers, and onions. How lecso turns out can differ, depending on the type of pepper used. Some swear by the bitingly hot bogyiszlói (banana chili), others prefer the sweet, mild varieties. However, there is always room for compromise by adding a few hot ones to the milder ones. However, care should be taken when adding very hot peppers, since just a single one can ruin a dish for an unaccustomed palate.
Remove the stalks and the seeds from the peppers, and cut into finger-width strips or rings. Remove the stalks from the tomatoes, and squash or slice them. Finely chop the onion and fry in the hot oil, stirring continuously, until translucent. Remove from the heat and stir in the paprika.
Add the peppers and salt, and cover with a lid. Simmer gently for about 10 minutes, then add the tomatoes and cook until soft.
The “lecsó” is a super food! Light, delicious with many delicious vegetables.
I got this recipe from my mother when I was a little girl.
This entry was posted in Christmas In July 2018 - #EtsyCIJ, Recipes and tagged #EtsyCIJ 2018, CIJ Favorite Holiday Recipe Exchange, Hungarian Lesco, RitzySelection. Bookmark the permalink. | 2019-04-18T18:27:21Z | https://etsychristmasinjuly.wordpress.com/2018/07/05/cij-favorite-holiday-recipe-exchange-hungarian-lesco/ | Porn | Health | 0.787417 |
wordpress | Every year! The first day of school will be here in two days and the weather forecast is calling for HEAT! Lots of it!! So please come prepared on Tuesday. Bring a water bottle and plan on drinking plenty of it.
If you do happen to see this post before Tuesday, please also be sure to bring a silent reading book with you EVERY DAY, starting with the first day of school. We are a Community of Readers in seventh grade! | 2019-04-23T14:31:34Z | https://mcmillan.wordpress.com/tag/weather/ | Porn | Kids | 0.964971 |
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As noted in the first blog of the stones, the meaning of the stones used to create The New City holds within them a mystery of Revelation which was discovered while crushing the stones. This mystery will change history and religion as we current understand them related to Revelation, it is history in the making! Please note that in ancient times stones were classified differently than today and were not a separated family with different names as we see today.
Oddly enough, when I started working with the stones, they were taken at their face value and what I knew the stones to be. For instance, I had no clue that a red sapphire was actually a ruby or that an emerald can be red. Since that time, I have learned very much about these gems but still feel I have a lot more to learn. Even published information about some of these stones is wrong.
Research is ongoing about the stones, their dates of origin, name origins, when and/or if they became classified as separates from their original families due to color or other contributing factors. Sapphire is a stone which has many separations as you will see in the Jacinth blog. Once all blogs have been written it will become clear that the current classifications are what ultimately changed the meaning.
Sapphire is corundum and is now (in modern times) the non-red variety of corundum, the second hardest natural mineral known to mankind. I have not been able to distinguish when in time the color separation of corundum occurred other than the given name was used in the 19th century, and when the red sapphire became classified differently from the corundum family. The red variety of corundum is Ruby – all other colors became called sapphire, even pink.
Corundum in all colors is known as sapphire except the medium to dark red tones which in modern times characterize ruby. Sapphire is commonly known as blue yet colors which make up this family of mineral, when applied correctly include yellow, brown, green, black, purple, orange, pink, colorless, and ranges within those colors. Although this blog is about RED Sapphire or Ruby and it is worth mentioning the stone Jacinth was Hyacinth in ancient times, which is today’s blue Sapphire.
The Revelation Painting requires gemstones to be crushed into shards including rough and faceted where appraisals were not obtained beforehand. I do not know if the rough gems I crushed where in fact worth $425,000.00 per carat or not. It sounds ludicrous but the message of the painting in my eyes is worth far more than a monetary value. A simple personal philosophy is that I cannot take this painting when I leave the earth, but I can take the impact it made upon the world!
Click the rough rubies to connect to a site where scientist have created filtered drinking straws; A new straw that purifies water as it is drunk, is hoped to be part of a solution to water-borne disease killing thousands in developing countries. It is priced at around $3.50 (£1.85) a straw. Each one will last for around 700 litres, around six months to a year.
Forgery and thievery is nearly expected when it comes to gemstones due to their incredible value at such small size. Some faceted stones from Thailand and other Asian countries have been known to be lead glass filled which is considered “enhanced or treated”. Even a trained and veteran gemologists cannot tell the difference and requires a high-powered microscope.
Although still ruby, flawed, it is a process where the natural feathering or flaws within the stone is lead glass filled which eliminates the flaw and adds weight to the stone. Sellers are supposed to disclose this process but do not readily do so. The stone after time returns to its flawed state. In the painting, although thousands of dollars worth of rubies were used, some were “enhanced”.
Britain conquered Burma over a period of 62 years (1824-1886) and incorporated it into its Indian Empire. Burma was administered as a province of India until 1937 when it became a separate, self-governing colony; independence from the Commonwealth was attained in 1948. Gen. NE WIN dominated the government from 1962 to 1988, first as military ruler, then as self-appointed president, and later as political kingpin.
Despite multiparty legislative elections in 1990 that resulted in the main opposition party – the National League for Democracy (NLD) – winning a landslide victory, the ruling junta refused to hand over power. NLD leader and Nobel Peace Prize recipient AUNG SAN SUU KYI, who was under house arrest from 1989 to 1995 and 2000 to 2002, was imprisoned in May 2003 and is currently under house arrest.
In December 2004, the junta announced it was extending her detention for at least an additional year. Her supporters, as well as all those who promote democracy and improved human rights, are routinely harassed or jailed. One would imagine in a land which supplies the affluent and elite with their jewels that this country would be one of the “richest” in the entire world!
Burma is a resource-rich country that suffers from government controls, inefficient economic policies, and abject rural poverty. The junta took steps in the early 1990s to liberalize the economy after decades of failure under the “Burmese Way to Socialism”, but those efforts have since stalled and some of the liberalization measures have been rescinded.
Burma has been unable to achieve monetary or fiscal stability, resulting in an economy that suffers from serious macroeconomic imbalances – including inflation and multiple official exchange rates that overvalue the Burmese kyat. In addition, most overseas development assistance ceased after the junta began to suppress the democracy movement in 1988 and subsequently ignored the results of the 1990 legislative elections.
Economic sanctions against Burma by the United States – including a ban on imports of Burmese products and a ban on provision of financial services by US persons in response to the government of Burma’s attack in May 2003 on AUNG SAN SUU KYI and her convoy – further slowed the inflow of foreign exchange. Official statistics are inaccurate.
Published statistics on foreign trade are greatly understated because of the size of the black market and unofficial border trade – often estimated to be one to two times the size of the official economy. Though the Burmese government has good economic relations with its neighbors, a better investment climate and an improved political situation are needed to promote foreign investment, exports, and tourism.
In February 2003, a major banking crisis hit the country’s 20 private banks, shutting them down and disrupting the economy. As of January 2004, the largest private banks remained moribund, leaving the private sector with little formal access to credit. Within the beauty of the ruby, one might imagine that the sparkle trapped inside comes from tears of the people of Burma.
If this is shocking and you did not know this is where your precious rubies and sapphires came from, I am sorry. But now you do know and all I can do is ask you to think before you buy another and for the one(s) you have, when you look deep into the beauty of it, think of it as a crystal ball and see the image below. It is not as beautiful as you think.
Consider this: Sell your stones and help the people of Burma rebuild their lives! Afterall, it is just a pretty rock that cost a life. It is not what you have when you leave this earth, it is about what you leave behind.
Greenland (Danish: Grønland; Kalaallisut: Kalaallit Nunaat, meaning “Land of the Kalaallit people”) is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiographically a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically associated with Europe (specifically Denmark-Norway) for about a millennium.
In 1979, Denmark granted home rule to Greenland, with a relationship known in Danish as Rigsfællesskabet (Commonwealth of the Realm), and in 2008 Greenland voted to transfer more competencies to the local government. This became effective the following year, with the Danish royal government remaining in charge only of foreign affairs, security and financial policy, and providing a subsidy of DKK 3.4 billion ($633m), or approximately US$11,300 per Greenlander, annually.
Greenland is, by area, the world’s largest island that is not a continent. It is the least densely populated country in the world. The bedrock in the centre of Greenland has been pressed below sea level by the weight of the ice sheet.
Greenland is a harsh country filled with cold weather, ice, snow, and harsh conditions. It was discovered centuries ago by the Vikings. Al Gore recently made Greenland more popular, but very few visit this country each year. Of course, Greenland isn’t for weak travelers or those that don’t enjoy freezing to death. If you visit Greenland you will be rewarded with beauty that cannot be compared to anything else in the world, making the harsh travel conditions well worth it.
First of all, you don’t visit Greenland expecting luxury hotels or travel accommodations. There are no fancy hotels here, and you would be laughed out of the country if you expected one. Most hotels are just makeshift and are designed to keep you warm and safe from the elements – that’s it. They are practical establishments that only offer the bare necessities. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, seeing that these hotels are also rather cheap.
The population in Greenland is smaller than most American cities, at around 55,000 you won’t experience crowded shops or restaurants. Currently the only way to get to Greenland is by Air Greenland, a flight service from Baltimore Maryland to Greenland. There aren’t any roads here so you won’t need a vehicle. You better be prepared for very cold temperatures and not a lot of food options.Reindeer, whale, and seafood are the primary food sources. Vegetables and fruits are extremely expensive, but still somewhat available. If you want nutrition it’s best to simply bring vitamins and food bars that are fortified with extra vitamins and minerals.
Remote Greenland is the world’s biggest island, and the sea that surrounds it is either permanently frozen or chilled by the mainly cold currents. In the centre of the country, ice can be up to 3km (2 miles) thick. It is no wonder that most of its population huddles around the ice-free coastal region. Indeed, the name ‘Greenland’ is itself a bit of a misnomer. Those wondering why anyone would want to inhabit such unforgiving terrain are ignorant of the beautiful sights that Greenland grants. The arctic nights in the winter concoct a wondrous continuous twilight and, in the far north of the country, complete darkness, coupled with the spectacular Northern Lights.
However, Greenland has now become somewhat of a tourist attraction. It holds contests to attract tourists such as dog racing, ice fishing, hiking, and cross country racing.
The northwest corner of Greenland is known as the Thule region. It is roughly the size of Germany, but inhabited by fewer than 1,000 people. The northern-most year-round communities on earth (Siorapaluk, Moriasaq and Qaanaaq) are in the Thule region. Siorapaluk, with approximately 80 residents, is just 730 nautical miles (1,360 km) from the North Pole.
Currently, though most families in the Thule region need at least one member in salaried employment in order to pay for electricity and other modern amenities, hunting remains a revered profession. Traditional foods like seal, walrus, narwhal and caribou, are consumed frequently. Hunters still wear hand-made polar bear skin garments, caribou anoraks and skin boots for warmth on winter hunting trips. Many of the men maintain world-class kayaking and harpoon-throwing skills.
A new report confirms high levels of heavy metals in traditional Greenlandic food. It is a challenge to substitute imported substandard foods with a more healthy diet, says the SLiCA Chief, Birger Poppel.
People in Greenland are more exposed to contaminants from their diet than people in Europe and North America. The cause is that marine traditional food items such as fish, seabirds, seals and whales are much more important in Greenland, and that at the same time some of these food items contain high levels of heavy metals. Now, these well known facts from several sources are confirmed by at new report from the National Environmental Research Institute, NERI 1), in Denmark. The report presents contaminant data from muscle, liver, kidney and blubber from hooded seal and walrus and blubber and skin from minke whale. All samples were collected in West Greenland.
Earlier research programs have showed that within the Arctic, Greenlanders have the highest concentrations of mercury and most organochlorines and estimated daily intakes of mercury, cadmium and several organochlorine compounds exceed “acceptable or tolerable daily intakes” for many people in Greenland.
1) By the way “neri” means eating in Greenlandic.
Nepal, the fabled land of Buddha, Hindu temples, and unrivaled mountain scenery, was controlled by a myriad of factions since the 4th century.
The modern Nepalese state began in the late 18th century when King Prithvi Narayah Shah successfully unified most of the individual ethnic groups and small principalities into one entity.
In search of additional lands, Nepal ventured into India, subsequently losing part of its own territory to British India, but retaining its independence.
Nepal, at the time, was controlled by a monarch (for life and by hereditary right), but in 1951, the Nepalese monarch (under great pressure) ended that system of rule, and instituted a cabinet system of government. Only one year after the country’s first election in 1959, King Kahendra dismissed the cabinet, dissolved parliament and banned political parties. Since 1990, turmoil and Nepal have traveled hand-in-hand, as a bloody insurgency, a royal family massacre and assorted governmental conflicts and squabbles have dominated the headlines. In early 2005 (once again) the king dissolved the government and assumed power.
In this poor country, the tourism industry was once a significant economic force, as backpackers, river rafters, mountain climbers and nature lovers trekked to Nepal in large numbers. For the most part, the on-going fighting between the Maoist insurgency and government forces has devastated much of its worldwide tourism base, and yet, it remains on the front-burner of many adventure travelers, and certainly in the minds of all those who have previously ventured into Nepal.
Nepal is a secular state under the Interim Constitution, which was promulgated on January 15, 2007. The Interim Constitution provides for freedom to practice one’s religion. The Interim Constitution also specifically denies the right to convert another person. The now-defunct constitution of 1990, which was in effect until January 15, 2007, described the country as a “Hindu Kingdom,” although it did not establish Hinduism as the state religion. The Government generally did not interfere with the practice of other religious groups, and religious tolerance was broadly observed; however, there were some restrictions.
The Government took positive preliminary steps with respect to religious freedom during the period covered by this report, and government policy contributed to the generally free practice of religion. The Interim Parliament, through the Interim Constitution, officially declared the country a secular state in January 2007; however, no laws specifically affecting freedom of religion were changed. Nonetheless, many believed that the declaration made it easier to practice their religion freely. However, members of minority religious groups occasionally reported police harassment. Authorities limited the location of and otherwise restricted many public celebrations by the Tibetan community, especially those with political overtones.
Adherents of the country’s many religious groups generally coexisted peacefully and respected places of worship, although there were reports of societal abuses and discrimination based on religious belief or practice. Those who converted to another religious group at times faced violence and occasionally were ostracized socially but generally did not fear to admit their affiliations in public. | 2019-04-20T17:03:50Z | https://therevelationpaintingstones.wordpress.com/category/uncategorized/sapphire/ | Porn | News | 0.136997 |
wordpress | Car has been MOT’d! It ended up costing £291 which included a new MOT to save time taking it back for a retest. Yesterday both garages we took it to insisted that the catalytic converter needed to be replaced at a cost of around £200. Sarah’s brother recommended a garage but it was in Carshalton. When we phoned them they said that they often found that the application of some fuel additive and a good run sorted out the problem and in the end that was what happened. So taking the cost of the new MOT out of the equation the repairs cost £237 instead of £500!
The only thing was the garage was in Carshalton! This meant me leaving home at 6:30 in the morning to get there when they opened at 8. Sarah had talked her Dad into picking me up and giving me a lift to work. In the end it was closer to 8:30 when I arrived due to traffic. Google maps has allowed 4 minutes to get from Purley Way to Carshalton ponds which anyone who knows South London will tell you is impossible unless you have a helicopter!! However it was getting that that was tricky! Sarah’s Dad had already dropped a less than subtle hint that he wasn’t around that evening. I already knew Sarah’s mum was going out so it looked like I had to get there on public transport.
I’m going there on Saturday if you can wait!
I would offer you a lift but I didn’t bring my car in today!
If I’d been in the office today I could have given you a lift!
Catch a tram to East Croydon and get at train to Sutton from there!
So I caught a tram from Elmers End to Mitcham Junction – unfortunately the Elmers End tram stops 2 stops short of Mitcham so I had to wait for a Wimbledon tram to continue. Then I had to catch a train from there to Carshalton before walking the last mile or so to the garage! I was shocked by the difference in fares between the tram which cost £2.30 to travel around 61/2 miles and the train which cost £2.50 to do the last mile! Still it was better than the £8.50 I thought I was going to have to pull out to get a travelcard. The national rail website offered two fares which were the travelcard to go the route I went and a cheaper fare of £5.30 if I went via London Bridge. Luckily I realised I could just buy a fare for each stage of the journey and it was cheaper than both of those options!
In the evening I watched a documentary about Dave Davies from the Kinks which I watched as a follow up to the one I watched on Friday about his brother and fellow band member Ray Davies. Both were beautifully shot Dave’s on and around Exmoor and Ray’s on Hamstead Heath and in Camden. Both were very well edited with archive clips, some of which were relevant and others which simply added to the subject matter being discussed. On the whole though I preferred the more esoteric Ray’s musing on life and songwriting over Dave’s stories or shagging and drugs! I think we have heard the old “I took so many drugs and shagged everything that moved in the 60’s” story so many times it’s worn very thin but it was interesting to see inside the head of such a prolific songwriter who, more than many others, mapped the English Landscape in song! | 2019-04-23T12:12:24Z | https://bloke2012.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/23rd-october/ | Porn | Home | 0.504611 |
imdb | The interaction between Gable and Lancaster is something to behold. That and the story, the tension and the realism of men under attack. Yes, the special effects are not to the "high" standards of today, but they serve the story well and do not detract from the important drama. As one poster said, this movie would be ill served in color as would Das Boot in B&W. An overall excellent adaptation of the book and as far as the points not explained, all the better. I hate movies that stop the action to then explain to a character what that character is about to experience/see/do, etc. Give the movie goer credit for being able to fill in the gaps. A must have for any WWII movie collection.
The comic character of Russo in this movie was played by Nick Cravat, a circus acrobat who was a close friend and former colleague of Burt Lancaster's from his old circus days. Cravat had played many smaller parts in Lancaster's films. This apparently marked a reconciliation between the two after a long period. It also marked the first time Cravat had a speaking part--his previous appearances were in Lancaster's "period" films, usually set in medieval Europe, and Cravat's pronounced Brooklyn accent would have been wildly out of place, so he usually played a mute.
In the protracted scene between Capt Richardson and Mueller where Mueller is on report, Richardson pulls out a pack of cigarettes and lights one. The next several close up shots of him do not show him with a cigarette, he is playing with a model of a ship, or smoke from a lit cigarette. Near the end of the scene we see smoke from the cigarette rising.
Opening credits: "Bungo Straits Near the Coast of Japan 1942" | 2019-04-24T11:30:03Z | https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0052151/?ref_=m_tt_rec_tti | Porn | Arts | 0.675703 |
tripod | Dorothy had been dreaming again. At first, she couldn't remember any details of the dreams, but would have a vague sense of uneasiness. Dorothy learned to push the dreams to the back of her mind and even convinced herself that they had stopped. But that unease remained with her and deepened as time passed.
She began to recall a dark haired, handsome face and a deep summoning voice. There was a candlelit shadowy room, chanting, swirling shapes, and the cloying smell of incense.
She was wary of telling anyone because she didn't want to be thought mad!
at her - she must be crazy.
one asked her to dances.
a secretary and move to the Big City.
beloved nephew of the Witch of the West and was a witch himself.
science, alchemy, and the arts.
He read poems to her and they made love in the moonlight under the starry skies.
What amazing dreams these were...so real!
Her dream world became more real to her than the real world.
That night, in the midst of the most wondorous dream yet, Dorothy asked.
she too was a witch! A good witch of course, but still....a witch.
and the ceremony could work.
because she would never be able to leave Oz once she returned there.
Was she willing to do that?
Yes, she decided, she was. Would her longing be enough?
A massive storm was brewing over the horizon. As the clouds drew closer and closer, turned grey, black, then an evil green, towering above the city! What was happening? People were running hither and yon, wringing their hands as if it was the end of the world.
Dorothy smiled secretly for she knew what was taking place. She slipped her feet into the ruby slippers and climbed the steps to the rooftop of the tallest building in the Big City.
Lightning was flashing and thunder was booming all around her. The roar of the wind was like nothing she had ever experienced. She raised her arms and stepped off the edge of the building.
In an instant, the whirlwind grabbed her. Her body was buffeted about like a ragdoll, but the smile never left her face. She knew in every fiber of her being where she was going and that she would safely arrive.
And of course, she was right, wasn't she? | 2019-04-22T17:10:34Z | http://perfectpatterns.tripod.com/OZentry09.html | Porn | Arts | 0.96927 |
wordpress | Kam Fung : the best dim sum of Montreal?
Kam Fung http://www.restaurantlamaisonkamfung.com/ (1111 Rue St-Urbain (514) 878-2888 ) is widely known as offering Montreal very best dim sums. It’s being a while that I haven’t re-visited KF. I went back for lunch on Febr 7th 2014. What a breeze to see a place with such successful business turnaround: the room is large, almost like a football stadium (just kidding, well almost…), and yet it was packed and people kept getting in and out.
I will save you from the depicting of each of my bites, there are plenty of food bloggers doing that for you on the web, and I shall go straight to what I believe to matter most: does Kam Fung really has the best dim sums in Montreal?
Regarding dim sum food, there’s definitely no clear winner among the good dim sum places of Montreal (Le Cristal Chinois, Ruby Rouge, Tong Por, etc) . But it’s a fact that, with an eye for details, you’ll notice that they, at KF, do slightly better execute the textures of their dim sums (none of the dim sums fell apart as it’s common at most of the lesser dim sum places in town), but the quality of ingredients to be found in Montreal make those dim sums quite ordinary (though, still as good as you’ll get in town). For eg, I’d close my eyes and would not really realize that the filling of shrimp was shrimp, the filling of squid was squid, etc. It could have been anything else. And NO…this is not because of the cooking technique (steaming). I have not started sampling dim sums an hour ago, lol, and even without going too far (no need to go to Asia for this — I have not visited the entire globe, for sure, lol, but I know China and its various cuisines very well, and I’ll still spare you that episode…), I had better tasting dim sums in New York and Vancouver and even Toronto. I am not saying this to try comparing the incomparable, rather to underline the fact that a dim sum can and should taste profoundly of its fillings. This problem applies to ALL the other good dim sum places of Montreal, not just Kam Fung and that is why most people who have tried the finest dim sums of NYC/Toronto/vancouver would expect a bit more from what count, admittedly, among the finest dim sums of Montreal.
Overall verdict: 7/10 Good, by Montreal dim sum standards, there’s no denying it and please keep any comparison to Asia away from any discussion about Chinese food in Montreal. When it comes to Chinese food, Montreal is not as bad as some might think (take that sticky rice you see on your left…although it’s true that it won’t set any bar on a worldwide perspective, it remains a well seasoned and properly executed one as you’d get from a respectable classic Chinese venture that’s not in Asia) , unless you start unreasonable comparisons to what is done in China or elsewhere. So to wrap it up, they do dim sums as good as you’ll get in town, though hardly the best per se (there’s not an ocean of difference in between Le Cristal Chinois Vs Ruby Rouge Vs Tong Por Vs Kam Fung cooking levels), and the average ingredients (the technique is there, make no mistake about that ) we have in Mtl can certainly leave the right impression that those could have been way better dim sums. The one in Brossard is a tad better, imho. | 2019-04-26T08:51:46Z | https://michelinstarfinedinings.wordpress.com/2014/02/08/kam-fung-the-best-dim-sum-of-montreal/?shared=email&msg=fail | Porn | Reference | 0.118076 |
wired | Games Radar's Italian office just found out that the PlayStation 3's front (or top, depending) is removable. You'd figure Sony would announce this to the world and make some customizable faceplates – which I am delighted to find are called frontalino in Italian.
I went over to my PS3 and tried very gently to remove the top. I wasn't able to figure it out. Maybe you're... not supposed to? I'd need more specific instructions, in American, before I went and put any more pressure on the thing. "The top comes off" is not the sort of step-by-step guide I'm looking for, here. | 2019-04-19T15:17:43Z | https://www.wired.com/2006/11/playstation-3-g/ | Porn | News | 0.672581 |
wordpress | Two business card designs for my sister’s yoga instruction classes. I was going for something approachable and efficient-looking. The name Vitamin Yoga is from an idea that Yoga can be about good health, an essential element and part of a person’s life/routine.
Check out the Vitamin Yoga website for more information, or if you’re in the Vancouver area, visit a session! | 2019-04-20T00:21:50Z | https://jconsunji.wordpress.com/2012/08/01/vitamin-yoga-cards/ | Porn | Health | 0.379198 |
ncsu | NC State Mental Health Ambassadors are a group of undergraduate and graduate students with a passion for mental health awareness and wellness education. NC State MHAs will assist in the development and presentation of various topics for classroom presentations, campus partners and community events. Our goal is to utilize the benefit of peer to peer education and support to continue to decrease stigma around mental health, help seeking and self-care. In addition to a significant time commitment, this program will require students to have strong communication and organizational skills, work well in a group, display maturity and empathy and a high level of responsibility. Profiles of our current Ambassadors can be found here.
NC State MHAs will be thoroughly trained in various areas of mental health and wellness. Each participant will shadow current staff members and then be paired with other MHAs for all programs. Ambassadors will be prepared and knowledgeable to educate peers in an effort to positively impact the NC State campus community by raising mental health awareness through preventative education.
Mental Health Screenings and Tabeling Events including Suicide Prevention Vigil, Stop the Stigma events, information fairs and Earth Fair.
There will 12 hours of training in August (dates to be determined by availability). All NC State Mental Health Ambassadors must be available to attend.
NC State Mental Health Ambassadors will meet weekly on Friday afternoons from 1:30- 3:00 in the Counseling Center. Students must commit to not miss more than 3 meetings per semester.
NC State MHAs must complete at least 5 outreach presentations per semester. All presentations are co-presented with senior staff or other MHAs.
NC State MHAs is a one year commitment. Only apply if you can commit to both semesters.
Must have and maintain a minimum of 2.8 GPA.
If you just completed your first semester at NC State, please share your most recent GPA.
We will begin accepting applications March 18th.
The application is due April 12th.
Applicants are expected to have 2-3 recommenders complete the following online form. References should come from those who are able to evaluate you in a professional context (professors, advisors, employers, etc.).
Applications will be reviewed and interviews scheduled within 2 weeks of the April 12th deadline. Feel free to send any questions to above e-mail. | 2019-04-20T22:51:40Z | https://counseling.dasa.ncsu.edu/workshops-and-events/mental-health-ambassador-program/ | Porn | Health | 0.966231 |
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2 Responses to How to Hit YOUR Baskets!
This was so cool, Michael! I did the hard thing by putting the basket into another room and shoot it from there. LOL 3 of out 10> So embarassing! But what I just did was definitely made my challenge very frustrating to get to. Ain’t that something of how I asked for difficulty at its best?Once again, thank you Michael and may God always inspire you!
I’ve been waiting for the opportunity to read this CQ and really enjoyed the information and the exercise. Don’t have a big office and at best I did 2 out of 10 (with the exceptions of the last one), guess I’m not ready for the big leagues yet ;). However it was insightful as to how I observe and carry out challenges in life. Thank you very much! | 2019-04-19T11:16:19Z | https://characterq.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/how-to-hit-your-baskets/ | Porn | Sports | 0.619818 |
wordpress | Understand the negative, but do not amplify the negative. Be aware of negativity but do not let it infect your creative spirit. We each project to others a reflection of the world that includes our choices of perception. Look upon the world with loving eyes and the reflection everyone sees will contain love. When we choose to engage reality as the best each moment can be, we are shaping more positive experiences for others. When we process our pain, and pass on only the lessons to others, our quiet suffering uplifts everyone. Become an extension of the light in the lives of others. By choosing positivity, you become a contender for the human spirit, giving hope to those in need. The incredibly powerful and enriching lifestyle of seeking beauty is a humble service of love and healing. Tremendously meaningful healing for yourself begins with how you choose to see the world. A more wonderful life and a more beautiful world is one thought away. | 2019-04-18T15:17:04Z | https://speakingshreya.wordpress.com/2018/10/22/filter-your-thoughts/ | Porn | Health | 0.25109 |
google | TO OUR PARENTS: As mentioned in the newsletter, at Field, we strongly believe that the detailed and collaborative process for creating class lists creates learning environments that benefit all students. We are blessed with an amazing staff that work hard to meet the needs of all students. Creating class lists is a delicate balancing act which takes much consideration and thought by staff who know and care about your children. We welcome and value any insights you wish to share about your child. We will take into consideration pertinent information about your child's learning style and needs. While we welcome your input, we will not be able to honor specific teacher requests. This year, we are gathering parent input HERE in our 2019 -2020 Parent Input Form. This survey will be open until April 26th. Only Mrs. Thomas will have access to review the information that you share in the survey. She will share information pertinent to placement with the team during our collaborative sessions. | 2019-04-20T21:12:00Z | https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfysevVHNg54QxkkVzdFde_fqPmsU6K2q7hOIJE2zu_TK59yA/viewform | Porn | Kids | 0.342576 |
lushstories | Our community has 393,601 members, 3,322 online now, 86 in chat rooms. We’ve published 53,374 stories, shared 397,368 images, made 207,793 blog posts and written 3,258,791 forum posts.
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wordpress | Sequential art for those possessed by the need for COMICS!
As refugees flee war and persecution, and as governments strike deals to limit and funnel the flow, certain areas become bottlenecks for refugees on the move. They are stuck in limbo, in summer tents, in overcrowded camps that are beyond capacity, as the winter approaches yet again. Overcrowding, lack of clean water and sanitation, lack of mental health services all plague the camps. Nobody would want themselves or their families to be stuck like this. The refugees have been using the tool of nonviolent protest to bring attention to their situation. Now is the time for governments to step up and relocate them to safe areas. One such bottleneck is Greece. This is a comic I made describing the conditions of the camps on the Greek Islands, where thousands of refugees are stranded, waiting for an extremely slow bureaucratic process of asylum.
If you are a fan of Joe Sacco’s Palestine, Safe Area Gorazde, and books like Harvey Pekar’s Macedonia: What Does It Take to Stop a War, and Sarah Glidden’s Rolling Blackouts.
Thank you Detroit Comix Party 2018! | 2019-04-22T21:05:14Z | https://thunderkhan.wordpress.com/tag/refugees/ | Porn | Arts | 0.972435 |
google | This relates to an event sensing device that includes an event sensing panel and is able to dynamically change the granularity of the panel according to present needs. Thus, the granularity of the panel can differ at different times of operation. Furthermore, the granularity of specific areas of the panel can also be dynamically changed, so that different areas feature different granularities at a given time. This also relates to panels that feature different inherent granularities in different portions thereof. These panels can be designed, for example, by placing more stimulus and/or data lines in different portions of the panel, thus ensuring different densities of pixels in the different portions. Optionally, these embodiments can also include the dynamic granularity changing features noted above.
This relates to multi-touch enabled surfaces, and more particularly to multi-touch enabled surfaces having varying sensor granularity.
U.S. patent application Pub. No. US2008/0007533 entitled “Capacitance Sensing Electrode with Integrated I/O Mechanism” (incorporated by reference herein in its entirety) teaches capacitance-based touch sensing.
U.S. Pat. No. 7,495,659 entitled “Touch Pad for Handheld Device” (also incorporated herein by reference) teaches a pixel based touch pad. The touch pad of U.S. Pat. No. 7,495,659 can be considered to be a “single touch” touch pad, i.e., it can be configured to detect a single touch event at any one time. The touch pad of U.S. Pat. No. 7,495,659 does not disclose dynamically changing the granularity of touch pixels.
U.S. patent application Pub. No. US2008/0158172 entitled “Proximity and Multi-Touch Sensor Detection and Demodulation” (also incorporated by reference herein in its entirety) teaches a multi-touch sensing panel which can be combined with a display in a portable device. Thus, interaction between a user and the portable device can be improved, as the user can interact with dynamically displayed images by virtually touching them, moving them, turning them, etc. application Pub. No. US2008/0158172 also describes near field and far-field proximity sensing. Some previously described multi-touch panels (as well as near-field and far-field proximity panels) feature touch sensing elements (or touch pixels) that are of the same size. In other words, they feature touch sensors with uniform granularity.
U.S. Pat. No. 7,812,827 entitled “Simultaneous Sensing Arrangement” (incorporated by reference herein in its entirety) describes a multi-touch panel which initially scans for touch events at a low granularity and then, if it detects touch events in particular regions, scans for them with higher granularities. Thus, the panel of the U.S. Pat. No. 7,812,827 application, while providing that some regions may be initially scanned at lower granularities, still ensures that touch events at the entire panel are eventually scanned and processed at the same granularity.
Each touch pixel of a multi-touch panel can require a certain amount of power. Lower granularity can require less pixels and consequently less power. Minimizing the power usage can be very beneficial for multi-touch enabled devices. This can be especially true for devices having large displays/touch panels. However, in certain instances, a certain level of granularity may be necessary in order to correctly detect touch events.
This relates to an event sensing device that includes an event sensing panel and is able to dynamically change the granularity of the panel according to present needs. Thus, the granularity of the panel can differ at different times of operation. Furthermore, the granularity of specific areas of the panel can also be dynamically changed, so that different areas feature different granularities at a given time.
Thus, the power usage of the panel, and the panel's input resolution can be optimized. The granularity can be increased or kept high at times and areas of the panel where higher input resolution is necessary. If a lower input resolution is needed, the granularity can be decreased to save power.
In some embodiments, the panel can be a display. Furthermore, the panel can be, for example, a single-touch sensing panel, a multi-touch sensing panel, a near field proximity sensing panel or a far-field proximity sensing panel.
In some embodiments, the granularity of the panel or portions thereof can be controlled by selectively deactivating and activating one or more stimulus and/or data lines of the panel, thus deactivating one or more event sensing pixels of the panel. Also, two or more data lines can be connected to the same sensing circuit in order to combine two or more sensing pixels in a single sensing pixel.
This also relates to panels that feature different inherent granularities in different portions thereof. These panels can be designed, for example, by placing more stimulus and/or data lines in different portions of the panel, thus ensuring different densities of pixels in the different portions. Optionally, these embodiments can also include the dynamic granularity changing features discussed above.
FIG. 1 is a diagram of an exemplary conventional multi-touch enabled display.
FIGS. 2A and 2B are diagrams of exemplary schemes of deactivating stimulus and/or data lines according to one embodiment of this invention.
FIG. 3 is a diagram of the exemplary multi-touch enabled display of FIG. 1 when configured to include low granularity regions according to one embodiment of this invention.
FIG. 4 is a diagram of an exemplary multi-touch enabled device according to one embodiment of this invention.
FIG. 5 is a diagram of an alternative multi-touch panel featuring varying granularity according to one embodiment of this invention.
FIG. 6A is a diagram of a mobile telephone according to one embodiment of this invention.
FIG. 6B is a diagram of an audio player according to one embodiment of this invention.
In the following description of preferred embodiments, reference is made to the accompanying drawings which form a part hereof, and in which it is shown by way of illustration specific embodiments in which the invention may be practiced. It is to be understood that other embodiments may be utilized and structural changes may be made without departing from the scope of the preferred embodiments of the invention.
This relates to multi-touch, single touch and proximity sensor panels having varying sensor granularity.
Although embodiments of this invention are described herein in terms of devices utilizing mutual capacitance based multi-touch technologies, it should be understood that the invention is not limited to such devices, but is generally applicable to devices utilizing other touch and proximity sensing technologies as well.
FIG. 1 is a diagram of an existing touch sensing panel 100. Panel 100 can be, for example, a multi-touch sensing panel. The panel can include plurality of stimulus lines 101 and data lines 102. The stimulus lines can intersect the data lines without being directly connected to them (e.g., by passing under or over the data lines). Each intersection of a stimulus line and a data line can define a touch pixel. Touch events can be detected at a touch pixel by measuring changes in the capacitance between stimulus and a data lines associated with the pixel. In some embodiments, changes in other capacitances (e.g., between a data line and a back plate) can also be measured to detect touch events.
Changes of the capacitances can be measured by sending a stimulus signal along consecutive stimulus lines 101 and detecting a resulting signal at lines 102. Lines 102 can be connected to sensing circuits 103. In some embodiments, the sensing circuits can include charge amplifiers. For example, circuit 104 is an exemplary sensing circuit 103. The circuit can include charge amplifier circuit 105 and signal processing circuit 106. The charge amplifier and signal processing circuits can together produce a digital value representative of the capacitance between a data line associated with circuit 104 and a stimulus line (or lines) that is currently being stimulated. In other words, at any one time the resulting digital signal can represent the capacitance at a touch pixel associated with these lines. This digital signal can be further processed to detect changes in this capacitance which may indicate the presence or absence of a touch event at the touch pixel.
A single touch sensing panel (i.e., a pane; capable of sensing a single touch event at a time only) can be similar to panel 100. In some embodiments, a single touch sensing panel can feature simpler touch sensing circuitry. For example, it may feature a single sensing circuit 103 which is time multiplexed to the different data lines 102. In other words, the various data lines can be periodically connected to the single sensing circuit.
Each touch pixel can be associated with an area for which the touch pixel is intended to detect touch events. For example, touch pixel 107 can be associated with area 108. Area 108 can be referred to as the size of the touch pixel. The size of a touch pixel can depend on the overall granularity (or density) of touch pixels. A high granularity can imply a higher number of touch pixels in a given area and thus a smaller size for each touch pixel. A higher granularity can be beneficial for certain applications as it can allow the device to detect the position of touch events with higher precision.
However, a higher granularity can require a higher number of stimulus and/or data lines. Each active data line can consume power. A stimulus line can consume power when a stimulus signal needs to be sent through it. A data line can consume power when active, because the sensing circuit associated with it (e.g., circuit 104) can consume power when active. For example, amplifier and signal processing circuits 105 and 106 may need external power to operate. Thus, a data line can consume power when active regardless of whether a touch event is occurring or not.
Therefore, reducing the number of stimulus and/or data lines can beneficially reduce power consumption. However, as noted above, some applications can require a high number of stimulus and data lines as they can require high pixel granularity.
Different applications can have different requirements as to the level of granularity of touch sensors. For example, a map application can require high granularity in order to sense when a user selects particular areas of the map, while a simple calculator application can require low granularity as it may feature relatively large buttons. Furthermore, a single application can have different granularity requirements at different times and at different areas of the screen. For example, an application can require high granularity during usual operation but can, at a certain time, display a simple yes or no dialog box, and disable all other input features. At this time, the only possible input for the user can be pressing one of two or more relatively large buttons. Thus, at the above referred time, the granularity requirement of the application can be relatively low.
In another example, an application can require a high granularity in a certain portion of a screen and lower granularity in other portions. For example, a video playback application can use a first portion of the screen for video play back. In that portion, the user can be expected to only provide simple inputs (such as, e.g., tapping the screen to start or stop the video, or dragging one or more fingers across the surface to fast forward or reverse the video). However, the application can use a second portion of the screen for a tool bar, where the user can press smaller and more complex buttons to perform more complex tasks (e.g., change volume, change subtitles, etc.) Thus, the application can require a higher level of granularity at that second portion of the screen.
In some existing devices, the solution can be to provide the highest level of granularity for the entire screen and at all times. However, these embodiments can result in higher than desired power usage due to the necessity to power a relatively high number of stimulus and data lines. Embodiments of this invention can solve this by allowing the device to dynamically change the granularity of the display according to present needs. Furthermore, the granularity of specific areas of the display can also be dynamically changed.
In some embodiments, the granularity can be changed in response to commands issued by a device's operating system or the applications running at the device. In one exemplary embodiment, the operating system (or other utility software running at the device) can receive various instructions from applications running at the device. The instructions can be intended to cause the device to display various objects at the device's display. The operating system can determine which of the objects to be displayed are visual control elements. Visual control elements can be visual elements which allow user interaction. Thus, visual control elements can include, for example, buttons, knobs, sliders, etc. In one embodiment, the operating system can control the granularity in order to ensure that portions of the display which include visual control elements feature higher granularity while portions that do not include such elements. Thus, it can be ensured that portions of the display with which the user is more likely to interact and for which it is more important to accurately detect user interaction feature higher granularity, while the granularity of other portions can be decreased to save power.
Alternatively or in addition, a user can be allowed to change the granularity by utilizing a configuration interface of the device.
The granularity can be changed by selectively deactivating various stimulus and/or data lines. A stimulus line can be deactivated by not sending a stimulus signal on that line. A data line can be deactivated by removing power from the various circuits of the data line. FIGS. 2A and 2B show two exemplary schemes for deactivating stimulus and/or data lines.
FIG. 2A shows multi-touch panel (or portion thereof) 200. Stimulus lines 201-205 intersect data lines 211-215. Stimulus lines 201, 203 and 205 can be inactive. In other words, no stimulus signal may be sent along those lines. A stimulus signal can be sequentially sent along lines 202 and 204. Similarly, data lines 212 and 214 can be inactive. In other words, the sensing circuits connected to these lines (circuits 220 and 221, respectively) can be powered down.
In a single touch sensing panel, stimulus lines can be deactivated in the manner discussed above. If multiple sensing circuits are used (e.g., one per data line), data lines can also be deactivated in the manner discussed above. If a single time multiplexed sensing circuit is used, specific data lines can be deactivated by not connecting these data lines to the single sensing circuit.
Thus, some of the touch pixels (such as, e.g., pixels 230, 231, 232, etc.) can become inactive while other pixels (such as, e.g., pixels 233, 234, 235) can remain active. In general, an inactive pixel can be a pixel for which one or both of the stimulus line and the data line are not active.
Deactivating some pixels can reduce the density or granularity of existing touch pixels. It can also reduce the overall power requirements for the device. In some embodiments, various pixels can be dynamically deactivated and activated as the granularity requirements of various applications running at the display change, in order to ensure minimum power is being expended while also ensuring that the granularity requirements of the applications running on the device are satisfied.
As seen in FIG. 2A, the granularity can be reduced by deactivating every other stimulus and data line. However, other ratios can be used. For example, one in every three stimulus and data lines can be active. Some embodiments can provide multiple granularity levels by providing different ratios of active/inactive stimulus and/or data lines.
FIG. 2b shows a different scheme of reducing the granularity. In FIG. 2B sensing circuits 222, 223 and 221 can be deactivated. However the data lines corresponding to these deactivated circuits (i.e., data lines 211, 213 and 214) can be connected to neighboring active circuits. This effectively increases the size of active pixels by making neighboring pixels which would have been inactive in the scheme of FIG. 2A “join” the active pixels. Thus, what were pixels 236, 237 and 238 are all connected to a single sensor circuit and thus form a single pixel 237′. Note that these pixels are combined because the single sensing circuit can only sense the total capacitance of these pixels and not their individual capacitances.
If the granularity is to be increased again, sensing circuits 222, 223 and 221 can be turned back on and their respective data lines 211, 213 and 214 can be connected back to them. The data lines can be selectively connected to different sensing circuits through switches 240-242. Thus, the granularity of touch pixels can be selectively reduced and/or increased.
FIG. 3 shows exemplary multi-touch display 300 that has been configured to include two low granularity regions. Accordingly, low granularity regions 301 and 302 can be present. As discussed above, these regions can be dynamically formed after determining that fine resolution of touch data is not necessary for these regions at a particular time.
As noted above, stimulus lines 101 of the display can be activated or stimulated sequentially. Low granularity region 301 can be formed by not stimulating some lines selected from stimulus lines 303 which are associated with this region. For example, as shown in FIG. 2A, every other stimulus line can be left inactive. Furthermore, some of the sensor circuits 102 can also be deactivated (or powered down). However, in some embodiments, these sensor circuits may only be left inactive while region 301 is being stimulated (or, in other words, while the remaining active stimulus lines from stimulus lines 303 are being stimulated). When other stimulus lines are stimulated (e.g., stimulus line 304), all sensor circuits 102 can be activated in order to ensure that the granularity is not reduced for regions that are not intended to be of reduced granularity (e.g., region 305).
In order to reduce the granularity of region 302, some of the sensor circuits 307 associated with the region can be deactivated or powered down when one or more of the stimulus lines associated with region 302 (i.e., stimulus lines 306) are being stimulated. However, in contrast to region 301, in some embodiments, none of the stimulus lines 306 are deactivated. Thus, a granularity decrease for neighboring regions where such a decrease may not be desired (such as region 308) can be avoided. It should be noted that the above issue was not present for region 301 because that region spans the entire width of the display. Therefore deactivating some of the stimulus lines associated with that region may not result in granularity decreases for any other regions.
FIG. 4 is a diagram of an exemplary device according to an embodiment of this invention. Device 400 can comprise a multi-touch enabled display 401. The stimulus lines of the display can be connected to driver circuitry 402, while the data lines can be connected to sensor circuitry. The sensor circuitry can include the various sensor circuits 103.
The device can include device controller 404 connected to the driver and sensor circuitry. The device controller can be used to control the multi-touch functionality of the display. In some embodiments, the device controller can also be used to control the display functionality. The device can also include a CPU 405, a memory 406 and a bus 407 connecting various components.
Software stored on the memory can be executed by the CPU in order to effect the multi-touch device functionality. The software may include operating system (OS) 408, applications 409, drivers 410, as well as other software. The various software can determine what granularity is needed at various portions of the display at various times and cause the CPU to effect that granularity by sending instructions to the device controller. The device controller can, pursuant to the instructions, cause the driver circuitry to omit stimulating certain stimulus lines and/or the sensor circuitry to turn of certain sensor circuits in order to reduce the granularity of certain regions at certain times as discussed above.
Device 400 can be any multi-touch enabled device. For example, it can be a mobile telephone, an audio player (portable or non-portable), a PDA, a notebook computer, a desktop computer, any computing device, an informational kiosk, etc.
In one embodiment, a device such as device 400 can feature very coarse granularity if in sleep mode, or when a user is not interacting with the device. The coarse granularity can be used to detect when a user begins interacting with the device (thus causing the device to exit out of sleep mode). Once the device is out of sleep mode, it can increase the granularity in order to more effectively detect touch events.
FIG. 5 is a diagram of an alternative multi-touch panel featuring varying granularity. In the above discussed embodiments the granularity is varied dynamically. In other words, granularity can be changed during device operation. According to some embodiments a panel or display can be designed so that certain portions of it inherently have higher or lower granularity. For example, as seen in panel 500 of FIG. 5, low granularity portion 501 can cover most of the display, while high granularity portion 502 can be positioned along the bottom of the display as shown. Of course, in other embodiments the sizes and relative positions of portions of differing granularities can be different.
The granularity differences of portions 501 and 502 are not caused by selectively deactivating various lines (as discussed above) but by placing a relatively high number of lines in the high granularity portion and a lower number of lines in the low granularity portions, as shown.
This embodiment can be used for systems where it is known that a limited portion of the display may need to feature higher granularity. For example, the high granularity portion can be used for stylus based handwriting recognition, while the low granularity portion can be used for finger based touch sensing. In an alternative embodiment, the high granularity portion can be used for fingerprint recognition.
The dynamic granularity control discussed above can also be used in conjunction with the embodiment of FIG. 5. For example if the embodiment of FIG. 5 is used for handwriting recognition, but a certain software presently running on the device does not feature handwriting recognition and relies entirely on touch sensing, then the methods discussed above can be used to reduce the granularity of portion 502 to match that of portion 501 in order to save power.
The above noted application Ser. No. 11/649,998 discusses far-field and near-field proximity displays as well as touch sensing displays. Near-field proximity displays can utilize the same or similar methods to those used by multi-touch displays discussed above. More specifically, they can sense proximity events (i.e., fingers or other objects being placed in proximity to the display) and their locations based on mutual capacitance measurements using circuitry identical or similar to the multi-touch enabled displays discussed above.
Far-field proximity displays can sense proximity events utilizing other proximity sensors such as, for example, infrared transmitters and receivers. These displays can also include stimulus lines, data lines and sensing circuits. For example a row of infrared transmitters can be connected to a stimulus line and a column of infrared receivers can be connected to a data line terminating at a sensor circuit. Far-field proximity sensors may be able to sense proximity events at greater distances than near-field ones. Both far-field and near-field proximity sensors can be pixel based.
Far-field and near-field proximity sensing panels can feature multi pixel sensing (i.e., being able to detect multiple events at the same time) and/or single pixel sensing (i.e., being able to detect a single event at a time). A multi-touch or single touch display can also combine far-field and/or near-field proximity sensor functionality. Embodiments of the invention can include far-field or near-field sensor panels including varying granularity features similar to the ones discussed above in connection with multi-touch panels. Furthermore, embodiments can include panels that feature a combination of far-field, near-field and multi-touch functionality and configured to provide varying granularity for one, or Multiple of these functionalities.
Generally, embodiments of the present invention can be applicable to any devices that include event sensing panels. As discussed above, the event sensing panels can be, for example, single-touch panels, multi-touch panels, far-field proximity panels and/or near-field proximity panels. Other event sensing panels can also be used. These panels can be displays. Alternatively, these can be panels that do not feature any display functionality. The panels can include event sensing pixels. The event sensing pixels can be touch sensing pixels, far-field proximity sensing pixels and/or near field proximity sensing pixels. In some cases a single pixel can combine two or more functionalities. For example, as discussed above a single mutual capacitance based pixel can be used both for touch sensing and near-field proximity sensing. Also, pixels of different types can be placed in the same panel.
It should be noted that according to the above discussed embodiments, the granularity of event sensing pixels can be changed, or can differ at the panel or display hardware level. In other words, the granularity is controlled by actually activating/deactivating panel hardware components or providing panel hardware components (e.g., stimulus and data lines) of differing densities. Other existing systems can control granularity at higher levels, such as a controller hardware level, or software level by, for example, performing various types of compression on the raw data provided by the display, or simply ignoring some of the raw data. These systems can be of limited utility as compared to embodiments of the invention as they still require the low level panel hardware to operate at higher granularity and thus use relatively high amounts of power. On the other hand, embodiments of the invention can reduce the power used by actually reducing the granularity at the panel level.
FIG. 6A is a diagram of an embodiment of the invention. More specifically, FIG. 6A is a diagram of a mobile telephone according to an embodiment of the invention. The mobile telephone can be similar to the device shown in FIG. 4. It can include a display 401 that implements the varying granularity features discussed above. Various internal elements, such as controller 404, processor 405 and memory 406 can be placed under the display.
Similarly, FIG. 6B is a diagram of an audio player according to an embodiment of the invention. The audio player can be a portable digital audio player or an audio player of another type. Again, the audio player can be similar to the device shown in FIG. 4. It can include a display 401 that implements the varying granularity features discussed above. Various internal elements, such as controller 404, processor 405 and memory 406 can be placed under the display.
Although the invention has been fully described in connection with embodiments thereof with reference to the accompanying drawings, it is to be noted that various changes and modifications will become apparent to those skilled in the art. Such changes and modifications are to be understood as being included within the scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.
dynamically selecting a third portion, different from the first and second portions of the display, which has a level of granularity different from the predetermined initial granularity at a third time.
dynamically changing includes dynamically reducing the granularity of the touch pixels to the first level by removing power from one or more sensor circuits from the first set of sensor circuits.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein at least one of the sensor circuits of the first set of sensor circuits remains powered.
removing power from the one or more sensor circuits from the first set of sensor circuits only when one or more of the first set of stimulus lines is being stimulated.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein dynamically changing the granularity includes deactivating one or more of the plurality of data lines in the selected first portion of the display during the second time.
6. The method of claim 5, wherein the selected first portion of the display has a width equal to an entire width of the display.
dynamically changing a granularity of the selected third portion to a third level during the second time.
dynamically changing a granularity of the selected third portion of the display to the first level during the second time.
removing power from one or more sensor circuits from the second set of sensor circuits, only when one or more of the second set of stimulus lines is being stimulated.
wherein the first portion of the display is selected according to the granularity requirements of the application.
wherein the first portion of the display corresponds to the visual control element, and the granularity requirements of the application include a requirement that a portion of the display corresponding to the visual control element requiring the first level granularity.
dynamically select a third portion, different from the first and second portions of the display, which has a level of granularity different from the predetermined initial granularity at a third time.
13. The device of claim 12, wherein the device further includes a device controller and the CPU dynamically reduces the granularity by communicating with the device controller.
14. The device of claim 12, wherein the CPU dynamically reduces the granularity of touch pixels by dynamically deactivating one or more sensor circuits from the plurality of sensor circuits, the one or more sensor circuits being associated with the selected portion of the display.
15. The device of claim 14, wherein the one or more sensor circuits are dynamically deactivated only when one or more stimulus lines associated with the selected portion of the display are stimulated.
16. The device of claim 14, wherein the plurality of sensor circuits are connected to the plurality of data lines through a plurality of switches and the switches are configured to, in the event that a sensor circuit connected to the switch is deactivated, connect a data line connected to the switch to another active sensor circuit.
17. The device of claim 14, wherein the other active sensor circuit is in proximity to the deactivated sensor circuit.
18. The device of claim 12, wherein the device is a mobile telephone.
19. The device of claim 12, wherein the device is an audio player.
dynamically select a third portion, different from the first and second portions of the display, which as a level of granularity different form the predetermined initial granularity at a third time.
24. The device of claim 23, wherein the device is a mobile telephone.
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wordpress | An Apple a Day? Not so fast! Photo courtesy of The Interpretation of Dreams.
Garden to Table looks at homegrown, organic and natural foods, ingredients, recipes and preparation tips. In this installment, GV’s green guru Joyce H. Newman on why despite their health benefits—combating disease and promoting weight loss—there is reason for concern when eating organic apples and how to find worry-free varieties.
Whether you enjoy picking apples in the fall or pluck yours from produce aisles or farmer’s market stalls, it’s comforting to know that organic growers are prohibited from using genetic engineering, synthetic pesticides and herbicides or sewage sludge in their soil—all practices that conventional orchards can use.
What you may be surprised to learn is, that under the federal government’s national standards, the organic apples you buy may have been grown using antibiotics, which are sprayed on the trees to fight disease, a practice not allowed in any other types of organic food production. This has been going on, unbeknownst to most of us, since the beginning of the USDA’s national organic standards program in 2002.
Now, however, the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) could change its rules at its next meeting by voting to ban the use of the antibiotic streptomycin in orchards (originally scheduled for this week, the meeting was canceled due to the federal government shutdown).
The use of streptomycin, a critically important drug in the treatment of tuberculosis and other human diseases, is the last remaining antibiotic allowed in organic agriculture. The NOSB has already agreed to phase out agricultural use of tetracycline, another antibiotic that also is widely used in medicine, by October 21, 2014.
Streptomycin is sprayed on the blossoms or tree limbs to prevent Fire Blight, a disease that strikes both apple and pear trees, killing blossoms, shoots, limbs, and sometimes whole trees—leaving plants with the appearance that they’ve been scorched by fire.
Despite not being sprayed on the fruit itself, studies have shown that antibiotic residue still manages to find its way in at detectable levels. Beyond ingesting what many scientists say are generally unhealthy (especially in larger doses), agricultural use of antibiotics can increase the likelihood that antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria will develop, a serious threat to public health.
Luckily, there are ways to find organic apples produced without antibiotics. Some organic apple varieties are naturally resistant to Fire Blight so they are good choices.
The following apple varieties are less susceptible to fire blight, and less likely to need treatment. They include: Jonafree, Melrose, Northwestern Greening, Nova EasyGro, Prima, Priscilla, Quinte, RedFree, Sir Prize, and Winesap. Also resistant are Cameo, Dutchess, Empire, Red Delicious, Goldrush, Haralson, Honeycrisp, Jonagold, Jonamac, Liberty, McIntosh, Northern Spy, Novamac, and Spartan.
An extensive list of fire blight-resistant apple varieties can be in the Purdue University Cooperative Extension publication, Disease Susceptibility of Common Apple Cultivars.
You can also look for apples with the organic certification seal from the European Union (left).
The EU’s organic rules don’t allow any use of antibiotics on fruit trees, so U.S. apple growers who export to the EU do not use the drugs in their orchards.
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Just a really quick Happy Fourth of July to everyone! Hopefully, this is a day off for you, a time to regroup from the toils of your organization and the organizational development process as it is for me!
Tomorrow is another day, another opportunity to come back and face all the issues that challenge us and our organization.
So please enjoy today, the 4th of July that so many men and women gave (and are still giving) their lives for this country! That we may have the chance, the freedom to appreciate time with loved ones or even the opportunity to regroup, today by ourselves.
So from everyone here Happy 4th of July!
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wikipedia | * Except the final match at home to Wales, when he was ruled out after an injury sustained in the round four match against France. Leonardo Ghiraldini took his place as captain.
The 2015 Six Nations Championship commenced with a Friday night fixture, once again held at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, this time between Wales and England.
Welsh captain Sam Warburton earned his 50th cap for Wales.
Marco Barbini made his international debut for Italy.
Seán O'Brien was set to return to the Irish line-up after injury, but was replaced by Tommy O'Donnell in the starting XV following injury in the pre-game warm-up.
Loann Goujon made his international debut for France.
Sam Hidalgo-Clyne made his international debut for Scotland.
Giulio Bisegni made his international debut for Italy.
Nick Easter, aged 36, became the oldest English player to score a try in a test match.
Enrico Bacchin and Michele Visentin made their international debuts for Italy.
Ben Toolis and Hamish Watson made their international debuts for Scotland.
Italy got its first Six Nations win since beating Ireland 22–15 in 2013, and its second away win since beating Scotland 37–17 in 2007.
Brice Dulin's try was France's first try against Wales since their 2011 Six Nations fixture.
Wales captain Sam Warburton equalled Ryan Jones' record of 33 Tests as captain.
George North became the youngest player to earn 50 international caps (47 for Wales, 3 for the British and Irish Lions) at the age of 22, surpassing Australia's Joe Roff, who was 24.
Nick Easter earned his 50th cap for England.
Ireland reclaim the Millennium Trophy for the first time since 2011.
With this Welsh win, no team could win the Grand Slam or the Triple Crown.
Rob Evans made his international debut for Wales.
Wales captain Sam Warburton captained his country for a record 34th time, surpassing Ryan Jones' record of 33 Tests as captain.
Paul O'Connell became the fourth player to earn 100 test caps for Ireland.
Jonathan Sexton and Cian Healy earned their 50th caps for Ireland.
With this win, and Wales' win against Ireland, Australia dropped to sixth in the World Rugby Rankings, their lowest ever position.
Sergio Parisse won his 112th cap for Italy, a new national record.
Noa Nakaitaci made his international debut for France.
This was the first time that Italy failed to score any points in the Six Nations since their 25–0 loss to France in 2004.
Wales' 41-point margin of victory was their biggest winning margin over Italy, surpassing the previous record of 39 they set in 1999.
Euan Murray earned his 66th test cap to become Scotland's most-capped prop, surpassing Allan Jacobsen's previous record of 65.
Ireland required a win of at least 21 points in order to remain capable of winning the championship.
Ireland retain the Centenary Quaich.
With this loss, Scotland are effectively whitewashed, and finish at the bottom of the table for the fourth time in the Six Nations era, and the first time since 2012, and are awarded the wooden spoon as a result.
Dan Cole earned his 50th cap for England.
This is the greatest number of points England has ever scored against France.
England had to win this game by 26 points or more to claim the Championship. They only won by 20, meaning that Ireland won the Championship instead.
In the United Kingdom, BBC One televised all the matches live, although for viewers in Scotland the week 4 match between Italy and France was shown on BBC Two Scotland. BBC Two also televised live the buildup of the opening match between Wales and England and after the match, an extra between the two sides on BBC Two but only for viewers in Wales. There was also a special Six Nations special looking ahead to the final week match on BBC Two but only for viewers in Northern Ireland. On the morning of the final week of matches, BBC Two televised classic Five Nations matches including Scotland vs Ireland in 1991 and France vs England in 1992. The final match of the tournament between England and France was watched live on BBC One by 9.63 million people, beating the previous record for that fixture of 9.56 million, set in 2011. This followed audiences of 4.1 million for the match between Italy and Wales and 5.1 million for the match between Scotland and Ireland earlier in the day. The BBC website also received 8.22 million unique browser hits during the day, breaking the previous record of 8.03 million set during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. S4C simulcasted Wales matches in the Welsh language.
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wordpress | Ben loved his race car cake! It was made in celebration of his second birthday and was “chockate”. I held up two boxes of cake mix at the store, one vanilla and one chocolate, “DAT ONE” was the imediate answer. He now asks for “chockate” on a daily basis. We’ve created a monster!
Now to the confession, this really is the first fun cake I’ve done for my own children! Sad! Especially considering the fact that one of the reasons I learned how to do this stuff was to make fun cakes for my own kids. However, in the past cleaning the house, preparing for guests, making food and coming up with games and etc… came first. The thrill that Ben had with his race car was enough however to convience me that creative cakes are a must for the future, we will just scaled down other areas.
This particular cake design is one from 50 Easy Party Cakes by Debbie Brown. Hands down it is by far my favorite kids cake book, the designs are great, not overly complicated and fit a number of themes. If you have any interest in making cake in fondant for any children in your life you’ve got to get this book. I did use chocolate donuts for the wheels, instead of the big honking gob of black fondant that the design suggested. She does love her fondant, after all she’s brittish.
This Tractor cake was for a two year old boy’s birthday, I would have liked to see his face when he saw his green tractor (it had to be green). It was all chocolate- cake and filling with vanilla butter cream and then covered in fondant. | 2019-04-26T12:28:18Z | https://buttercream.wordpress.com/tag/two-year/ | Porn | Kids | 0.986877 |
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wordpress | Clambr’s Richard Marriott got “50 Experts” to weigh in on “How to Promote Your Blog with Just 3 Tools.” It’s a big page that’s now at 53 professional web marketers, SEOs and marketing bloggers. But I think their choices of blog marketing tools and their rationales for using them, which also reveals some of their approaches to blog marketing, offer useful insights for musicians, music businesspeople, music writers and music marketers who are creating content, building brands and spreading the word through blogging.
“50 Experts Reveal How to Promote Your Blog with Just 3 Tools” comes at a good time for me as I begin a process of getting organized for the New Year. I’m investigating new and old social media marketing tools for various projects and will be sharing what I learn here at Hypebot in 2014.
The blog marketing post covers a lot of ground but little of it is specific to music marketing. So here are some key tool groups and observations that I think are especially relevant for marketing music-related blogs with some notes about future coverage at Hypebot.
Email marketing was considered a key approach with AWeber topping the tools list. That makes me want to take a second look cause AWeber seems more generally on the decline compared to MailChimp which came in a distant second to AWeber in this group. MailChimp’s free tier gets multiple mentions for those on tight budgets.
I’m getting ready to reinvestiate FeedBlitz for both email and RSS management. RSS tools did not make it on the list which makes sense. RSS feeds are now a basic feature more than a core tool.
I will also be checking out self-hosted WordPress email plugins for email marketing and newsletters though that will likely include plugins for hosted email services like MailChimp or FeedBlitz.
Twitter topped the social media network mentions with Facebook lagging behind and Google+ barely appearing. Twitter definitely makes sense, especially for content and blog marketing, given its broad reach and focus on short messages with links that can lead directly back to one’s own blog.
Given that social proof is becoming a more important part of SEO, all of these networks are relevant in that realm as well, especially Google+.
We’ll continue covering the big players and also following the emerging world of messaging as it grows in importance.
Tools for managing one’s social media presence were cited more than any particular social network, which makes a lot of sense, especially for professionals who are often managing multiple accounts.
HootSuite topped the list of social media management tools and it certainly seems to be a fave among music marketers as well. They’ve done a good job of keeping up with a wide range of networks as well as offering 3rd party apps with reach beyond Twitter, Facebook and Google+ into music-relevant networks like SoundCloud, YouTube and Instagram.
I’m hoping to take a closer look at tools like HootSuite that integrate various services by either connecting with a lot of sites or by bringing all the features in-house. But, like a handful of the 50 Experts, I’ve focused more on doing things like tweeting by hand since I don’t manage accounts for clients and am exploring low volume approaches.
Understanding what’s happening and how your actions are affecting what happens is an important part of blog marketing so it’s not surprising that analytics tools made some lists. Google Analytics, which may be downplaying keywords but still offers more a rich suite of tools than a single tool, was the main one discussed.
Topsy for Twitter was mentioned in passing. Of course, many other tools such as HootSuite offer analytics related to one’s social media marketing efforts.
I’m looking for other analytics tools for blogs and websites but it’s hard to beat what Google offers for free. If you have any suggestions, please do share.
Getting people to link to you is an important part of SEO as well as direct traffic. I’ve always taken the organic “let them link to you because you have great content” approach.
If you’re interested in more overt link building as well as building relationships with other bloggers, these pros recommend such tools and networks asBuzzStream, Blog Engage and Triberr.
iTunes received multiple mentions by podcasters.
Wistia was singled out for self-hosted video.
WordPress appears low on the list but both WordPress.org (self-hosted) and related plugins get mentioned repeatedly by many of the respondents. Much of this can be attributed to the flexible nature and generally low cost of self-hosted WordPress. It’s also a reminder that blog marketing begins with a great blogging platform.
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google | 本発明は、一般にクロック信号に同期して動作する半導体装置に関し、詳しくはクロック信号を制御することにより消費電力を削減可能な半導体装置に関する。 The present invention generally relates to a semiconductor device which operates in synchronization with a clock signal, and particularly relates to reducing a semiconductor device capable of power consumption by controlling the clock signal.
プロセッサ等の半導体装置においては、消費電力を削減するために、高速処理を必要としない期間のクロック周波数を低く抑える或いは停止させる制御が行われる。 In the semiconductor device such as a processor, in order to reduce power consumption, reduce the period of the clock frequency that does not require high-speed processing or control to stop it is performed. 即ち、クロックの動作周波数を必要に応じて段階的に切りかえたり（以下「クロックギア」と呼ぶ）、或いは動作させる必要の無いモジュールブロックへのクロックを停止させる（以下「パワーダウンモード」と呼ぶ）制御が行われる。 That, or switched stepwise if necessary the operating frequency of the clock (hereinafter referred to as "clock gear"), or to stop the clock to the unnecessary modules block to operate (hereinafter referred to as "power down mode") control is performed.
クロックギアは、一般に、プロセッサ内の一番早いクロックに対応したマスク用の同期信号を供給し、ゲーテッドクロックバッファでクロック出力のパルス数を減らすことにより実現する。 Clock gear generally provides a synchronization signal for the mask corresponding to the earliest clock in the processor, realized by reducing the number of pulses of the clock output by the gated clock buffer. 或いは分周回路でクロック信号を分周することにより実現する。 Alternatively divider circuits realized by dividing the clock signal. またパワーダウンモードは、プロセッサ内の特定の一部或いは全部のモジュールに対して、動作の必要がない期間、それらモジュールへのクロック信号の供給をマスクすることにより実現する。 The power-down mode for a particular part or all of the modules in the processor, the period that does not require operation is realized by masking the supply of the clock signal to the modules. これらのクロック制御は、チップの端子設定及びプログラムによるソフトウェア的な制御に基づいて、プロセッサ内のクロック制御部により実行するのが一般的である。 These clock control, based on the software control by chip terminals settings and programs, it is common to run the clock control unit in the processor.
従来、プロセッサ内部のオンチップバスやバスブリッジを介する内部周辺バス等がある場合において、上記のようなクロックギア切り替え或いはパワーダウンモードへの遷移を行う際には、ソフトウェアによって一定の手順を実行する必要がある。 Conventionally, there is an internal peripheral bus or the like through the processor internal on-chip bus and bus bridge, when performing a transition to clock gear changing or power down mode as described above, to perform certain steps by software There is a need. 即ち、クロックギアの切り替え或いはパワーダウンモードへの遷移をするためには、その準備として、バス転送等の特定のプロトコル（動作仕様）に沿った動作を、ソフトウェア的に完了させる必要がある。 That is, in order to make the transition to the switching or power down mode clock gear, as a preparation operation along a particular protocol bus transfer such (operating specification), it is necessary to complete a software manner.
例えば、このような手順を経ないで、バスを経由するデータ転送（特に命令フェッチ等）の最中にクロックギアの切り替え等をした場合、命令の取りこぼしによるプロセッサのハングアップを発生させる危険性がある。 For example, without going through such a procedure, when the switching of clock gear during data transfer via the bus (especially instruction fetch, etc.), risk of developing a hang-up of a processor according missed instruction is there. また例えば、バスブリッジを経由する内部周辺バスに接続されたモジュールへの突き放し制御のストア命令を実行する場合においては、オンチップバス上での転送が完了した後も内部周辺バスで引き続きライト動作が行われているので、ストア動作が実際に完了する時間まで待たずにクロックギアの切り替え等を行ってしまったのでは、ストアが正常に行われない危険性がある。 Further, for example, in the case of executing the Tsukihanashi control store instruction to the internal peripheral bus connected to the module via the bus bridge, it continues the write operation in an internal peripheral bus even after the transfer on the on-chip bus completed because it is carried out, than was gone the switching of clock gear does not wait until the time the store operation is actually completed, there is a risk that the store is not performed properly. また例えば、ＳＤＲＡＭコントローラをチップに搭載している場合においては、予めＳＤＲＡＭをセルフリフレッシュモードへ遷移させずにＳＤＲＡＭコントローラのクロックを停止したのでは、ＳＤＲＡＭのデータが破壊されてしまう。 Further, for example, in a case mounted with the SDRAM controller chips, than stops the SDRAM controller clock without transitions previously SDRAM to self-refresh mode, the data of the SDRAM is destroyed.
こうした問題を避けるために、クロックギア切り替えやパワーダウンモードへの遷移に際して所定の手順を実行するプログラムを、予め作成しておく必要がある。 To avoid these problems, a program for executing a predetermined procedure upon transition to clock gear switching and power-down mode, it is necessary to create in advance. しかしその手順が完璧に実行されない場合には、予期せぬハングアップ等が発生する恐れがあった。 However, if the procedure is not performed to perfection, unexpected hang-up, etc. may occur.
特に、複雑な転送プロトコルを持つオンチップバスや、バスブリッジ、チップ外部バス（ＳＤＲＡＭ、ＳＲＡＭ、ＲＯＭ、コンパニオンチップ等に接続するバス）等を持つプロセッサのクロック制御プログラムを作成する際には、種々の条件を考慮して制御する必要があるので、人為的なミスによるハングアップやデータ転送エラーの危険性を完全に排除することは容易でない。 In particular, and on-chip bus with complex transfer protocol, the bus bridge chip external bus when creating processor clock control program with such (SDRAM, SRAM, ROM, bus connected to the companion chip, etc.), various since it is necessary to control in view of the conditions, it is not easy to completely eliminate the risk of hang-ups and data transfer errors due to human error.
以上を鑑みて、本発明は、クロックギア切り替え時やパワーダウンモード遷移時等におけるハングアップの危険性を取り除くハードウェア機構を備えた半導体装置を提供することを目的とする。 In view of the above, an object of the present invention is to provide a semiconductor device having a hardware mechanism to eliminate the risk of hang in clock gear changing time and power-down mode transition or the like.
本発明による半導体装置は、クロック信号を生成するクロック生成部と、クロック制御リクエスト信号をアサートする第１のモジュールと、該クロック制御リクエスト信号のアサート状態に応答して、現在実行中の処理が終了するとその後の処理を停止してクロック制御アクノリッジ信号をアサートする１つ又は複数の第２のモジュールと、オンチップバスと、該オンチップバスに接続される複数のモジュールと、該複数のモジュールのうちバスマスターであるモジュール間でバス権を調停するバスアービタと、チップ内部周辺バスと、該チップ内部周辺バスと該オンチップバスとを接続するバスブリッジとを含み、該１つ又は複数の第２のモジュールからの該クロック制御アクノリッジ信号が全てアサートされると該クロック生成部は該第 The semiconductor device according to the present invention includes a clock generator for generating a clock signal, a first module for asserting a clock control request signal, in response to the asserted state of the clock control request signal, the current processing is terminated then one or more of the second module to stop subsequent processing asserts the clock control acknowledge signal, the on-chip bus, a plurality of modules connected to said on-chip bus, of the plurality of modules a bus arbiter for arbitrating bus between modules is a bus master, and the chip peripheral bus, and a bus bridge that connects the said chip internal peripheral bus and said on-chip bus, the one or more second When the clock control acknowledge signal from the module it is asserted all the clock generating unit is said のモジュールに供給する該クロック信号を選択的に変化させ、該バスアービタは、該１つ又は複数の第２のモジュールのうちの１つであり、該クロック制御リクエスト信号のアサート状態に応答して、現在実行中の転送動作が終了すると該バスマスターであるモジュールに対する全てのバス権を不許可として該クロック制御アクノリッジ信号をアサートし、該バスブリッジは、該１つ又は複数の第２のモジュールのうちの１つであり、該クロック制御リクエスト信号のアサート状態に応答して、現在実行中のデータ転送処理が終了するとその後のデータ転送処理を停止して該クロック制御アクノリッジ信号をアサートする 。 Is selectively changing the clock signal to be supplied to the module, the bus arbiter is one of said one or more second module, in response to the asserted state of the clock control request signal, When the transfer operation currently being executed is completed all of the bus right for the module is the bus master asserts the clock control acknowledge signal as a non-permission, the bus bridge of the one or more second modules is one of, in response to the asserted state of the clock control request signal, the data transfer processing currently being executed is stopped and subsequent data transfer process upon completion asserting the clock control acknowledge signal.
以上のハードウェア制御によって、本発明においては、クロックギア切り替えやパワーダウンモード遷移等の処理を行う際に、クロック制御により動作に問題が生じる可能性があるモジュールを予め処理停止状態にし、誤動作の危険性が無い状態になってからクロック制御を実行することが可能となる。 Hardware control described above, in the present invention, when performing processing such as clock gear switching and power-down mode transition, the pretreated stopped modules that may cause problems with the operation by the clock control, malfunction it is possible to execute a clock control after becoming no risk state.
以下に、本発明の実施例を添付の図面を用いて詳細に説明する。 It will be described below in detail with reference to the embodiment accompanying drawings of the present invention.
図１は、本発明によるプロセッサの第１実施例の構成を示す図である。 Figure 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of a first embodiment of a processor according to the present invention.
図１のプロセッサ１０は、クロック制御部１１、ＣＰＵコア部１２、ＤＳＰコア部１３、モジュール１４、モジュール１５、オンチップバス（ＯＣＢ）と内蔵周辺バス（ＰＢ）のバスブリッジ１６、ＤＭＡコントローラ１７、ＳＤＲＡＭコントローラ１８、外部バスコントローラ１９、オンチップバスのバスアービタ２０、オンチップバス（ＯＣＢ）２１、モジュール２２乃至２４、内部周辺バス（ＰＢ）２５、プロセッサ１０の外部に設けられ外部バスコントローラ１９に接続されるＳＲＡＭ２６及び外部バスマスター・チップ２７、外部バス２８、プロセッサ１０の外部に設けられＳＤＲＡＭコントローラ１８に接続されるＳＤＲＡＭ２９を含む。 Processor 10 of FIG. 1, the clock control unit 11, CPU core unit 12, DSP core unit 13, module 14, module 15, on-chip bus bridge 16 of the bus (OCB) and on-chip peripheral bus (PB), DMA controller 17, SDRAM controller 18, connected to the external bus controller 19, on-chip bus arbiter 20, the on-chip bus (OCB) 21, the module 22 to 24, the internal peripheral bus (PB) 25, external bus controller 19 provided outside of the processor 10 SRAM26 and external bus master chip 27, external bus 28 is, including SDRAM29 connected to the SDRAM controller 18 provided outside of the processor 10. ここで、ＣＰＵコア部１２、ＤＳＰコア部１３、モジュール１４、モジュール１５、ＤＭＡコントローラ１７、ＳＤＲＡＭコントローラ１８、外部バスコントローラ１９は、オンチップバス２１に接続されるオンチップバスモジュールであり、モジュール２２乃至２４は、内部周辺バス２５に接続される周辺バスモジュールである。 Here, CPU core unit 12, DSP core unit 13, module 14, module 15, DMA controller 17, SDRAM controller 18, the external bus controller 19 is on-chip bus module connected to the on-chip bus 21, module 22 to 24 is a peripheral bus modules connected to the internal peripheral bus 25. またＳＲＡＭ２６及び外部バスマスター・チップ２７は、外部バス２８に接続される外部バスモジュールである。 The SRAM26 and external bus master chip 27 is an external bus module connected to the external bus 28.
クロック制御部１１は、クロック生成部３０と、クロック制御判定部３１を含む。 The clock control unit 11 includes a clock generator 30, a clock control determining unit 31. またモジュール２２は、クロック制御レジスタ３２を含む。 The module 22 includes a clock control register 32.
以下に、本発明によるプロセッサ１０の動作を説明する。 Hereinafter, the operation of the processor 10 according to the present invention.
プロセッサ１０により特定のアプリケーションを動作させるためのソフトウェアを実行中に、プロセッサ１０のクロック制御（ギア切り替えやパワーダウンモードへの遷移等）を行うとする。 Running software for operating a specific application by the processor 10, and performs the clock control of the processor 10 (transition to the gear switching and power-down mode, etc.). まずクロック制御を指示するために、内部周辺バス２５に接続されるモジュール２２のクロック制御レジスタ３２に、クロック制御指示データのストア（ライト）命令をプログラムから発行する。 First to indicate a clock control, the clock control register 32 of the module 22 connected to the internal peripheral bus 25, it issues a store (write) instruction of the clock control instruction data from the program. 具体的には、このストア命令に係るライトデータは、ＣＰＵコア部１２から発行され、オンチップバス２１の転送仕様に従ってバスブリッジ１６へ転送される。 Specifically, the write data according to the store instruction is issued from the CPU core unit 12 is transferred to the bus bridge 16 in accordance with the transfer specification of on-chip bus 21. 更に、バスブリッジ１６から、モジュール２２へ当該ライトデータに関するライト要求が送出され、モジュール２２内のクロック制御レジスタ３２にライトデータが格納される。 Furthermore, the bus bridge 16, a write request for the write data to the module 22 is sent, the write data is stored in the clock control register 32 in the module 22.
上記ライト動作に係るシーケンスの実行中において、ＣＰＵコア部１２は、当該クロック制御指示データのストア命令を発行した後、パイプライン処理により順次後続する命令を実行する。 During execution of the sequence according to the write operation, CPU core 12, after issuing the store instruction of the clock control instruction data to perform sequential succeeding instruction by pipeline processing.
クロック制御レジスタ３２へ上記クロック制御指示データが格納されると、クロック制御レジスタ３２から、クロック制御部１１にクロック制御要求信号が発行される。 When the clock control register 32 the clock control instruction data is stored, the clock control register 32, a clock control request signal is issued to the clock control unit 11. このクロック制御要求信号は、クロック制御部１１のクロック制御判定部３１が受信する。 The clock control request signal, receives the clock control determining unit 31 of the clock control unit 11. クロック制御判定部３１は、クロック制御要求信号がアサートされたことを認識すると、クロック制御対象の各モジュールに対してクロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑをアサートする。 The clock control determining unit 31 recognizes that the clock control request signal is asserted, asserts the clock control request signal req for each module clock controlled.
クロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑは、クロック制御完了通知信号ＤＮがアサートされるまでの期間、アサート状態に維持される。 Clock control request signal req, the clock control completion notification signal DN is time to be asserted and maintained asserted.
クロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑを受け取った各モジュールは、その時点で実行中の処理が終了した時点で、その処理を一旦停止させ、クロック制御アクノリッジ信号ａｃｋｘ（ｘ＝０、１、２、・・・、６）をアサートする。 Each module receives a clock control request signal req is, when the current operation is finished at that point, temporarily stop the processing, the clock control acknowledge signal ackx (x = 0,1,2, ···, 6) asserts. ここで、クロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑを受け取り、クロック制御アクノリッジ信号をアサートするモジュールは、バスアービタ２０、ＣＰＵコア部１２、ＤＳＰコア部１３、ＤＭＡコントローラ１７、ＳＤＲＡＭコントローラ１８、外部バスコントローラ１９、及びバスブリッジ１６である。 Here, receives a clock control request signal req, the module asserting the clock control acknowledge signal, the bus arbiter 20, CPU core unit 12, DSP core unit 13, DMA controller 17, SDRAM controller 18, the external bus controller 19 and bus bridge, 16 is. バスアービタ２０は、オンチップバス２１に接続されるモジュール間でバス権を調停し、選択されたモジュールにバス権を与えることでバスに対するアクセスを許可する。 The bus arbiter 20 arbitrates the bus right between modules connected to the on-chip bus 21, to allow access to the bus by giving the bus to the selected module. バスブリッジ１６は、オンチップバス２１と内部周辺バス２５との間のデータ転送を行う。 Bus bridge 16 performs data transfer between the on-chip bus 21 and the internal peripheral bus 25.
例えば、バスアービタ２０の場合、クロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑを受け取った後は、実行中のデータ転送のトランザクションが終了した時点で、全てのバスマスター（この例の場合、ＣＰＵコア部１２、ＤＳＰコア部１３、ＤＭＡコントローラ１７、及び外部バスコントローラ１９の各モジュール）へのバスグラント信号ｇｎｔｘ（ｘ＝１、２、３、４）をネゲート状態にディアサートする。 For example, if the bus arbiter 20, after receiving the clock control request signal req is when the transaction of data transfer in progress is completed, all bus masters (in this example, CPU core unit 12, DSP core portion 13 deasserts the bus grant signal to each module) of the DMA controller 17, and an external bus controller 19 gntx (x = 1,2,3,4) negated. 即ち、各マスターモジュールに対してバス権を否定することで、各マスターモジュールによるデータ転送を不許可にする。 That is, by negating the bus right for each master module, to disallow the data transfer by each master module. その後、バスアービタ２０は、クロック制御アクノリッジ信号ａｃｋ０をアサートする。 Thereafter, the bus arbiter 20 asserts the clock control acknowledge signal ack0.
クロック制御アクノリッジ信号ａｃｋｘは、クロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑがネゲートされるまでの間、アサート状態に維持される。 Clock control acknowledge signal ackx may, until the clock control request signal req is negated, is maintained in the asserted state.
各クロック制御対象モジュールからのクロック制御アクノリッジ信号ａｃｋｘの全てがアサートされると、クロック制御判定部３１はこれを認識し、クロック生成部３０に対して、クロック制御イネーブル信号ＥＮをアサートする。 When all of the clock control acknowledge signal ackx from the clock control target module is asserted, the clock control determining unit 31 recognizes this, the clock generator 30 asserts the clock control enable signal EN. この時、クロック制御対象となっている全てのモジュールは、動作を一時的に中断している。 At this time, all of the modules has a clock control object is temporarily suspend operation.
クロック生成部３０は、クロック制御イネーブル信号ＥＮがアサートされたのを確認すると、プログラムから要求されたクロック制御動作（クロックギアの切替やパワーダウンモードへの遷移等）を実行する。 The clock generation unit 30 executes the clock control enable signal EN is to verify that the asserted, the requested clock control operation from the program (the transition to the clock gear switching and power-down mode, etc.). この際、クロック制御動作の詳細は、クロック制御レジスタ３２に書き込まれたクロック制御指示データの内容によって指定される。 In this case, details of the clock control operation is specified by the contents of the clock control instruction data written to the clock control register 32. クロック生成部３０は、各モジュールに対してクロック信号を供給しており、プログラムからの要求に従って、各モジュールに供給するクロック信号を選択的に制御して、モジュール毎に動作周波数を変更したりクロック信号の供給を停止する。 The clock generator 30 is supplied a clock signal to each module, in accordance with a request from a program, selectively controls the clock signal supplied to each module, the clock to change the operating frequency for each module to stop the supply of the signal.
クロック生成部３０は更に、クロック制御の処理が完了した時点で、クロック制御完了通知信号ＤＮをアサートする。 Clock generator 30 further, at the time when the processing of the clock control is completed, asserting the clock control completion notification signal DN.
クロック制御判定部３１は、クロック制御完了通知信号ＤＮがアサートされたことを認識すると、クロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑをネゲートする。 The clock control determining unit 31 recognizes that the clock control completion notification signal DN is asserted, it negates the clock control request signal req. クロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑがネゲートされたことに応答して、各クロック制御対象モジュールは、クロック制御アクノリッジ信号ａｃｋｘをネゲートする。 In response to the clock control request signal req is negated, the clock control target module negates the clock control acknowledge signal Ackx. クロック制御アクノリッジ信号ａｃｋｘがネゲートされると、クロック制御イネーブル信号ＥＮがネゲートされ、その後、クロック制御完了通知信号ＤＮもネゲートされる。 When the clock control acknowledge signal ackx is negated, the clock control enable signal EN is negated, then the clock control completion notification signal DN is also negated.
図２は、上記動作における各信号を示すタイミング図である。 Figure 2 is a timing diagram showing the respective signals in the above operation.
図２（ａ）に示されるようにクロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑがアサートされると、これに応答して、図２（ｂ）に示されるようにバスグラント信号ｇｎｔｘがネゲート状態にされる。 When the clock control request signal req, as shown in FIG. 2 (a) is asserted, in response, the bus grant signal gntx is negated as shown in FIG. 2 (b). 更に、各モジュールで現在実行中の動作が終了するタイミングで、図２（ｃ）乃至（ｊ）に示されるように、各モジュールからのクロック制御アクノリッジ信号ａｃｋｘがＨＩＧＨ（アサート状態）になる。 Further, at the timing when the operation of the currently executing each module is finished, as shown in FIG. 2 (c) to (j), the clock control acknowledge signal ackx from each module is HIGH (asserted state).
全てのクロック制御アクノリッジ信号ａｃｋｘがＨＩＧＨになると、図２（ｋ）に示されるようにクロック制御イネーブル信号ＥＮがＨＩＧＨになり、クロックギア切り替えやクロック停止等のクロック制御動作が実行される。 When all of the clock control acknowledge signal ackx becomes HIGH, the clock control enable signal EN, as shown in FIG. 2 (k) becomes HIGH, the clock control operations such as clock gear switching or clock stop is performed. このクロック制御動作が完了すると、図２（ｌ）に示されるように、クロック制御完了通知信号ＤＮがアサートされる。 When the clock control operation is completed, as shown in FIG. 2 (l), the clock control completion notification signal DN is asserted.
図３は、クロック制御判定部３１の構成例を示す図である。 Figure 3 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of the clock control determining unit 31.
図３のクロック制御判定部３１は、フリップフロップ４１、フリップフロップ４２−０乃至４２−６、クロック制御デコーダ回路４３、ＡＮＤ回路４４、及びリクエスト信号生成回路４５を含む。 Clock control determination unit 31 of FIG. 3 includes a flip-flop 41, the flip-flops 42 - to 42-6, the clock control decoder circuit 43, the AND circuit 44 and a request signal generation circuit 45. フリップフロップ４１は、クロック制御レジスタ３２から供給されるクロック制御要求信号をラッチする。 Flip-flop 41 latches the clock control request signal supplied from the clock control register 32. ラッチされたクロック制御要求信号は、クロック制御デコーダ回路４３に供給されてデコードされる。 Latch clock control request signal is decoded is supplied to the clock control decoder circuit 43. クロック制御要求信号は複数のビットからなる信号であり、クロック制御を要求すると共に、クロック制御がクロックギア切り替えとクロック停止の何れであるのか、どのモジュールに対するクロック制御であるのか等に関して、具体的な制御の詳細を指定する。 Clock control request signal is a signal composed of a plurality of bits, the request clock control, whether the clock control is any clock gear changing and clock stop, with respect to whether a clock control and the like for any module, concrete to specify the details of the control. クロック制御デコーダ回路４３は、このクロック制御要求信号をデコードし、指定されたクロック制御動作を実行するための制御信号ＣＴＬを生成して、クロック生成部３０に供給する。 The clock control decoder circuit 43, the clock control request signal decoding, generates a control signal CTL for performing the specified clock control operation, and supplies the clock generator 30. また更に、クロック制御デコーダ回路４３は、クロック制御を示す信号ｃｌｋ＿ｃｔｒをリクエスト信号生成回路４５に供給する。 Further, the clock control decoder circuit 43 supplies a signal clk_ctr to the request signal generating circuit 45 showing a clock control. リクエスト信号生成回路４５は、単純なステートマシンであり、入力信号に応じて、アイドル状態ＩＤＬＥとクロック制御状態ＣＬＫ＿ＣＴＲＬとの間を遷移する。 Request signal generating circuit 45 is a simple state machine, in response to an input signal, transitions between the idle state IDLE and the clock control state CLK_CTRL. クロック制御を示す信号ｃｌｋ＿ｃｔｒがアサートされると、リクエスト信号生成回路４５は、アイドル状態ＩＤＬＥからクロック制御状態ＣＬＫ＿ＣＴＲＬに遷移し、クロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑをアサートする。 When the signal clk_ctr showing the clock control is asserted, the request signal generating circuit 45 changes from the idle state IDLE to the clock control state CLK_CTRL, asserts a clock control request signal req. またクロック制御完了通知信号ＤＮがアサートされると、クロック制御状態ＣＬＫ＿ＣＴＲＬからアイドル状態ＩＤＬＥに遷移して、クロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑをネゲートする。 Also the clock control completion notification signal DN is asserted, a transition from the clock control state CLK_CTRL idle IDLE, negates the clock control request signal req. リクエスト信号生成回路４５を、セットリセットフリップフロップ等の単純な順序回路によって実現することが可能であることは、当業者にとっては容易に理解出来るであろう。 The request signal generating circuit 45, it can be realized by a simple sequential circuit such as a set-reset flip-flop will be readily understood by those skilled in the art.
またクロック制御判定部３１は、各モジュールから供給されるクロック制御アクノリッジ信号ａｃｋｘ（ｘ＝０、１、２、・・・、６）を、それぞれフリップフロップ４２−０乃至４２−６によりラッチする。 The clock control determination unit 31, clock control acknowledge signal ackx supplied from the respective module (x = 0,1,2, ···, 6) and are latched by the flip-flops 42 - 0 to 42-6, respectively. ラッチされたクロック制御アクノリッジ信号ａｃｋｘ（ｘ＝０、１、２、・・・、６）は、ＡＮＤ回路４４に供給される。 The latched clock control acknowledge signal ackx (x = 0,1,2, ···, 6) are supplied to the AND circuit 44. ＡＮＤ回路４４は、ＡＮＤ演算により、全てのクロック制御アクノリッジ信号がアサート状態になると、クロック制御イネーブル信号ＥＮをアサートする。 AND circuit 44, the AND operation, when all the clock control acknowledge signal is asserted, asserts the clock control enable signal EN.
図４は、クロック制御対象であるバスブリッジ１６におけるクロック制御機構を示す図である。 Figure 4 is a diagram illustrating a clock control mechanism in the bus bridge 16 is a clock control object.
図４のクロック制御機構は、入力信号に応じて状態が遷移する単純なステートマシンであり、取り得る状態にはクロック制御状態、書き込み状態ＷＲＩＴＥ、読み出し状態ＲＥＡＤ、及びアイドル状態ＩＤＬＥの４つがある。 Clock control mechanism of FIG. 4 is a simple state machine whose state transition in response to an input signal, the possible to state the clock control state, a write state WRITE, read state READ, and There are four idle IDLE. アイドル状態ＩＤＬＥにおいては、バスブリッジ１６は待機して動作指示を待っている。 In the idle state IDLE, a bus bridge 16 is waiting for an operation instruction waiting. この状態でライト要求或いはリード要求が到来すると、それぞれ書き込み状態ＷＲＩＴＥ或いは読み出し状態ＲＥＡＤに遷移する。 When in this state the write request or read request arrives, a transition to the write state WRITE or read state READ, respectively. 書き込み状態ＷＲＩＴＥでは、オンチップバス２１からのデータを内部周辺バス２５のモジュールに書き込む処理を実行し、読み出し状態ＲＥＡＤにおいては、内部周辺バス２５のモジュールからデータを読み出してオンチップバス２１に供給する処理を実行する。 In the write state WRITE, executes the process of writing the data from the on-chip bus 21 to the module of the internal peripheral bus 25, in the read state READ, and supplies the on-chip bus 21 reads the data from the module of the internal peripheral bus 25 process to run.
書き込み状態ＷＲＩＴＥ、読み出し状態ＲＥＡＤ、及びアイドル状態ＩＤＬＥの何れかの状態において、クロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑがアサートされると、クロック制御状態に遷移する。 Write state WRITE, in any of the states of the read state READ, and the idle state IDLE, the clock control request signal req is asserted, a transition to the clock control state. クロック制御状態に遷移すると、クロック切り替え或いはクロック停止等に対する準備として必要な動作を実行し、この動作が終了するとクロック制御アクノリッジ信号ａｃｋ（図１ではａｃｋ６）をアサートする。 When the transition to the clock control state, perform the necessary operations in preparation for clock switching, or clock stop or the like, asserting this operation is completed the clock control acknowledge signal ack (in FIG. 1 ACK6). 即ち、現在実行中の動作を完了させ、処理を停止し、クロック制御アクノリッジ信号ａｃｋ（図１ではａｃｋ６）をアサートする。 That is, to complete the operation currently running, stop processing, asserts the clock control acknowledge signal ack (in FIG. 1 ACK6). その後クロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑがネゲートされると、動作状態はアイドル状態ＩＤＬＥに遷移する。 Thereafter, when the clock control request signal req is negated, the operating state transitions to the idle state IDLE. 上記動作を実行するステートマシンを、セットリセットフリップフロップ等を組み合わせた順序回路によって実現可能であることは、当業者にとっては容易に理解出来るであろう。 A state machine that executes the operation, it can be realized by a sequential circuit that combines the set-reset flip-flop or the like, will be readily understood by those skilled in the art.
図１に示されるクロック制御対象となるモジュールの各々には、図４に示されるのと同様のステートマシンが備えられており、クロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑのアサートに応答して、クロック切り替え或いはクロック停止等に対する準備動作を実行し、この動作が終了するとクロック制御アクノリッジ信号ａｃｋをアサートするよう構成される。 In each of the clock control modules subject shown in FIG. 1, is provided with the same state machine to that shown in FIG. 4, in response to the assertion of the clock control request signal req, the clock switching or clock stop run the preparatory operation for such, this operation ends configured to assert a clock control acknowledge signal ack.
図５は、本発明によるプロセッサの第２実施例の構成を示す図である。 Figure 5 is a diagram showing a configuration of a second embodiment of a processor according to the present invention. 図５において、図１と同一の構成要素は同一の番号で参照される。 5, the same elements as those of FIG. 1 are referred to by the same numerals.
図５に示されるプロセッサ１０Ａに於いては、クロック制御部１１の代わりにクロック制御部１１Ａが設けられ、またＣＰＵコア部１２の代わりにＣＰＵコア部１２Ａが設けられる。 In the processor 10A shown in FIG. 5, the clock control unit 11A is provided instead of the clock control unit 11, also the CPU core unit 12A is provided instead of the CPU core unit 12. 更に、モジュール２２の代わりにモジュール２２Ａが設けられる。 Furthermore, the module 22A is provided instead of the module 22.
この第２実施例に於いては、クロック制御レジスタ３２がＣＰＵコア部１２Ａに設けられており、ＣＰＵコア部１２Ａがクロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑを生成して各ユニットに供給する点が、第１実施例の場合の構成及び動作と異なる。 This is at the second embodiment, the clock control register 32 is provided to the CPU core unit 12A, it is that a CPU core unit 12A is supplied to each unit and generates a clock control request signal req, the first embodiment different from the configuration and operation of the example. プログラム動作によってクロック制御レジスタ３２にクロック制御指示データが格納されると、ＣＰＵコア部１２Ａが、クロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑをアサートする。 When the clock control instruction data to the clock control register 32 by a program operation is stored, CPU core unit 12A asserts a clock control request signal req. これに応答して、各モジュールは現在実行中の動作を完了後に処理を停止し、それぞれのクロック制御アクノリッジ信号ａｃｋｘをＨＩＧＨ（アサート状態）にする。 In response, each module the process after completing the operation currently being executed is stopped, and the respective clock control acknowledge signal ackx to HIGH (asserted state). クロック制御部１１Ａは、ＣＰＵコア部１２Ａからクロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑを受け取った後、全てのクロック制御アクノリッジ信号ａｃｋｘがＨＩＧＨになると、クロック制御イネーブル信号ＥＮをＨＩＧＨにする。 Clock control unit 11A, after receiving a clock control request signal req from the CPU core unit 12A, when all the clock control acknowledge signal ackx becomes HIGH, the the clock control enable signal EN to HIGH. これにより、クロックギア切り替えやクロック停止等のクロック制御動作が実行される。 Thus, the clock control operations such as clock gear switching or clock stop is performed. クロック制御動作が完了すると、クロック制御完了通知信号ＤＮがアサートされる。 When the clock control operation is completed, clock control completion notification signal DN is asserted.
以上説明したように、ＣＰＵコア部１２Ａがクロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑをアサートする以外の動作は、基本的に、第１実施例の場合と同様である。 As described above, operations other than the CPU core unit 12A asserts the clock control request signal req is basically the same as in the first embodiment.
図６は、本発明によるプロセッサの第３実施例の構成を示す図である。 Figure 6 is a diagram showing a configuration of a third embodiment of the processor according to the present invention. 図６において、図１と同一の構成要素は同一の番号で参照される。 6, the same elements as those of FIG. 1 are referred to by the same numerals.
図６に示されるプロセッサ１０Ｂに於いては、クロック制御部１１Ｂのクロック制御判定部３１Ｂがアサートするクロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑは、バスアービタ２０にだけ供給される。 Is In the processor 10B shown in FIG. 6, the clock control request signal req to the clock control determining unit 31B of the clock control unit 11B is asserted, it is supplied only to the bus arbiter 20. 第１実施例と異なり、ＣＰＵコア部１２Ｂ、ＤＳＰコア部１３Ｂ、バスブリッジ１６Ｂ、ＤＭＡコントローラ１７Ｂ、ＳＤＲＡＭコントローラ１８Ｂ、及び外部バスコントローラ１９Ｂには、クロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑは供給されない。 Unlike the first embodiment, CPU core unit 12B, DSP core portion 13B, the bus bridge 16B, DMA controller 17B, SDRAM controller 18B, and the external bus controller 19B, the clock control request signal req is not supplied.
バスアービタ２０は、クロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑを受け取った後は、実行中のデータ転送のトランザクションが終了した時点で、全てのバスマスター（この例の場合、ＣＰＵコア部１２Ｂ、ＤＳＰコア部１３Ｂ、ＤＭＡコントローラ１７Ｂ、及び外部バスコントローラ１９Ｂの各モジュール）へのバスグラント信号ｇｎｔｘ（ｘ＝１、２、３、４）をネゲート状態にディアサートする。 The bus arbiter 20, after receiving the clock control request signal req is when the transaction of data transfer in progress is completed, all bus masters (in this example, CPU core unit 12B, DSP core portion 13B, DMA controller 17B, and de-asserts the bus grant signal gntx to the external bus controller 19B each module) and (x = 1, 2, 3, 4) to the negated state. 即ち、各マスターモジュールに対してバス権を否定することで、各マスターモジュールによるデータ転送を不許可にする。 That is, by negating the bus right for each master module, to disallow the data transfer by each master module. その後、バスアービタ２０は、クロック制御アクノリッジ信号ａｃｋ０をアサートする。 Thereafter, the bus arbiter 20 asserts the clock control acknowledge signal ack0.
このようにクロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑをバスアービタ２０に供給して、各バスマスターへのバスグラント信号ｇｎｔｘ（ｘ＝１、２、３、４）をネゲート状態にすれば、各バスマスターモジュールはバス権を取得できないことになり、バスを介した送受信処理がそれ以後実行されることはない。 Thus the clock control request signal req is supplied to the bus arbiter 20, if a bus grant signal gntx (x = 1,2,3,4) for each bus master negated, the bus master module bus will not be able to get the, does not transmit and receive processing via the bus is performed subsequently thereto.
上記の第３実施例の構成は、クロックギア切り替えやパワーダウンモード遷移等のクロック制御を実行する際に、クロック制御により問題が生じる可能性があるのは、オンチップバス２１を介した送受信動作だけである場合に有効である。 Construction of the third embodiment described above, when performing the clock control of the clock gear switching and power-down mode transition, etc., there can be a problem by the clock control occurs, transmitting and receiving via the on-chip bus 21 operation it is effective when only. このような場合には、クロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑをバスアービタ２０だけ供給し、バスグラント信号の制御によってオンチップバス２１に接続されるバスマスターの動作を停止すれば、オンチップバス２１を介した送受信動作をクロック制御前に停止することが出来る。 Transceiver In such a case, the clock control request signal req is supplied only bus arbiter 20, if stopping the operation of the bus master is connected to the on-chip bus 21 under the control of the bus grant signal, via the on-chip bus 21 it is possible to stop the operation before clock control.
図１と図６とを比較すれば分かるように、第３実施例のような構成にすれば、クロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑによる制御対象のモジュール数を少なくして、回路規模を削減することが可能である。 As can be seen from the comparison between FIGS. 1 and 6, if the configuration of the third embodiment, by reducing the number of modules controlled object by the clock control request signal req, can reduce the circuit scale it is.
図７は、本発明によるプロセッサの第４実施例の構成を示す図である。 Figure 7 is a diagram showing the configuration of a fourth embodiment of the processor according to the present invention. 図７において、図６と同一の構成要素は同一の番号で参照される。 7, the same elements as those of FIG. 6 are referenced by the same numerals.
図７に示されるプロセッサ１０Ｃに於いては、クロック制御部１１Ｃのクロック制御判定部３１Ｃがアサートするクロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑは、バスアービタ２０及びバスブリッジ１６にだけ供給される。 In the processor 10C shown in FIG. 7, the clock control request signal req to the clock control determining unit 31C of the clock control unit 11C is asserted, it is supplied only to the bus arbiter 20 and bus bridge 16. 第３実施例の場合と同様に、オンチップバス２１に接続されるモジュールに関しては、バスアービタ２０によるバスグラント信号制御でバス権を不許可にすれば、バスブリッジ１６を除いては動作に問題が生じない場合を想定している。 As in the third embodiment, with respect to the modules connected to the on-chip bus 21, if disallow the bus at the bus grant signal control by the bus arbiter 20, with the exception of the bus bridge 16 is a problem with the operation the case does not occur is assumed. 従って、ＣＰＵコア部１２Ｂ、ＤＳＰコア部１３Ｂ、ＤＭＡコントローラ１７Ｂ、ＳＤＲＡＭコントローラ１８Ｂ、及び外部バスコントローラ１９Ｂには、クロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑは供給されない。 Therefore, CPU core unit 12B, DSP core portion 13B, DMA controller 17B, SDRAM controller 18B, and the external bus controller 19B, the clock control request signal req is not supplied.
バスブリッジ１６は、クロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑを受け取った後は、実行中のデータ転送のトランザクションが終了した時点で、オンチップバス２１から内部周辺バス２５のモジュールへの書き込み、或いは内部周辺バス２５のモジュールからのオンチップバス２１への読み出しを停止する。 Bus bridge 16, after receiving the clock control request signal req is when the transaction of data transfer in progress is completed, the writing from the on-chip bus 21 to the module of the internal peripheral bus 25, or the internal peripheral bus 25 It stops reading from the on-chip bus 21 from the module. その後、バスブリッジ１６は、クロック制御アクノリッジ信号ａｃｋ６をアサートする。 Thereafter, the bus bridge 16 asserts a clock control acknowledge signal ACK6.
上記の第４実施例の構成は、クロックギア切り替えやパワーダウンモード遷移等のクロック制御を実行する際に、クロック制御により問題が生じる可能性があるのは、オンチップバス２１を介した送受信動作とバスブリッジ１６を介したデータ転送動作だけである場合に有効である。 Configuration of the fourth embodiment described above, when performing the clock control of the clock gear switching and power-down mode transition, etc., there can be a problem by the clock control occurs, transmitting and receiving via the on-chip bus 21 operation and it is effective when only a data transfer operation through the bus bridge 16. このような場合には、クロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑをバスアービタ２０及びバスブリッジ１６にだけ供給し、バスグラント信号の制御によってオンチップバス２１に接続されるバスマスターの動作を停止すると共にバスブリッジ１６の動作を停止すれば、問題が生じる可能性がある全ての動作をクロック制御前に停止することが出来る。 In such a case, the clock control request signal req is supplied only to the bus arbiter 20 and bus bridge 16, bus bridge 16 stops the operation of the bus master is connected to the on-chip bus 21 under the control of the bus grant signal if stopping the operation, all operations which may cause problems can be stopped before the clock control.
図１と図７とを比較すれば分かるように、第４実施例のような構成にすれば、クロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑによる制御対象のモジュール数を少なくして、回路規模を削減することが可能である。 As can be seen from the comparison between FIGS. 1 and 7, if the configuration of the fourth embodiment, by reducing the number of modules controlled object by the clock control request signal req, can reduce the circuit scale it is.
以上、本発明を実施例に基づいて説明したが、本発明は上記実施例に限定されるものではなく、特許請求の範囲に記載の範囲内で様々な変形が可能である。 Although the present invention is not limited to these embodiments, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and various modifications are possible within the scope of the appended claims.
結果として、クロックギアの切り替えやパワーダウンモード遷移等の処理を行う際に、制御対象であるモジュール毎の特有の仕様やそれによる制約を気にすることなく、容易にクロック制御プログラムの開発をすることが可能となる。 As a result, to when executing the process of switching and power-down mode transition or the like of the clock gear, the constraints and specific specifications by it for each to be controlled module without having to worry about the development of easily clock control program it becomes possible.
【図１】本発明によるプロセッサの第１実施例の構成を示す図である。 Is a diagram showing a configuration of a first embodiment of the processor according to the invention; FIG.
【図２】図１のプロセッサにおける各信号を示すタイミング図である。 Is a timing diagram showing the signals in the processor of FIG. 1. FIG.
【図３】クロック制御判定部の構成例を示す図である。 3 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a clock control determining unit.
【図４】クロック制御対象であるバスブリッジにおけるクロック制御機構を示す図である。 4 is a diagram illustrating a clock control mechanism in the bus bridge is a clock controlled.
【図５】本発明によるプロセッサの第２実施例の構成を示す図である。 Is a diagram showing a configuration of a second embodiment of a processor according to the present invention; FIG.
【図６】本発明によるプロセッサの第３実施例の構成を示す図である。 It is a diagram showing a configuration of a third embodiment of a processor according to the present invention; FIG.
【図７】本発明によるプロセッサの第４実施例の構成を示す図である。 It is a diagram showing a configuration of a fourth embodiment of a processor according to the present invention; FIG.
該クロック生成部は、該第２のモジュールに供給する該クロック信号の動作周波数を変化させるか或いは該クロック信号の供給を停止することを特徴とする請求項１記載の半導体装置。 The clock generating unit, the semiconductor device according to claim 1, wherein the stopping the supply of or the clock signal to change the operating frequency of the clock signal supplied to the second module.
該第１のモジュールはＣＰＵコア回路であることを特徴とする請求項１記載の半導体装置。 The semiconductor device according to claim 1, wherein the said first module is a CPU core circuit.
該第１のモジュールは該１つ又は複数の第２のモジュールからの該クロック制御アクノリッジ信号が全てアサートされると該クロック生成部に対してクロック制御イネーブル信号をアサートし、該クロック生成部は該クロック制御イネーブル信号に応答して該クロック信号を選択的に変化させることを特徴とする請求項１記載の半導体装置。 The first module asserts the clock control enable signal to the said clock control acknowledge signal from said one or more second module is asserted all the clock generator, the clock generator is the the semiconductor device according to claim 1, wherein in response to the clock control enable signal and wherein the selectively changing the clock signal.
該第２のモジュールは該バスアービタのみであることを特徴とする請求項１記載の半導体装置。 The second module semiconductor device according to claim 1, characterized in that only the bus arbiter.
該第２のモジュールは該バスアービタ及び該バスブリッジのみであることを特徴とする請求項１記載の半導体装置。 The second module semiconductor device according to claim 1, characterized in that only said bus arbiter and said bus bridge. | 2019-04-20T11:09:20Z | https://patents.google.com/patent/JP4733877B2/en | Porn | Computers | 0.106244 |
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newgrounds | Revisiting my music in 2019.
Wow, coming back and see how young I was and the vast quality from when I started vs when I stopped making music is quite incredible to see and hear. Shoutout to all the people that were fans along the way!
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cnn | McKiernan: "This is not a temporary force uplift"
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Gen. David McKiernan, commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, predicted Wednesday that the additional 17,000 U.S. military forces to be sent to Afghanistan will remain there for as long as five years.
The commmander predicted the new troops will be operational before Afghan elections in August.
"This is not a temporary force uplift," McKiernan said. "It will need to be sustained for some period of time, for the next three to four to five years."
McKiernan made his comments a day after President Obama approved the troop increase for Afghanistan.
"I'll use most of those forces in southern Afghanistan, an area where we do not have sufficient security presence, an area that has deteriorated somewhat," he said.
He predicted that the extra troops will be operational before the planned August elections.
He cited three decades of low literacy rates and rampant poverty and violence.
The outcome will not be decided militarily but politically: "by the people who live in Afghanistan," he predicted.
McKiernan said the U.S. goal is to double, "in a holistic way," the size of the Afghan army to about 134,000 members. That transformation, he said, "will require not only more trainers and more of a partnering and mentoring effort, but additional funding."
Of his current troop request, he said he has received "roughly two-thirds of what I asked for."
Asked whether that number will suffice for his needs, he hedged. "Having what I need is always a hard question to answer," he said. "I have what I've asked for.
"I want to get to what I call the tipping point, where the lead for security is in Afghan units, police and army, and we increasingly are more in a training and mentoring role," he said. "I think you can have too many foreign forces in Afghanistan." | 2019-04-25T04:35:42Z | http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/18/mckiernan.afghan.troops/index.html | Porn | News | 0.460066 |
wordpress | When the FDA banned flavored cigarettes in 2009, an action that resulted in quite a bit of press and plaudits but affected a negligible portion of the tobacco market, one wonders given the lack of any real evidence supporting that action, if it was simply to leverage more substantial actions.
But even if the flavored cigarette ban seemed like a lot of ado about nothing, anything the FDA publishes is interpreted as grounds for like and extended actions (such as when their laughable e-cig assay was used to support a potential e-cig ban in the Middle East).
In the first iteration, in New York City, the ban was supersized to include all flavored tobacco products. The same is currently being considered in Washington state but Utah is where the real action is.
In Utah, the ban is being considered for not only smokeless tobacco products but also e-cigarette liquid. And addition to this, only e-cigarettes that have an on/off switch will remain legal.
Apart from our obvious concerns about smokers losing access to good and safer alternatives, these red herring child scare statements, and the nonsense that adults don’t appreciate flavor (because if you argue that flavor is targeted at children you are kind of implying that), this removal of flavor (and that e-cig switch) which are presented as “reasonable” conditions are anything but. They function as de facto prohibitions. (So far the only real complaints have been that pipe tobacco is at risk; Representative Ray suggested they buy it when they are travelling in other states but wasn’t concerned “flavored tobacco is flavored tobacco”.
Vapers and snus users are much more attuned to flavor than smokers. If you look at the user boards and blogs you have a plethora of talk about flavor and experimentation. In contrast, most smoker discussions (other than cigar and pipe) center on rights more than anything. It does not really matter whether this flavor orientation is a function of the products themselves or of how users are contextualizing them but that they appear to be intrinsic to the use. Remove the flavor and you are removing what appears to be quite important to just about everybody using them.
You know they also tried this in Wisconsin but when it was suggested that state money be used to persuade local governments to support a ban, ran up against a spoilsport Representative with with common sense, who said “the state shouldn’t be paying groups to influence local governments or public opinion”.
4. these safer alternatives that seem to actually help people quit smoking are being systematically attacked.
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wordpress | I haven’t written all summer because I have been at a loss for words. Besides that first day I wrote about, I have found that being a woman here has been an uphill battle in a way that I never experienced in Morocco – sexual harassment is very real and present here despite that one peaceful day. Numerous times I thought about retracting my previous post or writing an amendment to it, but its hard to share such personal and unfortunate experiences with such an unknown audience. Instead, I opted for silence. I tried to grow accustomed to this place and relish in the beautiful and interesting things about it in an attempt to forget about the low and horrible characters in it.
Not everything about Sri Lanka is how I am making it out to be. There are absolutely beautiful beaches, there are gorgeous mountains, and the wildlife is amazing. Despite all of this, I am really excited to leave in two weeks. This summer has made me realize that I no, I will not love everywhere I travel. I have realized that even though I try to be patient and open-minded numerous bad experiences will color a place. That does not make me a bad person or culturally insensitive – it makes me human. Maybe if I would be here longer, I would grow to love it or maybe I would grow to hate it more, I’m not sure. Maybe if I had lived in a different city or maybe if I had been able to meet more locals. Again, I’m not sure. I can only describe Sri Lanka based on my experiences and perceptions using the lens that I was given.
I will write another post wrapping up my summer and what exactly it is I have done on this island, but I wanted to first share my more sobering thoughts. I just needed to explain the meaning behind my silence in a hopes of finally being able to move past the negative and onto the positive.
Again, I’ll let you know how that goes.
So I have been in Sri Lanka for almost a week (one-week tomorrow to be exact.) Granted, in this week, I have been entirely in Colombo and mostly working. However, I have been able to explore the city a little and in my evenings, my fellow housemates and I pick a new restaurant to try or world cup game to see. I’ve gotten started at work and I’m slowly getting my bearings. This isn’t a sprint, it’s more like one of those 10K family runs in which you can take your time and everyone that finishes gets a ribbon. I realized that I often ‘hit the ground running’ when it comes to my travel and for the first time, I am trying to take a step, breathe a little, and just see what comes up.
As I am reflecting on this calm week in Sri Lanka, I told myself that I would write about the most interesting cultural experience that I had in the entire week. This blog is about culture, so I should comment on it. However, to me, there is not one single interaction that stands out in my mind, but a disturbing acceptance on my part that seems to continuously occur.
You see, I have spent the majority of my formative travel years in Morocco. Although I’ve traveled a fair amount to other countries, Morocco was my first outside-of-the-US experience and as such, my sort of ‘travel defaults’ are from this time. I realized that one of the most disturbing defaults I have is my acceptance of harassment. In Morocco, and quite frankly most other Arab countries, women get harassed. It’s just a fact of life. I couldn’t walk 5 feet without someone wanting/needing/demanding to talk to me and enter my personal bubble. This could have been for a variety of reasons, and not all of them malicious, but like it or not, I could never get from point A to point B without drawing A LOT of attention to myself.
This is not normal, nor is it ok. I accepted a lot of it because “it was a cultural thing” and I knew and understood the variety of reasons around it. That still doesn’t mean it’s ok for a man can walk up to me, get in my face, and I just bow my head and walk away. It might be a necessity and a fact of life, but it shouldn’t have to be.
Sri Lanka is not like this at all. Granted, Tuk-Tuk (motorcycle taxi) drivers are a little aggressive and there isn’t a huge walking culture here, but just because I’m a woman no one feels like they have the right to just come up to me. I walked for almost 3 hours on Sunday and I was not harassed once (in my mind). I honestly could have been but because it wasn’t incredibly blatant, I recall the most peaceful 3-hour walk that I have EVER had in a developing country capital. In talking to my other housemate, I can hear the frustration in her voice with the tuk-tuk drivers and how people are a little more in your personal bubble than usual.
To me, this place is heaven. Why? It’s because I am assuming that once I leave the US my right to have a personal bubble is gone. Even in Ghana, I would walk outside and the children would shout “white lady!” (which opens a whole different can of worms for me being that I’m half-black, but I wont get into that) and even in Spain and Italy I drew the unsolicited comments of males passing by. Instead of getting outraged, I have become complacent. I’ve bowed my head and just moved on.
I cannot tell if this is a good thing, but it leaves an unsavory taste in my mouth. On one hand, I have found my week in Sri Lanka to be incredibly enjoyable and relaxing because it exceeds my (clearly low) expectations. I have found Sri Lankans friendly and helpful and so respectful of my space and my existence. On the other hand, I have become complacent about harassment. I know it’s not a black and white issue and I can argue all day long why this attitude became a necessity, but as I am sitting here going over my interactions in the last week, I’m beginning to want to argue otherwise.
When is harassment ok? When is the bombarding of females just for the sake of being a female an acceptable practice? Why do some cultures allow this and others have evolved against it? I do not mean that cultures that accept harassment are thereby less evolved, but I do mean to wonder this variance exists. I am also aware that the definition harassment varies greatly and that the American definition of the ‘personal bubble’ is quite a large amount of space.
None-the-less, in the world of ‘cultural sensitivity’ should accepting the varying degrees of harassment as a fact of life be something you pride yourself on? No, I don’t think so. I’m not proud of that and I don’t feel like it’s a box I can or should check off. I am proud that I was able to set aside my personal beliefs to try to really understand the reasons behind it without my own personal prejudices. I really wanted to evaluate my set of beliefs especially in regards to the large American personal bubble and rebuild them from the ground up. Maybe that’s what I’m doing at this moment – rebuilding my beliefs. In fact, I hope I am constantly doing it. Either way, I’ve to come realize that every person deserves to be treated with respect and although there are serious cultural differences as to what ‘respect’ means, I want to continue to seek out what it to means to me because really that’s the only culture I can control.
In the meantime, I’m going to continue to accept the plus sides of my “cultural sensitivity” and enjoy walking on the streets of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Currently, the song that receives the most plays on my iPod is Kid Cudi’s ‘Day and Night.’ For me, you can always tell a period in my life by a song. When I was dumped by my last partner, Nina Simone’s ‘Pirate Jenny’ filled that role. Needless to say, I was a little upset by the break-up. But now, a rap song with a mash-up music video offers the key to my inner feelings.
To be honest, I haven’t slept in weeks. I have spent my nights turning over everything in my mind, letting the stress of the day leak over into what should be my only period of rest. It’s because during the day, I continued to work on Haiti crisis mapping continuously looking for a way to help and looking for a way that the Ushahidi Haiti Project can truly be value added to those on the ground.
On May 12, I tried to phase out of the project. I planned this entire Strategic Planning meeting and I fully intended to walk away after that. The meeting went really well, we analyzed our strengths and weakness in a productive manner and paved a way forward after that. I should have stepped away. I should have seen that my personal life was in disrepair and needed my attention. But the project called again, they needed me, and despite my best efforts to run away – I was dragged back in.
Now I’m going to skip the refrain (because really that’s just a hook) and go right to the end, in an attempt of keeping your attention and maintain relevance.
Despite my whining and my apparent burn out, I love the Ushahidi Haiti Project. The summer team really has its head on straight and they are going to do amazing things despite all odds against success. I’m proud to have been a part of it, but for me today is a new day. The sun has come up and I board a plane to Sri Lanka, regardless of anything that I have done before.
I am not comparing my work with the Ushahidi Haiti Project to the ‘lonely nights.’ I am saying that I got into unhealthy work patterns. I sacrificed my person life and my sanity for my job and despite the toll it took on me, I do not regret that decision. Instead, I relish in the lessons I have learned. You see, I’ve come to realize that nothing is worth this type of burn out. I have seen what sleepless nights do to my productivity and my mood, and I’m not happy about it. This move to Sri Lanka is the best thing not only for me, but also for them. I would have worked myself into the ground and taken other people with me.
I will truly process this entire experience later, but for me, this was an excellent exercise in understanding the phase of my life that I am in while still being in it. As I finish packing, and get ready for a summer as an intern at the US Embassy Colombo, I hope to take the lessons I learned from my Haiti work to my work there. I hope I take weekends to remember myself and remember that just because I can work 15 hours a day, it doesn’t mean I should.
Resilience. Perserverance. Continuity. You Choose.
I have been in Haiti for the past two weeks. Actually, mentally, I have been Haiti for the past three months, but this has been the first time that I was physically in the country. You see, I have been working with Ushahidi to map need in Haiti. We have been reading text messages sent to the number 4636 and manually locating them on the map (based on information inside the message.) I have looked at so many maps of Haiti, I could tell you the coordinates of the Caribbean Market in my sleep. I thought that meant I knew Haiti like back of my hand. However, this trip taught me that I knew the map of Haiti like the back of my hand – I can tell you that I did not know Haiti.
The first time I saw the Caribbean Market (in person), I lost my breath. The building was flattened, and I mean flattened. I had seen this from satellite imagery, but the power of seeing this huge piece of concrete reduced to rubble was awe-inspiring. Yes, I say awe-inspiring. The work of hundreds of humans can be reduced to nothing by the simple moving of the earth. In a purely poetic sense, the concept is mythical; however, the more I was driven around Port-au-Prince, the more I realized that breathing and comprehending were difficult tasks. It’s so easy to get overwhelmed by the rubble and the destruction that this earthquake caused. It’s easy to get overwhelmed by the camps of people who are too afraid to return to their houses out of fear of being one of the ones trapped underneath the rubble. It’s so easy to think that nothing but destruction is everywhere.
However, as I am preparing to leave, I can tell you that a destroyed building is not the most powerful image in my mind.
One day, I was in the car being transported to yet another meeting about technology and mapping in Haiti. I was driving down a street in Babiole, I believe, and I kept seeing flattened house after flattened house and I felt overwhelmed with sadness. I just kept thinking – what in the world can I do? I am mapping need, but that doesn’t mean I am doing anything to alleviate need. I saw house after house and I was feeling so small and powerless.
When I turned the street corner in Port-au-Prince, I saw a similar image. There was a man in a plastic chair sitting beside a pile of rubble. This pile of rubble had clearly been his house at one point in time, and instead of looking distraught, he simply sat there as if nothing had changed. It was clear that this was his afternoon activity, and rubble or not, he was going to sit in the shade of his house and enjoy the Haitian sunshine.
This is the image that I take with me as I prepare to leave Port-au-Prince: life goes on. Whether we like it not, we have to just understand that tomorrow will come and all we can do is continue to live regardless of rubble, floods, or strife. I amazed by the Haitian people and their ability to just continue. I can’t tell you how many times in my life that a simple failure has overwhelmed me and I have been afraid to continue because of the consequences. I have thought that life, in and of itself, was too much, and that it would be better just to give up than go on. However, my time in Haiti and New Orleans has truly taught me resilience. It has taught me that despite everything, you just have to continue.
So, as I am spending my last days still trying to understand the complex country I find around me, this is the big lesson that I take with me. Yes, I could talk about the camps, and the poverty, and the destruction. Instead, I prefer to remember the perseverance the strength. I hope I can continue to be like these people who I try to ‘help.’ They clearly understand more of life than I do, and I hope that I can just take a page out of their books – life goes on and the best thing we can do is just embrace that life and just continue.
Continue to what? I really don’t know – maybe the next disaster will teach me that, but in the meantime, I will just bask in the Haitian sunshine and strive to be like those around me.
There is actually a really good reason as to why I haven’t written in a two months. Usually, I can give some half-baked excuse about my world has just gotten too busy for a blog post, but this time I would say that excuse has been baked fully and could be over done. I have been on crisis mapping for the earthquake in Haiti using a tool called Ushahidi (www.ushahidi.com), and this simple mapping tool has become the forefront in disaster and humanitarian response. My jobs have ranged from mapper, SMS coordinator, SMS manager, Urgent Response Team Lead, and now, Director of Crisis Mapping. I actually wrote a blog post detailing one of my experiences over the past few weeks, which can find here.
However, this blog to me is a commentary on culture and traveling, and although there is a very interesting culture around crisis mapping, I am actually going to write a post that I have been dying to write for a while.
I am a bi-racial woman. My mom is of Irish descent and my father is African-American. Until Obama came on the scene, this combination of ethnicities was not only unusual but it was also unwelcome in variety of settings. According to the black population, I wasn’t black enough. According to the white population, I was too black. I know these are gross over-generalizations of populations, but sadly, this is based on my experiences.
For instance, “Well, you know, you don’t count, you’re not fully black anyway” or “Well, you know, you could pass” or my favorite “So, exactly what are you?” I have heard these phrases more than one. Hell, more than 10 times.
I find it interesting that when I wrote a blog post discussing women on motorbikes in Morocco, it received more attention than any other post I’ve written. In my opinion, this is because that is the ‘hot topic’ of conversation – how women are treated in the Middle East. Whenever I have commented on my time in that beautiful country, the first question I hear is – “Well, what was it like, to be a woman in a Muslim country.” The thing that I find interesting, though, is that the Middle East is actually the place in the world that I have been unanimously accepted.
This conversation didn’t happen once. It didn’t even happen 10 times. This conversation took place every time I sat down in a cab, every time I ordered food at a cafe, or every time I talked to someone on the street. Moroccans were unbelievably willing to accept me into their culture. Me. The girl who has been completely rejected from both races to which I am supposed to belong.
What does that say about American culture? It is not easy being mixed and I refuse, even in 2010 to push it under the rug. I refuse to stop discussions about race because they are no longer relevant. Yes, the civil rights movement is a crucial part of American history, but I don’t think it’s over. It’s not over when I have to defend my place in the middle of two races.
Guess what – you can be both. I am proud of my black heritage. I am proud to be Irish. Yes, my ancestors were slaves. My ancestors were redheaded, beer drinking, potato farmers. Some picked cotton. Some choose to come on the boat. Some were property. Some were brought on a boat. I am proud of each one of those people. Without them and all of their trials, I would not be here. I am product of every person that has come before me – black and white. To me, discounting either one of those parts of me disregards their mutual experiences and sacrifices.
I am a mixed girl, and dammit, I am proud of it.
What happened to main street?
A few days ago, I met up with an old friend for lunch. This, in and of itself, is not the inspiration for this post; however, the location of this encounter has given me much pause for thought over the past few days. We had decided to meet halfway between our two homes, and middle Georgia is the equidistant location between Atlanta and North Florida. So, I looked at a map of my state and there was Cordele, a small southern city near the Andersonville Civil War site. I had this vision of us catching up over a long lunch, sipping sweet tea while some super friendly waitress constantly calls us ‘sugar’ and ‘honey’ knowing perfectly well we’re not made of sweets. I saw a walk down Main St, window shopping at all of the little Mom and Pop stores that have been around for ages, where they know the strangers from the locals but are just as friendly anyway. I saw the beauty of a Southern afternoon, where the sun shines despite the chill in the air.
However, as I drove into Cordele, past the KFC and the Wendy’s, towards the direction of posted ‘Historic Cordele,’ I was painfully shocked. There was no Main Street. ‘Historic Cordele’ was reduced to signage as I drove into a city that clearly once embodied that quintessential Southern afternoon but portrayed it no longer. The stores were closed. Windows were boarded up. The city was a ghost town. A lone person walked across the street towards the court-house, probably in town only to pay a speeding ticket or parking fine. They didn’t even seem to notice the desolation around them. I stared at the scene confused. I drove through the little Southern town, one that I had been to probably 10 years before on a visit to the famed Civil War site, aghast at what I saw – nothing. It was as if the town had a big sign that flipped from ‘open’ to ‘close’ for the last time. As I drove away, leaving the silent city behind, I noticed one place was still open as I drove away – the funeral home. Headstones stood out in my rearview mirror as ‘Historic Cordele’ faded away.
All was not lost as I drove back towards I-75, and my friend and I had lunch at the Cracker Barrel. An imitation of Southern cooking and hospitality, pre-packaged and served on a silver, albeit franchise platter. However, this mock-up of my home did not impress me or ease the weight that was now on my mind. Since then, I continue to think, “Well, what happened to main street?” and “Is that all Southern towns are good for now, rest stops along the super highway?” The only things that were surviving were situated close to I-75, and it was clear that the farther you moved away from the transportation hub the less money they had to claim.
This led my mind to think about the stimulus money that the federal government dulled out to help America get back on its feet. You can see signs all throughout Georgia, mostly in the city and suburbs, ‘stimulus package at work,’ and newscasters are constantly ‘tracking your tax dollars’ to make sure the money is put to good use. However, in cities like Historic Cordele, there is nothing left to stimulate. Federal money, instead, is going towards small projects and short-term work instead of long-term local rejuvenation. The small towns that make up the heart of American culture are not even on the stimulus map because frankly, they aren’t even on the map anymore.
I’m not offering any solution. I guess I’m just being one of those bloggers to point out the defects in society without actually pointing out any answer. All I know is that unless there is some focus returning to main street, I feel like what we know of American culture will be reduced to super highways, franchises, and culture served on a plastic platter.
Clearly my attempt to fix my blog dilemma didn’t work. Well, it was a shot, and now as I have begun to travel again, I have found myself with plenty of things to say. It’s funny how things work like that.
Now, before this past weekend, if you asked me what cities in the US I loved, I could tell you that New York would not be at the top of that list. In fact, New York wouldn’t even have been towards the bottom. Despite numerous trips to city, the Big Apple never appealed to me. It just seemed like an over-crowded, over-commercialized version of a city I saw in a movie once. The people were not nice, and my experiences were lack-luster at best.
However, in my mind, every place deserves a second (or 8th) chance.
So, over this past weekend, when a friend of mine was in need of a ride to the city, and I had nothing planned to do on a snowy Saturday in Boston, I happily agreed to take him. Now, if there is one thing I have learned about road trips – they can either be incredibly fun or you are constantly looking at the clock waiting until you can finally turn the engine off and go home. This road trip was definitely of the former variety. Driving into New York, watching small pieces of snow fall onto the ground, and having interesting conversations with a new friend were just what the doctor ordered. I was finding a cure for my intense apathy for the Big Apple, and in fact, a small inclination towards the city was growing.
Now, I had originally planned to try and meet up with a fellow Fulbright friend. She had no idea I was coming, I did not have her US phone number, and I had no idea where she lived; however, none of these things hindered me. I had done crazier things in crazier places in the world, so that trying to find one person in New York City did not seem like a foreboding task. Needless to say, I never found her, but quite frankly, I didn’t look that hard either.
Instead of merely dropping my friend off, I found myself going to dinner at the oldest family-owned Thai restaurant and then walking around Times Square with him in the snow. We occasionally ducked into stores to avoid the flurries, but not long enough to miss the creation of a white blanket across the city. The rest of my evening was spent eating and drinking the night away, as New York was becoming a genuine winter wonderland.
Now although that doesn’t sound like it should have had ground-breaking effects on my perceptions of a city, it did. I saw that New York is full of possibilities, and sometimes you just need to be with the right people to realize them. Or maybe you just need to be in the right state of mind. I stopped expecting New York to create a good time for me, and instead, I created it for myself.
So, like I said, every place deserves a second chance. I had a magical weekend in the Big apple, and if I had let my apathy make my decisions, then I would have never gone. I would have never gotten closer to a new friend, and I would have never seen the beauty of the Rockefeller Christmas Tree lights as they compete with the brightness of the city around them. I would have spent my Saturday content and warm in Boston, none-the-wiser that perceptions can and do change especially when you’re willing to change them. So although I will not move to New York anytime soon, I can definitely say that it is now on my list, and it’s quite high up there, in fact. | 2019-04-20T01:13:00Z | https://landofthesettingsun.wordpress.com/ | Porn | Sports | 0.576072 |
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wikipedia | Triplet-like performance of that notation as notes inégales (jazz shuffle) play (help·info).
In music, notes inégales (French pronunciation: [nɔt ineɡal]; lit. unequal notes) refers to a performance practice, mainly from the Baroque and Classical music eras, in which some notes with equal written time values are performed with unequal durations, usually as alternating long and short. The practice was especially prevalent in France in the 17th and 18th centuries, with appearances in other European countries at the same time; and it reappeared as the standard performance practice in the 20th century in jazz.
The practice of notating pairs of unequal note lengths as pairs with equal notated value may go as far back as the earliest music of the Middle Ages; indeed some scholars believe that some plainchant of the Roman Catholic Church, including Ambrosian hymns, may have been performed as alternating long and short notes. This interpretation is based on a passage in Saint Augustine where he refers to the Ambrosian hymns as being in tria temporum (in three beats); e.g. a passage rendered on the page (by a later transcriber) as a string of notes of equal note value would be performed as half note, quarter note, half note, quarter note, and so on, in groups of three beats.
The rhythmic modes, with their application of various long–short patterns to equal written notes, may also have been a precursor to notes inégales, especially as they were practiced in France, specifically by the Notre Dame School. However the gap between the late 13th century ars antiqua use of the rhythmic modes and the middle of the 16th century, when Loys Bourgeois first mentioned notes inégales, is a large one, and little trace of the practice can be found in the fluid polyphony of the intervening period.
It was in France, beginning in the late 16th century, that notes inégales began to take on a critical role in performance practice. The earliest treatises that mention inequality of notes in performance indicate that the reason for this practice is to add beauty or interest to a passage which otherwise would be plain. Over 85 music theory and performance treatises from France alone mention the topic between 1550 and 1810, with the large majority written between 1690 and 1780. Within this body of writing there is considerable inconsistency, but by the late 17th century a consensus practice began to emerge.
8. In addition, the inégales could only function on one metrical level; for example, if sixteenths are to be played long–short, long–short, an even eighth-note pulse must be carefully maintained for the music to retain its shape.
In Georg Muffat's codification of notes inégales in the Lullist tradition, he says it is the first level of diminution that is subject to inequality procedure.
Sometimes the notes inégales are notated as unequal, for example in some of the keyboard works of François Couperin, where he uses a dot to indicate the lengthened note. This and similar passages by Rameau (in his first Gavotte) clearly show that this means to apply an even greater amount of inequality to dotted eighth–sixteenth note pairs than to eighth–eighth pairs, which are already understood to be played unequally. The exact amount of inequality required is also unspecified, and most of the treatises leave this detail to the taste of the performer. It may have varied from double-dotted to minimally perceptible, depending on the context. Some recent papers and books include a full analysis of this topic as well as practical guides for the performer. Also, musical clocks have been discovered from the period that show the dotting very clearly as such devices have "preserved performances of notes inégales that are often as subtle as a 3:2 ratio (i.e. three fifths of a beat for the first note, two fifths for the second in the pair), as well as the more obvious 2:1 ratio (triplets), and 3:1 (dotted eighth–sixteenth pairs and their multiples).
There were situations which were understood to be exempt from application of notes inégales. A broken arpeggiated figuration in the left hand, such as an Alberti bass, was always understood to be played regularly. Sometimes one sees the explicit marking: croches égales meaning equal quavers or eighth notes. Passages which mixed note values may have been exempted from the practice. Occasionally a long slur printed over a series of notes was understood to imply that all the notes should be played evenly, except that the first note under the slur could be accented. Passages which were highly disjunct were also less likely to be played unequally than conjunct passages, although the sources are not unanimous on even this.
If the effect of a passage was dotted, the compelling rhythm of the dotted notes, or notes inégales, would sometimes simply override all the rules. The Handel Fugue in D Minor from the First Sett of Suites 1709 in its first editions shows the first few notes of the theme with dotted rhythms, but the dots stop after 4 note for the first two entries; the next two entries Handel only bothers to dot the first two notes. The energy of the piece seems such that the dotted texture might best remain throughout, however the long–short notes inégales can occasionally be supplanted with some "short–long" moments, still retaining the dotted effect, or as John O'Donnell describes it, "The Majestic Style", but some variance can work quite effectively, and still adhere to many of the rules.
In particular, in much of French music, and a lot in Handel as well, there are problems the performer faces, and the most prevalent one is this: sometimes at the approach of cadences in an notes inégales texture, the composer suddenly writes some dotted notes out explicitly and sometimes then stops; the inconsistency of dotting has continued to be a problem for every musicologist, theoretical and performer. Anthony Newman has suggested in an article, that there was an undocumented convention that the dotted texture recedes generally at the approach to a cadence, all other musical factors and concerns being equal, and that is why the dots stop and start sometimes quite oddly towards the approach to cadence.
Often, the long–short version of notes inégales was indicated by slurred pairs of notes throughout the French repertoire in François Couperin, Jacques Duphly, Antoine Forqueray, Pierre Dumage, Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Jean-François Dandrieu, and Jean-Philippe Rameau, to cite the more prominent keyboard composers from the French Baroque.
Occasionally the long–short version of notes inégales was reversed to a short–long, known sometimes as the Lombard rhythm or the Scotch snap.
The practice of slurred pairs of notes being possibly an indication of short–long "notes inégales" has been suggested to extend further than France to "French (Lullist) modelled" compositions throughout Europe, especially Germany, Austria, and England, and even to influence the performance of slurred pairs of notes in the fast movements of Beethoven (and other non-French and non-Baroque composers), such as in the Sonata in F♯ major, Op.83, among other sonatas, where the tempo and the slurred pairs can only result in a Lombardic or snapped short–long "notes inégales" performance.
In Restoration England, in the French modelled, Lullist influenced works of Henry Purcell, William Croft, Jeremiah Clarke and their contemporaries, the short–long slurred pairs of notes inégales can be found throughout the musical literature, and often variant sources "write out" the short–long "snapped" notes inégales rhythms explicitly.
One of the best sources for understanding the situation of notes inégales in France is the notation of music by composers from other European countries who wrote imitations of it. Music from Italy, Germany and England all borrowed this feature of French music, with the difference that the inequality of note values was often notated, since not all performers could be expected to add the notes inégales themselves (though evidence from Georg Muffat and Telemann strongly suggests that German performers would certainly be familiar with them).
Application of notes inégales to contemporary performance of music not written in France, for example the music of J.S. Bach, is extremely controversial, and indeed resulted in one of the most heated debates in 20th-century musicology. One school of thought attempted to show that the French practice was actually widespread in Europe, and performance of music by composers as diverse as Bach and Scarlatti should be suffused with dotted rhythms; another school of thought held that even-note playing was the norm in their music unless dotted rhythms were explicitly notated in the score. Evidence on both sides of the argument is compelling; for example 17th-century English writings recommending unequal playing (Roger North's autobiographical Notes of Me, written around 1695, describes the practice explicitly, in reference to English lute music), as well as François Couperin, who wrote in L'art de toucher le clavecin (1716), that in Italian music, Italians always write the notes exactly the way they want them played. Then again, the practice may have been more widespread in some areas, such as England, than others, such as Italy and Germany.
J.S. Bach famously imitated the style in Contrapunctus II from the Art of Fugue; however, in this piece the notes inégales are written out as dotted rhythms.
But in Contrapunctus VI, fully embracing notes inégales, a composition written in the complex texture of the "Ouverture", in Stile francese, Bach uses "the dotted style" in augmentation, and writes out the notes inégales although many treatises describe the assimilation of upbeat notes to have the slower rhythms become "in sync" with the shorter notes of the fast upbeat note groups, as well as the "short" notes of the inégales pairs.
And perhaps most significantly, in Contrapunctus 16 – actually two Fugues one normal and its pair in mirror inversion, the notes inégales are written out in a texture of running triplets, showing the varying value of the dot, as well as the varying "swing" of notes inégales. And it is of interest to note that in the keyboard arrangements of this work, the notes inégales are not written out, and this suggests strongly that the practice of notes inégales, of rhythmic alteration, was known to Bach and his circle. In his teens, Bach travelled and studied at the French-modelled Court of Georg Wilhelm in Celle (near Lüneburg) in northern Germany, where there was an orchestra modelled on the Concert Royal of Lully. During this time it is believed he studied and wrote compositions in the French Style, such as a five-part incomplete Fantasie and Fugue for organ, BWV 562, that is based exactly on the voicing, texture, and structure of the works of the French baroque composer De Grigny, and would make it eligible for notes inégales. His later work, the Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 537, also uses the same mostly 8th note texture, is written in the same time signature, features a similar texture, and responds well to the application of long–short notes inégales to the evenly notated 8th notes, and short–long to the slurred 8th note pairs, also typical and consistent to classic baroque French notes inégales procedures.
Handel also seemed to use and understand notes inégales in many of his works. However, like often in the French literature, there are also inconsistencies which have never been fully explained where dots start and then stop for no clear reason, but as Newman has observed, mostly this happens towards the approach to cadences. But in general, in many of his suites, and even his orchestral music, the application of notes inégales finds a solid home in Handel. Most obvious are in some of the Ouvertures, but there are many movements where a subtle notes inégales works well, such as in the Sarabande of the E Minor suite (from the set of Eight Great Suites; his earliest compilation); and numerous Menuets throughout his keyboard and even some of his orchestral works. Even in his orchestral music, and vocal music, Handel can have some very "French" moments – some of the menuets in particular, keyboard as well as orchestral, can work well with a subtle notes inégales, despite Handel's very intercontinental lineage. Whether in Germany or England, he was clearly a master at the French notes inégales as well as the Ouverture style. He was strongly influenced by Georg Muffat's nephew, who will be discussed below, and perhaps that is a part of Handel's reception of the French Style of playing. And occasionally one finds movements that don't seem necessarily "French", as over the years, Handel did develop a very strong "English" style that was unique to him, but nonetheless, sound very much more "revealed" when subjected to notes inégales aka inequality procedure.
The entire corpus of stylistic practices related to the Lullist model, of which notes inégales was one of the most significant features of rhythmic alteration, was perhaps widely spread throughout late 17th and early 18th-century Germany and Austria by the Austrian composer Georg Muffat. He went to the Lullist court to study and codify the Lullist performance practices and did it in an exhaustive foreword to his Florilegium Secundum, a collection containing orchestral suites based on the models and performance practices of Lully, synthesized with Muffat's studies with Corelli in Italy, which he previously presented to the musical public in his Armonico Tributo and Florilegium Primum.
Writers have long credited Muffat's impact with his publication of an explicitly detailed foreword in German, French, Italian and Latin in 1698, where he codifies more explicitly than any other writer (and primary performance practice source) the Lullist Manner of Playing. Through the impact of his Florilegium Secundum, following his earlier also significant works, Muffat has been credited by many, including the great 18th century writer and music critic Charles Burney to introducing the "French Ouverture" throughout the rest of Europe, but Muffat can be perhaps even more credited as "creating" the German style – as a remarkable and unique synthesis of the Italian and French styles into a "new, hybrid, amalgamated style"; creating a uniquely identifiable texture what has come down to us as the beginnings of a true, unique, German musical style.
Certainly this new complex transformation and amalgamation of the Italian style with the new "Fashionable" Lullist/French style is evident in the complex French Ouverture textures found throughout Bach's works, and explicitly formed the models of Bach's own Orchestral Suites, and the Ouverture nach Französischer Art, BWV 831, which Bach published along with the Italienisches Konzert, BWV 971, which show a profound intensification of texture compared to the Austrian and German Music that preceded J.S. Bach.
In Bach's textures, the French composer's 8th notes which were eligible notes inégales became Bach's 16th notes. But at the same time, other rhythms were "sharpened" and certain types of three note sixteenth note figures were often "compressed to three 32nd note upbeat figures. And upbeat 8th notes became upbeat 16th notes. (All the would be evenly written eight notes are written out in long–short notes inégales). Bach's texture was very much more complex than that of the Lully and Muffat. As a result, there was ambiguity for what notes would be eligible for notes inégales performance.
In an earlier version of Ouverture nach Französischer Art, there is a manuscript in a student of Bach's hand, Johann Preller, the three note 32nd notes are not yet notated as such. Instead the texture is full of 16th notes which have Preller's ornaments in all the places that would suggest notes inégales of the long–short variety – most of Preller's trills and mordents are on the first and third note of every group of four 16th notes – the notes that if subjected to standard long–short notes inégales would become longer by a dot – and have more time for an ornament; indeed the ornaments that happen on would be the third 16th note would consequently make the unanchored groups of three impossible to sharpen rhythmically into upbeat 32nd notes, aka, in stile francese; or as Burney describes; the groups of short and fast upbeat figures that define the texture of the [French] Ouverture.
However, preparing the work for publication, Bach realized his complex texture was misunderstood, and that in fact most of the 16th notes were to be played not notes inégales, but in "Ouverture style", where the groups of three "unanchored" (meaning the first of each group of four 16th notes was either tied, or a rest) the following three 16th notes could be said to be "unanchored". Such 16th notes are "compressed to become 32nd note upbeat figures throughout most of the "Ouverture" section of the movement. However, in the 13th measure there is a passage with anchored 16th notes which in fact are eligible for long–short notes inégales, and Bach "leaves them be". A performer may apply notes inégales to the 16th notes in that passage effectively. Again, consistent with the Lullist model, throughout the rest of the overture, there are no evenly written 8th notes; they have all be "written out" in notes inégales like Contrapunctus 2 of Die Kunst der Fuge as dotted 8ths and 16th notes. In performance, it is likely that the notes inégales will end up even sharper, with the long note of the long–short pairs becoming longer, so the short upbeat note can fit in with the last of the groups of the upbeat 32nd notes; all of which is consistent with the flexibility of notes inégales, as well as the concept of "upbeat assimilation", another legacy of in stile francese. In one way, to the 17th- and 18th-century composer/performer, notes inégales was an interdependent consequence of "ouverture style", or in stile francese.
Other movements by Bach in Ouverture Texture, where the 16th notes can be played in long–shortnotes inégales are the Fugue in D Major, WTCI; the Gigue in the French Suite in D Minor; the fugue in D Minor from WTC II – where the 16th notes can be played in long–short notes inégales against the general triplet texture (not unlike the fugue from the Kunst der Fuge in the keyboard arrangements, and the 16th notes in Ouverture from the D Major Partita, in the slow Ouverture section.
Outside of the keyboard literature, in the cello and lute suites, the suite in C Minor has two versions, and the suite opens with a Prelude that is in stile francese. The early version is like the early version of the Ouverture; mostly 16th notes that could? be eligible for notes inégales. However, Bach rewrites the later version again shows a clarification of the evenly written 16th notes that are unanchored, being subject to "overture style" rhtymic alteration where the unanchored three 16th note groups are assimilated into groups of three 32nd notes upbeats, against a texture that is mostly full of long–short notes inégales dotted eight note/sixteenth note pairs.
Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, a highly influential composer, who lived a generation before Bach, also "adopted" this new transformation of an Austrian/German national musical style. A study of Fischer is outside the scope of the topic of notes inégales, but his large Chaconne in G Major – a copy of which was made by Purcell's teacher, John Blow, surely not a coincidence – is written solely in even eighth notes in the first of its two G Major sections (as well as the Chaconne's dénouement conclusion). Fischer's Chaconne greatly resembles the Chaconnes of Louis Couperin and Nicolas Le Bègue in key, time signature, texture and affect, both of whom are contemporary to Lully, and fully qualify for notes inégales treatment of the evenly notated eighth notes.
With the application of notes inégales to the evenly notated eighth notes in the Fischer, the work even more comes alive as the French dance that is the Chaconne. Fischer's collection of suites published as Musicalischer Parnassus are also strongly evident of Muffat's amalgamated stylistic influence, and Fischer's compositions also foreshadow the complexity of Bach. Bach knew the works of Fischer and numerous fugue themes from the Well Tempered Clavier are taken from Fischer's own earlier collection preludes and fugues, some note for note. Fischer's most famous suite in D minor – Uranie from his collection of very French influenced suites found in the collection Musicalischer Parnassus – feature and Allemande and Courante that "need" notes inégales; and with the application of notes inégales Fischer's strong artistic compositional hand become even more evident.
In the first work of the Florilegium Secundum, Fasciculus I. – Nobilis Juventus. 1. Ouverture, Georg Muffat writes an Ouverture in stile Francese, in which he writes out the notes inégales in the topmost part, the Violino, in an approximate performance "realization" where the long–short pairs are explicitly notated in dotted eighth/sixteenth note pairs as the stylistically correct performance practice of long–short notes inégales. In the Violetta part immediately below, Muffat writes out the part in conventional, unrealized, notation. This can be seen when stepwise eighth notes are introduced in measure 12. In the Violino, they are realized in explicitly long–short pairs; in the Violetta, they are still "encoded" as they would traditionally appear in the guise of evenly notated 8th notes; the composer clearly expecting the performer to perform them in long–short notes inégales.
The practice of writing out an explicatio, often in the first instance, can be found in Francois Couperin's Premiere Ordre where he writes out samples of the kinds of embellishments he expects the performer to add upon repeat. He also writes out the long–short notes inégales fully rhythmically "realized" as well. Couperin does this in the Courante and the Gavotte, expecting the performer to take the various embellishments, rhythmic alterations and ornaments, and apply them "le bon gout" (in good taste) throughout his oeuvre. This practice of giving an explicatio was also followed by J.S. Bach in the Sarabande of his French Suite in D Minor, BWV 812, and similarly, in the Sarabande of his English Suite in G Minor, BWV 808. It is clear there was a precedent by composers to give models for the correct study and realization of performance practice issues in the works themselves, often in the context of an oral tradition where there was no need to write a treatise.
Muffat, publishing his Florilegium with multilingual prefaces, clearly intending his work to be widely published (which it was), and as there would be no opportunity for an oral tradition to transmit the performance practices, he decided in order for the music to be played correctly, he would codify the Lullist practices – with musical examples of how to perform the ornaments, interpret the various rhythmic alterations including notes inégales, as well as tempo instructions, and bowing instructions, and when and where to apply notes inégales and all the variety of Lullist embellishment and ornamentation, especially when there is no obvious indication. His extremely detailed codification of notes inégales and the Lullist performance practices, and in practical combination with his suites, and including further explication by explicit half encoded/half written out solutions to demonstrate the correct and appropriate application of notes inégales in the Premiere suite of the Florilegium Secundum, would achieve a clarity of understanding the rhythmic alteration procedure of notes inégales to a huge musical circle beyond his personal scope and of his musical circle which included his colleague Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber's world in 17th century Salzburg, Austria.
In England, style Francese was deliberately introduced in the 17th century by order of the King, sending a 14-year-old exceptionally talented chorister and composer, the young Henry Purcell, to the Lullist court to study and master the style of Lully and the Lullist orchestra "Chapel Royal" which had become famous throughout Europe, after which Purcell was to return to England to form an English version of the Chapel Royal. Purcell's orchestral music and keyboard music are, like Muffat's synthesis of the Italian and French style, a synthesis of the English and French style into a much more complex English style where the application of notes inégales to the music of Purcell and his contemporaries is essential to correct performance of the music. Also of great importance for Purcell and his contemporaries – in explicio – are the varying versions of numerous movements from the suites with notes inégales unwritten, and written out explicitly in some MS. versions, and completely encoded in other MS. versions.
With respect to the short–long, snapped version of notes inégales, this rhythmic and stylistic feature – the lombardic snap – became a recognizable stylistic cliche in Purcell's music, and in the music of his contemporaries. The snapped pair is often stepwise, but is nearly as often found in slower textures in downward snapping pairs of notes, the second of which note, the longer, destination note, together with the first note of the notes inégales, form a diminished 4th to a leading tone (especially in minor keys), but can often be found used in various non-stepwise intervals, seemingly at odds with the "general rules" of notes inégales; nonetheless, this usage is pervasive in the music of Restoration period England by Purcell and his contemporaries.
Perhaps one of the most famous instances of notes inégales, which for many years was incorrectly heard (and played) is in the so-called "Masterpiece Theatre" trumpet tune. This famous trumpet tune is actually a French baroque work, Fanfare-Rondeau, by Jean-Joseph Mouret incorrectly attributed to Jeremiah Clarke. It is often heard played as even eighth notes, but its correct performance would almost certainly be that all of its evenly notated 8th notes would be performed in long–short notes inégales!
An alternative point of view is that this idea of Notes Inégales as uneven beats with a fixed perfectly regular amount of swing as in modern Jazz is completely wrong. Instead the idea might have been to install a sense of musical surprise and unpredictability in the listener, a sense that every note is new. This alternative interpretation arises out of a detailed understanding and familiarity with other concepts that would have been well known to musicians of the time.
Evidence from mechanical clocks to the contrary isn't too convincing once you have this alternative interpretation, because musical clocks, by their nature, are of course mechanical. It could just be a limitation of the craftsmen in ability to reproduce the fluidity of the rhythms of musicians of the time in a clock.
Entasis is an ancient Greek term meaning tensioning. Speech that is delivered in a metrically perfect manner has the power to cause the listener's brain to shut down and cease processing the meaning of what is being said...all within a few seconds of hearing such speech. The human brain needs the condition of constant or stable irregularity to remain alert and attentive. Regularity eliminates the feeling of discomfort which chaos, the erratic and irregular, often creates. The balance in tension between the feeling of predictability, which constancy (stability) provides, and the feeling of anticipation, which irregularity and unpredictability creates, is a state of entasis. (The opposite of entasis is stasis or staticness.) In normal human speech, Entasis is brought about by the flow of thought, and this flow is both irregular and constant. So it must be in music.
Metrical exactitude in musical performance also guarantees that most music is only heard but not listened to. It is the embodiment of slavishness in music, i.e. the music is the slave of the beat when it should be its master, exactly the opposite of what C.P.E. Bach suggested when he wrote that one should "endeavor to avoid everything mechanical and slavish. Play from the soul, not like a trained bird."
A similar practice to notes inégales occurs from the 20th century to the present day, in jazz, although the term "swung note" is used by jazz musicians and listeners. Indeed, it is so universally understood that a stream of eighth notes is to be rendered unequally that the phrase "straight eighths" is used whenever a jazz arranger wants a performer to play eighth notes evenly. In jazz practice, in addition, it is common for the notes not only to differ in duration but in intensity. Swung eighths written on the beat are generally read as quarter-note triplets, while notes written on off-beats are played as eighth note triplets. Therefore, the underlying rhythmic grid to most jazz music is an eighth note triplet pattern. Most musicians don't do the math involved in playing notes, instead simply feeling an uneven subdivision. Occasionally, sixteenth notes are swung and played fitting into a sixteenth-note triplet grid.
The similarity to the rule of 17th-century France is striking, in that jazz is organized in rhythmic layers, with chord changes often at the level of the bar or half-bar, followed by a quarter-note beat, and an eighth-note level in which notes are played freely, and almost always unevenly. Some scholars (2) have speculated a connection by way of the influence of French music in New Orleans on early jazz styles.
Traditional Sacred Harp singers often sing in the rhythm of notes inégales, thus deviating from the printed notes; for details see Performance practice of Sacred Harp music.
^ Mattingly, Rick (2006). All About Drums. Hal Leonard. ISBN 1-4234-0818-7.
^ Robert L. Marshall Eighteenth Century Keyboard Music — "Engramelle introduces a large numbers of ratios to represent uneven notes (such as 2:2, 3:1, 3:2 and even 7:5), but he ultimately concedes that his mathematical and mechanical constructs at best can only approximate the subtleties of the art"
^ Ploger, Marianne; Keith Hill (2005). Craft of Musical Communication. Archived from the original on 21 January 2013. Retrieved 1 December 2015. , from Johnson, Cleveland (2006). Orphei Organi Antiqui: Essays in Honor of Harald Vogel. Orcas, WA: Westfield Center. ISBN 097784000X.
Rameau: Allemande in a from Nouvelles Suites. Claudio Di Veroli, harpsichord (YouTube video) – example of a Notes inégales playing style.
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wordpress | The paintings have been recently edited a 84-hour Internet – Who is the “Apollo 18” would have viewers believe that this is the real story of how NASA and the Department’s final secret manned mission to the moon in 1974 after the lunar program officially closed, the astronauts said that they were kept secret then.
By the way, “Apollo 18” – a thriller to find pictures of the Spanish director Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego faux a script by newcomer Brian Miller and produced by Russian filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov. The astronauts are played by Warren Christie, Lloyd Owen and Ryan Robbins.
When it starts to look like the heads of mission on Earth is somehow deceiving astronauts – Watergate is explicitly mentioned in the conversation, Space Explorers realize alone are nothing to rely on except yourself, and things in their hands. The film is a surprisingly long time to rev, and even less than 90 minutes and feel fine at the time of purchase. Given that the nominal value of the building, why should anyone join the “found footage” to get a lot of good stuff.
Possibility of being imprisoned on the moon is essential for rapid Blunt, and the film, when his best is a real piece of shrimp, a few astronauts trapped in a landing pod anxiously trying to figure out what to do: The filmmakers are not concerned about how the images came to found or physics and realism, such that if one really was attacked by the creatures on the moon. Even in the “Apollo 18” – is not as it should be a little reserved and modest manipulation, the rising tension of the film instead of the big shocks or scares. | 2019-04-19T05:22:25Z | https://zubly.wordpress.com/2011/09/05/ | Porn | Arts | 0.847066 |
tripod | Michael Jackson's trial draggs on, Martha Stewart gets out of prison, big news. Buried deep in the news, if reporters can find the time, if papers can find the space, two more Americans died in Iraq, along with countless Iraqies. The first two stories sell lots of Viagra, and reminds us to update our portfolio's. Stories about the war aren't that important anymore, we are too worried about social security, and taxes. Still people keep dying in our search for WMD's, and in our revenge for Iraq's role in 9/11, I just don't get it, but who's counting. March 19th is the 2nd anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, get involved. | 2019-04-20T04:47:10Z | http://michaelmurphymusic.tripod.com/www/2005_03_01_michaelmurphymusic_archive.html | Porn | News | 0.774419 |
wordpress | Relying on a publisher to promote a book isn’t enough!
Several years ago, when I signed my contract for my first trade book Tarnished Trophies (Black Moss Press 2014), I knew marketing a poetry book would be a challenge. I was a PR professional, college-trained (back in the days when there were no public relations courses taught at the university level in Canada). I had mastered the basics and honed more advanced skills while handling marketing and communication assignments in the visual arts and university/college sectors. I worked with the media and knew how to pitch a news story, plan an advertising campaign, and prepare a marketing strategy.
I also knew that wasn’t enough. I needed more research, more inside information about the book industry especially how to attract a poetry-loving-buying audience. I had heard enough stories to know that small press publishers relied on their writers, especially first time authors to help promote their work. The truth was that most publishers wanted their authors to succeed but the reality was that publishers had limited staff and financial resources to help everyone.
As one experienced writer once warned me, “if you think it’s challenging to find a publisher for your first book, think about how difficult it would be to get another publisher when your first book flops.
Yikes! That would scare any new writer into action.
But where does a poet look for help?
This entry was posted in blog posts, Book Reviews, Promotional Tips and tagged Book Promotion, Book Reviews, Books, poetry, Poetry Reviews, The Writers' Union of Canada, Two Sylvias Press on February 21, 2019 by d78hill.
Kelly Shepherd’s Insomnia Bird: Edmonton Poems (Thistledown Press, 2018)** is not a clichéd-flighty-fly-by-night book about the black-billed magpies set against a northern Albertan cityscape. It’s mind-warping, playful, and clever: an a(musing)-gathering-of-facts-and-twigs-and-words, (by a trickster bird) architecturally structured and constructed and carefully woven into a literary nest inspired by Edmonton’s urban growth.
CAUTION: Do not attempt to read this well-researched book in one sitting (especially at night). Each poem deserves a slow and careful read to fully appreciate the complexity and depth of the work. Reading the book several times is advised.
Layered with wit and dust and city noise, a cacophony of provocative sounds and images, some illuminated like LED billboards, some more subdued like sandblasted cement, this collection of 53 found and lyrical poems kept this country night owl awake: thinking and staring outside an imaginary bus window and into the hum of the glaring street lights.
Expect some travelling on highways littered with snake-skinned truck tires, and congested roads along homeless shelters, construction zones, city buildings, and trees that breathe with plastic bag lungs (p.97). I especially marveled at how the poems with couplets and tercets rhythmically reminded me of riding an early morning bus (or train), half-asleep like a zombie, void of emotion despite reading the daily paper and ripping out tidbits of information for future consumption.
This entry was posted in blog posts, Book Reviews, Poetry Reviews and tagged Book Reviews, Canadian Poetry, CanLit, Kelly Shepherd, poetry, Poets, Thistledown Press on February 7, 2019 by d78hill.
Writing and reading may be solitary pursuits but like the snow mentioned in David Stones’ poetic lines above, Canada’s vast literary community is not silent. It is a flurry of words, sometimes a blizzard of voices supported by a potpourri of literary activities and events.
Below is a small scoop of national, regional, or local voices, plus books, projects, and events vying for your attention. May you open your heart this season and welcome the gift of creativity. Several of the local events are free. Many of these books are available for reading from the library.
Conditions of Desire (Hidden Brook Press, 2018) by John Di Leonardo. This imprint of the John B. Lee Signature Series is a 74-page debut collection of ekphrastic poems as well as six drawings by Brooklin artist/poet John Di Leonardo. Di Leonardo was recently accepted as a full-member of The League of Canadian Poets and will be the editor/compiler/illustrator for Dancing on Stones, the 2019 membership anthology for The Ontario Poetry Society. More information about this submission call is available here. Watch for a Q and A feature in early 2019.
New books on my shelf.
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sfgate | It helps to find common decor elements when you're designing a bedroom for kids who want different themes.
Designing a shared kids' room is always a challenge, but when your kids want different themes for their decor, it may start to seem like mission impossible. Don't fret, though. There are ways to unite most themes so that you can create a unified look for the space. If you can't find any common ground for your children's chosen themes, though, you may need to formally divide the space.
It’s easier to create a unified design for the bedroom if there is some overlap between the themes, so try to choose themes that share common elements. For example, if one child wants a circus theme and another prefers a zoo theme, personalize the walls on each side of the room to fit each theme. On the shared walls, create a mural with animals like tigers, lions, bears and elephants that you’d find in both a circus and a zoo to tie the whole look together. Other themes that can work together include race car driver and police/firefighter; fairy garden and princess; mermaids and surfing; and football and baseball.
Even if your kids want completely different themes like race cars and outer space, you can create a cohesive look for the room by working with a common color scheme. Start by choosing a neutral shade like white, tan or gray for the walls – they'll work with virtually any other colors that you choose. When it comes to the specific theme elements, try to find common accent shades that work for all of the themes. For example, you can decorate the racing side of the room with blue and silver cars and create a blue and silver night sky mural for the outer space side of the room.
In addition to using a similar color scheme, displaying the same furniture for each can help unify the room's look. With furniture in the same material, style and color, the room will have a sense of continuity even if the theme elements are completely different. But you don't necessarily have to use the same exact furniture pieces for both themes – you can use different wooden pieces that are similar in tone to create a cohesive look. If you're combining existing furniture sets, use paint in a neutral color like white, black or gray to make the pieces look like they belong together.
When you're dealing with themes that have nothing in common, including a color scheme, visually dividing the room may be your best option. Use folding screens in a neutral color like black or a wood tone to easily separate the room into zones with individual themes and color schemes. Curtains also make an ideal room divider – mount a track to the ceiling and hang fabric panels to separate the room themes. If the room has a large furniture item like a bookcase, you can use that for a room divider as well.
Blair, Jennifer. "How to Decorate a Multi-Themed Kids' Room." Home Guides | SF Gate, http://homeguides.sfgate.com/decorate-multi-themed-kids-room-54803.html. Accessed 23 April 2019. | 2019-04-24T03:57:46Z | https://homeguides.sfgate.com/decorate-multi-themed-kids-room-54803.html | Porn | Computers | 0.072804 |
wordpress | Winter is in full swing here in Oklahoma but there are a few days of truly beautiful weather sprinkled in for variety from the cold and that was exactly the type of day we had for this engagement shoot. I had such a fun time getting to know Danny and Beka a little better and I can’t wait for their wedding in March!
Had a gorgeous wedding on Saturday and thought I would share some of my favorite images with you… just a few though!
Ryan and Rachel have a very sweet story and I had the privilege of also shooting their engagement pictures a few months ago. They are a lovely couple and I had such a good time shooting their beautiful summer wedding!
Rachel and Ryan, I hope that your life together is full of joy and peace and grace. May reality always be better than your dreams.
One day there was a boy that fell in love with a girl, and finally she said she would marry him so we took some pictures!
So happy for both of you and cant wait for your wedding!
Last week Inspired Life was sent out on a special assignment to be a part of a very important life event that happened in downtown Tulsa, OK.
Cory asked Jamie if she would be his forever… and yes said she would.
Congratulations you two! May your life together always be full of peace and grace and joy!
Had a fantastic afternoon hanging out with this lovely couple for a bridal session. I have known LaDonna’s family for quite some time, and they are truly a blessing.
Thanks, LaDonna and Luis, for hanging out with me for the afternoon, and for being so much fun and keeping me laughing. I hope that your life together is full of unexpected blessings and grace.
So my little brother got married. Well I guess he isnt technically little anymore, but he’ll always be my little brother. Anyway he got married a couple months ago and we had a fun mini-shoot when I went to see him in the early part of March. | 2019-04-21T06:45:52Z | https://inspiredlifephotos.wordpress.com/category/weddings/ | Porn | News | 0.131545 |
wordpress | Where EVERY Gem becomes turns to Jewel!
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wordpress | Life Preserver – Lisa David, artist. Wait- I'm an artist?
Thanks, Peter! I really enjoyed painting this- and am *trying* to follow your advice of being bold and confident! I have you to thank for all these paintings and appreciate ANY feedback:)!
Lee you nailed this one in both print and paint! YES–we were lucky if it was dry after the last wearing–but so many times it was not! The painting is wonderful–summertime afternoon shadows, the perfect shade of orange, the straps, and that hook…! Thanks for the memories! | 2019-04-21T12:32:46Z | https://lisadaviddailypaintings.wordpress.com/2015/08/05/life-preserver/ | Porn | Arts | 0.976586 |
de | In my dreams, there are fairies, they take me by my hand and take me to a place of love and happyness.
And there I'm not alone anymore.
There's a boy by my side, which loves me and cares.
First sign, that it is just a dream.
we're walking there and he says: forever, just me and you.
and see: He gives me everything!
Everything I need is him.
And he tells: I'll never leave you.
'cause I know, there is no boy, which never leaves me.
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wordpress | Powerful words. This took my breath away. Thank you for sharing with us.
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wordpress | Often have some issues figuring out just exactly how to do remote pssessions, passing variables, performing different stuff. I found, what I believe is the best solution for script based remote powershell for more complex operations. The below example is remote session against an SQL server, using loading some pssnapins using sqlcmd to set some database options. I use this example, because I find it a good demonstration on how and what is possible. The first example connections to basic server. The second example to an Exchange server, as the powershell connection string is different.
Invoke-SQLcmd -Query "USE master;ALTER DATABASE $Database SET RECOVERY FULL, AUTO_UPDATE_STATISTICS ON;" -ServerInstance "$Instance"
Invoke-SQLcmd -Query "USE master;ALTER DATABASE $Database MODIFY FILE (NAME= $Database,FILEGROWTH= 150MB, MAXSIZE= UNLIMITED);" -ServerInstance "$Instance"
Invoke-SQLcmd -Query "USE master;ALTER DATABASE $Database MODIFY FILE (NAME= $DatabaseLog,FILEGROWTH= 150MB, MAXSIZE= UNLIMITED);" -ServerInstance "$Instance"
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newgrounds | Had fun making this flash; hope you guys like it.
This was basically my introduction to internet culture.
11 years later, still great lol.
The poor animation style really compliments the song. I like it. This was one of the first things I ever saw on NG.
do you want to know what it shwas?
ok, ill tell you what it shwas.
"We Photocopy Our Body Parts"
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flickr | Took this image today while on a city walkabout..
Hope Square is dedicated to the Children of the Kindertransport, who found hope and safety in Britain through the gateway of Liverpool Street Station.
Association of Jewish Refugees, Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief, 2006.
The sculptor, Meisler was one of the children saved.
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wikipedia | Dust and debris will accumulate as a result of air cooling. Any filters used to mitigate this need regular service and changes. If the cooling system is not filtered then regular computer cleaning may prevent short circuits and overheating.
The crumbs, dust, and other particulate that fall between the keys and build up underneath are loosened by spraying pressurized air into the keyboard, then removed with a low-pressure vacuum cleaner. A plastic-cleaning agent applied to the surface of the keys with a cloth is used to remove the accumulation of oil and dirt from repeated contact with a user's fingertips. If this is not sufficient for a more severely dirty keyboard, keys are physically removed for more focused individual cleaning, or for better access to the area beneath. Finally, the surface is wiped with a disinfectant.
A monitor displays information in visual form, using text and graphics. The portion of the monitor that displays the information is called the screen. Like a television screen, a computer screen can show still or moving pictures and It’s a part of Output Devices.
The top surface of the mouse is wiped with a plastic cleanser to remove the dirt that accumulates from contact with the hand, as on the keyboard. The bottom surface is also cleaned to ensure that it can slide freely. If it is a mechanical mouse, the trackball is taken out, not only to clean the ball itself, but to scrape dirt from the runners that sense the ball's movement and can become jittery or stuck if impeded by grime.
Internal components accumulate dust brought in by the airflow maintained by fans to keep the PC from overheating. A soft brush may remove loose dirt; the remainder is dislodged with compressed air and removed with a low-pressure vacuum. The case is wiped down with a cleaning agent. A pressurized blower or gas duster can remove dust that cannot be reached with a brush.
In the U.S.A, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act specifically exempts computer-maintenance activities, so copies of copyright files may be made in the course of maintenance provided that they are destroyed afterwards.
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Software packages and operating systems may require regular updates to correct software bugs and to address security weaknesses.
Maintaining security involves vulnerability management and installation and proper operation of antivirus softwares like Kaspersky, Avast Antivirus, McAfee and Many are available.
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Add meat, stir fry for 5-6 minutes to brownish color. Add calt, cayenne, coriander, turmeric, paprika, and garlic. Fry for 2-3 minutes, add 2 1/2 cups water, mix well, cover and simmer over medium-low heat for 50 minutes or longer till meat is tender and oil will separate. Add more water and cook longer if meat is not tender yet. Adde few tbsp. of water as needed to prevent sticking or burning.
Add tomatoes, ginger, and 1/4 cup water to have a small amount of sauce. Cook for 2-3 minutes on medium heat.
Garnish the dish with garam masala and cilantro leaves and serve with chapati, naan, or rice.
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typepad | Gibson Dunn & Crutcher partner Drew Tulumello spoke with The National Law Journal about the case of his client, Eric Volz, author of the recently released book "Gringo Nightmare." Volz was convicted of murder by a Nicaraguan court in 2006, but his conviction was overturned by an appeals court in 2007, after he spent a year in a Nicaraguan jail.
When the Nicaraguan government attempted to appeal the case to the Nicaraguan Supreme Court, Volz, with Tulumello as his lawyer, filed an appeal to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on June 16, 2009. Tulumello, who has been assisted in the case by Gibson Dunn associates Claudia Barrett, Lissa Percopo and Gina-Gail Fletcher, is representing Volz pro bono. The transcript has been edited for length and clarity.
Q: How did you personally become involved in the case?
A: I had worked previously at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, which had investigated war crimes that were committed during the war in the Balkans: so I had some experience with international humanitarian law. The people who were initially contacted at the firm referred Eric to me and we had a discussion and that’s how I came to represent him.
Q: Can you describe Eric? When meeting him, would you guess that he had been in prison for a year?
A: No. No. What I'm struck by is how little of that you see when you deal with him. He's a wonderful person. He's very outgoing, has a great sense of humor. But he also has a deep sense of anger at what happened to him, but it doesn’t show.
Q: What was your analysis of the case?
A: I think it was a sham trial from beginning to end. There's no question in my mind that the prosecutors had overwhelming evidence showing that he was innocent. The evidence included 10 iron-clad alibi witnesses who were with him at the time of the murder; cell phone records showing that he was making calls two hours away from the location of the murder at the time the murder occurred; instant messages where he is engaged with discussions with business deals at the time the murder occurred; and the testimony of Nicaragua’s most respected independent journalist who was meeting with Eric at the time the murder occurred to talk about collaborating on a magazine Eric had started there.
Q: What was the Nicaraguan case against him?
A: They had no case. Their witness was one man who himself was originally arrested for the murder. The prosecution then gave him full immunity when he agreed to testify that he observed Eric at the crime scene. He was the only witness to testify that he had seen Volz at the crime scene. There wasn't a single piece of evidence linking him to the crime: They had hair samples form Eric, blood samples from Eric. They had four forensic investigators look at the physical evidence and not one of them could find any link between Eric and the crime scene.
Q: Over the past few years, how much time have you spent on this case?
A: In 2009, it was a significant commitment. When trying to put together the papers on the appeal, one of the things we had to do was get access to the trial transcripts, which Eric had never really had the opportunity to evaluate. These are all put on tiny cassettes and they're obviously in Spanish. We transcribed every single word of the trial transcripts, located almost every exhibit and as a team, went through from beginning to end so we could in effect reconstruct what happened.
Q: What was your involvement in Eric's book?
A: He sent early drafts to me. In particular, we tried to help him get the account of the trial exactly right. He wanted his book to be 100 percent accurate.
Q: How often are you in contact with Eric and what do you think is the timeline for this case?
A: I'd say I've keep touch with him once a week to talk about the case or about events in Nicaragua. In terms of the timeline, it is hard to say what will happen with the Inter-American Commission. They have an enormous caseload. They are currently issuing decisions on cases that were filed in 2006. Justice is going to take some time for us to get in this case.
Q: Can you explain some how closely people are watching this case in Nicaragua?
A: It is widely followed. It continues to get attention in Nicaragua, more than it does here. The case really inflamed passion in the community and there are a lot of reasons for that…The case of having a young man from the United States and a murder of a young woman from a small town in Nicaragua is, for politicians in Nicaragua who wanted to get attention or raise public sentiment, the perfect vehicle for them to stoke emotions in the public. That is why you had hundreds of people outside the courtroom during the trial chanting that he should be killed, or stoned, or burned in hell.
Q: Anything else you want to add about Eric, or the case?
A: The last point I would make is that his experience has impressed on me and everyone else who has met him, how important the basic protections of the rule of law are. We obviously have them in the United States and I think it is just a reminder that in many places in the world, including the developing world, you just can’t take the rule of law for granted. His story is not unique, especially in Nicaragua, where there are hundreds if not thousands of cases where individuals who are free and are guilty of nothing more than being on the wrong side of a political vendetta are sitting in prison. His experience, I hope, puts similar cases on the radar screen. | 2019-04-19T00:49:50Z | https://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2010/05/gibson-dunn-lawyer-talks-about-nicaraguan-murder-case.html | Porn | Business | 0.253421 |
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wordpress | The Mount Pleasant Implementation Committee sent this letter to the Director of Planning and City Council. The issues are remarkably similar across the neighbourhoods. Ideas from Mount Pleasant can inform new directions in the Historic Quartiers. One idea is to introduce charrettes to the City of Vancouver planning process.
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wordpress | Luis and I spent this Thanksgiving in Sandy Springs, Georgia (just 30 mins from midtown Atlanta) with my father’s side of the family. This was my first Thanksgiving with them, and I believe my first “real” time meeting my aunt Kim and uncle Dave.
I hardly made anything. I just watched, took pictures and experienced new family traditions and listened to new stories.
What new traditions you may ask? Soup night the night before Thanksgiving. We had three soups. My aunt Kim made gumbo, my uncle Eddy made chili, and I made my pumpkin and sweet potato chowder. The soups were delicious, and I probably had three bowls of my uncle’s chili just because it reminded me of home. Danny’s chili back home just makes you feel safe, warm, and cozy, and Eddy’s chili gave me that same feeling.
A few of the other items I made was a batch of cinnamon spiced applesauce and sweet cranberry butter. I later found out my grandmother always makes applesauce for Thanksgiving too. So, that’s where I get that from.
On Thanksgiving Day is when all the cooking, baking, and roasting begins.
Three generations cooking in the kitchen.
This family is very organized. Everyone was assigned jobs and even the dishes were laid out and labeled with what item would be served in it. I had two pretty serving dishes with my name on it since the only item I was asked to make were the green beans so, I made two different kinds. One was made with raspberry glaze and almonds while the other was made with a Dijon sauce, bacon, pearl onions, rosemary, and thyme. I wondered if my green beans would be kid friendly, but Adan ate three helpings of the green beans with Dijon sauce so, I guess they were.
Around noon snacks are brought out to the sunroom.
Back inside, I caught Grandma making my dad’s favorite dessert; a chocolate pudding pie.
Then a photo shoot with Adan.
Warning! Lot’s of photos coming up. I thought a post with photo overload was needed since I haven’t been posting as much as I use to. Plus, it was too hard to pick the ones I liked the most.
Just in case you are wondering, I took 120 photos of Adan during our little session.
Half time means a break to walk to the river.
Then it was time to play with the kids outside and make some sidewalk art masterpieces.
Then, back into the kitchen.
THEN!! It was gobble gobble time!
After dinner, Sofia made us whipped cream for our desserts.
Before Luis and I headed home, aunt Kim gave me some beautiful hot plate holders/place mats that were made by my grandmother’s sister, Ruth and a ceramic trivet. You know how much I adore family items, especially when they have been made by hand. In love, love, love.
I hope everyone enjoyed their turkey day as much as I did.
Yesterday Luis and I had a Pre-Thanksgiving dinner with our friends. Here are snaps from the day before and the day of the dinner.
Making pumpkin and sweet potato chowder.
Making dessert in a jar (it’s a southern thing), and makes it an easy to-go dessert just in case you ran out of room. Chocolate pudding, pumpkin, crumbled graham crackers with marshmallows on top that tastes even better when they are toasted or torched.
There were some other items that I made, but didn’t take pictures of, like the cranberry sauce, my refreshing side dish of cucumbers and red onions, corn bread soufflé, and rolls.
We had our dinner outside in the cool crisp air. Perfect weather for frying a turkey.
Hoki made us a traditional Thanksgiving appetizer of eel with a fried egg on top. Haha, just kidding.
The soup seemed to be everyone’s favorite. Hoki and I agreed that we could eat it on a weekly basis and perfect for the cold weather.
Then it was turkey frying time.
By the time the turkey was done, we all dug into it and I forgot to take a picture. No worries, I took one today while we had leftovers for lunch.
I am beat! It was a nice night, but lots of work. I have done nothing today but sit on my couch and relax. Oh lazy Sunday, how I love you, and I love you more with all the yummy leftovers.
I recently found an awesome blogger, The Pioneer Woman who has many talents, and one of them is making lots of yummy dishes. She inspired me to make her pork tenderloin with cranberry sauce and creamy herbed potatoes for a pre-Halloween dinner a few weeks ago.
Back home, my uncle Danny often makes pork tenderloin for our Sunday dinners. We have been away from home for almost a year now, and I have not had pork tenderloin since then either so, it was time.
I made the potatoes first since they have to bake for 45 minutes. They are made with onion, cream cheese, heavy cream, whole milk, rosemary, parsley, chives, and sage.
Then, I whipped up a simple batch of cranberry sauce and added The Pioneer Women’s additional ingredients needed for the pork, which included; sauteed rosemary and onions with red wine and chicken broth.
Last, and best part is the pork. Love the smell of butter and oil heating up. After seasoning the pork really well, sear the pork on all sides, then put in the oven for about 10 -15 minutes.
Add the cranberry sauce on top.
I thought this was a great meal for Halloween, something about that sauce makes it look a little spooky.
I have to say, our house smelled unbelievable and the meal was full of flavor and very comforting. We ate every single bite and wanted more. I don’t eat pork often, but I think that will have to change after this meal. I can’t wait to try more recipes from The Pioneer Women and find out what else I could fall in love with.
Today our plan was to wake up early and grab some chicken and waffles for breakfast. We talked our two friends into coming with us for this must do experience in Atlanta, or so I have read. It’s not hard to talk anyone into eating, it’s the waking up early part that is hard.
When we arrived at Gladys Knight & Ron Winans’ Chicken and Waffles Downtown Atlanta location, we were happy to see that there wasn’t a line when there usually is. Well, there was no line because the time changed and the place does not open until 11:00 a.m. Darn, I could have slept in. So, we hopped back into the car and drove to two more breakfast places. The first one, West Egg had an hour wait. That’s a negative. Second one, Thumbs Up Diner had a 45 min wait. No and no. Thankfully by that time, the doors would be opening soon for chicken and waffles. Oh yes, we headed back. When we arrived, a small line had formed. No worries, we didn’t wait long.
For our opening act, we had fried green tomatoes and jerk chicken egg rolls.
I had an Uptown drink, the house blend of lemonade and sweetened tea with the Midnight Train, one original waffle with four jumbo chicken wings.
I guess we liked it since all that was left were the bones. I couldn’t finish all of my chicken. The wings were huge!
This place was great! Not your usual breakfast dish, but it hit the spot. Oh! Happy Sunday!
For Halloween I wanted to make a squash and pumpkin soup, but I couldn’t find a pumpkin anywhere… of any kind! That is what I get for wanting a pumpkin on the day of Halloween. So, instead I used Kabocha Squash and Sweet Dumpling Squash.
While I was carving out the “guts” as my mom calls it from the pumpkin/squash, Luis told me he had never had pumpkin seeds before. I do not have many memories from my childhood of Halloween, but I do have two! =) I remember my aunt Kathy dressing me up as a vampire one year and taking me around to trick or treat, and I have another memory from when I was really young of my mother baking pumpkin seeds while I was doing something (I can’t remember what, probably eating all the trick or treaters candy) in the living room with my grandfather. It was probably my first and last experience with baked pumpkin seeds. I must have enjoyed them if I still remember it so, with all the beautiful “guts” pulled out I made some spicy baked pumpkin seeds for Luis to try.
I added sea salt and cayenne pepper to the seeds to give them a touch of heat.
I roasted the squash with 2 chopped leaks, and 8 whole garlic cloves for 45 minutes. The smell of the squash roasting in the oven was amazing. I wish my kitchen could always smell like that and it reminded me of Thanksgiving. This will definitely be a dish I will be making for our pre-Thanksgiving dinner with our friends coming up next week.
I served the soup with some spicy baked pumpkin seeds on top. It gave the soup a nice crunch. Sour cream would have been good with this too. I love this soup so much, that I think I could eat it every week!
Not only do the pumpkin seeds remind me of my mom, who has a birthday today (Happy Birthday Mom!), but as soon as I tasted the soup I instantly though of my mom. You would love this soup Mom, so you should make it, haha! | 2019-04-22T00:39:31Z | https://1460daysofgeorgia.wordpress.com/2011/11/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.661065 |
wordpress | Eager to make the gospel story of the nativity vivid, St. Francis built an outdoor tableau at Greccio in 1223. He filled a real manger with straw, and installed a life-sized figure of the Christ-child, flanking the crib with living animals and people. During the Mass that followed, legend says that the Infant came to life in his arms.
St. Francis’ example and his emotive spirituality stimulated people’s desire to picture, touch and re-enact the mysteries of salvation. However, he might be shocked at the enormous industry surrounding creche sets today.
Initially, pious interest focused only on cuddlesome images of the Infant. But the late medieval practice of changing altar panels to match the liturgical seasons led to experiments with freestanding statues to illustrate salvation history. Bambino statues exported from Italy and holy cribs honored in Northern European convents may have attracted additions to make an appealing Christmas scene. Groups of figures representing the Nativity began appearing in German churches in the late 1400’s.
The concept was perfected in Italy. The earliest privately owned crib set belonged to the Duchess of Malfi in 1567. Nativity scenes carved from wood or molded from wax were used for Counter-Reformation catechesis. In the early 17th century, the Jesuits promoted them throughout Germanic lands, where they are called krippen.
In the same era, Neapolitans added non-biblical figures to accompany the Babe and round out the Christmas story. Although the Holy Family wore conventional ancient costumes, they dressed the other sculptures in contemporary garb made of real cloth and placed them against local architectural settings and landscapes. The resulting composition was called a presepe, from the Latin presepio, “manger”.
After Carlo III of Spain became King of Naples in 1734, enthusiasm for manger scenes raised the practice to new heights. His royal presepe contained a thousand figures with Capodimonte porcelain heads and wooden bodies, wearing embroidered silk garments and real jewelry. Soon, aristocrats throughout Europe competed to acquire the finest sets.
Ironically, crib building received fresh impetus in Germanic regions during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries when “enlightened” monarchs barred them from churches. People set them up in their homes instead. In Austrian-ruled Cracow, cribs became model buildings populated by holy figures, carried door-to-door by carolers. Continuing demand for domestic sets made Munich the chief center of crib production throughout the 19th century.
The English speaking world was not always so receptive. When Catholics first set up Nativity scenes in Victorian England, an Anglican clergyman publicly scorned their efforts as spiritual baby food of an unhealthy sort. Today, even Protestant congregations stage living Nativity scenes, in much the same spirit that St. Francis brought to his original presepio eight centuries ago. | 2019-04-19T09:15:44Z | https://mysecretismine.wordpress.com/2017/08/12/historical-sketch-the-creche-pious-fable-or-18th-century-marketing-ploy/ | Porn | Society | 0.0994 |
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yahoo | VIE.PA - Veolia Environnement S.A.
As of 4:09PM CEST. Market open.
A portfolio that includes the firm’s District Energy Networks business is expected to draw interest from bidders including Brookfield Asset Management Inc.’s Enwave Energy Corp., said the people, who asked not to be identified because the process is private. Veolia may also gauge interest from companies such as Engie SA, Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. and Epcor Utilities Inc., two of the people said. Veolia North America examining its heating and cooling networks as part of the group’s portfolio review, and Veolia’s strategic plan will be presented early next year, a spokeswoman for the French company said.
Veolia Environnement S.A. (EPA:VIE): What Are The Future Prospects?
LONDON, March 22, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Covanta Holding Corporation (CVA) ("Covanta") and Green Investment Group Limited ("GIG") today announced that the Rookery South Energy Recovery Facility ("Rookery") in Bedfordshire, England has reached financial close and will commence construction. "We are pleased to have reached this key milestone on the Rookery project, which is a major component of our UK development plan and the second of four initial projects to move forward with GIG," said Covanta CEO and President Stephen J. Jones.
On a trip to East Africa last week, a beaming French President Emmanuel Macron was driven through the grounds of the Kenyan president's official residence in a locally assembled Peugeot 3008 car. Two days earlier, he toured churches hewn into the rock in Ethiopia. Macron, 41, is trying to recast the style of France's engagement in Africa, where it was once a colonial power, hoping that building warmer cultural and personal ties will help boost business, trade and investment.
Could The Veolia Environnement S.A. (EPA:VIE) Ownership Structure Tell Us Something Useful?
French water and waste group Veolia said its earnings outlook was strong thanks to a string of new contracts and a good contract renewal rate, as it prepares a new four-year plan that will focus on profitable new activities. Shares in Veolia climbed 2.7 percent, outperforming the CAC40 index which lost 1.1 percent. In late 2015, the company targeted 2-3 percent annual revenue growth at constant exchange rates, core earnings growth of 4-5 percent per year and financial debt stable between 8-9 billion euros.
Should You Worry About Veolia Environnement S.A.’s (EPA:VIE) CEO Pay?
Tetra Pak has joined forces with global resource management company Veolia in a game-changing partnership that will enable all components of used beverage cartons collected within the European Union to be recycled by 2025. The average beverage carton comprises around 75% paperboard, 20% plastic and 5% aluminium foil. Within the scope of the new partnership, the extracted PolyAl will be processed at dedicated facilities and converted into raw materials for applications within the plastic industry.
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This top environmental services company's numbers aren't as impressive as they seem, but it's still doing just fine.
Clean Harbors (CLH) third-quarter 2018 revenues rise year over year on benefits from Veolia acquisition, pricing initiatives and solid growth across each of its reporting segments.
What Should We Expect From Veolia Environnement SA’s (EPA:VIE) Earnings In The Next 12 Months?
Moody's Investors Service ("Moody's") has today affirmed the Baa1 long-term issuer and senior unsecured ratings of Veolia Environnement S.A. ("Veolia"). The rating affirmation recognizes Veolia's ongoing progress on the delivery of its strategy, which focuses on organic revenue growth, complemented by tuck-in acquisitions, and rolling cost cuts. This should support its delivery of 2018 objectives including a continuation of sustained revenue growth, and faster EBITDA growth than 2017 underpinned by E300 million in cost savings, while maintaining a financial profile consistent with its Baa1 rating.
French waste and water group Veolia (VIE.PA) has agreed to sell its 30 percent stake in transport firm Transdev to Germany's Rethmann, Le Figaro newspaper reported. Veolia could not be reached for comment, while family owned Rethmann's transport division Rhenus said it had no immediate comment. Veolia has been planning to exit Transdev, in which French public sector lender Caisse des Depots (CDC) controls the other 70 percent.
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Clean Harbors (CLH) reported earnings 30 days ago. What's next for the stock? We take a look at earnings estimates for some clues. | 2019-04-24T14:26:30Z | https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/VIE.PA?ltr=1 | Porn | Business | 0.734744 |
wordpress | We cannot celebrate Christopher Columbus because he was a criminal who started five centuries of death, robbery, racism and imperialism.
We should not glorify and thus justify Columbus’ horrendous legacy of crimes against the whole humanity, because we will be justifying the continuous abuses caused by colonialism and racism.
Christopher Columbus -like most of the European invaders of the world- was a despicable man who believed in White supremacy, he was evil and sold humans as a slave trader in Africa and the Americas. He was a religious fanatic who believed in the supremacy of European people, just because his God mandated it to be that way.
We will not celebrate Columbus because he started and promoted the biggest holocaust in human history, the genocide of Indigenous peoples in the Americas -which was justified by a hateful religion and by a mentality of European supremacy and imperialism.
These VIDEOS show part of an anti-Columbus protest held in Washington, District of Columbia, this past October 10th, 2011 in the Columbus memorial at Union Station.
We should never celebrate Columbus of any of the men who committed such horrendous mistakes made in the past. We need to learn from those crimes, because the first contact of Europeans and Natives peoples did not have to be that way. In fact, the arrival of Colon was not the first time White immigrants arrived to this land. It was the first time they came hungry for gold, food and blood.
These explorers [invaders], and countless others that followed them, encountered indigenous peoples that had lived in the Western hemisphere for tens of thousands of years. On this day, we also remember the tragic hardships these communities endured [genocide, slavery, forced displacement, abuses that still happening today]. We honor their countless and ongoing contributions to our Nation, and we recommit to strengthening the tribal communities that continue to enrich the fabric of American life.
This declaration was another symbolic gesture of hypocrisy, as millions of Indigenous migrants from the South are being incarcerated and deported by the U.S. government. Most embarrassing, the capitol city of this country has a sports team labeled “Redskins“, among hundreds of other teams across the country named Chiefs, Redmen, Indians, Savages, Braves, etc.
The fate of Natives peoples changed since 1492 and turned our lives into nightmares that continue today.
Native peoples are still being killed today while the high rates of poverty, unemployment, suicide, drug addictions, children mortality, prison population, human-caused diseases, labor abuses and mass displacement among the Native communities of the U.S. and the rest of the Americas, are outrageous and inexcusable.
This is why we protest Columbus and his legacy.
We do not ask for revenge. We want understanding of humanity of why we are diverse and that we are related to each other. We will not move on beyond the painful legacy of colonialism, unless we recognize our mistakes, we apologize and commit to prevent genocide to ever happen again. We will never celebrate or be silent about it .
Because if we celebrate Columbus, we justify death, wars, racist hatred and crimes against humanity in the name of false values — it is happening now in Congo, Sudan, Libya, Palestine and other occupied regions of the planet.
We protested this week, do your part.
Re-educate yourself and those around you.
I’ve never been a big fan of Christopher Columbus, the man who “discovered” the Bahamas. Carlos is dead-on about racism and genocide, as European arrival wiped-out millions of indigenous peoples within a short span of time. We shouldn’t forgot that in 1492, Spain had just completed expelling nearly every Jew and Muslim from its portion of the Iberian Penninsula, and was actively involved in torturing and murdering thousands via the Inquisition. These were not “nice” people who arrived in the Americas.
Keep spreading the real message, Carlos. | 2019-04-23T08:44:00Z | https://carlosqc.wordpress.com/2011/10/12/why-we-should-not-celebrate-christopher-columbus-videos/?shared=email&msg=fail | Porn | Sports | 0.940415 |
wikipedia | Mamadou Obbi Oularé (born 8 January 1996) is a Belgian professional footballer who plays for Standard Liège on loan from Watford. He is son of former professional Guinean footballer Souleymane Oularé.
Oulare came through the youth ranks at Lille OSC and signed for Belgian side Club Brugge in 2013. He made his Belgian Pro League debut on 14 September 2014 against K.R.C. Genk. He replaced Nikola Storm after 64 minutes. His first league start came on 21 September 2014 against K.V. Kortrijk, in which he also scored his first league goal in a man of the match performance. On 20 August 2015, while playing for Club Brugge, Obbi Oulare tweeted an apology for his lackluster performance coming off the bench against Manchester United in a Champions League playoff game at Old Trafford. Earlier that day it was widely reported in the Belgian press that Club Brugge's manager Michel Preud'homme had given Oulare a dressing down in front of his team mates in the dressing room after that game.
On 1 September 2015, Oulare signed for Premier League side Watford for an undisclosed fee rumored to be around £6m on a five-year contract. He made his debut for the club in an FA Cup tie against Newcastle United on 9 January 2016. He was substituted at half time. He made his Premier League debut, against Swansea City in a 1–0 Watford defeat, coming on as a substitute for Valon Behrami in the 87th minute.
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wordpress | This is a quick review of my August reading. I’ve been feeling much too lazy to write this post, so am going to just write it now before it gets worse and I end up skipping it altogether. So for August, I’d simply planned to Clear the Table of all the doorstoppers and other books that I didn’t end up reading in July despite planning to, but it turned out somewhat of a repeat of what I did in July. I did read 9 books in total which was great considering I did have a lot on the work front last month as well, but of these, only four I think were ones originally on the list, and the rest were either new acquisitions or books that I got approved for on NetGalley. So I read only three books of my original August TBR in that month (Clutch of Constables, The Elf and the Amulet, and Syren) plus one more from my NetGalley pile (No Fixed Address) which I only finished in August (started in July).
Most of these books I have reviewed on this page so I won’t be going into any details but will link the reviews here. The rest as always, I’ve reviewed on goodreads, so I will link those as well.
No Fixed Address is the story of twelve-year-old Felix Knutsson who’s been living with his single mother in a van since she lost her job and they lost their home. His and his mother’s horror of social services means they can’t let anyone find out, and Felix pins all his hopes on winning the junior edition of his favourite game show. This was a book I really liked very much and definitely recommend. My full review is here.
The Elf and the Amulet by Chris Africa is the story of three teens Chassy, Nita, and Andrev, who are thrown into adventure when they decide to eavesdrop on the conversation of two guests at Nita and Andrev’s parents inn. This was a fun enough read, but not one that stood out to me particularly. Here is my review.
Next I read one of my newer acquisitions, Turtles all the Way Down by John Green. This was my first John Green and I liked it very much–not saying anything about it here since I’m pretty sure everyone’s heard of/read reviews of this one. My review.
This next bunch had two off my original list and one new one. Clutch of Constables by Ngaio Marsh is the twenty-fifth in her Roderick Alleyn series, and sees his wife Troy on a river cruise where some strange events have been taking place. The story is being narrated by Alleyn as he discuses his cases at a police training course sometime later. This was a book in which I enjoyed the setting very much, but not the mystery and characters as such. My review is here.
Next was Murder in the Happy Home for the Aged by Bulbul Sharma, where a body found in the garden of an old-age home sets the residents into action as they decide to solve the mystery themselves, to prove the policeman who thinks it pointless even to speak to them wrong. I really enjoyed this one, and my review is here.
Then I read another off my original list, Syren by Angie Sage. This is the fifth in a fantasy-adventure series of seven books featuring Septimus Heap, seventh son of a seventh son and thus in possession of extraordinary powers. In this one, when Septimus’ dragon Spit Fyre is injured, he and his friends find themselves on a beautiful but mysterious island where something strange seems to be reaching out to Septimus. This was a really fun read with artwork which I also enjoyed. My review is here.
Then I picked up on my Malory Towers project/challenge again, reading the second book in the series Second Form at Malory Towers, where the girls deal with new students, lessons, and their own problems and insecurities. My review is here.
The Monsters We Deserve by Marcus Sedgwick is a book I received through NetGalley and had put in a request for because of its theme of creativity, writers and writing, and monsters, all inspired by and revolving around Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. This was certainly an interesting read, one that is hard to really classify, but also one that I’m not sure I made complete sense of. My review is here. Reminded by this read of 2018 being the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein, I also reshared my old post on the book earlier this week. Find it here.
Finally in August, I read my second graphic novel this year, The Wolves of La Louviere by Flore Balthazar, also via NetGalley. This is set in World-War-II Belgium and describes how the Balthazar family (the author’s own) coped with the challenges the war threw up, and alongside tells the story of Margurite Clauwaerts, the teacher of one of the younger Blathazar children and a resistance member. This was a very impactful read, bringing out not only the cruelty of the conquerors but also that the conquered were not that much better when they came out ‘victorious’. My review is here.
So that was my August reading. My September plans are very very ambitious, much more so than August as I have some free time at the moment and am hoping to get some reading done. I plan to read among others, The Riddle of the Sands, The Dancing Bear, Don Quixote, Scythe, Dissolution, and the Invisible Hand (which is an interesting children’s title about time travel and Macbeth which I came across on NetGalley) (my theme here simply being A Little of This and A Little of That). I have already finished Furthermore by Tahereh Mafi (review here), Death at the Bar by Ngaio Marsh (review here), and Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling (since I finally bought myself the really gorgeous illustrated edition; review here). I am also in the middle of the Sisters of the Winter Wood by Rena Rossner which I will be reviewing either later today or tomorrow.
So how was your August? Any favourites or new discoveries (or even revisits) that you would like to recommend? And what are your plans for September? Looking forward to hearing all about them! Happy reading month!
I try to make a list essentially so that I also pick up the books that have been on the TBR for a long time, since one usually simply ends up reading the ‘newer’ ones as they come, but I am finding picking a reading theme fun. I of course have set a huge goal again on goodreads, but mainly because I had so many pending books and can’t stop adding to them. | 2019-04-21T17:23:30Z | https://potpourri2015.wordpress.com/2018/09/07/august-clear-the-table-review-and-september-reading-plans/ | Porn | Reference | 0.28437 |
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livejournal | The other night I was so excited about the mild weather I had to leave a door open where I was working, even on into the night. Perfect temperature, and the CRICKETS are back! It's so nice to hear them again.
Anyways, suddenly there's this crash that sounds like someone from outside threw a stick or something against the wall over my head. I look up and there's the biggest grasshopper I've ever seen hanging up there by the ceiling. Weird---ya don't see any at all, and then the first arrival is a prehistoric size and manages to hurl himself straight into the house.
The grasshopper falls in a corner on the floor with a huge thud, and I invite the dogs into the room to check him out. Wide-eyed Angus stands by totally useless, but Acorn zips right over, picks it up and trots out back. Apparently things taste better when consumed in a special spot in the yard.
I was feeling bad for the grasshopper later. What if this giant grasshopper had come with a message for me? What if he had been a test to see whether I'd let him go or sacrifice him, and now a plague is on its way because I've failed?
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wordpress | Well everyone the 2012 political season is finally over. There was a lot of humor in this years 2012 political season one of the best things that came from the political season was Obama and Obama’s anger translator played by Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key. Now Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key are former castmembers of MADTv. In 2003, Peele joined the cast of MADtv for its ninth season. Around the time Keegan-Michael Key joined the cast as a featured performer, it was assumed that Key would be chosen over Peele.Peele performed various celebrity impersonations, which included favorites Caroll Spinney (as the voice of Big Bird), Ja Rule, James Brown, Flavor Flav, Justin Guarini, Montel Williams, Morgan Freeman, and Forest Whitaker. Peele was absent for unknown reasons from the first 4 episodes of his second season on MADtv. He made a cameo in “Weird Al” Yankovic’s video – “White & Nerdy” with fellow MADtv co-star Keegan-Michael Key.
There is also “Jovan Muskatelle”, a shirtless man with a jheri curl and a shower cap. He interrupts live news broadcasts by a reporter (always played by Ike Barinholtz), annoying him with rapid fire accounts of events that have happened frequently exclaiming “It was crazy as hell!” And in their new comedy series called key and peele on comedy central it is an American sketch comedy television show. It stars Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, both former cast members of MADtv.Each episode of the show consists of several pre-taped sketches starring the two actors that are introduced by Key and Peele in front of a live studio audience. And here is a review of Key And Peele by Hit Fix: Early in the premiere episode of Comedy Central’s new sketch comedy series “Key & Peele,” the show’s two stars, Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, talk about the challenges of of being biracial in 21st century America. “We find ourselves particularly adept at lying,” Key explains, “because on a daily basis we have to adjust our blackness.” This leads into a riff about all the people they sound whiter than — “We sound whiter than the black dude in a college a capella group!” Key laments — that’s very funny, and that also establishes a mission statement for the series (which debuts tonight at 10:30) beyond simply, “Here are two funny guys doing sketches and celebrity impressions.” There are sketches on the show that have little or nothing to do with race, but more often than not, the humor is informed by the intersection between what’s considered black culture, what’s considered white, and what a couple of light-skinned buddies who self-identify as nerds can get away with depending on the company they’re in.
Comedy Central has tried a few of these sketch/stand-up hybrids over the last decade (I quite liked the short-lived “Important Things with Demetri Martin”), but the one “Key & Peele” will obviously be compared to is “Chappelle’s Show.” Before Dave Chappelle walked away from the show (and, for a good while, show business), he made a huge mark with comedy that was simultaneously blunt and thoughtful about race(*), and Peele recently described Chappelle as “a hero of ours” while describing the decision to mix the sketches in with segments where they talk to the studio audience. (*) I know everybody loves the Rick James episode, but I’m very fond of “I Know Black People,” a game show where Chappelle challenged various black-adjacent white people (a cop, a Korean grocery clerk, a writer on “Chappelle’s Show”) to answer questions about black culture, and Chappelle, John Mayer and ?uestlove trying to identify which musical instruments are most likely to make different racial groups dance. The humor in “Key & Peele” is gentler than “Chappelle’s Show” — the two stars come across as laid-back and genial when they’re talking in the studio — but no less keenly-observed. And, much of the time, it’s laugh-out-loud funny.
It helps that the stage patter between Key and Peele is so strong. Where I remember very little of what Chappelle or Demetri Martin did and said in front of the studio audience on their respective shows, some of the best “Key & Peele” moments take place on that stage, whether it’s Key recreating his experience watching “Bridesmaids” on an airplane or the two friends acting out what it’s like when white people fight outside bars.
The whole genre of “white people do it like this, and black people like this” humor got horribly played-out during the stand-up boom of the ’80s and early ’90s. (One of my most-quoted “Simpsons” gags is Homer watching one of these routines and cackling, “It’s true! We’re so lame!”) And, of course, those jokes always had an undercurrent of suspicion or confusion about another group. But Key and Peele straddle both cultures, and there’s a feeling in that bit, and most of the material they do, that they’re just as capable of behaving like the white frat guy outside the bar as they are at being the President’s anger translator. So we have two likable and funny guys and a lot of untapped material. That’s an excellent start.
And here are some examples of President Obama, who has hired an “anger translator” named Luther (Key) to loudly rant about his various enemies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qv7k2_lc0M&feature=player_embedded and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX8tL3PMj7o . Now to me I think this is a breath of fresh air because the political season has been a mess and to laugh in the middle of a election takes pressure off of everyone covering the elections.
And now who covered the election the best. To me is ABC News because they break down the election in a way you can understand it. And they turned times square into the ultimate election headquarters. And the election studio was the best studio I have ever seen hands down because they put everything you need and want to cover in a election and put it all into one studio. Here is some more infomation on that: In the center floor of the studio is a large, high-resolution circular LED screen (a Barco NX4, if you’re looking for specifics). In the picture above, the ABC logo is shown on the display, but during broadcasts it will also show graphics, including polling data and maps. The screen, which you cannot stand on, has been covered with a fusion material to prevent glare. At the top of that circle sit the election night anchors — Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos. It all makes for a pretty stunning visual when the camera pans out, which you can check out this clip below: http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/president-obama-mitt-romney-sprint-finish-17648114. “ABC News Your Voice, Your Vote – Election Night Coverage” will originate live from ABC News Election Headquarters in Times Square, where ABC News will once again transform the Crossroads of the World into an outdoor global viewing event, with real time election results appearing on several of Times Square’s iconic screens. And another thing about abc news is the power of yahoo news. Abc news and Yahoo news has a partnership where this partnership blends ABC News’ global newsgathering operation and unrivaled lineup of trusted anchors and reporters with Yahoo! News’ unmatched audience, depth and breadth of content.
Under the agreement, ABC News becomes the premier news provider on Yahoo! News, with editorial teams from both organizations collaborating on original coverage to appear on both the Yahoo! News and ABC News sites. Teams will co-produce coverage for major news events and will have integrated bureaus in New York, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles. ABC News content will be integrated throughout the Yahoo! News network, including the Yahoo! front page. ABC News will maintain editorial control over ABCNews.com and GoodMorningAmerica.com, and Yahoo! News will maintain editorial control of all its sites.
And check out this fact:Election Night 2012 proved to be the most successful joint live video event in the history of the Yahoo!-ABC News Network, with combined traffic of nearly 10 million live video streams across ABCNews.com and mobile, the Yahoo! News’ Election Control Room, the YouTube Elections Hub and other partner sites. ABC News and Yahoo! produced over seven hours of live coverage hosted by GMA Weekend anchor, Dan Harris, ABC News Political Director Amy Walter, and Yahoo! News White House Correspondent Olivier Knox and featured the best talent of ABC News and Yahoo! News, as well as several new features and products that drove user engagement.
“The Election season continues to show the combined editorial strength and reach of the ABC News – Yahoo! News partnership,” said Joe Ruffolo, Senior Vice President ABC News Digital. “It also highlights the focus of ABC News Digital as we continue to deliver the most engaging content and original video, innovative product experiences, and additional live streams to meet our user and advertiser needs.” Real time election results appeared on several of Times Square’s iconic screens including ABC’s Super Sign, the enormous digital façade of NASDAQ and the 23-story high Reuters sign. Throughout the night “Good Morning America” news anchor Josh Elliott was on Military Island talking to the crowds gathered, getting real-time reaction to the results. So all and all I think they did a fantastic, outstanding supercalifragilisticexpidocious job on covering the election of all elections.
The ABC News-Yahoo! News live-stream is also available through Yahoo! News’ Election Control Room. The Control Room allows Yahoo! News users to create their own election dashboard where they can control content through maximizing and minimizing the features they care most about.
A complete mobile app suite for iPhone, Android, and iPad will offers users real-time election results, interactive maps and info graphics in addition to the live-streamed video. ABC News mobile app users can choose to enable geo-targeted push alerts and real-time election results on their phones for an enhanced mobile experience. In addition, ABC News brings election coverage to the newly launched ABC News Windows 8 App, delivering Election Night updates and video clips to users and to the Bing News app for Windows 8. So You get a little bit of humor and and information this political season.
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wordpress | Nomadic Mindburst brings local voices and perspectives to news from around the globe. With the explosion of social media technology, blogs, computers, and mobile phones, those at the center of events shaping today’s world are reporting on-the-ground accounts of what is happening, why it is happening, and what it means, both for their neighborhood, and for the world.
Nomadic Mindburst provides a platform for civil society leaders and activists to engage the policy process (at the national, regional, and international levels), through sharing perspectives and analyses on events happening around them. Through contributor posts, Nomadic Mindburst seeks to bring attention to voices calling for change, by providing the “stories behind the headlines,” and bringing forth local nuance shaping world events. All contributors are from and living in the countries where they are reporting.
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wordpress | As an undergraduate research assistant to Drs. Jennifer Peszka and Jennifer Penner at Hendrix College, Rebecca studied the effects of sleep deprivation on mating decisions. She also conducted an independent study under Dr. Tim Maxwell to examine the associations between stimulant abuse and depression, anxiety, and personality facets. Rebecca spent a year as a post-baccalaureate research assistant in the EARL lab and coordinated a study looking at the effects of genetics and fear learning on PTSD symptoms in trauma-exposed veterans.
As a graduate student in the EARL lab, Rebecca is interested in studying the role of sleep disturbance and dysregulated circadian processes in the development, maintenance, and treatment of anxiety disorders. She is currently working on a project examining how sleep disturbance and daily stress may contribute to anxiety symptoms.
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wordpress | motivation | What Am I Going To Do When I Grow Up?
Students and professionals alike often move into college or graduate and professional schools because we have been told we “should.” Frequently, we do not know why we are in school, which significantly diminishes motivation towards the goal of graduation.
Additionally, the goal of graduation feels so very far away. Since the goal is distant, success feels remote…it is hard to see what we do today as being all that meaningful. Many times this “should feeling” results in procrastination, wasted opportunities, not seeing the value of what we are doing, and can significantly impact the value of investing in education, making it more difficult to find a meaningful professional career after college.
When people do not know why they are pursuing a goal, achieving it seems remote and many times, not fulfilling. Feeling like you should go to class or study does not really motivate you to get up and go to chemistry! And, even if you go, it certainly doesn’t make it meaningful. Students who persist in education despite not having a purpose for the education commonly select majors without a genuine understanding of how to translate education into a meaningful career.
Even when we think we have a general idea of what we might do after graduation or we choose a major because we love the subject, it is often very overwhelming to actually coordinate the steps that translate that vague “someday” into an action plan that results in a successful, focused job search.
Often, we will hang on to the mere goal of getting through, saying at each stage “just get through this class,” of “just get me to graduation” or “just tell me what I have to do to graduate,” delaying thinking about career planning, but then when we approach graduation, panic sets in. Suddenly, we feel like we are walking a plank or staring over the side of a cliff. We want to graduate, but we don’t know what we are going to do now.
Then, when conducting a job search, we are not sure what we are looking for, where to look, who to talk with, or what the right questions are. It is overwhelming. Frequently, people look at what “is” and settle for some kind of a job. We will say “I guess I could do that” or “I wouldn’t mind doing that,” but immediately we have settled for less than what we want, often for less than we actually need.
People often conclude at this point that “there is something terribly wrong with me. I’m inadequate and my degree is worthless.” Neither of which is likely to be true.
What if you could see specific connections between classes and career?
What would it be like to articulate how you are building the foundation for your career in your coursework?
How beneficial would it be to truly want to engage in your education?
What would be the value of consciously directing your education?
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wordpress | ← You Want to Inject What in the Trees?
I know it’s already October, but Summer is still lingering here in San Diego where the warm desert breezes, called the Santa Anna winds, brought the temperatures back up to the high 70s. Or perhaps, I am clinging to the longer, warmer days that bring yummy fresh fruits and veggies from the garden and the smell of beach and sunscreen on my kids’ hair and skin. In any case, the following recipe is definitely a perfect summer soup for those warm days when you feel like having something cool and refreshing.
Combine cucumbers, garlic, red onion, extra virgin olive oil, lemon juice, dill, and coriander in a large bowl. Salt and pepper to taste. Chill the cucumber mixture for at least one hour. When ready to serve, pour the cucumber mixture in a blender. Add the avocado and crème fraiche. Blend until it is a smooth puree. Divide the soup into four bowls, topping each with ¼ cup smoked salmon and drizzling with olive oil.
Recipe and food styling by Theresa Gilliam.
Photography by Angie Norwood Browne. More of Angie’s work can be viewed here.
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wordpress | Flying off with the hummingbirds….
As of tomorrow, I will be travelling, painting and writing….first in Cardiff, Wales for just a couple of days where I will enjoy a friend’s birthday and a visit with my cousin. Then back to London to pack…..and onto wonderful Olhao, Portugal for the rest of April….which means I will be back here in May with hopefully lots of new work and thoughts…..
watercolour/gouache This year I will be spending the first week in Portugal painting and writing on my own, and then the group arrives for a week of creative adventure at the school in Alhao….http://www.artinthealgarve.com – one of my favourite places.
Looking down into one of the courtyards from an upper balcony at the School…… I always take time out from my on line activities when I go on my trips so that I can fully focus on observing, sketching and writing…..
Armona Island, just a hop, skip and a fifteen minute boat ride from the School…. Which means I wont be back here until the beginning of May….. I wish one and all a beautiful April…..filled of course, with magical hummingbirds.
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Enjoy Cardiff and don’t forget to give me a wave in the North.
Enjoy your travels! Beautiful hummingbirds!
Have a safe trip and enjoy your time in Whales and in Portugal.
Thanks for leaving us something visually delicious to enjoy while you are away!
Your trip sounds wonderful, Janet, and I know how very much you enjoy the Portugal art school. I’ll be thinking of you creating and sharing your talents in this marvelous place, and am sending lots of happy smiles your way. Your paintings here, and photos too, are, as always, so lovely.
Welcome home, dear friend~~great to hear from you.
I love our paintings. Hummingbirds are hard to study. They are gone in minutes. I believe your paintings are lovely.
I think you have a wonderful life. The places you visit are so inviting and the work they inspire is beautiful..I’m looking forward with eager anticipation to seeing the work you’ll produce. Your work like that in the post is consistently fine and lovely–the sign of the master who has refined her art and cannot possibly do bad work even if she tried.to. By the way, I was thinking earlier today (it is 3:00 a,m, so it was quite early) that in addition to your art I’ve always enjoy hearing about your memories of your life here in America. I’d like to hear more. Weather here cloudy, rainy but warming up. My beloved baseball season is in full swing and my Cubs are in first place. So all is well with you and me too. Have a great month.
I hope you’re having a great trip Janet and you come back filled with joy and creativity.
I hope your trip is all that you had hoped it would be – with lots of fun, laughter and beautiful painting!
Wow! I found you thanks to Brad at WritingtoFreedom. Boy am I glad….
Lovely hummingbirds and setting. Enjoy your time away; Focus is wondrous, and it’ll be neat to “meet you” upon your return.
HI SISTERS ! TODAY WE CAN ENJOY WITH THE MAGICAL HUMMINGBIRDS MADE BY JANET. A WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE !
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wordpress | president obama | Sleeping Kitten-Dancing Dog!
I am dedicating my 1,000th post to our Forty-Fourth President, Barack Obama.
You will be remembered with great love, appreciation and affection. You and Michelle have served our great nation with determination, strength, honesty, intelligence, and with caring and loving hearts. Lately, I, as millions of Americans, have poured over video footage and photos of you and your family. We have witnessed with our eyes and hearts your goodness, your sense of humor and your integrity. You have been the greatest leader I have known, and We The People thank you most sincerely.
You will be remembered and your legacy will live on. In time the history books will concur with what I have said. To watch the way babies and kids and everyday citizens respond to your enchanting smile is lovely. Children can always sense when someone is good.
I wouldn’t have missed these last eight years for all the gold in the world. You are a national treasure and will be sorely missed. It is with great hope we will see much of you in future. You deserve to reconnect with your family and friends. And so it goes. Good-bye for now and I shall say once more with pride, thank you Mr. President.
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The first political event I remember was the eve of the 1960 election between Nixon and Kennedy. Daddy paced round the living room, the dining room, down the hallway into the kitchen (to rattle some pans or inspect food stuff in the refrigerator) and then passed our bedroom door, on his way back to the television set. Mother told us children that Daddy was concerned about what the news anchor had to say because they wanted Senator John F. Kennedy to in the race.
Being devout Catholics it would place a fellow Catholic into the White House for the very first time. Since I loved attending Mass I put my little hands together and prayed Mr. Kennedy would be the winner. He did win and a month later a plane went down on the far side of Staten Island, which freaked-out Mother (which is the main reason we moved) and a month after the new president’s inauguration, our family packed up our belongings and made the long trek down the east coast to Miami, Florida. Our grandparents resided there and we settled about five miles from their home for a year and a half, before relocating to Bethesda, Maryland, where we have been circling our Nation’s Capitol ever since. It’s a dull town Washington, D.C. filled with politicians not at all artsy like New York City. (sigh) I find the politicians, with their endless television ads, plus the ranting on the news channels, where everything is sensationalized, tiresome and it leaves me shaking my head. I hardly ever tune in but for the debates and then finally, the week leading up to the election.
It is a horrible hurricane that ravaged the east coast. Thankfully we were on the edge of her path and felt only a small taste of her fury. The folks to our north did not fare so well as most of us have seen. It is a heartbreaking thing to witness and we did donate and pray and send out our good thoughts to our fellow citizens who have lost everything but their fighting spirit and their ability to keep the faith that things will be put to rights eventually. I am proud of the quick response by President Obama, his team and FEMA. I also wish to applaud Governor Chris Christie for being so gracious, loving, a good leader and putting his people first … before partisanship. This is how it should be, our government officials coming together and working together for its citizens. It’s exactly what has been missing over the last four years in Congress with the opposing and racist side doing everything they could to take a fraternity stance against someone they find distasteful. They just didn’t get it. Governor Christie gave them a good lesson this past week. He demonstrated how to lead, showed empathy and concern and he protected the people of his state. He continues still to encourage the residents with just the right words and actions on their behalf. We saw leadership in action from our Commander-in-Chief and our government producing the needed help as quickly as was possible, considering all of the devastation everywhere the eye could see.
Although there is the sad fact that some New York officials did not include all of their Five Boroughs (mainly Staten Island) until Thursday (two days after the hurricane hit) where half of the fatalities were. I read about the woman who had her two young sons swept from her arms by Hurricane Sandy. I read the story of a 62-year-old woman who tried to save her 89-year-old mother from the rising waters in their living room (chest-high) throughout the night but could not. I cried for them all! There should not be separatist thinking, preferential treatment or distinction! It took people nationally stomping their feet in disapproval of the New Your City Marathon Race before the mayor finally decided to postpone this event. Instead many of the contestants are still helping out the hurricane victims. Hats off to them.
New Jersey and New York City Police, and especially their Firefighters, are to be applauded once again. They had to battle hurricane winds and rains, wade through chest-high waters wearing their heavy protective gear, while hauling their equipment in order to fight the huge fires that destroyed 80 homes! I read where one man ran outside his apartment building to enter rising and raging waters to save the life of a taxi driver. There are so many unsung heroes. Seeing the lives and memories of these families, their belongings and homes turned into rubble was almost unbearable to watch, but we did so because we know that even if we were not there fighting alongside our fellow citizens, we were sending them support and love. When America hurts it seems we all hurt to a degree. Please donate if you have not yet done so. Every penny counts!
Over the weekend I have listened and watched the final days of the election unfold. I have seen the advertisements of lies from one side of the candidacy and the common sense approach from the President. Plus voter suppression is still a major concern in the State of Florida and Ohio. Even were I not a Democrat with liberal leanings, I would still cast my vote for the man who has kept his promises, while battling his personal hurricane of jealous (mostly) white men and women in Congress, who in my opinion should be tossed out of their positions into the streets for not doing their respective jobs, which is to work with the sitting president. It’s what they were elected to do … not to take bribes and work for the rich men and women who think to drive the propaganda of the elite 1%. Hell No! And as some voters were reminded to do … “Vote Republican because Lincoln freed the slaves” … really? If both Jesus and Lincoln were here today they would surely cast their votes for President Barrack Obama.
I haven’t had my coffee yet, but wanted to pop-in and say good day to everyone. I have been writing and researching over the last two days, yes, I was doing it on Labor Day, too. I enjoyed a lovely weekend with family and friends. A big shout out to our dear friends … we helped them party-in another year of life. Happy Birthday Willie! And we got to see his lovely wife, Dee, and their son William (who I still refer to as their Baby Boy). He’s already graduated from law school and has set up his practice. When I made mention that we really need to make a will, William assured me and Joe that he will help us with this document by reading it over, and finding us an attorney in our area. Thank you so much! It was such fun talking to people we only get to see in a blue moon. We just had one of those last Friday. Cool!
I only caught a snippet of First lady Michelle Obama speaking last night. I will catch the video replay in a bit. The few sentences I did hear made me excited to know she was rocking the convention. The President must be very proud of her.
I glanced at my Washington Post Newspaper and while I usually avoid the front page, Metro, Sports (these are for Joe), I did see the front page article about Siemens AG, a German engineering giant, who awarded Charlotte, NC, last year by building a new manufacturing plant a few miles away. This city is now a hub for making gigantic gas turbines needed to power new electric plants round the globe. Looks like America is about to go back to work, because I have noticed when one major player builds plants on American soil, the rest will soon follow. Make that new energy source guys and gals! Yeah!
The Style and the Wednesday Food Sections are my part of ‘The Post’. As soon as my coffee is brewed I will doctor it up and meld my mind within the dwindling pages of my favorite news publication. Have a super day and remember to relax and take a few breaths of air. Can you smell the roses?
* I ended up cooking egg whites, pancakes, Tilapia, seashell pasta with a basil-pesto sauce with chucks of fresh tomato and Italian breadcrumbs. I packed Joe’s lunch and set mine aside for later. Salad, too! And finally some fresh and crispy kettle potato chips. We needed crunch. Now I can drink my coffee. Hugs for a lovely Wednesday. Now … for the Sudoku puzzle.
I am listening to President Obama telling us about jobs here, being brought back home to the USA and not giving tax breaks for businesses overseas. Clean energy, infrastructure, making the drillers produce the evidence of what chemicals they are using. We need safe drilling for America’s land. Refinance your home without bank red-tape and run around. Smart regulation to prevent irresponsible behavior. Wind energy. Take half the defense funding, pay down half our debt and use the other half to put Americans to work. He talks about the farmers not being over regulated for spilt milk but he won’t back down from big companies who spill oil. Nor back down from insurance companies who charge women differently from men. Wall street will dance to a new tune. No more risky investments with their depositors’ money. Never again will they be bailed out by the American people again. Never ever again. Those days are over and the big banks and companies on Wall Street will need to document everything. | 2019-04-25T16:29:15Z | https://skdd.wordpress.com/tag/president-obama-2/ | Porn | Kids | 0.768323 |
wordpress | I think the fashion and model industry got to it’s peak during the era of THE supermodels (Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista, Claudia Schiffer, Naomi Campbell.. and so on) in the late 80’s and 90’s. I wish I could’ve lived my early twenties then. I just feel that people were so open to anything (both in fashion and in life) that designers could go crazy and basically do anything they wanted and it could easily become a fashion trend.
Although now days we might think some outfits or hairdos look ridiculous, there was a certain flair, coolness and chicness to that style that cannot be copied and which you probably needed to experience it then to understand it. Still, I’m pretty sure that there’s a lot of things people that lived during those years probably regret wearing.
I mean high-waisted sweatpants, white sneakers and Chanel chains? Yes please Linda! | 2019-04-20T23:13:42Z | https://chunksofcoaldotcom.wordpress.com/tag/mood-of-the-day-2/ | Porn | Reference | 0.271766 |
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