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{Psyga is jumping up and down, holding an enclosed envelope. Wataru enters the room}
Wataru: You seem ecstatic today.
Yeah! {shows Wataru the envelope} Thats because Im going to read The Great Pokémon Fight! Its gonna be so awesome!
Wataru: Your reactions right now mirror your initial feelings towards Poohs Adventures.
Huh? What do you mean?
Wataru: Im saying that you might be disappointed. Angry, even.
Pah, Im sure the author wont screw this up. They did a good job with the last one.
Wataru: Thats what you said a few fanfics ago, and then you read that Catdog fanfic.
... Shit. Well, hopefully it wont be that bad... right? ... Right? {opens envelope}
Well, we begin with the kids playing a game of Mail when suddenly Phil sees a pipe. Where? In the backyard? Across the living room? Where the hell is the pipe? The author describes what the pipe looks like yet cant manage to say just where the hell it is. I can only assume its a pipe from Super Mario Bros.. Except clear and glowing. After a little chitchat, they hop in.
So were using the Multiverse excuse again. Alright then...
Wataru: Just like the Catdog fanfic.
... Thanks for reminding me.
Wataru: Youre welcome.
I was being... You know what, screw it. They enter a strange world, which I can only assume is either the Pokémon world... or Green Hill Zone. Soon a creature appears. And it looks like an original Pokemon...
... Or it could be another shoe-horned Land Before Time Crossover. You know, if you want to make a Land Before Time Crossover, make a Land Before Time Crossover. No ones stopping you from making one. But no, you have to shoe-horn Littlefoot and his friends into just about everything. {chug} At least we can assume that Littlefoot is a Pokemon and thus is a better hand wave than just a dinosaur existing in modern time.
Soon Cera, an original pokemon named Cub (How imaginative), and Pidgey, the only actual Pokemon arrive and the Rugrats take one for themselves. Okay, wait, hold the phone here. Theres about (barring other future generations at this point) 151 Pokemon. Barring Legendaries and evolutions (not counting evolutions added later on), and we have about 74. More than enough for these tykes. Why do the hassle in transplanting Littlefoot and Cera when you can just give a few of the actual Pokemon instead? Cub I might understand as an Original Character and all, but not so much with Cera and Littlefoot. Ill let it slide though.
So they all pick out their Pokemon, and then suddenly, some guy comes out of nowhere and I have no idea who it is, because the only description they give us is that its a creature. Well, yeah, but what kind? Is it a bird? Is it a bee? Is it a cat? You cant just say creature! Thats vague! Especially when dealing with Pokemon! Anyways, he explains that these Pokemon are a new breed (generation is the word youre looking for, but whatever) that will protect them. From what? Mewtwo? Team Rocket? N? (I wish)
... {cues clip}
Nightmare Moon: Youre kidding... Youre kidding right?
Yeah, this just became a good old fashion Pokemon Vs. Digimon fanfic. With the Rugrats being the stars. Well, at least Littlefoot didnt derail it this time. We then get a dump of what types the Pokemon are. Littlefoot is fire, Cub is water, and Cera is electric/poison. Now, I dont mind Cub since again, hes original, and Littlefoot because Dinosaurs Are Dragons, but why is Cera an electric/poison? Most dinosaur-based Pokemon are rock or ground types. What makes Cera so special? Is it her coloring? Is it her horns? What is it?
Anyways, Tommy suddenly acts like Gary Oak and starts boasting about his Pokemon, Littlefoot, being the strongest, despite Chuckies, Cub, clearly having a type advantage. And then the two begin to fight. I dont mean Pokemon Fight, I mean they fight. As in Lil and Phil had to separate them. However Tommy threw Lil to the ground and Chuckie just pushed Phil. Even their Pokemon have to separate them... Jesus Christ, since when did Tommy get this aggressive? I smell Character Derailment. Anyways, Tommy decides the best way to settle it is a good ol fashioned Pokemon fight. So do they start the fight right then and there? Oh, no. That wouldnt be good pacing! No, we must move scenes to a random arena that just happens to be nearby. Oh joy.
And then we get our villains. A Greymon * and a Tyrannomon, or as the author puts it: Tyranomon. We dont know where these bad guys are having this meeting, so I assume its not far from where the Rugrats have started.
Sure, that might be the case back then, but right now, there are about 995 Digimon compared to 649 Pokemon. So, that is a complete load of BULLSHIT! But, perhaps in this setting, there might be fewer Digimon than Pokemon. So anyways, Greymon sends his minion, Tyrannomon, to go kill the Rugrats and Pokemon, and he leaves to do so... Only to come back a few seconds later because he pulled a brilliant idea out of his ass. He apparently already knows that the babies have relatives. Okay, he reveals he has telepathy, but thats just a handwave and is never mentioned again. So they decide to kidnap (or as they spell it, kid-nap, which is stupid in of itself since kidnap is already a recognized word) Angelica instead of Dil because Dil is too young. And what are they going to do with Angelica? Put up a Sadistic Choice for Tommy. How sadistic? How does one of the babies must sacrifice their life for Angelica sound? Yeah, messed up, right? Oh, and they are pretty much roaring out these plans, and the arena is nearby. Yeah, not really the best place to be discussing your plans.
Well, enough of the villains, its time to return to our heroes. Tommy decides to fight Lil... for some reason... isnt the reason why he wanted a Pokemon fight in the first place was to battle Chuckie? Why is he fighting Lil? Oh, right, I forgot to mention that these babies have Pokeballs. Even though the Pokemon didnt exactly come with them. Nor do we see them return to their balls. Huh... Alright, let the games begin! This is gonna be good.
A physic attack? ... Do you mean Psychic? If so... HOW WOULD SHE KNOW IT? SHES ELECTRIC/POISON! THE ONLY ELECTRIC POKEMON WHO CAN LEARN IT ARE THE ELECTABUZZ LINE! AND MUCH OF THE POISON POKEMON THAT LEARN IT ARE BUGS! NOT DINOSAURS! AAAAAAARG! Alright, fuck it. Cera fires off a thundershock, but he dodges it and hits Cera square in the chest, kicking her ass. Wait... how do you hit a quadruped in the chest? Next up we have Tommy VS. Phil, since we need more fights apparently.
Fire-ball spit attack? Fire-ball spit attack? How about... oh I dont know... FLAMETHROWER! WHAT KIND OF STUPID NAME IS FIRE-BALL SPIT ATTACK? HOW ABOUT EMBER? THAT KIND OF MATCHES WHAT IS HAPPENING! ... Though to be fair, like with Thought-Speak, it does sound like something the Rugrats would say... Eeeeyah... So anyways, Littlefoot roasts Pidgey. Next up, Tommy VS. Chuckie. Now we see who is superior, Original or Transplant. Well, the fight ends in Littlefoots favour, since Cub had his back turned and Littlefoot roasts him despite the type disadvantage.
So our winner is Tommy. Joy. Oh, and Chuckie begins to fight Tommy again...
Okay, its official. They all have Hinamizawa Syndrome. Its the only goddamn explanation for their sudden shift in character. That or the Pokemon suddenly made them squabble like the toddlers they are... Actually, that would be a good plot development: The Pokemon see them fight over losing a match and they decide that they shouldnt be their Pokemon anymore and leave them. Yes, I know its kind of like Impmons back story, but seriously, how deep would this story be if it did that?
Anyways, Greymon crashes the party.
No they werent. Mr. Exposition explained jack and shit about them except for the fact that the Pokemon, which so far are used as tools for their arguments, are to protect them. Also, this has been pissing me off for a bit: there is no s in Digimon when referring to it in plural. Saying Digimon as Digimons makes you sound like an old man. Darn these kids and their digimons!
So Greymon reveals Angelica who is trapped in a cage. How the hell he captured her is never explained.
... The Rugrats, while very imaginative, might not get the hint, Greymon... Then again, Chuckie did try to murder his best friend over what is pretty much a game, so...
But oh wait, Tommy just chucks a rock at Greymon and he scraps the plan. So that entire plan was fucking pointless. Angelica escapes, making their plan deader than dead.
He snapped and what? Thats it? Okay then, moving on....
So as Greymon and Tyrannomon chase Angelica, one thought is clouding my head: When is Greymon gonna just fire a massive Nova Blast at them and end their lives? Never? Okay then. And Pidgey auto-healed. So Phil sent Pidgey to go chase the two giant Digimon out, and predictably, it gets scared.
... We can see that for ourselves.
Then it evolves... What? How does it merit an evolution? It didnt even gain enough experience or character development (I dont exactly know if this is following game or anime rules) to earn that! Suddenly it evolves? Why? Because he was too chicken shit? Also, Chuckie knows what evolving is. Even though he must have never heard of Pokemon before. Anyways, Pidgey then uses a gust attack to make Greymon rage quit because it got sand in their eyes.
Pay for what? Youre the ones who decided to attack Tommy and his friends, who have little involvement in your little Pokemon/Digimon war! Fuck it, lets move on.
So we have some more creatures appear before the kids, as the apparent leader introduces himself as Koromon. The others introduce themselves as Bukamon, Betamon, Tanomon, and Tentomon. Notice how 80% of these guys were with the Digidestined in Digimon Adventure. Oh, and then theres Butterfree.
... Butterfree is a Pokemon. Its short for Pocket Monster. That is one of the stupidest things I have ever heard. Sure, compared to the Digimon, Butterfree looks pretty normal, but still... Anyways, the Digimon introduce themselves as the Digimon and Tommy is confused since Mr. Exposition said that they were to stay away from the Digimon. Cue Koromon pulling a My Species Doth Protest Too Much card. See, Greymon was jelly at the Pokemon because of semi-bullshit facts (see above) and decided to take control of an army to go wipe them out. Oh, and he made a machine to make the Digimon evil...
Wasnt there already a Digimon that made other Digimon evil? Like in the first thirteen episodes of the original Digimon? Yeah. Devimon! Why didnt the author just go for Devimon and his Black Gears? Instead, they decided to make Greymon, who is Tais Digimon, suddenly evil! And then make some bullshit machine that never gets mentioned again!
So our heroes set off on a quest to kick Greymons ass and...
{the Digimon Theme plays}
What? Why was it necessary to plot the theme song in there? Screw it, lets move on. Theres only twelve paragraphs left. They pass by a Pokemon Graveyard. Woo. So they invade Greymons castle as he goes Large Ham on them.
You know, I could probably hear this being dubbed by a Greymon-sound-a-like. I will give the author points for utter badassery with that line.
And then the Pokemon and Digimon evolve for... whatever reason. Hey, wait a minute, wouldnt Adventure!Digimon need some sort of Digivice of sorts to digivolve? Yes, they can probably just absorb the data, but from the way theyre rushing it, they seem to be digivolving via Digivice. Even though the Rugrats werent handed Digivices.
So, what do the Pokemon evolve into? Well, Littlefoot becomes a raptor. Yes, an Apatosaurus becomes a raptor. Youd think with Pokemon evolution, they wouldnt be this out-of-left-field. Oh, and if that isnt enough, the raptor evolves into a Megaraptor. So it evolves twice in one go. Pretty sure that didnt happen in the games or the anime. I mean, even if you get a Pokemon to evolve through two stages, you need them to evolve once, gain a level then evolve again. They can't warp their evolutions like their counterparts. There was one case with the Manga where a Piplup was given an Everstone, then got that Everstone taken away, but the evolution didn't turn that Piplup straight into an Empoleon. It still had to go to Prinplup first.
Cub evolves into... Wolf? Seriously? How uninspired can the naming get? Usually, Pokemon have some sort of punny name. For example, Pidgey is a corruption of the word Pigeon, which is what Pidgey is based off. Yes, I know Pokemon names in Japan don't follow this trend and some even do have Pokemon that look like an animal and are named after it too (Charmeleon's name in Japan is Lizard. No, really), especially back then, but we're talking the American Pokemon here. Be creative with your puns!
Well, what do the Digimon digivolve into? They actually have different branching evolutions, so you can have an Agumon digivolve into a Tyrannomon or a Growlmon instead of Greymon. You can check out this site to see what Digimon can digivolve into what. Its a very fun site. Enough gushing. HAVE AT YOU! (WARNING: I will now act like some sort of "Stop Having Fun" Guy now)
So Tentomon digivolves into Airdramon... BULLSHIT! Tentomon doesnt digivolve into Airdramon. Bukamon warp digivolves into Seadramon, which is possible if he digivolves into Betamon. As for Betamon himself? He digivolves into Biyamon, which is a possible misspelling of Biyomon... Which is a rookie. So Betamon just slide digivolved. {facepalm}
Screw it. The Digimon and Pokemon fight, and Greymon does... Electro Shocker? WHAT? Greymon is mostly fire-based. He has Nova Blast as his primary attack... Not Electro Shocker, youre thinking of Kabuterimon... Though we could chalk this up to the "How I Became Yours" effect in which the fanfic predates a canon fact. In this case, could be that Greymon absorbed the data from a Kabuterimon and was able to use his attacks like with Beelzemon's Fist of the Beast King. Anyways, Tommy takes an Electro Shocker for Lil. Oh, right, Tommy also got cut on the arm at one point. So Greymon decides to go after Angelica next, striking his claw down at her, but Tommy gets cut up for her. Shit. Since when did Tommy get this sacrificial?
And then... Ill let the story sum it up:
OH, but were not done yet! WE STILL HAVE THIS!
TL;DR: Tommys dead. Hey, what did those rules say again? That the webmaster had the right to either edit or reject stories that involve death? Like say, a Rugrats character dying? Yeah. Here we have Tommy, dead. A toddler, mind you. I wouldnt mind all that much, and even comment on how fucking bleak and dark this story has become (Ill comment on this later) but then Mew arrives out of nowhere (as if we had enough of an anti-climax already, now we get a Deus ex Machina on top of it) and revives him for no reason.
You just had someone die, and then theyre back to life in about a hundred words. Death isnt something to take lightly. Even in the comic industry, where dead people can just come back with a snap of a finger, death is still treated seriously and is played for drama. Sure, they kill off the characters for just shock value, but its still treated seriously in most cases.
When you have a canon character die, it will cause an impact to the people reading it. Having them just spring back to life lessens the impact greatly. Although, thats not what you want me to pick apart, is it? No. You want me to pick apart the very fact that a toddler was electrocuted and clawed to death. Well, I didnt exactly mind it, but its still a little risqué. Ill leave this for later in this post because now I have to wrap this story up. That and I am sounding dangerously close to Linkara now.
So the babies leave, and Cera evolves into Tricera. Okay, thats a clever name. But its way too late for that to matter.
Yeah, a giant dinosaur grabbed me and made the babies choose who should die in order to save me, and then your son got mauled to death by that exact same dinosaur, but dont worry, a floating cat came out of nowhere and made him better! Yeah, its best not to tell her that. She might decide to go camping there.
Wataru: Good, youre done. Now take your Momentai and-
No. I am not done, I have to summarize what is wrong with this fanfic. It starts off with a simple premise, Rugrats having Pokemon, and then suddenly getting a tad complicated, involving Digimon and making them the villains. The characters at one point start acting violent and perhaps out of character (however, it would be possible for kids to fight each other over a lost game), and one of them gets killed in a way you wouldnt expect in a sort of fanfic with a simplistic premise.
Speaking of which, it is dark as fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. Darker than even the actual movie. As I stated before, you had Chuckie choking Tommy. Choking. Throttling. Strangling. Then you have Greymon giving the Rugrats that sadistic choice. Before Kurata came along and seized the title of Digimons Complete Monster, Myotismon was the most evil villain in Digimon, because of his quest to murder a child in order to prevent a prophecy from being fulfilled. If someone were to consider this canon, Greymon would have easily taken the title away from him, since hes going after toddlers, not to prevent a prophecy or anything, but because they have Pokemon, which he hates. He goes as far as capture their (for lack of a better term) friend and offer the choice of having one of the toddlers sacrifice themselves for their friend. And this is all without mentioning Tommys Death. I think I went on enough about that little bit to give you a good idea why it makes this freaking dark.
And you have your rushedness. We have no idea who Mr. Exposition is, no idea what happened to Greymon and his army, no idea where the hell Mew came from, and were just left to wonder what the hell did I just read? And if youre a hardcore Pokemon or Digimon fan, or just like knowing the facts, then you will feel very dirty as you read this fanfic, since even basic facts seem to be ruined. Sure, you can just ignore them, and hence why its not a massive flaw for this fan fic.
... Alright. I can have that Momentai now. I have the feeling like the next story is gonna be even more horrible...


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I'm a veteran in the DJ game, and have been hittin the decks since '97, playing a vast range of styles over the years - ranging from funk, early to mid-90's hip hop, trip hop, B-Boy anthems, electro, house, French Touch, acid techno, breaks , classic rock, pop punk, indie rock, and even 80's classics - at a variety of raves, parties, clubs, and venues across Ontario. This year I even added weddings to the list. As a college student at the University of Toronto, I produced my own style of trip hop and hosted a weekly 3 hour radio broadcast called "Back II Basics", a show about the history of electronic music that ran for 5 years in the early 2000's, patterning the format off of legendary music historian Alan Cross. I was awarded the Atomic Turntable Award in 2005 from VIBE to celebrate that accomplishment.
I now focus on hip hop, trip hop, French Touch, electro, future bass, indie rock, punk, rockabilly, and retro hits from the 70's, 80's and 90's and still maintain a strict use of vinyl only. I am also a founding member of the female DJ squad The Diamond DJ Collective, as well as a founder and instructor for the Women's DJ Workshop, currently located upstairs at DrDisc, and also offering live nightclub workshops at Absinthe Hamilton. I will be offering workshops for teens this June at the JNAAG in Sarnia for their summer camp program this year as well. Stay tuned for more details!
Check out my Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/znakattack-1-1
You can find my mixes at www.djfazooli.com
The DIAMOND DJ COLLECTIVE
The DIAMOND DJ COLLECTIVE is a rotating cast of female DJs dropping dancefloor gems to make your body rock. Our founding members include Donna Lovejoy, I Heart Hamilton, and myself. We are a group of women who formed an alliance to combine our various strengths to promote ourselves within the community. We work really well together because we all play different styles that easily mesh, and we come from different social circles and are all very immersed in different facets of the community, so we share DJ bookings, and can pass off dates we're unavailable for to others. Recently, we've added a few others to our roster, and are continuing to evolve and spread joy to dance floors throughout Hamilton.
FOLLOW US TO STAY UP TO DATE ON OUR NEXT GIG: FACEBOOK @diamondDJcollective / INSTAGRAM @diamonddjcollective
THE SIL: How are you involved in Hamilton's DJ scene?
FAZOOLI: I came out of a short retirement a few years ago when I was working at the Baltimore House on their Saturday House music nights (called Night Drive, and later, NoThrills, which we currently continue at Club Absinthe) to kind of fill in some gaps when we were short on the DJ lineups. I had so much fun playing live again, I decided to start saying yes to requests to play more often. Now I play in a multitude of venues like Club Absinthe, the Casbah, Che, Sous Bas, The Gasworks, and This Ain't Hollywood, to name just a few.
Last year, a few fellow DJs came together to create the Diamond DJs Collective (comprised of Donna Lovejoy, I Heart Hamilton, and DJ Rosé), a group of women who formed an alliance to combine our various strengths to promote ourselves within the community. We work really well together because we all play different styles that easily mesh well, and we come from different social circles and are all very immersed in different facets of the community, so we share DJ bookings, and can pass off dates we're unavailable for to others.
Donna Lovejoy and I also recently founded the Women's DJ Workshop for the Art Gallery of Hamilton in a one-off afternoon of learning at the AGH Design Annex, which we've now expanded on our own with the help of DrDisc and Club Absinthe to create a biweekly workshop for those who want to learn more, or missed out on the introduction. Our focus is on creating a stress-free and fun learning environment, free of intimidating factors, and we cover a broad range of basics, including a bit of history, equipment and technical knowledge, as well as a few rudimentary mixing techniques.
THE SIL: How long have you been a DJ?
FAZOOLI: I started DJing in 1997 in Toronto's rave scene as it was coming into a massive international scene. I mostly played underground raves for many years, playing a variety of styles, before attending the University of Toronto, where I hosted two radio shows over my 5 year career there in the early 2000's - "Back II Basics", a show about the history of electronic music, and "Showtime at the Dump", which was basically a mix-up of underground B-sides and rarities. This was also around the time I started producing my own style of Trip Hop, but my studies and work quickly took over so it became difficult to keep up with it.
THE SIL: Have you ever been faced with any form of discrimination as a female DJ within the music scene?
FAZOOLI: After all these years, that has kind of dissipated in the scene as it's grown to include a multitude of women now, but when I first started in the late 90's, there were all kinds of issues that made it difficult to be a female DJ, as it was predominantly a boys club. There were very few of us, and we had to put up with a lot of misogyny in the early years. Comments like "women make horrible DJs, but they look cute doing it" and "you only got booked because you're dating the promoter" (which was never true), were always flying around. Any time I asked someone to teach me how to spin, they always assumed I wanted to date them, so I ended up teaching myself by watching all of my heroes like a hawk while they played and obsessively listening to mixes trying to figure out how it was done. My first live performance at a rave was filmed, and when I saw the footage, they had pretty much focused my whole screen time with the camera pointing up the back of my skirt. I got intimidated regularly by men who would line up in front of the turntables to stare me down and watch every movement of my hands. My whole life I've had male DJs come into the booth while I'm playing and reach over me and twiddle with the knobs on the mixer even though it sounded fine.
Things like that really grind my gears, but I always kept my head up, shoulders squared and I'm the type that bites back when annoyed, so now I get treated with a ton more respect and people know I am very capable of what I do, and not mess with me. You gotta be tough sometimes - there's no room to be passive and sometimes people need to be reminded that women are just as talented as men when it comes to DJing, and we do have a sort of different way of approaching it. Men tend to focus on being extremely technical and seamlessly perfect - but women seem to go more with the flow, focusing on track selection, weaving a story or evoking a feeling on the dancefloor. We're much more emotionally-inclined.
THE SIL: How are organization, such as Women's DJ Workshop, helping to get rid of the stigma surrounding women in music? What are some other collectives that are doing this work as well?
FAZOOLI: Luckily I think the stigma out there that women in music are just pretty faces put out there for sex appeal and to add diversity to a lineup has drastically changed. The world of DJing is a LOT less intimidating than it was before, when it was primarily a world run by mostly men. Women aren't generally drawn to electronics quite like men tend to be. For those who still feel intimidated by the technical aspects, we make it easy to follow in a friendly laid back atmosphere, and point out all of the similarities between all of the different brands of equipment so when they're faced with an unfamiliar set-up in a live situation, they can confidently adapt to changes. We'll be coving more about troubleshooting and specific technical aspects going forward so they feel armed with knowledge of how to overcome stressful technical mishaps (which always seem to occur). That alone helps women gain confidence to move forward on their own and have the ability to create their own style. It's about instilling a sense of independence - a quality most instrumental to DJing, as eight times out of ten, you're playing on your own.
I know that there are quite a few other female DJ collectives globally - it's not a new idea by any stretch. TGAF out of Paris is comprised of five women DJs who run a radio program and play together in clubs, Discwoman NYC is a group of Techno DJs in New York that tour worldwide, SISTER is an international online collective that has taken over Soundcloud, Born N Bread from London in the UK who also do radio, fashion and art as part of their collective feats, there's Mahoyo out of Sweden doing Hip Hop and R&B, Miss Modular in Los Angeles is a female DJ-run radio show on Radio Sombra. Work in Progress out of Toronto is another one that's pretty great - they do a radio show as well as throw their own jams, so if you ever come across them, you should check them out.
THE SIL: How is the music scene changing to be more inclusive towards women and non-binary folk?
FAZOOLI: I think this is where people get things confused very easily. There has always been female DJs and we've always been an inspirational force - in fact, we can trace them all the way back as early as 1912. One of the first people to ever play records on the radio, back when it was becoming popular around 1922, was a woman by the name of Sybil True. She would borrow records from a local record store and play them to encourage youths to get an interest in radio broadcasting careers. Annie Nightingale was one of the first globally famous radio DJs on BBC Radio 1, who got her start in 1963 and still maintains one of the highest-revered positions on the charts, and in history.
DJing really came into it's own in the 60's and 70's with the hippie and disco eras. Back then, most of the DJs shaping the movement, the craft and the evolution of the equipment we know today, were all almost strictly a part of the LGBTQ scene. If anything, that's exactly the basis of what we know DJing to be today - it didn't start out to be something many straight people were into. After the Stonewall riots in NYC, the nightclub industry really blew up and became more all-inclusive and everything after was an evolution out of those scenes. So basically, we have the reverse situation that created everything for us - and it hasn't changed since then. The shift away from that culture was purely evolutionary as genres split away, creating new styles in different parts of the world, reflecting the needs of those particular communities and evolving and branching out into the myriad of types of music we know today. The music scene is still very deeply rooted in being open to everyone as it always has been, with very few exceptions, and I find it hard to fathom that any scene would exist without women and non-binary people as an intrinsic part of their foundation.
THE SIL: More info on Women's DJ Workshop? Why you started the organization and what you're expecting out of it?
FAZOOLI: We were originally approached by the Art Gallery of Hamilton to create a series of workshops, but found that the logistics would add up to making it completely unaffordable for people to join, so we condensed it to an afternoon workshops we could at least have an introduction to the practice of DJing so that people could test the waters first. DJing is incredibly intensive in both time spent practicing and finding records, and the financial burden of buying pricey equipment and building a proper vinyl collection. You need to have an insatiable thirst for music and playing with music to even consider it as a hobby, as it's a big investment on both of those levels. So a proper introduction to test the waters to see if it's a good fit is key. It was awesome to see everyone really find something to identify with at each topic of conversation, and it was cool to share knowledge with a wide range of people with differing tastes, as we all really kind of span the whole spectrum when it comes to the love of music.
We were kind of expecting to just start a conversation, plant a seed, an idea of what it would be like to start getting into DJing, and to kind of give that extra push if there was any doubt as to how difficult it can be. It's not an easy set of skills to learn, and it's not for everyone, so we had the intention to make it as simple as possible to understand, and kind of take the fear away from any misconceptions or obstacles that any student may be facing. I think when people are put in front of all of this equipment and a few crates of records they get easily overwhelmed, so this was a chance to kind of simplify and break it down so that people could see that once you practice and get the techniques and concepts down, the world opens right up for you and it begins to be a LOT of fun. We're hoping that this kind of creates a new wave of empowered individuals, capable of creating new and exciting ventures for themselves in our community.

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Issue two of The Junket, a collection of articles about a wide range of topics billed as an "online quarterly", is out. There's a great, riotous defence of gingers, an account of a Victorian acquarium, a thought-provoking piece on the theory of mind and a story of bloodlust in the veldt. And they're just the ones I've read so far.
I wrote something for it too.
The journal is edited by a group of whip-smart guys, and, as I understand it, was born out of a desire to write, and to explore different ideas without an end in sight. A sort of jaunt, excursion, ramble. A junket.
Go check it out.


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Bedroom Inspiration for Gabrielle's Purple Bedroom ~ As I mentioned a few weeks ago, Gabrielle is dreaming of having her bedroom redone. She wants the main color of her room to be purple. However, we have told her that we are not redoing her room until she can keep it clean. Obviously, she's having a hard time keeping her end of the bargain.
Purple Bedroom Inspiration
Gabrielle's Purple Bedroom Pinterest Inspiration Board. Sources via Pinterest.
Even though we haven't started her bedroom, I did complete one piece of furniture for her room.. a bold purple chair. She loves it! The purple is perfect and the fabric is so much fun! It will be staying in the basement until her room is completed.
Since Gabrielle and I are dreaming of renovating her room, we put together a Pinterest Board for inspiration. We are having so much fun adding things to the board.
Her room needs a lot of work before we can actually start the decorating part. We have to change both windows and replace the plasterboard under each window because the windows have been leaking and damaged the walls.
Another big but fun project we will be working is updating her big closet to a more functional space. Her closet currently uses up and entire wall and even has two doors! We plan to use one side of it as an actual closet, and the other side we will be adding shelves. With the updated closet, it will allow us to remove the bureau from her bedroom, which will give her more floor space.
Hopefully we'll get to work on her room soon, fingers crossed that she starts keeping her room clean. But for now, I'll concentrate on finishing Emanuelle's bedroom. Did you see the shutter headboard I made her?
Have a GREAT day!!


text: August 22, 2016 Letter from Milton Keynes by Sidin Vadukut in Blog In between P.V. Sindhu's and Sakshi Malik's triumphs, the Olympics helped to generate great levels of national self-indignation. And this, inevitably, led to Indians—you, me, Shobhaa De—indulging in what I think is a particularly Indian form of solutionism.What do I mean by this? Firebrand technology writer Evgeny Morozov is a staunch critic of modern-day technological solutionism, something The Guardian defined as "the idea that given the right code, algorithms and robots, technology can solve all of mankind's problems, effectively making life "frictionless" and "trouble-free".My definition of Indian solutionism is slightly more global in terms of agency but local in that I confine it to Indian problems. Indian solutionism is the idea, perhaps increasingly widespread, that all of Indian problems boil down to one or two drivers that can easily be rectified if only certain agents would modify their behaviour. We see this solutionism in play during every moment of national indignation. More here.


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Don't Surprise Your Guardians
According to this article, Diana Ross, who was named as an alternate guardian for Michael Jackson's kids in his will, was not aware she was named and was none too pleased about the possibility of raising his kids.
When clients ask me if they should tell their heirs about the details of their estate planning, I tell them that someone should know where the documents are located, but as far as where the assets are going, use their own judgment depending on family circumstances.
However, any potential guardian of any minor children named in your will should definitely be aware of, and agree to, the possibility. This includes alternate guardians. You need to ensure they are willing and able to serve as guardians. You will probably want to talk to them, leave written instructions, or both, about how you want your children raised, including subjects like where they will live, discipline, education, finances, religion, etc. You do not want to surprise any future guardian of your children after you're gone.


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'So inspired by you!' Gigi Hadid lavishes praise on birthday girl Taylor Swift as she turns 27...while her model squad sends more love on Instagram
It is a day observed the world over by Swifties.
But it was Taylor Swift's girl squad that made sure the singer felt special on her 27th birthday on Tuesday.
Gigi Hadid led the well wishing train as she posted a sweet photo of the two looking fabulous as they hugged it out in a candid snap.
'Happy Birthday to you T!': Gigi Hadid was one of the first in Taylor Swift's squad to wish her a happy 27th burthday on Tuesday
She shared a sweet caption along with the photo, saying: 'Happy Birthday to you T!! So inspired every day by what an incredible friend you are !!!!!!!! love you & celebrating with u in spirit xx'
Another squad member, Karlie Kloss, got in on the fun, posting a Polaroid snap of the two of them making kissy faces to the camera.
She wrote on the post: 'Happiest of Birthdays to my ride or die @taylorswift. I feel blessed to count you as my friend, sister and partner in crime. Can't wait to celebrate together very soon'
Special bond: One of Swift's closest friends, Karlie Kloss, posted a candid Polaroid of the two of them, calling Taylor her 'ride or die'
She added a heart and cookie emoji to the end of her sweet message, basically summarizing their relationship, as the two are known to stay in and bake cookies at Taylor's New York City apartment.
Martha Hunt also posted a sweet message on Instagram: "Taylor! My life wouldn't be the same without our spontaneous dance parties and all night conversations. I love how you never judge my moves and always teach me better ones Your resilience and passion for life inspire me every day. HBD @taylorswift."
Todrick Hall shared an intimate snap of the two together at what appears to be one of the singers many homes.
Good friends: Martha Hall posted about her friendship with the songstress, thanking her for her 'spontaneous dance parties'
'Sweetest human being': Todrick Hall sends sweet birthday message to Taylor Swift as she turns 27
He captioned the pic: "Happy Birthday to the sweetest human being I know. Every time I'm with you I leave challenging myself to be a better me. Your heart is just as big and special as your talent, and I'm proud to be your self appointed GBF #Taydrick Happy Birthday @taylorswift."
Ruby Rose wrote on her page: "What does one even begin to say about this incredible woman. Happy birthday to one of most incredible, loyal, loving and generous human beings I've ever met.'
She continued: '@taylorswift you are an amazing friend and I wish you nothing but the most amazing day. You deserve so so so much joy today and forever more, Just like the joy you bring to others. Xoxo."
Sweet wishes: Ruby Rose is clearly on Taylor's squad based on the long and heartfelt message she left for her birthday
Jaime King also posted her well-wishes to the singer on Twitter.
Taylor is godmother to Jaime's second son Leo Thames, so the two clearly have a close bond.
Jaime professed her love for the star, tweeting: 'Happy Birthday @taylorswift13 - We love you always and forevermore!!!'
Close bond: Jaime King tweeted birthday love at Taylor: 'We love you always and forevermore!!!'
Taylor is famous for her squad of gorgeous girlfriends who are there for each other no matter what.
She brought her troop to the 2015 MTV music video awards and they all appeared onstage with her as she won video of the year for Bad Blood.
Forever friends: Taylor is famous for her squad of gorgeous girlfriends who are there for each other no matter what, including Karlie (seen here with Taylor in 2014)
The video featured many in her squad, including Gigi, Karlie, Ellie Goulding, Hailee Steinfeld, Lily Aldridge, Zendaya, and Martha Hunt.
And many of her friends appeared onstage with her at various performances during the 1989 tour.
Meanwhile, there is no word yet on what Taylor plans to do for her 27th birthday party.
Close bond: She brought her troop to the 2015 MTV music video awards and they all appeared onstage with her as she won video of the year for Bad Blood
Hot to trot: Taylor Swift invited Gigi to perform on stage with her during the 1989 World Tour Live at Ford Field last year
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Silver Star Families Plan Day of Remembrance
By Samantha L. Quigley
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WASHINGTON, April 28, 2008 - Last year, 44 states and the District of Columbia proclaimed celebrated May 1 as Silver Star Day.
This year, Silver Star Families of America, which began the grassroots movement, is hoping all 50 states will remember and honor their wounded and ill veterans May 1 to kick off Military Appreciation Month.
"While we want every state to join with us, this year we are going to the cities and asking them to help," Janie Orman, the organization's president, said. "We wanted 50 cities across the United States to hold ceremonies and remember our honored wounded."
Cities across the nation are responding "beyond our expectations," Orman said.
"To date we have received proclamations from 44 states, the District of Columbia and 89 cities, with more coming in every day," she said. "It has been a long time since I have seen such an outpouring of love and respect."
Silver Star Families of America is a banner organization, similar to Blue Star Mothers of America and American Gold Star Mothers. Since its founding three years ago, the organization has given out thousands of Silver Star Service banners and certificates to wounded U.S. veterans from all wars wherever they live.
The tradition of the Silver Star banner for the wounded and ill goes back to 1917 and lasted for years until it faded into history. Silver Star Families of America brought back this tradition so that every time someone sees a Silver Star banner in a window or a Silver Star flag flying, they remember the sacrifice of wounded servicemembers.
The Silver Star Service banner and flag fly at military hospitals, Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities and combat support hospitals.
"We hope everyone will take a minute to reflect on the sacrifices of our wounded and ill soldiers on May 1," Orman said. "I also invite everyone to hold their own ceremonies or banner presentations."
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This is honestly an easy small octopus pull apart cake. I wouldn't lie to you, friends! I will let you know a little secret though. My mom frosted it. I could have done it in my regular haphazard way, but she made all our cakes growing up and knows how to make stars. Amazing! This idea came to me because of my sister's baby shower. We had a really small group of people. Well, relatively. Eight people is a lot for a dinner party. It's not very many for a baby shower. Anyway, there are all these octopus cakes online that look great, but they're so huge! I definitely didn't need two box cakes for eight of us. So, I had to resize it. Here's what we came up with.
Instructions for an Easy Small Octopus Pull Apart Cake
1 box of your favorite cake mix
Buttercream frosting
Piping Icing
Food Coloring
- Bake your cake. You need 12 cupcakes and one round pan. Split the batter as equally as you can, and keep cupcakes as even as you can.
- Make your frosting. I use this recipe, but I recommend not adding milk and making sure it's non-salted real butter so it doesn't break down. Also, you'll have to at least double it.
- Set up the octopus the way you want it on a covered space. I use a flat pan with aluminum foil. You will have four legs of three cupcakes each (yes, I'm aware an octopus actually has eight legs, calm down). I liked the legs slightly separated, but maybe your covered space will look better a different way.
- Frost the whole thing. It doesn't have to be colored frosting yet, but make sure you are getting the frosting to look continuous on each leg up to the head.
- Put the cake in a fridge for at least half and hour.
- Separate your frosting into one main color and one minor color. Mine are pink and purple for reference on how much you need.
- Frost the whole thing again with your main color frosting. This time you will need to smooth it out after you've got enough on there to make it look like you only baked one weird shaped cake.
- Use a cake bag and pipe some stars in your second color along each leg to act as suction cups.
- Put two marshmallows on the circle cake to be eyes. Use your piping icing to add pupils.
That's it! Your easy small octopus pull apart cake is completed! Seriously, it's super easy, but if you're like me and don't know how to decorate a cake, either use candies for the suctions or don't use suctions at all. Who cares? It's your cake. Besides, it's an octopus that only has four legs, how serious can the situation be?


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Quadratic Formula Proof
Solving and Deriving Problems with Quadratic Equations:
If the quadratic equations are simple, it's easy finding out the solution manually. But it's not the case with all quadratic equations. Most of them are so complicated that solving them without quadratic formula is very tough. To avoid quadratic formula problems, it was derived. Completing the squares is one of the method that can be used for derivation of quadratic formula. Proof of the quadratic formula using this method is given below. Consider the equation ax2 + bx + c =0, where a is a non-zero constant, b and c are constants. Dividing whole equation by 'a',
Now it's time we can apply completion of squares to get the proof of quadratic formula.
Rearranging and adding constants on both of its sides,
Taking square-root on both sides,
This is the quadratic formula proof using completion of squares method. The formula can now be used for any quadratic equations. An alternate method was also pointed out by Larry Hoehn in 1975 for deriving the quadratic formula that can be accomplished in few steps. The proof of quadratic formula using Larry's method is given below considering same quadratic equation ax2 + bx + c =0. First step is to multiply both the sides by 4a, doing so, we have 4a2x2 + 4abx + 4ac =0.
After Rearranging, we have 4a2x2 + 4abx = -4ac, Now adding b2 on both sides,
4a2x2 + 4abx + b2= b2 - 4ac => (2ax+b)2= b2 - 4ac
Taking square-root on both the sides,
After rearranging above equation, we have the final equation as
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Guess what I got for Christmas... no not purple nail polish, a hammock! LOVE
Working on finishing some pressing projects from 2011, then I will be ready for 2012. My 2012 projects will all start in February this year, due to aforementioned pressing projects. It will be a huge weight off my shoulders to finish these darn things, then I will really feel free to focus on being creative again rather than sticking my nose in a text book. 2011 was a constant war between the two, then the resulting guilt meant that even when I chose creativity I couldn't put my all into it because of the necessities I was neglecting.
So I know its been quiet here in 2011, but come February things should pick up again :)
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My emulator has more than 32kb code and const tables that need to be accessed fast. But there are parts where it is no problem when they are executed very slow (kind of "idle" loop) so... is it somehow user-configurable?
Likewise..all the boot code and setup() does not need to be in the ram.
Does it work with linker sections?
If the 1062 is used … there are two parts to RAM … the no wait mapped on the fast track, and the other 512KB
Also reading through the FLEXCAN section - it was noted that RAM associated with CAN when not used … (RM1060::Pg#2702: "RAM not used by reception or transmission structures can be used as general purpose RAM space"). So that must have a *ptrAddr, not sure I saw where - or the net size of them - where it buffers (Pg#2700: "The message buffers are stored in an embedded RAM dedicated to the FlexCAN module." ). Not sure if that applies to any other devices - perhaps only FlexCAN?
This? in RM1060::Pg#38: 'Table 2-3. AIPS-2 memory map' shows 16 KB blocks {maybe rounded up?} and may not be contiguous? on 8 LPUARTS and 3 FLEXCAN::
Code:Start Addr End Addr Size NIC Port 401D_8000 401D_BFFF 16KB FlexCAN3 401D_4000 401D_7FFF 16KB FlexCAN2 401D_0000 401D_3FFF 16KB FlexCAN1 ... 401A_0000 401A_3FFF 16KB LPUART8 ...
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Yes, there will be a way to cause a function to go into slow flash, pretty much the opposite of FASTRUN we have now. It will have a familiar name...
At least for the initial version, the default will be functions go into ITCM. This may change at a future date. But I'm generally inclined to have defaults and ways to override them.I would like to keep most ram for data buffer and only copy FASTRUN code to RAM (e.g. FFT).
flexcan has it's own memory mapped address used only for itself, not sure if you can use it without CAN..
Override for SLOW would actually increase the odds of that rare code sitting in the 32KB CACHE if there isn't much of it? Assuming 'FAST_RAM' is as good as cached?
@tonton81 - does post #54 lead to any surety? { those notes and Pg#'s are from 1060's RefMan }
RAM_WRITETHROUGH would be useful for me. And RAM_NOCACHE . And PROGMEM_NOCACHE.... xmas is near..
While poking around NXP I came across this document: How to Enable Boot from Octal SPI Flash and SD Card. Makes interesting reading and not sure you all have seen it. I just scanned through a few minutes ago.
Just as a follow up to my previous post SDRAM, the times I posted there were for running the whole read/write function. Decided compare the cycles on reading and writing 4k blocks:
Code:Write Read 32-bit 77,946 140,766 cycle count 16-bit 116,951 76,044 8-bit 86,126 71,904 *Data Length 4096
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Just tried two of the Flexcan examples. Loop back worked with out issue. However, during testing I somehow managed to get my board stuck so I couldn't upload any additional programs. The debugger failed to run with error message invalid chip id. The solution that I found was to erase the hyper flash which worked. So if you run into that problem while testing with this board follow the troubleshooting section of this document: RT1050_BriefOverview_v201.pdf
The next test was to connect the board to a Teensy 3.6 and see if I could establish communication between the too. To that you need to solder a 3-pin header to J11. Once I did that I was able to run the sdk example and able to see the packet transmitted. Unfortunately the example is rather limited and the fsl_flexcan library that it uses is not exactly friendly. So it looks like tonton81 maybe busy with writing a new library for CAN 2.0 for the 1050. I used his lib on the T3.6 to receive the data from the 1050 board.
Going to see if I can come up with a better example to test with and report back.
for sure ill be working on one whenever the 4.0 comes out
I can confirm we definitely will be using the RT1062 chip for Teensy 4.0. After several minor setbacks, the purchase is finally in with NXP and the official lead time for the parts is starting today!
Beta test will begin next month with the RT1052s, since we have a couple hundred on hand.
Regarding this chip's many boot options (msg #60), we're going to end up locking down the fuse config to QSPI boot only. This is what I've been mostly working on the last couple months... how we're going to make this thing fit with the features familiar Teensy features (like holding the button at startup to recover from bad code) and prevent bricking when things go wrong. Unfortunately this chip has a tremendous number of ways to become bricked if we don't lock down the boot config fuses. We just can't make it the flexible booting playground that NXP's huge (but easily brickable) eval board is.
However, there may still be some small hope for experimentation with booting from SD cards. That tiny glimmer of hope is hidden on page 2972 of the RT1050 ref manual, even though the official documentation for those SRC registers on pages 2981-2982 says only "This register is used by the ROM code and should not be used by application software". Maybe someday someone will disassemble and fully reverse engineer the boot rom and we'll learn more about what other hidden features are lurking in SRC_GPR3 to SRC_GPR10.
I know everyone here wants to talk about performance. I do care deeply about achieving good performance and facilitating overclocking & experimentation. I also care very much about balancing access to powerful capability with Arduino-style simplicity. But right now, before we start beta testing, my focus is on a ton of other issues including fairly non-technical manufacturing and purchasing stuff, and a pretty strong technical focus on preventing mistakes from bricking the board and how we'll be able to recover from those sorts of conditions. Like last time, the early days in the beta testing will have much more focus on simply getting everything working. It's probably going to seem like I don't care about optimizations and performance tweaks. I most certainly do, so please don't take my early focus on robustness & functionality to mean performance optimization is being ignored. It will feel that way initially. This new chip offers so much incredible performance and so many ways to optimize, especially since pretty much all the timing sensitive peripherals offer clocking asynchronous from the CPU.
I ported coremark to MCUXpresso (GNU GCC 7.2, -O3). coremark ran at 2444 iterations/second (about the same as mbed ARM CC, post #1). I also ran coremark with the "link to RAM" option, but running in RAM didn't seem to affect performance. I did confirm that function addresses were indeed in RAM (post #48). Enabling LTO slowed coremark.
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Wow Paul, great news! Oh I'm sure we can make the libraries and new hardware work. I need to order some spdif hardware.. my wife kills me if I take her 5+1 cinema surround system.. again..
As Frank B said - WOW. You are all amazing. Going to be a lot of work for you all just to get the needed libraries up and running to support the features of the chip. Going to be a busy year next year Sign me up for kickstarter - just joking = know its too early for that.
Back the CAN testing I was doing in post #61. Once I figured out what it wanted from the Teensy side, I finally go the example working and made some modifications to print additional messages and send a whole 8 bytes of the data. It was receiving as fast as the Teensy could send it, but it needed a minimum of 10ms delay between Teensy sends before the next packet would be received. Without this delay it would hang the program. The teensy pretty much handle as fast as the 1050 would send it. So at least satisfied myself that it could talk to other devices on the CAN bus and got a feel for its library - which was not good. So my assessment still stands - the CAN library will need work.
@manitou - found something on the nxp forum talking about ISR Latency while looking for something else that you might be interested in: https://community.nxp.com/thread/482121
mbed PWM is using eFlexPWM (ch 28, 150 MHz clock) and the mbed API limits you to max PWM frequency of 1 MHz. With scope on D3 (GPIO_AD_B1_08 FLEXPWM4 A0), I hacked the PWM registers, testing it at 10 Mhz and 25 MHz. At 30 and 38 MHz signal is sawtooth with reduced Vpp (1.36v).
Code:PWM4->SM[0].VAL1 =5 ; // 150/6 25 mhz PWM4->SM[0].VAL3 =2 ; PWM4->MCTRL |= 1;
9.2.1 says "MQS (medium quality speaker) is used to convert the I2S audio data from SAI to PWM signals that can drive external speaker directly."
Has the dev-board the connections, and have you tried to connect a speaker?
I tried the sai example for recording and playback. It uses a headset mic and the board mic to record and then playback. It does work but volume was low. Have a new headset coming with a mic and as soon as I find my speaker will hook it up and give it a try. Didn't see anything in the api for volume but just did a quick scan. I will try to edit this post when I get done with the test and let you know how it goes
@Frank B. Didn't want you to think I forgot about your question. Unfortunately, I have not been able to get the ext speakers working. The board uses a WM8960 98/95 dB Stereo Codec with Class D Speaker Driver chip connected to the 1050. I can't seem to get the routing correct to use ext speaker - its either that or my little 8ohm speaker isn't working. Regardless I am getting sound from the jack connector and its actually pretty nice.
EDIT: I did post to the NXP Forum about how to do get output to the speakers. We'll see what happens.
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NXP 1060 eval board https://www.digikey.com/product-deta...=sp_568_buynow
I can't seem to find the max GPIO sink/source current??? The data sheet has an equation Imax = N x C x V x (0.5 x F) with too many unknowns!
On my EVKB eval board with hacked USB cable, I measure power at 127 ma for just a while-loop. But if I add a digitalWrite() (led1 = 0 in mbed-speak), the power jumps to 155 ma (nothing attached to digital GPIO pin). What's that all about ???
The eval board schematic shows the on-board USER LED pulled up to 3.3v with 220 ohm resistor. LED forward voltage is about 1.2v so expected current would be 9.5 ma. If the program sets the LED pin HIGH, LED is off and board current is 127 ma. If pin is set LOW, LED is on and current is 155 ma. Toggling a pin (D7) with nothing connected has board power at 155 ma LOW or HIGH.
Here is review of low-power test for eval board
It describes running at 600 528 132 24 MHz -- I haven't figured out how to do that with mbed core functions ...
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Most interesting is, in the chapter about the seven PLLs (Reference Manual) they say the CHIP is capable of running with 1 GHz. We will see. If that is true, and they write that, it means it can do even more than that. But let's not talk about overclocking now Its just an interesting information, now.( And I fear we had to increase the core-voltage, which may be a bit risky)
Or it's just a wrong information.
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Somehow they pop out of the woodwork, from time to time, and actually try and tell you what you should be doing. Its okay by me if you tell em where to stick it. I don't blame you. But, did you ever try to give them the stop sign.
By Bob DeMarco
Alzheimer's Reading Room
From time to time, I read stories on the internet where Alzheimer's caregivers devise all kinds of ways to help Alzheimer's patients remember.
Most frequently this includes post it notes and white boards. Now in some cases I can understand why this might be necessary. For example, the patient stays at home and the note is to remind them to take their medication. Or, go take a pee. Just kidding on that one.
I always find the efforts of Alzheimer's caregivers to help Alzheimer's patients remember of great interest. Makes perfect sense.
Oddly, I never really focused on trying to help Dotty remember. This can be explained in part because I never had any success in reminding her of anything. For example, I tried for years to get her to remember she just ate, so she couldn't possibly be starving. Or, no you didn't just take a pee, its been two hours.
So I never went in that direction.
However, after one particularly disconcerting episode, Dotty's inability to buy lottery tickets, I did turn my attention to one major goal -- trying to help Dotty to never forget. Never forget how to do things. Like read the newspaper, walk, or how to party.
I did decide early on that if I thought Dotty could do it, I would let her do it. Just let her do it. To this day, she does things that just blow me away. It is both amazing and fascinating. And, to be honest this is what keeps me trying to come up with new ideas or techniques that work.
I was warned, early on, that if I let Dotty do everything for herself I would like get criticized and with great vigor. This proved to be true more times than I care to remember.
It is interesting to me now to think about it though. I can't go more than a day without someone trying to tell me what I should do. Why is it that someone, anyone, would assume they know what is better for Dotty than me?
I think I proved beyond a doubt to everyone around us that I have a good handle on the situation. I also know what Dotty can and can't do. Besides, I have good judgement and I have been making good decisions all my life.
In the old days, when someone that never even saw us before would come galloping up and tell me -- get her a walker. Or, you shouldn't have her on the treadmill, she should be on the exercise bike, I did get bent out of shape. For those that know me, you know, I have a look and a tongue that can cut you in half if I want too. Give you a bad hair day in 50 words or less. So, in the old days I had to bite my tongue.
Now? I just give them the stop sign. Arm straight out, palm facing them. Stop. Believe it or not, it works very effectively. Well I might have a look on my face, and I might be staring straight into their eyes when I do it. But they just SHUT UP. Believe it or not, sometimes I say thanks as we depart from their presence. They are probably thinking I am thanking them for the advice. When in fact, I am thanking them for shutting up.
Dotty is still walking. No walker. Probably doesn't surprise those of you that have not been here a long time. Of course, you didn't know us when Dotty was falling down every day. Pretty much 100 percent of the professional people that have known us for a long time are amazed that Dotty is still walking. Everyone but me.
Dotty is a tough old broad. She has been telling me this for 20 years, at least. I don't know that I believed her for the first ten years. I do now.
No one is more amazed by Dotty than I am. Just about every day she does something that does amaze. This explains in part why this entire effort is so amazing.
I know that many of you have plenty of butt-in-skis around you.
Somehow they pop out of the woodwork from time to time and actually try and tell you what you should be doing. Its okay by me if you tell em where to stick it. I don't blame you. Try giving them the stop sign. Don't say a word, just give em the stop sign. Be patient, stand your ground, stay silent see what happens.
Next, get in here and tell me what happened.
Instead of feeling bad, you might actually start feeling good. It is pretty entertaining when you completely diffuse a person without saying a single word. The look of consternation on their face is well worth the price of admission.
So here is the deal. Forget, if you can, about trying to remind them. If you have something on your mind just tell them. Or, let them do it.
Think about all the things you don't want them to forget how to do. Focus on that.
I am confident when I say this, there is "more there" than you can imagine. The capabilities are greater than you can imagine.
So here is the deal. I want you to prove that I am right -- "more there". But first, I want you to prove to yourself that there is "more there". Then we can start spreading the word together.
You can feel good, or you can feel bad. Its your brain and you get to decide what you are thinking and feeling. Don't be afraid to plug into the good stuff.
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A Kasbah is a quarter of North African cities in which the citadel is located. In the old days it was the fortified area townspeople would run to when the city was attacked, much like the forts in old Europe. The kasbahs were built in a time when there were no motorised vehicles and the streets are narrow so that only pedestrians and small animal-drawn carriages can get though.
The streets of the Kasbah are really tantacle-like alleys, some ending at front doors like here. The old facade on the right contrasts with the renovated one at the end of the lane. While rather decrepit it gives an authentic old oriental feel to the alley.
This small dead-end was closed with a delicately designed wrought iron gate. Again the contrast between old and new.
This one ends in a sort of common shaded patio.
The white washed walls sparkle in the summer sun. The cloth hang out to dry in the alley.
A more colourful covered alley. The ceiling is actually the floor of the house above. Houses are often divided into smaller spaces to accommodate multiple heirs: one brother may have the lower floor and part of the second floor while the other gets the other part and the floors above. It makes for interesting floor plans.
Always the unusual mix of colours, each owner painting "his" wall as he chooses. The result is a modern painting in soft tones. There is true beauty of the Kasbah.
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This week has seen new slots rolled out by Yggdrasil Gaming, World Match, and mFortune, while PokerStars unveiled its latest social casino game and GameCo announced a new brand licensing deal.
New York-based gaming supplier GameCo has partnered Paramount to develop new branded content for its skill-based video game gambling machines (VGMs).
Under license from Paramount, GameCo is in the process of developing a racing game based on the popular Mission: Impossible franchise, a hidden object game themed to Paranormal Activity, and a platformer experience adapted from the cult classic comedy, Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
"We are always seeking ways to bring our iconic film properties directly to fans," said LeeAnne Stables, president of worldwide marketing partnerships and licensing for Paramount Pictures. "These new products bring them to life in classic arcade gameplay formats."
GameCo CEO Blaine Graboyes commented: "We're thrilled to be working with Paramount to bring these brands to the casino floor. Video game gambling addresses the largest opportunity for casinos and studios in attracting the next generation of gamers.
"At GameCo, our vision is to create a VIP experience for gamers. Brands like Mission: Impossible, Paranormal Activity, and Ferris Bueller's Day Off speak to my generation that grew up with these films and love playing video games."
PokerStars has officially launched a new social casino game which aims to combine the best of poker, casino and slots.
The free-to-play Casino Rush mobile app was soft-launched in August and is now available on iOS and Android app stores.
The game sees players go up against the house across a broad range of games, and unlike most social casino games, play is available offline.
"We spent a lot of time assessing the social casino market, what was missing and what players wanted," said Lloyd Melnick, director of social gaming at PokerStars. "Our analysis found that our social players want a poker experience that they can enjoy quickly whether or not they are connected to the internet.
"That's why we created Casino Rush. It is the best of poker, casino and slots all fused into one great game, just what gamers in 2016 are looking for."
New players will receive 75,000 free chips and will be credited with more free chips when they unlock new games, such as Swap the Flop Poker, All In Split and Lucky Hands.
Yggdrasil Gaming
Yggdrasil Gaming has released a sequel to its popular video slot Vikings Go Wild.
Vikings Go Berzerk takes players on an adventure as the Norse seamen battle seductive sea sirens in search of untold riches.
The game features a Berzerk mode with Rage Meters and Ragnarök free spins. In Norse mythology, Ragnarök is an epic battle that brings about the end of the world. During Ragnarök free spins, the Vikings defeat the sirens to create sticky wilds.
Jonas Strandman, product owner for games at Yggdrasil, said the company wanted to build on the success of Vikings Go Wild, which was released in September of last year.
"Vikings Go Berzerk takes things up a gear, and features the most mesmerising graphics we have ever produced," Strandman said.
Built on HTML5 for mobile and desktop, the game uses the same core mechanics as the original and includes Yggdrasil's collection of in-game promotional tools, BOOST and BRAG.
"By sticking to the same maths model, we know players will enjoy the flow of the game, with new features adding to the excitement. Sequels tend to boost the performance of prequels, so we are expecting to see both titles receive some major traffic in the coming months," Strandman concluded.
World Match
Malta-based casino games developer World Match has rolled out its first slot through a partnership with Games Farm, the subsidiary of Italian arcade video and amusement games supplier Dalla Pria Entertainment Group.
Scary Fruits HD is a 5 reel, 3 row slot, with special features including free spins and a stacked wild. In the bonus game, five different rounds reward players with prizes at each spin.
The launch follows an agreement between the two companies in March of this year, with World Match developing online versions of Dalla Pria's popular land-based games.
World Match executive director Andrea Boratto said that he expects the partnership with Games Farm to be "substantial and fruitful."
"Straight after Scary Fruits we will release many other titles, thanks to their great willingness and our high production capacity," he said.
UK-licensed mobile casino operator mFortune has released its latest slot game Hansel and Gretel.
Based on the classic fairy tale, Hansel and Gretel differs from other slots in that the symbols fall from cartoon trees rather than appearing on traditional reels.
The in-house developed game includes up to 15 win lines and an autospin feature. Cute wildlife, teddy bears, killer bees and a haggard old witch all appear as players hope for five buckets of jewels to trigger the jackpot.
Also included are two minigames which give players the chance to enhance their winnings. Win Peaks begins after the player spins two or more bird symbols in a win line, while Witches Trail is prompted by the appearance of two or more compasses.
Players are able to make deposits of £3 or more via phone billing and also have access to mFortune's reward system.
It is the latest addition to mFortune's portfolio, which offers over twenty slots and a range of casino games including Double Your Honey, Bake Me A Winner, and Gold MacDonald.
"We are constantly working toward improving the gaming experience for our players and thinking of ways to keep it fresh and entertaining, while catering to technical limitations on a different array of devices," the company said.
SkillOnNet/Blueprint Gaming
Casino software supplier SkillOnNet has agreed a deal to integrate content from Gauselmann's UK-based game studio Blueprint Gaming.
Blueprint's portfolio of slots will be made available to SkillOnNet's operator partners, including third-party branded titles such as Happy Days and Top Cat.
"We are delighted to be adding the exciting slots catalog of Blueprint Gaming who have a reputation second to none," said SkillOnNet's sales and marketing chief Michael Golembo. "The slots are really special and cater for all kinds of online slots players. Our customers will be happy to know they will soon be able to play these slots at our casinos."
Jo Purvis, head of online sales and marketing at Blueprint, added: "At Blueprint we are dedicated to working with the best operators, so we are excited to have reached an agreement with SkillOnNet.
"This partnership further strengthens our reputation across Europe and allows Blueprint to feature our content on some of the best supported casino sites available."
Virtual sports provider VSoftCo has collaborated with EFL League One club Sheffield United FC to provide new material for its virtual football product.
As part of the continued upgrade of its Fantastic League fixed odds game, VSoftCo undertook a week of motion capture filming with professional footballers at the South Yorkshire football club.
The footage, which includes injury sequences and the use of red cards, will be incorporated into its virtual football game to offer players additional betting markets and an improved sense of reality.
VSoftCo managing director Simon Westbury said the company was delighted to combine its experience in developing virtual football products with Sheffield United, a club with a deep and rich history.
"It is beyond doubt that the work that we have undertaken will be of great benefit to our existing Fantastic League virtual games portfolio as well as our branded virtual football game VStriker," he said. "By constantly improving our product we are demonstrating our commitment to ensuring that our virtual games remain at the forefront of the virtual gaming space."


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Thursday, August 15, 2013
BFF Open House Link Party #117: I Have Features This Week YAY!
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You have me drooling at those chocolate features!
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- Lizbeth McGow said...
Hi Carol! You cracked me up with the Sharknado marathon!!! LOL....I cna only imagine those sharks"invading the Big Apple" next July!!! Thank You so much for the feature girl! Love it ! It's an honor to be feature in a blog with a name The Answer is Chocolate! My lifetime motto! Hugs, and have a great week!
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- Kathy Moody said...
Awesome features! Thank you so much for another great party! Have a wonderful weekend. :)
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Whoo-hoo -- glad you're back with features! ;) Here's to a less busy weekend with some built-in relaxation time! You deserve it, my friend!
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What Do Developers Use GitHub For? Here's Why It's Vital
When starting out as a web developer, it can be easy to get lost in the multitude of languages, tools and platforms that are available in today's market. However many would argue that GitHub is an essential platform for every web developer at every level.
GitHub was launched in April 2008 by Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath, and PJ Hyett. At its base, it is a web platform, written in Ruby on Rails and Erlang, which hosts code repositories. But it also provides developers with an amazing toolset that makes it easy to follow certain coding best practices, all the while allowing you to get your name out there and show what you are capable of doing.
In this article, I will explain why GitHub is such an important tool for today's web developer and how you can go about using it to get your name out there and advance your career in web development.
GitHub Makes Version Control Easier
Few coding best practices are as prevalent as having some sort of Version Control for your code. Whether you are developing in Ruby, JavaScript, Python or any other language, a good Version Control workflow is essential and GitHub makes implementing that workflow easier by giving developers great tools with which to work.
For more information on Version Control Systems and their benefits, please see this article posted on CareerFoundry's blog.
As mentioned before, GitHub hosts Git repositories. Git is an immensely popular Version Control System, which allows developers to create a history of changes that occur over time in their code.
GitHub also adds several of its own functionalities to the ones offered by Git, such as:
- A web-based graphical interface
- A pastebin style site named Gist
- Great tools for collaborating with other developers
Graphical Interface
Git is very powerful, but it can only be used in the terminal, which can be daunting for many developers, especially new developers. Viewing logs and differentials between commits can be very difficult to do in a purely command-prompt interface.
GitHub creates an intuitive and powerful graphical interface for the Git versioning system. You can easily see your repositories and browse through its list of commits. If you want to see the changes made in one of your commits, it is as simple as clicking on the commit from the list and GitHub will present you with the differential. Much simpler than typing commands in your terminal and deciphering their results.
Above is an example from a user in GitHub.
Create a profile, upload some code and see how things are laid out, it is very user friendly and intuitive.
Pastebin applications allow users to store plain text. They are commonly used by developers to store and share small scripts and bits of codes. Gist was created by GitHub as a Pastebin-style application, but Gists also benefit from Version Control.
Each Gist is essentially a mini-project, it has its own Git repository, which allows users to store multiple bits of code and also allows them to track changes within their Gist, without needing to commit them manually.
Gist are by default public, to make it easier to share, but they can also be marked as private, allowing only you to access them.
Collaboration Tools
Github also introduces many collaboration tools, some of which are listed below, which make it easier for developers to work together on a project.
- GitHub allows you to create access rights to your code which means, for example, you could designate certain users who are allowed to freely push code to your repository.
- GitHub's Forking feature allows a user to create a copy of a repository on their computer for them to work on without affecting the main repository. They can modify the code and then request to have the code merged with the main repository using another feature called Pull Requests.
- Pull Requests are a way for you to tell other developers about the changes you wish to merge into the main repository. The repository's authors can review your changes and engage in discussions about them. Should more changes be needed, you can simply continue to work in your fork and the additional commits will appear in the pull request. Once a Pull Request is approved, the changes can then be merged into the main repository by the project's author.
- GitHub also has Issues for repositories. Issues are a great way to keep track of bugs in your code, but you can also use it to keep track of tasks and other enhancements you would like to implement in your code. Issues are very powerful and mastering them is a great way to keep yourself organized. For more information on Issues, please see this guide posted on GitHub's website.
Above is a screenshot of Issues on GitHub
GitHub Is The Place To Be For Open Source
With so many great tools available to developers, GitHub has become the place to be for open source software. Some of the biggest open source projects are hosted on GitHub, such as Ruby on Rails, AngularJS, Bootstrap and many many more. There are even some big tech companies, like Microsoft, who maintain code repositories on GitHub.
The collaboration features mentioned above make it easy for any developer to get involved with their favorite open source project.
GitHub also allows you to keep an eye on your favorite developers by following them or your favorite project by "watching" it. There are many ways to be social on GitHub, so don't hesitate to go exploring and see what is happening in the world of software development.
Using GitHub To Showcase Your Skills
As we have mentioned above, GitHub is a great tool to make Version Control easier and it's a site that is used for some of the biggest projects out there. But perhaps it's biggest asset is the fact that it is a great way to showcase your skills.
A GitHub profile that features real world projects and shows contributions to open source projects is a great way to display exactly what you are capable of doing to prospective employers.
Above is a fully fleshed out GitHub profile of one of the contributor's to the Rails' project.
When applying to developer positions, employers are looking for people who have experience programming and who program well. You can direct prospective employers to your GitHub profile, which can act as your portfolio. Employers can then:
- View your code
- See how you think
- Understand how you solved particular problems
- See whether or not you would be a good fit for their organization. Your open source contributions can also show potential employers that you are versatile and can easily adapt and contribute to various projects, something that is essential when working as a web developer.
Having a fully fleshed out and varied GitHub profile is a great way to stand out as a web developer in today's market.
GitHub has become one of the few necessary platforms to use in today's web development world. It is a great tool that makes your life easier, has the potential to make you stand out from other web developers and hosts some of the biggest and most interesting projects out there today. So I recommend you go out and explore the various projects on GitHub and start contributing to your favorite ones.
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Local Accountants Create Endowment
Robinson, Grimes & Company, PC of Columbus has announced its commitment to the Educational Foundation of the Georgia Society of CPAs (GSCPA) Golden Anniversary Endowment Campaign which facilitates scholarships for college accounting students, with a$50,000 donation.
The GSCPA will match the donation to create a $100,000 scholarship endowment. The donation establishes the Robinson, Grimes & Company Ross E. Robinson Scholarship and the Robinson, Grimes, & Company R. Keith Grimes Scholarship with each one respectively selecting 2007-2008 recipients from Columbus State University and Auburn University. Their contribution allows the named scholarship to be given in perpetuity.


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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A physicist accused of trying to help Venezuela develop a nuclear weapon was released to a halfway house Monday after a defense attorney argued that he has posed no national security risk since his investigation by the FBI was publicized last fall.
Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni appeared before U.S. Magistrate Don Svet, who imposed several conditions on Mascheroni's release, including that contact with his sisters and nieces, who live in Argentina, is subject to government monitoring.
Svet noted Mascheroni "has the skill and science to build a bomb" and asked defense attorney Amy Sirignano why that wouldn't be considered a danger to the community.
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She replied that since a search warrant was served at his Los Alamos home in October, Mascheroni has cooperated with prosecutors, surrendered his passport and rarely left the northern New Mexico town. Even when his wife went to Idaho to see their grandchildren, Mascheroni stayed behind, she said.
"If he was out there selling national security secrets, the government should not have let him stay out for the last 11 months," Sirignano said.
Mascheroni's wife, Marjorie Roxby Mascheroni, also appeared before Svet, who ordered her to house arrest.
In a 22-count indictment issued Friday, the couple were accused of offering to help develop a nuclear weapon for Venezuela through dealings with an undercover FBI agent who was posing as a representative of the Venezuelan government.
The indictment says Mascheroni told the undercover agent he could help Venezuela develop a nuclear bomb within 10 years and that Venezuela would use a secret, underground nuclear reactor to produce and enrich plutonium, and an open, aboveground reactor to produce nuclear energy.
The U.S. government is not alleging Venezuela or anyone working for it sought U.S. secrets.
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The couple pleaded not guilty Monday. If convicted, they face up to life in prison.
Mascheroni, 75, was shackled at the hands and feet for his court appearance. Seated next to other defendants in orange, red and blue jail jumpsuits, Mascheroni wore a black polo shirt, white slacks and sandals.
Sirignano told Svet that Mascheroni has made no effort to flee Los Alamos over the past year. She said the former Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist spends most of his time working in his basement, continuing a 20-year effort to develop his theories of fusion.
Svet noted that the government's pretrial services had recommended Mascheroni remain in custody. Prosecutor Fred Federici said he had met with Sirignano and agreed to place Mascheroni in the halfway house, subject to conditions the judge imposed.
Mascheroni, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Argentina, can have no contact with foreigners other than his sister and nieces, cannot try to secure another passport from any country and cannot leave the halfway house except to meet with his legal team or go to court.
Svet questioned Marjorie Mascheroni's claim that she needs a public defender. The judge said a financial statement showed the couple has $3,800 in monthly income and noted the couple owns a $275,000 home and two vehicles, including a late model Lexus.
"I'm not one who believes the nature and seriousness of the offense requires citizens to finance the defense," said Svet, who ordered a detailed financial affidavit.
Marjorie Mascheroni's court-appointed lawyer, Erlinda Ocampo Johnson, told the judge the couple cannot afford to hire a private attorney.
"This case will be very costly," she said.
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