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For Immediate Release
Office of the First Lady
September 29, 2007
Mrs. Bush's Remarks at the 2007 National Book Festival Authors' Breakfast
The East Room
MRS. BUSH: Welcome, everyone, to the White House. Thank you for coming to the 7th Annual National Book Festival. I want to acknowledge and welcome Dr. James Billington, the Librarian of Congress. And I want to thank him and the whole Library of Congress staff for working year-round to produce this one day of a great book festival for all Americans to enjoy. And thank you very much, Dr. Billington.
I also want to thank the Festival sponsors who are the reasons we can afford to put on the Book Festival, and a special thanks and welcome to the members of my staff, the White House staff who are here, who have also worked very hard to make sure this is a terrific festival.
But most of all, welcome to the writers. You're the reason we're here. Today, 70 talented authors will present their books to thousands of readers on the National Mall. This morning, a whole team of presidential speechwriters have joined us as well, and I know they'll appreciate this writerly wisdom from H.G. Wells: "No passion in the world," Wells wrote, "is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft." (Laughter.)
We'll open our annual celebration of good books today with presentations from two very gifted authors. The White House is the perfect place to hear from Michael Beschloss. When he's not busy writing best-sellers in American presidential history, Michael serves on the board of the White House Historical Association.
Patricia MacLachlan has written some of America's best-loved books, including the Newbery Medal-winning classic, "Sarah, Plain and Tall," which was the American contribution to an anthology of books from around the world that Mrs. Putin is printing in Russian and will be presented at Mrs. Putin's book festival later in October. Thank you so much, Patricia.
We'll also hear from Al Harrington of the NBA's Golden State Warriors, and Ruth Riley, of the WNBA's Detroit Shock. Al and Ruth are talented basketball players who, when they're not on the court, are out in their communities encouraging young people to read.
Now I'd like to introduce a man who encourages Americans to read every day by sharing the resources of our country's great library. Ladies and gentlemen, the Librarian of Congress, Dr. James Billington. (Applause.)
* * * * *
Thank you very much, Al and Ruth. Thank you very much. And Ruth actually mentioned, besides promoting literacy, which is why they're here with us at the National Book Festival, but they also -- the NBA and WNBA has "Nothing but Nets," which you can find on the Internet. And it's a way to give $10 for a mosquito net to save a child's life across Africa. So if you want to help in the Malaria No More campaign, go to "Nothing but Nets" and make your contribution there. That was my advertisement. (Laughter.)
Thank you all so much, and thank you very much, Patricia. That was terrific. I loved hearing your stories and your letters from kids. And Michael, we loved hearing also about those leaders and readers. And thank you so much, both of you, for opening our National Book Festival.
Before we send everyone out to the National Mall to start on the 7th Annual National Book Festival, I'm going to shamelessly plug the Texas Book Festival -- (laughter) -- because we're joined today by the head of the Texas Book Festival, Mary Herman, and the chairman of the Texas Book Festival Advisory Committee, Jan Hughes, if both of you will raise your hands so we can see you. (Applause.)
I also see Adair Margo in the crowd, who is the chairman of the President's Committee on Arts and Humanities. She works not only here but abroad, trying to do what's called cultural diplomacy, reach out to other countries through arts and literature and all of the things that are part of the Arts and Humanities Committee -- President's Committee.
I see Anne Radice, who is the chairman of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, which is the federal agency that works with museums and libraries around the country. And thank you so much, Anne.
I'm probably missing someone. I don't know if Dana Gioia is here from the NEA or Bruce Cole from the NEH.
But thank you all very much. Have fun today on the Mall. I know you'll inspire thousands of readers. And thank you very much for being a part of this festival.
Thank you all. (Applause.)


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received a request the other day from a magazine who were interested in using a
shot I took in 2005.
They were
prepared to pay quite handsomely but they insisted it had to be 11" x
17" at 300dpi dimensions.
hesitated before saying it was going to be big enough as the dimensions they
were asking for were way beyond anything a DSLR's was capable of at that
that path does this mean that a digital photograph has diminished value as the
quality is deemed insufficient?
It does
seem a bit bonkers to me but if clients take this line then what is one to do?
upsizing and hope they do not notice?
I did not have to do this as I shot it on a Phase One and they commented on the
high quality, even though the back 'only ' had 22 megapixels.
But I
fear that time is going to be pretty cruel to digital photography.
And not
in commercial scenarios that I have just been talking about but the sheer
survivability of images.
A friend
of mine found some old photo's which dated back to the dawn of photography.
They were
in an old album, and to access them all he had to do was open the album and
there they were.
My first
efforts at backing up my photo's in the early 1990's was onto floppy discs. I
still have the discs but no machine to read them with, perhaps I will buy a
drive when I get round to it and transfer the images or perhaps I will get hit
by a number 53 bus before I do and they will be lost forever?
situation is much the same with all the images I have recorded onto Zip drives
(remember those?)
When CD
recorders became affordable I switched to archiving all my work onto CD's.
I did
this for a year or so with the burner hooked up to a computer which was
expensive and state of the art but which of course became obsolete.
It was
time for a new computer.
wonderful and new.
Horror of
horrors it would not read a single CD I had burned.
Was it
the CD's ? Had I recorded them in some silly incompatible format? I still don't
know but fortunately I still had the negatives so I could rescan them.
When I
started to shoot digitally I switched to backing up my work to external hard
drives made by a reputable, and not so cheap, manufacturer.
All went
well at first, then I had my first, and very predictable, hard drive failure.
Fortunately I had all the important work double backed up onto DVD's.
Hard disc
drive failure made me buy even more external HDD's, all seemed well and then
the spectre of power supply failures started to raise its head. Simple I hear
you say, buy another. The company no longer made them. I started to scour eBay
for them and found them going for more than a price of a external HDD, it
seemed I was not alone with my problem. I then investigated buying a housing to
put the drive in and get the data off.
I bought
the drive housing and opened up the power-supply-less drive only to discover
that there was not one HDD in there but two. The manufacturer had, without
announcing it, used two drives and the spread over two discs and I was well and
truly stuffed.
forward to 2012 and my backups are a myriad of servers (I use the excellent
QNAP) cloud storage and good old DVD's.
relatively confident that under my care that my work is safe.
But what
happens when the work is no longer under my care.
When I
die, will my children and grandchildren have the same interest as I do?
In 100
years time will my great grandchildren have any interest at all?
Will they
go looking for DVD drives to read the discs which may well be unreadable by
then? Or go searching online for power supplies for rotting pieces of junk that
may no longer work ? Or try to get new bearings fitted to HDD's that have long
since seized up?
back to my friend simply opening a neglected family album and discovering
ancestral gold.
hard copies there is no way this will happen.

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Le mie migliori foto
Commenti 2
Daniela Ruzickova 29/01/2006 20:09
Ciao Raffaele,
benvenuto in FC.it
E tante belle foto
Dani -
Dirk Hofmann 26/01/2006 23:20
Hi Raffaele!
Welcome to Fotocommunity.com! This community is a place to show, discuss and learn about photography and you will meet people from all over the world which share your hobby. The spirit of Fotocommunity is to share knowledge, inspiration and thoughts as a team. Everyone can participate and everyone will share his experiences. So don't be shy and ask every photographer or a member of the administration [fc-info:The fotocommunity.com team] if you have any questions.
Another way to gather some information would be our online-help where you can learn about the different features of fotocommunity.
To get there click here:
Of course I'd be glad to answer your questions too!


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Right on the heels of speaking to Colin Kaepernick, embattled rapper Meek Mill recently received a visit from the Rev. Al Sharpton. Sharpton is fiercely advocating for Mill's release and revealed to the media that he and the Philly rapper spoke at length for about an hour.
According to a new report from the New York Daily News, Rev. Al Sharpton visited Meek Mill earlier this week in the Chester, Pennsylvania prison where he is currently being held on probation violation charges. Sharpton also stressed that he is just getting started in his attempt to see Meek Mill released from prison and likened his case to many other black men throughout the country.
Via New York Daily News:
Locked-up rapper Meek Mill sounds strong and determined to spotlight the injustice of a system that tossed him in prison, the Rev. Al Sharpton said Monday. Sharpton was speaking with reporters right after visiting Mill for an hour in a Chester, Pa., prison.
Mill, 30, is serving a two- to four-year sentence for a probation violation spurred by two arrests where the charges were dropped. He is a "symbol of the abuse of the system that will violate you over nothing," Sharpton said, flanked by Mill's lawyer, Joe Tacopina.
"If you can do this to a successful artist like Meek Mill, you can do this to many around this country," Sharpton said.
If you'll recall, Sharpton helped get hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur released from solitary confinement when he was imprisoned back in the 90s. Sharpton likened Mill's case to that one stating, "It was a Tupac moment for me," referencing what he plans to do to help.
Meek Mill's attorney thanked Rev. Sharpton for getting involved, saying "It shows the level of importance" for Mill's case, Tacopina said. "It's just a horrific situation. At least we have the focus on this situation."
Check out today's Top Stories here:
Texas Woman Officially Indicted For Sending Bomb To Barack Obama
David Otunga Awarded Primary Custody Over Son With Jennifer Hudson
Rev. Al Sharpton Aims To Help Meek Mill, Visits Him In Prison was originally published on hellobeautiful.com


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Press Release
Sydney, 17 February 2015
Macquarie Group Limited (Macquarie) (ASX: MQG; ADR: MQBKY) today provided an update on business activity in the third quarter of the financial year ending 31 March 2015 (December 2014 quarter) and updated the outlook for the financial year ending 31 March 2015 (FY15).
During a presentation at Macquarie's Operational Briefing in Sydney today, Macquarie Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Nicholas Moore said: "Since our result announcement for the first half of the 2015 financial year (1H15), trading conditions across the Group have continued to improve and there has been a continued weakening of the Australian dollar.
"Macquarie's annuity-style businesses' - Macquarie Asset Management (formerly Macquarie Funds Group), Corporate and Asset Finance and Banking and Financial Services – combined December 2014 quarter net profit contribution1 was down on both a strong December 2013 quarter and September 2014 quarter which benefited from significant performance fees in Macquarie Asset Management and the sale of OzForex2.
"Macquarie's capital markets facing businesses - Macquarie Securities, Macquarie Capital and Commodities and Financial Markets (formerly Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities) - experienced improved trading conditions with combined December 2014 quarter net profit contribution1 up significantly on both the December 2013 quarter and September 2014 quarter."
Also announced today, Macquarie Funds Group has changed its name to Macquarie Asset Management. Similarly, Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities has changed its name to Commodities and Financial Markets. This is to better align the names of these groups to their business activities.
Mr Moore provided an overview of recent developments undertaken by the businesses during the December 2014 quarter:
Capital, funding and balance sheet positions
Macquarie Group remains well capitalised with APRA Basel III Group capital of $A14.3 billion at 31 December 2014, a $A1.4 billion surplus to Macquarie's minimum regulatory capital requirements from 1 January 20163, and a $A2.6 billion surplus to Macquarie's existing4 minimum regulatory capital requirements. The Bank Group APRA Basel III Common Equity Tier 1 capital ratio was 9.0 per cent at 31 December 2014, which was up from 8.7 per cent at 30 September 2014.
The funded balance sheet remains strong and well funded with wholesale and retail deposits of $A38.8 billion at 31 December 2014 in line with 30 September 2014.
While the impact of future market conditions makes forecasting difficult, we expect the FY15 combined net profit contribution1 from operating groups to be up significantly on FY14, more than offsetting the FY14 realised gain relating to the Sydney Airport distribution.
The FY15 tax rate is currently expected to be slightly down on FY14.
Accordingly, as we advised the market in January 2015, the Group's result for FY15 is expected to be up between 10 and 20 per cent on FY14, with current conditions likely to result in this being at the upper end of the range, subject to the completion rate of transactions and the conduct of period end reviews.
Our short term outlook remains subject to a range of challenges including: market conditions; the impact of foreign exchange; the cost of our continued conservative approach to funding and capital; and potential regulatory changes and tax uncertainties.
Macquarie remains well positioned to deliver superior performance in the medium term, due to its deep expertise in major markets, strength in diversity and ability to adapt its portfolio mix to changing market conditions, the ongoing benefits of continued cost initiatives, a strong and conservative balance sheet, and a proven risk management framework and culture.
1. Net profit contribution is management accounting profit before unallocated corporate costs, profit share and income tax.
2. OzForex sold in December 2013 quarter.
3. Calculated at 8.5 per cent risk weighted assets (RWA) including capital conservation buffer (CCB), per the 1 January 2016 minimum requirements in the APRA Prudential Standard APS 110.
4. Calculated at 7.0 per cent RWA, per the internal minimum Tier 1 ratio of the Bank Group.
5. Dealogic, calendar year 2014.
6. Local exchange by turnover.
7. Platts, September 2014 quarter.
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- 1 Descriptions
- 3 Board Revision Changes
- 4 Known Issues
- 4.1 Board Does Not Power On, Power LED Flashes[All Revisions]
- 4.2 Ethernet unable to obtain a lease[A4 Only]
- 4.3 Ethernet Drop/Reset switch[A3 and A4 Only]
- 4.4 Ethernet PHY Default Configuration [A3,A4,A5,A6]
- 4.5 Trouble Installing USB Drivers [A4 and Earlier]
- 4.6 Code Composer Studio Issues
- 4.7 Optional JTAG Header
- 4.8 Board Reset on JTAG Connect(A3,A4,A5)
- 4.9 Standoff Interference (A3,A4,A5)
- 5 Image Files
- 6 Hardware Files
- 7 BeagleBone Capes
- 8 Regulatory Compliance Documentations
- 9 Export Information
- 10 Useful Links
The BeagleBone is the low-cost, high-expansion focused BeagleBoard using a low cost Sitara AM335x Cortex A8 ARM processor from Texas Instruments. It is similar to the earlier BeagleBoards and can act as a USB or Ethernet connected expansion companion for your current BeagleBoard and BeagleBoard-xM or work stand-alone. The BeagleBone is small even by BeagleBoard standards and with the high-performance ARM capabilities you expect from a BeagleBoard, the BeagleBone brings full-featured Linux to places it has never gone before.
Please visit our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page BeagleBone FAQ for additional help.
Board Revision Changes
Revision A6B
Switched the processor from the XAM3359ZCZ72 to AM3358ZCZ72. There is no electrical difference between these two devices as far as the Beaglebone is concerned.
The AM3358 does not support Ether-cat functionality, something that was not used on the BeagleBone.
Due to the Rev A6A revision being based on SW change only, it made the BOM and Revision out of sync. The original change to AM3358 was done on rev A6A.
To fix the out of sync issue it was bumped to A6B. When the change was actually made Circuitco did not mark the boards as A6B as they should have done.
To see if you have this processor, you will need to read the part number on the processor.
Revision A6A
Only software changes are made on Revision A6A. The BeagleBone is now shipped with 9/12 image.
Revision A6
There were no major changes made to the BeagleBone on Rev A6. Nothing was changed that would impact the operation of the SW. No features were removed. Only visible changes are:
1) The Link LED on the Etherent connector will be on for 100M operation.
2) JTAG reset issue on connect is resolved.
The REV A6 is now shipping.
Here are the changes that were made on the Revision A6:
1) Changed R219 to now be installed.
2) Added R220 a 10K pulldown to pin 18 of the SMSC PHY to allow R219 addition to work as expected.
3) Removed the connection to the VPP pin on the processor.
4) Added R221, R218, R217, R202 to facilitate the addition of two signals, GPIO3_18 and GPIO3_19 to the expansion bus header to provide two more signals for the PRU access.
5) Changed R210 to installed and added test point to allow the EEPROM to be programmed but with added protection to prevent corruption. Also added Test Point to enable programming.
6) Moved resistors R189 and R150 to provide more clearance around mounting the hole.
7) Removed R122 which was not connected to the correct pin on the on the LAN8710 for setting the HW default mode
8) Removed R163 to disconnect the FT2232 reset out that was causing spurious resets when connecting the JTAG on a running board.
9) Applied above changes as needed to the BOM.
10) Changed the pulldown resistors on the boot pins to 42.2K as suggested by the AM335x design team.
Here are the changes that were made to the PCB:
1)Added R220
2)Added R217, R218, R202, and R221.
3)Added etch to route the PRU signals to the expansion header using the above resistors.
4)Moved R180 and R150 away from the mounting holes.
5)Changed PCB revision to C3.
Revision A5
Here are the changes that were made on the Revision A5:
1) Removed R219.
2) The PID/VID was changed on the FTDI part to support signed drivers provided by FTDI which should help with serial driver installation issues.
3) Ship the board with the latest SW image [2_14_12 Release].
Revision A4
Here are the changes that were made on the Revision A4:
1) PCB layout was changed from C to C1.
2) The microSD connector was replaced with a different supplier due to availability issues. This resulted in the way you insert the SD card to be the opposite of Rev A3.
3) Added two resistors in parallel with R76 to allow for mutiple sources of this resistor.
4) Changed C99 termination to GND.
5) Added a 10K pullup to set the speed LED to be on when running on a 100M link.
6) Changed C7 to a 0805 package.
Revision B
1) Changed the processor to AM3358BZCZ100 as the current one is no longer offered by TI.
This will make the frequency 1GHZ as opposed to 720MHZ. SW will need to be updated accordingly to realize full speed entitlement.
Known Issues
Board Does Not Power On, Power LED Flashes[All Revisions]
We are starting to get boards back with this issue. We believe one cause involves the removal of power by pulling out the power input cable. This results in the PMIC not being able to perform the proper power down sequence of the voltage rails to the processor because of the loss of power.
WORKAROUND: When removing power, hold the reset button DOWN. This puts everything in reset, lowers the system power, and leaves enough power in the capacitors to allow the PMIC to complete the power down cycle properly.
Another possible cause is related to improper use of the I/O pins. DO NOT apply power to any I/O pin unless it is gated by the VDD_3V3B rail on the expansion header. Applying voltages to the I/O pins without regard to the power sequence can cause damage to the processor and cause this issue.
Ethernet unable to obtain a lease[A4 Only]
On the revision A4 board the Ethernet connection using the RJ45 will not work consistently on a 100M link. On power up you will not be able to obtain a lease. By typing "reboot" at the command prompt the Ethernet will function. We are looking into a SW workaround, but right now the easiest solution is to pop off R219 on the back side of the board under the RJ45 connector. No, it will not void the warranty on the board if you make this change. The board does function with no issue on a 10M Ethernet link and RNDIS operation is not affected by this issue.
- This video demonstrates how to remove R219 from your BeagleBone using tweezers, X-Acto knife, ice pick, and soldering iron. NOTE: Please follow the instructions in the video very carefully. We are not responsible for any loss, property damage, or personal injury that may occur from following these instructions. Take your time when doing this and make sure you understand the video before trying your method of choice.
Fixed on Rev A5.
Ethernet Drop/Reset switch[A3 and A4 Only]
On some A3 and A4 boards, the reset switch can develop a low impedance path to ground creating a voltage divider making the reset line go to 1.5V to 1.8V. To determine this you can measure the voltage on pin 10 of P9. This issue can cause intermittent resets of the SMSC PHY, causing the link to drop. To fix this, just remove the reset switch. No, it will not void the warranty on the board if you remove the reset switch. You can request an RMA for a new switch and one will be sent to you. You can also request an RMA, return the board, and we will repair the switch for you.
Ethernet PHY Default Configuration [A3,A4,A5,A6]
The mode pin setting for mode bit 2 connects to the wrong pin on the LAN8710. It goes to pin 15 and should go to pin 14 instead. This should not cause any operational issues as the internal registers are set correctly in Uboot by the default SW that is provided. If you are not using UBoot or have a custom UBoot, you will need to set the register inside the LAN8710 for proper operation. There is a preepmtion issue in SW that is currently being worked. There was a theory that this error was causing the issue. As long as you set the correct values in your initialzation code, this will not cause this issue and as the default UBoot correctly sets the register correctly for all modes and auto negotiate enabled which is what the default mode was intended to be.
Trouble Installing USB Drivers [A4 and Earlier]
There have been numerous cases where people have had issues installing their USB drivers on the Rev A3 and A4 boards. This can be helped by making the PID/VID change that is being done for the revision A5 board. This will enable the standard signed drivers that come from FTDI to be automatically loaded when the board is plugged in. Following are the steps for programming the new VID/PID.
NOTE: Make sure you do this exactly as described. No shortcuts! It is possible to use the FTDI GUI SW to do this as well, however, there is a chance you can lock the EEPROM on the FTDI part in which case the board will no longer function and replacing the EEPROM is the only solution.
NOTE: This procedure is for Windows only! The FTDI utilities do not support any other OS.
1) Download the file BBA5_PIDVID.
2) Unzip the file to a seperate directory.
3) Follow this link to the FTDI D2XX drivers page. Download the setup executable file of the 2.08.14 WHQL Certified version under Windows.
4) Run the downloaded executable file to install the drivers.
5) Remove the SD card from the BeagleBone.
6) Insert the BeagleBone into a PC USB port.
7) Go to the directory where you unzipped the file and select "EEPROMA5.bat". This will open a command window and run the batch file.
8) Unplug the board from the PC when it is done.
After making this change you will not see a XDS100 show up under the HW interfaces of the control panel in Windows. However, CCS 5.1 will function normally as it able to find the description value and know that this is a supported platform.
Code Composer Studio Issues
CCS CONNECTION ISSUES..Some people have experienced issues surrounding the use of CCS with the BeagleBone where it is not connectin. This issue is resolved by peforming the PID/VID update to the board. For more information you can go to
CCSv5 FAQ
BOARD RESET UNDER CCS (A3,A4,A5).....We have also seen where when using CCS and connecting to the target, a spurious reset is generate by the FT2332 causing the board to reset. This can be resolved by removing R163 from the board. The warranty will not be voided by doing this.
Optional JTAG Header
It is possible to modify the BeagleBone to use an optional 20 pin CTI JTAG header.
If done by the user, it is done at their own risk and should only be done by those that know what they are doing.
If the board is damaged or the change does not function, there will be a charge to make it work. An RMA can be requested to provide this repair service.
To perform the change yourself:
1) Remove R164,R165,R166,R168,R169,R170,R171,and R172.
2) Install R178,R180,R182,R183,R185,R177,R184,and P7.
P7 is a Samtec FTR-110-03-G-D-06 connector and can be purchased from Samtec or any of their distributors.
Board Reset on JTAG Connect(A3,A4,A5)
There is an issue when making a JTAG target connection using CCS that causes a spurious HW reset of the board.
This is resolved by disconnecting the reset on the FTDI device by removing R163. No, this will not void the warranty.
The same techiques used to emove R219 can also be used to remove R163. This video demonstrates how to remove R219 from your BeagleBone using tweezers, X-Acto knife, ice pick, and soldering iron. NOTE: Please follow the instructions in the video very carefully. We are not responsible for any loss, property damage, or personal injury that may occur from following these instructions. Take your time when doing this and make sure you understand the video before trying your method of choice.
1) R163 is located on the back side of the board.
2) Orient the board with P3 in the upper right hand corner.
3) Locate Y1 in the center of the top expansion connector.
4) Below Y1 and to the right is C69.
5) Just to the right of C69 is R163.
Fixed on Rev A6.
Standoff Interference (A3,A4,A5)
If you plan to use a standoff you need to be aware that one standoff hole, the one next to the DC power jack, P5, is too close to some resistors.
This in particular can cause R150 to be damaged and even removed from the board which can cause issues if you want to use a Cape.
Make sure you use a small round diameter standoff in this area. Pay atttention to how close it is to the resistors on the board..
Fixed on Rev A6
Image Files
These are the files that are shipped on the SD card from the factory with each BeagleBone. They can be used to repair corrupted cards or to create a backup version of the cards. They can also be used to upgrade from an earlier version to a newer version. They require a 4GB SD card for all of the images to fit.
Creating a SD Card
To initialize your card under Windows, you can do the following:
1.Download and install Ubuntu's Win32DiskImager (also known as the win32-image-writer).
2.Download and install 7-zip compression software.
3.Download the SD card image you want to use listed below. These are the images that ship with the boards.
4.Download the HP Formatting tool from one of the following locations
- [HP Format Tool Ver 2.18 http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,64963-page,1/description.html]
- [HP Format Tool Ver 2.18 http://files.extremeoverclocking.com/file.php?f=197]
- [HP Format Tool Ver 2.18 http://hp-usb-disk-storage-format-tool.software.informer.com/]
- [HP Format Tool Ver 2.0.6 http://www.4shared.com/rar/9mNWV4Vl/HP_USB_Disk_Storage_Format_Too.html]
5.Decompress the verification image file using 7-zip.
6.Insert the SD card writer/reader into the Windows machine.
7.Insert 4GB SD card into the reader/writer.
8.If this a fresh card, one that has never been used, you can skip to step 11.<br/>
9.Run the HPFormatter tool and format the SD card for FAT or FAT32 in order to remove the second partition from the card.
NOTE: In Windows 7 you will need to run this in administrator mode by right clicking and select "Run as Administrator"
Under Windows XP, the format options are FAT32 and NTFS. Select FAT32.
Under Windows 7, the format options are FAT and NTFS. Select FAT.
You may see different operation for some reason where FAT32 or FAT may or not be there. You can select FAT or FAT32.
10.Close the HPFormatter tool when done.
11.Start the Win32DiskImager.
12.Select the decompressed image file and correct SD card location. MAKE SURE YOU SELECT THE CORRECT LOCATION OF THE SD CARD.
13.Click on 'Write'.
14.After the image writing is done, eject the SD card.
NOTE: If you are trying to reuse an SD card that has already been used under the above process, you will need to reformat the card to erase the second parttion. Otherwise Windows will only see the FAT32 partition
You must repeat step 9 to reuse the card.
Revision A6A Image
From 12/18/2012 onward BeagleBone boards revision A6A are shipped with 11-22-12 release:
The file below contains the checksum for both the ZIP file and the uncompressed image.
The link below contains the release notes for this image.
From 09/24/2012 to 12/17/2012 BeagleBone boards revision A6A are shipped with 09-12-12 release:
The file below contains the checksum for both the ZIP file and the uncompressed image.
The link below contains the release notes for this image.
Earlier BeagleBone Revision A6A are shipped with 08-14-12 release:
The file below contains the checksum for both the ZIP file and the uncompressed image.
The link below contains the release notes for this image.
Revision A6 Image
This is the image that is shipping on Revision A6:
The file below contains the checksum for both the ZIP file and the uncompressed image.
The link below contains the release notes for this image.
Revision A5 Image
This is the image that is shipping on Revision A5.
The file below contains the checksum for both the ZIP file and the uncompressed image.
Revision A3/A4 Image
This is the image that was shipped on the revision A3 and A4 boards.
The file below contains the checksum for both the ZIP file and the uncompressed image
Hardware Files
Schematics are done in Cadence (OrCAD)version 16.5. Version 16.2 can be provided on request which is compatible to the earlier Cadence formats.
To view the PCB files, a free viewer can be downloaded from Cadence. You can use this to make measurements, check dimension on the PCB, and look at each layer to analyze the routing used.
You can download the file at Allegro Viewer
Bill of Material files are provided in Excel.
Rev B
No files were updated except for the BOM where the processor was changed to AM3358BZCZ100 due to TI no longer making the previous version. Nothing changed in the PCB or the schematic. Use Revision A6A documents for the Rev B.
Rev A6A
No hardware changes are made on Revision A6A
Rev A6
Rev A5
PCB files are the same as Rev A4.
To download all files at once you can click here here
Rev A4
To download all files at once you can click here here
Rev A3
To download all files at once please click here
BeagleBone Capes
BeagleBone Capes are add on boards that can be connected to the BeagleBone to add functionality. These Capes are made by a lot of different companies and individuals.
A list of Capes that are in production are listed at BeagleBone Capes.
If you have a Cape that is in production and can be purchased and you would like it listed here, please contact Circuitco.
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Conservative co-chairman Baroness Warsi has referred herself to the Lords Commissioner for Standards amid allegations over her expenses.
A Conservative Party spokeswoman said the Cabinet minister asked Paul Kernaghan to investigate allegations she claimed for accommodation while staying at a friend's house rent-free.
Lady Warsi said on Monday she would co-operate with any inquiry, but declined to answer questions over whether she would resign over the row.
Speaking to ITV News during a visit to Malaysia, she said: "I take these allegations very seriously; it's why I said right at the outset that I would fully co-operate with any investigation. I believe that being a member of the House of Lords is a privilege. I take that privilege seriously.
"It's why I have always insured that my conduct including in relation to expenses and allowances is both in accordance with the law and the spirit of the rules."
Downing Street has so far made no show of support for the peer. Tory deputy chairman Michael Fallon said only that Lady Warsi "believes" she acted within the rules, but he admitted that the controversy was embarrassing for the party.
Lady Warsi insisted she made an "appropriate payment" to her friend - Tory official Naweed Khan, who is now one of her aides - for the nights she stayed at the property in Acton, west London.
Mr Khan supported her assertion, releasing a statement saying she made a payment each time she stayed.
But the property's owner, GP and former Conservative donor Wafik Moustafa, denied receiving any income from either Lady Warsi or Mr Khan.
The peer, now a Cabinet Office minister, was claiming Lords subsistence of £165.50 a night at the time in 2008 to which the allegations relate.
Earlier the former sleaze watchdog Sir Alistair Graham suggested that Lady Warsi should relinquish her ministerial office until any inquiries were complete.
The ex-chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, said: "At the moment it all looks very muddy and blurred.
"I personally am always of the view, when ministers face very serious allegations that seem to have some strength to them, then it's better that they stand down from their ministerial post while that investigation takes place, but of course that is a matter for the Prime Minister."
Mr Mann said he would be writing to the Lords standards commissioner requesting an investigation. "If you are paying no rent where you are staying, you can't possibly be claiming subsistence for staying there," he said.
Liberal Democrat backbencher Bob Russell suggested that the matter should be investigated by the police. "I think there's a prima facie case for this to be looked at by the police," he said.
In a further embarrassment for Lady Warsi, the most senior Muslim politician in Britain, she was forced to admit failing to declare rental income on a London flat in the Lords register of interests.
She said the omission was due to an "oversight", adding that she had reported the letting of her Wembley flat in the Register of Ministers' Interests. The arrangement had also been declared to the Cabinet Office and HM Revenue and Customs, she said.
The peer bought the property in 2007 but moved closer to Parliament when she became a minister in 2010, after which she began letting the Wembley flat.
In a statement last night, Lady Warsi said she contracted to buy the flat in September 2007, but it was not due to be ready until the following year.
In the interim she stayed predominantly at two hotels but also, for "occasional nights", at an Acton property occupied by Mr Khan.
"For the nights that I stayed as a guest of Naweed Khan, I made an appropriate financial payment equivalent to what I was paying at the time in hotel costs," she said.
"In March 2008, I moved into the flat in Wembley. As I was living in the property, it was therefore not registrable on the Register of Lords' Interests."
Conservative deputy chairman Michael Fallon said: "These sorts of thing are always embarrassing but the key thing here is that Lady Warsi has admitted she's made a mistake, she's apologised for it.
"She's corrected the record now and she's very happy to cooperate with any investigation back into her claims and I think it should be left at that until any investigation is reported."
A Conservative Party spokeswoman later said Lady Warsi had referred herself to the Standards Commissioner, asking him to investigate her expenses claims.


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Top 10 things to do in Lancashire at the weekend
PAID: Nickleodeon 90s Month, Blackpool, all October
Families are invited to step back to the 1990s with Nickelodeon Land and Team Nick as they bring all the favourite 90s Nickelodeon game shows and characters at Blackpool Pleasure Beach. Popular characters include the Rugrats and SpongeBob SquarePants.
The event is from Saturday October 1 to Monday October 31.
Wristbands are £19 for adults and £17 for children.
PAID: Bark in the Park, Preston, Saturday October 1
St Catherine's Hospice will be hosting the 2.5 mile sponsored walk and family fun day around Preston's Avenham Park on Saturday, from 10am until 4.30pm.
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Hide AdAttractions on the day include displays from Preston Agility Dogs, competitions including 'Waggiest Tale', 'Catch the Biscuit', and 'Best in Show', a children's funfair, breeders' village, pet stalls and more.
Dog or no dog, everybody is welcome to Avenham Park for the ultimate dog's day out. The walk sets off at noon.
Registration is £3 per dog in advance, or £5 on the day.
To sign up in advance call 01772 629171.
PAID: Beer Festival, Preston, September 29 to September 2
Caritas Care is holding its first Beer Festival from September 29 to October 2 at Plungington Community Centre, Brook Street. There will be 50 real ales and ciders, music and food. Entry is £3 for Thursday and Saturday; £4 on Friday and free (with the beer festival glass) on Sunday. All money raised will go towards supporting Caritas Care's services, including supporting people with disabilities.
PAID: Walk The Big One, Blackpool September 30
For £50 guests can walk up the 420 steps to the top of one of Europe's biggest roller coasters at Blackpool Pleasure Beach and take in the views from the summit of the 42-acre amusement park. The walks can be booked in advance at www.blackpoolpleasurebeach.com. There is a maximum of six climbers per walk and there will be two or three climbs on each event. Every climber will receive an exclusive certificate.
PAID: Gin Festival, Lancaster, September 30 to October 1
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Hide AdThe Gin Society will be hosting the event at Lancaster Town Hall, offering a selection of the world's finest gins. There will be music and dancing from A Train Swing and distillers will be sharing their skills in a series of masterclasses.
Tickets for the evening events are £7.50 plus booking fee. To book tickets visit http://www.theginsocietyfestival-lancaster.eventbrite.co.uk
FREE: Blackpool World Fireworks Championships, Friday September 30
The World Fireworks Championship culminates on September 30 with the celebration display by the UK and the announcement of the winner. Teams from Australia, Slovakia and the United States have competed compete, along with the UK's Titanium Fireworks. The event starts from 7.30pm, with the first fireworks firing from 8.30pm - weather permitting.
PAID: Farmaggedon, Ormskirk, Saturday October 1
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Hide AdFarmaggedon is an interactive horror experience at Flatmans Lane. Downholland, Ormskirk. The park is themed with roaming zombies and creatures of the night. There are three interactive scare houses including: Contagion 3D, Meat Locker and Terror of the Farm plus a paintball experience, Zombie Outlaw. Tickets are from £16, To book online visit www.farmaggedon.co.uk. On various days throughout the month.
FREE: Pemberton Festival, Wigan, Saturday October 1
As part of Pemberton Festival, there will be a large community and festival day on Church Street, Pemberton, from 10am to 3pm.
The event includes fair rides, farm animals, scarecrow making, live music, games, face paining, bouncy castle, poetry, and organ recitals. There will also be a "cake off" from 11am to 4pm at Trinity Methodist Hall, with a cake competition, cream teas and cake stalls.
FREE: Open Studio, Rossendale, Sunday October 2
Rossendale Artists' Open Studios, at Horse and Bamboo Theatre, in Bacup Road, Waterfoot, will be open for visitors to look around on Sunday, from 11am until 5pm. Guests can see puppets being made for its new Hansel and Gretel and for Babies Overboard; look through the storehouse of masks and puppets, and have a go at puppet making. The Emrys Morgan exhibition will also be open.
FREE: Craft and Gift Fair, Lytham, Saturday October 1
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Hide AdFamilies are invited to a craft and gift fair at Assembly Rooms, Dicconson Terrace, Lytham, from 11am until 4pm.
Stalls include type writer art, jewellery, vintage, aloe products, textiles, hot and cold drinks, cakes and much more.
Come along and see what you can find.
Entry is free.
The next craft and gift fair will be on December 10.


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Michael Fassbender: Portraying An Addict's 'Shame'
In the past year, actor Michael Fassbender has played a mutant villain in X-Men: First Class, psychoanalyst Carl Jung in A Dangerous Method, Mr. Rochester in Jane Eyre and a sex addict in Shame.
It was his role in Shame that recently earned Fassbender a string of accolades, including Best Actor nominations at the Golden Globes and a variety of critics associations.
Fassbender plays a sex-addicted New York executive named Brandon Sullivan, whose physical and psychological hungers drive him to frequent hookers, Internet porn, casual sex joints and porn shops — all with reckless abandon and seemingly no sense of pleasure.
"It would be a similar circumstance if you make a parallel to an alcoholic," Fassbender tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. "An alcoholic doesn't enjoy a drink, but it gets to a point where when you wake up in the morning, you have to get a bottle of liquor in your system just in order to function. ... The addiction totally takes over so the pleasure center dwindles, and it's more about satisfying the compulsion. That's the scenario with Brandon."
To study for the role, Fassbender met with recovering sex addicts, who gave him insights about their ongoing issues related to intimacy and exhibitionism. He also thought deeply about how to make sex scenes for the film that weren't titillating.
"I did take each individual sex scene as a way for me to show the audience what was going on inside my character's head," he says. "[In one sequence] you kind of see everything combined — the need for the hit, the desperation, the self-loathing, the lust — so that helped me get over the embarrassment of being naked and performing these compromising positions. I really wanted to concentrate on what the character was going through."
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On starring in four movies in the past year
"The way that I work is that when I'm involved in something, I get really intensely involved in that, but then I'm pretty good at washing it away once I finish it. ... It's no longer in my psyche. Of course, there are some things that might be in the subconscious that I might use or recall later. But, really, I was dealing with Jung in that time frame, and then I had to go and manipulate metal a little bit [for X-Men], and then we were doing Shame after X-Men. By the time I got to Shame, I wasn't really thinking at all about Carl Jung. It was just then about getting inside of the character."
On porn
"I've watched porn, yeah. I suppose the difference between my teenage porn experiences and today ... is this sort of access. When I was 15 and trying to get to the top shelf without being caught and then having to muster up the courage to get to the counter to pay for whatever it was — magazine or DVD — you have to deal with the shame there and then. Now, you're a couple of clicks away and there's millions of options."
On starring in the period films Jane Eyre and A Dangerous Method
"The main thing for me with them was use of vocabulary: articulation especially within the academic world. If you didn't have a command of the language that you discoursed in, then you wouldn't survive. ... I always think that the dialogue in the script is like a piece of music, and that's another reason why I keep repeating it. It's like a scale, trying to unlock the different rhythms. Once you've done all that and you concentrate in that, you want to throw it away because at the end of the day, yes, the people behave differently, the etiquettes are different, but essentially, they're exactly the same."
On playing Mr. Rochester in Jane Eyre
"I really wanted to focus on ... the fact that Rochester talks on an equal level with the governess alone would have been not good in that time period. That was not the done thing. And the fact that he is a sort of rebel within that, he does not like this social class that he's a part of, and you can see that in his awkwardness when Blanche comes and he's courting her. He finds the people ugly, and the intellectual side of him is there. ... He really needs her more than she needs him. She has the capability of saving him. He's a closed sort of package, because the times he has opened himself up, he's got burnt pretty badly, so he prefers to keep a cold exterior on things and protect himself. ... I saw him as a bipolar character, and I went with that idea."


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Oberlo has a number of distributors that supply car parts and accessories. There is a range of products offered by distributors under the category of car parts and accessories. These products include car seat storage bags, car seat back hooks, luminous car parking cards, radio receiver tuner with FM transmitter, car Bluetooth speakerphone, and many other car accessories. Staying competitive in the automotive parts industry can be a challenge for distributors. That's why car accessory and parts distributors need to have trustworthy technology in place so that they can build a long lasting relationship with their customer. In order to maintain a strong competitive advantage, distributors not only need to keep an eye open for new technology but also to increase product availability.
Who Are the Main Manufacturers of Car Parts?
Car parts is a huge industry. Mainly, the manufacturers of car parts and accessories are located in China (Mainland), Taiwan, and Japan. These countries supply 99%, 1%, and 1% of the Chinese car parts respectively. As for the demand, it is highest in the Middle East, South America, and in China itself. Quality control is of high importance when it comes to the manufacturing of car parts. This is the basis on which long term relations can be built with customers. Most of the car parts used by manufacturers include the use of materials such as aluminum panels, plastic parts, glass, steel pipes and so on.
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Shopify has many marketplaces that enable you to find car parts and accessories to sell online.
What's more, some marketplaces automatically select the cheapest shipping method for you. Since some suppliers offer several shipping methods, you can click on the shipping option and choose your preferred one.


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An artist friend of mine enlists a poet to name her work. Generally my names flow naturally, but when all else fails a husband with a gift for alliterative riffs can prove helpful. Naming a series is of greater import than an individual painting as the title must capture the purpose and meaning of a broad body of work.
My husband was responsible for titling my family history series Putting a Face on Family History, a name with a certain alliterative resonance. It also carried a deeper meaning for I was getting to know my ancestors as I painted them.
When I developed my series on how Lithuania was rewriting the history of the Holocaust, I was struck by the sheer silence on the topic. The Silence Speaks Loudly came out of that awareness. My series on the former Jewish community of Radom, Poland had many layers. I had been reading time travel literature which seemed to focus on stepping through a hole in time. I had also decided to paint the series in a style based on a pinhole camera photograph. My source material was a 1937 film of the former Jewish community so a Hole in Time fit on many levels.
My most recent series, the Jewish Identity and Legacy series is more of a working title. The scope of the stories is much broader and harder to capture with one title. I also didn't know quite where it would take me when I began it as I had to complete 17 interviews before I began the paintings. I have found that many of the stories related to immigration, but also the connections between all of those of Jewish heritage. When I interviewed a Ukrainian woman who came over after the demise of the Soviet Union, I realized that my story and hers were only separated by the fact that my family left the Ukraine in the early part of the 1900s. Had they stayed we would have the same story, assuming my family had managed to find safety during the Holocaust. That knowledge could lead to a title for a show in the vein of When We Came or Had They Stayed as that is really the only difference between the experience of the early immigrant communities, survivors and Jews from the former Soviet Union. I am always looking for the uniting thread that applies to all paintings in the series.
After I name a series, I then have to name each painting. Some titles are generally descriptive while other have greater depth. I like many of the titles of my paintings in my Lithuania series because of the meaning they convey. One of my favorites is Buried Truths, a painting based on a true story of a witness to the Holocaust who wrote about what he observed each day and buried what he wrote in jars in the forest. I liked the idea of truth being buried, but eventually sprouting. The painting I Was Here took some debate on my part. The painting is of a face superimposed on the wall of a holding cell and the script inscribed on that wall, the night before the resident met his death. Was it I Was Here or We Were Here? I opted for the individuality of I as carving one's name into a wall is an act of individuality.
The painting Shalom Aleichem is composed of many stories, much like the author who shares its name. Our parting remark to the woman who told us the stories embedded in the painting was also Shalom Aleichem. The woman who owned a Lithuanian restaurant had told us of the ghostlike figures they had witnessed when renovating their space in the former ghetto. We told her if she saw them again to say Shalom Aleichem which means Go In Peace. When I tell the stories I always end with that one and then note the name of this piece playing off the words peace and piece.
The names of paintings in the Identity and Legacy series tend to evolve out of the stories on which they are based. Sometimes the name comes before anything else. When I painted Hana's story of being on the Kindertransport, I remembered her telling me that she knew something had happened to her parents because "everything stopped" and she ceased to receive Red Cross letters from her family. They had met their death in Auschwitz. The painting became Everything Stopped and helped me find the imagery within it.
Often the title distills the story and only is known after the process of distillation that leads to the painting. From Her Mother came as I realized that the central theme of many stories was the handing down of tradition from each mother to her daughter.
When I did a painting on the old Brochin's grocery/deli, I thought of a quote by its founder. With food on one side and Jewish books, newspapers and prayer shawls on the other he said he sought to feed the mind and the stomach. Mind and Stomach didn't flow so it became Body and Soul.
The husband of the Brochin daughter, who I interviewed together with his wife, was trained as a chemist and part of his story was his long and fulfilling marriage. I used a chemistry motif of flasks and vials containing stories as well as their shadow memory. At the top of the painting was his hand clasping that of his wife, a gesture that touched me and which represented a fundamental part of his story. The title became A Matter of Chemistry.
To a wordsmith and storyteller, naming matters. Hopefully it leaves you with the central idea that the work is trying to convey, the essence.
*The Jewish Artists' Laboratory is an arts initiative through the Sabes Jewish Community Center featuring 17 artists exploring the theme of Text/Context/Subtext through study and art making. The project is funded through The Covenant Foundation and similar projects are being done in both Milwaukee and Madison. Artists explore how the theme of Text/Context/Subtext is relevant to Jews and non-Jews, to religious and non-religious, to the community and to the individual, to the artist and the non-artist.


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Brit Wants Therapeutic Visitation
TMZ has learned Britney Spears' lawyers will go to court tomorrow and ask Commissioner Scott Gordon to allow Brit "monitored visitation in a therapeutic setting."
TMZ has learned Brit's family and professionals in her life have been planning a "creative way" to get Britney mental help. As TMZ first reported, Britney has some sort of bipolar disorder. We know the plan is not involuntary commitment -- under the law she's simply not a candidate. It's not voluntarily commitment either -- Brit has refused to do that. The family and professionals have devised a different way of getting her evaluated and hopefully treated.
But there's a rub, which we'll explain in the next post.
The hearing is scheduled for tomorrow at 8:30 AM. Don't know if Brit and K-Fed will show, but it's certainly not out of the question.


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The Trudeau government is launching public consultations on how best to respond to a court ruling that concluded it's unconstitutional to allow only Canadians who are already near death to seek medical assistance to end their suffering.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said the government accepts the Sept. 11 ruling of the Superior Court of Quebec and will amend the federal law accordingly.
But while the government has agreed to eliminate the near-death requirement, its consultation questionnaire suggests other hurdles could be imposed to ensure what it considers to be a balance between a person's right to choose to end their life and protecting vulnerable individuals who could be pressured into an early death.
Under the court ruling, it has until March 11 to amend the law.
Canadians will have until Jan. 27 to offer their views on how the law should be amended through the online questionnaire being launched on Monday.
At the same time, Justice Minister David Lametti, Health Minister Patty Hajdu and Disability Inclusion Minister Carla Qualtrough will be holding roundtables and meetings with stakeholders and other key actors.
The ruling came on the first day of the federal election campaign last fall.
Justice Christine Baudouin ruled that it is unconstitutional for the federal law to restrict eligibility for a medically assisted death to those whose natural death is "reasonably foreseeable." She similarly said it's unconstitutional for Quebec, which has its own assisted dying law, to limit eligibility to those who are at the "end of life."
The ruling technically applies only in Quebec but, since the Trudeau government declined to appeal the decision, any amendments will apply across the country.
The federal law went into effect in June 2016, following a landmark Supreme Court of Canada ruling that struck down the previous prohibition on medical assistance in dying.
The online questionnaire asks people to consider what safeguards should be put in place to prevent abuse if the foreseeable death requirement is removed from the law.
Among other things, it asks people to consider whether:
— The current 10-day period of reflection between requesting and receiving a medically assisted death should be increased.
— The law should require that both the medical practitioner and patient agree that other reasonable treatments and options to relieve suffering have been tried without success.
— Mandatory psychological or psychiatric assessments should be required to determined capacity to consent.
— Mandatory consultation with an expert in a person's medical condition should be required, in addition to the current mandatory two medical assessments.
READ MORE: Disability rights organization 'distressed' about medically assisted death at B.C. hospital
While the public consultations are aimed primarily at how to respond to the Quebec court ruling, they will also dip into broader issues that were excluded in the new law and which must be considered as part of a parliamentary review of the law that is to begin this summer.
Joan Bryden, The Canadian Press


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Companies offering anonymous Web browsing and communication services are seeing a huge increase in business since recent news leaks about the U.S. National Security Agency's mass data collection and surveillance activities.
Disconnect Search, an anonymous Web search service that launched Monday, had more than 400,000 searches by users by Thursday morning, said Casey Oppenheim, its co-founder. Disconnect, which also offers users a service to block companies from tracking them online, started working on Disconnect Search more than a year ago, before the first leaks from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden were published in June.
But Oppenheim believes the continuing revelations about NSA data collection are driving users to the search service, he said by email. Web searches are among the most personal information that companies or the government could collect about someone, he said.
"In comparison to search surveillance, I'd probably rather have my phone tapped or my email tracked because I'm filtering myself when I communicate with others in those ways," he said. "Most people don't filter their searches and don't understand how their queries are being tracked, saved, and turned into profiles that are associated with their real names and/or their IP address."
Disconnect Search, a browser extension, allows Web users to continue to use their search engine of choice, but the service routes search queries through Disconnect's servers. The service also prevents search engines from passing keywords to sites that are visited from the search engine's results, and it encrypts all queries.
Another anonymous search service, DuckDuckGo, has seen a steep increase in searches since the Snowden leaks. In May, the month before the first Snowden leaks were published, DuckDuckGo users searched 54.4 million times. In September, users searched 116.7 million times, said a spokesman for the company. DuckDuckGo doesn't collect or store personal information, meaning it doesn't know how many users it has.
Tor, the anonymous browsing project, also has seen a steep increase in use since the Snowden leaks, but it's not easy to determine how much interest the NSA leaks are driving to the project, said Roger Dingledine, Tor project leader.
Tor's user graphs show a spike in mid-August, but that's because a "five-million-node botnet signed up its victims to be Tor clients," Dingledine said.
"We've certainly seen anecdotal growth in interest in Tor, but we don't have any stats to show that more people are using it than before," he added.
Silent Circle, an encrypted communications company co-founded by PGP creator Phil Zimmermann, has also seen an increase in interest since the NSA leaks, but the company didn't immediately have hard numbers.
In fact, Silent Circle decided to close down its secure email service shortly after learning that Lavabit, a secure email service used by Snowden, suspended operations instead of complying with U.S. government demands to turn over its Secure Sockets Layer private key.
Silent Circle, which continues to offer other encrypted communication services, shut down its email service without warning customers out of concerns that it would face similar government demands, said Jim Burrows, the company's vice president of engineering.
"We knew that there would be a fight eventually, that someone would want us to put a backdoor, a Trojan horse in, for law enforcement," Burrows said Wednesday at a Cato Institute event on NSA surveillance. "To suddenly see Lavabit go ... 'I'm going to close a company that's been open for 10 years because I've been put in an untenable position,' that's been really the hard thing."
The NSA or other government agencies that demand secure communications companies install backdoors are putting them in impossible positions, said Chris Soghoian, principal technologist and a senior policy analyst at the American Civil Liberties Union's Speech, Privacy and Technology Project.
"When the U.S. comes to a company like Lavabit and compels them to hand over their encryption keys, that is a death sentence to that company," he said at the Cato event. "If they comply, their reputation would be destroyed. Or, they could refuse to comply and shut down the service, and then they are dead, too."
Using an anonymizing service may not ultimately prevent the U.S. government from seeing your data, although it should make it more difficult, said Disconnect's Oppenheim, who has a former NSA engineer as the company's CTO.
Disconnect Search's FAQ includes information about possible government searches.
"The reality is the U.S. government may force us to begin logging the search queries of a particular user or group of users," the FAQ said. "If served with a court order that includes a non-disclosure provision, we may not be able to tell our users about this change for some period of time, possibly forever. And the U.S. government may also have other methods of monitoring user searches which Disconnect Search cannot prevent. "
The service uses encryption and other methods to anonymize searches, the FAQ adds. "We do not log or otherwise save user search queries," the FAQ reads. "This makes it impossible for us to share a user's Disconnect Search queries with the U.S. government without a valid court order that requires us to change our technology."
But the FAQ also includes this warning: "Based on recent revelations, people shouldn't assume that any organization can prevent the US government from accessing user searches."
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For Michael Vick and the Philadelphia Eagles, more misery.
Brees threw two touchdown passes, extending his NFL record streak to 51 games, and Patrick Robinson returned an interception 99 yards for a score to lead the Saints to a 28-13 win over the reeling Eagles on Monday night.
New Orleans (3-5), which bounced back from a dismal 34-14 loss at Denver, also got a 22-yard touchdown run from Chris Ivory.
The Eagles (3-5) lost their fourth straight, which is sure to keep the heat on Vick and embattled coach Andy Reid. Vick threw a 77-yard touchdown pass to DeSean Jackson in the third quarter, but that was about the only highlight for the visiting team which saw Vick sacked seven times.
Not that they didn't have their chances. The Eagles had first-and-goal four times and managed only two field goals by Alex Henery. In fact, they were outscored in those situations, with Robinson going the other way for a touchdown just when it looked like Philadelphia was on the verge of scoring.
Rubbing salt in the wound, Philadelphia squandered a chance to get back in the game with a brilliant trick play on a kickoff return. Riley Cooper laid flat in the end zone, unseen by the Saints, then popped up to take a cross-field lateral from Brandon Boykin.
Cooper streaked down the sideline for an apparent touchdown. Only one problem - Boykin's lateral was actually a forward pass by about a yard, ruining the play with a penalty. Cooper stood with his hands on his hips, in disbelief, as the officials brought it back.
Philadelphia finished with 447 yards - the eighth straight team to put up more than 400 yards on the Saints. That was already the longest streak of 400-yard games given up by a defense since at least 1950, and maybe in the history of the NFL, putting New Orleans on pace to shatter the record for most yards allowed in a season.
But New Orleans came through where it mattered most, giving up a season low in points. Their previous best was a 31-24 victory over San Diego.
Philadelphia's last gasp was a fourth-down pass that Vick threw away in the back of the end zone with 7 seconds left, apparently more concerned about avoiding another pick than tacking on a meaningless TD.
Brees kept his record touchdown streak going, hooking up with Marques Colston on a 1-yard scoring pass and Jimmy Graham from 6 yards out.
The Saints quarterback finished 21 of 27 for 239 yards, a big improvement on his 22-of-42 showing against the Broncos. Brees also got plenty of help from the running game, which came into the league ranked last in the league.
Ivory, Pierre Thomas and Mark Ingram combined for 136 yards, each breaking off double-digit gains.
The embattled Saints defense kept the heat on Vick and the beating made it tough for No. 7 to establish any rhythm. He finished 22 of 41 for 272 yards and really couldn't be blamed for Robinson's interception, which went off the hands of tight end Brent Celek.
Celek had a tough night. He also lost a fumble deep at the New Orleans 8 with just over 3 minutes remaining, essentially ending any hope of a Philadelphia comeback.


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TUESDAY, July 9, 2013 (HealthDay News) -- When workplace stress spills over into your personal life, your family's well-being can also suffer, new evidence suggests.
A recent conference on work, stress and health, sponsored in part by the U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, included research on family-supportive workplaces and the influence of supervisors -- good or bad -- on employee health.
"Survey results vary, but you can find that large numbers of individuals report that work is the biggest source of stress in their life," said Michael Ford, an assistant professor of psychology at the University at Albany-State University of New York.
"At the same time, everybody has a life outside of work," Ford said. "So we need to continue to understand how this affects the psychological and physical well-being of the population as well. I think it's something that a lot of people can relate to."
Another presenter at the Los Angeles conference explained that when it comes to work-related stress, health consequences are wide-ranging. Leslie Hammer is a professor of psychology at Portland State University in Oregon, and director of the Center for Work -- Family Stress, Safety and Health.
"With high levels of job stress and work-life stress, we see mental health problems," Hammer said. "We see increased levels of depressive symptoms. We also see increased levels of negative health outcomes. Cardiovascular disease has been a clear link with job strain. We see obesity problems. We see general physical health complaints."
Positive health behaviors can fall by the wayside, she added.
"When people are stressed at work, when their supervisors are really not supportive around work-life issues, we are seeing more negative health behaviors in the sense of poor food choices, lower levels of exercise, poor sleep hygiene," Hammer said.
Work stress takes a toll on relationships as well.
"Marriage quality is definitely impacted," Hammer said. "That relationship quality goes down. When one experiences negative stress/strain, work-life stress, that ends up crossing over to their partner or spouse or children, and it results in similar stress and strain among those family members."
In Ford's study comparing American and Chinese workplaces, he found that people in supportive work environments tend, in turn, to be more supportive of their spouses.
Hammer said, "In the research literature there's correlational evidence that when parents are more stressed, kids are more stressed. Kids experience that stress, and it comes out in terms of health compliance, it comes out in terms of behavioral difficulties."
Managers and supervisors are a primary source of work support -- or work stress.
"Lack of support or abusiveness of the supervisor can spill over into home life, both in terms of the time and energy that it takes away from people, but also if it affects their mood," Ford said. "That can, of course, potentially affect the life of your family members."
What separates good and bad supervisors?
An unsupportive manager, Hammer said, "will have a complete disregard for workers' own non-work needs."
"Sometimes bad bosses post schedules at the last minute so that people who have family responsibilities or non-work responsibilities -- anything, not just family -- have to readjust their whole non-work lives around their work schedules," she said. "When supervisors basically don't allow for schedule control and control over work, that leads to high levels of stress."
Hammer and colleague Ellen Kossek at Michigan State University train supervisors to be more family-supportive and are completing large-scale research on the training's effects.
"First of all, training focuses on providing emotional support," Hammer said. "Teaching supervisors [that] simply listening to your employees and paying attention and showing that you care is incredibly helpful. It's not rocket science, but what we find is many supervisors don't do these things."
The training starts with a workforce survey, which usually reveals a disconnect: When it comes to work-family conflict, managers tend to think they're more supportive than workers perceive them to be.
Supervisors can contribute to a healthier atmosphere by demonstrating their own work-life balance "in the sense that they are taking care of their own work, life and family integration and that, for example, they take time off to go to their kid's basketball or baseball game," Hammer said.
One challenge is convincing organizations that being family-supportive means the work still gets done.
"Employers are paying for health care and employers are taking a hit when workers are absent, and what we see are higher levels of stress related to higher levels of absenteeism and higher levels of health complaints and health problems," Hammer said. "Employers can be paying attention and understanding what they can do to help alleviate that stress. It will help their bottom line as well as help employees' health and well-being outcomes."
More information
The Work, Family & Health Network lists a variety of family resources.


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.Jon Bafus is a local resident and has been deeply involved in the music scene. He was a longtime resident of a house on A Street with Tiffany Snell and the cat known as Puff Pants. He goes by the name Gentleman Surfer for his solo avant garde drum act. He originated the local act Afternoon Brother with Michael RJ Saalman. He has played with numerous local and regional acts such as Appetite, Mucky the Ducky, and Sholi.
Locally-filmed music video
Gonzalo Eyzaguirre directed, filmed, and edited Jon's video for his song "Sweep Tactics." It was filmed in Midtown Sacramento at an artists collective studio-warehouse and featured individuals like Seann Johannson.
Behind the scenes
Photos by Elise Kane


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In the NFL, coaches will spend time in the film room studying the schemes of the most productive teams from the previous season to see if there is a tactic that can be copied and implemented into their respective playbooks.
Given the success of the New England Patriots offense behind the tight-end tandem of Aaron Hernandez and Rob Gronkowski, more teams are implementing two-tight end packages into their game plans.
For instance, teams like the Indianapolis Colts, Cincinnati Bengals, San Diego Chargers and Chicago Bears acquired tight ends in the draft with the intention of utilizing more multiple-tight end formations in 2012. The Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks added talented veteran tight ends to their rosters to provide their offensive coordinators with the flexibility to use more double-tight end sets.
With the two-tight end package set to take the league by storm, here are three reasons why the strategy poses problems for the defense:
1. The use of "12" personnel neutralizes the effectiveness of eight-man fronts against the run.
Offensive coordinators originally broached the idea of using "12" personnel to counter the eight-man fronts utilized by defensive coaches to stop the run. Defenses routinely drop an extra defender into the box to fill the eight gaps along the front line (each area between two offensive linemen/tight end is considered a gap and defenders are assigned a gap responsibility in a one-gap scheme). Against two-back formations, the addition of an extra defender gives the defense a numerical advantage at the point of attack, ensuring a free defender to the ball.
However, the deployment of multiple tight ends along the line of scrimmage nullifies that advantage and creates big-play opportunities in the run game.
For instance, if the offense aligns in an "Ace" formation, with the tight ends aligned at both ends to create a balanced formation, the defense is unable to gain an edge by dropping an eighth defender into the box. Without a free defender to run unimpeded to the ball carrier, the defensive coordinator must reconfigure the alignments of his front-line defenders to fill some of the gaps at the point of attack.
Offensive coordinators are also incorporating more "Tight-Wing" formations with both tight ends aligned on the same side to create an advantage in the running game. By aligning two tight ends on same side in a tight alignment, the defense is vulnerable on the edge (tight side) due to a potential double team by the ends on the outside force player.
In addition, the defense is also vulnerable to counters and traps to the open side (away from the tight end) with the Wing player pulling across the formation to kick out an unsuspecting defender on the interior. New England successfully used the tactic to spring their runners for big gains on inside runs, so others will certainly attempt to follow suit by incorporating more Tight Wing runs into their game plans.
2. Formation flexibility with "12" personnel poses problems defending the passing game.
One of the benefits of utilizing "12" personnel is the ability for the offense to utilize a variety of base and spread formations without shuttling different personnel into the game. The H-back plays the role of a fullback, wide receiver or second tight end in the package, aligning in various spots within the formation to create problems for the defense. Offensive coordinators are tapping into that versatility by featuring a variety of open formations with the tight end deployed as quasi-receivers. By opening the formation, the offensive coordinator makes it easy for the quarterback to diagnose the coverage and creates potential mismatches in space.
In the example below from the Patriots' Week 17 game against the Buffalo Bills, New England is in a "Dubs" formation with Gronkowski aligned in the slot on the right and Wes Welker in a stack position on the outside. On the left, Hernandez is in a stack alignment behind Tijuan Underwood in the slot. By displacing both tight ends away from the line, the Patriots are able to quickly identify the coverage based on the alignments of the linebackers and defensive backs. If the corners are matched up with the wide receivers, Tom Brady knows the Bills are locked in man coverage and he can audible to an effective route combination to exploit the scheme.
Offensive coordinators are also incorporating the use of "Empty" formations with "12" personnel to create favorable matchups. In the example from Super Bowl XLVI against the New York Giants, the Patriots emptied the formation with Deion Branch and Welker aligned on the left and BenJarvus Green-Ellis, Gronkowski and Hernandez deployed on the right. Hernandez is positioned as the No. 3 receiver to get an isolated matchup with Chase Blackburn over the middle of the field.
The route-design calls for clear-out routes from Welker and Gronkowski on the hashes, creating space for Hernandez to slip past Blackburn following a stutter move on an option route. With a new wave of athletic tight ends capable of winning isolated matchups, offensive coordinators around the league will continue to utilize spread formations to create big-play opportunities in the passing game.
3. The size and athleticism of the "move" tight end creates matchup problems for defensive coordinators.
As more teams start to incorporate double-tight end packages into their game plans, the H-back or "move" tight end becomes a bigger weapon in the passing game. Teams are adding basketball player-types at the position, and the combination of size and athleticism puts defensive coordinators in a quandary when determining how to match up with the package.
If the defense remains in base personnel, the H-back enjoys a significant advantage over a linebacker lacking the agility to stay close in coverage. If the defensive coordinator uses nickel personnel, the H-back uses his superior size to post up smaller defenders in space.
In the past, offensive coordinators would employ this tactic primarily in the red zone, but more play-callers are taking advantage of these matchups by aligning the tight end in a wide position to get him isolated on linebackers or defensive backs in space. The quarterback will capitalize on the matchup by targeting the tight end on fades (back-shoulder fades) and slants. Given the superior size advantage, this becomes a high-percentage throw that is nearly indefensible.
Teams like the Green Bay Packers and New Orleans Saints routinely utilize this tactic to get the ball into the hands of Jermichael Finley and Jimmy Graham, and others will certainly follow suit with athletic tight ends emerging as prominent playmakers in the passing game.
Follow Bucky Brooks on Twitter @BuckyBrooks.