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The 13th FAI World Paragliding Championship came to an end in Sopot, Bulgaria, on July 26th.
The French are the big winners with the Overall and Team titles. Poland takes the Women title.
Thanks to the organisers for their very good work and website. The following excerpts are taken from it.
"During this main paragliding event of the year 2013 we had 5 unique tasks. Each task had its special weather conditions. From first task with absolutely covered sky and slow thermals till final fifths race with strong sunny conditions which are really common for Sopot actually at this time. Each day weather became stronger requiring more and more speedy flying manner and skills from pilots. But exactly those who were able to show best self control and ability to make independent decisions and "read" weather could set the advantage from the first competition day and keep it till the end of this great championship."
"These pilots demonstrated an outstanding ability not to follow the mass instincts and judge rationally. This helped them to get advantage in the first most difficult task. And later all they had to do just to keep their achievements."
"During all the races we witnessed the acute competition of Klaudia Bulgakow and Seiko Fukuoka. Klaudia had a win! The third place belongs to a famous Italian pilot Nicole Fedele. Congratulations and applause for these brave ladies!"
"The stable fine positions of French pilots during the race have brought them a deserved victory. The Italian team has won the second place due to excellent flights of its members who twice were first in the Task results. Venezuela team have deserved the third winning place by its incomparably vivacious team spirit!"
See more at:http://airtribune.com/13-fai-world-paragliding-championship


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Most of the Newspaper articles dealing with the subject have focused on the Pakistani origins of the perpetrators and the politically correct cultural shield which protected them. These things are irrelevant in my mind. Young children are being abused every day in similar circumstances. The fact that the Pakistanis seemed to be better organised and more "efficient" in their abuse than the average British thug does not take away from the fact the supervising authorities failed miserably in their duty of care to the children.
It appears that despite three internal investigations, no one in any senior position was aware of the the depravity of the situation. Not that these same supervisory authorities were incapable of acting quickly when notified of "genuine" danger. Or when a Christian gets accused of sexual abuse.
What really stinks is that there are no consequences. The South Yorkshire Council, which is a cesspit of Labour slime, are going to hold out till the controversy blows over, paid job and pension guaranteed. The Conservative government apparently can't dismiss town functionaries whose exercise of office is criminally negligent, though it doesn't even seem to care about doing so.
Speaking today in Dumfries, Mrs May (Ed: The Home Secretary) said it was not her job to select or dismiss police and crime commissioners but appeared to suggest he should heed calls from his own party to go.WTF? I mean what use is there having any "conservatives" in power if they can't clear the worst excess of the Left from office? Why is it that the Left can pretty much flout any convention, not be held to any standards, commit blatant fraud and rest assured that when conservatives are in power they have nothing to fear. I mean 1400 girls were sexually abused under their watch. How bad does it have to get?
And what about politics? Are the Conservatives so limpid in their vision that they don't want to exploit the situation to their political advantage? I mean where is "fire in the belly" and the desire to wipe the bastards out. Absolutely nothing. How does such dross rise to the top of the Conservative establishment? Is there not one intelligent conservative in England? Not that the Left's own instinct for survival is diminished. It immediately went into damage control mode and sacrificed the Police Commissioner, a paid member of the Labour party. The Left seems to act whilst the Conservatives dither.


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The new USB Power Deliver (USB-PD) standard and several associated standards put USB on a path to being the universal electronics connector, replacing even the power adapter for notebooks. A greater variety of power levels allow it to control and power many more devices, including HDTV, than current standard connectors.
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Last month, the USB 3.0 Promoter Group announced a new 100-watt power delivery standard called USB Power Delivery (USB-PD). This is a massive improvement from the existing 2.5-watt capability and even the unsupported 10.5-watt devices on the market such as the iPad. With USB-PD, and the new Mobile High-Definition Link (MHL)-USB standard, which lets USB ports connect to high-definition monitors, USB is poised to become a universal three-in-one connector for tablets and notebooks.
The newest MHL-enabled smartphones--and soon tablets--have already implemented this three-in-one capability with a consolidated Micro-USB connector. A $10 MHL USB-HDMI adapter allows these smartphones to connect to existing HDTVs or LCDs that have HDMI ports. But until now, this capability had been missing from notebooks because of the inadequate power supplied by the old USB standard and the lack of MHL support. With USB-PD and MHL, gone will be the bulky HDMI ports and proprietary DC power connectors and everything will be consolidated to the existing USB or Micro-USB port.
To understand why the old USB standard was so stingy on power delivery, first we need to know a little bit about current (ampere), voltage (volt), and power (watt). In laymen's terms, current is the amount of electrical charge delivered per second and voltage is the energy potency of that charge. Power is the amount of energy delivered per second. When we multiply current and voltage, we get power in watts.
Many companies inflate their battery capacity by quoting massive amp-hour ratings based on some internal battery voltage of 3.7 volts. The third-generation iPad, for example, claims 11,666 milliamp-hours even though it only contains 43 watt-hours of battery energy which means it can run at something like 4.3 watts for 10 hours. (We derived 43 watt-hours by multiplying 11.666 amp-hours by 3.7 volts.) Yet a 4000 milliamp-hour battery in a notebook such as the ThinkPad X200 contains 57.6 watt-hours of energy because Lenovo bases its amp-hour rating on 14.4 volts. The moral of the story? Higher voltage means more energy bang per amp.
The old USB standard was limited to a maximum voltage of 5 volts and a maximum current of 0.5 amps. Five volts multiplied by 0.5 amps equals 2.5 watts maximum power delivery. Most smartphone makers unofficially bumped the maximum current to 2.1 amps using thicker cabling because they needed to deliver 10.5 watts to charge their power-hungry smartphones. This unsupported configuration was fine with a thicker USB cable but it could potentially cause overheating problems for thinner USB cables designed to push 0.5 amps.
The new USB-PD standard not only bumps up the maximum current to 5 amperes, it also bumps the maximum voltage up to 20 volts. Five amps times 20 volts produces an astounding 100 watts! Twenty volts was selected because nearly all notebook power connectors operate at between 16 and 20 volts. USB-PD eliminates the need for separate power connectors on notebooks and tablets. So not only will the USB port on a notebook be able to support higher-power devices such as external optical drives without the need to daisy chain two USB connectors to double up on power, the same USB port can reverse direction and pull power from an external source such as a battery or wall socket.
Because the USB-PD standard is backward compatible and also needs to be able to support a wide range of lower-power devices, it has the intelligence to detect the cabling and end-point devices to avoid fried circuits and overheated wires. Not all circuits can handle higher voltages and not all wires and connectors can handle higher amperage, so the USB-PD standard supports a wide range of current and voltages through different profiles from which system and device designers can choose:
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As you can see, devices with Micro-USB ports can draw only a maximum of 60 watts due to smaller connectors being limited to 3 amperes. That's still a vast improvement over the existing nonstandard solutions. The third-generation iPad, for example, takes nearly seven hours to charge its relatively large 43 watt-hour battery even though the iPad claims the battery is full an hour before it's actually done charging. If future iPads or other tablets bumped up their voltage to 12 volts or more, they could easily halve the charging time.
The USB-PD standard also can solve other problems such as excessive cabling for TV sets. Set-top boxes could conceivably use a single MHL-USB connector to connect to an HDTV while drawing up to 100 watts of power. The potential flexibility means that USB could become the de facto power connector for all sorts of electronics devices and end our collective DC adapter hell. Wall plates could be replaced with combination AC sockets and USB-PD enabled ports. Many airports already are doing this with normal USB sockets for smaller devices, and you can buy wall plates and power strips with USB. But USB-PD means that the heavy notebook chargers we've lugged around for the last 30 years finally could become a thing of the past.
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WASHINGTON — The OCC today announced changes to its Large Bank Supervision leadership team.
Mike Brosnan will become the Senior Deputy Comptroller for Large Bank Supervision at the end of this year. He replaces Doug Roeder who announced his intention to retire in October. Mr. Brosnan returned to the OCC in 2008 as Deputy Comptroller for Large Bank Supervision after spending four years as a senior executive with MBNA and then Bank of America, following its purchase of that company, adding to the more than 21 years previously served at the OCC. Mr. Brosnan's OCC experience includes service as large bank Examiner-in-Charge, Deputy Comptroller for Risk Evaluation, and Director of Treasury and Market Risk. He also served as Chairman of the OCC's National Risk Committee and the OCC's Steering Committee representative on the President's Working Group for Financial Markets. He first joined the OCC in 1983 in Miami.
Also joining the leadership team are Vance Price and Sally Belshaw who will assume the duties of portfolio managers for our large banks as Deputy Comptrollers for Large Bank Supervision. Most recently Ms. Belshaw served as Examiner-in-Charge of HSBC's national banks, and Mr. Price served as Examiner-in-Charge of Capital One Financial. Ms. Belshaw's OCC experience includes service as examiner-in-charge of two other large banks and various supervisory positions. She joined the OCC in 1980, and was designated a Senior National Bank Examiner in 2005. Mr. Price's OCC experience includes service as Director for Commercial Credit Risk and various supervisory positions. He joined the OCC in 1986.
"Mike, Sally, and Vance join Joe Evers and Delora Jee on a leadership team that brings over 140 years of bank supervision experience to the challenge of ensuring the safety and soundness of our nation's largest national banks" said Acting Comptroller of the Currency John Walsh. "As the supervision of Large Banks evolves in response to regulatory reform and the changing marketplace, the agency and the industry are fortunate to be able to rely on such talented leaders."
Grace Dailey, who currently serves as Deputy Comptroller for Large Bank Supervision, returns to direct supervision of one of our largest banks as Examiner-in-Charge of US Bank in Minnesota.
Large Bank Supervision is responsible for examinations and supervision activities in the largest national banks and federal branches and agencies. The 15 banking companies in this category hold a combined $7.5 trillion in total assets, roughly 88 percent of all national bank assets. In addition, Large Bank Supervision oversees operations of the International Banking Supervision group and the OCC's London Office.
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text: On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Tracy R Reed wrote: > Ok, this is not exactly beowulf or supercomputer related but it is > definitely a form of high performance computing and I am hoping > the beowulf community has applicable experience. > > I am building a box to convert VOIP traffic from H323 to SIP. The system > is an AMD64. Both of these protocols use RTP to transmit the voice data > which means many many small packets. We are currently looking at 8000 > packets per second due to 96 simultaneous voice channels and the box is > already at 50% cpu. I really think this box should be able to handle a lot > more than this. I have seen people talk about proxying 2000 RTP streams on > a P4. We get around 15,000 context switches and 8000 interrupts per second > and the box is heavily loaded and the load average starts going up. Is > 9000 packets per second a lot? I would not have thought so but it is I worked through a lot of the math associated with this sort of thing in a series of columns on TCP/IP and network protocols in CMW over the last 4-5 months. Measurements also help you understand things -- look into * lmbench: http://www.bitkeeper.com * netperf: http://www.netperf.org * netpipe: http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/Projects/NetPIPE/NetPIPE.html as network testing/benchmark tools. IIRC, netperf may actually be the most relevant tool for you with its RR tests, but all of these tools will measure packet latencies. In one of those columns I present the results of measuring 100 BT latency with all three tools, getting a number on the order of 150 usec. The inverse of 1.50 x 10^-4 is 6666 packets per second, using relatively old/slow hardware throughout, so 8000 pps is not at all unreasonable for faster/more modern hardware. Now, you are not alone in looking into this. I found: www.cs.columbia.edu/~dutta/research/sip-ipv6.pdf which looks like it might be relevant to your efforts and maybe would provide you with somebody to collaborate with (I was looking for a description of H23, which is not a protocol I'm familiar with, making it hard to know just what your limits are going to be). > hammering our box. I have applied several of the applicable tuning > suggestions (tcp stuff is not applicable since RTP is all UDP) from: > > http://184.108.40.206/search?q=cache:0VItqrkQdO0J:datatag.web.cern.ch/datatag/howto/tcp.html+linux+maximum+network+buffer+size&hl=en > > but the improvement has been minimal. We have some generic 100Mb ethernet Not surprising. TCP or UDP, if you want to end up with a reliable transmission protocol, you have to include pretty much the same features that are found in TCP anyway, and chances are excellent that unless you really know what you are doing and work very hard, you'll end up with something that is ultimately less efficient and/or reliable than TCP anyway. Besides, a goodly chunk of a latency hit is at the IP level and protocol independent (the wire, the switch, the cards, the kernel interface pre-TCP). In fact, you might be better off running a TCP based protocol and using one of the (relatively) new cards that support onboard TCP and RDMA. That might offload a significant amount of the packet header processing onto a NIC-based co-processor and spare your CPU from having to manage all those interrupts. > chipset in the box. I have seen a number of high performance computing > guys talk about interrupt coalescence in mailing list archives found via > google while researching this problem. Can the Pro 100 card do this or do > I need the 1000? Does it seem likely that if I run down to the store and > pay my $25 for an Intel Pro 1000 card and load up the driver with the > InterruptThrottleRate set (and what is a good value for this?) that I will > get dramatically improved performance? I would do it right now just to see > but the box is in a colo a considerable drive away so I want to have a > good idea that it will work before we make the drive. Ideally I would like > to get 10x (76800pps) the performance out of the box but could settle for > 5x (38400pps). > > Thanks for any tips you can provide! Well, it does seem (if you are indeed using 100BT) that an obvious first thing to try is to go to gigabit ethernet. I don't think it is going to get you out to where you want to go "easily" (or cheaply), but it might get there. For example, here is a pair of dual Opteron 242's using gigabit ethernet in a netperf TCP RR test: Testing with the following command line: ./netperf -l 60 -H s01 -t TCP_RR -i 10,3 -I 99,5 -- -r 1,1 -s 0 -S 0 TCP REQUEST/RESPONSE TEST to s01 : +/-2.5% @ 99% conf. Local /Remote Socket Size Request Resp. Elapsed Trans. Send Recv Size Size Time Rate bytes Bytes bytes bytes secs. per sec 16384 87380 1 1 60.00 17431.26 65536 262142 My dual Opterons (Penguin Altus 1000E's) have integrated dual gigabit ethernet; it is not unlikely that they could sustain close to twice this rate on both channels going flat out at the same time, which would get you to your 35 Kpps just about exactly and would likely give you a bit of change from your processor dollar so that you can actually do things with the packet streams as well while upper/lower half handlers do their thing. However, in a real asynchronous environment where the packets are not just streaming in, your performance will likely be somewhat lower. Note also that your pps (latency) performance will gradually drop as the packets themselves carry more than a single byte of data until they reach the data/wirespeed bounds as opposed to the latency bounds. I'm seeing a 10-20% drop off in the TCP RR results as packet payload sizes get closer to 100 bytes, and would expect them to drop to a rate determined by a mix of the MTU selected and wirespeed as they get out to the MTU and beyond in size. >From this it looks to me like you will have marginally acceptable performance with gigabit ethernet, at best, although I >>am<< using a relatively cheap gigE switch and there are likely switches out there that cost more money that can deliver better switch latency. However, you'll also have the problem of partitioning your data stream onto two switches, and this may or may not be terribly easy. This suggests that you look into faster networks. You haven't mentioned the actual context of the conversion -- how it is being fed a packet stream, where the output packet stream goes. This seems to me to be as much of an issue as "the box" that does the actual conversion. The same limits are going to be in place at ALL LEVELS of the up/down stream networks -- a single host is only going to be able to feed your conversion box at MOST at the rates you measure for an ideal connection at the network you eventually select, very likely degraded, posssibly SIGNIFICANTLY degraded, by asynchronous contention for the resource if you are hammering the conversion box with switched packet streams from twenty or thirty hosts at once. You might actually need to consider an architecture where several hosts accept those incoming packet streams (providing a "high availability" type interface to the outside world, where traffic to the "conversion host" is dynamically rerouted to one of a small farm of conversion servers) and then either distributing the conversion process (probably smartest) or using a faster (lower latency) network to funnel the traffic back to a single conversion host. This is presuming that you can't already use a faster network between the sources of the conversion stream and the conversion host, which seems unlikely unless it is already embedded in an architecture de facto "like" this one. Hope this helps. rgb > > -- > Tracy Reed http://copilotcom.com > This message is cryptographically signed for your protection. > Info: http://copilotconsulting.com/sig > Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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This is literally the easiest technique yet gives such a striking result! Typically we rim the inner waterline with black liner for drama or white/nude liner to open the eyes. But rimming it with a shadow stick opens up tons of different color options and adds another dimension to the look. I chose a metallic bronze shadow stick on Brook above because it's incredibly sultry and stunning against any eye color. Here's all you need to do:
- Sweep a black powder shadow across the lid. You can also include the crease but typically it will travel there over time on its own.
- Sweep the same shadow along your lower lashline.
- Gently pull downwards on your lower lid with one hand and rim the inner waterline with the metallic shadow stick.
- Coat the lashes with mascara.
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ISONAS Announces Full Integration with the New Milestone XProtect IP Video Platform at MIPS 2016 Event
Boulder, CO (PRWEB) February 10, 2016 -- ISONAS Inc., a leading pure IP access control system manufacturer, is proud to announce its participation in the Milestone Integration Platform Symposium (MIPS) 2016 event in Arizona being held February 22nd -25th. ISONAS will be featured as the first access control partner to fully integrate with the Milestone XProtect® Access software module; an add-on capability with Milestone XProtect video management software (VMS) that provides central, local and remote management of video and access control. During last year's MIPS event, ISONAS was the proud winner of the Integration of the Year 2014 Award from Milestone Systems and continues along the same trajectory this year by providing a complete Pure IP solution to customers with a full integration to the Milestone XProtect 2016 platform.
Uniting access control and video for monitoring access events and controlling access points creates many advantages for customers. The integration creates more efficient work processes, as operators can manage video and access control from a unified interface. With the addition of the deep links functionality in the Milestone XProtect 2016 platform, customers have a direct link from XProtect to the ISONAS EasyWeb 2015 web based platform, which creates an even more efficient workflow by allowing customers to move from one application to the other with ease.
"As a member of the Milestone Open Platform Community, we are looking forward to educating our joint customers on the many benefits of upgrading to our XProtect Access integration at MIPS 2016. The implementation of deep links has made the integration of Milestone and ISONAS even more superior and we look forward to opening our customers' eyes to the infinite possibilities of integrating with access control," says Rob Mossman, CEO of ISONAS.
Last year more than 50% of the video surveillance cameras in the North American market were IP cameras. As our world continues to change, there is a need to see events that occur as well as control how they happen. Now that there is an installed base of IP architecture, users expect their access control to do things like their cameras; operate at the edge and eliminate the need for separate power drops. ISONAS Pure IP access control has the ability to meet these customer demands and is driving access control to the next level.
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The scandal of the paedophile children's TV presenter Jimmy Savile has now reached the Royals.
Savile cultivated relationships with senior royals after meeting Prince Charles in the 1970s, and was invited to visit St James's Palace on numerous occasions in the 1980s when he acted as a mediator between Charles and Diana. Charles led tributes to Savile when he died a year ago.Today, Dickie Arbiter, who handled media relations for the Prince and Princess of Wales while spokesman for the Queen between 1988 and 2000, told the UK's Guardian newspaper that Savile's behaviour at St James' Palace was a cause for "concern and suspicion".
"He would walk into the office and do the rounds of the young ladies taking their hands and rubbing his lips all the way up their arms if they were wearing short sleeves," Arbiter said. "If it was summer [and their arms were bare] his bottom lip would curl out and he would run it up their arms. This was at St James's Palace. The women were in their mid to late 20s doing typing and secretarial work."
Asked about Savile's behaviour with the royal assistants or whether Prince Charles had taken any action to find out if anyone in his family or staff might have suffered any abuse or have any information relating to the criminal investigation into Savile's alleged paedophilia, a spokesman for the prince told the Guardian: "We have no record of anyone making a complaint…The prince first met Savile through their shared interest in supporting disability charities [the prince became patron of the British Wheelchair Sports Foundation in the late 1970s] and it was primarily because of this connection that they maintained a relationship in the years that followed."
Arbiter said he struggled to understand why Savile was granted such access to the royal family, "I looked at him as a court jester and told him so," said Arbiter. "I remember calling him an old reprobate and he said 'not so much of the old'."


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Mathematics Colloquium lecture Nov. 12
Adam Fuller, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, will present "From Dynamical Systems to Operator Algebras and Back" as part of the mathematics department Colloquium lecture series at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 12, in 122 Cardwell Hall.
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Operator algebras created from dynamical systems have a long history, almost as old as the theory of operator algebras itself. We use this as a gateway into the theory. In this talk we will discuss introduce the audience to some key ideas in the theory of nonself-adjoint operator algebras, and then apply them to study a class of operator algebras created from a dynamical system. We will then discuss what properties of a dynamical system we can see from its corresponding operator algebra and vice versa. The new results in this talk come from joint work with Davidson and Kakariadis.


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The PCB List panel allows you to display design objects from the active document in tabular format, enabling you to quickly inspect and modify object attributes. When used in conjunction with the PCB Filter Panel, it enables you to display just those objects falling under the scope of the active filter – allowing you to target and edit multiple design objects with greater accuracy and efficiency.
The panel is accessed from the PCB Editor in the following ways:
The panel is divided into two main regions:
Controls at the top of the panel allow you to filter which objects are displayed in the panel and also control the current mode of the panel, allowing you to enable/disable the panel's direct editing functionality.
Click View to select from the following options:
Click on non-masked objects to select from the following options:
Clicking on all types of objects allows you to control the type of objects that can be displayed. Click on the control to open a selection pop-up.
Use the pop-up to choose which object types you want to include in the currently displayed list – either all objects or specific objects. To choose one or more specific object types, enable the Display only option then enable the check box next to the required object(s) in the list beneath. The list will contain only those object types currently displayed in the main spreadsheet region of the panel.
When enabling specific object types for display, the control will reflect the choice by listing the enabled types, separated by commas.
The main region of the panel displays all design objects passing the defined display scope for the panel in tabular format. In addition, all defined Nets, Object Classes and Design Rules are also listed.
Object data is initially unsorted. Data may be sorted by any attribute by clicking on the header for that attribute's column. Clicking once will sort in ascending order. Click again to sort by descending order.
As you select objects in the design space, the corresponding entries for those objects will appear selected in the list. A selected object is distinguished in the list by the use of a highlighted background for all of its cells.
When a filter has been applied based on a query expression entered into the PCB Filter panel, only those objects under the scope of the filter will be shown provided that:
non-masked objects
.If the Select option also has been enabled on the PCB Filter panel, all filtered objects will appear selected in the list.
As you select entries for design objects in the list, those objects will become selected in the design space. The list supports single or multiple selection, the latter using standard Ctrl+Click, Shift+Click and click-and-drag features.
Double-clicking on an entry will open the associated Properties panel for that object in which you can make changes as required. User-defined classes can only be edited with respect to their name. As such, double-clicking on a class entry will have no effect.
You can edit attributes of an object by editing the relevant entry in the panel. Click on a cell to focus it then either right-click then choose Edit or click again to edit the attribute value directly. Depending on the attribute, you will need to either type a value, toggle a checkbox or select an option from a drop-down. The change will take effect once you press Enter or click outside of the field you are editing. This is one of the advantages of using the panel to edit object properties – the panel will remain open, allowing you to change attribute after attribute, as needed, without having to reopen the Properties panel each time.
Another advantage of using the panel for editing is that you can edit multiple objects from one place without having to edit one object at a time. Selected objects can be of the same or differing type. Those attributes that are common to all objects in the selection will be displayed in the panel. Select the required cells – across all required objects – for the shared attribute you want to modify. Then either right-click then choose Edit or press the F2 key (or the Spacebar). You will be able to edit the value for the chosen attribute with respect to the focused object in the selection (whose cell is distinguished by a dotted outline). Click outside the cell or press Enter to make the change, which will subsequently be applied to all remaining objects in the selection.
By using filtering, you can apply a query (an expression for the filter) to target a specific group of objects in the design and then use the panel to edit the attributes for these multiple objects directly.
There are two Smart Grid commands available as right-click options from the PCB List panel. These commands allow you to import and create or update tabular data from any Windows compliant tabular/spreadsheet data, such as an Excel workbook or a table in a PDF document, in the PCB List panel.
The Smart Grid Paste command alters the value of existing objects from pasted tabular data and the Smart Grid Insert command creates new objects from the tabular data. The PCB List panel must be in the Edit mode in order to have copy and paste commands enabled.
There are two ways to update attributes of design objects using the Smart Grid Paste command: updating attributes one at a time with no header data, and updating attributes as a group with header data.
You need to determine whether the tabular data has the Header Row or No Header Row. These options are located at the top right of the Smart Grid Paste dialog. If the tabular data has the header row, then you can map and update multiple attributes in one operation, otherwise you will have to do different attributes one by one.
For example, to change attributes as a group using the smart grid paste tool, copy the data using the Copy With Header command from the right-click pop-up menu from the PCB List panel and paste the tabular data including the header row in an Excel workbook. The updated tabular data from this workbook can then be pasted back into the same PCB List panel using the Smart Grid Paste command from the pop-up menu. Make sure the selected entries in the PCB List panel correspond to the pasted tabular data; however, you can always select the entries first before doing a paste.
Make sure the Header Row option on the top right of the dialog is enabled. The Smart Grid Paste dialog is then updated with the top half of the dialog representing the copied table data, while the bottom half shows the proposed PCB List content. Click the Automatically Determine Paste button to map the attributes from the Clipboard Table View region to the PCB List View region.
All proposed data object mappings set by the Automatically Determine Paste button can be previewed before committing the new attributes to your PCB document. Attributes that are being targeted by the Paste action are marked with a blue flag, and those whose values are changing are marked in a bold font.
You can also use Paste Column to Attribute and Undo Paste to Attribute buttons to selectively update attributes. To restore all the attributes to their original values, click the Reset All button in the Smart Grid Paste dialog.
Similarly, if you copy the tabular data without the row header and update the tabular data in an external spreadsheet then do a smart paste back into the PCB List panel, you can only do a singular update of each attribute. That is, you use the Paste Column to Attribute and Undo Paste to Attribute buttons to update each targeted attribute and to undo this same attribute each time. The proposed changes are not committed to the PCB document until the OK button is pressed.
With the Smart Grid Insert command, you can create new objects using the Smart Grid Insert dialog accessed from the PCB List panel. You must specify the object type in your tabular data before you can successfully insert new objects in the PCB List and its associated PCB document.
The easiest way is to copy the data from the PCB List using the Copy with Header command, make additions/changes in a spreadsheet then insert the updated data back in the PCB List panel. Once the new data objects are mapped from the Clipboard Table View region to the proposed PCB List View region n the Smart Grid Insert dialog, they are flagged with green indicators. Click OK to close the dialog and to create new objects on the PCB document.
For a numerical-based attribute of a selected object, the simplest modification to that attribute's value is made by typing a new value to replace the existing one. The plus and minus operators can be used to specify the value's sign. A value entered without a specified sign is assumed to be positive. Therefore, entering 20 is the same as entering +20.
You can enter specific units of measurement for a value entered. The software will convert the value into the current units defined for the document. If no units are specified, the default units set for the document will be used.
More advanced modification can be achieved by using an arithmetic expression. Simply select the entry for the attribute you wish to modify and type the expression that will be used to modify its value. You can enter any arithmetic expression using any built-in arithmetic operators and functions (found in Pascal).
If you want to use the current value for the attribute as part of the expression, you will need to make reference to this original value, either by using the full name of the attribute, or by using the exclamation character (the supported substitute for the name of the attribute currently being modified). If you want, you may use any other attribute field name in an expression. When using attribute names, if any names contain spaces, these must be replaced by the underscore character.
To illustrate an example of using a simple expression, consider a component, the Height attribute of which is currently 200mil. If you wanted to extend this height to 500mil, you could enter the expression:
Height + 300
or, in shortened form:
! + 300
Note that the spaces are optional. When you press Enter, the value will be updated to 500mil.
If instead you want to reduce the height to 100mil, you could use the subtraction operator as illustrated by the following expressions:
Height - 100
! - 100
To illustrate use of a function, the previous expression could be re-written as:
! - sqr(10)
The result would be the same – a height of 100mil.
By using the attribute's name (or substitution character (!) the previous expressions add to or subtract from the current value for the attribute. Without such entries in the expression, you would be setting the attribute's value to the evaluated result of the expression. For example, if the attribute name or substitution character had been left out of the previous expressions, the resulting value for the component height would have been 300mil and -100mil, respectively.
Again, you can enter specific units of measurement for a value entered into an expression. The software will convert the value into the current units defined for the document. If no units are specified, the default units set for the document will be used.
By selecting multiple objects in the panel, you can change numerical attributes simultaneously using an expression. For example, you may want to adjust the height of a series of components associated with a particular region of the board, or shift components vertically or horizontally by a specific distance.
There are times when you may want to modify a string-based attribute that is common to multiple selected objects. For example, you may want to rename the designators of selected header components from P1, P2, P3
, etc, to HDR1, HDR2, HDR3
, etc. To perform this type of batch replacement, the use of string substitution syntax is supported in the panel.
A string substitution entry is enclosed in braces and has the form:
An entry of this form causes all occurrences of oldstring found in the attribute's value to be replaced with newstring. In the case of the designators, you would select the associated Name attribute cell for each designator, right-click and select Edit (or press F2), and then enter {P=HDR}
in the active value field.
Should you wish to replace multiple, differing string portions in the same target string, type multiple substitution entries each enclosed in its own set of curly braces. For example, consider the following free text strings placed on the PCB of a four port communications switching device, where each port provides for communication with an 8-bit peripheral device:
Now consider having modified the design to allow for communications with 32-bit external peripheral devices. Also, the customer has requested that the Comm prefix be replaced by IO. The free strings now need to be updated, which is where batch string substitution comes into play.
If the intended format of the new strings is to be IOPortx_32, where x represents the port (A, B, C, or D), then you could select the String attribute for the four free strings in the panel, enter Edit mode then enter the following into the active value field:
The software takes this entry and effectively performs a batch substitution – substituting for the first expression then the second.
The PCB List panel offers further support for string modification through its Smart Edit feature. Select the cell entries pertaining to the attribute that you want to modify for all required objects, right-click then choose Smart Edit. The Smart Edit dialog will open.
The dialog offers two methods for performing string modification accessed from the Batch Replace and Formula tabs.
This tab provides straightforward substitution, along the lines of the string substitution discussed previously (but without having to enter the curly braces). Click inside the From field then enter the portion of the current string that you want to replace. Then click inside the To field and enter the string to be used as the replacement. The familiar string substitution syntax is displayed at the bottom of the tab.
For example, consider the designators of three header components that currently have the prefix P, but you need to change them to have prefix HDR instead. In this case, select the Name attribute for each of the components in the panel and access the Smart Edit dialog. Then on the Batch Replace tab, enter P in the From field and HDR in the To field (the replacement string is therefore {P=HDR}
). After clicking OK, the designators will be modified accordingly.
As with basic string substitution, the Batch Replace tab provides for replacement of multiple, differing string portions in the same target string. Enter the various substitutions as distinct From-To entries. Consider the previous Comms Port example (see Batch Replacement of String-Based Attributes), where strings of the form CommPortx_8
need to be changed to IOPortx_32
. In this case, you would enter two distinct substitution entries on the Batch Replace tab.
This tab provides for more advanced modification, allowing you to apply a specific expression to the selected string objects. The expression can include any built-in arithmetic operators and functions that apply to strings (found in Pascal). If you want to use the current value for the attribute as part of the expression, you will need to make reference to this original value either by using the full name of the attribute or by using the exclamation character (the supported substitute for the name of the attribute currently being modified). When using attribute names, if any names contain spaces, these must be replaced by the underscore character. For example, use of the Component Comment field within a formula should be entered as Component_Comment
Consider, for example, three selected memory components specified in a design with designators U1, U3 and U5. You might want to extend the designators of these components by including some indication of their role. First, select the cell entries for the Name attributes of these components. Then, using the addition operator, you could write an expression to add to the existing string value of the Name attribute. This would take the existing (original) string value and concatenate it with a specified new string, as illustrated below:
Name + '_MEM'
or, in shortened form:
Note that the spaces are optional. After clicking OK, the designators of the components will be updated to U1_MEM, U3_MEM and U5_MEM.
To illustrate the use of string-based functions, consider the Copy function, which can be used to take a portion of an original string and place it within an expression to create a new string. Using the Comms Port example, where strings of the form CommPortx_8 need to be changed to IOPortx_32 – in this case, you could select the cell entries for each object's String attribute, access the dialog then write the following expression on the Formula tab:
'IO' + Copy(String,5,6) + '32'
or, in shortened form:
'IO' + Copy(!,5,6) + '32'
The right-click menu for the main list area of the panel provides the following commands:
. In this mode, an attribute column will be automatically displayed if it is common to all design objects currently displayed in the panel. Click on the mode to open a pop-up with options that allow you to force the display of the attribute or hide it completely.
The following table summarizes key shortcuts that are available when using the main list region of the panel.
Arrow Keys |
Shift focus to next cell in direction of arrow key |
Left-Click+Drag |
Multi-select in direction of mouse movement |
Ctrl+Click |
Multi-select (non-sequential) |
Shift+Click |
Multi-select (sequential) |
F2 or Spacebar |
Edit selected cell |
Enter |
Finish editing current cell and enter edit mode for the cell below |
Ctrl+C (or Ctrl+Insert) |
Copy |
Ctrl+V (or Shift+Insert) |
Paste |
Page Up |
Jump selection to top of visible list area |
Page Down |
Jump selection to bottom of visible list area |
Mouse-wheel |
Pan up or down |
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Bank of America Corp. and UBS AG would accept 75 cents on the dollar from Detroit on $343.6 million in swaps liabilities in a deal with Kevyn Orr, the city's emergency financial manager, according to a person familiar with the negotiations.
The city would refinance the remaining debt and would be guaranteed to receive about $11 million a month in casino-tax revenue, according to the person, who asked not to be identified because the negotiations are private.
Orr wanted to sign the agreement as early as Tuesday and continue talks with other creditors and employee unions to avoid the largest U.S. municipal bankruptcy, the person said.
Bill Nowling, Orr's spokesman, didn't immediately return a phone call and email seeking comment. William Halldin, a spokesman for Charlotte, N.C.-based Bank of America, said in an email there was no comment.
Megan Stinson, a New York spokeswoman for Zurich-based UBS, declined to comment on the deal.
In a June 14 report, Orr proposed paying off $11.5 billion in unsecured debt with $2 billion of newly borrowed money, while he suspended payments on some debt. The plan didn't include the swaps agreements, which were tied to the city's issuance of $1.4 billion in pension-obligation certificates in 2005 and 2006.
The swaps were a bet on the direction of interest rates. Because rates fell rather than increasing, the city owes the banks. Under the terms of the contracts, cuts to the city's credit ratings allowed the companies to demand the money.
Under agreements in 2009, the city pledged casino revenue to cover the payments.
Orr gave the swaps payments, as secured debt, priority over retirees and holders of unsecured debt, including the pension borrowings. While swaps holders would take a 25 percent cut in payments, other creditors would receive much less.
In all, Detroit has more than $17 billion in long-term debt, which includes such secured debt as bonds for the city's water and sewer system, Orr has said.
The casino money prompted a legal clash between Orr and Syncora Guarantee Inc., which insures both the swaps agreements and the $1.4 billion in certificates sold to shore up Detroit's pension system. Syncora sought to keep casino revenue when the city defaulted on a $39.7 million payment on the debt June 17.
Orr sued Syncora July 5, then on July 14 dropped his demand for a restraining order as talks progressed toward a deal with the swaps holders.
Orr also has proposed reducing payments to pension funds and switching retirees from city-paid health insurance to federal health-care programs.


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My beloved brethren of the priesthood, I consider this invitation to say a few words to you as a great honor and a great responsibility. I trust the Lord will bless us while I talk to you. I hope I have something to say that will be helpful to both the Aaronic Priesthood and the Melchizedek Priesthood.
I have decided to say a few words about integrity.
One of the definitions of integrity reads, "The quality or state of being of sound moral principle; uprightness, honesty, and sincerity."
In distinguishing between the synonyms of integrity, honesty, honor, probity, and veracity, Webster's New World Dictionary says that "integrity implies an incorruptible soundness of moral character, especially as displayed in fulfilling trusts."
I need not belabor the fact that the world is at the present time in desperate need of men of integrity. The proof of this statement may be read in every publication, heard on every radio, and both seen and heard in every visual and sound production.
"Give us the man of integrity," says A. P. Stanley, "on whom we know we can thoroughly depend; who will stand firm when others fail; the friend, faithful and true; the adviser, honest and fearless; the adversary, just and chivalrous; such an one is a fragment of the Rock of Ages."
Our very civilization is in jeopardy. If it is to be rescued, it must be done by men of integrity.
To accomplish this tremendous task, the Lord has called his priesthood. This means you and me and all our fellow priesthood-bearers, Aaronic and Melchizedek.
The Lord has reposed in us the most sacred trust given to men. We must not fail him. We must be boys and men of integrity. Our individual exaltation depends upon our proving to the Lord that we will at all hazards and under all circumstances faithfully discharge the trust he has placed in us. (See History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 3:380.)
The Prophet Joseph Smith taught that absolute integrity must precede the promise of eternal life. He said:
"After a person has faith in Christ, repents of his sins, and is baptized for the remission of his sins and receives the Holy Ghost, … then let him continue to humble himself before God, hungering and thirsting after righteousness, and living by every word of God, and the Lord will soon say unto him, Son, thou shalt be exalted."
This promise is to come, however, only after "the Lord has thoroughly proved him, and finds that the man is determined to serve him at all hazards." (History of the Church, 3:380.)
We have among our leaders in the Church, in all callings of the priesthood from deacons to apostles, examples of brethren whose performance demonstrates this integrity.
President Kimball, for example. Throughout the years he has been a pattern of integrity. No one doubts that he would discharge the sacred trust the Lord has placed upon him at the peril of his life.
President Tanner likewise. As a matter of fact, his performance throughout distinguished careers of business and government has been so circumspect and courageous that his associates refer to him as "Mr. Integrity."
I shall now call attention to some circumstances in which this matter of integrity is involved. Here is an account that you bearers of the Aaronic Priesthood might think about:
"Four Latter-day Saint boys set out from a Utah city on a cross-country trip. They had saved all their money during the last year of high school for this purpose, and now that graduation was over, they packed their suitcases into the trunk of their car and said good-byes to worrying parents and envious friends. It was a matter of considerable celebration when they crossed the Utah State line and entered into another state. They pulled up alongside the highway and got out to see how it felt to be in new surroundings. A certain thrill of excitement was noted by each of the young travelers and a sense of adventure led them to great speculation.
"They had agreed to send their parents a postcard every other day to indicate their whereabouts, and had promised to send a collect telegram if they ran into any trouble. One of the boys commented that it felt real good to be on his own and not be under the necessity of getting advance approval from someone for every move he made. Another suggested that they must act like seasoned travelers and not impress others as country boys on their first junket away from home. As a follow-up, this same boy proposed to his friends that they forget all about being Mormons for the duration of their adventure. Asked why by the other three puzzled boys, he said that they could now afford to 'let their hair down' and sample some of the excitement enjoyed by other people, not of the Mormon Church. 'Anyway,' he argued, 'what difference will it make? Nobody out here in the world knows us or cares anything about our church connections.'
"The thrill of the new experience weighted their judgment, and the group made an agreement to give it a try. They decided to announce themselves to the world as students from the East who had been to school in Utah for a short time. Their Utah license plates made this necessary.
"Nightfall on the first day of the journey found them at a famous tourist attraction spot, and they made arrangements for camping near the resort. After the evening meal they gathered at the large hotel for the night's entertainment. No sooner had they arrived when the ringleader of the boys suggested that they begin here and now sampling the things they had so long been denied by strict parents and teachers. The first thing that caught their eyes was a large neon sign at the far end of the lounge. It read, 'Bar—beer, cocktails.' Thinking it a moderate nod in the direction of 'sinning just a little bit,' they agreed to go into the bar and order a glass of beer for each one. There was a nervous air about them as they entered the gaudily lighted bar and surveyed the counters loaded with intriguing bottles of liquor. The boy who had been delegated to give the order lost his voice on the first try and had to swallow hard to get out an understandable, 'Four glasses of beer, please.'
"What the beer lacked in palatability, the atmosphere and thrill more than made up. They grew bolder and began to talk of the next adventure they would undertake. The talk was growing racy when suddenly a well-dressed man entered the bar and walked straight toward their table. The look on the stranger's face and the determined pace at which he walked toward them left the boys completely unnerved.
"When the man reached the table at which the boys were sitting, he extended his hand to one of them and said, 'I beg your pardon, but aren't you George Redford's son from Utah?' The boy was speechless and terrified. His fingers froze around the base of the glass of beer and he answered in a wavering voice, 'Why, yes, sir, I am.' 'I thought I recognized you when you came in the lobby of the hotel,' the stranger continued. 'I am Henry Paulsen, vice-president of the company your dad works for, and I met you and your mother last winter at a company dinner at the Hotel Utah. I have never forgotten how you explained your Mormon priesthood to one of the other executives of our company who asked you what it meant to be a Mormon boy. I must say I was a little surprised to see you head for the bar, but I suppose that with Mormons as well as non-Mormons, boys will be boys when they're off the roost.'
"These boys had heard a sermon they would never hear duplicated in the pulpit. They were sick, ashamed, and crestfallen. As they left their half-filled glasses and walked out through the hotel lobby, they had the feeling that everyone was looking at them. The cover of darkness was kind as they made their way to their camp. 'You just can't win,' said the boy who had proposed their dropping their true identity, trying to ease the tension. 'I'm not so sure,' replied the boy to who the stranger had spoken. 'If we have any sense left, we can make this experience into the most winning lesson of our lives.'"
Here is another experience—an experience of President Joseph F. Smith reported by the late President Charles W. Nibley, which you young elders might ponder to your profit:
"Another incident which I have heard him relate," says Brother Nibley, speaking about President Joseph F. Smith, who was the president of the Church and father of our late president, Joseph Fielding Smith, "which shows his courage and integrity, occurred when he was returning from his mission to the Sandwich Islands, in the fall of 1857. He came home by way of Los Angeles, by what was called the Southern Route. In that year Johnston's Army was on the move for Utah, and naturally enough there was much excitement and bitterness of feeling concerning the 'Mormons.' In southern California, just after the little train of wagons had traveled only a short distance and made their camp, several anti-'Mormon' toughs rode into the camp on horseback, cursing and swearing and threatening what they would do to the 'Mormons.' Joseph F. was a little distance from the camp gathering wood for the fire, but he saw that the few members of his own party had cautiously gone into the brush down the creek, out of sight. When he saw that, he told me," says Brother Nibley, "the thought came into his mind, 'Shall I run from these fellows? Why should I fear them?' With that he marched up with his arm full of wood to the campfire where one of the ruffians, still with his pistol in his hand, shouting and cursing about the 'Mormons,' in a loud voice said to Joseph F.:
"'Are you a 'Mormon?'
"And the answer came straight, 'Yes, siree; dyed in the wool; true blue, through and through.'
"At that the ruffian grasped him by the hand and said:
"'Well, you are the ---- ---- pleasantest man I ever met! Shake, young fellow, I am glad to see a man that stands up for his convictions.'" (Joseph F. Smith, Gospel Doctrine, Deseret Book Co., 1939 ed., p. 518.)
Abraham Lincoln demonstrated his great integrity in his famous house-divided speech. John Wesley Hill, in his book Abraham Lincoln—Man of God, says: "Lincoln showed his independence and tenacity of purpose when he wrote his address accepting the nomination for United States Senator. … This is known as 'The House Divided Against Itself' speech. It embodied the historic declaration that the Union could not exist 'half slave and half free.' To his friend, Jesse K. Dubois, Lincoln said:
"'I refused to read the passage about the house divided against itself to you, because I knew you would ask me to change or modify it, and that I was determined not to do. I had willed it so and was willing, if necessary, to perish with it. I would rather be defeated with this expression in the speech … than to be victorious without it.'" (Abraham Lincoln—Man of God, New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1927, p. 151.)
Now it took real courage for Lincoln to leave that "half slave and half free" sentence in his speech. He was ambitious, and it seemed that through the Senate was the way to the presidency, but the political climate at the time was not ready for the stand he took on that issue. The probability was that the statement would mean defeat in his race for the Senate, and that's what it turned out to be. All this Lincoln well knew; nevertheless, he had the integrity to act in harmony with his convictions. Although his course did shut the door to the Senate, fortunately for the country, it later opened the door to the presidency.
President J. Reuben Clark, Jr., was a man of like integrity. As a young man he presided for a short time over the Southern Branch of the State Normal College in Cedar City, Utah. He developed a great interest in that institution.
"Two years later … his help was solicited to give encouragement to members of the legislature to provide the funds which had been requested by the institution."
Responding by letter he "explained in utter frankness and candor that he could not support the … request" for $100,000.
"'… Frankly and freely,' he said, 'I believe you are asking too much. …
"'… I have thought the matter over very carefully, and have not been able to see my way clear to honestly recommend to your representatives the appropriation … you ask. …
"'If you would say that you will drop the $100,000 and work for the $54,000 you may count on my active cooperation to the very limit of my poor ability; but if you still reach after the larger amount, you will at once see it will be better if I keep quiet; and I promise you that I shall do that.'
"The frankness in this letter was to become a distinguishing characteristic of [President] Clark's correspondence and dealings with men throughout his long career. Although his recommendations many times did not contain what others had hoped to receive, nonetheless his candor and complete honesty contributed greatly to men's confidence in him for they knew they could depend upon him to say what he really thought." (David H. Yarn, Jr., Young Reuben, Brigham Young University Press, Provo, Utah, pp. 113–14.)
How glorious, men of the priesthood, it would be if all of us possessed the integrity of a President Kimball, a Nathan Eldon Tanner, a Joseph F. Smith, an Abraham Lincoln, or a J. Reuben Clark, Jr. The Lord expects that from us, his priesthood bearers.
God help us that we may think about this great quality of integrity and live lives of integrity, I humbly pray, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.