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Does this sound familiar to anyone? You come up with this awesome book idea. It's high concept. It has universal appeal. It will make readers laugh, cry and beg for more. You grab some paper (or a lap top) and jot down notes, convinced that this time — this time — you have the next big thing. … Continue reading →
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The sand said not to rinse it because it is the african cichlid substrate that has some special live water in it. |
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The simple boarder print was so pretty and was begging to be made into Vogue 8789
This time I made sure I cut the bodice long enough and the whole thing went together beautifully.
The only problem I'm having is with the neckline. I don't know if it's because my shoulders are too wide, or maybe just too square, but the straight across neckline just doesn't sit on me like the drawing. I'm going to work on fixing that, but even with the 'funny' neck. (and it's not nearly as bad as these pictures make it look - the dress isn't swallowing my head) I love the dress and feel very pretty wearing it. I probably need to think about a belt just to add a little color in the center, but overall I'm super happy. P.S. This fabric was $2 a yard at Walmart so this dress not only is simple and cute and fun but very very cheep. And even though I finished every single seam it only took me about 4-5 hours to put together.
I made another project this weekend that has no pattern number :D
I found this fabric is the bargain bin and took all they had (there wasn't much)
I was pretty sure I had seen it's fruity goodness made into sundresses around the internet and had coveted it then. So I was really excited to get my hands on it. But, I could not find the perfect pattern!
So, I took my sure fit designs top sloaper and traced MOST of that. The traced the neckline from the Sultry Sheath from Gertie's New Book for Better Sewing. Then I cut a simple A-line skirt.
Because I was making something without a pattern I did some funny things with construction. I sewed the front bodice to the front skirt and each back bodice piece to each back skirt piece (after sewing in the darts). To my pleasant surprise I even managed to get the darts to match. I then sewed up the back seam, and put in the side seams (leaving an opening for the zipper). Side zippers are my new favorite thing. After that I bound the neckline, sleeves and hem in lime green bias tape. And lastly, because it need a little more OOMPH I pressed open some tape and stitched it to the waist in a mock belt and sewed together a little bow.
Overall I love the results and my friends loved it too. And it only took three hours to sew.
If I was going to fix anything it would be tighten/shorten the bodice just a touch and bring the outside of the arm scythe in just a touch to make it a little smaller at the shoulders.
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by Brian St. Pierre T-Nation
Imagine it's the year 2035. You're a tourist in New York City. You're also hungry, and craving a burger and a beer you wander into a nondescript East Village gastropub, the type that's found in almost any city. So what's on the menu?
As an appetizer, there's a salad of blue lettuce sprinkled with elderflowers and cloudberries, or a Zanzibari pizza Indian-spiced rabbit meat served on a piece of naan bread.
For the main course, you can choose between fish the "catch of the day" is plucked from a nearby indoor fish farm or you can order a burger, made of cow, bison, chicken, or pork, fresh out of the bioreactor. "We have an excellent meat-grower," your waitress tells you.
This is a scenario imagined by Josh Schonwald in his new book, The Taste of Tomorrow: Dispatches from the Future of Food. For the past several years, he's been on a mission to discover the salad, meat, seafood, and Pad Thai of the future.
He's explored everything from genetically engineered foods and animals like a cherry tomato modified to carry a lemon basil gene, and the designer cobia fish, which are both said to be delicious to meat grown in a test tube.
Sound crazy? Here's What We're Doing Right Now
We have gluten-free "pasta" made from green bananas. We add inulin to damn near everything cottage cheese, yogurt, pudding, protein powders and bars, cookies, and so much more.
We have highly modified orange juice calcium fortified, low sugar with various sweeteners and unidentified flavor packets added, pulp-free, Vitamin-D enhanced, and on and on.
We have "butter" made from yogurt, plant sterols, and a laundry list of vegetable oils. While their health benefits are certainly debatable (or in my opinion, dubious), food companies are adding these stanols and sterols to more than butter substitutes they're being added to cooking oils, salad dressings, yogurts, juices and more.
We also have milk with fish oil added to it, and yogurt too. And wisely or not, ice cream fortified with fish oil is coming down the pipeline as well.
In the US we're breeding North American cattle with their African cousins, who are more accustomed to hot weather and more drought tolerant. (This one is incredibly important and long overdue.)
Speaking of drought, we also have corn varieties that are being bred and genetically altered to be more drought-tolerant, with larger root systems, more efficient water collection from their leaves, and genes from moss so that they're able to bounce back more rapidly from drought.
Which segues nicely everyone's favorite topic genetically modified foods.
Today in the US there's a tremendous amount of our food that's genetically modified:
88% of all corn, which has traits that are engineered to resist herbicides and pesticides (Roundup ready). There's also a variety designed to produce its own toxin to kill pests and worms (Bt corn).
93% of all soybeans, which are all engineered to be resistant to Roundup, the Monsanto herbicide.
94% of cotton, which has the Bt trait like corn to produce its own toxin to kill pests that reduce its yield while also being Roundup ready.
93% of canola, which is Roundup ready.
95% of sugar beets, also Roundup ready. Sugar beets provide about 50% of the sugar in the US.
These crops, along with newly allowed alfalfa, papaya, and squash, make up about 170 million acres of cropland in the US. The US grows more GMO crops than any other country in the world, more than twice as much as Brazil, who's second with 75 million acres.
What's In the Works?
Food scientists are currently working on some projects that are just as crazy sounding as that 2035 story. Some are a little scary, while others just might save the world.
How about creating genetically modified animals to meet our increasing food demands worldwide? Scientists are working on things like Enviropig to accomplish just that.
Enviropig is a pig that's been modified to digest plant phosphorus more efficiently than a regular pig by giving it some genes from mice so it produces the phytase enzyme.
This would allow the pig to break down phytic acid and digest the phosphorus that's bound to it and would normally pass through undigested and be excreted.
This is actually a cool idea, in theory it would allegedly reduce feed cost, as farmers wouldn't need to add phosphorus supplements to their pigs' diets. It would also reduce the phosphorus pollution of waterways and soil as there would be far less phosphorus in the pig manure.
However companies are clearly hesitant Enviropig has been bred for 10 generations but has yet to be brought to the market. The main reason for the lack of faith is food companies believe people wouldn't support eating genetically modified pigs. And they might be right.
As odd as a pig with mice genes might sound, here's something even stranger. In 2003 Chinese scientists created genetically modified cows that can produce human breast milk.
Scientists essentially added human genes to cow embyros and boom, cows were born that provide milk that's 80% the same as a human mother's, and which contains particular proteins and antibodies found in human milk that are thought to be beneficial to infants.
They plan to have this milk on the market in 2014. And that's not the only scary idea in the works.
They're also working on a personal scanning code that can determine our needs for nutrients based on age, activity levels, health condition, and our genes. Sounds interesting, but I wonder who (or what) determines our "needs" or decides on appropriate recommendations? Leaves far too much room for influence by the food industry if you ask me.
There's also a lot of work being done with nanotechnology. Scientists want to pack nutrients and compounds into foods. But not just any nutrients with nanotechnology they could put the flu vaccine into milk, for example, vaccinating nearly the entire population without anyone having to go in for a shot.
With this nanotechnology they're also working on naturally indigestible fat substitutes that pass through the GI tract unabsorbed, and unlike Olestra back in the day, won't cause massive diarrhea. We shall see.
Scientists are also looking to replace saturated fats in hot dogs with omega-3's. Fact is, this has already been done; they're simply in the process of perfecting the sensory qualities to make the new dogs indistinguishable, taste wise, from the regular ones.
However, do we even want this? Do we really want to encourage hot dog consumption so people can get in their fish oils?
Beyond hot dogs, labs are working on growing meat from cow stem cells. It's believed that with this method they could decrease the livestock population by a factor of one million!
This would take a population of 10 billion down to 10,000, and would be a huge environmental win, as we devote vast amounts of resources to livestock production.
Using this stem cell concept, with the right DNA it might be possible to make a burger out of anything zebra, panda, even dinosaur DNA (if we can ever get it). We could also alter the fatty acid profile of these burgers to be "healthier"; for example they could mimic that of an avocado.
This might all seem far-fetched, but scientists have successfully produced this test-tube meat and hope to have a burger by some time in 2013. Does that 2035 story still sound so crazy?
Gross, But Not Scary
It's also been projected that soon we'll be making "meat" from "mini-livestock," i.e., insects. Mini-livestock is simply a more consumer-friendly name, much like the re-branding of prunes into dried plums same product, just not the same connotation with old people and constipation.
Why the hell would we eat insects? For starters they have as much protein and iron as beef, plus they're a good source of calcium. They're also widely eaten in other areas of the world and in some more adventurous restaurants in the US.
While it sounds gross, this is very possible as "mini-livestock" cost far less to raise, consume less water, and have a minimal carbon footprint while providing high levels of necessary nutrients.
Along with insects, scientists are looking to farm algae. Algae can feed humans and animals, is rich in nutrients like omega-3's, protein, magnesium, calcium, and other vitamins and minerals, and it can be grown in the ocean, which is great with a limited supply of land and fresh water. It could also be used in place of fossil fuels and to replace salt in foods.
So Why Are We Planning All of This?
In reality there are many reasons climate change, sustainability, and population growth.
Drought is the single biggest limitation for worldwide agriculture. In 2012 we had the worst drought since the 1950s, and 20 years ago corn crops would've been decimated, but today, thanks to breeding and technology, crops are surviving despite these harsh conditions
This past year was also incredibly hard on cattle due to the drought, hence the focus on increasing breeding efforts with African counterparts to make American cattle more drought tolerant.
Beyond climate change, our current methods of production and consumption are simply not sustainable.
According to a 2006 United Nations report, livestock production takes up 30% of the arable land surface of the planet.
Raising livestock produces more greenhouse gases than all the automobiles in the world combined.
To produce one 4-ounce burger requires as much water as running your bathroom faucet 24 hours per day for a full week.
This isn't about bashing meat consumption, as I'm a devoted omnivore. But with an ever-increasing demand from developing countries, we simply can't stay on the path we're on.
Beyond meat there are several other environmental reasons:
Contamination of waterways due to abundant use of nitrogen fertilizers and tremendous amounts of pesticides.
We spend almost 13 billion dollars per year on pesticides, or about a third of the world pesticide expenditure of nearly $40 billion.
Worldwide over 5 billion pounds of pesticides are used each year in the US alone we use 1.1 billion pounds.
Then there's the population issue. It's projected that by the year 2050 there will be 9 billion people worldwide. And with a changing climate, limited resources like land and water, and growing wealth in developing countries increasing demand for meat and other resource-intensive foods, food prices are expected to soar. Alternatives are clearly needed.
As much as I love them, are organic and biodynamic growing methods going to be able to feed a world of 9 billion people? I doubt it, and clearly not any time soon. Is using technology to feed this world necessary? Many experts think so, as we can increase yield while using less resource-intensive methods.
Is Any of This Even Remotely Healthy?
It simply depends. Is putting the flu vaccine into milk healthy? That's certainly up for debate. Is adding omega-3's to hot dogs and ice cream actually making them healthier? While you could make an argument for that, in my opinion you simply can't make chicken salad out of chicken ****.
Is genetic modification healthy? Now that's a question that's impossible to answer. However, here's how I look at it patenting a seed that's resistant to your pesticide is simply about business. But inserting moss genes into corn so they can be more drought-tolerant sounds absolutely brilliant.
Either way you feel about the topic, just realize that it's not all black and white.
Beyond the GMOs, though, eating insects and algae may be quite good for you. Humans have eaten insects and sea vegetables throughout our existence, and still do in many places of the world. These are two ideas that could go a very long way in providing resource-saving alternatives.
Though I can't say I find the idea very enticing at the moment, I like to use sushi as an analogy. Twenty years ago, how many people viewed eating raw fish as a normal part of American cuisine? Practically no one.
Today? I live in a small town in Maine and there are at least five places serving sushi. It's become a completely accepted part of our food intake, and I predict that algae and/or insects will be similarly accepted.
The future of our food is going in fascinating directions. Some you may support, others you might not. However, you, the consumer, have a very important say in the future of our food you vote every time you purchase an item.
Don't like GMOs or pesticides and buy organic? That's a vote for a more traditional method of food cultivation.
Don't give a **** about the GMO controversy and buy what's cheapest? Then you're telling food companies to modify as they please.
I'm not here to tell you what's right or wrong, I simply want you to be an informed consumer, and to know the consequences of your choices, whatever they may be.
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Novella A legacy unfulfilled has waited fourteen years, and now, the raw truth about his family is at Harrys fingertips. The promise of that heritage rests on a knifes edge, for that power could be Voldemorts downfall, or his final triumph. Genres: Characters: Advisory: No Warnings Published: 2003.05.25 Latest Chapter: 2003.07.10 Updated: 2003.07.10 Status: Abandoned (0 words) |
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Short story The worst decision Draco ever made... and how it destroyed him. Of all the things he lost, what does Draco miss most? (slashy references H/D) Genres: Characters: Advisory: No Warnings Published: 2003.06.19 Latest Chapter: 2003.06.19 Updated: 2003.06.19 Status: Abandoned (0 words) |


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caitlyn Nov 01, 2012 4:59 PM EDT |
Why does Katherine Noyes always have to quote hairyfeet even when he's dribbling out nonsense? Can't she find someone else to quote for a change? What makes hairyfeet an authority on anything? |
tracyanne Nov 01, 2012 5:00 PM EDT |
His hairy feet. |
caitlyn Nov 01, 2012 5:41 PM EDT |
Oh... I didn't realize that made someone an authority. p.s.: I do think preloaded Linux systems are the answer to how to get to wider acceptance and adoption of Linux on the desktop. Unfortunately it also requires vendors to successfully market such systems. Only ASUS, Acer and Dell have really done that with any degree of success and then only at the height of the netbook craze. |
BernardSwiss Nov 01, 2012 6:38 PM EDT |
She probably quotes hairyfeet because the guy is prolific, and generally takes a consistent (*) position. (*) "consistent" only in the sense that it stays fairly constant, and thus predictably can be used to nail down a particular corner of the field of opinions... |
DrGeoffrey Nov 01, 2012 6:44 PM EDT |
Not to mention, it's always fun to quote trolls. Responses are all but assured. |
Steven_Rosenber Nov 01, 2012 8:48 PM EDT |
Don't mess with Hairyfeet!!! |
tracyanne Nov 01, 2012 11:58 PM EDT |
Hobbits can be dangerous. |
hairyfeet Nov 02, 2012 5:54 AM EDT |
I don't dribble nonsense and I'm definitely not dangerous. Katherine and I have a special relationship that I cannot go into detail about here. Let's just say that I scratch her back and she combs mine. |
r_a_trip Nov 02, 2012 8:31 AM EDT |
While I don't agree with most of Hairyfeet's assesments of Linux, he does have a point here. We don't buy nearly enough machines with Linux vendors. Then again, most Linux preloading vendors are either just dabbling with Linux like Dell or they are boutique shops with a severely limited selection of models and an accordingly high price point. In either case, be it large vendors dabbling or dedicated shops, they never had anything that was compelling to me. It's either a low end entry or it is prohibitively expensive. Combined with the fact that most offerings are powered by an Intel chip and I strongly prefer AMD, it is a no go for me. The only linux preloaded things I bought were Android devices and wireless routers. |
gus3 Nov 02, 2012 11:59 AM EDT |
Quoting:Hobbits can be dangerous.I understand that Peter Jackson is making a documentary about them: When Hobbits Attack |
Steven_Rosenber Nov 02, 2012 12:47 PM EDT |
As much as I kid about HairyFeet, I actually do appreciate Katherine Noyes' articles that are written in this format (going around the Web and seeing what people are saying). I've done a few of them myself, and I think it's a useful service for those of us who aren't poking around those 300+ comment Slashdot threads. |
BernardSwiss Nov 02, 2012 4:31 PM EDT |
Actually, hobbits aren't dangerous at all -- if any should be so foolish as to make an appearance, the Tolkien estate will deal them harshly. Scientist Refused Permission To Call Hominids 'Hobbits', Even Though Word First Used In Print In 1895 -- And Not By Tolkien |
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Supposedly, I am going to be running 18K with Dave tomorrow (and Mark if his legs are feeling better). This means one of two things: either I am insane or Dave is trying to kill me. Or both. I can already feel the burn... wish me luck.
In other news, hubby and I have decided to join a gym (again) for the Fall/Winter. We may have legs of steel from all this running, but we're both feeling pretty 'squishy' on our upper halves. I need to tone up my arms, back and shoulders again. Plus, we won't be able to run outdoors much come winter and we really want to stay in shape. We're looking in to gyms around our home and plan to join immediately after the marathon... so hopefully we'll find one with a whirlpool that we can soak in for the entrie week after the race. :)
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'Parade,' Mark Taper Forum
The Donmar Warehouse's scaled-down version of Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry's 1998 musical about the execution of injustice done to Leo Frank, a Jewish factory manager dubiously convicted of the rape and murder of a teenage employee, featured a top-notch cast led by T.R. Knight and Lara Pulver. The material is admittedly very stark for a musical, but Brown's Tony-winning score lent an astonishing degree of moral nuance and color.
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Niyaz has come very far, very fast. The trio's 2005 debut featured a convincing blend of Sufi mysticism and trance electronica, and quickly established them as a standout ensemble in a very crowded world music field. A worldwide tour followed. Now, Niyaz returns with Nine Heavens, which doesn't just cross cultural and stylistic boundaries, but the centuries as well. Drawing on medieval Persian poetry and 300-year old Persian folk songs, Niyaz has created a 21st century global trance tradition. Content: http://niyazmusic.com
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Case study: Social media engagement as a point of differentiation
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I think I have a case study for you that demonstrates this. Now swing by their YouTube channel. Watch one of the many Goulet Q&A videos (92 at last count), weekly episodes that run close to an hour long each, in which Brian painstakingly answers questions people submit via email, Facebook and Twitter. Check their Facebook Page and Twitter account. Many (most?)
Case Study: Denny's flips its audience with a sassy social media strategy
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As Denny's has proven through their use of Twitter , Tumblr , YouTube , and other channels, breakfast can be a surprisingly compelling topic. Follower numbers on Twitter and Tumblr have doubled and tripled, respectively, in less than a year. A recent Twitter exchange found the Denny's gang arguing with NBC's Parks and Rec team over which was greater: waffles or pancakes?
Case Study: Caterpillar and blue collar social media marketing
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Case in point: Caterpillar. Our techniques for using these tools are always founded in industry best practices. We are recognizing the power of the big three social media platforms — Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube — but we're also exploring other platforms that are highly used in specific areas of the world. What are your reactions to the case?
Social Media Explained. Really.
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You don't need to know the latest twist in Facebook's EdgeRank algorithm or even how to set up a Twitter account. You don''t need to know the latest twist in Facebook''s EdgeRank algorithm or even how to set up a Twitter account. So I have this problem. Let's face it … this can be overwhelming. But this is not just another social media book. Here they are.
What are the most reliable content channels to connect with customers?
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" The best content channels for reliable reach. So, when we attain that magical level, what are the very best ways to reliably reach those customers? In Joe's fine speech, he provided his view on the channels most likely to actually reach your customers, from best to worst: eMail subscribers. Twitter subscribers. YouTube subscribers. Does anybody care?
15 ways to use Twitter to toast your competition
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There are lots of success stories and case studies documenting business success through Twitter. 1) Using Twitter search and other simple listening tools, monitor real time conversations about your brand that can assist your marketing and management teams in seeing what is really being about your company today. He felt he knew me through my Twitter posts.
How to Earn Audience Attention With Paid Media: Channel Options & Best Practices
Through experimentation and testing on different paid channels with different types of content , you can discover which of your paid media efforts best caters to viewer needs, interests, and channel preferences. In this post, we'll cover a some introductory elements of paid media, plus getting into the weeds for more experienced users in terms of resources to use and best practices.
Is there a "content pattern" that builds a brand?
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Instead, you need something more robust, more consistent, to build a real business around your content and YouTube revealed a plan that just might be the answer. YouTube has been promoting a "3H" video brand strategy and revealed a content pattern that seemed to be the most successful in building an engaged audience for the long-term. Even an individual blogger?
iCharts Applies Marketing Automation to Smart Strategy to Deliver Record Opportunities
We have best practices for sales, best practices reporting for finance, professional, customer service, supply chain. We started with a lot of paid on LinkedIn, we did paid on Twitter, we did a lot of AdWords paid. We're now doing a lot of YouTube targeting and re-targeting as well. iCharts delivers business data visualization to companies worldwide.
The 7 Building Blocks of a Solid Content Marketing Plan
The same study revealed that only 37% of B2C marketing organizations (and 32% of B2B marketers) have a documented content marketing strategy, even though those with a documented strategy are more effective across the board. A case study on McGladrey shows that stepping back and re-defining the purpose of your content can have a significant impact on your content marketing success.
23 Outstanding Social Media Marketing Guides
How are social media marketing best practices evolving? How can marketers make the best use of visual content? Find the answers to these questions and more here in some of the best guides to social media marketing and measurement of the past year. Brian Solis' Conversation Prism Catalogs The Best Social Platforms by Search Engine Journal. ** 5 STARS.
Five ways to calm down and not be overwhelmed by social media change
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Twitter. YouTube. How much time should you devote to studying and adopting something new? No matter what type of business you are in, your focus must be on the quality, rich content for your business before you ever start trying to master Facebook or Twitter. How do you determine which is best for you? Which one is the best match for your available resources?
The When, Where & How of Using GIFs in Content Marketing
Integrations with social networks make it easy to share GIFs across major players like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Denny's, for example, is one of the best case studies of a brand that has used GIFs to engage with and entertain its audience. Here are a few use cases in which GIFs and content marketing make an excellent pair. Giphy.com is the largest GIF collection online but it also has a GIF Maker that allows you to create GIFs from video files or YouTube links. Best Practices content content marketing gifs imagery social media
The 2011 #Nifty50 Top Twitter Men Reprise
Today, Tom Pick ( @TomPick ), Online Marketing Executive at KC Associates , who blogs at his award winning B2B Webbiquity , and I ( @ckburgess – Blue Focus Marketing @BlueFocus360 ) present 50 remarkable men on our 2011 #Nifty50 Top Twitter Men list. These men are indeed using Twitter to rewire and reorient the Web. Today, Twitter posts 50 million tweets per day. Adam L.
37 Fantastic SEO Guides, Tips and Tactics
But precisely what constitutes "best practices" in SEO is a continually (and lately, rapidly) moving target. Yesterday's on-page optimization and link building tactics—even those used with the best, non-manipulative intentions—may get a site penalized in search rankings today for being "over-optimized." 5 Best Practices for Global SEO by ClickZ.
How To Map Content To Your Conversion Funnel
For marketers, the conversion funnel is one of the best tools for understanding consumer behavior and building long-term relationships. You can use each stage – awareness, consideration, conversion, loyalty, and advocacy – to think through the kinds of content best suited to the needs of that particular mile marker in the buyers' journey. How can you solve them?
Five Mega-trends: How Social Media is Transforming Government
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A best practice is the newly-designed U.S. Israel Defense Forces has a YouTube channel chronicling its activities. Expectations are that the techno-savvy young Nigerians will monitor the 2011 elections civic journalism-style via their accounts on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and blog sites. Their best practices: Spark discussion and give people a reason to belong.
2011 #Nifty50 Top Twitter Men
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Today, Tom Pick ( @TomPick ), Online Marketing Executive at KC Associates , who blogs at his award winning B2B Webbiquity , and I ( @ckburgess – Blue Focus Marketing @BlueFocus360 ) present 50 remarkable men on our 2011 #Nifty50 Top Twitter Men list. These men are indeed using Twitter to rewire and reorient the Web. Today, Twitter posts 50 million tweets per day. Adam L.
Creating a content marketing plan — without any content
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When somebody talks about "content marketing, they're really talking about "content engineering — scientifically optimizing documents such as blogs, case studies and white papers to create search engine results and sales leads. Twitter. In this separate post , I've provided some helpful ideas on building a targeted audience through Twitter.
55 (of the) Best Social Media Tips, Tactics and Tools of 2010
According to a HubSpot study, 71% of marketers viewed Twitter as a useful marketing tool last year, up from just 39% in 2009. Facebook added more than 200 million users last year, and Twitter more than doubled in size, adding 115 million. ROI remains a contentious issue, but in at least a few areas best practices began to emerge. Adoption soared. 85% of Inc.
Are You Making These 5 Common Content Marketing Mistakes?
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You can get started by creating a list of the traits your very best customers and ideal buyers have. You can and should create different types of content from short tweets, digestible blog posts, longer case studies/whitepapers/guides, infographics and videos and even eBooks if you've got the resources. Don't Know Your Audience. Trying too Hard to Sell, Sell, Sell.
@fearlesscomp congratulates the Nifty 50 Men of Twitter
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The Nifty50 Men of Twitter. Cheryl Burgess of BlueFocus360 and Tom Pick of KC Associates (both good friends of the Fearless Competitor , President of the B2B lead generation consultancy, Find New Customers ) recently announced the Nifty 50 men of Twitter on the Blue Focus Marketing Blog. And I also strongly suggest you check out the Nifty50 Women of Twitter too. Cheryl. 27 Op.
Search and Social Lessons from the Zenith Social Media Marketing Conference
While there's no video of his keynote available, his YouTube channel will give you some sense of how Neal can wake up an early-morning crowd in a packed ballroom. They also advised that marketers set SMART goals, and presented a selection of best practices for advertising on popular social networks: Among other key takeaways from Grant and Katy: • Use the scientific method.
Hilarious video, serious marketing lessons
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I wanted to show you this awesome music video because it's creative, hilarious and it also reinforces a theme I've been writing about over several months … Toyota paid big bucks to produce this YouTube video. Viva La Twitter. Tags: Case studies Social Media best practices YouTube and video It's not meant for TV. It's meant for the viral web … and viral it went. Point one: The big guns are pouring on to the social web. And they will dominate. This video is about a minivan. But it is a ton of fun. Get ready.
102 Compelling Social Media and Online Marketing Stats and Facts for 2012 (and 2013)
The first step to improving digital marketing results is to understand the emerging trends and best practices. B2B buyers are most likely to share useful vendor content via email (79%), followed by LinkedIn (53%), Twitter (39%) and Facebook (18%). After that, it falls off sharply; 61% use YouTube, 39% are on Google+, 26% utilize Pinterest (really?) 6 Twitter Stats.
How to Run a Twitter Campaign the Right Way (#JayZSyncShow)
It was an interactive, 90-minute event hosted Monday night that was broadcast live in Austin, live on YouTube , on the Vevo mobile and tablet platform, and now on-demand until March 19th on Xbox Live and the American Express Twitter account and YouTube channel. How to Run a Successful Twitter Campaign. Have you used Twitter to run a marketing campaign? wd0BDe.
Can The Shirtless Old Spice Guy pull off a marketing miracle?
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Unless you've been in a cave this week, it would have been hard to avoid the splendid, amazing and entertaining Old Spice media blitz, which includes brilliant ads and one of the best social media campaigns in the young history of the channel. While the hilarious Old Spice ads have been an Internet hit on their own for months (5.5 million views), everything changed this week. So I did.
34 Compelling Content Marketing Stats and Facts
– Case studies (65%). More than 70% of B2B marketers use the "big four" social media sites (LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube) to distribute content. And 60% of corporate marketers say they have no to very little understanding of what the best practices are for buyer persona development. And use video. Want to know more? TopRank ).
Paid Advertising 101: Understanding the Basics of Advertising on Social Media
This was not always the case. Now, whether it's Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or YouTube, they've all stripped down their processes, simplifying the user experience and making it astonishingly easy to set up ad campaigns on their platforms. button and then grab a cup of joe and hope for the best. Now that we've reviewed the big picture process of advertising on social media, let's take a quick spin through some of the high points of advertising on each of four major social networks—Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube. Advertising on Twitter.
How to Optimize Your B2B Marketing and Sales with Online Video
Modern B2B Marketing
Take YouTube, for example. Second only to Google, YouTube has rapidly emerged as an easy-to-use and reliable search tool; it overtook Yahoo as the second largest search engine in 2008 and is now the fastest-growing media platform in history. Visual learners comprise 65% of the public, and auditory learners make up another 30%, so it's no wonder video is the way people learn best.
Live Video in 5 Steps: From Creation to Measurement
Modern B2B Marketing
And with the popularity of live streaming platforms like Facebook Live, Periscope, Instagram Live, and YouTube Live, it's becoming increasingly important for brands to use live video in their marketing strategy. update on Twitter. Author: Cameron Jahn Live video has tremendous power to bring people together. Content Creation. Content Promotion. Engagement. Data Collection.
10 Blogs to Bookmark: Social Marketing Edition
Modern B2B Marketing
Why We Like It: Constant updates (2+ posts per day), smart writers, and a wide variety of topics — from industry research to best practices. You can also view posts divided by social sites (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and YouTube). Why We Like It: Practical social marketing advice from a trusted source. Social Media Examiner. Truly the go-to source. Visual!
Recovering from my complete content marketing failure
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Despite following what I thought were all the best practices, my last year in the content marketing trenches has been a complete fiasco. I would then publish the videos of the interviews both on YouTube and on my blog (along with the show notes) and also re-purpose the audio tracks as episodes of a podcast. You can find him at his blog and on Twitter. In Conclusion.
How Your A/E/C Firm Can Build a Rewarding Presence on Pinterest
Below, I've outlined a few best practices for getting started on Pinterest as well as 10 excellent ideas of what your A/E/C firm can start sharing on this network. Follow these best practices to do so. Connect your profile with Twitter and Facebook. Showcase your firm's best work on Pinteres t by sharing photos of past projects on Pinterest.
10 Trends That Defined Digital Marketing in 2016
Modern B2B Marketing
This year, Twitter updated its advanced search capabilities to allow for long-tail keyword searches. It's easier than ever to find trending topics these days: Google Trends provides you with daily updates on the most popular searches, Twitter tells you what hashtags are trending at any given moment, and Facebook provides up-to-date information on popular topics. Real-Time Marketing.
83 Exceptional Social Media and Marketing Statistics for 2014
What do 40% of B2B buyers say about LinkedIn, that only 19% say about Twitter? 57% of B2B vendors say they are shifting their B2B commerce transactions from offline to online and self-service, and 44% agree "that B2B commerce is adopting B2C best practices in order to optimize the purchasing experience." 3 Twitter Marketing Stats. YouTube reaches more U.S.
Social Media Strategy for B2B Marketers: Content + Search + Social = Impact
Savvy B2B Marketing
Examples of helpful content that can engage buyers in the early selection process might include: buying guides with product comparisons, white papers explaining strategies, case studies by other practitioners, video interviews with industry experts and blog posts explaining best practices. While making your content highly visible on search engines may seem like an obvious step to take, when it's best to optimize your content might surprise you. For best results, content should be search engine optimized before the content is in even its earliest stages.


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How do you get projects done faster? Improve quality! Reduce bugs. This is the central observation of the quality movement that totally revolutionized manufacturing. The result is a win-win-win: faster schedules, lower costs and higher quality. Yet the firmware industry has largely missed this notion. Deming et al showed that you simply can't bolt quality onto an extant system. But in firmware there's too much focus on fixing bugs rather than getting it right from the outset. In fact it is possible to accurately schedule a project, meet the deadline, and drastically reduce bugs. Learn how at my one-day, fast-paced Better Firmware Faster class, presented at your facility. There's more info here. Jean Labrosse's books about his uC/OS-II and uC/OS-III real-time kernels are reputedly the most popular books ever written about embedded systems. Now they are free in PDF form on Micrium's web site. Also free are Christian Légaré's books about uC/TCP. These are great references about RTOSes and the protocols behind the Internet. |
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"C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success." - Dennis Ritchie |
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Please submit neat ideas or thoughts about tools, techniques and resources you love or hate. Caron Williams wrote: Even though it's now about 40 years old, 'The Mythical Man Month' [Fred Brooks] still has many very relevant and powerful things to say to electronics and software engineers. I'm sure you've read it, and I'm pretty sure you endorse my statement. However none of the newly graduated engineers I've interviewed in the past 20 years have heard of it! As you said: none, nada, zilch, etc. I would make it required reading for anyone about to embark on a software project, and the lessons it contains are applicable to hardware design too. Ken Smith has a different take on accessing hardware registers in C++. His paper about this is here and Ken's description is: Everything about a hardware register is listed in the datasheet for the processor or peripheral. We know its address, its offset with the word if any, and we know whether the register is readable, writeable or both. Therefore, we know how to refeine a register or any of its subfields at compile time. Many register manipulation techniques exploit some of these pieces of a priori knowledge to ensure safety and efficiency but none I have seen so far exploit them all. This article presents an approach for hardware register access in C++ that puts all of this a priori knowledge to use to help ensure safety without sacrificing efficiency. Ken goes on to say that Martin Moene had a similar idea, published here. Ken welcomes feedback to firstname.lastname@example.com. |
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http://eetimes.com/electronics-news/4397272/ARM-TechCon-- A marketing-heavy though useful description of the newish ARM Cortex M0+, which promises to be a very important CPU. There's a bit of FUD, of course, like the 11.21 μW/MHz power consumption. Perhaps that's true for the core itself, but to designers it means little, since an MCU will have memory and I/O which is all sucking from the power supply. At 3 volts that represents 4 μA, a number so low it will make providers of ultra-low power CPUs weep. The reality is a bit different; Freescale's Kinetis L series uses the M0+ core and, though it's awfully hard to get real data, the pretty-though-lacking-in-engineering product briefs claim the devices use a more realistic 84 μA/MHz. http://arxiv.org/pdf/1209.3099 - A cache management strategy to replace wear leveling techniques for embedded flash memory. |
Datasheet Rant | |||
It's all about the code - unfortunately. As mentioned above it's hard to get concrete information about the Kinetis' L series power consumption. But that's a common problem today - datasheets increasingly lack the electrical information a design engineer needs to both select a part and properly design it in. One ARM part I've been playing with has a 1100 page user's manual. There's plenty of information about programming the various registers to use the low power modes - but not a peep about exactly how many micro- or milliamps will be consumed. What about clock rate? Sure, that's specified and, with enough patience a superhuman engineer will master the enormous number of modes and registers needed to control the various clocks. But what does clock rate even mean? Execute out of the on-board flash and will wait states be injected? The datasheet gives no hint. I ran some experiments and found that with the part screaming at it's rated 200 MHz the thing fetches 55 million instructions/second from internal flash. Now, as an old-timer who was once content with 2 MHz devices that needed several T-states to handle each instruction, that 55 million is a very impressive number. But it's a lot less than one might be led to believe going on the raw clock rate. (Execute out of external memory and no matter how fast the thing can swallow clocks it may be slowed to a crawl. One eval board here runs at hundreds of MHz but the external flash is 70 nsec, and the RAM not much better at 55 nsec. That makes the cache-less single-cycle CPU loaf along at an effective rate of less than 20 MHz. There are some very interesting technologies used to improve this in some cases - ST's adaptive real-time accelerator being an example. But estimating performance has become very complex. Clock rate alone means little.) Datasheets are getting huge as the number of peripherals grows. But it has been a long time since they were mailed on paper (another part I know needs almost 5000 pages - print that and you'll use an entire box of paper). PDFs make production costs zero. Vendors do us a grave disservice when hand waving and marketing "product briefs" substitute for cold, hard numbers. |
Watchdogs Woven Wright | |||
A watchdog timer is the last line of defense against things going wrong. A bug, a glitch, or an impinging cosmic ray can all drive our systems bonkers, and the WDT, when done right, will be ready to pounce and restart the system or put it in a safe state. Yet few are done well; WDTs, like exception handlers, are tough to do correctly and are hard to test. I've written about this in the paper Great Watchdogs. It's easy to complain about WDTs inside controllers that have a myriad number of faults. But sometimes a semiconductor vendor gets things right, and that's certainly true in the Freescale Kinetis series. The K50, for instance includes not one, but two watchdogs. The first is a somewhat conventional though unusually-well-thought-out device they call the WDOG. Block diagram of the WDOG First, let's start with the refresh. To tickle the WDOG one writes two different words to it within 20 clocks of each other. That's a very safe and narrow window, which suggests that one must disable interrupts during the refresh. You can, if desired, set it up in a windowed mode of operation. This means the WDOG must be tickled at least every so often (as is usual for WDTs), but not faster than some other interval. The times are programmable. This makes it much less likely that a rogue program will service the watchdog and keep it from timing out. An intriguing debug mode lets you configure the WDOG as normal, but keeps it from timing out. And self-test operations are included to comply with certain regulatory requirements. If desired the WDOG can be configured to generate a non-maskable interrupt, followed 256 cycles later by a hard reset to the CPU. For a variety of reasons a crashed system may not be able to service the interrupt, so this option ensures the WDOG will do its duty. But if the gods are smiling the interrupt provides an ability to leave some debugging breadcrumbs behind. Interestingly, a register gives a count of the watchdog timeouts that have occurred. But wait, there's more! A second watchdog facility called the External Watchdog Monitor (EWM) is included. External Watchdog Monitor This component doesn't issue a CPU reset; it's designed to monitor external hardware and sends a reset signal out of the MCU to those circuits outside of the K50 chip. It, too, can be used in a windowed mode, and servicing it requires writing two different values to the EWM registers within 15 clocks of each other. It's great to see that WDTs are finally getting the thought needed. |
Ode to the Teletype | |||
Long before computers existed, before transistors - let alone ICs - were a gleam in anyone's eye, machines transferred serial data between themselves. The serial protocols we now implement with thousands of gates are hardly new; indeed, it's amazing to remember that our highly integrated communications devices are sometimes just modern versions of purely mechanical machines. The invention of the typewriter changed the face of business as clerks no longer needed the precise handwriting skills of before. Inventors quickly realized that the typewriter also simplified the creation of printed words; the measly few dozen characters on the keyboard let operators construct any word, and indeed any book. Samuel Clemens, AKA Mark Twain, had one of the first typewriters, which is still on display at his house in Hartford Connecticut. (Which is a really interesting stop if you're in the neighborhood). Smart folks tried a variety of schemes to build automatic typewriters which could send data over a phone line to another such device. Eventually the Teletype company, later acquired by AT&T, came to dominate the industry. In Teletype's parlance these machines are properly called "teletypewriters," but common usage used the company's name for the machine. Much like we've turned the proper noun Xerox into a verb meaning "to copy." Teletypes used mechanical linkages exclusively to encode and decode characters into bit strings. There were no active elements in these units. Even before World War II teletypes clattered noisily in the back of newsrooms and other facilities. Often these units had no keyboard, being nothing more than the old-time equivalent of a printer, spilling miles of yellow paper on the floor with the latest UPI wire reports. "Weather machines" were almost ubiquitous, as the fledging airline industry looked for ways to anticipate fogged-in airports. These special purpose teletypes had their own unique character set that concisely represented different atmospheric conditions. Tens of thousands of weather machines were installed, later creating a glut of these beasts on the surplus market. I acquired one in the early 70s, a model 15 Weather Teletype, for use on a 12 bit home-brew computer. It drove the neighbors crazy when noisily dumping listings at 3AM. But that's another story. Model 15 TTY These early I/O devices managed, without the use of a single transistor or vacuum tube, to convert parallel data to serial, transmit it over a wire, and reconstruct that data stream onto paper. They were monuments to mechanical engineering. Those were simpler times, long before UNICODE or even ASCII. The machines spoke a five bit code call BAUDOT. Twenty six letters, 10 digits and miscellaneous punctuation marks needed more than the 32 characters possible in 5 bits, so two special codes selected what was in effect an alternate character set. The shift key as we know it today did not exist; instead, "Shift Up" and "Shift Down" keys transmitted their own unique characters, and caused the unit to move the platen to select the characters on the upper row of the hammers. Needless to say, all letters were capitals, a bit of history that doesn't quite seem to go away as even today on the Internet too many folks seem case-challenged, sending email consisting of all upper case or all lowercase letters. Maybe, like the Japanese soldiers who held out for a decade after the end of the War, these people are in technological hideouts, still using the tools of so long ago. A common accessory was the paper tape reader and punch, the only sort of long term data storage then possible. Operators could type their messages off-line, the punch recording each character as 5 data holes across a thin paper tape. Connecting the machine to the "net" they would then run the tape through the reader. Small metal fingers probed the holes, checking all 5 in parallel at once. To convert this parallel data stream to serial, the 5 fingers actuated switches connected to a device that strongly resembled the distributor in a car. Each switch went to a metal strip around the rim of the distributor; a spinning rotor dragged over each strip in turn, generating a stream of ones and zeroes, in serial, representing the character. It was breathtaking to watch. Incoming data was assembled in reverse, using the distributor to feed the serial stream to the metal strips as the rotor spun. Distributor assembly Distributor schematic: Note the five sense switches that "felt" for the holes in the tape and routed the 5 bit wide parallel signal to the rotary distributor's 5 contacts arranged around a central post. A wiper rotated around on these contacts and converted the parallel to serial (the center pin is the serial output). Clearly, though, the machines needed to transmit a tad more than just the five data bits. Something had to start the rotor spinning, in effect signaling the receiving machine that "hey, a character is starting to come." The sending machine therefore preceded each character with a "start" bit, a signal that fired up the motor at the other end. An awful lot of levers and linkages moved to print a single letter; the machine took a little bit of time to stop, and to put everything back to an idle state before the next character came. An idle time, therefore, followed every character. This time was never really part of the transmitted data, as it was just an interval when nothing was on the line. It became known as the stop bit, or bits when more than one was required due to slowly moving levers. RS-232 didn't exist then. Instead, these machines communicated via "current loop," a two wire interface where an open (like opening a switch) designated a logic one - the one signaling a start bit, for example - and a closed line meant a zero. When about 20 ma of current flowed through the circuit the system was idle. RS-232, by contrast, is a standard based on voltage, not current. Ones and zeroes are indicated by a few volts of negative or positive level. RS-232 also designates a number of additional wires used for handshaking and status indications. Current loop never needed handshakes - if the teletype wasn't ready it just missed the data. Tough. At the dawn of the microprocessor age the ASR-33 Teletype was still the standard way to communicate with computers. Video units were simply too expensive for most small systems. By the 70s ASCII was firmly entrenched and had replaced BAUDOT as the lingo of the teletype. Still all upper case, at least the Shift-Up/Down characters had been relegated to the dusty bin of abandoned technologies. Model 33 TTY Operating at a blinding 10 characters per second, this mechanical beast was no doubt the cause of many ulcers and crimes of frustration. The teletype needed 8 seconds to print one line of output. Think about it - 8 seconds per line. The 10 character/second rate became a de facto standard. 110 baud came from the one start, 8 data, and 2 stop bits transmitted 10 times a second by these machines - 110 bit periods each second. Desperate for better speeds someone found that the ASR-33 generally behaved well with only 1.5 bit periods for the stop bit. As UARTs got smarter quite a few supported 1, 1.5, and 2 stop bit generation. Today we live in an age of no moving parts. It's hard to imagine the complexity of one of these machines. A bewildering array of levers moved faster than the eye could see. Yet the machines were amazingly reliable. When problems did occur a few taps in the right place with a hammer usually got the machine going again. I wonder if there's a landfill piled deep with this detritus of progress, the old teletypes, 545 scopes and 300 baud modems. The ASR-33 included a paper tape punch and reader. Even into the early 70s tape was a standard storage media. All microprocessor programs, both binary and source, were stored on paper tape. Even in the minicomputer age DEC and Data General distributed most of their code on fan-fold tape. You sent in your money for a Fortran compiler and received a two inch stack of tape. This was long before code bloat changed the computer world. The micro world followed many of the models of minis at first. The first microcomputer systems looked a lot like a mini, with the same front panel switches and LEDs, and of course the teletype interface. It's interesting to see how technologies converge at critical moments in history. The microprocessor would have flopped without DRAMs, invented just a few years before. The UART similarly came along just at the right time. Intel's 1972 Intellec 8008 development system used a General Instruments UART to talk to the teletype. Had the UART never been invented then probably we'd use "bit banging" software to do the serial to parallel (and reverse) conversions. Though not difficult, this requires a deep understanding of the timing of each instruction used to insure the code reads the serial input stream at exactly the right point in a bit field. Despite the availability of cheap UARTs, even today some firmware does indeed use bit banging. As a college kid I was tapped to work on an 8008 project. This embedded instrument was coded in assembly language. Our development environment consisted of an Intellec microcomputer from Intel (an 8008 machine with - fully loaded - a breathtaking 16k of RAM), an ASR-33 Teletype, and software tools. Intel did quite a good job supplying the nascent micro community with software tools. We'd start work with their rudimentary editor, supplied on paper tape, entering and modifying the assembly source code. With no disk storage we'd finish editing and punch out a tape of the program's source. Then we'd load the assembler - also on tape, also loaded over the ASR-33's painfully slow 10 cps reader. Today tools work so transparently that we forget assemblers and compilers read the source file at least two or three times, to resolve forward references and handle macro expansions. Intel's old 8008 assembler was a three pass product, so we loaded the assembly source file - uh, tape - three times. On the third pass it punched out a binary image of the assembled module. An aftermarket of very clever but ultimately restricted one-pass assemblers all offered much faster assembly speeds. These products, too, are now in the landfill of abandoned technology. After assembling all of the modules, with a binary tape for each module, we'd load the two-pass linker, itself yet another inch high stack of tape, and then run all of the binary tapes through twice. The result was a single absolute image, on tape, we'd load into the debugger. Needless to day, the ASR-33's speed made this an awfully tedious and slow process. A 4k program took 3 days to assemble and link. As young sorts with too much ego and not enough software design experience, our bug rates were high enough to make any thought of reassembling after finding each bug absurd. Like most developers of the time, we'd patch the code in the debugger. This meant entering in new hex codes to fix incorrect instructions. To add more code we'd patch in a jump to an unused area of RAM, hand assemble mnemonics, and jump back. As we patched and patched, the code diverged from the master source tapes. We'd punch binary images each night to make a record of the changes, but the ASR-33 was so slow that reassembling from clean source files was a luxury rarely indulged. With time fast paper tape readers became available to the micro world. That 10 cps ASR-33 speed shot up to 300 characters per second on a high speed optical reader, greatly reducing development time. Spending a small amount of money on capital equipment yielded vast improvements in efficiency, a lesson still not learned today. Tape gave way to cassettes, and finally floppies became the technology de jour. High level languages have made patching object code a thing of the past, except in extreme circumstances. Embedded tools are still far from perfect, but have shrunk the edit/compile/download cycle to something much closer to the ideal (zero time) than ever before. Yet the legacy of the Teletype still exists. Every RS-232 connection uses a data stream no different, except in levels, than that pioneered by the teletype. UARTs, electronic equivalents of the old pseudo-distributor, are a standard feature on embedded processors. You could connect an ASR-33 to your PC or embedded system even now, using nothing more than a couple of transistors to shift the RS-232 voltage levels to current loop. Many UARTs, including the 16550 used in PCs, still support 1.5 stop bits, a bit of old teletype history we're still carrying along. The more things change, the more they stay the same. |
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Almost everyone is on Facebook these days – it's always a surprise to meet someone who has resisted the temptation to join. It has over a billion active users and despite it first having been invented for college students, it isn't just younger generations using it anymore. It has completely transformed how we communicate, and we use it more than ever now due to smartphones ensuring we have access to it everywhere.
Let's be honest, most of our 'friends' on Facebook aren't people we would consider real life friends; many are acquaintances and plenty are people from our past we're probably not going to see again. Before Facebook, when you left school you had no idea how your classmates were doing until – well, if – you attended your school reunion, but now most of us know about our old schoolmates' daily lives due to their status updates, whether we're interested or not. Some smartphones even sync Facebook friends with contact books so that near strangers phone numbers appear in contacts lists. Facebook also ensures we still have a connection with people from our past we wouldn't otherwise; whether it's the aforementioned schoolmates, friends turned enemies or exes. In this day and age, it's harder to forget the past when there are constant reminders online – someone may be gone from your life, but they can still hang around in your virtual one.
Nowadays we find out most of our gossip from Facebook; whether it's someone's new job, an engagement or a break-up. When I was studying abroad, it was an easy way of making sure my friends back home were updated on my life, and vice versa. But then again, Facebook also means many of us don't make as much of an effort as we might have in the past with our friends, as we already know what's going on in their lives without having to even ask; so you might not get in touch with them as often as you would otherwise, because you feel updated already. Most of the time I use Facebook's messaging system – which is becoming more like an actual email client, and Facebook recently gave all of its users an email address that is linked to it – to contact friends instead of email, as it just seems easier.
Instead of physical photo albums, these days it's far more common to have all of your pictures collected on your Facebook page. I realised recently that due to me not having backed up my last laptop, most of my old photos are only preserved digitally on Facebook and not stored anywhere else; an odd thought.
We used to send paper invites, now we use Facebook event pages to arrange social occasions such as birthdays and house parties (just always remember to make the latter private to avoid random strangers showing up at your door and chaos descending!). Event organisers are also increasingly using Facebook to promote and spread the word about their events as opposed to paper advertising.
Are these changes for better or worse? In many ways so much information being easily available has made our lives easier; but then again, it can also make some things harder for us. Personally I have a love/hate relationship with Facebook, and although I'm tempted to leave sometimes I think the pros generally outweigh the cons – so I'm sticking with it for now.
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Become a water aerobics instructor and help others stay fit and active. Before you can become a water aerobics instructor, you'll need training in human anatomy, kinesiology and fitness instruction. You'll need fitness instructor certification at the very least. Some jobs also require water aerobic instruction certification.
1. Register for a first aid, CPR and automatic external defibrillator (AED) training course through the Red Cross or another legitimate organization. You will need current, up-to-date CPR and AED certification before you can work as an aerobics instructor. Once you pass the course, your certification is valid for two years.
2. Take and pass the American Council on Exercise examination to earn certification as a personal trainer. Alternatively, you can earn certification through the Aerobics and Fitness Association of America. The ACE test is three hours long and consists of 150 questions. The AFAA personal trainer certification program involves a three-day workshop and a written and practical test.
3. Earn water aerobic instructor certification through Aquatic Exercise Association as well. You can earn AEA certification in addition to or instead of the ACE or AFAA certifications. You will have to pass an examination to earn AEA certification.
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Leo Genn (1905–1978)
Leo Genn was the son of a successful jewelry merchant Woolfe (William) Genn and his wife Rachel Asserson. He attended the City of London School as a youth and went on to study law at Cambridge. He received his law degree as a qualified barrister (which in English law tradition is a lawyer who is a specialist in law and who appears in court as ...
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He was in Bristol, making a television film about senility. This is an undertaking characteristic of his range of poetic ambition: 'to find a way of looking at terrible things without blinking.' Watching the prolonged death of a relative from Alzheimers, he had discovered that the last language to go was rhyme. What the demented say often has a beat and a ring to it, even if no meaning.
So he has been filming in hospitals and nursing homes, trying to find the shreds of meaning left in their language and bring them out. He came from the cutting room, where, he said, his head had been filled with the image of a senile woman talking animated gibberish, full- face on the screen.
'I've never liked saying poet dash playwright, or poet dash that. It's poet: that includes everything. I have almost constantly being trying to find some of the range and ambition and public dimension of dramatic poetry from the Greeks through Shakespeare and the Jacobeans, Moliere, Racine, Goethe; Yeats, Brecht. Almost all poets not only wrote for the theatre but also worked as directors or actors . . . I'm sure if they were alive today, they would also have worked in television.'
He was delighted that when the Independent and the Guardian published two controversial long poems (v. and A Cold Coming), they did so on news pages, where they would be read by people who had no interest in the arts pages.
In Tony Harrison are united two apparently contradictory impulses: a rigorous formalism in the verse, and a fierce democracy in the ambition. His poetry is all the more valuable for not being in the least bit precious. The sensibility is very different, but there is something of Rochester in his directness, and the sense that at any moment the mannered poem may kick the table over.
I told him that I thought he more closely resembled the 17th century poets than their successors. In Pope, for example, the argument is safely contained in the mechanism of the poem. There is no chance that a violent thought could shatter the clockwork, whereas the endings of Harrison's poems can flip open all that has gone before.
'One of the important things about familiar form and metricality is that it draws attention to the physical nature of language: the spell-binding nature of it, and the ceremony of articulation,' he said. His hands moved round the candle between us, caging it as he looked for words. 'I only know how to search darkness: 'Life has a skin of death that keeps its zest' ,' he added, quoting his own poem A Kumquat for John Keats.
'I really find it very difficult to talk about what I've done and what I'm doing. You have to understand that when I try to find answers to things my immediate instinct is to reach for the poem, not for discursive dialogue.
'In so much as there is a confidence now it's to do with finding a more prophetic voice. But I still have to accommodate voices that say: 'Eh, what the fuck's the use of this?': the non-reader over my shoulder.'
He gave a quick direct glance to see if I had caught the allusion. In some people, such a check would have been competitive, but his struck me as more checking to see whether he had my range. The skinhead in v, he says, is also inside him. For that reason, the dialogue inside the poem engages audiences who do not usually have much use for poetry.
'v. has reached quite interesting groups of people. It has been done by amateur theatre groups. I don't have illusions about how many people you can reach, but I do go on trying. There are many forms of discouragement of poetry but it is uniquely placed to go directly into the heart and into the mind.'
One of the ways in which his poetry reaches out to people is by keeping outside the follies of Eng Lit. His version of the northern Mystery Plays was designed, he says, to take them out of the Abbey grounds and back into the market-place. 'A lot of my activity in the theatre, and even in writing poems, was a kind of retrospective aggro on the English teacher who wouldn't allow me to read poetry aloud.'
This incident is commemorated in his poem Them and Us. 'My feeling about playing verse is that it should be in the voice that you grew up with, not in the voice you learn in drama school.
'At one time, when I was forming myself, these things were things I had to combat. I had to struggle with them in order to find my own voice. Now they concern me less, perhaps, than they did, because some of my preoccupations are different. But I still have that attitude to art and culture.'
I asked whether he had not to some degree reversed the original slight, so that someone with my accent could not read his poems as they were meant to be read. No, he said: 'A poem, once it's written, is meant to be read with the inner voice of the person who reads it.'
But the Mystery plays, he said, were written for a Northern voice, and that was how he had restored and reclaimed them. 'God in my version speaks the same language as the people he is talking to.' The parts were taken by local artisans. Occasionally, in order to show they were God, they dropped into Latin, but even then they did so in dialect.
I asked whether, as he rewrote the passion story, he believed in it. 'I'm not a believer,' he said. 'But I believed in the drama. I believe more in the power of drama than in the power of religion. I'm interested in all ways in which human beings try to redeem the idea of mortality, temporality, and the alternatives. But that wasn't what drew me to the plays. No. What drew me to the plays was an energy.'
If not a Christian, had he ever been a Marxist? 'I don't think I was ever one. I read all that stuff. I learnt from all that stuff, but I've never been any ist of any kind . . . except an artist.' He is that all right. On Tuesday, with a bit of luck, he might receive the Whitbread Book of the Year Award for The Gaze of the Gorgon. But whether he wins or not, he will no doubt continue to look at life, on our behalf, without blinking.
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David Nucifora is a former Australian rugby union player, who played for the Queensland and Australia.He played as a hooker. He played for the Queensland team from 1986-1993 and was selected into the Wallabies in 1991 and was also a part of the famous 1991 Rugby World Cup winning team which beat England in a nail-biting final winning 12-6.
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"When the rain came we went to water ... they played the conditions far better than we did. We know we're a better side than that and we have to be smarter than that."
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