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This receiver is XM Satellite Radio "Ready," allowing you to hear over 160 digital channels of music, news, sports, talk and entertainment from America's number one Satellite Radio service. With the addition of the XM Passport and XM Connect-and-Play Hom...
This receiver is XM Satellite Radio "Ready," allowing you to hear over 160 digital channels of music, news, sports, talk and entertainment from America's number one Satellite Radio service. With the addition of the XM Passport and XM Connect-and-Play Home Kit (sold separately) just subscribe to XM Satellite Radio and hear radio as it was meant to be! This receiver is also capable of receiving XM Satellite Radio with XM HD Surround powered by Neural Surround. This is a new advance in surround technology that allows delivery of a more detailed sound stage with superior channel separation and localization of audio elements. When music is encoded in a digital compressed format such as MP3, frequency response suffers in the high and low ranges. Yamaha employs sophisticated digital signal processing with our exclusive algorithms to enable playback that improves compressed music quality. A mini jack on the front panel makes it convenient to connect portable audio players. This model provides a choice of nine subwoofer crossover frequencies: 40, 60, 80, 90, 100, 110, 120, 160 and 200 Hz. In addition to providing a wider range than other receivers, the steps from 80 to 120 Hz are only 10 Hz apart for more precise selection. The Digital ToP-ART design concept combines the latest and best technologies, parts and circuit designs to maximize sound quality. High Current Amplification uses superior components to achieve high current power with low impedance from input (power supply circuit) to output (speaker terminals).
Other Features
XM Ready with XM HD Surround Powered by Neural Surround Compressed Music Enhancer Front Panel Mini Jack for Portable Player Connection Preset Remote Unit with Illuminated Input Indicators Selectable 9-Subwoofer Crossover Frequencies / Subwoofer Phase Select 6.1-Channel, 540W Powerful Surround Sound (90W x 6) Digital ToP-ART and High Current Amplification Direct Stereo for High Quality 2-Channel Sound Reproduction 192kHz/24-Bit DACs for All Channels HDTV Compatible 3 Component Video Inputs Dolby Digital EX, DTS-ES, Dolby Pro Logic IIx and DTS 96/24 Compatibility Night Listening Enhancer (Cinema/Music) and SILENT CINEMA Quad-Field CINEMA DSP and 14 Surround Programs Audio Delay for Adjusting Lip-Sync (0–160ms) High Dynamic Power and Linear Damping Wide-Range Audio Frequency Response for DVD-Audio/Super Audio CD Compatibility Subwoofer Phase Select 3 Digital Inputs: 2 Optical and 1 Coaxial (Fixed and Assignable) Speaker A, B or A+B Selection (Front L/R) Front Panel Video Aux Terminals Virtual CINEMA DSP Preset Remote Unit with Illuminated Input Indicators
CINEMA DSP Digital™
Conventional multichannel audio reproduction systems base their sound on Dolby® Digital and DTS Digital Surround™ decoding, using matrix and steering technologies to create surround sound effects. Yamaha CINEMA DSP Digital™ is much more advanced; actually creating independent sound fields that envelop you in an unmatched surround sound experience. With dialogue, music and effects located in separate sound fields, you will hear sound with directionality, smooth movement, exceptional clarity and presence.
Digital ToP-ART
Digital ToP-ART (Total Purity Audio Reproduction Technology) is the name Yamaha has given to a design philosophy whose goal is to maximize digital quality while minimizing analog circuitry. The culmination of Yamaha's long experience in digital engineering and design, it brings together several key elements to create the best-sounding, A/V components available on the market.
Dolby Digital EX
This surround format from Dolby Digital includes an added center rear channel. The rear center channel is actually matrixed into the two rear channels, and is extracted upon playback. (Formerly called Dolby Digital Surround EX, or Dolby Digital Matrix 6.1.)
Yamaha has developed a natural, realistic DSP algorithm for headphones. Parameters for headphones have been set for each sound field so that accurate representations of all the sound field programs can be enjoyed with a pair of headphones.
XM - XM Ready
A product with this feature indicates that the item is XM Satellite Radio (XM Ready), allowing you to hear over 150 digital channels of music, news, sports, talk and entertainment from America's number one Satellite Radio service. With the addition of the optional digital antenna XM Mini-Tuner Home Dock and the XM Mini-Tuner accessories sold separately, just subscribe to XM Satellite Radio and hear radio as it was meant to be!
6 Ch Ext Input
6 additional input jacks for discrete multi-channel input. Front (Left, Center, Right), Rear (Surround Left & Right) and Subwoofer
In this format, the back surround channel is matrix encoded into the left and right surround channels. For playback, the three channels are separately decoded.
Neural Surround
Neural Surround represents the latest advancement in surround technology and has been adopted by XM Satellite Radio for digital radio broadcast of surround recordings and live events in surround sound. Neural Surround employs psychoacoustic frequency domain processing which allows delivery of a more detailed sound stage with superior channel separation and localization of audio elements. System playback is scalable from 5.1 to 7.1 multi-channel surround playback.
Neural Surround™ name and related logos are trademarks owned by Neural Audio Corporation.
XM HD Surround Sound
XM and Neural Audio Corporation announce XM HD Surround, which provides content with six discrete channels of digital full fidelity audio powered by Neural Audio technology. Marking the first time that a radio company has broadcast in 5.1 Surround Sound twenty-four hours a day. Beginning in April 2006, XM will broadcast the Fine Tuning® (XM Channel 76) and the classical pops music channel XM Pops (XM Channel 113) in XM HD Surround. XM will also broadcast a variety of special shows and live music performances at the XM studios in XM HD Surround.
Compressed Music Enhancer
Yamaha employs sophisticated digital signal processing with exclusive algorithms to enable playback that improves the performance of compressed music formats, including MP3 and WMA. With the Compressed Music Enhancer, highs and especially lows are richer and smoother, bringing music back to life to be as close to the original recording as possible.
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|RMS Output Power (20Hz - 20kHz)
|90W x 6
|Total Power (20Hz - 20kHz)
|Dolby Digital EX/ Dolby Pro Logic IIx
|DTS-ES Discrete 6.1
|DTS 96/24 / DTS Neo:6
|Compressed Music Enhancer
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|A/V Inputs (S-Video)
|4 (3 S-Video)
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|Front A/V with Digital Input
|Front Mini Input for Portables
|D/A Conversion
|192 kHz / 24 bit
|Surround Programs
|Night Listening Enhancer
|Speaker A, B or A + B
|Selectable Subwoofer Crossover
|Multi-Channel Decoder Inputs
|Learning Remote Capability
|Product Dimensions (W x H x D)
|17-1/8" x 6-3/4" x 16-3/8"
|Product Weight (lbs.)
|Shipping Dimensions (W x H x D)
|21-13/16" x 10-7/16" x 19-3/4"
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Why does the "Check Antenna" message appear on the display of my Yamaha AV receiver?
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Posted March 12, 2002; 04:38 p.m.
"Turkiye," a month-long cultural festival, continues with a free series of Turkish-language movies March 12-14 in Robertson Hall. All three movies have English subtitles.
The films include:
"Elephants and Grass --Filler Ve Cimen," which will be shown at 8 p.m., Tuesday, March 12, in Bowl 1, Robertson Hall. One of last year's biggest films in Turkey (winner of 10 national awards), this fast paced and elegant thriller is based upon six stories woven into one larger picture.
"Boatman -- Kaiktsis -- Kayikci," a tragic yet comic love story which will be presented 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 13, in Bowl 2, Robertson Hall.
- "Away From Home -- Herkes Kendi Evinde," which will be shown at 8 p.m. Thursday, March 14, in Bowl 1, Robertson Hall. Three travelers cross paths as their life journeys lead them to an Aegean town.
The events are presented by the Council of International Graduate Students, the International Center and the Turkish Students' Association. For further information, contact Council for International Graduate Studies .
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ARSC T3D Users' Newsletter 65, December 15, 1995
NQS - T3D Miscommunication
At ARSC, we recently had an interesting situation where PEs were available but couldn't be used. At that time, the T3D mppview display looked something like this:
_________________________________________________________________________ \ . . . . smith smith smith smith \ \ . . . . smith smith smith smith \ \________________________________________________________________________\ _________________________________________________________________________ \ . . . . smith smith smith smith \ \ . . . . smith smith smith smith \ \________________________________________________________________________\ _________________________________________________________________________ \ ess ess ess ess . . . . \ \ ess ess . . . . . . \ \________________________________________________________________________\ _________________________________________________________________________ \ ess ess ess ess . . . . \ \ ess ess . . . . . . \ \________________________________________________________________________\A user now submitted a 64 PE job through the NQS queues, but his job did not run. From NQS's point of view (as shown with the qstat -a command), the 64 PE job was running! But for the T3D, the job could not run because the two idle blocks of 32 PEs were not 'torus contiguous' (I just made up this word).
NQS seems only to keep track of how many PEs are in use and not whether they are arranged in blocks that can be used on the T3D. This miscommunication between NQS and the T3D is a known problem but there's not much that can be done. What made this case even worse was that the 64 PE job not only could not run but was blocking smaller 2 and 8 PE NQS jobs from running also.
At ARSC, I try to watch out for these situations but there is no operator watching the T3D and there's not much an operator could do anyway. If you feel that the T3D is in this situation please call Mike Ess at 907-474-5405 or send e-mail and I'll see what I can do. In the above case, if either ess or smith stopped their jobs then the 64 PE job could find a 'torus contiguous' block of PEs and everything would be OK.
HPF and CRIThe following article describes the recent announcement between the Portland Group and CRI at Supercomputer '95 and appeared in HPCwire:
> Subject: 7573 Cray Research Chooses The Portland Group's HPF Product 12.06.95 > > Cray Research Chooses The Portland Group's HPF Product 12.06.95 > NEWS BRIEFS LIVEwire > ============================================================================= > > San Diego, Calif. -- Cray Research and The Portland Group Inc. (PGI) > announced at Supercomputing '95 that they have signed a letter of intent for > Cray to offer PGI's pghpf High Performance Fortran (HPF) compiler on all of > its computing systems, including the recently announced CRAY T3E(TM) scalable > parallel system. > > "We are looking forward to offering our customers and prospects an HPF > product," said Mike Booth, vice president of Cray's software division. "Our > corporate strategy is to continue to leverage leading technologies from other > companies, while applying Cray core competencies in parallel computing. We > were seeing interest from our customers in HPF and conducted a very thorough > technical evaluation. PGI's product clearly emerged as the HPF of choice and > we believe that this product can provide ease-of-use and robustness to our > users wanting HPF." > > HPF extends ISO/ANSI Fortran 90 to support implicit data parallel > programming. It provides all the power of Fortran 90, including array syntax, > array intrinsics, and dynamic storage allocation. In addition, HPF directives > support the distribution of data among processors, the alignment of data > objects to one another, and assertion of the independence of parallel loop > iterations. HPF is the de facto standard for implicit parallel programming > for shared- and distributed-memory systems. > > PGI's pghpf product allows users to run applications unchanged on Cray > systems ranging from the CRAY J90(TM) low-cost compact supercomputer to the > company's high-end CRAY T90 system and the company's scalable parallel > systems, the current CRAY T3D and the new CRAY T3E systems. The pghpf > compiler has already proven effective on several large applications in the > areas of fluid flow, wave simulation, particle simulation, and 3D reservoir > modeling. > > "This is a real milestone for HPF as well as PGI," said Douglas Miles, > director of marketing at PGI. "We are pleased to see Cray Research offer HPF > on its systems and that our product, after rigorous analysis, emerged as the > leader for Cray. We look forward to seeing our product move into Cray's > customer base and to serving the High Performance Fortran needs of these > users. The fact that Cray, a leader in high-performance parallel computing, > has selected pghpf is a strong vote of confidence in our HPF technology." > > The PGI HPF compiler is currently available through PGI on the CRAY CS6400 > symmetric multi-processing server and the CRAY T3D system. Users of pghpf on > the CRAY T3D system can port and develop HPF applications that will run > unchanged on the soon-to-be-available CRAY T3E. Cray said it expects to > directly offer pghpf on these systems and on Cray's parallel vector > supercomputers beginning in early 1996. pghpf will be available on the CRAY > T3E when volume shipments begin next year. > > PGI is offering product demonstrations of pghpf and related HPF program > development tools in its booth (#911). > > HPCwire has released all copyright restrictions for this item. Please feel > free to distribute this article to your friends and colleagues. For a free > trial subscription, send e-mail to email@example.com. >
Using the PGI HPF Compiler at ARSCSince May of this year, I have been working with the PGI HPF compiler for the T3D. Below is a description of how to access the 2.0 version of this compiler on Denali. PGI has given ARSC permission to use an evaluation copy and PGI and I would like to hear about your experiences.
accessing the PGI HPF compilers
Add these lines to the end of your .cshrc file:
setenv PGI /tmp/ess/pgi setenv MANPATH "$MANPATH":/tmp/ess/pgi/man setenv PATH "$PATH":/tmp/ess/pgi/t3d/bin setenv LM_LICENSE_FILE /tmp/ess/pgi/license.dat
A typical makefile for using pghpf might be:
F77 = /mpp/bin/cf77 HPF = pghpf .SUFFIXES: .o .hpf .f .hpf.o: $(HPF) -c -Minfo -Mautopar -Mkeepftn $< .f.o: $(F77) -c $< smooth: smooth.o second.o /mpp/bin/mppldr -o smooth smooth.o second.o (export MPP_NPES=1 ; smooth ) hpf: hpf.o second.o pghpf -o hpf hpf.o second.o (export MPP_NPES=8 ; hpf ) clean: -rm -r *.o smooth hpf.f hpf mppcoreThe command 'make hpf' produces:
12, 2 FORALLs generated 39, 1 FORALL generated 54, 1 FORALL generated 70, SUM reduction generated /mpp/bin/cf77 -c second.f pghpf -o hpf hpf.o second.oLinking:
(export MPP_NPES=8 ; hpf ) 221 0.14845792E-07 0.000070 0.295780 0.339684Several compiler switches are immediately useful:
-Minfo gives a summary of what transformations were done like the FORALLs generated -Mautopar tells pghpf to generate code for multiple processors -Mkeepftn has pghpf generate the parallelized Fortran 77 program that the user can examine
The program smooth.f (see below) is the same program discussed in the Fall CUG article "An Evaluation of High Performance Fortran Products on the Cray-T3D." Besides being an HPF compiler, pghpf, can be used to parallelize Fortran 77 programs with minimal effort. A diff between smooth.f and hpf.hpf shows:
4a5,6 > !HPF$ PROCESSORS NUM_PROC(8) > !HPF$ DISTRIBUTE (*,BLOCK) ONTO NUM_PROC :: P0, P1 35a38 > !HPF$ INDEPENDENT 49a53 > !HPF$ INDEPENDENTSo these minimal changes are:
- describe the number of processors
- specify which arrays are to be distributed
- specify which DO loops have independent iterations
Table 1times (seconds) for relaxation example on t3d on each 3 phases
initialization relaxation residual smooth.f 0.000571 1.343860 0.448627 hpf.hpf, 1PE 0.000494 1.456697 1.002058 hpf.hpf, 2PE 0.000283 0.783687 0.600970 hpf.hpf, 4PE 0.000155 0.454907 0.417283 hpf.hpf, 8PE 0.000070 0.296023 0.338785
There is a lot of documentation that goes with the pghpf compiler, potential users should check out:
man pghpfand there is a host of manpages for individual HPF functions:
ls /tmp/ess/pgi/man/man3 all_prefix.3f iall_prefix.3f minval_prefix.3f all_scatter.3f iall_scatter.3f minval_scatter.3f all_suffix.3f iall_suffix.3f minval_suffix.3f any_prefix.3f iany.3f number_of_processors.3f any_scatter.3f iany_prefix.3f parity.3f any_suffix.3f iany_scatter.3f parity_prefix.3f copy_prefix.3f iany_suffix.3f parity_scatter.3f copy_scatter.3f ilen.3f parity_suffix.3f copy_suffix.3f iparity.3f popcnt.3f count_prefix.3f iparity_prefix.3f poppar.3f count_scatter.3f iparity_scatter.3f processors_shape.3f count_suffix.3f iparity_suffix.3f product_prefix.3f grade_down.3f leadz.3f product_scatter.3f grade_up.3f maxloc.3f product_suffix.3f hpf_alignment.3f maxval_prefix.3f sum_prefix.3f hpf_distribution.3f maxval_scatter.3f sum_scatter.3f hpf_template.3f maxval_suffix.3f sum_suffix.3f iall.3f minloc.3fIn the directory /tmp/ess/pgi/doc/hpf/html there is a whole collection of manuals and manpages available in html format:
drwxr-xr-x 2 ess uaf 4096 Dec 11 16:01 faq drwxr-xr-x 2 ess uaf 4096 Dec 11 16:01 man1 drwxr-xr-x 2 ess uaf 4096 Dec 11 16:01 man3 -r--r--r-- 1 ess uaf 964 Dec 11 16:01 pghpf.index.html drwxr-xr-x 2 ess uaf 4096 Dec 11 16:01 ref_manual drwxr-xr-x 2 ess uaf 4096 Dec 11 16:01 release_notes drwxr-xr-x 2 ess uaf 4096 Dec 11 16:01 users_guideABe careful with these html documents as they can be big:
faq 5 pages release notes 33 pages users_guide 137 pages reference manual 263 pagesIf you have any questions about using pghpf on Denali, please e-mail me your questions and I'll get an answer.
parameter( M = 100, N = 100, MAXTIME = 1000 ) real p0( M, N ), p1( M, N ) real t1, second, tset, tupdate, terror, totupdate, toterror real slamch, error integer i, j, k c c set initial conditions domain and spike c t1 = second( ) do 20 j = 1, N do 10 i = 1, M p0( i, j ) = 0.0 p1( i, j ) = 0.0 10 continue 20 continue tset = second( ) - t1 p0( M / 2, N / 2 ) = 1.0 c c time step loop c totupdate = 0.0 toterror = 0.0 do 100 k = 1, MAXTIME c c smoothing stencil c if( k/2*2 .ne. k ) then t1 = second() c c odd time step c do 40 j = 2, N-1 do 30 i = 2, M-1 p1(i,j) = ( p0(i+1,j)+p0(i-1,j)+p0(i,j+1)+p0(i,j-1) & + 4.0 * p0(i,j) ) / 8.0 30 continue 40 continue tupdate = second() - t1 else t1 = second() c c even time step c do 60 j = 2, N-1 do 50 i = 2, M-1 p0(i,j) = ( p1(i+1,j)+p1(i-1,j)+p1(i,j+1)+p1(i,j-1) & + 4.0 * p1(i,j) ) / 8.0 50 continue 60 continue tupdate = second() - t1 endif c c calculate change c error = 0.0 t1 = second() do 80 j = 2, N-1 do 70 i = 2, M-1 error = error + ( p0( i, j ) - p1( i, j ) ) ** 2 70 continue 80 continue terror = second( ) - t1 c write( 6, 600 ) k, error, tupdate, terror c c stopping criteria c error is less than the square root of the machine epsilon c totupdate = totupdate + tupdate toterror = toterror + terror if( error .le. sqrt( slamch( 'e' ) ) ) goto 101 100 continue 101 continue write( 6, 600 ) k, error, tset, totupdate, toterror 600 format( i5, e16.8, f10.6, f10.6, f10.6 ) end
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By M. Scott Morris/NEMS Daily Journal
Northeast Mississippi residents crowded into Washington, D.C., to witness President Barack Obama's second inauguration today.
Gloria Fitzpatrick, 58, of Pontotoc, organized a group of more than 80 people who took the bus ride to the nation's Capitol.
"When President Obama got up and spoke," she said, "it was something we have waited for for four years."
Halle Traylor, 9, of Tupelo was shorter than most in attendance but had no problem seeing everything, thanks to the wonder of technology.
"I got to see it on the Jumbotron," Halle said. "It was very, very fun. It was really cold, but it was fun to see everybody."
Tylon Ward, 16, of Fulton appreciated the chance to share such a unique experience with so many of his fellow Americans.
"It was just a great atmosphere to be in," he said. "It was something new that I'm going to remember for a long time."
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From the editor's desk, Laura C. Wells, Vice President of Marketing & Communications at the Foundation presents highlights from this month
They say April showers bring May flowers, but here in New York it's been more like May showers continuing into June showers leading to a fruitful and productive Spring overall...
Here is a sampling of a few of the things we've been talking about —
- President Obama kicked off the month in mental health by launching a national dialogue to tackle the persistent and pervasive societal challenges of mental illness. On June 4th, he hosted a "National Conference on Mental Health," saying that:
"We all know somebody―a family member, a friend, a neighbor―who has struggled or will struggle with mental health issues at some point in their lives … We know that recovery is possible … and yet, … too many Americans who struggle with mental health illnesses are still suffering in silence rather than seeking help …"
- Our President and CEO, Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein represented the Foundation at the White House. We are bolstered by this new, open dialogue to reduce stigma, increase access to care and accelerate brain and mental health research, all as a means of forging a sustainable path of recovery for mental illness. READ MORE
- The Quarterly on Early Intervention was published this Spring – here are just a couple of highlights:
- Dr. Judith Rapoport, Chief of the Child Psychiatry Branch at the National Institute of Mental Health and Foundation Scientific Council Member, shares promising insights and offers tips for parents READ MORE
- Stamatia Pappas recounts her personal story of intervention with her son as he developed the behavioral symptoms of schizoaffective disorder. She says her family never lost hope and her son is now "well into recovery." READ MORE
- New approaches and technologies were a driving force of discoveries in June. A few examples include:
- Neurogenesis: A NARSAD Grantee in Stockholm, Sweden applied a very innovative approach to identify the "birth date" of neurons in adult human brains and demonstrated that more than one-third of neurons are regularly renewed throughout life. The research was conducted by a team at the Karolinska Institutet and was published June 6, 2013 in Cell. READ MORE
- Personalized Medicine: Dr. Helen Mayberg of Emory University and three-time NARSAD Grantee identified specific patterns of brain activity with PET (positron emission tomography) scans that suggest how a depressed person will respond to treatment with medication or psychotherapy. The findings offer a first step towards personalized medicine treatment decisions for major depression and were published in JAMA Psychiatry online on June 12, 2013. READ MORE
- New Treatment Targets: Thanks to a new precision in brain research offered by the groundbreaking technology "optogenetics," two separate research teams―one at Columbia and one at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)―were able to identify new, more precise treatment targets for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) that may also offer preventive possibilities. Both teams' findings were published in papers in Science on June 7, 2013. READ MORE
And that's a quick snapshot of the month! Please let us know what you think of this new initiative to revitalize our blog and to bring you a monthly overview of what we're excited about …
Laura joined the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (then known as NARSAD) in January, 2010 and leads development of communication and promotional materials at the Foundation. This includes all printed publications, the website and eNews, promotional materials for events and various other means of communicating with the Foundation's donor community and external constituents... READ MORE


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Opening day!
Almost time for kickoff ... crush the Herd!
Let's GOOOOOOO...
Opening day!
Almost time for kickoff ... crush the Herd!
Let's GOOOOOOO...
2017 Goals:
1) Win the next game.
2) See #1
"The problem with internet quotes lies in verifying their authenticity."
-Abraham Lincoln
"Lucille" is my BanHammer!!!
Who are they playing today?
Atta boy, Austin!!!
100 yd. kickoff ret. evens up the special teams scores.
WVU up 27-13
And, a lightning delay (30 mins)
... Beer vendors in the stadium are currently making bank!
West Virginia sucks
C'mon already, let's get this **** going again ... 1.5 hour delay? I bet the stadium ran out of beer (expect riot footage on ESPN tonight)
This game wasn't half bad. I'm pissed that it's still delayed.
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About Jeff Masters
Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather
By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 1:40 PM GMT on September 10, 2009
Hurricane Fred peaked in intensity yesterday afternoon, attaining Category 3 strength with 120 mph winds. It is quite unusual to have such a powerful system so far east in the Atlantic, and Fred is only the third major hurricane to exist east of 35W. Fred is also the strongest hurricane so far south and east in the data record. However, this type of system would have been difficult to document before satellite pictures began in the 1960s.
Fred's glory is past, and the storm is on a downslide now, thanks to moderate wind shear of 15 - 20 knots and dry air eating into the hurricane's southwest side. The shear and the dry air will increase over the next few days, with the shear rising above 40 knots by Monday morning. Sea surface temperatures (SSTs) will also cool to near the 26.5°C threshold needed to sustain a tropical cyclone. The combination of high shear, dry air, and cool SSTs will likely kill Fred by Tuesday.
Figure 1. Hurricane Fred at peak strength, 8:55am EDT UTC 9/9/09. At the time, Fred was a Category 3 hurricane with 120 mph winds. Image credit: NASA.
Elsewhere in the tropics
An upper-level low pressure system has moved over Texas and is expected to spawn a surface low pressure system along the Texas Gulf of Mexico coast on Friday. This low will probably have characteristics of both a tropical and extratropical storm. The surface low is likely to move northeastward and move ashore near the Texas/Louisiana border region on Saturday or Sunday. There will be some high wind shear to the west of the low (shear is currently a high 25 knots), so it is uncertain whether this low will be capable of developing into a tropical cyclone. Regardless, this storm will bring heavy rain capable of causing flooding--and help alleviate the exceptional drought conditions over Southeast Texas.
Early next week, we should be alert for tropical storm development over the waters between the Bahamas and North Carolina, along an old frontal zone. None of the reliable models are forecasting tropical storm development in this area or in the Gulf of Mexico, though.
Figure 2. The climatological halfway point of the Atlantic hurricane season is today, September 10.
Halfway point of hurricane season
September 10 marks the halfway point of the Atlantic hurricane season. Despite a late start (Tropical Storm Ana did not form until August 15, the latest start to a hurricane season since 1992), our number of storms has been near average. An average Atlantic hurricane season has 5 named storms, 3 hurricanes, and 1 intense hurricane by the midpoint of the season. So far this year, we've had 6 named storms, 2 hurricanes, and 2 intense hurricanes. A better measure of hurricane activity that takes into account their destructive power is the Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) index. ACE for an individual storm is computed by squaring the maximum sustained winds of the storm at each 6-hourly advisory, and summing up over the entire lifetime of the storm. As of 5am EDT this morning, the seasonal ACE tally was 37.5. This number should rise to around 40 by the end of the day, thanks to the presence of Hurricane Fred. Over the period 1950 - 2005, the average ACE index for a half-season was 51, so 2009 ranks about 20% below average for the halfway point of the season. But when compared to the hurricane seasons we've been having since the current active hurricane period began in 1995, this year has been quite inactive. Between 1995 and 2008, the average ACE index for the halfway point of the season was 72. Thus, 2009 is about 45% less active than what we've been accustomed to over the past 14 years.
We've been lucky this year that the steering currents have aligned to keep our two major hurricanes, Bill and Fred, out to sea. What will the rest of the season have in store for us? I'll present an analysis on Friday.
Twenty years ago on this date
On September 10, 1989, the strong tropical wave that had moved off the coast of Africa the previous day acquired an organized circulation at the surface and began building a concentrated area of heavy thunderstorms near its center. A new tropical depression, the 12th of the season, was born. Moving westward at 20 mph, the depression brought strong, gusty winds and heavy rain showers to the Cape Verdes Islands as it passed to the south. Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center predicted that the steadily organizing tropical depression would strengthen into a tropical storm within the next day or two. The next name on the list of Atlantic tropical storm names for 1989: Hugo.
Figure 3. AVHRR visible satellite image of Tropical Depression Twelve taken on September 10, 1989. Image credit: Google Earth rendition of the NOAA HURSAT data base.
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The features of the man, dapperly dressed in the left canvas, and naked in the right canvas, are recognisably those of George Dyer. Bacon met Dyer in 1964 and he became Bacon's close friend and primary model for over a decade, his presence persisting in Bacon's work well beyond his death in Paris in October 1971. Bacon preferred to work from memory and photographs. As a point of departure he often used the serial photographs which Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) made in the 1880s of humans and animals in motion and published in the enormous compendium Animal Locomotion in 1887. The image in the central panel of the Canberra painting was adopted from Muybridge's photographs of wrestlers. Bacon had used this image on a number of previous occasions, at first in Two figures 1953 (private collection, London) and, contemporaneously with the Canberra painting, in the central panel of Triptych — studies from the human body 1970 (collection Jacques Hachuel, Paris). However, Muybridge's photographs may also have been the source of another feature that is unique to the Canberra Triptych - the suspended platforms that support the figure in the left and in the right panels. While the overlapping geometric forms of the platforms may recall Bacon's own early designs for modernist furniture, the complex system of lines denoting ropes or wires from which these platforms are suspended seem to be derived from Muybridge's serial photographs of a woman getting into and out of a hammock - also from Animal Locomotion.
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A holistic approach to smart-grid security.
Mark Cioni is an executive consultant with Enspiria Solutions, a Black & Veatch company. He also is a contributor to NIST's Cyber Security Coordination Task Group.
A holistic approach to smart-grid security.
The smart grid has gained solid traction in many respects, and it encompasses a broad and interrelated ecosystem of technology, processes, information and concerns. While the smart grid has the potential to enable many desirable outcomes articulated by government, industry and consumers, it also presents significant potential risks to our power generation, transmission and distribution systems in ways perhaps not even imagined just a few years ago.
A number of smart-grid security concerns have been expressed in recent mainstream discussions. Many laypeople and experts believe the smart grid might be widely vulnerable to cyber attacks. For example, hackers or insiders could cause massive blackouts or other disruptions. There's also significant concern and media attention around the idea that utilities, hackers or other entities could use new smart meters and other methods to spy on consumers or control their homes without consent. Underlying these concerns is a relative lack of perceived experience and predictability regarding how the smart grid will react to intrusions and compromise, coupled with newly evolving standards for smart-grid security from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and other influencers. In light of the myriad security concerns, some experts even advocate that smart-grid deployment should slow down.
The presentation of these concerns is sometimes sensationalized, even to the point of being comical; however, the potential risks are very real. Industry stakeholders are starting to recognize the paradigm shifts engendered by smart grid, with security being a core concern for the future. Additionally, the relatively recent advent of smart-grid funding and the associated need for standards compliance around new critical cyber assets are driving utilities' security diligence like never before relative to themselves, smart-grid solution vendors and other broad areas of infrastructure.
As smart-grid security continues to evolve, the critical areas of discussion should include the approaches by which utilities and solution vendors can help to mitigate security risks within smart-grid implementations. Smart-grid security isn't a destination, it's an ongoing process. Smart-grid security shouldn't be about slowing down, but rather mitigating risk and limiting exposure as intelligently and as quickly as possible.
AMI: A Common First Step
As utilities evolve their smart-grid implementations, a common foothold is an advanced-metering infrastructure (AMI) solution. Although AMI systems are just one component of the smart-grid ecosystem, their functionality, characteristics and confluence with the larger grid impart an array of interesting security challenges.
AMI systems have evolved rapidly over the last several years to include a wide range of business and technical features that have served to differentiate AMI vendors and advance the state of the industry. Functionality such as remote connect and disconnect, segmenting endpoint populations for mass control, message buses for integration, remote firmware updates and many other functions embody the ways by which these systems are striving to meet, or create, customer and market needs.
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Date: 2010-07-05 By: Adelina St. Clair
The merging of Christianity and Paganism is a relatively new concept, one rarely talked about and one that stirs much controversy. As more and more people speak out about their love of both Christ and of the Goddess, it becomes apparent that the practice of Christian Witchcraft is no myth. It is real and it makes sense most in the celebrations that both Christians and Wiccans share. The feast days of the Christian and Wiccan calendars are closely linked both in date and meaning, which gives the Christian Witch the greatest of gifts: a way to honor her Christian tradition in the light of a Pagan practice. Adelina St. Clair, author of The Path of a Christian Witch, offers a little bit of history on the development of the feasts that Pagans and Christians both share and how these celebrations can become the focal point of a beautiful and loving spiritual practice.
Date: 2011-12-19 By: K.M. Sheard
Names. We all have them. They are so integral to our society that few people ever pause to reflect on their cultural significance and what they reveal about our way of life. But even today, naming practices vary considerably across the world. And the naming practices of our ancestors were equally diverse. And, what's more, they offer us a unique window through which to glimpse their lives, how they lived, and what they believed. What do the names of our Pagan predecessors reveal about their way of lif? K.M. Sheard, author of Llewellyn's Complete Book of Names, explains.
Date: 2012-10-22 By: Emily Carding
The seven-pointed star (or, alternately, septagram or heptagram) has accumulated many levels of meaning over the centuries. One of the oldest recorded meanings given to this star may be found within. How can this symbobl be used to gain power in our lives and within our faery interactions? Emily Carding, author Faery Craft, discusses the use of the Septagram for doing faery work.
Date: 2012-12-17 By: Lupa
Any animal species that has ever existed has a totem, and we're not limited to just one animal totem. But how do we find our animal totem(s)? What if dreaming or guided meditation don't work? Lupa, author of New Paths to Animal Totems, provides three ways to find your animal totem.


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But ultimately the two companies' leadership seem to believe they stand more to gain by destroying each other, versus working together.
Samsung current has
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Well, that "nuclear" war is now almost upon us.
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University of Pennsylvania scholar Michael Eric Dyson and Princeton professor Eddie Glaude will discuss Dyson's book "Is Bill Cosby Right? Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?" at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 6, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
The discussion is titled "Is Michael Eric Dyson Right? Or Have the New Black Public Intellectuals Lost Their Minds?" It will examine Dyson's criticism of comments made by Cosby in a 2004 speech, in which the comedian contended that social and economic ills among African Americans stem from their failure to take responsibility for their families and communities. Dyson argues in his book that Cosby's criticisms are an attack by the wealthy "Afristocracy" on the poor "Ghettocracy."
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Western Europe in cruise lingo covers the British Isles, often combined with a port call in France – and sometimes includes Belgium, The Netherlands (Amsterdam) and Germany on longer itineraries. Castles, military sights, must-see cities, shopping opportunities (including for Scottish woolens and Waterford crystal) and legendary golf courses are among the highlights, as is surprisingly beautiful coastal scenery in a cruising area that covers the North Sea, Irish Sea and English Channel.
On a 12-day itinerary, you might visit ports in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and France, with access to places including London, Paris, Normandy (and the World War II landing sights), Dublin, Belfast, Inverness (so you can see Loch Ness), Edinburgh and also Liverpool (for Beatles nostalgia). Some small ships concentrate on specific areas such as the eerily beautiful Scottish Hebrides or Orkney Islands.
Most Western Europe/British isles cruises embark from the UK -- Southampton, Dover, Harwich or Edinburgh. Many itineraries are for more than a week, but there are also shorter options.
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My time and money pit of a tank
Currently cycling my tank (which is seeming to take forever!!) with the 6 glowlight tetras in there. I think I have my final stock planned out for when it is finished. Got two of the tetras which look really fat (can't tell if their pregnant or if I'm feeding them too much trying to get the ammonia to start being produced). Tested my water and I'm just above 0.25 ppm in ammonia so hoping it will start producing nitrite soon (fingers crossed). BTW its a 46 gallon bowfront tank.
so you can't force fish to eat-poop and then produce ammonia.
it'll happen naturally
since you decided to cycle WITH fish-you are looking at around 6 weeks of cycling-if not more. sometimes it can take 8-10 pending how you keep up on the cycle.
now that you are at 0.25ppm-you need to do a water change, that level is dangerous to your fish.
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I believe this tank will take quite a bit of time to cycle - 6 glowlight tetras don't produce that much ammonia - that's my tank.
If you have the ability to return those fish and cycle with ammonia (because you can spike the ammonia reading to get bacteria to grow faster), I would recommend that - otherwise you are looking at more than just a few weeks I hate to say. If that doesn't matter to you then as stated above, keep that ammonia reading at .25 to protect your fish.
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Now I've got an algae bloom happening and having to scrub a huge amount of algae off the glass everyday.
Sounds like you are overfeeding and leaving the lights on too long. Unless it is brown diatoms which are normal and will subside with time.Mike
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So added four platy's into the tank, pH went up to 8.0 and ammonia levels went to 0 but no nitrite or nitrate
Wow you're a thrill seeker. How much and how often are you completing water changes?25 Gal - Tropical
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I haven't been because ammonia hasn't ever gone above 0.25 ppm and I've been told doing water changes will slow down cycling. I've also added live plants now as I'm preparing for the final stock I want in my tank.
I have been reading this thread, and i would just like to advise on a couple points.
As you are cycling with fish, even .25 ammo in your tank is unhealthy. Regardless of how hardy your fish is with an uncycled tank this could cause issues that are subtle or very noticable.
Also have you been checking your Nitrites and Nitrates as well. If you have a Nitrite spike, that is very life threatening to your fish. Nitrates can be harmful to your fish if they rise above a reading of 20. Keep an eye on both of these.
It seems like you have a lot of fish in your tank right now, this could also be causing the ammonia reading on top of possible overfeeding because the tank isn't used to the biolevel yet.
Plants will help keep the numbers down, just ensure you have the items to nourish them. If they start to go that will also start to add extra ammo to your tank.
Good luck with your tank...and keep us posted.
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You need ammonia to cycle a tank and water changes reduce the amount of ammonia, so yes, water changes will increase the time it takes to cycle a tank. However, when cycling with fish, you must do water changes to keep them alive, that's the price you pay (or your fish pay if you choose not to change water) for cycling with fish. It's good the ammonia levels haven't risen above .25ppm, but you still need to do at least one good sized water change a week, more if the ammonia level rises over .25ppm.When I go fishing I just throw sharp rocks in the water and wait for the dead fish to float to the top... Kingfisher
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I think my fish is adjusting well to the four gallon, He's laying on his side attempting to go to sleep on the bottom of the gravel.
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The Dock in Mac OS X has the ability to hold folders and stacks.
One of the cool features of the Mac OS X Dock is the ability to create stacks and folders on it. You can group applications, documents, or other forms of data that are easy to reach on the Dock. As we all know, Mac OS X Lion was released with the intent of adding numerous forms of multi-touch gestures to Mac OS X. With three-finger dragging, two-finger scrolling, and four-finger paging between applications, Mac OS X Lion has made it possible to eliminate any kind of mouse altogether. You don't even need to click with the multi-touch pad because you can just tap to click.
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Please stop the speeding on W. Las Positas before a child is hit!
Original post made by Grace, Highland Oaks, on May 5, 2008
My fault? Some would say so; after all, I was poking along at 40. Well, what is the speed limit there? Is it ok for these SUVs to pick up 50, 55, 60 mph as they fly down off the overpass? Is anyone paying attention to the speed limit on either side of the freeway overpass?
Where are the police officers with this enforcement? Or are we all just playing roulette, waiting for a fatal bike-SUV injury there?
God, I pray not.
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on May 5, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Build the freeway exchange at that overpass. Install some lights there. That will slow down the inconsiderate drivers.
a resident of Highland Oaks
on May 5, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Stacey, thanks for reading the topic and thanks for the suggestion. I usually don't disagree with your comments, but I think I'm going to have to this time. I really don't think that the now-defunct (pretty sure that's the current status) extra freeway interchange is the solution to this problem. It seems that some oversight/vigilence in terms of motorcycle traffice police patrols or signage/flashing blinkers to remind drivers of the POSTED speed limits and the danger would be in order. Isn't that part of the job of the Pleasanton Police Department and/or Traffic/Transportation Dept.?
As for the use of "inconsiderate" above, I also beg to differ. I would call these drivers "dangerous", not "inconsiderate", according my concerns for the children on bicylces and according to Merriam-Webster dictionary:
inconsiderate Main Entry:
\ in-k n- si-d( -)r t\
careless of the rights or feelings of others
dangerous Main Entry:
\ d n-j -r s; d n-j rs, -zhr s\
1 : exposing to or involving danger 2 : able or likely to inflict injury or harm
I can personally "deal" with inconsiderate drivers. However, it's the dangerous drivers that concern me greatly.
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on May 5, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Sorry, I was being facetious about the interchange. Seriously though, I think the police take complaints regarding problems in certain areas like this. Regarding inconsiderate drivers, you're right that they are being dangerous. My belief though is that being inconsiderate leads to being dangerous. Considerate drivers don't normally drive dangerously.
a resident of Highland Oaks
on May 5, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Agreed, that interpretation sounds right. Still, I hope that something can be done to educate drivers about how they are putting others at risk, especially on this stretch of road. If there's no response from the PPD to indicate they've read this post, then I'll probably contact the police chief directly, after today's scare. It would be helpful, though, to have support from other residents about their experiences as well.
a resident of Oak Hill
on May 7, 2008 at 12:23 am
From time to time one or more motorcycle officers with the handheld radar will setup in the west exit of DMV and do a land office business. Haven't seem them there for quite a while. At times it's almost as dangerous going west on W. Las Positas where the two lanes merge into one lane to go over 680.
a resident of Birdland
on May 8, 2008 at 2:10 pm
That intersection at Muirwood and W. Las Positas needs a stop light. I can see some kids getting hurt there one day also put a giant median in like uppper W. Las Positas, make it one lane, that will bottle neck it more and FORCE people to slow down.
a resident of Birdland
on May 8, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Also as much as I hate to say this I agree with Stacey they need a freeway interchange there
a resident of Livermore
on May 8, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Also as much as I hate to say this I agree with 5.0 they need a freeway interchange there.
5.0, how are you going to make your elected officials accountable?
But wait, you're not that responsible are you? Tee hee hee, tee hee hee...
a resident of Foothill Farms
on May 9, 2008 at 6:57 am
Putting a freeway interchange at West Las Positas would add to the mess. They put flashing yellow lights on Foothill Road just before the High School and they still go over 35 MPH there. I think the topic was about driving eastbound on West Las Positas on the east side of 680. Not on the west side of 680. As long as people use our streets to avoid the freeway you are going to have this problem. Speeding is a problem just about anywhere in the Bay Area. The police can't be everywhere. All you can do is move to the right side of the roadway and let them pass. They will get caught sooner or later.
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on May 9, 2008 at 7:38 am
It is debatable that putting a freeway interchange there would add to the mess. When you make more connections, you balance load more evenly. It may be true that some drivers would end up using city streets, but so would residents. They'd stop having to get off at Stoneridge or Bernal and speeding down Foothill or Hopyard or Valley to get over to their homes near West Las Positas.
a resident of Foothill Farms
on May 9, 2008 at 5:12 pm
The post was about speeding, talking on a cell while driving, and an unsafe lane change. How did a freeway interchange get into all that. What does an inconsiderate driver have to do with a freeway interchange? Why does anyone have to speed to get to their homes. That interchange is not going to stop people from talking on their cells. It will not stop people from speeding. It will not stop people from being incocsiderate drivers. What will help is keeping alert for these people and stay out of their way.
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on May 9, 2008 at 5:21 pm
Well, if you read the preceding posts carefully, your question is already answered.
a resident of Foothill Farms
on May 9, 2008 at 7:14 pm
Stacey, you are never going to get it. You never made your point.
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on May 9, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Which point did I not make? The one regarding the traffic lights that would invariably accompany a freeway interchange which would contribute to slowing speeding drivers down? Or the one regarding the concept of more interconnections which would lessen congestion? Did you know that BART is considering putting a third door on train cars to ease congestion at the current doors? Do you see the analogy?
a resident of Val Vista
on May 10, 2008 at 7:51 am
Stacey, you failed to make any point. Are you a traffic engineer or a real estate agent. The interchange issue is dead. Move on. I do not see your analogy on bart/speeding inconsiderate drivers/freeway interchange. You got lost somewhere trying to bring up the interchange issue again. That neighborhood is already overloaded with cut through traffic as it is.
a resident of Amador Valley High School
on May 16, 2008 at 10:49 am
Based on lack of action to resolve this over a significant amount of time. It is obvious your elected officials DO NOT see traffic as a problem..... Therefore LIVE WITH IT, or elect new officials who have an agenda with fixing traffic as thier #1 issues.
a resident of Highland Oaks
on May 16, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Hi, the post from Muirwood Dr. resident, above, was correct: "The post was about speeding, talking on a cell while driving, and an unsafe lane change". That was my original point, and while the other posts about freeway interchanges and cross-town traffic may be interesting, they're not what I had been concentrating on when I made my original comment.
I still really DO think that incorporating a flashing "speed limit/your speed" sign would be of great benefit. Another poster said that the similar sign on Foothill around the high school has not had any positive impact, but I'm not certain about that. One problem with the speed on Foothill is that it changes about 5 different times in the stretch of road between Stoneridge and just south of Bernal so it's hard to keep track of what's what and where: 45 - 35 - 45- 35-except when students are there and it's 25 - then 35 again, then 45, then 40 - yikes!!
The flashing speed limit signs on Black Ave. seem to really have the desired effect of slowing the traffic down to 25 mph or close to that. My suggestion is to have traffic cops (motorcycle, near the foot of the overpass downhill since everyone sees the supposedly-hidden police cars at the DMV) on random assignment there, plus put up one of the flashing "your speed" signs. Going 50, 55 down that overpass is just an invitation for split-second disaster, as we have seen before, very sadly. Add bikes and joggers to the mix and it's worse.


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Finally, I got back to net-browsing, net-mailing, apt-get upgrading at home. At last!
Finally, I got back to net-browsing, net-mailing, apt-get upgrading at home. At last!
Yesterday I recieved my brand new Neuros 20GB unit. It's is wider than I thought but I like it.
My problem is, after all, that I can't configure it with positron (after solving a little problem with positron itself). I'm thinking about using positron's code to do a GNOME front-end o GTK2 plugin, but I'm not sure...
Anyway, I still have to look for a jack-transformer for my AC/Adapter...
Nowadays, I've got two fronts where I'm fighting to solve:
The first one is the reality that I haven't got inet connection at home since two months ago. I'm very angry with Telefonica's tech-support (who kicked my ass and treated me as an stupid), and I cannot use anything (no apt, no mail, no download, no readings...). My only contact with the web is at work. Really silly!
When this first has been solved (probably I'll end up buying a new DSLRouter), I'll try to get involved in some (or few or one) FS projects. I'm thinking wich ones. I prefer the ones related to GNOME, Debian and audio user applications. But I'm not constrained on these. I'll keep browsing...
Since the final result has gone to YES, the important thing is that the final screen left in the law draws an scenario where the free software community is not going to be hurted. The most relevant point, as I see, is that now this issue is legalized (so there is not a hole), and we are not out this law.
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Located in Southern Asia, Bangladesh sits between Burma and India, and is bordered in the south by the Bay of Bengal. It has a predominantly Muslim population, with agriculture and the service sector being crucial to the economy. In May 2010, much of the southern part of the country was devastated by Tropical Cyclone Aila which affected more than 3 million people and left an estimated 500,000 homeless.
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Based in Dhaka, the Diabetic Association of Bangladesh (DAB) has been established for over 50 years, and its main facility "BIRDEM" - Bangladesh Institute of Research and Rehabilitation in Diabetes, Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders – is one of the largest in the world. Life for a Child provides insulin donated by Eli Lilly, facilitates HbA1c point-of-care testing in clinics, and support for diabetes education of healthcare professionals and the production of local diabetes education materials.
LFAC General Manager, Dr Graham Ogle, visited in February 2010, and in February 2012 LFAC Education Manager Angie Middlehurst presented at a three-day workshop run by DAB for local Paediatricians, Paediatric and Adult Endocrionologists, Health Educators, and Nutritionists.
There are around 2,000 children and youth alone registered at BIRDEM, and more in other parts of the country. As of January 2012, over 1,200 children and youth are being supported by LFAC.


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Adding a logo
You can add an image logo to your Delicious Magazine header space very easily:
- Navigate to your Appearance->Theme Options in your WordPress back-end. [View screenshot]
- Select the "General Settings" tab.
- Click on the Upload button under the "Custom Logo" header.
- Choose an image to use as logo and upload it and select "Insert into post" to use it.
Setting up your navigation menus
By default the Delicious Magazine themes displays one navigation menu in your header space. There is also an optional top navigation.
You can customize these two navigation menus with menus that consist of pages, categories and external links all combined in whatever order you like.
Find out more about this on the WordPress.com Custom Menu documentation page.
Setting up your home page Featured panel
To pull through posts into this featured slider you must tag your blog posts with a specific tag which you've set in your options panel:
- Navigate to your Appearance->Theme Options in your WordPress back-end. [View screenshot]
- Select the "Featured Panel" tab and tick the "Enable Featured" check box. [View screenshot]
- Add a "tag" which you want to use to pull through featured posts e.g. "featured". [View screenshot]
- Go to Posts>Add New to add a new post, add your title and content.
- Add the "featured" tag to your post [View Screenshot].
- You also need to set a "Featured Image" on your featured post, as the slider only shows posts with images.
Setting your featured image for your posts
On our demo you will see a thumbnail next to each post, as well as a featured image in each slide of the featured slider on the home page. To set this image, you need to add your images to your blog post and then in the "Featured Image" form, to the right of the WYSIWYG editor, select a particular image to be the one used in the slides and as a thumbnail in the post view.
- Go to Posts->Add New to add a new post, add your title and content.
- Click on Set featured image link in the "Featured Image" panel to the right. [View screenshot]
- Upload an image to set the featured image. [View screenshot]