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There are many reasons why young people decide not to talk about incidents, whether that is due to not wanting to talk face to face, lack of confidence, scared, peer pressure or scared in case someone sees them talking to or seen in the schools office but to name just a few.
As a result we have created The SHARP System (Student Help Advice Reporting Page System) which allows young people to report any incidents which occur within the school and local community anonymously and without fear. Aside from the reporting tool SHARP delivers educational content to raise awareness on a wide range of subjects including: Bullying, Health, Community Issues, Weapons and Hate Crime.
SHARP is a web based tool which is personalised to each school by schools colours and school badge, together with a photograph of a member of staff who is trusted and well known within the school.
The SHARP System promotes inclusion, safeguarding, e-safety and provides additional opportunities for students to report their concerns.
SHARP is anonymous, you don't have to leave your information if you choose not to, but if you want help and support it's best to leave your details.
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The SHARP System isn't just a school system, it can be used at Home as well as at School.
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We are rapidly coming up on RootsTech 2013 and the identity keynote speakers for this year have been released to the RootsTech Bloggers. Here is the line up for this year:
Dennis Brimhall is currently the President and CEO of FamilySearch International. FamilySearch International is a worldwide organization helping individuals find, preserve, catalogue, and search genealogical information. I first met Dennis Brimhall at RootsTech but have had opportunity to communicate with him on various projects.
Syd is a nationally acclaimed storyteller, an author, and an award-winning teacher. Many of his best-loved stories deal with growing up in Chicago and raising a family in Evanston, Illinois. Syd is also known for his original historical pieces. I met Syd at the Story@Home event last year and truly enjoyed is storytelling personality.
D. Joshua Taylor, MA, MLS is the Business Development Manager – North America for brightsolid online publishing, the creator of findmypast.com. A nationally known and recognized professional genealogist, lecturer, genealogical author, and researcher, Taylor is the current president of the Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS). Josh and I met years ago while serving the Utah Genealogical Association and he is truly committed once he takes on a project.
I hope to see you there.

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I will follow you blog, and like to get your email later when i am not on the net,sometimes when i vist China i am not on the line. my email box
let me get yours if you want . I will keep on writing my own words as what else liked. sometimes much complain of the party. And anyhow, you can get my much kisses here. kim
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I try to follow translation by bing, it is interesting,totoally confusion meaning.you must be tired and feel terrible hard to read it.
Richard, thanks for your message, I know you like my mentioned about american coin. I try so express of freedom spirit in this artical because we can not choose true words to say in China, just games of characotrs, till now I could not understand what people said in China sometimes, I am getting old now but how about Children growing there since so trouble to use different words to show meaning? great but trouble someway.
kiss you again.
Rich,I am so glad you read my blog,usurally I wrote some of my experienced in China and Japan , they are honest things in past, google translation is interesting ,for example, I wrote ---cheers for Shanghai women, but the translation is different like ---for shanghai women drinks--- is this same meaning ? in this blog, I try to say
eaqual personality is important ,just a little hint in this point,because China is forbidden to talk too much free spirit,so i post it on local government website and chose my sentence carfully,it is politicle way to say no to China.it is my true point to write chinese blogs recently,will do it continuely till tired, and your atiitude supported me, thanks so much. Kiss
Thanks for reading my blog,google is still improving.but I also read it by google to check my Chinese blog,I would say it is interesting.
oh,I see,your target is paper outside of 110 yard,interesting photo.
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From The Pueblo Chieftain (Chris Woodka):
Two Rocky Ford area ditch company boards agreed Tuesday to work with the Arkansas Valley Super Ditch to lease water to Aurora next year. The boards of the High Line and Catlin canals cleared the way for the leases, which will be made through the Super Ditch.
"It's a voluntary program, and shareholders can either agree to participate or not to participate," said John Schweizer, president of both the Catlin Canal and Super Ditch boards. "How many choose to participate determines how much each person will get."
Aurora has offered to buy up to 10,000 acre-feet of water from the Super Ditch next year because its reservoir storage is below 60 percent of available capacity. That is a trigger for leasing in drought recovery years under the 2003 agreement with the Southeastern Colorado and Upper Arkansas water conservancy districts. Aurora initially offered $500 per acre-foot, but that figure is under negotiation, Schweizer said. "The boards agreed that wouldn't work at all," Schweizer said.
Super Ditch attorney Peter Nichols will negotiate the rate with Aurora.
The $500 per acre-foot figure was part of an agreement reached in 2010 with the Super Ditch and the Lower Arkansas Valley Water Conservancy District. Since then, the price of corn and hay — the major crops grown here — in the Arkansas Valley has nearly tripled during the drought.
"That was a different time," Schweizer said.
Either an interruptible supply plan or substitute water supply plan would have to be filed with the Division of Water Resources for the lease to occur. That would require engineering and legal resources to meet a possible challenge from other water users in the valley. Schweizer said those costs also will be negotiated with Aurora.


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The Future of Baseball Gloves
Interview with Scott Carpenter discussing the advantages of using synthetic baseball gloves.
When discussing the importance of tradition in sport, baseball often tops the list, possibly being the most "traditional" of all. Yet in some cases, holding onto what is traditional can possibly hold the sport back, or even hurt it. Sounds and smells associated with the sport are, "the crack of the bat", "the feel of the grass", and "the smell of the glove". That smell of course being a leather baseball glove. However, one man who has become a pioneer in the development of new baseball gloves is Scott Carpenter. His business is certainly located in a traditional baseball town, being Cooperstown, NY. That's where the tradition ends though, as his baseball gloves that are made with synthetic materials are proving to be lighter, stronger, and superior to the traditional leather gloves used by most. But this isn't just a gimmick or a fad. Many professional ball players are now starting to use Carpenter gloves.
So why are they better?
Most players are stronger and faster today than they were 20 or 30 years ago. While one can argue that performance-enhancing drugs are the cause of that, it is an argument for another day. It does mean that the balls are sometimes being hit harder, and players need to react faster. In baseball, timing and specifically reaction time right down to fractions of a second can be the difference between safe and out, a home run or a fly ball, and even be the difference between a catch with a glove, or taking a hard-hit ball of a body part or worse, the face. Baseball has seen some serious injuries over the past season or two, as a result of a pitcher taking a come-backer off the head, not getting the glove up in time to protect themselves. It makes sense then, that buy wearing a lighter glove, one's reflexes can move the glove faster, which means more plays made and more balls caught.
Another advantage to using synthetic materials Scott mentioned, is that the gloves don't "wear" or stretch as traditional leather gloves do. Carpenter gloves are not only lighter, but also stronger. That means the feel doesn't change, and the comfort remains the same throughout the life of the glove.
Want proof they're better?
As I mentioned, professional players are already using Carpenter gloves. Something more significant is that the Pro players are opting out (or are going to be opting out) of glove contracts (I didn't even know that was a thing!) to wear Carpenter gloves. Scott stated in his interview with me that he doesn't pay players to wear his gloves. So what does this mean? It means that players are choosing to wear Carpenter gloves over a glove they would be paid to wear. To me, that speaks volumes to the quality of the product.
Frank Viola III is the proud new owner of a Carpenter Trade glove:
If you're looking to learn more, listen to my interview with Scott Carpenter here.
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It was 30 years ago, but it seems like yesterday when Lee Allyson Thompson was rescued from nursery school one afternoon.
Her mom's car had flooded out during a Lowcountry rainstorm. The gully washer, it seemed, would prevent Thompson from getting home. Then, a man she knew appeared. He stood more than 6 feet tall and the flood waters were up to his knees.
It was her great-uncle, but that day, he seemed something like a giant.
Jacob S. Scott Jr. had sensed he was needed at the Charleston Early Childhood Development Center to pick her up.
"He came in and scooped me up and off we went in his old white Cougar," says Thompson, a program manager with the city of Columbia Parks and Recreation Department. "We went and picked mommy up and got back to (his house on) Sumter Street safely."
Scott, or "Pop Pop Jake," as Thompson called him, was born Dec. 25, 1925, and died May 29. His strong sense of duty, shown that day, will live in her memory and that of her mother, Patricia Brown Kindred, a niece Scott raised.
The women retell the story along with ones Scott relayed of his days as a Korean War POW and as a city of Charleston police officer.
"It wasn't until I was a teen that I really knew who he was," Thompson says. "He would not just say 'I am this and I am that.'
When people, especially young people, sat on the front porch with him, he would talk about their lives, their families and more, Thompson says.
"He'd ask: 'What are you doing? Where are you going in life?' He always wanted to see young people do well."
Scott was a product of his old-fashioned rural upbringing, says Kindred.
"He came from Sheldon. His father was a minister at Canaan Missionary Baptist Church. His daddy baptized him. He was educated at Paige Point Elementary School and Voorhees Vocational School in Denmark.
Scott was not shy about showing children the value of hard work, says Kindred, who began learning that at 10.
"When he was a police officer, he would look good in his uniform," she says. "His shirts had to be starched and nice. He used to send them to the cleaners, but he told me he would pay me 15 cents each to do them. I would have to wash them in the bathtub on a washboard.
"One day I got 75 cents and I was rich! I went to the store and got some two-for-a-penny cookies and ate them up!"
When Kindred was older, Scott worked security at some of the concerts at County Hall that she attended.
"He would always station me upstairs and come back and check on me. My first time seeing James Brown was at County Hall. It was fun. He took me backstage to meet James Brown.
"My uncle was an encourager, and he liked to make you feel good," Kindred says.
Still, he was a realist, who taught children that life would include situations they could not anticipate, but would have to deal with. They were situations such as his 21/2 years as a prisoner of war.
"He would tell stories about how he had to eat everything they gave him and that sometimes the food had worms in it," Kindred says. "Sometimes his duty was to bury his fellow comrades, up to six a day."
At 87, he continued to be a great example, both women say.
One of the last times Thompson saw Scott was for her birthday dinner in March. When he arrived at her home with other family members, she was standing at the door.
Scott addressed her as the responsible adult he perceived her to be.
" 'Oh Miss Lee Lee, how nice you are to be here to greet us,'" Scott said.
Later, during their celebration at a restaurant, he talked to the younger ones at the table about who the singer Nat King Cole was.
When it was time to leave, he spoke: "Well, Miss Lee Lee, I have had my dinner. I have had my dessert. Now, it's time to go back to the Lowcountry."
It was special, says Thompson.
"He enjoyed that dinner so much. I had to keep reminding him that it was just the Outback on Two Notch."
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This article is inspired by an article over at 'Lines and Colors' called: "How Not to Display Your Artwork on the Web". It's a great article, quite sarcastic but there are some great tips there. In the many years that I have been running the Creep Machine, looking for featured artists, images for art of the day & prints and originals for sale, I have seen some amazing web sites and some really bad ones. So I decided to write down some tips, to make sure that your art gets seen. (Last Edited Jan 2013)
Of course this whole article is filled with my opinions, but as someone who spends hours a day looking at art as a fan and webmaster, I have collected some great tips and tricks to make showing and selling your work online an enjoyable process. So let's get started.
Where should you host your work?
I strongly suggest staying away from using sites like Myspace (people still do), or even Facebook as your portfolio. Social networks are a great way for you to interact with your fans, keep them up to date, and help you sell you work, but you want something solid and clean for your portfolio. You also want your art to be as accessible as possible. The viewer should be able to see your art as well as your information in just a few clicks. Sites like DeviantArt are ok, but once again they are more setup to be a community to share your art with other artists. Even artists like Justin Degarmo, Dan Harding and Josh Taylor have a main homepage along with their DeviantArt account. So if you can't afford to buy your own hosting, you have two other options.
1.You can use a service like Blogger. This is getting more and more popular, as it's easy to navigate, your work can be seen quickly and people can learn about you if you post thoughts as well. I would say that this type of portfolio is best for ongoing projects, or "daily drawings" type of sites.
2. You can use online portfolios such as: Carbonmade, Behance, Otherpeoplespixels & PortfolioBox. Most of these are free, and gets your art seen quickly and efficiently.
Simple and catchy domain names
If you have your portfolio on blogger, or one of the free portfolios I mentioned, you'll be stuck with 'whatever.carbonmade.com' for example. Not much you can do about that. However, if you decided to pay a small amount, and have your own website you should pick a great name. You want something catchy, easy to spell and easy to remember. If your name is way too long and people need you to spell it out for them, try something different. Use a nickname, or even just name your site something nutty. Greg "Craola" Simkins uses the domain name 'imscared.com'. Very simple to remember, and unique as well. Domain names are pretty cheap now, so get one even if you use a site like blogger. If you can't get a .com name, you can also think about using .us or even the new extension .me. A good place to register domain names is Namecheap.com They often have coupons which make register names cheaper, surf around the web to find some.
Keep the design simple
I think this is the most important tip. Unless your a web designer and are trying to sell that skill, keep your web page simple. I know it's tempting to make a page that is graphic laden and will just "wow" your viewers, avoid it. Wow them with your art, not your bloated web design. Stay away from animated graphics, obscure link names that you think is clever, or unnamed images for the page links. Clearly show the areas of your page: 'Bio, artwork, links, contact'. I know this is boring, but it works. Don't make the viewer have to hunt to see your artwork, trust me they'll give up. I often do.
Avoid flash based websites
Flash is cool for very few things. Once again if your selling web design skills then go nuts. But if your trying to have your art seen, avoid 3 minute flash intros, people just want to see the page.
Flash galleries are also bad, they are a pain to use and don't allow your viewer to see nice big images of your work as well as share your work. Viewers sharing your work with others is a great way to get exposure. I can't tell you how many artists I have avoided, simple because I can't share their work. The amount of people using mobile devices to visit web pages is growing more every day, and flash does not show up for iPhone/iPad users.
Get ready for mobile
More and more people are using their mobile devices to check out websites, and the design standards are beginning to change. You want this rapidly growing portion of traffic to be able to see your site clear and easy. So, while your designing your new site think about how a mobile user will be able to view the site. If your using wordpress there are some amazing "responsive" themes out there, that are able to fit to whatever device they are viewing your site from. You can also create a separate css file that will detect if your users are viewing via a mobile device and change the layout for them.
Keep the image gallery simple and functional
Like I said above, no flash galleries. Avoid watermarks as well. Flash galleries and watermarks are often used to stop people stealing your work. Trust me, if someone wants your work bad enough they'll just use a screencapture tool and have it, and you also stop the important people from getting your work. I use the images from artists sites to post here, help sell prints, and share with galleries. Also avoid using odd thumbnail images, or text. Just show the thumbnail. Not showing the thumbnail is either used to integrate the thumbnails into the site, or to make the viewer have to enlarge the images. Don't make the experience tedious, just make it simple. If you really feel that you should use a watermark, check out how Chet Zar went about this. Elegant, but not obtrusive.
Let them be informed, social, and in touch
Make sure that your website has a small bio area, contact area and news. People like knowing who the person is behind the art. Your sharing your art anyway, and this can be personal depending on your content. Make yourself known as well, or at least a resume, and make your contact information easy to find. One of the problems I see on blogger hosted sites, is that there is often no contact info available. How can I work with you, and even buy some art?
Add a news area, and even a mailing list. Keep your viewers informed. A news area lets people know what is going on, any upcoming shows, or even works for sale. It also lets people know your still active. I've found a few sites were it looked as though the artists hadn't done anything in years. A mailing list also keeps people informed of whats going on, and you'll know that they"ll get the info for sure.
One of the latest new additions to websites is social media buttons. Not only have buttons that link to your personal social profiles, but you can also add "like" and "tweet" buttons to your posts, individual pages, or items for sale. This way fans can help spread the word. Pinterest is a new social sharing site that you might also want to think about, and there are buttons for people to "Pin it" and share you work. Keep in mind though, that while many people are happy to share your art via tumblr, pinterest, or other similar sites, they don't always state who the source is. So maybe a small unobtrusive watermark isn't such a bad idea.
Selling your work
Aside from having your work sold in galleries, many artists are doing quite well selling their artwork and goods themselves. There are some great ways to empower yourself and offer your goods to your fans, while minimizing fees. Ebay is still used occasionally for artists to sell work, but I often see it used for charity auctions which it is great for. There is also Etsy, which could be considered a "arts and crafts" version of Ebay. You can list all the items your want, pay a small fee, and take advantage of your work being entered into a marketplace that users can search. There is the possibility however that your work can be lost in the immense amount of goods offered for sale.
Aside from created a shop area on your own webpage, or even using ecommerce plugins for the WordPress users out there, there is some standalone sites that give artists the ability to sell their work, accept payments, and take care of all of the little details for you so you can concentrate on making art. Bigcartel is the one I recommend the most. It's easy to use, clean, and even looks good on mobile devices. You can sign up for a free account to get started, and once things really get rolling you can upgrade your account for more perks. There is also even an app that allows you to embed your shop in your Facebook profile. As opposed to other standalone shops that leave you in the wild, Bigcartel has an artist directory so fans can find you while stumbling around for artwork. They create a top stores list, and a "recently updated" list as well which helps even more with exposure.
How about some examples?
So, after these little tips, I think it's best to show some sites that I think fit the tips very well. Many of these sites are from very popular artists, and look how simple their sites are. Maybe their on to something eh?
Dan May :a good example of a portfolio software in use, Otherpeoplespixels.
Mark Ryden :simple, easy, to the point.
Chet Zar :love that gallery, nice big thumbnails and info.
Chris Ryniak :his gallery is flash based, but its also linked to his Flickr page so people can still see the work easily.
Jeff Soto :I think his site fits many of the tips here, perfect.
ThinkSpace, Shooting Gallery SF & Jonathan Levine :my three favorite art gallery sites to visit. Filled with content, but easy to navigate.
I'll refrain from showing bad examples. If your site doesn't get many hits, and it's been hard to get your art seen, check out these tips and examples and see if you can't make it better. Many artists take inspiration from successful artists when it comes to the art, it should be no different to take tips in web design from successful artists websites. I know not everyone is sold on social media sites, but they can be a great tool to your work seen by others. You don't need to create an account on every site available, a good, efficient, and active social profile is better than multiple rarely updated ones.
Thanks for reading, you can also check out the article that inspired this one as well.
How Not to Display Your Artwork on the Web


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Central Connecticut's J.P. Sportman was named the Rick Ligi Most Valuable Player in the New England Collegiate Baseball League this past summer, the announcement was made by the league commissioner on Thursday. Sportman helped lead the Keene Swap Bats to the NECBL title this summer.
Sportman, who was also a First Team All-League selection in the outfield, batted .340 with 13 doubles and 31 runs batted in on the season. All of those numbers ranked in the top-four in the NECBL. He was named the Player of the Week once during the summer season.
The Swamp Bats went 6-3 in the playoff round and won the NECBL title.
J.P. Sportman NECBL Statistics
This past year Sportman was an All-Conference selection for the Blue Devils for the third straight season. He was a First Team selection as a sophomore and a Second Team selection in his first season.
Sportman finished second on the team with a .327 average and led the team and NEC in doubles with 18. He drove in 33 runs and also led the league in sacrifice flies with nine on the year. Sportman played and started all 53 games in the outfield for the Blue Devils. He was eighth in the conference with 66 hits.


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There are five core values that are the foundation of Aimco and permeate every aspect of our company.
How these values come to life is what makes our culture...
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They are also what make us successful.
We Live With Gusto.
We are driven, energetic and enthusiastic. We believe in the mission
of Aimco and in our role in bringing it to life. We are passionate, not passive.
We take calculated risks; we celebrate success and learn from our failures.
We are motivated self-starters who relish the opportunity to take an active role
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We love what we do—inside and outside of work. We are exuberant about our
own success and the success of others. We are competitive. We like to win.
We Own It.
Each of us owns our actions. Boldly. Firmly. Proudly. Whether we are sharing
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even if difficult or unpopular. We believe decisions are best made by those closest to
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autonomy, making impactful decisions in their defined areas of responsibility.
And when we make decisions collaboratively, we embrace them
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We Value Relationships.
Throughout our company, we believe in the power of collaboration and
recognize it requires open and honest communication. We listen more than
we talk and are genuinely interested in another person's viewpoint. We provide and
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and loyal. We trust and respect others. We share information, and we don't work
in silos. We value each other as team members and are not constrained by hierarchy
or titles. Most importantly, we know our dedication to positive relationships inside
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We Create Moments That Matter.
We create and celebrate meaningful, unexpected moments that matter greatly
to our team members, residents and community. We go above and beyond
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by our words and actions. We are friendly. We serve our residents and each other
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We Drive Innovation and Change.
We value optimism, determination, creativity and perseverance. We know
that the most important way for our entire organization to excel is for every individual
to constantly ask, "What can I do better?" We are a dynamic organization that
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decisions but avoid overanalyzing. We are flexible and nimble. We tackle daily,
unpredictable events. We think outside the box. We say "yes" to finding an answer
to any problem and solving it in a way that benefits our residents, team members
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Here we are, in a brand new, just unwrapped year 2011, or as some would say, 2K11. Again, it's been a while since I posted here, but the last two years were weird, to say the least, and one could say that they were both busy, and not really, at the same time. If you can follow what that train of thought, then you deserve a beer. Unless you're not that big on beer, and you'd prefer something else.
Right after Christmas I finally got my copy of Pier Solar, which I ordered years ago, literally, but the WaterMelon took their sweet little time to finish it. I forgive them, though, as I'm aware how much work went into this project, and we should all be happy it got finished at all. So, it's cool that I finally got it, but it's not so cool I got it after Christmas, which means I wasn't really able to play it, aside from testing it for a few minutes to see if the cartridge works at all.
I've made some interesting and not so interesting purchases throughout the year 2010, but I haven't really had the time to enjoy any of them properly, and, as usual, it's the lack of time that keeps me away from both games, and this precious little blog. No time for fun and games means there's not much I'd like to share with the world through this place, and that's the way it's been for a long, long time, and things won't be changing any time soon, that's a promise.
I've been filling my music shelves as well, and a couple of months ago I've managed to score the deluxe edition of Kent's Röd, which consists of two vinyl records, a CD, an artbook and a USB memory stick, containing the the high resolution version of the album, all in a nice cardboard box. The initial price was far beyond what I was willing to pay, but good things come to those who wait, and in the end, I paid only a fraction of the original price.
I wish I had more to say to those who still come by this place, but I'll be cutting it short and that will be all for today. I just might write a bit more about Pier Solar, once I actually get to play it. It's made huge progress since the demo, that's for sure, and I'm happy to see that the game turned out as well as it did, so if you're interestet in my opinion, drop by in a month, or two, or three, and maybe - just maybe - there will be a new entry, smiling at you, waiting for you to read it.
Because of the increased spambot activity, I have decided to change the comment system entirely. The Ninja blog engine isn't exactly flexible, but I've managed to successfully implement Disqus, which from now on will replace the old [Ninja's own] comment system. I won't touch the old comments; I have removed the old form, but I left the comment display code intact. They will now appear under Disqus comments.
Note to those, who are using Adblock or any other ad removing plugin; the comment number under entries is generated by a script, which might get blocked. This goes for Disqus form as well. I've run some tests, and everything is working just fine. If it's not working for you, try disabling ad removing plugins. Also, some connection managers block Disqus IPs alltogether, so if you're running those, add Disqus to your whitelist.
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Three months of silence and now, suddenly, I'm writing a new entry? This can't be true, you might think, and it's not. I'm writing this because I've noticed, that my blog host decided to punish me for not posting anything for the last three months by placing an ugly ad box at the top of the main column. The message placed within this box stated, that it will be gone once I add a new entry, and that's exactly why I'm posting this. I did acquire some new games and hardware, but I somehow never bothered to post about it. I'll try to do better, so stay tuned, but don't hold your breath.
When a game developer has to figure out which time period his game will be set in, the answer is usually simple: The future. We all know that the future doesn't look too bright. Nobody expects waking up in a utopian world where nothing is broken, and thus nothing needs fixing. Our future is dark and it comes in two flavors: gloomy cyberpunk or post-apocalyptic chaos - not that there's anything wrong with that, at least when it comes to games. Korean developer Phantagram decided to go with the second flavor, placing the story of their Xbox game entitled Strident some years after World War III.
Strident is the game's title, but it's also the codename of the main character - A female agent with no recollection of her past, capable of killing just about anything with her bare hands. Who needs weapons, if you're an expert in martial arts and your acrobatics would probably win you a medal or two if you ever showed up at the Olympics? Strident is a death toy, and if you think you can stop her with a couple of rounds from your machine-gun, you're in for a surprise. We know who we'll be controlling, but what's out mission? Since our character lost her memory, in the end, the main objective has to be getting it back.
As it turns out, Strident is the last remaining member of FIST, a special unit operating under the orders of United Nations. Sent on a peacekeeping mission to the Middle East, the FIST unit disappeared from the face of the earth. During a mercenary attack on a research facility manufacturing cyborgs, our female lead gets a chance to escape, after being imprisoned for six months. This is where the player takes over. Memories have to be found and a huge conspiracy needs to be uncovered. For some reason, the United Nations are no longer on our side, so as usual, we'll have to deal with everything on our own.
The game sounds like a lot of fun, and I can imagine what would it be like to actually play it, but unfortunately, I won't ever get the chance to. Strident is one of those unfortunate titles that never made it past the development stage, and was eventually cancelled. All that we ever got to see were a couple of screenshots and some concept art. Phantagram also released a fully rendered cinematic that looked nothing like the actual game, so I won't even link it. Why am I writing about this? Because the moment I saw the screenshots, I knew this was a game for me, and if it ever came out, I'd love it. What's even worse, is that Strident wasn't the only title Phantagram cancelled.
As if losing Strident wasn't enough, we also lost Duality, another third person perspective game, developed by none other than Phantagram, who teamed up with Madrid based Trilobite Graphics. While similar to Strident in look and feel, Duality was supposed to be a breath of fresh air when it came to gameplay. Judging from the information released to the public, it was meant to be an action adventure, not unlike Quantic Dream's Omikron: The Nomad Soul.
The story begins with industrial espionage when Travis, a mercenary turned security agent, buys himself a place on a mega-corporation hit-list by not being able to prevent the theft of top secret blueprints. Escaping the company premises, our hero will have to track down the thieves and return the stolen property to get his old employers off his back. Along the way, Travis will encounter two other characters, which the player will be able to control: A hacker-extraordinaire named Sam, and an artificial intelligence being called Cube. Each of the characters will be able to explore a part of the story inaccessible others, eventually bringing everything together and tying up all loose ends.
I have always wondered for how long is a developer able to operate, paying its employees for their time, without actually releasing anything, and without going bankrupt. The year 2002 must have been a tough one for Phantagram, seeing as they've managed to start developing two potentially huge titles, only to see them get cancelled, with all the work going to waste. Is it better to abandon a project, or give it a shot, since it's already so far along? Developers always have to weigh their options against potential financial loss, but what about the credibility in the eyes of gamers?
Usually, when a title is being cancelled, developers, as well as gamers realize, that this particular title wouldn't have worked. Most of such projects are abandoned at an early stage, and no real harm is done, but I can't help myself but feel that these two titles had so much to offer. It's a common fact that relatively unknown developers tend to take risks, while those who made a name for themselves, usually play it safe. The audience is expecting a certain level of quality, and while innovative approach isn't necessarily bad, it might not be what gamers want.
Did Phantagram realize that both Strident and Duality would require enormous amount of work to make them shine? Maybe, but great games don't just happen - Money needs to be spent in order to be made again, and that's why I regret that Phantagram didn't have what it took to push these projects through. I can only assume that porting these titles to current generation hardware is out of question, since it would require a massive tech upgrade, unless we're talking about Wii. One can still hope, though. Just like I keep on hoping that LucasArts will release a sequel to Outlaws.
If you're one of those, who feel nostalgic when thinking back to the days of proper arcade gaming, you know how essential the arcade stick is. When you play a first person shooter, a mouse and keyboard setup just feels right for some reason. Today's digital game controllers are perfect for platform games, etc., but if you want to enjoy those fighting games and arcade classics, you need the proper tools for the job, and that's where the arcade stick comes in. I know that's some introduction to an entry featuring photos of Dragon Ball Z sticks, but you have to start somehow.
When it comes to arcade sticks, you have to spend big to get the quality that comes anywhere near the arcade experience. It's all about the genuine parts, proper button placement and weight. The hardware I bought fails to qualify in almost all of these categories. While I could accept the button placement, which is not unlike the Neo Geo setup, only double, the buttons themselves are terrible. They have this toy feel to them, and since they're mounted on top of a single PCB with rubber contacts, they don't feel like arcade buttons at all. The stick is no different. While it does seem pretty solid, the four plastic contacts make the movement extremely choppy, especially on the diagonal.
Why in the world would I buy these then? The answer is simple: They were $6.50 a piece. The price doesn't make it better if they're completely useless, right? Right, but they're not useless. On the contrary. These controllers are perfect if you're planning on building your own arcade stick. If you are, and you're planning on using it with the PlayStation 2, such a controller is a perfect base for your hardware, since you have the interface ready-made. All you need is a new box and proper parts, preferably Sanwa, which are really good and not all that expensive. The best stick Sanwa has to offer will set you back less than $20.
If you're not into arts and crafts, you can always buy one of those "high grade" sticks, which usually cost around $150, but that's a waste of money in most cases, especially if you're considering the overpriced X-Arcade, which uses knock-offs of Happ parts. Get yourself a cheapo Dragon Ball Z stick, an Astro City template, build a box and you're all set. Quite frankly, buying a whole two player Astro City panel will probably be cheaper than some high graders out there, and you can't even compare the quality.
Aside from cheap sticks, I bought some new games. I'm a sucker for SNK's compilations, so I got myself the Art of Fighting Anthology, which will join other anthologies, including the Metal Slug one. I also scored an incredibly cheap copy of Mercury Meltdown Remix, for which I paid a whopping $3.90. It's a great game by the way, so if you spot it for cheap, get it. I finally bought a copy of Bullet Witch, which I know isn't that good a game, but I always wanted it, and last but not least, Contact for the Nintendo DS. I usually stick to the less time consuming games nowadays, but I will find the time to play Contact, and that's a promise.
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First-time fatherhood is hard enough without the cameras chronicling your every misstep - but Mario Lopez is taking on both his first child and his first full-time reality show.
Lopez, still known to his legion of fans for his pop-iconic stint on "Saved By the Bell," will premiere "Saved By the Baby" on VH1 starting Nov. 1.
The star will open the doors of his home as he and his girlfriend Courtney Mazza welcome their baby girl Gia in the world. Gia was actually born last month, but we'll start well before that.
Lopez told PopcornBiz that it's not going to be 24-7 reality.
"It's not as bad as you would think," he says, speaking from a ping-pong themed birthday party thrown for him by Celsius energy drink on Saturday. "We capture key moments and a great deal of time of us at home."
Indeed, Mazza tells us that it's not going to be "cameras in our face the moment we wake up."
But the show will document "our journey through our pregnancy," she says. For example, the camera will follow the couple as they head to Mazza's breastfeeding class.
"Though," Mazza adds helpfully, "Mario will not be breastfeeding." Um, thanks for that!
A lot of the show will deal with Lopez, one of the hardest working guys in showbiz, trying to deal with his new responsibilities.
"It's finding the balance for Mario as far as juggling his career and home - he's so busy and he's always taking on so many projects," says Mazza. "Now that you have a family it's sort of like where do you draw the line? And when do you start saying no to certain things?"
Lopez says that the show will showcase his actress girlfriend. "It's a great platform for my girl," says Lopez. "She's very funny."
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First-time fatherhood is hard enough without the cameras chronicling your every misstep - but Mario Lopez is taking on both his first child and his first full-time reality show.


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Mmm... can you smell that? That's the smell of irony. Or maybe it's recursiveness. Or is it the smell of being incepted? Whatever it is, this video on the science of procrastination by the folks at AsapSCIENCE actually provides some pretty handy tips for being productive right here right now, so you can avoid falling into your usual pattern of postponing your obligations.
Alternatively, you could go watch a live video feed of a baby panda. Your work can wait, right?


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OneBeat Berlin is back to Joao Cocteau in Neukölln for session 5 of the experimental series.
This time featuring the trio ELEPHANT to play a live jam session to accompany silent film sequences.
"ELEPHANT are the 'contemporary melodic groove collective'. Drums, bass and piano by Christoph, Antti and Marco. Various elements from jazz, popculture, classical, contemporary and electronica, whilst improvisation is the underlying core."
Based on silent film sequences the following concept is linep up for the night:
For the session we'll work with a wide range of footage, not exclusively from silent films but coming mostly from around the 1920s and 1930s. The night will be divided into 3 20min parts, each representing a different theme and divided by short breaks. ELEPHANT will be improvising to a sequence they will have seen before, but never played or rehearsed to.
We're looking forward to it. Check in on Facebook www.facebook.com/events/378658952209262, listen to some more ELEPHANT tunes on www.onebe.at/en/artists/elephant or visit www.weareelephant.com for more insights.
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There has been a lot of attention paid to the Hispanic vote in the past year but the Republican problem with minorities extends to many groups. Lloyd Green looked at why Republicans are losing votes among Asians. Some groups such as African-Americans might be less likely to vote for Republicans due to their history of racism and Hispanics might vote against Republicans for their views on immigration (which may also stem from conservative racism). Republicans have not provided comparable reasons for Asian-Americans to vote against them, but there are aspects of Republican policies which are unattractive to Asian-Americans. Green argues that Asian-Americans are voting against Republicans for the same reason as many other educated Americans:
These days, the GOP strikes Asian-Americans, along with many other Americans, as hostile to science and modernity. For example, George W. Bush severely restricted the use of federal funds for embryonic stem-cell research and cast his very first presidential veto to block enactment of the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act. More recently, Congressman Paul Broun of Georgia—a member of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee and a prospective Senate candidate—declared that evolution, embryology, and the Big Bang were lies that emanated from the pit of Hell. Apparently, a low-taxes-only agenda is no longer enough to woo a demographic whose median household income exceeds $90,000 by the time that they become third-generation Americans.
And there is a further rub. According to the Pew Research Center, a majority of Asian immigrants hold at least a college degree—compared with less than one in three members of the overall adult population. At Cal Tech—where race, ethnicity, and legacy status are excluded from admissions criteria—Asian-Americans comprise nearly 40 percent of the student body. At MIT, which professes a commitment to diversity, Asian-Americans comprise more than a quarter of students.
What's more, Asian-American students tend to concentrate in the STEM jobs—sciences, technology, mathematics, and engineering—that are crucial to our economy. Thus, in a sense, Asian-Americans are not just another ethnic group waiting for a politician to march in a parade, eat some exotic food, and then announce a community grant or shill for votes. Rather, they are also a subset of high-tech America, and one thing is clear: high-tech America is not in love with the Republican Party.
This is consistent with other findings from Pew Research showing that many believe the Republicans are out of touch with the modern world:
At a time when the Republican Party's image is at a historic low, 62% of the public says the GOP is out of touch with the American people, 56% think it is not open to change and 52% say the party is too extreme.
Opinions about the Democratic Party are mixed, but the party is viewed more positively than the GOP in every dimension tested except one. Somewhat more say the Republican Party than the Democratic Party has strong principles (63% vs. 57%).
Being seen as having strong principles might not necessarily be good in terms of modern political issues. Often Republicans chose their principles and ideology over facts while Democrats tend to take a more pragmatic view of the issues. The bigger problem is that while Republicans may be characterized more by strong principles, Republicans follow the wrong principles in opposing science, knowledge, and the modern world. On the other hand, there are times when I would like to see the Democrats more consistently defend liberal principles.


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I've had people asking me to do the Secret Santa thing again after last year. I'll be perfectly honest about last year's results; I got some great stories from people who got gifts that they absolutely loved and I got a few stories about people who got stiffed on a gift. (Here's the link to last year's event and some reactions.) Overall, I'd say that the experience was positive for people. For myself personally, there was a lot of work involved on the back end; and while I don't mind taking on that workload, I simply don't have the bandwidth at this time to juggle that. So, there are a few changes this year.
First, I'm going to use Drawnames.com to handle the organizing and assigning people to be Secret Santas. The site has gotten some favorable reviews (including from Lifehacker) so I thought it was a good choice. Plus, it requires the minimum amount of information without all the awful ads of other sites.
Second, this means I will have to add people to the Secret Santa list by their email manually. I've set up a Google Form for you to submit your name (first name, last initial) and email address so I can add them to the list. Again, your information will be kept secret by myself and disposed of when this is over. I will add people as I get them within the time frame that this is 'open' as listed below. (You will want to add the domain 'drawnames.com' to your 'not spam' filter or equivalent.)
Third, as this site handles the matching, it will be up to the Secret Santa to contact their person for a mailing address. I won't be privy to these communications, but it really means that in signing up for this, you will need to be on the ball in contacting your person and getting their gift details. I will have the ability to nudge folks who haven't heard from their Santas, so people are not completely out of luck. But in signing up, this is what you are signing up for!
Fourth, I think this thing only handles 85 people on a list. I hope I'm wrong, but it means that the first 84 people will be in and anyone beyond that may not. Last year, 75 people participated so that should give some perspective on the range of the contest. So, there may or may not be a hardcap on participants.
Fifth, I'm sure hoping this all works out well. And with that little hope in mind, here's the skinny:
- The form will be open until 11:59pm on Friday December 17th OR until filled (in case 85 is the hard cap for participants)
- You will receive your gift target's information on December 18th. This will include a wish list and the option of asking questions anonymously of your gift recipient. It's up to you to find out their contact information to send something. You can email me if you haven't heard from your person in a few days.
- Gifts should arrive between Christmas and New Year's Day.
- $10 gift limit (Go over at your own discretion.)
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Hello I have a problem with a temperature sensor it has 1 Mohm of resistance at ambient temperature and according with the specification the value has to be 2 Kohm, I think that the circuit is open but I do not why, do you Know any reason for open circuits, or for the sensors failure.
Measuring 1 Mohm or more on a 2 pin temperature sensor such as a thermistor or a resistance temperature detector? Then it's probably permanently destroyed. Sorry. I usually destroy things by putting too high voltage -- now I know 120 V is too high :-). I suppose it's also possible it failed from over-temperature or other stress. --DavidCary 17:05, 30 August 2008 (PDT)
Question 5
Recommendation for mains powered voltage regulator to power a CPU?
Date: 2010-01-10
Does anyone have a recommended high voltage AC/DC input DC output regulator? Something for powering MCU devices off the primary mains (115/1/60 US, 200/1/50 EU, ect), that supplies an output voltage of around 3.3V to 7.5V much like a low cost MCU based product might have.
I'm looking for a better design of what might be called an universal off-line regulator. I found this ref, but those 1/2 watt resistors for a 100ma output don't sit well with me. http://www.discovercircuits.com/DJ-Circuits/images/offline5v.jpg
I also found this linear non-isolated regulator, but I'm not happy with it because it's again wasteful, and it can't offer an isolated output if so desired. http://focus.ti.com/docs/prod/folders/print/tl783.html
I'm thinking the solution will look something like this, perhaps with a switching frequency around 1kHz, or 10kHz what ever the low FCC limit is. http://i324.photobucket.com/albums/k352/kb1gtt/OFFLINE_REG.jpg
The general theory in my above sketch is that the high side drive will buck you down to what ever voltage the chip is looking for. Current capabilities would be driven by the high side drive, and bulk caps. Something in the 100ma to 5 amp range would be nice for a broad range of applications.
You have a high voltage power source, and you need to drive a microcontroller at 5 V (or maybe 3.3 V). Lots of common low-cost equipment needs to do the same thing (alarm clock, microwave oven, UPS, battery charger, etc.). So you would think there would be a simple, common, low-cost, off-the-shelf way to do this.
You also want it to be efficient (and therefore a switching rather than a linear regulator).
Is this what the professionals call "Underestimating Complexity of Power Supply Design"?
Practical answer 1:
Don't be put off by the 1/2 W resistors. When a tiny little resistor is dissipating 0.001 W, and you substitute a big, scary looking 1/2 W resistor (of the same resistance), how much does that big resistor now dissipate? That's right, it's still dissipating 0.001 W. Many line-powered electronic devices use huge 1/2 W or 1 W resistors in places where they normally dissipate only tiny amounts of power, and so most of the time a much smaller resistor would be adequate. But the designers stick in those huge resistors anyway, because when you plug in the device, you *might* have a big surge of current through the input capacitor. (a) You don't want the capacitor to blow up, so you add a resistor to limit the current, and (b) You don't want the resistor to blow up, so you make it big enough to handle that brief surge of current, even though 99% of the time it handles orders of magnitude less power.
Practical answer 2:
Use a step-down transformer to convert 120 VAC or 240 VAC to a lower AC voltage, then -- assuming this is less than 6 W -- use a rectifier and a bulk cap to convert to DC. Pick the turns ratio so that you get anywhere in the range of 6 VDC to 40 VDC at the bulk cap. There are dozens of $10 transformers with a 6 VA rating that would be adequate. Then use any one of dozens of DC-DC regulators to convert that voltage to the desired voltage, 5 VDC or 3.3 VDC or whatever.
There are detailed schematics and parts lists at:
- Guido Socher: "HOW TO - Make a microcontroller based DC power supply"
- National Semiconductor "Application Note 1061 Power Conversion in Line-Powered Equipment"
- Texas Instruments: "Designing Switching Voltage Regulators With the TL494"
- ... FIXME: add more examples here ...
- ... The 723 Voltage Regulator ? ...
- ... switching regulator ? ...
- ...
all of which begin with a step-down transformer to convert mains power to a more convenient intermediate voltage.
Practical answer 3:
Buy one off the shelf. A used (or even a new) desktop computer power supply is relatively low cost; and some people know how to modify them for whatever voltage you want.
If that's too big, mini-box, and Newark, and several other suppliers all sells plug-in adapters that produce 5 VDC for under $10. --DavidCary 06:12, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
Theoretical answer 1:
Why do we need that step-down transformer? To someone familiar with low-voltage DC-DC regulators, it seems like (theoretically) we should be able to leave it out ... Use a bridge rectifier to convert the AC to DC, then use a single-chip switching regulator (perhaps with external high-voltage buck transistor) to convert the resulting 170 Vpeak or 340 Vpeak signal to the desired 5 VDC or 3.3 VDC.
Also, most switching power supplies I've seen above 30 W or so include power factor correction in order to meet IEC/EN61000-3-2 regulations. I'm pretty sure that an appropriate power factor corrector input stage can be built with a TL494 switching regulator.
Alas, lots of plausible-sounding searches return switching power supply chips or circuits with a maximum input voltage no more than 50 VDC or 100 VDC.
In particular, the National Semiconductor WEBENCH Power Designer refuses to design a switching power supply with an input voltage higher than 100 VDC. The Analog Devices ADIsimPower Design Tools refuses to design a switching power supply with an input voltage higher than 70 VDC. Rohm, Texas Instruments, etc. also have a similar mystifying limitation.
Am I just not looking in the right section of their website?
Is it because of "extra-low voltage" liability laws and regulations? "When equipment is human-accessible, voltage and power limits of < 42.5 V and 8.0 A limit apply for UL, CSA, VDE approval." -- Wikipedia: Switched-mode power supply.
Is it because the UL approval people (CE, etc.) are familiar with transformers, and because they are unfamiliar with anything else, it's too much hassle to get them to approve "new" power supplies no matter how much safer and more efficient and less noisy they are than the traditional power supplies?
My understanding is that the low FCC frequency is just under 9 kHz. The PCB Layout Wikibook has some more information on EMI FCC testing. However, most switching power supplies I've seen run at 40 KHz, I'm guessing because it's well above human hearing (20 KHz) and so the annoying audio whine only annoys our non-human neighbors.
Does the design in the Zetex "AN54 Energy Star® V2.0 compliant flyback converter using the ZXGD3101 synchronous MOSFET controller" do what you want?
The Massmind: Power page has a bunch of links to circuits that allegedly do what you want.
Power Supply Design blog allegedly has some tips for power supply design.
Does the "The 3-transistor Black regulator" do what you want, if you follow the design notes for adapting it to high voltage use?
"AN98091: CFL 13W demo PCB with UBA2021 for integrated lamp-ballast designs" includes schematic and PCB layout and parts list for the mains-powered CFL driver circuit. Can this be modified to generate 5 VDC ?
International Rectifier "AN-1069: Electronic Transformer Applications - practical product designs based around the IR2161" shows has a detailed schematic with 220 VAC input at one end and a PIC16F628 at the other end. After you delete the stuff you don't need, is what's left what you want? Does the circuit in International Rectifier "AN-1131: Universal-input (90- 265 VAC) LED driver using IRS2541" do what you want? Does the circuit in the National Semiconductor "LM5021: AC-DC Current Mode PWM Controller" datasheet do what you want?
Does the circuit in the FAN6754: Highly Integrated Green-Mode PWM Controller datasheet do what you want? Or one of the other circuit diagram schematics in the Fairchild "Power Solutions Design Guide"?
The circuits at "Versatility of the LM5030 PWM Push-Pull Controller" by L.H. Mweene & David Pace, or "200W ATX PC POWER SUPPLY" seem to do what you want -- but it seems unnecessarily complicated compared to the above circuits. Is there a way to simplify this circuit if you "simply" want to power a small microprocessor and few LEDs?
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Date: 2009-10-16
Hi. I'm looking to design and build a PLL controlled 33 cm ATV downconverter. The purpose is to have a PLL controlled LO of somewhere around 850 MHz - shifting down from whatever frequency the user selects (via the DIP switches) in the 902-928 MHz band to 60 MHz (TV channel 3). A channel step of 1 MHz is sufficient, but it would be really convenient if the device had enough bandwidth to cover the entire 902-928 MHz span (users with computer tuners would pick 848 MHz to have 902-928 MHz go from 54-80 MHz and would be able to tell their computer tuners exactly where to look. Users using actual TV sets would have to change the LO to alter the tuning since TV sets are not as agile). You can check out my blog for more details.
Where I'm at so far is that it appears that the combination of the MC145151 PLL, SA620 LNA/Mixer/VCO and the MC12080 prescaler together might do exactly what I want. But I'm not really an expert at such things. Is there an easier, cheaper, or easier to get set of components that can work together to achieve the goal?
Is it just as easy as just breadboarding the example circuits from the datasheets? Will breadboarding actually work for UHF RF circuitry?
Question 4
Date: 2009-10-08
Does anyone have a simple circuit for Power over Ethernet (PoE) power supply? I have found a number of ICs that are supposed to help (e.g. MAX5940 .. MAX5943, LTC4257, TPS23750, ...) but most of the example circuits suggest output transformer and optocouplers. That would make my ~$20 design too complex and expensive. Do you know of any cheap and easy way to get 5V or 3.3V from PoE? Thanks!
I really like National's LM5071 chip. Look at the non isolated example circuit on page 17 of the datasheet. It doesn't need a transformer or opto, but you have to be careful as the 5V RTN is NOT common.
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I am looking for a CEF04N6 transistor for an Acer monitor. China wants to sell me 2 at $10 each plus $50 shipping. The monitor isn't worth more than $100. Please advise. Date: 6/23/08
Aww really? thats just a cheap MOSFET. Go buy something that is 600v 6a rated and drop it in! Any mosfet will work. the pins should be GDS.
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hello i am looking for a inline and paralel messuring tools ,and was wondering if i can do it with a gyroscoop Date:23-2-2008 more or less
Could you clarify the question a bit? What specifically are you trying to do?
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how do I add my c code to this wiki?
Feb '08: how do I add my c code so it will be colored in this wiki? I can have it export to a html file and rtf
Currently the fastest way to add c code to the Open Circuits wiki is to copy and paste the plain text, then add a "code" tag before and after the code. Like so:
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void){
printf( "%s", "Hello, world." );
We can also discuss the
main() function.
(hit the "edit" button to see how that is done). Is that what you wanted?
Many IDEs colorize C code; that makes it a little easier to understand. If you want to see those pretty colors, some options we've seen so far:
- copy-and-paste the source into your favorite IDE. Then it will colorize the code in the way you are used to (which may be different colors than what people with a different favorite IDE see).
- Perhaps you could try exporting HTML from your IDE (or some other off line colorizer tool or script) and pasting it in. The OpenCircuits wiki accepts some html.
- Other wiki use a "source" tag that colorizes C code automatically[1]. Should we install that here at Open Circuits?
russ_hensel, --DavidCary 12:51, 20 March 2009 (UTC)


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Although some people believe that 30 and 40-somethings join Facebook to reconnect with old high school flames, at least one report says that half of all parents are doing it to keep tabs on their children.
According to the Education Database Online blog, about half of all parents said part of the reason they joined was to see what their kids were up to.
Another 43 percent admitted to checking their kids' status updates every day. And probably the worst of it all, 92 percent on social media have "friended" their children, and about 33 percent have been embarrassed on social media by a parent.
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Not surprisingly, 30 percent of teens also responded they would de-friend parents if they could.
At the age of 13, when teens are allowed to join Facebook, about 65-percent request their parents as friends. That number drops to 40 percent by age 20.
Parents obviously want to stay in touch with their children, and social networks are a way to do that.
The only problem occurs when parents are too nosy or too involved in their kids' lives — such as posting embarrassing photos or constantly messaging.
Like most things, parents have to learn when to back away and let their children act on what they have been taught at home.
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- Hebrew: house of fishing
- City, east of the Jordan, on Lake Genesareth, Palestine. Nearby occurred the miracles of the loaves and fishes (Luke 9) and the restoration of sight to the blind man (Mark 8).
- City, home of Saint Peter the Apostle, Saint Andrew the Apostle, and Saint Philip (John 1:12), possibly west of the Jordan or else identical with (1).
- Pool in Jerusalem (John 5), where Our Lord cured a man "eight and thirty years under his infirmity."
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Violise Lunn was born in Copenhagen in 1969, and graduated as a fashion designer in 1995 from Denmarks Design School . She has run her own studio in Copenhagen since 1997, where she specialises in the design and making of one of a kind pieces of clothing for women.
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I've been reading about CARP lately and I'd like to know if it's possible to use CARP for clustering web and mail servers? I know CARP is used for failover but what other services/software would you recommend on clustering two or more OBSD mail/web servers?
CARP provides the ability for multiple systems to share a single IP address, for high availability (HA) requirements where a single IP address must be used. That's all it does. It is perfect for discrete transactions, such as packet routing. Applications that must share information between servers are not a good fit for CARP alone. The example I would point to is PF; in order to share state table information between routers, the pfsync(4) driver had to be developed.
On the other hand, there are any number of applications that are conducive to "server farm" operations. These are typically multi-tier environments, such as a farm of websevers driving application servers with back end data servers. And these sorts of applications use load balancers to support a pool of webservers, and the web servers will drive a pool of application servers, and then the database servers might be in HA configurations for additional redundancy. None of these share the same IP address within the farm, so CARP would be unnecessary.
PF can be load balancer, by the way. See the "Address Pools and Load Balancing" chapter of the PF Users Guide.
Here's a graphic from one of Bob Beck's (beck@) presentations on spamd(8). This one shows nine different servers involved with e-mail processing at the University of Alberta in 2006. Note that the bastion routers are running CARP and acting as round-robin load balancers.
Wow nice setup and I'm going to attemp to follow that example with minor tweaks. On the firewall side, I'm satfisfied with CARP/PFsync.
The beauty of OBSD is that apache and bind are chrooted by default! I've already setup an OBAMP and a virtual mail server using postfix,mysql,etc. I'm going to setup another server and clone it. Both servers will have two nics each - one serving to the public and the other hooked via crossover cable for syncing with rsync. I guess rsync/cron will provide the clustering. But one server will be the master dns server while the other will secondary/slave and will be setup for DNS round robin. My question now is rsync adequated for clustering/heartbeat or does OBSD have something better? I've taken a look at Linux-HA but that's another steep learning curve. With rsync I can tell cron to rsync every 5 minutes?? How would I use rsync properly for clustering?
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As a technology useful to implement redundancy, it is more common to set up the same functionality on each CARP server such that service is always available from somewhere. Instead of using CARP to connect a DNS master to its slave (which by definition isn't a model of true redundancy, but rather as a limited backup...), CARP is better used to connect two servers which both act as masters or both act as slaves.
In fact, this is the model proposed by ai-danno (who visits this forum from time to time...) several versions ago for OpenBSD 4.2:
However, be forewarned that the information is dated. Such articles bordering on how-to's do not absolve readers from doing their homework. Study the manpages.
Excellent post Ocicat! Thanks buddy I'll check it out.
Are you aware of relayd?
The EXAMPLE section of the relayd.conf man page has an example of load balancing 4 web servers.
I haven't got the chance to play with it yet though
You don't need to be a genius to debug a pf.conf firewall ruleset, you just need the guts to run tcpdump
Whoa! This could be the one I've been looking for. Feels like Xmas.
So, jggimi, is it recommended to use single IP address for two are more than two websites that you own?
Your question is both a little off-topic, gamemaniac, and is unanswerable directly, as the answer is both "yes" and "no". So I'll try some indirect level-setting: Depending on the architecture of your application(s), and the infrastructure required to support them, a single IP address for multiple systems may or may not be required or desired.
In the simplest of network scenarios you may be familiar with, a simple NAT router can have a large network behind it, all sharing the same external IP address.
Thanks jggmi for such a descriptive explanation to my question.
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Wednesday Convocation features SBC president Fred Luter, Jr.
Pastor Fred Luter, Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), spoke to students at Liberty University in Wednesday's Convocation about the importance of having a renewed mind in Christ.
"I want to challenge you this morning to understand how important your role is as students of this phenomenal school and how God can use you to impact our culture in America. In order for that to happen you have to be lights in the dark world and salt in a low-sodium society," Luter said.
A native of New Orleans, Luter has been the pastor of Franklin Avenue Baptist Church since 1986. After Hurricane Katrina hit the city in 2005, his congregation dispersed all over the country. As a result, he set up satellite campuses and continued pastoring to his members. In 2008 he returned to New Orleans and was able to open up the doors to the church in a new building.
In June 2012, Luter was elected the first African American president of the SBC.
On Wednesday, Luter delivered a passionate sermon characteristic of his New Orleans background and what some may call "old-time preaching."
He told students that their minds are always being tempted, enticed, seduced, attacked and "punk'd" from the enemy to want to sin — regardless of marital status, position in the church, or age.
Luter gave several examples in Scripture of people who easily fell into sin because they allowed their minds to reach for the things of this world.
"How can we as believers stand and be victorious from the attacks of the enemy? You must have a renewed mind," he said.
According to Luter, that mind should be on Christ, the cross, and your choices. He also gave examples from pop culture of people who have not considered how every choice has a consequence.
Luter closed Convocation by asking students to sing along with him a cappella the words to "At the Cross."


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- saturates6g
- carbs104g
- sugars12g
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Heat the oil in a large, deep pan, then gently fry the onion for 3-4 mins. Stir in the pearl barley, sizzle for a few mins, then pour in about a third of the stock. Simmer fiercely for 20 mins, stirring occasionally, adding more stock gradually as it is absorbed. With 5 mins to go, stir in the peas. After 20 mins there should be some liquid left and the barley should be cooked through.
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Memphis, Tenn. – The Tennessee State defense forced six turnovers as TSU knocked off Jackson State, 26-16, in the 24th Annual Southern Heritage Classic.
Redshirt sophomore running back Telvin Hooks was named the game's Most Valuable Player, rushing for 92 yards on 16 carries for an average of 5.8 yards per carry. Senior Tim Broughton added 95 yards rushing on 19 touches.
JSU outgained Big Blue 367 yards to 285, but TSU's defense accounted for 198 yards via interception returns and added a score.
Tennessee State got the ball to start the game and Ronald Butler proceeded to orchestrate a ten-play, 76-yard drive that culminated in Jamin Godfrey 26-yard field goal. Butler was 2-of-4 on the series including a 27-yard completion to Ryan Mitchell and a 24-yard toss to A.C. Leonard.
Jackson State picked up a first down on its first drive, but Stephen Godbolt III intercepted Clayton Moore's fifth pass of the game and brought it back 15 yards before fumbling. TSU's Daniel Fitzpatrick immediately leapt on the ball, setting up the Big Blue offense on JSU's 48.
Godbolt's pick was his first of the season, a year removed from leading all Football Championship Subdivision with six during the 2012 campaign.
TSU was unable to capitalize off of the turnover and punted the ball back to Jackson State with 5:18 left in the first quarter.
JSU made it six plays down the field this time before Nick Thrasher forced a fumble and Anthony Bass recovered the ball in Jackson State territory.
Thrasher led the team with 12 tackles while Bass chipped in with five stops and TSU's only two sacks of the contest.
Butler marched his Tigers down to the 18 yard line before a penalty, sack and screen pass that went for negative yardage setup a third and 32. Butler tried to pick up the first down by threading the needle to Leonard, but JSU's Ryan Griffin easily intercepted the pass and brought it back 78 yards for a Jackson State score.
Butler finished the game 5-of-8 for 69 yards with the lone interception.
JSU held a 7-3 advantage at the end of the first quarter despite TSU outgaining the Miss. school 114-53.
Redshirt junior quarterback Michael German entered the game to start the second period, but his entrance led to no immediate points as TSU was forced to punt during its opening drive of the second quarter. Butler would not return.
JSU picked up four first downs on its next possession, but senior Andrew Taylor stepped in front of a pass for Jackson State's third turnover of the half. Taylor returned the pick all the way to the Jackson State seven, but TSU was unable to find the end zone. Godfrey canned his second field goal of the game – this one from 23 yards out – bringing the Tigers within one of the lead, 7-6, with eight minutes to go before the break.
Five straight runs and a 26-yard passing play set up JSU at the Tennessee State six yard line, but again, the Big Blue defense forced a key turnover. This time, De'Ante Saunders intercepted the ball on the goal line and raced down the sideline. Saunders eventually lost the foot race, but he still managed to return the ball 71 yards to the JSU 29.
A defensive targeting penalty caused Jackson State's leading tackler last season Cameron Loeffler to be ejected and put the ball on JSU's 12-yard line. Broughton rushed up the middle for eight yards on TSU's next play, but a personal foul penalty moved the offense back to the 16. Big Blue couldn't overcome the setback, and settled for Godfrey's third field goal of the half.
The senior's kick put TSU up 9-7 heading into halftime and also moved him into fifth place on the school's all-time career scoring list with 235 points.
German finished the half 0-for-7 passing and the TSU defense outgained its offensive teammates, 147 to 136 during the game's first 30 minutes.
The sides traded punts to start the third quarter, but JSU completed a 54-yard bomb on the first play of its second possession of the half. Four plays later, JSU nailed a 22-yard field goal that hit off of the upright, and bounced in. The kick allowed Jackson State to re-take the lead at 10-9 with eight minutes to play in the third.
A Mitchell 18-yard reception and a 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on JSU gave Godfrey another chance at three points on TSU's next series with a 29-yard attempt. Like JSU's, Godfrey's kick hit the upright, but the ball bounced out, squandering another red zone opportunity.
Mitchell's two grabs for 45 yards were the most by a Tiger receiver this year.
TSU scored four times on its six red zone chances during the contest, but only one went for a touchdown. Tennessee State has had the ball in the red zone 11 times this season, but has only scored three touchdowns in those chances.
After a JSU three-and-out, TSU finally found pay dirt with a nine play, 63-yard drive that ended with a one-yard touchdown run from German that put TSU in the driver's seat, 16-10. Hooks was the workhorse on the drive, totaling five carries for 42 yards.
In his first game of the season, German completed 4-of-14 passes for 42 yards. It was his lowest yardage output since his first career game during his freshman season.
Godfrey punched in a 42-yard field goal to begin the fourth quarter, and then Daniel Fitzpatrick intercepted JSU's very next play and returned it 50 yards for a touchdown. The pick six made the score 26-10 in favor of TSU with eight minutes left to play.
Five drives and a David Van Dyke interception later, JSU found the end zone for the second time when Evan Ingram scored from one yard out. The ensuing two-point conversion failed, and TSU led, 26-16, which would wound up being the final score.
TSU's six forced turnovers were the most for the team since 2005 when Big Blue came up with seven cough ups against Tennessee Tech on Oct. 13.
With his 14 points against JSU, Godfrey now has 239 points for his career. He is 13 points away from tying Charles Anthony for fourth on the school's all-time scoring list.
Godfrey and the rest of the Tigers will now turn their focus to Tennessee Tech for their game on Saturday, Sept. 21 in Jackson. Kickoff is scheduled for 7 p.m.


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