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It's not every day you get a humanitarian award from your ex-boyfriend's dad.
Taylor Swift, gleaming in a gold Oscar de la Renta dress, was presented with the Ripple of Hope Award from the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice &Human Rights at a gala Monday night in New York City.
While Taylor's ex, 18-year-old Conor Kennedy, was not in attendance, his father, the foundation's namesake, was there along with a number of other members of the Kennedy dynasty, including RFK Jr.'s sister Rory Kennedy and Ted Kennedy Jr.
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Alec Baldwin and wife Hilaria, Melanie Griffith and Antonio Sabato Jr. and RFK Jr.'s current flame, Cheryl Hines, were among the guests.
Taylor had good pal Dianna Agron by her side at the Mariott Marquis tonight. It probably would've been kinda swell to have a new man by her side, but new rumored love interest and great guy to go to the zoo with, Harry Styles, was otherwise engaged at the One Direction concert at Madison Square Garden.
Just last night, Taylor rocked the Jingle Ball stage in L.A.
"Thank you Kerry for a great night benefitting @rfkcenter And thank you Taylor Swift," Baldwin tweeted after the gala, also referring to the center's president, Kerry Kennedy.
The Ripple of Hope Award goes to leaders in activism, business and entertainment who demonstrate a commitment to social change.
In addition to being honored, Taylor also provided entertainment, singing "Starlight," a song on her Red album about family matriarch Ethel Kennedy.
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I have a couple of pics to share from 2 rounds I recently participated in.
The first is from round #9. Janice M. stitched me a portion of a Loose Feathers chart by Blackbird Designs that Janice believes is called Strawberry Garden. She stitched it in my favorite color of red. I really love it and plan to make it into a pinkeep. Here is a pic:
I stitched Janice a design by The Trilogy called Four Seasons. Here is a pic:
I also participated in the Halloween round and had Karen R. in Australia as a partner. Karen stitched me a portion of When Witches go Riding" by Prairie Schooler, which I will make into a pinkeep. Then she stitched me a gorgeous fob by Blackbird Designs in the book of "Trix or Treats". Here is a pic:
For Karen's squares I stitched Halloween Spots by The Trilogy. Here is a pic:
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
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I have a couple of pics to share from 2 rounds I recently participated in.
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I have the programming cable and software for EPH but I can not read the equipment.
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How is placed in programming mode without the Function key?
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Bots are complicated. They're made to process repetitive actions autonomously and can be fairly easy to build, but they aren't always working on the side of good. Here's what you need to know.
Each year, EContent magazine compiles a list of the 100 companies that matter most in the digital content industry.
Voting is now closed. We'll announce the results of the first-ever EContent 100 list chosen by the people!
Phillip J. Britt
Apr 11, 2005
Purveyors of digital content—from those providing online access to newspaper and other previously printed articles to those offering streaming audio and video—continue to seek the best ways to market and sell their materials while ensuring that only authorized parties access content. The trick is to find an end-to-end solution that lets customers use content in the ways they feel they should be allowed and at the same time, protect the rights of content providers.
This econtent ecommerce balancing act has given rise to business partnerships among companies providing digital rights management and those handling the fulfillment, marketing, and esubscription services as well as to companies that try to provide all-in-one solutions. Meanwhile, other vendors maintain that the best business model is to concentrate on DRM or some distinct part of the business and allow their customers (content providers) to handle the rest of the value chain in house or through an unrelated third party. "Most companies with this type of solution are using several different products to meet their needs," says Mark Overington, VP of marketing for Authentica, a DRM provider.
Pass it On John Blossom, president of Shore Communications, calls the supply and digital rights chain a mixed bag of solutions and methodologies. The business model is more developed for music and video than for textual content; but one model allows a user to use digital content for a limited period or number of times before paying for it, while other solutions seek immediate payment. Blossom believes that content users prefer DRM schemes that permit limited usage, or views of content, before payment is required and does not think that the all-or-nothing-model works as well.
Blossom points to the success of Weedshare.com, a site that leverages pass-alongs to increase sales volume, even rewarding customers who share content. The site allows a visitor to use a single piece of musical content a specified number of times before paying for it. If a person buys it, he's allowed to forward it to someone else, who similarly has a limited amount of time to preview the music before paying. If the visitor does buy it, the person who forwarded the music receives a portion of the revenue.
"Publishers have lost touch with the 'thingness' of content," Blossom says. "Kids have it figured out; the government has it figured out. Publishers are somewhere in between." Thus, they're still developing ways to distribute digital content and earn revenue from it.
Check it Out One relatively successful digital content venue is ebooks, which are continuing to gain popularity, according to Blossom. In addition to outright sales to consumers, a couple of econtent providers are having success providing ebooks to libraries to augment collections of traditional softcover and hardcover books at a cost savings. Like the traditional library, the elibraries allow only one person to check out a book at a time.
These elibraries also maintain strict access to the materials. For example, if a user is rapidly viewing multiple pages of an ebook—a pattern that indicates the possibility of page-by-page printing—vendor netLibrary will display a copyright notice and instruct the user to discontinue his or her actions. If the pattern continues, the account becomes disabled for a period of time, and the event is logged for tracking purposes.
While some say that strong encryption is necessary for such econtent business to be successful, Brad Warnick, VP of marketing for ECNext, argues that access control with a user name and password is a "completely satisfactory" solution for most applications. In this scenario, the licensing information is imbedded in the content, with a watermark to restrict access to only authorized (i.e., paid) users. This type of model, becoming increasingly popular in the business-to-business world, enables a corporate user to buy multiple licenses to enable users across the enterprise to view the content.
Warnick cites two email renewal models that content owners tend to use: one with automatic renewals, and one with subscription reminders that are automatically generated when the user gets within a certain time before the end of the current subscription.
Warnick adds that, to be successful, content providers need to ensure that information about available content shows up on popular search engines like Google and Yahoo!. An increasing number of business users are using these search engines rather than Lexis-Nexis, so content owners need to let potential buyers know the content is available for purchase.


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At 10:30 this morning the Senate Banking Committee will convene for the first time since the start of 2013.That means it will be freshman Elizabeth Warren's (D-Mass.) first hearing as a member of the Senate. She's been keeping a low profile in Washington, according to Politico. Most of her efforts so far have been specifically for her home state, so it'll be interesting to see if she is more outspoken today.
The topic of today's hearing is "Wall Street Reform: Oversight of Financial Stability and Consumer and Investor Protections," and here are the speakers:
- Mary Miller, Under Secretary for Domestic Finance, U.S. Department of the Treasury;
- Daniel Tarullo, Governor, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FRB);
- Martin Gruenberg, Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC);
- Tom Curry, Comptroller of the Currency, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC);
- Richard Cordray, Director, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB);
- Elisse Walter, Chairman, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC); and
- Gary Gensler, Chairman, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
They'll be talking about everything from the implementation of Dodd-Frank and the Volcker Rule to derivatives regulation and consumer protection.
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6Wunderkinder is making a play for the enterprise market thanks to two new additions to the Pro version of its cross-platform Wunderlist task management app today.
Files – including images, spreadsheets, presentation decks, PDFs and audio – can now be added to tasks. While possibly of use to individuals, it's easy to see how working teams could find this useful, with a project leader being able to share out tasks such as 'update our brochure' while attaching the current version to the task for reference.
Meanwhile, in a more overt play to the enterprise market, Wunderlist now has team and business pricing for the first time. There are six pricing tiers, ranging from $22.99 per month for 5 people, up to $1,749.99 for 500. 6Wunderkinder says that 40,000 teams and businesses already use Wunderlist, and the new pricing includes savings of between 10 and 30 percent over standard Pro accounts, which may well encourage others to take the plunge.
Wunderlist launched Pro accounts in April this year and Berlin-based 6Wunderkinder says that the app is now approaching the five million registered users mark across both paid and free accounts.
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- About Susan Osterhaus and Contact Information
- California Braille Mathematics Standards (2.1 mb)
- Teaching Strategies
- Project Math Access
- Math Education and Nemeth Code
- Producing Math Materials in Nemeth Code
- Tactile Math Graphics
- Abacus Information
- Math Technology
- Other Math Tools
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About Susan A. Osterhaus M.Ed.
Secondary Mathematics Teacher
Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired
1100 West 45th Street
Austin, TX 78756
(512) 206-9305
Susan Osterhaus has been teaching secondary mathematics for 30! years at the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired in Austin, Texas. She has a bachelor's degree in Mathematics, a master's degree in Mathematics Education, and certifications in Secondary Math, English, and Teaching the Visually Impaired from the University of Texas at Austin. Susan has taught or consulted with VI students from grades 6 through college, at achievement levels ranging from 3rd grade to talented and gifted.
Susan has refined teaching strategies related to math content to enhance the understanding of visually impaired students. She shares this level of experience freely with colleagues at TSBVI, throughout Texas, nationally, and internationally through presentations, workshops, videotapes, publications, and curriculum development. Susan developed and maintains a math homepage on the TSBVI Website, a resource through which she further shares her expertise in mathematics. She answers specific questions from around the world on the homepage and through phone calls and e-mail.
In addition to her teaching duties, Susan has been innovative in developing adaptive materials for blind and visually impaired students. She has served on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) committee, which developed guidelines for adapting and transcribing TAAS math and science questions for braille readers and is now doing so for the new Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS). She also served as an expert on a three-year national research project, which produced the Computerized Nemeth Tutor. She was a consultant in the creation of Nemeth TACK-TILES©, a set of tactual braille blocks. She continues to serve on the Texas Braille Textbook Review Panel to assure the quality of math braille books, with particular emphasis on the Nemeth Code and tactile graphics. Through her efforts, APH now produces an affordable Braille/Print Protractor, which allows blind and visually impaired students to measure and construct angles independently. Susan is involved in technological research and development as a consultant, field tester, and net worker. She has beta-tested three Nemeth Code translation and two voice recognition software packages, three talking scientific calculators, an accessible graphing calculator, two talking tactile touch pads, the web-based MathPlayer, and more.
A recipient of numerous awards over the years, Susan was selected the 1998 Outstanding Teacher of Students who are Blind or Visually Impaired for the United States by the Principals of Schools for the Blind (POSB) in conjunction with the Council of Schools for the Blind (COSB). She was also appointed and continues to server as a member of the Mathematics Technical Committee (1998), the Tactile Graphics Technical Committee (2004), and the Ad Hoc Committee on Standardized Tests (2012) of the Braille Authority of North America (BANA). She was the recipient of the JVIB Peer Reviewer of the Year Award for 2002. She received the Austin Silver Apple Award and was featured on KEYE TV on October 22, 2003. Susan was awarded the Julia L. Young award from TAER in 2004, in recognition of outstanding work with children who are blind or visually impaired in Texas. Susan helped organize the program and presented (in the Students with Special Needs Topic Study Group) for the 10th International Congress on Mathematical Education held in Copenhagen, Denmark, July 4-11, 2004. She also presented to a "standing room only" audience at HANDImatica in Bologna, Italy, on November 26, 2004. She was awarded the Council for Exceptional Children Division on Visual Impairments' 2006 Teacher of the Year Award, for dedication, knowledge and skills in the field of visual impairments. She received the 2006 Association for the Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired (AER) Education Curriculum Division's Joyce May Ogburn Award, for dedication and excellence in educating children with visual impairments. Most recently, Susan was selected as the Council for Exceptional Children Clarissa Hug 2007 Teacher of the Year, in recognition of outstanding special education teaching strategies, innovation, and ability to inspire children and youth with exceptionalities.
Eisenhower National Clearinghouse. (2003). Mathematics and science for students with special needs. ENC Focus, 10(2), p 43. The web site was selected as an exemplary resource from the ENC Collection to illustrate this issue's theme of turning special needs into special opportunities.
Eisenhower National Clearinghouse. (2000). Making schools work for every child. ENC Focus, 7(4), p 66. The web site was selected as an exemplary resource from the ENC Collection to illustrate this issue's theme of meeting the needs of all learners.
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Rep. Brian Elder is serving his first term representing the 96th House District, which includes the cities of Bay City and Essexville and Bangor, Frankenlust, Hampton, Kawkawlin, Merritt, Monitor and Portsmouth townships in Bay County.
Elder comes from three generations of autoworkers and is the first member of his family to attend college, having worked his way through Wayne State University, graduating Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a Bachelor's degree in History. He graduated from the UCLA School of Law earning a Juris Doctorate, with honors in Property Law and Oral Advocacy.
Elder has practiced law in Mid-Michigan since 1998 and currently owns Brian K. Elder, P.L.C., a general civil law practice. Elder has represented dozens of municipalities over his career, as well labor unions, union members and individuals in the areas of estate planning and Elder law.
Elder served eight years as a Bay County Commissioner and served as the Chairman of the Bay County Board of Commissioners. As a County Commissioner, Elder was an acknowledged leader in economic development, creating and Chairing Bay Future, Inc., Bay County's premiere public-private economic development partnership. Elder was Bay County's lead negotiator on the Fabiano Bros. multi-million dollar facility project that resulted in the expansion of the Monitor DDA and led to an additional $400,000.00 of tax revenue per year to local Bay County governments.
Of course, Elder's favorite accomplishment as a County Commissioner may be the creation of "Central Bark", Bay County's only dog park.
Elder lives in Bay City and is married to Susan Elder, a German teacher at Bay City Central High School and Handy Middle School. Brian and Susan have three children in the Bay City Public School System.


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Complexity, Endogenous Money and Macroeconomic Theory: Essays in Honour of Basil J. Moore
Mark Setterfield
Edward Elgar Publishing, Jan 1, 2006 - Econometrics - 448 pages
That the chapters in the volume cover such a wide range of important, often fundamental, topics is a proper tribute to Basil Moore s influence and contributions over his working life. From the foreword by G.C. Harcourt, Jesus College, Cambridge, UK During
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2 The need and some methods for dynamic modelling in Post Keynesian economics
PART II Complexity uncertainty and path dependence
3 The complex problem of modelling economic complexity
4 Complex dynamics and Post Keynesian economics
complexity analysis for enterprise and investment
additional evidence from the history of economic thought economic history and economic policy
12 Monetary policy when money is endogenous
some critical considerations
14 Features of a realistic banking system within a PostKeynesian stockflow consistent model
PART IV The macroeconomics of exogenous interest rates
15 When are interest rates exogenous?
Moore in perspective
some partial explanations
towards a Moorian credit supply curve and a reconciliation between horizontalists and structuralists?
PART III The macroeconomics of endogenous money
the conceptual foundations
a contribution to the theory of central banking
Basil Moore and the supply of credit
a lesson in institutional change
PART V Unemployment inflation and the determination of aggregate income
20 InstitutionalistPost Keynesian economics and the Post Monetarist new consensus
21 A future for Keynesian macroeconomics
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Yii2 - Converting from Bootstrap3 to Bootstrap4
Yii2 - Converting from Bootstrap3 to Bootstrap4
I have an API. It's built with a RESTful extension over Active Record, and some endpoints provide PUT methods to upload files. By a REST design we create an entity with
POST /video first, and then upload a video file with
PUT /video/{id}/data.
Default date format in Oracle is DD-MON-RR (25-JAN-18). With that output, we can't using date formatting.
Yii 3 and many Yii 2 package sources are contained within
src directory which is convenient since you have less directories to check.
Register an event handler at Object-Level
Let's assume we have two models: Customer and Supplier and we want both to log in. Yii is quite flexible when it comes to authentication and authorization so it's possible.
Yii 2.0 comes with a formatter component to format dates, numbers, and other values for international users according to their locale. This is very useful for displaying data. When working with incoming data or when using enhanced input methods like the [MaskedInput widget](https://www.yiiframework.com/doc/api/2.0/yii-widgets-maskedinp...
This article is for those who have dealt with the complexity of Elasticsearch or any other indexing machines and are looking for an easier way to index the existing database without additional effort.
Normally, after clicking the delete button in gridview, the record will be deleted and the page will refresh, but the page number in query string is lost. This is not always the case we expect.
The Problem: Yii2 utilizes by default UserIdentity configured in config/web.php for connection, this object apply one table to authentication ('identityClass' => 'app\panel\models\User'). How to authentication from diferent tables? Solution: Create instances in web.php to uses UserIdentify. eg:
Small companies and startups use cheap email services or even Cpanel's mail services which are less secure and compete directly with bigger email providers like Microsoft with Outlook and Google with Gmail. This creates a problem when you try to use their services to send/receive emails from this cheap services. <img width="750" src="https://static.techspot.com/fileshost/newspics3/2017/google-clo...
We all need SEO friendly URLs for our projects. its not always good to call route with params so we can generalise it for all models using a common function.
Upon creating my Yii2 Members System, I have ran into a few snags along the way that forced me to extend and bend Yii2 to my will.
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Back to the Track
During Ice Age 50 Mile I finished in 11:59:57; the absolute cut off at the finish line was 12:00. My next 50, a few months later was the Voyager with an absolute cut off of 13:00. Barb, a kind, gentle soul, allowed me to continue the race even though I was so very slow and well past the cut offs. I finished shortly after 14:00.
Experience has caused my finishes to be quite a bit faster. The last Ice Age I did was sub 10:00 and my Voyager was 10:27.
Obviously, I much rather spend a day at the ski hill running up and down for 8 hours than a one hour tempo run or a session at a the track, and that shows. Speed hurts...my body isn't used to it. My body needs to become used to it and my mind needs to get wrapped around it.
I am going to finish Leadville 100 next year and to finish Leadville I will be running faster. The altitude didn't bother me at Leadville, my nutrition was on, I had no problems other than speed. I now know that for me to finish I need to get into Winfield in 12:30 to 13:00; none of this 14:00 business as the cut off states. I don't think I will have to worry about the weather-it really can't get much worse than last year, can it?
I have a year to carve out a faster race. I'm up to the challenge.
Today I headed to the track:
800 = 3:21
1000 = 4:06
1000 = 4:10
1000 = 4:12
1200 = 4:59
1200= 5:05
800 = 3:23
Must have been the Afton Trail Run 2009 Race Shirt that I wore that came me some umph. Because I won't be running the race, but did volunteer for the race, I wore the shirt today. John was kind enough to give me the one he brought for show and tell at our Midnight Afton Run last Friday.
This afternoon I jogged the trail with Topaz for 5 miles for a nice cool down. Cool down, I'll say. It's 56F out there. What the hell?
I will not be at Afton this Saturday for the 50K. I entered the race thinking that Tyler had to work this weekend. I figured I'd stay home with him over the weekend, then we'd meet Steve and Troy up at the cabin. Well, I read his schedule incorrectly. He is off this weekend until Monday PM. For all I know this may be the last 4th we'll be spending together. Tyler will be 18 in December and now that he is working who knows when he'll be able to spend time with us. I better take advantage of this weekend up at the lake. He and I will return Monday and Steve and Troy will come back home on Friday so that I may leave for the 4th Annual BETA run on the Superior Hiking Trail.
Looks as if the next race for me will be the Voyager 50 Mile in Carlton. Looking forward to it! I'm glad my passion for running has returned. I missed it.
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- Herbalife Las Vegas said...
Great job getting back on track!! I can't imagine running for that long. The longest race I have done is the Boilermaker 15K road race. Today I am trying to get the motivation to go for a 8.5 mile run at Mt. Charleston here in Las Vegas.
- Emmett said...
Thanks for the motivation to run too.
- SteveQ said...
Most people's problem with Leadville seems to be the next two cut-offs after crossing Hope Pass on the way back. It seems to be a mental thing ("I've done the hard part") - but also, it's night and 70+ miles. You shouldn't have a problem with that.
It looks to me that your speedwork suggests you should be doing marathons well under 3:30, though you do seem to slow between 1000 and 1200 meters (5 minutes is a LOT harder than 4 on a track!) Of course, it's just one workout - albeit an impressive one.


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[On Child Support Payments]
In response to: New York City Agency Hoards $72 Million In Child Support Payment Monies, www.blackstarnews.com August 12 http://www.blackstarnews.com/news/135/ARTICLE/6747/2010-08-12.html
There are a lot of fathers out there who've lost their jobs thanks to our government unconstitutionally interfering with and usurping the auto, banking and mortgage businesses, as well as using failed economic policies that are keeping the economy in trouble.
Government, with its lapdog press, like to pick on groups of people to create animosity and divisiveness. Government targets individuals or easily ascertainable members of groups or groups and targets them for punishment. Such punishment is deprivation of liberties, deprivation of assets and property, deprivation of life. This is what is known as a Bill of Attainder or Bill of Pains and Penalties.
We threw the British out of this country for doing things like that. History has a way of repeating itself though. In family courts, they have re-instituted debtor's prisons, abolished over 170 years ago, as well as Bills of Attainder, abolished at the inception of the Constitution.
It's now time to show the government for the real "deadbeat" that it is.
According to a 7-year study done by Arizona State University Professor Sanford Braver, Ph.D., which resulted in his book, "Divorced Dads--Shattering the Myths", he found that less than 5% of those that owed child support are true deadbeat dads-the ones with the younger trophy wives and sports cars, who don't want to pay anything.
The truth of the matter, is that according to the Federal Gov't. General Accounting Office, Report # GAO/HRD-92-39FS, pg. 19, over 66% of those owing child support can't pay because they are unemployed, underemployed, disabled, dead, and in some cases the mothers don't want support.
Judges order such onerous child support amounts in some cases, along with alimony, daycare, medical expenses, and other expenses, that the father can't survive. He ends up becoming despondent, leaves his job and drops out of sight. He loses all contact with his child(ren) as a result. This is the government's ultimate goal. Breaking up of father-headed families (and then mother-headed ones when there are no more fathers, wherein, the government will come for the children without any resistance). Government doesn't do anything for altruism.
They always have a motive behind what they do and the laws they make. It's all about money, power and control.
Judges in NJ & NY refuse to reduce child support and alimony when a man loses his job because of the current economic climate. They tell the guy that it's too soon to reduce support because "you might get another job" in a short time. Most often the guy never gets the same-salaried position and winds up making substantially less. All the while, he falls farther and farther behind, with no hope of ever making up the arrearages.
But, do the courts reduce support? No. They keep it there until the arrears are so high, that the guy's credit is ruined, and they start putting warrants out for his arrest, even though he did everything he was supposed to do by law.
Judges then use detainers to hold the men in jail, somewhat like bail. But, it isn't bail, because child support is a CIVIL debt. Detainers to keep the men in jail until they pay? STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES! It's not about the children! Keeping a man in jail to pay support is an oxymoron. And, most of the NJ Family Court judges are morons! How does one pay child support if in jail?
Does he work in the jail making $10, $15, $20/hr. and have his wages garnished? Does this person invoke the INSOLVENT DEBTORS STATUTES when he gets out of jail, since he has no assets or income, and the jailing served as the remedy for the debt owed? Under the INSOLVENT DEBTORS STATUTES, the debt has been paid once the person has been jailed for it and released. But, the state will try and keep the arrears on the books.
The reason for this: Because judges are granting high orders and enforcing them stringently because the Federal government pays the states a federal reimbursement incentive funding (42 USC Section 658a) for amounts awarded, collected and enforced. This money goes into the state coffers, no strings attached (42 USC Section 658f).
The first things paid out of state treasuries are judicial salaries and pensions and state employee salaries and pensions.
This is a major unconstitutional conflict-of-interest that has been outlawed by the US Supreme Court in Tumey v. Ohio, Ward v. Monroeville, Gibson v. Berryhill and other cases. The Supreme Court held that judges and officials (i.e., child support probation officials) who sit in judgment of cases that they have a financial interest in, are too tempted to abuse their contempt powers to jail unsuspecting litigants-taxpayers to extort/extract more and more monies out of them to increase the amount of funding, and ultimately increase their salaries and pensions.
Yet, family court judges continue to thumb their noses at the US Supreme Court mandates. This is not only contempt of the Supreme Court, but felony official misconduct by judges, who are public officials that swore an oath to uphold, support and defend the U.S.
Constitution and their respective state constitution. By refusing to disqualify themselves from these cases, where they have a financial interest in the outcome of them, the Supreme Court has held that their orders are essentially null and void and have no effect or force.
Some will say that if we don't have judges or hearing officers to enforce orders, how then will they be enforced? As a taxpayer and voter, that is not our problem. The government made the situation. They must fix it. They can fix it by empanelling a group of people that have no financial interest (for example, economists, vocational experts, marriage experts, accountants, psychologists, even lawyers and retired judges). But, they cannot use arbitrary and capricious
contempt powers.
Anyone arrested on one of these orders is being arrested for not only a fraudulent order, but on a CIVIL matter. The U.S. Court of Appeals (2nd highest courts in the land) as well as the US Supreme Ct. hold that one can't be arrested on a CIVIL matter because there is no 4th Amendment probable cause that a crime has been committed to issue an arrest warrant. See, Stevens v. Rose (9th Cir. 2002), Allen v. City of Portland (9th Cir. 1995), Wooley v. City of Baton Rouge (5th Cir. 2000), Peterson v. City of Plymouth (8th Cir. 1995), Moore v. Marketplace Rest.(7th Cir. 1985), Paff v. Kaltenbach (3rd Cir. 2000).
Also, included is the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals case of U.S. v. Parker, 108 F.3d 28, 30-31 (3rd Cir. 1997)(child support a civil, commercial debt). In U.S. v. Lewko, 269 F.3d 64, 68-69 (1st Cir. 2001), the First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that child support is nothing more than a common civil, commercial debt, and
that it is NOT any "special kind of debt". Again, another fraud perpetrated by government officials. Every other Circuit, including the Third, has followed suit and hold that child support is a common commercial, civil debt.
The child support industry is a total fraud. It is a $5-$10 BILLION per year INDUSTRY that, if eliminated, the monies saved and sent to the children that supposedly need it, would wipe out all child support arrears in the US at one time. All that would be needed to do is send the BILLIONS in the form of a Social Security check or wire transfer, since child support enforcement laws are part of the entire Social Security Act.
Lastly, fathers will find an unusual way to pay their child support. They will sue the sheriff's officers and sheriff's departments, probation dept's. (because probation workers sought warrants when they are neither attorneys, nor were those arrested ever on probation). They will sue for Civil Rights Damages and for FALSE ARREST, ASSAULT, AND FALSE IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT (In the New Jersey Constitution, Article I, Section 13, it prohibits Imprisonment for Debt in ANY action; every other state has such a prohibition, and 18 U.S.C. Sections 1581 and 1589 prohibit involuntary servitude by taking someone under government threat and making them work for someone else to pay off a debt).
Even if they can't collect, the state will be paid for the uncollectible debt, to insure a win-win situation for the state. They
collect if he pays, and they collect if he doesn't. Child support has long since stopped being about supporting children or relieving taxpayers of the welfare burden. It has now become a lucrative "REVENUE STREAM" for the states, bringing in hundreds of millions of dollars per year. in addition to being a Communistic "TRANSFER OF WEALTH" scheme for the entitlement of women, lawyers and child support INDUSTRY. If not so, then why don't we hear about DEADBEAT
MOMS, who fail to pay ordered support in over 65% of cases?
Before castigating the fathers for not supporting their children, show some concern for the corrupt courts who CREATE those fatherless children for profit. The judges and politicians, over the past thirty years, have trivialized fatherhood by giving sole custody to the mothers in 90(+)% of cases, denying fathers their due process rights, treating them like criminals, and separating them from their children in order to separate them from their money. Divorced, or single fathers have had fatherhood beaten out of them, and so, have no consideration for the responsibilities of siring children. Neither is there any respect for marriage by the women bearing those children.
Fatherlessness breeds sexual promiscuity. The socialist-liberals in the courts, the legislatures, and the editorial offices have created a problem. Then they designed programs to throw money at the problem. Those programs have the opposite affect from what was desired. Instead of slowing or stopping the problem, they made it WORSE, creating even MORE fatherlessness. When you analyze the situation with an open mind, it may occur to you, as it has to some, that
failure to pay child support might actually a rebellion against tyranny.
Some will say "it hurts the children" when you don't pay. It hurts the children when the custodial mother, supported and empowered by the courts and politicians, deprive the children of contact with their father, which, according to empirical studies, occurs 75% of the time. No wonder there is a lost generation of children out there.
It's not an accident. It's by design. The government breaks up families for profit, gain, power and control. Remember that the next time you accuse someone of being a "deadbeat dad"!
Eden is Civil Rights Director, DADS (Dads Against Discrimination)--New Jersey & New York
Fathers' Rights Consultant Wayne, New Jersey, 973-616-9558
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It is with a heavy heart I have gone about my business at the climate negotiations in Warsaw each day knowing that about 12 million people are affected by the recent devastating Typhoon Haiyan, known locally as Yolanda.
Historic in its scope, meteorologists, including experts from NASA, concluded that it is the most destructive and powerful tropical cyclone to ever make landfall (it made a total of six landfalls). It is hard to imagine that such an intense storm (stronger than Katrina or Sandy) would not leave death and destruction in its path, even with the best preparations in place.
Despite the pre-emptive evacuations, Haiyan's devastation claimed thousands of lives. According to the U.N., the current death toll is 4,460. About 12,501 are injured and 1,186 still missing according to the Philippine disaster council. About 3 million people have been displaced, with about 400,000 living in more than 1,186 evacuation centers.
The images on TV are heartbreaking and the stories of death and destruction brought chills and intense emotions. I, like Filipinos and people around the world, am heartbroken at the images and stories from survivors of this horrifying event. A mother being told by her daughter to let go and save herself. A child walking aimlessly after losing her entire family. A father unable to save his family. A picture of a family huddled together in death and stories about death in evacuation centers. In many islands, villages and municipalities, more than 90% of homes and infrastructure were destroyed and people have nothing left to go back to. These are not just stories. These are grim and shocking realities.
Hearts the world over go out to the Philippines. We see an outpouring of support and sympathy, from government aid to kids donating their pocket money and selling lemonade and cupcakes for the victims. Everyone is talking about what has happened — Typhoon Haiyan has opened the eyes of the world to the impacts of climate change.
We ask ourselves if our experience is the new norm. Since 2009, the Philippines has experienced 17 of history's worst typhoons in terms of casualties. The Philippines has been reeling from disasters one after another. Last October, Bohol Island in central Philippines was devastated by a 7.1 magnitude earthquake and now by Haiyan: a double whammy. According to the United Nations report, the Philippines ranks as the nation third-most at-risk from climate change in the world, ranked behind the South Pacific island nations of Vanuatu and Tonga. Similarly, the Germanwatch 2014 Vulnerability Index ranked the Philippines second for weather related losses in 2012.
While our country is very vulnerable to natural calamities or disasters, many of my colleagues in the Climate Commission and in civil society find it difficult not to relate the Haiyan tragedy to the climate change debate and how it impacts ecosystems, human communities, livelihoods and eventually the well-being of Filipinos.
Let me share with you a story of hope in the midst of this tragedy. Oriental Mindoro Province is located in the Verde Island Passage and is part of the Sulu Sulawesi Seascape. Although it was not the region worst hit by the super typhoon, it was nonetheless gravely affected. No casualties were reported in the Province according to Governor Umali, a long time partner of CI-Philippines. Plans were in place and they did their pre-emptive evacuation even before the storm struck. In our community project site in Oriental Mindoro, our community partners also did their share of pre-emptive evacuation.
CI-Philippines works with partners to find solutions to reduce the risks of climate change by promoting ecosystems based approaches to adaptation and demonstrating the importance of natural systems to help coastal communities protect life and property and adapt to rising sea levels and storms. Rehabilitation of mangrove areas in the Verde Island Passage is one important adaptation solution coupled with disaster management planning. In areas where Typhoon Haiyan passed through in Northern Samar, villagers credit that mangrove restoration with saving lives and their economy.
Not everywhere was so fortunate. On Camotes Island, for example, all 500 houses were destroyed. While thankful that their lives were spared, people have to return with a grim realization that they have lost everything that adds to their well-being as individuals and as a community — their homes, valuables, businesses and sources of livelihoods. I personally view this as qualifying the people of Camotes Islands as climate refugees and the mayor now talks about the challenge of relocating the residents.
Typhoon Haiyan has cast a long shadow over the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties, which is currently holding its 19th session (COP 19) in Warsaw. It is probably the same feeling a Jedi from Star Wars gets when he says he felt a huge disturbance in the Force. Many of the delegates here in Warsaw feel the disturbance in the Force as stories about this "climate change-related disaster" continue to be amplified with regularity by global TV networks.
In the words of Philippine lead climate negotiator Yeb Sano, this event is a "sobering reminder to the international community that we cannot afford to procrastinate on climate action and that Warsaw must muster the political will to address climate change." U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that Typhoon Haiyan puts "an anguished human face" on climate change and he hopes that "all tragic devastation would really give us a wake-up call."
The well-being of Filipinos and of others across the globe whose lives will be impacted by climate change are being eroded by the world's failure to come up with a significant and binding action to address climate change. How many more wake-up calls will it take before political leaders are inspired to act? How much more must we negotiate at COPs before realizing that we are facing a global challenge requiring a global solution?
Climate talks should serve as an opportunity to negotiate an ambitious deal to set the framework for a drastic reduction in emissions, along with action to adapt to the unavoidable impacts of climate change. However, despite the stark and unfortunate backdrop that Haiyan represented at the negotiations, progress has been slow.
Among the issues under discussion in Warsaw is loss and damage. Countries are negotiating the possibility of establishing an international mechanism to look at the increasingly severe impacts of climate change and the various options nations and communities have to recover from irrecoverable losses to livelihoods, resources, infrastructure and cultures due to climate change. Negotiations on loss and damage have a clear link to disasters like Haiyan.
At this point, it is unclear if the needs of developing countries will be met with clear commitments from developed countries. While there remain many areas of divergence, I am optimistic and inspired by the overwhelming support the Philippines delegation and I have received in Warsaw.
I hope that the goodwill will be matched with a clear way forward on loss and damage — with a global institutional arrangement that systematically addresses the science and options for preventing and compensating losses and damages, and recovering from the impacts of climate change that are too severe to adapt to. I am also hopeful that those countries with the means and responsibility to do so will begin to mobilize and deliver adequate and additional finance to the Green Climate Fund and the Adaptation Fund so that countries like the Philippines can strengthen and scale up urgent and immediate adaptation action.
I continue to ask myself as a conservationist, a development worker and a Filipino, "What is the capacity of our communities, our institutions, our infrastructure, our economy to withstand and absorb the impacts of these extreme events (super typhoon category) when it is somehow becoming the norm these past few years?" Our people may no longer be capable of tolerating more Haiyans; we need a favorable outcome as the Warsaw talks conclude this week, and therefore, may the Force be with us all.
For those who wish to help the victims of Haiyan, you can channel your donations through World Vision Philippines Foundation, Christian Aid, Care or Oxfam-UK and many other organizations in the US supporting the relief efforts. These groups have offices in the Philippines and will accept and acknowledge your donations even in the U.S. Their websites have important information that you would need.
On behalf of the CI-Philippines staff, partners and the Filipino people, we appreciate your kindness and love.
Enrique A. Nunez is the Country Executive Director at CI-Philippines and a member of the Philippines national delegation to the UNFCCC COP19.


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Saturday, October 5, 2013
Valyria Tear 0.6.0 on Maemo5/N900
Thanks to the work of Aapo Rantalainen, Valyria Tear can now be run on N900 with quite surprisingly few
issues for a first version.
Big kudos to him!!
Here is the announcement and below a video!
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I also ported it on the OpenPandra (look here: http://boards.openpandora.org/index.php/topic/14539-valyria-tear/ ).ReplyDelete
Works very well, I also have long loading time, but less long than what is mentionned in N900 forum (I get some 10sec loading, more or less).Replies
Hi ptitSeb, :)Delete
Nice port, indeed! Just as I told Aapo in the forums, about the N900 port, the music loading might be a bit guilty here. Could you also tell me whether if removing the mus/ folder and playing help with loading times? (If it does, maybe you'll want to lower the musics quality a bit to earn some time there.)
Also, can you give me a screenshot with the OpenPandora dialogue font size. I'll maybe consider making it bigger if it doesn't bring big issues.
Best regards,
I'll try to do some screenshot (but I'm not home before the end of week). It does a few overlaping, with Quest name for example or I have seen a dialog going outise the "paper" part. But the andora screen is very small, so i did *2 for font.size<13 and *3/2 for font.size<19.Delete
Il'll try without music soon and report also as soon as I can.
I have done some perf analysis, and yes, ogg decoding seems the most cpu hungry process!Delete
More than 30% CPU eaten on loading music part.
Is loading only a CPU problem, or is the filesize problematic for the memory also?Delete
I wondered whether reducing the music quality would help.
It's not a file size issue. It's all fit the memory, no swapping involved here.I'm not sure what reducing music quality means. Should I try to use different ogg file or should I try less kHz in the output format?Delete
> Should I try to use different ogg file or should I try less kHz in the output format?Delete
Hi :)
Well, I first naively think reducing the Khz could be an option and see whether this helps about loading.
But if it's not, I'll need to know what function(s) is(are) slow, so we can work on it together.
Best regards,


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St Govans is hardly the kind of chapel one would want to visit for worship every Sunday, unless, of course, it was for a penance.
For this tiny stone edifice is reached by a precipitous descent down a long flight of stone steps to the spot under the cliffs where the 5th century hermit Govan established his cell. It was not intended to be a place of easy access as hermits seldom welcome visitors.
Historians are not absolutely certain who Govan was. Could the chapel have been dedicated to St Gobhan, an Irish monk and a contemporary of Wales's patron saint, St David? Could this obscure hermit have even been a woman, for the wife of the King of Glamorgan was named Cofen?
The building that tourists visit today is not the original hermit's cell, which would have been a simple stone structure, like a vaulted beehive or igloo-shaped shelter such as exists at other parts of the coast, notably at Pwllderi in the north, which is thought may have been such a cell or even a medieval pigsty!
The present chapel has been dated by experts as of 13th century vintage and is located near an ancient well, which would have provided its occupant with a regular supply of life-giving water. Indeed, red mud from the so-called Holy Well at St Govans is said to have curative qualities when rubbed on the eyes. But no-one can test its efficacy now as it ran dry during the 20th century.
Antiquarian Major Francis Jones records that the water of St Govan's well was reputed to cure not only eye complaints but also rheumatism and lameness. A sufferer from hip pains is said in the 18th century to have bathed the afflicted part and also drank the water using a limpet shell, and received some relief. He also placed some money on the stone altar in the chapel. Some people left their crutches on the altar, believing they had been cured. The red mud or clay used to be made into a poultice applied to limbs and eyes, the patients lying for some hours in the sun. Sounds like a kill or cure remedy!
Just across the bay on St Govans Head is a small coastguard lookout, now used only for rough weather watch. The flat-topped cliffs along this stretch are a favoured spot for climbers, who come from far and wide to test their skills on the sheer, but not too high, cliffs. A short distance to the west is Huntsman's Leap, also known as Penny's or Adam's Leap, a deep fissure on the clifftop where a huntsman is said to have leaped across on horseback during a chase. The folk tale relates that the huntsman returned to the scene the following day and collapsed with shock, due to the realization of what he had done and what the consequences might have been, and died of a heart attack.
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Sudden cardiac arrest? There's an app for that.Health and safety officials from Mountain View and around the county are endorsing the local launch of the PulsePoint system, a mobile app that alerts users when someone nearby is having a heart attack, giving good Samaritans the chance to lend a potentially life-saving hand until emergency responders arrive.
PulsePoint functions as a direct link between individuals and local emergency dispatchers. Starting Feb. 14, the app's local launch date, 911 dispatch centers in Santa Clara County will have the ability to send out a location-based alert to PulsePoint users in the vicinity of a reported heart attack, according to a press release from El Camino Hospital.
"It's an Amber Alert for cardiac arrest victims," said Richard Price, president of the PulsePoint Foundation and the former chief of the San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District.
The application comes with built-in guides that train people in basic "hands-only" cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) which, Price said, can be learned in minutes and has the potential to make the difference between life and death.
"This is really all about response times," Price said, explaining that when it comes to sudden cardiac arrest, every minute counts. When someone's heart stops beating, brain damage can set in after about six minutes and without intervention in the first 10 minutes, the likelihood of death is nearly certain. Very often, he said, "the emergency response crews can't get there in time"
Basic, hands-only CPR rapid, two-inch-deep chest compressions can help prevent brain damage and keep a person alive until EMTs or paramedics arrive.
"Bystander CPR use is critical," Price said.
According to the American Heart Association, about 1,000 people have an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in the U.S. every day, but only 32 percent of cardiac arrest victims receive CPR from a bystander. Given statistics like those, Price said he figures that the more people that adopt the PulsePoint app, the better. "We're pretty much putting a radio in everybody's hand, so we can dispatch people," he said.
Jaime Garrett, public information officer for the Mountain View Fire Department, said the department is looking forward to the PulsePoint launch.
"It really increases our community members' chances of survival should a cardiac arrest or a cardiac incident happen in a public place," Garrett said. "With any cardiac incident, the sooner CPR is initiated, the better the chances of survival. It gives our residents the tools necessary to be able to respond in a timely manner."
Garrett, like Price, recommended that everyone with an Android, or iOS device download the app. PulsePoint can be found in the Apple App Store and the Android marketplace on the Google Play site.
Anyone with the PulsePoint app on a mobile device will get a notification of cardiac events occurring within a quarter mile of their location at the time the alert is issued. The app's users will also be given directions from their location to the site of the reported victim, as well as information on any nearby automated external defibrillators a device that uses electricity to restart the heart of victims of cardiac arrest.
Price, who developed the app in coordination with cloud application maker Workday, said the idea first came to him when he was on a lunch break during his tenure as chief of San Ramon Valley Fire.
He was in uniform, eating his lunch, when an ambulance pulled up outside the restaurant. Someone was having a heart attack in the building next door and he had no idea it was happening.
"It was a pretty shocking experience," Price recalls especially considering the fact that he could have helped if he only had known. "That was the genesis of the app."
View the entire news story by Nick Veronin at the Mountain View Voice.


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Fox has released trailers for its new fall series, including Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Almost Human. Check them out below.
Dads, a live-action comedy from Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane, stars Seth Green and Giovanni Ribisi as two successful thirtysomethings who have their lives turned upside down when their fathers (Martin Mull and Peter Riegert) move in with them. Vanessa Lachey, Brenda Song and Tonita Castro also star. Alec Sulkin, Wellesley Wild, Mark Cendrowski will executive-produce alongside MacFarlane.
From Parks and Recreation's Mike Schur and Dan Goor, Brooklyn Nine-Nine stars Saturday Night Live alum Andy Samberg as the black sheep in a group of detectives who, until now, hasn't taken his job seriously. But a by-the-book new boss (Andre Braugher) may force him to grow up and respect the badge. 30 Rock's David Miner will also executive-produce, while Terry Crews, Joe Lo Truglio, Melissa Fumero, Stephanie Beatriz and Chelsea Peretti will also star in the series, which landed on TVGuide.com's most promising pilots list.
Enlisted stars Geoff Stults as a soldier who, after being in combat for several years, is posted at a military base in Florida to command his dysfunctional brothers' (Chris Lowell and Parker Young) squad. Cougar Town's Kevin Biegel will write and executive-produce with Saturday Night Live's Mike Royce. Keith David and Angelique Cabral will also star.
Us & Them follows a couple's (Jason Ritter and Alexis Bledel) long-distance, budding romance, which is constantly disrupted by their friends and family in this comedy based on the British series Gavin and Stacey. David Rosen (I Just Want My Pants Back) will write and executive-produce. Dustin Ybarra, Kerri Kenney-Silver, Jane Kaczmarek, Kurt Fuller and Ashlie Atkinson will also star.
Based on the book I Suck at Girls, Surviving Jack stars Christopher Meloni as a father who struggles with becoming a dad as his teenage son (Connor Buckley) becomes a man — all in a pre-Google world. S#*! My Dad Says duo Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumacker will write and executive-produce with Cougar Town's Bill Lawrence. Claudia Lee, Alex Kapp Horner, Tyler Foden and Kevin Hernandez will also star.
From Fringe's Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, Sleepy Hollow is a modern-day retelling of Washington Irving's classic. The series sees Ichabod Crane (Tom Mison) resurrected and pulled through time to partner up with Sleepy Hollow's sheriff (Nicole Beharie) to solve the mysteries of a town ravaged by the battle between good and evil. Orlando Jones and Katia Winter will also star.
Almost Human, from Fringe's J.H. Wyman, is an action-packed buddy drama show set 35 years in the future in which LAPD officers like John Kennex (Karl Urban) are partnered with highly evolved human-like androids like Dorian (Michael Ealy). Wyman will reteam with Lost's J.J. Abrams and Bryan Burk, who will serve as executive producers on the drama. The series also stars Minka Kelly, Lili Taylor, Mackenzie Crook, Mekia Cox and Michael Irby.
Rake stars Oscar nominee Greg Kinnear as a brilliant, charming defense attorney whose biggest challenges all exist outside the courtroom — money owed to the IRS and a bookie, overlapping affairs, a cranky kid and his exhausted ex-wife. Peter Duncan, creator of the original Australian series, and Rescue Me's Peter Tolan will write and executive-produce. John Ortiz, Miranda Otto, Necar Zadegan, David Harbour, Tara Summers, Ian Colletti and Bojana Novakovic will also star in the series, which landed on TVGuide.com's most promising pilot's list.
In Gang Related, a gang member (Ramon Rodriguez) sent in to infiltrate the San Francisco Police Department and rise through its ranks must balance his obligations to his crime family with an increasing sense of loyalty to his new "family": the SFPD's Gang Task Force, led by Lost's Terry O'Quinn. From Fast Five scribe Chris Morgan, V's Scott Rosenbaum and Brian Grazer will also executive-produce. Jay Hernandez, Cliff Curtis, Sung Kang, RZA, Shantel VanSanten and Inbar Lavi will also star.


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Meeting Notes for 2011.02.06[edit]
- Onno - Brian - Christopher
Started the meeting with giving Onno a walk though of the current state of the project. Outlined what equipment we are using, and what equipment we are planning on replacing. Equipment being replaced
- Camera - Radio transmitter - open tracker - GPS puck - antena - Payload bus
Brian gave an update of the new APRS equipment
Onno is interested in adding a live video feed to our payload. Looked at the Adeptco.com transmitters. It draws alot of power, so batteries for it will add alot of weight. Possible solutions would be to add a pressure sencor to turn it off at a certin altitud and then back on at a certine altitude for live launch and decent vedio.
- the module is 50 grams, the lithium battery should be about 90 grams. - Use the android phone to loop the radio call sign as an audio output, route this to the video transmitter to keep call sign broadcasted.
Project status Camera: Blake has purchsed one new camera for the project, and has started to port the CHDK.
APRS System: Brain has purchased the nessicary parts, but has not started the build process
Video Feed: Still in planning stage
Payload Bus: on hold tell equipment list is finalized
Meeting Notes for 2011.02.06[edit]
- Brian - Onno - Matt - Christopher
Short meeting today Onno had the new video equipment delivered. Mirco analog camera with transmitter. We set up the camera and testing the image quality, if I may say so, this is going to be awesome! We are missing a power source for the transmitter, we will have to get a y cable to get power from the camera battery later.
Talked a little bit about hydrogen generation, but shelved the discussion for after our next launch. Not enough time to get anything worked on before then.
Meeting Notes for 2011.02.06[edit]
- Onno - Christopher
Tested video transmission and receiving. Got the USB easyCap video dongle working (requires the drivers to be rebuild. Made plans to test the range Monday from SF to Berkley


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News Ticker
A group from the Morwell community says it has evidence that smoke from the Hazelwood coal mine fire is affecting residents.
The Victorian chief health officer, Rosemary Lester, has repeatedly said the smoke is having no serious health effects.
A spokesman from the community group, Simon Ellis, says people are concerned for their families.
He says the evidence he has collected will be presented to the inquiry announced by the State Government yesterday.
"I'd probably say about 1,500 now where people have filled the forms in as well of health issues, financial issues, and we've got them," he said.
"We've got them all under lock and key, nobody knows where they are because we don't want them going missing so that when it comes to that inquiry and they say, 'okay what have we got', we can say, 'this is what we've collected already'."
Goongerah Deddick Trail fire
Meanwhile, the Department of Environment and Primary Industries and Parks Victoria are starting the mammoth task of rehabilitating country damaged by the Goongerah Deddick Trail fire in East Gippsland.
The fire was declared contained this week after burning for more than a month through more than 160,000 hectares of bush and private land.
Incident controller Andy Gillham says crews will rehabilitate pasture and private land damaged by suppression works first.
However, he says repairing the damage from control works on public land like bulldozer tracks and firebreaks will take much longer.
"In terms of the rehab, the emphasis is on the private property work, so we hope to have the bulk of the private property work done in a fortnight but the rehab stuffs going to go on for months if not years," he said.
Landholders burnt out by the Goongerah Deddick Trail fire are calling for an investigation into the way the fire was managed.
Lightning strikes started the fire in January and it tore through private property on February 9.
Rob Belcher had 60 per cent of his property burnt by the fire and says it should have been extinguished in January before it got out of hand.
"When is the Government going to ask, why ... [is] nearly every major fire that Victoria experiences coming out of national parks?" he said.
"I know the answer but I think the question needs to be asked, everyone up here is demanding a judicial inquiry into this fire."


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April 3, 2012
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov issued a strong warning against a military attack on Iran Monday, April 2,, saying that a pre-emptive strike would violate international law. His comments, made during a visit to Armenia, stopped short of threatening (the US and/or Israel) of consequences. But they backed up and were in tune with the explicit threat from Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei last Thursday of strong Iranian resistance to foreign intervention in Syria and vow to defend Damascus as the "center of resistance against Israel."
Western military observers link the two statements as representing an evolving Russian-Iranian front. After their shared success in delivering Bashar Assad from the revolt against his regime, the two partners are preparing to fend off a potential strike against Tehran's nuclear program as well as shore up Iran's regional interests from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean. They are getting set to counter two US-led steps, disclosed here byDEBKAfile:
1. Although the US-backed Friends of Syria 2, which took place Sunday, April 1, in Istanbul, offered the Syrian Free Army no direct assistance or support, Saudi Arabia and Qatar established an international fund to pay rebel fighters a regular wage. They hope to lure more officers and men into defecting from the army units loyal to Assad.
Moscow and Tehran view this step as Arab intervention in the Syrian conflict.
2. The US, Israel and Greece launched a shadowy air-naval exercise in the Mediterranean Thursday, March 29. Codenamed "Noble Dina," it appears to range across a broad sweep of sea up to Crete and including the waters off Turkey, Cyprus, and Israel Navy bases in Haifa and Ashdod ports.
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