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AARP is fighting for older Americans and their families in states across the country, focused on the key issues they are facing, front-and-center, in their daily lives. Our state advocacy work is driven by AARP's state offices – located in every state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and U.S. Virgin Islands – where we work with governors, state legislators, other policymakers and in collaboration with numerous community partners. In 2014 AARP is focusing on:
Supporting Family Caregivers
- AARP is fighting to help seniors live independently and the family caregivers who help them stay at home.
- More than 42 million family caregivers provide an estimated $450 billion in unpaid care for their loved ones each year.
- Simple, yet profound, supports can enhance caregivers' quality of life and allow individuals needing care to continue to live independently in their homes, as opposed to costly institutions.
- AARP is embarking on a multi-state effort to advance a legislative "caregiving resolution" in support of family caregivers, and to pass The Caregiver Advise, Record and Enable (CARE) Act, which will help family caregivers when their loved ones are hospitalized.
Helping People Stay in Their Own Homes and Communities
- The vast majority of Americans want to live independently, in their homes, as they age.
- AARP believes no one should be forced out of their homes in order to receive the care or assistance they need.
- That's why we are calling on state lawmakers to improve the balance of funding for services provided in the home and community by redirecting spending away from costly nursing home care.
Designing Communities for All Ages
- In order to meet the demands and to tackle the future challenges of our aging society, we know that we will need to make adjustments to services and infrastructure. In short, we need more "livable communities."
- Citizens of all ages benefit from barrier-free buildings and streets as well as from having more convenient access to services, local businesses, and green spaces. AARP's advocacy includes efforts to adopt "Complete Streets," also known as "Safe Streets," legislation at the state and local levels.
Enhancing Retirement Security
- Americans continue to struggle to save for a secure retirement. AARP is fighting to put a secure retirement within reach for people who work hard and plan for their future by advocating for commonsense state solutions that would enable more workers to save for retirement at work.
- In the public sector, AARP is fighting to protect retirees from cuts to the benefits and cost of living adjustments they were promised, and to preserve defined benefit plans.
Fighting for Consumer Savings and Protections
- Expenditures on utilities are becoming a larger portion of the household budget for those aged 50 and older.
- AARP is fighting for fair and reasonable utility rates, and safe and reliable services – especially when it comes to energy and telecommunications. Over the past few years, our advocacy has resulted in an estimated $3 billion in savings for consumers.
Preventing Financial Exploitation and Elder Abuse To help safeguard older Americans from financial abuse, AARP is focusing on:
- Enacting laws that help prevent, detect, report and address financial exploitation;
- Supporting increased criminal and civil penalties against financial exploitation;
- Enacting laws that preserves funding for adult protective services; and,
- Strengthening guardianship and power of attorney laws by adopting the Uniform Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act, the Uniform Power of Attorney Act, and other comprehensive reforms like improved funding for public guardianship.
Accessing Affordable Health Coverage and Improving Quality
- AARP supports measures to help consumers access affordable and quality health coverage.
- In 2014, many of these older workers age 50-64, who continue to struggle to find new employment opportunities, will be eligible for health insurance coverage under the new Medicaid option to cover individuals and families with incomes up to $15,000 a year.
- To date, more than half of the states have adopted this new option, and AARP urges state lawmakers in the remaining states to extend this critical health coverage to their citizens.
Fighting for Budget and Tax Fairness
- AARP is committed to ensuring that reforms made to state tax structures are fair and safeguard the financial security of the 50+ population. As states address both the revenue and spending sides of the budget, a balanced approach is essential.
- Furthermore, states should not formally tie essential spending programs to unstable revenue sources. AARP opposes arbitrary and inflexible state and local tax and expenditure limits, such as the Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR) initiatives.
Follow me on Twitter @RoamTheDomes for more news on advocacy across the country. And, to stay up to date on our AARP advocacy in the states, sign up for the AARP Advocates e-newsletter or visit your state Web page.


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Assignment #4: Conduct a usability test with your prototype
For assignment 4 you will test your design using the digital prototype you made in the last chapter.
First, test it by being the user. Use your digital prototype in the context of the usecase you designed for. So, if the application you designed would be used in the context of a supermarket, Go to the supermarket and test your prototype, conducting the task the user would do.
Iterate on your design after this 'being the user in the context' test.
Test your design on an end users, using your digital prototype. If possible, conduct the test in the user context. Film your test and edit it to a short video.
Prepare your test well. Be sure to follow the testing guidelines described by Steve Krug, see the reference material for more information.
Make a test plan containing:
- a clearly described purpose(s) of your test
- a scenario for the test person
- a clear task for the test person
Film your test (use a tripod please, or another way to stabilise your recording device) and edit it to a short video of about five minutes highlighting the moments that are valuable for next iterations. Annotate the video with text, explaining these insights.
Upload a link to your video, which you need to upload to Youtube or Vimeo, the test plan and written conclusions of the test.
Conduct a usability test - instructions only (no test yet)
Make a test plan containing:
a clearly described purpose(s) of your test
a scenario for the test person
a clear task for the test person

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That may not happen again next year, but we do live in the era of big-time campaign spending. The question is how will last year's Supreme Court decision in Arizona Free Enterprise v. Bennett affect programs such as New York City's matching fund program?
Most people in the center of the political spectrum would argue that a person who wants to spend their own money as they see fit can do so without much opposition to his or her First Amendment rights. The issue here, however, is not about the person spending their own money, but instead about the opposition candidate.
In city races, candidates can qualify for a financing match, meaning, for example, that for every individual $175 donation a candidate receives, the city can match that, for an actual total of $1,050 for that single contribution.
There are threshold requirements for this, however, and that is where the Supreme Court decision comes in. The program has limits. If a candidate does not opt into the program, he or she is not limited, but if that candidate does opt into the matching fund program, there are limits.
The decision in Arizona focused on trigger funds. If there is a 6-to-1 match on individual contributions at a certain amount, that is a great deal for a candidate, right? The New York City Campaign Finance Board allows for a maximum amount of matched funds for a City Council candidate to total around $92,000. That is a lot of public financing for a City Council seat.
But if the self-financed candidate is spending more than $250,000 of his or her own money, should that maximum of $92,000 go up as well? The trigger fund idea means that if one party ups the ante, the challenger can at least raise the limit to some degree. It will never be completely fair, but the system can be more competitive.
We have not seen the last of big money mayoral campaigns. Do not be distracted by party platforms either; they are all going to spend a lot of money. Morgan Pehme, of New York Civic, a good-government organization founded by former Parks Commissioner Henry Stern, explained that the discussion about this is changing.
"Fifteen years ago, the idea of public financing was only a lefty idea, now it is polling well in the center," eh explained.
In cities where there may be strong minority party candidates, the idea of a matching program is the only way to break the establishment hold on our political system.
The Taliban and a Bright Sunny Morning
On Sunday morning, the Taliban launched a series of attacks in Afghanistan that followed a massive prison break in Pakistan where a would-be assassin of former Pakistani military general and leader, Pervez Musharraf, was one of the escaped.
When terrorists escape captivity, they almost never have an epiphany and turn their lives around. This is a second chance...to do more damage. It was a very violent day in Pakistan and Afghanistan, just like the ones that existed before U.S. troops entered the region following September 11th.
On a clear sunny Sunday morning, as these attacks were being carried out, I reached in front of me in church during the "peace be with you" part of the mass, and shook hands with an older woman, and then her husband: former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
It was a great treat to see him, but it struck me that with all the history that followed his six years at the Defense Department (his second time in the position), that seemingly little had changed in the region as far as violence was concerned.
Much else has changed, however, as there is a government where there was none before. But the sectarian violence that was there before is still there and still threatening any kind of peaceful existence.
It makes one think that perhaps (all politics aside) if democracy is going to flourish in some of these third world – or hostile second world – countries, that it might need to come from within.


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Lady Flames DII still seeks first win
November 9, 2012 | Lynchburg, Va.
The Lady Flames Division II hockey team is still in search of its first win this season, after being outscored 16-6 in its first four games.
Lady Flames' goalie Leanne Niemi is the top goalie in the Delaware Valley Collegiate Hockey Conference for saves and boasts a .910 save percentage.
Rena Leone and Abby Wallace lead Liberty's squad with three points each on the season, Wallace with three goals and Leone with two goals and an assist.
Liberty opened the season Oct. 20 with a 4-3 loss on the road to American University and a 3-2 loss at Navy the next day.
Maryland beat the Lady Flames 4-0 to conclude three-straight on the road for Liberty.
At home last Saturday, Liberty fell 5-1 to Slippery Rock University.
The Lady Flames will look to find the winning stride this weekend as Liberty travels for the last time in 2012, first to West Chester University for an 8 p.m. matchup followed shortly by a 9:30 a.m. matchup against nearby Villanova.


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|When the box was dry, I decided to use it as a 3D picture art display.
|For now, I put pictures of the children painting on cardboard...
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Yesterday, while putting together awards, a too-long deferred project, I happened to click onto WBZ radio, Boston's CBS affiliate. The events in Newtown were just being broadcast. They didn't know exactly how many children and adults had died. The massacre had just ended — to the degree that such tragedies really ever end. I'm sure that for all the families who lost loved ones, it will never end. There's no "over" for the slaughter of innocents.
This is the kind of horror story that leaves you with questions that can't be answered. Even if you know everything there is to know, you still couldn't make sense of it because it doesn't make sense and can't make sense. There is nothing sane, sensible, reasonable or explicable about it. What could possibly make someone — anyone — think murdering children is an acceptable or sane response to anything? No matter what dark secrets or strange thoughts are tangled in the head of the kid who took all those lives … nothing makes it more understandable because our minds reject any answer. There is no reason good enough. Nothing makes it comprehensible nor should it.
I can and will say that had the shooter not had guns, this would NOT have happened.
I do not care how treasured our "rights to bear arms" is to Americans. This is exactly what is wrong with having guns, so many guns, in so many hands. However true it is that guns don't shoot themselves, the fact is that if they were less accessible to everyone and there were more controls on them to make sure that those who own them understand the responsibility that comes with owning deadly weapons — like the need to keep them out of irresponsible hands — many deaths would not occur. If the same young man had to take whatever weird revenge he sought with a bat or even a knife, he would have been stopped long before the body count had grown so godawful huge.
Guns don't kill people all by themselves, but in the hands of people, guns do a lot more damage than the same person could do without guns. These were legal, registered guns.
Why a kindergarten teacher had an arsenal at home where she also had one (more?) mentally ill children is another one of those questions that can't be answered. Personally I think if all guns disappeared tomorrow and we were reduced to throwing rocks at each other, it would be a better world. Since that's not about to happen, at the very least, regulating guns so that those who own them are required to keep track of them (how many guns just "disappear" only to reappear as the weapon at a crime scene?), some degree of mental stability has to be established before being allowed to own them, anyone who owns guns has appropriate means to secure them and knows how to properly maintain them … these are minimal sensible requirements. Soldiers aren't just handed weapons to use indiscriminately. They are taught how to use them, maintain them, and woe to any soldier who just happens to "lose" his weapon.
Yet in the private sector, most states have no requirements other than your ability to fill out a form and wait a few days. Most illegal guns didn't start out that way, either. They were legal when they were bought … but they roamed to other pastures. If there are simply fewer guns and those who have them are required to account for their whereabouts on a regular basis, secure them when not in use … in short, to be at least as responsible with their guns as they are with their cars for which you are required to take a test, have a licence and registration, and maintain insurance … there would be fewer horrors like that which took place in a quiet Connecticut suburb.
How can we allow mass murder by deranged gunmen and then turn around and say we don't need gun control? I actually saw posts on Facebook blaming it on not having enough guns. So, now we should arm children so they can shoot each other in schoolyard disputes? That's your answer? I saw other posts pointing out that we've banned school prayer. And you figure that a prayer in the morning would have prevented this tragedy? Really? Has prayer prevented war? Genocide? Plague? Not that I've noticed.
God gave us brains to use. God gave us a conscience to guide us.
In all ten of God's commandments … nor in anything that Jesus said … is there anything indicating that good people should own weapons. Quite the opposite, actually. Our constitution says that our citizenry is allowed to maintain militia and guns to protect the population, not that ever Tom, Dick, and Jane can have a personal arsenal to use as he or she feels inclined, with no restrictions, no oversight, not even an insurance policy.
It's outrageous and it's wrong. If we don't start to use brains instead of that knee jerk reaction that "Oh my God, the government won't let me buy an assault weapon! That's outrageous!" there will inevitably be more of these mornings where families are burying their dead and wondering how it happened. If you want to know how stupid people really are, check out this disgusting website. If you suspected we let insane idiots own arsenals, this website will confirm your worst fears.


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Stunt coordinator Mic Rogers lists Agoura Hills home
Mic Rodgers, known for his work as Mel Gibson's stunt double up until the late 1990s, and wife, Robyn Britton, have listed their home in an equestrian community in Agoura Hills at $1.999 million.
The contemporary Craftsman-style house, custom built by the couple in 2006, features an office, a playroom, a craft room, a combined kitchen/family room, four bedrooms, 4.5 bathrooms and 3,662 square feet of living space. Ceiling heights range from 9 to 17 feet, and clerestory windows bring light into the interiors.
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French doors along the back of house open to a yard with a swimming pool, spa and 1,340-square-foot Craftsman-style auxiliary building with a workshop, a bathroom and indoor parking for five cars. There is also a two-car garage off the main house.
Rodgers has served as a stuntman, stunt coordinator or second unit director on films including "Braveheart" (1995), "Fast & Furious" (2009) and "Django Unchained" (2012).
The nearly one-acre property previously sold for $350,000 in 2002, public records show.
Linda Rich of Ewing & Associates Sotheby's International Realty is the listing agent.
Actor Brad Blumenthal lists $28.8-million estate
Lakers' Chris Kaman sells Manhattan Beach home
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Here are the links I mention in my "Virtual Genealogy Education" lecture to the Fairfax Genealogical Society.
Master Calendar:
GeneaWebinars (scroll to bottom of the blog to see the calendar)
Genealogy Software Companies:
Legacy Family Tree
Genealogy Societies:
Southern California Genealogy Society – Jamboree Extension Series
Friends of the National Archives-Southeast Region
Utah Genealogical Association -- Virtual Chapter Meetings
Commercial Companies:
Ancestry – archived Webinars
FamilyTree University – Webinars for $39.95
Professional Genealogists:
High Definition Genealogy – Thomas MacEntee gives "Explorinars"
Michael Hait – recorded lectures for download
Online Presentations
FamilySearch Research Courses and Recorded Lectures – over 200 available!
Favorites: "Inferential Genealogy" by Thomas W. Jones, "U.S. Courthouse Research" by Christine Rose, handwriting series, and research principles
New England Historic Genealogical Society – recorded presentations
Online Tutorials
Census http://census.byu.edu/
Scottish Handwriting http://www.scottishhandwriting.com/
English Handwriting http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/ceres/ehoc/
Immigrant Ancestors Project Script Tutorial http://script.byu.edu
Study Groups
These types of study groups can be organized to study any genealogy topic like SIGs.
ProGen Study Group – for professional genealogists www.progenstudy.org
NGSQ Study Group – studying articles from the NGS Quarterly
Writer's Group – reviewing the writing of group members
Formal Classes and Courses
National Genealogical Society Online Courses – Seven online courses available
FamilyTree University – Online courses and virtual conference
Heritage Genealogical College – Online courses and degree program
Pharos Tutors (Based in the UK) – Online courses and certificate program
National Institute for Genealogical Studies – Courses and certificate program
Boston University -- Online Certificate in Genealogical Research or Genealogy
Essentials Course http://genealogyonline.bu.edu/


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Checking In On… the Big West ConferencePosted by Brian Goodman on January 17th, 2012
David Gao is the RTC correspondent for the Big West Conference. You can also find his musings online at Zotcubed, a UC Irvine blog, or on Twitter @dvdgao.
Reader's Take
The Week That Was
- UC Riverside Continues Surge, Pulls off First Conference Upset: With the full-on commencement of Big West play, games have already jumped into that extra gear of competitiveness and closeness. However, pretty much everyone held serve until this last Thursday, when the Highlanders took out UC Santa Barbara in overtime, 79-70. The Highlanders then followed that up with a solid win over Cal Poly. Led by senior Phil Martin, UCR now sports a promising 4-1 conference record, currently good for second place in the Big West.
- UC Irvine Road Warriors: The Anteaters completed their first road sweep in six years when they traveled up to Northern California and defeated both Pacific and UC Davis in their home gyms. Although not exactly premium wins or complete upsets, any road win is a good win in the Big West. The fact that the extremely young Anteaters were able to hold their composure and go three-for-three in their first three conference road challenges is an encouraging sign. However, tough losses at Cal Poly and UC Santa Barbara showed that the Anteaters are far from being out of the woods.
- Injury Bug Bites: Unlike the major conference teams with plenty of athletic depth, Big West teams can ill afford many injuries to their core group of players. Every year, some teams get bit by the injury bug around now, and this year has proven to be no different. UCSB got a scare when big man Jaime Serna hurt his right hand and wrist against Cal State Fullerton. Although X-rays were negative, Serna missed the OT loss against UCR. Meanwhile, Pacific center Randall Mauge is out at least two weeks with a knee injury. The battle to stay healthy is an important one as the season gets into the stretch run.
Power Rankings
- Long Beach State (12-6, 5-0) – So far, so good for Long Beach State, who needs to sweep or come very close to sweeping their Big West slate to have a chance at an at-large bid at the end of the season. Although some games have been a little too close for comfort (a 55-50 win over Cal Poly, a 76-66 win against Pacific that was close until late), the 49ers have taken care of business thus far to hold a perfect record moving into a more difficult portion of their schedule. Long Beach State has faced their entire conference schedule without the services of senior forward Edis Dervisevic, who was suspended indefinitely by coach Dan Monson for failing to meet academic expectations. The loss of their main bench post player has forced Monson to play six-deep with freshman forward Nick Shepherd sprinkled in—it remains to be seen whether such a heavy minutes rotation for the starters will cause them to wear out later in the season. Read the rest of this entry »


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Community => Exhibition / Gallery => Topic started by: Tom Carpenter on Jul 17, 2012, 10:09 pm
Arduino MP3 Player
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Tom Carpenter
Jul 17, 2012, 10:09 pm
What do you get if you cross an Arduino Mega, an MP3 decoder, an SD card, and a nokia LCD?
If you throw in several hundred hours of programming, and a few thousand lines of code, you get an MP3 player :D.
For an Embedded systems module at Uni, I decided to be over the top and try to push what an 8 bit microcontroller can do to the absolute maximum. I finished the project at the end of last year, but as I need do a write up on it for the Uni, I thought I would refresh my memory and post it here.
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Final Project on custom PCB (hand soldered :D)
When it is turned on, first it checks all the hardware is working, then updates the song library. There is a text file in which the user simply enters the filename of any songs they want to add (less extension) on a new line at the top, with a + in front of each if it is a song file, or an @ in front if it is Album Art.
The software then checks that each song exists, and then using TAG data from the song, it adds the song to the library under the correct Artist and Album (Each artist has a text file containing a list of Albums - each line contains the name of an album, and the filename of its index). In the Album index file is a list of the name of each song, and its filename. If an album or artist exists, then the song is placed in the correct file, else a new artist or album file is created. The files are used later to display data onscreen.
If any new Album art is added (a standard 24bit BMP file, or any size greater than or equal to 128px square), then the image is checked to be a valid bitmap and then converted into a file containing 12bit pixel colour data for use by the screen. If the image is larger than 128px square, it is rather nicely scaled down to the correct size with my own image scaling method. Images can then be assigned to album(s) to which is belongs.
If an album doesn't have any Art assigned, it uses a default image, which is just a picture of a music note.
After that is all done, it moves to the song selector. This allows the user to pick a song or album to play, or alternatively, allows the creation/naming/renaming/deletion/editing of custom playlists.
There is also a page which shows a list of settings - screen brightness, contrast, dimmed brightness. These settings can be changed.
When a song/album/playlist is selected to be played, it moves on to the Media Player portion of the code. This displays the album art for any given song, begins to buffer the song into some FeRAM (Not enough for a whole song, but enough that while the MP3 decoder is processing the last batch of data, the buffer can be refilled fom the SD card), and then sends the data to an MP3 decoder IC (STMicroelectronics STA013S) for playback.
The media Player also scrolls through the Tag information - showing album name, artist name, track name, year, track number, and also the Genre (decoded with a lookup table).
There are options for play, pause, stop, skip, mute, volume control, repeat, and random shuffle (doesn't repeat any song until all have been played). There is also an option to turn the MP3 player off.
Volume is shown on a bar graph. To save space onscreen, every few seconds, the bar graph is replaced by a symbol showing battery level, and whether it is charging.
The screen is automatically dimmed after 1 minute of no user activity (it continues to play the song though). Any activity on the trackball will brighten the screen again. Also when the battery starts to run low, the screen is permanently dimmed to save power.
If you unplug the headphones, playback is automatically paused until they are reconnected, at which point it resumes.
Everything is controlled through just the trackerball which is setup to trigger 5 pin change interrupts.
I think that just about covers all the features.
Song Selector
List of Artists:
Scrolling to the left there is a list of playlists:
To delete or rename, you click on rename or remove, and then the next playlist you click will have that action performed on it. To create a playlist, just click create, or to edit one, click on that playlist. This will then allow you to move through the list of songs selecting songs or whole albums you want in the playlist. Anything in the playlist is highlighed blue. Clicking on a blue item removes it from the playlist, clicking again readds it.
Scrolling Left from a playlist shows you songs in the playlist:
and allows you to start playback by clicking on a song in this list - it will then play all songs in the list starting with the one you clicked.
If the cursor was hovering over create,delete, or rename, then instead of showing songs in the list, it moves to the settings page, where clicking on a setting and scrolling left/right changes it. Click again to save.
Scrolling right moves back a page until you reach the Artist page.
From there scrolling right displays a list of albums by the highlighed artist:
Clicking on an album plays all songs in that album.
Scrolling right from an album shows songs in the album:
clicking on one plays just that song.
You can scroll left to move back a page until you reach the Artist page again.
Media Player
Firstly, it loads the album art of the song, and then buffers the song into the onboard FRAM (this takes <2 seconds):
Then starts playback, showing song information at the bottom. The media player buttons are shown at the top, as is how much of the song has been played, and how long is left. There is a portion of the media player that toggles between showing battery level, and volume level:
If the headphones are unplugged, the song is paused, and the speaker symbol is replaced by an x. A message at the bottom informs you to reconnect the headphones:
Left an right scrolls move which button is highlighed. Clicking informs the button to do its funtion. In the case of the speaker being highlighted, clicking mutes, while scroll up and scroll down change the volume level.
In this case the volume button is highlighed, and I scrolled up to increase the volume. The volume graph increased as can be seen by comparing it to one of the previous screenshots:
Non active funtions are shown in red, for example the shuffle and repeat buttons on the left. When one of these is clicked, it is activated and turns blue, e.g. here shuffle is clicked to activate:
Thats about it :D.
PS. The code is 95kB, and takes over a minute to download! :D
Re: Arduino MP3 Player
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Jul 18, 2012, 01:37 am
Any chance we can see the code? :)
Re: Arduino MP3 Player
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Tom Carpenter
Jul 18, 2012, 10:00 am
Sure, I have attached the code.
There are two libraries (my gLCD library, and a second which is a merger of a modified SD library, the SPI library, the Wire library, and a couple of other bits to control the memory modules and STA013 chip).
Then there is the ino sketch.
I'm sure there are lots of ways in which the code could be improved, but this was one of the first things I made with an arduino. :)
Re: Arduino MP3 Player
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Jan 31, 2013, 09:22 pm
Total noob here. Just started with arduino [and electronics in general . I am programmer by profession]. This looks very interesting[and complicated] to me. Would love to have more details on how to build one? Have lots of questions, some one please answer them if possible. 1. Can we use any other chip for decoding MP3 ? 2. Can we decode Flac ? 3. Can we use an high quality audio DAC with this same setup?
Re: Arduino MP3 Player
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Feb 02, 2013, 08:29 am
Woot! Huge kudos to you Tom! That is one heck of a build.
There are LOTS of chips out there that will decode MP3 (or OGG or WAV or <insert format here>). I use the VS1053b made by VLSI and as an added bonus, you get MIDI functionality with a bank of instruments! This is the same decoder used in the Sparkfun MP3 shield (https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10628). If you're looking for a relatively simple way to get started on mp3 I would look at getting that shield. There is also example code provided. Ladyada (http://www.ladyada.net/make/minty/hardware.html) also has a run through of the MP3 player she made a while back.
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Sep 13, 2013, 10:19 am
Would it be possible to re-write the code to use buttons instead of a trackball?
Please forgive my ignorance, I've never done this before.
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Sep 13, 2013, 10:23 am
It shouldn't need any change. Simply connect push buttons to each of the Up, Down, Left, Right, and Button pins, with the other end going to ground.
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You should post a video showing it in action.
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My dear old grandma, Lola Ebia, is in her 95th year. Her spine is bent forward making it difficult for her to move around. Worse off was her late older sister, Lola Ine, who was not only bent almost 90 degrees from the waist up but whose spine was shaped like a big letter S on her back. It did not seem give her that much health problems (or maybe I just didn't hear much about it) but it did present a great difficulty for her physically moving about. Me and my cousins were joking then at what shape her coffin would be when she died.
It did not end in my grandma's generation. My mother and her siblings are now beginning to feel various forms of bone diseases. And it's not confined to the women even our uncle who is very fit and follows a healthy lifestyle succumbed to some problems with his hipbone and had to be operated on when he was only 65. So me and my cousins better beware and heed the signs to take better care of ourselves or we will suffer in later years.
As what Susan mentioned in her blog, there are lots of food sources of calcium ranging from the usual dairy products to vegetables to nuts and lots of others. Bear in mind to temper the consumption of these with fibre since too much fibre restricts the absorbtion of calcium by the body. To strike a balance between consumption of calcium and fibre-rich food would be the optimum goal. As usual moderation is the key.
I have chosen to cook this dish rather than the usual dairy product sources since the soya bean in the bean curd and the green bokchoy are rich in calcium and would do well in balancing our intake of healthier food. Sorry for the limp overcooked bokchoy. Distractions while cooking can be hazardous to the final cooked products.
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The 11th Austin Forum invited more than 50 journalists from the American continent to discuss the topic "Transparency and Accountability: Journalists and Access to Public Information in Latin America and the Caribbean." During the annual gathering, which took place on Nov. 8 and 9, 2013, participants concluded that the region's culture of secretism and the lack of training on how to use right-to-information laws were the biggest obstacles to transparency in the continent.
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She is the Take Out Queen of Long Island! She could write a guide book! :)
Those little ceramic cookies had to be used, so Happy Chinese New Year!
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Stems from CTS, so are the white spoons.
The candlesticks are new, by Mikassa, from BBB, on sale and a 20% off coupon. I don't have any as tall as these, so I treated myself.
Waiting in the background is a tablecloth I found at Savers. It is lined, and a small check piping around the edge. $5.00 Working on a scape to use it!
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Homemade eggrolls.
Pick one from Column A and one from Column B, or is that just a NY thing?
I have posted all the methods for these previously. I do not know exact measurements as I don't use recipes except for baking.
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FBI Muslims and Militancy Considerations — Heads up By Zahir Ebrahim
A Public Service Message from Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
Ominous clouds are hovering over the Muslims of the West as they occupy themselves in virtuous mosque-piety behind useful idiots, false leaders and Trojan horses, quite oblivious to the reality around them. The best among the Muslim institutional leadership can only come up with syntactic sugaring – and this ranges from mosque pulpits to institutional reports to academic pundits selling their consciences on the prayer mat and amidst virtuous Hegelian Dialectic speeches on Islamophobia.
Our institutional corruption spanning the gamut from Mosques to NGOs to the Academy is so widespread that it has become almost invisible and incognizant like the air we breathe — but it surrounds us no less. This corruption isn't like what most Muslims are used to in the East. To understand this intellectual corruption which is laden with Faustian pacts of the soul and cradled in Machiavellian omissions to keep the laity perpetual prisoners of the cave while the prison walls around us continue to close-in, click on the FBI's agent-education image below:
Caption An FBI presentation titled "Militancy Considerations" measures the relationship between piety and violence among the texts of the three Abrahamic faiths [ the god's chosen people obviously coming out on top!!! ] As time goes on, the followers of the Torah and the Bible move from "violent" to "non-violent." Not so for devotees of the Koran, whose "moderating process has not happened." The line representing violent behavior from devout Muslims flatlines and continues outward, from 610 A.D. to 2010. In other words, religious Muslims have been and always will be agents of aggression. Watch FBI Presentation Video artfully Hijacking Islam. See Islam vs. Secular Humanism and World Government by Zahir Ebrahim for its full implication. (Image source)
The roots of this graph in the FBI presentation are very distinguished and very deep-seated in doctrinal warfare. It is not merely some ad hoc "overreaction" to the "war on terror" against "militant Islam" by an overzealous state security apparatus' training program to keep the Americans safe from terrorists.
For instance, the late Samuel Huntington of Harvard University in his famous ode to reseeding new "doctrinal motivation" for the on-going exercise of Anglo-Saxon hegemony over the entire planet titled "The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order", stated:
"Some Westerners, including [ex] President Bill Clinton, have argued that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violent Islamist extremists. Fourteen hundred years of history demonstrate otherwise …. Islam is the only civilization which has put the survival of the West in doubt, and it has done that at least twice." (pg. 209)
"The underlying problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism. It is Islam, a different civilization whose people are convinced of the superiority of their culture and are obsessed with the inferiority of their power. The problem for Islam is not the CIA or the US Department of Defense. It is the West, a different civilization whose people are convinced of the universality of their culture and believe that their superior, if declining, power imposes on them the obligation to extend that culture throughout the world. These are the basic ingredient that fuel conflict between Islam and the West." (pg. 217)
"The violent nature of these shifting relationships is reflected in the fact that 50 percent of wars involving pairs of states of different religions between 1820 and 1929 were wars between Muslims and Christians". (pg. 210)
"In 1990 Bernard Lewis, a leading Western scholar of Islam, analyzed 'The Roots of Muslim Rage,' and concluded: 'It should now be clear that we are facing a mood and a movement far transcending the level of issues and policies and the governments that pursue them. This is no less than a clash of civilizations – that perhaps irrational but surely historic reaction of an ancient rival against our Judeo-Christian heritage, our secular present, and the worldwide expansion of both. It is crucially important that we on our side should not be provoked into an equally historic but also equally irrational reaction against our rival.'" (pg. 213)
That "Judeo-Christian heritage" and 'The Roots of Muslim Rage,' is what is captured in the FBI "Militancy Considerations" training graph. Bernard Lewis of Princeton University further reconstituted Huntington's self-serving statistic for the "basic ingredient that fuel conflict between Islam and the West" in his post 9/11 ode to defending the West against "militant Islam" titled "Crisis of Islam – Holy War and Unholy Terror":
"… But Islam, like other religions, has also known periods when it inspired in some of its followers a mood of hatred and violence. It is our misfortune that we have to confront part of the Muslim world while it is going through such a period, and when most – though by no means all – of that hatred is directed against us." (pg. 25)
"Terrorism requires only a few. Obviously the West must defend itself by whatever means will be effective. But in devising means to fight the terrorist, it would surely be useful to understand the forces that drive them." (pg. xxxii)
That's all that the FBI is doing – implementing Bernard Lewis' prescription. The FBI, like all the rest of the Western states security and war-mongering apparatuses of their vast interlocking military-industrial-academe-media-intelligence complex, are defending the West against the motivations outlined for them by the god's chosen peoples:
"For more than a thousand years, Islam provided the only universally acceptable set of rules and principles for the regulation of public and social life. Even during the period of maximum European influence, in the countries ruled or dominated by European imperial powers as well as in those that remained independent, Islamic political notions and attitudes remained a profound and pervasive influence. In recent years there have been many signs that these notions and attitudes may be returning, albeit in modified form, to their previous dominance." (pg. 13)
But we already knew all about that imminent threat of the Islamofascists trying to take over the West. Since the day FBI knocked on my door in 2003 as the bombing of Iraq was underway to protect the Americans from Sadaam Hussein's WMDs, I knew that by first hand experience.
Which begs the question, why make such information public? The intelligence apparatuses will do what they are chartered or ordered to be doing – what purpose does such an outright big lie depicted in the FBI graph serve by making it public? Never mind the Christian Crusades; never mind Christian Zionism and Talmudic Zionism devastating Palestine to Iraq; never mind the World Wars which saw Christians killing Christians, and Christians killing Jews, all financed by the Jewish Wall Street and the Jewish banksters controlling the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States who sat in on the subsequent so called Peace Conferences to harvest the loot of the Balfour Declaration to orchestrate the Jewish State in Palestine in the name of Torah's god: "This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself." [1] and "It is true God promised it to us. … Our God is not theirs." [2]; etceteras, who would buy into such an outright big lie in the West today? The majority of its public who 'United We Stand' with absurdities! This includes all the Muslims who stay silent like their Western counterparts, and labor under the same or different misconceptions.
Those who do not understand the psychological basis of doctrinal warfare, fear-mongering, and uncertainty-creation as essential ingredients of psyops and mass persuasion techniques for creating "revolutionary times" [3] as the most effective means of changing the lifestyle of an entire people, will never comprehend such matters which are driven entirely from the macro-social calculus of ushering in one-world government. Unless one understands all of that, that the Hard Road to World Order is paved in cold blood, one can neither understand this FBI training modality for its agents, nor the obedience training of Americans at airports. See the detailed Mighty Wurlitzer Report to comprehend its primal DNA. And read the two short articles Convince People of Absurdities and get them Acquiescing to Atrocities: The Enduring Power of Machiavellian Political Science and 'War on Terror' is not about 'Islamofascism' – Please get with the real agenda you people! to understand how the blossoming tree of "imperial mobilization" is being constructed in baby steps using that very DNA of full spectrum psychological warfare and controlled "revolutionary times".
Pick up Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations, and Bernard Lewis' Crisis of Islam, and read them both in the context and references outlined here and the absurd FBI graph will start making sense. Then pick up Zbigniew Brzezinski's The Grand Chessboard and the concept of "doctrinal motivation" necessary for "imperial mobilization" will start making sense:
"It is also a fact that America is too democratic at home to be autocratic abroad. This limits the use of America's power, especially its capacity for military intimidation. Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of a sudden threat or challenge to the public's sense of domestic well-being. The economic self-denial (that is defense spending), and the human sacrifice (casualties even among professional soldiers) required in the effort are uncongenial to democratic instincts. Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization." (pgs. 35-36)
"Moreover, as America becomes an increasingly multicultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat. …. More generally, cultural change in America may also be uncongenial to the sustained exercise abroad of genuinely imperial power. That exercise requires a high degree of doctrinal motivation, intellectual commitment, and patriotic gratification." (pgs. 211-212)
Compare all that book knowledge with the empirical reality, and Bertrand Russell's 1952 book The Impact of Science on Society will start appearing more self-servingly prophetic than Nostradamus:
"There is, it must be confessed, a psychological difficulty about a single world government. The chief source of social cohesion in the past, I repeat, has been war; the passions that inspire a feeling of unity are hate and fear. These depend upon the existence of an enemy, actual or potential. It seems to follow that a world government could only be kept in being by force, not by the spontaneous loyalty that now inspires a nation to war." (Ch. 2, pg. 37)
Muslims today are victimized twice:
First by the massa's "imperial mobilization" by way of deception, by dictatorship infliction, by bombardment and "democracy" and "revolution" infliction to bring freedoms from the same dictatorships, not to mention more neo-liberal debt enslavement for rebuilding what's destroyed while bringing neo-cons freedoms.
And second, by the subversion of our own Uncle Toms who keep us confused and un-enlightened by their shifting amalgams of myths, half-truths, omissions, mis-diagnosis, and red herrings.
Together they target us by total perception management, and thus control our behavior of full servitude by piece-meal conditioning, eventually leading to Pavlovian compliance to their every stimulus. Their dominant narratives is what informs us, cajoles us, frightens us, and that's how we end up 'United We Stand' with the Massa. If they say there is "Islamic terrorism", we say there is "Islamic terrorism". If they say 9/11 was the work of "jihadi Muslims", if they say there is "global warming", "peak oil", "swine flu", this and that global disaster, this and that galactic catastrophe, we not only echo the same, but naturally find ourselves inclined to act in accordance to that implanted fear. If such mantras come anointed with imposing IVY stamp of approval, the Nobel stamp of approval, lofty academic endorsement, so much more we believe in them, to the point that we even permit the state to molest us to keep us safe! The theories of psychological persuasion techniques in text-books exactly match the ground realities. Sounds rather prosaic – but empirically true nevertheless. This ought not to be surprising — here is Aldous Huxley prognosticating it in 1962 at University of California-Berkeley:
'You can do everything with bayonets except sit on them! If you are going to control any population for any length of time you must have some measure of consent. It's exceedingly difficult to see how pure terrorism can function indefinitely. It can function for a fairly long time, but I think sooner or later you have to bring in an element of persuasion. An element of getting people to consent to what is happening to them. Well, it seems to me that the nature of the Ultimate Revolution with which we are now faced is precisely this: that we are in process of developing a whole series of techniques which will enable the controlling oligarchy who have always existed and presumably always will exist, to get people actually to love their servitude! This is the, it seems to me the ultimate in malevolent revolution shall we say.' — Aldous Huxley, 1962 speech at UC Berkeley, minute 04:06
Without our own self-study and due diligence, without skepticism to all that is presented to us, as the targets of villainous perception management and behavior control, we will continue to fall victim to the Uncle Toms who control all our institutions on behalf of the massa.
We have to by-pass our holy and pious chieftains and their institutions and become self-reliant both intellectually and physically, that means in thought as well as in lifestyle away from our pontiffs and chieftains, or else we shall continually be sold down the drain in the guise of their being our illumined "benefactors" and "peace-makers". Holy Qur'an verse 2:11 even bears witness to that timeless empiricism — but Plato predates it in his prescient similitude Myth of the Cave in The Republic by one thousand years!
Empowering the individual with deep knowledge in overarching contexts to instill deep system insights into the calculus of hegemony, is the only antidote for this full spectrum assault on the human mind which employs sophisticated psychological persuasion techniques of behavior control from cognitive to subliminal. We cannot lay out the parts like a motor mechanic and examine each one in isolation. We have to look at the entire system and understand its overall behavior as a function of its components and what role each plays in that overall system dynamics.
Such comprehension cannot be had in 15-second attention spans we have been weaned on. And nor by sitting like stupid gullible fools in pious or learned gatherings listening to Trojan Horses and other insipid fools and useful idiots planted among us and in our vaunted institutions – both religious and secular, as well in our academies and our governments. And nor can it be acquired by the feeble minded cowards and Uncle Toms who prefer to die many deaths for the pleasure of earning a good word and a paycheck from the massa. There is no external cure for Faustian pacts. The cure for that is solely within.
But for the rest more inclined to use an iota of commonsense and a modicum skepticism than stoned belief in authority to examine any matter, this heads-up contains essential knowledge you will not be given either at UC Berkeley, or Harvard, or Princeton, or by a Woodrow Wilson scholar or a Nobel laureate, or by the mercenaries and stooges heading CAIR or MCA, or ISNA, ICNA, AMA, CIA, ISI, MI6, CNN, ABC, NBC, BBC, NYT, and the myriad other alphabet soups throughout the world under the iron grip of the Mighty Wurlitzer. Yet this knowledge is entirely public information, only waiting to be read and studied as containing the master blueprints for the global governance system being built openly. Its success lies in obscurity by design – since no one "respectable" goes there. Just look at the two recent reports emanating from CAIR and American Progress in collaboration with University of California-Berkeley, both belaboring the obviousness of Islamophobia like the autumn leaves, but not disclosing to the public what is made deliberately obscure by their criminal conspiracy of omission. None of them relate matters to the Hard Road to World Order… but they will all be eagerly doing so ex post facto, and awarded Pulitzers and other lofty intellectual anointments for their eruditeness!
It is a crafty red herring and calculated subversion for Muslim institutions (led by glorified Uncle Toms and useful idiots) to protest the fabricated symptoms of the disease while ignoring the root cause of the disease: The Diabolical Hijacking of Islam for Imperial Mobilization by god's chosen peoples!
Now we can finally return to the question asked above to lend some forensic insight into the matter: Why did the FBI make its 'Islamology' presentation public which is entirely drawn from the war-mongering Jews Bernard Lewis', Samuel Huntington's, Zbigniew Brzezinski's et. al.'s decades old craftsmanship for a viable "doctrinal motivation, intellectual commitment, and patriotic gratification" to seed the propagandistic explanation for a "New Pearl Harbor", and subsequently sustain "imperial mobilization" to its logical conclusion as disclosed above? It further begs the question that for those eloquently condemning it, including Muslim organizations like CAIR, myriad other civil rights and human rights organization including the Senators who Blast FBI Terror-Training 'Lies', Senator Joe Lieberman, the bastion of Zionist Jewry in the United States Senate, why is the forensic articulation of what's disclosed here by a mere plebeian so difficult for them to express?
It ain't rocket science – or is it? No, it is only Machiavellian political science!
Think Hegelian Dialectic of Dissent ( http://tinyurl.com/Hegelian-Dialectic-Dissent ) fabricated from bogus lies whose main purpose is to re-justify the core-axioms of empire couched in WWF wrestling, and the fog lifts instantly! One team invents the lies, the other condemns it, and it is orchestrated by the same coterie who come away from it re-emphasizing the core "doctrinal motivation", the threat of "al-Qaida", at the expense of their own intelligence apparatus which is only following the directives given to it by the State. This is what the most hawkish king of war-mongering neo-con Zionist Jews in the US Senate averred, playing WWF wrestling with his brethren with a chutzpah which only the god's chosen people who have moved from "violent" to "non-violent" following their Torah can muster:
'"There is no room in America for the lies, propagated by al-Qaida, that the U.S. is at war with Islam, or the lie propagated by others that all Muslims support terrorism," Sen. Joe Lieberman, the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, told Danger Room.' WIRED, September 15, 2011
Examine the political science of it all today and not tomorrow when fait accompli of world government will make it a moot point which boogieman was myth, and which one was factual — like the disclosure by the New York Times in 2008 of the Pentagon's Message Machine that its retired Generals diabolically led the three ring media circus to enact America's decimation of Iraq under obvious falsehoods. That belated admission after the NYT itself led that three ring circus did not restore to Iraq its shattered tabula rasa with any more chutzpah than the admission by the Iraq Study Group in 2005, mostly populated by the same hectoring hegemons who led the mantra of WMD in the first place including Bernard Lewis, that all the intelligence on Iraq's WMDs were indeed false!
Tomorrow, many of the myths and "doctrinal motivations" taken as gospel truths today will similarly be shown to be the output of the Mighty Wurlitzer's message machine with a simple narrative "oops"! This is already presaged in The Report from Iron Mountain where the motivational source for many fear-mongering modern myths can be found. Don't wait until tomorrow when you hear it from your favorite pontiffs and nod your head in that all-knowing state of servitude that has become the pathetic characteristic of Muslims and all the rest of the 'untermenschen' worldwide. Evaluate the many Hegelian Dialectics today, argue these today, challenge your pontiffs today, disrobe and unmask them today, understand the motivations behind their Message Machine today which comes layered in sophisticated political science as the vile mechanics for a system of global governance that is being deceptively ushered in under different guises of fabricated "revolutionary times". This system is being wrought by a people all of whom evidently have multiple Ph.Ds. in deception. The culprits are visible to even the most blind in the saintly FBI graph itself.
And ultimately, if you deem this knowledge not worthy as it still only comes from the lowly pen of a most ordinary plebeian, and not from your favorite pontiff, throw it away.
Thank you.
Zahir Ebrahim
[1] Full quote: "This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy." — Golda Meir, Le Monde, 15 October 1971 (source)
[2] Full quote: "If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?" — David Ben Gurion – Quoted by Nahum Goldmann in Le Paraddoxe Juif (The Jewish Paradox) (source)
[3] Full quote: "What is inconceivable in normal times is possible in revolutionary times; and if at this time the opportunity is missed and what is possible at such great hours is not carried out – a whole world is lost" — David Ben Gurion (source)
Additional References
[1] Zahir Ebrahim's Letter to Editor: FBI's Islamology September 25, 2011
[2] Zahir Ebrahim's Response to Chris Hedges' amalgam of half-truths 'A Decade After 9/11: We Are What We Loathe' September 13, 2011
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