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Lady Gaga appeared on Larry King on Tuesday, and she wore a fairly normal outfit: the same one as Larry.
Yep, the Gaga dressed up like the iconic TV host, wearing black and white with suspenders, dark glasses, a tie and slicked back hair. She talked about her past addiction to cocaine, her family history of lupus, Michael Jackson and death. You know, boring stuff like that.
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I made this shirt especially for my husband Jose, a formal short sleeve shirt for him to wear at work. I used 100% white cotton with light stripes. I copied his old shirt size 17 as the pattern. It was a little bit challenging than what I thought to work with a men's shirt. But anyway I have done my work nicely and my husband loved it.
More details on my blog, http://velvetribbonsew.blogspot.com/2013/01/mens-shirt.html
Jan 27, 2013, 11.12 AMby joost52
Fantastic work lady, very impressed :)
Jan 27, 2013, 01.40 PMby velvetribbon
Thank you :)
Jan 25, 2013, 09.56 PMby vanessajp
Really well-made. I'm trying to find the courage to make a men's shirt myself. Don't have the confidence yet.
Jan 26, 2013, 11.13 AMby velvetribbon
Thanks. You have to try to make it, I am sure you can do it.
Jan 25, 2013, 08.25 PMby neveenkarnes
well well done!!! you should be proud of yourself my dear. beautifully done, I am sure he is proud of you too. great job.
Jan 26, 2013, 11.11 AMby velvetribbon
Thank you so much :)
Jan 25, 2013, 08.04 PMby martinK
congrats for this professional looking pice of work. A nice shirt for a handsome man :-) what is your next project in men fashion???? :-)
Jan 26, 2013, 11.09 AMby velvetribbon
Thanks for your compliment :) I am planning to make more shirts and a vest for him.
Jan 25, 2013, 07.05 PMby runningwithscissors1
Nice to make something for the guys once in a while. Nice shirt!
Jan 26, 2013, 11.05 AMby velvetribbon
Thank you :)
Jan 25, 2013, 05.26 PMby renatap
I like how the collar looks. What did you use as interfacing?
Jan 26, 2013, 11.04 AMby velvetribbon
I used fusible interfacing for the collar.
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all the move sets i saw had 4 generation move in the set and i only have it in my emerald game.
in gen 3 a good moveset could be:
dragonbreathe /dragon dance : his best dragon move and chance of paralysis or power up attack and speed to boost power of body slam and waterfall.
ice beam : good power coverage takes care of only weakness.
surf/waterfall : stab good power waterfall for flinch chance.
body slam : good power chance of paralyzing works well with waterfall.
that's the one i used and it worked pretty well.
These two movesets are arguably the best for Kingdra, each aimed at fulfilling a different style of play.
Stat-Enhanced Tank Kingdra - Leftovers, Persim Berry Bold Nature Rest - HP heal, cures status, helps stall Double Team - Makes each successive Rest more worthwhile Surf - Some people use waterfall because of flinch, but it really isn't that great. Go Surf. Ice Beam - Grass that resist Surf and Dragon threats, freeze
Sweeper Kingdra - Lonely or Neutral Nature Dragon Dance - Attack and speed up Return - 102 at max power and uses the raised Attack stat and for other Kingdra Surf - STAB, hits two enemies (doubles) Blizzard - High powered, Grass resist Surf, kill Dragons, freeze, hits two enemies (doubles)
I own both these Kingdras and do very well with them, both "In-Game" and against humans. Hope you've been inspired!
Here is a decent moveset that worked well for me in gen 3
-Hydro pump/Water pulse/Surf (STAB, Power or acc, if wp chance for confusion) Edit: Also surf for decent power and acc, if you don't care about confusion
-Ice beam (Coverage)
-Dragon breath (STAB, parahax)
-Toxic/rest Regen hp/Stall or force switch
All the previous movesets posted seem to forget about the physical/special split having occured in Gen IV. Gen III still had type determine if a move is physical or Special.
I completely agree with the smogon set and it is what I would have used.
Rain Dance Hydro Pump/Surf Ice Beam Toxic
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Cilj zaključenja Memoranduma o saradnji je stvaranje uslova za razvoj strateškog partnerstva između udruženja Inkluzivni pokret i Talenti kao i stvaranje jačih međunarodnih veza u borbi za ravnopravnost marginalizovanih grupa.
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Inclusive Movement is looking for four participants in the training course "European Challenge" that will take place in Belgrade, Serbia from October 29 – November 6, 2012.
"European Challenge" is a seven-day training which aims to explore and analyze inclusive youth work and the potential of international youth projects in achieving inclusion through youth entrepreneurship.
It will gather youth workers (professional or voluntary), unemployed youngsters or youngsters facing some kind of exclusion from Macedonia, Hungary, Romania, Latvia, Croatia and Serbia.
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By Sharon Johnson
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Thursday, July 1, 2010
The three women who came before Elena Kagan on the Supreme Court carried a bright torch for women's rights. In this news analysis, Sharon Johnson sees Kagan as more of a mainstream power broker, with no gender strings attached.
(WOMENSENEWS)--Democrats and some female law faculty are flagging the historic nature of Solicitor General Elena Kagan's confirmation hearing with the Senate Judiciary Committee, which began June 28.
If confirmed to succeed Justice John Paul Stevens, Kagan would bring the number of women on the bench to three, a high water mark that Paula A. Monopoli, professor at the University of Maryland School of Law in Baltimore, hails.
"Last year Obama named Sonia Sotomayor the first Hispanic on the court and this year he tapped Kagan, who brings real world experience," said Monopoli, the founding director of the law school's women, leadership and equality program. "Like Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, these women provide an important dimension to the court because they recognize how decisions affect the lives of ordinary people and their presence encourages their male colleagues to look at factors that are often overlooked by all-male courts."
But Kagan does not win universal kudos from women's advocacy groups.
In a June 21 analysis of her legal record, the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights, an organization of pro-choice attorneys and advocates, called Kagan's record on abortion "troubling." A 1988 memo Kagan wrote as a clerk to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, urging the court to reject for review an appeal on prisoner access to abortion, was one of the reasons for this assessment.
Kagan said she was "skeptical about whether incarcerated women seeking abortions had serious medical needs under the Eighth Amendment" and called the notion that they should receive government assistance to address those needs "ludicrous."
Kagan stirs worries among conservative senators who assume that any woman nominated by the Democrats must be an arch liberal, says Lawrence Baum, professor of political science at Ohio State University in Columbus and author of the 1997 book "The Puzzle of Judicial Behavior."
But Baum says that Kagan's Harvard Law School faculty appointments should calm conservative fears. Two who stand out are Adrian Vermeule, a former clerk of Justice Antonin Scalia, the leader of the conservative wing of the court, and Jack Goldsmith, who had served under Attorney General John Ashcroft during the George W. Bush administration.
In other words, the normal assumptions about a female nominee--created by the three other women ever appointed to the court--do not apply to Kagan.
Kagan broke the glass ceiling in legal education when she became the first female dean of Harvard Law School, but kept a low women's advocacy profile after that.
Sandra Day O'Connor, elevated by President Ronald Reagan, became the first woman on the court in 1981. By that time she had founded the Arizona Women's Lawyers Association and the National Association of Women Judges and had fought to remove discrimination against women by the state bar.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who was nominated by President Bill Clinton in 1993, came to Senate hearings with victories in five gender-discrimination cases under her belt. Ginsburg also co-authored the first major sex discrimination casebook, used by law students to develop their skills in litigating sex discrimination claims.
No doubt existed about Ginsburg's stand on abortion: "This is something central to a woman's life, to her dignity," she told the Judiciary Committee. "It is a decision that she must make for herself. And when government controls that decision for her, she is being treated as a less than fully adult human responsible for her own choices."
Sonia Sotomayor had delivered more than 90 speeches on ethnicity or gender issues before minority or women's groups between 1993 and 2009, when Obama tapped her for the court. Sotomayor used her career as an example of how Hispanics and women could succeed in legal careers. For 12 years, Sotomayor was a board member of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund.
Kagan's record on supporting women and minorities is thin. During her six years as dean of Harvard Law School, Kagan added 29 tenured faculty, which included five white women and an Asian American woman.
"Just three percent of her hires were non-whites, a statistic that should raise eyebrows in the 21st century," said Guy-Uriel Charles, founding director of the Duke Law Center on Law, Race and Politics in Durham, N.C.
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Breakage some fall season with a outstretched upper extremity
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The weather was unseasonably warm Saturday, as a crowd of people collected around the streets of downtown Rockingham for the annual Christmas on the Square celebration.
This is the 16th year local vendors, churches, and other organizations have come together to celebrate the winter holiday with the community in Harrington Square. The sunshine was greatly welcomed by the mass of people and children enjoying the fresh air and activities.
"It doesn't really feel like Christmas with the weather today," said Jackie Jones of Laurinburg. Jones said she has been coming for three years to see the latest crafts.
The holiday-themed event is sponsored each year by the Rockingham Downtown Corp. and the City of Rockingham.
The city teamed up with the Richmond County Chapter of Toys for Tots to accept donations at Harrington Square. Murphy Chiropractic and Wellness of Rockingham successfully encouraged the Toy for Tots concept by offering 30-minute massages with the donation of a toy, in addition to a $10 charge. Vendors were also asked to bring a toy to donate. Flowers from Betty's Barn in Asheboro had a tent set up for the third year, and decorated its booth with a colorful array of Christmas arrangements.
"I've always done very well and had good success with the event," said owner Betty Bruton.
The holiday event had lots to offer everyone. Main attractions included vendors with home décor, handmade Christmas crafts and jewelry for women. Knives and classic cars caught the eyes of men while the smell of blooming onions, collard sandwiches and sausage dogs caught the noses of all. There was also a wide variety of desserts and baked goods to indulge in.
"I like the various crafts and foods of course," said Wanda Land of Laurinburg. "This is my third year coming."
Santa Claus participated in the day's festivities, visiting and posing with the children for pictures. Parents enjoyed the opportunity to let their children burn energy in the Kid's Zone as well. The Kid's Zone included the popular Super Slide, Castle Jump and a train. Pony rides and a petting zoo were provided by 5 Star Farm of North Myrtle Beach, S.C.
"This is our first year at this event," said Robert Slate of 5 Star Farm. "I'm very happy with the turn-out — hopefully we can come back next year with a camel."
Entertainment came in the form of performances by the Richmond Senior High Chorus, Mt. Sinai Praise Team, Roberdel Praise Team, the Hamlet Middle School Honor Choir and Rene's Step To It.
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UK consumers are likely to experience higher utility bills from energy suppliers no matter who wins the general election on Thursday, an expert has said.
Ben Caldecott, head of policy at Climate Change Capital, explained that the low-carbon infrastructure investment promised by all the parties will be partly financed by subsidies paid for through consumer energy bills.
Speaking to Business Week, he said that these will in turn result in a rise in the average price of consumer and business energy.
In order to meet targets for cutting carbon emissions, the government may need around £200 billion and some of this money may be obtained by the UK's leading energy suppliers including E.ON, EDF, and Centrica, as well as energy regulator Ofgem.
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Barack Obama hasn't been in a high-stakes, nationally televised presidential debate in nearly four years. Mitt Romney was in plenty of them over the past 18 months. Last night, it showed.
Heading into yesterday's encounter at the University of Denver, polls showed that voters by a wide margin were expecting Obama to win the three debates he and Romney have agreed to. But not only did the president fail to knock out his challenger last night, there were long stretches when it wasn't even clear he had remembered to lace up his gloves. On issue after issue, exchange after exchange, Romney was focused, clear, interesting, and engaged, while Obama repeatedly came across as distracted, irritated, and vague. The former Massachusetts governor was plainly enjoying himself. The president seemed to want nothing more than to run out the clock and bring a painful evening to an end.
The discussion about the economy was not going to be easy for Obama under the best of circumstances, because of the 4 years spent in the hole the Republicans created. Good to get that one behind us. Now better tighten up your seat belt because Obama is going to come out swinging in the next round. And Romney is going to have to answer questions like: Governor, if you become president, to what cabinet posts or other important positions, will you be appointing the likes of Michelle Bachmann, Rick Sanctorum, Todd Akin, Rick Perry, Pat Robertson, Donald Trump, Rep Lewis, and Newt Gingrich? Knowing Romney, he'll probably say he never heard of any of them, and no matter how many times you say otherwise, he'll insist that doesn't make it true.
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As a big Obama supporter, I have to say Jeff told it true. The president was not very specific and missed many oppurtunities to nail Romney. Particularly galling was allowing Romney to tack the term "trickle down" on Obama where traditionally it has been used to describe Romney's policies. Lehrer even tried to bail Obama out by asking him to respond, but Obama just went off into generalities. Obama also failed to respond when Romney esserntially called him a liar on his accusation that job exporting companies get a tax break. The president should not have let that pass, if in fact there was truth to it. Obama better bring his a-game to the following debates.
I would have to agree. For some unknown reason Obama seemed quite uninterested in this debate while Mr. Romney was all fired up. So first, let's be clear I think in the appearance area Romney easily won. On the facts I found both to be a bit vague with Romney covering up issues with a flood of words and Obama a flood of numbers. Most striking to me was Romney stating, "I don't have a 5 trillion tax cut." He states he is cutting taxes by 20 per cent simple math gets you to 5 trillion. Mitt seems to play pretty fast and loose with the truth there. The other thing I found interesting about Mitt was that he sounded like a Democrat. He promised every good thing under the sun but in the same breath said hey you won't have to pay for it. I don't think will go unnoticed. I don't think his reiterating support for voucherizing medicare will help either.
I'm not saying anything about Obama simply because what he has said he has said before. There was nothing new there. What will be interesting is whether independents respond to the purely theatrical aspect of Romney's performance or do they respond to the lightness of his statements. Only the polls will tell. Somehow this year feels different and I don't think the debates will have a very great impact.
The "print waves" are flat this morning. Flat and somnulant without energy, Obama spent his evening dozing. Chris Matthew's leg stopped tingling last night. It was replaced with a load in his pants. Truth and facts were not on Obama's lips last night. It was touching when he called the first lady 'sweetie" in a national debate that could potentially determine his political future. He looked like he wished he was car shopping or anywhere but that stage. That's what happens when you take a knife to a gunfight. No ammunition, he carried an empty 45 as he faced dirty harry and heard the words, "make my day".
I note that most of those who support Obama have written fairly objective pieces acknowledging the good night that Mr. Romney had. Yet on the right what we get is this "cheerleading" nonsense. When one gets to issues like "truth" Mr. Romney took a long step away from that last night. I get why and that is in a political sense perfectly fine. Why those on the right however have to go to this childish language is beyond me.
Romney looked more crisp than Obama for a 90 minute period last night. That much is true. Here are a number of questions to put last night into perspective: 1. When is the next time Romney will embarrass himself, his party, and his country? As in London, as in the 47 minute fiasco. He is clearly a loose cannon. Quite capable of looking good, quite capable of highly inappropriate remarks. 2. What will he say the next time he is asked the same questions? His track record for changing his stance is so totally documented that anything out of his mouth has to be taken with great caution. 3. How does he handle the extremists in his party, not to mention the core party platform pieces around abortion, etc.? A brief debate on items which are too complex to articulate thoroughly in the time allotted simply does not provide an adequate rationale for choosing a person who's judgment encompasses such vast territory.
It won't get any easier either. Ryan v. Biden could go the same way and who ke next debate is foreign policy. As more comes out knows what Mr. Gafftastic will say. As we hear more and more abuot Libya, it will be as hard to defend. His dealings w/ Israel, Iran, Russia will also be tricky. I was happy to see O got in an OBL reference though
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It won't get any easier either. Ryan v. Biden could go the same way and who knows what Mr. Gafftastic will say. The next debate is foreign policy. As we hear more and more abuot Libya, it will be as hard to defend. His dealings w/ Israel, Iran, Russia will also be tricky. I was happy to see O got in an OBL reference though
At the end of the night, I can't say I even care who won the debate. Two things were missing. First, a debate should include everyone who is on the ballots of all of the nation's voting districts, so to exclude Jill Stein, Gary Johnson, and even Virgil Goode is a disservice to the voters. Second, neither Obama nor Romney have convinced me that 'none of the above' or a third party 'protest against a broken process' vote isn't just as valid as a vote between Democratic and Republican candidates. Today's editorial cartoon is perhaps the most honest description of how this election is going to play out.
Yes, Romney succeeded in looking... human... last night -good for him! This was clearly going to be the debate that gave him the best chance of looking competent(he's likely to struggle with the last debate on Foreign Policy and I'll give him a break and not guess what gems will come out of his mouth in response to the town hall audience questions forum in the next one). But can we all agree that the man has no operating definition of the word "Plan"? Telling the nation how he's going to lower tax rates, boost military spending and not acknowledge the simple math of doing so(Trillion$ in additional national debt, higher overall taxation for the middle class or evisceration of Social Security/Medicare/Medicaid) is just intellectually dishonest. Mitt's side is complaining that fact-checkers and economists aren't allowing for the 'job-creating effects' of his tax breaks(hello 'supply side', 'Arthur Laffer' and 'Voodoo economics'). Take him at his words on his time running Bain: he studied the businesses they took over, tried to fix 'em up and sell 'em. That's what America is getting with this guy. He never managed ANY of those companies.
Best I can guess is that Obama's side rationalized beforehand that their guy is better off letting Mitt go on the record(yet again) with more of his economic nonsense. And I detected effort on Obama's part at not coming across as 'arrogant' which was smart considering the state of the economy.
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Mr./Ms.(?) "TSW"... am I supposed to retort with the colossal embarassment of Mitt Romney's recent "World Tour"?.. or his declaration that Russia is our main international foe... or his blame-barfing press conference regarding the attack on the US Embassy in Libya before anyone knew the facts?.. maybe you should think a little longer, assume that both sides here have a point and a purpose and be a bit more evenhanded in your criticism rather than so predictably partisan... you're one-liners are easy to ignore...
A little giddy this morning Jeff? No arguing Romney out-pointed the President, who turned in a lackluster performance, but Romeny did it with low blows, clinches and and throwing shots after the bell. A better refereed bout would have resulted in a more even outcome.
Once the dust clears and the fact checkers get to work the Romney campaign will ahve far less reason to be doing the happy dance. Willard will pay a price for his autocratic style and disregard for the truth.
Oh and Ali? Please? That man was an artist in the ring. I've seen Ali fight and Romney is no Muhammad Ali!
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On being objective, I have this to say. I find that Shedding my predilection to be happy when I feel real truths have been revealed as in last nights debate is nearly impossible. On heing honest, I have this to say. As an obvious Profox conservative, I was afraid that Romney was an empty suit until last night. He is the real article. He was presidential and showed great strength and intelligence. So, please cut me a little slack if I celebrate his obvious strength and ability as he demonstrated on that stage last night. My less than erudite comments were a bit effusive. Blaming the moderator for Obama's repeated "Uh's and Ah's" caused by his missing teleprompter is really silly. As The system worked wrote, I really felt sorry for him at one point. He looked down at the floor and looked like he was in over his head. That's no place for a president to be.
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"HHK" "I suspect that it comes from being a minority/underdog in MA. The underdog mentality always seems to chortle at the misfortunes and trip-ups of the party/persons thay see as their "oppressor".
Yeah I get the underdog thing, but it is so, One: intellectually childish and two: it doesn't convince anyone to vote for their candidate. Beyond that it makes for lousy thread conversation.
I didn't lose any debate. I wasn't there. I have said numerous times my only reason for preferring Obama over Romney is a refusal on my part to take part in giving control of the US government to the Southern leadership of the Republican Party. I do not like them, do not trust them and living amongst them I know them pretty well. So lose the debate, not hardly. Don't care. Frankly I thought it was for the most part boring. I should've let my wife watch Ghost Hunters. Neither candidate had anything of value to say. Romney won the optics and good for him and if that gives you a tingle good for you. However, having been in politics for many years a debate performance doesn't make an election. Merely a point in time.
This race was always going to be close for a number of reasons. Obama didn't have it won before the debate and Romney doesn't have it now. It appears to be a base year it may simply be a matter of who gets their folks out.
When the facts aren't on your side, all you've got left is aggressive bluster. ThinkProgress has already released a report on the myths Romney spouted last night: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/10/04/958801/at-last-nights-debate-romney-told-27-myths-in-38-minutes/ - should be great reading for the brainwashed right-wing automatons constantly squealing like stuck pigs about how "OMG Obama is such a liar!"
If you like your men BS-spewing blowhards who run from the facts, Romney is the guy for you - and you're the perfect Republican.
This is the first time (and hopefully the last) that I, unfourtunately, have to agree with Jeff Jacoby.
There were many points upon which Mr. Obama could have easily and effectively challanged Romney, but he was asleep at the podium.
One example:
Mitt said he is going to keep the two very popular and likely costly provisions of Obama Care; no rejection based on existing conditions (though that is not truely what he is willing to do), and letting children stay on parents healthcare till age 26. Yet he says the individual States should decide how to manage health care. That is clearly contridictory, Mitt so which is it? Furthermore, it clearly would create a federal mandate for which the States would to pay. Talk about going back to the Bush W play book.
Mr. Obama tried to address Mitt's fibbing regarding his stance of pre-existing conditions, but his response was muddled and he fell flat on his face. (btw in case you could not follow at home, Mitt's stance is just what current law is - basically, insurance companies have to keep an insured if a major illness crops up - but only if they have been on the plan more than 3 months)
When all is said and done, Romney's "victory" will be emphemeral. Every lie and evasion will be there for everyone to see. He focused on entertainment, not information. Scripted zingers are not leadership. Just one example, he never heard of tax breaks for outsourced companies. The brilliant business strategist never heard about that? He may have entertained the red meat crowd, but as usual could not recognize or tell the truth. And I am sick of hearing what he did in Massachusetts. To paraphrase: Nothing became his time here so much as when he left. What happened in Massachusetts (health care for all) was derided by him all over the country when he left. Now that he has the nomination from the Know Nothings, he claims the very credit he ran away from. Some morality.


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hello, I bought a 5v usb wall charger for my mbed and I thought that I could plug the USB into that and it doesn't seem to be working. The lights on the ethernet jack turn on but no LEDs on the mbed... What do I need to power the mbed not from a computer? This is what I bought http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10214 Thanks for any help!
I use a 5v regulated power supply but I connect it to VIN PIN2 and GRD PIN1, not the USB connector.
maybe this specific wall charger is supplying too much current and the mbed's current limiter is kicking in?
@Kevin LeCroy could you send me a link of the one you bought? Thanks!
Eh? That makes no sense at all, if you think about it.
I'm not sure why your power supply is not working. I'm pretty sure that 500ma is enough current.
I use an old computer power supply with the 12v output connected to an LM7805 5V voltage regulator like this: http://www.tkk.fi/Misc/Electronics/circuits/psu_5v.html
You could try this:
Cut the end off of a spare USB cable, connect it to your power supply and then connect the +5V (red wire) to PIN2 VIN and GRD (Black Wire) to PIN1 GRD.
USB Cable: Red wire = +5V, Black Wire = GRD
A power supply that is capable of supply 500ma is only CAPABLE of supplying that much current. It is the load that you put on the power supply that will determine how much current is drawn from the power supply.
OP may confuse the term "current" with "voltage".
Actually this should work - I'm using just this setup (using a wall charger from my old Motorola phone). But it might be that the charger supply is somehow waiting for a proper response from the actual charger before it delivers enough cuurent (kind of the reverse thing what the iPod and the like are doing).
Ok thanks for all the help. I actually got my motorola charger...it's got a little more juice...it's 5.1v and 850mA is this bad for the mbed to use this? when i use the 5v 500ma it doesn't work. i'm using an ethernetjack, lcd display, a camera and a sensor. i guess to power all that i need a little extra?
Powering the mbed Pin2 VIN with a 5.1v source capable of 850mA is fine. The Pin2 VIN is good for 4.5v-9.0v. Again, the mA rating on a power supply is the maximum current that the power supply can output. The actual current drawn is a function of the load that the circuit the power supply is connected to draws.
Just make sure that your power supply is regulated in that it stays 5.1v no matter what load you put on it (withing the specified voltage range that is). Don't use a "wall wart" or similar power supply without a regulator otherwise when there is little load the voltage could be much be higher that 5v.
Use a self-powered usb hub with its own wall wart to supply your circuit without loading your pc's supply. Safe, cheap and idiot-proof.
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Villanova bounces back in a big way with win against No. 5 Louisville
PHILADELPHIA — Just when you thought Villanova had hit rock bottom in a come-from-ahead loss at Providence, the Wildcats came home and stunned a Louisville team that was No. 1 in the land just four days earlier.
Don't try to figure it out. It's college basketball, where upsets happen, even one as stunning as Villanova's 73-64 takedown of the fifth-ranked Cardinals in front of 11,887 Tuesday night at the Wells Fargo Center.
No one, with the possible exception of freshman guard Ryan Arcidiacono, saw this coming.
Just three days earlier, Villanova (12-7 overall, 3-3 Big East) turned the ball over a season-high 25 times, 16 times in the second half, in a 69-66 loss to the Friars. It was the fifth time this season the Wildcats squandered the lead in the first half.
And it looked like Villanova was on its way to a sixth come-from-ahead loss when the Cardinals (16-3, 4-2), who trailed 30-28 at halftime, went on a 9-0 tear early in the second half to turn a 39-34 deficit into a 43-39 lead.
Usually, that would spell doom for the Wildcats, but not this time.
"There was no doubt in my mind that we were going to win this one," Arcidiacono said.
The freshman guard scored 11 of his team-high 15 points in the second half as the Wildcats rallied for their first victory over a team ranked in the top five since an 83-72 win over No. 3 Syracuse Jan. 22, 2011.
The victory also was Villanova's first over a ranked team since the Wildcats pinned a 66-50 loss on No. 25 West Virginia Feb. 5, 2011. The upset of the Cardinals came eight years to the day of Villanova's 83-62 romp over No. 2 Kansas and snapped a three-game losing streak.
And it was a group effort. Senior Mouphtaou Yarou, sophomore Darrun Hilliard and redshirt sophomore JayVaughn Pinkston chipped in with 11 points each and James Bell added 10 points, but this upset was made possible by Villanova's work on defense and on the glass. Continued...
Villanova held Louisville (16-3, 4-2) to 39 percent shooting overall (23-for-58) and 33.3 percent from 3-point range (6-for-18) and forced the Cardinals into a whopping 17 turnovers. Louisville came into the game averaging just 11.4 turnovers per game.
The Cardinals also shot a measly 50 percent from the free-throw line (12-for-24), which included a putrid 38.9 percent showing in the second half (7-for-18).
"I thought we broke through tonight," Arcidiacono said. "We knew were each other were at certain times in the game and we played together as a team for a full 40 minutes. There was a little stretch in the second half where they came back and got a little four- or five-point lead and that's where we got closer as a team. We kept grinding and grinding as a team and then we got the lead back. From there, it was just playing together as a team."
It was a relatively long stretch, one that lasted nearly eight minutes as the Cardinals opened up a 52-46 lead with 8:23 to play in the game. Instead of folding, though, the Wildcats dug in and Louisville fell apart.
The Cardinals could have staved off the upset by making its foul shots down the stretch. Instead, Louisville turned to ice, much like the frigid temperature outside. The Cardinals missed five straight free throws at one point and were 1-for-7 from the line in the final eight minutes.
That was the opening Villanova needed and the Wildcats pounced on it. Daniel Ochefu tipped in an Arcidiacono miss to cap a 7-0 run that gave Villanova a 53-52 lead. After Chane Behanan ended Louisville's free throw drought, Achraf Yacoubou drilled a 3-pointer from the left corner to put Villanova in front for good, 56-53.
Bell followed with another triple 56 seconds later. All the Wildcats had to do was hit their final 10 free throws to bring the student section storming on to the court.
"It's just great for them to get some reward for their work," Villanova coach Jay Wright said.
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Hundreds of Los Angelenos marched side-by-side through downtown Los Angeles on Saturday calling for the blessing of Our Lady of Angels as the city celebrates its 231st birthday.
Hosted by the Queen of Angels Foundation, a nonprofit association of lay faithful of the Catholic Church, the second annual Grand Marian Procession filled downtown streets with the music of dozens of countries from mariachi to bag pipes. The event, which began at La Placita Church in downtown Los Angeles and concluded at Our Cathedral of Our Lady of Angels, aimed to highlight the city's ever-expanding cultural heritage. | See photo gallery.
"This is about bringing our multicultural community together to call for God's blessing upon all of our cities' leaders - religious and civic - and its inhabitants," said Mark Anchor Albert, founder of the Queen of Angels Foundation.
Los Angeles was founded on Sept. 4, 1781 in the name of Our Lady of the Angels who, according to Catholic teaching, had appeared to St. Francis of Assisi more than 500 years earlier.
To mark the city's birth, the early settlers organized a grand procession to pray for Our Lady of the Angels' protection, according to the Queen of Angels Foundation.
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Albert said the foundation plans to host the procession every year on the second Saturday of September.
Councilwoman Jan Perry, who participated in Saturday's festivities, called the return of the celebration "an emotional step forward" for the city.
"Today is a joy and a blessing," she told the crowd that gathered at La Placita Church, "because it seeks to honor the history of our settlers and all of those who have worked hard for hundreds of years to make our city what it is today."
Forty different groups from the Knights of Columbus to the Los Angeles Police Department Emerald Corps Pipers and La Placita Latin American Devotional Societies participated, bringing together Los Angelenos of faith "from the most recent undocumented immigrant to the most established Catholic leaders of the city all coming together as one family of God," Albert said.
"I think this is the best part of Los Angeles," Perry said, "that it's so rich in diversity and language and history and culture."
Los Angeles resident R.D. Delgado agreed. He said that was why he felt it was important to bring his family out for the celebration.
"It's a way to celebrate our heritage as a city, as people of faith. And for them," he said, looking at his two young sons who were watching a traditional Guatemalan dance with awe, "it's important for them to see who they are and where they come from - and have a little fun."


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A team of researchers from the Academic Surgery Unit at University Hospital of South Manchester is collaborating with Lancaster University to develop a real-time patient monitoring and risk prediction system for use in operating theaters and intensive care units.
Among other benefits, researchers outlined the real-time analysis and prediction of multiple physiological parameters and the ability to change parameters ranges and alert thresholds for individual patients. The system also gives the ability to incorporate multiple clinical predictions.
"There are a lot of parallels between flying an aircraft and observing a critically ill patient. Both the surgeon and the pilot are dealing with a lot of information coming from a variety of sensors. They both need to know not only what is happening now but what might happen in the future and safety is absolutely critical," commented Lancaster University Aviation Security expert Professor Garik Makarian.
He added: "During a flight a pilot has to make decisions based on complex information coming from up to 1,000 sensors in the plane. He or she needs to know, not only what is happening to the aircraft right at this moment, but what is likely to happen in the future."
Pursuing the parallel between aviation and health, Makarian explained that, when a patient is critically ill or recovering from surgery, doctors monitor the patient's blood pressure, temperature, pulse and other vital signs very closely but have to rely on their experience to predict what is likely to happen next. Pilots have the additional benefit of tools to help them do that.
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The current model uses four patient physiological measurements: Systolic blood pressure (SBP), heart rate (HR), respiration rate (RR), and peripheral oxygen saturation (SpO2). It calculates IRIS score real-time, predicts individual physiological measurements and predicts IRIS score, researchers said.
He specified that the research team has just completed feasibility study and proof-of-concept, which provided promising results. "We are now in the process of putting applications for research funding."
Prof. Makarian continued: "We already have a prototype which we are using for testing and verification on the existing data base. We are waiting for ethical clearance from the hospital in order to go for real trials."
Once the system is up and running, researchers said they expect it will find applications in various healthcare settings.
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Hope to see many more such examples of sharing technological best practices across domains for good reasons.
So, is a doctor's job going to get easier with this tool as it is easier for a pilots to fly the plane equipped with the modern, sophisticated auto-pilot?
The first thing to do is to create an intuitive data interface ("dashboard"). We can all glance at the dashboard of our car and immediately recognize any system failures, our speed, and so forth. The medical data display should be at least as intuitive. I don't believe the end product will be a set of graphs. Perhaps it would be a human outline with a danger signal superimposed over the organ system that is failing. Or perhaps the organs would be "grayed out" when normal and "highlighted" when they were in an abnormal condition.


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Only played in Blitz, and the mix sounded very different from the well-known version that's been used in media forever. It sounds like a lot of the synth is missing or mixed very low in places. And as you pointed out, the vocals sound "off" a bit. But Blitz does some manip to the decibel level of the stem tracks, so I didn't want to make a big deal about it.
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I picked up The Weight, Jessica, I Melt with you and Cry Thunder. I played through all of them on guitar so far. The weight was really fun. A lot of standard chording but some little interesting parts thrown in. Gold starred it and got #13 or 14 on the leaderboard if I remember.
I had a hard time on the chording section of Jessica during the keyboards solo. I was struggling trying to alt strum that section and keep a 4x up but I have the speed to single strum the whole thing and was doing better but still left a lot to be desired. Overall I enjoyed the song. Didnt gold star it on my sight read though.
I melt with you was pretty repetitive on guitar. I didnt even gold star it because I figured I could breeze through. My sister was singing it and she said "I think all I said the whole song was I melt with you" , I was laughing.
Cry Thunder was my favorite of the 4 I bought. That will be entering into heavy rotation. Great song and so glad that was added.
Played through Cry thunder, The weight and Jessica on Blitz afterward. Gold starred the first two but not jessica. ON jessica coming out of the key solo there is a check point which was very frustrating.
Good week though. I only added 10 dollars on the credit card so I could only get the 4. I will pick up the NIN next point card I get. Im not gonna get the crossfade song.
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No double coins in Blitz for "Chest Fever," "Operation Ground and Pound," or "Through the Fire and Flames" ? Any reason why?
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This DLC is amazing, HMX. Thank you. I'll be buying everything this week, except for Dragonforce and Crossfade. Although, "Cry Thunder" actually sounds fairly decent, so I might pick it up at a later time.
Oh yeah, I'll be getting the Pro upgrades too. "The Weight" is really a great tune, even live, and I'd love to learn the progression. "Jessica" is going to be an absolute dream on Pro Guitar and Bass.
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I wound up caving and getting all six songs after everyone said how awesome they all are I was surprised at how non-wanky the DragonForce song is.
I'm not nearly l33t enough for the Pro upgrades this week, but "Jessica" will be awesome for those who are (I'm lukewarm towards "The Weight" anyway).
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I tried playing Closer for the NIN goal in blitz, and it doesn't count for it....
Still, closer was kinda fun to play in blitz as well
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Determine if a set has a password during downloading
May 08, 2010, 21:11:15 »
Passworded sets can be annoying even malicious when clicking through to the link or in the contents of the file.
If there is already a method to determine if the rar is encrypted then this kind of a wash for me. Otherwise here is how I detect if a set needs a password to extract.
Start the download:
Browse to the URD /tmp/<uusername> folder
The running download will be the newest created folder, open it
Hit refresh until rar files appear and have some data.
Open (do not extract) one of the rar file - I use 7-zip in windows
If the contents of the file name end in the expected file format extension EX: .avi .iso .mp3 then the file is not likely encrypted.
Close 7-zip - again do not extract, save or modify with the 7-Zip.
If the contents of the file have a .rar or unexpected extension it could require a password and you can cancel the download in URD, save the bandwidth.
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Last Edit: May 08, 2010, 21:22:54 by jdroflet
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Re: Determine if a set has a password during downloading
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May 12, 2010, 15:49:30 »
I've only DLed passworded crap by mistake once myself. Usually a good rule of thumb is to get the first version posted (on the right day), unless there is a PROPER. Fakes usually appear later, and have different size, names can hint also. It's not really a big issue, at least I haven't been suffering from it.
That said, I'll have a look at rar binaries to see if one can spot a flag that indicates encryption or not.
Looking at filenames inside archives is not really an option if you ask me, depends way too much on what you're downloading...
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Re: Determine if a set has a password during downloading
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May 12, 2010, 15:52:46 »
Seems I won't have to do research myself
Here's the header spec. I haven't verified it myself though.
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Re: Determine if a set has a password during downloading
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May 12, 2010, 19:12:05 »
I did some quick tests with encrypted split archives I created myself and a hex editor, and I can easily detect if there are encrypted files inside the archive. Usually an archive extracts to one large and few small files. Any part of the split archives can be VERY easily checked if the first file in that part of the archive is encrypted, next to no overhead since one only has to do read a very small part of the beginning. Since the large file will span over many archives it will be quickly spotted (unless it's rar insides rar I guess, but even that could be check for)
Spearhead, I'm not really a PHP guru and usually I would do sth like this as a separeate utility,c or perl, (it's funny that "file" doesn't report whether an archive is encrypted or not), but I could try adding a function (in functions.php or sth) you could call with a filename and i returns 0 is no encryption is found, -1 if encryption flags set?
It would create next to no overhead I'd say.. Doesn't matter which order files are downloaded in. In fact, best would be to check all rar files as they are assembled, and then have a config setting to abort and perhaps completely nuke a download if encryption is found.
You'd probably have to hook it up to the downloading/assembling code and add a config option for it, but I could write the checker.
Do you want it?
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May 12, 2010, 19:39:04 »
It wouldn't fit into the downloading code, as all file interaction is handled by yydecode at that point. Also these may be in random order. So it would have to go into the unrar code run afterwards. There would be a slight benefit perhaps by indicating it contains a pw.
Anyway, usually there is a crap prog in there installing malware or whatever, that contains the password. It would be more interesting if it would be able to detect that prog and extract the password from there. Dunno atm if that is feasible tho. URD has support for password encoded files tho. I'd have to look into that.
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Re: Determine if a set has a password during downloading
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May 12, 2010, 19:54:56 »
There would be no reliable way to extract a password from an executable since they would have to be analyzed manually for every version of the malware out there. I've done my fair share of playin with "crackmes" (
) and so on so I guess I could do it in theory, if there is one or two really common ones, but it feels kind of pointless since there will just be new ones coming out, I'm guessing.
My thought was more like this:
As files are downloaded and assembled rars start appearing. there could be 100 of them for a single download. We don't need all of them to check for this - the flag can be checked for in in the header in any one of them. So, as soon as 1 of them is there, URD could detect this (periodic checking for rar files in download directory as last resort, if URD has no real idea what's actually ending up in the download temp directory, or after yydecode has been run. It doesn't matter if we check x.rar or x.r34, x.03, the flags are in all of them. In fact we'd need just the the first couple 100 bytes of one the files, but easier to wait until at least one rar-part is completely assemebled.
Checking after the download is done wouldn't be worth the effort since the time and bandwidth it already wasted at that point.
But if you see no point in it, or if it's too messy having urdd "polling" the DL dir or whatever we'll scrap the idea, was just an idea
Always fun to play around with binary files every now and then
EDIT: For the hell of it, if someone has a couple of links to malware appearing again and again in downloads containing obfuscated password, I could take a look at it. I like sticking it to the maleware dudes whenever I can
Could perhaps end up to be a separate tool to safely extract passwords
Last Edit: May 12, 2010, 20:00:37 by thorwak
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Re: Determine if a set has a password during downloading
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As an update, I've been working on this for a couple of days, hex analyzing various types of encrypted rars and studying specs.
I have working detection for:
- Normally encrypted RARs
- Encrypted RARs inside unencrypted RARs
- File encryption method for both of the above
- Block encryption method for both of the above (this would be impossible to detect by looking at filenames as even they are encrypted)
Both encryption types tested and detected successfully from external NZB files.
It works by looking at the actual flags in the RARs, and any RARs inside RARs, analyzing data on-the-fly so a signal can be sent back to the "downloader" to abort the task if the user so wishes.
There's no gurantee it'll make it into URD since there may be other considerations and ulimately not up to me. Also some slight work is still needed to make download tasks cancel gracefully.
I did it for fun, but if it ends up being used, and useful to someone (I have a hard time finding encrypted posts even when looking for them) - even better.
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