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Once upon a time there was an Americans company called Motorola, and they decided to implement GSM. Unfortunately they decided to deviate significantly from the specification and implement their own proprietary back-haul protocol between BTS and BSC, called Mo-bis. It replaces the standardized A-bis interface.
Today, There are plenty of phased-out Motorola Horizon / Horizon II macro BTSs that have been phased out. Basically you can get them for scrap value, which makes them an ideal target for GSM enthusiasts willing to run a single-cell network with little investment. So while there are actually people who are interested in operating a power-consuming device roughly the size of a washing machine in their home/office - they are normally not interested in running a 19" rack sized Motorola BSC with it. Also, the BSCs are much less frequently to be found compared to the BTS.
So it would be great to support Mo-bis from within OpenBSC. A couple of brave young men have set out to try the seemingly impossible. There's absolutely zero documentation available on that protocol, and no wireshark support either. However, the University of Brno (Czech) has a functional Motorola BTS + BSC setup, and I was able to obtain protocol traces from them and actually experiment with the equipment in their lab.
The entire Motorola GSM architecture seems to be over-engineered without end. Basically you are looking at a distributed computer from the early 1990ies. Lots of processor cards (m68k, ppc) interconnected by HDLC links on top of synchronous 2Mbps links with 64k timeslots. Those links are available e.g. on the backplane of the BTS as a TDM highway. So basically even inside the BTS, the individual processors talk over E1 to each other. In the BSC, there is a token ring based LAN between some of the cards instead. And the MCUF in the BTS even supports to transport those proprietary inter-cpu links via fiber optic (!).
Each processor has a 16bit identifier by which it can be addressed in form of physical addresses. Individual processes on the processors have fixed process identifiers, and they allocate a variety of mailboxes in which they can receive messages from remote processors. There are routing functions at intermediate notes.
So any process on any processor card can send messages to any mailbox of any other process on any other processor, independent of its physical location (locally at the BTS, or at the remote BSC, or even at remote BTSs).
Besides physical addresses, there are also functional addresses. Thos addresses are used particularly to support fail-over. Every board in a BTS and BSC can be fully redundant, and if you use physical addresses, you would address one of the two redundant boards. Using functional addresses, you address the function they both can perform, and some routing magic will make sure it ends up at the current active node in the pair.
There are multiple processors in every TRX, and a couple of processors for each BTS, processors in the E1 line cards, etc. Now speaking of the actual Mo-bis interface: It seems to be a weird mixture between 08.58 (RSL) and 08.08 (BSSAP/BSSMAP). However, after staring at the messages sufficiently long, I have been able to write a more or less complete wireshark dissector for them. Radio Channel Activation (RACH/IMM.ASS) are for example handled directly inside the BTS, they don't exist as transactions on the Mo-bis like they do in A-bis.
So implementing the actual location update / MO+MT voice call and SMS related transactions is actually not all that hard. What makes things really difficult is the way the BTS is initialized at startup. Basically what resembles the OML part of standardized A-bis.
There is a lot of low-level management and bring-up of the individual processes and boards, and the download of a large 500 kByte-sized BLOB simply called database. This binary database contains literally hundreds of configuration parameters for the BTS and its neighbors. It also contains sophisticated configuration of the message routers, the switching/multiplexing of 64k timeslots on the various links, information on redundant paths within the back-haul network, etc.
Interestingly, using the password combination 3beatles and 4stooges on any of the serial consoles of the BTS or BSC, you can enter into a "god-mode" which permits you to enter the executive monitor (EMON). The executive is the operating system they run on both m68k and ppc processors. It provides access to something like a syslog of messages from the various processes, and you can manually generate messages that are to be sent to mailboxes of processes. You can inspect the object table (application programs an databases), read/write to PCMCIA flash cards, read and write to logical and physical memory, inspect CPU and I/O usage and much more. In fact, the integrated Code Object Manager (COM) even allows the processors to synchronize their code versions and remotely boot other CPUS via HDLC channels.
For a communications system geek like myself, it's extremely fascinating to see such a sophisticated and versatile system. I only wonder why on earth somebody would come up with something as complex, only to connect a couple of BTSs to a BSC. Thus, the only logical explanation is that Motorola has developed this distributed proprietary computing system way before they went into GSM, and they probably just recycled it as it already existed.
If anyone knows more about the history of this, I would be excited to hear about it. It literally feels like being an archaeologist. Analyzing ancient technology from our forefathers. But then, it only is 20 odd years old. The only time I had a similar feeling was when I briefly came in touch with IBM mainframes in 2001 and looking at IBMs SNA protocol stack.


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October 27, 2008
Charlie Manuel
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PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA: Game Five
Q. Charlie, during your time here people, fans and everyone in this city have said a lot of things about you. What would it mean to you to be called a world champion in this town?
CHARLIE MANUEL: I think it would be good. I think it would be great. I think it would be great for me to be called world champion here or in Buena Vista where I grew up, or in Florida where I live, or in Japan. I think it would be great, really.
People are going to say a lot of things about you, and I've always taken that sometimes personally. When somebody attacks me personally, yeah, that kind of upsets me, because I wish they were standing in front of me. But at the same time that's part of it. And that's part of being mentally tough. That's part of being able to handle things.
I know what I can do and I've always been, what do you call it, I've always felt free of who I am. And I go where I want to go. I do what I want to do. And really that's kind of -- that's who I am.
Q. Carlos, all year long you struggled a little bit offensively, but defensively and handling the pitchers you've done a great job. How important has the support of Charlie and the pitching staff been for you this year?
CARLOS RUIZ: It was very important. I think my first time when I got called up with Charlie, he told me that he would like to see the catchers very aggressive with a lot of energy on the field. So that's what I try to do every time. And I know my offense, but at the same time I never forget about the defense. I was still working on my swing all year long, so now I'm so happy because we are in a good position.
Q. Charlie, it seemed like your team really took off after the four-game sweep of Milwaukee in mid-September. What do you remember about back then and what do you think it was that got you going at that time and moving forward?
CHARLIE MANUEL: I think our pitching definitely played a big role in that. We caught Milwaukee, it felt at kind of like a down period. Like in August Milwaukee was clicking and they won a lot of games. And all of a sudden when we came in there, I don't want to take anything away from the way we played, because we played very good, but at the same time it seemed like they were in kind of a down period. And I felt like they were trying hard against us. And we had a real big series against them, of course. And that definitely helped us.
Q. Charlie, I think you kind of know during the course of the season the kind of comments that have been made about Chooch. And I was wondering if you can kind of put everything at rest. Is this guy the No. 1 catcher? Talk about him and what he means to this team.
CHARLIE MANUEL: Well, I think he's definitely the No. 1 catcher, and the reason that I hit on him and like I said the other day, I mean I still like Coste, and I've always liked Coste. I had Coste in Cleveland, and when I had him in Spring Training he had a sore arm and I put him in leftfield because I wanted to see him hit and stuff. And I know what Coste can do. But like when Chooch got in the lineup, when we started taking off and we started winning, I've left him there, mostly because he's been playing real good and he can catch. He blocks the ball good. He receives the ball good. He's really improved in calling the game. The pitchers really relate to him good and he throws good.
Q. Charlie, how would you describe just in general your philosophy as a manager? And when did managing as a career come into focus for you?
CHARLIE MANUEL: My philosophy as a manager, I play hunches a lot, but also I go by the book on certain things. And like the hustle and the energy part, I love that. I would say I'm definitely -- I'm excellence over success, if you follow that. I used to call it mastering the game. But like I was talking to someone, and I told some guys in here about the fact that Boswell, the guy in Washington, he wrote a book about -- Thomas Boswell wrote a book about "Heart of the Order" and I liked reading that book, because Davey Johnson and I -- Davey Johnson's name is in there. When I played baseball in Japan, I used to talk to Davey Johnson about the "Master of the Game." If I do something good and I excel at it, I figure the success will be there.
And I tell stories all the time, but that's the part that I like. When I think of Tiger Woods or somebody like that, he masters the game. He masters the game of baseball. And I've got a couple of guys on my team that I think of, Utley and Moyer, definitely they think that way when I talk to them. That's my philosophy.
Q. When did you decide you wanted to be a manager? When did you see that as a focus for your career?
CHARLIE MANUEL: You might not believe this, when I came out of Japan, when I retired from Japan and I left Japan, I was home in the wintertime and usually January 25th is when I'd leave to go to Japan. And I was getting antsy about going to Spring Training, because I'd been in the game all my life. And I want to say about the first week in February George Brophy with the Twins called me and he asked me would I come to work for him. And whether you guys believe it, you probably won't believe it, because Brohpy and I used to not get along very good.
I told him, you would have been the last guy I thought that would call me. He told me, "I'm calling you because I know how much you love baseball, and I know how honest you are and I love your determination." He said, "I know what baseball means to you." And I went to work for the Twins. And when I first went to work, I was a minor league roving hitting coach and also I was a cross-checker, I was a scout. I went to see big prospects like Doc Gooden and Shawon Dunston and Franklin Stubbs. In that one season I went to see all these guys play, and I would call him up and give him a report on the guys.
And then the following year he asked me would I manage Wisconsin Rapids. Actually when I got into the game as a manager, whether you believe this or not, I wanted to teach, but at the same time I still wanted to take batting practice (laughter), and I used to hit every day. And Dick Pole and Coxie, a guy that used to work for the Phillies, a catcher, they had a team in Davenport and I was at Wisconsin Rapids and they actually got a scouting report on me. Like Dick Pole said some guy gave him a scouting report, and said, "You have to watch that guy. He looks really old because he can really hit. I forget his name, but this guy can really hit. He may hurt you."
But really that's why I got in the game. I never thought, whether you believe this or not, in my wildest dreams I did not think of ever coaching in the big leagues, I did not think of managing in the Major Leagues. I wanted to teach and I loved being around it and I thought I had something to offer. And the more I did it, like the players that I've had, I always tell this, I tell Chooch every time we get in a meeting or something, and I tell you guys the same thing, the players are the ones that put me here today. They always say you have to have someone to back you, and I think through my work ethic and basically who I am, I'm totally a baseball guy, because I think that the players put me where I'm at. And I always give credit to my players, but at the same time I also think that I can communicate with people, and like that's the part of it I like.
Q. Can you talk about whatever-it-takes attitude in this club, Ruiz's roller, Blanton's blast, where does that come from and how did you get to that point this year?
CHARLIE MANUEL: You want to answer that first? Do you understand?
CARLOS RUIZ: No (laughter).
CHARLIE MANUEL: I said, sometimes it's better to be lucky than good. And I think Blanton proved that a swinging bat is dangerous. Human nature plays a part in the game. I got all these scouting reports, all you guys know that, you see them on my desk when you go in there. And we've got computers. We've got about everything you can name in a game. But at the same time human nature still plays a lot of it and where the ball goes and everything. And they talk about we have defense here, and we do this and that, you can't defense a ball like Chooch hit the other night, and you can't defense a ball that hits on the line or somebody steps in a bucket and hits the ball the other way and it hits on a line and rolls over the first base bag. Like, Myers hit a ball against the Dodgers. I mean, those are parts of the game that, like things happen. And to me sometimes it's luck. It's sometimes getting a break, and it's sometimes luck is better than being good.
And like you play every game, every game and different. And also it's like I said the other day about Williams, he said every at-bat is an adventure, every game that you play has definitely got to be an adventure then.
Q. Carlos, can you talk to me a little bit about your relationship with Chris Coste. I know you guys were splitting time the majority of the season. He says he doesn't have a better friend on the team than you. Can you talk a little about your relationship?
CARLOS RUIZ: Yeah, I think he's my best friend on the team. I would like to say the rest of the guys, we are great ballclub. So Costie, I play with Costie in the minor leagues, so I know he's a cool guy. He always tries to speak Spanish. I know also I play with him in Panama in '04, so I know him very good. So always we talk about the game and during the game we do it in Spanish, too. I help him and he help me, too. So we are good friends.
Q. Carlos, you were second baseman in Panama and who converted you? And how difficult was it to learn how to do that?
CARLOS RUIZ: Yeah, I was infield. I used to play third base and second base, too. So I was trying to sign so bad for different teams, but they were looking for more speed. Allan Lewis is a scout from the Phillies for us. He tried to put me catch, and I said, okay, I like it, so I put on gear. That was okay, that's fine. Let's do it. And they signed me in '98, and I became a catcher.
Q. Charlie, both of these clubs obviously have power, but they both run some, too. You guys have run well in the past two years, do you see speed making a comeback in the game?
CHARLIE MANUEL: I definitely see that, very much so. And actually nowadays if you see a lot of the real good players that can run, they also have power. Yeah, that's what makes the game more exciting. Like the guy playing center field, Upton and Crawford, those guys like that, they have power and they've got speed, and that's what I think the better quality of players you put on the field of course the more fans will like your product. And that's what makes the game go.
But, yeah, I love speed. And speed can do a whole lot.
Q. What kind of influence did Billy Martin have on you? And do you manage like him at all?
CHARLIE MANUEL: I think a lot of is being around him. He definitely was a player's manager. And I tell stories about him, I think about him a lot, because I always felt like he was close. He bought my first suit of clothes, called Harry Winwraps (phonetic). And he used to call me "redneck" and stuff like that. And he said I need to dress better. But back in those days I didn't have any money, I made $8,500 a year in the big leagues.
He bought my first suit of clothes and it was a black and white, long confederate-looking suit. And I asked him, "What do you want me to wear a confederate suit for?" And he said, "I wonder why." (Laughter). Really.
Like when I think of Billy Martin I think of some of the funniest things in the world, really. We used to fight him. He used to love to fight us. We boxed and stuff like that. He was a little guy. He was fast and quick. We used to hit on him. I mean, we used to have some good blows, man. I really enjoyed him. He would come down to the bench. He would always keep you involved in the game, too. Once the game was going on, you better be watching the game, because he'd always check you out on how many outs there were, who the outfielders were playing or infielders or something like that, and if you give him the wrong answer, he might just smoke you (laughter).
I remember the first time we went to Yankee Stadium, this is a true story, for some reason he was always hanging around me. And he points up there on the facade there in right field, up at the top of the facade, and it's kind of cloudy that day, and you couldn't hardly see the top of it. I don't know if you guys was in the old ballpark, but that's a long ways. We're talking about somebody really hitting a ball farther than I can imagine. And he says, "You see that facade up there?" I said, "Yeah, I see it." He goes, "Mantle, that's where Mantle hit a ball, right up on the top that facade." And I said, "ain't no way." He went off and hit me upside the head. And he cursed and said, "I was on second base. Don't tell me. You know everything." I never will forget that.
When you talk about him, I knew stories, just things about him, I laugh. And Martin he was a student of the game, once it started he definitely kept you interested in the game. And he could hold your interest, and that's what I liked about him. He was a very intelligent baseball guy. If he missed something or he made a mistake, he took it very personal, plus he had a bad temper anyway. He would get mad at you, and he would scream.
He sent me in to pinch-run one night in Detroit for Killebrew, and I think McClain was pitching, and Stanley was playing shortstop. I went in the game and I got off second base about this far, and bent down to stretch and all of a sudden Stanley is standing there with the ball. And I looked at him and I said, "You better not tag me." I went running back to the dugout, and there's a gate out there in right field, and if I could have gotten over that gate, I would have did it. When I got out of there, he was standing there screaming, there was nothing coming out of his voice, but you see the veins, aaggh! (Indicating). Nothing was coming out. I went over and sat down. He'd come over, and I never will forget this, and he looked at me and said, "Don't worry about it. It's my fault for putting you in the game." (Laughter).
Q. Chooch, being you signed with the Phillies in 1998, everyone talks about the other homegrown guys in the organization, when was it and what level in this Phillies organization did you think "I can be a big league catcher," and when the organization said "You're going to be our guy"?
CARLOS RUIZ: I was in Reading, in Double-A. I know Charlie with us that year. That was, yeah, my second year in Reading. And that year I feel like I can be in the big leagues for a while. And at the same time I was telling myself I have to keep working. I knew I had an opportunity to catch in the big leagues. So they sent me to Arizona. That's the year they put me on the roster. So I can feel close to the big leagues.
Q. I know when this team left Spring Training you thought it was possible that you could find yourself in this position, but has this team grown in some way that maybe you didn't expect?
CHARLIE MANUEL: I think that our starting pitching, I think it definitely has. I think actually our offense is probably a little more consistent than we realize. But we got off to such a good start and I always talk about in St. Louis when the reporters come up and they ask me about you're on pace to score a thousand runs. I said, "Let's not talk about that." I said, "Let's see how many runs we can score." We went out and scored 20 runs.
Our offense hasn't been as consistent that I would like, but at the same time our starting pitching is definitely the big thing that has definitely helped us get us where we are today. Our bullpen was good from the start, but once Gordon went down, he was hurt there for a while in the eighth inning, but these guys stepped up, especially Madson, Romero and Durbin. We filled that hole that we had. That's made the difference. And that definitely has helped us get to the point where we're at right now.
Q. Most players don't want to read scouting reports, because they don't want to be inundated with too much information. As a catcher preparing the pitching staff, do you need to read scouting reports?
And then Charlie, how has the scouting system changed. Has it become more sophisticated in the last 10 or 15 years?
CARLOS RUIZ: Yeah, always I talk to them, they do a very good job on the scouting reports. And also they have a video, like Charlie say, and I always go down there and check every hitter. So I always try to do something different every at-bat, with every pitcher, too, because everybody have different thoughts.
Also, I was seeing the game, we don't know yet when we win the division, I was watching the games between Devil Rays and Boston, and I was watching the ballclubs because we don't know yet what was the team. So I tried to get some information, and that's what I tried to do. And that worked. The pitcher did a very good job, too.
CHARLIE MANUEL: I think from my standpoint our scouting reports have been very good, especially here in the playoffs. It's been real good. Pat Gillick, our general manager, he's still a guy that believes in scouting teams and sending guys out. And we still have Major League scouts and our guys do a tremendous job. And he believes in that.
And also during the season Dubee keeps a lot of the stuff as far as the game play, and Mike Ondo, a guy that works out of the front office, they do a tremendous job. Most teams rely on like -- to me like we are kind of the old throwback guys. But a lot of teams they go with a computer or different companies that sell software that you can get all the information about every Major League Club. But we don't do that as much as some teams do. But what we get, our reports, they're fantastic.
And like Chooch was talking about, the computer has definitely helped things and it helps us see a lot of the games that we would -- like we can just pull games up and watch them, say for instance a pitcher for the opposing team and things, we can get a lot of information that way and also watch their hitters.
Q. Charlie, could you please tell us about the performance of Romero, the use of him in the World Series. And Chooch, please tell us what makes Romero effective now?
CHARLIE MANUEL: You know, Romero to me this season he's had a very big season. He's played a big role in our bullpen, of course. He's tough. He's deadly on left-handers. He does a heck of a job on left-hand hitters. He's good on righties, but at the same time like I try to match him up, especially late in the game, like if two lefties, one righty, or if there's four left-handed hitters standing there and there's one or two righties, I don't mind letting him go through all six of those hitters, like the other night I let him face Barrett, and Barrett was hitting .369 against lefties. And like I had all the confidence in the world against him.
Certain guys, big guys that might can really hurt you at different times, if we've got a Lidge or Madson in the bullpen, I'll go to those guys, but I have a lot of confidence on Romero. The time he's been here since we picked him up last year, he's done a tremendous job.
CARLOS RUIZ: And he also brings a lot of energy to my team. When they come to the mound he shows everybody he's there on the mound, you know. So I think that's a key, too. And he's very aggressive with fastball and the sinker, especially for a lefty.
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The last remaining problem in this whole "everything is a sphere" business, is the Smooth Poincare Conjecture in dimension 4: If $X\simeq_\text{homo.eq.} S^4$ then $X\approx_\text{diffeo} S^4$. Freedman showed that this holds if we replace "diffeomorphism" by "homeomorphism", so another viewpoint would be that $S^4$ has no exotic smooth structures.
Restated: If $X$ is a connected, closed smooth 4-manifold with $\pi_1X=1$ and $H_*X\cong H_*S^4$, then $X\approx_\text{diffeo}S^4$.
This was told to me by Michael Hutchings, who motivationally remarked a way to solve it (Edit: not an original suggestion of his):
Find a symplectic structure on $X-\lbrace pt\rbrace$ which is standard near the puncture-point.
Then we're done by "Recognition of $\mathbb{R}^4$": Let $(M,\omega)$ be a noncompact symplectic 4-manifold such that $H_\ast(M)\cong H_\ast (pt)$. Suppose there exist compact sets $K_0\subset M$ and $K_1\subset\mathbb{R}^4$ and a symplectomorphism $\phi:(M-K_0,\omega)\to(\mathbb{R}^4-K_1,\omega_\text{std})$. Then $\phi$ extends to a symplectomorphism $(M,\omega)\to(\mathbb{R}^4,\omega_\text{std})$, after removing slightly bigger compact sets.
I am ignorant to the size of this wall (the conjecture) and the ability to make an indent in it. But the above idea is pretty cool, even if not anymore helpful than the original statement. The Poincare Conjecture (in dimension 3) was solved using Hamilton's idea of Ricci flow. This leads me to ask: Is there another idea proposed to tackle this conjecture? Or a failed attempt?


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Sony Will Replace PSPs With Dead Pixels
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If those dead pixels on your PSP have your frustrated, Sony has stepped up and said that they will replace any PSP that has two or more dead pixels. They request that you give the unit a try for a couple of weeks to see if it still bothers you. If so, contact them and they will hook you up with a new one. While replacing units with two or more dead pixels is a nice gesture, Nintendo replaces DS units that have only one dead pixel. That's customer service.
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DVD Release List: 3/29/2005
Posted by Oscar M. Cantu Categories: Movies,
This week's DVD release list is a steal of a list! Topping this week's list is After the Sunset starring Pierce Brosnan, Salma Hayek, Woody Harrelson, and Don Cheadle. The story of a big heist involving the game of cat-and-mouse between the FBI and some thieves just wanting to relax and enjoy their money is one you shouldn't miss. If the story line of "big heist" movies doesn't entice you, perhaps something like Orgazmo will. Whoa, slow down – it isn't what you think it is! Okay well maybe it is in a way. South Park co-creator Trey Parker stars and directs the film about an innocent Mormon kid who gets sucked into the adult-movie industry and becomes a sensation as the porno superhero Orgazmo. If you enjoy South Park then you are sure to enjoy this one.
After the Sunset ~ New Line Home Entertainment
Orgazmo: Unrated Special Edition ~ Universal Pictures
Closer ~ Sony Pictures Entertainment
Apollo 13: Anniversary Edition ~ Universal Pictures
Vera Drake ~ Warner Home Video
Murder, She Wrote - The Complete First Season ~ Universal Pictures
Astro Boy: The Complete Series ~ Sony Home Entertainment
Halo 2 Expansion Pack Confirmed
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Bungie finally shed some light on the rumors about a possible Halo 2 multiplayer expansion pack. There will definitely be an expansion pack which will include nine new multiplayer maps, scheduled will be available on June 28th. Seems like a long time from now, however Xbox Live users will be able to download the maps sooner than that. Starting in late April the first four maps will be available for download. Here's the twist though – two will be free and the other two will be available for purchase. How much is not clear, but we can probably expect to pay $4.99 for the pack (much like the rest of downloadable packs). The remaining five maps will be made available on Xbox Live the day the retail pack is made available (June 28th). For all those of you that actually have patience, ALL the maps will be available for free by late summer. Here's a quick list of the first four maps:
- CONTAINMENT - A massive, mostly outdoor, and somewhat symmetrical environment set in the frozen tundra near Sentinel Wall, on Delta Halo.
- WARLOCK - Set in the rain-soaked ruins of an ancient Forerunner structure, nobody knows if Warlock is a temple, a castle or even a dwelling.
- TURF - The surrounding streets and evacuated buildings of Old Mombasa make it a dangerous warren, with potential assassins lurking in every shadow and around every corner.
- SANCTUARY - A walled grotto defines the center point of this Forerunner habitat, from which aqueducts span out, like the hands of a clock.
These maps look and sound amazing. I know I can't wait to do some major slaughtering on these maps.
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If you have yet to jump on the portable audio bandwagon, this may be the time to do so if you were waiting for a unique MP3 player. Audiotronic has a one-of-a-kind player line which they call iCool. The products range from embossed face plates, to aroma scented units. Now get this - you too can take a sniff of your Marijuana MP3 player whenever you please. Not sure what kind of effect this will have if you are trying to get through airport security (you might have to make a run for it if you see a big guy with some latex gloves coming toward you). The MP3 player line does not come with impressive storage capacity, as the units range from a whopping 16 MB all the way up to 256MB. They run for about 10 hours on a tiny AAA battery and are upgradeable through an SD/MMC slot. The iCool also comes with a built-in voice recorder, 96x24px blue-backlit LCD and has support for MP3/WAV/WMA.
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Star In the Film You Are About to See
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If you have ever wanted to star in a feature film, but didn't feel like auditioning or paying thousands for acting lessons, here comes the next best thing. Over in Nagakute, Japan at the Aichi Expo, a theater allows audience members to have their faces scanned before the film starts. The faces are then superimposed onto the animated characters in the movie, in which the audience members become the stars. It is said that the film quality is equal to that of Shrek or Toy Story. Very cool.
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Mac OS X 'Tiger' Available for Pre-Order at Amazon
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Amazon has put up a preorder page for Apple's next OS X update, Tiger. Looking at the product page, you will notice that there is no release date listed, but we expect you will have it in your hands sometime in April, possibly May. The features of the Tiger OS are said to be very close to what Microsoft plans to bring to the table in Longhorn.
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TiVo HME Bloglines Reader Add-On Released
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Over the weekend word got out that a TiVo add-on for the HME (Home Media Engine) has been released. According to eHome Upgrade, this "must have" add-on is actually quite limited with its initial functions. It reportedly allows users to log-in and read their Bloglines feed subscriptions through the TiVo interface. This sounds great, but it doesn't seem to work all that well. The feeds aren't sorted in any particular order, folders in your Bloglines feeds are completely ignored ,and the screen title positioning is bad.
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Sony Ordered to Pay $90 Million To Immersion
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Sony has been ordered by the US court to pay up $90 million in damages and halt Playstation and Playstation 2 sales in the US due to patent infringement.
SCE said it will continue US sales of the products ordered to be halted, which include PlayStation and PlayStation 2 consoles, two game controllers and 47 software titles, as the court order will not go into effect before until Sony's appeal. Sony will also be paying compulsory license fees to Immersion, the company who filed suit, an SCE spokeswoman said.
Immersion, a California-based developer of tactile feedback technology, claimed Sony Computer Entertainment infringed on its technologies that make a game controller vibrate in sync with actions in games.
(Thanks Veronica!)
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Duke University iPod Follow Up
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Back in July we told you about Duke University giving iPods to all freshmen coming in. Well, the school has reported back with a few interesting paces on a page dedicated to their iPod program. The page has information on why the program was started, as well as the different projects that have come about through the program. While this is all nice, I think it is fair to say that most student just use their Duke-supplied iPod as an MP3 player - and not much more.
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If you have been looking for a good Skype phone for use on the go, this seems to be the one to get. In fact, the reviewer seems to think that this Pocket PC 2003 phone could possibly be a laptop replacement. A bold statement, but reading the review does make us wonder.
This device is extremely useful and can do a great deal. With the keyboard slid home it looks like many other PocketPC's or PocketPC Phones, but the inclusion of the keyboard - which after a very short while is easy to master - means that this gets a definite thumbs up from me.
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It's been two years since Jackie Estacado used The Darkness to kill the men responsible for his girlfriend's murder. He's been unable to shake the memory of Jenny's death since bottling up his supernatural power and now The Darkness wants out.
A sudden, unprovoked attack on Jackie's life heralds the start of a full-scale mob war and opens the door for The Darkness to reemerge. The botched attempt sets Jackie on a journey to hell and worse as he unravels the mystery behind the attack and the motivations of The Darkness itself.
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MIDDLEBURY — The ID-4 Second Language Committee is recommending that Mary Hogan Elementary School begin offering a Spanish program beginning next fall — initially to students in grades K-2, but ultimately to all grades by the 2015-2016 academic year.
The recommendation, made to the ID-4 school board on Nov. 22, comes after almost a year of study following a petitioned request by more than 90 residents seeking resumption of world language instruction at Mary Hogan. The school dropped French classes several years ago, primarily due to financial reasons.


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Rising Senior Named Third Team Academic All-American
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Rising senior Chris Labosky was named to the CoSIDA/ESPN the Magazine Academic All-America men's track and field/cross country third team. Labosky, a humanities major, earned a second team All-Ivy nod during the 2008-09 indoor track and field season as a member of the 4x880-yard relay team. The Tallmadge, Ohio, native was also an IC4A qualifier in the 800-meter run and the 4x800-meter relay in the outdoor campaign.
Labosky is a two-time Academic All-District honoree, having also garnered the award as a sophomore.
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It was 2013 when a medium-sized library in Ohio found itself in the midst of a data breach that would later serve as a powerful case study warning against the very real threat of electronic fraud. While originally developed by the Ohio Auditor of State's office as a tool for government entities throughout the state, Cash Management 240: Financial Fraud – A Case Study, has found usefulness beyond just the government sphere.
Leaders of not-for-profit organizations and for-profit business owners would also find value in this resource, which outlines:
- the events that resulted in the occurrence of the data breach,
- the reaction of entity officials during and after the breach was detected, and
- the short- and long-term outcomes that resulted from the breach.
While I strongly recommend that you read the entire case study, I provide a brief overview of the story below.
How would you respond to a data breach?
Library officials were notified of the occurrence of fraudulent activity impacting the entity's checking account in March of 2013. According to the bank, the fraudulent activity appeared to be limited to three transactions, totaling $144,743. Fortunately, bank officials were proactive in their efforts to recall the transactions.
In an effort to avoid further fraudulent activity, library officials decided to disconnect the accounting workstations from the entity's network and proceeded to contact their technology vendor, who advised the library proceed with reformatting both accounting workstations immediately. Soon thereafter, library officials contacted the local police station to report the incident, closed the entity's existing bank accounts and opened new ones, and notified employees of the data breach as well as the board of directors.
Due to the nature of the breach, it didn't take long before the Ohio Auditor of State's office and the FBI were notified of the incident as well. And, in an effort to try and reclaim some of the money that was stolen, a claim was filed with the entity's insurance carrier. Finally, the library's bank was able to successfully recover $54,910 of the amount that was stolen. In 2014, when the case study was released, the library was still in the process of negotiating with the bank regarding $89,833 that was still missing.
So, what do you think? Would you say that the library officials were effective in their management of the data breach? What would you do if your company or nonprofit found itself in a similar situation?
Well, according to the FBI, the library could have handled the situation better. For example, the library should have not reformatted the workstations. The FBI and local police force should have been contacted immediately. And finally, the entity should have followed all instructions mandated by the bank to eliminate the possibility of such fraudulent activity.
Since it's 2013 data breach, the library:
- Is now required by the bank to follow the ACH Originator Agreement.
- Has designated one stand-alone PC to be used for online banking.
- Has requested online access from only one IP address
- Has purchased a cybercrime policy.
- Revisited its banking RFP to include a section regarding online banking security minimums.
Do you have a plan to help deter cybercrime?
The above scenario is just one of the countless cybercrimes that occur every day and every type of businesses, entity and organizations are being impacted. If you don't have a plan in place to help prevent cybercriminals from infiltrating your network and stealing your data for financial gain, or a strategy to recover once a breach has been identified, you are in a very vulnerable position.
I believe that in order to protect against a cybercrime attack, it's important to be armed with as much knowledge as possible. On Sept. 7, 2016, FBI Agent David Fine will be the featured presenter of part two of the Columbus Cybersecurity Series. During this portion of the presentation, attendees will hear real-life examples of attacks on businesses, including what schemes are prevalent today. Audience members will also discover the very real impact these attacks have on companies and what they can do to deter an attack from occurring in their own business or organization.
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As exclusively revealed by Goal.com last week, McCarthy was the subject of an enquiry from the Gunners earlier in the transfer window.
But, when asked whether there was any truth in the rumours that McCarthy might be set to leave, Martinez told reporters: "No. As you know, at this moment the last thing we want is to lose players. We are not going to lose players.
"We are not a football club that have got big amounts of money to spend but what we haven't got is debts.
"We made a profit of £4 million this year and that means that we can re-invest and we can look internally to try to be as strong as we can be.
"We are not going to lose any players, if anything we are going to add some."
Having witnessed his side fall to a 3-2 defeat to Sunderland on Saturday afternoon, the Spaniard also lamented the defensive injury crisis currently affecting the Latics.
He added: "With the injury of Ivan Ramis on top of the injury to Antolin Alcaraz, we haven't got a large enough squad to lose two or three players in the same position to cope with it.
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"The reality has been that we haven't been able to defend the same way we did in the last nine games of last season and since the Spurs game we have never been able to play the same team.
"That is something that isn't an excuse, that's a reason and I need to find a solution."
But Martinez did underline his desire to bolster his ranks following the news that centre-back Ivan Ramis has been sidelined for the rest of the seasonn.
"Yes, we do. Generally, I think it is a good moment for us to rectify that," said the Latics boss when quizzed on his intentions for the window.
"It is difficult for a foreign player to come in in January to make an impact and pick up the tempo of this league straight away. So I will be looking more for players that have had that experience."


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|We've probably made close to 10,000 of these muffins over the past 12 years. If you can find them, use the small wild blueberries; the large "high bush" berries pop while cooking and leave goey spots in the muffins. Frozen Maine berries (we use Wyman's when we can't get fresh) work just as well as fresh, but don't thaw them prior to mixing them into the batter.
|3 cups flour
1 cup sugar
4 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
1/4 cup melted butter
1 cup whole milk
grated rind of one orange
2 cups blueberries
Note: you can get a head start on morning muffins the night before by mixing together the dry ingredients and — separately — the eggs, milk, and orange rind. Refrigerate the wet ingredients. In the morning, melt the butter, add to the wet ingredients and follow the recipe for mixing with the dry ingredients and baking.
Yield: 1 dozen large muffins
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Richard Childress Racing announced today that Anderson's Maple Syrup will serve as a primary sponsor for two races this season with driver Brian Scott and the No. 2 Chevrolet Camaro NASCAR Nationwide Series team.
The Wisconsin-based company will serve as the primary partner on the No. 2 Chevrolet at Auto Club Speedway on March 22 and Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 24. In addition to the two-race primary sponsorship, Anderson's will also have an associate sponsorship presence on the No. 2 machine throughout the 2014 season.
"Our partnership with a legendary team like RCR is something Anderson's Maple Syrup is very proud of for this year," said Steve Anderson, President of Anderson's Maple Syrup. "We certainly have high expectations for Brian Scott in 2014 and know he will be a great spokesman for our family brand."
Family-owned and operated for more than 80 years, Anderson's Maple Syrup started as a hobby and has since grown into a quality business. After selling all their farming equipment in the late 1940's to dedicate themselves to the maple syrup industry, the family is one of the largest packagers of pure maple syrup in the Midwest and a top equipment dealer in the region.
Anderson's Pure Maple Syrup can be found in grocers across the country. Proudly made in the USA, Anderson's family promise is to provide their partners with the finest all-natural maple products. For more information, visit www.andersonsmaplesyrup.com.
"Let's just say, breakfast is my favorite meal of the day," Scott said. "And who doesn't love maple syrup? I'm really looking forward to being a part of the Anderson's Maple Syrup family and having them on board our No. 2 Chevrolet Camaro at Auto Club Speedway and for the home race in Charlotte. Nothing would be sweeter than a trip to Victory Lane."
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Employee update from the Chancellor's Office: Two labor groups agree to furloughs to address budget cuts
Note: the following e-mail was sent on 6/24/09 to all faculty and staff.
Dear faculty and staff:
Following is an update on CSU discussions with labor unions regarding budget reductions. The Chancellor's Office has asked that we share this information with you.
-- Robert A. Corrigan, president
Two labor groups agree to furloughs to address budget cuts
Members of two of the California State University's labor unions have voted to discuss the concept of two-day-per-month furloughs as the CSU deals with a projected $584 million budget cut.
The agreement comes from members of the California State University Employees Union (CSUEU) representing 16,000 non-academic employees, and the Academic Professionals of California (APC), representing 2,400 student service employees who were polled by their leadership about the proposed furlough plan. Since the CSUEU's and APC's labor agreements with the CSU contain only provisions for mandated non-retention and layoffs, the unions will need to agree to a proposed furlough plan.
Including employees in management positions who may be furloughed, to date approximately 21,000 of the CSU's total workforce of 47,000 employees are committed to considering furloughs as one way to address the budget deficit.
CSU has been meeting with its labor unions to discuss the furlough option along with other proposals to mitigate the impact of the budget reduction. Approximately 80 percent of the CSU's costs are salary and benefit payments, and the CSU is proposing to furlough all of its employees (with the exception of public safety personnel) in all classifications, including management and executives. The CSU recently initiated changes to Title 5 of the California Code of Regulations for management and executive personnel which would allow it to alter provisions related to furlough, salary reductions and unpaid holidays. The change was put into place to meet a 45-day requirement should action be needed at the July 21 Board of Trustees meeting. The Title 5 revision can be found here: http://www.calstate.edu/title5/index.shtml
Although the state budget has not been finalized, Gov. Schwarzenegger's May revision of the state budget proposes a $584 million cut to the CSU's general fund support for 2009-10, representing a 13 percent reduction in state support from 2007-08. The furloughs, if accepted by all employees, would save approximately $275 million, and other cost-saving options are under discussion to address the remaining deficit. CSU Chancellor Charles B. Reed has been working with the campus presidents on an action plan and expects to release details in the next few weeks. Reed has indicated that the guiding principles are to "serve as many students as possible without sacrificing quality, and to preserve as many jobs as possible."
A furlough is a mandated period of time off without pay. Furloughs differ from salary reductions and pay cuts in that they are temporary and do not affect employment status, or health or retirement benefits. Employees are not required to work on furlough days.
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crosswinds, stability, and trail from Bicycle Quarterly
It's well established that trail contributes to bicycle stability. For example, this reference describes trail as a generally positive thing for stabiltiy: more trail = more stable. So if I'm riding in a cross-wind with deep-dish wheels, I should want a lot of trail, obviously.
Yet of my two bikes, a Ritchey Breakaway (somewhat slack 72.5° head tube angle) and my Fuji SL/1 (super-slack 71° head tube angle), the Ritchey seems to do better in cross-winds. What's up with that? Everything I'd read says trail is what makes bikes move in a straight line. That should apply to cross-winds as well as to other conditions, right?
Well, not quite.
What trail does is cause the bike to steer when it leans. This is normally a good thing for stability, since generally you want the bike to be vertical relative to gravity if it's going in a straight line: the bike starts to lean, the front wheel turns due to the trail, and the bike steers into the lean, moving the contact patches back under the center of mass and keeping the bike + rider upright. A bike with too much trail really, really "wants" to stay upright. If you push it without a rider, it will coast further before crashing than a bike with little trail, all other things equal.
But a cross-wind changes things. When a cross-wind hits a rider, the condition of static balance is for the rider to lean into the wind. With trail, the front wheel turns in response to the lean. This is not at all what's wanted: the rider therefore needs to turn the handlebars to fight the tendency of the bike to steer. Since "wheel flop" is generally greater with a bike with more trail (wheel flop = sin θ cos θ T, where θ is the head tube angle and T is the trail), and wheel flop determines how hard it is to straighten the handlebars when the bike is leaned over, a bike with more trail or a slacker head tube needs more force to keep the bike moving in a straight line. The Fuji has both more tail and a slacker head tube: a flop-double-whammy.
So while that slack head tube may be nice for carving lines through corners (some of that benefit lost due to the greater flop), it's not a good thing when there's a steady side-wind.
So my perceptions weren't so crazy after all: the Ritchey may well be, in theory as well as in practice, the better cross-wind frame.
4 comments:
- TnA said...
Dan, do they say anything about the influence of deep section wheels? On the front, the larger surface area and the fact that the center of pressure is offset from the steering axis will tend to work in the opposite direction of the lean effect, no? (Think of it in terms of "countersteering"). My suspicion is that the combination of these 2 effects is why they commonly noted observation of TT bikes being MORE stable with a rear disk in sidewind conditions is true.
- September 1, 2010 at 4:14 PM
- djconnel said...
Yeah -- that's an important factor. In fact, this blog post doesn't really describe what BQ discusses, which is a steering moment induced by the force of wind on the wheel itself, as opposed to on the rider.
The issue is Bicycle Quarterly claims this steering moment is proportional to the trail (and also proportional to the wheel dish, approximately), and I've been trying to wrap my head around that one. I'll do my next blog post on that subject, likely.
The reference for all of this is Tony Foale, Motorcycling Handling and Chassis Design.
- September 1, 2010 at 4:58 PM
- loosch said...
I have been thinking about this myself recently. Maybe I need to build an adjustable steering geometry frame and do some testing. I would like to see the BQ article, I have never seen this publication here in Australia.
- September 2, 2010 at 6:05 AM
- djconnel said...
The 2011 Canyons have a front dropout with an insert which allows the selection of one of two rakes (and therefore trails). That would make an interesting test vehicle.
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