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It's almost that time again. Insurance open season, when you have an opportunity to change your insurance to better fit your life. But … it can be a puzzle. Which insurance plan is right for you? How is that company to work with? How is their coverage? Is dental separate from medical.
Federal open season runs from November 14 – December 12, 2011. Many other companies have a similar period at year's end when you can change plans / coverage.
When it comes to dental insurance there are a few things to look at:
- Let's be practical – do you need dental insurance? Do you have many large old fillings, then yes. Do you have almost no fillings, then maybe no. Do you clean your teeth real effectively, brushing and flossing? Do you hardly every floss?
- Depending on the types of dental treatment you might anticipate, fillings, only checkups, crowns – look at what a particular policy covers.
- Are you concerned about if you can stay with me / our office? We accept virtually all standard dental insurance, but no HMO plans. You can usually use your PPO plan with us, unless you sign up for an 'in-network only' plan. Usually even 'in-network' plans cover out-of-network, but on a slightly different fee schedule.
If you have questions about choosing between a couple plans, speak with Pat or Mariela to see if they are familiar with them to help you choose.


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Bluetooth is available since version 4 of NetBSD. **Contents** [[!toc]] # Background Bluetooth is a digital radio protocol used for short range and low power communications. NetBSD 4.0 introduced support for the Bluetooth protocol stack, and some integration of device profiles into the NetBSD device framework. The lower layers of the Bluetooth protocol stack pertaining to actual radio links between devices are handled inside the Bluetooth Controller, which communicates with the Host computer using the Host Controller Interface (HCI) protocol which can be accessed via a raw packet BTPROTO_HCI socket interface. The lowest useable protocol is the Link Layer Control and Adaptation Protocol (L2CAP), which can be accessed via a BTPROTO_L2CAP socket interface. This provides sequential packet access to remote devices, with up to 64k channels per radio link. When an L2CAP channel is opened, the protocol or service that is required is identified by a Protocol/Service Multiplexer (PSM) value. One available protocol is RFCOMM, which provides up to 30 emulated serial connections multiplexed over a single L2CAP channel. This streamed data protocol can be accessed using the BTPROTO_RFCOMM socket interface though it is planned to also provide a direct tty interface later. Typically, many services use RFCOMM links to provide a control interface using the AT command set. Isochronous (SCO) Audio connections may be created on a baseband radio link using either the BTPROTO_SCO socket interface, or the [btsco(4)](http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?btsco+4+NetBSD-current) audio device driver. While the specification says that up to three such links can be made between devices, the current Bluetooth code can only handle one with any dignity. Support for Human Interface Devices, which operate using the USB HID protocol over a pair of L2CAP channels is provided by the [bthidev(4)](http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?bthidev+4+NetBSD-current) driver. Currently, keyboards and mice are catered for, and attach to [wscons(4)](http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?wscons+4+NetBSD-current) as normal. Service Discovery in the Bluetooth environment is made available by [libsdp(3)](http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?libsdp+3+NetBSD-current) and the [sdpd(8)](http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?sdpd+8+NetBSD-current) daemon (both ported from FreeBSD), which allows programs to register services and makes the information available to remote devices performing queries. Limited querying can be done with the [sdpquery(1)](http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?sdpquery+1+NetBSD-current) program. Security on Bluetooth links is supplied by encryption and authentication options. In NetBSD-4.0, these can only be applied to all baseband links that a controller makes, by [btconfig(8)](http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?btconfig+8+NetBSD-current). For NetBSD-current versions after 21 April 2007, L2CAP and RFCOMM connections may additionally specify a minimum link mode for the baseband link which is applied during connection establishment. When authentication is requested, a PIN is presented by each side, generally entered by the operator (some limited input devices have a fixed PIN). The controller uses this PIN to generate a Link Key and reports this to the host computer and will ask for it to authenticate subsequent connections. On NetBSD, the [bthcid(8)](http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?bthcid+8+NetBSD-current) daemon is responsible for storing these and responding to Link Key requests, and also provides an interface to allow users to specify a PIN with a PIN client, such as [btpin(1)](http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?btpin+1+NetBSD-current) or [sysutils/btpin-qt](http://pkgsrc.se/sysutils/btpin-qt). # Requirements The relevant device declarations are included in the GENERIC kernel configurations for the following architectures: * alpha * amd64 * i386 * sparc64 For other architectures, you will need to add the device declarations to your kernel config file. Bluetooth should work on any architecture that has USB and/or PCMCIA available. Please notice that you will need NetBSD 4.0 or higher to use bluetooth. Since 4.0 is tagged BETA as of August 31, you will need a fairly current kernel. To build a current kernel, please read [[How to build NetBSD-current]]. If you are looking to purchase a Bluetooth controller for use with NetBSD, the better devices are USB based, and a v2.0 device is better than v1.2. The Class of the device indicates the power of the radio - Class 1 is 100m and Class 2 is 10m. # Hardware If Bluetooth is configured in your kernel, you should see Bluetooth controllers showing up in your boot messages, for example: bt3c0 at pcmcia0 function 0: <3COM, 3CRWB60-A, Bluetooth PC Card> ubt0 at uhub1 port 4 configuration 1 interface 0 ubt0: Cambridge Silicon Radio Bluetooth USB Adapter, rev 2.00/19.58, addr 4 ubt1 at uhub1 port 2 configuration 1 interface 0 ubt1: Broadcom Belkin Bluetooth Device, rev 1.10/0.01, addr 5 Some PCMCIA and Cardbus devices will attach as serial devices, and they need to be configured to use the [btuart(4)](http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?btuart+4+NetBSD-current) line discipline to interface to the Bluetooth protocol stack. # Userland configuration Please edit your [rc.conf(5)](http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?rc.conf+5+NetBSD-current) file and ensure it contains: # configure bluetooth controllers btconfig=YES btconfig_args="up pscan switch class 0x02010c" # configure bluetooth devices btdevctl=YES # start bluetooth key daemon bthcid=YES # start service discovery daemon sdpd=YES > i had to add 'auth' to the `btconfig_args` line to get my phone > to pair. --[[Jasper]] 22:50, 15 September 2006 (CEST) > sdpd runs as (user:group) _sdpd:_sdpd, but these are not present > in 4.0 -- PR > [bin/37125](http://www.NetBSD.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=37125) > --[[Shattered]] 14:53, 10 April 2008 (CEST) which should be ok. Reboot or enter: /etc/rc.d/btconfig start /etc/rc.d/bthcid start /etc/rc.d/sdpd start and you should be able to see that your device is configured, e.g: % btconfig -vvvv ubt0 ubt0: bdaddr 00:08:1b:8d:ba:6d flags 0x3<UP,RUNNING> num_cmd = 1 num_acl = 8, acl_mtu = 384 num_sco = 8, sco_mtu = 64 class: [0x02010c] Laptop Computer <Networking> name: "CSR - bc4" voice: [0x0060] Input Coding: Linear PCM [16-bit, pos 0], 2's complement Air Coding: CVSD pin: variable options: -iscan pscan -auth -encrypt switch -hold sniff -park ptype: [0xcc18] DM1 DH1 DM3 DH3 DM5 DH5 2-DH1 3-DH1 2-DH3 3-DH3 2-DH5 3-DH5 page timeout: 5120 ms features: <3 slot> <5 slot> <encryption> <slot offset> <timing accuracy> <role switch> <hold mode> <sniff mode> <park mode> <RSSI> <channel quality> <SCO link> <HV2> <HV3> <mu-Law log> <A-Law log> <CVSD data> <paging parameter> <power control> <transparent SCO> <broadcast encryption> <EDR ACL 2Mbps> <EDR ACL 3Mbps> <enhanced inquiry scan> <interlaced inquiry scan> <interlaced page scan> <RSSI with inquiry result> <EV3 packets> <EV4 packets> <EV5 packets> <AFH capable slave> <AFH class slave> <3 slot EDR ACL> <5 slot EDR ACL> <AFH capable master> <AFH class master> <EDR eSCO 2Mbps> <EDR eSCO 3Mbps> <3 slot EDR eSCO> <extended features> # HID configuration **Very important**: [bthcid(8)](http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?bthcid+8+NetBSD-current) must be running. **Important**: [sysutils/hcidump](http://pkgsrc.se/sysutils/hcidump) is very useful. Place device into discoverable mode, and peform an inquiry: % btconfig ubt0 inquiry Device Discovery from device: ubt0 .... 1 response 1: bdaddr 00:0a:95:10:8d:8c (unknown) : name "Apple Wireless Mouse" : class [0x002580] Peripheral Mouse <Limited Discoverable> : page scan rep mode 0x01 : page scan period mode 0x00 : page scan mode 0x00 : clock offset 30537 which should get you the BDADDR of the device. for ease of use you might want to add this to `/etc/bluetooth/hosts` so you can refer to it by name: 00:0a:95:10:8d:8c mouse And now, you should be able to query the device. You will likely need to pair with it first which will happen the first time you connect, so set the PIN (which is probably 0000 for limited input devices but see the manual to be sure): % btpin -a mouse -p 0000 % btdevctl -a mouse -d ubt0 -s hid local bdaddr: 00:04:76:e1:4a:f5 remote bdaddr: 00:0a:95:10:8d:8c link mode: auth device type: bthidev control psm: 0x0011 interrupt psm: 0x0013 Collection page=Generic_Desktop usage=Mouse Collection page=Generic_Desktop usage=Pointer Input id=2 size=1 count=1 page=Button usage=Button_1 Variable, logical range 0..1 Input id=2 size=7 count=1 page=0x0000 usage=0x0000 Const, logical range 0..1 Input id=2 size=8 count=1 page=Generic_Desktop usage=X Variable Relative, logical range -127..127 Input id=2 size=8 count=1 page=Generic_Desktop usage=Y Variable Relative, logical range -127..127 Feature id=71 size=8 count=1 page=0x0006 usage=0x0020 Variable NoPref, logical range 0..100 End collection End collection Then try to attach it to the system: % btdevctl -a mouse -d ubt0 -s hid -A which should attach the mouse to the system and attempt to open a bluetooth connection for it. You should see something like: bthidev0 at bthub0 remote-bdaddr 00:0a:95:10:8d:8c link-mode auth btms0 at bthidev0 reportid 2: 1 button. wsmouse2 at btms0 mux 0 bthidev0: connected on the console, and the mouse should work. Keyboards are only a little more complex, in that you will need to enter the PIN onto the keyboard before you can pair. This will be done at the point where you are opening the first connection, eg: % btpin -a keyboard -r PIN: 3537 % btdevctl -a keyboard -d ubt0 -s hid -A -v < ENTER PIN ON BLUETOOTH KEYBOARD NOW > local bdaddr: 00:04:76:e1:4a:f5 remote bdaddr: 00:0a:95:45:a4:a0 link mode: encrypt device type: bthidev control psm: 0x0011 interrupt psm: 0x0013 Collection page=Generic_Desktop usage=Keyboard Input id=1 size=1 count=1 page=Keyboard usage=Keyboard_LeftControl Variable, logical range 0..1 Input id=1 size=1 count=1 page=Keyboard usage=Keyboard_LeftShift Variable, logical range 0..1 Input id=1 size=1 count=1 page=Keyboard usage=Keyboard_LeftAlt Variable, logical range 0..1 Input id=1 size=1 count=1 page=Keyboard usage=Keyboard_Left_GUI Variable, logical range 0..1 Input id=1 size=1 count=1 page=Keyboard usage=Keyboard_RightControl Variable, logical range 0..1 Input id=1 size=1 count=1 page=Keyboard usage=Keyboard_RightShift Variable, logical range 0..1 Input id=1 size=1 count=1 page=Keyboard usage=Keyboard_RightAlt Variable, logical range 0..1 Input id=1 size=1 count=1 page=Keyboard usage=Keyboard_Right_GUI Variable, logical range 0..1 Input id=1 size=8 count=1 page=0x0000 usage=0x0000 Const, logical range 0..1 Output id=1 size=1 count=1 page=LEDs usage=Num_Lock Variable, logical range 0..1 Output id=1 size=1 count=1 page=LEDs usage=Caps_Lock Variable, logical range 0..1 Output id=1 size=1 count=1 page=LEDs usage=Scroll_Lock Variable, logical range 0..1 Output id=1 size=1 count=1 page=LEDs usage=Compose Variable, logical range 0..1 Output id=1 size=1 count=1 page=LEDs usage=Kana Variable, logical range 0..1 Output id=1 size=3 count=1 page=0x0000 usage=0x0000 Const, logical range 0..1 Input id=1 size=8 count=6 page=Keyboard usage=No_Event, logical range 0..255 Input id=1 size=1 count=1 page=Consumer usage=Eject Variable Relative, logical range 0..1 Input id=1 size=1 count=1 page=Consumer usage=Mute Variable Relative, logical range 0..1 Input id=1 size=1 count=1 page=Consumer usage=Volume_Up Variable, logical range 0..1 Input id=1 size=1 count=1 page=Consumer usage=Volume_Down Variable, logical range 0..1 Input id=1 size=1 count=4 page=0x0000 usage=0x0000 Const, logical range 0..1 End collection And you see something like this on the console: bthidev0 at bthub0 remote-bdaddr 00:0a:95:45:a4:a0 link-mode encrypt btkbd0 at bthidev0 reportid 1 wskbd1 at btkbd0 mux 1 wskbd1: connecting to wsdisplay0 bthidev0: connected By default, on NetBSD systems that support it, [btdevctl(8)](http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?btdevctl+8+NetBSD-current) will request authentication for the baseband link, or encryption if the HID is a keyboard. # Serial connections **See [rfcomm_sppd(8)](http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?rfcomm_sppd+8+NetBSD-current)** Set the phone into discoverable mode: % btconfig ubt0 inq add alias to `/etc/bluetooth/hosts`, then: % btpin -a phone -p 334323 % sdpquery -a phone browse will make the initial connection and cause [bthcid(8)](http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?bthcid+8+NetBSD-current) to store link keys. At this point, you should be paired with the phone and can do: % rfcomm_sppd -a phone -s DUN -t /dev/ttyp9 % cu -l /dev/ttyp9 and find yourself connected to the modem directly. In order to use PPP, you would add the line: pty "rfcomm_sppd -a phone -s DUN" to your `/etc/ppp/options` file in place of the normal tty declaration and starting [pppd(8)](http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?pppd+8+NetBSD-current) will cause the link to be created as required. Phones are more complex than HIDs naturally, and you may not need to provide a PIN until later in the process (some wait until a RFCOMM channel is opened before requesting authentication for instance), although the PIN you specify with [btpin(1)](http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?btpin+1+NetBSD-current) will be cached by [bthcid(8)](http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?bthcid+8+NetBSD-current) for 5 minutes or until used. For NetBSD-current systems after 21 April 2007, it is possible to specify the minimum link mode requirements, see [rfcomm_sppd(1)](http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?rfcomm_sppd+1+NetBSD-current) for details. # SCO Audio Headsets **important**: When using SCO Audio with USB devices, you will need to enable isochronous data, and calculate the MTU that the device will use, see [ubt(4)](http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?ubt+4+NetBSD-current) and [btconfig(8)](http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?btconfig+8+NetBSD-current) Discover the BDADDR and pair with the headset as normal (likely the PIN is "0000", but check your manual to be sure). Attach the [btsco(4)](http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?btsco+4+NetBSD-current) device to the system: % btconfig ubt0 inquiry [...] % btpin -a headset -p 0000 % btdevctl -a headset -d ubt0 -s hset -A which should produce something like this: btsco0 at bthub0 remote-bdaddr 00:07:a4:23:10:83 audio1 at btsco0: full duplex on the system console. In order to utilise the audio device, you will need to open a control connection with [bthset(1)](http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?bthset+1+NetBSD-current) which conveys volume information to the mixer device. Using -v will let you see what is going on: % bthset -m /dev/mixer1 -v and you should now be able to transfer 8khz samples to/from /dev/audio1 using [audioplay(1)](http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?audioplay+1+NetBSD-current) and [audiorecord(1)](http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?audiorecord+1+NetBSD-current). Adjusting the mixer values should work when playing though you may find that when opening a connection the headset will reset the volume to the last known settings. Note that you need to leave _bthset_ running while you use audiorecord or audioplay, so either use two terminal windows or a trailing '&' on the previous command to move it to the background. % audiorecord -d /dev/audio1 voice.au < TALK NONSENSE NOW > ^C % audioplay -d /dev/audio voice.au [gosh, do I really sound like that?] % audioplay -d /dev/audio1 voice.au [in the headset!] You can play with mpg123 and sox to play music (though only in mono), or it should hopefully be fairly easy to make the headset work with a VoIP application, please let me know if you get that working! # SCO Audio Handsfree **important**: When using SCO Audio with USB devices, you will need to enable isochronous data, and calculate the MTU that the device will use, see [ubt(4)](http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?ubt+4+NetBSD-current) and [btconfig(8)](http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?btconfig+8+NetBSD-current) The method shown above for SCO Audio Headsets also works to give [audio(4)](http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?audio+4+NetBSD-current) access to the Handsfree profile on a mobile phone (where the phone initiates audio connections), though in practice the [audio(4)][47] device does not quite handle the concept of 'connection lost' which we need. You can configure the 'HF' service with [btdevctl(8)](http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?btdevctl+8+NetBSD-current). Alternatively there is a partial implementation of a handsfree profile program that opens a control connection to an Audio Gateway (ie a phone) and copies audio data to and from the system audio device as appropriate. Currently it is shell only and really it would be better with a graphical interface. See [comms/bthfp](http://pkgsrc.se/comms/bthfp) # OBEX Push/Ftp See the [comms/obexftp](http://pkgsrc.se/comms/obexftp) and [comms/obexapp](http://pkgsrc.se/comms/obexapp) packages in pkgsrc. # Why doesn't it work, eh? 1. A NetBSD version of the hcidump program is available in [sysutils/hcidump](http://pkgsrc.se/sysutils/hcidump) and can be very useful to snoop on packets in and out at the device level to find out what is happening when things are not going right. 2. the [bthcid(8)](http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?bthcid+8+NetBSD-current) program should be running, and logs debugging messages with facility "daemon.debug". See [syslog.conf(5)](http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?syslog.conf+5+NetBSD-current) for details. 3. Dave Tyson has done some excellent testing and found that some devices fail to work unless you set the packet type to 0x0018, which indicates DM1 and DH1 packets only. (I've put that on my list to investigate further, it should not be so) 4. for device configuration to persist across reboots, you need to add an entry to the `/etc/bluetooth/btdevctl.conf` file and set btdevctl=YES in `/etc/rc.conf` 5. to use SCO Audio with USB Bluetooth controllers, the MTU will need to be set. See the CAVEAT section of [ubt(4)](http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?ubt+4+NetBSD-current) for details. 6. Isochronous data is not well supported in some Belkin/Broadcom USB Bluetooth dongles. 7. Isochronous data is not supported on [ehci(4)](http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?ehci+4+NetBSD-current) USB host controllers. 8. SCO audio does not work really well with the [bt3c(4)](http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?bt3c+4+NetBSD-current) device 9. some older Belkin/Broadcom USB devices need firmware loaded before they will work. See the [sysutils/bcmfw](http://pkgsrc.se/sysutils/bcmfw) package. # References * [Bluetooth Imported.](http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2006/06/19/0022.html) * [bthfp source.](http://homepages.rya-online.net/plunky/bthfp-0.1.tar.gz)

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The long weekend has arrived! WOOHOO! Was just lying on my bed reflecting on what has happened the past 7 months and I'm truly grateful for the many opportunities that have come my way.
Then I realized that I haven't wrote about the fun we had at Nuffnang Birthday Bash 007 which was in FEBRUARY. Bahahaha!!
I always love dressing up for occasions, and better UN-pretty than pretty, because you know, it's hard to beat pretty. Lol.
Got the old school red plastic piggybank from a neighborhood shop, they're so rare these days! And the pirated nerf gun was specially chosen by Mr Mode. After the event he brought it home to play.
Woman -> Man Makeup Tutorial
Smirk It
First, practise the smirk. HAHAHA! The middle one was the one I used the most for the night. I don't know why, but that's how I'd smirk if I were a guy~. Heh.
Sideburns, The More The Merrier
The sideburns were the hardest to get right! >.<
I set the base with black/grey eyeshadow first, but it looked one dimensional and too gentle, so I used crayon eyeliner. It was tough finding the right eyeliner coz if it's too creamy, it would smudge too well and look too soft. If it's too dry, it would be impossible to smudge at all, and the strokes would look too harsh.
I even resorted to using mascara to replicate hair in the last picture. But that idea was scraped coz it didn't work out quite as expected.
Have A Makeup Advisor
This was my makeup advisor for the night. He was the one who told me "Sideburn 不是越多就越 MAN 吗?" when I asked if my sideburns were adequate. HAHA!
In actual fact, he just kept playing with me and disturbing my makeup work!
I super love my bushy caterpillar brows! Dark eyebrow pencil was used to create volume and liquid eyeliner was used to draw strokes above and below my real brow structure to add shadows and stray hairs.
Most items can be found at Doll To Doll Cosmetics.
Introducing…… BUN BURGLAR!
Hiak hiak hiak! Dipped my fingers into black eyeshadow to emulate dirt on the skin, as if I just escaped from a prison and went to burglar a bank again. 😀
I cannot stop laughing when I see these pictures! My mum found an old-looking FILA bag for me, which really completed the look. 🙂
Mr Mode refused to kiss me or hug me after I was done with the transformation! He said it made him feel very confused. LOL!!
Birthday Bash @ Fullhouse
I loved the reaction on people's faces when I said hi and they took a few seconds to realize it was ME!
How liberating it felt to sit with my legs wide open!
BAHAHAHHA!!! SUPER DRAMA this Diya and I!
Love everybody's expressions! See the flying granite? This was taken in ONE SHOT. Heh heh!
Thank you Nuffnang for yet another great year! 😀 (Check out 2013 Nuffnang birthday bash!)


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ALTOONA, Iowa (AP) — Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean says Democrats must focus on winning legislative seats and called on union members to knock on doors frequently and get to know voters personally.
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He says it's important as Democrats counter Republican efforts to change voting rules and other measures.
Dean encouraged union members to recruit strong candidates now and volunteer to knock on doors so frequently that they get to know voters personally.
If Democrats do that well, Dean predicted the party would do well in the 2014 election.


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Well, I suppose it was inevitable–this weekend I joined the many Catholics around the country who have received a lecture on the HHS mandate during Mass.
Thumbing through the bulletin before Mass began I noticed a copy of the latest release from the bishops' conference on the mandate, which didn't seem out of place. But I was caught off guard when, during the celebration of the liturgy, I heard a strong message condemning the Obama administration and instructing those of us in the pews to take a stand by calling our representatives in Congress and voicing our opposition to the HHS mandate.
I didn't stick around after Mass to ask the pastor if this was his own decision or if he'd been given a directive to speak about the issue during the liturgy. He didn't read from a letter (as many parishes around the country have been instructed to do) and instead spoke extemporaneously, though his points were very much in line with the arguments made by the bishops.
My parish is certainly not the only one where this has taken place. Someone recently uploaded to Youtube a highly politically-charged homily by an Indiana priest who launches into an angry tirade of partisan rhetoric, warning that our country is headed toward socialism. He didn't just try to convey the bishops' position on the HHS mandate, he actually reproached those Catholic who voted for President Obama and blamed them for being part of the problem. Regardless of your personal feelings on the president, is this really appropriate material for a homily?
I can understand why the bishops want this issue discussed at Sunday Mass: It is their best opportunity to reach a captive audience. I hear about these issues every day because of my job, and those who read Catholic publications are well aware of the church's position on political issues. But that makes up a small percentage of the American Catholic population, and the church leaders are looking for a way to get their message directly to the rest of the Catholic faithful. Having that message delivered during Mass is perhaps the only way to do it.
Still, it just didn't feel right to be asking Catholics to take political action as a part of the liturgy. There are other times and places for such discussion, and announcing those opportunities at Mass or in the bulletin might be an acceptable alternative. The same goes for discussing other political issues that have become calls to action for the Catholic bishops, such as same-sex marriage. It is one thing for the clergy to discuss Catholic teaching on an issue like contraception or marriage within the context of a Mass, but calling on people to take a specific political action seems a bit over the line.
It wouldn't matter to me if the message were about Barack Obama's poor record on immigration, Mitt Romney's disconnect from the poor and vulnerable, or Rick Santorum's version of what the Catholic faith is about. None of them have a place at Sunday Mass.
The church can and should have a moral voice on issues of the day and there are plenty of opportunities to do so. But when its members gather around the table to celebrate the Eucharist, the focus should be on the belief in Christ that unites us, not on the political issues that tear us apart.


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Today I saw 2.6.38 in the testing repository and I upgraded to the latest kernel. Now the RT2870 no longer works. Is this a common issue that needs to be worked out with the testing repos and this USB adapter? Or do I have to recompile something? I of course have the mintwifi installed too.
I went back to 2.6.35 and it worked like it always has. I tried to reinstall ndiswrapper and mintwifi and here is what I got:
Setting up ndiswrapper-common (1.56-3) ...
Setting up ndiswrapper-dkms (1.56-3) ...
Loading new ndiswrapper-1.56 DKMS files...
Building for 2.6.32-5-686 and 2.6.38-2-686
Building initial module for 2.6.32-5-686
Running module version sanity check.
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DKMS: install Completed.
Building initial module for 2.6.38-2-686
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 2.6.38-2-686 (i686)
Consult the make.log in the build directory
/var/lib/dkms/ndiswrapper/1.56/build/ for more information.
Setting up ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 (1.56-3) ...
Setting up ndisgtk (0.8.5-1) ...
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Today, Logitech unveils G300 to their list of gaming mouse. This G-Series mouse will be available in Singapore in end October, for a suggested retail price of S$49. More information after the break.
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Ambidextrous Design Delivers More Power and More Control for Hours of Play
SINGAPORE — Oct.25, 2011 — Today Logitech (SIX: LOGN) (NASDAQ: LOGI) unveiled the latest addition to its acclaimed G-Series gaming products, the Logitech® Gaming Mouse G300. Designed to give PC gamers an advantage over the competition, the mouse features nine programmable controls, letting you move keyboard commands to buttons that are in easy reach.
Additionally, the Logitech® Gaming Mouse G300 lets you store up to three game or player profiles in the mouse's onboard memory, so you can run the mouse without software or even move it between computers without having to reconfigure each time. User-configurable lighting assigns one of seven colors to each profile, so you can easily see which profile you're using. Plus, the mouse's sculpted, ambidextrous shape is equally comfortable in either hand.
"The Logitech® Gaming Mouse G300 is perfect for PC gamers who want intelligent features that give them real benefits in-game" said Chris Pate, senior manager of product marketing for gaming at Logitech. "Whether you need more programmable buttons for your MMO, better precision for targeting enemies in an FPS, or a compact, comfortable shape to get you through hours of gameplay, we've got it covered."
The Logitech® Gaming Mouse G300's gaming-grade 2500-DPI optical sensor tracks slow or fast movements on a wide variety of surfaces, so you get exactly the action you want from every incremental hand movement. In addition, optional drag-and-drop software makes it easy to set the Logitech® Gaming Mouse G300 up exactly the way you want. The software also works with G-Series keyboards and headsets, so you can create macros once and share them between your G-Series family of devices.
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The Logitech Gaming Mouse G300 is expected to be available in Singapore in end October, for a suggested retail price of S$49. For more information please visit www.logitech.com.
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It seems that the Australian Classification Board doesn't mind serving me up with blog fodder every couple weeks so I can harp on about how the mature Australian gaming community needs a R18+ rating. Whilst I won't re-iterate the point I've made time and time again about how having different standards for one single type of media is just silly it does seem that there might be another side to this whole R18+ debacle that no one has considered. It's an exceedingly good way to get press for your otherwise unknown game:
The Classification Board has stated that "drug use related to incentives or rewards" is the reason why gangster-themed MMO Crimecraft has been refused classification in Australia.According to the Board's report obtained by Kotaku this afternoon, Crimecraft "contains the option to manufacture, trade and self-administer legal "medicines" and illegal "boosts"… Boosts are sometimes referred to as "drugs" both in the game and in the Applicant's submissions to the Board."
One type of boost is called Anabolics, which the Board notes "is named after a class of proscribed drugs and that the Applicant describes boosts as "like real-life steroids". In addition, the names of boosts mimic the chemical and colloquial names of proscribed drugs."
I'd never heard of this game until it got refused classification from the ACB and a quick Internet rundown on them gives only 5 articles on Kotaku and an extremely sparse Wikipedia article. This is a woeful amount of press for what is supposed to be a MMORPG even one with such niche appeal as this. What makes this interesting is that the refusal for classification is scaringly similar to the one that hit Fallout 3 almost 18 months ago and one they subsequently got around without too much hassle. So why would you submit a game with the potential to hit the classification tripwire when you know the workaround? You can see why I'm smelling a PR stunt here.
Granted this is a bit of a stretch and it is entirely possible that they thought there was no issue with the names they used. Still when Fallout had to change the name of morphine to Med-X you can be guaranteed that using any real world names for drugs that are used in a game is a sure fire way to rile up the ACB. I'm sure that they're going to resubmit with the modifications required but the fact remains, they managed to generate quite a bit of hype for their game which would've probably gone unnoticed in Australia otherwise. It is a rather niche game so they were probably relying on the open beta to generate most of the buzz for them (which coincidentally was not open and only available to the US and Canada) and you'd have to do a bit of digging to find any original reports of people actually playing the game.
Making and marketing a game, especially in a genre dominated by Blizzard, is no easy feat and I can easily see the developers agreeing to such a stunt in the hopes it would generate a bit more buzz. There's no real ethical issues to speak of here but I still can't help but feel that employing such a tactic is a bit, well cheap. Simple things like a fully fleshed out Wikipedia article, a YouTube channel and a corporate Twitter account do wonders for promoting a game that would otherwise slip under the radar. CrimeWars doesn't appear to have any of these so its far more likely that this was a genuine submission rather than an attempt at free PR.
After all this though I'm still not interested in the game but I've got a feeling I'm not really in their demographic. Still I have to wonder just what their demographic is with such a game because traditionally people who are playing games like that (GTA, Saints Row) aren't the MMO or PC game type. Its still quite possible that they'll find their niche but when giants like WAR and AOC managed to fall flat in the MMO market I must say, I have my doubts.
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Gaia is a global space astrometry mission. Its goal is to make the largest, most precise three-dimensional map of our Galaxy by surveying an unprecedented number of stars - more than a thousand million.
Gaia will conduct a census of a thousand million stars in our Galaxy, monitoring each of its target stars about 70 times over a five-year period. It will precisely chart their positions, distances, movements, and changes in brightness. It is expected to discover hundreds of thousands of new celestial objects, such as extra-solar planets and failed stars called brown dwarfs. Within our own Solar System, Gaia should also observe hundreds of thousands of asteroids.
Gaia is currently being prepared in Toulouse and expected to be shipped to Kourou this summer for its flight on top of a Soyuz launcher from Europe's Space port in French Guiana.
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15yr Old Rapper Phenom Tye "Dreams" hottest new Artist in the Game? Watch as he performs in front of a SOLD OUT Crowd at The Carmello Anthony Center in Baltimore. Tye raps for MMG's Stalley, talks new mixtape "Dreams," "Wealth & Loyalty," connecting with his fans, why he spits from the heart & Why he can't be stopped! Check out more from Tye at youtube.com/tyemadeit23 & http://wealthandloyalty.blogspot.com/Twitter @tyemadeit23 & @wealthloyalty
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If you happen to live in Los Angeles then there is an event at the Visual Effects Society this weekend which should be pretty interesting. You can read about it here.
What should be fun is that at one point during the event they will navigate through Standby on Immersiva live, then show one of my machinima as well, giving the audience an idea of the kind of artwork I create in immersive environments.
|Ronnie Burkett marionette
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I am told that Douglas Trumbull should be there. Don't recognize that name? well I didn't either but have a look at his wiki! His dad worked on the Wizard of Oz and he himself on everything from Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 2001: a space odyssey to Blade Runner. He even turned down working on Star Wars ... whoops! Nominated for five academy awards too. I bet he has a story or two.
Dr Morie will be talking about Bryn and she is one of the early members of the VES, and has been working on expanding the boundaries of immersive media since 1990.
Actually speaking of Ronnie Burkett, people have often asked me in the past why Bryn Oh is anonymous. Would it not be much better to include my RL name so that I could benefit from the work I have been doing with Bryn the last five years or so. The answer is most certainly yes it would be good to combine my RL with Bryn.
So let me explain, this is often how I think of Bryn and after seeing some of Ronnie Burketts marionette plays it gave me a context to explain. When you go to a marionette show you enter the theater and take your seats. The puppeteer is often all dressed in black so they are not seen by the audience. The lights go down and the curtains are pulled. Before you might be a 1/3 scale set with a marionette moving across it on strings. You see it and know it is made of wood, glue, wire and string but after just a few minutes you forget this. The marionettes come alive and they gain personality.
If someone were to suddenly turn on the lights in the theater and you saw someone controlling them then the illusion would be broken. They would again become wood and string tools of the artist. What I wanted to do when I came into Second Life was to see if Bryn could succeed in first life or real life as a digital character. Would people accept her or scoff at the idea? Essentially I want to keep the lights off so that it is Bryn who remains the focus.


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The voices represent students from Pace University and the City University of New York (CUNY), as well as their family members and friends. They are young and aging; citizens and undocumented workers; heterosexual and queer. Some of their accounts are uplifting, while others are tragic and speak to the failures of immigration laws, the educational system and public policies that are designed to protect the under-served and marginalized. Altogether, they form a kaleidoscope of experiences that at times mesh seamlessly and other times collide with our sensibilities. Nevertheless, they remain our stories.
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The third part will unveil the job layer, the part of the Worker Net "stack" that handles the jobs of the network. Just as before, it is easy to express the functionality through stories.
"I want to be able to describe a job as
- A set of Files [#wn_file{}]
- The possible resource types needed (disjunction)
- A list of commands for running the job
- A timeout the job is given while running (in seconds)
- A job id – primary key for the job"
"I want to be able to register a job in the job layer, through any node."
"Several jobs should be queued on the same resource type(s), being processed one and one in order as they where queued"
"A job must be possible to cancel before it starts running, through any node."
"The output generated by a job should be possible to see in realtime, through any node and stored to logfiles."
"Once a job is done, the result should be stored in the file layer, together with the logs."
"I want to be able to delete a job once it's done, through any node."
"I want to be able to list all jobs in the system, through any node."
These tests require a lot more setup than the old ones, as the job layer must be able to transfer, add and delete files. The job layer must also be able to list the available resources. Also, what remains is to design the functionality of the layers involved, I have prepared such a design which can be seen in the picture below
The text which is in bold denote certain parts of interest that need fleshing out or be considered some extra times. The parts which require some more consideration are
- The requirements for the resource process
- How is the job process going to aquire the Pid of all the resource processes?
- How is the negotiation going to be implemented? (timeouts etc)
- How will the job be executed?
Once these parts are answered, wer'e almost done! And since we are doing TDD here, we are expecting answers in the form of tests. As first thing, add a new line to the Makefile for testing the job_layer
all: erlc -pa . -o ebin/ src/*.erl test/*.erl test: all erl -pa ebin/ -eval 'eunit:test(wn_resource_layer,[verbose]), init:stop().' erl -pa ebin/ -eval 'eunit:test(wn_file_layer,[verbose]), init:stop().' erl -pa ebin/ -eval 'eunit:test(wn_job_layer,[verbose]), init:stop().' dialyze: dialyzer src/*.erl test/*.erl full: all test dialyze
Pick the low hanging fruit first, so, a test with registration of a job and listing of the job, should be nice.
%%% @author Gianfranco <email@example.com> %%% @copyright (C) 2010, Gianfranco %%% Created : 26 Dec 2010 by Gianfranco <firstname.lastname@example.com> -module(wn_job_layer_tests). -include_lib("eunit/include/eunit.hrl"). -include("include/worker_net.hrl"). -define(NODE_ROOT, "/Users/zenon/ErlangBlog/worker_net-0.1/node_root/"). local_test_() -> {foreach, fun setup/0, fun cleanup/1, [ {"Can register locally", fun register_locally/0} ]}. register_locally() -> Path = create_file_at(?NODE_ROOT), File1 = #wn_file{id = "File1",file = Path,resides = node()}, File2 = #wn_file{id = "File2",file = Path,resides = node()}, Job = #wn_job{id = "JobId", files = [File1,File2], resources = ['non-existent'], commands = ["ls -l"] }, ?assertEqual(ok,wn_job_layer:register(Job)), [Res] = wn_job_layer:list_all_jobs(), ?assertEqual("JobId",Res#wn_job.id), ?assertEqual(['non-existent'],Res#wn_job.resources), ?assertEqual([File1,File2],Res#wn_job.files), ?assertEqual(["ls -l"],Res#wn_job.commands). %% ----------------------------------------------------------------- setup() -> {ok,_} = net_kernel:start([eunit_resource,shortnames]), erlang:set_cookie(node(),eunit), {ok,_} = wn_file_layer:start_link(?NODE_ROOT), {ok,_} = wn_resource_layer:start_link(), {ok,_} = wn_job_layer:start_link(), ok. cleanup(_) -> clean_up(?NODE_ROOT), ok = net_kernel:stop(), ok = wn_file_layer:stop(), ok = wn_resource_layer:stop(), ok = wn_job_layer:stop(). create_file_at(X) -> Path = X++"EUnitFile", ok = filelib:ensure_dir(X), ok = file:write_file(Path,<<1,2,3>>), Path. clean_up(X) -> case filelib:is_dir(X) of true -> {ok,Files} = file:list_dir(X), lists:foreach( fun(File) -> clean_up(X++"/"++File) end,Files), file:del_dir(X); false -> ok = file:delete(X) end.
This first test is quite basic and shows how a job has files that may be located on any node, a job id (JID) and a list of resource types (disjunction). To make this test pass, we need to start implementing the record type. So the new entry in worker_net.hrl is
-record(wn_job, {id :: string(), files :: [#wn_file{}], resources :: [atom()], commands :: [string()] }).
Next, the actual logic module needs to be implemented, it seems like gen_server fits the bill quite nicely here for the job_layer. For each part, it is good practice to make it as simple as possible, "you ain't gonna need it" (YAGNI) is a good thing to remember. Without further ado, the implementation that passes the first test, of denoting and registering a job through any node. Take note that two new modules had to be introduced
- wn_job_keeper.erl the job process started by the job_layer, sends the pid to the appropriate resource processes. Started after registration.
- wn_resource_process.erl the resource process started whenever a new resource is registered
As the design requires a resource process to be started for each newly registered process, we need to test the new functionality. The side effect of registering a new resource must be checked. So first out, the modifications to the wn_resource record
-record(wn_resource, {name :: string(), type :: [{atom(), non_neg_integer() | infinity}], resides :: node(), pid :: pid() }).
as well as the modification to the existing tests in the wn_resource_layer_tests.erl module
resource_processes_are_alive([],_) -> ok; resource_processes_are_alive([Expected|Tail],List) -> #wn_resource{name = Name, type = Type, resides = Resides} = Expected, Filtered = lists:filter( fun(#wn_resource{name=N,type=T,resides=R}) -> N == Name andalso T == Type andalso R == Resides end,List), ?assertMatch([_X],Filtered), [T] = Filtered, ?assertEqual(true,rpc:call(node(T#wn_resource.pid),erlang,is_process_alive, [T#wn_resource.pid])), resource_processes_are_alive(Tail,List).
The function resource_processes_are_alive/2 was added to each test in appropriate places where a resource is registered. Once this modification was made, the change was imposed on the wn_resource_layer.erl module. The changes are shown with the %% Change comment
try_deregister(State,Name) -> case ets:lookup(State#state.resources,Name) of [] -> {error,noexists}; %% Changed [{Name,WnResource}] -> exit(WnResource#wn_resource.pid,deregistered), ets:delete(State#state.resources,Name), ok end. try_register(State,Resource) -> #wn_resource{name=Name} = Resource, case ets:lookup(State#state.resources,Name) of [] -> %% Changed Pid = wn_resource_process:start(), ets:insert(State#state.resources, {Name,Resource#wn_resource{pid=Pid}}), ok; _ -> {error,already_exists} end.
Of course, the minimal new module wn_resource_process.erl is shown
%%%------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% @author Gianfranco <email@example.com> %%% @copyright (C) 2011, Gianfranco %%% Created : 11 Jan 2011 by Gianfranco <firstname.lastname@example.com> %%%------------------------------------------------------------------- -module(wn_resource_process). -export([start/0, init/1]). start() -> spawn(wn_resource_process, init, [free]). init(X) -> loop(X). loop(X) -> receive _ -> ok end loop(X).
Even though the module is trivial, it is all that is needed for the moment. Keep it simple. Now the job_layer implementation that will make the test pass (and a bit more)
%%%------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% @author Gianfranco <firstname.lastname@example.com> %%% @copyright (C) 2011, Gianfranco %%% Created : 4 Jan 2011 by Gianfranco <email@example.com> %%%------------------------------------------------------------------- -module(wn_job_layer). -behaviour(gen_server). -include("include/worker_net.hrl"). %% API -export([start_link/0,register/1,list_all_jobs/0, stop/0]). %% gen_server callbacks -export([init/1, handle_call/3, handle_cast/2, handle_info/2, terminate/2, code_change/3]). -record(state, {jobs % ets table {Name,Pid,WnJob} }). %%%========================================================== %%% API %%%========================================================== -spec(start_link() -> {ok,pid()} | {error,term()}). start_link() -> gen_server:start_link({local, ?MODULE}, ?MODULE, [], []). -spec(register(#wn_job{}) -> ok | {error,term()}). register(WnJob) -> case try_send_files(WnJob#wn_job.files) of ok -> gen_server:call(?MODULE,{add_job,WnJob}); E -> E end. -spec(list_all_jobs() -> [#wn_job{}]). list_all_jobs() -> gen_server:call(?MODULE,list_all_jobs). -spec(stop() -> ok). stop() -> gen_server:call(?MODULE,stop). %%%========================================================== %%% gen_server callbacks %%%========================================================== init([]) -> {ok, #state{jobs = ets:new(jobs_table,[set])}}. handle_cast(_Msg,State) -> {noreply,State}. handle_call(stop,_From,State) -> {stop,normal,ok,State}; handle_call(list_all_jobs,From,State) -> spawn_link(job_collector(From)), {noreply,State}; handle_call(list_jobs,_From,State) -> {reply,[WnJob || {_,_,WnJob} <- ets:tab2list(State#state.jobs)],State}; handle_call({add_job,WnJob}, _From, State) -> JobId = WnJob#wn_job.id, {reply, case ets:lookup(State#state.jobs,JobId) of [] -> Pid = wn_job_keeper:start_link(WnJob), ets:insert(State#state.jobs,{JobId,Pid,WnJob}), lists:foreach( fun(WnResource) -> case resource_is_sufficient(WnJob,WnResource) of true -> signal_resource(Pid,WnResource); false -> ignore end end,wn_resource_layer:list_resources()), ok; [_] -> lists:foreach( fun(File) -> wn_file_layer:delete_file(File#wn_file.resides, File#wn_file.id) end,WnJob#wn_job.files), {error,already_exists} end, State}. handle_info(_Info, State) -> {noreply, State}. terminate(_Reason, _State) -> ok. code_change(_OldVsn, State, _Extra) -> {ok, State}. %%%========================================================== %%% Internal functions %%%========================================================== try_send_files([F|R]) -> case wn_file_layer:add_file(F) of ok -> try_send_files(R); E -> E end; try_send_files([]) -> ok. resource_is_sufficient(WnJob,WnResource) -> JobResourceType = WnJob#wn_job.resources, ResourceTypes = [ T || {T,_} <- WnResource#wn_resource.type], at_least_one(JobResourceType,ResourceTypes). at_least_one([],_) -> false; at_least_one([X|R],T) -> lists:member(X,T) orelse at_least_one(R,T). signal_resource(JobKeeperPid,WnResource) -> WnResource#wn_resource.pid ! JobKeeperPid. job_collector(From) -> Nodes = [node()|nodes()], fun() -> Res = lists:foldr( fun(Node,Acc) -> case rpc:call(Node,erlang,whereis,[?MODULE]) of undefined -> Acc; _Pid -> gen_server:call({?MODULE,Node}, list_jobs)++Acc end end,[],Nodes), gen_server:reply(From,Res) end.
This implementation also causes us to add a new component module, the wn_job_keeper.erl. Likewise, this is a minimal module which will just trigger a process to start.
%%%------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% @author Gianfranco <firstname.lastname@example.com> %%% @copyright (C) 2011, Gianfranco %%% Created : 13 Jan 2011 by Gianfranco <email@example.com> %%%------------------------------------------------------------------- -module(wn_job_keeper). -export([start_link/1, init/1]). -include("include/worker_net.hrl"). start_link(WnJob) -> spawn_link(wn_job_keeper, init, [WnJob]). init(WnJob) -> loop(WnJob). loop(WnJob) -> receive _ -> loop(WnJob) end.
Now, with a base implementation that almost fullfils the first story,
"I want to be able to describe a job as
- A set of Files [#wn_file{}]
- The possible resource types needed (disjunction)
- A list of commands for running the job
- A timeout the job is given while running (in seconds)
- A job id – primary key for the job"
we can try making a test design for the job execution, and adding the timeout field for the record, but that will be handled in the next post – otherwise this post will get gigantic and never be posted as I've had a lot of other stuff to do the previous weeks.


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Flashpoint have announce the all important EVOVL Twin Head Bracket / Godox AD-B2, which will combine two EVOLV 200 / Godox AD200 strobes into a single 400Ws light source, with Bowens S-type mount, and dual LED modelling lights!
And the brackets are available now from Adorama for $59.
The twin bracket can use either the original 2 flash bulbs straight from the EVOLV 200 /AD200 strobes, or an optional single
AD360/II flash bulb centered in the bracket.
UPDATE – Godox have actually changed the bracket before the final production to only accept a single AD200 bulb centered in the bracket, for use with only one strobe mounted. So the AD360/II bulb will not longer fit in the bracket (as pictured below).
And the twin bracket itself remains nice and compact for transport.
Regular Bowens S-type modifiers and reflectors can then be easily attached to the convenient 400Ws twin flash set up.
The EVOLV 200 / AD200, and full Godox 2.4GHz flash system are now compatible with Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fuji, and Olympus / Panasonic camera systems.
The Godox AD-B2 / EVOVL Twin Head Bracket are available now from $59 –
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The idle musings of a former military man, former computer geek, medically retired pastor and now full-time writer. Contents guaranteed to offend the politically correct and anal-retentive from time to time. My approach to life is that it should be taken with a large helping of laughter, and sufficient firepower to keep it tamed!
Monday, February 18, 2013
Epic historical photographs of heroism and tragedy
Many readers will know of Captain Robert Falcon Scott and the ill-fated British Antarctic Expedition of 1910. Now a series of photographs of the expedition has gone on display in London.
Scott and four comrades hoped to be the first to reach the South Pole. They sailed to the Antarctic aboard an exploration ship, the Terra Nova, shown below moored to the ice of that continent.
They arrived there on January 17th, 1912, only to find that they'd been beaten to their goal by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, who'd reached it a month earlier. Their return journey was tragic; all five men died due to a combination of lack of supplies, exhaustion, and extreme cold. Captain Lawrence Oates, shown below with the expedition's ponies, won posthumous fame on this journey due to his deliberate self-sacrifice, trying to give his comrades a chance to survive.
I wish I could be in London to see the whole exhibition. It's an extraordinary record of heroism towards the end of the Age of Exploration. Such men deserve to be remembered with honor.
3 comments:
- Old NFO said...
That they do, and what they faced AND survived (those that did) are simply amazing...
- February 18, 2013 at 9:37 AM
- skreidle said...
From ArtOfManliness.com, here are two interesting/historical/educational articles about these very expeditions, and lessons we can learn from them:
- February 18, 2013 at 2:24 PM
I've always been impressed by Shackleton and the folks that just reenacted the voyage from Elephant Is. are hardy folks too.
- February 19, 2013 at 4:40 AM


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Shooting in full sun…..yikes, it strikes fear in the heart of many! It's not as easy as overcast skies but sunlight adds specularity and contrast to a photograph that a flat overcast day will never yield.
So, let's start with shooting in the middle part of the day. It'll never be as good as shooting early in the morn or late in the afternoon, evening. But it is possible…especially with kids older than 3yo. You can still get toddlers at this time but seriously try to avoid it unless you can get plenty of shade because you can guarantee they'll give their best pearly white smile, when their face is half lit and half in shade hehe.
So what to do when someone can only do a session at midday? And believe me it does happen, I recently had a family whose Dad was only in Melbourne for a few hours and could get to me at 11am the earliest. In these situations there are a few tricks that you can employ to pull something out of the box.
First let me tell you why early morning and evening light works best. The sun is lower to the horizon and is further away from us than at midday. Therefore it has to travel through more atmosphere, which diffuses and softens the light. As sun is low in the sky, it is easy put it behind your subject, or behind a tree, or a building, and the shadows from the trees and buildings are longer giving you more room to work. In addition the shadows are longer and not as dense and the highlights aren't as bright, ie – not as much contrast.
Now keeping this in mind it is quite simple to shoot in the middle of the day. In the early morning or late afternoon you can put a tree or building behind your subject to block the sun. We do exactly the same in the mid afternoon BUT, your subject will need to be very close to the shade source as the shadows are short. OR you'll need to get down low to shoot UP at your subject as SHOOTING FROM BELOW YOUR SUBJECT PUTS THE SUN BEHIND THEM or a tree or whatever. Shooting up at a subject is usually an unattractive angle BUT by getting them to lean forward over their belt buckle will change that angle and make it attractive. This simple little bit of knowledge makes the 'impossible' now 'POSSIBLE' – yayayayay!
These next few images I took between noon and 1pm. It was my son's 6th birthday and it was in the January (midsummer here in Australia). Now let me say that our sun down-under is so harsh and bright, the only sun I've found brighter is in Northern Australia! On this day we were at a park with some trees that only gave dappled shade.
In the below image, my son was at the top of the slide and I down on the ground. By getting him to lean over the top and look down at me I got the sun behind both him and a tree.
The next trick is to look EXACTLY at where the sun is placed. There is only a very short time at the absolute middle of the day where the sun is DIRECTLY overhead. This means that you can turn your subject so that they are in front of the sun even if only by a little.
In the next image I got my daughter to turn away from the sun, I do have some shadow from the peak of her hat and a teeny bit of side-lighting but it is a sale-able image regardless. I would have done better to take the hat off.
And I've done the same thing with the image of them on the slide, I've employed 2 tactics here, getting the sun just the teeniest bit behind them AND I've crouched down low and shot up at them to get the sun right behind them and the trees behind. I have some hot spots on my daughters arm but I wouldn't hesitate to sell this image
You can also use any shade that you can find. In the below image, you can see here I have the TEENIEST bit of shade but I used it. Shooting from above and getting him to look up toward the lightsource (sky) has lit up under his cap and his eyes too. You can see where the shade ends, in fact his forearms and hands are bright and have some hot spots.
Another tool is the 'FIRST TREE OF THE FOREST' guide. Simply place your subject in front of the first tree of the forest (or park in this case). By putting them under the first tree you block the downward rays from the sun, and because the forest is behind them, and they are looking out to the open and bright area, it lights their faces and their eyes. It is the same principle as placing your subject in a doorway looking out, or that yummy garage light. You'll get awesome catch-lights when you do this.
Here my daughter is under the first pine tree of a clump of trees. The light under these trees was dappled (see the spotty light behind) so I had to put her right up next the trunk.
This next picture employs the same principle. Only instead of a tree it is a tunnel. If they were on the other side they would be lit by direct harsh sunlight. You can clearly see how overhead the sun is here by how little the shadows are. They were facing a very bright sand pit which worked as a natural reflector (but was a bit too glarey for my light sensitive boy).
I need to digress a little here, and I hope it isn't too techinical, but it is so important as it directly affects us photographers.
Our cameras, typically, are capable of recording 5 stops worth of exposure. So from the darkest pixel to the lightest will only be 5 stops.
Now there is our conundrum, our big problem – most outdoor scenes are approx 10 stops. So we have a camera which is able to record 5 stops worth of information, which means that there is 5 stops that our camera is unable to capture, these are our clipped shadows and blown highlights! All we need to do then is reduce our dynamic range, thus making it possible for our camera to record more information.
There are 3 ways to do this in full sun.
Fill flash
If your subjects are old enough to sit still you can use a reflector or a diffuser.
A REFLECTOR lifts the exposure in the shadows and does a couple of desirable things…
- reduces the exposure range by adding light and lifting the dark shadows,
- lights up the eyes and gives a catchlight,
And you don't need to learn fill flash and ratios to do this, it is visually obvious when the light is hitting your subject right!
And a reflector can be anything from a purpose made photographic one, to a sheet of white coreboard, a light coloured wall or bright window, the sea, the sand, the concrete on the ground or even someone in a white shirt!
I used a reflector in the image below, see the sparkle in her eyes, without it she'd have been very underexposed.
Sometimes you will come across some people who are really light sensitive and can squint at the light bouncing off the reflector.
This is when we'd use a DIFFUSER.
A Diffuser works by subtracting exposure in the highlights, and in diffusing them. The diffuser is placed between the sun (or light source ie window etc) and decreases the exposure range by subtracting light and therefore reducing and softening the highlights
Diffusers are great for squinters as it reduces the intensity of the light and doesn't throw bright light into their faces.
You can buy photographic diffusers, most 5in1 reflector kits will have one! But using tree foliage, net curtains, anything that you can filter the sun through will act as a diffuser.
The below photos were taken with a diffuser.
The photo of the little girl was taken late in the morning (around 11am), see how soft the light is on her hair. If I'd not used the diffuser her hair would have definitely blown out.
This photo of the teen was later in the afternoon and the sun was coming in behind. I needed the diffuser to keep her hair and her shoulder exposed correctly.
When all is said and done, have a go – it's not that scary! Take the time to see the light, and where it's coming from. This will help you more than anything I can ever write!
Amanda is an established portrait photographer and owner of Amanda's Photography, Melbourne, Australia –www.amandasphotography.com.au She specialises in photographing babies, kids and families both on location and in her Melbourne studio. Amanda's Photography has been in business for 10 years, so Amanda has extensive experience in shooting outdoors in the harsh Australian sun – "Once (the sun) was my worst photographic enemy, now my best friend"!
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Great post! Thank you for the helpful information!!
it was really nice post! awesome :)thaks for sharing..
Thank you for the great post! Would you mind telling us the kind/brand of diffuser you used for the little girl in the field?
Hi Karen, I have a few different sized reflectors and kits and they are all cheapies from eBay 😉 That was my 1 meter oval one in this pic.
Thank you,thank you,thank you 🙂 I have a shoot on Mon and their only available time is 1pm I think I'm feeling a little more confident 🙂
Great tips from you..i really loved your captures
Just what I was looking for, thank you!!
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The Real Cost of Public Schools
We're often told that public schools are underfunded. In the District, the spending figure cited most commonly is $8,322 per child, but total spending is close to $25,000 per child — on par with tuition at Sidwell Friends, the private school Chelsea Clinton attended in the 1990s.
What accounts for the nearly threefold difference in these numbers? The commonly cited figure counts only part of the local operating budget. To calculate total spending, we have to add up all sources of funding for education from kindergarten through 12th grade, excluding spending on charter schools and higher education. For the current school year, the local operating budget is $831 million, including relevant expenses such as the teacher retirement fund. The capital budget is $218 million. The District receives about $85.5 million in federal funding. And the D.C. Council contributes an extra $81 million. Divide all that by the 49,422 students enrolled (for the 2007-08 year) and you end up with about $24,600 per child.
For comparison, total per pupil spending at D.C. area private schools — among the most upscale in the nation — averages about $10,000 less. For most private schools, the difference is even greater.
So why force most D.C. children into often dilapidated and underperforming public schools when we could easily offer them a choice of private schools? Some would argue that private schools couldn't or wouldn't serve the District's special education students, at least not affordably. Not so.
Consider Florida's McKay Scholarship program, which allows parents to pull their special‐needs children out of the public schools and place them in private schools of their choosing. Parental satisfaction with McKay is stratospheric, the program serves twice as many children with disabilities as the D.C. public schools do, and the average scholarship offered in 2006-'07 was just $7,206. The biggest scholarship awarded was $21,907 — still less than the average per‐pupil spending in D.C. public schools. If Florida can satisfy the parents of special‐needs children at such a reasonable cost, why can't the District?
The answer, of course, is that it could.
D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee is energetic and motivated, and State Superintendent of Education Deborah Gist offers helpful answers to work e‐mails at 10 p.m. on Sundays. These are dedicated leaders, and as long as there are government‐operated schools in Washington, we're lucky to have them at the helm. But we are squandering their talent by asking them to manage a bureaucracy so Byzantine it would give Rube Goldberg an aneurysm.
The purpose of public education is to ensure universal access to good schools, to prepare children for success in private life and participation in public life, and, we hope, to build tolerant, harmonious communities.
Empowering every parent with a choice of independent schools would advance all those goals. Does anyone worry that Chelsea Clinton will become a threat to society because she attended a private school? Was Barack Obama unprepared for public life because of his time in a Catholic school?
The District should give every child the educational opportunities now enjoyed only by the elite.


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Australia's most popular department store, David Jones, will showcase its 2012 Spring/Summer Fashion Launch on August 14 at 7PM by live streaming the event on their blog (link to the page).
Once an occasion only for high profile celebs and the fashion elite, David Jones will now give us all, in the comfort of our desks and couches, the chance to join in on the fashion action and experience it for ourselves.
For Snob, there is nothing else like Australian fashion, it is truly a lifestyle. Whether you are in the cultural capital of New York City, the past-paced environment on London Town or even a small town in country Italy or Croatia… Australian fashion resonates, and there really is nothing else like it.
Being busy with university and our part-time jobs, we really do 'live online'. Gone are the days of paying big-bucks for a ticket to a runway show, as we now have the ability to gain special VIP access into this season's up-and-coming fashion forecast.
Not only will the live fashion event showcase the Spring/Summer season's up-and-coming trends and most sought-after styles, but it will also give viewers a unique insight into the department store's designer brands such as Alex Perry, Collette Dinnigan, Easton Pearson, Thurley, Josh Goot, Dion Lee, Zimmermann, Lisa Ho, Romance Was Born, Scanlan & Theodore, plus many more.
This celebration of summer fashion would not be the same without the presence of 'all-Australian' David Jones Ambassador and Victoria's Secret Angel Miranda Kerr. David Jones Ambassador Samantha Harris, Jason Dundas, and the 2011 Australia's Next Top Model winner, Montana Cox, will also feature in the coveted fashion event. You can also go behind the scenes with Miranda Kerr on this link here.
"This season's campaign is all about celebrating our phenomenal Australian design talent," says Sophie Clark, David Jones General Manager for Womenswear.
"This summer at David Jones, we want to make you dream. Whether your imagination takes you to St Tropez or Africa, Bondi or Broome, there is something for everyone at David Jones" adds Clark.
Speaking of imagination… That is exactly what the David Jones Spring/Summer season will offer its loyal 'chic' customers. Whether it be the tribal prints and sundresses by Easton Pearson, Zimmermann's signature prints and patterns, the majestic kaftan by Camilla and Marc, Bassike or Bec & Bridge's crisp white and terracotta colour palette or random colour pops by Alice McCall, this show will not disappoint.
Be sure to tune in HERE on August 14 at 7pm and save the event date for your one-stop-pass to this season's fashion must-haves.
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This is the only Jaguar E-Type Low Drag Coupé from 1962. It was built because, while the original car was fast, engineers knew they could make it faster.
The E-Type's monocoque design could only be made rigid enough for racing by using the "stressed skin" principle. The original tub got lighter outer panels riveted and glued to it. The windshield was given a more pronounced slope, and the rear hatch was welded shut. Rear brake cooling ducts appeared next to the rear windows, and the interior trim was discarded, with only insulation around the transmission tunnel. With the exception of the windscreen, all cockpit glass was perspex.
A tuned version of Jaguar's 3.8-litre engine was used with a wide-angle cylinder head design tested on the D-Type racers, but since air management became a problem, the car was never competitive. Jaguar built 12 Lightweight E-Types based on this development.
Ok, so the Low Drag Coupé wasn't exactly a success story. I guess it's time to show us than which racing specials were. It's your duty, because racecar!
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We take our fourth and final look into the style, and look at a few more bands that didn't get a mention in our investigation of the Origins, Rise, and Future of Death Metal. From the initial days of the subgenre, and into the appearance of many varied offshoots, we examine More Chronicles of Death Metal.
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- "Spore Ensemble" by SLUGDGE from Dim and Slimeridden Kingdoms
- "The Stench of Burning Death" by Repulsion from Horrified
- "Onslaught" by Slaughter Lord from Thrash 'til Death 86-87
- "Into the Grave" by Grave from Into the Grave
- "World Eater" by Bolt Thrower from Realm of Chaos
- "Dehydrated" by Pestilence from Consuming Impulse
- "Scrolls of the Megilloth" by Mortification from Scrolls of the Megilloth
- "Transform All Suffering Into Plagues" by Rotting Christ from The Mighty Contract
- "Eve of the Apocalypse" by Malevolent Creation from Retribution
- "Liege of Inveracity" by Suffocation from Effigy of the Forgotten
- "Defenstration" by Cryptopsy from Blasphemy Made Flesh
- "Skin Her Alive" by Dismember from Like an Everflowing Stream
- "Disincarnated" by Gorguts from Considered Dead
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- "Roswell 47" by Hypocrisy from Abducted
- "Artifacts of the Black Rain" by In Flames from The Jester Race
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- "Kill Your Mother / Rape Your Dog" by Dying Fetus from Killing on Adrenaline
- "Caged and Disgraced" by Six Feet Under from Warpath
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- "Glumurphonel" by Portal from Seepia
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- "Elegy" by Becoming the Archetype from Terminate Damnation
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Make Your Own Video Game With No Coding Required
Want to make video games? Awesome! First, just learn to code and then get ready for a lot of hard work.
Or maybe not. Pixel Press wants to let anyone of any age create their own video game levels with just a pencil, graph paper, and an iPad or iPhone.
Players simply design their level by hand, creating any traps or obstacles they want the avatar to surmount while climbing five stories and reaching the goal. Pixel Press uses proprietary character recognition to allow the iPad's camera to pick up the sketches and convert them to graphic elements in the level. Then the creator has to test the level, refine it and add skins to make it look like a polished game.
Pixel Press creator Robin Rath says the game was inspired somewhat by his childhood. He and his friends loved games like Super Mario Brothers and Metroid, which featured long stretches of levels that took platforming skills to traverse.
"We used to draw all those levels out on a piece of paper," Rath says.
Now that Rath has a child of his own, his thoughts turned to sharing that experience of level creation with everyone. He says part of the focus of Pixel Press is to teach kids several things, including game design, and be a gateway to an interest in the field.
"It can teach patience, teamwork, drawing skills, and maybe advanced computer technical skills, depending how far you wanted to take it. I liked the idea of introducing younger people to code, because they may think it's so hard to get into," Rath says.
Rath plans for the Pixel Press community to be a sounding board as well. Once creators finish their levels, they'll publish them to Pixel Press, where players will compete for the best times and rate them, offering feedback. Rath says this was partially inspired by world-building game Minecraft.
"What I love about Minecraft is that it has sharing built in, people spend hours upon hours building something, and then they want to share it with their friends. You get a rewarding experience because you get feedback and learn from each other," he says.
Pixel Press is only a prototype for now. Rath and his team launched a Kickstarter to raise $100,000 and get the product out there. One of the main things he's focusing on now is refining the game's object recognition engine so it can adapt to poor drawing skills, or sections that don't quite make sense.
Once its released, Rath says Pixel Press will monetize by making extra level skins or art as an in-app purchase, allowing creators to more granularly customize their game. He also hopes to partner with brands down the line so they can create their own levels with on-brand assets.
What do you think of an idea like Pixel Press? Will it get others more engaged in game creation? Let us know in the comments.
Image courtesy of Pixel Press


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This is Drakan who is dressed as a Nerd. This is a simple but definitely well thought-out Costume. Note that, it's not the clothes that make the man, It's how the man wears the clothes that makes him a NERD! Ü
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Brussels, 21 September 2005
70 million euros for the next 7 years of European Research. The amount proposed by the European Commission is a worthwhile investment in Europe's future.
Figures already exist showing that European research programmes have an effect on economic and employment growth (see MEMO/05/199 ). But what is their effect at the level of companies, universities, research institutes? What is Europe risking if it doesn't invest more in European research?
Missed opportunities
A look at the recent past will help to understand why the European Commission considers investing more in research is necessary for Europe's future. In the past, Europe has missed opportunities in key research areas such as nuclear safety, food contamination, Alzheimer, terrestrial biosphere protection and road tunnel safety, simply due to a lack of available funds.
The funding available under FP6 has allowed no more than 15% of all project proposals to be funded, leaving many excellent and innovative projects without funding.
Past success
These missed opportunities do not mean that the European research framework programmes have failed. On the contrary, the programmes have substantially contributed to addressing many of society's major challenges in key areas. Some examples of issues where the European scientists have lead ambitious and successful projects include:
- Identification of the function of genes involved in the resistance to diseases
- design of a new large solar parabolic to prepare the energy of the future
- development of a robot with healing hands for stroke patients
- creation of a new kind of filter to remove smoke from the diesel engines
Who and what will be funded?
The European Commission, on the basis of the previous framework programme assessments and indicators, estimates that the doubling of the research budget would:
- Create 220.000 new research posts through the participation of Universities and Research Institutes in FP7 funded research projects, compared to 70.000 in FP6.
- Result in more than 20.000 contracts, compared to 7,500-8,500 in FP6.
- Involve over 200.000 participants, compared to 75,000-83,000 in FP6
- Fund 15,000 or more fellowships, compared to 4,500-5,500 in FP6
Small and medium-sized enterprises are a tremendous source of innovation and growth potential for the future. The Seventh Framework Programme seeks to make the most of this potential by proposing measures to increase the participation of SMEs in research projects, and to develop systems for their increased access to research results. There is certainly a will on the part of SMEs to get involved – almost 70% of proposals received from SMEs and evaluated as excellent do not receive funding, due to a lack of resources. Assuming that the average project size remains the same, a doubling of the research budget will allow the direct financing of an additional 500 SMEs every year.
Innovation starts here
In its Seventh Framework Programme, the European Commission has proposed a number of innovative instruments, which respond to the challenges faced by those carrying out research in Europe. These include:
A Risk-sharing Finance Facility, to tackle the traditional reluctance of financial institutions to invest in R&D. This new facility will provide a grant from FP7 to the European Investment Bank, to be used to partially cover the risk of lending to R&D projects with a strong European dimension. One euro from the Risk Sharing Finance Facility should allow the EIB to make available up to six euros in loans.
A European Research Council (ERC), which will, for the first time, support directly the basic and fundamental research. This kind of research is the basis for advances in all possible fields of scientific endeavour. It could help to identify the next world-leading technology or paradigm shift in our understanding. The ERC will be based on a high degree of autonomy and integrity, funding the best of European investigator-driven research.
Joint Technology Initiatives, to accelerate the development of major technologies through ambitious pan-European public private partnerships. A first set of initiatives have already been identified in the areas of innovative medicines, nano-electronics, embedded computing systems, hydrogen and fuel cells, aeronautics and air traffic management and global monitoring for environment and security. (poss. as footnote)
See also IP/05/1171 and MEMO/05/335
Item source: MEMO/05/336 Date: 21/09/2005
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