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Daily Trojan, Vol. 23, No. 12, September 28, 1931
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S 0. A. iul»r meeting of a will be held ^Kg today at SOUTHERN A L 1 F O R N I A DAILYPTROJAN Squires will meet tcday at noon in the committee i room. Student Union. Los Angeles, California, Monday, September 28, 1931. No. 12 '<ti FRATERNITY COUNCIL'S ME SMOKER TO HONOR ■mpus HOUSE NEOPHYTES STANDARD PORTED BY DEN, NORWAY eported Seeking To Abandonment Of k By Europe, ^■j - |y United Press ■ am) Sweden suspended ■ lar aciion by Great i"g that friendship between fraternities must start \ S. L'. S. C. interfraternity council wiH introduce a event in Troy tonight, the first annual inter-fraternity '•pledge smoker. Pledge groups of all campus Greek houses will assemble at 8:30 p.m. at the Sigma Nu house. A letter from the council to all house presidents this week requested them to insure attend auce of the neophytes. Dr. Francis Bacon, dean of men, and Francis Bushard, student body j president, will speak to the pledges. Simultaneously with the pledge smoker, members of the societies will congregate at the Kappa Alpha house, West Adams and Severance streets for the first interfraternity smoker of the season. According to Harry Proctor, chairman of the council's interfraternity relations committee, a later smoker, in February, will include as guests both members and pledges. niSh cabinet will meet flrning to consider Den-Won. Unc to prevent further j of cold from their both Norway and Swed ed their bank rates and possibly will follow suit, e efferts of Britain's i of tiie gold standard rent and the pound ster-from 14.85 to less than nf the Scandinav-,■< un- jjjENCH OPPOSED bankinc leaders, attemp-the scope of their ^^^Bdurin£ 'li'1 decline of the reported tn have ar-abandonment IIm niar id by other nations in mm-Kuropean countries tile effects of the Brit-^^^Hrial aituation soon. In the OOf* ■KHPrem and exporters, w ho M percent of their crop to expecting serious effect! aad plan to seek new mar- AMSttfiDAM, Sept. 27—(UP) ^■l'l standard will be main ^^^Hconditionally, the Nether-^^^Hik announced today. The ^^^Bnvni -aid no inflation w as ^^^Hthat tne hank's gold pHition « sirnnirer than ever. In rent dlacussions with the England, it was not be-(lere would be any loss Dimd in foreign exchange by the bank. Many of faction* which drained |n lhe Bank of England to suspension of the }idard were conducted in JAPANESE PLEDGE TROOPS REMOVAL NANKING, China. Sept. 27— (UP)—Japanese military planes are continuing attacks on Chinese trains between Peiping and Mukden, a government spokesman charged tonight In commenling on the Japanese occupation of Manchuria. '•The Japanese militarists suffered a severe defeat before the League of Nations council when Japan's delegate undertook to promise withdrawal of troops in the railroad zone," Wai Chiao-Pu, foreign ministry spokesman, told the Kuo Min news agency. "The Japanese militarists were forced to abandon their plans because of increasing pressure of world opinion, as shown at Geneva and In the American government's note to Tokio." 2000 Communists Shout Dole Cut Opposition LONDON, 8ept. 27—(UP) — A series of country wide demonstrations against the government's 10 per cent cut in the dole was brought to a boisterous climax today under red flags raised in Hyde Park. About 2,000 adherents lo Communist organizations, which have been active some violent demonstrations in Scotland in the last week, marched to the park, where about 6,000 spectators were gathered opposite aristocratic Park Lane. Speakers announced that the unemployed would attempt to hold a mass meeting In front of parliament on Tuesday. It was believed likely such a meeting would lead to more serious clashes. KNIGHTSTAKE OVER TRAFFIC CASES TODAY EDUCATION GROUP HEARS TOUTON AT FIRST MEETING Chicago Teachers' Plight Told By Members; Miller Gives Reading. Assoc.a. ed students of the School ot Education convened in tiieir first meeting of the year Friday noon in the Student Union. Faculty members were gue.-'.'.j of iicnor and were introduced to those Hll*.iding the affair. Dr. Touton, vice-president City Police Give Service Group Full Jurisdiction Over Campus Parking. As the result of a meeting of the Trojan Knichts last Thursday, a traffic committee has been appointed to clear :he campus red zones. Upon learning that police intended patrolling the campus this year. Bud Medbury, president of thc Knights, working in coopeta-tion with Frank Hadlock, assistant to President von KleinSmid, obtained permission lo give the student committee a two-weeks' trial. If, at the end of two weeks, the committee has been unsuccessful in handling the situation, the police department will automatically take over the work. PLANS MADE "Plans have been carefully laid to insure complete organization and efficient operation of the organization and it is hoped that sludents will cooperate lo avoid the embarrasment of police jurisdiction," declared Charles Van Landtngham. chairman of the committee, today. "Students should realize that the formation of this commlltee is in their own interest," he continued. "They should also remem FRIDAY NIGHT RALLY DRAWS 2100 ROOTERS Enthusiastic Crowd at Pep Meeting and Dig; Yell Candidates Perform. tHOLM, Sept. 27—(l'P)— _Idish stale council decided suspt-nd tiie gold r.tand ■ Ths bank rate was increased • It 8 per cent. potion, which had been several days ago, was tlai t" that of the British gov in relieving the govern-■t ofl conv.-i ting currency inlo M os demand. ER orway, Sept, 27—(UP) '■>t-cian <t:tte council to- pE* ■ - kort of gold. paly the bank rate had sased two per cent to •NGTON, Sept. 27—(UP) ciaion of Sweden and |to suspend gold payments ected to have but little effect on international it concerns the United American investments and Ertfs' Request ers On k ' irtr««t iu orgaa » Vla'd Smiths dally re- '•"■own by the growing m Ot request* received ^■"*'»in for today is: H ' "°m Midsummer 1)1 earn. by Mendel World l'S°, from Ne1 pn>. by Dvorak, andfather's Wooden Leg. Fancies, by Pireslde TOKIO, Sept. 27—(UP)—Japan tonight promised to observe international obligations in her conflict with China over occupation of Manchuria. The promise was contained in the government's reply to Secretary of Stale Henry L. Stimson's not« expressing hope that the controversy would be settled immediately. The note, which will be dispatched to Washington tomorrow, pledged Japan to withdraw her troops from Chinese territory as soon as possible. HONG KONG. Sept. 27—(UP) — A state of emergency w-as declared by British officials tonight in a determined effort to halt serious rioting between Japanese and Chinese. Six Japanese and at least three Chinese were killed in fighting which grew out of Chinese protests against the Japanese military occupation of Manchuria. Many others were hurt. WASHINGTON, Sept. 27—(UP) —The Chinese legation said today it had received official cable advices of further hostilities in Manchuria. The Chinese advices asserted a train was derailed by "Japanese agents," South of Mukden, Manchuria, with a loss of 30 lives. The dead were said to include an Englishman, a Russian and an Indian. The message said the Japanese looted the train and were continuing aerial bombardment of Chinese forces. Delta Sigma Rho Holds Smoker For tlie linnet sity, spoke on the ex r-erimeni being carried or. with a group of 7') students who hive beet, r.umliled in spite if the fact lhat. lhey have not enough recommended units. The experiment will be held over a period of three years to iet»ruilne whether or nut student* of low-standard cm benefit fi mu l*|;in { college work. A dramatic scene from the play, "Disraeli," by Louis N. Parker was given by William Miller, a graduate student !n the school of speech, who is directi ig the under-ia&s pl«y, "F'rot Nljjlit." The situation which Chicago teachers are taring ot n -t hein« pmd fiom la*t April to next Jin-ua.y was explai.u-J I* students who have tiugiit ,n '.ha W:nd> City. A bonu which Ig gi en the teachom in p'«i.n of tnefr pay chei: was pas.^d around French Premier Hailed by Berlin Peace Workers BERLIN, Sept. 27— (UP) -Pierre Laval, smiling premier of the French republic, arrived in the German capital today on a mission of friendship and was greeted by a hysterical, cheering crowd that hurled itself through double police lines, shouting "peace, peace! No more war!" Surrounded by thousands of police who turned the Friedrich-strasse into an armed camp, Lava) and Foreign Minister Aristide Briand were acclaimed by an outburst of pacifism that was un precedented In the long history of Franco-German relations and which appeared to be the most encouraging of any recent manifestation toward stable relations between the two nations. Later Latal and Briand met with Chancellor Heinrich Bruening and Foreign Minister Julius Curtius and agreed to form a permanent Franco-German economic committee as a step toward better relatione. The committee would be expected to pave the way for the more important ad oi ber that Ihe operation of Ihe traf- fic court is not to be taken lightly. Failure to heed a summons may result in suspension from classes. The administration of tne university is behind the organization ln Its decision, even to expulsion. If necessary. NEW REGULATIONS "No standing zones have been freshly painted at several points on the campus this semester and should he strictly regarded. This makes It unlawful for a car to park in one of these even If the driver remains in Ihe car." The committee goea inlo operation al 8 o'clock this morning. Other members are: Page Parker, Joe Bushard, Jack Smith, Hubert Bailie, Kd Belascj, mes Booth. Alton Garrett, Dean Har rell, and I^ester Leppe. FOREIGN PICTURES STUDIED BY CLASS Besides being a festival of pep, S. C.'s first night rally last Fri day developed into a mammoth manifestation of Trojan spirit for the benefit of hundreds of outsid ers as well as for 1800 sons and daughters of Troy. With the Impetus of a recoin mendation made by the Interfra ternity council a' a recent meet Ing. campus fraternities brought their rushees from Los Angeles and vicinity to Bovard to see what sc'.iool spirit was. Trojans and ihelr guests Ils tened to Bud Medbery, Trojan Knight and chairman of Ihe rally committee, make an introductory speech and signified their desire for more rallies by a burst of ap plause. They roared congratula tions to Al Sanborn, representa tive of Pi chapter of Phi Kappa Tau, as he received the Greek scholarship cup from Fred Chase president of the lnterfralernliy council. The Trojans gave Ellsworth Vines, tennla relebrlty, an ova lion, listened to Francis Bushard sludent body president, congratulate him and present a token from thc school, and heard Vines's acknowledgement, They shook the roof of the auditorium with the! voices while 12 prospective cheerleaders tried out under Ihe so pervlsion of Bailey Kdgerton. yell king. They followed Kdgerton In a tribute of Coach Howard Jones Finally, after group song prac lice, the vibrant strains of "Fight On" sung with the university bund, and an address hy Harry Silke, former student body presl deni, the 21*10 spectators marched out of Bovard hall. A few minutes later more than 900 of them reasHombled in Ihe women's gyro for the rally "dig There the prospective Trojans were given Ihelr first taste of campus social life by their hosts They danced to the musln of Bob Brown's Southlanders until ap proxlmately 11:30. New Debate Men 1C Freahmen and other new debaters will hear how it used to be done, when S. C. aiuniui debaters speak to them at a smoker^l their honor tomorrow night. Delta Sigma Rho, honorary debate fraternity, will entertain the new men at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow night in the Kappa Sigma house. The entertainment ls au annual affair. Besides the alumni speakers, Coach Alan Nichols will outline hla torenaic plans for the vear Refreshments will be served described repeatedly as the moat vital issue in solution of Europe's tangled economic and political af. in | fairs. "The Franco-German committee would investigate the economic problems of both countries," aaid Laval, expressing hope for secure relations between the two nations "The world is thoroughly disturbed by an economic crisis unpara lleled ln history. The eyes of the world are focused upon us. Now is the time to act." The motion picture industry in Germany and Soviet Russia as studied by Frank Tuttle, director at Paramount studios, on his recent trip abroad, was the theme of Dr. Boris V. Morkovin's motion picture lecture Friday. Dr. Morkovin emphasized the fact lhat Europeans have a different attitude regarding acting than have Americans, stating that European directors maintain that the content of a dialogue is more Important than tbe manner of its presentation. They believe technique to be of secondary importance, following automatically from quality of content. "Students ln the clasa in Social and Psyhcologlcal Aspects of the Motion picture will be given a great deal of opportunity to view- the practical side of the motion picture Industry this season," said Dr. Morkovin. The class will visit the United Artist's studio Friday, October 2. to study "All Quiet on the Western Front," and to watcb the shooting of scenes from Lewis Milestone's latest musical comedy production. German Society Picnic Tomorrow In Olympic Park Der Deutsche Verein, S. C. German club, will inaugurate ita annual aeries of social eventa with a picnic tomorrow noon in Olympic park. Dr. F. G. Bauer, new member of the German department faculty, and other new and old mem bers of the club will be introduced during the luncheon. The group will assemble at noon in Bridge 106. and all German studenta are invited. A 25 cent charge will be made foi the luncheon. Lunch Meeting Of Stray Greeks Wednesday Noon Stray Greeks, both men and women, wljl lunch Wednesday at 12 noon in the patio of the Student Union, following with a meeting In the Y. W. C. A room. .132 8tu dent Union, a custom which will be followed weekly throughout the semester. Last Wednesdsy Maryola Wal lace was appointed Pan-Hellenic representative. A nominating committee to select permanent officers will be appointed at the meeting Wednesday. The purpose of the organization is to promote the social life of fraternity and sorority orphans. Thalia Wilson has been president for the past year. FOSTER RECEIVES JOURNALISM PRIZE That Ernest Foster, sophomore in the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, is the recipient of a three-year scholarship in journalism, was announced Friday by Prof. Roy L. French, chairman of the department of Journalism A graduate of Long Beach Polytechnic high achool, where he wa8 valedictorian of his class, Foster entered S. C. last fail to study Journalism. He served as night editor on the daily Trojan staff during his freshman year, and is day editor for Tuesday's paper thia semester. 11 O'Clocks Close For Funeral Of Dean Fisher To permit members of the faculty to attend the funeral of the late Dean John F. Fisher of the School of Religion, Ihe administration has announced the cancellation of all 11 o'clock classes today in the College of letters. Arts, and Sciences. There will be no classes In the School of Religion after 10 o'clock. Funeral services for Dr. Fisher will be held at it o'clock this morning In the First Methodist Episcopal church, Eighth and Hope streets, with Interment at Forest U«ti. KNIGHTS FLAY BOOKSTORE FOR EXPANSION ATTITUDE; CHARGE PROFIT-GRASPING The Trojan Knights last week added their disapproval to that of the legislative and interfratemity councils toward the attitude of the University Bookstore for its refusal to sell its ground to the university on thc basis of property evaluation by expert opinion. A resolution, passed unanimously, reads as follow*: WHEREAS, we consider * " SCHOLARSHIP CUP GIVEN PRE-MEDS BY KAPPA ZETAS High Scholar In Each Freshman Class To Have Name Engraved On Cup. A silver cup to be used as a scholastic award for freshmen pre-medical studenis has been placed ln the trophy rase of Science hall by Kappa Zeta. national honorary pre-medical fraternity. At Ihe end of each year the freshman who has the highest scholarship average will have his name engiaved on the cup. Francis E. Gulnm*- was elected president of Kappa Zeta at their first meeting of the year. Elmer O. Carlson was elected vlce-prc sldenl, and Victor Felnberg, secre lary-treasurer. Gulnney appointed William Cahill and George liar ria to secure qualifications of prospective pledges. Kappa Zeta, founded at S. C., has chapters in many western universities and Is Ihe only honor arjr pre-medical fraternity ot the Pacific coast. The local chapter is arranging program for the year lo correlate work given by the Univer stty, Including visits to hospltsls and medical research Institutions MAINTENANCE MEN TO HOLD CLASSES Employees of the university operation and maintenance department. are going to school. Under Ihe auspices of the lx>s Angeles board of education and he Frank Wiggins trade school, and at no cost to S. C" the group meets Thursdays ln Hoose 2i*6. The elements of building superintendency are taught to the ciasB by Professor Brown of the trade school. Charles E. Sims, university en-ginner, and Clee W Foster, assistant superintendent of buildings, hoth believe that the training will result In Increased efficiency In the performance of the mainten ance force. A class at 1 p.m is for student part time employees. One al 2 p.m. Is for full time janitors. we that commercial establishments whose trsde is dependent on the good will of students and faculty members of the University of Southern Cslifornla should give consideration to the wishes of those studenta and faculty membera, and WHEREAS, the Univereity Bookstore, situated acroaa University svenue from the Ad-mini st ration building on ground desired by the University of Southern California for Its memorial park, haa refused to dispose of this property at an appraisal value set by competent experts even though the said bookstore haa pur-chaaed property for the eatab-llshment of a new atore calculated to sttract university students' patronage, therefore be it RESOLVED, that we, the Trojan Knights, In meeting Thursday evening, September 24, condemn the attitude of the University Bookstore ss seeking to profit excsseively from the university's expansion program, and further be It RESOLVED, that we aa an organization continue to disapprove of the attitude of the Univeraity Bookstore as long as that institution continues to maintain its present attitude toward the disposal of its property. The Trojan Knights By Aldrich Msdbury, Acting President The meeting was presided over by Bud Medbury, who was appointed to the presidency by A. S. U. 8. C. President Francis Bushard, subject of the approval of the legislative council at its meeting tomorrow evening. FIRST GRADUATE SCHOOL MEETING TO BE LUNCHEON Plans For Year's Activities To Be Outlined Wednesday For Students. Chairman Makes Recommendatio n s For Relief Work Ex-Faculty Member Publishes New Book Alexander Hardie, former faculty member of the University of Southern California, has just published a book entitled, "Illustrious Gentile Asiatics: Zoroaster, Budda, Confucius." Professor Hardie spent many ears teaching In one of the colleges of Japan to obtain his ma terial. Latin Club Program W ednesday in'Y' Hut With a luncheon acd musical program the Latin club will hold Its first meeting of the year in the Y.M.C.A. hut on Wednesday, | M(d, -a high percenlag WASHINGTON, Sept. 27—(UP) —Immediate state and local organization to handle the unemployment situation was urged tonight by Walter 8. Qlfford, chairman of the president's organization on the unemployment relief, in his first "get ready" speech in anticipation of the five-week drive for relief funds beginulng Oct. 19. Gifford spoke over national networks of both great broadcasting companies. He recommended: "1. That a slate-wide committee of leading citizens be appointed by the governor of each state. "t. That an emergency committee be organized in exery community where there la an unem ployment problem. "3. That this local committee Inform Itself as to the probable unemployment load this winter and develop ways aud means for meeting It through providing employment of relief. "4. That each local committee Inform Its slate committee as to Its organization and plauB." An Important point in Gifford's apeech was hia argument that the public itself must provide work as well aa charity relief. "While a great many employees are working only part time." he of those Meeting for the first time tbla semester, the Graduate school has acheduled a luncheon for Wednesday noon in Student Union 422, to which all members of the school are Invited. Reservations may be made until tomorrow evening In the graduate office, in Stowell hall. Plans for activities, sorlal events, and elections of the coming year will be formed at the luncheon. Helen Peterson, acting president, will officiate, assisted by Winifred Biegler, secretary. Graduates of other colleges will have opportunity to become acquainted with S. C. customs and traditions. M. GANDHI OFFERS TO LIFT BOYCOTT CLITHEROE, Lancashire. Sept. 27—(UP)—The Mahatma Gandhi stood In Ihe dew-laden grass of an English country-side tonight and offered lhe hard-pressed Lancashire textile workers a compromise ln India's boycott against British textiles. "If India ls voluntarily given self-government, I will advocate prohibition of all imported cloths except the products of Lancashire," the tiny, soft-spoken Indian nationalist lender declared. Gandhi, representative of India's "starving millions," previously had seen at first hand the hardships Imposed upon the workers of Lancashire by Ihe great decline in British textile exports, due in great part to Gandhi's campaign-In India for home-spun cloth and his boycott of British textiles. The nationalist leader also said that lf the expected British general election next month causes a delay in the work of the roundtable conference for a new Indian constitution, he would return to India. sll Kainfully employed are working lull lime, either on full wages Legion Wet Resolve Arouses Wilson's Ire KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 27— (UP)—Dr. Clarence True Wilson, Methodist Episcopal temperance head, today continued hls attack upon the American legion, not only denouncing the soldiers' recent anti-prohibition resolution but criticizing national wet figures. "The American Legion convention at Detroit was a drunken orgy and the Legion's resolution calling for a prohibition referendum was passed by intoxicated soldiers who were insulting the uniforms they wore," aald Dr. Wilson, secretary of the temperance and morals board of the Methodist Episcopal church. He spoke before 1,61)0 men and women. Professor Sample Lauded For Art Work Prof. Paul Starret Sample, S. C., Instructor ot life drawings and oil paintings, recently had two of his canvases printed in the Foster will uae the acnolaraliip I Richardson, vice-president; T. J vacated by Robert Hosier who1 Crossley, treasurer . left achool laat year. j ----- ---AIMEE HOME AGAIN Sept. 30. All sludents of the class leal atudles are Invited to attend ____ ___ Ihe officers foi thla year are: and aalarles or with- reductions I french magazine "La Revue Mod- E»a Kapltan. president; Marlon no greater than the decrease in erne." The article which accom- the cost of living." j panied the paintings praised him ---. highly by suiting tbat bis work _ should place him among the best ' '8 O Mil T American artists of today. It CHICAGO, Sept. 27—(l'P)—The (UP)—AIhwm Seoiple McPher All rumbars of bn li liu-inesi |B ve'>r seldom that an American ninth bombing in Chicago's movie sou arrived home from Portland > aud ei::i;-!al s : fts cf E'. R.:deo, 18 ab,e to bieak iuto tola II' operator's battle wrecked the lobby of the Muaic Box theater today and terrorized 200 occupants of th< 34 apartments above the auditorium. Ore.. today with her husband. David Hutlon, and immediately con ducted a series of evengellr.tlc services at Angelua temple that lasted Jnttl late tonight. ahcool yc- -.rt io!:, will ulte-d a special meeting In the offica o' Mac Morgenthau, business manager, 221 Sludent Union, at noon lo day. elusive French magazine. The S. C. inaUueior specializes iu marine views and portraits, and has placed high in uianjf national exhibitions.
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Makeover on Main: Bus station gets new look
The most obvious exterior change that bus watchers notice: The Trailways sign no longer adorns the front of the bus station.
And disposing of that controversial cultural artifact wasn't even part of the $218,000 federal grant Charlottesville used to refurbish the Greyhound bus station on West Main Street.
The biggest changes are inside. New offices house the marketing group of the Charlottesville Transit System, which now is Greyhound's authorized ticket agent.
The terrazzo floors gleam, 40 years of grime banished. The new downstairs restrooms are clean and odor-free.
"It was a real rundown, dump sort of place," says acting CTS director Charles Petty. "The ceilings were falling in, and the bathrooms upstairs were not ADA accessible. They were really funky."
Now, it's a veritable multi-modal transportation center. Travelers can purchase a ticket to Phoenix– or a book of CTS tickets to go to the Mall.
The buzzword in urban transportation planning circles these days is "seamless," and the goal is to provide inner-city and intra-city connectivity.
That means an arriving passenger, say a struggling country musician tired of Nashville, could quickly hop a city bus to get to her in-town destination.
Good news for taxpayers is that the federally funded makeover came in under budget. "The bids were made in a slack time," says Petty. "We did work beyond what was planned, like the kiosks."
Those are still to come, as is Charlottesville's first crepe cart, a mini mart, and public access computer terminals.
The station currently serves 350 passengers a day. "We're hoping to bring in walk-in traffic," says Diane Taylor, CTS marketing director.
She points to video games that now greet visitors coming in the front door. Those will be moved to make room for the crepe cart. And the mini mart may sell take-out Hispanic food for around five bucks.
The city will get a cut from 15-minutes-for-$1 public access terminals. "We put in additional digital service lines," says Petty, adding that he hopes to have those online before the Christmas travel season. "A lot of students travel on the bus," he notes.
Operations supervisor Randy Kirby has witnessed the transformation firsthand. The former Greyhound worker is now a city employee.
"All of a sudden, I'm in here and see flowers coming in," he says. "It's great."
While Greyhound still owns the building, it's turned its operations over to local governments in cities such as Lynchburg, Staunton, and Fredericksburg. "Greyhound has done this a lot," observes Kirby.
The exterior Trailways sign was a legacy of the days before Greyhound bought its competition in 1987. Its departure has drawn mixed reviews.
While not part of the renovation, the city first asked Greyhound to remove the sign, and then pressured the company to make repairs to the sign.
"Greyhound was fairly entrenched and didn't want to remove it," says Mike Mollica in facilities management. "They dug in their heels. They felt it indicated buses even though it said Trailways."
Mollica says there were "major water infiltration issues" where the sign sat on a short canopy. Then when Greyhound got estimates to repair the sign, "they decided to pull it."
He, for one, is happy to see it go.
Others, like Petty, saw the sign as "neat and retro."
And Randy Kirby misses the sign, a sentimental symbol of his career. "I went to work for Trailways in March '73," he explains. Thirty years later, he's a city employee, and the Trailways sign is West Main history.
And after. The new and improved bus station loses its Trailways sign.


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Luckily, our devs were able to think up a workaround for this patch, so we can bide our time until an actual fix turns up.
Let me double-check with my boss before I hand out the moolah, though...I really like my job and would like to keep it.


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What are Media Converters?
Media converters are simple networking devices that enable you to interconnect networks or network devices with different speeds, operation types, modes and media types. Operation addresses half- and full-duplex dissimilarities. Mode addresses different wavelengths in a fibre optic environment. And media type can be multimode, single-mode or twisted-pair cable.
Benefits of Media Converters:
Media converters play an important role in today's multiprotocol, mixed-media networks. For example, LAN administrators can deploy media converters to integrate fibre optic cabling and active equipment into existing copper-based, structured cabling systems while achieving significant cost savings. In general, media conversion can deliver the following benefits for your network environment:
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You can use media converters with cost-effective Ethernet switches to do the same job as expensive hybrid media switches and reduce your overall networking costs in the process. Media converters can also be used with fibre optic cabling to bridge the last mile in your network or to establish a WAN connection up to 100 kilometres. This type of media converter solution can cost significantly less than one that relies on higher-layer devices such as routers or switches.
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Media converters enable you to protect your existing network investment. As simple network devices, media converters can easily be located or relocated to other areas within the installation, further leveraging the original investment. Additionally, they extend the productive life of your fibre and copper wiring plants by being able to interconnect different devices supporting various media types (coaxial cable, twisted pair, single-mode or multimode fibre), different wavelength modes (850 nm, 1310 nm or 1550 nm) or dissimilar speeds (10 Mbps, 100 Mbps or 1000 Mbps).
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Media converters offer the flexibility of combining copper with 850 nm and 1300 nm multimode fibre and 1310 nm and 1550 nm single-mode fibre. Slide-in media conversion cards for all cable types can reside in one media conversion chassis. With protocol transparency, Ethernet speed can be supplied anywhere in the network-local or remote-whether it's a LAN or the WAN environment. Every device can also be smoothly integrated into your workgroup or the enterprise-wide network, regardless of the type of bit rate transparency or the bit rate conversion that's supported.
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A basic media converter is a Layer 1 device that transparently passes through all information. It has a very low path-delay value and does not count as a repeater. Basic media converter functions may include FibreAlert, LinkLoss and single-strand fibre conversion. Along with its all-transparent behaviour, a basic media converter's key advantage is its low cost.
Switched Media Converter
A switched media converter not only converts media types and fibre mode but also speed and duplex mode. As the name implies, a switch is integrated into the converter to provide additional functionality. This switch function is its key advantage and often enables you to securely combine multiple Ethernet interfaces onto one fibre or prioritise traffic over the link.
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A managed media converter can be controlled and monitored locally and remotely. It can support command line interface, Telnet connections or SNMP functions for integration into an element manager or a management platform. Its key advantages are easier troubleshooting and reduced downtime.
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LinkLoss Feature
When either a twisted-pair or a fibre link is broken, the information about this link loss is transferred to the other media link. For example, when a cable breaks on the fibre segment of a conversion, LinkLoss detects the error and passes this information to the twisted-pair segment. This results in a loss of link on the remote twisted-pair device. If LinkLoss is enabled on that device, the device's green Link LED goes out, informing the local supervisor that there's something wrong with the link.
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Business community concerned that the death and the way their police force reacted could affect their livelihood
Jill Capparelli wears two plastic "Justice-4-Sheena" wrist bands as she serves drinks to a packed bar at the Drift Inn on Bridge Street, a tavern popular with locals just blocks from the hotel where Sheena Morris died.
Capparelli seldom takes the wrist bands off. One is two years old, faded from the soap and hot water of washing thousands of glasses. The other is still sky blue — given to her just weeks ago by Morris' mother, Kelly Osborn.
"Kelly has questions that need to be answered about her daughter's death," Capparelli, the assistant manager, said. "She's my hero for the way she's pushing. The case certainly has issues."
Capparelli and others in the island business community are concerned that the notoriety the death has caused and the way their small police force reacted could affect their livelihood. Solving major crimes — especially suspicious deaths — are one way a community can gauge the effectiveness of its police.
Some business owners say the Morris case shook their faith in the town's police. They believe Chief Sam Speciale should have called in outside help immediately after Morris was found hanging in a hotel room on New Year's Day 2009.
Police classified Morris' death as a suicide after a short investigation in 2009, but reopened the case last month upon the urging of a panel of law enforcement experts. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is assisting in the case.
"It should not have been handled by local police," said Matthew Myers, 58, owner of Bridge Street Interiors.
"He's thinking he's like the big boys, not a small village police chief — especially with all the forensics out there," Myers said. "I'm a big 'CSI' fan. If they get into something like that, they need to keep their hands off and call in the big boys."
Speciale did not return calls seeking comment for this story.
Crime is almost nonexistent in the small island community, according to the latest statistics from the FDLE.
Last year, Bradenton Beach and its 1,500 residents saw no murders, rapes or robberies, two aggravated assaults, five burglaries and one stolen car.
According to Speciale, there have been three murders in the past 25 years — a statistic that does not include Morris' death because her death was ruled a suicide.
Bradenton Beach officers made two drug arrests last year, but arrested no one for DUI or any liquor law violations. Officers arrested 38 adults during 2011, most for simple assault or "miscellaneous" offenses not specified in the data.
People feel safe living in the community, said Sandy Howes, 53, who has worked at the One Stop Shell Shop for nearly 25 years. She lived in Bradenton Beach for 15 years, and only begrudgingly moved off-island so her daughter would have access to different schools.
"Our officers do a great job — all the time patrolling," Howes said. "When I lived here, I never had any issues. I'd leave my doors unlocked."
When she comes to work in the mornings, Howes said it is not uncommon to see an officer's business card in the door, indicating they checked it the night before to make sure it was locked.
The 10 full-time and six part-time officers are very visible, patrolling in marked cars and SUVs on their three-mile stretch of the Gulf of Mexico Drive.
"If anything major happens, they raise the bridges, and there's no way to get off the island other than swimming," Howes said.
Mike Dunnett, 42, a massage therapist who works next to Myers at the Sea-Renity Spa, is worried about adverse publicity.
"It's a national story now," Dunnett said. "People might say to themselves, 'Don't go to Bradenton Beach. People get killed there.' "
Potential tourists should realize the growing controversy does not reflect upon the community, Dunnett said.
"It's more of a bad outlook on our police department. They don't have respect. That's what I hear from locals," he said. "The general opinion of the Bradenton Beach chief is not great."
Carol Clifford, 55, a native of Liverpool, England, bought the Back Alley, which offers curios and gourmet coffee, seven months ago.
She is not sure how the controversy will affect her business.
"I've got nothing to compare it to," Clifford said. "But anything that happens like that, it's all over the Internet."
Across the street at the Art Attack beachwear store, few have followed the case more closely than Briana Nerstrom, who at 26 felt a kinship for Morris, who died at the age of 22.
"It's hard to be unbiased, but the second coroner's report said her death was undetermined, so I think it needs a larger review than the police department has done," Nerstrom said. "I understand the mom's pain. I hope she gets closure. I don't think it's useful for her to have to jump through all these hoops."
Like many in the island's tight-knit business community, Nerstrom watched both episodes of the "Dr. Phil" show that focused on Morris' death.
She saw how Morris' former fiance, Joe Genoese, failed a polygraph examination on the show, when asked if he killed his fiance or was otherwise involved in the death.
"I do believe there was deception," Nerstrom said. "It certainly has me curious, but this is more of a police issue than a town thing."
Karen Lapensee, chairwoman of the Anna Maria Island Chamber of Commerce, said business on the island remains unchanged by the reinvestigation of Morris' death or by the controversy it has generated.
"Overall, I don't think we have a true impact that's affecting businesses or tourism," Lapensee said.
Bradenton Beach Mayor John Shaughnessy concurs, and said no one from the business community has ever expressed concerns to him about the quality of the police force.
As Shaughnessy has maintained since the controversy began, he said he is waiting for the FDLE to finish its reinvestigation of the case before deciding what to do.
"I'm not gonna talk about what happens in the future," the mayor said. "When it happens, I'll decide what to do then."
Shaughnessy watched the "Dr. Phil" two-parter that dealt with the case, but would not discuss the episodes.
"I have no opinion about it," he said. "I'm waiting for FDLE to decide what's going on here, not Dr. Phil."
Michael Kendall, who manages the Fish Hole Adventure Golf, believes Speciale and his officers could have done a better job.
"I do not think they did a thorough investigation," Kendall said. "Locals are talking. It's an issue for the PD. There have been a number of murders out there, but this one bothers people. They're hoping it gets resolved."
Tammy Funkhouser, 44, works next door to Kendall in the Bridge Street Bazaar, which sells beach wear, novelties and salt water taffy.
Like many business people, she has been following the case and is familiar with many of the specifics.
"Something is not right," she said. "There's the footprint issue — the fact her feet were dirty but there were no footprints in the shower."
Funkhouser also faults police for the initial investigation, the one concluding that Morris killed herself.
"A lot of people feel the chief wasn't honest or open about the case," she said. "The justice her mom is looking for will come if the police chief would look more at the evidence."
Funkhouser's sentiments were echoed by Ian Juul, 47, who owns The Hive, a gift shop just a few doors down.
Juul was born in Rhodesia before it became Zimbabwe. Rampant inflation forced his family to emigrate to South Africa. He has a Zimbabwean $50,000,000 bill taped to the wall of his store.
He believes police were too rushed, too quick to make the suicide determination.
"There's something there," Juul said. "There's lingering doubt."


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Guam's Birds Gone: Can Forest Survive?
With NSF support, a University of Washington graduate student and her colleagues use 'screen door netting and lots of PVC pipe' to study how the loss of birds affects the dispersal of seeds in Guam's forests
January 30, 2009
Can forests that have lost all of their birds still function normally? This is an important question for the now bird-less forests on the island of Guam, an island in the western Pacific.
How did Guam lose its birds? In the mid-1940s, the brown tree snake was accidentally introduced to what was then snake-free Guam. This snake became Guam's new top predator and ate its way through a buffet of the island's bird community. As a result, 10 of the island's 12 forest bird species are now extinct on Guam, and the two surviving forest bird species remain only in tiny, localized populations where snakes are controlled. Guam's now silent forests currently hold about 13,000 snakes per square mile.
I started to think about the potential ecological impacts of bird loss in 2002, when, two years out of college, I was hired by the U.S. Geological Survey to develop a "Rapid Response Team" that would identify and eradicate new populations of brown tree snakes on U.S.-associated Pacific Islands. Although I had heard the snake story in my college conservation biology course, I did not know where Guam was when I applied for the job. Yet, three weeks later, I was on a plane headed there.
Bird loss and seed movement
As I worked on Guam during the next three years, I often wondered why no one was studying how Guam's bird losses impacted the forests' remaining organisms. So in 2005, I began a Ph.D. program in biology at the University of Washington to investigate how bird loss changes the movement of seeds around Guam's forests.
This spring, I--along with my co-advisers, Joshua Tewksbury and Janneke Hille Ris Lambers, our collaborator at the University of Guam, Ross Miller, and my field assistant, Theresa Feeley-Summer--began to examine whether the loss of birds had caused changes in how the seeds the birds typically eat are distributed.
The study is funded by the Budweiser Conservation Scholarship and the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) and Graduate Research Fellowship programs. In this study, we set seed traps at various distances from fruiting False Elder (Premna obtusifolia) trees in the forests of Guam and Saipan, a nearby island with birds, and then counted the number of seeds that fell into each trap. This shows us how far the seeds of fruiting trees are traveling in Guam's bird-less forests, as compared to Saipan's forests with birds.
Screen-door netting and a mile of PVC
The first step in our research was to design traps to catch falling seeds using locally available materials. This task required many trips to the new Home Depot on Guam; we purchased the store's entire supply of screen-door netting, flexible PVC piping and PVC connectors. Believe me, I got some strange looks when I asked the Home Depot sales person for 2,000 feet of screen-door netting and a mile of PVC.
Although our study is still ongoing, we have already produced some important results. We found that all of the seeds from the fruiting trees on Guam remained near their parent trees and maintained intact seed coats. By contrast, many more of the seeds from the fruiting trees on Saipan were found without seed coats away from their parent tree.
The differences between the distributions of the seeds on Guam and Saipan can be attributed to the differences in their bird populations. In Saipan's forests, birds stop at fruiting trees, eat fruit, swallow the seeds and then fly to the next tree, where they defecate, effectively moving seeds away from where they are produced. We believe the handling of seeds by birds removes the seed coat and promotes the germination of seeds. In the bird-less forests of Guam, however, fruits ripen, fall off of the tree and settle at tree bases without being eaten or moved by birds.
Unfortunately, our results do not bode well for the future of Guam's fruit-producing trees. Research from around the world has shown that seeds from fruits falling under parent trees (like fruits in Guam) tend to experience higher mortality from predators and fungal infections than seeds that are moved away from their parent trees. In addition, for many (tree) species, seeds that are not handled by birds are less likely to germinate than seeds that are handled by birds.
More on seed dispersal
Where will our research go from here? I hope that Home Depot has restocked its screen-door netting and PVC piping, because we plan to construct about 1,000 more seed traps. We will use them to study seed dispersal for 14 more species of trees. This will give us a community perspective on seed dispersal patterns.
We will also investigate how the lack of seed handling and seed dispersal by birds impacts the germination and growth rate of seeds. In addition, we will evaluate the impacts of bird loss on local people by interviewing people who extract forest products for traditional uses. Several tree species used for medicinal purposes or as carving wood have seeds dispersed by birds, and thus may be experiencing population declines noticed by local people.
Although the introduction of a non-native snake caused Guam's bird loss, other factors are causing bird losses in forests around the world. The ecological impacts of all of these declines--no matter what the cause--are likely to be similar. Therefore, the complete loss of Guam's birds provides an extreme example that can inform us about the ecosystem impacts of bird losses around the world. The results of our research may be used by conservationists to develop and apply timely management approaches that will minimize the ecological impacts of bird loss.
A video of the researcher setting seed traps is posted here.
-- Haldre Rogers, University of Washington firstname.lastname@example.com
This Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation.
Premna obtusifolia, or False Elder, is a fruiting tree on the island of Guam.
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With the members of the incoming Class of 2014 at Hope College at the beginning of their college experience, speaker Dr. Sonja Trent-Brown suggested ways to make the most of the learning opportunities ahead.
Trent-Brown, an assistant professor of psychology, presented the address "A Multi-'tude' of Opportunity" during the college's Opening Convocation on Sunday, Aug. 29, in the Richard and Helen DeVos Fieldhouse.
Approximately 2,000, primarily new students and their families, attended the event, which marked the formal beginning of the college's 149th academic year. The new students moved in on Friday and returning students began moving in on Sunday. Fall semester classes start on Tuesday.
Trent-Brown included the colloquial short form of the word "attitude" in the title of her address to emphasize that how the students approach their education will play a key role in what they gain from it. She suggested that they adopt a multitude of "'tudes" in pursuing the multiple lessons that their years at Hope will offer.
First, she encouraged the students to embrace the way that the college's "multi-disciplinary" liberal arts education can give them additional perspectives with which to understand the world and make a difference in it. "As we better comprehend the world in which we live—its intricacies, nuances and subtleties—we are better prepared to meet its needs, to battle its ills, and to uplift its joys; making informed contributions and providing effective service," she said.
Next, Trent-Brown said that they should also take full advantage of Hope's "multicontextual focus," or emphasis on educating the whole person. "At Hope we identify three primary contexts within which we want students to grow—the academic, the co-curricular and the spiritual," she said. "Hope strives to be a place where the integration across these multiple contexts forges interconnections that produce more substantial learning outcomes for students than could any of the single contexts alone."
Third, she noted that the students should be open to the different styles of learning, or "multidirectional pedagogy," that they would encounter, from traditional classroom teaching, to hands-on laboratory sessions, to field placements, service-learning projects and more. "First, it encourages us to be open to learning in ways that may be very different from what we have been accustomed to, because, you know, it may turn out that it works for you," she said. "Second, our 'multi-'tude' encourages us to jump right in with full willingness to participate. If we only give something a weak, half-attempt, we're already putting ourselves at a disadvantage for reaping maximum benefit from the experience."
Fourth, she encouraged them to be open to the many prospects that the college will offer for "multicultural encounter," from on-campus coursework to domestic or overseas off-campus study to learning from others at Hope who are from different races and traditions. "We've heard about the necessities of globalization and being able to participate effectively in the changing world, in effect, becoming adept global citizens. So, yes, this will be important for your careers, but more importantly, for your lives," she said. "Our 'multi-'tude' here encourages openness, hospitality, patience, honesty, humility and compassion. It also undergirds courage—it can be scary moving outside your comfort zone, making 'first contact,' not knowing what you might find and how it might change your life… change you."
Trent-Brown also asked the students to pursue the multiple attitudes in a unified way, "thoughtful, intentional and prayerful in discerning amongst the choices." She reflected on the way that the Christian faith informs learning at Hope and cited Philippians 2:1-11, in which Paul calls for his readers to follow Christ's example and act in faith and humility, and with regard for others.
"It has been said that 'it is your attitude… that determines your altitude,' meaning that you can achieve new heights in your life if you are intentional about your attitude," she said. "Class of 2014, there is no limit to the heights you might achieve sharing the attitude of Christ, and a 'multi-'tude approach to your education, you just have to rise to the occasion."


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Open Source in Electronic Design Automation
The world of open-source software is making inroads into areas beyond operating systems, Internet and desktop applications, GUIs and scripting languages. One less well-known area of open-source development is Electronic Design Automation (EDA) for Hardware Description Languages (HDLs). There are two main HDLs in use, VHDL and Verilog. Verilog is widely used for logic design and simulation in the semiconductor industry and elsewhere.
HDLs are languages for representing hardware, typically for simulation or synthesis. Representing hardware can be done at more than one level of abstraction, depending on the desired application. Looking at abstractions will help illustrate why HDLs are different from conventional programming languages like C, C++ or Java.
For the purposes of "what-if" simulation, hardware is modeled in the HDL by describing in HDL code what it does, e.g., how it be behaves electronically, not what it is, as a circuit. This kind of HDL code looks like a rather conventional computer program. A mid-level abstraction often used in HDLs is Register Transfer Level (RTL). This kind of code reflects a structural implementation at the level of registers (implemented with flip-flops or other bistables called latches) that have various logics inserted between them. The code describing the logic can be either behavioral or more like what would be used in an actual implementation. RTL is used first to sketch an outline of the system, then to mold it progressively into a detailed implementation. Through this refinement process, the code somewhat resembles macros, and designers may even take advantage of libraries of RTL logic. Logic circuits can also be modeled at a very low level, where the implementation of the circuit is literally described in code. This is known as structural design, and it can look like long listings of assembly language.
So, with only one language, all of these levels of abstraction can be described equally well, and mixes of them are often used in design. There's an even bigger difference between HDLs and programming languages: time. In a way, HDLs describe the ultimate concept of a "program counter" because they all model time so that the behavior of logic circuits can be properly ordered, for instance as clocks progress in a system. This leads to a very large difference in language semantics. HDLs are concurrent and effectively model parallel-system behaviors. For performance, HDL compilers are often implemented as C or C++ programs. However, the compiler implements semantics for a language that inherently describes parallelism because this resembles hardware more closely.
As a result, EDA tools that use Verilog tend to have some unique qualities and requirements when contrasted with traditional software tools. To put this story in context, we offer an interview with a leading open-source EDA developer, Stephen Williams, who has written the Icarus Verilog compiler under the GPL.
LJ: What is the Icarus Verilog compiler, and how does it work?
SW: Icarus Verilog is a compiler for the IEEE Standard 1364 Hardware Description Language Verilog(r). Those familiar with the the EDA industry recognize it as similar in concept to VCS, in that it is a compiler for a language that is commonly interpreted.
It works by parsing the syntax of Verilog into an annotated parse tree that is then "elaborated" into a design graph. The elaboration process instantiates modules, evaluates and propagates symbolic constants, checks the connectivity of all the devices and produces a checked, consistent design.
The design graph is transformed by various optimizers and logic synthesis steps into a new design graph that is more appropriate for the selected target, which is then scanned by the final code generator.
Finally, the code generator scans the design and generates the desired format output. For simulation, it generates C++ that uses a simulation class library included with Icarus Verilog. It also includes an XNF code generator for sending synthesized designs to further FPGA tools. I'm currently working on a loadable target code generator to support a variety of other target formats.
LJ: How long have you been developing Icarus Verilog?
SW: My logs show that it was introduced to CVS in November 1998. I had a few false starts for at least two years before then. If memory serves (and it rarely does), I think I was on the current path for close to a year before it got into CVS.
LJ: What was your motivation for developing this tool?
SW: The glib answer is that I have a Linux/Alpha system. That doesn't quite say it all, though. It is pretty obvious that Linux/Alpha doesn't get much respect from the EDA vendors, but it is also true that even Linux/Intel gets little attention. I just can't fathom why so many EDA vendors are so in love with Microsoft products.
My real reason is not so altruistic, though. Basically, I'm doing it because I can, and I can do it well. My set of skills seems well suited to this sort of project and, by now, even more suited. I'm coming through this with a much deeper understanding of the chip and FPGA design process than any software engineer should be allowed to have.
LJ: Why did you elect an open-source development mechanism?
SW: Access to my own intellectual property. I have done fairly large software systems in the past that I lost access to due to job changes and employee agreements. Although my current employer makes no claims to Icarus Verilog (it is understood that it is my own work on my own time) the copyright notices make that explicit, and this seems like a safer habit for everyone concerned.
Once the employer's potential proprietary interests are out of the way, I could have still done it as a closed-source personal project, but where's the fun in that?
Oh, by the way, having the source out there does seem to improve the quality of bug reports I see. I even get patches, sometimes including new ports or significant new features.
LJ: Who are some of the key people helping you with this effort?
SW:The README in the source distribution names names, but Steve Wilson has probably helped the most by managing the regression test suite. I've been told many times that the test suite is the most important single asset a compiler writer can have, and that is turning out to be pretty much the case.
I also deeply appreciate the bug reports I receive from users. They have been high-quality, detailed and almost always accurate. It is rare that I find that Icarus Verilog is right and the user wrong, and, when that does happen, it's pretty darn subtle.
I also use bug reports and change requests to guide my priorities when I'm trying to decide what to do next. They are also a great source of regression tests.
LJ: What are some of the typical uses of Icarus?
SW: Well, it's hard for me to know because I don't have a marketing staff finding this sort of thing out. My only source of information in that regard is feedback from those who choose to contact me—mostly, bug reports.
It seems that the users who work at large institutions may have limited access to the hugely expensive HDL tools, and they use Icarus Verilog to work on library parts and subsystems at home or on their desktop Linux machines.
I've heard from some people who have abandoned their commercial tools for simulation of small to mid-sized designs for a variety of reasons, ranging from pure cost benefit to pure activism.
Smaller scale HDL users might choose Icarus Verilog because it is good enough for what they need, and the price is hard to beat. It opens HDL design to those who would otherwise be locked out.
LJ: How might Icarus compare with a commercial EDA tool?
SW: Icarus Verilog is no real threat to the higher-quality big-name tools. They've got a bit of a head start on me. It was not long ago that I thought Icarus Verilog was not competitive at all, but I find that there are plenty of commercial tools that are even more unworthy of sale.
The differences come in the language coverage, simulation performance and synthesis quality. Icarus Verilog actually stands up pretty well with language coverage and is improving still. It seems to be about average.
Simulation performance is hurt severely by the performance of the g++ compiler that compiles the generated simulation. I'm afraid it was a mistake to generate C++ as an intermediate form, so over time I must replace it with straight C or an interpreted back end. Once the design is compiled, though, it runs reasonably well.
Synthesis in Icarus Verilog is not yet commercial quality, although some people are using it effectively. If you stick within the limits of the Icarus Verilog synthesizer, you can do nontrivial Xilinx designs. I know that some people for example have replaced Abel with Icarus Verilog in their design flow.
LJ: Are there aspects to proprietary EDA tools that make Icarus harder to do?
SW: For one thing, Icarus Verilog doesn't do everything that an EDA user needs. Sure it compiles to XNF, but you still need vendor-specific tools to map to and optimize for the part you are using. It has been hard for me to get needed interface information from the "layer below" vendors, leaving me to reverse-engineer Netlist formats. That is very irritating.
It also doesn't help any that the "layer below" tools commonly don't exist for Linux. This too is very irritating.
LJ: Does the open-source nature of Icarus Verilog provide some benefits over proprietary EDA tools?
SW: The most obvious benefit of Icarus Verilog over proprietary tools is the flexibility of your work environment. If you do a design that you know works with Icarus Verilog, you can be confident that you can buy a new computer, whatever is nifty this week, and expect to be able to use it.
I've noticed that EDA vendors are advertising licenses that don't expire, but the computer and OS you are running it on most certainly will. And, of course, Vendor X does not support Product Y Version 1 on the new system you just bought. So when you buy a new computer, you wind up buying software updates as well, and that is not only expensive but potentially risky if you are talking about, for example, a 95% full XC4013XL design.
(I've seen later versions of tools break existing designs.)
LJ: The commercial EDA industry seems slow to adopt Linux, although some have. However, EDA vendors seem to be especially reluctant to adopt or exploit open source. Can you speculate on why?
SW: Well, I imagine it might be tough to embrace open source if you have a $100,000 software product, but other than that I have no clue. All my coworkers at my day job complain constantly about being stuck with Microsoft operating systems, but there is no choice. The FPGA vendors are completely unresponsive to this particular gripe. I wonder if I can do an open-source place-and-router?
LJ: How much code is involved in Icarus?
SW: It's on the order of 50,000 lines of C++ with some C, lex and yacc thrown in. It seems to have stabilized at about that size for the last several months to a year. In other words, I'm removing as much code as I add.
There is also a test suite of Verilog code that is on the order of 300 small Verilog tests (16,000 lines of Verilog) along with a bit of Perl to drive it.
LJ: Can you suggest some improvements to open-source development tools that would be beneficial for projects like Icarus?
SW: Well, it would be nice if g++ compiled about ten times faster. I shouldn't complain too loudly though, as MSVC++ can't even compile my compiler. I've also run into symbol table limitations with Linux/Alpha and Cygwin32 binutils.
LJ: Linux is obviously a central platform for Icarus. How hard has it been to port Icarus to other platforms?
SW: I have precompiled binaries of the last stable release contributed by porters to Solaris, NetBSD and Mac OS. Recently, a Windows port was managed using the Net release of Cygwin32. The hardest part of all ports has been support for dynamic linking (HP/UX has been a major irritant on that score).
Basically, though, if you have a decent C++ compiler and GNU Make, you'll probably have little trouble with Icarus Verilog compiling for you. There is a FAQ page that shows some common problems and their solutions.
LJ: What are some other open-source EDA tools that Icarus users might be interested in?
SW: Well, there is certainly the gEDA tool suite (http://www.geda.seul.org/). And this page has links to a variety of other interesting EDA tools for Linux.
GTKWave is also a worthwhile waveform viewer. I always recommend it as a viewer that works with the VCD output from Icarus Verilog. The Electric VLSI Design System (http://www.staticfreesoft.com/) is pretty interesting, and, by the way, it does work under Linux/alpha.
The big list of EDA stuff is Open Collector, http://www.opencollector.org/. All kinds of nifty stuff can be found by browsing there.
LJ: Do you have any other HDL language support or features in mind for Icarus?
SW: Not at this time. I expect to keep up with the Verilog standardization process and that should be enough for one person. Even if I, by some miracle, "catch up" with the complete language, there will be all sorts of other aspects of compilation behind the language front end that warrant plenty of attention.
If I get bored, I might look into doing place-and-route. I need to figure out how to do that without getting too vendor-specific, though.
LJ: What would you ultimately like to see happen with Icarus?
SW:The same thing that happened to gcc, more or less.
If someone decides to pay me a lot of money to keep working on Icarus Verilog, that would be interesting, too.
LJ: What aspects of the project do you need help with?
SW: Code generators! I'm putting a lot of effort into cleaning up the API that code generators use. In my ideal world I provide a few core code generators, then let contributors do all the code generators for the various Netlist formats and simulation engines out there. This is much like how gcc works.
Regression tests! These are often scraped from bug reports, though I sometimes need to write a specific test for a feature I'm working on. The problem with me writing the tests is obvious, though.
LJ: What role do you think open-source will play with EDA tools?
SW: I don't really know. I'm not much of a sage, I'm afraid. At the very least, it should raise the minimum standards for the proprietary tools.
Also, I think open-source tools have the potential of protecting legacy designs. You can archive the source to your tools along with your design, but archiving proprietary tools seems pointless.
LJ: The mythological character Icarus had an unhappy ending. What is the significance of the name for you?
SW: You'd be surprised how few people realize this; "Icarus? how do you spell that?"
Besides the flying connection (I am a pilot, and, yes, I use FAA-approved feathers) it carries a connotation of more enthusiasm than sense. After all, I am officially a software engineer not a hardware designer. Okay, so maybe I can work an oscilloscope and logic analyzer, and I have been known to solder wires onto pins of 160-pin packages (adjacent pins), but the reality is I'm a software engineer flying too close to the sun. I've been told many times that a Verilog compiler is more work than I realize. I've been told that by hardware engineers. But not recently. I know what my limitations are supposed to be, even if I choose to defy them.
LJ: Can you tell us about the logo?
SW: Certainly. Steve Wilson can fill in more details, but basically it was drawn by a retired graphic artist, Steve's uncle. The artist, Charles Wilson, donated the design for the purpose of representing Icarus Verilog, and I appreciate the contribution. It's been used thusly ever since.
So you see, this Open Source Movement has a reach even beyond computer software.


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Sept. 16, 2007) - ETSU posted a 1-0-1 record and captured the team championship at the inaugural ETSU Invitational presented by Citizens Bank this weekend behind the offensive leadership of MVP junior Katie Green. Western Carolina's Caitlin Williams was named the Defensive MVP.
Twelve players in all, three from each team, were named to the ETSU Invitational All-Tournament Team.
While Green did not score during the tournament, her play on the field helped create many attacking opportunities that led to goals for the Bucs. She tied teammate Jordan Monty with seven shots for the tournament.
Williams earned the tournament's Defensive MVP honor after recording four saves in a shutout against Stetson. She also recorded six saves against ETSU and only allowed one goal on the weekend.
ETSU placed midfielder Jordan Monty who recorded the game-tying goal against Tennessee Tech on the all-tournament team, while midfielder Kelly Brinkman who recorded the game-winning goal against Western Carolina was also honored with a spot on the team. Goalkeeper Erin Bilyeu was also named to the all-tournament team.
For Western Carolina, Caitlin Williams was joined by teammates forward Rachael Shomper and midfielder Heather Dittmer.
Stetson's Jessica Spencer earned a spot on the all-tournament team after scoring Sunday's game-winning goal in her team's 3-0 victory over Tennessee Tech. Her teammates midfielder Kelsey Kramer and midfielder Julianne Turnbull were also named to the team.
For Tennessee Tech, Katie Hoover who recorded an assist in Tech's tie with ETSU was honored with a spot on the all-tournament team. Her teammates goalkeeper Loretta McNamee and midfielder Michelle McAlarnen were also named to the team.
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we are trying to send out an action based mailing by using the openemm forms&actions but are stuck on ideas on how to achieve our goal and why our approach is not working so far. So we need your help.
What we are trying to do:
We want to use a simple form where the user can enter his email, first name and last name. When the user submits the form an action has to be triggered that sends out an action based mailing to the entered email adress and if possible openEMM should use the name supplied by the user to personalize the salutation in the send email.
What we tried so far:
1) We created a form (form_01) - see code below. When the user submits this form he is redirected to another form (form_02). This works well so far...
The user gets redirected to the second form and the paramters in the URL look like this http://{SERVER}/form.do?agnCI=1&agnFN=form_02&agnMAILINGLIST=2FIRSTNAME={USERFIRSTNAME}&LASTNAME={USERLASTNAME}&EMAIL={USEREMAIL}
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<input type="hidden" name="agnCI" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="agnFN" value="form_02">
<input type="hidden" name="agnMAILINGLIST" value="2">
2) In the second form (form_02) we trigger an action. This action has only one step defined, which is "send action based mailing". The action is also set to "used by forms". Here lies the Problem: The action based Mailing is not send out by openEMM. It only works when we define "subscribe" as a previous step in the same action and therefor register the user in our system at the same time. This however is not what we want. We just want to send out an email. Is there a way to use an action that has only one step (send out action based mailing) defined or is this restricted by openEMM in general? Do you see any other way to solve our problem?
Thanks a lot in advance.
btw. we are using openEMM version: 2.15


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