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|Jun 06, 2011
Cadence Collaborates With TSMC on New 28-Nanometer Flows
|(Nanowerk News) Cadence Design Systems, Inc., a leader in global electronic design innovation, today announced an array of new technologies incorporated into the new TSMC Reference Flow 12.0 and Analog-Mixed-Signal (AMS) Reference Flow v2.0 that ensure 28-nanometer (nm) production readiness. Support for the new flows enables customers to address the complex challenges of low-power digital, analog and mixed-signal design for wireless, networking, consumer and other applications. By collaborating with TSMC to deliver these new flows, Cadence® continues to provide the industry with holistic, end-to-end design solutions -- a key requirement for delivering on the EDA360 vision.
|"The EDA360 vision calls on key industry players to work collaboratively to solve growing design complexity challenges," said Dave Desharnais, group director, product marketing, Silicon Realization at Cadence. "Our close relationship with TSMC enables us to pioneer AMS, ESL, 3D-IC and DFM solutions that are critical to the productivity and predictability of SoC design at advanced nodes. Together, we ensure customers can accelerate their 28-nm designs and successfully get them into high-volume production."
|"Our new reference flows reflect significant technological advances that result from close collaboration with industry leaders like Cadence," said Suk Lee, director of Design Infrastructure Marketing at TSMC. "The combination of Cadence end-to-end solutions with our new design methodologies ensures that designers can further accelerate the development of 28-nanometer designs."
|TSMC and Cadence have collaborated in the areas of electronic system level (ESL), 3D-IC implementation, design for manufacturing (DFM), and analog mixed-signal (AMS) design.
|Advanced ESL Capabilities Enabled by Cadence System Development Suite
|The ESL capabilities, delivered as part of TSMC Reference Flow 12, are developed by Cadence and enabled by the Cadence System Development Suite announced last month. The suite features four connected platforms that enable hardware-software co-design from architectural-level development through to prototyping.
|The combination of the TSMC Reference Flow 12 with the Cadence System Development Suite uniquely supports SoC virtual prototyping for TLM and TLM/RTL platforms, early software development using the open SystemC language, and advanced functional verification. In addition, the reference flow scales to support 28-nm development with a link to the TSMC iPPA power estimation tool, giving users the ability to better estimate the overall power consumption of their system and make early architectural decisions to optimize power.
|Automated 3D-IC/TSV Design-for-test Support
|Reference Flow 12 also leverages new technology developed by Cadence and imec, a world-leading nanoelectronics research institute based in Belgium, to automate production testing of 3D stacked ICs and through-silicon vias (TSVs). This new 3D-IC technology extends the conventional 2D ICs design-for-test (DFT) infrastructure to support dedicated 3D-focused DFT architectures, enabling pre-bond die testing and modular post-bond die and TSV-based interconnect testing, as well as final testing after packaging.
|Additional Cadence contributions to the flow include 3D-IC support for a digital implementation flow, with static timing analysis, IR analysis, and thermal analysis, along with RC extraction and physical verification production flows.
|Extending Support for Advanced Analog and Mixed-signal Designs
|Cadence and TSMC have continued working closely together to add circuit optimization, sensitivity analysis for layout dependent effects (LDE), LDE-aware layout, device reliability analysis and multi-technology simulation (MTS) to the AMS reference flow to produce AMS Reference Flow 2.0.
|Utilizing the Cadence Virtuoso unified custom/analog flow and its integrated Virtuoso® Spectre® Circuit Simulator, the AMS flow automatically identifies the devices and parameters that will most impact design performance and reliability by detecting issues like voltage overstress conditions, while guiding a connectivity- and constraints-driven layout. In addition, Spectre simulator's multi-technology-simulation (MTS) capability is used to verify integration strategy in which analog and digital die are integrated together.
|In-design DFM Capabilities
|Cadence has provided technology for high-speed pattern matching to identify multi-layer yield detractor patterns or hotspots. The pattern matching is part of the in-design DFM capabilities of the Encounter® Digital Implementation System and Virtuoso implementation technology. Each system's router can automatically identify and remove bad patterns. The Virtuoso in-design DFM capability also provides designers the ability to analyze LDE at the circuit level. As a means to ensure best quality of silicon and highest yields, TSMC has recently partnered with Cadence to offer DFM services to its customers at 40 and 28 nanometers.
|About Cadence
|Cadence enables global electronic design innovation and plays an essential role in the creation of today's integrated circuits and electronics. Customers use Cadence software, hardware, IP, and services to design and verify advanced semiconductors, consumer electronics, networking and telecommunications equipment, and computer systems. The company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., with sales offices, design centers, and research facilities around the world to serve the global electronics industry. More information about the company, its products, and services is available at www.cadence.com.
|Source: Cadence (press release)
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I am honored to be selected by The Arctic Circle 2012 to join a group of eighteen artists and scientists aboard a 150-foot tall ship in the Arctic Ocean which will explore the north and west coasts of Svalbard, a mountainous archipelago just ten degrees from the North Pole, for a period of about two weeks in the fall. During this time I will continue working on something I call the Arctic Circle Project.
Credit: The Arctic Circle
As I explain on my website and in my Kickstarter video above, the Project started with my first trip to the Swedish Arctic in February 2009 where I reinterpreted conceptual pieces by Lawrence Weiner, Harry Savage and Iain and Ingrid Baxter of N.E. Thing Company. These artists had organized an expedition to Inuvik, NT in 1969 to make work for an Edmonton Art Gallery show organized by Bill Kirby. They were accompanied by Kirby, Virgil Hammock and Lucy Lippard. Lippard recorded the details of the trip and published the document as "Art Within the Arctic Circle" in The Hudson Review (Vol. 22, No. 4) Winter 1969-1970. I came across the article before I arrived in Sweden to begin a fellowship at Umeå University. In the course of carrying out my reinterpretations in Jokkmokk, Jukkasjärvi and Årrenjarka, I wanted to use the 1969 work as a template to consider the significance of the artwork and the gendered body of the artist in the far north – and perhaps in the process alter the original intention of the pieces.
I undertook the second phase of the project at A.I.R. Bergen in Norway during the winter of 2011. While still inspired by the 1969 pieces, this phase takes into consideration romantic and transcendentalist notions of nature as well as the history of exploration to the Canadian and Scandinavian north/s. It includes video, drawings, altered images and text. The textual pieces are a mash-up of letters between Lippard and me on the subject of her 1969 Arctic trip, sections of The Hudson Review article, passages from the best-selling novel, The Sheik (1921), by E.M. Hull, a British author famous for her "desert-romances," historical records of early Arctic exploration, and my own writing.
The Project has since become part of a broader collection of work that explores the collective imaginary of and our conflicted relationship with nature as well as the human longing for travel, journeys and exploration and its inevitable pitfalls. This collection of work was recently exhibited at Galerie les Territoires in Montreal in the fall of 2011. It was called "Terra Incognita: Stories of Imaginary Places." I am excited to take part in The Arctic Circle 2012 in order to continue my work on this collection of projects. Mediums I plan to use during the residency include photography, video, drawing and text (writing).
While The Arctic Circle 2012 contributes half the total cost of my participation I am expected raise the other half in order to go. The amount I am requesting on Kickstarter covers most of this expense. In exchange for donations, I am offering images from the Project as a "thank you." You can see some of these images in the above video and embedded here. Any donation great or small is much appreciated! Thank you!
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If you've invested in a VR setup and haven't yet tried a racing game, you owe it to yourself to at least experience it once. The speed, combined with the feeling of actually sitting in the driver's seat, delivers an unmatched experience. Here are the best racing games you can grab right now.
PlayStation VR's premiere racing game, DRIVECLUB VR, delivers over 80 detailed cars and over 100 tracks to race them on. These tracks are split up over five locations to give you varied vistas, including snow-capped mountains and tight city streets.
Set up your own challenges for you and your friends as you battle it out online, or make your way to the top of the tree in the single-player career.
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Need for Speed No Limits VR
The Need for Speed franchise has been around for a long time, and it's now reached Daydream View with No Limits VR. There are 12 tracks split up over four locations for a bit of variety outside your windscreen, and you have a wide selection of detailed, real-world cars to choose from.
Gain reputation as you win races and go head to head with your rivals to unlock the best cars and make the streets your own.
If competitive racing simulations are your thing, iRacing has proven itself as the top title. Grab a subscription and join the growing crowd of racing fans who just want to go fast. There are over 800 leagues to join and over 100 cars to choose from so that everyone feels at home.
All of the most famous racetracks the world over are here, and you can set up and host your own tournaments for you and your friends. Give this title a try only if you're prepared to set the other aspects of your life aside for awhile as you strive to be the best driver in the world.
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Project CARS
Looking for beautiful graphics, in-depth tuning, and a sandbox career mode for your racing sim? Project CARS has all this and more. If you get tired of building your career how you want, you can head online for some intense action against seriously talented racers.
This GOTY edition includes 12 DLC packs with extra cars and tracks to extend this game's already impressive inventory.
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DiRT Rally
While most of the other titles on this list are racing sims based on asphalt tracks, DiRT Rally is for the off-road enthusiasts out there. Get behind the wheel of a large selection of the world's premiere rally cars and feel the danger of driving top speed down tight, turning roads.
Unlock upgrades as you win, repair dents and scrapes, and carefully manage your team (including co-driver) to reach the top of the standings.
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Redout: Enhanced Edition
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There are over 75 events to race in on 20 tracks, and you can jump into multiplayer games with up to 12 players. The race tracks and locations are beautiful, and the soundtrack ramps up the faster you go. Adrenaline rush? Oh yeah.
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VR Karts: Sprint
Remember how fun it was playing Mario Kart on SNES and N64? VR Karts: Sprint for Daydream and Gear VR will immediately remind you of the timeless classic, except now you're actually inside the game thanks to VR.
Grab power-ups and throw AI or online opponents off the track as you take your little cart to the top of the leaderboard. There's no Yoshi kart, but you'll have just as much fun as you remember.
Assetto Corsa
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Doing the tourist thing: Fresh sushi at the beach: sea squirts and sea cucumbers (I probably should have tried it, but didn't) Local flora: Local fauna:
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Doing the tourist thing: Fresh sushi at the beach: sea squirts and sea cucumbers (I probably should have tried it, but didn't) Local flora: Local fauna:
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The last few days have been somewhat of a whirlwind. Here's the update from the Olympics: I woke up race day glad to be racing at 10am- less time to sit around and… | READ »
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Today was the last day to pre-ride the course before the race tomorrow. The course had dried out a ton- the only part that was still somewhat sketchy was the long steep downhill…. | READ »
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I woke up this morning to a serious downpour. It rained hard all morning, and it was supposed to rain all day, so I decided to go ahead and check out the course… | READ »
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We arrived in Beijing yesterday evening and got to the Athlete Village with just enough time to put bikes together and go for a short spin. The village is amazing- just walking around… | READ »
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The past few days here on Jeju Island in South Korea have been most excellent. There are plenty of low-trafficked roads and enough miles of climbing and flats to keep us all busy…. | READ »
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After a month of being back east I had about a week at home before I headed over to Korea and then to China. Of course, the day after I got home I… | READ »
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Technically, the 2-hours chart points importance of the current support area, which must hold for now.
Ether Price Important Support Area
Yesterday, I highlighted how there was a chance in the trend for Ether price, and I was hoping for a move towards the $13.00 handle versus the US Dollar. However, there was an attack reported yesterday that was increasing block processing times on certain blocks.
As we all know we just witnessed the hard fork to prevent DDoS attacks, and within a few days a second attack was reported. Although, it was EXP attack, it caught trader's attention. As a result, there was a sharp downside move in both ETH/USD and ETH/BTC.
The ETH/USD pair declined from $12.60 to $12.00, where the Ether buyers just managed to protect the downside move. The stated level and $12.10 represents a major support area. As we all know, it was a crucial resistance earlier, and now it is no surprise that it is acting as a support.
The price is currently correcting higher, but facing resistance in the form of a bearish trend line on the 30-min chart. The 23.6% Fibonacci retracement level of the last decline from the $12.75 high to $11.99 low is also positioned near it.
So, it won't be easy for the Ether bulls to break it and ignite further recovery. However, the pair remains supported on the downside, as can be seen from the 2-hours chart. It shows how a bullish trend line and the $12.00 level is acting as a strong support. So, there is a chance that the price may recover further, but major gains seem unlikely.


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In the film Immortals, there is a character named Phaedra who is known as The Virgin Oracle, (played by Freida Pinto). We're told through dialogue, "The Virgin Oracle is blessed with visions of the future. If she were to be violated? Her vision of the future would be corrupted." The mortal hero Theseus scoffs, "How can it be considered a gift? When you can see the future but you don't have the power to change it?", and Phaedra herself downplays her powers, telling Theseus, "What I see is only a glimmer of what may come to pass. Your actions and decisions shape the future."
I have some problems with this. First of all, I get that Theseus is supposed to be the hero, the fate of the world rests on his shoulders, blah blah blah. But is it really necessary to be so pessimistic about Phaedra's potential to enact change? Doesn't she very actively participate in shaping the future by telling certain people about what she sees, and not others, and by leading Theseus through several of his actions? She isn't just the passive vessel that she is described as being.
Secondly, I'm not convinced that her visions were actually all that helpful, (other than to advance the storyline, of course.) Consider–the first vision of hers we see is actually the opening sequence of the movie, with Hyperion wielding the Epirus bow and unleashing the Titans. That actually ends up happening, in pretty much the same way that she envisioned. The only benefit to her seeing it is that a few characters realize the cosmic shift that victory for Hyperion would bring.
But the main vision that guides Phaedra throughout the film is what she sees when her foot touches the outstretched leg of a passed-out Theseus, who is mid-way through a forced journey to work in the salt mines. Phaedra sees Theseus holding the long-lost Epirus bow, with one arm around Hyperion. Hyperion is returning the embrace, and they seem to be standing on a boat or something, with a dead body wrapped in linen at their feet. That's pretty much it. That's the big reveal that the divine powers grant to the Oracle.
Because of the vision, Phaedra is convinced that "this man is favored by the gods," so she hatches a plan with her sister oracles (that are really like her bodyguards/handmaidens) to help him escape. She doesn't have a plan other then get the perceived-as-blessed man (and herself) away from the bad guys, and maybe somehow this will stop the other vision of the Titans being unleashed from happening. Not sure how she gets all that from this vague image of Theseus with Hyperion and a dead body, but, okay, so far I'm with her.
Theseus wants to head for the fight, but the little band of escapees runs into trouble at the sea's edge. Poseidon decides to interfere by creating a giant-ass tidal wave that sweeps all the bad guys away, (and after all "the sea has forever been an unpredictable domain," smirks a hairless Kellen Lutz as the trident-wielding god), but Phaedra's foresight 'saves' the group again when she repeats a line she had stated earlier, which was "when cloudless skies thunder, stand fast." Poseidon's dive-bomb does create a kind of a boom, and it's cloudless, so I can see how this sort of fits, but really how much of an advantage is it to know "okay, when that happens, stand fast." What if "stand fast" meant not backing down to the bad guys on that boat? How were they supposed to know it meant waiting until the last minute, when you see this giant wave, and then jump to the cliff and hold on to the ropes that are conveniently anchored there for you? Not sure they needed the prophecy to figure that one out, or that having the direction makes it any more plausible than the usual heroes-narrowly-escape-death-but-bad-guys-fall-easy-prey-to-mishaps movie-universe logic.
Anyway, after the giant wave, Phaedra learns that Theseus' mother was killed, and that her body wasn't buried. Somehow Phaedra just knows that the body of Theseus' mother must have been the one in her vision, and so she convinces the hero "you must return to your village" to give her a proper burial. It is when Theseus is placing his mother's body in the tomb that he discovers the Epirus bow, and hence Phaedra tells him "your mother's death was not in vain."
So, it seems like maybe the visions are helpful, although vague, but almost immediately after Theseus finds the bow it is stolen by a warg-like creature that delivers it to Hyperion. What was the point of Phaedra leading Theseus to find the bow, and telling him "In your hands it will bring the Hellenics victory," if it was soon to be out of his hands and into the hands of the very man they were trying to keep it from? Wouldn't it have been better for the bow to remain hidden?
And why was Phaedra so willing to give up her visions? I thought they were fairly useless myself, but many characters in this story placed a lot of stock in them, including her sister oracles and the monk who sacrificed themselves and various body parts to protect her and keep her ability intact, only to have her throw it away to sleep with Theseus. At that point he has the Epirus bow, so she believes that he will be able to defeat Hyperion, but that's clearly not a guarantee yet. They haven't joined up with anybody else, Theseus is wounded, and she more than anyone should know that the future, though it may look bright right now, can quickly change. So it's really stupid, not to mention selfish and disrespectful of the sacrifices of her followers, for her to disrobe and say, "You were right, Theseus, my visions are a curse. I want to see the world with my own eyes, feel with my own heart, touch with my own flesh." (And shame on you, Theseus, for not offering a peep of an argument against this faulty logic, for not even saying "um, are you sure you want to do this and lose your sacred visions of the future?" She offers her justification unprompted, but shouldn't he have said, "wait, hold up girl, you sure you wanna do this? Let's think about the ramifications for our current quest as well as your entire future." It makes me hate both of them.)
Later, when they have joined the Hellenic army and Hyperion requests an audience with Theseus, Phaedra begs her lover not to meet with the enemy, because in her vision she saw him "embracing" Hyperion. "Phaedra, have you never been wrong?" asks an exasperated Theseus before storming off to meet with Hyperion anyway. (And how does she know that the future she saw hasn't changed now, since she threw her visions away? Maybe shouldn't have done that so quickly, HMMMM?) In fact, Theseus declines Hyperion's offer to join him. But later, after the Titans have been unleashed, (oops, I thought that's what all these visions and blessings of mortals was trying to avoid?!), Theseus and Hyperion are locked in an one-on-one battle that ends with Theseus pinning Hyperion, holding a knife to his throat and snarling "this is the last embrace" before delivering the kill blow.
So in that sense, Phaedra's vision did come true. Theseus at one point possessed the Epirus bow, which he found because of his mom's dead body, and he did embrace Hyperion, kind of, to kill him. But did the vision itself really foretell that eventual outcome? Couldn't it have been interpreted many different ways, if Theseus had joined Hyperion, for example? Anybody could be the dead body. And again, why did the vision lead Theseus to the Epirus bow if he was just going to lose it to Hyperion the very next morning? And in the end the bow is lost again, trapped in Tartarus, so what was the point of anyone having it, ever? Besides the fact that it was used to unleash the Titans, which was the exact thing that everybody was trying to avoid, including Zeus, who spent years in disguise as a mortal just to mentor Theseus just so that he could one day lead the Hellenics in a fight against Hyperion to prevent him from unleashing the Titans.
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Monday, May 11, 2015
God Only Knows Layout with Linda
Hi again!
Linda here again, and I've got a layout to share today. I was inspired by this month's mood board--the sketch in particular, but also the colours.
So I took the sketch and flipped it, also making that central panel, thinner. Instead of having two focal areas, as shown in the sketch, I chose to do one long continuous section, with the photo in the same position as on the image. The colours I picked are based out of the colour scheme also.
Despite them not really being huge when I was growing up (I'm too young for that *cough*), I'm a HUGE fan of The Beach Boys, and my favourite song of theirs is God Only Knows. The melody itself is just delightful, but the words kill me every time I listen to it.
I was looking through some photos of my girls the other day and this little one of my youngest fell out of the pile into my lap, and I proceeded to burst into tears looking at how tiny she was. Olivia is our last baby and I'm trying so hard to soak up every moment with her, and I'm quite sure she knows it because not only is she a sweet little delight, but she sticks by me almost all day in the nicest way. It's like she knows I need to really enjoy every moment with her because it's the last time I'll experience it.
So while I made this layout, I had the song playing and this is what 'came out':
I started with a long thin panel of Hand Dyed Muslin in Light Pink, and then I layered the following items around the photo, and along the muslin:
Aqua/Blue Wire
Tutu Bloom Ivory
LB Boutique Elements Camden Cottage Bisque
LB_Kraft Expressions-Kraft Beaded Butterflies
Resin Bow Grab Bag
Skipping 5 Puffy Things-Heart Banners
Wood Filigree Heart
SFX-Hash Corner
Felt Doily Frame Small-Pink/Purple
I also added some Heidi Swapp Colorshine in Rose, thickers, the handwritten journalling and the border is using an American Crafts journalling Pen, the white letter stickers are Simon Says Stamp-Kelly Purkey, and the hash chipboard was coloured using White Hero Arts Unicorn Ink.
That's it for me this month! I hope you've enjoyed my projects!
Of course, if you have any questions, please feel free to leave them in the comments below!
Hope to see you again soon!
Linda x
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X-Rite's Colorimeter Now Available with EIZO's New ColorNavigator Version 4
Friday, August 05, 2005
Press release from the issuing companyGRANDVILLE, Mich.--Aug. 4, 2005-- X-Rite today announced that its award-winning DTP94 colorimeter is now available with EIZO's new ColorNavigator Version 4 calibration software. EIZO customers who purchase ColorEdge LCD monitors will now have access to the industry's most accurate and dependable colorimeter, designed for creating high quality ICC profiles and color proofs. The DTP94 is available immediately at www.eizo.com as an option with EIZO's ColorNavigator Version 4 software. "EIZO is known worldwide as one the industry's leading manufacturers of superior displays," said Jim Weaver, Vice President of Marketing and Product Development at X-Rite. "We are delighted EIZO has selected X-Rite's award-winning DTP94 as a color measurement option for its new ColorNavigator software. Graphic arts professionals worldwide will appreciate the DTP94's 4-channel color filter technology, delivering the widest, most dynamic range of color data precision for LCD displays."
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Thinkorswim ADX DMI Watchlist 9
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Good Morning Everyone,
It's time to post the Project of the Month Pattern for February. This project is called a "Gift Bag Pillowcase, with a gift card pocket". I had a great time making this project & I hope you will like it as much as I did. I have teenage Granddaughter's & I know they will love this project, as Christmas gifts this year. These make up very quickly & you can make several single ones or sets to give for gifts through out the year. Enjoy!!


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Below is a collage of my absolute favorite book covers of novels released in 2015.
Click on the titles below to check them out!
The Sisters of Versailles by Sally Christie
The Appearance of Annie van Sinderen by Katherine Howe
Serafina and the Black Cloak by Robert Beatty
A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn
A Cold Legacy by Megan Shepherd
A Madness So Discreet by Mindy McGinnis
Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
Bohemian Gospel by Dana Chamblee Carpenter
A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab
The Invasion of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
Tower of Thorns by Juliet Marillier
The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler
Mechanica by Betsy Cornwell
The Winner's Crime by Marie Rutkoski


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Labour market incomes have been a major contributor to the important fall in inequality in Latin America during the 2000s. Indeed, it was the main contributor in countries where inequality fell more dramatically. A proper understanding of the workings of the labour market is necessary to comprehend why inequality fell, what lies ahead of us and what we can do to achieve more equitable societies in Latin America. Social progress was real in the last decade but we should not overlook the structural deficits that still remain in Latin American labour markets. Inequality fell more dramatically in countries where formality rose faster and real minimum wages increased more significantly. Labour market institutions have a played positive role in reducing inequity in the last decade.
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Changes in Labour Market Conditions and Policies: Their Impact on Wage Inequality during the Last Decade
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Here we are, back in the blog-sphere. (is that even a word?) anyways, Joanna set this up so that any one of us can get on and fill you in on what we've been up to! cool, huh? this way Mandy can update from her home in OR, and Tiffany will be able to tune in from wherever she'll be from when she gets married in Dec.
Way to go, Jo!
So.. what are we up to? well, dad and the boys have been slammed with work. they were working days AND nights for a while... but things are looking up! (or slowing down) and help is on the way... (i.e... Nathan)
We broke ground for the house, after getting permits last week. It'll be about another month before we get any further, because the soil was incredibly wet... the backhoe sunk up to it's axles. But the operator has some mad skills, and he got it out. =] great job, Darrell! we really appreciate your help.
We also took down two pine trees in the front yard. (actually, Justin did it, mostly and Jack. Then other people helped get it all into a couple piles with all the firewood stacked)
Annndd... tomorrow we're going to the fair!! I'm excited about that! (I haven't been in like...a year!) =]
So, Joanna says that hopefully we'll be putting up some pictures soon...and I'm going to get to bed.
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Opened 12 years ago
Closed 12 years ago
#3959 closed (wontfix)
[patch] newforms: label as first argument
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|Design decision needed
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It seems strange to me that model fields can have their
verbose_name set as a single positional argument, but newforms labels require the
label= prefix unless
required and
widget are also specified. This patch simply moves
label to the front, so that forms may specify field labels as just a single positional argument, just like model field
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Change History (9)
Changed 12 years ago by
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Simply moves
label to the front of the argument list for fields
comment:1 Changed 12 years ago by
|Triage Stage:
|Unreviewed → Design decision needed
It does seem like an ok idea, but backwards-incompatibility concerns.
comment:2 Changed 12 years ago by
I had considered there might be some backwards-incompatibility concerns, but since the existing implementation essentially requires people to use
label= anyway, moving it shouldn't affect that. The only true concern would be people supplied
required (and possibly
widget) as positional arguments, which should probably be discouraged anyway, for readability concerns. That said, however, I understand that this patch comes 5 months after
label was implemented, and that convention may already be too well established.
comment:3 Changed 12 years ago by
Probably not worth changing. I'm going to think about it a bit more, but if another developer wants to make a decision, I'm not going to mind. I'm probably -0 on this at the moment.
Writing "label=" is hardly going to kill people. The logic that people shouldn't be using positional arguments currently is flawed, so it does have a backwards-incompatibility impact, however it's not like 1.0 isn't going to have a few of those.
comment:4 Changed 12 years ago by
I'll admit, I'm +0 on this myself. I wish I had delved into newforms early enough to catch this before it hit store shelves, but now that it's out and running, I'm not going to push too hard on the subject.
I do agree that writing
label= isn't going to cause any code problems, nor is it likely to induce carpal tunnel. I'll also concede that my presumption about people already using keyword arguments all the time was all too broad, and thus inherently flawed. It's probably true in most cases, but it's far from a guarantee.
The biggest reason I put this together was just consistency. This would fall in line with
verbose_name, and thus make Django feel a bit more unified, that's all. So like I said, I'm +0 really, I'm not going to lose sleep over this one.
comment:5 Changed 12 years ago by
I agree that it'd be more consistent. The question is are we perfectionists to the level of breaking backwards compatibility?
(I'm +0 too)
comment:6 Changed 12 years ago by
I'd be -0 on this because of the backwards incompatibility.
comment:7 Changed 12 years ago by
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I guess this ticket can be closed because it is a non-trivial one.
comment:8 Changed 12 years ago by
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The gain here isn't worth the backwards-incompatibility pain.


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The b/w was done with the model reclining on the couch (Pillow is for Posture!). Flood high above turned down quite a bit. 50mm at f2.5, 1/160th, ISO100. Tiny flash (and stylist!) hiding just a foot behind. Photoshop: add a layer with a 10px gaussian blur, mask eyes and lips. Fix small blemishes on the main photo. Merge layers. Unsharp mask. A little subtler than previous attempt.
Red Shirt: Easy. Vivitar high on camera left, power 1/16th. added mini softbox. White reflective board at lower right. I almost botched the shot though. Best focus is on lips rather than eyes!
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Panel #8, the Flambeaux Phoenix.....the flambeaux are light carriers, fire walkers, originally used to light the path of the parades during Carnival over 100 years ago, before the time of electric light...they twirled their torches, danced, entertained the crowds, and still do to this day, upholding the tradition in several parades throughout Mardi Gras...
Unearthed - The Cemetery Gates
Finally, after about 8 months of sitting in editing limbo on my PC, here is the 'cemetery gates' sequence from "Unearthed"...sound effects were fun on this one, mostly created by me but a few downloaded from Soundsnap.com...that moon shot at the end is a stand-in, ganked from Lord of the Rings ;) until I can create or film my own such image...I had a ton of trouble compositing in the footage of my black Salvie's cute little kitty face, in the long run it would've been easier to just give the pup a face and animate it like a normal person would've...the reason I did it this way? Near the end of the short, there will be a sequence involving compositing my Lady's eyes onto a waking stone giantess (think Hera in "Clash of the Titans") and I thought it might be nice to foreshadow that technique with the cat here.....again, ended up costing me waaay too much time in post.....I'm not 100% satisfied with the results but I never am :) Time to move on, my cemetery set is getting rather dusty...
"Unearthed" - The Cemetery Gates from Ubatuber on Vimeo.
"Unearthed" - The Cemetery Gates from Ubatuber on Vimeo.
St. Louis Cathedral Gargoyles
Panel #7, same dealio, 5" x 7" canvas board, acrylic, Mardi Gras palette...the Cathedral Gargoyles...
Slug Lady
And now for something completely different :)
My Lady has become attached to a large family (?) of slugs that is slowly but surely making its way towards my vegetable garden each night. We've discovered though, that they love cat food even more than produce, so we've been leaving extra food out so that they have dinner waiting even after the neighborhood strays have feasted. And each night this week, she has snuck out in the wee hours to photograph them, probably waking our neighbors with the flash, but getting some awesome shots....
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Screen Print How-To
Special thanks to "craftgrrl" Kristy (girlx512) for her cheapie screen printing tutorial, which I used as a basis for my first screen-printed tee.
A few years ago, I posted a "Woodcut How-To" showing the steps necessary to create a wood block print, in that case, of an image of my water witch, Jenny Greenteeth. That tutorial is responsible for, I would say, 35% of the visits to my blog, and is the first link to pop up when googling for a woodcut tutorial. So when I decided to teach myself screen-printing, I knew a new toot was in order.
I wanted to take silk screening in college but never had the time/credits. I took lithography and acid etching, and always meant to teach myself to silkscreen later. Plus, I looove tee shirts, own probably four or five dozen that I wear regularly, and have toyed around with creating my own for years. I had at one point set up a CafePress account, but I would prefer to do the printing myself, have more control over quality, etc. And now that I have an Etsy shop set up, I can start selling my designs there.
We've got a new machine for sale at work called a Yudu screen printer. I attended a demo the other day and fell in love with the machine, but I just can't afford $300 (I'd much rather put the $ toward a new camera for my stop-motion). So I googled and turned up craftgrrl's cheap toot, linked above. Same basic technique without the complicated and expensive tools. Here is what you will need:
*Material to print on (a tee)
*Material for your screen, traditionally silk, but Kristy says you can even use nylon, though you may end up with a pixelly image due to its loose weave. She recommends curtain material, and just so happens we have a canopy bed and lots of old dressing for it, including some old ugly peach sheer curtains, so thats what I used.
*An embroidery hoop
*Glue (Mod Podge recommended and thats what I used)
*Pencil/pen for transferring image to screen
*Ink (I bought a bottle of black screen printing ink made to go with the Yudu machine, but Speedball makes it as well)
*An iron to heat-set the ink after drying.
Lets get to it then....
I need a Jenny Greenteeth shirt. No doubt. So I took my original woodcut image, photoshopped it a bit to get rid of the body and control the hair strands a little more. (I didn't even realize until doing this, that I had printed my woodcut backwards! Oops :D I hadn't considered that she was not symmetrical, missing an eye. So the image on the woodcut print is actually reversed, her "good eye" is in the wrong socket.)
I bought a 17" embroidery hoop and stretched a piece of my curtain fabric onto it. I had to tighten the screw and then tug on the loose ends of the fabric to get it stretched tight enough, then tightened the screw again as tight as I could get it. The result was almost like the surface of a snare drum, excellent!
Next I measured my shirt to figure out how large I could make my image, ended up deciding on about 14". So I opened up my photoshop image file, changed the size to 14" wide, and printed it out on two sheets of paper, which I then taped together to form the complete design.
Next I laid my "screen" (my fabric-stretched hoop) down on top of the image so the material is flush with the printout. This is how you will later drop the ink, with the fabrics flush together, so it isn't necessary to reverse the image for this style of screen printing. After laying the "screen" over the image, I took a felt-tip pen and traced the blacks onto the screen.
Now comes the most time consuming part of the process, the glue mask. In traditional silk screening, you would use photo emulsion fluid to "develop" the image directly onto the screen. Here, all you do is paint the negative space with your glue, creating a mask that will block the ink from transferring through the screen. You are basically making a glue/fabric stencil. Don't go too goopy with it or it will glop up on the reverse side of your screen, I would occasionally flip the screen over and smooth out the glue globs with my brush. I ended up doing two thin coats of the glue to make sure that all of the little holes in the weave were filled in completely.
You can apparently use tape to block out the larger areas, but I went ahead and painted my glue over the entire edge of the screen. I found that, like when priming a stretched canvas, as the glue dried, it tightened up my screen even more. Once the glue dries, its time to print.
First I stretched my tee onto a piece of cardboard and used clamps to hold it tightly in place.
Then I laid my screen down on top of my tee, centering and positioning it where I wanted the transfer to occur. I grabbed a few weighty bottles of liquid (cooking oil and some cleanser :) that were handy, to weigh down the screen, to make sure that it was flush against the material of the tee.
Again, with traditional screen printing, you would run a bead of ink across the top of your image and then use a squeegee to drag the ink across the screen. I wasn't sure if that technique would work on my screen, so I used a foam brush to stipple, dab and paint the ink onto the screen.
Once I was sure that I had covered the entire image, I peeled off the screen and brought it into the shower to wash off the excess ink before drying, so that the screen can be used again.
A couple of areas were light so I took a paintbrush and painted a little extra ink in those areas.
I let it dry for a few hours, and then ironed it on med-high heat for about 3 minutes as per the instructions on the ink. If you don't heat-set the ink, it can fade or wash off.
Here we have it, the Jenny Greentee :)
I think I want to do a couple of additional screens to go on this tee, maybe some green printed seaweed. Once I finalize the design, I'll post an image and probably list it for sale on Etsy. Now go forth and be printy!!
Pirates Alley Vampire
Back on track, continuing with the Nola Legends series, now with panel #6, the Pirates Alley Vampire. Pirates Alley is a small street running along Jackson Square/St.Louis Cathedral, named by locals due to rumors that Jean Lafitte and his pirates would hang out here. Also features the home of writer William Faulkner, and today, the best spot to buy local art.
You maybe can't see too well in the pic but there is a touch of blood on their lips and the classic puncture marks on her neck.
You maybe can't see too well in the pic but there is a touch of blood on their lips and the classic puncture marks on her neck.
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Introduction to C Programming
As a programming language, C is rather like Pascal or Fortran. Values are stored in variables. Programs are structured by defining and calling functions. Program flow is controlled using loops, if statements and function calls. Input and output can be directed to the terminal or to files. Related data can be stored together in arrays or structures.
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Structure of a C Program
/*A simple C example program*/ #include <stdio.h> void main(void) { printf(â€Hello Worldâ€); }
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Hello World
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/*A simple C example program*/
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Although comments are not required, they are very important to programmers. Real programs are much more complicated than the example above, and comments help explain what's going on.
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The next line reads:
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Although most C programs have more than one function, every C program must have a function called main. It is the starting point of the program. If you are reading someone else's C program and want to find where it starts, just look for the function called main.
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The last line is a
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A special mention of the semicolon
A semicolon ; is used to mark the end of a statement in C. This allows the complier to understand that the end of a line has been reached. Usually a common mistake is that programmers omit the semicolon and try to compile the program.
The C Character Set
A character denotes any alphabet, digit or special symbol used to represent information. The C character set can be defined as a set of characters permissible under the C language to represent information. Under C, the upper case letters A-Z, the lower case letters a-z, the digits 0-9 and certain special symbols are all valid characters that can be used as building blocks to construct basic program elements.
Following is a table of character sets that are available under C
A, B, C, ………………… Z
a, b, c, ………………… z
0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Special Characters or Symbols
+ – * & ^ % $ # @ ! ? > < { } [ ] ( ) | \ / " ' : ; . , _
Indentifiers in C
In a C program every word is either classified as an identifier or a keyword.
Identifiers are used to identify or name various program-elements such as variables, symbolic constants, functions, etc.
Rules for Identifiers
- An identifier can contain letters or letters in any order except that the first character must begin with a letter.
- C is case-sensitive, therefore upper-case identifiers are different from lower-case characters. E.g. name is different from NAME.
- An identifier cannot contain any special character. The only exception is the under score character (_), which can also be taken as the first character of an identifier.
- An identifier cannot be a keyword.
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Example of invalid identifiers
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1. Brazil nuts
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It is rich in vitamin E and selenium, a substance that reduces the risk of prostate and lung and cardiovascular diseases. A single nut brings the recommended amount of selenium per day.
2. Onions
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They have effective properties and unsuspected against many diseases. It is an antioxidant that cleans the toxins present in the lungs. According to a study in Switzerland and Italy consume between 1 and 7 onions per week reduces the risk of colon cancer, larynx and ovary. It also helps to slow the growth of cancer cells.
3. Ginger
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Such as onions, ginger is multitasking: it opens the bronchial tubes which favors the expulsion of mucus is antibacterial, antiseptic and anti-inflammatory that is effective against cough for damaged lungs. Thanks to its antioxidant properties, it eliminates free radicals to clean the lungs.
4. Grapefruit
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Studies have shown that eating grapefruit reduces the risk of cancer of the esophagus and the upper part of the respiratory system thanks to the limonoids it contains and its antioxidant, antiseptic and antibacterial. For this, we must consume at least 1 to 4 servings per week and your lungs will be cleaned.
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Walking home after dropping the kids off at school, my friend and I stopped to discuss something that had come up the previous evening at the school committee that we both volunteered with.
We were deep in discussion when she suddenly said, "I'd better let you go".
I had never heard that expression before. Or I should say I had, but in another context altogether – people were "let go" from their jobs. So I was more than a little confused. How could she let me go? And why would she want to in the first place, assuming she could?
As she had continued speaking, I thought I had misheard and we carried on with the conversation.
A few minutes later, however, she said it again. "Oh, gosh, look at the time. I really had better let you go!"
With that, she waved and disappeared around the corner, promising to come over the next day to discuss the school event we were working on.
And then I understood. "Better let you go" was a typically Canadian, super polite way of saying the other person had to run! But instead of saying they were busy and couldn't talk now, their message conveyed that they knew you were a busy person so they would let you go to attend to the things you had to do. Now, of course, after many years in Canada, I have also become adept at letting people go!
– Bharti Chavan
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