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I need some landscapes built in Blender that I can use to build charts for military briefs. I have several platform models that I will put into the Blender model but would like to have someone with artistic ability and modeling skill build the inital landscape. I have included several examples below but will send more images if requested.
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Dr. Bruce Wielicki, senior Earth scientist within the Science Directorate at Langley Research Center, works as lead of the Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory (CLARREO) mission. The Tier-1 earth science decadal survey initiative will anchor a future climate observing system.NASA Tech Briefs: What is the CLARREO mission?
Dr. Bruce Wielicki: CLARREO is a mission to take us into a new level of accuracy of instruments in orbit. CLARREO takes some of these high-accuracy infrared and reflected solar capabilities that we've built in the laboratories and some of the NASA research centers, and gets them up into orbit —NTB: How do these tools ensure accurate results?
Dr. Wielicki: When we build instruments normally, we're trying to see the whole Earth at really high resolutions — — NTB: Where does the CLARREO mission stand currently, and how have budget cuts changed the plans?
Dr. Wielicki: That's been the bad news for us. The science itself has been extraordinary, and we've spent about three years really well determining the science requirements. We have the climate modeling community involved, so we're actually simulating the CLARREO observations in climate models. We can actually show over 100 years in model simulation what CLARREO would have seen, and what it could have told us about climate change.
Just as we were ready to knock on the door that was going to start this mission formally, that's when the budget cuts to NASA's science program came. So we're now on indefinite hold, and instead of having a launch date in 2017 or 2018, we're now kind of idling. Instead of marching toward a mission date, what we're doing is continuing to extend the accuracy of the climate studies, in particular these climate models, and retire some of the risks in technology.
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Med Ball Waltz
The Med Ball Waltz exercise works your shoulders, chest and legs.
Face your partner holding the ball, then step forward into a lunge and pass the ball to your partner's hands as she steps back into a lunge. Immediately, your partner lunges forward using her back leg and passes the ball to you as you lunge back with your front leg. Do 20 passes, and switch legs and repeat.


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The new U.S. meat industry
A new meat industry is rapidly emerging in the United States, as food retailers, meat processors, and farms and ranches coalesce into fewer and larger businesses. The industry's rapid consolidation in recent years has triggered alarms that the industry's new giants in retailing and processing could drive up food prices for consumers and drive down livestock prices for producers. How should public policy respond to the industry's consolidation? And how can all participants in the industry—producers, processors, retailers, and consumers—benefit from its new structure?> Barkema, Drabenstott, and Novack examine the striking changes in the meat industry. First, they describe how the industry is changing. Then they examine the forces driving the industry's consolidation. Finally, they consider how consumers and industry participants are affected. While current evidence is scant that market power has hurt either consumers or producers, the industry's rapid consolidation nevertheless warrants vigilance. At the same time, public policy might also play a role in ensuring that all participants in the market benefit from its new structure.
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First cook with cherry wood. Hot and fast pork shoulder.
Yesterday I posted about how I finally got my hands on some cherry wood. Today I did a hot and fast pork shoulder with it. I trimmed most of the fat cap and cut slits in what was left. I held the temp easily between 300-325 in my chargriller akorn. I also threw a piece of pecan in with the cherry. I gave the shoulder a bath in SM sweet and spicy and it cooked for about 4.5 hours until it probed tender right around 200 internal temp. I then took it out and wrapped it in foil and rested it in an empty ice chest for about an hour. When I got it out it was perfectly tender and very moist. It had a great charred crust, which I love. Me and mini me ate some, then we vacuum sealed a few packages to freeze for later. The rest will be lunch for the next few days. The cherry definitely added an almost sweet smoke flavor that I look forward to using again. All in all it was a good day....minus a final second field goal miss :)
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|Ta-Ming Wu, Gregory E. Gaertner
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|Burroughs Corporation
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|Patent Citations (6), Non-Patent Citations (1), Referenced by (9), Classifications (15), Legal Events (2)
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1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to a modulo eight counter and more particularly to such a counter for the provision of timing signals in a digital display unit.
2. Description of the Prior Art
In order to reduce the manufacturing costs of the circuitry for a digital display unit, it is desirable to achieve as many functions on a single integrated circuit chip as permissable, either by increasing the packing density of the gates in the chip or by novel circuit designs and architecture creation. This in turn leads to wider use of the digital display units to in turn accommodate more applications for information processing systems.
Such digital display units may be custom made or may be formed of conventional commercial television sets. In either case, the information displayed is usually of the nature of characters formed of dot matrix where the display unit employs a raster scan mode. Each horizontal line is divided into a number of discrete points or areas called picture elements (PELS) or pixels. A fraction of such picture elements per line is not employed for information display but is that portion of the scan time required for horizontal retrace and synchronization of the horizontal oscillator.
As the display screen is scanned, the dot matrix characters are formed by character generation circuits that control the modulation of the electron beam (in the case of CRT displays), individual circuits of which are selected by character codes that are stored in the memory. This code store can be a shift register with exactly the same number of cells as there are character positions on the display screen, or it may be a random access memory.
In some display units, 25 to 30 complete scans of all the lines making up the display are made per second. Thus, each portion of a character being displayed is on display 25 to 30 times a second for a brief period and this can cause an apparent flickering. The flickering problem is normally solved by refreshing or redrawing all the lines in the display in two consecutive interlaced scans. A "half-scan" is redrawn or refreshed in half the time. Because of the 2:1 interlace between the two half-scans, if a horizontal line is drawn in one half-scan and is adjacent to a line drawn in the next half-scan, the two form a line on the display screen with reduced flicker because, in essence, it is written twice as often. Applying this knowledge, a 6�8 dot matrix character can be displayed on a 12�16 dot matrix, by displaying each dot in the 6�8 matrix four times. This reduces flicker considerably, as the character now seems to be written 50 to 60 times a second, instead of 25 to 30 times.
In modern practice, the character generation circuits and the code stores are implemented in integrated circuitry where care must be given to the number of gates and resultant capacitance involved so as to allow the circuitry to operate at very high speeds to generate the appropriate signals to drive the display. Such integrated circuitry is driven by a clock with the appropriate timing signals required for the synchronization of the respective horizontal and vertical scans and retrace being created by a counter which counts the number of time intervals required for restarting the various scans and other events.
In the past, such a counter has been a binary counter which employs a number of gates so as to make it difficult to implement for operation at very high speeds.
It is then an object of the present invention to provide an improved counter for a digital display unit.
It is another object of the present invention to provide an improved counter for a digital display unit which can be implemented with a reduced number of gates and thus reduce circuit delays.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide an improved counter that can be implemented on an integrated circuit chip for operation at very high speeds.
In order to accomplish the above objects, the present invention resides in a timing circuit for a digital display, which circuit includes a series of counters, each having four stages such that each counter will drive the next stage only when it has progressed from zero to seven. By reading out the state of each stage of the respective counters, selected counts can be decoded from only two of the respective stage readouts.
A feature, then, of the present invention resides in a series of counters, each having four stages such that each counter will drive the next stage only when it has progressed from zero to seven such that only two of the stage readouts are required to decode a selected count.
The above and other objects, advantages and features of the present invention will become more readily apparent from a review of the following disclosure when taken in conjunction with the drawings wherein:
FIG. 1 is a representation of a system employing the present invention;
FIGS. 2A-C illustrate characters that can be displayed by the system of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a representation of buffer and output circuitry of the system of FIG. 1;
FIG. 4 is a representation of the timing circuitry of FIG. 3;
FIG. 5 illustrates waveforms generated by the present invention;
FIGS. 6A and 6B are diagrams representing a portion of the present invention;
FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of a section of the counter of the present invention; and
FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram of a stage of FIG. 7.
A digital display system of the type employing the present invention is illustrated in FIG. 1. As shown therein, stored information structures are fetched from information storage 10 by character display processor 11 which controls the communication between storage 10 and the video output circuit employing the present invention. Character codes from the display processor 11 are received by line buffer 12 for sequential presentation to the video output circuit 13. As indicated in FIG. 1, video output circuit 13 includes both the character generation circuitry and the video synthesization circuitry. The system of the present invention is adapted to provide video signals to a commercial video monitor 14.
The picture on the display monitor 14 is refreshed or redrawn a number of times per second, 25 to 30 times per second in the system in which the present system resides. For this reason, there has to be a storage for the information to be displayed during each scan of the display. Line buffer 12 of FIG. 1 provides this capability. The display area of the television screen can be divided into a coordinate system which in the system being described, has 640 picture elements on a horizontal line and 480 lines in a picture. As will be more fully described below, the timing sequence provides for an additional 140 picture elements to accommodate the retrace portion of the scan cycle. If a chosen character set were to contain, for example, characters 8 picture elements wide and 16 lines high, the character position counter would divide the screen into 80 character positions horizontally and 30 character lines vertically for an 80�30=2,400 characters to be displayed.
The character generator of the present invention generates the signals for each character dot-matrix pattern. For a brief explanation of this pattern, reference is now made to FIG. 2A which illustrates as an example, the dot-matrix pattern for the letter "A". The dot-matrix, in this example, is an area of 16 rows of 8 picture elements each. The character "A" is defined by those areas marked by "X's" which represent the picture element on the display screen that will be activated during the character generation or appear as light dots on the display screen with the blank areas in FIG. 2A representing dark dots or inactivated areas. The character created on the display screen is represented by the dark and light areas according to the character pattern.
As was indicated above, it is common to employ an interlaced scan in a commercial television display to reduxce the flickering of that information as it is seen by the viewer. To this end, the individual character information generated by the character generator circuitry is displayed four times. Thus, an 8�16 character such as illustrated in FIG. 2A becomes a 16�32 character dot-matrix as illustrated in FIG. 2B. FIG. 2B appears to be ragged because of the lack of informational bits as illustrated in FIG. 2B or they are denoted by diagonal lines 15A-F. Because of the display of each informational bit four times, this results in the exclusion of "included" corners. As described in the Greer et al. application Ser. No. 178,494, filed Aug. 15, 1980, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,345,244, and in the Seitz et al. U.S. Pat. No. 4,119,954, circuitry can be provided to supply informational bits to adjacent areas whenever "included" corners are to occur. This results in the display of a character as illustrated in FIG. 2C.
The video output circuit employing the present invention can generate four character sizes depending upon two status bits, high and wide, of the status code which precedes the character code and specifies the mode in which the character is to be displayed. If both of these bits are 0, a normal sized character with 8 columns and 16 rows is generated. If the wide bit equals one, a double-width character is produced. When both the high and wide status bits equal one, a character of 32 rows and 16 columns is generated.
A row address is also provided to the video output circuitry to specify the start of each horizontal line. The row address is used with the status bits for highlights: superscript, subscript, and high, to determine which horizontal row of the character font is output for the present scan line. Other highlights can be specified by appropriate bits in the status code. The Bright and Reverse bits control the intensity levels assigned to the foreground and the background shades. These four combinations include various combinations of gray, black, and white for both the foreground and the background. When the Underline status bit is set, the two scan lines below the character are set to the foreground shade for that character. The Blank or Invisible bit causes the entire character, including the Underline, to be displayed as a background shade. When the Secure bit is set, all pixels within the character area are displayed as a foreground shade. This highlight has no effect outside of the character area, or if the Blank bit is enabled. Finally, the setting of the cursor bit reverses all pixels within the character area, i.e., pixels of the background shade are displayed as foreground shade and vice versa.
FIG. 3 illustrates the signals that the line buffer circuit and the video output circuit employ to communicate with the rest of the system and with each other. The rate at which the 17 input signals, DATA 1-15, and BLANKOUT are shifted into the circuit is dependent upon both frequency of the external clock and the readiness of the line buffer circuit to accept new data. The readiness is characterized by the state of the REQUEST (REQ) signal. On the output side of the circuit, information is transferred to the video output circuit in 10-bit quantities at a rate exactly equal to the pixel rate divided by four. Synchronization with the video monitor is made possible through the horizontal sync signal HPIX whose main purpose is to bracket the activity part of the video scan line. The RESET line shown in FIG. 3 is common to the whole video system of synchronization during power-up. Finally, two other output leads are assigned to the END FIELD and END OF VERTICAL RETRACE signals.
The storage or line buffers are implemented by two 80�20 sequentially accessed memories. Each 20-bit word fully describes one of the 80 displayable characters. Eight bits of the character code address the character font of the video output circuit to select one of 256 characters, along with two "Font Select" bits to allow selection of a particular video output circuit. Ten bits of the status (or "highlight") information contribute to the general appearance of the character such as its size, brightness, position relative to the character line, background shade, and so forth.
Given a particular character line, the same sequence of 80 pairs of data is sent to the video output circuit for each scan line. These 160 transfers take place within 160 clock/four periods, and are preceded by a 10-bit row address which specifies which row of the character dot-matrix is to be displayed on the present scan line.
The data must be read from the line buffer a number of times equal to the scan line pairs for that particular character line. At the end of every scan line, the register holding the row address is incremented and points to the next scan to be displayed.
Communication on the input side of the line buffer circuit is attained by two signals, REQUEST and TAKE IT. When the line buffer circuit is empty and can accept a new character, it raises its REQUEST signal and keeps it high until TAKE IT signal goes high, at which time a new set of data on the data input lines is strobed into the line buffer. At this time, the line buffer circuit is able to process that particular character immediately and keeps its REQUEST signal high for another clock period, indicating it can process a second character right away. However, no more than two characters can be processed consecutively. At this time, the line buffer circuit is unable to process another character. This is characterized by the REQUEST signal going low after the second set of data has been strobed in.
Because of the nature of the video signal production, and its need to be compatible with television standards, the output signals of the system must be supplied constantly at the video frequency.
The video output circuit of FIG. 3 receives data signals that are either a row address, a status code, or a character code which are employed to specify the character to be displayed, the scan line at which the display is to start and various highlights of the display of the character. The synchronization circuitry of FIG. 3 is illustrated in more detail in FIG. 4 and includes the vertical sync generator 16 and horizontal timing circuitry 19. Vertical sync generator 16 examines a row address register. If the two high order bits of the register have been set, vertical sync generator 16 generates the vertical retrace sequence for the timing patterns provided by horizontal timing circuitry 19. In addition, horizontal timing circuitry 19 generates horizontal sync signals for the video output circuit and the respective HPIX and clock/four timing signals for the line buffer circuitry. Horizontal timing circuitry 19 also generates additional signals which are employed on various portions of the video output circuit.
As was indicated above, the present invention is adapted for employment with a standard commercial video monitor wherein each horizontal scan line will contain 640 picture elements or pixels with an additional 140 pixel time elements being employed for the retrace portion of the scan for a total of 780 pixel time elements per scan. The timing signals required for each scan are illustrated in FIG. 5 and are adapted to conform to EIA Electrical Performance Standards for Monochrome Television Facilities, RS-170. As illustrated in FIG. 5, seven waveforms are required to be generated by the timing generator of the present invention. They are the horizontal sync pulse TIP; the equalization pulses EQP; the vertical sync pulses VSP; two horizontal sync signals HPIX, one of which is employed to drive the line buffer of FIG. 3 and the other which is employed to drive the video output circuitry; the horizontal blank signal HBLANK; and the half-line signal HALFLINE. These signals will not be discussed in detail at this time except to indicate that, in FIG. 5, they are to begin and end at a different number of pixel time units, which values are a matter of design criteria. Suffice it to say that out of the 780 pixel time elements required for each horizontal scan, the respective signals are to be generated at specific times which require specific decoding circuitry. The particular specific times are listed as follows:
______________________________________Decimal Octal Decodes______________________________________117 0165 A2 --B1 C1 --A0 B0761 1371 E C2 --C1 D1 A0779 1413 E D2 A1 C0 57 0071 --C1 D1 A0 15 0017 --E A1 --C0 D0659 1223 E B2 B1 C0107 0153 --E A2 --A1 B1 C0747 1353 E C2 --A1 B1 C0389 0605 --B2 C2 --D1 --A0 B0 51 0063 TIP C0 --D0417 0641 --B2 C2 D1 A0 27 0033 --C2 C1 C0335 0517 --A2 B2 A1 --C0 D0725 1325 E C2 B1 --A0 B0370 0562 --A2 B2 --B1 C1 B0 4 0004 --E --D2 D0______________________________________
In prior art timing circuits, a binary counter was employed which, nevertheless, required a large number of gates if it were to count to a relatively high number such as 780. In the present invention, a series of modulo eight Johnson-type counters are employed where each counter in the series counts from 0 to 7 before triggering the next order counter. The basic building block of such a counter is illustrated in FIG. 6A and shows a series of cells 20A . . . D, each of which is driven by a clock during each clock time. The order of sequence for the respective stages is illustrated in FIG. 6B. As shown therein, on the first clock period cell 20A will switch to the true state and remain there until reset by the false output of cell 20D. Correspondingly, cell 20B will switch to the true state on the second clock pulse and remain there until reset, and so forth. The outputs of the respective cells could be inverted so that two choices of decoding are available for employment by decoder 31.
FIG. 7 illustrates the basic structure of the counter of the present invention such that the output of stage 21 will not trigger stage 22 until it has reached a count of 7; stage 22 will not trigger stage 23 until it has reached a count of 7; and stage 23 will not trigger stage 24 until it has reached a count of 7. In this particular arrangement, stage 21 is driven by both phases of a two-stage clock while the remaining stages 22, 23, and 24 are only driven by the second phase of that clock. The stages can be cleared by a clear signal from outside of all the stages and the reset signal which is generated when the counter reaches a count of 779. The final counts are decoded by decoders 32 of FIG. 7.
A particular advantage of this type of counting arrangement is that the output of each stage of the respective shift registers can be decoded with only two-bits as was indicated above in FIG. 6B. In fact, in the above-listed table, a number of signals have been crossed out as they are not required to decode the pixel counts as required for the system of the present invention.
When the output of the E stage 24 is true, the counter is in the range of 512 to 779. This true output represents the most significant bit of the octal number being generated by the counter of the present invention.
One of the advantages of the counter of the present invention is that the repetition of the decoded numbers can be employed to reduce the number of bits which are required for decoding. For example, the TIP pulse is to go down or drop at the count of 57. This requires a separate pulse to reset the corresponding flip-flop or cell. However, the pulse at 57 can be repeated from 57 until 779 and only requires the signals C1 D1 A0.
For the equalization pulses, EQP, four numbers are required, namely 779, 27, 389 and 417. 27 and 417 could be repeated from 27 to 389 and also 417 to 779. 779 and 389 could be repeated from 779 to 27, and also from 389 to 417. It is to be remembered that from 512 to 779, the E bit is true. Thus 389 is on the lower side of 512 and out of the range of 779, so that it is not necessary to specify the range above 512 for the number 389.
For the decoding of 27 or octal 33, such decoding could be represented by C1 C0. However, C2 is also employed to specify octal 33 as C2 is employed to represent 0, 1, 2 or 7. With decimal numbers in the range of 0-4, only one digit is required for decoding. For 4-7, D0 is all that is required to decode 4 since D is not required for decoding 0, 1, 2 or 3.
As indicated in FIG. 8, each cell is driven by two clock signals φ1 and φ2. However, this is actually only true for the first stage 21 of FIG. 7. As indicated in FIG. 7, φ1 ' for stage 22 is the AND product of the φ1 clock signal and the output of stage 21. Similarly, φ1 " is employed to drive stage 23 and is the AND product of φ1 and the output of stage 22. φ1 '" is employed to drive stage 24 and is the AND product of φ1 and the output of stage 23. In addition, each AND gate requires a signal from decoders 32 which is just a set of programmable logic arrays.
The individual cell from which the shift registers of the present invention are formed is illustrated in FIG. 8. As was illustrated in FIG. 6A, the inverted output from the last cell in the shift register is supplied back to the first cell to get the sequence of signals illustrated in tables of FIG. 6B depending upon whether one chooses to use the true outputs for the decode or the inverted outputs. Thus, it will be understood in FIG. 8 that the inverted output from the last cell will be supplied back to gate 25 of the first cell to be gated in during clock time φ1. In addition, the true output of output circuit 28 will be supplied to the input of the next cell, and so forth. Output circuit 29 provides the inverse thereof due to the depletion mode nature of certain of the gates. During phase φ2 of the two-phase clock, the state of the cell is transferred to the respective output circuits 28 and 29.
A timing circuit for a digital display has been disclosed above, which circuit includes a series of counters each having four stages such that each counter will drive the next stage only when it has progressed from zero to seven. By reading out the state of each stage of the respective counters, selected counts can be decoded from only two of the respective stage readouts.
While but one embodiment of the present invention has been disclosed, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that variations and modifications may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as claimed.
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|Hitachi Ltd
|Synchronizing signal generator device
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|Stromberg Carlson Corp
|Generator used for time synchronization in video-telephone
|Mar 15, 1977
|Oct 10, 1978
|Burroughs Corporation
|High resolution character generator for digital display units
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|Apr 1, 1980
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|Jun 16, 1987
|Dicomed Corporation
|Method and apparatus for flexigon representation of a two dimensional figure
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|Texas Instruments Incorporated
|State machine standard cell that supports both a Moore and a Mealy implementation
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|Motorola, Inc.
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|Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
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|Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
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Docteur en psychologie et en management, Isaac Getz est professeur a l'ESCP a Paris et professeur invite dans plusieurs universites americaines comme Cornell ou Stanford. Depuis la parution du livre, "Freedom Inc" ("L'entreprise liberee"), aux Etats-Unis, il conseille de nombreux chefs d'entreprise en France et en Europe.
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"Human energy and creativity are key to any successful enterprise–yet most organization theories unwittingly suppress the power of employees. With dozens of vivid stories, Freedom, Inc. shows how successful firms tap into the human spirit, building a culture of accomplishment and human fulfillment. A must-read for every manager and entrepreneur."
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I have a table with a potential of up to 5.000.000 rows. One of the columns in this table is used alone in queries, but there is only 5 possible values of this column, and currently I got 10.000 rows and according to the explain plan it makes no sense to use my index on that column.
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Tension grows in Maldives over economic zones
MALE, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- Tension is brewing between the Maldives ruling party headed by the president and the opposition over a proposed bill to establish special economic zones in the Indian Ocean group of islands, local media reported on Tuesday.
The opposition Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) has submitted more than 300 amendments to the government's flagship special economic zone (SEZ) legislation, currently before parliament.
The MDP has appealed for the public and local councils to urge pro-government members of parliament to vote for the amendments.
The ruling Progressive Party of Maldives (PPM) headed by President Abdulla Yameen and coalition partner Maldives Development Alliance (MDA) have 48 seats in the 85-member People's Majlis.
The MDP contends new zones could pave the way for money laundering and other criminal enterprises, undermine the decentralization system, and authorize a board formed by the president to "openly sell off the country" without parliamentary oversight, local newspaper Minivan reported.
The party also objects to exempting investors from paying import duties or taxes for 10 years as well as allowing companies with foreign shareholders to purchase land without paying sales tax.
The government, however, maintains that SEZs with relaxed regulations and tax incentives were necessary both for foreign investors to choose the Maldives over other developing nations and to launch "mega projects," which President Abdulla Yameen has said would "transform" the economy through diversification and mitigate the reliance on the tourism industry.
"It is not of any concern the authority president has to build bridges, and undertake other development project. But it is of concern if the president receives powers through the Economic Zones bill. This is out vision. Give us the opportunity," Yameen said at an event on Monday.
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Grey Frede
I had the distinct pleasure of meeting the Danish shoreline fly fisher Peter Loevendahl, who is a discrete man. He goes around quietly in his native western Seeland and catches fish. A lot of fish.
A pattern no sea trout fisher should be without
I had the distinct pleasure of meeting the Danish shoreline fly fisher Peter Loevendahl, who is a discrete man. He goes around quietly in his native western Seeland and catches fish. A lot of fish.
When asked what fly he uses to catch all these fish, has says: 'The Grey Frede'.
If you then aske what he uses for his winter fishing, he says: 'The Grey Frede'.
An how about the fishing in the summer nights...? Well, the reader has probably already guessed the answer to that.
The Grey Frede is an arcetypical Danish shoreline fly. It's a classic, which has caught a lot of fish, and has been copied in numerous variations. The kindship with flies such as Magnus and Bjarke along with a lot of other Danish flies is obvious. Peter himself ties the fly in grey and green (olive). Apart from that he's quite conservative. A glimpse into his fly boxes is like looking under a bed: grey in grey.
I'm a big fan of naturally colored salt water flies, and Peter's Grey Frede is now a resident in my shoreline flybox.
See the Grey and Black Frede side by side.
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|Peter uses kevlar. Less can do.
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|Thick layer of grizzly marabou dubbing - very thick
|Copper thread, fairly thick
|Grizzly bodyhackle
|bead chain eyes on top of hook
|Marabou dubbing over the eyes and a small head from tying thread
- Put the hook in the vice and straighten it a bit. The hook gap has to be enlarged a bit. The finished hook looks much like a slightly curved Limerick hook.
- Tie in flash on top of the hook bend
- Find a dense marabou feather and use the tip to make a flat tail. Leave the surplus as a base for the body
- Tie in a length of copper thread at the hook bend
- Cut of the barbs from a handfull of marabou feathers and mix them well
- Wax the tying thread and dub it with marabou in a thick layer
- Turn the dubbing over the hook to form a compact but fluffy body
- Let the dubbing stop approx. 1/3 from the eye
- Tie in a grizzly hackle in front of body. Dry fly type is best.
- Wind the hackle to the rear end of the body
- Lock down the hackle with the copper thread. Wind it opposite the hackle over the body
- Tie down copper thread and cut surplus
- Tie a couple of bead chain eyes on top of hook shank in front of body
- Dub the thread again and form a large soft head over and in front of the eyes
- Form a small head from thread, whip finish and varnish
- Stroke the whole fly lightly with a brush.
I prefer a more subtle approach. 6/0 thread and varnish will do.
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"Leaked" Left 4 Dead 2 campaigns confirmed by Achievement list, Valve
The rumor is rumor no more. The final pair of Left 4 Dead 2 campaigns – known as "Hard Rain" and "Dead Center" – are real. How do we know? Because Valve told us so.
"They're legit," Valve's Doug Lombardi told VG247.
On top of that, the game's Achievement list – recently rescued from a storage closet by Xbox360Achievements.org – lists the two new campaigns, along with a slew of other unannounced odds and ends. Standouts include the defibrilator, which probably brings allies back to life, and the "bile bomb," which both intrigues and disgusts us. In a good way.
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GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Back when he was going from Daytona to Lansing to West Tennessee, back to Daytona, then back to Tennessee, Ryan Theriot was known for his versatility. It's how he caught the attention of the Chicago Cubs in the first place, how he eventually became Lou Piniella's starting shortstop.
Shortstop, second base, outfield -- any of these positions would have been fine for the kid from Louisiana, who despite an impressive college baseball pedigree, stayed wide-eyed for his first few big league seasons.
Now after three-plus years in Chicago, Theriot, who turned 30 and became a father of three with the birth of Georgia Grace during the offseason, has largely lost that sense of wonder.
Arbitration and a minor league shortstop whose name begins with the letters S-T-A-R can do that to a person.
Ready to settle in as the team's regular leadoff man on Opening Day, Theriot has changed his swing; strengthened his legs; and, despite showing a team-first attitude by saying he would be happy to eventually move to second base to make way for Starlin Castro, toughened his resolve.
Shortly after arriving in camp and learning that he lost last month's arbitration hearing, Theriot addressed the Castro situation by saying: "As of now I am the shortstop, and I have been for three years. I've done a good job. He's going to have to come get it."
Tough talk from a guy who falls well short of the glamour shortstops around the league. And yet, the fact that Theriot is entering his fourth season as the Cubs' starter there and felt that he deserved more than $3 million this season, says all you really need to know about him.
Most athletes describe a point in their careers when they realize unequivocally that it's big business. This winter was that time for Theriot, who admitted the other day that the process was stressful.
"Yeah, it wasn't a very fun time, honestly," he said. "It was difficult just because I love the Cubs, I love the organization and [general manager] Jim [Hendry], and I have a wonderful relationship we've had for years. [Assistant GM] Randy Bush as well. So in that regard, yeah, it was stressful."
Theriot was asking for $3.4 million this season but instead will be paid $2.6 million, which still amounts to a $2.1 million raise. And the two sides apparently avoided the sort of ill will that often results from the process.
Hendry, who had never been to an arbitration hearing, made it a point to get together to talk to Theriot both before and after the hearing. And both described their relationship as actually being strengthened through the process.
"I told our people doing the case: 'I don't want to ever get to the point where it's going to be personal. Our arguments are not going to be based on tearing the player down, it's going to be based on just what the factual and financial ramifications are,'" Hendry said. "We just stuck to the facts, and I think the right decision was made, but it wasn't like Ryan didn't do well in the deal either. I think he understands that now."
Theriot said he felt an obligation to go through it.
"Not only for myself but the guys coming after me and the guys who came before me," he said. "The smart thing to do is totally take yourself out of the situation and look at it from the outside looking in. It took me a long time to do that. I was probably involved too much. There were days when I'd be like, 'This is ridiculous.' Because it's not about the bottom dollar. It's a process set up for the players to be utilized. That's why it's there."
And with it behind him, Theriot said he was able to refocus, immediately taking advantage of new Cubs' batting coach Rudy Jaramillo despite the fact that he had not been particularly struggling.
"I definitely made some changes in my swing," said Theriot, who narrowed his stance and moved his hands on his grip. "I took a few weeks to get comfortable with that, but it's really feeling good right now, easy, not forced, just kind of happening, doing things with pitches I couldn't do before. I'm excited about it."
No wonder. Theriot is 13-of-25 (.520) with two doubles, six runs scored and four stolen bases.
How does that translate to becoming a solid, full-time leadoff hitter? Last season, his on-base percentage dipped considerably, and he has struggled the last two Septembers.
"I think if we give him a little more rest, his on-base percentage will go up," Cubs manager Lou Piniella said. "I think when he gets a little tired, he gets a little more overanxious at home plate, doesn't work the count as good. He played in a lot of games last year."
More than anything, Piniella likes the fact that No. 2 hitter Kosuke Fukudome breaks up the right-handed hitters in the front part of his lineup. And with Alfonso Soriano effectively eliminating himself from the competition, Theriot was an obvious choice.
"We don't have what you would classify as a burner who's going to steal 40 bases out of the leadoff hole, so it doesn't really matter who we lead off with," Piniella said.
It matters to Theriot enough that he worked specifically on leg strength this off-season.
"Yeah, quite a bit more than I ever have before, and I think it will pay dividends for sure this year," he said.
Four years ago, Piniella replaced starting shortstop Cesar Izturis with a kid from LSU who logic told us had neither the range nor the arm to keep the job for very long. In all likelihood, the Cubs will be better off one day with Castro at short and Theriot at second.
And when the time comes, Theriot will accept that.
But not yet.


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