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Rev: 03-SEP-2016
RM-11708 and 2016
Meanwhile, the use of PACTOR-4 outside US jurisdiction continues to be used primarily to send traffic files (email, pictures, etc.) to private or public mailboxes. Much borders, if it doesn't actually cross, into commercial activity. Frankly, PACTOR-4 is merely an internet substitute for those unwilling to pay for mobile offshore internet. The claim PACTOR-4 serves ECOMM (Emergency Communcations) is a ruse, a falsehood. There are so many alternate 'free' commerical communications paths available that it renders the argument that "Ham Radio is a viable alternative for emergency communication" a joke.
The use of PACTOR for direct communications is rare. The number of PACTOR QSO's continues to drop. PACTOR use is up slightly (as measured by traffic volume reports) with most units communicating with Mailboxes (as mentioned). The increase seems to be more questionable content (sail-mail, ham email, etc.) that appears to be more cost avoidance than anything else. Primarily, it bypasses the internet for free. Of interest, is that many store-and-forward mail boxes that handle a lot of traffic are switching away from PACTOR to 'allow' the use of other (cheaper) high speed modes as well.
Yes, the cost of PACTOR keeps going up and there is a marked increase in other modes, such as PSK-31, JT-65, and others. Most are involved in direct QSO's, at a speed that's much slower than PACTOR. What these modes have in common is that the cost is mostly FREE. What does this show? Namely, a speed increase in "FREE" modes will one day, rival PACTOR.
FCC whole battle of RM-11708 is to allow PACTOR-4 into the US Ham Bands. The "powers that be" continue to face plenty of objections from CW and RTTY users. What will happen with the FCC?
Rev: 16-JAN-2016
The ARRL proposal RM-11708 remains untouched, at the FCC, and it remains OPEN. Prehaps it stays "frozen" in the hopes it will be withdrawn or just go away. The Ham Radio community continues to use PACTOR-4 outside US shores with the primary use to send traffic files (email, pictures, etc.) to private or public mailboxes. Much borders, if it doesn't actually cross, into commercial activity.
The use of PACTOR for direct communications is rare. The number of PACTOR QSO's has dropped drastically. PACTOR use is up slightly (as measured by traffic volume reports) with most units communicating with Mailboxes (as mentioned). The increase seems to be more questionable content (sail-mail, ham email, etc.) that appears to be more cost avoidance than anything else. Primarily, it bypasses the internet for free. Of interest, isthat many store-and-forward mail boxes that handle a lot of traffic are switching away from PACTOR to 'allow' the use of other (cheaper) high speed modes as well.
Interestingly, as the cost of PACTOR keeps going up, there is a marked increase in other modes, such as PSK-31, JT-65, and others. Most are involved in direct QSO's, at a speed that's much slower than PACTOR. What these modes have in common is that the cost is mostly FREE. So, what does this show? Perhaps a speed increase in "FREE" modes one day, to rival PACTOR.
The battle(s) do continue behind the scenes to allow PACTOR-4 into the US Ham Bands. So far the "powers that be" face plenty of objections from CW and RTTY users. What will happen to PACTOR in 2016?
Rev: 06-SEP-2015
WHAT's NEXT FOR PACTOR
While the ARRL proposed RM-11708 continues to languish, untouched, at the FCC, one can only assume that it remains OPEN without progress because there is no interest (one way or the other) to do anything. Meanwhile, the Ham Radio community itself (from a majority of the comments given) just want to be left alone. There are plenty of digital operations (CW included here) on the Ham bands. However, the continued use of PACTOR centers about the ability to send traffic files that often boarder (if not actually crossing the line) on commercial activity.
The use of PACTOR for direct unit-to-unit communications is rare. Yes, there are a few PACTOR QSO's, but most of the units on the air today communicate with Mailboxes (either small personal individual or large traffic handling types) that pass or leave messages. Most of the traffic on message passing MBX's is of questionable content (such as sail-mail) that could be better be handled on the internet, if there wasn't a cost involved. Store and forward mailboxes merely mimic the internet for free.
The argument can be made that store and forward activity augments emergency preparedness. Considering that emergency traffic nets already exist on both the internet and satellite service, it's a poor premise. Does testing the ability to pass traffic on the Ham Bands prepare for emergency operation? Doubtful !!
So, what is the real answer? Why cost, of course. Why pay for communications channels that bill for service when you can bypass the paying route by misusing Ham Radio. Let's be honest, emergencies on Ham Radio are few and most amateur operators can volunteer when necessary, but sending batch messages day and night (and pretending to prepare for passing emergency traffic) is self serving and only serves to trample on Hams who merely want to be left alone to pursue two major purposes of ham radio, enlightenment and enjoyment.
Do store and forward mailboxes have a place? Probably ... but not on the Ham Bands. That's my opinion !!
Of course, Ham Bandplans are voluntary; HOWEVER, the ARRL is attempting to get the changes they want by making them part of a new bandplan. Toward that end the ARRL has established a web site to "ELICIT COMMENTS" to support their plan.
Based on what is best for the RTTY contesting and general QSO community vs ulterior motives that might exist. You
can 'look' at the ARRL survey at:
http://www.arrl.org/bandplan .
Perhaps any response should just be "NO" to every question!
Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.
Rev: 16-AUG-2014
Some have speculated that the FCC is in no hurry to address this issue. Others believe the ARRL is reluctant to pursue RM-11708 further, having been surprised by the resistance -- much of it by their own members. So, now we wait on the FCC to take action. Presently there is no indication how soon any action will be taken and the FCC may not act at all, hoping this affair will merely fade into a distant memory.
Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.
Rev: 29-MAR-2014
The ARRL, anticipating an adverse reaction (no matter the outcome), has embarked on 'face saving' measures such as:
Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.
Rev: 02-FEB-2014
What is the mission of RM-11708? It has become a hotly debated question, which has encompassed two opposing points of view:
The FCC assigned a posting as RM-11708 and requested comments about this proposal. About 900 comments and reply comments were received. Some were terse (we need it, we love it, it proposes no ill) and others went on for page after page of technicalities. The two camps were well represented. Some comments were technical and well thought out while others were strictly emotional.
Some commenters claimed that many of the comments came from by non-hams, solicited by commercial interests, wanting to use Pactor 4 as a lower cost email alternative. Others said that objections to RM-11708 were based on not understanding its true beneficial purpose.
In the meanwhile, PACTOR NEWS has received several emails asking that we promote one of these particular views. I have already offered comments that advised acceptance of RM-11708 should be limited by the following:
Now it is up to the FCC and their staff to wade through the diversity of comments and determine whether RM-11708 should be adopted or rejected. There has been no particular time frame established for making this decision.
Regardless of the FCC decision, the battle lines have been drawn. Both sides are marshalling their forces to continue the struggle.
So as 2014 rolls on, the PACTOR community awaits the next step from the FCC. More will be posted later as developments unfold.
Have a HAPPY and HEALTHY 2014.
Rev: 04-JAN-2013
TOPIC ONE: PACTOR has changed from an HF digital mode of choice to a means of specific high speed communications.
The use of PACTOR by boaters, by those participating in MARS, and by auto mailbox (Store and Forward) users has grown while the
number of 'others' is not growing as rapidly.
ANSWER: The expanded use of PACTOR should be the goal of most PACTOR users. That means if those in the 'other' catagory are to grow, then PACTOR should be used more often, much more often, by this group. Perhaps even a PACTOR contest can be started to help increase PACTOR awareness.
TOPIC TWO: In the past PACTOR modems were multipurpose. They did CW, RTTY, AMTOR, PSK-31, WEFAX, etc. Today
PACTOR modems are pretty much limited to PACTOR mode only.
ANSWER: SCS, the maker of PACTOR, has promised to address this issue in the future; however, results are needed. There should be an ongoing communications issue to remind SCS that PACTOR continues to be used by a number of non-commercial users. Perhaps we can request a date to expect an update which should be sooner rather than later.
TOPIC THREE: The cost of a PACTOR modem has gone up so much that it is beyond the means of the average Ham
ANSWER: As previously reported, SCS has said that the number of general Ham Radio users has declined to the point they are a minority of SCS business. As a result, there is little incentive to create a bare bones PACTOR modem. When the only 'cheap' PACTOR-4 modem is high priced box and the 'regular' PACTOR-4 modem is even far more expensive, here's what to do:
Now, of course, a new lower priced PACTOR modem may be wishful thinking, but for SCS to even consider creating such a device we should let SCS know there is a market for making it. We should remind SCS that Ham Operators were the initial prime supporters of PACTOR -- the main beta-testers of their products -- and the promoters of future sales. Now is the time for SCS to return the favor and support their original base of users.
Frankly, SCS has not been paying attention recently to Ham users. With little to sell and few to buy, is it any wonder? Now is the time to change that equation. If there was a new modem available from SCS with more modes and at a lower price would you purchase it? I certainly would. Yes, now is the time to let SCS know that !!
Have a HAPPY 2013.
Rev: 30-DEC-2012
With respect to Amateur Radio it can be claimed that using PACTOR for QSO's is on life support. Yes, there are a few 'die-hard' hams trying to preserve the originial purpose of the mode. But today, the primary day-to-day operation of PACTOR in the Ham Bands is as a store and transfer mode used by automatic mailboxes -- and even that use is not exclusive. Of course, PACTOR is also used for other non-Ham purposes, such as MARS and Marine.
As previously mentioned, the deterioration of Ham Radio support by the sellers of PACTOR and the ever increasing cost of the product explains our 2013 predictions. Yes, FREEWARE SOFTWARE and the much higher cost of using PACTOR means that fewer Hams will bother with PACTOR.
Meanwhile, please have a HAPPY NEW YEAR. I hope to have a QSO with many of you and I do have a PACTOR TNC. I still call CQ with RTTY, but I am not a contest player -- I like to chat.
Rev: 30-OCT-2012
What happened? As mentioned previously, there are two main reasons. First, a deterioration of Ham Radio support by the sellers of PACTOR and the second is the ever increasing cost of the product. Yes, the automatic mailboxes still exist and they are the primary Ham Band PACTOR use. The appearance of FREEWARE SOFTWARE and the much higher cost of using PACTOR means that fewer Hams bother with PACTOR.
In addition, PACTOR use is touted for "OUT-OF-THE-HAM-BAND" use. PACTOR-4, the latest release, is not permitted on the USA Ham Bands, yet ads for AUTO MAILBOX use, MARINE BAND use, MARS use, and OUT-OF-USA use are the sales and marketing efforts. When was the last time there was a PACTOR ad in a Ham Radio publication? Is it any wonder manual PACTOR QSOs are on the decline?
Rev: 10-AUG-2012
PACTOR USED ONLY INFREQUENTLY FOR QSOs
So, what been happening? According to many sources there are two main reasons. First, a deterioration of Ham Radio support by the sellers of PACTOR and the second is the ever increasing cost of the product. More on these items to follow shortly.
Rev: 15-JAN-2012
In addition, so-called "Homeland Security Concerns" may exist where "codes and other means of obscuring the meaning" of messages may be a significant problem.
While directly there is no tie to PACTOR-4, the use of PACTOR-4 on Store and Forward operations is seen as adding to the problem rather than correcting it. Meanwhile, my sources report there are some 'bottlenecks' in the process to allow PACTOR-4 to legally operate in the US Hambands. Some progress has been made, I was told; however, there are some issues about commerical conflict and whether PACTOR-4 (being called a closed protocol designed for commercial use) merits use on the ham bands when royalities are involved.
More on this topic later as further news is released.
Rev: 17-JUL-2011
Much as PACTOR-2 and PACTOR-3 were challenged as being 'non-compliant' with FCC Rules and Regulations, time has shown that novel digital modes do take time to 'shake-out' and their later adoption has been credited to technical standards. However, PACTOR-4 uses a challenging modulation scheme and unlike previous PACTOR modes, the signal is so complex so as to render obsolete many existing FCC Amateur Band standards. While the idea of rapid data transfer appeals to many hams, there is great objection to the growing bandwidths of new modes. The preference is for digital signals to be contained within a 500Hz bandwidth -- and -- the narrower, the better.
Some of the objections to PACTOR-4 are logical and based upon existing technical standards. However, others object to PACTOR (no matter the bandwidth) based upon purely personal motives. These objections fall into three areas, technical, financial, and personal. The technical objections (as with PACTOR-2 and PACTOR-3) can be addressed by the process of acceptance and changing of the existing rules. It is more difficult to deal with the financial and personal areas. The high cost of a PACTOR TNC has always been the source of frustration for those who might otherwise be very interested. Unfortunately, the Amateur Radio crowd would rather get something for nothing -- hence the preference for software driven applications. The personal aspect of objecting to PACTOR has its roots in the licensing and control of the mode. Back in the days of PACTOR-1, past licensees and builders of PACTOR-1 TNCS (AEA, MFJ, KAM, etc.) took shortcuts that cheapened the product and undermined the original specifications to the point that some TNCs were so inferior as to hurt the reputation of the mode itself. Many articles of the time were devoted to the inferior performance of the PACTOR-1 mode itself, when in fact the units under test themselves did NOT meet and undercut specifications.
Is it any wonder that SCS (makers of the PTC) clamped down on letting others make inferior copies of their products? The bad experience of marketing PACTOR-1 led to the high cost (for a fantastic unit) for newer products to grow even higher. In addition the tight control of the source code and the shielding of technical aspects caused the 'freebee' software writers to be 'shut-out' of attempting to write inferior copies of software only applications of PACTOR-2 and more recent upgrades. So, the financial and personal objections have pretty much combined to avoid SCS products.
The current challenge is two-fold. First, to compare the actual results achieved with PACTOR-4 and secondly to see if the PACTOR-4 can be effective in the the ham radio arena. Meanwhile, PACTOR-4 needs to be tested in the USA and elsewhere to determine if the rising price of this newest mode is justified. Only time and experience will tell if PACTOR-4 can work in the ham bands.
The best digital ARQ (linked) mode on High Frequency ( 3 to 30 MegaHertz ) Amateur Radio is called PACTOR.
It transfers text, files, and graphics quickly and without error. Pactor was invented in Germany and is quite popular among
hams who communicate by radio with computers. PACTOR NEWS is an online source
dedicated specifically to PACTOR.
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also have an ATI card.
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Also typed following, comes up with this message.
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Artist's BiographyEducation - Bachelor\'s degree, Berklee College of Music - Boston, Mass.
First to receive Bachelor\'s degree in Applied Music for the Vibraphone and Mallet Instr. instruments and extensive studies in arranging and composition.
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I'm not sure whether this thread will turn out to develop traction, but I start it with some thoughts of a savvy friend:
"What if the Malaysian Air matter involved this scenario? The airliner was supposed to hijacked and landed at a certain location. At that time, the hijackers would announce their crime and demand ransom for the passengers. After the ransom would be paid, the hijackers would release the plane with instructions to fly the plane to a certain airport. However, the hijackers also planted a bomb (maybe even a small nuke or CBW) in the cargo hold that would be detonated on or just before landing.
"There are a lot of different targets for a lot of different groups. On the other hand, we know the original AQ via KSM used Malaysia as a meeting point pre-9/11.
"Now, what nation would refuse to let the plane land?"
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Rush's theory
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Israel: "This plane is likely intact - it was landed in a terrorist plot."
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Former El Al security chief: Iran likely involved in Malaysia plane disappearance
Robert Spencer Mar 16, 2014 at 9:14pm
He said that investigators were correct in honing in on the two fake-passport carrying Iranian passengers on the doomed flight, and they have wasted valuable time by exploring other leads. Those Iranians do seem to have been dismissed rather casually. And Irans being involved would make perfect sense: the Iranian mullahs are bolder than ever, as they know that Barack Obama isnt going to lift a finger to stop their jihad, and instead will continue to give them whatever they want.
Ex-El Al expert: Iran likely involved in MH 370, by Debra Kamin for the Times of Israel, March 16 (thanks to Pamela Geller):
A former security chief for El Al said that the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 points directly to Iran.
Isaac Yeffet, who served as head of global security for Israels national carrier in the 1980s and now works as an aviation security consultant in New Jersey, said investigators were correct in honing in on the two fake-passport carrying Iranian passengers on the doomed flight, and they have wasted valuable time by exploring other leads.
What happened to this aircraft, nobody knows. My guess is based upon the stolen passports, and I believe Iran was involved, he said. They hijacked the aircraft and they landed it in a place that nobody can see or find it.
In the immediate aftermath of the aircrafts disappearance, which occurred last week during a standard night flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, Malaysian officials and the media were fixated on the story of two Iranians who had made it onto the plane with stolen passports. As the days wore on and the investigation uncovered new and confusing details, with officials admitting that the plane could have traveled for as long as seven hours without radio contact, and that its potential location could be anywhere from northern Kyrgyzstan to the southern Indian Ocean, attention has shifted to the pilots and to far-flung conspiracy theories. This is a misstep, said Yeffet, and one that would not have happened in Israel.
This would never have happened on an Israeli plane, says Yeffet. An El Al aircraft was hijacked for the first and last time in 1968. Since then, there has not been a single flight where security did not check every single name.
However, it would have taken more than just a pair of Iranians with forged documents, Yeffet said, to pull off such an astonishing crime. I cant believe for a second that if these people planned to hijack the aircraft, it was just them, he said. But based upon the tried-and-true Israeli intelligence strategy of profiling, the pilots, he said, are unlikely suspects.
We are talking about a captain who is 53 years old, who has worked for Malaysia Airlines for 30 years, and suddenly he became a terrorist? He wanted to commit suicide? If he committed suicide, where is the debris?
Adding that the captain in question, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, was known to be happily married and comfortably well-off, Yeffet said the profile simply does not fit. From the United States to China to Japan, everybody is searching for this aircraft or piece of it. And there is no sign. So in my opinion, the aircraft was hijacked. And it was an excellent plan from the terrorists, to land in a place where they can hide the plane and no one can find it.
Lt. Col. (Res.) Eran Ramot, a former IAF fighter pilot and the head of aviation research at Israels Fisher Institute for Air and Space Strategic Studies, however, drew other conclusions.
It would be very complicated [for someone other than the pilot to have flown the plane], Ramot said, based on the stunning revelations that the flight not only made a total U-turn from its planned route but also dipped in between radar points for hours and had all of its tracking systems manually turned off. It takes somebody that knows how to operate an airplane like this.
Like Yeffet, Ramot believes the plane was being intentionally flown to a secret location, and he went as far as to say he is holding out hope that the 239 passengers and crew who were on board are still alive.
We dont know any better yet, he said. One of my theories is that the airplane landed in Bangladesh. It could reach there, its very close to Afghanistan. It could have landed on airstrip there, and everybody on board is still alive. It could be done.
Asked what would have happened if the plane which went undetected for hours as it blipped across Malaysian radars had entered Israeli airspace, Ramot said, It would not go unnoticed, thats for sure. Action would have been carried out, the least of which would have been an interception to escort it.
That doesnt mean that the Malaysian military wasnt paying attention, he added. Its simply that in Israel, the margin for taking chances is significantly reduced.
Its a matter of atmosphere, he said. Here, every blip on the screen is suspicious because thats the way we live. Thats our daily program. I cant imagine they pay as much attention, but if a blip runs wide or runs strange, I would expect them to notice.
Pini Schiff, one of Israels top aviation security experts, said that if there is any comfort that Israelis can take from the story of MH 370, which is proving to be one of the most confounding aviation disasters of all time, it is that it could never happen to a plane flying out of Ben-Gurion International Airport.
It simply wouldnt happen at Ben-Gurion, he said. The level of security at Ben-Gurion and on all El Al planes is so high, there is nothing more they could do Nations are not spending billions of dollars the way the Israeli government is protecting Israeli aviation, because the threat against Israeli aviation is so high. What we are doing in Ben-Gurion is an operation that is not being done in any other airport in the world. Not in the United States, not in Britain, not in Germany, not anywhere.
Like his colleagues, Schiff said that his guess is as good as anyones as to the fate of MH 370, but he also believes theres a good possibility that it has been brought down, intact, on a hidden runway in some far-flung corner of the world.
It will be found. It may take a month or a year, but eventually, it will be found, he said. This aircraft didnt vanish. It exists somewhere in the world, and it will be found, probably in one piece.
"You have enemies? Good. That means that you have stood up for something, sometime in your life." - Winston Churchill.
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Re: Israel: "This plane is likely intact - it was landed in a terrorist plot."
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March 17, 2014, 08:57:31 AM »
It looks like this was a flight that went exactly according to plan. Iran is complicit? Makes you glad that Pres Obama did everything he could do in 2009 to support the popular democratic uprising against the the world's number one sponsor of terrorism. Oh, that's right, he did absolutely nothing when that opportunity to stand down tyranny and terrorism was front and center.
The US cannot be the world's policeman? That's right but then accept that no one is going to do it. Planes and countries will disappear from time to time, not our problem. Maybe the UN can call an emergency meeting to condemn this act. Nothing says we are serious about stopping terrorism and rogue military offensives like gutting our defense and intelligence budgets.
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Mysterious phone call to pilot before flight
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Also, 3 star general Mcininery (sp?) is sticking by his notion that the south India Ocean thing may be a diversion and that what really happened is that the crew and or others hijacked the plane to Pakistan or eastern Iran.
Question presented: How then did it cross Indian airspace?
Answer: By shadowing Singapore flight 68.
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Re: Malaysian Air 370
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Malaysian Prime Minister strangely sounds like all doubt has been removed:
Officials Say Missing Malaysia Airlines Plane 'Ended in the Southern Indian Ocean'
I have not yet heard that they identified a single part or person. Did I miss something? (Or did they?)
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Re: Malaysian Air 370
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March 25, 2014, 07:35:41 AM »
I'm not satisfied with Malaysia's work on the investigation here.
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Re: Malaysian Air 370
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I give this explanation ZERO credence. The Malaysian government has been under severe pressure to produce evidence/explanation of what happened. They are extremely motivated to get this OFF their plate and turn the world's attention AWAY from them. This is nothing more than a transparent and laughable attempt to close out the investigation and move on. I still maintain that this plane was hijacked and landed somewhere. There are quite a few experts that share this suspicion.
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The depth of the problem
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Floating Point Rounding
You need to round a floating-point number to an integer.
Use one of the functions round/1, ceiling/1, floor/1 and trunc/1. Note, the standard Erlang distribution does not come with either floor/1 or ceiling/1, but they can be easily implemented in terms of trunc/1
floor(X) -> T = trunc(X), case X - T < 0 of true -> T - 1; false -> T end. ceiling(X) -> T = trunc(X), case X - T < 0 of true -> T; false -> T + 1 end. 1> floor(-4.3). -5 2> ceiling(-4.3). -4 3> trunc(-4.3). -4 4> round(-4.3). -4 5> floor(3.5). 3 6> ceiling(3.5). 4 7> trunc(3.5). 3 8> round(3.5). 4 9> round(7). 7
The procedures all return integers.
round/1 returns the closest integer to x, rounding to even when x is halfway between two integers. floor/1 returns the largest integer not larger than x. ceiling/1 returns the smallest integer not smaller than x. trunc/1 returns the integer closest to x whose absolute value is not larger than the absolute value of x.
Further general information on math and rounding is available from:
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Prince Edward Island provincial court
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A kind of free-man-on-the-land trial took strange twists in a Charlottetown court Wednesday as a man kept pretending he wasn't on trial, then walked out of the courtroom.
John James MacLean, 55, of Pleasant Grove Road was on trial for charges of dangerous driving, failing to stop at the scene of an accident and evading police in connection with a motor vehicle hit-and-run Jan. 2.
He was in provincial court before Judge Nancy Orr.
MacLean said the trial was a fraud because he wasn't the man named on the informations before the court.
"That's not me," he said.
John James MacLean was just a name on some documents that belonged to the government, a name that he just had the use of, he tried to tell the court.
Several times when the name John James MacLean was referenced he would question who that was, saying it wasn't him.
When he was told "that is you", he would ask the court "who's you?"
For what seemed like a very long time, MacLean tried to argue the issue of his own identity, continually interrupting the Crown and the judge when they tried to say anything he didn't agree with.
Orr repeatedly told MacLean to stop interrupting.
In turn, MacLean repeatedly denied that he was.
"I'm not interrupting, I'm objecting," MacLean said.
Orr tried to tell MacLean that his identity was not an issue, that she had accepted the documentation he himself had provided - including a driver's licence with his picture on it and a birth certificate - as proof that he was indeed John James MacLean.
But he would have none of that.
Over MacLean's continuous objections, Crown Counsel Gerald Quinn identified MacLean as someone who subscribed to the free-man-on-the-land ideology.
"Freemen (or Sovereign Citizens, Living Souls or Natural Persons, as they sometimes call themselves) believe that all statute law is contractual," says a briefing note by the Law Society of British Columbia. "They further believe that law only governs them if they choose or consent to be governed. By implication, they believe that, by not consenting, they can hold themselves independent of government jurisdiction."
Quinn read from case law which suggests that courts attach no merit or weight to ideological arguments advanced by those espousing such views.
Throughout all of this MacLean objected profusely, rising numerous times to speak his mind despite orders from the bench to sit down and let Quinn speak.
Rising from the defence table he told Orr his business was done there and walked out.
MacLean had been duly advised that the trial could proceed without him but that did not deter him.
He essentially told the court to go ahead because he wasn't staying.
Not even a warning from Orr that he could be charged with contempt of court if he left the courtroom could keep him there.
In his absence the trial proceeded and MacLean was ultimately found guilty of all charges.
Testimony presented by police and civilian witnesses indicated that on the night in question, MacLean came off an off-ramp the wrong way and struck another vehicle, causing $5,000 to $6,000 in damages.
He did not stop to see if the driver of the other vehicle was hurt or offer his name and insurance documentation.
Instead he continued on, refusing to stop for police who responded to the accident.
Several vehicles pursued MacLean but they stopped the pursuit after MacLean accelerated to speeds that officers believed could pose a danger to the public.
At Belvedere Avenue and University he was moving at such speed that the front of the car struck the pavement causing sparks to fly.
He narrowly missed a police car by inches.
At one point after being boxed in by police he was able to escape, accelerating while a police officer who stopped him still had his arm inside the window of the car.
None of those who testified had any trouble identifying him.
Orr has now adjourned the case for sentence and issued an order for MacLean's arrest.


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Crop acreage shift in Iowa and the United States
The 34-page planting intentions report, by the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), Agricultural Statistics Board, U.S. Department of Agriculture, was released on March 30, 2007.
Producers were surveyed about their intentions for 2007 during the first two weeks of March. Although changes can still occur, this is the best estimate of expected acreage. Changes can take place though with the possibility of planned corn acreage shifting back to soybean depending on soybean prices and if conditions are wet and unfavorable for corn planting. Yet many producers have already prepared the fields and purchased the inputs necessary for corn production.
Corn acreage across the United States is projected to increase 15.5 percent compared to 2006. Producers are slated to plant a total of 90.5 million corn acres versus 78.3 million acres in 2006. This is the highest amount of corn acreage in the United States since 1944 (95.5 million acres of corn). As expected, the increased corn acreage came primarily from a decrease in soybean acres. U.S. soybean acreage is projected to decrease 11.1 percent compared to 2006. U.S. producers are intending to plant 67.1 million soybean acres. It was a decade ago (1996) when total soybean acreage was similar to 2007 expectations. A significant shift to corn occurred in the southern states where cotton acreage was lessened by 20 percent.
Iowa still has the largest landbase devoted to corn production with 13.9 million acres expected in 2007; this is the most corn planted in Iowa since 1981 when 14.4 million acres were planted. Iowa had 12.6 million acres in 2006; thus, 2007 projections are a 10.3 percent increase. It is interesting to note that Iowa is lower than some neighboring states in terms of percent acreage switched over. See Figure 1 for total acreage values per state.
States in the South boast the largest percent change in corn acreage with some increases greater than 200 percent, such as Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Locations north of these with the greatest percent increase were Missouri (+25.9%) and North Dakota (+53.8%). Although the percent increases are substantial for these regions, the corn acreage is relatively low (all of the noted have less than 3.5 million acres per state).
Midwest and Corn Belt states generally range from 10 to 15 percent increase in corn acreage: Iowa +10.3 percent, Illinois +14.2 percent (projected acreage is a record for IL at 12.9 million), Indiana +12.7 percent, Ohio +15.9 percent,
Michigan +13.6 percent, Wisconsin +9.6 percent, Minnesota +8.2 percent, South Dakota +8.9 percent, Nebraska +11.1 percent, and Kansas +10.4 percent. The resultant decrease in soybean acreage is shown in Figure 2.
2007 proves to be an interesting and dynamic year for corn and soybean production across the United States. If the planting intentions are realized, this revolution will long be remembered in Iowa.
Lori Abendroth is an agronomy specialist with research and extension responsibilities in corn production. Roger Elmore is professor of agronomy with research and extension responsibilities in corn production.
This article originally appeared on pages 97-98 of the IC-498 (4) -- April 2, 2007 issue.
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As of 2013, the 10 ASEAN nations had a total of over 700 million mobile subscriptions, with the CAGR from 2003-2013 reaching 24%. This Digitimes Research Special Report analyzes the various mobile broadband markets in ASEAN and looks at the respective trends in 4G LTE development for those markets.
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Jack Black Raising Money to Build Water Park in Hometown
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By Kathleen Perricone
Jack Black was recently voted by fans on the iHeartRadio app to be the band leader for Stephen Colbert when he takes over for David Letterman on Late Show next year.
So would he?
"I'm just going to say yes because that sounds really sexy although no one has approached me at all," joked the comedian when he called in to On Air with Ryan Seacrest on Friday morning. "Yeah, there's a possibility. There's always a chance of anything in the universe happening, right?"
But in all seriousness, Jack has been busy helping to raise money to build a water park in Tonasket, Washington via Omaze.com, a Kickstarter-type site for doing good things.
"There's lot of great raffles on there," he explains. "It's like a raffle. You buy a raffle ticket. It costs $10 to enter your name into the contest. But you can buy as many raffle tickets as you want to improve your chances. If you win, the prize I'm offering is the Jack Black Experience. You get to come visit me on the set of my new movie, Goosebumps. And you'll get to watch us filming, you'll get to hang out with me in my trailer, we'll take selfies. I'll teach you how to rock if you don't already know. We will eat food today. I will teach you of life … you get all of me for one day. And I fly you out and I put you up in a sweet hotel."
So why a water park in Tonasket, Washington? "My dad and a bunch of my family in that side live in an area of Washington state called the Okanogan Valley. They need a water park and I'm trying to make that happen. I think every town needs a water park. Every town needs a place for kids to play."
To buy a raffle ticket to help Jack's charity and hopefully win a day with him, check out Omaze.com/JackBlack!


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When I was an undergraduate at Yale, in the early 1990s, I was assigned to live in Morse College, a dormitory designed by Eero Saarinen and completed in 1962. I'd arrived at Yale as an admirer of modern architecture and soon became a fan of Saarinen's work—especially his Ingalls Rink from 1958, a humpbacked arena on the edge of the Yale campus known as the Whale. But I never liked living in Morse. An idiosyncratic spin on residential Modernism, it had a sculptural power that made it transfixing from afar. But to spend days on end inside was a different story. Its extremely narrow windows and tough surfaces gave the place a medieval feel—or, as I thought when I was feeling especially cynical, a touch of the penitentiary. In winter, its brown–beige palette, set off against gray skies and patchy earth, was depressing, especially for a kid from California like me.
My love of Modernism aside, I secretly longed to live in one of the neo–Gothic residential colleges that still, for most of the world, define the look of Yale. In my junior year I moved off-campus with two friends, to a nondescript apartment above an Italian restaurant rumored to be owned by the mob. I'd found Saarinen's dormitory so unpleasant that I traded it for a place that was controlled by low-level wise guys and smelled all day of baked ziti and eggplant parmesan.
Over the course of my four years in New Haven, as I learned more about Morse—and its sister college, Stiles, also designed by Saarinen, and also finished in the fall of 1962—I came to chalk up some of its faults to the fact that it had opened a full year after the architect's death. I heard stories that Yale had cut corners on the construction budget and made changes to the design that Saarinen, had he been around to oversee the completion of the buildings, would never have stood for. In particular, I learned that the stones embedded in the façade were supposed to have been less smooth and more randomly arranged.
I concluded, with the kind of righteous certainty common to undergraduates, that Morse was a textbook example of the perils of posthumous architecture. I decided that the integrity of Saarinen's design had been lost, and that because of that loss Morse would never be considered one of the architect's more impressive achievements, let alone ranked alongside his masterpieces—the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, say, or the TWA Terminal at Idlewild, now Kennedy Airport.
But it turns out I was wrong—about the circumstances of Morse's construction, and about the latter stages of Saarinen's career. To begin with, when Saarinen died in September 1961—of a brain tumor, at the age of 51—work on Morse and Stiles was nearly complete. In addition, it was never a project that seemed to fully engage his talents—Saarinen's young associate Cesar Pelli led the design team for the colleges. (Another up-and-coming architect in Saarinen's office, Kevin Roche, also worked on Morse and Stiles.) The details that I'd fixated on as symbols of the project's shortcomings seemed precisely the sorts of design elements an older architect, healthy or not, would have delegated to a younger one.
And those landmarks of Saarinen's career that I'd looked to as examples of unspoiled achievement? Well, those were finished after Saarinen's death too; they were subject to all of the same post-mortem risks as Morse and Stiles, without the resulting flaws. The TWA terminal opened in 1962, and the Gateway Arch wasn't officially completed until 1968.
In a broader sense, I was also wrong about posthumous architecture. Over the last several months, I've visited several designs constructed after their architects' deaths. And what I've learned—particularly in studying newly built projects by Louis Kahn and Raimund Abraham—is that the chief danger for designs sitting on architects' drafting tables or computer monitors when they die is not that they will be horribly compromised. It is that they will never be completed. Especially if they are doing innovative or experimental work, architects spend far more time and energy working to get projects built—to find and cultivate the right patrons, to grease the right wheels—than they ever do designing them. And when architects die, that interest in driving the process of construction forward often disappears, too.


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Virtue and the Ĺart of livingĺ topic of USC Hall Lecture
By Peggy Binette, firstname.lastname@example.com, 803-777-5400
The art of living a virtuous life will be the topic of this year's Hall lecture at the University of South Carolina.
Krista Tippett, a Peabody Award winner and host of public radio's "On Being," will deliver the Nadine Beacham and Charlton F. Hall Sr. Lectureship in New Testament and Early Christianity at 7:30 p.m. on April 5, in the Belk auditorium of the Darla Moore School of Business.
This year's Hall lecture falls on Holy, or Maundy, Thursday. At 2 p.m. that day, Tippett will join USC religious studies scholar Erin Roberts and historian Adam Schor, as well as Brent Driggers from the Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary for a panel discussion. The event is titled "Faith, Practice and Early Christianity" and will take place in Rutledge Chapel on the Horseshoe.
Both events are free and open to the public.
Tippett, who grew up in Oklahoma, started her career in the 1980s as a foreign correspondent in Berlin for The New York Times. She also reported for Newsweek, the International Herald Tribune and the BBC.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Tippett shifted gears, earning a master of divinity degree from Yale University in 1994. Combining her journalistic skills with a love of faith, she took to the airwaves and created a radio conversation around spiritual and intellectual matters of faith. She wrote her first book, "Speaking of Faith," in 2007.
Her weekly radio show, "On Being," addresses matters of religion, meaning, ethics and ideas. Produced and distributed by American Public Media, the show airs on 200 radio stations throughout the world.
The Hall lectureship, one of the College of Arts and Sciences' premier lectureships, is held each year during Lent. It was established by alumnus Charlton F. Hall Jr. (1959, business administration), owner of Charlton Hall Galleries Inc. of Columbia, in honor of his parents.
For more information about the 2011 Hall lectureship, call 803-777-4100, or visit http://www.cas.sc.edu/relg/.
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Student members recognized for leadership and community service
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) recently announced the winners of the 2011 ASID Student Chapter Awards. ASID Student Chapter Awards are given to outstanding student members and chapters responsible for promoting the ASID student member experience as an enriching learning tool for future interior designers. This year's awards include:
Community Service
Go Kids Design Project
ASID West Valley College Student Chapter
For their community service project, the ASID West Valley Student Chapter provided design services for Go Kids, a center-based early care provider for infants, pre-school and school-age children. Go Kids' childcare services provide training and development opportunities for nearly 200 licensed and license-exempt home providers.
Faculty Advisor
Professor Meng'Kok Tan
ASID University of Georgia Student Chapter
By proposing a fundraising idea that earned his chapter more than $800, leading workshops, overseeing portfolio reviews and attending all chapter officer meetings, Professor Tan exemplifies true dedication to design education and professional development.
"Indulge In Design" Banquet and Raffle
ASID University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Student Chapter
"Indulge in Design" connects the university with local designers, professionals and businesses for fundraising support. The event attracted more than 70 people and earned the chapter a record $2,826, which was used to fund five student scholarships.
Student Chapter Leader
Marianne Bauer, Student Member ASID, Student Chapter President
ASID West Valley College Student Chapter
As chapter president, ASID student member Marianne Bauer has dedicated her role as chapter leader to focusing on retention of board members through a yearly retreat and annual professional development workshops. Her leadership has helped foster a sense of community and balance among the committee, and creates an investment in future leaders.
Media and Communications
ASID UCLA Extension Student Chapter website
The ASID UCLA Extension website has been, and continues to be, an effective and valuable means of communication for the community of students it serves. Providing exposure on both national and local levels, the website acts as a direct pipeline to the Los Angeles design community. Key features, such as a Tutor Profile page, an Alumni Gallery and a Scholarship section give visitors an interactive experience while students earn additional exposure. www.asiduclaextension.com
Outstanding Chapter
ASID Madison Area Technical College Student Chapter
Guided by a strategic plan to retain and recruit members, the Madison Area Technical College student chapter successfully organized a number of events including an annual charity event, a food drive and a stress management workshop to benefit members.
Honorable Mention: ASID Interior Designers Institute Student Chapter
Working to support the student body and the surrounding community, the ASID Interior Designers Institute Student Chapter hosts many events encouraging professional and personal development. One of the chapter's goals was to increase membership from 180 to over 200, which they surpassed beyond even their own expectations.
Student Representative to the Board
Janine Arietta, Student Member ASID
ASID California Peninsula Chapter SRB
By serving the highest role as a student member within ASID, Janine worked tirelessly on educating area students on the merits of becoming an ASID student member. She has also helped connect graduating students with a local ASID Industry Partner that offers complimentary professional portraits for the students and their projects.
Honorable Mention: Mia Livas Porter, Student Member ASID, UCLA Extension
As student chapter president and student representative to the board, Mia's extraordinary commitment to both the ASID Los Angeles Chapter and to the ASID UCLA Extension Student Chapter is exemplary.


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Who had a better career, and who was a better athlete?
Rickey Henderson
Who had a better career, and who was a better athlete?
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your not really wondering about this are you? cant be a real question...
Ichiro only does one thing better... Get hits. Everything else goes to henderson. And honestly who's the better athlete.... Just look at them. Henderson is like an olympic sprinter.
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Rickey Henderson
With the deepest of regrets I am announcing that I will be leaving Pro Sports Daily. No reason in particular but wanted to thank everyone for a great 6 years here. Lots of great discussion and good poll series as well. Also fun re-drafts. Best of luck to you all in the future.
If you era adjust RH OBP crushes Ichiro. More power...
Not close.
Added: Before 2011, lot's of people took Ichiro in a similar poll. Ichiro was closer rate wise back then, but the answer was still a resounding - Ricky. Not close. Throwing arm, OF play, and BA is not enough to overcome RH's massive superiority in other areas. Take a look at that era/park corrected OBP sometime... Holy Crap.
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6/27/09: We expect [Rondo] to play by the rules and be a leader as a point guard. We need him to be more of a leader, Ainge said. There were just a couple situations where he was late this year, I dont know if he was sitting in his car, but showed up late and the rest of the team was there. We have team rules and you have to be on time. He was fined for being late, he said he was stuck in traffic, and its just unacceptable.
told you all since 2010 he was a toolbag.....
Is this some kind of a joke that I'm not aware of or something?
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I made a mistake. Its still a shutout but I clicked the wrong one lol
I would like to know who voted for Ichiro.
post above you, literally
30 Team Stadium Checklist: 10 to go
1) Yankees 2) Orioles 3) Rays 4) Red Sox 5) Mets 6) Braves 7) Phillies 8) Nationals 9) Marlins 10) Pirates 11) Padres 12) Astros 13) Mariners 14) Twins 15) Cubs 16) White Sox 17) Cardinals 18) Indians 19) Tigers 20) Royals 21) Reds
One vote for Ichiro? I didn't know he had a PSD account.
Rick Henderson.
This isnt even debatable, Henderson by a mile.
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Video: The Cast of 'Downton Abbey' Sings One Direction (Yes, Even Carson)
Need a little pick-me-up to help you get over the shocking season three finale of 'Downton Abbey?' Have a video of the cast performing One Direction's "What Makes You Beautiful."
-Lucia Peters
Okay, so maybe they aren't REALLY singing One Direction—it's more like that awesome supercut that made the rounds last January that made President Obama sing "Born This Way"—but believe you me, you do NOT want to miss this one.
Using footage from all three seasons and both Christmas specials, clever YouTuber and comedian Richard Sandling has made the cast of Downton Abbey perform Brit pop group One Direction's hit, "What Makes You Beautiful." Even Carson. ESPECIALLY Carson. Goodness knows we could all use a bit of Downton comedy after the third season's shocking finale! Watch it here:
The video was made for Richard Sandling's Perfect Movie, a monthly live comedy show that performs at London's Leicester Square Theatre, so all you lucky Bettys across the pond should go check it out and let those of us who live Stateside know how it is.
Read Video: Lizzy Caplan + Vena Cava = Greatest Fashion Film Parody of All Time
For comparison purposes, here's One Direction's official music video for "What Makes You Beautiful":
Tell us: What other pop tunes would you like to see the Downton Abbey cast take on?
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Events - Daily
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Hamilton Colloquium Series - Ignacio Cirac, Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics - "Dissipation as a New Tool in Quantum Information Science"
Quantum entanglement, the most striking feature of quantum mechanics, is also the basic ingredient in most applications in the field of quantum information. Unfortunately, it is very fragile: in all experiments so far the coupling of the systems to the environment has lead to dissipation which either destroys entanglement or prevents its generation. Here we propose, analyze, and demonstrate a new method to entangle two distant macroscopic atomic ensembles by purely dissipative means. This counterintuitive effect is achieved by engineering the coupling of our systems to the environment, and leads to a more robust and therefore longer lived entanglement. Apart from that, we show that engineered dissipation can be used in quantum computation and communication, as well as to create passive quantum memories.
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Victims in Doe B. shooting file lawsuits
Surviving victims in the shooting that killed rising rapper Doe B. are taking aim at the nightclub where the incident occurred.
According to the "Montgomery Advertiser," four people who were shot during the incident have filed lawsuits against the Centennial Hill Bar & Grill and its owners. All of the suits allege that members of a security company hired for Doe B.'s concert were bribed into allowing weapons into the club.
The defendants are seeking unspecified damages for their injuries and suffering. One of the victim's attorneys is also representing the family of Timnorius Hamilton, who was killed in the December 28th incident. They are reportedly planning to file a wrongful death lawsuit.
After Doe B.'s shooting, Montgomery Mayor Todd Strange shut down the nightclub because of a string of violent episodes there. Since then the owner of the building has also announced plans to put the structure up for sale. Two men have been arrested and charged with capital murder for the shooting.
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Doha, QATAR – Qatar Duty Free (QDF), the second largest Duty Free operator in the Middle East has announced an exciting summer promotion until August 31 for passengers departing from, or transiting through, Doha International Airport (DIA).
Having witnessed fantastic success year on year, this next edition of the Summer Surprises Promotion offers passengers who spend QR 550 (US$150) or more on duty free purchases will be given a Scratch & Win coupon to win instant assured prizes.
Those with a Scratch & Win coupon will – on the spot – win prizes that include Gold coins, Canon cameras, Samsonite travel accessories, QDF Luxury Car Draw and Motorbike Draw raffle tickets, LG mobiles, Apple iPads, watches, QDF gift vouchers, QDF discount coupons, and many others.
Double Scratch & Win Coupons will be extended to MasterCard members who will make purchases with their credit card.
Qatar Duty Free offers a wide assortment of the latest products across various categories, including cosmetics, electronics, clothing, jewellery, confectionary and much more.
Enthusiastic Travellers shopping at Qatar Duty Free
Qatar Airways Chief Executive Officer Akbar Al Baker commended the efforts of Qatar Duty Free in providing travellers with exciting promotions and memorable shopping experiences at Doha International Airport.
"We are constantly striving to augment the travel retail experience for our passengers and are confident of making Qatar Duty Free the preferred shopping destination for all travellers," he said.
Qatar Duty Free was recently named Travel Retailer of The Year at the Duty Free News International (DFNI) Global Awards for Travel-Retail Excellence that took place in London.
''The tremendous response received from customers in the past years for the summer promotion has encouraged us to bring back this exciting promotion once again." said Qatar Duty Free Senior Vice-President, Keith Hunter.
"Our vast range of duty free products, ranging across leading international brands has been met with great delight amongst international travellers who have taken notice.
"We hope passengers will have an extra special memory of their travels this summer," he added.
Qatar Duty Free operates within the Departures, Arrivals, VIP terminals and Premium Terminal of Doha International Airport. It also operates an outlet at Doha Port for a growing number of passengers arriving and departing the State of Qatar by sea.
The award-winning Duty Free operator has enjoyed consistent double digit growth year on year and is now the second largest Duty Free operator in the Middle East.
With the New Doha International Airport set to open in 2013, the Qatar Duty Free team is already working on creating over 25,000sqm of world class retail space, which will include exclusive branded boutiques and products to cater to passengers from all walks of life.
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Qatar Duty Free, the second largest Duty Free operator in the region, located at Doha International Airport, is a subsidiary of Qatar Airways, the national carrier of the State of Qatar, and operates within the departures, arrivals, VIP lounge and the Premium Terminal of Doha International. The award winning Duty Free has already invested more than US$ 2 million in refurbishing the existing shopping facilities within the airport's departures and arrivals area.For more information, visit: www.qatardutyfree.com.qa


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History requires active inquiry into the human past. By delving into the past, students gain a better understanding of the present, training them for citizenship and for a life of thoughtful action.
At Earlham, the study of history includes the use of museums, extensive electronic media and our Quaker archives – one of the four or five largest in the world, with more than 12,000 books and nearly as many pamphlets, some dating back to the 17th century.
Earlham's History Major prepares students for a variety of careers. The American Historical Association ranks Earlham 16th in the country for production of future Ph.D.s. Graduates find employment as educators, in archival, library or museum settings or in public history. Most, however, use history to prepare themselves for other careers. Recent graduates have made successful careers in business, law, management, medicine, politics, foreign service, publishing, political advocacy, ministry, law enforcement and public service.
Rob Strobel '95 came to Earlham after serving in the U.S. Army during the Gulf War. He worked in management for the Kessler's Sporting Goods chain and with the consulting firm Deloitte and Touche before joining Lithko in 2003.
A self-described "history geek," Sierra Newby-Smith always knew that history would be an important part of her education and career.
Assistant Professor of History Betsy Schlabach's first book, Along the Streets of Bronzeville: Black Chicago's Literary Landscape, was named to the Chicago Book Review's Best Books of 2014 in nonfiction.


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Smithsonian Wants Trayvon's Hoodie
(NEWSER) – It's one of the most talked about sweatshirtsin America. Now, the dark gray hoodie Trayvon Martin was wearing the night he was killed may be put on display for all to see. The director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture (set to open in 2015) thinks the iconic sweatshirt would be a meaningful addition to its growing collection. "It became the symbolic way to talk the Trayvon Martin case," Lonnie Bunch told theWashington Post. "Because it's such a symbol, it would allow you to talk about race in the age of Obama."
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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – All but three commercial flights leaving Westchester County Airport Friday have been canceled due to Winter Storm Nemo, airport operations personnel told The Daily Voice .
The three flights are scheduled to depart early Friday afternoon. One Jet Blue flight is going to Florida, and two U.S. Airways flights are heading to Philadelphia and Washington.
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If you re an outdoor enthusiast and love to go on a camping adventure at most times, equip your tent bag with a Black Diamond Footprint to take care of your tent s floor against annoying dirt, pesky rocks and other tent enemies. This ground cloth is custom fit for your Black Diamond Eldorado or Black Diamond Lighthouse tents. It is especially designed to keep them bottom clean and protected from being ripped off by sharp object simply by placing it underneath. Very useful and handy rubber-coated footprint, this Black Diamond Footprint for Eldorado and Lighthouse is also a water-resistant. Having an extra-cover that pays you well than just sleeping on, this Black Diamond Footprint for Eldorado & Lighthouse is definitely a must-have!
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Our Daily Correspondent
The Little BookroomBy Sadie Stein
This morning, it was announced that the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) had named the Japanese writer Nahoko Uehashi and Brazilan illustrator Roger Mello the winners of the 2014 Hans Christian Andersen Award. Founded in 1956, the biannual "Nobel of Children's Literature" honors outstanding contributions to both writing and illustration. Past winners have included Maurice Sendak, Paula Fox, Tomi Ungerer, and Tove Jansson. They are, of course, named for the Danish writer of the world's most disturbing fairy tales, and the recipients are given a medal, emblazoned with Andersen's likeness, by the Queen of Denmark.
The very first Andersen Award was presented to the prolific British writer Eleanor Farjeon, for her extremely bizarre collection The Little Bookroom. This book, illustrated by the peerless Edward Ardizzone, is composed of twenty-seven stories, all somewhat remote in tone, frequently redolent of loneliness, and often carrying a vague air of allegory. Read More


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by Janice Wilson Stridick
[Editor's Note: In successive weeks, we will be offering six poems and eight paintings from Janice Wilson Stridick's UNFIN DOT, a glimpse from a manuscript titled Unfinished Daughter. This is piece 5 of 6. Click on the image to view it full size.]
Author's Note
Compressed forms appeal to my inner perfectionist, who resists being finished by others, and, unavoidably, finds pronouncing anything finished distasteful at best. Unfinished pieces refer to, rather than encapsulate, their subject.
The following poems were originally written long, as journal entries and lists after I found these paintings in my mother's studio, and remembered, or failed to remember, sitting for them. She had boxed each portrait, except one. From it, she cut and discarded most of me except my ear, then framed the remaining basket of flowers as a still life.
The first serious collaborative project I recall doing with my mother was aimed at compression. We went on a diet when I was 11 years old. Together. We ate awful, insipid excuses for food and consumed gallons of artificially sweetened soft drinks. She drank ten cups of black coffee a day. Did we compress? I doubt it. Did we digest? Not easily. Did we, later, re-inflate? You betcha.
Now, from the perspective of a woman who curates and makes art, years since breast cancer claimed my artist-mother, I see the beauty in these references to the woman I was becoming, and the ways she longed to project and protect me.
I revel in these leavings of my artist-mother, Alice Steer Wilson, who died at the peak of her painterly powers in 2001. Memory, image, journals and bits of dialogue suggest the ways we created and revised ourselves and our worlds.


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The Las Vegas Soul Festival is back and more entertaining than ever. Presented by Lazarex Cancer Foundation, the Las Vegas Soul Festival is April 6 and 7 at 7:15 p.m. at the Thomas & Mack Center and will highlight the best musicians singing soul, gospel, jazz, hip hop and more. The festival will also feature motivational speakers, celebrities, food, and family festivities.
Coined "Super Saturday," April 6 will be headlined by Grammy Award winning singer and songwriter Erykah Badu, with Joe, SWV, and Lenny Williams rounding out the evening of R&B, hip-hop and jazz.
Multi Grammy Award winning contemporary gospel duo Mary Mary will headline April 7. Joining them for an evening of gospel, soul, funk and jazz are Kindred The Family Soul, Marion Meadows, Sheila E, Jonathan Butler, Elan Trotman, Las Vegas United Voices (LUV) a choir made up of over 40 local churches, and Dr. Bobby Jones of the Bobby Jones Gospel on BET.
A portion of the proceeds from the Las Vegas Soul Festival will go to the Lazarex Cancer Foundation which supports all end stage cancer patients and the cancer community by providing assistance with cost for clinical trial participation, navigation through clinical trial options, and community outreach and education.


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This Week In Stupid: Conservatives Claim Google Endorses Obama/Ayers Book Conspiracy
Blog ››› ››› BEN DIMIERO
Sometimes you just have to marvel at the almost-transcendent inanity of the conservative blogosphere. For a few years now, some conservative media figures -- led by conservative bloggers like Jack Cashill -- have been obsessed with proving that Bill Ayers is the true author of President Obama's autobiography, Dreams from My Father.
If you were under the impression that this conspiracy theory couldn't sink any lower than Cashill's column in February highlighting how Obama and Ayers both use words like "skillet" and "ice cream" in their writing, you were mistaken.
This week, seeking to add more "evidence" to this theory, some conservative blogs are running with the claim that Google has joined in on the conspiracy and is now listing Ayers as the author of Dreams on Google Books.
That might be somewhat interesting if it actually happened. But it didn't.
In a post yesterday at the frequently-embarrassing American Thinker website, Thinker publisher Thomas Lifson got the ball rolling, alleging that "Google Books lists Bill Ayers as author of Dreams from My Father." In what we in the business call "making a journalism," it appears the extent of Lifson's research for this piece involved doing a search for "Bill Ayers" on Google Books and then taking a screenshot of the first page of results.
Lifson ponders "what data are its algorithms sifting through to come to the conclusion that yes, the stylistic parallels to Ayers' other books are formidable" and includes this screenshot as proof that "Google Books lists Bill Ayers as author of Dreams from My Father":
Unfortunately for Lifson, while his screenshot does show that Dreams from My Father appears on the first page of book search results for Bill Ayers (likely a product of conservatives' years-long crusade to link the two and Google's search algorithm closely associating them as a result), it also quite clearly lists "Barack Obama" as the author of said book:
I suppose a post titled "Google Books lists Barack Obama as author of Dreams from My Father" would have been more accurate, but likely wouldn't have gotten this exciting scoop picked up by WorldNetDaily and Gateway Pundit.
But if we're to follow Lifson's line of reasoning here, I think he missed out on a bigger story.
Using the daft standard that "Bill Ayers wrote every book that appears in Google Books search results for 'Bill Ayers,'" by sorting through the pages of results Lifson links to, it becomes apparent that Ayers has been quite prolific over his career.
Not only has he written several books we were led to believe had been penned by WorldNetDaily writers, including The Obama Nation by Jerome Corsi, and Red Army by Aaron Klein, but he also ghost-wrote books by Ann Coulter, Keith Olbermann, Michael Savage, Pam Geller, Hugh Hewitt, and Dinesh D'Souza, among others.
Perhaps most startling is the revelation that Ayers wrote Jack Cashill's Deconstructing Obama, one of the books credited with popularizing the theory that Ayers is the true author of Dreams from My Father.
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I'm currently in the process with my partner to build up a project and we're still trying to figure out which system would suit our needs better. We have Joomla on one side – and Wordpress on the other side.
I for myself prefer Wordpress over Joomla but my partner has the one and only deadly argument why we should use joomla. The reason are 2 components which are compatible to each other and which are only available for Joomla. And with all my experience I haven't seen extensions with that kind of functionality yet for wordpress. Maybe you can point me to some of them or give me quick hint.
We're looking for a Plugin which extends wordpress, so users can register their accounts from the frontend and can choose from various plans (free, paid,...). Further the member (paid) should be available to WRITE posts and get access to the write panel, instead of viewing and reading them.
The Plan in basic: We're trying to build up a website where user can register themselve for a fee and then can post a defined amount of posts (of a specified post type). Maybe with recurring payments and e-mail notifications, payment gateways and all the other stuff which can be useful for something like that. It's important to have the option to choose which post type should be used since I would prefer to define a custom, extensible post type with various custom fields.
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Undergraduates Veronica Bridgewaters of Columbia, left, Karen
Blevins of Eubank, Ky.,
Brandi Berry of Scottsville, Ky., and Darrell Ball of Strunk, Ky.,
more their tassels to
represent their graduation from LWC.
COLUMBIA, Ky. -- Members of the first half of
the Lindsey Wilson College Class of 2010-11 were told Saturday
morning that "the times they are a-changin'," but they have the
ability to control their destiny because they have a college
Those were the words Kentucky Community and Technical College
System President Michael B. McCall delivered at the college's 92nd
commencement ceremony, held Saturday morning in Biggers Sports
Lindsey Wilson awarded a record 365 degrees at this year's
winter commencement -- 214 undergraduate degrees and 151 graduate
degrees. This was LWC's seventh consecutive winter commencement
ceremony, made necessary because of the college's growth. To put
this year's winter commencement in perspective, LWC awarded 312
degrees in 2003-04, the last year the college held only one
commencement ceremony.
Also on Saturday, LWC awarded an honorary doctorate to McCall
and to former LWC administrator and Kentucky state legislator Doug
Moseley of Bowling Green, Ky.
Quoting Bob Dylan's anthem of the 1960s generation, McCall told
the Lindsey Wilson graduates that the words of "The Times They Are
A-Changin'" is just as relevant today as they were when the song
was released in 1964.
Today's college graduates enter a world where a "profound
transformation of world the economy" is taking place as technology
revolutionizes everything in everyday life, including education,
work and how wealth is created.
"It's virtually erased all borders, creating a worldwide
marketplace," McCall said. "Education, though, is at the core of
this revolution."
McCall told the students that a college degree "is not a free
pass" nor is it "a sole ticket to the American dream."
For today's college graduates to be successful, they have "got
to realize how you market yourself," McCall said.
And to avoiding "sinking like a stone" in the world economy,
McCall advised the graduates to develop two habits -- "discover and
cultivate what your strengths are, and package those strengths into
a marketable brand."
By being "the CEO of your life" and becoming lifelong learners,
a college graduate can succeed in a world economy that is "very
intolerant of mediocrity," McCall said.
"You are entering the workforce at a very exciting time -- a
very scary time in some ways, a very challenging time for us as
well," he said. "Yes, the times are changing, the waters around you
have grown, will continue to grow, but you already have a leg up on
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Lakeland 20cm Square PushPan
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- Anodised aluminium for even heat distribution and no hot spots
- Completely watertight and leak-proof
- Requires absolutely no lining
- Loose base allows you to push out any depth of cake with ease
- Anodised aluminium for even heat distribution and no hot spots
Lakeland 20cm Square PushPan
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iMeshObjectFactory Struct Reference
[Mesh plugins]
This object is a factory which can generate mesh objects of a certain type. More...
#include <imesh/object.h>
Public Member Functions
|virtual csPtr< iMeshObjectFactory >
|Clone ()=0
|Creates a copy of this factory and returns the clone.
|virtual csFlags &
|GetFlags ()=0
|Get flags for this factory.
|virtual iMaterialWrapper *
|GetMaterialWrapper () const =0
|Get the material of the factory.
|virtual iMeshFactoryWrapper *
|GetMeshFactoryWrapper () const =0
|Get the logical parent for this mesh factory.
|virtual iMeshObjectType *
|GetMeshObjectType () const =0
|Get the ObjectType for this mesh factory.
|virtual uint
|GetMixMode () const =0
|Get mix mode.
|virtual iObjectModel *
|GetObjectModel ()=0
|Get the generic interface describing the geometry of this mesh factory.
|virtual void
|HardTransform (const csReversibleTransform &t)=0
|Do a hard transform of this factory.
|virtual csPtr< iMeshObject >
|NewInstance ()=0
|Create an instance of iMeshObject.
|virtual bool
|SetMaterialWrapper (iMaterialWrapper *material)=0
|Set the material of the mesh.
|virtual void
|SetMeshFactoryWrapper (iMeshFactoryWrapper *logparent)=0
|Set a reference to the mesh factory wrapper parent.
|virtual void
|SetMixMode (uint mode)=0
|Set mix mode. Note that not all meshes may support this.
|virtual bool
|SupportsHardTransform () const =0
|Return true if HardTransform is supported for this factory.
Detailed Description
This object is a factory which can generate mesh objects of a certain type.
For example, if you want to have multiple sets of sprites from the same sprite template then you should have an instance of iMeshObjectFactory for every sprite template and an instance of iMeshObject for every sprite.
To use a mesh factory in the engine, you have to create a mesh factory wrapper for it.
Main creators of instances implementing this interface:
- All mesh objects implement this.
- iMeshObjectType::NewFactory()
Main ways to get pointers to this interface:
Main users of this interface:
- The 3D engine plugin (crystalspace.engine.3d).
Definition at line 319 of file object.h.
Member Function Documentation
|virtual csPtr<iMeshObjectFactory> iMeshObjectFactory::Clone
[pure virtual]
Creates a copy of this factory and returns the clone.
|virtual csFlags& iMeshObjectFactory::GetFlags
[pure virtual]
Get flags for this factory.
The following flags are at least supported:
- CS_FACTORY_STATICSHAPE: factory will never animate.
Mesh factories may implement additional flags. These mesh factory specific flags must be equal to at least 0x00010000.
Implemented in csMeshFactory.
|virtual iMaterialWrapper* iMeshObjectFactory::GetMaterialWrapper
| const
[pure virtual]
Get the material of the factory.
If not supported this will return 0.
Implemented in csMeshFactory.
|virtual iMeshFactoryWrapper* iMeshObjectFactory::GetMeshFactoryWrapper
| const
[pure virtual]
Get the logical parent for this mesh factory.
See SetMeshFactoryWrapper() for more information.
Implemented in csMeshFactory.
|virtual iMeshObjectType* iMeshObjectFactory::GetMeshObjectType
| const
[pure virtual]
Get the ObjectType for this mesh factory.
Implemented in csMeshFactory.
|virtual uint iMeshObjectFactory::GetMixMode
| const
[pure virtual]
Get mix mode.
Implemented in csMeshFactory.
|virtual iObjectModel* iMeshObjectFactory::GetObjectModel
[pure virtual]
Get the generic interface describing the geometry of this mesh factory.
It is possible that this will return 0 if the factory itself doesn't support the geometry. In that case you need to get the object model from the individual instance instead. Note that for collision detection and other parts of CS it is prefered to use the factory object model when available as that reduces the amount of redundant memory usage.
Implemented in csMeshFactory.
|virtual void iMeshObjectFactory::HardTransform
|const csReversibleTransform &
[pure virtual]
Do a hard transform of this factory.
This transformation and the original coordinates are not remembered but the object space coordinates are directly computed (world space coordinates are set to the object space coordinates by this routine). Note that some implementations of mesh objects will not change the orientation of the object but only the position.
Implemented in csMeshFactory.
|virtual csPtr<iMeshObject> iMeshObjectFactory::NewInstance
[pure virtual]
Create an instance of iMeshObject.
Implemented in csMeshFactory.
|virtual bool iMeshObjectFactory::SetMaterialWrapper
|iMaterialWrapper *
[pure virtual]
Set the material of the mesh.
This only works for single-material factories. If not supported this function will return false.
Implemented in csMeshFactory.
|virtual void iMeshObjectFactory::SetMeshFactoryWrapper
|iMeshFactoryWrapper *
[pure virtual]
Set a reference to the mesh factory wrapper parent.
Note that this function should NOT increase the ref-count of the given logical parent because this would cause a circular reference (since the logical parent already holds a reference to this mesh factory).
Implemented in csMeshFactory.
|virtual void iMeshObjectFactory::SetMixMode
[pure virtual]
Set mix mode. Note that not all meshes may support this.
Implemented in csMeshFactory.
|virtual bool iMeshObjectFactory::SupportsHardTransform
| const
[pure virtual]
Return true if HardTransform is supported for this factory.
Implemented in csMeshFactory.
The documentation for this struct was generated from the following file:
- imesh/object.h
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AMD has introduced the ATI Radeon HD 5570 graphics card that fully supports DirectX 11, as well as ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology. This latest offering completes a full DirectX 11 refresh of AMD discrete graphics products, bringing customers a choice of graphics cards to match every budget and form factor, AMD highlighted.
In addition to ATI Eyefinity and DirectX 11 support, the ATI Radeon HD 5570 also delivers full 1080p HD playback and supports ATI Stream technology, helping to boost performance for video playback and productivity applications, all while enabling a full Microsoft Windows 7 experience.
- Wireless broadband developments in Southeast Asia markets
As of 2013, the 10 ASEAN nations had a total of over 700 million mobile subscriptions, with the CAGR from 2003-2013 reaching 24%. This Digitimes Research Special Report analyzes the various mobile broadband markets in ASEAN and looks at the respective trends in 4G LTE development for those markets.
- 2015 global tablet demand forecast
This Digitimes Research Special Report provides a 2015 forecast for the global tablet market and analyzes the strategies of key market players such as Google, Apple, Intel, and Microsoft.
- 2015 China smartphone panel trend forecast
This Digitimes Research Special Report analyzes the strategies of key China-based major panel makers BOE, Tianma and IVO for attacking the different market segments through technology and pricing, and their relationship to local vendors Huawei, Lenovo, ZTE, Xiaomi and Coolpad.


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Thursday, 14 February 2013
Remembering the deeply weird side of Mr. Rabbitt - Part Five
Posted by clarencegirl at 00:15
Labels: Abbott, Liberal Party of Australia, politics
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Hi! My name is Boy. I'm a male bi-coloured tabby cat. Ever since I discovered that Malcolm Turnbull's dogs were allowed to blog, I have been pestering Clarencegirl to allow me a small space on North Coast Voices.
A local councils musing: Which Northern Rivers council is on a low-key NSW Office of Local Government watch list courtesy of feet dragging by a past general manager?
A serial pest musing: I'm sure the Clarence Valley was thrilled to find that a well-known fantasist is active once again in the wee small hours of the morning treading a well-worn path of accusations involving police, local business owners and others.
An investigative musing: Which NSW North Coast council is batting to have the longest running code of conduct complaint investigation on record?
A fun fact musing: An estimated 24,000 whales migrated along the NSW coastline in 2016 according to the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service and the migration period is getting longer.
A which bank? musing: Despite a net profit last year of $9,227 million the Commonwealth Bank still insists on paying below Centrelink deeming rates interest on money held in Pensioner Security Accounts. One local wag says he's waiting for the first bill from the bank charging him for the privilege of keeping his pension dollars at that bank.
A Daily Examiner musing: Just when you thought this newspaper could sink no lower under News Corp management, it continues to give column space to Andrew Bolt.
A thought to ponder musing: In case of bushfire or flood - do you have an emergency evacuation plan for the family pet?
An adoption musing: Every week on the NSW North Coast a number of cats and dogs find themselves without a home. If you want to do your bit and give one bundle of joy a new family, contact Happy Paws on 0419 404 766 or your local council pound.


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