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Son of AEOLUS, he was a rogue too far. A swindling cattle dealer who raped and pillaged his way to a kingdom. His very name means 'too clever', which he was by more than half. Even AUTOLYCUS failed to outwit him.
He did nasty things to people with stones, not throwing, but piling on top and crushing. The end came when he upset ZEUS by disclosing his whereabouts for a reward while ZEUS was up to his naughties.
ZEUS got in touch with his brother HADES and they agreed it was time SISYPHUS got his come-uppance, or in this instance go-downance.
When HADES came to take him into protective custody, SISYPHUS feigned such interest in the knots HADES had used to tie his wrists that HADES offered him an action replay demonstration. Before you could say 'SISYPHUS is a smart ass', it was HADES who was bound and taken to a dungeon.
With HADES out of action nobody could die, which upset ARES because it took all the fun out of battles. So ARES found and released HADES and they set out to nab SISYPHUS, who just had time to yell to his wife not to bury any body he forced to leave behind.
Reaching the Underworld, SISYPHUS kicked up a mighty fuss with PERSEPHONE, claiming he was still alive because he'd not had a funeral yet. He asked for three days compassionate leave to sort things out and she concurred.
Naturally he did not return. ZEUS sent HERMES to sort him out. HERMES put him in a neck hold and dragged him off, ignoring pleas, cajolery, questions or anything else. No messing this time.
For being such a troublemaker SISYPHUS was given hard labor involving rolling a boulder up to the top of a hill. "Just roll it up to the top and let it go down the other side and you're out of here."
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Los Angeles Lakers vs Denver Nuggets live stream: Watch NBA online
Welcome back my Los Angeles Lakers and Denver Nuggets fans. Tonight we have the Lakers who are led by Lonzo Ball taking on the Nuggets who are led by Will Barton. Below is a link to where you can watch the game online.
Every day from now until the end of the season I will do my best to provide links to either watch or listen live to all NBA games. If you're like me then you're always on the go. I work in a restaurant, mostly nights during game times and usually have to search all over the web to see who's streaming games just so I am able to watch while at work.
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If you know nothing about investment banks, here you'll find the key facts you need to start with if you're interested in working in this world. And even if you think you know a thing or two about banks and their work, it's worth forgetting about getting to grips with synthetic CDOs or discounted cashflow models for a moment, and making sure that you're clear on the underlying machinery.
Here we've set out who investment banks are, why they exist, and some important points about what they do, so that you have a solid foundation for further research into the business.
What is an investment bank?
Essentially, investment banks provide advice and funding to corporate and other clients, and engage in trading activities for their clients and sometimes their own behalf.
Investment banks were historically distinguished from retail banks, that is, banks which take deposits from consumers and provide them with services such as loans, mortgages and credit cards. However, nowadays many major financial services institutions – the likes of Citi, Barclays and UBS to name but a few – operate in both markets and are known as "universal" banks.
As well as the large universal banks, other types of institution found within the sector include elite pure investment banks, "boutique" advisory-only investment banks, and banks which focus on mid-market deals or on particular geographies.
You can read more about the different types of investment banks and what differentiates them here.
Who owns investment banks?
Many of the leading European and US investment banks are public companies, meaning that their shares trade on stock exchanges and anyone who purchases these shares owns a piece of the bank.
However, note that many investment banks are controlled by a handful of investors who own large slices of the available shares. Major investors in public or private investment banks could include other financial institutions, governments through sovereign wealth funds, wealthy individuals, family groupings, and even directors of the bank.
Some smaller investment banks remain privately owned or are structured as partnerships.
Who are an investment bank's main clients?
An investment bank's main clients are:
- Corporates: operating companies in sectors including energy, retail, construction, technology, media, healthcare, food and drink and chemicals - and other financial services organisations.
- Funds: investment vehicles which pool investors' assets and follow a particular investment strategy, including pension funds, hedge funds, and private equity funds.
- Sovereigns: governments, but also quasi-governmental institutions such as export credit agencies and sovereign wealth funds.
- High net worth individuals: usually defined as those with investable assets worth over $1 million.
- The bank itself: some of a bank's trading and investment activities are conducted not for an external client but to make profits for itself, or to protect the bank against risks.
What do investment banks do for their clients?
An investment bank's main activities are as follows:
- Giving advice: advising clients on buying and selling companies, the structuring of their financial affairs, raising money, economic risk management and the purchase of financial products.
- Investment management: advising on and managing the investment of assets for corporates and individuals.
- Providing financing: making loans to and purchasing the shares of corporates, and assisting corporates in finding other parties to do so.
- Trading: buying and selling shares, debt products, commodities, derivatives and related products on behalf of clients and to make money for the bank.
- Research: Monitoring industry trends and economic developments for the bank's own purposes and for clients.
How do investment banks make money from offering these services to their clients?
Investment banks get their income from the following sources:
Fees: charged for advice, providing finance, keeping money available for clients, arranging financing for clients from other parties, trading services, investment services, and research.
Dividends: income from investments made in shares.
Interest: income from loans made.
Investments: profits from investments made.
Trading: profit made from buying and selling securities.
How are their activities regulated?
Many aspects of an investment bank's operations are closely monitored by governments and independent regulators, particularly the following areas:
- Capital adequacy: Banks must comply with strict rules governing how much capital they hold in reserve and how easy it is to access so that they have an adequate financial cushion to fall back on at all times.
- Activities undertaken: Whether certain parts of a bank can undertake particular activities, and how these different parts are separated, is subject to regulation to prevent problems in one area of a bank spreading to other parts.
- Trading on their own behalf: In the US, the extent to which banks can trade with the capital they hold is heavily restricted, and some in the industry feel that similar rules should be implemented in Europe too.
- Insider dealing: Regulations prevent banks unfairly profiting from information revealed to them by their clients which is not in the public domain.
- Money laundering: Banks are closely monitored to ensure that criminals do not use their activities and systems to hide illegal activities.
- Transparency: Banks are required to disclose detailed information about their activities and their finances.
- Pay: How much, and in what ways, banks are permitted to pay their staff is now subject to scrutiny by regulators in the interests of discouraging excessive risk-taking.
Why does the global economy need investment banks?
Investment banks are an integral part of the global financial ecosystem – so much so that most economies would quickly collapse without the services they provide. Here's why they're so essential:
- Provision of finance: Investment banks provide money and access to other sources of money, such as pension funds, to businesses. Without this money, these businesses couldn't function.
- Advice: Investment banks advise corporates, other financial institutions, governments and individuals on the best ways to use their money and to conduct transactions, which helps to foster economic growth and stability.
- Risk management: Investment banks provide advice and services which allow companies and governments to effectively manage risks such as price fluctuations, economic changes and political instability, ensuring that the effect of these issues on the real economy is minimised.
- Information: Investment banks provide analysis of corporate activity and economic trends, disseminating critical information to the financial sector, government policy makers, businesses and ordinary people.


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Ted Keller Wins 2009 Cowtown Melges MC Scow Classic
4 May 2009
Article courtesy of Eric Hood - Spring has sprung. Wow, regattas everywhere these three weeks of May going into Memorial Day weekend. This month is probably the busiest month of One Design sailing in America. The MC class has 4-6 events everyweekend this month.
Twenty-four MCs made it here despite the sketchy weather reports. Seven states represented. Lots of rain, wind and unstable wind on Friday prevented us from practicing but it did not prevent a great clinic on Friday night for 90 minutes with Eric Hood and Jeff Annis leading that interactive speed seminar. On Saturday morning before the breeze came in we continued the speed seminar with all 24 MC skippers participating. We made it interactive from the beginning by introducing each skipper and then asking them a simple question. The question was "What is the number area of improvement you would like to work on". It was very interesting to see all the different answers. Here are just a few in no particular order.
Light air boat speed, constant speed, steering downwind in a blow, not pointing well, boat handling, transition upwind to downwind and then back to upwind, heavy air upwind when sailing without a crew, starts. So you can see we need the the total of two and a half hours just to begin to scratch the surface on these great questions. We a range of sailors from "new to the class" to "national champions" in attendance.
Now on to the racing for day 1. Four races were scheduled for the first day and all four races were held. That leaves two races for Sunday morning before the noon cut-off. A very unstable weather system was in the area and trying to push through from the northwest to the southeast. Winds were all over the map from one minute being a north wind to the next minute being a southwest wind. First two races saw 180 degree flips in the breeze which really made the racing exciting. Races 3 and 4 were a little more stable but still with big shifts. Those races were a basic west wind with 20-30 shifts both to southwest and northwest. The lake is a long narrow lake much like Lake Lotawana or Spring Lake (north end). Water levels are very high which really increases the size of this particular lake and makes the sailing area quite a bit bigger.
So on to the racing. Race 1 had one of those finishes where 10 boats in about 10 seconds crossed the line together. Race 2,3,4 saw the group spread out a little bit more evenly and also saw upwind finishes as opposed to the downwind finish in race one. Velocity was 0-7 for all the races. For races 3 and 4 we saw a few puffs that hit maybe 12 for brief moments.
Ted Keller – 4-4-2-1
Eric Hood – 3-13-1-2
Jay Huling – 2-3-8-6
Mark White – 15-6-4-3
Matt Fisher – 13-1-10-5
Doug Kiser 7-15-3-4
Jack Sanderson 6-7-14-9
Jeff Annis 5-2-20-13
Ken Bandstra 17-8-6-10
Richard Blake 1-19-15-7
Stuart Fisher 18-5—5-16
Alan Walborn 8-16-9-12
Ron Stryker 9-12-17-15
Sean Tracey 12-14-7-21
Judy Hearn 16-9-19-11
Jim Grant 19-18-16-8
Steve Sun 20-11-11-19
Brent Penwarden 24-10-18-14
Mark Wolf 11-21-12-22
Bob Meyer 10,20,22,18
Isaiah Grant 22,23,13,17
Chris Fogle 14-17-DNS-DNS
Michael Casler 21,22,21,20
Seth Grant 23-24-23-DNF
For those of you who have not made this fun spring regatta you should consider doing so for 2010. Ron Stryker and crew put on a great Prime Rib dinner for Saturday night . With club facing west the sunsets are spectacular.


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Michael J. Fox would rather Taylor Swift stay the heck away from his 23-year-old son Sam — and really, can you blame him?
Tina Fey, at the Golden Globes on Sunday, had hilariously warned audience member Swift to "stay away from Michael J. Fox's son" as the younger Fox, along with Francesca Eastwood, helped out on the awards show. And Dad was happy to reinforce that notion at a Wednesday book party in New York.
"No. No ... Just back off," he told Vulture after the idea of a Sam-and-Taylor love connection was proposed. "I don't keep up with it all. But Taylor Swift writes songs about everybody she goes out with, right?"
Not exactly a primo parting gift, we think.
"What a way to build a career," said Fox, who's been married to actress Tracy Pollan since 1988.
[Updated, 5:01 p.m. Jan. 18: Looks as if things have ended well between "The Good Wife" guest star and the "Red" singer. "Hey everybody, Michael J. Fox got in touch with me today and we are good," she tweeted Friday afternoon. "Thank you for having my back."]


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This great Belgian dining room cabinet is versatile not only in that it can be taken apart and used as a sideboard and bookcase, but you can reverse the sideboard doors to the black side to create a totally different look.
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The Crucible
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The flavoursome bananas from Kerala, locally called as Nendram pazham are so versatile, that they taste yum just as is and also can be transformed into several scrumptious desserts. The Kerala Banana Fry Halwa is my favourite variation while this simple to put together pan fried or caramelised version comes a very close second.
Well, there is not much of a recipe here really, but I realised this is a simple dessert that we Konkanis prepare and I felt it is simply too good and so easy that it has to be shared to others as well.
This calls for the banana to be pan-fried and uses very little ghee.. thus making it a healthy dessert option. And if like, you can even cut out the sugar from it, but hey.. what is a dessert with no sugar eh?! So that much indulgence is allowed :) Tastes best right off the stove while the banana is still warm and soft while the sugar is crunchy. As it cools the sugar may get syrupy, which I personally do not prefer. But again its up to individual preferences. So, here is how you can make yourself some Caramelises Kerala Banana :)
Makes: 12 pieces
Serves: 1
Prep time: 5 mins
Cooking time: 10 mins
Kerala Banana - 1, ripe
Ghee - 1 tbsp
Sugar - 2-3 tsp
- Peel the banana and cut into 3 equal parts.
- Now, slice each part into 4 thin vertical slices.
- Heat ghee in a pan, add the slices. Allow them to roast for about 3-4 minutes on medium flame.
- Turn over and allow the other side to roast as well.
- Once both sides have roasted evenly and are light brownish in colour, transfer onto a plate.
- Toss some sugar over it and yum it up while still warm! :)


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I am trying to get Vlad to delete it because I can't get the photo over - sometimes I get lucky but generally I am a retarded photo poster - So frustrating!!!!! I can e-mail it to you.
oh no! i'd love to see it, or hear about it! I'd like to order one also!! which one did you get? where did you order it from?? do you love it???
Hopefully this will show you the bag!!! or go to HaydenHarnett.com and enter their site.
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I must add that the bag has a lovely chain you can use if you choose to or it stays inside - the leather is "squishy" soft - It is quite a gem - unlike anything I have. Thanks for your interest and especially to ginaf (who saved the day)!
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FORT MYERS, Fla. � Anthony Ranaudo could feel the effects of fatigue.
FORT MYERS, Fla. - Anthony Ranaudo could feel the effects of
Making his first start of the spring against an opposing team on
Wednesday, Ranaudo - the consensus top pitching prospect in the
organization - cruised through his first inning of work but hit a
batter, walked a batter and allowed a line-drive single to right
before escaping the jam in his second.
"For my first outing, I felt like it went pretty well," he said.
"I thought I did a good job in the first inning of locating to both
sides, down in the zone. The second inning, I could see I was a
little fatigued, I was leaving some fastballs up in the zone. But,
overall, I felt pretty good, especially about my secondary stuff.
It's definitely something I can build off."
Fatigue is normal this early in the spring. Fatigue also is
something with which Ranaudo has had to deal before. Ranaudo
cruised through 10 starts at Single-A Greenville in April and May
last season, compiling a 3.33 ERA and striking out 50 hitters in 46
innings. He hit some obstacles upon his promotion to Single-A Salem
in June, compiling a 4.33 ERA in 16 starts for Salem - including a
6.30 ERA in six starts in July.
Ranaudo's stock seems to have taken some hits in large part due
to those late-season struggles. The Red Sox remain optimistic, as
they did throughout last season. "I know he didn't necessarily
dominate from a statistical standpoint, but we thought he had some
really good outings down there and he held that level, for a
first-year guy, really well," Red Sox assistant GM Mike Hazen
The question now becomes where to place Ranaudo to maximize his
development - back at Salem, where he'd probably thrive against
less-skilled competition, or at Double-A Portland, where he'd
encounter more trial by fire.
The same question must be answered for each pitching prospect in
the organization. Some answers are easy. Alex Wilson undoubtedly is
going to pitch at Triple-A Pawtucket if his long-shot bid for a
spot on the major-league roster falls short.
But most minor-league players come to spring training a little
bit unsure whether they're going to go back to the level at which
they pitched the previous season or be promoted to a more advanced
"Hopefully I break (camp) with Portland," Ranaudo said.
"Obviously, nothing is set in stone, but if I do get that chance,
it would be a great experience and I'd definitely be looking
forward to the challenge and seeing how my stuff plays out up
Simply failing to dominate the advanced Single-A Carolina League
would not disqualify Ranaudo from being promoted to Double-A - nor
does it disqualify him from being a top prospect.
Hazen pointed out that Wilson endured even more severe
late-season struggles following a promotion to Double-A Portland in
2010 - a 6.66 ERA in 16 starts starting in mid-June. Wilson
followed that up with a 3.11 ERA in 25 starts in 2011 and is
considered a candidate to help the Red Sox either as a starter or
reliever this season.
"First-year pitchers, you've got to be careful evaluating them
in August," Hazen said. "These guys have never pitched on a
five-day cycle before. � There's going to be a little
downtick. Those guys that don't downtick in August are probably
As much as Ranaudo tried to prepare for the adjustment to a
five-day routine, it still was an adjustment.
"Anytime you make 27 starts and you pitch 120-plus innings in a
season, you're definitely going to learn a lot of things, learn a
lot about yourself and your stuff. � "There are some things
that are going to make your arm feel great sometimes, and there are
going to be some things that make your arm feel a little slow. Just
making those adjustments, the in-game adjustments, the
between-starts adjustments, was the biggest thing for me last
A similar dilemma will surface when the Red Sox try to decide
what to do with last June's draft picks, the pitchers entering
their first full season of baseball. First-round draft pick Matt
Barnes is 21 and pitched three seasons in college for UConn, so
he's more likely to jump straight to Single-A Greenville like
Ranaudo did. Supplemental first-round pick Henry Owens is 19 and
was drafted out of high school, so he's more likely to stay in Fort
Myers for extended spring training and head to short-season
Single-A Lowell in June.
But nothing ever is set in stone. It all depends on the
"There's no formula," Red Sox director of player development Ben
Crockett said before spring training began. "There's no set formula
that if he does X, Y and Z, he definitely goes here and if he
doesn't, he doesn't. It has a lot to do with, to some extent, us
getting to know these players. We have quite a history with them on
the scouting side. In player development, we got to know them a
little bit at the end of last year and in instructional league.
That's a key part of it. It's putting together as much information
as we can and trying to make an educated decision.
"We're learning, figuring out where we can push some guys, where
we should be less aggressive with others. Some of it is
personality. Some of it is talent. Some of it is past competition.
Some of it is physical development. There are a lot of different
factors that go in and make an equation that we try to put together
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Judge Cleo E. Powell became a justice for the Supreme Court of Virginia in July, 2011. Prior to this, she served for three years as a judge for the Virginia Court of Appeals. From the year 2000 until 2008, she held the position of Circuit Court Judge for Chesterfield and Colonial Heights (Virginia) where she adjudicated civil cases, divorce and family matters, felony criminal cases and appeals from juvenile and domestic relations and General District Courts. From 1993 to 2000, she served as a General District Court Judge for Chesterfield and Colonial Heights where she adjudicated civil, criminal, and traffic cases and was the Chief Judge between 1996 and 1998.
Judge Powell graduated with distinction with a BA in American Government from the University of Virginia (UVA) in Charlottesville, VA in 1979. At UVA, in addition to being involved with her sorority, Delta Sigma Theta, Inc., and other on-campus activities, Judge Powell was an Echols Scholar, a National Merit Semifinalist, and a University Honor Award Recipient. In 1982, she earned her JD from the University of Virginia School of Law, where she was a member of the Black American Law Student Association and a Moot Court competition semifinalist.


text: I know this has been done but I wanted to post this anyway. I made this out of a BT Alert with a Prowl head but I didn't like that you could still see some red from Alerts color scheme. So I exchanged the arms, legs and midsection from Alerts to Ricochets and it turned out awesome. I love the additional black that was added to the figure. The car pic is prior to the swap as you can see the white unter the door. that piece was changed out. The Ricochet is not the same one used to mod this Prowl.


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Firefighters have been praised for preventing a Sheffield factory from burning to the ground.
Crews were called to a machinery fire at Jeld-Wen on Retford Road, Woodhouse Mill, but while they were at the factory there were two explosions and two further fires broke out.
Station manager Simon Rodgers, who oversaw the firefighting operation, said 'dust explosions' were responsible for the fires which broke out while crews were dealing with the original incident.
The firm manufactures timber doors at its Sheffield site and the two explosions occurred in giant containers outside the factory where sawdust is stored.
Flames from one of the containers spread to nearby building, where two trailers were stored, but firefighters prevented any major damage.
Station manager Rodgers said Jeld-Wen had evacuated the premises when crews arrived and nobody was injured.
He praised crews for saving the business premises.
"Crews worked diligently and made every effort to control the incident," he said.
"They prevented fire spread to the rest of the factory, which could have easily gone up."
Firefighters were alerted to the blaze at 1.40pm on Thursday and at its height there were around 30 at the scene and five engines.
They spent around five hours dealing with the incident.
"Initially there was a small fire in one of the machines in the factory," said Station manger Rodgers.
"There is a sawdust extraction unit in the factory which takes it all out into large containers, known as hoppers, outside. And while we were on site there was an explosion in one of the hoppers.
"It was a dust explosion, which is where large amounts of dust mixed with oxygen in a confined space can combust.
"There was then a second explosion in another hopper.
"They went with a loud bang.
"Dust explosions are unusual."
Jeld-Wen managing director, Mike Ward, said: "We would like to thank South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service for their professionalism throughout the incident.
"The fire was quickly contained and the facility was evacuated immediately with no injuries to anyone.
"Not only did they bring the incident to a swift conclusion safely, they communicated well and worked with our team to reduce the impact on the business operations.
"We are pleased to say we are back working as normal."


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Torque Density Permanent Magnet Machine for Automotive Applications
Torque Density Permanent Magnet Machine for Automotive Applications
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text: Ok guys, so I am aware about carry over cooking but I have never monitored it since I am in search of a good handheld thermometer. What I do not know is how much is the temperature increase once food has been removed from its heatsource. Do any of you have actual numbers or charts?


text: Google is warning on comment spamming in their latest post in webmaster blog. It is a must update for the web masters. http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/11/hard-facts-about-comment-spam.html What you guys think? Will it be good for the quality of the net? How badly it will effect the web masters? Will it be the end of the sites like linkvana.com who is charging $147 per month to do the comment spamming?


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- Darts Premier League
Wade 'devastated' by omission
James Wade has been quick to dispel rumours that his mental health problems are behind his omission from the 2014 Premier League line-up, saying the "devastating" decision has left him "bitterly disappointed".
PDC chairman Barry Hearn confirmed the roster for the new season following the conclusion of the World Championship at Alexandra Palace.
Peter Wright, who lost to Michael van Gerwen in the final, and Dave Chisnall will both make their Premier League debuts.
The first of many for Mighty Mike?
- It was never in doubt that, one day, Michael van Gerwen would win a PDC world championship on the biggest stage in darts.
- Now ESPN's Rob Bartlett thinks there will be a few more to come
But it was the Wade's oversight that provided the biggest shock and, in a statement released on his website, he said: "I am obviously bitterly disappointed not be included in the Premier League Darts line-up for the first time in seven years.
"The news is devastating, particularly as I feel I was one of the four most consistent players in 2013, reaching the semi-finals in many televised tournaments, including the Premier League play-offs."
Wade was also keen to clear up the mounting speculation as to why he was left out.
He added: "Since Hearn broke the news, there has been a large amount of speculation across media and social media platforms regarding the reasons of my omission. I would like to take this opportunity to clear up some confusion and confirm that I did not ask to be left out of the 2014 Premier League, nor did I decline an invitation as a lot of people are asking myself and my family.
"Further to this, I feel it is important to add that no medical professional has suggested I take a break either. My mental health issues have been well documented but my condition is manageable and I have all the right support systems around me.
"I have no choice now but to accept the decision made by the PDC and work to make sure I am not in this position again.
"I have been working harder than ever on my game recently and this has come as a major blow but will strive to climb back into the top four as soon as possible, where recent history suggests I belong.
"Finally, I would like to thank my fans, family and my sponsors for their continued support both in the past and in the last 24 hours and I look forward to competing on TV again in the UK Open in March and all other televised PDC major events this year."
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It is an all-out bull market in "the other yellow metal." (Source: StockCharts.com)
Last month we broke down the supply and demand fundamentals for uranium, and concluded that things looked pretty promising.
URA was a new kid on the scene at the time - but appeared to be a reasonable proxy for playing this radioactive bull market:
URA just began trading in early November, so we have a limited sample of historical results. But so far, the ETF has trended up, in tandem with uranium's spot price, as expected. With its not-unreasonable 0.69 percent management expense, I see no reason offhand why it shouldn't serve as a reasonable proxy for the price action of uranium stocks at large.
And good old Cameco - which makes up a sizable portion of URA - is on the move too, running out to three-year highs.
Multi-year highs in energy should be bought, everywhere and always. So, I will look to pick up some URA
for my portfolio later this week.
Further reading: My previous piece on why and how to play the uranium breakout.


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Today I started my April challenge for the Mighty Lucky Club. I've got a week to get it done but I'm pretty stoked about my idea. Alison Glass is the instructor this month and it's about recreating a personal photo in fabric. As soon as I read the challenge I knew exactly which photo I wanted to use.
This is an actual physical photo. I didn't know where it was so I asked my husband if he remembered where we'd stashed this picture. I described it in too much detail but he didn't remember anything about this.
It was taken on a belated honeymoon road trip in 2002 from Vancouver, BC to Newport, Oregon to stay at the lovely Sylvia Beach Hotel. We had stopped to stretch our legs and then noticed "hey, blue and orange!"
She's a 1974 Mercedes 280CE* with a custom paint job (not mine). White leather seats. The sweetest engine rumble. She drew eyes everywhere we went. The dancing hula girl on the dash added some class. But there were no seatbelts in the back. You could take the key out of the ignition while driving. She only had four gears. The holes in the floor were a big downer. So was the ~9,000$ we spent in one year to keep her running.
But you never forget your first as they say.
*The 280CE was first released in North America in 1976, but had been made for the European market prior to that. At some point this car travelled aboard ship to get to N. America. I have several 10 pfennig pieces found under the carpet to prove this!


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Connecticut Dog Parks and Outdoor areas
Connecticut has several great dog parks. Let us know if you have been to any more. The city of West Hartford is still thinking about a possible dog park. There is a leashes required park with hiking, trails, and a pond, at Tarrywile Park on 70 Southern Blvd in Danbury, CT.


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Cooler March Weather Means Higher Bills for Residents
Lynchburg, VA - The cold temperatures in March did more than just chill some of us to the bone. It caused many of our electric bills to spike.
Normally in March, we're using less electricity because it's warming up and most of us are using less heat. But that wasn't the case for many people around our area, and now they're seeing the results of doing that -- on their March electric statements.
You can probably imagine Tammy Cuoghi's face when she opened up here electric bill and saw a whopping $147 bill, $70 higher than what she paid this time last year.
"It's normally about $77 and some change. I freaked. I thought I had messed up. I was thinking, what did I leave on? Did I forget to unplug an appliance," said Cuoghi.
She didn't forget to do anything. She, just like most of us, was using more heat.
"We normally only keep it at like 60, in the 60s, we had to like put up in the 70s to keep the house warm," said Cuoghi.
"Just when you're planning to turn your electricity down or even off in this spring weather because you don't really don't need the air conditioning and you really don't need the heat, you get hit with the only major snow storm we had all year. So the heat's right back up and you're running it again," said Jamie Warrick.
Salvation Army Center of Hope Director Jamie Warrick says she's hearing many stories like Cuoghi's. But there are options for people out there.
If you've received a disconnect notice, you may be eligible to get money from agencies. Try the Salvation Army, United Way, Interfaith Outreach, Lyn-Cag and Social Services.
Cuoghi and her husband paid the bill, but are hoping this won't happen again, any time soon.
"Hopefully we'll start warming up and have some nice weather from here on out."
The Salvation Army says most agencies usually pay in the form of pledges once a year, unless there is some sort of extenuating circumstance. But you can collect pledges from multiple agencies. You can also try churches for help as well.


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I went a bit switchback mad! Here are some simple cheese wraps, surrounded by a tomato, a cucumber, an apple and a beetroot all done with the switchback method, as found here on bento.com
On our way shopping yesterday we decided to pop in at the Oktoberfest seeing as it was on our way. It was also Family Day which means a lot of the stalls have reduced prices on selected items. We bought some food (fish and chips!) and my little boy went on a ride and we got a stick of fluffy white Candy Floss (cotton candy). We'd already been in a Superdrug type shop (called DM here in Germany) where the kids got free balloons (so that saved about 10 Euros having to buy them at the Oktoberfest 😀
I was a Doubting Thomas last week. My Nokia XpressMusic camera phone malfunctioned and had to be sent away for repair. I had very low expectations for any positive news about it being repairable or replaceable. Usually here in Germany as a consumer "No Quibble" certainly does not apply. In fact I once bought a pair of Rubber Gloves from Schlecker and they tore the first time I put them on, but even though I had my receipt they refused to exchange them. Call me petty, but you'd think for a 2 Euro pair of household gloves, it would be a no-brainer. I save my receipts for EVERYTHING in case the item goes wrong within the gurantee period and sometimes if you argue long and hard enough the sales assistant will eventually back down / give in / agree to replace the defective item, seeing as the price of the item (even a 50 Euro electrical item) will pale into insignificance when they realise it would just be easier to issue a cash refund and have done with it.
Since we've been living here in Munich, we've had disputes with Bauknecht (Dishwasher company), Alice (Telecom / ISP), Postbank, Saturn (electrical goods) and even the British Consulate IN Germany. Rarely has making a formal complaint helped to resolve the issue, but it does make you wonder if nearly every company has some kind of deal with the German version of the Consumer Advice Bureau called the Verbraucherzentrale, because if you PAY the Verbraucherzentrale a fee, they will try and get your dispute reolved by offering a COMPROMISE so that you only have to pay HALF the amount the company is trying to rip you off for. So an 80 euro unwarranted charge from the dishwasher company ended up being settled for 40 Euros PLUS a 10 Euro fee to the consumer advice place. I'm obviously a cynic, and was quite prepared for news that my Nokia phone would be not accepted for free repair due to something I had agreed to when I signed up for the 2 year contract (signed my life away), and that I would be paying for a broken phone for the next 12 months.
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But credit where it's due, O2 took care of sending my phone off to Nokia for repair / re-installation of the software / replacement of the touchscreen. I was only without my phone for a few days and now I've got it back, I am a very happy bunny boiler. So thanks O2 and Nokia. 😀
You can't organise clutter, you have to get rid of it. I know, I know. But there are tools and gadgets we need on a daily basis that get shoved in drawers, left where they were last used or "put to one side". You know what I'm talking about!
As I have been doing some SERIOUS decluttering this past week, I have found all sorts of USEFUL CLUTTER. I've found cables, adapters, connectors, memory cards, jigsaw pieces, belts, bobbles, nail varnish, lens cleaner, nail varnish remover, remote controls, batteries, covers for the remote controls, magnets, pegs, chess pieces, lego pieces, thingamijigs and whatdyacallits.
About a year ago, I made a list of the top 10 items that we seem to need on a daily basis that we need to lay our hands on and could never find. My husband put a new "special" shelf up – high enough that nosy boys and curious fingers can't wreck the system hehe 😀 and I made labels for the edge of the shelf for each item on my top 10 list.
Here's my list of items we need regularly but didn't have a place for:
- Nail clippers/tweezers
- Glue
- Measuring tape
- Stapler / hole punch
- Batteries
- Pens
- Sticky tape
- Clips / paperclips
- Remote controls
- Keys
- Scissors
Each item has a specially designated, labelled place on the shelf and has its own specially designated, labelled box / container on the correct part of the shelf. So since then, these top 10 items have been a LOT easier to find. This system works best if you put things back straight after you've used them. We don't always put things back straight away because we are not Born Organised. BUT when we are cleaning up (this is the royal "we" of course!) doing FLYLADY 5 min room rescues and stash and dash de-clutters then it is great to have a designated place for the item to call "home".
Ok so there are 11 on my list but the last one was borderline so we had to include it, they are still referred to as the Top 10 on the "Top 10 shelf" 😀
Well writing about it makes it seem over simplified… I mean, in my kitchen I don't have labels for the spoons, the forks, the plates etc – everything (everything?! hmm maybe not!) already has its place, and these aren't labelled. Although thinking about it, I wonder how many cupboards and drawers I could put in good order simply by assigning labels?
I used to have labels on my chest o' drawers at home as a kid. That way, you could always find a t-shirt or socks. I'm having an epiphany today – I think I might start doing that with my all my drawers and cupboards too, in my bedroom and kitchen!
But first! I will make labels for all these 20 remaining "useful clutter" items, and then let's see if our home will start to be tidier, AND we will be able to find things more quickly.
"A place for everything and everything in its place" umm, right, ok, lightbulb moment. 😀
Funny that, cos I had an epiphany this morning too as I was using my rubber scrubber to brush soggy cornflakes out of the carpet. I could have prevented the cornflakes being scooped out onto the floor if I'd cleared the breakfast pots away from the dining table STRAIGHT AWAY instead of leaving them out to be interfered with. A stitch in time prevents nine. Right, now I geddit LOL 😀
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The Dateline NBC episode "The Man Who Knew Too Much" is about the reaction to a previous Dateline episode "The Girl with the Blue Mustang." The Girl with the Blue Mustang was 18-year-old college student Michelle O'Keefe who was murdered in 2000. An Iraq war veteran named Raymond Lee Jennings, who was working as a security guard at the parking lot where O'Keefe's body was found, was found guilty of her murder and sentenced to life in prison. But after watching "The Girl with the Blue Mustang" episode, a young man named Clinton Ehrlich had more questions. He enlisted his father, attorney Jeffrey Ehrlich, to help reopen the case. There was no physical evidence tying Jennings to the murder and no weapon was found. Jennings was convicted during a third trial (the first two were deadlocked).
In June 2016, thanks to the efforts of the Ehrlichs, Jennings was released from prison after serving 11 years. He is required to wear electronic monitoring for his case has not been dismissed. However, Michelle's father Michael O'Keefe insists that Jennings killed his daughter. He said, "Based on what I know, Mr. Jennings is still guilty until proven otherwise." Dateline NBC airs Fridays at 9pm on NBC.
Dateline: Ray Jennings Lawyers Raise $18k To "Repay Ray" After Prison


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The museum features the life, works and career of Edgar Allan Poe, documenting his accomplishments and focusing on his many years in Richmond. The Museum opened in 1922 in the Old Stone House, Richmond's oldest standing structure, only blocks from the sites of Poe's first Richmond home and his first places of employment. Three buildings have been added to the house the growing Poe collection. The buildings open into a walled garden of evergreens and flowers. This Enchanted Garden, inspired by Poe's poems "To Helen" and "To One in Paradise", has made the museum a green oasis in a busy downtown district.
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ECG, EEG and EKG are acronyms often associated with diagnostics in a medical setting, particularly when there is a need to evaluate the function of the two vital organs that sustain and stabilize a living human being – the heart and the brain. ECG stands for Electrocardiography (cardio- means heart) and EEG is an acronym to mean Electroencephalography (encephalo- means brain). EKG is just another term for ECG. This is because when it was being developed in Germany it was called EKG. ECG and EEG are staple diagnostic tests performed in the aspects of cardiology and neurology.
The main function of an ECG (otherwise known as EKG) is to evaluate the electrical impulses of the heart. The heart can be likened to a pump which requires energy in order to perform. Thus, these electrical impulses get the heart to pump. If there is something abnormal about the rhythm of the heart, an ECG or EKG helps in the interpretation of the cardiovascular illness.
On the other hand, an EEG is performed to analyze the electrical impulses of brain cells called neurons.These neurons are what make one think and perform actions. Any abnormality in the activity of neurons in the brain can be suggestive of neurological disorders such as epilepsy and a coma.
An ECG or EKG is performed by placing electrodes in various body parts like the chest legs and arms to detect electrical impulses from the heart, then a computer linked to these print out a graphic representation of the activity obtained. Doctors and other health-allied professionals are trained to read the graphical tracing to determine whether it is normal or not.
An EEG is performed by placing similar electrodes on the scalp in order to record the spontaneous electrical activity of the brain or nerves. This is usually performed for 30 minutes on an average. People with seizures, tumors and other neurological illnesses will present with abnormal readings.
There are no special preparations prior to an ECG or EKG. It will involve lying quietly on a flat table for about 10 minutes while electrodes are attached to the body. There are no side effects or risks and there have been no reports of pain and discomfort during the procedure. A person undergoing an EEG is reminded to wash the hair a night prior to the test and not apply any oils, conditioners or sprays. Medications, caffeine and energy drinks must be stopped a day before the test. There are no feelings of discomfort when the electrodes are attached unless there is considerable nerve damage.
EEG is used to help diagnose the presence and type of seizure disorders, to look for causes of confusion, and to evaluate head injuries, tumors, infections, degenerative diseases, and metabolic disturbances that affect the brain.
An electrocardiogram (ECG) is a test that records the electrical activity of the heart.
The article states ECG and EKG are different abbreviations for the same thing. Then the video begins with statement saying EKG and ECG are the exact same but then she says an ElectroCardioGram is different than an EKG and she explains the difference and it seems like a big difference.
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The rumours were true: John Galliano will recommence his design career as the new creative director of .
'Margiela is ready for a new charismatic creative soul,' Renzo Posso, President of OTB, the company which owns the label, told WWD ahead an official announcement expected today.
'John Galliano is one of the greatest, undisputed talents of all time – a unique, exceptional couturier for a masion that always challenged and innovated the world of fashion. I look forward to his return to create that fashion dream that only he can create, and wish him to here find his new home.'
His appointment is all the more surprising given Margiela's habitual insistence on keeping its head designer anonymous – designers don't come much more profile than Galliano. Despite a brief stint in the studio with Oscar de la Renta last year, this role will be his first permanent design gig since he was unceremoniously dismissed from Christian Dior after the designer was recorded making racist and anti-Semitic remarks in a Paris bar in 2011. He is also creative director for Russian perfumery chain L'Etoile.
He will assume creative control of all Margiela lines, including the couture and women's and men's ready-to-wear collections. He is expected to show his first designs for the house in January during Paris Couture Week.


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It seems hardly a day passes without Lillian proudly showing that she can do another small thing on her own.
– brush her teeth at the bathroom sink without needing to stand on a step
– pour herself a glass of milk
– fetch herself a teaspoon of honey (well, she didn't proudly show that, she was "caught")
This weekend in the car we played "I spy…" for the first time. Her grasp of the conventions was a bit rough, but she enjoyed it anyway. Later she invented another game: spell out a "word" and ask what it "says".
E.g., "E..Y..Y…H…T…B…TREE – what does that say?"


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NCTC Performing Arts Theatre provides quality entertainment and hands-on educational programs in the performing arts to children and young adults from preschool through college. Home of Newington Children's Theatre Company, NCTC is Connecticut's oldest operating children's theatre. Founded in 1963 as a town program, the company became an independent nonprofit organization in 2002. Its flagship program, the NCTC Touring Company, is the only one of its kind in Connecticut, and gives its young cast the opportunity each year to tour a fully-staged musical to audiences throughout the state. Productions, summer programs, and professionally-taught classes in theatre, dance, and music offer something for any child. NCTC operates its own performance, rehearsal and educational facility in Newington, including a 110-seat black box theatre
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Dhaka – The world cricket fraternity is looking forward to the future stars who will be on view over the next 22 days as the 16-team ICC U19 Cricket World Cup kicks off in New Zealand on Saturday.Defending champions West Indies will face hosts New Zealand in a day-night fixture beginning at 6am (Bangladesh time) in Tauranga while Bangladesh will be seen in action on the opening day taking on Namibia at 3:30am (Bangladesh time) in Christchurch.In other matches on the opening day, two-times champions Pakistan will take on dark horses Afghanistan in Whangarei while Papua New Guinea play against Zimbabwe in Christchurch. Both the matches will begin at 3:30am (Bangladesh time).The buzz around the event has grown over the past few weeks and the teams have warmed up for the event with some rigorous practice sessions and warm-up matches in Christchurch.Both Bangladesh and Namibia will be looking to build on their achievements at the U19 CWC 2016 when player of the tournament Mehidy Hasan Miraz-led hosts Bangladesh were placed third and Namibia finished seventh. Namibia have come into this edition tournament having qualified by virtue of being the top placed associate two years ago in 2016.Both sides are coming into the tournament on the back of defeats in their warm-up fixtures with Bangladesh falling to a 56-run defeat at the hands of Afghanistan and Namibia beaten by 190 runs by Pakistan.Bangladesh won each of the five encounters between the sides at the U19 Cricket World Cup, including the last tournament in 2016 where Namibia were dismissed for just 65 and the hosts comfortably chased their target in 16 overs for an eight-wicket victory.Bangladesh captain Afif Hossain will be looking to recreate his Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) heroics. The all-rounder burst onto the scene during the BPL 2017 at the age of 17 and became the youngest player to take a T20 five-for – his 5/21 for Rajshahi Kings against Chittagong Vikings. Bangladesh U19s coach Damien Wright has tipped Afif as possibly the best left-hander at the tournament.Beyond the tournament, Bangladesh reached the semifinal of the U19 Asia Cup in November, only narrowly missing out on a spot in the final by two runs (DLS Method) to Pakistan. Namibia contested a tri-series with South Africa and England in December but were defeated in all four of their fixtures, so will be hoping to turn things around at U19CWC.Namibia will be led by Lohan Louwrens, who was the top run-scorer for the side in the last edition of the tournament with 163 runs at an average of 40.75. The 18-year-old has already made his debut for the senior side, turning out against the UAE in the ICC WCL Championship and ICC Intercontinental Cup in September 2017.This is the 11th appearance at the ICC U19 CWC for Bangladesh, who made their tournament debut 20 years ago in South Africa. Enamul Haque holds the tournament record for the most wickets in a single edition of the competition, having taken 22 wickets on home soil in 2004. Bangladesh also produced the top run scorer in 2012 (Anumal Haque, 365 runs) and 2014 (Shadman Islam, 406 runs). They hosted the last edition, in which they achieved their best result of third place.Bangladesh U19 Squad: Saif Hassan (captain), Afif Hossain, Aminul Islam, Hasan Mahmud, Mahidul Islam Ankon, Mohammad Naim, Mohammad Rakib, Nayeem Hasan, Pinak Ghosh, Qazi Onik, Robiul Hoque, Roni Hossen, Shakil Hossain, Tipu Sultan and Towhid Hridoy.Namibia U19 Squad: Lohan Louwrens (captain), Henry Brink, Petrus Burger, Jan-Izak de Villiers, Shaun Fouche, Jurgen Linde, Nicol Loftie-Eaton, Gerhard Lottering, Erich van Mollendorf, Dewald Nell, Mauritius Ngupita, Ben Shikongo, Floris Steenkamp, Ramon Wilmot, Eben van Wyk,UNB news agency
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Hermits had been building it for 20 years – it was built from 1671-1691. It used to provide entrance to the monastery of Carmelite monks in Siedlec. For many years it was used both by monks and secular persons. Its condition deteriorated over the years and in 1843 it became severely damaged. But it was operational until 1889 when it was closed again due to bad condition. Right now, there are just ruins left, but the bridge itself was quite impressive – 120 metres long, 18 metres high and 9.5 metres wide.
At first sight, it looks a bit like a Roman aqueduct. Why is it called the devil's bridge? Supposedly there's a treasure buried underneath it and the devil himself guards it. Other legend – one of the stupidest ones I've heard – says that devil's congregation led by Lucifer and Beelzebub takes place here. Maybe you should take that under consideration? :)


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I decided to return to fulltime living on the road in 2011. I had already been using my lorry as a mobile home during my summer season but always had rushed back to bricks and mortar at the end of a stand. The lorry is a 1985 Ford Iveco Cargo 0609 with a 4.2 litre Ford engine. When I bought it from the previous owner, who had done a basic motorhome conversion, it only had 21,000 miles on the clock. I have since done a lot to it and driven it many, many more miles.
I have had the outside extensively painted to look like a house by a great scenic painter and designer, Rob Symington. It's really two houses; a posh one on the front and a tenement on the back. I live between the two worlds. That suits me.
I hope that some of the things this section will do is to persuade you that the possibilities of living well, comfortably, legitimately, morally, ethically and above all happily in a mobile home are well within anyone's grasp. And then of course there's the romance of all that travel. The simplicity of the lifestyle it forces on anyone who does it makes for a very worthwhile way of life, often free of the stress and worry that others suffer.
But no digression into the realm of ethics or romance, let's talk money. Rent to start with. Well if I didn't have a travelling theatre, a lot of props and a need to keep all that stuff looking good and working properly then I would have no rent as such. There are plenty of 'wild camping' sites in the UK where you can park for free. Provided you and the vehicle are legal the police cannot arrest you just for living on the road.
I suppose road tax, insurance and maintenance is the equivalent of rent. But for me I do need a place where I can work on things and the side of the road is not a good place to do that so I rent a yard and a big old redundant factory alongside up in wildest Cheshire. There is space to pull the theatre trailer inside so during the winter months I can take everything out, repaint and renovate it and build new props.
To keep warm in the lorry I have my trusty and beloved wood burner that is by far the best thing I've ever installed. A basket of logs and a few smokeless fuel bricks lasts a day and a night and the heat is drying as well as warming.
So, to summarise, I live cheaply, very simply and I love my life. I don't smoke, drink alcohol or take drugs. I am a vegan so feel OK about other users of this frail planet. I live alone with Mimi and Blue, my two wonderful dogs, for company. And that's me.


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President Obama unveiled a new proposal: Make two years of community college free for responsible students across America.
In our growing global economy, Americans need to have more knowledge and more skills to compete — by 2020, an estimated 35 percent of job openings will require at least a bachelor's degree, and 30 percent will require some college or an associate's degree. Students should be able to get the knowledge and the skills they need without taking on decades' worth of student debt.
The numbers:
If all 50 states choose to implement the President's new community college proposal, it could:
Save a full-time community college student $3,800 in tuition per year on average
Benefit roughly 9 million students each year
Under President Obama's new proposal, students would be able to earn the first half of a bachelor's degree, or earn the technical skills needed in the workforce — all at no cost to them.
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In 1958, atop Mt. Wilson overlooking Los Angeles, Saul Levine built a radio station almost solely with his own hands.
He used a rented tractor to clear scrub brush from a patch of land so remote that the U.S. Forest Service leased it to him for $350 a year. With the help of a carpenter, he built a shack to house his broadcast equipment -- mostly secondhand -- and a bare-bones studio.
The antenna was placed atop a flagpole.
His station went on the air in February 1959, with selections from Franz Lehar's operetta "The Land of Smiles."
"It was just by chance the first album I grabbed," said Levine, a lawyer who had dreamed of having his own radio station since growing up in rural Michigan. "But it was how we felt."
Today that classical music station, now known as K-Mozart, or KMZT-FM (105.1), is worth at least $100 million and perhaps much more, according to analysts. But only if Levine would give it up. And he's not about to.


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As the Raspberry Pi celebrates its first birthday, designs intended for the hobbyist are getting mainstream attention from developers of 'grown up' applications.
Few items of electronic hardware have engendered quite as much enthusiasm as the compact, single-board computer developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation with the aim of encouraging basic computer science in schools. Had it had been for sale in shops, the queues would probably have outstripped those around Apple stores in the earlier days of the iPhone and iPad.
The Pi – and other hardware like it – is reinvigorating the world of electronic design; but the project started out with fairly limited ambitions, with its founders hoping that it would simply fill a gap in education. As the Raspberry Pi celebrates its first birthday – and one million units shipped – there are several indications that its value is being readily exploited by developers of 'grown up' products who see it as a cheap (circa £25) and effective way of getting compute power into a range of commercial-class solutions requirements.
"The number of hobbyist programmers was dropping – and the number who were taking computer science to A Level was dropping," Raspberry Pi Foundation co-founder Robert Mullins says, speaking about the origins of the platform. "One problem was the teaching of ICT at school. Children were being exposed to learning about applications on a computer, rather than computer science as a discipline."
Mullins adds: "Over the past few decades there has been a huge change in the devices that were shipping. We went from things like the BBC Micro to black boxes used mainly for consuming content... We need to present computer science as a general-purpose tool."
The change in emphasis, Raspberry Pi Foundation's Robert Mullins and colleagues felt, called for an approach that harked back to the BBC Micro with its customisable I/O (input/output). The BBC Micro, designed with an emphasis on education, was a series of microcomputers and peripherals from the Acorn Computer company for the BBC Computer Literacy Project, run by the BBC.
"We needed a machine that it was natural for people to explore. Our primary goal was to make it low-cost: ensure that everybody who wants to own one can, although we may look at ways to subsidise people who want to own one but can't."
Interest from the general market, as well as its potential as an educational tool quickly reset the expectations of the Foundation's creators. "Initially it was going to be a run of a few hundred. Then we had Farnell and RS getting onboard," explains Mullins.
Component distributors Farnell, through its Element14 operation, along with distributor of electronic, electrical and industrial components RS Components, provided the access to market that a mass-market electronics kit needs.
Pi initiatives
The level of demand for the £25 board far outstripped supply, which has only recently caught up. The lack of boards means that Pi has not made it into products expected to ship in any volume – so far; although manufacturers have begun to base plans on the device. For example, the German firm All For Accounting has popped the Pi into a red-and-black box with plans to sell it as a cheap computer for small businesses that runs the company's stock-planning and accountancy software.
Meanwhile, the open API TargetR platform displays a sequence of digital content on any screen and provides full remote control and monitoring using a Web-based administration interface. Raspberry Pi can be used as a hardware player for TargetR digital signage. Raspberry Pi boards can display TargetR channels at full resolution (1080p images and video) on any screen at a price that undercuts more conventional content players. There are Pi initiatives on the home automation and control front. Z-Wave is a wireless standard for intelligent, interoperable, low-power, RF mesh networking technology.
Pi distributor Element 14 says that its clients have plans to build a number of systems around the Pi: digital jukeboxes, digital signage; and process-control systems, as well as for prototyping embedded systems.
One company, Ciseco, is using the Pi as the computing brains of a home-automation system, linking many different devices in the home using low-power radio communications. Ciseco CTO Miles Hodkinson says that the plan for many home-automation systems is to give each individual device, from light switches and bulbs through to cookers and air conditioning, its own IP (Internet Protocol) address: "But people have now realised there is this thing in the way called 'security'. If you try to secure each one of them individually you need features such as a firewall and antivirus for each one. That won't happen when you are trying to get to 50p per device. So then you need a gateway to handle the security functions."
Ciseco developed a board that plugs into the Pi that provides wireless communications. Although the company had looked at developing its own compute engine, the Pi's volume-driven price became a powerfully compelling reason to use it. "We have another gateway that is based on the Arduino," says Hodkinson. The Arduino is a family of embedded control boards that is aimed primarily at the hobbyist community. Often likened to the Pi, it is relatively inexpensive, but based on comparatively simple microcontrollers. "For this application, you need a proper computer. Pi is a proper computer, but its cost cannot be rivalled by anything else that's currently on the market," Hodkinson adds.
Other uses of the Raspberry Pi in 'grown-up' applications are quite ambitious. Meanwhile, management and IT consulting and technology firm PA Consulting was also tempted by the Pi's low price. The consulting and technology firm used a Pi to build a small, compact GSM basestation as a demonstration of how this type of hardware can be used to build complex products cheaply.
The Pi does not have an interface that can be used for RF signals, so the PA team used a software-radio peripheral made by Ettus Research, commonly used by telecom engineers to experiment with different radio protocols, to convert digital signals from the board into radio transmissions. To ease development, the engineers used two pieces of open-source software. The first is OpenBTS, which provides most of the functions needed to run a GSM basestation. OpenBTS has already been ported to a range of devices and even to mobile phones running Google's Android operating system. The second piece of software that runs on the Pi is Freeswitch, which routes calls "in a similar way to Skype", according to PA technology expert Alastair Smith.
Most mobile phones and basestations employ a dedicated digital signal processor (DSP) to convert the low-frequency signals into digital data; however, the ARM processor inside the current version of the Pi does not have a DSP built-in. "We needed to carefully hand-optimise the code base," explains Smith.
The future's raspberry
Future versions of the Pi may not need as much optimisation. Since launch, the board has already received a memory upgrade from 256MB to 512MB due to a fall in the price of higher-capacity chips coupled with a reduction in the supply of the older, less sophisticated devices.
PA Consulting, meanwhile, has (in collaboration with the Raspberry Pi Foundation) challenged UK schools, universities and businesses to utilise the Raspberry Pi to 'invent a computer programme that will benefit the world', with winners to be announced by Raspberry Pi Foundation director Eben Upton on 20 March. Entries feature several examples of the Pi being groomed for more demanding, even mission-critical applications. They included an automated pill dispenser, a smart meter-like home electricity consumption monitor, and the AirPi - an air quality and weather surveillance device.
The Pi's attributes at an IC level will nonetheless have a bearing on its viability as a core component of business – and even industrial-class systems. The Pi uses an ARM processor developed for mobiles that is now comparatively long in the tooth – it does not take long for this class of device to become effectively obsolete in its core market.
"We are taking technology that is normally sold in a black shiny box. A modern smartphone now has four processors each running at a gigahertz," says the Raspberry Pi Foundation's Robert Mullins, "and it's an exciting time to enable this transfer of mobile phone technology into the hands of enthusiasts."
For use in production systems, the Pi may have to change. "Pi does not in fact readily lend itself to [having a] product [built around it]," says Hodkinson: he points out that the way that the I/O ports are arranged – with one or more on each edge – does not match up with most industrial designs where the ports tend to sit along one side of the PCB. This may not necessarily be a defining impediment, given that the economies of scale offered by the Pi so far have convinced companies to take it seriously as a platform not just for development, but for low-volume production.
This may present something of a dilemma for the Raspberry Pi Foundation. The cost of doing a custom, stripped-down version might ensure a demand is created, but only makes sense for much higher volumes.
The pattern that develops over the next few years may be similar to the early days of the IBM PC. Companies then took the off-the-shelf hardware and shoehorned it into industrial-grade packages because it was more cost-effective than designing a system from scratch. Only later did customised versions arrive. If the Raspberry Pi Foundation can track the development of higher-performance smartphone processors, the Pi may yet become the foundation of a new era in computer build ethos.


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Thursday, December 1, 2011
An unconventional project by US university students has concluded that China's nuclear arsenal could be many times larger than current estimates, drawing the attention of Pentagon analysts.
The Washington Post reported on Tuesday that Georgetown University students under the instruction of a former Pentagon official have assembled the largest body of public knowledge yet about a vast network of secret tunnels dug by China's secretive Second Artillery Corps, responsible for nuclear warheads.
The 363-page study has not yet been published, but has already sparked a congressional hearing and been circulated among top US defence officials, including the Air Force vice chief of staff, the Post reported.
"It's not quite a bombshell, but those thoughts and estimates are being checked against what people think they know based on classified information," it quoted an unnamed Defense Department strategist as saying.


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Pages: 349
Date: 12/03/2014
Grade: 5
Details: No. 7 Cut & Run
Own / Kindle
The blurb:
"After having their faces plastered across the news during a high-profile case, FBI Special Agents Ty Grady and Zane Garrett have become more useful to the Bureau posing for photo ops than working undercover. Just as Zane is beginning to consider retirement a viable option, Ty receives a distress call from a friend, leading them to a city rife with echoes from the past.
New Orleans wears its history on its streets, and it's the one place Ty's face could get him killed. Surrounded by trouble as soon as they land, Ty and Zane are swiftly confronted with a past from which Ty can't hide—one with a surprising connection to Zane's.
As threats close in from all directions, both men must come to terms with the lives they've led and the lies they've told. They soon discover that not all their secrets are out yet, and nothing lasts forever."
New Orleans wears its history on its streets, and it's the one place Ty's face could get him killed. Surrounded by trouble as soon as they land, Ty and Zane are swiftly confronted with a past from which Ty can't hide—one with a surprising connection to Zane's.
As threats close in from all directions, both men must come to terms with the lives they've led and the lies they've told. They soon discover that not all their secrets are out yet, and nothing lasts forever."
My thoughts:
Well...Okay...Wow...I mean...
Just bear with me while I catch my breath and try to find the words I need to write this review because...Jaysus what a book.
In my review of 'Stars & Stripes' I said that while I liked that book and enjoyed my time with Ty and Zane it missed the WOW-factor for me because the relationship element of the story was just too smooth and – shock horror - wasn't angsty enough. Well, in a perfect example of 'be careful what you wish for because you might just get it' this book made up for that lack of angst...and then some. In fact, I'm not sure 'angst' is the right word to describe everything that happens between Ty and Zane; all out warfare might be a better description.
Ty and Zane find themselves in New Orleans. And while this place holds happy memories for Zane, it is not somewhere Ty should be. When he was pulled out of New Orleans after spending two years there while undercover, he left a lot of unresolved issues and enemies behind. Issues and enemies that seem to know he's back and are determined to bring him down once and for all.
And it is not just Ty's past haunting him. Zane's undercover past has descended on New Orleans as well and appears to match Ty's when it comes to their need for vengeance. It soon becomes clear that Ty and Zane's pasts are far more interwoven than Zane could ever have expected. The revelation that Ty has been keeping secrets from him for the past two years despite their, apparently strengthening, relationship crushes Zane. During the ensuing fight things are said and done that can never be taken back, leaving both investigators teetering on the edge while various groups are still out to kill them. It also becomes clear that someone is relaying information to their enemies. This may be one investigation too far for this couple; even if they manage to survive the attempts on their lives, their relationship may well be beyond repair.
This was, at times, a very hard book to read. The passages where Zane and Ty fight nearly broke my heart because it was so easy to understand both men's point of view. The betrayal Zane felt made as much sense as Ty's conviction that he had been doing the right thing all along. And that is the reason this particular version of angst didn't upset me or put me off the book. I've read too many romances in which the issues between the two main characters seems contrived; only there because the author needed something to create tension. In this case it all made sense; not just in the context of this book but in relation to the story-line over all seven books. And while that didn't make the whole mess any easier to read, it did get me even more involved with and attached to these two investigators.
There was one instance of coincidence in this book that went a bit too far for me. It seemed very unrealistic and I could see it coming a mile off. Having said that, it also brought me an 'ah, isn't that sweet' moment in what was, otherwise, a tough and heartbreaking story, so I won't hold it against the author.
Ty and Zane have over the past year or so joined the very small and select group of favourite fictional characters. They have become almost real in my head; I find myself dreaming about them and can easily imagine meeting them face to face. This doesn't happen very often and I'm delighted every time I am lucky enough to stumble upon an author with the power to make their world real for me. I think it is safe to say that Abigail Roux has found a life-long fan in this reader.
My favourite quote from this book:
""Who are you Ty?" Ty smiled against his cheek. "I was an assassin", he whispered. "I'm a marine. I'm the man who doesn't miss. And I'm yours." Zane bit his lip on a smile. "Who are you Zane?" Zane cocked his head. "I'm an artist. I'm a geek." He felt Ty smile. "I'm one badass motherfucker on a motorcycle." Ty began to laugh. Zane dipped his head until they were staring into each other's eyes. "And I'm yours."