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Table of Contents
- Compiling and start-up code
- Hardware Abstraction Layer and UART
- Debugging, display, heap and fonts
- Timers and ADC
- DAC, Sound and Nokia Tunes
- Random Number Generator, Rendering Engine and the Game
- Operating System
Tiva does not have a DAC, but we'd like to have some sound effects while playing the game. Fortunately, it's easy to make a simple binary-weighted DAC using resistors and GPIO signals. It's not very accurate, but will do.
As far as the software is concerned, we will simply take 4 GPIO pins and set them up as output. We will then get an appropriate bit-banded alias such that writing an integer to it is reflected only in the state of these four pins.
1 int32_t IO_dac_init(IO_io *io, uint8_t module)
2 {
3 if(module > 0)
4 return -IO_EINVAL;
6 TM4C_gpio_port_init(GPIO_PORTD_NUM);
7 TM4C_gpio_pin_init(GPIO_PORTD_NUM, GPIO_PIN0_NUM, 0, 0, 1);
8 TM4C_gpio_pin_init(GPIO_PORTD_NUM, GPIO_PIN1_NUM, 0, 0, 1);
9 TM4C_gpio_pin_init(GPIO_PORTD_NUM, GPIO_PIN2_NUM, 0, 0, 1);
10 TM4C_gpio_pin_init(GPIO_PORTD_NUM, GPIO_PIN3_NUM, 0, 0, 1);
12 uint32_t addr = GPIO_REG_BASE + GPIO_PORTD;
13 addr += GPIO_PIN0_BIT_OFFSET;
14 addr += GPIO_PIN1_BIT_OFFSET;
15 addr += GPIO_PIN2_BIT_OFFSET;
16 addr += GPIO_PIN3_BIT_OFFSET;
17 dac_data = (uint32_t*)addr;
19 io->type = IO_DAC;
20 io->sync = 0;
21 io->channel = 0;
22 io->flags = 0;
23 io->read = 0;
24 io->write = dac_write;
25 io->event = 0;
27 return 0;
28 }
See TM4C_platform01.c.
We will create a virtual device consisting of a DAC and a timer. Using the timer, we will change the output of the DAC frequently enough to produce sound. Since the timer interrupt needs to be executed often and any delay makes the sound break, we need to assign the highest possible priority to this interrupt so that it does not get preempted.
1 int32_t IO_sound_init(IO_io *io, uint8_t module)
2 {
3 //...
4 IO_dac_init(&snd_dac, 0);
5 IO_timer_init(&snd_timer, 11);
6 TM4C_enable_interrupt(104, 0); // adjust the interrupt priority for timer 11
7 snd_timer.event = snd_timer_event;
8 //...
9 }
Writing to this virtual device sets the frequency of the tone that we want to play by adjusting the timer's firing rate accordingly.
1 static int32_t snd_write(IO_io *io, const void *data, uint32_t length)
2 {
3 if(length != 1)
4 return -IO_EINVAL;
5 const uint64_t *val = data;
7 if(!(*val)) {
8 snd_interval = 0;
9 return 1;
10 }
11 uint8_t turn_on = 0;
12 if(!snd_interval)
13 turn_on = 1;
15 double interval = 1.0/(*val);
16 interval /= 32.0;
17 interval *= 1000000000;
18 snd_interval = interval;
20 if(turn_on)
21 IO_set(&snd_timer, interval);
22 return 1;
23 }
In reality, the timer fires 32 times more often than the frequency of the tone requires. It is because we use a table with 32 entries to simulate the actual sound wave. In principle, we could just use a sinusoid, but it turns out that the quality of the sound is not so great if we do so. I have found another waveform in the lab materials of EdX's Embedded Systems course that works much better.
1 static const uint8_t snd_trumpet[] = {
2 10, 11, 11, 12, 10, 8, 3, 1, 8, 15, 15, 11, 10, 10, 11, 10, 10, 10, 10,
3 10, 10, 10, 10, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 10, 10, 10 };
5 static void snd_timer_event(IO_io *io, uint16_t event)
6 {
7 IO_set(&snd_dac, snd_trumpet[snd_step++]);
8 snd_step %= 32;
9 if(snd_interval)
10 IO_set(io, snd_interval);
11 }
See TM4C_platform01.c.
Nokia tunes
The tune player API consists of four functions:
1 int32_t IO_sound_play(IO_io *io, IO_io *timer, IO_tune *tune, uint16_t start);
2 int32_t IO_sound_stop(IO_io *io);
3 IO_tune *IO_sound_decode_RTTTL(const char *tune);
4 void IO_sound_free_tune(IO_tune *tune);
IO_sound_playuses a sound device and a timer to play a tune. It sends an
IO_EVENT_DONEto the virtual sound device when the playback finishes.
IO_sound_stopstops the playback on the given device and returns the index of the last note it played so that it can be restarted from that point.
IO_sound_decode_RTTLtakes an RTTTL representation and produces the
IO_tunestructure that can be handled by the player.
IO_sound_free_tunefrees the memory used by
IO_sound_decode_RTTLwhen it's no longer needed.
There is plenty of tunes all over the Internet. The ones in the demo video are taken from here. The code of the player is based on this work.
See IO_sound.c.
Table of Contents
- Compiling and start-up code
- Hardware Abstraction Layer and UART
- Debugging, display, heap and fonts
- Timers and ADC
- DAC, Sound and Nokia Tunes
- Random Number Generator, Rendering Engine and the Game
- Operating System
Tiva has 12 timer modules that can be configured in various relatively complex
ways. However, for the purpose of this game, we don't need anything fancy. We
will, therefore, represent a timer as an
IO_io device with the
function (generalized from
IO_gpio_set) setting and arming it. When it counts
to 0, the
IO_TICK event will be reported to the event handler.
1 void timer_event(IO_io *io, uint16_t event)
2 {
4 IO_set(&timer, 500000000); // fire in half second
5 }
7 int main()
8 {
9 IO_init();
10 IO_timer_init(&timer, 0);
11 timer.event = timer_event;
12 IO_set(&timer, 500000000); // fire in half second
14 while(1)
15 IO_wait_for_interrupt();
16 }
See TM4C_timer.c and test-07-timer.c.
Similarly to the timers, the ADC sequencers on Tiva may be set up in fairly
sophisticated ways. There are 12 analog pins, two modules with four sequencers
each. Again, we don't need anything sophisticated here, so we will just use the
first eight pins and assign them to a separate sequencer each. In the blocking
IO_get initiates the readout and returns the value. In the non-blocking
and asynchronous mode
IO_set, requests sampling and
IO_get returns it when
ready. An
IO_DONE event is reported to the event handler if enabled.
1 IO_io slider;
2 IO_io timer;
3 uint64_t sliderR = 0;
5 void timer_event(IO_io *io, uint16_t event)
6 {
7 IO_set(&slider, 0); // request a sample
8 }
10 void slider_event(IO_io *io, uint16_t event)
11 {
12 IO_get(&slider, &sliderR);
13 IO_set(&timer, 100000000); // fire in 0.1 sec
14 }
16 int main()
17 {
18 IO_init();
20 IO_timer_init(&timer, 0);
21 IO_slider_init(&slider, 0, IO_ASYNC);
23 timer.event = timer_event;
24 slider.event = slider_event;
26 IO_event_enable(&slider, IO_EVENT_DONE);
28 IO_set(&slider, 0); // request a sample
30 while(1)
31 IO_wait_for_interrupt();
32 }
See TM4C_adc.c and test-08-input.c.
The game board
Everything works fine when soldered together as well.
- Authors: J.-P. Lozi, B. Lepers, J. Funston, F. Gaud, V. Quéma, and A. Fedorova
- Source: http://www.i3s.unice.fr/~jplozi/wastedcores/
The paper shows that, despite often repeated mantra, the OS task scheduling is far from being easy. The authors developed two new tools to investigate the CPU usage and the state of the associated run queue. It has allowed them to uncover four interesting performance bugs on a 64 core NUMA system. They discovered that often some cores stay idle for a long time while tasks are waiting. It is a violation of one of the design principles of the Completely Fair Scheduler, the Linux default, which is supposed to be work-conserving. Fixing these bugs resulted in a 138 times speedup in an extreme test case (multithreaded, using spinlocks) and 13-23% speedups in other test cases. This type of bugs is hard to uncover because they typically waste cycles hundreds of milliseconds at a time, which is beyond the resolution of standard monitoring tools.
Completely Fair Scheduler
CFS defines an interval in which each task must run a least once. This interval is then divided between all the tasks in proportion to their weight (niceness). A running thread accumulates vruntime, which is the amount of time it was running divided by its weight. The scheduler keeps these tasks in a run queue which is implemented as a red-black tree. When the CPU gets idle, the leftmost node is picked because it has accumulated the least of weighted runtime.
In a multi-core system, each core has its own run queue. To fairly distribute the load among the cores, the run queues must be periodically re-balanced. In today's systems, with dozens of run queues, the balancing procedure is expensive and not run very ofter. It is due to the need to take into account other factors, such as power-saving, cache and memory locality. The load balancing algorithm takes the threads from the most loaded cores and distributes them between the least loaded cores taking into account the topology of the system. The more complex the system gets, the more rules need to be applied and the harder it gets to reason about performance.
The bugs and the tools
The bugs uncovered by the authors are all related to migrating tasks between NUMA nodes. They were detected using new tools:
- Sanity Checker checks every second whether there are idle cores in the presence of waiting threads in other run queues. If there are, it monitors the system for another 100ms. If the situation is not remediated, it begins to record the profiling information for further off-line analysis.
- The scheduler visualization tool taps into various kernel functions to monitor and visualize scheduling activity over time.
The authors note that the problems were caused by people wanting to optimize CFS to compensate for the complexity of the modern hardware. They suggest rewriting of the scheduler as a core and a bunch of optimization modules.
Table of Contents
- Compiling and start-up code
- Hardware Abstraction Layer and UART
- Debugging, display, heap and fonts
- Timers and ADC
- DAC, Sound and Nokia Tunes
- Random Number Generator, Rendering Engine and the Game
- Operating System
To test and debug the SSI code, I connected two boards and made them talk to each other. It mostly worked. However, it turned out that, by default, you can run the OpenOCD-GDB duo only for one board at a time. It's the one that libusb enumerates first. There is a patch that lets OpenOCD choose the device to attach to by its serial number. The patch has not made it to any release yet, but applying it and recompiling the whole thing is relatively straight-forward: clone the source, apply the patch and run the usual autotools combo. You will then need to create a config file for each board that specifies unique port numbers and defines the serial number of the device to attach to:
]==> cat board1.cfg
gdb_port 3333
telnet_port 4444
tcl_port 6666
interface hla
hla_serial 0Exxxxxx
source [find board/ek-tm4c123gxl.cfg]
]==> cat board2.cfg
gdb_port 3334
telnet_port 4445
tcl_port 6667
interface hla
hla_serial 0Exxxxxx
source [find board/ek-tm4c123gxl.cfg]
Separate GDB batch files come handy as well:
]==> cat gdb-board1.conf
target extended-remote :3333
monitor reset init
break main
]==> cat gdb-board2.conf
target extended-remote :3334
monitor reset init
break main
Tweaking the linker script
GCC started generating
.init and
.fini sections that contain no-op
]==> arm-none-eabi-objdump -d test-06-display.axf
Disassembly of section .init:
00007af8 <_init>:
7af8: b5f8 push {r3, r4, r5, r6, r7, lr}
7afa: bf00 nop
Disassembly of section .fini:
00007afc <_fini>:
7afc: b5f8 push {r3, r4, r5, r6, r7, lr}
7afe: bf00 nop
We will discard this code by adding the following to the linker script:
2 {
3 *(.init*)
4 *(.fini*)
5 }
GCC also started generating the stack unwinding code and GDB gets confused in some places if it is not present, so we put it after the code in FLASH:
1 .ARM.exidx :
2 {
3 *(.ARM.exidx*)
4 *(.gnu.linkonce.armexidx*)
See TM4C.ld.
SSI and GPIO
We need both SSI and GPIO to control the Nokia display that we want to use for
the game. Since, in the end, both these systems need to push and receive data,
they fit well the generic interface used for UART. The SSI's initialization
function needs many more parameters than the one for UART, so we pack them all
in a struct. As far as GPIO is concerned, there are two helpers:
IO_gpio_get_state and
IO_gpio_set_state that just write the appropriate
byte to the IO device. GPIO also comes with a new event type:
1 struct IO_ssi_attrs {
2 uint8_t master; //!< 1 for master, 0 for slave
3 uint8_t slave_out; //!< 1 slave output enabled, 0 slave output disabled
4 uint32_t bandwidth; //!< bandwidth in bps
5 uint8_t frame_format; //!< frame format
6 uint8_t freescale_spo; //!< SPO value for freescale frames
7 uint8_t freescale_sph; //!< SPH value for freescale frames
8 uint8_t frame_size; //!< size of the frame in bits
9 };
See TM4C_ssi.c and TM4C_gpio.c.
Platforms, the display interface, and fonts
All the devices that are not directly on the board may be connected in many
different ways. To handle all these configurations with the same board, we split
the driver into
libtm4c.a (for the board specific stuff) and
libtm4c_platform_01.a (for the particular configuration). For now, the only
thing that the platform implements is the display interface. It passes the
appropriate SSI module and GPIOs to the actual display driver. The user sees the
IO_io structure that is initialized with
IO_display_init and can be
written to and synced.
write renders the text to the back-buffer, while sync
sends the back-buffer to the device for rendering. There's also a couple of
specialized functions that have to do only with display devices:
1 int32_t IO_display_get_attrs(IO_io *io, IO_display_attrs *attrs);
2 int32_t IO_display_clear(IO_io *io);
3 int32_t IO_display_put_pixel(IO_io *io, uint16_t x, uint16_t y, uint32_t argb);
4 int32_t IO_display_print_bitmap(IO_io *io, uint16_t x, uint16_t y,
5 const IO_bitmap *bitmap);
6 int32_t IO_display_set_font(IO_io *io, const IO_font *font);
7 int32_t IO_display_cursor_goto(IO_io *io, uint32_t x, uint32_t y);
8 int32_t IO_display_cursor_goto_text(IO_io *io, uint32_t line, uint32_t space);
9 int32_t IO_display_cursor_move(IO_io *io, int32_t dx, int32_t dy);
10 int32_t IO_display_cursor_move_text(IO_io *io, int32_t dline, int32_t dspace);
See IO_display.h.
Platform 01 provides one display device, a PCD8544, the one used in Nokia 5110. It translates and passes the interface calls to the lower-level driver. See pcd8544.c.
If you haven't noticed in the list of the functions above, the display interface
supports multiple fonts. In fact, I wrote a script that rasterizes TrueType
fonts and creates internal
IO_font structures. These can then be used to
render text on a display device. All you need to do is provide a TTF file,
declare the font name and size in CMake, and then reference it in the
font manager. The code comes with DejaVuSans10 and DejaVuSerif10 by
The heap
Malloc comes handy from time to time, so I decided to implement one. It is
extremely prone to fragmentation and never merges chunks, so using free is not
advisable. Still, sometimes you just wish you had one. For instance, when you
need to define a buffer for pixels and don't have a good way to ask for
display parameters at compile time. For alignment reasons, the heap management
code reserves a bit more than 4K for the stack. It then creates a 32 bytes long
guard region protected by the MPU. Everything between the end of the
section and the guard page is handled by
IO_malloc and
1 void TM4C_heap_init()
2 {
3 uint8_t *stack_start = (uint8_t *)0x20007ff8;
4 uint8_t *stack_end = stack_start-4120;
5 uint8_t *stack_guard = stack_end-32;
6 uint8_t *heap_start = (uint8_t *)&__bss_end_vma;
8 MPUCTRL_REG |= (uint32_t)0x05; // enable MPU and the background region
10 uint32_t val = (uint32_t)stack_guard;
11 val |= 0x10; // valid
12 val |= 0x07; // highest priority region
13 MPUBASE_REG &= ~0xfffffff7;
14 MPUBASE_REG |= val;
16 val = 0;
17 val |= (1 << 28); // disable instruction fetches
18 val |= (4 << 1); // 0x04 == 32bytes
19 val |= 1; // enable the region
20 MPUATTR_REG &= ~0x173fff3f;
21 MPUATTR_REG |= val;
23 IO_set_up_heap(heap_start, stack_guard);
24 }
See TM4C.c and IO_malloc.c.
A display test
The LCD demo works fine on the breadboard. As you can see, there is a text printed with two kinds of fonts: with and without serifs. Later, the code plays the Game of Life shooting gliders.
Since the display works fine, it's safe to do some soldering. We'll use a 9-volt battery as a power source and an LM1086 power regulator to supply 3.3 volts to the microcontroller and other devices.
Table of Contents
- Compiling and start-up code
- Hardware Abstraction Layer and UART
- Debugging, display, heap and fonts
- Timers and ADC
- DAC, Sound and Nokia Tunes
- Random Number Generator, Rendering Engine and the Game
- Operating System
Hardware Abstraction Layer
I'd like the game to be as portable as possible. As far as the game logic is concerned, the actual interaction with the hardware is immaterial. Ideally, we just need means to write a pixel to a screen, blink an LED or check the state of a push-button. It means that hiding the hardware details behind a generic interface is desirable. This interface can then be re-implemented for a different kind of board, and the whole thing can act as a cool tool for getting to know new hardware.
In this project, we will use one static library (
libio.a) to provide the
interface. This library will implement all the hardware independent functions as
well as the stubs for the driver (as weak symbols). Another library (
will provide the real driver logic for Tiva and the strong symbols. This kind of
approach enables us to use the linker to easily produce the final binary for
other platforms in the future.
Initialization PLL and FPU
To initialize the hardware platform, the user calls
IO_init(). The stub for
this function is provided by
libio.a as follows:
1 int32_t __IO_init()
2 {
3 return -IO_ENOSYS;
4 }
6 WEAK_ALIAS(__IO_init, IO_init);
The actual implementation for Tiva in
libtm4c.a initializes PLL to provide
80MHz clock and turns on microDMA. It also sets the access permissions to the
FPU by setting the appropriate bits in the
CPAC register and resetting the
pipeline in assembly. We will likely need the floating point in the game, and
it comes handy when calculating UART transmission speed parameters.
1 int32_t IO_init()
2 {
3 TM4C_pll_init();
4 TM4C_dma_init();
6 // Enable the floating point coprocessor
7 CPAC_REG |= (0x0f << 20);
8 __asm__ volatile (
9 "dsb\r\n" // force memory writed before continuing
10 "isb\r\n" ); // reset the pipeline
11 return 0;
12 }
Simple read/write interface and functions
We provide an IO device abstraction called
IO_io and implement four generic
functions for accessing it:
1 int32_t IO_write(IO_io *io, const void *data, uint32_t length);
2 int32_t IO_print(IO_io *io, const char *format, ...);
3 int32_t IO_read(IO_io *io, void *data, uint32_t length);
4 int32_t IO_scan(IO_io *io, uint8_t type, void *data, uint32_t param);
IO_read and
IO_write push to and fetch bytes from the device.
writes a formated string to the device using the standard
printf semantics.
IO_scan reads a word (a stream of characters surrounded by whitespaces) and
tries to convert it to the requested type.
Each subsystem needs to provide its initialization function to fill the
struct with the information required to perform the IO operations. For instance,
the following function initializes UART:
1 int32_t IO_uart_init(IO_io *io, uint8_t module, uint16_t flags, uint32_t baud);
It needs to know which UART module to use, what the desired mode of operation is (non-blocking, asynchronous, DMA...) and what should be the speed of the link. This approach hides the hardware details from the user well and is very generic, see test-01-uart.c. For instance, you can write something like this:
1 IO_init();
2 IO_io uart0;
3 IO_uart_init(&uart0, 0, 0, 115200);
4 IO_print(&uart0, "Hello %s\r\n", "World");
0 as flags to the UART initialization routine creates a blocking
device that is required for
IO_print and
IO_scan to work.
Non-blocking and asynchronous IO
A blocking IO device will cause the IO functions to return only after they have
pushed or pulled all the data to or from the hardware. If, however, you
configure a non-blocking (
IO_NONBLOCKING) device, the functions will process
as many bytes as they can and return. They return
-IO_WOULDBLOCK if it is
not possible to handle any data.
IO_ASYNC flag makes the system notify the user about the device readiness
for reading or writing. These events are received and processed by a
user-defined call-back function:
1 void uart_event(IO_io *io, uint16_t event)
2 {
3 if(event & IO_EVENT_READ) {
4 }
6 if(event & IO_EVENT_WRITE) {
7 }
8 }
10 int main()
11 {
12 IO_init();
13 IO_io uart0;
14 IO_uart_init(&uart0, 0, IO_NONBLOCKING|IO_ASYNC, 115200);
15 uart0.event = uart_event;
16 IO_event_enable(&uart0, IO_EVENT_READ|IO_EVENT_WRITE);
17 while(1) IO_wait_for_interrupt();
18 }
See test-02-uart-async.c.
The DMA mode allows for transferring data between the peripheral and the main
memory in the background. It uses the memory bus when the CPU does not need it
for anything else. When in this mode,
IO_read and
IO_write only initiate a
background transfer. The next invocation will either block or return
-EWOULDBLOCK, depending on other configuration flags, as long as the current
DMA operation is in progress. The memory buffer cannot be changed until the DMA
transfer is done. Passing
IO_ASYNC will generate completion events for DMA
operations. It enables us to implement a pretty neat UART echo app:
1 #include <io/IO.h>
2 #include <io/IO_uart.h>
4 char buffer[30];
6 void uart_event(IO_io *io, uint16_t event)
7 {
8 if(event & IO_EVENT_DMA_READ)
9 IO_write(io, buffer, 30);
11 if(event & IO_EVENT_DMA_WRITE)
12 IO_read(io, buffer, 30);
13 }
15 int main()
16 {
17 IO_init();
18 IO_io uart0;
19 IO_uart_init(&uart0, 0, IO_DMA|IO_ASYNC, 115200);
20 uart0.event = uart_event;
21 IO_read(&uart0, buffer, 30);
22 while(1) IO_wait_for_interrupt();
23 }
See test-03-uart-dma.c.
The driver
There was nothing ultimately hard about writing the driver part. It all boils down to reading the data sheet and following the instruction contained therein. It took quite some time to put everything together into a coherent whole, though. See: TM4C_uart.c.


text:
A gazetteer is a
list of cities along with their longitude and latitude.
Frequently, the maker has added one, two or three
additional geographical parameters: the inclination of
the azimuth of the
(the انحراف or
"inḥirāf"), the
direction of the azimuth of the Qibla in relation to
the four cardinal points of the comapss (الجهات or
"al-jihat"), and
less frequently the distance from Mecca (المسافت
Gazetteers are most commonly engraved as concentric
circles into the womb of Islamic
astrolabes. There are, however, instruments that have
additional gazetteers on the edge of the limb and on
Although the order varies, all gazetteers begin with either the longitude (طول) or the latitude (عرض), given in degrees and minutes. If the maker chose to include the inḥirāf, this is usually presented next, again listed in degrees and minutes. The fourth common parameter is the jihat, which expresses the direction of the azimuth of the Qibla as northeast (abbreviated شش), southeast (abbreviated شج), southwest (abbreviated غج), south of the Qibla (abbreviated جق) or north of the Qibla (abbreviated شق).
The gazetteers in the collection have been transcribed faithfully reproducing the Arabic orthography. This will regularly reflect regional spelling variations. In translating the city names, however, we have tried to adopt a standard, recognizable spelling. Two primary reference tools have been used to assist in identifying cities: the list of cities included in Gibbs and Saliba (1984) and Kennedy and Kennedy (1987). The second of these two works is the definitive guide to Arabic place names and itself draws on Gibbs and Saliba (1984). Transcribing Arabic numbers presents a number of difficulties. In particular, certain Arabic numbers are easily confused, e.g., numbers between 11 and 19 are easily misread as numbers between 31 and 39 or numbers between 51 and 59. Where possible, the geographical parameters have been checked against the two resources cited above to see if they are reasonable. In cases of great discrepancy between the value read on the instrument and that found in printed catalogues, the instrument has been double-checked to ensure accuracy. Unusual or seeming aberrant values have not been discarded merely on the basis of their being unusual.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Combating back pain without opioids
The University of Minnesota's Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing will be using an $11.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study non-drug approaches to prevent chronic low back pain—which could lead to reduced opioid use.
The funding will support a Clinical Coordinating Center at the University of Minnesota—as well as at the University of Pittsburgh—as part of a national, multi-site clinical trial examining the effectiveness of spinal manipulation therapies (SMT) and supported self-management (SSM) compared with usual medical care.
"Identifying effective management and prevention strategies for back pain is a huge challenge," says Gert Bronfort, lead investigator and professor in the center's Integrative Health and Wellbeing Research Program. "By examining promising, safe, and accessible non-drug treatments like spinal manipulation therapies and supported self-management, we hope to prevent acute low back pain from becoming chronic and to reduce over-reliance on medications and unnecessary surgeries."
According to the World Health Organization, low back pain is the leading cause of disability worldwide, and one study of back pain patients found more than half of the patients used opioids to treat pain.
"Back pain is right in the center of the opioid crisis," says Roni Evans, a co-investigator on the study and director of the Integrative Health and Wellbeing Research Program. "We need to take a step back and consider other options which truly address patients' needs and enable them to safely and effectively manage their pain."
The researchers will compare SMT and SSM to usual medical care, which includes prescription medications for acute low back pain in adult patients at increased risk of becoming chronic. SSM encompasses self-care strategies that address the biopsychosocial aspects of back pain through the use of behavioral and coping strategies, mind-body approaches, lifestyle advice and pain education.


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England add winger to squad ahead of Autumn Internationals
Semesa Rokoduguni (Bath Rugby) has been called up into the England squad and will fly to Faro, Portugal this afternoon (Monday).
Rokoduguni replaces Elliot Daly (Wasps) who was withdrawn from the squad after picking up an injury (knee) on the weekend.
The remaining England players who played on Sunday have joined up with the squad today.
On Thursday Eddie Jones named a 34-man squad ahead of their Old Mutual Wealth Series opener against Argentina.


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Brexit offers British firms opportunities to build business beyond Europe and create a new era of global trade for the UK, study finds
Knowledge is the most powerful resource businesses can have when looking to enter new markets.
LONDON: November 14, 2016 — Britain's shock referendum result to leave the EU may have temporarily roiled international markets and weakened investor confidence in the region, but it has also created a unique opportunity for British firms to expand trade and build long-term partnerships beyond the borders of Europe, a new study finds.
CREATING OPPORTUNITY: How to build a new era of trade for post-Brexit Britain, published by Ipsos Business Consulting, a leading global strategic consultancy, outlines key opportunities for British companies in established, emerging and frontier markets outside of Europe. The timely 18-country study draws on the consultancy's extensive global network of country offices and trade specialists who combine on-the-ground fact-based insights on the Americas, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Australia with a careful analysis of Britain's own areas of expertise.
Britain will be free to negotiate trade deals with other countries on its own terms, or use alternative existing structures such as WTO mechanisms, once it has formally exited the EU and disentangled itself from the grouping's legal and regulatory framework. However, given negotiations to leave the EU will take at least two years, British businesses must move now to seize opportunities further afield, says Ipsos Business Consulting CEO, Peter Snell.
"Ipsos Business Consulting produced CREATING OPPORTUNITY: How to build a new era of trade for post-Brexit Britain to help British businesses identify and exploit trading opportunities outside of Europe," says Mr Snell. "These businesses and their trading partners simply cannot afford to sit and wait for the government to negotiate the terms and conditions of Brexit with the EU."
"Regardless of how people feel about the result to leave the EU, the decision has been made," says Mr Snell. "Ipsos Business Consulting takes the view that British businesses must work together to make the best of the situation by expanding their footprint beyond Europe, reshaping Britain's global trading map and creating a brighter future for generations to come."
The report shows how British industry powerhouses such as automotive, pharmaceuticals, and power generation and machinery have the potential to leverage their global reputation for excellence to strengthen their position around the world. Firms operating in the transport and infrastructure, and power generation and machinery sectors, should seek opportunities in emerging markets with long-term housing, logistics and power development projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Retailers should look east to Asia, a continent full of opportunity for most sectors.
CREATING OPPORTUNITY: How to build a new era of trade for post-Brexit Britain presents its findings in plain English and includes engaging infographics and other resources to help businesses easily identify opportunities. Key elements include:
- Market analysis of 18 countries across five continents, including an Ipsos Business Consulting Expert View for each market.
- BEYOND BREXIT: Opportunities and challenges building British trade outside of the EU, which identifies the key prospects and pitfalls for each market.
- Industry sector report, a table outlining the key established and emerging market opportunities for British businesses by sector.
- The latest World Bank Ease of Doing Business index for each country (released in October 2016).
Ipsos Business Consulting has also created a Brexit microsite to pool the consultancy's research and strategic advice on the implications of Britain's departure from the EU. "We here to help provide certainty for British businesses in these uncertain times," says Lynn Morgan, Ipsos Business Consulting's Head of Europe and the Americas.
"Knowledge is the most powerful resource businesses can have when looking to enter new markets. That's why we avoid political analysis and focus on providing a fact-based view on the opportunities and challenges in each market," she says. "CREATING OPPORTUNITY: How to build a new era of trade for post-Brexit Britain helps interested businesses take an important step in expanding their trade horizons. Of course, we can also help tailor Go-To-Market strategies to their specific needs."
The Ipsos Brexit microsite can be found at www.ipsosconsulting.com/.
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Human Wrongs Watch
This op-ed by Roberto Savio, IPS founder and President Emeritus is adapted from a statement he made as a panelist on Migration and Human Solidarity, A Challenge and an Opportunity for Europe and the MENA region held on 14 December at the Geneva Centre for Human Rights Advancement and Global Dialogue.
– At the outset my thanks to Dr Hanif Hassan Ali Al Kassim, and Ambassador Idriss Jazairy who lead the Centre for Human Rights Advancement and Global Dialogue for organizing this panel discussion at a critical moment in history.
The Centre is one of the few actors for peace and cooperation between the Arab world and Europe. As a representative of global civil society, I think it will be more meaningful if I speak without the constraints of diplomacy, and I make frank and unfettered reflections.
The misuse of religion, of populism and xenophobia, is a sad reality, which is not clearly addressed any longer, but met with hypocrisy and not outright denunciation. Only now the British are realizing that they voted for Brexit, on the basis of a campaign of lies.
But nobody has taken on publicly Johnson or Farage, the leaders of Brexit, after Great Britain accepted to pay, as one of the many costs of divorce, at least 45 billion Euro, instead of saving 20 billion Euro, as claimed by the 'brexiters'. And there are only a few analysis on why political behaviour is more and more a sheer calculation, without any concern for truth or the good of the country.
President Trump could be a good case study on the relations between politics and populism. Just a few days ago the United States has declared that they are withdrawing from the UN Global Compact on Migration.
This has nothing to do with the interest or the identity of United States, which has built itself as a country of immigrants. It has to do with the fact that this decision is popular with a part of American population, which is voting for President Trump, like the evangelicals.
I have here to show the message they are circulating, after the declaration of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. This is what it is said in the Bible. If we recreate the world described in the bible, Jesus will make his second coming to earth, and only the just will be rewarded.
And therefore they think that Trump brings the world closer to the return of Christ, and therefore he acts for the good of their beliefs. Evangelicals are close to thirty million, and they strongly believe that when the second coming of Jesus will happen, he will recognize only them as the believers who are on the right path. Trump is not an evangelical, and he has shown little interest in religion.
But, like each of his actions, he is coherent with his views during the campaign, which brought together all the dissatisfied people catapulting him into the White House. Everything he does, is not in the interest of the world or of the United States. He is just focused on keeping the support of his electors – those who do not come from big towns, academia, media and the Silicon Valley.
They come mainly from impoverished and uninformed white electors, who feel left out from the benefits of globalization. They believe those benefits went to the elite, to the big towns and to the few winners, and believe that there is an international plot to humiliate the United States. So, climate change for them and Trump is a Chinese hoax !
During the first year, Trump can well have a shocking approval rating of 32%, the lowest in history for a President of United States. But 92% of his voters would re-elect him. And as only 50% of Americans vote, he can conveniently ignore general public opinion.
It is not the place here to go deeper into American political trends. But Trump is a perfect example to see why a large number of Europeans, or even countries like Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic, are ignoring the decisions of the European Union on migrants, and why populism, xenophobia and nationalism are on the rise everywhere.
Fear has become the tool to get to power.
Historians agree that two main engines of change in history, are greed and fear.
Well, we have been trained, since the collapse of communism, to look to greed as a positive value. Markets (no man or ideas), was the new paradigm. States were an obstacle to a free market.
Globalization, it was famously said, would lift all boats, and benefit everybody. In fact, markets without rules was self-destructive, and not all boats were lifted, but only yachts, the bigger the better.
The rich became richer, and the poor poorer. The process is so speedy, that ten years ago the richest 528 people had the same wealth of 2.3 billion people. This year, they have become 8, and this number is likely to shrink soon. All statistics are clear, and globalization based on free market is losing some of its shine.
But meanwhile we have lost many codes of communication. In the political debate there is no more reference to social justice, solidarity, participation, equity, the values in the modern constitutions, on which we built international relations.
Now the codes are competition, success, profit and individual achievement. During my lectures at schools, I am dismayed to see a materialistic generation, who do not care to vote, to change the world.
And the distance between citizens and political institutions is increasing every day. The only voices reminding us of justice and solidarity, and are voices from religious leaders: Pope Bergoglio, the Dalai Lama, Bishop Tutu, and the Grand Mufti Muhammad Hussein, just to name the most prominent. And with media who are now also based on market as the only criteria, those voices are becoming weaker.
After a generation of greed, we are now in a generation of fear. We should notice that, before the great economic crisis of 2009 (provoked by greed: banks have paid until now 280 billion dollars of penalties and fines), xenophobe and populist parties were always minorities (with exception of Le Pen in France).
The crisis created fear and uncertainties, and then immigration started to rise, especially after the invasion of Libya in 2001 and Iraq in 2013.We are now in the seventh year of the Syrian drama, which displaced 45% of the population.
Merkel is now paying a price for her acceptance of Syrian refugees, and it is interesting to note that two thirds of the votes to Alternative Fur Deutschland, the populist and xenophobe party, comes from former East Germany, that has few refugees but an income, which is nearly 25% lower. Fear, again, has been the engine for change of German history.
Europe was directly responsible for these migrations. A famous cartoonist El Roto from El Pais, has made a cartoon showing bombs flying in the air, and migrant's boats coming from the sea. "We send them bombs, and they send us migrants".
But there is no recognition of this. Those who escape from hunger and war are now depicted as invaders.
Countries who until few years ago, like the Nordic ones, were considered synonymous with civic virtues, and who spent a considerable budget for international cooperation, are now erecting walls and barbed wire.
Greed and fear have been so successfully exploited by the new nationalist, populist and xenophobe parties, that now they keep growing at every election, from Austria to the Netherlands, from Czech Republic to Great Britain (where they created Brexit ), and then Germany, and in a few months, Italy. The three horses of apocalypse, which in the thirties were the basis for the Second Wold War: nationalism, populism and xenophobia, are back with growing popular support, and politicians openly riding them.
But what is shocking is that we have now a new element of division: religion, which is widely used against immigrants and should instead unite us. Religion has always been used to get power and legitimacy. Common people never started the wars of religion in Europe but by princes and kings.
A few years ago we did commemorate the expulsion first of the Jews, and then of the Moors, from Spain, where they lived in harmony and peace with the Christians, forming a civilization of the three cultures. And a few weeks ago, there was a great march in Warsaw, ignored by the media, with 40.000 people, many coming from all over Europe and the United States. They marched in the name of God, crying death to the Jews and Muslim.
But while Protestant, Catholic, Muslim and Jew religious leaders engage in a positive dialogue for peace and cooperation, a number of self-proclaimed defenders of the faith, are bringing fear, misery and death. And it should be clear that we have no clash of religions. It is a clash of those who use religion for power and legitimacy. And they ride an unrealistic historical dream.
To return to a world, which is gone, where mines will reopen, the country will go back to its former glory: a world, that dreams not of a better future, but of a better past. Africa is going to double its population, with 80% of its population under 35 years; while in Europe it will be just 20%.
There is no hope for Europe to be viable in a global economy and in a competitive world, without substantial immigration. Yet, to speak about that in the political debate, is now a kiss of death.
In conclusion, I must stress that we face a sad reality, which cannot be ignored any longer, even if it is not politically correct. Ideals have always been used to gain support, even from those who did not believe them.
And historians teach us that in modern times humankind has fallen into three traps: In the name of God, to divide and not to dialogue; in the name of the nation, often to rally support and bring citizens to wars; and now, in name of the profit.
I think it is time to make new alliances, and launch a great powerful campaign of awareness on the false prophets, with mobilizations of media, civil society and legitimate politicians, to educate citizens that immigration must be regulated, as it is a necessity, with which Europe must live.
We must establish policies, and even after Trumps leaves the global Compact, like he left the Paris Agreement on climate change, he will remain an isolated voice, while citizens will strive for a better world, with no fears, based on common values.
We must take an unpopular but vital action for education and participation. It will be unpopular and difficult we know.
But if we do not take this road, human beings, who are the only 'animals' who do not learn from past mistakes, will again go through blood, misery and destruction.
*Roberto Savio's Op-Ed was published in IPS. Go to Original.
*AUTHOR: Roberto Savio is the founder and former Director-General of international news agency Inter Press Service (IPS).
In recent years he has also founded Other News, a service providing 'information that markets eliminate'.
Roberto Savio: email@example.com. http://www.robertosavio.info.
In Spanish: http://www.other-news.info/noticias/
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Don't miss these articles by Roberto Savio in Human Wrongs Watch:
Austrian Elections: The Crisis of Europe Continues
Merkel's Defeat Confirms Dismal Trend for Europe
The Unnoticed Demise of Democracy
Young People: You Didn't Vote, And Now You Protest?
Trump Marks the End of a Cycle
Trump and the Crisis of Democracy
Please, Do Not Get Offended, But…
Some Uncomfortable Reflections on Trump Election
European Security, With or Without Russia?
How Did We Arrive to This Chaos?
'Internationalism' Is Out, 'Nationalism' Is Back
Is a Referendum a Valid Tool for Democracy?
Not Politically Correct Reflections on Brexit
Is It in Europe's Interest to Push Russia into China's Arms?
Greece, the Punching Ball of Germany
Islamophobia Is a Political Tool
The Hypocrisy of the West and Fiscal Paradise
Unnoticed, We Are Close to the Destruction of Our Planet
We Need Statesman and Values but We Get Selfish Politicians and Cynics
A Decalogue to Understand Terrorism and Its Consequences
Are We Entering Into a Long Term Stagnation?
Boutros Boutros Ghali, Turning Point in the History of United Nations
Europe Is Disintegrating While Its Citizens Watch Indifferent
The Lesson from Davos: No Connection to Reality
Christmas, the Weather, the Republicans and the Rest of Us
Of Democracy and Climate – Two Lessons from Paris
Military Security and Human Security
How Much is Left of Syrian in the Syrian War?
Paris, the Refugees and Europe
A Politically Incorrect Reflection on the Paris Massacre
Global Threat, Global Response
The West Vote for a Better Yesterday
From European Union to Just a Common Market
Misinformation Hides Real Dimension of Greek "Bailout"
The Kiss of Death for the Original European Dream
The Hidden Truth Behind the Greek Drama
Greece – A Sad Story of the European Establishment
Immigration, Myths and the Irresponsibility of Europe
Voracious Finance Growing Like a Cancer
The Crisis of the Left and the Decline of Europe and the United States
The West and Its Self-Assumed Right to Intervene
A Guide to the Religious Conflict in the Arab World
Blissful Ignorance Makes the West Slide into Mishaps
Pillar of Neoliberal Thinking Is Vacillating
It Should Be Clear What to Expect from the World Social Forum
Foreign Policy Is in the Hands of Sleepwalkers
What if Youth Now Fight for Social Change, But From the Right?
The Exceptional Destiny of U.S. Foreign Policy
Climate Change: Governments Say All the Right Things But Do Exactly the Opposite
Global Governance and Common Values: the Unavoidable Debate
Of Banks, Inequality and Citizens
The Paris Killings – A Fatal Trap for Europe
Ten Major Handicaps Facing 2015
The Steady Decline of Social Europe
The "Incestuous Relations" Between Governments and Energy Corporations
Four Key Reasons to Understand the Irresistible Attraction of Radical Islam
Europe Is Positioning Itself Outside World Arena
Planet Racing Towards Catastrophe and Politics Just Looking On
OP-ED: International Relations, the U.N. and Inter Press Service
Ever Wondered Why the World is a Mess?
Economic Growth Is Anything But "A Rising Tide Lifting All Boats"
Banks, Financial Institutions and Citizens — The Urgent Need to Update the Seven Deadly Sins
The Decline of the Middle Class
The Rich Complain That We Do Not Love Them
The Free Market Fundamentalists Are Now in Europe
The 'European Dream' Going the Way of the 'American Dream'
Thatcher, Reagan and Their "Revolutions"
Cyprus: Do You Understand What Has Really Happened?
Hugo Chávez's legacy to Latin America
"The Tide Is Growing, But The System Does Not Realise It"
The Palestine Drama, Public Theories and Hidden Realities
China Opening a Confrontation on the Sea
After Two Lost Decades, Japan Went to Sleep
Japan – Ethics, Democracy, Growth
China, Japan Brewing a Serious Conflict
A Personal Experience with the American Justice System
Finance's Ethics: a Leap into the Past


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Hollywood A-Lister Scarlett Johansson has opened up about the challenges of motherhood.
Speaking out on the red carpet at the amFAR event in NYC on February 8th, the Captain America star said; "I don't profess to know anything about parenting. (Not) anything more than anybody else. But being a working mum is an incredible challenge and it's an incredible gift."
ScarJo is mum to two year old daughter Rose Dorothy.
The newly single 32-year-old, who's just split from French artist husband Romain Dauriac after two years of marriage, added; "I think you always feel a little bit of guilt. If you're at work you feel like you're missing out on those special moments with your kid. If you're with your kid, you feel like you're not giving enough to your job. It's a balance."
With a career as hot as Scarlett's it's no wonder she's found the parenting/work juggle tough at times. She has two films out this year including Ghost in the Shell and Rock That Body and she's currently working on Isle of Dogs and Avengers: Infinity War.
She's also admitted she's finds it hard to switch off from work mode. "Whenever I'm taking time off, all I'm thinking about is working," she has said.
Scarlett, who was honoured at the amFAR event for her work in raising awareness of HIV/AIDS also bravely admitted that she's struggling. "I have a lot of huge admiration for working moms. I'm barely, barely holding it together."
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Iran holds one of the largest energy resources in the world so it will not be an ambitious goal to have one of the world's largest energy exchanges in Iran.
As one the major oil and gas producing countries, holding the world's largest known reserves of hydrocarbon resources, Iran approach stipulated in vision 2025 to promote its role in the region in terms of economic, political, scientific and etc. Establishment of Energy Exchange would help boost the Iranian energy economy and the country's whole economy in general.
With the commissioning of this market to buy and sell energy financing for producers, distributors and consumers of energy, daily energy price discovery, risk coverage, financial transparency, facilitate the exchange of energy and reduce the transaction costs of providing energy exchanges has formed.
Actors in the energy exchanges electrical trades include energy-stock company, the Securities and Exchange Organization, Management Company, Central Depository company, brokerage firms, companies, network management, Tavanir company, electricity consumers and electricity suppliers.


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Wesley Students Present Research at UMBC Symposium
Posted October 31st, 2014 at 3:31pm
Wesley College science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) students Megan Durrant, Jasbir Deol, Catherine Gross, Alora Wilson, Ariel Bilbrough, Dionne Williams, James Welsh, Kyle Frame and John Dougherty presented posters at the 17th Undergraduate Research Symposium in the Chemical and Biological Sciences at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) in Baltimore, Md. on October 25.
The symposium is open exclusively to undergraduate students in the STEM areas of biology, chemistry and biological chemistry. The event sees about 200 mentor-approved contributions from more than 400 aspiring scientists. Wesley's students showcased research they obtained during participation in the 2014 Delaware-IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE)/Delaware-Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) summer internship program.
Dr. Stephanie Stotts, Wesley assistant professor of environmental science, served as the mentor for both Frame and Welsh. The two students were also supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF)-EPSCoR program.
Durrant, Deol, Gross, Wilson, Bilbrough and Williams were mentored by Dr. Malcolm D'Souza, professor of chemistry. Durant, Deol, Gross and Wilson were supported through the National Institute of Health-National Institute of General Medical Sciences-INBRE program. Williams and Bilbrough received funding for their research via NSF-EPSCoR support.
Financial support was provided through the Delaware EPSCoR (Experimental Project to Stimulate Competitive Research) program funded by the National Science Foundation and the State of Delaware DEDO program under grant number IIA EPS-1301765.
Financial support was provided through the Delaware INBRE (IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence) program funded by an Institutional Development Award (IDeA) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences – NIGMS at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the State of Delaware DEDO program under grant number P20 GM103446.


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As my head lamp threw out an eerie green light that danced down the game trail we were on, I reviewed the game plan in my mind. We planned to climb the mountain near our camp in the dark and be at the bedding area shortly after daybreak. With any luck, we would catch some unsuspecting elk heading to their beds.
We were taking a diagonal approach to the top and walking slowly to keep ourselves from sweating too much. Lesson number one…sweat equals stink.
As every hunter knows an elk's sense of smell is its number one defensive tool. In areas frequented with elk that are somewhat use to occasional human scent and the danger it implies, proximity is important. If an elk catches your scent close, it's adios—-see you later. If the smell is faint, they still leave for safer grounds, but take their time doing it.
In areas where elk seldom encounter humans, one sniff and away they go. These areas are wilderness areas or vast private ranches where humans don't often venture.
One mile into our walk, we stop to take off a layer of clothing and put our lamps away. Twilight fades away and we begin to make out objects without the aid of artificial light. We are still a good distance from the summit, but well below it.
Suddenly Joe stops and says," I smell elk!"
Yes, elk give off a definite pungent odor and when you're close it's pretty strong. The whole sense of smell factor goes both ways. At first, I can't smell it, but soon, the scent filters down. We now cautiously continue as daylight lights up the mountain.
Walking is anything but easy as the mountain, though it has a gradual grade, has a lot of ravines that open up into tentacles that work their way down the hill to the flat lands. The vegetation is a combination of oak trees, oak brush, pinon juniper, aspen and jack pines.
If we encounter elk it will be at close quarters. 200 yards later, we think we hear a cow mew. 25 yards later it's definitely a cow call and not just one. We are closing in on a herd.
We decide to stay below the herd and continue to parallel them. We still can't see them, but we can hear and smell them. We go up and down a few ravines and still no visual contact. We approach the ravines with caution, because they open up and sometimes we have to hustle across open areas to keep from being detected.
As we climb down and across the third ravine, Joe drops to a kneeling position and I follow suit. Above and to our left, two cows and a calf are slowly feeding and moving to our right. We continue to hear cow calls above us and to the right. It's a big herd. We wait until we can only see their butts, then we move with them. In the meantime we hear our first bugle several yards above us and to our right. The bull wants the cows to pick up the pace.
As we enter our fourth ravine, we catch a glimpse of a large set of antlers moving between the trees, the bull is herding the cows. Moving in seems like it would be mission impossible as we are able to see parts of cows in numerous small openings above us.
Carefully, we start to cross another opening, when Joe drops down again. Two elk bodies are framed in the dense oak brush. A step or two in either direction just might give him a shot. At what, we are not sure, but it is an elk and the hunt is either sex.
Meat in the freezer is our priority even though a big bull is traveling with the herd and I'm sure several satellite bulls are also in the vicinity. From experience a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, so we wait for the opportunity.
We both have arrows nocked and focus on the oak brush 30 yards away, above and to our right. We are vulnerable as we are in the edge of a large opening.
A twig snapped loudly behind me and to my right—IT seems only feet away!
Joe turned around first, looked at me and mouthed spike!
I slowly start to turn so that I can draw. I know as soon as Joe sees me draw he will cow call. Hopefully the spike will pause long enough for me to get a shot. As I slowly turn, I can see that he is looking up and back at the two elk in front of us. I take in a big breath and start to draw when…..
BOOM!!! A high-powered rifle fires from behind us and all hell breaks loose—the spike drops on its tracks, his legs flutter for a moment, then he dies. The mountain explodes with elk scattering everywhere—then silence.
Once he realizes what has just happened, Joe jumps to his feet, runs and hovers over the spike and hurls a barrage of "choice words" at the poacher who just killed the spike in a bow-only hunt and only feet from where I am.
The coward (Joe had several other words for him), of course, never makes his presence known. Apparently he spotted the spike, and unbeknownst to him, never knew we were in the vicinity.
After checking my drawers, I join Joe and though still angered, somewhat shaken but relieved we were not hurt, we decide to continue our hunt. We also mark the area and hope to find a game warden to report the crime.
If there was one positive, our camo must have been pretty good. The poacher had no idea we were there before the shot. We were not able to find a game warden, but did report the incident later.
We did return to the scene of the crime two days later, but the bears, coyotes, mountain lions, buzzards, crows and even bees had wiped the area clean. Only a few bones and skin remained. Nothing goes to waste in the back country.
In 35 years of hunting, we have never encountered a close call like that one and hope we never will.


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Ep 28: The Chit Chat in the Market
Welcome to the Rapid Recap and thank you for joining me. It's march 12, 2015 and today I'm calling it "The Chit Chat" and that's because I have a special announcement from one of the members that posted in YouTube the other week.
I decide to do something a little bit on special or different and I'll let you know what that is here in one second. So for those of you that purchased the course, I want to thank you for getting the course. T his course has been a huge success for my eyes. I've got a lot of people that said it was one of the best technical analysis courses that they've ever had or watched or studied.
I really appreciate the feedback because if you don't get a lot out of it then it wasn't a winning situation for me no matter how many sales were made, it's to me a win is when you learn, when you get something out of the material, when it takes you to another level, when you get any insight, when the light bulb goes on that's a win.
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If you haven't heard we released this training with technical analysis and it is a massive course and I did put up that video that gives you a little summary of that course and a its 14 DVD's or 17 modules that's 10 hours-long right there plus there's also bonuses which is the 235-page study guide and manual and then you have three boldness DVD's and also 30 days to the critical charts and for a whopping less than three hundred dollars.
This special probably run for another term week and a half or so and then and then I'll be done because for those of you that know me I don't do a lot of specials and promotions. I don't have the time for them and I just do the promotions once we do a new course or new launch and for anybody that's been with me has studied my material or is connected with me then they get the discounted price.
In either case you do get the physical copies and versions of these DVD's of these videos, the manual and all the stuff you get the physical versions if you live in the United States. Now I think most of my customers are in the United States, ninety-five percent of them are.
If you do want the physical copies of these and you are international then you just just email us and we can set you up in terms of paying the additional shipping rates and then you can get the physical copies for the spy otherwise everybody gets instant online access and few courses did ship out this last week but the majority of them are going to be shipped out probably in the next hour 4 to 5 days.
We had to manufacture a few more because we did sell out completely within the first day I just didn't expect that and I didn't see it coming but people are hungry and people are very motivated to learn and to continue their education.
Thank you for that and they should be coming soon. I'll let you know as soon as things evolve. So if you want to get this course just go to this link right here at the top and you can register for the material but if you've purchased other courses in the past you can just click here to login and get the get the course from there.
Now again it is a little bit, it's a 40 percent of the other material is similar to the stock trading foundation green course and that is just because the green course is more about kind of nibbling on a lot of different components and parts of Technical Analysis and it covers other things like stops and money management and risk rule but this course is all about technical analysis and we also do a lot of examples in this course where as with the green course there's not a ton of examples.
With this in mind let's move forward to the special Chit-Chat that I wanted to let you know about so I hope he doesn't mind me using this or posting it but it is public so this one comment was posted on YouTube and it got me thinking.
It got me but moving in how can I contribute, how can I help people out and you can read this comment if you like but this comment really connected with me, it resonated with me and I know that everybody's at different levels. Some people are at a more advanced level in their life or more progressive level, they have more money to invest let's say.
Other people are in a mid-level, some people are restarting their lives. Some people are just getting it going so we're all at different levels and that's perfectly fine it's completely with wherever you are because you are where you are you know but we're all trying to improve to get better to contribute.
For me I find that time is one of the most precious things that I value and if I could have compressed sometime with anything that I do, whether that's buying a book or buying course, going to seminars, if I compress my education or compress some of those mistakes that I made in my early years and just not do those mistakes then that would be phenomenal because you can't buy more time and if somebody was there to really just guide me.
If somebody was there to reach out their hand and say "hey you know let me let me help you out, let me talk to you, let me at least give me some ideas and insights" of you know maybe a person I was or just a little bit better than I was or may be a person that just had my best interest in mind or was going to give me the real truth and honest opinion without being too biased then I would've definitely taken that hand that reach out and if it was available.
With this in mind because I connected so heavily with this comment, I don't know it just made me start thinking about things and I know that there's a lot of you that are at a different level. Some of you are just starting out in trading, some of you are teenagers, some of you are in college, we got some retired folks and we have a whole bunch of different people all over in different situations.
What I want to do is for the people that connected with me, basically people that connect on YouTube that go out of their way to put the time and energy. People that I've seen in the YouTube channel people that have emailed m and people that have purchased material, if I start recognizing your name and so forth you have a better shot of getting this kind of our better shot at me choosing you.
What I've done is really set up this Coaching Free Chat so if you go to the website here and you go to Free 20-minute Chit Chat pretty much anyone that fills out this form right here there's going to be a form fill it out name, email, address, phone number and Skype ID.
If you're international and you choose your times, times that you're available check mark all of them if all of them work for you and then some things that you want to discuss or your goals, your ideas and what I want to do, is I want to give you a free 20 minute Chit-Chat a free consultation kind of.
Whether you want to call it a consultation that's totally up to you this isn't like my mentoring program. I only mentor a handful of people per year and that's because we spend a lot of time on the phone. I spent a lot of time with them you know a one or two hours per week and that just choose up my time and that is why I value my time so heavily.
For those of you that have been motivated for those of you that have been struggling whether that's in you know trading strategy, personal investment, some goals, and some business strategies you know because I do also a lot of business strategies and consultations as well.
If you believe that I can help you or you want someone to reach out and just chat with you to give you some insights about maybe a business plan that you're aiming to start or maybe a stocks system strategy that you're thinking about implementing and you want my opinion then you can fill out this form and I will call you and we will chat and we will go over some things I'll maybe give you some insight kind of like a brainstorming session of things to think about.
I can't promise I'll be perfectly nice about every little detail and say that "Oh good job" I will give you the honest truth of what I think about your strategy or what you're doing and maybe give you a way to think about it.
It's not about me a hand holding you but it's about me giving you some guidance. It's about me teaching you making you think because in the end you know giving you some ideas to think about so that way you can make the proper decision or maybe some concerns whether that's in your trading strategy whether that's in business goals, whether that's in your life goals, whether you're a student in your investments, whatever it is.
If you believe that you need some guidance or you want sometimes or you just want to chit chat for let's say 20 minutes and I've limited to 20 minutes because again I value my time heavily then just go ahead and fill out this form.
As a disclaimer again, I'm not a personal advisor, I'm not certified in anything that you probably will ask me you know it's just basically to give you some things to think about and I'm going to cherry pick some people that I've seen around. I will try and reach everybody that fills out the form but I will give priority to those people that have been around and been motivated and have been commenting and interacting with other people to help contribute.
I'll recognize your name in the rooms in the chat rooms. Not the chat room but on YouTube and so forth and I will try to set a limit to about 20 minutes for the calls and I'm just testing this out to see how it works because if I find that it's too demanding on my time I may not be able to do it.
What we've done and what I've asked actually was that we set, I think we have 20 per week entries that we can do. So if this entry form gets full and it'll tell you that it's full then you can go ahead and try it another week and then fill it out.
I don't want to dwell too much on this it's just a free thing that I want to do to contribute to help you out that if you're struggling and you want some idea and some opinion then you can just fill out this form with your topics, questions or issues you want to discuss and then I will reach out to you during one of these time slots and maybe we can Chit Chat, give you some insight and you know be better and get better.
With that in mind let's move on to some stocks sorry about the little on chit-chat so I do want to cover some stocks today as well and I'm and let's get cooking. First off, let's start with the Dow Jones we got a 260 point run or gain today and I'm still watching kind of these highs on the stock. It is making these higher lows right here if you draw the trend line but to me that the market is a stock pickers market.
There are some stock picks out there that I'm watching and some stocks that I'm in. So for example we talked about this one last week. Cracker Barrel right here we had a huge spike we had a consolidation and now the stock continues to move higher. It's a classic set up working really well for me you know you just sit on it so you know you get in to the trade, you let it sit and then adjust here for about two weeks and now it's continuing higher.
You know what's not to like about that one. That's kind of my strategy, that's what I'm doing, is I'm picking very specific stocks in the market. I'm not trying to trade every single thing I'm just looking to pick specific stocks that are moving well, acting well, behaving well and you just sit you get into the trade and you sit.
It's that simple and you don't have to trade every single day. I know that there are day trading chat rooms out there. There's people trading every single day and you can do that that's a whole different game for lot of different type of personalities, those are A personalities that just want to trade every day and you know they feel like they need to trade every day and that's okay it's a different of trading it and if it works for you great.
For me I like longer term positions, I like stable positions for the swing trades and they typically go longer and also I just am a more calm about it.
Cracker Barrel we talked about last week and it's doing pretty well.
NSP same thing here we talked about this one if you take a look at the weekly there was break. Another little consolidation just continues to power higher, working really well and holding up nicely.
AAPL let's talk about some of the big boys so here at this stock broke higher, here beyond this level and the stock continued to move and now it's pulling back. If it bounces here at this one 119.75, 120 level may step and add.
Another opportunity or potential to add is if it breaks kind of this channel and moves to the upside so it's another nibbling opportunity however for now I think it would be a little premature wait to see if this 119 level hold so you want to see that holding.
Facebook popping a little higher today but it's on weak volume. My projection again if it comes back to hear it'll be another great short opportunity because it's moving up with lighter volume. Now if it changes things around then of course I can change my opinion.
If it powers higher through this level then of course you'd want to get out up but right now we've had it rejected once, twice, three times, four times these highs so stocks typically repeat so why would I think that this time would be any different. Instead I'd rather wait to see if it gets right here, if it gets there and it starts showing weakness then again it's another great short opportunity and you let it ride for a few dollars or whatever.
This was a three and a half dollar run and again you can do the same thing or it can run down to 74 so who knows but you're watching these price levels.
Netflix, we talked about in the critical charts as well this stock, watching this level this was your short entry point right there you know it's a quick short in terms of time frame because the stock moves quick. So got in it short right here right after breaking this and took some profits quickly because this one has some good solid support right here.
A lot of volume I've got a gap break here but it did breaks a critical level there and now it's balancing so I still have part of the position but if it comes up here and starts rejecting you could see it go lower so watch it closely and we'll keep an eye on it but if it breaks that line right here at 459-460 you could see it to come back and retest these 486 so it was a good run and of course you're watching this gap.
This gap has a weakness so always watch these gaps.
In Tesla we had a lot of different ABCD-patterns here. Now in general you can see that the stock has been moving downward and if we go with A to B, B to C, and C to D, there's our ABCD pattern. So it starts creating this pattern that again we got ABCD pattern. We have our resistance at these levels.
There's a lot of things that are pushing this stock lower and if you break it down into the weekly you can also see that we have this critical line that stretches all the way here and if it breaks that if it breaks that you could see some trouble to get to 120 and also some other things in the volume like right here are also showing you some key things ties.
The volume is also showing you that "hey you know it has been acting weak lately". Now if it breaks out right here and starts moving to the upside things could change and you want to see a nice volume spike like this one to the upside and then I could say Okay I'm long, I'm getting in long but for the time being where's the risk and where's the rewards you always want to measure that.
On this stock, the better reward is to the down side you're next entry point would be right here to the short side if it breaks there than you could see me stepping in and adding to the short position so stock has been moving down pretty well for quite some time.
Also one more that i want to tackle is WYNN. I believe we talked about it last week. I know I've been mentioning it that this retracement right here was on lighter volume and you can see that lighter volume right here you can see that it's pretty much not breaking these highs of that volume bars.
Then now we got these volume bars that are coming in with this huge cluster at this huge group of red and again great shorting opportunity and you can see this bearish volume rising here. The retracement volume right here was weak and then again more volume coming in.
The volume is the basics it's the basics of everything it's the energy. Many indicators playoff the volume and if you learn to read the volume you don't need all those indicators because you can read the volume. For people that don't know how to read the volume that's why they use all those crazy indicators because they don't know how to read volume and they need or they think they need that they'd want that indicator MCD's these all these different things.
Really if you get good at reading the volume you don't really need those indicators because it's right there most of them, lot of them are based on volume and price and the action of how it's moving so that's really the if you're if you're reading you'll be light years ahead of a lot of people and light years ahead of me as well when I was first trading.
Alright here's a another stock ACAD, this one major sell-off, major down volume and again if you take a look at it we're setting up, you can say that here was the initial trend line however at the trend line got a little bit accelerated so there was the next trend line. If it breaks this trend line of support, it could be a great shorting opportunity.
It is a pharmaceutical company that tend to lose a lot of money on pharmaceutical companies actually it's kind of want to those old things that I'm scared of a little bit because I have had one of my first major losses about the thirteen years ago or something like that in a pharmaceutical company.
Biotechs they whip you around so always be cautious with these companies. Sometimes they spike heavy and then they sell off quick. So always be cautious of those things.
ESP, same thing moving pretty well watching these highs right here, it could be another adding opportunity but we've consolidated here and then we powered higher consolidated here again little pattern retracement and then powered higher and now again we're approaching those highs and we could come go up and go higher again so this stock has been moving pretty well.
TWOU, I don't know what this stock is, it just kind of caught my radar it's a new company. Its trading 1.9 million shares for the day and you can see it's moving past these highs personally I like trading those stable companies but this one has some volume coming in however it is new so always be cautious with sell-offs on these newer companies but you can see there it is clean break.
Watch for that second day follow-through and then you can see it move higher if it has that second day follow through.
There you go that's the Rapid Recap. Again if you want a free consultation don't be scared it's just my way to chat with you get inside your head, if you just want some help just think of it as a friend a mentor.
I want to contribute and again we're limiting the registrations just please try and be as respectful as possible to the time and respectful and positive on the phone callers as well I just don't want to deal with the negativity.
Fill out the information if you like as best in detail and you know just my best way I feel that I can contribute back and one last final point if I've helped you over the years for those of you that have followed me, probably sometime in the summer we'll redesign the website and we'll put up some testimonials, we'll put up some people's reviews of some products and things like that.
If you have some testimonials that you want to send to me whether that's about the YouTube channel, the lessons about the courses whatever it is if we've interacted on email then just go ahead send me an email and just attach a head shot if you would, if you don't want to attach a headshot that's fine too and we'll probably put that up on the website when it gets redesigned maybe in the summer time.
That would just help me out a lot and I would appreciate it. In either case thanks again for watching the Rapid Recap. I truly appreciate your time, I appreciate you sticking with me and if you have any questions you can also use that email as well to just reach out and ask your questions.
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I remember dreading Mondays but I'm at a place where it doesn't matter if it's Monday or Friday, my zest for the day is the same! I had to learn to get to that point but I just wanted to encourage anyone with a case of the Monday Blues. It's not the day, it's the life you're creating. What is it that you're really dreading about starting another week? That might be a good indication of a change you need to make in your life. I encourage you to digest that food for thought. Here's to being grateful for every day just because we're here to make the most of it!
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Our second part of our tour was the boat ride on the Mekong Delta. It was crazy to go through the delta with these long stalks of bamboo surrounding you. I couldn't even imagine how it was back in the Vietnam war. I loved the fact that the woman driving, rowing, sticking (whatever you call it) our boat had no shoes on. She just rowed silently through the stalks. Amazing to experience.
After our boat ride we went to a coconut factory. They showed us how the coconut was ground up and made into candy and other food products including coconut wine. I was waiting for our coconut wine tasting, but that never happened 😦 When they were making the coconut candy there were tons of flies landing on the candy and they would just wrap it up. Kinda gross, but I'm sure I've eaten worse before.
After the coconut factory we took a horse and buggy ride in the pouring rain to lunch that was also on the Mekong. Our tour came with a meal, but if you wanted to you could purchase other fine entrees like snake, rabbit or squirrel. Um no thank you.
After lunch we had the option of taking a bike ride by ourselves in the local village. So we hopped on the rickety bikes and rode off. Of course the hubby tries to pop a wheelie on these old rusted bikes and his chain comes off. He put it back on, but it came off again, and again, and again, until it finally wouldn't go on anymore. He basically busted the bike and got his hands all greasy from trying to fix it. He had to carry his bike all the way back to the restaurant. My hubby has the worst luck. Ah, but it was pretty hilarious I have to say 🙂
Our bike ride was the end of our tour and then we high tailed it back the 2 1/2 hours back to our hotel after some quick shopping at the port.
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May 17th, 2007
no contest
So, we have a new Prime Minister. And we haven't even got rid of the old one yet.
The attempt by some members of the Labour Left to raise some kind of challenge to Gordon Brown's candidacy foundered embarrassingly, so we will have a coronation rather than a contest. I am really really annoyed about this. At least when Thatcher faced her Night Of The Long Knives there was a leadership contest afterwards; we've got Gordon Brown as Prime Minister, if the old stories are to be believed, chiefly because of a deal he and Tony made in a restaurant in Islington before Labour even came to power. God, he looked so smug today.
On the other hand, I'm watching the breaking news about Paul Wolfowitz's resignation from the World Bank right now, so the day hasn't been a complete loss.


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If you are reading this, and happen to be white, you probably haven't realized this yet, but you are a racist. That's correct, the very color of your skin has dictated that you are undoubtedly a racist. Do not try to explain that you have black friends, or your spouse is black. Just own up to the fact that you are a racist.
That message was brought to you by George Yancy, a professor of philosophy at Emory University. Yancy is the author of the books, "Pursuing Trayvon Martin," "Black Bodies, White Gazes," and "Look, a White!"
In an open letter published in the New York Times, Yancy asked all White people who were reading his message to reach deep down in themselves to admit that they are racist.
It's okay, he explained, because after all, he himself has a problem that he is dealing with. Yancy self identified as a sexist. He explained that because he is an academic as well as a philosopher, he is supposed to be one of the "enlightened ones." However, his sexual objectification of women has led him to feel that he might be "jeopardizing his academic career."
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Yancy quotes legal scholar Stephanie M. Wildman as being a white person who has realized that she is a racist,
"I simply believe that no matter how hard I work at not being racist, I still am. Because part of racism is systemic, I benefit from the privilege that I am struggling to see."
In other words, she believes that she is a racist no matter what actions she takes because "the system" itself is racist. Another enlightened individual Yancy decided to include in his letter to White people was from a journalism professor,
"I like to think I have changed, even though I routinely trip over lingering effects of that internalized racism and the institutional racism around me. Every time I walk into a store at the same time as a black man and the security guard follows him and leaves me alone to shop, I am benefiting from white privilege."
Yancy's message seems to be for you, a white person, to look deep within yourself and admit that you are a racist, because only then will the country's race problems begin to be solved.
Yet another Liberal with the message that white people are racists whether they realize it or not. Since the premise of his argument is making a judgement on a group of people based on their skin color, in this case white, rather than the content of their character, Professor Yancy has only accomplished labeling himself as a racist. Aren't you glad he's teaching at a college and preparing eager-minded students for the real world?
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