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For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
May 19, 2003
Fact Sheet: Announcements Related to the Visit of President Arroyo
Counterterrorism Equipment and Training: $30 million in new grant aid for equipment and training of Armed Forces of the Philippines targeted at capabilities for countering terrorist groups within Philippines.
Development Assistance to Conflict Areas: $30 million in new bilateral development assistance for Mindanao and support for the peace process with the MILF, as appropriate.
Establishment of Combat Engineering Unit: $25 million in new grant assistance to train and equip a combat engineering unit and provide other military needs in the war on terror. The engineering unit will be able to do civic action and humanitarian projects in conflict zones.
U.S. Military Support to Philippine Counterterrorism Operations: Agreement to provide U.S. military support to Armed Forces of the Philippines-led operations against the Abu Sayyaf Group.
Support to Philippine Military Mobility: 20 UH-1H helicopters, as they become available and funding for refurbishment and transport is secured; an additional 10 UH-1H helicopters to be provided to ensure sufficient spare parts.
Comprehensive Security Review: Launching of a comprehensive review of Philippine security needs and how the United States can best support Philippine military modernization and reform.
U.S. Defense Goods and Services: Up to $10 million in Presidential Drawdown Authority for equipment, spare parts and maintenance.
Major Non NATO Ally Status: Commitment to designate the Philippines a Major Non NATO Ally (MNNA) to allow U.S. and Philippines to work together on military research and development and give Philippines greater access to American defense equipment and supplies.
Reciprocal Presidential Visit: Acceptance by President Bush of President Arroyo's invitation to visit Manila in October 2003.
Remittance Facilitation Initiative: Launching of an initiative to facilitate and reduce transaction fees on remittances from overseas Filipinos, which could save Filipino workers as much as an estimated $300 million annually.
Generalized System of Preferences Benefits: Agreement for tariff-free, GSP benefits to 8 specific products requested by the Philippines.
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MediaWiki 1.30.0 installation
- Language
- Existing wiki
- Welcome to MediaWiki!
- Connect to database
- Upgrade existing installation
- Database settings
- Name
- Options
- Install
- Complete!
UpgradingThis file provides an overview of the MediaWiki upgrade process. For help with
specific problems, check
- the documentation at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Contents
- the mediawiki-l mailing list archive at http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/
- the bug tracker at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/
for information and workarounds to common issues.
- 1 Overview
- 2 Upgrading from 1.16 or earlier
- 3 Upgrading from 1.10 or earlier
- 4 Upgrading from 1.8 or earlier
- 5 Upgrading from 1.7 or earlier
- 6 Upgrading from 1.6 or earlier
- 7 Upgrading from 1.5 or earlier
- 8 Upgrading from 1.4.2 or earlier
- 9 Upgrading from 1.4rc1 or earlier betas
- 10 Upgrading from 1.3 or earlier
- 11 Upgrading from 1.2 or earlier
- 12 Upgrading from 1.1 or earlier
Comprehensive documentation on upgrading to the latest version of the software is available at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Upgrading
Consult the release notes
Before doing anything, stop and consult the release notes supplied with the new version of the software. These detail bug fixes, new features and functionality, and any particular points that may need to be noted during the upgrade procedure.
Backup first
It is imperative that, prior to attempting an upgrade of the database schema, you take a complete backup of your wiki database and files and verify it. While the upgrade scripts are somewhat robust, there is no guarantee that things will not fail, leaving the database in an inconsistent state.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Backing_up_a_wiki provides an overview of the backup process. You should also refer to the documentation for your database management system for information on backing up a database, and to your operating system documentation for information on making copies of files.
Perform the file upgrade
Download the files for the new version of the software. These are available as a compressed "tar" archive from the Wikimedia Download Service (http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki).
You can also obtain the new files directly from our Git source code repository.
Replace the existing MediaWiki files with the new. You should preserve the LocalSettings.php file and the "extensions" and "images" directories.
Depending upon your configuration, you may also need to preserve additional directories, including a custom upload directory ($wgUploadDirectory), deleted file archives, and any custom skins.
Perform the database upgrade
As of 1.21, it is possible to separate schema changes (i.e. adding, dropping, or changing tables, fields, or indices) from all other database changes (e.g. populating fields). If you need this capability, see "From the command line" below.
From the web
If you browse to the web-based installation script (usually at /mw-config/index.php) from your wiki installation you can follow the script and upgrade your database in place.
From the command line
From the command line, browse to the "maintenance" directory and run the update.php script to check and update the schema. This will insert missing tables, update existing tables, and move data around as needed. In most cases, this is successful and nothing further needs to be done.
If you need to separate out the schema changes so they can be run by someone with more privileges, then you can use the --schema option to produce a text file with the necessary commands. You can use --schema, --noschema, $wgAllowSchemaUpdates as well as proper database permissions to enforce this separation.
Check configuration settings
The names of configuration variables, and their default values and purposes, can change between release branches, e.g. $wgDisableUploads in 1.4 is replaced with $wgEnableUploads in later versions. When upgrading, consult the release notes to check for configuration changes which would alter the expected behavior of MediaWiki.
Check installed extensions
Extensions usually need to be upgraded at the same time as the MediaWiki core.
In MediaWiki 1.14 some extensions were migrated into the core. Please see the HISTORY section "Migrated extensions" and disable these extensions in your LocalSettings.php
It makes sense to test your wiki immediately following any kind of maintenance procedure, and especially after upgrading; check that page views and edits work normally and that special pages continue to function, etc. and correct errors and quirks which reveal themselves.
You should also test any extensions, and upgrade these if necessary.
Upgrading from 1.16 or earlier
If you have a Chinese or Japanese wiki ($wgLanguageCode is set to one of "zh", "ja", or "yue") and you are using MySQL fulltext search, you will probably want to update the search index.
In the "maintenance" directory, run the updateDoubleWidthSearch.php script. This will update the searchindex table for those pages that contain double-byte latin characters.
Upgrading from 1.10 or earlier
If upgrading from before 1.11, and you are using a wiki as a commons repository, make sure that it is updated as well. Otherwise, errors may arise due to database schema changes.
Upgrading from 1.8 or earlier
MediaWiki 1.9 and later no longer keep default localized message text in the database; 'MediaWiki:'-namespace pages that do not exist in the database are simply transparently filled-in on demand.
The upgrade process will delete any 'MediaWiki:' pages which are left in the default state (last edited by 'MediaWiki default'). This may take a few moments, similar to the old initial setup.
Note that the large number of deletions may cause older edits to expire from the list on Special:Recentchanges, although the deletions themselves will be hidden by default. (Click "show bot edits" to list them.)
See RELEASE-NOTES for more details about new and changed options.
Upgrading from 1.7 or earlier
$wgDefaultUserOptions now contains all the defaults, not only overrides. If you're setting this as a complete array(), you may need to change it to set only specific items as recommended in DefaultSettings.php.
Upgrading from 1.6 or earlier
$wgLocalTZoffset was in hours, it is now using minutes.
If upgrading from before 1.7, you may want to run refreshLinks.php to ensure new database fields are filled with data.
Upgrading from 1.5 or earlier
Major changes have been made to the schema from 1.4.x. The updater has not been fully tested for all conditions, and might well break.
On a large site, the schema update might take a long time. It might explode, or leave your database half-done or otherwise badly hurting.
Among other changes, note that Latin-1 encoding (ISO-8859-1) is no longer supported. Latin-1 wikis will need to be upgraded to UTF-8; an experimental command-line upgrade helper script, 'upgrade1_5.php', can do this -- run it prior to 'update.php' or the web upgrader.
NOTE that upgrade1_5.php does not work properly with recent versions of MediaWiki. If upgrading a 1.4.x wiki, you should upgrade to 1.5 first. upgrade1_5.php has been removed from MediaWiki 1.21.
If you absolutely cannot make the UTF-8 upgrade work, you can try doing it by hand: dump your old database, convert the dump file using iconv as described here: http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/05/jbartsh_utf-8.html and then reimport it. You can also convert filenames using convmv, but note that the old directory hashes will no longer be valid, so you will also have to move them to new destinations.
Message changes:
- A number of additional UI messages have been changed from HTML to wikitext, and will need to be manually fixed if customized.
Configuration changes from 1.4.x:
$wgDisableUploads has been replaced with $wgEnableUploads.
$wgWhitelistAccount has been replaced by the 'createaccount' permission key in $wgGroupPermissions. To emulate the old effect of setting:
$wgWhitelistAccount['user'] = 0;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;
$wgWhitelistEdit has been replaced by the 'edit' permission key. To emulate the old effect of setting:
$wgWhitelistEdit = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;
If $wgWhitelistRead is set, you must also disable the 'read' permission for it to take affect on anonymous users:
$wgWhitelistRead = array( "Main Page", "Special:Userlogin" ); $wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = false;
Note that you can disable/enable several other permissions by modifying this configuration array in your LocalSettings.php; see DefaultSettings.php for the complete default permission set.
If using Memcached, you must enabled it differently now:
$wgUseMemCached = true;
should be replaced with:
$wgMainCacheType = CACHE_MEMCACHED;
Upgrading from 1.4.2 or earlier
1.4.3 has added new fields to the sitestats table. These fields are optional and help to speed Special:Statistics on large sites. If you choose not to run the database upgrades, everything will continue to work in 1.4.3.
You can apply the update by running maintenance/update.php, or manually run the SQL commands from this file:
Upgrading from 1.4rc1 or earlier betas
The logging table has been altered from 1.4beta4 to 1.4beta5 and again in 1.4.0 final. Copy in the new files and use the web installer to upgrade, or the command-line maintenance/update.php.
If you cannot use the automated installers/updaters, you may update the table by manually running the SQL commands in these files:
maintenance/archives/patch-log_params.sql maintenance/archives/patch-logging-title.sql
Upgrading from 1.3 or earlier
This should generally go smoothly.
If you keep your LocalSettings.php, you may need to change the style paths to match the newly rearranged skin modules. Change these lines:
$wgStylePath = "$wgScriptPath/stylesheets"; $wgStyleDirectory = "$IP/stylesheets"; $wgLogo = "$wgStylePath/images/wiki.png";
to this:
$wgStylePath = "$wgScriptPath/skins"; $wgStyleDirectory = "$IP/skins"; $wgLogo = "$wgStylePath/common/images/wiki.png";
As well as new messages, the processing of some messages has changed. If you have customized them, please compare the new format using Special:Allmessages or the relevant LanguageXX.php files:
- copyrightwarning
- dberrortext
- editingcomment (was named commentedit)
- editingsection (was named sectionedit)
- numauthors
- numedits
- numtalkauthors
- numtalkedits
- numwatchers
- protectedarticle
- searchresulttext
- showhideminor
- unprotectedarticle
Note that the 1.3 beta releases included a potential vulnerability if PHP is configured with register_globals on and the includes directory is served to the web. For general safety, turn register_globals *off* if you don't _really_ need it for another package.
If your hosting provider turns it on and you can't turn it off yourself, send them a kind note explaining that it can expose their servers and their customers to attacks.
Upgrading from 1.2 or earlier
If you've been using the MediaWiki: namespace for custom page templates, note that things are a little different. The Template: namespace has been added which is more powerful -- templates can include parameters for instance.
If you were using custom MediaWiki: entries for text inclusions, they will *not* automatically be moved to Template: entries at upgrade time. Be sure to go through and check that everything is working properly; you can move them manually or you can try using moveCustomMessages.php in maintenance/archives to do it automatically, but this might break things.
Also, be sure to pick the correct character encoding -- some languages were only available in Latin-1 on 1.2.x and are now available for Unicode as well. If you want to upgrade an existing wiki from Latin-1 to Unicode you'll have to dump the database to SQL, run it through iconv or another conversion tool, and restore it. Sorry.
Upgrading from 1.1 or earlier
This is less thoroughly tested, but should work.
You need to specify the *admin* database username and password to the installer in order for it to successfully upgrade the database structure. You may wish to manually change the GRANTs later.
If you have a very old database (earlier than organized MediaWiki releases in late August 2003) you may need to manually run some of the update SQL scripts in maintenance/archives before the installer is able to pick up with remaining updates.

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JALOBERT, MACÉ, brother-in-law and companion of Jacques Cartier on his voyages. Son of Bertrand Jalobert and Jehanne Maingard, he had married Alizon Des Granches, sister of Cartier's wife, about 1528.
As captain and pilot of the Petite Hermine, Jalobert was a member of the 1535–36 expedition, which included several of Cartier's relatives. The Petite Hermine set sail on 19 May 1535, along with the Grande Hermine and the Emérillon, but it was separated from the others by bad weather from 25 June on, and Jalobert succeeded in rejoining Cartier only at Blanc Sablon, on 26 July. In the autumn of 1535, Jalobert was among those who accompanied Cartier to Hochelaga. He returned to France in July 1536.
In May 1541, Jalobert joined the expedition consisting of five ships which Cartier was responsible for leading to Canada. The crossing from Brittany to Newfoundland took three months; then on 2 September of the same year, Jalobert and Étienne Noël [see Jacques Noël] took to sea again, for Cartier sent them back to report to François I "what had been done and found." What then became of Macé Jalobert? We do not know whether he returned to Canada in 1542 with La Rocque de Roberval's expedition. In 1555 he was still going to sea, because a document describes him as master of the Marguerite Bonaventure sailing out of Saint-Malo. This is the last mention of Jalobert.
Biggar, Documents relating to Cartier and Roberval, 37, 54, 394 n.1, 405, 408–10, 490, 534. Jacques Cartier, documents nouveaux, éd. F. Joüon Des Longrais (Paris, 1888), 130. Les Français en Amérique (Julien), 119, 143, 191. Hoffman, Cabot to Cartier, 186.
© 1966–2023 University of Toronto/Université Laval
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Marcel Trudel, "JALOBERT, MACÉ," in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 1, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed October 4, 2023, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/jalobert_mace_1E.html.
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Customer service is the front line when it comes to external communication with customers. Questions about products or services, complaints, and administrative problems often show up first in this department.
This can take place through various channels, such as social media, the telephone, email, and written correspondence. In dealing with a question, it is important that all information be kept together in an organised fashion. This makes colleagues aware of the nature of a problem, so that they can easily take over or send the matter on to a second-line department.
It is also important to have a powerful analysis tool for questions, to determine where the obstacles lie and which calls need extra attention. This tool will also provide an overview of the "busy days", so that the level of staffing can be adjusted accordingly if necessary.
Integration with Outlook
The Customer Service module of the Archie CRM system features all of that and much more. The telephone link presents an overview of the customer instantly, and allows a call to be placed at the push of a button. The complete integration with Outlook makes communication quick and allows an automatic confirmation to be sent with the call number and the content of the question. When contacting a new person, their details will be stored in the database directly, and linked to all further correspondence and other contact moments associated with this person.
Activities can be created and linked to the call to enable progress monitoring.
Solutions and reporting
Standard solutions are displayed automatically. If a question or problem has been investigated previously, the solutions that were found and actions that were taken will be shown.
Reporting of calls is possible through lists or export to Excel. This is useful for, e.g., the sales team to take along on periodic customer visits.
The Archie CRM Customer Service module makes working on communication towards customers efficient and simple. Whether information arrives by telephone or via social media, Archie CRM's integration with Outlook ensures that everything is neatly recorded and linked with the right contacts and businesses.
If you would like more information about this module, you can always request a live webinar or contact the sales department.
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How Facebook Could Make Foodie Billions By Plugging Instagram Into Graph Search
As Instagram users snap and tag their lastest best meal, Yelp, OpenTable and even FourSquare could be victims of Zuckerberg's appetite.
Instagram snaps of the delicious meal you're about to eat are such a cliché, they played a starring role in CollegeHumor's hilarious takedown of the Facebook-owned photo-sharing site.
But for restaurateurs, these pics are no joke: People are taking a massive number of photos of food, and Instagram's Photo Map feature instantly shows what's being served at a restaurant. That was the rationale behind OpenTable's $10 million acquisition of Foodspotting this week.
New numbers reported by MomentFeed, a startup that helps brands manage location pages on services like Facebook and Foursquare, show what a huge phenomenon this is.
It's not limited to fancy, upscale restaurants in San Francisco and New York; people are taking huge numbers of photos in chain restaurants like the Cheesecake Factory and PF Chang's.
In an 18-day period studied at the end of 2012, users posted 4,899 photos tagged with a Cheesecake Factory location on Instagram. (MomentFeed only analyzed place-tagged photos, not comments or hashtags.)
Those numbers destroy what's happening on Foodspotting, a service dedicated to this particular art form. Instagram had 40 times the number of photos taken at Chevy's locations versus Foodspotting. At Texas Roadhouse, the ratio was 22 times. And those numbers are typical for most chain restaurants.
Yelp has long offered the ability to upload photos alongside reviews. But a spotcheck of the Cheesecake Factory location in downtown San Francisco, a Yelp stronghold, shows 564 photos posted over the past six years. The pace of posting has picked up recently, boosted by Yelp's mobile app. Our rough estimate shows Instagram users posting two to three times more frequently at Cheesecake Factory locations.
"It's obvious Instagram is the real Foodspotting," MomentFeed CEO Rob Reed told Business Insider. "That's why Foodspotting stalled and were acquired. Vertically focused apps don't make it."
We don't think OpenTable bought Foodspotting for its photo database, of course—it's more about bringing mobile and social talent into the company and setting them loose on OpenTable's larger user base. But even then, Instagram has such a huge head start on food photos, we're not sure how OpenTable will ever catch up.
What's the implication for Facebook? Huge, if it can tie the photos together with Graph Search and location pages.
While Graph Search is currently limited, one thing it can do right now is show all the photos taken at a particular location.
Foodspotting and Yelp both excel at offering detailed information about restaurants. On Foodspotting, users tag photos with specific dishes, while on Yelp, they can write free-form reviews whose text can be mined for insights and relevancy.
But most people are visual, and photos mean more to them. At San Francisco's Cheesecake Factory, there are more than 1,000 photos already—and Instagram promises to funnel far more into the maw of Facebook's voracious data machine.
Facebook can also show friends who have been there. Those links, together with photos, constitute a far more visceral kind of recommendation than OpenTable or Yelp, with their much smaller user bases, can currently offer.
So the combination of photos and friends—Facebook's basic formula—could prompt more local advertisers to take Facebook seriously as an advertising vehicle, if they aren't doing so already.
The only real threat to Facebook comes from Foursquare. At the Cheesecake Factory in San Francisco, Foursquare has 890 user photos. And Instagram currently relies on Foursquare to tie location data to specific businesses; users can simultaneously post Instagram photos to Facebook and Foursquare.
Then again, Facebook could well switch Instagram from Foursquare's places database to its own. And as local-business search gets more and more important, it's hard to imagine Facebook isn't thinking about that.


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Unique in many ways, Jopek's novel combines a fast-paced narrative with poetry created by the character of Helcia. Her poems are placed throughout the chapters that explore the events through the separate viewpoints of the four oldest family members: Andrzej and Zofia (the parents), and Helcia and Henryk (the two oldest children). While each experiences their deportation differently, they are united in the hope that "some of us, at least, would survive."
While much of the events of the Polish being sent to Siberia were familiar, the aftermath was not. Stalin had "freed" the Poles to fight alongside Russia against Germany, in a move that pleased the US and Britain. However, this left thousands of Polish families stranded in Siberia with no means of return while the Polish men went off to fight. Thus, a displacement of these Poles, mostly women and small children to parts of Africa and the Middle East (22 convalescent camps with 19,000 Poles in Africa alone) was completely new to me. In some cases, the British helped the Poles to reunite with their families and also provided camps and education in the interim. Yet, when WWII ended, despite their the many Polish soldiers who supported the Allied efforts, "the Polish military were asked not to march in the celebratory Victory Parade in London…those in power in England and the United States did not want to alienate Stalin."
It was painful yet fascinating to read about the resilience of the people whose lives were uprooted so viciously and repeatedly. Only their family ties remained valuable to them as material items were so transient. They had to endure the frigid cold of Siberia and then relatively quickly try to acclimatize to the heat of Africa, and their health was forever compromised by the years of malnourishment and mental anguish. Kopek's tactic of letting each character explain their own interpretation is revealing as it shows the more personal suffering of each: a father tormented by his inability to protect his family, a mother desperate to see that her toddler have milk, and the two older children trying to put on a brave face to alleviate the worry of their parents as they themselves are forced to grow up far too soon.
Helcia's means of coping was her poetry. Words and phrases that reveal a mature realization of the larger implications of their suffering, in "Ice Garden":
This scrim of the inner room
The door of some other now, the book
Of will unknown. The book of how
And why drowned, encrusted under:
Sisyphus longed for a beginning, middle
And end to make it all bearable or seem
To have a context. The shortest distance
Between two points can be viole[n]t
Those wounds in the armpits
Wary at the lookout, ready to bow
And disregard history's narrative.
Notice the word play she creates with viole[n]t. The use of the brackets gives color to the meaning of violence: the violet of the inevitable bruising. In another poem she similarly writes [D]anger, to contrast the emotions felt "to live in a place not one's own." In fact, she refers to this homelessness and ties in the book's title with the reality of changing maps of the world:
Villains can change out of costume,
Spectators, easily cajoled
The cartographer obsequiously pleasant
To be paid on time.
Special thanks to Debra Gendel and Aquila Polonica for the Advance Review Copy.
This titled released earlier this month.


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First Published: 01 Jul 2011
Report based on the 2011 Equality Exchange Conference, which explored the theme of Meet the challenge, lead the change.
This report from 2011 outlines a century of steps towards gender equality in Wales.
First Published: 30 Jun 2011
This report is the first systematic review of the equality duties in schools in England and Wales and provides a set of baseline statistics.
First Published: 01 Apr 2011
This is the Equality Act Codes of Practice post consultation report. It has explanations of the Act and to applies legal concepts to everyday situations.
This report explores the role of careers education, information, advice and guidance in opening up opportunities and examines young people's choices.
First Published: 01 Feb 2011
This report explores the relationship between common pathways into politics and under-representation of groups protected by the Equality Act 2010.
First Published: 01 Jan 2011
This report examines the extent to which independent advocacy is available to people in the protected groups set out in the Equality Act 2006.
First Published: 01 Dec 2010
This report is the result of a pilot project exploring how voluntary organisations that work in the equalities field are using human rights concepts, language and tools in their. work
This report examines the role of Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPs) and Local Area Agreements (LAAs) in promoting equality.
This report examines identity-based bullying of young people and the preventative and responsive strategies employed by local authorities across Britain.


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Wasted Carnaval
Two Ukrainian film-photographers united in a duet of Wasted Carnaval. Vika Terekhovska and Vova Trinjak met in 2015 and started taking party photos. The name of the duet reflects regular photo reports with musical concerts post-punk and avant-garde bands. But today, most of the photos are about nature and human. Vova Trinjak (graphic designer and illustrator) and Vika Terekhovska (stylist, model) like to use compact semi-professional and amateur cameras. In addition part of their work are films shot on a Sony camera hi8 format. Geographic nature scene of photos – Ukraine and Israel.
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An in-control freak has to be involved in every decision being made. An under-control freak has to be sure that his management team is on top of things and executing policy effectively.
Australia's prime minister, Kevin Rudd, is an in-control freak and the latest example is the mess that he has created with the government's FuelWatch policy.
FuelWatch is meant to reduce petrol prices by keeping an eye on petrol outlets. It has come to light via a leak from a government source that cabinet rejected advice from four departments that FuelWatch would probably lead to increased pricing, as has been the case in Western Australia where the scheme was first implemented a few years ago.
FuelWatch is yet another example of this government's penchant for style over substance, of symbolism over outcomes.
Andrew Bolt has been providing the best coverage of the issue and The Australian's Dennis Shanahan has written the best article on the matter:
KEVIN Rudd has been sent a strong message this week with the emergence of leaked departmental briefings to cabinet: change your style and political approach or face more debilitating crises such as this week's petrol price disaster.That last sentence highlights what an in-control freak Kevin Rudd really is.
...The issues now go far beyond the potent issue of petrol prices to the conduct, direction, style and substance of the Rudd Government.
The damaging leaks revealing deep rifts within the cabinet over the FuelWatch price monitoring scheme have come at a crucial time for the Government. It is six months since the federal election and, although still popular, Rudd and the ALP are showing signs of losing their first blush. In addition to frustration within the bureaucracy over delays caused by funnelling too many decisions through the PM's office, there is concern that good policy is being sacrificed to solve publicity problems.
Shanahan finishes:
The leaks - wherever they came from - underline the fact that without a coherent, definitive articulation of what the Government stands for, it can't hope to hide behind stunts that don't deliver.Wise words. Will Rudd listen? Don't bet on it. Rudd is a micro-manager in a macro job.
With all the weight and responsibility of managing an economy and the knowledge that this isn't going to finish the Government, somebody's bound to blow the whistle.
Which leads me to articulate for the first time my view of the man. As I've posted previously, leadership changes people. Sometimes they surprise people, step up to the mark and become real leaders in the way that Howard did. Sometimes they crash and burn, as Mark Latham did, though that was much more predictable. Therefore, it's always wise to let some time pass before making a judgement.
Six months into his term I think I've seen enough to have a clear view of Kevin Rudd.
Leadership: As a leader, Rudd is more Custer than Patton; more Whitlam than Hawke or Keating. He is a manager, not a leader. Australia is in a terrific position economically, small inflation worries notwithstanding, and so it's possible that a competent manager can be successful. The job of prime minister at the moment and for the next few years can be done effectively in management mode so Rudd's lack of leadership ability may not work against him - as long as things don't go pear-shaped in the world economy and we don't otherwise face a major crisis.
Competence: Here's a big statement that I think people will come to reflect on the wisdom of in years to come - Kevin Rudd is profoundly incompetent to be prime minister. Profoundly. In fact, I'd go so far to say that when his time has come and gone Rudd will be seen as one of our worst ever PMs. He has Gough Whitlam's understanding of economics and Paul Keating's understanding of the ordinary bloke. I think he will be seen to have squandered a huge opportunity to move Australia forward at a time when international competitiveness is growing ever tougher.
Vision: It is now clear that Rudd has no vision for Australia. His policy of symbolism and populism over outcomes and substance is proof. From the economic disaster of ratifying Kyoto to the Stolen Generations' Apology to a plethora of inquiries into all sorts of issues and to FuelWatch itself Rudd has been focused more on his personal popularity than achieving positive outcomes for Australians. Can you imagine this man taking the tough, unpopular decisions on illegal immigration, workplace relations and even the Iraq war as Howard? Even his most ardent supporters must wonder what he stands for.
Personality: Rudd has no charm and no charisma, traits that are important to hold a leadership team together, especially when times get tough. It can be quite justifiably said that Howard lacked charm and charisma. He turned out to be one of this country's best ever leaders so why can't Rudd follow suit? The fact is that Howard slept the sleep of a leader. Rudd sleeps the sleep of a manager.
My hope is that the government will continue to run large surpluses and not interfere too much with the business community's ability to be successful. The former should be guaranteed. The latter looks unlikely given the union movement's current strategy of testing their strength.
If Rudd can at least achieve these two outcomes then he will still be PM at the next election. If not then I think we'll be seeing a different person leading the Labor Party, and probably a female at that.
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When we last left S.E.H Kelly I had hopefully brought your attention to fine new brand out of England and another dude who refuses to use a period after the third abbreviated letter in his name. S/S 2010 follows in the footsteps of what we've seen already in that the colletion stays extremely well edited and focuses on a serious attention to detail. In the case of S.E.H Kelly it's all about the manufacturing. From the actual process of making the clothes down to the vibe it gives off, British manufacturing is the theme. There are only 5 pieces for S/S 2010, but each comes together to form a true cohesive idea - not bad for FIVE pieces when you think about it. Everything can be worn together or separately and that's the beauty of it all. It also doesn't hurt that the fit of each item appears to be as on point as you can get. S.E.H Kelly may just be on the comeup, but it seems to me that they not only know where they've came from, but where they are going.
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- AnonymousJune 23, 2010 at 12:12 AM
Meh... Why does everything nice and low key have to be so expensive? Anyways, nothing I would personally spend money on.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 23, 2010 at 12:13 AM
aww, someone got dressed all by himself in his big boy clothes!ReplyDelete
Ok, when you said "five pieces," I really didn't think I would be impressed. I now have to apologize...great post and good work by S.E.H Kelly (the man with 2 periods). LOLReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 23, 2010 at 3:12 AM
i love the choice of the model too because i feel like anything can look amazing on a 6ft+ slim guy but this is unbelievably wearable and SO CLEANReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 23, 2010 at 4:15 AM
That model is a 6ft slim guy...
- AnonymousJune 23, 2010 at 5:11 AM
Haha. That's awesome clothing. I've seen that guy around east London where I live and no way he's 6ft!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 23, 2010 at 3:03 PM
Really? 4 shirts and a jacket counts as a "collection" these days? Poor guy must be exhausted.ReplyDelete
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Threats, Lies, and Videoboard: Tom Ricketts and His Wrigley Field ProblemJonathan Daniel/Getty Images
On the one hand it's hard not to conjure up a little sympathy for Chicago Cubs owner Tom Ricketts. Travel south about 15 stops down the CTA Red Line from the Addison station next to Wrigley Field and there sits another major league ballpark built for Jerry Reinsdorf with tax dollars from the kind people of Illinois. All Ricketts wants to do is spend some money to put up a more modern scoreboard inside a baseball stadium he already owns. Not to mention one that was privately financed. Almost a century ago, and not by him, but privately nonetheless.
On the other hand, Ricketts owns the Cubs (of course that could be a reason to pity him further), and suffice it to say that he had access to the $850 million or so needed to buy the Cubs (the purchase also included Wrigley Field and 25 percent of Comcast SportsNet Chicago). Ridiculous money will abrade sympathy.
And for someone who might need to court more public goodwill to help push through renovation plans for Wrigley Field — the centerpiece of which is a new JumboTron in left field — he's not grading out very high in charm. Said Ricketts at a City Club of Chicago event yesterday: "I'm not sure how anyone is going to stop the signs in the outfield, but if it comes to the point that we don't have the ability to do what we need to do in our outfield then we're going to have to consider moving." He later clarified his remarks: "We've always said that we want to win in Wrigley Field, but we also need to generate the revenue we need to compete as a franchise."
Here's the thing: That's total crap. The Cubs don't need (more) money to compete.
According to Forbes, the Cubs were fourth in MLB in revenue in 2012. Fourth. And they still lost 101 games. Using a datum point of one, it looks like revenue and winning are negatively correlated. And it's not like the Cubs are running a charity. If you want to see the Cubs play the lowly Marlins next month, a pair of bleacher seats — and, shockingly, there are seats still available for what's a glorified AAA game — will run you $129.08 after taxes.
Also, we don't possibly need to again point out that spending in baseball doesn't necessarily translate to winning in baseball, right? Just in case
Of the three highest payrolls in baseball this season — the Yankees, the Dodgers, and the Phillies — not a single one of them is currently even leading its division. The Yankees are doing the best; they're in second. And they are probably overachieving. The Dodgers are fourth in the NL West and the Phillies are being spared the ignominy of the NL East basement by the same lowly Marlins you have to pay $65 to see at Wrigley in June. In fact, right now the last-place Cubs are outspending the Pittsburgh Pirates by one and a half times on payroll, and they already trail them by four and a half games.
Yes, it's early in the season, but these aren't small-sample aberrations. The Yankees have had the highest Opening Day payroll in MLB every year this century and have only one World Series trophy to show for it. The Giants have won two of the last three World Series with payrolls about 47 (in 2010) and 59 (in 2012) percent as large as that of the Yankees.
The A's were so good at being broke they got an Oscar nomination for it.
Still, Ricketts cried poor. Then, even better, threatened to move. And when he was asked specifically if that was a threat, he replied, "No threat." At best that's demonstrating a really poor grasp of the English language. Saying you'll look into moving your team somewhere else if you don't get to do what you want literally meets the definition of "threat."
Where Ricketts may not need money to compete, he probably needs it to pay off the debt used to acquire the club. That list above showing the Cubs with the fourth-highest revenue also shows them being the most profitable team in baseball last year (operating income of $32.1 million). Yes, the most profitable team in baseball — the same one spending $18 million on Alfonso Soriano — is saying it can't afford to sign expensive free agents. Crazy, right? Well, that operating-income number is before any interest expense.
The Cubs' previous owner, Sam Zell, wanted the sale financed in a very specific way for tax avoidance reasons. Basically, the cash portion of the deal, which was probably about half the purchase price, had to be funded by debt so Zell wouldn't have to pay capital gains tax on his capital gains.
Figure something north of $400 million was put into a debt vehicle — and this was 2009, when debt still wasn't easy to get in the aftermath of the global financial meltdown — and with operating income around $30 million, give or take, the Cubs are in all probability still well in violation of MLB's debt limit per the terms of the most recent CBA, which caps debt at eight times the operating income.
And that's one of the reasons ownership wants a scoreboard — the club estimates it would generate about $20 million a year — and wants it pretty much now (they are trying to get an agreement in place so they can start work when the season is over — or rather, when they've played 162 games; the Cubs' season is effectively already over).
But Ricketts doesn't just want a scoreboard. The left-field scoreboard actually seems like the diversionary tactic of the renovation plan. If he wants to wreck the mid-last-century charm of Wrigley and make it more like every other park (when its defining characteristic is that it isn't like every other park), let him. The 6,000-square-foot scoreboard–cum–revenue dispenser only impacts the people at the game, and only for the three or so hours a game, 81 games a year. Yes, it would block a couple of the rooftops across Waveland. I still haven't seen an argument — beyond there being a 20-year contract from 2004 between the Cubs and the rooftop operators — for why that is sacrilege.
Ricketts also wants a property tax exemption (something the White Sox get), more night games, a hotel and office development, expanded use of space that would cut into Waveland and Sheffield Avenues, some multi-story structure to replace the Branded Rum Club, and, oh yeah, a shit-ton more advertising space.
As part of a hotel and office development, Ricketts is looking to put up another 35,000 square feet of billboard space — some of it static, some of it video — near the intersection of Clark and Addison. That's roughly six (!) times the space of a new scoreboard. That transforms the neighborhood. Yet, for some reason, there has been almost no resentment, or even mention, of turning the public-facing part of the intersection into Pete Campbell's wet dream. Chicagoans have peculiar senses of outrage.
The focus on the scoreboard as the revenue panacea seems even stranger in light of the fact that the WGN portion of the Cubs' broadcast rights opens up at the end of the 2014 season. Given that the Dodgers' recent Monopoly money TV deal gets them about $1.8 million per game, the Cubs can bank on a hefty boost from their current $400,000 figure.
Moreover, the other part of the Cubs' TV package expires after the 2019 season. And seeing how the deal for half the Yankees' network put its valuation at around $3 billion, the Cubs have to be weighing the possibility of doing something YES-like of their own come 2020, provided of course the cable-bill inflating RSN fee bubble doesn't burst by then.
Again, this was MLB's most profitable team last year on the league's fourth-highest revenues. Debt service might be a problem for the Cubs, but it's a problem of their own making, and it's even less of a stadium-based problem given the TV moneyscape.
But if you're Tom Ricketts, you can't go to the mayor and say, "Hey, in order to meet MLB guidelines, I've gotta service a fair amount of the debt I took on to buy the Cubs, mostly because the guy I bought it from didn't want to pay taxes. So can I alter the face of one of the city's more vibrant neighborhoods? Oh, and can I also not pay some of my own taxes?" Better to issue threats.
It's worked before. How do you think Jerry Reinsdorf got New Comiskey built?
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Clark's Lifetime Achievement Award, 1994
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Psalm 137
While in captivity, the Jews wept by the rivers of Babylon—Because of sorrow, they could not bear to sing the songs of Zion.
1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
2 We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
3 For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
4 How shall we asing the Lord's song in a strange land?
5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
6 If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
7 Remember, O Lord, the children of aEdom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, bRase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.
8 O daughter of aBabylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
9 Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.


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Monday, May 13, 2013
Chocolate Chip Bread
Do you ever find that you get into food moods? Every once in a while I definitely do and, lately, I've been in the mood for chocolate chips. Snacking on them, baking with them, etc. What's odd is that there is usually a bag of them in my freezer but it's only Brian that snacks on them. Most of the time I'm content to let them be but, these days, they seem to be calling to me.
2 Cups all purpose flour
1 Teaspoon baking powder
1/2 Teaspoon salt
1 Stick unsalted butter
1 Cup sugar plus 1 tablespoon
1 Egg
1 Cup milk
1 Teaspoon vanilla
1 Cup chocolate chips plus 2 tablespoons
Pour the batter into a buttered and floured loaf pan. Combine the extra tablespoon of sugar and the extra 2 tablespoons of chocolate chips and sprinkle over the top of the batter. Bake in a pre-heated 350 degree oven for 50 - 55 minutes, or until a cake tester comes out clean. Makes approximately 10 servings.
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Pinned. Because your chocolate chips are calling to me too. :DReplyDelete
those chocolate chips are like lil sirens, singing to meeeReplyDelete
You made bread with chocolate chips. I love you.ReplyDelete
I'm not sure you can call it a mood, because I'm ALWAYS in the mood for chocolate chips. Looks delicious, Anita!ReplyDelete
This looks absolutely delicious!!ReplyDelete
I love all those extra chips on top. I am definitely craving this now!ReplyDelete
I had to turn down the audio because all those chocolate chips were screaming my name. Kudos to you for using the bigger chips too.ReplyDelete
Hi Anita. I love a good quick bread...especially one filled with chocolate chips. Thank you for sharing this. A slice (or two or three) would go perfect with my cup of tea!ReplyDelete
Please quiet down your chips. I can hear them all the way in Chicago! Help!ReplyDelete
Chocolate chips are always calling me :) I love this bread..it looks so delicious!ReplyDelete
It's too bad that I've been snacking on all the chocolate chips in my freezer, because I would love to make this right now! I am having people over this weekend, so I think I will make this to serve my guests.ReplyDelete
The chocolate chip is nice and wonderful. Thanks fantastic post. ClickcocktailReplyDelete
This sounds delicious and We love chocolate chip cookies this would be better.ReplyDelete
Just beautiful Anita!! Dont know anyone who wouldnt love this!ReplyDelete
Mmmmmm.........sweets and carbs together. Who could resist? Looks delicious.ReplyDelete
By "mood" I believe you mean a constant way of life - I crave chocolate every day. So good for my mental health. Not so good for the waistline. Who cares about looking hot when I could be savouring every morsel of this delicious chocolate-studded cake!ReplyDelete
I made the bread tonight w/ one tweak-I shook in who knows how much cocoa powder- good stuff!ReplyDelete
- ElizabethMay 29, 2013 at 10:44 AM
My 3 year old asked me this morning to make him a cake like I took my brother's house this weekend. I had made blueberry banana bread. Knowing my son, I reminded him what it was that I had made and asked him if that's really what he wanted. He said yes but without the blueberries.ReplyDelete
I don't have any bananas so I asked him if he would like a chocolate chip cake. What great timing that I came across this today. I'll be making it for him this afternoon.
Bookmarked the recipe! Love chocolate! Thanks for sharing it!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 22, 2013 at 3:29 PM
My boyfriend has been wanting a cho chip bread and I am going to make this for him tonight. I am really looking forwards to how great it turns out. thanks for posting thisReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 25, 2013 at 11:05 PM
I've been looking for a plain and simple chocolate chip bread recipe for what seems like ever! Can't wait to make it - thanks a bunch!ReplyDelete
Made it exactly as posted. Turned out great.ReplyDelete
Also made it with a teaspoon of espresso powder dissolved into the milk first. Also turned out great. :)
- AnonymousJanuary 30, 2014 at 3:37 PM
I have made this a few times and it is delicious!ReplyDelete
Hubby and I decided to bake the chocolate chip bread tonight. It was fun assembling and preparing the bread.ReplyDelete
Thank you for sharing the recipe!
Oh, and I'm now following you on FB and Pinterest!
- AnonymousFebruary 16, 2014 at 6:42 PM
Just made this with dark chocolate chips (and substituting baking soda and lemon juice for the baking powder I didn't have) and it's delicious! Perfect for a cold snowy day like today!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 5, 2014 at 1:18 PM
Question: Do you melt the butter or just soften it beforehand?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 5, 2014 at 2:16 PM
Has anyone tried making this in a bread machine?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2014 at 6:20 PM
this was an awesome recipe! so fast and easy, we love it, it's my new favorite quickbread! we like less sugar so i only used 2/3 of a cup and it's amazing. the sprinkling of the sugar became crunchy and solidified, it's so good. i cooked it for 60 minutesReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 26, 2014 at 4:34 PM
We were looking for a banana bread - chocolate chip recipe but I only had one ready banana. Found this recipe and just replaced the butter with the one banana. OMG this is the BEST bread!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 2, 2015 at 1:20 AM
Made this after googling for chocolate chip bread... SO good! The topping was perfect. Thank you!ReplyDelete
- JennyC724February 11, 2015 at 9:58 PM
This is one of the most delicious things I have EVER tasted!! It's SOOOO simple and yet so yummy! I made one and LOVED it but spent the day thinking about how I might be able to change it up a bit and make it even better! But I realized that it is PERFECT exactly as it is, so I made it again and it's just fabulous!!!!! YUM!!! Thanks!!!ReplyDelete
So I made this... AND IT IS ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS!!!!!ReplyDelete
I really appreciate your professional approach. These are pieces of very useful information that will be of great use for me in future.ReplyDelete
the best chocolate chip bread ever. always moist and yummyReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 8, 2015 at 4:45 PM
Could I substitute the butter with sour cream? Or perhaps coconut oil?ReplyDeleteReplies
You definitely could not replace the butter with sour cream. You can use coconut oil although it will alter the flavor a bit. The recipe calls for 1 stick of butter which would be 4 oz. Therefore, use 4 oz. of coconut oil. Also note that butter is actually 80% fat and 20% water whereas coconut oil is 100% fat. Nothing terrible would happen if you used it like that but it might make the bread a little too soft because of the extra fat. If you want to avoid that, I would switch out a bit of oil for water. I'm curious why you don't want to use butter?Delete
I've done this recipe with coconut oil instead of butter, and it's very good. I had to add a bit of baking time to get the middle fully baked, but I'm not sure that it had anything to do with the coconut oil.Delete
(I've made this one a few times, and the last time I subbed coconut oil, it was just because I was making the bread in a hurry to take to an event and didn't feel like softening butter when I already had soft coconut oil in my cabinet, ha. The flavor is slightly different, but still delightful. I've also done a partial sub with half coconut oil and half butter.)Delete
Did you use semi sweet chocolate chips ?ReplyDeleteReplies
I generally like to bake with semi-sweet chocolate so that is what I used here. But dark would also work if you like a less sweet chocolate.Delete
I have made this bread many times and it's amazing. I've also taken out the chocolate chips and added brown sugar and cinnamon in the middle of the batter and on top to make like a coffee cake. It's amazing. Thanks so much for the recipe.ReplyDelete
I made this with mini chocolate chips. It was awesome!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed it.Delete
I've been making this recipe for years and just made it for my family thank you for making this dish easy but deliciousReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 15, 2022 at 3:13 AM
Going to try it tomorrowReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 28, 2022 at 3:02 PM
Looks absolutely delicious I'm have to make one thanks for the recipeReplyDelete


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Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited Movie Poster NOT REAL
Update: Apparently the poster is just a creation of NataliePortman.com, and is not real.
One day after the screenplay mysteriously found its way onto the internet, out friends at FilmIck have a first look at the movie poster for Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited. I love the film's tagline "She Almost Definitely Changed The World". It's very Wes Anderson-ish. Click on the poster for a slightly better view.
Written by Anderson, Roman Coppola and Jason Schwartzman, the story follows the journey of three brothers (played by Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman) who take a train (The Darjeeling Ltd) through India in search of a rare albino tiger that was believed to be the reincarnation of their recently deceased father. The brothers intend the trip as a spiritual journey, a search for the tiger, and a chance to bond with each other. But things go wrong – they get kicked off the train, at which point they begin to learn much more about themselves and the country than they ever expected to. The film also stars Amara Karan, Natalie Portman, and Angelica Huston.
The Darjeeling Limited is scheduled to hit theaters on December 25th 2007.


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13. Of Sanctification
14. Of Saving Faith
15. Of Repentance unto Life
16. Of Good Works
17. Of the Perseverance Of the Saints
18. Of Assurance Of Grace and Salvation
19. Of the Law Of God
20. Of Christian Liberty, and Liberty Of Conscience
21. Of Religious Worship, and the Sabbath Day
22. Of Lawful Oaths and Vows
24. Of Marriage and Divorce
25. Of the Church
26. Of the Communion Of Saints
27. Of the Sacraments
28. Of Baptism
29. Of the Lord's Supper
30. Of Church Censures
31. Of Synods and Councils
32. Of the State Of Men after Death, and Of the Resurrection Of the Dead
33. Of the Last Judgment
I. The Lord Jesus, as king and head of His Church, has therein appointed a government, in the hand of Church officers, distinct from the civil magistrate.[1]
II. To these officers the keys of the kingdom of heaven are committed; by virtue whereof, they have power, respectively, to retain, and remit sins; to shut that kingdom against the impenitent, both by the Word, and censures; and to open it unto penitent sinners, by the ministry of the Gospel; and by absolution from censures, as occasion shall require.[2]
III. Church censures are necessary, for the reclaiming and gaining of offending brethres, for deterring of others from the like offenses, for purging out of that leaven which might infect the whole lump, for vindicating the honor of Christ, and the holy profession of the Gospel, and for preventing the wrath of God, which might justly fall upon the Church, if they should suffer His covenant, and the seals thereof, to be profaned by notorious and obstinate offenders.[3]
IV. For the better attaining of these ends, the officers of the Church are to proceed by admonition; suspension from the sacrament of the Lord's Supper for a season; and by excommunication from the Church; according to the nature of the crime, and demerit of the person.[4]
[1] ISA 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this. 1TI 5:17 Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine. 1TH 5:12 And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you. ACT 20:17 And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the church. 18 And when they were come to him, he said unto them, Ye know, from the first day that I came into Asia, after what manner I have been with you at all seasons. HEB 13:7 Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation. 17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you. 24 Salute all them that have the rule over you, and all the saints. They of Italy salute you. 1CO 12:28 And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues. MAT 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. 19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: 20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
[2] MAT 16:19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. 18:17 And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican. 18 Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. JOH 20:21 Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. 22 And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: 23 Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained. 2CO 2:6 Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many. 7 So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow. 8 Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.
[3] (1CO 5 throughout) 1TI 5:20 Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear. MAT 7:6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you. 1TI 1:20 Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme. 1CO 11:27 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. 28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. 29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. 30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. 31 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. 32 But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world. 33 Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another. 34 And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come. JUD 23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
[4] 1TH 5:12 And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you. 2TH 3:6 Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us. 14 And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed. 15 Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother. 1CO 5:4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, 5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. 13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person. MAT 18:17 And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican. TIT 3:10 A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject.


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Sparkfun: IR Receiver Breakout Board
This Page is Still Under Construction
Background Information
Model: TSOP85338
Sample Rate: 38kHz
Sending a Signal
The TSOP85338 operates with a carrier frequency of 38kHz. That is, when the IR sensor is receiving an IR signal that is being modulated at 38kHz it outputs a logic 0. Using the BeagleBone to send a message to the TSOP85338 can be done using one of its PWM outputs. To perform testing of these attributes, ehrpwm1:0 can be used. By setting the duty_freq to 38000 and duty_percent to 50, it is possible to toggle an IR LED which if received by the sensor will output a logic 0. If the TSOP85338 is not receiving this modulated IR signal, it outputs a logic 1.
Reading Using Interrupts and GPIO
Receiving a signal from the TSOP85338 can be done on the BeagleBone using its gpio pins. In order to do this, the bitrate must be known initially or measured somehow. Once the bitrate is known, you can write a program that waits until an interrupt is received on a particular gpio pin that triggers on "both" edges. Essentially this will wait for the output of the TSOP85338 to change states. After it triggers, you can read the data received at intervals that match the bitrate until the message is received. This can be done for a set number of bits or until a terminating sequence occurs (user defined). Ex) if transmitting 8-bit char values, you can wait for a \0 ascii character to know that the message has been received.
If working in C, poll.h has some nice tools that can be used to create your interrupts.
Testing and Results
All measurements and tests were performed using a 5V source
To test the operation of this device, I wrote a test script for the BeagleBone that repeatedly transmits an ascii 'c' char to the IR Receiver. I used a bitrate of 1kHz to transmit. With an 8-bit char, that gives a character transmit rate of 125Hz. While that is not particularly fast this rate allowed for accurate testing of the rise time for this device, which as can be seen in the figure below was measured on an oscilloscope to be 225us. By the measured rise time value, the maximum bit rate is around 4.4kHz.
Reading Using PRU
DataSheet & Schematic: TSOP85338 Page on Sparkfun.com
Consumer IR: Wikipedia page on CIR


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Baker Hughes, a provider of oil and gas services, has made energy consumption a major factor in its decision-making processes.
The company's green-IT strategy consists of four major components: awareness (measuring and reviewing energy consumption), planning (exploring opportunities to reduce energy consumption and environmental waste for each new investment), harvesting (reviewing current practices for opportunities to save money through conservation), and prevention (looking at current practices and taking proactive steps to avoid unnecessary increases in power consumption or the introduction of environmental waste).
"We consider the energy and other environmental impacts of our projects and seek ways to reduce the impact," says Clif Triplett, vice president and CIO at the Houston-based company.
Energy reduction is woven into Baker Hughes' internal IT strategies, and energy management is a key part of all standard operating practices, project architectures and design reviews. "Success in energy management is celebrated and discussed with the entire organization," says Triplett.
Baker Hughes created a high-performance computing (HPC) cluster that incorporates wake-on-LAN technology. In this environment, machines are turned on -- or "woken up" -- via a network message, and the company can wake up machines for use in the HPC cluster as needed. This setup uses 40% less energy than a dedicated HPC pool.
In its infrastructure operations, the company is committed to the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework for operations and has developed an internal assessment program for compliance and best practices identification. The program, built on the ITIL framework, was expanded to include a dedicated section on green best practices that pertain to energy consumption and the handling and minimization of waste, Triplett says.
Baker Hughes is making a big push toward cloud computing and specifically infrastructure as a service, which is expected to contribute to additional energy savings. It's also rolling out managed print services globally and removing personal printers and fax machines from offices, replacing them with energy-efficient multifunction devices, says Graham Crisp, director of IT supplier and asset management at the company.
Among those driving green efforts at Baker Hughes are the CEO and chief operating officer. "They set the tone from the top," Triplett says. "They are strong advocates of protecting the environment and supportive of investments that focus on energy consumption and waste mitigation."
Others who are heavily involved include Triplett, who drives the green culture into the daily work practices of the IT organization; the vice president of health, safety and environment, who provides strong support and awareness of activities that advance the commitment to the health and safety of employees and the environment; and product-line general managers.
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